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Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon or any of its characters but if I did, I would certainly make a second season for Digimon Frontier.

The Legend of the Spirits

Chapter 2: A Headstart

Kouji's POV

Kouji stared at the chalkboard blankly. Somehow, there was this weird feeling that had haunted him since yesterday. He had called Kouichi about it and he seemed to have felt it too. Then Kouji called Takuya but he did not seem to have noticed anything unusual. Today was a Monday and Kouji had to go to school, as usual. He was quite early so there were only a few people in the class.

Zoe had called Kouji yesterday to tell him that she was going to transfer schools to Kouji's school. Kouji had gladly congratulated her and asked her if she knew which class she was in. She said that the teacher would tell her today.

Kouji was so focused on trying to get rid of the haunting feeling that he did not realise that time was passing by quickly. In no time, the bell to start school had rung and the classroom had filled up. Kouji's table was somewhere in the middle row directly beside the windows that were to his left. On his right was an empty table. 'It's either for a new student or someone is really late,' Kouji thought, glancing at the table.

Kouji's English and form teacher, Miss Kamiya, walked through the door. An usual, everyone greeted her and she bowed back in greeting. Miss Kamiya had short, shoulder-length, chocolate brown hair and her fringe was pinned back with a red clip. She wore her favourite pink vest with a white, long-sleeved, turtle-necked shirt underneath. She had a yellow dress and wore a big smile on her face.

"Good morning, class. As some of you might have noticed, there is an empty seat in the class, so there will be a new student joining us," Miss Kamiya said. Immediately, murmurs rose up from the students, the girls wondering if it was going to be a cute boy and the boys wondering if it was going to be a cute girl. Miss Kamiya shushed the class and gestured at the door. "This is Zoe Orimoto. Say 'hello' to her class," Miss Kamiya introduced while Zoe walked through the door to stand beside the teacher's desk.

Zoe still has her pink skirt and her matching pink vest but she wore a white, short-sleeved shirt under her vest. Her long blonde hair was let down and she wore a pink headband along with it instead of her pink cat-ear-tipped hat. The boys around the room wowed and whistled but Kouji knew that Zoe did not want that kind of 'attention' and did not say anything. Miss Kamiya pointed to the seat beside Kouji and told Zoe to sit there.

Kouji smiled warmly at his friend, a rare gesture shown to other people. It had been two years since they had first went to the Digital World, so Kouji had changed quite a lot too. He had cut his hair to match Kouichi's perfectly but the others had insisted he wear his bandana around his neck so that they could differentiate the two twins. Certainly he was still friends with the other Digi-destined, but Kouji was not ready to open up to other people just yet and the rest did not push him further.

Zoe took her seat beside Kouji and winked at him secretly. "Hey, you got all your books?" Kouji asked softly. Zoe nodded. Kouji could hear the obvious gossips from the rest of the class.

"That girl's hot! I wonder if I'll have a chance!"

"Hey I wonder if we can eat lunch with her!"

"Oooh Kouji's flirting with the new girl!"

Those rumours were certainly by boys but the last one especially bristled him on the inside. Zoe saw his irritation and smiled at him, telling him to ignore them. Kouji shrugged and their day at school began.

Kari's POV

Kari was teaching English in her first class but none of the students seemed to be paying attention to what she was saying. Apparently, they were all interested with the new girl, Zoe Orimoto. Sighing, Kari put her hands on her hips and glared at the students in her class. Only the introverted Kouji and the new girl, Zoe, seemed to be paying attention. Seeing that their teacher had stopped talking, the rest of the students became quiet immediately.

"Thank you. Now on with the class. Now flip to the fifty-sixth page of your textbook and do some silent reading," Kari instructed sternly. Kari sat down at her teacher's desk and watched the class. She had been having this dreaded feeling that something bad was about to happen ever since she had heard the news about their Digimon partners yesterday. T.K. had comforted her, telling her that Gatomon would be fine and that they would find the Digi-destined in no time. Of course, Kari could tell that he said that to comfort her.

Tokyo was a big place and there were tens of thousands of people in the city. It would almost be impossible to find a handful of children in such a big place. These children were good at hiding their Digimon partners too, because other than their own Digimon partners, they had not heard of other Digi-destined children in Tokyo. Sighing again, she looked at her most well-behaved pupil to see if he was doing his work. Instead, to her surprise, Kouji was talking to Zoe. She cleared her throat and Kouji looked up. He bowed his head and went back to reading his textbook.

The class went by quickly and soon, it was recess. Kari decided to hold Zoe back to ask if she was fine with the school and all. Kouji had decided to wait for Zoe. "How was school so far, Zoe?" Kari asked.

"Oh it was good, Miss Kamiya. I had known Kouji for two years already and I am so glad that I am in his class, furthermore sitting next to him! Your English lesson was great too, Miss Kamiya. Thanks!" Zoe replied cheerfully. Zoe turned back to look at Kouji who was leaning against a wall, tapping his foot on the ground. "I'll be following Kouji around the school for a few days to get to know this place a little better. Is that alright?" Kari nodded and dismissed her two students.

'I wonder how she had knew Kouji. Kouji does not seem to have many friends in school, though many had already tried to get to know him. I wonder why this girl is so special to him,' Kari wondered. 'Nevermind. I think I'm wondering too much.' Kari walked back to her desk at the staffroom to mark some assignments.

Izzy's POV

Izzy had called his company to ask for a month of leave from the company. His boss had agreed, since he said that Izzy had always been working very hard and that he needed a break. That was why Izzy now had time to decode the green book that Gennai had given him.

Izzy booted up his laptop and went through his many files that he had organised for the Digital World. "Not this... Not that... Aha! It's this one!" Izzy muttered to himself. Izzy started to type in some algorithms to sort out the different symbols in the file that he had created. Since the rest had nothing to do and it would take him quite some time to decode the whole book, he decided to print out a template like a translator, so everyone could help out with the decoding of the book. Meanwhile, Ken and Yolei were supposed to go through past newspaper articles, videos or pictures on any Digimon sightings so far in the past years.

There were many different kinds of symbols and upon trial and error, Izzy realised that putting some symbols with others would cause the 'phrase' to have a different meaning. "This just makes decoding the book much harder," Izzy mumbled. It took Izzy a total of at least seven hours to finally put together a 'translator'.

Izzy immediately printed out copies of his 'translator' for the others to use. Then, he went to call the others to tell them about the good news. By then, it was already mid afternoon as Izzy had woke up at seven and skipped his breakfast, though he knew that that was not a healthy thing to do based on Joe's nagging. They would find the Digi-destined soon, very soon.

Ken's POV

Yolei and Ken had gotten permission not to attend their respective classes for a month. Yolei had took a train to Ken's house so that they could work on the computers together. Ken had two desktops in his room but Yolei only had one in her whole house. Ken had offered to meet her at the train station to accompany her back to his house.

In the train, both of them talked casually about random things from computers to Yolei's family snack stall. It was not long before the train reached Tamachi, the district that Ken lived in. The walk to his house was short too and they entered into the Ichijouji's residence. The smell of a nice lunch being set up wafted through the air. Yolei had a big grin on her face and Ken offered a small smile. "I told my mother that you would be coming over today so she wanted to make lunch for you too," Ken told her.

"Kids, lunch will be ready in half an hour! Yolei, make yourself at home!" Ken's mother shouted from the kitchen. Ken opened the door into his room and ushered Yolei in. He had set up both desktops beside each other so that they could easily exchange information. Within were minutes, Ken had both his desktops booted up and ready for use, so the two got to work immediately.

Ken was in-charge of looking through online newspaper articles and Yolei was to go through pictures and videos. After half an hour, Ken's mother called both of them out so they went out to the dining table to eat lunch. Ken had already gone through the recent two months of newspaper articles but none of them mentioned weird sightings of creatures.

At the dining table, Ken and Yolei discussed about what information they had found. "I've gone through at least fifty videos and a hundred pictures but none of them seemed to mention Digimons!" Yolei sighed, frustrated.

"Don't worry. We'll come across something soon. I haven't found newspaper articles about any Digimon sightings too," Ken comforted Yolei. Mrs Ichijouji suddenly sat straighter upon hearing the children's conversation.

"Hey, Ken. Wasn't it two years ago that there was a 'Major Power Shortage' in Shibuya and some people said that they saw a gigantic dragon-like creature? Could that be a Digimon?" Mrs Ichijouji contributed. Ken thought for a moment and upon remembering the incident, he smacked his forehead in a why-didn't-I-think-of-that manner and rushed back into his room to find the newspaper article.

Ken can back out with a printed newspaper article with a large picture in front of the scene. The gigantic header at the front stated 'Major Power Shortage in Shibuya'. "Well? It looks like we now have a headstart," Ken announced, smiling.