Digi-Kitty here with Chapter Nine! We've reached 800 reads which is the best I've ever done! Last chapter it focused on Zoe, Davis, TK, and ending with the Warriors. Hope you're ready for an interesting Chapter, because this has the other four Warriors in it.

18: Joe

17: Matt, Sora, Tai, Mimi, Izzy

16: TK, JP, Kari, Yolei, Ryo

15: Davis, Ken, Kouji, Rika, Koichi, Henry, Zoe

14: Takuya, Jeri, Kazu, Takoto, Kenta

12: Tommy, Cody

10: Susie

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Ranamon: My turn Suga!

Warriors: RANAMON?

Ranamon: Hia ya'll! Digi-Kitty does not own any Digimon!

Chapter Nine

Well, this is different, Tai thought as he turned in a circle, taking in the surronding area at once. He was standing in a large room decerated with pipes and fire. Tai's gaze lingered at the far side of the room, where three Digimon stood, or floated, a cat, a flying Digimon, and a rabbit. The Celestial Digimon?

A moment later, the Warriors stepped out of Trailmon, each one's feeling an open book. They grinned seeing the Digimon and ran over to them.

"Wondering who they are?" The Tamers' leader asked him. "I was too."

Tai nodded. "Of course! Our partners seem to know them, despite never meeting them." He froze as a question popped into his head. "Oh, I almost forgot, I'm Tai."

"My name's Takoto, and this is-"The boy introduced, gesturing to the red hazard Digimon behind him.

"Hi I'm Guilmon and I like bread!" The hazard Digimon shouted.

"Hi I'm Agumon!" Tai's partner said, coming up to the boys. Wow, that's a lot of goggle heads. The dinosaur thought, as he looked at the surronding boys.

With the Warriors

"Children, it's good to see you." Salamon smiled. "As you have heard, Lucemon has returned."

"This time is a bit different." Patamon said, his voice cheerful. "Right Papama?" He asked a smiling Bokomon

"This time you have some allies that weren't there before." Lopmon explained in further detail. "You rememer Arbormon?"

As they nodded, glancing at one another with an confused expression on their faces, the Warrior of Wood walked out from behind the Celestial Digimon, but he looked- different.

The rust colored designs etched onto his body, were replaced with browns and golds. The white rings around his torso, arms, and legs were painted mahogany brown and his skin was no longer faded, but a white color. "Hello again? It's time I joined the rest of us."

"And Grumblemon?"

"Me will help you now." Grumblemon had changed as well. He still had the symbol of Earth on his arms and nose, but it was a warmer brown. The lining on his purple amour was green instead of white and on his his chest it was a lime color, as well as the buckle on his hat.

"Mecurymon at thy service." Mercurymon's red and yellow shields had been turned silver and black. The top of his head, along with his wrists, ankles, and waist were all black and he had a silver and black egg-like shape on his torso. "What doth I do for thee, mine Lady?"

"Ya miss me Suga?" A girly voice announced Ranamon's arrival. The blue edging around her clothing had been relined with a purple color. Ranamon's red gems on her knees, hands, and head were glowing purple in the sun. Her fingerless gloves had a purple tentacle on each, giving her a flare when she waved. There were four stripes under one of her now cheerful purple eyes and three dots below the other.

"Ranamon?" Zoe asked gaping, the only other girl turned towards her, stopping her wave. "I-I um, just wanted to say-"

Ranamon released a small shout, running over and embracing Zoe in a tight squeeze. "I'm so sorry Suga!" She cried out, tears falling from her eyes. "Can ya forgive me?"

"Yes." Zoe managed to find her voice, patting the smallest Warrior's back. "Friends?'

She looked up into Zoe's eyes. "Ya want to be friends? With me?" Zoe nodded, holding onto Ranamon's hand. "Then yes!" Ranamon exlaimed happily

"Just one question." Zoe started awkwardly, her gaze looking over Ranamon. "Why do you look different?"

Ranamon blinked twice, then answered. "Um, this is my true form Suga?" Her voice was confident, but she gave her a unsure smile.

Zoe grinned teasingly. "Well, I think you look so much better!" Zoe raised a brow, rembering how much Ranamon hated people commenting on her looks.

The Spirit of Water smirked. "Thank ya Suga!" She said, sarcaism dripping from each word. "When can we get your Spirits? I have been hiding in a cave for ages, and now, I really want to do something."

"I'm not going to ask."

The two joined the others and walked towards the Digidestined and Tamers, the three Celestial Digimon following close behind. The Celestials stepped forward, catching the gaze of two Digidestined and a Tamer.

Susie was looking between her partner and the Celestial. "Lopmon?" She asked. "Why are there two of you?"

The Celestial laughed. "I'm not in my true form." He said, Digivolving. "I'm Cherubimon!"

"And I Seraphimon." Patamon spoke as he began to change.

Salamon's voiced softened as she changed. "My name is Ophanimon. I assume you have met my Warriors of Wind, Flame, Ice, Thunder, Light, and Darkness?" She asked them, her voice gentle and kind.

"Aren't you forgetting someone?"

"I was getting to that." She spoke calmly. "Well, these are the other four."

"Name's Arbormon."

"Thou may call thee Mercurymon."

"Me is Grumblemon."

"Hi Sugas! I'm Ranamon, Warrior of Water!"

"Well, I'm Tai Kamiya and this is my partner Agumon!" After intoductions were finished Ophanimon announced that she had one more thing to tell them.

"Warriors, you will need to learn to control your Beast Spirit once again." She glanced at JP, Tommy, Zoe, and Koichi with a smile on her face. "The four of you will be able to Fusion evolve once you can control them."

The named four smiled and were silently congratuated by Takuya and Kouji, formerly the only ones able to Fusion Evolve.

"Since we're here," Takuya started to plan the route to get to wherever Lucemon was, though, he had a pretty good idea. "We should find mine and Kouji's Spirits. Anyone disagree?"

"I do." A cold voice replied. Turning the Warrriors saw one of the Digidestined. His hands were balled into tight fists as he stared at them with harsh blue eyes. Koichi flinched under his gaze, panic flashing through his face.

"Why?" Kouji fixed him with a piercing glare, one of his best. "What right do you have, to tell us that we can't find our Spirits."

"Because, I don't trust you." TK answered. "You let a rookie destroy the Digital World, and now you expect us to let you go off your own to finds some Spirits?"

"You don't know Lucemon. He almost Digitized me!" Ranamon hissed, water spraying around her crystal gemstones. "If it weren't for Kazemon, I wouldn't be here. I owe the Spirits my life!"

"TK, that is your name right?" Zoe started, holding out her hand. "I know you don't trust us and I respect that. All I want is one chance."

TK scoffed. "A chance?"

As he turned to walk away, Zoe grabbed his arm. "We're going, with or without you."

"Fine then, I'm coming." He said, looking over his shoulder, he added. "Hey Davis, Yolei!"

"Yeah?" The second Digidestined gogglehead ran up to them. "What's up TC?"

"First of all it's TK, second of all, are you two up to go with the Warriors?"

"Um, yeah!" The girl besides him yelled. "Of course I want to help them find their partners!"

The three walked away, leaving the Warriors to talk among themselves. They sat watching them for a moment until Kouji broke the silence, his tone ice cold. "Are we sure we can trust them, they seem to have something against us."

"I don't know." Takuya stuttered, not wanting to give the team false hope. He experienced going into battle with an unknown foe, but with kids he's never met, that for some reason won't believe anything they did or said. "I just don't know, anymore."

With the Goggleheads

"So...You guys merge with your Partners and become Digimon?" Davis asked, awkwardly. "How's that like?"

"Um, how do I describe it?" Takoto said to himself, with a glance at his cards and D-Power. "It's like you and your Partner are one being, one united force fighting to save lives."

"Cool!"

"Whatcha talking about?" Yolei walked up. "Oh, um, hi!" She covered for the fact that she hadn't seen the Tamers' Leader. "My name's Yolei!"

"Oh, I'm Takoto!" He introduced himself brightly. "This is-"

"Hi I'm Guilmon and I like bread!" Guilmon interupted him, again.

Takoto chuckled nervously, scratching his head. "Really? You just had to, didn't you?" His only response was a goofy grin and a tiny nod.

She laughed at the two's antics. "I've never heard of Guilmon before! How'd you meet him?" Yolei qusetioned him, excitedly.

Takoto laughed, sratching his head. "Well, I got bored, so one day I created a Digimon during a class at school. I found a D-Power in my card box, ending up swiping my Digimon card through, and thus, Guilmon was born."

It grew silent, the group giving Takoto a thoughtful glance. but it din't last long. Yelling could be heard throughout the Terminal as the group turned towards the noise. Matt, Ken, and Henry, plus Wormmon, Gabumon, and Terriormon, were running to them, breathing hard.

"Takoto, they're missing!"

Takoto's expression was a mixture of shock and confusion as he looked at Henry, his best friend, the locical member of the Tamers, and the second in command of the Tamers. "Who?"

"I should have been watching, then I could've stopped them!"

"Calm down Henry." Takoto said, knowing about his best friend's habbit of blaming himself for things that he couldn't control. "What happened? Who's missing?"

Henry's unusually paniced gaze met his calm one. "The Warriors, they're all gone."

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