A/N: Chapter 4 has now arrived! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: If I owned digimon, then there would be more girl digidestined, and seing as there isn't, I don't own digimon.

The Warrior of Hope
Chapter 4
Kazemon Kicks It

I awoke to the sound of Trailmon's wheezing as we were going up a hill. I stretched my arms and looked around the car to see the Koji was staring at me. "Um, hi." I didn't know what to say. Was I snoring while asleep? Did I talk? Was it something embarrassing? I bit my lip in worry. "We are coming up to the station, so I think that I'm going to get some rest. Do you think you could stand watch for a couple of hours?" He obviously trusted me to wake him up if something happened. "Sure thing, is this the Forest Terminal?" "I don't know, but I guess we'll find out."

We stepped off the train-like digimon and Koji went to lie down on a bench. I sighed; this was going to be a long night. I figured that I should take a look around. I walked around the base of the giant tree that seemed to be a part of the station. There were a few houses surrounding the tree, but not many. The place was really run down, the trees all had no leaves, and there wasn't any grass, just dirt. "Who would want to live in this dump?" "It didn't used to be this bad." I looked down to see what looked like a talking flower. "I'm Floramon, and Breezy Village used to be one of the most popular tourist attractions in all the Digital World. Now, we're lucky to see even one train pass by a month." Floramon had a really downcast expression on her face. "Hey, it's alright; by the way, do you have any food around here? I'm starving." I grinned at her. Her face lit up and she took me to her house.

I quickly ate the soup, not caring that it came from inside her head. "This stuff is delicious, you really have a gift." I stood up to leave so that I could go and keep watch over Koji. Her face fell, "You're not leaving already, are you?" She looked at me with a hopeful expression. "I just need to keep watch over my friend while he sleeps, I don't want him to wake up thinking that I wasn't doing what I was supposed to." Even though I kind of wasn't doing what I was supposed to by being here, I was glad that I made Floramon happy. She smiled and nodded and I went outside into the breezy morning air. I walked over to the bench and sat down on the ground.

"Hey Z, wait up!" I looked up to see J.P. chasing after the blonde girl, who was reading the Breezy Village sign. "Is this the Forest Terminal?" She asked. I shook my head at her while the little white digimon explained that this was Breezy Village, not the Forest Terminal. "Welcome tourists, so, this isn't it?" "Oh, hi Koji, what's up?" Koji turned away from the blonde and started walking down the tracks. "Uh, where are you going?" He paused, "Where I go is my business." I watched him start to walk away, but he turned back to look at me. "Are you coming?" I shook my head, "I'm going to hang out here for a while, and I'll catch up to you later." He shrugged, "Whatever."

"Ugh, couldn't you be a little more social?" Then she turned her eyes on me. "Who are you?" Her blank expression made me laugh. "I'm Jade Gallagher, and you are?" "Zoe Orimoto." She smiled at me like it was Christmas morning and I was her new present. I started to back away slowly. "Finally, another girl to talk to!" She ran across the tracks and grabbed my arm. "So, are you looking for your spirit too? Wouldn't it be awesome to turn into a digimon? I mean really, it can't just be boys who get to digivolve, right?" She gave me a hopeful expression. Normally I would agree with her and tell her about my experience, but she was kind of freaking me out with all of the questions. "Sure, I'm sure you'll be able to digivolve soon." Maybe it will take some of your energy with it. She smiled and gave J.P. an I-told-you-so look. J.P. sighed and started walking around. "So, you and Koji seem like good friends," she started, "so what is his deal? Why doesn't he want to hang out with us, but he does want to hang out with you?" "He reminds me of white chocolate, looks good, but has no taste." J.P. obviously had to make a reference to food. I rolled my eyes. "He just likes to be alone, and I respect that. Listen, can we not talk about this? How about we try to help Breezy Village?" Zoe gave me a blank stare, "Breezy Village needs help?" "Yes, Breezy Village is known for its lush greenery and great views, but right now, there isn't much to see."

Zoe ran off to see what great views there could be, but J.P. stopped suddenly when a beeping noise came from his pocket. He pulled out a blue and yellow D-Tector and said, "Hey my D-Tector is doing something, maybe my spirit is somewhere close by!" I looked up in the tree to see Zoe standing on one of the tree branches letting the wind blow through her hair. J.P. ran up behind her and started yelling, "Zoe, my D-Tector is flashing!" Zoe turned around, but lost her footing and fell down to another branch, where she slid down the tree and right on top of the Floramon. They all started to giggle and I sighed in relief, "These guys are a Trailmon wreck waiting to happen." I mumbled under my breath.

The Floramon insisted on feeding us lunch, and I didn't want to decline, not knowing when we would get to eat again. They made more of that delicious soup that I ate last night and everyone else seemed to love it too. "Malto Bano, yum!" Zoe exclaimed. I raised my eyebrows at her foreign words. "Um, melted what?" J.P. asked. "Malto Bano is Italian for delicious, this soup's great!" The Floramon all cheered. "I must know, what do you call this soup?" "Bram soup ah la Floramon, based on the way we cook it, allow us to demonstrate. First, you take a ripe bram fruit and you place it in your head, then you shake your head and it turns it into soup." They did a little dance around the room and then poured us all fresh soup from out their noses. "Here, eat up!" "It's brain food!" I thought about the two bowls that were already in my stomach and groaned. How did I eat that? Zoe walked outside with Floramon and they started talking about how the giant tree made the breeze. Floramon then explained how nobody wanted to visit Breezy Village anymore, just like she had told me last night.

I thought about what we could do to help the Floramon. We couldn't make the leaves grow back on the trees, but we could plant flowers and such. Right when I was about to suggest this, Zoe said, "Even if we tell everyone about your village, you still need to do something, plant new flowers!" "We've tried that, but we're just not strong enough to dig in the hard soil." "Well, I can help," Zoe winked at me, "I know this strong guy." We both nodded in J.P.'s direction. The Floramon grabbed his arms and started pulling him towards us. "You have arms like tree trunks; you'll be a good digger!" "Me, no way!" J.P. protested. Then Zoe used her charm on him, "You know what impresses me, strong guys who are willing to help others without even being asked." After that, J.P. just wanted to help out and work. I smirked at Zoe and she laughed.

We got to work finding shovels and flowers to plant. We told J.P. to dig the holes, and we would plant the flowers and pat the dirt in around them. It was hard work, but things really were starting to look better. The little white digimon that I learned was named Bokomon put the dull yellow skinny rabbit digimon who wears oversized red pants named Neemon to work. Bokomon took the time to boss us around, even though he wasn't doing hardly any work. I couldn't help but laugh when Neemon tipped the wheel barrel over, making Bokomon fall off and get covered in dirt.

"Wow if we keep working, this place will look great in no time!" Zoe's optimistic statement was met by sighs from the Floramon. "No?" Zoe's happy face turned confused. "The Mushroommon will wreck it." The Floramon replied. Evil laughter was heard from the surrounding forest. Three walking mushroom that I assume are Mushroommon jumped out from the trees and laughed at our surprised expressions. They threw little mushrooms at J.P. and some of the Floramon and made them fall back on their butts.

The Mushroommon had just ruined all of our hard work and I wasn't going to stand for that. I grabbed my D-Tector and pressed the side button. A ring of blue light surrounded my hand, "Execute, Spirit Evolution!" I felt my wings come out of my back. My left hand extended to make a claw, and my brown hair turned white and blonde and twisted into a braid. "DeviAngewomon!" "Giggle Grenade!" The Mushroommon yelled before throwing more mushrooms at us. I dodged, but the attack still hit the Floramon. They started laughing and it didn't look like they could stop. I noticed that J.P. and Zoe were perfectly fine. "Please, stop doing this. We used to welcome the guests together when they came to our Breezy Village, why are you doing this?" The Floramon said in between laughs. "They always liked you flower girls better than us." They replied. "Now, enough talk, Mushroom Mash!" They threw more bombs and one hit the house behind us. "Yes, enough talk!" I was getting really mad now. "Heaven's Wave!" I spread my arms and angels with bat wings floated out and started to attack the Mushroommon. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Bokomon lecturing Neemon and snapping his red pants. Ouch, I'd hate to get on his bad side. While I was distracted, the Mushroommon defeated my dark angels and they threw more explosive mushrooms at me.

"Wait!" Zoe yelled, "Can't we all just get along? You were once at peace, and just because you got the short end of the stick doesn't mean that you can barge in here and destroy all of our hard work." I paused at Zoe's words, "You're right Zoe, and I'm sorry Mushroommon." They nodded at my apology. J.P. then walked up, obviously trying to impress Zoe and said, "Yeah you toadstool heads can't go around barging in with your purple mushroom caps because they're just plain ugly!" I slapped my head at his stupidity and Zoe blinked at him, "You just insulted them, that is totally wrong." His eyes widened in surprise and the Mushroommon took that time to attack him for his harsh words. "You shouldn't have said that, now you're going to pay!" They threw more mushrooms at him as he started running for the tree.

J.P.'s D-Tector started to go off again and he started yelling for his spirit to come out and help him. J.P. tripped and Zoe called out, "J.P.!" Suddenly, a pink light came from inside the tree and I knew that it was Zoe's because hello, it was pink. J.P. called out to the spirit, and in his defense I guess it was headed straight towards him, but he was just in the middle of it and Zoe. The spirit passed straight through him and to Zoe. Zoe's hand had the blue ring that I was beginning to recognize and she yelled, "Execute, Spirit Evolution!"

When the transformation was complete, Zoe had butterfly wings and purple hair. Her face was covered with a white visor with wings at the back of it. She was wearing a purple bikini, white gloves, and purple thigh length boots. She was, "Kazemon!" "Wow, she's a butterfly!" Neemon said joyfully. "She's not a butterfly; she's one of the legendary warriors! With the ancient spirit of the wind, she is Kazemon!"

I was kind of just sitting there in shock; I mean seriously, I turn half demon and half angel while she gets to turn into a butterfly? That is so not cool. The Mushroommon took this time to attack us. It's a good thing that Kazemon was paying attention, because I sure wasn't. "Hurricane Wave!" Mini tornadoes shot out of her hands and she blew the mushrooms away. The Mushroommon were getting pretty upset at this point so, they threw more mushrooms at us. To counter, Kazemon did a handstand and started twisting, "Tempest Twist!" She yelled and then she kicked each of the Mushroommon in the face.

"Revenge time!" The Mushroommon said before they stood on each other's shoulders and digivolved into a tree without leaves. I knew that I should probably pitch in at this point, so I used my Heaven's Charm attack again while Kazemon shouted, "Love Tap." And hit the tree that Bokomon called Woodmon. Woodmon got an infatuated look in his eye and she started a relentless kicking on the side of his head. My dark angels were doing a pretty good job helping out too. "Enough!" He pushed Kazemon off of him and was going to hit her with one of his logs. I flew towards her and pushed her out of the way, only to get hit myself and fall back on the ground. I felt myself turn back into a human.

"Jade, why did you do that?" Kazemon asked and before I could tell her to get her head back in the battle, Woodmon hit her with his arm and she fell to the ground, well not exactly to the ground, she landed right on top of me. As soon as she transformed back into a human I pushed her off of me and glared at the bruises I had gotten from her crash. Koji ran into the clearing and yelled at Woodmon to leave us alone. Woodmon attacked me and Zoe again, so we jumped out of the way. J.P. tried attacking Woodmon with a shovel, but he just got hit with one of the thick log arms.

Koji obviously couldn't take it anymore, because he pressed the side button on his D-Tector and yelled, "Execute, Spirit Evolution!" He turned into Lobomon. He used his Lobo Kendo attack to create a crack in the middle of Woodmon's face. Woodmon just laughed at his efforts. Lobomon didn't waste time talking, "Howling Laser!" He shot his laser at the crack he made and Woodmon crumbled. Lobomon digitized his fractal code. The three Mushroommon were back and they had no idea what they had done. Lobomon jumped back and then transformed back into Koji who fell to his knees on the ground. His D-Tector started to beep, and so he pressed the button and the fractal code left his D-Tector. All around us the forest started to gain its beauty, trees got their leaves and the grass grew back. Everything became as gorgeous at it once was.

All of the Floramon were welcoming the Mushroommon back to the village with open arms. "They are all pretty happy because of you." Zoe smiled down at Koji. He just got up and left. I followed after him, shrugging my shoulders at Zoe's confused look. "You could try being nice, you know!" She yelled after us.

"Nice job helping Zoe out there." Koji smirked at me. "Hey, I was trying to let her be the hero; I'm not the kind of person who comes rushing in to save the day!" I stuck my tongue out at him. He laughed and said, "Didn't seem like that last night." I glared at him, "Some gratitude you have for someone who saved your life." I started to walk away, but he grabbed my hand, "You're right I am very grateful to you for saving my life." He then gave me a quick peck on the cheek before walking further into the forest. I stood there in shock for a minute before he called out, "Are you coming?" I ran to catch up to him.

A/N: Did you like the ending? Because I sure liked writing it. :)
Do you think that I brought romance in too soon? Tell me with a review. *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*