A/N: Ready for the new chapter? I bet you are! Thanks to Crystal-Wolf-Guardain-967 for reviewing my last chapter. :)
Disclaimer: Did Zoe and Takuya ever just randomly kiss each other? If not, then I don't own digimon.
The Warrior of Hope
Chapter 8
Welcome to My Nightmare
Zoe, Tommy, Bokomon, and Neemon all had their arms full of apples and they walked back down a path to where Koji and Takuya were trying to light a fire. J.P. was sitting under a tree, obviously tired from having to carry wood back to the camp site. Takuya was rolling a stick in between his hands, on top of a flat piece of wood. Finally, he got smoke to start coming off of the flat piece of wood, "Am I done yet?" He asked, tired from rolling the stick in between his hands. "Yes, I'll take it from here." Koji replied. He blew on the smoke until a small fire started. He then placed a small twig, which he had used the flat piece to catch on fire, onto a pile of wood shaped like a teepee. The fire started to get going. "I have a question; all five of us kids now have the spirits of legendary warriors, so how come even when we combined our forces we still couldn't beat stupid Grumblemon?" I noticed that Takuya didn't mention me; I took that to mean that I was no longer apart of the team and sighed. I looked up at a tree across the clearing and saw eyes staring out from its branches. I was going to leave, but I didn't want to leave them alone with an unknown enemy.
"The fire's ready, bring your apples." I shook my head, trying to focus so that I could warn them if the enemy started to attack. Tommy stopped and looked into the trees; does he see the enemy too? I couldn't ask him without revealing myself, so I just watched as he ran back towards the others. "Hey Bokomon, is there anything in your book about a beast spirit?" Takuya asked. "I haven't seen anything about a beast spirit." Bokomon replied. "If it's not too much trouble, could you look again?" To nobody's surprise, Bokomon agreed and took his book out of his pink band. Wow, he loves to get his book out, doesn't he? "I don't see anything, I'm sorry Takuya." Bokomon started to close the book, but Neemon slid his hand between the pages. "Get your paws off my book!" Bokomon yelled. "But I think I found something! This page seems to be folded over, maybe there's other stuff inside." My jaw dropped when he pulled out a folded over piece of a page, I will never underestimate him again. I listened to what Bokomon was saying, "It seems there are two spirits for each of the legendary warriors. The first is the human spirit, like Agunimon, and the second is the beast spirit. That explains where Gigasmon comes from, but how did he summon the beast spirit."
I stopped paying attention, because I knew all of this already, thanks to Angemon. I saw the shadow with the glowing eyes dart into a tree that was just above me. I narrowed my eyes and started to climb it. I was just about to grab the pig-looking digimon, when he darted to a tree on the other side of the clearing. My reach took me a little too far, and I fell from the tree and into the clearing. Everyone jumped up and grabbed their D-Tectors. When they saw that it was me Zoe exploded, "What are you doing here? Didn't I tell you to leave? Haven't you caused enough trouble for us? You should just go home where you belong!" I got really mad, "I don't have a home! Now get off my back Zoe, you don't know me, and you probably never will with that attitude! You didn't even give me a chance to explain before! I guess you don't know that beast spirits are hard to control, especially when the beast takes over your mind, and you can't even recognize your own name, let alone your friends!" I turned around, "I'm not coming back, so you might as well get used to the fact that you are a team of five, Takuya already has."
I ran into the forest, not stopping for anything. Why did I care that an enemy was following them? They never cared about me. Sure, I had hurt them, but they didn't give me a chance to explain anything. I was useless to them, like unclaimed baggage at an airport. Fine, I didn't want to be a part of their team anyway, I would just take care of myself and not worry about how they were doing. The forest became dark, and I turned around to see that the trees all had TV screens on them. I looked into one and I saw my only friends from the USA. They were all talking and laughing like we used to do. They were in Maddie's room, eating pizza and watching a movie. There was a picture of all of us in front of our school on her dresser. I felt tears stream down my face, "I miss you guys." Maddie turned toward the picture and said, "I miss Jade." Everyone else also turned toward the picture and said similar things. I smiled, "I miss you too, guys." Suddenly, the image got really blurry and the light from the three moons shone down on the forest as the image disappeared completely. I wiped the tears from my eyes and sat by the tree. I heard someone whisper, "Nightmare Syndrome." I turned around, "That's weird, there's nobody there, oh well, I'm going to get some sleep." Great, now I'm talking to myself. I felt my eyelids drop.
"Jade, why do you always have to leave us all alone and never tell us anything?" It was Koji's voice. "Yeah, it's like we tell you everything and you're just gathering information to use against us." Takuya, when did you get that mean? "I bet you have no friends because you're so stuck up." J.P. thinks that I'm stuck up? "I told you everything that made my past horrible, and you just said a sad little story about how you get to see the world while the rest of us are stuck in one place for our whole life." Does Koji hate me too? "You're an even bigger crybaby than me!" Tommy, don't go. "Why did I invite you back to camp with us, all you do is hurt people, with your actions and your words!" Tommy was yelling at me now. "I didn't mean to!" I yelled back. "Aw, is the little baby going to cry? You're weak, I don't know why I ever thought that you could fight with me." How could Koji say that? I wasn't just some weak person that he could push around!
I walked back to their camp. They were all asleep except J.P. and Takuya. I walked into the camp. "I am not weak. I am not weak. I am not weak." I repeated the same phrase over and over again. "Jade? Who said that you were weak?" Takuya and J.P. came closer to me with their arms up in surrender. Everyone else woke up, but Tommy was saying something similar to me, except it went like this, "I will not forgive. I will not forgive." Zoe sneered at me, "What happened to not coming back?" I got my D-Tector out, "I am not weak! Execute, Spirit Evolution!" I felt myself become DeviAngewomon and stretched my wings out. I walked toward Zoe, and once I got close enough, I swung at her with my claw.
"Tommy!" I heard J.P. yell. Tommy had turned into Kumamon and was fighting the others, obviously as mad at them as I was. They were paying more attention to Kumamon than they were to me. "You don't even care enough to receive my revenge? Fine, Heaven's Wave!" My dark angels followed them around. They pulled Zoe's hair and took Takuya's goggles. "What has gotten into you?" I turned around to see Koji looking at me with a confused expression. I looked at his hair and noticed that he had put his bandana back on. "We're your friends! Okay, maybe they aren't but I always have been. You were never weak to me, I was surprised when you asked me for help with your training, you're so strong, why would you want me to help you?"
I felt myself relax at his words, "You think I'm strong?" He nodded and I blinked away the last of my rage. "Crystal Freeze!" Kumamon's attack was headed straight for Koji, and he didn't notice. I pushed him out of the way, only to feel my wings freeze up. I cried out in pain. "DeviAngewomon!" I turned back into my normal self and held my arms, "Koji, I'm cold." He nodded, "I bet you are, here take my jacket." I smiled at him, "Thanks." I put his jacket on then looked around, "Hey, what's going on? Why is Kumamon attacking Takuya and J.P.?" Koji gave me a surprised look, "You mean you don't remember?" I shook my head. "The last thing I remember was walking into the forest, and seeing my friends on a TV in a tree. I know that sounds weird, but it really happened." He nodded and told me to hide from Kumamon.
"Guys, Kumamon doesn't know what he's doing!" Koji ran over to where the others were. "Well, then we should spirit evolve and take him out, it's the only option!" J.P. obviously wasn't thinking this through. "You can't, you could hurt Tommy!" I yelled from behind my tree. Koji shook his head at me, telling me not to get involved. "What would you know about not hurting your friends?" Zoe yelled at me. Kumamon attacked while she was busy yelling at me. Takuya pushed her out of the way, and they rolled down the hill together. "Aw, why can't I fall with Zoe?" J.P. complained. "All right, we can't spirit evolve at the risk of hurting Tommy, so what can we do?" "Crystal Freeze!" The attack split the group up so that Takuya and Koji were on one side of Kumamon, and Zoe and J.P. were on the other.
I saw the shadowy figure from earlier, and so did Takuya and Koji. "Alright, I know I saw something that time." Takuya said. "Right." Koji said as he took his D-Tector out. "Execute, Spirit Evolution!" He turned into Lobomon. "I thought we all agreed not to spirit evolve! Who does Koji think he is?" J.P. was getting pretty upset. "Koji must have a good reason, maybe he knows something that we don't." Zoe, you are so understanding, not. I rolled my eyes at her. "Ancient Spirit of Light!" Koji yelled. A bright light filled the sky, allowing me to see the enemy. "There he is." Takuya got his D-Tector out. "Execute, Spirit Evolution!" He turned into Agunimon. Agunimon chased after the pig through the bushes. Suddenly, Agunimon was riding the pig back through the bushes; my D-Tector told me that the digimon's name was Bakumon. I watched as Agunimon chased Bakumon around, through the trees, and back to the clearing again.
Bakumon attacked Agunimon with his "Nightmare Syndrome" attack. "That's it! That's what controls people, Nightmare Syndrome. You feel like you're in a nightmare and the whole world is against you!" I yelled to Lobomon. "Tommy, stop!" Lobomon yelled. "My name is Kumamon, and you are nothing but a big bully!" I saw Agunimon break out of his Nightmare Syndrome. "Kumamon, you're under the spell of Bakumon's Nightmare Syndrome, it isn't real, you have to fight it!" Agunimon started to call upon his flames, "It's time to end this nightmare!" He shot flames at Bakumon and he fell to the ground, with his fractal code showing. "Fractal code, digitize!" As soon as Bakumon was back to normal, Tommy changed back into himself. "Lobomon, wow have you been fighting somebody?" Lobomon sighed in relief, "Glad to have you back, Tommy." Zoe ran up to him, "Tommy, don't you remember? You were having a nightmare!" I walked away, not wanting to listen anymore to their sappy, emotional reunion with the real Tommy.
I looked through the trees to the path, and found that I was walking parallel with the others. When everyone else went to bed, I went around the clearing and climbed up into a tree, to see that Koji was only a few feet away, watching everyone else. "Now that is the way to sleep." He smiled at their sleeping forms. Suddenly, his D-Tector started beeping, "Your beast spirit awaits, Koji Minamoto, but first you have some growing to do." Bokomon and Neemon sat up, both hearing this message and wanting to see what Koji would do. Koji looked at Bokomon, "Do you have a pencil and a piece of paper?" Bokomon nodded and handed him both. Koji wrote a note saying that he was going on alone so that he could actually get something done. He folded the paper, and then put a rock on top of it, leaving it where he was sitting before. He started to walk into the forest, but stopped when he got to the tree I was in, "Are you coming?" He raised his eyebrows at me. I rolled my eyes, but nodded and climbed down the tree. We walked into the forest and didn't once look back.
A/N: What did you think? I was just going to have Jade come and save the day, but I decided that she probably wouldn't help after her little temper tantrum. :) Please review.