A/N: Finally, I have a little bit of spare time to write. Things have been pretty hectic lately. With me going on vacation, and the school year started, I have had no time to write. I also have been having trouble getting inspired for this chapter. Hope you like it. Thanks to Crystal-Wolf-Guardain-967

The Warrior of Hope
Chapter 15
Trailmon vs. Trailmon

"Boy, this train is really moving; of course the scenery is kind of boring…" Takuya remarked.

I was barely paying attention to him; I was more focused on my D-Tector. On the screen was Gatowomon. I smiled, "It's good to have you back. I really missed being able to kick butt. With you around, I don't have to sit on the sidelines and watch Zoe have all the fun." Everyone else was looking at their D-Tectors too, each having a conversation with their spirits. The exception to this was J.P.

"Have you guys gone nuts? What are you talking to your Digivices for?" He asked.

"Don't knock it 'til you've tried it, my friend." Bokomon told him.

"Oh, excuse me, Mr. Bouncy Wouncy." J.P. replied, referring to the way Bokomon was talking to Seraphimon's egg.

"He likes it when we bounce." Bokomon said.

"Uh, huh." J.P. replied.

A server came through the door, "Good morning, now, would anyone like a little snack?"

Zoe stood up, "Me, I would."

"It cost money, you know." Takuya told her.

"I know!" She dug through her pockets, but didn't find anything. "Wait, can't I just owe you for one?" The server passed by, not even glancing at her.

"Zoe, didn't you just eat thirty plates of food earlier today?" I asked.

She pouted, "Yes, but I'm still hungry."

I laughed, "You'll be fine." I was sitting next to Koji, our fingers entwined.

"Are you saying that you're not hungry?" Zoe asked me.

"Not at all, I'm starving, but I've had to go longer without food before, I'll be fine." I said.

Koji raised his eyebrows at me, "Are you sure?"

I sighed, "Where would we get food? Besides, we're almost there." I pointed out the window to the Rose Morning Star. It looked much closer than it did last night.

"Oh, it's kicking, my baby is kicking!" Bokomon exclaimed. He then started singing, "Oh, yes you're mama's baby." He was dancing around while he did it.

It took all my willpower not to start laughing or get up and walk away. Seriously, did Bokomon think that he was a girl? Was he a girl? I always thought that he was a boy, but maybe…

My thoughts were interrupted by the Trailmon's voice, "Station coming up, everybody off that's getting."

I looked around; we were in a small town with houses stacked on top of each other every way that you can imagine.

"Wow, this place is great, look at all the cool houses, belisimo!" Zoe said.

"Alright, everybody out of the pool." The Trailmon said, forcing us to get off.

"There was a pool? Why didn't anyone tell me?" Neemon asked.

"Hey, where are we?" Takuya asked.

"Now that's a good question." J.P. said.

"Yeah." Tommy agreed.

"I thought this was the Rose Morning Star Express." Zoe said.

"Not today, it's the Great Trailmon Race, and I'm going to win!" The Trailmon said as it rushed down the tracks.

"Hey, wait! Just what is this Great Trailmon Race?" Takuya shouted.

"Well, if we're stuck here, we might as well look around." Koji suggested.

"I'm looking, and I'm liking." J.P. said.

"Wow, this Great Trailmon Race sure brings out a lot of digimon." I commented.

"Yeah, this place is packed." Koji said.

There was a big group of digimon looking down at the Trailmon tracks. Every type of Trailmon there was were all sitting at the starting line with a digimon partner.

"Hey, cool, check it out." Takuya said.

"Neat-o." Tommy said.

"What's going on?" Zoe asked.

"Seven Trailmon…" Tommy began.

"And seven riders. Each of the Trailmon is ridden by someone. They work as a team, but Trailmon riding is dangerous business." The digimon that was standing next to Tommy and looked like a scarecrow told us.

"Excuse me; I can't seem to find my partner." The Trailmon that had taken us here said.

"Is there some incredible grand prize for the winners?" Zoe asked.

"A cheeseburger." The digimon replied.

"Hey, right here! I'll be your partner!" Zoe ran up to the rider less Trailmon.

"Well, uh…" Before the Trailmon had a chance to reply, a wolf-like digimon jumped down beside him. It was walking on its two back feet and it was colored black and grey.

"He's already got a partner." The wolf digimon growled.

"Yeah." A dog-like digimon with a D on its chest agreed.

"Doggymon, will you please let me handle this!" The wolf digimon yelled.

My Digivice spoke up, "ShadowWereGarurumon is a particularly nasty character. His special attack is Shadow Claw. Doggymon is full of sneaky tricks and can stretch himself like rubber."

"Oh goody, together again, and a good thing too, I'd never win with a human riding me." The Trailmon laughed.

"Hey, that's a rude thing to say." Zoe told him.

"Forget this! I'm not racing ShadowWereGarurumon!" A giant snowman digimon said before running off. All the other drivers followed him.

"Now I don't have a rider." The pink mole-like Trailmon said.

"I'll do it, if that's okay with you." Zoe volunteered.

"Really? That'd be swell." The Trailmon replied.

"If she's riding, I'm riding, what do you say big guy?" J.P. asked one of the Trailmon.

"Swell." The Trailmon replied.

"This sounds like fun, I'm in." Takuya stood by a Trailmon with giant teeth.

"Don't blow it." The Trailmon told him.

It went on like this for each of us. My Trailmon was lime green with light purple stripes.

"How come I have to ride in the race, I don't want to." Neemon complained.

"Well, he wanted me, but I can't because I'm with egg." He rubbed Seraphimon's egg.

"Okay." Neemon gave in.

"Alright, we can do this. Are you ready?" I asked my Trailmon.

"Sure, this should be interesting." The Trailmon replied.

The announcer, who was an Angemon, spoke, "Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to the annual Great Trailmon Race, sponsored by Digi Lou." The crowd cheered, "Sounds like you're ready to go and, so are they!" He counted down from ten, and the race began.

We started going, with ShadowWereGarurumon in the lead. J.P. pulled ahead to be even with ShadowWereGarurumon. I was right next to Zoe, both of us gaining on the leaders. Ahead, we saw J.P. spirit evolve into Beetlemon. Beetlemon pulled ahead of ShadowWereGarurumon. Beetlemon was trying to act cool, so, naturally, he fell on his face. In front of him, a Raremon was blocking his track. When Beetlemon smelled the Raremon, he fell on his back and de-Digivolved. He started running down the train, trying to escape the scent.

We passed by him, "Having trouble, J.P.?" I asked as I passed by.

"Aw, come on, why does this always happen to me?" He yelled after me.

Takuya passed me, heading straight for the lead. ShadowWereGarurumon was slowing down, so it was easy for Takuya to pass him. I was right behind ShadowWereGarurumon.

"Come on, let's hurry up and pass him." I told my Trailmon.

"Alright, let's do it." My Trailmon replied and sped past ShadowWereGarurumon.

"Peace-out, dude." I told him and made a peace sign with my hand.

"Not so fast!" He jumped onto my Trailmon and tried to push me off.

"Hey! You're going to pay for that! Execute, Beast Spirit Evolution!" I yelled and turned into Gatowomon. "Are you ready for this, dog boy?"

ShadowWereGarurumon growled and jumped back to his own Trailmon, "Doggymon, take care of her."

Doggymon laughed, "Jesting Howl!" He released a sonic howl, making my sensitive cat ears hurt.

I glared at Doggymon, "Midnight Eyes!" I shot the lasers out of my eyes.

Doggymon just stretched out his body and took my attack without flinching. He laughed at my surprised face, "Quick Shot!" He threw three red spherical objects at me, which I soon realized were bombs. I quickly hit two of them out of the air with my claws, but the third one hit me in the stomach, knocking me back into my seat. The bomb then exploded, causing damage to both me and my Trailmon.

My Trailmon stopped, "I'm sorry, but I don't think that I can go any further."

I smiled, "That's fine, you did your best, and in the end it was me who failed you."

"You didn't fail me, at least we weren't the first people to lose." Trailmon said optimistically.

I looked up as Koji, Zoe, and Tommy passed, "Watch out, those guys fight dirty!"

Tommy nodded, a determined look on his face. Zoe sent me a thumbs up.

Koji frowned, "Are you hurt?"

I shook my head, "No, but go kick some butt out there! I want payback for almost killing me!"

Koji smiled and yelled back at me, "No problem!"

I watched as Takuya and ShadowWereGarurumon passed over a bridge, still ahead of everyone else. Suddenly, the bridge behind ShadowWereGarurumon exploded. Koji was forced to jump over the gap. Tommy and Zoe were still speeding towards the gap. It looked like they weren't going to be able to stop. Tommy and Zoe both spirit evolved into their human forms.

Kumamon made a bridge out of ice, successfully making it across, but Kazemon was having trouble. Before she could do anything, her Trailmon went over the edge. She flew down, hoping to save it. I knew that she would need some help.

"Slide Evolution!" I became DeviAngewomon. I flew down into the gap and saw Kazemon struggling to pull her Trailmon up. I flew down next to her and grabbed the Trailmon, "Need some help?"

"DeviAngewomon, thank goodness! I was worried that I wasn't going to make it up all the way." Kazemon said.

"What do you mean by that?" Her Trailmon asked.

"Well, you're a little on the heavy side." Kazemon said.

"This happens to be my ideal weight, thank you very much." Her Trailmon replied.

We pulled the Trailmon up and saw Kumamon riding away.

"Kumamon, wait!" Kazemon yelled, letting go of her Trailmon. All the weight was suddenly on me, and that pulled both of us to the ground. "This stinks! All I wanted was a cheeseburger, is that so wrong?" Kazemon said as she transformed back into Zoe.

I sighed, "Z, we should probably go help J.P."

Zoe blinked, "Help J.P. with what?"

I rolled my eyes, "Last time I checked, he had a Raremon climbing up his Trailmon."

"Oh, right, good idea." Zoe said. "Can you give me a lift?"

"Sure." I said and carried her across the gap.

"Bye Mole, thanks for the ride!" Zoe called out to her Trailmon.

"Yeah, sure." Mole replied.

As we passed over my Trailmon I waved, "See you later."

"Bye." My Trailmon replied.

We finally made it to where Beetlemon was trying to hold his nose and fight Raremon at the same time. I put Zoe on the ground and headed towards Raremon, "Hey, do you need some help, Beetlemon?"

"Hey, what are you guys doing here?" Beetlemon asked.

"We're out of the race too, so we decided to help you out." I replied.

"Really, Zoe wanted to help me out?" He glanced up hopefully.

I rolled my eyes, "Actually, she completely forgot about you. I suggested that we come back for you."

He frowned, "Oh."

I walked up to the Raremon, "Excuse me, but could you get off this Trailmon? It's very rude to climb on people's backs."

Raremon looked at me in surprise, "Sure, I'm sorry for the trouble, but I was just protecting my home under the tracks."

I nodded, "That makes sense. It's all right, we won't bother you anymore."

Raremon nodded, "Thank you." It climbed back down into a hole underneath the tracks that was barely big enough for it.

Beetlemon was staring at me. "What?" I asked.

"How did you know to talk to it?" He asked.

I shrugged, "Intuition?"

Beetlemon shook his head, "Wow."

We both de-digivolved and walked over to where Zoe was standing. "Should we walk back now?" I asked. They both nodded and we set off on the long walk back.

We finally arrived at the station in time to see Koji and Tommy going off a cliff on the big screen. I gasped, but then KendoGarurumon saved both the Trailmon and Kumamon, too. "That was a close one." I looked up to see Bokomon and Neemon watching from the audience.

"Hey, guys." I waved up at them.

They nodded at me, "I saw your defeat, and it was interesting how that weak, champion level digimon was able to defeat you."

I blushed and glared at him, "I'd like to see you do better."

"Oh, someone's coming out of the tunnel!" J.P. exclaimed.

I looked back up at the screen, and bit my lip when I saw that it was ShadowWereGarurumon. "Where's Takuya?" I asked. A bright light followed by a stream of flames came out of the tunnel. "Oh, there he is." I laughed, "He sure knows how to make an entrance."

Bokomon stared at me, "How do you know that's Takuya?"

I continued to look at the screen, "Takuya is the Legendary Warrior of Fire, there is no way that he could be burned to death, that would be a little too ironic."

As I was saying this, BurningGreymon burst out of the flames, his Trailmon following on the dirt. BurningGreymon shot fire into his Trailmon, causing him to shoot fire out of his mouth. It hit the back of ShadowWereGarurumon's Trailmon, causing him to fly into the air like a rocket. They landed off the track and BurningGreymon's Trailmon got back on the track, leaving them in the dust.

I looked out across the tracks and could see them coming in for the victory. Suddenly, hands reached around my waist from behind. Usually, I would turn around and slap whoever it was, but I could tell that it was Koji, so I just relaxed against him. "How's it going?" I asked.

He chuckled, "Fine, but I couldn't get that revenge for you. I left it up to Takuya."

I smirked as I looked over my shoulder at him, "Wow, you left something as important as that with Takuya? I'm very impressed by how much you trust him now."

Koji rolled his eyes then turned my body all the way around so that I was facing him. "I knew that you were safe, and that is the most important thing."

I blushed and hid behind my hair. Koji chuckled and brushed my hair out of my face before kissing me. I immediately kissed him back, but we were interrupted by the sound of cheering. Takuya was finally back at the station.

Angemon was telling him what he won, "…and a trip for eight to the fabulous-"

"Wait a minute, what about the cheeseburger?" Zoe interrupted.

"There must be some mistake; the grand prize is a trip to Hamburger Digimon Village!" Angemon said.

"So, no food?" Zoe asked.

"Of course there is, you'll soon have more burgers than you can eat up in a lifetime." A digimon with a bun on its head interjected.

Zoe's stomach started to rumble, causing her to blush and us to laugh. "Yeah, yeah, laugh all you want, but my rumbling tummy is nothing compared to the noises I've heard you guys make."

The guys stopped laughing, looking guilty. I rolled my eyes, "I'm sure that you're not referring to me, right Zoe?"

She rolled her eyes, "Yeah, yeah, just get on the train."

I smiled, "Whatever you say, Z"

We boarded the Trailmon and we were on our way.

A/N: Done, and how did you like it? Do you like the page break things? I decided that it was a good way to start and end my chapters. Anyway, review if you liked it, hated it, have any oppinions on it...