The sun arose, shining onto the mushroom shaped castle of the evil legendary warriors. And near the top was the warrior of wood Arbormon, who was lifting weights and exercising.
"One, two, three, four, use Digi kids to mop the floor," he chanted as he waved the weights, "Five, six, seven, eight, they're the ones I just don't like!".
"Thou has more enthusiasm than wit," Mercurymon said as he entered the room.
"Thanks, there Mercurymon," Arbormon replied happily as he turned towards the mirror Digimon, "It's like I always say, a little training before saves a lot of trouble after, right,".
"Your diligence confirms your allegiance, my piney partner," the steel warrior complimented.
"I know, Lord Cherubimon wants me ready at all times to serve up a healthy helping of havoc," Arbormon explained.
"It plays warmly on my ears to hear you speak thusly, 'tis truly most apt to call you a legendary warrior," Mercurymon praised, before sounding a bit concerned, "Tis mean thou are over Grumblemon's turn to our enemies?".
"Eh, sure, let's go with that, right," he replied, sounding unsure, "Yeah, well I'd love to chat, but I got some road work to tend to, you understand?" Arbormon then jogged off to said work, "Forgetaboutit,".
"Hmp, let us hope thou speaketh the truth," Mercurymon said, before going to the outside roof on top of the fort.
The mushroom reached above the clouds and was a fairly bright place with a wonderful blue sky. But what was more wonderful was that which the steel warrior had acquired days before.
"Ahh, victory," he said as he looked upon the fractal code of the celestial angel he had stolen, holding it in his green armored hand, "Seraphimon's fractal code and it's all mine!" he then hid it away and stretched out his arms, "With this there's only a few ticks of time before the digital world bows before me!" Mercurymon then broke into an evil laugh, "Aha, Aha, hahahahahahahaaahhaaa!".
However, this was head by a nearby Digimon that lurked in the shadows nearby. He wondered if the steel warrior's ambitions world be troubling to his master. Though of course if they were, then the warrior of darkness would not hesitate to dispose of him.
A few moments later.
In the misty, rooty, creepy depths of the lair, three of the evil warriors had gathered to meet their boss.
"But why is Cherubimon coming here?" Ranamon asked, "One of you must have messed up!".
"Yeah, what are you looking at me for?" Arbormon said, "I didn't do nothing, right?".
"He's coming for the fractal code, you nits!" Mercurymon explained, feeling annoyed, but on the inside a bit nervous at the masters approach.
Then at the stone altar with two torches, a white flame erupted and revealed a shadow of the demon bunny himself. He was so big, that not all of him showed. His long ears and the crest around his neck pointed out with his large arms hanging down. Cherubimon's eyes glowed as he looked upon his warriors with a toothy smile.
"Lord Cherubimon," Mercurymon said as he and the other warriors bowed.
"Power is everything and the only thing, greetings my most faithful followers," the fallen angel greeted with his deep menacing voice that would shake the hearts of many brave souls, "It appears someone is missing?".
"Indeed, Duskmon is absent," Mercurymon explained.
"He's flakier than pie crust," Ranamon added, sounding annoyed.
"Don't worry, he'll get his, right," Arbormon said.
"He does as I please," Cherubimon explained, before getting a bit impatient, "But that is not who I am referring too,".
"Yes, and alas, Grumblemon has fallen in battle," Mercurymon explained.
"So he has," Cherubimon said, seeming disappointed, "It was the humans who sealed his fate, was it not?".
"Arms bubkins, he knows," Mercurymon thought.
"Then, you probably also know he's joined them," Arbormon asked, which made the other two sweat.
"Whaaaat, one of my children has betrayed me!?" the villain roared with anger that shook the realm.
"Tis, unfortunate indeed, but rest assured we shall deal with him alongside the others," Mercurymon tried to calm his master.
"See that you do," Cherubimon growled, before brushing it off, "But no matter, with you my three legendary warriors, this entire world will submit to my power,".
The warriors nodded, before Mercurymon prepared the data transfer.
"My lord and master, I humbly give you all the fractal code we have gathered thus far," Mercurymon's mirror then glowed as the fractal code stream flowed into the evil bunny.
"Well, it's gratifying to see how much data you've compiled, well done my minions," Cherubimon said with gratitude.
"We live to serve you, mighty one," Mercurymon stated.
"How disappointing that you chose not to present me with the most vital data you have," Cherubimon said, knowing what the steel warrior hid, "Serphimon's fractal code!".
"Oh," he said, feeling nervous, "I-I can explain,".
Cherubimon just chuckled at this, "I see, consider that code a gift I may demand to have returned, whenever I wish it,".
The steel trickster just bowed with a sigh, hoping for the best.
"Beware, the earth children have found their beast spirits and their strength is growing," the rabbit warned.
"With all due respect, those little rugrats can't hold a candle to us," Ranamon bragged, "We're the only true legendary warriors,".
"Then why have you been unable to eliminate them?" Cherubimon asked, much to the water warriors dismay.
"I, um," she stuttered.
"Grumblemon may not have been able to handle the job, but I will!" Arbormon said as he stood up, "I'll make those human kids and Grumblemon the weeds and I'm the weed whacker!".
"Excellent, I am pleased your past relations with the earth warrior haven't hindered you," the villain said, "But don't fail me,".
"You gots it, right," Arbormon replied.
"Oh, and one more thing my warriors," Cherubimon said, to which the warriors looked up, "If any of you betray me like Grumblemon, you will feel the full wrath of my power!" he shouted, shaking the cave, "Understand?!".
The warriors quickly nodded, seeming very nervous and frightened by this.
"Hpmh, good," he then vanished, alongside the white fire.
Mercurymon trembled, he couldn't believe his master had known about the fractal code he tried to hide.
"Well then, someone's cranky," Ranamon said, a bit annoyed at the rabbit, "I swear, he used to be so much more pleasant, back when we were in diapers" she then noticed that Arbormon was leaving, "Where you going sugar?".
"Look those kids will be heading to the dark gate, right," Arbormon explained, "So I'm going to start gardening like I said I would," he then held up his finger, "Always keep your promises, right,".
Ranamon then gave the robot a weird look as he left.
Meanwhile on a railroad going across the ocean,
The Trailmon Franken chuffed across, carrying the heroes of our story to where the rose mourning star shined.
"Well whatever, blah, blah, blah, woo, blaaaaah," the red train said.
However, this did not phase the earth warrior Grumblemon, who was deep in thought.
"Is it really possible, what Scutlemon say?" he thought.
Flashback,
The heroes were about leave the Burgermon village on the metal train.
Grumblemon was still down about Arbormon as he walked to the train. But before he reached the station, Scutlemon approached the gnome.
"Hey are you going to save you friend Arbormon now?" he eagerly asked.
"How me supposed to do that," Grumblemon moaned, "Arbormon evil, Grumblemon good, can't reach friend no more,".
"Oh, why don't you just have one of the humans purify him?" Scutlemon asked, "Like they did to you?".
"What, that really work!?" Grumblemon said with surprise.
"Sure, well, maybe, no, yes it should work, garantie!" Scutlemon proclaimed, "Y'know, if reasoning didn't work,".
"How you know anyways?" Grumblemon asked, getting suspicious.
"Huh, I um, you know, just, yeah," the young Digimon stuttered, before getting calm, "The point is, don't give up on your bro just yet, you still have a chance, trust me,".
This made Grumblemon think, could it really be possible to get Arbormon to become a good guy?
Just then Trailmon Franken blew his horn, "All board, time to go or whatever,". This caught the Grumblemon's attention.
"Well, looks like you have a train to catch, and so do I," Scutlemon then darted off, "Later!".
"Huh, uh bye," Grumblemon said, feeling confused, "That one strange Digimon,".
End of flashback,
Grumblemon wanted this to be true, but could he really bring his buddy to the side of good?
The gnome's plight did not go unnoticed. The earth warrior was then approached by Tommy and JP.
"You okay Grumble?" JP asked.
The earth warrior just looked away.
"Are you still worried about Arbormon?" Tommy asked.
Grumblemon just sighed, "Yeah, it about Arbormon,".
The two humans than sat with the goblin.
"Scutlemon say that maybe bring Arbormon to side of good if defeat him," the earth warrior explained, "Me not sure if really possible,".
"Wow, I never thought about Arbormon working with us?" Tommy wondered.
"Yeah, how weird," JP added.
This made Grumblemon feel down, but what they said next surprised him.
"But it be cool to have him as a friend instead of enemy," Tommy said, "So we'll be sure to do what we can to make that happen!".
"R-really, friends do that for Grumblemon?".
"Sure, he would make a great pal," JP said, before getting serious, "But first we need to beat him, and stop him from doing more evil,", JP then looked at his former adversary, "You think you can do that?".
Grumblemon then closed his eyes and thought hard, "Maybe, yes, me will do it, and save Arbormon!", he then nodded with a cocky smile, which made the other two grin.
The three then saw Takuya looking out the window.
"Check it out!" he said while trying to get a good look, "The Rose Morning Star's gotta be close now!".
The others than joined him and looked out the windows of the passenger car with a smile.
"Me not sure if still be friends Arbormon, but Grumblemon won't be giving up any time soon now friend," Grumblemon thought, smiling at his new goal.
"Fantastico!" Zoe said as they got closer to the star, "But it's mid day, are the clouds supposed to be that dark?".
"Uh, hey Bokomon, what does this book have to say about this area?" Tommy asked.
"Huh, sorry, I was trying to find something out about that boy Scutlemon," Bokomon explained as he looked through the green book, "No matter how much I look, I can't find anything about what kind of Digimon he could be?".
"Okay, but what about the place we're heading to?" Takuya asked.
"Right, lets see," Bokomon said before turning to a page that was just a black mess, and screaming, "Uuaaaaahhh!".
Just then the Trailmon screeched to a halt, through the passengers out of their seats.
"All right, who was the nimrod who slammed on the brakes?!" JP complained.
"That'd be me blue boy," Trailmon Franken explained, "End of the line!".
"That can't be right?" Zoe asked as she looked out the window, "We're in the middle of nowhere,".
"Yeah, tracks still go, but Trailmon not?" Grumblemon added.
"It looks like the tracks don't stop for miles," Koji pointed out as he looked out the window.
"How observant of you," Franken explained, "Look, if I say it's the end of the line, it's the end of the line!" he seemed as annoyed as usually, "Go on, get out, get lost!".
"Koji how did you ever race with this guy?" JP complained.
"You can't do this, we have Digirail passes!" Zoe protested.
"Yeah, yeah, write it down, you'll sell millions," the Trailmon complained, "Look, you want to go, then go, I ain't stopping yah!".
The wall of the passenger car then opened up, followed by the the chairs lifting up and dumping the kids and Digimon out onto the ground, much to their discomfort.
"Let me be the first one to wish you the best of luck," Trailmon Franken said, before quickly backing away quickly, "You're gonna neeeeed it!".
"I would have to admit, I've been dumped before but never quite like that," JP moaned as he and the others lay on the ground near the water.
"So everyone in one piece?" Takuya asked as he got up.
"Yeah," Tommy groaned as he rubbed his head.
"Me been worse," Grumblemon added as he dusted off his nose.
"Aren't there any normal Trailmon?" Zoe complained as she got up.
"I think I popped a waistband," Neemon moaned as he laid on his back.
"Bokomon?" Takuya asked as looked towards the white Digimon.
"Welcome to the Dark Gate," Bokomon moaned, confusion the others, "That temple-like structure behind you is the Dark Gate, through it lies the Continent of Darkness,".
The heroes then looked to see the eerie stone gate that had the symbol of darkness and was under the dark clouds, leading to the blackened lands covered in deep forests with dreadful vibe.
"Why do I get a feeling that's not a good thing?" JP asked, as they all looked upon the symbol of darkness on the top of the gate.
"Is it as bad as it sounds? Zoe asked.
"I wish I could tell you, but to be honest, I have no idea what awaits us there," Bokomon explained.
"But me know," Grumblemon explained, "It where Cherubimon be, and filled with dangers both legendary and mysteries,".
This made the others shutter a bit.
"There's got to be some more written in the book about it," JP asked as he and Zoe walked towards the small Digimon.
"Well, let's take a look shall we, Continent of Darkness Chapter 12," he said sarcastically, before holding up the book to show black pages of nothing.
"I thought this was chapter 7?" Neemon asked.
"Whoa, it's pitch black!" Takuya said with shock.
"How come?" Tommy asked.
"It appears that there's really no firsthand information on this place," Bokomon explained, "Many a brave Digimon have ventured within, but it seems none of them have ever returned to tell of it's secrets,".
"Me can remember some of those Digimon from when Grumblemon be evil warrior," the gnome explained, "It sad, but true, me not to proud of it now,".
This made the others worry.
"Only the foolhardy would enter the Continent of Darkness," Bokomon said as he closed his eyes and looked away, "We'll have to find another route to the Rose Morning Star,".
"But the shortest route is straight ahead," Takuya pointed out, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained, right?".
"Right," Grumblemon mumbled, thinking of someone who said that kinda thing a lot.
"I think we should take a vote," JP suggested.
"Agreed," Bokomon moaned nervously.
"You know, when all of us work as a team, we've overcome some pretty tough stuff" Takuya pointed out, "So what's the point in backing off here and giving up?".
"Yeah, if something major happens we'll just spirit evolve," JP added.
"There isn't any trouble that we can't handle," Tommy said, sounding motivated.
"Exactly, we're the legendary warriors who defeated and redeemed Grumblemon and that guy was no pushover," Zoe proclaimed.
"You mean that Zoe, thanks, it means lot you think me tough," Grumblemon said feeling grateful, to which Zoe smiled with closed eyes.
"You guys know I'm in," Koji answered calmly.
"No doubt Arbormon and other warriors be waiting there, to battle for keeps," Grumblemon said, looking serious, "And Grumblemon ready to take on anything to get friend back,".
"Well, we took a vote, motion carried!" Takuya proclaimed before he started marching to the gate, to which the other kids and Grumblemon followed "Move out!".
This worried Bokomon, "But what about me and Seraphimon's egg?" he moaned, before the yellow Digimon ran after the others "Neemon!".
"Don't forget to write!" the yellow fool said.
While Bokomon was nervous, he didn't want to be left behind. So he mustered up the courage and ran after his friends, "I know I'm going to regret this, oh, wait for meeeeeeee!".
In a few moments the heroes had entered the dark forest. However, later after they had entered, a large blue train with a metal wheel in the front pulled up to the gate. This was none other then the legendary train, GranLocomon.
"Here's the stop," the giant train spoke as he let off steam, "You sure about this Scutlemon?".
The young Digimon then hopped out, "Yep, this the place," he said cheerfully.
"I can come in with yah if you want youngen," the train offered, "I know the boss would loose it if something happened to yah,".
"No, its fine, I can't let them no I'm following them, like boss said," he explained, "I'm not the star of this story, we just need to help it stay on track,".
"Now that's a plan I can get behind," Granlocomon said as he blew his whistle, "Good luck little buddy," he said as he backed away.
"Thanks for the ride!" Scutlemon waved until the mega train was out of view. He then turned towards the gate, "You've come a long way Grumblemon, he always knew you had potential, and I'll do what I can to help it grow along with the others,".
Scutlemon was about to head in, until he heard,
"Braaaaaaaak, help!" a Toucanmon screamed as he and his buddy ran from MetalTyrannomon.
"Why's he still chasing us!?" the other screamed as he flailed his wings.
"Exterminate filth!" the cyborg dino shouted.
"Huh, aaaaaahh!" Scutlemon screamed before jumping out of the way, letting the birds and dinosaur enter the continent, "Hey, I was trying to have a cool moment!" he shouted, before sighing, "Oh well," he then ran through the gate to continue his mission.
Meanwhile with the warrior of steel,
Mercurymon slammed his fist against the wall of the cave hallway, "How did he know!?" he grumbled, frustrated that his master caught him trying to hide the fractal code that Mecurymon was so proud of, "How could Cherubimon divine that I possessed Seraphimon's Fractal code?!"
Just then, the mirror warrior heard what he thought was laughter of the dark warrior.
"I will not be made sport of Duskmon!" he barked.
"I was clearing my throat," the dark warrior said, seeming annoyed.
"Tis' unlikely," Merrcurymon accused.
"Well, aren't you self-centered," Duskmon said, not seeming bothered.
Mercurymon hadn't the best feelings towards the dark Digimon. Despite Duskmon's tendency to not do much, Mercurymon knew that Cherubimon still gave him special treatment for whatever reason. Mercurymon very much wanted to annoy the skull clad warrior, despite the dangers.
"Master Cherubimon noted your absence at the meeting he requested," Mercurymon pointed out calmly, "Hardly the most loyal act eh?".
"Just because Cherubimon gets you three to abbey his requests, doesn't mean that you are truly loyal to him," Duskmon pointed out, his red eyes staring into the mirror's soul.
"Bite your tongue!" Mercurymon hissed.
"Do you deny it?" Duskmon pressed.
"You dare to question our loyalty, you jackanapes," Mercurymon shouted, before calming down, "Besides, what does it matter what my loyalty be'th?".
This caused a bit of irritation in Duskmon, who quickly drew his blood red sword and dashed at the steel warrior.
But before he could shatter trickster, Mercurymon teleported to dodge and appeared behind the dark warrior. However, Duskmon was quick and turned to end his comrade.
He then stabbed at Mercurymon with the sword. However, he did not drive it all the way, for he knew the sword was close to stabbing it's wielding. This was because before the sword hit, Mercurymon had raised his shield to reflect it at Duskmon.
Duskmon looked towards the blood red sword by his head, before retracting it and slipping back to the shadows.
"W-whats the matter knave, scarred, you who have never even set foot on the battlefield" Mercurymon taunted, trying to sound confident, "Well, perhaps the little humans be too much for you?".
"I see what you're doing, getting Ranamon and Arbormon to do the menial labor while you wait for the right moment to strike!" Duskmon accused, "I find it hard to tell if you really care about those fools,".
"Those are strong words for someone whose actions are so weak, you are a coward!" Mercurymon taunted, trying to sound in control, "Tis' matters not to me what befalls them,".
Duskmon then turned away to leave, feeling bored with the British mirror.
"Leaving to mope, you mollycoddle!" Mercurymon taunted, however, because Duskmon didn't react, this worried him, "He knoweth too much, I must keep my guard up against this treasonist toadie,".
Duskmon had then gone to the top of the mushroom lair where Mercurymon was early and looked at the sky. This showed the terrifying detail of his black skeletal armor and creeping eyes that were throughout his body looking just as freighting as he was in the shadows.
"Maybe I should get out and fight?" he said with his strong evil dark voice, as his blond air blew in the wind, "After all, those young humans and Grumblemon are becoming quite an annoyance, they need to be restrained,".
Many moments later at the Continent of Darkness,
The heroes had walked through the eerie forest, worrying about ghost and being frightened by scary sounds. At one point they had found some glowing moss to use as light which did make things a bit better.
However, they later came to cave and were being haunted by something that kept repeating what they said. They tried to stump the voices with tongue twisters, but the voice repeated them perfectly in their high-pitched sounds, even Grumblemon's bad grammar wasn't enough to deter them.
"It's no use, we just can't trip them up," Tommy said in annoyance.
But Koji had enough of this, "Oh yeah?" he asked as he threw his glowing moss at the voices.
The moss broke as it hit the trees and illuminated Digimon that looked like blue bats with white fur, red wings, and hooks on its legs, arms, wings, and tail.
"My goodness, those creatures are Pipismon," Bokomon explained, "They're mutant Digimon whose power is greatest in the dark, they can reflect the sound back exactly as it's heard,".
The flock of bat Digimon then flew from the tree they were hanging from and causally flew across the heroes into the cave.
Takuya and the others then took a closer look to see them hanging upside down like bats tended to do. Some of the Pipismon were sleeping while others were contempt just smiling.
"For cave dwelling Digimon they're really rather gentle," Bokomon explained, "Even if they are a but scary looking,".
"Well just between us, I think they're kind of cute," Zoe said as she turned towards Bokomon.
"I think they're kind of cute," A Pipismon happily repeated, before many others did the same, "I think they're kind of cute,".
"I'm amazed to find peaceful Digimon in such a dark place," Bokomon stated.
"So, I guess it turns out you're glad you came?" Takuya asked, confusing the small Digimon.
"You just learned something," Takuya explained, "If you hadn't come, you'd never gave known about this, it's good that you took a risk,".
"If you're not sure about something, there's really only one way to find out," Koji added, "That's to take a risk and go experience it for yourself,".
"Well bless my buttons," Bokomon said in awe, "You're right,".
"Why don't you write it down in the book?" Takuya suggested, "You'll be the first Digimon to chronicle the Continent of Darkness, you'll be famous,".
This left Bokomon dumbfounded, the thought of him being famous was an interesting thought indeed, "Uh, well I, really?".
"Sure, and since you're writing about Digimon, maybe you could write about us," Zoe suggested, "The True Adventures of the Legendary Warriors, you could say how I controlled my beast spirit,".
"I'd like to be mentioned," Tommy offered, "You can write about my cool hat!".
"And mention how fearless I am!" JP added.
"And how Grumblemon became good warrior and save festival from MetalTyrannomon!" the earth warrior added, wanting to join in on the fun.
"All right then, I'll do it!" Bokomon proclamined with excitement, "Today I'll begin the greatest novel of all time, The Legendary Warriors and the Continent of Darkness,".
"So, will you write about me as well?" Neemon asked.
"Oh, I think not!" Bokomon said as he snapped Neemon's pants, which made the others burst into laughter, "Well, a great novelist needs great material, so let's continue our journey into the unknown,".
"Sounds great, let's go!" the others cheered.
But before they could even move, a tree fell over and filled the area with a dust cloud, causing the nearby Pipismon that weren't in the cave to fly from the trees.
While others coughed and were unawhere of the attacker. Grumblemon knew the sounds of the wooden gears anywhere.
"You's and your journey about to be cut short small fry!" a familiar Brooklyn voice said.
"Yeah, says who!" Takuya shouted.
Take a guess!" the wooden robot proclaimed as he jumped into the light.
"Oohooho, not Arbormon again!" Bokomon moaned.
"Good guess!" he replied, before laughing evilly as he jumped into the air and let loose his limbs, "Power Pummel!".
Arbormon then smacked the nearby Pipismon, making them cry in pain before their fractal code showed. Arbormon then absorbed it, leaving the remains to become digi-eggs that floated away.
"Feel the power baby, oh yes, it's good," Arbormon said eagerly as he landed.
This left the humans shocked, hating to see such innocent Digimon die. But one of them was more focused on the robot.
Grumblemon then walked up and shouted at the wood warrior, "Arbormon stop this evil, it no have to be this way, friend,".
"You better believe it has to be this way, right!" Arbormon said, very much still angry at his former alley, "Looks, I almost hates to do this, but you betrayed me Grumblemon, and I'm a bad evil Digimon that's going make you pay, yah understand?!".
Grumblemon then clenched his fist, "Well me going to change that!" he shouted, "Grumblemon and good warriors are going to beat Arbormon and free you of evil ways!".
The others were a bit surprised at the goblin's determination.
"Grumblemon may be good warrior now with new friends, but you still Grumblemon's friend," he said with hope, "And you best believe that Grumblemon not going to give up on you, so Grumblemon not going to hold back, we will defeat you!".
Arbormon was quiet, before staring down his opponents "I'd like to see you try, right," the wood robot then clenched his fist feeling huge amounts of hatred and rage as he vibrated with power, "That was bundle of bats was just an appeteaser, you kids are the main course!". Fractal code then enveloped the wood warrior, "Arbormon slide evolution!" he shouted as he morphed into the giant wood beast, "Petaldramon!"
The leaf lizard then stood up and roared, "And you're the midnight snack Grumblemon!". Petaldramon than rammed into cave, causing the heroes to scatter. As the dust cleared, Petaldramon jumped out of the trees and into the forest, he was so huge it looked like he had dived into an ocean. He roared as trampled through the forest, swatting down trees with his two root tails.
The heroes at this point had thrown down the glowing moss and were ready for battle.
"You sure your ready for this Grumblemon?" JP asked.
"More than ever, me not going to give up on friends new or old!" he proclaimed.
As the earth warrior said this, Takuya's D-tector began to blink and glow. The boy then looked at it and saw the symbol for Earth and knew what it meant. He then placed his hand on Grumblemon's shoulder, much to the goblin's confusion.
"Grumblemon, I think you've more the proven that you're a good Digimon we can trust," Takuya explained, "And your going to need your full strength to save your friend,"
"T-takuya don't mean what me think you mean?" Grumbelmon asked.
"I do," he said as he handed the earth warrior his beast spirit, Gigasmon.
"Gigasmon, you finally with Grumblemon again," he said, almost showing tears as he held the tan rhino nosed giant he sought to reclaim so long ago, "Right, let's do it!".
The heroes then began their transformations as the beast spirits roared.
"Execute, beast spirit evolution!" Takuya then transformed into his beast form. He was covered in flames as the mighty dragon Digimon formed, "BurningGreymon!".
"Execute, beast spirit evolution!" Koji then transformed into his beast form. He was covered in light as the lightning fast wolf Digimon formed, "KendoGarurumon!".
"Execute, beast spirit evolution!" JP then transformed into his beast form. He was covered in lighting as the metal bug tank Digimon formed, "MetalKabuterimon!".
"Execute, beast spirit evolution!" Zoe shouted. Feathers then surrounded Zoe and the armor began to form. The evolution then was finished, and the winged beast flew down revealing herself as, "Zephyrmon!"
"Execute!" Tommy shouted as he slid the fractal code on his hand across the D-tector, "Beast spirit evolution!". The spirit then roared as the spear locks flowed in the wind as the armor of the ice beast appeared around the boy. The transformation was complete, then the yeti like creature landed alongside his twin axes, he then picked them up and swung them around, "Blizzardmon!".
"Execute, beast spirit evolution!" Grumblemon then transformed into his beast form. His muscles became as hard as ground has they began to grow to giant sizes as his armor broke away as the earth giant formed. He then landed on the ground shattering it, as he got up and punched his fist together, for he was now, "Gigasmon!".
The beast spirits of fire, light, thunder, wind, ice, and earth stood together as they stared at the beast of wood ready to fight. Gigasmon stood next to MetalKabuterimon being almost slightly bigger then the thunder beast. He grind a giant smile, feeling great to be his beast form again. But now was not the time to celebrate, now was the time to beat Petaldramon.
"You know what I think, it's petal pulling time!" MetalKabutierimon shouted
"You say it, buddy," Gigasmon agreed, though the thunder beast was a bit taken aback from the irony of fighting with the giant.
"Your all bark and no bite Petaldramon!" BurningGreymon shouted.
This made Petaldramon all the angrier. The lizard roared as he shot out his thorny brown tongue at the heroes, but the warriors scattered and avoided the attack. However, the tongue did grab a tree, that was soon pulled in and devoured by the wood beast.
"Man, talk about getting fiber in your diet," BurningGreymon commented, as the lizard munched down.
"Uh oh, that no good," Gigasmon stated.
"How come?" Blizzardmon asked.
But before he could answer, Petaldramon began to grow in size until he towered over his foes and the forest.
"That answer Blizzardmon?" Gigasmon asked sarcastically.
"Oh, it looks like Petaldramon is growing into a king-sized pest!" Bokomon panicked.
"He looks cool!" Neemon cheered.
"He is not cool!" Bokomon scolded.
Petaldramon was now taller then the trees and looked like a monster from a Japanese film. "Yeah, eating good makes you grow up big and strong, right?!" the monster shouted, as Gigasmon and MetalKabuterimon approached.
"Right, Bolo thunder!" the tank cried as he shot his spinning electric attack at the lizard.
Petaldramon cried as it hit near his cheek, but that wasn't the end of his troubles.
"Quagmire Twister!" Gigasmon than spun around rapidly, causing a tornado of mud to form and be thrown at lizard.
However, the pain didn't last long. For the grass skin around the damaged area grew back, healing the wood beast, "My turn, raaaaaah!" Petaldramon then charged at his attackers.
"Oh boy," MetalKabuterimon then backed up quickly.
But Gigasmon just stayed put and tried to push back the lizard by grabbing his bark covered face. The giant groaned as the lizard kept pushing him back.
However, Burninggreymon was flying overhead and was ready to help his former foe, "Pyro Barrage!" he shouted as his blasted turned around and fired the fire bullets Petaldramon's hied, making him stop.
This gave Gigasmon the chance to uppercut the lizard and escape. Petaldramon growled at the pain as he looked back to see his wounds heal.
But then Zephyrmon flew in with her talons glowed as she flew across the beast, "Plasma Pods!" she then sliced grassy skin.
Unfortunately, it grew back rapidly and Petaldramon retaliated by grabbing the ninja harpie with his tongue "Come here!".
Zephyrmon struggled against the thorny tongue, which would have been worse if she hadn't had armor covering most of her skin. But she was soon saved when KendoGarurumon dashed at the lizard, "Howling Star!" the wolf then sliced the tongue with his sharp yellow blade wings.
Petaldramon cried in pain as the foes tried to escape, but they didn't get far. Petaldramon then swatted the light and wind beasts down his root tails.
"Frozen Arrowheads!" Blizzardmon shouted as his locks wrapped around the red leaf mane and head of the lizard. He tried to pull him down, but Petaldramon was much bigger than last time and was easily able to toss the ice beast aside, slamming him on the ground with great force.
Petaldramon roared as he towered over the forest, not knowing he was being watched by something dark. The lizard then stood on his front legs and swung his tails around in the air, "Thorn Jab, baby!" he then jabbed his tails into the ground and grabbed all the warriors except the fire beast.
The heroes struggled as they tried to get free. But only Gigasmon knew what to do, "You not hold me!" fractal code then enveloped the giant, "Gigasmon slide evolution!" he then transformed back into "Grumblemon!" with his smaller size, the earth warrior was able to slip away.
But Petaldramon didn't notice, for he was busy standing up and swinging side to side, "Leaf Cyclone!" his mane spun like a fan as he fired a giant leaf filled tornado at the captured heroes.
But before it could hit, BurningGreymon flew in the way, "Hang on guys, Wildfire Tsunami!" the dragon then erupted with flames as he fired a flame tornado at the attack.
Despite the type advantage, the sheer power and size of Petaldramon's attack was able to force back the fire and blow away the heroes.
They all screamed as pain as they hit the ground. The beasts were beaten up and hardly standing.
Petaldramon then laughed as he towered over the heroes, "Giving beast spirits to you puny humans is like giving piles to pigs!" he taunted, "So why don't do yourselves a favor and hand them over?".
The heroes struggled to get up, "Never!" the fire dragon groaned as he and the other ones got up, "If you want these spirits, then you're going to have to come here and take them!".
"Why you, wait, where's Grumblemon?" Petaldramon asked.
Then from behind the lizard, the earth warrior slammed his hammer on the ground and used to the momentum to send him flying upwards. Then as he was at the same height as the wood beast head, the earth warrior was enveloped by fractal code, "Grumblemon slide evolution!" he then transformed back into his beast spirit, "Gigasmon!".
But before Petaldramon could react, the earth giant grabbed the lizard's neck and held him tightly.
"Hurry friends, hit Petaldramon now!" he cried.
"Lets go guys, while Gigasmon has him pinned!" BurningGreymon commanded.
"Yeah, right!" Petaldramon groaned as he tried to do another leaf cyclone.
But before he could, "Lupine Laser!" Kendo Garurumon shouted as he blasted a blue laser from his mouth at the wood beast's face, stunning him.
Petaldramon moaned as Gigasmon tried to pull him back. Blizzardmon quickly went to help by grabbing the lizard's leg and trying to pull him down.
MetalKabuterimon then got down and readied his cannon, aiming at the lizard, "Out of the way buddy, Electron Cannon!" he then charged up the laser.
Gigasmon really didn't want to get blasted by that again so, "Slide evolution!" he then became Grumblemon and used a one of the roots on the back of Petaldramon to quickly spring off the lizard, sending the gnome high into the air. Just in time too, because the cannon was charged and ready to fire!
Petaldramon saw this and tried stop it with his tails. But instead the cannon blasted his tails, causing greater pain, "OOwwowowow!".
This was enough for Blizzardmon to lift up the lizard and throw Petaldramon down onto his back. The wood beast hit the ground with a great thud, stirring up a huge dust cloud.
The fire beast then burned with flames, "Wildfire Tsunami!" he then shot a fire tornado at the beast, but that wasn't all.
For Zephyrmon was stirring up her own tornado, "Hurricane Gale!".
The attacks then combined, before they engulfed the wood beast and doing unbelievable damage that was super effective.
The flames then cleared as Petaldramon began to shrink back to his normal size, "I'm, not, done, yet-".
But before he could finish moaning.
"Grumblemon, slide evolution!" Grumblemon was still in the air and evolved to his beast form to finish the job, "Gigasmon!" he grabbed his fist together and prepared to attack the lizard with, "Tectonic Slam!" Gigasmon then brought the full force of his impact onto Petaldramon, sending tremors throughout the continent, nearly creating a new one.
"Owowowowooooaaaaaahhh! Petaldramon let out one more scream of pain, before his energy was depleted.
The the dust then cleared as Gigasmon jumped of his fallen foe. Then the fractal code of the wood beast appeared.
"Blizzardmon, slide evolution!" the ice beast then transformed into "Kumamon!" the snow bear then held up his D-tector, "Winter is here for you Petaldramon, fractal code, digitize!" he said as he swiped his green D-tector across the lizard, taking the fractal code and the beast spirit.
Then at long last, Petaldramon was no more. With his beast spirit gone, the wood warrior turned back to Arbormon.
"Huh, heys wait a minute?" the robot asked, confused why he was still around, "Whys I's still in one piece, right?".
The good legendary warriors stood in front of the damaged wood warrior.
"I thought I'd give you one more chance to do things peacefully," Kumamon explained.
Then Gigasmon turned back to Grumblemon, "And because you friend Arbormon," Grumblemon explained, "Please, come join good warriors and help save digital world and fight with Grumblemon as alley!".
"Y-you think I don't want that, to fight besides you again, like old times?" Arbormon asked, seeming mad, but not as much as early, actually he seemed sadder and more frustrated, "But I can't, I'm one of Cherubimon's warriors, and if I go rogue, he'll turn me into firewood, you understand!?".
"Come on, even if that jerk tried that, will protect you!" MetalKabuterimon explained.
"W-what, really?" Arbormon said, seeming hopefully, before denying it, "N-n-no, I gotta stay loyal, I can't call it quits, right?".
"If join, you can have new start, all bad will be forgiven," Grumblemon protested, "Grumblemon don't want to lose you friend!".
Arbormon was silent as he struggled to stand, seeming unsure on what to do.
"Arbormon, now will you give up attacking us?" BurningGreymon asked.
"Well, I, uh?" he said, still struggling.
"Yes," a dark voice said, confusing the others, "He will stop fighting,".
Then a Digimon in black skeletal armor approached the warriors, seeming to make the Continent of Darkness feel even darker.
Arbormon then looked at the black humanoid that was behind him, "Uh, Duskmon?".
Everyone was quiet at the new Digimon's appearance.
"Who's that?" Zephyrmon asked.
"That Duskmon, warrior of darkness," Grumblemon explained.
"Well, here comes the cavalry, a friend in need is a friend in deed, right?" Arbormon said as he turned towards the multi eyed monster.
"Wrong, with your beast spirit gone there's really no us for you, now is there?" Duskmon said as drew is blood red sword and raised.
"What are you talking about, I'm still go-?" he tried to say.
Then in a blink of an eye, Duskmon swooped in and slashed the wood robot, ending him.
"Arbormon!" Grumblemon cried in terror as the wood warrior's fractal code appeared.
"Awwwww, yesterday's outlaw is today's enemy, aaaaaaaaahhhhhh!" Arbormon screamed as turned to look at Grumblemon one last time. Before his body disintegrated as his code was stolen by Duskmon.
Oh no, I nearly forgot about Duskmon showing up. Um um, gotta think fast, Arbormon's not leaving this story yet!".
Then as the digi-egg appeared, the dimensions flickered and swirled. This caused Arbormon's egg to go into Tommy's D-tector. But the spirit of wood and the code were sucked into Duskmon.
"H-he destroyed his own friend?" BurningGreymon said in shock, unable to believe this horror.
Grumblemon felt even worse. The friend he tried so hard to save was gone and it was at the hands of one the most dangerous Digimon in the entire world.
Narritor Rika: Okay, I'm confused. Which side is this guy on anyway? And what happened to Arbormon's egg? Guess we'll find out on the next Digimon Frontier!
Purification Redemption!
Oh no, this bad. Really really bad!
Scutlemon: Wait, what happened? Oh no Duskmon?!
I got to get to work now! Scutlemon do the wrap up!
Scutlemon: Huh, uh okay. Look sorry about the cliffhanger, the next chapter should be out in a week or two.
Already almost done, just need the ending and proof reads! ehehahaha!
Scutlemon: Thank goodness. Also special thanks to charmander17 and a guest for your reviews. We're glad you like the plot so far, and I can't wait to see the other evil warriors adjust to being good too!
Okay, if school doesn't get in the way, this should be done in no time! Scutlemon get ready!
Scutlemon: Already, alright then. Don't forget your motto!?
Thanks for the reminder. Remember everyone, reviews lead to sooner chapters and better stories, until then.
Scutlemon: Gotta go. I coming Grumblemon!
Chao!