Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Legacy ❯ Guardians: Chapter 2 ( Chapter 4 )

December 8, 2015

Book of Guardians:

Chapter 2

The light from the moon shown into the dimly lit warehouse, giving the players around the small card table extra light to continued their games. These were not ordinary players, however, but were white ghosts holding the cards in their black clawed hands.

The third Bakemon turned to the fourth. "Come on!"

"Make a decision!" the first one shouted.

The fourth one stared at the cards in his hands, then at the others. "Go fish."

The other three growled. "We're not playing Go fish!" the second one shouted.

"Just a little joke," the fourth one said, throwing his cards down,"Read 'em and weep!"

The other three threw the cards onto the table as the fourth one grabbed all of the money on the table,"I can finally buy some shoes!"

"You don't have any feet," the first one pointed out as he started dealing the cards, but they were not able to start another game as the window suddenly shattered as a large fox creature with a human riding it jumped through.

"The Digimon Queen!" they shouted.

The human grinned slightly. "Hello boys, mind if we drop in?"

The Bakemon shot towards their enemies, their claws extended for the kill. Kyuubimon jumped over them and slammed her feet into the back Bakemon, separating them. She twirled around and shot fire from her tail into two of the Bakemon, dissolving them apart. Kyuubimon pounced on the last Bakemon, pinning him to the wall. "Now," Rika said,"I'm only going to ask you this once, what are you doing here?"

Kyuubimon suddenly shot her tail up and shot a ball of fire behind her into the last Bakemon, who was planning on attacking her from behind. "Don't insult us!" Kyuubimon growled.

The last Bakemon squirmed under Kyuubimon's claws. "I...I...I can't tell you!"

"Why not?" Rika asked.

"He.....He'll kill me!"

"Who?"

"Devidramon."

"Where is this..Devidramon?" Rika asked.

"He..he hasn't crossed over yet? He sent us forward to prepare for him."

Rika nodded,"When is he planning on arriving?"

"I...I can't.."

"Listen," Rika said,"Either you die when he gets here, or you die now! Talk to me, and I won't hurt you."

The Bakemon considered this,"He's going to appear tomorrow night, eight o'clock."

"Thank you," Rika said, jumping off of her digimon,"Now, Kyuubimon, send this guy to meet his maker."

The Bakemon's eyes opened wide,"But you promised you wouldn't hurt me!"

As Kyuubimon prepared to fire her Fox Tail Inferno, Rika chuckled, "I lied!"

Calamon was sleeping peacefully on a tree branch with his back against the trunk, dreaming of cream puffs and playing games when he was forcefully awakened by a loud explosion. He fell off the branch, but was able to keep from crashing into the ground by quickly grabbing the side of the branch. He slowly climbed back onto the branch and looked around. "What happened? Did the ground just have a tummy ache?"

He heard another explosion. He ran to the edge of the branch and parted the green leaves to peek to the sidewalk. "What's going on down there?" Calamon asked,"What did that spider do to that dinosaur? Maybe if they'd play a game they'd get along."

Takato cheered for his digimon partner as he leapt into the air and kicked his feet into his opponent. The Digimon Tamer glanced at his D-Arc, where a circular image had appeared over the screen. "Hmm...Dokugumon, spider digimon. Be careful Guillmon!" he shouted,"She's poisonous!"

"You'd better believe it," the spider laughed, ramming Guillmon onto the pavement. Takato's partner jumped back onto his feet.

"Pyro Sphere!"

Dogukumon's front leg was hit, but she recovered easily. She grabbed Guillmon by his tail with her teeth and flung him into the sky. "I'm one of the crime masters of the city!" she laughed,"You'll never beat me!"

Takato quickly fished through his deck of cards and found one that he wanted. He quickly slid the card through his D-Arc, "Digimodify! Hyper Wings activate!"

Guillmon suddenly noticed that he was no longer falling uncontrollably. It was as if someone had pumped the knowledge of the wings into his head. He now easily soared back down to Dogukumon, planting his feet into her head. He then shot back into the sky.

Takato threw his fist into the air,"Yes! Come on, Guillmon, we can beat her!"

"No, you won't!" Dogukumon growled,"Posion Spread!"

The goggle wearing Tamer ducked to avoid being hit by one of the threads, but Guillmon was caught into he giant web that formed over the section of the park. "Guillmon!" he screamed.

"Don't worry, Takato," the red dinosaur said as he struggled to break free of the spider's wbe,"I'm alright and I'm going to win!" His bravado was obliviously fake, as his wings vanished.

"Guillmon!" Takato shouted.

Dogukumon was laughing viciously, but suddenly she stopped. The web lines dissolved and Guillmon fell freely to the ground. Takato spun around and saw that Dogukumon was gone and in her place stood Kyuubimon with Rika riding her. Takato was horrified, "You....you killed Dogukumon!"

"It appeared that I was saving your digimon's life," Kyuubimon said, as she absorbed the spider's data.

"Think of it was a warning of what's going to happen to you when we have our rematch!" Rika laughed as she and her partner vanished.

"She gives me the creeps!" Guillmon shivered.

Takato nodded,"You and me...both...." He trailed off when he saw Calamon float down from the tree branch he was on. "Wh..what the...?"

The small digimon landed on the ground and stared up at Takato."Hello."

"Uh..h...hi."

Guillmon bent down and sniffed the white creature. "You're..Calamon?"

"That's right!" he grinned,"What's your name?"

"Guillmon."

"I'm Takato, Calamon, um, where's your Tamer?"

"T..tamer?" he asked, not knowing the meaning.

"Don't you have a human that is your partner? That stays by you?"

Calamon shook his head.

"Okay, so you don't have a Tamer, so where do you stay?"

"Anywhere I want!" he giggled,"I just moved here, do you want to be my friend?"

Takato smiled slightly,"Maybe you should come with me..."

Riley sighed slightly as she examined the covered body which was lying on the floor. A man wearing a blue uniformed walked over to her and handed her a clipboard with a manila folder.. "Thanks," she said, opening the folder and glancing inside.

Taily walked up beside her,"What do you have there?"

She mentioned to the lying body, "The folder on our unfortunate victim there. He was Takanocka, Nigwa, C.E.O of a very successful electronics company. From what we're able to tell, he received a mortal wound from what appears to be some kind of projectile."

Taily nodded. "So, Reika, why were we called in?"

Riley pulled a photo from the folder and handed it to Taily. The blond gasped at the pictures, which showed a walking skeleton creature with a large staff. "Which one is that?"

"I believe it is referred to as a 'Skull Satanmon,' Riley said, placing the photo back into the folder,"That's what killed Takanocka."

"Yamaki's probably not happy about this," Taily muttered.

"He's quite annoyed, Megumi," Riley sighed.

"....Tne twelve warriors rode around the tomb, chiefton's sons, champions in battle, all of them distraught, chanting in dirges, mourning his loss as a man and a king. They extolled his heroic nature and exploits and gave thanks for his greatness; which was the proper thing, for a man should praise a prince whom he holds dear and cherish his memory when that moment comes when he has to be convoyed from his bodily home. So the Geat people, his hearth companions, sorrowed for the lord who had been laid low. They said that of all the kings upon the earth he was the man most gracious and fair-minded, kindesy to his people and keenest to win fame." Tai slowly closed the book. He was leaning against the front of his desk, staring at his students. "Does anyone have any comments?" He paused until he saw a couple of hands. He choose one at random. "Yes, Nickey?"

"Sir, there's something I don't quite understand," she said, lowering her hand.

Tai nodded. "What is it?"

Nickey fidgeted slightly,"I...well, sir, I don't understand why Beowulf would have gone into battle with that dragon if he was that old. I mean, probably part of him knew he wasn't going to make it."

Tai nodded, then glanced at everyone. "Any ideas?" To his dismay, none of his students raised their hands. He hid his disappointment from everyone else in the room except for Miss Isage, who was staring over Takato's shoulder at the drawings on his desk.

"...and I'm going to give him a super fire blast!" Takato grinned in delight as he finished coloring in the drawing of the large dinosaur,"I'll call him SuperDinoBlastermon! No, that's stupid! Um...Growlymon...Grolwmon...That's it, Growlmon! Growl..." He stopped and glanced over his shoulder where he saw Miss Isage's face. "Uh oh..." Takato quickly hid the drawing, and was thankful that the new teacher only whispered for him to pay attention.

Tai just nodded and continued, "Well, the reason Beowulf was willing to fight to the death, was because he believed in what he was fighting for. His faith gave him strength."

The students just gave him a puzzling look. Tai sighed," You guys are probably too young to understand this, but you have to have something more to your lives. There has to be something that you would be willing to fight for, willing to die for, be it friends, family, country, beliefs, anything."

Tai smiled at the reactions he was now receiving. The kids were really thinking, especially Takato, Tai did not think he ever saw the young teenager suddenly appear so attentive. It was like someone had pushed a switch in his head. Jeri inoccently raised her hand. "Yes?"

"Um, what about you, Mr. Kamiya?" she asked.

"What was that?"

"Do you have anything you'd be willing to die for?"

Tai stared at her for a second, then chuckled. He was about to open his mouth when the bell sounded through the school. "Class dismissed." The class quickly shot out the door.

"Very motivational speech, Mr. Kamiya," Miss Isage chuckled as she walked up the empty classroom.

"Thank you," Tai said, packing up his textbook,"I noticed that you had to reminded Mr. Matsuki to pay attention. What was he doing?"

Miss Isage shrugged,"Oh, just doodling."

Tai nodded and started packing up.

"Um, what you were saying before, is there really something you would die for?"

Tai smiled slightly. "Maybe once, when I still had a heart and soul, but it was taken from me."

Miss Isage walked over and placed her arm around Tai's shoulder. "Do you want to talk about it?"

Tai glanced at her. "Well, if you're not too busy, maybe you can convince me over dinner tonight?"

Miss Isage grinned. "I'd love to."

The mid afternoon sun was slowly moving down the bright blue sky, casting its shadows along the sidewalks, interrupted only as the rush hour traffic of pedestrians hurried along on their way. They were so busy staring at the ground that had they looked unaware they would have seen a very remarkable sight-a redheaded teenage girl wearing the uniform of a very prestigious all girls' school standing on a building roof.

The girl blinked slightly as she heard her partner appear behind her. "What is it Renamon?"

"I was just wondering what you were doing here Rika?"

The red head mentioned to the building across the street. "That's where Goggle head lives. Hmm...Matsuki Bakery. I think I went there once, Grandma needed fresh roles, and Mom was wondering if anything was low fat. Look, a complete family, mother and father. Ha, I bet Goggle Head's father is always there, his mother is never shouting at him, telling him how to act, what he can and can't be, I bet he's so happy, so perfect!"

Renamon stared at her partner for a second before Rika turned to her. "Come on, let's get out of here."

"...and I win!" Kazu shouted, throwing down his cards,"You're out!"

Kenta's face dropped open,"B..b...but...how....I don't....it can't....but...but...but..."

"Come on man, you sound like a motor boat," Kazu said, shuffling his cards,"Hey, Takato!:"

The brown haired boy continued to lie on his back, staring up at the ceiling of the inside of the playground elephant. "Hey Chumly!" Kazu shouted.

Takato quickly shot up."What?"

"Do you want the next game or not?" Kazu asked, shuffling the cards in his palms like a casino dealer,"Jeeze, what's with you?"

"Sorry," Takato sighed, rubbing the back of his neck,"I've just been thinking about what Mr. Kamiya talked about."

"That again?" Kenta asked.

"Listen Chumly," Kazu said,"He's just trying to put his point across. I mean, I'm all for dying for your family or your country, but you shouldn't feel like there's something wrong with you if you aren't a maester..."

"Martyr," Kenta corrected.

"Shut up, four-eyes," Kazu said, punching him in the arm.

"Hmm..." Takato considered,"I just don't know if I have anything that I'd be willing to die for."

"Ahh, really, don't worry about it," Kenta said,"You'll find it when you need it."

"I hope so," Takato thought.

"Come on Henry, please?"

"No, Terriermon!" Henry sighed, rubbing his face as he leaned back against the blenchers surrounding the soccer field.

"Please?" his dog/rabbit said as he ran along the bleechers,"Come on, Henry, you're always such a stick in the mud."

"Maybe I'm just cautious," the black haired young teenager said,"Besides which, you know that people aren't going to be very excepting if a digimon enters an animal contest!"

"We could have tried," Terriermon plopped down next to him, knowing that Henry was right.

"Come on," Henry said, "We'd better get back home, it's getting late."

Terriermon slowly got to his feet, when his ears suddenly shot straight up. "Uh oh."

"A bio-merge?" Henry asked, swinging his head in all directions,"But where?"

Terriermon pointed to the soccer field where a cloud of thick smoke appeared,"Maybe there."

"The Digital Field," Henry said,"Come on, Terriermon!"

"Right behind ya!" Terriermon shouted as he and Henry dove into the smoke.

Inside the Digital Field, the dusky twilight was now the brightness of a blue afternoon sky, one which had a flying creature hovering around in it. "Hmm," Henry said, checking his D-Arc,"Vileamon, demon digimon, champion level. Well, this shouldn't be too hard."

"Guess again, pitiful Earth dwellers!" Vileamon laughed.

Terriermon placed his ears perpendicular to his head and started spinning around. "Terrier Tornado!"

Vilemon was hit by the rush of air, but not enough to cause him serious damage. He fired a black blast from his mouth, which Terriermon was, thankfully able to dodge. The dog digimon fired his Bunny Blaster, but the flying demon easily dodged it.

"He's got too much leverage up there," Henry said. He quickly pulled a card out of his deck and slid it through his D-Arc,"Digi-modify! Patamon activate!"

Terriermon's long ears transformed into Patamon's bat wing ears. He started flapping them at an incredible rate. He flew after Vilemon, aiming for another attack,"Bunny Blast!"

Vilemon dodge out of the way again, and slammed his fist into Terriermon's face, crashing him into the ground. "Ha!" he laughed, as the dog digimon slowly got back onto his feet,"I could stay and play with you all day, but I've got bigger fish to fry. Later!" He flew out of the Digital Field, which vanished after he was out of range.

"Well that could have gone better," Henry sighed as he helped Terriermon to his feet.

"Henry! I've been looking all over for you!"

"Takato? What are you doing here?"

The goggle wearing brown haired boy was out of breath as he spoke."What happened here?"

"Just a little battle," Terriermon chuckled.

Takato shook his head,"Never mind. Henry, I found a strange digimon named Calamon. He's back at Guillmon's hide out."

Henry glanced at his watch,"Can't this wait?"

Takato shrugged,"Well, I guess it could.."

"Allright, we're coming."

Henry gasped slightly at the small creature bounding around Guillmon's small hideout. "This is..a digimon?"

"Yup!" Calamon laughed, dancing up and down,"Who are you?

"Um...Henry."

"Henry, that's a funny name!" Calamon laughed,"Shouldn't you have a 'mon' at the end?"

"No, I mean, I'm human."

"So?" Calamon laughed.

Henry turned to Takato. "This couldn't wait until tomorrow?"

The goggle head shrugged slightly. "I thought it was important."

Henry sighed. "Where's Calamon going to stay?"

The white digimon stopped playing with Terriermon and Guillmon to stare at the two humans. "Stay?" he asked,"Oh, I never stay in one place."

"You don't?" Takato asked.

Calamon hopped over to the small doorway. "Nope, I go where ever I want." He started hovering away from the stone structure.

"Calamon, wait!" Guillmon shouted.

"Don't worry, Guillmon!" Calamon chuckled,"I'll be back."

"That's one strange Digimon," Terriermon said as he climbed onto Henry's head,"Come on, Henry, we'd better get home."

The black haired Tamer and his partner started walking down the stairs. "Hey, are you going patrolling tonight?"

Henry shook his head,"No, I've got a lot of work to get done."

"Oh," Takato said, disappointed.

"Mometai!" Terriermon laughed, as he and Henry walked away.

"This just goes to prove how crazy I am!" Tai mumbled as he walked down the sidewalk. Following loyally at his side, Agumon, disguised in his trench coat, glanced at his partner.

"What are you talking about?"

"I just spent a wonderful dinner with a beautiful woman, and when I take her home, she asked me to come in, and what do I do?"

Gatomon, who was on the other side of Tai, grumbled,"What?"

"I go out trying to find a girl that for all I know doesn't want to be found."

"I always knew you were nuts," Gatomon mumbled, turning her head away as she continued walking.

Tai glared at her. "What was that?"

Agumon glanced up at one of the buildings along the sidewalk,"Tai, I think we're here."

Tai smiled slightly as he glanced up at the sign. "5th street arcade." He turned to his two digimon partners, "Wait here."

"Of course," Gatomon mumbled as she sat down on the sidewalk. Agumon just sighed.

Tai pushed open the door to the arcade and was overcome by the same stench that he encountered at the crack house. He held his breath as she stepped inside, but started breathing when he took the first step. The inside of the room was packed tight with various arcade games around the wall There was a caged up stand to the far right with an older man seated behind it. In the center of the room were a group of kids gathered around a pool table, and a bar which had various soda labels on the taps, but Tai knew that something else was coming out of them.

He took another step inside and let the door slam shut, but no one heard it over the roar of the music. Tai glanced at the group of teenagers and young adults, trying to decide whom to talk to. He settled on the 'bartender' and so pushed through the crowd and sat on one of the barstools.

The bartender was dressed in a black sleeveless shirt, an eye patch, and had a nose ring. He raised his eyebrow when he glanced at Tai. "Can I get you something?"

Tai nodded. "Yeah, I'm looking for someone."

"You a cop?" the bartender asked.

Tai shook his head and pulled something out of his pocket. "I'm just looking for someone, if you can tell me anything, your troubles will be well financed."

The bartender leaned back against the wall and crossed his arms. "Who are you looking for?"

"Alice McCoy."

The bartender looked out at the crowd that was in the arcade. "Nope, I don't see her here tonight."

Tai nodded, frowning. "Do you know anywhere else where she might be?"

"Why are you so interested in finding her?" the bartender asked, razing his eyebrow again.

"She owes me some money," Tai lied,"I should have never trusted her on credit."

The bartender nodded, thinking Tai was a drug dealer. "Yeah, I know just what you mean. Ya can't trust anybody! Well, I don't know where she might be, but one of them might know." He mentioned to the teenager crowd.

Tai nodded and walked over to the pool table. The group stopped playing and glanced over their shoulders at him. "Want something old man?" one of the boys asked.

Tai struggled to keep his temper under control. "I am looking for a girl named Alice McCoy, know where she is?"

One of the girls backed up slightly,"Why are looking for Alice?"

"She owes me money," Tai said,"Do you know where she is?"

The girl stared at Tai,"Who are you?"

Tai made sure that the collar of his trench coat was casting enough of a shadow on his face so no one could identify him later. "Just someone."

The girl stepped back further as the group of teenagers moved behind her. "What's going on?" Tai asked.

The girl glared at Tai. "I don't know why you're looking for Alice, but I don't trust you." Suddenly, her body began to change, her skin twisted and turned, along with her clothes, changing until she was no longer a teenager girl wearing jeans and a t-shirt, but a young woman dressed in tight fitting black body suit, with daggers attached to metal sheets around her tights. The other teenagers were gasping, and Tai's mouth was wide open. "W..what?"

The woman grabbed her daggers,"I am Artemis, a Digital Hunter, and you are coming with me."

Tai took a few steps back, then dove out the door and landed on the side walk. He glanced up and saw something flying towards him, glittering in the moonlight. He quickly rolled out of the way just as a set of daggers pierced into the sidewalk. A second later, Artemis jumped out of the arcade. She picked up her daggers, then glanced to where Tai was running down the sidewalk. "You're not getting away!" she shouted.

Tai charged to where his two digimon partner were standing. "Gatomon!" he shouted, holding up the pink digivice,"You're up!"

"Gatomon digivolve to...Angewomon!"

Artemis stopped short as she stared at the angle digimon in front of her. She glanced at Tai, then at Agumon, then Gatomon, then back at Tai. "You're not a normal human, that much is obvious, but two digital partners? I've heard rumors, about a middle-aged man with a dinosaur and a cat. You're the Master Digidestined."

"That's right," Tai crossed his arms, standing in the shadows so Artemis could not see him.

Artemis started laughing. "I can't wait to see the look on Orion's face when I capture the Master Digidestined!"

Tai chuckled slightly,"You honesty think you'll be able to defeat us? A woman with a pair of knives? Ha!"

Artemis growled and grabbed her daggers. "Let's go!"

Takato quickly glanced up at the sky when he heard a sharp win sound through the night sky. "It's only a bird," he said to himself, "It's only a bird."

Guillmon glanced at him with a puzzling look. "What are you talking about?"

Takato shook his head. "Never mind. Come on, let's head downtown."

As the two partners moved down the sidewalk, they were unaware that they were being observed from the roof of a nearby building by Rika and Renamon. Both digimon and human had to contain themselves from leaping down and challenging the goggle headed Tamer and his red dinosaur, they would have to wait for their chance, for now, another challenge awaits them.

Renamon's ears twitched as she heard a distinct and very unique sound. Rika saw this and glanced at her watch; 8:00. "Devidramon."

Guillmon suddenly stopped walking. "Guillmon?" Takato turned towards him. "What's wrong?"

"A digimon's coming!" Guillmon shouted,"The most powerful one that's ever crossed over!"

Yamaki flung open the door to the Hypnos command center. "Tracker! Status Report!"

"We're reading a large amount of digital information bio-merging!" Riley shouted as her fingers danced across the keyboard of her raised chair.

Yamaki nodded. "Recorder?"

"I haven't found anything yet, sir," Taily said from her own chair, as she tried to match the data signal that was received to their files. So far, she had found nothing.

On the floor, Yamaki clicked his cigarette lighter a few more times before speaking,"Tracker, who's closest?"

"Artemis, sir, but she's not responding to her communicator," Riley said,"I'm trying to locate Orion...."

"Sir!" Taily called,"I haven't been able to identify the Wild One, but there are two other signals that are heading towards it, both of them are in our data banks."

"Who?"

"The Goggle headed Tamer, and the Digimon Queen."

Yamaki thought for a few seconds, "A new talented amateur, and an experienced Tamer. Hmm....Riley, forget about the Digital Hunters, let's see how these two Tamers handle this threat."

"As you wish sir."

As Takato ran after Guillmon, he noticed a figure leaping across the building roofs. "What is that?"

Guillmon glanced up and his eyes shrunk even more. "Renamon!" he hissed.

"The Digimon Queen's coming?" Takato growled as he and Guillmon continued running down the sidewalk,"Great, this is gonna be fun."

Renamon continued hopping across roofs with incurable ease and grace, always a few feet ahead of the dinosaur and his human partner. Takato was beginning to think that they would be running forever, when they suddenly reached a large onramp/offramp section of the roadway-one that was covered in white fog. "A Digital Field...A big one too."

"What are you doing here?"

Takato twirled to the right and saw Rika standing with her arms crossed, glaring at him. "What are you doing here?" she asked again.

"I...ah...uh...I'm here to fight the digimon," he pointed to the fog.

"Well, butt out!" Rika shouted,"This is my battle." Renamon suddenly appeared beside her.

"Rika, he's emerging," the fox said, leaping towards the diminishing white smoke.

The Digimon Queen glared at Takato as she flicked her sunglasses off of her forehead onto her nose. She grabbed her D-Arc and cards out of her trench coat pocket, then ran after Renamon.

Takato shivered slightly,"She really gives me the creeps."

"Takato-mon," Guillmon pointed towards the now diminished Digital Feild,"Something's out."

The brown haired Tamer pointed his D-Arc at the massive creature. "Devidramon, dragon type, champion level. Well, Rika can surely handle this."

Renamon jumped into the air and with perfect grace, twisted her body around so that she was able to land her foot right on Devidramon's snout. The dragon digimon threw his hands up in an attempt to catch her, but the fox digimon leapt over his head and started to run down his back. She was at the mid-point of his back, when she leapt into the air, and once again maneuvered around in the sky with such skill that even the fines gymnast would be jealous. She flung open her hands and threw them down. "Diamond Storm!"

Devidramon flinched in pain as the shards of lights jabbed into his back. He was injured, but not enough that it would case him serious harm. He quickly flung his tail into the air, hoping that Renamon was still behind him. He felt his tail slam into something, and grinned when he heard Renamon moan in pain. He quickly shot around, but she was gone. He knew where she was a second later when he felt her furry fur pound into the side of his face.

"What is the purpose of this fight?" he asked, turning to face Renamon, who had landed right next to Rika.

"We met your friends, the Bakemon," Rika explained,"They told us about your plans for becoming a crime boss in this city. We are its protectors."

"Ah, so you are the famous Digimon Queen," Devidramon laughed,"I've heard stories of your strength."

"We're flattered," Renamon said,"Let's keep fighting, shall we?"

Devidramon laughed as he and Renamon dove back into battle.

Calamon looked around as he floated through the night sky. "Is this where Guillmon is?" he wondered, hovering over the highway. He glanced downward and saw metal box things roll down the street."Are those cars? They're really loud."

He suddenly heard a loud roar echo out from further down the highway. "Was that Guillmon? Hmm, I think I'll go find out." He stared hovering towards the sound of the roar, and, hopefully, Guillmon.

Angewomon twirled around in the sky and planted her foot into Artemis's face, sending the Digital Hunter onto the ground. Artemis grabbed her daggers and flung them at the flying angel's face. Had Angewomon been further away, she could have blocked them successfully, but, all she was able to do was throw her arm up, which resulted in the daggers slicing her arm length glove, as well as her skin.

"Ouch! That hurt!" she shouted, grabbing her injured arm.

"Sorry about that," Artemis said, flipping over and onto her feet,"I wasn't aiming for your face, honest."

Tai raised his eyebrows. "She's telling the truth, isn't it?"

"I think so," Agumon agreed, watching Angewomon and Artemis battle,"I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's something about her."

"Like what?"

"I don't know, her scent...it's...odd," Agumon shrugged,"That's the best way I can describe it."

Tai just nodded and turned his attention back to the battle. Artemis used her daggers to thrust at Angewomon's other arm. "I really don't want to hurt you, but this is your last chance: surrender peacefully, or I'll have to use extreme force."

Angewomon started laughing. "You're just a pitiful human! What can you possibly do?"

"This!" Artemis held up her fist, which began to glow a bright red, covered in flames. She slammed into Angewomon's stomach, sending her flying backwards into the outside of the building.

"Angewomon!" Tai shouted, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, just a little woozy," the angel said, slowly climbing to her feet,"But don't worry, I'm not giving up."

"No, that's exactly what we're doing," Tai called out.

Both Angewomon and Artemis stopped and stared at him. "What?" they both shouted.

"This battle is pointless!" Tai shouted,"We've done nothing that would warrant the Digital Hunters coming after us."

"You're a criminal!"

"How?" Tai asked.

"I....uh....ah....um...." Artemis studdered, then glared at him,"I don't like you. Next time we meet, you're not getting away. Get out of here." She ran down the sidewalk in the other direction and vanished into the crowd.

Angewomon quickly picked up Tai and Agumon and flew up to the sky. "Well," Angewomon said,"We've figured out that she's as strong as me."

"As an Ultimate," Agumon corrected,"I doubt she would have lasted long against me!"

"Why did you stop the battle, anyway?" Anewomon asked the Master Digidestined.

"It was pointless," Tai said, looking away from Angewomon's gaze.

She smiled slightly, "You're sure its not because she might remind you of Kari?"

"What's that suppose to mean?" Tai shouted.

"Guys!" Agumon sighed,"I'm getting tired of separating you two!"

"She's started it," Tai mumbled.

"Did not!"

"Who's that? She's good!" Calamon gasped as he watched Renamon and Devidramon dance in battle. He hovered onto one of the tree branches next to the battle field. His eyes opened wide as Renamon spun around in the air, slamming her foot into the side of Devidramon's snout. She used that foot as a pivot point and spun her other foot around to plant it into the other side of Devidramon's jaw. She squeezed as hard as she could to keep from sliding to the ground. Devidramon throw his claws up to throw her off, but Rika's digimon quickly slammed both of her fists into the tip of the dragon's nose, then pressed against the snout and twisted over to gracefully land on a lamp post.

"Excellent Renamon!" Rika shouted,"Don't let me down!"

"Never, Rika," Renamon said, as she jumped into the air to avoid Devidramon's swiping claw. Renamon landed on Devidramon's arms and charged up his arm and threw her arms apart when she reached his shoulder. "Diamond Storm!"

Devidramon hissed in pain. He quickly swung his tail up and slammed the fox into the pavement.

"Renamon!" Rika shouted,"Are you okay?"

"I've been better," Renamon panted as she jumped to her feet. She glanced up and saw Devidramon's tail heading towards her. She tried to roll out of the way, but she was still too groggy from being bashed into the pavement. Devidramon's tail grabbed her around her waist and threw her into the air where she was even with Devidramon's face.

"Renamon!" Guillmon shouted.

Takato turned to his partner,"We've got to help her."

The dinosaur nodded. "I'm on it!" He charged into the battle field, then jumped into the air and slammed his head into Devidramon's stomach, causing him to drop Renamon.

"Who are you?" Devidramon growled, staring at Guilmon,"I've traveled all corners of the Digital World, and I've never seen a digimon like you before."

"He's new!" Takato shouted,"I created him."

"What a show off," Rika muttered, as she quickly ran over to help her digimon partner over to the side line.

"Created?" Devidramon laughed,"Are you a god, little boy?"

Takato growled. "Attack, Guillmon!"

The dinosaur's mouth open wide and fired a ball of red energy into Devidramon's chin. Takato grabbed his deck of cards. "Digi-modify: Hyper Wings Activate."

On his tree branch, Calamon's ears grew out of his head,"Go Guillmon!"

Two pairs of white wings appeared on Guillmon's back, and he used them to fly into the air until he was level with the dragon's snout. "Pyro Sphere!" Devidramon knew Guillmon's attack this time, so he was able to block it with the back of his hand. The dragon used his other fist to pound Guillmon into the same lamp post that Renamon was perched on only five minutes earlier.

"Guillmon!" Takato shouted,"Are you alright?"

"Sure thing, Takato-mon," Guillmon coughed as he jumped back onto his feet,"I'm still okay enough to beat him!"

"Don't bet on it!" Devidramon laughed as he used his tail to flick Guillmon into one of the support beams for the highway above."

"Guillmon!" Takato shouted,"Guillmon!"

"Guillmon," Calamon said, sadly, his ears shrinking back into his head,"I sure hope he's okay." Slowly the upside-down triangle on his forehead glowed slightly.

Guillmon's eyes suddenly shot open. "Guillmon digivolve to...Growlmon!"

As the new champion digimon stood proudly in front of the dragon invader, everyone watching had their mouths wide open, everyone except for Calamon. "Yeah Guillmon!"

Takato opened and closed his mouth a few times before he found his voice. "Gu..Growlmon?"

Rika growled. "He has a Champion now? Why does the universe keep doing this to us?"

Renamon turned towards her partner. "Rika, I'm suddenly feeling a surge of energy..."

Growlmon dove at Devidramon before the dragon could react. He grabbed his arms and pinned him against the supports for the highway bridge. "Pyro Blaster!" he shouted, drenching Devidramon's chest in flames.

The dragon shouted out in pain. He flung his tail up, but Growlmon slammed his head into Devidramon's already injured chest, which caused his tail to drop. Growlmon jumped back, and Devidramon slid to the ground. "Finish this!" Takato shouted.

"You've got it, Tamer!" Growlmon shouted, jumping into the air, planting his feet, once again, on Devidramon's burnt chest.

"Stop!" the dragon threw up his open palms,"I give up! I yield."

Takato ran forward to stand by his partner's side. "I heard the Digimon Queen say you came here to become a crime boss."

"Yes," Devidramon nodded.

"Then leave," Takato ordered,"Go back to the other side, never come back."

Devidramon nodded,"Yes.. yes..I will." He slowly got to his feet, but something caught the corner of his eye;a stream of fire that tore through his chest, blasting him into his basic data.

Takato and his digimon spun around and saw Rika staring at him, with Renamon loading Devidramon's data. "What did you do that for?!" he screamed.

"He was a digimon!" Rika reminded him, "Digimon destroy other digimon to load their data."

"They're more then just data!" Takato shouted,"They're alive, and you k..kill them."

Rika smirked,"Getting soft on me, Goggle head?"

"How can you destroy digimon so...easily?" Takato shouted, "That Devidramon was just like Renamon!"

"He was nothing like me!" Kyuubimon snarled,"He was invading this city, I am trying to protect it."

"Getting stronger too!" Growlmon hissed.

Kyuubimon smiled,"If that comes from it, then so be it."

Rika crossed her arms and was going to tell Takato off, when she felt something pulling on her leg. She twirled down and saw a white creature grabbing the bottom of her jeans. "What the...?"

Calamon's ears grew out from his head. "Hi, I'm Calamon!"

"Stay away from him, Rika!" Takato warned.

Rika smirked, and kicked Calamon off of her leg. "Who cares about that pipsqueak Digimon!"

"Don't hurt him!" Takato shouted,"You'd don't have to be so...mean all of the time!"

"Don't lecture us!" Rika warned, jumping onto Kyuubimon's back, "You'd better spend your time loading some data of your own, because we still have a rematch!"

Takato was going to run after them, when he heard sirens sound out from within the city. "We'd better get out of here, Growlmon. Hey, where's Calamon?"

Growlmon quickly glanced around,"I don't know, I don't see him anywhere."

Another siren blasted, this time, much closer. "We'll have to look later. Come on."

"Right behind ya!" the large dinosaur shouted, following his partner out of the park.

Tai frowned as he watched the evening news. "....and the battle tonight makes the second confirmed sighting of the Tamer with the goggles. He was seen battling the Digimon Queen. While police are unable to confirm what caused the battle, government agents have arrived on the scene and are conducting their own investigation. They have not confirmed anything, but they believe that a digimon had crossed over. Also, one of the government's Digital Hunters, Artemis, was seen in her own battle earlier this evening. Hypnos has not commented. In other news, Takanocka Nigwa, was killed earlier today..."

Tai clicked off the television. "First the Digimon Queen, and now this Goggle Tamer. Don't these kids know what they're getting into?"

"Their digimon have already digivolved," Agumon pointed out, jumping onto the couch next to Tai,"I think they're fairly strong."

"And where does this Tamer get off wearing goggles? I started that!"

Gatomon sat down in front of the television."Yeah, and they don't look any better on him."

Tai ignored her and lightly rubbed his chin,"And another executive of an electronic company died. That's two." He shivered slightly,"According to Ice Devimon, only three more, but what happens then?" He sighed,"I don't think I want to know."

to be continued....