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Summary: After four long, peaceful years, after the battle with Lucemon, the Frontier Kids learn of a new presence destroying the peace in the Digital World. This new threat, Mephistomon, seeks the power of the former Great Angel digimon. Now once again, Takuya, Kouji, Tomoki, Junpei, Izumi, and Kouichi, must work together in order to stop this threat and save both human and Digital world.

Chpt. 21 Recap

Izumi, Yutaka, and Monodramon had gotton closer to the Villagae where they expected to find the lost Takuya, who had reverted to the form of Flamon and was busy with some questions of his own for Swanmon. Izumi was suprised when she recieved a message from Flamon via the D-tector. That's when Goddramon, an Ultimate, appeared and caused trouble for the three, or perhaps two. Cyberdramon was unwillg to fight for he did not want to betray his old master who had been so kind to him. After what seemed like the end for he and Yutaka, the silver digi-soul overloaded allowing them to merge in Justimon, another Ultimate. They defeated the corrupt Goddramon and scanned him of his evil data. Next stop: the Village of Beginnings!

Chpt. 22: Search For the Missing Spirits!

Swanmon's Cottage

Izumi, Yutaka, Flamon, and Hopmon all sat in a circle outside in Swanmon's garden. For those of you wondering what happened to Goddramon, he's there too. He just lost so much power he became Elecmon, his Child stage, and decided to take care of the Baby digimon while Swanmon informed the group of what's been going on in the Digital world as of late.

"You see, during the years that you were gone, Mephistomon was awakened and arrived into power. He wants revenge on the humans who defeated him in the first place, which is why he so desparately wants to get to the human world. The thing is, those humans aren't around anymore so Mephistomon is simply going to destroy all humans in existance." Swanmon explained.

"Wait, there were other humans hear before us?" Izumi asked.

"Yes, they were know as the Tamers and had digimon partners like your friend here. They used the technique Trinity Burst to defeat Mephistomon for good or so they thought." Swanmon informed them. "Their partner digimon have long sense vanished and the Tamers are scattered as well. They only possible way to win against him is to bring back KaizerGreymon and MagnaGarurumon."

"But to bring them back, we need to find the other four spirits, not to mention my spirits!" Flamon exclaimed.

"Which is exactly what I would like for you four to go and do and elecmon if he's interested." Swanmon instructed.

"Of course, have nothing else to do, and still feel like I owe these children." Elecmon responded.

"Good. The five of you should split into three groups. Here's a map telling you where the spirits are located save for the spirit of flame of course. Takuya, you have to find it on your own, though I heard one of the baby digimon seeing a fire at night on top of the nearby mountain."

"Izumi if you don't mind, I'd like to find the spirits of Earth and Wood." Yutaka asked.

"That's fine, I'd rather find the spirits of Water and Steel." she smiled.

"I guess I'm off to the mountains. See you guys soon." said Flamon, getting up.

"Be careful Takuya, I'll be near the ocean." said Izumi, leaving.

"Guess, we'll be in the forest, right guys? Oh, I almost forgot, when will Hopmon evolve?" Yutaka asked.

"Hopmon will evolve normally when you need him to. There will be no need to charge up for digi-soul for his Baby II to Child evolution." Elecmon answered in the place of Swanmon. With that all five had left.

"I hope they're all stay safe." Swanmon whispered.

Mephistomon's Castle

Tomoki, Junpei, Kouji, and Kouichi, all led by Shinya and Patamon, silently made their way through Mephistomon's castle. They had already been roaming for what seemed liked hours, and they still had'nt found the main room.

"I wish Yutaha were here." Tomoki sighed.

"Yeah, well I wish Monodramon were here. At least he knew the way around this place!" Junpei whined.

"Kouichi you still look tired. If there's anything you need, let me help you, okay?" Kouji suggested.

"I'm fine Kouji, don't worry about me. Let's just keep moving okay?" the older twin said.

"Hey, will you guys shut up? We don't want to get caught by any one of Mephistomon's goons." Shinya yelled, in a soft voice.

"I think we should turn up ahead." suggested Patamon.

"Actually, I think you should stop now." The mysterious voice scared the group and a very creepy looking clown appeared before Shinya. The clown wore green pants and a red shirt with white gloves. On his back were four swords and his orange hair was styled back. His face was colored black on one side and white on the other. "What lies in your future is death!" he said drawing one of the swords.

The Mountains

As Flamon continued to walk, he couldn't help but notice that he felt some sort of danger surrounding Shinya. At first he though he was just hunger, but something is wrong now.

"I have got to hurry and find my spirits before something really bad happens!" he began taking off in the northern direction. Pretty soon he saw that there was nothing else in the area. "Aw man, I came all this way for nothing. Spirits of Flame where are you!!! Stupid D-tector doesn't even work right!"

"Scissors Claw!" Flamon was taken completely by suprised by the battle cry and jupmed out of the way just in time to avaoid the strange digimon's attack. "This is my mountain! Get off my mountain!"

Kuwagamon - an insectoid digimon in the Adult stage. It is a rival of Kabuterimon, modeled after a stag beetle. Its large mandibles allow it cut through nearly anything. Its weapon: Scissors Claw.

"Hey, cool it! I'm only looking for my spirit. It's not here so I'll just leave now." Flamon said in a calm voice.

"Oh no you don't! You've trespassed on my mountain and now you'll pay the price!" the large red beetle cried.

The Digital Forest

"If the D-tector and this map are correct, those should be where the spirits of Earth and Wood are located." Yutaka said.

"That was a lot easier than I thought it would be. We didn't even have to fight anyone." Hopmon cried as he bounced up and down.

"Let us return to Swanmon before something goes wrong." Elecmon suggested. As if on cue a large rock digimon with a metal mask emerged out of the ground.

Golemon - a rock digimon in the Adult stage. It is mindless and was brought into existence by the curse "yaku juu kyou". It has the ability to produce extremely hot gas from various points on its body. Its weapon: Crimson Curse.

"Great. See what you did?" asked Yutaka to Hopmon.

"Ergh! Golem Punch!" the creature shouted.

"Hip Hop!" Hopmon yelled as he threw himself at his enemy to protect his partner. Unfortunately, he failed horribly.

"No! Hopmon!" Suddenly, Yutaka's D-tector shone with a bright light.

"Hopmon shinka! Monodramon!" the miniature dragon growled. "Cracking Bite!"

"Sparkling Thunder!" shouted Elecmon.

"Now that's more like it! Monodramon, circle around!" Yutaka cheered.

"Beat Knuckle!" the dragon cried.

"Sulphure Plume!" yelled Golemon, as he shot purple gases from his back, hitting Monodramon.

"Sparkling Thunder!" Elecmon yelled once again.

Even with their combined strength, the two Child digimon couldn't even scratch the golem. That's when Yutaka decided to join the fight.

"You were formed by a curse, right? Well, now to remove it!" Yutaka placed his hands together and began to chant in these exact words, "Spirits, demons, ghosts and monsters quickly go away! Spirits, demon, ghosts, and monsters quickly go away!Spirits, demons, ghosts, and monsters quickly go away!"

With those words said, Golemon began to breakdown until his digi-code appeared.

"Misguided soul living in the shadow of lies, allow this D-tector to rid you of that pain, and show you the path to justice! Digi-code, scan!" Yutaka yelled. once the scanning was complete, Golemon reverted to a Gotsumon and ran off into the forest.

"Wow! Where did you learn that, Yutaka?" asked Monodramon, refering to the chants.

"I took a few Cantanese class back home. Now let's get those spirits!" he smiled.

The Digital Shoreline

"What a drag. Why'd I volunteer to come here all alone?" Izumi groaned. "No, no! This is important. I'll do i for Takuya!" she told herself.

"Has anyone ever told you its crazy to talk to yourself?" said a giant white squid who had just emerged from the water. "Coral Crusher!"

Gesomon - a mollusk digimon in the Adult stage. Gesomon is amphibious and can swim at great speed underwater. He also can shoot ink, likely as one of his attacks, although the precise effects are unknown. Because of these attributes, Gesomon is dubbed as the "White Demon of the Sea". His weapon: Coral Crusher.

"Hey, you jerk! Anyone ever told you its rude to hit a woman?" Izumi shouted back.

"Funny, I don't see one here." the squid teased. Oh, he was so gonna get it now!

"Execute," Izumi shouted, "Spirit Evolution! Fairymon!"

"Deadly Shade!" he yelled as he sqirted a bunch of ink in Fairymon's face.

"Ah! I can't see!" she shouted.

"Coral Crusher!"

"Ah! What am I gonna do now!" Fairymon shrieked. "As if! Tornado Gamba! Take that freak!" she yelled as she attacked the squid.

"But I though you couldn't see!" pointed out Gesomon.

"Oh please, I could never really 'see' in this form. You just fell for my trap!" She began pounding into Gesomon continuosly with her powerful feet. "Brezzo Petalo!" The grazing wind caused his digi-code to appear.

"It can't end like this!" Gesomon groaned.

"By the lovely wind this D-Tector will beautifully purify your soul! Digi-code Scan!"

The removed hatred fom Gesomon's heart turned him back in a ModokiBetamon who quickly ran when seeing Fairymon's stern face.

"Now to get thoses spirits!" she said, taking her D-Tector out to absorb them.

The Mountain

"Hey buddy, why don't you just calm down? I didn't do anything to you!" Flamon yelled frntically at the giant bug.

"Shut up! I don't have to listen to a dirty trespasser!" Kuwagamon yelled back.

"What do you mean 'dirty trespasser'? I'm perfectly clean! But that's not the point, just let me go!" Flamon growled, becoming angrier by the second.

"You can't leave, you can't leave, you can't leave! Trespassers on my mountain must be punished!" Kuwagamon reached out and easily held Flamon in his grasp and began to squeeze the life out of him. "Pay with your life!" He placed Flamon's head in between his two pinsers and was ready to brutally decapitate him.

'Oh man, oh man! What have I gotten myself into? If only I could Spirit Evolve! What, even if I can't Spirit Evolve, I'm still a digimon right now. And digimon have attacks so...' At that train of thought, Flamon's body began glowing with a red and orange fire aura. The sudden heat caused Kuwagamon to instantly let him go.

"What's with you?" he shrieked.

"You've wasted enough of my time." A smal ball of fire appeared in Flamon's right paw. "Monkey Ball!" He swiftly threw the orb into the center of Kuwagamon's head. He then leapted into the air and kicked the giant beetle in the same spot again and again until the bug finally fell over. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be leaving." said Flamon, already heading down the mountain.

"No... no, I don't think you will. Scissors Claw!" Kuwagamon once again quickly lunged again at Flamon, who quickly countered with continuous Monkey Balls. Flamon seemed to be having the upper hand, until that is he started getting tired. Kuwagamon siezed his moment and attack with his deadly pinsirs. "This is the end for you!"

"Argh! It's that feeling again! Shinya's in danger. I gotta save him." he mumbled.

"Shut up!" screamed Kuwagamon, closing in on his prey.

"Shinya, I won't fail you again!" Just then, the ground below him erupted with fire and his spirits moved before him. "Heh, looks like they were here after all. Go figure."

"It makes no difference! You will still pay for trespassing!"

"Somehow, I don't think so!" Flamon brought his D-tector and performed a swift motion that was all too familiar.

"What?" Kuwagamon trmbled.

"Execute," Flamon started, "Spirit Evolution! Agnimon!" The warrior brought his fist together and performed his signature technique. "Burning Salamander!" His attack missed and Kuwagamon luaghed at his pathetic attempt.

"Is that the best you got, huh?" he laughed.

"Nope! Salamander Break!" he caught Kuwagamon off guard with a burning roundhouse kick, knocking him out. "That's it out of you!"

"No! I won't lose to a trespasser!" Kuwagamon body then became surrounded by a large amount of digi-code and his red body became grey. He now had two arms instead of four and four legs instead of two. Messy, dark brown also sprouted from the back of his head. "Kuwagamon shinka! Ookuwamon!"

Ookuwamon - an inscetoid digimon in the Perfect stage. The evolved for of Kuwagamon. In very unlikely events he can dig underground in order to ambush his enemies. His weapon: an upgraded version of Scissors Claw known as Scissors Arm Omega.

"So, you evolved? Well I still gotta few trick of my own too!" Agnimon announced, surrounding himself in digi-code. "Agnimon, Slide Evolution! Vritramon!"

"Scissors Arm Omega!"

"Corona Blaster!"

Both digimon's attacks collided head on with Scissors Arms Omega winning out due it's brute strength. Vritramon was slammed to the ground hard by Ookuwamon. To escape, he once again set himself aflame, burning his captor once more.

"One trick pony! Grand Impulse!" yelled Ookuwamon.

"Not so fast! Salamander Burst!" Vritramon released a fiery burst of energy from his Rudori Tarpana cannons, complely scorching Ookuwamon, already fed up, Vritramon used the killing blow. "Fire Storm!" The blazing fury caused Ookuwamon's digi-code to appear."

"Please spare me!" Ookuwamon pleaded.

"Relax! Vritramon, Slide Evolution! Agnimon!" Time for some purification! "Spirit shrouded in the shadows, the flames erupting from this D-Tector shall melt your tainted heart! Digi-code scan!" With his digi-code scanned, Oookuwamon reverted back to being a Kuwagamon.

Swanomon's Cottage

By the time Takuya, yes, he was back to normal now, had reached the cottage, it was shown that the others had already completed their part of the mission.

"Where have you been? We've been waiting forever!" groaned an annoyed Yutaka. Izumi on the other hand, ran up to hug the boy.

"Oh, Takuya! Oh, my dear, sweet, lovable, adorable, hairless, Takuya! I missed you so much, and now I get to see you as you were! Mwah, mwah, mwah!" she shouted exitedly as she continuosly kissed him in various places (on his face people!).

"Yeah, yeah, can we go now?" groaned Monodramon, equally annoyed.

"Not yet." answered Swanmon. "While you were out two of our Baby II digimon evolved, and I think you want to see them." she smiled and cleared a path for the two.

"Takuya, Izumi!" a small white digimon cried.

"We haven't seen you since the laast time we saw you!" a yellow rabbit looking digimon added.

"Bokomon! Neemon!" Takuya and Izumi shouted at the same time.

"Yes, yes were alive. After that horrible Mammon smashed us to bits, Swanmon came by and gathered our digi-tamas before anyone could do any harm to them." Bokomon explained.

"Although at the time, I had no idea they were Bokomon and Neemon." Swanmon added with a smile.

"My boy, where is Patamon? Please don't tell me that Mephistomon captured him!" Bokomon cried.

"No, not at all. In fact, Patamon's been partnered up with Takuya's younger brother!" Izumi smiled.

"Well, if he's partnered to Takuya's brother then I think he's safe. You should all hurry on back. Only by working together will you force Mephistomon completely out of power. It's a fool's mistake to try and take him out with brute force alone. Trust your friends, trust your spirits, and ultimately, trust yourself if you wish to succed. Neemon and I will stay here." Bokomon said.

"We want to help raise the new generation of the Digital World. After you defeat Mephistomon that is." Neemon added.

"Okay, I swear I won't let you down! Any of you! Izumi, Yutaka, Monodramon, let's go! Kouji, Shinya, and the others need our help!" Takuya shouted, rasing his fist to the setting sun.

Next Time

Piemon, an Ultimate clown digimon, challenges Shinya and Patamon to a duel, the loser of which will die. The others are forced on ahead by their temporary's leader's order. In this lonely battle, Shinya and Patamon continue to struggle with the deranged clown. In this fight, who will live and who will die? Will Shinya be forced to kill a digimon? Next time it's "Chpt. 23: A Leader's Decision. The Clown's Twisted Game of Death!" Awaken the Solution; Spirit Evolution!

Notes

Woot! Happy birthday to me!!!! I'm 15 now!!!!! Anyway, I'd just like to say its been fun writing this fic so far. Its gone in a very different direction than I originally intended, but it was for the best. I'd like to thank all my loyal reveiwers who've read up until this point. I'll absolutley try my best to get the next few chapters up as soon as possible! This is me, over and out!