Reprise of the Spirits

Warning: Fic rated "T". Violence and mild cursing ahead etc… I really doubt that I have to keep going through this.

Prelim Author's Notes: The first five chapters have been revised, and Duskmon's attack names are corrected. Nothing of that much importance though.

VII.

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Agnimon dodged as D'arcmon swung her sword down at his body. The Warrior of Fire's eyes narrowed as he jumped backwards, performing a back flip in the air and landing away from the sword. He quickly smashed both of his fists together, fire spewing out of the holes on his gloves, swirling around his arms as he pulled them apart and extended them to his sides.

"Burning Salamander!" Agnimon shouted, thrusting both of his arms forward in quick succession, the fire leaping off of his arms and towards the female angel digimon.

D'arcmon jumped up and flew out of the way.

"Snow Bomber!" Chakkumon shouted, aiming his snowball launcher at the flying angel digimon, a barrage of snowballs shooting out from the barrels. The snowballs crashed into D'arcmon and sent her sprawling into the side of a skyscraper.

Chakkumon let off his attack and waited. He knew that whatever damage he had managed to do to the angel digimon was negligible at best. He didn't even want to think of how ineffective it would be at the worst.

D'arcmon flew off of the side of the skyscraper and farther up into the air. The angel digimon pointed her sword down at the bear digimon and dived like a bird after its prey.

Fire danced around Agnimon's knuckles. "Burning Salamander!" He shouted, thrusting his arms forward and sending two more fireballs at the attacking angel digimon.

D'arcmon dodged both of the fireballs and stopped diving down towards Chakkumon. Her eyes were narrowed in either annoyance or rage, and she was planning her next move.

Now that Agnimon knew what to look for, he could easily tell what type of enemy he was fighting. It was just in the way that she moved and fought. No matter how used he had gotten with his digimon forms, he knew that there was a certain difference between the way that he moved and a natural digimon did.

D'arcmon's movements were more like his own than a 'born' digimon's. She couldn't be anyone else besides Yagami Hikari.

The angel digimon landed on the ground and raised her sword towards the Warrior of Fire, a pink aura appearing around her body and the sword "Baptême d'Amour!" the female angel shouted, slashing her sword in the air. The pink aura gathered in the sword and blasted towards Agnimon in a huge beam of pink light.

Agnimon cursed and spun around in place, venting fire out of his gloves. "Salamander Break!" The warrior of fire shouted, the fire forming like a tornado and left the warrior's body and headed towards the beam of energy.

The two attacks collided and caused a stereotypical explosion that sent debris and rubble from the street flying in all directions, as well as a lot of smoke.

"I don't see her!" Chakkumon shouted, turning towards Agnimon for a second, catching the look of confusion that was now on his face.

D'arcmon came out of the smoke with her sword set to pierce Chakkumon's skull.

Agnimon saw this and jumped forward, pulling his fist back. Once the fire warrior managed to get within a good enough distance of the angel, he thrust his arm forward at the same instant that fire jetted from his glove.

"Burning Salamander!"

Agnimon's fist connected with D'arcmon's side at the same time the fire attack was set off, which caused D'arcmon to be sent flying into the concrete road, managing to keep her grip on her sword.

The angel digimon glared at Agnimon, before she charged towards the Warrior of Fire, her sword pulled back as she flew millimeters off the ground. A few cracks were visible on her chest armor.

Chakkumon noticed D'arcmon's target and quickly inhaled and exhaled. "Kachi-kachi Kou-chi!" the small digimon shouted as he blew ice-cold wind towards the angel digimon, causing her wings to freeze.

The frozen status of her wings caused D'arcmon to slam into the ground.

Agnimon jumped up into the air, fire gathering around his hands. "Burning Salamander!" Two arm thrusts later, two fireballs were sent crashing into D'arcmon's back.

The angel digimon screamed in pain as the fire dug into her back, melting the ice frozen on her wings. She dropped her sword on the ground near her feet and collapsed, her arms pressed against the ground, the only things supporting her body's weight.

Agnimon noticed that part of D'arcmon's armor had chipped off, revealing the skin of the angel digimon's shoulder.

In a fluid motion, D'arcmon's arm shot forth and grabbed her sword, before she used her other arm to propel herself forward in a motion that placed her weapon in direct line with Agnimon's throat.

"Snow Bomber!" Chakkumon shouted, once again pelting the angel digimon with snowballs from his large green snow launcher, the impact sending D'arcmon crashing back into the ground with a thud.

The angel digimon groaned in pain.

Agnimon blinked. "Tomoki, this is far too easy," he said.

Chakkumon nodded. He had easily gotten that impression from his 'Snow Bomber's' effect.

"Then maybe someone should even the odds," a female voice said from behind the two digimon.

Agnimon and Chakkumon both spun around and turned, seeing a girl around Mimi's age standing still.

Chakkumon noticed that most of the people were running away in the ensuing chaos from the battle, thanking whatever divine power existed that people still possessed some inkling of common sense.

Agnimon froze. There was something about the girl that was familiar, but he couldn't place it.

The reddish-haired girl pulled out a digivice, a mesh of blue digicode appearing around her palm.

Agnimon only had time to let out a muttered curse before the girl brought her hands together and then apart with a call of "Spirit Evolution", blue digicode consuming her body.

When the blue digicode subsided, in the girl's place was a very large bird with flames for feathers and a large overbite. "Birdramon!" the firebird called out.

Agnimon turned to keep his eyes on both Birdramon and D'arcmon as he realized what happened.

Takenouchi Sora was no longer missing.

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Mimi and Koushiro were near the elevator in the Shibuya train station. Both of them had decided to get back to the Digital World as soon as they could, as they had no place to stay. Mimi and her family had moved to America the previous year, and she had no way to get back to her parents from the Human World. While it was true that Koushiro could have gone back to his home, he would have been hard pressed to explain why one of his friends who moved to America needed a place to stay for the night.

Mimi smirked when she thought about the reason why they weren't staying at Koushiro's place. Or more accurately she was thinking that the reasons that they couldn't stay had nothing to do with the fact that she was a girl. She then frowned when she realized that their reasons about not staying in the Human World had nothing to do with the fact that Jyou was still in the Digital World. Besides, with the recent digimon attacks, she was sure her parents would understand everything once it was over and she had the time to explain it.

The young girl chuckled at the obvious lie that she just told herself. She looked over at Koushiro, and frowned when she realized that he was looking at something on the TV. Her frown deepened when she saw Tomoki and a fire-based digimon that she knew to be Takuya fighting against Hikari and Sora.

Mimi grabbed Koushiro by the shoulder. At this point she had no reason to worry about the fact that people were going to stare at them.

Koushiro looked over at her. "Think we should go help Takuya-kun and Tomoki-kun?" the boy asked.

Mimi gave him a look that told him all that he needed to know.

The two chosen turned around and ran to the entrance of the train station, hoping that they could get to the battle in time.

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'This was the perfect time for help to show up,' Agnimon thought bitterly as he dodged a sword attack from D'arcmon, before spinning around and raising his leg to hit the angel in the chest.

D'arcmon used her wings to hover out of the reach of his leg.

Agnimon noticed that Chakkumon was running around avoiding blasts of fire from Birdramon.

D'arcmon suddenly appeared almost right in front of him and slashed her sword down.

Agnimon knew that he wouldn't be able to block the attack in time, and raised his arms up.

The sword collided with the tops of his metal gauntlets. D'arcmon sneered.

Agnimon smirked as he jumped up into the air and spun around, his arms knocking the angel's sword back and his foot connecting with her chest.

D'arcmon screamed in pain as she crashed into the ground. More cracks appeared in her chest armor, a few more pieces breaking off.

Chakkumon darted into an alleyway and pointed his snow launcher towards the flying bird digimon. "Snow Bomber!" A barrage of snowballs sped from the launcher into the sky.

"Fire Flap!" Birdramon shouted, flapping her wings and sending a wave of fire at the snowballs, melting them before they got anywhere near her. She then turned towards the alleyway that the snow attack had come from. She folded her wings, more fire gathering around them.

"Meteor Wing!" she shouted, extending her wings and sending a couple of fireballs towards the alleyway, causing bits of the walls of the two buildings that surrounded it to break off.

Chakkumon quickly jumped out of the alleyway before Birdramon got lucky and crushed him with debris.

Chakkumon looked up and his eyes widened when another fireball slammed into him, knocking him back.

Chakkumon groaned, dazed from the attack.

Birdramon looked down at him, trying to decide what she wanted to do with him.

"Flower Cannon!" a voice familiar to the firebird shouted from behind her.

Birdramon quickly flew away from her position and dodged a green blast of energy that slammed into a nearby building.

Birdramon turned around and saw Lilymon flying in the sky, her arms together and forming a flower-shaped cannon. "Nice to see you too, Mimi," the firebird commented.

Lilymon glared at the fire digimon. "Why have you just come out of whatever hole you were hiding in now?"

"Because I no longer need to hide. That job is done," Birdramon answered, flapping her wings and sending a blast of fire at Lilymon.

Lilymon dodged the burst of fire. "What does that mean?" she asked, green energy gathering in the cannon.

"Why would I tell you?" Birdramon asked in a condescending tone. "You're trying to kill Hikari now."

"Flower Cannon!" Lilymon shouted, another green blast of energy shot out of the cannon and headed towards Birdramon.

Birdramon dodged the attack effortlessly. "Just out of curiosity, is Koushiro-san with you?"

A blast of electricity slammed into her back and caused her to crash into an apartment building's roof. The bird groaned before devolving back into her human self.

Atlur Kabuterimon flew up next to Lilymon. "Yes," the magenta beetle answered simply.

Sora quickly rolled off onto her back and jumped up to her feet, grabbing her digivice as a mesh of digicode appeared on her other hand, quickly bringing them together. "Double Spirit Evolution!" she shouted, the digicode consuming her body.

When the digicode vanished, a large humanoid bird digimon was standing on the apartment building. Her arms and legs were talons, and she had white feathers on her chest, and red feathers on the rest of her body, except for her wings, which had yellow and red feathers on the tip, and a red mask on over her face. "Garudamon!"

Garudamon flew up into the air instantly, her arm cocked to attack.

Chakkumon's eyes focused as he jumped back to his feet, his snow launcher in his hands. He pointed it at the birdman digimon. "Snow Bomber!" A massive force of snowballs shot out of the launcher and collided with Garudamon.

The bird digimon glared down at the small digimon, fire gathering around her body.

Lilymon brought her hands together and reformed her flower cannon and fired another blast of green energy. It slammed into Garudamon's chest, redirecting the birdman digimon's attention.

Atlur Kabuterimon flew down to the ground and turned to Chakkumon. "Help Agnimon!" he shouted before flying up back to the battle.

Chakkumon nodded and ran over to where he saw Agnimon and D'arcmon still engaged in battle. It looked as if neither of them had actually managed to land a significant hit on the other since Takenouchi had arrived and interrupted their battle.

It was time to change that.

Chakkumon jumped up into the air and shifted his lower body into a sharp icicle. "Icicle La La La!" The snow bear shouted as he shot towards the female angel digimon.

D'arcmon's eyes widened when she saw Chakkumon heading towards her, and she used her wings to move her body out of the way of the speeding icicle, which flatted as it hit the ground before reforming into Chakkumon.

Agnimon jumped behind her as fire surrounded his leg. "Salamander Break!" the fire warrior shouted as he kicked D'arcmon in the back, knocking her forward.

"Kachi-kachi Kou-chi!" Chakkumon inhaled and then quickly exhaled chilling wind that covered the angel digimon's body.

D'arcmon folded her arms in front of her chest in a futile attempt to ward off the cold winds.

o0o.

Shinya turned towards his mother, who was busy looking around for Takuya. They were tracing the way that they assumed that Takuya would have taken home from the hospital, although Shinya honestly doubted that Takuya would have come this way, especially if another one of his friends had that same ability that Izumi and Tomoki had.

"Mom, why aren't we calling the police again?" the young boy asked.

Yuriko turned towards her youngest son. "Because I doubt the police's ability to find someone in this situation."

Shinya sighed. He was worried about his brother too, but he also doubted his mother's ability to find Takuya in this situation as well.

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She was losing.

D'arcmon grimaced as the cold rushed through her body, threatening to freeze her if she didn't do something to stop it. Yet at the same time, she couldn't think about what to do. There seemed to be only one way out of this situation, but that would leave her human form open to death.

Agnimon looked over at Chakkumon. "Enough!" the fire warrior yelled in a tone filled with authority.

Chakkumon stopped his breath attack, a confused look on his face. "Agnimon, why? We can stop her now!"

Agnimon looked down at the small digimon. "You want to kill her?"

Chakkumon looked away.

D'arcmon smirked. Kanbara had just given her the chance that she needed. Blue digicode gathered around her body, breaking through the ice that covered her.

Agnimon and Chakkumon's eyes widened.

D'arcmon didn't care. "Slide Evolution!" The digicode surrounded the angel digimon, and once it subsided, a winged sphinx digimon was standing in her place. This new form had white armor over her chest and shoulders, in addition to gauntlets on her forelegs. Two red jewels were in the center of said gauntlets, and a silver mask was over her face. "Nefertimon!"

'Crap!' Agnimon thought as Nefertimon expanded her wings and took to the sky. Fire gathered around his right hand.

"Salamander Break!" Agnimon shouted, thrusting his arm up into the sky and sending the fireball towards Nefertimon, who dodged the attack effortlessly.

The red jewels on her gauntlets started glowing. "Nile Jewelry!" Two red beams shot out of the gauntlets and slammed into Agnimon's chest, knocking him back into the wall of a building.

Chakkumon looked up and noticed that Nefertimon's eyes were glowing pink, and that she was aimed towards Agnimon. Hearing a cry of 'Curse of Queen' Chakkumon shouted a warning to the fire digimon to dodge as two pink beams of energy shot out of the sphinx digimon's eyes.

Agnimon used the side of the building to jump away before the twin beams of energy slammed into the side of the building, sending rubble flying everywhere.

Chakkumon looked around and noticed that a large piece of the rubble was headed straight towards a girl with purple hair. The small digimon ran over and tackled the girl out of the way, just seconds before the rubble crashed into the area where she had been.

The girl looked at him with wide eyes. Chakkumon jumped back towards his feet. "Run!" he ordered, before heading back towards the battlefield.

Agnimon snarled, looking for a potential way of ending the fight. Unfortunately, he wasn't about to suddenly gain the ability to slide evolve, so flight was out of the question.

A large column of pink light appeared out of Nefertimon's back. "Rosetta Stone!" the flying sphinx shouted, a large stone table materializing and dropping towards Agnimon.

"Salamander Break!" Agnimon shouted, destroying the tablet with a well-placed fireball. 'I have to finish this!' he thought. His eyes widened as something occurred to him. "Chakkumon, get over here!"

'What's he planning?' Nefertimon thought.

Chakkumon ran over towards Agnimon. "What are you planning?" the snow bear digimon asked.

"When I shout the word 'now', use the 'Icicle La La La' attack," Agnimon said.

Chakkumon looked confused when Agnimon suddenly grabbed his arm and began spinning around in place. "What are you doing?" he exclaimed.

After spinning around a few times, Agnimon let go of Chakkumon's arm, sending the snow bear digimon speeding straight towards Nefertimon feet first. "Now!" Agnimon shouted.

"Icicle La La La!" Chakkumon shouted, transforming into an icicle in mid-flight.

If Nefertimon's eyes had been visible under her mask, everyone could have seen that her eyes were widened in shock. Instead of merely flying out of the way, which would have been the smart thing to do, the sphinx digimon curled in the air to protect her vital organs.

The Chakkumon-icicle-missile pierced the sphinx digimon's wing, causing her to lose her ability of flight and slam into the ground with a frightening speed. Blue digicode surrounded both of the digimon, before they returned to their human selves.

Agnimon quickly moved towards the fallen girl and boy, noticing that both of them were groggy from the fall. The fire warrior quickly grabbed Hikari by her shirt and brought her up to his eye level.

Tomoki saw Agnimon's lips move but couldn't hear what the warrior of fire was saying.

Agnimon threw Hikari down to the ground. They young girl cried out in pain.

Garudamon landed on the ground, quickly followed by Lilymon and Atlur Kabuterimon. All three of the digimon were injured and worn out from their battle.

Garudamon looked over at Agnimon for a moment, before a rip similar to what Hikari had arrived on earth from appeared behind the humanoid bird digimon. She grabbed Hikari and went through the portal, which closed behind her.

All three remaining chosen devolved to their human forms.

"Why didn't you stop them?" Koushiro demanded.

Takuya looked over at him, and then over at Mimi. The girl seemed to be upset about something, and was staring at Takuya oddly. The warrior of fire smirked. "Because there is nothing that she can do against me now."

Mimi noticed that something seemed off about Takuya. He was acting completely unlike the child that she had met a while ago. Her eyes narrowed, before a piercing pain shot through her head.

Takuya looked over towards Tomoki, who was bringing himself off of the ground. "We should leave now." The older boy said, before he turned around and blinked. "It looks like my Mom and Shinya are here."

Mimi and Koushiro walked away from the two other chosen, Mimi rubbing her forehead.

Koushiro noticed this. "Are you okay?" he asked.

"I tried focusing my power on him," Mimi answered. "And for some reason, all I got was a jolt of pain."

To be Continued…

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Author's Notes:

Well, I hoped you guys liked this chapter. And now we go back into the months of no updates while I try to finish this thing. And if anyone has questions about Mimi's power, you'll have to wait a bit.

Review Responses:

Aestivate: As you can see, Hikari's beast level is Nefertimon.

OmnicromXR: God, this review's going to be a bitch to reply to…

Point 1: With Sora's H-Hybrid being Fuugamon, I limited myself to choices for Garudamon due to the fact that I already knew that Sora was never going to actually use it. I just take it that if Koushiro and Mimi were warning Takuya and the others about a potential enemy chosen, they would tell them all the forms that she could possibly use.

Point 2: There was actually a scene that I wrote in this chapter that explained just that, but it didn't fit in with the rest of the chapter, so it's getting moved to later on in the story. This is the same reason that Mimi's power wasn't explained in this chapter, it just didn't fit in. So you'll have to wait a bit, but I'll give you this question as a hint. Why would Kouichi be more effective in a battle as Duskmon than as Lowemon?

Point 3: Takuya evolving so easily when he couldn't beforehand is going to be one of those things that are only barely hinted to until the reason becomes revealed. As of Tomoki being useless, since the chosen don't have the physical spirits with them, they are weaker than they are in Frontier. Incidentally, it's this reason that Kouichi couldn't just beat the crap out of Takeru in Chapter 2.

Point 4: There are many different cards of War Greymon, each with varying attack levels. I think that you can search Shining Evolution's encyclopedia and figure out which version of the card that I'm using. As for the feel of the levels, it depends on which Digimon Series I'm writing for using the Frontier digimon. In Frontier, I count the legendary warrior spirits essentially as uber-powerful Golden Armor digimon (provide the actual physical spirits are with them, otherwise normal armors, with one stronger than the other). Think about this, if the starting point for the Frontier team made it so that the chosen had to go to the Tocanmon island in order to get to the Flame Terminal, they would have gotten their beast spirits first. However, if I were using the Frontier digimon in either Adventures or Tamers, than the Beast Spirits would be Perfects/Completes, simply because armor in the first world would simply be too weak.

Point 5: Now I obviously can't comment on this.

Point 6: Hikari's usage of the words 'Digital Universe' is an important clue to this question's answer.

Looking forward to your review on this chapter. You actually reviewing my story, never mind me somehow ending up on your favorites list is one of those "OMG! Squee!" moments.

Kind of like me managing to join the Diaries Guild.