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Updates, I'm sad to say that updates will be few and far between in the coming year. My grandmother has recently become incapacitated and I'm currently the only person in my family with the time and energy to help take care of her. Until further notice updates will come at random, meaning what gets updated is what has inspired me. As a second note this had NOT been beta-ed, I'm honestly horrible at grammar and the English language but I've gone over it to the best of my ability, if anyone sees issues please point them out and they will be corrected.

Chapter 3

Koji sighed as he continued to walk through the forest it was obvious that they were getting near the spirit because the light that signified were it was, showed that it was starting to become closer and closer. The farther they got away from Soyokaze the odder the land around them got there were more trees and it seemed to become moister the farther he walked. But maybe it was to be expected this place was called Mizukame at least according to Kagome.

Eventually he found a path it seemed to pretty blunt in looks, as he walked along the path he could easily see that several small dips around them were full of water and he really felt like they were being watched.

"Hmm, Koji, it's a waterfall.." Kagome grumbled in his ears, she was shivering and he could feel it. As they closer they could see that the trail veered off to the left before going around a large pool of still water.

"Hmmm…if looks like the spirit is behind it…" He replied coolly before starting on the path again.

"Ah, are you sure you want me to be on your back? I think I can walk." Kagome asked softly, Koji had been piggy backing her for a while and she felt guilty.

"Are you still dizzy?" The dark haired boy replied.

"A little." Kagome sighed, she didn't like being so weak.

"Then forget it." Koji responded coldly, they were around the bend and he couldn't help but be surprised it was easy to see that the trail continued on behind the waterfall. Beyond that it went through and it was odd to see a village on the other side, there were several digimon walking about going about their daily business.

"Oh! Who might you be?" A small digimon asked, it sounded female and was small it looked a lot like an overgrown plant. Its legs and arms reminded the two of leaves and roots, while it face was large and round with almost bug like eyes, at the very top of its head was a large flower it was completely purple in color.

"I'm Kagome, this is Koji." Kagome responded with her free hand pointing first to herself, then lightly poking Koji's cheek. She just giggled softly when he shifted forcing her to hold on, she knew he wanted her to stop poking him.

"Oh…well this is Mizukame! I'm Aruraumon." The plant like digimon responded she seemed shy and just a little skittish, "Oh and this is one of my friends Betamon!" The creature that was being pointed at was, it was completely green with a red fin standing straight and high upon its head. On either side of its head were three blue lines that ran parallel to the fin, they started inches before the fin but continued all the way back toward the small turtle-like tail. It had four legs that looked like odd claws and bright red eyes.

"It's nice to meet you!" Kagome tried to sound cheery but she wasn't really feeling it. In fact she sort of wanted to take a nap, so she simply settled for burying her face in Koji's neck.

Koji blinked, when Kagome hide her face away into her neck she didn't sound as energetic as she had earlier. "Is there a place that we can eat, sleep and clean up?" Koji asked, he felt a little bad for asking but it was needed.

"Oh yeas…we have several huts that you can stay in." Aruraumon replied, happily. "Follow me!"

Koji nodded, following the fast talking and walking Aruraumon he did have to notice how tired and run down things were in the area and he wondered why it was. It had become obvious that Soyokaze had become plagued by those Mushroomon. So was this place being attacked by something to?

"I'll being you some water, in a moment!" the Aruraumon replied, before hurrying off once more.

Koji moved quietly before putting Kagome on her feet, only to grab her shoulders when he saw she really wasn't standing on her own. "Are you still dizzy?"

Kagome just shook her head, "I'm just really sleepy…."

"You know I didn't sign up to be a maid, or a nurse." Koji felt his eyebrow twitch in annoyance…he knew she hadn't done it on purpose but it was stupid to think they could fight something like that with just human strength.

"Sorry." Kagome kept her eyes closed before she was set down on the side of the bed. When the digimon came back with several other digimon carrying a large basin of water both of them blinked in surprise…it was steaming hot!

Koji rolled his eyes, before slowly pulling the bandana from her forehead. It was largely bruised but the bleeding had stopped and it had scabbed over leaving only a thin line, he doubted that it would even scar. Walking toward the water he sighed, before washing the blood from his bandana….he would hate to lose it, this was his favorite.

Looking back toward his companion, he noticed that she'd laid down on one of the bedlike futons that rested in the hut. "Hey."

"Hmm?" Kagome replied, her eyes fluttered as she lost focus on his face.

"I'll wake you up in a few hours," Koji watched her nod before making his way out to speak with the Aruraumon that they had met upon their arrival. It took several minutes to find the Aruraumon, he found it was easy to get the information that he wanted but he really didn't want to deal with it. Eventually he escaped the verbal vomit, by making his way back toward the hut to wake Kagome up.

"Hey….wake up," Koji shook her lightly, he smirked when she yawned before opening her eyes, she'd been out for a few hours and he had might as well share what he found out. Pulling her until she was upright, he sat down on the bed with her to talk.

"Hmmm, what?" Kagome frowned, giving the older boy and easy eye she huffed before using his shoulder to lay on.

"Are you actually awake or going to fall asleep again?" Koji asked, a scowl on his face he was more than a little frustrated and wondering why he had agreed to travel with her.

"I'm awake, but I'm not moving." Kagome replied, he was nice and warm.

Koji just sighed before pushing the thoughts away, "You know how you said that you thought something was wrong with this world?"

"Ah, yeah…I learned more about it from those little digimon with Junpei and Izumi….They were saying something about a digimon called Cherubimon and how he'd done something. I think the odd white thing said that Cherubimon had twisted their hearts…" Kagome replied a frown on her face.

"That would make a lot of sense….the Aruraumon and the Betamon said that strange things have been happening here, digimon are going a little nuts attacking friends, other digimon and even the land. Anyway, while I was talking to them they told me about a great spirit that once lived in this area at the temple….the Aruraumon that we met yesterday said she was willing to take us to the temple to see it." Koji finished, he was relatively sure that was the most he'd spoken since coming to this world.

"Ah, Okay….can I go back to sleep?" Kagome asked, as much as she wanted to see what he was talking about he was extremely sleepy and she wanted nothing more than to pass out she really should be more excited.

Koji sighed, when he felt her brow rest against his back before he leaned back and letting her fall down across the bed. She once again curled up into a ball, her eyes closed. It really was getting late and he doubted she had a clue what he'd just said considering her breath was already even telling him she was dead to the word. Rolling his eyes, he climbed on to his own straw futon and passed out as well.

Several hours passed and for once the digimon of Mizukame thought that they would be allowed at least one nights peace. This peace wouldn't last though just like every other night for the last several weeks. A large grumbling roar awoke the residences of Mizukame, the digimon of the town were running in fear and were trying their best to keep out of the way of the large shelled digimon coming their way.

Both humans were startled awake before they found themselves outside trying to see what the heck was going on. It was a large digimon nearly twice the size of the Woodmon that Koji had defeated earlier in the day. There was a large spiral shell reaching up to the heavens on its back the color wasn't something she'd ever seen in a sea shell, it vaguely reminded her of the color of a sea turtle it was a sea green covered in moss and what looked similar to algae. What the shells is attached to is disgusting it reminds many of a sea anemone with its dark gray and tentacles atop its head, even its skin was a disgusting green color several shades darker than it's shell it reminded one of an odd green mud. Two arms were used to knock things over, before an attack was used, the digimon's mouth opened before a spew of large shells of different sizes shot forward destroying the homes and hurting several of the smaller digimon.

"What is that?" Kagome asked, she was pressed tightly against Koji's back. They had both taken a run for it just before the hut they had been staying in had been crushed by the furious creature. Several of the Betamon found themselves hiding with the humans' in the tree line and several of them could only sigh in resignation.

"It's MoriShellmon…every night for the last several nights he's been very angry. So he comes and destroys things. Several of the other digimon have moved away over the years so thankfully there are several huts and places for those of us who lose our homes." Betamon squirmed, slightly trying to force himself farther into a whole.

Koji pressed back farther as he watched yet another attack take place, he knew he couldn't transform in this state he was still tired from fighting that Woodmon earlier in the day. "Does it last long?"

"The smashing?" A small Aruraumon asked.

"Yes." Koji replied, as he watched as the large digimon seemed to lose interest in its mindless destruction.

"Nope….it's like he's searching for something…or trying to remember. So he leaves and it starts all over again the next day." Betamon replied, now very much buried in the dirt and covered with leaves it was something that many digimon did when they were nervous.

"Do you think there is a particular reason that he's so mad?" Kagome finally asked, her eyes wide it was hard to make out some of the things happening but even with her limited vision she could see the shells and the other more outlandish attacks.

Several of the Betamon, and Aruraumon looked toward each other with frowns on their normally happy faces. "Honestly this used to be a spiritual town, and digimon came here to receive blessings from the Great Water Spirit. But ever since the temple caretaker has gone missing that thing has been attacking. A lot of us think that the Great Water Spirit is angry."

Kagome and Koji shared a look, something wasn't right…in fact that sounded a lot like the spirits that Koji and Takuya and even Izumi had received, they could cause damage on their own? Could they really, or had a digimon tried to absorb the spirit like one of the digital devices they had received when they arrived in this world? Kagome was being a bit shallow but she had to admit if she had the water spirit she silently prayed that she wasn't that ugly during her transformation.

Then it seemed that the great beast just stopped, its head held high before it turned and seemed to disappear into the night around them. It seemed that this place was more dangerous than either of them had thought; there were limits of going to and from a human body to that of a digimon.

Everyone who had managed to get away from the attack eventually returned to the huts and could only look at the massive amount of damage, after things had calmed down the members of the town returned to the undamaged home and simply rested for the remainder of the night. When morning came they were all surprised at the damage that was done, seeing it in the sunlight was completely different than seeing it during the night.

Kagome didn't really know how to explain what she was seeing and she could only feel her heart drop…the shells took up so much space and they looked like they were incredibly hard to move. But several of the Aruraumon were removing the monster sized shells with ease while the Betamon cleaned up after them; it was horrible that this had simply become a daily chore instead of an odd occurrence.

"Hey, Kagome!" Koji shouted, he was a good ways off.

Kagome blinked, before jogging toward the boy she was surprised this particular home was very different from the others. In fact she was relatively sure that this hadn't been anyone's home at all! "Koji what is this?" Kagome finally asked looking at him in confusion.

Koji looked toward her, "This was the temple I was telling you about… It looks like Morishellmon managed to do a lot of damage…"

"Aw..I bet it was something to see." Kagome replied, bending down to look at the steps leading up into the temple. A shell much like a scallop shell the size of a mini cooper was resting on top of some of the rubble and Kagome could only shudder thankful that neither of them had been hit by something of that size.

The place had to have been impressive the stone was old and worn but obviously well loved by the digimon who had cared for it. The white stone was marbled with blues and blacks that reminded her of some of the contemporary art in one of the museums back home, the steps were wide and thick each one probably 6 inches thick and about 5 inches wide, they created a fan like design leading into the temple. Finally unable to hide her curiosity Kagome stood, before climbing the stairs with ease. She was used to having to run up several flights of stairs, her grandmother lived at a shrine in Hokkaido, while her Aunt and Uncle lived in a third shrine on the other side of Tokyo, not to mention that her school was close to five stories tall in EVERY building and unless you were handicapped you weren't allowed to use the elevators.

Koji sighed, and vaguely wondered if Kagome was a cat in a past life before following the girl up the steps. It was interesting, what was left of pillars was scattered about while many of the thinner shells had cracked and broken giving it a strange sea side feeling he could even see sand covering some of the ground and he had to wonder about it.

A sudden commotion caught his attention before he rolled his eyes, he could see the jumping sway of Kagome's thick pony tail as she hurried to see what was going on. "Neh! Koji, come see!" Kagome waved happily before bending back, he could see her helping to push something tall and slender before it fell with a crash.

As he drew closer he could see what they were all looking at, sometime during the attack some of the foundation of the temple had given away. One of the Aruraumon had found something odd beneath one of the thinner shells and with Kagome's help had pushed the last one away it was little more than amazing that this hadn't been seen before.

It was a large hole, but just two feet below the bottom of the foundation were the top of a set of steps, and the farther they went the darker is seemed to get. At the same time everyone looking into the opening could see a tall tell end of the tunnel there was the vaguest notion of light it was small and brief but there. Suddenly Kagome was lowering herself into the hole, slowly but carefully her feet settled on the steps.

"What do you think you're doing?" Koji asked, bending on one knee to look at her in the face.

Kagome blinked, looking up she nearly yelped once she realized that she was almost nose to nose to him. Grinning in a slightly reckless manner, she pulled out her digivice before handing it to him, "I'm following the yellow brick road." She replied, easily before taking another delicate slow step, she didn't know why but the steps were huge "You gonna skip with me, ?" She asked, cheekily.

"I dunno, Ms. Lion. What would you do if I didn't?" Koji asked, his amusement mild in his tone.

"Probably beg, I'm terrified out of my mind….I hate dark places." Kagome answered honestly, not knowing that her eyes relayed the panic she was feeling behind her faux smile. She was utterly terrified of the dark and about the only reason she handled such things alright was because she was with someone. The thought of going in alone made her stomach churn, and bile rise up she just hoped she didn't begin to vomit.

Koji sighed, before following her he had a feeling there was a reason she was creeped out by going into dark places. She'd been unnerved when she followed him into the factory cave, but this seemed to be a whole new type of ball game; just what was she so afraid of? "Slow down before you trip," He told her loudly before moving forward so that he was on the same level as her and he was reminded again that she was shorter than him.

"Hai.."Kagome replied, trying to ignore the trembling in her speaking voice. Pushing the terrifying thoughts from her mind she forced herself down the steps, and little by little she found herself calming down but she really doubted if she would ever be comfortable in the emptiness that created the dark.

Koji sighed, as he watched following at what seemed like a snail's pace she was going so slow he was relatively sure if he threw her on his back they could be down near the lighter area of the cave within minutes. Poking her digivice he was surprised when the map began to glow and begin to create more light in the darkened stair way.

"Gah! How the heck did you do that?" Kagome asked, stopping beside him to peer at the map curiously. She really was confused as to how he'd gotten it to light up, if that had happened in the first place she wouldn't have been so freaked out. Needless to say, she promptly stayed as close to the light as possible it was almost a moth to a street effect.

Koji rolled his eyes, before taking her hand and practically dragging her down the rest of steps he was tired of waiting and he wouldn't admit it but he was just a little more than curious about what was down here. As they reached the bottom of the steps, they could hear a rumbling when they turned they could see more of the foundation and some of the walls of the stairwell caving in after them. Both hurried forward, before they found themselves forced to stop and covered in dust.

Once the dust cleared it was plain as day that they couldn't get out the same way they had gotten in, they were sealed in the question now was how were they going to get out. Kagome sighed, before finding Koji's face, they were stuck in a large tunnel because she was a stubborn idiot.

Looking at the hand still locked with hers a weak smile appeared, even when he was gruff or hard there was still a kindness inside Koji that just couldn't be killed off and for that she would be eternally grateful. She couldn't face him of even say anything this was all her fault!

Koji stared at Kagome, she looked ashamed and frustrated and when she tried to pull away he rolled his eyes and let her. He didn't think he would ever understand women, and he was sure it was a girl thing he didn't understand his step-mother either but sometimes that was because his father played interference and he really didn't know the woman who was supposed to take his deceased mothers place.

Closing her eyes she took a deeper calming breath, before moving onward now it was even worse she had problems like this since she was a child but they had never gotten that bad. The panic was raising up in her stomach again and she wanted to hide so he couldn't see it. This was something that had carried over from her child hood that would never go away. When he had commented on her fear he was right, she really wasn't anything but a coward she was scared of the dark, being alone, small confined spaces, thunderstorms, she was even terrified of spiders! Even though she knew none of things would hurt her and that she shouldn't be scared, that was the problem with a phobia it tended to over whelm her.

Koji could only watch with something similar to concern as he studied her shoulders they seemed to become more and more tense the farther into the hallway, it even seemed that the light toward the end of the tunnel had gotten darker. When the ground above them rumbled roughly, she made a horrible gasping sound before practically plastering herself to the heavy stone wall.

She really has more problems than she's worth. He thought to himself, studying her, she'd drawn her knees up to her forehead with her arms wrapped tightly around her thin legs. Walking, he sat down in front of her before slowly forcing her to look at him and he was startled by the bare fear in her eyes, he'd been teasing her when he called her the cowardly lion but he was sure that she was utterly terrified.

"Why does the dark scare you?" Koji asked, sitting in front of her a leg on either side of her as he stared searching for the answer in those dilated blue eyes. When he'd first met her, he had assumed that she was similar to Takuya with the no fear thing but it seemed that wasn't right either.

The silence seemed to stretch between them, and he realized that she wasn't going to tell him about it not that he could blame her he hadn't really explained his own harsh attitude like he said that he would. Not that he was sure she could even understand if he did…at least that's what he had thought before this little episode.

Koji sighed, before forcing her hands open to hold her own digivice as it continued to act as continual light source. "Come on." When he finally got her onto her feet, her eyes were clenched closed as if she shut her eyes hard enough she wouldn't get hurt by what was around her. "Kagome open your eyes up. Nothing in here will hurt you, and it's not dark at all." He'd been forced to get behind her to get her to move forward and he would be the first to admit that he was astounded by the sight before him and it made him wonder at the age of the digital world.

Kagome peeked with one eye slowly opening one long lashed lid, terrified to see what could be there. Instead of the black emptiness that had been present before this could almost be the total opposite, it was a large chamber and reminded her of one of the larger alter rooms inside a cathedral with its domed ceiling she could even see that there were drawings or maybe paintings depicting four very different angelic type digimon. There were also another ten different digimon each one representing something different….one was fire and one was light… there were several others even one that looked like a mermaid. Tall pillars seemed to rise up around the portraits, were they connected something akin to glass could be seen at they looked up and realized that they were now beneath the actual island. The more they looked the more could be seen that the dome was actually shaped like a turtle from below and the pools of water around this place helped create the shape.

"What is this place?" Kagome could only ask in awe her fear forgotten, for the moment; the open space and light around her emptying the horror that was compounded on her heart. It was amazing she'd never seen anything like this ever, she's seen picture of cathedrals before and this was certainly reminiscent.

Neither of them continued to speak, they just continued to walk around curious about the wide open space before them. The area seemed much, much larger than it actually was it really was a great illusion to all who had come into the chamber. Seconds changed to minutes before all that could be heard was the soft beeping coming from a digivice that seemed to be trying to catch their attention. Eventually, Kagome's attention was drawn back to the tiny electronics before look closely at the dimmed map they were practically on top of it.

Slow unsure step continued forward, she and Koji had been trapped in this place for at least twenty maybe thirty minutes but they had been so amazed by the beauty before them that neither of them had thought anything about the fact. Kagome could feel her steps becoming more steady as she walked forward, eventually she came to a wall and could only blink in surprise when one side of the room suddenly began to darken. As the room began to darken both children looked up their eyes widening in fear when they made the shape out, MoriShellmon was swimming down toward them.

Seconds ticked by before the two of them were knocked off their feet when the shelled digimon slammed into the glass above them. Kagome felt her heart clench before scrambling back onto her feet, half way running forward she could only grunt as the digimon swam away again before hurtling back toward the glass above them. A loud crackling could be heard echoing in the cavernous area, Koji could only swear their time was running out. He followed closely beside Kagome they were both a little stumped when they found that the spirit seemed to be trapped behind the wall.

Small bits of the glass above their head seemed to give away, and water began to poor in both of the children were more than a little frustrated no matter where they looked they couldn't find anything that would get them behind the door. Minutes continued to pass, before the water continued eventually it began to hit against the bottoms of their shoes. As the water finally touched all the walls of the hidden room, the wall the two of them were against opened up revealing the panel holding the spirit.

Kagome blinked before holding her digivice out, the spirit was small or at least seemed that way while she studied it. The spirit was gray and it was hard to tell anything about the digimon other than it seemed to have gray and black hues with cream. As the small outline of a digimon was pulled into her digivice, Kagome did was seemed to come naturally to all the chosen children "Spirit Evolution! "

A blinding blue light rose up around the young girl, she could feel her body changing completely stretching out to the tall length that created the creature she was becoming. Fabric wrapped around her neck and seemed to create something similar to a swim suit, and she could feel webbing forming between her fingers, while something akin to leather seemed to rise from her stiletto heel boots to about mid-thigh.

Koji watched surprised, he'd seen Takuya actually transform and he'd seen Izumi's transformation in its aftermath. Kagome's transformation was very different, for one her dark colored hair hadn't really changed just gotten much longer running down her back to touch the backs of her thighs, it seemed to have grown in volume and it curled more than it had before. The blue eyes he'd gotten so used to looking at were brighter almost glacial in appearance while her tan skin was more of a light cream color, a domino mask that pointed up and out toward each side covered her face and small ribbing could be seen lining the top of the mask and a small light gray colored diamond rested in the center of the mask. Her neck was covered in a gray material, until it was just touching the underside of her jaw the material continued downward to create something similar to a sleeveless top, two diamonds appeared on the top the largest one started at her clavicle before running down below large breasts, the second started were the first ended and was perhaps to or three inches in size. The back of the material ran down farther than the front to create something similar to the tails of a butler's jacket and darker gray could be seen covering her groin area and it seemed to tuck under the gray top. Fingerless gloves covered the back of her hands while running up to the middle of her biceps and showed of the webbing of a fish when her fingers moved, a diamond pattern seemed to be a theme in this digimon for it ran from the top of her gloves and stopped just above the wrist of her hands in each of the diamond shaped marks it was easy to see the digimon's skin. High heeled, thigh high boots also seemed to have diamond motif as it ran down the inside and outside of thin feminine legs. One singular diamond covered the arch of each foot, while a singular razor thin webbed spine could be seen attached to the backs of the heels the thin razor spines could be seen echoing on her gloves. Her weapon was different as well it was a large trident that was just as tall as she was, it was gray as well.

Just as MoriShellmon broke through the glass covering, Seridaemon scowled, before her trident was pointed his way "Spherical defense!" Koji blinked, looking at the glassy but blue toned shield that was wrapped and curling around his body. Water was filling in the cavern at a fast rate and he was surprised to find himself floating upward while the two digimon began to attack one another. Soon Koji found himself losing sight of the two aquatic type digimon, he could only hope that things would end well.

The sharp eyed humanoid digimon grinned though it seemed to be a bit malicious, as water began to feel up around her body. She wasn't generally much of a predator but she tended to react badly when threatened, her body while it didn't seem to be very hardy was actually covered in bones that were roughly the same color as her skin making them very much unseen.

A muffled sound was released from the digimon before her, before large Turritella shells were launched in her direction like missiles. The gray humanoid digimon could do little but dodge each attack all the while laughing. Morishellmon was meant to be a land type digimon, as such a water type digimon such as herself would always win against such a slow opponent.

Seridaemon huffed before the spines on her forearms were released, "Spinning Spines" the long thin razor blades were removed by hand before they just as quickly were replaced by growth. Locking the two spines together they were thrown much like a shuriken, they spun through the water like a hot blade through butter and were full of a sleeping agent that rested inside each spine. The larger digimon forced himself out of the way before seeming to think the action over, instead of attacking the beast began to swim upward leaving the once beautiful shrine that was in honor of ancient hero's.

The lithe humanoid digimon scowled, before following the large creature. With her small size she couldn't stop it from reaching the water's surface, but she could terrorize it. Once again allowing the spines on her forearms, and the back of her boots extend, an evil grin seemed to cover her face. She knew Kendo and to a degree knew a good bit about bojutsu, as such she might as well go to town smacking the crap out of the oversized nuisance. While a trident like this evolution came with was a little different the balance of the weapon was similar enough for her to consider it workable. She quickly began striking the sides of the Morishellmon, every time the shelled creature reacted Seridaemon had to be grateful and cautious. Those strange hands with their odd suction cups and it's large head and quickly moving tentacles packed a punch if you were hit by them.

Going in for a strike across the monsters brow, Seridaemon grunted in a pained way when she was smacked away from Morishellmon by one of the long worm like tentacles that was attached to its head. Seridaemon could only smirk before taking a few deep breaths to calm herself before once again taking off after the digimon in question, while they were very close she once again using combined the spines of her forearm and began to throw the shuriken-like projectiles that were so easily regrown. "Spinning spines!" She'd collected several into her hands and threw them toward the beast. Few of the spines embedded into the beasts back just as he was surfacing, his roar could be heard all over the village and across the great waters. The few spines that had embedded wouldn't be enough to put MoriShellmon, just irritate him at bad times.

Seridaemon scowled at the thing before standing on the water, she could easily see the smaller rookie digimon gathering on the edge of the water looking on with fear and hope. Koji was there as well, an interested look on his face as if he wasn't sure this was going to be so interesting or not. Huffing at the expression, Seridaemon jumped over several tenticales sent her way before she began to cut at them with her Trident. It was time to stop playing with this stupid creature she was getting frustrated, moving back she studied the movement. Smirking, she moved her trident into something that resembled a javelin's throw, before a loud yell seemed to feel all the creatures with awe. "Trident's Maelstrom!" As the trident left her hand the water in the area seemed to wrap around the weapon while the speed began to pick up before hammering into the creatures forehead. This seemed to finally take the monster down, it was slowly sinking into the water while rings of fractal code seemed to be wavering as it sank.

Once the rings subsided, and only one large ring remained Seridaemon hit a button on the small digivice in her hands. The tip of the digivice lip up in a bright red orange light, before Seridaemon held it straight out "Fractal Code, Scan" the ring was sucked into the head of the digivice before Seridaemon hit a second button releasing the code. The effects were startling, the homes and other buildings that had been destroyed returned to their once pristine state while the Morishellmon, and shrunk to the size of a Aruraumon of a different color. Seridaemon picked the small rookie digimon up before something akin to a lake stone rope seemed to appear in her hands and pull the sinking trident back to its owner's hand. Turning she slowly walked toward the digimon upon the shore and the single human waiting there, the little rookie level digimon was placed upon the ground. Once Seridaemon was back on shore, a bright rush of fractal code surrounded her and all that was left was the human girl that had been there earlier that day.

Kagome was a little more than wide eyed at the pain that seemed to be running through her arms and legs before it seemed to circle round and hit her in the chest. Sinking to her knees, Kagome rolled her body until she was laying on the ground. Damn… "Talk about growing pains." Kagome muttered, glancing up to see Koji looking at her with something akin to amusement in his eyes…the bastard.

"So, did you enjoy your experience as a digimon?" Koji asked, hiding the smile behind a self-righteous smirk. The glare she sent him made the smirk widen, sometimes he simple couldn't help himself.

"You're really mean sometimes." Kagome finally replied, before laughter seemed to erupt from her. The young ebony haired child could honestly say she had been utterly terrified, but when she was a digimon she felt completely safe sorta like when she got hugged on by her big brother or her cousin Ryouta…or back when her daddy was still alive. Sure she felt safe with her mom and siblings but it was so different to be surrounded by this warm comforting aura. "That was the most amazing thing I've ever done!"

Koji's smirk did turn into a smile at that before reaching down, Kagome eyed his hand before taking it allowing the boy to pull her. While the girl was a little wobbly they could only watch as the digimon of the village celebrated the fact that Palmon, the creature that had turned into MoriShellmon had been released from the infected fractal code. Just while sitting around and listening the two of them found themselves surprised that Palmon was the guardian of the temple that was now completely restored.

Sharing a glance the two of them promptly left, they had no intention of being part of the celebrations. Laughing at one another, they both turned away before hurrying through the village only stopping to get there things before a sigh of relief left the two of them. "You know…I don't think I want to be a hero." Kagome muttered, looking at the foliage around them.

Koji blinked in surprise to stare at the girl beside him, she was so strange "Come on let's see what else this place has to offer." Koji replied, sometimes it was just best to ignore people. Kagome shouted at him, and he rolled his eyes continuing to walk he knew that she would catch up. If anyone was looking they would see the amusement in his eyes as he continued to stay several paces in front of the younger girl all the way back to the train station and when she pouted near him on the bench he had to look away to stop from laughing she was such a weird girl!