" How can this be?" Velgemon spoke as flew. " A human…If its true then who am I? I need some time to think about this." The bird said as it soared above the great formations of rock beyond the humans who so troubled it.

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" Oh hey! I can't believe I forgot!" Serena exclaimed mid-sentence, spinning about from where she had been debating with Faryl. " You were hurt. Are you okay?" She asked Koji.

The boy nodded. " Mm-hmm."

Serena looked at him harder, her gaze calculating as she scanned him for wounds. " Fine." She said at last.

" KOJI!"

Serena, Faryl and Koji all turned as one to look at the source of the sound.

Running toward them were two boys and behind them a few other kids though neither girl could tell how many and two or maybe three…were those digimon?

" Are you okay?" The boy in the lead called as he reached them, panting as he did.

He was tall as well with a green hat and goggles strapped unto the hat. From beneath the hat the girls could see long brown hair though much shorter then Koji's. He wore orange and red sneakers and a pair of green pants that matched the color of his hat. A pair of too-large gloves a lighter shade of green then the hat and pants were on his hands. His yellow shirt bore a weird symbol in black in the middle of the chest and he wore a red jacket as well.

The girls watched as he scanned Koji for injuries, brown eyes searching.

" Yeah." Koji said.

Almost right behind the red haired boy can another boy only this one much larger. Serena would have used the word fat though Faryl probably would have preferred plump.

This boy wore blue sneakers and a blue and yellow jumpsuit over an orange shirt. His hair was brown as well, though lighter then goggle-boy's color and rather spiky. His face was round as well and his eyes a shade of brown a lot like the other boys.

By now the other two and the digimon had caught up as well. The girl was tall and blond with a dark-blue and white striped midriff top, a pale purple jacket and matching skirt and pink a white sneakers. White socks came up just below her knee. She also wore a hat the same shade of pink as the sneakers with a gray band on the bottom. Her green eyes shone with worry.

The boy that followed her was young, probably about half the age of the rest of them. The boy wore an orange-ish hat; a large white shirt with green cuffs over a T-shirt a darker shade of green then the cuffs. He also wore yellow orange pants in the same style as the first boy, the goggle-head. His shoes were white and green. This boys eyes were green as well though a shade darker then the girl's and almost half blue.

The digimon were very odd looking. The smaller was a small white creature with a stretchy pink band around it that acted as pants. It had large knowing eyes. The second was yellow and wore too-large red pants. It seemed to have the head of a rabbit and had a spacey look on its face.

The third however made Serena just want to hug it and even Faryl might have been affected by its cuteness. The small digimon looked as if had just been born. It was half brown, a light shade, and half white, its lower half being white. And its ears were huge bat-like wings, the brown color of its back, which it flapped to stay airborne. It wore a pair of pants exactly like the white digimon even though the pants resembled more of a band.

" That's good news!" The blond girl said, still panting from running. Her brows were furrowed in a worried line.

" Yeah, we all heard that explosion and thought that, maybe you were in it!" The small boy said.

" Well, I kinda was." Koji said. " But not really."

" What do you mean, how could you have been but not?" The goggle-head asked.

" It was Velgemon." Koji said. " He used Cherubimon's power to evolve from Duskmon and attack." Koji said.

At this Faryl and Serena peered at Koji. Cherubimon? This was the first either had heard about whoever that was.

" Man! I'm really getting sick of that guy!" The goggle-head said vehemently.

" My boy!" The little white digimon spoke up suddenly. Serena and Ava turned to look at it. It seemed to have something of an English accent. " There aren't many who could stand up to Velgemon and still walk away! I'm flabbergasted!" It said.

" Bless you." The rabbit-eared thing said. Everyone seemed to ignore him.

Koji shook his head. " Don't be. It was really more these two then me." Koji said turning to Serena and Faryl.

Serena grinned at them all. Faryl waved sheepishly.

It seemed to be then that the others finally noticed them. The goggle-boy gave each of them a good once over. The larger boy gazed at Faryl for a moment then at Serena. Serena barely resisted the urge to smack him and instead gave the blond an 'I feel so bad for you' look which the girl probably didn't understand. The girl smiled at them and the little boy just stared.

" Who are they?"

" Where did they come from?"

" Are they digidestined too?"

The questions started coming immediately and all were directed at Koji. The poor boy looked rather overwhelmed. " Why don't you ask them. I don't really know either. I was hit and I transformed back to me when these to came out of nowhere. They saved me."

The group stared at them. Serena grinned, enjoying the attention. " Hey. " She said. " I'm Serena Lumen."

Barely restraining their questions the group managed to introduce itself.

" I'm Takuya Kanbara." The lead boy said, extending his hand which Serena shook then Faryl. Goggle-head. Serena thought wickedly.

" I'm J.P. Shibayama." The larger boy said grinning at the two girls.

" Hey. I'm Zoe Orimoto. Nice to meet you." The blond girl said.

" You too." Serena smiled, happy to see another girl. Faryl nodded politely.

" I'm Tommy. Um…Tommy Himi." The small boy said.

Serena grinned. He was so cute in that shy little kid way. " Hey Tommy. Glad to meetcha!" Serena chirped brightly.

" I'm Bokomon, Keeper of the Book." The little white English-sounding digimon said.

" And I'm Neimon, Keeper of my Pants." The rabbit thing said. Serena bit back a laugh and turned to Faryl. " Angela would just love him!" She whispered.

Faryl smiled but with a measure of sadness. Serena had already turned away though and was contemplating the idea of taking pictures when it occurred to her her cell phone was still a D-tector. Their rabbit loving friend back home would just have to suffer without pictures.

" Hi. I'm Faryl Lonesorrow." Faryl said at last after a strict glare from Serena. She'd forgotten to introduce herself.

" Who's this?" Koji said, startling everyone.

The group turned to find the small bat-eared thing nestled against his chest, looking up at him with big blue eyes. " Well hello there! I'm Patamon!" The little thing said blissfully as it flew out of Koji's arms. Its voice was child-like and innocent. Very endearing. Serena was overcome with the urge to hug it.

" He hatched from Seraphymon's digiegg while you were inside Sakkakumon." Takuya said.

" So really it's because of him that you were able to fusion-evolve to Beowolfmon." Zoe said practically.

" So that's what it was." Koji said. " Thanks little guy." He smiled at Patamon. Serena found herself a little startled to see him smile. It seemed almost weird, but then again she didn't know him very well yet either.

"Aww! It's my pleasure!" Patamon said.

" So-" Bokomon said, walking toward Serena and Faryl. " What was it that happened for you to have met up with Koji and are you in fact digidestined?"

" But how can they be? We have the spirits of the Ten Ledgendary Warriors already, or at least we've met them all." Takuya interrupted.

" I can't believe it but Takuya has a point." Zoe said, looking down at Bokomon.

" Well, I don't know what you mean by digidestined but if you mean can we evolve the answer is yes." Serena said at last.

All but Koji and Faryl looked startled.

Serena however ignored this and began to talk to Faryl. " Why are you so spacey? Your not still worried about that bird thing are you?" She asked quietly.

Faryl nodded.

Serena sighed. " You shouldn't worry. We saved Koji. That's all that matters right."

" No we have to help him too." Faryl said looking off after where the bird thing had headed.

" Excuse me young ladies but you cannot just make an announcement like that and then ignore us!" Bokomon said, hands on hips. Faryl and Serena turned.

" What do you mean?" Faryl asked.

" We mean that were all legendary warriors and that we've met all the others too. There's no way!" J.P. said, speaking up at last.

" Well we are." Serena said a bit smugly.

Bokomon looked at her quizzically then turned to Koji. " Did you actually see either of them transform?"

Koji nodded. " Her." He said pointing at Serena who grinned again.

Bokomon looked puzzled and pulled a book out of seemingly nowhere. " Let's see if the book has anything to say about this." He said and began flipping through it, apparently aware of what he was looking for.

" Oh my!" He said at last looking at the page in front of him and then at the two girls. " Oh my goodness!"

" What is it?" Neimon said as he peered around Bokomon's shoulder.

Bokomon slammed the book shut and glared at Neimon who backed off as he began to pace back and forth. Patamon looked at the white digimon with wide, confused, blue eyes.

Zoe, Tommy. J.P. and Takuya all watched as he did. Koji seemed distracted looking back and forth. Faryl on the other hand didn't even try to hide her dual interests, staring off after the bird man. Serena smirked at the digimon, unable to wait to see what explanation the small thing could come up with for their ability to digivolve. She'd never even heard of these ten Legendary Warriors, but apparently they meant something to the others, something that told them that she and Faryl couldn't possibly be able to transform. She would enjoy it when goggle-head was proved wrong.

" The book speaks of two sisters, digimon, and powerful ones at that. Each of them was as strong as the Three Great Angels combined. However at the beginning of time it was decided that there powers would to greatly influence the lives of digimon everywhere and they disappeared. However the sisters knew the time would come when they would be needed and it is said that they somehow made it possible for their spirits to be used when the time came. No one knows quite how it was done but many speculate that the two sisters retreated to the skies and discovered a way to give their powers to humans just as the Legendary Warriors later did. Thus it is, in theory, possible that these two could hold the spirits of the sisters." Bokomon finished.

" So wait, then it is possible?" Takuya said. " They could be warriors too?"

" Told ya!" Serena singsonged.

Takuya glared at her.

"Your forgetting they saved me. They have to be something." Koji said absent mindedly from where he stood.

" My dears what are the names of your human spirits?" Bokomon asked.

"Huh?" Patamon said.

" What are you doing Patamon?" Bokomon demanded as the small digimon landed on Faryl's head. Faryl looked uncomfortably up at the creature. Serena barely held back her laughter.

" I thought it was you!" Patamon said in delight as he tumbled down into Faryl's arms.

" My dear boy what are you talking about?" Bokomon said, staring at the little digimon.

" Silly PapaMa! This is Lunamon!" Patamon said, nestling into Faryl's arms then flying slowly to land in Serena's. " And this is Celesmon!"

" The two sisters?" Zoe asked.

" Uh-huh! Uh-huh!" Patamon said blissfully as Serena hugged him.

" He's so cute." Serena laughed.

" Yeah but isn't that still-" Neimon began only to have his pants snapped by Bokomon. " He's my little baby!" The digimon said, stars in his eyes.

" Uh-huh." J.P. said skeptically.

" Wait I don't understand this!" Tommy said, causing everyone, even the distracted Koji to look down at him. " So since they can transform too are there even more people who can that we don't know about?" He asked Bokomon.

" Yeah!" Takuya said. " I thought you said it was just us."

" Well apparently I was wrong!" Bokomon said haughtily. " I do that too you know. Be wrong. I'm not infallible."

" We know that Bokomon." Zoe said softly leaning down on her knees to look at him. " We just want to know if there could be more kids, more exceptions."

" Well I suppose it's possible." Bokomon said at last. " But not likely. If in fact another digimon managed to preserve their spirit and it wasn't recorded then maybe…"

" So there could be a bunch more bad guys out there! They clearly got past you!" Takuya exclaimed furiously.

Serena rolled her eyes. " Chill. Were not that bad guys."

" And you make it sound like Bokomon lied!" Zoe protested.

" Hey guys! Don't fight!" Patamon said sweetly, flying out of Serena's arms.

At that everyone calmed a bit.

Serena turned to Faryl and began to speak in hushed tones. " Can you believe them? Accusing us of being the bad guys! I mean we don't even know them! What if their the bad guys?"

Faryl didn't answer.

" Faryl? Faryl?"

" Huh?"

" You were thinking about the bird again weren't you? I know I told you not to worry. Twice Faryl. Twice now." Serena sighed.

Meanwhile Takuya, J.P. and Zoe had formed a group to discuss the new arrivals while Tommy played with Patamon.

" Do you really think its safe? I mean we don't even know them." J.P. said.

" Yeah but they did save Koji, and they seem nice." Zoe argued.

" One of them does at least." Takuya muttered.

Zoe laughed. " Your just mad cause you were wrong and she's not afraid to tell you."

" Hey I am not!" Takuya protested.

" I'm gonna go after him I think. If I Beast Spirit evolve then I can p-" Faryl was saying.

" Don't even try!" Serena snapped. " I'm not gonna let you just go flying off without me. And don't you see? We've finally found the kids the voice told us about! I mean you really want to just leave?"

" I have to find him. I hope he's not too hurt." Faryl said distantly.

Serena recoiled. " What is it with you lately?" She snapped. The entire group save Koji spun to look at her." Why is that boy so important! What is the big deal! It's just one kid, if your even right! I mean what proof do we have that they-" Serena trailed of in frustration.

" So that's what she meant! Of course! Duskmon! He must have answers for me!" Koji said under his breath, unaware that in the quiet that followed Serena's outburst all could hear him.

And with that he took off toward the rocks, after the bird, after Velgemon, after Duskmon, and into the shadows.

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