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A/N: hi everyone, this is just basically a disclaimer, i kinda forgot to do it in the first chapter ^^;

so yeah, i don't own digimon.

enjoy. =)

…...Flashback...

Yuriko was in the kitchen doing the washing up with Haorki drying up and putting the things away, their son, Shinya, was at the dinning table drawing. It was raining quite heavily outside which almost drowned out the sound of knock on their font door. All three wonder who it could be and why they would come and visit them in this weather.

The mother stopped what she was doing, dried her hands and went to the door. She didn't know what was more surprising when she opened the door. The fact that the woman looked to be dressed in a cosplay of some sort or the fact that she, along with the unconscious child in her arms who also looked liked he was in some weird cosplay, were not only soaked to the bone but also looked like they had just come out of one heck of a beating, the child more so.

The woman was dressed in aqua coloured armour, the helmet coming down to cover her eyes, and had eight golden wings. While the child had tan skin, a pointed black nose, strange white markings under his eyes and on his chest, black markings on his upper arms and on top of his feet,his feet having three toes with long bright red claws. His finger nails were sharpened into claw like fashion, his hair was like a wild orange mane with two horns that seemed to be cut popping out from underneath, he also had a tail the looked as if it was made of fire. he wore red baggy pants that were held up by a black belt, the buckle of which had the symbol of fire engraved on it in red. Two red bands of fabric wrapped over his shoulders and under under his armpits, bright red bracelets were on his ankles,he also wore metal gauntlet  like gloves. And to top it all off, golden loop earrings hung from his pointed ears.

"Sorry for the intrusion." the woman said.

"Oh, my... Please come in, you must be exhausted." Yuriko said stepping aside for the woman to come in. "Honey, Shinya, go get some towels for our guests." she called out as the woman stepped in.

As the two boys came into the hallway to go to the cupboard to get the towels, their sight landed on their guests which made them stop and stare.

"It isn't polite to stare..." Yuriko hissed at the two most important boys in her life.

"We'll be back with those towels in a moment" Haorki said as he dragged his son away, his sight lingering on their guests before completely turning around and disappearing around a corner.

"Sorry about them." Yuriko apologised as they entered the lounge.

The woman chuckled. "It's quite alright."

"Are you two going to be ok? Perhaps I should call a doctor?" the mother suggested as she made her way over to the phone.

"We're fine. There won't be any need for that." reassured the woman.

"You sure?" asked Haorki as he entered the lounge with his son, a couple towels in their hands.

The woman nodded. "We shall be fine." she answered as Shinya laid the towels he was holding on the couch. Once she had gotten permission she sat down, gently laying the child in her arms on he lap.

"Why are you both in cosplay?" asked Shinya.

The woman smiled. "These are no costumes child. This is how we naturally look."

"I don't mean to be rude but how is that your natural look?" asked Yuriko.

"Believe it or not, but we are actually from a different world."

An awkward silence fell for a moment, the family of three trying to comprehend what the woman had just told them.

"Ok, say that we did believe you, what are you two doing here in this world?" asked Haorki sceptically.

The woman sighed sadly. "To hide this little one." she answered looking down to the child on her lap and ran a hand through his hair.

"Hide him? Why?" asked Yuriko, having heard the sadness in the woman's voice.

"He is rare, one of a kind and quite powerful when at full strength." the woman sighed once again. " The evil where we come from is after him so that they can become more powerful to take over our home. They'll do anything to try and corrupt him so that they can have him at their side. But if they can't do that then they'll try to kill him," that earned gasps from the family. "They even had him at one one point... but I along with two others were able to rescue him. We immediately decided to hide him somewhere they won't think of looking. The evil does not know this but our home depends on his survival."

"Oh my..." Yuriko gasped.

"And you wish to hide him here with us?" asked Haorki, getting a nod from the woman.

"Why us? Why not some other family?" asked Shinya.

"Because I know that you'll look after him with great care." the woman replied with a smile.

"Of course we will!"exclaimed Yuriko.

"Hold up sweaty, how are we supposed to hide him if that's how he naturally looks? He'll stick out like a sore thumb" pointed out Haorki.

"I am able to give him a disguise so that he'll blend in." answered the woman.

The woman held her hand above the child's head and it began to glow white. As she moved her hand down over the child, a boy with brown hair that was slightly spiky was left in the child's place. The boy wore a yellow shirt with a red short sleeve jacket over the top, a pair grey three quarter pants, red and orange sneakers, olive green gloves with a matching coloured cap on his head that was on backwards, and a pair of square framed goggles rested on his forehead. The transformation left the family of three stunned.

"But wont he freak out when he wakes up?" asked Shinya.

The woman shook her head. "As much as I hated to do so, I have suppressed his memories and placed ones of him growing up with you all as his family." she gently moved the boy to the couch and stood up, looking to the two adults. "I will forever be grateful for you help." she said with a bow then made her way to the front door, the family of three following. She turned to them. "Note that his stay will not be permanent; one day his memories will come back and on that day we will meet again. Till then take care of yourselves and Takuya." with that she walked away down the street never to be seen again.

"Cool! I just gained a big brother!" Shinya said after a moment."

…...End of Flashback...

Takuya stared wide eyed at his 'family', trying to proses the story he had been told. "A-and when was this?" he asked still shocked.

"About a year and a half ago." answered Haorki.

Takuya gasped. He has only spent a year and a half with them instead of twelve and a half!

"So...a-all my memories...a-are fake...?" Takuya stammered, trying tot comprehend what has been revealed and not freak out. "My memory of when mum came home from the hospital with Shinya in her arms...that's fake? My first day at primary school...that's...that's-ARG!" Takuya cried out and clutched his head as immense pain hit and images flashed before his eyes, some more pleasant than others.

"Takuya!" exclaimed Yuriko. She got up and went to his side. "Takuya what's happening?" she asked but got not reply. After a few tense moments Takuya moaned and his body went slack, almost falling out of his chair if it hadn't been for Yuriko catching him and allowing him to get his strength back.

"No way..." Takuya breathed.

"What's the matter?" asked Haorki.

"Nothing," Takuya answered as he sat up. "I've just remembered who I am," Takuya frowned. "Though there are some memories that I wish was left forgotten." he shivered as he got up and made his way over to the phone.

"So you going to tell us who you really are?" asked Shinya.

"I will, shortly. But to save me from having to explain it twice, we're going to meet up with my friends." he answered as he picked up the phone, dialled a number and waited for the person to pick up.

"You mean Tommy and the others you hang out with?"

Takuya nodded to Shinya's question. Just then the person picked up.

"What do you want hot head?"

Takuya frowned. "Well hello to you too, Koji Minamoto."

A/N: Flamemon/Takuya narrates a bit in this chapter so "..." is him narrating.

there shall also be a pic which i draw. i wasn't to sure where or not i should warn considering it is a torture pic but there is no blood or gore 

Enjoy =)

…...Flash Back...

Flamemon is curled up with his tail wrapped around him, sound asleep within a pillar of bright blue fire, somewhere deep within a underground cave so he could not be found.

"But it was not to last...my rest was soon disturbed."

Flamemon's ear twitched but the Digimon continued to sleep. His ear twitched again...and again... and again, this time he opened one of his emerald green eyes but his sight was blurred. He blinked a few times and his sight cleared a little but not by much, though it was enough to see shadowed figures moving in the distance. A shout was heard and something coming towards him could be seen, something that could- he jumped out of the way of the attack before it could hit him, landing on all fours and allowing his instincts to take over. He growled, he snarled, he even hissed menacingly, but nothing would deter the invaders as more shouts could be heard and attacks came flying his way. All he could do was dodge the bombardment of attacks, he was not yet strong enough to produce a single flame in the palm of his hand, let alone attack back.

He noticed one of the attacks too late and it hit him square in the chest. Flamemon yowled in pain as he was sent flying into the back wall, leaving a indentation as he fell to the fall. He got back up on shaky arms and legs but it was only to fall back down the moment he did.

The pillar of fire flickered out, the light and the crackling sound it produced faded away leaving only the sound of evil snickering and glowing red eyes for Flamemon to see and hear before going unconscious.

"I was still to weak and I couldn't fight back...so I was taken from my place of resting."

…...End of Flash Back...

"Before we go any further there's something you all should know." informed Seraphimon

"Everything in this world if made up of data, from the land to the digimon that inhabit it." added Cherubimon.

"And everything has it's own fractal code. Even you as of when you first entered this world." finished Ophanimon. This information was more for the Kanbara family sake as to not feel lost.

"Fractal code?" asked Kaorki.

Zoe turned to him and held out her hand, letting her fractal code appear much to the family's surprise. "This is what they are talking about. If a digimon's fractal code was taken by another digimon, they would essentially be killed and turned back to digi-eggs." that got shocked looks from the Kanbara's.

"Touch it." Everyone looked to Takuya who had just spoken. "Try and touch it." Zoe seemed wary and every time her finger was near enough to touch the code she pulled back. Everyone but the three Angles was getting a bad feeling as to where this was going. A sad smile came to the flame digimon's features.

Zoe sighed and bowed her head in defeat, allowing the code to disappear. "I can't."

"It's fine Z. There was something in the back of your subconscious telling you not to touch it right?"

"Yeah, how did you know?"

"Cause while the fractal of the land and building can be jumbled up to protect it from being scanned, as we have proven at the Autumn Leaf Fair, the fractal code of a sentient being should NOT be tampered with." Takuya looked away. "It is their life essence after all..."

…..Flash Back...

The flame digimon is lying on a cold metal table in the middle of a dark room, strapped down by metal bars over his writs, abdomen and ankles. The single ring of fractal code that was spinning around him glowed brightly, providing some light in that part of the room where the digimon lay.

His ear twitched at the sound of computer engines and tapping of keyboard as he came to. His sight and hearing was clear but his mind was still dazed so he couldn't quite comprehend the situation he was in. He took note that his fractal code was visible when it shouldn't be. He tried to sit up but horror and fear filled him when he found that couldn't, and his mind cleared up. He looked over himself, his fear increasing when he found that he was strapped down. Flamemon struggled against the binds but soon stopped, panting hard. He was still too weak, there was nothing he could do to escape.

"Sir, he's awake." came a young but mature male voice.

Flamemon looked beyond the light his fractal code provided and into the shadows. He saw a few computers at the other end of the room, the screens not providing enough light to identify the digimon – if that's what they were- sitting at them.

"Good. Proceed." came a much deeper and more darker sound voice.

The sound of foot steps caught his attention and a figure made out of some sort of black mist with glowing red eyes came into view. He growled, baring his fangs, in an attempted to scare off the figure but it only grinned and clamped some sort of high tech ring around his fractal code before disappearing back into the shadows. The flame digimon's fear increased more when the ring was clamped around his fractal code, he knew it couldn't be anything good. And he was right.

After a few seconds of typing from the creature at the computers the device turned on, a couple lights on it glowing green. The centre of the ring gained a green laser all around, leaving his fractal code with no choice but to flow throw it, as a result making Flamemon groan loudly in pain through gritted teeth.

A few minuets passed and one of the creatures spoke up to it's boss who was still hidden in the shadows.

"Sir, it is unclear whether this will work or not. The subject's fractal code is unique."

"Well of course it is. Now proceed! We'll just make adjustments so that it will work."

Flamemon could of sworn he could hear the grin that was most likely plastered on the big bosses face. Though he didn't have time to think about it when he yowled out in agony as the ring's light and laser turned red.

"They were trying to corrupt my data, force something into it that didn't belong. And most likely have me become their slave. With each day that went by they came a little closer to succeeding, but fortunately or unfortunately patients was not their strong point..."

The boss slammed his fist down onto the top of one of the computer, angry with the little progress that his workers have made.

"Why haven't you made any progress?! it has been weeks since we started and this is the results I get!?" The boss almost yelled, anger lacing his voice.

"S-sir, we're working as fast as we can." stammered one of the creatures.

"If we do anything drastic, we'll lose him." said another.

The boss growled as he glared over at the flamemon who was panting hard, eyes less than half way open, and barely conscious.

"I'll show you drastic..." He growled through gritted teeth and stomped over the the rookie level digimon.

Flamemon's eyes flickered to the being coming closer to him, his sight was blurred so he couldn't make out whether or not it was one of the creatures or a digimon. But something told him that he was far worse than the creatures that had been torturing him up till now. His eyes flickered back to the far wall, whatever this new being was going to do to him was surely going to kill him, which he would welcome with open arms. Death was far better than this. Perhaps then he could join his nine beloved friends in eternal bliss.

As if reading his thoughts the boss grinned evilly and cupped the flame digimon's cheek, softly rubbing his thumb back and forth. "Oh, don't worry. I wont kill you," He let go of the digimon's cheek and frowned, taking off the ring around the digimon's fractal code and throwing it aside. "Yet."

He roughly took a hold of the digimon's fractal code, halting it in it's non-stop spinning, also making Flamemon gasp in pain, eyes widening and back arching. The boss grinned and began to pull making Flamemon yowl in pain. He released the strain but didn't let go as the rookie level digimon lay flat again the table, panting harder than before. The being's grin grew wider and he yanked on the part of the fractal code he was holding, making it break away with the sound of breaking glass. Flamemon's back arched as far as it could as the digimon yowled in pure agony. But a scream just as intense could be heard as well and the piece of fractal code in the being's hand turned into a ornament of human type armour.

Surprised by the revelation but somewhat happy of the out come his actions have made, the boss smirked at the extremely weakened digimon and repeated what he had done, just this time a roar of agony could be heard over the yowl instead of a scream and the piece of fractal code turned into a ornament of beast type armour.

But before any more could be done, one of the walls exploded, making the boss drop the two ornaments so he could shield his face from all the rubble that had been sent flying. Once the dust had cleared enough for him to see who the intruder -or in this case intruders- was, he quickly got out of there before they could see him; completely forgetting about the armour ornaments.

Hearing the sound of three digimon running closer to him, Flamemon glanced to them. Even though his sight was blurred and darkening, he could tell who they were just by the warm and safe presence they gave off, which brought a smile of pure joy to his face and tears to his eyes. Next thing he knew was that he was being lifted off the cold, hard metal table and carried out of the room.

But the ornaments, the bits of his fractal code, they were still there on the floor.

"...wait..." He rasped. The three stopped. Flamemon shakily lifted his hand and pointed. "...a-armour...spl-it...ev-evolutions..." After that he allowed the blackness in his sight to consume it and his let his body go limb, having no more strength to stay conscious.

Epilogue...3 years later.

The bell had just rung for the end of school and in an instant the front courtyard was flooded by students wanting to get home or hang out with their friends for the afternoon, eager to get away from the nightmare that was school.

In amongst the flood of students were five kids. At first glance they would seem like any other group of children, but to anyone that was in the know, they would have deep respect, sympathy and would be proud of them. Because if it weren't for this group of five, plus one other, the world as everyone knows it would be completely different.

The youngest of this group of friends is Tomoki 'Tommy' Himi: age 13.

Tommy may be the youngest but when it comes down to it he can be quite the brave bear. right at the moment he is wearing the boy's dress code for the schools uniform; a white polo t-shirt, black trousers and his usual sneakers. Plus he wore a light blue wrist band with the symbol for ice stitched on in black on his left wrist.
In the past three years the boy has had quite the growth spurt and nearly came up to the only female of the group's shoulders.

Next is Junpei 'J.P' Shibayama, the oldest of the group: age 16.

Being the oldest of the group and having matured a fair bit, J.P takes it upon himself to do his best to look out for his group of friends; especially Tommy. And like the youngest of the group, J.P is currently wearing the boy's dress code and his usual sneakers. He is also wearing a wrist band on his left wrist; yellow with the symbol of thunder stitched on in black.
J.P has also lost quite a bit of weight in the past three years and has become quite good with technology, his group of friends always goes to him if they ever have a problem no matter how big or small it was.

Next up is Izumi 'Zoe' Orimoto: age 15.

Zoe is the only female of the group of friends though she didn't mind. she was the one who kept the boys in line...most of the time. like J.P and Tommy she's wearing a white polo t-shirt but instead of the trousers she's wearing a black netball skirt with black stocking underneath and her usual sneakers. And just like the two boys before, she also wears a wrist band on her left wrist. it was a pale pink colour with the symbol of wind stitched on in black.
In the last three years, Zoe has grown a fair bit as well and now has a perfect hourglass figure which made a lot of boys droll over her and a lot of girl envious. she had also become quite the cook and now helps her parents at their cafe when she can, and usually makes everything for the groups annual pick-nicks.

Next, Koichi Kimura: age 15.

After finding his long lost twin brother, Koji Minamoto, has become quite close to him, and being the older twin, has also become a bit protective. He wearing the same dress code as the other two boys, his usual sneakers and a wrist ban on his left wrist which was a dark purple with the symbol of darkness stitched on in black.
During school Koichi was a responsible, level headed student that always focused on his work, easily getting A's and B's. But outside of school he was quite the devious schemer. always thinking up new pranks to pull on his brother and his friends which soon had him and the victims of said pranks cracking up laughing in the end.
It wasn't long before Koichi started practising kendo, like his brother, wanting have some way to defend himself and his brother.

last but not least, Koji Minamoto: age 15.

Just like Koichi, Koji has become close and a bit protective of his brother as well. he is wearing the same while polo and black trousers like the other boy's, his usual sneakers and a white wrist band with the symbol of light stitched on in black on his left wrist.
Koji can still be a lone wolf but has opened up quite a bit in the past threes years, more so when he was around this particular group of friends. these days Koji spends most of his spare time with his twin and birth mother, wanting to get to know them better, that is if his friends have other thing they have to do. After his first meeting with his real mother, Koji had gone off at his dad for keeping truth from him. His step mum had been there at the time and was also appalled at her husband for keeping such a secret.
A few months after meeting Koichi, said twin had asked Koji to teach him what he knew of kendo and it wasn't long after that did Koichi sign up to the same kendo classes that Koji did, so now the two practice together.
With their sixth and final member no longer around these days, Koji had to take the lead and keep the group together. though that had turned out to be a lot easier than he had first thought, for they had become closer instead of drift apart like he thought they would.

The group made their way to another friend of theirs that they had made in the last three years that was waiting for them at the gates.

Shinya Kanbara: age 13.

Shinya was their missing member's little brother and is the same age as Tommy. Like the other boy's he is currently wearing a white polo t-shirt and black trousers. But unlike the other members of the group he did not wear a wrist band.
Even knowing that he and Tommy were friends before said boy had met his elder brother, him and Tommy had become quite close over the three years that had past. Shinya had also kept his promise to his brother and had become quite brave when he needed to be. The others had noticed that Shinya had developed some leadership skills like his older brother as well. Perhaps in a few more years those skills will be recognised somewhere somehow.

The group of six left the school grounds, heading to the Kanbara resident in a comfortable silence. And after a fifteen minuet walk they were there, Shinya entering first with his friends close behind.

"Mum, Dad, I'm home and I brought the Warriors with me." Shinya called out.

"Oh, hi kids." greeted Yuriko as they entered the lounge where Hoarki sat on the couch reading a news paper. "You all are just in time, I just finished baking some cookies if you liked some."

"We would love some, Thank you Mrs. Kanbara." answered J.P.

"Your cooking is very delightful." Koichi complimented as he took a cookie off of the plate which held the freshly baked biscuits when he was offered.

Just as Koichi was about to take a bite of his cookie everyone's phones made this weird sound. They all took out their phones, the Kanbara's confused to see a strange symbol while the Warriors went wide eyed at the sight of it, J.P, Tommy and Zoe nearly dropping their cookies.

"I-it couldn't be..."Tommy said in slight disbelief.

"But it is." J.P said in shock.

Koji looked to the family of three. "I hope that you don't have any plans for this afternoon."

"No, why?" asked Hoarki.

"'cause we're going to the train station." Answered Koichi.

The Kanbara's eyes widened as they realised what was going on. They quickly got their keys for their cars and locked up the house before heading to the train station, Shinya, Tommy and Zoe in the same car as Yuriko and Koji, Koichi and J.P in the same car as Hoarki. Once they got there they quickly found a parking pace before trying not to rush through the station to the elevator. They went down and sure enough, they came out into the secret underground terminal where Worm was waiting. They all quickly boarded the trailmon and the trip was spent in a quiet silence before hopping off at their destination; Forest Terminal. And Sorcereremon was there to greet them.

"Sorcereremon!" Exclaimed Tommy as he ran over to the wizard type digimon, falling to his knees and pulling Sorcereremon into a hug who gladly returned it with a chuckle.

"It is good to see you again as well, Warrior of Ice." said Sorcereremon as he pulled back from the hug. "as it is good to see all of you again." he said with a smile as he looked to the others.

"Like was Sorcereremon." said Koji.

"Come. The Angels eagerly await your arrival." Sorcereremon said, gesturing with his wand for them to follow.

They didn't hesitate to follow the wizard digimon from the terminal to their next destination. Along the way the humans didn't dare talk, their hopes of seeing their missing member rising with every step the took. Along the way the Kanbara's took in their surroundings and marvelled at the beauty that the Digital World had, even after three years it still looked a beautiful as the last time they were here. When the crystal palace came into view, it still managed to take their breath away. As the family of three followed the Warriors and the digimon through the courtyard and into the halls, they were certain that the beauty of this world would never cease to amaze them.

It wasn't long before they all entered the main room where the three Celestial Angles awaited them.

"It's good to see you all again." greeted Seraphimon.

"Like wise Lord Seraphimon." replied Zoe.

"My, you children have grown." Ophanimon said with a smile.

J.P chuckled. "It's been three years since we have last spoke, Lady Ophanimon."

"I trust that you are all doing well?" asked Cherubimon.

"We are all quite well, Lord Cherubimon." replied Hoarki.

But before the conversation could go any further, yelling could be heard from out side the doors and a moment later a blur of light blue and orange burst through, making the Warriors and Kanbara's dive to the side out of the way. When the blurs slowed down enough it was revealed to be two rookie level digimon rough housing about.

The light blue one managed to kick the orange one off him and started to get back up but the orange one had landed on all fours and pounce back on top of the other as soon as his hand and feet hit the floor. The orange on landed on top of his friend, making him fall back down onto his stomach with a grunt, and quickly but lightly bit down on his friend's ear.

"Let go of my ear, Flamemon!" the blue on growled.

" 'o 'ay, 'abimon!" Flamemon said with a grin as he a playful tug on said ear.

The light blue rookie was just about to retaliate when they both heard chuckling. They both turned their heads and saw that the three Angles standing a meter or two away. The light blue one blushed and tried to look away in embarrassment while Flamemon just grinned up at them with the tip of his friends ear still in his mouth.

Now that the two play-fighting digimon were still the humans finally got a good look at them and were over the moon when they recognised the orange one as the one they have missed for the past three years. But the blue one they didn't recognise, though Koji thought he looked familiar.

The second rookie digimon was wolf like, his fur being light blue with a white muzzle and torso. His eyes were the colour of tomatoes. A white and blue striped torn scarf was wrapped around his neck with the ends hanging over his shoulders. A single black belt wrapped around his biscept on each arm and he wore black gloves but the were ripped a bit at the tips of the fingers due to the eight cm long white claws. He also wore white trousers which were being held up by a black belt with a black straps on each hip. Another two black belts were wrapped around each of his legs, one around his the thighs and one around his calf's. Finally he wore black boots, the ends of which have been cut off and replace by belts, exposing the front of his feet and the three eight cm long magenta claws. But one thing that seemed to stand out the most about the wolf was the fact that he was partly see-through.

"Having fun?" Ophanimon asked the two rookies with slight amusement, snapping the humans out of their study of the second digimon.

Flamemon continued to grin, tail swishing back and forth happily while he still laid on top of his friend as he nodded to the female Angle, still have yet to see their guests.

"No." grumbled the wolf.

"Awe, 'ou 'o 're. 'ou 're 'he on' 'ho 'arted 'is" Flamemon said playfully.

"I did not understand a single word you just said." the wolf dead-paned.

" 'id 'o"

"You have thirty seconds to get of me Flamemon." the wolf growled.

Flamemon frowned and reluctantly got of his friend. "You're such a party pooper, Strabimon." Flamemon said with a pout as he turned his back on his friend, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Awe, I should have gotten a photo while I could! That was so cute!"

Both rookies froze at the voice, recognising it immediately to be Zoe but having a hard time believing it. It was Strabimon who turned to face their guests first, a little shocked at first before smirking slightly.

"Well ain't this a surprise."

Koji smirked slightly as well. "It sure is, Strabimon."

"Good to see my own partner recognises me." Strabimon said as he went over and bumped fists with Koji.

"Let me guess, Rookie?" Koji asked.

"Bingo! Now I think I'll bid you adieu. This is most likely a reunion meant for the hot-head." Strabimon turned to the Angles. "Sorry about the interruption."

"There is no need to apologise." replied Seraphimon.

Strabimon simply nodded and left the room while rubbing the ear that Flamemon had latched onto.

Everyone's attention now fell upon Flamemon who had still yet to turn around. Eventually, slowly, he did. His eyes went wide with shock once he saw his friends and family. He didn't know what to do, he didn't know what to say, he just continued to stare in shock.

"What? No hello to your family and friends? I thought we raised you better than that?" said Yurkio playfully.

Within seconds Flamemon was over with their guests giving his mum the biggest hug he could, burying his face in her stomach, tears flowing down his cheeks. The sudden hug caught Yuriko a bit off guard at first but once she registered what was going on she returned the hug just as fiercely.

"I didn't think I would see you all again..." Flamemon managed to choke out before pulling away and wiping away his tears.

J.P came up and patted him on the back. "You should know you can't get rid of us that easily."

Flamemon chuckled. "Yeah, I should have known."

"And you better not go and die on us again mister or so help me..." Hoarki threatened playfully.

Flamemon laughed at that. "I'll try not to. But the Digital World is a dangerous place when evil is afoot."

"Indeed," Seraphimon said, gaining everyone's attention. "You can never know when evil might arise."

"Even now evil lurks in the shadows, waiting for it's chance to strike." added in Cherubimon.

"That is why, for you're own safety and until the time when all the Warriors are needed again, when the humans return to the real world you'll be returning with them, Flamemon." Ophanimon informed.

That got surprised expressions from the human and Flamemon. It was a long few seconds of silence before Yuriko spoke up.

"You're... allowing him to come back with us?" she said still surprised.

"Like I said, it is for his own safety. The inhabitants of this world still believe him to be a spirit like the rest of them. And that we are grateful for. If the evil of this world were to learn that he is alive like the rest of us..."

"We understand." replied Hoarki.

"Awesome! We just gained our big brother back!" both Tommy and Shinya cheered.

Zoe walked over and place a hand on Flamemon's shoulder, making said digimon just a bit in surprise. "You ok?" she asked.

"Y-yeah. Just shocked is all." the fire digimon replied. He took a deep breath and looked to the three Angles. "You sure you want me to return to the human world. What if something happens here?"

"If that is the case then we will call you." reassured Seraphimon.

Flamemon smiled and closed his eyes, a bright light washing over him starting from his feet and working its way up, leaving the well know human form of Takuay Kanbara. Just now he was the hight of Koji and Koich, his hair came down to about an inch above his shoulders and some of his fringe covered a bit of his right eye. The cap had been ditched but the goggles remained just they now hung around his neck. He now wore a red t-shirt with a flame patten around the hem under a black jacket which had a single red stripe running down the sides of the sleeves. Black jeans were being held up by a red belt and the same red and orange sneakers were on his feet.

"Nice new look, Takuya." commented Koichi.

"Thanks."

Koji looked like he just remembered something and reached into his trousers pocket. "Here." he said as he hand Takuya what he had pulled out.

Takuya took it with a raised eyebrow before looking at it. It was a red wrist band with the symbol of fire stitched on in black and when he flipped it over the symbol for leader was stitched on in black as well.

"We all have one." Explained Tommy when he saw Takuya's confused expression and all the Warriors held up their left writs to show him.

Takuya smiled and put his on his left wrist too, the symbol of fire at the front just like theirs.

"Now," Ophanimon said gaining their attention once more. "I believe it is time for all of you to return."

They all nodded and said their goodbyes before leaving. All the way back to the human world as they all eagerly chattered away, just catching up, a smile did not leave Takuya's face. Even now as he slept in a bed he had not slept in for three years, curled up as Flamemon once more, the smile did not leave his face. The sounds of his soft purrs filled the room as the light from the full moon streamed in through the window and down onto the content fire digimon.

A/N: so, that is that. hope you enjoyed it. XD

here is a translation as to what Flamemon was saying when he had Strabimon's ear in his mouth.

" 'o 'ay, 'abimon!" -no way, Strabimon!-

"Awe, 'ou 'o 're. 'ou 're 'he on' 'ho 'arted 'is" -Awe, you so are. You are the one who started this!-

" 'id 'o" -Did to-