The eight Digi-destined children found the Dark Masters had seized the digital world. But before they had come back, and even before they had come in the first place, a certain Digimon had been watching them.
She watched them figure out their Digivices, she watched their growing friendship. She saw them all find their crests and unlock the secrets to them.
Then one fateful day came when they had found a way back to the real world. Wizardmon had followed. The Digimon who watched the children also watched him give his life for a Digimon and a child.
"Wizardmon," the Digimon whispered. Her voice held a great anger she decided would not yet be revealed, if at all.
She turned and went to the balcony of her large estate. She had made a small world between both the digital and real world. Above her, posing as the sky was the real world. Below her was the digital world. Where she was, there was no time. But she could see the Dark Masters slowly throwing the digital world into chaos and destruction while the children saved the real world from Myotismon.
Wiccamon stood on the balcony, her flowered staff in hand, looking up as the children battled VenomMyotismon. She knew they would return to the digital world soon.
"Wizardmon," Wiccamon whispered as he disappeared from the real world. "I know you will be born again. You will remember very little. As for the child you have protected,"
Wiccamon raised her staff. She stayed in that position for a moment while VenomMyotismon was defeated. She watched intently as the children bid goodbye to their parents, descending back to the digital world.
"Sands of time, circuits of now, throwing worlds into recession!" Wiccamon chanted. "Hear my call, my prayer, my plea, give up these beings into my dimension!"
As she chanted she waved her staff above her in a circle. A wave of energy left it and headed straight for the Digi-destined and their Digimon. Wiccamon smiled.
The children and Digimon felt a sudden chill.
"Whoa!" Joe cried.
"Hey!" Sora exclaimed.
"Tai, is this normal?" Kari asked.
"Not in the least," Tai said.
"WhatÕs going on?" Tsunomon asked.
Suddenly, they all started spinning as if they had been thrown into a whirlpool.
"Ahhhhh!" Koromon cried.
"Guys! Hold on!" Matt cried, grabbing Tsunomon's horn. Then he reached over to take T.K.'s hand.
"Matt! I'm scared!Ó T.K. cried, taking his brother's hand.
"I've never seen this before!" Izzy said.
"It's magic!" Salamon said. "It has to be!"
"Oh, this is going to mess up my hair!" Mimi whined.
They all fell on their feet in the middle of a garden. When the children looked to their Digimon, they all saw they had automatically Digevolved into their rookie forms.
"Whoa, what a trip," Biyomon said.
"But, where are we?" Tentomon wondered.
"Is this a trick?" Patamon asked, looking up at Agumon.
"I don't know." Agumon whispered.
Tai looked around cautiously. Nothing was in sight except the grass beneath their feet and a few flower beds.
"This doesn't look like the digital world at all," Izzy said, looking through his laptop.
"No kidding," Sora said.
"And according to my computer, weÕre not in the digital world." Izzy said slowly.
"So where are we?" Joe asked.
"I donÕt know." Izzy said softly.
"You're in my world." Wiccamon's voice flowed through the garden.
"What was that?" Tai asked, looking around quickly.
"Are you an enemy or a friend?" Salamon asked.
"Maybe one or the other, maybe neither." Wiccamon said.
"Please don't start talking like Gennai," Sora pleaded. "That guy's bad enough."
Suddenly Wiccamon appeared before them. She floated down to the ground, landing lightly on her toes.
"Whoa," They all breathed.
"She doesn't register as a Digimon," Izzy whispered to Tai.
"Well I've never seen her before," Tentomon added.
"Who the heck are you?" Tai demanded.
"Who the heck are you to ask, Tai the Digi-destined owner of the Crest of Courage." Wiccamon snapped.
Tai stepped back in shock, but insisted to keep the others behind him as well.
"How did you know?" Tai asked.
Wiccamon smiled. "I know plenty about you. All of you. Test me, if you dare." They all stayed silent. "Okay. I'll prove it. Your names; Tai, Sora, Joe, Izzy, T.K., Matt, Kari, and Mimi. The Digimon before me in the order I said your names; Agumon, Biyomon, Gomamon, Tentomon, Patamon, Gabumon, Salamon, and Palmon. Crests; Courage, Love, Reliability, Knowledge, Hope, Friendship, Light, and Sincerity. Matt and T.K. are brothers, Kari is Tai's sister. Joe had an older brother named Jim who is becoming a doctor, Mimi is an only child living with both her parents, Sora lives only with her mother and Izzy is adopted."
They could only stare at this new Digimon. She knew too much for their comfort.
"How, how do you know so much?" Joe asked.
"I've been watching you Digi-destined since you set foot in my birth world. Now, I need to speak with the young one," Wiccamon replied.
Tai took Kari's hand, holding her behind him. Matt did the same with T.K.. Wiccamon laughed.
"Just the girl. I promise I won't harm her." Wiccamon said.
"Yeah right," Tai snapped.
"I need to speak with your sister."
"Then speak to her here."
"Alone."
"No!"
WiccamonÕs eyes narrowed. They turned slowly from orange to green.
"Don't make me attack,Ó Wiccamon asked softly, danger underneath her voice.
Tai shook his head. "Uh, uh,"
WiccamonÕs eyes glowed a brilliant green. A wave shot out from them, hitting everyone except Kari. Kari gasped and stood there shocked.
"Tai! Tai!" She cried, kneeling next to her brother. She took his head into her lap. "Oh Tai," Kari looked up at Wiccamon, tears threatening to fall from her eyes. "What did you do to them?"
"They are only unconscious my dear. You gave yourself up to Myotismon, why fear me? I do not ask for surrender, I want to talk to you."
Kari brushed TaiÕs hair with her hand then stood, wiping a tear from her eye.
"I'll go, just don't hurt them." Kari said.
"I never intended to."
WiccamonÕs face grew soft as she took KariÕs hand. They both disappeared as a mist fell over the others as they lay unconscious in the grass.
Wiccamon and Kari reappeared in a room. It was white with pink flowers painted on the walls. There was one chair in the middle of the room. Kari re-materialized there. Wiccamon stood before her.
"Why did Wizardmon put his life in front of yours and Gatomon's?" Wiccamon demanded in a tone that was calm yet commanding.
"He and Gatomon were friends." Kari said. Then her voice grew angry. "He was a good Digimon! Unlike you!"
Wiccamon raised an eyebrow. "I never claimed to be evil."
"Why did you bring us here?"
"To speak with you. Wizardmon put his life before yours. I wanted to understand him."
"There's not much to understand. He hated Myotismon as much if not more than we did."
"I still hear anger in your voice child,"
"Well you nearly killed my brother and my friends,"
"No I didn't. My Hypnotic Eye doesn't kill." Wiccamon turned away from Kari. "You children don't understand. What I'm involved in is so much bigger at the moment."
Kari look carefully at this Digimon. She seemed tired. She limped slightly when she walked, there was a slight slouch in her posture. But her dress was so white, her cloak a lilac color, she seemed so young. But Kari saw in her orange eyes an old story. Kari stood and went to Wiccamon, taking her hand.
"If you wanna talk, I'll listen." Kari said.
Wiccamon smiled slightly, but her smile quickly left with a sad, lonely sigh.
Matt was the first to wake up. He slowly sat up and held his head. The first thing he saw was Gabumon laying next to him on one side, T.K. still unconscious on the other.
Gabumon woke up instants later. "Matt? Matt, you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm all right. You?" Matt asked.
"Yes, I'm fine."
"Hey, T.K. wake up," Matt said, shaking his brother. T.K. didnÕt move. "T.K.!"
Matt's face went white. He shook T.K. again.
"Matt, what's wrong?" Gabumon asked. Matt didnÕt answer. He put his ear next to T.K.'s chest. "Matt?"
"Shh," Matt snapped. He sat up and relaxed with a sigh. "Sorry Gabumon, I thought I lost T.K.."
"It's okay Matt."
A moan was heard as Mimi sat up.
"Mimi, you awake?" Matt said.
"Well I'm not the living dead," Mimi muttered. "What happened?"
Moments later, everyone else was awake. Everyone except Tai.
"Maybe she hit him hard because she wanted Kari." Salamon suggested.
"I don't know or care. Tai wake up! Wake up or I'll tickle you!" Agumon threatened. Tai didnÕt move. "You asked for it!"
Tai still didn't move after Agumon's tickling.
"Man, this is horrible," Joe said. "We don't know where we are, we're missing one person and another is half dead."
"HeÕs not dead Joe," Sora said. "He'll wake up soon. Won't you Tai?"
In his unconsciousness, Tai had a horrible nightmare.
It was back when they had started to journey across the ocean to find Gennai's continent and they encountered Whamon. They found the black gear inside him and removed it.
But instead of the black gear disappearing, it began to grow in Tai's hand. He fell off of Palmon's vines and the gear slipped out of his hand. It grew faster as it fell, then it finally enveloped his friends in darkness.
Tai had closed his eyes, but now he opened them to find his friends around him.
"Oh man, I had a really mega weird dream," Tai said. Everyone had dark looks on their faces and didn't answer him. "Yo, guys? What did I do?"
Mimi glanced next to her where Palmon stood and made a small gesture.
"Poison Ivy!" Palmon cried. Her vines wrapped around Tai's body.
"Hey? What gives? Did I really do something that bad to you guys?" Tai asked. The other Digimon stood ready to attack, including Agumon. "Agumon! What is going on here?"
Agumon said nothing. It was then Tai noticed that they all weren't wearing their tags and crests, but black gears. So were their Digimon.
"No!" Tai cried.
"Afraid so Tai." An evil voice said. It laughed and was joined by evil laughter from everyone else. Tai tried to scream for help, but found his voice couldn't overpower the evil around him.
Tai wanted to cry. He had lost. Suddenly, a small white light appeared. The others seemed oblivious to it. When it came closer, Tai could see it was like a fairy, but she stood no taller than Agumon. Her outfit was made of flowers, her wings sparkled a brilliant blue.
"Who are you?" Tai whispered.
"I am Fairymon. You've met me before." The Digimon said.
"I did?"
"Yes Tai. Look for me again, but beware. For the next time you see me, a battle may be made, for the next time you see me, I may be in the evils shade."
Her voice echoed in Tai's head as she disappeared.
"Wait!" Tai cried.
"So you were worried about Wizardmon, huh?" Kari asked.
"I have felt no such emotion." Wiccamon said coldly.
"Then why did you want to know so badly why he gave his life up?"
"Because he was a magical Digimon, and so am I. Magical Digimon follow a certain understanding with each other."
Wiccamon went to her balcony and looked up to the real world. It was night there. The bright lights of the city looked like stars. Kari stood at the doorway.
"Did you know Wizardmon before all this happened?" Kari asked.
Wiccamon sighed. She was about to speak when something on the surface of the digital world caught her eye. A small breeze played with the edge of her cloak, but gave her a strong sense of uneasiness.
"Kari, leave." Wiccamon ordered.
"What?" Kari asked in bewilderment.
"Kari, get out of here!"
"Why? WhatÕs going on?"
Wiccamon turned and waved her staff at Kari. "Leave!"
Kari was suddenly swept out of the room and into the hallway. Her back hit the wall and she slid to the floor. She looked up to see Wiccamon facing her from the balcony. Suddenly a dark wave swept over Wiccamon and the door slammed shut.
"Nooooo!" Kari cried.
"Nooooo!" Tai screamed and sat up.
Joe and Izzy pinned Tai to the ground and Matt put his hand over Tai's mouth.
"Shut up!" Matt said. He took his hand off Tai's mouth.
"Hey let go!" Tai cried. He fought Izzy and Joe off, quickly stood and stepped back from them.
"Tai, what's wrong?" T.K. asked.
Tai was breathing heavily and put a hand to his head.
"Are you going to pass out or something?" Mimi asked.
Agumon went to Tai and helped him keep his balance.
"You shouldn't stand up like that when coming out of a deep sleep Tai." Joe said. Then he shrugged. "I had to learn something from those medical books dad gave me."
Tai shook his head. "What in the world were you doing to me?"
"We were trying to keep you quiet. In case you don't remember, we have a crazy Digimon that has your sister." Matt said.
"Man, I had the weirdest dream." Tai said. Then he went on to describe the dream, receiving weird looks from everyone.
"Eww! Not black gears!" Salamon and Biyomon cried.
"That's not good," Gomamon said.
"Can anyone make anything of it?" Izzy asked. "I sure can't."
"Hmm," Sora wondered, standing up.
"Uh oh, Sora's thinking hard." Biyomon said.
"Huh, 'for the next time you see me, a battle may be made, for the next time you see me, I may be in the evils shade.' Sounds like a poem." Sora said.
"Thank you Miss Shakespeare," Joe said. "It still doesn't help us solve anything."
"Funny you mention Shakespeare Joe, I took a poetry analyzing class." Sora said.
"If there's a class like that there's gotta be a class about how to find the perfect clothing sales." Mimi said.
"Let's see, we were all under the powers of the black gears," Sora started.
"Ick, don't remind me." Agumon muttered.
"Then Fairymon said you've seen her before, but you haven't." Sora said.
"Yeah, the only Digimon I've seen lately is that new one," Tai said.
"Hmm, maybe Fairymon IS that Digimon!" Tentomon suggested.
Tai shook his head. "No way. The Digimon that took Kari was as tall as us. FairymonÕs about the same size as Agumon and had wings. Also, Fairymon was nice."
"Hmm, difficult to say." Tentomon said.
T.K. stayed out of the conversation. He didn't know what he could contribute at the moment, so he looked at their surroundings, wondering where they were.
"You all right T.K.?" Patamon asked.
"I guess. Wonder where Kari went?" T.K. said.
"I hope she's okay," Salamon said. "Because if she isn't, that weirdomon's gonna get it and get it good!"
T.K. smiled at the Digimon. She was small now, but when she Digevolved she was one of the strongest of all.
A sudden noise pricked T.K.'s ear. He stood up and listened carefully.
"Hey guys," T.K. said. They didn't hear him. "Yo! Keep it down for a sec!"
The others glanced at each other then stood next to T.K.
"What's up little buddy?" Tai asked.
"Shh," T.K. said. They stood silent. "You hear that?"
"What?" Matt asked.
They all strained to listen.
"I don't hear anything." Mimi whispered.
"I hear someone crying." Joe said.
"It sounds familiar somehow." Matt said.
"Kari!" Tai cried, running toward the noise that was growing louder and louder.
"Here we go again," Izzy said, following Tai.
Great, more running." Mimi complained.
Soon they met up with Kari. Tai hugged her and stopped her crying.
"Did that Digimon hurt you Kari?" Sora asked.
"No, she's a good Digimon Tai! She was attacked!" Kari exclaimed.
"Huh? By who?" Izzy asked.
"Great, we're not even back in the digital world and we're already fighting bad guys." Joe muttered.
"I don't know. She took me to this room and she stood on the balcony. Then she told me to leave but I refused. She pushed me out of the room then some black thing jumped on her and shut the door! I tried to open it but it was locked!"
"Okay. LetÕs go find her then. Lead the way Kari!" Tai said.