Kitsune incarnate: Hey Digimon fans. Finally, months of hard work comes together in the form of THIS fanfic. This is a Digimon story that doesn't have much to do with any of the seasons at all! But is still good and takes some things from the various seasons and blends them together. The title is, as you already know, Digimon: The Digidestined of 2004. There is so much that happens in the story I couldn't possibly summarize it, but I'll tell ya, it has a lot of plot twists and stuff and is overall really interesting! (It should be, especially because of Melody, I give her 50% credit cuz' she did half of the work) Prepare to be wowed or bored, I can't really say which, depends on your tastes. Please use constructive criticism in your reviews. Flames will be used to heat the water for the cup ramen I will be enjoying soon, but don't flame TOO badly if ya' hate it. Darius. Review. Now.

Darius: Yeah, sure. Neither Kitsune incarnate nor Melody own Digimon or any of the locations mentioned throughout this entire fanfic, if they did, this story would be a show by now.....By the way, they also do not own any copyrighted products, they too are owners of the respected company.....HOWEVER!!! They do own the entire plot and original characters and any ideas not belonging to the owners of Digimon or any other company whatsoever. They also own some specific things that'll be mentioned when the time comes.

Kitsune incarnate: Thank you. Now. MAY THE FANFIC BEGIN! But before I forget. "..." indicates speech (of course), ... indicates thought, and [A/N:...] indicates author notes, anything not within those markings is an action (what else could it be?). Oh, and if something that happens in the story seems stupid to you, too bad!

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-Chapter 1: The Beginning of an Adventure in the Flash of a Screen-

"......and then when he said that, I thought I was going to die of laughter!" Darius, a 6'1'' male with blue eyes and black hair wearing a thick black jacket and a dark blue shirt and black pants says, looking at Melanie who is a 5'10'' female with light brown hair and emerald green eyes, he had been referring to a comedy they saw earlier. It's a little bit after noon in the city of New York where they live, and they had just been heading towards his place. "I wonder if anybody is home? I could use some lunch.....you want anything to eat? I could make you something when we get there."

Melanie laughs a little. "Sure. I could use a snack or something. You sure they wont mind me coming?"

"Of coarse not! Unless you plan on stealing something, then they'll mind."

"I didnt plan on it. But I dont want to intrude on anything." :
"It's no problem." he says as he stops and turns towards the door to the hall of the apartment complex. "Here we are." he says as he opens the door to a large hallway with stairs at the end and some doors on either side. [A/N: That's what I imagine it looks like, I've never been in one before]

Melanie is somewhat quiet as she walks in. "Thanks." she says softly while turning to wait for Darius to go ahead of her.

He walks down a little ways to an apartment door. "And we're here." he says, looking for a key. "Why are you so quiet?"

"Huh?" she replies. "Oh, no reason. Honest." she adds with a smile

He doesn't reply and takes out a key. Then, after putting it into the lock, he unlocks the door. "You sure?"

"Mm hmm."

He opens the door, the lights inside of the apartment are off, and it's pretty dark. From what's visible, the apartment is nice and well kept, somewhat like a small house or something. Some noises are coming from a computer on the opposite side of the room.

"Nice place, Darius. I guess no one is home then?" she asks. "Or are the lights always off?

"What do you mean by that?" he asks, turning on a light switch next to him.

"By what?" :
"By asking if the lights are always off?" he says, heading towards the computer, the monitor is off but the computer is on. "Why is this thing making noises?"

"I didnt mean anything by it." she replies following him to the computer.

"You have to have, that's not a normal question." he says, bending over and tapping the computer. "Wonder if there was an error or something, maybe it's overheating........."

"Normal question? I meant nothing by it. My mom just usually fusses at me when she gets home and I dont have any lights on. Asks me why I'm sitting in the dark. Chill out." she replies. "Turn on the monitor and see if an error message is on the screen."

Darius stands up and turns on the monitor, then turns around and begins to head for the kitchen without looking at it. "It's probably nothing............What snack do you want?"

"Dont worry about it. I'm fine." she replies while taking a seat at the computer.

"Drink? What does the computer say?"

"Have any soda?"

"I think so, what soda?"

"Depends on what you have."

"Well...." he says, opening the refrigerator. Cooler.....Dr. Pepper.....Cherry Coke....."

"Cherry Coke please." she replies. I wonder if he'll ever notice that I never answered his question about the computer. she thinks

Darius grabs a Cherry Coke and a Sprite, and then turns around. "Well? What's up with the computer? It say anything?"

Melanie doesn't answer and instead leans back in the chair. "Well, no, it doesn't. But this is a neat screen-saver. I didnt know you were into things like that..."

"Screensaver? Things like what?" he asks, switching cans so he's holding two cans in one hand, he then grabs a jar of M&Ms from the counter with his other hand and heads back towards the computer.

She stands and goes to help him with the sodas. "See for yourself."

He sets the jar on the computer table and looks at the screen. The screen shows a beautiful forest scene with noises to match. "Hmmmm? That's not the screensaver that was on there before, it must have been changed, maybe the noise is part of the screensaver..."

Melanie comes up behind him and shrugs then opens her soda. "It maybe. But where did you get it?"

"What do you mean where did I get it? The screensaver? It isn't mine....."

"Did someone else download it then?"

"No, doubtful.....maybe it'll go away if I click on it, then I can change it back and end of problem."

"It's never that easy, Darius."

Darius moves the mouse around and clicks, hoping the screen will disappear, but nothing happens, except the screen changes to a screensaver- like thing of the Aurora Borealis and shines lighter.

"Well that worked." Melanie says.

The screen flashes suddenly, blocking there vision, it fades and the screen turns back to the Aurora Borealis, on the computer desk by the monitor there are two devices. [A/N: They look like the D-3s' and have the functions of locating other digidestined, biomerging, helping with digivolution, and opening the gates to the real world, Darius's is a silver color, Melanie's is a azure color.]

"Ok. You done with the magic tricks?" Melanie murmurs quietly. :
"Magic tricks? What magic tricks? And what was the flashing for?" he asks, looking around, then notices the devices. "Huh......what are these things?" he asks, picking up the silver one.

Melanie blinks a few times. "I thought you put them there." she replies while picking up the azure one.

"No, I didn't do that at all....." he replies, looking at the device, the computer screen becomes completely green and shines brightly. [A/N: Inspired by ep.1 of the first season of digimon] :
"Well, I think that these things might have something to deal with your new screen-saver."

The light shines brighter and completely surrounds them. "What the...." he asks, but then is cut off in mid-sentence as he loses consciousness.

Melanie goes to reply but goes unconscious soon after Darius.

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Kitsune incarnate: Well, so ends chapter one, you like? Please review...and use constructive criticism! Are you wondering about what'll happen next? Well...here's a preview:

On the next episode of Digimon: The Digidestined of 2004

Melanie: Where are we? What's with the devices? What evil? What's a digimon? Where do we go next? These are some of the questions asked by Darius and I and answered by these creatures called 'Digimon'. On the next episode we found out many things that we need to know. We also travel through the nearby forest. Our destination? A place called Primary Village, where life begins for all digimon. We also find a crest, which we don't know what is, and meet someone new, but who is that someone? And to whom does the crest belong? You'll have to read the next chapter, Chapter 2: Digimon, Crests, and Forests, oh my! , to find out