-I don't own digimon! These characters don't belong to me and I'm not claiming them as mine! The story line however, IS mine. Hope you enjoy it . Sorry about spelling and grammar errors. If you find them, let me know and I'll fix them. Read and review!

Quarantine

Chapter I

"Hey Davis! Wait up!" Ken yelled as he ran to catch up to Davis who was already halfway to the soccer field. Hearing his name, Davis stops and turns around. He smiles when he sees his best friend and waits for him to catch up.

"Hi Ken, what's up?" Davis asks as ken comes to a stop next to him.

"The others are waiting in the computer lab, did you forget about the meeting tonight?" Ken asks but already knows the answer by the expression on his friends face.

"I completely forgot! And I have practice tonight," Davis says guiltily as he smacks his forehead. "You guys go on without me; I'll catch up with you later."

"Ok, have a good practice buddy," Ken says, walking back toward the school. Davis watches him go and then continues to head toward the soccer changing rooms.

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Ken enters the computer lab ten minutes later and is attacked by wormmon as the insect digimon hugs him. "Ken!"

"Hey wormmon. Davis has practice and said he'll meet up with us later," he adds to the other digidestined as he hugs his digimon back. A few of the others nod but Yolei does nothing of the sort.

"Why is he always the one who has better things to do then to show up at meetings but is the first to say fight whenever something could pose a threat?" she says, trying to keep her voice at a normal speaking level. Cody looks at her slightly surprised.

"Come on Yolei, he has soccer practice. He can't change when he has practice. Besides, it's just Davis. That's who he is." Cody answers, trying to stick up for their absent leader. Yolei was going to respond but Tk just holds up his hand, making her stop.

"That's enough; we have better things to do then to fight amongst ourselves. Now, can we get back to the meeting?"

Cody and Yolei nod and so the meeting started without Davis.

"Izzy said that something in the Digital World is making the digimon sick. A few days ago a town of salamon became seriously ill," Tk says, bringing up a map of the Digital World on one of the computers and pointing at a colored square near the mountains. Gatomon looked terrified as she jumps on the desk in order to see the screen better.

"Do you know them gatomon?" Kari asks.

Her partner nods slowly.

"But Tk, how can they all suddenly get sick at the same time? It doesn't make sense," Cody asks suddenly.

"Way to be Captain Obvious, Cody," Yolei snaps before Tk can answer. She was clearly still annoyed by Davis not showing up. Tk sighs, and puts his face in his hands. The room is silent except for the usual hum of the computers.

"So what-"

A loud screeching buzz fills the room, coming from the computer Tk is sitting at. They all jump, covering their ears in order to block out the horrible sound.

"Tk, what did you do!" Ken yells over the noise.

"Shut it off before we attract attention from the whole school!"

Tk starts pressing buttons at random, hoping to hit one that will make it stop. After a few minutes the noise slowly gets quieter and the dig destined and digimon uncover their ears. The sound wasn't gone but was now quieter so it wouldn't cause a skull splitting headache. Tk laughs slightly and Kari looks at him, raising an eyebrow.

"What? " Tk asks, suddenly realizing everyone is staring at him.

"Why are you laughing? Care to fill us in?"

Tk smiles and giggles again. "Yeah, some nimrod left the computers volume on high."

Yolei rolls her eyes. "Oh yeah, that's freakin' hilarious. In the mean time, something really bad could be happening because we have no idea why the portal started screeching."

"Well, when you put it that way….." Tk answers after a few minutes of silence. He clears his throat and turns back to the computer, pulling up the map again. He points at a square on the map that's in the Night Forest. The icon was blinking red.

"It's a distress call….." Tk says, studying the screen.

"Who's it from Tk?" Kari asks, fearing it's from one of the older dig destineds' digimon.

"A group of gekomon I think but their signal is faint, making it hard to pinpoint their location."

"Could the thick vegetation be throwing off the signal?" Ken suggests, leaning against one of the desks.

"It's a possibility. Remember when Yolei and Mimi got separated from us and fell into the Dark Forest while we were on that picnic?" Tk asks, turning around in his chair to look at his fellow teammates.

"But I thought that was because of the control spire we found in the area," Yolei says as she shrugs. Ken looks at the floor at the mention of the control spires. It was his fault that Yolei and Mimi were nearly killed that night. If he hadn't built the control spires or become the digimon emperor, all those terrible things wouldn't have happened. Kari notices Ken's expression and walks over to him, putting a hand on his shoulder. Ken looks up at her and smiles weakly.

"It's not your fault," she whispers to him as she tightens the hand on his shoulder reassuringly.

"Unfortunately it is and I wont forget it," he answers in a cold whisper, shrugging off her hand as the smile fades off his face. The brunette cringes and walks back to Tk's side, looking at the map.

"So, do we go?" Kari asks.

Tk gets up, taking out his D3 and holds it to the screen. The map vanishes as the portal opens and Tk vanishes in a flash of bright light, getting sucked into the Digital World.

"Right, stupid question," she says as she steps forward and holds out her D3. The portal sucks her through the same way it did Tk, the others following them. They fall through the other side in a pile, with an unfortunate Tk on the bottom. It takes several minutes to untangle themselves from each other and then they look around. The portal took them to a small clearing in the night forest. Small glowing eyes were occasionally seen in the large overgrown bushes. Kari shivers slightly, looking around through the darkness.

"We should find them fast. If what Izzy told me about the sickness the salamon had was true, then we can't help them if we wait to long," Tk says as he looks down at his D3, trying to track the distressed gekomon. Gatomon whimpers slightly at the mention of the salamon that were sick. Kari picks her up and hugs her.

"Tk, what exactly does this sickness do?" Kari asks slowly, following him. The blonde pauses for a minute and looks back at her.

"You don't want to know," he answers softly and then continues the search for the gekomon by using his D3. Three grey dots appear on his D3, showing him that they were somewhere to his right. "This way. And watch your step," he adds as Yolei trips over a thick tree root, sending her crashing into Cody. They both fall to the ground with a rather loud thump. Cody slowly gets up and pulls Yolei to her feet. She sends the back of Tk's head a nasty glare after kicking the root, only to nearly break her toe. The 5 dig destined then venture in the dark trees, trying to find the digimon that sent the distress call.

"We're getting close, they're in the next clearing," Tk whispers as he puts his D3 back in his pocket. Their digimon slowly follow but are starting to fall behind because they felt drained of energy for some odd reason. Being back in the Digital World should have regenerated their strength, not taken it away. The kids enter the clearing cautiously but weren't expecting what they found. Three gekomon were lying on the forest floor, shivering despite the fact that it was hot and humid in the Night Forest. Instead of being bright green that they were supposed to be, they were a dull green. Even though their kind were always a bit skinny, the group of kids could see the poor digamous ribs. The child of light gasps and kneels next to one of the gekomon. She gently picks up the fragile creature as a tear runs down her cheek. The others are too shocked to move. Kari looks up at the others as she holds the weak gekomon to her chest.

"How do we help them?" she asks. Tk walks forward and kneels next to her.

"Izzy is trying to figure that out. I'll email him and see what he's figured out so far," he is silent as he sends the message back to Izzy. All of them jump when the bushes shake violently behind them. They turn around to find a pale looking patamon emerging from the bushes.

"Tk, I don't feel good….." the winged digimon says slowly. Gatomon appears next to him looking just as pale.

"Neither do I…..I think I'm going to be sick-" she says weakly, ducking back behind the patch of bushes. They hear the sound of her retching. Tk and Kari exchange glances.

"Oh gatomon, that's positively gross," they hear hawkmon say from the direction in which gatomon's retching could be heard.

"Shut up hawkmon, unless you want vomit all over you feathers," gatomon gasps between the sounds of vomit hitting the forest floor.

"Actually, I think I might join you……" hawkmon says and they hear more retching.

"Guys, are you ok?" Cody asks slowly. The sound of the digimon vomiting slowly stops and they come out from behind the bushes. Armadillomon staggers toward his partner and collapses in his arms. The other digimon do the same. Kari puts the gekomon down and cradles gatomon in her arms.

"What's wrong with them?" Yolei asks as she picks up a weak looking hawkmon.

"They must have caught the virus," Ken says suddenly, wormmon tripping over a rock as he stumbles over to Ken. Tk curses.

"We should have known better then to bring them!" the blonde says angrily.

"Well there's nothing we can do about that now, they've already caught the virus," Kari says softly. They are all silent for a few minutes until Ken shouts, "Davis!"

All of them jump in surprise.

"Davis, he doesn't know about all of this! Remember, he missed the meeting!" he says, obviously worried about his best friend and his partner.

"What time does his soccer practice end? He may already be here," Cody says.

"Wouldn't he have appeared here in the Night Forest?" asks Yolei as she sits down with hawkmon in her lap and her back against a tree.

"Not if he didn't know where we went to. The Digital World is huge, he could be anywhere."

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But they didn't know that Davis was indeed already there and had been for an hour. His soccer practice had been cancelled after the first 10 minutes because of a huge storm coming in. him and demiveemon got transported to the Tundra Region by accident.

"Davis, where are we?" demiveemon says, shivering as he tries to trudge through the snow and keep up with his partner.

"I d-don't know-w," Davis stutters, pulling his jacket so it covers his hands. He turns around when he hears demiveemon yelp as he falls into a deep snow bank. The digidestined walks over, pilling the drenched digimon out of the heavy snow that was still getting deeper because of the large puffy snow flakes falling from the grey sky. He brushes the snow off demiveemon and then zips him inside his jacket to keep him warm. Davis tries to wipe the think snow away from his eyes that collected on his eyelashes.

"We c-could be walki-ing in c-circles for t-the past hour a-and not e-even know I-it!" he screams in anger at the silently falling snow. Ice had already coated his spiky brown hair and was starting to lose the feeling in his ears, toes and fingers. He could feel demiveemon shivering inside his jacket as he snuggled against the boy's ribs.

"I'm s-sorry demiveemon," he says, trying to help his digimon friend warm up with what little body heat he had left.

"For what Davis?" demiveemon asks quietly, his teeth chattering slightly. The boy doesn't answer but instead falls to his knees. He sinks into the nearly waist deep snow slightly. He can feel the snow soaking the few places that were somewhat dry on his shorts. The cold wetness rips at his bare legs.

"Davis! What's wrong!" demiveemon asks anxiously, his eyes looking up at his friend.

"I t-think I'm g-going to be s-sick….." he answers faintly as he throws up on the once pure white snow in front of him. He coughs slightly after he's done throwing up and spits onto the ground. The bright color of blood stains the snow. Demiveemon can feel his cringe and snuggles closer against his ribs, trying to comfort him. The feeling was quickly leaving Davis's legs, making them stiff and numb.

"Demiveemon, can you try to email the others to see if they can come? I don't think I can move anymore….." he gasps, falling onto his side, letting the rest of his clothes get drenched. Demiveemon slowly crawls out of his jacket, pulling out the boys D-terminal. He tries to push the buttons but his arms were starting to seize up like Davis's. After a few minutes of struggling, he sends the message, getting ready to be found by the others but an error comes up on the screen. It reads: Data was corrupted by unknown source. Only fragments of messages were sent.

"Davis, only parts of the message went through. Do you think they will still find us?"

Davis only shrugs slightly. He was half buried with snow thanks to the continually falling snowflakes. The digimon huddles back inside his partners jacket and they slowly fall unconscious.

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Meanwhile, in the Night Forest the other digidestined and their digimon had set up camp. The three gekomon hadn't improved much and the kid's digimon seemed to be getting worse. Cody is surprised to find he had an email on his D-terminal. The others were sitting around the camp fire and didn't seem to notice. He opens the message, only to find that it hardly makes any sense.

"Hey guys, come here. I just got a really weird email."

The others get up, leaning over his shoulder to read the message. It says: Stuck. Tundra Reg. Circles in freezing. Blood and sick. Demi. Please.

Tk raises his eyebrows as he reads it. "Who would send that, and why? It doesn't make sense."

"Whoever sent it sounds like they need help," Kari says slowly.

"Another distress call?" suggests Yolei.

"Possibly but we need to figure out what the heck it means first," Tk answers.

"Well, we know they are stuck and does that mean the Tundra Region?" asks Ken, pointing to a line in the message.

"I would assume so but what's 'Circles in freezing'?" Cody says, looking over his shoulder at the others.

"They said they were stuck, so it could be saying they were walking in circles. And everyone knows that it's freezing in the Tundra Region."

They all are silent, thing about what the weird email could mean. Suddenly Kari gasps, making Cody drop his D-terminal in surprise.

"Davis is in the Tundra Region with demiveemon, they're the ones that sent the message!" she says as Cody picks up hi D-terminal.

"What? Come on Kari, Davis is stupid but he's not stupid enough to go to the Tundra Region alone. Remember the clothes he wears in the Digital World? Not exactly suited for blizzard weather," Tk says as he shakes his head.

"But Tk, if Davis didn't send it, then who did? The digimon can't send us emails and we're the only humans in the Digital World. Unless it was sent by one of the older dig destined but we already know that they're way to busy to come here," she answers, folding her arms across her chest in defiance.

"Listen, it wasn't Da-"

"I hate to break up this lovely fight but I just got another message."

Both Kari and Tk turn around to look at Cody as he reads the message out loud.

"'Digidestined, the child of light is correct. The one trapped in the Tundra Region is indeed your leader and friend, Davis. Find him quickly for he is fading fast. Once you find him, I'll send another message explaining what's going on. Signed Gennai. PS, there is an airdramon waiting for you off to your left. It will take you to the Tundra Region since you digimon can not.'" Cody looks up at the others, a slightly nervous look on his face.

"At least one of us should stay behind with the digimon, they're not going to good," Ken says while looking over at their digimon partners who are huddled together by the fire.

"Are you volunteering ken?" Tk answers jokingly.

"No way! Davis is my friend and I'm going after him," Ken snaps back and stalks off toward Gennai said the airdramon was waiting. The others look at each other somewhat startled at Ken's outburst. Then Tk gets up and heads after Ken.

"I'm going with Ken, the rest of you stay here. Be safe."

"You too," Kari says with a somewhat weak smile.

"Bring Davis back alive," Cody adds as Tk vanishes into the trees as he breaks into a run, worried that Ken had already left with the airdramon. When he entered the small clearing, Ken was already on the back of the large winged digimon.

"Hey wait up. I'm going to," he yells up at Ken as he pulls himself up next to the other digidestined. Ken doesn't say anything. Once they were on its back, the winged digimon rises into the air and heads toward the Tundra Region. After a few minutes of silence Tk says, "Ken, something's bothering you. I can tell."

Ken turns around slightly in order to look back at Tk.

"Nothing's bothering me."

"That's a lie and you know it," Tk answers sternly. Ken turns back around in order to hold on better so he doesn't slide off the great scaly back. The blonde waits for a reply but knows he won't get one. He decides he won't say anything, thinking it best that he leave Ken alone right now. The temperature around them steadily got colder and Tk shivers, cursing himself for not bringing a jacket. Airdramon was flying faster then the dig destined had though because after about 10 minutes, it slowly lands in the ground, waiting for Ken and Tk to get off. The two of them slowly slide off its back and their feet sink in to the waist deep snow. Only a few minutes before they arrived, the blizzard had stopped, leaving a snow covered landscape in its wake. Ken was desperately looking around for any sign of Davis. But he couldn't see him anywhere.

"Wait here," Tk says to the airdramon as he walks over to Ken and puts his hand on Ken's shoulder.

"He could be anywhere….."

"Let's go, we're wasting time," Tk says, trying not to think about how impossible this was going to be. It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. The two of them set off, looking for any sign of the brunette but hadn't found anything so far.

Until…..

"Tk! Over here!" Ken shouts as he drops to his knees frantically digging in the snow. The blonde runs over to him as sees a corner of Davis's jacket sticking out of the snow. Ken looks up at him "Help me!"

It took several minutes to dig Davis out, his digimon huddled inside his jacket. Davis's skin was as pale as the snow around them and his lips were bright blue. Dark circles had appeared around his closed eyes. In fact, he looked very much like a corpse. Ken brushes the rest of the snow off him while Tk checks for a pulse.

"He's alive but barely," Tk says as Ken looks quite relieved to see that he was at least alive. He tries to unzip Davis's frozen jacket to get demiveemon out. After a minute of frustrated yanking he manages to get the zipper to unzip. Tk picks up the unconscious digimon as he looks at Ken.

"Can you carry Davis?" he asks. Ken nods and picks up his limp friend. He can feel how cold Davis is through his own shirt. Then Tk and Ken hurry back toward the airdramon through the winding trench they had already made in the deep snow. With difficulty they climb onto the winged digimon's back. Ken sat with Davis laying across his lap sideways, his head leaning against his chest. Tk sits behind him, holding demiveemon. Once they were on and holding onto the scaly back as best they can, the digimon headed back toward the Night Forest.