This is a Rewrite of my first fanfic. I had some continuity issues later on in the story that I needed to fix so I decided to do it now. the storys coming to have a lot longer chapters too so it'll be a whole lot better. Please read and review.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own digimon but the digidestined, tamers, some digimon and items in the story are of my own creation

The Darkness Before Dawn

Chapter1Storm of Prodigious Caliber

"Hey Hikaru, do you think that you can get your mom to make us some food for tomorrow after the concert?" Ryu asked his best friend Hikaru

"Sure, call me later tonight and have Kasume call too and tell me what you want." Hikaru replied.

"Kay, see ya tomorrow." Ryu said as he grabbed his bike from the bike rack and rode off.

Ryu and Hikaru had just gotten out of school and were heading home. They were planning on going to a concert along with Ryu's friend, Kasume and Hikaru's neighbor Shantelle. Afterwards they all had planned on going on a picnic in a park near where the concert was being held.

They had been friends since middle school and always did everything together. Ryu was fourteen years old and had copper colored hair, deep purple eyes, and was five foot eight.

Hikaru had black hair, brown eyes, and was 5 foot six. He was fifteen years old surprisingly because he looked like he was 13 and acted like a child. He still even played with action figures and played card games like Yu-gi-oh and Digimon.

While on his way home, Ryu looked ahead and spotted Kasume on her bike a few blocks down. He sped up to her to try to talk to her. "Hey, Kasume!" he shouted out to her.

She turned to look at him and stopped her bike to let him catch up. Ryu kept speeding up to try to reach her. He kept his eyes on her instead of in front of him as he rode. Kasume was fourteen years old and had purple hair, green eyes, and was slightly taller than six feet. Ryu continued watching the girl that he had a crush on for years as he got closer.

"Hey Ryu stop!" Kasume yelled at him.

It was then that he realized how close he was to her and put a death grip on his brakes. Too late. He skidded right past her and into the back of a parked car.

"Shit!" he said. He got up to his feet as Kasume ran up to help him. She reached over to pick his bike up for him.

"Are you okay? You need to look where you're going! What distracted you?" Kasume asked him.

"Uh… nothing. I'm fine, just a few bruises." and some blood, maybe a fractured leg "I'm fine really…um…" Ryu stuttered as he tried to remember what it was he needed to ask her. oh yeah "um, Hikaru needed you to call his house to tell him what you want to eat for the picnic after the concert."

"Sure, I'll call him when I get home. You wanna ride home together." she asked him.

"Of course I do!" Ryu said happily.

"So, Ryu, next weekend is the Valentines day dance at school." Kasume said "I was wondering if …"

"Of course I will go with you!" Ryu yelled excitedly.

Kasume's smile fell from her face, "Uh actually I was wondering if you'll watch my sister for me since my parents are going out. I'm actually already going with someone already.."

Ryu's jaw dropped and he felt as if was gonna burst with tears.

Kasume looked at him for a second and then came out with a huge smile and laughed. "Ha ha ha he he … I cant believe you fell for that!" she looked at Ryu and the dumbfounded look he had only made her laugh harder. "I'm kidding, I'm not going with anyone ..yet! You should see your face."

Ryu blushed at thinking how stupid he must have looked. But at least he was a little happy thinking that Kasume was free to go with him.

"Here's my house. I'll see you tomorrow." Kasume said as they reached her house. She got off her bike and waved goodbye to Ryu before going inside. Ryu continued on to his house that was about half a mile away from Kasume's. When he got home he called Hikaru, watched some TV, then went to bed early.

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"Dammit!" Hikaru said. He had just gotten off the phone with Ryu and Kasume. It was already late in the afternoon and his mom had left early before he had gotten home. and it had seemed that she wouldn't get home until night. "Darn, they're gonna be pissed if I don't bring any food with me." So Hikaru decided to make the food himself. He wasn't as good as his mom, who was a professional chef, but at least his cooking was edible. He went strait to cooking the things that Ryu and Kasume asked for and it wasn't until about one in the morning that he finished. When he did finish he went strait to his room, collapsed on his bed and instantly fell asleep.

It was afternoon of the next day and above their city a huge storm cloud blocked most of the sky except for a small part that revielded a crescent moon the color of blood, giving an ominous feeling to all who looked at it

"Hikaru, hurry up we have to go meet up with Ryu and Kasume at the concert. Lets get there soon, there is supposed to be a storm coming and I don't want to get wet on the way to the there. …HIKARU hurry the hell up! You don't want to miss the first song.

… … … HIKAAARRU, what's taking you so long?" Shantelle opened the door to her neighbors bedroom and looked at Hikaru sleeping on his bed, "HIIIIKAAARRUUUUU, WAKE UP YOU JACKASS!"

The sleepy eyed boy named Hikaru looked at the girl in front of his bed and said," shlantill whI yudd wakk ve ub," Hikaru looked at Shantelle for a second before passing out again.

Shantelle stared at him angrily and stormed out of the room about to leave but then stopped because she got a wicked idea. She walked into the bathroom and filled a bucket with freezing cold water. She went back into Hikaru's room, stood above him and yelled

"HIKARUU, wake up now or I'm gonna leave without you.". Hikaru groggily opened his eyes and stared at Shantelle who had a sadistic look on her face. She yelled "Rise and shine," as she dumped the bucket of cold water on his face.

"what are you doing Shantelle?" Hikaru yelled at her as he wiped the water from his face "Why did you do that? And how the hell did you get in my house?"

"If I told you that then how would I get in next time. Now get up and change your clothes. I've been waiting for half an hour. It's already 12:40 and if we get on the 1:00 bus then we might make it." Shantelle said and then she left Hikaru's room for him to change. Shantelle was fourteen years old and had brown hair, blue eyes and was five and a half feet tall.

Shit! We cant be late. Hikaru thought as he got dressed as fast as he could. When he was done he rushed down to the kitchen and grabbed as much food as he could and put it in his bag along with the stuff he cooked last night. Then he rushed for the front door and took a quick glance at his watch Shit its already 12:52. Shantelle was already at the door waiting for him.

"you can probably lave the food. It's supposed to storm pretty hard soon. We'll have to cancel the picnic." Shantelle told him but Hikaru wasn't paying attention. He locked the door and the two of them ran as fast as they could. The bus stop was only half a mile away.

Hikaru looked at his watch again as he ran 12:57 he looked ahead and saw the bus ahead of him. They almost made it when the bus pulled away from the bus stop.

"Dammit Hikaru, this is your fault for not getting up." Shantelle yelled at Hikaru. She sat on the bench at the bus stop and rested for a minute to catch her breath. "The next bus that way doesn't come for two more hours." she stood up and started walking back towards her house. "I guess we'll miss the concert."

"Hey hurry up!" Hikaru yelled as he ran past her back to his house.

"What're you doing?" Shantelle asked him.

"We'll take our bikes. If we hurry we can get there in about an hour or so." Hikaru yelled back to her.

hadn't thought about that. the plan may still work, heh he he Shantelle thought and then ran after him. When they got back to their houses they quickly grabbed their bikes and rode towards the concert.

About halfway there the rain started pouring very hard on them and up ahead they saw that the police were directing traffic off of the main road that led to the concert. Hikaru pulled his bike over to the police man and asked him "Can get through here please."

"No can do kid." The officer replied "A bus coming down here earlier crashed and exploded. This road is closed you'll have to take the detour."

Hikaru got back on his bike and he and Shantelle followed the detour around the accident. I hope this doesn't make us too late and that that bus wasnt the one we were about to get on.

Finally, after an hour and a half of riding their bikes they finally made it to the concert. Hikaru looked around the parking lot in front of the concert and was surprised to see that there wasn't even one car there. "we cant be that late can we? The show shouldn't end till another hour from now." Hikaru said. He pulled his bike under the building's overhanging to get out of the rain and leaned against a wall. Shantelle came up next to him and sat down.

The two sat there quietly for a moment then Shantelle started talking "Damn it Hikaru this is all your fault that we missed it."

"w-w-What? How is this my fault?"

"Hey guys what're you doing here?" Ryu asked as he and Kasume walked up to them. "Didn't you watch the news? They announced that the concert was canceled because of the storm. I called your houses a while ago but no one answered at Hikaru's house and Shantelle's parents said that she already left so I thought you might have come here."

"Ya'know Shantelle, it's not nice to blame everything on Hikaru. It was probably you who dragged him out here without watching the news first." Kasume said.

"Ya know, I probably could figure out how its his fault." Shantelle protested, "just give me a day."

"Hey Shantelle how did you know about the storm but not about the concert being canceled?" Hikaru asked.

"I don't need to answer that." Shantelle said with a smug look on her face

A look of rage came across Hikaru's face. "You did know didn't you!" he yelled.

A large smile broke out on Shantelle's face and she began laughing "Yup heh he he."

"Dammit! I'm leaving!" Hikaru yelled. Then he turned around, grabbed his bike and started riding back to his house while Shantelle just sat there laughing.

Quickly Ryu came up to him and said, "Come on now Shantelle's just being her usual self, don't let it get to you."

Kasume looked at Shantelle with disgust and said "what's your problem? Why do you always treat Hikaru like crap? What did he ever do to you?"

Hikaru just turned away and continued riding off

"You know you really are just being a little bitch, Shantelle! Why don't you give Hikaru a break from the pranks?" said Ryu.

" -humph-" grunted Shantelle.

"we're going home now Shantelle. Quit being a pain in the neck. You need to learn to be just a little bit nicer to people"kasume said as she and Ryu turned and walked to their houses that were only a mile away leaving Shantelle behind.

They got a few blocks away when, KBOOOM…KRACKKK. In a flash of blinding light, lightning struck a trash can just a few feet away from them. Ryu and Kasume jumped with fright as the bolt of lightning came down not too far away from them. In front or the them, where the trash can laid, were two balls of light, one blue and one purple, rotating around each other.

Ryu slowly walked toward the lights. As he did the purple ball of light flew toward him. Ryu brought his arm in front of his face to block the ball of light and he caught it in his hand. as he looked at the purple ball of light it transformed into a white cell phone like device with a large display screen, a groove similar to a credit card swiper, and three buttons. The device had a dark violet trim and the three buttons were blood red crimson.

Kasume looked at the device in Ryu's hand and said "what is that thing? It looks pretty cool. Maybe there's one in that blue ball of light." Kasume walked up cautiosly to the other ball of light and grabbed it. When she did, it transformed into a device similar to the one Ryu was holding accept that it had ice blue trimming and white buttons. "awesome, wonder what they do, Any idea Ryu?" Ryu looked at his device when, KBOOOM...KRACKKK, a bolt of lightning struck his device.

"WHEEOOOWE…DIGITRANSPORT." everything around Ryu and Kasume dissolved into a swirling maelstrom of light and color and then into a wild jungle full of strange plants and huge bugs.

"AHHHHH" Kasume screamed.

Something had scared her and Ryu knew what, just in front of them was... "holy crap it's a Kwuagamon from that card game Hikaru plays" Both of them were so overwhelmed from being transported to this strange place that they both passed out.

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Shantelle sat for a second thinking about what they said. She decided to apologize to them all so she grabbed her bike and started to ride after her friends. KBOOOM…KRACCCKK. A bolt of lightning struck not too far ahead of her. Scared, Shantelle started to pedal even faster. Up ahead she saw Ryu and Kasume looking at something when another bolt of lightning struck Ryu. In a flash Ryu and Kasume disappeared. Now even more frightened Shantelle pedaled all the way to Hikaru's house.

Once there she told Hikaru what she just saw. "Hikaru, lightning just struck Ryu and Kasume and they just disappeared in front of me!"

"No way. That's a load of bull. You're just messing around with me again aren't you?" said Hikaru. "And how the hell do you keep getting into my house?"

"I'm serious! Lightning struck Ryu and then they both disappeared into thin air!" Shantelle said exasperatedly.

KBOOOM…KRACCCKK. A bolt of lightning struck Hikaru's house. The power surged a few times and then a couple of light bulbs shattered as the power finally went out. In their place there were two balls of light. One was red and the other was yellow. The red one flew into Hikaru's hands and the yellow ball of light flew into Shantelle's hands.

"I have a bad feeling." Shantelle said

Hikaru looked at the red ball of light in his hands as it transformed into a strange device that looked similar to a white cell phone with a large display screen, three buttons, and a credit card swiper like groove. It had a red trim and the buttons were orange. The ball of yellow light Shantelle was holding transformed into a similar device except it had a yellow trim and pink buttons. KBOOM…KRACCCCKKK. Another bolt of lightning hit Hikaru's house. "DIGITRANSPORT" came a voice out of nowhere.

"AAHHHHHHHHHHH" Shantelle screamed as everything around them dissolved into blackness and then into a jungle. She looked around for a minute before passing out at seeing a giant tadpole crawling toward her.

Hikaru stared in awe at the Otamamon crawling toward them. "I guess you were right." is all that he said.