I don't own Digimon. I would love them for Christmas though... Especially Ken or Davis, hehe he.

This story might look familiar if any of you have been on for more than 3-ish years. I wrote this story years and years ago, but then I stopped writing. I thought the best way to get my creative juices flowing would be to revamp some of my old stuff, so that's what I did.

This story contains major spoilers for season 2 which shouldn't really matter, but I thought I'd throw that in there in case somebody hasn't seen it yet.

"Nooo!" Ken woke up screaming at the top of his lungs. "What's going on," he wondered to himself out loud as he looked over at his side where Wormmon was sleeping. Ken smiled. 'That digimon can sleep through anything,' he thought. 'Still, I wonder what's going on. It's been three years since we defeated Daemon.' Ken went to get a cup of warm milk to calm himself down. Thinking about his dream, he decided it would be best to call a meeting with the other Digidestined the next morning. He figured maybe they would be able to understand. Ken went back to bed, but his sleep was fitful.

"Good morning," Ken greeted the others the following day. "What's going on?"
"I don't know, you're the one who called us remember?" Davis said, not at all happy about being woken up so early, and making no effort to hide it.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you, I thought 8:00 in the morning would be OK," Ken said. "Um, well I have something to talk to you about, but I don't know where to start."
Kari smiled at him, "Well, the beginning might work."

"Okay, here goes," Ken started. He paused, looked to his friends for support and continued, "Have I ever told you about how I was implanted with the dark spore?" The others shook their heads. Ken gulped and went on.

"Well it happened the first time I went into the Digital World. It was when I met Wormmon. Well, we where walking in the dessert when we where attacked by a digimon. Wormmon fought him off, but he was exhausted. I went over to him and asked him if he was okay. He said that it would take more than that to beat him and I was relieved. Knowing that he was ok, I stood up to make sure no other Digimon where going to attack. Suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my neck and I fell to the ground in agony. I don't remember what happened after that, but Wormmon says that it took me three weeks to heal and then I left the Digital World. The sharp pain I felt was the dark spore."

Ken paused at this point and looked as though he were trying to find the right words for whatever he had to say next.

"Ken?" Ken turned his head to the voice that had spoken and noticed the concern on Yolei's face. "Are you alright?"

"Uh, yeah, I guess so. It's just that I had a dream about all of this last night." Ken looked down before he continued. "Do you all remember the last thing that Daemon said before we pushed him into the dark ocean?"

The Digidestined shuddered as the scene flashed through all their minds simultaneously.

Three years ago was the time Daemon had kidnapped Ken. Luckily for Ken, Davis had come to the rescue. In the fight that ensued, Ken had been forced to confront his fears about the dark ocean so he could open a porthole to that dimension. Just sending Daemon back to the Digital World would not work because he had been the one to open the gate to get to the real world, so Ken had no choice. But just as he was being pushed through the Dark Gate, Daemon had made one final threat. All of the Digidestined had this threat scorched into their memories. His words had been, "Very impressive, my little Digidestined. You may think you've seen the last of me, but I'll be back."

Just the memory of it sent chills through Yolei's spine and she involuntarily shuddered.

"Yes, I remember, but what does that have to do with your dream?"

"Well," Ken began tentatively. "At the end of my dream, I heard those words loud and clear. I think Daemon is trying to find a way to make good on his threat."

The Digidestined were silent. The Digimon were silent. None of them particularly wanted to have to fight Daemon again. If he truly could find a way out of the dark dimension, they knew of no way to defeat him. Even though all of their Digimon could now digivolve into ultimate, there was no way to DNA digivolve left. It had been the DNA digivolving which allowed them to send Daemon to the Dark Ocean to begin with.

"Well, I'm not gonna stand around here doing nothing, lets go to the Digital World!" Davis's suggestion made everyone jump.

"You're right! We can't let the powers of evil scare us." TK looked at each one of them in turn and then continued, "We're gonna have to face this some time, let's do this now!"

Yolei stood up, put her digivice to the computer screen across from Ken's bed and said the words, "Digi-port, open!"

Each one was instantly transported to the Digital World. With maturity had come some outward changes for the Digidestined in the Digital World. No longer did Davis look like a fighter pilot on safari, nor did any of the others have the same out fits they had worn in the past. Davis now looked like a goalie with a flame printed jersey. Kari wore a white camisole with a pair of Capri jeans and white strapped sandals. Tk looked like he just got through doing a gig with his band – tight black shirt T-shirt with a pair of loose fitting dark gray pants, and a pair of Doc Martins. Yolei still had a hat on, but this time it was one like Tk used to wear. She was also wearing a knee length skirt and light colored halter top. Ken was the perhaps the one who changed the most. He no longer wore all gray down to his shoes. He now wore a pair of stone washed jeans, royal blue button-down shirt and tennis shoes. He also had a floor length black trench coat. Cody had not been able to come that day because he had a Saturday computer class. His usual garb, though, had changed to a gi.

When the arrived in the Digital World, everything looked just as peaceful as they remembered. All of them were relieved, but they decided to check it out over the next week any way, just to be on the safe side. When nothing new happened, they thought maybe Ken's nightmare had been just that – a bad nightmare. Ken reluctantly agreed. But something in his mind wouldn't quite allow him to believe it. However, since there was nothing else to go on, he tried to put it out of his mind.

The trouble began about three months later, during the summer. The weather had been beautiful, so the Digidestined decided to go to the Digital World for a picnic on the beach. The plans were made and everybody was looking forward to the trip. For Davis and Yolei the trip was more than just recreational. Neither knew the other noticed, but both were worried about Ken.

Since his dream, Ken had been slowly withdrawing himself from most of his usual activities – even getting together with the others. At first they both thought nothing of it, but then he began to lose his appetite and his weight dropped. Davis and Yolei understood it was probably because he was still worried over his dream. Unfortunately no amount of coaxing had done either of them any good – Ken refused to say anything on the subject.

For the picnic, Yolei, as usual brought food from her parents' store, Davis brought the wood, and Kari brought roasters. While Tk set up the fire Ken helped Cody lay out the blanket. As they were waiting for the fire to become hot enough to cook on the group began talking about old times. Ken, who had been feeling edgy the whole time, quietly slipped away to be by himself for a while.

He had been walking for about fifteen minutes when he got a sharp pain in his neck. He fell to his knees in agony, and then tried to stand up again, but the pain was too unbearable. He got severely dizzy and passed out.

Meanwhile, the group noticed that Ken was gone. Davis, who was a little worried, suggested they go look for him. He gave the excuse that the fire would be ready soon and he didn't want Ken to miss lunch. He didn't want to worry the others until he knew why he was feeling uneasy. They all agreed to this and began looking for him, when twenty minutes passed and they couldn't find any sign of him the others began to worry too. Yolei suggested they split up and widen the search. They did this and each Digidestined and their respective digi-partner went on the search. Wormmon went back to the blanket in case Ken got back before the rest of them.

Davis noticed everyone's calls getting farther away when he stumbled over the passed out Ken.

"Ken, wake up," Davis shook him, but nothing happened. He continued trying to wake him up but found that he couldn't. Davis got worried and messaged each of the others to go back to the blanket right away. Davis knelt down and picked up Ken. Davis figured Ken wouldn't be heavy, but what he found was worse than he thought. To him it seemed as though Ken weighed almost nothing. Deciding that was something best worried about after he got Ken awake, Davis set out to meet the others.

When Davis got to the blanket, the others hadn't yet arrived. Wormmon however saw the unconscious Ken in Davis's arms and began to worry.

"Davis, what's wrong?" Davis just took Ken over to the blanket and laid him down.
"Davis, I asked what's wrong," Still Davis ignored the question. Instead he got some cold water from the ice chest and soaked his towel to drape over Ken's head.

"Davis answer me! What is wrong with Ken!" This time Wormmon demanded an answer and for effect he got right in Davis's face. Wormmon noticed the tired look in his eyes and began to panic.

"Huh? Oh I'm sorry Wormmon; it's just that I don't know what happened. I found him like this." There was a pause for a few seconds as Davis debated whether or not to tell Wormmon what was happening. He realized that since Wormmon was Ken's partner, he had a right to know.

"He won't wake up. I tried, but he won't wake up. And he was so light. I am very worried about him, but don't tell the others. I think maybe-" But his last statement was cut short as Yolei screamed.

"Ken," she looked at Davis. "Davis what's wrong with Ken?"

"I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know?" Yolei was on the verge of tears. But Davis didn't answer, knowing it was a rhetorical question.

In a few minutes all of the Digidestined where crowded around Ken. Each had taken a turn trying to wake him up. No one succeeded.

Suddenly Ken began to moan and his body twitched. All of the children watched, feeling totally helpless. Ken's eyes opened and it was as if he was staring at something beyond them. His eyes glazed over and he yelled a single word in what sounded like terror.

"Daemon." One word and the hearts of all the Digidestined seemed to stop. Then Ken began flailing his arms as though there was a swarm of bees all around him. Davis being the closest got hit in the stomach, getting his wind knocked out. Then the scariest thing of all, Ken went limp and began to float, surrounded in a dark mist. Kari clutched her head and began to scream. As she did this a light shot out of her digivice and encased Ken and the mist. The darkness began to dissipate and Ken returned to the ground panting and sweating. Yolei ran to him and began to cry uncontrollably. She knelt down next to him.

"Ken, please wake up, please." As she said this one final tear escaped her eye and splashed on Ken's face. Ken's eyes fluttered open.

"What happened to me?" His question was met only by the blank stares of his friends.

Davis is the first to break the silence, "We were hoping you could tell us that."

He told Ken the story of all that happened. When he finished he looked at Ken whose face went ashen.

"So it was real." He looked at the faces of his friends and saw their concern.

Yolei, still holding him on her lap asked the question they were all thinking, "What was real?"

Ken slowly sat up, but continued to hold Yolei's hand. Yolei noticed how light his grip was and gave him a little squeeze she meant to be reassuring. Ken winced. So she lightly held his hand.

"I had another dream," he said it flatly. He wasn't sure if the others were going to take to seriously this time. He saw from the looks on their faces that they definitely were. Encouraged, he continued.

"Daemon was there. I was in the Dark Ocean." Kari gasped and excused herself. Ken went on, "He told me that he had come to take what was his. I told him to take a hike. He didn't like that very much. "

"Idiot," Yolei said quietly.

Ken went on as if he hadn't heard her. "He came at me, I defended myself the best I could. He told me that unless the dark spore started growing again, the only way to remove it was to kill me. That was when he lifted me up in the air. It felt like there was a hand around my neck, but no one was touching me. Then, I saw a light and the next thing I knew I was here, waking up." Ken looked down. He didn't want to know what the others must be thinking. It had to be the same thing he himself was thinking. He was a coward. He knew it. They must be thinking it.

To his surprise he found Yolei hugging him. It was a great comfort to know that she still cared, even if he was a coward.

They sat in silence for a while and Ken began to rub his neck.

"Ken, what's wrong?" Wormmon asked, worried.

"Just before I passed out I had a sharp pain in my neck. It's not as bad, but it still hurts. Guys, I'm really tired, I've gotta go home and take a nap."

"You're not going alone! What if it happens again? We have to be there." Yolei began crying again. She let go of him and turned away. "I'm sorry, but I can't help it, I'm worried."

Ken blushed.

"She's right, though. You may need our help," Davis stated.

End chapter 1

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