Disclaimer: I do not own digimon. If I did, why would I write these and not make them into movies?

This is a sequel to my "Rise of Daemon". If you don't feel like reading it (It wasn't all that bad, believe it or not), just tell me via review or pm and I can catch you up fairly shortly. The beginning is about it (next chapter) for any real fallback on the old story, other than perhaps my "flamboyant" OC digimon, Spiritmon.

It's been only a couple of months now since our last adventure. We were in the digital world for what seemed like months at a time, hunting down Lucemon and Daemon, who had summoned back Piedmon, Devimon, Myotismon and eventually, Dragomon. With the crew of young and old digidestines, we managed to take all 4 of their henchmen, but not without losses. By time it was time to go take out Daemon, it was only Patamon, and Lopmon, and I. Along with a new character (or old, actually) Jim, and his flamboyant digimon, Spiritmon. Everyone else had either died or been possessed by a version of the Dark Spore. But, then Jim apparently turned on us, making me angry and drawing upon an anger I hadn't known about inside of. He inspired the corrupt form of my crest, exactly what Daemon had been going after, in accordance with a prophecy. But, in doing so, I was able to bring both Lopmon and Patamon to their highest forms. In my anger at my losses and perhaps failing the whole world, I made a wish in the Dark World I probably shouldn't have made.

I wished for Jim to go to hell. I wished he would never see the one he had loved and looked for longer than I had been alive. Not only that, I stared him down as he was totally destroyed by the energy in that wish. Not that I ever knew him to be overly nice or anything, but it revealed to me a side I had tried to keep hidden for a long while… An evil that I wanted to believe I, of all people, couldn't possess; hatred. Needless to say, when I found his letter explaining that he expected that to happen, I felt, and still feel, terrible.

In this letter, he gave us tickets to a vacation. Most of us (in fact, all of us but me) died in the last adventure and was resurrected somehow. Most likely Jim had a hand in that, but he never explained it very well. But, it said our adventure wasn't over, and that only Kari and I would continue on from our group… I've thought about the "Why Us" question. Obviously, we have been in the digital world the longest, and both of us are… close, but nothing that shows World-saving character traits. That's Davis and Tai.

While everyone else went back, our tickets had another week, but in Florida. Mexico was beautiful, but now we're in the United States, for 2 more days. Matt and I talked, and he said that he thinks it's just going to be after the vacation that I get an alert from Gennai. Of course, that's just him hoping to see me again. Him and Sora… Yeah, they're married, but you know what? I'm happy for him. I wonder if Kari and I could ever have something special like that. I only managed to really express my feelings a couple of months back. Still, it feels like we've only taken baby steps so far.

For now, I have to go scuba diving… Have I ever told you that I get nervous scuba diving? Ever since we all almost died trapped in an oil rig by MegaSeadramon, I haven't been particularly fond of anything underwater… Well, I've got to go. Kari's knocking on my door, and Patamon and Lopmon are starting to play some weird game of Morse code on the door to communicate with her…

TK.

"Well, today, you all are going scuba diving. So, I will give you a rundown of the rules… Blahblahblah…" Seeing no one take notice, the Captain sighed. "Okay, I guess no one is paying attention anyways," He continued to pilot the small boat through the ocean. He went back to driving the boat. The blue sky above was perfectly cloudless, and on the horizon it merged seamlessly with the water to make a never-ending amphitheater of a multitude of blue shades. Smiling, Tk set his bag down carefully to not disturb Patamon and looked up. Such perfect days were so rare, that you couldn't exactly ignore the chance just to sit there and enjoy them. For a while, Tk simply lost himself in the warm weather.

Sometime later, TK glanced up at Kari. She was in a blue sundress that was over her swimsuit, and it shone having the sun right over her right shoulder, making her somewhat silhouetted. Her hair had grown past her neck down to her shoulders. It was slightly lighter than the brown it had been when they left Japan, a little sun-bleached. She hadn't really tanned out, but her skin was a shade darker than what it had been.

The few passengers that were on for the voyage discussed quietly among one another until the Captain spoke up again. "And if you look over to your left, you'll see a giant sea monster devouring little children." Naturally, some people looked, but most continued to talk. Tk and Kari looked, but didn't see anything. They looked at each other and Kari just giggled.

After about an hour or so, the calming movement of the ocean had caused most people to fall off to sleep. Kari was dozing quietly in TK's arms, and he knew that Patamon, Lopmon and Gatomon were probably dozing off in their bags. Finally the boat slowed to a stop. The water was eerily peaceful around the boat, not so much as a ripple disturbed the surface at that moment.

"Welcome to the Bermuda triangle, the most dangerous place in the world for ships!" The Captain announced. As he said this, the once-calm water started to bubble slowly. He turned around for the first time to face his sleeping passengers. He had dark sunglasses hiding his dark face. He was very tan, and wore only a small ragged white t-shirt and swim trunks. He was well muscled and wore a captain's hat over his light blonde hair. His growing smile seemed to match the pace at which the bubbles grew more violent. "Now, witness the destruction of this place." Taking off his sunglasses, he winked at TK right as the boat started to vibrate uncontrollably. Kari bolted straight up, but the other passengers remained asleep. The ocean was now throwing the boat wildly and without mercy, and the clouds overhead had suddenly gone dark, blotting out the sun.

"Gatomon! Come quick" She shouted, pulling the white cat out from her bag. Tk did the same, but as he grabbed Patamon, the boat ruptured and they were sent into a white oblivion of smoke, water and damaged wood.

The water was warm, but the pressure increase was so great, it knocked the air right out of Tk. He could barely see by time his downward arc had halted, and his vision was going very black, very fast. Soon, he knew, he would black out.

After a minute or two, the captain, calmly standing on top of a piece of debris, smiled. Looking up at the sky, he laughed. It wasn't particularly evil, but it wasn't friendly. His laugh continued as everything around him went white.

I wanted to start this off short and sweet. A good cliffhanger in the beginning lowers temptations for future ones. Please RnR.