"Davis, pass the ball" Tai shouted across the field to his fellow striker and fellow digidestined, Davis motimiya. Davis was on fire, about 20 yards from the goal but the nearest defender was gaining quick.
Why won't he pass the ball, Tai thought to himself running into an open area where he had a relatively good shot on goal, well, better than Davis has, with two players marking him and the side-line on his right. Tai spared a glance into the crowd and his eyes picked up first on the bright orange dinosaur that had caused fans to crowd together to get away from him. With an inward smile at himself his eyes wandered over to a beautiful brunette with large crimson eyes, looking into them his heart fluttered and a huge grin spread across his face when he saw them widen and look behind him his resolve suddenly hardened and he began to worry, Tai's first instinct was that a Digimon had once again entered the real world to cause mayhem and havoc.

"Agumo…" Tai shouted as he turned behind him but he was cut short by the ball hitting him square in the face and bounced 20 foot into the air. As a collective gasp rippled through the stadium Tai turned bright red either from the embarrassment or the pain, Davis looking at the opening, burst from between the defenders or booted the ball straight past the goalkeeper. Parts of the stadium were still laughing from Tai's misfortune and the rest were either cheering or groaning from Davis' goal, but one auburn haired girl didn't care for the goal and found no amusement in Tai's pain but a sinking feeling in her stomach ever since she looked into Tai's large brown eye's, all she could think was 'is Tai alright'. Davis, after a little showboating, ran to Tai to see how he was. Tai took Davis' outstretched hand as the referee ran over to check for injuries, the opposing team's captain ran over to dispute the goal over the fact that his team were worried about Tai's accident.

"That's not fair ref, the keeper was worried for Tyson's health" he said quickly to the ref
"His name's Tai, you liar. Your keeper dived for the ball, he just wasn't quick enough for me" Davis said accusingly.
"The goal counts" the ref said to both captains though Tai was still a little dazed.
After another 4 minutes of passing backwards and forwards, the referee finally blew the whistle to signal the end of the game. With Davis getting a lap of honour on the shoulders of two teammates the other team went to the changing rooms sulking while Tai walked in with mixed emotions,
"It can't go on like this, I have to tell her" he said with a sigh

~the locker room~

By the time the rest of the team had finally gotten into the changing rooms Tai had got in the shower, dried himself off and was almost dressed.
"Tai, why'd you storm off like that, I heard you shout pass the ball, so I did" Davis said apologetically, with his hand on the back of his head.
"Don't worry about it" Tai said with a smile. "it won us the game, think of it as taking one for the team"
"I don't understand why did you rush down here then" Davis said obviously confused
"I was, er, in rush because, er…" Tai said awkwardly

"he needed to get that head injury checked out" Sora giggled from the doorway of the changing rooms.
"hey you're not allowed in here you're a girl" shouted a half-naked boy from across the room, hiding his embarrassment with anger.
"Kazu, you haven't got anything to hide from me anyway, I was on this team and saw you getting changed all the time when we were younger." Sora replied cheekily which caused all the boys to start laughing at Kazu's expense

"why don't you come over here and prove it then" Kazu said arrogantly, trying to redeem some of the dignity Sora had just stolen off him.
Sora took a few steps into the changing rooms, which caused Kazu to yelp loudly and run to the toilet and lock the door.
"enough joking around now" Tai said to Sora while beaming at her "Davis be quick, we're all going to that new pizza place to celebrate our win"
"Kay" was all Davis could mutter through gritted teeth, trying to stop himself from laughing. As he walked into the shower and washed all the sweat and grime of from the ninety gruelling minutes out on the field. Tai turned around and saw Sora with an ear to ear grin.

"It wasn't that funny Sora" Tai said with a frown
"I wasn't smiling at that" Sora said without her grin faltering. Grabbing Tai's hand which caused Tai's heart to beat faster and his lips involuntarily Form a huge grin.
"What were you smiling at then" Tai said
"I saw you out there on the field Tai," said Sora
Tai's smile was wiped from his face and his heart was beating even faster, his hands were sweating.
"What do you mean" Tai said exasperatedly
"calling for Agumon as you thought you were gonna score" Sora said bursting out laughing." Just coz you're good at something doesn't mean you should show off, and now look where it got you, Bloody nose, hurt pride and a slight assist in the game winning goal" Sora said grabbing his hand back. "lets go all the others are waiting for us.

~The pizza parlour~

Davis was giving demiveemon and all the other younger Digimon a play by play of the game, going into every little detail but Tai and Sora noticed that Davis gave himself a better game than he actually had, The younger Digimon had been engrossed in the game that even demiveemon and his legendary bottomless stomach didn't even realise that the food had arrived, and everyone had a good laugh when demiveemon noticed that almost half had gone, and he tried to make up for the time spent not eating by stuffing his face for the next ten minutes.

Izzy coughed loudly while raising his glass and tapping it with a fork to get everyone's attention.
"So now we've got everyone together, except with the obvious exceptions of Mimi in America and Matt at a band practice but this is the closest we could get" Izzy said loudly to stop any chatter "i would like to raise a toast" everyone raised their glass in imitation "to Tai and Davis' Soccer victory"

This received many 'hear hears' from the digidestined and a loud chorus of cheers from all the Digimon, which turned quite a few heads in the restaurant, noticing this Sora stood up and apologised to everyone while bowing her head.

"Well we also have another anniversary. Today is the day that we defeated MaloMyotismon, four years ago, and also the day we defeated the dark masters and Apocalypmon" Izzy said excitedly.

"No its not, is it?" said Joe pondering how it was such a coincidence that both victories happened on the same day.

"Not in the real world time but as time passed in the digital world" Izzy said hastily, making up for his mistake, "I wanted to work that out so we had more to celebrate on the same da…"

Izzy was interrupted by a buzzing sound, everyone in the restaurant turned to look at him and for the second time that night Sora stood up and apologised bowing to the other restaurant goers, as Izzy pulled his laptop out.

"It's a transmission from Gennai" Izzy said shocked.

"What does it say Izzy" Tai said, wanting to know for fear for the digital world.

"Hang on I'm opening it up now" Izzy said annoyed with Tai rushing him.

Gennai's younger image appeared on screen

"hello digidestined, I'm sorry to interrupt your celebrations but the digital world is in danger and it needs your help…"