Something Beyond

By Maki

A/N~ I am sorry I haven't written anything in a while, I have been busy, I know I still have a story I need to finish up, but this one was a buzz in my mind and needed to come out first. Please R/R.

Disclosure~ I don't own Digimon or any of the characters contained with in.

Matt woke up strangling the screams that threatened to break the silence of the night. He was drenched with his own sweat, matting his hair to his face and neck. He looked around wildly, from sleeping face to sleeping face around the campfire. His faithful digimon sleeping soundly by his side and his young brother TK sleeping as well only a few feet from where Matt himself was asleep only moments before.

Matt inhaled deeply allowing the oxygen to fill his lungs until he thought they would burst from the pressure and then exhaled slowly. It was only a dream, a horrible, horrible dream. He thought. But where did it come from? What was it about? There were monsters, chasing him, slashing at his flesh as he ran and in the distance stood a figure, darkened by shadows, but who ever it was, or whatever it was, it called to him, beckoning him to come closer. To safety? To more monsters? In the dream he couldn't tell, the monsters were so close, he could feel their hot rancid breath against the back of his neck.

Matt shook his head slightly and wiped the remaining sleep from his eyes. He needed air, need to walk, to get away, something. He stood up quietly and made his way away from the sleeping group to the small lake that they had camped near for the night. He splashed to cool refreshing water in his face, running it through his hair cooling his head. He stopped what he was doing for a moment to listen, feeling eyes on his back. He swallowed hard when a twig snapped directly behind where he was kneeling, but fear over took him and he froze unable to move, to look or to even breathe. A hand slid on his shoulder sending icy chills up and down his spine, still unable to move.

"Matt?" A male whisper came

Matt thought he recognized the voice but wasn't certain.

"Matt, dude, what are you doing?" The voice said

Matt slowly turned his head, almost afraid to look; afraid he may still be in his dream. His first sight was a pair of large feet followed by oversized white sports socks, he let out a heaving sigh as he looked all the way up to see the face of the voice, Tai.

"Hasn't anyone ever told you never to sneak up on someone?" Matt asked irritated, more at himself then with Tai.

"Yeah, but hey that would be no fun, right?" Tai said smirking taking a seat next to Matt. "You look like hell, what's your deal?"

Matt shook his head, "nothing, just... couldn't sleep." He lied.

"Ahhh, that is why you look like you just had a run in with Freddy Krueger or the dude from Scream? OK, Scream 1 but not the others, they weren't as scary and like the first Nightmare on Elm Street, cuz the others sucked or maybe..." Tai rambled

Matt looked at Tai in disbelief, how did this guy ever end up being our leader? Maybe cuz he is the bearer of courage, maybe. He is a good guy and all, but sometimes, Tai has the tendency to be, well, a little off. He looked back at Tai who was still rambling on about some other scary movie that he was attempting to use as a comparison.

"Uh, wow, Tai. I'm really tired, I'm gonna head off back to bed, thanks for the talk, it, uhhh, helped." Matt said getting his feet.

Tai smiled in his ' of course my talked helped' smile. "Sure, anytime."

Matt walked away leaving Tai sitting by the small lake, he just needed to be quiet, Tai's intentions were good, but Matt just wanted to think. He made his way back over to where he had been sleeping and laid back down, he was in no hurry to go back to sleep, to go back to whatever that dream had been, but at the very least it was quiet.

He looked over to TK, who was sleeping so soundly, his chest rising and falling as the entered and exited his lungs, it was such a soothing sound to listen to. Matt turned his gaze upwards looking at the stars, thinking about his dream, his nightmare. He replayed it over and over again in his mind, the monsters, the blood, the something beyond that a figure stood, someone he couldn't make out, but knew beyond any doubt that someone was there.

Matt's eyes began to get heavy; he closed them thinking it would only be for a moment, still listening to the rhythmic breathing of TK. Soon Matt drifted of into a darkened slumber. His eyes shot open but he was no longer surrounded by the safety of his friends around the familiar campfire he was now alone in darkness. He could hear muffled noises coming from all sides of him.

"Not again!" He pleaded to himself, to the forces that be......

To be continued.............