It was a warm summer in the year 2007 in Odaiba. Eight children were talking happily how exciting it was that summer break had finally arrived. They were gathered in a park under a tree discussing where they should have vacation that year.

The Digital World was once again at peace. Hopefully it was, that is. It had been two years since those distortions had occurred in their world and the Digital World and completely turned changed their world. Most of them were adults now, some still in school, finishing up their finals years of High school.

"Maybe we could the beach! Have a BBQ! It'd be great and I even have the PERFECT meals in mind!" One Mimi Tachikawa piped in. She had taken a real liking to cooking and took any opportunity to show off her skills. Most of the group let out a groan.

"Mimi, that's what we did last year, remember? It didn't end so well as I recall…" Sora hung her head. "We completely embarrassed Meiko and she vowed to never go to the beach ever again. I feel terrible for her."

Mimi pouted. "But that doesn't mean we still can't go!"

"Why don't we just go to an Aquarium?" Jou suggested. "I heard my girlfriend really would-"

"Jou, this isn't an opportunity for you and your girlfriend to go out on a date." Yamato sighed. "Why not an amusement park? That way my band can-"

Takeru snorted. "Weren't you just getting on Jou about promotion, big brother?"

Yamato shot a glare. "Well, what do you think, Takeru?"

Everyone turned their head to the youngest one of the group for answers. "Well…" He started scratching his cheek lightly. "It's not exactly glamorous, but I heard about this manor on a secluded island. It's supposed to haunted. I thought it'd be cool to investigate it."

The group exchanged looks of concern and interest.

"It kind of does fulfill the beach idea I wanted." Mimi tapped her cheek staring up into the sky.

"We could even catch our own food to cook!" Taichi grinned. "At least this time, we'd know it's edible!" He laughed.

"It does sound nice." Sora adjusted her shirt. "I mean, we sort of camped in the Digital World. But this time we know we won't have monsters trying to kill us everyday."

"It sounds nice and serene. I'd love to take plenty of pictures for my scrap book." Hikari sighed with a smile.

With a little more planning and thoughts. They kids decided to go to the island that Takeru talked about. Even though it could be haunted, it would at least have working water lines for cooking and bathing. Something they missed and lacked in the Digital World. They thought about taking their Digimon, but decided not to because they could just use some alone time for once.

A few days passed and fully they set sail on a small boat to the manor. It fortunately stayed nice the boat ride there. The captain of the boat said he'd back in a week to pick them up. That way, they could have it all to themselves.

Koushirou was the first to start setting up his area in a big living room space to the right of the foyer as they walked in.

"Wow! This is amazing!" Mimi exclaimed looking around into the rooms. Sora joined her and they giggled and chatted which room they would take. Hikari followed behind them quietly carrying some bags.

Jou and Yamato decided to check a shack that was located at the back of the manor. Yamato was more interested in a place to practice his guitar. The other boy merely wanted to check how safe the area was.

"Oh, look! There seems to be some medical equipment. That's really handy!" Jou examined some of the items. There seemed to be some basic first aid tools such as scalpels, gauze, rubbing alcohol, and even a small defaulter. That was something he wasn't expecting in a place like this. He made a mental note to test it out later to make sure it worked properly.

Jou had wished his girlfriend could have come with them to the manor. She would have had fun snorkeling with the fish. But she was on call at the hospital she worked at and thus couldn't join them for the week. She said for him to have twice as much fun so it was like she was there too.

Yamato shook his head at his friend that insisted on fixating on being the adult, even though they all were. He dusted a nice cushion bench next to some speakers and stands for music. He thought for second how odd these would be put in the same room. But figured it was just storage and it didn't matter. He wouldn't use any of this anyway and just his guitar for practice.

He enjoyed some alone time playing his guitar. Sometimes Sora would join him and they would sit in silence listening to serene music. It was a very calm and relaxing atmosphere for them.

Inside Takeru found a library filled with books on shelves that went to the ceiling. He saw there was a ladder that could be moved so he could reach anything he needed. He was elated to find such a space to not only read, but start writing for a book he hoped to publish in the future. He realized he enjoyed writing when he had the blog with all the international Chosen. It wasn't unusual to see Takeru with a pen and notebook stuff in his bag. The Library had a sunroof as well. The stars at night would surely bring him many inspirations. To top it off, it was a big room in the back of the manor on the top floor. Away from everyone else so he could have peace and quiet.

Hikari had dropped off the luggage on the first floor in the room with Mimi and Sora. She left the two in the kitchen as they were taking inventory of the food they had. He eventually found herself in a sun room that saw right into the sea. She knew already it would be an amazing spot for so many beautiful pictures. She could hardly wait and show Tailmon when they got back to Odaiba.

Taichi found himself in the basement of the Manor. Even though it was dark and humid, he wanted to see what was down there. He fumbled around for a switch and finally found it. "Oh! Awesome!" The basement was filled with all sorts of water sport equipment and floaters of all kind. It was just he had hoped. He could already imagine himself having a challenging match at beach soccer or water basketball. He couldn't wait.

While the girls got dinner ready, Taichi was outside with Yamato and Jou setting up the net to play beach soccer. Koushirou sat in the shade working on his computer.

"Hey, c'mon Koushirou! Get away from that thing and play with us!" Taichi shouted waving to him.

"I will, in just a second. I need to make sure the Digital World is still stable. Who knew they'd actually have functioning wi-fi here!"

Taichi rolled his eyes. "The Digital World is fine. There'd be signs if it wasn't, ya know!"

"That's what we all thought two years ago, wasn't it? But it wasn't. We lost many people things changed for the worse then, Taichi. I can't allow that to happen again." His eyes furrowed as he furiously typed away on his laptop.

"Right… Because of what happened. Meiko moved back to Tottori. She couldn't even bare to see us anymore after all that." A tinge of guilt appeared in Taichi's face. "Perhaps you are right." He picked up a soccer ball with his feet and started to play with It lightly.

"Ok, guys! Dinner's ready!" Sora chimed waving at the boys.

Light conversation occurred as they ate their meal. It was pasta and various vegetables. It was nothing major and not exactly luxury island food. But it was better than nothing.

After they ate, Taichi and Yamato changed into their swim trunks and ran out onto the beach. The girls soon came out in their own bikini's. Koushirou was deemed the referee despite his objections that he couldn't do such a thing. Jou joined them as their life guard. Just in case, because you never knew when there could be an emergency.

Takeru sat in the shade, HIkari at his side. He was writing some thoughts into his notebook as Hikari watched him fondly. Hikari sometimes felt her feels for him had grown in to feelings of some kind of love. But even now she wasn't so sure.

Yamato was really bad at playing soccer. Sora and Mimi giggled at his bad attempts to taking the ball away from an obviously professional Taichi. Even though Sora knew she could probably still hold her own against Taichi even though she hadn't practiced in years. She admired Yamato's determination. She blushed thinking how cute he looked in his swim trunks and blond hair flying about. Yamato finally managed to kick the ball from Taichi, but the ball went into the sea.

"Nice steal, Yamato!" Sora leapt up and down, smiling at her boyfriend.

Yamato scowled. "Hardly." He huffed looking away.

Taichi started to swim out into the sea, but the ball kept drifting farther and farther from him. He could hear his friends giggling at him from the beach.

"Too bad you aren't as good at swimming as you are at soccer, Taichi!" Taichi scoffed at Yamato's snarky reply.

I'd like to see you swim out here, Yamato… He rolled his eyes continuing to swim to the ball.

Before he realized it, he had drifted really far from shore. He could barely hear his friends jeering at him to hurry back. They probably were right. No point in trying to chase a ball into the sea. There were plenty in the basement.

He started to turn back, giving one last glare at the ball that insisted on eluding him.

Crap, my foot! His foot surged with pain as it started to cramp causing him to struggle to stay above water.

I gotta get their attention…!

He began to frantically wave his arms around, but his friends didn't seem to notice he was in distress. In fact, they seemed to be laughing at him. He continued to try to swim, but it really wasn't doing him much good. It was getting harder and harder to keep his head above water.

"Guys, I can't-!" He tried to shout, but his head dunked under the water before he could finish.

"We know you can't get the ball, Taichi. Just come back!" He heard Sora shout. It wasn't what he was going to say.

He couldn't swim. He was going to drown and his friends had no idea. Starting to panic, he started breathing hard, taking in water as he did. Little by little the world around his got dimmer and dimmer.

Damn it… His world went black as he was completely submerged. Sinking deeper and deeper into the water. The air slowly escaping his lungs.

Back on shore, Jou was sitting on the beach in his life guard chair. He was watching the scene before him and assumed like the others, Taichi was goofing around. It annoyed him that Taichi would pretend to drown. What if someone was really drowing and no one bothred to help? It'd be a disastrous. He shook his head as he joined the others at the shore.

He waited for Taichi to come back up to the surface. But he didn't. Dread covered his face. "Guys, I don't think Taichi was messing around!" His voice coming through as panic and fear. Taichi really had been drowning then there wasn't much time!

Sora and Hikari stared at him with fear in their eyes and their faces pale. Hikari screamed and dropped to her knees screaming for her brother while Sora covered her mouth in horror.

"Yamato, you go out and get him, I'll go fetch the first aid kit!" Jou ran for the shack and retrieved the things he'd need. The defibrillator was going to come in handy.

Getting back to the shore where everyone was, he saw that Taichi was on the ground, unresponsive surrounded by everyone. Yamato was currently in the process of doing CPR on Taichi, desperately trying to resuscitate him.

"Move. I'll have to use this."Jou was turning into what he called his doctor mode. He had to remain calm and think only about what needed to be done to revive his friend.

Jou set up the defibulator and started it up. "Clear!" He shouted as he rubbed the pads together and put onto Taichi's chest. It was at that moment he realized he made a huge mistake. You are not supposed to use a defibrillator on a victim that is wet. Because that would mean you are putting yourself and making the situation worse for the victim. But it was too late, he had applied the pads to Taichi. Electricity surged through his body, his body shook uncontrollably and his eyes rolled in the back of his head. He fell forward into the sand, his world disappeared. He wished he could have at least seen Gomamon one last time.

The others surrounded him in utter shock. Yamato had been sitting next to Jou, but had not been touching anything. His friends sat farther away. But he could see his friend's eyes rolled in the back of his head. Dead. "Jou… This isn't funny, man…" He wheezed, his hand shaking to take his friend's pulse. Surely, he was just unconscious, right? But there was no pulse. Jou and Taichi were lying dead in front of them. He stared at the others, wide eyed and slowly shook his head.

"No… No!" Hikari screamed holding her head, squeezing her eyes shut. Sora next to her hugged tightly, not saying anything. None of them could.

Wasn't this supposed to be a vacation?