Descent to Darkness

Disclaimer- I do not own Digimon or its characters except the ones that I make up.

Chapter One-Prologue

For more than two years since the death of Okaiwa, the digital world has been drastically changed to cope with his demise. The digimon have been forming partners with humans more than ever and more humans are welcome into the digital world.

Everything was set straight again thanks to the new and the old digidestined. At least until something drastic that will change one digidestined's life forever.

It's a beautiful summer Monday in Odaiba, Japan with clear skies and a very bright sun. The streets are full of life with bustling activity as one 17 yr. old individual with long, brown chestnut hair wearing black trousers, a black cut-off sleeve shirt, and black Nike tennis shoes was making his way through the city streets.

Taichi ran all the way from his apartment that was two blocks away so he was occasionally gasping in between breaths as he tried to get to his destination.

'I hope I'm not too late,' he thought as he sidestepped out of the way from an incoming pedestrian.

The Odaiba High School was starting to appear in his sights and Taichi squinted to see five individuals practicing on the soccer field.

Taichi glanced at his watch which read 5:30 p.m. He silently sighed to himself and picked up his pace. Yamato, Sora, Takeru, Hikari, and Daisuke were patiently waiting for their friend and leader of the digidestined to show. Of course you probably know that Yamato and Sora are dating. Yamato sighed and glanced at his watch.

"It's 5:45. We've been waiting for Taichi for the past hour now and he still hasn't showed up. At least he should have told us that he wouldn't come," Yamato sighed.

Sora looked at him in pity.

"Come on Yamato we can wait for a little while longer. I know Taichi and he won't be late for t...," she paused as she heard a lone yell in the distance.

Hikari beamed as she recognized the voice.

"There he is," she exclaimed.

She was right of course, as her brother stood there at the entrance of the field folding his arms across his chest with a tired, but content smile on his face. Yamato frowned and walked up to him with his fists balled up. Sora walked beside him so she could try to prevent the two from fighting.

Ever since she started dating Yamato, Sora could sense Taichi's separation from her and the group because even though he agreed to it on Christmas Day when they were going to see Yamato play, she felt that he didn't truly want her to go and was hurting inside when they became a couple. Now there was tension between the two and Taichi wasn't the one who was giving out most of it.

He could sense that Yamato was afraid that Sora might still like him even though they were together. Taichi never wanted to fight for Sora if it came to it that Sora wanted Yamato over him. Yamato had threatened him before and that's what caused the tension between them.

Taichi paused out of his thoughts as he looked at Yamato who was now boiling in anger. The red was sweeping across his cheeks while Sora was holding his hand to calm him down. Yamato sighed and gave his girl a kiss on the cheek and looked at him with stern eyes.

"Taichi, I know that you didn't want to come here but since you did anyway I won't yell at you," he paused as he regained his composure and received a smile from Sora.

"Now since all of us are here, we can begin our friendly game of soccer. I know it's been a while since we played but with effort we can do it just like old times," he concluded with a smile forming on his face.

The rest of the group nodded and proceeded to get ready for the big three v. three exhibition match. Taichi smiled then nodded. He reached in his pocket and pulled out an old digivice.

"Sora, Yamato, Takeru, Hikari, and Daisuke." he paused as they turned around to face him with questioning eyes.

He smiled and continued, "I'm resigning as leader of the digidestined."

They all looked at him in shock and even in more shock as he threw the digivice at the feet of Yamato. Daisuke was the first to break out of the coma-like state.

"W-W-Why?" Daisuke stuttered.

Taichi turned around to look at the sunset. The way the sun's rays reflected every fiber on Taichi's hair gave it an almost ethereal look. For a moment, the digidestined thought he was glowing. He sighed peacefully and turned back around.

"I've decided to do some exploring with Agumon. We're going to be out for a while and there would be no need for me to continue as leader if I'm going to be out for a long time. I've already talked it up with Gennai and he seemed to not have any problems with me doing this. Of course, my parents were a different story. I had to practically coax them and tell them that I will write and call them as soon as possible. Once we've finished here then we're off to the digital world," he paused as his sister started to sniff.

He walked up to her and hugged her. Hikari looked up at him and the tears were starting to fall down.

"Why are you doing this, Taichi?" she asked through muffled sobs.

He gazed at her face with somber eyes.

"I've discovered that there's more out there for me. A call perhaps that beckons me to venture forth, out into the unknown. I'm really sorry Kari," he sighed.

She nodded and left his embrace. Yamato fake coughed which got everyone's attention and looked directly at his ex-leader.

"So, since you are leaving on an adventure, who is going to take your place as leader of the destined?" he asked.

Taichi glared at him briefly, before he shook it off noticing Sora's glance.

"Yamato you should definitely know that it's you that will take the place as leader since you were my second in-command. I hope you're ha-," he paused in shock as he saw Yamato grin and made a 'yes' gesture.

Taichi sighed and turned around.

"I'm leaving tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m., so I had to see you guys one last time. I hope there will be a chance that I will see you again but I won't make any promises except to my parents. Digidestined, farewell!"

And after he took in his friends and former teammates one last time, he ran out of the soccer field and also out of their lives.

Chapter One End...