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Hihi everyone!! This is a new story!! Cool, huh? I know, what happened to not writing two stories at once? Well, you see, I got this great idea and said to myself, "Screw my rules!!"

I do not own Digimon. Someone else does. I am not making any money.

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Phantastic-Part One Awakening

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"Wake up, everyone!!" Tai marched around the Digidestined's camp yelling this, trying to wake everyone. His loud screaming had proved effective in the past, and with Agumon helping this morning, things were going a lot quicker.

The blonde rolled over uncomfortably. "Shut up, Tai.." he mumbled sleepily. In any case, Tai didn't shut his yap so Matt decided it would be best to be awake and hear the secreaming, than try to sleep through it. He sat up and yawned. He could tell it was going to be one of those days...

Tai's little parade then circled back towards Matt, still yelling. Tai headed over to where Matt was sitting up. 'Great, everyone is awake but he just wants to make sure.' Matt thought to himself angrilly. Tai stood beside the sitting form of Matt.

"Get up, Matt!!" Tai yelled especially loud this time. Matt then stood up and turned to face Tai.

"I'm already awake!" This time, it was Matt's turn to yell. "Tai?" To Matt's suprise, Tai didn't flinch. The boy had totally ignored him. Tai continued yelling for Matt to awaken. "Tai, come on!! I'm right here!!" Now he was feeling a bit scared as the other child walked straight through him. Then, he turned to where he had been lying. His body was still there, asleep. But then how was the rest of him awake?

He raised a shaking hand to his face. He could see right through it.

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"Hah!!" Phantismon laughed. "This is rich!!" The phantom Digimon was having a grand ole time yucking it up as he peered through his looking glass. "Silly boy..." he smirked as he watched the confused blonde's being wander around, trying to get his friends' attention. "Hah...the child of friendship has unwittingly stepped right out of his body..."

Phantismon sat down in his throne and picked up his glass of wine. "It was brilliant of me to release him from his body..." He told himself proudly. "Now, it is only a matter of time..."

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"Matt!! Get up!! You can't fool me, I know you're awake!!" Tai was bent down screaming in the sleeping blonde's ear.

"Matt?" Gabumon carefully shook his friend. "Matt are you awake?" Tai sighed. If Gabumon could wake him like that, it would be too embarrassing to bear.

"What's going on?" Sora asked as she walked over to Tai, Agumon and Gabumon.

"Matt isn't up yet?" Joe asked, following Sora over. Tai merely looked at them. Then he looked back down to Gabumon who was still shaking Matt and asking him to wake up.

"Is it just me, or is Matt sleeping like a rock lately?" Joe asked sarcastically.

"Let's hope it's just that.." Sora said quietly while turning to look at Tk and Izzy, who was showing TK, Mimi and Kari somthing on his laptop.

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"Guys!! Here I am!!" Matt was waving his arms frantically and yelling at his friends, but he couldn't get their attention. All of his friends were gathered around his body, desperately trying to wake him. He sadly turned away, and decided that nobody could hear or see him. Suddenly he perked up as he heard his brother's voice. "TK!! TK will be able to see me!!" he told himself hopefully.

Matt looked around. There!! There was TK!! He was with Izzy, Mimi, and Kari!! Matt walked a little closer to the group. "TK!!" he said loudly. "Can you hear me, TK?" To his suprise, his little brother turned around.

"Hey Matt!!" he yelled. The boy almost cried. Could TK actually see him?!

"TK!! Can you see me?" he called desperatley. TK didn't make a move.

"UH!! He's still asleep TK!!" Sora assured him from a ways away. TK sighed.

"Okay..I thought he'd be awake by now..." TK told her. "I wanted him to see this cool thing Izzy can do on his computer," TK said.

"We'll tell you when he wakes up!!" Tai called back nervously. "Phew," Tai said as he whirled back around. "That was close." Matt peeked over Tai's shoulder. He couldn't really see anything, though.

"So what do we do?" Tai asked as he looked at Joe.

"What do you do?! What am I supposed to do?!" Matt yelled angrily.

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Joe bent down to examine his friend. He checked the boy over carefully before he spoke. "Well, he's not dead."

Tai gave an exasperated sigh. "I think we got that..."

"But then why won't he wake up? Is he sick?" Sora looked down at the peacefully sleeping Matt with a concerned look on her face.

"Izzy!! Hey Iz-!!" Tai began to yell for his friend but Joe clapped a hand over his mouth.

"What are you trying to do?! Get TK worried?!" Joe told him.

"Sorry, I just thought he could help!!" Tai answered in a disgruntled tone.

It was too late. Izzy looked up from his laptop. "Tai? Did you call me?"

"Yeah!! Could you come over here fora sec?!" Izzy sighed and closed his laptop. Slowly he got up and came over to the little huddled group.

"Is everything okay?" the red-head asked. Tai took a nervous glance around before backing away to reveal the sleeping form of Matt. "Matt's still asleep? I didn't think he was one to stay in bed all day..."

"That's the problem!! He won't wake up!!" Joe exclaimed. The others stuck their fingers to their mouths shushing Joe.

"Not so loud!!"

"Sorry..."

"Hmmm..." Izzy kneeled down as he mumbled to himself: "he doesn't appear to be sick or have anything wrong with him..." Joe also kneeled down.

"That's the part that gets me!!"

"Well, what shoould we do?" Sora asked the others.

"Assuming that you already tried to wake him up..." Izzy stated, "I guess we just have to wait for him to wake up." Tai sighed.

"So, what do we do until then?" His friends only shrugged. "I guess thats a big 'We dont know'..."

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Matt sighed. This was terrible. How was he ever going to get back into his body?! He was only half of himself. Could he get back?! What would happen to the rest of him?! These and other questions floated around in his mind as he sat leened against a tree, not far from his friends. He watched in silence as they worried over him and tried countless times to wake him. "How are they going to wake me? I'm over here..." he said aloud.

"Good question, my boy..." Matt jerked at the soud of a voice behind him. He hurridley got up and faced the tree he had been leaned against. "Suprised that I can see and hear you?" The blonde shivered.

"Who are you?!" he demanded. "Did you do this to me?!" The stillness that followed was then disturbed as a phantom-like Digimon emerged from the tree in front of him. It smirked as it stepped out and stood at full height, which was a little bigger than Matt. Matt's expression twisted as he watched the Digimon step closer to him. The Digimon looked much like a human boy, only his skin was a deadly pale color, along with his hair. His narrow purple eyes could almost cut through steel with their gaze. The Digimon's attire was a modest combination of a sleeveless white shirt and long baggy indigo pants. The Digimon calmly brushed away a clump of hair covering one of his eyes, only to have it fall right back into place. He laughed as he could tell the boy opposite him was begining to sweat.

"I am Phantismon. Yes is my answer." The blonde stepped back. "You asked, didn't you?" Matt nodded slowly. "I merely released your being from your shell." Matt was silent. "Do you not care for your current state?" Matt didn't answer. "I assumed that you would be honored to observe your friends from such a vantage point."

"I'd rather be back in my body right now," Matt told him harshly. Phantismon's smirk grew wider.

"Do you not see how they fuss over you?" Matt turned and looked back longinly at his friends and his body. Tai, Sora, Joe, and Izzy stood over him trying anything they could think to revive him. Matt sighed.

Phantismon then began to walk towards his friends. "Where are you going?" Matt asked him.

"Why to greet your friends, of course."

"But they can't see either of us, can they?"

"Maybe not you," Phantismon grinned sneakily, "I am both shell and being and may switch from either form at my choosing. Your being is inside of you shell so others may see and communicate with you. When you are outside of your shell, you are not visible or audible."

"Why is that?" he asked.

"Your being is on a different plain than your shell. When you are in your shell, you are maintained in another plain. When out of your shell, you are sent back to another plain. We are on the same plain currently."

"Why don't you just put me back in my body now, so we can all go home okay?" Phantismon shook his head.

"This cannot be arranged currently."

"Why?"

"Because, I do not wish your return yet." With these final words Phantismon snapped his fingers and became solid. Sadly he watched as his friends' attention was called to the being.

"He had better not hurt them..." Matt growled as he watched their conversation.

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Tai, Joe, Sora, and Izzy swirled around simoultaineously as a Digimon caught the corner of their eye. Mimi, TK, and Kari's attention was also called to the visitor who had seemingly appeared out of thin air. The Digimon, who were scattered, scampered to their partners, except for Gabumon who stood by his sleeping friend.

"Who are you?" Tai ordered the Digimon. The Digimon only laughed. "What's so funny?"

"Nothing you could comprehend, boy..." This remark made Tai writhe with anger. "And I may be called Phantismon."

"What do you want with us?" Mimi asked him.

"That is no concern of yours," he told her while brushing some hair from his face. He extended his arm elegently and curved his hand as a long staff appeared in it. The long blue staff had several feathers tied on it near the top where a large curved blade sat.

"Now, I suggest you step away from that boy." He pointed directly at Matt's sleeping form as he announced this.

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'He's going to kill my body!!'

"NO!!" Matt yelled as he ran at Phantismon. Unfortunately, he was completely helpless to stop Phantismon, as he passed straigt through the Digimon with his fist outstretched. All he could do was fall to his knees and watch the events unfold.

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TK's face held a shocked expression as Phantismon pointed. The Digimon held the same smirk on his face all through their encounter. Slowly he lowered his pointing finger.

"Your friend cries out..." Phantismon said as he looked back to where Matt's being was located on his knees. Since no one else was aware of Matt but Phantismon, they were totally confused.

"What do you mean?" Sora asked him. This amused Phantismon who laughed at her "ignorance."

"Silly girl," he chuckled, "your friend is worried for you and yet you fail to realize it. He must be very hurt." Phantismon could no longer hold his laughter and burst out in hysterics at these children.

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Watching Phantismon's hysterics was about all he could stand. "You coward!!" He cried angrily: "Come fight me and prove how great you are!!" Matt was beyond enraged at this Digimon. "I'll put a stop to you!!" Matt yelled at the solid form of Phantismon. Matt clenched his fist tightly and prepared himself to kick some phantom-butt.

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Phantismon halted his laughter, suddenly and his expression hardend like plaster of paris. Tai took a step closer to Agumon. "What's he doing?" Agumon whispered in Tai's ear. Tai shook his head.

"Hmmm...it seems your friend has challenged me to a duel." The Digimon and Digidestined's faces held expressions of pure confusion.

"Your friend wishes to defend his shell." After that statement, the gears in Izzy's brain began to turn at high speeds. "I shall return once I have dealt with his ignorance."

No one moved as Phantismon pointed his sharp staff to the position of Matt's being. "You have made a mistake." he stated gravely as he disappeared.

"Matt..." TK whispered as Phantismon vanished.

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Wow!! That was fun ta write!! I hope you people liked it!! Anyhow, whichever story I write a part for next will depend on my mood....and how much homework I have...heh, ^_^;;

Thanks for reading everyone, and don't forget to review!! If you do forget to review, I won't hold it against you this time...~^-^~