A lone Digi Destined

by Demino

AU: Tai never went to the digital world with the group from 01, now three years later, he's no longer friends with Sora, his family bond with his sister is falling apart, and just as it can't get worse, he's called into the digital world to fight a growin

1. Part I

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.

Summery: AU, Taichi, despite having a somewhat nice life, finds that he and his sister a drifting apart, his digimon partner had returned in another form, and he keeps getting this pain in his chest and dreams of darkness. Will he be lost in it forever, or will his friends come through and save him before it's too late.

Special Notes:

Tai:  13 years old.

Jun:  13 years old.

Mimi: 13 years old.

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    A lone Digi Destined

         Part I

A small adventure for starters

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The sand, it was everywhere around him, he could hear his friends screams as they were tossed around as rag dolls, and above it all came that dark and cold laughter as another blow hammered into them. Struggling to get up, he could see his digimon barely holding on to his current level and fighting power. "Metalgreymon, do it now!!"

"JewelBeemon help them."

"Cyberdramon, quick hit him from the left."

He didn't know if his digimon had heard him or if he had just acted on some impulse, but still it was more then enough to lift his spirits as the claws tore through the back of the floating Virus digimon, the scream that came from it's mouth as it tumble over and blew up in a cloud of digital information that flew away in the harsh desert wind, and then there was only silence as his own injuries showed just how badly he had been hurt in the battle, the pain spreading through his chest as he saw the youngest one of them, Ken push the oldest kid Ryo out of the way just to get hit by a small black thing in his neck, a thing that had been heading straight towards the older boy.

The look on Ryo's face as both of them tumbled to the ground scared him, he didn't know what it was he saw, but from the looks of it, it wasn't good, it wasn't good at all.

"Gennai!! Someone get some help quick, Ken... Tai... What's wrong with you! Wormmon, Cyberdramon, what happened to the digimon? Did we beat him? Hey, where's Agumon?"

Sitting up in his bed, the 13-year-old child held a hand up to his forehead as he felt his heart pound away as if it was going to burn out any minute. Then it was all over and he fell back down in his bed, the sweat soaked pillow and the mop of hair on his head taking the worst of the impact it would have been if they hadn't been there. "Just a dream, it was just a dream. Everything is still okay." Smiling as he closed his eyes. "It was just a dream."

On the table inside the room, his computer turned on by itself and a series of numbers and letters flashed across the screen in a flurry of lines, then they twisted to form a horrible and dark face, the red eyes turning to stare at the boy sleeping in the bed. "Yagami... Yagami... Taichi Yagami..."

His eyes opening, Tai turned his head and stared down at the computer, confusion clear on his face as he saw the form of an e-mail blinking on the screen. "Wha... Kari, this had better not be one of your jokes." Crawling out of the bed, he nearly stumbled as he missed one of the steps. Ignoring the sleeping form of his sister on the bed, he walked over and stared more closely at the computer screen. "What, it's for me, but who would send me a e-mail at." Staring quickly at the clock down in the corner of the computer, Tai blinked when it made no sense to him. "Great, now the computer's getting weird on me." Returning his stare to the computer, Tai blinked when he noticed just what it said.

To: King-of-all-soccer-matches

From: Digimon-master.

Subject: Your digimon partner.

Taichi Yagami.

Greetings Taichi Yagami, I am called the digimon Master, I'm sending you this E-mail to tell you that your partner digimon has been reborn and is waiting for you at the primary village, the place were all digimon's go to be reborn. But a great danger is headed towards Pirmary village, and your help in protecting your digimon and the village will be needed.

If you trust what I'm telling you, download the program that is attached it's the latest in Digital gate programs and will allow you to enter the digital world of your own free will. The only thing you will need is your digivice.

And before you ask, your digivice is under your bed hidden in the upper left corner.

Trust me.

Your Friend,

The Digimon Master.

Staring a the E-mail, Tai closed his eyes and tried to banish the memory of the small Koromon he had met all those years ago in the digital world, it was doing his sisters own adventure in the digital world that he, Ken and another boy he hadn't know a the time had been called in to stop a dangerous digimon called Milleniummon, his sister hadn't believed him, and since he couldn't find his digivice, he hadn't been able to prove it.

Reaching down towards the bed, Tai stuck his arm in and frowned when he hit one of Miko's old chew toys and a single spider web, finally his hand brushed into the flat square form of his digivice. As he slowly pulled it out from under it, he wondered how he could have missed seeing it for so long. Then he was staring at the small white device in his hand and the black screen with the small crack running through it from the last battle, and the last time he had seen. A single tear moved down his left cheek as he tunred and held out the digivice to the screen in front of him. "Agumon was still alive, but how, Milleniummon had deleted his partner, but still, if Agumon was still out there, he would help his friend no matter what."

Downloading the program, Tai stared at the screen as it installed and opened the program, a red-brown box forming with a small image of a villageina  small wind field on the left side of the box, on the right were a red and green field, the green one lit with the word "Open" flashing below both bars. Remembering that he should hold up his digivice to the screen, he grabbed his goggles and snapped them around his head in one move. "I'm coming Agumon." Everything dissolved into a bright white light at those words as his digivice opened the gate for him.

As the light died down, Kari sat up in her bed and stared around the room, her eyes heavy with sleep, and a strange stuffed toy cat in her arms. "Tai. That you?" Turning her head, she stared at the black screen of the computer and shrugged, he must have stepped out to get something to drink or use the bathroom as usual, sleep claimed her again as she dreamed of meeting her partner Gatomon again someday, a stuffed version of her just wasn't the same thing.

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Landing, Tai decided silently inside his, was something that this Digimon Master really needed to improve on if he expected him to use that gate more often, the fact that he had to land in the middle of a grass field with nothing but an endless field of small cribs and digieggs to stare at, didn't really improve on his mood. In fact, it did a great deal to darken it as he was still tired, cranky from getting dropped face first into the ground and on top of it all, he was only dressed in his boxers.

Standing up from the ground with a scowl on his face, he noticed that for someone wearing only boxers, he wasn't feeling that much of a cold draft anywhere. Looking down, he blinked at the sight of the strangest outfit he had ever seen on him, while it look a little strange to him it felt a lot better then running around almost naked. Staring a the brown cargo pants and the sleeveless blue turtle neck he was now dressed instead of his boxers, he scratched his head as confusion really settled in. "This didn't happen the last time I was here."  

Ignoring the clothes question as it was getting to be too much for him to handle at the moment, Tai settled for finding out where he was at the moment. If he remembered right, the endless field of digi cribs and eggs could only mean that he was back in primary village, but why had he ended up here, shouldn't he have gone to where Agumon were in this world?

Lifting up his digivice, he turned slowly around and stared at the screen with a confused look o his face, his digimon was somewhere here, that much he could be sure, he would have been dropped off somewhere near him. But, where was he then, staring at the number of Cribs and the curious small digimon babies staring at him with wide eyes Tai could feel his determination weaver in the face of the rather giant task it would be to find a single digimon among them. Smiling down at a small black onion shape digimon with green leaves on the head right before him, he grinned when he saw it smile back at him. "You wouldn't happen to have seen my digimon partner around here would you, he's either a Botamon or an Koromon unless he has digivolved into his rookie form already."

Looking up at him, it blinked the large eyes and blew out a few bubbles, ruffling the brown mop of hair on Tai's head. "I'm sorry, I've just hatched a day ago, so I don't know that many digimon's here." Blowing out some more bubbles to ruffle Tai hair, it began to pounce up and down in the small crib. "Try Elecmon, he knows every digimon born in Primary Village."

Smiling at the hyperactive small digimon as blew some bubble at him, he pocketed his digivice and looked around the village, trying to figure out where this Elecmon could be. Turning back to look a the small digimon as it stopped hopping, he smiled at it as he settled down to nuzzle it. "Thank you, can you tell me where Elecmon is."

Jumpinging up and pointing one of it's green leave to the west, it began to giggle in happiness. "He went that way, towards the river to fish." Landing in the crib, it smiled up at Tai and followed him with its eyes as the brown haired boy turned to face the direction he had just been pointed towards.

Staring at the edge of the village and towards the forest, Tai nodded as he stood up and ran a hand trough his hair, smoothing out the damage done to it by the bubbles and returning it to it's normal spiky style. "That way huh." Clenching his hands and nodding to himself, Tai turned and gave a quick farewell smile to the small digimon. "Thank you." Then he began to run towards the forest.

Sitting in a shadow high above the village on one of the stable boxes towers, a small bowling ball shaped digimon eyes followed the sight of the human boy as he ran away from the digimon in the crip, his brown hair waving in the air as he started to pick up speed in his run towards the forest. Closing his eyes, the small digimon sitting on the tower of cubes smiled. "So, that's the one I should attack, well, it shouldn't take too long, and who knows, I might even get some fun out of it." Diving down from the tower, it pulled out a small dart from no where and aimed it at a crip nearby the boy. "This should get his attention, Demi Dart!"

The sudden sound of a digimon baby screaming out in terror and pain nearby caused Tai to stop his run and spin around to stare up a the digimon hovering in the air and laughing as a cloud of digital data floated up into the sky around it. The shape of the digimon was ball shaped and a pair of torn up leather wings poked out of the side of it and small two toed legs handhing , a small mask drawn down over the top of the head, turning around in the air to face him, a pair of yellow eyes locked onto Tai from under the leather mask it more, then it mouth carcked into a smile as flew closer to him. "Well, well. I haven't seen someone like you around here before."

Glaring at the flying bowling ball of a digimon with a dark look on his face, Tai clenched his digivice tightly in his pocket as his eye narrowed in anger over what he had just be a witness too. "How dare you... That was just a baby... It couldn't even defend itself against you!" Anger clear in his voice as he spoke, Tai pointed a finger a tthe flying Digimon.

Flapping it's wings and flying a bit higher up, the digimon stared down a the human boy before him with a curios look on his face, as his eyes an face took on a more smug expression as he was now was well out of the boys range. "Well, I just didn't like the way he looked, just as I don't like the way you look." Turning around, the small digimon lifted up it's left leg, letting the small dark held between the claws of it foot glint in the sunlight. "Demi Dart!"

"Bubble Blow!"

Yelping out in surprise as the bubbles pelted into his face and blinding him momentarily, Demidevimon let lose the Demi dart attack in shick and struck the empty crib under him instead. Flapping his wings and fighting to regain his balance, the yellow eyes of the digimon snapped open and looked around the place with narrowed eyes. "How dare you, I'll skin ya for that you little twerp."

Jumping past a few cribs, a small white form landed protectively in front of Tai, the eyes of the Fresh level digimon glaring up a the Rookie level virus digimon hovering above them. "Taichi, you no hurt Taichi. Bubble Blow!" Another series of bubble shot out of its mouth and hit the surprised Demidevimon right out, but did nothing to him except anger him.

Behind the digimon, Tai stared down at the small white digimon as it ducked to avoid a demi dart aimed right for the center of it's body, sending out another spray of bubble to pelt the stronger Rookie above it. There was something so familiar about it, something in the way it talked; even if was just a Fresh digimon. "Agumon?"

Ducking another demidark, the white digimon began to bounce towards Tai, the eyes staring up at him with a pleading look as it moved towards him, the black eyes twinkling with happiness and worry over seeing him again. "Tai, Taichi, come back, me glad." Landing before him, the white body turned around to face the dive-bombing DemiDevimon. "Bubble Blow!"

Flying right through the bubbles, the evil digimon pulled up and sent the demi dart towards the ground, right towards the white digimon standing protectively before Tai, sending out a spray of bubble that all popped as soon as they hit the dart. "No don't, Agumon!" Reaching out with his arm, Tai heard a sudden high pitched whine coming from the pocket where he had dropped his digivice, Turning to look a the digimon again, he blinked as it spun around and glowed a bright white.

"SnowBotamon digivolve too... Nyaromon" Breaking out of the white ball of light, the white digimon had been replaced with a yellow ball with small cat ears and a shot tail with purple markings on it, Looking up a the Demi Dart with narrowed eyes, the new digimon pulled in a breath of air and then blew it out. "Bubble Blow!" Each bubble shooting out and popping as it hit the dart.

Laughing from the air, Demidevimon stared down at the new digimon and closed his eyes. "Ha, haven't you learned that your stupid bubble can't stop my darts." Then his eyes snapped opened when he didn't hear the sound of the digimon screaming out in pain as his dart deleted it forever, then his eyes looked from the smug boy to the digimon before him, and then finally to the Dart sticking out of the ground. "Wha, how?"

Staring up at the puzzled Rookie digimon, Nyaromon stuck out his tongue at the bowling ball shaped digimon as he jumped forward to get a bit closer to him. "My bubbles are stronger now, and nothing can stop me from protecting Tai." Glaring up at the shocked digimon hovering above him, he drew in some more air and sent it out towards Demidevimon as hard as he could. "Bubble Blow."

Still shocked, Demidevimon was completely unprepared when the bubble hit him, and began to push him backwards in the air, sending him spiraling down towards the did crib filled ground, pulling up as hard as he could, he only graced one of the cribs and then wobbling a bit he moved up in the air and turned to stare down at the two who had dared to hurt him. "Why you!" Only to see a shadow jump up at him.

Staring at the bowling ball shaped bat like digimon as it fell downwards to a few meters over the ground, the wings beating hard to try and break the fall, he smiled and bounced forward in a sudden speed attack, his small yellow and red tail whipping up and down with each hop he made. Getting with in a meters distance of the still un recovered digimon, he jumped up when it finally pulled out the fall a meter over the ground, and enjoyed the wide eyes staring at him when it finally spotted him. "Tail Whip." Falling down on the other side of Demidevimon, he smirked when he saw the red mark across the black face, it length and thickness a precise match for his tail.

Hovering in the air, the digimon finally turned and stared down at the digimon, his red eyes almost glowing with anger as he flapped out of Nyaromon's reach again. "You'll regret that fuzz ball." Looking at the number of scared digibabies around him, he smiled and swooped over to hand above the first set of cribs. "Evil Whisper!" A series of rings shot out from his eyes and mouth, and washed over the cribs, turning all the eyes of the digimons blood red, turning around from the digibabies, he repeated the attack on the other cribs around them, getting several dozen more of the digibabies under his control. "Let's see you handle this one fuzz ball, Attack her!"

Tai reacted on an inner impulse as he began to race forward, every single bit of him wanting to help the digimon before it was overpowered and killed by the other digimons. Grabbing the crib belonging to the digimon that had been deleted when he passed it earlier, he looked up and took a careful aim for the bowling ball shaped body, and tossed the small wooden thing through the air as hard as he could.

On the ground, Nyaromon yelped as he was suddenly pelted with bubbles from several directions at once, each of them leaving a smarting feeling behind as they impacted him, opening one eye, he spotted Demidevimon as the virus digimon turned to face Tai, a demidart glinting in the sun as the digimon hurled it at the boy just as he let go of his own weapon. "Taichi, look out!"

Everything slowed down as Nyaromon rushed forward, ignoring the bubbles still hitting her, her full intent on protecting that, then the dart hit the human boy in the chest, sending him forward with his right hand circled around the dark head of the dart, at the same time, she noted the crib smacking right into the rookie digimon, sending him down at last, or at least for the moment.

Jumping over to look at the human boy, Nyaromon stared up at the sweat covered forehead and the small glass like look in the brown eyes was starting to take on, between the fingers, he held the dart that had hit him, the tip covered with his blood, and a small green drop of some kind of thick and foul smelling liquid running down it. "Poison." His eyes growing, he turned and stared up at the boy's face, the life in his eyes becoming more and more lost for every second. "No Taichi, you can't die, we just met again, I was going to tell you what had happed while you were gone."

Hopping back up to his feet, Demidevimon looked at the sobbing digimon and heavily panting human boy through his only good eyes, the other was closed and had a bright red mark from the crib across it. "Well, serve him right." Looking at the yellow fuzzy head of Nyaromon as it turned around, he smirked at the look of anger in those red eyes of his.

Staring at the virus digimon, Nyaromon had to use every drop of control he had to stop himself from going on a wild rampage and attacking the smirking digimon, instead, he could just stand there and look at him, feeling how his human partners life was fading away. "Damn you, damn you Demidevimon." giving up on his control, the small fuzz ball rushed forward in a mad attempt to get revenge. "Dieeeee!!"

Knocking him aside with his wing, Demidevimon stared at the form of Nyaromon as he smacked into the side of a cube tower, the sound of his yelp of pain the sweetest music to the virus at the moment. "Shut up you little fuzz ball." Turning to get a better view of him, he smiled as he opened his mouth to send another insult out at the other digimon.

"Super Thunder Strike!!"

Turning around and falling on his back as he lost his balance, the last thing Demidevimon saw was a jagged bolt of pure electricity headed straight towards him, then it hammered into him, sending a wave of pure pain through his body. "Noooooooooooo..." Then he exploded into a cloud of digital data that floated up into the sky before it faded away.

Turning his eyes up from the ground, Nyaromon looked right into the eyes of Elecmon as he stared down at him, the eyes showing a little amount of her confuse meant and a lot of anger over the battle that had just taken place in the village that the guardian digimon was supposed to protect from intruders. "I should have guessed it would be you fighting, well, looks like you managed to get up to your in-training stage."

Looking away from the gentle Elecmon that used to take care of her and all the other digi babies, he screamed out in fear when he spotted his partner lying on the ground, his fingers loosely circled around the digivice and the brown eyes seeing nothing at all, the only sign he was still alive was the ragged breath that came from him. "Tai!" Looking at Elecmon, he jumped up into his face and stared directly into his eyes. "Help him, you got to be able to do something."

Staring at the human, Elecmon shook his head as he noted just how far away the boy already was, what ever had happened to him, it was well on its way to killing him. "I'm sorry, I can't do anything, I don't know what's wrong with him, but he wouldn't last long enough for me to find any help."

Staring at his partner, Nyaromon shook his head and then jumped over to land near the boy, his eyes looking into the glazed over eyes of his partner, the spark in them lost for the moment as all his energy went to fight back the poison. "I don't care what it takes, I would give my life for him to become better." Pressing his fuzzy face and body up to him, he wrapped his tail up over the brown haired head in a sign of comfort. "Please pull through this one Tai, for me, please."

Looking at them, Elecmon closed his eyes as he tried to remember someone that might be able to help them, the only digimons nearby was Meramon and Orgemon and both was in a rather dark mood lately so they was out of the question, that left only two others that might be able to help them, Andromon or Sorcerimon for now, most likely Sorcerimon as Andromon couldn't do any magic. Looking back at the digimon and human, he closed is eyes and gave up on fighting his code. "Nyaromon, look after the village, I'll try and find Sorcerimon, he might be able to help. Until then, try to keep him awake, you mustn't let him fall asleep okay"

Looking up at Elecmon, Nyaromon nodded and turned back to stare at Tai. "I will, but Elecmon, try to hurry, I don't think he will be able to hold on for long."

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Curled up inside of himself, Tai tried to force the scene before him out of his mind, ignoring the words coming from the persons before him as they dance around him in the ever shifting corridors and rooms of the dark place, the sudden black floor becoming white under him as the air was filled with the smell of different medications. Not even looking down at himself, Tai could already see that he was back to being just an eight year old kid.

"Tai, how could you!"

The words stung him, but not as much as the hand that smacked him across the face as the woman stopped before him, the face red and full of anger and tears as she looked down at him, the hand still held up in the air from the slap to his cheek.

"How could, you could have killed her Tai."

The words stabbed him as he saw the image of his younger sister, lying on the ground, the fever burning her up. The worry and knowledge that he might have killed her, just because he wanted to play soccer was still a great pain to him. "I didn't mean to, I..."

"You can't help her!"

Turning at the sudden voice from behind him, he blinked when he noticed the small white cat staring at him, the front paws covered by a set of yellow gloves, her blue eyes burrowing into him as her tails moved back and fourth as she continued to just stare at him.

"You would just be in the way, this is only for those who have a digimon partner."

Stepping back at those words, Tai reached down for his digivice, finding nothing but air where it was usually placed before he lost it, heck it should still be there, he found it just a few minutes ago. And he did have a digimon, an Agumon. 

"No you don't, he died in the desert."

Turning to face another person, he blinked when all he saw was a boy his own age, a tall and dangerous looking humanoid dragon digimon standing behind him, it arms crossed over it s chest, just as the boys arms where. "What, who..." Then the face clicked into place and he remembered the name of the boy. "Ryo..." And the digimon behind him, its name flashed through his mind as well. "Cyberdramon."

"You killed him, you killed Agumon when you ordered him to attack a far more powerful digimon."

Shaking his head, Tai covered both his ears and closed his eyes, trying to shut out the painful voice and their accusations towards him, each of the thinsg they said to him, hurting more then the slap he had gotten from his mom back in the hospital, more then when he had been hit with the dart. "Shut up, I didn't kill him, he was my best friend."

"But you did, and you also nearly got Kari killed."

Looking up as the voice almost boomed around in the darkness him, even through his hands was still clapped down over his ears, he could still hear as plainly as if the person had been yelling. Looking up from the ground, he stared at the red haired girl with the blue helmet on her head, her eyes sad and full of tears as she stared at him. "Sora?"

"Tai, how could you, everyone around you gets hurt, your digimon, your sister, what if the next one is me?"

Reaching out a hand from here he sat, Tai tried to fight his way back up to his knees. "No, I won't let anyone hurt you, I promise." Sora's head dropped down as a few tears ran down her cheeks.

"It's not others that I fear, it's you. Don't you see, everyone you are near winds up hurt? I can't be near someone who brings pain and hurt to others."

Slowly, Sora turned around and began to walk away as she was joined by a ghostly image of his sister, looking like she had died all those years ago, and the his partner joined him, his body just a transparent as Kari's, and then his mother and father was walking away from him as well, and no matter what he did, he couldn't get up, he couldn't run after them. "It's not my fault, I didn't mean it!!"

"You hurt everyone around you Tai, so we're leaving before you hurt us."

Dropping both hands down on the ground beneath him, he screamed out all of his fear, his angst and the feeling of loneliness as each image faded away, leaving him alone in the darkness, completely alone with no one or anything around him. "I didn't mean it!!!!" 

The ocean breeze with it salty smell hit him suddenly as the ground beneath him turned into a wet layer of sand that allowed him to sink a bit down. Opening his eyes, he was treated to the sight of an endless surface of a murky black ocean, the sky dark gray and full of black clouds rushing across the sky. "What? Where am I?" Looking around, Tai began to struggle to get up, finding that he still trapped in a kneeling position, his face turned towards the ocean and the sudden waves as they began to move in closer towards him, each one of them splashing him with freezing water. "No, stop it, let me go." The next wave rose up high above him, then it crashed down towards him, pushing him down under a deep and dark world of cold water, pressing in on him, drowning him.

"Tai!…"

"Tai!!..."

"TAI!!!..."

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Sitting straight up in the bed, sending the small digimon sitting on his chest flying along with the blanket, Tai let out a scream of pain and terror as he could still feel the dream burrowing into his mind and soul, then his mouth closed around a silent scream as he no longer had the air to yell out. Dropping back down on the bad as the pain from his chest becaome stronge, Tai finally opened his eyes, taking in his surroundings. "Where am I?"

"At my house."

Turning his head, Tai stared at the digimon standing in the doorway, a huge white wizard's hat on his head, matiching the white clothes he was wearing, behind the digimon stood a smaller one, this one was walking on all fours and were covered in yellow fur, his eyes staring at him and then nodding in agreement to whatever it was they had just discussed. "Well, if you don't need me anymore Sorcerimon, I'll be getting back to Primery village." Turning around as the gloved hand waved him off, Elecmon rushed out the door.

Walking over to place a gloved hand on the brown haired boy's forehead, Sorcerimon nodded and looked down as an yellow blur jumped back up on the boys chest to stay near her partner. "Well, his fever has gone down, and the poison is nearly gone from his system." Standing up and turning around, the wizard type digimon walked over to lift up a cup from the table. "Just a bit more of this potion and he should be completely cured, but he'll still need to relax and take it easy, the poison did a bit of damage to his system that will take some time to heal."

Helping Tai up in a sitting position, he held the cup up to the lips of the boy and began to pour the first few drops of the concoction into his mouth, watching as the boy's eyes narrowed and showed just how bad the medicine taste, he couldn't help but crack a smile at the comical expression. Then he pulled the cup away and allowed to boy cough all he wanted. "Try to get some more rest, and you too Nyaromon."

Not waiting for an answer, Sorcerimon had already turned around and left the room, his boots making a soft thumping sound on the floor as he walked across the wooden planks, the cup placed back on the table as he passed by it. "I'll look in on you two in a an hour, until then I want the both of you to get some sleep."

The small red eyes Of Nyaromon glowed with concern for the boy as he looked up at the human boy, his tail twitching back and fourth as he moved closer to the brown haired head and began to nuzzle his chin against it. "Taichi, I thought you were gone, don't you ever scare me like that again you hear." Watching and feeling how the boy's chest moved under her, she closed her own eyes, and began to doze off.

Still having the foul taste from the brew in his mouth, Tai flicked his tongue over his dry lips and tried to ignore the small voice at the back of his mind, still screaming that he hurt everyone around him, still it was getting louder the more sleepy he was becoming, and it was getting harder to ignore it as well. "No, I didn't mean... I didn't know... Please... Don't leave... me..." And then it came back, the dream.

Looking up from where he was lying on the boy's chest, Nyaromon looked on the boy as he frowned and mumbled something in his sleep, his eyes moving from side to side under his eyelids. "A nightmare." Pressing up against the boy, he rubbed his chin against Tai's, trying to comfort the boy as much as he could hoping that his partner would be able to sleep more peacefully from it.

Behind her, the door opened and Sorcerimon returned, carrying a book and a small blanket, turning around, he stared at the yellow cat head with the tail that was Nyaromon and lifted up his hands, a glowing ball of blue light forming, the power from it lulling the In-training digimon to sleep as well. "I'm sorry, but it has to be this way, his presence reveals a great darkness in the future."

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"Tai!"

Rolling over on his side and ignoring the loud voice yelling at him, Tai met the fate of falling a short distant as whatever he was lying on just didn't support him anymore. Rubbing the growing bump on his head as he opened his eyes, Tai found himself staring up a wooden surface with a few screws holding firmly in place on the wooden leg. "Wha... Where am I?" Looking around more closely, he notice that he was lying under the table in the living room, the couch still holding his left leg up in the air. {Wha... what am I doing here, where's Nyaromon?} Looking at the ruffled pillows on the couch, he hung his head down. {Just a dream... Just a dream as usual..."

A pair of legs wearing a pink pj stepped into view, followed by a face framed by soft light brown hair. "Kari." The brown eyes staring down at him with a look of laughter in them as she reached down and grabbed his hand, pulling him up from the floor. "What happened?" Asking the question, Tai rubbed the bump on his head as he looked around the room, his parents wasn't up yet, so he might not get yelled at for sleeping on the couch.

Looking at him as she rearranged the couch cushions to look like no one had slept on them, she turned and looked at Tai, her eyes showing just how stupid she thought the question was. Dropping the last pillow down near the armrest, she turned around and began to push her big brother towards the bedroom. "You fell asleep on the couch last night." Seeing a second question forming on his lips, she shook her head and pointed at their room. "Later Tai, right now, we both have to get ready for school." Rushing into the bathroom, she slammed the door in his face.

Sighing at the prospect of spending a fine warm day such as they one they were having right now, inside a stuffy room listing to the constant babble of teachers and other students didn't really fit in with what he wanted to do, he would much rather be outside in a green field doing a few soccer tricks. Stopping as he stepped in and grabbed his shirt, he began to pull the top of his off when a sudden sharp sting ran through his chest at the movement. Pulling the garment completely off, he dropped it on the floor and stared at the small red welt near is heart, right there were. "Demidevimon, but that was a dream right?"

"Tai, why are you yelling, are you okay?"

The knocking and voice coming from the door forced the brown haired boy to ignore the matter for now and instead focus on finding the clothes he needed for the day. Besides, there was no way he going to let his mum see that, she wouldn't let him leave the apartment if she did, and that was the one thing worse then being stuck in school on a day like this, stuck inside the apartment. no, it was better to hide and try ad make some sense of it later. "It's okay mum, I just stepped on something that's all."

Turning away from the closet and pulling out his trusted old blue shirt with the yellow star on the chest, he reached down for his brown shorts when a soft bump on the floor made him look away from what he was doing. "What the." Reaching down and picking up the small, square device, Tai stared at the cracked screen with a puzzle look. "My digivice, but... Okay. What's going here?"

The sound of the door opening brought him out of his thoughts and face to face with his sister as she poked her head around the door, her eyes staring at him standing there with the pants from his PJ and a blue shirt on. "Haven't you gotten further then that, we only have one hour before school starts you know." Opening the door, she walked in and opened the door to her side of the closet. "Well, you better hurry if you want to have a shower before leaving."

Looking down at the device in his hands as his spoke to him, Tai nodded and stuffed it into the pocket off his shorts. Passing his sister, he stopped and looked at her. "Kari, can we talk later, it's kinda important."

Looking over her shoulder, his little sister stared harder at him, her eyes a bit wider from her surprise over hearing that. "You want to talk with me, are you sick, we haven't really talked since that summer 3 years ago." Fully turned around, Kari was giving a concerned stare at him.

Eyes flashing a bit at the comment, Tai turned around and opened the door, stepping out into the corridor in a hurry, a small amount of anger clearly showing in the way he moved. "So what, you were the one who suddenly didn't have that much time to talk anymore, remember." Closing the door, he ignored the shocked and hurt look on his sister face as he walked down towards the bathroom. "Mum, I'm taking a shower."

Hearing her son talking to her, Mrs. Yagami poked her head around the kitchen doorway, looking at Tai with as she pulled a small spoon out from her, and held it one hand as she gave him a parental stare. "You look tense Tai, are you sure our okay?" Walking completely out of the kitchen and up to her son, she grabbed his shoulder and pushed her hand towards his forehead. "Well, you don't feel hot, and your face isn't flushed." Stepping back and waving the spoon in a mock treating way, she looked at the brown haired boy with a big smile. "Okay, you're off the hook Tai, go take your shower, and when you come out, I'll give an extra big helping of the new health breakfast I've made."

Staring at his mother with a sudden sick look on his face, Tai turned around to enter the bathroom, suddenly getting the desire to spend more then half the morning in the bath, it would be worth it, just to avoid another new health recipe from his mother. Pulling off his clothes, he stopped and stared down at the red welt, running a finger over it as he stared at his reflection in the mirror. "Could, it have been real after all." Looking down at his brown short lying on the hamper, he could clearly make out the shape of the small device hidden in the back pocket. "Nyaromon, Agumon, could she be him, but how."

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Looking up from his place on the table, Nyaromon stared at the Sorcerimon talking in a hushed pace with a man, both of them were looking at him and then talking some more when they stopped looking, and to be honest, it as starting to get on his nerves to hear someone talk about him as if he wasn't even there, and just why did they have to cross all the way from File Island to Server, was it just so they could talk to this man.

Stepping away from the man, Sorcerimon shook his head and lifted up his staff to inspect it, shooting a quick and concerned look at Nyaromon as he walked past the table to get out of the house. Stopping in the doorway, he looked back at the man and sighed. "Be careful Gennai, that this boy could return to the digital world like that could mean a lot of trouble for all of us if he's the one." Pushing opened the door into the room at the words, Sorcerimon stopped to hear if the man would leave a last comment or answer to his unspoken question.

Turning completely around, Gennai nodded and walked over to stare down at the small digimon on the table, petting her on the head as he walked past him, his eyes showing the concern in his heart and mind. "I know, things are still out of balance, the Digital Gods still are still trapped, and there are rumors of another human wandering the digital world." His guest twitched at the sounds and clenched his staff a bit harder then he really needed too.

Pushing the button to part the waters of the lake outside the house, Sorcerimon eyes took on a distant and far away look as he walked out into the garden and over to the stairs. "We must prepare then, something is coming, and it's not going to be pretty." Walking up the stairs, he turned his head around the lush green field above the lake and found that no one had seen him come up. "I must find Leomon and the others, we can't let something like this happened without being prepared."

Turning to the west and walking towards the forest leading in the direction towards File Island and his home, he kept going over the words from their conversation in his head, One human could be a fluke in the system, but two, that is if the rumors were true at all, could they be here to fight off some great evil again, another monster like Devimon, or the Dark Masters. "No! I won't let something like that happen again, I..." Stopping his talk, the wizard type digimon looked up and stared long and hard at the black colored spire rising a great deal above the trees around it. "What is that thing."

"A control Spire, me dear servant."

Turning around at the cold and evil voice, Sorcerimon lifted his staff to protect himself if the stranger wanted to fight, and stopped at hwat he came face to face with the open mouth of a Blacktyrannomon, and standing on the back of this huge digimon was. "A human." Nearly dropping his staff, Sorcerimon stared at the strangely dressed boy, a split blue cape with gold trimmings and a tight blue body suit with gold and white stripes on it, a pair of dark glasses covered his eyes and his hair was a mess of spikes. "Are you the one who planted that black thing here?"

Snorting at the sound, the boy lifted up a whip and cracked it trough the air, knocking the white hat off of Sorcerimons's head with an ease from weeks of practice, a cold sneer on his face as the whip moved back to dangle in the air next to him. "A servant shouldn't talk back to his Kaizer." The whip cracked out again, drawing a yelp of pain from Sorcerimon as it hit him on the shoulder.

Dropping back and reaching down for his hat, Sorcerimon's eyes flashed with fury at the way this human had dared to attack him, it was true after all, whenever humans showed up, things were going to get ugly and really bad, and now it wasn't just a evil digimon that was a treat, now it looked like a human was going to start causing a lot of problems as well. "If you think I'll let you continue this madness then..."

Eye going into slits behind the glasses, the boy lifted up his whip and cracked it down on the ground in a violent way; his other hand lifting up a dark and strangely shaped device, an aura of darkness streaming out from it. "Oh, but you won't do anything, except help me gain control of more of the digital world." Around the boy a cloud of spinning dark rings swooped out of the air and began to fly in several directions at the same time, one of them rushing down towards the white clad wizard type digimon, hitting his right arm and shrinking until it was a perfect fit around it. "I'm the Digimon Kaizer, and all you are, is my humble servant, understood?"

Looking up at the human, his eyes glowing red as he looked up at the boy, then he bowed down on one knee and lowered his head, the white hat and his staff dropped on the ground and forgotten, just like his free will had been forgotten, his whole being now focused on just one thing, and one thing only. "Yes, master."

Laughing coldly, the digimon Kaizer stared around the place as more and more dark ringed digimon began to step out of the forest, each of their eyes glowing red and showing that they were completely under his control. Lowering his dark digivice, he stared out over the new sector he had just added to the total of his empire. Then he frowned and looked down at the digimon's. "My control Towers covers more the ten sectors now, but it still to slow, I need a more mobile way of planting Control towers, at this rate it will take me a decade to gain control over the digital world." Staring up at a few bird type digimons, his face cracked into a grin. "yes, that how it should be done, I need a flying fortress to hold both my servants and my wonderful control spires, it will increase the effectiveness of my Control spire planting with more then a 100%."

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Tai stared out the window of the school and nodded his head, he had been right about this day from the start, it was a crime against life that he had to spend it indoors like this, and then they had to start the day with a math class of all things. Nothing, absolute nothing could make this day more rotten, it was simply impossible. 

"Morning Yagami."

Scratch that, something had just popped up to make his day more rotten then it should be, a lot more rotten in fact. Looking up from his desk, Tai stared directly into a face with a huge smile on it, the hair almost as spiky as his own, and standing up in a just a messy style, great, the kid everyone like to call his twin was going to be sitting next to him. "Motomiya, how nice." he was really starting to hate this day.

Jun Motomiya shook her head at the rather cold way the boy had responded, then again, who could blame him, she had only spend half of last year chasing him, begging him for an autograph or a date, all because he was the best soccer player on the school, and he was rather popular with some of the other kids even he didn't like the other kids and showed it when he could. Still, if she was going to spend the year in this class next to that humor bomb, she might as well try to get to know him a bit better, to save both of them for a year long migraine. "Yagami, are you always in such a good mood?"

Looking up at her from his desk, his left eyebrow rose just a few centimeters up, and his mouth moved into a little smile as he began to tap is pencil on the table. "Why of course I am, it is the first of school, with a perfect summer day outside while I get to spend the time in here listing to some old geezer tell me how to do algebra."

Jun burst out laughing at the very sarcastic sentence and then dropped down in her own chair, the legs scraping against the floor as she pushed it backwards and dropped her school bag on the table. "Seriously Yagami, you look like someone popped your favorite soccer ball, what's a matter, trouble at home."

Tai snorted and returned to doodle on his desk, a picture of a badly drawn demonic algebra teacher taking shape as the pencil moved across the wood in a quick session. "Not that I really want to talk about it, but me and Kari are kinda drifting a part, we don't talk as much as we used to anymore." Finished with the doodle, he want on to add in a rather rude text above the head of it, his eyes twinkling at the sentence he had made for it.

Next to his desk Jun shook her head at the image and began to pull out her books, dropping the thick algebra book on the desk with a snort and half crossed look on her face as she stared at the old book, knowing that she was about to have it replaced with an even more difficult and heavier one. "At least your sister hasn't dropped the jam on your head yet." No matter how much her little brother had begged for her forgiveness for that accident, she still wouldn't forget about it. "Took me a freaking month to stop smelling like strawberries."

Next to her, Tai snorted and finished with his drawing, having decided to add in a last minute extra horn and tentacle to the drawing of his be hated math teacher, with the smallest amount of hope and good luck, he wouldn't have to put up with another year with him and his dark ways of teaching the complicated math forms, the guy was just as exciting as watching mold grow. Then he stared at Jun, his eyes still smoldering a bit over the morning accident. "Lets just say that I wanted to ask her something, but no, she had to talk with her friends instead, that was more important that her own family."

Shaking her head, Jun opened her mouth to reply to that statement with another example of how more twisted and deranged her brother was in comparison to the goggle wearing boy, when the door into their class room opened and a tall, boding figure walked in, his short dark hair hiding a pair of eyes that told them he didn't care what happened in his class, as long as they didn't disrupt the class or forgot to do the homework he gave them.

Tai looked up as he heard the rest of the class quiet down and stared at the new teacher as he began to pull out a bunch of papers, the eyes of the man staring at each student in the room, judging them and evaluation them too see what kind of student they were, finally his eyes reach Tai's, and they began a stare down, a pair of brown eyes saying I-don't-care vs the all foreboding You're-less-then-dirt-boy stare of his teacher, in the end the You're-less-then-dirt-boy stare won and Tai looked down at his desk. Next to him, he could hear Jun giggle and could clearly picture her drooling all over her desk. "It's just a teacher for crying out loud."

Jun glared at him at the words and snapped a finger at him, her whole pose telling him that she was already 100% behind the teacher because he was a cutie in her eyes, and a cutie was always right, no matter what they did. And boy was this one a cutie, it was going to be damn hard to pass math this year if all her teachers looked like that. "Calm Down Motomiya, try and stay calm, he's what, 20 years older then you, but damn is he hot or what."

Tai stared at the girl as she babble on in what she thought was a hush voice, but was clearly heard by the surrounding desk, the girl's sitting behind her and to the right of her nodding to show their agreement with the spiky haired girl, resisting the urge to slap his head from embarrassment, the goggle wearing boy returned to his doodle, now that they a new teacher, it would need a few changes, such as a more demonic and cruel look.

After a few minutes of silence, broken only by the faint sound of Tai's pencil moving over his desk, the teacher finally cleared his throat and looked around the classroom. "Greetings, My name is Hojo Futabaki, but you will call me either Mr. Futabaki or Sensei, I will be handing out a list of material we will be using in the year at the end of the class, expect a few pop quizzes and a test once a month. Any questions?" Moving up to stand behind the wooden and metal teachers desk, keeping a close eye on every single student as he spoke to the whole class on the things he expected from them. He nodded to himself in satisfaction as not a single student had had a question to ask yet. Finally he put own the piece of chalk as he finish the last bit. "Finally, are there any questions you might have forgotten earlier?" The sudden knocking on the class door had Futabaki looking up in annoyance as he turned to answer it, having a quick and hushed conversation with whoever was outside the door. Then he came back in and stared around at the class again. "Sorry about the interruption class. Now, I want you to welcome a new student who will be joining us for a undetermined period." 

The last few words from the teacher made Tai look up from his desk, somewhat curious as too who would be joining them, with any luck it was a cute girl, or someone else who was as crazy with soccer as himself. The answer came after a few minutes when the door finally opened and a blond haired boy stepped into the class, looking around the place with a friendly look on his face, he smiled and looked at the students with a air of friendliness and a hope for a quick and easy friendship with them, but even from here, Tai could clearly se that he wasn't a sports fan, in other, he was just. "Boring." And as such, not interesting to him at all.

Jun glared at Tai, as once again he dared to make a downgrading remark about another what could only a first grade hunk. Damn, what was his problem today, so his sister didn't want to talk to him, he should be jumping around in joy, all younger siblings were a pain in the butt, Daisuke most of all. The last bit had just be determined a few seconds ago when she noticed that her little brother had run off with her pencil case. But back to the loud mouthed Daisuke look a like next to her, well he wasn't that much like Daisuke, Tai knew when to stand down and he could also keep his mouth shut when he needed too, but they were still a pain in the butt, both of them. Still, maybe she could bum a pencil from him, just until she could find her brother and get her own back. "Yagami."

Looking to the right at the loud hiss, Tai stared at Jun as she held out a hand at him palm up and nodding towards his pencil case, great, looks like she forgot her own again, well, no matter how much she begged, he wouldn't lend his out, he needed them for his doodling or he would die from boredom. "Forget it Motomiya, try another one."

Reaching out a hand, Jun made a swipe at the pencil case, knocking over the conveniently place math book shielding Tai's non-math related work from the teachers view. "Watch it." Reaching out and grabbing her hand as it began to sneak back with his pencil case, he pulled it forward, earning a wince from her and a glare as he lost his grip on the arm and instead had to hold onto the other end of the pencil case. "Let go Motomiya."

Glaring back at the brown haired boy, Jun struck out her tongue and pulled extra hard on the pencil case, grinning as it began to move towards her, until another tug from the goggle-wearing boy sent her almost down onto the ground. "Come on Yagami, just one." Sitting up straight again, She saw that the he was holding the pencil case up over his head and out of her reach, which left only. Quickly before Tai could see what she was planning, she began to make swipes for the lone pencil still lying on the desk.

"I see that you two find your little game more interesting then your new classmate."

The voice stopped the struggle for the pencil and caused both Tai and Jun to turn around and stare at the teacher, the man in question was towering up over them, his dark shooting a nin caring look towards each of them, a look that still manage to scared them both as he looked them both over, his arms crossed as he resettled for giving them a general glare. "Yagami and Motomiya, correct." At the sudden case of nodding from the two students, he nodded stepped back from between both tables, his eyes never losing the hard look. Uncrossing his arms, he pointed at the class door. "Perhaps an hour of bucket holding will cool you both down."

Tai and Jun groaned as they stood up, not only was it the first day, but it was only the first class of the day, and now they had to spend it standing in the hallway with two buckets full of water in each hand, man their parents were going to kill them for this when they got home. "Yes Sir." responding as one of his eyes browns began to rise, the messy haired boy and girl stood up and followed after the taller man towards the door, getting issued a pair of plastic blue bucket from the janitors room, and told to wait right outside the door until he deemed that they could be allowed back in.

Standing in the hallway, Tai stared at Jun out of the corner of his eyes, a look of pure annoyance clear in them. "You know, this is all your fault Motomiya." 

Glaring right back at him, Jun snorted and returned to stare at the wall across from them, the windows in it showing just how beautiful it was outside. "Stuff it Yagami, if you had just given me a damn pencil we wouldn't be in this mess, so it is in fact, your fault."

Stepping back, Tai shook his head as the words had far too much in common with the words in his dream. Stopping the angry retort, he stopped as the images from his dream flowed back into his mind. "My fault." The words were hesitant and didn't come out with his usual strength.

Looking back at the brown haired boy, Jun nodded and shifted her arm, trying to ease up on the pain in them. "Yes, it all your fault Yagami, glad to hear you agree with me." Shifting er arms again, she glared down at the bucket, another hour of this and she wouldn't be able to lift her arms at all.

Anger and temper flaring up, tai snapped his hand and bucket out, as he turned around to snap at the girl for even saying something like that, what ever he was going to say was lost as his arm impacted something soft that gave a yelp of surprise from it, the sudden stopping motion if his hand sending the bucket of water out of balance, causing a small wave of water to rush out of it. "What the." Turning around to stare at what he had hit, Tai came face to face with a pink haired girl lying on the ground, her uniform and head soaked from the water he had spilled on her by accident. "Damn, uh, you okay." A stupid question, Tai dimly remembered as he reached a hand down to help her up, of course she wasn't okay, she had just smacked on the head with a bucket and drenched in water.

Looking up from the ground, the pink haired girl's eyes took on a more darker glare as she sat up, one hand going for the bump on her forehead, the other pulling out on her soaked shirt, then they snapped up and stared right into Tai's brown orbs, the soft brown of hers causing him to step back a bit. "Look what you did, you moron!"

Stepping back from the angry outburst, Tai stared stupidly as the girl slapped his hand away and got up on her own, her pink hair plastered to her head and shoulders. The light brown eyes shooting lighting bolts at him as she grabbed the still full water bucket from his hand and slammed it down over his head, the action earning a big laugh from Jun as she saw it.

Pulling the bucket off his head, he glared right back into the brown eyes that was still burring into his. Pushing a few strands of brown hair out of his eyes he noted the bucket landing on the floor behind him, and the sound of Jun laughing, Whoever that pink haired girl was, she had really gotten on his wrong side, and he didn't even know her name, feeling the infamous Yagami rage building up inside of him, he dropped the half full bucket on the floor as he stepped towards her. "Look, whoever you are..."

The girl crossed her arms as she took in the sight of the burning brown eyes looking at her, while the anger would have gotten her to run away any other day, this was the jerk who had just ended up ruining her day. And as such, he was now a target of her own anger, and she was not backing down anytime soon. "Tachikawa, Mimi Tachikawa, and you are?"

Glaring at the girl as she stood there, confidently with her arms crossed and an air of complete arrogance around her, Tai crossed his own arms, slipping into his tried and trusted I-Don't-Care-Who-You-are stance, eyes slightly narrowed as his mouth became a very thin line, his whole body radiating his displeasure at her tone of voice. "Yagami, Taichi Yagami."

Mimi glared at the boy and felt her whole body repulsed by his attitude, clenching her hands, she felt her body shiver as the wet shirt wasn't getting any warmer, looking at him with cold dismissal, she began to turn around, her eyes shooting dark look at him over her shoulder as she began to walk away. "Well Yagami, I hope we don't meet again." A series of curses followed from her as she began to walk towards the girl's locker room.

Kicking the bucket lying nearby him on the floor, Tai stared down at his own wet clothes, then he looked back at the laughing Jun, his annoyance clear and very strong as he began to walk towards the boys locker room. "Yeah, Ha ha ha, tell the teacher that I'm getting some dry clothes." Not waiting for spiky haired girl to reply, he pushed open the door and slipped inside the boy's locker room.

Pulling open the locker with his name, he stared at the only other set of clothes in side of it, stored there just in case something would happened and the need for a change of clothes was necessary. Pulling off the wet shirt, he dropped it into the locker, a long with his pants and pulled on the brown shorts and held up the blue long sleeved shirt, stopping when he spotted the welt on his chest again, is fingers moving up to touch it. "Nyaromon!" Pulling the shirt on as a he could, Tai reached into his wet pants and pulled out the digivice from it. "Screw this school, I'm going to get some answer from her."

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The school computer room was empty since it was the first day, and computer classes didn't start until the next week, meaning that he had the whole room to himself. Walking over to the nearest computer, he turned the thing on and waited while it booted, his thoughts constantly on the little Nyaromon he had met in the digital world, how it had seemed like it knew him. Finally the screen stopped loading and he was faced with the student's options on the school network.

Logging on to the Internet, he punched in the address for his Mail service, waiting impatiently as the screen showed the icon for downloading the files needed for it to show the pages from his e-mail service. When it stopped, Tai punched in his screen name and codeword and waited for the password to be confirmed. The window showing how much mail he had stored and how much new mail he had gotten since last.

New:  1

Old: 15

Pushing the inbox symbol, he waited as the mails was displayed on a long list, the new one near the top and the old ones at the bottom of the page, staring at the new one, he narrowed his eyes as he saw just who had sent them to him. It seemed that the mail had been sent to sometime around five in the morning, and the address it came from was a bit puzzling, but the name of the sender told him more then he needed to, seemed the Digital Master had sent him another mail and this time the subject was The Digital World.

Staring at the mail, his face frowned at the words, Tai lifted up his digivice, and stared at the cracked screen, who ever this Digimon Master was, he knew more then he should, still, it couldn't hurt to read the e-mail. Moving the mouse up to the mail, he clicked on it and watched as the screen changed to show it. 

To: King-of-all-soccer-matches

From: Digimon-master.

Subject: Digital World.

Taichi Yagami.

Congratulations with defeating Demidevimon last night, the digimon Nyaromon that you want to find is currently somewhere on Server, but due to the actions of the Digimon Kaizer, she is being shipped off to a place know only as the Server Island in a short time. The place is very dangerous and an In-training digimon will not survive for long.

I have arrange for the digital gate to bring you to a place where you will find the means and powers to help your Partner, it is vital that you help her. The future of the Server Islands depends on your actions. If you are anything like the boy I have heard about, then I know you will do this. To enter the Digital World again, just copy and paste the address below into the search bar and it will open up the digital gate for you.

Your friend,

The Digimon Master.

Staring at the computer, Taichi lifted up his digivice and moved the mouse over to the link, pressing it with out waiting. The Nyaromon had protected him from Demidevimon, and if it hadn't been enough, he would find and thank her for the help. Besides, this sounded like a first class adventure to him.

Closing the mail program to protect it, Tai stared at the computer screen, his goggles hanging around his neck as they always seemed to do lately. Then he reached down and picked them up, moving them into place around his head back. "There's no time like the present." Watching the new search window pop up as he hit the Internet icon again, he pasted in the address and click on the go to button. After a few seconds, the computer screen flashed the gate program up, the green light next to the small window showing the Digital World glowing and telling him that he could enter whenever he wanted too. Holding his digivice up the screen, the gate went through the final part, and a bright white light filled the room, pulling him into the screen.

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The landing really hadn't improve was the first thing through his head as he spat the sand out of his mouth that he had gotten into it when he had made a belly flop right on the wet sand, his mouth opening as he gasped for breath, and getting some of the sand in since he was lying face down at the time, halfway pressed into the wet stuff when he sucked in.

Looking up from where he had landed, Tai stared around the place and instantly recognized it as the place he kept seeing in his dreams lately, the same dark gray sky, the dark waves lapping up on the beach in a constant flow, sending foam and up into the air when one of them cashed a bit to close to the beach.

Pulling himself up to his feet, he stared around the place more closely, seeing nothing but the same endless beach and dark waters no matter where he looked, and behind him a tall cliff rose up and hid everything in that direction from sight. Turning back to face the water, he blinked as something moved up over the waves and stared at him, or at least that what it looked like, then it was gone.

Standing still in the place where he was, Tai breathed in the cold air and felt his right pocket, smiling slightly when he felt the small white and square device was still there, the beeping sound coming from it as he reached down and touched it, telling him that it was still in working order, but if it hadn't brought him back to the digital world, then where was he, and why had he ended up in this nightmarish place?

Frowning as he closed his eyes, Tai mentally went over the last E-mail he had been sent by this digital Master, could he have betrayed him, was the sending of those E-mails just like everyone else, trying to hurt him, just like he always ended up hurting them.

The simple but repetitive sound coming from the sky made him blink and look up towards the dark gray sky with the dark clouds moving slowly across it, seeing nothing at first, but still hearing the sound, he finally managed to spot the small bird flying across the sky as it called out, the only other living thing around.

Turning around in the air, the bird dived downwards, it's wings tucked in to the side as it made a deep dive, only to open the wings and level out as it just a few meters above the sand and setting a course for the brown haired boy as it did it.

Passing by him, Tai could clearly see that the bird was just as black as everything else around the place; the only thing breaking the color scheme about it was the yellow bird eye's that was staring at him as it landed on the sand. "I don't suppose you can tell where I am?"

Clicking its beak at him in response the bird flapped it's wings and began to fly up in the air again, it's yellow eyes never looking away from the brown one, then the yellow color in the eyes spread out, flowing down over the body and covering the bird from view as it began to grow, the clicking of it's beak growing louder every second. Then the light died away and left the bird fully visible again.

Looking back towards it as the light show died down, Tai blinked in surprise at the vision that met him, standing on the beach, a humanoid crow wearing a purple chest plate, the arms of the birdman was covered with a combination of purple gloves and arm bracers, around it's waist a gray piece of cloth was held fast with a black belt over a pair of baggy white pants with a purple leg bracer around each of it's shins, fasten to the belt were two sword sheaths each with a wicked looking sword in it. Lifting a three-fingered hand, it tapped one of the fingers on its beak as it stared at the boy, the yellow eyes still staring at him. "Welcome, Yagami."

Stepping back from the birdman, Tai reached down for his digivice, and stopped when he noticed that his digimon wasn't present at the moment, that he was completely alone with this digimon or tengu. It's eyes borrowing into him with a cold and determined look in them, making him feel faint, and scared. "What do you want?"

Moving it's free hand down to one of the swords, the birdman never looked away from the boy as the eyes began to narrow with amusement over something, slowly pulling the sword out the sheath, it lifted it up and pointed it at Tai. "To see if you really are the one destined to defeat me?" pulling out the other sword rather fast, the birdman folded his wing back and stormed forward. "Prepare yourself boy."

"Puppy howling."

A high and painful noise filled the are and had both of them fall down to the ground from it, well Tai fell down and clamped a hand over his ears, the birdman instead growled and turned to find the source disturbing him, then he looked down at a small puppy standing on the dune across from them, the blue eyes in the small head glaring at him with anger. Turning around to face this new threat, he crossed his swords and stared at the small thing with an annoyed expression. "Who are you, what are you doing here?"

Jumping down from the sand dune and running over to protectively in front of Tai, the little puppy growled as he took in the sight of the much bigger opponent before them. "Tai, I need your help, you got to get me to digivolve, I can't beat this joker unless I digivolve to the next level."

Looking up from his place on the sand, Tai stared from the puppy to the birdman, his eyes slightly confused, then they settled into a rock hard and determined expression as he stood up, and lifted up his cracked digivice. "You're Agumon right?"

Shooting a quick look back at him, the puppy smiled and turned back to face the birdman like digimon again. "Yes, but I'm a Salamon now." Feeling his partner about to ask another question, he shook his head. "Later, right now we got a really bad digimon to stop." Facing the bird digimon, his eyes turned just as hard as his partners, his teeth showing as he began to growl at the Birdman like digimon.

Glaring down at them, the bird Digimon began to laugh at the sight of it, his swords glinting in the air as he began to walk towards them in a slow and arrogant pace. "Boy, Digimon, you two are not match for Karatenmon." Looking at each of them in a slow and arrogant way, he lifted his swords up and crossed them in front of him. "Today, the prophecy of my downfall ends. Cross Swords!" Energy flared up and shot out from each sword blade in an X shape, sand and water getting thrown out of the way in the energy's progress over it.

Salmon cursed under his breath as he saw the power up and turned around as fast as he could, jumping through the air and knocking the brown haired boy down in a desperate attempt to protect him. "Tai, get down!."

Tai yelped as Salamon plowed him down into the wet sand before the attack was even launched at them, the he felt the small digimon jump off as he sent out a few barks, the blue eyes beginning to glow as his power focused. "Puppy Howling!" The same loud high-pitched noise from before filled the are again, this time more directed and focused then before, the sound actually making Karatenmon cringed back from it. Watching the perfect opening his attack had made, Salamon stopped his howling and stormed forward to attack more directly. "Petty punch!"

Glaring at her, Karatenmon snapped opened his mouth and yelled out another attack. "CawCaw!" A glowing sphere shot out from his beak at the words and smacked the rookie digimon away from him and tumbling through the wet sand. Then he closed his beak and looked at the boy staring with tears in his eyes at his beaten digimon. "Pathetic, to think a mere Rookie could beat me, an Ultimate digimon."

Taking off from his place, Tai rushed past the ultimate digimon and dropped to the ground next to her. "Salamon?" Picking the weak digimon up in his arms, Tai glared at the digimon across from his, his eyes nothing more then narrow slits as he felt is hands clench up in pure frustration. "You bastard, I'll kill you, do you hear me!" place right in the center of his chest, a bright orange light erupted at the words and blinded the entire place, then it all seeped into the small puppy type digimon in his arms. "Salamon?"

In the boy's arms, the puppy digimon opened his eyes, and stared up at the boys, his eyes showing first his confusion, and then his determination as he rolled over and jumped out of the arms, landing on the wet sand and glaring at the ultimate digimon before them. "Tai, your courage healed me and gave me my strength back." Rushing forward through the sand, Salamon jumped into the air, his eyes glowing as a beam of light shot out of the cracked digivice in Tai's hands and into his body. "Salamon, digivolve too... Tailmon." Landing on the ground, a cat like digimon glared up at the birdman, a long thin tail moving around behind it. The tip of the long ears and tail wit it's stripes were colored a dark shade of Purple, making a sharp contrast to the white fur and blue eyes glaring up at the birdman type digimon with defiance. "Prepare to lose feather brain, Lighting Paw!"

Smacking the feline digimon out of the air with simple ease, Karatenmon laughed as he watched the shocked expression in the white furred face. Then he lifted his swords and hammered the hilts down on the head of the still airborne digimon. "Still as stupid as ever, a weak champion like you still don't have a chance, so why don't you just give up." Kicking the white body back to land before the boy, he crossed his swords and looked through the V of them, the yellow eyes glaring at the boy and digimon in a mocking way. "Now die, both of you."

On the ground, Tai stared from himself and his digivice to Tailmon lying on the ground, his eyes burning as he tried to find the power and strength to help his digimon, pulling himself up, he crossed over the body twitching on the ground and spread out his arms in a protective manner. "I'll die before you hurt my partner anymore."

On the ground, Tailmon looked up as he felt a familiar and almost forgotten power flow through the air, weakened by the beating he had just gotten, all he could do was follow the trail of the energy to see a orange glow coming from her partners chest as a small medallion hanging from a simple gold tread formed around his neck. "Taichi's crest, it's active again?" Pulling himself up, he began to move forward. "Tai, I need your power, you must get me up to the next level again, it's out only hope."

Staring at it, Tai could dimly remember holding the small thing a long time ago, using it to send his digimon partner up to the ultimate level in order to fight someone. " My crest." Staring at it, he felt it respond to the power inside of him, the power of his courage. "Yes, it's my crest."

Looking from one of them to the other, Karatenmon laughed in a sickening way as he pointed his finger towards a strange item barely visible in the distance. "See that thing over there, it's a control tower, there was one right here a few hours ago, but I destroyed it, currently we're outside of the other ones range, but a small attack will change that, and then, your little digivolving tricks will no longer work." Rushing forward, he blasted the sand with a power wave of energy, sending both boy and digimon flying backwards, both of them hitting the sand painfully several meters back. "And so we pass the line of your doom." Staring at the Tailmon, his eyes narrowed in confusion as he looked up at the control tower. "I don't get it, as weak as your are, you should have been pushed back down to your rookie stage."

Glaring at the birdsman as he pulled himself up, Tailmon twisted his tail through the air, whising that he had one of the legendary rings that would give him the power of an ultimate digimon, and not of a lower level Champion digimon. But, he did have something the birdman digimon didn't have, A human partner and a power flow from a crest to sustain him. "You can't kill me, as long as the crest of Courage exist, I will never de digivlve before I have beaten you."

Karatenmon stared down at Tailmon, and then up at the boy, his eyes once again sparkling with his sick desire to kill them both, a aura of arrogance forming around as he lifted his swords and began to laugh. "Excellent, then watch as I use my power to do this." Fling both swords forward; the yellow eyes became a dark shade of red as both swords began to glow. "CawCaw!"

At the words, a bolt of ligth shot out and washed over Tai, the energy passed through his clothes with no harm to it or the skin under the thin material, but the crest and tag was another thing as a loud cracking sound filled the air. Reaching down and lifting it up to his face, Tai stared at the crest with a sick look on his face. "It's broken."

Laughing, Karatenmon stared from the ground into the sky, his laughter filling it with evil. "Shall we see how long you will last without that little trinket?"

Still holding the crest, Tai looked up and growled as he clenched his free hand as it shook with his anger. "I don't care if I don't have my crest anymore." Moving forward, he lifted up a hand and pointed a finger at the birdman like digimon, his eyes as hard as an uncut diamond. "Get ready to lose, we'll beat you without the crest if we have too."

On the ground, Tailmon nodded and stood up, his eyes glowing with the courage of his partner, his claws began to buzz with the last energy he had to attack with. "If Tai won't give up, then I won't give up either."

Taking another step, Tai stopped when the small sparks of light from his crest erupted into a full blown light show, the sand whipping around him and digimon as the small flat thing floated up into the air, the surroundsing getting bathed in it's energy. On the ground, Tailmon stood up straight as every trace of battle faded from his body. Then the light began to pull in around the crest as the flat thing began to expand, growing into a much bigger form that dropped down into Tai's hand. Round with a horn sticking out of the top, it was colored a dark orange with flame motifs done in red and yellow colors, the sign of his crest clearly seen right below the horn. "The crest, it transformed into a digiegg."

Staring at it, Tailmon gasped as he remembered an old legend he had heard about the digiegg in Tai's hands. "That's not a digiegg, that's a digimental, it will allow someone to armor digivolve." Turning away form the boy holding the new digimental, Tailmon smirked as he jumped forward to land on the ground, his tail now moving rapidly with his anticipation for the coming battle. "Tai, quick use the egg. It's our last hope."

Staring down at the strange orange egg like thing in his hands, Tai blinked as he could feel it respond to him and his courage, looking down at the feline digimon standing protectively before him, he nodded and lifted it up. He was right it might just work and did they really have any other choice. Acting on instinct, Tai yelled out the first few words that came to his mind as he held up the strange egg like thing. "Digi Armor Energize."

On the ground, Tailmon yelped as a bright orange light washed over him, powering him up, and giving him the strength to. "Tailmon, Armor digivolve too... Lynxmon, the flames of Courage" The light fading away, a much large feline type digimon stood on all fours before Tai, the whole body of it was covered in waving flames as the mouth of the new digimon opened up to roar defiantly up at the dark sky.

Glaring at the new digimon, Karatenmon lifted both his swords out to the side and laughed out loud at the look in both of their eyes as they began to advance towards him. "Should that stunt scare me, guess again little ones." Hammering both sword s together, the energy he had gathered together flared up and shot out at them. "Cross swords."

Rushing forward to stop the flaring energy blade shooting towards them in a cross shape, Lynxmon felt her own power flare up as she wanted to protect her partner no matter what. "Thermal Mane." Hammering into the attack, the energy blades swept through the fires shooting out from Lynxmons mane with ease, but were still deflected far enough to pass by them with no problems. "Damn, he's too strong."

Lowering his swords, the birdman type digimon glared at them as he began to step forward. "Silly thing, I told you that wouldn't help, here let me put you out of your misery, both of you."

Tai and Lynxmon looked at one another and came up with the same conclusion as the other. Even as Karatenmon lifted up his sword to cut both of them down, they had turned around and had started running away as fast as they could. "Head towards the cliffs over there." Lynxmon shouted as the sound of Karatenmon laughing filled the air. "It's the only way out of this place, the tunnels will take us back to the digital world again."

Rushing into the dark tunnel, Tai was glad for the fact that his digimon was a fire type one at that moment, the light from it's body giving both of the enough light to actually see something in the otherwise dark tunnel. Behind them, the sound of Karatenmon running rather then flying could be heard. "Are we there yet."

Glaring back into the tunnel, Lynxmon stopped running and turned to face the approving enemy, his fiery mane flaring up as his attack powered up again. "Thermal Mane, sending out a shower of fire from his back, it formed into a ball of fire shooting down through the tunnel seconds before it smacked into the bird digimon running towards them, then he was off again, trying to reach his partner who was a bit further up the tunnel.

Glaring after them through the dark tunnel, Karatenmon looked at the few remains of the fire attack around him, it had done absolutely nothing to him, other then ruffle his feathers, and he hated them for that, he was really going to enjoy running his swords through them both when he got a hold of them.

Ahead of him in the tunnel, both Lynxmon and Tai stormed out into the clean and bright digital world, the tunnel behind them nothing more then a small cave in the otherwise towering mountain. Stopping outside the tunnel, Lynxmon looked up at the rocks sticking out from the mountain above the cave entrance. "Thermal Flare." Hitting them Lynxmon kept the fire going, making the rocks glow red, then white from the intense heat.

The sound of running feet and metal hitting metal was heard as a loud crowing began to come from the cave, then the outline of Karatenmon formed, his eyes glowing with anger. "Now, stop running away and die like the pests you are." Then the rocks finally gave up and fell down in a loud crash, hiding Karatenmon screaming out in surprise as the light suddenly vanished, leaving him to run head first into the new stonewall as his eyes never got a chance to adjust to the darkness. "Damn them." The last was muttered as he slid down to lie on the ground, a huge bump on his forehead.

Outside, Tai and Lynxmon cheered at the samml victory, then Lynxmon glowed a bright white light and reverted back into the small cute form of Tailmon, the blue eyes a big sleepy mess as he began to yawn loudly. Looking around the place, Tai picked him up and pattered his head. "Thank you Tailmon, that was awesome." Smiling down at the almost sleeping digimon.

Staring back up at his partner, the Tailmon rubbed a hand over his ear and smiled in a sleepy way as he began to drop down into a more comfortable position in the very warm arms holding him. "Tai, it great to see you again." Looking up at Tai and seeing a confused look on his face, he shook his head and smiled. "I'll explain the change later okay?"

Inside the cave, Karatenmon closed his eyes and reached out with his mind from behind the rocks blocking his further progress. Finding what he was seeking for, he smiled as he tapped into the boy's head. "Boy, you may have stopped me from ending this today, but I still have one last ace up my sleeve today." Reaching out and finding the remains of the poison floating in the boy's blood stream, he smiled and broke the spell cast on it, taking a great delight in the sudden flash of pain and fears the flowed back through the link. "One year boy, one year from now, the poison will finish what it started, and you will die."

Outside the cave in the widespread forest, Tai was leaning against a tree, his breathing coming in ragged gasp as he could feel the pounding in his heart and the slight pain flowing through him, the feeling of something eating away at him. "No..." Staring up at the blue sky, he dropped to his knees. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo!!!."

Looking concerned at his partner, Tailmon jumped up and pattered the boy cheek, feeling a slight increase in the temperature and cursing as he began to recognize the signs from the last time he had seen them. "You have to get out of here, you need to break the contact between you and Karatenmon before it's too late." Pushing the boy over to a nearby TV set, he smiled and settled down to look at it. "Well, use your digivice and let's get out of here."

Smiling, Tai lifted up his digivice and felt the familiar pull he had almost grown used to as he was sucked in through the gate, sent flying out onto the floor of the computer lab, a wet and sandy feeling grinding into his eyes as he made contact with the dirty floor. "I really hate that gate." Pulling himself up, Tai stared down at the small very light yellow puppy running around him on the floor, it's blue eyes staring at everything in sight. "Salamon?"

Stopping and looking up at him, the digimon jumped up into his arms and grinned, the small tail on it's back moving back and fourth, as it felt nothing but happiness at finally being together with his partner again. "Yes."

Walking over to open the door into the school hallway, Tai stopped with his hand on the handle and frowned as he got the feeling that he had forgotten something, something very important. Falling to figure it out, he pulled the door open and stared into a very surprise set of eyes under a mop of black hair several centimeters above him. "Teacher." 

Futabaki stared down at Taichi, his eyes not showing one speck of emotion as he took in the state of the boy, then he looked around the computer lap, not leaving one place uncheck as he searched the room. "So where's the other one Mr. Yagami." At the Brown haired boy's puzzled look, he sighed and waved his hand at the wet and torn clothes. "Two weeks detention for fighting in the computer lap Mr. Yagami" Turning around, he pushed the door a bit more open. "And one week for disobeying me." Before Tai could even protest, the teacher had lifted up his hand and stared over his shoulder. "I told you to stay outside the room, not run off and fight." Eyes staring at the clothes Tai was wearing, he sighed and shook his head at the sight of them. "Go change your clothes will you, I expect you back in the classroom in 10 minutes."

Blinking at the words, Tai looked down at himself and nearly screamed at the sight of his ragged and dirty clothes. "Remind me to bring more clothes to school with me if this happens every day." Looking closer at his shirt, he began to shake the sand off it. "At least the T-shirt can be used, now all I need are the pants from my locker and I'm ready once more." Closing the door into the room, Tai stared at the rows of computers and felt his chest tighten at the memory of Karatenmon's mental message. "One year, I'll beat him in less then that. No way is that jerk winning this."

Tbc in: Recall to adventure

AN: Well, what did you think, was it a good start, a bad one or should just burn this thing down before it becomes to damn ugly. Expect the next part to be around the same length, but don't expect it anytime soon. I need to work on a few other things first.