Author's Note
: Hey everybody! I'm back with my second fic! Thanks to everyone who reviewed the first one! ^_^ You guys rock! Ok, now my signs. ~*~ = a change in scene. Italics = thought. *…..* = emphasized.Disclaimer
: I've never really understood why we have to put this. I mean nobody would sue a fellow writer would they? I wouldn't. Anyway, to please the inventor of this rule, I don't own Digimon, only the idea of this story.*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Ugh." Yamato Ishida reached over to 'gently' turn off his alarm clock. It's flashing digits read 7:00AM. Matt slowing sat up in bed and started absentmindedly around his room. Sunlight streamed in through an open window lighting up the small room. Matt shook his head in a vain attempt to wake himself, then went to take a shower. He emerged a while later, wearing a light blue robe. After he put on his clothes, he started out of his room, but paused by the doorway. He felt a kind of pulling sensation. Matt walked around his room, stopping before the bureau, on which he kept his crest and digivice.
Matt felt a strange sensation, drawing him towards the two mystical items. He had stopped wearing them about three months after the adventure they had in the Digital World. Although the Crest of Friendship wasn't constantly around his neck, his friendship with the seven children that had come together to save worlds, was. That remained stronger then ever, an unbreakable bond that held them all together.
"I wonder…" Matt mused as he picked up his crest. The light blue sign of Friendship seemed to glow today.
"I think I'll make an exception in the daily routine." Matt slipped the crest over his head and hid it underneath his green sleeveless shirt. He smiled silently to himself. It was the same shirt he had worn in the Digiworld. The jeans weren't the same, but they were the same color. Matt hooked the digivice on his jeans and bent down to tie his shoelaces. He had outgrown his boots a while ago. Now he wore sneakers, just like the ones Tai had.
"Thinking of Tai…" Matt glanced at his alarm clock. "Dammit, 7: 45. I'm gonna be late." He ran down the stairs and out the door, on his way to school.
Little did he know that each of the Digidestined had felt the same force and had each donned their individual digivices and crests.
~*~
"Hey Matt!" Yelled a young teen with goggles on his head. Around him stood their closest friends.
"Hey Tai. I – What?!" Started Matt. Once he reached the others, a glow appeared in eight different colors, from under each Digidestined shirt.
"You all encountered the same unexplainable force I had!" Exclaimed the young redheaded genius. "I wonder…" Izzy was cut off by a burst of bright light, and he landed face first onto the ground.
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Tai sat up rubbing his back. "Where are we?" He asked as he gazed at the lush greenery on one side of him and the sparkling ocean on the other side. "I knew my locker was messy, but…"
Matt rolled his eyes. "Is everybody ok?" He asked, eyes on T.K., then scanning over the entire Digidestined group.
"I'm ok Matt." Said T.K. running towards his older brother. Matt picked him up and hugged him. "As long as you're ok, huh T.K.?" Matt laughed and started tickling T.K., when all of a sudden…
A young girl appeared in front of them. Correction, she floated in front of them. Her feet were a good five feet off the ground. A gleaming white light surrounded her. Although she looked to be younger than Kari, her eyes held the wisdom of many years.
"Welcome back Digidestined. I am the Digital entity that spoke to you through Kari the last time you were in the Digital World. Now I've called you back here again because a powerful new enemy has appeared. I hadn't wished to bother you, but the few lines we translated from the ancient prophecy we had – "
"Wait, *had*?" Questioned Sora.
"Yes. Regretfully we had only just found this prophecy and had only been able to translate a few scrambled lines before it…self-destructed." Seeing the confused expressions on every child's face, she explained.
"We locked it in the laboratory at night and one morning when we came back to work on it some more, the stone on which it was written had seemingly blown up and the dust was all over the room. The biggest piece left was about the size of my thumb. We don't know who did it, we guess that it was the Digimon that it was speaking of. If it's magic was that powerful, we knew we had no choice but to call in the Chosen Children."
Mimi's mouth opened, but before she could speak, the entity held up a hand.
"Please. I don't have long. I need to tell you the lines we managed to translate.
An enemy so powerful, that only the power of eight may stand a chance. But this enemy cannot be beaten by simply fighting. In fact you must beat him by not fighting. You must unleash your own inner power, and then, only then, will you be able to win. That is by---
That was all we managed to get before the incident. I am truly sorry. Good luck, Chosen Children!"
With those confusing words the entity faded out.
"What!?" Exclaimed their young leader. "Did anybody get that prophecy thingy?"
"I have it typed down, Tai." Called Izzy from behind his pineapple laptop. Everybody crowded behind Izzy to get a better view. Izzy cleared his throat, and tried to begin reading the prophecy.
"Tai! Matt!" Cried two very familiar voices. Agumon and Gabumon burst out of the woods, with the other Digimon right behind them.
"Patamon! Gatomon!" Yelled T.K. and Kari. Everyone rushed to meet their Digimon friends, who they haven't seen in months. The friendships they had formed were still as strong as ever.
Matt and Gabumon went to sit under the shade of a tree to talk away from prying eyes. T.K. and Kari played with their Digimon out in the open, laughing and shouting between turns, but always under the watchful eyes of their protective big brothers. It didn't matter what happens, Matt and Tai always found a way to watch over their precious younger siblings.
Tai was jumping up and down, just like his sister. He might be older than her, but at times he can do things that a little kid would do. But on the other hand, he was also a great leader when needed be. Sora and Biyomon were sitting up in a tree, crying just like before they left.
Joe was staring at Gomamon like he was some sort of ghost, when Gomamon grew tried of the staring contest, and pushed Joe into the water. Amazingly Joe didn't go crazy and start babbling about diseases, he jumped out and hugged Gomamon.
Mimi and Palmon where screaming so loud that Electmon down in Primary Village could probably hear them. Palmon grabbed Mimi with her vines and in the end they ended up in a tangled heap.
"Ok everybody! Gather around Izzy. We have to get back to the problem!" Yelled Tai after a few minutes with Agumon.
"Coming!" Everybody was once again crowded around Izzy, and he read the prophecy aloud for the benefit of the Digimon.
"Well, anybody have any suggestions?" Asked Tai. "Izzy?"
"The power of eight it talks about is probably us. The part that says we have to beat him by not beating him is the part that confuses me. How do you fight something by not fighting it?" Wondered Izzy.
"Agumon, do you know anything?" Tai asked his partner.
"Well, I don't understand your prophecy, but I think I know the enemy it talks about. Not by name or form or anything. I haven't even seen it, but there are rumors of an immensely powerful Digimon that has been killing other Digimon at it's will. Nobody has ever seen this Digimon so I just dismissed it as useless gossip. Now I guess it's real." Agumon said troubled.
"Maybe no one's ever seen it because anyone who has encountered it was killed by it." Suggested Joe.
T.K. put his arms around Matt. "I don't like that Digimon." He said muffled.
"It's ok. Don't worry, we'll defeat it." Matt comforted T.K. while glaring at Joe. The glare obviously said, did you *have* to say that?
"Right!" Said Tai, agreeing with Matt.
"Tai? I'm hungry." Said Kari from his side.
"We never had lunch!" Exclaimed Mimi. "And I didn't eat breakfast either."
"Ok, lunch break! Joe, Sora, Izzy, and me will go look for food. Matt, Mimi, T.K., and Kari will go gather firewood." Announced Tai.
Before he left he whispered to Matt, "Hey, watch out for Kari for me, ok?"
"Of course. We look out for T.K. and Kari together." Matt whispered back. They smiled before Tai took off.
"Let's gather some wood, then get back here before the others. Maybe we could look for some food, too. You can never have to much food on hand with all the people and Digimon we need to feed." Joked Matt.
They went into the forest looking for firewood, unsuspecting of the pair of blood red eyes watching their every move.
"Hey guys? Do you feel like were being watched?" Asked Matt uncertainly.
"I don't feel anything." Said Mimi cheerfully.
"It's probably just me… Ok, there's lots of wood here. Let's hurry up, then get back to camp." Said Matt as they stopped before a small clearing in the woods with lots of dry branches scattered over the ground.
T.K. and Kari started trying to pick up a big tree branch between the two of them, when suddenly they disappeared without a sound.
Matt immediately felt that something was terribly wrong. "T.K.?" he called out, turning around to where his brother was. "Kari?!"
"T.K.!!! This isn't the time to be playing games! Mimi, Gabumon, did you see where they went?" He asked looking to Mimi.
"I don't know, they were here a minute ago." Mimi turns to look around when the ground seemed to open up and swallowed her whole.
"Mimi!" Cried Matt. The forest seemed really still and eerie all of a sudden. It was like nature was against him.
"T.K., Kari, Mimi!!! Where are you!?" Matt shouted. There was no actual sound, but Matt heard a laughing voice in his head.
"Come out and show yourself!" Matt yelled to the air, trying to keep the fear out of his voice.
Nothing moved. Not even a breeze blew through the air.
I'd better get Tai, but he's gonna be so pissed off at me.
"T.K.!!!! Kari!!!! Come out…Please?" Matt practically begged.
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"Hey guys, wait up!" Called Tai after talking to Matt.
"Come on Tai!" Said Sora.
"Ok, let's go!" He said after reaching them. "We'll cover more ground if we split up. Gather as much as you can find then meet back at camp, in say…fifteen minutes? If you're not back in twenty minutes, we'll go looking for you."
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"Hey Tai? Why didn't you take Kari with us?" Asked Agumon as he picked berries with amazing deftness, despite his claws.
"Cause I didn't want her to touch some poisonous plant or something. Besides, we can do this a lot faster, then go and meet the others." Said Tai reasonably. "And Matt's there to watch out for her. Seeing how he watches out for T.K., I think Kari will be perfectly safe–"
…T.K.…Kari…
"Something's wrong." Tai said suddenly. "I have to find Kari." Then he took off leaving a very confused Agumon behind him.
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"Sora! Joe! Izzy!" Agumon shouted. "Where are you!?"
"Agumon? Is that you?" Asked Sora.
"Yeah. Tai just ran off. He said something about Kari, then took off." Said Agumon. Izzy and Joe come running.
"Did you call us?" They asked.
"Yeah, Tai ran off, something bout Kari. Now we gotta go find him." Sora sighed. Tai's really sweet and all, but he can be so irresponsible!
…T.K.…Kari…Come out…
"Did you hear that? It sounded like…someone was saying T.K. and Kari and telling them to come out. I think something happened to Matt's group." Sora said worried.
"Let's go. I'm worried about Tai." Said Agumon.
Joe screamed.
Sora was suddenly flipped upside down then she vanished along with Biyomon.
"I-Izzy? What the hell was that!?" Joe freaked out.
"Umm…I think it was—" Izzy kept talking but faded out from view.
"Izzy! No! Ok, I gotta keep my cool. I can't freak out. Now what would be the sensible thing to do here?" Joe's brain was completely blank. Two words formed. "Find Tai!" He ran off like demons were on his tail.
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"Matt? Maybe we should go tell the others." Gabumon suggested.
"No…No! I gotta find T.K.! And Tai asked me to look after Kari for him. He'll kill me if I lost her!" Matt was breathing hard and starting to lose it.
"Matt, pull yourself together! You can't help anybody if you don't keep a level head!" Gabumon said.
"Matt! Where's Kari!" Tai just ran out of the trees and was running towards Matt.
"Oh shit…" Matt cursed under his breath.
"Hey Matt!" Tai waved his hand thinking that Matt hadn't seen him yet. When Tai was about six feet away from Matt, he screamed. Taichi Kamiya does not scream for no good reason. He was clawing at he's throat and the scream was cut abruptly short. He was dangling from the air and was starting to turn blue.
"Tai? Tai!! What's wrong!?" Matt started running to he best friend when he vanished into thin air.
"No!!!!" Matt cried. In less then an hour his brother, best friend, his best friend's sister that *he* was supposed to be protecting, and one of his closest female friends had disappeared into thin air. He had fallen to his knees and was clutching his hair.
"Tai!!" Called a voice. Matt lifted his head. It sounded like Joe.
"Hey Joe! Is that you?" Matt called back. Joe burst out of the woods stopping just before Matt. He put his hands on his knees and tried to catch his breath.
"Sora…Izzy…disappeared!" Joe managed to gasp out between breaths.
"No…no…" Matt stood up. "Who are you? Give us back our friends!" Matt shouted into the air.
"Matt? Who are you shouting to?" Joe asked the distressed teen.
"I heard…laughter before when I called out for T.K. and Kari. I think some sort of monster took them." T.K.…
"T.K. and Kari are gone too? What about Tai and Mimi?" Joe asked, already knowing the answer.
Matt nodded his head. "It's not fair. T.K. I'm sorry little bro."
"Matt pull yourself together. We'll get T.K. back. Together, nothing can stand in our way." Gabumon was ready to kill whatever had taken his destined's brother and made him suffer so.
"Gabumon's right. I'm sure we can get our friends back." Joe said optimistically.
"What ever happened to the pessimistic Joe that thought every thing that we did would fail?" Matt grinned.
Joe opened his mouth to reply when, he too, started to vanish into thin air. "No, not you too!" Matt cried. He started running toward the rapidly disappearing teen, but when he got there, there was nothing left but air.
~*~
Perfect. One Digidestined all alone. This should be easy…
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Yay!!! I finally finished the first chapter! I know it's kinda short, but I wanted to end it there, with the semi-cliffhanger thingy. All questions, comments, opinions, suggestions, and (gulp) flames are welcome. Review!!!! ^_^
