FanKnight: I welcome you one and all to my newest fiction!

Taichi: Yeah, yeah, get ON with it!

Daisuke: Oh Taichi-Senpai, don't be in such a rush!

Taichi: yeah…sure…Knight-San doesn't own Digimon Adventure 02.

FanKnight: Someone's a bit cranky….

Daisuke: Heh, you don't know the half of it…

Taichi: What was that?

FanKnight/Daisuke: Nothing….

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They had returned, the digimental, the crests, the power of the chosen, the digidestine. It had been so long, so very long since an evil had threatened the digital world, yet it all seemed like a dream.

To Taichi Yagami it seemed more like a nightmare.

The child of courage sat in his room staring blankly at his digivice. Was he really ready to take back all of his responsibility? All the danger? Of coarse he was! But…were his friends?

It had been a week since Daisuke had vanished. A full scale digital search had been sent off in search of the broken child of Miracles. Yet nothing had turned up. Oddly enough, Veemon had reverted to Chibimon the moment Daisuke had been taken, oddly enough still. The boy's digimon became weaker by the moment.

The chosen children's digimon were affected not by the waves and ties of the digital world. No, but by the spirits, and strengths of their partners. This was in turn, their one weakness and greatest strength.

Rough trained hands held gently the 'goggles of courage'. They'd earned the name when Daisuke had received them, the new leader of the chosen. A small smile sat upon Taichi's lips as he rubbed a finger over the lens slowly.

"I still remember the day…I have you these…Daisuke…"

"I remember that day too Onii-chan."

Taichi's head rose slowly as he smiled to his younger sister. She stood at his door way, not daring to enter just yet. Her face was some what sullen, her eyes still red from the amount of crying she'd been doing lately.

After all, she was the child of light wasn't she? How could she let a fellow chosen child be taken under her watch? Was she really worthy now? Was she really worthy to be the holder of the digital worlds light?

Of coarse she was.

"I…just got off the phone with the other's Taichi…Mimi…she's flying in tonight with Willis, Jou…he said he'd been back tonight as well…the others…they're packing…"

She gave a small, almost forced smile.

"Guess were lucky it's the summer."

"Yeah…I guess we are lucky…"

Her smile vanished, as she took a step forward slowly. He never noticed, his gaze on the goggles the entire time. Only when her hand found his shoulder did he look up.

"I'm sorry…"

Taichi blinked and frowned in confusion. What had she to apologize for?

"I…I failed…I failed at my duty….I'm no chosen…I can't even stop darkness in the real world…I don't think I even have my power….that's why Daisuke….that's why Daisuke was taken…I'm so sorry Onii-chan….Taichi….can…can…can you forgive me?"

By the end of her confession, she was hugging her brother from behind tightly. A small smile on his face as he turned and returned her hug gently, stroking back as an older brother would do to comfort his younger sister.

"Hikari…it's not your fault…we…we all were affected…."

"But you're not the child of light!"

She pulled away from him, her eyes filled with tears as she shook her head.

"No, it's my fault…I'm not strong enough….I'm…."

"You're a great person, a wonderful friend and sister, and one of the strongest people I know. Being the child of light is tough…being a chosen one is tough…but you were chosen for a reason."

Hikaru could only hug her brother. Tears slipping down her face. He always did know what to say to make her feel better. Some how she knew, he always would.

Smiling in relief, he returned her hug. Looking out his window the sun set slowly, it's glow a crimson red, like the blood that had dripped from Taichi's hands that altering night a week ago.

"We'll find you Daisuke….I'll find you…I promise…."

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Deep with in the bowels of the Digital world, the broken child of Miracles floats deep with a sphere of darkness and despair. Words of pain and doubt whispering to him, his eyes shut as tears seemed to stand still at the edges of his eyes.

The dark being that had been sealed for so long, only smiled. He was the first virus, created from a corrupted angelic digimon, long though defeated by the digidestine long ago. He arose in many a form, using his minions to do his bidding, until he was almost free from his accursed prison.

At one time he thought all hope of escape was lost when the chosen children gave up their power to release his captors and seal him once again in infinite darkness.

"Courage, Friendship, Love, Serenity, Reliability, Knowledge, Hope, Light, Kindness, Fate, and Miracle."

Each digimental named, caused a change in voice, as if the being of darkness was made from many a black heart.

"Those accursed virtues, Gennai really thought they would be enough to keep my sins sealed for ever."

One voice had returned as the first virus smiled manically at Daisuke.

"You…child of Miracles….you shall be the key to destroying the virtues of digital world and releasing my."

Daisuke made no motion, no sound, no sign of life. This caused the first virus to sneer, he hadn't excepted such a thing. He hadn't excepted a human's heart to be so fragile.

"So Gennai, you haven't lost your touch at all…"

With a small smirk of challenge the first virus turned to the now open portal until the light realms of the digital world.

"I shall have it all once more….but I must first claim the pieces of this boys heart…this boy's power…the power of Miracles. But where….where would Gennai place the pieces…."

Red eyes flicked as an idea began to form. Gennai, the guardian of the digital world, keeper of the chosen's power and a servant to the digital masters, the four great beasts who watched over the digital world. The Dragon, The Phoenix, The Tortoise, and The Tiger. He knew the legends well, he'd help made most of them in fact.

Ruby eyes flickering towards the broken boy before him, pearl white teeth began to show as a laugh more horrible then any before echoed from his throat. He knew now, knew just where to find those pieces.

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FanKnight: Well I hoped you all liked it!

Taichi: …but nothing happened!

Daisuke: Not Yet! But I'm sure it gets REAL good!

Taichi: What ever you say Dai-chan…

FanKnight: Kawaii! Please Review!