Dark Rain

I don't own Digimon. This is a work of my own imagination. The characters might be a little off, but I like them better that way. This is a Matt x Sora and TK x Kari. It takes place before the defeat of MaloMyotismon. I changed things around so that the older Digi-destined are fighting alongside the new Digi-Destined. The original Digi-destined are in their Freshman year of college and the new ones are in their sophomore year of high school.

Remember all the events in the other Digimon episodes will not be the same according to my story, so don't get mad.

So it begins…

Chapter I: Splitting up

Twelve dark spires were lined up at least a mile across from each other. No one knew why there were set up like that, but they were. The dark menacing towers loomed in the background on the horizon. They looked small from where the Digi-destined were standing, but they knew the awful truth.

"I think that we should split up," Tai spoke. Everyone looked at him like he was insane.

"I don't think that would be such a great idea." Mat spoke up hesitantly. "We should stay together."

"Why? We defeated the last control spire easily. Since there are twelve of us we should all split up so that we can defeat the control spires easily."

"Why can't we just stick together? Don't you remember what happened the last time we split up? It took us forever to find everyone, and we all had to defeat monsters that we needed to have help with! We shouldn't split up!"

"I think we should!"

"Well, I don't."

"Calm down, Matt." Sora grabbed Matt's arm to calm him down. They had been dating for a year and a half already. It was really sweet how he had asked her to date him. It was funny, but that was what Matt thought about each time Sora grabbed him arm like she was doing. Right now he didn't want to think about that.

"I don't think the idea is really all that bad, Matt," whispered Izzy.

"What?"

"Well, the distance between the spires can't be that far apart. If something happens, we can just call the closet person to us, and they can help us defeat the monster."

"I still don't think we should do it."

"I agree with Matt." As always Joe's nervous voice piped up, showing that he didn't want to be alone. Ever.

"Joe, you have Gomamon with you, you'll be fine." Tai really wanted to leave. He was almost already heading toward one of the spires.

"Tai, will you stop?" Matt yelled. At the back of his thoughts right now was Sora. She was gripping his arm even tighter.

"Maybe we should just travel together until a certain spot and then split up at the last moment." TK was always the problem solver. He always wanted people to get along with each other. It really showed when he was trying to be diplomatic.

"We could all meet after we each destroy the control spire." Kari said, agreeing with TK. Not that that was a surprise. They had been dating for a few months, so each of them was still in the stage where they believed that they always had to agree with one another. He and Sora, on the other hand, were well past that stage.

"What do you think, Sora?" Matt asked her, kind of shrugging his arm to get her to know he was losing blood pressure.

"I think that…we should split up. It would be easier to just destroy all the spires then we can meet back at the last one. I like TK's idea too. We don't really have to split up until the last minute."

Matt groaned in defeat. Everyone was against him except for Joe. Mimi, Davis, Yolei, Ken, and Cody had all drifted towards the spires each of them heading towards a different one. He grabbed his temples.

"Fine. Let's get going then." Matt grabbed Sora's hand and they started to walk as a group towards the spires. "I still don't agree with this."

When they reached the point where the spires loomed above them, they split up. Sora would be going to the farthest one north, walking with Kari, TK, and Mimi. Matt, Ken, and Tai would get the middle one. Then Davis would get the farthest one south, next to Joe, Yolei, Izzy, and Cody. Everyone started to walk away, but Matt grabbed Sora's hand and yanked her back to him. He caught her with his right arm around her waist and cradled her head with his left. He gently kissed her lips.

"Promise me you'll stay safe." He whispered to her, brushing her lips with his own.

"I promise." She raised up on her tiptoes and kissed him again. He let her go, watching as she left.

DIGIMON:DIGITAL MONSTERS

It was raining. Of course it is, thought Sora.

The team had split up to destroy the spires. She had just left Kari and Gatomon. It was nice and sunny until she came to the sphere that she was going to destroy. One by one her friends called her to tell her that they were going to meet up with her right where she was. She had been standing just looking at the threatening rain for ten minutes.

I wonder if I could walk around the rain. It was really weird. The rain was coming down in torrents, but from where Sora was standing, it was just over one spot, and it wasn't moving. Sora looked at the sky yet again. Over her head, the sky was blue without a cloud in sight. When she looked towards the area the rain covered, the sky was black. Just like what she had originally thought. The clouds were even in an almost perfect square.

"What the heck is this?" Sora whispered.

Biyomon just looked at her. "Sora, I think we should move around the storm before it moves toward us."

"It's not even moving…" Sora walked closer to the rain. Far away, she couldn't even see through the sheets that were pouring down. Close up, though…close up, she could see the form of a small girl sitting in the midst of the rain. "Sweetie, what are you doing just sitting in there? Come out here! Get out of the rain!"

"Sora, what are you doing?" Biyomon came over to her and touched Sora's back with her wings.

"Don't you see that little girl in there?" Sora pointed towards the small girl.

"Sora, you can't even see through the rain and fog in the woods."

"You wait right here, Biyomon. I'm gonna go get her. She must be absolutely freezing." Why is she just sitting in there? She's going to be soaked.

DIGIMON:DIGITAL MONSTERS

Kari reached the area where Sora was supposed to have been waiting for everyone. She noticed that it was raining really hard where Sora was. Gatomon and Kari started to run when they saw Biyomon just standing outside of the rain.

"Biyomon, what are you doing standing out here? Where's Sora?" Kari asked. She looked around for any sign of Sora.

"Sora walked in there." She tried to point towards the rain.

"Why did she do that?"

"She thought she saw a little girl." Kari turned around to look into the rain pouring down. She saw two figures in the rain. One she could definitely tell was Sora; the other one was a lot smaller. She didn't' even reach Sora's waist. Neither of the figures were moving. They were just standing in the rain.

"There is a little girl in there!" Kari ran into the rain to try to catch up to Sora.

Gatomon looked at Biyomon. "Do you see anything in there?"

"No. I stuck my wing into the water just after Sora ran in there. I couldn't even see my wing!"

"I can't see Kari," Gatomon said worriedly. "Kari! Kari!"

DIGIMON:DIGITAL MONSTERS

Matt arrived at the destination where he and the others were supposed to meet. Tai, Ken, and TK were already there. Matt figured that Kari had gone into the rain to help with destroying the control spire. Gatomon and Biyomon were nowhere to be found. Matt walked up to the waterfall like rain. It was so thick and heavy he couldn't even see a few inches in front of him.

"Matt! Tai! TK! Ken!" Matt turned when he heard Gatoman's voice. It wasn't coming from inside of the rain area though. He looked to his left and saw both Biyomon and Gatomon racing towards him. Sora and Kari were nowhere in sight.

"Where's Sora?" He screamed when they were close enough to answer him.

"She went into the rain to try to save a little girl." Biyomon was breathing hard from the exertion.

"How did she know that there was a little girl in there?" Tai questioned. "You can't even see five inches in front of your face."

"I don't know. Whatever she saw though, Kari saw too. Both of them ran in there to help the little girl. Each of them saw her."

"Each saw who?" Izzy asked as he and Cody sauntered up.

"Sora and Kari ran into the rain together to help a little girl." Gatomon explain. Her tail was wagging wildly by now, showing her complete agitation.

"We need to get to them. Izzy can your computer pinpoint their exact location?" TK asked before Matt had the chance.

"There's something wrong with this storm. The electrical current in it is totally disrupting all air waves."

"So…that's a no then." Ken stated the obvious. Yolei, Joe, and Mimi nearly ran to get back to where everyone was located.

"Why do we have to meet here?" Mimi complained. "This rain is so dreary."

"I'm cold. Can we like build a fire or something?" Yolei finished what Mimi was going to say.

"Do you not see that huge rain storm right there? It's amazing we're not getting soaked!" Joe exclaimed, looking with shock at Mimi and Yolei.

"Hi Sora! Hi Kari!" Davis yelled. Matt nearly pushed TK over in the effort it took for him to turn around. Davis pranced up to join the others. Nearly all of their mouths were hanging wide. "Why are Kari and Sora in the middle of the rain? They're going to get sick." Davis' attention was still on the rain. Finally he turned around to face the others. "What? Did I say something I shouldn't have?"

"Okay, we need to get them out now, but only Davis can see where he's going." Matt supplied everyone with the needed information that had been forgotten to be mentioned. "I don't think I want to place my girlfriend's life in Davis' hands."

"Hey! What's wrong with my hands?" Davis looked down at his hands. There wasn't anything on them.

"Exactly," concluded Matt.

"Enough! Biyomon, Gatomon, did either of you try to follow after Sora or Kari?" Izzy finally took control.

"Of course we did!" Gatomon took offense that Izzy actually believe that neither of them would just stand still and watch as their friend was taken away from them.

"What happened when you went in there?"

"It was really weird. We did it a couple times too. We stepped in, but the second step, we stepped out." Biyomon explained because Gatomon was still a little huffy.

"What?" Everyone exclaimed.

"Every other step that we took in, we ended up back outside of the rain."

"Why couldn't you guys just see where you were going?" Davis asked the logical question, thinking that he was very smart.

"Are you an idiot or something?" Matt yelled at him, plummeting Davis' thought that he was actually smart. "You can't even see two inches into the rain!"

"What are you talking about? Are you blind? Sora, Kari, and a little girl are standing not quite fifteen feet in."

"You can see in there?"

"Yeah, can't you?"