-1There's nothing much to life anymore than to take it easy and relax.

All I really do anymore is lay on the couch watching TV all day. Same news report, same weather report, same everything. Although what do you expect? I don't keep in contact with any of the other people mostly because I'm just lazy; the other bit is because I never really got a chance to see them again. Despite knowing Matt and his little brother, my love interest - Sora, it's just been me and my little sister.

It's been about a year since I've last visited the digital world. I try not to think about it much, because it brings back so many tearful memories - yet it also brings back hopeful ones. Kari, my little sister acts as though none of it has ever happened; she never talks about it - not even mentioned it once. Although as a sigh, despite the clear blue sky, I hope it carries forth onward to the friends I have - human and digimon.

I sleep in most of the day and I don't really attend school right now because it's summertime. Though lots of homework, I don't really bother doing it yet. Yeah, again, I'm lazy. Though my dreams are filled with strange noises, I'm always awakened by my television being left on through the day. You know, being loud and such. I turn down the volume every time I step foot into the living room always wondering who turns it on so loud. Meh, I don't let it bother me much. I usually find myself alone in the mornings not knowing where Kari or my mother is. Another strange thing is that I try to go outside myself, but it seems that the door is constantly locked from the outside. Strange, as I said before, but I never let it get to me.

It's been about two days being locked inside my apartment not knowing when someone is going to come home. I never bothered trying to call for help because nobody answered. My phone was always picking up static whenever I made a phone call, strangely enough. Though, it didn't really bother me because my kitchen was stockpiled with food and drinks for me to last for at least another two weeks. Although, I knew I had to get out of here somehow.

The third day…

A knock at the door, "Knock! Knock!" I don't here it. I'm fast asleep and I try not to here anything. It gets louder, "Knock! Knock!" I pretend I'm sleeping because I'm truthfully scared. As calm as I was a couple of days ago, this has never happened to me before. "Knock! Knock!" again goes the knocking at the door. "Who is it?" I respond. The knocking stops. As for a brief moment, I look outside my window I see a bird fly by then disappear into thin air. I was more afraid now than any other time I was in my life - at least I think so. I get out of my bed, already dressed and I look for signs of someone, anyone. "Ring! Ring!" goes my phone. I answer it.

"Hello?" I said calmly.

"Hi" the voice responds.

There's silence.

"Who is this?"

"Who do you think this is?"

"Um…I really don't know, could you give me a guess?" I ponder.

"It's Sora you silly!" she giggled.

"Uh…hi…what's so funny?" I was slightly embarrassed. I haven't heard her voice for at least a year now.

"Because, it's strange…"

"What's strange?"

"Everyone seems so…" the static picks up again in my phone.

By this time I developed a slight headache, but enough for me to drop the phone. I lean against my wall, with one hand holding my head. Also at this time, I begin to hear Matt's voice. Not just him though, everyone at once begins talking in my head. In my head, or anywhere; out of thin air you might even say. I hear them say one by one:

"Everyone seems to hate me" Says Matt

"Everyone seems so stupid" Says Izzi

"Everyone seems so dishonest" Says Mimi

"Everyone seems so unreliable" Says Joe

"Everyone has no hope for the world anymore" Says T.K.

"Everyone seems so sad" Says Sora

At first I was hearing these voices in order, listening to whose voice was saying these things to me, as if I was talking on the phone. The voices seem to go faster, and faster, and more garbled too. I couldn't comprehend what anyone was saying at this point until my headache turned into a migraine as I quietly heard Kari's voice:

"The world is so dark…"

By now I've forgotten who was on the phone, lying on the floor curled up in a fetal position, clutching my head. But as soon as Kari's voice lifted from the air, I was at peace again. My pain has gone and I lifted myself off the floor to try and learn what had just happened in these few moments in my life. I laid down on the couch, trying to comprehend everything. I turn on my television but it's nothing but static. I turn it off, and throw the remote on the floor.

"What does this have to do with everything right now?" I asked myself. "I just feel so…alone…" Then it hit me.

Courage. What I needed was courage. But as far as I remember, we all gave up our crests a long time ago. We had no such thing anymore. I couldn't possibly have any courage left. All that was, was to just let my digimon evolve. It had nothing to do with any real courage - at least I don't think so. But, as I sigh, I suppose it is time to get out my apartment, get outside and learn what everything is about.

I poise myself in front of my door. I begin to rush in as If to tackle it. I've never really played football before but I'm honestly giving it my best shot. I go head first through my door as I bash my way to the outside world. I did it. I finally got outside. Without thinking I took the stairs down my apartment to the street right outside my apartment. Nobody was to be seen in miles even if I tried to look.

I wandered the streets of Tokyo, finding no life but myself in sight. I wander and I wander, but there's nothing really to be seen. Not even cars are on the streets.

It's been a good one hour of walking nonstop looking for someone to come by and rescue me. I was the leader of the group at one point and I honestly felt I had more control and more power I did then than I do now.

I took my digivice out of my pocket (took it with me just in case), and I looked at is closely. It seemed to display a map of some kind. It showed me where I was positioned on the map and a supposed location of where I was supposed to go. So I followed the map, because hey, like I got anything else better to do huh. I follow the map for a good long two hour ordeal and I end up, at all places, at an intersection. Except something was strange about it. Well, I only thought that because my digivice was going off like an alarm.

All in a flash in begins to rain, though I'm not getting wet. The closer I walk towards to the center of the intersection, the harder it rains. As dry as I am, the streets fill with puddles of water very quickly. I walk ever more closer to the center and find myself thigh deep in water, though still dry. I stand in the center of the intersection, practically drowning in floods of water, though still breathing just fine.

The digivice reacts more, and has an arrow pointing upwards. Odd, so I look upwards into the sky. And as soon as I did I got sucked out of the pool of water, being lifted into the air at high speeds and I ascend further and further until, well, I pass out pretty much.

"Tai? Tai? Tai!" A voice calls me.

I slowly open my eyes.

"Ugh…wuh…huh?" I grunt. "Who's there? Where am I? I…" I fully open my eyes, as I'm staring directly into someone else's.

"Huh? Tai?" A familiar voice asks me. "Are you awake?" A feminine voice asks me.

It was obviously Sora's, but I tried to hold back my embarassment and excitement so I laid still and answered,

"Uh…yeah?" I smile.

"Oh, ok, thank goodness you're alright" Sora backs her face away from mine. Now I get a clearer view of where I am now. I sit up looking around me.

"Well…there's Sora, Matt, and Izzi" I try to look for other people. "I guess nobody else is here huh?"

"No, not even as slightly a smell" Izzi speaks up as he is on his laptop computer typing away. "You can almost guess though, where we are now"

"You mean…we're back? The digital world I mean" I look directly at Izzi, sitting across from me. I see Matt leaning his back up against a try looking away, and Sora laying on her back looking up into the sky.

"Yup! You bet your butt we are" Matt says coolly, but with a sigh.

"Nobody seems to know what the reason is to as why we're here again" Izzi says. "Our Digimon, aren't here for one…" Izzi stops typing on his computer, "But I did find these crests with colours that match our old crests but with a different design to them" Izzi hands me my new crest, with necklace and all.

I look at my crest intently. It appears to be in the shape of a…sphere it seems.

"As you probably have realized, our crests are all shapes for some odd signifigance that I cannot deduct at this very moment" Izzi excitedly says. "Our digivices have no information on them whatsoever, and one by one as we came here, none of us have encountered anyone who has given or let us have these crests"

"Hmm…" I scratch my head. "What are the other crests like?" I ask Izzi.

"Well - Sora has a cube, Matt has a pyramid, and I have a hexagon"

"Interesting…"

"Come on guys, all of us are here so lets get going and find some shelter, it's freezing" Matt exclaims. Of course he says this while not letting loose one sign of a shiver, as to keep his cool figure.

"Yeah, Matt, you said it - I'm kinda hungry myself" Sora stands up and stretches into the air.

Izzi packs up his laptop and reaches out for my hand.

"Need help, or are you fine getting up by yourself?" Izzi asks.

"No - Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine" I tell Izzi as I push off the ground and stand up.

We all look at each other for a brief moment and head on outwards. Strangely enough the place where I woke up never really caught my attention before. It's a beach. Huh. Kinda like when I first came to the digital world.