Okay so this is my first ever fanfic, so I'm eager to see what the response will be like if anyone bothers to read it (hehehe). I don't want to say too much about the plot but the story revolves around seven teenage American digidestined (including Mimi and Michael's son and daughter). A new evil emerges that threatens to consume not only the Digital World but the real world as well, so a battle is about to be waged on both the real world and the Digi-world.

Disclaimer: Hmmm…well, I guess I don't own Digimon. I own all original characters, I'm pretty sure you'll be able to figure who those are and finally some of my "original" digimon are inspired by Pokemon and Neopets (especially the rookies).

Btw, I plan on updating regularly, hopefully at least once a week like a tv series.

Without further ado, let the adventure begin…

Digimon: The Fate of Two Worlds

Zodiac Saga

#1: Once Upon a Time

"This is nice," Isis Rodriguez sighed blissfully before sipping on her ice-tea. "No homework to worry about, no chores to do; no stress and no cares, just the way I like it." She took another sip from her cool beverage.

Isis was a 17 year old, half-Latina curly-haired brunette, with bright green eyes and a tall slender figure. She was known for being strong willed but intelligent, fierce but calm and was always getting involved in school sports, clubs and other social activities, making her not only the prettiest girl in school but also the most popular.

Trey Tachikawa-Washington sighed in agreement. "Pity this doesn't last forever though."

Being the oldest child of the internationally acclaimed celebrity chef and talk show host, Mimi Tachikawa, and world famous movie star, Michael Washington, combined with his position as star quarterback of the school's football team, it was no surprise that Trey happened to be who almost every girl in the school wanted to be with who every guy wanted to be; but Trey had never been interested in the limelight, he was content just hanging out with his friends like any normal seventeen year old. He was about a head taller than Isis, with short, neatly combed lilac locks and deep blue eyes; he was not overly muscular but trim and toned for his height and physique.

"Don't remind me," Isis moaned. "For the rest of the summer you're not allowed to mention anything school related okay? You can't even think the word."

"Fine by me."

Blue Water Beach was always quiet in the evenings, few people ever lingered on the beach after sunset; this suited Trey very much, it wasn't often he could get away from the hustle and constant noise of the city, so this was a welcome change. The pair lay on their backs on beach towels at the top of a shallow ascent overlooking the ocean which had turned dark, reflecting the night sky. At the foot of the ascent, splashing about in the water, three digimon and a third human were enjoying a game of tag.

"Hey, you guys sure you don't want to join in?" JT Luthor called, out of breath, to his friends. Trey and Isis mumbled their refusals, too content to move. "You guys are boring!"

JT – short for Jack Tyson – was Trey's best friend; the two had known each other since birth and had even gotten their digimon partners at the same time. They pair were inseparable and over the years their friendship had developed into a brotherhood despite the fact that they were as different as two people could be. Where Trey grew up in a wealthy family, JT's family had always been middleclass and were barely able to make ends meet like most other families, but they were too proud to ask for any financial help from their friends the Tachikawa-Washingtons'. JT was always getting himself into trouble as he was head strong and would often act without thinking, Trey on the other hand was calculated and always had a plan; where JT was hotheaded, Trey was known to be patient and only ever got angry when provoked or when his friends' or family's wellbeing were threatened. However, what the boys did have in common was that both of them would do anything to protect the ones they loved and it was this character trait that each respected and admired in the other.

JT was about the same height as Trey but was lean, where Trey was toned, and always wore clothes that were a couple sizes too big for him. His black hair was short and unkempt, styled haphazardly in short spikes and his brown eyes were open with a hint of playfulness, in contrast to Trey's brooding blue eyes.

"And you're it! Tag!" Felizmon, Trey's digimon partner, exclaimed, taking advantage of JT's moment of distraction to playfully strike him with a small blue paw before dashing away.

"I'm gonna get you for that, Felizmon," JT cried.

"You'll never catch me!" The blue digimon stuck out his tongue cheekily, taunting the teenager.

The best way to describe Felizmon would be as a cross between a puppy and a kangaroo. His head was like that of a puppy, with large black eyes a small button nose and long floppy ears but his body and posture were like that of a kangaroo, minus the pouch, however, a small kangaroo as he was little taller than Trey's waistline. Running down his back were bone spikes which ended just before his long tail, the tip of which was shaped like an arrow head. His fur was short and a bright shade of blue and on his forehead was a tuft of blue fur, like a fringe. His underbelly was covered by a thin coating of flesh hued fur.

Felizmon was a playful, cheeky digimon but was fiercely loyal to Trey and apart from JT and Isis was Trey's best friend. The pair had been together since Trey was a toddler and Felizmon was nothing more than a digi-egg waiting to be hatched and had been inseparable ever since. Felizmon's energy and enthusiasm always had a way of making Trey smile even when he was meant to be angry at the mischievous digimon.

JT sprinted after the blue digimon but quickly gave up, realizing it was futile. He focused his attention on the other two digimon, assessing which one would be an easier target. His decision was between Bichomon, his own partner, and Chattemon, Isis' digimon partner.

Bichomon was an overgrown yellow dragonfly; however, it only had four limbs – a pair of small hands, with two claws on each hand, and a pair of feet, also with two claws on each foot. He had large green segmented fly-like eyes and a line of green wedges jutted from its forwards, down its back to the tip of its small tail, which ended in a sharp, silver stinger. Finally, protruding from his back were two pairs of large veiny, semi-transparent fly-like wings. This digimon literally resembled a cross between a fly and a small dragon, standing at a head shorter than Felizmon.

Chattemon, on the other hand, was a small cat-like digimon with fur which was a mixture of dark pink and baby pink; and large blue eyes. Tucked behind her head were two furry antennae-like protrusions from either side of her forehead; however, her most striking feature was her two large pairs of ears on either side of her head.

JT considered the two digimon carefully, Chattemon was fast but nowhere near as fast as Felizmon – mainly because of the blue digimon's powerful kangaroo-like legs that helped it leap a sizable distance at a time – but she was faster than Bichomon, however, the bug digimon had the flight advantage. JT lunged at the pink cat.

Chattemon squealed in excitement as she narrowly evaded the attempt. "That was too close," she sighed her relief before creating some space between herself and JT.

Bichomon tauntingly flew within reaching distance of JT; then swiftly eluded JT's efforts at making contact with him. "Face it; the probability that you will be able to catch any of us is minimal," he buzzed haughtily. "I told you all those chocolate donuts would do you no good."

"Put a sock in it," JT feigned annoyance and made another failed attempt at getting hold of the bug digimon.

"Bicho's right, JT, you really should lay off of the donuts," Trey sniggered, before he knew both he and Isis were covered in sand. "HEY!" JT laughed out loud and kicked more sand at his friends. Trey returned the favor, kicking sand at JT; unfortunately for Isis, she was in the middle of the sand kicking and was struck by sand coming from both directions.

"Stop that!" Isis cried shaking the sand from her hair; the boys did as she said. As JT turned to return to the game of tag Isis grabbed a fistful of sand and flung it at his back, restarting the 'sand fight'.

"So does that mean we're not playing tag anymore?" Chattemon asked as the three digimon watched their partners trying to attack each other with sand.

"Who cares?" Felizmon enthused. "This looks way more fun!" and with that he kicked sand at the other two digimon. The six friends were shouted and laughed, as they enjoyed a game of 'sand war'.

They were so enthralled in their game that they did not notice as a small, feint white light shimmered in the air a distance away; it grew stronger by the moment, causing the air around to vibrate as it do so. The light was the size of a large doorway when Chattemon happened to notice it. "What's that?" she pointed one of her furry antennae towards the light. The other five looked to where she was pointing and gasped, bewildered.

"Looks like some sort of digi-port," Isis finally spoke. "I've never seen one appear out of nowhere like that before though."

"Something is coming out of it!" Bichomon yelped as a large dark silhouette emerged in the middle of the growing light.

"What is it?" Felizmon breathed; it was an open question to which no one had an answer.

Trey instinctively stepped into the space between his friends and the light, ready to protect them at any cost. "I think we're about to find out."

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At the same time…

Mika Tachikawa-Washington was nothing like her brother, Trey. Though Trey would have preferred to do without the attention that came with being the child of two major international celebrities, he was still at the top of the social hierarchy at school and had no trouble making new friends; Mika on the other hand was not so fortunate, most people didn't even realize that the two were related, despite their eyes which were an identical shade of blue. Mika was the spitting image of her mother when she was her age, except she had shoulder length, straight turquoise hair and did not walk with as much confidence; where Mimi had always been aware of her beauty, Mika had always felt awkward and unattractive, always misconstruing the attention she was paid by boys for them being either particularly friendly or having some hidden agenda. Due to her lack of self-confidence in social situations, she usually avoided other people and engulfed herself in books of any type; she especially like books that allowed her to image she was someone brave and beautiful and liked by all. Mika's intelligence was far more advanced than any 15 year old she knew, but this did little to boost her popularity as she was shy and reserved, the result of which was that her only friend was the little pink, floating plant-like digimon with which she was enjoying a picnic in the park.

Petalmon was Mika's digimon partner and only friend. She was petit yellow digimon – only half the height from Mika's knees to her feet – with a large round head and a pair of small red button-eyes; the rest of her body together was half the size of her head and comprised of small fingerless stubby hands and toeless feet, with her torso and hands covered by what appeared to be a pink star-shaped poncho, which was in fact a large petal. On each side of her forehead was a large red ball, with which she absorbed sunlight, protruding upwards from her forehead was a large pink petal and four more large pink petals protruded from the back of heard head, creating the appearance of two pairs of petal wings.

"Did you like the brownies?" Mika asked as Petal finished another of the chocolate brownies Mika had baked for the picnic.

"Ye-es," Petalmon muttered her approval between bites of the pastry; she then wiped the chocolate from the corner of her mouth. "You've outdone yourself, Mika."

"Thanks," Mika blushed; she had never been good at accepting compliments and was far too modest. "I tried something different with the icing this time, I'm glad you liked them." Mika then looked down at her watch, "It's getting pretty late, we'd better head home." She and Petalmon started packing their things when Mika noticed something strange in the distance. "Hey, Petalmon, what do you think that is?"

Petalmon looked in the direction of Mika's gaze and gasped as a bright white light filled the evening sky and the air around it rippled. "It looks like a digi-port."

"Are you sure? It's coming from the beach," Mika remembered her brother saying that he, Isis, JT and their digimon partners would be at the beach that evening. "Do you think Trey and his friends are doing that?"

"I don't know what's happening but whatever it is I feel like it's calling me to it."

"I'm scared, Petalmon," Mika whimpered. "What if my brother's in trouble?"

"Let's check it out, at least if your brother needs us then we'll be there, but I'm sure it's nothing to worry about," Petalmon reasoned trying to sound confident in order to reassure Mika. Petalmon hovered in the direction of the light and Mika hesitantly followed behind her, clutching the picnic basket tightly; it was all she could do to keep herself from turning around and running home where she was sure it was safe. But there was always the possibility that her brother was in trouble and if she could help she would; she'd just have to try to put aside her fear.

It was a short walk from the park to the beach and an even shorter walk to the spot where Trey and his friends stood staring at the figure, shrouded in darkness, that moved was emerging from the portal.

"Mika, what are you doing here?" Trey's voice was thick with concern, he had no idea what was happening but he knew that he didn't want his sister getting involved in any of it as it could be dangerous.

"Petalmon and I were in the park when we saw this light," she explained, barely able to tear her gaze away from the light, "I knew you'd be here so I wanted to make sure you're okay."

"Go home, Mika, I have no idea what that thing is and I don't want you getting hurt."

"No one is going anywhere," the silhouette spoke, his voice deep and gravely with threateningly playful quality to it. Finally the figure was completely out of the portal and now towered over the teenagers and their digimon friends, all of whose eyes were wide with fear as they stared back at the figure. "The more the merrier."

The being that stepped out of the portal appeared to be a giant black tyrannosaurus with red markings all over its body and large green wedges protruding from down its back to the point where its long powerful tail began. The creature licked its lips suggestively; revealing a set of threateningly sharp incisors, second in size only to the two enormous claws on each of the beasts bandaged paws. "Don't just stand there," the creature growled, "let's have ourselves some fun." With that he slashed out at Trey – who happened to be the nearest target – with the claws on his right paw. Trey, narrowly evading the attack, lost balance and fell backwards on the sand. The beast swung its claw at Trey yet again.

"HYPERDRIVE HEADBUTT!" Felizmon roared. He charged, head first, at the black dinosaur, a blue energy surrounding his entire form. The small puppy-kangaroo digimon head butted the creature's claw away from its intended target. "RUN!" Trey and the others didn't need to be told twice and set off at a swift pace, the dinosaur digimon following closely behind them.

"What is that thing?" Mika breathed heavily as they desperately sprinted away from their dark assailant.

It was Bichomon who replied, as his small dragonfly wings beat faster than ever. "That's DarkTyrannomon."

"We're never going to be able to outrun him!" JT dared to steal a glance backwards, only to see that the dinosaur digimon was gaining on them. "He's too fast."

"What else can we do?" Isis snapped; the only alternative was to stand and fight the creature and that, to her, seemed just as futile.

"We can't possibly defeat that thing," the tremble in Mika's voice betrayed not only her fear but also her fatigue; she wouldn't be able to run at this pace for much further.

Suddenly Felizmon stopped running and turned to face DarkTyrannomon who stopped his chase, intrigued by the blue digimon's boldness. "We at least have to try!" Felizmon roared and charged at the dinosaur, blue energy forming around him as he prepared to deliver another Hyperdrive Headbutt.

"Iron Tail!" DarkTyrannomon swatted Felizmon away with a swing of his powerful tail. Felizmon thrown was hurled a couple feet backward, luckily the sand broke his fall. The black dinosaur stalked towards the fallen digimon.

"BUZZ STINGER!"

"WHIPLASH!"

"SEED BLAST!"

DarkTyrannomon stumbled backward as three sets of attacks connected against its hardened torso. He was struck by a stinger – which Bichomon had shot at him like a missile – a barrage of exploding seeds from Petalmon's mouth and by Chattemon's pink antennae-like protrusions, which the cat digimon wielded like a whip.

"You're going to have to do better than that!" DarkTyrannomon roared as he regained his balance; their attacks had done little to no damage, and left the dark digimon unscathed. "Fire Blast!" the dinosaur digimon growled before breathing a stream of flames at the smaller digimon and their human partners. The group scattered, barely avoiding the blast.

"What're we going to do, there's no way we can beat this guy, he's too powerful," Isis struggled to get to her feet.

"Yeah, this isn't looking good at all," Bichomon grumbled as he nursed a damaged wing. "Look what he's done to my wing?"

"Razor Blade Tail Whip!" Felizmon attempted yet another attack against the smirking dinosaur, this time he struck at it with the arrowhead-like tip of his tail. At the sometime Bichomon launched another of his tail stingers at DarkTyrannomon, while Chattemon performed another Whiplash. The combined attacks barely fazed DarkTyrannomon who now advanced on the helpless group.

"I'm going to try to distract him while the rest of you try to get away from here," Trey said loud enough so only his friends and sister could hear. This plan of action was met with a flood of protest, which Trey stopped with a dismissive wave of his hand. "Look, there's no point all of us putting our lives at risk, I can at least try to lead him away so the rest of you can get help from my parents and their other digidestined friends."

"I'll stay with you, Trey," JT announced, his determined expression concealed his fear.

"No," Trey shook his head, "you're going to need to protect Isis and my sister; anyway Felizmon will be with me." JT opened his mouth to protest but was abruptly interrupted as the group dodged yet another burst of the dinosaur digimon's Fire Blast. "Go!" Trey ordered. As the others sprinted towards the staircase that led to the beach exit, Trey and Felizmon shared an encouraging glance; neither of them expected that things would end well for them but they also knew that what they were doing was to protect the ones they loved. Without exchanging words, the pair sprinted in the opposite direction from their friends, while taunting the giant dinosaur to draw its attention. "C'mon ugly, hit me with your best shot!" "I've seen Numemon that look and smell better than you, pal!" "Did someone beat you with an ugly stick while you were still a digi-egg?"

DarkTyrannomon stalked towards Trey and Felizmon, licking his sharp canines as he imagined what tasty meals they would make. As he neared the pair, its attention was averted by a cry of pain bellowed from behind him; he tore his attention away from Trey and Felizmon and now advanced on Mika who had tripped on a semi-concealed rock in her haste to leave the beach, she now lay writhing in pain while clutching her bleeding knee. Her eyes widened as she realized that she was now the target of the dark dinosaur.

"Mika! No!" Trey shouted and sprinted towards his felled sister, Felizmon bounding after him.

"FIRE BLAST!" DarkTyrannomon unleashed a burst of fire more intense than any he had before. Mika was silenced as she watched the flames careening towards her, paralyzed by her fear.

"MIKA!" Trey roared and dove in front of his sister, hoping to shield her from the blast with his own body.

As the flames connected with the ground a massive cloud of sand exploded into the air, obscuring everyone's visibility.

JT fell to his knees, his face a palette of rage, pain, grief; he couldn't believe that his best friend of 17 years was gone. Tears streamed from Isis' eyes as she leaned against a large boulder in the sand, to stop herself from falling in despair. Petalmon, Bichomon and Chattemon were also in tears as their friends – and partner – were incinerated. DarkTyrannomon smirked as he turned towards the grieving humans and digimon and moved towards them. "Don't cry, you'll be joining your friends soon enough," he taunted.

"I'm afraid you're not quite finished with us yet."

DarkTyrannomon and the remaining humans and digimon turned to the now settling cloud of sand, where three silhouettes were visible. As the sand cloud finally cleared Trey could be seen crouching over a frightened but otherwise unharmed Mika, while Felizmon resolutely stood in front of the pair; evidently he had absorbed the blast. The dark digimon and their friends gasped in wide-eyed surprise, not only at the fact that the three had survived the attack seemingly unharmed but also at the fact that Felizmon was surrounded by an intense white light as was the circular device nestled in Trey's right palm.

"It can't be!" JT and DarkTyrannomon gasped; where JT's sharp of intake breath revealed a mixture of awe and anticipation, the dinosaur's betrayed his apprehension.

Trey grinned, he's parents had told him stories of this happening but he'd never expected to experience it for himself. Instinctively, he wasted no time in thrusting his right hand into the air as the glow surrounding his digivice intensified. "FELIZMON!" he cried, a surreal energy coursing through him, "DIGIVOLVE!"

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So there you have it, the end of the very first installment of my very first fanfic, hope you liked it. There wasn't much in terms of plot and character development in this chapter as it's still early days and everything will unravel in time. Sorry about the way the chapter ended, I still have some kinks to work out in the battle that ensues so I wanted to leave you with a bit of a cliffhanger…now maybe you'll be eager to read the next chapter.

Oohh, please feel free to review, I'd love to know what you guys think about the story and how it can be improved; so feel free to comment about what's hot and what's not. I know it's still early days but any bit of criticism (no matter how small) could help make this story something special

Anywhoo till next time, PEACE!