Kiara means dark or little. I don't own digimon, or characters except for Kiara.

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Kari awoke in bed and looked next to her, her husband by her side. She had been 17 when they started dating, and 20 when married. Her husband, Ken, was the same age as her. They had been 22 when they had their daughter, and now they were both 35.

Kari smiled thinking of their wedding day. Their friend Cody was the one who acted as reverend. He had gotten a license online. Yolei, Sora and Mimi had been Kari's bridesmaids, while Tai, TK and Davis were Ken's groomsmen. Kari thought of the wedding often, holding it as one of her favorite memories.

Her other favorite memory was the day Kiara was born. They had chosen the name beforehand, knowing it was going to be a girl. They had decided to go with a K name so their little family would all have names that started with a K. Kiara was so small and beautiful when she was born; with light brown hair, that turned into a darker brown/burgundy as she became older .

Kari looked at the clock at realized she spent too much time reminiscing. She was about to wake Ken but she soon remembered that it was the weekend and Ken did not have to work. She would have made breakfast but Kiara was over at Tai and Matt's house.

She knew she couldn't get back to sleep so she rose out of bed and went to the kitchen to start the dishes. After a little bit the phone started to ring, so she went over and answered.

"Kari?" She heard the panic in his voice.

"What's wrong Tai?" She asked over the phone.

"It's about Kiara," he said.

"What's wrong? Is she sick? Is she okay?" Kari started to worry.

"It was so strange. One minute she was at the table eating breakfast, and the next she was gone. It's like she was kind of fuzzy a few seconds and then she disappeared," Tai tried to say calmly.

Kari dropped to her knees, "my baby. How could this happen?"

Ken came into the room and noticed Kari on the floor, "What's wrong Kari?" He came and kneeled by his wife.

"Kiara…" Kari whispered.

Ken took the phone and looked at the caller, "Tai, what happened?"
Tai explained again and then told Ken that he and Matt were on their way over.

After getting Kari into the living room and onto the couch, Ken got Kari to calm down a bit.

"What if it's the digital world open again?" Ken brainstormed.

"You need a digivice to go there. You don't just disappear there. I know where she is."

Ken looked at his wife's face and asked, "She could have gotten a digivice. Where do you think she is?"

"I think she's in the dark ocean," Kari replied remembering how she herself had disappeared to that dark beach.

When Tai and Matt arrived Kari prepared herself to tell them her theory. She had calmed down a bit and wanted to ask a few more questions.

"Was she acting weird? Anything abnormal?"

"No, she seemed fine. She was eating and we were all talking and then she just kind of went fuzzy, or blurry, and disappeared," Matt answered.

"I think she went to the Dark Ocean," Kari told her brother and his husband.

"Well, I can't think of a better theory. But didn't you have dreams or something before going there?" Tai asked his sister.

"I had nightmares and visions. Ken went to go into the digital world and ended up there. We've both seen it at random, but not since we defeated MaloMyotismon," Kari responded.

After a few more hours of discussion, and deciding they couldn't call the police for someone disappearing out of thin air, Ken and Kari's house phone started to ring and Ken went to pick it up.

"Hello?" Ken asked.

"Hey Ken, it's Izzy, I've been trying to get ahold of Tai but he isn't answering. Have you heard from him?"

"Yes he is here, but we have a problem right now, we don't have much time to chat."

"Ken, it's important. I wanted to tell Tai first, but I just got a message from Tentomon. The digital gates are opening again."

"Izzy!" Ken shouted into the phone as an idea popped into his head, "Can you search for people in the digital world?"

"If they have a digivice. Or I can send our digimon on a search and find. Why?"

"Kiara is missing. We think she went to the dark ocean, but I think she might end up in the digital world."

"I'll have everyone keep an eye out. Sounds like you do have a problem, so I will let you go. I'll keep in touch. Bye." The phone clicked silent.

Ken walked back into the room where Tai, Matt and Kari were brainstorming.

"Ken, you opened a dark gate before, do you think you could do it again?" Matt asked.

"I have no idea, but that was Izzy on the phone and I have good, or bad, news. The digital gates are opening again. We can go back."