Welcome to Chapter One of my fanfic. Please sit back and relax as you read this story and see what I have in store for you all. I do not own the Digimon characters, but I own The Dark Jester and his appearance. Unfortunatly for some of you, I will not bring in any of the favorite Digimon. The only Digimon you will see in this fanfic are ones that work for evil.


The Dark Jester

Chapter One

Of Nightmares and Lost Love

Darkness. It was all that surrounded him. There was no sign of light anywhere, no crack of light, no door to reveal light, not even a simple small candle. It was pitch black. He waved his hand in front of his face, but he couldn't see it. It was too dark to see. From the deepest part of the shadows, a small giggle was heard. The giggle resembled that of a clown's giggle. Nothing evil, but it was scary, considering that it was dark. The giggle kept coming, there was no end to it. Because of the pure darkness, the source of the voice's location was near impossible to trace. Suddenly, to giggling stopped. After a while of silence, the giggle was replaced with a voice.

"You cannot escape from me." The voice said, "Darkness is everywhere. And where they are, so am I."

The voice echoed in the shadows.

"Here's a riddle for your mind. Simple, but fun for my amusement." The voice said,

"When your eyes are open I am not there,

but when they are closed, I'm everywhere.

During calm nights I cannot harm you,

but when the mind is weak I can consume you.

What Am I?"

He gave no answer to the voice, It wasn't as simple as the voice had said. This was something he didn't know. In time, the voice spoke again.

"Give up?" The voice asked, "Very well, Allow me to give the answer."

The the voice then giggled once more before revealing the answer to the riddle.

"I am your Nightmare." The voice then tore throught the darkness, revealing it's face. But there was no face, there was a mask. The mask was evenly divided into three vertical stripes. The middle stripe was in a bright white color while the two stripes outside, were black. A dent in the mask, going from one side of the face to the other revealed the mouth, a largely grinning mouth. There were no lips on it, just a grin. Two eyes, colored in a bloodred tint, were on the mask. Also from the shadows, two purple gloved hands came out. The clown faced riddler laughed hysterically before reaching out to pounceat him.

Tai awoke from the darkness of his sleep. Cold sweat began to race down his forehead. He looked out the window, it was a few minutes past sunrise. He looked over to the bed that rested across the room. His roommate had already woken up. Tai wiped the sweat off his face and started to breathe deeply. At this time, his roommate came into the room, with a laptop in his right hand and a bottle of water in his left.

"Hey Tai, I can see that you're up." He said.

"Hey Izzy." Tai replied.

Izzy could tell that something was wrong with Tai. Being his roommate in college fornearly a year, Izzy knew well when Tai was feeling good or not. It started to affect Tai's focus in classes and his physical fitness, he doesn't go out to play soccer as much as he used to.

"Was it the nightmare again?" Izzy asked.

"It never changes." Tai said, "Its like watching a Christmas movie rerun."

"I'm sure it'll pass in time." Izzy said, "Nothing lasts forever."

"You told me that last month." Tai said, "Its beenyears since I've been getting these nightmares."

"You think it could be a sign?" Izzy asked, "Repeated dreams like this could always predict the future."

"I don't know." Tai replied, "I don't think a clown's gonna pounce at me in the middle of the night."

"That's not what I mean." Izzy said, "What if this clown is a sign. A sign of what might happen later on."

Tai took this moment to go into deep thought. What could the dreams mean? What significance is this clown in his dreams? It was the fourth aniversary since the day MaloMyotismon was defeated and since then, these nightmares poured into his mind, torturing him, haunting him. Why him? What did he do to deserve this? For half a year, he pondered and stressed over this question, never getting an answer for it, not even a sign of hope that it would someday stop.

"Tai, you know, its Saturday." Izzy pointed out, "How about we go hang out with the others?"

"Sure, why not?" Tai replied, "Anything to get this night out of my head. You didn't tell anyone else about this did you?"

"Of course." Izzy answered, "I promised. Not even your sister knows."


Tai and Izzy walked down the park, heading towards a group of people that were gathered around, under a tree.

"Hey guys." one of the younger girls called out, "Tai and Izzy are here."

She got up and ran towards the two and embraced Tai in a big hug.

"I missed you Tai." She said.

"So did I Kari." Tai replied, "How's everything at home?"

"Its going well." Kari answered, "I changed your room into Gatomon's own room."

"Why doesn't that surprise me." Tai muttered.

"How have you been doing Tai?" Kari asked.

"Pretty much the same." Tai replied.

"Even that one issue?" Kari knew perfectly well of Tai's desire.

(Flashback)

Tai waited outside in the cold night. The streetlights that shined out a blurry gold light illuminated Tai as he stood under it. Next to him, an orange lizard-Digimon stood next to him, shivering and breathing into his claws.

"Tai, its cold, what are we doing out here?" Agumon asked.

"I'm waiting for Sora." Tai answered, "We'll be inside in no time."

Tai looked in the distance of the dark. He saw a Sora, dressed in a blue jacket and scarf, wlking towards him. She held what seemed to be a box.

"There she is." Tai said.

Sora approuched Tai. She gave him a warm smile.

"Hi Tai." Sora said, "What are you doing out here?"

"I was waitng for you." Tai replied, "I just wanted to know if you were going to Matt's concert with anyone?"

"Oh." Sora gave a small look of guilt.

"What?" Tai asked, "What did I say wrong?"

"You see, I was hoping to make myself available for Matt." Sora replied.

"Oh." That was all that came out of Tai, "I see."

(End of Flashback)

"Tai?"

"Huh?" Tai woke back up into reality.

"Are you alright?" Kari asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Tai said, "Don't worry about me. Let's make this a good day."


The whole gang hung out at the park, near the soccer field. While the boys played soccer, the girls sat by a nearby tree, under the shade to cheer them on. Tai made constant looks over to Matt as he and Sora shared small glances at eachother and smiled. Tai couldn't handle this. Tai felt his heart begin to clench, he felt his mind twist and squeeze, torturing him, and then, the laugh of the dark clown entered his mind.

"Tai?" Izzy looked over at him, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Tai replied, "I'm fine."

"Its the nightmare again isn't it?" Izzy asked.

"Don't worry about it." Tai said, "It'll go away soon."

But it didn't, for the whole day, the sound of the clown kept haunting him. Even when Tai wanted to enjoy the happy moments, the evil laugh ruined it all. Tai couldn't make it go away, no matter what he did. He even resorted to drinking on certain nights. Luckily, he never took too much, he took enough to hopefully forget about the bad stuff of that day and make it back to his dorm alive. That day finally ended when the sun setted behind the apartments of Odaiba. They all gathered around the park, preparing for their goodbyes.

"I guess this is it." TK said.

"We should do this more often." Davis said, "We don't see eachother that often anymore."

"I agree." Cody replied.

"How about next week?" Matt asked, "My dad's going off for a business trip and I have the house for three nights."

"Sounds good to me." Sora said, giggling.

"Works for me." Joe said.

"All in favor?" TK asked.

Everyone agreed on the date. They all went their seperate ways, heading home. Tai saw that Matt and Sora were walking together. This was painful to him. Though he didn't want to see this, he had the urge to follow them and see what they were going to do. As the couple walked down the park path, Tai followed them off the trail, hiding behind the bushes and trees. He finally followed them to Sora home. Tai prayed that nothing would happen and thatMatt would leave with a simple goodbye.

"I'll see you tomorrow?" Matt asked.

"Definitly." Sora pulled Matt towards herself and embraced him in a deep passionate kiss.

Tai looked in horror as he saw the one person he could ever love be taken away by him with the kiss. Of course the two were dating for two years now, but Tai didn't have the time to focus on them, considering all the work he had to do in college. It was over, Tai knew fo sure, nothing would seperate those two, not even death. As Tai began to sob in grief, a swirl of shadow began to form under him. Before Tai could notice it and react, the dark hole engulfed him and took him in. Tai only reacted with the shortest scream possible, before he disappeared from sight.


"Where am I?" Tai asked, but there was no response.

The surrounding was nothing, there was no wall, no door, no light. It suddenly hit him, this was his nightmare. Tai's nightmare was coming to reality. As expected, the laugh of the clown came.

"Who are you?" Tai asked, to the voice, "Why are you ding this to me?"

"This is for what you have done to me many years ago." The voice replied.

"That voice?" Tai responded, "Its no the one in my nightmares. Its..."

"That one and only." From the shadows, the face of the voice appeared.

"Apoclymon." Tai looked in shock to see his enemy once again.

"You see what I have become?" From where Tai was, Apoclymon was greatly deformed, other than the fact that he no longer had the giant block below his waist, his right arm wasn't there and his face was greatly scarred and missing a left eye.

"You did this to me!" He screamed in anger, "And now, I get my revenge."

From the shadows, chained claws popped out and grabbed onto Tai. The sharp blades on the claws cut through his clothes and his skin, causing Tai to scream in pain.

"What's the matter?" Apoclymon asked, "Is the Great DigiDestined of Courage losing his courage?"

The claws released Tai from their grips, but they gave to mercy to Tai, the claws began to swing around and smack Tai. With the darkness surrounding the place, Tai couldn't see where the hits were coming from. The beating continued on and on, bruising Tai and cutting him deeply. As blood began to dripp from the cuts and the stinging pain began to take control, Tai fell to the dark ground.

"Had enough?" Apoclymon asked, "Because I haven't."

The beating resumed, the claws kept swinging and beating Tai as he laid on the floor in pain. The screaming from Tai's throat kept coming, but there was no one else around to hear him in pain.

"No one can save you, boy." Apoclymon screamed in evil joy.

"Not if I say anything against that."

From the pitch black surroundingd, a cut in the blackness came through and a bright white light poured in. The light began to cover the darkness and the light revealed Apoclymon's complete body. He was covered in a black cloak, which covered his waist down. His upper body showed all the scars and the missing right arm.

"How dare you come into my domain!" Apoclymon screamed.

"You have something that belongs to the light." The voice said, "And I intend to take it back."

From the tear in the dakrness, of where the light came in, a robed figure jumped out and took Tai's bloody body.

"You won't escape me that easily!" Apoclymon screamed. He reared up and sent the claws out again, in hopes of attacking the robed figure.


Tai got up from where he was laying. He breathed deeply as the sunlight poured into the room. Tai found himself covered ith a blanket, lying on the floor of a Japanese-style home.

"Its good to see that your still alive, Tai."

Tai looked over to the door and saw someone standing there. A tan-robed person stood by the door, wearing his hood, covering his face.

"Gennai?" Tai asked, "Is it you?"

"Yes it is." Gennai replied. He removed the hood from his head, to show his young-adult face.

"Where am I?" Tai asked.

"It doesn't matter now." Gennai answered, "You were very dazed when I found you."

"You mean it actually happened?" Tai asked, "Is he?"

"Yes." Gennai replied, "He's alive, but fortunatly, the torture he gave you wasn't real. It was all in your mind. I had to enter it myself to get you to regain your conciousness."

"But how?" Tai asked, "How could he still be alive? We destroyed him."

"I know you did, but somehow, he regained much of his powers and now, all that is dark and evil, is under his control." Gennai said, "I still don't know how much stronger he he became."

"It felt like my nightmares were coming true." Tai said, thinking back to the last nightmare he had.

"Come with me." Gennai said, "Let's get you some food. When you're done, we'll need to talk about this nightmare."


Matt and Sora looked over to where they heard the sound of someone screaming.

"What was that?" Sora asked.

"I don't know." Matt went over to investigate the disturbance.

"What do you see?" Sora asked, "Anything?"

"Nothing." Matt replied, "Absolutely nothing."

"Then where did that scream come from?" Sora asked, "You heard it too didn't you?"

"Yeah, I did." Matt replied, "Listen, I gotta go and clean the place up before my dad gets home from work."

Matt gave Sora a quick kiss on the cheek before he dashed off back home. Before Sora turned back to enter through the doorway of her house, she looked back to where she heard the scream, wondering who it could have been.


Nighttime approuched and Tai laid on the bed as he waited for Gennai to return. As he waited patiently, the sound of the clown reentered his mind. Following that was the screaming of a darker voice.

I will get you! Revenge will be mine!

It was him, Apoclymon.

"Tai?" Gennai entered the room, "Its time. I'll help you get home."

Tai got up from the mat on the floor and followed Gennai out of the room and to the exit that them both outside. Gennai pulled out a small device and before them, a portal appeared. The portal glowed in a bright rainbow aura, illuminating the walls of Gennai's home.

"Stay close Tai." Gennai instructed, "I don't want you to get lost."

The two entered the portal and in a flash of light, the two men and the portal disappeared from sight.

(One hour later, back in the real world.)

Tai stood next to a figure dressed in a tan brown robe with his hood covering his face. The two stood on the rooftops, staring out into the night sky.

"Since then the nightmares keep coming to me." Tai explained, "Its been a pain to me considering I have other problems."

"What other problems do you have?" Gennai asked.

"Sora." Tai replied, it was the only answer he needed to give for Gennai to understand.

"Ah, I see." Gennai said, "Love. A powerful thing it is. Powerful in good and evil ways. But tell me about this nightmare. What is it like?"

"Everynight, its the same." Tai said, "The face keeps haunting me. A pale face with a look of evil in it's eyes."

In the pitch blackness inside his head, a jokish giggle was heard from within. Tai shuddered as the giggle echoed in the corner of his mind.

"What kind of face was it?" Gennai asked.

From the blackness of Tai's mind, the giggling revealed its face, showing a mask with a large grin on its face. The face popped out of the darkness, now laughing. Tai turned towards Gennai, with a look of fear.

"A clown."


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