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KAMIYA FAMILY CURSE

-- Digimon Battles, School Exams and Emotional Overloads --

Last Time:

She trailed off with a gasp, the same sound that echoed from the others, as a large group of creatures stepped through the fog around him. As she took each one in, her smile grew and grew. Fox, cat, wolf/reptile, three dinosaurs, two rabbits, some guinea pig with wings, two birds and humanoid lion. Oh my GOD!

There was no doubt about it. It was them. It was the Digimon.

"Takatomon?" Guilmon was the first to break the silence, causing tears of joy to well up in the eyes of all Tamers and DigiDestined present. "Why's my shed everywhere?"


And now, let's continue…

Chapter Two:

Let's Go Together

Shinjuku Park

"You…uh, you s-stepped on it, boy," Takato had a hard time getting the words out, blocked by his overload of emotions. Joy. Longing. Excitement. Relief. And an undeniable urge to chuckle at the confused look his Partner gained.

"Awww, but where Guilmon going to sleep now?" the Digimon pouted, causing chuckles and smiles to slide into place on everyone's faces.

And just like that, the confusing tension was broken, and Digimon came roaring out of the rubble and fog to reunite with their Tamers.

"Tai! Tai!" Agumon exclaimed, hopping up and down in front of his Partner and reminding him of the last time they were reunited, when he'd done the same thing.

"Matt, have you skipped your haircut since I left?" Gabumon asked, his slow, calm and rumbling voice carrying amusement that made Matt ruffle some of his Partner's fur.

"Sora, I've missed you so much!" Biyomon grinned, flapping her wings to land beside the redhead. "You can't imagine how bored I was getting listening to Palmon talk all the time in the Digital World!"

"Considering the fact that she's Mimi's Partner, I think I can," Sora smiled softly.

"Davis!" Veemon shouted, leaping at the boy and tackling him to the ground.

"Yolei, it is wonderful to see you!" the bird Digimon was circling his Tamer in the air.

"T.K. I missed ya!" Patamon squeaked, flapping his ears and landing on his Tamer's beige hat. "Still as comfy as I remember!"

"Suzie! I wanna play Princess Pretty Pants!" Lopmon declared, floating over and landing in the young girl's arms, being twirled soon after.

Her counterpart, Terriermon, floated over to the older Wong sibling, impairing Henry's view as he landed on his head and wrapped his ears around his head.

"Terriermon! What are you doing?" Henry spluttered.

"Momentai, Henry!" the Digimon grinned. "I told ya!"

"Kari!" Gatomon cried, leaping into her Partner's arms, her tail swishing about. With a smile Kari reached into her pocket, retrieving a small, round and golden ring.

"This belongs to you," Kari said softly, slipping in onto the tail of her Digimon. Gatomon looked even happier that her Tail Ring was back in place. She'd given it to Kari when they'd been separated after saving the world, telling her to keep it, knowing they would meet again. "I've always kept it close."

With folded arms Rika watched her sister reunite with the small white cat, and something of a crooked smile formed on her lips. "Is that a smile I see, Rika?" a familiar voice mused, and the redhead turned to see Renamon phasing into view.

"'Course not, since when do I smile?" the Digimon Queen countered, and a moment of silence passed between the two before Rika truly smiled, launching herself at Renamon with a hug. "I missed you."

"I told you we'd see each other again."

"Takatomon, I'm hungry," Guilmon pouted, walking up to his Tamer.

"Didn't you eat over there?" Takato grinned, patting the Digimon on its head and remembering what Ryo had once told them about eating in the Digital World.

"Yeah, but they don't have bread that Guilmon likes!"

"Okay, okay," the brown-haired teen chuckled. "We'll get you some bread."

"And a new shed?"

"And a new shed," Takato laughed. "I promise."

"Jeri," Leomon was last out of the fog, his tall and towering frame taking two steps towards his Partner. He nodded his head as the young girl's eyes filled with tears.

Unlike the others, she had lost Leomon during the events of the D-Reaper, when Impmon's Mega stage, Beelzemon, was mad with power and attempted to kill Kyuubimon. Lemon had been there to stop him, being mortally wounded and absorbed in the process.

"I thought I lost you," she whimpered, wrapping her arms around him as the others watched. "After Beelzemon…I…I thought you were gone."

"When Impmon returned to the Digital World through the Data Stream, all the data he'd absorbed as Beelzemon was sucked out of him and let loose onto the data waves," Leomon explained. "I found my way to the Egg Village, and was reborn."

"But how did you get here?" Jeri questioned through tears of joy, looking up.

"More importantly, what's going on?" Tai questioned, assuming a leadership role almost immediately. It came naturally to him, but for the past three years it had been a shared role between himself, Davis and Takato. The Goggle Boys.

"I thought the Portals were closed," Sora nodded, looking to Henry, knowing it was his father who had made the decision to do so. The blue-haired boy merely shrugged, just as lost as she and everyone else were – except Ryo.

"I've got bad news," Ryo stated, just as the cloud began dissipating behind him.

Just like him to show up outta nowhere, bringing shitty news, Rika thought to herself, rolling her eyes. "What is it this time, Akiyama?"

"Something pretty serious, Kamiya," he smirked, using her true family name just to piss her off. Even after three years, she tended to get a little touchy when it was used, especially by him. "Something big is coming – like, big as the Sovereigns, big."

"Bad?" Davis asked.

"Extremely," Ryo nodded. "I found out about it a while back, when a Digital Portal opened through my computer. I got sucked through and met up with Agumon, who explained that bad stuff was brewing. When he told me that even the Sovereigns had trouble with this guy, I knew I had to round up the Digimon and head over."

"What's coming?" Matt frowned. "What could be big enough to bug even the Sovereigns?"

"His name's Millenniummon, and he's real bad news."

"Millenniummon?" Tai gasped, and Agumon looked up at him.

"Yeah, you remember him?"

"You know him?" Sora spoke up.

"A couple years ago, in between the stuff the younger DigiDestined had to deal with, and the stuff the Tamers went through, the same kinda thing happened. I got sucked into an opened Digital Portal," Tai began explaining. "It's when I first met Ryo. The two of us, with our Digimon, had to go and beat up Millenniummon and his cronies."

"Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like we did him in like we thought," Ryo sighed.

"What's he want?" Davis asked.

"Same thing all evil Digimon that come to this world want," Terriermon stated matter-of-factly. "To make it go boom!"

"Hey, Akiyama," Rika called, crossing her arms. "You said last time you and Tai were here to fight this thing, you, him, Agumon and Monodramon defeated it, right?"

"Yeah."

"So where's Monodramon?"

A somber look crossed the sixteen-year-old's face that almost made her regret asking.

"He uh…he's not coming," he sighed, looking to the ground.

Okay, now she felt real bad for asking. And – she hated feeling guilty. She took a step forward, placing an unsteady hand on his shoulder. "Ryo? I'm—"

Suddenly a tremor shook the earth at their feet, causing several of the teens to fall over, leaning on each other or their Digimon for support. Rika fell forward, and Ryo was alert enough to catch her. This made him smile as he looked at her, and she frowned angrily, pulling away.

A thunderclap sounded in the air, causing the kids to look up and see a large rift had just opened.

It glowed like a dark and eerie rainbow, flickering as it widened. The teens and their Partners could only watch in abject horror as a huge shadow moved through what they could only assume was a Digital Portal.

"Oh my God," Sora breathed, bringing a hand to cover her mouth as they watched a large Digimon exit the portal, it's roar tearing through the airwaves with enough force to rock the earth beneath their feet.

Their eyes went wide as they watched the huge monster fly into view, a towering shadow that covered the sky. It was mostly black, and just so happened to have four long arms, the bulk of it looking like a dinosaur-creature. They soon noticed as it glided through the air that above the black frame of the creature was something of a fuzzy, digitized copy, which glowed yellow and looked more cat-like than dinosaur-like.

And strapped to the backs of the conjoined forms?

There were two huge and immensely scary-looking cannons.

"That doesn't look good," Yolei pointed out.

"Guys," Matt sounded worried, and it caused everyone to look up at the large Digimon, finally exiting the Digital Portal. It roared again, causing the ground to shake, and shot forward, flying away. "It's gettin' away!"

"What is that thing?" T.K wondered aloud.

"That…," Ryo sighed, "is what happened to Monodramon."

Rika raised her D-Arc into the air, pointing it towards the large creature. "C'mon, c'mon," she muttered, staring at the holographic display her Digivice was emitting. "C'mon you stupid thing, why won't you—"

She was cut off when the image of the Digimon came onscreen, with the name "MILLENNIUMMON" printed beneath it.

"Millenniummon, Mega-Level Digimon," she read off the screen. "It's a Virus-type, and it's got a mean attack called Mugen Cannon. It…"

She trailed off, looking at Ryo. "Ryo, it's the Viral Mega stage of Monodramon's line, isn't it?" With a sigh, he nodded. "His Mega stage without you?"

"Your Digimon is the evil thing?" Suzie gasped, hugging Lopmon until the little Digimon turned blue in the face. The somber and guilty look on Ryo's face was enough of an answer to all.

"Um, as much as I'd like, to, like, find out what happened," Kari began, looking worried. "I don't think that looks good."

They looked up to see that Millenniummon was charging the huge lasers on its back.

"Oh no," several of the kids and Digimon gasped, seconds before the blast rang out in the air and two large streams of red energy flowed forward, rushing down towards the city. A ground-shaking explosion came to life a split second later.

The Tamers and DigiDestined took off at a fast pace, tearing out of the forest and onto the pavement. Despite it being late afternoon, there were still people on the streets, so the kids tried their best to take the side streets and alleyways to head for the column of rising smoke.


Miller's Grove High School

"No…," Kari gasped, seeing the caved-in building that used to be their school.

"Our school!" T.K added.

"YES!" Rika grinned, pumping a fist into the air. Everyone turned to look at her with a questioning gaze. "Have you seen those ugly ass uniforms?"

"What's wrong with our uniforms?" Kari frowned. "I personally kinda like them."

"You would," Rika scoffed.

"Uh, guys," Tai called attention. "Our school just blew up, could we focus please?"

"Its summertime, it's not like anyone's in there, right?" Davis pointed out.

A scream pierced the air as a woman came running out of the school entrance – or what was left of it. She held her knees tightly, taking long and steady breaths when she stopped and reached them.

"Miss Mizuki, are you alright?" Kari spoke up, placing a hand on her shoulder.

"The school…an earthquake…and some…some creature…class…," the woman gasped out between breaths, forming a broken sentence. "Students trapped…ran to…get…help…"

Suddenly, Rika and Matt's eyes widened, and they exchanged glances.

"Oh God!" they gasped, taking off towards the school entrance – or what was left of it – Renamon and Gabumon hot on their tails.

"Hey, wait up!" T.K called as he and the others followed.

"Sis, what's going on?" Kari yelled.

"Don't you remember who had to take Miss Mizuki's summer school classes for failing math?" Rika skidded to a stop, turning to face the brunette just inside the doorway.

"Oh God, Cameron!" she gasped, clasping her hands in front of her mouth.

"If there was summer school today, there's probably more people here!" Sora pointed out, joining them alongside the others.

"Okay," Tai began, once again assuming his leadership role. "We should split up, cover more ground and get everybody out before this place collapses!"


Miller's Grove High School - West Hallway

"Cameron!" Kari and Rika yelled together, sifting through the dust that swirled out of the Math classroom door. A cough escaped both of them as they pushed further, Ryo, T.K, Takato and Henry stepping in with them. Their Digimon remained in the hallway, not wanting to crowd the room.

"God, this place is a mess," Rika muttered, kicking a fallen ceiling tile out of her way.

"I know, it's worse than that time Akemi made that stupid volcano for his science project and it blew up," T.K mused, earning a glare from the redhead. "What?"

"Could you focus, here, Beach Ball Head?" she snapped. "One of my best friends is probably in this awful mess!"

"Sorry," he whispered, grimacing at Takato, Henry and Ryo, who were alongside him.

"Beach Ball Head?" Takato mouthed, frowning. T.K merely grinned and pointed to his hat. "Ah."

"Ri…Ka…?" a weak voice came from beneath some rubble. "Only you'd call…him that…"

"Cam?!" the redhead gasped, rushing towards the sound of his voice. She managed to lift a large piece of wood out of the way, but the rest she could not move. They were definitely too big. "Cam, it's gonna be okay…we're gonna get you out. Just hang on, you'll be fine. We're…"

She trailed off, struggling on the wait of a large ceiling beam. "Renamon, get over here and—"

She was cut off when spots of flooding green light emanated from between beams. She frowned, taking a step back as the glow got brighter.

"What's going on?" Takato asked aloud.

Suddenly, there was a bright flash of the same green light, causing the teens to shield their eyes against the brightness. Dust came flying everywhere, causing the kids to cough as well, waving hands through the air for it to clear.

When they could see clearly again, gasps escaped all their mouths as they stared at the sight before them. The rubble had been blown to the back of the class, cluttered against the wall and desks. In the center of the classroom was the handful of students who had needed to take the summer Math course.

And in the middle?

Cameron, sitting beside a large dinosaur-like creature that wore samurai-style armor and had yellow-golden skin. The creature was holding its arms out, as if it had been shielding the kids from the rubble and had blasted it all away.

But it was what was in Cameron's hand that had the Tamers and DigiDestined gasping.

Glowing dark green and little display shining just as much as the triangular gem fitted into the apparent Digimon's head was a D-Arc.

"Cameron?" Kari frowned. Her D3 beeped, making her look at it and watch as the display screen came to life, showing a picture of the Digimon and it's stats. "Ryudamon. Rookie-level Digimon. It's a Vaccine-Type Beast Digimon, empowered by a Samurai Spirit."

"That's where the armor comes from," T.K commented.

"Since when he is a Tamer?" Ryo whispered to Henry and Takato, who shrugged.

"Since now, apparently," Henry answered.

"Uh, guys," Cameron spoke up, his blue eyes traveling the group in front of him. He noticed the Digimon in the background, and the Digivices his friends held. He'd heard the stories from Rika, Matt and the others, but…hadn't these things disappeared and gone home three years ago? "What's going on?"


Authors' Notes: Okay, finally done number two. It's kinda boring, but trust me, action and storyline totally picks up starting next chapter! We promise! Tell us what you think about it so far, and we'll totally send you a preview of the next chapter! Thanks!

Next:

Chapter Three: The Showdown

"Um, aren't those three supposed to be, like, dead?"

"No Blue Cards, no Crests, no Digi-Eggs. We're screwed!"

"I'm leaving...in a week..."