2


"Hey Tai." Cody said quietly. Tai looked over at the little brown haired Digidestined.
"Yeah Cody? What's boggling your brain?"
"Just, whatever you do, can you please try to find some other way if you have to, to destroy the spirits? Or, maybe not even destory them at all please?" Tai gave Cody a confused, yet, sad looking look.
"Alright Cody, I guess I can try for that."
"Thanks Tai. You really are a good friend, and an awesome leader." Armadillomon grinned. WarGreymon quickly thrusted forward as he saw something in the distance that appeared black.
The forest was still thick, and the air was beginning to get foggy. Now the wind really picked up and everybody was getting very cold. Tai didn't even dare glance over at the Sora. It hurt him so much to think about her. Whenever he thought of her now, it either was memories, or of her and Matt.
Tai pushed the thought away and looked down below. There it was, an old house hidden in the forest. Tai gave a half of a smile. He remembered that house. That was where his aunt Jone and Uncle Songi lived. Unfornately, they had to move out due to the safety of the house. Tai could remember walking up one of the steps and nearly falling through as a young boy.
Snapping back to reality, Tai realized that he was descending downwards towards the old wooden house. WarGreymon halted just before the house and let his friends walk off his back. He de-digivolved to Agumon, seeing as he couldn't possibly go into the house as WarGreymon and not break anything. But like there was going to be anything in it.
The others arrived in due time, they're digimon de-digivolved to their rookie forms and stood beside their partners. Sora and Matt ran to each other and hugged. Tai quickly broke the silence.
"Alright everyone! This house used to be my aunt and uncle's home. And I'm sure some spirits will love to haunt us. So, we're going to go in pairs and search around the house. Cody and I will search upstairs. Davis, you and Izzy will go look in the kitchen. Sora, Matt, I'm sure you guys can handle the den. Okay, and we all will meet outside afterwards, right?" Tai asked.
"Yeah!" everyone said in unison.
"Alright, so we'll meet here in 5 minutes if nothing comes up. The digimon, go with your partners, since that is the only sensible thing. Mind you guys, don't digivolve unless really necessary."
"I see, otherwise, the house might fall. And if there is anyone still inside…" Izzy said trailing off. Tentomon flew up beside his partner.
"Then we better be careful is what your trying to say, right Izzy?"
"Er, yeah." Izzy said a bit dumbfounded. Everyone laughed.
"Well, then, let's get going Sora, shall we?" Matt asked holding his arm out. Sora blushed.
"I'd love to." She said putting her arm around Matt's. The two smiled at each other as they walked inside the house. Gabumon and Biyomon gave each other gross faces. Tai, Cody, Agumon, and Armadillomon walked on in after. Davis looked at Izzy who only gave a defeated face.
"Why must I be stuck with you?" Izzy asked.
"Well, you're the smartest." Veemon said.
"He's got a point." Tentomon said.
"Yeah… HEY!" Davis said after realizing what was said and what it meant. Izzy sighed as he, Tentomon, and Veemon walked inside the house.

"Wow, this place is freaky" Sora said clutching onto Matt. Matt looked at his girlfriend and then looked straight ahead as they walked into the remains of the living room. It appears most of the items were left behind during the moving. The living room was small. A couch was seated against the wall, on the other side of the room was a tv on an old wooden block.
Several small corners of the room were written on, with very messy writing. Sora crouched down to read some of them. Matt followed her, imagining how they even got there…

*FLASHBACK*

"Taichi! Don't write on your aunt's walls!" Tai's mom shouted from the hallway. A hyperactive 7 year old Tai sat in one corner of the room beside the couch. His small 3 year old sister sat beside him and watched her brother be a fool.
"Kari, can you pass me the pink crayon please?" Tai asked. Kari knew what pink was, but what was a crayon? Tai waited, then went to get it himself. After he got the crayon, he sat back down and began writing on the wall. Kari sucked her thumb.
"Hey Kari, too bad you aren't in Kindergarten. There's lots of nice people there. And you can meet lots of friends." Kari drooled on her shirt. Tai moved back from his writing. "There." Tai quickly headed to the other side of the room to where the tv was on. He sat himself down and wrote on the wall. Kari crawled up beside her brother and sat there again, watching her mischevious brother write with a green crayon on the wall.
"Ta da! Here, Kari, you write your name there too." He said. Kari grabbed a pink crayon and drew her name on. Soon enough, Tai's grandpa, who was watching tv, realized what was happening. He got up from his seat and picked up little Kari.
"Tai Kamiya!" Tai turned his head to his grandpa.
"What do you think your doing?" Tai blinked.
"Art?"

*FLASHBACK ENDS*

"Well, what does that one say?" Matt asked. Sora squinted at the crayon writing. It was difficult to read because of the dust and because it was so old. Sora leaned in closer.
"It says, Tai and Kari were here. Then it has Tai's cute signature and Kari's cute…. Scribbles." Sora said. Matt smiled. He looked over to his side to see the other writing Tai had wrote. He walked over to it, but Sora beat him there first.
She crouched down and softly brushed away the dust. This writing was more difficult to read. Sora leaned in much closer, she practically was kissing the wall. Matt leaned hover her shoulder, breathing on her neck. Sora grinned, she hated when people did that, but sometimes… she enjoyed knowing somebody was near her.
"So?" Sora jumped. "What does it say?" Matt asked eagerly.
"Well.." Sora began.. she read it silently in her head, also taking in a quick mental note that Matt couldn't see the writing or read it. She looked at the writing carefully, and was quite shocked at what it said! Tai's innocent little writing at the age of.. oh… seven. Sora suddenly remembered about her friend going to his aunt's for a vacation during christmas!
"Well?" Matt asked. Sora didn't read the message outloud. It only said, Sora's my bestest best friend in the world. That made her realize what's been going on. That was probably why Tai had been so quiet to her and Matt lately! … But Tai doesn't love me, Sora though. Does he? I thought we were only best friends….
"Sora! Earth to SORA!" Matt said. Sora covered her ears. She stood up to face her friend.
"Don't worry Matt, it only says Taichi K is cool!" Sora said quickly. Matt scratched his head and shrugged.
"Okay, I guess that's Tai for you.. Anyways, let's move on to another room, no souls in here." Sora agreed. As they walked, Sora couldn't believe that she had been so blind, hurting her best friend when he had always been there for her. He cried for her, and never gave up trying to save her.
"Oh Tai…" she said quietly.

Upstairs, Tai and Cody went investigating the old houses rooms. Tai was in what used to be the master bedroom. A huge bed without any sheets stood near the wall. Tai could remember when him and Kari jumped on the bed. Well, he did, and Kari wetted the bed. They didn't get out of that one easily. Tai smirked, but then his smirk quickly went away as he got back to business.
"Now, if I were a soul hiding in this house ready to… do some damage, where would I be?" Tai asked outloud.
He spoke too soon. He gasped and walked backwards as a soul came out from the closet nearby. He was white with some blue to him. It appeared to be an adult human soul! Agumon was by Tai's side, ready to attack, but Tai held him back.
The soul only grinned and then asked Agumon for a challenge.
"Ah! Want a challenge huh? Agumon?" Tai asked. The rookie nodded and summoned up a Pepper Breath. Agumon sent his attack straight at the soul, but he quickly dodged the attacks, causing the fireball to hit the side of the house and go straight through. Tai was relieved. If the house caught on fire, that'd just be horrible.
"Tai! Watch out!" Tai turned to see the spirit coming towards him. Tai hit the ground as Agumon sent another fireball attack towards the soul. It only laughed and disappeared through the wall into the room next to them.
Agumon helped Tai up.
"Come on Agumon! That's the room Cody and Armadillomon are in!" Agumon nodded and followed after his partner as he ran into the next room.

"Cody? Why the down looks?" Cody sighed.
"Armadillomon… you wouldn't understand."
"Yes I would. Now tell me Cody, you know you can trust me.." Cody sighed again.
"It's just that… well, you know how all those souls are falling from the sky? And how they want to harm people?…. What if my dad comes back? What if he tries to hurt people? I can't stand to see that, to face that." Armadillomon bent his head down and sighed. Poor Cody, he's so worried about his dad coming back as a mean guy. Then again, what are the chances of that? Whoom…. Armadillomon's ears perked up. The digimon looked to see a spirit pass through the wall. Cody looked up.
Armadillomon growled. Behind him in the doorway appeared Tai and Agumon.
"Pepper Breath! …. Pwa!" The fireball was sent towards the spirit.
But as it happened, there was a long, slow stare between Cody and the soul. They looked into each other's eyes, both finding something unexpected. That made the souls's smile vanish into a long frown.
"Watch out!" Cody yelled as the soul barely dodged Agumon's attack. Agumon started up another one, but Cody turned around very angrily and stopped him from doing so.
"What do you think your doing?" Cody yelled. Armadillomon, Tai, and Agumon all had surprised looks on their faces.
"We're saving you Cody."Agumon said. Cody was nearly in tears as he closed his eyes.
"You can't!" he pointed at the spirit. "Because that's my father! And I won't allow you to hurt him!" Cody said protectively. Tai couldn't believe his ears. He looked at the floating spirit and then back at Cody.
"Cody,.. I"
All of a sudden, the house started to shake. Everyone tried to remain balanced, but all of them fell onto the wooden floor. Tai hit the floor hard, but he didn't care. People were in that house that needed to get out of there, pronto! Tai opened his eyes, blinking because of the dust that had flown up into the air, into his eyes.
"Cody! Where are you?" he yelled out. All he could hear was the rumblings of the house shaking like mad. Tai could barely make out what was happening, but out of the corner of his eye, he could see Cody. His father was now on the house floor, walking. He was walking through the wall to the other room Tai and Agumon were in earlier. But he couldn't Cody was grasping onto his father's ankles in tears, begging for him to do something. His father ignored him and tried to shake his son off and continue. Tai sat up a bit and looked over to his left to see Agumon and Armadillomon.
"Armadillomon!" Armadillomon looked at the leader's face, awaiting orders."Go downstairs, get everyone outside of here now! Tell them to go back to the police headquarters! You go with them!" Armadillomon looked worried.
"What about you?"
"I'll be fine. Agumon, Cody, and I will get out later! Now GO!" Armadillomon didn't bother to hesitate. Tai was serious. Armadillomon turned around and literally rolled down the stairs. Tai turned to Agumon.
"Think you can digivolve to Mega one last time?" he asked. Agumon nodded.
"I'll try as much as I can Tai, but I think I can only digivolve just enough to get us out of here!" Agumon said. Tai nodded and turned around. He stood up shakily and ran over to the sobbing Cody. His father was annoyed and was still trying to kick off Cody.
"Come on Cody! Let's go!"
"NEVER!"
Tai sighed. I guess I have to do this the hard way. Tai grabbed Cody, he yelled out his dad's name. The soul disappeared into the other room.
Cody just stared. His father…. He saw his father…. Could he hear him? What happened just between them? I saw my father, Cody said in his mind. That's what happened.
Tai still held onto Cody's collar.
"Cody! Hurry! Get out of the dreamworld! We got to get out of here!" Cody was stubborn, and would have snapped back at Tai if Agumon hadn't joined them. The house was ready to collapse! The pictures that hung on the walls began to fell. Tai looked quickly for an escape route. The stairs was clearly not an option. Besides, time was running out and they couldn't possibly get out in time!
Tai looked again in the room. Ah ha! A window! Tai turned to his partner.
"Agumon! The window!" The three ran to the window. The glass had shattered all over the floor, and the house wasn't getting any better. "Now Agumon!" Tai said. His digivice emitted an orange glow.

"Agumon! Digivolve to… Greymon!"

"Agumon!" Tai yelled. Greymon looked at his partner confidently.
"Jump on you two!" Tai and Cody hopped onto Greymon's back. Just as the floor was about to give way, Greymon jumped through the window. Actually, he just smashed the side of the house.
"Yikes!" Tai yelled.

"Greymon! Digivolve to…….. MetalGreymon!"

Just as they were to hit the ground, the ultimate digimon flapped his shredded wings. Behind them, the house collapsed into a big pile of wood and dust. Tai sighed. He could only hope no one else was inside.

All throughout the ride, Tai never even tried to talk to Cody. He knew Cody was confused, and probably wanted to crawl up to his parents and cry all about the problem. But he couldn't. The problem included one of his parent's, and his mom wouldn't understand or believe him. She'd probably try to send Cody to a mental hospital .
Tai didn't understand, or know how it felt to be like Cody… or maybe he did. Somebody you love, wasn't on your side, didn't notice you. You try the best to protect them, you try the best to help them. But in the end, it doesn't matter.
Tai and Cody both had that in common. Someone they love, got on their nerves. They wanted to talk to someone who'd understand, but the only people who they could talk to, was the person you were having the problem with.
Tai sighed. He wished he hadn't thought of that, it only brought sad memories to his mind again.

"Hey! They're back!"
"They're alright!" Tai smiled as his friends came into view. He waved back happily at them. Cody ignored them as if nothing had occurred. Metal Greymon grinned and had a smooth landing in front of the Digidestined.
Tai and Cody got off, and were greeted by their friends with hugs and tears. Metal Greymon de-digivolved to his rookie form and came up beside Tai.
"I'm surprised I had that much energy left… well… I'm hungry Tai. I'm going to go snack on lots of stuff." Agumon said. Tai smiled.
"Sure." He turned back towards the others. "Let's move inside gang! It's getting cold out here!" Everyone laughed and chattered as they went on outside. Left outside was Cody and his digimon, who was at his side. Armadillomon looked up at his partner. His face was angry, a small frown could be seen in it. Armadillomon felt worried about his partner. He's never seen him like this before.
"Cody? Aren't we going to go inside and join the others?"
"In a second Armadillomon." Cody said coldly. Armadillomon sighed and hung his head low.

Inside, after 5 minutes of talking, the Digidestined and their digimon all gathered together again where they were before. It was time for a second meeting. Tai turned to Izzy and Tentomon.
"What did you guys get?" he asked. Izzy opened up his trusty laptop and went typing away.
"Well Tai, we saw a 'ghost'. It was in the den, looking at books surprisingly enough. Davis and I decided to put out a digimon, or one of us, to see what the outcome would be. Well, I am the brains of the operation, and since Davis has none, he went first. The soul, should I say, is almost like a human who can go through walls. They are distant, cold, and our 'ghost' wanted to kill Davis. Well, that never happened. But still, I have concluded that perhaps almost all of the souls have forgotten who they really are, and think we are evil. Now, this is just my theory, so you don't have to believe it."
"If they're not acting for themselves, they must be possessed." Tentomon said. "But, this could also be a digimon's doing."
"So…. The trip was a whole big waste?" T.K asked. Tai shook his head.
"I agree about the part where the ghosts have amnesia, and that they are cold and distant. But I don't think all of them mean to harm and corrupt us. Cody, Agumon, Armadillomon, and I saw a spirit. At first, he taunted us to attack him. But when he and Cody saw each other, the chaos stopped… between us. However, Agumon caused more chaos by blowing fireballs through the houses's walls!" Tai said. Agumon looked at Tai.
"Did I mean it?" Agumon asked.
"Ha.. I don't think so. But Izzy, we shouldn't kill all of them. They might be what Cody said, lost and confused."
"And brute killers." Veemon added.
Just at that moment, Cody came into the police headquarters. He was not happy at all. His hands were at his side, shaking like a bowl of jello. Armadillomon gulped as he followed his partner. Everyone watched as Cody just came up to Tai and stopped. The two stared at each other, with nothing to say.
Cody swiftly brought his hand up and slapped Tai hard across the cheek. Everyone stared in disbelief at what happened. Tai fell over from where he sat. If it weren't for Joe and Kari, Tai would have hit the cold, hard concrete floor of the headquarters. Tai looked at Cody, the poor guy. Tears were flowing down his face like there was no tomorrow.
"I hate you Tai! You're a selfish kid who doesn't deserve the title of leader! Agumon doesn't deserve a knucklehead like you! Your fat Tai! You make me sick!" Cody yelled angrily. Quickly, Cody flew in the opposite direction, he ran outside. Armadillomon ran after his partner, leaving Tai to cope with his red cheek.
"What was that all about?" Sora asked. Tai looked at them and was about to speak when Agumon stepped forward.
"It's a long story." He began.
Tai held his red cheek. Man, that guy can slap hard. Better than any girl can slap!, Tai thought. But what in the world is he talking about? Better set things straight…. After a bit. No, better fix things up now before the problem worsens. Tai looked as Agumon told them about what happened in the building.
Well, I guess I'll have to wait til' Agumon's done talking before I go chase down Cody and ask him what's wrong, Tai said to himself. Poor guy….

Oops. I rushed the second chapter. That's why everything is going so fast, and that's probably why there is so many spelling mistakes and errors. For Falling Heavens though, I am actually using the Spelling and Grammar check (I usually don't if you didn't get that til' now). I am currently watching my tapes of Season 1 and I am getting lots of ideas… kind of.
If your wondering why Agumon did digivolve when he was low on energy, he couldn't digivolve for as much time in his mega stage, as compared to his ultimate stage. If you didn't get that, then well, I'm think of a better explanation. Oh, and Nick Johnson, sorry about not saying anything about The World's Future stuff. I might answer them someday.....
Anyways, I'm working on Falling Heavens, the third part to the Taiora song, and more stuff. Anyhow, Hope you are enjoying the fanfic so far, and Keep on writing!