Hi! I would've posted this up earlier but my brother came back from Japan today and I was getting all these cool pressies!
Anyway, I read all the reviews I got from those who have already read the first chapter, and to be honest, they struck some pretty interesting questions in my head that I had to think about. So, since I don't normally do this, I decided to put my favourite couples in this fanfic. This chapter is going to be more of a Miyaken chapter because they're not a bad coupling and I needed to start the plot of this fanfic somewhere. And I changed the rating of it because I'm still not sure how this is even going to turn out.
And just in case I have forgotten to mention it, Sora and Matt are currently an item in the first few chapters.
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon.
Now, for the second chapter.....
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Sora awoke the next morning to more dismal rain. She was facing a sleeping Tai, who was facing her. Luckily for Sora, this particular male didn't snore that night. Sora turned over to look at her alarm clock, then she screamed. Tai woke up with a start, and sat up.
"What is it?" he asked. Sora pointed at her clock. "Oh. It's eleven in the morning. That all?"
"We've missed school!" Sora shrieked. Tai shrugged.
"Sorry." he said.
"How is it your fault? Mom wakes me up when I'm going to be late!"
"Because we both slept through the alarm because I turned up here exactly twelve hours ago and we didn't go to bed till nearly midnight, so we were both really tired?"
Sora sighed. "I guess it can't be helped. Well, this means we're helping in the flower shop today!"
Tai moaned and groaned as Sora slipped out of her bed and went to the closet. She pulled out some of Tai's clothes, and then took out her clothes.
"Get up." she said, picking up a cushion and chucking them at Tai. "Breakfast!"
Tai groaned some more as Sora pulled away the covers. He slid out of the bed and onto the floor, then got to his feet.
"I'm tired." he whined. He and Sora wandered to the kitchen, where Agumon and Biyomon were watching the news. Sora headed to find food, Tai leant on the back of the couch and watched the news report.
"Last night there were reports of unusual, out-of-place shadows that were stalking people on the waltz during last nights storm. With no trains or buses running last night, many people had to trust their feet to get them home. If you were one of those people, and you saw one of these unique shadows, please contact this number."
Sora looked up from what she was doing.
"Shadows?" she asked.
"Yeah," Tai replied. He was frowning. "That's weird. It could be a lost Digimon, it wouldn't be the first time that's happened."
"But all over the city?" Biyomon asked. "That's a lot of Digimon."
"They could be one really fast Digimon." Agumon replied. "Many Digimon have different attributes."
"The only Digidestined we know of that was out last night was you, Tai." Sora said.
"Did you or Agumon see anything?" Biyomon asked. Tai shook his head.
"Nothing. We were in too much of a hurry." he said. "We were probably missed."
"It's still raining, what if that shadow only comes out during the rain?" Sora asked. "It is possible."
"Should we contact Izzy?" Biyomon asked.
"It could be nothing," Tai said. "Or Izzy already knows, and he's probably in class at the moment. I'm going with the second option."
"Me too." Sora said. "We'll wait to contact the others."
At the younger Digidestined's school, it is their lunchtime, and Kari is distraught. Yolei, Davis and some of Kari's other friends are trying to find out what's wrong. Then T.K shows up.
"Hey Kari, what's up?" he asked. Kari just shook her head and kept on rubbing away her tears.
"She won't say anything." Bishi said. "We don't know what's wrong."
"Maybe it's because you twinkle-toes are here." Davis said. Bishi and the other dancers scowled, and pranced away.
"Is it Gatomon?" Yolei asked. "Something to do with the Digital World?"
"It's Tai!" Kari wailed, and burst in more tears. "I haven't seen him since I left the house yesterday at five!"
The others stared.
"He hasn't rung? Or emailed?" T.K asked. Kari shook her head.
"Mom said he sounded upset after she rang him around six-thirty, and that was the time he left. I assumed he went to the park with Agumon. But that night, after it started raining, they still didn't come back."
There was a beeping noise, and everyone took out their D-Terminals.
"Meeting at the computer lab, big emergency." Yolei read. "Izzy."
"Sneaking out of school," Kari commented. "Let's go now, while the teachers are eating."
While those four snuck to the front gate, Cody excused himself from his lunch table and headed to the front gate too. The five managed to escape their school, and met up further down the street. Then there was the tougher job – getting into the High School.
"What'll we do?" Davis asked.
"Run past the teachers shouting out that no one can catch you. Then hide in some bushes while the teachers run past" T.K suggested. "We'll sneak in and then afterwards you come back and we all go to the computer lab."
"Why me?" Davis protested.
"You're the fastest." Kari said. Davis pulled a face, but followed through the plan. Soon they were in the building, and they ran through the busy corridors to the computer lab. They knocked, and Izzy opened it. All the other kids were already there, except Tai and Sora.
"Sora isn't here either?" Matt asked. Izzy shook his head.
"And I'm not getting replies from her or Tai's D-Terminals." he said. The younger kids took seats. "Okay," Izzy began. "This meeting is very important. If you watched the news this morning, then you'll recall a mysterious shadow crawling around the city. I think it was a Digimon. And not a nice one."
"You think it got Tai and Sora?" Joe asked.
"Tai went out yesterday evening." Kari said. "I haven't heard from him since. He could've been taken then."
"And Sora didn't turn up to school." Izzy said.
"I called her last night at ten." Matt said. "She was home."
"So this thing got them?" T.K asked. Kari started crying again. Then they heard someone try the door.
"It's locked."
"Should we find someone with a key?"
"Or we could bash it down."
"No!"
"Well, they're probably in there. Just too scared to open it."
"Those voices sound familiar...." Matt said, trailing off. He stood up.
"Don't answer it!" Izzy exclaimed. "It could be the Digimon, imitating their voices!"
"We have the Digiport Open, we're safe." Yolei said. "Open it up."
Matt hesitated, then unlocked it.
"They can open it." he said. Everyone moved over to the other side of the room as the door handle moved down, then gradually open, to reveal.....dun dun duuuuuuuun!
Tai and Sora! Everyone's mouths fell open. Even Kari was wide-eyed.
"Sorry we're late," Sora apologized. "But one certain male was fooling around and wouldn't move his butt!" she glared at Tai, who put his hands up.
"Yeah, yeah." he said. He looked at everyone else. "Anyway, we're here now. Izzy, I didn't see a shadow last night on my way back from Shinjuku."
Everyone just shook their heads.
"Well, now that we are all here, I can now tell that nothing has happened – yet." Izzy said. "I contacted Mimi just to let her know to be on the lookout."
"What makes you think it's a bad Digimon?" Cody asked. "Maybe it's a lost Digimon just wanting someone to help him."
"I got a major energy reading coming from Shinjuku last night." Izzy explained. "Only a bad Digimon would make that kind of signal."
"So what do you suggest we do?" Joe asked.
"We need a plan." Izzy said. "And a very good one."
"Does this include bait?" Tai asked. "Because if we're gonna use one of us, bags not me."
"Why not you?" Matt retorted.
"Because I get the feeling that I irritated all the old baddies." Tai said.
"It could be someone new." Kari said.
"I think it's someone old." T.K said suddenly. He looked at Tai. "That's why I tried to ring you. I have a hunch on which one it could be. This Digimon has been elsewhere. I saw on the evening news about attacks down in Kawasaki. The victims who didn't die mentioned seeing something that looked human, but carried around swords.....sound familiar?"
Tai nodded. "Yeah.....very familiar."
"So we all agree on bad?" Sora asked. The other Digidestined nodded, even though only Tai and T.K knew who they had been talking about.
"I'll tell Ken." Yolei offered. "He lives near Shinjuku, he'll need to be on the lookout if this guy is really the one whom T.K and Tai think it is, and also Ken's pretty well known in the Digital World, a lot of Digimon still want their revenge on what he did."
"Just so long as you don't go exaggerating the fact that he tried to kill us as well." Cody said.
"Just because you still hate him."
"You only want to ring Ken up because you're in love with him still."
Yolei suddenly blushed a bright red. "I....that is.....well.....we're friends. Friends are allowed to call each other up....."
"I guess we're sorted." Izzy said. He looked at the younger generation of Digidestined. "You lot should go back to school."
"Why don't we just skip the school and go look for this Digimon?" Tai suggested. "It will save time."
"We need to warn Ken first." Matt said. Yolei had her D-Terminal out and was emailing Ken.
"Why now?" Kari asked, looking over the purple-haired girl's shoulder.
"He always replies, even in class. Anyway, I think it's their lunchtime too."
The Digidestined hung around in the computer room for another ten minutes. No reply from Ken. Another email was sent, and there was still no reply. The Digidestined shot looks at one another.
"What if...." Joe began.
"He's already been taken...." T.K finished.
"I'll ring him after school, if he's not there, we can assume a kidnapping." Izzy said.
That day was not going to be rated as 'brilliant'.
Even though Izzy was going to ring him, when Yolei arrived home, she too picked up the phone and dialled Ken's number. Mrs Ichijouji answered it happily.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Mrs Ichijouji. Is Ken there? It's Yolei."
"No, sorry, Ken isn't back from school yet. When he gets home I'll tell him to ring you, okay?"
"Okay, thank you Mrs Ichijouji."
Yolei put down the phone and sighed. She took off her glasses and began to polish them. Then the phone rang. Yolei picked it up earnestly.
"Hello, Yolei speaking!"
"It's Izzy. Ken isn't there."
"I know. I rang too."
"I think you are very infatuated now, and I understand. But right now, the, thing, T.K described earlier has been troubling me. If I'm right and they're right, then we're in a lot of trouble, especially T.K."
"How come?"
"This Digimon is a very smart and sadistic creature. It's difficult to outsmart him. We can only destroy him with sheer strength. Last time we didn't exactly destroy him – he got sucked into MagnaAngemon's Gate of Destiny. I know it doesn't exactly mean we didn't delete him, but maybe the Gate of Destiny really does make you follow your destiny, and this Digimon's destiny was to come back here and wreak even more havoc. I mean, honestly, the Digiworld is still trying to re-programme itself and we're busting our backs trying to-"
"Izzy! Shut up! Who do you think it is?"
"You won't know him. Only the original Digidestined will. But I don't think he's someone you would want to cross paths with. Anyway, according to my scientific calculations, I'd say our sadistic foe is either in or on his way here to Odaiba."
"Then we all better be on our lookout. Who have you yet to ring?" Yolei asked.
"The other older kids and Kari."
"Okay. Bye."
Yolei put the phone down, and burst into tears.
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Second chapter up! Yay! O_O
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~Miss-Stoneflower~