Ack!!! Gomen ne, minna, I forgot to put to disclaimer on my fic! >.< Okay, I do not own Digimon, it's owned by Saban, Toei, etc. If I owned it, I'd be riding in a limo right now and not makin up my mind about high schools to go to! I'm only 13, and not smart enough to own a big company and make millions....unfortunately. But the 2 new chars. ARE mine ^.^ Okay, enjoy the rest of my fic, and please r/r!
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Tai ran quickly back to the others. Who was the Digimon that rescued him? Why
did he run away? And....who was that riding on top of it? What is a....

Human?

"That's silly," Tai said to himself as he ran through the forest. "Totally, totally,
crazy. Human? Nah, can't be. How can another human end up in Digiworld? It's nuts! I mean, sure, we're humans, and we're in Digiworld, but can another one end up here? Not if it's a Digidestined. I mean, he can't be a Digidestined, there's only eight of us
and...."

He was still babbling when he got back to his friends, who were awake. Izzy was
typing away on his computer. They had mixed feelings of anger and worry as he came
back.

"Tai! There you are!" Agumon rushed up to him. "Why'd you leave?"

"Yeah, we were all worried about you!" said Kari, rubbing her eyes, sleepily.

"Don't run out like that again, Tai," Joe told him, wiping his glasses. He put them
back on, and took a close look at him. "That is you, right? Not a crazy-Tai that would
fight us?"

"No, Joe, I'm as normal as they all come," he replied. He couldn't help laughing.
His face turned serious. "Guys...Matt and Garurumon just attacked me a couple of
minutes ago."

"What??" Izzy looked away from his laptop.

"Tai, why didn't you call for us?" asked Mimi. "We would've came and
helped....although it would've been tough for me to get up. I need my beauty sleep." She yawned.

"Yeah, Tai," Agumon said. "You could have told me you were going for a walk.
That way, I could digivolve and fight Garurumon."

"Are you okay?" Kari asked. They crowded around him. She gave him a hug.

"Yeah, are you hurt?" asked Gatomon as she climbed Kari's back. "Coz if you
are, we'll find Matt and Garurumon and kick digi-butt."

Tai shook his head. "No, I'm fine...thanks to a Digimon that saved me."

"What? Who was it?" asked Tentomon, flying closer toward him.

"I don't know. Some horse-like dude with a rider that looked like a human. I
asked them who they were, but they got away."

"Human rider?" repeated Palmon. "But that's impossible. The only humans that
have ever been to Digiworld were the Digidestined. There's eight of them. They're all
here."

Sora frowned. "Yeah, Tai. Are you sure you just didn't imagine a rider?"
"Look, I know what I saw!" he said, exasperated. "The Digimon shot these star
thingies at Garurumon, and they escaped."

"What was the attack, Tai?" Izzy asked, typing on his computer. "I'm trying to
program my computer so we'll know what Digimon it is just by typing in the attack."

"Why can't you just figure out what Digimon it is the normal way?" wondered Joe.
"Stick the digivice in, and it'll show what Digimon he saw."

"Yeah....but," Tai said slowly, "it was in the shadows. I didn't exactly see it, so it
probably wouldn't work if I just gave my digivice to Izzy."

'Which is unfotunate for me,' he thought. 'What was that thing?'

After a few more minutes, Izzy said, "Okay, now, give me your digivice so I can
see the Digimon you saw." He handed his digivice to him. "So, what was the attack
again?"

"Um....." Tai thought hard of the attack the Digimon used. "I think it was 'Star
Shooter'..... No, 'Star Bomb Shooter'. That's it."

"I've got it," Izzy finally said.

"So, who is it?" asked Joe.

"Yeah, genius, give us the details," said Tai, plopping down next to him, looking at
the computer.

"I traced the attack to a Digimon called Jagonomon. See?" A picture of
Jagonomon popped up on the screen. A light pink horse with a white mane and tail and
bright blue eyes leaped up in the screen, showing off the strength and muscle in its legs. Glitter sparkled off the mane and tail. There was a yellow star in the middle of it's
forehead. In fact, there were a row of stars going down the creature's back. Intersecting the stars were lavender slashes going out to lavender feathers stuck down on it's sides.

"Jagonomon is a Star Horse Digimon. She has great agility, and has ancestors that
are said to have been the Digi-gods and goddesses of the stars. She is the champion form of Kokamon, which is the rookie form," supplied Gatomon. "Her attack, the Star Bomb Shooter, is very effective." On the screen, Jagonomon did her attack. The stars on her back came alive, and slide down the feathers, shooting at the enemy, who was Matt and Garurumon.

Everyone fell silent for a moment and looked at the expression on Matt's face.

A look of evil.

"I've never seen him look like that before," spoke up T.K. in a quiet voice. He
had a right to be more upset than anyone. He was Matt's brother.

Sora knelt down and hugged T.K. "Don't worry," she said. "We'll find a way to
get him back."

Tai looked out toward the sun in the direction where his friend had almost killed
him. "Hopefully...."

* * *

Two dark figures, one tall and one short, crept behind a rock in a cave, only to find
Matt and Gabumon sleeping.

'If only I could make the Crest of Friendship to glow again....'The tall figure
thought. 'If only I could find mine....'She looked down toward her empty tag and rubbed it gently, as if the crest was already in there.

'I will free you, my friend,' she thought firmly. 'You'll come back to me again one
day....'


She tugged on the smaller figure and they ran out of the cave. But as they neared
the entrance, the small figure tripped on a rock.

"Oof!" The taller figure's friend fell.

Matt shot open his eyes. "What? Who is that?" he demanded. "Gabumon, get up,
someone's in the cave."

'Kokamon!' She chided silently. She looked at the Digimon disapprovingly.
Kokamon gave her a look of fear and she instantly knew she was sorry.

"Who's there?" said Gabumon.

Being very quiet, the two friends tiptoed and re-hid behind the rock.

"Tai? Is that you?" Matt said. The girl winced. To her, his voice sounded like
pure ice.

They neared their hiding place. "I know you're in here, Tai. Or is it Sora?" he
sneered. "Miss Everybody's-Best-Friend has come to visit me, huh? Or Izzy, maybe
you're here?" He walked closer toward the rock. "What, you couldn't find any interesting web sites to glue your mind on today? Just who ever it is, come out now. Better to die now than die later." He clenched his fists.

'Come on, let's get out of here!' Kokamon thought. She looked at her friend. She
had a look of sadness and determination as she tightened herself against the rock. Her
friend looked at her as to say, 'Yeah, let's run!' Her eyes blinked toward the exit, and gave the Digimon a nod. Then, made a pointed look at her tail, was a white coiled up ball, until it is uncoiled.

Kokamon ran out of her hiding spot in front of Matt. "Ah-hah! There you are!"
He frowned. "Gabumon, what is that thing?"

"It's a Kokamon. It's-"

"Crescent Daggers!" she yelled. She got down and uncoiled her fluffy tail. She
swung it above and around her head like a whip, and eight crescent moons shot out of it.

"AUGH!" Matt screamed as he got him by them. "Gabumon, go!"

"Blue Blaster!" he said, as the cold stream of ice blasted the girl as she ran out of
her spot. She screamed.

"Just as I guessed. It's either Sora or Mimi, right? I know that scream!" he
laughed an evil laugh as he neared the figure, who was in a cloud of dust.

Frantically, she held her digivice in front of her, like a shield. A white light hit him.
He screamed again and she struggled to get up.

From the outside of the cave, he could see a bright light, and a voice shouting,
"Kokamon digivolve toooo.....!" A lower voice came a nano-second after saying,
"Jagonomon!"

"Jagonomon, let's get out of here!" a girl's voice cried, as all Matt saw was a dark
haired girl jump on the Digimon's back. The girl's voice sounded familiar. Way too
familiar. And it was not Sora or Mimi.

Matt squnited to see if he could get a closer look at the rider, but they were long
gone. A tried to remember the back of the figure, and scanned his mind looking for a
similar picture. Suddenly, he got it, but didn't believe it.

'Long black hair....white head band...athletic build...I'd know that wavey dark hair
anywhere....'


A flicker of his crest came up for a second. Just a second. His eyes narrowed in
recongition of the rider.

'Gina....'

* * *

Sweat trickled down Gina's face as her and Jagonomon raced though the forest.
Very slowly, she started crying. "Jagonomon, you can stop now," she choked.
Jagonomon slowed up her pace. Gina jumped of her back and the Digimon dedigivolved
back to Kokamon.

Gina slunk back against a tree, her black hair sticking to the back of her neck and
forehead. Tears trickled down her cheeks as she remembered how evil her friend
sounded. Her and Matt have been friends for only a year, when she moved into his
developement. They didn't go to school together; he went to Odaiba Elementary, while
she went to Odaiba Academy. But they were great friends, always hanging out. The only reason why they didn't hang out over the summer was because she was going on a trip with her family.

"Kokamon, it's hopeless!" she cried. "He was, like, in a super-killer mode back
there. I've never seen him like this. As soon as I got back from vacation, I knew
something was wrong with him. I didn't know it'd be this bad." She sniffed.

The small, horse-like Digimon looked at her with her light lavender eyes, and put
together some firewood on the ground. "It's okay, Gina," she said, in a soft
Australian-accented voice. Looking at the wood, she shouted, "Crescent Daggers!", and
the crescent moons pulled together to make a nice fire.

"I need my crest," she said, looking at her empty tag. She stood up and walked
around the area, listening to the soft cackle of the fire and the sweet sounds of the wind.

Tell me what to do, she thought and closed her eyes. 'Great forces of nature,
please help me to find the good in my friend again.'

Her long black hair flowed in the wind as she walked back to the fire and
absentmindly poke it with a stick. "You know, Kokamon....I don't think I just need my
crest, but I need the others's as well." She looked at her Digimon with her dark eyes.
"The power of eight to revive one crest....They must be asleep by now. I could go over to them and....uh....sorta borrow their crests-"

"You mean you're gonna STEAL them?!" exclaimed Kokamon.

"Shhhhhh!!!!" hissed Gina. She flushed. "Not steal. Borrow. I'm gonna use
them to revive the Crest of Friendship, then I'm gonna return them. Stealing would mean taking them, and not bringing them back."

"But what if the Dark Masters come and attack them? They would need to
digivolve into Ultimate and Mega to fight them. Any level below would be useless."

"I know..." She sighed. "But Matt's a part of their team. They need his powers as
along with theirs." Gina looked up at the sky, which was an image of Earth. "After I'm
through here, then I'll get back to Earth, and the Digidestined can fight their battle."

"Why can't you just tell them about yourself? That way, you wouldn't have to
steal them."

She shook her head. "They have to focuse on defeating the Dark Masters. I'll deal
with Matt."

"But you said you needed eight crests, and-"

"Right. The Crests of Courage, Love, Reliability, Light, Hope, Knowledge,
Sincerety, and...." Her voice faded.

"Yours," Kokamon finshed.