Again, this starts from where I left off last time, hope you enjoy and
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Sora's P.O.V
I woke up later, I didn't think I'd been out of it that long as the sun was still up. I groaned as I picked my bruised body up and pulled myself into a sitting position. Resting my head in my arms I tried to make sense of what had just happened.
I'd kissed him and then all of a sudden I was falling.
I guessed I'd blacked out before I'd hit the ground as I never felt the impact, all the same I ached in a number of places now.
I lifted my head and ventured a look around. This place was really quite stunning once you got over the shock of being on a beach one minute and in the middle of a forest the next.
There were wild flowers growing at the bases of the trees. And the smell of the grass; it was like it had been freshly cut; yet it loomed taller than a lot of the flowers.
I moved my head round to see behind me and realised I wasn't the only person here.
"Matt." I whispered.
He was laid on the ground, arms spread out at odd angles, his hair had fallen over his face and he had a slash straight across one of his arms.
I scrambled to my feet and made my way over to him. Kneeling down by his side I brushed the hair away from his face.
"Matt?" I asked this time. "Matt, can you hear me?"
I fought the urge to cry. The situation looked hopeless, I couldn't do first aid, yet he seemed to need it.
I heard a rustling in the bushes next to me but chose to ignore it. I leant down further and brushed my hand against his cheek hoping to get some sort of response from him. Nothing, he didn't even flinch, but I was about to do more movement than was necessary for the both of us.
"Are you ok?" A voice asked.
I sprang into the air and turned to face the speaker. My eyes widened as I saw them.
In front of me stood a small group of kids, some my age some younger. The speaker had blue hair and glasses and was carrying what looked like a first aid bag; there was also a red haired boy with a laptop and a young girl with shocking pink hair.
I instinctively backed away, trying to shield Matt from them.
"We aren't going to hurt you, you know." Said the blue haired boy. "I think we're just as freaked out as you, but you're friend looks like he needs help. I'm Joe by the way." He added.
I eyed them warily, but stepped to the side.
"Sora." I stated and watched as Joe made his way to Matt. He knelt down and started to open his bag when Matt started to move.
He sat up suddenly and took a defensive position against Joe, just as I had done.
"Who are you?" He barked. "Where's Sora?"
"I'm here." I grinned and ran over to him, hugging him just to make sure he was really ok.
"Where are we? Last thing I remember we were falling trough a bunch of trees."
"I don't know, I just woke up, but there are these other people here too." And I waved my hand to indicate to Joe and the others when a new group appeared from behind some bushes.
"Who are you?" Matt asked, pulling himself up behind me.
"Tai?" I queried taking a step forward. "Tai, is it you?"
"Sora?" He asked, looking almost as stunned as me. And then he opened his arms and I ran.
"It is you!" I cried, while he swung me around in his arms.
"Jeez, how long has it been?" He asked grinning at me as he put me down.
"Not a clue." I replied grinning, but I stopped suddenly. "Tai, do you know why we're here? Or more importantly, where here is?"
I looked up at him, his arms were still around me, but I didn't think much of it, it was Tai after all.
I'd met him at a soccer match when I was eight and he'd challenged me to a game expecting an easy win. I'd beaten him 5 goals to one by the end of twenty minutes. I didn't let him live it down for his entire holiday. He'd gone home a week and a half later and we'd written to each other for a while, but soon we pretty much stopped and we lost contact.
And here he was eight years later; bushy haired and kid-like still the same Tai I remembered.
"I don't have a clue Sora." He was saying as I brought myself out of my thoughts. "We just sat around at home playing video games and all of a sudden we were here."
But I wasn't listening again. I'd lifted my head to a noise that seemed to be coming from above us, and sure enough I saw two bodies falling from the sky.
"Guys!" I called over their chatter. "Look." And I pointed upwards.
They all turned their heads to look and I heard Matt call out but I didn't hear what he said because I was too preoccupied trying to catch one of them.
He landed in my arms. Luckily, he was only small. He looked about 10 years old. I quickly let him get down and I smiled as he brushed himself off. He didn't look particularly worried about the fact he'd just fallen from the sky to wherever we were now. He looked up at me and bowed.
"Thankyou." He smiled at me and turned to look at his surroundings.
"Well that certainly doesn't happen everyday." Said a voice from somewhere behind me. I turned and saw a boy that looked very much like Matt brushing himself off.
I watched as Matt put his hands on the boy's shoulders and started talking to him in a hushed voice. The younger boy jus nodded and grinned.
Was he.?
"So there's twelve of us here, do any of you have any idea what's going on?" Tai asked over everyone's voices.
I glanced around the group. I was standing just left of Tai and next to the boy who had fallen from the sky. No one had raised their hands or even tried to make any suggestions as to why we were here. I heard a soft tapping noise and turned to look at one of the boys. He was sat on the floor and appeared to have a laptop with him. I tapped Tai on the shoulder and pointed.
"Anything Izzy?" He inquired.
"We appear to be in another sort of dimension. From what I can tell, I mean, there's no data here from the Earth. We seem to have stumbled into some sort of parallel universe." He trailed off.
I guess he realised how odd that sounded.
"A parallel universe." Tai repeated. "Izzy, that's a bit."
"I know ok, but there's nothing here."
"Maybe we should look around then." Another blue-haired boy said.
"Makes sense." Tai agreed. "We should go this way." And he pointed into the forest.
"Bad idea." Said a gruff voice from behind us.
We spun on the spot and came face to face with a very tired looking, and bruised man.
"Who are you?" Tai stepped forward and questioned the newest stranger to our group.
"My name is Gennai." He said, every word seemed to be of great difficulty for him.
"I'm here to help you." He said, stepping forward. His clothes were torn in places and covered in blood. The places where the rips showed his skin revealed hundreds of red and purple marks.
"I knew you'd come, I knew you'd figure it out." He gasped, looking from me to Matt. "I knew it." And he collapsed on the ground.
---Three hours later---
Yamato's P.O.V
After the man had collapsed we decided to go against that Tai guys' idea and go the opposite way. We found a cave about thirty minutes later and let the Joe guy clean Gennai up as best he could.
I found out he was training to be a doctor although he didn't seem to be too happy about it, he still did a great job fixing Gennai up.
My mind wasn't really on Joe's medical skills though; it was more on the fact that Sora had been around that guy with the huge hair all the time we'd been here and I still hadn't been able to talk to her about what had happened.
I knew they were old friends, I think we'd all guessed that much when he'd swung her round like that. When he'd touched her. It made my blood boil just thinking about it. Fair enough we weren't a couple or anything but we had kissed twice and I thought that meant something. I wanted it to mean something.
I sighed and turned round to look out at the sky. I'd separated myself from the group along time ago. I didn't feel welcome there, not that I was doing anything huge to make myself welcome, but to be quite honest I was thinking up ways to get rid of that Tai creep and get Sora to notice me again.
I fought the urge to laugh at how pathetic I'd become. One girl was making me this crazy, I guess that was irony for you. I had about a hundred regular girls following me around everyday, willing to give up their lives to spend time with me and I wasn't interested, but the one girl that I was interested in wouldn't even look at me.
I glanced over at them again and my heart almost broke in two when I saw her giggling away at his jokes. Closing my eyes to block the image of them out I stood up silently and made my way out of the cave unnoticed by everyone.
I headed away from the cave and after awhile I noticed a pathway heading off in a different direction. It looked newly made, as the grass was still green where it had been trampled down. So I decided to follow, maybe there were other people here as well. I mean Gennai was here so it would make sense that there were more of them.
I quickened my pace and followed the trail ducking the low branches. I looked ahead and saw what appeared to be a flickering light. I broke out into a run and moved into the cover of a bush as I got just metres away from the clearing.
Getting into a crouching position I looked over the top of the bush and nearly screamed at what I saw.
"Matt?" Jumping I turned to see Sora jogging down the pathway, bent over slightly.
"Get down!" I whispered harshly and tugged on her arm so she was out of view.
"What the.?" But I put my finger to her lips and indicated to the other side of the bush.
Keeping low she made her way across from me and just as I had done, peered over the hedge. She let out a short gasp and I pulled her back down out of view.
"What are they?" She asked.
"No idea." I answered. "What are you doing here?" Right now whatever they were in the clearing, they didn't seem important. I wanted to know why she'd followed me.
"I saw you leave and I didn't think you should go on your own." She said, her head bowed slightly.
I could tell she was embarrassed but I didn't really care about that. She'd spent all her time with that Tai kid when we could have been talking.
"Well I've been on my own all night so far while you were having fun flirting with your long lost friend." I spat. I knew I sounded jealous, but I was. I was crazy about her and she couldn't even spare me ten minutes.
"I was not flirting!" She replied. "I haven't seen him in years and we were catching up."
"You might've been but he was more into the whole trying to steal you away from me deal."
"He was not and you don't own me you know!"
"I know I don't own you, I don't want to but you could've at least talked to me, we did kiss or have you forgotten already?"
"Of course I haven't." She looked so sorry I stopped yelling. "Look, I am sorry, really I am, and I did try to get away but Tai wouldn't let me go." She smiled at me hesitantly and I sighed.
"I didn't mean to blow off at you, but I just, I wanted to know, I wanted to."
"About the kiss? I still don't think it was a mistake." I looked up at her, my eyes wide, maybe she felt the same way, maybe. "But if we do it again, oh I don't know." She let her head fall again and I made a motion to lift her chin up to face me but I was stopped when I caught sight of something just left of us.
Scrambling to my feet I pulled Sora behind me out of the way.
"Go warn the others." I whispered to her, but she didn't move. "Go!"
"No, Matt, I can't, no."
"Go!"
"We aren't going to hurt you, you know." One of them squeaked. "Really, we're here to help you."
"He's right." Another one-stepped forward. "We are here to help you, I'm Gabumon."
"You're a what? Sora, go."
"I won't leave you." She whispered and I turned to look at her. She was looking right into my eyes. It was like she could see into my soul.
"Sora, I." Her fingers were on my lips this time. Still gazing intently at her I felt her fingers trace along my lips and off my chin, falling to her side where I caught them, holding her hand in mine. My eyes never left hers and hers mine. It was like time stopped, and she was all that mattered, but that wasn't right because she was all that mattered anyway.
Her eyes were drifting closed and her head was moving nearer to mine, as mine came nearer to hers. Our lips touched, so gently if you'd seen it you wouldn't have known we were kissing, but the feeling. that was real.
I leant in further, but pulled back hurriedly when I heard someone calling us.
We spun round and saw the entire group, Gennai in the lead coming towards us and I again noticed the little creatures next to us. I instinctively wrapped my arms around Sora but noticed that they were smiling at us and then at each other and hadn't moved from their spot since they'd first appeared. Maybe they were harmless.
"Gave me quite a shock disappearing like that!" Gennai panted as he finally stopped a couple of feet away from us.
"You're supposed to be lying down resting, aren't you?" Sora queried, looking worried.
"Don't worry about me, tough as old boots, I am." He grinned at us and turned to see the Gabumon and his friends. "I see you've already met your digimon."
"Our what?" TK asked, side stepping Gennai to see what he was looking at. "Woh!" He said, taken aback. "What are they?"
"Digimon, TK, digimon. They are your partners while you are here; they will help you stop the evil that is arising."
"Excuse me?" Tai had stepped forward. "You want us to fight evil, what sort of evil is this and when were you going to ask us if we wanted to fight it?"
"I'm afraid you don't get a choice, you are the chosen children who will save both worlds from destruction and we need you to fight now. These are your digimon, short for digital monsters and we must now go back to the cave for I have something for you."
"Do you reckon he hit his head?" One of them whispered and I noticed Gennai smiling to himself as he walked back towards the cave.
"There are 12 of you and one of me, I think it's safe for you to follow me." He called over his shoulder to us.
I watched everyone debating whether or not to move. There didn't seem to be many options however, stay here with 12 little monsters or follow a crazed man. It seemed like Sora had made up her mind though. She broke free of my grip and followed the man ignoring Tai's warnings as she went past.
And one by one we all followed.
Ten minutes later we were all gathered in the cave waiting for Gennai to emerge from the back of it.
"What do you reckon he's gone to get?" Asked the pink haired girl, Mimi, as she clung on to Joe's arm.
"Don't know, but I do know I'd rather be here with him then back there with those digital things."
We watched as he reappeared clutching a parcel to his chest like a newborn baby.
"You have to be so careful with these, so very careful. We originally designed these for you when you were chosen to be the digidestined, but our plans were, well there were complications so in the time you were growing up we redeveloped them to be more suitable."
"I'm sorry, digi what? Who are we supposed to be exactly?" The purple haired girl asked.
"Maybe I should explain."
"Yeah that'd be an idea." I muttered and received a light slap on the shoulder from Sora. "What?" But she just turned to Gennai.
"Explain what?" She asked.
"Why you're here, why we chose you, what you have to do, why you are more important to both these worlds then you realise." He looked over at Sora and I again. "Perhaps you should all sit down?" And he motioned for us to sit around the small campfire we'd managed to build.
He settled himself down and looked round at us.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"I'm not sure really, where I should begin, but I shall tell you it all. As you may have noticed you are no longer in your world, those creatures you saw before they are what we call digital monsters. They inhabit this world and as in your own there are both good and evil ones. Those ones you saw before, they are all-good, I promise you that, they are hereto help you, to help us. You and those digimon have been chosen to stop the growing evil in this world. We would have brought you here much sooner but certain, complications, arose and instead we had to let you make your own way here."
"Make our own way? But we didn't." Tai butt in.
"If you let me finish I'll explain how you got yourselves here. You see fifteen years ago, just after you were born and before some of you were alive, a dark lord, one who has been terrifying, torturing and killing digimon for over a century found out about you all. He had placed a source within us who began to pass back information to him. And subsequently this spy found out that we had chosen eight children who would have the strength within them to fight and destroy all of his henchmen, some of whom were stronger than you could even imagine. Stronger than the partners you have been given, yet together you would be able to win. Unfortunately for everyone alive in both worlds and desperately for two of you he found out something of great importance. How we planned to get rid of him and who would be the ones with the strength to do it."
"Two of us." Izzy muttered.
"That is right, two of you have enough power inside of you, enough passion to end this evil forever. But this creature, that even those who are among the dark side fear, devised many cunning ways to keep the two of you apart. He was determined that two mortals would not stop him, let alone two mortal children. Now there is something you must all understand, at the time, when there was a spy among us, after a while we worked that we had a traitor, we worked out who they were there and we also devised our own plan to protect the two. From the day we found out everyone of our small group worked round the clock to protect them. We put spells on them to stop them from being harmed, you should all know; this creature's very touch can kill. So we had to protect them, however, rather inconveniently I was captured and taken hostage by the dark side and was unable to finish the spells that would protect you from anything he could do to you. So during that time when I was first taken, the spy gave him his only option, to separate you before you saw each other and to make it so you would believe you couldn't be together."
They sat there in silence for a while and Gennai glanced round the group his eyes landing, once again, on two in particular.
Friendship and love, they were this worlds, and the other from which they came, last hope. Yet they knew nothing of it. It was clear that they felt something for each other, but how was he to explain to them that they weren't in any way related and if they managed to win this battle that none of the past two years events would have happened.
Sora's real parents would still be together, happily. She would be living across the street from Yamato and the two would have been dating for over three years. They would be hopelessly in love each other and would be destined to raise two beautiful children.
Even the other ten children's lives would be dramatically different. For one both of the groups, younger and older, would already have been to the digital world and they would have defeated their enemies over a long period of time. But because of the curse forced on friendship and love, because of the beast's determination to control all, they had never even met one another before.
Now he, Gennai, had the task of getting them to trust each other in a few short weeks.
Once more he glanced around the group, noticing for the first time how they had divided themselves.
Tai was sat next to Sora and Sora next to Matt, leaning he noticed nearer to Tai then Matt. He also noted the arm that held her there. Kari was also on Tai's other side, looking across at the blue haired boy.
And so did he. Ken was sat with Davis and Yolie, and next to them were TK and Cody. Then closer to the fire was Mimi, Joe and Izzy.
He sighed, these were the chosen children, children who were destined to save the world through friendship and trust and they wouldn't even talk to each other.
"I think maybe it is time I introduced you to your partners." And standing up he gestured to a lumpy mound outside. Walking out into the cold wind, that had steadily been picking up over their short stay he picked up a log and called something to the group.
"Agumon if you please."
"Certainly." It squeaked. And almost instantly the log was alight with flame.
"Everyone, these are your partners. Agumon, Biyomon, Gabumon, Gatomon, Patamon, Wormon, Armodillomon, Gomamon, Tentamon, Palmon, Veemon and Hawkmon."
The small mound stepped forward into the light as each of its names was called. And there reflected in the light were twelve small creatures all staring bright eyed up at their humans.
"Pleased to meet you." They squeaked.
"So you're all digimon." Tai stated, cocking his head and looking at them. "And you're going to stop this evil dark lord when you're that size, you must be stronger than you look, a lot stronger." He added.
"They won't stop many of the evil digimon when they're at this level." Gennai said, stepping back into the cave. "Which is why you need these."
We all gathered in closer watching as he removed twelve items from the package.
"These will help them to digivolve, or advance to the next level, but the item alone is not enough, you need to trust your partners and understand your own abilities."
Walking forward he stopped at each in turn.
"Courage and your partner is Agumon." And he gave Tai an orange device.
"Light, yours is Gatomon." He stopped at Kari.
"Hope, Patamon." TK received his.
"Knowledge, Tentamon." Izzy.
"Reliability, Gomamon." Joe.
"Sincerity, Palmon." Mimi.
"Friendship and Courage, Veemon." Davis.
"Sincerity and love, Hawkmon." Yolie.
"Knowledge and Reliability, Armadillomon." Cody.
"Kindness, Wormon." Ken.
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"How come some of us have two abilities?" Davis asked.
"That's really quite simple Davis. You, Yolie, Cody and Ken were to come here second and you would only possess the qualities to stop the evil, but as I said, those plans were stopped before you were even born. Now everything is different and you will share the same traits as your friends."
"We aren't friends."
"Sorry?" He turned.
"We aren't friends, half of us have never met before and you expect us to defeat this evil by trusting one another?"
"I no it will be difficult."
"Difficult, you'll be wanting to work some of that magic of yours and get us a miracle." Matt finished.
"Look."
"He's right you know, I mean, I've never met half of these people and you want me to trust them with my life?" Tai added.
"If you'd just."
"Yeah, I mean, they might be really nice but why should we trust them? Why should we trust you?" TK asked.
"Because."
"Bottom line, you're asking us to risk our lives to save yours because you can't it yourselves." Matt stated.
"Enough all of you! How can you stand there and say that? This affects you all whether you want it to or not. We're here for a reason and that reason is to stop whatever this evil is. You can't just decide that you want nothing to do with their problem because you don't know each other, how cold hearted can you get? The worry and pain on her face was almost unbearable to watch. She cared so much already and she hadn't even faced the problems in their world.
Everyone in the group was affected, you couldn't not be, she had that innocent look about her and you couldn't help but believe that everything would work out when she spoke.
"Come on, we have to help them, because if we don't it's going to affect us more than it already has done. You know it's the right thing to do." She finished.
"Sora's right!"
"Yeah!"
And such chorused around the group.
"We can do this. We'll help you Gennai." The tired looking man smiled at the group of teens. He knew they could do it, they had it within them and they'd succeed, somehow.
"I know you can do it. now where was I, ah yes." But where he was, Gennai never got to finish.
Lightening flashed in the sky and thunder rumbled overhead.
"So nice of you to finally join us, digidestined." Echoed a voice, all around them.
"Devimon." Gennai whispered. "Quick children, this way."
"Wait!" Called Tai. "Why should we run, I mean this guy is one of the reasons we're here and one of the things we've got to stop, so let's stop him!"
"Tai, we haven't even talked to our digimon yet, how do you think we'll do when it comes down to trust and none of us know each other. Our best option would be to run, think up some sort of plan, not just rush into something we don't even understand yet!" Matt yelled over the thunder.
"Yes but the quicker we fight this thing and win the quicker we get out of here!"
"And the more times we listen to you, the more times we're all in danger of being killed!"
"Look, we should stay and fight, he won't expect that!"
"And he won't expect a surprise attack in a few days!"
"What makes you think we have that long!" Tai yelled back.
"So touching the way you're little army are bonding Gennai." Boomed the voice. "Personally, looking at them, I don't quite understand why our master is so afraid."
"They'll defeat you all, Devimon, these children have the strength to do it, I know they do!"
"You know it, or you hope it?" It laughed.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Biyomon?" Sora whispered. "Want to trust me?"
The little bird smiled up at her.
"Let's do something about him!" She squeaked. "We can't run now."
Sora grinned down at her partner and then turned to Gennai and held her hand out.
"Sora, you aren't ready."
"Maybe not, but I trust her, I know she's strong enough."
"You'll have to go out there too."
She just grinned.
"I trust her, she'll get me through this."
The red device fell hesitantly into her hand and before anyone could stop her the young girl ran out into the raging storm.
"I know you can do it!" she yelled as a blinding red flash lit up the sky, blocking out the lightening.
"Sora what are you doing?" Matt yelled into the storm." Get back here, you'll get hurt!"
But she only grinned at him.
"Biyomon digivolve too. BIRDRAMON!"
A giant bird graced the skies. Its giant wings were bigger than the monster itself, who had just stepped out from the darkened forest. It soared above the heads of the children and above the head of Devimon who was grinning down at the child of love.
"So much courage for one not even bearing that crest, and it was so easy. I have a message from the Dark Lord. surrender to me now; child of love and your friends will be spared. "
It's black holed hand came crashing down towards Sora.
Mimi screamed, Tai yelled and Matt.
"Gabumon digivolve too. GARURUMON!"
A giant wolf-like creature appeared as if out of thin air, swiping the hand aside.
"You want Sora, you go through me first." Yamato growled. He turned to Sora. "Ready to kick some digimon butt?" He yelled, grinning at her.
"I'm ready!" She giggled holding out her hand. He took it in his and they looked at one another.
"And we have a message for the Dark Lord. If he wants us, he'll have to do better than you!"
"Howling blaster!"
"Meteor Wing!"
The two attacks hit the digimon full on and sent him flying through numerous trees until he finally came to a halt some few hundred metres away. He stood up his upper body pushing its way through the trees and showing itself to the night sky.
The attacks came again and again, the pair of digimon kept them coming until the monster was almost in the middle of the forest.
This time the creature stood up and before it could be seen or hit by anything else it sent out its own attack. The blackness from the beast shot out across the tree tops killing the upper most branches at its touch. Further and further it traveled until it hit the two digimon full on.
They were sent hurtling backward into the cave, the pair de-digivolved in seconds and laying in their place were Gabumon and Biyomon once again.
Yamato's P.O.V
"Gabumon!" I yelled running towards the shrunken creature currently trying to stand up after knocking half the cave to the ground. "Are you alright buddy?" I asked, I didn't know why but I was actually worried about this thing. But then again, as logic pointed out to while I was cradling him in my arms, he had just battled a creature ten times the size of him and by the looks of it ten times as strong.
He grinned up at me.
"Just a little bit bruised." I smiled at him and turned my attention back to Devimon who was now back at the edge of the forest, grinning down at us. And unfortunately not in the friendly way Gabumon had been doing.
I leaned over and put my arm round Sora's waist. I'd meant what I said; this digimon wasn't getting his hands on her while I was around.
"What else have you got?" It laughed down at us.
"A hell of a lot more!" Tai yelled running forwards. "Ready?"
"Ready!" Squeaked the little dinosaur like digimon.
"Agumon digivolve to. Greymon!" "Veemon digivolve to. X-veemon!"
And in turn the others ran forwards, creating a small army of different sized creatures.
"More to face than was prophesied, Devimon!"
"No matter!" It yelled, as the wind grew stronger whipping the tree's about like they were feather-light. "I will destroy you all!"
"Think you two can go once more?" I asked.
They looked at each other and a bright flash of blue and red lit up the sky turning it purple as the lightening crashed overhead for a split second.
And then in the place of the two smaller digimon, stood two larger ones.
"Lets do this!" Growled Greymon.
And simultaneously they attacked. There were flashes in the sky that lit it up creating a rainbow of colours that hit the beast full on. This time it did not fly backwards but looked down at itself only to see a steadily growing hole engulfing him. It screamed.
"He'll get you! I may have failed, but there are more and then there's him. He'll kill you off in ways you can't even imagine!" And then he vanished.
As he did a howling just of wind soared through the trees ripping some of them up by the roots and sending them crashing into the cave.
We dived out of the way only to be picked up by the wind. I reached out and grabbed Sora's hand as the heavy gust of air sent us flying through the night.
Hope that's not too much of a cliff hanger for you *giggles*
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Sora's P.O.V
I woke up later, I didn't think I'd been out of it that long as the sun was still up. I groaned as I picked my bruised body up and pulled myself into a sitting position. Resting my head in my arms I tried to make sense of what had just happened.
I'd kissed him and then all of a sudden I was falling.
I guessed I'd blacked out before I'd hit the ground as I never felt the impact, all the same I ached in a number of places now.
I lifted my head and ventured a look around. This place was really quite stunning once you got over the shock of being on a beach one minute and in the middle of a forest the next.
There were wild flowers growing at the bases of the trees. And the smell of the grass; it was like it had been freshly cut; yet it loomed taller than a lot of the flowers.
I moved my head round to see behind me and realised I wasn't the only person here.
"Matt." I whispered.
He was laid on the ground, arms spread out at odd angles, his hair had fallen over his face and he had a slash straight across one of his arms.
I scrambled to my feet and made my way over to him. Kneeling down by his side I brushed the hair away from his face.
"Matt?" I asked this time. "Matt, can you hear me?"
I fought the urge to cry. The situation looked hopeless, I couldn't do first aid, yet he seemed to need it.
I heard a rustling in the bushes next to me but chose to ignore it. I leant down further and brushed my hand against his cheek hoping to get some sort of response from him. Nothing, he didn't even flinch, but I was about to do more movement than was necessary for the both of us.
"Are you ok?" A voice asked.
I sprang into the air and turned to face the speaker. My eyes widened as I saw them.
In front of me stood a small group of kids, some my age some younger. The speaker had blue hair and glasses and was carrying what looked like a first aid bag; there was also a red haired boy with a laptop and a young girl with shocking pink hair.
I instinctively backed away, trying to shield Matt from them.
"We aren't going to hurt you, you know." Said the blue haired boy. "I think we're just as freaked out as you, but you're friend looks like he needs help. I'm Joe by the way." He added.
I eyed them warily, but stepped to the side.
"Sora." I stated and watched as Joe made his way to Matt. He knelt down and started to open his bag when Matt started to move.
He sat up suddenly and took a defensive position against Joe, just as I had done.
"Who are you?" He barked. "Where's Sora?"
"I'm here." I grinned and ran over to him, hugging him just to make sure he was really ok.
"Where are we? Last thing I remember we were falling trough a bunch of trees."
"I don't know, I just woke up, but there are these other people here too." And I waved my hand to indicate to Joe and the others when a new group appeared from behind some bushes.
"Who are you?" Matt asked, pulling himself up behind me.
"Tai?" I queried taking a step forward. "Tai, is it you?"
"Sora?" He asked, looking almost as stunned as me. And then he opened his arms and I ran.
"It is you!" I cried, while he swung me around in his arms.
"Jeez, how long has it been?" He asked grinning at me as he put me down.
"Not a clue." I replied grinning, but I stopped suddenly. "Tai, do you know why we're here? Or more importantly, where here is?"
I looked up at him, his arms were still around me, but I didn't think much of it, it was Tai after all.
I'd met him at a soccer match when I was eight and he'd challenged me to a game expecting an easy win. I'd beaten him 5 goals to one by the end of twenty minutes. I didn't let him live it down for his entire holiday. He'd gone home a week and a half later and we'd written to each other for a while, but soon we pretty much stopped and we lost contact.
And here he was eight years later; bushy haired and kid-like still the same Tai I remembered.
"I don't have a clue Sora." He was saying as I brought myself out of my thoughts. "We just sat around at home playing video games and all of a sudden we were here."
But I wasn't listening again. I'd lifted my head to a noise that seemed to be coming from above us, and sure enough I saw two bodies falling from the sky.
"Guys!" I called over their chatter. "Look." And I pointed upwards.
They all turned their heads to look and I heard Matt call out but I didn't hear what he said because I was too preoccupied trying to catch one of them.
He landed in my arms. Luckily, he was only small. He looked about 10 years old. I quickly let him get down and I smiled as he brushed himself off. He didn't look particularly worried about the fact he'd just fallen from the sky to wherever we were now. He looked up at me and bowed.
"Thankyou." He smiled at me and turned to look at his surroundings.
"Well that certainly doesn't happen everyday." Said a voice from somewhere behind me. I turned and saw a boy that looked very much like Matt brushing himself off.
I watched as Matt put his hands on the boy's shoulders and started talking to him in a hushed voice. The younger boy jus nodded and grinned.
Was he.?
"So there's twelve of us here, do any of you have any idea what's going on?" Tai asked over everyone's voices.
I glanced around the group. I was standing just left of Tai and next to the boy who had fallen from the sky. No one had raised their hands or even tried to make any suggestions as to why we were here. I heard a soft tapping noise and turned to look at one of the boys. He was sat on the floor and appeared to have a laptop with him. I tapped Tai on the shoulder and pointed.
"Anything Izzy?" He inquired.
"We appear to be in another sort of dimension. From what I can tell, I mean, there's no data here from the Earth. We seem to have stumbled into some sort of parallel universe." He trailed off.
I guess he realised how odd that sounded.
"A parallel universe." Tai repeated. "Izzy, that's a bit."
"I know ok, but there's nothing here."
"Maybe we should look around then." Another blue-haired boy said.
"Makes sense." Tai agreed. "We should go this way." And he pointed into the forest.
"Bad idea." Said a gruff voice from behind us.
We spun on the spot and came face to face with a very tired looking, and bruised man.
"Who are you?" Tai stepped forward and questioned the newest stranger to our group.
"My name is Gennai." He said, every word seemed to be of great difficulty for him.
"I'm here to help you." He said, stepping forward. His clothes were torn in places and covered in blood. The places where the rips showed his skin revealed hundreds of red and purple marks.
"I knew you'd come, I knew you'd figure it out." He gasped, looking from me to Matt. "I knew it." And he collapsed on the ground.
---Three hours later---
Yamato's P.O.V
After the man had collapsed we decided to go against that Tai guys' idea and go the opposite way. We found a cave about thirty minutes later and let the Joe guy clean Gennai up as best he could.
I found out he was training to be a doctor although he didn't seem to be too happy about it, he still did a great job fixing Gennai up.
My mind wasn't really on Joe's medical skills though; it was more on the fact that Sora had been around that guy with the huge hair all the time we'd been here and I still hadn't been able to talk to her about what had happened.
I knew they were old friends, I think we'd all guessed that much when he'd swung her round like that. When he'd touched her. It made my blood boil just thinking about it. Fair enough we weren't a couple or anything but we had kissed twice and I thought that meant something. I wanted it to mean something.
I sighed and turned round to look out at the sky. I'd separated myself from the group along time ago. I didn't feel welcome there, not that I was doing anything huge to make myself welcome, but to be quite honest I was thinking up ways to get rid of that Tai creep and get Sora to notice me again.
I fought the urge to laugh at how pathetic I'd become. One girl was making me this crazy, I guess that was irony for you. I had about a hundred regular girls following me around everyday, willing to give up their lives to spend time with me and I wasn't interested, but the one girl that I was interested in wouldn't even look at me.
I glanced over at them again and my heart almost broke in two when I saw her giggling away at his jokes. Closing my eyes to block the image of them out I stood up silently and made my way out of the cave unnoticed by everyone.
I headed away from the cave and after awhile I noticed a pathway heading off in a different direction. It looked newly made, as the grass was still green where it had been trampled down. So I decided to follow, maybe there were other people here as well. I mean Gennai was here so it would make sense that there were more of them.
I quickened my pace and followed the trail ducking the low branches. I looked ahead and saw what appeared to be a flickering light. I broke out into a run and moved into the cover of a bush as I got just metres away from the clearing.
Getting into a crouching position I looked over the top of the bush and nearly screamed at what I saw.
"Matt?" Jumping I turned to see Sora jogging down the pathway, bent over slightly.
"Get down!" I whispered harshly and tugged on her arm so she was out of view.
"What the.?" But I put my finger to her lips and indicated to the other side of the bush.
Keeping low she made her way across from me and just as I had done, peered over the hedge. She let out a short gasp and I pulled her back down out of view.
"What are they?" She asked.
"No idea." I answered. "What are you doing here?" Right now whatever they were in the clearing, they didn't seem important. I wanted to know why she'd followed me.
"I saw you leave and I didn't think you should go on your own." She said, her head bowed slightly.
I could tell she was embarrassed but I didn't really care about that. She'd spent all her time with that Tai kid when we could have been talking.
"Well I've been on my own all night so far while you were having fun flirting with your long lost friend." I spat. I knew I sounded jealous, but I was. I was crazy about her and she couldn't even spare me ten minutes.
"I was not flirting!" She replied. "I haven't seen him in years and we were catching up."
"You might've been but he was more into the whole trying to steal you away from me deal."
"He was not and you don't own me you know!"
"I know I don't own you, I don't want to but you could've at least talked to me, we did kiss or have you forgotten already?"
"Of course I haven't." She looked so sorry I stopped yelling. "Look, I am sorry, really I am, and I did try to get away but Tai wouldn't let me go." She smiled at me hesitantly and I sighed.
"I didn't mean to blow off at you, but I just, I wanted to know, I wanted to."
"About the kiss? I still don't think it was a mistake." I looked up at her, my eyes wide, maybe she felt the same way, maybe. "But if we do it again, oh I don't know." She let her head fall again and I made a motion to lift her chin up to face me but I was stopped when I caught sight of something just left of us.
Scrambling to my feet I pulled Sora behind me out of the way.
"Go warn the others." I whispered to her, but she didn't move. "Go!"
"No, Matt, I can't, no."
"Go!"
"We aren't going to hurt you, you know." One of them squeaked. "Really, we're here to help you."
"He's right." Another one-stepped forward. "We are here to help you, I'm Gabumon."
"You're a what? Sora, go."
"I won't leave you." She whispered and I turned to look at her. She was looking right into my eyes. It was like she could see into my soul.
"Sora, I." Her fingers were on my lips this time. Still gazing intently at her I felt her fingers trace along my lips and off my chin, falling to her side where I caught them, holding her hand in mine. My eyes never left hers and hers mine. It was like time stopped, and she was all that mattered, but that wasn't right because she was all that mattered anyway.
Her eyes were drifting closed and her head was moving nearer to mine, as mine came nearer to hers. Our lips touched, so gently if you'd seen it you wouldn't have known we were kissing, but the feeling. that was real.
I leant in further, but pulled back hurriedly when I heard someone calling us.
We spun round and saw the entire group, Gennai in the lead coming towards us and I again noticed the little creatures next to us. I instinctively wrapped my arms around Sora but noticed that they were smiling at us and then at each other and hadn't moved from their spot since they'd first appeared. Maybe they were harmless.
"Gave me quite a shock disappearing like that!" Gennai panted as he finally stopped a couple of feet away from us.
"You're supposed to be lying down resting, aren't you?" Sora queried, looking worried.
"Don't worry about me, tough as old boots, I am." He grinned at us and turned to see the Gabumon and his friends. "I see you've already met your digimon."
"Our what?" TK asked, side stepping Gennai to see what he was looking at. "Woh!" He said, taken aback. "What are they?"
"Digimon, TK, digimon. They are your partners while you are here; they will help you stop the evil that is arising."
"Excuse me?" Tai had stepped forward. "You want us to fight evil, what sort of evil is this and when were you going to ask us if we wanted to fight it?"
"I'm afraid you don't get a choice, you are the chosen children who will save both worlds from destruction and we need you to fight now. These are your digimon, short for digital monsters and we must now go back to the cave for I have something for you."
"Do you reckon he hit his head?" One of them whispered and I noticed Gennai smiling to himself as he walked back towards the cave.
"There are 12 of you and one of me, I think it's safe for you to follow me." He called over his shoulder to us.
I watched everyone debating whether or not to move. There didn't seem to be many options however, stay here with 12 little monsters or follow a crazed man. It seemed like Sora had made up her mind though. She broke free of my grip and followed the man ignoring Tai's warnings as she went past.
And one by one we all followed.
Ten minutes later we were all gathered in the cave waiting for Gennai to emerge from the back of it.
"What do you reckon he's gone to get?" Asked the pink haired girl, Mimi, as she clung on to Joe's arm.
"Don't know, but I do know I'd rather be here with him then back there with those digital things."
We watched as he reappeared clutching a parcel to his chest like a newborn baby.
"You have to be so careful with these, so very careful. We originally designed these for you when you were chosen to be the digidestined, but our plans were, well there were complications so in the time you were growing up we redeveloped them to be more suitable."
"I'm sorry, digi what? Who are we supposed to be exactly?" The purple haired girl asked.
"Maybe I should explain."
"Yeah that'd be an idea." I muttered and received a light slap on the shoulder from Sora. "What?" But she just turned to Gennai.
"Explain what?" She asked.
"Why you're here, why we chose you, what you have to do, why you are more important to both these worlds then you realise." He looked over at Sora and I again. "Perhaps you should all sit down?" And he motioned for us to sit around the small campfire we'd managed to build.
He settled himself down and looked round at us.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"I'm not sure really, where I should begin, but I shall tell you it all. As you may have noticed you are no longer in your world, those creatures you saw before they are what we call digital monsters. They inhabit this world and as in your own there are both good and evil ones. Those ones you saw before, they are all-good, I promise you that, they are hereto help you, to help us. You and those digimon have been chosen to stop the growing evil in this world. We would have brought you here much sooner but certain, complications, arose and instead we had to let you make your own way here."
"Make our own way? But we didn't." Tai butt in.
"If you let me finish I'll explain how you got yourselves here. You see fifteen years ago, just after you were born and before some of you were alive, a dark lord, one who has been terrifying, torturing and killing digimon for over a century found out about you all. He had placed a source within us who began to pass back information to him. And subsequently this spy found out that we had chosen eight children who would have the strength within them to fight and destroy all of his henchmen, some of whom were stronger than you could even imagine. Stronger than the partners you have been given, yet together you would be able to win. Unfortunately for everyone alive in both worlds and desperately for two of you he found out something of great importance. How we planned to get rid of him and who would be the ones with the strength to do it."
"Two of us." Izzy muttered.
"That is right, two of you have enough power inside of you, enough passion to end this evil forever. But this creature, that even those who are among the dark side fear, devised many cunning ways to keep the two of you apart. He was determined that two mortals would not stop him, let alone two mortal children. Now there is something you must all understand, at the time, when there was a spy among us, after a while we worked that we had a traitor, we worked out who they were there and we also devised our own plan to protect the two. From the day we found out everyone of our small group worked round the clock to protect them. We put spells on them to stop them from being harmed, you should all know; this creature's very touch can kill. So we had to protect them, however, rather inconveniently I was captured and taken hostage by the dark side and was unable to finish the spells that would protect you from anything he could do to you. So during that time when I was first taken, the spy gave him his only option, to separate you before you saw each other and to make it so you would believe you couldn't be together."
They sat there in silence for a while and Gennai glanced round the group his eyes landing, once again, on two in particular.
Friendship and love, they were this worlds, and the other from which they came, last hope. Yet they knew nothing of it. It was clear that they felt something for each other, but how was he to explain to them that they weren't in any way related and if they managed to win this battle that none of the past two years events would have happened.
Sora's real parents would still be together, happily. She would be living across the street from Yamato and the two would have been dating for over three years. They would be hopelessly in love each other and would be destined to raise two beautiful children.
Even the other ten children's lives would be dramatically different. For one both of the groups, younger and older, would already have been to the digital world and they would have defeated their enemies over a long period of time. But because of the curse forced on friendship and love, because of the beast's determination to control all, they had never even met one another before.
Now he, Gennai, had the task of getting them to trust each other in a few short weeks.
Once more he glanced around the group, noticing for the first time how they had divided themselves.
Tai was sat next to Sora and Sora next to Matt, leaning he noticed nearer to Tai then Matt. He also noted the arm that held her there. Kari was also on Tai's other side, looking across at the blue haired boy.
And so did he. Ken was sat with Davis and Yolie, and next to them were TK and Cody. Then closer to the fire was Mimi, Joe and Izzy.
He sighed, these were the chosen children, children who were destined to save the world through friendship and trust and they wouldn't even talk to each other.
"I think maybe it is time I introduced you to your partners." And standing up he gestured to a lumpy mound outside. Walking out into the cold wind, that had steadily been picking up over their short stay he picked up a log and called something to the group.
"Agumon if you please."
"Certainly." It squeaked. And almost instantly the log was alight with flame.
"Everyone, these are your partners. Agumon, Biyomon, Gabumon, Gatomon, Patamon, Wormon, Armodillomon, Gomamon, Tentamon, Palmon, Veemon and Hawkmon."
The small mound stepped forward into the light as each of its names was called. And there reflected in the light were twelve small creatures all staring bright eyed up at their humans.
"Pleased to meet you." They squeaked.
"So you're all digimon." Tai stated, cocking his head and looking at them. "And you're going to stop this evil dark lord when you're that size, you must be stronger than you look, a lot stronger." He added.
"They won't stop many of the evil digimon when they're at this level." Gennai said, stepping back into the cave. "Which is why you need these."
We all gathered in closer watching as he removed twelve items from the package.
"These will help them to digivolve, or advance to the next level, but the item alone is not enough, you need to trust your partners and understand your own abilities."
Walking forward he stopped at each in turn.
"Courage and your partner is Agumon." And he gave Tai an orange device.
"Light, yours is Gatomon." He stopped at Kari.
"Hope, Patamon." TK received his.
"Knowledge, Tentamon." Izzy.
"Reliability, Gomamon." Joe.
"Sincerity, Palmon." Mimi.
"Friendship and Courage, Veemon." Davis.
"Sincerity and love, Hawkmon." Yolie.
"Knowledge and Reliability, Armadillomon." Cody.
"Kindness, Wormon." Ken.
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"How come some of us have two abilities?" Davis asked.
"That's really quite simple Davis. You, Yolie, Cody and Ken were to come here second and you would only possess the qualities to stop the evil, but as I said, those plans were stopped before you were even born. Now everything is different and you will share the same traits as your friends."
"We aren't friends."
"Sorry?" He turned.
"We aren't friends, half of us have never met before and you expect us to defeat this evil by trusting one another?"
"I no it will be difficult."
"Difficult, you'll be wanting to work some of that magic of yours and get us a miracle." Matt finished.
"Look."
"He's right you know, I mean, I've never met half of these people and you want me to trust them with my life?" Tai added.
"If you'd just."
"Yeah, I mean, they might be really nice but why should we trust them? Why should we trust you?" TK asked.
"Because."
"Bottom line, you're asking us to risk our lives to save yours because you can't it yourselves." Matt stated.
"Enough all of you! How can you stand there and say that? This affects you all whether you want it to or not. We're here for a reason and that reason is to stop whatever this evil is. You can't just decide that you want nothing to do with their problem because you don't know each other, how cold hearted can you get? The worry and pain on her face was almost unbearable to watch. She cared so much already and she hadn't even faced the problems in their world.
Everyone in the group was affected, you couldn't not be, she had that innocent look about her and you couldn't help but believe that everything would work out when she spoke.
"Come on, we have to help them, because if we don't it's going to affect us more than it already has done. You know it's the right thing to do." She finished.
"Sora's right!"
"Yeah!"
And such chorused around the group.
"We can do this. We'll help you Gennai." The tired looking man smiled at the group of teens. He knew they could do it, they had it within them and they'd succeed, somehow.
"I know you can do it. now where was I, ah yes." But where he was, Gennai never got to finish.
Lightening flashed in the sky and thunder rumbled overhead.
"So nice of you to finally join us, digidestined." Echoed a voice, all around them.
"Devimon." Gennai whispered. "Quick children, this way."
"Wait!" Called Tai. "Why should we run, I mean this guy is one of the reasons we're here and one of the things we've got to stop, so let's stop him!"
"Tai, we haven't even talked to our digimon yet, how do you think we'll do when it comes down to trust and none of us know each other. Our best option would be to run, think up some sort of plan, not just rush into something we don't even understand yet!" Matt yelled over the thunder.
"Yes but the quicker we fight this thing and win the quicker we get out of here!"
"And the more times we listen to you, the more times we're all in danger of being killed!"
"Look, we should stay and fight, he won't expect that!"
"And he won't expect a surprise attack in a few days!"
"What makes you think we have that long!" Tai yelled back.
"So touching the way you're little army are bonding Gennai." Boomed the voice. "Personally, looking at them, I don't quite understand why our master is so afraid."
"They'll defeat you all, Devimon, these children have the strength to do it, I know they do!"
"You know it, or you hope it?" It laughed.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Biyomon?" Sora whispered. "Want to trust me?"
The little bird smiled up at her.
"Let's do something about him!" She squeaked. "We can't run now."
Sora grinned down at her partner and then turned to Gennai and held her hand out.
"Sora, you aren't ready."
"Maybe not, but I trust her, I know she's strong enough."
"You'll have to go out there too."
She just grinned.
"I trust her, she'll get me through this."
The red device fell hesitantly into her hand and before anyone could stop her the young girl ran out into the raging storm.
"I know you can do it!" she yelled as a blinding red flash lit up the sky, blocking out the lightening.
"Sora what are you doing?" Matt yelled into the storm." Get back here, you'll get hurt!"
But she only grinned at him.
"Biyomon digivolve too. BIRDRAMON!"
A giant bird graced the skies. Its giant wings were bigger than the monster itself, who had just stepped out from the darkened forest. It soared above the heads of the children and above the head of Devimon who was grinning down at the child of love.
"So much courage for one not even bearing that crest, and it was so easy. I have a message from the Dark Lord. surrender to me now; child of love and your friends will be spared. "
It's black holed hand came crashing down towards Sora.
Mimi screamed, Tai yelled and Matt.
"Gabumon digivolve too. GARURUMON!"
A giant wolf-like creature appeared as if out of thin air, swiping the hand aside.
"You want Sora, you go through me first." Yamato growled. He turned to Sora. "Ready to kick some digimon butt?" He yelled, grinning at her.
"I'm ready!" She giggled holding out her hand. He took it in his and they looked at one another.
"And we have a message for the Dark Lord. If he wants us, he'll have to do better than you!"
"Howling blaster!"
"Meteor Wing!"
The two attacks hit the digimon full on and sent him flying through numerous trees until he finally came to a halt some few hundred metres away. He stood up his upper body pushing its way through the trees and showing itself to the night sky.
The attacks came again and again, the pair of digimon kept them coming until the monster was almost in the middle of the forest.
This time the creature stood up and before it could be seen or hit by anything else it sent out its own attack. The blackness from the beast shot out across the tree tops killing the upper most branches at its touch. Further and further it traveled until it hit the two digimon full on.
They were sent hurtling backward into the cave, the pair de-digivolved in seconds and laying in their place were Gabumon and Biyomon once again.
Yamato's P.O.V
"Gabumon!" I yelled running towards the shrunken creature currently trying to stand up after knocking half the cave to the ground. "Are you alright buddy?" I asked, I didn't know why but I was actually worried about this thing. But then again, as logic pointed out to while I was cradling him in my arms, he had just battled a creature ten times the size of him and by the looks of it ten times as strong.
He grinned up at me.
"Just a little bit bruised." I smiled at him and turned my attention back to Devimon who was now back at the edge of the forest, grinning down at us. And unfortunately not in the friendly way Gabumon had been doing.
I leaned over and put my arm round Sora's waist. I'd meant what I said; this digimon wasn't getting his hands on her while I was around.
"What else have you got?" It laughed down at us.
"A hell of a lot more!" Tai yelled running forwards. "Ready?"
"Ready!" Squeaked the little dinosaur like digimon.
"Agumon digivolve to. Greymon!" "Veemon digivolve to. X-veemon!"
And in turn the others ran forwards, creating a small army of different sized creatures.
"More to face than was prophesied, Devimon!"
"No matter!" It yelled, as the wind grew stronger whipping the tree's about like they were feather-light. "I will destroy you all!"
"Think you two can go once more?" I asked.
They looked at each other and a bright flash of blue and red lit up the sky turning it purple as the lightening crashed overhead for a split second.
And then in the place of the two smaller digimon, stood two larger ones.
"Lets do this!" Growled Greymon.
And simultaneously they attacked. There were flashes in the sky that lit it up creating a rainbow of colours that hit the beast full on. This time it did not fly backwards but looked down at itself only to see a steadily growing hole engulfing him. It screamed.
"He'll get you! I may have failed, but there are more and then there's him. He'll kill you off in ways you can't even imagine!" And then he vanished.
As he did a howling just of wind soared through the trees ripping some of them up by the roots and sending them crashing into the cave.
We dived out of the way only to be picked up by the wind. I reached out and grabbed Sora's hand as the heavy gust of air sent us flying through the night.
Hope that's not too much of a cliff hanger for you *giggles*
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