Sorry for the wait. I've been reworking my Kingdom Hearts fanfic, Whatever Lies Beyond, plus college and work is taking up all my free time.

Anyway. This is JP's intro chapter, enjoy!

I do not own Digimon


JJP Shibayama had just finished a sentence when his mother stuck her head in. "What are you doing up JP? You need to go to sleep, honey."

The boy sighed. "Okay Mom." He closed his notebook she clicked the light off. As soon as the his door closed, the fourteen year old sat silently in the darkness, hands tightening on his notebook. His leg throbbed with the echoes of a wound that never happened; wincing slightly, JP reached down and rubbed at the phantom pain, remembering how he had gotten it. His mom didn't realize that he had indeed gone to sleep when she first sent him to bed hours ago… but it didn't last long.

~~THUNDER~~

JP looked frantically around for his friends, he could hear them screaming but couldn't find them. "Takuya! Zoey! Koji! Koichi! Tommy!?"

"Why do you bother calling for them? It's not like they'd want help from you anyway."

JP spun around and bit back a groan, "Seriously? I thought I dealt with you already."

ShadowBeetlemon chuckled nastily. "Sorry to disappoint you, JP." the way the dark digimon said his name made it sound like an insult.

"Oooh, scary." JP spat, "you've already tried tearing me down before, why do you think it'll work now?"

"Because this time." ShadowBeetlemon sneered. "I hold all the cards." He waved his hand and the beaten and bloody forms of his friends appeared between the two.

"Guys!" JP fell to his knees and pulled Tommy, who was closest, into his lap.

"Where were you JP?" Zoe's form, with her eyes dead and blood dripping down her face, stood.

"We needed you." Koji joined the blond girl.

"We thought we were your friends." Takuya walked up.

"We would have been there for you." Koichi's words drove yet another blow into JP's chest.

"I wanted to be there! I just… didn't get there in time." Tears started slipping down his cheeks. "I am so sorry…"

"Sorry doesn't fix anything, Junepei." Tommy pulled from his friends hold to join the others in looming over him.

JP covered his ears as his friends' words overlapped and blended together, echoing in his head. "We were you friends. You should have been here. It won't fix anything. You're nothing. Where were you? You can't bring us back. We trusted you."

The ground dropped out from underneath him and he fell into a deep ravine. "You are nothing JP." All five of his friends' spoke as one. "This is where you belong."

Dirt started falling into his prison, a large rock landed on his leg, crushing it and eliciting a scream from him. Sobbing quietly, he lay back and let himself be buried alive.

~~THUNDER~~

JP inhaled sharply as he pulled himself out of the memory; there were fresh tears on his cheeks and the pain in his leg pulsed sharply. Intellectually, he knew that it was just a dream, but he couldn't seem to convince his emotions of that fact. Sniffling, JP drew his knees up to his chest and buried his face in them.

The nightmares were getting worse. The pain was lingering longer and longer each night. JP just wanted it to stop, but he didn't know how he was supposed to make that happen.


There you go. I don't know when Zoe's chapter will be out, but I hope you enjoyed this one.

**Wayfinder**