Sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to take this long to update

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The Powers of Light

By: Rika24

Chapter 7: Like Me

The forest was so dark she couldn't see anything, but she could hear footsteps, the very same she always heard, it was HIM again. She tried to run but she knew she couldn't escape. It was too dark to see where she was going, and worse, she didn't know where he was. She could possibly even be running right towards him and not even know it until it was too late.

I have to focus; I'm the holder of the Crest of Light. This digimon is of the Darkness, I shouldn't fear him, she thought, he should be the one running from me. She stopped when the footsteps stopped. She looked around, squinting in the darkness trying to see where the digimon of Darkness was.

Suddenly the area lit up, she looked up in the sky to see where the sudden light came from and saw a bright white full moon, and in that moment the howl of a wolf echoed through the forest. The footsteps began again, louder and quicker this time. She turned just in time to see the dark digimon lunge at her, but he never touched her. Instead, a humanoid white wolf tackled him away from her. A wolf digimon? She thought. "Who are you?" she asked, but she never got an answer.

"Kari, Kari, wake up, Kari are you okay?" asked a worried voice. Kari opened her eyes to find Gatomon in front of her face and Tai standing over them.

"Gatomon, Tai," Kari said as she realized that she had the dream again.

"That's it Kari, no more hiding it," Gatomon said angrily.

"No more hiding what?" Tai asked, clearly confused. Gatomon looked up at him.

"Kari's been having very bad nightmares this entire month about an evil digimon calling her the 'Angel of Light,' saying she must die." Gatomon answered. Tai's eyes widened.

"Kari, why didn't you tell me about this?!" Tai shouted, startling Kari.

"I'm sorry Tai, but I didn't want to worry you or the others. I'm really sorry I didn't tell you," she said sadly.

Tai ran his hand through his brown hair and sighed. "It's ok, I'm just glad I know now. If you've been having this dream a lot lately, it might mean it's a premonition. We have to tell the others and inform Gennai." Kari nodded.

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"Well you had a good dream," Takuya said with a smile as he saw the smile on Kouji's face before he opened his eyes.

"I guess you could say that," Kouji replied.

"So I'm guessing you didn't have that dream again, right?" Takuya asked. Kouji shook his head.

"Yeah I did, but it was just different this time."

"How so?"

"This time I could do something, I knocked him away from her," Kouji said.

"Wow, so now you can actually do something other than watch. Maybe it's because you're in this reality and not ours." Kouji nodded and Takuya continued, "See, this means we really can do something about Duskmon." Takuya's smile faded as he looked off into the distance.

"What is it?" Kouji asked, he looked in the direction Takuya was staring in but saw nothing that would upset his friend. He looked back at Takuya who closed his large green digimon eyes.

"How do you think Zoe and the others are doing?" Takuya asked. Kouji thought for a second. He too was worrying about them.

"I'm sure they're fine," Kouji answered.

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That afternoon Tai called the digidestined, both old and new, to his house. Everyone needed to know about Kari's dreams.

"So what's this all about Tai?" Matt asked.

"Kari has been having nightmares this month, always of the same digimon. She can't recognize it as any we've ever seen before and it's after her specifically." This information had everyone instantly alert.

"Was it a digimon of darkness?" T.K., asked, Patamon looked at his partner worriedly as T.K.'s clenched fists turned white. T.K. had always had a problem with the dark side ever since Patamon was nearly killed by Devimon.

"Yeah, I think so. He did say that 'the light must be destroyed.'" Kari answered.

"Kari," Izzy started. Kari looked at him as he pulled out his pineapple laptop, "I want you to look at all the digimon in my digital monsters database. Gennai added some when he upgraded my system a year ago. There are a lot in the database that none of us have seen before."

"All right," Kari said as she walked over to him and sat at the table the laptop was now on. While I'm looking for this evil digimon I might as well look for that white wolf digimon too. The only wolf digimon I know of are the one's Gabumon digivolves into, Kari thought.

"What else can you tell us about your dreams Kari?" Sora asked.

"Well, they always take place in a dark forest, and I always hear the digimon before I see him. As the dreams continued it also got harder to see my surroundings, like this last one." Kari paused for a second to think about the wolf. "The dream I just had though, was a little different."

"How so?" Gatomon asked, Kari hadn't told her either yet.

"In this dream, it was so dark that I couldn't see anything. But a bright light illuminated the area all of a sudden and I was able to see the evil digimon."

"A bright light?" Yolei asked, "From where?"

"A full moon," Kari answered. "But that's not all, right as the evil digimon lunged at me, a white wolf digimon jumped out of no where and knocked the bad digimon away from me."

"A white wolf digimon?" Matt asked, "What did it look like exactly?"

"I didn't get a good look, but the wolf digimon looked human-like. Kind of like WereGarurumon I guess."

"Could it have something to do with the digidestined and digimon that we ran into yesterday?" Ken asked. The question drew everyone's attention to Ken.

"What digidestined and digimon?" Tai asked, no one had said anything to the older digidestined yet.

"Yesterday we met a digidestined named Kouji Minamoto and his digimon partner, Flamon." Davis answered.

"We should find out more about these two," Tai said, turning to Matt. "Matt, I'd like you to go with the newbies later today. I'd go normally but I don't want to worry my parents, they've been wondering why Kari's been missing a lot of times. They still aren't too happy with the digimon thing, but your dad's ok with it."

"Sure, no problem," Matt replied.

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The new digidestined, plus Matt, had decided on spending the night in the Digital World as a way to hopefully learn more about the newcomers. When they had arrived though, Kouji and Flamon were nowhere to be found.

"Where could they be?" Yolei asked.

"They went to explore," Gabumon answered, "they probably haven't been to this area of the Digital World yet."

"Well I guess we'll wait here for them," Matt said.

While everyone waited, Gabumon told Matt about Kouji and Flamon and how similar Kouji was to him.

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Kouji and Takuya, Flamon to the others, finally returned to find the digidestined sitting around a fire with an older blonde guy cooking. Kouji sighed; he had hoped that it would be just him, Takuya, and the digimon until he had time to think about what he was going to do about Kari and Duskmon.

"Hey, come and join us, we're ready to eat," Davis yelled to them. Takuya started to walk towards them until he noticed that Kouji turned around and went back into the forest. Takuya sighed before following his friend.

"I'll take him some," Kari said as she walked up to Matt, who nodded. Matt gave her two plates, both with a cooked fish on them. She then headed into the forest.

"Kouji, Flamon," Kari called out.

"Over here," Takuya called. Kari turned to find Takuya and Kouji up in the tree.

"I have some dinner for you guys."

"Thanks," Takuya said, he glared at Kouji before he jumped down. Kouji sighed and jumped down too.

Takuya gladly took the food, when Kari held out the food Kouji also took it. "Thanks," he said.

"Why don't you come join the rest of us?" Kari asked. Kouji was about to say no when Takuya elbowed him, reminding him of their mission.

"All right," Kouji answered. The two followed Kari back to the others and the team and newcomers ate in silence.

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Everyone was asleep except for Kouji and Matt. Matt was thinking about what he and Gabumon had talked about earlier. He looked over towards the trees, seeing Kouji lying below one trying to sleep. He got up to talk to the dark haired digidestined.

"Hey Kouji," Matt started as he sat down next to him. Kouji looked at him before turning over, facing away from the blonde. "So you're the loner of your team, huh?"

"Whatever," was Kouji's answer. Matt smiled, just like me, he thought.

"You and I seem to have some things in common," Matt stated. "Like that attitude. I used to push everyone away too, and 'whatever,' seemed to be my favorite word." He looked down at Kouji, who was still facing away from him. "So where is the rest of your team?" Matt asked.

"What makes you think there's a team?" Kouji asked.

"There's always a team. So, is there a goggle headed leader on your team like there was on mine and the current one?" Matt asked, laughing a little as he spoke.

Takuya, who had been faking sleep, opened his eyes to look at the two. Yup, the goggle head is right here, he thought. He looked down at his digimon hands, at least in my human form I am.

"So tell me, what happened to you to make you the lone wolf?" Matt's question made Kouji sit up.

"What makes you think something happened?" Kouji asked, slight anger to his tone.

"Well, the reason I acted the way I did was because of my parent's divorce. Did something like that happen to you?"

"Shut up and leave me alone!" Kouji almost shouted as he got up and ran into the forest, Takuya got up and followed.

"Maybe you shouldn't have asked such a personal question right away," Gabumon said as he walked up to Matt. The wolf/lizard digimon had been listening behind one of the trees.

"Yeah yeah, I know," Matt replied.

Sorry I didn't update right away like I planned. I had a hard time figuring out how to start this chapter. The outline of this chapter that I made only had the campout and Matt's talk with Kouji.

Sigh, this isn't exactly going as I originally planned. The original story that played in my head all the time involved a lot more than what you're going to read in the future. The original was more of a digimon/buffy the vampire slayer/charmed/halloween crossover in which Kouji was from Sunnydale where he was always afraid of vampires and demons. A former watcher starts training him to fight vampires and told him about a special slayer that would one day destroy the Hellmouth. He gets sucked into the digital world, becomes a part of a team led by Ryo Kamiya (yes, Ryo Akiyama, but I made him Tai and Kari's older brother). He gets kicked out of the team because they don't like his forceful way of leading. The team gets killed shortly after except Kouji and Ryo. Kouji wasn't with the team but saw them killed. The sovereign and the guardians send Ryo back to the real world, but not Kouji. (I use this idea in my fan series, Ultimate, instead. Something similar happens to the boy in that story who will appear in the next chapter - whenever I get around to updating Ultimate of course).

Once back home, Ryo feels guilty and takes it out on his little brother and sister (Tai – 5 Kari – 2). Kari starts saying how she keeps seeing a man watching them that scares her (this is during October). On Halloween night, Kari screams that the man is in the basement. Ryo has had enough of it and goes down to see just to prove that she's imagining things. Only he runs into the man Kari has been seeing, and he recognizes him as their uncle Michael (Tai, Kari, and Ryo's grandparents on their mother's side – the Strodes - had adopted Michael's sister Lori, bringing on the "Curse of Thorne," which makes Michael hunt them whenever the Constellation of Thorne appears on some Halloween nights). Ryo runs upstairs and tells them to run. Michael comes upstairs and Tai trips. Tai locks eyes with Michael and sees the death of everyone that tried to save him from Michael when he was a baby (think the baby in the movie, Halloween: the Curse of Michael Myers, which was the movie that influenced this whole thing). Ryo pushes Michael away from Tai and Tai runs and hides under the table. Ryo yells for Tai to get Kari and run, but Tai is frozen in fear. Ryo looks at Tai and says that he wishes that he wasn't his brother. Kari screams for Ryo to look out but it's too late and Michael decapitates him.

Years later Kari becomes the slayer (the one Kouji heard about) and Tai is her watcher (and a half white lighter half warlock. The white lighter side keeps him from turning evil)

There are also 10 powerful beings, the five defenders and the 5 destroyers. Kari is one of the 5 defenders while Tai can be on either side. If his warlock side takes over he is known as "Pyro," a dragon warlock that is a part of the 5 destroyers. If he's normal, he's known as the "Guardian."

Yada yada, that was how this story would have been, but I changed a lot to take this stuff out. But Kouji's family's past is still the same in this version of the story as it was in that one, minus the demon stuff and Sunnydale of course.

So yeah, I'm basically crossover nuts to come up with something like that XD. So why am I not writing that version instead of this one?

1. Because it would confuse the heck out of a lot of readers

2. I don't want to be flamed for changing so much