Disclaimer: No, sorry I still don't own it...someday...>.>

Author's note: Okay, since a couple people haven't seen the Japanese version of Digimon, and I write everything with the Japanese names and such,I figured I'd put a few clarifications up, because a few people have asked about the names and Crests.

Yagami TaichiTai Kamiya
Yagami HikariKari Kamiya
Izumi KoushiroIzzy Izumi
Kido JyouJoe Kido
Takaishi TakeruT.K. Takaishi
Ishida YamatoMatt Ishida
Motomiya DaisukeDavis Motomiya
Hida IoriCody Hida
Inoue MiyakoYolei Inoue
Ichijouji Ken, Tachikawa Mimi and Takenouchi Sora are the same in both the English and Japanese versions, and Ashido Yukira, Kidosaki Iyami, and Tokugawa Haruka are original characters, as are their Digimon.

Okay, as far as Crests go, the only things different in the Japanese version is that Mimi has the Crest of Purity and Jyouhas the Crest of Faith. I'm not making this stuff up, guys, it's true. Look it up on like Wikipedia or something. I SWEAR IT'S ALL TRUE!

So here you have it: CHAPTER 9 IS UP! Please read and review/flame, I wanna know how I'm doing!

Chapter 9

Hikari woke to a silence like she'd never heard before. She slowly sat up, her head pounding, and looked around. She sat on a bed of sand, grey in color, surrounded by black water, sloshing gently onto the shore. The sky was dark with grey clouds, no light penetrating through them. A single lighthouse was the only thing there…a lighthouse which gave off a black beam of light.

"The Dark Ocean," Hikari muttered to herself. "Why am I back here?"

"Where are we?" said a small voice from behind her. She turned around to see a small boy with brown hair hidden under a large orange hat and emerald eyes filled with tears. He walked up to her and tugged on her sleeve, saying, "We're going to be alright, right?"

"I don't know," she said honestly. "What's your name?"

"Himi Tomoki," he replied, still holding onto her sleeve. She knelt in front of him and said, smiling, "Well Tomoki, I guess it's just you and me…"

"No it's not," said another voice. She turned to see another young boy, a few years older than Tomoki, and about four times his size.

"Junpei!" Tomoki cried happily. "Now that there's someone else here, we can try to make a plan to get back to wherever we were before and kick OkamiMyotismon's butt!"

"We've already lost, kiddo," Junpei said. "That's probably why we're here."

"We can't have lost yet," Tomoki said. "If we'd have lost, we would be dead!" That's a comforting thought, thought Hikari. Maybe we are dead, and we just don't know it. She felt her wrist for her pulse; it was still there, but maybe that was part of the illusion.

"Tomoki, listen to me: do you really think we'd be here if we were still fighting?" Junpei said.

"It's all an illusion," Hikari said. "We're in the Digital World, unconscious, and OkamiMyotismon is trying to convince us that we've already lost, to try and demoralize us. He's done it before, used our insecurities against us, but this time it's more powerful than the last time because he's got those other three Digimon giving him power. We're not really here."

"And how do you know this!" cried Junpei angrily.

"Calm down, Junpei," Hikari said calmly. "And just listen to me, because I've fought three of these Digimon before. I know what they're doing and why they're doing it, okay? They really are trying to demoralize us, because no matter how powerful they are, they are still too weak to fight us on their own, even combined. But if we've lost hope, then they can beat us easily."

"Look, if we were winning, we'd still be out there fighting!" Junpei yelled.

"Stop yelling!" cried Tomoki. "She has a point! OkamiMyotismon's just trying to get us to fight each other so that he doesn't have to. We're the only ones strong enough to beat ourselves, and he probably knows that! He's playing us against each other!"

"Exactly what I was trying to say!" Hikari cried. "So stop arguing with me and listen to me! You can't lose hope in yourself!"

"Don't give up on us Junpei! Please!" Tomoki cried, tears streaming freely down his face. He tugged on Hikari's shirt sleeve again, adding, "You won't give up, will you? Please don't give up on us!"

"I won't give up, I promise," she said. "It'll take a lot more than the likes of OkamiMyotismon to break my spirit! I beat him once, so help me I'll do it again!"

At that point, she started glowing; not her usual brand of light either. No this was very different. First her hands became engulfed in golden light, which spread slowly across her entire body. She stared wide-eyed at her hands; the light was growing brighter and brighter. Tomoki let go of her sleeve and backed up, the light engulfing him now too, and without even saying anything spirit evolved into Kumamon.

The light continued to spread throughout the area, and the Dark Ocean began to change. The water changed from black to bright, crystalline blue. The sand changed from grey to brown. Where once everything was black and grey, there was now color. Plants filled with life and the sun peeked out from behind the clouds, shining bright and warm.

"Holy…how did you do that?" Junpei said. "Where did all that light come from?"

"I have no idea," Hikari said, staring at her hands. The Crest of Light glowed brightly on the palms of her hands, and suddenly it hit her. "Guys, it's from the Crests!"

"The…what?" Junpei said. She held out her hands to him and he stared blindly through the light, managing to make out the Crest of Light on her hands.

"What's that symbol?" he asked.

"It's the Crest of Light," she replied. "It's where my power comes from…Gennai said something about the Crests having more power than we thought they did, but I never knew he meant elemental powers!" The light was still spreading, and now it touched Junpei. He stared wide-eyed as it engulfed him and changed him into Beetlemon.

"Whoa…I didn't even do anything!" he said. "This is awesome!"

"Okay, so who's ready to fight?" Tomoki said. "I know I am!"

"Count me in," Junpei added.

"Let's kick some major vampire ass!" Hikari whooped, as the Dark Ocean began to dissolve around them.

I Promise, after this one, there's only two more chapters of the Digidestined being split up, and then they're all together again. I know this is kinda boring and repetitive, but we're almost there guys! Again, please read and review!