Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon or anything associated with it. That honor belongs to Toei Animation, Saban, and Fox. I'm just a fan who needs an outlet, so please don't sue me.

Note: This takes place a good while after chapter 2, it's set after the final battle with Apocalymon.

Chapter Three:

Tai looked over at Sora and smiled. After everything they'd been through, the battle for the fate of both the worlds they loved was over. They were back in Primary Village in the middle of what T.K. called a "Digiegg Storm," even though the sun shone brightly overhead. His little sister had just hatched a sweet little Botamon. And Sora smiled back. Everything was right with the world...
"Dad!" It was a voice Tai didn't recognize. He turned toward the sound. A bright-haired girl was running across the egg-laden field, coming toward them.
Tai looked at Sora again, his brown eyes meeting hers in a look of shared confusion. Who was she? And who was she talking to?
One of those questions was answered when the girl ran straight to Gennai and wrapped her arms around the machine that housed the old man.
"Anni, my girl! You made it, I knew you would," Gennai proclaimed proudly.
Tai looked around at the group. Sora, Mimi, Joe and T.K. all looked as confused as he felt. Matt and Izzy just looked surprised. And Kari--well nothing ever seemed to surprise his little sister, so it was little surprise that she took this new event completely in stride.
"'Dad'?" Mimi asked, her forehead wrinkling under her pink cowboy hat.
"Gennai has a...daughter?" Sora's voice was tinged with disbelief.
"She's adopted," Izzy said matter-of-factly.
Tai turned and looked at Izzy in suprise. "How do you know that?"
"She told me."
"So that means you've met her too, Izzy?" Matt asked.
That gave Tai another start, but not as much as when Kari chimed in.
"Me too!"
"Kari?" Tai started to question his sister. But Joe burst in before he could ask a question.
"But who is she?" he nearly exploded.
"I already said that," Izzy explained. "She's Gennai's adopted daughter."
"So let me get this straight," Tai said, putting up his hands. "Matt, you know this girl."
Matt nodded. "Right, I met her while I was out on my own."
"And Izzy, you know her," Tai continued.
"She showed up at the campfire while I stood watch," Izzy replied.
"And you know her Kari?" Tai looked questioningly at the younger girl.
"Yep," Kari answered. "I came to Izzy's fire too."
By this time, Tai saw that the girl--Anni, Tai was pretty sure he'd heard Gennai say--had finished greeting her father. Now she was coming over to see them.
Anni hugged Kari as Matt and Izzy both clamored up to the girl with questions.
"What happened?" Matt asked.
"Where did you go?" Izzy inquired.
"Why did you leave me?" they both said at once.
"I'm getting confused," T.K. whined.
"Hold it there, guys." Sensible Sora stepped in between the two anxious boys and the mystery girl. "I think that introductions are in order first."

Could it really by time to go? Tai wondered. It always had seemed like they'd be in the Digiworld forever. And now they were leaving...
Tai looked around. Mimi was still crying because Palmon was nowhere to be found. The others were doing their best to comfort her. Further off, Tai spotted the golden-haired mystery girl. He felt kind of bad for her. After all, she'd spent her whole life with only Gennai for (sort of) human company. Now, as soon as she'd met some people and made some friends, they all had to go away.

When Tai stepped off the streetcar, he was home. Well, not exactly home... The car had landed in the same place they'd left from the last time.
Tai spotted his parents just as Kari ran ahead of him, flying toward their mother.
"Kari! Tai!" Mrs. Kamiya called out.
"Mom! Dad!" Tai couldn't help but follow his sister's example and run for his parents.
All around them were happy reunions. Even Matt and T.K.'s parents were getting along together. For the moment, they looked like one big happy family again.
And then it really was time to go home. After many fervent promised to keep in touch, the eight kids parted ways once more, going home with their families.
The Kamiyas had traveled all of a block toward home when Kari suddenly turned around.
"We have to go back!" she insisted.
"Go back?" Mrs. Kamiya was startled when her daughter dropped her hand and took off in the opposite direction.
"Kari?" Tai followed close on her heels.
As they reached their return point, Kari looked up. Tai followed her gaze. Up in the sky, the last crack of the portal to the Digiworld was closing. But there was something else up there too. It looked like...
"A phone booth?" Tai puzzled.
The boxy structure floated down from the sky and landed next to the streetcar. The door folded open and that strange girl stepped out.
"Anni!" Kari was thrilled.
"Kari, how...?" Tai stopped. He'd been going to ask Kari how she knew to come back. But then he realized that he was never going to understand how his sister knew the things she knew.
"You came in a phone booth?" he asked Anni instead.
Anni shrugged. "Dad was out of streetcars."
Mr. and Mrs. Kamiya finally caught up with their kids. Kari immediately had an idea.
"Mom, Dad, this is Anni, and she's from the Digital World," Kari said breathlessly. "Can she stay with us? I've always wanted a sister!"
Mr. and Mrs. Kamiya turned to each other with wide eyes.
"What should we make of this?" Mr. Kamiya asked.
"You realize that we've seen stranger things recently," his wife replied.
"But a girl from the their digital world...?" Mr. Kamiya trailed off.
"It might be a good thing for Kari," Mrs. Kamiya reasoned. "And she and Tai did save the world, you know. I think we can deal with one of their friends."
"You're right," Mr. Kamiya agreed. He turned back to his daughter. "She can stay with us, Kari....now what did you say your name was?"
"Annira, Mr. Kamiya," Anni said shyly.
"Do you have a last name?" he asked her.
Anni bit her lip and furrowed her browm thinking about it. Finally, she shook her head. "I don't think so. If I did, I think Dad would have told me."
"Well," Mrs. Kamiya smiled. "I guess for the time being, you're a Kamiya. Now let's go home."

All too soon, it was time for school to start. Sora walked into her history class with a mix of frustration and anticipation. She'd really been hoping that Tai would call her before school started. She was a little upset that he hadn't.
On the other hand, she thought, I still hope he's in this class. I do miss him...
Just then, Tai walked in. Sora smiled. I'm glad he's here, she thought.
At least she was glad until she saw that Tai was walking into the classroom with another girl. Sora's smile quickly faded. She tried to get a good look at the girl. But she'd turned and was whispering something to Tai, so her face was obscured by her cupped hand and the fall of her hair. Tai touched the girl on the shoulder and let her to a seat near his, a few rows behind Sora.
So that's why he didn't call, Sora thought bitterly. Who is she, anyways?
She turned around and finally got a good view of her. She's not that pretty, Sora thought desperately. But the reddish blonde hair and the dark blue eyes did make her quite a striking girl, if not "pretty." Sora stared jealously...
...until the recognition finally set in. Wait a minute! she thought. Isn't that Hanna or Anna or whatever her name is, Gennai's daughter? She looked back again. I'm sure it is! What's she doing here? And what's she doing with Tai?

Marc Immiri was in that class too. He leaned back in his chair staring at the ceiling until class started. The teacher started taking attendance.
"Immiri, Marcus?"
Marc rolled his eyes. "Marc," he insisted.
"Of course," the teacher said. "Kamiya, Tai?"
Marc rolled his eyes again. He thought Tai was such a loser. He'd heard rumors that Tai and his friends saved the world and he didn't believe a word of it.
"Kamiya, Anni?"
This made Marc sit straight up. He may not have liked Tai, but everyone knew Tai only had one sister, Kari. And that sure wasn't Kari.
After class, he tried to approach Tai. "So, what street corner did you pick the new sister up on, Kamiya?"
"None of your business," Tai pushed past him and went on his way.
"He's hiding something," Marc muttered to himself.

After school, Marc spotted the new Kamiya girl walking with Izzy Izumi. She sure can pick em, he thought to himself as he followed at a distance.
After the stop at the apartment complex the Kamiya's lived in, Marc took a gamble and followed Izzy home, setting up station right outside Izzy's window. On the desk was a laptop and something that looked like a GigaPet. Izzy took that strange device and plugged it into his computer. On the screen appeard some strange looking creatures. One of them Marc had seen on TV!
So maybe it's true, he thought. That whole fairy tale about another world. Maybe they are heroes....
Right then, Izzy's mom called him in for supper, and that left a perfect "window of opportunity" for Marc. He carefully opened the window, and took the funny-looking device off Izzy's desk. Then suddenly remembering that he was late for his own dinner, he went back out the window and rushed away.

The next day didn't find Sora in much of a better mood. Especially when she saw Tai and Anni walking to school together. Anni stopped by a tree to talk to Matt for a while and waved Tai on ahead. Good, Sora thought.
She marched up to Tai. "You didn't tell me you had another sister, Tai."
Tai made a face. "Well, yeah, um, I..."
"Come to think of it," Sora crossed her arms. "You never called me at all."
"Sora..." Tai started.
"Oh save it Tai," Sora said, exasperated. "Here comes the pretty girl now, I'm sure you were much to busy spending quality time with your new 'sister' to even think about me." She turned to walk away.
But Anni must have had an idea about what that exchange had been, because as she approached, she immediately grabbed Sora by the arm.
"Wait," Anni insisted softly. She took Sora aside and whispered while Tai stood there shamefaced.
"He sat by that phone six times a day, trying to get up the nerve to call you," Anni confessed, looking straight into Sora's eyes to convince the other girl of her honesty. "I'm there to be a big sister for Kari. That's it. He really does like you."
Sora blushed slightly. "I just made a total idiot out of myself, didn't I?"
"Just go talk to him," Anni urged. "I think he feels worse than you do." They both turned to look at Tai, who was practically kicking himself where he stood.

Marc is sat on the couch looking at his mother, who was bent over him giving him yet another speech about being responsible and being on time and whatnot. Marc tuned her out and lost himself in his own thoughts.

...what if it's all real??...
...what does that new girl have to do with it??...
...what's this thing in my pocket??...
...what's a digimon?...
...how can I find out??...

End Chapter Three