A SHADOW OF THE PAST

Author's notes at bottom

Chapter 2-

^ Walking to the park from their cars, after the movie. ^

"Tai you are sooo dead! Hey, come back here!" Sora cried as she dropped her bag and started to chase Tai.
"I have to agree with Sora. That was a horrible movie." Mimi exclaimed as the group watched Sora chase Tai. The girls had to agree with Mimi.
"I don't think I can ever eat fried foods again." Insisted Yolei with a look of disgust on her face.
"Airline food." Kari added. The boys disagreed. They thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. While they ere talking, Davis asked Kari if he could speak to her. They slowed down just a bit so they were a few feet from the rest. 'Now's my chance to ask her out! I better do it loud enough so I can make TK jealous.' Davis thought to himself.
"Kari I was wondering if you wanted to go for a pizza on Saturday with me?" Davis asked. His plan worked. Kari said yes and TK overheard everything. 'If Kari really likes him than you should just back off. I'll ask her later if she really does and if she says yes then I'll leave her alone.' TK told himself.
But when they got to their site TK never got the chance to. Davis was everywhere she was. Then he got his answer as they were talking about their old teachers. Davis was sitting beside Kari. He knew that TK had been watching him and Kari so he decided to do something to make TK feel even worse. He leaned over and kissed Kari on the cheek.
When TK saw that Kari only blushed he knew what his answer was he got up deciding he needed to get away from them.
"I need a drink." He mumbled and took off running. It was then that Kari knew what had happened. She knew that TK was upset by the kiss so she decided to follow him.
"I'll go with him." She said. And before Davis could follow she had already disappeared.

^^^^^^
"TK!" cried Kari. "TK where are you?" she kept calling his name. 'Now I know something was wrong with what he saw. Could he be jealous? No, TK's not like that. Is he?' she thought to herself.
"TK!" she called out once more hoping he would answer her.
"Kari?" a familiar voice came to her. She followed the sound and came out of the bushes to find TK bent over the grass.
"There you are. I've-" but TK cut her off.
"Come here." He said quietly still bent over the grass.
"What is it?" she questioned coming up behind him. As she came closer she gasped at what she saw in TK's hands.
"It's...it's our crests!" he replied handing Kari her own. Scattered across the grass lay the other seven crests. TK reached over to pick up his own when suddenly a brilliant white light appeared and both TK and Kari were sucked through, leaving behind Kari's camera and TK's lucky hat.

^10 minutes later^

Tai was getting worried. 'Something bad must have happened to them.' He thought to himself.
"Maybe someone should go looking for them." Offered Sora, reading Tai's mind." it's ok. I'm sure nothing has happened to them." She whispered to Tai. Almost as soon as Sora had suggested it, Davis had already volunteered. He didn't want TK to get Kari after all the hard work he had done.
"Ok, but come straight back." Sora said protectively.
"And don't kill TK." Matt added. Everyone knew why Davis had offered to search for Kari.
"Sure." He replied and took off in the direction Kari and TK had gone.

^Later^

Minutes later Davis had returned carrying a number of items but no Kari or TK.
"Hey tai! Matt!" he called the worried brothers over. "They aren't anywhere to be found but I did find Kari's camera and TK's hat next to a bunch of necklaces with our crests on them." Davis held up the things in his hands.
"Hey! Those are our tags and crests." She exclaimed as she grabbed her own crest from Davis and examined it.
"TK and Kari's crests are missing." Izzy stated the obvious. Once the crests were with their owners the digidestined were pulled through the same portal that TK and Kari had disappeared through.

^Somewhere...where? Read to find out^

"OOF!" exclaimed the three digidestined as they landed on the soft ground one on top of the other.
"Davis! Get off me, you're crushing my leg." Complained Yolei having the luck of being on the bottom of the pile.
"I would but Cody's sitting on me." Replied Davis.
"Oh, sorry." After struggling for a few minutes they finally untangled themselves and started to notice their surroundings.
"I think we're in the digital world." Yolei remarked glancing at her change in wardrobe. Everyone agreed. They had landed in the middle of a lush forest.
"We should look for the others." Said Cody.
They set off in one direction in hopes of finding something or someone familiar. After a few minutes they were started to get an edgy feeling and Davis had started to complain. They were about to give up when they heard someone talking through a bunch of trees and bushes. They ran through to find two boys talking to each other. One was tall, wore glasses and carried a large medical bag over one shoulder. The other had a huge head of hair and a set of goggles on top of it all. The goggles looked strangely like Davis' pair.
"Hey Yolei! Davis, Cody have any of you seen the others?" asked the shorter one as if he knew them.
"Who are you?" countered Davis cautiously. They looked familiar but he wasn't taking any chances. The shorter of the two answered the question.
"It's me, Tai and Joe." He responded to the astonished faces of the 'younger' digidestined.
"You're Tai?!" asked Yolei whose mouth was hanging open.
"And you're Joe?!" added Davis. Cody was speechless.
"Yep." Replied a younger-looking Joe.
"I think when we got here we became younger." Tai said, first looking at his clothes then glancing at Joe who nodded in agreement.
"Try 5 years Tai,' he said gesturing to their clothes. "these are the clothes we wore when we first came to the digiworld." In his mind, tai agreed.
"I'm just glad we don't think 5 years younger, too." Tai exclaimed with a shudder. Joe seemed to know exactly what tai meant.
"yeah. I'd still have my allergies and pessimistic attitude and you'd be arrogant, idiotic and covered with bruises."
"Kinda sounds like Davis!" Yolei exclaimed. The remark sailed right over his head. But Tai looked confused.
"Bruises?" he asked.
"Remember all the fights you and Matt got into?" Joe recalled. "Kind of sounds like Davis and TK's feud." He added.
"We should go look for the others." Cody reminded them. They nodded and continued their search.

^Meters away^

Meanwhile Sora, Izzy and Ken were also looking for the others. They too, were 5 years younger than they should have been.
"Tai!" called Sora. "Mimi! Matt!" Izzy had out his laptop and was trying to pinpoint the other digidestined's location.
"Yolei!" cried Ken. He had also been 'shrunk' but no one had an explanation as to why they all were younger.
"Ok." Exclaimed Izzy finally looking up from his computer. He had found someone. "The nearest digidestined is walking on the other side of those bushes there." He said pointing to a wall of green leaves.
"Tai!" Sora cried one more time before bursting through the leaves and landing right on top of Tai.
"Sora?" Tai said looking at the girl in his arms and smiled at the blush slowly creeping up her cheeks as she suddenly realized the position she was in. Through the hole Sora had created came Izzy and Ken. Sora quickly climbed off of Tai and stood up. Izzy was the first one to start talking, breaking the silence.
"So I guess you were affected too, huh?" he asked Tai and Joe.
"Yeah, but the new digidestined weren't." Tai replied. Yolei was confused.
"Who are you now?" she bluntly asked. Izzy realized that they wouldn't recognize the original digidestined because they had changed over the years. 'Wait till they see Mimi!' he thought to himself. He gestured to Sora before replying.
This is Sora, me: Izzy, and this," he said nodding towards Ken. "Is Ken." Yolei had a mix of emotions flowing across her face: pity, sadness, guilt. The more dominant was shock.
"Ken!!" exclaimed the other two digidestined. They all had been staring at the new arrivals. Joe spoke up bringing them back to their senses.
"So Izzy, what do you think happened?" he asked knowing if anyone knew what had happened then Izzy would be that person. He was right.
"These crests are the ones that brought us here and changed us. I believe we are in the bodies of ourselves when we first arrived on File Island. But only the original digidestined have changed which means that if Kari and TK are here too than they are approximately 8 years old again." He replied, explaining his theory.
"Ok. First we find Matt and Mimi. Then we'll plan our next move." He took charge.
As they started to walk, Sora whispered quite audibly:
"Even at 13, with people older than him, he still thinks he's the leader."
"I heard that." Tai replied with a smirk on his face.


A/N: so how did you like it? I've already started on chapter three. The group will find Matt and Mimi. They will also fiind out what happened to Kari and TK. Is it linked with their age suddenly changing? What part do the crests play in all this? Wait and see. Oh and please review. I love to read all my reviews even if they are bad, plus I always write back.