Disclaimer: Digimon is not mine. All characters in Digimon are not mine. (Though I wish Izzy was mine.) ^_^ This is my first Digimon fanfic so don't complain (may have a few spelling/Grammer problems). Also Kari is not in this story. This pretty much happens between "Sora's Crest of Love" and "All in the cards." They have met the real Genni, Zudomon is in this story just because he's one of my favorite Ultimates and I just want him in the story. OK? There are some bloody scenes so watch out. Kugumon (I made Kugumon's name before I heard of Dokugumon just to let you know) and Shazockmon are my Digimon! No stealing. Anyway on to the story......
"Hmmm...mountains to the north, more forest to the east, and desert to the west..." Tai pulled his mini-telescope away from his eye, "...weird." "So Tai, which way should we go?" Tai looked at his digimon, Agumon. "Since we're traveling through the forest already I think east...but we better talk to the others, just to hear their options." "Ok, Tai." Tai and Agumon had gone ahead of the group to check out what was ahead of them. They were standing on a huge boulder so they could get a better look of the area. Tai put his mini-telescope back in his pocket. "The rock's kinda slippery, Tai so watch your step." "Agumon, I'm to careful to fall off a rock," He grinned then turned around. " come on let 's get back to the oth-ahhhhhh!" Tai slipped off the rock. Agumon jumped off the rock and ran to his friend. "Are you ok, Tai?" the worried dinosaur asked, bending down to help his friend up. Tai had landed on his back. Agumon helped him up. "I'm ok...Oww!" Tai grabbed his neck. " What's wrong?" Agumon asked, confused. "Something pinched my neck. I think a sharp rock stabbed me." Agumon looked at the ground. "Uh Tai there aren't any rocks around here." "Well something poked me." "Let me take a look at your neck." Tai bend down and Agumon looked at his neck, nothing , not a mark or sign that showed he was poked, stabbed, or pinched. "There's nothing there, not even a mark." "Well it felt like something poked my neck." Agumon started walking off into the forest, then he turned around and looked at Tai. "Well there was nothing there...come on we better get back before the others think we've been attack by one of Myotismon's minions." Tai rubbed his neck for a second then walked up to his digimon partner. "Guess your right." They walked back to where the others were at.
The other Digidestinies and their digimon were eating some fruit as they wait for their leader to return. "Yum! These bananas are deliouse!" Mimi said after her fifth banana. "Gee, Mimi are you sure you're not a monkey, cause you're really consuming the bananas like one." Izzy said joking. Izzy was eating a slice purple watermelon. "What!? Izzy why do you have to be so mean!?" She threw a banana at him, and it hit him right in the head. Izzy rubbed his head from where the banana hit him; he then picked up the banana. "Thanks for the banana, Mimi." He unpeeled it and ate it. "Those two are weird at times." Matt said as he ate an orange. Joe nodded, he was eating some orange grapes. T.K. was eating some orange grapes too. Sora was eating a slice of the purple watermelon. All their digimon were fighting over who get's what fruit. "I said I had dibs on the apples!" Gomamon yelled trying to grab them from Biyomon, who was keeping him away from him. "Well I'm calling dibs now!" she said. She had her foot blocking Gomamon from grabing them. "You already ate all the grapes so I should have those two oranges!" "Well I'm a growing digimon!" " Give me those oranges!" Gabumon was jumping up and down trying to get the oranges Tentomon had. Tentomon was taunting him as he held the oranges over Gabumon's head. He was hovering over him. "Palmon let me go!" "Not until you share that watermelon with me!" Palmon had used her poison ivy attack and was holding Patamon. Patamon held on to the Watermelon with all his might.
"Hey guys! I'm back!" Tai ran up to the other kids, Agumon caught up to Tai a few seconds later. Both of them looked at both the kids and the digimon. "Hey! Why are you guys eating with out us?" Tai asked sounding kinda angry. "Well it was taking so long for you two to come back we decided to get food to eat since we all were hungry." Matt said finishing the orange. "Did you save any for us?" "Yeah. Of course we would here." Sora pulled out a big leaf that had a few fruit on them. "FOOD!" Agumon cheered, he was pretty hungry. Agumon ran over to the fruits and started eating some of it. Tai walk over to the food and picked up an apple. He looked at it. 'Why do I suddenly feel like eating meat...' "Hey Tai are you ok?" "Huh?" Tai turned around and saw Joe looking at him. "Yeah I feel ok. Why?" "Well you were staring at that apple." Tai looked at the apple. "Oh sorry.." He ate the apple and some other fruits. 'The fruit taste weird to me' He thought. "So Tai which way we'll we be going?" Izzy asked. "We have three choices, you guys tell me you options. First choice: we could climb the mountain, second choice: we go through the desert and third choice: we go through more woods. I say we take the woods since ...." Tai said. "I say the woods!" Mimi said . Each of the other kids except Matt nodded their head, agreeing. "Matt what's your choice?" Tai asked. "I guess the woods would be the safest area route to take so...the woods." "Ok more woods! Let's get going." "Uh Tai? Make be we should wait until tomorrow it's getting really dark." Sora suggested . Tai looked at the sky, it was getting dark, really fast. "Ok we stay here for tonight." Matt made a fire to keep everyone warm. Everyone picked there spot to sleep and fell asleep.
Later that night.... A creature ran through the woods the only thing on it mind was to hunt and kill its prey for the night. It sniffed the air ...fresh meat..living prey... A metallic colored raptor ran to where the target prey was at. It saw its prey. It hide behind some bushes, its prey was unaware of its presence. When its prey had its back turn it attack! It ran at its prey at its top speed. Before the innocent prey could react it pinned it down. "Please don't hurt me!" it cried. The raptor's red eyes glowed a blood red color, it's eyes showed no mercy. It quickly moved it's head to ripe out the veins in the prey's neck. "AHHHHHHHH!" All it could do was scream then it fell dead, blood gushing out of it neck. The raptor moved away from the prey. Laying their dead was Sora, blood all over her body. Tai looked at his hands, they were covered in blood, his mouth dripped with blood, he tasted blood too. He had killed Sora. "No this can't be!" was all he said as he looked at Sora's dead body.
Tai woke up sweating he moved his head to where Sora was at, she was sleeping peacefully. Tai suddenly felt sick he got up and ran to a bush, he let his digestive system go in reverse, and he threw up. 'Man that fruit went bad with my stomach.' He thought. Tai pulled the gloves off his hands and wipes the sweat off his forehead, something felt weird. He looked at his hand, he was shocked at what he saw, he's fingers had changed to razor sharp claws and his hand had changed into a hard metallic raptor hand, both of his hands looked like that. "This has to be a dream" Tai's feet started to feel weird, like they were swelling, he quickly took off his shoes and sock, he almost screamed when he saw his feet, instead of seeing his normal feet he saw huge raptor feet and claws. Tai pulled his shirt off and looked at his chest, his skin was turning to a hard metallic skin. 'What's happening to me' he thought. Tai looked at his friends; all of them were asleep. Tai suddenly got the craving for meat again. "Must kill and have meat." He growled. He moved over to the sleeping Matt. "Take down a tough one, he should be enough to feed my craving." Tai opened his mouth his sharp teeth shined in the darkness. He moved his down going right for Matt's neck. He moved his head back and backed away from Matt. "What am I doing I don't go and kill my friends." He whispered to himself. Tai grabbed his head with his sharp clawed hands. "I can't kill my friends..I can't!" he yelled. Tai roared then ran deep into the forest.
Matt woke up when he heard the roaring. He looked around. "What was that?" he said to himself. He looked over to T.K., he was asleep. He looked over at the other kids and digimon, he noticed Tai was missing. Matt got up and looked around the campground, he saw some thing blue on the ground he picked it up, it was Tai's shirt. He looked to see if any thing else was on the ground, more items were there, Tai's shoes, socks and his gloves and goggles. "This is really weird, but where's Tai?" There was no sign of him. Matt laid down, he was really tried. 'I better tell the others first thing in the morning...' He fell asleep.
The next day.... "Tai!" Matt woke up, he got up and saw Sora, Joe, Izzy, and their digimon looking for something. Sora noticed Matt get up and ran over to him. Joe, Izzy, Tentomon, and Gomamon walked off further into the woods. "Matt have you seen Tai?" she sounded worried. "No..but I found this last night." He showed her Tai's stuff. "Huh? Why is some of Tai's clothes here?" She asked. "I don't know. All I know is that last night I heard some kind of roaring, when I got up I found Tai's things but no Tai." Sora looked like she was about to cry. "Do you think Myotismon got him?" Matt looked at the ground. "I...don't...know..."
"Izzy! See anything?" Joe yelled to the younger boy. "Negative, Joe!" Izzy called back. Both boys were sent to search for Tai in the forest. "You look high and I'll look low, Joe" Gomamon said smiling. "Gomamon, this isn't the time to joke around." Joe said looking at the seal-digimon. "Guess not."
"I'll search high in the air ok, Izzy?" Said the bug digimon, Tentomon. "Roger that Tento." Izzy said. Tentomon flew high up and Izzy kept looking from the ground. 'Where could Tai be?' he wondered. Izzy had been woken up by Sora early in the morning; she sounded worried as she told Izzy about Tai disappearance. Izzy searched the ground for any footprints. None so far. "This seems unlogical that Tai would suddenly leave and not tell a single person or digimon about where he was going, maybe he's-Owww!. Izzy felt something poke him in the back. He rubbed his back. Izzy's eyes glowed a red color for a second then stopped. 'Did a bee sting me?' he thought. 'Wait a nanosecond...I don't remember bees living in the Digiworld...strange.' Izzy kept walking not only was he wondering about Tai's disappearance he wondered about that sting he just got. "Izzy!" Izzy looked up at the sky. "Did you find him Tentomon?" Tentomon landed by Izzy. "I'm sorry but no." Izzy rubbed his back, Tentomon noticed that. "Umm..something wrong with your back?" "I think a bee stung me." Tentomon looked at him confused. "Bees? What are bees?" Tentomon asked. "Bees don't exist in the digiworld?" Izzy asked his bug friend. "As far as I know, no." Izzy looked up at the sky. "Then what hit me in the back?" "I have no idea." "Joe! Izzy! Tentomon! Gomamon! Come back to camp!" It was Sora's voice. "We better get back, Izzy" "Right!" Tentomon flew off. Izzy rubbed his back one more time, then ran back to camp.
When Joe and Izzy had made it back everyone was up. "So did you four find anything?" Joe and Izzy shooked their heads, no. Izzy didn't tell anyone about something had hit him in the back, he didn't really think it was important. "So what do we do now?" Joe asked. "We have to find Tai that's what!" Agumon said. Agumon was really sad when he found out Tai was missing, he thought it was all his fault, Palmon and Biyomon were trying to comfort him. "Well," Matt said looking at a small path. "Tai might have gone ahead of us so why don't we go down that path that you and Tai went down, Agumon." Agumon looked at Matt. "Your right he could have!" Who gonna lead?" Mimi asked. All the kids looked at one, another. "I say Matt." Joe said. "What?" Matt said surprised. "All who want Matt as leader raise your hand." Mimi said. All the kids raised their hands. "I'm no leader you guys." Matt said. "You're the only one who even is close to being leader." Sora said. "Izzy is good friends with Tai and he would be a great leader. I say Izzy for leader." All the kids except Matt and Izzy think. Izzy had been really useful many times he was the one who figured out the digiworld, that things were living biable substances, he knew a lot about the digivices, he had very reliable theories, and Tai talked to him for some ideas. "Ok Izzy should be leader." "Yeah!" "Izzy the leader." Izzy face got red and he made a silly grin. "So Izzy do you agree to be leader?" Sora asked. "I guess but what if I lead you wrong?" "Don't worry it won't be your fault if you do, your only human." Mimi said smiling. "I guess I'll be leader." Izzy scratched his back little did he know the transformation had already started.
After walking through the woods all day the whole gang were starting lose hope on Tai. Izzy starting to look a little sick a few hours ago so Matt had to take the role of leader. "Izzy how do you feel now?" "I feel like throwing up but I just can't." That moment Izzy started making sounds like he was trying to barf, he feel to his knees, he was still making that noise. The kids looked at him. Izzy finally threw up....well he didn't throw up his food he threw up something else......something very weird. "Gross it's a hairball!!!" Mimi screamed. Izzy had coughed up six hairballs. He stood up and wiped the spit from his mouth. "Izzy you threw up hairballs!?" Matt yelled. "I always thought cats were the only ones who could do that." T.K. said staring at the hairballs. "Cats ARE the only species that do that." Izzy said. "Ok this is freaky. First Tai disappears now Izzy throwing up hairballs!" Joe said. Matt looked around the area they were in, he saw a clearing ahead. "Hey guys I found our next camping ground." He said. "Izzy you feel better now?" Sora asked. "Actually I feel great." He said. "Come on guys!" Matt yelled. All the kids and their digimon ran to the clearing. "This is perfect!" Joe said. "Ok everyone we'll collect food and rest and tomorrow we set off to find Tai." Matt said.
An hour later all the kids and the digimon were eating their food, all were unaware that a set of glowing red eyes watch them. 'I wish I could tell them I'm ok and I'm here but...' Tai looked at his body, he had fully became a raptor, and sliver colored raptor to be exact. He grabbed his long tail then let it go. "Why have I become this beast?" He turned back and looked at his friends. 'At least I was able to stop that meat craving for now'. A dead deer-like digimon laid on the ground, the only thing left on its body was some fur and bones, everything else was gone. Tai was still wearing the black wrapping on his left arm; his crest and tag hanged from his long slivery neck. He reached down to a small make-shift bag and pulled the digivice out. He looked at Agumon. 'He won't be able to digivolve with out me' he squeezed the digivice then he put it back in his bag. "Good bye my friends." He ran farther into the woods.
"Good bye my friends...." Agumon looked around. "Tai?" Gabumon looked at Agumon. "Did you hear something Agumon?" Agumon hung his head. "I thought I heard Tai...." Gabumon put his hand on Agumon's scaly shoulder. "Don't worry we'll find him. Don't give up hope." Agumon looked at Gabumon. "Thanks Gabumon." He smiled. Gabumon smiled back. "Come on, everyone's asleep we better rest too." "Ok." The two digimon lay down and went to sleep.
A saber-tooth wildcat walked in the dead night, its eyes shined a beautiful blue. It was tracking its prey, its ears moved, movement! A rocket implanted on its back turned on and it moved at an unbelievable speed. Its prey a deer, gazed on some grass, unaware of the incoming danger. The wildcat's rocket died down as it made it to the prey. It moved it body to the ground and it crept over to its prey. Then SNAP! the creature noticed it had stepped on a large stick. The deer ran upon hearing the noise. The wildcat growled and the rocket turned on the chase was on! The deer tried running in zigzags but the wildcat was smart, it kept running in a straight line. The deer started to grow tried its speed started to die down. The wildcat kept up by using its leap thrust it didn't use much energy. The deer kept running but it was too late the wildcat tackled the deer, its' rocket shut down when it hit the deer. The wildcat strucked fast killing the deer. It began its' feast, when it ate its fill it picked up a bloody deer leg, it walked to a nearby lake, it laid the leg down and it licked all the blood off its' muzzle and paws. The wildcat got quite thirsty and it moved its' head to the lake and drank some water. After it was done it looked at its reflection it had a reddish-brown mane, like a horse that went down to its' shoulder blades, its' face was like a tiger but it had long saber-like teeth that stuck out of it's mouth, its' fur was a yellow-brownish, on the creature's back a rocket that looks like it was implanted into its' back, and the animal's claws looked like blades that could cut through almost anything. As it looked at its' reflection a surprised look came on its' face around its' neck it wore the crest of knowledge.......
Well that's the end of part one. Part two coming soon.