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For a momment that was burned in eternity the two stood their stareing at the outher. As though they belived the outher would disspear from their sight as quickly as they had appeard. As though they would wake up suddenly and find this all to have been only anouther dream. A dream they had belived that would never come true.

Finnly Yolei spoke as she turned to look of the vast forest below,"Its beautiful, is it not?"

Matt walked up next to her, his icy blue eyes sweeping over the area,"That it is."He paused then added,"So the Digimon Emperour didn't kill you after all."

Yolei frowned as she turned,"Of course he didn't. Why would you think that?"

Matt narrowed his eyes,"You where kidnapped, you never came back. When we said he killed you he didn't denie it. Where have you been?"

Yolei looked down,"I woke up in a cave, laying on a table dressed in this. I saw you all fighting the Empoeure a few days ago, but I cound't bring myself to go to you all...I was afraid."

"Of what?"

Yolei bowed her head,"That you all had forgotten me."

"Yolei...."he said, his voice soft,"We never forgot you."

Yolei looked back up into his eyes,"Really?"

He rached up uncousesly to brush a stray tendrile of blound hair from his face, but Yolei beat him to it. Her hand hoverd their after brushing it aside. Gently Matt touched her hand."I've.....that is me and the outhers, have missed you."

Yolei smiled,"I'm back....how do you think the outhers will react?"

Matt grinned,"Trust me you'll be bombarded my hugs and such."Matt stared deep into Yolei's depthless crimson brown eyes. How he'd missed her. How much hate he'd felt when he'd thought she was dead. That she had died at the hands of the Empereour. He had hated the empouerer before, but the thought of what he'd done to Yolei had intesfied it."Y-Yolei?"he said her name uncertinly.

Yolei's face peaked,"Yes?"

"Y-Yolie"he choked out her name, trying his best to say something he'd kept hiden all these years.

Yolei steped closer,"Yes?"

He looked away from her eyes,"I-I......Its great to see you agine."he forced out, calling himself a coward inwardly as he did so.

Yolei looked down, expecting his words to be something much defferent from that. Gazing back up at him she smiled,"It'll be sunrise in a few hours. You..You and I can go back to the real
world then, or we can start looking for the gateways now. Its up to you. Your Digimon, or at least I think thats your Digimon, should be fine by the time he wakes up."

Matt nodded,"We can go now, I'll go wake Gabumon."

Yolei nodded,"Sure. I'll be waiting..here."she said the last part faintly, almost sadly.

Momments later Matt returned, Gabumon in his arms. Silently they began walking down the terran of the cave and into the forest. It was night, so they shouldn't have to worry about the
Digimon Emperour. At least they hoped they wouldn't. He had attacked her when it was night.

It wasn't long before they finnly neared a Gatway. Yolei smiled both happily and nervously. Matt, on the outher hands, face clearly showed his joy, though no smile lit his face. But then,
Matt had never been one to smile a lot. Unless something that he held dear made him happy.

Slowly they both pulled out their Digivices, casting eachouther a small look as they did so. Just as they where about to hold the Digivice agenst the screen, and return to the real world it
exploded into thousands of peices.

"Leaveing so soon?"A voice they knew all too well rang through the air.

They turned slowly but surely. Yolei knew whom it was without bothering to look. Ken Ichijouji. The child prodgey. The Digimon Emperour.

Throwing back her head in the pride a regal king would respect Yolei spoke,"Well your party is pretty lousy. So we decided to take our leave. You make a bad host anyhow."

Even through his glasses Yolei and Matt where able to feel the glare he bestowed upon him. Wary of this Matt steped slightly infront of her his arm streached out infront of her defenseivly.
Ken frowned a he emited a low, annoyed grunt and a cocky respose,"Really? I think the outher guests would love for you to stay."

The crack of a whip rang through the air, and Yolei and Matt found themselves surrounded by DarkTyrannomon, and many outher Digimon. Yolei glanced at Matt, then at Gabumon. A silent
question passed between them. Matt shook his head slightly as he looked pointedly at the Control Sphere not far away.

"Do you surrender?"

Yolei growled her hands clinching into fists, Matt showed no emotion; though inside he was smoldering.

"Not a chance!"Yolei yelled out.

"Yea. You'll have to do better then a few lousy magic tricks to catch us!"Matt yelled mockingly at him as he glanced at Yolei she smirked slightly and they toke off running.

Each in the oppiset position, though still knowing where the outher was. Suddenly Matt sliped over an outcroping of rock. As soon as he hit the ground, he felt the veins of Veggimon wrap
around him. He was done for.

Yolei longed to turn and go after Matt, but knew that she would succead only in getting herself capturd. Agine. Her breath becomeing ragged she ran on. Her breath had soon become short
and her lungs and legs felt as though they where on fire. She glanced behind her to see if anyone was following, she breathed a small sigh of relife when she saw noone.

Her comfert, however, did not last long. She tripped on a medium sized rock, both spraining her ankle, and sending her rolling down a hill. She held back a scream of pain as her poor body
collided with countless sticks and rocks. She finnly rolled to a stop, after wapping her head up agenst a boulder. Yolei moaned in pain, the last thing she saw before the world around her
faded into darkness was a flash of a blueish black cape.


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Red, dull pain dominated all of Yolei as she returned to reality. Pressing her hand gently agenst her forhead she glanced around. A cell. Which ment....

"Oh no............"she murmmerd."Ken's fortrass......"

'Matt' was the next thing that entered her mind...where was he?Yolei glanced around franticly before forceing her injered body into a standing positon.

Yolei walked around in her small square shaped prison as she searched for both a way out and for Matt. She found neither. Frowing in anger and the slight pain in her head and every where eles
she walked over to a corner of her cell and let herself slip back down into the floor.

"So."she muttered to herself,"whens his royal ego himself comen'."

As she expected she recived only the vibrations of her own voice in return.

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Matt sat silently in his cell. His icy eyes focosed soley an the ground. Yolei. Her name and face plauged his thoughts. They shouldn't of split up. But then he'd given her a chance, however small,
at escape. He hoped she o.k. With any luck Ken hadn't captured her as he had him.

He found it slightly strange he was so worried over her. He hadn't known her that well 2 years ago and he didn't know her well now. All he knew that was when he was around her he felt this sudden
need to hold her. To kiss her. To protect her. These feelings made little sense to him.

He'd always been the aloof one. Never letting anyone in, outher then his younger brother T.K. and he didn't even let him in too much. He was the lone wolf. Outher then the music that was once his
passion, he'd never really hung out with anyone but the Digidestened. He had outher friends, of course, but only surface friends really. They claimed to know him, but they only knew what they saw.

He couldn't belive how much he'd come to actually care of Yolei. The feelings he felt couldn't be ignored. For they immedetly intesfied at the mere sight of her. Matt Ishida had finnly fallen long
and hard for someone. Only the thing was, he wasn't sure if she felt the same way. Their where a thousand guys in the world, why would she choose him?

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Yolei was snapped from her reveri as she herd footsteps from down the hall comeing toward her. Yolei leaned comfertble agenst the wall. She knew already who was comeing. She would show him
she was not afraid. That she wasn't a peice of clay he could mold as he saw fitt. But inside Yolei felt undieing fear of the boy called Ken Ichijouji. She feared him. She hated him. But her fear was
actually stronger then her hate.

"Well, well what is this. Is the little Digidestended afraid of me?"he mocked lightly.

Yolei's eye twitched. All her fear was replaced by a much stronger feeling. Anger. Somehow she managed to keep it under control.

"Is she getting a little mad? Now thats not very polite, esspecialy infornt of someone above you."

That did it. Yolei snapped. Withen half a secoud she was up agenst the bars and slaped him so hard his glasses went flying off. Anger seeped into every fiber of being, never before had she felt such
rage.

Slowly he turned to face her agine. His cheek had a bright red handprint, his amthirst eyes showed anger and shock."How dare you."he snarled and slowly opened the door and raised his wipe.

Yolei felt her eyes widen, emidetly feeling that maybe her rash decision hadn't been so wise. But it still felt damn good to have slapped him. He desirved it. Yolei backed away from him untill she
felt her back hit the wall. Fear froze her anger and Yolei bit back a whimper of fear. She felt a lump rise in her throat as she prayed her punishment would be over soon. But knowing Ken, it probbly
wouldn't be.




A.N.-And we stop their for today. I promise I won't make you wait nearly as long for the next chapter. Don't forget to review!^_^_^_^_^