I don't know if anybody actually cares about this story but here's the next chapter. I had fun writing it, however it's just an in-between chapter so not much happens. I meant to put more into it but my friend urged me to post it so here it is. I'd like to thank DawnRising for bugging me until I finish it and as for those of you that are waiting for Separation I'll try to get busy on it and hopefully it will be out soon. If my friends would give me a chance to work on it, it will be out even sooner. So enjoy and review so that I know at least some people are reading this.

I've had this chapter done for a while but with all the trouble going on with Fanfiction.net, I completely forgot about it.

Disclaimer: I don't own digimon, but I do own the gods. Hey doesn't that sound neat, I own gods. Yippee!!

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Chapter 2

            Davis stirred, his head hurt, his body ached and something was crawling on his hand. "Arrgh!" he cried as he jerked upright, shaking off the tiny spider that had been making its was across his hand, he let out a low moan as the pain in his head intensified before fading back down into an unpleasant throbbing.

            "Davis!"

            Davis blinked open his eyes and came face to face with Veemon, who was staring at him with concern. "Davis, your awake!" Davis waved an arm, trying to get the hyperactive digimon to quiet down as his loud voice shot sparks of pain off in his head. "Davis you gotta get up, Wormmon's worried about Ken," Veemon said as he glanced over to the side of Davis.

            "Ken?"  Davis questioned, turning his head in the same direction as Veemon. Ken was sprawled out on the ground; face up, next to him. With a startled gasp he crawled over to Ken, pushing aside two backpacks that had been in the way. Wormmon was curled up next to the boy and as Davis came to Ken's side he looked up in relieve, sure, now that Davis was awake, he would know what to do about Ken.

            Davis gently shook Ken's shoulder, "Hey Ken?" The dark haired boy didn't stir, Davis took note of the fact that he looked paler than usual, but when he grabbed his wrist and checked for a pulse he found it as steady as could be. Letting out a breath he didn't know he was holding, he shook Ken's shoulder once more, this time a little harder.

            He was almost shocked when the other boy opened his eyes with a low groan. The violet eyes were cloudy with pain and confusion, but within moments they flickered as the memories came rushing back. "Davis?" he muttered as if unsure that the brunette was really there.

            Davis's face lit up with a grin, "Hey Ken, how are you feeling?"

            Ken groaned again, and pulled himself up into a sitting position. "I feel like I was caught in a stampede of Mammothmon." He rubbed his forehead and looked up at Davis, "What happened?" Before Davis could answer Ken shivered, "The last thing I remember is that horrible feeling," he shivered again and this time it was closer to a shudder.

            Davis looked with worry at his friend "Are you ok?" he asked with concern.

            Ken's eyes darkened with remembered emotion and paused a moment, "Yeah, I'm ok. It's just that…" 

            Davis waited in silence, he may be oblivious to a lot of things but he could tell that this was not the time to say anything. If Ken needed him to just be there and not say anything then he could handle reining in his expansive energy until a more appropriate time.

            "It just that that feeling, it was a lot like how I felt, all the time, as the Emperor." He flushed as he finished the sentence; embarrassed that he had said anything at all. His time as the Emperor was not a time of happy memories but he could never talk with the other digidestined about it because of the extreme guilt he felt. The only person he confided in was Wormmon, and even then very rarely, preferring to bury those memories away.

            Ken jumped as a hand landed on his shoulder; he looked up to meet Davis's brown eyes and bright grin, "Hey Ken don't feel so bad. At least we got stuck with all the desert foods." Davis nudged the two backpacks lying by his knee. Ken couldn't help the smile that spread across his face, chasing away the last few lingering memories. Trust Davis to scent out the food within moments.

            Davis watched the smile spread across Ken's face, the paleness fading a little. Davis was the type of person who believed that feeling guilty didn't achieved much and as long as he was with Ken he was going to make sure the blue haired prodigy didn't start wallowing in useless remorse.

            Ken looked around, it seemed they were in some type of forest and from what he could see none of the other digidestined were anywhere nearby. Their two packs lay on the ground and Ken was grateful for that, at least they wouldn't starve as they looked for the others, he send a silent thanks to Yolie for packing so much food. Veemon and Wormmon were a little ways away, talking quietly. Both digimon had relieved looks on their faces and he felt a pang of guilt for worrying his little insect digimon.

            "Ken what do you think happened?"

            Ken turned back to face Davis. The other boy was looking worried. Ken sighed, "I'm not sure. First the digiport doesn't open and then we're all separated. Whatever it is I doubt it's something good."

            Silence ensued before being broken by Davis. "Well, whoever it was has better be prepared for some serious ass kicking, 'cause once we find the others we're going to mash this new evil into the ground." Davis pounded one hand into his fist for emphasis, his eyes gleaming with determination. Veemon and Wormmon joined their partners.

            "Yeah! Me and Wormmon will kick some serious bad guy butt!" Veemon chimed, Wormmon nodded in agreement.

            Ken smiled at his friends, "Well then, I guess we better get going. The sooner we get moving, the sooner we can find the others-"

            "And kick some bad guy butt!" Davis and Veemon yelled together.

            Ken grinned and climbed to his feet; lending Davis a hand once he was up. Once Davis was on his feet he pulled out his D-terminal and flipped it open. "I'm going to send out an email to the others to let them know we're ok." Davis said.

Ken nodded. "It's too bad about the older kids. Without the D-terminal they can't send or get any emails."

"I'm sure they can handle themselves. Tai told me once how they were stuck in the digital world for months and they survived."

"That's good. I wonder if everybody broke up into pairs, after all we only saw TK and Kari disappear."

Davis shrugged, "Don't know. But we can track their signals, that way we're bound to run into somebody."

Ken smiled, "That's a great idea," Davis flushed at the compliment, "It will give us a general direction to head in anyway at least until the others email us," he continued.

Within a few minutes of searching they found a strong signal coming from the south. "That's the closes signal," Ken said. So the two boys grabbed their bags, turned and headed south, Veemon at Davis's side and Wormmon cradled in Ken's arms. The signal was a fair distance away but Ken figured with a little luck they would reach it in about a day and a half.

            Of course Lady Luck was a fickle mistress.   

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            Tai was in agony, his head felt like it was a construction zone and his legs… actually he couldn't feel his legs. With a yelp he pushed himself away from the dirt and glanced behind him. He was shocked to discover that the reason he couldn't feel his legs was because he had a very heavy Matt lying on them. With a growl he yelled, "Matt you jerk! Get off my legs, you're crushing them!" However the yelling caused his headache to transform from a construction zone to a full out demolition. He groaned and dropped his head down on his arms, there was an answering groan and he felt a flash of relief as the weight was removed from his legs, but the relief was short lived as the blood began to rush back and every part of his legs all the way down to his toes felt like it was being jabbed with pins and needles.

            "Man, I haven't felt this bad since that first celebration party when the band got their first gig." Matt moaned.

            Tai lifted his head at looked at the blond teenager who was lying on his back with his arm covering his eyes. "Yeah well at least all the blood flow to your legs wasn't cut off," he complained.

            A pair of blue eyes peaked out from under the arm, "What are you complaining about? I was trying to save you."

            "Oh yeah, great job you did there Matt. You know tackling me to the ground and crushing my legs is a great way to save me." Tai said sarcastically.

            Matt was now, unmistakably, glaring at the brunette. But he was ignored as Tai rolled over and sat up, mumbling under his breath. He paused to bush some dirt and leaves off his blue T-shirt and looked around. They were in some type of woods, Tai sighed as he glanced around; these woods could be in any part of the digital world. Agumon and Gabumon were nearby, they looked like they'd been sleeping but they were stirring now. 

            "Come on Matt. Get up."

            Matt moaned and grumbled something about his head.

            "Oh don't be such a baby. It's not so bad once you get moving, and we need to get some type of plan going. We're going to have to find the others and figure out why this happened."

            Matt jerked up. "Oh crap! TK!"

            Tai nodded grimly, "And Kari. As well as some new evil I'm guessing. In fact this whole this reminds me of that time with Devimon."

            Matt nodded in agreement; remembering the way Devimon had separated the whole group. "But this time we seem to be in pairs. At least, that's how everybody disappeared when were teleported. I have a bad feeling that whatever it was it's a lot more powerful then Devimon was."

            Tai grinned, "Aren't they always." He stood and shifted his shoulders as his backpack settled. Matt had taken the time to sit up, his own backpack at his side. "At least we've got food this time," Tai pointed out. "And whatever else we have in our bags."

            "Yeah, that's one thing in our favour. I guess we have to wake up our digimon."

            Tai shrugged then grimaced, "I guess there's no great hurry. I don't know if digimon get headaches but I don't want to wake up Agumon and end up with a Pepper Breath up my ass." He dropped down and sat on a nearby rock, facing Matt. "We should decide what direction we're going to go in. If we're lucky we might run into something familiar."

            Matt sighed and leaned on his bag, "I wish we had one of those new D-terminals, then we could find out if everybody's ok."

            Tai brushed a hand through his hair, feeling an odd moment of regret for giving up his goggles. But he had thought that their job was done and it had seemed only right to pass on the goggles to the new leader of the digidestined. "You know, I thought that we were done with all this fighting evil stuff. It doesn't seem fair that we have no choice in the matter."

            Matt looked up at Tai, "Can you think of anybody else you'd trust more to go about saving the world?"

            Tai grinned, "Nope! Heck if somebody tried I'd be right there, making sure they didn't screw up."

            Matt snorted, "Of course Tai, god knows you've never messed up." Tai glared at the snide comment but before he could reply he was interrupted by the sound of Agumon calling his name. He jump up from the rock and ran to Agumon's side, Matt right behind him.

            "Hey Agumon, how are you feeling?"

            "I've felt worse," he replied. "What happened Tai?"

            Tai shrugged, "We're not sure but we're going to find out."

            Matt spoke up, "We have to get moving. Do either of you guys know where we are?" he asked the digimon. Gabumon and Agumon looked around before glancing at each other and shrugging.

           "It looks familiar but I don't know where it is exactly," Gabumon answered.

Matt sighed, "Oh well. I guess we're just going to have to pick a direction and hope we run into something." The others nodded.

            "Alright then. Since everybody's awake now I guess it time to get moving." Tai stood and looked around before randomly pointing his finger. "We're going that way." 

            Agumon jumped up to stand by Tai and Gabumon and Matt glanced at each other and shrugged, they stood as well, Matt grabbed his bag and the group set off.

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            The water lapped against Kari's fingers, tickling her into wakefulness. Her head pounded slightly and her first observation was that she was lying on sand. She rolled on to her side and opened her eyes, taking in the dark blue water spread out before her. She took in the scenery with surprise, everything rushed back and she sat up quickly. Her hand dropped beside her but instead of landing on sand in dropped down on coat of soft fur.

            "Gatomon!" she cried, reaching down to bring the cat-like digimon into her arms. "Oh Gatomon, wake up please," she pleaded. There was a slight stirring and dark angular eyes opened to look up at Kari.

            "Kari?"

            "Gatomon," Kari laughed and hugged the cat digimon. Gatomon hugged her back, seeking to reassure her partner.

            The two jumped in shock when a quiet voice spoke out. "Patamon?" somebody moaned. Kari twisted around, taking in the view behind her. Two backpacks lay on the sand next and curled next to them was the form of a small orange and white digimon. A few feet away lay, his white cap having tumbled off his head and his golden hair coated with sand was a very confused T.K.

            "What happened?" he asked as he sat up turned his head to look around. "Kari? Where's Patamon? What happened?" Kari didn't have time to answer before the digimon curled up next to the packs stirred and opened his eyes.

            "T.K!" the little digimon cried and jumped into his arms. T.K automatically opened his arms to catch his partner and hugged his close, telling him how glad he was that he was okay.

            "Kari, what happened?"

            Kari could only shake her head, "I don't know. Something grabbed us for sure, and whatever it was it wasn't something nice." She shuddered with the remembered feel of the darkness swirling around her.

            T.K nodded, and was silent for a few moments, Kari held Gatomon close in an attempt to seek comfort. The words came out of the blue, "I don't think we were meant to be together."

            Kari jumped. "What!" she cried, think that T.K meant he didn't want her there with him.

            "No, no. I meant that we were supposed to be separated. I think the only reason we ended up together is cause we grabbed hold of each other. So who ever did this wanted us all apart, I hope the others weren't alone."

            T.K frowned with worry as he thought of his friends and brother. He really hoped that none of them had ended up alone. The little digimon in his arms wiggled and looked up at him, "I think your right T.K. But don't worry they won't be alone. They have their digimon."

            T.K smiled down at his partner, "Yeah, that's right." He looked up to meet Kari's eyes seeing that the comment had helped ease her worry a little as well.

            Kati sighed, and climbed to her feet, placing Gatomon back on the ground. T.K stood as well, grabbing his hat and brushing some of the sand out of his hair before putting it on. Kari looked up the sandy beach that seemed to stretch on for miles then turned to face the forest. "I guess we need to pick a direction to go in and try to find the others."

            The two gathering up their bags and pulled out their D-terminals, Kari opened hers and grinned excitably when she spotted the email from Davis. T.K chose to look over her shoulder as she opened it, but as soon as she opened the email, the words changed before she could read them turning into random symbols.

            "What?" T.K yelled and Kari stared at the symbol replacing the words.

            "Well I guess it wouldn't to any good to send out emails, huh?" Kari pointed out. T.K nodded grimly. Patamon and Gatomon looked up with worry at their friends. But the two digidestined quickly gathered their bearings and after determining where the strongest signal was coming from, set out into the forest with their digimon at their sides.  

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            "Damn it," Mathall cursed and slammed his fist down on the side of the pool. "It's smarter then I thought, I figured they would at least be able to communicate with each other."

            Syra covered his clenched fist, "They still have the ability to find each other. They will be fine." Mathall gave her a wane smile but unclenched his fist and clasped her hand instead.

            "I know, but so much can go wrong. And it has changed so much."

            "So have they," Syra reassured him, "have a little faith."

            "We're gods, who do we have faith in?" he said with a little grin.

            Syra smiled back, "The heroes, of course." She gently touched the water of the pool, "And here are some of the best heroes we've found so far. Even gods need to have hope." She smiled down at the two digidestined of Hope and Light as they set off in search of their friends.

            "Sister dear, you are amazing."

            Syra laughed, "You are such a worrier for all you carefree attitude. Worrying won't help much, all we can do is believe." She gave him an impish smile, "And if that's to hard try to imagine how much trouble we're going to get into for doing this."

            Mathall leaned back on the couch, "Oh sure, that is if there's a world around by then."

            "Don't be so pessimistic, brother. Just watch, if I know you, you have things probably already set in motion."

            Mathall flushed, "Well, maybe I left a few clues lying around to be found." Syra laughed and gazed back into the pool, but for all her light hearted words her eyes held worry but the held that clasped her brother's was firm and steady and her face never twitched, she would believe and hope, and perhaps it would be enough.

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Chapter 2 is done and I hope it was good, but I won't know unless you tell me so get your butt in gear and REVIEW!!!

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