Chapter One

A look of distress crossed his face. He fell to the ground on one knee as he dropped Kari. Kari, known to never be afraid, leaned down to where Takeru was wincing. "Takeru…" as far as she could see his eyes were back to normal.

In as straining voice, he said, "Hikari, help me! I don't know wh… what's happening to-" At that moment, Davis came out of the building to see what was taking so long. Takeru saw him and looked agonized. "Unngh…" Kari turned to look back at TK. He let out a cry of despair as the glowing darkness from his crest engulfed him and he disappeared. "Hey, where'd TA go?" Davis asked. Kari looked at him with annoyance.

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Patamon started to look worried. Gatomon, who was standing next to him, asked what was wrong. "I'm worried about TK. He hasn't been the same the past few weeks. And now I feel like there's some new dark power or something like that. Hey… what's happen- ahggh!" Patamon's feet started to turn black and the darkness seemed to be crawling up his body. There appeared to be no way to stop it. "Everybody, help!" Gatomon shouted. Everyone at the meeting rushed over but it was to late. As soon as the first person got to him he was already overwhelmed by the darkness. He flew up into the air with tremendous strength and glared down at the others. "I am DarkPatamon, a virus type version of Patamon. Beware, there is great danger coming. One among your number will die. I shall leave it at that," and with that, he simply vanished into a shadow. Kari and Davis rushed into the room.

"What happened? Patamon just turned evil and disappeared right in front or our eyes. What did you do to my brother?" Matt demanded. Kari answered, "I'm not sure what happened. I caught up with him and asked him what was wrong. Bad thing to ask considering he turned around and his eyes were all black and red. He tried to choke me, but something happened and he disappeared when he saw Davis come out of the building. I'm worried people. He vanished into darkness. Right before he tried to strangle me, his crest glowed black and changed its formation. What was that, Izzy?"

"Well, it's simply a matter of what emotions he was feeling at the time. We all know his crest is hope, but maybe he was experiencing enough of another emotion to change his crest. That would work, technically, if my theory is true." Izzy commented. "The question is, what do we do about it."

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A malicious smile crossed Takeru's face. "Hehehe. Nice idea, DarkPatamon," he said in his now inhumanly deep voice. "Taking Arukenimon's old headquarters as ours. Now my power is practically limitless. With the strength of despair and hate at my side, nothing will stop me." He continued to smile malevolently and the digital world shuddered at his presence…