Here's the third chapter of Digital Destiny. Quite a lot happens in this chapter. Rei and Leta get their first glimpse of the boy Genius Ken Ichijouji and tell the Digi-Destined that they were sent to kill the Kaizer. How will they react? How can anyone be around Sora for more than an hour and not want to kill her? Read on and enjoy.

'' means thinking

"" means talking

oh yeah, Leta's name being misspelled is intentional. My friend has always spelled it that way and it just kind of stuck. If I tried to spell it Lita I would have an inconsistent spelling and that would bother me more than having her name spelled wrong. Sorry about any confusion. :)

The sun filtered through the window and onto Leta's sleeping face. The warmth of the rays tempter her to open her eyes and begin the day. She stretched her arms and sat up. Glancing over at Rei's empty bed she realized that her friend was already up and looking out the window. Leta threw her blankets off and walked over to her. "What's up?" she asked.

Rei looked up and smiled. "Nothing," she said softly. "Just thinking about last night." A frown cross her face as she continued. "I can't believe that Pluto left us here, with no explanation. I mean sure, destroy the Kaizer, But why us?"

Leta sat next to her friend and out her arm around her shoulder. "Because our 'destiny' is here, remember." She said sarcastically. "I know, I don't get it either, but like you said last night, there's not much we can do about it." Leta stood up " We should just go tell everybody what we know, kill this Kaizer and then go home." She held out her hand to help Rei up.

Rei stood next to her friend and smiled. "your right, but we should get dressed first. Wouldn't want Sora yelling at us this early in the morning."

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After they had gotten dressed the two scouts made their way down stairs to breakfast. On the way they ran into Sora and Mimi, and both were talking excitedly about something. "Hey guys" Rei said nicely, "what's up?"

Sora looked at her with contempt. "And why would we want to tell you?"

Leta stepped forward. "Are you still mad about yesterday?" she questioned. "Because we -" she looked at Rei, " Well I was just messing with you." Leta put her arm around Mimi's shoulder. "C'mon, you know you want to tell us."

Mimi looked at Leta and Rei and then at Sora, who was frowning. 'Oh well,' thought Mimi. " Since you two are a little new around here I'll tell the whole story. When I was a little kid I lived in this really rich neighborhood. And my next-door neighbor was none other than the gorgeous boy genius Ken Ichijouji!"

Rei and Leta both looked at her expectantly. " And that means...?" Rei asked.

"It means," Sora said, "That Mimi made friends with him."

Leta crossed her arms over her chest. " Okay, let me get this straight. When you were little you lived next to a genius and you made friends with him. What's so amazing about that?"

Mimi looked at her, a triumphant grin coming to her face. "It's amazing, dear girl, because in two days he will be coming to spend the rest of the summer here!" Mimi and Sora looked at the two like they were supposed to be impressed. "What is wrong with you two?" Mimi asked. "Ken Ichijouji will be here in two day and your not even excited!"

Rei looked at Mimi. "Why would we be excited? So a really smart guy is gonna be here. Big deal."

Sora lifted the magazine she had been holding to Rei's eye level. "This is why you should be excited." She said, pointing to a picture.

The picture was of a boy that looked about her age. He had dark blue hair that went just below his chin and one strand of it fell carelessly into his eyes, eyes that reminded her of the sea after a storm. Eyes that looked empty. But he wore a smirk like he had no cares in the world. Rei could feel her temperature rising as a slight blush crept onto her face. She pushed the magazine away. "So," she began, "he plays soccer."

Mimi smiled at her, "I didn't think you'd gotten that far."

Rei widened her eyes as a new wave of red descended onto her face. "I don't know what you mean." she stammered.

Sora, Mimi and Leta all laughed at her. "Ooohhh," Sora started. "Rei has a crush on Ken Ichijouji!" she teased.

"Don't worry about it." Mimi said as they walked into the kitchen. " Everyone has a crush on him."

Tai, who was sitting at the table eating cereal, looked up as the girls entered. "Everyone has a crush on who?" he questioned.

Rei blushed as Mimi said "Rei has gotten her first glimpse of Mr. Ichijouji and I do think she likes what she saw!"

Tai looked up at the blushing girl . "Really?" he said, sounding a little crestfallen.

Rei sat down at the table and brushed her bangs out of her face. "No, not really." she said, annoyance obvious in her voice. "I just saw his picture for crying out loud."

"Yes" Leta countered, "but you did stare at it for about ten minutes."

Rei looked up at her friend, about to continue arguing, but as the rest of the house entered the kitchen she decided to let it drop. Everyone else had the same idea because the conversation changed to the days plans. 'Well,' she thought to herself, 'might as well ask 'em about the Kaizer now.' "So, guys," Rei asked out loud, "What's a Digimon Kaizer? Cause last night Leta and I both had this-" she paused looking for the right words, " this dream that told us we were sent her to kill the Kaizer."

Leta laughed. "Yeah, is it like the Kaizermon?" She joked.

All conversation at the table stopped as eight heads turned to face them. Matt was the first one to speak. "what did you just say?"

"I asked what the Digimon Kaizer was?" Rei repeated

Sora and Mimi exchanged worried glances while Matt and Tai both jumped out of their seats and slammed their hands on the table. Matt narrowed his eyes suspiciously and asked "How do you know about the Digimon Kaizer.

Rei looked at Matt. "If you had been listening you would know that we had dreamt about it. Why are you freaking out?"

Matt sat back in his chair. 'Great' he thought to himself. 'I didn't want to get anyone else involved. Especially not two girls who have no way to protect themselves. "I'm sorry." he finally said out loud. " The Digimon Kaizer-wait." He looked at Leta and Rei. "You both had the same dream?"

Rei and Leta looked at each other. 'Great' Leta thought to herself. 'How do you explain this. See the truth is that Rei and I are actually Super Hero's who can control the elements and one of our comrades visited us in a dream and told us this was our destiny. Yeah, they'd believe that.' She tried to find a good excuse. "Well..." she started. Matt looked at her expectantly.

"No, we didn't have the same dream." Rei said quickly. "But we both did dream about having to kill the Kaizer. So why don't you quit playing 20 questions and tell us what we want to know!"

Matt stared at her, shocked at her sudden outburst. He didn't have time to answer back before he heard Mimi say quietly. "The Kaizer isn't a Digimon, he's a man."

"A man?" Leta questioned.

"Yes." Sora whispered. "A very bad man."

Rei and Leta both noticed that everyone was reluctant to talk about the Kaizer. Rei got up from her seat and walked around the table to where Tai was sitting. She knelt by him, put a hand on his arm and said "Tai, what is the Digimon Kaizer doing?" When he didn't answer or look at him Rei reached up her hand and turned his face towards her. "You can trust us," she said, "We're here to help."

Tai looked down at her and across the table to where Leta was sitting. After a long silence he finally said "I trust you." He looked down at Rei and smiled at her. As soon as the smile appeared it was gone. "The Kaizer is destroying the Digiworld." he stated.

Leta frowned. "He's destroying the whole world?' She asked. "How can one person destroy a whole world?"

Matt looked at her with sad eyes. "It's not just him. He has these things, these Control Spires. He uses them to control the Digimon. Their giant pillars and they can control every Digimon in their area as long as the Digimon are wearing Dark Rings.

"Dark Rings?" Leta said. "What are they?"

T.K. spoke up for the first time. "Dark Rings are collars for the Digimon that are in the champion stage or lower. All the Digimon Kaizer has to do is throw them at a Digimon and the Rings attach themselves to it's neck, putting it under the Kaizer's control." T.K. stopped for a moment. "He can get them to do anything...even kill themselves."

"That's horrible." Rei whispered.

"It gets worse." Sora said.

Leta and Rei looked at her. "How could it possibly get any worse?" Leta asked.

Sora smiled sadly. "In the beginning the Kaizer only had the Control Spires and Dark Rings. Although it wasn't easy, we could destroy the Control Spires and free the Digimon."

"And now?" Rei asked.

"Now," Matt spoke, "He has Dark Spirals, and they can even control ultimate level Digimon. But that's not the worst part."

Leta frowned. "What's the worst part?"

"If a control Spire is destroyed the Dark Spirals are still effective." Mimi sighed. "We don't know how to release a Digimon from the control of a Dark Spiral."

"What do you guys do about your Digimon?" Rei asked "You don't leave them in the Digiworld do you?"

"Of course we don't." Tai said "Izzy found a way to bring our Digimon into our world. That's why we're all here. They stay in Mimi's basement."

"How do you guys fight him, then?" Rei questioned.

"We don't, the Digimon do." Sora answered. "We've been lucky."

"The Kaizer hasn't managed to get any of our Digimon." Matt finished.

"Well," Leta said to the group, "Looks like you have two new partners."

Matt looked at her. "We really can't get you two involved. You'd have no way to fight and you would end up getting in the way."

"You can't stop us." Rei said, "We have Digivices too, so we can go into the Digiworld any time we want. And you never know, we just might be able to help." Rei smiled at Leta.

"She's right, Matt." Tai said. "Their Chosen Ones. We can't deny them the right to fight for a world that they belong to. It wouldn't be fair."

Leta smiled. "I guess we're a team then."

Matt smiled back. "Looks like it."

Rei, who was still kneeling next to Tai, stood up. "So what do we do now?"

"Now," Tai said, "We eat breakfast."

Leta looked puzzled. "How can you eat at a time like this?" she questioned.

Mimi walked into the kitchen and brought out five bowls and a box of cereal. "We can't fight the Kaizer all the time. We would be exhausted. But don't worry, we'll be going back into the Digiworld soon."

"Good." Rei smiled. "I can't wait to meet this Self proclaimed Emperor."

Chapter three is finally done. What's this? Rei has a crush on Ken Ichijouji. Tai has a crush on Rei. Rei and Sora actually talked without fighting(Don't worry that won't last to long!) Please review and tell me what you guys think!

Coming up next: Matt and Leta spend a little quality time together.

Stay tuned for Chapter 4: Maybe Just Friends