I'm sorry this has taken so long. When the site went down there I kind of stopped paying attention and I just now saw it was up again. Anyway, I want to thank everyone who reviewed the prologue, and please continue to R&R.



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Rebirth of Courage

-Chapter One-



Six years later...

"I think it's time for me to finally return," I thought to myself as my brother Brian and I sat in our hotel room. It had been two years since I was finally able to find my family after escaping from Knowledge all those years ago. The happy reunion didn't last long though, Knowledge found me, and in the ensuing struggle my parents were killed, but my brother and I were able to escape with the help of my digimon. We've been running ever since, never staying in one place very long. I'm so lucky to have Brian here with me, I could never do this alone. Brian is the rock I lean on when times get hard, and he follows me wherever I go. It's too hard though, I can't handle it any more, all that's left is to return to the Digital World (To Him). I stayed silent, deep in thought, for long enough that Brian started to worry, he'd been doing a lot of that lately.

"Sis, sis, what are you thinking about you seem like you're in a coma."

I quickly shook off my melancholy and looked him in the eyes, "Brian, I'm going back, to the Digital World I mean."

He visibly started, "That's crazy talk, you no that no one is allowed into the digital world except Knowledge Inc. personnel, and even if you could get in, it's a Hell full of horrible monsters."

"Brian, that's not true, I've been there, the stories about it being horribly dangerous are just lies Knowledge tells the public so no one looks too closely at what they're doing."

"So what is it like, you've told me about the boy hundreds of times, but you never really explain what it was like just being there."

I sat back and sighed, remembering the wonderful sensations engraved upon me by that one experience, "It's the most beautiful place I've ever seen Brian, it's like all those pictures of how the Earth looked thousands of years ago, beautiful and serene, without the never-ending cities of the present."

"Ok, I'll admit, it sounds like a splendid place, but how are we supposed to get there."

"Well... that's the tricky part, we're going to have to sneak into a Knowledge Inc. facility and somehow get the portal open so we can get through."

He looked at me, kind of stunned, "Do you realize what you're saying, Knowledge has the authority to kill any intruders, due to the top secret nature of their experiments!"

"I know, but if we go to the building where they kept me as a child, there was a younger scientist who was always nice to me, I bet I can get him to open the gate for me."

"What if he doesn't, or what if he doesn't work there any more, then what do we do?"

"Brian, you know as well as anyone that Knowledge never lets go of their employees, and if he won't help us, well, I'm a digidestined after all, I'll think of something."

"This is crazy Marena, but I know you're determined to go through with it, so I'm going with you."

I threw my arms around his neck and cried, "Oh thank you Brian, I knew I could count on you."

We set out the next day for Knowledge Facility No. 7, which was on the other side of the planet, about a three hour trip by air-train. We arrived at the city by about noon, and although the city was huge and Brian was sure we were lost, I knew my way just as well as if I hadn't been for these last six years. When we arrived I just stood across the street, staring at the building. It was strange, even though my memories of the place were bad ones, it was still the closest thing I had ever had to a home. Brian knew how hard this was for me, so he waited silently for me to prepare my mind. Now it was time for us to see if my plan had a chance in hell of succeeding.

First, Renamon jumped up onto one of the corner towers with an inhuman lack of noise. She quickly and silently knocked out the three guards on duty, then jumped back down and ferried Gatomon, Brian and myself up to the tower control room one by one.

"I can't believe that worked," Brian whispered to me when we were all in the tower control room.

"Knowledge believes that they own all digimon so they don't design defenses against them," I replied quietly. Now for the second part, this part depended on pure luck. We all crept down into the main building and made our way to Lab No. 5 as though we were on official business. That way, we hoped, no guards would question us until we got to the checkpoint. It worked, now for the really chancy part, the checkpoint was a DNA scanner, so we just had to hope that Knowledge's employees were too lazy to take me off the list, otherwise we would have to blast our way through the whole lab. I glanced about nervously as I placed my hand on the scanner, "Please work, please work, please work."

The light flashed across the panel a few times and... Ding! It worked! Well, that's a relief, now we've made it through the first checkpoint. The second checkpoint needed a key card, which we had bought a copy of off of the black market, so I was a little bit more sure of that. As I ran the card through my mind danced with images of the new life I was going to lead, but then, the light on the card reader flared an ugly red! The alarm started blaring as armed guards burst through the last checkpoint and security guns started firing.

"Gatomon, Renamon, quick!" I shouted at my twin digimon.

"Lightning Claw!"

"Diamond Storm!"

In a few seconds they had dispatched that group of guards and destroyed the turrets, but I knew more guards would come soon, and Brian had been hit in the leg.

"Renamon, blast a whole through that wall to the gate!" I said as I lifted Brian to his feet and put his arm over my shoulders. She did, but it wasn't fast enough, more guards had arrived, so as I carried Brian into the lab and tried to open the Digital Gate, my digimon were busy fighting guards. The gate panel was full of strange lights and buttons, and I began to worry that the whole plan might be impossible, but then I heard a familiar voice from the other side of the lab.

"Is that you Marena, have you finally returned?"

I looked over and, sure enough, there was the kind scientist of my youth!

"Sir, I'm sorry, but I can't stay, I need you to open the gate for me and my friends."

"I know Marena, I've been waiting for you, I knew you would return to the gate eventually."

"Th-Thank you," I mumbled, stunned.

"Your welcome, now gather your friends and go stand near the gate."

I grabbed Brian and called to my digimon as I ran for the gate, hoping the guards would ignore the researcher. When we arrived at the gate it was already online, so I plunged straight through, my friends right behind me.

Then I was in the Digital World again finally, and nothing else seemed to matter. I heard a noise from behind me, reminding me that the gate was still open so I turned around. I saw the scientist standing in front of the gate confronting the Curator.

"Get out of the way," said the Curator calmly.

"No, I will not let you get near the Child!" shouted the young scientist.

"You cannot stop me, Doctor."

"That's where you're wrong, I have sent her to the one place she will be safe."

"There is nowhere for her to hide from me."

"Soon, she won't need to hide, soon, she will return to our world, and she will bring with her He Who Is One With The Dragon, and he will bring vengeance upon us."

"Ancient superstitious nonsense."

"You only wish, now I'm going to make sure you can't follow her, at least not from here."

Then he turned and I saw that he had something strapped to his chest. This confused me until I saw that he was running straight at the gate generator. Those were explosives on him! As he collided with the generator there was a blinding flash of light, then the gate wavered and dissipated.

"NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" I cried, grief stricken. I hadn't known him very well, but he was still one of the only people to ever show me kindness, and he had sacrificed himself for me.



To Be Continued...

I hope you like it, I'm sorry it took so long to complete. The next chapter will mark the beginning of the real journey, so until next time, goodbye!



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