Disclaimer: If I owned digimon, you would be watching this story rather than reading it.  But, you're not.

A/N: Another short chapter.  Please R/R.

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--^-Kari-^--

"The Real and Digital worlds have warped together," Chuumon said simply.  TK and I sat there, letting the mouse digimon's words sink in.

          "But," I spoke up, "Where's everyone else?"

          "The Shadow erased all humans and digimon with a human partner from existence.  You two survived because you held the crests of Hope and Light, the only forces that can destroy it."

          "How do you know all this?" TK asked.

          Chuumon jumped off of the bench.  "A prophesy on a rock outside.  Me and Sukamon read it before he… he…" the digimon looked down at the cracked floor.

          "What happened to Sukamon?  What's the shadow?" I inquired.

          "I'll show you the stone," Chuumon said.  He ran nimbly on the floor, while TK and I walked just as quickly.

          When we got outside, we gasped.  Only a kilometer or so away, Infinity Mountain loomed overhead.  A little closer was a black rock with symbols engraved on its surface.

--^-TK-^--

"Too bad we don't have Izzy with us," I said as I reached over to feel the stone.

          "No!  Don't touch-" Chuumon warned.

          I pulled my finger away from the stone and held it.  The rock wasn't hot or cold.  But there seemed to be some kind of energy coursing through it.

          Dark energy.

          I suddenly realized how black the stone was.  It was actually more than just black.  The sun didn't cast any light on it, and it had no shadow.  It was as if it were actually an illusion, a hologram perhaps.

          "Chuumon?  Can you read what it says?" Kari asked.

          "Well, um, actually," Chuumon began slowly, "Leomon read it, and I haven't seen him since."

          I crossed my arms and started tapping my feet, a "nervous gesture" I had inherited from my dad.  "Can you remember it, maybe?" I asked.

          "Something about the Shadow, Black disks, and the Syndrome.  I don't remember much of it, because that was almost a week ago.  I think."

          Kari shook her head.  "Please don't tell me we were asleep for a week.  How did we survive?"

          "That Mexican food must have done something."

          "Mexi-what now?" Chuumon asked, confused.

          "Don't worry about it.  Now, what can you remember about what that thing says?"

          "The Black disk makes you forget stuff, and the Syndrome makes you evil."

          "You mean like Devimon's Black Gears?"

          "Yeah, but there's no cure.  The only way to get rid of it is to be destroyed.  Oh, and there are a bunch of things here.  They're not digimon, and their made out of nothing but evil.  And there was some kind of prophesy on the stone about the angels of hope and light or something.  I don't know."

          I looked at Kari and shrugged.  "So, we find Leomon?" I asked.  Kari only nodded.  We turned and walked toward Infinity Mountain, but were interrupted by Chuumon.

          "Wait!  Don't leave me here!  Please don't leave me alone!"  He jumped on Kari's back and continued begging us not to go.

          "Fine.  Come on," I said.  Chuumon stayed on Kari's back, as if expecting a ride.  The sad thing was, he got his wish.

--^-Kari-^--

"TK," I said.  "Sl-- slow down.  I'm too tired."  After walking for three days, surviving on berries and river water, we found our way into a forest.  I was sitting in a rock in the middle of a small clearing, Chuumon riding on TK's back.  Sweat plastered my hair to my forehead, making it look black.  Chuumon hopped off of TK's back and started running around it circles.  I was surprised he still had energy left, but then I remembered that he was getting a free ride.

          A small rustle in the bushes caught my attention.  As soon as look the way of the sound, it stopped.  I shook it off as a bird and looked at the ground.  As soon as I did, however, a man-sized creature that looked exactly like a velociraptor from Jurassic Park knocked TK to the ground and started biting at his neck.

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Sorry to leave it at a cliffhanger.  I'll have the next chapter up ASAP, but first let me address a few things: everything about the Syndrome and Black disks you'll learn soon enough.  The prophecy will be explained.  Oh, and speaking of velociraptors and dinosaurs, I'm thinking of doing a Jurassic Park/Digimon cross over, please tell me how you like the idea.  I did not add the dinosaur thing in the story just so that you can find out about future fanfiction stories.