Whew! All done! I'm going to keep trying my hardest to bring out the latest chapters as soon as possible. I was wondering about the readers out there if they would prefer the chapters to be longer or if this length is okay, because I sometimes think they're a little too short. Other than that, I kinda just want to know what others think of it. It might motivate me to go faster! Who knows?! Oh yeah, if you got any questions about this, ask it in a review and I'll try my best to answer them in the next fic, okay? Anyway, I took enough of this space, so here goes, on with the fic!

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. That's that.

Notes: "talking"
'thoughts'

Familiar:
Introduction to Darkness
by Hitora


"GENNAI! I KNOW YOU HAVE THE DIGIDESTINED CHILDREN!
SURRENDER THEM TO ME AND MY FORCES WILL SPARE YOUR LIFE AND
YOUR HOUSE!" the voice called out forcefully..

"NEVER! I WILL NEVER BARGAIN WITH THE LIKES OF YOU!" Gennai
yelled back in response.

"VERY WELL. PREPARE TO DIE FOR YOUR FOOLISHNESS OLD MAN!"

"RIVER OF POWER!" Another blast came from the dragon-like Digimon and cut
through another portion of the house.

"PULSE BLAST!" An array of energy rings followed crashing into the sides of the
house.

The house shook and trembled against their attacks, and bits and pieces of wood
and dust began to rain down from the walls and ceilings around them.

"I don't think this place can handle anymore!" Takeru called out.

"Hmph!" A see-through light screen and keyboard suddenly appeared before
Gennai. He stood up to it and began to vigorously type on the keys, trying to ignore the
explosions and blasts that rocked the house.

"What the heck are you doing Gennai?!" Tai yelled out against the constant roars
of thundering bursts hitting the shaking building.

"I'm modifying the barrier, if I can make some adjustments I can probably stop
their attacks as well!" Gennai replied.

"Well, better make it quick!" Matt called to him. "I don't think we can take
anymore of this!"

The house violently moved to and fro from the never-ending attacks. They were all
barely able to stand on the shifting floors. Each leaned or held onto something to
support themselves, but it was getting more and more difficult to remain calm in the face of a
strong, unknown enemy.

"RIVER OF POWER!"

"PULSE BLAST!"

The house took on another series of attacks. But it did not leave without its consequences. A crack split through into the deafening lake.

"Huh?" Kari looked up to see an increasing break rip through the ceiling above her.
Soon, it no longer held together and gave way.

"KARI! LOOK OUT!"

"AHHHHH!" she looked above her terrified as a shower of falling wood and stone began to rain down towards her.

"KARI!" Patamon flew out and shoved her out of the way of the way. A storm of dust whipped up from her when the debri finally hit the ground.

"Kari!" Tai rushed over to her and knelt beside her. "Are you all right?!" he asked concerned.

"I'm okay." Kari assured, lifting herself off the ground. "Patamon, are you okay?" she asked rushing to lift the round digimon that laid on the ground beside her.
"I'm okay if you're okay!" he said with a smile.

Kari giggled relieved to hear a remark from her loyal digimon. "That's good, thank you Patamon." she said gratfeul.

"Urghhh, that's it!" Tai yelled out, shooting to his feet. He stomped to the opening that MegaSeadramon created in the side of the house. "No one threatens my sister and friends without a fight! If this darkness wants a Digidestined so bad, then they're going to get one!" Suddenly, without warning, he leapt out through the barrier into the open waters of the lake.

"Tai!" Matt quickly followed and slipped through the barrier into the waters after him.

"TAI! MATT!" Kari cried out horrified. She rushed off the floor and towards the opening that they had escaped through.

"NOW!" With a final slam of one of the keys, the barrier bursted into a bright white light and faded to become a solid defensive wall against the digimon's attacks and any chance of Tai and Matt reentering the house.

Kari didn't reach it in time and was suddenly stopped by an invisible wall. "TAI! MATT!" she cried out, pounding the barrier before her. "No! Gennai!" she called back.

"Kari, no." Takeru said beside her. "We can't let go of the barrier or we might get attacked by those digimon out there." he reminded.

"How can you say that?! They're out there all by themselves, they even forgot their digimon!" Kari said looking back at the equally worried Agumon and Gabumon. "Tai's my brother and Matt is my friend! I can't just leave them there! I have to try to help them!" she yelled back at him.

"But if we put down the barrier, you might lose your life, and if that happens you might never see them again." he reminded.

Kari looked on at him shocked, and realized the truth behind his words.

"Don't worry Kari, they're both very strong. They can make it." Patamon assured.

'That's not good...' Tai and Matt both thought as they watched the barrier become reenforced. Matt had managed to catch Tai just in time to see the house glow a white light against them. They both floated side by side in the cold waters of the lake scourning their awful luck. But that was not the only problem, after a few moments they soon looked up to see thousands of eyes locked onto them from all directions. They were surrounded.

'Urgh! Tai! How can he even of thought of coming out here like this?! Didn't he know about how dangerous it is?!' Matt thought frustrated at his hotheaded friend that swam nearby.

They waited tensely, watching every little twitch and flap that the digimon did, ever waiting for their all out attack that was sure to destroy them both. They could try to escape them, but there was no place to escape to. They were trapped and there's was nothing that they could do about it. Few more moments passed, and the digimon strangely did not attempt to even approach them.

'What's going on?' Tai wondered, looking around confused at the still, threatening figures that seem to just swim around them. 'Why aren't they attacking?'

"HAHAHAHA!" A crackling, evil laugh broke through the stillness of the waters. Matt and Tai became alert to the sound and looked around for its source, but found no one. "HMMM... TWO FOOLISH DIGIDESTINED.. HOW BRAVE YOU BOTH ARE TO DARE TO STAND AGAINST ME." Soon, an odd bubble-like struture surrounded them and held them. Stranger still, all the water was gone from the bubble and they could breathe within the structure.

"Wh-What's going on?!" Tai exclaimed shocked.

"HMPH, A LITTLE COURTESY OF MINE. DON'T BE ALARMED, JUST YET..." The voice responded. The bubbles jolted a little forward, and Tai and Matt rocked from the unexpected force. They looked around and saw the waters begin to past by them and a swirl of air bubbles once and awhile .

"We're moving.." Matt realized as he watched Gennai's house begin to look smaller and smaller below him.

"Yeah, so where exactly do you think we're moving to?" Tai asked.

"How should I know?" Matt looked above at the water's surface closely approaching them. "Do you think it's that dark voice Gennai was mumbling about?" he asked.

"If it is then I'm glad for this little bubble.." Tai said, still determined to avenge the threat to his little sister.

"Are you crazy?! If you hadn't of done this in the first place we wouldn't be stuck in this mess!" Matt reminded.

"I won't let this evil, no matter what it is get away in trying to kill us Matt!"

"You could of gotten yourself killed!"

"NOW, NOW.." the unknown voice called out. They both looked above to see the waters of the lake begin to roll away from the surface of the bubble as they emerged into the open sky above the surrounded the lake. "YOU SHOULDN'T ARGUE WITH FRIENDS YOU KNOW..."

The remaining films of the water began to slide away, becoming only little drops rippling on the surface of the lake. The bubble became clear to the world and to a mysterious figure and that stood on the shore before them.

"Hmph, hm, it is such a pleasure to finally meet you." The mysterious figure greeted with a very familiar voice. The mysterious figure looked like a tall, slender girl that looked about their own age. Her skin was snow white. Her hair was a very light blue and it was pinned up in loops behind her head. She wore a light blue outift decorated in dark blue and white that resembled a kimono, except it that the hemline was just above the knee. Her eyes, her eyes were the most noticeable feature upon her. They were an empty, endless crimson that seemed to stare into the very soul and fill it with a heart-wreching fear and darkness.

"Wh-who are you?" Tai asked, startled at the stranger before them.

"Hmph, Digidestined of Courage, Digidestined of Friendship, I am the vessel of Darkness itself. I am Yumemon." she declared.

"Are you human? Or some kind of Digimon?" Matt asked wondering.

"I am neither, yet both.." she said in a smooth, cold whisper. "But that is not important, there is one thing though that you two should know," The ground slowly began to be left below her feet, and she floated towards them until she was right in front of the clear bubbles they were trapped within. "I am the one who is to destroy you."

They both drew back shocked at her words. "Wh-what? Wait, it's you, you're the one who sent all those Digimon after us!" Tai realized.

"Why are you doing this?! We've done nothing wrong to you!" Matt shouted back at her.

But she simply just closed her eyes and smiled at his words.

"The Digidestined will be completely eliminated. That is the will of Darkness. That, is my will.." she said looking up at them with the very stare of evil itself. She let out a simple laugh of amusement at them standing afraid and confused before her.

"GAH!" Tai cried out as a hand suddenly gripped around his neck. The bubble around him faded away, and he was being suspended in air by the hold of the hand choking him.

"TAI!" Matt turned to see his best friend being held in the strong grasp of Yumemon. 'How..? She's so fast. I didn't even see her move..'

"Urgh.." Tai choked out as the grasp seem to clamp harder. He gripped her arm, trying to relieve the hold around him.

"Two of the most powerful Digidestined, waiting in my grasp. How easy it would be for the others to fall if, in this moment I were to destroy you, Taichi Kamiya. The leader of the prodescendent Digidestined, the one who is said to hold the Digidestined together... If in this moment, I were to destroy you the Digidestined would fall one by one so effortlessly, like the petals of a dying flower." she said in a cold voice, that seemed to have hints of excitement at the time leading to his death. "And look," she said, turning to Matt standing beside them, helpless to save Tai.

"I can kill two birds with one stone. I can kill a bit of the light of Friendship that is fated to glow in this one, by destroying you, his best friend." she said.

"Th-that will never happen..." Tai choked out.

"What's that?" Yumemon asked, fiercely turning back to him.

"You will never destroy me.... We will find the others... we will save this world... and we will never-" but his words were cut short by a sudden shot of pain that began streaming throughout his upper body.

"TAAAII!" Matt cried out. Matt looked on in horror as he saw three long nails coming out of the back of Tai's shoulder, each drenched in his best friend's blood.

"My, you are a rude one." Yumemon said to him with a icy look.

Tai fought against it. Against the pain, against the deep agony trying to force him to cry out. He held in his breath, gritted his teeth, he would not give into it, he would not surrender to her. "Ugh," he managed to open his eyes against the pain to look straight at her with a face of pure determination. "..We will never give into you..." A sudden light bursted from his Digivice after he uttered his words and Yumemon drew back from the unexpected force.
She focused her eyes, trying to fight against the light coming from the strong-willed boy in her grasp. "Wh- What is this?!"