"I called over Mimi's house, but I got a bust signal," Kari told me.

"Let's try Izzy," I replied. I picked up the phone and dialed Izzy's number.

"Hello?" Izzy said.

"Hey Izzy! It's Matt. I need you to come over right away!"

"What for?"

"It's important. I'll tell you when you get here."

"Okay."

"Bye."

"Bye." I hung up. I thought about calling Joe, but decided against it. He would just complain anyway, I thought. The intercom buzzed.

"Who is it?" the sweet Kari asked.

"T.K." was the answer given back.

Kari buzzed T.K. up and opened the door. I turned away when T.K. arrived at the door because Mom was there also. T.K. was holding Patamon.

"Hi Kari. Hi Matt." Mom greeted.

"Hello Ms. Takaishi," Kari responded as if everything was all right.

"Hi Mom." I replied back blankly. I could tell she was disappointed.

"Well T.K. you be a good boy for Matt and Daddy. By the way, where is your dad?" she asked looking at me, then at Kari.

"Well..." Kari began.

"He's asleep in his bedroom!" I answered quickly.

"Well, I won't bother him now," she said. "Bye T.K. I love you!" She kissed him on his forehead.

"Oh, Mom," he moaned, turning red. She left and Kari closed the door behind her. "So what's all this about Matt?" my little brother asked me.

"Well it's about.." The intercom buzzed. This time it was Izzy.

"What's so important?" he asked as soon as he came in.

"What ever happened to hello?" I said.

"Oh, Matt," stated Kari. "It's about Tai. He's a..a.." We heard someone at the door. "Oh, no! It's Tai!" Kari exclaimed with fear in her voice. She hid behind me.

The door opened and it was only my dad. "What are you kids doing here?" Dad asked with a cigarette in his mouth.

"I'm having a..um...sleepover!" lied I.

"Sleepover! With a girl also?!"

"She didn't have anywhere else to go!"

Dad glared at me and then said, "Next time ask me first" He put his cigarette out in a nearby ashtray. "I had a long day at work. I'm about to take a shower."

"Okay," I responded and he went into the bathroom. The other kids and I went in my bedroom. "Earlier tonight, Kari came over here crying. She said Myotismon was back." T.K., Patamon, Izzy, and Tentomon gasped. I continued, "She said he turned Tai into a vampire and they got Sora!"

"It's true!" Kari exclaimed. "Just look at poor Salamon and Yokomon!" Right after she said that, the lights went out. "Oh. no!"

"Hide under my bed!" I told them and we did.

Meanwhile in the shower...

"Damn, this water so fucking cold!" Dad turned up the hot water. "That's better." The hot water got scorching. "Ouch, it's burning my skin now." He tried to turn it down, but the temperature continued to rise.

"Is it hot enough for you?" Tai asked.

"What the hell? How the hell you get in here?" Dad tried to get cold water. "Ahh! Stop it!" he pleaded. Tai grabbed Dad's head and banged it against the wall, knocking him unconscious. Tai put the stopper in the tub. The tub filled up with the bloody water, and slowly my father drowned.

Tai, Sora, and Mega-Myotismon left the bathroom. Skull-Greymon was waiting on the roof. "Matt?" the three vampires called. Tai noticed my dad's lighter on the table.

"Since Matt won't come out voluntary, we'll force him to come out!" Tai grabbed the newspaper, which was also on the table and set fire to it. He threw the newspaper on the floor. They flew outside and watched it burn.

After about three long minutes, Sora finally said, "Either he burned to death or he wasn't there. Now let's go find T.K." The three vampires flew off. Before Tai had started the fire, the rest of us had escaped. We ran for our lives.