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Nope, but nice guess T D Colohue! I'm not the love kinda person... It's just a centered fic about Taichi and stuff. All dark and scary and cliffhangy and... stuff. ^^; Thanks for all the reviews!!!!! You people love me.. ^_^; Muehehe, anyhoo, back to the story!

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Courageous Angel

Chapter 3 : To Dread the Future


After hearing about everyone's sudden loss of courage, Koushiro decided to call up another DD meeting. Everyone agreed to come and they all met at the park again that afternoon.
"Everyone here?" Koushiro asked. Koushiro took attendance as everyone called out. "Wait... where's Taichi?"
"He said he had to do something with Agumon in the Digiworld," Hikari told him, shruging when he gave her a questioning look.
"OK then..."
"So what was this meeting for again?" Daisuke asked.
"To see why everyone's suddenly being so... shy- for lack of a better word," Koushiro told him.
"Well, what's so important about that-"
"If this is how we act now, think about how we'll act if we face another Digimon," Ken told him.
"We'd probably run away scared?" Daisuke suggested.
"Exactly. And how are we the Digidestineds if we act like that?" Takeru asked.
"Oh... I get it now," Daisuke said. "Now, he says," Miyako muttered.
"Grrr..." Daisuke glared at Miyako, annoyence in his eyes.
"Pipe down Daisuke. You can fight her later. Right now is the time we talk," Jyou said.
"So what do we know so far?" Sora asked, changing the subject.
"Well, that we all started to lose our courage today and that it's effecting our lives... and that's bad," Ken said.
Yamato remained silent.
"Yeah, like when I was fighting my grandfather. I was never scared before. Just today," Iori said.
"Or how everyone was afraid to answer or ask something," Takeru said.
"And responding or fighting back," Hikari added.
"But I don't get it," Yamato began. Everyone looked at him for he was so quiet, that everyone forgot he was still there.
"Don't get what? What's there not to get?" Iori asked.
"Everyone's lost their courage and acting all weak and stuff, but it doesn't seem to effect Taichi. I remember today when that bully pushed me to the wall and threatened me. Then Taichi came and fought him. He wasn't even scared abit."
"I remember now. He just came, fought him, then left," Sora said.
"Very interesting. But also, more important is that it's only effecting the Digidestineds," Koushiro said, "I e-mailed Mimi and she said she had the very same incident happen, just like us. 'Course, with another kind of problem she wouldn't say."
"Yet we act normal around each other," Takeru said, "we're weak and afraid with others around, but we aren't afraid when with other Digidestineds."
"I don't think so..." Daisuke began, "remember when we were trying to ask Hikari out? It was Hikari and she's a digidestined."
"Yeah, but there was a group of students passing by..." Miyako reminded him.
"Maybe it has something to do with Taichi being the Digidestined of Courage," Ken suggested, "and maybe it's he who controls our Courage. All the Digidestineds, that is."
"How so Ken?" Koushiro asked curiously.
"Well, Taichi's been going through hard times lately, right?"
"That's what it seems like," Iori said.
"Well, something's either hurting or bothering him and that's effecting him. That effecting him, effects our courage because he's so worried, he can't control our courage anymore so it fades from us, but since he is the Digidestined of Courage, of course, his courage stays."
"Very interesting theory Ken. I shall put that into consideration and test it," Koushiro said.
Jyou looked and his watch.
"Sorry guys, er, people. But I gotta get home. It's 6:00 PM. Dinner time for me."
"Yeah, same here," Daisuke and Ken said.
"Well then, we should all go home," Koushiro suggested, "no reason to have a meeting if most of us are gone."
"Fine with me," everyone else said. So everyone left and went back home, but where was Taichi? Well, he was in the Digiworld, but he didn't need to do anything there, like he said he did.

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"Taichi, where are we going?" Agumon asked.
"No where in particular. Just away from everyone," Taichi answered.
"Why so?"
"Because I feel like when I'm with someone, I'm a threat to them. 'Cause I'm leading something to them..." He's eyes were dark as he said this.
"Like what Taichi?"
"Just something... I don't wanna talk about it Agumon. I'm not even sure I know..."
"OK then, Taichi, whatever makes you happy, makes me happy."
Taichi and Agumon walked back in silence in the Digiworld. They soon entered a forest, but kept walking. Taichi, deep in thought and Agumon wondering what has become of his partner. This was about the time when Jyou checked his watch. Taichi stopped and checked his.
"Well, it's time we go back Agu. It's about dinner time, mom might get worried," Taichi said.
"Sure, I wouldn't mind some food right now!" Agumon said happily, trying to lighten the mood. Taichi gave a weak grin at his partner. Agumon always knew how to make him smile, even if it was a weak one.
As Agumon and Taichi were walking back, Taichi saw a dark figure in the shadows of the trees, flickering near the side of his vision.
"What was that?" Taichi said cautiously, stopping and looking around.
"What was what, Taichi?" Agumon asked curiously.
"N-Nothing. Never mind Agu," Taichi said, still looking around nervously. They started to walk again, when-
"Angel of Courage..."
Taichi stopped walking and stood, rooted on the spot. Agumon, however, wasn't able to hear the voice of cold, hard darkness.
"Taichi? What's wrong?" he asked, worried.
"I-I must just be having a bad day Agumon. That's all. Must be." Taichi started to walk again, with Agumon at his side, surveying their surroundings uneasily.
"Angel of Courage, leader of the Digidestineds..."
Taichi tried to ignore the voice, but he shuddered everytime he heard it.
"Taichi, tell me. What's wrong?"
"Can't you hear it, Agumon?"
"Hear what?"
"That-That creepy voice."
"No." Agumon strained his ears and tried to listen, but still nothing. He shook his head.
"Then it's probably just me..." Taichi tried to smile and they continued walking.
"Angel of Courage..."
Taichi began to walk faster.
"Angel of Courage..."
The voice seemed to be getting louder, nearer. Taichi ran with Agumon at his trail.
"Almost at the Digi-port," Taichi muttered more to himself than Agumon, "whoever that guy is, he won't get me..."
Suddenly, a shadow covered the Digi-port. Taichi and Agumon gasped. A tall, dark figure stood up, between them and the Digi-port. It raised its arm and its hand started to glow with an eerie, dark light.
"Watch out Taichi!" Agumon pushed Taichi aside just as a beam of dark energy was released from the figure's hand and hit Agumon.
"AGUMON!" Taichi shouted.
Agumon lay on the ground, bleeding abit from his arm. He got up with abit of difficulty and faced the figure bravely.
"So you wanna fight, huh? Shinka yo!" Agumon cried. Flashes of white light hit Agumon.
"Agumon, warp-shinka to... Wargreymon!"
"Heh," the voice was clear now, for both to hear. "Pathetic digimon. You really think you can defeat me? Fool..."
"Wargreymon! Watch out!" Taichi yelled out.
"Don't worry Taichi. I got this under control," Wargreymon said.
"Do you really?" The dark figure raised its' hand. That same eerie energy gathered and hit Wargreymon again. Wargreymon fell to the ground.
"Wargreymon!" Taichi rushed to his side. Wargreymon was bleeding abit from his arm again, where this mysterious figure hit him.
"You can't win Wargreymon! Let's just get away while we still can!"
"I'm OK Taichi. Leave it to me."
Wargreymon flew up and attacked.
"Gaia Force!!!" he yelled and threw a huge fireball at the dark figure. But all the figure did was just simply touched it and it vanished in data. This battle went on for sometime. Taichi stood there, watching them from the ground, helpless. He wanted to help- of course he did, but what could he do?
The battle continued. Taichi, somehow, knew in his heart that Wargreymon couldn't win this, but he couldn't stop them. Not that he didn't try. When he did, he came out with a deep cut on his leg, which started to bleed. The colour similar to deep red rose petals.
"Wargreymon! Move out of the way!" Taichi shouted at him, but it was too late.
The dark figure gathered up another energy ball and shot Wargreymon again. Wargreymon's armour shattered and he turned back into a digi-egg and fell to the ground. Luckily, Taichi caught it before it hit the ground and escaped through the Digi-port while the figure was celebrating his triumph over Wargreymon and being distracted.
Taichi ran home with Agumon's digi-egg is his hands. He burst through the door of his house and stood there, trembling, holding back tears and shaking from anger.
'Whoever you are, where ever you are, I'll get you back for this! You've been bothering me for long enough. You've found me and you've hurt my best friend. You've made me feel useless and scared. You will pay. Mark my words, you will pay or I ain't the Digidestined of Courage!' Taichi thought fiercely, biting his lower lip. Taichi's leg was still bleeding freely, he felt abit dizzy. Before he fainted from loss of blood, he heard a reply back.
'HA! I'll be waiting...'

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Woooooo.... Spooky-ness! oo; Welp, I told you all! Things would happen! And it did! Yay! Poor Taichi-kun and Agumon... ;_; 'least now you know abit of what's going now... I'm re-typing chapter 4 and 5... I'll need to actually sit, think and write up 6 after. But I'm going to be mean again... Before you get to see chapter 4, there has to be 15 reviews cause I'm mean! X3 Reviewing two times doesn't count... But is accepted! =D ...I'm so mean... @@;