CHAPTER 3

A/N: This weather sucks- it's cold, then it's hot, and then it's back to cold, and then the heat comes…. Will mother nature figure out what she wants to give us??? I would personally like it to be a nice 70 degrees (F) without the humidity! Of all the places for my family to settle in the US- it had to be Minnesota… the state where the weather is never perfect- it's either too hot or too cold or something's wrong! It's very cold right now- we had a nice thunderstorm, but nothing spectacular… I wonder when the tornadoes are coming??? I like to sit and watch them, from a safe distance of course. I guess being in a tornado myself and surviving makes them not so scary anymore… go figure… back to story now!

--Connections and the Catalyst--

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"Where is she? And how do you know that?" Izzy inquired as the group looked at Tai with blank expressions.

"Sora and I are connected. Not only by marriage, but she healed me back in the digital world. She gave me part of herself to save me. She's scared and in a dark place… she says she can smell water. So the only logical place shoe could be is down by the harbor."

"Tai this is a cult to myotismon." Matt informed him.

"I know and that's why they'll be on the island in the harbor. He slept there in his fortress when he was fisrt on this side." Tai said as he grabbed his car keys and rushed to his car.

"We should help him- of they have a digimon- Tai's going to be in trouble… he's going to need our help." Izzy said.

"well let's go!" Mimi said. "Sora needs our help."

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Sora found herself cold and alone in a dark room. She was shivering.

"Taichi…" She cried. "Please… I need you. I'm so scared."

As if he heard her, she could suddenly feel him.

'Hang in there baby- I'm coming to get you. Just be good until I get there.' She could have sworn she heard his voice.

"Hurry…please. It hurts…" She whimpered as she held her stomach. Feeling Tai coming for her made her hang on. She curled up as much as possible to try and stay warm.

She felt the kicks from the child inside her- 'No- not now… please little one. Anytime but now…' She rubbed her belly and quieted down the baby.

"Where am I?? She cried out in a terrified voice.

"You are safe. Don't' worry." a voice called back.

Sora's head looked in the direction of the voice.

"Who… who are you and why did you bring me here?" Sora demanded.

"Very demanding aren't we?" The voice laughed. "Very well catalyst- I am the leader of my people. We have only one wish and that is to bring out lord back to life again." He stepped into the dim light to show himself.

Sora gasped as she saw a man dressed in the cloak of myotismon. "And you have the power to do that." He smirked after he bowed.

Sora shook her head wanting to wake up so badly. "It's all a dream… Just some nightmare. Wake up Sora…" She repeated intil she was slapped across the face by her captor.

"please… just let me go. I… I can't help you.. I the catalyst isn't with me anymore."

"LIES! All are lies. You won't fool us- you merged with it and we know it." The man said as he came back closer. Sora tried to keep her distance- but was corner up against a wall.

"So when's the baby due?" The man smirked as he began to rub Sora's stomach. His touch and his eyes were cold. Sora couldn't stop him from touching her- she froze with fear… then a sharp pain was felt in her stomach.

The man was pushing on it. Sora quickly broke free from his grasp with what little power she had with in her.

"Don't you dare touch me or my child." She growled. She looked frantically for a weapon to defend herself with- but found none.

The man seemed angered at her actions and charged at her.

"You WILL help us or else you can kiss your unborn child goodbye!" He said once again pinning her to a wall. Sora couldn't hold back the tears, she was terrified.

"That's more like it." The man grabbed her wrist and pulled her behind him as he led her out of the dark room.

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Tai and the others arrived at the harbor.

Sure enough a dark fog had begun to surround the area. The fog was just like the darkness Myotismon had used to block off the city all those years ago.

"She's voer there on the island." Tai said as tears began to fall from his eyes.

"Tai? What's wrong?" Kari asked taking his hand.

"They're hurting her…" He whispered sadly. "I'll make them pay." He growled in a hrash voice full of determination for revenge.

"How do we get over there?" Yolei asked holding tight to Ken's arm.

The darkness was very creepy and horrifying.

"By boat." Izzy said pointing to a small row boat.

"We won't all fit." Mimi observed.

"We don't all need to." Tai added. "Joe, Izzy, Matt, will you help me get Sora back?"

They all agreed and got into the boat.

"I want to come too." Kari said. "She's my sister now too."

"No Kari stay here." Tai said as Matt pushed off the dock and took an ore.

"Come on guys- we need to find another boat." TK said as they watched Tai and the others row away from shore. The rest of the group began their search for another boat.

"Faster Matt!" Tai said. "We got to save her."

Tai was rowing with all his strength. The island was insight - the but waves seemed to push them back further. A building was erected on the spot where myotismon had set up his coffin, that's where Tai knew they held her.

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The cloaked man threw Sora into a room full of people. She assumed they had been kidnapped or taken as well.

She fell on the ground on her back. The blow made the child within her squirm and move. Sora curled up in pain and cried out.

A man rushed over to her.

"Are you alright? I'm a doctor- you shouldn't try and move." The man said trying to comfort her.

"it's coming…" She simply said as her water broke.

The man knew exactly what to do as the child seemingly wanted to enter the world. Sora screamed out in pain as her child was born within minutes of the fall. The people around helped the doctor deliver the baby safely into the uncertain world they were in at the moment.

"That is the fastest delivery I've ever seen." The doctor, who was dressed in civilian cloths commented as he looked at the baby in his arms.

Sora wept as she was handed a crying baby girl after it was cleaned the best they could with a shirt. A man took his shirt and gave it to the doctor to wrap the normal and seemingly healthy, baby in.

She was exhausted and saddened. Taichi had wanted to be there when their child was born… but then she felt his presence again. He had been there in spirit, he was reaching out to her and giving her strength.

The child was small and delicate. Her creamy skin was a match of Sora's. Everything looked like a baby version of Sora, except for the already brown bit of fuz on her head.

Sora smiled and tried to smooth down the hair, but found it was like Tai's hair- unmanageable.

She started to laugh, but it ended up as tears. She had a fear that they would try and take her baby from her. The catalyst was after all was reborn within the child.

The doctor and several women tried to comfort Sora- but all she could do in her weak and vulnerable state was hold on to her child and weep.

"Sh… dear it's going to be alright…" A kind woman said as she wrapped Sora in her shall. The baby was wrapped snugly within Sora's arms and quieted down.

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Tai dropped his ore suddenly as he began to weep. Joe and the two others looked bewildered at their once strong and fearless leader.

"What's wrong Tai?" Izzy questioned.

"It's Sora… she…she…"

"What's wrong? Tell us Tai." Joe said as he picked up the ore and continued to row in Tai's place.

"She had …our baby… I'm a daddy." He said with a smile through teary eyes. But then his face darkened. "We have to get there! NOW!" Tai said as his joy faded.

"Ok- settle down Tai… they'll both be ok." Izzy tried to calm down Tai, as Matt and Joe increased their speed.

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A/N: sorry it's been a little while- the internet at my new apartment is sometimes very …crappy. It will just crash… it sucks, oh well- only three months here- then it's a nice apartment for the next few years! Anyway- review and stuff…