Authors notes: A medieval fic, gonna contain Takari, Kenyako and Taiora, maybe some Mimato. The idea just sprung into my mind one day and I decided to write it down, as I am having trouble thinking of an end for Crystal bearers.

Disclaimer: Don't own digimon but I do own the plot.

The magic within.

            A woman with long blonde hair and blue eyes stared at the child in her arms, a knock on the door and a man came in, her father. He had flowing grey hair and wore robes of gold and red, a golden crown sat on his head.

"My daughter you can not keep it!"

"He is my child, just because of his powers doesn't mean-"

"You must get rid of it, it is not human and it cannot stay in the place!"

    Then he was gone sweeping out the room, his robes bellowing out behind him. She pulled her son closer to her and stroked his blonde hair and cooed in his ear, "He won't take you, for powers or no powers you are my son." It was at night that it happened, the man with the grey hair slipped into the room, lying on a bed was the mother and beside her in a cot was the small baby boy. He reached over and picked it up and walked away, he went to the royal stables where a carriage was waiting. He climbed in holding the child to him, he glared at it. They stayed in the carriage until they reached the edge of a forest, he picked the child up and walked a few steps into the woods, "You are not human, I do not know what would happen if I were to kill you. So I will leave you here to perish. Goodbye Takeru." He then turned on his heel and vanished, the small child sat there, staring at the place the man had vanished. A small creature flew down, it looked like a pig with wings. It nuzzled the baby and looked into the boys eyes.

            A boy of about thirteen walked through the cobbled streets of a small town called Kyuui, he was tall ad well built for someone his age. He had messy blonde hair that always fell in front of his face, and a pair of sparkling ocean blue eyes. He was dressed in a pair of black jeans and a black top, he was also wrapped in a hooded black cloak. Kyuui was a small village next to the ocean, it was small but very rich. I did not have many people, and it gained a lot of money by selling it's goods to people over the sea. In fact the boy was heading to the docks, his eyes fell on the huge beautifully carved boats but they were fixed on a certain one. It was quite small, but had delicate carvings of flowers and trees and other great things on it's sides. He walked over to the side of the ship and jumped over and walked across to a girl that was standing there, she wore a grey dress and a grey cloak to match. She had light brown hair that fell half way down her back, she had cinnamon brown eyes which landed on the blonde when he came onboard, ""Where have you been Takeru?"

"Sorry Mimi, I was just getting some last minute supplies off mum and dad." She nodded and turned back to the ropes she had been tying, Takeru turned and walked over to the cabin and slipped inside. Three figures were sitting there, they all looked up when Takeru arrived.

"I thought it was Davis that was always late." One of them smirked, she had long purple hair and lavender eyes, she also wore a grey dress and cloak.

"Shut up Yolei!" The boy that's name was Davis said, he had spiky maroon and wore grey clothes like Takeru's.

"Make me!" Yolei shot back at the Davis, and the two started fighting. Takeru looked at the last boy, who rolled his eyes at him. For this was usual, Yolei and Davis always fought and there was nothing the others could do to stop them.

"Why don't you and me, go help Mimi Ken?" Ken nodded and walked out into the open, he had violet hair that reached the base of his neck and the same coloured eyes, he wore black trousers and a grey top, with a matching grey cloak. The two boys helped Mimi undo the knots on the side of the boat and they pulled the sails up and set off. Yolei and Davis came up, "Should we wake them?"

Takeru nodded back at Yolei and she vanished back into the cabin before emerging two minutes later with a group of odd creatures. One an orange and white bat pig like creature flew into the air and landed on Takeru's shoulder.

"So where are we heading Tk?"

"To the Onkou village."

"They are holding a market there soon Pata, they will have some cheap items that we may need." Patamon nodded and flew off, to join the other creatures. One was a plant creature called Palmon who was partners with Mimi, another was a  green bug called Wormmon, he and Ken were great friends, the next was a red hawk looking thing he and Yolei were partners he was called Hawkmon and the last was a blue dinosaur looking thing that went by the name of Veemon he and Davis were very alike and great partners. Each of these creatures had appeared a while after the humans had been born, not many people had them in fact the group knew of no others that had these creatures that called themselves digimon. They knew it was not normal and for years now the group had travelled looking for people like them, the only information they had found was that there was once a race like them. And the race had more then digimon they each had special powers, once they found that out they had started training themselves into their powers. It wasn't something you learnt from a book, they each found it inside their hearts and were now very good at controlling things. They had hidden their friends for as long as they could remember but at sea they were allowed to roam around without the worry of getting caught. Takeru looked back at the docks they had just left and sighed he had a feeling that something was going to happen. What he did not know.

            Hikari stared out her bedroom window, she had brown hair that reached her shoulders, her crimson eyes looked over the gardens. She wore a light pink dress and a pink clip that helped keep her hair away from her eyes. Her and her brother Taichi, were staying at the royal palace. Her brother who had a messy mop of brown hair and chocolate coloured eyes was best friends with Yamato, the royal prince. She looked out at the gardens for a sign of a white cat, her name was Gatomon. Gatomon was a digimon, her and her friends all had them but they never told anyone. Matt had overheard a conversation between his parents and his grandfather when he was little. His grandfather had said that anything not normal was bad, Matt had tried to stop Gabumon from following him, he felt awful because of it but he didn't want to be killed for having the creature follow him. One day Gabumon had saved him from plunging off a cliff, since then he had hidden his friend. He had later found out that Tai, Kari and all of his other close friends had digimon too. He told them what he had heard and since then they had hidden their digimon from prying eyes. She stopped looking for Gatomon and turned round to face the door when she heard someone knock, "Come in."

A servant came in and bowed at her, "Lady Kamiya, Lady Takenouchi has arrived at the palace and is here to see you." Kari jumped up and ran over to Sora as she entered the room, Sora was a close friend of Kari's and was also engaged to her brother, she had auburn hair and brown eyes, she wore a red dress in the same style as Kari's.

"How are you Kari?"

"Bored out of my mind, Tai and Matt went down to fence the moment we got here. You?"

"I'm good, so what do you want to do this time?"

Once every year all the families got together and spent two weeks or maybe more having fun, there were also three other people, Izzy and Cody came with their families also lords and ladies and Joe worked at the palace with his father, he was training to be a healer. The two walked out into the gardens were they saw Matt and Tai talking with a red head and a small brown head. The two walked over and joined in the conversation, Joe arrived minutes  later and the whole lot was talking and laughing apart from Kari. She had recently been a little depressed, she felt as if there was a hole in her life, but she didn't know what was missing. She sighed and followed the others who were heading back to the palace to play some jokes. A pair of black eyes followed the group, he chuckled to himself. The children hated having to go to meetings and being all proper and they always played pranks or broke the rules. Which was perfect as they could easily catch the one they wanted.

            Shrieks of laughter filled the air as the seven kids ran out the castle, they raced over to the stable and jumped on the backs of a group of horses and raced out the gates. The chef came out covered in flour and yelling as he watched them leave the palace gates. The group raced out onto the moor and stopped still laughing. Tai jumped of his horse and landed on the ground tears spilling out his eyes.

"Do you see his face?"

"Yeah!" Matt said landing beside him and chuckling, "He looked like he could kill!" The others landed beside them and carried on laughing, it was ten minutes later when they finally calmed down. The group started to talk about things, but the conversation turned to Sora's and Tai's wedding. Sora and Tai got redder and redder as it progressed, Kari didn't join in though. The feeling of emptiness was creeping over her again and she walked away from her friends to the edge of the moor where a group of trees were. She leaned against one and started to hum to herself, she heard a snapping behind her and spun round to see a hand reach towards her. She brought her foot up and kicked the attacker in the stomach, she turned to run but felt a pair of arms grab her round the waist. She yelled at the top of her voice at her friends, "Get your swords out!" All the boys pulled swords out and Sora grabbed a dagger from her shoe, they started to run towards Kari.

"Everyone retreat, we cannot defeat all of them at once." A scratchy voice shouted to his men, they ran taking Kari with them. She heard the sound of a sword being drawn and she felt the hilt of the sword being brought down on her head, then everything went black.

            She woke up an hour later, she blinked a few times before her vision came back to her. She looked round and realised she was tied to the mast of a ship, where she was she did not know. The ship was painted black and the paint was flaking off, it was dirty and broken in many places. She wriggled around trying to free herself from the ropes, "I wouldn't try that you'll just hurt yourself." Kari looked up and glared at the person in front of her, he had matted brown hair and was huge, he looked as if he could pick up an elephant with ease. He glared back at her with green eyes, she continued to wriggle. It soon became clear that she wasn't going to break free so she turned to look at the man that had been watching her with a smirk on his face.

"Why did you kidnap me?"

"Your going to die pretty soon so I guess I can tell you. My master asked me to kidnap Yamato Ishida, so we waited until you and your friends went out the palace gates. When we saw you go over to the trees it struck me, why don't we knock the girl out and pull her into the trees. They will all go looking for her, and when they split up we will kidnap you all one by one. But of course you had to be a fighter and yell to them, I must admit my men are strong. But not strong enough to take you and you friends on at one time. But it will be o.k., we will send a ransom note to your friends telling them to come and get you at a town over the seas without protection. They will come and we will catch them!" Kari cried out and pulled at her ropes determined to hit the guy that was threatening her family and friends. He laughed at her attempts and walked away from her sight, she fell forward in the ropes, she had a feeling that 'the Master' planned to do more than just ransom her friends, and she was being used as the bait to get them. She squeezed her eyes shut, she wasn't going to let them see her crying, but how was she going to escape?

            The wind whipped Tk's hair around as he stared out at the blue sea, he loved travailing with his friends. He glance round and spotted it, a black ship coming their way. Maybe they to where going to Onkou village, but Tk doubted it. A sense of darkness washed through him as he stared at the ship, there was something evil about it. He stared at it for a few seconds before grabbing a lose rope and sliding down from the crows nest, he ran over to Mimi who was steering the ship.

"See anything?"

"Yes, there is a black ship that is coming towards us. It may be just going to Onkou but it seemed well . . . evil."

Mimi turned round and yelled at the cabin door, the other three and the digimon walked out.

"What's going on?" Davis said looking at the pair.

"Tk's spotted a ship over there" she said gesturing her head to where the black ship was, "he sensed it was evil."

They nodded and Yolei looked up at Tk and Mimi, "Why don't we just go check it out. I mean if it looks o.k. then we'll come back quietly if not we attack." They nodded and Yolei ran over and lowered the anchor and they waited as the ship grew nearer.

            "Oh, lookey here we have another ship I wonder if we can get some more food." Kari looked up at the ship the man had spoken of. It had stopped and seemed to be waiting, Kari felt like screaming at the people he was going to kill everyone on board. When they got a few feet away she began to scream at the people on the ship.

"Run they're going to attack you run-" A dirty hand covered her mouth, she tried to pull away and warn the others but she couldn't. Five figures leapt onboard the ship, they were all hooded and walked towards the kidnappers and stopped just in front of them.

"I'm guessing you kidnapped her, we'll give you a suggestion let her go and we won't hurt you."

The man laughed, "You think that you children can beat me? For you are too small to be adults aren't you?"

"Children, yes. Beat you, yes."

"You think too highly of yourself." The man growled drawing his sword, his crew did as well. The five children also drew their weapons, the men rushed forward and found no one was there. They turned round to see the five children leap at the, five fists connected with five heads and five people dropped to the ground. They drew their swords and the sword fighting started, it was five against one but they handled it well. It seemed as if it was easy acutely they seemed to be dancing the way that moved with a ease and flow. It was twenty seconds later when everyone but three were down. They group took a step towards them and the reaming kidnappers ran, right into a bow of explosives. Quick as lighting the five seemed to realise what was about to happen, one dressed all in black dropped down beside her and cut her lose. He hoisted her over his back and jumped back onto their own ship, as quick as they attacked on of them had pulled the anchor up and another stuck their hands towards the sky. They glowed turquoise and the wind began to pick up, suddenly wit a tremendous force the wind shoved them forward at an alarming pace. The wind had whipped back everybody's hoods and she got to look at her saviours, the girl who seemed to have created the wind had long purple hair, the was another girl with brown hair, a boy with maroon hair and a boy with violet. She turned to look at the one that had carried her and her voice caught in her throat, his hair seemed to glimmer in the now dying light, his eyes were the colour of the ocean on a beautiful day, his whole body seemed to radiate a kind of holy and caring feeling.

"Welcome to our ship, I hope you are not hurt." His voice was like music, gentle ad soft. She couldn't reply his beauty had gone to her head. She was broken out of her trance when the girl with brown hair came over.

"Are you o.k. sweetie? Are you hungry? Have they hurt you? Do you need some sleep?" Kari found it hard to keep up with the girls speech, she talked so fast. The second girl came up, "Don't worry about her she fusses a lot. My name's Yolei, fuss pot over there is Mimi, the dumb boy with the spiky hair is Davis, the boy next to him is Ken and the blonde boy is Tk." She nodded and allowed Mimi to take her into the cabin for a meal, but her eyes were on Tk.

            Kari woke up with a start the next morning, she hadn't recognised where she was. But it had all come flooding back to her, she slowly pushed herself out of bed and dressed herself before walking out of the cabin. Looking round she spotted Davis steering the ship, she couldn't see anyone else. She shirked as someone jumped down beside her, she turned to see Tk standing by her.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

Kari just nodded not being able to speak, she could see his features better now and he was even better looking than last night if that was possible. Mimi came hurrying over from wherever she had been, "Are you feeling better?"

"Yes, thank you."

"Not meaning to be rude dear, but what's your name?"

"My name is Kari, um where are we going?" Mimi smiled at me, she really was a nice person the way she cared for people.

"Well, we got quite far away from the ship and anchored at night, and we are travailing back at this moment in time."

"Why are we going back?"

"Well, we didn't want to wake you so we decided that we could go back to where we found you and when we woke up we could get you back home."

Kari nodded understanding, but one thing she didn't understand was how Yolei had controlled the wind. She told herself, she was probably so out of it she saw things. But how come it was taking a lot longer than a few hours to get back, when yesterday they did it in the shortest amount of time. She looked up as Tk spoke to her, "Hungry?"

"A little."

Tk led her down into the kitchen where Ken was cooking, Tk and Kari sat at the table and started talking while they waited for the food. She found that she liked Tk, he seemed so caring and understanding. She found out that how the group had met up, Mimi had found Tk in the woods when her and her family had gone looking for herbs one day. They had adopted Tk and he had stayed in the family since, Davis was a next door neighbour and the two boys had met when they were three, Davis had climbed over the wall and eaten some of their vegetables and Tk had caught him. The pair had met Ken when they were six, the family was new in the area and he had got lost one day, Davis and Tk had been coming back with Mimi from the shops when they had come across Ken crying by the docks. They had got him home and had become great friends, they had met up with Yolei three years later. Ken had run into Yolei and she had thrown a fit with him, he had noticed people coming down the street towards her and had pulled her into his house and they had missed her. It turned out she had run away from an orphanage, her parents had been killed in a fire Mimi had felt sorry for her and so they let her stay with them, she either slept on the boat or in the house. The three laughed and mucked until the food was done, Ken called everyone in and they eat. Two days later and she had gotten to know them very well, and they had reached where the black ship had been blown up.

            It was around midnight when Kari woke up, after tossing and turning for a while she had got up. She had climbed on top of the cabin roof to look at the stars when she had spotted Tk. He wasn't looking at the velvety sky, he was staring at the water below them. She walked over and sat down beside him, "Couldn't sleep either TK?"

He shook his head and carried on staring at the water, as if it was going to tell him something.

"What's the matter?"

He didn't have time to reply as Patamon flew down and landed on his head. Tk turned to look at Kari who had her hand over her mouth to stop herself from screaming.

"Is that a digimon?"

Tk's eyes widened in surprise and he looked at Kari harder, she knew about digimon.

"How do you know about them?"

"Me and my brother have them, one of us over heard people taking about things that aren't normal being bad so we-

"Hid them so that no one would know."

"Yeah."

"So how much do you know about digimon?"

"They are called digimon, their names end in mon, they are thought of as evil and that's about it. You?"

Tk didn't know what to say, he wasn't sure whether or not he should tell the girl. So he ignored the question and carried on talking, "So how many are there of you and when and where did you find them?"

"There are seven of us, Gatomon arrived with my brothers digimon when I was one, we were playing in the gardens, in fact all of our digimon arrived when we were one apart from Matt, his arrived when he was three."

"Where did he arrive, Matt was in his room waiting for-

She stopped she didn't know if she should tell him, about Matt's little brother. Matt had told them that he had overheard the conversation about normal things being evil after is brother had mysteriously vanished. He had later found out that his uncle had killed him because of the digimon that had arrived seconds after he had been born, indeed Gabumon had arrived at the same time. Tk had noted her silence, and carried on.

"Where were you when they came?

"We were by ourselves I think, I can't really remember where."

"Try it might be important."

"Well, we were all in our houses or our gardens."

"Gardens, you have more than one garden?"

"Well sort of, yeah I mean well my family are kind of lords and ladies, most of my friends are too apart from Joe works at the palace and Matt is the prince of well our empire, so we have, I mean-

"I understand. Well, drop you at your door in a few days." Tk said getting up from the floor and heading towards the cabin.

"I am staying at the place." He turned back and nodded before stepping inside, she stared at the spot where he had vanished for a moment before getting up and walking back into the cabin.

It will contain more romance next time, I promise. I just had to get down the base lines before starting on their relationships. Hope you like it and please review, MM.