Authors notes: Thank you to the reviewers, I hope you like this chapter as well! In this chapter I am going to develop the friendships better and start on the relationships. I apologise for any spelling mistakes or grammar problems.

Disclaimer: I do not own digimon but I do own the plot.

The magic within. Chapter two.

            Tai paced the floor of his bedroom. Kari had been missing for four days now, they of course had told their parents and scout had been sent out to look for her but they had had no news. A hand knocked on the door, and Sora, Matt, Izzy and Cody walked in, each sitting down and looking at Tai as if he were a bomb about to go off. They remembered the time Kari had fallen in a river and had caught Pneumonia and every time they had come in ranch with Tai they had either been yelled at or hurt. Sora walked over to Tai and he turned round to yell at her but found he couldn't. She pulled him into a hug and he burst into tears, his little sister could be dead and she meant the world to him. She gently rocked him back and forth, rubbing his back and his sobs quietened until they were nothing.

"What if she's gone?"

"But she isn't Tai" Sora whispered in his ear, as she tried to hold back her own tears, "She's a brave girl and can take care of herself I'm sure of it."

            Kari stared at the harbour as it came closer and closer, her eyes narrowed as it came closer. For some reason a part of her didn't want to go home, one half did and one half didn't, she longed to stay and get to know the people on the ship especially Tk. She sighed, she doubted that she'd ever see them again once they had dropped her off. Tk came and stood beside her, "Can't wait to get home?"

"Yes and no."

"What's the no part?"

Kari searched her mind for an answer, and came up with one that was partly true, "My life is so boring and yours is exciting and adventure."

"It's not fun all the time, unlike you we have to work a lot to get the things we want. Fight for it you could say."

Kari didn't reply, Tk never told her what he was on about two nights ago, with all the digimon information. She yearned to know why he was asking all those questions. She didn't know that Tk had told the other three, and they slowly introduced her to their digimon. Right now Patamon was sitting on Tk's head and the other digimon were running around the ship. They were testing her to see if she cared for the digimon, which she seemed to do. Tk glanced behind him and saw Wormmon crawling along the railing, their final test was in place.

"See you later Kari." She turned  and watched him leave, it happened in a second the digimon fell of the railings. Kari cried out and leapt over board towards the digimon, who was sinking below the water. Kari had a few lessons with her brother and could swim for a while, but not very well. The owners of the ship raced over to the side and stared at the water for a second before Tk dived in. They knew she couldn't swim very well so this was part of the test, die trying to save some digimon she only just met was a very noble thing to do. Kari had just managed to get a hold of Wormmon and was trying to swim to the surface without much luck. Tk wrapped his arms round her waist and pulled her up to the top. The three took deep breaths of air and a ring splashed in front of them. Tk put Kari and Wormmon in it and held onto the edge and they were pulled in.

            Ten minutes later and Kari was sitting in her cabin with a blanket wrapped round her, and Yolei was getting her food ready. Up on deck Tk and the others were talking.

"She saved Wormmon and nearly died doing so, she passes the test." Mimi said as she handed Tk some noodles.

"Yes, that means that she may be one of our race."

"Davis, we still don't know exactly what our race is yet!" Yolei said coming up from the cabin with an empty tray, which she threw back in when she realised she was still holding it.

"Before you two start arguing there is a final part of the test we have to do."

"See her digimon, we know Ken."

"I don't thin that's necessary." All eyes fell on Tk, who hadn't said anything since he had dived into the water.

"Why not?"

"I just feel that she's good, I can't explain it." Tk didn't tell them all of it, both times he had held her he had felt a surge pass through his system. His whole body had felt better since, he didn't tell them because he knew they would make something out of it. They were quiet for a minute before Yolei broke it, "How do we get to see her digimon?"

"If her parents are anything like her, then because we rescued her they will invite us in. She will most likely show us to her friends and the digimon because they have never seen other digimon apart from their own." They nodded when Tk had finished it seemed like a good idea. Tk stood up and vanished below to get on some dry clothes. Mimi sighed, "What's up Meems?"

"Tk is hiding something from us."

"A bad thing or a good thing?"

"How am I supposed to know that Davis? Being his sister and all I can tell that he is hiding something, I am not a mind reader you idiot!" Davis shut up and they sat there for a moment before getting up and moving about they wanted to get to the shore before nightfall.

            The group stepped onto land as the sun began to set, they made their way through the night towards the castle. Yolei stopped half way there and shut her eyes, "What is it Yolei?"

"There was something on the wind, but I can not tell what. It went to quickly." Mimi bit her lip. She was now beginning to worry about this, an uneasy feeling was growing in the pit of her stomach. Ten minutes later they had reached the palace gates, the gates opened when they got there and they walked inside. They shut and Tk, Mimi, Yolei, Ken and Davis shot into the air. The guards that had been hiding in the shadows looked round to see the group standing on the wall. Lord and Lady Kamiya rushed out the building towards their daughter, ignoring the yells from the guards and the pair hugged their daughter tightly. Tai and the other children ran out seconds later, they too hugged Kari tightly. It was then that Tai noticed the people on the wall, he drew his swords and started to walk towards them.

"You kidnapped my sister." Tai growled, his eyes aflame he wasn't going to let them get away with this.

"We did no such thing."

"Don't lye!"

"Look if we could talk-

"No, let's fight!" Tai growled and he leapt onto the wall as well, his sword drawn. They didn't draw their weapons. Kari saw her brother and immediately tried to get out of her parents grasp to stop Tai, but her father picked her up and carried her inside, ignoring her cries. While Kari was screaming at her parents telling them to let her outside, Tai was fighting the others. The moment Tai had drawn his sword, the group had leapt off the wall and landed on the grass. As soon as their feet touched the ground the guards had attacked them, the group did not pull out their swords like most would have done. Instead they knocked the swords from their opponents hand, trying to get through that they were good. Tk had and always would be tougher than the others, when he was born he was dumped in the woods he had survived for a week in there and had always pushed himself to the limit. He had started sword fighting when he was three and was always training himself into improvement. He got rid of all five opponents weapons in seconds and was standing there. Tai saw this and attacked, Tk dodged the slash from the sword. Matt, Izzy, Joe and Cody ran out pulling swords out, it showed just how much they loved Kari. Joe hated to fight and only did when he had too, which was hardly ever but now he an with running furiously towards the so called captors. They knew they had to fight with swords, it was obvious that these people would be good at fighting. The four stood in a row and pulled their swords out, Tk did the same and started meeting Tai's attacks. Matt was having a hard time against his opponent, in fact they were winning. The others all seemed to be matched, but Matt had to study more than the others being the heir to throne and did not get as much time as he would have liked fencing and was being beaten. While they were fighting, Kari had been sat down by her parents who were getting hr some clean clothes, Sora had stayed with Kari and she had explained very quickly what had happened. Sora had stood up and pulled Kari to her feet and the two ran out the door, they reached Tai first Sora tackled him to the ground. Kari ran on and tackled Izzy, at this point the one that was fighting Matt kicked his feet from under him, and pointed their sword at his throat. After explaining what was going to Tai and Izzy the two girls tackled Cody and Joe. Tk pulled his hood off and helped pull Tai up, "Thanks, I'm sorry I attacked you-

"It's o.k. I understand why you did it."

 Tai nodded and the two walked over to where Sora and Kari had tackled Joe and Cody. The person that beat Matt extended a hand and pulled him up, and joined the others. Tai was the first to break the uncomfortable silence, "So er what are you names?"

"Tk."

"Davis."

"Ken."

"Yolei and Mimi" Yolei said pulling her hood off, as did Mimi. Matt's mouth dropped open, "I got beaten by a girl?"

"You wanna make somethin out of it?" Matt didn't reply he simply stared at the girl, she had to be the first person he had met that had insulted him first thing. In fact he though she looked rather cute when she was angry, her hands on her hips, her flying out behind her. He shook his head to clear himself of those thoughts, he couldn't like someone that was not a lady or princess as his parents would throw a fit. She turned from him and looked at the others, "Please tell me your names." After a quick introduction, they were invited inside.

            Next morning Tk woke in an amazingly comfortable bed, he looked over and saw Ken and Davis in beds next to him. Tk climbed out of his bed and pulled his trousers and top back on, and climbed out whacking Davis and Ken with pillows on his way to the girls room. He knocked on the door and waited, Mimi and Yolei appeared moments later dressed. They had to leave first thing in the morning if they wanted to get to the market in time. The three headed downstairs to the dining hall, a huge room with red carpets and  golden walls with huge tables. The three sat down and breakfast was brought to them, five minutes later Davis and Ken arrived. The group chatted as they eat and half an hour later Kari, Tai and the others arrived they blinked in surprise when they saw the others had already finished their food, all apart from Kari. They had gotten up at six every morning on the boat, she had had to force herself out of bed then, as she usually got up at nine or ten. She sat down next to Yolei and rubbed her eyes, "Go . . . . good morning." She said through a yawn as she picked up her spoon and started to eat. "When are you off?"

"Soon, we need to get to Onkou. We want to find out as much as we can."

"Find out? Find out what?" The five suddenly looked uncomfortable, and shifted uneasily under Tai's gaze. At that point a white cat crawled under the table and patted Kari's knees, Kari smiled down at her and stroked it before looking at Tk, "This is Gatomon."

"Please to meet you Gatomon."

"I pleasure to meet you to, Kari said you lot saved her thank you." Tk smiled and nodded at the digimon, before turning back to his breakfast. Kari's friends and brother stood agape, she had just showed someone her digimon when they promised they wouldn't.

"Um Kari, why did you just tell them about Gatomon?"

"Because they have their own digimon, they're at upstairs. Well Patamon and Hawkmon are, as they can fly and it is easier for them to hide."

"You're kidding right?" Matt asked sitting down next to Tai who was beside Kari.

"Certainly not" Mimi snapped, "She doesn't lye and we don't either."

"No need to bite my head off."

Mimi flicked her hair over her shoulder and carried on eating, Tk looked at the clock on the wall and pushed his chair away from the table.

"We should get going if we want to reach the market in time." They all stood up and began to walk out of the room.

"Already?" Kari said, running after them and walking with them upstairs.

"I'm afraid so, we can't miss the market." Yolei said smiling at Kari, she liked the girl and would have liked to become better friends.

"I also think there is something else there." Tk whispered his eyes glazing over slightly, Mimi kicked him in the shin and he snapped out of it. It wasn't good if they found out about Tk's predictions, because that was even weirder than the digimon. Kari nodded and turned back as she heard a clatter from the dining room usually signalling that Tai had done something wrong. The group grabbed their things and headed out the palace.

"Tk can I come out yet?"

"Sorry Pata."

"This bag is stuffy, buy a new one!" Tk laughed and pulled the bag off as he hopped onto the boat. The five quickly set sail and headed for Onkou village.

            It was a week later when they arrived at Onkou, they were a little behind schedule even with Yolei and her wind. The group walked into the town centre, shops and stall were everywhere.

"Okay, let's split up. Me, Tk and Davis as one group and Yolei and Ken as another. You two get food, we get the other supplies" Mimi said grabbing Tk's and Davis's hands and pulling them off into the crowd.

"Meems, you could have been a little less obvious in pairing them together." Tk said as he pulled his hand away from hers.

"Hey, I've tried to be unobvious but it doesn't work. So I'm trying being obvious." Davis just shook his head at Mimi's words and looked over at one of the stalls. Mimi started looking with him but Tk felt something pull at him. He walked away from Mimi and Davis, away from the crowds and down an alley way. There sitting on mat crossed legged was an old man, he looked up when Tk walked over.

"Sit down Takeru, or known as Tk now Hm?"

"Uh yeah, that's me. But er how did you know who I was?"

"Because child, I am of your race. I am one of the few left and I had a prediction that you would come to me. I have worked prophecies of a time when  a group of twelve would save us."

"Who is us?"

"The others of our race that are in hiding."

"But what is our race?"

"Our race is known as the Butai. We are a race of people that are connected with nature, There is something inside us that connects us to nature. Near birth a small creature known as a digimon, they are powered by are hearts."

"By our hearts?"

"Yes, you see they are a part of us. And when we are strong they are strong. They are powered by the thoughts in our heart."

"O.k. I get that and all. But does that mean that we can control nature?"

"No no. Each person can control a certain element some better than others. But we can never control it, we can just bend it too help us."

"How come there is only a few of us left?"

"Because we were hunted and killed for our powers, because we were different we were wrong you could say."

"You said at the beginning there were twelve, who were supposed to save you."

"Yes, you and your friends."

"There are only four of us."

"Are there?"

Tk thought, did he mean Kari and her friends? Well he obviously did, didn't he.

"O.k. suppose there are twelve of us, what do we do?"

The old an didn't reply he simply pulled a piece of paper and handed it to Tk, "This is a prophecy that is about to happen. Save our world."

He then stood up and vanished, Tk blinked. Save the world what did he mean? He slowly unfolded the piece of paper. It was old, and wrinkled. In black ink were written the following words,

There is one that is dark,

A fallen Butai,

Fires from the core of the world,

He is using,

To create a creature,

Breathed in darkness and fire,

An army is being built,

He is setting out to destroy,

Destroy the ones that do not know,

Know how to fight or what to do.

            Tk stood up and shoved the paper into his pocket and ran back into the market. He didn't know what was going after Kari and the others but they had to get there. He scanned the crowd looking for his friends. He spotted Mimi and Davis and ran over to them.

"Tk where have you been?"

"Look I found some more information about who we are and that Kari and the others are in trouble. We have to help."

They didn't move, just stared stupidly at them. He growled and grabbed their hands and pulled them through the crowd to Yolei and Ken. Ken saw the look on Tk's face, he hardly ever saw it, fear! He immediately pulled Yolei with him to Tk, who flipped his head to the side signalling they had to get back to the boat. Ken nodded and the group ran back to the docks and climbed onto the boat. It was now a race against time.

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