Digimon {Digital Monsters}
Is This Destiny?

As usual folks I don't own Digimon, they are copyrighted by Toei animation. Sit back and enjoy the fic

Joe, Kari and Izzy had been walking for hours with still no sign of the other digidestined or their Digimon anywhere. Izzy had his arm wrapped around Kari's shoulder as he walked; Gatomon and Gomamon walking at their sides. Joe was walking directly ahead of the two couples, while Tentomon had flown on ahead to see if he could spot the larger group from the air.

"Joe, we should take a break." Kari suggested, "We've been walking for over three hours and I'm getting pretty tired." Joe turned to look at the younger woman and nodded,

"O.K then, but just for half an hour, we really can't waste any more time." He said, beginning to take his role as the leader of the small group very seriously. Izzy sighed as he sat down on the soft grass,

"I wonder if Tentomon has found the others yet?" he asked in a worried tone, his dark eyes reflecting his mood, slightly depressed. Gomamon looked to Izzy,

"Don't worry about it Izzy, I'm sure we'll catch up with them soon enough. You know, you're beginning to sound a little like Joe used to." He smirked evilly. Gatomon just nudged him playfully, a sparkle of mischief glistening in her eyes. Izzy pretended to look appalled at the suggestion,

"What!" he exclaimed, "I am nowhere near as paranoid as Joe was, not to mention a whole lot smarter than him at times too." He smiled as Gomamon began to roll around on the grass giggling. Joe just smiled; it was great that Gomamon could loosen up such a tense situation as easily as he could. Most people wouldn't even try, unless it was Tai. The sound of buzzing wings caused everyone to look up,

"Well Tento. Did you see anyone?" Izzy called excitedly as he seen the look of triumph on Tentomon's bug-like features. Tentomon nodded enthusiastically,

"Yes I did, almost everyone's there, they've been camping out on the mountainside not too far from here." He said as he landed, then his face grew worried,

"But Tai and Agumon aren't with them." He almost whispered. Joe, Kari and Izzy began to look worried,

"Did anyone give you an explanation for it?" Joe asked softly, pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose; he didn't really need to, it had developed as a nervous habit due to the many times he had encountered great danger in the Digital World. Tentomon shook his head,

"They seemed unwilling to talk about it. I'm sure someone will tell us what is going on when they get here." Tentomon said, cowering slightly at Kari's enraged expression. Izzy clasped her hand,

"I'm absolutely certain that Tai is alright Kari, Agumon will be with him, I'm sure of it." He said softly, trying to calm his girlfriend down. It worked and Kari's expression softened,

"You're right Izzy, but it's not like Tai to suddenly disappear like that. What if Psyslickomon got him?" she commented, voice beginning to rise a little. Izzy shook his head,

"We would've known about it by now if Tai had been captured, our digivices would alert us to that fact." Joe, Gatomon, Gomamon and Tentomon nodded,

"Alright then," Joe sighed, "Izzy if you're up to it we should go and meet the others and find out what happened." Izzy gave a curt nod, indicating he was rested enough to continue walking. Kari smiled as she helped the young man to his feet and began walking in the direction Tentomon was indicating.

A short while later, joyous cries of greeting filled the air as Joe and his group finally met up with their missing friends two weeks after they had all become separated by Psyslickomon's psychic powers. After about five minutes everyone had calmed down and were now assessing their situation.

"So what happened, why did Tai disappear like that?" Kari asked, growing more concerned for her older brother by the minute,

"We're not really sure." Matt sighed, "Gennai turned up and gave us some of the usual 'ancient prophecy'. stuff. When he had finished Tai flipped and ran off." Matt shook his head.

"I guess being in the digital world so often and for so long finally took its toll on Tai's sanity." Gomamon murmured. Everyone agreed with him. Izzy turned to Matt,

"So what was this prophecy about anyways?" he asked, his curiosity peaked. Matt was going to answer when a sudden headache caused Izzy to hold his head in pain. Kari jumped up and rushed to his side,

"Izzy, are you all right?" he asked, trying to soothe her boyfriend's pain. Tentomon landed at the teen's side and rubbed his free arm with his talon. Izzy nodded faintly,

"Yeah. I'm O.K. I guess." He answered, voice strained. Joe reached into his backpack and brought out a bottle filled with lain white, plastic capsules and a bottle of water. Izzy took the two items gratefully. He quickly unscrewed the cap on the bottle and took two of the capsules with a drink of water from the bottle. He handed them to Kari. After massaging his temples for a couple of minutes, he finally looked up and gave a weak smile. Kari smiled with relief as she handed Joe the two bottles and proceeded to hug the only one she truly cared about, besides Tai and Gatomon. Izzy hugged her back. Matt smiled at the happy scene in front of him before returning his attention to the other digidestined and their Digimon,

"O.K I think we'd better set up camp for the night, it's going to get dark soon." He half ordered. The other young men and women nodded and proceeded with the usual routine of picking out a suitable site, gathering wood for a fire, gathering food and cooing it while deciding on watch schedules, before finally falling asleep. No one noticed the strange pair of violet eyes that followed their every move,

"They're already weak, one final attack is all it takes, and then Master Psyslickomon can rule both worlds."