Digimon {Digital Monsters}
The Darkness before the Dawn of Wisdom
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Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, only the ideas behind the Crest at the end ok?

Author's note: I'm warning you lot now, this chapter is the longest I've ever written, so get the popcorn and drinks now... Please read and review when you're done, thank you. On with the fic now

Kari woke with a start, breathing heavily. She could have sworn she heard evil laughter just then. Shaking her head, Kari made her way to the bathroom to rinse her face. She sighed as she padded her face dry, and gasped as she felt the ice cold tendrils of darkness wind their way around Gennai's home.

"Oh no... They've escaped already. What do we do now?" she thought desperately. Abandoning all common sense, Kari rushed to her brother's bedroom. Tai was snoring peacefully, totally and blissfully unaware of the danger the digidestined were in. That was until Kari barged in the door yelling at the top of her voice,

"TAI, GET UP!"

"Huh... wha...? What's going on?" he asked sleepily, as he sat up, shading his eyes from the sudden brightness caused by the light in the hallway.

"This is no time to be half asleep oni-chan!{A/N: that right?} We've got to get everyone up now!" Tai blinked with confusion; He hadn't heard that title since Kari was seven years old. Tai mentally shrugged to himself and gave a huge yawn,

"But Kari, it's late. Shouldn't you be in bed?" he asked in a slightly annoyed, though brotherly, tone. Kari sighed in exasperation,

"Tai... Daemon and Dragomon are out of the 'Dark Ocean' already... We need to wake the others up. Daemon's on his way here!" she shrieked, finally waking Agumon up. The yellow dinosaur's initial reaction to the intrusion was much the same as Kari's, much yawning and moaning about being disturbed. He did pay considerably more attention when Kari mentioned Daemon and Dragomon, however,

"Kari's right Tai... We'd better wake the others and Gennai. Dragomon's probably on his way to get Kari as we speak." At the mention of Dragomon coming to hurt his 'baby' sister, Tai literally jumped into action,

"Well what are we waiting for!" he yelled, "We need to get the others up!" Tai got himself dressed and ready in record time as he rushed out of the door to wake Matt and Gabumon up. Kari gave a little smirk,

"That's one way of getting him moving, Agumon... thanks. Could you get Gatomon up for me? I'm going to get Ken and Izzy." She asked with a sigh. Agumon nodded and headed to Kari's room to get the cat like Digimon and warn her of the increasing danger her partner was in.

Kari was in such a rush to get everyone else up, namely Ken and Izzy; she didn't look where she was going. As a result she ran headfirst into Centauramon,

"Oomph... Kari, where are you going in such a hurry?" the centaur asked after Kari had backed up, rubbing her head. Kari quickly shook her head as she realised who she had run into,

"I'm so sorry, I didn't see you... Centauramon? What are you doing up?" she asked in confusion. Centauramon blinked,

"I thought I heard someone yell from down here. I was coming to check it out." He replied amiably. Kari blushed a little,

"Sorry that was me getting Tai up... at least it worked on someone else though... Daemon and Dragomon have escaped form the 'Dark Ocean'." She explained, face still a little red from embarrassment. Centauramon looked on with shock,

"They're here already?" he stuttered. Kari just nodded, "This is bad," he muttered, hand resting on his chin, much the same way as Izzy's did when he was thinking. Kari sighed again,

"I know... listen why don't you get Izzy and Gennai up? We need to figure out what we're going to do." She suggested. Centauramon looked up,

"No need." He nodded down the hall to where a terrified Izzy was walking next to Gennai. Gennai explaining about Centauramon just to keep the teen's mind occupied. When Izzy just responded with a shiver Gennai sighed. He looked up,

"You sensed it too then?" he asked Kari, knowing that the young girl
standing before him would sense the dark energy long before anyone
else. Kari just nodded, staring sympathetically at Izzy. She knew the
feeling that the evil energy created within her. She knew that Izzy
would usually try to remain as calm as possible, but the prevailing
circumstances seemed to have blown the wall, that Izzy often tried to
hide his emotions behind, away. Gennai sighed again as he led the
small group down the hall to the briefing room again.

As Gennai opened the door, he noticed that all the other digidestined
and their Digimon partners were already seated, waiting patiently for
the rest to turn up. Cody, Yolei, Davis, Armadillomon and Veemon
yawned widely, despite their best efforts. Gatomon ran into Kari's
arms,

"Kari, are you all right?" she asked nervously. Kari just nodded,

"Yes Gatomon, I'm fine." She replied, "But I am worried about Izzy."
She added in a whisper. Gatomon nodded in recognition of that fact,

"I know, we all are." The cat Digimon sighed. Her ears perked up as
Gennai began talking,

"I'm sorry that we have to have this meeting so late... but I'm sure you
all know why by now." Gennai waited as the digidestined and their
partners gave indications that they knew why the meeting had been
called. He continued,

"We need to find some way of..." he was abruptly cut off by the sound of
water crashing against the shore. Gennai's face visibly paled as he
realised that Daemon and Dragomon had already found them. Evil
laughter echoed around the villa as Daemon and the dreaded Dragomon
crashed through the eastern wall.

"You pitiful fools... you couldn't stop us even if you tried." Dragomon
hissed menacingly, his black eyes intent on the Child of the Light.
Gatomon jumped in front of Kari in a protective stance. Dragomon
chuckled,

"Silly little pussy cat... You can not protect her now." Daemon had his
fiery eyes upon Ken, lust for revenge clearly obvious in his gaze,

"Well Ken, it seems as though we meet again... I told you I would be
back."

"Leave me alone!" Ken yelled, "I've done nothing to you, except from
lock you in the 'Dark Ocean'... which is where you belong you fiend!"
Ken hissed as he backed up to stand next to Davis.

"Hey, Ken. Wanna take this joker out?" Davis asked, his characteristic
smirk lighting up his features.

"Sure, why not? It's only fair we finish this." Ken replied as he held
out his digivice. Wormmon and Veemon quickly digivolved into their
champion states of Stingmon and Exveemon. From there they continued
digivolving until they had become Imperialdramon: Fighter Mode. The
other Digimon had also digivolved into their highest stages possible,
save for Centauramon obviously.

"Positron Laser!" Imperialdramon called out as his attack left his
cannon. Daemon quickly dodged it, laughing in the process. Silphymon
and Shakkuamon both attacked Dragomon,

"STATIC FORCE!"

"JUSTICE BEAM!" The attacks converged on the mega level demon of the
oceans. T.K, Cody and Yolei yelled in triumph. Kari just narrowed her
eyes. As the dust cleared, the cheers stopped as the children gazed
upon Dragomon's unhurt form. He smirked as he unleashed his attack
directly at Kari.

Izzy watched the battle with disdain; he had never felt so helpless in
all his life,

"Izzy come on... You should really help the others out. They need you."
Centauramon begged, trying to get through to the red headed teen. Izzy
just shook his head,

"I can't... Besides they don't need me, I just get in the way." He
muttered, fresh tears forming in his dark eyes.

"I can't fight without Tentomon anyway... he was my partner... My life and
soul." He sobbed. Centauramon put an arm around Izzy's shoulder and
sighed,

"I know it hurts Izzy... but you'll get over it in time..." Centauramon
was going to continue, but as he looked up he gasped at Dragomon
building up his attack against Kari. Izzy looked up too, confused as
to what Centauramon was gasping at. Izzy was about to hang his head
again, when something snapped,

The attack sailed towards him. Izzy gasped as Kabuterimon stood in
front of him; blocking the attack...

"I can't... I just can't let Dragomon do that to her... Kari's my best
friend. I need to help her." He muttered. Centauramon called out as
Izzy ran full pelt into Kari, knocking her out of the way of
Dragomon's attack. He gasped as he felt the flames burn into his body.
All he heard were his friends worried cries for him before he blacked
out...

"Huh? Where am I?" Izzy thought aloud as he stared at the never-ending
darkness. He looked around before noticing a green blob sitting
crying.

"... Pabumon?" he asked, not believing what he was seeing. Pabumon
turned to meet Izzy's dark eyes,

"Izzy, you're not supposed to be here!" he squeaked, half angrily half
in sorrow. Izzy blinked in confusion,

"Huh?" he asked intelligently.

"You're supposed to be helping the others Koushiro, you're a part of
the team... you know that."

"What is this place?"

"Somewhere where you shouldn't be." Pabumon growled, but he relented,
"Izzy, I cant move on until you accept the fact that everything that's
happened in the past is not your fault."

"How can I Pabumon? The whole thing with Kari's medicine when she was
sick, Daemon getting out of the 'Dark Ocean' and then you getting
deleted..." Pabumon sighed,

"Izzy... you need to put things into perspective. Did you know that
Machinedramon had the city bugged?"

"No, but..." Pabumon just continued,

"Did you know what Daemon was planning on doing with you in the 'Dark
Ocean?" Izzy remained quiet as Pabumon finished, "And finally... Did we
even expect that attack by Metalcyclonemon?" Izzy hung his head.
Pabumon sighed,

"I know it's hard Izzy, but your friends need you more than you
realise." Izzy looked up, "And Kari would probably never forgive
herself if you don't go back now."

"But me being in this place isn't her fault." Izzy frowned.

"I know that, you know that, but will Kari?" Pabumon asked
philosophically. A look of realisation dawned on Izzy's face. Pabumon
smiled,

"I can't get reconfigured, but I'll always be in your heart, Izzy...
remember that... you should go, the others are getting worried." Izzy
smiled and nodded as Pabumon glowed with a deep purple light as he
disappeared,

"Goodbye Pabumon, and thank you." He whispered as a deep purple light
came over him and he came back to consciousness.

During the short time Izzy was out Daemon and Dragomon were defeating
the digidestined easily. Kari was in shock for a few seconds, before
she realised what had happened. Her light brown eyes filled with tears
as she looked upon Izzy's still form. T.K, Cody and Yolei sat at her
side, trying to comfort her.

"Why did he go and do that? Stupid kid." She sniffled. Dragomon sensed
a quick victory and lunged at Kari and Izzy.

"KARI, LOOK OUT!" Tai yelled, the others turned to look, horror was
carved into their faces. Few could watch as Dragomon's tentacle came
rushing down... but then it stopped quite suddenly. Dragomon hissed in
pain as a deep purple light surrounded Izzy. The light radiated a
power not unlike the Crest of Light's. Dragomon backed off and left
suddenly as the light became too much. Daemon noticed Dragomon rushing
off and decided to do the same before he was destroyed by it. The
digidestined looked on with awe as the light dimmed down. Izzy's eyes
slowly flickered open,

"Oh god, I've got one major headache. Did anyone get the license
number of that bus?" he groaned. Kari smiled and hugged Izzy hard,

"IZZY! You're alive... you had us all going for a minute there..." she
began babbling with relief. Yolei smirked; she knew why Kari was
behaving like this. Tai just raised a suspicious eyebrow. Izzy gasped
for breath, trying to get Kari to loosen her hold on him. T.K finally
dragged Kari off. Izzy thankfully gulped the fresh air down. Kari
blushed a bright red colour,

"Sorry Izzy, but you had me scared..." Izzy put up a hand to get her to
be quit for a moment,

"It's ok Kari, just war me before you do that next time... and I'm the
one who should be apologising."

"No you shouldn't, you saved her life... and that puts you in my good
books pal." Tai smiled. As Kari and Izzy continued to stare at each
other, until a soft pink glow came from under Kari's top, while a
sweet hum and a deep purple glow came from under Izzy's shirt.
Centauramon gasped as Izzy pulled out his tag,

"Is that what I think it is?" he muttered, more to himself. Gennai
heard him though, and was just as surprised,

"The Crest of Wisdom... I thought only one digidestined could ever
handle its power..."

To be continued...

Ha, ha, ha I left it hanging. Now just to write up the final part to
the trilogy. Yes you heard right, it's a trilogy. Please read and
review so I can get the next part up. Ta very much luv gomababe.