Author's notes: I am so very sorry for not updating in ages but I've been adjusting to being back at school. I know that really isn't a good reason but hey what's a girl to do when she has little time and her muse's have fled? I got a review telling me that my version of Tk was not real enough and looking back I think that perhaps they're right. I'm not going to change the chapters but try and make Tk a bit more like he was in Season Two. I'm sorry if I was a bit more biased to Tk than the others and I promise I'm not trying to destroying Ken's and Davis's friendship. I will be adding some more Ken/Davis friendship and Tk will start being more like his old self. I always planned on having him hate the powers of Darkness and being upset that his family was split up etc. I just hadn't got round to putting it in there yet. I wasn't trying to make him perfect in the last chapter, just afraid of rejection from his friends and hurting them. That's why he was getting angry, I made Ken feel the same just on a lower level as his powers don't hurt anyone if you just touch them.

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon.

The Crests Within. Chapter Three.

            Sora closed her eyes and buried her face in Tai's shoulder, she was dressed in a nightgown, bath robe and slippers. After getting a call from Tai telling her that Tk and Ken were in danger and needed to talk now she had made her way over and was waiting for the others. Tai squirmed beneath her, his bare foot tapping the carpet. "Stop fidgeting, it won't make them arrive faster." Tai gave her a soft smile and stilled his movements only to have to move again when there was a knocking at the door. Gently lying Sora's head on the sofa he moved across the floor and opened the front door. Izzy, Mimi and Matt stood before him, he gestured them inside and slammed the door. He growled when the door bell went ringing loudly in the apartment, wrenching the door open he glared at Davis who smiled sheepishly at Tai as he slipped inside with Yolei, Cody and Joe. Once everyone was seated, some people lying on each other and nearly falling asleep, others simply staring into space Tai cleared his throat and started.

"I'm sorry for waking you all but we need to talk." Mimi looked up from Matt's chest and glared at Tai before she sleepily snuggled back into his arms. "Kari woke up from a nightmare earlier about Tk and Ken."

"So what?"

"Davis tell me what you mean by 'So what'?" Sora hissed raising her head from a pillow and glaring at the boy. She could tell by the looks on the others faces that they thought along the same lines.

"Why is it so important?"

"Because it's a very, very, very bad sign."

"Why's that?" Cody asked sending a confused look at Izzy. The genius rubbed his eyes tiredly and yawned before starting. "We older digidestined discovered this out a while ago, but Azulongmon's words confirmed it." Izzy flipped the lid of his computer open, took a deep breath and started. "Hope and Light are the two most powerful crests there are. They are connected, as Azulongmon said you can't have one without the other. They are what the Digital World are based on. Now if Hope and Light are connected then so are . .

"Tk and Kari."

"Precisely Cody. Now Tk has always known when Kari has been in danger or upset and has been there to protect her along with Tai. Likewise Kari for Tk. When we were ten Tk had a nightmare that Kari was run over by a car and insisted on going to see Matt and Kari. Kari and five of us were waiting for Matt and Tk to show up, when Kari saw a kitten in the middle of the road. She walked strait out to pick it up and take it to safety when a car came strait towards her. There was no possible way for any of us to reach her in time because she was closer to the other side of the road than ours and there was on one else around. So we were all surprised when a blonde blur knocked her and the kitten out of the way. At that point Matt came pelting round the corner screaming for Tk to slow down when he saw the car skid to a stop where Kari had stood moments earlier, he realised what happened. Since then we have taken anything Tk or Kari see in their dreams seriously."

"So your saying that Kari has witnessed Tk and Ken being in danger, so they most likely will be in danger very soon."

"Or now." They all turned to stare at Izzy, Matt glaring viscously at the redhead who dared to suggest that his little brother may be in danger with him not there to protect him. "Kari had that dreams hours ago, the pair could well be in danger this very second."

"I don't like the sound of that." Matt mumbled, brows furrowed as he ran a hand through his hair. "What do we do?"

"Well we can't phone them, but we can e-mail them. Because wherever they are they're going to bring their digivices. You know that we digidestined never go anywhere without them." The others nodded and let Izzy type up an e-mail on his laptop.

"Kari?"

"Yeah Mimi."

"Out of curiosity what did you see?"

"I didn't see that much actually" Kari whispered, rubbing her tear stained face, "I saw Tk and a rather foggy Ken."

"Foggy?"

"Yes, it's Tk that I'm connected but being a Digidestined means that we are all slightly connected so I could see a very fuzzy Ken."

"Did he look like you do when the Dark Ocean tries to get you?" Kari looked over at Yolei, the memory of when the two of them had met up with Ken and the Ocean had nearly taken her and the boy genius. She slowly nodded and blocked the memory as she carried on. "I could see some dark shapes which looked to be like digimon, I couldn't see the landscape at all. I heard Tk yell for Ken to run and . . . and it was like I . . I could sense their emotions. I could feel the fear radiating off them and feel the hate and destruction raging within the digimon that were after them." Kari whimpered, wrapping her arms round her legs as she rested her chin on her knees. "It was so strong it was terrifying, I . . .they . . it was awful." Kari's eyes shimmered with unshed tears as she thought of the things that might happen to them.

"I've typed up an e-mail and which we'll send first things in the morning and if you really want too you can phone them as well. But for now I suggest we get some sleep."

"I'm to comfortable to move." Mimi whispered from her place in Matt's arms, they others nodded their agreement and snuggled down where they were. "Well I suppose you could stay the night." Tai whispered as Sora leaned against his shoulder and the digidestined drifted off to sleep. Not knowing of the pains that Tk and Ken were facing at that moment.

~*~

            Tk groaned and slowly opened his eyes, above him the stars were shinning merrily. The blonde sighed as he slowly picked himself up. He looked to his left to see Ken sprawled some feet away from him. Crawling over Tk proceeded to shake him awake. "Wha?" Ken mumbled as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes.

"Digital World."

"The others?"

"Ain't see no one yet, mind you I just woke up." Nodding Ken pushed himself up and looked around at the dark jungle they had landed in the middle of. Tall lush green forests towered over them, beautiful flowers decorating the place though their colours were dulled in the darkness of night. Ken smiled as he looked up at the sky, "Well I guess we got the nap we wanted?"

"Ha ha, funnily enough I didn't want to sleep for the rest of the day, nor did I want to sleep in anything but my lovely warm bed." Ken threw his head back and laughed, "Let's go and find our friends. They can't be too far away."

            After searching in the surrounding jungle they realised that they might be a bit further than they thought.

"Could this get any better?" Ken asked as he wrapped a piece of cloth which he tore from his sleeve round his hand. The plants weren't as nice as they looked, and lots had sharp edges causing Tk and Ken to come out with a number of cuts and bruises.

"Saying that will only make some mad evil digimon appear and try to kill us, so please don't. Anything that could possibly could happen here happens if you provoke it." Ken smiled slightly at Tk's words and shook his head, but he knew the blonde was right just about anything could happen in the Digital World.

"What do you suggest we do now?"

"Well without our Digimon we have no way to protect ourselves but . . ."

"But what?"

"You see Ken if we stay here we'll be easier to find, by both good and bad so if we keep moving maybe we'll stay out of trouble. The fact that we were pulled here without our digivices is annoying seeing as we could have contacted the others. So I suggest we find out where we are and make for somewhere safe."

"Where would somewhere safe be?"

"Gennai's."

~*~

            "Taichi Kamiya! What is going on?!"

Tai opened an eye slowly and squinted at his mother who was glaring at him, hand on hips.

"Wha?"

"Why are all your friends sleeping in my living room?"

Tai was wide awake in a second, taking in the sleeping forms of his fellow Digidestined's. He gave his mother a sheepish smile which faltered when she glowered at him even more.

"Digital meeting." His mother rose an eyebrow at him and turned on her heel and marched from the room. She knew enough about the Digital World to release when it came to things about the parallel dimension that it was best to leave them to it. Rubbing the sleep from his eyes he gently shook Sora awake, the girl started when she saw Tai and let out a cry of surprise as she fell off the sofa. Tai burst into laughter, waking the others who watched sleepily as Sora yanked the brunette onto the floor with her. Where the pair started to have a play fight. Rolling his eyes Matt stood up and gently placed Mimi in the space he was just in. Stretching his arm's the blonde sighed and picked up Izzy's laptop.

"HEY!"

"I'm not gonna break it."

"How do I know that? Give it back."

Dancing out of Izzy's reach he pulled up the e-mail and pressed the send button.

"Done."

"Great!"

"Yeah but what now?" Mimi smiled brightly at Matt, "We be patient and wait for a reply."

"I'm not patient." Matt mumbled as he gave Izzy back his laptop who started checking it over, rolling his eyes Matt marched into the bathroom.

            It was after Matt had come out and they had phoned the dorm to have no answer, both their parents to say that though the pair had promised to ring them yesterday and hadn't along with the numerous e-mails that hadn't been replied they had started to worry. Tai watched as Matt paced the floor like some wild animal trapped in a cage, the blonde running his hands through his hair repeatedly, not caring that he looked a mess. "Sit Matt." Mimi said in a cold tone, a glare going along with it. Tai smirked and rose an eyebrow at her, in reply she smiled back and leaned forward her eyes fixed on Matt.

"Sit down."

"No." He looked up at her for the briefest of seconds, long enough however to give her the famous 'Ice Stare' before resuming his pacing.

"It wasn't a question." He stopped and stared at her, annoyance flickering across his face. He opened his mouth to make some smart comment about not everybody thinking she was a princess, so he had a right not to obey her when she interrupted him. Standing up she glowered fiercely at the blonde, her hand on hips. "Yamato Ishida, wearing a hole in Tai's floor will not make Tk come back any quicker! The fact that your little brother would be horrified with you if he knew you were snapping at everyone and being downright rude. He would tell you that anger leads to nothing, am I correct?"

"He thinks anger leads to nothing, However" He sent her a icy smirk before turning round to pace again. "I find it helps me feel better."

"You are acting like a five year old! Stop being so pathetic! Tk says anger clouds your judgement and yours is so clouded that you think that being nasty to your friends is a normal thing to do." Matt winced slightly as if she had visibly slapped him. Mimi watched as he deflated, all the anger vanished from his face as he looked forlornly at her.

"I'm sorry, I . . . . I didn't meant to I just  . . ." He pulled a face as he rubbed his eyes, refusing to let the tears fall. They didn't know Tk and Ken were in trouble, there was no reason for him to worry. Yet . . . in his heart he knew that Tk was in trouble. He always got the same painful felling as if someone was ripping his heart into pieces when his brother was in danger. He didn't know how he knew, it was just something he and Tai had about their baby siblings, Tk and Kari. Mimi nodded a small smile on her lips, telling him she understood. She gestured to the chair beside her which he fell into, massaging his temple hoping to expel his awful headache. It was then that the phone went, causing Matt to jump out the chair as Tai grabbed the phone.

"Hello?"

"Hi, um is Matt there please?"

"Yep, hold on." He shook his head at the blonde as he handed the phone over. It wasn't Tk or Ken, Matt nodded and pulled it to his ear.

"Hi?"

"Matt it's Saka."

"Hey Runt what's-"

"They've gone."

"What?"

"Tk and Ken, they promised to meet me in the park but they never turned up. When I got home, prepared to knock them senseless for falling asleep again I found that they hadn't. They were gone, no body had seen them leave. And the only things missing were one set of clothes each, which they would have been wearing. I'm worried." Matt sunk into a seat, there was no other explanation. Tk and Ken were in the Digital World, how else could they have gotten out without being seen.

"Matt?"

"Er, if I find anything I'll tell you okay Saka?" She sniffed down the phone, obviously crying. He didn't blame her, her two best friends had vanished without a trace.

"Alright, Bye."

"Bye."

He slammed the phone down in it's cradle, "They're in the Digital World."

~*~

            Ken groaned as he dragged his feet through the grass. His head was pounding as he and Tk trekked across miles and miles of land. The sun was beating down on them, causing the two boy's two remove their shirts as they made their way to a village. "You sure it's this way?" Ken asked as he wiped the sweat from his forehead with his arm, sending a glance at the blonde. "Er, nope." Ken stopped dead, glowering at his friend. "You mean you don't know where we're going?"

"Not a clue, but we'll run into something sooner or later."

"Tk." Ken wailed out, the blonde stopped and rose an eyebrow at his friend. "Ken when me and the others first came to the digital world, there was no digiport to take us from one place to another. We walked for miles each day, and we were here for many a month. We had no idea where we were going or what we were supposed to be doing but we did it anyway. WE never had the information that the second generation had, we learnt that from risking our lives as we travailed the digital world in hopes of restoring it. A small walk won't do us any harm, count yourself lucky you didn't have to do what we did." Ken pulled a face, not liking the idea of having to walk for miles of end without knowing what you were going to face. He looked over at the blonde and smiled, "Alright, aright you've proven your point. But no more lectures okay? You're starting to sound to mature for your own good." Tk snorted and resumed his walking. It was an hour later when Tk and Ken were having a rest that they noticed the digimon. It was running across the land, leaving a trail of dust in it's wake. Tk bit his lip and looked over at Ken, nodding the two turned and made to the right. Hopefully the digimon would carry on going on a strait line and wouldn't spot the pair if they made to the side. How very wrong they were.

"Tk, it's changed direction." The blonde looked back to see Ken was right, the creature was now making its way towards them. Tk hissed and bolted, the two ran as fast as they could begging that the digimon would slow down and go the other way. No such luck, it's sped up bounding across the dried out moors to catch up with them. Ken glanced over his shoulder seeing the digimon gaining on them with every step. "Tk!" The blonde looked over at his friend, "I'm going to try to stop him with my er . . abnormality." Tk nodded and the pair skidded to a stop. Ken turned round and extended his arms, eyes closed. The digimon bounded over making a dive towards Ken and Tk only to stop in mid-air. It looked much like an overgrown dog. It's fur was quite short and a bit shaggy, grey in colour. It's face looked like a cross between a wolf, dog and lion. It had the snout of a lion, the pointed ears of a wolf and the rest of him was like a dog. It's eyes glittered manically as regarded the two. He let out a roar as he started to thrash widely, Ken's arms started to shake. The digimon let out another yell and pulled both his claws in front of him. "Slamming scratch." The claws in his paws shot forwards imbedding themselves in the ground near Ken, in a few seconds they exploded throwing the boy into the air. Ken landed with a painful thump on the ground, as the digimon also fell to the ground but managed to land on it's feet. It glared triumphantly at the still form of Ken before it's eyes landed on Tk. The teen swallowed as he slowly started to back away, the digimon launched himself at the blonde. Tk cried out as the digimon slammed him to the ground, he scrambled backwards as the digimon reached out to bite him. His teeth snagged the material of the boy's gloves, tearing them. He growled and dug his paw into Tk's leg and moved forward, jaws opening when it froze as his eyes rose to the sky. Tk's hand was touching the digimon's fur. He cried out as he felt the darkness transferring into his body. Fear laced his heart as he remembered what had happened the last time. The dark powers that he hated so much started to seep into his soul, Devimon flashed before his eyes. He was going to become something like that foul creature, he didn't ant to. With a feral cry he slammed his hands forward pushing the darkness out of his system. The digimon's energy returned to him fast, too fast. The energy flew through it's system making it jerk and fly through the air landing unconscious on the floor. Tk looked up shakily, his eyes landed on Ken and he felt the need to see if his friend was okay rise in him. He desperately tried to fight off the darkness that was trying to claim him, but he was too tired. And as he drifted off into the land of dreams he wondered what was to happen to them.

~*~

            Tai sighed as he held his digivice up to the computer. They had pretty much worked out that the pair had been in the digital world but Saka's words had confirmed it. However they hadn't been able to get to the Digital World for years, how come they could now? Tai wasn't even sure if they could get to the Digital World. The whole group was standing in front of the computer waiting for Izzy to finish with his laptop. The redhead stood up tucking his computer under his arm as he stretched out his digivice. Yolei frowned at the computer screen as she yelled out the commanding words, "Digiport open." There wasn't a reply, there screen stayed the same way.

"Told you so." Tai whispered under his breath, Matt turned to face Tai slightly. One blonde coloured eyebrow raised, the first smile since Tk went missing on his face. "Well we can't all be like you oh great master of the universe." Tai smiled brightly at this point, the real Matt was shining through the pain and fear for his younger brother. Then he snapped back to the ice cold Matt they had first met in the digital world. The mask went in place and he turned to glare at the others.

"What now you morons?" The younger digidestined backed away, fear clearly evident on their faces. The older ones however were used to Matt's glares and simply squirmed a bit before answering.

"Sit around and wait for Gennai to call us."

The glare that Matt sent Izzy made him back away clutching his laptop while the newer generation had turned and ran out the room.

~*~

            Tk slowly found himself coming back to conscious, the thumping in his head told him he needed an aspirin. He coughed and slowly brought his hands to his eyes and rubbed them with his fists. He groaned, wandering what Saka had put in his drink. Evil cousin that she was. Mind you it felt more like a drained kind of sick, then a everything in his body being on fire kind of sick. He froze when the images of yesterday soared through his mind.

"Ken!"

His eyes snapped open to meet with a huge pair of brown eyes surrounded by fur.

"Uh oh."