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[Signs]

(Thoughts)

Summary: Abandoned by the others, after he made Greymon digivolve into SkullGreymon, Tai seeks a meaning to his new life. Not as a Digi destined, but as a Digimon.

The grand Play can now begin. Matt and the digi destined have returned to Earth at last, with them, is the mysterious Digimon Fusionmon. In seven days, the plan long plotted out by Matt will reach its completion. And somewhere in the coming darkness, Myotismon waits with his own plans for both the normal and digital world. Standing alone against them, Tai as the digimon Chimon is faced with protecting his sister, and somehow saving the world from the darkness.

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Twist of fate

Part VIII

Day One: Shadows of Darkness.

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Traveling inside a backpack had already found it way to the top of Tai list of things he hated. The first thing he became aware of was just how hot it really was in it. Second, now matter what he did, he couldn't find a good position to sit in, and the opening that his head stuck out off was too small for him and the metal off the zipper kept getting caught in his fur.

Kari looked down at the digivice and sighed when she noticed that it wasn't glowing like it should have, which could only mean one thing. The eight digidestined wasn't in this part of the city. "Tai, should we head over to the next district?"

Turning his head slightly to the side to better answer her.  "Yes, but can't we go to a park or something first, the heat is starting to kill me and… " Tai stopped when both he and Kari heard a sudden beeping noise coming from the digivice. "Kari, that has be him, quick can you see where it is coming from?"

Kari lifted the digivice and began to stare at it. On it, she could see two dots instead of. "Tai, there's two of them, and whoever it is, they're moving right towards us." Turning around in a circle, she stopped when the dots had moved around to the top of the screen. "And they're coming from that direction."

Moving around in the backpack, Tai managed to opened the zipped enough to let him out. Pushing up to get a better look over his sister's shoulder, Tai stared down at the digivice, and then up to see the children it was reacting too. "Kari, I think it one of the others, try and see if you can spot Sora in there okay?"

Kari nodded and began to walk towards the place the signal came from. Pulling himself from the backpack, Tai was lost in his thoughts as he jumped down to land on the sidewalk. Slowly, moving across the mass of children and adults moving up and down the street, Tai tried to spot the other Digidestined he had been sent to the digital world with. {Sora, is it you or Matt. Whoever it is, can I really fight them?" Focusing and forcing his doubt away, Tai found himself staring straight ahead as a sudden movement of red caught his eyes, looking harder, the cowboy dress became all to clear to him. "Mimi." And next to her, he saw the blue hair and first aid bag that he had seen so often that he recognize it and one the two things belonged to anywhere "Joe."

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Joe looked up from his digivice as it started to beep loudly. "Wait Mimi. I just picked up a signal from another digidestined." The taller boy grabbed the younger girl and pulled her back, along with the hiding place for their digmon, a simple shopping cart.

Glaring up at the older boy, Mimi pushed the arm off and glared down at the digivice with a sour look. "We're supposed to find Myotismon, not run around looking for other brats with digimons." Letting of the shopping cart, she pulled of her cowboy hat and wiped her forehead. "And how come I'm the only one who has to push this old thing around. Those digimons aren't lightweight you known."

Glaring at her, Joe sneered as he heard the same complaint that he had heard most of the day. "Oh shut up. You're pushing the digimons around because you didn't want to be seen with such an ugly thing as this, remember" pushing the plant like digimon closer to her as Mimi glared back him in anger, Joe return his attention to his digivice.

Staring at the crowd before them, they tried to locate the single digidestined that Mimi's digivice had picked up. Staring at the crowd, they blinked when a young girl with short brown hair turned around to face them, and there in her hand, she was holding the digivice they had tracked. "Damn, contact Matt, tell him we have found another digidestined, and that she seems to be looking for something." Joe snapped as he reached down to get his own digivice out. "Tell him, that we are going to end this problem right now."

Mimi nodded and stopped when she was about to turn around, glaring at Joe, she clenched her hand and smacked him on the shoulder. "And just how am I supposed to do that. Yell it out loud?" Glaring at the taller boy, Mimi turned back to face the child running towards her, blinking as she noticed the small cat-human like digimon running slightly in front of her. "What kind of digimon is that?"

Glaring at her, Joe snapped as he lifted his own digivice. "Gomamon, get out here and protect me like you're meant to do." Staring down at the ground, he smirked when he noticed the seal digimon popped out of the small shopping cart it shared with Palmon. "Finally. Now, you there, girl, who are you, and why do you have a digimon?"

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Groaning loudly, Matt rolled over and sat up from he had been sleeping, eyes blinking to clear off the sleep, he focused on the white tiles that made up the roof of the schools computer room. Around him, the faint sound of someone talking and working could be heard. {Where am I?} Slowly, the sound of someone walking up to him made his head turn around. "What is it?"

The footsteps stopped as he spoke, and from the silence that followed his words, he was compelled to turn his head and look at the one who had dared to disturb him. There standing before him, was his little brother and Izzy, Sora and. "Where's Joe and Mimi?" Pulling himself up, Matt glared around the room with cold and narrowed eyes. "Well, say something."

Sora avoided looking at Matt's eyes as the others, who chose her to be the one to explain things, pushed her forward. "They left, said that they were going out to see the City." Closing her eyes, Sora waited to hear the roar of anger that she knew would come from the one who had become their leader, and savior.

Clenching s hands at the news, Matt turned around and screamed out in anger and frustration, feeling every muscle in his body burning with the desire to hit something. "Where did they go to?" Stepping over to stare out of the window, Matt looked into the late night sky with a concerned look on his face. "This could ruin the plan, I'm not ready to let anyone know that I am here in this world." Turning back to face the children standing behind him, Matt moved his eyes across the room and finally rested them on his little brother. "Okay, Sora, Take TK and see if you can find them, if not, return to the school at once."

As Sora and TK nodded, Matt grunted and turned to face his most trusted servant of the chosen ones. "Izzy, set up the gate program on every computer in the building, I want it ready in case something goes wrong." Turning around to face the window again, Matt shot a cold stare at the faint rays of sunlight that could be seen on the sky. {What the hell is going on? First Sora is nearly freed from my control, and now Mimi and Joe are starting to show signs of independence. Could my powers be fading?} Looking down at his hand, Matt snarled when he noticed that it was shaking mildly. {Stop fighting you moron, this is my body now.} Closing his eyes shut, he fought off the feeling of the real Matt trying to fight him from the prison inside his own mind. {You gave me this body, and I have given you the powers to protect your little brother. Just as we agreed.}

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Standing protectively in front of Kari, Tai stared at the two kids before him. It was hard to see that those two were someone he had once considered his friends. The way their eyes stared at him and his sister, like they were trying to force him to bend to their will. And the digimon, they were to quiet, like they were just big puppets. "Joe, Mimi what wrong with you two?"

Looking down at the digimon with a cold stare, Mimi looked from it, to the girl it was protecting. "You should teach him some better manners, and do something about the horrible haircut, and those colors, what did you do, dip in a couple paint buckets?" Staring at Joe, she shook her head as he began to turn around. "Come on, I want to go shopping, leave this brat and her digimon alone."

Shrugging her hand off his shoulder, Joe stared at Kari with a cold glare. "I asked you question girl, what are you doing with a digimon?" Lifting his digivice, Joe stared from t to the one in Kari's hand. "And that digivice, if you have one, then you should have been in the digital world with the rest of us."

Kari blinked and felt a little angry when Mimi insulted her brother's digimon form, and who was this guy to talk to her like she was a speck of dirt on his shirt. "He's my digimon, and you two, aren't you supposed to be digidestined?" Stepping towards them, Kari crossed her arms as she shot a glare back at them. "I heard everything about you two from my brother? How could you hurt him like that?!"  

Mimi head snapped back to face Kari when the younger girl yelled out the last words. "Your brother?" Stepping completely around, Mimi stared more closely at Kari. "Is that the crest of Courage your holding?" Looking at Kari with a pained expression that quickly turned ice cold, Mimi crossed her arms and stared away from her. "He got what he deserved all along, he nearly killed us."

Next to her, Joe mouth had become a thin line as he clenched his hands tightly "How did you get that? It belonged to that reckless idiot Tai." Joe mumbled out the last words as he reached out to take the crest from the younger girl. "Hand over that crest. It shouldn't be in the hands of some little brat like you."

Stepping back, Kari pulled the crest and digivice out of her reach. "No, this is my bothers, and I'll never forgive you for hurting him." Stepping back when Joe suddenly made a grab for it, she turned and began to run back the way she had come. "Tai, come on."

Blinking Tai turned around as well and began to run after Kari, a few tears falling from his eyes. {Why do they hate me like that? What did I ever do to them?}

Walking after the young girl Joe narrowed his eyes when he saw the small digimon running after her. {Could it be, that this digimon met Tai in the desert, and brought the crest and digivice back to his little sister, to become her partner?" As he finished the line of thought, he lifted up his digivice to take the hunt up to a new level.  "Where do you think you're going?" Looking back at his digimon with cold eyes, Joe face spilt into a sick grin. "Well, no matter where you run, you can't get away from us, Gomamon!"

Gomamon looked up and suppressed a scream as the power of Darkness rushed through him, removing all his free will and forcing him to undergo the digivolution. "Gomamon, Dark digivovle too…"

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Moving his mouth away from the neck of the young girl, Myotismon licked away the blood that had escaped from his mouth. "Truly young lady, you really need to learn to fear the night." Looking up at the sky that was hidden by the fog, the virus digimon followed the way the sky became darker by the moment. "But, the night is young, and I fear my time here is up."

Ignoring the whimpering sound coming from the girl he was holding, Myotismon began to go over the plan he had for the night. First he had to find something to eat, and then he had make sure that everyone was in place for the takeover of the city. "Well, that takes care of my hunger, a least for now." Wrapping his cape tightly around him, he began to float up into the air, soaking in the comfort of the young night. "Such a well tasting young one she was, still, I hunger for more." Looking towards the more crowed parts of the town, he smirked as he thought of the hundreds of people he could feed on in it as he start to fly towards it, the troops could wait until he had found another ell tasting one like her.  

Myotismon stopped flying when he spotted the large hulking form of a digimon in the distance. "Well, well. Looks like it not just me who's planning on having a party tonight." Turning around to face the direction of the digimon. "Well, at least this might provide me with some fun." Flying faster, Myotismon licked his lips, already tasting the blood and fear he would get out of this battle.

Behind him, Wizardmon floated in the air as well, hiding behind a spell. "What is that, Chimon couldn't have digivolved so fast could he?" Holding out his staff, he turned away from the sight, and continued his quest to find Gatomon, hoping that she was in good mood. "Gatomon, for so long have I kept this hidden from you, watching as he broke down everything you once believe in." Flying towards the new headquarters of the virus digimon, Wizardmon clutched the fake crest of light he had been given. "Gatomon, as you helped me, so will I help you find your happiness."

Stopping in his flight, Myotismon frowned when he noticed the two humans standing on the shoulder of the large digimon. "Those brats, here?" Then he spotted what they were facing. "Chimon, and a human girl." Staring a bit harder at the group, his eyes became small slits when he spotted the device in the young girl's hand. "So, Gatomon's rapport was correct, Traitor, I'll show you how I deal with your kind." Looking away from the small feline-human like digimon, and stared at the two other humans. "But before I kill you, I think I will see what these so called digidestined are really capable off." Floating down, Myotismon hid in the shadows, waiting for the right moment to interrupt the meeting.

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Mimi and Joe smirked as they stared down at Tai and Kari from the safety of Zudomon's shoulders. Looking at the small, almost invisible digimon standing before the brown haired young girl, Joe broke out in a sick and twist laughter. "Well, well. Looks like this is the end of the road. Tell me little girl, what else did Tai tell you and your little pet digimon? Maybe he forgot to tell you about Skullgraymon, or all the times he rushed into battle without thinking?"

Next to him, Mimi was busy staring at the digimon instead of the human girl, turning her stare away from him. She stared down at Palmon standing next to her on Zudomon's shoulder with a cold stare as she lifted her digivice. "Okay Palmon, digivolve and show this fool that no one tells me what to do." Frowning when Palmon didn't digivolve, she lifted her digivice up again. "Palmon, I told you to digivolve, so what are you waiting for?"

Looking away from taunting Kari, Joe stared at her with a sour look. "Look Mimi, I'm trying to look macho here, Can't you take your royal stupidity somewhere else?" Turning back to face Kari, he stopped when he notice the cold and hard look in Mimi's eyes. "Now what?"

Glaring down at her digimon, Mimi ignored the insult. Clenching both her crest and digivice, Mimi stared at Palmon with the hardest and most cold look she could muster. "Palmon, unless you want to be thrown out with the rest of the garbage, I suggest you digivolve, Do you hear me DIGIVOVLE!!"

Palmon's eyes blinked slow, then they opened up wide as a sickening purplish light crashed down around her, hiding her body from sight. "Palmon Dark Digivolve too…" The purple light fade away to reveal a large tree like digimon, from the side of the tree, six arms stuck out, one of them holding a wooden cane. "Cherrymon!" The gold pupils of the black eyes slowly glared down at the girl standing next to it, as the wood mustache shook with his annoyance.

Mimi smirked and turned back to glare at Joe with an arrogant smirk, then she looked back up at Cherrymon. "Well, it different from you normal form, but it should do." Turning back to stare down at the human and digimon standing on the street before her, she smirked and lifted a hand to point at them. "Well, Cherrymon, crush them."

Cherrymon looked down at the digimon, and then at the human girl who had given him an order. Lifting one of his hands, he rubbed the leaves that made up his mustache. Looking down at the street, he jumped off the shoulder of the large water digimon and landed a little harshly on the street below. Looking closer at Chimon, the yellow eyes narrowed, then he looked back up at Mimi. "You fight them you loudmouth human. I'm going out to find something to eat."

Blinking, Mimi stared after her digimon as it wandered off in search of something to eat. Stomping her foot in anger, Mimi snapped out a hand and pointed her digivice at Cherrymon. "How dare you disobey me, you're my digimon. So do what I tell you to and destroy those two right now." No answer came as Cherrymon continued to walk away from them. "Do you hear me?!!"  

Joe snorted loudly and returned his attention to Kari and Tai, lifting up a hand he looked at Zudomon with a smile that spoke highly of his new demented self. "Well my friends, it seems that one of us has left, but Zudomon here will be more then enough." Letting his arm drop down, Joe began to laugh out loudly. "Zudomon, Attack them now."

Kari looked up at the hulking form of Zudomon with a scared look on her face, then she looked down at Tai stand protectively before her. There was no way that he could fight down a digimon of that size. "Tai, come on, we have to get out of here." Pulling gently on the tail her brother had, she looked back down the street, hoping to see a place they could hide.

Not moving, Tai stared at the digimon he had once known as a carefree joker with a trouble look. This was once a friend to him, just as Joe and Mimi had once been his friends. But now they were all three trying to kill him. Tai's nearly fell to his knees when the night in the desert came back again, the screams and accusations they had leveled at him. The feeling of the hand hitting him, the final kick by Matt. "Agumon, where are you? I need you. I need someone… Someone to tell me what to do."

"This, Chimon, is what you do." Stepping out of the shadows, Myotismon flung his cape open and pointed his hands towards Zudomon with a cold and collected smile on his face. "Grizzly Wing!" The cloud of bats erupted from it, and hammered into the large digimon headed towards them, blinding him and forcing him to stop the charge. "Now Chimon, once I have finished with this overgrown seal, I will deal with you and your digi destined partner." 

Tai stumbled back and bumped into his little sister leg when the dark lord of the digital world emerged from the shadows. Feeling more of the despair within him grow, Tai was ready to bolt away when he noticed that Joe and Mimi had gotten off Zudomon and was now standing on the street behind the large digimon. Looking back at his sister, Tai gave a smirk as he felt his courage rise again. "Kari, look over there."

Looking in the direction, Kari blinked and then stared down at her big brother with a somewhat confused look. "Yeah, it's Joe and Mimi. But have you forgotten that they want to kill us."

Tai shook his head as he began to tuck her forward. "No, but right now, Zudomon is busy fighting with Myotismon. That means that they don't have a digimon to fight us with." Looking at Kari with a grin on his face, Tai lifted up his hand and watched the shocked look on his sister's face as a small fireball formed on one of the claws. "And without a digimon, they can't stop me."

Clenching her hands harder together around the digivice her brother had brought with him, Kari looked from the two fighting digimons, to the two evil children with a determined look. "Okay, we'll try, but don't hurt them okay."

Tai shrugged and turned back to the new task at hand. "Relax, this is me we're talking about." Seeing a chance to get over to the two other children as Myotismon began trying to rip away Zudomon's hammer with a crimson lighting. Both Tai and Kari rushed over to face the digidestined children of Reliability and Sincerity.

TBC: Day two: Prisoners of Darkness, Myotismon attacks.