Disclaimer: I do NOT own digimon, I have nothing but a scrap of paper saying remember to write chapter, but that doesn't mean I have any ownership of digimon…

The final school bell rang and the students flooded out of the school gates followed by the slowly walking Kari. Normally she would walk home with her older brother Tai but today was like every Thursday. It was soccer practice, so Tai had to stay in school to practice his shoots and dribbling. Kari was not as athletic as her brother and was more talented in the area of textiles and clothes making. She gets that off her mum's side, she loves working with the soft materials and making something that she can wear later that is a one of a kind.

She walked slowly down the path, thinking about her friends sudden strange behaviour and the rings in their eyes. It was extremely peculiar and it had never happened before. It didn't seem to happen naturally either because they were all acting strange around the same time. Maybe they were just getting a bit stressed and decided to let it all out that way. But Izzy was always on top of everything. The way he just collapsed was just not right. Through her trail of thought Kari didn't hear T.K run up behind her. As he touched her shoulder affectionately she jumped.

"Sorry," T.K sighed. "Didn't mean to scare you."

"It's ok…" Kari mumbled as she looked at the blonde haired boys bright blue eyes. He was always happy, it was so strange of a boy of his age to be that way. Most teenagers Kari knew all suffered Teenage Angst as her dad liked to call it, but not T.K always smiling and chirpy.

"Hey what's wrong?" He asked thoughtfully as he saw the concentration on her face.

"Nothing…" Kari began to walk on and T.K followed. "It's just everyone's been acting so strange lately." She turned and blurted out.

"Oh, you mean Sora?" T.K grinned cheekily.

"What did she do?" Kari groaned, Kari had to keep Sora on an imaginary leash for the whole of the dinner period desperately trying to prevent her jumping on any unsuspecting boys.

"Oh nothing… just started making out with the literature teacher." T.K giggled.

"Oh god." Kari slapped her head in frustration. The literature teacher had just started school as an intern this was his first week as a proper teacher. He was only 23.

"Oh apparently it was a hell of a show." T.K laughed even more.

"It's not funny!" Kari snapped suddenly. "She's been acting really strangely since this morning!"

T.K stopped laughing and looked at Kari seriously, "I know. So has Matt." He looked at his shoes.

"Huh why?" Kari asked even more concerned than she was for Sora.

"He was reported for beating up the kid with the I-Pod. He's on a prohibition, if he doesn't behave then he'll be suspended." T.K sounded so disappointed. He always looked up to his big brother and now his big brother went and did something very very stupid.

"I'm sorry," Kari looked away. She didn't want to see T.K so upset. She was used to him smiling even though she just told him off for being chirpy… Oh great. Kari wasn't even sure what she was thinking any more. Images of her friends strange behaviour swam past her vision. She felt a lump in her throat. Why was all this happening now? She looked around. T.K was still behind her and was looking at his shoes with a great interest. She looked ahead and saw something extremely strange. A creature, it was on four legs like a dog but had powerful front arms. It's skin was a dark purplish blue and it's hands were more like claw digging into the ground. It had a long tail which was basically a blade with a dangerously pointed end. Every part of it was tensed and the muscles were bulging out of the skin in an extremely unhealthy way. But the thing that was the most disturbing about the creature was it's face and neck. It's head was struggling to stick there since the skin was ripped over it's bones. The skin on the neck completely stretched and tight. The eyes were ruby red glaring at Kari. A mouth filled with razor sharp teeth and a long purple tongue. It's nose was nothing but two holes in between the eyes and the mouth which the gap was extremely small. It's face was contorted in anger and hatred, and it was looking at Kari.

Kari yelped. "T.K what is that?" she murmured quietly so that it would hear her.

"What's what?" T.K looked up and around to see Kari edging away from nothing.

"That thing…" She whispered.

"What thing?" T.K came up beside Kari to look in her eye line, but all he saw was an empty street. He held Kari's arms, which were completely tense. "If it's that bad… We'll go the other way." T.K suggested. He had been used to Kari seeing and hearing things no one else could before but that was in the digiworld. He took another look but still saw nothing. Kari's eyes suddenly widened.

"No!" She squealed. She saw the creature racing towards her at a tremendous speed growling and sneering. T.K was pushed back as Kari decided to save him instead of her. She was always selfless in that way. T.K fell to the floor with a thud. Kari covered her face as the creature brought it's claws out. She screamed as it jumped. After a beat the creature shrieked and fell in a lump on the floor. Kari felt a warm sensation on her chest. She looked down, her crest was glowing bright pink on her chest and the creature was cowering on the floor. What happened? The creature glared at Kari horribly his skin on the face becoming even more tight and wrinkled. It jumped again. As it jumped it turned into a ball of red light, but it a pink shell covered Kari and the light spread over and back into a bundle on the floor.

T.K looked at Kari in amazement. Why was she glowing?

The creature screamed irritably then looked at T.K it's face almost grinning at his new idea. Kari gasped "NO!" but the demon jumped again and this time at T.K.

T.K saw a thing jumping towards him it's eyes gleaming red, it turned into a red light and zapped into his body. He felt his whole body jerk, like an electrocution. He felt his muscles tense and scream in agony as an electrical bolt just ran through him. He screamed in pain, squeezing his eyes shut. But as Kari touched him he felt a sudden feeling of softness. He opened his eyes slowly. He saw Kari's worried face looking in to his eyes.

He jumped back. "What the hell was that?" He shouted angrily, not really knowing why but he just felt the rage boiling in him.

"I-I don't know…" Kari mumbled pathetically. She stood up and reached out to help T.K but T.K slapped her hands away.

"Get away from me!" He snapped obviously annoyed.

"Wha-Why?" Kari sniffed as she felt the tears forming in her eyes, she had just been confronted by an evil creature which has now zapped T.K and he was blaming her for the whole thing.

"Because this is your fault!" T.K screeched, he was letting it all out but it didn't feel any better, "It's all your fault!"

Kari let the tears trickle down her face as she watched her best friend stomp away angrily. But this made her more determined to find out what was wrong with her friends. She walked along slowly behind T.K. Maybe the woman she saw with Mimi and the demon had a connection… Maybe everyone else saw them too. Or other ones… Kari pondered the idea as she walked along the pavement.

"Whadaya mean she didn't get infected?" the man shrieked.

"It just didn't happen…" Prosperine sighed. "I know this is supposed to be a fool proof plan but you can't blame me for every little slip up." Prosperine grimaced as the man got even more agitated.

"A little slip up! This is a freaking catastrophe! And it is all your fault!" He was going a deep purple in the face Prosperine didn't exactly like what was happening there.

"Listen there is one more sin and the girl will probably guess who it will be next." Prosperine walked around the box on it's pedestal. Her fingers dancing over the rims of the box.

"So we don't get the digi destined of Reliability." The man sneered. The digi destined of Reliability was a dangerous threat as well. They all were. The digi destined with a concentrated emotion is always a power ahead. Reliability was a very important one to get rid of.

"No, we get another." Prosperine smiled, her teeth gleaming in the dim light of the cave. "Of course we will get the Reliability once they are all dead, but I suggest we get one of the younger ones." Prosperine grabbed the final orb. It was a light purple.

"Why one of the younger ones?" The man was growing impatient.

"Ah ah Patience is a virtue." Prosperine shook her finger warningly.

"That is what I am afraid of!" the man screamed angrily. "If they unlock the virtues they win!"

"But they don't know where the virtues are, now which one of the younger ones shall we infect?"

"Why the younger one?"

"Because they are weaker to Greed. Did you see how fast Anger affected the other one? It was insatiable. It attacked the boy so quick!" Prosperine gasped as the memories flooded back.

"Stay on track!" the man sneered.

"Hm, we'll go for the most weak at heart. The leader." Prosperine smiled.

Kari lonely walked down the streets. The darkness consuming her feelings, her wounds caused by T.K's sudden outburst. The strange behaviour of her friends. She didn't realise she was turning a corner she didn't really need right now.

"HEY! Get outta here!" A shrill voice screamed.

"What?" Kari looked up and saw 3 of the girls from her year beating a younger kid. "Hey leave her alone!" Kari cried. The girl looked up in shock. So did the others.

"What did you say?" one of the bigger girls asked incredulously.

"Get off her!" Kari repeated. The bigger girls dropped the small one, the little one yelped but ran for her life down the alleyway.

"Kari Kamiya." A girl sneered. "You know you've always gotten on my nerves, being all good and nice."

"That's a bad thing?" Kari shrugged. She was scared for her skin and her bones at that moment in time but the anger and frustration from the events earlier really couldn't make her day any worse.

"Uh yeah." another girl snapped. She was shorter than the other two and her voice was a lot squeakier. The other two began approaching her.

"Ok what are you going to do about it?" Kari asked daringly.

"This!" One of them punched Kari in the stomach. Kari fell to the floor winded. She felt the tears fell on to her knees but she couldn't control them.

"Hey!" She heard a boy's voice. "Leave my sister alone!" "Oh God Tai…" Kari