Voice of the Monsters

She watched quietly, unsure what to do. The creature watched her, its green eyes alert. It's tight orange skin moved with it, its claws hanging by his side, ready to strike at any given moment, if given a reason to.

The moon shone blue in the sky, cloaking the earth in a beautiful array of light. The dew on the autumn leaves shone in the dim light, the colors coming to life.

Her dark hair lay in a beautiful cloak down to her shoulders, framing an almost fragile looking face. Her deep violet eyes were wide in fear, which she rarely ever showed to begin with, her skin now pale and blotchy. "I'm… so… sor…sorry." She stuttered, the fear in her very real. "I shouldn't… it was wrong to…"

The creature sighed, obviously annoyed by the girl's presence. "I want you to stop it now!" It shou-

"Hold on…I didn't want that."

"Tai, I need you to stop typing now. I need the computer."

He looked up at his father. "But… Dad!"

"Taichi, I'm happy that you're finally interested in a class, but it's began to become an obsession with you."

"No it hasn't…I got the idea… it was becoming an obsession, but its not anymore… I nearly lost Sammi that way."

"I need it, Tai. I have some business I need to finish. Please."

He sighs and stands. "Got it. I'll go and find somewhere else to finish…" He clicked the save button. When it finished he went outside.

He saw Sam. She was doing one of her favorite activities, which was sitting under the tree in the Yagami yard and reading a very thick book. Tai had seen her sit under that tree and read the Bible once, though, he's not really sure she follows the ten commandments, War and Peace, Moby Dick, and other huge books, most of them classics. It never took her long. Not many more then six settings.

"Sammi!" He shouted.

She looked up and grinned at him. She was reading a book called 'Ivanhoe.' Tai had never heard of it. He'd ask her later. As usual her laptop lay not too far away from her. "Hi Tai… I thought you had a paper to do. Was I wrong?"

He slumped down next to her. "You're right… I just got kicked off the computer. Apparently I've been using it too much lately."

She sighs. "Do you like writing?"

"I really do. It's fun…besides, it keeps me out of trouble."

She ran a finger down his cheek slowly. "Maybe… but do you really like staying out of trouble?"

"Well… yeah. Sometimes."

She got big, pouty lips, which she usually tried not to play on too much, and puppy dog eyes, which she didn't use often either. "Even the type of trouble I want to get in with you?"

He felt his knees shake and was glad he was sitting. "What kind of trouble?"

She ran her finger down his neck slowly, making his body ache with sensation. "You have to ask? A few months ago that's all you wanted… but I wouldn't let you…"

"I… well… what can you expect? I had to do something to stop thinking about it…"

She stood onto her knees and leaned her body against his. "Understood…" She kissed him softly then pulled away and stood. "You may use my computer, but again, I want it back in perfect condition."

He smiled. "Thank you, Sammi."

She rolled her eyes. "Taichi…" She sighed. "I have a paper saved to it. Lose that paper and I will be very ticked." With those words she put her book in her bag and walked off.

"I love you Sammi…" He said softly. With that he opened the laptop, pulled his disk from his pocket and popped it in.

She sat up. Sweat was dripping from her brow. She stared at the man on the couch. His ponytail laid by his face, like a tail. His dark skin was untouched by what she saw.

What she saw wasn't human, and she wanted to know what it was. She touched his cheek gently. "Have I gotten myself in too deep?" She wondered aloud. She had had enough for the day. She was glade this was her last patient for a few days. She wasn't taking a vacation, she had to analyze her findings. "Dreamer, awake." She said in a soft, yet demanding voice.

He opened his eyes, brown eyes drowzey. "Dr. Genso… What..."

She put a finger on his lips softly. "Shhh..." she smiled, dark eyes hiding all the haunting things she had seen. She stood and picked through a bowel of candy. She gave him banana taffy and herself a lemon drop. Anything sweet helped after these experiments, and she wanted to make sure her subjects stayed healthy. "Everything will be perfectly fine, Sean." She stroked his hair gently.

True, he was older then her by about a year, but she was the smarter of the two. She had dedicated her life to science and medicine, then one night she found a new form. It was a hard thing to do for the gifted, impossible for the stupid.

What to call it she wasn't sure… yet. She got into their dreams and dug through them. It was like being an archeologist or paleontologist of dreams. She dug through them and tried to figure them out, going on a theory. Her theory was that whatever you dream now is directly connected to your past dreams. She believed that whatever you dreamed in your past had something to do with what was happening to you now and would happen to you in the future. The government liked her theory and supported it, keeping a close watch on it.

On the research she had so far they had picked some of their best soldiers, based solely on their dreams. They had chosen the perfect missions for some of their soldiers. Dana warned that she wasn't sure they should have done it on so little information, but it came out successful. She didn't like them doing this with her research, but she chose not to complain as long as they paid for her project.

Another day had gone and vanished into nothingness to her. Her life had turned into other people's dreams. She couldn't tell her dreams from theirs anymore. She was glad that her dreams couldn't effect theirs.

As the night dragged on she reread her notes and files. Looking for something she could have missed. She had no doubt that it would take a life time for her to figure out everything in people's dreams. Everyone's dream was different. She didn't want to know why, she knew that. She wanted to know what she could do to help people once she acquired the knowledge.

In her papers were everything.

From symbols, to memories she saw they had, to just randomness in their minds. In just three days she would get new subjects, but she got the days until then off. Her favorite subject would be back in four. He had been there since the beginning. His dreams were the most vivid in her mind, and he was also the only one with anything telling her to stay out. She had to know what it was. It would eat at her until she knew.

"Dana…" She heard someone say. "Dana…"

"What is it?" She asked. She looked around, becoming aware that she wasn't in her office. She was in a pale blue box. Digital images were everywhere. She wanted to grab at her papers and write everything down. She'd have to do it when she got back. She touched one of the walls. "Amazing."

"Dana!" The voice came again. This time it was angry.

She spun and looked at it. She saw a pure black unicorn there, with blue eyes. It stepped towards her. "Dana, you have to stop what you're doing."

She narrowed her eyes. "Stop a scientific breakthrough! Are you kidding me? This could seriously throw my career into over drive! People would know who I am and probably come to get my help with their problems. I would be better then a psychiatrist!"

"You're disturbing our world!" the creature shouted. "It's falling apart. By breaking into dreams you're pulling a person apart!"

"I am not! All I'm doing is helping my people."

"You're hurting us!"

"What are you?"

"I'm a dream watcher. I watch over your dreams, which is why I was selected to talk to you. I am called Nami."

"So…that orange monster I saw-"

"Tai, I'm going to kill you!"

Tai jumped. "What the hell-!"

"Taichi Adrian Yagami! How could you? That was…"

"Ro, what did I do?"

"I had a date with Ant tonight. Now I have to cancel because you didn't call and tell the school that I couldn't come in today! I have to stay there for 4 hours! So instead of going out with Ant, we were going to La Shay's, I have to go to the school for four hours! So I have to cancel on Ant! I will kill you! All I asked was for you to make one phone call for me while I was out."

Tai clicked the save button when she began to rant. He was glad he had. He knew he would be running, it was not a good idea to get Roma mad, he knew from experience.

"Ro, I told you I had a story to write. I told you that I might not get around to it. Haven't you heard? If you want something done, do it yourself."

"I thought I could trust you!"

"Ro!" Came the familiar sound of Ant's laughing voice. "Come out, come out, wherever you are!" His grin was playful and his eyes seemingly innocent. Of course, if you knew Ant you would know he was anything but innocent. He did a perfect round off and landed in front of her. "What's up?"

Roma sighed. "Ant… I…" She took his hands. "I can't go with you tonight."

His eyes fell to something as near sad as Ant ever got. "Why? Did I do something wrong? I'm sorry… I'll make it up to you! I swear, I was never with another girl. You know I don't care much to date a pretty face, nice legs, big boobs and a good ass."

Tai raised an eyebrow. "How could you? And you claimed I did something wrong! I might have saved you."

Ant's gaze shifted to Tai, making him glad looks couldn't kill. "I'm not interested in that stuff. Before you and the rest of the gang met Sin she asked me out and I said no. Sin's a beautiful girl. If I could say no to her without being physically attracted I can say no to anything else."

Roma nodded. "I trust him. I've seen him turn down women twice as pretty as me."

Tai stood. "Whatever." He closed the computer and went down the street. He walked for a long time, until he got to his school. He looked around and nodded. "This place will do… no one comes here voluntarily ." He sat down, leaned up against a tree and began to type.

The unicorn like creature nodded. "Also a dream watcher. Agumon is his name. Everyone has their own…never before has anyone ever done what you're doing. That's why you're the only one that knows about us… though we are often misinterpreted as Spirit Guides."

She rolled her eyes. "Whatever. Listen to me, you. I will finish my project and you will not stop me. No one will. Do you understand me?"

The unicorn's blue eyes sparked with anger. "You will do as I say or I will call my sister. She's a scary bitch."

"Sure. I'm going to wake up now."

"How?"

She closed her eyes. "Give me a minute…"

"That's it!" The unicorn bucked. Dana put her arms up, trying not to get hit. Nami's hoof connected with Dana, knocking her back. Nami came down hard, very near Dana's face. She snorted. "I'm giving you a chance to stop. Take it."

"No."

Nami put her horn over Dana's heart. It grew warm, growing white. Dana flinched, the pain hurting intensely. "Get off this project. Don't let anyone else on it either. Keep it to yourself."

Dana bared her teeth. "Over my dead body."

"That can be arranged." She pulled her horn slowly down Dana's skin. Then she picked it up and drew a line across it, forming an X. "This is a taste of my anger. I suggest you watch your back."

The word 'back' began to echo. Dana closed her eyes. "This won't scare me off." She opened her eyes.

What she saw was nothing unusual. She was in her study. Papers, folders, pens of many colors, and books were covering her desk. She sat up and yawned, pushing back some papers. "Damn it…" She said as she looked at one of the papers she had been sleeping on.

She sighed. "I suppose that I can rewrite my theory on the Reality of Dreams and Psychology."

She rubbed her heart, where she felt an itchy pain. She wasn't sure to rub it or scratch it. She undid four of the buttons to her shirt. As she placed her hand on her heart she felt the roughness of a scar.

She blinked. "Impossible. It was just a dream." She looked at the X over her heart. "It was a dream… a dream can't hurt you…" She closed her eyes. "Sleep… I need a decent night's sleep." She stood and stumbled off to bed.

Tai heard a swooshing noise. He looked up from the computer, wondering what it could possible be.

"Dude, what are you doing here?"

Tai stood and looked around carefully. "Matt?"

"Yep. I had a late rehearsal today with the band." The tall blond came out from behind a tree and shrugged. He kicked his skateboard up and held it. The only thought that came to Tai's mind was how can he skateboard with a guitar strapped to his back?

"Why do you hold rehearsals at school?"

"Because no one comes here voluntarily and that makes it perfect for quite practice. It comes out perfect I'd say."

"Yeah, that's why I'm here." He stood. "Ever since nearly losing Sammi I've been paying more attention to her and getting nothing finished."

"Hmmm… interesting. Maybe I should do that with Sin. She's always busy dancin' and ignorin' me… well, most of the time." His grin was wicked, Tai could tell he had something else to say. "During the day."

"Do I even wanna know about night?"

"We sit on one of our beds all night talking. Just talking. About the future mostly. Will we get married? Wanting three kids, two boys and a girl, careers… believe me, she won't let me go any farther then making out. 'I still have to go through college. Love you as much as I do, I can't let you interfere with that because I'm not going to sit at home and be a house wife while the man goes out working.' She is very independent."

Tai laughed. "Sounds like my Sammi. She says two kids, both boys… says that girls have too many fits for her to handle. I want about six… all girls. Boys in my family are just too stupid… me included."

"And the girls?"

"Well, that's why I'm with Sam. She's smart."

Matt laughed. "Sounds logical to me."

"Yeah…. Well, later, dude. I have to go and finish this damn story."

"Later then…" He sighed. "I guess I better go grab a car and take Ant to the doctor…"

"Why?"

"He's having some sort of shot… I guess it makes him loopy or something… or maybe he's going to the dentist… still a doctor, he'll know I'm sure." He turned, dropped his board and rolled off.

Tai laughed. "Those two are something else." He sat down and began to type again.

She had dreamed of the unicorn her entire vacation. She hadn't managed to figure out why she couldn't get away from it, but she had managed to wake up before it caused too much damage. She needed a natural sleep, and she knew it, but natural sleep was not helping her. She turned to sleeping pills. They had helped her sleep, and she could only be grateful about that.

Her first patient was coming soon, and she had to make sure she was prepared for this one. She had heard that he wasn't the best at listening to authority.

She busied herself with fixing up her candy dish, a soft pillow, and many ways to get a person to sleep. Everyone being different, she wasn't sure which would work for this one. Finally a soft knock on the door interrupted her. She closed her eyes and released her breath, pulling her to her senses. "I'm coming." She said calmly as she went to the door.

When she opened it she saw a boy, she was guessing he was probably in his twenties. He had black hair that hung below his shoulders, startling blue eyes, a very tall, well built frame, and very pale skin. She was having a hard time believing that any military unit would pick a man dressed as he was for any classified mission. His dark hair was shaggy, he wore tight jeans, a baggys Matalica shirt, and a large silver cross.

"Yo." He said with a wicked grin. "Name's Romeo Jamaal, but feel free to call me Romeo…or Ro if you really feel the urge…I'd also except R.J…. anything you can think of really."

"Talkative, aren't you?"

"Hey, I was asked to be a test dummy for an experiment, said they'd pay me some green. I asked what had to be done. They said to sleep while some lady watched me, I said hell yea I'd do that. So what happened was that I drunk a lot of coffee, Mountain Dew, and ate a lot of tofu chocolate to stay up all night. By now I'm running low on energy and will be sleepin' in a few minutes. I talk a lot when I'm tired, so yea, I'm talkative."

She nodded. "So you should just drop off to sleep, huh?"

"Yes. Very quickly. As soon as my body realizes that it can rest I will drop. But then, I haven't sleep for a week… high school habit. I use to only sleep on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Hard to break in college, ya know?"

"Not really… I use to sleep every night in high school and college. I still do." She smiled gently and offered her hand. "I'm Doctor Dana Genso. If you lay down here on my little… bed thing… we can get started. As soon as you go to sleep I'll start my job."

"Wait, you actually tell me when to go to sleep?"

"You're the one with the authority problem, aren't you?"

"Well… I don't have a problem with authority. They have a problem with me mostly. Yea… they don't really like how I express myself and have fun being myself. They don't like that at all. Nope."

"Fine, come in." She said, moving from the entrance.

He moved in and looked around. "This is your office?"

"It's the one here. The one I have at home is a mess."

"Damn girl, I'd hate to see it if you call this clean."

"It's not clean, but it's cleaner then the one at home. I'm a busy women you know. Now, if you don't mind laying down so I can begin I would be happy to let you leave soon. If you have a problem sleeping in this mess I suggest you leave so I can tell the government that they can keep their money because you were of no help."

"I didn't say I couldn't sleep in it, I'm just sayin' that I've never saw a girl with an office this messy before. My dorm is cleaner."

"Excuse me, you keep talking about college, what are you majoring in and what school are you attending?"

"I'm attending MYU, and majoring in physiology. I want to be a head doctor that prescribes medicines. It would kill my brother." He said with an all too wicked grin. "He's in the military. He sent mum a letter saying that he might get to go on a trip to space. I always said he was a space cadet, now I can say it as a complement. Gonna have to come up with a new insult, yep."

She nodded once again. "I see… do I know your brother?"

He jumped onto the sofa. "I dunno. Do ya? His name's Denis Brando. Tall blond dude, blue eyes. Tall… looks a lot like me. Little bit older though… not sure if they knew I was related to a military man, but hey, who am I to complain? I'm in college, I can always use the extra cash, right?"

"Ummm… okay. Yea, I think I know him actually. He's one of my patients, if I'm thinking of the right one. Says he's been sleeping better since he started coming here. Calmer I suppose. Not a real surprise."

"So what happens? Gonna tell me, or do I just go to sleep?"

"Would you like to know what happens?"

"Well… sure thing. If you're gonna be doin' some funky thing with my lil mind I guess I should know. At least, that's what my mom always told me. She's very protective, kinda scary to. Don't want to get her mad, nope, nope. Me and my brother got in trouble and always tried to blame it on the other, yes we did. I'm really tired, can you hurry so I can go to sleep? If I don't get to sleep soon I'm going to be talking a hundred miles an hour, or simply pass out and die from lack of sleep, is that possible?"

"Let's begin, shall we? You see, what happens is that when you go to sleep I go into a type of… comma. With this little necklace," She held up a charm dangling off a chain, "I enter into your mind to monitor your dreams. All of my patients get one, so don't be alarmed, though all are different. I wear this one." She held up a snowflake dangling from a silver chain.

"So, you get into my mind with that little flake and just watch my dreams?"

"Pretty much."

"That's kinda strange… couldn't you get into my mind at anytime then?"

"No. I would have to be at least three feet close to you."

He nodded. "Understood. I should warn you then… my dreams are very strange."

"Everyone has strange dreams. My theory is that whatever you dream is connected to your past and future."

"Mine's connected to my past."

"Well, you're going to help me a lot. The stranger the dream the better."

"Good." He laid down onto the bed. "I'm going to sleep." He closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep instantly.

She blinked. "You need this…" With a sigh she lifted his head gently and slipped the amulet over his head. She sat in her chair and closed her eyes. After a few moments she was asleep, entering a world far different then any she'd ever seen before.

She could tell she was in a box, a box different then the one she'd been seeing. This one was cloudy, looking like it was going to rain soon. A river ran through it, an entire forest surrounding it. She started through the forest, following the river.

"I told you this would be strange."

She stared into a clearing she had found. The boy was floating with his legs crossed in meditation form, a giant angel creature behind him. He didn't bother to look at her, his eyes watching a screen. "You can tell I'm here?"

"Of course this is time to go home."

Tai looked up, unsure why he had typed anything about going home. As he looked up he saw a broad man looking down at him. "Who are you?"

"I'm the janitor." He said, shaking his bald head. "It's time to go home. It's getting late and I need to mow this."

He looked around, noticing for the first time that the sun had already went down. "Crap… I was suppose to be home at five. Thanks, sir!" He jumped up, clicked on save, and began to run home as he tucked the laptop under his arm.

He ran as fast as he could, which was decently fast. He ran down the sidewalk, everything looking a blur to him. "It's at least 6:30…" he whined. "I'm so fucking dead."

"Yo!" Came a shout from a car. He looked to see who it was. He saw Matt sitting, grinning at him from the passenger side. "Need a lift?"

"Totally. I stayed at the school too long typing, was suppose to be home by 5:00. Gonna die."

A laugh came from the driver's side. "Hop in Tai. We're going that way now. We already have your girlfriend."

"Hi, Taichi!"

He smiled. "Thanks, guys." He replied as he jumped into car.

"Not a problem." Sin's cheerful grin became something almost evil as she stared out the window. The engine roared. "I just got my license back today."

Tai felt the blood leave his face as he stumbled with the seatbelt. "Remember why you lost them, Sin."

"Oh, don't worry." The car took off, throwing everyone back and to the side as she took a curve. "The trick is not to get caught, and that I will not. That's what daddy told me. Don't get caught and you'll be okay."

"You're dad told you that?" He sputtered, latching onto the seatbelt as Sam grabbed onto him.

"About speeding?" Sam cried.

"Well… no. But it was the best advice he ever gave me."

"It was about making out in the boy's bathrooms, locker rooms and various classrooms." Matt said, as he reached for the dashboard.

"It's still damn good advice." She said, taking another turn, throwing everyone to the side once again.

"Your dad's totally cool."

"He has to be. He's never home. Not home, be cool and let children do practically anything. Good for kids." She took one last turn and hit the break. "Okay, everyone out. It's our street. Bye-bye."

Everyone crawled out of the car, nearly falling from their feet because of the sudden slowness. "Thanks, Sin." Tai said, feeling almost dizzy.

Sam leaned against him. "I don't think I can get home alone… and she was going so slowly after she left the license bureau."

Tai nodded. "Maybe you should come to my house and calm your head for a few minutes."

"Sorry, Sam. Hope you feel okay tomorrow."

She nodded. "Me too…"

Matt leaned back in his seat. "I don't want to go home."

"Why?"

"Ant's totally hyped on that laughing gas stuff from the dentist. Last I knew he was talking about unicorns floating and dancing monkey ballerinas…"

"Doesn't he always talk like that?"

"He says he taught them to fly, the monkeys do lap dances, and I look like a popsicle. And he did it all with that annoying dentist laugh."

Sin smiled. "You can come home with me. Daddy's due back at 2:00 tomorrow."

"Sounds good to me."

Tai wrapped an arm around Sam's shoulders and led her to his house. When they arrived Tai gently set Sam on the couch and sat beside her. She laid her head onto his shoulder and closed her eyes. "Can I go to sleep?"

"Yes."

"Can I stay here? With you forever?"

His smile was almost contagious as he wrapped both his arms around her. "Of course. I would have it no other way. Forever and always, my Sammi."

Tai sat in his room. It was late and he was terribly bored. He wanted to go and see his friends, but couldn't wake anyone. As he stared into the screen full of words a grin came to his lips. He pulled his digivice out and put it to the screen. In flash of light he found himself sitting on the ground, surrounded by trees, wearing an orange jacket with a blue shirt and blue jeans.

"Well… that's new." He stood and patted dirt from himself. "Agumon!" He called. "Where are ya, buddy?"

"Tai?"

"I'm here." He answered, picking up the laptop, surprised that he still had it. "Where are you? I'd like some help with my story."

The orange creature came running up, his green eyes shimmering. His tight orange skin showed his muscles off, and large claws hung from his arms. "I want to help! Let me help!"

Tai laughed as his friend sat down between his legs. "Okay, you can help, but how well can you type?"

"Not very well…"

"That's okay. You can help with ideas."

"Of course, this is my dream, my world. Why would I not know that you're there? I can control everything here."

"What do you mean?"

"The rain…" He closed his eyes and water begin to pour from the clouds. "The sun." It became very sunny. "Snow, autuam, spring, location." The forest around them disappeared, turning into a beach with the sun sinking down behind the ocean.

"Amazing…" She stared at him. Everything about him was at peace, and she could now tell why he was how he was. He was at peace with himself, and what others said or thought about him didn't matter. "Whose your angel?"

"My angel? He's my Dream Guardian. He protects and powers everything you see here."

His wings seemed to be made of gold, and he was ten times as big as any normal creature. He stared at Dana. His eyes were hidden behind his mask, and his beauty was obvious, even if he didn't have on the golden scarf. "How many times have you been warned about doing this?"

"What are you talking about?"

"You're not suppose to break into other peoples dreams, but learn your own."

"I want to complete my theory."

"I'm rather kind, so I will do nothing. But you shouldn't be here, Dana."

The black unicorn she had been seeing for days pranced up. "Dana… I told you to stay out. Many times."

Romeo looked at the unicorn. "Who are you? I've never seen you before."

"Doesn't matter. I'm here to get rid of her."

"Don't. She can stay if she wants."

"Romeo, she's not allowed…"

The orange dinosaur she had seen in the beginning appeared. "I keep telling you to stay out. Can't you take a hint?"

"Wait! Who are you and why are so many dream guardians coming in my dreams? Go to your own people."

"I'm called Agu, and she's becoming a minice."

"I'm Nami, and I'm her guardian."

"Then why the hell are you threatening her?"

"Because she's ruining her own health."

Romeo closed his eyes. "That's it! Everyone out!" The box became white, an explosion coming from within the young man.

Dana sat up, sweat coming from her forehead. She felt cold everyone. As she stared at her patient she couldn't help but notice that he had gone into something similar to a seizure. "Oh, God, oh God… what do I do? Wake up." She said, shaking him gently. "Wake up."

She ran out of the room, looking around for someone, anyone. "Call an ambulance!" She shouted, seeing someone for the first time. "Call anyone. We need help in here!"

She ran back to the room, to watch Romeo and see if there was anyway she could possible help. Se stared at his now still body. He wasn't dead, she could see him breathing. Gently she shook him. "Wake up… please, wake up."

"I told you bad things could happen." Came the voice of her unicorn. "You just couldn't listen. You had to pick and pick until this."

"Is he dead?"

"No, but I don't know when he'll wake up."

She sat down, hugging her legs. "I put him in a comma… this is all my fault." She began to cry.

The unicorn snorted. "It is your fault. You had to ignore us, the ones that knew the most about it."

"I'm sorry… I'm so sorry…"

When the ambulance arrived they found Romeo as he was, lying still, barely breathing. Dr. Genso was still hugging her legs, saying it was her fault.

A month later Romeo woke up, but Dr. Genso was never the same. She terminated her project, saying that what she was doing was a ridiculous, dangerous idea to begin with. She began working with animals, eventually becoming a veterinarian.

Tai smiled. "Give me five! You da mon!" Tai blinked, then laughed slightly. "I mean three."

"Is it over Tai?"

He nodded. "It's over. Thanks, Agumon."

"Anytime."

Tai looked at his watch. "I gotta go, dude… I need to get to bed so that I can look alive tomorrow." He stood and closed up the laptop. "Bye."

"When will you be back?"

"Soon, Agudude. Soon." With a smile he leaped back to his world.

He stared at the screen, rubbing his eyes. "Well, I did my sci-fi story… hope it passes…. And now it's time for bed." He laid down and slipped off to sleep.