A/N: This starts out in Tai's POV. A lot of the digimon I refer to come from the first season.I take the concept of summoning digimon and digimon appearing and digivices telling the kids where the digimon are from the tamers season.Also in this chapter Kouji is referred to as Takuya by Tai.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything that has anything to do with Digimon.

CHAPTER 2

"Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, Da, d…..d……..d.aaa"

"Hey! I can do that too!"

"No Please! No! AHHHHHHHH!"

"Da dadada DA DA DA DDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAA!"

"HAVE MERCY!" Matt shouted on his knees.

"I knew I was a GREAT singer from the beginning, so when can I become the lead singer of your band?"

"How about………hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm……………NEVER!"

"What?"

"I told you, you can't SING!" Suddenly our digivices started beeping we both looked at each other and the race was on. We did this often, first to find the digimon won the race. Digivice in front of me I followed the digivices directions and ran faster. Matt was only a few paces ahead of me I could still catch up! I saw the fog, which meant the arrival of the digimon up ahead; there we would summon our own digimon. This is when it started. I could see the fog, hear Matt's breathing but I had too skid to a stop as a wall appeared in front of me, an honest to god brick wall.

"Matt!" my screaming echoed in the ally, the cold November air cutting through my light shirt. I heard Matt summoning his digimon and then a thud on the tall brick wall. I started pounding on the brick wall.

"MATT!" I could hear the fear in my own voice if anything happened to him…suddenly I heard something I was dreading.

" Tai… Please Help Me!" Matt's voice stopped all other sounds all I could hear were the sounds of my own breath.

"THERE HAS TO BE A WAY!" I shouted. I ran away from the wall and ran back to it in a shoulder tackle, I know stupid tackle a brick wall, but I couldn't think properly. All I could think about was how much pain Matt must be in.

"MATT!" I screamed again. This time I got an answer a scream of bloodcurdling pain.

"TAI!" then in a blink of an eye the wall and the mist were gone all that remained was Matt's limp figure in the middle of the baseball diamond. It was a chilling scene. I could see the mist slowly rising up from the ground I could see all the times we played baseball, tag and all those other goofy kid games we used to play. I ran toward Matt and stumbled on Garurumon limp body, I crashed down on my shoulder and realized that I must have fractured or broken it when I ran into the wall. I kept running toward Matt as Garurumon dematerialized behind me. I bent over and held Matt in my arms his eyes were shut, a look of peace on his face. I sat there for what seemed like hours just mindlessly stroking his hair. But all my screaming had awoken the neighbors and they had called the police. Suddenly I was brought out of my trance by the lights and sounds of sirens. I looked at Matt wishing him to come back to life…

"I never even got to tell him," the rest was a colorful blur…

I stared at the boy, his eyes mirrored Matt's but now was not the time, for my digivice started beeping and surprisingly enough the boy started beeping too.

"Is that a digivice?" I asked curiously.

"Is that a D Tector?" the boy asked.

"A D what?"

"A D… DUCK!"

"What!" the boy pulled me down just as an Ogremon swung his club.

"We have to get out of here!" I shouted as me and the boy stood up dodging another blow.

"We can't do it by ourselves!" the boy argued, " I will spirit evolve! Hold off the Ogremon for a sec."

"What!" The boy stood up straight and spread out his arms.

"Execute spirit evolution!" Let me just say this the boy looked pretty crazy standing in middle of the room while Ogremons attacked us with his arms spread out shouting nonsense, I think the stress had finally gotten to him.

"Why won't it wok!" the boy cried in frustration.

"Oh just shut up I've had enough of your nonsense!" I cried, I held up my digivice and shouted Agumon. Suddenly with a flash there he was my good friend Agumon. I hadn't seen him since before the accident. The Ogremon looked around confused by the light that the digimon brought when he arrived, Agumon looked just as confused until he saw me.

"TAI!"

"No time right now! Let's go Agumon!" I must admit Agumon wouldn't have been able to take out the Ogremon if they hadn't been so confused, but thankfully enough a few blasts of pepperblast and some major butt kicking with his claw attack did it.

"Agumon you da MAN!" I stared fondly at my digimon friend I couldn't believe I had ignored my overgrown lizard of a friend for two whole years.

"We should get out of here, " I looked over to the boy I had forgotten he was there.

"Who are you anyways?"

" My name… is… Takuya".

(Kouji's POV)

Okay not the total truth but I wasn't about to tell this…freak my real name. What if he was some psychopath who wanted to hunt me down someday?

"Sorry Takuya", I thought silently, "rather you than me".

"Takuya huh? Are you a digidestine?"

"Digidestine? I am one of the ten legendary warriors," I than quietly mumbled under my breath " I am not some crummy digidestine".

"Excuse me?"

"Nothing" I mumbled quietly

"It better have been nothing," the boy I now know as Tai said. Suddenly the orange digimon beside tugged at his shirt.

"Tai we better get out of here!"

"I agree let's go" I quickly stepped over the unconscious Ogremon and started running up the stairs but as I turned around I noticed that Tai and Agumon weren't following, I sharply turned and ran back down the stairs. I found Tai and Agumon searching the floor and the Ogremons bodies, Tai making care not to put weight on his wrist.

"What the hell are you guys doing! We need to get out of here!" I yelled.

"And leave all these digimon and human? Are you that heartless!" It was now Tai's turn to look at me with accusing eyes.

"We can't do anything to help them! Can't you see the blank look in their eyes they know nothing they feel nothing! They care about nothing! What is the point in saving them!"

" I won't leave!" Tai yelled.

"Than I will go on my own!"

"Go ahead let's see how far trying to turn into a digimon will get you! You will be gone in seconds without a partner!"

" I don't need a partner! I can do anything you and your pathetic digimon can do on my own!"

"Your Pathetic" and with that Tai stood up and spit on the ground in front of me before walking away and getting back on his hand and knees to look some more. I couldn't stand it, how dare he insult me so I ran over to him and kicked him in the ribs.

(Tai's POV)

Boy I wasn't expecting that! When Takuya came over to me and kicked me in the ribs! I fell to my left landing on my wrist. I screamed in agony I looked to see the Takuya running away.

"Ya you run you chicken" I yelled after him.

"Tai are you alright?"

"Ya" I struggled to getup that little bastard had knocked the wind right out of me.

"Tai", Agumon looked down at his feet "Maybe Takuyas right… maybe we should just leave them."

"Agumon! Not you too!"

"Leave us!" I looked over to the digimon and the humans that occupied the cells. They all stood near the front looking at us through the bars it had been one of the humans, the only woman there.

"Please, no one else needs to be kept here for any longer! Go try and get out our prayers will be with you!" that was the only sign of intelligence I had seen in any of the captives. Suddenly I heard a scream. I looked toward the stairs where the sound had came from I knew who it was.

"Takuya…"

"Tai," Agumon began slowly.

"I know let's go" So we shot off up the stairs hoping to find Takuya.

(Kouji's POV)

"I can make it on my own," I thought trudging down the hall. It truly was a magnificent place… if I only knew where I was. The halls were big grand halls with marble flooring and cathedral ceilings. Tapestries of digimon hung the walls; grand torches lighted the hall with carved designs on them. I came to a huge door.

"That must be the exit!" I thought and quickly pushing open the door I walked out into the clear sunshine. I was in some type of courtyard it was beautiful the castle was so gloomy but this was amazing. I sat down on a bench beside a garden. I knew I should be running for my life but this reminded me so much of the park I had last been with my twin Kouchi.

"It sure is a beautiful day eh?" Kouichi asked with a smile.

"Ya I guess," I replied. We sat down on a park bench.

"I just can't believe your leaving tomorrow," I said not looking Kouichi's eyes.

"I will only be gone for a month!" Kouichi laughed.

"But you never did come back, two years and you were only supposed to be a month" I looked a the empty space beside me on the bench almost picturing Kouichi's happy face when I heard a noise from behind me. I stood up and took a step back. The thing looked like a flaming demon with his mouth stitched up. His body looked like that of a human but his form was defiantly not! In place of his skin was pure fire. He towered over me in his big metal boots with chains wrapped around his body. I ran for the door and screamed.

(Tai's POV)

"Which way could he have gone?" suddenly my head turned to the open door, which Takuya came flying in through. Suddenly Takuya made a dive for my feet as a Metal Fireball cam hurling past his head. It nearly skimmed me! As the figure stepped into the light I recognized it.

"Skullmeramon…"

"Tai do you think I should digivolve?"

"Yeah I think that would be a good idea Agumon" but it didn't work I had my digivice and my crest and everything, but it didn't work. Soon Skullmeramon was towering above Agumon.

"Anytime soon would be nice Tai" Agumon murmured out of the side of his mouth.

"The crest symbol is gone!" I shouted back and sure enough the courage symbol that usually was embedded on my necklace was gone. Agumon hastily retreated back to us.

"Oh man…" Takuya murmured under his breath.

"AAAAAAARRRRRROOOOO! HOWLING BLASTER!" All of our eyes turned up to one of the balconies inside the house.

"Garurumon!" I shouted. "If Garurumon is here maybe Matt is too!" I thought to myself.

"You should run", Garurumon was speaking now. "I will hold him off please go now" I looked over to see Skullmeramon struggling to get up.

"How do we get out though?" Agumon asked.

"I don't know find out" Garurumon shouted. "RUN" so simple as that we ran hopelessly down hall after hall running in circle, making progress, tripping slipping and getting lost but finally we came upon a huge door huger than the courtyard one we all shoved on the door to see the sweet light of day again. There in front of us was the gate the exit of this hellhole. We stepped up to it.

"Congratulations" A female voice said.

(Kouji's POV)

"Who is that?" I asked startled at the voice

"You may not know me hopeless warrior but the destine over there does" the woman laughed. "It is I LadyDevimon"

"Oh shit" I heard Tai curse beside me.

"My master says to let you free, I would much rather set the gate guardian on you but… orders are orders and if I disobey them I will end up like the digimon down there in the cells, lifeless and dull". The gates slowly opened revealing the lush forest in front of it. We ran out of it happy to be rid of the horrors of that place.

"Let you be warned, next time you come her you will die".

To Be Continued…

Okay this has to be my favorite chapter so far. I don't have much more to say except read and review.