Chapter Three – Unfriendly Meetings

"Davis if you don't give it back now, I'm going to kill you!"

Mere minutes after Kaiba's introduction to his two Digimon partners, found twelve-year-old Davis Motomiya running for his life through a rain slicked soccer field. Behind him was Kari Kamiya; the girl of his dreams, chasing after him with a look of pure fury on her face. So he had 'borrowed' he notebook, but it was for a good reason.

"Kari… no, please – I'm innocent!" he cried piteously as he picked up the pace.

There was a soft-stifled snort of laughter as from behind her was Takeru Takaishi (or just plan T.K. if you hated pronouncing the name). Daring a look back to make a retort, Davis missed seeing the clump of grass just ahead of him and came crashing to the ground, grass and dirt filling his mouth.

"Yuck" he groaned spitting franticly to get it out. "Now I'm muddy and soaked…"

"So who will it be this time?" Kari growled down at him with her arms crossed. "Regular or extra crispy?"

"Umm…."

It was going to be the death of him this time for sure…

"Extra crispy" T.K. snickered as he finally caught up. "No holding back"

"Why I otta – "

"Why you otta nothing. Now where is it?"

Knowing what death was when it was looking him in the eye, Davis did the only thing he could and retrieved the book from his back pocket. It was a little worse for wear as it had been back there all the while he ran and then when he fell so it was dirty and torn in small places.

"Here"

She snatched it back angrily and was about to give him a good kick when she was otherwise distracted. And that was much to the grounded boy's utter relief.

"Hey sis, you aren't going to beat the poor sap are you?"

Coming towards them was Tai Kamiya, Kari's older brother and elder Digidestined.

"I'm not a sap!" Davis whined and then added. "But please tell her not to hurt me"

They just laughed at him, causing the boy to blush and rub the back of his neck in embarrassment.

"So what are you guys doing here anyway" Tai asked. "This is a high school soccer field"

As it was, Tai's school was only a few feet away and it was their destination. The younger three Digidestined looked at each other, not knowing what to say. It had been Kari's idea to come find Tai or Matt and tell them what had happened a their school that day. All the computers had started going haywire around the end of school just before they all sort-circuited at once and died. With their experiences in the Digital World, they figured that their Digimon might have some answers for them – so that meant finding either older brother to lone them their computers (and if that failed, they would use one of the high school computers).

But even now that they had their chance, none wanted to ask the question at hand.

"Well…?" Tai pressed impatiently "Are you –"

The older boy was suddenly cut short when a sharp tugging sensation tore him and his three companions into a spin. It seemed to last forever, but they were used to things like this – it came with their roles as Digidestined. But what they didn't expect was getting violently spit out the other end three feet off the ground. It caused them to land in an unruly heap, crying out in pain and shock.

"Please… get… off … of… me…" Kari wheezed, the unfortunate one that got stuck at the bottom of the dog pile.

The boys quickly scrambled off the poor crushed girl as fast as they could.

"Sorry" was the joint exclamation as she struggled to sit up.

"It's… okay…"

They stood there for a few moments taking in their surroundings. They were most defiantly in the Digi World again, but what part they didn't know. A forest was the only certain thing.

"I guess our assumptions were right" Davis stated dryly, the first to speak after the short silence.

"Really?" T.K. asked deadpan.

"So was this what you were going to tell me?" Tai then asked, looking from his sister, to Davis, to T.K. and then back to his sister.

"Sort of…"

"Davis!"

Davis then found himself on the ground again, face smeared into the dirt by none other then his Digimon Veemon. Following shortly and in a less violent manner were Gatomon, Patamon and Agumon. The three other Digimon partners looked frustrated and confused that it was only the four of them had arrived.

"Only four out of twelve?" Agumon mused as he ventured over to Tai's side. "I think we have a problem"

"Understatement" Gatomon muttered before going for her partner.

"What's wrong guys?" T.K. asked.

"A great darkness is coming" Patamon replied as he jumped up into the boy's awaiting arms. "We don't know what it is, but it is far worse then anything we or you have ever faced before"

"And only the four of us to face it!" Kari gasped, flopping back onto the ground.

"Actually there will be five of you" Veemon corrected as he helped Davis back up. "We had been trying to retrieve all thirteen of you, but something was blocking the others"

"Thirteen, but aren't there only twelve of us to have entered the Digital World?"

"At one point yes, but the thirteenth has just arrived. He was one of the witnesses to the event that happened almost ten years ago"

"That was the time first eight of us became Digidestined!" Tai gasped in recognition. "You mean someone else was saw that too?"

"Yes" Agumon nodded. "Something about him is strange…"

"Another boy!"

Kari looked outraged, causing the three boys and four Digimon to sweatdrop.

"Yes again Kari" the orange lizard sighed. "He isn't like any of you that have come before him. I think we will find this new adventure to be most difficult…"

He trailed off as the sound of cussing and swearing could be heard from within the trees. There were many wide verities as well as some in other languages and before long a boy around Tai's age came tumbling out of the brush with not one, but two Digimon partners. He looked extremely frustrated, but none of them could hardly take him seriously with numerous amount of twigs and dirt covering him – he looked as bad as Davis. But with his blue eyes as cold as ice that could have killed them on the spot if they had laughed, none of them bothered to try it.

"And you must be Seto"

The boy glowered.

"Unfortunately"

The stunned silence lasted shorter then Seto would have liked, preferring that these 'kids' not like him and let him go home. To his great displeasure however, the short boy with the goggles and the spiky purple/brown hair grinned, obviously liking him for some unknown reason.

"Hi" he smiled as he stepped forward as sort of the impromptu ambassador. "I'm Davis Motomyia and this is my Digimon partner Veemon"

The little blue lizard at the boy's side grinned as well and held up two fingers in a peace sign. And as it was, his confidence had led the others to introduce themselves as well.

"I'm Tai Kamyia and this is Agumon" the eldest of the four added.

"I'm Kari Kamyia and this is Gatomon" the girl next to him, mostly a sister, added as well.

"I'm Takeru Takaishi – call me T.K. and this is Patamon" the last boy replied when his eyes fell upon him.

Damn…

"Fair enough" Seto sighed darkly. "I'm Seto…"

He paused for a moment, debating on whether or not he wanted to tell them he was a Kaiba. Right now he really wanted to be someone else.

"...Dyama and these are…"

Choosing to go with his biological surname was easy, butnow he had forgotten the names of the two pests at his side.

"Nakuroamamon and Ariramamon" they beamed, not missing a step.

"Why two?" the girl, Kari suddenly asked.

"You're asking me? I'm still waiting to walk up from this nightmare"

Ariramamon glared at him.

"We are Soul Digimon" he supplied the four confused kids.

"Wow" the cat creature Gatomon gasped. "So is that why he's so strange?"

"Hey!"

"Appears so" the red demi-dragon smirked, only to get backhanded by Nakuroamamon.

"You keep your big mouth shut Ari" she growled. "Seto is a reincarnation of a – "

At the sound of those words being to come out of the blue demi-dragon's mouth, Seto let out a yell. He couldn't help it – not after what he had been hounded about that sort of thing back at home from Yugi and the Ishtars. But with little monsters from some whacked out world telling him this was just too much.

"Not that again!" he snapped, his patience shattering. "Not another word. I've had enough of that Ancient Egyptian bullshit to last me from here to Canada!"

Nakuroamamon, as well as everyone else,gapped at his outburst, most not having a clue what he was talking about, giving him the chance to continue.

"I control my own destiny – I actually a life you know. I have a company to run and a younger brother to take care of and if that means I have to help the lot of you in order to home then fine, but its my choice. Now can we get this show on the road?"

"Fine then" Tai replied quickly "Do you have your Digivice?".

"A what?"

"A Digivice – with it you can get your Digimon to Digivolve"

To prove his point, Tai retrieved his from his backpack and the others were soon to follow.

"I've never seen anything like that before" Seto snorted.

"Try your back pocket genius" Ariramamon quipped.

Startled the older boy reached into his pocket to retrieve something that he didn't remember being there two minutes ago. It looked like a state-of-the-art cell phone,with only a simple screen encased in what looked likeblue and sliverplastic.

Sighing heavily, he knew that his life had just become a lot worse.

Manders1953: I kind thought that Seto having two Digimon would make sense – since he is the reincarnation of the High Priest Seto. I decided to make it two because two souls (hint, hint).

Nunofyorbiz: I hope I don't disappoint you – I plan to do great things with it!

Okay so I know that ages of the Digimon characters are out of whack, but you'll just have to except the ages that I've given them. Seto -17 turning 18, Tai - 15 turning 16, Kari – 12, Davis – 12, T.K. – 12.

Any suggestions are welcome. Please review. Later!