A/N: Ok, so still don't own anything but the plotline... which, considering it's a fanfiction, isn't too much to pride myself on... so yeah... sue and you'll get basically nothing of value...

'Yes, come. Come and bring the girl with you…. Come if you dare…. You have no idea what you are about to do, bringing her within my grasp…. You have no clue about what will happen when I have her, and we will see how strong they really are when she is taken from them and killed as a sacrifice to me, letting my true form become released upon the entire universe….

Especially….

Later that morning….

"Hey, who wants go check out the crack in the cave wall with me?" Matt asked, getting up from his seat next to T.K. as they finished up their breakfast of fruits and berries they found on the plants near the entrance to the cave. They had picked enough for the others but had left them near the fire for them to eat when they woke up. Sora had been up for a while, but had fallen back asleep.

"Sure, I'll go!" T.K. announced.

"Well, you're not going anywhere without me!" Kari said.

"Or me!" Mimi added, wanting to be near the three of them, because they were good company. Sora had talked with her outside so that way they could have some privacy, but now that she was sure that Mimi was ok; her mind had turned back to Tai. Kari was right, there was potential for those two, and now that she thought about it, it made her feel even more left out than she had ever felt before. Izzy and Joe were the best of friends, Tai and Sora were as good as a couple, T.K. and Kari were together, and Matt…. Well, Matt was cold hearted; he couldn't be able to feel anything towards her, and he had proved it this morning.

But she still couldn't help liking the blond rebel, and when she daydreamed, it was always of herself as a princess, taken prisoner by an evil Digimon, and Matt as her shinning knight in armor, who came and rescued her. And when it was all over, the bad guys vanquished, the princess rescued, she would reward him with a long, passionate kiss. But after all, it was only a daydream, and like all daydreams, they must come to an end.

"Are you sure you're well enough?" Matt asked, concerned. Why was he so worried about her? Could it be that he had been lying earlier without even knowing it?

"Yeah, I'm fine, just bring on the adventure!"

"Are you sure? Mimi, usually you're the one who doesn't want to have any adventures." Matt pointed out to her.

'Yeah, but that's the last person I want to hear that from,' she thought.

"Hey, as long as you and T.K. are around, I think I'll be fine," Mimi declared instead. "Besides, if Kari is willing to take the risk of you boys being our knights in armor for us, I'll go any day."

"Ok then, let's go," Matt said, turning around quickly, to hide his slight blush. The two words returned again, this time appealing to his logic and emotions instead of to his mind like before

'Listen to us Matt, you know you want to… you do want to, we can tell. You wouldn't be blushing if you didn't. You like the idea, but you're afraid to feel it. You've been afraid since you were six, and you've vowed to shut us out forever, just like you did with your parents, but now, every time you send us away, we will come back ten fold. We will win Matt, we WILL win!'

'GO AWAY!' Matt screamed mentally. 'GO AWAY AND LEAVE ME ALONE! I WON'T LISTEN TO YOU AGAIN, EVER! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!'

'We will be back, you can count on it… and we will break you…. You can't ignore us forever….'

"Just watch me," he said out loud.

"What?" T.K. asked.

"Huh? Oh, nothing. I was just talking to myself. Let's go."

The four of them made their way to the crack in the wall was, and Matt stuck in his head. But the opening was gone.

"What the…?" T.K. asked, as he walked inside, discovering that it only went back a few feet and then came to a flat wall.

"…."

"Where is it?" T.K. asked his big brother.

"I don't know, it just disappeared," he answered thoughtfully.

"Guess we can't have our adventure now," Mimi said sadly.

"Not true. Do you want to go for a walk?" Matt asked her, fighting down the blush that threatened to show itself.

"Sure, as long as you promise that I won't get kidnapped by an evil Digimon or something," she said, thinking of how her daydreams might change afterwards.

"I promise," Matt assured her.

"Ok, good, because we're not going," Kari announced.

"What?" The three of them asked in confusion.

"T.K. and I are staying here." She confirmed.

"We are?" T.K. asked. "Oh wait, yeah, you said you needed to talk to me for a bit, didn't you?" he said, catching on.

"But… what about our walk?" Mimi asked upset. Kari gave her a quick wink, and she suddenly got it. This was all part of their plan to get them together, wasn't it? A very small grin appeared on her face for a few seconds before she abandoned it for fear of letting anyone see it other than Kari.

"That's ok, we can wait until they're done, then take our walk," Matt suggested. T.K. suddenly looked like he would strangle his brother in his anger.

"You two will do nothing of the sort! Kari and I would like some privacy, so out out out! Just be back by two. Don't worry, we'll cover for you if Tai wakes up," T.K. said pushing his brother and Mimi out of the cave and then storming back inside, leaving both of them in shock.

"Boy, I guess they did want their privacy," Matt said, shaking his head.

"Come on, let's leave them alone." Mimi said, taking off down the small path barely visible through the overgrowth of grass and small shrubs that littered the small clearing, Matt following close behind.

Back inside the cave….

"T.K., you realize that if we're caught, we'll get in big trouble." Kari warned.

"Yeah, well, do you have any other ideas?"

"Yeah, we just ask Mimi when she gets back."

"Come on, where's the fun in that?" T.K. whined.

"Would you prefer your brother telling mine our little secret?"

"No…."

"Then we wait."

"Awww, come on…. Please? Pretty please?"

Back outside….

"So… where do you want to go?" Mimi asked Matt as he caught up with her. The two of them had come to a fork in the road; now Mimi wondered which road to take.

"Well, there's nothing down the left road but trees and stuff, but if you want, I can show you a secret area I found this morning down farther if we take the right one. I think you'd like it, but it's up to you," he informed her. "You'd have to be ready to do some serious walking if we want to get back before noon, because it is a ways off."

"What's in the secret area?" Mimi asked him curiously.

"That's why it's secret, no one knows about it but me," he answered her, smiling.

"Well then, I guess you'll just have to show me."

"Ok then, the secret area it is. Did you bring your bathing suit?"

"Yes, why?" she asked, surprised. Then suddenly, she paled. "How did you know I had a bathing suit?"

"Well, I…." Matt was silent for a minute. "I kinda went through your bag looking for something to help stop your head from bleeding and I saw it in there. Also I had to go in there to get the matches to light the fire. Don't get upset, I had to…. You… you wouldn't have made it through the night if I hadn't."

"…."

"If you're wondering, I DID see the diary, but I didn't even open it," Matt added, thinking it might help.

"You… you didn't read it?"

"I thought about it, but I didn't. I didn't want to betray your trust I guess."

"Oh…." Mimi answered, half in her own thoughts. They both stood in silence for a few minutes, neither of them knowing what to say.

"Matt?"

"Yeah?"

"Why does everyone hate me so much?"

Of all the things he was expecting to hear, that sure wasn't one of them.

"What?!"

"Why does everyone in the world hate me?! What did I do wrong?! Is it because I'm not pretty enough?!" she cried out, tears threatening to fall.

"Mimi, everyone in the world doesn't hate you, and you know it."

"Then how come everyone was just going to leave me Matt, how could they forget about me if I wasn't hated?!" Tears raining softly on the already damp ground, creating a small puddle about her feet.

"Mimi, everyone was worried about their Digimon, and they were half asleep. Besides, it wasn't just you that they were leaving, it was Sora too. And we both know that Tai would never leave Sora anywhere on purpose."

"So? Then how come everyone usually ignores me? Is it because I'm so ugly, no one can stand me?!"

"You're not ugly at all, and you know that."

"That's not what I was told! I was told as a child that I was so ugly, every time people talked to me, it was out of pity! So I guess that I am ugly!"

"Who said that?!"

"Everyone, my family, my so called friends, people at my school, even people I met out on the streets. Once this 20 year old came up to me in the subway with my 'friend' Kiki and told me that I should take off my ugly mask, because Halloween had been three months ago. Then he said, sorry, he didn't know that that was my real face. AND THEN BOTH OF THEM LAUGHED!" She cried.

Matt just stood there, not knowing what to say. What do you say to someone to make them stop believing that they're ugly without making them get the wrong impression? He decided that actions speak louder than words, so he gave her a hug, trying to make her stop crying. But it just seemed to make her cry even harder. Well, now there was only one thing left to do….

"Mimi, you're not ugly at all. Compared to most people, you're very beautiful."

"Compared to the very ugly people!" She cried, her voice muffled by his shirt that she was crying into.

"You're the most beautiful person I've ever known, so how can you say that?!"

"…You… you don't… think I'm… ugly?" she asked, raising her moist eyes to face his naturally watery blue ones.

"No."

"Not even a little?"

"Not even a little."

Mimi pulled away from him and wiped her eyes with the back of her hand.

"I…I'm sorry, I've been holding that in for so long… I'm sorry you had to see this…."

"Don't feel bad about it. The next time you need to talk to anyone about something that is bothering you, just let me know, and I'll listen. Besides, what are friends for?" Matt told her.

'Is that all I am to you? A friend?' she asked him silently, although she nodded to show that she had heard him.

"Well, if you still have any doubts about you being pretty, I'll take you to the place I discovered earlier. I took one look at the place and I could just see you in it, mostly because of…well, I won't ruin it for you. You'll just have to wait and see, now won't you?" he teased her.

"You're mean," she pouted.

"Come on, or we won't be able to stay there for very long," he said, and they walked off down the right path that led off along the hills, oblivious to the two pairs of eyes that lay hidden in the undergrowth along it.

They had been walking for about an hour when Mimi stopped suddenly. Matt seeing her stop, came up to her.

"What's wrong?"

"Can't you feel it?"

"Feel what?"

"Eyes. Someone or something is watching us…."

Matt spun around, looking for something that looked suspicious and/or out of the ordinary, but nothing struck him as out of place. But he could feel it, the ever-watching presence that followed their every movement. But what made it even stranger was that he had only felt it when he'd moved closer to Mimi. That alone unnerved him. He took a step away from her towards the line of trees to his right; at he felt the strange feeling leave him. He heard Mimi breathe a sigh of relief.

"I can't feel them any more; I think they left."

"All the same, I think that we should get off the road. Someone or something is watching it."

The two of them quickly got off the road on the left, and not a moment too soon, for out of the forest on the opposite side came a shrill cry that sent shivers up their spines and seemed to freeze their blood. It was answered by another, farther in the distance, and then there was absolute silence. Matt tapped Mimi on the shoulder, and they both agreed silently on one word: RUN! And run they did, for almost ten minutes straight until Mimi tripped, knocking the wind out of her. Matt pulled her up and they made their way to a small thicket that enclosed them like a dome over their heads, but was large enough for both of them to move around in.

"What was that?!" Mimi panted, trying to catch her breath. "A bird?"

"That was no bird," Matt answered in a quavering voice.

"I agree."

"Well, we'll be safe as soon as we reach the secret area, so let's keep going. When we stopped, we weren't all that far away from it. In fact, I think that we should be around the entrance."

They carefully crawled out and looked around. The road was no where to be found, and somehow they had ended up right near the face a cliff. There was a large sheet of Ivy hanging along the side of it, and that's what Matt headed towards.

"I was right, we were nearby. Come on, we'll be safe in hear."

'Unless whatever it is can fly or jump over cliffs, that is…' he added to himself. He pulled the Ivy back to reveal a hidden passage that had been hewn out of the rock. Mimi could hear water from inside echoing against the walls, and she could smell the mist coming out with the gentle breeze of cool air into the warm sun. Mystified, she stepped into the tunnel, full of curiosity and wonder. Matt let the Ivy fall back over the entrance, and the cave went dark. Mimi froze. She had never liked the dark, and after her recent scare, she could just picture a creepy, slimy hand being put over her mouth and her being dragged off, never to be seen again. Something touched her arm, and she let out a shriek.

"Whoa, calm down, it's just me!" Matt said, grabbing her arm before she could run off into the cavern. "There's a diverging path up ahead, and if you take the wrong one, you'll fall into a titanic sized hole in the path that goes down for near forever! Trust me; I won't let anything happen to you, just calm down."

Mimi reluctantly let herself calm down, but did not relax her guard even a hair. She still did not trust the dark, and she would not unless she knew for a fact that Matt would do anything to protect her from whatever might be in there with them. Until then, she would not relax even for a second. And knowing that he had said so himself, that he would never feel anything but friendship towards her, she'd feel like that forever.

"Ok, follow me."

"But Matt…."

"What?"

"I can't see."

"Do you have your eyes shut?"

"…. Yes…. And I'm not opening them either."

"Fine then. We can just stand here until whatever it was that screamed finds us then."

"No way."

"Then let's go."

"But… I'm scared…."

"If you want I can hold onto your arm, just so you know you're not alone."

"Ok… thanks Matt."

"Don't worry about it. Besides, if something happened to you…."

'Guess who's back?!' the haunting voice echoed through Matt's mind, making him cut off in mid-sentence. 'Come on, say it! Give into us, we are a force to be reckoned with, and you know it!'

"What? What would happen?"

"Uh… If something happened to you, Sora and everyone would kill me." Matt said quickly.

"Oh…."

'You're lying!' the voice continued to taunt in a sing-songy voice. 'Oooohhhhhh, it's just like with the song you wrote the other day for no apparent reason. Everything has a reason Yamato, and you know it.'

'Get out of my head and go find someone who cares. AND DON'T CALL ME YAMATO!'

'Why not? You like hearing it though.'

'Not from you.' He spat.

'Oh I see, you'd rather hear it fro- '

'GO AWAY AND LEAVE ME ALONE!'

"Matt?" Mimi asked. "Is something wrong."

"Huh? Oh, I just thought I heard something, but it was just the wind," he lied.

'Yeah, now make like the wind and blow away,' he growled mentally.

'Fine, we will leave… for now….'

"Are you ready to go?" he asked Mimi as he put his hand on her shoulder.

"Been ready."

"Ok then, follow me."

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