Diane's POV

Kevin, Terrence, Kendra and I live in the same apartment building. That's why we walk to and from school together every day. Darren walks with us too, but that's only because he and Terrence are friends. Darren's father owns a surprisingly famous noodle company, so his family his loaded. He's got everything, he lives in a mansion, butlers, hottest game systems, ect. You name it, he could just get it without even lifting his finger. He could ride a limo to school and be popular, but he decides to walk with us every day. He may be a spoiled rich kid, but he doesn't act like it.

"How long are you going to hog that umbrella? I'm getting drenched!" Kendra yelled to Darren on our way to school.

"You could have brought your own umbrella you know." replied Darren.

"I would have but I didn't think it was going to rain today."

"Yeah, this rain wasn't on any of the weather reports." I said

"Weird." said Terrence

"Just give me the umbrella!" yelled Kendra.

"Look we're almost at school. How about I give it to you when we walk home from school?"

"And go to school soaking wet? No way!"

"It's not even raining that hard!"

"Easy for you to say all nice and dry under your umbrella."

"Must they always fight?" I sighed to Kevin.

"Think about it, their better than TV." He replied.

"So what was your nightmare about?" What was that?! That just came out of nowhere!

Kevin looked away for a moment. Did I just walk into a conversation I shouldn't get into?! Why did I have to bring that up?!

"Look, it's nothing to worry about. It was just a dream where I was on a beach an-"

"What! You tell her but you don't even tell your own brother?!" Terrence exclaimed.

"Well, of course I can tell her. I trust her. You on the other hand would tell the entire school about it." Did Kevin just say he trusted me?

"I wouldn't tell the entire school. I'd tell five people at the most."

"Yeah, that's so much better."

"Yeah, I don't go around telling people the insane and embarrassing things you and Darren do." said Kendra.

"Yeah! That was so funny what you did in Health class last week, Terrence." I said chuckling

"What happened?" asked Kendra.

"Terrence fell asleep and got caught." said Kevin. "It took the whole class had to shout his name three times just to wake him up."

"I can't believe Mr. Hunter actually noticed you were sleeping!" exclaimed Kendra. "You can have a beach party in that guy's class and he wouldn't notice."

"Shut up!" cried Terrence. "Try sleeping when your brother is screaming all night. 'Dark Ocean! Monster!'"

"I was talking in my sleep too?!" Kevin cried.

"Yeah, I swear, it was more annoying than when you forgot to feed Salamon whimpered all night."

"Well, remember the time you forgot to feed Tokomon? He ate my pillow!" said Kevin.

"He didn't eat the whole thing!"

"Wait, wasn't the dark ocean in one of your dad's books?" I asked.

Again, an out of nowhere question!

"Oh, yeah!" said Kevin "It was the one where my dad saved my mom from these, um, what were those digimon called again?"

"Scubamon." corrected Kendra.

"Yeah, Scubamon. They took her to the Dark Ocean and my dad saved her by jumping through this portal or something."

"I always thought it was weird that that part of the story was never continued. It was the best part!" I said.

"Well it's not our dad's fault." said Terrence. "It's a true story. The Scubamon just said that them and their master would come back and they never did."

"Yeah, and that creepy guy, Daemon was sent to the dark ocean too, and yet he never came back for revenge." said Kendra.

"I don't remember Daemon." said Terrence.

"Your kidding, right?" said Kendra, "Your own father wrote the books, and you don't even remember Daemon?"

"Well it's been awhile since I read dad's books. Sorry for not remembering every last detail."

"I honestly can't imagine you reading a book with words more that four letters." Kendra said playfully.

"Hey!" exclaimed Terrence. "Just because Darren's my best friend doesn't mean I'm stupid!"

"Yeah!" cried Darren "....Hey, wait a minute!"

Kendra opened her mouth to say something, but Darren covered her mouth.

"Stay out of this, Kendra!" exclaimed Darren.

Darren quickly removed his hand from Kendra's mouth with disgust.

"Gross! You licked my hand!" cried Darren.

"Why do we hang out with them?" I asked Kevin quietly.

Kendra and Darren were going to argue more (like they always do) but they were interrupted by a large roll of thunder the huge barking dog on the other side of the fence we were passing.

I think when that dog barked I jumped and gave a little "Eeeeeeep!" but I don't think they heard me because of the thunder.

"C'mon guys, let's leave." I said, quickly walking down the sidewalk, "That dog scares me."

"Oh, c'mon! He's on the other side of the fence. It's not like he's going to jump over." said Terrence.

I stopped in my tracks and turned around. "Well what if he does?" I asked. "It just makes me kind of nervous because we don't have our digimon, you know?"

"I thought you knew karate?" Darren added.

"I know, and kendo too. C'mon guys, you know I don't get scared that easily! I'm not like one of the kind of girl who hides in a corner if something comes at me! I can take anyone or any thing that comes my way down in a minute!" I looked back at the fence "It's just dogs that freak me out."

I know it sounds weird, but if you ever saw that dog, you'd think you'd need the animal control instead of a digimon. I think it was some kind of rottweiler or some kind of dog that can rip your limbs off with the right training. If you couldn't already tell, I have a MAJOR fear of dogs.

"Oh, I bet I could fight him even without Demi-Veemon." Darren said confidently.

"I'll bet you ten bucks if you can't." Terrence said with a grin.

"Ten bucks?! You're on!"

"Hold on! The last time you guys bet ten bucks on something we were banned from the zoo." said Kendra.

"What?! They found the monkey's about a month later." Darren said in his defense. Please, don't even get me started on the monkey incident. Let's just say it involved a rubberband and a three pound rock.

"Terrence, Darren, you have done a lot of stupid things, but even you guys should know that you, plus giant bulldog, equals pain." Kevin said very slowly. Before Kevin even finished, Darren was already on Terrence's shoulders.

"Forget it, Kevin." I said "You always try to talk them out of these kinds of things, but you might as well be talking to a concrete wall."

"Ready, Darren?" asked Terrence.

"Ready! On three! One, two,-

"Wait!" cried Terrence.

"What?" asked Darren.

"Remember, when you die, ten bucks."

"Oh, ha ha. Get ready to loose, Terrence! Three!"

Terrence pushed up Darren's legs and went over the fence. Darren was face to face with a huge, angry, snarling dog. The dog's eyes were red with fury, and I'm not just putting that in for dramatic effect. You could tell by the look on his face he was thinking:

Maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all.

The next thing everyone heard was:

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"I think I just won the bet." Terrence said proudly.

We looked over the fence to see our best friend run from that dog like a chicken without a head. I felt sorry for him.

"It kinda reminds you of a Tom and Jerry cartoon." Said Kendra as she opened up Darren's umbrella.

"Guys, this isn't funny!" I exclaimed, "He could get really hurt or something!"

"Don't worry he'll be fine." said Terrence.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"Does that sound fine to you?" I yelled.

"This is not worth ten bucks!" Darren cried. "Just get me out of here!"

"Right. How are we going to do that?" asked Terrence.

"You didn't think this through?" asked Kevin.

"This surprises you why?" Kendra asked.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"Kevin, let me get on your shoulders." I said sternly, like I did this everyday.

"But Diane, you're scared of that dog." said Kevin.

"Don't remind me."

I got on Kevin's shoulders and jumped over the fence.

Before I could call for Darren he stepped right on my head and jumped over the fence. While getting out, Darren slipped on the wet fence the fence and I could here him fall flat on his face.

"Ow!" I heard him say silently.

"Wimp." said Kendra

I turned and put my back to the fence when I saw the dog. I'll tell you right now, he looked furious. Furious times ten. I could see his sharp teeth were bared so far back you'd think he was smiling if the corners of his mouth reached his ears. His eyes were still bloodshot red. God, he looked scary when lightning flashed on him.

I wanted to scream but I didn't want the dog to attack or worse, the owner could come out. None have us have ever seen the owner, but just by looking at his dog we didn't want to. We assumed he was a policeman or hunter or former nazi! My breathing got fast and heavy. I think I was hyperventilating.

"Terrence, let me on you're shoulders so I can get Diane." I heard Kevin say.

"Wasn't that just Diane's idea?" asked Terrence "Besides, mom and dad would kill me if you died."

"I'm not going to go over the fence."

"Then how are you going to ge-"

"Just let me on your shoulders!"

"Alright! Jeez!"

Kevin quickly got onto Terrence's shoulders and leaned over the fence.

"Hurry, Kevin get off! You're heavy" exclaimed Terrence "

"I told you, Terrence, I'm not jumping over the fence." Kevin explained. "Just hold still."

"Oy!"

"Diane, on three I'll pull you up and you'll climb out." Kevin whispered, barley moving his lips so the dog wouldn't react.

I didn't react either, still petrified of the dog. But I had a plan.

"One,"

I slowly, but carefully bent down to my right shoe.

"Two,"

"Enough with the countdown!" exclaimed Terrence. "Just save your girlfriend already I think the blood circulation from my shoulders has been cut off!"

God, I hate when he calls me Kevin's girlfriend. Why do people think that anyway?

Kendra quickly covered Terrence's mouth.

"Shut up!" Kendra whispered, "Do you want the dog to rip Diane's skin off?"

Yeah, that helps. I thought.

"Three!"

I chucked my shoe across the yard and the dog went after it. I quickly grabbed Kevin's hand and pushed my foot on the edge of the fence, but I slipped due to the fact I had no shoe, and we all fell to the ground. Without thinking, I hugged Kevin tightly.

"Thanks for saving me!" I said, still not thinking.

I then realized what I was doing and pushed away, blushing. Kevin didn't react. Now I understand why Terence calls me Kevin's girlfriend.

"I told you." said Kevin.

"You told me what?" I asked.

"I told you we never get bored with them around."

I laughed quietly.

"Woah guys!" Kendra yelled. "School starts in less than five minutes! Unless we run like The Flash, we're dead!"

"I could get Tokomon to digivolve and fly us-"

"Oh c'mon, Terrence!" exclaimed Kendra. "Tokomon can't digivolve and you know it."

"Well neither can Poromon."

"Poromon can digivolve into Hawkmon!"

"Oh a rookie, big difference." Darren said sarcastically.

"Guys, do you want to argue or do you want to scrape gum under desks for being late?" yelled Kevin.

"Y-Yeah, we better run." I said with some shakiness in my voice. The dog can keep my shoe.

Health Class

Terrence's POV

No one expected a day like this to take a sharp left turn like it did. It was just a normal, rainy day, we didn't expect anything to happen. Nothing has happened to us our entire lives, why should anything happen now, right? Well, I guess I can't say we weren't warned…

Our school has a boring health teacher, Mr. Hunter. He's so boring that I can't even type what he said because you'll probably fall asleep on your keyboard. The bright side is, any student could do anything in that class without getting caught! I'm lucky I sit all the way in the back of the room.

I could see Darren sitting about three desks down from me, doodling digimon in his notebook. It was DemiVeemon and all of his higher forms like Flamedramon and ExVeemon. Badly though. (Hey, so the guy's not an artist) Darren wanted to be a DigiDestined just as much as I did. Possibly even more. I wonder what kind of leader he would be?

All of the girls in the room were texting to each other on their keypads which they hid under their desks and in their purses. Every girl of course, except Diane. She just sat quietly at her desk reading a book. I couldn't read the title from where I was sitting. What girl would take this kind of opportunity to do anything in class to read a book? Diane really isn't like any other girl. She didn't even care when she had to come to school with one shoe.

Kevin was looking at her. He loves her, it's obvious. But that's just my opinion as his brother.

Kendra's a year older than we are so she's not in out class.

It was still early in the day. I was very bored and drowsy. I didn't get back to sleep after Kevin started screaming. The last thing I remember was barley hearing Mr. Hunter go on about vaccines or sickness or something else I won't need in my life unless I become a doctor. I fell asleep right on my desk.

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I found myself on a dark beach. In front of me was a blue octopus-like monster. His arms were large tentacles wrapped in chains, buckles, and gold. His left "arm" had three horns piercing red eyes. His face was like a mixture of an octopus and a deformed pig. His he had large wings that were the color of coral. Don't ask me how I remember all of that.

He was with a digimon smaller than the octopus digimon, but was still pretty scary. He had a maroon cloak on so I couldn't see his face and large black wings.

"It has been 25 five years, Daemon." Said the octopus digimon in the deepest, raspiest voice you could imagine, "25 long years! You have had the power to transport us to Earth and yet you refuse me all these years! Tell me one reason I should keep you breathing even now!"

"Dragomon," said Daemon "I have waited all this time to find information"

"If I wanted information I would have sent one of my Scubamon slaves to the real world!" He was practically screaming now. "What information so amazing that it took you 25 years to find?!"

"Do not test me, Dragomon. If I were not here than you would have no possible way of entering the real world. And although your size surpasses mine, I can still burn you like wood."

Daemon took out a book from his cloak. I recognized the book by the color. It was on of the book's my father wrote.

"Dragomon, do you know what this object is?" asked Daemon.

"No, I don't."

"It is called a book. Remember the story you told me? The one about the girl of light and the boy of hope?"

"Terrence…" I felt everything started to shake.

"THAT IS THE ONLY REASON I'VE BEEN WAITING 25 LONG YEARS!" screamed Dragomon.

"Terrence…" It was louder, and the shaking was more intense.

"This book carries the information we need. This was written by the boy of hope. It has every detail and every secret of the DigiDestined that we need. Nothing can stop us."

"TERRENCE!" I woke up on the floor of my health class, Kevin and Darren were standing over me. The entire room was shaking violently.

"What's going on?" I yelled over the noise of falling objects

"It's an earthquake!" Kevin yelled.

"Quick, get into the doorway!" Darren yelled.

Darren jumped for the door, but then the windows shattered, causing saborlike shards to fly across the room. If Darren hadn't ducked, he could have gotten seriously hurt. Or worse…

"Forget it! Just get under a desk!" Kevin screamed.

We jumped under our desks and ducked down. As we were under the desks I could hear nothing but crashing of falling bookcases and other school supplies in the classroom and halls and the ear peircing shrieks of terrified students. It all felt like the world was coming to and end. I felt like I was going to die. I didn't know whether to feel excited or scared about the first truly exciting thing to happen to me.

Finally, the shaking stopped, but there were still kids screaming in the halls. Rain was blowing in from the broken windows. The entire room looked like a hurricane went through it instead of an earthquake. Diane practically ran to us under our desks

"Are you guys okay?!" she asked in a shaky voice. "Darren! What happened to your arm?!"

I looked at Darren, there was blood running down his hand. He rolled up his sleeve to reveal a cut he must have gotten when the windows shattered.

"It's fine, it's just a scratch."

"It looks pretty deep." said Diane. "Let's see if we can go to the nurse."

As they left, I gave Kevin a You okay? look. He nodded. Twin telepathy rocks.

"Kevin," I mumbled, so shook up that I could barley find the mind to speak, "What… what exactly was your dream last night?"