Yay!! Chapter 4 has arrived!!

Chapter 4: Flash Back

Vince and Henry

Henry and Serph hid under a fallen ruin, with a hole covered with fallen rocks and part of the ceiling. They sat in the basement, as rumbles and screams were heard from the outside world. The small dim light that lit up the room, making it look dark and depressing. Serph sat next to Henry, asleep from all the excitement. Serph has changed in size, but his personality stayed the same. Henry looked up at the ceiling above them and closed his eyes. Memories traveled through Henry, making him tremble. The memory, that memory that hurt Henry so much, was the day they first met.

"Henry! Get the table set!" Mrs. Carol shouted. Henry's mother was a bit smaller than he was, about 5 foot 9. She had shiny black hair that reached down to her waist, and clear beautiful eyes along with a sweet gentle voice that people had envied. Henry was only six years old, and everything was peaceful. Petal, a Floramon that his mother had, was cooking along side her. Henry stood up from his room and walked towards the dinner table, his dad sat on the couch, reading the newspaper. His dad had short black hair, with calming blue eyes. His voice was rough, and his body was muscular. Unlike his mother where she was slim. His digimon partner was Nook, a Digitamamon. Henry was the only one without a digimon for some odd reason, all the other kids in the neighborhood had one except him. "Henry, where are you?" His mother asked from the kitchen.

"Coming!" Henry replied, rushing towards the kitchen. Taking five plates and bowls, along with spoons and forks, he placed them onto the table. Turning on the lights and placing the mats, he began to put on all the eating utensils for that night, but unaware, they were going to have a visitor. He rushed back into the kitchen to take a plate with piles of freshly cooked chicken wings, a bowl of vegetable soup, a bowl of steaming hot rice, and a plate of orange slices and grapes. Mrs. Carol walked towards the dinning room and smiled.

"Nice job, Henry." She added to her smile. As she did, the doorbell rang. "I wonder who that is..." She walked towards the door with Petal behind her. The doorbell rang again. "Coming." She said sweetly. She opened the door to see a strange, about a few years older than Henry, bursting through the door.

"You got to help me." He begged as he got himself off the floor. Mrs. Carol looked at him with fright and Mr. Carol stood up and watched. All was silent, nothing disturbed the awkward silence. "Please..." He begged.

Mrs. Carol bent down to him and grabbed his head. "Tell me, what is the matter..." She whispered ever so gently into his ear. Henry watched, standing there, uselessly. He didn't know what to do.

He showed Mrs. Carol his arm. It was filled with cuts from the shoulder down to the palm. "They won't stop...they just won't..." He cried, his voice was low and painful. "They destroyed Alexander...they destroyed him, turning him into data..."

Mr. and Mrs. Carol was shocked. Who in their right mind would destroy a digimon, along with his tamer. "Who are they?" She asked him.

"The V.T. Gang..." Venom Tamers was their full gang name. They were known world wide, for their cruelty to others, not only that, but they stole data for some odd reason. "They ambushed me and now they looking for me..." He cried.

Mr. and Mrs. Carol nodded and Mr. Carol went out the door. "Don't worry, everything is going to be alright..." She said, standing up without throwing him to the ground. "Just relax..." She walked out soon after along with Petal and Nook. The door slammed after them.

The mysterious boy looked up and saw Henry. They stared at each other, just staring at each other, endlessly. There was a tension between them, something strong, something Henry has never had before. The silence got intense and everything was calm.

"Rain of Pollen!" Petal's voice was heard from outside.

"Nightmare Syndrome!" Nook's voice was also heard.

Bikes were heard, screeching to a stop. Mrs. Carol's voice was heard from outside. "How could you do that to an innocent child...how?" She asked their leader.

"We did it because that kid deserved it." The leader of the V.T. replied. His voice was rough, crisp, and angry. Henry walked up towards the window and looked outside. The motorcycle's lights enabled him to see anything. The gang had about the same digimons other than the leader. "Myotismon, kill those two!"

"Nightmare Claw!" Myotismon shouted. The strike hit Petal straight on, and her colors started to fade. Paralyzing her. He laughed wickedly. "How pathetic, a digimon that couldn't even defend herself. How does she think she will defend her tamer?"

Mr. Carol, got angry. "How dare you do that to Ashley's digimon...how could you..." His fist got tight and started to glow. "Digi-soul charge!"

"Digitamamon digivolve to...HolyDigitamamon!" Nook shouted. "Kevin, don't worry, I think I could handle them..."

"Digi-soul huh? I heard of it, I just didn't think you guys would have it..." The leader said. Digi-soul was given to some people, not everyone, they are born with them. Others were born with crest and some weren't born with anything other than a digivice. "Myotismon, digivolve!"

"Myotismon digivolve to...VenomMyotismon!" His laugh was wickedly evil. "Crimson Mist!"

"Holy Dream!" The two attacks canceled each other out, with a big burst of wind.

The fight continued but Vince and Henry were finally talking to each other. Henry has finally met someone who he could relate to, someone that knows how it feels to be left out. Vince, he never had any parents, but he was born with a digi-egg by his side. It turns out Alexander was a DoKunemon. Vince started to talk on and on about his life so far, he was only ten, but yet he had so many adventures. He had traveled across the USA, starting from San Jose, California to Raleigh, North Carolina, where Henry lived. He seemed many different kinds of digimons, but they all ended up wanting to fight DoKunemon to test their strengths or something like that. Henry's family was the first to treat him with kindness and that sort of stuff. "So, what happened..."

"Those guys, have been chasing me ever since I got into the city. They wanted DoKunemon's data and they wanted me to keep quiet about it, but I couldn't let them and that lead to a big fight." He said. Henry brought some band-aids for him to place on his cuts. The two guys continued to talk to each other, and time seemed to stop.

Meanwhile, Ashley sat next to Petal, and hugged her tightly. "Come back to me..." Her voice whispered into Petal's ear. "Please come back to me..." She repeated. Petal started to move and her color started to come back. Ashley smiled and than turned towards the V.T. Her husband was fighting the leader, so she would fight the others. There were about six of them, each with a BlackKingNumemon. "Petal, warpdigivolve!"

"Floramon warp digivolve to...Blossomon! Poison Dream!" Petal shouted, spewing a poisonous gas out to the V. Tamers and their BlackKingNumemons. "Spiral Flower!" Petal swirled the gas around her, striking the enemies along with the poison.

After several hours, the fighting stopped. Vince and Henry heard the motorcycles rush off, leaving the house lawn. Henry and Vince looked at the door from where they sat. The wait was horrible. Did the V. Tamers destroy his family's digimon, or did his mom and dad defeat the V. Tamers. The wait was soon over when the door burst open and his mom appeared with his dad in her shoulders. Petal appeared, but Nook wasn't anywhere to be seen.

"What happened?" Henry asked his mother, as she placed him onto the other couch.

"Nook was destroyed...your father is unconscious..." She took a deep breath. Her eyes were watery. Nook was a great lost to the family. "I'm not sure if your father will be the same again..." As she said that, Petal walked up to her and gave her a comforting hug. "At least we didn't lose you either..." She whispered. That night was a sad and terrible one. No one spoke during dinner, but Vince got to stay over.

Henry took a deep breath from where he sat. So much had changed since than. The war between the digimons and humans, but he couldn't help but wonder what was all that data for. He just continued to look up at the ceiling. Serph laid in his lap, sleeping soundly, like a baby. Henry smiled a bit. Twelve years after, the day before the war began, a digi-egg fell from the sky and landed within the bushes in front of the house. Dad picked it up and the egg started to glow and so did his hands. Digi-soul flowed through the egg from Dad's hand. The egg hatched and digivolve quickly into Digitamamon. Nook remembered everything that had happened, and Dad was so happy that day. The family was reunited, but than the next day, the family was destroyed, he was one of the last of his family, and Vince, he was considered family. Now he was all alone, he was the last of his family. "Alphamon..." He whispered into the air. Serph, moved around a bit.

"Alphamon...The leader of the Digital World...Is coming back..." Serph said, as he slept. Sleep-talking. "The day of his rebirth...is...January 8th..." Henry sat there stunned at those words. January eighth was his birthday, and the anniversary of the death of Alphamon, the day the eight tamers defeated Alphamon.

Mom, Dad, Vince, Petal, Nook, what is going on here... He thought to himself.