ShadowofShippo: Well this is my first digimon fanfic. I hope you like it.


Chapter One: Kurai Oukami

Yagami Hikari's dream world had become real. But as always it had it's little bugs. Mainly the digimental (digiegg) of darkness. Unknown to the digidestines the digimental had hid something. Something untameable by humans. A digimon. The digimon was beginning to get restless. It heard the crys of digimon when they were enslaved by the digimon emperor. It's hate grew. The darkness in the hearts of both digimon and humans made the digimon and it's digimental stronger. More sinister... Soon too keep the digimon sealed the digimental began radiating darkness. From this the dark ocean was created. The digimon that came near became virus type. Soon it was getting to hard for us to contain. We must tell the child of light. Hopefully she can find a way to contain this beast.
-Gennai

It was two years after we had defeated Malomyotisnon. Hikari was worried, a little more than usual. She'd give a casual smile around others, but when she would think she was alone she would frown, as if there's something bothering her.

"Kari-chan, are you okay?" I'd ask her.

She'd give a seemingly natural smile and say, "I'm okay, Tailmon-chan!" Then pet my head and say in her kind soft voice, "You worry too much."

I'd smile and say, "You're my partner, of course I worry."

Yeah... Basicly that's how our conversations went when I had asked her. Maybe it would have to do with the strange new friend she has. This girl was named Kurai Oukami (meaning wolf). A fitting name I would think. She always had carried the scent of a wolf. The dark glare she'd always carried was animalistic, and harsh like whenever Takeru makes Matt angry. And sometimes, I could almost swear she had fangs...

Just another day...

Hikari went up the the strange girl. "Ohayo gozimasu (good morning), Kurai-sempai!" (-sempai means upper classman)

"Ohayo (morning)." Kurai would reply. She looked as if she stayed up the whole night. "You humans sure wake up early..." She gave a long yawn.

Wait a minute, did she just say humans? Wasn't she one? I thought, watching Kurai place a small pillow and small blanket into her locker.

Kari nodded. "Yup."

Kurai placed her hand on Kari's head patting it lightly. "Morning person. Takeru's looking for you." She slamed her locker and began to walk off, "Later."

Kari gave a faint blush. She and Takeru were dating, which drove Daisuke nuts. "Later, Kurai-sempai!" She turned around and bumped into Takeru. "Takeru-kun." I looked back to see where Kurai had gone, but she had vanished.

"Kari-chan, I was looking for you. Taichi-san was looking for you." Takeru said.

How did she know? I thought. Maybe I should do some investigating.

"Tailmon, you okay?" Patamon said, flying above me.

"Huh, yeah! Just daydreaming." I told him. He doesn't need to know yet.

We walked to the computer lab and saw Kari's older brother there by Koushiro (aka Izzy). Something was up. Why was it only us? What happened to Daisuke and the others?

"Taichi-onii?" Kari asked.

"Is everything okay? You shouldn't really be talking to Kurai. She's girl everyone is trying to get in thier gang. It was heard she actually beat up several digimon!" Taichi said acting as the overprotective brother.

"Tai-onii, you really looked all that up? Then you should know how she could do that right?"

"Actually..."

Koushiro spoke up. "Humans like us shouldn't be able to do things like this. Thus Kurai could be a rouge digimon. We got to bring her back into the digital world."

"But what if she isn't a digimon." Kari countered.

"You actually say 'thus' Koushiro-san?" Taichi joked.

Koushiro ignored Taichi, and continued. "If she isn't a rouge digimon, and isn't human then what is she?" He said.

"That's not for you to know." Kurai said by the door way.

"How did you-" Taichi said.

I whirled around. She got past my senses!

"You left the door open. Anyone could have heard your conversation." Kurai interrupted. She turned to me. "Tailmon-san, I forgot to tell you please don't follow me after school. Didn't the silver wolf scare you?"

I shook my head though I had been terribly frightened by that wolf. The memory of that event flashed through my mind. It hadn't attacked me, but mearly scared me off. "No."

She gave a smirk. "Right." She turned to Kari and Taichi. "I would like to take Kari's offer of going to the digital world with you guys. That is, if I can."

"This might be our chance." Taichi whispered to Koushiro.

"Yeah, we'll find out soon enough." Koushiro whispered back.

Kurai rolled her eyes. "I'm not a digimon."

"Please excuse my brother and Koushiro-san. But I am glad you took my offer." Kari said.

Takeru seemed just as pleased as Kari. Patamon sat on top of his hat. "Well then when should we go?"

"After school. I have nothing else to do anyways." Kurai replied.

Underneath the seal...

"Lucemon," A dark lion type digimon said. "Are you still within there?"

"Yes, this is getting rather boring laying around here." A voice from within the digimental said. "Why must our destinys be intertwined?" The voice said rather annoyed.

"I will be free soon, Koichi is coming."

"Koichi is dead."

"You lie!"

"That was why you were feeling ill a few years back. You will never be freed."

"Then neither will you."

"Darkness will always prevail!"

"Then so will I."

"Your partner is dead!"

"But his spirit hasn't died."

"You fool, you let that human soften your heart."

"Yes, he allowed me to see what was wrong and right. There was nothing wrong being the elemental warrior of darkness. Just who you fought for."

"..."

"Have you anything to say?"

"..."


Shadowofshippo: Well that's all for now. Please review.

Kurai: bops the author Why'd you make them think I was a digimon?!

Shadowofshippo: Rubbs head throb Ow...

Lucemon: I will rule the world!

Kurai: knocks him out

Shadowofshippo: Sweatdrop He got it worse than I...

Kari: waves See you everybody in the next chapter of The Lion and the Wolf!