Disclaimer: Merry Christmas (even though it probably will be New Year's Day XD) I decided to skip over Thursday in the story but don't worry this is probably only a third the way through the story.

Chapter 6:

Hope & Faith

"Kari come on it's time for the test," Yolei yelled as she dragged her friend into the classroom.

Kari looked around and saw that the room was completely devoid of all people and objects except for a desk in the middle of the room. She picked up the test that was on her desk and was filled with dread, "French, but I didn't have time to study, I don't even take French, I'm in Italian," the brunette worried as the teacher approached her desk.

"I'm sorry Miss Kamiya but you've known about this for weeks, maybe you should have studied earlier. Now take out your number 2 pencil and we'll begin.

Kari looked down at her pencil and saw it said '7-4', "Excuse me, Mr. Harris I only have a number three pencil and I don't seem to have a scantron."

"Why in the world would you need a scantron for a math test?" Mr. Harris asked then turned toward the board and began his science lesson for the rest of the class, "See for every three electrons an atom has it has four fluflons."

"What I thought it was a French test?" the confused girl told him.

"It doesn't matter now, the test is over and you failed, now you'll never get into college and you'll work at McDonald's for the rest of your life," the teacher laughed maniacally as Kari burst into tears and ran out the door to find herself in TK's room.

"Kari what's wrong?" TK asked as he ran over to comfort her.

"I just failed Mr. Harris' Math test and now I have to work at McDonald's," she sobbed into the blonde's shoulder.

"Math? I thought he taught History," TK pointed out then suddenly his friendly smile turned lecherous as he pushed down the strap of her tang top, "I know what could be some fun."

"No TK get away from me!" Kari yelled as she fell back onto the bed then thought, 'It's happening again, I need to get out of here, no wait I need to stay, there's something I need to see."

"Come on what are you afraid of, I'm a male, you're a female, why don't we do what comes naturally," he said as he lifted his shirt over his head.

Kari stared at the boy until she realized what she'd been looking for, "He was wearing his crest!' the girl thought in amazement as TK crawled towards her.

"Miss Hikari, please wake up," he told her in a deeper voice.

"Huh," was all she managed to say before she woke up. She blinked a few time and stretched out in a yawn then noticed Mr. Harris was standing over her and the rest of the class seemed to be staring at her.

"Well since you seem so interested maybe you could tell us what Frost is trying to convey in this poem?" said the teacher smugly as he looked down at his student.

"Uh love?" Kari guessed then thought as she buried her face in her bare arms, 'How could I have forgotten he teaches Language arts?'

The final bell rang a half an hour later and Kari left class to find Takato waiting for her, "Hey Kari you look tired, are you ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine Kato, I just didn't get much sleep last night but I don't think I'll be having the problem anymore," smiled the teenaged girl.

"That's good so I was wondering if you're not busy this weekend if you'd like to…"the boy started but then felt something coming from inside his bag, "Actually I just remembered I have to go do something."

"Me too, I can't believe I forgot, seeya Taky" Kari replied frantically then took off and she dug her hand into her pocket. Takato ran off just as frantically in another direction then ducked into an empty classroom. Once he was sure he was alone the Tamer reached into his bag and grabbed his now glowing D-power. When he looked closer he realized that there was a message, 'Hold your digivice up to the computer screen and say these words, "Digiport open".' Takato didn't completely understand but still ran towards the computer lab. When he arrived he only found one computer on and it had a strange program up but he didn't care. He then held his D-power up to the computer screen and said what was in the message, "Digiport open."

"Ta-ka-to?" he could here a familiar voice calling out to him from below.

"Guilimon is that you? I thought I'd never see you again," Takato said as he fell to his knee, wrapped his arms around the digimon and began crying tears of joy, "I hate to ruin the moment but where are we?"

"I don't know maybe we should ask he others," Guilimon suggested as he pointed behind his human partner.

Takato turned around to see a very large group of kids and more seeming to arrive by the second with what appeared to be small TVs. He scanned the crowd then finally spotted what he was looking for, "Henry, Rika Ryo, Jeri, Kazu, Kenta I thought I'd never see you guys again, I missed you all even you Suzie."

"Welcome back, we missed you man, oh by the way I want you to meet someone. Takato this is my old friend Ken, we were partners long before I ever met you guys," Ryo said, introducing his friends who were now shaking hands, hen continued on, "So Ken tell me more about your girlfriend, Yolay right?"

"That's Yolei, Yolei Inoue," Ken replied a little annoyed but before he had the chance to continue he was cut off.

"Wait you know Yolei Inoue," Takato called out loudly making a nearby girl turn around.

"Did somebody say my name?" Yolei asked but then spotted the brunette talking to her boyfriend, "Takato you have a digimon too? Does Kari know about this?"

"Wait Kari's here too?" Takato said in amazement then felt as the violet haired girl grabbed his wrist.

"Yeah come on she's over here," the girl quickly dragged Takato through the crowd and lead him over to a brunette girl with his friends following them, "Hey Kari you won't believe who I found."

Kari turned around and her eyes widened when she saw his new boyfriend's face, "Whoa Kato this is the last place I thought I'd run into you."

"Hey Kari who is this?" a collaged aged guy asked.

"Oh this is my friend from school Takato, Kato this is my older brother Tai and these are our friends Joe, Matt, Izzy, and Sora and TK and Mimi aren't here yet" Kari introduced as something started to click in his head.

'This seems so familiar but why? Wait TK's story, those were the names of the characters, so it's not fiction after all,' Takato pieced together, "So I guess you weren't at summer camp after all."

"Nope, I was home sick, just like in the story," she replied as she moved closer to him, she prepared to kiss her until a pink haired girl came rushing towards her.

"Hey guys, you won't believe what I found, look!" exclaimed Mimi as she held up her Crest of Sincerity and all the others were in awe, well all except for Kari. The Pink haired girl led the way to the crests and they found that five other kids that were around Takato's age and one around Cody's were already gathered around them and one of them seemed to be admiring the Crest of Courage.

Tai walked over to the boy and tapped him on the shoulder, "Excuse but that crest you're holding is mine."

"Oh sorry buddy I didn't…"Takuya started then looked into his cousin's face, "Tai…Kari? This is the last place I ever thought I'd run into you guys."

"My words exactly. Is it just me or is everyone I know linked to the digital world?" sighed the girl as she grabbed the Crest of Light and put it around her neck.

"Only the ones with goggles," Takato observed making Takuya laugh hysterically but Kari didn't seem to be paying attention.

"Just as I thought, the Crest of Hope isn't here. TK was here before, I saw him wearing it the other day," Kari told them is a gothic tone.

"Well I could have told you that, just look what I just found," interjected Matt as he held up his younger brother's damp hat then handed it to Kari.

She examined the hat for a moment then heard the echoed sound of footsteps coming from the stairwell in the corner of the room,. She looked over and saw that it was the very boy she was just talking about descending the stairs and started to stomp over to him, "You know what I'm going to give that lousy jerk a piece of my mind, I can't believe he didn't tell us about this. Argh, the only thing that boy is destined for is a world full of pain," Kari fumed.

'Destined? Now I remember, TK's story referred to them as the digidestined just like Yamaki, and according to Kari he's been here before and this sudden change in personality. How didn't I see it before, TK's the one who's possessed. Damn I have to warn Kari,' Takato realized as he dashed off towards Kari. By the time he finally reached her the girl was already yelling at the possessed teenager and failed to notice his blue glowing right hand "Kari watch out, that's not TK!" Takato yelled then talked her to the ground as a beam of ice blasted above their heads and hit a nearby digidestined, freezing him in a solid block of ice.

"Who… who are you?" Kari asked the blond as all the digidestined and their digimon gathered around, the originals, Takato and Takuya pushing to the front of the crowd.

"Well currently my name is Takeru Takaishi but I believe a few of you may remember me by a different name, Devimon," the boy laughed as he threw back his head and crossed his arms then suddenly became serious once more, "I came into possession of this body a week ago. Poor little TK was so upset about his father, it was the perfect time to strike, his anger grew and grew until I saw the opportunity to take his body. And now that one week's time has past and my transformation is now permanent, it is finally time to put the final phase of my plan into action, Once I kill enough of you digidestined, TK's Crest of Hope shall transform into a Crest of Fear and all hope shall vanish from the digital world, though just to be on the safe side I think I'll destroy you all."

Matt suddenly became enraged and lifted Devimon by the collar of his shirt, "Get out of my brother now."

"Why would I want to do that, this is the sweetest part of the deal, not only do I get revenge on this pathetic child for destroying me but I also have my very own built in hostage so don't even bother to power up your digimon, you know as well as I do that you won't hurt me," TK smirked as Matt lowered him to the ground then spotted a digidestined out of the corner of his eye making a dash for a nearby portal to the human world but TK quickly lifted his arm and froze the girl where she stood then blasted all the portals in the room, "Come now did you truly believe I'd allow you all to escape, there's only one way out now and it's upstairs in my chamber, if you can make it past me then you're more then welcome to it. Well as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, if you truly want me to eave your brother then I will, unfortunately it may prove fatal to him."

"How do we even know he's still alive in there?" Kari inquired with a small plan in mind.

"If you truly wish to see him then so be it, after all it will only help me cause," he grinned then his eyes turned glassy and his body fell limply to the ground, after a few seconds he slow lifted himself up and sat down on his knees and began looking at his hands, "I can move, I can talk. Kari I need to tell you something, I'm sorry about what happened Monday, I hope you know I would never do that to you and…"

Kari kneeled down next to Takeru and grabbed his hands gently and calmly told him, "I know it wasn't you, it was Devimon and I'm sure…"

"Kari there's no time for that, I need to tell you something before he comes back. The secret to defeating Devimon is fai… fai…"TK tried to speak but no words would come out, his eyes turned glassy once more and Devimon's confident smile returned to his face, "Come now TK, did you truly think I'd let you end my fun. And as for you little girl I was planning on saving you for last but maybe I should end it all now."

Kari felt as his hand wrapped around her throat and she was lifted off the ground, "TK please don't do this, I know you're in there somewhere, please help me," Kari cried as TK's hat fell out of her hand.

'Devimon stop please I'll do anything,' TK's voice shouted in Devimon's head, 'And miss the misery this will bring you, not a chance,' he replied as he tightened the grip on the girl's neck, 'No I won't let you, I need to fight.'

Kari watched as TK's lips began to move though no sound came out, the word repeated over and over again but by the time she realized what he was trying to say she was screaming in pain. "Let go of my little sister!" Tai yelled as he charged towards TK and punched him across the face then dragged his sister away.

"Damn you little piece of shit, look what you done. Oh great now I'm bleeding," the blond complained as he attempted to stop the flow of blood with his hands, "You have just sealed your fate, actually as a change of pace maybe I should have someone else destroy you for me. Come here Patamon."

As the small digimon walked down the stairs it seemed to be avoiding the gaze of those in the room. TK clutched onto the Crest of Hope and his D-3 and held it out, "Patamon warp digivolve to Seraphymon!"

"Now Seraphymon Seven Heavens," the possessed boy cried out as he pointed at Tai.

I'm sorry Tai but no matter what I have to listen to TK," the digimon sighed before unleashing his attack. Tai closed his eyes as he waited for his impending doom but after a moment he realized nothing was happening. When he opened his eyes he saw that Agumon had digivolved into Greymon to protect him but was now in critical conditions.

"Shoot Tai, come on guys we need to take Devimon down, no matter what the cost," Matt told the gang as they all went to digivolve their digimon.

As Takato reached out his D-power Kari grabbed his wrist from on the ground and called out to him in a hoarse voice, "Kato no, TK needs your help. He told me that the secret to Devimon's destruction is Faith and if I know TK I think he was referring to that."

Kari pointed toward the pedestal on which the crests were being held and Takato realized there was one left. Takato ran over towards it and the crest released a bright yellow-orange light. He lifted his hand above his eyes to block out the blinding light and began to walk closer till he was within a foot of the crest. He grabbed it in his hand and knew that it was meant for him. The moment that the tamer put the Crest of Faith around his neck, it released a beam of energy that aimed itself at TK's Crest of Hope and the moment it hit a searing pain went through his body and Takato watched as his D-power seemed to take on a new form and guessed the same happened to TK's digivice.

"Argh what's happening to me. Why does my body seem to be on fire when TK feels nothing?" Devimon screamed as he grabbed TK's head and began floating in mid air. He suddenly passed out from pain as a glowing ring surrounded him.

"It's Fractal Code, I think I can help him," Takuya told the gang then held out his D-tector, "Fractal Code Digitize."

TK's body fell to the ground then he slowly got up, "Devimon he's gone, thank you," the blond meekly told them then fell asleep.

Cool I'm done though in my original plan this chapter had the explanation of the crests in it but I've decided I'll just add it to my next chapter because this one's running a lot longer then I thought, though Iam adding the description if the new crest's powers to my profile in the crest section. Ohand also don't worry, this isn't the end of Devimon –Evil laugh- Also I ned some help with making up descriptions for the Digidestined so any you can come up with tell me and it will be greaty appreciated.