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CHAPTER FOUR

They reached Gennai's home without any problems and saw him waving at them.

"Hey Gennai!" Koushiro ran towards him. "What's happening Gennai? Who's doing this? Where's our digimon?"

"Now now Koushiro, I'll answer your questions once you're all settled in my house. Now everyone!" Gennai said.

Once they were inside, their digimon ran towards them and hugged everyone. Taichi was looking around but he can't see Agumon anywhere. Then he saw agumon appear from the other room.

"Agumon!" Taichi said running towards his partner.

"Taichi!" Agumon bumped with Taichi and they fell on the ground. Everyone laughed and smiled knowing that their partners are alright. "Children, there's more time to reunite later. Right now we need to discuss the situation at hand." Everyone looked at Gennai and nodded.

"Okay Gennai, please explain what's happening." Miyako said to Gennai who was looking outside the window.

"I told you children that it had this ability to de-digivolve digimon to nothing am I right?" Koushiro nodded and opened his laptop.

"Yes, but what we want to know is why this new villain is doing this?" Gennai looked at everyone.

"Unfortunately, it uses the digimons energy to revive itself." Everyone's eyes opened wide.

"What do you mean by revive itself? And who's this new enemy?" Yamato asked Gennai.

"He's name is Origin." Gennai said turning his head towards the window.

"Who is Origin?" Sora asked standing up.

"Origin was one of the first digimons to live in the digiworld. A great companion of mine. He helped us work in creating your crests and digivices. Origin was a very intelligent digimon. And one of the strongest."

Everyone listened to Gennai's story intently.

"He was the perfect digimon. But one day, he was attacked by a group of Skull Greymons and then it happened."

"What happened?" Iori asked.

"He activated an ability that none of us even knew. The ability to suck the life out of digimons. He killed all those Skull Greymon. Origin told us this so we went to where the dead Skull Greymons were. He was so upset then that he was filled with dark energy. The digiworld started splitting up. Water started floating and the forest started burning. We tried to stop him but he was too strong. When I tried to stop him, he blasted me away. I hit a boulder and it spilt into two because of the collision. He looked at me and I saw that hurt expression in his face. A tear fell down his cheek. He stood up and fixed the state of the digiworld. After that he disappeared saying forgive me."

"What happened to Origin afterwards?" Koushiro said.

"He never returned to us." Gennai said sitting down.

"But he always talked to me in my dreams. Telling me he lost his voice and that he learned to control his abilities and even learned more skills. The bad part was, he didn't look like the origin I knew. Origin was corrupted. We were worried that he could end up fully ruining the whole digiworld so I asked him where he was. He foolishly told us telling that he was ready to help again. He didn't know that we were there to kill him."

Sora sat down and looked at Gennai terrified. "You killed him?"

"We couldn't, we knew we couldn't. So we decided to conceal him in a barrier. He was so happy to see us there. He wanted to show us something that day but we were too focused in concealing him. He realized what we were about to do and tried to escape but he was already being covered by the barrier. He looked at me in anger before his whole body was covered. In the end we were able to conceal him."

Everyone started looking depressed. Taichi looked the most depressed at hearing this information. Then Gennai took out something from his pocket.

"Before we left, I noticed something glowing behind him. It was a crest."

He placed an old looking crest on the table. Everyone looked at it and saw an unfamiliar symbol. The crest showed a broken circle with eight rays inside it. Taichi's eyes widened. He held his arm band tightly.

'That symbol, could it be…'

"Say Gennai, what did Origin look like?" Taichi asked now fully aware that something is following him.

Gennai opened a drawer and took an album. He turned the pages until he saw what he was looking for. He showed the chosen children the picture. It showed a young Gennai next to a 16-year-old looking boy wearing a white hooded cape. His eyes covered by the hood showing only his smile.

'I'm sure of it!' Taichi thought gripping his arm band even tighter.

"Is there something wrong Taichi?" Gennai asked looking at the boy behind everyone. Then he saw something familiar about Taichi.

'That face…' Gennai went closer to Taichi. "Show me what you're hiding Taichi." Gennai looked at Taichi gripping his arm band. "Taichi… what's going on?" Hikari said looking at his brother worried. Everyone was looking at Taichi concerned. They were all behind Gennai at that time. Taichi let his grip lose and raised his arm slowly taking of his arm band. Gennai watched intently praying that his speculations are incorrect. When Taichi completely took off his arm band he showed everyone his pulse area.

"Just as I suspected. You have Origin's crest." Gennai said in disappointment. Taichi bowed his head in terror. "Are you going to conceal me too?" Taichi said not looking at anybody.

Gennai stood their quietly. Everyone shocked at the revelation.

"What's going on here?" Hikari stepped back a bit.

END OF CHAPTER 4

I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Thank you for reading and prepare for Chapter Five!