Hi everybody! Thanks for the reviews so far I really appreciate it. Now I was supposed to write a bonus chapter when I reach a thousand views but I didn't realize that I'm almost there and I haven't built up to it yet. So, I'll probably write the bonus chapter when I've reached 1500? I never even expected that I'd reach 900 so thanks for the viewers who constantly read my story.

Also, this story isn't going to be as exciting as any of the others are so forgive me for that. This is another build up story. And I really needed to show some back story so I apologize in advance for anyone who wouldn't like it.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Digimon

CHAPTER EIGHT

Everyone sat in a circle inside Gennai's room.

"Let's begin with the first time I met Taichi. It was supposedly nine years ago in your world when the digidestineds just began their adventure."

Supposedly 9 years ago…

"Hello chosen children." Said a young Gennai looking at the first chosen children formed in a circle around his hologram.

"Who are you?" Said Riku, the oldest of all the digidestined there. He had brown hair and dark brown eyes. He was taller than any of them and he wore a brown tattered cape just like the rest of his friends.

"You can call me Gennai."

"Gennai… are you here to help us?" said a young Taichi moving closer to Gennai's hologram.

"Yes little one. But may I ask you something?"

"Yes, what is it?" said Taichi.

"Where is your digimon partner?" Everyone scratched their heads and looked at one another.

Melody, a blonde girl who looks like she was 11 held Taichi's shoulders and said, "To be honest Gennai, Taichi doesn't have a partner. He said he has one but we never see him." Just then, Taichi shrugged his shoulders and moved even closer to Gennai.

"I do have a digimon! He's right next to me! They can't see him, only I can!"

Gennai looked at the young boy who was determined to prove his partners real.

"Tell me Taichi, what's your partners name?"

"He's name is Origin! He's very cool!"

Riku seemed to be annoyed and yelled at Taichi. "Enough Taichi! Origin is not real!"

Taichi turned his head and looked at his friend in anger. "Shut up! Just because you can't see him doesn't mean he's not real!"

"I said that's enough Taichi!" he was about to hit Taichi when he was pushed away by something making him fall down to the ground.

"What the…" said Riku.

"Origin! Why did you do that?" said Taichi. Gennai was as surprised as everybody when he saw what happened.

"Origin you say… Taichi, what does Origin look like?" said Gennai. Taichi looked at Gennai.

"Nothing actually. I know where Origin is and I can follow him but he never really shows what he looks like."

"What a peculiar digimon you have their Taichi!" Gennai said laughing.

"So you believe me? Origin, Gennai believes me!" Taichi said looking at the sky. Then everyone heard a voice.

Thank you for believing in me Gennai…

"Where did that voice come from?" said Melody who was kneeling next to their fallen companion.

Huh? they can hear me Taichi!

"You can hear Origin? Awesome! Now you have to believe me!"

Now…

"Everyone was baffled and at the same time embarrassed. They didn't really believe that he was really telling the truth. He was a kid after all and they thought he was making stuff up to make him get more attention." Gennai said.

"It seems that Taichi really cared for Origin." Agumon said pouting. Hikari saw Agumon and held his hand.

"Taichi really cared for you too Agumon!" Hikari smiled and tried to cheer him up.

"It seems that he was very happy back then. I don't see why Origin would be so vengeful." Koushiro said.

"I thought so too back then. They were both very happy. And now that everyone believed Taichi on Origin's existence they were able to easily fight evil digimons. Then one day, Taichi and Origin had this idea of Origin morphing to look like Taichi so that everyone can see him. The problem was they were too similar to one another so they decided to straighten Origin's hair to be able to differentiate them from one another. But their voice was enough to differentiate them. Origin sounded much like a sixteen-year-old kid. So they decided to let him look like an older Taichi to match it. They were very creative."

"So was it Origin that we were talking to before?" Takeru asked.

"Yes… apparently he found out Taichi was coming to the digiworld and went berserk. He attacked me in my home before I could send you the e-mail and he messed it up."

"I'm confused Gennai, if Taichi and Origin were so close, why would Origin go berserk when he saw him?" Iori asked. The room fell silent for a while then suddenly Gennai spoke.

"It was before their final battle. A group of strong digimons were attacking them and they had to retreat. Taichi got too cocky and ran away to fight on his own. They had an argument that day."

"I've had enough Origin! You're stronger than anyone of those digimons. We can beat anything!" the young Taichi said.

"Taichi… why do you put too much trust into me?" Origin said floating next to his partner.

"It's true isn't it!? You're stronger than any of them! We don't need them!" Taichi said screaming at his partner.

"Enough Taichi!" Origin yelled and shocked his partner.

"Why are you like this, Taichi?"

Taichi didn't speak. He was trying not to look at Origin.

"I don't know you anymore…" Origin said.

Taichi looked at Origin crying. "O-origin… you're crying."

Taichi walked towards his partner and was about to apologize when they heard a scream.

"That's Melody!" Taichi said. Origin and Taichi stared at each other.

"I'm sorry for being too cocky!" Taichi said.

"I'm sorry for yelling at you!" Origin said. They smiled at each other and ran towards where Melody and the others were.

They saw a huge digimon fighting the others. They saw Melody and her digimon collapsed on the ground injured.

"Melody!" Taichi ran to her.

"T-taichi! Where were you? We were looking all over the place…" Melody said smiling at Taichi.

"How could you still say those things? What happened?" Taichi said with a traumatized expression.

"I'm glad you're alright…" Melody slowly closed her eyes and dropped to the ground unconscious.

"Melody… don't die… you're only sleeping right?" Taichi said letting out a tear. Origin looked away trying to give the two room but he too was depressed. Riku and the other digidestined saw the scene and ran towards Melody and Taichi.

"Melody!" yelled Riku. Taichi didn't turn around.

"Melody… what happened to her?" Riku said. Inori, another girl in the group, closed her eyes trying not to look at what happened.

"Taichi…" Rin, the second oldest member of the group, came closer to Taichi and held his hands. Taichi gasped and turned around. He saw the others looking at him except for Inori.

"You guys…" Taichi, still with that traumatized face, saw every one of his friends injured and weak. Riku had cuts on his body. Inori had a bruised shoulder and a scratched hand. Rin had a scar on his face and a bloody shirt.

"Are you alright? We've been looking all over for you?" said Rin.

"You were looking for me…"

"What happened to Melody?"

"Melody was looking for me too…" Taichi formed a fist and bowed his head.

"You're hurt because of me. Because I left without telling you. Melody's like this because of me…"

Rin looked at Taichi stunned. "That's not it Taichi! It was our choice to find you! We knew this would happen!"

"Even though, if I didn't run away Melody wouldn't be… Melody wouldn't be…"

Just then, a weird digimon appeared in front of them.

"Haha! The pretty face died? That's so sad… I wanted to play with her more!" said a dark cloaked digimon with the rotting face showing part of his skull.

"She was so pretty. I just wanted to rip her body limb from limb." The digimon laughed.

Taichi glared at the digimon and ran towards it.

"Taichi!" Origin said and ran towards him.

"You Psycho!? I'm going to kill you! I'm going to make you pay!" Taichi was in the brink of insanity as he went closer to the digimon.

"Oh! Looks like this one is going to be fun to kill." Said the digimon.

"I won't let you do that, psycho!" Origin appeared behind the digimon and kicked it making it fall to the ground.

"Origin…" Taichi said and stopped running.

"You didn't think I'd let you do this alone did you?" Origin said as he flew around. He shot the digimon with one light attack and it ended him instantly.

"You did it Origin!" Taichi said as he ran to his partner.

"Taichi!" Origin said before a spike punctured him directly through the heart.

"O-origin…"

"Ahahaha! This is so hilarious!" said a digimon fully covered in dark spikes.

"Taichi… run!" Origin said as he fell to his knees.

"No… It's all because of me again… Origin's dying because of me…" Taichi continued to look at Origin in remorse. Origin was falling down and the spiked digimon kept kicking him.

"Stop that…" Taichi said. The digimon ignored him. Taichi walked closer to Origin. The digimon looked at him.

"Oh? You want to die too?" it said holding a new spike. Origin lied down their motionless.

"GET AWAY FROM ORIGIN!" Taichi yelled and a huge flash of light covered the whole area. The digimon started screaming as it disappeared. Origin and the others were being covered by the light.

"Taichi?" Origin said looking around the light but fainted. When Origin woke up, he saw Riku, Inori, Rin, and Melody circling around someone.

"Melody!" Origin flinched and held his chest. The spike was gone and his bruise was healed. Melody turned around and saw Origin. She was crying. When Origin realized that Taichi was the one in the middle, he immediately ran towards them and saw his partner lying on a tree smiling with blood running down his forehead. Everyone backed away to let Origin sit next to Taichi. Everyone left them alone for a moment.

"I'm sorry I caused all this…" Taichi said.

"You didn't cause all of this Taichi. None of it was your fault." Taichi just smiled.

"Our crest isn't lighting anymore… look." Taichi opened his palm and Origin saw their crest. It looked like a carved rock. And no energy can be felt from it.

"It isn't glowing…" Origin responded.

"So does that mean I can't see you again if you stop using that form?"

"No. Remember that symbol in your hand?"

"Yeah." Taichi said glancing at his left arm that had a symbol.

"I have it on my neck too. It means we're going to be able to see each other anytime."

"That's nice." Taichi said resting on Origin's lap.

"Hey Origin, can I ask you some things?"

"Of course you can…" said Origin letting out a smile.

"Why don't you have -mon in your name?"

"That's because I named myself. I wanted something Original so I named myself Origin."

"Why did you start wearing that white cape?"

"I was jealous because all of you wore capes so I made one."

"Look, my blood is staining your cape."

"Then I'll make it black so I would have something to remember you by."

"You're weird…"

"So are you…"

"Origin?"

"Yeah…"

"I feel cold…"

"Just sleep it off Taichi, just sleep it off." Taichi closed his eyes. His body slowly started disappearing. Then Origin realized his body was disappearing too. His current body wasn't going to last, he had to turn back to his original form. He started crying.

"Hey Taichi…"

"Yeah Origin…"

"Promise me three things okay?"

"Okay."

Taichi's legs were already fading away.

"Promise me that you won't forget me… that you'd always know I'll be by your side."

"I promise…"

"Promise me that no matter what, I'll be your partner. I'll be the one protecting you."

"I promise…"

His lower body had already disappeared.

"And promise me that you won't leave me alone. That you won't regret ever meeting me! That you will always smile wherever you go! Promise me that we will always be friends because you're my very first friend. Promise!"

Taichi's remaining body parts started fading.

A tear ran down his cheek. "Promise…"

"Origin… I can't feel my body."

"Sleep it off Taichi, it'll all be all right. I'll guard while you sleep."

"Thank you… Or-"

Just then Taichi disappeared completely. Origin let out all of the tears he was holding in. And as he turned back to his old form he went away.

Back in Gennai's house everyone grew quiet.

"I was behind them all that time. Those two were really unbelievable. That gave the rest of the first digidestined energy that lead to their victory. We all thought Taichi died until the day you all came to the digital world."

"Do you mean he was reborn?"

"No. It would be a possibility but four years later and you people arrived. Origin came to me the day we all thought Taichi died now wearing black clothing just as he promised and he helped me with stabilizing the digiworld. He also helped me with the creation of your crest. When he found out that the new digidestined was Taichi he confronted him but Taichi couldn't hear him or see him. He asked me why Taichi couldn't hear me and why he had a new partner. I didn't know what to say. He thought that Taichi left him alone and broke all of their promises. I asked him to calm down but he pushed me away and said that I was the one who made all this happen. He called me a traitor and left."

"That's cruel." Hikari said.

"I wonder where Taichi could be. It's way too dangerous now that we know Origin is loose."

All of a sudden, an earthquake commenced and teleported the digidestineds to a lake.

"This is…"

"Welcome back Gennai." Gennai turned around and saw Taichi with a black cape.

"Taichi!" Mimi yelled.

"Taichi? You're mistaken girlie if you think that's who I am." spoke Taichi. Mimi looked horrified.

Everyone realized that his voice was different.

"The crest!" Hikari yelled and saw the crest on the neck and the crest on the arm.

"That can't be…" Yamato said.

"So what's your guess digidestined? What do you think happened to Taichi Yamagi!"

"Taichi and Origin morphed together." Koushiro said looking at the person in front of them.

"Bingo! You must be the smart one of the group!"

"No… then that means you're…" Daisuke said but was cut off.

"ORIGIN! Finally, it took you forever to guess that!"

"No… this can't be happening…" Hikari said then realizing the scenery looked different now. The lake water was black and the trees are all dead.

Hikari kneeled down and covered her ears to cover Origin's laugh.

"This can't be happening… Taichi…"

END OF CHAPTER EIGHT