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Note: Digidestined are in Diaboromon Strikes Back clothing unless stated otherwise.
Lightly Drizzling
"SILENCE!" A voice roared like fire.
The surrounding creatures shuddered. Some cringed on the pale shores while others sank into the icy waters, not one of them wanted to face their master's wrath.
"The time to strike is now you blubbering fool and you know it." Another voice like a rushing torrent argued.
The other voice took a deep breath and sounded calm, like flickering embers. "And why would you say that?"
"They are distracted, separated from their strongest members. Did you not see the malfunction with the Bearer of Courage? That pesky knight will be out of commission. We can carry out the plan without much."
"True, the remnants of the Wipe did quite a number on him… Very well. When can you leave?"
"At any moment."
"Right, rally your troops. I shall create the gates for your arrival."
"Perfect."
As his ally waded back into the black waters to rally his half of the forces, the cloaked creature watched the dim clouds flutter away in the endless grey sky. "It's time for the next round Digidestined. Ready or not, vengeance will be mine."
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Where am I? The boy wondered. Darkness haunted every around him, gust and winds gave quiet whispers and chills down his spine and yet, the boy felt peaceful, like he was at home. Far away, the boy could see a creature floating in the void. He couldn't make it out but the creature seemed familiar and tugged on his heart, filling it with nostalgia and… regret?
'Partner.' Said the being in an echoic whisper.
"Who are you?" The boy asked desperately. The more he stared at it, the more the empty feeling grew. The boy had to know who it was. He had to know why it seemed so close to him, why it wrung on his heart so painfully.
'There's no time. He's coming for me. I'm scared partner.' The creature shuddered, dissolving into little bits.
"Who is? What do you mean?"
There was no reply as the creature vanished completely.
"Wait, WAIT! WHO ARE YOU?!"
Then there was an explosion of light, and the boy woke up to chaos.
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"Gennai!" Kari exclaimed.
"Why are you in my T.V.?" Davis asked.
"I was going to win!" Yolie lamented.
"What's going on Gennai?"
The being gave a sigh before he spoke. "(static)- It is better if you see for yourselves, Digidestined." Davis's computer started to whine and glow blue. "(static)- This gate will take you straight to my home. (static)- I will tell you more when you arrive."
The younger Digidestined gave one another curious looks. "I wonder what that's about?" Tk wondered.
"It's probably another disaster that we have to fix." Davis sighed, picking up Demiveemon. "Let get it over with, summer won't last forever."
"Wait!" Ken exclaimed, stopping Davis from entering quickly.
"What's the matter Ken?" The gogglehead asked.
"I… I don't know. I just feel like something will happen… something bad."
"Are you sure?" Yolie asked worriedly.
"No. It could be nothing. Let's just get to Gennai's and see what's going on first."
"Right, let's get this over with quickly." Davis decided. "DigiPort! Open!"
Moments later, they crashed in the middle of a large plain. Veemon pulled Davis out from the bottom of the resulting pile. They walked for a bit under the dark and cloudy skies and arrived in front of a large lake. The waters split and a tall man in white robes ascended from the stairs. "Gennai, why are we here?" Ken asked.
Gennai looked at the group with a rare serious expression. "It involves that natural disasters that you all have been dealing with for the past few weeks."
"Has another one occurred?" Davis asked.
"No, not yet. Come with me there is something that you all should see." He then walked back down his house. Confused, the Digidestined and their partners followed.
They passed a normal looking living room as they walked through the house. There was nothing that seemed unusual or out of place. Everything seemed fine. "Here we are." Gennai said as he opened a trapdoor. He descended the staircase into another room underneath his home in the bottom of the lake.
"I wonder what's going on." Cody said. "Gennai's acting strangely."
"I know, he hasn't cracked a joke the whole time." Davis noted.
"Maybe he learned that they weren't funny."
"Patamon, that's not nice." Tk scolded. "True, but not nice."
"Do you know where we are?" Gennai said when he stopped. The Digidestined looked around and saw that there were large shelves that stretched to the ceiling. Every one of them was packed with glowing green nodes and red nodes. All of them shook their heads.
"This is the Record Hall, where we store every prophecy that has ever been made." He pulled out one of the nearby red nodes a shelf. Upon removal, the node dulled and a bright screen appeared above it. "Recognize this?"
"Hour of the Beast, blah blah blah, Light and Hope… Nope, not a clue." Davis stated.
"This- This is the prophecy that created WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon!" Kari exclaimed.
"It was so long ago, was this where you found it?" Tk exclaimed, waves of memories of that battle returning to him. He was so young back then.
"Did you call us because of this prophecy?" Cody asked.
"No, I think that one's finished with." Ken thought aloud. "I'm guessing he found something else, something that's involves what's been happening with the recent disasters."
"Right on the nose Ken." Gennai chuckled. "Ever since the battle against VenomMyotismon, I transcribed all the prophecies in case any of them would help in the future."
"All of these?" Gatomon asked in awe.
"That's a really hard homework assignment." Armadillomon joked.
Gennai chuckled. "It was quite tedious." He admitted. "But it was worth it in the end, because there was a prophecy that I decoded back then that seems to worry them immensely. He expecially believes that it has relevance now."
"Are you talking about Azulongmon?" Yolie interjected.
"Yes I am. Azulongmon was quite adamant in his belief that this prophecy was relevant in this situation, though it is much more cryptic than the other one." He said as he removed one of the green nodes from a shelf. Upon removal, the light dimmed and projected a screen with words.
Kari read the prophecy.
"Power fades by Abbot's Ire,
rising Seas will be swallowed by falling Fire
Darkness stands between evil Light
Miracles will cause Courage and Victory to unite."
"I don't get it." Davis said right after she was done.
"It'll happen," Cody said. "We just have to wait until it does to see what it means."
"The last one with Light and Hope involved Kari and I because we had the corresponding crests." Tk said.
"So you think Tai is part of this somehow?" Kari asked with concern.
"Or at least he is going to be." Ken said ominously.
Suddenly the prophecy node began to flash and the first line flashed red. "What's going on?" Veemon exclaimed.
Gennai looked grim, "Something has happened."
"What! Another disaster?" Davis exclaimed. "Which Digiport do we need to go through?"
"Any of them." He replied to the DigiDestineds' confusion. "There's no indication of anything wrong in the Digital World."
"But that could only mean… No. Way. Come on guys we have to hurry!"
Without another word, the six DigiDestined and their partners rushed out of the room and made a break for the digiport that they came through. As they were running, Gennai walked out of the building. The clouds split in the sky and revealed a large blue dragon. "Are you sure this was the right choice Azulongmon? Knowledge of the Wipe could potentially destroy them."
"It is quite a gamble." Azulongmon admitted. "But you can't bake a cake without breaking a few eggs. For what's coming we certainly need some time for cake."
Gennai sighed. "As long as the eggs aren't rotten."
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Much Earlier: Human World:
"I can't believe he's late! Stupid Tai." Sora ranted.
"Come on Sora, he could be late, or lost… he's lost isn't he?" Matt sighed.
"From experience, that is most likely what happened." Izzy sighed.
"Izzy." Joe said suddenly.
"What?"
"I've been wondering, what's with the suit?"
Sora and Matt also noticed the red head was dressed up nicely and neatly combed his hair. Sora giggled a bit and Matt had a giant smirk plastered on his face. Izzy wore an orange button up with a tie.
"Wh- what do you mean? This isn't a suit."
"Really Izzy?" Motimon said, emerging from one of the bags that the older Digidestined left on the floor next to them. "I thought you said it was because of -MMPHMM!"
Izzy franticly grabbed his bag and gave it the strongest hug he could to try and silence his talkative partner. No matter how hard they tried to hold it in, the other three Digidestined couldn't stop giggling at their friend's embarrassment.
"So how much longer are we waiting?" Yokomon whispered from her bag.
"Yeah! It's boring in these things!" Bukamon complained rather loudly. Joe quickly tried to shush his rowdy partner up before they attracted more attention from the surrounding crowd.
"Bukamon." Joe scolded.
"I'm bored, there's only paper in here and I shredded them ages ago."
"My homework!" Joe lamented.
"So Izzy," Matt grinned, pulling the younger boy closer to him. "When did this start happening?"
The Bearer of Friendship couldn't help but give his friend a hard time, it wasn't often when any of them could make Izzy get this upset… unless it was Tai, and it was usually from accidently destroying something in his room again.
"Nothing's going on!" Izzy exclaimed as he wriggled out of Matt's grip, only to crash into a newsstand. "Gah!"
The papers flew everywhere, much to the Bearer of Knowledge's dismay. After they got a scolding and paid for the damages, the group started to clean up the mess.
"There goes my allowance." Izzy sighed.
"Half your allowance," Matt corrected, "AND half my paycheck."
"Was it worth it?" Sora grumbled next to him, picking up another piece of paper.
"To see Izzy react like that? I'd would've used two paychecks."
"Well, just as I thought, you guys are all here." The four of them turned around and saw a smiling Mimi.
"Hi." They heard Tanemon's muffled greeting from inside of one of Mimi's suitcases.
"Mimi!" They exclaimed and came over to greet her.
"Why didn't you call when you landed, and how did you find us?" Sora asked.
"Come on Sora, I'm used to this by now to know where there's chaos there's Digimon."
"That's a reasonable hypothesis." Izzy commented, giving the others a death glare. They all zipped their lips to get him to stop.
"Where's Tai?" She asked, looking around for the usual mass of hair.
"He's late." Sora sighed. "Come on you must be hungry, those flights must take forever."
The group got their bags and left the airport. Mimi sent off her luggage with her parents and went off to find some food with her friends. They went to a burger place and sat at a booth.
"I'll call Tai and see where he is." Sora said as they sat down. She dialed the number and it took a few rings until someone picked up. "Hey Tai, where are you? We picked up Mimi a long time ago and now we're-"
"OH Thank Goodness! You know Tai!" The person on the other line exclaimed. Sora stopped talking for a minute to register that it was a girl's voice, and one she didn't recognize. In the background there were signs of something crashing and a scream.
"Hello? Who is this?"
"Gah! Calm down Hideto! I'll get him off!" There was the sound of the phone dropping to the floor. "Ah! It's on me! Get it off! Get it- Ooh pretty bubbles. Wait- Don't do that! My chair's tipping! Ah!"
–CRASH! – Dial Tone –
After that, Sora turned off her phone and put it away. Then she covered her face with her hands and let out a deep sigh. "Tai's busy…" That was all she could say to describe what just happened.
"That's too bad." Mimi sighed.
"I'm sure he'll be coming once he's done." Izzy said quickly, trying to cheer her up.
"Hey Mimi, did you know that Izzy arrived at the Airport first? I think he arrived an hour before when we were supposed to meet."
"Well, I like to be punctual to everything." He said as he simultaneously glared at Matt and squeezed his bag to silence Motimon from commenting.
"Whatever, let's eat!" Tsunomon exclaimed, he could smell their food coming.
"This is what I like about this place." Mimi said when they were finished. "It's so peaceful even with so many people. I feel like there's not as much urgency here because I can spend all the time I want with my friends… or most of them anyways." She finished by standing in front of the glass doors and giving them a thumb up.
The rest of them smiled at her kind words, and then gave confused frowns when they noticed that everyone outside seemed to be frozen in shock. Nobody was moving, and it was supposed to be rush hour.
"What's going on?" Matt asked for all of them as he passed Mimi and looked outside. As soon as he did, the Digidestined of Friendship joined the rest of the masses with a look of shock and disbelief.
The rest of the older Digidestined did the same and had the same result plastered on their faces. "No way." Joe squeaked.
"That's impossible, there were no readings or indications of this happening at all." Izzy analyzed. "What could be causing this?"
"Why on the day I just got here?" Mimi shuddered.
A black collum of smoke billowed into the skyline. Crimson light seemed to illuminate everywhere and grew by the second. The light was so intense they could almost feel the heat from here. What was once white and peaceful had become red and dangerous. Mt. Fuji is erupting.
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Yay the second chapter is done. I hope you guys liked it.
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