Hey, possibly my last chapter for a while, who knows? I'm back to school Monday unfortunately and with it being my last year a lot of work has to be done with applying to colleges and what not. I won't take as long of a break as I did last time I can assure you of that though anyway! You'll learn a lot more about my story from this chapter though that at least is a certain :D as always reviews are nice and any suggestions/criticisms will be taken on board. So are we ready?

Disclaimer: I own nothing mentioned whatsoever.

OH! Any suggestions of crest names for Yolei will be much appreciated. I already have one for Cody and ideas for Davis. Thanks again! Oh and SORATO or TAIORA? I've still left it pretty vague, as it is a couple that will form in later chapters which couple would you prefer?

Not long after the call to Gennai all the digidestineds had slowly drifted off to sleep. It had been previously decided however that one person would remain on watch during the night for an hour or two and then another would take over. It was nearly 4am now and a tired yet still watchful Tk was on duty.

The blonde stifled a yawn as he sat watching over his friends. He listened to his iPod through one ear leaving the other free how he would hear anyone or anything if they approached.

It had been a long day and what Gennai had said had stuck with him. Someone, a human had done this a human being had set the virus on the digital world with the help of a digimon. How?

It almost seemed impossible. "Who could do such a thing?" he thought to himself. "Who?"

Just at that moment the fire crackled and Tk jumped. He turned and looked at the dying embers of the fire and sighed. "No wonder I didn't get the Crest of Courage," he said quietly to himself.

As he poked at the fire he looked around and his sleeping friends. Joe was rolled up in an awkward ball on the ground. Tk grinned, as he just knew the young doctor would be complaining of a sore back in the morning. Yolei was using Ken as a pillow and had completely stolen the blanket the couple were supposed to be sharing. Sora slept nearest the fire and Tai had thrown his jacket over her to act as another blanket. Tai himself was sleeping slightly propped up against a tree next to Izzy. Tk sighed as his eyes met the sight of a sleeping Kari and Davis. The new couple slept close to each other, using one another as blankets almost. Kari's head rested on Davis' chest as the goofy brunette slept with his arm around the bearer of Light holding her in close to him. Tk averted his eyes away from them, he couldn't watch.

As the blonde stared down at his mud stained sneakers a new song came on his iPod, My Sacrifice by Creed. Tk flinched. The song always made him think of Kari, always.

Tk shut his eyes in a desperate attempt to hold back the tears. "Fuck," he muttered.

When you are with me, I'm free
I'm careless, I believe
Above all the others we'll fly
This brings tears to my eyes
My sacrifice

The song had always reminded Tk of Kari, ever since Matt had first played it at a concert years ago. The lyrics had always connected to Tk, the song meant more to him than most things in his life. The blonde looked back towards his sleeping love. She looked so beautiful so peaceful so… perfect.

The blonde wiped his eyes even with his toughest attempt he just could not hold back the tears. He was heartbroken, lost, broken.

Tk buried his head in his arms and sat in a crouched position and didn't bother fighting back the tears anymore.

Tk must have been sitting like that for about ten minutes when someone put a hand on his shoulder. The blonde looked up with lightning speed. It was Kari.

"Hey stranger," she said cheerfully, "scare ya?"

Tk smiled. "I'm quaking in my boots," he joked back.

Kari pushed Tk gently and sat down beside him. "It's my turn to keep watch," she said."

"We'll all be kidnapped by dawn so," said Tk jokingly.

Kari pushed him gently again before resting her head on his shoulder and putting the spare earpiece of his earphones in her ear.

"Oh, I love this song," she said simply. As she listened in just in time to hear the chorus of Tears Don't Fall by Bullet For My Valentine. "You've a great taste in music Tk she said with a smile.

Tk grinned goofily. "Of course I do," he said. "I only like great things sure." Tk turned his head to Kari and smiled.

Kari looked into the blonde's cerulean eyes and could see he had been crying. She grimaced. "Tk, are you okay? It looks like you've been crying."

Tk looked down and his blonde hair flopped over his eyes. "I'm fine," he lied. "Just the em… smoke of the fire got into my eyes, made them water up is all. I'm fine." Tk looked back up at Kari and smiled.

Kari didn't smile back. She knew he was lying to her. She knew it. "You sure?" she asked.

Tk took the earphone out of his ear and handed it to Kari along with his iPod. "I'm positive," he said. "Here you hold on to the iPod it gets kind of lonely sitting on your own but the music helps."

Kari smiled.

"You better take this too," said Tk handing over the handgun. "Just in case."

Kari watched the blonde as he walked away picking a spot near Cody to sleep. She watched Tk as he lay down and finally fell asleep. She sighed as she looked over to Davis. Waking up that morning she had never thought in a million years that she would be calling Davis her boyfriend by the end of the day, in fact she actually thought something might have happened between her and Tk while they were in the digital world. Kari sighed again. "It's funny how things change," she thought, as she scrolled through Tk's iPod looking at his music.

Tk woke up about three hours later. When he first opened his eyes he forgot where he was and the sight of the woodland gave him a shock. He quickly remembered the events of the day before however and sat up and stretched. He looked around. He wasn't the first up.

Cody and Joe were preparing something for breakfast while Sora and Tai were tiding up the blankets, Izzy was having a chat with Ken and Yolei, Kari and Davis were talking too. Tk stood up and stretched again.

"Look," said Tai jokingly, "sleeping beauty finally awakens!"

Tk grinned as he walked over to help Cody and Joe.

"Good morning Tk," said Cody politely.

Tk grinned. "Mornin' Cody." Tk peeked around Joe's shoulder. "So what do we have here Joe?"

Joe smiled. "Just fruit Tk, I was able to swipe a lot of it from the kitchen yesterday only thing is we'll have to eat it quickly before it goes off."

The blonde nodded. "That's fine with me, ya know sure I'm on a diet," said Tk with a wink as he swiped a grape.

It wasn't long before everyone had eaten their breakfast and the digidestineds were ready to make a move again. Before they left each of the digidestineds said a short prayer at Mimi's grave and place a stone on the soil.

"You're always in our hearts Memes," said Izzy as the gang prepared to leave. "Always."

The river was a fair walk from were the digidestineds had decided to camp for the night and the gang reached it at about mid morning.

Tk put a hand on Cody's shoulder. "So Cody, your crest is around here somewhere, any idea on where to start looking?" he said.

Cody scanned the area quickly before shaking his head.

"That's alright Cody," said Tai reassuringly. "We know it's around here somewhere we'll find it."

"Okay so what if we check this side of the river first, then the other side and then in the river itself?" suggested Joe.

"But Joe the river is like a hundred miles long it will take forever," said Yolei.

"Maybe not," said Tk. "Look!"

Tk pointed to Cody's digivice that was glowing on his belt. Cody picked it up and smiled. "It must be around this part of the river then!" he exclaimed.

Everyone nodded. "Come on then," said Kari. "Lets start searching."

The digidestineds checked their side of the riverbank for about twenty minutes before giving up. "It must be on the other side," said Davis. "There is no sign of anything over here," he said as he placed a fallen log back on the ground.

"What if you guys all search the other side of the river and Cody and I will search in the river?" suggested Tk.

Kari nodded. "That makes sense," she said.

The river was deep and even though all the digidestineds had become strong swimmers since their adventures in the digital world even they found the river hard to swim across.

As Cody and Tk searched the river by taking turns to dive under the water, the other digidestineds searched the riverbank and shrubbery around the area. Neither team seemed to be having much luck.

Cody coughed as he raised his head above the water again. "You okay Cody?" asked Tk as he bobbed up and down on the rivers currents.

"Yeah," said Cody tiredly. "Just starting to get a bit frustrating is all."

Tk nodded. They'd been searching for ages he knew it could be tough.

"Come on Codes," he said. "We can't give up, ya have to have hope."

Cody smiled. "If that's the way you feel Tk then it's your turn to dive."

Tk grinned jollily before splashing Cody and diving under again. Tk hadn't been a great swimmer when he had first gone to the digital world but since then he had taken many lessons as well as breathing exercises under water, in fact now he was probably the best swimmer and diver in the group. He scanned the river's floor quickly, running over it with his hand in the hope of feeling something that could be the crest. Just as he was beginning to feel light headed and considered heading back up for air he felt it, a thin beaded chain, similar to the feel of what the crest of Hope's chain had been. "Yes," he thought, "I found it."

Tk grabbed hold of the chain tightly and swam quickly back up to the surface. He had been under the water for a moment of two too long and coughed as he reached the surface again.

"You alright Tk?" asked Cody worriedly.

"I'm fine," said Tk happily opening his hand to reveal the tag.

"You found it!" exclaimed Cody. The boy's excitement however was quickly replaced with confusion. "How come there is no symbol on it?"

Tk smiled. "A crest will only light up for the bearer of its attribute." Said Tk. The blonde opened Cody's hand and placed the crest in his young friend's palm.

As soon as Tk had placed the crest in Cody's hand it began to glow, bright turquoise. The intense glow lasted about five seconds and afterwards the crest shone with a symbol that resembled a star.

Tk smiled broadly. "The Crest of Honour," he said simply. Tk took the crest from Cody's hand and put it around the younger digidestineds neck. "Congrats kid!" he said cheerfully.

Cody couldn't help but smile back.

Tk faced the bank. "Guys we found the crest!" he shouted. "We're swimming back!"

The other digidestineds however didn't seem to have heard him. They were all staring up the river at something. Tk froze they looked scared.

"Guys, what's wrong?" he called.

Tai turned to him. "Tk for the love of God get out of the water! Hurry!"

Tk turned to were all the other digidestineds had been staring. Just at the top of the river were two digimon. One Tk and the others had faced before during their first night in the digital world, a Seadramon. The other was a mega-levelled digimon Patamon used to have nightmares about, Plesiomon.

"Oh my God," mouthed Tk.

Cody saw the digimon too and began to panic. The boy's nerves caused him to go under the water.

"Cody!" exclaimed Tk diving under.

Cody was trashing about restlessly under the water. His mouth was wide opened and his lungs filled with water as the boy screamed silently under the water's immense pressure.

"Shit," thought Tk as he tried to grab hold of the younger digidestined. "If he keeps up like this he'll get us both killed!"

As Tk struggled to bring a kicking and trashing Cody up to the surface he could hear the two powerful water digimon laughing, they were plotting to flood the river.

Just as Tk was about to reach the surface one of Cody's wild kicks caught him on the ankle. The loud cracking noise that followed told Tk that he had broken it. After that the younger boy went limp in Tk's arms.

Tk managed to pull both himself and Cody to the surface. Tk winced at the pain in his ankle as he threw Cody onto his back and began to swim to the bank.

"You ready Seadramon?" asked Plesiomon.

Tk desperately tried to reach the bank.

"Just about Plesiomon, what about you?" replied the Seadramon.

Tk was almost there.

"I was born ready," laughed Plesiomon.

Tk hit the bank. "Guys take Cody, I don't think he's breathing!" he exclaimed.

Tai, Izzy and Ken pulled Cody off Tk's back and rushed him over to Joe and the girls. Tk panted heavily and tried to pull himself up, his ankle however was failing him he couldn't get a firm enough footing to pull himself up.

"DAVIS!" Exclaimed Tk. "HELP ME, PLEASE, I CAN'T GET UP!"

Davis skidded down onto his knees by the blonde and grabbed both his hands in his own. The brunette's face was a picture of panic and he stared over at the digimon before doing anything.

"SAD WATER BLAST!" Roared the Plesiomon

"WATER BREATH!" Cried the Seadramon.

Davis looked back all the digidestineds were crowed around Cody, nobody was looking. He then turned back to Tk and pulled him close and leaned forward. Davis' lips were millimetres from Tk's ear.

"I got a dirty little secret Tj," he said coldly. "I created the virus!"

Tk's eyes bulged. He stared at Davis in fear.

The brunette smiled. "All hope is lost."

With that Davis flung Tk backwards into the water just as Seadramon's and Plesiomon's deadly attacks crashed down upon the river washing away everything.

That's it for now guys, 'til next time, toodles ;) xx