Long chapter is long! Well by my standards of long... Hahaha. So guys, not too sure when the next update will be really should start focusing on my exams that are coming up. I really don't want to be repeating exams in August so I should start studying... sigh. Mind you, I am like Queen Procrastinator so chances are you will get more chapters before I start my exams xD We'll see... ANYWAY, hope you like the update and I'll be back when I'm back!

Disclaimer: The little Irish girl still doesn't own Digimon.

Tai was getting frustrated. They had found Sora's crest over an hour ago and he still hadn't found his. The digivices were so vague about how close the crests were it really annoyed him.

"Hey Tai," started Izzy. "Is your digivice reacting anymore?"

Tai glanced at his digivice again. "Yeah it's still glowing, it must be close... I think."

"That's what you said a half an hour ago," mumbled Matt bitterly.

Usually Tai would have taken the bait and snapped at the blond but he just didn't have the heart to now since Tk was gone.

"Yeah, I know Matt, but I really do think we're getting closer now okay?"

Matt rolled his eyes. "Whatever."

Tai sighed. They had long since exited the woods. They seemed to be in a barren land. The sun was starting to fall and everyone was tired. Yet nobody intended on resting until they found the crest.

Gomamon suddenly stopped and sniffed the air. "Eh guys, I think we might have company."

"You smell it too?" asked Biyomon.

Gomamon nodded.

The digidestineds faced the digimon. "Smell what?" asked Cody.

"Growlmon," said Armadillomon. "And-

"Metaltyrannomon," added Gomamon. "Tuskmon too."

Suddenly loud roars to their left caused all the digidestineds to scream. Just under half a mile away was a herd of Tuskmon, Metaltyrannomon and Growlmon. There must be at least twenty large dinosaur like digimon charging towards them.

"Oh shit," muttered Joe.

"Maybe they won't see us," said Yolei but everyone knew she was only fooling herself.

"HORN DRIVER!"

Although the digimon were still a good distance away the attack just about missed them.

Joe tumbled backwards and hopped back up onto his feet quickly. "TAI!" He yelled. "Get your crest! Quickly! Sora, Cody and I will try and hold these guys off but we're going to need Agumon!"

Tai nodded and raced off but he really didn't know if he was even running in the right way. "Must. Get. The. Crest."

"GOMAMON DIGIVOLVED TO IKAKUMON!"

"BIYOMON DIGIVOLVED TO BIRDRAMON!"

"ARMADILLOMON DIGIVOLVED TO ANKYLOMON!"

The dinosaur digimon charged forward but they didn't seem interested in Birdramon, Ankylomon or Ikkakumon instead they were heading for...

"TAI RUN!" Yelled Kari.

Tai kept racing forward he could hear his digivice beeping louder he was heading in the right direction anyway.

"HORN DRIVER!"

"PYRO BLASTER!"

"NUCLEAR LAZOR!"

Tai somehow dodged the attacks and kept running forward.

"TAIL HAMMER!"

"METEOR WING!"

"HARPOON TORPEDO!"

Birdramon, Ankylomon and Ikkakumon's attacks didn't seem to be doing too much. Still the herd kept moving.

"Birdramon!" cried Sora. "Digivolve!"

"You too Ikkakumon!"

BIRDRAMON DIGIVOLVED TO GARUDAMON!"

IKKAKUMON DIGIVOLVED TO ZUDOMON!"

The digievolutions temporarily distracted the herd and Tai took a moment to catch his breath.

He scanned the area quickly. He still couldn't see his crest. "Fuck sake," he muttered angrily.

"Tai!" called Izzy. "You need to keep running!"

As if to prove Izzy wasn't joking the Growlmon launched their attacks straight at the football player. It was a miracle they missed.

"WING BLADE!"

"VULCAN'S HAMMER!"

"TAIL HAMMER!"

Finally the attacks seemed to be taking their toll on the herd and some of the digimon began to fall, but not enough.

"NUCLEAR LAZOR!"

This time the blast was too close for comfort and Tai was sent flying into the air. He crashed down hard in a crater left by the badly aimed attacks of the Growlmon.

Tai groaned and raised a hand to his forehead. Luckily he wasn't bleeding. He had almost climbed out of the crater when he seen it, the small golden chain poking out of the dust. "YES!"

Tai tore the chain from the dirt and raised it up to the sky. He was vaguely aware of the others screaming his name as he rose from the crater. In his excitement of finding his crest Tai had forgotten about the digimon whose attacks were heading straight for him. There was no time to run, no time to hide. As the attacks blasted around him Tai yelled Agumon's name as a cloud of smoke and dust engulfed him.

"TAI!" Cried Sora. She tried to run forward but Joe grabbed her around the waist and pulled her up and off her feet.

"You can't Sora!"

"Let me go Joe! Let me go!"

Davis's eyes widened. "Look!"

The smoke and dust had cleared enough to reveal a shape out by the horizon.

"Is that-

"IT'S WARGREYMON!" Exclaimed Kari.

Tai clung onto Wargreymon's neck there was tears in his eyes. "You-you saved me."

Wargreymon grinned showing off his sharp teeth. "Always."

Wargreymon stood up tall and brushed himself off. "Now," he said viciously. "It's time to show these digimon that there's only room for one dino in town!"

"Hell yeah!" exclaimed Tai as he fist pumped the air. "You go Wargreymon.

Wargreymon flew upwards and instantly gained the attention of the herd.

"TERRA FORCE!"

The others joined in.

"WING BLADE!"

"VULCAN'S HAMMER!"

"TAIL HAMMER!"

It was clear that the digidestineds had an advantage over the herd of dinosaur digimon. More and more of the dinos fell with every attack. It wasn't long before the infected beasts realised they were fighting a losing battle and began to retreat.

When the surviving digimon had retreated back far enough. Tai breathed a sigh of relief. "You did it guys!" he called up as their digimon began to return to them. Wargreymon dedigivolved as finally jumped into Tai's arms as Agumon.

"Tai, Tai!" cried Agumon and he hugged his digidestined partner. "I missed you Tai!"

"I missed you too buddy," replied Tai. "I missed you too."

"Tai!" Tai and Agumon looked up to see the others racing towards him. Agumon jumped down from Tai's arms as Sora reached them.

Sora was sobbing madly. Just as Tai was about to pull her into a hug she slapped him hard.

"What the Hell was that for?"

"I thought you were dead!" she cried. "Don't ever do that to me again. If I lost you Tai then I-I I don't know what I'd do."

Tai pulled her into him. "Shh," he soothed. "It's okay."

Sora stood up on her tiptoes and kissed him, not quite as passionately as the other night though. "Just... just don't do that to me again," she said added breaking away.

Tai tapped his forehead against hers. "I won't."

"Good," she said kissing him again.

Agumon and Biyomon exchanged a look. "Humans are weird," said Agumon.

"Agreed," added Biyomon. "Really weird."

The others caught up with Tai and Sora. "Eh guys if you could quit being so em... teenagery for a moment please," said Joe awkwardly.

The couple broke away and grinned. "Okay Joe," said Tai kissing the top of Sora's head. "We'll try keep the secondary school antics to a minimum."

"PEPPER BREATH!"

Agumon set the twigs and dried leaves to light easily and Kari grinned. "It's sure nice to get the camp fire going quickly, thanks Agumon."

Agumon grinned showing off his teeth. "Sure I'm just fantastic you know."

"Yeah fantastic at scorching my trousers," said Ken as he brushed sparks from his knees.

"Woops," said Agumon.

Kari laughed and put her chilled hands into her pockets. "Huh?"

She felt the cool metal of the handgun in her pocket. How could she have forgotten about it? How did the others forget? She felt like she should hand it over to Tai but... but something held her back. Instead she took her hands from her pockets and acted like nothing had happened.

Although everyone was still upset over the loss of their friends a weak sense of normality had returned to the conversation amongst the group. The gang no longer sat in silence and had begun to chat again. Albeit small chat.

"I'm not sure if our plan is really working," said Izzy.

Tai stopped chatting to Sora and raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

"Well, I know we are finding the crests and everything it's just... well it's happening really slowly don't you think?"

Yolei swallowed her food before speaking. "Well we're not going to find them all in one night Izzy. It's going to take time."

Izzy bit his lip, he looked as if he regretted saying anything. "I know it's just I think we'd cover more ground if we-

"You think we should split up?" Asked Sora cutting over him.

"Well, yes."

Joe played with his food in his container. "Why though? We still only have four digimon on our side. If we get attacked by a herd like we did today if we're on our own we wouldn't stand a chance."

"I know," said Izzy. "It's just if we split up, even into teams we could cover so much more ground quicker. We don't even have to split up for long, maybe a day or two and join back up again."

Ken took a bite from his food. "I don't think that's a good idea Izzy. What if we split up and end up going further away from our crests? I just don't think it's worth the risk."

Matt and Davis exchanged a look this could be there chance to break up the group, they'd easily be able to overpower someone and get them to join Devimon if the group split into subgroups.

"I think it's a good idea Izzy," said Matt.

"Me too," piped up Davis.

Tai couldn't help groaning. "Not you guys too?" he moaned. "Look it makes no sense to split up right now!"

"And why not?" barked back Matt standing up.

"You know right well why not Matt," said Tai. "You heard Joe and Ken."

"Yeah and?" retaliated Matt. "I know there's risks but I think if we find all the crests by the day after tomorrow by splitting up it's worth it don't you?"

Tai stood up now too. "No Matt, no I don't think it's a good idea. Do you know what happened the last time we split up into little groups to search for a crest? Do you?

"Tai don't-" began Yolei.

"Tk drowned! That's what!" Tai yelled. "So excuse me if I don't want to split the team up!"

"Bastard," muttered Matt. The blond lunged forward and punched Tai hard on the jaw knocking him down. Matt proceeded to jump on the brunette and punch him again and again.

Together Joe, Izzy and Ken managed to pull a raging Matt off of Tai. Matt was still trashing in the guys' arms as Tai sat up again. His face was a mess.

Tai didn't look up at Matt as he spat blood and a tooth on the ground. It wasn't until Matt was starting to calm down that the brunette spoke again. "I was out of line," he said softly. "I'm sorry."

Tai outstretched a hand to Matt to shake but the blond ignored it. "Whatever Tai," he said sulkily as he walked a few metres from the group and laid down. "I'm going for a walk."

Tai grimaced and let out an agitated sigh as Joe knelt down to look at his cuts. "I hate this," he whispered quietly to the young doctor. "I hate all of it."

"Me too Tai," admitted Joe as he took a small bottle of antiseptic from his bag. "Me too."

"Matt wait," said Davis as he chased after the blond.

Matt stopped and put his hands in his pockets sighing heavily. "We need to split them up," he said monotonously.

Davis grimaced his conscience was beginning to get the better of him again. "Yeah, I suppose so."

Matt took a cigarette from his pocket placed it between his lips and tore out a lighter. "Splitting them up is our best chance of over powering them, of eliminating them or forcing them to join us, don't really care either way how it pans out," he said as he exhaled smoke rings into the cool winter night. "Join us or die that can be our new motto eh Davey?"

Davis bit his lip. "I didn't know you smoked," he said finally ignoring Matt's question.

Matt raised an eyebrow. "There's a lot you don't know about me," he said coolly. "So you up for it Davis?"

Davis could feel Devimon's power trying to consume him but he tried to fight it off. "Maybe we're wrong Matt, maybe we should leave Devimon whilst we have the chance may-

Matt turned and faced him venom and Devimon's evil tint in his eyes. "What are you saying Davis?"

"M-Matt Devimon is turning us into people that we're not, I hate what I'm becoming... look at everything I've sacrificed to get Kari to love me... is it really worth it?"

Matt blew smoke in Davis's face causing the younger teen to cough. "You made your bed Davis now you must lie in it."

"This isn't you Matt," said Davis quietly.

"My brother is dead Davis," said Matt quietly a hint of his usual self attached to his voice. "Tk is dead and he was the only one I'd risk everything to save the world for, with him dead what's the point in fighting the good fight? What's the point in fighting for a world I don't even think I want to live in when all this is over eh? What's the point in breathing if life isn't worth it?"

Davis gazed down at his feet. "Matt I-

"Oh how nice a heart-to-heart in the moonlight," sneered Devimon as he descended down towards the two boys. "And I forgot the popcorn."

"What do you want Devimon?" asked Davis forcibly.

Devimon titled his head. "That's no way to speak to me little man."

"Maybe I don't want to work for you anymore Devimon," said Davis coldly.

Devimon's eyes hardened. "I'm afraid I cannot let you go Davis."

Davis turned to walk away. "Why what ya gonna do? Kill me?"

Devimon allowed Davis to walk away a few paces before speaking. "Why would I kill you? That would not be fun at all... killing oh let's say Kari? Now that would be interesting."

Davis's eyes widened and he turned to face Devimon. "You wouldn't."

Devimon grinned. "Try me."

Davis bit his lip. "Don't hurt her."

"Don't leave my army," replied Devimon.

Davis looked over to Matt for help but the blond didn't meet his gaze.

Davis sighed, he knew Devimon wasn't lying. "Fine... I'll stay," he admitted.

Devimon grinned. "Well just to be sure we can't have you running off on me again TOUCH OF EVIL!"

Devimon struck Davis in the chest with his attack, sending waves of energy through the boy's body. Davis fell back on the ground hard and groaned. He could actually feel Devimon's power overwhelming his body... he could feel himself fading away... his own thoughts disappearing... fading... fading... gone.

Matt cast a worried glance towards Devimon. Maybe Davis had been right. Maybe joining Devimon wasn't the right answer.

Davis struggled to his feet and Devimon seemed to have lost all interest in him. "Split the group up boys and then attack. If they refuse to join you... well then you know what to do."

"Yes sir," spoke Davis venomously as he reached his feet.

For a moment Matt was unsure of what to say, he thought of Tk. What would his brother say now? He wasn't even dead a week and had he already forgotten him?

"Matt?" asked Devimon. "You in?"

Matt glanced at Davis and back to Devimon. Suddenly he felt the anger in his heart flare up again... but it wasn't quite as powerful as it had been. "Yeah I'm in," he said half-heartedly.

Devimon smirked. "Well just to be sure TOUCH OF EVIL!"

Matt crumpled to the ground and all the second thoughts he was having were suddenly annihilated. The darkness swarmed him like heavy waves at sea and he felt himself going under... losing himself... becoming the very thing he had fought all his life... becoming the darkness.

Devimon retracted his attack. "I shall ask again, Matt whom does your loyalty lie with?"

Matt pulled himself to his feet. "You Master, always."

Raaaaaaar! I don't know why I roared. I really should stop updating my stories at like 3am. Toodles !