Digi-Kitty here with Chapter Seven! As I said, TK and Kari are 16, not 15 as I origanally had it. Last Chapter, everyone met up and what do they do? They argue about what order to go down the elevator in. Eventually, they send TK, Matt, Ken, Susie, Koichi and Kouji, who argue some more because Koichi is the Warrior of Darkness!

18: Joe

17: Tai, Sora, Matt, Mimi, Izzy

16: TK, JP, Kari, Yolei, Ryo

15: Kouji, Ken, Davis, Zoe, Henry, Rika, Koichi

14: Takuya, Takoto, Jeri, Kazu, Kenta

12: Tommy, Cody

10: Susie

Digi-Kitty: Disclaimer please!

Matt: What's got her so excited?

Tai: Probally you being stuck in an elevator.

Digi-Kitty: Ahem *silence* DISCLAIMER!

Matt and Tai: Digi-Kitty will never own Digimon yata yata yata!

Chapter Seven

"TK!" Matt called as his brother fell. Koichi, despite having been to their world before, was looking confused.

"Almost forgot about this." Kouji murmed under his breath, as the shaft plumeted downwards into the Digital World. Plus, this is Koichi's first time being pyshicallt in the Digital World.

The elevator seemed to fall for hours, but in reallity, it was only about two minutes. When the reached the bottom Susie was smiling and laughing like it was the best thing that's happedned to her.

"Trailmon!" Kouji called out, watching each track, remembering hiw different this was than the first time. For one, last time, every inch of the place had been covered by people and every track had a Trailmon waiting for them. He smirked, glancing at the place where we fist met Angler. "Trailmon where are you!"

"Right here." The answer was cold and tense, enough to scare any young child, including Susie. "Deadly Gaze!"

All the eyes on Duskmon's body started to glow blood red, forming a blazing laser. The beam was fired directly at the Digidestined and Tamers,

But it never hit it's target.

With the Digidestined

The last group consisted of Tai, Sora, Henry, Rika, Zoe, Takuya, and Ryo. It was the biggest group and was filled with all of the goggle headed leaders, excluding Davis and Takoto. Zoe and Takuya were talking in hushed whispers, and Henry was trying to convince Rika not to go after Ryo.

"Come on Rika." Henry urged. "It's not his fault. Besides, who knows what happened when Ryo was stuck there." The blue haired boy turned to the five others.

"Hello! I'm Tai Kamiya and my Partner's Agumon!" The Digidestined leader introduced himself. "Who are you guys?"

"Hi, I'm Henry." He said quietly, a small smile forming on his face.

His partner exclaimed from the top of Henry's head. "And I'm Terriormon!"

"Ciao! Mio nome รจ Zoe!" The Warrior yelled, gaining odd looks from everyone. "Sorry, my name's Zoe, the Warrior of Wind."

"And I'm Takuya, Legendary Warrior of Flame!" The boy next to her said, grinning.

"If you're finished," the Tamer said. "My name is Rika and my partner is Renamon."

"Hi everyone." Sora started. "I'm Sora, nice to meet you."

"Ryo Akiyama." Ryo said softly, avoiding confrontation, though, mostly with Rika. "And I don't have a partner."

"Wait, Ryo?" Agumon walked up to him.

"You remember me, Agumon?" Ryo turned to him, suprise hidden in his blue green eyes.

"Wait, it stopped." Sora murmered.

Hearing her, the two Warriors laughed. "Oh, it's nowhere near over." Takuya had mischief in his eyes as he held back a laugh. "Hold on to something."

"Okay then?" Henry stuttered as he stepped back, grabbing the rail with one hand.

The rest followed his lead just as the elevator dropped suddenly. Everyone except Zoe and Takuya jumped slighty as the fall started.

"What the heck is happening?" Tai yelled. "Does this happen everytime you go to DigiWorld?"

"We've only been there once!" Zoe exclaimed.

"Once?" Sora asked. "We've gone two or three times!"

"And we got back five minutes after we left!" Takuya added. "Lucemon beat us there!"

"Lucemon what?"

"Yeah, he beat us to our world after he deleted the world-" Takyua babbled until Zoe slapped a hand over his mouth. "You did not hear anything."

"The world was deleted?" Sora's voice wavered, remembering not seeing her partner for what seemed like months.

The Warriors glanced at each other. "Um, sadly yes." Zoe's eyes darkened slightly. "However, Ophanimon was able to bring it back."

"Oh, well that's good." Tai gave Sora an awkward smile.

"Anyway, we're here now!" Takuya perked up as the elevator crashed to a landing. "Welcome, to the entrannce of the Digital World."

As they exited, the combined group of Tamers, Warriors, and Digidestined saw the rest of the kids huddled around two people. Well, everyone except for Matt, who was whispering silent words to TK.

Zoe and Takuya's eyes searched through the crowd, widening. Then the two pushed into the middle out of sight, the Tamers dashing after them. Tai and Sora exchanged glances and walked over to the Digidestined brothers. Matt waved them over the moment he saw them.

"What happened here, Matt?" Tai's questioned, talking to Matt while staring into TK's eyes. "Is some one hurt?"

Matt met Tai's gaze angrily."To answer your question, TK got in a fight with the Warriors of Light and Darkness, so when we got out of the shaft they walked away for a minute." His gaze clouded momentarily. "Some Digimon appeared and attacked us, then those two got caught in the middle of it."

"Do you know how bad it is?" Sora asked him.

"Nothing." Matt's tone was nowhere near pleasent. "What I do know is their partners are missing, or this Lucemon has gotten to them."

"Have you checked on the kids yet?" Tai put a hand on his friend's shoulder.

"Joe's working on it."

Nodding, Tai walked towards the ever growing crowd. Once he reached the center, he saw four of the Warriors gathered around two boys, almost twins. Takuya and Zoe, along with a second boy were glaring at them, a challenge in their eyes. Joe was sitting besides them, questioned a younger boy. All of therm seemed to be remembering something none of the Warriors liked to remember, their first battle with Duskmon.

"Takuya?" Tai tried to wake the boy out of his trance. "Takuya answer me!" Tai spoke louder than before, a tad more forceful than the first time.

Takuya blinked once. Twice, then looked at the Digidestined Leader, his amber eyes unfocused. "What?"

Tai drew in a deep breath. "I need you to tell me what happened the first time you fought with Duskmon."

"Go ahead talk." Takuya demanded, his rival's back facing him.

"Why are you here Takuya?" Kouji asked him, his tone suggesting he knew the reason for everyone else. "Answer me! Why are you here?"

Instead of answering, Takuya just stood their for a moment. "You know, to save the world."

"You say that like you don't know what that means, like you don't know the risks." Kouji scoffed at him, and Takuya knew he was rolling eyes. "This isn't some video game you can just reset!"

Now Takuya was fuming, his brown eyes ablaze with flames. "I know that!" He argued back.

"Sometimes I doubt you do." Kouji's voice was ice cold, sending chills through Takuya's spine.

"I'm not stupid, Kouji!" Takuya hissed through gritted teeth.

"Than why put our lives at stake for a plan we don't even know will work?" Kouji challenged him.

Takuya looked up at Tai with, fire burning in his eyes. "All you need to know, is that I lead my team into battle against Duskmon, a Digimon we knew nothing about. Duskmon almost killed me, but it never happened."

"Because I truly believe that if we work togethor we can beat any threat that comes our way."

"Open your eyes Takuya!" Kouji spat as he turned and grabbed Takuya's shirt.

"Open your own eyes Kouji!" Takuya yelled. "We are stronger than you think!"

Kouji's grip loosened, his eyes dull for less than a second, before the walls of the old building the two were standing in began to cave in. Something flashed in the boy's eyes, fear, Takuya wondered.

"It's him." Kouji muttered darkly. "Duskmon's here!"

They sprinted back to the others, silence surronding the two rivals. "Guess we couldn't run either way!" Takuya joked, looking back to see Kouji replaced with KendoGarurumon, his Beast Spirit. "Execute! Spirit Evolution! He sliced his hand against his D-tector, transforming into Agunimon.

"The sword never touched me." Takuya's eyes were no longer a dark brown color, but a flaming amber.

Agunimon jumped around Duskmon's back. "Attack togethor!"

"Howling Star!"

"Hurricane Gale!"

"Bolo Thunder!"

"Avalance Axes!"

The four attacks combined into a blazing orb of color. Agunimon jumped into the air just before the attacks collided with the Warrior of Darkness, dodging it as he leaped. As he touched the ground, Duskmon held out one arm and absorded all of their attacks. He turned to Agunimon, his red eyes glowing dangerously.

"You shall be first." Duskmon raised his blade above his head, ready to stike. Agunimon closed his blue eyes, waiting for impact. But, it never came.

"Kouji!" All three Warriors shouted.

Agunimon opened his eyes instantly, only to see KendoGarurumon surronded by fractal code. A second later, Kouji was on the ground in front of him, a blood red gash in his back. Eyes widening, Agunimon pulled his friend onto his lap. "Kouji? Kouji, no!"

Takuya met Tai's gaze, stone hard. "I intend to make sure it stays that way. No matter what the cost."

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