Loki921: Hi, I'm back. Sorry that it has taken so long. I lost my inspiration for a while, but I got it back. Now its just a matter of finding time to write. On a personal note, I have been thinking about going back to school to get my Masters in business, but I may take some undergraduate business and computer science courses first. No matter what happens I will not be abandoning my stories, and I will do everything in my power that there is not such a long wait as there was for this chapter.

?: That's a relief.

Loki921: Oh. Its this chapter's guest. Care to take a guess as to who it is? This girl may like fashion, but she is not afraid to go toe to toe with the boys and stand her ground. She has proven herself to be a force to be reckoned with and can kick up quite a storm.

?: Can we get on with it?

Loki921: Geesh. Alright, the mystery guest is...Zoe Orimoto, the Legendary Warrior of Wind.

Zoe: Thanks for the introduction. Its nice to be here.

Loki921: Its nice to have you here. Now lets go to the Mystery Digimon game. Last chapter's game didn't get the amount of answers as I thought there would be. I did make it kind of hard though, but the answer was Lilithmon/Laylamon The Great Demon Lord of Lust.

Zoe: Like me she is the only girl in a group of guys, but she shouldn't be underestimated. Her Nazar Nail instantly rots anything it touches and her Phantom Pain will make her victims suffer even in death.

Loki921: Talk about the kiss of death. Not a way that I would like to go.

Lilithmon: So you wouldn't like to go a round or two with me big boy?

Loki921: (Blush) Well..Uhm...OUCH! Why did you hit me in the head Zoe?

Zoe: Boys.

Loki921: Now on to the next round. Since the other one was hard, this one will be a little easier. Here are your hints:

1) This is "one bad dog."

2) This ultimate level digimon can digivolve into two different

mega forms based on its mode. Both are important to the order of the Digital World.

3) Has a weakness to Flame.

Loki921: Do you know this one?

Zoe: How can I not?

Loki921: Right. Now onto the the chapter. Honestly Im not to impressed with this one. It was actually longer than I wanted at 28 pages or 8948 words. This is mainly an introduction to some new characters, character development, and some fluff between a surprising couple. Originally I never even considered them a possibility until I read a Fanfic with them, surprisingly after some thought I liked it. Not one of my favorite ships, but one with potential.

Zoe: I see.

Loki921: I'm already working on the next chapter, which is just part two to this one since it went on for so long. Chapter 8 will be better with some action and some DaiKari fluff. It shouldn't be that as long this chapter. Chapter 8 will also contain some interesting information. Look for it soon.

Zoe: Better be. I don't think your readers are too happy with long waits.

Loki921: I know and I apologize to all my readers. Do you want to do the honors?

Zoe: Loki921: Doesn't own Digimon, and probably never will. He only owns the story and the OC characters that may make an appearance.

Loki921: Own with the story.

Zoe: Lets kick it Kazemon style.

Loki921: Hope that you enjoy. Don't forget to read, favorite, follow, and review.

Chapter 7: Revelations Part 1

"Every one get down now," Davis managed to call out. The last thing he saw was all his friends and their digimon dropping to the ground just as the black lightening shot out from the computer, and then everything went dark.

Tai groaned as he pushed himself off of the ground and onto his knees with his left arm; being mindful of not putting pressure on the shaking Botamon that was cradled in his right arm. The brunette could feel a headache forming from having hit his forehead on the tile flooring of the computer room when diving to the ground. Tai tentatively put a prodding figure onto his forehead, and quickly withdrew it.

"Tch…," Tai gasped as what felt like sharp pain went through his head. "Defiantly going to have a bruise there, and right in the middle to boot." He turned his attention onto the fresh level digimon in his arms, "How are you doing Botamon?"

"Boo bo boo," the digimon whistled as it snuggled into his partner's chest and then began to purr.

"I guess that means that your doing o.k."

"Bo," confirmed the digimon.

"Now we need to find out how the others are, and then we can figure out just what happened," Tai said more to himself than to Botamon in an attempts to get his thoughts in order. Looking all around him Tai spotted Izzy laying a few feet to his left. The genius had his head on the ground, with his right arm covering the back of it. His right arm was tucked under his chest, but between his arm and chest was a red bag that Tai recognized as Izzy's laptop bag. 'Typical Izzy,' the brunette sweat dropped.

"Izzy. Izzy. Get up," Tai called out to the slightly younger boy as shook him on the shoulder, roughly.

"I'm up Tai, just stop shaking me," Izzy spoke as he lifted his head up and glared at his friend, who had stopped shaking him in favor of scratching the back of his head with his right hand while giving a nervous smile. "The room is spinning enough as it is; I don't need you treating me like a snow globe."

"Sorry. I just wanted to make sure that you were alright. You weren't really moving at all."

"It's all right, Tai," Izzy rolled his eyes. He was quite used to Tai's antics by now. "Next time, just don't shake me so hard. I'm fine by the way how are the others."

"Me and Mimi are fine, along with our digimon," Sora called out from the other side of the room before Tai could respond.

Tai and Izzy quickly pulled themselves up onto their feet, Izzy placing the laptop bag on a desk. Looking near the window they saw Sora holding the cooing Nyokimon in her arms as she went to stand up next to Mimi, who had already gotten up. Mimi was comforting a teary eyed Yuramon by slowly rocking it in her arms.

"We'll be fine," Mimi said as she spared the two boys a quick glance, before turning back to her partner. "Just got a little scared, didn't we Yuramon?"

"We're ok too," Matt's voice called from the left of Tai and Izzy. Tai looked and saw Matt with Punimon, Joe with Pichimon, and Gennai with Pabumon. The three humans were standing behind the table that was now turned so that the legs faced the wall and the table top faced the computers. "We got behind the table just in time."

"And a good thing to based on the scorch marks," Joe said as he ran his right hand over were the black lightening had struck the wood, and left a black burn as proof of its power. The doctor in training removed his hand and noted the lack of ash on it. "I don't think that being hit by whatever that was would have been a very pleasant experience."

"I'm inclined to agree," Gennai said as he handed over Pabumon to Izzy, who had come over to the digital man. "My hair hasn't stood on end this much since the time I stuck a screwdriver into Mekanorimon's power unit thinking it was a motor unit. Talk about a shocker."

"Puns can come later Gennai," Tai said as to the digital man. "We need to make sure everybody is alright first. Now where's Kari and the others."

"Uh, Tai," Sora said, gaining the brunette's attention along with the others. Sora's cheeks were red as she pointed to the right side of the room. The standing DigiDestined and Gennai turned to face where she was pointing, and met with a funny sight.

Yolei was laying on the ground next to Kari, and Ken was laying partially on Yolie. Willis was laying on top of Kari. T.K.'s legs were trapped under Yolei's, while Ken's body kept T.K.'s shoved down. Tai had the feeling that the less said about what his face was being shoved into the happier both T.K. and Willis would be, but he might have snagged a few pictures on his D-System for later along with Matt. Cody 's upper body was pinned under Kari and Willis, his face sticking out from the other side of the girl's stomach, while his lower body was draped over Ken's legs. The only sign of the digimon was a brown ear sticking out from under Cody's chin, and one of Gatomon's gloves appearing from under Yolei.

"How is it that every time something happens we always end up in a dog pile, and I always end up at the bottom," Yolei let out an aggravated screech.

"Look on the bright side Yolei," Cody said.

"What bright side?"

"You could have ended up like T.K.," Ken answered, earning a few strained giggles from the female Digidestineds.

"How's the view T.K.," joked Tai, earning a few more giggles and a slight chuckle from Joe. "I have always heard the moon is quite beautiful up close."

Willis's cheeks flushed a bright red at Tai's comment, while T.K. tried to push his head up. Unfortunately, the combined weight of Cody's and Ken's lower bodies was to much. When he failed to get up, T.K. settled for mumbling out a few phrases that no one could make out, but they did manage to turn Willis's whole face red.

"Dude, we maybe friends but I don't like you that way, so I would appreciate it if you would shut your mouth," Willis said before deciding to bury is face into Kari's back when he noticed how Tai, Matt, and Mimi were taking pictures.

"You should listen to Willis T.K.," Matt solemnly said, but then a shit-eating-grin crossed the rock star's face. "I know Mom taught you not to talk with your mouth full."

Matt's joke seemed to be the last straw as the older DigiDestined and Gennai burst out laughing, while Kari giggled and Ken and Cody chuckled. Deciding on not making the situation any worse by trying to talk, T.K. settled on displaying an inappropriate sign on each of his hands to show his displeasure. The laughter continued, with Tai, Matt, and Mimi still taking taking pictures, for about a minute more before Yolei had enough.

"Alright already," Yolei yelled. "We get it, it's funny that T.K. is up Willis's butt, but do you want to know what not funny? Having Gatomon dig her claws into your stomach, so get me out of here."

"Alright Yolei. Matt and I will have you out in a second," Tai said to pacify the scowling teenager as Matt and himself went over the the tangled up group. Matt decided to take pity on his brother and lifted Cody's legs up, giving Tai the chance to pull Ken out. As soon as Ken was off of him T.K. jerked his head up so fast that Matt thought he was going to get whiplash.

"At last," T.K. gasped. "I can breathe."

"My I ask how you all got into this mess anyway," Matt asked as he set Cody's legs back down while Willis was pulled away and back onto his two feet by Tai.

"I don't have the slightest idea on how this happened," Kari answered as she and T.K. were hoisted to their feet by their older brothers.

"We've just learned not to question it anymore," T.K. finished, getting nods from the other Second Generation DigiDestined.

As Ken helped up his girlfriend and Willis pulled Cody to his feet, the digimon were finally exposed. Only Gatomon, Poromon, and Minomon were conscious; Upamon, Terriermon, Lopmon, and Patamon were out cold with swirls in their eyes.

"Thank goodness I have no spine," Poromon sighed he and the other digimon were picked up by their partners.

"Ken," Minomon said as he looked up to the teenager holding him. "I know I already told Davis this earlier, but how can you humans be so small, but weigh so much?"

"Speaking of Davis," Gatomon spoke from Kari's arms as she turned her head to look around the room. "Where his he and Veemon?"

The room went quiet as the realization that they didn't know where Davis was sunk in. In all the confusion and they had forgotten that Davis had come through the computer only mere moments before the black lightening had.

Kari turned to her brother and asked "Tai, where is Davis?"

"I don't know," Tai answered her. "But he's got to be here somewhere. We just need to look for him."

Tai and the others looked around the room, taking in the full damage caused by the strange lightening. Several of the monitors on the computers were either cracked or even melted. Most of the desks and all of the chairs were thrown about the room, a few of them smoking. The glass in window behind Sora and Mimi was shattered, luckily the shards of glass had landed outside rather than on top of the two girls. With a sigh, the digidestined and Gennai started to spread out and comb through the debris to look for the missing teen and his digimon.

As Yolei searched among the remains in the front of the computer room, Poromon began to wiggle. The girl tried to keep a hold of her digimon, but his movement made it hard.

"Hold still Poromon. If you keep wriggling around like that I'm going to drop you."

"But Yolei," Poromon said as he continued to squirm in his partner's arms. "I can smell them. I can smell Davis and Veemon."

"Do you think you know where their scent is coming from," Matt asked over the girl's shoulder.

"Gyaaa!" Yolei shrieked out; she had not been aware that Matt was nearby, let alone right behind her. Yolei caught her breathe and turned red-faced as she noticed that she was being stared at by the others. She hid her embarrassment by turning around and sending a glare at the rock star. "Don't do that. Are you trying to give me a heart attack?"

"Sorry," Matt apologized, slightly unnerved by the girl's glare.

While Yolei was distracted, Poromon wiggled his way out of her hands and onto the ground. As soon as he hit the ground, the bird digimon shot off toward a pile of desks near the area that Tai had awoken at, barley making it passed Yolei's attempts at catching him and ignoring her pleas for him to come back. Upon reaching the pile, he stopped only long enough to find a gap in-between the desks that he could fit through. With a small leap, he dove into the pile before Yolei could catch up to him.

"Poromon, that's dangerous," Yolei called out as she ran to the desk pile, closely followed by Matt and the others.

"Found them," Poromon's voice called out from the pile. "Davis and DemiVeemon are in here."

"Well, lets hurry and get them out then," Matt said from where he stood by Yolei in front of the pile.

Not needing to be told twice, the other Digidestined started to remove the desks, carefully as not to injure Poromon, Davis, and DemiVeemon. As the third desk in the pile was being removed by T.K. and Willis, Davis's legs were revealed. Tai and Gennai removed the last desk, fully exposing Davis and the digimon.

Poromon was sitting next to Davis's head. Davis, himself, was curled into a ball, and DemiVeemon was wrapped in his arms next to his chest. Both were unconscious, but that was not what struck the Digidestined and their digimon as odd. In Davis's arms, next to the little blue dragon, was a digiegg.

Joe was the first one to snap out of the shock, and moved to put his doctor's training to good use. The young doctor pushed his way passed Gennai and Tai to the unconscious boy and digimon. He immediately began to check their vitals and their bodies for injuries while the rest of the group gathered behind him, watching him work with careful and practiced movements.

It was at times like this that Tai couldn't help but think about just how far Joe had come over the years. When they had first come to the Digital World around ten years ago, Joe had been a nervous wreck. He had lacked any sort of confidence, resulting in his opinions being ignored, and often was terrified of everything. Now Joe was cool and confident, even in many situations that would make the others panic. As Tai watched Joe give the ok for him and Matt to move Davis and DemiVeemon to the table that Gennai set right, he knew that Joe was perfect for the Crest of Reliability despite the initial impressions.

"Well nothing is broken," Joe turned to the group after he finished examining his two patients. "Besides a few scratches and bruises, there appears to be no significant damage. My guess they passed out more from exhaustion rather than being hurt;" Joe crossed his arms in front of his chest and placed his left hand on his chin," which is better than I can say for most of us."

"When do you think they will wake up," Kari asked as she cradled the egg that had been next to Davis. "I have a few things that I would like to know."

"Right," Izzy nodded in agreement. "I would like to know what happened to Fallenmon, and where did that egg come from?"

"Maybe its from Primary Village?" Ken suggested, but Yolei shook her head.

"It can't be. Cody and myself made sure that we got every last digiegg and digimon loaded into our D-Systems. The whole village was clear before we joined back with the group."

"Do you think it could be Flamemon's?" Kari asked as she rubbed a hand across its surface.

"I can't be sure, but I don't think so," Gennai answered as he gave the blue and yellow striped egg a studious look. "Digieggs usually bear some sort of resemblance to the digimon it came from, though something about it does look familiar."

"For now it useless trying to guess anything," Matt stepped foreword and stood to Tai's right. "The only ones who could tell us anything are lying on the table right now, and they won't be able to tell us anything until they wake up." Matt then turned to Joe, who had not changed his position, "Any ideas when that will be?"

Joe didn't answer, instead he was looking at the floor, but it looked like he was not really seeing it. Tai recognized that look; he remembered Joe had a habit of standing with his arms crossed, hand on his chin, and loosing focus on what was happening around him when he was deep in though about something. It was similar to Izzy's "Computer dork mode;" meaning that the doctor probably hadn't even noticed that he had been asked a question.

Tai sighed and walked up to the blue haired man. He stuck his right hand in front of Joe and started snapping.

"Earth to Joe. Doctor Joe, do you come in?"

Joe's eyes widened, but he didn't jump like Tai had expected him to.

"Do you have to do that?" Joe asked the brunette. "And I'm not a doctor yet."

"It's the best way to get your attention when you go 'Izzy' on us," Tai shrugged, causing the red head computer genius to raise an eyebrow and Mimi to giggle. "And you are one to us, plus you get your Doctorate this summer. Now, when do you think Davis and DemiVeemon might wake up?"

"I can't really say," Joe sighed. "They could wake up later tonight, tomorrow evening, or even two days from now if they are truly exhausted. Its just a matter of when their bodies recuperate from the physical exertion they went through."

"So they won't wake up for a while though," Ken asked.

"That's the only thing that I can be certain of. It will be at least several hours if not longer before they so much as begin to stir, and to try and force them awake would do more harm than good."

Tai closed his eyes and pressed his left thumb and forefinger to the bridge of his nose for a few seconds before relaxing with a sigh. He then turned to address the other occupants in the room.

"If Davis and DemiVeemon are not going to be waking up soon, and the digi-port isn't working, then there is not much we can do right now. We'll straighten up the room the best we can, and then leave for today."

Tai could see that some, T.K., Cody, and Willis, were hesitant about doing nothing, but they soon resigned themselves to calling a day when they realized that there wasn't anything else that they could do. The older DigiDestined set their digimon down near the window, along with Minomon, Poromon and Upamon, since the table was currently occupied. Working together with the digimon that currently had arms and legs, the DigiDestined and Gennai straightened the desks and chairs, returning them to their proper place, swept the floors, and wiped the walls of burn marks.

The real problem came from the computer that they usually used to access the Digital World. The black lightening had done some serious damage to it. The modem was fine, but the monitor was totaled. The glass screen was shattered, exposing the inner wires and circuitry, and much of that was fried. Tai doubted that even Izzy would be able to fix it, despite running a computer repair shop, and it seemed that the red head was taking it pretty hard if the fact he kept trying to see if there was anything he could do to repair it.

"Don't take it too hard Izzy," Yolei said while gently rubbing his back. "These computers were outdated, and I know that the school was planning to replace them anyway with newer models. They were just looking for an excuse to do so, and now they have one."

"I can believe that," Tai said while placing his hand on Izzy's shoulder. "These are the very same computers that we used since 10th grade when we went here. In fact," Tai narrowed his eyes at the broken monitor, "that computer was the very same one that kept shutting down on me while I was trying to write my report for Miss Asaji's class."

"It might have helped if you hadn't beat on it every time it was slow to load," Sora lightly scolded him.

"Hey, I didn't hit it. I just gave it a few persuasive taps, and that's beside the point."

"Fine, I guess I shouldn't feel to bad," Izzy finally relented. "But I'm still leaving a note telling what happened along with my number. That way they can call me with any questions, and hopefully we can get this straightened out without too much trouble."

"That's all you can do," Yolei agreed. "Now we can focus on what to with Davis and DemiVeemon." Tai was quick to respond.

"I'm going to take Davis and DemiVeemon home."

"And Gatomon and myself will go along with you," Kari stated.

"Are you sure?" Tai asked his sister.

"Yes. You are going to need someone to help you, unless you think you can carry Botamon, DemiVeemon, and Davis up to the apartment all by yourself," Kari smirked at a now sweat drooping Tai. "Then we can walk back home afterwards since it shouldn't be too late."

"Alright," Tai gave in.

"Then Gennai, you can say with me," Izzy said turning to the digital human. "My apartment has a guest room and you can use it."

"Thank you Izzy," Gennai smiled. "I'll take you up on that offer then."

"I'll take Ken, Willis, Minomon, Terriermon, and Lopmon to Ken's parent's home then," Mimi said much to the surprise of the two teenagers. "The last train runs in only a few minutes, so I can take you home since you can't portal jump right now."

"Thanks Mimi," Ken and Willis said to the young woman.

"It's no biggie," she giggled. "That's just what Mimi's here for, to help out."

Matt was the next to speak.

"Sora and I will take T.K., Yolei, and Cody to their apartment building then, if that's ok with them."

Cody, Yolei, and T.K. quickly shared a glance before nodding.

"I think we'll be good with a lift," T.K. told his brother; "if Sora's driving."

Matt sent his brother a scathing look at the inferred insult toward his driving, while Sora nodded in understanding.

"Don't worry," Sora told the three. "We're using my car, so I'll be driving since I don't let Mr. Speed Demon drive it."

"Thank you Sora," Yolei told the woman on behalf of the group since T.K. was trying to comfort his older brother.

"I'll follow Tai and Kari," Joe stated. "I'm going to need to explain Davis's condition to Jun."

"Jun?" Tai gulped, suddenly feeling nervous at the name of Davis's sister. "Oh crap! She is going to kill me."

"No she won't," Matt smirked at his best friend. "She'll probably yell at you, then make you explain what happened, and when you can't, she'll give you the cold shoulder; after yelling at you some more."

"Great," Tai lowered his head, "I better get the couch ready for tonight."

Tai's lament proved to be the medicine the group needed as their laughter chased away the uncertainty and fear that had been hanging in the air only moments before. As the laughter died, with tears of mirth in their eyes, the group headed to the DigiDestineds' vehicles that were parked in the high school's back parking lot, with Matt carrying Davis on his back, Kari holding DemiVeemon, Gatomon holding the digiegg, and Sora cradling Punimon and Nyokimon.

Upon reaching his red car Tai unlocked the the doors and opened the driver's door to set Botamon on the console between the driver's and passenger's seat before getting behind the wheel himself. Kari opened the back passenger door, and Matt slid Davis off his shoulders and into the seat with very careful movements as to not jostle the unconscious DigiDestined. Once the teenager was in the seat Matt buckled him in and placed his head so it was leaning against the seat's headrest so Davis wouldn't have a crick in his neck when he finally woke up. After one last check to make sure that the burgundy haired boy was secure and comfortable Matt closed the door, and after giving a slight nod to his best friend walked to Sora and picked up his partner.

Kari went over and opened the driver's side back door and got in.

"I'm going to make sure that Davis will be ok on the ride to the apartment," Kari said when she spotted her brother's raised eyebrow as she buckled in and shut the door. "Besides, Gatomon called shotgun." The cat digimon nodded as she climbed into the front passenger's seat with the digiegg and buckled up.

"The view is much better," Gatomon said as she picked up Botamon and placed him in her lap next to the digiegg, much like how Kari had the sleeping DemiVeemon.

"If you say so," Tai smirked before leaning out of the open driver's window. "I'll call you when Davis and DemiVeemon wakes up. Until then, go home and get some rest; I have a feeling that its going to be needed," he called out to the others, who nodded before heading to their own rides.

Tai turned the ignition on and put the car in drive. With a glance in the review mirror to make sure that Joe was in his own blue car, ready to follow, he pulled out of the parking lot and onto the road.

The twenty-minute ride to the apartment was spent in comfortable silence, excluding the gentle snores of Davis and his partner as they remained asleep. Those that were awake were either to exhausted to talk or had their minds on other things.

Before they realized it, Tai was already pulling into a parking spot in the Davis's apartment complex's parking deck, and Joe was pulling in the empty spot on the car's right. Tai holding Botamon, Gatomon with the digiegg, Kari with Demiveemon, and Joe with Pichimon got out of the cars.

"Kari, can you get the keys and lock the car so I can get Davis," Tai asked his sister as he handed Joe Botamon.

"Alright," Kari nodded as she went to the driver's door and reached in to pull the keys out of the ignition. After watching Tai unbuckle Davis and place him on his back piggy-back style, with some help from Joe, Kari hit the lock switch on the door's side panel and closed the door. After making sure the car was locked, Kari led the way to the apartment.

When they finally reached the door to the apartment that Davis shared with Jun, himself and their digimon, Tai was glad that the complex had an excellent elevator. If there wasn't one, he didn't know how he was going to get the boy up to the fourth storey; Davis was no longer the small boy he was four years ago.

Kari unlocked and opened the apartment door. Tai stepped through the door first, followed by Joe, Gatomon, and finally Kari, who closed the door behind her and turned on the lights. Each of the humans slipped out of their shoes and into a pair of slippers before stepping into the apartment proper.

"The lights were out," Tai noted as Kari pulled Davis's shoes off of the teen's feet. "Jun must not be home yet, so I should be safe for a little bit longer."

Kari and Joe chuckled while Gatomon rolled her eyes at the young man. Tai might be a good leader, but he could be overly dramatic at times.

Tai then walked down the hallway in front of the main door till he reached the second door on the right. Using one hand he opened it up and walked into the room on the other side.

The room was obviously a boy's room judging by the blue walls covered in posters of soccer teams and bands, including Matt's band. Next to the door was a black desk that had a laptop sitting on it, and on the the right of it was a large black book shelf. Against the left wall was a bed with a blue comforter and sheets with red trimming, a nightstand, and a mini fridge. On the wall opposite of the door there was a dresser that had a window with closed blinds to its left and a black shelf that contained movies and video games on its right. On the right wall there was a door that led to a closet, a T.V. hanging on the wall with a stand below it having several video game consoles, and a full length mirror also hanging on the wall.

Tai walked to the bed, moving around several discarded articles of clothes, and placed Davis on it. Kari followed suit and placed Demiveemon on a large, blue pillow with small golden markings. Gatomon reached under the bed and pulled out a box that had some clothes in it, and placed the digiegg gently on top of the clothes. She took a jacket that was laying on the floor and wrapped it around the digiegg so it could stay warm. Joe stood outside the doorway and watched as Tai pulled the covers over Davis before he, Kari, and Gatomon exited the room, gently pulling the door closed behind them.

Tai led Joe, Kari, and Gatomon back down the hallway to the living room. The living room had two large windows with blinds on either side of the left wall, and a large flat screen T.V. was sitting on a stand in between them. There was a blue rug in the middle of the hardwood floor with a coffee table on it. On the other side of the coffee table from the T.V. was a matching couch, loveseat, and chair. Behind the couch as an island that divided off the kitchen/dining room area from the living room. Various pictures were hung on the white walls that showed the Motomiya and Kamiya families along with all of Jun's, Tai's and Davis's friends and digimon.

"Take a seat in here," Tai told the group as he walked through the room and into the kitchen, "and I'll get us something to drink and snack on while we wait for Jun."

"Thanks Tai," Joe thanked his friend while he placed Pichimon and Botamon on the couch before seating on the individual seat. Kari sat in the loveseat, and Gatomon took a seat on one end of the couch, next to Botamon.

"Want anything in particular to drink," Tai called out from the kitchen followed by the sounds of opening and closing of cabinets.

"Just water for me," Joe answered. Kari and Gatomon said the same thing.

After some more sounds coming from the kitchen Tai finally came into the living room holding a tray in his hands. The tray was loaded down in food and drinks. There were sandwiches, chips, rice balls, pieces of fried chicken, and apple slices.

"I hope I got enough for everyone," Tai said as he placed the tray on the coffee table. "I know how much digimon can put away just on a normal day."

"And today has been anything but normal," Kari sighed grabbing a glass of water and a rice ball and a few apple slices.

"Well maybe not normal for everyday people, but for us I consider this day par for the course," Joe said as he reached for a sandwich and his glass of water.

"Did Joe just make a joke," Tai laughed as he grabbed a glass of soda and a sandwich and rice ball.

As soon as the humans got their share the digimon practically jumped on the tray of snacks, wolfing down the food. Gatomon, having excellent manors, grabbed a few sandwiches, a chicken leg, and two rice balls, and her glass of water before sitting back down on the couch to eat. Botamon and Pichimon just ate directly off the tray not having either the patience to wait or the hands to pick up the food with.

Tai was in the kitchen washing the dishes left over from the snack when he heard the front door open. With a sigh he placed the last dish into the cabinet before drying his hands with a towel.

"Azulongmon, please don't let Jun kill me," he prayed as he walked into the living room to wait on his girlfriend of two years. He took a seat next to the recently evolved Koromon on the couch. Gatomon was sitting next to Kari, and Bukamon was in Joe's lap.

"We're home," a feminine voice called out from the hallway. "Sorry about being late, but I had to stop to buy groceries for tonight's dinner. We're having spaghetti and meatballs."

Then a young woman with the same burgundy hair as Davis walked into the living room followed by a humanoid digimon.

The woman was wearing a navy suit jacket with a white under shirt and a skirt that came to her knees and matched the jacket. Her hair was pulled back into a tight bun with a few stands framing her face. To compete the look was a black purse hanging from her shoulders and a golden earing in each ear shaped like a pearl. Had this been a normal day, Tai would have thought her sexy and would have gave her a passionate kiss.

The digimon behind her would have could have been mistaken for a human if not for the way he was dressed. He stood just below Jun's shoulders in height, but the midnight blue wizard's cap he wore over his blonde hair added an extra foot-and-a-half. He wore a yellow suit that had a zipper going up his front and one on each leg just above his brown boots that had crescent moon shaped charms on them. Red marks around the two zippers on his legs and two more slanted marks just above them formed what look like faces on the legs. Across his chest was a red vest. Covering the everything on his face below his eyes was a midnight blue cape that extended down to the tops of his boots. The cape had white DigiCode appearing in seemingly random places. On each hand were a pair of brown leather gloves. In his right hand was a staff that was almost as tall as the digimon was and ended with a sun-like figure that looked like a chunk was missing out of its middle, and in its left were two grocery bags. This digimon happened to be a good friend and ally to the DigiDestined, Wizardmon.

"While its always a pleasure to have people over, if I had known to expect company I would have bought more ingredients for dinner," Jun said as she looked at all the people and digimon in the living room before her eyes settled on Tai.

"Good evening Gatomon," Wizardmon greeted his long time friend before heading into the kitchen to put away the groceries. The cat digimon nodded in greeting and then got off the couch and followed him into the kitchen to give him a hand.

Jun watched them leave the room before turning her eyes on her boyfriend and crossed her arms, "Alright Tai, what's wrong now?"

"What makes you think that anything is wrong," Tai asked while sweat started to run down the back of his neck.

"Two reasons. You didn't kiss me when I came in like you usually do, and your rubbing the back of your head with your right hand. Both only happen when you have broken something or something is wrong. And the fact that your and Joe's partners are in their in-training form means that something is wrong."

Jun's eyes then widened as she realized something. "Where's Davis and DemiVeemon?"

"Well, its like this…"
"Taichi Kamiya, tell me what happened to my brother, right now," Jun demanded as she walked up to her boyfriend. Tai grew more nervous as she got closer; he swore that he could see flames in her eyes. He hadn't seen her this mad since the Motomiya parents moved to America to follow the father's job two years ago, and they had left Jun and Davis the apartment so they could still attend school and be with their friends. The elder Motomiyas still wired money to pay for the rent and some of the necessities in order to help, but they don't really have much contact with their kids besides that. Jun raised hell for a month, but Tai eventually got her to calm down. Now that Tai though about it, it was shortly after that they started dating, and a year later that he moved in.

It was Joe that saved Tai from Jun's wrath by speaking up.

"Calm down Jun; Davis and DemiVeemon are fine. They're just exhausted and resting in their room."

Jun stopped advancing upon hearing what the young doctor said. Knowing that Davis and his partner were O.K. relieved her, but she still knew that something was wrong and that worried her. She took a calming breath and sat down on the couch next to Tai, who tried to comfort her wrapping his left arm around her waist and pulling her in close.

"Tell me what happened."

The others in the living room all looked at the woman with a looks that spoke of loss and weariness. Now paying a little more attention, Jun could see the dirt and rips on the clothes of the other humans. This indicated that there must have been some sort of hard battle, and it must not have ended well for them all to be in this situation.

"That bad, huh?" It was Tai that started to explain what happened.

"We got a call from Gennai to meet him at his place this afternoon. When we got there he gave us a new device called a D-System; I think Davis may have yours. Then he showed us a video of a mysterious fire digimon that had enough strength to send that blasted Kuwagamon flying."

Jun was surprised when she heard about the digimon, but not because of how strong it was like Tai was thinking.

"Yeah, the rascal was strong enough to easily beat the digimon that gave us original seven DigiDestined so much trouble, but that was not the most shocking news." Tai took a deep breath to calm his shaking nerves so he could continue. "Gennai pulled up a map of the Digital World, but we couldn't even recognize it due to all of the missing pieces. Turns out that someone had been taking the Seeds of Light and absorbing the data from parts of the Digital World."

Jun's bad feeling continued to grow worse the more that she listened to the story. She could already guess the ending, but prayed that she was wrong.

"We split up into teams and went to different locations in hopes of stopping them. The older DigiDestined split into teams of two, and the younger ones stayed together and went to Primary Village."
Jun could see the reasoning behind the plan. Leave the largest group to protect what was essentially the heart of the Digital World, while the more experienced fighters tried to stop the enemy before they get that far or at least weaken them

"We weren't expecting the return of two of our enemies, Devimon and LadyDevimon. Normally, the older generation should have been able to take care of them easily, but they got a power up. Instead of us coming out on top, the two fallen angels easily defeated one team after another, and then took the Seeds of Light along with the data for that part of the Digital World."

Jun was shaking at this point, but she needed to know. No, she had to know what happened. Kari caught Tai's eyes and signaled that she was taking over; Tai nodded in acceptance. Jun noticed and figured that the girl knew what happened next better than the others and that was the reason she was taking over.

"When we younger DigiDestineds arrived on File Island Davis told T.K. and myself to have our partners go ultimate in case we were attacked so the others would have enough time to use the right digi-evolution for the situation, thinking it was a good idea we did just that. We then met Electmon by the gates of Primary Village, only to receive terrible news. Only the digimon on File Island were left in the Digital World; every time the enemy stole a Seed of Light and the data for an area, all the digimon in the vicinity were turned back into digi-eggs and sent to Primary Village. The fields were just filled with digi-eggs with virtually no space in-between them. All the digimon on File Island, including Leomon and Ogremon, were there trying to help take care of the digi-eggs and the fresh level digimon.

Then we heard an explosion from the front gates, and as we raced to them we were ambushed by Devimon and LadyDevimon. MagnaAngemon and AngeWomon were quick to engage in the fight. Since they were fallen angel types everyone thought that we would be guaranteed victory after the first attack; everyone but Davis and Veemon that is. They were the only one who suspected that the fight wasn't going to be easy, and they were right. Despite their best efforts MagnaAngemon and AngeWomon were quickly beaten to near deletion."

Kari began to shake as she recalled MagnaAngemon laying in a crater, and AngeWomon hitting the ground. The sounds of bones crunching as her body impacted on the rocks and bounced still haunted her ears; only being drowned out by silence of the stillness of the bodies of the two angel digimon. She didn't notice as Tai sat next to her, but when he wrapped his arms around her she leaned further into his embrace. Any other time, Jun would have thought the scene was sweet and might have been a little jealous since Davis would never be so open with his pain and would be uncomfortable if she held him like Tai was holding his younger sister. But, right now Jun could only think about how bad the fight must have been to reduce such a strong-willed girl to shedding tears into her brother's shirt.

Tai held Kari until the shaken girl calmed down. Once her shaking stopped and she had caught her breathe, Kari pulled her head from her brother's shoulder and turned back to facing Jun. She wiped her eyes with a handkerchief that Joe had offered her before looking Jun back in the eyes.

"Sorry about that;" Kari's voice was raw and cracking from her breakdown as she apologized.

"No need to apologize Kari," Jun told the girl. "Just cry when you need to; none of us will judge you if you do."

Kari smiled at the woman who she had began to see as an older sister and would be one day if Sora and her had to knock some sense into Tai. That smile soon vanished as she began her story again from where she had left off.

"Despite their injuries MagnaAngemon and AngeWomon managed to find the energy to stand, but they were in no condition to continue to fight; something that Davis forced T.K. to realize when he had wanted to continue. Acting fast MagnaAngemon and AngeWomon de-digivolved back into Patamon and Gatomon, and then we had our digimon DNA digivolve while Willis had Terriermon and Lopmon digivolve to Rapidmon and Antylamon. Once again we thought that we had the advantage with five powerful Ultimates against two, but were proved wrong when Devimon and LadyDevimon began to laugh. I had a feeling that something bad was going to happen, but I couldn't know how bad. None of us could have.

They continued to laugh as LadyDevimon claimed they had a new trick, and then both of them became enshrouded in a black aura. Soon their bodies couldn't be made out because of the darkness. Then the two auras merged into one. I couldn't believe what we were seeing, and I hoped I was wrong. That hope was dashed as the darkness faded, revealing an evil looking version of MagnaAngemon. The digimon gave off a feeling of power, evil, and blood lust that was so strong that MaloMyotismon paled in comparison."
Jun couldn't imagine that such a digimon could exist. From what she had heard about the vampire digimon from the others, he was something that looked like it crawled out of the worst of nightmares and fed off of fear and hopelessness; like some deranged boogeyman. Something that was worse than him was terrifying if not horrific. Jun could feel a cold shiver go up her spine at the thought of the digimon.

"He called himself Fallenmon, and….,"

"Did you just say that he was called Fallenmon," a male voice asked interrupted Kari.

Everyone turned to look at Wizardmon who was standing in the entrance of the living room from the kitchen with Gatomon standing behind him, looking in confusion at her friend. His eyes seemed to be filled with an emotion Jun could only guess at; confusion, anger, fear, or maybe all three. His right hand was gripping his staff tightly, and Jun bet that he was scowling under his cloak.

Kari nodded, "Yes, he said his name was Fallenmon. Do you know him?"

Wizardmon looked straight ahead, not looking at anyone in particular as a faraway look passed though his eyes. Everyone waited for his answer, but he only stayed silent for a minute or two. Just as the tension was getting to everyone, the wizard digimon finally answered.

"No, I don't know him," Wizardmon sighed. "But I have heard of him," Wizardmon sighed. He walked over the empty seat on the couch next to Jun that Tai had been occupying previously and took a seat while Gatomon got into Kari's lap.

"While on my travels, before I had met Gatomon," Wizardmon continued, "I had come across his name being mentioned in hushed whispers. Curious and having nothing better to do, I began to investigate the name. It took a long time, searching, and questioning many digimon, but it wasn't until I joined Myotismon's army and gained access to his library that I learned anything. None of what I learned was good. Very few have ever survived an encounter with Fallenmon, and even fewer escape with minor injuries. Davis and DemiVeemon are very lucky."

"Aren't they always," Jun sighed, causing the others to give a half hearted laugh.

"Wizardmon is right," Kari conituned her story, getting everyone's attention. "Fallenmon was not a foe to be taken lightly. We gave him everything we got, and he just took it like it was nothing. He swiftly defeated our digimon. Then Lopmon managed to digivolve to his mega form, Cherubimon, the uncorrupted version. He managed to heal our digimon and give them another chance, but then Fallenmon revealed another trick of his. He could recover from all the damage we gave him by de-digivolve back into Devimon and LadyDevimon and then re-DNA digivolve back into Fallenmon.

Things weren't looking good. Ogremon and Leomon then tried to help, but they were quickly beaten and thrown back into Primary Village. Our digimon then reengaged Fallenmon, but we knew we couldn't beat him, but only hold him off. Davis, Yolei, and Cody ran into the village. From what Yolei told me Davis was able to somehow upload Ogremon and Leomon into his D-System and save them. Davis then told them to go and do the same with the rest of the digimon and digieggs while he went looking for the Seed of Light to prevent Fallenmon from getting it."

Jun noticed that while Kari was talking she had begun to lightly stroke Gatomon's head. Gatomon leaned back into Kari and started to give a barley audible purr as a way to reassure her partner.

"The digimon held him off for as long as they could, and just as Yolei and Cody ran out Fallenmon flew above Primary Village and destroyed it before we could stop him. I..we…we thought that Davis was gone. We were in shock, and didn't stop him from trying to take something he called, 'the fractal code.' It didn't work though; nothing happened no matter how many times he tried. Then he appeared."

"Davis," Jun asked Kari, but the younger girl shook her head no and turned her attention on her partner.

"It was a fire type digimon; the one that Gennai told us about earlier. He came out of no where and attacked Fallenmon."

"Did you get his name?"

Kari nodded. "Flamemon. He said his name was Flamemon." Since Kari wasn't looking up and everyone's attention was on her the others failed to see Jun and Wizardmon exchange a quick glance from the corner of their eyes.

"Flamemon actually managed render Fallenmon unconscious for a while. During this time, he told us that he had gotten Davis to safety before the village was destroyed and that he wanted us to run to the portal. We tried to argue with him, but Ken agreed and said that it would be best for us to go since we would only be in the way. In the end only Veemon stayed behind to wait for Davis, and the rest of us went for the portal.

When we got to the portal Yolei, Cody, and Willis went on ahead since their digimon were the most injured. Ken, T.K., and myself decided to wait by the portal in case Davis needed help. We stayed there and listened to the battle between Flamemon and Fallenmon. When the sounds of the battle stopped we started to head out to look for Davis by tracking his D-3. We didn't get too far when we saw Fallenmon flying toward us, since our digimon were still to weak to hold him off we ran back toward the portal. We managed to get through just as he arrived.

"I'm sorry Jun," Kari apologized to the older woman. "Maybe if we had stayed behind to help then Davis and DemiVeemon would be fine."

Seeing tears beginning to well up into Kari's eyes, Jun stood up and walked over to the younger woman. She gently pulled the young girl into a hug and began to rub her back in what she hoped was a comforting motion. "Shush. It's alright. You don't need to apologize because you didn't do anything wrong."

Tai was taken back by Jun's actions. He knew that his girlfriend had a caring side to her, despite what Davis used to say when they were younger, but she never displayed a motherly side. As Tai watched Jun reassure and calm Kari down until the girl tears faded away, he could help but remember how often his own mother did the same for him and Kari when they were kids. Jun would make a great mother he thought as a smile came across his face.

As if sensing Tai staring at her, Jun turned her head to look at him. When she saw the way he was staring at her she rolled her eyes and returned the smile; she had known Tai for so long that she could read him like a bulletin board. He was to obvious at times.

"Kari," Jun turned her attention back to the girl that was now staring at her, "if you had stayed then you and the others would have gotten hurt or worse. If that had happened then everyone would have been sad or lost, and if Davis found out it was because you decided to wait for him instead of escaping he would have blamed it on himself. You did the only thing you could do, which was getting out danger. I' am proud of you though. Do you know why?"

"Why," Kari asked her. She didn't really see what there was to be proud of at that time. They had failed in their duties as Digidestined, and worse yet, failed their friends.

"I'm proud that you believed in Davis and Veemon, and wanted to stay by their side. That is something a good friend will do for another friend. So don't doubt yourself or your abilities. You have already done so much for the Digital World and our world that you have proven what your capable of many times over. You are a strong person Kari, but not even the strongest person will succeed every time. They will fail like everyone else, but they don't let it get to them. They are strong because when they do fail or don't succeed they get back up again, learn from what happened, and do what it takes to make it right."

By the time Jun had finished her small speech Kari and the others were smiling, and a new light could be seen in their eyes. A light that promised that they were not going to give up, but continue to fight until things were set right. It was the light of determination, lit by the women who was marked by the Crest of Determination.

"Your right Jun," Kari said as she wiped the tears from her eyes. "As DigiDestineds we have been through bad, awful, and downright terrifying things before, but it never stopped us then and it won't now."

"That's the spirit Kari," Jun said as she stood up. "Now Tai and Joe can finish filling me in on what happened as Wizardmon and myself get dinner started. In the meantime, you and the other digimon should go take a nap; you look exhausted. You can use my old room across from Davis's; we'll wake you when dinner is done, alright?"

Kari gave a quick agreement as Gatomon, Koromon, and Bukamon headed into the spare bedroom. Kari didn't realize just how tired she was until she was tucked under the covers with Gatomon curled up on the covers to the right of her and the other digimon laying on some pillows on the other side. As soon as her head hit the pillows, she fell into a deep slumber, too tired to even dream.

Loki921: Liked it? I hope you at least enjoyed it.

Zoe: It was ok.

Loki921: Yea, not my best work, but I promise the next chapters are going to be better.

Zoe: I like how you portrayed Jun.'

Loki921: Good. I think Jun had interesting potential in 02. She just needed some better character development and more maturity. Plus i think with how long she pursued Matt without giving up makes her a great candidate for a Crest of Determination if there ever was one.

Zoe: Agreed.

Loki921: For those that don't know yet, I do have another story I'm working on. Its called "A New Frontier." It follows Davis/ Daisuke and Shinya during the events of Digimon Frontier, and the changes their presence causes. Unlike some other fics this one will not follow the events of Digimon Frontier exactly but will be a newer story. That story will not move as slow as this one is. While don't you read and see if you like it. I have good things planned. Stay tuned for the next chapter. Until then.