Err, hello! Now, before you say something, I know it took me long to post this chapter! And I'm extremely sorry about that! I apologize to everyone who was expecting a faster update! Now, instead of making you waste time reading the reasons why it took me so long to post this chapter, I'll skip that part so you can start reading the chapter sooner! :D

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PS: Just so nobody will get confused! This chapter begins just before the ending of the last chapter. There we saw what was happening with Sora, Mimi and Kari, and now we'll see with TK, Tai and Izzy who are in Izzy's room. And I know it feels like I put this small and unimportant scene for nothing, but later it will become more important, besides the fact that it is acting as an input to the start of the Digidestined meeting...

Okay, now I'll let you read in peace. I hope you enjoy this chapter!

A few minutes before the meeting started...

Izzy tapped his fingers impatiently on the table where his computer was a few times before he sighed, rose from his chair and started walking from one side to another in his room. That problem was really stressing him and the fact that it had already being happening for a few days didn't help. C'mon, I need to think. This isn't difficult. The red-haired boy thought as he walked with his arms crossed.

"Huh... Izzy. Can you take a break? You're too nervous and I'm sure this way you won't discover anything." Tai muttered from where he sat at his friend's bed.

Izzy paused for a moment and looked frustrated at Tai before sighing again and sitting in the chair where he was before. "You're right, I need to calm down."

Sitting on the bed next to Tai, TK was looking at his redheaded friend while he was quietly wrapped in a towel. Since he had entered the room and asked to borrow a towel no one had told him specifically what was happening, but from what he had managed to find out it seemed that neither Tai knew exactly what Izzy was doing.

As if on cue, Izzy turned to TK and Tai and smiled apologetically. "You must be confused, especially you TK." He sighed again before he turned to his laptop and tried to type something, only to see a warning message appear on the laptop screen and make Izzy grunt frustratingly. "It's been a few days since I've started trying to solve a problem that appeared on my laptop. It looks like somebody is trying to invade it but is failing and when I try to discover who is doing this it is me that is blocked." The teenage said with a grimace while turning to his companions. "It's almost as if a barrier, that I didn't create, is around my laptop preventing someone from outside from getting into it and preventing me from finding out who it is."

"Oh," TK nodded, the actions of his red-haired friend now finally making sense.

"Like this it's easy to understand, right Izzy?" Tai exclaimed throwing his hands in the air dramatically. "It felt like you didn't want me to understand, talking with all those complicated terms like you were before..."

Izzy smiled a little embarrassed. "My bad. I was distracted thinking about what I could do that I think I just exaggerated with the technical terms..."

"Yeah, no kidding..." Tai muttered causing Izzy to roll his eyes. He wasn't that bad, was he...?

"I've been trying since Tuesday to find out what is blocking me and how to break this 'barrier', but nothing I do is working." The red-haired teen turned again to his laptop and began typing something on the keyboard. "I installed a new program that should take care of all that, but it seems that when it was activated some part of it was damaged and I cannot figure out how to make it work again..."

Izzy turned to them again and saw that Tai had his eyes closed and TK was stroking Patamon, who was in his lap, both with thoughtful expressions. Turning to his computer with a small smile, Izzy felt grateful that the two were trying to help, although he wasn't expecting them to know what to do since they didn't know anything about the program he was using.

Sighing, Izzy returned to tapping his fingers on the computer table. That was going to be a long afternoon.

They remained silent for some time, until the sound of a bell brought them out of their thoughts. Izzy turned to look at the clock on the wall of his room and his eyes widened slightly when he realized it was already the time of the meeting.

Soon the three girls and Gatomon, who were in the living room, came into his bedroom with Cody and Yolei, who were holding Poromon and Upamon, accompanying them. Not long after that, Matt and Joe arrived and finally Davis and Ken with their digimon arrived a little later. All the Digidestined then were finally gathered in the bedroom waiting until the beginning of the meeting that most of them were waiting for.

Izzy watched as his friends settled somewhere in his room before looking at Tai and see him nodding. That was his cue to start the meeting. He sighed before beginning to speak. "Okay, let's get this started." The redhead turned to Cody. "Can I borrow your D-Terminal for a little bit?"

The young boy nodded before taking from his pocket said object and giving it to Izzy, who quickly opened it while he began to speak. "As you all know, yesterday the Digital World was attacked." He kept fiddling with the object in his hand until it made a faint 'beep'. "The younger Digidestined received the same SOS message in their D-Terminals asking them to go help a city that had been attacked." And with that he turned the D-Terminal to show that message, which was basically a big writing 'SOS' with the coordinates of a city below it.

"A message from an entire city?" Matt asked frowning slightly. He, like some of the other Digidestined in that room, didn't know much of what had happened, only that an attack had happened and that the younger ones were called to help.

"Yeah," Yolei said sadly while she remembered the destroyed city. "As we discovered later, it was a Peckmon who sent the message that way so we would focus only on finding the culprits and stop the attacks instead of trying to look for who sent the message."

"Did you find this Peckmon later?" Sora asked, concern showing on her face for the digimon who had thought about the welfare of everyone in the city.

"Yes, we found him." Kari said with a small smile. "At the time he wasn't very well, but he was quickly treated and now he's already better."

"Now just a minute," Tai said still from his spot on the bed leaning against the wall. "What exactly happened there?"

"That's where I wanted to get," Izzy said as he handed the D-Terminal back to Cody with a 'thank you'. Izzy then turned expectantly to the younger Digidestineds.

It was Ken who started. "When we received the message each of us was in a different place. We," he said pointing to himself and Davis, "had just met with Kari and Yolei and together we came here so we could go to the Digital World. We arrived there from a television near the city and we kept walking through it for a while until we received Cody's message."

The brown-haired young boy nodded, taking the cue for him to continue. "I met with TK on the way back to our building and we went together to the Digital World. We arrived from a television in the forest near the town and we walked through the streets a bit until we found some Digimons inside a destroyed restaurant." Cody said seriously while he squeezed the tip of his shirt. "It was them who told us about how the attack had happened in the town and it was Floramon who later told us that the SOS was Peckmon's idea."

There was a general silence while everyone who hadn't heard of it absorbed the information given to them. TK looked at the thoughtful expressions on the faces of his friends before turning to Kari, who gave him a small smile when he nodded. It's about time they started talking about what they knew.

"They..." The blond boy began to speak turning all the attention to him. "They said something else too." This gained him a puzzled look coming from Cody. "When you sent the message to the others you moved away a bit, right?" Cody nodded, remembering the moment. TK took a deep breath before continuing to speak. "I didn't tell you anything about it at the time because I thought I might have misheard Bearmon or even imagined that he could have heard it wrong, but with what happened after I doubt it. He said he had heard the BlackGarurumon who attacked the restaurant talking with another digimon about how they still hadn't found the Crest yet..."

The reaction was immediate. Almost all of the older Digidestined began talking at once making it impossible to understand what each one spoke specifically, although the idea that they were confused had been conveyed clearly. They all knew, even the younger Digidestineds in their group - who had already heard this story -, that they had given their crests to re-establish the balance of the Digital World, all this by Gennai's request, who had already explained to them the situation. With this, how could it be possible that someone was looking for them?

"I know, I know," TK said raising his hands in a sign of surrender, since most of the confused shouts were directed at him (even if everyone knew he wouldn't know the answers). "I also thought this when I heard Bearmon say this at first. But everything indicates that this may be true..." And with that he glanced at Kari who was staring at her hands in her lap.

All gazes followed his movement and realized that this was part of what both of them and their digimon were hiding from them.

"What happened then?" Mimi asked gently looking at Ken, indicating that she wanted to know what came after what he told them.

"We continued walking around the city, only this time we were looking for a place we could wait Cody and TK meet us so we could go look for the digimon who had caused all that destruction," Ken said frowning slightly. "That's when three Hyogamons appeared."

"Yeah, and then we fought with them and kicked their butts!" DemiVeemon said suddenly, causing some people in the room to chuckle slightly as the tension in the room decreased a bit.

"They deserved it," Davis muttered with an annoyed expression on his face as he remembered the three digimon. "But after that a digimon called Astamon appeared and..." he continued before stopping and grimacing at the memory.

"And...?" Joe asked curious while the others who weren't on the scene at the time wondered why Davis had stopped in the middle of his sentence.

"And he shot me," Kari ended with a blank stare.

"What?" Tai exclaimed with his eyes widening. He immediately leaned forward looking seriously at his sister, who was sitting on the floor against the wall in the opposite part of the room where he was.

Kari's vague look settled in Tai and she immediately felt guilty. Raising her hands in a sign that told him to wait, she said: "Calm down, Tai. I'm fine. He missed me." She then turned to TK and gave him a small smile that he returned. "TK appeared just in time and saved me."

The older boy looked at her intently for a moment longer before taking a deep breath and slowly leaning against the wall again while he closed his eyes, clearly still trying to calm down. Tai soon felt a comforting hand on his shoulder and he opened his eyes to see Sora watching him with concern in her eyes - something he knew wasn't only because of him, but because of Kari and the situation as a whole as well. He needed to control himself; he wasn't the only one there worried, seeing the glances his friends were casting around the room. He nodded slightly before muttering, "Okay. Thank you, TK."

The blond boy nodded back, his brow slightly furrowed. He remembered very clearly the scene and he really wanted to avoid thinking about it as much as possible; the possible result of it if he hadn't arrived in time was still tormenting his mind and was always there reminding him of the seriousness of the situation.

"And what happened then?" Sora finally asked cutting the tense silence that had settled in the room.

Kari sighed before taking her gaze from her lap, where it had gone back, and saw everyone looking expectantly at her. It was time she started talking about all she knew. A comforting paw on her arm from Gatomon and the calm looks from TK and Patamon showed her that everything was fine and that they were there to help her in telling it all. Even so, releasing all the information that she had been holding as much as possible to try to protect those precious to her was somewhat difficult.

"Astamon basically said that he only came there to do two things: pass us a message and go with the three Hyogamons away." Kari began to speak again with eyes a little vague. "He... awoke... the three Hyogamons who were unconscious," she cringed a bit when reminding the scene, "and said they were leaving because they had found what they were looking for, even if 'it' wasn't there."

"Was he... Talking about the Crests?" Mimi asked with a puzzled expression on her face. Although it was hard for her to think that her crest still existed and that someone was looking for it, she knew that TK and Kari wouldn't have said it if they didn't have not even a bit of certainty that it was true.

"That's what we think," TK nodded.

"And the message?", Matt asked.

"'Take this as a warning, Child of Light. We found what we were looking for. Now you will soon feel the consequences.' It was something like that, wasn't it?" Yolei dictated looking at Kari curiously. Since the previous evening these phrases had been stuck in her head and she couldn't forget them, making her feel a shiver every time she thought about them. They could only mean trouble.

Kari nodded. "Yea, it was..."

"And what does that mean?" Izzy asked after having remained silent for a long time.

"For you to understand I'll have to go back to the day before we went to the Digital World, which was when I had my nightmare," Kari admitted looking seriously at all her friends. She saw her brother's eyes widen slightly and she sent a silent apology to him through her eyes.

And then Kari began to tell everything she knew with TK and Gatomon adding some comments from time to time in the scenes in which they were present. All the information that she had been keeping with her since a few days ago was finally released and even though she felt some frustration within her - after all, if she had to tell it to the others it meant that all of it was true, something she had been hoping it wasn't -, she also felt relief for not having to hide anything from her friends and her family.

Everyone else stayed silent while they listened Kari, their expressions only varying slightly from person to person and from digimon to digimon, and according to what was said. The nightmare with the Dark Ocean; the mysterious voice's warning; Davis tripping in the river; the calm days that were soon followed by the sudden attack in the Digital World. All the details that they noted were counted, nothing would be held from them. Ken also helped and said what he had noticed in their visit to Primary Village, something that surprised most of them, specially Davis.

Soon the room got silent again. Everyone there was absorbing the information that had been spoken. Kari, TK and Ken also apologized for keeping these secrets and even though some had been somewhat upset everyone understood why they did it.

"So they are searching our Crests, Tai and Davis are the targets and all that is connected to the digimon who was in the Dark Ocean," Sora summarized in a small voice after a while.

"It's basically it," Kari agreed with a somewhat shaky voice while her eyes went from Davis, who was with a strange thoughtful expression, to her brother, who looked at her with sympathy, understanding that while he was worried about her, she was also worried about him.

"You really have no idea who that voice is?" Matt asked a little uneasy.

"No, sorry," Kari shook her head quietly.

"No, no problem," Matt said shaking his head back; no one blamed her for not knowing this.

"Tuesday... Tuesday..." Izzy muttered vaguely looking at his computer.

"Huh? What are you talking about Izzy?" Mimi asked the red-haired boy from her point in his bed between Sora and Ken.

"Tuesday... The day that the problem appeared on my computer..." Izzy replied still with a blank stare.

At the same time TK's and Tai's eyes widened and they leaned toward Izzy. "You mean...?" Tai asked vaguely.

"Probably," was the reply from the teenager in front of the computer. "If it wasn't then it would be quite a coincidence..."

TK frowned. "But why?"

Izzy's eyes suddenly widened and he began to type something on his laptop quickly. "Of course! It can only be so!"

"Wait, what are you three talking about?" Joe asked confused looking at the three boys that had been talking.

"Earlier today, before you all arrived," Tai started. "Izzy was telling us that on Tuesday his laptop started having a problem."

"There was someone wanting to access it, but for some reason couldn't, and when I tried to find out who was doing it, it was me who was blocked," Izzy completed without taking his eyes from what he was doing. "As if a kind of barrier had been put on my laptop preventing any internal contact with the outside."

"And what does this have to do with what we were talking about?" Yolei asked.

Izzy paused for a moment and turned to her. "It was in the same day. The day that Kari had the nightmare was the same day that this started happening with my laptop."

"Oh," was all that Yolei managed to speak while her mouth formed an 'o'.

"So you think these two facts have a connection," Matt noted, only then understanding where they were getting at.

TK nodded with a small frown. He should have thought about it when Izzy told them earlier about his problem. "It would be quite a coincidence if both had nothing to do with each other." He said finally.

"But why would this digimon do that?" Cody asked almost the same question TK had asked before.

Tai opened his mouth before closing it and looked at Izzy that had returned to doing something on his laptop. "Yeah, that part I didn't get too..."

The room got silent again besides the sound of computer keys being pressed. A message soon appeared on the laptop screen at the same a 'beep' sounded, causing Izzy to grunt frustrated. "Damn, I'm still not making any progress." He whispered to himself. Only then he seemed to realize that everyone's eyes were on him. "Uh... What?"

"Why would the digimon that is doing all this put a 'barrier' on your laptop?" Mimi repeated rolling her eyes.

"Ah, that's simple," He smiled slightly. "I hadn't thought about it before, but rather than the person who is wanting to get in my laptop being an invader, that person may just be wanting to communicate with us. Creating a barrier is the perfect way to prevent such contact between us."

"But who would want to speak-?" Tai started talking before he realized where Izzy was getting at and stopped.

Izzy nodded. "I think it may be Gennai."

"And can't you break this barrier?" Cody said.

"That's what I've been trying to do for some time, but every time I activate the program it starts showing the same message of problem and cancels the action," Izzy frowned looking at his laptop.

"So Gennai has been trying to tell us something important that this digimon don't want us to know," Joe said with a sigh. Things weren't looking very promising for them.

"Oh, come on people! Cheer up! I'm sure we'll solve this problem quickly and then we'll kick the ass of the digimon that is causing all this!" Davis exclaimed suddenly with his fists up. "I'm sure Izzy will find a solution for that barrier soon, right Izzy?"

The red-haired boy blinked surprised at Davis' sudden outburst. "Uh... Yea..."

"See," Davis continued with a smile. "It'll be all right!"

TK rolled his eyes at the animation of his friend, but couldn't help but smile at the same time. They could count on Davis to cheer them up when necessary. Besides, the young gogglehead was right, they had to keep believing that everything would be okay in the end; they shouldn't stop hoping.

Tai laughed slightly while small smiles began to appear on the faces of the others, with some even rolling their eyes. "Well said Davis."

"Oh... Ah, hehe, thank you," Davis said while he rubbed the back of his neck, suddenly feeling a little embarrassed.

"Yeah!" DemiVeemon exclaimed excited jumping on Davis' lap. He jumped into the part of the bed between Ken and Davis, making Minomon begin to jump too. Now that looked more like the Digidestineds. They shouldn't let that shake them so easily. They were going to keep fighting and weren't going to let an evil digimon win.

"Okay, now stop a bit DemiVeemon," Davis said while trying to grab his partner and make him stop jumping.

"No," replied the blue Digimon playfully jumping away from Davis' hands and inadvertently ending up on the computer desk. When a loud 'beep' followed his landing on the table all the noise on the room ceased. DemiVeemon slowly looked down and saw to his horror that he had landed on top of the keyboard of Izzy's laptop.

The red-haired teenage slowly turned to the digimon with a frozen smile on his face. "DemiVeemon... What did you just do?"

"I'm sorry!" The small digimon shouted before jumping back into the bed and hiding behind Davis.

Izzy glared in his direction for some seconds before sighing and start typing in his laptop to see what the mischievous digimon had done in it. He typed a few keys before he froze.

"Uh... Izzy?" Mimi asked poking said boy's arm.

The teen blinked rapidly and turned his gaze briefly to Mimi before his eyes fixed on DemiVeemon. "How did you do that?"

"Uh..." was all that the poor digimon managed to utter when he saw the puzzled look on Izzy.

"You..." The Digidestined began before stopping and, to everyone's surprise, start laughing. "Oh, I don't believe it. This was so simple, how couldn't have I thought of that before?"

"Izzy, can you tell us what happened?" Matt asked looking from his friend to the blue digimon that looked confused.

"Somehow, DemiVeemon managed solve the problem that the program I was using had," Izzy said with a big smile. "He managed to break the barrier and now I just need to find the source that was trying to access my computer."

Immediately everyone in the room began to celebrate, with DemiVeemon still confused with what he had done.

"So what are you waiting for Izzy?" Tai said excitedly. "We'll soon see what Gennai was trying to tell us!" He started to get out of the bed only to stop halfway and suddenly sit back while putting a hand on his forehead. "Suddenly I'm not feeling very well anymore."

Sora frowned. "Aren't you better from your cold?"

"I am!" Tai replied looking at Sora with his hand still on his forehead and a small grimace.

Sora rolled her eyes and pulled the brunette boy's hand from his forehead replacing it by hers so she could feel his temperature. She soon frowned. "Well, it seems that you were wrong. Your fever is back and it seems high."

"Let's take your exact temperature," Joe said getting up from the floor. "If you're really with a high fever you better take a pill and once you get home go to bed to rest." He then turned to the resident of that house. "Izzy, where do you keep a thermometer?"

Izzy's expression went thoughtful for a moment before he answered by pointing the mobile next to Joe. "If I'm not mistaken I have one in the top drawer."

"Honestly Tai," said Matt in a mocking tone while shaking his head. "Only you get sick in such a situation."

Kari frowned while she looked at her brother. "You were hiding this fever from me just to come to the meeting?"

"No!" Tai's eyes widened as he looked at Kari. "I wouldn't hide it from you." Then his gaze turned to Matt. "And you, shut up." The blonde Digidestined just laughed at his reaction.

Izzy shook his head as the scene continued. He soon turned to his computer and continued typing something in it until another sound came from it. "Yes!"

"You got it, Izzy?" Yolei asked leaning toward the computer.

The red-haired boy turned to answer her with a smile on his face but before he could say anything, an image opened on the screen of his laptop and in it was the figure they were expecting to see.

"Hello Chosen Children. It's good to finally be able to talk with you," Gennai nodded toward them with a tired little smile on his face.

"Gennai," Mimi said with a sigh of relief. So he was really trying to talk to them this time. Her expression then became more serious. If this was true then he really had to say something important to them since a few days ago.

"I guess you all must be full of questions and I have some answers," Gennai continued saying slowly while he looked at all the Digidestineds in the room. When his eyes paused on Tai, his eyes narrowed.

The brunette boy was looking at Joe, who was scolding him slightly for being careless and letting his condition worsen, with his eyes half open while leaning against both the wall and Sora, who looked between Joe and Tai with concern written on her face.

"Tai," Gennai said after watching them for a few seconds. "Are your fingers green by any chance?"

The Digidestined of Courage looked at him through half-closed eyes. "Green? Of course not. Why would they-"

His speech was interrupted by Sora who took one of his hands in hers and looked at it intently. "The tips of your fingers are green," Sora said looking at Tai with a reprehensible expression. "Why haven't you noticed this before?"

His sleepy eyes widened a little. "What? But they weren't like this..." He said in a sluggish tone. "And how did they get green...?"

"Tai, you aren't planning on going to sleep now, are you?" Kari asked confused as she started rising from her place on the floor. She hadn't gone to her brother until now because she thought with Joe and Sora there he was fine, but now it was too much to her.

Gennai sighed. "I was hoping the situation wouldn't be that..."

Kari stopped in the middle of her action. "What?"

"Some days ago some mysterious Digimon in the Digital World were seen looking for a plant whose spines can poison someone by just scratching their skin," Gennai began explaining looking at Tai apprehensively. "It is a extremely dangerous plant with thorns so thin it is difficult to identify when you have been hit by it."

"And what does this plant have to do with us?" TK asked feeling he wouldn't like the answer.

"The symptoms are not noticed immediately," Gennai continued. "Usually they start out as a normal cold until it starts getting better before getting worse again until finally..." He paused before continuing. "And one of the first symptoms of this phase is green spots that begin to spread throughout the body, usually starting with the fingers."

"No..." Sora's eyes widened as her grip tightened on Tai. Everyone turned to look at the boy in question, who had his eyes closed and his head resting on Sora's shoulder, mumbling nonsensical things. Joe was paralyzed in front of them, his eyes moving from Tai's fingers, which he now could see that were indeed a bit green, to the thermometer in his hand, which marked 40°C (104°F).

"When...?" Kari whispered staring at her brother. "When was he hit by the thorn? He was only in the Digital World on Wednesday with all of us. How wouldn't anyone notice if..."

"The thorns are very thin, like I said," Gennai repeated sadly. "It's very difficult to see that you got hit by one of them. At the most you feel a little uncomfortable."

"As with a mosquito bite?" Matt said suddenly a little paler.

Gennai looked at him with a thoughtful expression. "I think so."

"Why?" Mimi asked confusedly the blonde teen.

"I remember Tai saying he was chafed with the mosquitoes that were biting him," Matt answered her. "At the time I didn't think much about it, but thinking back it was obvious that something was strange. There's no mosquitoes in the Digital World, is there? At least not like the ones we know..."

Kari's eyes widened and she felt her legs start to give away beneath her, but before she could fall to the ground, TK appeared beside her and held her arm firmly but also gently, supporting her while her legs couldn't. She couldn't believe it. After all that trouble and cautiousness she had had she still wasn't able to prevent it from happening? Her brother had been affected and she hadn't noticed anything! She should have been able to do something, she was the only one who knew that something could happen and she let it go unnoticed by her!

"Where do we find the antidote?" TK asked suddenly surprising her.

Kari looked at him and saw him looking at her briefly before directing his gaze to Gennai. His eyes shone with determination, showing Kari the strength she needed to remember to have. There was still something they could do. Squeezing the hand with which he was holding her, Kari started feeling a bigger firmness in her legs. He was right. Now it wasn't the time to be blaming herself. She knew that the others were also concerned about her brother and would do anything to help. She was sure that they together would be able to find an antidote and find out who was that digimon who was messing with them.

With a renewed determination shining now also in her eyes, Kari turned to Gennai and began to watch as he explained where they would find what they were looking for.

So... Here it is! This was Chapter 7! I hope you didn't find it bad. It was the most difficult one to write till now. I tried adding a little more of the Digimons, although most of them basically did nothing. But you have to admit that this is a bit difficult. There are so many Digidestined and Digimon - though not all were here – that it gets difficult to make them all do something. And I hope you weren't bothered by the sudden changes of relaxation and tension in the scenes.

And about the part with Tai... Well, I thought about many ways for it to appear but this one sounded interesting so I ended up putting it that way. And I'm sorry if you were expecting something more "Oh, my gosh!" Or something like that. Believe me, it being this way will help the rest of the plot. And I hope I have caught at least some of you off guard XD I hope that not everyone was expecting it to happen like that o.o

Now, I know that this chapter also didn't have action, but don't worry, more things will start to happen from the next chapter :D (that is, if everything goes as planned).

Wow, I said a lot of things huh? Well, that's it. So till the next chapter! Don't forget to, please, review! See you all later! Bye!