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The 9th Chosen

Taichi Yagami

The goggle headed leader let out a sigh of relief. He wasn't sure how, but they defeated VenomVamdemon hopefully for the last time. He and Yamato, along with his little sister Hikari and his little brother Takeru helped Agumon and Gabumon reach their Ultimate levels. They had actually saved the world. No, both worlds. He looked to his other friends and smiled. Yamato gave him a smile back and thumbs up. Taichi returned the greeting with a nod.

"Onii-chan, what is that?!" He heard Takeru shout in shock. Everyone else started to give similar reactions. "It's the Digital World, but how?!" The young blond looked at his older brother for answers. Yamato remained silent, he obviously wasn't sure how to answer.

"I thought we defeated the enemy and everything would go back to normal… But this…" His younger sister was holding on to Salamon, Tailmon's Child form.

"The worlds are threatening to collide." A new, quiet voice said. The brunette turned around to face a colbalt hair child with an unsure expression. He looked as young as his sister and wore a purple t-shirt with khaki shorts and green shoes.

Taichi stared at the kid for a moment, making him look away shyly. "Who are you?" He managed to ask the child.

"Ke- Ken Ichijouji…" His voice was so soft that you would think it was the wind that spoke.

"But, what are you? How do you know all of this? Do you even know who we are?" He glanced over his shoulders at the rest of the Chosen who were also exchanging looks and conversing what this could mean.

"I thought there were only 8 Chosen Children?" Jyou said confused with his hand on his chin.

"Gennai has been wrong, I mean, look at what happened with Hikari." Koushirou spoke up.

"But why are we finding this out now? Do we need that much help for this new threat?" Mimi said worriedly holding her hands together.

The little boy, Ken Ichijouji was glancing nervously around at everyone. He wanted to speak, but seemed afraid too.

"Everyone, please calm down. We are scaring him." Sora's kind voice cut through the commotion.

"I'm sorry… My big brother told me I should never talk unless I'm spoken to…" Ken's eyes were looking at the ground. He looked over his shoulder and spoke to another figure, but it was too quiet to hear.

A green catipillar with two antennas, and purple feet came from behind the boy. The others let out a gasp of surprise. "I'm Wormmon. As some of you guessed, Ken is another Chosen Child. I'm sorry we are so late, but we live in an area called Tamachi that is a little of ways away." Wormmon looked up to Ken, who smiled back. It was a sweet smile that could make any bad day a good one. He reached into his pocket and brought out his Digivice.

"As Wormmon said, I am a Chosen Child. I am sorry it took me so long to get here. It seems I caused you trouble." His smile disappeared and his gaze turned back to the ground.

"Please don't blame yourself." Hikari spoke up, approaching the child. "It was hard for most of us to get back together after being separated." She placed a hand on his shoulder.

Takeru approached Ken as well taking his other side. "I live further away too. I don't think I could have gotten across the bay without my friends. But we are sure glad you finally came. The more friends, the better." The blond smiled.

Ken looked up at both Hikari and Takeru and smiled. "Thank you." His voice still as soft as when they first met.

Everyone did quick introductions before it was time to set off. They held out their Digivices as a rainbow show of beams connected Earth to the Digital World. They said their goodbye's to their parents as they disappeared from Earth. Taichi wondered though, why Ken's parents weren't there too…

Just like the first time they came to the Digital World, they fell through a wave of data and before they knew it were in the place they called home for so many months.

The Digital World was different though, it looked distorted and dark. Well, it was always a bit distorted, but even more so now. What happened while we were gone…?

Ken Ichijouji

The colbalt hair child slowly opened up his deep blue eyes. His head hurt really badly and there was a heavy weight on his torso. He slowly lifted his head to look down to see Hikari had landed on him. Thank goodness. I wouldn't have wanted someone else to get hurt.

"Hikari-chan, are you alright?" He said softly helping her sit up.

The girl let out a small moan, but smiled. "I'm fine, Ken-kun. Thanks to you." She looked at him with her amber eyes.

Ken smiled back. He quickly remembered what happened. "Where's Wormmon?" He asked in a panic, looking around in a frantic.

"Ken-chan, don't worry, I'm right here." His partner said gently behind him. "I wanted to make sure you landed softly." Wormmon smiled kindly at them both.

"Wormmon. I'm glad you are OK." He embraced his partner. "He looked up at the sky and saw Earth. Looking around, he wondered why everything seemed so gloomy… The others were wondering the same.

They would soon find out it seemed. A lot of huge battles were a head of them. What would happen, he didn't know. But he was sure happy Wormmon was by his side.