Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.

Summery: AU, very AU and dark, with mentioning of torture, violence and blood drinking. Things begin to pick up as Tai begins to look for the objects wanted by his master, the rest of the Digi Destined are stressed in their search for Mimi and fighting the evil Digimon Kaiser at the same time.

It was always the same way it started, this nightmare he had for the last week. The wind blowing through his hair and urging him to continue move no matter what came in the way of him, dead or alive, where he was going he didn't know, all he knew was that he needed to get there, it was important in some way, he couldn't be distracted by them. They were beneath him, they were as important as the stuff he would wipe from his boots after stepping in it. "I'm the ruler of the western realms, and with The Master as the ruler of the whole world, nothing could end our rule." Speaking the words to comfort himself, he stopped when the first speck of laughter began. Turning around to find out where it came from so he could put an end to it, he stopped, finding himself standing in the very place he had never wanted to see again, the place where his human weakness had showed itself for the first time, the laughter growing bigger as he took a step back from the shock of it all. "I told you too shut UP!!" Screaming out the words, Tai turned his head, only to feel someone push him harshly, the movement sending him forward and right down onto the ground.

"You will die for that!" Screaming once more, Tai turned his head and stopped when he noticed the person towering up over him, the blond hair dancing in the wind along with the cape, the pale face showing no mercy as it pulled back a hand to hit him with, just like he had all those years, seconds before he killed him. "No, you're dead, the Master told me you died!" Tai screamed out as he backed away from the ground in front of the digimon.

"You mean, like you killed me?"

Turning his head around at the voice, Tai screamed for a third time, but this time, it was a command or a curse, it was a just a scream of pure terror as he saw the ghost looking at him with anger and hate. The blond hair falling down the sides of the eyeless head as a dark cold laughter came form the mouth of it. "No, you're dead as well, you can't be here." Tai mumbled as he once again began to back away.

"He's dead alright, just like us."

"Kari?" Tai spoke as he whipped his head around, expecting to see his sister smile at him, to help him understand that it was just a freak nightmare, that no one could even think of scaring or hurting him, he was after all, one of the most powerful creature sin the digital and real world. Then his smile fell as he saw his sister and her friends standing there, each of them looking just as dead as the blond haired boy.

"You killed us, along with so many others, you're a killer, a monster, a... You're not my brother anymore!!" A bitter and cold sound filled the air as Ghost Kari began to cry into her bone like hands.

Turning away from the crying ghost of his sister in fear, Tai chocked back a scream at the sight of the countless digimons hovering around him, their eyes nothing more then empty holes and their bodies torn and bloody from his daily torment of them. Stepping back a bit in pure terror, he felt sick as he spotted several of them staring at him in an almost non caring way, as they began to reach out for him with bloody hands, sickles, tentacles or what they had instead of hands. "No, stay back, stay away from me." Stumbling back, he felt himself fall over something on the ground, the object, a body as he could see when he landed on the ground, had him screaming in a endless manner, his lungs hurting when he started to run out of air, a pain he ignored as he saw her lying there, the long light brown hair spilling out around her face and shoulders in several bloody locks, her eyes which had been so full of sincerity were now dark and full of pain, the pain of her final moment before he killed her.

"NOooooooooooooo!!" Sitting up in the chair, he felt his heart pound away at a million km's a second, the sweat on his forehead having coated his hair to it, and making him shiver in the damp clothes he was wearing. Pushing himself out of the chair, he stumbled through the room and stared into the early morning, the cloud barely showing any signs of the light that would soon fill the sky. "What's wrong with me?" Meeting him in the glass window, was a reflection of his face, the signs of stress showing clearly as he hadn't gotten the rest he had hoped for lately. "Stupid dreams, why are they brothering me." Letting his head fall forward, he sighed as he felt the cold glass impact with his forehead, the cold numbing the flesh and helping him to think clear. "Why am I think of her, why do I even care, she's just someone I desired nothing more, so why would her death trouble me like this?" Eyes staring into the horizon as he fell silent, he blinked when he spotted a small dark spot growing large, the form becoming clearer for each second that passed. "Her." Turning around in a rush, he grabbed his shirt from the floor, slipping into it in haste and ignoring the wrinkles on it.

In another part of the castle, the lack of restful sleep was shared by the unwilling house guest as she was sitting up in her bed, her own hair damp with sweat as her breathing came in ragged gasps. One hand over to where her heart was in her chest, as if trying to keep it inside her body. "What was that?" Her eyes closing as the memory of the laughter rang through her mind, the voices mocking her, pressing her down under the water, she shuddered as she saw the lifeless eyes in the messy haired boy face, sure she disliked him and hated what he had done, but... did she really wish for him to die. "Do I really, want that?"

"Huh, what are you mumbling about Mimi?"

Turning to her side, Mimi looked at a sleepy Palmon sitting up from her side of the bed. "It was nothing." Trying to control her voice, Mimi looked away from her partner, ignoring the concern in the insect like eye as it filled her with a small amount of fear, and turned her head away, choosing instead to look out through the window and up at the dawning morning sky. "Nothing at all."

Nodding in response, but not completely convince of Mimi telling the truth, Palmon returned to her sleep, the soft sound of her breathing soon filling the room again and giving Mimi as small measure of comfort.

Pulling back her blanket and slipping out of the bed, the brown haired girl looked around the room with a resigned expression as she spotted the same things that had greeted her every morning for what, a month now. "Has it already, been that long?" Stepping over to the window and gazing out of it, she stared at the fog-covered forest below the castle and cliff. "I... I wonder if they have forgotten me."

Staring out the window, she suddenly stepped back in shock as a large shadow moved over the castle. "A Digimon?" Looking closer, she could see that it was a digimon now, or to be more precise, a bird type digimon, fairly large as well. "Birddramon." The shape was the same as Sora's digimon partner's champion form, but... something didn't feel right about it.

Watching it land in the courtyard, she shook her head and crawled over to stare out the window, blinking in confusion as a person jumped off the left leg of the digimon and turned to stare up at it for a few seconds while the digimon glowed bright white and shrunk down to much smaller form.

Stepping back from the window as the person turned to stare up at it, Mimi felt her heart beat a bit slower, it had been close, wile she was a high ranking guest at the castle, she didn't want to be seen by other people in this place. Tai could be avoided and he had often understood when she wanted to be alone by her body langue and kept clear of her at those times, even if he would then send Blackgatomon to spy on her.

Staring around the room, the girl sighed as she walked towards the door, pushing a brown hair lock out of her eyes, a simple thought drifting through her head as she did one that had her giggle a bit. "I can't believe I'm thinking off getting some more hair dye at a time like this" Fingering the hair lock, she grinned and shook her head, it had been far too long since she had last thought of something so simple that it somehow felt good, even at a time when it should the last thing on her mind.

Stopping her giggling and pacing, the brown haired girl turned to stare at the door, the sound of footsteps growing louder with each second, only to stop as the person stood near her room. "Tai?" t was a small mumble to her, but she felt her heart beat a bit faster when hurried steps could be heard heading towards her door again.

"Motomiya?"

"Yagami."

Stepping closer to the door, Mimi leaned in and strained her ears to hear them. The name Tai had just used, it had sounded so familiar to her, where was it that she had heard it before.

"What are you doing her Motomiya? Did the Master send you to check up on me?"

"No Yagami, I'm here on my own, I've just been to File Island." A silence fell over the corridor after that.

"Did you find it there?"

"Yes and No?" Motomiya seemed to be hesitating at that point Mimi noted as she tried to find a better place to listen in on them. "I found the shrine like I should have, but the Core had been removed about four years ago."

"Around Devimon's time." Mimi blinked as she heard Tai hiss out the name, had he had some trouble with a Devimon before. "I found the Core of the West." Tai seemed to hesitate as he said it, but Mimi was more concerned with this Core of the west and east stuff. "Something didn't feel right when I took it."

"Like you were stealing from a friend." Motomiya added as she stared around the room. "I felt it too, when I forced my way into the temple."

"Did you find any clues as too where it had been taken?"

"No, all I found inside was a lot of inscriptions and a Statue of a dragon type digimon."

"Funny, in the west, it was a Tiger like statue that held the core."

Mimi slowly backed away from the door as she heard Tai and that new person walk away, their footsteps echoing in the hallway outside. "Digi Cores, statues?" Turning to face the bed and window, Mimi sighed as she began to pace the room again. "This is getting too wierd, first someone who should be dead kidnaps me and turns me into some kind of vampire freak, next he out stealing the digi cores, whatever they are." Stopping, She lifted a hand to touch her forhead. "Where's Izzy when you need him."

Sitting down on her bed, Mimi continued to try and make sense of what she had heard, the answers refusing to come as easily to her as she had hoped they would. In the end, she could only lay back and wondered over one thing that had slowly started to trouble her more and more in the last few minutes, who was the Motomiya girl with Tai, and why did they sound so much like old time friends.

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In another part of the digital world, light began to seep in through a window as well, hitting each member of the group sleeping there as well, causing them to blink and yawn as they found it hard to escape from the glare. Pushing back his chair and looking up the white ceiling above him, Davis yawned loudly as he began the process of waking up. Rubbing the sleep from his eyes, he spotted the group's digimon's sleeping in the corner, and then he spotted Yolie lying on the second bed in the room along with Kari.

Kari, Davis thought slowly as he simply stared at her, the small girl he had met all those years ago had grown up and become even better looking then back then, but even if she had changed a bit, the things he liked about her hadn't changed, she was still a caring and friendly person, despite that day four years ago. Eyes narrowing, Davis slammed a hand down on his chair, his thoughts turning to the day he had learned his sister had been missing since the digimon take over as well.

"Davis, is it morning already?"

Looking up from his dark thoughts, Davis gave a small grin when he noticed Yolie staring around the room with a half dead look while she spoke to him. Slipping out of the chair at the sight, he walked up and placed a hand on the back of her chair. "Yeah, so how is he doing, any better?"

The boy in question was still asleep, several bandages covering his arms, the blond hair looking better after it had gotten the dirt and other stuff washed out of it. But despite the treatment, and help, he had still to wake up.

Stretching her arms and back, Yolie let out a yawn as she pushed her chair back and stood up, her purple hair falling in a messy wave down her back and side. "He seems to be better, but I would rather want one of the doctors to tell us." Staring around the room, she walked over to the door and opened it. "I'm going too take a bath, why don't you try and see if you can find us anything to eat."

Nodding, Davis stood up and walked through the room, his eyes going over the various items there, and the still sleeping forms of his friends. "First Ken, and now this, geez, when did the world decide to go this crazy on me." Pushing open the door and stepping out thought it, Davis shook his head over the comment, the world may have gone crazy without them knowing about it, but he wouldn't trade it in for anything else.

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It was well past noon when he saw Motomiya fly off with her digimon, her tight back dress and scarf flapping in the wind as she began to move eastward, back towards File Island. It had been a long talk, and several things had been shared but nothing had come up that could help them, all he had was a somewhat fixed location on where the next Digi Core could be found, but it too could have been moved in the last four years and most likely had since his raid on the first shrine, surely rumors would have spread to their guardians by now.

Stepping back into the castle, he cast a look at the nearest group of digimons working nearby, their hands or paws moving a bit faster when they notice his glare. "I want that finished before sun down." Ignoring their shocked glances at him, he stepped into the comforting darkness of his castle, his step echoing throughout the main lobby. "Soulmon!"

The floor in front of him shimmered for a second after his call, and then a Bakemon wearing a large top hat rose from the floor. The head turning to face Tai as it had finally moved through the floor. "You called Lord Taichi!"

Tai nodded as he began to walk down the corridor to the left, Soulmon following him every step of the way. "Soulmon, I want you to gather the rest of my Elite Warriors, I have a small problems that needs to be dealt with." Stopping as he reached the staircase leading up, he cast a dark look at Soulmon. "Tell them, I will accept no excuse for not showing up, this is the orders of me and the Great Master himself."

Walking up the stairs, Tai ignored the question look from Soulmon, his thoughts moving back to the recent dreams troubling him and what they could mean. "I care for her, that much it has shown me." Pushing open the door at the top of the stairs, Tai ignored the shocked gasp and few terror filled sounds from the digimon inside the room as he entered.

FLoramon, the new leader of the more everyday related work force looked up from her design of a new dress for the Dark Queen when her master had stepped in. "Lord Taichi, what is your wish?"

Staring over at her, Tai gave a weak smile and walked up to look at the Floramon, his hand moving out to trace the dress on the table. "I want you to make my queen... some more travel suited clothes." His eyes going a bit distant, Tai grinned as he turned around. "I have gotten orders to head for the northern outpost, and I want her to come with me."

Floramon nodded as she began to pull out the stuff needed to design and make the new clothes, her thoughts moving to who would be in control of the place in the meantime. "Lord Taichi, if I may... how many outfits do you request?"

Staring back at her, Tai shrugged as he hadn't really though about it. "I think, four or five would be in order, I don't plan on spending much time up there, but it could drag out a bit." Eyes turning a bit distant again, Tai sudden nodded to himself, as he looked at the digimon before him. "Floramon, when you finished with the outfits, I want you to prepare to travel with me as well, it would be good to have an experienced servant along."

"As you wish lord Taichi." Floramon said as she returned to her work.

Turning around and walking through the room, Tai settled his hand on the doorway and looked back, the various digimon working in the room not daring to look back. "What is it?" The words were mumbled out as Tai lifted a hand to feel his chest, his heart, it had beaten a bit differently, as if it protested the fact that he was using digimons as slaves and servants. "Foolish." Muttering the last word, he left the room and headed for his study, he needed to think about things.

Passing Mimi and Palmon on their way to the garden, he only gave a short greeting to which the girl who been troubling his dreams recently huffed at in an insulted way. Stopping and looking back at her, he held out a hand and softly cupped her face. "I'm sorry Mimi, I've been a bit distracted lately, why don't we share a meal together in the study later?"

The brown haired girl seemed to debate over it a bit, her eyes moving from him to her partner digimon a few times before she finally answered him. "Sure." Stepping back from him, she gave a small smile when she noticed the pout he had on his face when his hand had lost contact with her chin, something that looked rather funny as he stood there dressed in his uniform. "I'll meet you later, Taichi."

Walking down the corridor, she could almost feel his gaze on her, the feeling leaving her a bit confused as too how she feel about it, then she pushed it away as she stepped out into the garden outside, the flowers and plants always serving to relax her no matter what. "Palmon, do you think, BlackGatomon's plan will work?"

The plant digimon looked up at Mimi as she shrugged, her trust n the small feline digimon not that strong at all. "I don't know, she seems to care about him, and truly wishes the best for him." Palmon became silent as she turned to look up at the sky. "But it could also be a way to fool us, and make us look un-trust worthy in his eyes."

Mimi sighed as she sat down on the bench nearby, her hands moving out to caress a nearby flower with a gentle hand. "Palmon, about Tai, do you also get the feeling that he's changing lately?"

Feeling his cape move with him, Tai turned around to the desk drawer before him, ignoring the sight of Mimi and Palmon talking outside in the garden. Opening it and staring at the digivice inside of it, he felt an old feeling stir inside of him, something dark and fearful, it was an inferior device when compared to his own, an outdated model, yet it also represented his own weaknesses from so long ago, they had gotten one and the job to save the world, but not him, he had been left to suffer that digimons wrath when they hadn't shown up to save him, the only one who had cared enough to help, had been the Master. Slamming the desk shut, he turned the key around and smiled. She would only get it back when he was sure he could trust her completely, until then, it stayed there out of her reach. "BlackGatomon!"

Looking up, the feline digimon stared at him with a curious expression, her face slightly troubled by the in different tone in his voice, it was so similar to the one her former Master had used before he had beaten her. "Yes, Taichi?" Asking in the most friendly and obedient tone, she hoped that he wasn't about to become a new master.

Turning around and staring down at the black colored feline, he lifted up his D3, the map program running on it and showing a green or near the center as it picked up Mimi digivice. "I'm leaving, while I'm gone I want you to keep an eye on things and my Queen as well." Stepping out of the room, he smirked when he felt his digimon partner following him, staying a good deal behind him like any pet would. "I won't be back until late night or sometime tomorrow."

Eyes puzzled, the cat digimon stared at the back of her partner, a hundred thoughts flowing through her mind in a single second, but only one of them really mattered. "Where you going, out to find another Digi Core?" Her voice held a lot of curiosity, over the sudden change in his behavior.

Smirking, Tai lifted up his black orange D3, a pale dark light starting to glow around it as the corridor opened up into a large outdoor courtyard, a Demidramon already saddled and ready for him. "I'm going to finish something I left undone." Jumping up on the back, he grinned as he the devil dragon began to fly off. "Keep an eye on Mimi for me while I'm gone."

BlackGatomon nodded and turned to carry out his order, stopping only long enough to look back over her shoulder and up at the rapidly fading sight of the Devidramon and it's passenger. "What's wrong with you, Tai?"

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"Are you sure about it my dear?" The masters voice mumbled as he tapped a finger on the table, his eyes narrowed in anger as he counted each stroke, the sound offering at small distraction to drive away at least some of his anger. "It could be a small side effect of prolonged stay in the digital world after all."

Motomiya shook her head as she looked through her laptop's video link and into the shadowed face of the master, his eyes the only thing she could see clearly in the darkness. "No, he's showing signs of it, they're small and hard to notice, but they're there." Voice turning dark and cold as she spoke, Motomiya settled down a bit. "He's less prone to anger outburst, and traces of his old personality are showing up, most of them when he was dealing with that flea bag of a partner you gave him."

"Thank you, My dear, I appreciate you're report on things, keep an eye on him and make sure you find that core understand." Turning off the video link, the Master grumbled as he stared at the screen with impatient eyes, his fingers curled up like claws ready to strike out and kill something, mainly the black colored feline digimon. "That blasted flea bag sensed it, yet she has done nothing to stop it, or taken means to prevent it." Looking away from the screen, his eyes fell on the device next to him and the glowing light on it. "I need him to be cruel, evil and destructive to carry out the plan, I want that blasted shield down so I can reopen my gate."

Standing up and rubbing his chin as he did so, he walked out through the door and sighed at the sight of the world outside his windows, the endless rows of concrete and glass buildings. "Such an inferior world, true power doesn't exist here, only a symbolic one in that blasted stuff they call money." Laughing a bit, the Master lifted up a hand to rub his chin. "I supposed, I could show them what true power is, when I have gotten my revenge." Eyes narrowing, he removed the hand from his chin and watched it. "That's if I get back."

Slamming a hand onto the wall, he grumbled as he looked down at the floor. "Damn them, I'm so close to getting back." The words held an icy tone of hate as he spoke them, as if everything else didn't matter but that. "And when I do, they will regret banishing me to this worthless world." Eyes turning cold and hard like ice, the Master's smile become a tight, drawn one as he tapped a finger on the table. "But now, who would have thought the brat would feel something for someone else with the hold I got on him, even the small recharge he got from me doing his last visit hasn't been enough to beat the hold they have on him." Turning back to look at the computer standing in the other room, screen still glowing with a static light, the image of the castle changing slowly as it followed BlackGatomon trough the corridors, he gave a dark smile. "She and the human girl are weakening my grip, and the virus as well. How did the brat think he could change her like that, his body is just infected by it, I hold the reproductive part of it, that which let's me change people, all he did was shared his part of the virus with her, too much for it to control him without my presence to strengthen it."

Walking back into the room, his hands reached out for the computer mouse while the other one pushed the chair backwards. "They will have to be dealt with, both of them." Clicking on a small button on his program screen, the Master eyes twinkled as a special sup menu popped up on screen. "Yes, there had been enough data generated overnight, now, let's see, who my imitation digimon shall copy for this mission."

Hitting another button, a Digi card set complete with stats for the various digimon popped up on screen. "No, not him, or them." Mumbling to himself as he scrolled down the side and looked at each of the names on it, he suddenly grinned when he spotted a familiar name on the list. "Yes, this one." Clicking on the card and dragging it over to the other program, he grinned as the card vanished from the screen, only to have a 3D image of it pop up in the other program. "Now, go my little digimon and carry out your mission." Mumbling the words, he quickly set the commands for it to upload the chosen digimon into the Digital World.

Fading into to view in the castles courth yard, the digimon started of looking like a fuzzy TV screen at first, several different colored of light moving over it before it became completely solid and gained it's true colors. Lifting its head, the white dull eyes, a side effect that still hadn't been solved, stared at the building before it. The Target it needed to destroy was inside that place and that was all it cared about. Spreading out its wings, the digimon lifted off the ground and began to fly towards main part of the building.

On the other side of the main part of the castle, Mimi looked up as a chill passed through her all of a sudden. Turning her head left and right trying to locate what had caused it, she stopped when she spotted the familiar outline of a feline digimon hiding under the rose bushes. "Come out BlackGatomon, I know you're there."

Giving a loud hiss of defeat, BlackGatomon stepped out from her hiding place slowly, moving over to stare up at Mimi with a strange glint in her eyes. "Tell me, are you still in on it?" Voice almost non caring as she asked, the black feline stared at a nearby rosebush while licking her front paw and glove.

Settling back and relaxing a bit, Mimi closed her eyes and took a small joy from the sunlight hitting her. "I don't know, he changing lately, he's getting more aggressive and cold." Voice wavering a bit, she looked to the side through a half open eye to see BlackGatmon's concerned look. "You noticed it as well?"

Nodding, the feline stepped closer, but kept one of her eyes on the plant digimon nearby, it insect eyes showing just how little Palmon trusted her. "I don't know why, but it started shortly after his return from the Master, he must be a part of this." The last bit was hissed out as BlackGatmon's ears began to move a bit. "Wait, someone's here."

At those words, a lord cry filled the air as a large bird like digimon moved around the main tower of the castle in a slow turn, the eyes of the digimon turning to look down at the ground in search of something, the fiery orange body catching the sun light and sending a small shadow down over the digimons on the ground.

"Birddramon?" Mimi mumbled as she stood up, her hopes rising for each second she saw the large fiery bird digimon in the sky. "But, where's Sora?" The last was added as she failed to see her friend near the digimon at all. "And the others?"

Spotting the girl and two digimon in the garden, the bird digimon began a slow dive towards them, the white eyes turning to focus completely on it's target. "Meteor Wing!" Folding it's wings together before opening them and firing off the fireballs.

Ducking out of the way with BlackGatomon, Mimi let out a shriek as she felt Palmon's vines snag around her and pull her to safety. "What's she doing!" Yelling out her concern and puzzlement, Mimi felt BlackGatomon struggled to get free from her grip on it. "Stop struggling, we need to come up with a way to get her back to normal."

Twisting her head around, Blackgatomon hissed as she clawed Mimi's hand, landing on the ground with a burning hate in her eyes. "Follow me, I can't fight her, but you can." Rushing in through the door, she felt and heard Mimi and Palmon running after her. "I know where Tai has hidden your digivice, I will give it back to you, but only if you stick to your promise of not hurting him."

"I can't Birdbramon, she's my friend." Mimi yelled as they moved up a flight of stair, past the shocked Bakemon guards rushing around the place in a panic. "Didn't you hear me, I can't fight her?" Mimi yelled as she finally reached BlackGatomon as the feline shattered the door into the study. "BlackGatomon!"

Looking back at Mimi as she let out a loud hiss, Baclkatomon felt her tail puff up in anger, her claws digging into the floor as she moved towards Mimi in a slow pace. "That thing out there is not your friend, it's not even a real digimon, I saw the master experiment with it back on Earth, he calls it Imitamon because it has the power imitate any digimon based on how much power it has been given before uploading." Turning to the desk, Blackgatomon tensed and shot up towards it, her clawed glove slashing out as fast as they could. "Cat's paw!" Tearing through the wood. "The master must know the same as I do, that by turning you into a vampire like him, Tai has weaken the virus in him, allowing more of his human nature to come out, and that if you die, the virus in you will return to Tai, bringing him completely back into the darkness and the master's control again."

Mimi, still a bit shocked from the sudden attack and what BlackGatomon had just told, barely had time to react as her digivice was tossed at her, the device catching her attention in the last second as she struggled to hold onto it. "So... Why are you?" She slowly asked as she felt the familiarity of the beeping sound and light coming from her digivice.

"Your digimon can digivolve, and fight with your help." BlackGatomon said as she jumped over to the door and stared back over her shoulder and into Mimi's eyes with a harsh and experienced look on her face. Her gloved paws itching to get out of the room and see what damage the master latest pat had done to the castle. "Well, what are you waiting for, we still need to get up to the top of the castle.

Giving an unsure nod in reply, Mimi turned to look down at Palmon. "Are you ready as well."

"Of course." Came Palmon's reply as she rushed out the door with Mimi right behind her, and BlackGatomon running in front of them.

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"Have we contacted him?" Tai asked out loud as he looked down at his small communication device, the cold surface feeling somewhat comforting to him as he allowed himself to relax a bit. Under him, the large Devidramon grunted a bit as it smuggled to fly in the growing storm they were entering. "I expect him and his team of hunters to be there."

"Master Taichi" Came a faint and barely heard reply from his digivice. "Everything is as you wished, Lord Masuyamon is waiting at the edge of the town for your signal to attack."

"Very well, when this over, we can return to searching for the rest of the Digi Cores" Tai added as he removed the device and settled in for a wait, already thinking of how he should go about finishing off the blond haired brat, and remove the Digi destined from the battle in the best way. "Masuyamon have better now screw this up, cause if he do, I'll feed him to the Vilemon's myself."

Closing his eyes and trying to calm down, Tai shook his head as a brief flash of a rooftop filled his mind, a strong choke hold on his throat, the vision enough to force his eyes open and see the world in front of him, the widespread flat area with a tree here and there, and the completely dark sky above that had begun to rain down the large cold water drops at last. "Such a fitting weather." Taichi mumbled as he pulled his in a bit closer. "It really, seems like a fitting scene for a battle like this."

Still staring out into the darkness cause by the rain storm, Tai blinked his eyes when the first loud beeping sound filled the air as his digivice responded to the presence of another one nearby. "We're almost there, tell Masuyamon and his group to get ready." Tai yelled into his communication device, his eyes looking up ahead and already seeing the outline of the central building of the village. "Son, it will be over and everything, will be back to normal."

Moving ever closer to his target, Tai grinned as he moved a hand over his D3 in an absentminded way, it presence comforting him somewhat in the tense moment, giving him the strength to carry out the final parts of the plan as he needed too. "Just you wait Master, I'll show you that choosing me was the right thing to do." Chuckling to himself, Tai kept his eyes locked on the horizon, and village growing ever bigger in the distance. "Devidramon's, standard attack formation." watching the five devil dragon digimons fall into the formation at his command behind him, Tai resumed watching the city, getting ready to give the signal to attack, for both his air force, and Masuyamon and his hunters.

At the same time, high above him and a bit back, a black shape moved through the air, a pair of eyes watching him intently with a look of pure mockery and contempt as her hair was buffed around by the wind. "That's right Yagami, remove them for me, and in your hour of victory, I shall remove you as well." Laughing loudly, Jun, holding onto her digimon's leg, reached up a hand and pushed back a lock of wet hair from her eyes as they sought out her partners. "Isn't that right, my friend?"

TK, Kari, Yolie and Davis looked up as their digivices signaled the arrival of the mysterious dot they had picked up a minute or so ago moving into their area rapidly, the wind whipping up behind them and giving it all a bit of dramatic flare as they began to see the outline of the approaching digimons, growing bigger and more clear with each passing second. Then they slowed down and hovered in the air before them, six Devidramons, a force that could destroy them if they wanted too.

Then they're eyes were drawn to the central one as a much smaller form became clear, a cape fluttering in the sudden wind that swept through the area, pelting them all with even more rain. "So Digi Brats, we meet at least." A voice spoke as a hand lifted up to push a soaked lock of hair out of a pair of eyes before the figure continued to speak to them. "And I must say, you're just a worthless looking as I imagined you to be."

"Hey" Davis cried out as he stepped forward, one hand clenched tightly around his D3, and the look of murder clear in his eyes at the insult. "Who are you calling worthless you bastard." Spitting back the words, Davis bravely moved forward another step as he pushed his own wet hair away form his forehead. "You should talk, bringing all those digimon's with you, are you really that scared of us."

"Scared?" The word came back in a question manner, then a low chuckled followed it as the person stepped forward, into the faint light at last, showing himself to them or the first time. "I been called a lot, but scared, is a first for me." Looking down at Davis, Tai smirked, as he looked right into the red brown eyes of the boy before him. "Bravery and courage can come in many forms, the courage to carry out a daring plan of attack, the courage to stand up for what you believe in, but one should always try and remember, that courage is worthless without the means to back it up." Tai simply smirked as he finished talking, moving his eyes from one of the Digi destine dot the other, taking in the way they looked and trying to determined how much of a treat they were to him, and smirking even wider as they failed to meet even his lowest expectations.

Kari froze as soon as the person turned his head to look right at her, the brown eyes drawing her in as soon as they hit her own, the overwhelming feeling of familiarity about the person rose even higher when she finally tore her eyes free and saw the rest of him. Despite the darkness and freezing rain having weighed it down, she could still see the similarity between the mop of brown hair on the person and someone she had cried for so long ago, the days she had nearly lost her light. "No...." Whispering out the word, Kari held up a hand to shield her eyes, as she looked closer at the person riding on the Devidramon. The face and body was older then the last time she saw him, four years ago, but still having the same confident and energetic aura around it. "It can't be you?" Kari cried out as she stepped forward, her digivice falling to the ground.

Looking down on the girl stepping forward, Tai gave a sinister smile as he saw her brown eyes grow wider for each second, as the truth began to sink through to her. "Aww, don't say such things Kari, of course it's me, your big brother." Laughing at the shocked gasps from around him, Tai smiled as he signaled his Devidramon to continue flying, the village hospital looming bigger in the distance. Turning around to face the group looking after him, Tai gave a dark grin as he waved at them. "Well Sis, think you can stop me from finishing what I started."

Following the Devidramon with her eyes as it moved away, Kari felt something she thought had been buried shatter deep within her, leaving her with a bad taste in her mouth. "Tai..." Around her, the other Digi destined stared at her in confusion. "Don't do it brother!" Yelling out the words, Kari had already started to run after him, a few tears of confusion mixing with the rain in her face. "TAI!!"

TBC: Sibling Storm, Kari VS Tai.

AN: Sorry for the long time it took to get this one out, I had a small writers block on this one and "A Lone Digi Destined", as well as several of my others stories, not to mention the fact that I had to do a complete redesign of my website, and update several non digimon stories, but I should be back now, and ready to restart work on my other digimons stories as well.

But even if I finished the chapter, I still feel like it's a bit cheap in some places and could have been done better.

Write you all in the next chapter,
Dak.