"No matter how dark the night is, the sun will always rise and bring light to the world.
It is, the Destiny of the Dawn."

Disclaimer; I do not own Digimon.

Author: Well, expect your usual fanfiction fare here; overpowered OCs and characters, out of character characters, etc...

"Remnants of Darkness"

Within the digital and human worlds, small bits of dark matter float around, unnoticed by the humans and digimon. All throughout both worlds, these remnants of float towards one place, gathering together, growing stronger.

"Heh heh heh…" the darkness laughs. "The time is near, I will have my revenge and destroy the Digidestined once and for all!"

It's been 3 months since the defeat of Armageddemon. Almost every human and digimon has a partner now, and advancement in technology from both sides are improving life on both worlds. There were no battles, everything was at peace.

"Sora!" called a boy from behind the girl.

"Matt!" she called back.

"What took you so long?" asked the little pink bird that was hovering above her.

"Some fans wanted his autograph and wouldn't leave him alone until they had it." Answered the small blue dog that was running with Matt.

"I'm sorry Sora," Matt panted as he stopped in front of her catching his breath. "I got here as quick as I could."

"I know Matt," Sora giggled, all four of them started walking down the street past all the stores. "It's hard being famous isn't it?"

"Heh," Matt smiled. "Well you're the one the just won the Tennis tournament. Why aren't you celebrating with everyone else?"

"Well," Sora looked down for a bit. "I have a feeling my opponent held back a little, because I'm one the original digidestined."

"Where did you get that idea?" Matt questioned her. "I'm sure if she wanted to respect you, she wouldn't hold back."

"I guess…" Sora mumbled to herself.

"You're just over thinking," Matt continued. "You know I'll be there when you need me but abandoning your friends at a party? That's a little too much."

"I'm sorry Matt," Sora apologized.

"You don't have to be sorry Sora," Matt told her. "Let's just go back and enjoy the party."

"You're right," Sora smiled. "But I better bring back some treats to make it up to everyone."

The four of them wandered around the street until they found an ice cream store. Sora was able to buy enough for their friends and digimon, but Matt offered to pay half. Biyomon had to keep watch over Gabumon to prevent him from eating anything. They all left the store and started to head back to where the others were celebrating.

"Hey!" Biyomon cried out. "Is that Tai?"

Everyone stopped as Sora and Matt looked in the direction Biyomon was looking. A boy about their age, with wide brown hair, blue headband, a blue shirt and brown shorts was looking at something through the window of a store.

"I don't think so," Gabumon stated. "I don't see Agumon anywhere. In fact, I don't see his partner digimon at all."

"It's probably just a coincidence," Matt tells them. "It happens all the time."

"Oh yeah?" Biyomon flew in front of them, blocking their view. "How many people do know have that kind of hair?"

"Biyomon!' Sora waved her arm. The pink bird flew off and when they looked at where the boy was, he was gone.

Matt and Sora rushed to where he was standing and looked through the window themselves.

"Hairclips?" Matt looked puzzled, then he looked straight at Biyomon. "I told you it wasn't Tai."

"Hmm…" Sora entered deep in thought. There was one hairclip that caught her attention. It looked exactly like the one Tai had bought for her for her birthday not too long ago.

"Do you like that one?" Matt broke her thinking.

"Huh? Oh, no." Sora stumbled for words. "I already have it, I was just thinking about it."

"A hairclip?" Matt looked puzzled again. "I didn't think you were the type."

"I'm not," she replied. "I wore it once, but that was it. I didn't like it."

"That's too bad," Biyomon spoke up. "I wanted to see what you would look like wearing that."

"Hehe," Sora giggled. "It's gonna take a lot of convincing to get me to wear that again."

Everyone returned to the school gymnasium where they were celebrating. Sora gave away the ice cream she and Matt had bought. Sora gave one to Agumon and looked around for Tai. She made sure she didn't miss him and looked again, then she began to worry.

"Hey Agumon?" she asked the little dinosaur. "Where's Tai?"

"I don't know," he answered while licking his dessert. "When we found out that you and Matt were missing, Tai volunteered to find you. I wanted to come with him, but he told me to stay and enjoy the party and eat the food before all of it disappears. We haven't seen him since."

"Oh, really?" Sora started to look down.

Agumon noticed her face. "Don't look so down Sora, this is Tai we're talking about. I'm sure he's okay. He'll be back, you'll see. For now why don't you do as Tai told me? Enjoy the party!"

"Yeah, you're right." Sora smiled at the thought of Tai returning to the party. She opened up the ice cream she bought for Tai, she knew it was Tai's favorite kind, and tried it out for herself because she didn't want to give Tai melted ice cream.

Over 2 hours have past and still no sign of Tai. Now Sora isn't the only one that's worried.

"Hang on," Matt told everyone, taking out his cell phone. "I'll give him a call."

He dialed Tai's cell phone number. But there was a ringing from inside the gym. Everyone looked at Kari, who took out Tai's cell.

A puzzled Kari looked at the phone, "Now how did that happen? May be Tai has my cell phone instead."

"Let me handle it Matt," TK took out his own phone and dialed Kari's number. Again, the ringing came from Kari, who took out her own cell from the opposite pocket. A startled TK almost dropped his phone. "Now how did THAT happen?"

At this point, Sora spoke up. "I know where he is." She forced a smile for them, "He's probably at the same spot he always go to whenever he's deep in thought. I'll go and fetch him. Enjoy the party everyone!"

Sora ran out of the school thinking to herself, Stupid Tai.

Sora ran towards a soccer field not too far away, and in the middle of it was a boy with wide brown hair bouncing a soccer ball. She sneaked up quietly behind him.

"I knew I would find you here."

Tai bounced the ball as high as he could. Sora knew what he was doing and readied herself. Tai jumped up and bicycle kicked the ball towards her. Sora then headbutted the ball towards where the soccer net would be and scored a goal, she may be a tennis player now but she still has her soccer skills. She walked up towards where he lay and sat right next to him.

"Why aren't you celebrating with everyone else?" Tai asked her.

"It's not much of a party if even one person is missing Tai." Sora answered him cheerfully, then put on a serious look which made Tai nervous. "The real question is, what are YOU doing here?"

"Well… I… err…" Tai was speechless, there were no words he could say to her.

"Agumon told me you went to look for me and Matt. But we found you instead, looking at a hairclip."

"I-I was just…" Tai started, having trouble keeping his words from shaking, but it difficult as the eyes of the phoenix keep piercing right through him. "Okay, okay! You caught me."

Sora put on her smiling face again, "Now then, tell me the truth."

"I really was looking for the two of you when I found the hairclip store." Tai began to explain to her as he turned to the sky. "I only glanced it as I passed by but it caught my attention. That very same hairclip that I gave you not too long ago. I had thought about giving you a present for your tennis tournament victory but seeing that hairclip made me want to re-think myself. I don't want to end up fighting you again over a stupid present, and I don't know what kind of stuff you might like now so I came here to think."

"And in the process you forgot about find me and about the party." Sora finished for him.

"Y-Yeah, when I noticed the time I knew it was too late to comeback. Heh heh heh…" Tai has a real nervous and twitchy face on him now.

"Really Tai," Sora sighed then smiled. "You can be such a knucklehead." She then looked him straight in the face. "But that one of the things I like about you."

"Huh?" Tai looked over to Sora but missed her face as she was getting up.

"You don't have to worry Tai, I saved some food for you." Sora told him. "Now come on and hurry before it gets too cold." She ran off back to the school.

"H-Hey wait for me!" Tai got up as quickly as he could and chased after her, both of them were having fun in their little chase.

Meanwhile, in the depths of the digital world, the final remnants of darkness have finished coming together. And a form was beginning to take shape.

"Hehehehe… Hahahaha… HAAAAAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAAA!"

Back at the party, everybody's digivices began to glow and beep…

Author: Guess who's baaaaack!

You can probably just ignore the darkness part and call this a Taiora one shot right here. There's some crazy things I have planned later on so I'm warning you right now. Very crazy things.

Little Chapter notes: I decided to keep the hairclip incident between Tai, Sora and Izzy. The mysterious laugh at the end was an attempt to imitate Iori Yagami's laugh from King of Fighters.