Disclaimer: Well, I do own Digimon stuff, but not the show itself. I especially like my "build your own XV-mon" model. That was fun to snap together and he looks cool! Not to mention he's very, er, flexible. Now to find that BlackWarGreymon one...

Chapter 4

"Argh! Why haven't we found him yet!?"

"Dude, I'm sure he's fine, so take it easy. It can't be too much farther. Well, I hope, anyway. My feet are killing me. But seriously, Tai, you mentioned my complaining? You should listen to yourself!"

"Davis, I do not want to be lectured by you, of all people. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't even-"

"Shhhh! You hear that?" Davis quickly turned to look down the side hallway they had just passed.

"Did you hear Agumon?" whispered Tai excitedly. He stared past the other boy into the dimly lit hallway. There didn't seem to be anything there except the occasional torch. The older boy frowned. "Are you sure you heard something?"

"I'm postive!" Davis insisted, "It sounded almost like a bird or something."

Tai looked at him strangely. "A bird? In this place? What was it doing, asking you to put it out of it's misery?"

"No, not that kind of noise. It sounded like wings flapping," the younger boy replied, his gaze not moving.

Tai sighed. "Well, whatever it was, it's gone now. Let's keep going."

But Davis wasn't moving. He was sure he heard something flying around back there, and he wanted to know what. Without warning, he took off running down the corridor.

"Davis! What are you doing!?" cried Tai.

"Don't worry about me!" Davis shouted over his shoulder with a smile, "You keep looking for Agumon! I'm going to find what made that noise, then I'll catch up with you using my digivice! See ya later if I don't get eaten first!" With that, he rounded a corner and disappeared from sight.

"Gahh! Now what do I do?" Tai shouted to no one as he pulled at his mess of hair. "Well, I have two options. I can run after Davis because I know he's going to get into trouble like he always does or I can keep following Agumon's signal on my digivice." He sighed. He knew Davis had a point. He could always find him using his digivice. And, for the moment, Tai knew he was fine whereas with Agumon he had no idea what his condition was.

"Alright," he said at last, turning back the way they were originally headed, his mind made up. Not wanting to waste any more time, he quickened his pace as he made his way toward the blinking light.

"Now all I can do is hope that Davis doesn't get sucked into another black hole..."

"Hmm, maybe this wasn't such a good idea..." said Davis as he looked at the dead end in front of him.

"Now that's funny, 'cause I know I heard something flying this way." He looked all around, looking for some sort of opening. "I know there isn't another moving wall door thing; I didn't hear any other noise. So where did it go?"

After staring at the wall for a good 30 seconds, Davis got fed up.

"Argh, I'll never find it!" he screamed as he banged his head against the wall. Or at least, as he tried to. To his surprise, instead of hitting it, he fell right through it, hitting his head on the ground instead.

"Owww! Who moved the wall?" He looked up and blinked. He was no longer in a corridor, but a large hall. He stood up, staring at his sudden change in surroundings. Tall pillars loomed above him, but besides that, the room was bare. No windows, no doors, nothing.

"Geez, whoever lives here really needs to hire a new decorator," he said to no one, his voice echoing around him.

"Boy..."

Davis jumped upon hearing the sound. "W-who's there! Show yourself!" he cried, frantically looking around.

At last he spotted a humanoid figure sitting in the far right corner of the hall. Curious, he walked closer to get a better look. He noticed that whoever it was didn't look so good. The figure was sort of slumped over and his breathing seemed a little forced. The face was mostly covered with the hood of the ragged cloak it wore and a strange eye mask.

"What happened to you? You look terrible," said Davis, "Did you get sucked in here too?"

The figure raised it's head. "Yes," replied an obviously male voice, "But it's been so long, I can't clearly remember what happened. All I remember is a bright light before this terrible darkness."

"A bright light, huh?" Davis repeated, "That sounds kind of fishy if you ask me. Isn't that what people usually see right before they-" As the thought hit the boy, he panicked. "No! It can't be! I can't be dead! I didn't see any bright light! I was always warned to stay away from it if I did, not from big black holes! This can't be!!"

"You're not dead," replied the man.

"Huh? How do you know?"

"Because I am not dead. Though I might as well be. Here, one doesn't eat or sleep. It is never day, only night. And..." he looked straight into Davis' eyes, "...one never leaves this place once they have found it."

For a second, the boy looked uneasy. But his face suddenly lit up. "Hey, no sweat! I have friends on the outside that know where I am! Well, maybe not exactly where I am, but close enough. And not to brag or anything, but there's nothing they can't do! Ken is a genious, and when it comes to figuring out this type of stuff, Miyako and Izzy make a great team!"

The man's eyes narrowed. "Izzy...?"

Davis grinned and rubbed the back of his head. "Yeah, that's a nickname of a friend of mine, Koushiro. I still don't know how in the world he got that kind of a name, though. I've been meaning to ask him."

"Ah, I see," he replied, closing his eyes.

The young boy looked down, a worried look on his face. "Ya know, you really don't look so good. Do you think you'll be okay?"

"I will be fine. But would you just stay here with me for a while?"

"Hey, no problem," said Davis, immidiately sitting with his back against a nearby pillar. "A friend of mine is here too, but he's looking for another really close friend of his. I'm sure once he finds him he'll come looking for me."

"What's your friend's name?"

"Who? Tai? Oh, yeah. His name is, well, Tai. He's really cool, but I think he thinks I talk too much. All I was trying to do was keep myself interested so I didn't fall asleep as we walked through the darkness outside of this place. Which, do you realize how boring that is? I mean, it's just so dark. You can't see anything out there. But somehow I don't think there would be anything to see anyway. I mean, we didn't run into anything, except this building. No plants, animals, monsters, man-eating bugs..."

Davis continued to babble on, not noticing the man's eyes narrowing once again.

to be continued...

A/N: Heh, looks like Davis found someone else to annoy for a while. We'll see what happens with that later, ne? I am so glad I thought of this. I have the basic idea of what is going to happen, but I had no idea how to get it to do what I wanted. This worked out pretty good, I think. I'll let you decide as you read more (that is, IF you read more). This one wasn't as amusing, but it was actually stuff important to the story. Wow, what a concept.