Chapter 1 : ~Lost~

Yolei Inoue lay wide awake on her bed. It was 9:30 P.M. Slowly she rolled onto her side. All week she'd had that feeling... like some one was calling her... Shaking her head she got up and changed into a pair of dark blue jeans and a sleevless red shirt. Her gaze fell near her computer. That weird device she'd received while Cody had been away for a minute lay there. She hadn't showed him it then. Idly she wondered why. It wasn't that she couldn't trust him. She'd know him for years... she just felt like it was something she should keep to herself. Slowly she picked it up into her hand. Quickly she slipped it into her pocket. Silently she walked from her room. Slipping on her shoes she exited her apartment. Taking the elevator out she walked out into the warm air and sighed. Aimlessly she walked down the sidewalk. No real destination in mind. Thunder caused her to look up. Instantly cold rain fell from the black sky. She shuddered as the rain hit her, it felt like icy daggers on her white flesh. Not thinking she plunged forward to run smack into someone. She looked up to see a boy older then her with perfect golden blond hair and penetrating ice blue eyes. Matt Ishida.

She glanced away avoiding his gaze."Sorry," she mumbled standing up.

Matt nodded standing up. "It's O.K...." Matt stared at her for a moment. Oblivious to the falling rain. This girl... she seemed so familiar.... Where had he met her before?

Yolei blushed slightly under Matt's intense look."W- well, I should get going... unless I want to get more soaked than I already am."

Matt nodded his head slightly. A small smile taking place."Yeah...." He paused then said,"hey, my band practices near here.... you wanna go there 'till the rain stops?"

Yolei felt a smile flicker at her lips. "Sure.... thank you."

Hurriedly they ran down the street to the garage where Matt's band usually practiced. Yolei rubbed her shoulders with her hands in a small gesture to keep warm. Matt smiled lightly and handed her his leather jacket.

Yolei smiled greatfully. "Thanks, Matt."

Matt nodded, his usual impenetrable cool exterior taking its place. "No problem. What's your name anyway?"

Yolei blushed. Matt Ishida, the rockstar was standing right infront of her asking her name! "Yolei- Yolei Inoue."

Matt nodded again and silence enveloped them. Just then the computer next to Yolei began making weird noises. Scared, Yolei backed away from it only to have a bright pink light come from her pocket. Slowly she reached in her pocket to pull out the device that had appeared in her hands a week before. She looked over at Matt who was staring at her in utter suprise. And some other emotion she couldn't decipher. Suddenly Yolei felt the world spin as she was sucked into the computer.

Yolei opened her eyes slowly to find herself staring out into darkness. Shocked she jerked upright looking around wildly. Trembling she forced herself to her feet as she looked around. She realized quickly she was in a forest. As she wondered how she'd gotten there, memories of what had happened moments before came rushing back. The computer. That weird light.... getting sucked into the computer.

Yolei shook her head rapidly. "No... it's not possible.... people don't get sucked into computers! I just have to calm down and think rationally.... I must have fainted while I was talking to Matt and now I'm dreaming. That is the only logical explanation..."

"Not exactly." Yolei whirled around to see Matt leaning against a tree. Silently he took a step toward her. Yolei bcked away and, for the first time, realized she was wearing different clothing then before. "There's a much better explanation than that."

Yolei narrowed her eyes nervously. "W- what do you mean?"

Matt brushed a stray blond hair away from his eye as he spoke. "You're a DigiDestined."

Yolei crossed her arms. "And what, exactly, is a Digidestined?"

So Matt went on for a few moments about what the Digital World was. And also explained that he was one of the older Digidestined. "And that's it."

Yolei stared at him wide-eyed. "So... Cody, T.K., Kari... and Davis are Digidestined too?"

Matt nodded. "Yes."

Yolei looked away. "Wow! Hey... um, shouldn't we be getting back to the real world?"

Matt nodded calmly. "Yeah. Tomorrow we can tell the others that you're one of the Digidestened."

Yolei nodded back. "Yeah.... so how do we leave here again?"

Matt took out a white device he called a 'Digivice' and stepped toward what looked like a T.V. set. "You just press your D-3 against the screen and that's it."

Yolei walked toward him. "'Kay."

Matt held his close to the screen."Digiport open!"

Just as Matt was sucked in and Yolei was about to follow, the gateway exploded. With a yelp Yolei turned to see a huge dinosaur like Digimon behind her. Slowly she backed away to suddenly hear a voice.

"Well, if it isn't one of the Digifools! Tresspassing once more are we?"

Yolei swallowed hard and forced herself to stand her ground. "Its Digidestined, and I'll just be going now...."

Yolei backed away slowly, but at the same time tried to make out the figure that leaned against the Digimon's head. Abandoning to try to figure it out she whirled around and ran as fast as she could through the darkness around her.

Her heart thumping like a drum in her chest as she ran. She could feel the ground benigth her trembling as the Digimon and the owner of that menacing voice followed her. Suddenly she skided to a stop. Moisteing her lips nervously, she looked down the cliff to see no end to it. Only darkness laying below.

Suddenly that dinosaur Digimon, she thought she herd him call Tyrannomon, appeard not far behind her. The figure that had owned the malicious voice leapt down and even with the little light from the shimmering moon she could make out the Emperor by the clothing he wore and that he looked about her age. Just another kid.

"Surrender?" He asked, his voice cold and mocking.

Yolei backed away slightly every muscle in her body tense. "No way!"

"Look around. Where are you going to run to?"

Yolei backed away to the edge. She glanced downward then back up at him. No words where needed. Her deccision had been made. No matter how sucidal it seemed at the moment. In a quick motion she backed away and felt the ground beneath her slip away and braced herself for her plummet downward.