Ch. 1

Darkness

Kari was running. She did not know where. She tripped.

"Darkness will rule," said a voice like her own.

She was now in the dark sea. She tried to swim out but was pulled down. The girl was there. No, Kari was pulling Kari down. But this Kari was dressed in black and had an evil glow in her eye. Kari couldn't breath. Her other self would not let her go. Soon Darkness surrounded her.

She gasped for breath. She flailed her arms. The darkness would not leave. It held her. Images of blood were before her eyes. Then a voice.

"Kari wake up! Do you want to be late?"

Kari opened her eyes. Her brother Tai was standing right next to her bed. Usually she was up before him.

"Morning Tai," Kari said.

"Kari, it's not the morning. I said that to get you up." Kari looked at her alarm clock. 11:00. she had fallen asleep at 10:00.

"Then why'd you wake me up Tai. I really need to sleep. I have a test tomorrow."

"You were whining in your sleep. I heard you when I was going to bed."

"No wonder I always have to wake you up. Why do you stay up late anyway?"

"Izzy thinks that he has a way to make the old digivices work to get us into the digital world. That way we can all fight if you guys are to busy. He's doing the test with mine and Matt's digivices."

"That makes sense. Now can I please go back to sleep?"

"Tell me what in the world you were dreaming about?"

"Just a nightmare Tai."

"Alright."

Tai left her room and shut her door. Kari sighed. She'd had this nightmare before. This time it had been worse. She didn't want to worry her older brother, or her parents. Only the digidesten and the digimon knew of the dark sea, and she was the only one who saw it anymore. Ken no longer could see it, though he hated it even being mentioned. Yoli saw it once, and she was skittish if anyone said a thing about it to her and Kari. There was no one who would understand her pain. She could mention it to T.K. He like her had been part of the original digidesten as well as these new digidesten, but she didn't want to worry him either.

Kari shut her eyes. A little later she woke to the blaring of an alarm clock.

At the school…

"It's been a while since we went to the digital world guys," said Davis leaning against the wall. Yoli was right beside him. Ken leaning on a tree in front of Davis. T.K. and Cody were playing a game of checkers on a small board that Cody had gotten for his birthday.

"It has been a while. I wonder how Wormmon is doing. Even before I became digimon emperor he was skittish," Ken mentioned.

"With Veemon there he'll be fine," Davis told him, "Still I would like to go back just to say hi."

A white car pulled up and Kari stepped out. She immediately walked over to her friends. "Hey Kari," Davis said turning to face her.

"I'm not in the mood Davis," she said looking at him. "I have some last minute studying to do.

T.K. and Cody were packing up the game. "I'll help you Kari," T.K. told her.

"Thanks."

Later that day….

Kari was having trouble thinking about the test. She knew the marital but her dream was troubling her. Her digivice then started to glow. She snuck it out off her pocket. Then the room became dark. There was no exit from the darkness. Kari shivered as it became cold. "Darkness will rule."

Kari new that voice. There was her other self, standing there. Only now for the first time a digimon was with her. It was Gotomon, except this one had black fur and the stripes were a brighter purple. "No," Kari whispered to her self.

"You can't stop it, you can't run away. Darkness will rule," The other Kari said stepping forward.

"No," Screamed Kari as a dark light came from her other self. It burned like an ice-fire. She couldn't escape it. Blood filled her head. She tried to fight but with each movement the blood and ice-fire grew stronger, and her ears filled with the laughter of her other self. Just as Kari thought that she was going to die from the pain she heard a voice.

"Kari! Kari wake up. It's okay wake up," it was T.K.'s voice. She saw an opening in the darkness, and ran toward it.

"No!" screamed the other Kari who for some reason could not follow her into the light.

Kari opened her eyes. The room was normal, except she was on the floor. T.K. was right next to her and so was the teacher. Kari realized that she was shaking.

"Are you okay Kari?" her teacher asked.

"I'm fine."

"T.K. take her to the nurses. I don't think it is a good idea for you to try to finish the test today Kari. Go get some sleep."

"Alright," Kari said standing up. The room swam before her eyes. T.K. grabbed her arm. He wasn't going to let her fall. They left the class room.

"T.K. the digimon are in danger."

"Danger?"

"We have to go to the computer room."

"Kari I don't think that that is a good idea. I'll get the other digidested together, but maybe you shouldn't go-"

"No I have to go," said Kari getting out of his grip and running toward the computer room.

"Kari!" T.K. yelled running after her.

Kari stopped in front of a computer and brought up the digital portal. "Digiportal open," she said holding her digivice to the computer. She was then sucked into the digital world.

T.K. ran into see that she was already gone. He took out his mini email computer and sent emails to all the digidested, then went back to class. It would be too suspicious if he didn't go back, and he didn't like leaving Kari alone.

In the digital world….

"Kari?" Kari looked to see Gotomon staring at her.

"Gotomon, are any of the other digimon with you?"

"No, but I was hoping you'd come," Gotomon seemed uneasy.

"Nightmares?" Kari asked.

"With the dark sea-" began Gotomon nodding.

"And a girl who looked like me?"

"Only in the last one. The rest there was just a digimon who looked like me."

"We have to stop them," Kari told her, "we have to find Gennai. Before they try anything."

That afternoon back at the school…

"You let her go without any help?" Tai demanded of T.K.

"It would have seen suspicious if I hadn't! I was hopeing someone could have gotten out of class-"

"It wouldn't have mattered anyway," Izzy butted in, "Kari's locked the portal…"

"You mean we can't get in?" Cody stated.

"Not from here we can't…but maybe…Tai could I see your digivice?"

"Sure, but it can't break in-" Tai started.

"I know it can't but if the program shows a positive reading we may get someone else to open it, or I could use the digivice to reroute the portal to my computer by passing Kari's block. Just give me a few minutes."

In the digital world…

"Well, well Kari its been a long time since I've seen you and Gatomon," Gennai stated, "but where are the others? Too busy to see their old mentor perhaps?"

"No," Kari stated, "more like I've come for information."

"Information? You've been a digidesten since you were young. What kind of information would you need from me?"

"The dark sea. I want to know…what is in it."

Gennai looked at Kari with an odd look, "Darkness. That's what was always in it."

"Gennai, what about people?"

"And digimon?" Gotomon added.

"Well they wouldn't survive, that's why its location is sealed off-"

"Gennai I saw a girl in my sleep for the past couple of weeks, then she appeared with a digimon, claiming darkness would rule. Gotomon's seen the same dreams-"

"Only with a digimon instead of a girl," Gotomon stated.

Gennai stayed silent for awhile and then said, "Kari, what you saw was a portrayl of the Masters of Destruction. Did she look like you? Was the digimon a Gotomon?" Both Kari and Gotomon nodded. "Then they are going to try to rise to power again…this is horrible. I have much to teach you if you are to combat her."

"Gennai, just who is she?"

"She is the Mistress of Darkness," Gennai stated.