Unwell Identity

Note: This occurs in the Season 2 time, without the Season 2 Digidestined.

Prologue

The sky was dark with gray clouds and the night air. A moon shone dimly high above, watching the treetops on the ground below.
Hidden beneath those treetops, deep inside the forest, were a few Digimon, standing in the middle of a cold and dreary night.
One of the Digimon was a gray, skinny goblin like creature. It's head bobbled up and down as it scurried about the place, in search of something. It's glimmering eyes reflected the little moonlight that broke through the tree's leaves.
Another Digimon stood in the shadows, concealing itself from the world. It's face was hidden as well as it's body, but one could see very well that it wore a long black cloak and had long, gruely fingers.
And to it's side stood a huge, lumbering red Monochromon. It's eyes were blood red and wide open, it's jaws anxious to bite and tear at something.
"Bagarimon." The silver goblin Digimon stopped it's scurrying and looked up at the cloaked Digimon figure.
"Have you found it yet?" Bagarimon shook it's head in dismay.
"Noooooo….. But I am SENSING that it is CLOSE by." The cloaked Digimon nodded and waved his boney hand.
"Proceed" The goblin Digimon went back to work, sniffing at the ground. The cloaked figure grinned in delight at the thought of the night's events to come.
"Soon, our master can be free again, to roam and kill. Oh, this night will be perfect." A yelp caught the attention of the cloaked Digimon. It turned it's attention to Bagarimon, who was sitting down on the ground holding up a rigged little key. The Digimon in the shadows laughed evilly.
"Excellent my pet." The goblin stood up and took a bow. The Red Monochromon growled at the goblin, but was soon silenced by a violent hand slap from his master.
"Quiet you fool. Now, Bagarimon. Will you kindly locate the gate stand and unlock the portal?" Bagarimon nodded.
"As you WISH my master." Bagarimon hobbled over to a cluster of bushes and began to tear off some of the bushes that laid in his way. Cluster after cluster until he found what he was looking for. It was an ancient block of rock, hidden in the mists of a forest. The goblin blew the dust off of the top and sniggered. At the top of the ancient block, was a measly little key hole. The goblin banged on his chest and roared out in delight.
"QUIET!" yelled the cloaked Digimon. Bagarimon fell silent and dropped his hands to his side.
"Excellent." The cloaked figure said. Slowly, he walked over to the pedestal of rock, leaving no footprints behind him. With each step he took, the light wind carried off the soft thudding sound of his feet. When he approached the pedestal, he stopped. All eyes were on him as he pulled from his cloak, a jar.
"Oh MASTER!" Bagarimon screeched. He fell down to his knees and bent forward, worshipping the jar. The cloaked Digimon rolled his eyes.
"Oh please Bagarimon. We have some work to do here." Bagarimon straightened himself up.
"Why yes master."
"Good". The cloaked Digimon lifted the jar into the moonlight and smiled. "Don't just stand there, open the portal!" Soft thudding on the ground affirmed the cloaked Digimon's words.
"Ah….. master." The jar's contents appeared from nowhere as the moonlight glinted on the jar. An eerie shadow-like spirit creature was locked up in there. It floated around in the jar, zipping up and down, left and right, bored out of it's mind.
"Don't worry master, we'll get you out of there soon…… Bagarimon….."
"It open sire!" The cloaked Digimon turned around to find that, indeed, it had been opened. A silver portal stood in the middle of the forest, glistening and shining elegantly in the night.
"Now, we're going to set you free master….. Don't worry, we'll prepare your kingdom for you when you get back….. Good luck master, until we meet again." With that, the cloaked figure pried open the jar. Out zoomed the spirit. It floated in the air for a second or two before disappearing into the portal.
"Close it." Bagarimon did as he was told. Seconds later, the portal had vanished.
"Well done. Now, all we have to do is clear this place and prepare it for our master's return. Are you ready Bagarimon?"
"Yes." The cloaked figure threw his boney fist into the air, breaking the silence in the night sky.
"Then onwards!" The trio of Digimon bounded into the forest, leaving no trace behind that they were ever there.

1 - (What's Wrong?)

"Why did it happen….." muttered a big brown haired boy. His brown eyes were filled with sorrow as he stared at the computer screen in front of him.
His room was painted a pale green colour (color) and was messy, with a clothes pile in the corner of he room. It was silent and lonely, except for the pit and pat of the rain bouncing off the window. Silent and lonely, the boy thought. Just like me…..

Everything was rushing towards the Master, as he cackled and laughed. The world of lights and machines was such a wonder to him. He grinned and zoomed past a building. Wow, this really is fun, he told himself.
Everyone in Odaiba was too busy to notice the Master, flying in the air. But then again, the Master was also flying at a phenomenal speed.
WAHOO! The Master thought as he did a backflip in the air. He nearly hit a car, but he didn't care. He felt so carefree at the moment. But that's when he finally snapped back to reality.
That's not what you're here for, he thought to himself. He halted almost immediately in mid-air, hovering above busy traffic.
Now, that's what I wanted to do… so….. Ah ha! There it is! The Master grinned on the inside and took off again.

The silence was broken when a brown haired girl opened the bedroom door. She had her hand on the door knob and one hand on the door side. She looked onwards and felt a tinge of sadness and guilt inside of her.
"Tai, are you okay?" The brown haired boy looked up at his sister. His eyes…… his brown solemn eyes….. The girl flinched when she saw his eyes.
"Yeah, I'm fine." The girl sighed. She knew she shouldn't have that…. That empty feeling inside of her….. But she couldn't help it when she saw her brother. Did she do something wrong? Had something happened to him that he wasn't talking about?
"Okay….. I was just checking….. Want a drink?" Tai closed his eyes and shook his head.
"No thanks Kari. I'm fine." He replied in his calm, quiet voice. It seemed….. Kari sighed. She couldn't quite put her finger on it.
"Well….. okay" Kari said before closing the door. Outside of their room, she sighed and closed her eyes.
I know your hurt Tai….. But why are you hurt?…..
Kari let the thought float around in her mind and vanish as she walked towards the kitchen.

Zoom! The Master passed the huge buildings and was finally seeing green underneath of him. The Master glanced to his left and saw some roads and a few more buildings. To his right, he saw houses advancing with lights on. The Master grinned.
Perfect….. I'm almost there. He gave himself a slight boost of speed as he sprinted in the air.

The light pit pat on the window calmed Tai, even if he was calm already. His eyes were hurting, his legs felt numb, and his neck was aching. But he didn't feel any of it as he stared at the computer screen.
The e-mail was right in front of him, and he read it, over and over again. Each time he finished reading it, he'd take a slight pause and listen to the cool evening rain tapping against his window. He'd stare out of the bedroom window and wonder how life was like for every other living soul outside of his bedroom. Of course, those moments lasted a while, then he would look back at the computer screen and read the e-mail again.
Tai shook his head sadly and looked down. It'll never happen, he thought. It never will.

Zoom zoom! The Master thought. He could tell he was close. REAL close. He felt the presence of his destination. He felt it clearly inside of him. The feeling made his whole body tingle with happiness.
And when the building came into view. The Master laughed. It would all begin so soon.
And with another burst of speed, the Master thought to himself, Here I come!

Pit pat. Pit pat. The sound echoed and bounced off the walls into Tai's ears. The young teen closed his eyes, and finally closed the e-mail. He couldn't tell if he was just tired of reading it or if he was tired in general. He couldn't. Too many thoughts swirled in his mind all at once, too many to account for.
He finally opened his eyes and sighed. He had had enough for the day.
So Tai began to close off all of his windows when he thought he had heard something….. very vaguely. Tai shrugged it off.
But then he felt something enter into his body just so suddenly. He fell forward in pain and grasped his stomach. It felt as though there was…. An empty, yet, eerie void filling his stomach. And it was slowly extending outwards into his arms, his neck, his spine, and his legs. It was excruciating. The pain was unimaginable. Tai yelped out in pain as he felt the thing beginning to erupt inside of him.
"AH!!!!!!!!!!!!" Tai clutched his head as he began to recoil in pain. The thing had covered his stomach and chest; his inside was hurting like hell as he tried to fight it off. But he couldn't. He shook his head and felt his legs begin to throw a fit.
He collapsed off the chair and fell on the soft blue carpet. The thing had apparently gotten his both of his legs and had gotten to most of him. Tai yelled again and screeched like he hadn't before. He wished it would all go away, but it wouldn't. Everything was still there and was killing him! The pain was just too much. Tai felt his body spasm; he shrieked in pain again.
But as it came up to his head and his hands, he knew that the pain had gotten to him all over. The pain had gotten the best of him. He knew it, for he couldn't tell what was pain anymore because his whole body had just been covered in it.
His arms were sprawled out in front of him, as was his head. Weakly, Tai lifted up his head with half closed eyes.
"Help" he said in a soft, quiet whisper. He extended his arm out. He felt it shake….. and he felt it fall. He had been defeated by… This unknown pain. It was simply too much for him.
His last thought was of his sister, and wondered if she was okay. But it soon disappeared as his head fell onto the soft carpeted floor. Tai closed his eyes as he breathed softly.
In a few seconds, Tai was unconscious.

Kari turned her head to the hallway of the apartment. A blond haired boy dressed in a green outfit sat on the couch beside Kari, giving her a worried look.
"Is something wrong Kari?" A noise echoed throughout the apartment. Kari's eyes widened as she felt her heartbeat a million times faster.
"TAI!" she jumped off the couch, accidentally throwing a pillow into T.K's face.
"Hey! Watch it!" he said as he pulled the pillow off of his face. T.K rubbed his nose.
"T.K." The boy looked down at his lap to find Kari's Digimon, Gatomon, sitting there. The white cat rolled her tail in the air. "What's wrong with Kari?" she asked innocently. T.K got up off of the couch. Gatomon jumped off of T.K's lap and landed smoothly on the beige coloured (colored) carpet.
"Come on, let's go see what happened." T.K bounded off towards the room with Gatomon close behind him.

Tai opened his eyes. He blinked. It hurt to blink. Groaning, Tai began to push himself off of the ground. The brown haired boy panted when he was at knee level.
He lifted his head at hearing a soft sound. It was coming closer and getting a bit louder by the moment. I have to get up, he thought to himself.
"Tai!"
The door opened seconds later. Kari stood in the doorway, her hand on the doorway looking worriedly into the room.
Everything seemed normal. The bunk bed sheets were still unmade (Tai's at least), some clothes were strewn across the bedroom floor, and the computer was still on. Everything looked normal…..
T.K and Gatomon arrived in the doorway and peeked in as well.
"Well, nothing looks out of the ordinary to me." T.K said. Except for Tai, he thought to himself.
The brown haired teen was sitting in his computer chair, slouched over, staring at the blue carpet flooring. Kari noticed his brown eyes. They seemed….. empty. Something about his eyes worried him. They didn't look entirely like his eyes just minutes ago. Something happened.
"Tai, what's wrong?" Kari asked in a worried voice. No response. Her brother stared at the carpet floor, ignoring his sister.
"Tai?" Kari asked a bit more worried this time. Still no answer. T.K passed Kari and Gatomon to get a closer look at Tai.
"Hey, Tai, are you feeling okay?" Silence. "Tai? Can you hear me?"
The soft pit pats off the window were getting to the young kids. Something was wrong.
"He's not responding Kari." Gatomon snorted.
"It doesn't take a genius to figure that out." Gatomon commented.
Kari broke pass T.K and Gatomon and knelt down in front of Tai. She looked into Tai's eyes and found that, indeed, they looked so empty and hollow.
"Tai! We heard you screaming from the living room. What happened? Oh Tai, please tell us what's wrong. Please….." Kari plead desperately. But still, her brother did not respond.
Kari couldn't help but let the tears begin to flow. Her brother was ignoring her completely. She heard the screams, his screams of agony and pain. But he wasn't talking, he wasn't moving, and if she didn't know any better, she would have thought he wasn't breathing.
"Something happened to you big brother, and I want to help you.. But I can't unless you tell us." She said quietly. Still nothing. Kari's voice broke and she let out the tears. This wasn't like him. This wasn't the Tai she knew. The Tai she knew would have answered her with his soothing voice and comfort her, even if he was the one needing comfort. Tai was her big brother and would listen to her, he wouldn't just cast her away like this. Something was wrong.
Kari grabbed a hold of her brother's shoulder and shook them violently.
"WHY WON'T YOU TALK TO US TAI!" she yelled in a fury of frustration and sadness.
T.K. was about to go and comfort her when he noticed what was outside.
"Look!" T.K pointed a finger at the window. Gatomon and the tearful Kari peered at the window. Clearly, in the rain, was a dark shadow flying across the night sky. It had dark shredded wings that flapped in the rain, never growing slower.
"It's a Digimon!" Gatomon yelled as the shadow disappeared from the window view.


Ah yes. I'm writing once again. And I have loads of ideas and stories I WANT to finish. Hopefully I'll finish some of them by the time another year passes by (Man, I'm lazy). Well, currently, I guess my focus is on Falling Heavens (3rd Chapter), Griffon's Decision (Part 2), and this fanfic, which, while I am writing this, is currently untitled.
I'm thinking of rewriting this chapter though. I rushed the end kind of and it didn't live up to what I wanted it to be. I will get to that later I suppose.
Hopefully I'll be getting another chapter out of this soon. In the meantime, I'll Keep on writing! (And so should you)
- Ice Wolf17