The 8th Child Meets Myotismon
- [Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, terms, concepts, etc.]
Myotismon was pacing about his lair in the Real World. He was angry. "Just because of a few children, I can no longer leave my domain, even at night?" he thought to himself. After all, he was a vampire. He didn't have to worry about being attacked then. And the Digi-destined had not found the 8th child yet, so he had no purpose to worry. He stood up and slowly walked into the surrounding shadows. Demidevimon wondered what his boss was up to. He took the opportunity to hop into the master's chair. "This is the life." he thought grinning.
"Get out of the master's chair!" Gatomon shouted, walking into the extremely dim light. Demidevimon jerked from the sudden loud noise. He hopped out of the chair to face the small purple and white furred feline. "How died and left you queen?!" he asked sarcastically. "Oh like you could replace the master?" Gatomon then retaliated. "Maybe I could." he spat back. Gatomon laughed and walked back into the darkness. Demidevimon clenched his teeth in anger and stalked off into the darkness after Gatomon. They had orders to continue their search for the 8th Digi-destined child.
Myotismon rose out of the ground, which was fake, and a new and thicker fog rolled in around him. He grinned evilly. "This fog enables me to walk around even in daytime." he thought. He walked silently across the wet grass and towards the city.
Inside the city, Kari Kamiya was trying to hurry home. She had lost track of time. "Oh no!" she thought, "The first time Mom and Dad let me go out on my own without Tai and I forget about the time! They'll never let me leave home again!" Her whistle that she got as a little girl was dangling off her neck as she ran towards her apartment. Suddenly, the thick fog rolled in and blocked her path. She couldn't see very well since it was so thick. She stopped running so fast and walked around slowly. Kari stopped walking altogether and looked around frantically. "Where'd all the buildings go?" she thought. She was only eight years old or something like that so it was only obvious that she had incompetent thoughts like this one.
"I hope Mom and Dad don't worry about me." she said. She started to walk very slowly around, trying to see where she was. But she couldn't see her hand in front of her face even if she had a flashlight. She had taken only a few steps when she bumped into someone. She had been looking to the side (sort of) and bumped into a tall man. He was wearing boots about the height of her knees and was at least five or ten times Kari's own size. She looked up slowly, the fog around the man seemed thinner than around her. He was wearing something that she had seen out of her dreams. Or better yet, her nightmares. Wearing all blue, the man wore a cape to match.
"Those look like my brother's." Kari thought seeing his hands. He was wearing tan colored gloves that had odd drawings on them like his boots. She looked all the way up, which was just about straight up, and saw that he was wearing a blood red mask. Kari's hand tightened around her whistle when she saw the mask. She was getting scared. Other than the thought of what her parents would do to her when she got home, Kari was kind of afraid of the man.
"Who in the Digiworld is this girl?" Myotismon thought. He had been searching for a meal when a tiny girl bumped into him. He looked down, almost straight down, and saw a tiny brown haired girl holding a whistle. He raised a single eyebrow when he caught her staring at him. "What's she staring at?" he thought. But he was getting very hungry. He knelt down before the tiny girl. "Maybe she could be useful to me." he thought. "Are you going to try to help me?" the girl asked. Myotismon grinned. "What's wrong little girl?" he asked slyly. He didn't really care, he just wanted to make her turn around. "I'm lost 'cause of this fog." she explained, "So I don't know how to get home to my family."
"Don't worry." the man said, "I'll get you home to your family." Kari's eyes lit up. "You will?" she asked hopefully. "Of course." he said putting his hands on her shoulders. His hands were very strong to Kari's surprise. "Where do you live?" he asked. "In some apartments." Kari said. "Then come with me. I know where everything in the city is." he said.
"Including the places to get the best blood." Myotismon thought to himself. He turned her around. "Thank you very much." the girl said, "My name's Kari. What's yours?" Myotismon put his mouth near her ear. "I am Myotismon." he whispered. The name sent shivers up Kari's spine. Myotismon breathed a sigh into her ear and opened his mouth. "I thank you for the meal." he whispered softly. Kari gasped.
Kari felt two points stab into her throat and all went black.
Kari's mother was impatiently pacing around the Kamiya's living room. "Dear calm down." her husband said, "I'm sure that Kari is just fine." Tai was already asleep in his bedroom with his digimon pal, Agumon, so he didn't hear his mother. "She was supposed to be back here before dark!" Kari's mother nearly shouted, "She knows that! Where could she possibly be?!" A knock on the door made her stop pacing. "Maybe that's her!" she said hopefully. She forgot that she was mad at Kari and hurried to the door. She unlocked the door and opened it quickly.
An unseasonable fog lingered behind the tall man at her door. He was wearing a very long coat. Kari's mother sighed. Then she looked down. "OH KARI!" she shouted. She dropped to her knees and hugged her daughter. "Where have you been?" she asked, not in an angry tone, but relieved to have her daughter back. "I'm sorry mother." Kari replied, "I did not mean to make you worry. I merely lost track of time." Kari's mother looked at Kari and then at the man standing behind her.
He turned to walk away. "Wait!" Kari's mother said, "Thank you for bringing my child back." The man merely nodded and went on his way into the darkness and fog. "Go on to bed Kari." she said, "It's past your bedtime and you look tired." Kari simply nodded and went to her room. Kari's mother stood up and sighed, smiling. "Weren't you going to punish her?" Kari's father asked jokingly. Kari's mother growled under her breath and sat down.
Tai heard the door open and sat up, rubbing his eyes. He heard the door slam shut and looked out his bedroom door. He saw Kari walk towards the door and grab the doorknob. He flopped back onto the bed and Kari walked into the room. "Hey Kari!" he said happily, seeing his little sister. He was worried about her before he went to bed. Kari didn't say anything. "What's wrong Kari?" Agumon asked. He just woke up and looked at Kari. She looked sad about something. "Nothing Tai." Kari said. She climbed up to her bed (they have a bunk bed) and laid down. "What happened?" he asked, "Why were you so late?" "I lost my way in the fog, brother." Kari said. "Ok…" Agumon whispered, "Does she usually talk like that?" "No. Not at all." Tai whispered back, "But she said that she lost her way in the fog. Sounds like Myotismon's up to his tricks again."
"You think it's Myotismon?" Agumon asked. "Do you know of any other digimon that uses fog?" Tai asked. "We had better tell the others tomorrow." Agumon said, "Goodnight." Agumon turned over and started to snooze. "I guess we will." Tai said to himself. He rolled over and started to snooze too. Kari couldn't sleep. She lay on her back staring at the ceiling. For how late she was up, she wasn't that tired. In fact, she was wide-awake. It wasn't because her brother and his digimon were snoring, Kari just wasn't tired. But as it got earlier and earlier in the day, Kari became much more tired than before. When the sun rose, Kari's eyes hurt and she fell asleep.
Tai woke up a few hours later and stood up to look at his little sister. "I guess she's really tired." he thought. Agumon woke up and saw Tai looking at something. He held himself up on his claws and looked at Kari. "What's wrong?" he asked Tai. Tai was staring at his little sister. "Tai…" Agumon said. Tai was still staring at Kari. "Tai!" Agumon shouted. He bonked him on the head and Tai fell to the floor, holding his head. "Hey Agumon!" Tai said, "Next time you want my attention, do something that doesn't hurt my head!" "Sorry Tai." he said, "Wow! Kari's still asleep!" Tai stood back up and saw that his little sister was still asleep. "C'mon." he said, "Let's call everyone! That way, we can tell them what happened to Kari last night." "Shouldn't we wait for Kari to wake up?" Agumon asked, "Then she could tell us what happened. Considering that you don't really know!" "Let's wake her up then!" Tai said.
He shook Kari's shoulder and she sighed. Then she woke up and sat up. "What is it Tai?" she asked rubbing her eyes. "We were hoping that you would come with us." Agumon said, "We wanted to know what happened last night and wanted to tell everyone." "Ok." Kari said tired. They got dressed and went into the kitchen. "Want anything for breakfast Kari?" Tai asked, sneaking some food to Agumon under the table. "No." Kari said, "I'm just thirsty." She got a glass of water from the sink. Tai cooked something and sneaked most of it to Agumon. "Where did you learn to cook Tai?" Kari asked. "A friend at camp taught me how. It was Matt." Tai said.
After finishing the food and doing the dishes, Tai, Kari, and a disguised Agumon called Sora on the phone. "What's up Tai?" Sora asked picking up the phone. "Can you call everyone together so we can meet at Izzy's house?" Tai asked. "Of course! But why?" she asked. "Can you just get them together please?" Tai asked. "Alright." Sora finally agreed. They hung up the phone and Tai, Kari, and the disguised Agumon walked out the door and to Izzy's house. Tai knocked on the door and Izzy let them all in and into his room. Agumon took off his disguise and started talking to Tentomon until the other kids and their digimon came. "So what's up Tai?" Matt asked, "Why'd you call us here?" "Well, last night, my parents let Kari stay out on her own." Tai started, "But she got lost in the fog that came in." They all looked out the window at the fog. "When she came home, it was late past her bedtime and some guy brought her home. But I guess that it would be easier for Kari to tell us what happened." Tai said. "What's up Kari?" TK asked. "Well, when I was coming home, I got lost in some fog that came in really fast." she explained, "Then I bumped into this guy wearing a cape and a red mask. I asked-" "Wait!" Matt said, "Did you say a cape and a red mask?" "Yeah." Kari said nodding her head. Everyone looked at each other then at Kari with concerned eyes. "Did he say what his name was?" Joe asked finally. "Um… He said that it was Myotismon." Kari said. Everyone gasped. "What did he do?" Tai asked fiercely. "I'm not sure." Kari said, "I think I fainted before I got home."
Tai quickly hurried over to Kari, pulled off her pink scarf, and tilted her head. "Uh Tai? What are you doing?" Kari asked. Tai didn't answer but gasped. "What is it Tai?" Sora asked, preparing for the worst. Tai couldn't answer but beckoned everyone over. Kari was getting sore from her neck being tilted. Everyone gasped. They saw two tiny red marks on Kari's neck from Myotismon biting her. "Kari." Tai said, "He bit you." Tai finally let Kari go and she tied the scarf back on. "What do you mean?" she asked. "Look." Matt said, "Myotismon is a-" Gabumon and everyone else quickly jumped up and covered Matt's mouth. "Will you shut up?!" Tai whispered, "Kari hardly knows about digimon as it is! We need to tell her without freaking her out so much!" "Ok! Ok! Just let me go!" Matt said in a muffled voice.
The others sat back down and Matt caught his breath. "Look Kari." Sora said, trying to be gentle, "Myotismon is an evil digimon. And a vampire. And he bit you." Kari just wasn't getting the picture. "But he didn't bite you that much." Tai said, "So nothing happened to you. We think. If he had bitten you a different way, you wouldn't be able to walk around in the daylight or you would be in the hospital by now." "My eyes do kinda hurt from the light." Kari said. Everyone raised their eyebrows. "That's not a good sign." Joe said. "No offense Kari," Izzy said, "but maybe someone should watch over you when you sleep. If you do." "I volunteer." Tai said standing up, "She IS my little sister. Izzy, see if you can contact Genni and see what he says about this. Agumon and I will watch Kari tonight." "Are you sure that's a good idea?" Mimi asked, "You and Agumon fall asleep at the drop of a hat."
Tai and Agumon ignored this comment. Izzy said that he would try his hardest to get a hold of Genni and the other kids and their digimon left. Tai, Kari, and the re-disguised Agumon left Izzy's house. They waited around their house until it was time for them to go to bed. Kari got in her bed and Tai pulled a chair into the room. Agumon sat on the floor. "So you're really going to stay up all night?" Kari asked. Tai and Agumon nodded at the same time. "Ok." Kari said shrugging her shoulders. She laid down on her side and Tai and Agumon crossed their arms and legs.
A few hours later…
Tai and Agumon were snoring loudly, laying limply from the chair and on the floor. Kari had fallen asleep and wasn't bothered by both her brother and his digimon's snoring. She had taken off her scarf and was sleeping soundly. The two red marks were still on her neck. Then they began to glow a brighter red. She opened her eyes and sat up. "Good. They are both asleep." she said. She was looking at Tai and Agumon, snoring loudly. She spoke in a voice that sounded, no, was Myotismon's voice. "Now come to me." Myotismon said in her head. Kari got out of her bed and walked out the door, not bothering to put her scarf back on.
A few hours after that, still dark…
Tai suddenly woke up and stretched. He shook his pal and woke him up. He then stood up and walked over to the bed. "Oh crud!" he shouted quietly, "Agumon! Kari's gone! We have to find her!" Agumon leapt up and they both hurried out the door. Slipping his shoes on, Tai and his digimon ran out the front door, forgetting to shut the door. They ran into the thick fog and were blinded immediately. "How are we gonna find her?" Tai asked. "You forget." Agumon said tapping his nose, "I have as good a sense of smell as Gabumon!" Agumon sniffed the air and soon found Kari's scent. "It's this way!" he shouted pointing in front of them. They ran off into the fog.
Kari was walking through the fog, almost knowing where she was going. The glow from the bites on her neck cut through the fog and guided Kari to somewhere. "You are almost there." Myotismon said to Kari in her head again. Kari stopped suddenly. "What are you doing? Come to me!" Myotismon commanded. Kari put her hand up to the two wounds and grimaced. "I… Can't do this… I won't!" Kari said out loud. "I am not asking you to come, I am ORDERING you to come!" Myotismon shouted. "NO!" Kari shouted. Myotismon growled under his breath. He used his magic to knock Kari unconscious and lying on the ground in the thick fog.
"KARI!" Tai shouted. His cry echoed through the night. "Which way now buddy?" Tai asked. Agumon sniffed the air again and ran forwards again. Tai followed him and they came across the unconscious Kari. "Kari!" Tai shouted picking up the little girl, "Kari wake up! C'mon now! Wake up!" As if on cue, Kari's eyes opened slightly. "Hey!" Agumon said, "What happened?" Kari broke down crying. "It's Ok Kari." Tai said pulling his sister in a hug, "Agumon and I are here and we won't let Myotismon hurt you anymore." Tai picked Kari up and he, Agumon, and a sobbing Kari walked back to their house. Tai set Kari down on her bed and she fell asleep after awhile. "I can't believe that we fell asleep." Tai said angry with himself, "I'm not a good big brother if I can't stay up for one night." "Don't beat yourself up about it Tai." Agumon said, "It's OK." "We should call the others in the morning." he said, "I think we should do something else to make sure Kari stays here and doesn't leave."
The next morning after Kari had woken up…
"Are you OK Kari?" Tai asked. "Yeah…" Kari said wiping away the hot tears that were trickling down her face. "We are going to make sure that Myotismon doesn't use you as a tool anymore." Tai said putting his hands on her shoulders. "That's right!" Agumon said, "Myotismon is going down!" Kari nodded and Tai called Sora. "What's up Tai?" Sora asked. "Sorry to bother you so early in the morning, but we have an update on what Kari's situation is." Tai said. Sora was still half-asleep but woke up at Tai's words. "What happened last night?" Sora asked. "Tell everyone to meet up at our place and bring their digimon too. See ya later." Tai said. He hung up the phone and got ready for the other kids. That meant he had to clean up his part of Kari and his room. The other kids and their digimon showed up soon and Tai let them in so their parents wouldn't wake up.
"So what happened? Did you guys stay awake?" Matt asked. They were all sitting on the floor in a circle with their digimon except for Kari. She sat looking out the window sitting with her knees to her chest and her back to the bed frame. "No…" Tai said sadly. "Oh…" everyone said. "What happened?" TK asked. He edged closer to Kari and finally next to her. "Agumon and I fell asleep and when we woke up, Kari was gone." Tai said. Kari lowered her head to her knees and TK put his hand on her back. "We ran outside and Agumon found her scent." Tai continued, "When we found her, she was unconscious and couldn't talk. She broke down and started to cry. And she hasn't spoken almost every since last night. Only a few words." Everyone looked at Kari with sad eyes, especially TK.
TK seemed to be sadder than anyone else about Kari's problem. "H-he was using me like a little p-puppet." Kari said, drawing in a quavering voice, "H-he was controlling me by m-magic. N-now he's trying to find out what you're doing t-through me." She began to sob quietly and the other kids and digimon looked at her with hopeless eyes. A quiet beeping sounded from Tai's digivice and he pulled it out. "Why's there a new signal on my digivice?" he asked out loud. He followed the beacon and looked under the bed. "Uh… Did any of you loose your digivice here?" he asked. Everyone said no. "Then where'd this come from?" he asked pulling a digivice out from under the bed.
Everyone gasped. Tai accidentally dropped the digivice in Kari's hand and a bright light emitted from it. "Does anyone know what this means?" Izzy asked. "SHE'S THE 8TH CHILD!" everyone nearly shouted. "I'm the what?" Kari asked. "Kari!" Tai shouted, "You're the 8th Digi-destined child!"
"WHAT?!" Gatomon screamed. She had been staking Tai and Kari out from a nearby rooftop and saw the digivice.
"We found the 8th child!" everyone said happily. Kari was wondering what they were all talking about. She put her head back down and kept looking out the window. "But who's her digimon?" Matt asked, shattering the good news. Everyone shut up. "And we still have to figure out how to stop Myotismon from controlling Kari!" Joe said. "I propose that we all stay together tonight, just in case that Tai and Agumon fall asleep again." Izzy said, "And we have to make sure that Kari doesn't get out of the building. We can stay at my place. My parents won't mind. But that would be a logical solution." Everyone agreed. They left and brought back sleeping bags and the like.
After the sun set, everyone was in their bag and still up. Kari had taken off her scarf so the other kids could see the wounds if they began to glow. Unfortunately, after Kari had fallen asleep, they had all fallen asleep on accident except for Sora. The wounds started to glow once more. Sora looked up quickly. She stood up and walked to Kari. Kari was grimacing in her sleep and rolling over. Sora didn't know what to do. She didn't know if she should wake the others up or just wake Kari.
"Grr… This girl is more powerful than I expected." Myotismon thought. He was trying again to access Kari's mind through magic, but Kari was struggling against his will. "You will obey me!" he shouted to her.
Kari had broken out into a sweat and Sora had woken the other kids. "Kari…" Tai and TK thought. The two punctures were glowing in a beating pattern. Finally, the glow stopped and Kari woke up with a sigh. "Are you OK?" TK asked. "Yeah…" Kari said rubbing her neck. "I am getting REALLY sick of Myotismon doing this!" Tai shouted, "The only good thing is that he doesn't know Kari's the 8th child. But the bad thing is that we have no idea who her digimon is." "So do you have a theory Izzy?" Matt asked. "Not a one." Izzy said. "Do you think Genni has any news for us?" Mimi asked. "Let's see." Izzy said opening his laptop. The screen instantly showed the fairly old man Genni. "How's the search going?" he asked. "Just see for yourself!" Tai said pointing to his sister.
"Ah wonderful!" Genni said happily, "And I have more good news!" "What?" Joe asked cynically, "Another Digi-destined child?" "Not exactly." Genni retorted angrily, "I have been informed about a person, not a human, here in the Real World that is an ally to you and has proclaimed themselves against Myotismon." "Oh?" Tai asked, "Who would that be?" "I forgot." Genni said. All the kids developed sweatdrops. "What happened to you young lady?" Genni asked Kari, "You met Myotismon didn't you?" "Yes…" Kari said sadly. "The ally you seek can help you." Genni said, "But I know that the person is within the city, so all you have to do is find them tomorrow." "They can help Kari?" Tai asked, "I'm for finding them!" "And they will guide you to Kari's digimon." Genni finished, "Good luck to you!" The screen went blank.
The kids went back to sleep and Kari slept peacefully. The next morning, after everyone woke up, they left Izzy's place and went in search of the person they wished to find. They decided not to split up, in case Myotismon tried to take Kari over. They searched the entire city almost twice and ended up in the middle of a park. It became dark quickly and a new fog rolled in. They stopped walking around entirely and stayed in the middle of the park. A soft, nearly impossible to hear, sound came to their ears from ahead of them. The digimon leapt in front of the humans, in case they would have to protect them. The sound, which was a soft clinking, like keys, came from behind them. They turned on heel and looked to see the possible friend or probable foe.
The sound became louder and louder and sounded from different places. The digimon had spread around the kids in a circle and kept looking around, worried. The sound rang out from before Kari, the loudest yet, and she stepped forward, not afraid. The digimon moved away, not understanding what Kari was doing. Tai and the other kids looked at her like she was crazy. The sound rang out again. Kari didn't become scared. Tai was worried that Myotismon was using his tricks again. A glimmer of gold shimmered from in front of Kari. The sound was heard again and for the last time.
A staff, the same as Angemon's, was held in front of Kari. A person dressed in all white and wearing a hat that covered their face, appeared in front of Kari. In contrast to wearing all white this person had dark brown hair that hung almost down to their waist, drawn back in a ponytail. "You are the 8th child, Kari Kamiya, are you not?" the person asked in an echoing, kindly soft voice. "I am her. Who are you?" Kari replied in an equally calm voice. "I can not tell you that at this moment." the person replied, "You have been injured by Myotismon, have you not?" Kari nodded silently. The person reached out to Kari's neck with a slightly glowing hand. They put their hand over the two bite marks upon Kari's neck and a light shone from their hand. It became so bright, that the other children and digimon were blinded. When the light abated, the person moved their hand away.
Kari's wounds had disappeared and she looked at the person that had freed her from Myotismon's evil spell. "Thank you." Kari said. To her it was strange. Looking at, or trying to look at, the person's face was like looking at Myotismon. They were just about as tall as he was but a head shorter. And for a brief moment, Kari could see their, or as she found out in that moment, her eyes. She gasped. They were an exact duplicate of Myotismon's. Deep blue, like the sea but they had a feeling of kindness and empathy. "I promised that I would bring you your digimon." the girl said, "And I always keep my promises."
The girl moved away and a small cat walked up from behind her. "Gatomon?" Tai asked. Why was Kari's digimon Gatomon? Gatomon was part of Myotismon's army! Agumon thought the same way Tai did, but he could put his words to action. "Pepper Breath!" he shouted. Kari, almost instinctively, moved in front of Gatomon. Gatomon then shoved Kari out of the way and took the full force of the blow. "Why did you save Kari?" Tai asked, still suspicious. "Because I'm her digimon and I'll always protect her!" Gatomon said. "This doesn't make that much sense." Matt said scratching his head. "I can not see why." the girl said, "Taking into consideration that Kari is the 8th Digi-destined child." The girl turned to walk away but Tai stopped her by grabbing her shoulder. "Aren't you going to help us fight Myotismon?" he asked.
"No." the girl replied. Tai wanted to know why. The girl's staff smacked Tai hand sharply and he pulled it away, holding it in pain. "What'd you do that for?!" Tai shouted. "I will not help you fight him. That is my own decision. Do not question it again." the girl said. She walked away, her staff gently gangling in the fog. "That was weird." Mimi said. "But now we can get rid of Myotismon!" Agumon said.
Myotismon was fuming, but he felt something stir deep inside him.
Within his heart.
Prologue: Kari was in a kind of daze and finally snapped out of it when Tai and the other kids said that they were leaving. But what Myotismon felt was something very special. And somewhere, just inside the city, another child lurked, waiting to be discovered.Next: Another Child and Myotismon