Awakening
Shadow- "Hey, everybody! I've got a new story! And this one isn't part of the large series!"
Renamon- "Oh good. Are you going to stop posting every other day, then?"
Shadow- "Nope! I'll just work harder!"
Renamon- "... you're insane, you know that?"
Shadow- "Only if being a Jenova's Witness is crazy!"
Renamon- "Jenova? Isn't it Jehova?"
Shadow- "I know what I said."
Renamon- "Okay..."
Shadow- "Have you heard about the Life-stream?"
Renamon- "...you're creeping me out now... I'm so glad you don't own digimon..."
Shadow- "Way to get back on topic."
Renamon- "Thanks."
Shadow- "Wow, this intro's long... so I guess I'll get right to it. Please review after you read. Why does nobody do that? Oh, and enjoy!"
Darkness.
The cold, inky, and yet strangely comforting-
No! I can't think like that!
You know it's true.
I'm not that person any more!
You are. You know it's true. Darkness waiting just beneath the surface... waiting for a chance to engulf you...
That's gone now! I'm not-
But you wish you were...
And again you will be...
What!
You and all your precious friends will fall... one by one...
No!
The only reason to resist the darkness... once they are gone, you will be consumed... and I will enjoy the taste of destined children once again...
Get out of my head!
You know what will come... though you cannot change it...
No!
Ken sat up in bed, gasping for air, drenched with sweat. As he caught his breath, he heard a voice to his left.
"Ken? Are you okay?"
Ken looked over and saw Wormmon. Concern was etched into his small features.
Ken smiled slightly. "No, Wormmon... just a bad dream..."
This did not ease Wormmon's fears. "That same dream?"
Ken shook his head, sweat still dripping down his face. "No... something different... I don't know..."
Ken looked over at his bedside clock. He sighed. "It's close enough..."
He swung his legs off the side of the bed, and headed for his shower, the echoes of his dream still reverberating through his mind.
school, computer lab
Yolee sat in a chair in the computer lab, her eyes focused squarely on the computer screen. Her fingers nimbly typed away at the keyboard. Everything was perfect for an afternoon of typing. Except...
Thwak-bonk... Thwak-bonk... Thwak-bonk...
Yolee bit her lip, and tried to concentrate.
Thwak-bonk... Thwak-bonk... Thwak-
"All right! That's it!" Yolee yelled, standing up from her chair. She whirled around to face Davis, who had been bouncing a ball off the wall.
Davis blinked cluelessly at her. "...What?"
"Give me that thing!" she yelled, grabbing for the ball in Davis's hand.
Davis dodged left, narrowly avoiding Yolee. "Hey, with moves like that, you should try out for football!" (A/N: I'm using the American term here so people don't get confused... even though he'd say 'American Football' or 'Rugby' in reality...)
"Damn it!" she yelled, and lunged again.
Davis tried to dodged backwards, but succeeded in only flipping backwards over a chair... just as TK and Kari walked into the room.
TK looked from the extremely irate and deeply breathing Yolee, to Davis, who was hanging upside-down from the chair.
Kari laughed.
Davis looked over. "Aw, man..."
Yolee wiped the sweat from her forehead. "What are you two doing here?"
TK and Kari held up full knapsacks. "Going to the digital world, where else?"
Davis tried to get off the chair, and somehow managed to twist his head around the seat of the chair. "If Kari's going, I'm going!"
Kari laughed at Davis's new, and awkward, position in his chair ballet. Davis grinned, tried to do something more difficult, and fell to the floor. "Ow..."
TK and Kari were doubled over with laughter. Davis got to his feet, flushing. "I think I broke something..."
Yolee shook her head. "Right, as if we care... where's Cody?"
"He had some Kendo practice," TK answered between laughs, "but he said he'd go straight to the digital world when that was over."
Kari nodded in agreement. "Ken said he'd meet us there, as well."
"All right!" Yolee yelled, taking out her digivice. "Digiport open!"
Light poured from the computer, grabbed the four teens, and sucked them into the digital world.
digital world, grassy plains
Cody ran from the digital gate, still wearing his Kendo uniform, closely followed by Armadillomon. His yellow armored friend sniffed the bag he was carrying. "Hey Cody, you bring any of those rice balls?"
"Of course." Cody answered, still running to the meeting place. "How could I forget you and your stomach?"
Armadillomon laughed, as they came over a hilltop and found the others. TK was the first to spot them. "Hey, Cody, come on!"
The other four looked up. Davis smiled. "About time you made it!"
Cody ran up and sat down next to them. Armadillomon skidded, trying to stop, and plowed into Veemon, knocking the two digimon to the ground.
Everyone laughed as the two digimon tried to separate. Armadillomon freed himself and said "Thanks for being an airbag!"
Veemon shook his head, and said with his characteristic lisp "Sure thing!"
Ken shook his head, still chuckling.
Davis sighed. "Good, can we eat now?"
TK shrugged. "I gue-" but was cut off as every digimon, and Davis, dived for a bag. Rice and pieces of salad flew everywhere.
Yolee brushed a carrot out of her hair. "Well, I suppose a healthy appetite is a good sign..."
Kari nodded. "Yeah, but let's get some food before it's all gone!"
The remaining five digidestined dove in.
After a few minutes, the feeding frenzy died down. But only because the bags weren't edible.
Veemon sighed. "Dee-lichious..."
Davis nodded. "Yeah... time for a nap..."
A cloud passed overhead, putting the field in shadow. "Yeah..." Ken said.
Davis laid back on his back and sighed. He looked up at the cloud. "Hey, guys? Does anybody else think that cloud looks weird?"
The others looked up. The cloud was pure white, but seemed to have evenly spaced holes in it. It moved against the wind... and seemed to be floating downward.
As the cloud got closer, TK yelled "That isn't a cloud! It's a group of Bakemon!"
"A cloud of what?" Davis asked.
"Bakemon..." Kari said. "Ghost-like digimon... Myotismon used them against us..."
"Well, then let's give them a warm welcome!" Yolee yelled, taking out her digivice.
DIGIVOLUTION
"Veemon... digivolve to... Exveemon!"
"Hawkmon... digivolve to... Aquilamon!"
"Armadillomon... digivolve to... Ankylomon!"
"Patamon... digivolve to... Angemon!"
"Wormmon... digivolve to... Stingmon!"
The cloud of Bakemon swarmed downwards. "Zombie Claw!"
The hundreds of attacks overwhelmed the digimon, and they all de-digivolved back to their rookie forms.
"Run!" Davis yelled, stopping only to pick up Veemon, and ran towards the gate. The others quickly followed suit, following close behind as the Bakemon closed in.
"Digiport open!" Davis yelled, and the portal sucked in five digidestined and their digimon, leaving the Bakemon the swarm the area, filling the sky with darkness.
school, computer lab
Davis crashed into the chairs of the computer lab, followed closely by the four others. "Whew... we made it..."
TK shook his head. "That was weird... I've never seen Bakemon behave like that... not even when Myotismon was here... right, Kari?"
Nobody answered. TK looked around. "...Hey, where's Kari?"
Unknown
Darkness surrounded Kari.
A treacherous inky blackness on all sides, no matter where she turned, just darkness, just nothingness.
Just oblivion.
Footsteps echoed as is from far away. They got quieter and quieter. Soon they were just whispers in the night.
A figure faded in from the void. She gasped.
"No.. That's not possible... what's going on!"
"Relax..." the figure whispered in a sibilant hiss. "You won't feel a thing..."
She felt pressure on her upper arm, and something clamping down hard. Her mind quivered as waves of darkness swept over her. She gritted her teeth, trying to fight it off.
The figure chuckled. "Nothing can resist the infinite power of darkness..."
Her vision twisted, split into pieces, and finally disappeared as she drowned in the darkness, the last sound to reach her ears was the cold, hard laughter of the tainted figure before her.