"In our lives, there are always some, imagined or otherwise, that we look up to, as heroes, as idols to emulate…

But how can we react…when we see those very heroes…
Fall right before our eyes?"

Chapter 2 : Fallen Children

The lupine beast that Regan threw away growled before it charged toward Regan with a howl.
Regan flashed his claws before yelling out as he charged at the beast, then leapt in the air before falling down, foot first toward the beast.

The creature leapt in the air and rammed right into Regan, throwing both of them down.
Kylee, Riza, and unknowingly to them, the cloaked girl gasped as they saw Regan being caught by the beast.

Both crashed in the ground, the gray lupine beast on top of Regan. It tried to bite him, opening its maw, but Regan held out his arms and grabbed hold of the beast's maws. Both struggled hard, Regan forcing the maws away, the beast's drool splattering on his clothes while it stomped the ground with its eight legs.

Regan grunted, then pushed himself with his feet and delivered a hard knee strike in the beast's belly, causing it to whine. The boy took the advantage to push the beast further away then slashed out hard on the beast's fur before leaping back.

Once Regan was a bit further away, he held out one hand, as he concentrated himself, and multi-colored energy flared in his hand before it formed into a ball.

Riza's eyes widened as he gasped, seeing Regan's action.

Regan threw the ball at the beast, and it exploded on it, the beast being thrown back and whining more.

"No way…" Riza said, eyes opened in suprise.
"Yeah, I don't get it how Regan is like that." Kylee said, still being as much surprised as Riza.
"No, it's not that…" Riza added.
"What?" Kylee asked.
"When I was imprisoned, there was a digimon who came to free me. But…it wasn't Lizomon…
I'd been thinking it was a digimon all along…but it was Regan himself!!!" Riza said.
"What?!? That was Regan who freed you from the prison?" Kylee said, stunned by surprise.
"Yeah, that energy ball move…The 'digimon' who freed me did exactly that…
No way…It can't be somebody else…but how can Regan be like that?" Riza explained.
"Whatever Regan really is, I think both of you should get back, and quick." Impmon said as the other beasts around seemed to have taken 'interest' in the two Tamers and their digimon.

Two of the beasts went after Impmon and Veemon. Impmon jumped back as he raised his right hand, summoning a ball of flames on it and yelled "Badaboom!" as he threw it, exploding on one of the beasts' noses and making it yelping from the pain.

As for Veemon, he lunged beneath the beast that charged at him, then threw himself at the beast's stomach, yelling "Vee-Headbutt!" as he charged head-first in the creature's stomach, making it falter badly.

The beast attacking Impmon shook its nose frantically before charging again at the digimon. Impmon jumped on the side before punching hard on the beast's side, causing it to stumble a bit before it quickly turned to face Impmon again, growling and showing many teeth.

"Oh snap…" Impmon muttered and jumped backward just as the creature snapped right where Impmon had been standing.

As for the beast where Veemon was standing below, it swat some of its legs below in attempt to strike Veemon, forcing the blue digimon to roll away from below the eight-legged beast.

As he removed himself, he looked at the creature which turned toward him, growling. It started charging toward him, just as Veemon heard another growl from behind him, and noticed another beast charging at him.

He looked back and forth at the two creatures which neared…and when they were close enough, Veemon leapt on the side,

The two creatures barely had the time to register the sudden move as they slammed right into one another and fell on the floor, a bit tangled and quite stunned.

"Well, that takes care of these two…" Veemon said, patting his two hands together.

He heard another growling and noticed another of the lupine beast that came out of…some kind of 'rip' in the air. Whatever it was…it was…wrong…

"Riza…" Veemon said nervously.

"Here Veemon!" Riza shouted as he pulled out a card from his pocket.
On it there was the image of the digi-egg of Courage.
True, when they had faced Ragnarok, and the dark beast had returned as a huge flaming dragon which burnt their digivolution cards, only Riza's digi-egg cards had been spared. Either some pure dumb luck, or Ragnarok had thought them completely useless for Riza to use them against him.
"Digi-modify! Digi-egg of Courage, activate!"

"Veemon, armor digivolve to…Flamedramon, the Fire of Courage!"

As for Regan, he was still struggling hard with the lupine beast as it charged him again, but this time, Regan charged against the beast as well. As he did, he held out his right punch…which suddenly burst in flames, then as he charged even faster at the lupine beast as his flaming punch collided hard on the beast's face, it yelped loudly this time, stumbling backward as some parts of its fur had taken fire, but the creature quickly rolled down on itself to snuff out the flames. After doing so, it quickly rose and growled at Regan, who simply stared back and narrowed his gaze on the beast.

The creature howled and then leapt at him.

Regan quickly dashed low and forward before going beneath the creature and slashed upward with his claws, striking hard.

The creature let out a gurgling whine as it dropped on the floor a bit away…

But as it happened, Regan rose back and looked at the creature…

Blood was coming out from beneath it, spilling on the ground…And there was blood on Regan's claws as he looked at them.

"These aren't digimon at all…They're creatures of flesh and blood!" Regan muttered. "But from their looks…I'm starting to doubt that they would have even come intentionally…
They seem more like predators…probably considering us as preys…"

Flamedramon held out his hands and blocked out the charge of another creature which had charged at him.

"Yeah! Good work Flamedramon!" Riza said.
"Riza…look there!" Flamedramon said, motioning as best as possible toward the strange rip.
Both Riza and Kylee looked at it, and were clearly confused and surprised.
"What is that?" Riza sad.
"That's perhaps where those things are coming from. So let's get them back there!" Kylee said.

"Impmon!" she called out.
"Yeah?" Impmon said, answering from the air, falling down on the head of the beast that was previously pursuing him.
"We need to get all of those monsters back in that…rip thing over there!" she shouted, pointing out at the rip.

Regan, standing some distance away from the others, overheard this, and saw the rip as well.
He eyed the body of the creature he had just killed…
"Perhaps's there still something I can do with it…" he thought.

Noticing another creature approaching Riza and Kylee, he rushed at them.
"Nah. Got bigger priorities right now…" Regan thought again.

As Kylee and Riza were stepping back from the fight, they heard a howl behind them.
Just as they turned to see another of the beasts rushing at them, a multi-colored energy ball flew right between them and exploded on the beast. A few moments later, Regan came through and smashed with his knee right in the beast's nose. A loud cracking noise was heard.

The creature stumbled back as it whined hashly, some blood coming out of the now broken nose.

"Yep…definitivly not a digimon…but a real creature of flesh and blood…" Regan said.

"What?" Kylee said. "That's not a digimon?"
"Well, digimon don't bleed." Regan said, still eyeing the creature as it recovered badly from the knee strike. "But I'm starting to think they didn't wanted to be here."
"Huh? How so?" Riza said.
"I think they looked confused when they appeared. But then they saw us and probably considered us as some possible prey." Regan answered.
"How can you guess all that?" Kylee asked.
"My mind's sharper when I'm in this state. Kinda because of Lizomon being a lot clever himself." Regan said.
"But…how did it-" Kylee started to ask.
"We'll talk about this later." Regan interrupted. "For now, let's get those beasts back where they came from."

With that, he ran toward the creature again, ramming right in it with a shoulder strike.

Kylee quickly turned back to Impmon…who was currently doing rodeo on the beast he had landed on, holding tight, and possibly for dear life, on the beast's fur as it ran and jumped around, trying to get rid of Impmon.

"Impmon! Here's for you! Digi-modify! Power, activate!" Kylee said as she picked up and swiped a card in her D-Arc.

Impmon grinned as he briefly glowed and felt the new power within him. He then threw himself upward, but still held on the fur, then he pulled hard on it, slamming down hard with his feet on the creature's back, causing it to stumble and fall down.

Impmon quickly jumped down and started running toward the strange rip. The creature shook itself before eyeing Impmon again, then rushed at him, growling.

"Hey Kylee!" Impmon yelled at his Tamer. She saw him and nodded while pulling out another card.

As the beast neared, she swiped the new card in her D-Arc.

"Digi-Modify! Hi-Speed Plug-In B!" she said while swiping the card.

Impmon grinned again when the creature neared. It opened its maw when it was nearly close…

Then Impmon sudddenly moved sideways with increased speed and moved behind the beast as it passed right next to him. As the beast was nearly behind him, Impmon turned and delivered a hard enhanced punch into the beast's backside, pushing it in the rip.

"And in you go!" he yelled. "That takes care of one!" he added was patting his hands.

Another beast suddenly flew right, right above Impmon, as he felt the wind current from the screaming beast as it 'entered' the rip as well.

Eyes wide with some 'certain' panic, Impmon turned toward where the beast had been launched from : Flamedramon.

"You idiot! You could have gotten me with that monster! What the hell did you tried to do? A 'monster' strike?!?" Impmon yelled, one fist raised, at Flamedramon.

"You should have simply moved out of the way instead of gloating Impmon." Flamedramon said with a sigh and eyes rolling.

"And instead of arguing, look behind you Flamedramon!" Regan suddenly yelled, still dealing with the other creature to whom he had broken its nose.

Flamedramon quickly turned himself and saw another of the beasts rushing at him. Reacting quickly, he leapt into the air before bursting in flames.

"Fire Rocket!" he shouted as he rocketed down in flames toward the beast, and impacted hard on it. The beast widly whined from the strike.

Dropping down from the beast, Flamedramon took it by the tail before starting to spin on himself, making a 'hammer throw' with the beast.

"This time, get out of the way Impmon!" Flamedramon warned.
Impmon didn't wasted time on that one. As he ran out of the way quickly thanks to the card's effect, Flamedramon threw the wailing beast toward the rip as well.

Aside from the one Regan had killed, only one was still left. The one with the broken nose, that Regan was dealing with.

Rolling madly on the floor, both Regan and the last beast held out hard before Regan kicked out at the beast, pushing himself away from it.

The creature quickly rose, its green eyes fixed on Regan. Regan kept his gaze on the beast as well, charging energy in his right hand.

He then briefly looked on the side and nodded.

"Badaboom!" Impmon yelled, throwing an empowered fireball that exploded on the beast's left side.

"Flame Fist!" Flamedramon shouted, throwing out several more flaming balls.
Regan held out his hand before he threw his own energy projectile.

Distracted by the first attack, the beast was easily struck by both Regan and Flamedramon's attacks. It yelled loudly before collapsing on the ground.

"Flamedramon, throw him away!" Riza said.
"No need to say that twice." Flamedramon said as he ran up to the badly beaten creature and threw him in the same fashion than the previous two.

The beast went flying into the rip as well, following the same path than the others, and finally going back to where it came from…

Regan breathed easier, but his appearance didn't changed…yet.

He walked toward the rip, standing some distance of it and kept his eyes on it.

"Hey Regan, is that a way to greet some friends by ignoring them?" Riza said as he watched Regan and called to him after that the Digidestined had started looking at the rip.

"Oh, sorry." Regan said, turning a bit toward them, eyes looking down. "I was really wondering from where those beasts could come from, and also, why they came here…"

"Well…nice to see you again Regan…but what happened to you? How can you be like that?" Kylee said, her wondering gaze fixed on Regan's different appearance.

Rega sighed and closed his eyes for a while before opening them, clearly hesitant. "Oh…well…that's-"

The loud sound of an explosion suddenly interrupted them as an the ground breifly shook…

But the source of the shaking was coming from the rip…

Regan, Riza, Kylee, Impmon and Flamedramon quickly looked at the rip which was still fluctuating…

A large mass was suddenly seen in the rip itself before…
It got thrown out of the rip and crashed right into the midst of the Tamers, Digimon and Regan.

It was another of the same eight-legged, gray furred, green eyed wolf beasts they had just been fighting…but this one was way much bigger.

While all of the others were around the size of a human, albeit smaller, this one was twice bigger and taller than the normal variant.

"What the heck is that one?" Kylee said, uncertain.
"I think it's the pack's leader…
Seems we stirred up a whole pack, and now it's the leader who's here…" Regan said.
"Hey, did you saw how he came in?" Impmon said. "It looks like something just threw him through the rip. He probably didn't came here on purpose."
"I know that was obvious." Regan replied to Impmon.

The large beast rose up before eyeing the children and the digimon, before it unleashed a very loud howl.

It then crouched before charging the Tamers, digimon and Regan. All of them readied themselves, Regan, Flamedramon and Impmon moving in front of Kylee and Riza.

But…at midway distance from approaching them, something suddenly moved in the way of the large leader beast.

It swiftly move and struck the large beast at one of its front legs, causing it to collapse on the ground.

And the figure quickly moved itself away from the beast when it fell on the ground.

Huffing, it stood some distance from Regan and the others…

Though its features couldn't be seen…it was a bit smaller than Regan…and was wearing Regan's cloak.

Regan looked dumbfounded seeing the girl wearing his cloak having come to aid them. "W-What are you doing?!? You know we weren't supposed to-"
"I know…" the girl replied sadly. "I didn't really wanted to…But I couldn't really stand and do nothing while I knew I could help…
Sorry Regan…"

"Hey wait a minute…" Riza muttered to Kylee. "Did you heard that voice?"
"Yeah…" Kylee said, nodding to Riza. "That girl's voice…it sounded familiar…"
"But where did we heard it?" Riza asked.
"I'm not sure…" Kylee answered. "But it's obvious she's a friend of Regan…"
"But…does she has the same thing than Regan?" Riza said.
"You mean…being somehow…half digimon, half human?" Kylee said.

The large pack leader beast rose again, its gaze focused on the girl who had caused him harm.

It soon readied itself to attack again…
But as it started stepping forward…

It suddenly cringed and started howling in pain…in massive pain.

"Huh? What the hell's wrong with it?" Impmon said, confused.
"I have no idea…" Flamedramon said, as confused as Impmon.
Regan too was confused, and so was the cloaked girl…but she suddenly shivered breifly.

The creature continued to scream widly…
Then darkness started to spread on the beast…

First the tail's end turned completely black, the darkness flowing from the end to the creature's body.

But as it happened, the tail started changing…It became longuer, and more reptilian, ending up with a large spike.

The darkness continued to flow over the creature, covering the beast's hind legs, further transforming it as the muscles on it increased, becoming even more powerful. The fur started to harden to some point, but two large spikes, one on each sides of the beast, appeared.

The Tamers, their digimon, Regan and the unknown girl simply continued to watch as the creature continued to scream widly.

The darkness flowed on the creature's front legs, transforming them as well, similarly to the hind legs, then it started covering the neck, and up to the head as the poor creature unleashed a pitiful wailing howl.

As the darkness attained the mouth, the howl increased a hundredfold for a breif moment. The fur thicked on all of the body, the beast's eyes closed themselves.
A large pair of horns suddenly sprouted from the sides of the head, twisting forward. The beast's fang increased in size, two large one appearing where the canines were.

The beast's claws also increased in side, doubling in length, and probably…in efficiency as well…as the beast itself even increased in size…now three times the size of a human.

The blackened beast's head hung low for a while…then it suddenly rose up, and it's eyes opened, now glowing blood red…
The creature showed its fangs, green saliva now dripping from the maw, and as it fell on the ground, a breif hissing could be heard, as the saliva breifly bore through the ground, seemingly like a potent acid.

"W-W-What happened to it?" Kylee said, fear creeping in her.
"It looks like its possessed…" Regan said uncertainly. He too looked uncertain and clearely worried, perhaps even scared himself.
The large beast unleashed a large roar before charging rapidly at the digimon, Regan and the cloaked girl.

It raised on of its paws before throwing it down toward them. Impmon, Flamedramon, Regan and the cloaked girl all jumped out of the way, as the large paw slammed in the ground, crushing the concrete easily.

The dark beast looked around before it noticed Regan nearly. It growled heavily as Regan kept himself half-crouched.

It charged toward him, roaring loudly as it did so.

But as he approached him, Flamedramon ran toward the beast, bursting in flames as he launched himself again the dark beast. "Fire Rocket!" he yelled.

He impacted hard on the dark monster, causing it to yell in pain and half-stop in it's charge.

Regan then noticed the cloaked girl leaping on top of the dark beast before it quickly slammed down a hardly noticable hand in the beast's back.
The beast roared loudly before it started shaking itself like a wet dog, throwing the girl off-balance and sending her away, but as she fell, she managed to twist herself to land on her feet.

But as soon as she touched the ground, the dark beast charged at her now.

Regan quickly ran after the dark beast, just as Impmon threw an enhanced fire ball at the beast, yelling "Badaboom!" as he did. The ball struck on the side of the beast, making it breifly roar, but it continued its charge against the cloaked girl.

The large beast opened up its maw as it neared the girl, who simply stood immobile, then lunged forward, seeking to eat the girl.
But she nimbfully moved herself out of the beast's way before making a quick slashing move at the beast's 'cheek' with her hand…and left five small blood lines on the beast.

But as the creature started turning to face her, Regan struck it on the other side of the face with a flame charging punch of his. The beast let another annoyed roar before turning its head at Regan.

"Fire Rocket!" Flamedramon shouted as he threw multiple flame balls at the beast, striking it near the left ear, and one of his fire ball struck the beast in the eye.

The dark beast reared its head up in the air, roaring loudly in more pain.
"Nice shot Flamedramon!" Regan said.
"But does it really do that much damage on that monster? It's different now. A lot different…" the cloaked girl said, running up to Regan, Impmon and Flamedramon.
"Whatever the hell it is, we don't care." Impmon said. "We'll just have to beat it out like the others."
Regan simply eyed the impish digimon hardly.

"Move!" the cloaked girl shouted as the dark beast stomped the ground near them, before trying to eat them.
Both digimon along with Regan and the cloaked girl quickly jumped out of the monster's way, each one going in different directions.

Further away, Kylee and Riza continued to watch the fight. It was really hard to guess who really was having the advantage right now. The darkness enhanced beast seemed easily able to rival all four of its enemies together.

"I'm sure we heard that girl's voice somewhere…but where?" Kylee thought.

The dark beast lunged to snap out at Flamedramon while it swung another of its paws to strike out Impmon. Fortunately, both jumped out of the way.

Regan crouched before leaping on the top of the beast's head, then he stabbed his claws in the beast.

The large beast roared again in pain before shaking itself and throwing Regan back on the ground, who quickly righted himself.

Growling more, green acid saliva dripping once more, the dark beast eyed Regan heavily. It roared, opening its maw wide…before something moved deep within the mouth…

Suddenly, a large 'mass' of blackness, first shaped like dark tendrils followed by a ball, poured out of the beast's maw, lunging at Regan.

But just as Regan started to step back in surprise, the cloaked girl quickly ran up to the beast and leapt at it before slamming a fist right in the ball of darkness itself as it was starting to leave the beast's mouth.

A sudden and terrible shriek was heard before the ball exploded, unleashing a shockwave that threw everyone backward.

As Regan slammed several times on the ground before he managed to raise again, he saw the large beast wailing madly in pain, shaking…before it collapsed on the ground.

Silence reigned around before a few moments later, the dark beast suddenly vanished, its body turning into fading black smoke.

Regan, eyeing the spot where the beast had been, was dumbfounded. He went up to the girl with his cloak and helped her raise. "Are you okay? What did you do on it?" Regan asked worringly.

"I'm fine…But I think I must have struck that 'thing''s core…

I think it wanted to…take another host…you…" the girl answered hesitantly.

A sick look came on Regan's face after he heard what the girl said. "Well, thanks a lot for your action. I certainly wouldn't want to become that monster." He said, smiling at the girl.

"Okay…so now that's it's over, can we know what's going on?" Kylee said, coming with Impmon, along with Riza, and Veemon.
"Yeah, and who's that girl with you Regan? And also, why are you like this?" Riza added.
"Well…" Regan started, clearely hesistant as he rubbed the back of his head with a hand.
"I think we're not all done." The girl said, looking toward the rip…which was still there.
Regan looked at it and sighed. "Great…That thing still ain't gone."
"Well, perhaps we could try to close it?" the girl said.
Regan crossed his arms, thinking. "Do you think that with our digivices-"
"Watch out!" the cloaked girl suddenly screamed and pushed Regan out of the way.

Right as she pushed Regan down, another eight-legged, grey furred lupine beast leapt in the air where Regan had been…but that beast's belly was marked red, some blood spilling out.

The one that Regan had thought he had killed…

As both were falling on the floor, and the Tamers and their digimon reacting to the sudden action, the girl threw one foot upward, striking and pushing the wounded beast toward the rip.

As the beast was thrown toward the rip, a voice was suddenly heard, shouting something near-impossible to understand.

A large explosion suddenly ripped out of the 'rip' as the wounded beast was caught in it, whining before it ceased screaming.

Everyone threw himself down to cover against the blast…though a large array of colors were flying everywhere from the rip…

As the explosion ceased and silence finally came again, Regan lifted his head, looking up…

And he saw that the rip in reality had vanished…probably destroyed by the explosion.
Regan sighed in relief and smiled a bit.

He noticed the others were rising up as well.
"Well…it's ov-" he started, but Kylee suddenly gasped.
Regan quickly looked at her, wondering what was wrong…until he saw where she was looking at…

At the girl who had been accompanying Regan.
His cloak that had been covering her had been thrown some little distance away during the explosion…

"That's…that's…impossible!!!" Kylee said, eyes wide as she stared at the girl.
When Riza, Veemon and Impmon looked at the girl as well…they too were extremly surprised.

"It can't be…" Riza said.

Both Regan and her were far more uncertain now.

She was wearing yellow shorts with a tank top whose bottom half was white while the upper half was pink. She also had pink and white shoes, along with light brown hairs which were slightly shoulder length, though a hairclip in her hairs prevented parts of them to fall in her face. And with that, she had ruby colored eyes.

"Kari Kamiya!!!" the two Tamers and their digimon shouted at once, all of them very astonished.

Yet, at the same time they discovered the girl's identity, they noticed some odd details that Kari had.

She had cat ears, much like Gatomon's ears. Along with that, instead of having the long pink gloves she usually had, she was wearing short green gloves that were much similar to Gatomon's, though those gloves were shaped for a five fingered hand…though claws were coming out of the gloves' finger ends.
Along with that, slightly twisting behing her, Kari had a long cat tail which was very much like Gatomon's tail.

"W-W-What's wrong with you two?!?" Kylee said, pointing at Regan and Kari, her hand shaking, her face having much surprise visible on it.

Kari looked away from the Tamers and their digimon, sadness visible on her face.
But then it was Regan who approached her, having taken his cloak again, though he still had his 'Lizomon parts' on him.
"Kari…why did you do this? You told me that I shouldn't but I had already done, while you…" Regan said, leaving his sentence unfinished.
Kari looked down sadly. "I know…and I think it's soon over…" she said.

Suddenly her eyes widened and the cat ears, green gloves, and the cat tail started glowing…before they dissasembled themselves into data and breifly flowed around Kari as her normal gloves and ears were visible again. The data flowed before being seemingly sucked into an odd watch she was wearing on her left wrist.

A watch that looked exactly like Regan's digivice-watch, only that Kari's was colored in the fashion of her D-3…

And just as the last bit of data vanished within the digivice…Kari started falling down, and was caught by Regan.

All of this before the Tamers and the digimon's very eyes…

But when Regan grabbed her, she started shaking breifly, as if she was having spasms of some sorts. Her pupils were oddly small, as her eyes seemed to display an extremly large amount of pain.

Kylee, Riza, Impmon and Veemon simply stared wide eyed at what was happening right in front of them.

Regan simply looked at them nearly as if they were strangers.
"We really don't have time for this. You got no idea what's wrong…" Regan said with comtempt to the Tamers and their digimon.

He quickly, yet gently picked up Kari in his arms before suddenly running away and out of the courtyard before jumping on one of the outside walls, then jumping away.

Kylee, Riza, Impmon and Veemon simply looked toward where Regan had run away, all of them in pure shock.

"What happened to them? What's wrong?" Kylee muttered.
"I have no idea…But it can't be good…" Riza said, still as shocked as Kylee.

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The door of the appartment that Regan and Lizomon had been using last time as a hideout in an abandonned building suddenly flung open as Regan entered inside, still carrying Kari who still looked extremly pained. As he entered, he quickly closed the door with his tail.

He went up to the couch and gently put Kari on it. For a little while, she simply continued to breifly shake before looking at Regan, pain and sadness much visible in her eyes.

Regan took one of her hand for a while, gazing at her with eyes that showed as much uncertainity and sadness as her, before he let go of Kari and walked into the next room, where there once was a living room.

He walked up to the table that had been put by Lizomon's work before he closed his eyes.
The horns, tail, and clawed hands glowed before dissasembling in data and flowed around Regan as the modified parts of his body returned to normal.

And soon after that the last bit of data flowed into his digivice, he suddenly fell on his knees, holding one of sides with one of his hands, gritting his teeth as he seemed in a large amount of pain.

He shook for a while…before it ceased, and he slowly rose, still holding a hand to his chest, breathing tiredly.
Regan let himself drop on a chair as he gazed uncertainly at the large window outside.
He then heard Kari screaming in pain. Regan closed his eyes, seemingly pained to hear Kari scream…

As she screamed again…Regan started sobbing and crying, burying his head in his hands…