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Chapter 1: Dream and nightmare
Year: 1999, before the DigiDestineds have enter the Digital World.
Kari Kamiya is fast asleep in her bed since she got a dreadful cold since this morning. She's really look excited in Summer Camp that she and her brother are having some quality time, but now she very sick and upset since her parent told her that she couldn't go. Tai promise her that he will tell her everything about camping trip along with their friends that he know them.
She slight overheard her brother snoring like a pig that she couldn't sleep probably, but she live. She dealt it before, now she can do it again. Tomorrow, that his brother leave home early that he's heading toward his camping trip that he promise her to explain everything in his summer term and met some of his friends from his pre-school.
Once she fall asleep, she started to have dream about something relaxing before she got up. Knowing that the coach bus leave about half nine in the morning so that mean that's Tai and his family have to get up early before they arrive in coach apartment. She entering a dream about something peaceful and relaxing like magical unicorn or something very beauty so that she can stay forever without bother some alarm clock or over snore from his Tai suborn sleep that ruining her perfect sleep. They both live in the same bunkbed of course they're sibling and they have to share their beds. She did promise to her mom that she wanted her own room when she is older, and her mom agree with her, as a promise.
When she woke up when she notice something change, she thought she's still in bed, until she got up in unknown world she never seen before in her life. She never expect to see so many light are zooming toward in a blink of flash that, it bypass them. She seem pretty confuse, and yet she's not why. She remain calm and also very confusing to know about that place. It's look like space from what she believe when she quickly saw few planets like Mars, or Saturn from what she seeing.
She find it very pretty and beautiful to see them like jewel or snowflake coming down from the sky. Once the zoom is slowly down a bit, that she is right in a panic, that she have no idea this place. She's almost about to let go her tear and almost afraid to see space and stars are gathering in one.
"Hello?" she ask anyone in echolocation that caught her echo only. "Is anyone around here, please?"
No reply, only her echoing word she can hear from it. She almost losing some tear coming down from her face, that she wanted to cry.
"Please," she begging to someone, "I need to go home. Can you take me home, please?"
Again, still no reply from them. She blend down her knees and started to cry. She want to home, she want her mom and dad and her brother. Until, unknowingly to her that unknown light is approaching toward her
"Do be afraid, child," said a voice that calls to her when Kari look up and see nothing but space.
Kari thought she heard someone. She thought she was the only one who live here, but she only saw was nothing but stars. She seem very confused, that she thought there was someone else who live here. Her eyes are still verge in tears that she hope that someone will take her home to reunited with her family and her brother Tai/Taichi from this endless nightmare she having. She sniffle out from her nose while continuing verge in tears from her eyes and continuingly to crying, that she thought there was someone else hoping someone will take her home.
"It's okay," said the same voice who calming her down to allow a gentle voice to calm her down, when Kari realise that voice is girl, but older from what she seem. "I never meant to hurt you."
When Kari look at the shine light that approach her and see unknown silhouettes that appear out of nowhere, that it is too hard to tell that person.
"Who . . .?" Kari tried to said a word. "Who are you?" she ask that shadow.
A shadow was appear to be a younger woman, in middle 25 from what she described to it. She have short blonde hair, fair with blue eyes like sapphire eyes and wear light and blue clothing with golden thin line of her jacket with excellent modelling position with pure white boot underneath her white jean with blue line on each slide.
Kari have never her before in her life. She look like an angel, but too hard to described from what she look except however she thought there was wings behind her back, but it's fade away without knowing. A woman who reach out to her in open arm when she said to her.
"It okay," she said to her in smooth voice. "You're safe now."
"I'm not safe," she cried out to her. "I want to go home!"
"Home?" she seem little surprised when she giggle out to her. "Sweetie, you're having a subconscious mind in never ending rest while you sleeping."
"You mean like a dream?" she common suggesting to her when a woman nod to her as a confirming agreement. "Then, where am I?"
"You're in space, that hold time in every reality that you standing on," she answer out to her. "Each reality hold every light, as long there light, there's always hope."
"I'm don't understand," again, Kari still very confuse from what she said. A woman smile upon her when she kneel down in front of her. "Are you saying that I'm in space?"
Almost laugh out from a women mouth, that Kari have no idea what she's on about. "More than space," she said to her in cheerful expression.
"Then" she blink out, "where am I?"
"You're in a world, that you never seen before that you will never experience before in your life," she explain and answer out to her. "A world, you never seen before in your life," she quickly rose up from her knees and wonder in the open road, but before that she use her hand that offer her to come.
Kari is not sure, but she slightly keen to know when she touch her hand, slowly and then she rose up from her knees from her kneeling, when a suddenly glow that quickly change in quick flash that Kari didn't know about it. She look at her and see a humble, gentle smile with excellent blue eyes on her. Kari have never felt anything so majestic before in her when the glow is slowly fade and show Kari, the most beautiful thing she never seen before in her, when she look upon when she never seen the most thing she never witness before in her. Her home: the planet Earth, that combine with green and blue with surrounding light that shine like diamond that sparkle like jewel. She never seem the planet Earth, except she saw it in school about Solar System about different planets that Earth is the third planets and third system.
"Do you like it?" she said to her while she still holding her hand as a support.
"It's beautiful," she almost speechless to see her home planet that she seen so big before. "I read in book about our home since in school. I have no idea our home can be so big and so beautiful."
"That's why they called Earth. Many people are struck to find a perfect name to your home and name the species you called it. In Greek, they call it Giga in Greek mythology. In Latin they called Terra that stand for earth. Of course you learn in school that Earth is third member of your system in science class to learn about your planet."
"Yeah," Kari agree with her. "I remember in my class about Solar System but I'm 8, I still didn't anything about it."
"When you older, then you will understand the value of your home." She recommend to her while, they still staring on Earth.
They keep staring it about less than a minutes when Kari said to her about something she want to know about.
"I hate to convince you," she said to her nicely. "How long do I get up?"
"Not long," she replied to her with humble smile. "I understand that you are not well from what happen to you years ago. I know that your brother is trying to help you."
Kari almost forgotten what happened when she was child that Tai is trying to help her from her sickness that Tai didn't know. She slightly remember but barely when she fall down in the ground at the park when Tai is teach her how to play football. But sadly it won't last when her parent comes around to collect her since what happen. She did apologise to him about playing in park knowing she still not well.
She felt guilty since what happened. When she grip a woman hand so tight that caught her attention when she saw Kari's hand so tight.
"Something in your mind, from what I said to you?" she felt guilty inside from her when Kari nodded back to her. "I'm sorry I should said to you. I understand that you love you brother more do you. The truth is that, you didn't have enough strength to play. Of course I don't blame on your brother some reason that he didn't do. I blame the parents for using their selfish behaviour they did. That he still love you so much."
"You learn lots about my family," Kari seem to be impressive that the lady knows everything rather than she didn't know.
She giggle out like a child. "Don't do I always," until she quickly said to her that Kari is still in her light baby orange pyjamas. "Before you woke up in your dream. I need to ask you before you will forget everything about me or seeing anything about your world. I need you, to do me a favour that I want you to protect someone that you never met him before."
"Why?" she seem confuse to know. "What so important about him anywhere?"
"I can't say, I'm sorry," she apologise to her, and look at her and kneel down while she still holding her hand. "While I'm gone, promise you will look after him that his life are in great danger. And you partner will see you soon."
Kari have no clue what she mean about partner and furthermore who is him. She suspected that it have to be a boy from her clue without even knowing. A woman quickly kiss her on Kari's forehead, that mean is goodbye for seeing each other in her dream.
"Promise me," she said to her. "Promise me, you will protect that him that his life are in great danger. Do you understand the meaning?"
Kari have no choice but to accept it whatever reason that she have no clue whatsoever.
"Before you go," she quickly halt her. "What is your name?" when the light comes by that almost vanish her and Kari when she quickly to said before they gone.
"It's Nova," she said to her in full name without using her surname with gentle smile. "Once you woke up in your dream, you completely forgotten about our secret about everything that I told you. But promise me if you remember, protect that boy. His life will be endanger."
Once the light that fade away, Kari woke up from her dream that she's having a silent nightmare from her dream. She couldn't remember Nova and important mission she telling her about. And furthermore she couldn't remember. Who is that boy and why he's very important? She look at the digital clock that beside her and her brother and it said quarter past 3 only few more hours to go. By the time she look at the clock, she decided to go back to sleep.
Takeru Takashi was hence by his nickname called TK for short. He's same age of Kari with blonde hair with blue. He was sleep several hours ago about eight o'clock last night when his mom told him to get some rest, that he's going with his brother to Summer Camp for couple of weeks. His mom, Nancy agree that TK could met his brother Matt at summer camp. Her ex-husband agree that Matt and TK could have some quality time each other knowing that both boys are very close. Not until their tragic end between two boys.
Takeru (You can called TK if you want), is still fast asleep when he having a silently nightmare that something trigger him during his sleep. He woke him in unknown reality he have seen before in his life. He thought he's still in bed, despite however he still wore his green pyjamas that's for shot. He's not sure what kind of place he's standing on when he notice that the room is completely blackness and darkness. He hate the dark since he was little, he always afraid dark when his mom, his brother are checking any monster coming out from his bed or hiding in the closest when he was small. Despite he overgrow that he don't believe monster anymore, but he's still having troubling nightmare that he's missing his dad and his brother when his parents are having a row each other when Matt was eight and TK was five years old. He tried forget what happened, but emotional pain that hurts them dearly.
He verge in tear to see surrounding darkness that he want to go home. He want his mom, his dad, his brother that he love them ever since. He tried to think when he said it out.
"Hello?" he said it out when he hear his own voice in echolocation. "Is anyone here me?"
Once Takeru said it out, only he can heard is own voice that no one replied to him. He's always verge in tears that he's afraid, and upset to see empty darkness when he kneel down and curve himself in a ball and begin to cry for few second when he hear voice is coming from him.
"Young man," said an unknown voice that calls to him when TK (Takeru, if you wanted to him) quickly rose his head and see nothing but empty blackness.
"Who's there?" he called out to that unknown voice that he thought he's alone in the dark.
"Just a friendly advice," it replied to him.
TK is trying to find that voice coming from, only he can is nothing but darkness and sheer blackness, until, he notice an unknown light that across out of nowhere. When he saw something else that stand in the light. He couldn't see closer when he got up and approach toward that mysterious person. He remember when his mom told him about talking to stranger after their parents' divorce. His brother did talk to his brother about stranger who want clear advice. But this one, he not's sure. Why he approach toward that stranger? He's not sure why he approach that stranger without even notices.
Once TK approach that light where he saw an unknown clock person who happen to be a man with blackness cloak and a hood that cover his entire face except with silver lock of pure pale white hair. He notice when he saw a person who have pale silver gauntlet on both like medieval knight, from what he seem, with two raven-like wings like a fallen angel. That HE'S sitting on some kind throne he from what he look at it.
A person slowly left his head up that caught TK very well surprised. TK slowly back away from him when a stranger said to him calmly to him without hesitation.
"Don't be afraid. I'm never going to hurt to you," he said to him.
"Thank you," TK said back to him. "Can, you tell where I am? I want to go home."
"Home?" he solemn rephrase him. "My boy, you're in subconscious mind in deep coma to allow your inner dream take place on you."
TK is very confuse, knowing he's eight year old who barely understand when his teacher taught him in school about understandable in class. "What do you mean, inner dream? You mean like I having a dream or something?"
"Your guess is good as mine," he replied to him. "Tell me," he quickly change the subject, "why do you come here for a reason?"
"I don't know," TK admitted to him when more tears coming from his face that he want to cry. "When I fall sleep, I enter this place. I don't like the dark, I hate the dark. Please," he begging him, "I want to go home."
A person look at him in aggressive look upon him and see fear inside that boy's. He can tell there's despair inside his heart, and yet he sense something else from TK's heart, that opposite of despair, hope. He silently surprise to see that TK got hope and despair, he find it most remarkable from him, and it's all part of his plan. And TK didn't know that stranger is happened to be Angarmon without wearing his silver pale mask on him.
"You already home," answer to him.
"You're lying," he voice is almost broken to allow more tear coming down from his face.
"Am I?" he sheer at him when he rose up from his throne. "Have I ever lied to you? Young man, if you learn the hard way to understand the value between your world and my world are two different things."
TK is very confuse while Angarmon continue spoke to him. And furthermore what does he mean his world and Angarmon world? He's not sure what he mean.
"I understand you're too young to remember everything from what I said. Did you tutor taught you about planets and stars."
"I guess so," he answer out to him that he did remember in school about planets and stars in his study about naming nine planets. He did remember that Earth have got one moon while the rest of the plants got several moons in different obit location that circle in different rotation.
"Good," he seem to be please on him. "Now. I want you to give you something, think of as a welcome present since we first met."
TK is confuse when he blink his eyes that he heard surprising gift. TK love surprising love gift. He thought it something kind of new toy that he can play. Angarmon got out something from his robe and carefully clench his right hand fist for not damaging TK's special gift.
"Here," he lower down in front of him like gentleman and unveil his right hand to show TK in front of him.
TK look at unknown device that form a shape like a hexagon with small mini-TV screen with some kind of code writing that he couldn't understand what it mean. He awe to see such incredible gift he never before. He could take that gift, but his mom taught him, never take candy from a stranger. He look back up and see Angarmon without using his mask and yet he could see his face except silver lock hair that lower down toward his chest.
"What is it?" he curious to know about that device he never seen before in his life.
"That," he explain to him, "it's called Digivice, think of it as a suitable gift to you."
"But," again confusing and asking lots of question, "how come it's black. Do have any colour such as green?"
"I'm afraid that, this is the only left," he apologise him that upset TK even more. "But, don't worry. This device is very special. Why do you touch and see what happen."
TK have no other choice but to garb it when mysterious light appear out of nowhere that quickly tell him.
"Don't listen him," a voice yell out to TK in blink outburst and Angarmon quickly rose his head and slightly sinister growl at the voice he never forger apart from TK (Takeru). TK slowly look behind his shoulder to see unknown glowing that appear out of nowhere.
He look at the light and see a person that comes out from the light, but the light stay onward. He barely see a person who appear to be a lady with short blonde hair with blue, Nova. The same woman who talks to Kari earlier on. Angarmon look upon her that he hate her so much that she working under the jurisdiction by Celestial Order and he know which jurisdiction she on about.
"How dare you to come here," he sneer at him in hissing acid tone, "you wretched half-breed."
"You can call me whatever you like," Nova smirk at him by crossing her arm together. "I'm here to get him back from his own world."
TK is not sure what they on about. Despite he is eight-years old, but he have no clue what is about. Ever since he saw Angarmon without his mask, but this girl who's older then her with excellent look on her with short blonde hair with blue sapphire eyes who comes here in middle of nowhere. He thought it was just a dream.
"You have no right to come here," Angarmon said to her. "You dare upon yourself to come here in my domain to get your hands of him."
"I'm here to bring him back," she rephrase to him one more time. "You may alter one Digimon to do your bidding, but not the boy."
"Your jurisdiction order are pitiful weak. They have no right that, they send you to do their job."
"They order me to get him back," she replied to him. "While you getting your grizzly hand on him to be your living puppet."
TK is shock to learn that Nova said something about living puppet. Could be that Angarmon lied to him? He find it impossible hard to believe that Angarmon is very nice person when he's about to accept a kind full gift before Nova come along to stop the invitation. He's still afraid when he reminded himself when he was little and so is brother Matt that their parents are rowing each other that, they have no other choice to have a divorce that will ruining him and his brothers life forever.
"Living puppet?" he fined astonish from Nova when he calmly said to her. "My dear, did you really think to bring him back from his subconscious mind so that I can tolerate his life forever?"
"That may be. You allow your inner strength to gain privilege of your own. I can see why you are the strongest. I find it hard to immure you."
Angarmon remain calm without using his exposing anger that will trigger him. He can see that Nova Takariyuma is no pushover that she can defend herself in sheer threat in the Digital World. He silently clench his left hand fist without anyone notice it. TK is still remain confuse, until he found his own voice when he said to them or either one of them.
"Can someone tell me, what's going on here?" he asked them in sudden need. "And what it all about living puppet?"
Nova can see the boy, knowing that TK is right from one thing in common. She reminded herself long ago along her brother. Her brother is almost similar to that boy. But now, she up against Angarmon the most deadly Digimon and also the strongest of all Digimon. Before she said to him when Angarmon beat her first.
"You will find out soon enough," he promise to him in faithful expression. "But for now, take this gift and earn your privilege," he show the Digivice once more when TK look upon the Digivice when he didn't know something or someone whisper out to him without hearing from Nova can't hear it.
Nova is now pretty disgust to see that Angarmon is toying with poor little TK. He need to be stop before his plan is in emotion.
"I can't allow you to do that," she quickly draw and summon clear silver sword with golden brass and quickly charging toward him.
"Foolish girl you turn out to be," Angarmon had enough on her, knowing that Nova may call her The Boss when he quickly toss the Digivice when TK quickly catch and then an unknown light that appear nowhere that's surround him.
His body was almost vanish when Nova quickly said to him before he vanish.
"Once you gone," she said to him. "You will forget everything from you seen. In order to protect you from sudden threat that danger you. I promise you, Takeru Takaishi, the DigiDestineds of Hope. You will be safe, under the protection by the Celestial order."
When he almost quiet vanish when Angarmon quickly said to him in last vanishing acting.
"You will play a game," he said to him. "You will forget everything we talk about it. You must broke the bond between you and your brother. Just remember, I will be your friend. And this device will help you to seek out everything between yours and mine. Just remember, DigiDestineds of Hope. If you ever afraid of something, I will be there with you and so is your partner. And together, we will help you. But first forget everything from what I said to you, if you remember something."
Once TK slightly heard Angarmon and Nova voice. His body will now clear vanish. Leaving Nova and Angarmon are engaged in battle combat. TK makes a sudden woke him when he quickly struggle to get up from his sleep when huffing out from his mouth that he's having a nightmare when he look at the digital alarm clock and it said quarter past 3. He couldn't remember everything from what Angarmon and Nova said about, except very little on Angarmon about becoming his friend. He's find it very hard to understand when he decided to go back to sleep, that tomorrow he's going to see his brother in summer camp. Unknown to him that a Black Digivice is placing near his lamp post and TK didn't see it at all.
A/N: This is alternative version knowing that Kari is the 8th Child, but I decided to TK to be the 8th child. And please I need review comment to see if you like so much.