I'm trying the best I can here, so please excuse everything. There are gonna be some references from other movies, TV series, video games and other animes.
Destinies are intertwined
CHAPTER 1
Memories
Bedroom
Kari sits in her bed after the nightmare she had last night. It all felt too real. The creepy hands of the darkness that grabbed her limbs, and held her down, as the darkness was pulling her in, was all too traumatizing. Originally, she didn't know the true nature of the darkness, and she didn't know how frightening it can be. Whenever she thinks of the darkness, she would think of how dark the city would get, and how dark her room would get during the night. She was afraid of this type of darkness at first, but with Tai being at her side, especially at night literally, she wasn't really that afraid of this darkness.
But from the experience she went through in her nightmare last night, she might have a new way to fear the darkness. She keeps touching the exact spot on her arms and legs that the darkness has touched, and shivers in fear. Not to mention, she hated herself for not defending herself enough from the attacking darkness. She allowed herself to get captured and defeated by the darkness. Does that mean she was weak? Does that mean she was too weak to use her own light, and defeat the darkness?
"Hey, Kari. I said breakfast, come on!" She heard her older brother Tai call her in the dining room outside of her room, and she snapped out of her thoughts.
She got off of the bed, and went to her side of their closet, since she shares the room with Tai. Sure, there are sometimes when Tai can get annoying with his sleeping habits, but she doesn't really care, considering she gets used to it pretty fast.
Later, she just finishes putting on her normal attire. It was the same attire she wore in the weird dream last night, with her yellow sleeveless shirt, magenta pants, shoes, and pink scarf. Though what's missing is her signature whistle. She usually wears it most of the time, and even to bed, but a little over a week ago, she handed her favorite whistle to her best friend in the other world.
The Digital World. They ventured out into the parallel world on August 3rd in order to combat the Dark Masters. The calendar on their wall says today was Wednesday, August 11, 1999. It's been over a week since she, her brother and their 9 other friends (6 Digidestined, 2 Pokémon Trainers and one Master Pokémon) all saved both the Digital World and the Real World, and over a week since they had to leave their friends behind in your respective worlds.
When they saved both of the parallel worlds from the hands of the Dark Masters, they had to leave the world, since the natural order of the world was restoring to normal. The two worlds were never meant to be connected to each other. Humans have never heard about the Digital World, and it was meant to be that way. The Digital World and its elements were made by the wishes of children all around the real world. When those wishes are disturbed, so would the children, and the inhabitants of the Digital World, the Digimon. Afterwards, the worlds must remain in balance, and disconnect with each other. But Tai knows that they will return, and Kari knows too, because there will be a time when the Digital World will need them all again; the Digidestined.
A time when they are needed again…Could this relate to the nightmare Kari had last-
No. Kari doesn't want to think about the dream. She just wants to live her normal life for now.
Dining Room
The brown-haired girl walks out into the dining room, and eats breakfast, though quietly, as her soft ruby eyes stares down in her breakfast, pondering the weird thoughts she was having lately. Ever since her trip into the Digital World over a week ago, she has been thinking about the forces of Light versus Darkness.
Tai takes note of this, and nudges his little sister.
"Hey, Kari. You okay?" He said. He snapped her back to reality. "You've been pretty out of it, lately…"
"H-Huh? O-Oh, it's nothing…"
"Really? You sure?"
"I'm sure…"
"Mmm…I don't think so. What's going on? Is it, something that Matt did yesterday when we were hanging out?" Kari lightly shakes her head. "Is it about the Digital World?"
"Well…maybe…"
"See? There we go. You're telling me now. What about the Digital World? Do you miss…the Digimon?"
"Yeah…kind of…" Kari did say to Gatomon before they left the Digital World that they would be able to meet each other again, but even she knows deep down inside that she has no idea if they will meet each other again. The whistle she gave to her was sort of a good luck charm to help guide each other towards each other again, but still.
"Well, remember what I said before we left. This isn't the last time we would have seen them. The gate can't stay closed forever. We'll find a way back to our friends. We have to. I mean, it would really suck if we can't…"
"I, guess…"
"Hey, don't worry about it." Tai said, giving Kari a reassuring smile. "We'll see our friends sooner or later. Don't let it ruin your entire life today. I'm sure Gatomon wouldn't be too happy if you were sulking around at home all day. Plus, I don't think she would be happy if she found out you did poorly on your summer homework, if you were stuck thinking about her all day."
"Hasn't stopped her before." Kari teasingly said, remembering the first time she met Gatomon, without even knowing she was her partner. All that was crossing her mind that night, as she was doing some of her summer homework, was Gatomon. The feline Digimon who would soon to be her partner, was all that she could think of that night. Somehow, she seemed familiar that time. This was putting her mind off of her homework. It didn't really matter anyway, considering the Digimon controlled by Myotismon attacked, and she pretty much had to put off homework anyway. "And didn't you put off your summer homework too?"
"T-That's not important." Tai defended, while crossing his arms, while Kari giggles. At least that got her mind off of something for a little bit.
The whole city of Odaiba is trying to go back to usual business, and are trying to rebuild the city, after VenomMyotismon pretty much demolished most of the city, save for some apartment buildings, and some of the schools, including the elementary school.
Streets
After they finished breakfast, Kari wanted to go for a walk to get her mind off of things. She was walking through the dilapidated streets, that were pretty much wrecked from the Digimon attack. They also see a lot of buildings damaged, but functional, due to the attack. The news network was on, as they went past a TV store. They were saying that Odaiba is still being considered a disaster zone, technically, but the citizens continue to try and live normal lives in the wreckage.
There was some people that look at Kari with wonder, as those people have seen the Digidestined go up into the Digital World, and fight the Dark Masters. Especially when they fought Apocalymon, and the entire world was counting upon them. To them, these are 8 kids who miraculously saved the entire world, and look down upon them as heroes. However, there are most who didn't believe that these kids were real, nor the Digital World, and thought that this was some big dream. Still, some people recognizes them as heroes, and aren't sure how to react when they actually see them. Do they praise them on a job well done, or simply just ignore them, avoiding awkwardness?
Nevertheless, the girl still keeps on walking, wanting to avoid grabbing attention to her. Still, Kari keeps on thinking back to her dream she had last night.
May your heart be your guiding key.
"…May my heart be my guiding key…?" Kari said softly to herself. "What does it all mean?"
She stops walking for a bit, and remembers her dream. The monsters who grabbed her arms, and the monsters who grabbed her legs. It was pretty traumatizing for her, especially feeling the darkness trying to enter her heart. She could recall them feeling cold and grimy. It was truly one of the most frightening moments that she has had, and that was saying a lot, considering that she was in the Digital World not too long ago; a world where she had little to no knowledge of, with monsters out there for her neck.
School
While she was walking, she realized that she had walked on over to her school. Like other schools in the area, this was fairly small, compared to the other big schools in other countries. There was a big soccer field that the soccer team would usually play on, but considering the Digimon's rampage in the Real World, it was a mess. A shame too, since Tai likes to kick around the ball in that field. School would start again in a few weeks, which meant that she has to do her summer homework. The reason why she put off most of her work was because she really wasn't feeling like herself lately. She's been prone to illnesses for as long as she can remember. Something like a simple cold can upset her stomach, or a low-grade fever could cause her to stay and rest in bed. Or even pneumonia can…
…How long has it been since that happened? It felt like several years had passed ever since that incident, when really, it only happened a few years ago. That incident where she stayed home from Kindergarten because she was sick, and Tai had thought it wasn't that big of deal. Though, after Kari had kicked the ball, everything turned hazy all around her. She started hallucinating things, and people were moving in slow motion from the looks. She thought she saw monsters in that crazy hallucination, and they looked like they gobbled her up, and she fainted onto the ground, in critical condition.
Next thing she knows, she woke up in the hospital bed, very weak from battling her illness. Her parents were watching her, relieved that she was alive and well. The doctors didn't think she was going to make it, considering she was really weak, but she managed to pull through. She thought she had some help fighting against this illness, though she thought she dreamt that.
She could have pinned the blame on her older brother, but really, she said that she was the one at fault. She said that she couldn't kick the ball hard enough, and told Tai when she got back home that he probably doesn't want to play with a bad kicker like her. This had stuck around with the two their entire life, with Tai vowing to take better care of her for the rest of his life. Kari had grown dependent of Tai ever since he was right by her side for a while, before Kari was able to go outside on her own, considering she's older now.
Kari shakes her head, and decides to stop right here. She ate a pretty late breakfast, but it was still getting close to lunch time. Though there was one more place where Kari wanted to go before she went back home.
Park
She walks through the same park where she found Gatomon for the first time. She could almost envision the white cat passing by her any minute now. But of course, it didn't happen. And besides, she would most likely jump onto her, and hug her, not pass by like she doesn't recognize her.
She thought she saw Gatomon though, as she saw what looked like a white cat. She ran towards the cat, before seeing a girl, younger than her pick it up. It was obviously a normal white house cat, and she sees the cat's owner giving it lots of love. Kari does the same for her cat, Miko, though the cat's always a troublemaker. Her cat would run out at the moment's notice, and Kari would often find herself hunting her down throughout all of the city. Usually Miko comes back home, safe and sound, sometimes with something in her mouth. Still, this was pretty much a trip down memory lane for Kari. This is what she needs to get her mind off of the nightmare she had last night.
She could see other kids in the park having fun with their brothers and parents, and see couples hanging out together. Kari doesn't know the whole concept of dating, with the whole girlfriend and boyfriend; and wife and husband thing, but she had been quick to think of her big brother as her husband one time when he and Koromon came back home August 1st. She even gotten a little bit jealous one time considering she thought Koromon as another wife that her husband brought home. Though this was based on her knowledge of love. She is only 8-years old. She doesn't entirely know the truth about the whole dating and love thing.
Though, this was somewhat the same feeling she had with T.K. in the Digital World, somehow. As said, she doesn't know everything about the whole love thing, and having this feeling was making her all confused in her head.
When they were fighting Piedmon, and it was only her, and her new, yet close friend T.K., with his Digimon, Patamon, T.K. was doing everything in his power to ensure her safety…most of the time. He did wanted Kari to climb a rope up into the clouds first, but unintentionally, this put T.K. in more peril than her, as Piedmon grabbed a hold of T.K.'s leg first. Kari didn't want to let him go, and neither does her, and Piedmon teased them both that they are falling for each other, before slicing the rope, and letting them fall to their death…before Angemon digivolved into MagnaAngemon, and saved both of their lives, as well as the rest of everyone.
But those moments…
Something in Kari's chest was burning at that time. What was it? Piedmon did say that they were falling for each other, but, did he meant that seriously? He does have a sarcastic yet wicked attitude, but still, something about that made Kari think of something. The way T.K. showed her his courage, it really reminded her of Tai. And something about his tone of voice, as well as his eyes showed her that T.K. really does care for her. And when they both were falling, T.K. tried to keep a tight grip on Kari's arm, determined to live through the end with her. Her hand did slip through his, but still. He really wanted to be with her until they met their end.
Thinking about all this was making Kari blush a bit, and she shook this off. She does want to think about something else other than…that, but the whole thing between her and T.K. was a little bit too much. She's also afraid that Tai would get mad at her for loving T.K. more than him. So much was going through her head…
Kari was getting a little bit tired. She hardly got any sleep last night due to her nightmare, mostly because she was fighting for most of the time in the weird place. She sits down against a tree, and looks down at her feet, having her mind go all over the place. First it was to the Digital World, then to the dream, and then to her own life. Lots of things have happened to her, and she wasn't sure if she would be considered your ordinary, sweet-hearted little girl anymore. Would she consider herself weird? She would, considering the circumstances.
She looks off to the distance, and through the trees, as she sees the TV Station was being rebuilt. That station was the place where her friend was killed by Myotismon right there. He died protecting her and Gatomon, and since he wasn't in the Digital World, his spirit lingers on in the real world, without any way of returning to the Digital World to be reborn again. Wizardmon…That moment was so traumatizing for Kari, and all she could think of there was to grant his wish, and defeat Myotismon. That made her Digivice glow and a Pokémon called Bayleef (from Ash) throws the Digivice to Kari, and she was able to Digivolve Gatomon into Angewomon, and they were able (Digimon, Pokémon and Ash with the Wizardmon staff included) to defeat Myotismon. Though that was only his first form, but still, she gained the power to defeat Myotismon. She pretty much did something that the others couldn't have done, considering they were too weak to defeat Myotismon.
Kari only wishes she had gained that sort of power earlier. She would have gotten Myotismon before he killed Wizardmon, and saved him. She misses him, and wishes she could have had the power to fend for herself. That way she wouldn't have to risk all of her friends and loving big brother lives. She would do things on her own, for the sake of protecting her friends and big brother.
While she was thinking to herself, she hears someone walking by her. It was a boy, the same age as her from what it seemed. But this was an unfamiliar boy (not confuse it with Tyson). She doesn't recognize him. His hair was a shade of black, with a yellow shirt, and a red sweatshirt, with the zipper opened. He wears jeans with some tears on it, and shoes with a maroon color on it.
"Yo, you're that girl, Kari, right?"
Or maybe she just didn't see this kid in the sea of seats that were in her classroom before summer vacation started. Or maybe she had simply forgotten most of her classmates due to the stress-inducing adventure in the Digital World.
"Hello? You deaf or something?"
"Huh? O-Oh, sorry. Yeah, I'm Kari. Um…Do I, see you in my class…?"
"Nah, I like to skip out on school. I find it pretty boring."
"But, won't you get into trouble if you do that?"
"Meh, I don't care…"
"But, won't your parents-"
"Say, have you heard of that legend, or something?" The boy suddenly got closer to Kari, as she just stared at him. What was he doing? She could stare into the dark-red eyes of the boy, and that was telling her something was strange about him…Still, Kari didn't want to do something that she would be able to regret. "Well?"
"U-Um. What, legend?" Kari said, quietly.
"This legend that there is a certain door, hidden in this world that can merge…things."
"Wha? What do you mean?"
"Some worlds are better off separated from each other. Or maybe, they should come together." The boy was saying. This was starting to creep Kari out, as she starts to walk back slowly.
"Um…okay…I, gotta go, now…" Kari said, turning to leave. She turns away from the boy, and she sees him right in front of her. She swears the kid was behind her when she turned, but here he is, right in front of her.
"Do you ever think what would happen if two neighboring words, in separate dimensions were to merge together?"
"What, but…you were…" Kari said, looking behind her, and in front of her repeatedly. She then starts to take some more steps back from the boy, as she was starting to get even more freaked out.
"Hey, what's the rush?" The boy said, taking some steps to her.
"I-I, just wanna go home now."
"Oh, yeah, I think I need to get going back to home too." He then stepped on a shoe lace. It was from Kari's own right shoe, and it was refraining her from going anywhere, unless she would like to run away with one shoe. The kid looked at her, with a face that really spelled out trouble. "We'll see each other again, real soon…" The kid then takes his foot off of the shoe lace, and then was walking away, with Kari looking at the boy with confusion. Was he bullying her, or, was he doing something else? She founded that type of bullying odd…
Sighing, Kari begins to tie her shoe back, and think back to what that boy said before. He said something about neighboring worlds in separate dimensions merging with each other. Merge…That reminded her of the dream. It was what the voice said to her. But she doesn't know what it meant. Could it be some sort of destiny awaiting her after all, or is it something completely different?
She would ask the boy once more, but she doesn't really want to talk to him again. Not after she was getting the creeps from him. Not to mention, he was nowhere to be seen. He couldn't have walked far, but, she didn't see him anywhere. How could he say some of those things like the merging of two worlds? Could it be possible that he could be…
No. Kari doesn't really want to think about this anymore. She just wants to go home, and just forget about all of this. But the more that she tries to forget, the more questions that emerges in her head. Her head was starting to hurt, and she wanted to rest for today. But, the dream from last night keeps on pestering her.
Shaking her head, Kari is forcing herself to keep on moving back to her apartment, since she was kind of gone for a while, and she didn't want to worry anyone over there.
Streets
Her old apartment building was in the process of being in a little bit of a fixer upper…to say the least…Greymon did pretty much blew a pretty big hole on the bottom floor of the building. He's only lucky that the support beams are still intact, and good condition, not making the whole building collapse. Though, no one could live in the place, due to it being too dangerous, so they moved on over to one of the other 4 apartment buildings in their area. It was actually a little bit bigger than their old apartment, considering it has an extra bedroom. It could be for Kari, however, she doesn't really want to move out of Tai's bedroom yet, so she's still on his bunk bed for now. She will consider going into her own room in the future, but for now, she wants to stay in her brother's room.
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It was a little awkward trying to find her new apartment number, considering she is used to her original, but managed to find it, due to the easy to spot, "Kamiya" sign on their front door. She walks in, and announces that she was home.
"There you are." Tai said, walking up to her. "Where were you? You were gone for a while."
"S-Sorry. I kinda got a little bit distracted. I was talking to someone from school today."
"You were? Who was he?"
"He, didn't really say. He said he usually skips school."
"He skips school?"
"I, think I've seen him in my class, but…I dunno."
"That sounds like a guy you should stay away from."
"O-Okay." Kari said, nodding. She kind of agrees with Tai there, as this boy doesn't seem like the kid who would treat her right. He was kind of creeping Kari out. "He was saying some really weird stuff to me. He said something about the merging of two worlds, or something…"
"Merging of, two worlds? What the heck does that mean?"
"Well…" Kari started thinking, and was thinking back towards what the boy first said. He said something about a certain door. "Well, he did say something about this legend he heard. He said that there was this door in this world that can, merge things, or something."
"…I'm still so confused…"
"I am too…"
"Just forget about whoever that guy is for now…"
Kari was about to nod, until she thinks back to her earlier thought. It just won't leave her alone. It keeps on knocking on her brain, telling her to tell Tai, but she thinks she'll make herself sound stupid by stating it. It's like a nagging bug in her head that's telling her just say it. Eventually, she sighs, and goes with her instincts.
"Um. Maybe, he was talking about the Digital World?"
"Huh?" Tai said, confused. "How'd you think of that?"
"N-Nothing. I was just, wondering…"
"I, don't think that has anything to do with this merging thing, or whatever."
"But Tai, isn't the Digital World like a next-door neighbor or something? Didn't you say something like that one time?"
"Well, yeah I did when I was trying to explain everything to you, but, I doubt that someone like that kid you were talking about could know a thing or two about the Digital World."
"But, what if he is? Do you think he does know something about the Digital World? What if he's a Digidestined, like us?"
"Nah, I doubt that. It's always been us 8 and…" Tai then was shaking his head. "Agh, what am I saying? Kari, I'm pretty sure what that kid was saying was to confuse you. Seriously, he sounds like a serious freak."
"But, I think he sounds like he knows something about the Digital World…"
"Seriously Kari, I don't think there isn't anything wrong in the Digital World. I think you should just calm down, and just forget about this…"
"But, why?"
"I just don't want to worry you so much. Listen, there's nothing to worry about. Why are you hung up about this?"
Kari looks down, thinking about her nightmare. The mysterious voice that was talking to her comes back to her.
The day you will face the darkness is both far off and very near…
(Face the darkness…? Does it mean those dark monsters? Would they…hurt my friends…?)
Once again, she thinks to the voice's words. She also thinks back to the stained-glass platforms she saw in the dream. One of them represented her friends, and some other people, but mostly her friends. Did that mean something? Did that mean that this sort of destiny is affecting her friends? Well, they are the Digidestined, so they all must be in for another adventure sooner or later, but, these dark creatures. Are these the sort of enemies they would be fighting? She has seen first-hand of how these creatures fight, how they move, and how they grow, even if it was for a short while. These things scared Kari, and she would freak if she sees them again.
She then thinks if these things really are Digimon. Are they roaming in the Digital World right now? And then last, her mind went over to the phrase she heard before she fought the huge darkness monster.
When darkness grows, and the merge begin, the chosen lights must step forward, with the key from within.
They keyword here is merge. This was the same word the boy from earlier was using over and over again.
"Kari?" Tai lightly shook her, snapping her out of her thought. "Are you alright?"
"Y-Yeah. I'm okay."
"This is like the fifth time I asked you this. What's going on. You have to tell me."
"Well…it's…about this, nightmare I had last night…" Kari said, biting her lips.
"What? Just a nightmare? Oh, come on, Kari. You should have told me it was a silly thing like that. What was it about? The boogieman? Spiders? Falling down endlessly, or something?"
"Um…you could probably say all of that…" It's something that Kari is kind of describing her dream. The spiders could be the little shadow monsters, the endless falling could be her falling as she went on, and the boogieman could be the huge monster with a hole in the shape of a heart that she had to fight off. "But, it was really weird. It all felt too real. And this voice was saying that I have to face against some sort of darkness. It said it was my destiny."
"Your destiny?"
"Yeah, and these little dark monsters looked like Digimon, and I had to fight them all by myself, and they looked like they were gonna eat me when I-" Tai holds Kari's shoulders, trying to calm her down.
"Sounds like one crazy dream."
"Yeah, that's why I can't get my mind off of thinking about the Digital World…"
"Hmm…you know what?" Tai said, thinking to himself. He sees that his sister is really freaked out with something regarding the Digital World, and if there was one guy who has all the access to the Digital World, it was the Digidestined of Knowledge.
"Huh?"
"Tell you what, we can go on over to Izzy's tonight."
"Izzy?"
"Yeah. I mean, he's the guy who has all the access to the Digital World, and such. We can go over to him, and he'll check the Digital World for you."
"You really think he'll do that?"
"Yeah. He can check to see if anything is happening in the Digital World."
"Really? For me?"
"Yeah, but also to show you there is nothing to worry about. I mean, I sure as heck didn't get this sort of dream you were talking about last night. If I did, then I would understand you a little better. Not to mention, I'm pretty sure the rest of us would get this sort of 'Destiny Dream' if we were to be chosen again."
(I guess that's true. I couldn't be the only one who would have this "Destiny Dream" thing. If I had this dream, then so would the others…right…?) Kari tried to assure herself that this was a silly old dream, and is in no way tied to some sort of destiny, but she thinks back to the phrase she heard before fighting the big darkness monster, once again.
"Look, we'll go after dinner, and I'll show you there's nothing to be worried about. And don't worry. We'll see our friends again. I mean, we do have a destiny, but I'm sure the one you're thinking of is all in your imagination."
"I guess…"
TO BE CONTINUED