Chapter 3: The Pink Monster

5 Days Later: Saturday 3:05

Kari's Prospective

Kari was starting to get worried. Her brother was very clear that he would be back from the camping trip on Saturday, before 3:00 and if he wasn't, she should call him on his cell phone. The problem was she did, and he didn't answer it. Tai always answers his cell phone!

Kari called T.K. on his cell phone.

"Hello?"

"Hey, T.K., It's me, Kari."

"What's up?"

"Tai, and Matt, and everybody else should have been back hours ago."

"So he's just late. Does it really matter what time the get home?"

"Tai was very specific that if he wasn't home by three, I should call him."

"So, what's the problem? Why can't you call him?"

"I did call him, his phone was off. Why would he have his phone off if he knew I was going to call?"

"That's true, maybe we should go to the digital world and check things out now that Gatomon's better."

"That's a good idea. We have to pack our things, think of an excuse to our parents, and we'll leave in a half an hour."

Anna and Davis's Prospecticve

Hours ago

"Hey, has anyone seen Joe?" asked Davis.

"No," said Mimi. "I haven't seen him since we started hiking."

Maybe I'm worrying to much, thought Davis, Maybe Joe is just gathering food and water for the rest of the hike.

But Davis was wrong. Joe hadn't come back for a long time. In fact, he hasn't seen Mimi since he talked to her. Soon, Cody, Yolei, Sora, and other DigiDestined were disappearing. Everybody who was left was worried.

"Let's just keep walking." said Tai. "If we just get out of the forest we don't have to worry about getting caught and we can make a plan to find the others.

Minutes later, Davis heard something in the bushes.

"Do you hear something, Veemon?" asked Davis.

"No." said Veemon. "I think your goggles are on too tight."

Davis knew what he heard. He walked toward the bush.

All of the sudden, a furry, pink hand with black nails grabbed his arm!

He was going to scream but his yell was muffled with the other hand.

Anna saw this and grabbed his legs, but the digimon was too strong.

The digimon dragged Davis into the forest. Anna got down and cried because she lost yet another friend.

T.K.''s Prospective

A half an hour later, T.K. and Kari left for the digital world.

"So, what did you say to your mom?" asked Kari.

"I told my mom that I wanted to spend some 'quality time' with Matt so I'm going to catch up with him on the trip. What did you tell yours?"

"My mom is out of town to see my Grandmother. My dad didn't want to come. I told him that I'm going to sleep over at Yolei's."

"What if something happened to the others?"

"Don't worry, T.K., I bet we've dealt with a lot worse."

"But what if something happens to us?"

"We'll think about that when it happens."

"Yeah, I guess right now we should just worry if we even find the others."

For hours, T.K. and Kari looked all over the digital world for the others, but there was no trace of them. Soon, they realized that they had to stay over for the night so they can search for the others earlier. Eventually, they found a nice camping ground.

"Maybe we should go home tomorrow." Suggested T.K., "I mean, what if they came back late and we came all this way for nothing?"

"I know their here." said Kari. "I can just feel it."

"Okay, I just don't want all of this to be for nothing."

"Are you saying you don't care about Matt?!"

"Of course I do!"

"So what are you saying?"

"What if something happens to us and the others are safe at home?"

"If you really believe that then why don't you just go home?"

"If something is really bad is here, would you want to be all by yourself?"

"Are you saying I'm weak?"

T.K. couldn't believe it. Everything he said was wrong!

"You know, if were going to fight, then I don't think we should even sleep in the same tent."

"Fine!"

T.K. stomped away angrily. Patamon followed him.

"T.K.," said Patamon, "you need to work together with Kari. What if it's like you said, and something horrible comes and you guys aren't working together?"

"I just don't want to talk about it right now."

T.K. had regretted saying that he didn't want to sleep in the tent because he had no other place to sleep but on a big rock. He was so glad that he brought his sleeping bag.

A few hours after he fell asleep he heard a noise in the bushes. At first he thought it was a stray digimon and would go away, but it didn't stop. He started to get annoyed.

He slowly walked toward the bushes to see what was going on. The second he got close to the bush, a giant, furry, pink digimon sprang out.

T.K. wasn't surprised that Patamon was sleeping through all of this.

The furry digimon stopped right in front of him. He recognized the digimon once it got closer yo him. It was a Magnadramon! Gatomon's mega form is Magnadramon, but it sure wasn't the Magnadramon he knew. This Magnadramon had teeth sharper than nails, her pink fur was dirty and she didn't look very friendly.

"Hello, T.K." said the Magnadramon

"How do you know my name?"

"I've been watching you. You and that girl have much teamwork. You like her, don't you."

"Me, like Kari! No way!"

"Fine, but if say if you did like her, I could have convinced her to go out with you."

If their was one thing T.K. wanted, it was to at least go out with Kari once, to see if he really liked her, or if it was just a stupid crush.

"How?" asked T.K.

"Well, if you liked her," said Magnadramon, "which I'm not saying you do, all you would have to do is give me your crest for just a few moments, and all of your dreams with Kari will come true. You see, I'm a spell caster."

T.K. thought about this for a moment.

"So," began T.K., "I'll be right there when you cast the spell?"

"Yes."

"Fine. I'll do it."

T.K. took off his crest and handed it to Magnadramon.

Kari's Prospective

Kari woke up the next morning and felt awful. Not awful like sick, awful like guilty. But she did feel sick because she could barley sleep. She felt so bad that T.K. and Patamon had to sleep outside. What if it's like her brother said and he ran into an evil digimon?

"Kari," said Gatomon, "you don't look so well."

"I'm fine," said Kari, "I just didn't get much sleep last night"

"Maybe you should get some more rest."

"No! I have to look for Tai! Something happened to them, I can feel it. We just need to find them."

Kari unzipped the tent and went outside.

"I'm going to look for food. Can you wake up T.K. and Patamon?" asked Kari.

"Sure." replied Gatomon.

Gatomon's Prospective

Patamon couldn't believe it. Normally T.K. was the one trying to wake him up, but this time it was the exact opposite. What, was he staying up all night and partying without him?

Luckily, Gatomon came.

"Good morning, Patamon." said Gatomon.

"Good morning." Patamon replied. "Can you help me wake up T.K.?"

"How long have you been awake?"

"About a half an hour, why"

"It takes you a half an hour to wake up a human?!"

"Oh, yeah, I have a gong like in cartoons?"

"Uh, why can't you just shake him?"

"Uhh… I haven't thought of that."

Gatomon giggled.

She gently shook him.

"T.K., wake up. It's morning." Gatomon said softly.

T.K. quickly woke up.

"What time is it?" T.K. said sleepily

"It's about 7:30." said Patamon.

"Is Kari up?" asked T.K.

"Yeah," replied Gatomon, "she just got up. She's looking for food."

"Maybe I should help her gather food." Suggested T.K.

T.K. walked away to look for Kari.

T.K.'s Prospective

Was that a dream, T.K. thought as he walked through the forest, or did I give away my crest to some strange digimon? I mean, I don't even remember anything that happened after all that.

T.K. quickly felt his neck. His crest was gone.

Nope, I don't think that was a dream.

T.K. started to worry about this when

"Hi, T.K.!" said Kari.

T.K. jumped.

"Oh, I'm sorry I startled you."

"No, I was just looking for you. So did you find any food?"

Kari lifted a big basket and she had it half filled with cherries.

"We're having cherries for breakfast?" asked T.K.

"I know, but these were all I could find and you know I can't kill fish even if I wanted to-"

"No, no, it's fine. I really don't care what I eat as long as I have something to eat."

Kari looked at him for a second.

"T.K.," she began, "I'm sorry about what I said last night. I didn't mean you didn't care about your brother. I was just mad that's all. I've been thinking and you're right, we have to stick together. I mean if something could have taken all of those DigiDestined, just imagine what it could do to us."

It was obvious that T.K. really didn't want to imagine what it could do to them.

"I agree, we have to work together, let's just have breakfast and than search for the others."