Hey I'm here and. . . Yeah, So I really have nothing to say this time. . . And to clarify things for you, one 'voice' is Zero and the others are of her own creation in her mind, yes she's actually going insane. Anyway, on with my sucky fanfic!

Chapter Four: I'm here.

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. . . And I never will.

??With Hikari??

Kari tripped through the dark portal, she was unusually uncoordinated lately.

Hikari looked around, she was on her hands and knees in front of a boy about eighteen, he had black hair, blue green eyes and pale skin, he looked somewhat sickly but not too much.

The room was dark and musty, the boy was sitting on a throne like chair, he was just sitting there, and the man hadn't appeared behind her. Looking behind her, still on hands and knees, Kari saw a women; she had long black hair and a black dress on, she looked a bit sluttish but Kari wouldn't dare tell her.

"Hello, Hikari Kamiya, my name is Zero, you may call me Lord Zero." The boy said in a tone that made you realize he was very full of himself.

"Why would I?" Hikari asked, he was much too young to be the master mind, she tried to be somewhat polite, but this guy was kind of getting on her nerves; he acted like he was better than everyone else or something.

"Never look me in the eye, and I am the person who brought you here, Child of Light, I am your new lord and master." Zero stated, Kari tried her hardest to stifle a laugh as she stood, was this guy serious?! After a second she couldn't hold it in, Hikari fell back to the floor laughing her head off.

"What do you find so amusing Child of Light?" Asked the slut, Kari calmed sown and stood again still giggling.

"You, you're only like sixteen or something! And you think you're my 'Lord and Master'?!" Kari laughed again, but this time she stopped short, the sluttish women was now behind her, and within seconds she was being chocked.

"I am your Lord and Master Zero, nice to meet you."

&With Sora&

Sora carefully broke the glass, she then slowly chipped it to a sharp point, all of her reasoning's had been illogical nowadays. Including this one, she had seen Angel and the whole digi-gang in her dreams often, but usually when they where tormenting her they had tattoos all over themselves but when they where comforting her they had clear untattooed skin. Very illogical, but little did she know how right she was.

Sora, sucked in a deep breath and held it in for the first cut. She lifted her tattered shirt slightly just enough to leave her somewhat unscarred stomach bare, the first time was always the hardest she slowly breathed out as she sliced her stomach open, Sora winced but then felt the warm and sticky sensation of blood trickle down her newly scarred stomach, it didn't feel good in the least but if she had this mark on her she would be safe from the darkness. She had seen the mark in a book she had once read about chi, it was meant to bring peace to all that wore it, so a few scrapes was nothing compared to living in the darkness. Sora looked down on her handy work, it was alright, she wasn't very artistically inclined but she was ok, the sun with a ceresin moon inside of it was pretty good; considering she was making it, purely from memory!

Sora laughed at herself, she was bleeding like crazy and was fading in and out of consciousness, soon she was back in her dream world; the safest place she had been in almost a year now.

Sora's hand was now cold, so she felt her forehead, it seemed she had a fever Sora just sighed and sat in the corner, she was waiting. . . To see if it helped the pain.

With The Digi-Gang

"So. . . What do we do now?" Taichi asked, fists clenched.

"Now. . . We wait." Joe said pushing up his glasses, Tai unclenched his fists and looked at the ground, more waiting? He didn't know if he could wait anymore.

"I hope Hikari's going to be ok." Mimi squeaked, Koushirou had to smile just a bit. . . And he also had to admit Mimi was kinda cute. Wait! When did he start liking Mimi? No. . . When had he started. . . Showing a healthy interest in her?

"We all do." TK sighed, he hadn't been able to tell Kari before she left, he hadn't been able to tell her that he. . . He loved her. TK winced, she had been trying to get him alone; just to talk about what TK himself had told HER!

"We all do." TK repeated under his breath.

:With Zero:

"Drusilla, show Hikari to the Child of Love, I believe she needs some convincing." Zero smirked, and then coughed lightly.

"Yes, master Zero." Drusilla bowed before leading Hikari out of his room, when the door was closed Zero let out a string of heaving coughs, soon he coughed up blood; suddenly he just stopped coughing and his head was now aching with no rest.

"That wench, she's countered me, but what do you expect from you the Child of Love." Zero chuckled, she had blocked him from her mind, but how would she block herself from her own mind?

...With Hikari and Drusilla...

Hikari was silent as the women named Drusilla led her to the room Sora was in.

"Hikari, don't be surprised at what you see in there. Just make sure you help her as much as you can." Drusilla said without turning around, Kari looked at the back of Drusilla's head, puzzled. Was this women on the Digi-destined's side or this Zero guys side?

"I won't. . . I have a sense of what's been going on here." Hikari said just above a whisper.

"Just be ready for anything, the place that your friend is in. . . let's just say it's not the best place to be in her fragile condition." Drusilla sighed, wait fragile condition? How long had Sora been here in the first place?

"How long has it been since Sora came here?" Kari asked, if she was going to get answers she wanted them from an at least somewhat friendly face.

"As you know time works differently here, it might have seemed like years for Sora, it might have seemed like just a few seconds, either way she's been here for a good year or so." Drusilla explained, Hikari stopped and starred at Drusilla, it had been that long? How was she? How long had it been since she had sent the text message? What if-, Hikari was interrupted by Drusilla, she had led her to a part oak part metal door, it was down a stair case that Drusilla had already climbed, "Well? Are you coming?"

Kari ran down the stairs and to the odd door, Drusilla grabbed a key from the mouth of a tiger in the wall and unlocked the door she then pushed it open to reveal. . .

&With Sora minutes before&

Sora stood and walked around the room, best she could. She looked down at her broken ankle, if she had to, there would be no way she would ever run on that thing; so she kneeled down and counted to three in her mind. 'One. . .' What was she about t do? 'Two. . .' It was almost as crazy as her hearing voices in her head, "Three." Sora whispered, she then; with all of her strength realigned her ankle to her leg, it hurt, maybe she should have numbed herself first or something but it was too late, she was already holding her now purple ankle, she took in a couple of deep breaths and then started to walk around again.

"I have to keep up my strength, if I let a stupid little fever or broken ankle beat me, how am I going to esca-" Sora stopped in the middle of her self rant, someone was coming. Sora had sharpened her senses since she had been captured -she wanted her reflects to be quicker- there where two of them, one was light and could be thrown off balance easily, and the others walk was familiar, it must have been that bimbo Drusilla or whatever; her steps where confident and taunting, she would be hard to take on if necessary. There was a rattling of keys and then the door creaked open slowly, letting a blinding light stream in, and Sora pounced, she let out a nice right hook to Drusilla who was half expecting her so she had the mind to grab Sora's fist, Sora used her foot to trip Drusilla and her free hand to knock her out, Sora looked up quickly with a wild look in her eyes to see a shocked Hikari.

"Sor- Sora. . . Is that really you?" Kari whispered, Sora dropped Drusilla's hand and looked down at her hands, Kari soon heard sobbing and then Sora hugged her, Hikari excepted the hug and rubbed Sora's back soothingly, "It'll be ok."

"I know, Kari I just, I just wish you had come at a different time." Sora said rubbing her eyes and then looking around as a plate fell in the room next door, she reacted surprisingly quickly; pulling Drusilla inside of the odd black and mirrored room and then motioning from Hikari to follow and close the door.

"The man said you had an escape pl-" Sora put a slender hand on Kari's mouth and looked out from the now slightly cracked door, she saw a fat women running with a pan in and then out of the room, pan now full of shattered glass pieces and the hall was silent again.

"Yes I do, she's going to wake up soon so I need you to go to that side of the room alright?" Sora asked already dragging Drusilla to the opposite corner of the room she had said to Hikari, she then undid her black belt.

((((With The Digi-Gang AGAIN!))))

"There's really nothing we can do now, we better get home so we can come back in the morning." Koushirou concluded after a long day of searching and eating, (the eating was mostly Tai.) Everyone agreed and got up, after a few minutes at the door only Kouhiro, Mimi and the pizza guy where left.

Now was his chance! If he wanted to scientifically figure out what he felt toward Mimi, he would have to observe how he acted around her.

"Uh Mimi. . .Do you think. . . You might, what I mean is. . . Do you want to walk home with me. . . Maybe?" Koushirou stuttered, ok maybe there was a reason he didn't talk to girls very much. . . But maybe it was just around Mimi?

Mimi smiled, she had just been questioning if she even liked the boy or not and now they where walking home together! Mimi looked down at her stomach, what was going on? It felt like there where bats fluttering around in her stomach!? Had she ever felt like this before. . .? No. Not with anyone before. What was this feel she kept getting around him? Maybe it was food poisoning! she could only hope.

"So. . . You think they're gonna be ok?" Mimi asked, referring to Sora and Hikari, Koushirou looked at her for a second and then snapped out of it.

"Um. . . Yeah, Sora has always been able to hold her own and some more." Koushirou chuckled, Mimi gave Koushirou a smile that could have melted him, "And Hikari is a quick thinker when it comes down to it, I think they'll be ok until we get there."

"Yeah I guess you're right. . . Hey when did you get taller than me?!" Mimi pouted, Izzy just chuckled and shrugged, "Be taller than you was my only advantage, now you can even reach the tops of shelves by yourself!"

"I know, it must be some birth-defect or something." Wait did he seriously just say that?! What was he thinking? Now she would think he was an idiot or something- wait. . . She was giggling! That was good!

"I never knew you had a sense of humor! Wow when I was in America a lot must have changed, but obviously not Tai and Sora's relationship." Mimi sighed heavily, those two wimps, they couldn't even tell each other how they felt!

"Yeah, but you know them, but I actually think Sora might be moving on, like that guy that came for Kari, it seemed like they where more than accomplices." Izzy suggested, Mimi gasped at the thought.

"Seriously?! I guess Tai really DID wait too long, I feel sorry for the poor guy, I mean; if you like someone you should tell them!" Mimi squealed, Koushirou thought over her words over and over again, she was right, look at Tai and Sora, too afraid to go back and not ready to move forwards.

The two walked in a comfortable silence the rest of the way to their apartments, so maybe today was more eventful than they had thought.

+With Angel+

Angel was in an odd place. . . I was all black, it was the black realm he realized. But wasn't he just with Hikari? Wait. . . He must have figured him out!

'I have to get out of here.' Angel thought, he looked down at his hands. . . He was his true self! That was bad. . . If Angel was here then Zero was most likely brain washing Hikari right this second, and what of Sora? She could break at any point by now! How could he have been so stupid?!

Angel stood and started to walk, that Zero guy would pay. . . But what did he want with the two girls in the first place? He had gone to extra trouble just to find Sora, what was his connection with her? He had never seen them together, but the way Sora stood up to him so easily and was rejecting the brain washing to the extent of insanity! There was something that no one else saw. . . It was like they knew each other, he had to figure this out sooner or later.

Coming to only one conclusion Angel sighed, he would have to go through Sora's memories, next time he saw her. It might be a painful process but it was needed in this case.

Where he was going only God knew, but he was on his way.

))))With Matt((((

Walking home was one thing, walking home in a down pour of rain was another, Yamato had been walking for a while; he had taken the bus to the Kamiya's apartment but sadly he had forgotten that busses to his apartment complex stopped at 7:00P.M. on Sundays. So now he was stuck walking about another seven to eight miles.

Pulling up his hood, Matt continued on his somewhat journey, his father wouldn't be home for another week, for business reasons, or at least that's what he told everybody; but Yamato knew he was only on the trip for a week and then he would probably blow off steam from an unsuccessful pitch in Vegas.

Would this week get any worse? First one of his best friends get kidnapped second his father leaves for a useless business trip and then he has to walk home when it's raining like cats and dogs! Suddenly a car pulled over next to Matt, it was a cherry red truck, Yamato cautiously stepped next to the passanger side window, the person rolled it down, it was. . . Jun Motimya?

"Hey sexy boy, need a lift?" Jun winked, Matt rolled his eyes and got in the car.

"I thought they would ban someone like you from driving you know disturbing the peace and all." Yamato laughed at the sour look Jun made as she continued driving.

"So where to?" Jun asked.

"I thought my number one fan would know where I lived!" Matt taunted at his ex-fan girl.

"Yeah, yeah, shut-up about that! I was like sixteen or something." Jun mumbled, still waiting for directions.

"Just take two rights, go on the highway, turn off the nearest exit and then two more lefts." Matt said automatically.

"Got 'ch ya, so what have you been up to?" Jun asked taking a right, he headlights where barley light enough to allow her to see three feet a head of her.

"Well, the 'Teenaged Wolves' have taken a temporary stop because some of us still have exams and all." Yamato shrugged, Jun smiled and nodded telling him to continue, "I guess, school's out and all so I don't do much, and my friend Sora, you know her, she was kidnapped the other day."

"Wait, what?! And you didn't say that first WHY?!" Jun yelled, startling Matt the way it always did when Jun yelled in his ear without warning.

"Sorry, gees, I guess I didn't think of it." Matt sighed, of cores he was thinking about it! But it didn't seem important, they would somehow miraculously get to the digital world, find Sora and Hikari had escaped and where both unscarred, then they would barely beat the bad guy and then peace would be upon the digital world once again, it was no different from any of their other challenges.

It was just then that it dawned on Yamato. . . It was different from their other challenges, Sora, was not unscarred, she was about to die, and they had just let Hikari go with the enemy; the two girls would be lucky to come back from the digital world at all. . . Let alone unscarred.

"Wow, Matt, and I used to think you where smart." Jun smiled still looking at the road, "So here we are Mr. Forgetful Pants."

"Thanks for the lift Jun." Yamato sighed and got out of the car, he was stopped by Jun's voice.

"I hope she'll be ok, your friend I mean." Jun said before pulling away and driving in the direction of her home.

"So do I." Matt whispered after she was long gone.

&With Hikari and Sora&

"What are you doing?!" Kari nearly yelled, Sora glared at her, the less attention brought to the room the better.

"I have an idea, it makes no sense whatsoever but you have to trust be." Sora nearly whispered, she used her belt as a whip and made a crack in the upper mirror, and then another and another. The floor beneath Hikari started to rumble and crack.

"Hikari come here quickly!" Sora yelled over the rumbling, Kari ran to the center of the room; Sora commanded her to stay there, as she went to Drusilla, she then used her to block the door, leave it to Sora to come up with a nearly suicidal plan like this. The door started to be thrown off it's hinges.

Sora ran back to the center of the room and started with the belt again, the floor cracked further until it broke from under them, Sora suddenly grabbed Hikari's waist and made sure that the belt she had just been using was around the younger teen. And then she let go. . . She ran over to the other side of the room and stood where there where no cracks.

"Sora!" Kari screamed trying to run to the older girl.

"Get back to the others! I'm sorry I have to stay." She was crying, and then it happened, Sora was flung to the crumbling floor screaming.

The room split into five pieces Kari was going straight down and Sora was holding onto a piece of glass that still clung to the mansion but then her grip faltered on purpose and she let herself fall into the large river, the current was too strong for her to fight against so she just let her half conscious body sink to the bottom of the muddy river.

Hikari on the other hand was fighting with all of her might to find Sora, but again the current was too strong. . . What was she supposed to do? Hope. She had to have hope. She had to keep fighting, what if Sora was swing toward her right now? She had to keep fighting.

((((With Takeru))))

T.K. shot upright in his bed, something was wrong. . .He just knew it; looking at the clock it was 4:09 A.M. and he was in no mood to call all of his friends to a pointless meeting that would get everybody's hopes up and then crush them again.

He just turned over and went back to sleep.

;;;;With Taichi and his parents;;;;

Tai was sitting on the couch secretly angry, they had given Kari to the enemy and now his parents couldn't know the truth. They had called the police earlier that day Tai was supposed to be the only witness as to what happened. The story was very well planed out, Hikari had gone to the store around three-ish almost the whole neighbor hood had seen her leave, but she took the back way home so that was when she supposedly 'kidnapped' Taichi had been with her so Hikari had gone home early and was kidnapped then, Taichi had found no ransom note so it was just a regular napping. Tai said all he saw was the man who had taken Sora the week before and then he and Kari where gone.

All of that was planned by Izzy and himself, now that they had an excuse for her being gone everything was going not so much as planned.

His mother was in his parents bedroom crying and Tai's father was consoling her.

What was Taichi supposed to do? He was useless this time, and he had no way to help anyone, if anything he was a burden.

"Why did Taichi let her out of his sights?! He saw with his own two eyes what happened to that other girl!" He heard his mother nearly scream, Tai clenched his fist at the phrase 'That girl' how could his mother say that about a girl that was almost like her second child?! Tai unclenched his fists and took a couple of deep breaths.

He would just have to stay out of the way until Koushirou found a way to get them to the digital world again. He would wait for his chance to help, but it definitely not here.

Taichi went to his shared room and closed the door behind him. Only lord know what he did after that.

With Zero

"She certainly is taking a long time." Zero hissed, it then occurred to him what might have happened. "Guess I'll just have to check in on Miss. Sora and see what she's doing then."

Sora had put a block on her thoughts. . . Not her actions, he could see every move she made, well for a while, until she learned to block her whole mind, but at this rate she would be dead soon anyway.

Zero wasn't shocked to find Drusilla on the ground but what did surprise him was that Sora had found a way to get out so quickly! Zero laughed and sat back in his chair, time to do some magic. With the flick of his wrist Sora was on the other side of the room screaming bloody murder. He laughed, what was he to do next?

But the floor was cracking, to his shock Sora was trying to stay not leave.

"How interesting. . . Let's see how this ends on it's own." Just then Zero was blocked, not by the preoccupied Sora, but by a much more powerful source that Zero could not determine.

"I guess I'll just have to do it the old fashioned way." Zero sighed as he called for a guard and sent him off.

"Let the fun begin Miss. Love."

-Chapter End-

Yeah it's not my longest chapter but it's a good 16 pages! I try and make them at least 15 pages just incase. Any way I got one review! And that's good enough for me as long as people are reading! But I appreciate KoumiLoccness and her great reviews! I am going to dedicate all Koumi parts of the story to her, 'cause she's such and awesome Koumi supporter and I will put a little bit of SoraXOC in here for the person that voted for that, The OC is the 18 year old Angel just to tell ya'll. Anyway on to the VOTES! (How much you wanna bet like half of the people who read this didn't even read that paragraph back there? Lol)

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