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Lethal Evil-Part IV
Kari sat down hard on a withered stump and wiped the sweat that had collected on her forehead. The heat in the jungle her and Matt were stuck in was bad enough, but the humidity was nearly unbearable.
Matt stopped upon noticing Kari sitting on the stump and also sat down. They continued to rest for a few more minutes in silence until Matt suddenly inquired: "do you hear that? Where is it coming from?"
Kari frowned and strained her ears, but heard nothing. "What are you talking about?"
"That singing," Matt explained. "It's beautiful."
Again, Kari strained her ears, hoping to hear some strain of the melody that Matt thought so lovely, but once again she was greeted with silence.
"There isn't any singing."
"Yes, there is. You'd have to be deaf not to hear it now," Matt confirmed.
Try as she might, Kari couldn't hear the singing. What is he talking about, she wondered.
Her thoughts were cut short when Matt abruptly got to his feet and began wandering away through the dense jungle.
Kari tried to follow, but he was much quicker than her and debris in her path was blocking her way considerably.
"Wait!" she shouted, but Matt continued on as though in a trance.
Finally, he stopped and Kari crashed into him. Matt didn't seem to notice that she was there and slowly stepped forward.
Kari glanced up at Matt's eyes and saw that they were glazed over before a blinding white light flashed, obscuring her vision for a moment.
When the light disappeared, Matt was nowhere to be seen.
Kari suddenly felt her knees go weak and she fell to the ground trembling. For a moment, she thought she was going to faint, but the fit passed.
That light... Something's wrong about it, she thought.
A rustling sound brought her crashing back to reality. "Who's there?" she gasped.
"Kari?" a familiar voice questioned.
Kari sighed with relief. It's just Mimi, she realized.
As if to confirm her realization, Mimi stepped into view, followed by Joe.
"There you are!" Mimi happily stated. "We saw you, but then you took off. Hey, what's wrong?"
Kari took a deep shuddering breath and whispered: "I don't know what's going on. Matt just disappeared..."
~*~
Sebrimon sat in the net singing to pass the time. "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts, deedle-dee-dee, there they are a-standing in a row!" Wait a second, what ARE coconuts? He wondered. Immediately, he began pouting instead: "I wasn't supposed to get caught in it," he muttered. "SHE was! But no! She just had to leave."
He saw a girl emerge onto the beach. She was wearing a bright yellow shirt, a blue hat and blue jeans.
"Hey, kid, can you help me out?" he shouted.
The girl turned toward Sebrimon and her eyes glowed a bright red. He flinched, seeing the eyes boring into him. They frightened him. In fact, she herself frightened him. The way she moved made it clear that she was a lot stronger than she looked. It reminded him of liquid steel.
She walked to the net and sighed impatiently. "So you're that bumbling idiot Sebrimon. Tobnamon warned me about you. He told me you were a lunatic. Well, I can see that's true."
"It's not my fault! They didn't do it right! Can't you just get me down?"
"I don't know why I'm even bothering," she muttered, removing a dagger from the pouch around her waist.
How come she gets a weapon? Sebrimon felt like screaming.
With one quick swipe, the net fell onto the ground and Sebrimon bounded happily out of the tangles, only to fall once again when a bit of the net wrapped around his foot.
"Did you see any kids going through here?"
"Huh?" Sebrimon grunted while freeing his foot.
"Did you see any kids going through here?"
"Whaaa?"
The girl growled in frustration and shouted: "do I have to spell it out for you?!? Any kids going through here did you see? See kids going through here did you? Going through here kids did you see any? DID YOU SEE ANY KIDS GOING THROUGH HERE?"
"Oh, yeah. Some girl with a big pink floppy hat went off with some boy with glasses," Sebrimon answered, finally removing the net from his foot.
"Which way did they go?"
Sebrimon pointed toward the jungle and the girl ran off after the two other children.
~*~
Tai sat at the breakfast table eating blueberry pancakes smothered in maple syrup hungrily.
"Taichi, slow down," his mother laughed.
"Sorry, mom," he mumbled back through a mouthful of breakfast.
BAM, BAM, BAM... The sound of hammering echoed through the kitchen.
"What's going on, mom?" Kari questioned.
"Oh, your father's finally hanging up the pictures I've been wanting him to hang up."
BAM, BAM, BAM...
"Well, could he keep it down? It's sort of annoying," Tai muttered.
BAM, BAM, BAM...
"Oh, he'll be done soon," his mother reassured.
BAM, BAM, BAM... BAM, BAM, BAM...
I wish he could hammer more softly, he thought. BAM...BAM...BAM...
Tai's eyes suddenly snapped open. Weird dream, he pondered, looking around his new surroundings.
He was in a large, warm waterbed in a huge, well furnished room.
"Whoa," he whispered in surprise.
BAM, BAM, BAM! Somebody was knocking at the door of his new room.
So that's what the hammering was, he thought.
"Come in," he shouted.
The door opened with a creak and the girl that had saved him glided in.
"Good morning," she cheerily greeted. "I see you're feeling better this morning. Are you hungry?"
Tai hadn't realized just how his stomach was craving food until she had mentioned it. "Uh... yeah," he muttered.
"Then I'll have breakfast sent to you. You should get some more rest."
The girl smiled a perfect smile and walked out the door.
~*~
"So let me get this straight: you found Matt and you were looking for us when he just took off and disappeared into a bright light?" Joe quarried.
Kari nodded and Joe's face paled.
"What's wrong?" Mimi questioned upon noticing Joe's now white face.
"It must have been one of Tobnamon's supporters!"
"Oh no!" Kari moaned, remembering what Joe had told her once she had informed them of Matt's mysterious disappearance.
"We'd better find him quick," Mimi stated. "And what about Izzy, Sora, Tai and TK?"
"We have to find them, too," Joe automatically replied. "This is going to be some job."
Kari nodded in agreement. It WAS going to be a big job.
~*~
"Do you think that thing is still looking for us?" TK wondered.
"I doubt it. It probably went back to its natural habitat," Izzy explained. "What I'd like to know right now is exactly why we're back in the Digital World again. It's obvious there is another evil, but it would be nice to know what it was."
TK pondered this point for a while until a small glint caught his eye. He snapped his head toward the metallic object that had caught his eye.
It was a bug that looked a bit like a cockroach, except that it was made out of gold and it was hovering in the air.
"Izzy, what's that?" TK whispered, pointing to the strange bug.
Izzy looked at the bug and furrowed his brow. It certainly didn't look like a Digimon. It looked more like a small mechanical device.
He looked at it once again curiously and he saw something that made his blood run cold: a tiny camera watching him and TK...
Lethal Evil-Part IV
Kari sat down hard on a withered stump and wiped the sweat that had collected on her forehead. The heat in the jungle her and Matt were stuck in was bad enough, but the humidity was nearly unbearable.
Matt stopped upon noticing Kari sitting on the stump and also sat down. They continued to rest for a few more minutes in silence until Matt suddenly inquired: "do you hear that? Where is it coming from?"
Kari frowned and strained her ears, but heard nothing. "What are you talking about?"
"That singing," Matt explained. "It's beautiful."
Again, Kari strained her ears, hoping to hear some strain of the melody that Matt thought so lovely, but once again she was greeted with silence.
"There isn't any singing."
"Yes, there is. You'd have to be deaf not to hear it now," Matt confirmed.
Try as she might, Kari couldn't hear the singing. What is he talking about, she wondered.
Her thoughts were cut short when Matt abruptly got to his feet and began wandering away through the dense jungle.
Kari tried to follow, but he was much quicker than her and debris in her path was blocking her way considerably.
"Wait!" she shouted, but Matt continued on as though in a trance.
Finally, he stopped and Kari crashed into him. Matt didn't seem to notice that she was there and slowly stepped forward.
Kari glanced up at Matt's eyes and saw that they were glazed over before a blinding white light flashed, obscuring her vision for a moment.
When the light disappeared, Matt was nowhere to be seen.
Kari suddenly felt her knees go weak and she fell to the ground trembling. For a moment, she thought she was going to faint, but the fit passed.
That light... Something's wrong about it, she thought.
A rustling sound brought her crashing back to reality. "Who's there?" she gasped.
"Kari?" a familiar voice questioned.
Kari sighed with relief. It's just Mimi, she realized.
As if to confirm her realization, Mimi stepped into view, followed by Joe.
"There you are!" Mimi happily stated. "We saw you, but then you took off. Hey, what's wrong?"
Kari took a deep shuddering breath and whispered: "I don't know what's going on. Matt just disappeared..."
~*~
Sebrimon sat in the net singing to pass the time. "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts, deedle-dee-dee, there they are a-standing in a row!" Wait a second, what ARE coconuts? He wondered. Immediately, he began pouting instead: "I wasn't supposed to get caught in it," he muttered. "SHE was! But no! She just had to leave."
He saw a girl emerge onto the beach. She was wearing a bright yellow shirt, a blue hat and blue jeans.
"Hey, kid, can you help me out?" he shouted.
The girl turned toward Sebrimon and her eyes glowed a bright red. He flinched, seeing the eyes boring into him. They frightened him. In fact, she herself frightened him. The way she moved made it clear that she was a lot stronger than she looked. It reminded him of liquid steel.
She walked to the net and sighed impatiently. "So you're that bumbling idiot Sebrimon. Tobnamon warned me about you. He told me you were a lunatic. Well, I can see that's true."
"It's not my fault! They didn't do it right! Can't you just get me down?"
"I don't know why I'm even bothering," she muttered, removing a dagger from the pouch around her waist.
How come she gets a weapon? Sebrimon felt like screaming.
With one quick swipe, the net fell onto the ground and Sebrimon bounded happily out of the tangles, only to fall once again when a bit of the net wrapped around his foot.
"Did you see any kids going through here?"
"Huh?" Sebrimon grunted while freeing his foot.
"Did you see any kids going through here?"
"Whaaa?"
The girl growled in frustration and shouted: "do I have to spell it out for you?!? Any kids going through here did you see? See kids going through here did you? Going through here kids did you see any? DID YOU SEE ANY KIDS GOING THROUGH HERE?"
"Oh, yeah. Some girl with a big pink floppy hat went off with some boy with glasses," Sebrimon answered, finally removing the net from his foot.
"Which way did they go?"
Sebrimon pointed toward the jungle and the girl ran off after the two other children.
~*~
Tai sat at the breakfast table eating blueberry pancakes smothered in maple syrup hungrily.
"Taichi, slow down," his mother laughed.
"Sorry, mom," he mumbled back through a mouthful of breakfast.
BAM, BAM, BAM... The sound of hammering echoed through the kitchen.
"What's going on, mom?" Kari questioned.
"Oh, your father's finally hanging up the pictures I've been wanting him to hang up."
BAM, BAM, BAM...
"Well, could he keep it down? It's sort of annoying," Tai muttered.
BAM, BAM, BAM...
"Oh, he'll be done soon," his mother reassured.
BAM, BAM, BAM... BAM, BAM, BAM...
I wish he could hammer more softly, he thought. BAM...BAM...BAM...
Tai's eyes suddenly snapped open. Weird dream, he pondered, looking around his new surroundings.
He was in a large, warm waterbed in a huge, well furnished room.
"Whoa," he whispered in surprise.
BAM, BAM, BAM! Somebody was knocking at the door of his new room.
So that's what the hammering was, he thought.
"Come in," he shouted.
The door opened with a creak and the girl that had saved him glided in.
"Good morning," she cheerily greeted. "I see you're feeling better this morning. Are you hungry?"
Tai hadn't realized just how his stomach was craving food until she had mentioned it. "Uh... yeah," he muttered.
"Then I'll have breakfast sent to you. You should get some more rest."
The girl smiled a perfect smile and walked out the door.
~*~
"So let me get this straight: you found Matt and you were looking for us when he just took off and disappeared into a bright light?" Joe quarried.
Kari nodded and Joe's face paled.
"What's wrong?" Mimi questioned upon noticing Joe's now white face.
"It must have been one of Tobnamon's supporters!"
"Oh no!" Kari moaned, remembering what Joe had told her once she had informed them of Matt's mysterious disappearance.
"We'd better find him quick," Mimi stated. "And what about Izzy, Sora, Tai and TK?"
"We have to find them, too," Joe automatically replied. "This is going to be some job."
Kari nodded in agreement. It WAS going to be a big job.
~*~
"Do you think that thing is still looking for us?" TK wondered.
"I doubt it. It probably went back to its natural habitat," Izzy explained. "What I'd like to know right now is exactly why we're back in the Digital World again. It's obvious there is another evil, but it would be nice to know what it was."
TK pondered this point for a while until a small glint caught his eye. He snapped his head toward the metallic object that had caught his eye.
It was a bug that looked a bit like a cockroach, except that it was made out of gold and it was hovering in the air.
"Izzy, what's that?" TK whispered, pointing to the strange bug.
Izzy looked at the bug and furrowed his brow. It certainly didn't look like a Digimon. It looked more like a small mechanical device.
He looked at it once again curiously and he saw something that made his blood run cold: a tiny camera watching him and TK...