Author's note:
(sighs very awkardly, and scared to bits as well.)
PG- Hey guys...yeah, sorry about the whole uh, leaving you off like that. (dramatic music in background) I've left you guys awaiting for chapter 7 of this fiction, where as, I have abandoned it...please don't hate me, but I've gotten in the Digi-mood again, and I'm back. And...I've gotten better, especially after writing a one-shot, two stories still in the works...although I'd advise not to write in the Animaniacs department...if you look on my user tab and see "A New Friend" and read the reviews...they're a little too evil to be critique.
Cody- At least you're not hurt or anything (blushes a little)
Davis- Ew...mushy stuff...
PG- You know, you would be singing a different tune if I had paired you up with Kari--
Davis- (anime sparkles)You mean your hamster & Hamster-wheel of a brain finally have come over to join me and many other Daikari fans?
PG- eh...no. I'm a Takari fan through and Through...though I do sometimes get a laugh at the stories about you two...but, since you made that comment about my brain...Cody?
Cody- Way ahead of you (chases Davis about with a Kendo stick, while he cries)
PG- (rubs hands together evilly.) Excellent. Now, since they're busy, I'll start this story--
Disclaimer: I do not in any way own Digimon, or the characters, or 'Poor Unfortunate Souls'...although the ends they all receive are all belonged to the little hamster in my brain. (Hamtaro pops out from her right ear and waves) Oh, and I don't own that one idea where on Spongebob, Mr. Krabs had turned into a real crab and was served with...eh, I'll let you read.
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Chapter 7: Kari's Choice
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The seahorse and the now flustered crab swam along towards the king's castle, more specifically, the king's throne. Sebastian could only think of the horrible things that would happen to him, if the King knew Kari's real reason for being so...so...light-headed. In his mind, he imagined what would happen...
"Sebastian! You're fired, and never allowed to return ever again! In fact, you're banished from here and now you shall go live with the Sea-Witch," King Kamiya's Dark grey eyes now glowed with a malevolet ruby that almost looked like fire.
"NOOOOOO," Sebastian cried, before he was soon whisked away to the outer banks and next, he saw himself being victim to the Sea-Witch's horrible screeches she called singing. "Oh da torture," he whined, and then the next thing he new...he was being served on a platter next to butter, with the Sea-Witch tieing a bib around her neck...
"Sebastian...Sebastian," the seahorse asked, trying to get the attention of the now mellow-dramatic crab. "SEBASTIAN," he yelled, finally gaining his undivided attention.
"Oh, sorry. Yes, what is it?"
"The king wants to see you now. Go on," the seahorse urged, pushing Sebastian through the doors, after Sebastian had made an escape attempt.
Sebastian walked into the Throne room, scuttling through the main walkway, as fast as he could do for a crab of his size and swam upon the King. Had he came in earlier before, unannounced, King Kamiya was too busy playing with the little sea flower Kari had gave him, wondering which merman had infactuated her. "Yes," Sebastian squeaked, before clearing his throat. "Yes, your Majesty?"
"I want to talk to you. Now, I know you and Tai had been keeping an eye on her, but since he's off doing other things, you're the only one who can tell me. I've heard some things have been going on with..Kari," he smiled slyly through his beard. Sebastian's eyes almost bulged out of his crab-eye-sockets. "Is there anything you wanna tell me?"
"About what," Sebastian asked, trying to gulp down the lump in his throat.
"About Kari...in love," King Kamiya played with his Trident for a bit, for emphasis. IF only Sebastian had knew about the King not intending to use it to turn him into Crab choweder, and was only making false threats with it...then maybe he wouldn't have blurted the next few words from his lips.
"I tried to stop her, your Majesty! But dat girl's fallen in love. It's not may fault it has to be a human of all things," he sobbed. "And that Gatomon of hers...she's fallen in love with a land digimon as well," he went on.
King Kamiya's eyes went into shock. This was not the confession he had wanted to hear. "Humans? WHAT ABOUT HUMANS," he roared, his eyes inches away from Sebastian's small stature.
It finally dawned on him, that the King hadn't found about Kari and Gatomon's love interests...maybe he could sneak away from this. "Did I say humans? No, no mon...I, er...said Mormons. Yeah, that's what I said." Then King Kamiya took Sebastian in his huge calloused over the years hands. Apparently, getting out of this was out of the question.
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"Tai! What's this you want to show us? Come on, please tell us," Kari giggled. Gatomon was in tow, trying to keep up. "Don't tell me you've finally proposed to Sora," she grinned. Tai had stopped swimming, his face turning scarlet.
"Do you want to see your suprise, or not. I could be a horrible brother, and keep it a secret to myself that I found your grotto--"
"WHAT," Kari and Gatomon cried simultainiously.
"Er...forget it...come on, you'll really love it," Tai smiled, pulling her towards her not-so-secret grotto. Tai, Kari and Gatomon both pushed the boulder aside and went inside. Once there, Kari's eyes immediantly lit up as she sighed. In the middle of all of her human objects, was the exaggerated human statute of T.K., in all of his shining glory...or at least, what the sculptors had made him look like.
Kari rushed into Tai's arms and hugged him tight. "Oh Tai, this is the best present ever! Thank you," she smiled, as Gatomon scruntinized the statue before Kari began to play with it.
"I think he was much cuter in person," she sniffed.
"Oh Gatomon," Kari called in a sing-songy voice, obviously ignoring the mer-digimon's comment. "Look what I found!"
Gatomon went to Kari's side, and immediantly purred at the sight of where Kari was looking at. Right near T.K.'s gladiator boot, Patamon stood on his hind legs with a small digi-dagger and his ears back as coolly as he could...for a statue anyway. "Never mind. I like this already!"
Kair swam up so her face could be at the same level as T.K.'s face, while she leaned on his shoulder as romantically and dramatically as she could. "Oh T.K., go dancing? But...this is all so...so sudden, I'll have to," a pause," check my schedule," she gasped as dramatic as she could.
"Patamon, you want me to ride on you ?"(A/N: try not to laugh...sounds bad, huh..lol). "But, I don't know...oh, you'll hold my hand," Gatomon played coyly with the small granite hands carved to be Patamon's hands.
Tai smiled warmly as an older brother should when his younger siblings are happy. Yes, he considered Gatomon as well..except he wasn't planning on-- "HIKARI KITSUNE KAMIYA!"
Both brother, sister, and digimon turned to see a raging king with anger in his eyes. He swam forth slowly, pushing Tai out so he wouldn't interfere. "Now I consider myself a reasonable merman...but you two have gone way too far! "
Gatomon hid behind the statue as he went on, hopefully he wouldn't be too rash on the both of them. Kari however, stood...er...floated her ground, in front of her beloved statue. "It's bad enough that you won't stop going to the surface, bringing little trinkets and such, but now you actually like one of them--"
"Daddy, I don't like him. I love him," Kari yelled, fed up with his distrust in the matter. She gasped, realizing the words had escaped her mouth.
"No...this can't be. It would never work out, he's a human. You're a mermaid! He'd probably try to kill you as soon as he would find out about you being half-fish," King Kamiya told her.
"I don't care. He's different, he's sweet. And...and...maybe, I want to marry him, how about that," Kari asked, being more enraged. Now it was easy to see where her fiesty temper had came from, for the King went enraged as well and took his trident. He blasted at everything and every object. Kari and Gatomon could only watch in sadness. While Gatomon came from her hiding spot and tried to go and salvage the broken items, Kari guarded the statue from her father's wrath...that is, until Gatomon was blown away from a crashing object.
She had only swam from the statue for two seconds to check on her friend, yet sadly, those two seconds were all that King Kamiya needed. "Nooo," Gatomon and Kari both yelled, as the King blinded with rage, blast the statue to bits. As she sat at the spot where the statue once stood, she stared into his ruby eyes with her own crimson brown ones that were full of hurt and betrayal. After that, his eyes went gray again, and he left with a stern face while hearing Kari's sobs and Gatomon's whimpers when he left the grotto.
Tai was right outside, seeing the event. He too, had the hurtful look in his mahogany eyes, before he turned from his own father, not saying anything. "Kari...Gatomon...are you two okay," he asked, swimming slowly up to them.
When he reached them, Kari had only managed to sob a, "please...just go away..." Tai turned to Gatomon, hoping she was all right as well...only to receive a few scratches on his cheek from the wrath of her paw. Holding the scratched cheek with his hand, Tai left the grotto as well.
Sebastian had came in after awhile, his head and heart heavy. Not only was the King now enraged and hurt on the inside, but he had told the daughter's secret and now she was hurt as well. " Kari...?"
"Gatomon," Kari sighed, her head still buried in her crossed arms. Gatomon nodded, and got up, growling at Sebastian to make him leave. She in turn, left as well.
After they had all gone, Kari wiped her eyes, now a bit swollen a puffy from the crying..but the salt water had soothed the swelling. A voice echoed through the grotto, making her look around. "Who's there," she called out.
The voice replied again, this time more telligably. "Aw, poor Princess...your knight has been crushed to pieces because of the King. If I was your Knight...well, he wouldn't be as mad," the voice sighed, before coming into the light to reveal a boy about her age with maroon spiky hair.
"Who are you," Kari asked again.
"They call me Davis, but...you can call me...Davis," he took her hand and kissed it lightly. "I have an idea though, as much as it pains me to say it. But, there is a way for you to get what you want," he told her. " My sister's gifted in magic, she loves to help people...in fact, some of the things she does is almost too good for the both of them," he shrugged.
"Who is she," Kari asked, her sadness drifting away.
"You probably know her...Her name's Jun--"
"The Sea Witch? But-but, she's evil! She's--"
"The only one who can get you what you want," Davis finished for her. He smiled, giving a wink, and swam slowly out of the grotto. "If you want to see her...follow me," he told her, going slower and slower out of the grotto...that is, until Kari grabbed his hand.
"Let's go," she nodded.
She's holding my hand!...Davis's mind thought gleefully, as he led her to the outer parts to the underwater kingdom.
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"This is all my fault. I should've never said anything," Sebastian sighed as he paced back and forth on a rock.
"Hmph. You got that right," Gatomon agreed, still mad and cynical for how he made things turn out. Even if it was unintentional, she still held a grudge against him. She looked up, trying to divert her attention again, which she had been doing for the past few minutes...it calmed her nerves and made her resist the urge to turn him into cat food as well.
What she didn't expect to see though, was Kari following a boy towards the outer regions. The two of them had serious looks on their faces as they swam along. She caught up to Kari, whispering in her ear, " what are you doing? I thought you liked TK," she asked.
"I do. Davis here, is going to show me how I can go get my wish though," Kari replied a little too curtly than called for. "You can come along if you like," she added.
"I might as well...at least Sebastian won't follow us this time. I'm sure of it," she said warily, as she grabbed Kari's other hand and swam along. Unbeknowgnst to them, a certain scarlet crustaceon was following them by holding on to Gatomon's tail.
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Kari and Gatomon stopped, seeing the sight before them. Davis had led them to a cavern made from the bones of an old angler fish and a malevolent red light glowed from within. He led them through the opening, going past the small creatures that moaned towards Kari and Gatomon, as though they were trying to tell them to go away, or turn back around. Of course, the two females ignored this and finally made it into to main part of the cavern.
"Ah, Davis. You're such a good brother, bringing me more people for me to help. We should be famous for doing this," a voice sighed as a lanky, young woman with the same maroon hair—only spiker, had emerged from the seashell she called her bed. "Now, dearest. Tell Big Sister Jun all about it," she asked Kari, holding the girl's head up with her hand placed under her chin.
"Well...you see, I--"
"Ah," Jun interuppted her dramatically. "You're here, because...wait...wait..." while she did her dramatic poses, Davis couldn't help but roll his eyes a bit, as did Sebastian and Gatomon. "Because, you're in love with that Prince...TK, right?"
Kari nodded eagerly, swimming foreward slightly as she clasped her hands together. "Well, it is a bit hard. He is a hottie, isn't he," Jun asked, while taking a bit of hair gel from her dresser, for one of her spikes was starting to droop. " Don't worry though, I can help you."
"Really? You can," Kari asked. "That's so great! But...how can you do it?"
"Well, you see dear, the only way for you to get what you want, is to become human yourself," Jun replied simply, leaning against the coral-lined wall. Kari's eyes went huge, as did Gatomon's...along with her mouth hanging ajar.
"Can you really do that," Kari asked. It was one thing to know that she could actually become something she's always admired, but the icing on the cake, was that it would also include with her being with TK as well. "Gatomon too," she pointed to her friend.
"Mm-hmm. It's my job, it's what I live for, it's what I love. Helping poor unfortunate souls of merfolk, like you two," Jun told them with a sickly sweet tone to her voice, before swimming about her cavern for emphasis. The words that came from her mouth screeched throughout, to what Kari hoped wasn't the witch's singing...although it was.
The two merpeople, digimermaid, and crab had all slightly winced at ech high note being screeched through the windpipe.
Jun:
I admit that in the past, I've been a nasty.
They weren't kidding when they called me, well, a 'Witch'.
Both Davis and Jun laughed at that comment for a moment, while Kari and Gatomon didn't really see the humor in it.
Jun:
But now you'll find that nowadays, I've mended all my ways.
Repented, seen the light, and made a switch.
True? Yes..
And I fortunately know a little magic,
It's a talent that I always have possessed.
And here lately, please don't laugh,
I use it on behalf,
Of the miserable, lonely and depressed.
Jun had swam to the middle of the room, and in her cauldron she pulled up images of a boy who was homely and lanky, while the girl images was too fat and depressed. "Pathetic," she whispered to Davis, so the others wouldn't hear. She then resumed.
Jun:
Poor unfortunate souls,
In pain, in need.
This one longing to be thinner,
That one wants to get the girl.
And do I help them?
Yes, indeed.
With the snap of her fingers, the fat girl had turned skinny and considered to be beautiful as the boy turned muscular and handsome. Then the two images swam to each other, happy with finding love, and their desired forms. Kari became more interested in the story.
Jun:
Poor unfortunate souls,
So sad, so true.
They come flocking to my cauldron,
Crying 'Spells, Jun, please!'
And do I help them?
Yes I do
Then, Jun's face went to a sad, melodramatic one.
Jun:
Now it's happened once or twice,
Someone couldn't pay the price.
And I'm afraid, I had to rake them across the coals.
The merboy, and mergirl were turned into two of those creepy things that were in front of Jun's cavern, apparently, the consequence for not paying up to their part of the deal.
Jun:
Yes, I've had the odd complaint.
But on the whole, I've been a saint.
To those poor unfortunate souls.
Jun paused in her song for awhile, to explain a few things. "Now, here's what's going to happen. I'll make you a human for three days, got that? Three days ," she told her. Showing a figure of Kari being a human and walking about. "But, to make it permanent, you've got to get the prince to kiss you before the sun sets on the third day. And it can't be any kiss, the kiss of true love. But...if he doesn't, then you both turn back into your mermaid form, and then you'll belong to me," Jun smiled wickedly, as the picture of Kari and turning into a mermaid played.
Sebastian gasped, finally deciding to intervene with the deal. "No, Kari. Don't be stupid, don't do--" Gatomon had realized Sebastian was hanging on her tail at this point, but Davis had quickly came and covered Sebastian's mouth.
"Have we got a deal," Jun asked, like the little inconvinecne hadn't happened.
Kari mulled on this for a moment. "But If I become human, I'll never see my father, or my brother...and what about Gatomon," she asked.
Jun sighed. "All right, I suppose, that Gatomon could come with you as well, only this though. She can't tell anyone about your deal. In fact...the only way this'll happen is, is that whenever she tries to talk to someone besides you, she'll just say her name over and over instead of meowing. Like a pokemon," she informed. (A/N: had to add that bit for you pokemon fans!)
"Oh, and that does remind me. There is the subject of payment, you didn't think I'd be doing this for free? All I want is...your voice," Jun remembered.
"I can hear why," Gatomon muttered.
Kari ignored the comment from her friend. "But without us talking normally, how can we--"
"You'll have your looks, your pretty face. And don't underestimate the usage of body language, hah," Jun laughed, swaying her hips for emphasis before going to her cabinet for some ingredients.
"Not the screeching," Gatomon whimpered quietly, hating the inevitable.
Jun:
The men up there don't like a lot a blabber,
They think a girl who gossips is a bore.
Yes, on land it's much preferred,
For ladies not to say a word,
And after all dear, what's idle prattle for?
Jun then began to start pulling random objects from her cabin, Kari a little scared by what was in them. Gatomon hissed at a bottle of a head that was eyeing the two of them...in all the wrong ways, before it dumped itself in the cauldron.
Jun:
Come on, they're not all that impressed with conversation,
True gentlemen avoid it when they can.
Yet they dote, swoon, and fawn, on a lady who's withdrawn,
It's she who holds her tounge who gets her man!
Come on, you poor unfortunate soul!
Go ahead, make your choice.
I'm a very busy woman, and I've haven't got all day,
It won't cost much, just your voice!
You poor unfortunate soul,
It's sad...but true.
If you want to cross the bridge my sweet,
You've got to pay the toll.
Take a gulp and take a breath,
And go ahead and sign the scroll,
She made a golden scroll appear in front of Kari, and soon a pen formed next to her hand as well. Kari and Gatomon skimmed over the scroll, reading the details. As she did this, Jun leaned over to Davis, who was watching the scene, concern was in his eyes slightly, but his whole face didn't show a sign of it. Especially when Jun whispered something.
Jun:
Great Davis, now I've got her boy!
The boss is on a roll...
This poor, unfortunate, soul!
Ultimately, Kari signed the scroll with her name, and Jun took it in no haste before it disappeared in her grasp. She went over to the cauldron and started chanting.
Jun:
Baluga, seruva. Come winds of the Caspian sea!
Larengix, Glaucitus. Et max Laryngitus,
La voce to me!!
Jun looked to Kari with a glow to her dark eyes. "Now, sing," she whispered.
Kari took a breath, and sung a simple vocal, showing her voice for the spell, as big ghostly hands went towards her. Gatomon hissed at the ghost hands, but they didn't notice her, all they wanted...was Kari's voice.
Finally, they made their way to her throat and took the voice out in a shape of a pink light, with a symbol with crystals on it. (A/N: three guesses on what her voice's symbol is?)
Jun smiled widely, as the ghost hands took the voice and placed it inside her necklace pendent, that was a small conch shell with blue and white swirls for the color. She then laughed evilly and heartily as the cauldron's magic started to take Kari and hold her in an air bubble. Kari's pink tail had severed in two, which were turned into legs. The place where mermaids had gills were obviously gone, for when the bubble popped, Kari couldn't swim very well with the two legs and she was running out of air.
Gatomon noticed that it would take awhile for the spell to affect her, so she took Kari, and Sebastian led the way as the three headed for the surface. Luckily, they made it, so Kari was able to breath...
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(And I'll leave you on that note, ladies and gentlemen. What'll happen now to Kari? Has she found happiness in her new form? Will Gatomon suffice to being a land Gatomon, only acting like a pokemon saying over and over only her name?
And...pray may I ask, will I ever stop enjoying the taste of Starbucks' frappuchinos?
All questions will be answered, after some reviews.
Peace! )
