Amongst the shadows
Shines a light to guide
The Key to their destiny
Re:CHAPTER 2.1
Traversing Amongst the Shadows
Digimon © Toei Animation
Kingdom Hearts © Square Enix & Disney Interactive
Ocean Between
The Gummi Ship was flown WAY back when the force of the darkness pushed it way. For some reason, they couldn't get their ship to go towards the remains of the world, considering there was now a cloud of darkness covering the pathway towards there. If they headed directly in there, they would get blinded, and who knows what would happen to them.
"No use…we can't get in there…" Sora said, slumping into his seat.
"Gawrsh, I wonder what happened to that Keyblade wielder and her friends…" Goofy said.
"You don't think, they got sucked into darkness, right?"
"Don't some people go somewhere whenever their world gets destroyed?"
"What do you mean…?" Sora said, pondering for a minute. He then remembers what happened when his world got sucked into darkness. He ended up in another world called Traverse Town. "Oh. Well, I guess that's worth a shot."
"Come on! Let's get going to Traverse Town!"
"Okay!" Sora then directed the Gummi Ship out of range of the cloud of darkness, and changed their navigation to head on over to Traverse Town. Though unbeknownst to them, many shooting stars pierced out of the cloud of darkness, and headed on over into different directions. 4 of them were headed on over towards the direction of Traverse Town.
First District
The little girl's eyes fluttered open, and she sees that she was in a dark alley. She was basically looking straight at a barrel right now. She groans, and uses the barrel to support her, in order to get her up. She then takes a better look at her surroundings. She was definitely in an alleyway, however there was a busted wooden fence behind her, as well as a neon sign shining above her head. She was very weak after that last fight back in her city, and she doesn't know where she was.
…The others! Where did they go? Kari looks around her seeing if T.K. and their Digimon were nearby, but no sign of them was anywhere. Though she did see her Keyblade weapon leaning against the wall. She picks that up, and stares at it for a bit.
"…Was all of that my fault…?" Kari thought out loud. "I…I couldn't beat the darkness from getting my friends…they must be stuck in the darkness…it's all my fault…" She hangs her head down in shame, and begins to blame herself for the loss of her friends. Her friends and big brother must all be stuck in the darkness alone, without any light to guide them home. She thinks it was all her that got them all into this mess…
Kari starts to walk on out of there, still weak though, as she is greeted with the sight of a town that she is completely unfamiliar with. The whole entire town was under a night sky, showing the beautiful stars, and the lights of the entire place was keeping the entire town illuminated pretty well.
"Wha…? Where am I…?" Kari said. "H-Hello! Is anyone here!" She called out to anyone that was in the area. There wasn't any sign of anyone in the area. Shouting may have been a bad idea. That used some of her energy, and she couldn't find any place to take a rest, unless she actually enjoyed taking a rest in the back alleyway again. She decides to keep moving on, and try to find someone in the area.
When she went up the stairs, and went through the door to the next district of this town, Sora, Donald and Goofy all walked through the big door at the start of the First District.
"Been a long time since we've been here again, huh?" Sora said.
"Yeah." Goofy said.
"Alright, now where would that Keyblade wielder be?" Donald said, continuing on without them. Sora and Goofy looked at each other and shrugged.
"Hey, maybe we should split up." Sora said.
"Split up?" Donald said, looking back at Sora.
"Yeah. Maybe we can cover more ground that way."
"Okay. So, which path should we take first?" Goofy said.
"I can look around the first district. You guys can take the third. Then after we checked out everything in those districts, we can search around the second district. We can meet back here after a while."
"Got it." Donald nods.
They then split up, with Donald and Goofy going through another big door to get to the third district of Traverse Town.
Second District
Kari walks on through the door to the district, and sees how big the entire place was, yet there wasn't any sign of any people. Was she all alone? She wanted to go around some more to at least look for someone.
Suddenly, she heard a scream, and she saw a man in a yellow shirt running away from something. He stopped when he saw Kari on the path.
"O-Oh!" Kari exclaimed in a shaky voice, finally seeing a human being. "U-Uh, excuse me, mister? Uh, I know you must be scared of something, but, can you tell me where I am?"
"I don't know myself! All I remember was everything going black, and waking up here! What is this place!?"
"You don't know either? Well…can you at least tell me where my city is? It's in Tokyo."
The man looks at her with a strange look on his face.
"U-Uh, you know. Japan?" Still no answer. "A-Are we in Japan…?"
"I don't know what you're talking about kid. Listen, if you care about your life, you'll run like-"
Suddenly, he yelped in pain, and fell onto his knees. Kari got startled by that, and was backing up. Coming out of the man's chest was a big red glowing heart, and it floated into the air, and into the hands of one of the shadow monsters that attacked back in Odaiba. Kari gasps in shock, and falls onto her bottom. She watches as the man's body was dissolving into thin air, and disappears entirely in mere seconds. After seeing something like that, Kari screams in horror. She was basically in a horror movie right now, and she fears that she was next. More monsters appear out of the ground, and Kari scrambled off, running away from the monsters as fast as she can.
She stopped however, because more of those monsters appeared right in front of her. She was scared that the monsters were going to do something like that to her. She doesn't know what had happened there, but she was frightened of it.
Then Kari remembers the Keyblade she has in her hand. She is considering fighting them, but she doesn't know how many of them there are. And she was too tired to be fighting. Not to mention running away at top speed took a lot out of her, and she fell onto her knees. She could feel her conscious slipping away, as her sickness was starting to take its toll onto her. One of the monsters leapt towards her, but she swung her Keyblade slowly to the side, and destroyed it. And that was the rest of her energy. She couldn't keep her conscious up anymore, and she was slowly slipping into unconsciousness.
But then, something on her chest shimmered for a second. It then started betting brighter and brighter, until she couldn't really see anymore.
After the light died down, the girl looked towards the monsters, and sees that they disappeared. The light from her chest must have made them all disappear. Now THAT was truly all of her stamina, as she finally slumps onto the ground, so tired, so weak, and so sick. She knows if she passes out there, those monsters will come back, and do what they did to that man earlier, but she couldn't get up. She just couldn't anymore. Her eyelids grew heavy, and she falls unconscious.
First District
For good measure, Sora checks the back alleyway. No one was there. He does a full inspection just in case. This was the exact spot that he woke up in, when his world got taken by the darkness. Still, nobody was anywhere near there.
"Okay, well, it was worth the shot." Sora said to himself. He then left the alley, and went into the main square of the district. "I'm starting to worry that we won't be able to find her…"
As Sora turns to get to the next district, he saw an attack coming from something, and he jumps back. Sora looks towards the attacker, and sees that it was the same exact yellow creatures that attacked him in Twilight Town. Like before, they have two lines of purple data coding that made an X on them, as well as being surrounded by a black smoke.
"More of these things!?" Sora then brandished his Kingdom Key, and parried an attack. He then sees that there were more of those things. "If there are other people that appeared in this world, they're in big trouble from these guys!"
Gizmo Shop
T.K. awakens to be in some sort of factory of some kind. There was spinning objects everywhere, as well as weird switches, and levers. He looks behind him, and sees that there was a clock, which the hands were going all over the place, and not at all synched up to the time right now.
Getting up, he looks all around him. He doesn't see any sign of the Digimon, or Kari, or his big brother and friends.
"Wh- Kari? Kari! Patamon! Matt! Where are you!" T.K. called out. No sign of anyone. He then sees there was two exits on the left and right. T.K. took the left exit.
Second District
He walks on out of the strange factory, and sees that he basically came across a dead end. There was a ladder over there, but T.K. didn't feel like climbing higher right now. But he could be able to see where the heck he was from up there. He then walks on over to the ladder, after making up his mind, and climbed up all the way to the top.
At the top there was pillars, and a boarded-up bell that looked like it was recently broken into lately. T.K. was able to get a good view of the second district from up there. He sees the main square, a fountain, some of the lined-up shops, a hotel, a girl lying unconscious by the hotel-
"Kari!" T.K. yelled. He sees the girl lying unconscious on the road there, and he grew worried of her. He quickly went to the ladder, but sees that there was more of those shadows popping up. "C'mon! Can't you guys take a break!?" T.K. backs up, until he was at the ledge of the roof. He sees that it was a long way down, and he would most likely break something if he fell from that big of height, but he was also cornered by the monsters of darkness. T.K. felt compelled to back up some more, but he couldn't. Eventually, one of the monsters leapt forward, and tried attacking him, and the boy's instincts was to jump back to avoid it, but in doing so, he had leapt off of the roof, and he was falling towards the ground. He sees the ground coming up quick to him, until he stopped suddenly.
He looked up, and he saw that his Digimon, Patamon was holding him up steady, though roughly, as Patamon doesn't really have the strength in this form to keep on hovering in mid-air. Nonetheless, Patamon slowly sets T.K. down onto the ground, while he just slumps down on the ground, after he finishes.
"Patamon!"
"Well, that's all I'm gonna do for now…" Patamon groaned, exhausted on the ground. "Got any food on you?"
"No. Sorry. But thanks a bunch."
"No problem."
They both see the creatures above them, looking like they're getting ready to drop down onto them, and slash at them, however, someone else with big claws came along, and slashed them all apart. Of course, the one with the big claws was Gatomon, and she leapt off of the roof, and landed in front of the two, on her fours, without wasting any of her lives.
"Glad to see that you're safe." Gatomon said.
"Yeah…" T.K. said. He then instantly thinks back towards Kari. He gets up quickly, and runs towards the unconscious girl near the hotel. The Digimon followed him, as he ran. T.K. knelt down to Kari, and places the palm of his hand against the girl's forehead. It was really warm. She has a fever again. Once again, the boy slings her left arm over his shoulder, and then starts to carry her. He still hasn't gotten used to this yet, though, and he still can't really carry Kari everywhere for a long time. He then looks towards the Hotel doors next to him. They don't have any money on them, or anything, but they need to get to some shelter in order to ensure their safety. "Come on, in here."
They then went into the hotel to find a bed to put Kari in, as Sora walks through the first district door, and briefly saw someone going into the hotel doors.
"Huh? Was that someone?" Sora said. "Better go check, just in case."
Hotel
In the hotel, T.K. sets Kari down, and has her resting against the wall. Gatomon kept an eye on her while T.K. rings the bell at the counter to get the clerk's attention in order for them to give the four a room to stay in. Though no one answers upon the ring. T.K. rings the bell again, and still no answer.
"Hello? Is anyone there?" T.K. called out loud. There was still no answer. No one seemed to be there. "That's weird. Where's the person behind the desk?"
"Here, let me have a crack at this." Gatomon said, climbing onto the counter, and shouts towards the closed purple curtains. "Hey! We got someone sick here! Give us a room key or something so she can rest!"
There still wasn't any answer.
"Nice try…" T.K. said. "This isn't working. Maybe we should go somewhere else…"
"Hey wait, guys look." Patamon said. The two then looked towards Patamon, and they see that he had opened a door into a room. "This door's unlocked."
"Uh, is it, really okay that we just go into a hotel room?" T.K. said. "Doesn't that room belong to somebody else?"
"Look, we got no choice here." Gatomon said. "We need to get Kari on a bed right now." T.K. was hesitant to just barge into someone else's hotel room, but for their friend, they got no choice. Besides, they would understand, right? T.K. then picked up Kari again, and headed towards the room.
Green Room
The room was fairly small for a hotel room, but it was enough for the four of them. It has a queen sized bed, with a big round table with chairs surrounding it. There were also two other doors in the room. One lead to outside on the balcony, and the other lead to another bedroom. T.K. takes off Kari's slippers, gently puts her onto the bed in there, and slides the blankets over her body, where she can rest easily.
"There. Nice and comfy." T.K. said.
"I don't see any sign of those things." Gatomon said. "We might be in the clear."
"You sure?" Patamon said.
"Well, I dunno exactly, but they don't look like they're around here. Sheesh, this whole entire thing is crazy. I don't even know what happened back there."
"You mean, when that giant monster attacked us?"
"Yeah, and, and Kari managed to beat that giant thing!" T.K. said, still remembering how awesome Kari was in that last fight there. He was able to defeat the giant monster back in his dreams too, but he didn't really have any means of fighting back in that fight.
Then he switches his attention to Kari's mysterious Keyblade weapon, which was leaning against the wall right there.
"What's up?" Patamon said.
"Do you remember what that Mighty-Pete guy said when he was attacking us from before?" T.K. said.
"What do you mean?"
"Do you mean, something about that Keyblade thing?" Gatomon said.
"Yeah. He said someone else had this thing." T.K. said, picking Kari's weapon up.
"Who do you think it is?"
"I dunno. Buuut…"
"But…what?"
"But if we can find this guy, then maybe he can help us fight against those things."
"You really think he can help us?" Patamon said.
"That's the only thing on my mind right now. Kari's still sleeping, so she's not going anywhere."
"I couldn't agree more…" Patamon said, indirectly calling T.K. a captain obvious.
"So, what do you think we should do?" Gatomon said. "We can't just wait around for Kari to wake up. Those dark things will find us sooner or later, and, who knows what else they'll do to us."
"Do you think, we should split up?" T.K. said.
"Huh?"
"We should split up. One of us can stay here and look after Kari, while the others go on and try to find someone to help us. There's gotta be someone here who can help us, right?"
"Yeah. Of course, but, do you think that's really wise? You saw how many of those guys attacked us at once, right?"
"Yeah, but, you said we can't sit around and wait for Kari to wake up."
"Mmm, that's true…"
"Okay, so I guess we're splitting up. I could probably sit here and watch Kari."
"Nuh-uh." Gatomon shook her head.
"Huh?"
"You can't stay here all by yourself. You're powerless without any one of us near you. Look, I can probably sit here and look after Kari, while you and Patamon can go to find someone."
"Are you sure you're alright here by yourself?"
"I'll be fine. Just focus on finding someone who can at least help us."
"Okay. I'm trusting you."
"Just get to finding help. I'll keep an eye on Kari."
"Okay. Let's go Patamon." His Digimon nods, and they started going towards the door, leaving Gatomon to watch over the passed-out Kari.
Hotel
Sora walks into the hotel, searching for this new Keyblade wielding girl. This was the same hotel that he was brought to when he first got to Traverse Town…after getting knocked out by numerous Fireballs to the face from his soon to be friend.
Right as he walked into the hotel, he saw a foot leave the ground, as someone had gone outside from the second entrance of the Hotel, right as Sora walks right in.
"Huh? Who was that?" Sora said. He was about to go on outside to see who it was, but then he thought he heard shuffling from inside one of the rooms. He suspects that someone was in the room. He thinks to one of his friends again, but then remembers they had moved on back to their home when they were done here. Still, this was worth checking out.
Sora went towards the room that lead into the green hotel room, and wraps his hand on the door handle that had the number 2 on it. He pulls, and it opens right up. This hotel doesn't really have anybody watching it, so most of the doors in this place were unlocked. The teen opens up the door, and he sees someone. He sees a girl sleeping on the bed, with the covers on them. She looked like she was moving a little, and was moaning, meaning she was slowly waking up.
Sora stepped into the room to take a closer look at the girl, before sensing something behind him. He turned, and in a split second, he saw a white cat with big claws leaping towards him, with the claws ready to slice him up. Sora responded by jumping back.
This cat creature looked comparable to one of the orange creatures that attacked him earlier in the First District.
"Not another one of these things…" Sora grumbled.
"Okay you. Are you gonna go out peacefully, or am I supposed to use feline force to shove you out?"
Sora was going to get out his Keyblade to fight, however, he sees to the left of him what resembled a little bit like a Key. It looked so unfamiliar to him, yet its design was more akin to his own weapon. That weapon leaning against the wall was…
"Wait, is that-"
He turns back to the mysterious creature, and he saw an attack coming, and he jumps back. Instinct took in, and he brought out his Kingdom Key out of thin air. He took a fighting position, ready to fight against the creature before him, before he heard a yell.
"Stop!" Someone yelled. The two of them stopped when they heard that voice. They turned, and they saw the girl, who was now wide awake, sitting up in the bed, looking horribly confused in the situation.
"Kari!" The creature jumps towards the girl, and looked like she was protecting her. "Glad you're awake." When Sora heard the cat call the girl Kari, he had a confused look on his face. That name. How weird. It sounded a lot like one of his best friends from his home world…Come to think of it, when he looks at this girl, there was something about her looks that reminded her a lot of this friend he was thinking about…
The cat then turned back to Sora, with a stern look on her face. "You lay one hand on her, and that will be the end of you!"
"Wait. You're, friends with her?" Sora said.
"Yeah. Of course."
"What? But, I thought-"
"Why are you looking at me with that face? What? Don't you have any friends to care about?"
"O-Of course I do! It's just that I got attacked by things like you all day!"
That took the other two by surprise when they heard that.
"Wait. You got attacked by other Digimon?" The girl, who is named Kari said.
"Is that what those things are called?" Sora said.
"Yeah. We're Digital Monsters, or Digimon for short." The cat said.
"Gatomon, I don't think this guy's a bad guy." Kari said, calling the cat monster Gatomon.
"Really? Well, why did he get out a weapon out of thin air? He looked like he was gonna attack me with that key…shaped…weapon…" Gatomon now was starting to see what Sora's weapon was shaped like, after giving it a close look. "Wait a minute, you got one of those Keyblade things?"
Sora was a little bit surprised that this mysterious creature, who calls herself a Digimon, knows about the Keyblade. And from the looks of it, the girl looked like she knows about the Keyblade as well. Still, Sora decides to play along.
"Uh, yeah." Sora said, showing them his Kingdom Key. "This is a Keyblade." The two of them looked surprised about something regarding Sora's Keyblade. He wanted to give the girl a closer look at his Keyblade, but the Digimon, Gatomon got in the way. "H-Hey, don't worry. Look, I'm sorry if I was going to attack you earlier, but, just trust me. You can always trust someone who has a Keyblade."
The Digimon looked reluctant, before turning to her human friend, and she nods politely. She still had suspicions though, but she backed down. Sora then showed the girl his Keyblade up close, and she was mesmerized by its appearance.
"Wow, your Keyblade thing looks different." Kari said, observing it. "I didn't know someone other than me has this thing."
"Well, yeah. I don't either, but I guess…" Sora started, before replaying the words the girl said in his mind. 'Other than me.' He was starting to piece together something, and begins to suspect that this girl might be…
But that couldn't be, right? This girl looked way too young to be possessing such an incredible power. But Sora gave the other Keyblade that was leaning against the wall another look, and something about that looked like it fits this girl's personality. He was hesitant to ask this girl outright, but he decides to press for more information.
"Um, are you saying that, you're a Keyblade Wielder?"
"Huh? What's a Keyblade Wielder?" Kari said. She then starts to think about it for a little bit. She looked at the Keyblade, and thinks about the word wielder. She assumes that must mean someone who owns that weapon, so… "Well, that, thing there appeared in my hand so, if that's what it means, I guess."
"Really!?" Sora said, surprised. His suspicions were correct. This girl was the Keyblade wielder that he, Donald and Goofy were looking for.
"Why are you surprised?"
"W-Well, me and my friends have been looking for this next Keyblade Wielder, after we were told by this wizard named Yen Sid, and-"
"Okay, you had us, and now you lost us." Gatomon said.
"What are you saying?" The girl said, tipping her head in confusion. "Are, you saying you were, looking for me?"
"I, guess you can say that." Sora said.
"Why?"
"Well, Master Yen Sid just told us to rescue you. He didn't really say anything about any, sort of, purpose, or anything. I-I mean, not to say I wouldn't have saved you if there was no reason at all. I mean-"
While Sora was trying to regain his wording, the girl starts giggling. Sora's stuttering was reminding her of a certain someone who would have freak outs like this. Sora saw that she was laughing, and decides to stop, and starts chuckling himself.
"Well, alright then." The girl said. "I mean, if you were looking for me, then I guess I can come along. B-But only if I find my friends first, got it?"
"Don't worry. I can help. I think I heard someone walk out as I got here." Sora said.
"T.K. and Patamon just left to try and find more of our friends." Gatomon said. "Had you come earlier, then we could have gone with you together."
"Well, actually I split up from my friends to cover more ground around here, so we need to find my friends too."
"Okay, then I guess, we're going." The girl then jumped off the bed, looking like she was ready for traveling, as she slips the slippers back on her bare feet.
"You good to go?" Gatomon said. She then turned to Sora. "She was passed out on the ground when we found her, and she was burning up."
"O-Oh! I'm sorry." Sora said. "I didn't know you were sick."
"What? No, I'm okay. Really." The girl said.
"But, what if you get sick again?"
"Don't worry about me. I'm more worried about T.K. and Patamon. And all of our friends too."
"Alright, but, if you get sick, just tell me. I can get you back here to get some more rest."
"You don't have to."
"Don't have to? Come on, I wouldn't just leave you sick like that."
"You'll have to excuse her." Gatomon said. "She can be pretty selfless most of the time."
"Selfless?"
"Uh, what does that mean?" The girl said. "Is that bad?"
"Of course it isn't. It's really sweet of you to think of others than yourself first, but, you can't really put yourself in danger like that. Your friends would be worried for you."
"I know, but…"
"Look, just don't do anything hasty. If you can fight, that's good, but it'd be better if I do the fighting around here."
"You leaving this kitten out?" Gatomon said.
"O-Oh, right. And you too."
"Okay, but don't get yourself hurt because of me, okay." Kari said.
"Don't worry. I won't. Uh, so, your names are…"
"Oh, right. I'm sorry. My name's Kari, and this is my friend Gatomon. What's your name?"
"I'm Sora."
Kari and Gatomon got startled when they heard that name for some reason, and the two looked at each other awkwardly, before turning back to Sora.
"Wait, what's your name again?" Gatomon said.
"Sora. Uh, is there anything wrong with that?"
"Um, well, it's just that, we're kinda friends with someone named Sora." Kari said.
"Wait, what?"
"It's true. We're friends with a girl named Sora Takenouchi." Gatomon said.
"Wait, so at your home you're friends with a girl named Sora!?"
"Pretty much, yeah."
"Hee hee. How weird." Kari said, scratching behind her head. Sora could not help but chuckle at the fact that there was someone other than him who is named Sora. Not to mention, that this Sora was a girl no less. Kari then went, and fetched the Keyblade leaning against the wall, and gave Gatomon and her new friend Sora a nod, saying she's ready to go.
Sora then puts his hands on the knob, and opens the door. But to their surprise, they were greeted by a flying imp-like creature that looked like it was going to attack them.
"Yah! Sora! Get back!" Gatomon exclaimed, slashing the creature away. The creature hits the wall outside, and dissolves into data.
"Uh, was that another one of those Digimon?" Sora said.
"Yep. That was Vilemon."
"Vilemon?"
"Yeah."
[Vilemon's known for having that big mouth of his and his Nightmare Shock. I've always wanted to see if I could shove a watermelon in his mouth just to shut him up.]
More Vilemon started to come after them through the hotel doors.
"Agh! There's too many of these guys!" Sora exclaimed.
"What do we do?" Kari said.
"Rgh, we're gonna have to go out the balcony."
"Wait, the balcony? But won't we hurt ourselves if we jump off of there?"
"Not with me you're not." Sora then took Kari's open hand, and they started to run towards the balcony door.
Third District
Meanwhile, Donald and Goofy were investigating the third district for any sign of another Keyblade wielder. This place brought back some memories. This was the very first place where they found Sora for the first time on their hunt for the Keyblade. In fact, this whole entire mission they're on right now is giving them déjà vu.
"Not in the old house." Goofy said, walking down from the ramp. He checked an old vacant house that they hid in once, but there doesn't seem to be anyone in there anymore. Donald was checking around the fountain, for some reason, considering it was a pretty small one.
"Not in here either." Donald said.
"Gawrsh, maybe the Keyblade wielder really isn't here."
"What about Merlin? Maybe she's in his house in that cave."
"Oh, maybe. Let's go pay Merlin a visit."
Donald nods, and the two goes towards the direction of the house they were mentioning. They went up to a door that has a flashing flame symbol on it. The door frame also has some indescribable text engraved on it. The door slides open, upwards, and the two goes into the door.
Mythical House
They see a small, boarded up house up ahead. From the looks of it, no one has been staying there as of late, which was odd for them. One of their friends has settled down in that place. In fact, they haven't seen their friends around here at all. They met some people here that helped the trio jumpstart their adventure. So far, they haven't seen them anywhere.
"Gawrsh, where do you think everybody is?" Goofy said.
"Didn't Leon and the others went back to Hollow Bastion?" Donald said.
"I think I remember something like that. But did Merlin go with them?"
"That's pretty odd if he did."
"Well, maybe someone is still in that old, dusty house."
"Okay, but don't take too long on these rocks." Donald said, pointing to the rocks. They hop on these rocks one at a time in order to get to the other side. The house is on a small patch of land sitting in the middle of a lake after all. They tried going onto the rocks, however, they kind of had a rough time, and Donald fell into the water. "Ack, this is going to take a little bit…"
Empty House
T.K. pops his head out from a hole in the concrete floor of a house. He and Patamon had went through an alleyway before, where there were lines of balconies hovering above them. They walked to a waterbank, where they saw that a metal grating that covered a way into what seems to be the sewers was busted through recently. They decided that this might have been Tai and Agumon's work, considering Greymon could have that type of power. It made sense to them, even though Greymon's size was like 5 times the size of this place.
They had ended up in a cavern sort of place, and they walked up some stairs into a dead end. A ladder was shown to be there, and T.K. climbed it up, with Patamon flying himself up the ladder, and the two of them ended up in this place.
The two of them climbed onto the floor, and they took a look at the place. This house was indeed empty. There was no furniture in the place, nor was there any way out of there. The windows were boarded up, and so were the doors. Also, to the fact that there was a hole in the floor here, means that this house sure was a wreck.
"There's no one here." T.K. said.
"Where did we end up in?" Patamon said. He looked up to T.K., as if he was expecting an answer from him, though he was looking down, with his mind in other places. He was thinking about Kari again, worrying about her. She was sick, and the last time she was like this, she almost didn't make it in the Digital world. He was so worried about her. So much that he actually wanted to stay with her, and see if she can do anything to help her, rather than be out of the mansion they took refuge in to be the lookout. T.K. feels like he wants to go back to Kari, so that he's at least with her. Gatomon is with Kari, however, T.K. could not shake the feeling that Kari was alone, by herself in the hotel. Without her big brother around, Kari can't really feel secure. Him and their Digimon are there with her, but still. T.K. wants to find one of the older kids to make Kari feel safe. That's all that he wants to do right now.
T.K. then was thinking about all the way back home in Japan. He doesn't know what had happened over there. All he remembers was being sucked up into the strange dark sphere, and appearing in this town. What could be going on in Tokyo? Could more of those shadow things be attacking everyone there without them being there? Or were Tai and the others still back in Odaiba, and were taking care of things there? He needed to know.
"One! Two! Three!" They all heard a loud voice on the other side of a boarded entryway, and on the count of three, the wood just, exploded, and T.K. and Patamon had to cover their faces. When the dust cleared up, the two opened their eyes, and strangely enough, they see an anthropomorphic duck holding an anthropomorphic dog, twice his size. The duck apparently used the dog as a battering ram. Upon a closer inspection, these two were actually Donald and Goofy, who apparently, they decided to use Goofy's head in order to break into the house. As a result of that, Goofy was moaning, having stars over his head, and spinning eyes.
"Good job, Goofy." Donald said, setting Goofy down, who was still dazed and confused.
T.K. and Patamon were surprised with this sudden entrance of the two anthropomorphic animals.
"Whoa. Who are they?" T.K. said. "What Digimon are they, Patamon?"
"I don't think they are Digimon." Patamon said.
"What?"
"Something about their scent doesn't feel right…er, I mean smell right."
Donald then looked towards the two, as he just noticed them in there. Just as he was about to say something, he locked eyes onto Patamon. He assumes him to be one of the orange monsters that attacked him, Sora and Goofy, considering they almost look alike.
"Wak! More of those monsters!" Donald quacked. He immediately got his staff out, and threw out Fire at Patamon, in which he quickly dodges. Of course, the two took this as a serious threat.
"Whoa! Hey! What's the big idea!?" T.K. yelled.
"I'll get him T.K.!" Patamon exclaimed, getting ready to attack.
"Hold up!" Goofy shouted, stopping them. "Gawrsh, I think this might be a huge misunderstanding. From the looks of things, you don't seem like a bad guy."
"Of course not. I'm not a bad guy. And I'm sure not like one of those dark monsters."
"You mean the Heartless?"
"Hey, I think we heard that before, right?" T.K. said, looking at Patamon.
"Yeah, this big guy told us that before he called out some of those dark monsters."
"Yeah." T.K. then turned to Donald and Goofy. "Do you know what those dark creatures are?"
"Of course. We've been fighting them for a while!" Goofy said.
"For a while?"
"Yup!"
"Okay, but…Why did you think Patamon was a bad guy?"
"Well, he looked like one of those things that attacked us earlier." Donald said.
"Things?" Patamon said. "What are you talking about?"
"These small, yellow guys with horns on their backs."
"Yellow guys with horns on their backs? Well, the only guy I can think of is Gizamon, but-"
"Gizamon?" T.K. said.
"Yeah, he's a Digimon."
"Really!?" T.K. was shocked in the news. He then turned to Donald and Goofy. "You guys were attacked by Digimon?"
"Digimon?" Donald said.
"What's a Digimon?" Goofy said.
"You don't know what a Digimon is?" Patamon said. "It's what I am. I'm a Digital Monster!"
"A Digital Monster?"
"Yep!"
"I didn't know more Digimon were coming into the real world." T.K. said.
"Yeah, me neither. I guess me and the other Digimon weren't the only ones."
"Gawrsh, do you know of these Digimom, uh, Digamon, um-" Goofy was stuttering.
"Digimon." Donald corrected for Goofy, who was struggling with remembering the name there.
"Right! Digimon." Goofy chuckled, as Donald sighed, frustrated.
"Haha, you guys are funny." T.K. said, laughing.
"A-hyuck! We sure are. We like to keep it that way."
"Yeah, I mean it was pretty funny when he used your head to bust into here."
"But, how come your head didn't crack wide open when you bashed into the wood?" Patamon asked.
"A-hyuck! Yeah! I can always take a few rough hits on my head!" Goofy said, tapping on his noggin. "I don't really mind being a battering ram. It's pretty fun to tell ya the truth."
"It is?" T.K. said, and Goofy nods. "Oh, well okay then. But, how come you guys are just busting into houses?"
"Well, we were here looking for the Keyblade Wielder."
The Keyblade wielder? He then thought of Kari, and how she had that mysterious Keyblade weapon. Could that be what these two were looking for? But, are they here to hurt her? They don't look like they would hurt Kari, but still. He was taking a little bit of caution
"You're looking for the Keyblade wielder?" T.K. said.
"Yeah. Have you seen 'em?"
"Well, what for?"
"Master Yen Sid said that she was in danger, so we're trying to find her to protect her." Donald said.
"And, that's what you're gonna do, right? Protect? Not hurt?"
"Of course!" Goofy said.
"Why are you asking that?" Donald said.
"Well, that Keyblade thing appeared in my friend, Kari's hand, so-" T.K. said.
"Oh! So the wielder's her!" Goofy said.
"Yeah."
"Gawrsh, we need to find her, quick. Who knows what the Heartless could do to her."
"So, can you help her? Cause, my friend is really sick."
"Of course!" Donald said. "I can heal her with my magic."
"You can do magic? For real?"
"Yep! Just show me to her, and I'll heal her right up!"
"Yeah, and you can count on me too!" Goofy said.
"Okay, I'll trust you guys." T.K. said. "Oh, we should probably introduce ourselves. I'm T.K., and this is my friend, Patamon."
"Hiya!" Patamon said.
"Donald Duck."
"Name's Goofy. Nice to meet ya."
"Ha ha, I like those names." T.K. said, as he likes the sounds of Donald and Goofy. "Okay, let's get going."
"Right!" The four then ran on out of the empty house, and were going on their way to get to Kari.
TO BE CONTINUED