Amongst the Shadows
Shines a light to guide
The Key to their destiny
CHAPTER 6
Traversing Among the Shadows
Ocean Between
The Toad Express was flown WAY back when the force of the darkness pushed it away. For some reason, they couldn't get their ship to go towards the remains on 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.
"Ohh, Yoshi wonder what happened to that Keyblade wielder and her friends…" Yoshi said worried.
"You don't think they got sucked into darkness, right?"
"Hey kid, you remember don't some people go somewhere whenever their world gets destroyed?" Luigi said at Sora.
"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 Delfino Island. "Oh. Well, I guess that's worth a shot, Tails take us to Delfino Island".
"Yes captain!" Tails affirmed and the group then directed the Toad Express out of range of the cloud of darkness, and changed their navigation to head on over to Delfino Island. 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 an island with the shape of a dolphin; probably that place is called Delfino Island.
Sirena Beach
The little girl's eyes fluttered open, and she sees that she was above to white rest chair. She was basically looking straight at another rest chair right now. She groans, and uses the white chair to support her, in order to get her up. She then takes a better look at her surroundings. She was definitely in tourist place by the hotel as well as a message saying Hotel Delfino. 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 floor. 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 place that she is completely unfamiliar with. The whole place was under a night sky, showing the beautiful stars, and one light in the hotel's door was keeping it.
"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 rest chair again. She decides to keep moving on, and try to find someone in the area.
Delfino Airport
Meanwhile in another part of Delfino Island the Toad Express landed in the airport. Sora, Luigi and Yoshi get out of the plane first class.
"Okay Masters, I wish you good luck finding the Keyblade wielder." Toadsworth said. He want go with the group, but he must remain on board, but a Lakitu accompany the group recording the people the people that Sora meets.
The same turtle on a cloud appeared, wearing glasses floated up to the group. He also held a camera on a fishing pole which was focused on Sora.
"Good nights, Lakitu Bros, here reporting live from aboard the Toad Express". Lakitu announced to the camera narrating. "We are back in this second part filming the live action of your entire adventure in the search of the next Keyblade wielder and her friends. As seasoned cameraman, we'll be shooting from the recommended angles provided by Toadsworth, but we will not get in the way of the many battles you will face. Anything you would like to say?"
"Sure. We are back from another adventure!" Sora said.
"I'm ever ready!" Luigi said.
"Yoshi wants meet the new Keyblade wielder"
"For now, reporting live, this has been the Lakitu Bros."
The Lakitu continues recording.
"Been a long time since we've been here again, huh?" Sora said.
"Yeah." Yoshi said.
"Alright, now where would that Keyblade wielder be?" Luigi said, continuing on without them. Sora and Yoshi looked at each other and shrugged.
"Hey, maybe we should split up." Sora said.
"Split up?" Luigi said, looking back at Sora.
"Yeah. Maybe we can cover more ground that way."
"Okay. So, which path should Yoshi and friends take first?" Yoshi said.
"I can look around the Sirena Beach. You guys can take Pinna Park. Then after we checked out everything in those places, we can search around of Delfino Plaza. We can meet back here after a while. But first we must check this place"
"Got it." Luigi nods.
Sora checked in the same place where ended by the first time, when his world got taken by the darkness. No one was there. The group does a full inspection just in case. Still, nobody was anywhere near there.
"Okay, well, it was worth the shot." Sora said a little worried.
"Hey kid, what's wrong?" Luigi asked at him.
"I'm starting to worry that we won't be able to find her" Sora answered.
"Don't worry kid; he could be ended in other part. We must find her" Luigi said and Sora nodded. Later the group takes a boat and rowing towards to Delfino Plaza.
Sirena Beach
Kari walks on through the side of the hotel and sees a circular garden, 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 an orange Pianta with yellow shirt running away from something. He stopped when he saw Kari on the path.
"O-Oh!" Kari exclaimed, finally seeing someone seemed like a digimon. "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 Pianta 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.
Delfino Plaza
When Sora, Luigi and Yoshi arrived in Delfino Plaza, they spited up. Sora goes by a red warp pipe straight to Sirena Beach; Luigi and Yoshi used the cannon straight to Pinna Park. And every member has to avoid the same monsters from Twilight Town.
Sirena Beach
T.K. awakens to be in some sort of cabin with only roof. There were coconut drinks and the others citizens are sleeping in your homes. He then gets up and search for 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 exits from the cabin and starts to search.
When T.K. climbed the stairs straight to the hotel he sees a girl lying unconscious.
"Kari!" T.K. yelled. He sees the girl lying unconscious on the road there, and he grew worried of her. He approached to her. "C'mon! Can't you guys take a break!?" Eventually, one of the monsters leapt forward, and tried attacking him, and the boy's instincts was to jump back to avoid it, but he falls onto him bottom. The monster tries to attack 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 more 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 second floor of the hotel, 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 and by luck the hotel have a message saying to the children can slept free in the hotel. "Come on, in here."
They then went into the hotel to find a bed to put Kari in, as Sora walks through Sirena Beach, and briefly saw someone going into the door of Hotel Delfino.
"Huh? Was that someone?" Sora said. "Better go check, just in case."
Hotel Delfino
The lobby itself was blue. The entire lobby was shaped like plus sign, around the lobby; receptions were at wooden desks selling times. There were tour maps, pamphlets for spots on the island, and a snack bar which had fruit out on display.
The manager from the hotel come to help the 8 year child, Patamon was acting like a toy and Gatomon was acting like common cat. "What I can help kids?" The manager said.
"My friend needs help, she is very sick" T.K. said referring to Kari. Gatomon meow worried near to her.
The manager put your hand in the forehead of her and she has fever. "Oh my! She was really burning. Don't worry; by luck I have one room available. I help you bringing the girl to the room?" The manager said.
"No thanks I can do it myself" T.K. answered at to him. The manager guided T.K. to the room.
In the second floor from the hotel there were 6 doors; the manager guided the children to the room A-6.
Room A-6
The room was fairly small for a hotel room, but it was enough for the four of them. It has a queen sized bed. There was a bathroom too. The manager exits from the room after guided them. Later 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 Wario Bros. guys said when they were 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 Delfino
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 Delfino Plaza…after getting knocked out by numerous Fireballs to the face from his soon to be friend.
The manager was there. "Oh Sora, how much time?" The manager said. "How can I help you?"
"I'm looking for someone, other person younger than me, she is very important to me" Sora said.
"Well, probably is sleeping in the room A-6."
"Thank you sir."
Right as he walked into the hotel, he saw a foot leave the ground, as someone had gone outside from the second floor of the Hotel, right as Sora walks right in.
"Huh? Who was that?" Sora said. He climbed in the stairs to the second floor, when he arrived 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 leads into room A-6, and wraps his hand on the door handle that had the number same number on it. He pulls, and it opens right up. This hotel doesn't really have anybody watching it. 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 Delfino Plaza.
"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 possess 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, Luigi and Yoshi 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 Star Spirit called Millennium Star, 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, the Millennium Star 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 are 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."
More Vilemon started to come after them through the second floor from the hotel.
"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 floor."
"Wait, the floor? 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 and jumped from the second floor and exit from the hotel.
The manager saw the group in action and said gasped. "Wow, is a déjà vu."
Pinna Park
Meanwhile, Luigi and Yoshi were investigating the beach of Pinna Park 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.
"Yoshi don't want go to that old house." Yoshi said, walking down from the ramp. He checked an old house Japanese style that they hid in once, but there doesn't seem to be anyone in there anymore. Luigi was checking around the garden, for some reason, considering it was a pretty skittish.
"Not in here either." Luigi said.
"Yoshi think to the Keyblade wielder really isn't here."
"What about Wiseman? Maybe he's in his house near to the entry of Pinna Park."
"Oh, maybe. Let's go pay Wiseman a visit."
Luigi nods and the two goes towards the direction of the house they were mentioning. They went up to a door that has a kanji 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.
Old house (exterior)
They see a small, boarded up house Japanese style 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.
"Where Luigi do think everybody is?" Yoshi said.
"Didn't Leon and the others go back to Hollow Bastion?" Luigi said.
"Yoshi think to remember something like that. But did Wiseman 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." Luigi 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 the coast after all. They tried going onto the rocks, however, they kind of had a rough time, and Luigi fell into the water. "WHA! This is going to take a little bit…"
Old house (interior)
T.K. pops his head out from a hole in the paper wall of the house. He and Patamon are exploring that place after they used a warp pipe in Sirena Beach straight to Pinna Park. 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 that place.
They had ended up in an abandoned house, 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.
"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.
"But no Yoshi's head!" They all heard a loud voice on the other side of a boarded entryway, and hearing something related with head, 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 Italian man dressed like plumber holding a green dinosaur, same of his size. The plumber apparently used the dinosaur as a battering ram. Upon a closer inspection, these two were actually Luigi and Yoshi, who apparently, they decided to use Yoshi's head in order to break into the house. As a result of that, Yoshi was moaning, having stars over his head, and spinning eyes.
"Good job, Yoshi." Luigi said, setting Yoshi down, who was still dazed and confused.
T.K. and Patamon were surprised with this sudden entrance of the two strange beings.
"Whoa. Who are they?" T.K. said. "The green dinosaur is a digimon, Patamon?"
"I don't think he is a Digimon." Patamon said.
"What?"
"Something about their scent doesn't feel right…er, I mean smell right."
Luigi 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 Yoshi, considering they almost look alike.
"Holy Macaroni! More of those monsters!" Luigi snapped. He immediately got the P3000 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!" Yoshi shouted, stopping them. "Yoshi think this might be a huge misunderstanding. From the looks of things, the orange hamster doesn'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 Luigi and Yoshi. "Do you know what those dark creatures are?"
"Of course. Yoshi and Luigi have been fighting them for a while!" Yoshi 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." Luigi 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 Luigi and Yoshi. "You guys were attacked by Digimon?"
"Digimon?" Luigi said.
"What's a Digimon?" Yoshi 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."
"Green boy know of these Digimom, uh, Digamon, um-" Yoshi was stuttering.
"Is Digimon, kid." Luigi corrected for Yoshi, who was struggling with remembering the name there.
"Right! Digimon." Yoshi chuckled, as Luigi sighed, with sarcasm.
"Haha, you guys are funny." T.K. said, laughing.
"*Giggling*. 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.
"Yeah! Yoshi can always take a few rough hits on my head!" Yoshi said, tapping on his noggin. "Yoshi don't really mind being a battering ram. It's pretty fun to tell you the truth."
"It is?" T.K. said, and Yoshi nods. "Oh, well okay then. But, how come you guys are just busting into houses?"
"Well, Yoshi and friends 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 see it kid?" Luigi asked at to him.
"Well, what for?"
"The Millennium Star said that she was in danger, so we're trying to find her to protect her." Luigi answered.
"And, that's what you're gonna do, right? Protect? Not hurt?"
"Yoshi do!" Yoshi said.
"Why are you asking that?" Luigi said.
"Well, that Keyblade thing appeared in my friend, Kari's hand, so-" T.K. said.
"Oh! The wielder is Kari!" Yoshi said.
"Yeah."
"Wow, Yoshi and Luigi 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 kid!" Luigi said. "I can heal her with magic spells."
"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 Yoshi too!" Yoshi 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."
"Hi!" Patamon said.
"I'm-a Luigi! Number one."
"Name's Yoshi. Nice to meet you T.K."
"Ha ha, I like those names." T.K. said, as he likes the sounds of Luigi and Yoshi. "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
