me: hey whaz up everyone . SRY! seriously, my pc has been out of it and i haven't been able to ubdate, whaaaaa... but no use cryin over spilled milk. ok as u all probably figured; TK's in this one! YAY! lol. I wanted to thank all u peoplez who have been reviewing! AWESOMENSS! (i luv sayin that. lol) kay, here we go!
! How can there be only nine places in the map?" Kari asked as they told her what had happened since fell asleep.
"We don't know." Izzy replied, looking over it for the thousanth time.
"At least we know where we're going now." Mimi added, trying to keep the atmosphere cheery,
"The only thing I'm curious about is where is Light Lagoon?" Matt asked. "The map says it's not too far from Earth Kingdom, so why didn't we see it?"
"I've heard rumors about that place." Tar said. "It's said that because it was so beautiful and full of happiness the evil god of power destroyed it. I haven't met anyone from Light Lagoon before."
"Well this map does look like it was made a long time ago. Maybe even before it was destroyed, and that's why it's on the map." Joe concluded.
"Then what about the Sage of Light? They have to be a direct bloodline from his/her ancestors that lived in Light Lagoon. That's why these places have been so specific." Sora said.
"Well let's go to where Light Lagoon is on the map, maybe there's a village or something nearby." Tai suggested.
! Luckily the Light Lagoon ruins weren't too far a journey. It would take them about a day and a half to reach, but that was nothing compared to the distances they had to walk before.
After walking all day they decided to rest and make camp. Tar was studying the map closely. Something didn't quite fit together about Light Lagoon. Surely mom and dad would have corrected it after Light Lagoon was destroyed.So why is it still here? she asked this question over and over in her mind. Then a thought hit her; what if it wasn't destroyed. Maybe it was just made to look that way. But again that only made more questions appear, such as why?
"Tar, you ok?" Izzy asked. She was jolted from her thoughts.
"Ummm...yea, I'm fine." she replied falsely.
"You've thought of something. About Light Lagoon, haven't you." he said.
"What makes you think that." she replied innocently.
"I haven't seen anyone stare at a piece of paper for 2 hours. Well, unless Joe got 120 on a school test." he said chuckling. Tar laughed a little too.
"Well, it's just that...why wouldn't my parents fix the map after Light Lagoon was desroyed?"
"So you think it wasn't destroyed, correct." he said looking at the map himself.
"Right. But then what could've happened to it?" she continued.
"I started wondering the same thing. After Kari told me your parents had the map and knew where it was." Izzy stated. "You'd think they would have done something to indicate that the ninth Sage is somewhere else."
"Exactly!" Tar exclaimed. She finally felt that someone understood what she was thinking. She turned her gaze from the map and Izzy to look at the rest of her friends. Joe's hair was sticking to his head since he had been trying to conjure up a stream of water, but they had all showered over him, soaking him. Matt and Mimi were watching Tai and Sora kick a fallen fruit around like a soccer ball. Kari had fallen asleep since she wasn't completely well yet. Everything seemed pretty normal, considering they were all magical Sages who had to save the world from the Dark Masters.
Day soon turned into dusk, and the sky had become a bright red. The Sages sat around a bright, cackling fire as the sun dropped behind the horizon. Silence was the only thing heard for miles, and it was an eerie feeling. The world seemed to hush after the deaths of the largest cities.
Reluctantly they all turned in, Joe, who still wanted to be able to master his powers took first watch followed by Sora and Tai.
As Tai began to fall asleep, Piedmon's voice started ringing in his ears.
"My Mistress has many plans, if one fails another takes it's place.'"
"I have seen your future, and she's right boy."
!(A/N: ok, in case you haven't figured it out, this is dream sequence)
The world was spinning wildly, everything was a blur of grey and black. Tai looked around when the dizziness ceased. The room reaked of evil from it's black silken curtains to the large round mirror that stood across from the elegant black bed.
He took a cautious step forward and the moment he did the door burst open with a great force.
A girl completely cloaked in darkness except for two bright red eyes stepped into the room. The moment she did a wave of pain crashed into Tai's skull, causing his vision to go blury. She stared directly into his eyes, which were full of question.
"So this is the great fire Sage. We meet at last." she said, her red eyes glistening. "I've been most anxious to meet you since the first time I contacted you."
"Who are you. And why do you keep entering my mind?" he demanded, clutching his head with his hand.
She chuckled as though the answer was the most obvious thing in the world. "I am a ruler of darkness who wishes to expand her rule. I enjoy torture and suffering like a hobby, especially to those goody-goodies like you and your ignorant friends. But in order to accomplish my goal of conquring Digitania I need you Sages out of the way. And what better way than to make you all join me or simply obliterate just one of you." Pleasure of the confusion, anger, and pain spreading across Tai's face, she walked forward, causing the pain Tai was experience to double with each step.
"Of course you already knew that the forces of darkness would be after you more than the other Sages. After all your filthy bastard of a mother told you before we could keep her mouth shut permanently." she smirked as flames began coursing through his eyes, but the pain was so intense that he was kneeling on the floor, his breathing was in fast gasps.
"Shut up you-"
"Na ah ah." she interrupted, for some reason Tai found that he couldn't speak. He wasn't at a loss for words, but still he couldn't even move now. "I have a power too. I am able to manipulate anyone I wish into doing what I want. That's why Piedmon turned into such a great subject, although he turned to me by free-will, sick and tired of that fool Myotismon. Although you are a particurlary difficult person to gain control over." she said eyeing him suspiciously.
"But what can't be done is just an obstacle that I will one day overcome. We will meet again boy." she said smirking. She placed a hand on his forehead and the pain was so unbearable that a few short screams escaped his mouth.
Tai bolted upright. Sweat streaming down his face and his heart beating madly. His breathing was in short gasps, his eyes were wide, and his head was jeering with an intense tormenting throbbing. He took several deep breaths, trying to calm his frantic heart.
The nightmare was far too real to be a simple dream. Questions began swimming through his head, the most obvious was how was he able to see her? She could get in his head, but how did she get in his dreams?
"Tai. You okay bro?" Tar, who had been awoken by by gasping, was looking at his fear-struck face with concern.
"Yea," he replied a little too quickly, "Just a bad dream or something." She eyed him skeptically.
"Liar," she muttered so silently Tai almost didn't catch it.
"Am not," he whispered back.
"Are too," she replied smirking.
Joe suddenly came storming towards them. "Guys! Guys!" he cried, flailing his arms. He stopped in front of them and put his hands on his knees, panting. "Guys...you..
.. gotta...see this."
"What Joe?" Tar asked. He motioned for them to follw him as he rushed off. Tar and Tai glanced at each other, but persued him anyway.
When they caught up to him he was staring into a lake, where a weird white glow was radiating from the depths.
"Whoa." Tar muttered, as though her tongue was tied into a knot and that was all she could manage to say.
"What do you think it is?" Joe asked.
"I don't know." Tai admitted. He knelt beside the water and placed a hand in the cool water. "But something down there is causing all this light."
"Joe, you're the water Sage." Tar said "Do some magic." Joe looked stumped, but sat beside Tai and the familiar blue aura formed around his hand. He moved it over the water's surface, but the water barely rippled.
"Well?" Tai said after waiting a few moments
"Nothing's happening." Joe exclaimed in shock. "It's like there's a magic barrier keeping me from using my powers."
Suddenly a hand shot up from the crystal water, grasping Joe's arm. Joe, who had screamed, was being pulled into the water by the force of the hand's owner, who was still concealed by the glow.
"Joe!" Tar and Tai cried in unsion when he toppled into the water. It all happened so fast that neither of them could've helped them, but as fast as the first had shown up, two more hands tore out of the once still water. One grabbed Tai's wrist and the other grabbed Tar's ankle. They were pulled into the water as fast as Joe was, and after the waves settled it appeared that nothing strange had taken place just moments before.
"Where are they." Sora grunted angrily.
The sun was shining above their heads and Tar, Tai, and Joe were no where to be found. Sora had woken when the first rays of light hit her face, realizing that she had never taken her turn for watch. She went to check if Joe had fallen asleep, but he wasn't there, and when she walked back to see if he had gone to sleep with the rest of them she noticed Tai and Tar were missing too.
She woke Matt, but he looked as dumbstruck as she did. "I haven't heard from any of them since last night." he said honestly.
Now they were all searching for any trace of them, but had no luck so far.
"They couldn't have just vanished into thin air." Kari stated.
"That's what worries me." Sora said as she thought of what could have happened right under their noses.
"Sora relax. You know if they were taken or something they would've put up a fight, but there's no evidence that shows there was a struggle. I'm guessing they went somewhere and got lost." Izzy soothed.
"Maybe." Sora replied. Or maybe they heard something in the forest and when they went to check it out they got themselves killed. She thought, panic started clouding her better judgement. That wasn't really what she was thinking, she was afraid about the voice Tai's been hearing. He'd been hearing it more frequently. What if that witch did something. She raged. I swear I'll kill her if she did something to them.
"Sora!" Mimi yelled from behind a group of trees. "Sora! Come here! I think I found something!" Sora felt her heart leap as she ran over to where Mimi was leering over a small lake.
"What's up Mimi?" she asked as she sat next to her. Mimi pointed at some footprints and two pairs of drag marks.
"Do you think-?" Mimi started. Sora stared at the lake, and for a second she saw Joe, Tai and Tar standing beside this lake, which was glowing. She shook her head to clear the vision. "Hello, Earth to Sora!" Mimi was waving a hand in front of her face.
Sora snapped out of her trance, "Huh? wha-?"
"Honestly Sora, if you're not going to listen to me could you at least make it seem like you are." she said in a very annoyed tone.
"Sorry Mimi," she said apologetically, "I guess I just spaced out."
"It's okay." Mimi reassured, her normal bubbly personality returning, "I do that when Izzy starts talking in his computer language." She giggled.
Sora stared into the mirror-like surface and her reflection stared back. For a second she could've sworn her reflection was motioning her to move closer to the water's edge."Hey Mimi. Wasn't Light Lagoon near a lake?" Sora asked.
Mimi thought about it for a second "Maybe we should ask Izzy."
When they returned to the campsite they found Matt, Kari and Izzy returning from searching the perimeter.
"Nothing." Matt said exhasperated, "We've looked all over the area. They've got to be farther in the forest."
"They wouldn't have gone too far without telling us. Joe's too responsible for that, and Tai and Tar...well...Joe's too responsible." Kari argued.
"I'll check my computer for any magical activity. If any of them used their powers it should show up if I do a scan around here." Izzy said pulling out his laptop.
"I don't think you'll need to scan the whole area Izzy," Sora said coming up next to him with Mimi on her tail. "I think we found where they went."
Mimi and Sora led the remaining Sages to the strange lake, and almost instantly an annoying beeping noise started echoing from Izzy's laptop. He typed a few buttons on the keyboard. "There's definately a lot of magic around here."
The beeping steadily increased in pitch until they got to the lake where it was loudest.
"This lake is full of magic." Kari said kneeling beside it.
"I think the magic is greatest at night." Sora concluded.
"What makes you say that?" Mimi asked.
"I saw it in a kind of vision earlier." Sora replied. "It was at night, and a strange white glow was coming from this lake, and all three of them were around it. And that's all I saw."
"Then maybe we should come back tonight." Matt said.
They all agreed and headed back to the campsite.
! The await for nightfall was probably the most anxious they had ever been. They were all very worried about their friends since they hadn't heard from them in nearly 24 hours.
When the sun finally dipped away from sight they made their way back to the lake, but nothing had changed.
"It's the same." Kari said gloomily.
"But that's impossible. Everything fits; the footprints, Sora's vision, the traces of magic." Matt said thunderstruck.
"Perhaps it has to have certain circumstances, like the position of the moon or a time of night." Izzy said logically.
"In that case maybe we should sleep here." Mimi added. While the talking continued. Kari lay on her stomache, this lake didn't seem evil at all, it felt tranquil and full of light. So why did Tar, Tai, and Joe disappear here? Her reflection suddenly morphed into a boy that shockingly reasembled Matt, but it shimmered and returned to normal in an instant.
"Who was that?" she asked herself.
"Who was who?" Mimi asked next to her.
"Didn't you see that boy?" Kari asked, feeling as though she were going crazy.
"What boy?" Mimi asked, very confused.
"Never mind." Kari sighed, "I guess I'm just tired." Mimi nodded.
They decided to sleep near the lake, although it was a restless attempt. It was completely dark. Not even a moon was present, and being surrounded by thick forest in the dead of night wasn't very comforting.
It was around midnight, the true witching hour, when Sora was awoken by a light shining through her eyelids.
"It can't be morning yet." she said as she groggily opened her eyes. As she sat up she gasped, for the lake that was before her was glowing eerily like the full moon. She crawled cautiously toward it and saw that the glow was comming from the bottom of the lake. "Guys!" she yelled, and at the sound of her voice they woke up.
"What's up Sora?" Matt asked as he rubbed his eyes.
"Prodigious, the light appears to be producing from something at the bottom of the lake." Izzy said in awe. "Something with very high levels of magic."
"Whatever's down there must be where they went." Kari said as she leered over the surface.
"Well, there's only one way to find out." Sora admitted. "And that's to go down there." She glanced around at everyone else, all expecting her to go first. She closed her eyes and inhaled deeply, then without a second thought she dove head-first into the still surface. She opened her eyes but saw nothing more than a blinding white light. Four simultanious splashes encouraged her to swim further through the uncharted territory.
She swam until she felt like her lungs would burst, but at that moment her hands pressed against a solid surface. The surface was like a hard, clear bubble that surrounded a beautiful city with tall gleaming towers and mirror-like houses. All gold and white colored. People dotted the pearly white ground below and instantly Sora assumed that this was the lost city Light Lagoon.
She suddenly remembered the need to breath and shot up toward the surface, gasping. Mimi and Kari's heads soon joined her above the water's surface with Matt and Izzy returning shortly after.
"You all saw that too, right?" Kari asked. Everyone nodded in reply.
"Light Lagoon. It never was destroyed. Tar was right." Izzy said, still amazed at what he had seen at the bottom of the lake.
"But why hasn't anyone noticed it? You'd think a glowing lake would attract people from Earth Kingdom." Mimi wondered aloud.
"Maybe it has. But because they want it to remain secret they have taken any travellers who have wittnessed the light captive." Sora replied.
"Do you think that's what happened to Joe, Tai and Tar?" Kari asked.
"It makes sense. But why haven't we been-" just as Izzy was asking the very question buzzing in their minds, he was plunged back into the water, soon followed, one by one, by the remaining Sages.
! Sora found herself awoken by a bright light forced down on her face. She sat upright, eyes wide as events from that evening became freshly engraved in her mind.
As she gazed around she knew at once that she was in the sparkling eutopia below the lake. Everything was made of pure gold and silver; buildings, houses, even clothing had trimmings of them.
It must be dawn. she realized. Light shown through the clear water and reflected majestically against the beautiful metals.
She tried to stand up, to explore the room she found herself in, but her legs felt like they had been replaced with blocks of ice. No feeling whatsoever, and even the slightest movement was a huge effort. Frustrated with her prediciment she glanced around the room, but there was nothing out of the ordinary, at least not for a lost city that supposidly was blown up hundreds of years earlier.
The room, much like everything else in the city, was gold and glimmering, with white curtains covering two large windows. Maybe Light Lagoon has always been down here. And because of the rumors of the powers of evil wanting it to be destroyed, they created a fake city and made it look like it was abolished. she thought cleverly.
At that moment a door opened and a boy no older than Kari walked in. Short blonde hair rested on top of his head, and dark blue pools made up his eyes. He looked so familiar that Sora wanted to slap herself because she couldn't remember his name, which seemed to be on the tip of her tongue.
He calmly walked into the room, and kneeled next to her. "You're Sora arn't you?" he asked, a small smile spreading across his face.
She looked at him for a second, then it hit her. "Tk?" He nodded. "I knew I'd seen you somewhere before." she exclaimed.
"Yep." he said beaming. "My mom's GL here." Sora looked taken back at this.
"We'll talk with the others. I'm sure they're dying to know the story too." Sora's brain was experiencing a jump-start. Due to her excitement of being in a world thought to be nonexsistant, she had forgotten all about her friends.
"By any chance, have you seen Tai and Tar Kamiya and Joe Kido?" she asked, thinking how dumb this question must sound.
"Yea. Some of our patrollers spotted them at the surface of our lake, and they were suspicious so they were brought down here." Tk replied matter-of-factly. "Speaking of which, they're all really anxious to see you." Tk's familiar innocent smile spread across his face.
The icey binds holding her legs to the ground suddenly vanished.
"How?" she stampered
"Sorry Sora, we had to make sure you were you." he said sheepishly. He offered her a hand, "So the Dark Masters are back, huh."
"How did you know about that?" she asked as they began walking out of the room. "Tai told me all about it. But...I don't think the temporary GL believes you guys." he said, his feet shifting slightly.
"The temporary GL?" Sora asked bewildered, "but I thought you said your mom-"
"She is." he interrupted, "but after hearing what Tai, Tar and Joe had to say she went to the surface. She left her chief advisor in charge, and I don't trust him." his eyes narrowing at the last statement.
"We'll have to make him believe us then." Sora alighted.
They walked through the flourishing hallways, which had gleaming chandellers hanging above their heads and long luxurious carpets stretched further than the eye could see. It was the strangest, most beautiful place Sora had ever been in.
They walked up a few corridors and down a staircase before reaching the GL's room. It looked more like a grand ballroom with it's glossy gold floors and a huge diamond chandeller that glittered like a star.
In the center of the room three figures stood, glaring hotly at one another. A boy, who looked a few years older than them (think 16) had identical blonde hair to Tk and Matt's and a long blue robe on. His steely blue eyes met angry dark blue and firey red.
"You don't expect me to believe you...kids...are really the Sages of Legend do you." the elder teen asked.
"For the billionth time Yes!" Tar exclaimed.
"Please," he spat sarcastically, "do you think a few simple tricks of light are really going to fool me."
"I'll give you tricks of light." Tai said, eyes flashing. Tar grasped his shoulder.
"What's going on?" Tk demanded as he walked in, seeing enough.
"Takeru!" the advisor jumped slightly.
"Tk, make this fool believe us." Tar said eyeing the advisor dangerously. Tai and the advisor were still glaring at each other through the corner of their eye.
"Alex, what they say is true." Tk said sighing.
"Yes of course." Alex said rolling his eyes.
"Glad to see you're both ok." Sora said, quickly stopping another outburst.
"Sora!" Tar and Tai cried gleefully, as though their argument with Alex the Advisor had never occured.
"Oh Sora, this is Alex. He's the advisor I was telling you about." Tk introduced.
"A pleasure to meet you miss. A shame someone with your class spends time with such...well you know what I mean." He kissed the back of her hand. Sora noticed fury on both Tai and Tar's faces. Tar nudged Tai when she felt heat radiation forming around him.
"These two happen to be my best friends." Sora spat, causing the annoying glint in his eyes to vanish. "And what they say is true."
"Of course it is." he said smirking. He took a golden pocket watch from his pocket (A/N: hence the name pocket watch ) and glanced at it. "Must be off. Important matters to discuss. Takeru, Sora." He bustled out into the main hall, his blue robes swishing against his legs.
"I deffinently don't trust him." Tk said, narrowing his eyes.
"If he keeps up that attitude there's not going to be much left to not trust." Tai said venomously. Flames lingered in his eyes for amoment before they cooled.
"Need some disinfectants for that hand?" Tar asked making a face of pure disgust. Sora couldn't contain her laughter.
"I don't trust him either." Sora agreed. "Something about him seems oddly familiar, though, don't you think?" She turned her attention to Tai and Tar.
"Yea." they said in unsion. "We were thinking the same thing." Tai added.
"Tk, I think now's as good a time as any for you to tell us what you were talking about earlier." Tar said.
"Ok, now that Sora's up I can tell you why we're down here." Tk replied.
"But where are the others?" Sora asked curiously.
"Sleeping." Tai said chuckling. Sora gave him, Tk and Tar confused looks. Tk motioned for them to follow. After rounding a few corridors they reached a large dome shaped room. Tk took a small silver key from his pocket and unlocked the door. When Sora entered she saw her five friends sprawled across the floor, blankets pulled over their shoulders.
She turned back to Tk, who was standing in the doorway. "It's customary for anyone that enters Light Lagoon to have his or her memory erased. The only reason Tar and Tai are still conscious is because we used the memory charm on Joe first, and for some reason it didn't work on Tai. Tar talked fast enough to tell me what happened, but hadn't told anyone else, so when you, Mimi, Izzy, Kari and Matt appeared I had enough time to keep you from the memory charm." Tk explained.
"But, wouldn't that mean they won't remember anything?" she asked.
"Luckily we always keep a counter charm or you'd be right." Tk said sheepishly.
"That's why they're out of it." Tar added. "The counter charm is like a sleeping potion. One whif and you're out cold for 2 days."
"I still want to know why it didn't affect you Tai." Tk added. Tai felt a lurch in his stomache.
Although you are particularly difficult to gain control over
He still wasn't sure if he should worry his friends about the encounter with the owner of the voice.
"Umm..." he started, when suddenly Alex burst through a door at the far end of the hallway.
"Takeru!" he ran toward him. "The Dark Masters, they're outside! Above the barrier!" They gasped after hearing this news.
"Come on!" Tk yelled as they rushed outside. When they finally came to a hault outside the castle-like building they saw many people and digimon running for shelter panic-stricken. They turned their attention to the sky and a dark snake-like shadow swerving above the barrier.
"Metal Seadramon!" Sora realized.
"If he uses his River of Power attack on the barrier everything and everyone here will be gone." Tai exclaimed.
"Yea, but what can we do?" Tk asked. Tai began forming a plan as fast as he could. He glanced at the barrier above, then at Tar and Sora, then back at Metal Seadramon's shadow, which was growing larger by the second.
"Tar, can you turn into that shadow underwater?" he asked.
"I guess." she said, a perplexed look on her face.
"Can you turn someone else into a shadow with you?" he continued.
"I don't know, I've never tried. But I think I can." she replied.
"Then you and Sora need to get to the top without being caught." he turned to Sora, "Since Joe's out cold, Sor, you'll need to use your magic on the lake." They both nodded.
"What should we do?" Tk asked.
"Tk, you need to try and calm everyone here. Get them inside the GL's meeting place." he comanded. He nodded and rushed toward the center of the city.
"What are you going to do?" Sora asked him.
"I'll try and get the others awake." he said simply. "Good luck." Tar's eyes began glowing the familiar pure white, and in an instant they were gone, but two shadows remained; one with white eyes and the other with crimson. The shadows scaled up the barrier and slipped through it with ease.
Tai watched them go until they were out of sight, then he turned on his heels and ran to where the others slept. He reached the dome room, but when he opened the door he realized it was unlocked. Tk hadn't locked the door when they left. A twange of worry stabbed him as he opened the door.
It was just as he feared, the room was empty. "You won't find them in there." a sinister voice said behind him. He turned his head and Alex was standing behind him.
"What are you doing here." Tai said menacingly.
"Kidnapping you Sages of course." he replied smirking.
"I thought you didn't believe us." his eyes burning.
"Oh, that was all an act. You see, my name's not really Alex, and I'm not really an advisor." as he said this, a mist started forming around his feet and moving upward. The figure doubled in size and his hair grew longer, and his eye-teeth suddenly grew in length. Alex the advisor was no longer standing before him, but instead Myotismon himself was looming sinisterly in front of the door. "Now I'm only missing three." His eyes flickered. "GRISLEY WING!" Bats of every size flew at Tai until the entire corridor was black with the flapping of thousands of wings.
Tai backed into the dome room and shut the door with a loud BANG as bats flew at the door. He presssed all his weight against the door and grasped the doorknob, which began melting including the lock holding the two door together. It wasn't going to last long and Tai knew that, but maybe long enough to devise a way of escape. The room had no doors or windows, so this wasn't going to be easy. The bats must have gone, the sound of flapping was emmiting away, but Myotismon was there for sure. He leaned his head against the door, trying to hear what Myotismon was saying. But as he did a bright red streak of lightning pierced through the door centimeters from where Tai was.
"You can't stay locked in there forever boy. And once I've captured the other two, my power will have no limits." Myotismon sneered. But Tai wasn't listening
Myotismon wouldn't of had enough time to capture them and get me. Whoever took the others wouldn't have gone outside this castle, or they'd attract attention. They're still here somewhere. he thought. He rushed to the back wall. The walls were metal, so they could easily be manipulated. He thrust his arm forward and a circular opening was left in the wall. He ran through it and behind him he could hear the crashing sound as the door exploded. He lost his footing from the immense force and a pile of debree fell on top of him. He quickly hoisted himself up using one of his arms and continued running through the corridor that was revealed.
I hope Sor and Tar are fairing better than I am. he thought as the wall in front of him suddenly collapsed, blocking him from proceding.
But things were going just as difficult for Sora and Tar. MetalSeadramon had proved that he wasn't going to leave the water, so they were forced to baattle beneath the surface. Sora was able to form air bubbles that formed over their mouths and noses, but MetalSeadramon was faster and slicker in the water than they were.
"RIVER OF POWER!" he cried, sending an icey blast at them. Tar held her hands in front of her and the attack was instantly thrown back. MetalSeadramon, with ease, looped over it.
"You pathetic attempt for a hero. You two really expect to beat me in my element." he said smirking. Tar and Sora exchanged glances, both aware that this was going to be far more difficult than before.
Suddenly an idea clicked in Sora's head. An underwater cyclone! Or a whirlpool! Now all she had to do was tell Tar without MetalSeadramon overhearing. She eyed Tar and as whisps of silver energy began forming around her hands and the water beggan rocking more violently; Tar seemed to get the message and returned to her shadow form before she was sucked into the insane cycle of water. MetalSeadramon's tail was soon caught in the swirling mass of water and was spinning uncontrallably (A/N: and since he's SO big, you can imagine what kinda cyclone that is). Sora smirked as her crimson eyes stopped glowing. She swam towards the dome as Tar cast a swarm of shadows beneath MetalSeadramon and shoved him above the surface.
With a final yell of triumph Tar turned them both into shadow form and slipped back through Light Lagoon's barrier.
Cheers and applause were what they were welcomed to when they landed back in the glamorous city.
Tk ran up to them, a huge smile on his face. "That was awesome! I bet Alex is going to have a hard time convincing us he doesn't believe you now."
"Let's hope." Tar said with a smug look on her face.
"Where's Tai." Sora asked when realization occured that he wasn't there with the rest of them.
"I haven't seen him, maybe he's still with the others." Tk replied.
"Let's go check." Tar solved.
When they reached the dome room they found the door forced open and slashes were scorched across the metallic surface. They walked in slowly, eyes wide with horror.
"What happened?" Sora asked.
"This-This has been done by a digimon." Tar said as she examined the slash marks. Tk's eyes suddenly doubled in size. "What if MetalSeadramon was just a diversion to get us away from the others."
Sora gasped, "And when Tai went back he must've met one of the other Dark Masters." Tar rushed into the room and saw the hole in the wall.
"He went through here." she yelled to the other two.
The three of them climbed through the hole, all of them noticing the scorch marks that alined the walls.
"Who do you think was down here with the others?" Tk asked.
"I'm guessing it had to be a higher ranking Dark Master." Tar replied.
"Myotismon, Piedmon, or LadyDevimon." Sora added. When they rounded another corner, they found it lead to a dead end and the scorch marks had vanished.
"This can't be right." Tk said perplexed as he walked toward the wall. "If they doubled back we would have run into them."
"They must've found another way, then." Tar said, looking at the ceiling and tapping on some of the walls.
"Why do you think the markings stopped?" Sora asked as she examined the walls with black soot on them.
Tar joined her and let her eyes wander over the walls. "The dark Master probably caught up with him."
Tk was still looking at the wall that finished the hall. (A/N: lol, that rhymes ) I don't remember this corridor being a dead end. he thought. He placed a hand on the wall, and to his astonishment, his hand went through the wall. "Sora, Tar, I think they went this way."
Sora and Tar turned their heads just in time to see Tk go through the wall. Their eyes went wide, they glanced at one another and followed hastly. When they emerged on the other side they found themselves in a very small room, but it was very different from the rest of Light Lagoon; the walls were made of black steel and large diamonds bordered the top of the walls. A gold chandellear hung from the center with rubies, and a large golden throne sat perched on a small landing on the far wall.
"What is this place?" Sora asked the air as she gazed around the room.
"The place where I become the strongest being in Digitania." a heartless voice hissed. They spun around and found themselves face to face with Myotismon, LadyDevimon, and Devimon. LadyDevimon tossed a few of her new gadgets at Tar and Sora and the metal claws bound their arms to their sides and knocked them over.
"Not...these...bloody...things...again." Tar said angrily as they stuggled to get her arms free. Tk rushed to their sides, but none of the Dark Masters took notice of him.
"Finally. 8 of the Sages are in my grasp. Two more and I shall rule all!" Myotismon proclaimed. He strut across the room, eyes flickering with triumph, he sat in the great throne looking at the beings before him. He smirked and snapped him fingers, in doing so the ceiling opened and the reamining Sages fell to the floor. All their arms were pinned, and, except for Matt, who were unconscious, were struggling to get free. Tk dashed to his brother's side.
"These are the deffenders or Digitania." he chuckled. "What a worthless bunch they are. You'd think the Great Leaders would have trusted their land with those more capible of actually doing some good." Everyone stopped struggling and their eyes began to glow, making the room gleam with a multi-colored radience. Myotismon smirked.
"Now who to start my rein with?" he said mercilessly. His eyes met each of the Sages, until they landed on one's. He stood up and strode toward Kari. He pulled her to her feet by grasping her neck.
"Kari!" Tai and Tar yelled in unsion. Devimon grabbed Tar's shoulders as her eyes started glowing whiter than ever, and LadyDevimon grasped Tai.
"Say good-bye to your precious sister." LadyDevimon hissed in his ear. Tk ran over and shoved his shoulder at Myotismon, who was surprised by this and dropped Kari to the floor.
"You ok?" he asked as he kneeled beside her. She nodded.
"Thanks Tk." she said grinning. One of the Elemental Crests around Tai's neck suddenly began glowing a dazzling yellow light. It flew over to Tk and dropped over his head. It suddenly errupted in a glow as bright as the sun and when it faded Tk had changed too; His hair had white streaks throughout it and his eyes were yellow with pink specks, he was wearing white shorts and a yellow shirt and his usual white hat.
"Kari's Elemental Crest began glowing brighter than it ever had and the two crests seemed to be glowing as one. The claw-like binds suddenly dematerialized realeasing all the Sages.
"What!" Myotismon seethed. Tar smirked as shadows spun around her and Devimon was thrown across the room, only to be hit by a shower of lightning bolts from Izzy and a flood of water from Joe. Tai burst into flames making LadyDevimon crash into the nearby wall, Sora formed a tornedo at her feet and LadyDevimon was hoisted into the air and slammed into the opposite wall, and Tai and Sora high-fived each other. Mimi shot sveral vines from her fingertips, pinning Myotismon to his throne and Tk and Kari, hand in hand, yellow and pink light spiraled from their hands and wrapped around Myotismon, they were pulled tight and Myotismon howled with pain and fury.
"Now who's worthless." Tar said angrily. Myotismon was panting, but he raised his head he had a sinister smirk and a deadly glint in his eyes.
"At least we won't drown." he pulled out a bat-shaped device with a bright red button on it, he pressed the button and at that moment all three of the Dark Masters faded into a black mist and disappeared.
"What do you think he meant by 'at least they won't drown'?" Sora asked fearfully. At that moment the entire city gave a great lurch, knocking nearly everyone to the ground.
"The barrier!" Tk exclaimed.
"Myotismon's going to destroy the barrier!" Kari added. They all rushed to the secret entrance only to find it was sealed.
"It's blocked." Tai said backing away from it. "Tar, do you think you could get all of us out?"
Tar bit her lip uncertainly. "I'll have to." They all grasped hands and Tar concentrated with all her might. Slowly, one by one, all the Sage's disappeared, leaving behind only their shadows and their different colored glowing eyes. they went up the celing and then through it. When they reached the outside of the great city they saw everyone running franticallly around. Tk hesitated looking at all the fearful faces, one jumped out at him, his mother. She must've returned from her voyage to the surface, only to be destroyed with the city. Tk couldn't leave, this was his home, these were the people he cared for most, he couldn't abandon them. Tk's mother looked over at the shadows as though hearing what he was thinking. She rushed over to where the multi-colored eyes were and looked directly into Tk's.
"Go Tk. You are needed far more than the rest of us are. Remember that this place will be with you always." she said soothingly. Tk's shadow nodded slowly and they all scaled the demolishing barrier and back up to the surface.
When they reached the surface they were cold and wet, it was dusk and their heads were filled with the fading image of the great city Light Lagoon.
"That's the nineth city that's been destroyed by the Dark Masters." Joe said spitfully.
"But it's also the nineth Sage that's been discovered since the quest started." Izzy added.
"Where do you think the 10th Sage is?" Mimi asked.
"There's nothing left on the map, so who knows." Tar said taking out the damp parchment.
"Maybe they're supposed to find us." Sora suggested.
"Our parents met long ago to say where the Sages lived, where we lived, so that the Kamiyas could record it on the map. But the 10th Sage's parents must not've come to the meeting." Izzy concluded.
"So where-" Matt, who had woken up recently was interrupted by a rainbow light radiating from behing a rock near the lake. They watched the light for a moment, and without warning the rock in front of it exploded. When the dust cleared it revealed an elderly man in a maroon robe that had white bushy eyebrows. They all stood up and walked towards him cautiously, only to find it was a holigram.
"Sages!" he said enthusistically, "I thought I'd never see the day when you were all together." The Sages glanced at one another.
"Uhh...thanks, but who are you exactly?" Tai asked.
"My name is Genni. And I will be helping you with your quest." he replied.
"Helping? How are you planning on helping?" Sora asked.
"Well just step into my dojo and I'll explain all I can." Genni replied.
"Uh huh. And where is your dojo?" Tar asked.
"You have the location." he said laughing.
"We do?" Kari asked.
"Look on the back of your map." Genni said. Tar flipped the map over, but it was blank.
"There's nothing here." she said, she was starting to think this guy was mental.
"Hold it up to the rainbow light." he replied. Tar did as he said, and before her eyes a new map formed on the back. It showed a small 'x' near the shore of where Digitopia once stood. "Meet me there and all your questions will be answered. Even your dream Tai." he said turning to him. Tai's eyes had grown wide when Genni said this. "Good bye for now children." and with that the holigram of Genni faded away.
"Sounds like we're heading back home." Tar said, her eyes saddened. They hadn't seen what happened to their home in the rush to get out of danger.
"We'll get through it together." Kari encouraged.
"We all will." Matt added. And with the atmosphere much cheerier and the thought of their questions finally being answered they started towards Digitopia.
! me: hope ya'll liked it! sry again for the delay, but my damn pc hasn't been working again and I just got it running yesterday. sooooo R&R! and it might take me till after the holidays to update, but i'll hurry with my next chapter!
AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
YamiYai: lol, course it gets tougher for them. I have a wicked mind like that, muwahahahahahaha, lol, ok. I'm kinda the same way, i can figure stuff out, but i almost always think about it a little later and it's like 'what' so yea, lol. THANX 4 THE REVIEW! (sry it took so long to get up) HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
MattxLuver: glad u like it ! sry it took so long to update :(, and when the holidays are over, u can bet i'm gonna update ! U ROCK DUDE! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
JyouraKoumi: ok listen u fuckin horre slut. i don't give a damn what u think of my story! i see ur reviews on every story i've read AND NOTHING PLEASES U! and i'm not gonna change my ways cuz some slut bitch like u doesn't agree wit me. and even if red isn't ur fave color u ass, it's still mine! and don't u dare bring my family into this! just because ur damn family don't care nuttin for u doesn't give me the right to insult them! and i hope u burn in hell! and how can u call urself a real Koumi fan? HELLO! even on koumi fanfics u're still complaining! i'm a Taiora fan for life, u mother fucking bitch, and i can like whatever I want, not what you want. Screw u bitch.
Crimson G: hey! long time no review, lol, no problem, i luv video games too, me and my sis just completed the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time game and that kept me busy while my stupid pc wasn't working, grrr... Sonic the Hedgehog rox! YAY! Thanx for the review! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
mysticalruby: YAY! glad u liked it! Thanx for the review! U ROCK! sry it took sooooooooooo long to update, stupid pc. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
HyperAnimeGirl: ur welcome, and thanx for the compliment bout my name . and glad u like the chapter! U'RE AWESOME! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
iamkagomeiluvinuyasha: lol, GO FOR IT! i hate my teachers too . sry it took me sooooooo long to update, i curse this fricken pc! and glad u liked my chapt. that makes me REALLY happy (hyper happy, lol) and that stuff caused Tai to have the dream (oooooohhhh, ahhhhhhh) lol. U R AWESOME! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU!
star: YAY! I LUV COOKIES! lol. and if u loved the length of the last chapt, this one must be even better YAY! and taiora fluff good . sooooooooo sry it took me ages to update. CURSE U PC! lol. okay then glad u liked the chapt! u deserve a cookie too . CUZ...(oh boy here it comes) U ROCK! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
battousai-clau: YAY! glad u like the last chapt! and, again, sry my stupid pc is stupid, lol. otherwise this chapt would've been up waaaaaaaaaaaay sooner. THANX FOR THE REVIEW! AND HAVE A VERY HAPPY HOLIDAY!
Rayana Wolfer: YAY! i luv ur reviews XD! Well, that stuff made Tai be able to see the owner of the voice . (lol, me no likey anxiety either, makes my brain hurt, lol) YAY! I had to make Joe the big hero, course . That's how I c him; big hero with a big brain and big fears, lol. and yea i know i rock, lol, j/k. BUT U ROCK MORE! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
