A/N: Is it just me, or am I typing these too fast? Maybe I should stop. Or maybe not, I don't know.
This chapter has been revised! :) 9/16/14
Disclaimer: Do you guys really think that I own Digimon?
Enjoy.
Koushiro "Izzy" Izumi waited for everyone to arrive. He had received an email on his laptop earlier that day from Hikari. She told him to call a DigiDestined meeting; for what reason Koushiro did not know. He had sent a email out to the rest of the DigiDestined telling them to come to his house for an "emergency" meeting. He assumed that it was an emergency. Why else would Hikari tell him to call a meeting 'right away' as she had put it. So far everyone had arrived save for Ken and Daisuke, the latter always being late. But Ken was another story. Koushiro had brushed it off because Ken had emailed him and said that he couldn't make it. Ken was a busy boy after all. Although what on Earth he was doing at eleven-thirty at night Koushiro couldn't fathom.
Daisuke came running through the door, panting. "Sorry that I'm late."
"And what's your excuse this time?" Miyako asked, crossing her arms over chest.
"My parents wouldn't let me out of the house." Daisuke told them, taking a seat in Koushiro's room. "It's almost midnight!"
"Can't argue with that." Takeru said, smiling. "My mom wouldn't let me out of the house either."
"We're getting off topic! I emailed you all for a reason." Koushiro told them.
"Wait!" Daisuke called out. They all turned they're heads, curious about the disruption. "We can't start without Ken! Where is he?"
"Ken can't make it, he's busy tonight." Koushiro told him. Daisuke nodded, though the confused look on his face gave him away.
"Can we get to the reason why we're at your house instead of sleeping?" Yamato asked annoyed. His, much like the others', hair was messy and undone. They all had bed head because they didn't take the time to look presentable and just rushed over to Koushiro's house.
"Right. For that answer you would need to ask Kari because I have no idea why you are all here at this time of night." Koushiro admitted. All heads turned towards Hikari.
All heads turned toward Hikari. Takeru gave her hand a quick squeeze before she took a deep breath and stood up. Everyone adjusted themselves so that they were sitting facing Hikari.
"What's up Kari?" Taichi asked concerned.
'Worried about his baby sister.' Hikari said laughing inwardly. But on the outside she was all frowns. She took yet another deep breath as she stalled for time. This was not a conversation that she was looking forward to having.
"Kari?" Miyako asked with concern in her voice. Hikari looked down at her best friend.
"Go ahead Kar. Tell them." Takeru pushed. Hikari nodded and took a final deep breath. She had waited two months to say this, in which time she had been threatened even more. Ever since her first encounter with the dark angel Digimon the Dark World had become more assertive, even slightly aggressive. They no longer tried to be her friend.
Hikari kept her eyes on her feet. "About a month ago, during school, the Dark Ocean tried to take me." Gasps from everyone in the room. "Luckily I won the fight but, right after, I passed out." She looked around the room at her friends. They were all listening intently. Even Daisuke seemed to be interested in what she was saying, and his attention was hard to get. "All three of them were there. But they didn't attack. Devimon acted friendly...a little too friendly."
"The next time I see that-" Taichi began to stand up until Joe grabbed his arm and pulled him back down. Once Taichi had settled Hikari continued.
"I woke up in the nurse's office later that day. Since that day the Dark Ocean has come calling more and more frequently. They've stopped trying to be my friend. They've gone back to other methods." She rolled up her pajama sleeve to reveal claw marks. "Such as scratching, shoving, biting, and even smacking." Hikari rubbed her left cheek at the memory. She scanned the faces in the room once more, trying to gauge their reactions. Some of them seemed shocked, others scared, and a couple seemed indifferent. Mimi voiced Hikari's thoughts a few moments later.
"I wish Ken was here. Then we could compare what's happening to you to whatever is happening to him." she said. Hikari was worried about Ken. He had been bothered by the Dark Ocean long before she had even met him. From what she understood, he has been bothered by the Dark Ocean for about as long as she had been saving the Digital World.
Whatever was happening to him was bound to be worse then what was happening to her. Hikari sat back down with nothing else to say. A few minutes of silence passed throughout the room.
"What did he tell you?" Iori asked Hikari, breaking the silence. Hikari shook her head. She'd rather not answer that question. Unfortunately the DigiDestined were not a group who gave up easily.
"Kari, we get it that you might not want to tell us. But if Devimon, Daemon, or even Dragomon said something important then we need to know. The more we know about what they want, the better." Koushiro insisted. She sighed. She didn't want to talk about it anymore than she already had, but she reluctantly told them everything.
"Dragomon wants me to be his Queen. Nothing ever changes with that bastard. Daemon wants...well I'm not a hundred percent sure. He doesn't speak often and when he does he never talks about what he wants, although I would assume that it has something to do with Ken. Devimon is always the most straight forward, and usually does most of the talking." Hikari told them.
"Right, right. But you failed to tell us one thing." Yamato informed her.
"What did Devimon want?" Sora said, speaking up for the first time while still rubbing sleep out of her eyes. Hikari gulped.
"Devimon wants TK."
"What did Devimon want?" Sora prompted Hikari. Takeru listened intently, glued on every word, just like everyone there.
"Devimon wants TK." Takeru's heart nearly stopped inside his chest. There's that nausea again. Did he just hear his girlfriend right? He snapped his head towards her. Eyes wide. In hind sight he should have expected this. Is was Patamon – more specifically Angemon – who had gotten the best of Devimon. The others confirmed that what Hikari said had been real when they all simultaneously looked at him. Takeru gulped and reddened under their gazes. They all wore the same expression: concern. Even Iori had let his guard down and showed concern.
"TK? As in me TK?" Takeru asked sounding dumb. Hikari shook her head as tears started forming in her eyes.
"Have his touched you? Where is he? Has he tried to take you to the Dark Ocean?" Yamato bombarded Takeru with questions.
"No, I don't know, and no." Takeru asked trying to make sure he answered every question. Time for another dumb question. "What does he want with me?"
Hikari shook her head again. "I think...I think that he...he wants you...dead." Hikari choked up on the last word. Takeru wanted to cry. He wanted to pull his knees up to his chest and cry. But he didn't do that. He just sat there staring at a wall.
"Are you okay TK?" Joe asked the younger blonde. TK nodded slowly faking lethargy.
"Yea, just kinda tired." TK told the blu-haired man, reciting his infamous line.
"We all are. It's already past midnight!" Sora complained. "I want some sleep!"
"Sleep is good for people who are sick." Joe pointed out about Sora. They all looked at Joe quizzically, momentarily distracted from the Devimon threat. "Sora has been feeling ill lately." Joe said, seeming to know more than he was letting on.
"You have?" Yamato asked, rubbing her back. She nodded as she rested her head on his shoulder while holding her stomach. "Is that why I've noticed you holding your stomach all the time?" There was a moments hesitation before she nodded yes, as if she was unsure of the answer. Or she was lying. Too tired to keep the conversation going, they all looked back at Takeru. He was thankful for the momentary distraction, but now all eyes were back on him.
"What are we going to do with TK?" Koushiro asked no one inparticular. Takeru didn't feel gracious about being talked about like an object. He was about to speak up but someone else did first.
"Protect him of course!" Taichi pointed out, clearly annoyed with how idiotic Koushiro was this night.
"Yes but the question is how are we planning on protecting TK from a villain that is in another world that we can't even get to?" Koushiro clarified this thoughts for the rest of the pajama-clad group.
Daisuke suddenly jumped a little bit as an idea formed inside his head. "Hey Yolei?" he asked. Miyako looked at him. Curiosity written all over her face.
"What is it Davis?" she asked, her face scrunched up in confusion.
"Do you think that you could call Ken and ask him if he can open another portal to the Dark Ocean?" Daisuke asked her. She looked surprised.
"Like he did when we were fighting Daemon?" Miyako asked. Daisuke nodded.
"Exactly like that. Except this time we'll jump through it instead of sending a Digimon."
"I guess so. I'll go try to call now. He might pick up if it's me and he knows that we're having a DigiDestined meeting." Miyako stood up and walked out of Koushiro's room.
"THE DIGIMON!" Iori yelled out suddenly. Everyone turned their startled heads towards him. "How could we forget! How are we planning on fighting without our Digimon!"
"Cody's right. First we need to find a way into the Digital World." Koushiro agreed. "And we might need the help of the Legendary Warriors."
"How are we supposed to get them into the Digital World? Aren't they too old?" Joe said, putting it as nicely as possible.
"Aren't we too old?" Yamato questioned right back. Joe hung his head.
"I hadn't thought of that! What if we can't go through the DigiPortal because we don't have – how did Oikawa put it – the innocence of a child?" Joe asked worriedly. "What if we can never see our Digimon again?"
Taichi sighed. "Calm down Joe. We'll find a way in. We are DigiDestined after all! You forget what we've accomplished before!"
"Yea! If we need to, we'll go to the Digital World in another tsunami or rainbow if it comes down to it!" Sora said getting hyped. Joe laughed.
"Right. I guess I forgot about how determined and stubborn we all are." Joe said jokingly.
"But both of those are good questions. How are we supposed to get the Warriors and us anywhere." Koushiro asked, again, to no one. He was holding his chin in his trademark thinking position. That's when Miyako walked back into Koushiro's room.
"Any luck?" Hikari asked her purple haired friend. Miyako shook her head in confusion.
"It didn't even go to voice mail. It just rang and then it didn't. I tried several times. I finally resigned to calling him on Izzy's home phone. He finally picked up but..." Miyako trailed off. What could Ken have said to her to upset her this much, Takeru wondered.
"But..." Takeru prompted, using the same stubbornness that everyone else had this night. Miyako shook her head.
"He snapped at me."
~Flashback~
One, two, three, four, "Who is it?" a sharp voice finally picked up on the other end of them line.
"Ken? Why didn't you pick up before?" Miyako asked. Silence was her only reply.
"What do you want?" he asked her sharply with a slight emphasis on the word 'want'.
Miyako was surprised. This wasn't like the timid Ken that she knew and loved. "Um...well..." Miyako momentarily forgot what she was going to ask because of her surprise.
"Spit it out already!" Ken yelled. Miyako almost burst into tears right there and then. Had it been Daisuke or anyone else (with the exception of Hikari, Takeru, and Iori) on the other end of that line she would have yelled right back.
"We were wondering if...if you could get us into the Dark Ocean." Miyako told him. Why was she being timid all of a sudden. This was not her at all.
"No. Now I have business to attend to." and with that Ken hung up. Shock was too subtle a word to describe what Miyako was feeling. Miyako began counting everything that was wrong with what just happened.
'1) Ken didn't pick up until the fifth or sixth time that I called. 2) He didn't say my name once. 3) He talked sharply and forcefully towards me, as if I wasn't worth his time. 4) He snapped at me, and he snapped at me good. 5) His personality apparently did a 360. 6) He answered with a simple but sharp no, then said that he had 'business to attend to' at twelve thirty in the morning. 7) He didn't even say 'goodbye' or 'love you' or 'have a nice night' like he usually did. He just hung up.' Miyako thought. Quite the long list. She stood there with the land line held firm in her grip. She came back to her senses when she heard Joe having a panic attack in Koushiro's room. He put the phone back on the hook and walked back to Koushiro's room.
~End Flashback~
"He snapped at you?" Takeru asked in surprise. It was unlike Ken to snap, especially toward Miyako. Miyako nodded on the verge of tears. Miyako was not skilled at holding in her emotions, so it was a surprise to no one when she hugged her legs to her chest and cried.
"Why?" Hikari asked. Takeru was about to ask the same thing, but the brunette teen beat him to it.
"I don't know. He picked up and he immediately used an awful attitude towards me before I had even said anything!" Miyako yelled in disbelief.
"Maybe he was in the middle of an argument with the Emperor?" Mimi suggested. Miyako shook her head.
"I don't think so but maybe. I did say that he had business to attend to."
"Business? This early in the morning?" Sora whined.
"Yup." Miyako confirmed.
Taichi sighed. "What's say we all go home and sleep, then deal with this better in the morning?" A loud 'yes' of relief could be heard escaping the mouths of the rest of the DigiDestined. They all said goodbye then dispersed to their respective homes.
"Come on you stupid device!" the Emperor yelled at his D3. He growled at it and reached it out towards his computer again. "DigiPort open!" he yelled reciting the classic line. Nothing happened. He threw his D3 at his bedroom wall.
"Ken? Are you okay in there? May we please come in?" Ken's mother asked him in a caring tone.
"No!" the Emperor yelled back. The last thing he needed were his whiny parents. It had been difficult enough to get rid of that other whiny girl. She had called him six times. She really was a persistent little wench. It had been easy enough getting out of hanging out with those brats though. He just needed to say that he was busy. It was more difficult at places like school. He talked to no one, sat alone at lunch, walked home by himself, then locked himself in his room.
"Someone is here to see you Ken." his father called out. He wished that he still had his whip. His name was not Ken! He was the Digimon Emperor!
"Send them away!" the Emperor commanded.
"It's Miyako!" his dad persisted. The Emperor growled. That girl again. When was she going to give up? There was a knock on his bedroom door. The Emperor rolled his eyes.
"Ken? Are...are you in there?" he heard Miyako's voice say. It was shallow and shaky. Good. He had made her cry. "Ken?" she repeated after she had gotten no answer.
"Go! Shoo!" the Emperor commanded.
"No Ken!" Miyako persisted. The Emperor face palmed. This was one stubborn girl.
"Fine!" he walked over to his door and unlocked it. Miyako came in as soon as she heard the click of the lock. She ran right up to him and rested herself against his chest. The Emperor jumped back. NO ONE touched him! Especially not this girl! "Don't touch me!"
Miyako widened her eyes in horror. "K-Ken. W-What do you mean?" Miyako asked, using all of her strength. The Emperor enjoyed watching her suffer.
"Are my words to big for you? I said don't touch me!" The Emperor repeated. He smirked at the look on her face when he said that. "Now tell me why you are here then get out of my room!" He ordered, pointing at the door.
Miyako took a second to speak. "I came here because I was worried about you Ken." She told him. The Emperor resisted the urge to slap her. His parents were to close for comfort. "You didn't come to the meeting, and you never talk to me, Kari, or anyone anymore. And you yelled at me Ken. Is something stressing you out?" Miyako asked him.
"My business is none of your concern, now out of my room!" he said, point at the door once more. Miyako looked at him in awe.
"Ken, if I did something to upset you I really am sorry." Miyako apologized. It sickened the Emperor.
"I said out!" The Emperor screamed, on the verge of hitting her.
She took a step closer to him and put a hand on his shoulder. "I love you Ken. I mean it. If there is something that's worrying you, you can tell me. Or if I did something wrong, please let me know." she pleaded. Then the Emperor smacked her.
Miyako stood there holding her cheek, tears streaming down her face. Ken had just slapped her. Ken Ichijouji; Mr. Kindness; her Ken. She looked over at him, unable to comprehend what had just transpired.
"Can't take one little hit? Boy you are weak!" Ken mocked her. Why was he doing this? What was the point? Was he mad at her? Obviously.
"K...Ken. Wh...why? What did...I do?" Miyako choked out. She wanted a straight answer from Ken. She hadn't gotten one all night, and she wasn't leaving without one.
"I don't have to answer to the likes of you!" Ken yelled. "Now get out of my room you brat!" Miyako was shocked, but didn't give up. Ken was just having a bad day. She was sure of it.
"Look...look at me Ken." She stated, although her timid tone made it more of a question. What was he doing to her!
"Get-"
"KEN!" Miayko screeched in agony. Ken didn't even flinch.
"-out" he finished. Miyako couldn't stand it. She had been in Ken's house plenty of time; they all had. They had hung out in his room before, many times. She's even slept over here a couple times, and now here he was ordering her to get out.
"Please don't do this Ken!" Miyako begged, earning a kick to the kneecap. Miyako removed her hand from her cheek and moved them both to her now hurting knees. Why was he abusing her all of a sudden? A slap is one thing. Miyako had slapped people plenty of times, but this was fighting. Real fighting. Now she was getting worried about Ken starting a fist fight. "Is this what you want?"
"I don't want anything from you!" Ken said slicing through the air with his arm.
"Are...are you...please don't be...d...d..." Miyako couldn't say the last two words. 'dumping me' she thought. Ken groaned. Was it annoyance that Miyako heard in the groan?
"You know what? Yes, yes I am. Now get out of my face, bitch!" Miyako flinched. He said it. He actually dumped her. And called her a bitch. Miyako opened her mouth to try and talk, but no words came out. For the first time in her life, Miyako was speechless. She shook her head then ran out of Ken's room, through his house, and out the door.
"Hey mom?" Hikari asked as she cooked dinner. She didn't really want to, but it was that or get food poisoning from her mom.
"What is it Kari?" Zoey asked, curious as to what Hikari wanted.
"I was wondering...when you were in the Digital World...what kinds of evil Digimon did you face?" Hikari knew that the question was sudden, but she needed to know more about her parent's adventure in the Digital World.
"Lot's of different kinds. Some a bit more complicated than others." Zoey replied as vaguely as possible.
"Like what? Did any of them come back?" Hikari asked. She wanted to know if her mom had to face people like Myotismon, Devimon, and Diaboromon as well. Or if her enemies were more along the lines of the Dark Masters, Arukenimon, and Mummymon.
"One of them was turned good, died, then was reborn. Five of them were...cleansed...then their spirits helped us fight. One of them turned good. And one of them was killed." Zoey said the last sentence with finality to it. One part of the sentence in particular had caught Hikari's attention.
'One of them turned good...' "One of your enemies, the one who was evil then went good. Did it join you? Was it a Digimon?" Hikari asked. This sounded awful familiar.
"He did join us. But he wasn't a Digimon. He was all human, but just his spirit. His physical body was in the hospital after he had an accident. He nearly died." Zoey said, a frown forming on her face.
"Really?" Hikari asked, seeing if her mom would willing give up anymore information, or if Hikari would have to ask more questions.
"Yea." her mom said.
"What was this guy's name?" Hikari asked slowly. She needed this information. It must have been another Legendary Warrior and she wanted to know which one. Her mom made no move to answer.
"Mom? Who was the evil guy?" Hikari persisted.
"My brother." a voice came from the doorway of the apartment. Both Zoey and Hikari turned their heads towards the voice.
"Dad. What's up?" Hikari said nervously, acting suspiciously like her brother.
"My brother. He's the one who tried to kill us then later chose to join us." Koji said as he walked over and sat on the arm of the couch. Hikari nodded slowly processing this. Then it hit her.
"Uncle Koichi?" she yelled out. Both of her parents nodded. "But why?" Hikari was confused. Her Uncle Koichi was the most caring, fun loving, carefree person she knew. Other than Taichi.
"Cherubimon corrupted him in his lowest moment." Koji said, frowning. He got up and walked off into another room.
"Is Dad okay?" Hikari asked her mother. Zoey waved it off.
"He'll be fine. He always is. He's just a lone wolf, and he likes it that way." Hikari laughed. A question suddenly came into her mind.
"How did you and Dad meet?" Hikari asked. It was a classic question for a kid to ask their parents.
"The Digital World of course!" Zoey said it as if Hikari was stupid. Hikari sighed.
"No, I mean like when did you guys start dating? Was he your first love?" Hikari wanted the details. She wanted to compare her relationship with Takeru with her parent's relationship.
"Let's just say this; you're father wasn't my first choice." her mom gave Hikari a pat on the back, then walked off into her room.
A/N: So here we go! I like this chapter, but what about you guys. It's so hard to write for the Emperor! I also added a bit of the Warrior info for Hikari at the end. I might give the Warriors their own chapter. What about it? Review please!
~animegirl336
