Disclaimer: Sorry to disappoint you people that go around looking for someone to forget their disclaimers, but I don't own Digimon in any way. Thank and enjoy the fic.
(A/N: The next part will be the last of this series. I hope you are all enjoying it!)
Reflection Deception-Part X
Kari's eyes snapped open to a chillingly different world than that of what she was used to. For a moment, she wondered what had woken her so suddenly. Then she saw it: a vine wrapped around her leg and trying to pull her under the snow.
She screamed and tried to kick the vine away from her, but it only tightened its grip. As she was struggling, she saw another thing that made her even more confused. Sora and Joe were both lying a short distance away seemingly in a deep sleep.
"Joe! Sora! Help me!" Kari cried, fighting the living vine with all her might.
Neither of them answered or stirred.
Kari fearfully turned back to the vine that was wrapped around her and began to unwind it from her legs, using all her strength.
The vine wouldn't relinquish her so easily and it began pulling her slowly under the snow.
"Help!" she repeated, kicking wildly to escape.
The more she struggled, the harder the vine pulled until she was too deep into the snow to struggle.
Help me, somebody, Kari silently pleaded as her head disappeared under the sea of white.
~*~
"Joe! Sora! Help me!"
"Did you hear that?" Mimi asked of the others.
"It sounded like Kari," TK answered. "And it sounds like she's in trouble!"
Izzy nodded and added: "Joe and Sora must be with her."
The quartet raced toward the area Kari's cries had come from to find Joe and Sora, both in the same state that Izzy, Mimi and Matt had previously been in, but no Kari.
"But what happened to..." Mimi murmured, looking around for any sign of Kari in the vast wilderness.
Izzy quickly revived Sora while Mimi did the same for Joe.
After another hasty explanation of where they were, the six children began to leave to continue the search for their two missing friends.
Just as they were leaving, TK tripped over something projecting from the snow. Upon closer inspection, they looked like...
"Fingers?" he whispered. "Hey, come back!"
Matt, Izzy, Mimi, Joe and Sora quickly raced to TK's side all worried for the young boy.
"What is it, TK? What's wrong?" Matt inquired.
TK pointed to the fingertips just protruding from the snow.
Instinctively, Matt quickly dug the snow away from the fingers to expose a pair of hands. He grasped the hands and pulled with all his might to free the person who was trapped, but something was holding them under the snow.
He pulled again, but the person was firmly stuck.
Joe took one of the hands and helped Matt.
After a couple of moments, Kari flew out of the snow, making the other boys fall backwards.
Surprisingly, the young girl seemed to be all right, aside from the fact that she was cold from being in the snow.
"Thank you," she whispered as her teeth chattered.
~*~
What did any of us ever do to be here? Where IS here, come to think of it, Tai wondered, trying to see in his strange new surroundings.
It's... cold. Dark. Are the others even here?
Light suddenly flooded his senses and he looked about. He was in a hospital waiting room. His mother was pacing nervously and his father had a strained look on his face.
It seemed real, but no. No, it was a memory. Wasn't it?
Tai's cheek still stung from his mother's slap as the staunch doctor solemnly walked into the room.
"Is there any improvement? Is my baby all right?" Mrs. Kamiya demanded.
The doctor sighed and quietly answered: "I'm sorry, Mrs. Kamiya. We tried to save your daughter, but I'm afraid she didn't make it."
Mrs. Kamiya's eyes filled with tears and she glared at Tai with such a malignant anger it frightened him.
No, this isn't right! She's supposed to live! Tai mentally screamed. This has already happened and she LIVED!
A voice was drifting to him fainter than the faintest breeze and he strained to hear it. It sounded like Kari, but no... She was dead. Wasn't she?
Tai's eyes suddenly opened to see Kari and all six of his other friends.
"You're alive!" Tai happily cried, hugging his little sister tightly.
Kari smiled and answered: "of course I am."
Tai stopped hugging Kari upon noticing the snowy environment he was in and queried: "where are we?"
Before anybody could begin to explain, the world they were in suddenly dropped away leaving nothing but emptiness for the eight children to tumble into...
~*~
"I sure did get him!" mirror-TK stated as he lead the seven other reflections into the prison-like room.
"We were just about ready to put you back in the mirror," mirror-Izzy stated.
Mirror-Mimi glared around the room and savagely questioned: "where is he then?"
"He's... here," mirror-TK muttered.
"Where?" mirror-Joe shouted.
Mirror-TK noticed with growing unease that he was being forced backward to the mirror.
"Right... THERE!" he shouted, closing his eyes and pointing behind the other seven reflections.
As if by a miracle, TK suddenly appeared out of nowhere and fell onto the floor. Less than two seconds later, he was followed by Matt, Izzy, Mimi, Sora, Joe, Kari and Tai.
The seven reflections looked at mirror-TK with fire in their eyes. Mirror-Kari quietly said: "so you were going to betray us. Now I understand."
"Of course I wasn't! We've got to get them back in there!" mirror-TK quickly shouted, racing toward the originals, followed by the seven other reflections...
(A/N: The next part will be the last of this series. I hope you are all enjoying it!)
Reflection Deception-Part X
Kari's eyes snapped open to a chillingly different world than that of what she was used to. For a moment, she wondered what had woken her so suddenly. Then she saw it: a vine wrapped around her leg and trying to pull her under the snow.
She screamed and tried to kick the vine away from her, but it only tightened its grip. As she was struggling, she saw another thing that made her even more confused. Sora and Joe were both lying a short distance away seemingly in a deep sleep.
"Joe! Sora! Help me!" Kari cried, fighting the living vine with all her might.
Neither of them answered or stirred.
Kari fearfully turned back to the vine that was wrapped around her and began to unwind it from her legs, using all her strength.
The vine wouldn't relinquish her so easily and it began pulling her slowly under the snow.
"Help!" she repeated, kicking wildly to escape.
The more she struggled, the harder the vine pulled until she was too deep into the snow to struggle.
Help me, somebody, Kari silently pleaded as her head disappeared under the sea of white.
~*~
"Joe! Sora! Help me!"
"Did you hear that?" Mimi asked of the others.
"It sounded like Kari," TK answered. "And it sounds like she's in trouble!"
Izzy nodded and added: "Joe and Sora must be with her."
The quartet raced toward the area Kari's cries had come from to find Joe and Sora, both in the same state that Izzy, Mimi and Matt had previously been in, but no Kari.
"But what happened to..." Mimi murmured, looking around for any sign of Kari in the vast wilderness.
Izzy quickly revived Sora while Mimi did the same for Joe.
After another hasty explanation of where they were, the six children began to leave to continue the search for their two missing friends.
Just as they were leaving, TK tripped over something projecting from the snow. Upon closer inspection, they looked like...
"Fingers?" he whispered. "Hey, come back!"
Matt, Izzy, Mimi, Joe and Sora quickly raced to TK's side all worried for the young boy.
"What is it, TK? What's wrong?" Matt inquired.
TK pointed to the fingertips just protruding from the snow.
Instinctively, Matt quickly dug the snow away from the fingers to expose a pair of hands. He grasped the hands and pulled with all his might to free the person who was trapped, but something was holding them under the snow.
He pulled again, but the person was firmly stuck.
Joe took one of the hands and helped Matt.
After a couple of moments, Kari flew out of the snow, making the other boys fall backwards.
Surprisingly, the young girl seemed to be all right, aside from the fact that she was cold from being in the snow.
"Thank you," she whispered as her teeth chattered.
~*~
What did any of us ever do to be here? Where IS here, come to think of it, Tai wondered, trying to see in his strange new surroundings.
It's... cold. Dark. Are the others even here?
Light suddenly flooded his senses and he looked about. He was in a hospital waiting room. His mother was pacing nervously and his father had a strained look on his face.
It seemed real, but no. No, it was a memory. Wasn't it?
Tai's cheek still stung from his mother's slap as the staunch doctor solemnly walked into the room.
"Is there any improvement? Is my baby all right?" Mrs. Kamiya demanded.
The doctor sighed and quietly answered: "I'm sorry, Mrs. Kamiya. We tried to save your daughter, but I'm afraid she didn't make it."
Mrs. Kamiya's eyes filled with tears and she glared at Tai with such a malignant anger it frightened him.
No, this isn't right! She's supposed to live! Tai mentally screamed. This has already happened and she LIVED!
A voice was drifting to him fainter than the faintest breeze and he strained to hear it. It sounded like Kari, but no... She was dead. Wasn't she?
Tai's eyes suddenly opened to see Kari and all six of his other friends.
"You're alive!" Tai happily cried, hugging his little sister tightly.
Kari smiled and answered: "of course I am."
Tai stopped hugging Kari upon noticing the snowy environment he was in and queried: "where are we?"
Before anybody could begin to explain, the world they were in suddenly dropped away leaving nothing but emptiness for the eight children to tumble into...
~*~
"I sure did get him!" mirror-TK stated as he lead the seven other reflections into the prison-like room.
"We were just about ready to put you back in the mirror," mirror-Izzy stated.
Mirror-Mimi glared around the room and savagely questioned: "where is he then?"
"He's... here," mirror-TK muttered.
"Where?" mirror-Joe shouted.
Mirror-TK noticed with growing unease that he was being forced backward to the mirror.
"Right... THERE!" he shouted, closing his eyes and pointing behind the other seven reflections.
As if by a miracle, TK suddenly appeared out of nowhere and fell onto the floor. Less than two seconds later, he was followed by Matt, Izzy, Mimi, Sora, Joe, Kari and Tai.
The seven reflections looked at mirror-TK with fire in their eyes. Mirror-Kari quietly said: "so you were going to betray us. Now I understand."
"Of course I wasn't! We've got to get them back in there!" mirror-TK quickly shouted, racing toward the originals, followed by the seven other reflections...