This was certainly an interesting chapter to write . . . Once again this chapter is pretty violent, so don't say I didn't warn you. Also the reviews are greatly appreciated, they're the only reason I continue so thank you to those who've reviewed. Good luck.
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Back into the forest, the rest of the group was searching the woods for Tai and calling out. "How far could her really have gotten?" Patamon asked as Tk was running ahead looking. Davis was right behind him with Veemon on his trail. "Wait, hey Te-kah did you hear that?" Davis offered in front of him.
"Real clever by the way running those letters together" Tk called behind him. "Yeah well . . . But did you hear that? It sounded like laughter" Davis said seriously. Tk stopped his jog and looked at Davis "Where'd it come from?" "This way" Davis said running in a new direction weaving through trees.
"Hey wait up!" Sora said at the back of the group helping Matt along with Gabumon and Byomon bringing up the rear. "You doing ok?" Sora asked for the umpteenth time. "Yeah, I'm find lets go" Matt said rushing along to catch up.
Soon Davis and Tk came to a small pond with a rock structure next to it. "Hey check out the grass around here" Tk pointed to a few patches of grass that had been kicked up. "He had to have been here" Davis said looking over at the pond. For some reason it seemed to send shivers down his spine.
Before any more progress was made Ken emerged from the woods along with Izzy and Tentamon. "What's the going the verdict?" Ken asked looking around. "He's been here," Veemon said. After another moment Yolei, Cody, Kari, Gatomon, Sora, Matt, Byomon, and Gabumon came into the area. And as if on cue, a scream that was unmistakably Tai's came from beyond the hill of the rocks.
"Lets go" Davis said starting after the sound with the group right behind him ready for anything. Yet, there was nothing that could prepare them for what was to come.
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"Joe what was that?" Mimi asked looking around. "That almost sounded like Tai" Joe said confused "come one." Joe grabbed Mimi's hand and pulled her up rocky hill.
When they reached the top they found that it over looked a city, a city that was all too similar to Tokyo. In fact the hill it's self was rock slope on all sides except for the side that faced the city, that side was actually concrete building that seemed to be at least three stories tall.
"Jeese, this place is random" Joe commented. With a noise behind them, they both turned quickly to see Tai standing and panting wildly with his hands in his pockets. "Oh my God Tai! I'm I glad to see you. Mimi and I got sucked into here and we can't seem to find our way out. Man it's been a while hasn't it?" Joe said coming closer and pulling Tai into an embrace.
There was a sickening tearing sound and Joe backed away to find that Tai had stabbed him in the gut. Tai pulled out the knife and turned his head to the side with gritted teeth. "I'm so sorry Joe" Tai said sounding psychotic. Joe looked down at his wound in disbelief putting his hand over it and grimacing. He pulled his hand away to find it covered in blood.
Joe stumbled back a few steps before falling into a sitting position. "No! Tai how could you!" Mimi screamed before charging Tai. She started to hit his chest over and over again with as much force as she could muster. Tai pushed her away and she fell to the ground.
"It's for your own good" Tai said crying and shaking uncontrollably. Tai came kneeled down in front of Joe and grabbed his neck and pulled him closer. "I love you Joe" Tai whispered putting the knife to his throat. The knife was sharp enough to immediately draw some blood with the it just pressed against his neck next to his major artery.
And with a dull thud Tai crumbled to the ground with Mimi standing above his for with the bloody rock that she had hit him with. "Joe! Speak to me, Joe!" Mimi said spastically while she knelt next to him examining him. Joe didn't know where he was any more, he was going into shock.
Suddenly Mimi was backhanded and she fell to the ground. "Well aren't we the naughty child?" Pal asked overlooking the scene. "My boy Tai has work to do and I'd ask you not to impede him."
Just then the group made it to the top of the hill to see Tai standing all the way to his feet holding a blood soaked knife while both Mimi and Joe lay on the ground motionless. "What the hell is going on here?" Ken asked horrified. Tai looked over at them with an animalistic rage and broken heart.
"Tai what have you done?" Tk asked disturbed by the scene in front of him. "I'm sorry Tk, everyone . . . But the things I've seen, the things he shows you. I can never go back to the way things were" Tai said short of breath on the verge of sobbing.
"Everything will be ok, just put the knife down" Tk said walking toward him with his hands held up to show he didn't mean harm. Just as Tk got close enough Tai swung upward wildly cutting Tk deeply across his chest from his ribs to his belly button. Tk stumbled backward and Davis caught him and led him into a sitting position on the ground.
"I've had enough of this" Davis said while both he and Ken lunged at Tai to disarm him. Tai swung wild again and stabbed Ken in the chest just below the throat. Davis managed to tackle Tai to the ground while Ken pulled the knife out, his chest squirting blood on the ground
Davis started to punching Tai as hard as he could doing his best to knock him out before he could manage anything else when an unseen force pushed him off. "Tisk tisk, Tai I tried to tell you. I tried to help you" pal said appearing from thin air.
The scene was a horror show. Cody did his best to talk to Joe keep him conscience while Izzy tried to stop the bleeding. Kari tended to Tk trying to keep him calm and aware of his surroundings. Yolei cried harder and harder while she held Ken.
Now Matt and Sora were calling their Digimon to attack this new force. "Gabumon take care of this asshole" Matt called after Sora had already sent Byomon. Pal extended his arm his palm flat and in a karate like position; glyphs that were unseen lit up on his wrist and a black energy seemed to project from his hand and hit the Digimon full force.
Both fell to the ground in pain while strange black glyphs lit up like code all over their bodies. "No!" Sora yelled about to run forward but was stopped by Matt.
"Don't you get it? I'm the bad guy around here. The names Pal," he said with smile. With out a word Matt charged Pal and uppercut him managing to make his head fly back in whiplash but not moving his body in the slightest. "Well you're a looker aren't you?" Pal said shooting his hand up and putting two extended fingers on Matt's temple surging hellish nightmares into the mind.
Matt screamed and pulled away falling to his knees. By now Patamon, Veemon, Gatomon, and Tentamon came into play using their various attacks to hurt Pal. Pal seemed injured yet didn't care in the slightest. "I'm the best villain you'll ever meet" he said disappearing in a gust of wind. It was now that both Sora and Matt realized that Gobumon and Byomon were disintegrating into information.
"Please don't go" Sora asked reaching for her partner grasping nothing but air. "I love you" Matt said to his partner just before he had vanished. Matt pounded his fist against the ground in desperation and Sora started to cry. Before any could get a handle on the situation the ground started to shake. "Everybody hold onto something" Izzy called out just before the ground below them shook as it sank. The building inside the hill was collapsing.
Within a few moments they had reached street level in the rubble. "How's every one doing? Davis asked looking around at every one. "Ken's not doing well" Yolei whispered. "Joe's down but not out" Izzy commented. "It looks like Tai and Mimi are just knocked out" Tk said tiredly.
Davis walked over to Tk "are you ok?" he asked seriously looking at the knife wound. At first Tk was taken aback by Davis' genuine concern but shrugged it off. "I'll be ok."
In the distance the sound of running could be heard, and in the distance a beast was running toward them. The beast had a horse like body that was just as tall but three times as thick with six legs and it's skeleton on the outside with a sick red skin color sticky with blood. Where the head would be on a normal horse was the body of what looked to be a thick human torso with seven heads. Each head had seven horns and each horn had a golden crown that was blood spattered with a blasphemous name printed around its base.
"What the hell is it?" Matt asked sickened once again by a terrible image. "Everybody move!" Davis yelled running toward the cover of the closest building. Most of the group moved with the help of some of the others that were more mobile-except for Yolei who wasn't even paying attention and still huddled over Ken.
"Yolei! Come on!" Cody yelled about to run back to here, but Izzy held him back when he saw the beast came upon her.
Just before the beast was upon her, he pulled out a long staff that had a sharp blade on the end of it with a black feather. And as he arrived she was pierced in the heart for the second time today. The creature pulled the blade from her Yolei crinkled to the ground lifeless next to Ken.
"Son of a bitch!" Davis yelled pointing his Digivice toward Veemon, yet nothing happened. "What's going on?" Davis yelled. After a moment, the others who still had a digimon realized that they too could not get their digimon to digivolve. "What's going on?" Kari asked terrified. "Doesn't matter, Veemon go!" Davis yelled. All of the other digimon were right behind him.
They all attacked, but none seemed to be able to even scratch him. "Enough" the creature uttered from each of it's seven throats in a deep horrific unified voice. It threw it's spear in an accurate arc pinning Tentamon into a near by building. "No" Izzy muttered in vain as he watched his digimon dissolve into information and float away.
After the spear was thrown Veemon managed to get a good scratch in on the creatures back while Patamon managed to hit the creature in one of its many eyes. Enraged the creature grabbed out and caught Patamon and took him in both hands and started to squeeze. The small digimon screamed in pain and Tk lunged out with the knife that Tai had earlier and plunged in the knife deep in the beast's abdomen and twisted it. The creature screamed and threw the digimon in one swing and hit Tk hard enough to send him flying threw the air.
Gatomon and Veemon continued to fight the creature as it was trying to pull out the knife. Tk landed next to Patamon who was dissolving into the air. "Patamon, no . . ." Tk said so desperately sad and frustrated. "It's ok . . . just save the others . . ." Patamon said smiling all the way until he had dissipated.
With out a word Tk ran over to the building and pulled the spear out of the wall. While the creature was distracted by Gatomon and Veemon and sprinted up and run the spear through the creatures side all the way through to the other side. The beast let out seven hideous roars and kicked Tk away from it.
The creature pulled the spear out and was now bleeding heavily from two wounds. He was starting to loose energy so he charged the group. Every moved as fast as they could but the creature managed to trample the smallest member of the group: Cody.
The beast was loosing strength and the team had lost two of its members with two mortally wounded and several other injuries. Just before the creature made another pass at where most of the group was, Gatomon had managed to claw her way up it's form and cut off one of it's heads. The monstrosity was bleeding heavily from it's third wound and stopped rushing the team. Gatomon worked hard not to get bitten by any of the heads as she systematically cut them off with the help of Veemon.
With the megalodon headless, the body stumbled around blindly before stopping and slowly falling over onto its side motionless. The monster didn't dissolve like the other digimon did, it simply melted into the ground slowly and became dust.
With the unnamed monstrosity gone, Pal reappeared clearly unpleased. "Ok, play times over it's all business." With a snap of his finger, a strange vehicle came from the sky that seemed to be what Byomon was describing the night before. Except now, the vehicle seemed to have some sort of trailer with no windows and only one door.
Pal went over and grabbed Tai and Joe in both hands while the other Digidestined started to hit him in protest. Pal was unaffected and managed to send out a small energy wave to knock every one to the ground. Pal threw the two into the trailer and went back and grabbed Sora and Matt.
At this time Izzy had pulled Ken's body over to another building and opened the door and dragged the boy inside. At this time only Pal grabbed Kari and went for Tk but was hit by both Veemon and Gatomon. So Veemon managed to push Tk away into a nearby alley while Gatomon did her best to get Pal to release Kari. Pal ended up swatting the cat to the ground and throwing Kari into the trailer and locking it shut.
Pal snapped his fingers and jumped on his vehicle as it lifted off into the air. Gatomon managed to sink her claws into the vehicle and was carried away with it. Davis went to Veemon and started to say something and walked away with him to go inspect something, to see where Veemon had pushed Tk to. Yet they couldn't find him.
At this time Tk was trudging away from the scene in the direction that the craft had flown to. "One foot in front of the other" Tk said aloud to himself. "And one foot back to count it."
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Well there you go- What did you think? Yeah, kinda rough I'd agree but you'll see what happens next. Or should I just summarize the rest of the story because I know what I'm going to have happen . . . No I wouldn't do that, but it's tempting. Tell me what you thought, input is greatly appreciated. Thanks as always!
PS: I'd also like to thank Nemesis57 for being the original inspiration to continue work on this. It's been fun writing so thanks for reading.