"His Master's Voice"
Now for those wondering, Ryo is based on Ryo Akiyama but isn't him. As for Ruki, she only has the same name as the girl from Tamers. I hope this clears stuff up. Please enjoy and review!
Walking to school, Dai was yawning as she tried to keep her eyes opened even though she had dark circles under them from her lack of sleep.
For days now she had been having nightmares of that creature she had seen in the lake and she wasn't able to shake it off.
Ruki insisted that the girl stay home, but Dai refused knowing she had a lot of work to do at school and didn't want to fall even further behind than she already had.
Still, she was tense as she walked.
Turning around a corner, TK was walking down the sidewalk and smiled as he spotted Dai.
He walked up to her and placed his hand on her shoulder making her gasp and turn to him with a yelp.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
Seeing that it was only TK, Dai sighed in relief.
"Sorry, TK. I haven't been able to sleep, so I'm really jumpy." She said.
"That's fine. Come on, we need to get going. Didn't you hear the announcements? We'll be scraping gum off desks if we're late." TK said.
The two then ran into the school where Kari was waiting on them while Patamon, Gatomon and Renamon watched them from a tree.
"What's wrong with Daisuke lately?" Patamon asked.
"She's been having nightmares. They started the last time she was in the Digital World." Renamon explained.
"Do you know what could have caused them?" Gatomon asked.
"No, I'm not and she won't tell me what they're about." The fox sighed sadly.
In the class room, it was math and Dai was staring blankly at the board to not try and fall asleep.
Math was no one's favorite subject.
The room started to get cold and Dai gasped as she saw the world around her turn gray as fog floated around her.
"What is going on?" she asked.
She tried to move, but her body was paralyzed as her legs felt numbed by a sudden coldness and looked down in horror to see she was sitting in the ocean as the room around her disappeared.
"What is going on? Where am I? Why can't I move?" she asked as she started to get frantic.
TK, who was bored with the lesson, looked over to Dai and gasped when he saw her start to fade out of the room.
"SOMEBODY HELP ME!" he heard Dai's voice echo in his head.
Kari also heard it and gasped as she looked over at Dai to see her starting to fade out of the room.
"Dai/Daisuke!" Kari and TK both yelled as they stood up.
Gasping, Dai was then pulled out from the horrible world and saw that everyone was staring at the children of Light and Hope who were standing up.
Lack of sleep finally got the best of her as she started to fall to the side, but a girl behind her jumped out of her seat and caught her.
"Daisuke, are you OK?" she asked.
"Daisuke, maybe you should go to the nurse's office." Hamasaki said.
Nodding, Dai walked out of the room and went out into the halls that were far too quiet and dark than they should have been.
"Man, my head is killing me. Maybe I should have stayed home after all." She said to herself as she walked.
"Honestly, Daisuke. Why can't you be as smart as your sister?" a stern voice rang out.
She paused as she looked around and saw the images of her when she was only 5 as her parents stood over her with disappointment in her eyes and glares on their faces.
"You are a disgrace to this family. Always wanting to play in the dirt rather than work." Her mother continued on.
"You'll never amount to anything or find a husband. We'd have to marry you off to someone. Hopefully your children aren't as stupid or brain dead as you are." Her father said.
Dai stared at her younger self as her big eyes filled with tears that fell down her cheeks as she just took all of the insults.
"Shut up." Dai said as she shook her head and the images faded away.
"I'm free of them. They don't control me and they don't matter." She said fiercely.
The sound of water dripping made her eyes open wide as the world around her seemed to ripple.
It got colder around her that she could see her breath.
Groaning could be heard and it made her heart sink as fear began to consume her.
"Who's there?" she called.
"If this is a joke you better knock it off!" she yelled.
No one answered but the groaning got louder from behind her, so she slowly turned to see a creature was hiding behind the stairs staring right at her with its snake eyes.
"RENAMON!" she yelled.
The world all transformed back to normal, the warm air returning as the sunlight came into the hall as the creature disappeared.
Breathing hard, Dai looked around as Renamon then faded in from the shadows with worry as she saw the terror like state her partner was in.
"Daisuke, what is wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost." She said.
The girl kept shaking as tears prickled at her eyes, her skin looking pale while she hugged herself.
"I think I should go home." She said as her voice cracked.
Renamon's ears twitched at that as she walked over to the girl and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder, curious when Dai jumped at the contact.
"Worry not. Go get your bag and then call for me when you're ready." The fox said.
Dai nodded as Renamon faded away to allow her to gather up her things.
Taking in a deep breath, Dai walked off to her locker and took out her school bag and then went to her shoe locker, changing her shoes and then left the building only to stop at the street when someone called out to her.
The coldness came back and seemed to gain control of her as she walked forward to the beach that was across the street, her eyes becoming pupil-less.
Gatomon was resting in a tree nearby when she woke up to see Dai standing at the beach.
"Huh? What's she doing?" the cat asked.
Renamon then appeared next to Gatomon as they watched the girl.
"She's supposed to be going home. What is she doing now?" the fox asked.
Suddenly, Dai started to fade away making the two digimon gasp as they ran over to the girl.
"Daisuke, what's happening to you?" Gatomon asked.
Before they could reach the girl, a truck cut off their path as Dai finally faded away from sight as her bag was left floating in mid-air before it dropped.
Gatomon gasped while Renamon's eyes widened in horror as she reached out with her mind to locate Dai, but couldn't get a single trace of her.
"No." she whispered.
Meanwhile, Dai's eyes opened up as she regained control of her body and looked around in fear to see that she was standing on the beach of a world filled with darkness where even she didn't have any color.
"This isn't good." She whimpered.
(Later…)
The Digidestinds had gathered in the computer lab talking before they went into the Digital World.
"So Dai just went home?" Yolei asked.
"I haven't seen her the rest of the day." Kari said in worry.
"Weird thing though; in math class it looked like someone was trying to drag her somewhere else." TK said.
"Huh, what does that mean?" Cody asked.
"I'm not sure how to explain it." the blonde said as he shook his head.
"There was darkness. It was like it was trying to swallow her up." Kari said.
"That's weird." Yolei commented.
The door to the room was then thrown open by a scared Gatomon and a guilt ridden Renamon.
Everyone stared at them and felt immediate worry when they saw the looks of the two females' faces.
"What's wrong?" Cody asked.
"It's Daisuke." Gatomon panted.
TK and Kari both tensed up.
"What about her?" Yolei asked.
"She's gone. She just disappeared into thin air." Gatomon yelled.
"That isn't possible." Yolei said as she stood up from the computer.
"Maybe she went to the Digital World." Upamon suggested.
"No, she wouldn't go alone. She would tell me if she were going." Renamon said.
"It wouldn't hurt to check." Patamon said.
Yolei nodded and held her D-3 up to the computer, but the gate didn't open or even beep at all to acknowledge her.
"OK, something's wrong. Why isn't it letting us in?" she asked as she grit her teeth in frustration.
"Renamon aren't you able to sense out where Daisuke is?" Poromon asked.
"Normally, but not when we aren't in the same dimension. I haven't a clue where she is and this worries me. This is all my fault." Renamon said.
"How is it your fault?" Patamon asked.
"Daisuke is my partner. I should be protecting her and yet she was kidnapped by some evil force under my watch." The fox said with clenched paws.
Kari frowned as her own fists clenched, but she shook her head to get rid of any worry that consumed her.
"It doesn't matter whose fault it is. We need to try and find her. Come on!" she said as she ran out of the room.
Gatomon and Renamon followed after her while the others watched them.
"What do we do?" Yolei asked.
Sighing as he knew it was his time to take over as the leader until their chosen was back, TK turned to the group.
"Yolei, stay here in case Daisuke is in the Digital World. Cody, call Tai and the others and tell them what happened." TK said.
"But what will you do?" Cody asked.
"I'm going to try looking for her." TK said as he ran out with Patamon.
Everyone then set off to do what they were told while Kari was being shown where Dai had been kidnapped.
She bent down and picked up the backpack and riffled through it to find the D-terminal and D-3 were still inside of it.
"Where could she have gone?" Kari asked.
"I can't pick up her scent at all." Gatomon said.
"I can sense her presence here, but it's only a faded remainder." Renamon said.
Kari held the blue D-3 to her chest as she looked out over the water, praying her friend was safe wherever she was.
(In the Dark World…)
Dai had been walking around the beach to try to find any other forms of life or even a payphone, but there was no one in sight other than the lighthouse that shone out black light.
"If I have to look at that stupid thing any longer I'm gonna lose it." she said.
"Just where am I?" she asked as she looked around.
"Dai-suke…" a raspy voice called.
Looking over to where it was heard, she found a cave at the end of the beach where a forest was located.
"Great. World of darkness, spooky cave, creepy forest and voices calling my name. What, am I starring in my own horror film?" she muttered.
The voice continued to call out her name that it started to get on her nerves until she finally lost her temper.
"Shut up already! I'm coming." She yelled.
She stormed over to the cave muttering incomprehensive words angrily under her breath as she went.
As she made it to the cave, she looked inside warily as her name was being called yet again.
"Ken, if this is you, you're a dead man." She threatened.
Instead of hearing the evil or mocking laughter like she expected, there was painful groaning which made her walk into the cave only to stop when she saw a group of digimon lying on the ground close to death as they had dark rings on their wrists and their eyes were glowing red.
"Help us…" one of them begged.
"Just what are you guys? Are you digimon?" she asked.
"Digimon? I'm not sure, but I do know that we are Divermon. We're creatures with big fins for swimming. We live to serve our underwater master." He said.
"Uh huh. Well you aren't doing a good job of it. If you hadn't noticed, the ocean is over there." She said jabbing her thumb over her shoulder.
"We know." Divermon2 moaned.
Dai regretted her insincere response when she saw how terrible they all looked and she sat down in front of them.
"How did you guys get here?" she asked.
"We don't know. We were just swimming in the ocean when the Dark One came and placed these horrible rings on us." Divermon1 said.
"The Digimon Emperor." Dai said with narrowed eyes.
"We've been here ever since." Divermon2 said.
"The rings are making us weaker by the day." Divermon3 said.
"We used the last of our strength to call for someone to come help us. Someone with enough power to free us." Divermon2 said.
"That was you." Divermon1 said.
Dai gasped as she stood back up and glared down at them.
"That was you guys?" she asked.
"Yes, please help us." Divermon3 begged.
"Why should I? How do I know this isn't a trick?" she demanded.
They moaned and groaned in pain, some even coughing as they cried out for help, their leader forcing himself to stand up as he held out his ringed arm towards her.
"Please, we beg of you." he said.
Sighing as her kind streak kicked in, Dai reached over and placed her hands over the rings.
"Fine, but this better not be some kinda trick." She warned.
To her surprise, three colored lights that looked like fireflies glowed over her hands.
Orange, blue and gold.
Divermon1 and all his followers gasped and exclaimed in awe at the lights while they felt hopeful that the rings would be removed.
Dai was in awe as she felt the powers of Courage and Friendship flowing from her hands, but the third one she was unsure of what it was.
Before she could remove the ring, the cave shook and started to crumble around them.
"Everyone out now!" she yelled.
The Divermon all ran as fast as they could while Dai brought up the rear just as the sound of a creature screeching made her look up into the sky to see an Airdramon that was void of any color like everything else.
"That's one of the Dark One's minions." Divermon4 said.
"The Digimon Emperor. How could he have done this?" Dai asked.
Airdramon then shot off a blast of black flames at the group, so they all ran or dodge the attack while Dai went rolling from the impact of the blast.
Moaning, she pushed herself up and looked at the Divermon helplessly.
"I can't so this alone. I need some help here." She said.
(In the Human World…)
Kari was still looking for Dai along the beach as Gatomon and Renamon looked around.
It was getting late as the sun set and this just made them get even more worried.
"Oh, where could she be?" Kari asked.
"Don't give up. We'll find her somehow." Gatomon said.
Kari gave her a grateful smile and nodded while Renamon was scanning the area.
"Help me!" someone cried over the winds.
The three gasped as they looked around.
"That sounded like Dai." Kari said.
"But where is she?" Gatomon asked.
"Daisuke!" Renamon called.
As the three stood together, above them were three colored lights that made them look up to see Dai in black and white as she was on her hands and knees looking weak and scared.
"There she is. What is this?" Kari asked as she felt the negative energies.
"I'm not sure, but we must go." Renamon said.
"I'm right behind you." Gatomon said.
Kari nodded as the three ran over to the portal and were pulled into it as it closed behind them.
They cried out as they landed near a forest that was near the beach where Dai was standing with a group of ringed Divermon.
"We made it." Gatomon said.
"Wow, this place looks like a negative photograph." Kari commented as she looked around.
Airdramon then swooped down to go attack Dai, but Renamon quickly jumped over with her Power Paw and punched him while Gatomon followed up with her Lightning Paw making the dragon cry out and fly off.
"Renamon, Gatomon. How did you two get here?" Dai asked in relief.
"Dai!" Kari called as she ran over.
Dai looked over and gave a smile at the sight of her friend as she ran over waving her hand.
"You guys have no idea how happy I am to see you." she said as Kari stopped next to her.
"Glad to hear it." the child of Light smiled.
Gatomon frowned as she looked over to the lighthouse that was shining out black light and focused her eyes on it.
"Hey, there's a control spire in that lighthouse." She said making the others look over.
"That must be why the light is black." Kari said.
"Then let's destroy it." Renamon said.
"But I don't have my D-3 or D-terminal. This place left them when I was dragged here." Dai said.
Kari then went to her own school bag but gasped as she realized it too was missing.
"I had them with me. Mine are missing too. Now what do we do?" she asked.
"Calm yourselves. We'll handle this." Renamon said.
"Right just leave it to us." Gatomon said.
Sharing determined looks, the two female digimon ran off at the lighthouse, avoiding the flames blasted at them by Airdramon.
Smirking as they got closer to the lighthouse and Airdramon was on their tails, they dodged out of the way as the next batch of flames were heading at them.
It missed and hit the lighthouse, destroying it.
"That's our girls!" Dai cheered as Kari laughed.
Two lights then rained down from the sky where the spire inside the lighthouse used to be, one being pink and the other blue.
Gatomon and Renamon jumped up into the lights respectively as the evolutions took place.
"Gatomon digivolve to…ANGEWOMON!"
"Renamon digivolve to…KYUBIMON!"
The two girls gasped as they saw the angel that was in color as she glowed with a pink light and the large nine tailed yellow fox with eerie blue flames around her paws as she was covered in a baby blue light.
"Angewomon, it's been a while." Kari said.
"Kyubimon? Wow, she's awesome." Dai said.
Airdramon then flew at the two digimon while Angewomon used her Celestial Arrow and then Kyubimon used her Dragon Wheel which was her body turning into blue flames in the shape of a dragon.
Airdramon was soon destroyed by the two combined attacks making the girls cheer as they held hands.
"They did it!" Kari cheered.
"Now this is just a day at the beach." Dai laughed.
The two digimon came over to their partners as the Divermon moaned gaining their attention.
"Who are they?" Kari asked.
"Divermon. They called me here to help them." Dai explained.
Nodding, Angewomon held her hand out and shot out tiny arrows from her pointer finger and shattered the rings.
"Nice work, Angewomon." Kari smiled.
Just then, the Divermon transformed into shadow creatures with snake eyes that had been haunting Dai.
"Aw, that's better." Divermon1 sighed.
"Talk about a red eye deduction." Divermon4 giggled.
"What is this? You guys called Dai here to help you and she did." Kari said puzzled.
"We weren't trying to call her." Divermon3 said.
"We wanted you." Divermon2 said as he grabbed Kari.
"What?" she gasped.
"Let her go!" Dai yelled as she grabbed Kari and then kicked at Divermon2.
"You mean you've been terrorizing my partner just to get to Kari?" Kyubimon snarled.
"We knew the child of Light was to heavily guarded while the child of Miracles was alone. She would be easier to capture and then because of the bond between Light and Miracles, we knew we would have them both." Divermon4 explained.
"But why would you need both?" Angewomon asked.
"Their power." Divermon2 said.
"A great evil is coming. We need Queens with great power to protect us from it." Divermon1 said.
"Yeah, well to bad. You can suffer yourselves." Dai said as she stood proudly in front of Kari in a defensive pose.
"We're not helping you." Kari said.
Realizing that they lost, the Divermon slowly started to walk back into the black ocean water while Angewomon and Kyubimon prepared themselves to attack if they needed to.
"But we thought you would like to be our Queens. We were wrong." Divermon1 said.
"Prepare yourselves. Darkness will always come after you, Light and Miracles." Divermon3 called.
Soon, they were gone.
Kari and Dai both relaxed and sighed in relief as they felt emotionally drained from what had just happened.
"I'm ready to go home." Kari said.
"Look on the bright side; at least we didn't have to scrape gum off of desks." Dai said with a grin hoping to cheer her up.
Kari just chuckled at that.
"Come on before the portal closes." Angewomon said as he grabbed Kari.
Dai mounted Kyubimon as the two digimon ran over to the two beams of light and were pulled up into them.
"Hey, Kari? Thanks for coming after me." Dai said.
"We're friends. That's what we do. Besides, you saved me too." Kari said.
They both smiled at each other as they made it out of the darkness and were in a flower field in the Digital World.
As they were carried back to the portal to get home, a sudden thought crossed Dai's mind.
"Hey, what do you think those Divermon meant when they called me the child of Miracles?" she asked.
"I'm not sure. We'll figure it out later." Kari said.
Once they found a TV, they went through it.
(In the computer lab…)
Tai, Matt, Sora, Izzy, Cody, Yolei and TK were all in the lab talking about what had happened to Dai.
"I couldn't find her anywhere." Matt said.
"I checked with her uncle and aunt, but they haven't seen her." Tai said.
Sora had her hand clenched over her heart as she wondered where the girl could have gone.
"Hey, the computer." Yolei gasped.
"The Digi Gate is back on line." Izzy said.
Everyone gathered around it when Kari, Dai, Viximon and Salamon came flying out of the computer, Tai catching Dai as Viximon clung to his head while Matt caught Kari while Salamon landed on his head.
"See! I knew she was in the Digital World." Yolei said.
"But how?" Matt asked as he and Tai set the girls down.
"It wasn't the Digital World. We were in a completely different world that was filled with darkness." Kari said as she held Salamon.
"What? What happened?" Tai asked in worry.
"What happened was Renamon and Gatomon digivolved normally, we beat an Airdramon, found out I'm the child of Miracles and nearly became the Queens of some evil digimon." Dai said.
Everyone gave her confused looks while Izzy shook his head as he brought out the bags he found that belonged to the girls and handed them over.
"As long as you're both safe and explain this further later on." He said.
Dai took in a deep breath as she turned to Tai with a determined expression.
"Hey, Tai?" she asked gaining his attention.
"What is it?" he asked.
She then gave a smile.
"Still need a new leader?" she asked.
TK and Kari both perked up at that while the others were all surprised and pleased.
Tai laughed at this as he ruffled the girl's hair proudly.
"You bet." He said as he took off his goggles and then placed them on her own head.
"Nice of you to finally join us." Yolei said.
"What made you decide?" Poromon asked.
"Well, while I was in the dark world, it made me realize something. I can't always face things alone. I need you guys as much you need me. So let's kick Ken's evil butt together." Dai said.
Kari and Sora both hugged her while TK patted her back as everyone gathered around her.
The Digidestinds were finally complete.
To be continued…