Chapter 11

a/n: So, in this chapter we shall see if our hero is truly alive or not… I promise you will find out in this chapter… a few of you were not so happy going two whole chapters and not knowing… know how I can tell? The review numbers went down... sigh.

Anyway, 悪鬼 or akki means evil spirit, demon or devil in Japanese. You will see how this plays out later in the chapter. But just in case you are going "WTF is akki" there you go! All will be explained and in the end there has to be a happy ending… have you ever known me to leave you disappointed?

Enjoy!


"How is she?" Tk asked his brother as the older blond entered the room.

"About as good as to be expected." He sighed. "She feels up to some company now. Just watch what you say ok?"

Mimi and Yolei nodded and left the room to go and see her. Kari hesitated. The younger Kamiya was having some doubts about her seeing the girl she look at as a sister.

"I really want to see her, but I can't face her knowing... that my brother did that to her..."

"It's not your fault Kari." Tk tried to make her feel better. It wasn't working.

"I know, but still... and I don't know how or what to feel about him being dead... I don't think he is..."

"Sora told us that his neck was broken." Cody said looking sad.

"But I don't feel him being gone... it's hard to explain." She said looking more confused than anything.

"Well, we can't make you do anything you don't want to do." Izzy said looking up from his computer. He and the other boys did not want to be in her situation at the moment.

"How will she react is what has me worried." Matt voiced his concern.

"I think I will talk to her later." Kari decided looking at the door that led to the room Sora was in at the moment. With that the group got down to business.

Not long after that several of their digimon partners returned from scouting duty. All of them had bad information and grim looks on their faces.

"It's getting bad up there Davis!" Veemon said looking rather concerned for the normally lively digimon.

"He's right." Tentamon confirmed as he gave Izzy all the details of the damage and locations of the evil army of Myotismon.

"So what do we do?" Joe asked taking off his glasses and cleaning them a bit. The others knew him too well, his glasses were not dirty- he was just very nervous and concerned. They all were.

"Well, we stop Tai if he is alive. That is job number one." Ken said looking over the group of depressed people. That idea still did not sit well with the majority of the group.

"No, Ken's right." Matt said. "Without his power source and all of us here, we can easily defeat Myotismon in any form."

"But what if he really is dead?" Davis asked still a little depressed that his mentor had changed and the possibility of not being able to save him was weighing down on his spirits.

"Then we have step one done." Matt said not liking the cold tone of his own voice. But the others nodded in agreement. "But I doubt he is…"

"We're not being heartless or anything. But Tai would rather be dead than doing that… at least my Tai would." Kari said trying to be strong and helping Davis get out of his sorrow stage.

The team, still saddened agreed and continued to plan.


"Are you awake?" A dark voice called to him. Its tone blended so well with the darkness surrounding him that is startled him a bit.

"Where am I?" The boy asked.

"You forget so easily. I told you to be careful."

"What? Why does my head hurt?"

"Stupid. But I suppose that her departure is just as well. Now I won't have to have my minions guard her all the time."

"What? Her? Who are you talking about? Where am I?"

"Master, it seems he doesn't remember anything." Another voice came out of the darkness.

"Who are you?" His voice was getting annoyed.

"It does not matter; he is still can fulfill his purpose." The original voice hissed.

Laying there on the table in the middle of the darkened room, the boy was aware of the sound of the beings shift. There was something very concerning in the tone of the voice.

"I want answers!"

"Calm down my partner. All will be explained. But first, you must get up."

"But sire, can he even move after…"

The boy lying on the table panicked a bit at the words of the second figure. What had happened to have him forget who he was, where he was and things that got him there? Finding that he could move his arms and legs, his worry decreased a bit. He sat up and tried to get his eyes to focus on something. He knew they were open, but the room was just so dark.

"So, my partner, are you ready to get revenge on those who hurt you?"

"What?"

"I am Malo-Myotismon. I have been fighting a long battle against the evil creatures called the digidestined. They wish to stop us. And they were the ones who attacked you. You nearly died…"

"I nearly died?" He repeated holding on to his head as it began to throb.

"Try not to think too much about it my boy. I will help you regain everything you want."

"Who are you?"

"I am the ruler of the digital world, I am Malo-myotismon. And you are Akki, the greatest warrior I have ever had in my army."

"My name is Akki?"

"Yes, and you have long been at my side. Do not worry. You will remember soon. But now- you need to rest. And then we will begin our final stage of reclaiming this realm."

With that the voices left the boy to sit in the room and rest. However, he could not find peace of mind. Things were so jumbled. And the more he tried to remember, the more his head throbbed.


"Do you think he will suspect anything?" Devimon fluttered his wings to get to eye level with his master.

"Of course the brat won't. We have erased his memory of being Taichi Kamiya. Now he will forever be Akki, the evil spirit. The next time we see his little Sora, we will have to thank her for nearly killing the boy. She has given us a greater tool, one with out a conscious to lapse back into. He is a clean slate for me to write upon."

"Genius master! You'll have the whole digital world in your hand in no time."

"Yes, things may look simple, but never underestimate those blasted digidestined. We need to destroy them once and for all… and I have the perfect plan for this. Send out the scouts once again!"

"Yes Master!"

With that the larger digimon was left in the hallway alone, laughing menacingly to himself on his devious plan in the works.

"They will never know what hit them!" He chuckled as he disappeared into another darkened walkway.


"I thought I told you to stay in bed." Joe said with a sigh that told of mild frustration. He had walked into check on Sora when he found her sitting on the bed, ready to get up. This was the tenth time she had been trying to get up when he or someone had come in to check on her in the last two days.

"You did, but I recall asking to be kept informed on what is going on." She countered looking not too happy.

"And we are. There just does not happen to be a lot going on at the moment." The blue haired boy said fussing with his glasses, a tell tale sign showing he was lying.

"Joe. I am not going to lie in bed while there is a fight going on." She said lying back on the pillows allowing Joe to reapply some salve to her many wounds.

"And we don't expect you too… in reality, we need your help. Matt is trying to keep things together… but it is getting a little bit difficult to keep everyone calm and collected."

"Joe, really… how bad is it up there?"

"Pretty bad." He admitted. "I'll tell Izzy to come in and give you a better look on his computer."

"Thanks. I have not seen much of the boys since I woke up." She looked at Joe and her eyes watered a bit. "You don't have to be frightened of me… I know what I've done is a horrible thing… and I know it will be hard to forgive me… but I…"

Joe stopped her before she could say anymore of that line of thinking. Taking her in his arms he held her close. In truth, the boys had been a little wary about seeing her. She might feel threatened if there was a large group of males around her. Thus only Matt, Joe and Tk for a brief visit had been in there to see her.

"Don't you believe that for a moment!" He told her in a stern voice. It was something that Joe rarely did. And Sora took note of this tone from the older man. "We don't think that! We were worried you would be afraid of us."

"But… I…"

"Will you stop it? You did not kill Tai. Do you understand? You did NOT kill him."

She had heard that line now for days. And every time she heard it or told it to herself she wished it was true. But nothing they could say would take away the image of Taichi and his broken neck on that dungeon floor.

"We didn't want to tire you out with boring talk, and worry about the situation above… I guess we never thought you would feel that we were scared of you… Sora, in truth, we love you. You are like a sister and a mother to all of us… you will never be a murderer!"

"Thanks Joe." She said enjoying the feel of the older boy comforting her. She had always looked at Joe as a big brother. It was that support structure she needed. Her family was near, and it seemed that they were not blaming her like she had thought they would… for that she was glad.

"So, should I call in Izzy?"

"I would like that. And Joe…" She stopped as he let her go and made to stand. "Thanks for everything."

"Don't you worry. Things may look bad now, but we have a way of getting out of the worst of situations."

"Joe being an optimist?" She smiled. The blue haired boy smiled as well, patted her hand and left the room.

It was not long before a shy looking Izzy and Tk entered the room. The two boys were followed by Ken, Davis and Cody as well. Sora smiled and greeted her friends.

"Joe said you wanted to be updated on all that is going on." Izzy said sitting next to her bed and opening up his computer.

"It's not all good news, but there are some promising things going on." TK smiled after asking how she was feeling.

"Myotismon seems to have a notion where we are hiding, so we have been very careful in sending out scouts." Izzy said showing her some data on the screen.

"According to Ken's… experience and the data Gennai has given me, Myotismon is using a darkened digivice that appeared around the time we left the digital world the last time. There was no way we could have known the weakened state of this world. I guess we should have noticed something was off when the new digidestined's digimon could use two crests to digivole. They went from really powerful beings, to nearly powerless…"

"We don't know what caused it. Gennai and the others have no specific data on when it happened. It sort of just began gradually and has gotten to this point." Ken added looking just as perplexed as Sora at the moment.

"Myotismon somehow was reborn after our last fight with him and found enough power to get to the level of Ultimate without a digivice."Izzy nodded agreeing with Ken's words.

"So all the negative energy left in the digital world when we left caused something to mutate into the dark device that Myotismon has now?" Sora asked taking in a lot f information.

"That is our assumption." Izzy nodded again. "We've relocated to the underground bunkers located here." Izzy pointed to a point on this computer.

"And Myotismon has been slowly working his way across the digiworld trying to find us… they still don't know exactly where we are." Tk added.

"There is no way the other digimon can fight against him; none of them have enough power." Cody said sadly.

"So, it looks like we need to pull off another miracle." Sora nodded looking over the information. "Is Cerberusmon still here?"

"He is out with Matt and a few others scouting. They should be back any minute." Izzy informed her. "Are all of Myotismon's digimon connected to his power source?"

"That is a good question. They would almost have to be in order for them to do all this…" Izzy pondered the implications of this connection the evil forces must face.

"For a moment in battle, they did seem to weaken a bit." Cody mentioned thinking back to the rescue operation. He, Mimi and Yolei had been the decoys. The battle was fierce but there was a point where they seemed to slag a bit. Thankfully this was around the time the others had successfully located Sora and gotten out of the castle.

"Their power source must have been cut off." Ken said putting his hand to his chin in thought.

"Wasn't that around the time Sora killed… um… yeah…" Davis had begun and stopped himself. Everyone else was thinking that internally, but he had been the one to say it out loud.

"Sora?" Tk looked at her and noticed tears coming down her cheeks. "Hey, it's ok. You know what… if that is true there is some good news. They seem to be back at full strength. That means Tai might not really be dead."

That thought really did not comfort her much. If he was alive, it would only be for a limited amount of time anyway. If they could not get to him, there would be no chance to save him. He would have already turned completely dark and they would be forced to kill him for good in order to stop Myotismon's power source.

"He's dead either way." She whispered.

"No, don't think like that." Tk smiled, always the hopeful boy. "We can save him. If anyone can save Tai, it is you Sora. You said he went back to his old self for a little while… doesn't that tell us that there is still a chance?"

"Ts is right!" Davis cried trying to make up for his little faux pas from before. "We won't go home without Tai back to normal!"


"Akki, I see you are out and about. I take it you are ready to go back into the battle?" Malo-Myotismon smiled seeing the teen enter the main hall.

"I still can't remember anything…"

"All in time boy. Once you are back to your normal activities, you will remember." The large digimon promised. "And I have the perfect operation for you to embark on."

"Who are the enemy?" Akki wanted to know more about these people or creatures that Myotismon was so adamant about destroying.

"They wish to bring horrible things to this world. They come from another world, hoping to take over this one as well. We cannot let them." The lies that the monster spewed seemed to be working as the brown haired teen nodded.

"So, what do we do?"

"That is my partner! You do not have to do much. Accompany me and my minions to the lair of the enemy and we will wipe them out in a single attack."

"You know where they are?" Akki asked. The evil being next to him smiled and laughed. It was an eerie laugh that did not sit well with him... there definitely was something familiar about that laugh…


A/n:

Well you would have to be stupid to actually think Tai is dead… but then again, he is now the Akki guy… happy times are yet to come! And by happy I am being sarcastic… I wish there was a sarcasm button on this thing…

Anyway, I needed a break from studying… good news, if I would have taken the JLPT for 2006, I would have passed by 10 points! Now I hope I can do it again in 16 days!

Anyway, review and make me a happy kate!