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Ken finally awoke. He didn't know how he got here, or for how long, but he knew one thing, he was alive. Then he faintly saw someone come over and gently touch his arm. Pain shot out in waves in his arm, and he cringed and threw his head back.
"Yep, that's definitely broken, how are you Ken?" he heard a voice ask him. Slowly his vision returned, and he saw Yolei's concerned face looming over him. Their surroundings were dark except for a small lantern Yolei had lit.
"I-I . . . my arm hurts, and so does my head." He said. She nodded.
"Yeah, when you dove in the cave, you caught the last bit of rocks that were falling. It knocked you unconscious. And I'm no doctor, like Joe, but you seem to have a broken arm." He nodded, and then stopped as pain shot through his head. Yolei started fishing through her backpack.
"Here, take this." She said handing him some aspirin, and a bottle of water. He downed the medicine. The pain started to ooze away, but just barely.
"How are you?" He suddenly asked her. She looked up at him and smiled.
"I'm fine, you pushed me in here just in time." She said. He nodded, and tried to stand up. He slipped, and extended his arm to catch himself. His arm flared in pain, and he collapsed back onto the ground clutching it. Yolei suddenly pushed his other arm away, and held his arm in hers.
"Don't move it, or you'll only make it worse." She warned. He nodded in pain.
"Are we trapped in here?" he asked. Yolei looked around the cavern they were in. The entrance they came into was blocked. There was no way to get through there. She couldn't see the back of the cave, so she wasn't sure.
"I can't see a way out, and the front door is blocked." She said. Ken sighed.
"Wormmon and Hawkmon?" He asked. She shook her head.
"I don't know. I hope they made it out." She said. He saw her upset face, and immediately covered his.
"I'm sure they're alright." He said, and smiled at her. She smiled back. He then sighed. I can't believe I never saw that coming."
"What?" She asked.
"That Ian was a traitor. I knew we shouldn't have trusted him, but . . ." Yolei cut him off.
"But you were being a friend. No one blames you for that." Yolei said.
"Nobody else knows." Ken said dismissively. Then it hit him.
"Nobody else knows! Yolei, the others, we have to warn them!" He said.
"We can't." Yolei said sadly. "We gave Ian our D-Terminals. We have no way of contacting the others." Ken looked down, frustrated. They stayed that way for several minutes. Yolei shuddered.
"The way he was staring at me was creepy." She said.
"Who, Ian?" Ken asked.
"No, that woman's Digimon, he glared at me right before they started talking." Yolei said. Ken, with some pain, sat up.
"Are you sure he saw you?" Ken asked. Yolei thought a moment.
"I'm sure he saw me, he had to have had. Then he looked back up at the woman. Why?" she asked.
"What if . . . what if they knew we were at that meeting, or at least, the woman and her Digimon. You said he looked at you as if he knew you were there. What if they did? And what if they tried to plant a seed of doubt in our minds about Ian, so when we returned to him, we wouldn't trust him. Think about it. Ian is the newcomer, we have no reason to trust him." Ken said.
"Then why order them to kill us, if she wanted a seed of doubt?" She said, but Ken had thought that through.
"The other two didn't know. She had to make it look as if she didn't either. So she ordered the attack, but before they could do so, she ordered the clown to attack the cliff. That way, we still escape, and doubt Ian in our minds." He said. Yolei stared at him thinking it over. She then nodded.
"It could work. Wow, Ken, that was some pretty inductive thinking there. Maybe you could become a detective one day." They then both laughed at the idea. After their laughter died down Ken cringed. The facts still didn't add up.
* * * * *
Joe, Davis, Adrian, Cody, and their Digimon finally made it to the cave. Ian, Ribmon, Wormmon, and Hawkmon were waiting there for them.
"Finally, so what are we going to do?" Ian asked. He walked over to the Digidestined.
"We have to dig our way through." Cody said.
"Why not just blast it? V-mon! Better Digivolve!" Davis shouted.
"No!" Everyone else screamed at them.
"You could cause another avalanche." Ian said. Joe nodded.
"And if Yolei and Ken really are in there, alive, then you could hurt them further." Joe said.
"What do you mean 'if they are alive'? Do you think they're dead?" Davis asked. Joe looked down, his eyes finally settled on Hawkmon, and Wormmon.
"Yes, there is a chance, they didn't make it." Joe said. Davis shook his head.
"No, Ken is alright! They are all right! They have to be!" Davis said. Wormmon and Hawkmon found themselves nodding.
"Okay, are you ready Armadillomon?" Cody asked.
"Are you kiddin'?" Came the reply.
"Digi-armor Energize!" Cody said.
Armadillomon Armor Digivolve to . . . Digmon "The drill of knowledge."
The Bug Digimon walked up to the cave.
"Rock-Crackin'" he shouted and started to drill into the blocked cave entrance. "Cody, this might take some time. This rock is as hard as my shell, and there's a lot of it."
"They have to be okay." Davis said. Ian walked over to the group, who had started a makeshift camp.
"We have only a day left. I need someone to go with me to help find Mega Digimon allies." Ian said. Adrian stood up from where she was crouching.
"Biodramon and I will go with you." Adrian said. Her Digimon stood behind her. Ian looked over at Joe, who nodded.
"You two go on ahead. I would tell you to take Davis with you, but he's too worried about Ken. Go on, we need those allies." Ian nodded and led Adrian away. They walked over a ways, and Ian turned to Adrian.
"Now, we haven't found any mega Digimon. Every coordinate Izzy gave us was inaccurate as of yet. If he were here, I'd ask him to check it over. But since we don't have that time, we're going to have to trust Izzy's coordinates. Now . . . As for transportation . . ." Ian stopped, and looked away, a bit embarrassed. Ribmon looked up at him.
"No need to be ashamed, we have talents that the others do not." Ribmon turned to Adrian.
"Both Wormmon and Hawkmon can Digivolve to forms with wings, and flying is a faster way to travel. I however, cannot. What about Biodramon?" Ribmon asked. The small Red Digimon beside Adrian nodded.
Biodramon Digivolve to . . . Perrodramon!
In the space where BioDramon once stood, there was another Digimon. This one was an even bigger dog-type Digimon. Instead of its bright red fur, all of the fur was gone. It now had a black look to it. Even the wings were black. They were huge, and folded back. It looked like a dragon mated with a dog. At first, to Ian, the no fur was grotesque. Then he remembered what he thought of Anatomon when he first saw him. Ian smiled.
"Is this our ride?" Ian asked. Adrian hopped on the back of Perrodramon.
"What do you mean 'our'?" She asked. They then flew off, leaving Ribmon and Ian standing there in shock. A few seconds later, they landed a few feet away. Adrian was sitting on Perrodramon laughing, and waving them to come sit. Ian couldn't help but smile as he and Ribmon climbed on. Ribmon sat in the front, Adrian sat in the middle, and Ian followed up the back. Adrian reached behind herself, and took Ian's hands. She pulled his hands around until they clasped around her, holding her.
"Hold on, and if you dare think about grabbing me, I'll push you off." She said. Ian immediately blushed, and took his hands away. Then Perrodramon took off, and he reached around her again, holding on. She laughed as they ascended higher.
* * * * *
Ken shivered. He was deadly pale, and sweating, and he was dreaming.
"No-NO! Don't take me away! Help- HELP- HELP!!!" He said screaming, and gasping for breath. Then he felt a sharp pain across his face, and immediately woke up. He saw Yolei crouching over him, hand raised, ready to slap him again. She had tears in her eyes.
"What's wrong?" He said once his breathing had returned to normal.
"You were having another nightmare. You wouldn't wake up . . . so I had to take drastic measures. I'm sorry." She said. He noticed the tears in her eyes. "Wow, she was that worried about me?"
"I'm sorry to have worried you." He said.
"Do you want to talk about your dream?" She said, and wiped the tears from her eyes. He began to shake his head, when he saw her worried look. His heart almost jumped out of his chest to comfort hers.
"Well, it's about the Dark Ocean. In my dream, these horrible creatures take me there. They're terrible. They have slimy tentacles, and blood red eyes, and are made from darkness." He said. Yolei shuddered. He continued:
"I'm struggling, with all my might, but I can't escape. I'm calling out for help, but nobody's coming. I'm all alone. I'm all alone." Ken said and tried to put his head in his arms, caught up in his nightmare. But his right arm was severely hurting, so he only used his left arm. Yolei walked over, and put her arm around Ken. He put his head on her shoulder, and began to cry. Ken usually wasn't the emotional type, but this nightmare had him all frightened. But at least it was Yolei he told. Ken realized that he would not have told anyone else, except Wormmon, and maybe Davis. "Perhaps," he thought, "Perhaps, she's more than a friend to me." He stopped crying and looked up at her. She smiled at him. Immediately, his face warmed up. He also realized, now what a beautiful smile she had.
"Why did you go on this mission?" He suddenly asked her. Yolei then blushed. She had to be honest and sincere, as she had the Digi-egg of sincerity.
"Well, I-I . . . There was a guy on this trip I liked, and I . . . didn't want to pass the opportunity up." She said. Ken remembered Davis' taunting, and how she was always looking at Ian.
"Oh . . . that's right, you like Ian." He said, and his spirit fell. Suddenly, he felt down, or depressed, and he didn't know why. She went a darker shade of red.
"Well, not exactly. I think he's cute, and all. But I really came here to . . .um . . . to be with you." She said. He looked up sharply.
"What?" He managed to get out.
"I-I." Yolei said, and looked away embarrassed. "I've always liked you, even when you were 'the' Ken Ichijouji, the celebrity. But since then, you have joined our team, and our friendship has grown. Now I'm afraid that . . . I love you Ken." Ken sat there stunned. A voice in his head was cheering, but he ignored it. He couldn't think of what to say, so he tried to change the topic.
"Ummm . . . Is that the only reason?" He came up with lamely. He was afraid and nervous. But he didn't miss the hurt and disappointment in her eyes, before she answered.
"Well, I also came to get away from Davis." She said. Ken smiled, as the topic changed to Davis.
"Well, you know he was just kidding." Ken said.
"I know, but all my life I've competed with my brothers and sisters. I had to be better than them, and stand out. Now I'm not the smartest, or the most beautiful, so I've never responded well to criticism. I can't combat it." Yolei admitted.
"But you and Davis verbally bash each other all the time." Ken said. Yolei smiled weakly.
"And you think that's hard to do?" They laughed together at Davis' expense. Ken thought back over what she said. "But you're wrong, you are beautiful." He hadn't realized he had spoken aloud until he saw Yolei's look of embarrassment, and how red her face got.
"Yolei," he started, shifting himself over. But then extreme pain gripped his arm. He was in a white haze, and he couldn't see anything. He returned to the Earth with Yolei gone. "Where is she?" he thought. He then felt tugging at his jacket. He looked down, and saw Yolei trying to pull up his jacket's sleeve. Once she got it up she gasped. He scooted up further, ignoring the pain and looked. His arm was a deep purple color. It was covered in a giant bruise. He saw several red places, and he paled even further.
"It's badly hurt." Yolei informed him. "We have to set it, or else." Ken's eyes started to widen in alarm.
"We can wait for Joe." He said quickly.
"I can do it. Don't worry." She said.
"That's what I'm worried about." He said. She looked up at him unbelievingly.
"You're not scared are you?" She asked.
"No, I just . . ." He started, and then winced.
"Let me guess, you don't go to the Doctor's office much." She said, smiling in silent laughter.
"And you do?" He asked. She laughed out loud. He smiled, enjoying her laugh.
"I have four brothers and sisters, of course I do. Now I'm going to take it, and set it, on five." She said. Ken readied to brace himself.
"One . . . Two . . . Three . . ." She said and set his arm with a large CRACK! He yelled out in pain. She winced as he was clutching his arm.
"Stop grabbing at it, you're going to hurt it!" She said forcefully. He looked at her in pain.
"You already hurt it! You said at five!" He snapped. She snapped back:
"You would have tensed, and messed me up. This way, I caught you off guard!" She said. He glared at her in pain, and then slowly relaxed, as the pain started to ebb.
"I'm sorry Yolei, I didn't mean to snap at you. In fact, thank-you, it feels a bit better." She smiled at this comment. She took an extra shirt out of her pack and fixed a makeshift sling. Then she stood up.
"Well, I'm going to go look for a way out of here, you need to get some rest." She said and turned to leave. With his left hand he grabbed her wrist. She turned around.
"Wait . . . don't leave." He said. "I need somebody to talk to . . ." He said. She looked down at him in surprise.
"Well . . . I need something to get my mind off of the pain." He said lamely. What excuse did he have to make to get Yolei to stay with him? She smiled and leaned down next to him.
"Does this take your mind off of it?" She said and kissed him. His eyes opened up in shock for a moment, and then he melted into the kiss. Suddenly he was in the haze again. But this time, he felt no pain. Suddenly she was there too, pressing up against him. He cocked his head and deepened the kiss. They went a few seconds, but it seemed longer. They then broke away, and they started to regain their breaths. All the while, staring into each other's eyes.
"How did you know . . ." Ken started,
"How did I know you loved me back? I didn't." She responded. Then she shrugged. "I just . . . took a chance, and hope you returned those feelings." She said. He smiled, and pulled her down into another kiss. Once they broke away, she sat down beside him.
"Just one thing, why me?" Ken asked. Yolei looked at him.
"What do you mean?" She asked.
"Why do you love me? I used to be so cruel and mean." He said and looked away guilty. She beamed at him.
"Because the key words in that sentence, are 'used to be'. Now you are kind, and caring. You're smart, unprejudiced and dare I mention cute? I guess I've always had a crush on you, but it has grown into a love." She said. He blushed, embarrassed.
"Now my turn, why me?" She asked.
"You're smart as well, and sincere. You really know how to make me smile." He said. This was the first time, he let known his feelings for Yolei. It was a big step for him, as he hardly did that with anyone.
"What do want to talk about then?" Ken asked.
"You're the one who wanted to talk to me." She said. He raised an eyebrow at her. "This is the start," he thought. "Of something new."
Well, maybe it is.
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