Ebacusta: I'm home. Back where I belong. I went on vacation in Florida to see my cousins (and my new baby cousin. Kawaii!) And, it took me the whole trip home yesterday to finish planning this chapter, so I hope you like it.
Kari: Before we do the customary thanking, and disclaimer, and so on, we have an important announcement. Ebacusta has succeeded in putting up the ULTIMATE TAKARI PROOF, on her brand new web page (now officially 3 weeks old). Check it out.
Willis: Now, we would to thank:
Hiashi- they are boyfriend and girlfriend in this world. They aren't questioning their relationship in this world anymore. The real world is a different story. And don't worry, I haven't forgotten about the Digital World. I have lots planned for there.
Digicyber- I might do that, actually, I have this idea in a story that I've been planning for about a month, but, I haven't put it up yet.
Rain-witch-85- That theory works too. In fact, I like it better than the one they provided. Ha ha.
GatomonandKariFan- thanks, I'm fine, you?
Mimi angel- Well, it was calm compared to what's going to happen in this chapter.
Carrie- I have the websites on my homepage which I got up before I left. It's under quiz results. To get to my homepage, look in my profile.
Rockie-chan- Yeah, I know about the whole obsession thing, but, I experience this whole thing that at the end of every series I like, I cry and get depressed because I know it's over. There's no more episodes, no more development, and sure I can rewatch, but it's not new. Does anyone else experience that or is it just me?
Anyway, the DigiDestined will be reunited with their Digimon soon. But, that's all I'll tell you. And I do know about Michael. But, I'm just curious, why'd you mention him in your review.
Racx- Please, do the story. I'll read it. I promise. But, you'll have to tell me the title and your username so I can find it. And, I'm glad your back. I mentioned you again. Ha ha.
Ebacusta: I'm in a good mood today. So, this chapter isn't particularly depressing, at least not to me.
Ken: Disclaimer. Ebacusta does not own Digimon. She does own this idea (not the idea of powers, that belongs to Digifriends) of the virus and she does own her made up characters, the most recent being Mina, Kyoko, and Kei.
TK: That said and done. Fic time.
By ebacusta
Chapter 13
Moving Again
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"MOVE!" she yelled. Most of the kids began to shuffle out of the way. There were so many in the way that it was hard to move. Before Kari got a chance to move, a red beam came charging at the area where she was standing. Kari dived out of the way. The beam blast through the middle of the walk.
"Kay are you okay?" TK asked.
"Yeah," Kari nodded. Suddenly she heard a cracking sound. She looked behind her to see the ground was breaking up. She looked down. A crack had already begun to form. Before she could move, the area where she was lying and areas behind it all broke up. She screamed as she fell. Her uniform caught on a wire sticking out. She heard a rip.
"Why me?" she thought as the back of her uniform tore and she fell head first towards the ground.
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"Oof," she said as she made contact with purple metal. "Ow." The metal started moving. She looked around. It was a hand, no doubt the hand of a sentinel, and it was closing. "Not this time Mr. Sentinel," she said. She crouched down and jumped out of it. She landed on the shoulder of another sentinel.
It reached for her. "Oops. Wrong stop." She jumped to a third, but before it could do anything, she jumped into the air and glowed white. She blasted all the sentinels in order.
"Katherine!" TK yelled. He jumped out of the walkway and blew away an oncoming sentinel.
"Kay!" Tai yelled. Him, Mimi, Izzy, and Sora all jumped out as well and began to glow red, green, yellow, and sky blue respectively. Mina and Kyoko jumped out after them glowing black and blue.
TK made a gust of wind and carried them all down to the ground, setting them down softly. Students above chattered after watching their classmates destroy the fabled mechanical bounty hunters, known as Sentinels.
Suddenly, out of no where, men started jumping up. On the other side, many sentinels became visible. And then something neither Kari, Ken, TK, nor Willis expected.
"Hello. Remember us?" came a voice. TK and Kari whirled around and there stood TK, Kari, Willis, and Ken's roommates. "Obviously, your thinking has been tampered with. Why else would you resist Ms. Riverton?" Satsuki said.
"Because she's up to no good!" Kari yelled back.
"Whatever did this to you is up to no good," Satsuki retorted.
TK's roommate jumped up. His blue hair seemed to glow, and then the rest of his body. TK's other roommate jumped up as well. He began to glow a dull gray. (A/N. I will from here on out refer to their roommates as the element they possess.)
Willis' roommates jumped in front of TK. One glowing a light gray and the other glowing blue. Kari and Ken's roommates were the back-ups. At least they were until an ice wall grew between Kari, TK, and his and Willis' roommates and Kari and Ken's roommates.
They whirled around.
Mina and Kyoko stood there smiling. "Let's play fair," Kyoko said. The roommates growled and activated their powers. Kari's roommates, one glowing red, the other glowing yellow, chose Mina, leaving Kyoko with Ken's, one glowing green, and one glowing white. (A/N. Imagine a spilt-screen effect right here.)
"Bring it," Kyoko, Mina, TK, and Kari all said at the same time.
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Back in the overpass
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"What's happening?" Yolei asked.
"Mina just made an ice wall in between Kari, TK, and herself, and Kyoko," Willis said. "I never knew she had powers. (A/N. TK and Kari never told them about the subway adventure.)
"There's men every where," Joe said.
"Yeah we should get down and help," Davis said.
Cody spoke, "How?"
"Leave that to me," Matt said. He glowed for a second, and then he froze a slide down from the overpass down to the ground.
"Let's go!" Willis exclaimed as he, Matt, and Yolei all jumped on the slide and took a snow boarding position as they slid down the slide, and then jumped off. Davis was next. He ran, tripped and rolled down the slide, but jumped off at the last minute and kicked a guy in the face. Ken, Joe, and Cody all shrugged, and slid down crouching slightly.
Upon reaching the ground, they immediately joined the fight against the men and sentinels. The classmates still in the overpass area watch all this in confusion and awe.
"Awesome," one of them whispered.
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Kari vs. Sky and Weather (TK's Roommates)
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Sky activated his powers and threw his hand up. Kari went flying into the sky. Weather held his hands close together before throwing them up as well. A storm began to brew. Sky was tossing her through the air. It was hard to aim. She lined it up as best she could and fired a blast of light.
It smacked into Weather knocking him to the ground. Instantly the sky cleared up.
"Now to get back on the ground," Kari said quietly as she aimed at Sky who was busy looking at Weather. She hit him too, releasing his hold on her. She began to fall.
"Didn't think this one all the way through," Kari thought as she fell. But, fortunately for her, she landed on Matt's ice slide and slid down it, until she reached the ground. By the time she reached the ground, her butt was freezing. Weather and Sky were running towards her in addition to a large group of men, no doubt with powers.
"I didn't want to have to do this," Kari said loudly. "Haaaaaah!" she yelled as she clapped her hands together, and then pulled them back apart. There was a thick "string" of light in between the two, and then out came a large boomerang shaped blast. It hit Sky and Weather, knocking them into a tree, and thus rendering them unconscious and blasting the other men away.
"Sorry," Kari apologized.
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Sora vs. Random Men with Powers
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Sora kicked a man in the stomach and flipped out of the way of another's attack. She punched him in the face, before performing a heel drop and knocking him out.
"Mimi," Sora said, as she glanced at the girl who was using her powers to trap men in leafy prisons with an earthy yet strong lock on their hands.
"Yes?" Mimi asked.
"Can you get the apartment manager to see if he can transfer us to another apartment in a different city?" Sora asked. She jumped over one of the men's heads, and hit him on his pressure point knocking him out.
"Sure, but can you get us transferred to another school?" Mimi asked. "I don't want to have to do this every time I come to school."
"Sure," Sora agreed. "But first..."
"...let's deal with these losers," Mimi finished. She raised her hands a little. Out of the earth, vines shot up, and hooked together forming a big cage.
"Great idea," Sora said as she began glowing sky blue. She gathered up all the men with her powers, and then raised them into the air. Carefully, she carried them over to the cage and dropped them in. As soon as a man touched the cage, vines, shot up and locked his hands together so he could not activate his powers. Sora did this a few more times, until every man on the premises was in the cage.
"Now to top it all off," Mimi said. She used her powers again. Vines, came and formed a top to the cage rendering the men inside it utterly helpless. "Pretty," Mimi said as she walked over and tugged on a vine forming one of the walls, "yet strong."
"Come on!" Sora exclaimed. The two girls turned and ran.
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Mina vs. Fire and Lightening (Kari's Roommates)
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"Haa!" Fire exclaimed as she fired a burst of flame at Mina. Mina flipped over her, and kicked her in the back.
"Uh!" Lightening grunted as she tried to blast Mina. Mina flipped over her as well. As she turned around, there were two blasts coming at her. She quickly formed a large ice wall in front of her.
"Whew, close one," Mina thought. Mina could here Fire and Lightening on the other side of the wall.
"Where is she?" Fire asked.
"I don't know," Lightening replied. "The ice distorts her image." Mina grinned. Excellent.
Mina, ran back a little and then sprinted forward and used the momentum to flip over the wall.
"Aaaah!" Fire and Lightening screamed in surprise. Mina landed and kicked Lightening in the back of the head, and in one swift motion grabbed Fire and flipped her over her back.
From there, Mina jumped off her ice wall and spun into the air in a loose circle (about five feet in diameter) blasting ice down. She continued to do this until they were encased in a ice column. Mina landed on one of the sides. She looked down at them and smirked. She froze a lid with a nose sized hole for air before jumping off.
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TK vs. Mist and Water (Willis' Roommates)
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Mist glowed. Suddenly a thick fog settled around TK.
"Clever, but...THAT WON'T WORK!" TK yelled. He activated his own powers and blew away the fog. Water, who had been charging up a blast, tried to hit him with it. TK jumped out of the way, and he activated his powers again. He summoned his strength, and blew Water forcefully into Mist. They were both blown back into Mimi's cage, which instantly grew vines and held them tightly.
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Kyoko vs. Light and Wind (Ken's Roommates)
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Light fired a beam at Kyoko. Kyoko looked at it, and charged up her own attack, which she release a second later. A dark attack opened up and swallowed the light attack that had been fired at her and slammed into Light. He flew a few feet and hit the ground hard.
"Hey!" Wind yelled.
"Hey yourself," Kyoko replied in a level tone. Wind grew angry and made a gust of wind in an attempt to blow her away. But, Kyoko used this gust to her advantage. She jumped into it and let it carry her back to him. As she approached, she drew back her foot and kicked Wind into a tree.
Wind and Light slowly stood and charged at her.
"Don't you idiots get it? I don't want to harm you, but you're forcing me too," Kyoko said. Lazily she held out her hands and out of them came two dark bubbles. She sent one after Light and the other after Wind.
Light tried to penetrate it with a blast of his own, while Wind attempted to blow it away. Their attacks did nothing. They turned to run, but the bubbles caught them.
"No harm done," Kyoko said before she jumped off.
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Sora and Mimi
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Sora dashed up the stairs. She was tired but she didn't have time to rest. She lost Mimi on the way over here (they'd been attacked by another set of men) and so, now, not only was she worried about Mimi, but also about how the others were fairing.
She burst into the apartment, and to her relief, Mimi was already there talking to the manager.
"Yes, thank you so much for this," Mimi said.
"When do you want the trucks to come?" the manager asked.
"Tomorrow, if you can arrange that," Mimi replied.
"Sure thing," he answered.
"Thanks you very much," Mimi said bowing.
"No problem," he replied. He left.
"Well?" Sora asked as soon as Mimi had shut the door.
"There is an apartment we can move too. It's in Tokyo," Mimi said.
"What's the closest school to it?" Sora asked.
"Spring Gardens High," Mimi replied.
"Okay," Sora said. She picked up the phone and called Sakura High.
"Hello, Kathy speaking. How may I help you?"
"Yes, this is Sally, Sarah's mother," Sora said.
"Ah yes. Hello Ms. Yagami," Kathy said. "How may I help you?"
"Yes, I would like to transfer Sarah, Tom, Katherine, David, TK, Alex, Will, Gigi, Bryce, Rachel, Calvin, Kevin, and John to the Spring Gardens High in Tokyo," Sora said.
"Oh, but your kids just got here," Kathy said.
"Well, yes, but I really need to," Sora said. "But I know they've enjoyed the two months they've spent there."
"Well that's good," Kathy said. "I'll put you through to the Principal."
"Thank you," Sora said. Sora waited a minute and then the Principal picked up.
"Hello?"
"Yes, it's me Sally Yagami," Sora said.
"Ah, hello, Ms. Yagami. Kathy mentioned that you wanted to transfer," he said.
"Yes," Sora said. "Speaking on behalf of all their parents we want to transfer our kids to Spring Gardens High."
"Well, that's all fine and dandy. I can transfer your kids, but until I get some kind of proof that the other parents want to transfer their kids, I can't move them," he said.
"I understand. Georgia is right here hold on," Sora said. She handed the phone to Mimi.
"Hi, it's me Georgia," Mimi said.
"Hello, Ms. Takenouchi," he said. (A/N. When making up last names, Mimi and Izzy decided to pick up Sora's last name.)
"Yes, I would like to transfer Bryce, Gigi, Rachel, and Calvin, to the Spring Gardens High School in Tokyo," Mimi said.
"Okay, I just need clearance from Mark, and Jim to move Will, Alex, TK, and Kevin," the Principal said.
"No problem. Will notes do? And can tomorrow be their last day?" Mimi asked.
"Sure and sure," he said.
"Okay, Sally will bring up some notes," Mimi said.
"Well, I'm just curious, before you go, can you tell me why the sudden transfer?" the Principal asked.
Mimi froze. "Why the sudden transfer?" she asked. Sora froze when she heard this. Almost instantly after that Sora started making frantic hand movements to Mimi.
"Well, you know, I'll let you talk to Sally about that," Mimi said and quickly passed the phone off to Sora.
"You see, my mother has grown ill, and all the kids love her. We're moving to be closer," Sora said.
"Well, I certainly hope your mother gets well soon," the Principal said. "As soon as I get approval from Mark and Jim, I'll start the transfer."
"Yes, thank you," she said and hung up the phone.
"Mimi, I need you to call Spring Gardens High and enroll the kids in school," Sora said. I have to write up these notes. She wrote one for her kids and signed it, passed the pen and paper to Mimi, and had Mimi write and sign a quick one while she was on hold, and then took the pen and paper back herself to try and figure out how to do Joe and Matt's.
She set the pen down and tried to imagine what Matt's handwriting looked like. She glowed a sky blue, and suddenly the pen picked itself up and began writing a note in Matt's handwriting. It signed it Mark, just the way Matt signed Mark. And then it moved on to Joe and signed Jim.
"Wow, I guess that settles that," Sora said.
Mimi hung up the phone, "We're all enrolled, due to start after summer vacation."
"Excellent, I just have to take these notes up to the school. And you might as well come along," Sora said. She headed for the door.
"Uh, Sora, you can't seriously think about going to the school as a mom in that outfit right?" Mimi asked. Sora looked down. She was still dressed in her Sakura High uniform.
"Right, I need to change," Sora said and walked down the hall towards the bedrooms.
"And shower!" Mimi called after her. "After all, if you're all sweaty he'll know something's up." While Sora was in the shower, Mimi took the liberty of arranging for their mail to be sent to this address as of Monday, and then she took the liberty of tracking down everyone's number to their jobs and calling all of them, getting them transferred to a branch in Tokyo. By the time she was done, Sora was done as well, dressed in a pants suit.
"Nice Sora," Mimi said.
"Thanks," Sora replied. The two left and walked quickly back to the school. Upon reaching the school, Sora walked into the Kathy's office, met and talked with the Principal, and the final agreement that they would switch after summer vacation was made.
"Thank you very much," Sora said.
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Sakura High- Tk, Kari, Willis, and Ken
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"Kari!" She turned. Ken was running towards her.
"Ken! Do you know where Willis and TK are?" Kari asked. "I haven't seen them around, and I'm worried."
"You shouldn't be." TK landed next to her and Willis beside him.
"Where did you come from?" Ken asked.
"The sky," Willis said.
"Whatever," Kari and Ken said together. "Let's go." The foursome ran towards the street. But then, suddenly, someone they were hoping wouldn't show up (or at least not find them) was Hilga Riverton. They tried to skid to a stop but ran into her and were knocked to the ground.
"Hello children," she said. They stood up "It's time for you to return home." They turned to start running, but then, all of the sudden the ground began to shake. Unbalanced they fell to the ground again. And the thing that rushed around the corner caused their eyes to widen before they were squeezed shut.
The huge wave of water crashed into them picking them and carrying them with the rest. Holding their breath, they felt a weird tingling sensation, and as the water leveled itself out, the four rose out of the water. They opened their eyes, and went to move when they noticed they were above the ground. Kari looked around. She pressed her hands in front of her. They made contact with the watery wall.
They were trapped inside bubbles! Kari and the others began to bang on the side and shout out.
"Help! Help!"
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Matt and Tai
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Tai looked around. "Hey, where's Kari? I haven't seen her since she fell."
"TK!" Matt exclaimed.
"Where?" Tai asked swinging his head around. And then he saw what Matt was talking about. Suspended in air, and trapped in bubbles were Kari, TK, Ken, and Willis.
"KARI!" Tai yelled at the same time Matt yelled, "TK!" The two rocketed forward towards their younger siblings.
"NO!" they yelled in unison. They both began to glow as they tried to activate their powers.
"I don't think so," Hilga said. "I think you should let them be. They tie you down." She said. Out of the Earth came an arsenal of vines that wrapped around Tai and Matt's legs, arms, and torso, successfully holding them still.
Tai and Matt began to struggle. "No! Kari! TK!" they yelled. "We'll get you. We promise!"
"Tai! Matt!" came TK and Kari's watery sounding voice. "No."
All this noise drew the attention of Cody and Yolei, who looked around and saw Tai and Matt, and then saw the bubbles.
"Willis!" Cody exclaimed.
"Ken!" Yolei called. She and Cody headed for the bubbles.
"Stay back, or you'll be burned," Hilga said. A wall of fire erupted in front of them. They went to turn around to get around the wall, but saw that they were encircled by fire.
"KEN!" Yolei yelled helplessly. The fire's heat was already getting to her. She and Cody backed in to the center of the circle where it was less hot.
"WILLIS!"
"KARI!" came a loud yell. Yolei and Cody looked in time to see Davis sprint pass their ring of fire and head for the bubbles.
"Davis, no!" Yolei yelled after him. But it was too late. He was thrown into the air, and suspended upside down.
"Kari!"
Izzy and Joe, thinking this was a premiere opportunity to go for them since they thought she'd was to busy with the others, ran forward.
"You two thought you could escape my watchful gaze?" Hilga asked. She laughed. A huge wall of Earth sprouted from the ground in all four directions. She laughed again and turned to leave.
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Sora and Mimi
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"You done?" Mimi asked.
"Yep. It's all finished," Sora said.
"Then put this on," she said handing Sora her school uniform.
"Thanks," Sora said. She slipped into the nearby bathroom and put on her school uniform. She emerged a minute later clothed in her uniform.
"Let's go," Sora said.
"KARI!"
Sora and Mimi spun around and ran for the nearest window. Davis hung upside down and Yolei & Cody stood in the middle of a roaring ring of fire.
"Quickly Mimi, let's go!" Sora exclaimed. The two ran to the overpass and slid down the slide. They ran around it and snuck in between the bush and the building towards Hilga.
"We'll have to jump," Sora said.
"Okay," Mimi nodded. "Oh no. Look." Mimi pointed. Sora followed her finger and saw Hilga leaving with Kari, TK, Willis, and Ken.
"We have to stop her. Let's go," Sora exclaimed. The two ran back and ran forward again flipping over the bush. Sora used her sky powers to keep them in the air long enough. As they flipped, Mimi caught sight of Izzy and Joe trapped in the Earth box. As Sora released her powers, she and Mimi...well she landed. Mimi landed flat on her face, as the sight of Izzy distracted her.
"Stop!" Sora exclaimed. Hilga turned around lazily.
"Look around," Hilga replied.
"Huh?" Sora looked to her right and her left and then she saw Tai. "TAI! KARI!" She went for Kari. Mimi stood up and began looking from the stone box to the watery prison that in cased her four smaller friends. "TK! IZZY!" She couldn't run either direction. Sora was obviously torn between a tough decision between Tai and Kari. Both of them activated their powers, but unfortunately Hilga was waiting.
"Foolish children," she laughed coldly. Sora and Mimi began to shake and shiver. Ice began to form around and on their shoes, and it slowly crawled it's way up their legs. They tried to free themselves, they even tried using their powers, but theice was so cold that it was slowing their bodily processes and they couldn't muster up the strength to do anything with their powers.
The ice had reached their waists. Sora, in desperation, exclaimed, "Let them go!"
Hilga looked at her as though amazed that this girl had just told her to do something. "No."
"Why do you want them?" Mimi asked. The ice crawling over her and Sora's stomachs. Tai and Izzy, who had managed to make a small hole in the Earth, watched wide eyed, unable to do anything.
"No," Tai mumbled. Sora was tiring. "No." He yelled, "FIGHT SORA, FIGHT! YOU CAN DO IT!" Sora smiled at him weakly as the ice slipped over her chest and headed over her shoulders and up her neck.
"Sorry Tai," she said. "I couldn't do it." The ice slipped over her mouth and face. And then she was encased. The ice thickened until it was a perfect square of ice.
Tai's pupils constricted. Matt looked at him, his pupils were barely visible. He didn't move a second and then, with a look on his face very close to a mad man's, he began to struggle harder then ever against the vines, "NO! NO! YOU CAN'T! PLEASE! YOU CAN'T! FIGHT IT SORA! ACTIVATE YOUR POWERS! DO SOMETHING! PLEASE!"
"How touching," Hilga said. "Since you care so much." She moved Sora beside Tai using her control of Sky and then continued, "You seem to be in so much pain. Here, let me put you into agony!" She made the vines grow thorns that punctured Matt and Tai's skin. He let out a yell of pure agony.
"TAI!" Kari yelled. She pushed against the bubble she was in. She didn't understand. Kari began to cry as she saw the blood trickle down Tai's hand. TK was near hopeless as he looked at Matt, who was biting his lip as he watched his own blood fall to the ground.
"Tai," she said. Her vision became blurry as the tears obscured her vision. She suddenly felt like her body was about to explode. The pain that was welling up in her heart, made her yell out in agony. The water bubble around her burst, as a huge discharge of light exploded from her body. She fell to the ground, and ran towards her brother.
Hilga was in pure shock. No one had ever escaped from her bubbles. Suddenly another one burst and TK went running for Matt.
"Enough!" she roared. Using Sky, she picked Kari and TK up and continued on her way.
"Tai!" Kari yelled reaching down for her older brother. "Sora."
"For that, your brothers will suffer more pain," Hilga said. The thorns grew slowly digging deeper into Tai and Matt's skin. They both began to cry silently against their will.
"STOP!" Kari yelled. "STOP IT!" Hilga looked at her.
"We'll go," TK said. "Just please don't harm our friends any more."
"No Kari!" Tai yelled through his teeth. "Don't say that, I'll be fine."
Kari ignored him. She was staring intently at Hilga.
"Fine," she said. Hilga brought the two to her and then grabbing Kari and wrenching her head back, exposing her neck. Hilga, who had gown vampire like fangs, bit into Kari's skin. Kari gasped and slowly her eyes dulled until finally they were a boring brown. Hilga dropped her, and she lay not moving on the ground, her steady yet shallow breathing told the DigiDestined that she was just barely hanging in there.
"NO!" Tai yelled.
Hilga put her hands together, and then out came a jar with a lable on it. It said, Hikari's Soul. She turned to TK gleefully. "You next." She grabbed him before he could do anything (not that he could have anyway) and wrenched his head back in the same manner and bit him as well.
"Stop TK! Stop! Now! I'm not worth it!" Matt yelled in vain. As TK's eyes dulled slowly he gasped in a small voice, "Sorry...Matt." And then he was gone. Most of his soul gone, he was completely helpless. He fell to the ground.(A/N. Imagine this scene in slow motion okay? Starting from TK falling.)
"NOOOOO!" Matt yelled. "TK!" He wrenched at his hands. And when it became apparent that he could not get free, Matt dropped to his knees. "No."
"Brother," came a barely audible whisper. Matt looked up as had Tai. Kari and TK's mouths were barely moving but they said, "Please don't worry. It was something we did out of choice. Please tell mom and dad that we love them. And we love you too." Hilga smiled at them wickedly. She raised their practically lifeless bodies and turned to go. Tai and Matt's heads lowered. It was over, all hope was gone.
"Stop!" Matt and Tai raised their heads once more. They saw Mina and Kyoko standing their, tears running down their cheeks. Before Hilga could do anything, Mina activated her powers and froze Hilga in a block of ice.
"Hurry!" Kyoko said. "Use your powers to escape. This ice won't hold her for long." Tai and Matt didn't move. Kyoko noticed, "Do it for Kari and TK's sake. This may be your chance to save their souls and them." This got to them. As if suddenly ruled by anger, Tai and Matt began to glow. Tai, a violent shade of red, and Matt a deeper blue than normal. Almost instantly the vines burst into flames. Matt's were frozen and he shattered them.
"Mina, quickly, go hide," Kyoko said. Mina nodded and ran off.
Tai turned to Sora, "Sora, please be okay. Please. I couldn't bare to lose both of you." But Sora, being frozen, had no way to respond.
Yolei and Cody, who were trapped by the ring of fire, had and idea. Yolei activated her powers and then the ground began to shake violently. A column of Earth came out of the ground and pushed her and Cody above the fire. She could hear her classmates talking amongst each other as Cody activated his powers.
"Katherine was really Kari Kamiya?"
"No way."
"I don't believe it."
"What I don't believe is the fact the Kari, TK, Willis, and Ken don't want to go back to Hilga's school. That's the best place for them."
"I wouldn't want to go back either, if I found out that my teacher and headmistress was a vampire."
Yolei interrupted, "She just took some of their life force. She didn't suck their blood." Suddenly, a raging blizzard began and the amount of snow put out the fire. "Nice work Cody," Yolei complimented as she grabbed him and jumped off the column down the earthy steps she just made.
"Thank you," he replied. Their was a loud desperate yell as Davis fell towards the ground. Yolei had it raise up to catch him and then lower itself back into the ground. Meanwhile, Izzy and Joe, had finally formed a plan. Both activating their powers, Joe began to use his to erode away at an earthy wall, while Izzy used his to blast away large chunks of the earth. When a wall was finally gone, they slipped out of the box and Izzy ran towards Mimi.
Inside the ice, Sora began to concentrate. She had gotten a headache from the cold and it only intensified as she concentrated harder and harder. And slowly, she heard the ice break up. And then....shards of ice flew everywhere as the ice block holding Sora shattered to pieces. She was swept up by an overjoyed Tai. Mimi's own ice began to break up as amany vines began snaking their way through the ice. Hers soon shattered as well.
HIlga's own ice had begun to break up. Mina saw this. Kyoko noticed as well. "Get to the school pond!" The DigiDestined rounded the corner of the building just as the ice shattered revealing a large angry Hilga Riverton. She looked wildly around for Mina, but when she saw Kyoko, glowing black, and no one else, she began to laugh.
"One person is all you have. Just one person. One person can't stop me," she said. Kyoko ignored this and got in a fighting stance anyway. Her classmates above saw this and was amazed that she was going to be this brave. The shouted down encouraging comments:
"Go get her Kyoko!"
"It's all you!"
"We believe in you!"
"You better than she is!"
"Don't listen to her taunts!"
"You're the woman!"
"We're backing you all the way!"
"Save Kari and TK and bring them back to their family!"
"Get back their souls!"
"You're unstoppable!" Kyoko, took this encouragement. She felt herself grow strong with each word her classmates said.
She spoke, "I may not win today...but I will get revenge FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" She fired a large darkness blast, which roused cheers and whoops from her classmates.
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Mina and the other DigiDestined
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"We're going to have to work together. Starting with you Joe. When we go around to attack, you're going to have to take control of the water Hilga has around the Willis and Ken. Once you've got control, you've got to pull the water over to you and use/dispose of it however you please.
"Now, we're all going to gang up her. Not the most honorable thing, but it's all we've got. So here's what I want you to do. Everyone else, while Joe is gathering the water from the bubbles is going to charge up an attack, and put all their strength into it. And then when I say now. Everyone is going to release this powerful blast okay?" They nodded. "Is everyone ready?" the nodded again.
"Good," she said peeking around the corner. To see how the battle was going, "because I don't think she can hold her off much longer." Just as the words left her mouth, Kyoko was blasted into a tree. She fell with a huge shutter to the ground.
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Kyoko vs. Hilga Riverton
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Her breath heavy. She heaved herself to her feet. She had to hold off Hilga until the others were ready. And then she noticed Hilga's belt.
"It's my only chance," Kyoko thought. She mustered up what she could of her strength and blasted at Hilga's midsection. Just as she had hoped, Hilga went to dodge, and the blast knocked off one of the jars. It fell, and then Hilga noticed what had happened.
She looked at Kyoko, "You despicable child." She tried to catch the jar, but it hit the ground sending chards of glass everywhere, and releasing whoever's soul was in the jar. A ghostly white figure rose from the ruins of the glass.
"Thank you," it said. And then flew into Kari's mouth. Kari shuttered and violently began to shake. And then her eyes shot open. She jumped out of the way of Hilga's reach, and blasted her with as much force as she could muster up. Hilga stumbled back. "Disrespectful child!" she roared. "Come here." She tried to catch her but failed and was blasted by Kyoko, thankful for the distraction Kari was causing to Hilga. But then, to Kyoko's dismay and panic, Hilga caught Kari by her hair and dragged her up close to her body.
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Kyoko's POV
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Kari struggled as Hilga made for her head and wrenched it back. She grew her vampire like fangs, and then I heard them. At first only one or two had regained their voices to say things like:
"Come on Kari." Or "Fight Kari fight."
And then more people joined in.
"Don't let her get you Kari."
"Come on, you can do it."
"Don't give up hope Kari. Just fight."
"Better your hair than your soul." And I could tell that the encouragement had an affect on Kari because a moment later, her eyes paled, and I thought maybe Hilga had gotten her, but then her iris disappeared completely and her eyes began to glow before her mouth opened wide and beams of white light came flooding out of her eyes and mouth. At first I thought she was losing control of her powers.
But I saw the light was blinding Hilga and then when Kari looked at Hilga, she was blasted off. And then, the energy as if needing a place to go, stopped pour out of her mouth and eyes, and a moment later, giant wings made of white light spread out of back. Kari really was the prophesied one. I couldn't believe it.
Hilga had been after me and Mina for the longest, but then I heard a prochey that said four would arrive, and that the dark one (Hilga) would shift her focus to them, especially the one with wings of light. But then, it was foretold that the one with the wings would also help deliver those with powers who didn't want to be in Hilga's school out of hiding because Hilga would be destroyed. It sounds cruel I know, but if you only knew the things she's done to force people into her school, most of them were powers she couldn't control and wanted too. But I wasn't so sure about Kari and those guys now.
I didn't know why Hilga was after Kari's soul so much because she would give it back when she got them back to her school. It made me wonder. But, it was around this time that I had to quit day dreaming, because, Hilga had been hitting Kari with every power she had.
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Normal POV
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Kari fell out of the sky and hit the ground hard. Slowly she stood and steadied herself. Hilga was on the verge of madness. She ran towards Kari. Kari flipped over her. But, then, Hilga had an idea. She had TK's body brought to her using her powers and then she went for his neck. Kari froze.
"What are you doing?" Kari asked.
Hilga grinned evilly. "If you won't surrender part of your soul so that I can make sure, that our deal stands, then I'll just take his entirely. And...." There was a stillness in the air as Kari's eyes widened. Kyoko's own eyes widened as she realized what was going on.
Kari dropped to her knees. "No, no. Please. No," she gasped.
Kyoko ran in front of Kari with her arms spread. "STOP! There is no reason for this. Release her!"
Hilga smiled wickedly. "No."
Kari was gasping, "Stop...Stop...I'll go...Just please don't..."
Kyoko turned around and said, "No Kari, don't give in. It's not real. You can't give in. Take back what you said now. While you still have a chance." But, Hilga flung Kyoko aside and released her hold on Kari's mind.
"Will you submit to me?" Hilga asked. Kari was breathing hard.
"TK," she gasped.
Hilga smirked, "I'll take that as a yes." She grabbed Kari by her hair and stood her up. She pushed her head back.
"Don't give up Kari. What she showed wasn't really happening. Don't let her. Please, trust me," Kyoko yelled. Kari looked as if she wasn't quite sure, but she followed what Kyoko advised her to do.
Hilga shook her head sadly, "You don't get it do you?"
"She snapped her fingers and TK sat up, his eyes still dull. He walked towards them.
"TK!" Kari said. Kyoko blasted through a dark beam right in front of TK. He fell to the ground, not moving. Hilga growled in frustration and snarled at Kyoko, "Don't interfere. I'll get you next."
Kari started to struggle again, but then with one hand Hilga held Kari's head back and held her in place. With her other hand she grabbed both of Kari's and held them. Kari tried moving her body but it didn't work. She was trapped.
"NO!" Kyoko yelled. She fired a blast, but it was redirected and almost hit TK, lying on the ground.
Hilga mumbled as she got closer to Kari's neck, "I shall enjoy this greatly."
"Don't," Kyoko called out. But, Hilga sank her teeth into the still struggling Kari, who instantly quit struggling after that. Slowly, just like before, Kari's eyes drained of emotion and luster. They dulled until they were as dull as before. Hilga threw Kari's vegetable like body onto TK's and made a new jar for Kari's soul.
Mina and Kyoko were distraught.
"I should have told them to go earlier," Mina thought. "This is all my fault." But determined not to make the same mistake twice, she screamed, "NOW!" The DigiDestined and herself rocketed around the side of the building. Joe instantly glowed blue and slowly gained control over the water. Once he had it, he drew it over to himself, freeing Ken and Willis. He gathered the water into a ball in between his hands. He began to gather more water and making the ball larger.
Hilga went for Willis and Ken to try and take their souls as well. But, Willis and Ken were expecting this. They both activated their powers. Willis used his powers to slow her down.
"NOW!" Mina yelled. All the other DigiDestined released the attacks they had been charging up. Tai released a huge burst of flame while Matt and Mina released large ice blasts. Sora, discovered a new part of her powers and summoned illusions of herself, and they all attacked Hilga with flying kicks. Joe threw the large water ball he had been charging, at her.
Cody summoned a huge blizzard around her, successfully obscuring her vision as Yolei ripped large pieces of earth up and out of the ground and smacked Hilga with them. Then, as if to make sure she couldn't move, Mimi's vines snaked up around her limbs. Izzy let a huge lightening bolt strike her while Kyoko released a large dark blast, and then as if taken over by Kari and TK's spirits, Matt and Tai began to glow a different color and released from themselves a huge gust of wind and an enormous blast of light. Hilga flew from the school, laughing at their foolish attempts because she still had their souls.
"Foolish children, without their souls those two shall eventually die!" she said.
Sora bit her lip. "She's right. We need their souls back."
"Allow me," Kyoko said. She jumped into the air and with Sora's help stayed up long enough to blast Hilga and knock off the two jars.
"NO!" Hilga roared. Mina was on the ground sprinting to get under the jars. She dived and barely caught them to the applause of her classmates. She walked them back over to the two barely conscious teens. They were mumbling, "...love...you...can't...without you..."
"Here," Mina said handing TK's jar to Matt and Kari's to Tai's. Kyoko landed next to them. Matt unscrewed the lid to TK's jar and tipped it into his mouth. His spirit practically leaped into his body. And then he began to shake wildly, and spit and sputter, and then it stopped. TK's glassy eyes, slowly regained the shining, bright emotion they once had, and the intenseness of his deep ocean blue eyes returned. He sat up.
"Matt," he said. They hugged, Matt's blood getting all over TK's school uniform. He looked at Matt's still bleeding wrists.
"Forgot about those," Matt said. Sora used her powers to retrieve some gauze from the nurse's office. Tai then unscrewed the lid of Kari's soul and tipped it towards her mouth. Happily, her spirit slid into it and then Kari began to shake and shiver just as TK had. And then, the emotion, and exited sparkle reappeared in her eyes. A smile played across her lips as the boring brownish color returned to its normal reddish brown color. And after bandaging up Tai and Matt's wrists, the friends and pretend family, all stood and walked towards the street.
Just as they had almost reached the street, they heard a voice.
"Wait, Sora. I need to talk to your mother," they turned and Sora began to sweat. "Okay. I'll go home and get her. No need for that, I've already called her and left a message. She should be on her way up right now." Sora and the others froze. And then, concentrating her powers, she made and illusion of herself dressed like her mother come walking up the street. She stopped in front of the principal, and using her mind she was able to make her mother "speak."
"You called?" She said.
"Yes, I needed to discuss..."
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45 minutes later
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Sora stood, sweating. Her head began to spin, making her lose concentration and making the illusion disappear, but as the principal was looking away at the time, she was able to force the illusion back into existence. She was about to faint from the mental stress of keeping this up.
Finally, the principal said, "Well, that will be all. Thank you."
"Thank you for discussing these important matters with me," said Sora's illusion. The principal turned on his heel and walked back into the school and as soon as he was gone, Sora released her concentration and fell heavily against Tai.
"I'm hungry," Davis said.
"Me too," the others agreed. So it was decided that they would eat out than ago home and cook. Tai practically carried the exhausted Sora to the restaurant. Once they had all been fed and nourished, they all went home and using Sora's powers again, packed everything up for the moving trucks coming the next day. Just as everyone got ready to go to bed, Kari received a phone call.
"Hello?" Kari spoke into the receiver.
"Hey, Kari? It's me, Kyoko," said the voice. "I just wanted to tell you about the going away party Kei is having. It's at her house, and if you want you guys can come over to my house before hand and we'll go to the party together?"
Kari smiled and said, "That sounds nice."
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The Next Day
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The next day, the DigiDestined told their teachers about their transfer, and the announcements were made to the classes, and all the people in the school showed remorse for this. And the fact that Mina and Kyoko were leaving didn't lighten the already depressing mood that hung heavily over the school that day. But that day after school, the DigiDestined went home with Mina and Kyoko and then went to the party with them too. The DigiDestined boys got kisses on the cheek from every girl and the DigiDestined females got kisses from every boy. Some people confessed their love for a certain DigiDestined; they had had feelings for since they had met them. Others loaded them down with love letters, but everyone had a fun time.
That night, after the party, the DigiDestined had to lug home a ton of presents (just about everyone in the grade them plus Mina and Kyoko something). And they went to their apartment, picked up their remaining bags and got on the subway. They met Mina and Kyoko there and rode to Tokyo together. Once they had settled into their new apartment, which looked very similar to the old one, Kari received another phone call. This one was from Mina.
"Hey Kari," she said. "How's your new house?"
"Wonderful, what about yours?" Kari replied.
"The same," Mina replied. From this point on, Mina got a bit uncomfortable but she continued, "Um...Kyoko and I have been debating whether or not to tell you this but..."
"Go on," Kari urged.
"Well, we decided to tell you some things about Hilga," Mina replied.
"Do tell," Kari said.
Mina began, "Well, the first being that Hilga has no control over Light, Wind, Dark, Time, or Weather. And she is especially after you guys right now because you four possessing Light, Wind, Time, and Weather, together have a special element. And I know she will stop at nothing to get you guys. She won't think twice about killing it means that she can capture you guys. And I guess that's really it." Mina started to hang up but then, "Oh yes, and she has a star on her left hand."
Kari interrupted, "Wait a minute, how do you know all this stuff?"
Mina replied with the most shocking news Kari had heard since she found out that she would have to work in the same group as Rei, "She's my aunt."
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I hope you guys enjoyed this new installment of Try, Try, Try, Again. Don't forget to review, review, review. But, before I go, I'd like to give you all a test to see how much you remember from previous chapters: Why does the star matter?
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