I don't own digimon! These characters don't belong to me and I'm not claiming them as mine! The story line however, IS mine. Hope you enjoy it.^_^ Sorry about spelling and grammar errors. If you find them, let me know and I'll fix them. Read and review!

Quarantine

Chapter XII

Yolei slowly helped Davis take off his shirt because just the slight pressure of the fabric against his skin was causing him agonizing pain. She looked away from him, not wanting to see the dark marks all across his stomach. He saw the movement of her looking away, and even though he couldn't see her, he knew something was wrong.

"How bad is it?" he whispered.

"Not very bad at all," she lied, with a forced smile that he couldn't see.

"Don't lie to me Yolei. I know its bad. I can't see and I feel like someone's using a cheese grater on my stomach. All I want is a little honesty. Please." Davis answered. Yolei could hear the fear in his voice and it brought tears to her eyes.

"It isn't good Davis….." Yolei whispered.

Both of them jumped when they heard a huge crash outside in front of the cave. Davis gasped in pain in response to the movement.

Yolei looked over at the entrance and she saw several large tree branches had fallen outside.

"What is it?" Davis asked, his sightless eyes staring above him.

"I don't know…" Yolei answered as she slowly stood up and cautiously looked out.

"Exveemon!"

The large blue digimon was on the ground on his knees. When he had landed, he had sheared branches off a couple of nearby trees, which Yolei assumed made the crash, along with him actually hitting the ground. He had a nasty looking burn down him left arm. It was like someone had poured acid on him. There were several long slashes across his chest and he was all bloody. One of his large snowy white wings was shredded and he had it pulled tight against his body.

"What happened?" Yolei asked, looking up at him in shock.

"Something's wrong with Gabumon…"

"Gabumon attacked you?"

Exveemon didn't answer but just fell forward, and as he did so, he transformed back into Demiveemon. Yolei gently picked him up. He looked utterly exhausted, and he could barely keep his eyes open. Yolei went back inside and laid Demiveemon next to his partner. The small digimon snuggled up against the boy, who had fallen back asleep. Yolei smiled at the two, but at the same time, it made her miss Hawkmon. She walked over to Ken, laid down next to him and started to doze off herself.

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Kari didn't know what to do, she wasn't very good in front of large crowds, let alone a HUGE crowd.

'Especially foreign digimon crowds,' Kari thought to herself.

She was about to say something when one of the Scubamon walked forward. He was wearing a blue crystal on a chain around his neck, and Kari's first thought was of a priest.

"Our queen! We knew you would come to us!" he said, his voice echoing around the crowded square. Then he went down on his knees in a bow. The rest of the Scubamon followed suit and they looked like a giant ripple in a pond.

Kari didn't know what to say. 'Me, a queen?'

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Sora and Joe nearly ran into the emergency room. Joe went up to the desk to ask about Matt. Sora was looking around the waiting room. She never did like hospitals, too many bad memories of the place. There were a couple little kids sitting in the corner playing with those wire mazes that you would have to guide the colored beads through. They seemed oblivious to the world around them. Like of they concentrated hard enough on those wooden beads, then everything would be ok.

'Been there, done that,' she thought to herself.

Sora hated the smell of hospitals. Everytime she walked into one, it overpowered her. The stench of blood and tears. Of misery and death. She was brought back to her senses when Joe touched her shoulder, causing her to jump and gasp.

"Sorry," Joe said. "Are you ok?"

"I'm fine," Sora answered a little roughly.

Joe looked stunned. She cleared her throat, blushing.

"What did you find out about Matt?"

Joe hesitated for a second but then said, "The desk said they are still trying to figure out whats wrong with him."

"Oh…"

Joe looks at Sora's face as she looks around at the walls. She looked very much like a cornered animal. She looked afraid.

"Sora? What's wrong?" Joe asked uncertainly.

Sora started and looked at him as though only just noticing him for the first time.

"Nothing…"

"Look, you've been on edge ever since we walked in here," Joe said. "Why?"

"I-" Sora started but was cut off by a huge crashing noise coming from down the hall, followed by several screams.

Both Sora and Joe looked at each other. There was another smash and the lights flickered and went out. Within seconds, the back up generator kicked on and the room was dimly lit by blue-ish light. They saw someone come out of one of the rooms down the hall and walk towards them. As they walked underneath one of the dim lights, Joe and Sora saw the person's face and gasped.

It was Matt, but there was something wrong. His skin was a ghostly white color. The backup lights flickered and a light above them shattered with an explosion of sparks. Matt's emerald eyes glowed in the faded light. His clothes looked like they were melting off his body, but it seemed as though new clothes were slowly taking their place. Like they were forming out of thin air. A red hot symbol was visibly burned on the side of his neck. It said 'V3.'

Clenched tightly in Matt's right hand was his digivice. It's screen had turned solid black and a thick dark liquid oozed out of a crack that had spread across it. It ran over his fingers and the hit the floor with a soft spattering sound. Matt stopped when he reached the other two digidestined and looked at them with empty eyes. Joe took a step backward but Sora only gazed at him silently as though in shock.

"Matt…" she whispered.

Matt looked at her with his intense eyes and she involuntarily flinched, but didn't back away like Joe had started doing.

"What happened to you?"

Matt was silent for a moment as he stared at her, his eyes burning through her.

"Everything," he said simply. His voice was much deeper then it used to be and there was an icy edge there that sent a shiver through Sora. He almost didn't sound human anymore.

"I was worr-" Sora started but Matt snarled and threw the digivice still clutched his hand. He wasn't aiming at Sora but it hit the floor at her feet. There was a loud shriek and it shattered like glass with a deafening smash and a blinding flash of blue light.

"Sora!" Joe yelled and grabbed her arm, pulling her back. When the light had faded, Matt was looking at them, his eyes glowing. He was smiling. It was the most twisted smile Sora had ever seen. She certainly had never seen anything like it from Matt before. His clothes had changed too. He was wearing solid black baggy pants that had a stripe of red across his knees. He wore a black sleeveless t-shirt. On the front of it, there was a blood red 'V' with a cobra twisted around it. The other two gazed at him in shock and horror. What was going on?

"Move," Matt said roughly, but Sora merely shook her head. She couldn't let him just leave. She saw him remove a chain with a silver ring on it from around his neck and held it out toward her. Sora recognized it as the promise ring she had given him so long ago when they had started dating.

"Get out of my way bitch!" he yelled, tossing the ring onto the floor between them.

Sora watched as it hit the floor, her eyes being flooded by tears.

"But I love you…" she whispered. Matt smiled again, that horrible smile. But even worse, he started to laugh. A horrendous manic laugh.

Tears streaming down her face, something snapped in Sora. She took a step forward and slapped Matt hard across the face. Joe tried to pull her back, afraid of what Matt would do but she wrenched her arm away. She glared at Matt, looking frightfully livid. Joe had never seen her this mad before, especially not at someone she had loved so much. A live wire to the right of them snapped and exploded with sparks.

"I hate you," Sora said. She hadn't screamed it but it felt as though she had. The air seemed to crackle with electricity. Matt merely looked at her with an indifferent look on his face.

"I hate you!" she screamed. Her digivice in her pocket let off an agonized shriek like Matt's did. It seemed to burn a hole through her coat pocket because it fell to the floor and shattered with a deafening smash. There was a blinding flash of red light.

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Woot, another chapter done! Hope you all are still enjoying it. Sorry the chapters are so short lately, my plan is to make them longer from now on. I also may go back and add on to previous chapters and fix what I don't like. Please read and review!

Ok,I don't know why its all underlined. I didn't make it underlined and I even replaced the chapter with another version. Sorry about that, hope it doesn't make it too horrible to read…