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Chapter 13: A Sudden Twist of Fate
Becca's Perspective
I woke up in the middle of the night. The light of the moon poured into my room through the open windows. Shadows danced off the walls and furniture. I looked over at Silver. He was still sleeping, it appeared. I walked out into the dark hallway and began to feel weird. All of a sudden, I was digitally transported to a dark space of nothingness in the digital world. Was this limbo? Arielmon appeared in front of me. He looked lighter somehow.
"What do you want with me?" I cried, starting to shake.
"Dear child of peace. Your partner is in grave danger. And so are you."
"What do you mean?" I called out, as he began to float further and further away from me.
"This is my true self using up all the energy I can to warn you. I need help. I need you to rescue me from the darkness and I am not the only one."
"You're talking about Silver's brother, aren't you?"
"He needs to be rescued, yes. But I was talking about you."
With that, Arielmon disappeared. I was back in the hallway. I sat on the floor, trembling and weeping. How could I be in the darkness and needing help? The lights turned on. Mama and daddy came out.
"Becca! What's the matter?" asked daddy.
"Tell us what's wrong, honey," said mama, kneeling on the floor in front of me.
She rubbed my shoulders.
"I can't. I...I...need to go."
My parents understood I was talking about the digital world. I got up and went into my room to wake Silver up. I rubbed Silver's shoulders.
"Come on, Silver. Wake up," I told him, gently.
I looked at the Rainbow Ball. It looked dim and lifeless, more like an ordinary ball than the Rainbow Ball. I turned on the light. The petals of the purple rose were beginning to fall off.
"No!" I cried out.
Mama and daddy rushed into the room. Then they saw how flushed and sweaty I was, since the light was on. I was sick. And so were Silver and the Rainbow Ball. I looked at my crest. It was beginning to turn black.
"It looks like history is beginning to repeat itself," replied daddy.
I wailed. Mama came over to me and wrapped me in a big hug.
"Dear, you need to go to the digital world and make things right again. Take as much time as you need," she told me.
"That's right. Although we can't help you out of this, being as it's something you need to fix on your own, we love you and are rooting for you. Please child, don't enter limbo like Alex did. We couldn't stand it if something bad ever happened to you, especially if it was entering limbo," cried daddy, with teary eyes.
A tear slipped down mama's cheek. They were really worried about me. I couldn't let history repeat itself. I couldn't. I nodded at them, even though I was scared out of my mind of entering limbo. It was the holidays, so there was no school for awhile, erasing that concern. I took the Rainbow Ball and placed it beside Silver. I touched both of them with one hand and used the digivice to transport all three of us to the digital world.
We arrived in a windy and rainy place in the digital world. The place where we were was in a meadow near a large forest. A river ran through the forest. Silver looked a little revived once we were back in the digital world.
"What is going on? Is it all my fault?" I wondered.
I felt so alone. Silver was unconscious still and the Rainbow Ball wasn't responding. This had happened before, I realized. Back when Arielmon captured me and told me the truth about some things and caused me to get angry and hurt, was nothing compared to now. Yet, what had I done to begin to corrupt my crest?
"I'm so sorry," I cried.
Tears from my eyes dripped onto Silver and the Rainbow Ball. Silver's snout twitched and the Rainbow Ball began to glow, faintly. Silver began to stir.
"B...ecca..."
Silver was very weak.
"Silver! Are you alright?"
Silver remained limp in my arms.
"I...f-eel...so...weak..."
I closed my eyes. Another tear dripped onto Silver, wetting his fur.
"I'm so sorry, buddy. It's all my fault. I haven't been a good partner or friend. You've suffered all these times because of me. I don't deserve to be the child of peace."
"B...ecca.. I will...willingly...suffer even more times...for you. You...have been my dearest...friend. Be strong and brave...little one..."
I was afraid Silver would die because of me. Even though it was windy and rainy (which I loved, anyway) and I was cold and soaked, I didn't care. I stayed right by Silver's side, and the Rainbow Ball, too.
"Silver, you're losing energy fast. I don't know what to do. I don't know what I did wrong to hurt you this badly. It seems I'm always hurting you in some way. I don't deserve to have you as my partner and friend. I've never seen you this sick before."
I was sick, too. But I didn't care.
"And Rainbow Ball? Have you tried to tell me something and I failed to listen? Is that why everything is such a mess right now? Please forgive me."
"They might. But I won't," growled a voice.
MegaEtemon. I stood up in front of Silver and the Rainbow Ball and spread out my arms to protect them. MegaEtemon saw this. He laughed and hooted and couldn't stop. Tears spilled out of his eyes from laughing so hard.
"You...you're just a child and you stand up to me, a digimon and a mega one for that matter?"
"I don't care. I don't care if you use your powers against me and hurt me. I deserve it for everything I did. I won't let you hurt Silver or the Rainbow Ball," I said, shakily, showing more confidence than I felt inside.
I was weak myself, but Silver and the Rainbow Ball were even weaker. I couldn't let anyone hurt them. I felt the presence of Alex with me, giving me strength, helping me with something he had once failed to do. MegaEtemon decided to use this for his advantage. He rushed at me and took me to the river and dropped me down into the freezing, icy water below. Since I was a good swimmer, I used whatever strength and skill I had left to swim to the banks of the river, even though I was sick, weak and cold. The icy-cold water stung my joints and made my skin numb. I looked up at the gray skies.
"Help me," I cried.
The digidestined heard me and transported themselves to the digital world. They were on the riverbanks and saw me struggling. Matt and Tai rushed into the cold water to help bring me out. Their teeth were chattering and goosebumps broke out on their skin as it had with me. Finally, they reached me, and helped bring me ashore. The rest of my friends met up with me. Their digimon were with them.
"Becca!" they cried.
"She's sick," mentioned Sora.
"We'd better get her some place warm so she doesn't catch cold or hypothermia," said Joe.
They helped me over to a lonely house in the meadow, but we didn't go in. I looked around for Silver and the Rainbow Ball. They were gone. MegaEtemon must have taken them away. Either that or they were deleted. I was heartbroken. I hoped and prayed the dark digimon wouldn't do anything to hurt my dear friends, especially considering how weak they were.
"Please don't die," I whispered.
My friends looked worried.
"Where is Silver?" Tai asked.
"MegaEtemon took Silver and the Rainbow Ball away. Either that or they were deleted. If anything happens to them, I'll never forgive myself," I sobbed.
TK came over. He looked sweet and innocent.
"Don't cry, Becca. We'll find them. Both of them are strong. They won't give up without a fight," he reassured.
This hardly cheered me up. Silver couldn't die. He needed me just as much as I needed him, even though I had failed him numerous times. Patamon looked up at me from the top of TK's hat.
"Becca, I died once. Rather, I was deleted. But I came back as a digiegg. It is the miracle of life in the digital world. The same thing will happen to Silver if he happens to get deleted."
I knew TK and Patamon were trying to cheer me up and I appreciated this as much as I could while suffering from heartache. A thought occurred to me.
"Are you sure Silver will come back as a digiegg? He was created as an imperial digimon."Sora walked over to me and placed a hand on my shoulder.
"Don't worry. All digimon will come back as an egg."
"Tentomon," Izzy called his partner over to him.
Tentomon flew over to Izzy.
"Yes, Izzy. What is it?"
"See if you can find out where we are. Also find out if the Dark Castle is nearby."
The bug digimon flew off.
Silver's Perspective
A fuzzy image appeared before my eyes. I shook my head to try to clear away the fuzziness from my vision. I realized that I was in the throne room, lying on the cold, stone floor like a dead dog. The dark digimon around me were sneering and jeering at my helpless condition. The throne room was dim, lit only by torches. Looking up, as far as I could see, there was my brother giving MegaEtemon a handful of digidollars for my capture. I was so weak, I couldn't even move. But, my concern was for Becca. How was she getting along? Was she okay?
I was also concerned about her crest of peace beginning to go corrupt. I knew it could corrupt easily because of how vital it was, making it more vulnerable than the rest. My question was: why did it go corrupt?
I couldn't think long about that as a blast sounded in the throne room and echoed off the walls. All of the dark digimon grew frantic and panicky. I heard my brother yell and shout orders. What is going on? Peering up at the ceiling, I caught a glance at a feathered wing. Arielmon. Then I fainted.
Water dripped nearby. The stench in the air was mouldy. A clatter of chains filled my ears. I struggled to open my eyes.
"No, no. Don't struggle. You need to regain your strength," spoke a voice.
It sounded like Arielmon.
"W-What happened?" I whispered.
"I almost had them. I almost got you out, Silver. But your brother hurtled an attack at me and I fell."
"A-Arielmon...why...did you help...me?"
"I can see now that you are not a threat to me. Your brother may have begun to realize that before but now, Nightmaremon has poisoned his mind again. I'm sorry. Please forgive me."
"Why do you need forgiveness?"
I already knew the answer. I just wanted to hear it from his lips.
There was silence for a short moment.
"I need you and Becca now more than ever. I failed to uphold my position as a digimon who stood for peace and instead turned to the dark side. I have learned some information which may be of help."
Arielmon's voice began to grow quieter.
"Then it may have been a blessing in disguise for you to turn to the dark side, even though the reasons weren't good or pleasant."
I found new strength and opened my eyes. Arielmon hung his head.
"Silver, I know who the dark master is. The real one. Your brother is just a pawn in the hopeless game the dark master is playing. Silverymon will not be able to handle the evil and darkness inside him for much longer. He needs to be healed and soon, before it's too late for him. The dark master is using Silverymon as a puppet to fulfill his evil purposes."
I waited in eager anticipation to what Arielmon could inform me about regarding the one, true and real dark master.
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What information will Arielmon tell Silver? Will Silverymon be healed before it's too late? Will Becca find and rescue her partner? Stay tuned for the next chapter to find out.