Corrupted Miracles
Facing Inner Demons: Part 1
Chapter: 29
By: S.Stryker


Tai's Illusion

" Wh...Where am I?" Tai thought. The original digidestined leader was walking through an abyss of darkness. The only thing he could see was himself, the rest of the surrounding area was dark.

" How did I get here?" he said out loud.

"We're inside your mind." a voice said behind him.

Tai spun around and came face to face with Davis.

" As to how you got here, that was my doing." he contiued

" Davis..." Tai said.

" I'm curious to know Tai, what does friendship mean to you ?"

" What...What are you talking abou..." Tai began.

" Just answer the question Tai." Davis said impaitently. " What is your definition of friendship?"

" Friendship is an unbreakable bond of trust, happiness and loyalty between two or more people." Tai stated firmly.

" Is that so?" Davis asked, " Then would you say Matt Ishida is a friend to you?"

" Of course, he's my best friend." Tai said not getting where Davis is going with this. " I don't hold any feelings of resentment towards him, nor does he to me."

Davis grinned "Does that mind-set of yours go before or after he stole Sora away from you?"

Tai froze, " Wha...What are you talking?" about he asked.

" C'mon Tai, even though you never actually admitted it, you know that deep down you hate Matt with a passion"

" That's not true Davis, Its true that I did feel a slightly jealous of Matt and Sora's relationship when they first started dating, but after a week I was happy for them." Tai said firmly and honestly.

Davis bursted out laughing.

" What's so funny?" Tai asked.

" Its true what people say...tell yourself a lie a certain number of times and pretty soon you'll think of it as the truth." Davis said.

" It's not a lie Davis..."

" We're in in your mind Tai. You may say whatever lies you want, but your subconcience will always speak the truth." Davis mocked. "Sure over time you may have forgotten your feelings of resentment, but they're still there. Whenever you see them together, you want to strangle him because you hate him, detest him, but somehow you manage to keep a smile on. If you think about it...you and I really are alike...we both don't believe in friendship."

" Shut up." Tai said defensively.

" You know I speak the truth Tai besides you believe it yourself, I'm merely interpretating your feelings."

" THATS NOT TRUE!" Tai yelled. He sank to his knees, grabbed his head and squeezed his eyes shut.

" Face the facts Tai, Matt just used you. He pretended to be your friend just to get close to you, and when he did he stole your crush away from you no problem. Because when comes right down to it he's Matt Ishida of the Teenage Wolves, one of Odiaba's most popular males of the teenage female population, and you're just Tai Kamiya."

" I don't believe you." Tai gasped.

" Don't get me wrong, Sora's no better, I mean come on she uses you from time to time too. Remember around the time when Diaboramon tried to take over the world again? Matt and Sora had gotten into an arguement and stopped speaking to each other, so just to get back at him Sora began to flirt with you in the hopes of making him jealous."

Tai stopped and realized what Davis was saying, and in a way he was right. Sora had been flirting with him to make Matt jealous.

Davis continued "Of course they eventually made up and got back together, and you were happy. But deep down you were upset at yourself for missing your chance again."

Tai didn't answer, he couldn't. He felt lost and alone.


Matt's Illusion

" Hello?... Is anyone there?... Hello?" Matt called as he walked through the dark abyss.

" I'm here." Davis said behind him.

"Davis!" Matt said. " Where are we?"

" We're inside your mind, where everyting resides, your thoughts, your memories, your subconcience, and ...your fears."

" My fears?" Matt asked.

Davis nodded. " You know, it must've been really tough for you as a kid, to hate your own brother."

" Hate T.K? What're you talking about?"

" I'm talking about when your parents split up. It made you angry didn't it?" Davis said as he began to walk around Matt in circles.

Matts heart got heavier with emotion as memories came flooding back to him.

Davis continued his assault " You had the perfect life once, then T.K showed up and life got difficult. Your parents went through stress and eventually got divorced."

Matt fell to his knees.

" It came to the point where you began to wonder if you were the cause, but as time passed you realized it was T.K ."

" T.K..." Matt murmered.

" You looked out for him all his life, but deep down, you loathed and hated him."

" No...I could never..." Matt said as tears began to fall down his face. " T.K " he said hugging his chest.


Ken's Illusion

" MATT?...TAI?...CODY?...HELLO?" Ken called.

" Hey Kenny-boy." a voice behind Ken said.

Ken gasped, he'd recognize that voice anywhere, he turned around to confirm his suspicion.

" Sam?"

" Ken its great to see you again." Sam said.

" Sam." Ken said. He began to walk towards his missed brother, but as he did Sam began to fade away.

" Wait Sam! No!" Ken began to run towards his brother, unfortunately by the time he reached him Sam was gone.

" SAM!" Ken cried. He fell to his knees as tears flowed down his face.

" What are you crying about?" a voice behind Ken asked.

Ken looked behind him " Davis?"

" Your acting as though you actually cared about him." Davis snickered.

" Wha...Whatdo you mean?" Ken asked.

" I mean to say that you got what you wanted didn't you? Sam's gone, now your parents only care about you."

Ken stared as memories of him feeling of resentment towards Sam as a child came flooding back to him.

" Don't you remember? You hated Sam to the point where you just wished he died. He was born lucky, and you were lucky to be born." Davis said enjoying his torment.

" Sam no...please come back!" Ken cried.


Five figures were standing outside of what appeared to be a large dome made ofdark energy.On topof the dome was Davis ( In his Raiyoko attire). He was sitting in a cross-legged position, his eyes were closed, and his hands were in a sort of ninja position ( I don't know how to describe it, but for those of you who read the 'Naruto' manga think of how Sai's hands were on the front cover of chapter 298.)

" Are the others in there Willis?" A green armored Digimon asked, who strongly resembled a sort of tank on legs.

" I don't know MegaGargomon, What do you think Cherubimon? " Willis asked ( A/N: This Cherubimon is the Vaccinetype, not the Virus one.)

" I don'tknow." The large angelic rabbit replied, I'll try to sense whats going on in there."

" Please hurry, the girl said " We to save the others and Davis before its to late!"

" Calm down Mimi."Lillymon said. " The others are fighters, they won't lose so easily."

" I hope your right because if they do, the Digital World is finished!" MegaGargomon said.


A/N: Sorry I took so long, I've just been so busy lately I haven't had time to update.

I'd like to start off by thanking all of you who sentme your reviews, you guys kept me going. I hate to do this to you all but I might not be able to update for a while due to school and all that.

In order to quicken the pace of the story I decidedto limit the illusions to four rather than ten ( The last one's going to be in the next chapter). I REALLY want to start the sequel, but don't get the wrong idea I'm not going to rush to the point where the rest of the story ends up bad.

I decided to to tell the you all the title of the sequel. Its " Redemption Miracles." ( I know, I'm excited too.)

PS: For those of you who think I would just bring Willis and Mimi into the picture without a proper intro, I'll handle it in the next chapter I just couldn't think of how to put it in this one.

PSS: Let me explain how Davis 's technique works. Lets say that as a child you stole a cookie from the cookie jar even when your mom tells you that its almost time for dinner. No big deal right, Wrong! If Davis caught you in this Illusion, he would convince you that the reason you disobeyed your mom is because you hated her and didn't think she knew what was best for you. ( Bet you guys will think twice before stealing a cookie again huh?"

Preview: Willis and Mimi break the others out and fight Davis with their three Digimon. Azulongmons plan begins to reveal itself.