"Light, Love and Sincerity creating Harmony"
Here is the next chapter, I hope you all like it. Finally, you'll get to see if Kari will be saved from the clutches of whoever is messing with her. I'm sure you guys know who it is, right? Whatever, please enjoy and review.
Oh, BTW, if the fighting seems sort of suckish, then I'm sorry because I was rushing to finish this chapter and get it out.
Yolei and Ken were sharing concerned looks as they thought over how to wake the child of Light from the daze she was in, but they were unsure how to do so.
Ken was lucky by having his Warrior Spirit to help him out, but Kari wasn't a Warrior, so she was stuck unless she could get over her fear.
"Kari, wake up! Come on, damn it. Wake up. There's nothing to be afraid of!" Yolei yelled, hoping her voice would wake the younger girl up.
"I don't think that's helping." Ken said calmly as he watched the two girls.
"I don't see you coming up with anything to help!" the lavender haired girl said turning to look at him in frustration.
"I'm just as worried about her and I want to help, but we need to think this over carefully. We could make things worse if we aren't careful." The child of Kindness said in his defense.
Yolei looked into his eyes and saw that he was being sincere and she sighed, giving him an apologetic smile.
"Sorry, I just wish I knew what to do to help." She said.
"Maybe you should take a page from Davis' book." Gatomon said making them all look at her in curiosity.
"What do you mean by that?" Hawkmon asked the feline.
"Davis is very good at helping others out when it comes to escaping the tainted Darkness. She did it for Koichi and Ken. Even for Kari, but she wasn't that bad before. Just do what she did. Let your instincts take over and let them guide you." The cat said as her cerulean eyes glanced over to her partner.
Kari was shivering as she looked around the dark world she was in, standing in the middle of the ocean that was so cold that it was burning her like acid as the waves lapped at her skin.
The evil figure smirked as they hovered beside her, his fingers creeping over her shoulder.
"Come now, Princess. Why don't you give in? It'll be easier on everyone if you do." The voice cooed.
'No. I can't. Someone, please help me! Tai! TK! Gatomon!' Kari cried out with tears in her clouded over cherry eyes.
'DAVIS!'
(With the other team…)
TK, Cody, Patamon and Armadillomon were talking with some of the other digimon around them, asking about how they met the original Digidestinds as Bokomon pulled out his book, the one filled with all of the information.
Davis was talking to MagnaAngemon, when she felt a sudden cold throbbing sensation in her chest and then she cried out in shock, bending over as she gripped her chest.
"D!" Veemon cried as he rushed over to his partner, away from Angewomon and Mama Burgermon.
"Big Sister!" the male angel cried as he bent down by the human girl as she kneeled down.
"Davis, what's wrong? Are you hurt?" TK asked as he and everyone else gathered around the child of Miracles.
"S-Something's wrong. Contact Kari and the others now." Davis ordered as she stood back up still feeling the iciness in her chest.
Cody nodded as he pulled out his D-terminal, trying to get into contact with them.
"Davis, I'm sure they're all fine." The child of Hope said with a grin.
"Takeru, I can sense when Ken and Kari are in danger. I was able to tell when Kari was dragged into the Dark Ocean for crying out loud. I know when something's wrong. I swear, if someone hurt them-"she trailed off in her anger that she felt from her protective instincts.
TK smiled and wrapped an arm around the girl's shoulders, pulling her into his side, offering comfort.
"Everything will be fine. Don't worry so much." He said.
"I can't help it. It's in my nature to constantly freak over my friends." She sighed as she leaned her head on his shoulder, making him blush.
"Uh, we have a problem." Cody spoke up making the two other members turn to him slowly.
"What is it, my dear boy?" Bokomon asked the young boy.
"I can't get any contact with the others. I keep trying, but the message just won't go through." Cody said looking worried.
Davis pulled away from TK and gave him a pointed look.
"You were saying?" she asked.
"Oh boy." Veemon sighed.
Angewomon walked over to the troubled Warrior of Harmony and wrapped her arms around her, comforting her.
"Just breathe, Davis. They will be fine. You can sense them right?" she asked making the girl nod her head.
"Then focus. Use your powers to locate them and guide them. You can't always be there to save them, no matter how much you want to. They need to learn to stand on their own." The female angel said.
TK and Cody both shared guilty looks as they realized that that was what they had always done.
They always depended on Davis to do everything and was there to help them out and give them courage to continue on.
Now that they paid attention to her, it didn't look very good for her health at all.
She looked very tired and her eyes had dark circles around them, her caramel skin looked a bit paler than it used to be and her chocolate eyes that were tinted red were also blood shot.
She really needed to get more rest.
Davis was led over to an area away from the others and she sat down, Antylamon showing her how to meditate properly to find the where the others were.
(Back with Yolei and the others…)
Kari was now down on her knees, shaking and whimpering with her fingers tangled in her hair tightly, looking close to tearing her pretty brunette strands out and her face was scrunched up in pain as tears fell from her closed eyes.
"Kari, please listen to me." Gatomon said trying to shake the girl out of the nightmare she was stuck in.
"We have a problem." Wormmon said as he saw something coming towards them from a short distance.
"We know that." Hawkmon said as he and the others all kept their eyes on the terrified child of Light.
"No, that over there. We're about to be attacked." Wormmon said making Yolei and Ken turn to see a Blossomon was stalking over to them.
"Oh man, now what do we do?" Yolei asked feeling annoyed by what was going on.
"We need to try and fight him off. Wormmon, can you do it?" Ken asked his partner, who nodded in determination.
"I will assist him." Hawkmon said.
"Wormmon digivolve too…Stingmon!"
"Hawkmon digivolve too…Aquilamon!"
The two Champions flew off and used their attacks on Blossomon, but he was far too big and powerful to be taken down by them.
He was a tainted digimon and the Dark Ocean was slowly becoming filled with that taint again, giving Blossomon more power.
'Please leave me alone.' Kari begged, her voice sounding weak as the evil figure loomed over her.
"You are truly pathetic and weak. You can't even save yourself. The darkness will consume you and the ones you hold close to your heart. Give up. I'll protect you." The figure said as he form became a fit more visible, showing a darkened form of a boy with six wings on each side of his body.
Kari stared at his form entranced, knowing that in the back of her mind he seemed familiar, like she had heard about the description of this creature before but the taint was making it hard for her to focus her thoughts.
'Who are you? And why are you doing this?' she asked him.
"You already know that answer. If not, then maybe you should ask your Queen. Or should I say…MY Queen?" the creature sneered making the child of light feel a deep sense of dread.
He had been calling her Princess so who did he mean when he said Queen?
She gasped when the caramel face of a maroon haired girl sitting down in a meditating pose flashed through her mind, the marks of Courage, Friendship, Miracles and Harmony hovering above her in orange, blue, gold and violet lights.
"Davis." She spoke aloud catching the attention of the child of Kindness/Warrior of Metal and the child of Love and Sincerity.
"Davis? Kari, Davis isn't here right now." Yolei said as she sat down in front of the brunette and Ken turned his attention back to the fighting digimon.
"Yolei, Davis was able to sense Kari and open up a portal to the Dark Ocean to come and save her. Maybe she's using the bond they have to talk to her." The white cat digimon said.
The lavender haired girl frowned as she saw that Kari was trying even harder to escape whatever was haunting her, thrashing around as she did so, cursing at them to stay away from Davis and to not touch her.
Ken watched that and then pulled out his D-tector and stared down at it, thinking hard, wishing that he could do more than just stand there and watch.
"Do you want to save them?" a voice asked.
The plum haired boy gasped in surprise and looked over to his side to see the transparent image of the Warrior of Metal standing beside him.
"Yes, I do." He said when he calmed down.
"Then do it. Trust in yourself and in our bond. Don't let fear rule you. Tell me, why do you want to Spirit Evolve?" the Warrior asked his human host.
"To protect my friends and the two worlds." Ken said honestly making the mark of Metal appear on his chest.
"Let's show them our power then." The green and yellow clad Warrior said with a smile in his voice.
Ken smiled at that as his D-tector beeped, making Yolei and Gatomon turn to see what he was doing.
They watched as data surrounded the child of Kindness, stunned that he was finally going to use his Spirit to fight.
Ken moved his hands in a motion that made up an infinity symbol and then downloaded the strip of data that was on his left hand into his device.
"Execute: Spirit Evolution!"
Those words caught the attention of Stingmon, Aquilamon and Blossomon, making the three pause in their battle to turn and watch as the human male transformed into a gallant looking Warrior, his red scarf blowing in the winds that picked up, the stars in the sky reflecting light off of his metal arm.
"What is this?" Blossomon asked.
"Ken?" Stingmon asked puzzled.
"The name's Steelmon." The Warrior of Metal said in a voice that was deeper than the plum haired human's.
"Get him, Steelmon!" Gatomon encouraged.
"Beat that giant weed!" Yolei yelled her support.
Steelmon jumped at the tainted digimon with great speed and kicked him down with ease, Blossomon hitting the ground and the earth shook from the impact.
"Damn. This isn't good." The creature said frowning as he saw the evolution that took place.
'You can't win. I won't let you win. None of us will and we won't let you anywhere near Davis!' Kari yelled at him.
The winged figure turned back to the girl.
"So you say, but know this; I am the King and she is the Queen. Logic says that she belongs to me and no one will stop me from taking what's mine." He snarled at her.
Yolei watched as Kari was mumbling again and then she finally decided that enough was enough.
"WAKE UP!" she yelled as she lifted her hand and then slapped the younger girl across the face.
The sharp pain made Kari snap her eyes open and she was relieved to see that she was no longer with the creature in the freezing cold water but with Yolei and Gatomon.
"Kari, listen to me, you are one of the strongest people I know and you can't let that freak scare you into giving in to the tainted Darkness." The child of Love and Sincerity said deciding that Gatomon was right that she should take a page from their female leader's book and let her feelings guide her.
"Yolei?" Kari asked as the fog in her cherry eyes cleared.
"If the tainted Darkness is calling you, I'll scream and bloke it out. If it tries to drag you in, then I'll grab you and hold on tight, never letting you go!" the lavender haired girl said passionately as she took the other girl's hands in hers.
"I'm not about to let you go without a fight. I care too much about you to." She continued with a spark in her light brown eyes that was similar to the one that could be found in the child of Miracles' eyes.
Kari looked at her in awe and then smiled happily.
"Thank you." She said.
Just then, a dark pink light engulfed both girls just as Steelmon did a backflip over to them to avoid getting hit by one of Blossomon's attacks.
"What's going on?" Yolei asked as she looked down at her red D-3 clipped to her waist as it glowed the same dark pink light as did Kari's lighter pink D-3.
"This is like what happened to Davis and Ken." Gatomon said.
Yolei and Kari both gasped as they felt and heard their hearts beating in perfect sync with the other and their digimon were both covered in the same dark pink light.
"Aquilamon…" the large bird said as he was covered in red light.
"Gatomon…" the cat said as she was covered in pink light.
"DNA digivolve too…" they said as they both twirled around each other and evolved together.
"Silphymon!"
Kari and Yolei both stood up, smiling in amazement and still holding hands as they watched their Fusion Digimon battle Blossomon, taking him down with ease until he was finally covered in data.
"Time to cut down the weeds. Fractal Code: Digitize!" Steelmon said as he used his D-tector to collect the Fractal Code, making the tainted digimon turn back into a digi egg and then it flew off to Primary Village to be reborn.
The five were then covered in gold lights as they felt a pull and were soon transported out of the Dark Ocean and into an underground cavern that had a large group of digimon in it, as well as TK and Cody.
"Hey, are you guys all right?" the child of Hope asked as he and the little brunette ran over to them with their digimon at their sides.
"Yeah, we're great." Yolei said with a smile.
"We ran into some trouble, but we were able to get out of it." Kari said with the same smile.
"That's a relief." Cody said as his eyes trailed over to the two new digimon he never saw before.
"Who are these guys?" Patamon asked.
"And where did Ken run off to?" Armadillomon asked.
"Everyone, meet Silphymon. He DNA digivolved from Gatomon and Aquilamon." The lavender haired girl stated proudly as the Fusion digimon turned back into Purumon and Salamon, being tried out from their battle.
"And this here is Steelmon, the Warrior of Metal. Ken finally Spirit Evolved." Kari said as the Warrior of Metal turned back into his human form and he dropped to his knees, panting.
"Ken!" Wormmon gasped as he rushed over to his partner's side.
"Are you all right?" he asked.
"Y-Yeah. That just really took a lot out of me. Dai made it seem so easy." Ken said with a weak smile as Kari gasped, looking around the room for their maroon haired friend.
"That happened to me too. It just takes some getting used to." Davis said as she walked over to her group with Angewomon, MagnaAngemon, Antylamon, Bokomon and Neemon beside her.
"DAVIS!" Kari cried as she ran over and threw herself into her friend's arms, making her stumble back in surprise at the reaction she got from the child of Light.
"Take it easy, Kar. I'm fine. Why are you acting this way?" she asked as the girl cried on her chest and Ken stood up, understanding the girl's reaction.
"Davis, we have a problem. I know who was trying to turn us over to the side of evil." He said making everyone in the room still, the silence becoming painful.
Davis frowned as she looked at her friend and fellow Warrior.
"What are you talking about?" TK asked.
"I know who it was that dragged me into the Dark Ocean and made me become the digimon Emperor and has been causing us all these problems." The child of Kindness continued with a grim look.
"Who is it?" Cody asked frowning as well as everyone else in the room.
Kari pulled away from Davis, but her hands were still gripping the other girl's shoulders as Veemon walked over to them, not liking the tension in the room at all.
"It's Lucemon." The child of Light said.
There was a collective gasp that rang through the crowd of digimon, but everyone was more focussed on what their Queen's reaction would be and they did not expect this at all.
Her body became limp and she fell back onto the floor, Kari not being able to hold onto her properly.
It was almost in slow motion as the Warrior of Harmony fell back and when she finally did hit the floor, panic soon erupted among the digimon and Digidestinds as they gathered around the girl, Veemon being the one at her side immediately and he cradled her top half to his chest.
The dragon scowled at the stricken look that was etched onto his human's face and he looked up at everyone as they all talked at once, their voices carrying out over the large room.
"SHUT UUUUPPPPPPP!" he yelled.
Everyone quickly went silent at the outburst, putting their full attention on the small Royal Knight digimon.
"Lucemon's back which means we need to be careful. We'll be tellin' the Warriors about this and the Angels will be comin' with us to help fight him. We'll be deleting this guy once and for all. No one's layin' a hand on a single hair on Davis' head as long as I'm alive. I've watched her suffer enough these past months and won't stand for it any longer. Any objections?" he asked looking around the room with the same fire of power and strength in his red eyes that his human held.
The digimon all turned to Angewomon, Antylamon and MagnaAngemon who all nodded, though the female angel looked very impressed by the authority the dragon had and amazed by his love and devotion to the young Queen.
"Then let's go." Veemon said.
TBC