Brought Together In Darkness
Part Two
By: ArtikGato
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. I do own Kenny boy though!
Ken: You wish.
Me: ;_; Yeah, I know. *sniff*
Author's Notes: Well, for those of you that were eagerly anticipating chapter two, here it is! And now, for the usual warnings: it's STILL a Kenkari fic. It's still a romance fic, and it actually gets a bit angstier in this chapter. The 'Gesappemon' make an appearance in this chapter. 'Gesappemon' is just the name I gave those weird creatures that pretended to be Scubamon in 'His Master's Voice'. Dragomon also appears in this chapter.
"Oh no! Not again!" Kari exclaimed. She was on the beach of the Dark Ocean again! For the third time! "What does this darkness want with me? Why does it keep bringing me back to this awful place?"
"Why does this keep happening to me? I try to get away, and it keeps bringing me back and reminding me of all the awful things I've done! Why??" Ken exclaimed, on the verge of breaking down and crying. "What does it want?"
"KAAAAAARIIIIIII!!!" Davis yelled. His call echoed down the empty halls of the school.
"KAAAARIII!!!" Demiveemon yelled, beside him, getting the same effect.
"Davis! TK! Cody! Gatomon! I think I found something!" came Yolei's yell from another corridor. With that, they all started running toward her voice. As soon as they all got there, Yolei pointed into a classroom on the other side of the hall.
"The computer is on in that classroom!" she exclaimed.
"So?" Davis asked.
"Look at the screen!" she exclaimed. They all turned, and looked at the screen, gasping at what they saw.
"The Digiport?" TK asked.
"Could Kari have gone to the Digital World?" Cody asked.
"I hope not, she could be in trouble without me there with her," Gatomon replied. Yolei went in the door.
"Let's check it out," she said, and sat down at the computer. She pulled up the Digiport's files.
"Yeah, she used it all right, a good fifteen minutes ago," she replied, when she found what she was looking for.
"That's right about when we lost sight of her. But why did she go to the Digital World? And where is she?" TK asked. Yolei pulled up the entire map.
"I don't see her signal anywhere," she said, grimly.
"Could she have used that to escape us and then gone back to her home computer?" Davis asked, hopefully.
"Maybe," Yolei replied, hoping that's what had happened. She quickly pulled up a different program, and began typing.
"What are you doing?" Demiveemon asked.
"Emailing Tai, he might be at home," she replied. She sent her email with a click. They waited. A few seconds later, an email popped up on the screen, in response.
She's not here, why?
-Tai-
"Should we tell him what happened?" Yolei asked the others.
"That'd be wise, I think he'd want to know what happened to her," Cody said.
"I don't know, he might get mad and blame us...and I don't want to get in his way when that happens," TK replied.
"I think Tai has a right to know, besides, he might be able to help us find her," Gatomon replied. Yolei nodded.
"Davis? What do you think?" she asked.
"You're asking ME to decide?" he asked, blinking in surprise.
"You ARE the leader..." she replied.
"I think we should tell him," Davis decided.
"Ok, but don't say I didn't warn you," TK said. She typed an email in response. A few seconds later, another one popped up.
WHAT?????? WHERE IS SHE???
-Tai-
Yolei quickly typed a response.
Tell Davis and TK to start running for their lives, NOW, and I'll be there as soon as I can...are you sure you can't find her signal?
-Tai-
"What did I tell you?" TK asked.
"Well, you two had better start running!" Demiveemon said.
"Email him and tell him that if she didn't have such long legs we would've been able to catch her! And, ask him if something happened at home to her," Davis replied.
"Whatever, but I don't think that'll change his mind about exacting his revenge on you," Yolei said, turning, and keying in the new message. After a few seconds, another email popped up on the screen.
Davis and TK couldn't catch her? I'd laugh, if I wasn't dead set on hurting them. It's their fault for making her run off! Oh, and I think I know what happened to upset her...I'll tell you when I get there.
-Tai-
"He doesn't sound like he's any less mad, start running," Yolei replied.
"I think we can take him, between the two of us, right T.K.?" Davis asked, and blinked, in surprise. TK was no where in sight. "TK?" he asked. TK poked his head around the corner of the classroom.
"I suggest we start running!" he exclaimed, and was gone again.
"Wait! TK, he's probably only joking!" Cody called after him. TK poked his head around the corner.
"I just hope he is," TK said, walking back in. Davis had a huge smirk on his face.
"TK'S AFRAID OF TAI!!" Davis exclaimed, and laughed.
"I just fear his vengeance, that's all. You haven't seen him when he's mad, or worried sick out of his mind about Kari, for that matter," TK replied, knowingly.
What does this Dark Ocean want with me? Why can't I get away from it?
Kari walked along the beach, her head down, and tears of fear and sadness in her eyes. There was no hope of escaping this dreary place this time. Last time, Yolei and Ken had been with her to bail her out, and the first time, TK, Patamon and Gatomon had come to save her. This time, she was completely alone.
"I only wanted one little moment of peace so I could cry and let out my emotions, but this stupid world had to ruin that!! I can't talk to anyone, they won't understand! Why me...." she said, walking along the beach, solemnly. Suddenly, she heard a noise behind her, and turned around in fear. On the beach behind her, were five or six dark creatures. They looked like the Scubamon she'd encountered before, only they were completely black, with only glowing, yellow-brown eyes on their heads. She'd seen them before all right. The one in the front spoke up.
"Welcome back, child. Have you decided to come with us and meet our master?" it asked.
"Stay away!" she exclaimed, and turned, and ran.
"We won't hurt you, child, our master wishes to speak with you!" the creature yelled after her, and the creatures started rushing along the beach. She sprinted, going as fast as she could, to get away from the creatures. She looked back over her shoulder, and saw that they were coming after her, and going much faster than she could. She kept running, and, finally, came to a dead end: the creatures had chased her into a carved out portion of the cliff running along the beach. There was no way out but up! Her eyes filled with tears of fright, as the creatures stalked up, blocking off the exit. She suddenly screamed, as loud as she could: "Somebody HELP ME!!!!"
Ken was trudging along the beach, feeling lost and alone, when suddenly, he heard something.
"Somebody HELP ME!!" he immediately recognized the voice.
"Kari?!" he asked, and took off in a dead run toward the source of the voice. He was running along the edge of the cliff that bordered the beach now, when he noticed that part of it up ahead was carved out.
"Please, someone help me!" came the voice again. This time, he was sure it was Kari's. He ran over to the indention, and looked down. Kari was down there all right, his ears hadn't deceived him. She had her back against the wall of rock that he was standing on, and five creatures of dark energy, with glowing yellowish eyes, were standing around her.
"Come with us child, the master wishes to speak with you," one of them spoke up. She shook her head.
"Go away! Leave me alone!" she exclaimed, her voice full of terror.
"If you won't come willingly, we'll have to make you!" the speaker exclaimed, and they all reached out their hands toward her. She shrieked in terror.
"Let her go!" Ken exclaimed. They pulled back their arms, surprised. Kari jumped and gasped.
"Ken?" she asked, and looked up. He was glaring at the creatures.
"It's the Emperor!" came a cry from one of the creatures. That stung Ken, he hated to be called that. Even someone calling him 'former Digimon Emperor' stung. He decided to play to their fears, anyway.
"Yes, I am the Emperor, and if you don't let her go, I will exact my revenge on you all! Pathetic weaklings!" he said, in a heartless voice. He hated having to do that, it left a vile taste in his mouth; but he didn't have Wormon with him, so there was no other way to help Kari. The Digimon took a step toward the exit.
"Our mistake...sorry!" one of them said, laughing nervously, and then they took off in a dead run toward the ocean. Ken sighed, he hated having to do that now. Kari took a step forward, and turned around, so that she was facing in the direction he was in.
"Thanks," she said, and turned toward the exit.
"You're stuck here too, huh?" he asked. She nodded, and turned her gaze to the ground.
"Yeah," she replied.
"Don't you have Gatomon with you?" he asked. She shook her head.
"A big mistake...where's Wormon?"
"Back at my house...I didn't bring him along," he replied.
"Why?" she asked, looking up at him. He had grief and sadness in his face, but then again, so did she. He noticed.
"Probably for the same reason you left Gatomon behind," he replied. She nodded.
"I had to take a break...I needed to be alone for ten seconds, and this stupid ocean had to go and ruin that!" she exclaimed, a bit of anger in her voice. Ken nodded.
"Yup, and there's no way out...none I can remember, anyway,"
"Pretty hopeless, huh?" Kari asked. Ken nodded, grimly. Suddenly, he heard something behind him, but before he could turn to see what it was, something hit him in the back, causing him to lose balance and fall forward... right into the pit!
"Oh no!" Kari exclaimed, as he fell. He hit the sand on his back with a thud, and groaned, wearily. That wasn't what he needed, not at all. "Are you hurt?" Kari asked. He shook his head.
"I'll be fine," he said, and looked up from his sitting position on the ground, to what had pushed him into the pit. It was one of the dark creatures. They heard a snicker from behind them, and turned to look, and realized that the dark creatures had surrounded the pit from above. They turned to the exit, and noticed it was blocked too! There was no escape.
"We've got you now, Emperor! And, the Digidestined of Light to boot!" one of them exclaimed, and they all jumped down into the pit. Kari and Ken struggled against them, but there were too many; they had brought reinforcements. They'd also brought rope, and they were tied up, with their hands and feet bound together.
"Let us go!" Kari yelled.
"You weaklings had better untie me or you'll regret it!" Ken did his best to sound like the Emperor.
"Oh save it, there's no way you're still the Emperor, or else you wouldn't have shown compassion for the girl!" one of the creatures exclaimed, and they were both picked up by the creatures, and hauled off. They were carried down to the beach, and into the water a little ways. One of the creatures spoke up.
"I summon the Dark Portal!" he said, and a black circle appeared in front of them. They tossed Kari and Ken, still bound up, into the black circle of light, and jumped in themselves. The Dark Portal closed after the last creature jumped in.
"We've checked everywhere, and still no sign of Kari!" Yolei exclaimed, as she and Cody ran up to the group of people and Digimon, consisting of Davis, Tai, TK, Gatomon, and their Digimon (except Agumon). Tai turned angrily to Davis and TK.
"This is all your fault!" he yelled.
"Our fault!! You're the one that yelled at her!!" Davis returned, defensively.
"I was mad, all right? She was ticking me off!!" Tai exclaimed.
"That's no reason to yell at her, you know she blames herself for everything bad that happens to people she cares about!" TK practically yelled back at him.
"Yeah!" Patamon exclaimed, from his perch on his hat.
"I know that, but in case you haven't noticed, I don't have a time machine, so I can't go back and undo that!! I'll just have to apologize to her when we find her!!" Tai returned.
"You all had better hope that we find her in one piece or I'm going to use you ALL for scratching posts!!" Gatomon yelled, as loud as she could, silencing the argument.
"Whoa! Don't make HER mad!" Demiveemon exclaimed.
"She's worse than Tai," Patamon commented.
"Especially about Kari," TK added.
"We've got Matt, Sora, Izzy and Joe checking, and we're checking as well! If she's in Odaiba, we're bound to find her," Cody pointed out.
"But that's just it, she might not BE in Odaiba!" TK informed them.
"She's not in the Digital World, we've checked 10 gazillion times!" Yolei exclaimed.
"Maybe she's in the Dark Ocean, we never checked there," Patamon suggested.
"How can we? I'm not even sure how I got us there last time...and it might not work this time," TK pointed out. A thought suddenly struck Yolei.
"Ken might know! Last time we were pulled into that Dark Ocean, he said he'd been there before!" Yolei exclaimed. She pulled out her D-Terminal.
"Yeah! It's worth a shot," Poromon replied. She keyed in a message to Ken's computer, and sent it.
"Huh? Email? Ken! Email! Ken?" Minimon exclaimed. He floated up, rubbing his eyes to wake up.
"Ken? Are you here?" he asked again. Then, he noticed that the Digiport was displayed on the computer, and Ken's Digivice was gone.
"He didn't!" Minimon exclaimed, and floated down. With great difficulty, he managed to key a message back to Yolei.
Ken's not here! He's in the Digital World, and he didn't take me with him!
-Minimon-
"What?" Yolei asked, astonished, as she read the Email.
"What?" the others asked her.
"Ken's in the Digital World...and he didn't take Minimon! Something's wrong," she said, and they rushed back into the school. They accessed the Digiport, and checked the entire Digital World.
"I can't find Ken's signal either!" she exclaimed, frantically, and keyed a message back to Minimon. A message popped up on the screen a few minutes later.
You think he's in the Dark Ocean???? Why??
-Minimon-
She keyed a message to Minimon. Another one popped back up on the screen.
You mean Kari and Ken are both trapped in the Dark Ocean, and we have no way of going there and bringing them back???
-Minimon-
In the meantime, Ken and Kari were in some serious trouble.
"Lord Dragomon! We've brought you the Digidestined of Light! AND, we also brought you the former Digimon Emperor!" a creature exclaimed, as Ken and Kari were dragged, still bound up, forward. In front of them was a huge sea monster with large, demonic wings, and tentacles all over his body. Dragomon.
"Excellent work," Dragomon replied, and two tentacles shot out, and wrapped around Ken and Kari's waists. He pulled them closer, and stood them up, against their will.
"So, child, you've decided to come here and become my new Queen?" he asked Kari. She glared at him.
"Never!" she replied, angrily. He glared at her, and then flicked his tentacle, and she was released from it, and thrown back, to the floor. She slid back across the floor, which was some sort of black marble, and came to a stop at the feet of one of those strange creatures.
"Take her to the dungeon, I'll call upon her later," he ordered the creatures. They saluted him, and picked her up, carrying her off, ignoring her protests, down a corridor of black marble. Dragomon turned back to Ken, who was still wrapped in his tentacle.
"As for you, former Emperor, I think a little payback is in order," Dragomon said, snarling. Ken glared at him, but said nothing. "I know you'll hate this, but I'LL sure enjoy it," Dragomon said, a sadistic smile on his face. With nothing but a twitch of his tentacle, he flung Ken back against a hard, stone wall. Ken groaned in pain, and slid to the floor. All of Dragomon's tentacles shot out, and wrapped themselves around Ken. He cried out in pain, and vainly tried to struggle against them. Dragomon used his tentacles to squeeze the life out of poor Ken. He screamed out in pain. Down the corridor, still struggling and protesting against the creatures, Kari heard Ken scream. She grimaced, and found that tears had flown into her eyes. Is there nothing I can do to help him?
The creatures carried Kari, still bound up, to a small cell, and tossed her inside. The floor was damp, and the only light, which was an eerie bluish light, came from a barred window on the far wall. The floor was that same black marble, and there was no where to sit down in the cell at all. The creatures cut her ropes, and pushed her inside, locking the door behind. She rushed back up to the door, but found that it was tightly locked. Her eyes welled up with tears once again, and she went over to the wall opposite the one with the window in it, and sat down, with her back to the wall. Well, at least you get a moment of peace, even if you're locked in a dark cell with barely any light far underwater in the Dark Ocean...why me? She started to cry again. After a few minutes, she heard footsteps outside of the cell, and stood up. She took up a defensive stance. If those creatures were coming to take her to their master, they'd have to fight her. The door opened, and Ken's now limp body was pushed inside.
"Ken!" she ran over to him. He was still alive; he was breathing, but he looked like he was badly hurt. There were cuts and bruises all over his body. He looked like the life had been squeezed out of him. She hadn't the vaguest idea of how to help him, but she knew he was badly hurt and she had to do something. She realized that she still had her backpack on, so she took it off, and gently slid it under his head. Not knowing what else to do, she walked back over to the far wall, and sat down to wait. By now, she had ran out of tears, and couldn't cry, so she just sat there, wishing that she was home.
"Any luck finding either of them?" TK asked, as Matt, Sora and Joe ran up. Izzy ran up from the other direction. Yolei grinned, and ran to him. She hugged him, and kissed him on the cheek, as they walked up together.
"Aww, look at the happy couple," Davis said, making a gagging noise. Yolei glared at him. Izzy didn't pay attention.
"Nope. You guys?" Matt asked.
"Well, we think she might be in this other world called the Dark Ocean," Davis replied.
"Dark Ocean? What's that?" Sora asked.
"It's another world, like the Digital World, except it is...well, dark, and so far only Kari, Yolei, Ken and I have been pulled in. But, I went in after Kari, and Yolei was taken there along with Kari and Ken," TK replied.
"It's got to want something from Kari and Ken then...but what?" Joe asked. Everyone shrugged.
"Well, Kari's Crest is one of the most powerful," Tai suggested.
"Enough talking, how do we get to this 'Dark Ocean'?" Sora asked.
"There's no way we can go," Yolei said, shaking her head. The older Digidestined turned to TK.
"How did you get there last time?" Izzy asked. TK shrugged.
"I went to the beach by the school, and a portal just opened up," he replied.
"That doesn't do us any good! If we can't get there to save them, then what?" Matt asked. The younger Digidestined and Tai shrugged.
"All we can do is wait, and hope that they will find a way out," Tai replied. Everyone looked crestfallen.
"I guess we should all go home, until something happens," Cody suggested. Everyone nodded, and started off in their own directions, back toward their homes. Tai picked up Gatomon, who was sitting on the ground.
"It's ok, we'll get her back," he said, and walked in the direction of his home. He'd have to make up a lie to tell his Mom now, or she'd be worried sick. She'd probably call the police and have search-and-rescue teams scouring Odaiba. Davis walked with him, because they lived nearby. Demiveemon rode on his head.
"Seems pretty hopeless, huh?" Davis asked. Tai shrugged.
"We have to have faith that we'll get her back," was all Tai said.
Kari watched Ken sleep. They had been in that creepy cell for hours, she didn't know how long, since she didn't have a watch. That eerie blue light hadn't changed at all, so she couldn't tell by it, either. She looked over at Ken. I think I'm starting to see what Yolei sees in him. He's so kind and gentle, and yet strong too. Not to mention, he's kinda cute. Wait-did I just think that? She snickered. TK and Davis would kill me if they found out what I just thought...if they didn't kill Ken first. Oi. Ken started to stir. She looked on, surprised, as his eyes opened, and he looked around. He sat up, and instantly grabbed his side, in pain.
"Where am I?" he asked. He hadn't yet noticed Kari.
"In a cell, in Dragomon's castle," she replied. He jumped, and looked over to her. Instantly everything that had happened flew back to him.
"We're still stuck in the Dark Ocean?" he asked.
"Even worse, we're stuck in Dragomon's castle," she replied. he looked at his arms and legs.
"He beat me up pretty badly," he commented.
"'Badly' is not the word for it, you were almost dead when they tossed you in here," she replied.
"I almost...died?" he asked. She nodded. He looked shocked, but then his expression returned to a mix of grief and pain.
"You ok?" she asked.
"I will be," he replied. He put a hand behind him, and it came down on Kari's backpack. He looked to see what it was, picked it up, and looked at it.
"Makeshift pillow," she said. He tossed it back to her.
"Why?" he asked.
"'Cause you were hurt, silly," she responded.
"Well...thanks," he replied, and attempted to stand up. That failed, so he simply crawled over to the wall across from Kari's, and sat with his back to it.
Well, that's Part Two! To all Ken lovers: *takes a deep breath* sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry...ect. Having Dragomon beat up poor Ken is essential to the plot. Believe me, I was cringing the whole time I wrote it. So...sorry! Oh, and if you don't hate me now, review! Chapter three will be up soon, but only if I get reviews!