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Water-Part IV




Gatomon felt terrible. She had no idea where Kari was or if she was in danger. She hated the feeling of uselessness that came with being locked in the cage.

While she was pondering these points, one of the Salamon-like monsters seeped through the ground in front of the cage.

"What do you want?" she snapped.

The creature gasped in mock surprise and answered: "what? No greetings? I'm hurt."

At the glares it received from the imprisoned Digimon, the creature continued: "allow me to introduce myself. I am Sequester, commander of the all-powerful Water's army."

"Sequester... Doesn't that mean isolation?" Tentomon queried.

Sequester smiled and answered: "all my other kind are referred to by ranks and numbers, but I am above them all and have no number or rank. And so I am set apart, separated, isolated. Hence my name."

Gatomon narrowed her eyes as thin as poison darts and repeated: "what do you want?"

"I'm not going to hurt you unless you threaten me," Sequester hissed. "I'm here to make sure you don't try anything until Water calls for you."

"What do you mean 'until Water calls for you?'" Gabumon questioned.

Sequester smiled maliciously and paced in front of the cage, never taking her gaze from the eight Digimon.

"Answer him!" Gomamon shouted.

Gomamon's shout didn't prompt and answer from Sequester.

"Why are you doing this?" Biyomon wondered.

Again, the question was met only with silence.

"Where's TK?" Patamon cried. But, like all the other questions so far, it was left unanswered.

Gomamon could take it no longer and shrieked: "I'm getting sick of getting no answers around here!"

Sequester shifted her gaze to Gomamon and said: "you are beginning to get on my nerves."

"Good! Maybe it'll make you answer us!" Gomamon angrily shouted back.

The chamber was tensely quiet for a moment before Sequester said in a poisonous tone: "if I didn't have an order not to kill any of you, you would all be scattered data. And YOU" she shot a glare at Gomamon "would be the first to go. That doesn't mean I won't think twice about eliminating all of you if you carry on the way you are."

Gomamon sighed and glared at Sequester.


~*~

"There isn't any possible way out. All you're going to get is bruised hands if you keep pounding on the bars, Tai," Izzy said.

Tai pounded on the bars of the cage one last time before sitting on the ground and rubbing his tender hands.

"Do you think Matt, Kari, Joe and Mimi are OK?" TK wondered.

"I hope so," Sora answered.

All was silent until Tai suddenly jumped from his position on the ground and shouted: "what's going on?"

"What do you mean?" three voices chorused.

Tai pointed to the wall across from the cage. A pipe was spraying water into the small room the four children were in.

Sora gasped when she noticed water was already gathering around her ankles.

"It would appear that water is pouring into this room at an alarming rate," Izzy replied. "If this keeps up then..."

Sora gasped and cried: "then we'll drown!"


~*~

Mimi sighed and looked down the wall she had been climbing with Kari, Joe and Matt for the past hour.

"Are we almost there?" she asked, trying to keep from whining.

"For the last time N--" Matt started from his position at the top. "Actually, we're almost there."

Mimi smiled; glad the climb was almost over. She didn't like to admit it, but she was afraid she'd fall, plus the way Joe kept saying he thought he was going to be airsick worried her, as she was below him.

Within minutes, they were all on top of the ledge sweating and tired.

"Hey, look!" Mimi cried, pointing to what seemed to be a courtyard.

"It's pretty," Kari murmured.

Indeed, it was. Trees sculpted from ice glittered in a gentle sunlight. The stone floor and walls were made of a beautiful blue type of rock and in the center of the courtyard was an elaborate fountain.

At the back of the courtyard was a waterfall and surrounding the entire perimeter was a huge river.

The only way in or out was the bridge that was set at the end of the tunnel.

Mimi raced ahead, eager to return to sunlight with Kari close behind.

"Wait!" Joe shouted, running after them. "It might be dangerous!"

Matt ran after all three, trying to stop them from entering the courtyard but not succeeding. Before he knew it, everyone was in the courtyard, himself included.

The beauty of the place was even more stunning from inside and it took him a moment to regain his senses and say: "come on, we should go."

As they turned to leave, the entryway closed, trapping them in the courtyard.

A powerful geyser jet of water blew from the ground directly in front of the waterfall. Sitting on top of the geyser jet was Water herself.

"Hello, young fools," she smiled. "And now you die..."