Disclaimer: Nope, still don't own Digimon and probably never will. Enjoy part VI!
Part VI: Further Accusations
Upon returning back to camp, the six Digidestined saw that Matt was still with Tai.
"See? I told you it wasn't Matt," Sora whispered.
Matt noticed them and said: "Oh, good, you found Sora!"
"Yes, she was just hanging around," Mimi muttered, accenting the word "hanging" darkly.
"You wouldn't know anything about it, would you?" Joe questioned.
Matt thought for a moment and replied: "I don't have any idea what you're talking about."
"Someone tried to hang her. With your rope," Izzy bluntly said.
"So who was it? Did anyone find out?" Matt quarried.
Izzy gave him a hard look and said: "Well, lets consider... I believe we can safely narrow down our suspects to two people. You and Joe."
"I didn't do it," Joe and Matt chorused.
"Matt, you had the opportunity to do everything. You were the first to find TK, anyone could have poisoned my water, anyone could have attempted to stab Mimi, anyone could have started the fire and you had the best chance of anyone to try to hang Sora," Izzy explained.
"It could have just as easily been one of you!" Matt shot back. "Izzy, you could have slipped poison into your canteen, Mimi could have stabbed herself and Sora could have set it up to look like she was being hanged. How many times do I have to say I didn't do it before you guys believe me?" Matt wondered, hiding the fact that he was hurt that his friends didn't believe him.
Izzy was about to answer Matt's question when a moan came from Tai as he slowly opened his eyes.
He glanced around as his eyes slipped in and out of focus and questioned in a feeble voice: "what's going on?"
"Well, we're trying to figure out who could be causing all the trouble," Joe explained.
"Yeah, and someone tried to hang Sora," Kari added.
"Sora?" Tai weakly asked. "Is she all right?"
"Yes, I'm fine," Sora answered.
"Has Izzy gotten any more of the prophecy?" Tai wondered.
"No, Tai, not yet," Izzy replied.
"Are you feeling any better?" Kari questioned.
Tai nodded, too weak to do much else. He rolled onto his side, winced in pain and looked at his arm. It was covered with blisters.
"Kari, you're OK, right?" Tai asked.
Kari nodded.
Tai noticed that Izzy had once again begun to work on the prophecy before he slipped back into sleep.
~*~
"Why should I have to?" Matt shouted.
"To see if it's you," Joe dryly replied.
"It wasn't him," Sora replied.
TK held back tears. He believed his older brother. Why wouldn't anyone else?
"Matt, it's just for one night," Izzy added.
Matt sighed and replied: "I still don't see why you all can't just believe me."
"Well, it's better to be safe than sorry," Joe replied.
Matt finally sighed and nodded.
Joe produced the rope that Sora had nearly been hanged with and bound Matt securely with it. Matt didn't say a word while this was happening; he could only wonder why his friends wouldn't believe him no matter how hard he tried.
"There, done," Joe finally said.
Matt started to fall over, unsteady with his legs tied together. Sora and Mimi caught him and laid him gently on the ground.
"Matt, are you OK?" Sora asked.
Matt refused to answer.
"Sorry, Matt," Mimi added.
"I'll watch him," Izzy said.
The others agreed and Izzy sat down to work on the prophecy yet again...
~*~
After a few hours, Izzy nearly had the whole prophecy figured out. He worked rapidly, his fingers flying over his laptop keyboard.
Matt had gone to sleep at some point, but Izzy hadn't noticed.
Izzy finally finished typing and hit the enter key on the keyboard.
"Prodigious!" he shouted as the code on his computer screen reformed into English.
He read the prophecy eagerly. By the halfway point, his eyes were wide with fear. Once he finished, he quickly jumped from his seat on the ground and turned to run back to the others to tell them the prophecy.
When he turned, his eyes were met with a cloaked figure. Blue eyes flashed from inside the hood of the cloak menacingly.
Izzy backed up in surprise.
"Who are you?" he asked, attempting to keep his wits about him.
The person laughed ever so slightly and said: "I thank you for making my job easier."
Izzy was surprised that the voice was female.
"What do you want? What are you doing here?" Izzy asked, disliking this new person more and more.
"I won't have you telling the others about your new discovery. I won't have you ruining it all," the cool, nearly melancholy voice coldly answered. The cloaked girl threw shimmering powder into Izzy's face.
Izzy felt his eyes becoming heavy. Though he fought against it, he was soon in a deep sleep.
"You're next," the girl muttered, tossing some of the powder on Matt and dragging him easily away...
~*~
"Izzy! Wake up!" Mimi shouted.
Izzy opened his eyes groggily.
"What happened?" Joe quarried.
Izzy felt like going back to sleep more than anything else, but the remembrance of the events of the previous night quickly made him more alert.
"I found out what the prophecy said," Izzy began.
"Well then where's Matt?" TK asked, wiping tears away from his face.
"The Dark Child must have taken him!" Izzy moaned.
The six other Digidestined (Tai had managed to gather enough strength to get back on his feet) looked at each other in confusion.
Izzy sighed and explained: "It was in the prophecy."
"Well, what did the prophecy say?" Tai demanded.
Izzy took a deep breath and replied: "A new evil will arise, its apprentice being the Dark Child. Once united, the two darknesses shall attempt to destroy the children of Courage, Knowledge, Light, Hope, Sincerity and Love. Once these attempts fail, the child of Friendship shall be taken by the Dark Child."
"We have to find Matt!" TK wailed.
~*~
Matt awoke not in ropes, but in manacles. Other than the heavy manacles, he had no restrains. He surveyed his surroundings in confusion.
He was in an enormous room made entirely out of stone. It would take at least two minutes to walk from one side of the room to the other. The only light came from the occasional torch mounted on the wall. Directly ahead of him was a raised area with hundreds of minuscule steps carved into the stone. Atop the platform was a throne that looked like an easy chair made out of pure black fabric.
Sitting in the chair was a person in a black cloak. Matt couldn't see anything of the person except for evil blue eyes that were burning from inside the large hood. They were looking directly at him with a piercing stare.
"So you're finally awake," a very unemotional girl's voice stated.
"W-who are you?" Matt stammered.
The girl sitting in the throne stood up to her full height and replied: "You may know me as the Dark Child, servant to the all-powerful lord Sheranamon."
"But who ARE you? What do you want with me?" Matt asked.
The cloaked girl replied: "That you shall find out soon enough."
Matt decided he should ask all his questions right then while this girl seemed to be in a somewhat agreeable mood.
"One last thing... What do you look like? I mean, really," Matt questioned.
The girl replied: "You want to see my face?" Matt wasn't 100% sure, but he thought he detected the slightest hint of uncertainty in her voice.
"Yes," Matt answered. He wanted to see who it was that was turning all his friends against him.
The girl slowly lowered the hood of her cloak, then removed the cloak completely. Matt's breath caught in his throat. The girl was beautiful, but at the same time deadly.
She had very long, thick jet-black hair. She was wearing black jeans and a black top as well. Her skin was white as salt. Embedded in the middle of her forehead was a small black diamond. She would have looked like a black and white painting if it weren't for her piercing, deadly blue eyes...
Part VI: Further Accusations
Upon returning back to camp, the six Digidestined saw that Matt was still with Tai.
"See? I told you it wasn't Matt," Sora whispered.
Matt noticed them and said: "Oh, good, you found Sora!"
"Yes, she was just hanging around," Mimi muttered, accenting the word "hanging" darkly.
"You wouldn't know anything about it, would you?" Joe questioned.
Matt thought for a moment and replied: "I don't have any idea what you're talking about."
"Someone tried to hang her. With your rope," Izzy bluntly said.
"So who was it? Did anyone find out?" Matt quarried.
Izzy gave him a hard look and said: "Well, lets consider... I believe we can safely narrow down our suspects to two people. You and Joe."
"I didn't do it," Joe and Matt chorused.
"Matt, you had the opportunity to do everything. You were the first to find TK, anyone could have poisoned my water, anyone could have attempted to stab Mimi, anyone could have started the fire and you had the best chance of anyone to try to hang Sora," Izzy explained.
"It could have just as easily been one of you!" Matt shot back. "Izzy, you could have slipped poison into your canteen, Mimi could have stabbed herself and Sora could have set it up to look like she was being hanged. How many times do I have to say I didn't do it before you guys believe me?" Matt wondered, hiding the fact that he was hurt that his friends didn't believe him.
Izzy was about to answer Matt's question when a moan came from Tai as he slowly opened his eyes.
He glanced around as his eyes slipped in and out of focus and questioned in a feeble voice: "what's going on?"
"Well, we're trying to figure out who could be causing all the trouble," Joe explained.
"Yeah, and someone tried to hang Sora," Kari added.
"Sora?" Tai weakly asked. "Is she all right?"
"Yes, I'm fine," Sora answered.
"Has Izzy gotten any more of the prophecy?" Tai wondered.
"No, Tai, not yet," Izzy replied.
"Are you feeling any better?" Kari questioned.
Tai nodded, too weak to do much else. He rolled onto his side, winced in pain and looked at his arm. It was covered with blisters.
"Kari, you're OK, right?" Tai asked.
Kari nodded.
Tai noticed that Izzy had once again begun to work on the prophecy before he slipped back into sleep.
~*~
"Why should I have to?" Matt shouted.
"To see if it's you," Joe dryly replied.
"It wasn't him," Sora replied.
TK held back tears. He believed his older brother. Why wouldn't anyone else?
"Matt, it's just for one night," Izzy added.
Matt sighed and replied: "I still don't see why you all can't just believe me."
"Well, it's better to be safe than sorry," Joe replied.
Matt finally sighed and nodded.
Joe produced the rope that Sora had nearly been hanged with and bound Matt securely with it. Matt didn't say a word while this was happening; he could only wonder why his friends wouldn't believe him no matter how hard he tried.
"There, done," Joe finally said.
Matt started to fall over, unsteady with his legs tied together. Sora and Mimi caught him and laid him gently on the ground.
"Matt, are you OK?" Sora asked.
Matt refused to answer.
"Sorry, Matt," Mimi added.
"I'll watch him," Izzy said.
The others agreed and Izzy sat down to work on the prophecy yet again...
~*~
After a few hours, Izzy nearly had the whole prophecy figured out. He worked rapidly, his fingers flying over his laptop keyboard.
Matt had gone to sleep at some point, but Izzy hadn't noticed.
Izzy finally finished typing and hit the enter key on the keyboard.
"Prodigious!" he shouted as the code on his computer screen reformed into English.
He read the prophecy eagerly. By the halfway point, his eyes were wide with fear. Once he finished, he quickly jumped from his seat on the ground and turned to run back to the others to tell them the prophecy.
When he turned, his eyes were met with a cloaked figure. Blue eyes flashed from inside the hood of the cloak menacingly.
Izzy backed up in surprise.
"Who are you?" he asked, attempting to keep his wits about him.
The person laughed ever so slightly and said: "I thank you for making my job easier."
Izzy was surprised that the voice was female.
"What do you want? What are you doing here?" Izzy asked, disliking this new person more and more.
"I won't have you telling the others about your new discovery. I won't have you ruining it all," the cool, nearly melancholy voice coldly answered. The cloaked girl threw shimmering powder into Izzy's face.
Izzy felt his eyes becoming heavy. Though he fought against it, he was soon in a deep sleep.
"You're next," the girl muttered, tossing some of the powder on Matt and dragging him easily away...
~*~
"Izzy! Wake up!" Mimi shouted.
Izzy opened his eyes groggily.
"What happened?" Joe quarried.
Izzy felt like going back to sleep more than anything else, but the remembrance of the events of the previous night quickly made him more alert.
"I found out what the prophecy said," Izzy began.
"Well then where's Matt?" TK asked, wiping tears away from his face.
"The Dark Child must have taken him!" Izzy moaned.
The six other Digidestined (Tai had managed to gather enough strength to get back on his feet) looked at each other in confusion.
Izzy sighed and explained: "It was in the prophecy."
"Well, what did the prophecy say?" Tai demanded.
Izzy took a deep breath and replied: "A new evil will arise, its apprentice being the Dark Child. Once united, the two darknesses shall attempt to destroy the children of Courage, Knowledge, Light, Hope, Sincerity and Love. Once these attempts fail, the child of Friendship shall be taken by the Dark Child."
"We have to find Matt!" TK wailed.
~*~
Matt awoke not in ropes, but in manacles. Other than the heavy manacles, he had no restrains. He surveyed his surroundings in confusion.
He was in an enormous room made entirely out of stone. It would take at least two minutes to walk from one side of the room to the other. The only light came from the occasional torch mounted on the wall. Directly ahead of him was a raised area with hundreds of minuscule steps carved into the stone. Atop the platform was a throne that looked like an easy chair made out of pure black fabric.
Sitting in the chair was a person in a black cloak. Matt couldn't see anything of the person except for evil blue eyes that were burning from inside the large hood. They were looking directly at him with a piercing stare.
"So you're finally awake," a very unemotional girl's voice stated.
"W-who are you?" Matt stammered.
The girl sitting in the throne stood up to her full height and replied: "You may know me as the Dark Child, servant to the all-powerful lord Sheranamon."
"But who ARE you? What do you want with me?" Matt asked.
The cloaked girl replied: "That you shall find out soon enough."
Matt decided he should ask all his questions right then while this girl seemed to be in a somewhat agreeable mood.
"One last thing... What do you look like? I mean, really," Matt questioned.
The girl replied: "You want to see my face?" Matt wasn't 100% sure, but he thought he detected the slightest hint of uncertainty in her voice.
"Yes," Matt answered. He wanted to see who it was that was turning all his friends against him.
The girl slowly lowered the hood of her cloak, then removed the cloak completely. Matt's breath caught in his throat. The girl was beautiful, but at the same time deadly.
She had very long, thick jet-black hair. She was wearing black jeans and a black top as well. Her skin was white as salt. Embedded in the middle of her forehead was a small black diamond. She would have looked like a black and white painting if it weren't for her piercing, deadly blue eyes...