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A Forgotten Past Part 7
A.K.A. Kari's Secret
Kari sat up and felt a familiar pain in the back of her neck. "Uh, not again," she groaned. She looked around and realized she was in the room of darkness in Ken's hideout. 'What happened?' She thought back. Suddenly it hit her; she had nearly killed Matt, Tai, and Ken. TK had survived her blast, somehow, and they got into a fight. She touched her cheek lightly where TK had hit her. It still hurt.
She forced herself off the bed she lay on and over to the door hidden in the darkness. If you didn't know exactly where it was you wouldn't know how to get out. Kari felt along the wall for a minute until her hand hit what felt like a doorknob. She twisted it and the door of darkness opened an inch. Ken had left it unlocked; that was strange. Usually kept her locked in this room until he needed her.
She pulled the door open some more and walked through it. She pulled it closed behind her and walked down the hall toward the room that was Ken's computer/ throne room. She went toward the door and found it open a crack, just like before. She looked in and saw Ken staring at his computer with Wormmon by his side.
"Ken, why is Kari so important?" Wormmon asked.
"None of your business!" Ken snapped.
"Are you in love with her?"
"Of course not!" Ken snapped again. "Once I'm done with her she will die like all the rest of the pathetic Digidestined!"
"Why are you using her like that?"
"She is so powerful and she has no idea and all because of that bumbling fool Tai. But now she is on my side I will be invincible. All I have to do is keep up this repulsing caring act and she'll be too confused to ever fight me."
Kari backed way from the door, but only stumbled and fell to the ground. Ken looked up and jumped down from his chair. He walked toward the door and Kari forced herself off the floor and began running down the hall. She was well out of sight before Ken opened the door all the way.
"What's wrong, Ken?"
"I thought I heard something," Ken replied before returning to his seat.
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Matt sat up and glanced around. Tai lay on the floor beside him and TK was nowhere in sight. He tried to lift his arms, but found them held to the ground by heavy chains. "Tai," Matt yelled. Tai lay on the ground still unconscious. Matt gave him a hard kick. "Wake up you idiot!"
Tai winced in pain, but did not move. "Come on, man," he whimpered. "I'm in pain, have a little compassion."
"You can have all the compassion you want as soon as you transport us out of here!" Matt yelled, wishing he could knock some sense into Tai.
"I can't. It hurts…" he replied. "I failed. I lost her."
"Shut up, Tai! Quit feeling sorry for yourself and get up!"
"I told you I CAN'T! I can't move at all!"
"What?!"
"I mean, like I'm paralyzed. I can't move! Get it through your thick skull, you idiot!"
"Man, I'm sorry-"
"Shut up, I don't need your pity, I need Kari!"
"She'll come. She has too. She knows the truth somewhere in her, she just has to remember."
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Kari ran down the long hall crying. Ken had been right, she was too confused to make any decisions right now. Who could she trust? Tai had lied to her; Ken was using her; TK… Somehow she still didn't want to believe that he did anything with Yolie. Yolie may have been guy crazy, but she wasn't interested in TK. 'I think she's after Izzy right now,' Kari thought.
She turned a corner and slowed upon seeing a dead end. In the middle of the wall stood a dark, uninviting door. 'The dungeon,' she thought. That's where Ken would keep Tai, Matt, and TK. She walked to the door and gave it a hard tug. It wouldn't budge.
She was about to give up when she felt a strange desire to touch it. Slowly, as if expecting the door to bite her, she reached out, eyes closed, and pressed her hand against the door. Instead of feeling cold metal against her hand she felt nothing. She opened her eyes and saw her hand had disappeared half way into the door. She pulled back in shock and horror. She wasn't sure what happened. She reached out to touch the door once more and her hand went right through the metal again. 'This is no time to be afraid. I have to find them.' She forced herself the rest of the way through the door and looked around once she was on the other side. A long dark corridor spread out before her, lined with cells on each side. "Matt!" She yelled. She took a step forward before yelling, "TAI!" Another step.
"Kari?" A voice echoed in the darkness.
Matt! "Matt, where are you?"
"Down here! Follow my voice!" He yelled.
Kari hesitated before stepping into the darkness. She had never been afraid of the dark before, never, even when she was younger. After all she was the child of light. The darkness was just so strong it overloaded her senses. "Matt, I can't see."
"Of course you can! Remember, you are light. Remember the power of your light. Remember back to when you saved the Numemon with your light," he yelled.
Kari hesitated. How did Matt know about that? She did as he told her and she thought about the light. Suddenly she began to glow and she could see straight down the corridor.
"That'a girl, Kari! You have more power then you know. You just have to control it," Matt coached.
Kari ran down the long passageway until she came to a cell where she had heard Matt's voice. There Matt sat on the ground his arms in shackles with Tai beside her. She grabbed on to the bars of the cell. "Tai!" She yelled. "Matt, is he okay?"
"No. Kari, you have to help him," Matt ordered.
"Kari…" A hoarse voice arouse from Tai's body. "Kari… I couldn't… protect you… I failed…cough… you."
"No, Tai. I'm sorry," she yelled, eyes starting to form tears.
"Kari, don't cry," Matt whispered. "You need to save Tai."
"How, Matt? What's wrong with him?"
"He's paralyzed. You need to heal him, I don't have that power."
Her grip tightened on the bars. Tai… she cried silently. She felt the bar disappear from in her hand and she realized she had walked through them.
"Come on, Kari, save your brother," Matt urged.
She nodded and walked over to Tai and kneeled down beside him. "What do I do?" She asked Matt.
"Put your hands on his chest." Kari did as she was told. "Now think about Tai. Just tell your mind what you want and you can do it."
'I want Tai back. I want my brother to hug me again. I want Tai to be able to tell me what this is all about. I want Tai better!' Light engulfed her and Tai. When it disappeared Tai forced his eyes open.
"Kari?" He whispered. He forced himself to sit up. "Come here!" He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her tightly. She cried into his shirt.
"Tai, I'm scared. Ken lied to me. What's going on with me? Who am I?"
"We'll explain everything as soon as we can get you and TK home safely." Tai let her go and stood up. He pulled his sword from where it was tied on his back and slammed it down on Matt's shackles. The shackles disappeared. Matt stood up and pulled his own sword. He swung it and sliced open the bars. They dissolved instantly too.
"We have to find TK," Matt spoke up.
Both Tai and Matt looked at Kari. "What?" She asked.
"You and TK are connected and we need you to use the connection to find him," Matt replied.
'Have they flipped?' The thought echoed in her head. It was TK's voice, but she couldn't remember ever hearing him say it. She laughed and Matt and Tai gave her funny looks. "How do I do it?" She asked.
"Close your eyes and think about TK and ask yourself to find him," Tai replied.
Kari nodded and closed her eyes. 'Okay, where's TK?' The black in her mind was replaced by a bright white room. In the middle TK was strapped down to a table with his eyes closed, convulsing in pain. His shirt was bloody and his face was cut up.
"TK!" She yelled as she ran over to him. He opened his eyes and she stared into his cerulean blue eyes that were flooded with tears. "TK, what happened?"
"The…Emperor. It hurts… I'm sorry… I shouldn't have hit you," TK he forced.
"No, TK. Don't say you're sorry. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry…"
"Kari… Kari, come back," Someone said in the back of Kari's mind. Darkness replaced the image of TK. She opened her eyes and saw Matt and Tai looking at her.
"He's in pain, we have to help him," Kari cried.
Matt approached her and placed his hand on her forehead. He went through her mind and saw everything see had ever seen in her life. Everything she had thought, everything she had experience. He blushed slightly, feeling bad for going through her mind. But he didn't pull away.
It was surprising how many thoughts were of TK. She had pin pointed things about him. His smile, his laugh, his looks, but most of all she loved his eyes.
'Yes, Matt, I'm in love with your brother,' Kari thought answering Matt's unspoken question. 'What exactly are you looking for?'
Then Matt saw the scene he was looking for. TK strapped down to a table in a bright white room. His anger built, but he wasn't going to allow it to get in his way. "Alright, let's go," he whispered.
He opened his eyes at the sound of crying. They were in the place from Kari's head. And TK was on the table just like in the image. Kari ran over to him and stroked his hair. "TK, be all right," she begged.
"Try healing him," Matt ordered softly.
Kari nodded and put her hands on TK's chest. She waited for the light, but it never came. "I can't. It won't work."
"She's not ready," Tai said to Matt. "She wasn't trained to use so much power at once."
Matt pulled his sword and struck the clamps holding TK's arms. He put his sword away before lifting TK's body in his arms. "Let's go," Matt said turning to Tai.
"Not so fast," A voice snapped. They all looked in the direction the voice had come from and saw Ken standing there. "You are not going anywhere. Any of you." He looked at Kari. "I'm very surprised how fast you learned to control your powers Kari, you and your horrid little boy toy; much faster then I learned."
"Boy toy?" Kari asked glancing at TK.
"You have no power!" Tai yelled, ready to fight. "There is no boy of darkness! You were not created to set the balance!"
"Then how do I know all of this about you?" Ken asked.
"We don't care how you found out!" Matt yelled.
"There is more to this world then any of you could ever know," Ken laughed.
Matt set TK's body down on the floor and turned to Kari. "Don't leave his side," he ordered. She nodded and sat down on the ground placing TK's head in her lap. She couldn't look at him though, instead she watched her brother and his prepare to battle Ken.
"Are you ready to face your deaths?" Ken asked, his voice dripping with mockery.
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Well, there was part 7. What trick does Ken have hidden? Have I kept Kari's past locked away in my head for long enough? Only your reviews will tell. I want reviews! Please review! Otherwise I get bored and stop typing. Later Dayz!
A Forgotten Past Part 7
A.K.A. Kari's Secret
Kari sat up and felt a familiar pain in the back of her neck. "Uh, not again," she groaned. She looked around and realized she was in the room of darkness in Ken's hideout. 'What happened?' She thought back. Suddenly it hit her; she had nearly killed Matt, Tai, and Ken. TK had survived her blast, somehow, and they got into a fight. She touched her cheek lightly where TK had hit her. It still hurt.
She forced herself off the bed she lay on and over to the door hidden in the darkness. If you didn't know exactly where it was you wouldn't know how to get out. Kari felt along the wall for a minute until her hand hit what felt like a doorknob. She twisted it and the door of darkness opened an inch. Ken had left it unlocked; that was strange. Usually kept her locked in this room until he needed her.
She pulled the door open some more and walked through it. She pulled it closed behind her and walked down the hall toward the room that was Ken's computer/ throne room. She went toward the door and found it open a crack, just like before. She looked in and saw Ken staring at his computer with Wormmon by his side.
"Ken, why is Kari so important?" Wormmon asked.
"None of your business!" Ken snapped.
"Are you in love with her?"
"Of course not!" Ken snapped again. "Once I'm done with her she will die like all the rest of the pathetic Digidestined!"
"Why are you using her like that?"
"She is so powerful and she has no idea and all because of that bumbling fool Tai. But now she is on my side I will be invincible. All I have to do is keep up this repulsing caring act and she'll be too confused to ever fight me."
Kari backed way from the door, but only stumbled and fell to the ground. Ken looked up and jumped down from his chair. He walked toward the door and Kari forced herself off the floor and began running down the hall. She was well out of sight before Ken opened the door all the way.
"What's wrong, Ken?"
"I thought I heard something," Ken replied before returning to his seat.
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Matt sat up and glanced around. Tai lay on the floor beside him and TK was nowhere in sight. He tried to lift his arms, but found them held to the ground by heavy chains. "Tai," Matt yelled. Tai lay on the ground still unconscious. Matt gave him a hard kick. "Wake up you idiot!"
Tai winced in pain, but did not move. "Come on, man," he whimpered. "I'm in pain, have a little compassion."
"You can have all the compassion you want as soon as you transport us out of here!" Matt yelled, wishing he could knock some sense into Tai.
"I can't. It hurts…" he replied. "I failed. I lost her."
"Shut up, Tai! Quit feeling sorry for yourself and get up!"
"I told you I CAN'T! I can't move at all!"
"What?!"
"I mean, like I'm paralyzed. I can't move! Get it through your thick skull, you idiot!"
"Man, I'm sorry-"
"Shut up, I don't need your pity, I need Kari!"
"She'll come. She has too. She knows the truth somewhere in her, she just has to remember."
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Kari ran down the long hall crying. Ken had been right, she was too confused to make any decisions right now. Who could she trust? Tai had lied to her; Ken was using her; TK… Somehow she still didn't want to believe that he did anything with Yolie. Yolie may have been guy crazy, but she wasn't interested in TK. 'I think she's after Izzy right now,' Kari thought.
She turned a corner and slowed upon seeing a dead end. In the middle of the wall stood a dark, uninviting door. 'The dungeon,' she thought. That's where Ken would keep Tai, Matt, and TK. She walked to the door and gave it a hard tug. It wouldn't budge.
She was about to give up when she felt a strange desire to touch it. Slowly, as if expecting the door to bite her, she reached out, eyes closed, and pressed her hand against the door. Instead of feeling cold metal against her hand she felt nothing. She opened her eyes and saw her hand had disappeared half way into the door. She pulled back in shock and horror. She wasn't sure what happened. She reached out to touch the door once more and her hand went right through the metal again. 'This is no time to be afraid. I have to find them.' She forced herself the rest of the way through the door and looked around once she was on the other side. A long dark corridor spread out before her, lined with cells on each side. "Matt!" She yelled. She took a step forward before yelling, "TAI!" Another step.
"Kari?" A voice echoed in the darkness.
Matt! "Matt, where are you?"
"Down here! Follow my voice!" He yelled.
Kari hesitated before stepping into the darkness. She had never been afraid of the dark before, never, even when she was younger. After all she was the child of light. The darkness was just so strong it overloaded her senses. "Matt, I can't see."
"Of course you can! Remember, you are light. Remember the power of your light. Remember back to when you saved the Numemon with your light," he yelled.
Kari hesitated. How did Matt know about that? She did as he told her and she thought about the light. Suddenly she began to glow and she could see straight down the corridor.
"That'a girl, Kari! You have more power then you know. You just have to control it," Matt coached.
Kari ran down the long passageway until she came to a cell where she had heard Matt's voice. There Matt sat on the ground his arms in shackles with Tai beside her. She grabbed on to the bars of the cell. "Tai!" She yelled. "Matt, is he okay?"
"No. Kari, you have to help him," Matt ordered.
"Kari…" A hoarse voice arouse from Tai's body. "Kari… I couldn't… protect you… I failed…cough… you."
"No, Tai. I'm sorry," she yelled, eyes starting to form tears.
"Kari, don't cry," Matt whispered. "You need to save Tai."
"How, Matt? What's wrong with him?"
"He's paralyzed. You need to heal him, I don't have that power."
Her grip tightened on the bars. Tai… she cried silently. She felt the bar disappear from in her hand and she realized she had walked through them.
"Come on, Kari, save your brother," Matt urged.
She nodded and walked over to Tai and kneeled down beside him. "What do I do?" She asked Matt.
"Put your hands on his chest." Kari did as she was told. "Now think about Tai. Just tell your mind what you want and you can do it."
'I want Tai back. I want my brother to hug me again. I want Tai to be able to tell me what this is all about. I want Tai better!' Light engulfed her and Tai. When it disappeared Tai forced his eyes open.
"Kari?" He whispered. He forced himself to sit up. "Come here!" He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her tightly. She cried into his shirt.
"Tai, I'm scared. Ken lied to me. What's going on with me? Who am I?"
"We'll explain everything as soon as we can get you and TK home safely." Tai let her go and stood up. He pulled his sword from where it was tied on his back and slammed it down on Matt's shackles. The shackles disappeared. Matt stood up and pulled his own sword. He swung it and sliced open the bars. They dissolved instantly too.
"We have to find TK," Matt spoke up.
Both Tai and Matt looked at Kari. "What?" She asked.
"You and TK are connected and we need you to use the connection to find him," Matt replied.
'Have they flipped?' The thought echoed in her head. It was TK's voice, but she couldn't remember ever hearing him say it. She laughed and Matt and Tai gave her funny looks. "How do I do it?" She asked.
"Close your eyes and think about TK and ask yourself to find him," Tai replied.
Kari nodded and closed her eyes. 'Okay, where's TK?' The black in her mind was replaced by a bright white room. In the middle TK was strapped down to a table with his eyes closed, convulsing in pain. His shirt was bloody and his face was cut up.
"TK!" She yelled as she ran over to him. He opened his eyes and she stared into his cerulean blue eyes that were flooded with tears. "TK, what happened?"
"The…Emperor. It hurts… I'm sorry… I shouldn't have hit you," TK he forced.
"No, TK. Don't say you're sorry. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry…"
"Kari… Kari, come back," Someone said in the back of Kari's mind. Darkness replaced the image of TK. She opened her eyes and saw Matt and Tai looking at her.
"He's in pain, we have to help him," Kari cried.
Matt approached her and placed his hand on her forehead. He went through her mind and saw everything see had ever seen in her life. Everything she had thought, everything she had experience. He blushed slightly, feeling bad for going through her mind. But he didn't pull away.
It was surprising how many thoughts were of TK. She had pin pointed things about him. His smile, his laugh, his looks, but most of all she loved his eyes.
'Yes, Matt, I'm in love with your brother,' Kari thought answering Matt's unspoken question. 'What exactly are you looking for?'
Then Matt saw the scene he was looking for. TK strapped down to a table in a bright white room. His anger built, but he wasn't going to allow it to get in his way. "Alright, let's go," he whispered.
He opened his eyes at the sound of crying. They were in the place from Kari's head. And TK was on the table just like in the image. Kari ran over to him and stroked his hair. "TK, be all right," she begged.
"Try healing him," Matt ordered softly.
Kari nodded and put her hands on TK's chest. She waited for the light, but it never came. "I can't. It won't work."
"She's not ready," Tai said to Matt. "She wasn't trained to use so much power at once."
Matt pulled his sword and struck the clamps holding TK's arms. He put his sword away before lifting TK's body in his arms. "Let's go," Matt said turning to Tai.
"Not so fast," A voice snapped. They all looked in the direction the voice had come from and saw Ken standing there. "You are not going anywhere. Any of you." He looked at Kari. "I'm very surprised how fast you learned to control your powers Kari, you and your horrid little boy toy; much faster then I learned."
"Boy toy?" Kari asked glancing at TK.
"You have no power!" Tai yelled, ready to fight. "There is no boy of darkness! You were not created to set the balance!"
"Then how do I know all of this about you?" Ken asked.
"We don't care how you found out!" Matt yelled.
"There is more to this world then any of you could ever know," Ken laughed.
Matt set TK's body down on the floor and turned to Kari. "Don't leave his side," he ordered. She nodded and sat down on the ground placing TK's head in her lap. She couldn't look at him though, instead she watched her brother and his prepare to battle Ken.
"Are you ready to face your deaths?" Ken asked, his voice dripping with mockery.
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Well, there was part 7. What trick does Ken have hidden? Have I kept Kari's past locked away in my head for long enough? Only your reviews will tell. I want reviews! Please review! Otherwise I get bored and stop typing. Later Dayz!