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A Forgotten Past- Part 8
A.K.A Kari's Secret
Ken's hand jetted out from under his cape. As his fingers stretched darkness began to consume the room.
"What the-" Tai started as he glanced around.
"I told you I have power. If you'd listen you'd know that. Or is your hair too big for my words to get to your brain?" Ken looked at each face that was staring at him, his eyes stopping on Kari for a millisecond longer than the rest. "Shall I tell you my plans before I destroy you just like all the stupid bad guys in the movies? Or would that be too cliché?"
"Go ahead," Matt answered.
"Oh, you want me to finally reveal everything to you?" Ken asked. "Not yet."
Tai took the opportunity to charge at Ken. Ken only laughed. Tai swung at him, but Ken caught the sword in his gloved hand. "Wha-"
Ken pushed him back and Tai fell to the floor. Ken held up his hand and a large black ball formed in it. It sailed toward Tai and Tai ducked it. "Your better then I thought, but you will still fall," Ken laughed.
Tai held his sword like an upside down baseball bat, blade toward Ken. "Lights Savior!" Tai yelled. A large blast of light came from the sword and flew at Ken. It struck him before he could move and he cried out in pain.
"I will not underestimate you again!" Ken sliced his hand through the air and at the same time Tai flew back and hit the ground hard.
"Tai!" Kari yelled. She wished she could run to him, but she told Matt she wouldn't leave TK.
"One down, you to go!" Ken yelled at Matt.
"Kari… Ken… we cough have… to st-stop Ken," TK forced.
Kari looked down into pained cerulean blue eyes. "TK, we will. Matt can do it."
Matt didn't charge at Ken. Instead he waited for him to make the first move. "You're a smart boy. Unlike your leader there," Ken said pointing to Tai, who was forcing himself on his elbows. Ken pointed his finger at him and a black ball of energy sailed at him and wrapped itself around Tai's midsection. It began to tighten and crush his stomach. Tai cried out in pain louder. "Can you feel the hate and darkness crushing you?" Ken yelled. He looked back at Matt who just stood there, ready to pounce. "You really should have been the leader. You are much better then that bumbling oaf. Maybe that's why Gennai created you as the leader this disgraceful little group." Matt didn't respond. "My father underestimated you."
"Your father? When the hell did I meet your father?" Matt asked.
"Don't tell me it's been too long for the great Yamato to remember!" Ken mocked. "I suppose I could tell just this part. I am the boy of darkness. Like you I was created. But I was created to kill Takeru and Hikari. My creator was Piedmon. He underestimated the bonds of the friendship of the Digidestined, but here I have brought you, divided at that. But your wits and friendship will not save you boy!"
Their battle began. Matt charging fiercely with his sword while Ken used dark balls of energy. The fight looked entrancing as Matt quickly proved his skill with the sword. But even with all the skills he possessed he couldn't beat Ken. Sweat beads trickled down Matt's face as he stumbled back and waited for Ken's next attack. Ken's hand sliced through the air and Matt flew back like Tai. But unlike Tai he had been ready for this. He landed on his feat ready for the next attack. Ken grinded his teeth in anger, but said nothing. Ken continued to attack until suddenly, he disappeared. Matt looked around, paranoid.
"Matt, behind you!" Kari yelled.
Matt whirled around just in time to see Ken through a dark ball at him. It wrapped around his midsection and he fell to the ground with a cry of pain. "Good fight boy, but you are not the one I need to destroy. Although your time will come soon." He disappeared again and reappeared where he had been standing originally.
He smirked as he looked at Kari. He held up his pointer finger and middle finger and pointed them at Kari. He moved them around in a circle and then moved them so they pointed at him.
Kari felt herself lift off the ground and began to float toward Ken. TK strained to open his eyes to watched her. "Kari… let her go," he whispered.
She touched the ground a couple inches away from Ken. His hand wrapped around her waist as he crushed his lips against hers. She pushed him away. "Stay away from me!" She yelled.
He pushed her down to the ground. "You've used up all your power. What are you going to do? You are going to die here!"
"No, stay away from me!" Kari yelled.
He grabbed her wrist and yanked her off the ground. TK watched them as he fought off the darkness. "Kari!" He yelled as he watched her and Ken disappear. He looked around wildly. Then he saw them both reappear fifty feet above him.
"You have no more power and now you will die on the floor below," Ken yelled as he held her tightly. "Goodbye Child of Light!" He let her go and she began to fall through the air.
"KARI!" TK yelled. Suddenly he disappeared and reappeared right under Kari. He caught her and they both fell to the floor.
"NO!" Ken yelled from his position high in the air. He disappeared and reappeared before Kari and TK. "You can not delay your death any longer. Lucky catch Child of Hope. Your love is still alive, for the moment."
Kari got to her feet and helped TK to his. He was still weak from blood lose and still in pain, but he wasn't going to backed down and let Kari take on Ken by herself.
"I suppose that you still want to know how I know about you," Ken commented. It wasn't a question so neither Kari nor TK said anything. "Like I told you before I was created by Piedmon. I was created to kill you. But then you were sent to Earth. Gennai was such a coward! So, I was sent to Earth too, with my protector just like you. Then he died, and I returned to the Digital World."
"Who was your protector?" Kari asked.
"My brother, just like yours," Ken replied with a pain in his eyes. "Sam was different though, he didn't come out like Piedmon wanted. He tried to turn me; he wanted me to not be evil. But the evil was too strong and Piedmon reached through the worlds and killed him."
"Ken, I'm s-" Kari started.
"I don't need your pity!" Ken yelled. "I will kill you!" He let go of another ball of energy and it sailed straight at Kari.
"No!" TK jumped in front of Kari and held out his hands. A shield of light wrapped around the two and the ball hit them without damage. 'How'd I do that?' TK asked himself.
"Because you are the Child of Hope. The angel boy, part god, created to protect the Digital World from people like me!" Ken yelled as if reading TK's mind. "But I will not fall to you!" Ken closed his eyes and a smoky darkness started to creep up from the floor and wrap itself around him.
The darkness disappeared and there stood Ken. Or what was originally Ken. Now he had wings, dark like Devimon, a cape like Myotismon, armor like Machinedramon's, and Piedmon's sword. "You will fall!" Ken yelled.
"No, we won't," TK shook his head. He took Kari's hand, but continued to stare at Ken.
"Whatever floats your boat," Ken shrugged. "If you think that then you've already lost. Trump Sword!" One of Piedmon's swords sailed toward the pair, but TK move his and through the air and the sword followed it. The sword embedded itself in the ground twenty feet away. "Crimson Lightening!" Ken yelled. A long red whip hit Kari and TK's hands and forced them to part. Kari flew one way and TK fell another. "Ha, let's see how your power holds now that you're separated. Crimson Lightening!"
The red whip hit Kari across the cheek, leaving a large cut leaking blood. "Kari!" TK yelled from where he lay on the ground. TK ran toward her, but was stopped by twenty swords sailing at him. He began to hit them away, but more kept coming.
"TK…" Kari whispered as she forced herself off the ground and tried to walk over to TK. Another red whip hit her and she fell back.
"Kari!" TK looked over at her. When he wasn't looking a sword clipped his side. "Agh!" He fell to the floor in pain.
"TK!" Kari yelled.
"You were created to embrace love and kindness. That is your fault that will lead to your destruction!" Ken yelled.
Kari ignored him as she forced herself to her feet, against the great pain and move toward TK. She was hit twice more by the red whip, but it didn't stop her. She pulled herself over to her bleeding friend. She pulled his head into her lap and leaned over him. "Takeru, wake up! Don't leave me! I can't do this on my own!" She yelled and Ken watched her laughing. Kari leaned over farther and kissed TK passionately on the lips. Her tears of pain and sorrow continued down her face and landed on his cheeks. "Don't go yet! I l-love you!"
A warm light began to escape from their crest and it wrapped itself around the two children. Ken watched them, his eyes narrowed in a puzzled scowl. When the light disappeared the bleeding boy and the crying girl were both gone. Instead hovering in the air was a boy and a girl with angel wing sprouted from their backs. They radiated hope and light along with an unignorable strength and innocence. The girl was the first to speak, "We've had enough Ken." It was that short, so simple, but still it made Ken's blood run cold.
The boy and girl, Takeru and Hikari, let their hands touch and their fingers intertwine. With that a blast of light came from their hands and hit Ken. He stumbled back clutching his chest where the light had hit him. "We do not wish to destroy you, but if that what has to be done then so be it," TK announced.
"Never! I will not lose!" Ken yelled. He began to summon all his power. Everything he had left. This attack would drain him, maybe even kill him, but if he could kill those two angels then his purpose would have been completed. "I, Boy of Darkness, summon the power that will forever hold true. Darkness come forth! Do my bidding!" Ken yelled. He raised his hands toward the roof where a whirlpool of darkness churned in the sky. "Kill the angels of hope and light. Crush the innocence that they bring to the world! I summon thy, now go!!" Ken pointed at Kari and TK. Obeying his command the churning darkness turned into a long arrow sailing at the two angels.
The blackness struck a shield of light that Kari gave off. Instead of disappearing like all the rest in began to wrap around the shield, becoming tighter and tighter at each pass. Soon the two angels were tied back to back, the life being squeezed from them. Still they did not unlock their hands. Instead the bond became tighter. "Kari, we have to use it now."
Kari tried to look back at TK, but found it impossible. "But it could-"
"I know, but we have to," TK cut her off.
Kari glanced over at her brother who lay sprawled on the floor with a black ring crushing his midsection. "Okay," she replied. He gave her hand a quick squeeze and she did the same. Then they began, "Light of Hope supply us now with the power to defeat this evil. We call forth good and love that is strengthened within our bonds. Light break the darkness, hope supply the fallen. We call on thy now through our love. Go forth!"
At their words a brilliant light came from their hands and collided with the darkness. It erupted in a huge explosion, knocking TK and Kari to the floor.
Tai felt the horrible crushing pain disappear and he opened his tightly shut eyes. He forced himself off the ground and glanced over at Matt who was forcing himself up to his feet as well. Matt looked over to where the Boy of Darkness had once stood. Instead Ken was lying on the ground. Matt checked his pulse. "They did it. It's over. Ken is dead."
"Matt!" Tai yelled. Matt glanced over his shoulder and saw Tai leaning over two figures. He ran over and saw TK and Kari on the floor, bleeding and unconscious. No longer were they angels, but two small and frail children. "Oh no," Matt whispered as he fell to his knees beside TK. "We have to get them back to the real world." He glanced up at Tai who had tears running down his face as he stared at his sister. "Tai, come on. They were made to take this. They'll get through it." Tai placed his hands on Kari's chest and closed his eyes. "You can't heal her by yourself," Matt said as he put his hand on Tai's arm.
"I can try damn it! She's not breathing, Matt! What do you expect me to do?" Tai yelled pushing Matt back. "I don't have very much power, but I'll use it to save Kari!"
Matt grabbed his wrist. "You're killing yourself. Let the doctors in the real world handle it."
"She won't make it!" Tai yelled, pushing him away again. He put his hands on Kari's chest once more and closed his eyes. A warm glow came from his crest and met hers. Immediately she took a small shallow breath. It was forced, but she was alive. Tai smiled through his tears before falling to the floor unconscious.
"Damn it, Tai! You can't listen, can you?" Matt yelled. He shook his head in anger as he closed his eyes and concentrated on the real world. He thought about what he needed and soon he opened his eyes and saw he was in his apartment in the real world. TK and Kari both lay on the floor unconscious, side by side. Tai was gone, not that Matt expected him to be there. It was over for him.
Matt jumped up to the phone and within minutes had an ambulance on its way. It was there within minutes, loading the three into the back. A paramedic came up to Matt who currently had his head in his hands from exhaustion. "Maybe you should come too. You don't look so well."
Matt waved him off. "I'll be fine, but I am coming. I need to make sure they're okay."
"Sure, let's go," the paramedic told him as they walked out of the door.
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**~~ Two weeks later~~**
Kari forced her eyes open to the sound of beeping. As she looked around she saw a heart monitor creating the noise. 'A heart monitor?' She thought. She glanced around again, warily, realizing she was in a hospital room. "Uhg," she moaned as she tried to sit up. "What happened?"
"Not sure exactly," came a voice on the other side of a curtain separating the hospital room in half. A hand reached out and opened it, revealing TK's grinning face.
"TK!" Kari yelled overjoyed. "We made it!"
"Of course we did!" TK laughed.
"How long have I been out?"
"Dunno, I just woke up," TK shrugged. "Last thing I remember was the fight with Ken."
"Me too. Do you think we-"
TK nodded. "If we're still alive then I think he's dead." Kari closed her eyes in regret.
They both looked up to the sound of the door being opened. Matt walked in, dressed in baggy blue jeans and a green tee shirt, and smiled at the pair. "'Bout time you two woke up!"
"Matt, where's Tai?"
"Kari, he-" Matt started.
Kari could see a look of pain in his eyes. "Matt, tell me he's okay! Please tell me he's fine!"
"Kari, he-he didn't make it," Matt stumbled on his words as tears welled up in his eyes.
Kari shook her head, refusing to believe him. "You're lying! Please tell me your lying! Matt-" She yelled as she cried.
"I'm sorry," Matt replied.
"No! He has to be alive!" Kari threw off the blankets that lay on top of her and jumped out of the bed, only to crumble to the floor. She continued to cry, "He can't be gone! He can't! Tai! Please Tai, come back!"
Matt walked over to her and lifted her back on to the bed. She clung tightly to him and cried into his chest. "Please, I want Tai!" Her voice was reduced now to a whisper.
"Come on. We're leaving," Matt announced.
"What do you mean leaving?" TK asked. "Did the doctors release us?"
"No, we're going to the Digital World," Matt replied.
"Why?"
"So, Kari can see her brother." Kari looked up at Matt, a tiny look of hope appeared in her eyes. Matt carried Kari over to TK's bed and set her down. The he closed his eyes; concentrating on the place he had visited so many times in the past two weeks.
The bed disappeared from under TK and Kari and they both fell to the ground. "Ow!" They both exclaimed.
"Sorry," Matt frowned as he helped the two up. Matt was once again dressed in a blue sleeveless shirt and gray pants. TK and Kari exchanged glances as they looked at their clothes. They were no longer in hospital gowns. TK had black pants with a white button up shirt and Kari had on a soft, pink sundress.
"Where's my brother, Matt?" Kari asked.
"Over there," Matt pointed past them.
Kari and TK both whirled around and saw a hut sitting in a clear far ahead. Kari ran toward it with TK and Matt right behind her. She flung open the door and saw a familiar old man sitting in a chair. "Gennai?" She asked.
He looked up at he and smiled. "Hikari, I've been expecting you."
"Where's Tai? I want to see Tai!" Kari yelled, ignoring Gennai's strange comment.
TK and Matt came up behind her, and Matt pushed his way in front of her and bowed. "Master Gennai, we've come to see Tai. I also believe that Hikari and Takeru are ready to learn the truth."
"Very well, Yamato. Take them to Tai. His in the back," Gennai replied as he stepped out of their way.
Matt glanced back at TK and Kari. "Follow me."
TK and Kari obeyed him and followed him inside. Gennai closed the door, but didn't follow them. They walked through the large hut and came to a large door. Matt knocked before opening the door and going inside. He held it open for TK and Kari.
Kari's eyes landed upon her brother's body lying on a bed in the middle of the room. "Taichi…" she whispered as she took a step forward. Matt caught her arm. "Let me go, Matt!"
At the sound of yelled Tai's head moved and his eyes opened. "Taichi…" Kari repeated. Tai looked in her direction and forced himself to sit up. He opened his arms and she rushed into them, letting him hug her tightly. "Taichi, Matt told me you died. What happened?"
"You save the Digital World like you were supposed to. I did die, Kari. I'm sorry, but I did. I gave my life to save you."
"Why, Tai? And how can you be here if your dead?"
"I had to, I'm your brother and your protector. I would give my life no matter what in order to save you. And that's just what I did, I gave you my life."
"But how-"
"I was getting to that," Tai laughed. Kari felt like crying at the sound of his laugh, instead she held him tighter. She noticed this and picked her up, letting her sit in his lap like he used to do when she was little. "I died and now because of Gennai I'm alive, but it came with a price. I can no longer leave the Digital World. If I do I will die completely."
"You can't come back?" Kari asked.
Tai shook his head. He held her a little tighter. "Tai, its time to tell them," Matt spoke up."
"Agreed," Tai replied.
"Where do we start…" Matt whispered.
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A Forgotten Past- Part 8
A.K.A Kari's Secret
Ken's hand jetted out from under his cape. As his fingers stretched darkness began to consume the room.
"What the-" Tai started as he glanced around.
"I told you I have power. If you'd listen you'd know that. Or is your hair too big for my words to get to your brain?" Ken looked at each face that was staring at him, his eyes stopping on Kari for a millisecond longer than the rest. "Shall I tell you my plans before I destroy you just like all the stupid bad guys in the movies? Or would that be too cliché?"
"Go ahead," Matt answered.
"Oh, you want me to finally reveal everything to you?" Ken asked. "Not yet."
Tai took the opportunity to charge at Ken. Ken only laughed. Tai swung at him, but Ken caught the sword in his gloved hand. "Wha-"
Ken pushed him back and Tai fell to the floor. Ken held up his hand and a large black ball formed in it. It sailed toward Tai and Tai ducked it. "Your better then I thought, but you will still fall," Ken laughed.
Tai held his sword like an upside down baseball bat, blade toward Ken. "Lights Savior!" Tai yelled. A large blast of light came from the sword and flew at Ken. It struck him before he could move and he cried out in pain.
"I will not underestimate you again!" Ken sliced his hand through the air and at the same time Tai flew back and hit the ground hard.
"Tai!" Kari yelled. She wished she could run to him, but she told Matt she wouldn't leave TK.
"One down, you to go!" Ken yelled at Matt.
"Kari… Ken… we cough have… to st-stop Ken," TK forced.
Kari looked down into pained cerulean blue eyes. "TK, we will. Matt can do it."
Matt didn't charge at Ken. Instead he waited for him to make the first move. "You're a smart boy. Unlike your leader there," Ken said pointing to Tai, who was forcing himself on his elbows. Ken pointed his finger at him and a black ball of energy sailed at him and wrapped itself around Tai's midsection. It began to tighten and crush his stomach. Tai cried out in pain louder. "Can you feel the hate and darkness crushing you?" Ken yelled. He looked back at Matt who just stood there, ready to pounce. "You really should have been the leader. You are much better then that bumbling oaf. Maybe that's why Gennai created you as the leader this disgraceful little group." Matt didn't respond. "My father underestimated you."
"Your father? When the hell did I meet your father?" Matt asked.
"Don't tell me it's been too long for the great Yamato to remember!" Ken mocked. "I suppose I could tell just this part. I am the boy of darkness. Like you I was created. But I was created to kill Takeru and Hikari. My creator was Piedmon. He underestimated the bonds of the friendship of the Digidestined, but here I have brought you, divided at that. But your wits and friendship will not save you boy!"
Their battle began. Matt charging fiercely with his sword while Ken used dark balls of energy. The fight looked entrancing as Matt quickly proved his skill with the sword. But even with all the skills he possessed he couldn't beat Ken. Sweat beads trickled down Matt's face as he stumbled back and waited for Ken's next attack. Ken's hand sliced through the air and Matt flew back like Tai. But unlike Tai he had been ready for this. He landed on his feat ready for the next attack. Ken grinded his teeth in anger, but said nothing. Ken continued to attack until suddenly, he disappeared. Matt looked around, paranoid.
"Matt, behind you!" Kari yelled.
Matt whirled around just in time to see Ken through a dark ball at him. It wrapped around his midsection and he fell to the ground with a cry of pain. "Good fight boy, but you are not the one I need to destroy. Although your time will come soon." He disappeared again and reappeared where he had been standing originally.
He smirked as he looked at Kari. He held up his pointer finger and middle finger and pointed them at Kari. He moved them around in a circle and then moved them so they pointed at him.
Kari felt herself lift off the ground and began to float toward Ken. TK strained to open his eyes to watched her. "Kari… let her go," he whispered.
She touched the ground a couple inches away from Ken. His hand wrapped around her waist as he crushed his lips against hers. She pushed him away. "Stay away from me!" She yelled.
He pushed her down to the ground. "You've used up all your power. What are you going to do? You are going to die here!"
"No, stay away from me!" Kari yelled.
He grabbed her wrist and yanked her off the ground. TK watched them as he fought off the darkness. "Kari!" He yelled as he watched her and Ken disappear. He looked around wildly. Then he saw them both reappear fifty feet above him.
"You have no more power and now you will die on the floor below," Ken yelled as he held her tightly. "Goodbye Child of Light!" He let her go and she began to fall through the air.
"KARI!" TK yelled. Suddenly he disappeared and reappeared right under Kari. He caught her and they both fell to the floor.
"NO!" Ken yelled from his position high in the air. He disappeared and reappeared before Kari and TK. "You can not delay your death any longer. Lucky catch Child of Hope. Your love is still alive, for the moment."
Kari got to her feet and helped TK to his. He was still weak from blood lose and still in pain, but he wasn't going to backed down and let Kari take on Ken by herself.
"I suppose that you still want to know how I know about you," Ken commented. It wasn't a question so neither Kari nor TK said anything. "Like I told you before I was created by Piedmon. I was created to kill you. But then you were sent to Earth. Gennai was such a coward! So, I was sent to Earth too, with my protector just like you. Then he died, and I returned to the Digital World."
"Who was your protector?" Kari asked.
"My brother, just like yours," Ken replied with a pain in his eyes. "Sam was different though, he didn't come out like Piedmon wanted. He tried to turn me; he wanted me to not be evil. But the evil was too strong and Piedmon reached through the worlds and killed him."
"Ken, I'm s-" Kari started.
"I don't need your pity!" Ken yelled. "I will kill you!" He let go of another ball of energy and it sailed straight at Kari.
"No!" TK jumped in front of Kari and held out his hands. A shield of light wrapped around the two and the ball hit them without damage. 'How'd I do that?' TK asked himself.
"Because you are the Child of Hope. The angel boy, part god, created to protect the Digital World from people like me!" Ken yelled as if reading TK's mind. "But I will not fall to you!" Ken closed his eyes and a smoky darkness started to creep up from the floor and wrap itself around him.
The darkness disappeared and there stood Ken. Or what was originally Ken. Now he had wings, dark like Devimon, a cape like Myotismon, armor like Machinedramon's, and Piedmon's sword. "You will fall!" Ken yelled.
"No, we won't," TK shook his head. He took Kari's hand, but continued to stare at Ken.
"Whatever floats your boat," Ken shrugged. "If you think that then you've already lost. Trump Sword!" One of Piedmon's swords sailed toward the pair, but TK move his and through the air and the sword followed it. The sword embedded itself in the ground twenty feet away. "Crimson Lightening!" Ken yelled. A long red whip hit Kari and TK's hands and forced them to part. Kari flew one way and TK fell another. "Ha, let's see how your power holds now that you're separated. Crimson Lightening!"
The red whip hit Kari across the cheek, leaving a large cut leaking blood. "Kari!" TK yelled from where he lay on the ground. TK ran toward her, but was stopped by twenty swords sailing at him. He began to hit them away, but more kept coming.
"TK…" Kari whispered as she forced herself off the ground and tried to walk over to TK. Another red whip hit her and she fell back.
"Kari!" TK looked over at her. When he wasn't looking a sword clipped his side. "Agh!" He fell to the floor in pain.
"TK!" Kari yelled.
"You were created to embrace love and kindness. That is your fault that will lead to your destruction!" Ken yelled.
Kari ignored him as she forced herself to her feet, against the great pain and move toward TK. She was hit twice more by the red whip, but it didn't stop her. She pulled herself over to her bleeding friend. She pulled his head into her lap and leaned over him. "Takeru, wake up! Don't leave me! I can't do this on my own!" She yelled and Ken watched her laughing. Kari leaned over farther and kissed TK passionately on the lips. Her tears of pain and sorrow continued down her face and landed on his cheeks. "Don't go yet! I l-love you!"
A warm light began to escape from their crest and it wrapped itself around the two children. Ken watched them, his eyes narrowed in a puzzled scowl. When the light disappeared the bleeding boy and the crying girl were both gone. Instead hovering in the air was a boy and a girl with angel wing sprouted from their backs. They radiated hope and light along with an unignorable strength and innocence. The girl was the first to speak, "We've had enough Ken." It was that short, so simple, but still it made Ken's blood run cold.
The boy and girl, Takeru and Hikari, let their hands touch and their fingers intertwine. With that a blast of light came from their hands and hit Ken. He stumbled back clutching his chest where the light had hit him. "We do not wish to destroy you, but if that what has to be done then so be it," TK announced.
"Never! I will not lose!" Ken yelled. He began to summon all his power. Everything he had left. This attack would drain him, maybe even kill him, but if he could kill those two angels then his purpose would have been completed. "I, Boy of Darkness, summon the power that will forever hold true. Darkness come forth! Do my bidding!" Ken yelled. He raised his hands toward the roof where a whirlpool of darkness churned in the sky. "Kill the angels of hope and light. Crush the innocence that they bring to the world! I summon thy, now go!!" Ken pointed at Kari and TK. Obeying his command the churning darkness turned into a long arrow sailing at the two angels.
The blackness struck a shield of light that Kari gave off. Instead of disappearing like all the rest in began to wrap around the shield, becoming tighter and tighter at each pass. Soon the two angels were tied back to back, the life being squeezed from them. Still they did not unlock their hands. Instead the bond became tighter. "Kari, we have to use it now."
Kari tried to look back at TK, but found it impossible. "But it could-"
"I know, but we have to," TK cut her off.
Kari glanced over at her brother who lay sprawled on the floor with a black ring crushing his midsection. "Okay," she replied. He gave her hand a quick squeeze and she did the same. Then they began, "Light of Hope supply us now with the power to defeat this evil. We call forth good and love that is strengthened within our bonds. Light break the darkness, hope supply the fallen. We call on thy now through our love. Go forth!"
At their words a brilliant light came from their hands and collided with the darkness. It erupted in a huge explosion, knocking TK and Kari to the floor.
Tai felt the horrible crushing pain disappear and he opened his tightly shut eyes. He forced himself off the ground and glanced over at Matt who was forcing himself up to his feet as well. Matt looked over to where the Boy of Darkness had once stood. Instead Ken was lying on the ground. Matt checked his pulse. "They did it. It's over. Ken is dead."
"Matt!" Tai yelled. Matt glanced over his shoulder and saw Tai leaning over two figures. He ran over and saw TK and Kari on the floor, bleeding and unconscious. No longer were they angels, but two small and frail children. "Oh no," Matt whispered as he fell to his knees beside TK. "We have to get them back to the real world." He glanced up at Tai who had tears running down his face as he stared at his sister. "Tai, come on. They were made to take this. They'll get through it." Tai placed his hands on Kari's chest and closed his eyes. "You can't heal her by yourself," Matt said as he put his hand on Tai's arm.
"I can try damn it! She's not breathing, Matt! What do you expect me to do?" Tai yelled pushing Matt back. "I don't have very much power, but I'll use it to save Kari!"
Matt grabbed his wrist. "You're killing yourself. Let the doctors in the real world handle it."
"She won't make it!" Tai yelled, pushing him away again. He put his hands on Kari's chest once more and closed his eyes. A warm glow came from his crest and met hers. Immediately she took a small shallow breath. It was forced, but she was alive. Tai smiled through his tears before falling to the floor unconscious.
"Damn it, Tai! You can't listen, can you?" Matt yelled. He shook his head in anger as he closed his eyes and concentrated on the real world. He thought about what he needed and soon he opened his eyes and saw he was in his apartment in the real world. TK and Kari both lay on the floor unconscious, side by side. Tai was gone, not that Matt expected him to be there. It was over for him.
Matt jumped up to the phone and within minutes had an ambulance on its way. It was there within minutes, loading the three into the back. A paramedic came up to Matt who currently had his head in his hands from exhaustion. "Maybe you should come too. You don't look so well."
Matt waved him off. "I'll be fine, but I am coming. I need to make sure they're okay."
"Sure, let's go," the paramedic told him as they walked out of the door.
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**~~ Two weeks later~~**
Kari forced her eyes open to the sound of beeping. As she looked around she saw a heart monitor creating the noise. 'A heart monitor?' She thought. She glanced around again, warily, realizing she was in a hospital room. "Uhg," she moaned as she tried to sit up. "What happened?"
"Not sure exactly," came a voice on the other side of a curtain separating the hospital room in half. A hand reached out and opened it, revealing TK's grinning face.
"TK!" Kari yelled overjoyed. "We made it!"
"Of course we did!" TK laughed.
"How long have I been out?"
"Dunno, I just woke up," TK shrugged. "Last thing I remember was the fight with Ken."
"Me too. Do you think we-"
TK nodded. "If we're still alive then I think he's dead." Kari closed her eyes in regret.
They both looked up to the sound of the door being opened. Matt walked in, dressed in baggy blue jeans and a green tee shirt, and smiled at the pair. "'Bout time you two woke up!"
"Matt, where's Tai?"
"Kari, he-" Matt started.
Kari could see a look of pain in his eyes. "Matt, tell me he's okay! Please tell me he's fine!"
"Kari, he-he didn't make it," Matt stumbled on his words as tears welled up in his eyes.
Kari shook her head, refusing to believe him. "You're lying! Please tell me your lying! Matt-" She yelled as she cried.
"I'm sorry," Matt replied.
"No! He has to be alive!" Kari threw off the blankets that lay on top of her and jumped out of the bed, only to crumble to the floor. She continued to cry, "He can't be gone! He can't! Tai! Please Tai, come back!"
Matt walked over to her and lifted her back on to the bed. She clung tightly to him and cried into his chest. "Please, I want Tai!" Her voice was reduced now to a whisper.
"Come on. We're leaving," Matt announced.
"What do you mean leaving?" TK asked. "Did the doctors release us?"
"No, we're going to the Digital World," Matt replied.
"Why?"
"So, Kari can see her brother." Kari looked up at Matt, a tiny look of hope appeared in her eyes. Matt carried Kari over to TK's bed and set her down. The he closed his eyes; concentrating on the place he had visited so many times in the past two weeks.
The bed disappeared from under TK and Kari and they both fell to the ground. "Ow!" They both exclaimed.
"Sorry," Matt frowned as he helped the two up. Matt was once again dressed in a blue sleeveless shirt and gray pants. TK and Kari exchanged glances as they looked at their clothes. They were no longer in hospital gowns. TK had black pants with a white button up shirt and Kari had on a soft, pink sundress.
"Where's my brother, Matt?" Kari asked.
"Over there," Matt pointed past them.
Kari and TK both whirled around and saw a hut sitting in a clear far ahead. Kari ran toward it with TK and Matt right behind her. She flung open the door and saw a familiar old man sitting in a chair. "Gennai?" She asked.
He looked up at he and smiled. "Hikari, I've been expecting you."
"Where's Tai? I want to see Tai!" Kari yelled, ignoring Gennai's strange comment.
TK and Matt came up behind her, and Matt pushed his way in front of her and bowed. "Master Gennai, we've come to see Tai. I also believe that Hikari and Takeru are ready to learn the truth."
"Very well, Yamato. Take them to Tai. His in the back," Gennai replied as he stepped out of their way.
Matt glanced back at TK and Kari. "Follow me."
TK and Kari obeyed him and followed him inside. Gennai closed the door, but didn't follow them. They walked through the large hut and came to a large door. Matt knocked before opening the door and going inside. He held it open for TK and Kari.
Kari's eyes landed upon her brother's body lying on a bed in the middle of the room. "Taichi…" she whispered as she took a step forward. Matt caught her arm. "Let me go, Matt!"
At the sound of yelled Tai's head moved and his eyes opened. "Taichi…" Kari repeated. Tai looked in her direction and forced himself to sit up. He opened his arms and she rushed into them, letting him hug her tightly. "Taichi, Matt told me you died. What happened?"
"You save the Digital World like you were supposed to. I did die, Kari. I'm sorry, but I did. I gave my life to save you."
"Why, Tai? And how can you be here if your dead?"
"I had to, I'm your brother and your protector. I would give my life no matter what in order to save you. And that's just what I did, I gave you my life."
"But how-"
"I was getting to that," Tai laughed. Kari felt like crying at the sound of his laugh, instead she held him tighter. She noticed this and picked her up, letting her sit in his lap like he used to do when she was little. "I died and now because of Gennai I'm alive, but it came with a price. I can no longer leave the Digital World. If I do I will die completely."
"You can't come back?" Kari asked.
Tai shook his head. He held her a little tighter. "Tai, its time to tell them," Matt spoke up."
"Agreed," Tai replied.
"Where do we start…" Matt whispered.
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