The line skipped back to life as they hit a bump. The crest of friendship faded back to the dark blue it always had been except in that minute of the ambulance going towards the hospital. When reaching the hospital Tk was moved to the ER and after about half an hour of waiting.
"I'm sorry but Takeru is in a coma. He won't wake up at least for a while. I'm sorry. I just don't understand how a high fever could cause a coma like the one the boy is in. I'm truly sorry." The doctor told the group as they fell into a deep silence.
"Tk.." Kari moaned as she cried silently into Tai's shoulder then looking at the group which now consisted of herself, Tai, Matt, Izzy, Joe, Sora and Davis. Yolei and Cody hadn't been able to make it but they would come the next day to see Tk.
"It's all my fault! All my fault. I caused him to be like this!! It's all my fault." Matt cried as he fell to his knees.
Sora left Tai's side and went to Matt. "It'll be okay. It has to be okay. Tk's really strong and don't worry about him." she whispered into his ear helping him up to a seat.
"I wouldn't say that if I were you." a voice rang in the waiting room of the hospital. The group turned to face the originator of the voice.
It was Rio.
-0-
Where am I? Tk asked the nothingness.
You are where you are supposed to be Takeru Takaishi. a voice rang through the empty space. What? Tk thought. He didn't understand what had happened, was he dead? He didn't think so because he would of gone to heaven not purgatory.
Who are you? Tk asked the darkness. There was nothing. Nothing that showed there was another being around him. Takeru felt as if he was floating in the air. Then out of no where, he saw something that he couldn't believe. He saw someone he knew only for a few days, weeks even. Someone who was his name sake, or at least the only one he knew of.
He saw T'kai.
-0-
"What are you doing here Rio?" Kari asked the dark haired girl. She was puzzled to see that the girlfriend of Matt had happened to come to them right at the instant Tk had gone into his coma.
"I came because there's something you need to understand," the once-enemy told them. "Tk's soul is in danger. A darkness filled him. Something my brother Roan is probably the cause of. He'll come to, eventually but then he will face his demons."
"Demons?" Izzy asked her. "You mean evil digimon?" he asked again. He was confused with the term demons. Did she mean monsters or well what else were there?
"Personal demons Izzy. Everything leading to one person. The only person who could save him." Rio told him. "The only person who he needs the most in his life." she said again. Kari stepped forward but Rio shook her head, and everyone noticed the girl's eyes dart to someone who was kneeling on the ground still.
"Me?!" Matt asked her. His love nodded to him. Matt couldn't believe this, he was the one who had to rescue Tk after everything that he had done to the younger sibling but if he was to save his brother, he had to learn how first and there was only one person who could answer those questions...Gennai.
"I just sent the email." Izzy told them. A look of thanks was all that was given to him. He himself cared for the youngest of the original digidestined. He couldn't believe that Tk was in so much danger and there was nothing he or anyone else besides Matt could do about it. Be strong Tk Don't give up Hope.
-0-
Tk looked at T'kai. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. Everything, the fur, the eyes, the whistle was the same. "Lord Takeru?" the little squirrel digimon asked him. The God looked at him as if he was shocked as well. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. It was too unbelievable.
"T'kai, how did you get here?" he asked the furry creature. He was one of Tk's best friends of the animals. He didn't look that different to him, he looked like he hadn't aged a day over whatever his age was. He couldn't understand why he was where he was. Maybe it was a real test like he had said. Maybe it was some type of trap, but who could of set it? There were so many enemies and so little time to figure this out. He just hoped Kari was okay.
"Lord Takeru, I found after passing I felt myself vanish into this dark hole. I don't know why I am here but it may be the "Walk of Visions." Something all those who pass on in my realm go through. A walk of tests." He said and then there was a flash of light and the two friends vanished out of the realm.
-0-
Dear Digidestined:
From what you have told me I believe that Tk is not the main target. After what was said about Kari and Tk going to the digimon-realm like world and the death of the Al'ladon he may of gone into the coma to help the digimon reach the purification or ( The group looked puzzled) or basically a Primary Village like that of File Island. When I have more information I will email you again. Please have faith in Tk, especially Matt and Kari. You are the ones who can get him through what he is going through.
Sincerely,
Gennai
"What kind of letter is that? He didn't help us!" Matt screamed into the computer screen. He was so angry at himself for causing what had happened to Tk. He couldn't mess up again. He felt the past coming back to him, something he didn't want to remember.
"Hello this is the Takaishi residence. We're not home so leave a message and we'll get back to you thanks!" Tk's voice chimed, the voice of an 8 year old but he was no longer eight, he was turning 14.
"Hi Tk. This is Matt. I know your really going to ream me but my drummer called and told me that we had to practice for some benefit. I am really sorry. I.." Tk happened to be in the room as the mesage went off and he didn't bother picking up thinking it was nothing, that Matt would of come to the party if he could.
"What?! He's not coming?" the voice rang throughout the pizzaria. Tk felt really bad. It was his 13th birthday and he had been waiting to spend time with Kari, Tai, and especially Matt. He stared blankly at Tai as if trying to condem him for his brother's actions.
"He called you but I guess you didn't get the message. I'm really sorry Tk. He would be here if he could be and I know you are really mad at him but look at his lifestyle. You aren't his main responsibility. Your dad depends on him to cook, clean, and he has the band and everything." Tai said.
"I...I guess your right Tai. But still it's not right. I was making plans with him last month over the phone about this get-together and he plummets through them because of some stupid concert. Kari, what do you think?" Tk said after telling what was on his mind to her older brother.
"Well, Tai's right in one aspect. Your dad depends on Matt a lot, but your right too Tk. You deserve time with your brother but I guess...I don't really know." Kari said trying to make a smile to her boyfriend.
"Whatever." was Tk's comment.
-0-
"I fear for Tk so much Matt. He's your brother and I love him so much. I can't live without him. I don't know how we can help him, where he is. Do you have any ideas?" Kari asked softly
"I'm not sure if he even wants my help Kari. He was so angry at me and he had a right to be. I haven't been the best brother in the world even before the divorce. Sure I was there for him but I wasn't really there. I just took care of him when no one else did." Matt told her.
"Will you two stop thinking and do something already!? I'm getting so edgy just sitting in that hospital room, so dark and dreary and with Tk in there." Tai's voice screamed at them.
"Listen Tai. Gennai said only Kari and I could save Tk. We just don't know how." Matt told him.
"I wonder what Tk's doing right now." Kari wondered.
-0-
"Where are we now?!" the Lord cried out. It was the strangest place, even stranger than the digital world where he went often to battle the Digimon Emporer. It was desolate and dark, there were stones but they weren't graves. There were just different colored large stones.
"I've read about this place. It's one of the Valleys' of Lost Souls. Those who lost their way of life and when they passed on they came here." the squirrel digimon told his companion and partner.
"You are not allowed here. Especially you paragon." a voice that came from nowhere and everywhere at the same time.
"We are here to travel the Walk of Shadows for my companion here. He is T'kai. He must get to the endpoint to save his soul." Tk's voice of reason cried to the entity.
"I see. Then you must go. But first you must prove yourself. If you are truly the paragons you must walk through the valley of Lost Souls and only those who's soul is truly lost can journey there. If your soul is not you cannot even venture a foot into the world of souls and journey to the Vision Plains." the entity told them.
Tk and T'kai looked at each other. They gulped at the same time.
-0-
The phone rang. It was Matt's cell phone so as soon as he heard the first ring he picked it up. "Hey Izzy. What's up?" he said droggily. "What? Gennai has information? Lost Souls? Vision Plains huh? I thought that too. I guess Tk needs to do this by himself. Yeah I will tell her. Peace." Matt's phone conversation had taken a good hour and a half but instead of turning off the phone he called the one person who could really reach Tk.
"Hello? Oh Matt. I'll get...Kari??" Mrs. Kamiya said into the phone. "Kari..phone. It's Matt. Tk's brother." she finished giving the phone to her daughter and leaving with the shopping list to the shopper market.
"Really? Wow. I'll do my best. What are you going to do? Nothing!? Matt you can't do nothing. Pray or be with your brother. He needs to feel your presence. He needs to know you love him!" Kari shouted literally into the phone that had probably made Matt's ears hurt.
Tai had walked into the room and Kari mouthed "Matt" and he nodded but didn't intrude. He instead left for the bathroom where he would get ready for the summer day and knock someone rightfully to their senses.
-0-
"T'kai? Are you ready?" the thirteen year old asked his animal friend. He smiled at him even though they were in a dire situation.
"Well. Takeru, I have a confession. We only have three days starting now to get myself to the Vision Plains. If we do not reach the plains in time then we will be lost in space and you will be what your people called...a vegetable?" he asked.
Tk looked dire. Their situation couldn't be worse but he felt like Kari was with him and because of that he would survive. They started their journey and would soon come across their first trial.
-0-
"The first trial is at hand my Master. They will not get past it and then you will be able to take a new body, one more powerful than the last and destroy the unites of Faith, Wisdom, and Conviction, Master." The small creature said looking up to the deformed spirit of despair.
"The keeper of Hope will succumb to my power and force him to plummet in despair and he with my help will take over the digital world as well as his and become the next digimon Emporer." The voice rang through the dark cavern.
-0-
"What's the first trial?" Tk asked the digimon.
"Well it has to do with the two of us. Something we have in common. A task that can only be completed with us working together." The digimon replied looking up to someone he had looked up to literally ever since he was a child.
"Well there has to be a catch. Something that has to stop us from working together right? Maybe we'll face an enemy of the past." The blonde boy told the squirrel creature. The creature nodded and they continued almost at the trial of hatred.
Reaching the foot of the mountain the duo stopped for a quick rest and the voices wouldn't stop. "Do you hear something?" Tk asked his ally. The creature shook his head and smiled starting a fire because it was getting very dark. The voices rang telling Tk of truths and lies, but he didn't know that. "STOP IT!" he screamed.
T'kai jumped at Tk's yell. "Are you okay Takeru?" he asked softly. The lord didn't answer kneeling while he cried holding his hands to his ears trying to cover them from something.
Tk, Kari doesn't want you anymore. Davis will take her away from you. Join me and we can be true love. We can be the thing you need. You need. Davis doesn't deserve Kari. You must fight him to win her back.
The voices kept droning on about the new digidestined and his girlfriend. He couldn't take it anymore. Everywhere he looked he saw Davis. Next to him. Sleeping across from him in the campsite, eating with him every moment. "I want...to kill you!!" he screamed and leapt at Davis.
"Stop Lord Takeru! Stop!" the voice shouted. It came from Davis's mouth but it wasn't his voice. It was T'kai.
"No! Your going to take her away from me. She's all I have!" he cried at Davis. Davis was scared. More scared than he had ever been but he would never be that scared against him. Why had he heard T'kai's voice coming from the digidestined of new courage and friendship.
"M'lord. This is your test. We cannot go against each other or we fail. Please use your senses. Remember where you are. Think of the real Davis. He is your friend. Lady Kari loves you." The small creature spoke to the lord.
"T'kai?" he asked blinking furiously. He saw Davis disappear to reveal a ruffled up T'kai. "I'm so sorry T'kai. I didn't know what I was doing. It was the voices telling me that Davis stole Kari from me. Thank you for saving me." Tk said smoothing his fur with his hand, his crest re-lighting with the ancient glow of Hope.
"You have passed the first trial Takeru-San." The voice rang. "You both worked together to get past the illusions and now because of it you both shall be taken to the edge of the Souls.
In a flash the two vanished. When the two vanished, in the real world Tk was getting very pale, his line reader slowing down.
Meanwhile in the real world, Kari was frantic, but looked calm. She was praying as hard as she could. She wished she was with Tk, wherever he was. To help him with whatever he needed.
"I'm sorry but Takeru is in a coma. He won't wake up at least for a while. I'm sorry. I just don't understand how a high fever could cause a coma like the one the boy is in. I'm truly sorry." The doctor told the group as they fell into a deep silence.
"Tk.." Kari moaned as she cried silently into Tai's shoulder then looking at the group which now consisted of herself, Tai, Matt, Izzy, Joe, Sora and Davis. Yolei and Cody hadn't been able to make it but they would come the next day to see Tk.
"It's all my fault! All my fault. I caused him to be like this!! It's all my fault." Matt cried as he fell to his knees.
Sora left Tai's side and went to Matt. "It'll be okay. It has to be okay. Tk's really strong and don't worry about him." she whispered into his ear helping him up to a seat.
"I wouldn't say that if I were you." a voice rang in the waiting room of the hospital. The group turned to face the originator of the voice.
It was Rio.
-0-
Where am I? Tk asked the nothingness.
You are where you are supposed to be Takeru Takaishi. a voice rang through the empty space. What? Tk thought. He didn't understand what had happened, was he dead? He didn't think so because he would of gone to heaven not purgatory.
Who are you? Tk asked the darkness. There was nothing. Nothing that showed there was another being around him. Takeru felt as if he was floating in the air. Then out of no where, he saw something that he couldn't believe. He saw someone he knew only for a few days, weeks even. Someone who was his name sake, or at least the only one he knew of.
He saw T'kai.
-0-
"What are you doing here Rio?" Kari asked the dark haired girl. She was puzzled to see that the girlfriend of Matt had happened to come to them right at the instant Tk had gone into his coma.
"I came because there's something you need to understand," the once-enemy told them. "Tk's soul is in danger. A darkness filled him. Something my brother Roan is probably the cause of. He'll come to, eventually but then he will face his demons."
"Demons?" Izzy asked her. "You mean evil digimon?" he asked again. He was confused with the term demons. Did she mean monsters or well what else were there?
"Personal demons Izzy. Everything leading to one person. The only person who could save him." Rio told him. "The only person who he needs the most in his life." she said again. Kari stepped forward but Rio shook her head, and everyone noticed the girl's eyes dart to someone who was kneeling on the ground still.
"Me?!" Matt asked her. His love nodded to him. Matt couldn't believe this, he was the one who had to rescue Tk after everything that he had done to the younger sibling but if he was to save his brother, he had to learn how first and there was only one person who could answer those questions...Gennai.
"I just sent the email." Izzy told them. A look of thanks was all that was given to him. He himself cared for the youngest of the original digidestined. He couldn't believe that Tk was in so much danger and there was nothing he or anyone else besides Matt could do about it. Be strong Tk Don't give up Hope.
-0-
Tk looked at T'kai. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. Everything, the fur, the eyes, the whistle was the same. "Lord Takeru?" the little squirrel digimon asked him. The God looked at him as if he was shocked as well. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. It was too unbelievable.
"T'kai, how did you get here?" he asked the furry creature. He was one of Tk's best friends of the animals. He didn't look that different to him, he looked like he hadn't aged a day over whatever his age was. He couldn't understand why he was where he was. Maybe it was a real test like he had said. Maybe it was some type of trap, but who could of set it? There were so many enemies and so little time to figure this out. He just hoped Kari was okay.
"Lord Takeru, I found after passing I felt myself vanish into this dark hole. I don't know why I am here but it may be the "Walk of Visions." Something all those who pass on in my realm go through. A walk of tests." He said and then there was a flash of light and the two friends vanished out of the realm.
-0-
Dear Digidestined:
From what you have told me I believe that Tk is not the main target. After what was said about Kari and Tk going to the digimon-realm like world and the death of the Al'ladon he may of gone into the coma to help the digimon reach the purification or ( The group looked puzzled) or basically a Primary Village like that of File Island. When I have more information I will email you again. Please have faith in Tk, especially Matt and Kari. You are the ones who can get him through what he is going through.
Sincerely,
Gennai
"What kind of letter is that? He didn't help us!" Matt screamed into the computer screen. He was so angry at himself for causing what had happened to Tk. He couldn't mess up again. He felt the past coming back to him, something he didn't want to remember.
"Hello this is the Takaishi residence. We're not home so leave a message and we'll get back to you thanks!" Tk's voice chimed, the voice of an 8 year old but he was no longer eight, he was turning 14.
"Hi Tk. This is Matt. I know your really going to ream me but my drummer called and told me that we had to practice for some benefit. I am really sorry. I.." Tk happened to be in the room as the mesage went off and he didn't bother picking up thinking it was nothing, that Matt would of come to the party if he could.
"What?! He's not coming?" the voice rang throughout the pizzaria. Tk felt really bad. It was his 13th birthday and he had been waiting to spend time with Kari, Tai, and especially Matt. He stared blankly at Tai as if trying to condem him for his brother's actions.
"He called you but I guess you didn't get the message. I'm really sorry Tk. He would be here if he could be and I know you are really mad at him but look at his lifestyle. You aren't his main responsibility. Your dad depends on him to cook, clean, and he has the band and everything." Tai said.
"I...I guess your right Tai. But still it's not right. I was making plans with him last month over the phone about this get-together and he plummets through them because of some stupid concert. Kari, what do you think?" Tk said after telling what was on his mind to her older brother.
"Well, Tai's right in one aspect. Your dad depends on Matt a lot, but your right too Tk. You deserve time with your brother but I guess...I don't really know." Kari said trying to make a smile to her boyfriend.
"Whatever." was Tk's comment.
-0-
"I fear for Tk so much Matt. He's your brother and I love him so much. I can't live without him. I don't know how we can help him, where he is. Do you have any ideas?" Kari asked softly
"I'm not sure if he even wants my help Kari. He was so angry at me and he had a right to be. I haven't been the best brother in the world even before the divorce. Sure I was there for him but I wasn't really there. I just took care of him when no one else did." Matt told her.
"Will you two stop thinking and do something already!? I'm getting so edgy just sitting in that hospital room, so dark and dreary and with Tk in there." Tai's voice screamed at them.
"Listen Tai. Gennai said only Kari and I could save Tk. We just don't know how." Matt told him.
"I wonder what Tk's doing right now." Kari wondered.
-0-
"Where are we now?!" the Lord cried out. It was the strangest place, even stranger than the digital world where he went often to battle the Digimon Emporer. It was desolate and dark, there were stones but they weren't graves. There were just different colored large stones.
"I've read about this place. It's one of the Valleys' of Lost Souls. Those who lost their way of life and when they passed on they came here." the squirrel digimon told his companion and partner.
"You are not allowed here. Especially you paragon." a voice that came from nowhere and everywhere at the same time.
"We are here to travel the Walk of Shadows for my companion here. He is T'kai. He must get to the endpoint to save his soul." Tk's voice of reason cried to the entity.
"I see. Then you must go. But first you must prove yourself. If you are truly the paragons you must walk through the valley of Lost Souls and only those who's soul is truly lost can journey there. If your soul is not you cannot even venture a foot into the world of souls and journey to the Vision Plains." the entity told them.
Tk and T'kai looked at each other. They gulped at the same time.
-0-
The phone rang. It was Matt's cell phone so as soon as he heard the first ring he picked it up. "Hey Izzy. What's up?" he said droggily. "What? Gennai has information? Lost Souls? Vision Plains huh? I thought that too. I guess Tk needs to do this by himself. Yeah I will tell her. Peace." Matt's phone conversation had taken a good hour and a half but instead of turning off the phone he called the one person who could really reach Tk.
"Hello? Oh Matt. I'll get...Kari??" Mrs. Kamiya said into the phone. "Kari..phone. It's Matt. Tk's brother." she finished giving the phone to her daughter and leaving with the shopping list to the shopper market.
"Really? Wow. I'll do my best. What are you going to do? Nothing!? Matt you can't do nothing. Pray or be with your brother. He needs to feel your presence. He needs to know you love him!" Kari shouted literally into the phone that had probably made Matt's ears hurt.
Tai had walked into the room and Kari mouthed "Matt" and he nodded but didn't intrude. He instead left for the bathroom where he would get ready for the summer day and knock someone rightfully to their senses.
-0-
"T'kai? Are you ready?" the thirteen year old asked his animal friend. He smiled at him even though they were in a dire situation.
"Well. Takeru, I have a confession. We only have three days starting now to get myself to the Vision Plains. If we do not reach the plains in time then we will be lost in space and you will be what your people called...a vegetable?" he asked.
Tk looked dire. Their situation couldn't be worse but he felt like Kari was with him and because of that he would survive. They started their journey and would soon come across their first trial.
-0-
"The first trial is at hand my Master. They will not get past it and then you will be able to take a new body, one more powerful than the last and destroy the unites of Faith, Wisdom, and Conviction, Master." The small creature said looking up to the deformed spirit of despair.
"The keeper of Hope will succumb to my power and force him to plummet in despair and he with my help will take over the digital world as well as his and become the next digimon Emporer." The voice rang through the dark cavern.
-0-
"What's the first trial?" Tk asked the digimon.
"Well it has to do with the two of us. Something we have in common. A task that can only be completed with us working together." The digimon replied looking up to someone he had looked up to literally ever since he was a child.
"Well there has to be a catch. Something that has to stop us from working together right? Maybe we'll face an enemy of the past." The blonde boy told the squirrel creature. The creature nodded and they continued almost at the trial of hatred.
Reaching the foot of the mountain the duo stopped for a quick rest and the voices wouldn't stop. "Do you hear something?" Tk asked his ally. The creature shook his head and smiled starting a fire because it was getting very dark. The voices rang telling Tk of truths and lies, but he didn't know that. "STOP IT!" he screamed.
T'kai jumped at Tk's yell. "Are you okay Takeru?" he asked softly. The lord didn't answer kneeling while he cried holding his hands to his ears trying to cover them from something.
Tk, Kari doesn't want you anymore. Davis will take her away from you. Join me and we can be true love. We can be the thing you need. You need. Davis doesn't deserve Kari. You must fight him to win her back.
The voices kept droning on about the new digidestined and his girlfriend. He couldn't take it anymore. Everywhere he looked he saw Davis. Next to him. Sleeping across from him in the campsite, eating with him every moment. "I want...to kill you!!" he screamed and leapt at Davis.
"Stop Lord Takeru! Stop!" the voice shouted. It came from Davis's mouth but it wasn't his voice. It was T'kai.
"No! Your going to take her away from me. She's all I have!" he cried at Davis. Davis was scared. More scared than he had ever been but he would never be that scared against him. Why had he heard T'kai's voice coming from the digidestined of new courage and friendship.
"M'lord. This is your test. We cannot go against each other or we fail. Please use your senses. Remember where you are. Think of the real Davis. He is your friend. Lady Kari loves you." The small creature spoke to the lord.
"T'kai?" he asked blinking furiously. He saw Davis disappear to reveal a ruffled up T'kai. "I'm so sorry T'kai. I didn't know what I was doing. It was the voices telling me that Davis stole Kari from me. Thank you for saving me." Tk said smoothing his fur with his hand, his crest re-lighting with the ancient glow of Hope.
"You have passed the first trial Takeru-San." The voice rang. "You both worked together to get past the illusions and now because of it you both shall be taken to the edge of the Souls.
In a flash the two vanished. When the two vanished, in the real world Tk was getting very pale, his line reader slowing down.
Meanwhile in the real world, Kari was frantic, but looked calm. She was praying as hard as she could. She wished she was with Tk, wherever he was. To help him with whatever he needed.