~*Once upon Forever*~
~*Mimi's point of view*~
Looking back over the past little while, I just can't believe that this has all happened in a few days…it's seems more like years. I'm still, in a way, deep in shock, as over and over again I relive the horrors of the past few days. The outlawing of my friends and I…how everyone is now afraid of us…and how we must now hide from the dangers…the dangers of other's fear. Fear can cause people to do so many things…things like killing people…torturing people…and I know that there are several people who would kill or torture my friends and I if they ever got the chance…torture us, because they are afraid of us.
I can't believe I'm acting so serious…me…I'm usually teasing…not serious. But this is a serious matter. Our lives are shattered. Because of it, we must hide in seclusion…fearing to stay…but fearing to leave.
I can feel myself shuddering, even though my boyfriend moves to drape his arm around me. At least he's here, with me. At least we're all together. In spite of all that has happened, as I look from face to face, I feel a deep thankfulness. Thankfulness that we are all still together…all still alive. But then…of course we're alive.
I guess I should start from the beginning.
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~*Mimi's point of view*~
It all started the summer that I turned eleven. No one noticed until we were supposedly almost seventeen…but it still started when I was eleven. We had been batteling to save the Digital world, at the time, of course. We even managed to defeat Apocalymon. But in destroying him, we unleashed an unknown…I guess you could say…virus…upon us all. All eight of us.
What was that curse…that virus…you say? That we would live forever. That, upon reaching the age of sixteen, or however old we were 5 years later, we would never age further. You think it's cool to live forever? Try watching your parents die. Try watching someone who was born fifty years after you die at the age of one hundred and one.
Okay. So that hasn't exactly happened to us yet…but it will. Because we will live forever.
I can feel myself shuddering even more, despite the fact that we are all huddled together, trying to retain warmth. And I feel my mind slipping back over what seems forever.
~*Flashback*~
"Hey, Mimi? I've been meaning to speak to you…"
I couldn't help but hear the apprehension in Sarah's voice. Looking up, I met her eyes with mine. She looked away, staring at the ground, her hands fidgeting in her lap.
~*Author's Note: Just incase your wondering, Sarah is Mimi's younger sister. *~
"Yeah?" I replied. Her uneasiness was beginning to run off on me, as a feeling of worry swept through me.
"Well…have you heard those rumors?" Sarah finally got the courage to ask.
This struck me as strange. Usually Sarah just blurted out what she was thinking. This must be serious. And what rumors? I shook my head. No.
Sarah looked up to meet my questioning eyes. "They say that…that there's a group…of eight, I think. Of eight teenagers that can never die. That can never age."
My head snapped around. No. I hadn't heard anything like that. The worry inside of me intensified, and I felt a strange twisting of my stomach. I knew…somehow…what was coming next.
"Mimi. You're past past seventeen. But you still look like sixteen. I mean…you haven't aged at all…you haven't gained any hight…for God's sake, your hair hasn't grown a millimeter, and I know for a fact that it isn't because you've had it cut."
I was filled with incredulty. She thought that I was part of that group of eight? Part of a group of eight that could never die? Never age?
"Mimi. I know you're one of them. I know. I don't know how, but I do…"
I tried to speak as Sarah paused, but my mouth felt dry. I kew that I was, too. Even though I didn't know how. I had to get to the others…
Sarah continued. "…Mimi…you may not have heard anything about any of this, but people fear you. They're afraid of you. You and your seven friends." Sarah's eyes seemed to pick up on where she left off. Mimi could clearly read the rest of what she had to say, there…right there, in her eyes. There was no need for Sarah to voice her thoughts into words, because Mimi knew them, and was filled with dread.
"Mimi…you know as well as I do…that what people fear…they try to destroy. You may not be able to die, but that doesn't mean that your not invisible to the powers of pain. They'll try, Mimi. They may not succeed, but they'll try. They'll try to destroy you."
I still couldn't speak. What was she saying? What exactly did she mean? Was my beloved younger sister turning on me? Was she going to try to kill me herself?
But that wasn't what Sarah had in mind. "Run, Mimi. Take your friends and run."
Not what she had in mind at all. My sister meant to protect me. My throat constricted as I thought of what might happen to her if she was found guilty of helping me. I couldn't let anything happen to her…
"I said run, Mimi! Get out of here! Don't let them catch you! I'll be okay…no one will ever know that I helped you, okay?" As usual, Sarah seemed almost able to read my mind.
I knew that what she said was right. So, not without pain, I slowly turned, taking a hesitant step towards the door. My steps became quicker, and quicker, until I was running. I soon reached the front door of my house, looking back at my sister one last time. It would be the last time I ever saw her. And I would never see my parents again. I kew this for a fact.
So I memorized what I had already memorized…every detail of the room that I stood in. The room that I would never stand in again.
"Go, Mimi." She whispered again.
I nodded, fleeing through the door, my hand clutching at the locket that I wore around my neck. The one that was in the shape of the crest of Sincerity. The one that my family had purchased for my sixteenth birthday.
And I heard her whisper one last thing, just before I disappeared from ear shot.
"Goodbye, Mimi. Be careful. Remember me."
I dashed at the tears that poured down my face. I had to go back! If they found out that she had helped me, then they would kill her! Sarah, unlike me, was vulnerable. Vulnerable, to death. But my feet kept carrying me on. And on, and on, and on. But that didn't stop the tears.
"Mimi!" I heard my name called. Turning, I saw Matt. Without a thought, I ran towards him.
"Matt! What's happening? We have to get to safety!"
"I know, Mimi." He opened his arms, and I walked into them.
"What's happening?" I whispered. "And what's going to happen to us?
~*End of flashback*~
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~*TK's point of view*~
As we sat there, in muteness, I heard the soft pitter patter of raindrops start. It wasn't long until the small droplets of water began running down my face.
"Wonderful. Just what we need. We're all going to catch cold," Joe complained, breaking the stillness. "We're all going to cath our death of cold."
He just received dull glances in his direction.
"Death," I repeated with a shrug of my shoulders. "Who cares about death? We've only got forever until we die. Literally."
"Yeah. I mean…who cares if we're all alone? We've only got to live with it forever," came Tai's sarcastic reply. He stood up, stamping one foot against the ground. "I mean…exactly what I just said!" the anger was evident in his voice.
"Tai," Sora began softly; soothingly. "Calm down."
With that, Tai sank onto the ground.
Shaking my head, I huddled closer to Kari, trying to keep warm. I slowly rolled my eyes, causing a ghost of a smile to appear on her face. The smile couldn't hide her fear though. No one could hide their fear. It hung around us all, like a dark rain cloud.
Fear could very well be with us forever.
~*Flashback*~
With a sigh of satifaction, I leaned back against the sofa, raising my can of coke up to my lips. With my other hand, I groped around for the remote control, finally finding it.
With a careless attitude, I began to flick through the channels. A moment later, I was hastily going back through the channels. I had seen something…heard something. I knew that somehow, it was important.
Finally finding the right channel, I intently foccused my eyes on the television screen. What I saw next would change my life forever.
"…And it is said that these eight undying teens live in Odaiba at the moment…" the news reporter announced. A picture flashed across the screen. It wasn't a very good picture…or very clear, for that matter, but it made my blood run cold.
Because I was staring at a picture of me. Of me and Kari. And Matt…and Tai…Mimi, Sora, Izzy, and Joe. It was us.
"…Somehow, these teens have received the power to live forever. No one knows how. And so, in conclusion, they must be destroyed. To live forever? It cannot be natural. People fear what they do not understand. And these…these creatures are not understandable."
With that, I jumped to my feet. "What the hell?" I demanded, silently thanking my lucky stars that Matt wasn't around to hear me swear.
"Please…no…" I hear myself whisper. "This can't be happening…I knew that something weird was going on…but not this!"
I reached one hand up to my head, trying to get rid of the image of my friends and I. The one that had been shown on TV.
With that, my head snapped up, my hands flying out to support myself, to keep myself from falling. "No. The picture…people will be all over the place, trying to find us! I've got to get out of here…get the others…get Kari!"
Whirling around, I ran from my house, not taking one look back, dashing as fast as I could towards Kari's house. I couldn't let her get hurt…
"Kari! Kari, it's me! Kari, let me in!" I shouted, imaptiently pounding my hands on the door in front of me.
The door swung open, and a pair of frightened eyes peered out at me. "TK!" Kari's familiar voice greeted me, and I felt waves of releif wash through me.
The door opened wider, revealing her pale face. I could see the fright written on it. Without a backwards glance, I stepped inside. I saw Tai standing behind his younger sister, ready to attack any one.
"TK," he greeted me.
"Did you guys see…that news report…" I was out of breath from running so hard.
"Yeah! We have to get to the others. We were just about to leave," Kari said, her soothing voice calming me down somewhat.
"They're after us…" I continued, trying not to babble. I grabbed Kari's hand. "Come on! We have to get out of here!"
"TK, calm down!" Kari's voice was sharp. "We'll get out of here! But we have to get the others first! They're a part of this, too!"
I nodded dumbly. Yes. The others. We had to make sure that they were safe, too.
As Kari and I watched, Tai reached for the phone. He was on the phone for nearly ten minutes, talking softly, hanging up, and dialing another number, until, finally, he lay the phone back down into the receiver.
Tai turned towards us. "Mimi's with Matt at your father's place, TK, Sora's at home, locked into a closet, so that no one will find her, Joe's working at the hospital, and Izzy's no where to be found," he reported. There was a grim look on his face that I had never seen before. "We are in serious trouble. We have to get to the others. We'll get Sora over to Mimi and Matt, then I'll head over to the hospital. Joe's probably heard some stuff about this by now, so maybe he's safe. And as for Izzy…we have to find him."
I looked at Kari. She was shaking. But then, I realized, that I was too. And so was Tai. We didn't know what to do. What if we got caught? What if someone found Matt and Mimi, and they couldn't escape? What if they found Sora in her hiding place? What if Joe had been captured at the hospital? Or what if he had been captured on his way to safety? And what about Izzy? Tai hadn't been able to reach him.
We all had to stick together. We were stronger when we were together. But right now, we were all seperated, one of us here, two of us there…we were scattered through out the city of Odaiba.
"TK's right. We have to get going. Before we can be captured," Tai announced, taking control. "We obviously can't die, which is an asset. But that doesn't mean that we can't be caputred and tortured forever."
I shuddered at this thought, and I could feel Kari tremble, as well. I reached for her hand again, and gave it a gentle, but reassuring squeeze.
And then, the sound of a fist banging against the door broke through their thoughts, and someone slammed their body against the door that Tai had dead bolted.
"Open the door or we'll blast it down, you stupid creatures! You can't hide from us forever! We know what you are!" a malicious voice shouted.
I raised frightened eyes to those of Tai, then to Kari. And we all froze, unable to move, as the door began to strain and creak on it's hinges.
To be continued…
So. Will Tai, TK, and Kari be caputred? Has Joe already been captured? Will Mimi, Matt, and Sora all be found? And what about Izzy, whom no one has heard anything from? Will the Digidestined survive the wrath of fear?
So…what did you think? I'm currently working on the second part to this! Please tell me what you think!
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