Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
A/N: Mimi never moved.
A Changed Destiny
Tai forced his eyes open and looked around. He was lying in grass, no doubt in the digital world. Sora lay beside him, still unconscious. He crawled over to her and shook her lightly. "Sora," he said, his voice barely above a whisper.
She opened her eyes. "We're back, aren't we?" Tai nodded. "I don't want to do this again, Tai."
"I know, but-" A scream interrupted him. "That was Kari!" He jumped up and began running toward the source of the scream. He pushed through a huge bush and stopped himself when he came to a large clearing.
Kari lay crying on the ground with a huge tyrannosaurus rex standing over her. It was a Tyrannomon and he looked ready to attack. She glanced over at Tai and screamed, "Tai! Help me, please!"
Sora came up behind Tai. "You go to Kari. I'll distract him!" She nodded and began to inch her way over to Kari. Tai picked up a stone that lay by his feet and threw it at the Tyrannomon's head. The small rock made just enough of an impact to make the digimon look over in his direction. Tai began to wave his arms in the air. "Come on! Come after me!" He yelled.
The Tyrannomon did as Tai ordered and began to go after him. Tai slipped back into the forest and ran from him. Sora ran over to Kari and knelt down beside the sobbing girl. Sora wrapped her arms around her and tried to calm her. "Its okay, its alright. It's going to be okay."
Kari clung to her tightly. "What was that?" She choked out. "Where are we? I'm scared!"
"We're in the Digital World. I doubt you know what that is. Tai's going to be back in a minute. When he comes back we'll tell you where we are and we're going to get you home."
"Hey," Tai fell to his knees in front of Sora. He was tired and out of breath from running and a little scratched and bruised from the attacks the Tyrannomon got in before Tai lost him. "Kari, are you okay?"
Kari looked at her brother. "I'll be okay, Tai. But I want to go home, I'm scared."
"I know, Kari. And we'll get back home. Come here," he said as he held out his arms to her. She moved into his arms and he hugged her tightly.
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Matt awoke and looked around. He was in the Digital World. It may have been six years since he had last been there, but the Digital World wasn't something you forget easily. He looked around. No one seemed to be around.
He forced himself to his feet. "Hello?" He yelled. "TK! Izzy! Joe! Mimi! Anybody there?" He began walking aimlessly, still calling his friends names. He ripped his digivice off of his belt. "Where are they?" He yelled. Three red dots appeared on it and he started to race toward them. They began to get closer and soon he realized her was right beside him. He pushed back a branch of a bush and saw Tai with someone crying in his arms and Sora sitting beside them. He jumped out into the clearing. "Sora!" Sora looked up and saw Matt running toward her. She jumped to her feet and ran over to him. Within seconds he had her in a strong embrace. "God, I was so scared something happened to you. You just left this morning and you didn't show up for any of your classes."
"I'm sorry. Kari had to go to the hospital and I went with Tai," Sora replied.
Matt felt insanely jealous, but pushed that feeling aside. "Kari? What happened to her?" He asked in his best leader tone.
Sora looked away from him and over at Tai. Matt followed her gaze and he realized that it was Kari that Tai held in his arms. Matt looked at Tai. Tai knew he was there, but he didn't bother looking up. Instead he talked softly to Kari. Anger and the jealousy he had pushed back before came to his mind. Sora noticed the change of love to hatred in his eyes. "Don't. Not here. He had his reasons for leaving and once we get back you'll find out what they are."
"You know?"
"I've always known."
"How-"
She put a finger to his lips. "I grew up with them." The jealousy appeared in his eyes once more. "Stop it! For once forget what Tai used to mean to me and just trust me! Be the leader and lead us out of here!"
"We may have a problem there. The other's are here, but I don't know where they are." He glanced over at Tai. "Does she even know what she is?"
Sora shook her head. "She's not strong enough."
"Not strong enough?! Does he think we were strong enough six years ago?! He's a god damned coward!"
Sora slapped him. "You have no idea what you're talking about! Tai was a good leader! I forgave him! If you were in his position you would have done the same thing!"
"What's his position then?!"
"Kari is dying." Both Sora and Matt looked up to see Tai standing just a few feet away from them. Kari was leaning against a tree out of earshot. "She was born with a weak heart and its finally giving up. Six year ago I came back from camp and she was in the hospital. I found out that she was a Digidestined later that night from Gatomon. She would not have made it in the Digital World so I convinced my parents to take us and leave."
"Tai, I-" Matt started. He suddenly felt like the lowest person on earth, no make that the universe.
"And now Kari's heart is slowing and just giving up. It could be a matter of days until it just stops completely. Then it'll finally be all over. To be honest I don't care if you hate me or if you think I don't deserve your friendship because I don't care. I would have left a dozen times over to save her.
"Your right," Matt replied. "I do hate you. I hate you for the fact that you couldn't trust us with this information. I hate you because you ran away without an explanation. And I hate you because you are a much better man, leader, and brother then I could ever be." Tai raised his eyebrows in shock. Matt held out his hand to Tai. "Friends?"
Tai shook his hand. "Friends."
"Guys, where's Kari?" Sora asked.
Tai whipped around and looked over to where Kari had been sitting just moments before. She was gone.
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Kari knew she shouldn't have wandered off. Tai would be angry and worried. She had been sitting there, wondering what Tai, Matt and Sora were talking about and then suddenly was overcome by a newfound energy. Then when no one was looking she snuck off.
As she came to the top of a hill she glanced around and surveyed the landscape. It was a beautiful green as far as the eye could see. Although far on her left she could see a huge ocean. This was the place she had always dreamed about going. It was so beautiful and big. No doctors, no hospitals; just open spaces where she could have an actual adventure before she died.
Yes, she knew she was going to die. The doctors' faces gave it way six years ago. Tai's sad eyes told her everyday. The fact that her parents didn't bother to return to Japan told her to, but that hurt a little more.
She didn't know why that hurt. Sure the fact that it was her parents that had given up on her, but that's what she wanted. Right? She didn't want anyone else to suffer; it was good that her parents had moved on. So, why couldn't Tai?
"Kari…" Kari looked up at the sound of her name, but nothing was there. "Kari…" the wind seemed to call.
"Um… what's going on? Who's there?" Kari asked. She walked forward a little and stopped.
Looking down the side of the hill she saw someone lying on the ground. Slowly she walked towards them. As she got closer remembrance came to her mind. Ruffled golden hair covered by a stupid white hat. It was TK.
Forgetting that she should go slow, she ran down the rest of the hill and dropped to her knees beside him. "TK!" She yelled. She reached out to touch him when something on her belt started beeping and a beam of light shot out from something around her neck.
The light hit TK and formed a ball around him. The light intensified and Kari had to raise her hand to block her eyes. The light got brighter and brighter as Kari felt weaker and weaker.
Suddenly the light ended. She opened her eyes and moved her hands away from her eyes. TK moved slightly before groaning in a dull voice. "TK?"
TK sat up and for a moment was looking into the face of a pale angel. "Am I dead?"
"TK?"
TK rubbed his eyes. "Kari? Kari!" TK threw his arms around the young girl. "Where are we?"
"Sora told me the Digital World, but I don't know what that is." Kari paused and saw a strange glint in his eyes. "Do you?"
"Yes, I do." He reached up and picked up something from around her neck. "You see this?" She looked down and saw the pendant she had pulled from Tai's drawer around her neck. "This is yours. Its what brought you here. You're light. You are a Digidestined."
"What's a Digidestined?"
"They are kids who were Chosen to protect this place and earth. You are one of us."
"Who's us?"
"Joe, Mimi, my brother, Sora, Izzy, me, and your brother. And now you."
"That's why you said Tai was your leader?" TK nodded. "How are we supposed to protect the Digital World?"
"With our digimon partners."
"What's a digimon?"
"They're these things that live here. They're like animals. They are our partners and we are bonded to them."
"Where are they?" TK's eye filled with tears. "What's wrong?
He wiped them away. "They're gone. They died six years ago."
"Six years ago?"
"There was this big battle with this guy Myotismon. We had come back to earth to find you, but that had turned out very unsuccessful. And we lost our leader. Matt took over, but we still weren't as strong without Tai; he was our courage. So we fought him with all the strength we had. A year later and most of Odiaba destroyed we won, but our digimon all died. Every one of our partners."
"We never died, TK," a strange little voice said.
TK jumped a foot up in the air. "Aaaaa! Who said that?!" He yelled.
"I did."
TK looked around and then up. It was then he noticed a flying little mouse thing with bat wings on its head. "Patamon? Patamon! Its you!"
"This way everyone!" The thing yelled to the distance before dive-bombing into TK's arms.
"Patamon! Oh my god, I missed you! How'd you get here. You-you died!"
"And I was reborn here in the Digital World."
TK looked up at Kari who was staring at Patamon. "This is my digimon," TK said happily. "His name is Patamon. Patamon, this is Kari. She's the eighth child!"
"Its nice to meet you," Patamon said. Kari smiled in response.
"Are the others digimon alive too?" TK asked.
"They sure are. Here they come now," Patamon replied as he pointed to the direction he had just come from. Both Kari and TK looked in that direction and saw seven little monsters running toward them.
Kari watched in disbelief as each of the monsters gathered around them. A little orange dinosaur, a pink bird, a little plant, a blue dog with a horn in its head, a little bug, a little white seal thing, and last a little white cat with yellow gloves on. "I've met you before," Kari said to the cat.
The small cat smiled a sad smile. "Yep."
"Six years ago?" The cat nodded. "Tai brought you in and I…thought it was a dream."
"I know. I did that so you wouldn't be sad," the cat replied.
"Your Gatomon, right?" The cat nodded and before she knew what was happening Kari scooped her up into a huge hug. Gatomon was shock, but she didn't try to stop her.
"Are our partners here?" The yellow lizard asked. TK nodded. "Then we have to find them! Let's go!" The other digimon pulled Kari and TK off the ground and forced them to lead the way.
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Sorry this took so long to get out! I'm dealing with major writer's block and I have no idea what I'm going to do with this fic! Please R/R!!!!
A/N: Mimi never moved.
A Changed Destiny
Tai forced his eyes open and looked around. He was lying in grass, no doubt in the digital world. Sora lay beside him, still unconscious. He crawled over to her and shook her lightly. "Sora," he said, his voice barely above a whisper.
She opened her eyes. "We're back, aren't we?" Tai nodded. "I don't want to do this again, Tai."
"I know, but-" A scream interrupted him. "That was Kari!" He jumped up and began running toward the source of the scream. He pushed through a huge bush and stopped himself when he came to a large clearing.
Kari lay crying on the ground with a huge tyrannosaurus rex standing over her. It was a Tyrannomon and he looked ready to attack. She glanced over at Tai and screamed, "Tai! Help me, please!"
Sora came up behind Tai. "You go to Kari. I'll distract him!" She nodded and began to inch her way over to Kari. Tai picked up a stone that lay by his feet and threw it at the Tyrannomon's head. The small rock made just enough of an impact to make the digimon look over in his direction. Tai began to wave his arms in the air. "Come on! Come after me!" He yelled.
The Tyrannomon did as Tai ordered and began to go after him. Tai slipped back into the forest and ran from him. Sora ran over to Kari and knelt down beside the sobbing girl. Sora wrapped her arms around her and tried to calm her. "Its okay, its alright. It's going to be okay."
Kari clung to her tightly. "What was that?" She choked out. "Where are we? I'm scared!"
"We're in the Digital World. I doubt you know what that is. Tai's going to be back in a minute. When he comes back we'll tell you where we are and we're going to get you home."
"Hey," Tai fell to his knees in front of Sora. He was tired and out of breath from running and a little scratched and bruised from the attacks the Tyrannomon got in before Tai lost him. "Kari, are you okay?"
Kari looked at her brother. "I'll be okay, Tai. But I want to go home, I'm scared."
"I know, Kari. And we'll get back home. Come here," he said as he held out his arms to her. She moved into his arms and he hugged her tightly.
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Matt awoke and looked around. He was in the Digital World. It may have been six years since he had last been there, but the Digital World wasn't something you forget easily. He looked around. No one seemed to be around.
He forced himself to his feet. "Hello?" He yelled. "TK! Izzy! Joe! Mimi! Anybody there?" He began walking aimlessly, still calling his friends names. He ripped his digivice off of his belt. "Where are they?" He yelled. Three red dots appeared on it and he started to race toward them. They began to get closer and soon he realized her was right beside him. He pushed back a branch of a bush and saw Tai with someone crying in his arms and Sora sitting beside them. He jumped out into the clearing. "Sora!" Sora looked up and saw Matt running toward her. She jumped to her feet and ran over to him. Within seconds he had her in a strong embrace. "God, I was so scared something happened to you. You just left this morning and you didn't show up for any of your classes."
"I'm sorry. Kari had to go to the hospital and I went with Tai," Sora replied.
Matt felt insanely jealous, but pushed that feeling aside. "Kari? What happened to her?" He asked in his best leader tone.
Sora looked away from him and over at Tai. Matt followed her gaze and he realized that it was Kari that Tai held in his arms. Matt looked at Tai. Tai knew he was there, but he didn't bother looking up. Instead he talked softly to Kari. Anger and the jealousy he had pushed back before came to his mind. Sora noticed the change of love to hatred in his eyes. "Don't. Not here. He had his reasons for leaving and once we get back you'll find out what they are."
"You know?"
"I've always known."
"How-"
She put a finger to his lips. "I grew up with them." The jealousy appeared in his eyes once more. "Stop it! For once forget what Tai used to mean to me and just trust me! Be the leader and lead us out of here!"
"We may have a problem there. The other's are here, but I don't know where they are." He glanced over at Tai. "Does she even know what she is?"
Sora shook her head. "She's not strong enough."
"Not strong enough?! Does he think we were strong enough six years ago?! He's a god damned coward!"
Sora slapped him. "You have no idea what you're talking about! Tai was a good leader! I forgave him! If you were in his position you would have done the same thing!"
"What's his position then?!"
"Kari is dying." Both Sora and Matt looked up to see Tai standing just a few feet away from them. Kari was leaning against a tree out of earshot. "She was born with a weak heart and its finally giving up. Six year ago I came back from camp and she was in the hospital. I found out that she was a Digidestined later that night from Gatomon. She would not have made it in the Digital World so I convinced my parents to take us and leave."
"Tai, I-" Matt started. He suddenly felt like the lowest person on earth, no make that the universe.
"And now Kari's heart is slowing and just giving up. It could be a matter of days until it just stops completely. Then it'll finally be all over. To be honest I don't care if you hate me or if you think I don't deserve your friendship because I don't care. I would have left a dozen times over to save her.
"Your right," Matt replied. "I do hate you. I hate you for the fact that you couldn't trust us with this information. I hate you because you ran away without an explanation. And I hate you because you are a much better man, leader, and brother then I could ever be." Tai raised his eyebrows in shock. Matt held out his hand to Tai. "Friends?"
Tai shook his hand. "Friends."
"Guys, where's Kari?" Sora asked.
Tai whipped around and looked over to where Kari had been sitting just moments before. She was gone.
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Kari knew she shouldn't have wandered off. Tai would be angry and worried. She had been sitting there, wondering what Tai, Matt and Sora were talking about and then suddenly was overcome by a newfound energy. Then when no one was looking she snuck off.
As she came to the top of a hill she glanced around and surveyed the landscape. It was a beautiful green as far as the eye could see. Although far on her left she could see a huge ocean. This was the place she had always dreamed about going. It was so beautiful and big. No doctors, no hospitals; just open spaces where she could have an actual adventure before she died.
Yes, she knew she was going to die. The doctors' faces gave it way six years ago. Tai's sad eyes told her everyday. The fact that her parents didn't bother to return to Japan told her to, but that hurt a little more.
She didn't know why that hurt. Sure the fact that it was her parents that had given up on her, but that's what she wanted. Right? She didn't want anyone else to suffer; it was good that her parents had moved on. So, why couldn't Tai?
"Kari…" Kari looked up at the sound of her name, but nothing was there. "Kari…" the wind seemed to call.
"Um… what's going on? Who's there?" Kari asked. She walked forward a little and stopped.
Looking down the side of the hill she saw someone lying on the ground. Slowly she walked towards them. As she got closer remembrance came to her mind. Ruffled golden hair covered by a stupid white hat. It was TK.
Forgetting that she should go slow, she ran down the rest of the hill and dropped to her knees beside him. "TK!" She yelled. She reached out to touch him when something on her belt started beeping and a beam of light shot out from something around her neck.
The light hit TK and formed a ball around him. The light intensified and Kari had to raise her hand to block her eyes. The light got brighter and brighter as Kari felt weaker and weaker.
Suddenly the light ended. She opened her eyes and moved her hands away from her eyes. TK moved slightly before groaning in a dull voice. "TK?"
TK sat up and for a moment was looking into the face of a pale angel. "Am I dead?"
"TK?"
TK rubbed his eyes. "Kari? Kari!" TK threw his arms around the young girl. "Where are we?"
"Sora told me the Digital World, but I don't know what that is." Kari paused and saw a strange glint in his eyes. "Do you?"
"Yes, I do." He reached up and picked up something from around her neck. "You see this?" She looked down and saw the pendant she had pulled from Tai's drawer around her neck. "This is yours. Its what brought you here. You're light. You are a Digidestined."
"What's a Digidestined?"
"They are kids who were Chosen to protect this place and earth. You are one of us."
"Who's us?"
"Joe, Mimi, my brother, Sora, Izzy, me, and your brother. And now you."
"That's why you said Tai was your leader?" TK nodded. "How are we supposed to protect the Digital World?"
"With our digimon partners."
"What's a digimon?"
"They're these things that live here. They're like animals. They are our partners and we are bonded to them."
"Where are they?" TK's eye filled with tears. "What's wrong?
He wiped them away. "They're gone. They died six years ago."
"Six years ago?"
"There was this big battle with this guy Myotismon. We had come back to earth to find you, but that had turned out very unsuccessful. And we lost our leader. Matt took over, but we still weren't as strong without Tai; he was our courage. So we fought him with all the strength we had. A year later and most of Odiaba destroyed we won, but our digimon all died. Every one of our partners."
"We never died, TK," a strange little voice said.
TK jumped a foot up in the air. "Aaaaa! Who said that?!" He yelled.
"I did."
TK looked around and then up. It was then he noticed a flying little mouse thing with bat wings on its head. "Patamon? Patamon! Its you!"
"This way everyone!" The thing yelled to the distance before dive-bombing into TK's arms.
"Patamon! Oh my god, I missed you! How'd you get here. You-you died!"
"And I was reborn here in the Digital World."
TK looked up at Kari who was staring at Patamon. "This is my digimon," TK said happily. "His name is Patamon. Patamon, this is Kari. She's the eighth child!"
"Its nice to meet you," Patamon said. Kari smiled in response.
"Are the others digimon alive too?" TK asked.
"They sure are. Here they come now," Patamon replied as he pointed to the direction he had just come from. Both Kari and TK looked in that direction and saw seven little monsters running toward them.
Kari watched in disbelief as each of the monsters gathered around them. A little orange dinosaur, a pink bird, a little plant, a blue dog with a horn in its head, a little bug, a little white seal thing, and last a little white cat with yellow gloves on. "I've met you before," Kari said to the cat.
The small cat smiled a sad smile. "Yep."
"Six years ago?" The cat nodded. "Tai brought you in and I…thought it was a dream."
"I know. I did that so you wouldn't be sad," the cat replied.
"Your Gatomon, right?" The cat nodded and before she knew what was happening Kari scooped her up into a huge hug. Gatomon was shock, but she didn't try to stop her.
"Are our partners here?" The yellow lizard asked. TK nodded. "Then we have to find them! Let's go!" The other digimon pulled Kari and TK off the ground and forced them to lead the way.
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Sorry this took so long to get out! I'm dealing with major writer's block and I have no idea what I'm going to do with this fic! Please R/R!!!!