And so the odd happenings begin...
"Gatomon?"
Gatomon immediately perked up and then relaxed at Kari's voice. "Yeah?"
"Gatomon, you haven't said anything all morning. What's the matter?" she looked over her shoulder as she walked down the sidewalk.
"Well, it could be that I've been in this cramped backpack for the last twenty minutes!"
"Sorry." Kari giggled.
Gatomon managed to force out a laugh as well. "So, where are we going?"
"T.K. and I are going to a movie. Davis insisted he come along." She sighed.
The digimon cringed at that name. "He's gonna ruin your friendship with T.K. you know."
"I know." She waved to T.K. as he called her from across the street. "Hi, T.K.!"
"Hey Kari! Gatomon. Gatomon?"
"Hm? Oh, heh, T.K.! Hi!" she grinned.
"She's been acting weird all morning." Kari whispered to him.
"I know what'll make her feel better. Hey, look who I found!" he pulled out Patamon and set him in the backpack next to her.
"You didn't find me, T.K.!" he said. "I was with you the whole time! Hi, Gatomon."
"Hi Patamon." She looked off into the distance. "Hey Pata...say...uh...nevermind." she said.
"What is it?" he asked, pushing on of his oversized ear out of his face.
"It's nothing. I just had a weird dream last night."
"Oh." Patamon nodded. "I ate T.K.'s sock."
"Great..." she looked away. Patamon sure can be strange sometimes. She thought.
Oh, don't I know...
Gatomon's eyes lit up. That voice... "What?"
Patamons can be so odd, can't they?
"What is it, Gato?" Kari asked.
She gasped and quickly changed her look of fear into a casual smile. "N-nothing."
Kari and T.K. looked at each other and shrugged. "So where's Davis?" asked T.K.
The two resumed their conversation, but Patamon was still studying Gatomon. "What was that?" he asked.
"What was what?"
"What."
"What?"
"You just said what, but to what?" he blinked.
"Oh...that. I-it was nothing. I thought, uh, that Kari said something. Guess I was wrong."
"Okay."
That's what's so easy about them. So innocent...they'll accept any answer. But we know better, hm...?
Gatomon closed her eyes and buried her face into the backpack. This voice isn't real, this voice is a dream. She continued to repeat to herself.
Aww, don't you wish it were? The voice taunted from inside. And Gatomon suddenly recognized the voice. It was...her own voice? What does it mean? Just like her own, but with the venom it may have carried when her heart had grown cold and hard.
"Who are you?" she spat in frustaration.
"Patamon." The confused digimon beside her said.
"What?" she looked up.
"I'm...Patamon. What's wrong with you?" he put a small hand on her paw.
"Nothing!" she growled. She regret it immediately as Patamon shrunk back. "I'm...sorry." she turned away.
What's this? Apologies? Tsk tsk, what would...Lord Myotismon think of you...?
"No!!!!!!" Gatomon shrieked. She grabbed her head and fell backwards onto the cement, and all went black. The last thing she heard was Kari screaming her name.
"Gatomon?" Gatomon heard a voice calling her. The blackness began to fade, and yellow blob appeared in front of her.
"A...Agumon?" she said dizzily.
"What happened?" asked Tai as he hovered over her.
"I-I don't know. We were just walking and she...she..." Kari was still confused and near tears.
"Speak to me, Gatomon!" Veemon said as he knelt down over her.
"Back off, man, she's awake." Said Tai.
"W-what happened?" she asked, trying to sit up.
Gabumon pushed her back down. "Kari brought you to the digital world after you fell."
"All better." Came Joe's voice from behind. She felt him tug at something on her head and realized her head was bandaged. "She just took a bad fall, that's all."
"But why?" asked Gomamon as he peered down into Gatomon's eyes. "She looks awful, Joe."
"I don't know what happened." Said Patamon. "She just screamed and...hit the ground."
Gatomon spat the stale taste of blood from her mouth. "What happened, Gatomon?" asked Biyomon as she looked at her friend.
"I...I don't know."
"Just take it easy, Gatomon." Said Gomamon, patting her shoulder with a flipper.
With a sigh, she leaned back and closed her eyes. Where was the awful voice coming from? It was all happening too fast. Maybe she just needed some time off. "Thanks, Joe." She said. But the moment she closed her eyes, she saw a shattered digiegg. Her digiegg, and a set of bloody, silver, claws. She screamed.