"I can't believe it!" cried Tai. "I just can't believe it!"
"What's wrong Tai?" asked Sora, after sipping
her tea. Tai thrust the newspaper at
her.
"Read." He demanded. Sora picked up her reading glasses, held up the newspaper and
read out loud,
"Mysterious cloaked figure found roaming the
streets, viewers say he just appeared in the middle of the crowd, started
walking and disappeared. So
Tai? What's wrong about that?"
"Well DUH!" exclaimed Tai. "The mysterious cloaked figure could be a
digimon!" Sora took off her reading
glasses and looked at Tai.
"A digimon?
It's been… 5 years since I've seen one, or even heard about one." She
said thoughtfully. Tai nodded and
looked out of the blinds covering the windows to his apartment. "You really don't think it could be one, do
you?"
"I don't know…" Tai confessed, and then he drew
in some breath. "There he is!" Sora sat up straight immediately, then got
up to see.
"You're right!"
Down on the streets, was walking a figure with a dark cloak flowing behind
him. "But… what if we're wrong?" she
asked.
"How many people do you know who go around
looking like that?" Tai hissed in her ear. She sighed.
"I suppose you're right." Tai moved away from the windows and opened
his door so quickly Sora almost missed his actions. "Tai? What are you
doing?" He looked at her with
determination on his face. She
understood immediately. "Tai! Don't!"
She cried out but he was out the door.
She turned back out the window to watch, and soon saw Tai's tiny figure
going after the cloaked person. It
happened so suddenly, that Sora ran outside before she could even scream.
"… and so I said to him, 'Golly you're SO
immature Davis, I mean, of COURSE he'd let me stay over, being the beautiful
girl I am.' And then HE told me to buzz of and get a zit, and I bet he's
BEWITCHED Matt, last time he told me to get a zit, I woke up with one the size
of Mt. Everest on my chin! Can you
believe that? Oh, and there was this
time when…" Jun babbled on. Matt was
pretending to look interested without screaming, but then the newspaper caught
his eye.
"What the…" he muttered, so Jun wouldn't be
bothered. He picked up the front page
that was spread out on his coffee table and read to himself, Local Boy
Killed On The Streets. Matt read
on. "A local boy was running on the
sidewalk, apparently chasing someone, and was found a moment or two later on
the ground, killed by a dagger. The
boy's name was Tai Kamiya…" Matt whispered under Jun talking. Then it hit him. "TAI KAMIYA! Sorry Jun
got to go, bye!" he rushed out quickly,
grabbed his coat and left Jun sitting down in his apartment. He ran down the streets to a payphone
(because he didn't want Jun to overhear) and tried calling his friends. No one was home. "WHAT!? How can no one be
home?" He slammed his fist on a wall, but then coolly brushed his hair back in
one hand. "I might as well cool my
temper, maybe I'll go swimming. He went
back to his apartment, double-checked to be sure Jun had gone, then went inside
to change into his swimsuit. Then he
got his goggles, went into his car and drove to the nearest lake.
His
favorite lake was murky, but not littered.
He loved to swim there. He took
off his clothes (he had the swimsuit on under it, stop drooling girls), put on
the goggles and walked into the water.
The seaweed at the bottom slipped between his toes, but, he thought to
himself, that was better than listening to Jun. He got fully in and started to swim. His favorite thing to do was the dead man's float, so he could
see the bottom of the lake. All of a
sudden, the seaweed started swaying unusually fast, the water was parting, and
before Matt could escape it, the hand clamped over his nose and mouth, and
dragged him deeper under water.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
screamed Mimi as she picked up the newspaper.
Her cat jumped, the glass in her hand fell and shattered, the neighbors
quickly ran to her room to see what was the matter.
"Neighbor
crying, why mommy why?" asked the little boy, Jon to his mother Cindy. Cindy herself wanted to know so she went to
Mimi and tried to comfort her, but Mimi couldn't stop.
"Matt…
no… can't be… NO!" she wailed. Cindy
caught a glimpse of the newspaper in her lap and saw the article with the boy
named Matt. She frowned, remembering
her husband's own death by drowning.
She patted Mimi on the shoulder, and Jon was chasing Mimi's cat. "I'll be ok… just need some fresh air…
that's all…" she lightly pushed Cindy away, and patted Jon's head, then she
walked out of her apartment, downtown into her favorite park, where she and
Matt used to hang out. Her tears
stained her jeans seeing how she was looking down. A leaf fell down in her lap, she looked up, something was hanging
down from a branch and grabbed her neck…
"NOT
MIMI NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" cried Sora, who had been
suffering each time she picked up the newspaper. She never really forgave herself for what happened to Tai, and
she looked like she had been up every night since what happened. First, Tai got stabbed, then Matt got
drowned, and now Mimi had been strangled to death. If Sora had been dumb, she wouldn't have realized, she was
next. She took precautions. She closed her shades, and locked her
door. She sat in the middle of her
couch, and turned on the TV. The news
was reporting three mysterious deaths of young adults, she turned off the TV
quickly. Nothing could relax her. What made her more tense was footsteps… in
her hallway. She hugged her legs and
held her breath. The door handle was
rattling, someone was trying to open it.
Sora could almost hear her heart beating, and all of a sudden, the
rattling stopped. She let out her
breath, but quickly gathered it in. She
remembered, her door opened silently!
The intruder could be in her house!
She felt weak, a strange gas was in the air, but she couldn't smell it,
she just felt the effects. Her breath
became deeper, she was losing oxygen, and right before she collapsed to the
floor, one thought came to her… carbon monoxide…
"That's
odd, very odd…" Joe thought out loud, he was working at the hospital and was
trying to conclude HOW she could have been killed by carbon monoxide, unless
someone had physically put it there, there was no possible way for some to get
in her house. The police had concluded
that her shades were closed and her door had apparently been locked, a bent-up
clothes hangar was found next to the door.
He rubbed his right temple, he was getting a headache. He went to the medicine cabinet, got the
aspirin, but felt like he was being watched.
He shrugged off the feeling (surprising for Joe huh?) and took a
pill. It seemed a bit wet when her
reached in the bottle, and a bit discolored, but he thought little of it. He coughed as it went down his throat, and
looked in the bottle, it had green potion in it and aspirin was just put in it,
and the sticker on front was peeling off.
He ripped it off and saw the 6 letter word he was dreading… poison!
"How
peculiar… first Tai, then Matt, Mimi, Sora, and now Joe. Someone, or something, is after the
digidestined… I wonder who…" Izzy thought out-loud, when he read the past few
days articles about the murders of his friends. The main thing was, he would be attempted to be killed too,
sometime… maybe now… he was startled by a phone ringing. He picked it up. "Hello?"
"Izzy? This is Ken…" said the voice. Something was strange, it sounded like Ken
only a deeper voice… "I need to talk to you." He continued. Izzy snapped back to reality.
"What
about?" The breathing on the other end
got deeper.
"About…
the killings… but I can't talk here, meet me somewhere! The nearest park!" Ken seemed urgent.
"Sure,
but…" Izzy stopped when he heard a slight 'click' and silence. Something was odd about Ken…
When
Izzy was at his meeting place for Ken, he sat down and started reading a
book. It was a pretty neat book, it was
short (for him) but VERY good. It was
called "Deadly Deceptions" (that's a real book) and he was nearing the
end, where the main character and her boyfriend was stranded on an island, and
Ashlyn's (the main character) mother had put drugs in the food, and they
couldn't get off the island. Izzy was
on the edge of the seat, reading on.
Then a man with blue hair and glasses went in front of Izzy.
"Excuse
me sir, would you like to try a sample of my cheese?" Without replying, Izzy
just grabbed a sample and shoved it in his mouth, without taking his eyes off
the book. He swallowed slowly, because
in the book, Ashlyn just found that the radio line on her boat had been cut by
her 'mother' because she really wasn't.
Izzy didn't see the blue-haired man smile… wickedly. Izzy felt weakness pass over him, the book
in his hand dropped, he felt dizzy and cold… oh HOW could he have been so
dumb! He was supposed to be on the
watch for the killer, and he'd been right in front of his face! Now Izzy would die!
TK
slammed his fist on the counter. "I
CAN'T BELIEVE IT! Who could want to kill
us?" Kari put her hand on his shoulder.
"It's
ok TK, we'll probably find out soon enough." Kari reassured him. TK wasn't so sure. Something was connected between everything, all the articles of
his friend's deaths were spread out on his counter, but he couldn't get any
clues, newspapers always leave out important facts. He was still baffled by the sudden deaths, and Kari saw that on
his face. She hugged him, and smiled. "It's not that bad, we still have them in
our hearts." TK had to smile, when Kari
smiled, you couldn't frown.
"You're
right." He put her arm around her. He
reached over with his free hand to turn on the radio, and it happened to be the
flashback-to-80's part of the day, so he turned it off, and turned on the TV. The news was on, talking about how toys for
infants can be dangerous. Kari and TK
had so much fun laughing at their reasons for thinking that, that they didn't
see a gloved hand reach in the open window, and drop in 2 rattlesnakes. The slithering of the snakes were so silent,
but as soon as the rattle shook, Kari and TK sensed trouble, but rattlesnakes
in the house? It wasn't likely. So they ignored it, not realizing the
danger. Only until a scaly body laid at
the bottom of their shoes did they really scream. Soon, a sharp piercing pain hit their legs…
It
was at Ken's house the next day, where the rest of the digi-destined were
meeting, was Davis TRULY annoying above everything.
"I
CAN'T BELIEVE KARI'S DEAD! THE DOCTORS
SAID SHE MIGHT LIVE! THEY DIDN'T EVEN
TRY! AND NOW SHE'S GONE! FOREVER!
DEAD!
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
he was crying… as if that wasn't new ever since the newspaper arrived… which
was over 5 hours earlier. Yolei was
going over the cause of each death, Cody was wearing earmuffs to block out
Davis, and Ken was looking out the window.
"I
think this is all connected… like there's a reason." Said Yolei.
"WHAT?"
shouted Cody, barely removing the earmuffs to hear Yolei.
"Of
course it is." Said Ken simply. Yolei
and Cody looked at him suspiciously.
"Oh? And do you happen to know who it is?" Yolei
replied, in a rather snobby way. Ken
simply stared out the window, ignoring her.
"Well?" Ken pressed his lips
together, as if trying to keep whatever he was going to say inside. Yolei was losing her temper at his silence,
and Cody was confused. Then, 3 loud
knocks were heard outside the door.
Suddenly, Ken freaked out, shoved a pillow in Davis's mouth, and pushed
them down to lay on the floor.
"Say
nothing at all." Hissed Ken. A deep
voice boomed outside Ken's room.
"KEN! I know you're in there! You can't hide your friends from me!" it
shouted. Ken breathed heavily. The knocking came louder, and louder, Ken
thought he'd break the door down. Ken
was half right, a large hole soon appeared through the door, caused by a hand
covered by a black glove. The hand
withdrew, and returned with a gun. Ken
heard 3 shots, and he was the only one in the room left breathing. The doorknob turned, and a figure walked
in. Ken was surprised… he was right…
the killer was…
"Sam…"
he whispered out loud.
Sam
smiled. "Ah, you did recognize my
letters to you."
"It's
kind of hard to forget a distinct hand writing like yours, especially when you
happen to be my brother." Ken replied harshly.
"What's
wrong, Ken?" Ken winced at the firmness of his voice. "Aren't you even going to ask why I'm here? After all, I DID die…" Sam spoke evilly. Ken said nothing. "I might as well tell you anyway, it might be the last thing you
hear from me…" Ken rushed forward to
attempt to strike his brother, but Sam grabbed a whip and whipped Ken across
his cheek. Ken fell back and touched
the cut in pain.
"That's…
that's my whip…" Ken whispered. Sam
shook his head.
"Silly
Ken, this is MY whip, when you were the Digimon Emperor, I felt happy,
enraptured, and so, I left you my whip.
A pity it was when you left it behind, it's still where you left it, I'm
waiting for you to join me in ruling, unless you're TRULY good, then I'll be
forced to kill you like your friends.
I'm sorry, that's the way it goes." Sm chuckled, and then regained his
ice-cold gaze. "So, back on the subject
on why I didn't die… if you remember, I had a digivice, like you, and it wasn't
the first time I had seen one, on my very first birthday, I stumbled upon one
while crawling around, and got sent to the digiworld, and there, I was
"adopted" by the evil back then, which was Piedmon. 'Every time,' he said, "you get hurt, you won't be, I'll keep a
copy of you here, to replace your worthless body on Earth, and when you die in
the real world, you'll get one more chance with your double.' Of course, back then, I had no idea what he
was talking about, so I just smiled and giggled, being a baby of course, and he
sent me back. I still had forgotten
what he said, until I was old enough to read and understand people, he e-mailed
me and reminded me, so, when I died, I really didn't. But, if this body fails me, I will be dead for real.
"Honestly
Sam! You sound so serious, 'When my
body on Earth died…' 'If this body fails me…' you really don't sound like when
you used to! You used to laugh about
anything!" Ken screamed. Sam struck him again on the cheek, and Ken fell
silent.
"Used
to, Ken, used to… I also used to have 1 normal self, I used to be
mom and dad's favorite, I also used to be the nice guy, not anymore."
Sam muttered.
"I
want to kill you… but…"
"But
what Ken? Too afraid, seeing how I'm
your brother? Also, I killed your
friends, that's also probably why you're stalling, you're not sure if you're
friends would agree, am I right?… Ken?" Sam said "Ken" as if he were
daring his brother to speak. Ken really
didn't know what to do. All this time…
Sam had been alive… When Ken was the Digimon Emperor, Sam had been watching
him, in hope that one day he'd turn evil… if he fought Sam, he would be
evil because he'd be killing his own
brother, and if he joined Sam, he'd be evil again, and if he did nothing, Sam
would kill him. Each choice had a
downside, and Ken couldn't decide. "Come
on Ken, what's your choice?" Ken
thought quickly in his head, that, even if he did kill Sam, this Sam was a
copy, a double, it wasn't his brother, his brother wasn't this evil…
"YOU
ARE NOT MY BROTHER!" yelled Ken, he picked up the gun his brother had used to
kill Yolei, Cody, and Davis, he aimed it at Sam's head. "MY BROTHER WASN'T LIKE THIS!" and so saying this, Ken fired the gun, 3
times, dropped the gun quickly, Sam slumped to the ground, and died. Ken looked horrified at the gun, then the
body at his feet. "What have I
done? I'm… I'm a murderer…" he
muttered. He walked out of his bedroom,
and ran to the nearest graveyard. He
kneeled in front of the grave that read, "Sam Ichijoji" and Ken stayed there,
kneeling, until his parents came with the police.
