Disclaimer: No matter how much I wish to, I do not own Digimon or any trademark there of. All rights reserved to fox kids and Bandai ENT.
Author's note: This is chapter two of my story. If you read chapter one you will know that Davis has become evil and TK is hurt.
The Dark Flame
Chapter 2: Complete Darkness
The lights flickered in the small hospital room. TK had been unconscious all night, and Kari had fallen asleep by his side. Cody had to go home for his kendo lessons, and Yolei had cried herself to sleep in the waiting room. All the older digidestined were at school. They couldn't concentrate because of the previous night's tragedy. All except Mimi and Joe, who were in America and hadn't heard the awful news yet. Davis had not come home, and everyone assumed he was still somewhere in the Digital World.
TK began to stir as he slowly opened his eyes to find himself in a hospital. He immediately snapped up, not recognizing his surroundings, but then laid back down when he felt the pain in his ribs. This alerted Kari, and she woke up, "TK you are awake," she said, somewhat surprised, and gave him a small kiss, asking, "How do you feel?
"You mean besides the broken ribs, nose, and pride?" TK replied jokingly.
"Oh, you…." Kari said as she bent over to give TK another kiss holding it a little longer this time, "I will be right back. I have to go to tell Yolei that you're awake. She's been worried about you all night." Kari ran out to the waiting room to grab Yolei. TK felt over his body to figure out how sore he was and soon found out when he brushed his hand across a bandage.
Yolei soon came bounding into the room, way ahead of Kari, and nearly collapsed on TK. He grimaced in pain as she caught his ribs with her elbow. "Yolei! P-please, get off!" TK yelled, grabbing his ribs.
"Oh, TK, I'm so sorry," Yolei whimpered apologetically.
"Don't worry about it, Yolei. My ribs were already broken before you pounced on them. You didn't do it. That jerk, Davis, did."
"Well, actually it is my fault."
"What are you talking about, Yolei?"
Yolei was very hesitant to tell TK. She looked over to Kari who was now standing in the corner of the room. Kari gave her an encouraging nod to continue. "I… " Then, to just get over with it, she hurriedly blurted, "I fixed it so that you and Davis would get stuck together. All the slips of paper said "Primary Village," and I made sure Kari, Cody, and I got to pick first." At this point Yolei completely lost control; she burst into tears and fell to her knees. Wiping a tear away she said, "I'm so sorry, I never meant for it to turn out like this. I just wanted you two to get along."
"Honestly, it is all right Yolei. I forgive you."
Right then the nurse came in, "Oh, you're up. I know you were out all night, but you still need to get your rest, so I'm sorry, but your friends will have to leave."
"We understand." Yolie and Kari replied simultaneously.
As Kari was about to walk out the door she turned to TK and mouthed, "I love you."
"I love you too," TK answered with a smile on his face, despite the pain he was in.
"Don't worry; I will be back for your sponge bath," Kari said seductively.
TK began to laugh, but had to stop when the pain from his ribs hit him full force. "Please don't make me laugh like that."
"I'm sorry," she said, still smiling, as she closed the door.
Kari decided to walk home; she had some things she needed to sort out. Why would Davis do this? Aren't we all friends? I guess he always HAS acted a little weird since that day I was dared to kiss him. Was that his first kiss? I feel really sorry for him, but, I'm sorry to say, I don't really care about him in that way. I have to talk to him. Maybe I can snap him out of this. When I get home, I'll go to the Digital World and talk to Davis.
Meanwhile, in the Digital World, Davis was making some discoveries about the world, itself.
"Hey, Veemon, why would Kari do that to me? I thought she loved me," remarked the Dark Davis.
"I don't know, Davis. Probably the same reason Gatomon chose that pig."
"I thought she loved me. Don't worry; I will never become weak like that again because now I have power." He said this, but didn't believe his words because at that very moment, memories of the moment he fell in love with Kari coursed through his mind.
~*Flashback*~
It was two years ago. Davis and Kari were in the fifth grade together. He was playing soccer like he did every recess. There were a couple of people watching the guys play- mostly girls. It was a couple minutes before the bell would ring, the score was tied, and Davis had the ball. For the first time in his life, he was on a breakaway. He put everything he had into the final kick. It whizzed past the goalkeeper.
Davis couldn't believe it; he had actually scored a goal! It was his first one, ever: he was so happy! As he exchanged high-fives from his teammates, a girl came up from behind him and tapped on his shoulder. He turned around to find the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.
Suddenly, she grabbed his face and gave him his first kiss. Afterwards, he managed to find out her name: Hikari. Davis was on cloud nine; he had scored his first goal and had received his first kiss. From that day, he devoted all of his free time to those two causes: soccer and Kari.
~*Flashback End*~
"Then she went and did that to me!" As Davis let his anger out it appeared as if he had made the entire digital world bend at his will.
"Huh?" Veemon turned his red eyes in fearful awe towards his only friend. "D-D-Davis, how did you do that?"
"Actually…." Davis murmured, while looking at his hands as he flexed them: amazed at his newfound power, "actually, Veemon, I don't know. Let me see if I can do it again." He closed his eyes, focusing all of his energy to trying to change the environment again. As he did, the sky grew dark and rain began to pour. "That's more like it."
"Yeah…." Responded Dark Veemon, wonderingly staring at the mystifying events flashing around him.
So the two sat there in the dark rain alone with their thoughts- their hearts plunging farther and farther into the void that could eventually swallow them whole.
Kari arrived home and looked around for anyone home. Good. Everyone is gone. She thought to herself. "Gatomon, no one is home! You can come out!"
"Were in here," Kari's digital partner called from her room.
Kari walked in to see Gatomon curled up on the bed next to Patamon who looked a little like TK: with bandages around his torso. "Awe, isn't this a Kodak moment?" Kari said as she took a picture with her digital camera.
"Shhh! He's finally asleep. You don't know how long it took me to convince him not to go to the hospital. He is such a loyal cutie," Gatomon whispered as she bent down to give him a kiss on the forehead. Patamon's wing stirred slightly. "My little loyal cutie." Gatomon jumped off the bed and turned her attention to Kari. "You look like you have something on your mind. Want to tell me?"
"I've got a plan. Come on; let's go to the Digital World." Kari and Gatomon walked over to the computer "Digi-port open!" A bright light took them into the computer. When they arrived in the Digital World, they noticed something odd: the sky was black, it was raining, and everything seemed lifeless. "Since when has the Digital World looked like this, Gatomon?" Kari questioned.
"I don't know… it's never rained like this before," replied the little cat as she and Kari ran for cover under a tree. "So. What's your plan?"
"This… wait… is that him, over there? DAVIS!!! DAVIS!!" Kari called on the dark silhouette sitting on a rock in the middle of the rain.
Upon hearing the voice of his love, Davis lost his focus on everything bad and went back to his normal, good self. The sky also changed from pitch black to a clear, light blue. Davis ran towards Kari, losing all of marks of his evil self with each step he took.
"Kari!" He grinned, running even faster, "Kari, I knew you would come back! I knew you loved me!"
There was an awkward silence from Kari. Then, as sweetly and delicately as she possibly could, she replied, "No, Davis. That's not why I'm here."
Davis stopped dead in his tracks, confused. "Then why are you here?"
"To tell you that you have to come back, Davis. Come back with us and rejoin the team. They all need you."
"What about you, Kari? Do you need me?"
"Actually, Davis," Kari responded coolly, keeping her unusually short patience with him in check, "TK can take care of me, but Yolei and Cody need you" As she spoke, Kari could see the hate and darkness resurfacing in Davis.
"But the kiss… I… I… I always thought you loved me!"
Her abnormally high-strung temper hit her full-force as she snapped, "I wish I had never accepted that stupid dare! You've done nothing but make my life miserable since the day I accepted that ONE bet!" Kari yelled in an outburst that had been building up for a while. She knew it was mean, but each word was so refreshing to her; like cool water on a hot day.
Davis was crushed. In a flash, the rain was back, as was his dark outfit, "A bet… a bet… I spent the last two years chasing you around because of a dare, and you never told me!? You bitch!"
"Umm… Gatomon he looks pretty mad," Kari whispered to her friend, beginning to regret her cruelty, "You'd better digivolve just in case. Digi-armor energize!"
"Hmm we can do that, too. Right, Veemon?"
"Right. Veemon Dark-Digivolve to…"
"Gatomon Armor-Digivolve to…"
"Sherakunamon, the Knight of Darkness!"
"Nefertimon, the Angel of Light!"
Nefertimon took to the air while Sherakunamon let lose a barrage of Dark Lance attacks. Whenever Nefertimon found an angle, a Dark Lance was always there to deflect her. Finally, as he lost his guard, and Nefertimon managed to find a vulnerable spot behind him.
"Rosetta Stone!" A giant stone was hurled through the sky.
Sherakunamon turned and immediately countered her attack with yet another "Dark Lance!"
The stone was shattered. Now what do I have to do to beat him!? I wish I could become Angewomon!
Meanwhile Davis had approached Kari with an evil grin on his face. Kari slapped him across the face, frantically screeching, "Snap out of it, Davis!" Davis didn't even flinch.
"A mere dare, was it!? How could you?" With that, he closed his fist and gave a hook to Kari's jaw. The Keeper of Light dropped to the ground as blood poured from her torn lip. As he had done with TK, he once again took advantage of the situation and gave a knee to Kari's already bloodied face, breaking her nose.
As a river of blood came from her nose, Kari decided to abandon this battle before she would land in a bed next to TK. "Nefertimon, lets get out of here!" Nefertimon flew over and picked up an almost unconscious Kari.
The two emblems of Light flew away from the dark duo- towards the digiport. Both of them were soaked from the rain. Just as they were about to fly through the screen, an attack hit Nefertimon, and she and Kari fell to the ground. Nefertimon had de-digivolved all the way to Salamon.
Kari had just enough strength to raise her d3 to the screen. Then everything went white and they found themselves back in Kari's room. Tai, who had just got home from soccer practice, saw the two fall into the room from the hallway. He instantly dropped his bags and ran to Kari's side.
"Good god! What happened to you?"
"Davis," Kari managed to whisper coarsely before everything went black.
Tai ran to the phone and dialed 911. Moments later, they were in the hospital. Kari had gotten a bed next to TK.
"I'm sorry, TK, I tried. I thought I could handle him, but he was too strong."
"Don't worry Kari. As soon as we recover, we'll go get Davis… together." TK said as he extended his hand to Kari.
Kari took TK's hand in her own.
"Together."
Back in the Digital World, a Dark Davis stared at the flickering light of the Digiport through which Kari and Salamon had disappeared through only minutes ago. He hadn't uttered a word. It was raining again.
"Good job, buddy," Davis finally said, turning to Dark Veemon. As soon as the light from the TV clicked off, a dark hole opened up in front of Davis. He stared in curiosity as an object came floating out of it. Davis grabbed it and slowly looked it over. Then he showed it to his digimon friend, "What is it?"
"It is a crest… the crest of darkness. I thought it was only a rumor. It is said to be the key to a great power."
Davis laughed evilly. "Perfect. Now no one can stand in our way!" He gripped the crest tighter and it began to rain even harder through out the Digital World.
Back in the hospital, Matt and Tai were in the hall outside of their siblings' room, extremely frustrated at what had happened in the last two days.
"I'll show him he's messed with the wrong guy's sister." Tai said as he punched the wall almost putting a hole through it.
"Taking it out on the wall won't do anything, Tai. I think it is time he learns some respect. It's been a while but lets show him how a true digidestined fights." Matt said as he leaned against the wall.
"Right, lets see what he can do against two Mega level digimon. Izzy figured out away for us to get into the Digiworld. He says he can also do something about our digivolving problem."
"Wait a minute," came a familiar voice. "Do you think I would actually let you two big men go in there all alone after seeing what Davis has done to TK and Kari?"
"Sora!" The two boys exclaimed in unison.
Will Tai, Matt, and Sora be able to defeat Davis? What will Davis use the Crest of Darkness for? What could Izzy have up his sleeve? Find out when The Dark Flame continues in Chapter 3: A Dark Ultimate? Coming soon.
Well that was chapter 2. Let me know what you think; please review. I hope you liked it. Another big thanks to Aurorelite for helping me with the editing. I can write the story but she makes them great.
