Dancing in the Dark
By: Tai Chick
Part 5 : Awakening
The cold wind beat fiercely on Daisuke's back as he ran to Ken's house. Chibimon would be there. He needed to talk to his Digimon before he did anything else. If anyone would understand, he would. Or he would at least he would force himself to.
"Oh god...what have I done?" Daisuke keep asking himself. He has managed to fall. He had fallen and stood against his friends. There was no forgiveness for that.
"Daisuke!" came the familiar high pitched voice of Chibimon, who was standing on the sidewalk meir feet in front of him. "You came back!"
Tears threatened to fall from Daisuke's cheeks as he beheld the image of little Chibimon being bombarded by rain drops and running toward him. Nothing he could have done would stop the unconditional love of his Digimon.
"I'm so sorry." He gasped when Chibimon jumped into his arms.
"`S okay. You came back...it's all that matters." the small Digimon stated wisely. "You came back."
"I've done horrible things..." Daisuke insisted, not quiet believing that Chibimon would forgive him so easily.
"So fix them. Fix them and be our leader again." He smiled. "We all need you."
The tears were falling now.
~*~*~
Ken awoke the next morning with only one Digimon in his arms. "Chibimon?" He questioned frantically. "Where are you?"
"He's gone Ken." Minomon said. "He's with Daisuke now. I just know it."
Ken closed his eyes. "Then I guess that we have one more enemy."
"Maybe not...Daisuke could still come back, you did."
"I don't want to hear anything about...about *him*!" Ken cried suddenly, lashing out and throwing a lamp from his desk. The crash was a lot louder than he anticipated.
"Ken? Honey are you okay in there?" His mother asked a second later from outside his door.
Steadying his breath he forced an answer. "I'm okay Mama, just knocked over the lamp, gomen."
"Okay...some of your friends are here to see you. Would you like to see them...?"
"Yes mama, you can send them in."
It was quiet for a moment and Ken's mother's footsteps could be heard going down that hallway.
"You can't stay mad forever Ken...you need to let it out."
"Don't tell me what..." But that was all he could get out before the door opened and Miyako, Iori, Takeru and Hikari walked through.
"Hi Ken." Miyako said brightly. "We've got some good news."
"Oh yeah?"
"Koushirou says that he found a way to stop the corrupted Digimon." Hikari continued.
"There's only one problem." Iori announced.
"We have to find each and every corrupted Digimon and used this override code on them...That's a lot of Digimon to find." Takeru finished up.
Ken rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "There has to be a central point of power...someplace where they have been corrupting a lot of Digimon at once. If we could find that, then we could shut their operation down in a hurry.
"Well let's go to the Digital World at see what we can do." Miyako suggested.
"Right." Ken followed the others toward his computer, just glancing at Minomon who was frowning and shaking his head. Ken didn't want to think about that. He had a focus...he didn't want to think about anything else.
~*~*~
"It's there." Daisuke whispered to Veemon as they looked at the Primary Village through some tall grass.
"That's just sick." Veemon spat. "Their *baby* Digimon...they haven't even had a chance to live yet!"
"Shhhhh, I know. That's why we're going to shut this down.
"How?"
"We're going to have to destroy Sealya...that's the only way." He snapped his goggles onto his head where they belonged. "And we'll do it for all the Digimon she's hurt!"
"That's the Daisuke I know!" Veemon exclaimed gleefully.
Daisuke grinned. "You can't get rid of me that easily. Come on, there's a hiding place we used to use around here, we'll go there and figure out what to do next."
Sinking into the background as quietly as possible, they headed toward the hiding spot. When they got there, something Daisuke hadn't deemed possible happened. The other Chosen Children were standing right in front of him.
No matter how much he meant to do good, it didn't matter. He had still fallen, and he couldn't face them.
"Daisuke, what's wrong?" Veemon whispered, "Go talk to them."
"I-i-i can't..."
"Ah...so here you are Daisuke..." Came a chillingly familiar voice, the voice of Sealya. From right behind him.
~*~*~
The reaction was instantanious. All of the chosen Children turned their heads in Daisuke's direction, shocked at the fact that he had been there.
"So Daisuke," Sealya prompted. "You've been spying on the Chosen Children for me have you?"
"Of-of course Sealya. I thought it best if you know exactly what they have been up to…and what better person to do it that me?"
"Traitor." Iori hissed.
Sealya got an amused look on her face. "Good cover story Daisuke…if I was anyone else, but I know that you're lying."
'Lying?' Ken thought to himself. 'Could it be…?'
"I've taken the liberty of punishing you." Sealya said, and Hotaru abruptly appeared, tied and gagged.
"Hotaru!" Daisuke exclaimed. "Let her go!"
"Conspiring against me Daisuke!? I have a penalty for that! Let's see if you'll ever meet your little friend again! You forget that I can see all! That I know all!" And with that she took off in the dirrection of the primary village, with Hotaru in tow.
"Veemon!" Daisuke cried. "Digivolve and get ready to destroy her! Do your best to keep Hotaru safe!" Blood pumped through his ears and he was sweating before anything had begun. This was going to be their toughest battle yet. He suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder.
"I think it would be best if we joulgrest evolved…Pyildramon is stronger than X-Veemon alone."
Daisuke looked at Ken in shock. He really trusted him that much to evolve with him again…Maybe things would be the same again after all.
"All right you heard him Veemon!"
"We'll all help." Miyako added, shooting a smile at Ken that caused Daisuke's stomach to plummet.
"Wait!" Iori cried. "How do we know he's still not working for the enemy?"
Daisuke glanced at the Chosen Children, then in the direction Sealya had dragged Hotaru. "I don't have time for this!" He cried and followed them alone.
Before he had gotten seven feet he looked up to see he was being followed by X-Veemon. "You've been on your own for over a month now, and it nearly destroyed you. I'm not going to let that happen again."
"He's right Daisuke!" Ken cried, whom Stingmon was carrying. "I'm not going to leave you alone either."
"Thanks…a lot…Now let's get the bad guy!"
Arriving at the enterance to Primary Village they found it to be baricated by an army of Digimon.
"Great." Ken grummbled. "Now how are we supposed to find them?"
Daisuke let his eyes flutter shut. "They're in that building." He said at last, pointing to one of the larger buildings at the opposite end of the village."
Ken gave his a strange look. "How do you know?"
"I just do, now how are we supposed to get past all these corrupted Digimon?"
"Why don't we all joulgrest evolve?" Came a voice from behind them. It was Takeru, and he was smiling.
"You'd do that for me?" Daisuke asked, in shock.
"Sure, You're our leader, aren't you? I mean...you're wearing the goggles of the leader of the Chosen Children."
"All right, you guys fight off these Digimon here, I'm going after Sealya."
"I'll come with you." Ken said instantly.
"No Ken, I'm sorry, but this is one last battle that I'm going to have to fight on my own.
~*~*~
While the corrupted Digimon were being distracted by Ken and the others, Daisuke slipped past them all and into the building Sealya and Hotaru had disappeared to.
'Hotaru where are you?' Daisuke called out with his mind, but was only answered with a hollow laugh.
"How touching it is that you decided to come back for your 'one true love'." Sealya's voice said. Daisuke whipped around and she walked into view. Hotaru was still tied and gagged. "I should have learned my lesson. People cannot be trusted. Especially people like you."
"No." Daisuke hissed. "Not people like me, not people like Hotaru...people like you. My friends are outside right now, we're going to defeat you, and soon."
Sealya let her eyes drift closed, just as she had taught Daisuke to do. She saw Hikari and Miyako fighting side by side, as were Takeru and Iori, though Iori seemed a bit reluctant...and Ken was fighting alone, in hopes to get his lover back. Her plan had failed...they, they had an over-ride code! They were setting all her corrupted Digimon free!
"Well if I can't have a place in the real world, or the Digital World, perhaps I should just start over...I'll die here, but I'm taking you and Hotaru with me."
"You wouldn't do that!" Daisuke cried. "You wouldn't kill your own daughter!"
"Oh Daisuke, so nieve you are. Don't you believe in reincarnation? I will come back, and Hotaru after me, she will be my real daughter! And I will raise her correctly from the start!"
"You have a very sick mind."
"Oh do I? Well, I guess that if you believe that so much that we will meet again. Goodbye Daisuke...Say goodbye Hotaru, you two had fun together." And at that the building began to shake as though it would collapse. Sealya pulled both Hotaru and Daisuke under a huge beam that would easily kill all three of them.
Daisuke struggled and fought, the woman was a lot stronger than she looked, but Hotaru seemed to be frozen in shock. She wasn't moving at all.
Sealya seemed to think that she was finally going to accomplish something because there was a grin frozen on her face. Just as the beam was going to fall and kill all of them Hotaru suddenly gave a burst of strength and pulled free of Sealya's grasp. She grabbed Daisuke and threw him out of the way, but not managing to get herself out in time.
Dust and rubble floated around him from all sides. It seemed that the whole building had collapsed. There was absolutely no way out, but he was safe and in tact. He had all the confidence that his friends would find a way to get him out of there.
When the particles had settled Daisuke spotted Hotaru's torso sticking out from a pile of wood, she was still breathing. "Hotaru!" he cried, running to her side and grabbing her hand. "Hang on, you'll be all right."
"You came back for me." She gasped. "You kept your promise."
"Of course I did, I couldn't let anything happen to you. You're my friend, I care about you very much. Are you feeling okay? Does it hurt very much?"
She looked away. "I'm going to die here Daisuke."
"No! No I won't let you die!" And he frantically began to pull rubble off her body, frantically trying to free her small body.
"Shhhh, save your own strength. Sealya is already dead. I'll soon die too."
"But you can't die. Please no..."
"We'll see each other again. I really do believe in reincarnation. I always have. Look for me Daisuke, look for me in a new face. We'll see each other again." She closed her eyes. "Now go to Ken, he's worried about you. And let's forget what happened between us."
"No."
"Promise me! That was a mistake, I took you from him. Now promise me this one last thing! Let me rest peacefully."
The words tasted bitter and foul, but Daisuke spit them out anyway. "I promise."
"Take care Daisuke." And her hand went limp in his.
"HOTARU!!!"
By: Tai Chick
Part 5 : Awakening
The cold wind beat fiercely on Daisuke's back as he ran to Ken's house. Chibimon would be there. He needed to talk to his Digimon before he did anything else. If anyone would understand, he would. Or he would at least he would force himself to.
"Oh god...what have I done?" Daisuke keep asking himself. He has managed to fall. He had fallen and stood against his friends. There was no forgiveness for that.
"Daisuke!" came the familiar high pitched voice of Chibimon, who was standing on the sidewalk meir feet in front of him. "You came back!"
Tears threatened to fall from Daisuke's cheeks as he beheld the image of little Chibimon being bombarded by rain drops and running toward him. Nothing he could have done would stop the unconditional love of his Digimon.
"I'm so sorry." He gasped when Chibimon jumped into his arms.
"`S okay. You came back...it's all that matters." the small Digimon stated wisely. "You came back."
"I've done horrible things..." Daisuke insisted, not quiet believing that Chibimon would forgive him so easily.
"So fix them. Fix them and be our leader again." He smiled. "We all need you."
The tears were falling now.
~*~*~
Ken awoke the next morning with only one Digimon in his arms. "Chibimon?" He questioned frantically. "Where are you?"
"He's gone Ken." Minomon said. "He's with Daisuke now. I just know it."
Ken closed his eyes. "Then I guess that we have one more enemy."
"Maybe not...Daisuke could still come back, you did."
"I don't want to hear anything about...about *him*!" Ken cried suddenly, lashing out and throwing a lamp from his desk. The crash was a lot louder than he anticipated.
"Ken? Honey are you okay in there?" His mother asked a second later from outside his door.
Steadying his breath he forced an answer. "I'm okay Mama, just knocked over the lamp, gomen."
"Okay...some of your friends are here to see you. Would you like to see them...?"
"Yes mama, you can send them in."
It was quiet for a moment and Ken's mother's footsteps could be heard going down that hallway.
"You can't stay mad forever Ken...you need to let it out."
"Don't tell me what..." But that was all he could get out before the door opened and Miyako, Iori, Takeru and Hikari walked through.
"Hi Ken." Miyako said brightly. "We've got some good news."
"Oh yeah?"
"Koushirou says that he found a way to stop the corrupted Digimon." Hikari continued.
"There's only one problem." Iori announced.
"We have to find each and every corrupted Digimon and used this override code on them...That's a lot of Digimon to find." Takeru finished up.
Ken rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "There has to be a central point of power...someplace where they have been corrupting a lot of Digimon at once. If we could find that, then we could shut their operation down in a hurry.
"Well let's go to the Digital World at see what we can do." Miyako suggested.
"Right." Ken followed the others toward his computer, just glancing at Minomon who was frowning and shaking his head. Ken didn't want to think about that. He had a focus...he didn't want to think about anything else.
~*~*~
"It's there." Daisuke whispered to Veemon as they looked at the Primary Village through some tall grass.
"That's just sick." Veemon spat. "Their *baby* Digimon...they haven't even had a chance to live yet!"
"Shhhhh, I know. That's why we're going to shut this down.
"How?"
"We're going to have to destroy Sealya...that's the only way." He snapped his goggles onto his head where they belonged. "And we'll do it for all the Digimon she's hurt!"
"That's the Daisuke I know!" Veemon exclaimed gleefully.
Daisuke grinned. "You can't get rid of me that easily. Come on, there's a hiding place we used to use around here, we'll go there and figure out what to do next."
Sinking into the background as quietly as possible, they headed toward the hiding spot. When they got there, something Daisuke hadn't deemed possible happened. The other Chosen Children were standing right in front of him.
No matter how much he meant to do good, it didn't matter. He had still fallen, and he couldn't face them.
"Daisuke, what's wrong?" Veemon whispered, "Go talk to them."
"I-i-i can't..."
"Ah...so here you are Daisuke..." Came a chillingly familiar voice, the voice of Sealya. From right behind him.
~*~*~
The reaction was instantanious. All of the chosen Children turned their heads in Daisuke's direction, shocked at the fact that he had been there.
"So Daisuke," Sealya prompted. "You've been spying on the Chosen Children for me have you?"
"Of-of course Sealya. I thought it best if you know exactly what they have been up to…and what better person to do it that me?"
"Traitor." Iori hissed.
Sealya got an amused look on her face. "Good cover story Daisuke…if I was anyone else, but I know that you're lying."
'Lying?' Ken thought to himself. 'Could it be…?'
"I've taken the liberty of punishing you." Sealya said, and Hotaru abruptly appeared, tied and gagged.
"Hotaru!" Daisuke exclaimed. "Let her go!"
"Conspiring against me Daisuke!? I have a penalty for that! Let's see if you'll ever meet your little friend again! You forget that I can see all! That I know all!" And with that she took off in the dirrection of the primary village, with Hotaru in tow.
"Veemon!" Daisuke cried. "Digivolve and get ready to destroy her! Do your best to keep Hotaru safe!" Blood pumped through his ears and he was sweating before anything had begun. This was going to be their toughest battle yet. He suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder.
"I think it would be best if we joulgrest evolved…Pyildramon is stronger than X-Veemon alone."
Daisuke looked at Ken in shock. He really trusted him that much to evolve with him again…Maybe things would be the same again after all.
"All right you heard him Veemon!"
"We'll all help." Miyako added, shooting a smile at Ken that caused Daisuke's stomach to plummet.
"Wait!" Iori cried. "How do we know he's still not working for the enemy?"
Daisuke glanced at the Chosen Children, then in the direction Sealya had dragged Hotaru. "I don't have time for this!" He cried and followed them alone.
Before he had gotten seven feet he looked up to see he was being followed by X-Veemon. "You've been on your own for over a month now, and it nearly destroyed you. I'm not going to let that happen again."
"He's right Daisuke!" Ken cried, whom Stingmon was carrying. "I'm not going to leave you alone either."
"Thanks…a lot…Now let's get the bad guy!"
Arriving at the enterance to Primary Village they found it to be baricated by an army of Digimon.
"Great." Ken grummbled. "Now how are we supposed to find them?"
Daisuke let his eyes flutter shut. "They're in that building." He said at last, pointing to one of the larger buildings at the opposite end of the village."
Ken gave his a strange look. "How do you know?"
"I just do, now how are we supposed to get past all these corrupted Digimon?"
"Why don't we all joulgrest evolve?" Came a voice from behind them. It was Takeru, and he was smiling.
"You'd do that for me?" Daisuke asked, in shock.
"Sure, You're our leader, aren't you? I mean...you're wearing the goggles of the leader of the Chosen Children."
"All right, you guys fight off these Digimon here, I'm going after Sealya."
"I'll come with you." Ken said instantly.
"No Ken, I'm sorry, but this is one last battle that I'm going to have to fight on my own.
~*~*~
While the corrupted Digimon were being distracted by Ken and the others, Daisuke slipped past them all and into the building Sealya and Hotaru had disappeared to.
'Hotaru where are you?' Daisuke called out with his mind, but was only answered with a hollow laugh.
"How touching it is that you decided to come back for your 'one true love'." Sealya's voice said. Daisuke whipped around and she walked into view. Hotaru was still tied and gagged. "I should have learned my lesson. People cannot be trusted. Especially people like you."
"No." Daisuke hissed. "Not people like me, not people like Hotaru...people like you. My friends are outside right now, we're going to defeat you, and soon."
Sealya let her eyes drift closed, just as she had taught Daisuke to do. She saw Hikari and Miyako fighting side by side, as were Takeru and Iori, though Iori seemed a bit reluctant...and Ken was fighting alone, in hopes to get his lover back. Her plan had failed...they, they had an over-ride code! They were setting all her corrupted Digimon free!
"Well if I can't have a place in the real world, or the Digital World, perhaps I should just start over...I'll die here, but I'm taking you and Hotaru with me."
"You wouldn't do that!" Daisuke cried. "You wouldn't kill your own daughter!"
"Oh Daisuke, so nieve you are. Don't you believe in reincarnation? I will come back, and Hotaru after me, she will be my real daughter! And I will raise her correctly from the start!"
"You have a very sick mind."
"Oh do I? Well, I guess that if you believe that so much that we will meet again. Goodbye Daisuke...Say goodbye Hotaru, you two had fun together." And at that the building began to shake as though it would collapse. Sealya pulled both Hotaru and Daisuke under a huge beam that would easily kill all three of them.
Daisuke struggled and fought, the woman was a lot stronger than she looked, but Hotaru seemed to be frozen in shock. She wasn't moving at all.
Sealya seemed to think that she was finally going to accomplish something because there was a grin frozen on her face. Just as the beam was going to fall and kill all of them Hotaru suddenly gave a burst of strength and pulled free of Sealya's grasp. She grabbed Daisuke and threw him out of the way, but not managing to get herself out in time.
Dust and rubble floated around him from all sides. It seemed that the whole building had collapsed. There was absolutely no way out, but he was safe and in tact. He had all the confidence that his friends would find a way to get him out of there.
When the particles had settled Daisuke spotted Hotaru's torso sticking out from a pile of wood, she was still breathing. "Hotaru!" he cried, running to her side and grabbing her hand. "Hang on, you'll be all right."
"You came back for me." She gasped. "You kept your promise."
"Of course I did, I couldn't let anything happen to you. You're my friend, I care about you very much. Are you feeling okay? Does it hurt very much?"
She looked away. "I'm going to die here Daisuke."
"No! No I won't let you die!" And he frantically began to pull rubble off her body, frantically trying to free her small body.
"Shhhh, save your own strength. Sealya is already dead. I'll soon die too."
"But you can't die. Please no..."
"We'll see each other again. I really do believe in reincarnation. I always have. Look for me Daisuke, look for me in a new face. We'll see each other again." She closed her eyes. "Now go to Ken, he's worried about you. And let's forget what happened between us."
"No."
"Promise me! That was a mistake, I took you from him. Now promise me this one last thing! Let me rest peacefully."
The words tasted bitter and foul, but Daisuke spit them out anyway. "I promise."
"Take care Daisuke." And her hand went limp in his.
"HOTARU!!!"
