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Born of Angels
This is the sequel to Kari's Secret or a Forgotten Past, whichever title you prefer.
Andie didn't fight with Ken. She accepted she was going to die. He bound and gagged her anyway. He had led her out of the black room, out of the castle, and now they were walking toward so unknown location. There was one more Destiny Stone to destroy, that was it. One more till she died; it would be over then.
They walked through the DigiWorld in silence. The little parade of his minions with her and Ken at the front. Ken was probably thinking about whom he would kill once he was done with her. She could only guess what other devious things ran through his mind.
They stopped in front of the opening of a cave. He glanced around before shoving her in. His minions followed, protecting him and supporting him. And worse of all, Gatomon was there, beside Andie; the small cat was under Ken's control. There was a black ring wrapped around her tail, causing her eyes to glow red and keep a sharp claw ready to strike.
They walked through the long cave. The only sounds were footsteps echoing off the cave walls. "Stop," Ken ordered. They did. There was an opening a few feet ahead. He approached it, pulling Andie along with him. They looked through the opening.
Inside was a giant cavern that dropped fifty feet below and a hundred feet above. Ken looked around, studying every bit of the cavern. Andie stared forward, disconnected. He pushed her and she fell and landed on her butt before sliding straight down the sloped cavern. She let out a small "oaf" as she hit the cavern floor.
Ken jumped and slid down on his feet, "surfing" the cavern side. When he got to the bottom he pulled Andie up to her feet. "Torturing you like this isn't as fun as I expected." He studied her face. "I suppose its because you look too much like your mother. Yes, that's it. I had a sort of lust for her. Did you know that? No, I suppose you didn't. Why would you? I doubt Hikari would tell you about how she willingly came to me. And how she kissed me, a kiss warm and loving. What about how she almost killed both your uncles and your father to be with me? Did she tell you that?"
She mumbled something through the gag. He pulled it off to hear her speak. "You lying son of a bitch! Don't talk about my mother like that! She never loved you! She-she couldn't of!"
"But she did. She loved me while I lusted after her for a few days. Then she killed me, that bitch. Your damn father too. I must admit she was a wonderful kisser. Delicious." He grinned evilly. Andie fought the restraints to no avail. "What about you?" He asked, catching her off guard. Then he grabbed her face roughly and kissed her. She fought, but he deepened the kiss.
Finally he let go and she coughed for air. She felt disgusted and violated. "I must admit, your much better then your mother. Hika-chan just didn't do it for me, I guess."
"You bastard."
He slapped her across the face. By now the rest of his minions had come into the cavern. He looked at them then back at Andie. "Look around you. All of these digimon have come to see your death. They all want to see you die. Give us a good show. All we've seen is your distant exterior. Show us the little girl cowering on the inside. Maybe a little less fight. Beg for pity. Cry," he taunted. "Show your fear."
"I don't fear you. I fear death."
"I am death."
"No, your darkness. They are two different things. Death is loneliness. Death is depression and sadness. I fear death; not you."
"You're smarter than you look," he said. "For an idiot." He turned her around and pointed across the cavern.
There it was. The Destiny Stone of Hope and Light. It looked like a giant, beautiful crystal. It was clear with ghostly rainbow colors sliding through it. "I am to destroy that?"
"And then die."
Something caught Andie's eye over to the other side of the cavern. It was a large dark stone that looked like a giant lump of charcoal. "Is that the Stone Of Darkness?" She asked.
He looked at her. "Yes, but don't try to destroy it. There is a shield protecting it. My men set it up before we came."
Andie studied it. She could see light glinting off the shield covering the front, but none on the side. She looked back at the Stone of Hope and Light. It gave her an idea. No matter what she was going to die, but she might be able to get Ken in the process.
"You want to hear me beg and plead for something?" Andie asked Ken. He looked amused. "Let me talk to Gatomon. Take that damn ring off and stop controlling her. Let me talk to her. I-I want to give her a message, j-just in case she ever sees my mother again." Andie broke down into fake tears. "Just five minutes, alone, to tell her goodbye."
"Done," Ken replied. He snapped his fingers and the black tail ring on Gatomon loosened. Her eyes stopped glowing red. The black clamp that held Andie's hands behind her back disappeared. "I have power of all her attacks, nothing else. Take her over there; I won't listen. You have my word."
Andie held out her arms and Gatomon jumped into them. They walked over to the other side of the cavern and Andie set her down and knelt down to meet her intense eyes. "Goodbye Gatomon," she whispered.
"Oh Andie, I'm so sorry," the cat cried, eyes filling with tears.
"Don't cry. I'm not scared anymore. I have courage, l-like Uncle Tai," she replied. She didn't know where that had come from. "I have a plan. I'm going to take Ken out."
"How?"
"Do you see how the shield only protects the Black Stone from front attacks?" Gatomon nodded. "Well, if I hit the Stone of Hope and Light just right some of the attack will ricochet and I can hit it. I can take it out, I know it."
"Andie, you only have one chance and even if you do it you still die."
"So? Ken will be dead, that's all that matters. Fifteen minutes ago I was scared to death of this moment. But he has insulted my pride, my parents, and killed everything I have left in me! He will pay! I'm not afraid of dying. I actually welcome it at this point. I don't want to do this anymore. I'm tired and I want to give up, but he took away my life and my parents! He's going to pay." She hugged the cat. "Thank you for what you did. Cleaning me up in the castle, giving me hope my mother was alive. T-tell my parents that I love them. And if you can tell Sora and Matt, my mama and papa, that I was brave and I love them more then anything in the world. Tell them I'm sorry for fighting with them. Goodbye." Andie brushed away her tears.
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"Can you feel her yet? Or Ken?" Matt asked TK and Kari. Both of them shook their heads sadly.
"Wait, I think I know where Ken and Andie might be. Think about it. He's been having her destroy Destiny Stones. He's going to make her destroy the Stone of Hope and Light! Do you remember where it is?"
"Sure." Matt snapped his fingers and they were standing in front of a cave. "In there. Hopefully we're not too late."
Kari took off into the cave. TK and Matt followed her as closely as they could. She was an extremely agile woman.
There was another opening at the end. Kari stopped only to have TL and Matt slam into her. She would have fallen if TK hadn't wrapped his arms around her waist. "Thanks," she whispered.
"My god," Matt whispered. "There has to be at least fifty digimon here."
"Look, Gatomon," TK whispered.
"And Patamon," Kari added.
"Gabumon and Agumon," Matt bit his lip.
"We lost Gabumon, but Agumon has been keeping tabs on him. Patamon's a spy. Gatomon disappeared a long time ago," TK said.
"Gatomon has been with me," Kari explained. "But Ken caught her. Do you see Andie?"
"There," TK pointed. Andie stood beside Ken. Although her face was pale her eyes showed no fear. Instead there was a look of determination and hope in her bright blue eyes. A sort of light TK had not seen in a long time.
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"Destroy it!" Ken ordered.
Andie looked at him contemplating if she could pull this off. 'No fear, no pain, no darkness,' she told herself. "No regrets," she whispered as she socked Ken in the jaw.
Two mojimon ran up and grabbed her arms and held them behind her back. She held a sad smirk on her face. "You have no fear, do you?" Ken questioned. "I hate you. Destroy the destiny stone or I will have my minions beat you into submission!"
She pulled away from the mojimon. She held up her hands and aimed best she could. Then she let all her power go. Instantly, as a white ball of light sailed at the Stone of Hope and Light, she felt drained and slumped to the floor.
The light hit the beautiful crystals with a devastating crack. The crystal absorbed the light and nothing happened for a moment. "No," Andie shook her head. "Let go of the blast," she begged as the crystal began to break apart. "Please."
The crystal broke and a blast of light flew from the stone and at the huge lump of charcoal on the other side of the cavern. It broke instantly and black rocks rained on Andie.
"I did it," Andie whispered. She didn't smile or get up. Her eyes shot towards Ken. He had paled. Andie forced herself up on unsteady feet.
"You had that planned, didn't you?" He asked as he felt his body tire.
"Pretty good, for an idiot," she retorted. She pushed him to the floor. "Guess what Ken, I beat you! I did it! I destroyed you, me!" She eyed him fiercely. "Maybe you were right. Before, that is. Maybe I am no better then you. I killed you. But I guess that's just how things work."
"Help me!" Ken yelled at his digimon slaves. But then he saw it. Their eyes stopped glowing red. No one moved. Wormmon stepped forward. "Wormmon, my partner, my friend."
The green worm moved past Ken and stood beside Andie. "No."
"Its over, Ken," Andie replied. With that Ken slumped to the ground.
"Is he dead?" Wormmon asked.
"Yeah," Andie replied.
"Andie! Look." Andie jerked her head to where Gatomon was pointing. She saw a smoky darkness rising from the remains of Ken's stone.
"That can't be good," she mumbled to herself. "Everybody get out of here! Back toward the entrance."
Every single digimon ran for the exit. Matt, TK, and Kari tried to get to Andie, but the mob knocked them back.
Andie waited, making sure everyone was out. Now only Gatomon, Wormmon and a brown and white flying rodent digimon stood with her. "Let's go," Andie said to them. The rodent flew above them. Andie picked up Wormmon and Gatomon jumped on her back. Andie attempted to climb the steep incline, but she didn't have enough strength to grip the rocks or pull herself up.
"Where are you going, little one?" A deep voice asked.
Andie looked back. The smoke was talking to her. "Gatomon, Wormmon go," she whispered.
"Andie, I can't leave you," Gatomon argued.
"GO!" Andie urged.
"Stay and play with me, little one." The smoke formed a thing that looked like a Chinese dragon. "I am Dark Azulonmon."
"Patamon," Gatomon called the thing floating above them. It landed beside her. "We have to protect Andie."
Patamon looked at the worn out girl who had defeated Ken. "Why?"
"She's Kari and TK's daughter. That's why."
Suddenly a blast shot from Dark Azulonmon. It hit the entrance and created a dark force field. Matt, TK, and Kari got to it, but couldn't get through.
Andie's legs felt weak. They failed her and she collapsed to the ground. "I couldn't have died instantly, could I?" She forced, painfully. Her breathing was shallow and labored.
"I suppose I should thank you, Light," Dark Azulonmon said, addressing her. "You took care of Ken for me. Now all I have to do is get rid of you and the world is mine. Stupid Ken, boy of darkness. He thought I was helping him when I sent messages in his mind. It was all for myself."
"Andie, make Patamon and me digivolve," Gatomon whispered.
Andie fished the Digivice out of her pocket. "How?"
"Just say 'DigiVolve'!" Patamon answered.
Andie held up the digivice. "Digivolve."
"Gatomon digivolve to…"
"Patamon digivolve to…"
"Angewomon!"
"Angemon!" Andie's eyes widened as she stared at the two angels. "Say it again!" Angemon ordered.
"DIGIVOLVE!"
"Angemon digivolve to…MagnaAngemon!"
Andie stared at the two angels. "Please don't get hurt! Not on my account," she prayed.
"You're going to fight me?" Dark Azulonmon asked. "Your power doesn't even measure to half of mine!"
"Celestial Arrow," Angewomom called out.
"Hand of Fate!" MagnaAngemon screamed.
The two attacks hit Dark Azulonmon. He growled in pain, but he didn't appear to be hurt other than that. "This isn't good," Andie whispered.
"Andie, make me digivolve too," Wormmon begged.
"Can I do that? Your Ken's."
"You can make any digimon digivolve. You'd need Ken's digivice though." Andie nodded. She pulled herself to Ken's still form, legs still not working. She pulled Ken's dark digivice off his belt. A pain surged through her arm and she dropped it. It clattered to the floor.
"Andie, pick it up!" Wormmon ordered.
"I-I can't," she replied as she held her arm. "It hurts too much." She glanced up to see the angel's fighting a losing battle. She picked up the digivice, despite the pain. "Digivolve!"
"Wormmon digivolve to Stingmon!" A huge bug appeared in the air. "Spiking Strike!" He hit Dark Azulonmon.
The battle raged on, but it still wasn't a fair fight on Andie's side. Stingmon fell. Then Angewomon. And finally MagnaAngemon fell a few feet away from Andie. Dark Azulonmon faced her. "That was fun, but now I have to deal with you." She cowered back. "God's Fury!"
The attack sailed at Andie and hit her. It was the most horrific pain she had ever felt in her life. Her body burned and her mind stopped working.
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Kari and TK watched as their daughter was hit by Dark Azulonmon's attack. Kari's tear streaked face paled as she watched Andie fall back and her pale face turn an ashen color. She pressed against the force field. "No, get up," she begged. TK wrapped his arms around her waist and pressed his face into her shoulder. Right now he needed something to hold on to. Matt turned away.
Kari gripped TK's hands and closed her eyes. TK looked up from her shoulder and watched her pale face.
A small ball of light appeared before the two. It penetrated the black force field and landed on Andie's motionless chest. It entered her and she disappeared into a bright light.
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Andie's mind began working again. Her body stopped burning in pain. She felt herself lift off the dirt floor, but she had no control of herself.
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Dark Azulonmon watched the young girl he had killed. She had given off a soft glow that had escalated into a painful light. The light had begun to move. It was now twenty feet in the air, facing him. The light began to recede into a small orb that sat in the hand of a beautiful angel. "How did you-" Dark Azulonmon started.
"You cannot defeat me," the angel said. "I am hope and light. I shine through you darkness." Her voice sounded sweet and mature.
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TK's grip on his wife tightened when her's weakened. "Its all up to her now," she forced softly.
"She's only one. We have to be ready to fight," Matt said as his sword appeared in his hand.
"Have faith in your niece," TK replied.
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Andie spread white feather wings and shot at Dark Azulonmon. Her face was determined, but her blue eyes looked tired and ready to give up. Each threw attacks at each other. Andie hit Dark Azulonmon repeatedly, but Dark Azulonmon couldn't get a shot in. He roared and growled, but she was relentless; unforgiving.
He stopped moving when he realized she had. She was hovering in the air panting. "Our battle hasn't even been fifteen minutes and your tired?" Dark Azulonmon taunted, ignoring the pain that spread through his body.
"I assume you've fight," she huffed. "I haven't."
He laughed. She plunged to the floor, the last of her energy gone. He loomed over her. "Looks like your lack of experience is the death of you. This is your end," he snickered. "Hell's Fire!"
A dark red flame sailed at Andie. She held up her hands and everything stopped. Dark Azulonmon stopped laughing. The attack stopped coming. Andie's arms collapsed to the ground as she forced air greedily into her lungs.
'What do I do?' She asked herself. Her eyes made their way up where she saw at the entrance above her Papa, her mother, and her real father. Words appeared in her mind. She forced herself up onto her feet, shaking and fighting darkness that wanted her to come to it.
"I-I am the child of Hope and Light. I am power; I am good. I am also Friendship and Courage and everything that the DigiDestined represents. Light and Hope supply me now with the power to defeat this evil. I call forth good and love to defeat you. Light break the darkness, hope supply the fallen. I call on thy now. Go forth!"
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Matt's eyes shifted over to TK and Kari. They both had their eyes closed as they whispered the words along with Andie. It had been a long time since they had said the words, a long time since they had originally defeated Ken and said they're love for each other, but the words were still fresh in their minds; imprinted there forever.
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Everything started moving again. Andie's wings detached from her body before coming together as one. The attacks, one white, the other black, flew at each other. The white wings hit the black blast and sliced through it destroying it. It hit Dark Azulonmon seconds later. With a roar of pain he disintegrated.
The dark field over the entrance disappeared and Kari, TK, and Matt jumped through. They attempted to get to Andie, but she disappeared into a bright orb of light. The light got smaller and smaller until it was no bigger then a tennis ball hovering over Andie's chest. TK and Matt continued to Andie while Kari stopped and allowed the ball to enter her chest.
TK knelt down beside his daughter. Her clothes were tattered and dirty. Her face was white as a ghost, but the dirt that clung to her skin made up for the color. TK lifted her up and lowered his ear to her mouth and nose. "She's not breathing," he whispered.
Kari knelt beside him. She took Andie's lifeless body and hugged her. "She's dead," was all she could force.
"Then heal her!" Matt roared. "Do something!"
TK jumped up. "You can't heal a dead person, Matt! Don't yell at us!"
"We'll take her to Gennai," Kari announced.
"That old coot?! He didn't even know you were alive," TK argued.
"But he might be able to something! He knows more about life and death than we do," Kari replied.
"Then where is he?" Matt asked. "You two can go take her to your house. I'll go find him."
"Got to the Continent of Server. He's doing research there," TK said. Matt nodded and disappeared. TK knelt down beside Kari once more. "Come on, Kari." He kissed her cheek and tried to stop her tears, but failed miserably considering her couldn't hide his own. "Let's go home."
"You take Andie. I'll get the Digimon," she said. She stood up and picked up Patamon and Gatomon. She looked at Wormmon and thought about leaving him there, unconscious. She decided against it. She picked him up and turned back to TK.
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Tai watched Sora sleep as he waited for TK and Matt to return. A noise from another room broke him from his trance. He got up and went into the room where Andie had been sleeping. Standing there beside the bed was TK and Kari. TK had set down a lifeless Andie on the bed and Kari had set three digimon near her.
"Kari!" Tai threw her arms around her.
She looked at the man hugging her. "Tai!" They continued to hug and cry on each other.
They stopped only to inform Tai on what happened. His face went emotionless as he looked at Andie on the bed. "That son of a bitch. God!"
There was another noise and Matt and Gennai walked into the room. "I think I'm too old for transport, Yamato," Gennai said. He looked up and saw Kari, TK, and Tai. "Hikari! Your alive!"
"Yes, Gennai. Ken was holding me hostage."
"Yamato informed me of what happened. Is that your daughter on the bed?"
"Yes," TK replied.
"Okay. Everybody out. I'll see what I can do," Gennai ordered, ruefully.
They filed out, leaving Gennai alone with Andie, and the digimon. They walked out to the living room where Sora was still curled up on the couch. Kari stopped. "Who's that?"
"Its Sora," Matt replied as he sat down on the couch beside Sora. She stirred and opened her eyes. "Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you."
She shook her head. "Its okay." She looked at the other people in the room who were standing. Her eyes fell upon Kari. "Kari?"
"Hi Sora," Kari gave her a weak smile. Sora jumped up and hugged her and she hugged back. "Too bad we couldn't see each other under happier conditions."
"What do you mean?" She looked at Matt. "Where's Andie?"
Matt stood up and took her hand. "Why don't we talk?" He pulled her out of the room.
Tai watched the two from where he stood. Sora had collapsed onto Matt, crying. Tai started to walk out of the room, angry. "Tai, where are you going?" Kari asked.
"To see if Gennai needs any help," Tai replied.
He went to the door and knocked. "Come in." Tai walked in and saw Gennai typing away over a laptop. He looked at Tai. "Oh, hello Taichi. What do you need?"
"I came to see if you need help," Tai replied.
"Sure. Go back to the cavern and bring me Ken's body."
"Yes sir." Tai left. Within seconds he was back with Ken's body in his arms.
"Just set him beside Andie. I'll be out in a minute with results." Tai nodded before he walked out of the room. He went to the living room. TK held Kari on his lap in a recliner. Matt sat on the couch holding Sora who cried against his chest. Tai sat down in a wooden rocking chair.
Minutes past in silence. An hour came and went before Gennai emerged from the room. By now Kari had slipped into a fitful sleep and TK had to wake her up. "What's going on?" TK asked. "Can you save her?"
"Yes," Gennai replied.
"That doesn't sound like a very good yes," Matt said.
"Andie's long gone. She died after Dark Azulonmon hit her with the first attack."
"How'd you know about that?" Matt asked. "I didn't go into that much detail."
"I watched the battle using my laptop. The only reason Andie was able to fight was because Kari gave Andie her ability to become an angel."
"We know this already," TK interrupted. "Can you save my daughter?"
"I have something to confess to you. I never expected Andie to live past five years of age." He looked straight at Matt and Sora. "Was she sick a lot all her life? Fever, that type of thing."
Sora nodded. "Yeah, but we brushed it off as a weak immune system like Kari had when she was little."
"No it wasn't a weak immune system. On the contrary, she has the strongest immune system in the world. You could introduce anything into her and it would be killed instantly," Gennai explained. He looked down at the floor before continuing. "Andie is unbalanced. Since both of her parents were made purely of light she has absolutely no darkness inside of her. That's not normal. So when she was sick it was her own body trying to balance itself. The thing was it was impossible and it was killing her. I never expected her to live past five, but she did because she never came to the digital world or used her powers. That's why Ken wanted her to destroy the Stones. The more power she used the more of a chance she would die instantly upon destroying the Stone of Hope and Light. Well, as you can see it didn't work out as planned."
"So you had no faith Andie was going to live at all?" TK exploded.
"Yes," Gennai replied. "But I wasn't going to save her then, that's why I couldn't bring myself to tell you. I can bring her back to life; that's the easy part. But keeping her alive would require some work. I would have to balance the light and dark inside her. He held out his hand and inside it was a ball of light that was much like the one that had come from Kari before. Except this was purely black. "This was Ken's darkness. I got it out from him. If you want I can put it in Andie and she will be balanced. But you have to keep in mind that now she would be tainted then. She would not be pure and she could not ever fight along side you. Ever. And an angel's job is to defend the Digital World. That is why you're here. She'd be the same as a human pretty much."
Kari looked at TK. He looked detached, but she knew exactly what he was thinking. "It doesn't matter. Bring her back."
"Alright," Gennai nodded before walking back to the room. Everyone in the living room jumped up to follow. They got to the room and saw Ken's body on the floor on the other side of the room. Gennai approached Andie who still was on the bed, lifeless. He placed the black orb of light on her chest and it disappeared inside her. From a pocket inside his jacket he pulled a syringe out of it. He stuck it in her arm and allowed the clear liquid to disappear inside of her.
With a gasp and coughing her chest began to move up and down allowing air inside her lungs. A tiny bit of color returned to her face. She didn't open her eyes.
"It'll take a while for her to wake up. She'll be sick again, but she won't be dead," Gennai said before ushering everyone from the room.
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Okay, what did you all think? Told you someone was gonna die. Nobody's happy. Shrugs It happens. Well, please read and review. Sorry about the amount of cuss words.
A/N: Cherry Seraphym I read your review for 'Child Of Revenge' (Damn I hate that title) and no I didn't get Yama from Yamato. :)
Born of Angels
This is the sequel to Kari's Secret or a Forgotten Past, whichever title you prefer.
Andie didn't fight with Ken. She accepted she was going to die. He bound and gagged her anyway. He had led her out of the black room, out of the castle, and now they were walking toward so unknown location. There was one more Destiny Stone to destroy, that was it. One more till she died; it would be over then.
They walked through the DigiWorld in silence. The little parade of his minions with her and Ken at the front. Ken was probably thinking about whom he would kill once he was done with her. She could only guess what other devious things ran through his mind.
They stopped in front of the opening of a cave. He glanced around before shoving her in. His minions followed, protecting him and supporting him. And worse of all, Gatomon was there, beside Andie; the small cat was under Ken's control. There was a black ring wrapped around her tail, causing her eyes to glow red and keep a sharp claw ready to strike.
They walked through the long cave. The only sounds were footsteps echoing off the cave walls. "Stop," Ken ordered. They did. There was an opening a few feet ahead. He approached it, pulling Andie along with him. They looked through the opening.
Inside was a giant cavern that dropped fifty feet below and a hundred feet above. Ken looked around, studying every bit of the cavern. Andie stared forward, disconnected. He pushed her and she fell and landed on her butt before sliding straight down the sloped cavern. She let out a small "oaf" as she hit the cavern floor.
Ken jumped and slid down on his feet, "surfing" the cavern side. When he got to the bottom he pulled Andie up to her feet. "Torturing you like this isn't as fun as I expected." He studied her face. "I suppose its because you look too much like your mother. Yes, that's it. I had a sort of lust for her. Did you know that? No, I suppose you didn't. Why would you? I doubt Hikari would tell you about how she willingly came to me. And how she kissed me, a kiss warm and loving. What about how she almost killed both your uncles and your father to be with me? Did she tell you that?"
She mumbled something through the gag. He pulled it off to hear her speak. "You lying son of a bitch! Don't talk about my mother like that! She never loved you! She-she couldn't of!"
"But she did. She loved me while I lusted after her for a few days. Then she killed me, that bitch. Your damn father too. I must admit she was a wonderful kisser. Delicious." He grinned evilly. Andie fought the restraints to no avail. "What about you?" He asked, catching her off guard. Then he grabbed her face roughly and kissed her. She fought, but he deepened the kiss.
Finally he let go and she coughed for air. She felt disgusted and violated. "I must admit, your much better then your mother. Hika-chan just didn't do it for me, I guess."
"You bastard."
He slapped her across the face. By now the rest of his minions had come into the cavern. He looked at them then back at Andie. "Look around you. All of these digimon have come to see your death. They all want to see you die. Give us a good show. All we've seen is your distant exterior. Show us the little girl cowering on the inside. Maybe a little less fight. Beg for pity. Cry," he taunted. "Show your fear."
"I don't fear you. I fear death."
"I am death."
"No, your darkness. They are two different things. Death is loneliness. Death is depression and sadness. I fear death; not you."
"You're smarter than you look," he said. "For an idiot." He turned her around and pointed across the cavern.
There it was. The Destiny Stone of Hope and Light. It looked like a giant, beautiful crystal. It was clear with ghostly rainbow colors sliding through it. "I am to destroy that?"
"And then die."
Something caught Andie's eye over to the other side of the cavern. It was a large dark stone that looked like a giant lump of charcoal. "Is that the Stone Of Darkness?" She asked.
He looked at her. "Yes, but don't try to destroy it. There is a shield protecting it. My men set it up before we came."
Andie studied it. She could see light glinting off the shield covering the front, but none on the side. She looked back at the Stone of Hope and Light. It gave her an idea. No matter what she was going to die, but she might be able to get Ken in the process.
"You want to hear me beg and plead for something?" Andie asked Ken. He looked amused. "Let me talk to Gatomon. Take that damn ring off and stop controlling her. Let me talk to her. I-I want to give her a message, j-just in case she ever sees my mother again." Andie broke down into fake tears. "Just five minutes, alone, to tell her goodbye."
"Done," Ken replied. He snapped his fingers and the black tail ring on Gatomon loosened. Her eyes stopped glowing red. The black clamp that held Andie's hands behind her back disappeared. "I have power of all her attacks, nothing else. Take her over there; I won't listen. You have my word."
Andie held out her arms and Gatomon jumped into them. They walked over to the other side of the cavern and Andie set her down and knelt down to meet her intense eyes. "Goodbye Gatomon," she whispered.
"Oh Andie, I'm so sorry," the cat cried, eyes filling with tears.
"Don't cry. I'm not scared anymore. I have courage, l-like Uncle Tai," she replied. She didn't know where that had come from. "I have a plan. I'm going to take Ken out."
"How?"
"Do you see how the shield only protects the Black Stone from front attacks?" Gatomon nodded. "Well, if I hit the Stone of Hope and Light just right some of the attack will ricochet and I can hit it. I can take it out, I know it."
"Andie, you only have one chance and even if you do it you still die."
"So? Ken will be dead, that's all that matters. Fifteen minutes ago I was scared to death of this moment. But he has insulted my pride, my parents, and killed everything I have left in me! He will pay! I'm not afraid of dying. I actually welcome it at this point. I don't want to do this anymore. I'm tired and I want to give up, but he took away my life and my parents! He's going to pay." She hugged the cat. "Thank you for what you did. Cleaning me up in the castle, giving me hope my mother was alive. T-tell my parents that I love them. And if you can tell Sora and Matt, my mama and papa, that I was brave and I love them more then anything in the world. Tell them I'm sorry for fighting with them. Goodbye." Andie brushed away her tears.
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"Can you feel her yet? Or Ken?" Matt asked TK and Kari. Both of them shook their heads sadly.
"Wait, I think I know where Ken and Andie might be. Think about it. He's been having her destroy Destiny Stones. He's going to make her destroy the Stone of Hope and Light! Do you remember where it is?"
"Sure." Matt snapped his fingers and they were standing in front of a cave. "In there. Hopefully we're not too late."
Kari took off into the cave. TK and Matt followed her as closely as they could. She was an extremely agile woman.
There was another opening at the end. Kari stopped only to have TL and Matt slam into her. She would have fallen if TK hadn't wrapped his arms around her waist. "Thanks," she whispered.
"My god," Matt whispered. "There has to be at least fifty digimon here."
"Look, Gatomon," TK whispered.
"And Patamon," Kari added.
"Gabumon and Agumon," Matt bit his lip.
"We lost Gabumon, but Agumon has been keeping tabs on him. Patamon's a spy. Gatomon disappeared a long time ago," TK said.
"Gatomon has been with me," Kari explained. "But Ken caught her. Do you see Andie?"
"There," TK pointed. Andie stood beside Ken. Although her face was pale her eyes showed no fear. Instead there was a look of determination and hope in her bright blue eyes. A sort of light TK had not seen in a long time.
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"Destroy it!" Ken ordered.
Andie looked at him contemplating if she could pull this off. 'No fear, no pain, no darkness,' she told herself. "No regrets," she whispered as she socked Ken in the jaw.
Two mojimon ran up and grabbed her arms and held them behind her back. She held a sad smirk on her face. "You have no fear, do you?" Ken questioned. "I hate you. Destroy the destiny stone or I will have my minions beat you into submission!"
She pulled away from the mojimon. She held up her hands and aimed best she could. Then she let all her power go. Instantly, as a white ball of light sailed at the Stone of Hope and Light, she felt drained and slumped to the floor.
The light hit the beautiful crystals with a devastating crack. The crystal absorbed the light and nothing happened for a moment. "No," Andie shook her head. "Let go of the blast," she begged as the crystal began to break apart. "Please."
The crystal broke and a blast of light flew from the stone and at the huge lump of charcoal on the other side of the cavern. It broke instantly and black rocks rained on Andie.
"I did it," Andie whispered. She didn't smile or get up. Her eyes shot towards Ken. He had paled. Andie forced herself up on unsteady feet.
"You had that planned, didn't you?" He asked as he felt his body tire.
"Pretty good, for an idiot," she retorted. She pushed him to the floor. "Guess what Ken, I beat you! I did it! I destroyed you, me!" She eyed him fiercely. "Maybe you were right. Before, that is. Maybe I am no better then you. I killed you. But I guess that's just how things work."
"Help me!" Ken yelled at his digimon slaves. But then he saw it. Their eyes stopped glowing red. No one moved. Wormmon stepped forward. "Wormmon, my partner, my friend."
The green worm moved past Ken and stood beside Andie. "No."
"Its over, Ken," Andie replied. With that Ken slumped to the ground.
"Is he dead?" Wormmon asked.
"Yeah," Andie replied.
"Andie! Look." Andie jerked her head to where Gatomon was pointing. She saw a smoky darkness rising from the remains of Ken's stone.
"That can't be good," she mumbled to herself. "Everybody get out of here! Back toward the entrance."
Every single digimon ran for the exit. Matt, TK, and Kari tried to get to Andie, but the mob knocked them back.
Andie waited, making sure everyone was out. Now only Gatomon, Wormmon and a brown and white flying rodent digimon stood with her. "Let's go," Andie said to them. The rodent flew above them. Andie picked up Wormmon and Gatomon jumped on her back. Andie attempted to climb the steep incline, but she didn't have enough strength to grip the rocks or pull herself up.
"Where are you going, little one?" A deep voice asked.
Andie looked back. The smoke was talking to her. "Gatomon, Wormmon go," she whispered.
"Andie, I can't leave you," Gatomon argued.
"GO!" Andie urged.
"Stay and play with me, little one." The smoke formed a thing that looked like a Chinese dragon. "I am Dark Azulonmon."
"Patamon," Gatomon called the thing floating above them. It landed beside her. "We have to protect Andie."
Patamon looked at the worn out girl who had defeated Ken. "Why?"
"She's Kari and TK's daughter. That's why."
Suddenly a blast shot from Dark Azulonmon. It hit the entrance and created a dark force field. Matt, TK, and Kari got to it, but couldn't get through.
Andie's legs felt weak. They failed her and she collapsed to the ground. "I couldn't have died instantly, could I?" She forced, painfully. Her breathing was shallow and labored.
"I suppose I should thank you, Light," Dark Azulonmon said, addressing her. "You took care of Ken for me. Now all I have to do is get rid of you and the world is mine. Stupid Ken, boy of darkness. He thought I was helping him when I sent messages in his mind. It was all for myself."
"Andie, make Patamon and me digivolve," Gatomon whispered.
Andie fished the Digivice out of her pocket. "How?"
"Just say 'DigiVolve'!" Patamon answered.
Andie held up the digivice. "Digivolve."
"Gatomon digivolve to…"
"Patamon digivolve to…"
"Angewomon!"
"Angemon!" Andie's eyes widened as she stared at the two angels. "Say it again!" Angemon ordered.
"DIGIVOLVE!"
"Angemon digivolve to…MagnaAngemon!"
Andie stared at the two angels. "Please don't get hurt! Not on my account," she prayed.
"You're going to fight me?" Dark Azulonmon asked. "Your power doesn't even measure to half of mine!"
"Celestial Arrow," Angewomom called out.
"Hand of Fate!" MagnaAngemon screamed.
The two attacks hit Dark Azulonmon. He growled in pain, but he didn't appear to be hurt other than that. "This isn't good," Andie whispered.
"Andie, make me digivolve too," Wormmon begged.
"Can I do that? Your Ken's."
"You can make any digimon digivolve. You'd need Ken's digivice though." Andie nodded. She pulled herself to Ken's still form, legs still not working. She pulled Ken's dark digivice off his belt. A pain surged through her arm and she dropped it. It clattered to the floor.
"Andie, pick it up!" Wormmon ordered.
"I-I can't," she replied as she held her arm. "It hurts too much." She glanced up to see the angel's fighting a losing battle. She picked up the digivice, despite the pain. "Digivolve!"
"Wormmon digivolve to Stingmon!" A huge bug appeared in the air. "Spiking Strike!" He hit Dark Azulonmon.
The battle raged on, but it still wasn't a fair fight on Andie's side. Stingmon fell. Then Angewomon. And finally MagnaAngemon fell a few feet away from Andie. Dark Azulonmon faced her. "That was fun, but now I have to deal with you." She cowered back. "God's Fury!"
The attack sailed at Andie and hit her. It was the most horrific pain she had ever felt in her life. Her body burned and her mind stopped working.
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Kari and TK watched as their daughter was hit by Dark Azulonmon's attack. Kari's tear streaked face paled as she watched Andie fall back and her pale face turn an ashen color. She pressed against the force field. "No, get up," she begged. TK wrapped his arms around her waist and pressed his face into her shoulder. Right now he needed something to hold on to. Matt turned away.
Kari gripped TK's hands and closed her eyes. TK looked up from her shoulder and watched her pale face.
A small ball of light appeared before the two. It penetrated the black force field and landed on Andie's motionless chest. It entered her and she disappeared into a bright light.
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Andie's mind began working again. Her body stopped burning in pain. She felt herself lift off the dirt floor, but she had no control of herself.
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Dark Azulonmon watched the young girl he had killed. She had given off a soft glow that had escalated into a painful light. The light had begun to move. It was now twenty feet in the air, facing him. The light began to recede into a small orb that sat in the hand of a beautiful angel. "How did you-" Dark Azulonmon started.
"You cannot defeat me," the angel said. "I am hope and light. I shine through you darkness." Her voice sounded sweet and mature.
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TK's grip on his wife tightened when her's weakened. "Its all up to her now," she forced softly.
"She's only one. We have to be ready to fight," Matt said as his sword appeared in his hand.
"Have faith in your niece," TK replied.
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Andie spread white feather wings and shot at Dark Azulonmon. Her face was determined, but her blue eyes looked tired and ready to give up. Each threw attacks at each other. Andie hit Dark Azulonmon repeatedly, but Dark Azulonmon couldn't get a shot in. He roared and growled, but she was relentless; unforgiving.
He stopped moving when he realized she had. She was hovering in the air panting. "Our battle hasn't even been fifteen minutes and your tired?" Dark Azulonmon taunted, ignoring the pain that spread through his body.
"I assume you've fight," she huffed. "I haven't."
He laughed. She plunged to the floor, the last of her energy gone. He loomed over her. "Looks like your lack of experience is the death of you. This is your end," he snickered. "Hell's Fire!"
A dark red flame sailed at Andie. She held up her hands and everything stopped. Dark Azulonmon stopped laughing. The attack stopped coming. Andie's arms collapsed to the ground as she forced air greedily into her lungs.
'What do I do?' She asked herself. Her eyes made their way up where she saw at the entrance above her Papa, her mother, and her real father. Words appeared in her mind. She forced herself up onto her feet, shaking and fighting darkness that wanted her to come to it.
"I-I am the child of Hope and Light. I am power; I am good. I am also Friendship and Courage and everything that the DigiDestined represents. Light and Hope supply me now with the power to defeat this evil. I call forth good and love to defeat you. Light break the darkness, hope supply the fallen. I call on thy now. Go forth!"
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Matt's eyes shifted over to TK and Kari. They both had their eyes closed as they whispered the words along with Andie. It had been a long time since they had said the words, a long time since they had originally defeated Ken and said they're love for each other, but the words were still fresh in their minds; imprinted there forever.
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Everything started moving again. Andie's wings detached from her body before coming together as one. The attacks, one white, the other black, flew at each other. The white wings hit the black blast and sliced through it destroying it. It hit Dark Azulonmon seconds later. With a roar of pain he disintegrated.
The dark field over the entrance disappeared and Kari, TK, and Matt jumped through. They attempted to get to Andie, but she disappeared into a bright orb of light. The light got smaller and smaller until it was no bigger then a tennis ball hovering over Andie's chest. TK and Matt continued to Andie while Kari stopped and allowed the ball to enter her chest.
TK knelt down beside his daughter. Her clothes were tattered and dirty. Her face was white as a ghost, but the dirt that clung to her skin made up for the color. TK lifted her up and lowered his ear to her mouth and nose. "She's not breathing," he whispered.
Kari knelt beside him. She took Andie's lifeless body and hugged her. "She's dead," was all she could force.
"Then heal her!" Matt roared. "Do something!"
TK jumped up. "You can't heal a dead person, Matt! Don't yell at us!"
"We'll take her to Gennai," Kari announced.
"That old coot?! He didn't even know you were alive," TK argued.
"But he might be able to something! He knows more about life and death than we do," Kari replied.
"Then where is he?" Matt asked. "You two can go take her to your house. I'll go find him."
"Got to the Continent of Server. He's doing research there," TK said. Matt nodded and disappeared. TK knelt down beside Kari once more. "Come on, Kari." He kissed her cheek and tried to stop her tears, but failed miserably considering her couldn't hide his own. "Let's go home."
"You take Andie. I'll get the Digimon," she said. She stood up and picked up Patamon and Gatomon. She looked at Wormmon and thought about leaving him there, unconscious. She decided against it. She picked him up and turned back to TK.
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Tai watched Sora sleep as he waited for TK and Matt to return. A noise from another room broke him from his trance. He got up and went into the room where Andie had been sleeping. Standing there beside the bed was TK and Kari. TK had set down a lifeless Andie on the bed and Kari had set three digimon near her.
"Kari!" Tai threw her arms around her.
She looked at the man hugging her. "Tai!" They continued to hug and cry on each other.
They stopped only to inform Tai on what happened. His face went emotionless as he looked at Andie on the bed. "That son of a bitch. God!"
There was another noise and Matt and Gennai walked into the room. "I think I'm too old for transport, Yamato," Gennai said. He looked up and saw Kari, TK, and Tai. "Hikari! Your alive!"
"Yes, Gennai. Ken was holding me hostage."
"Yamato informed me of what happened. Is that your daughter on the bed?"
"Yes," TK replied.
"Okay. Everybody out. I'll see what I can do," Gennai ordered, ruefully.
They filed out, leaving Gennai alone with Andie, and the digimon. They walked out to the living room where Sora was still curled up on the couch. Kari stopped. "Who's that?"
"Its Sora," Matt replied as he sat down on the couch beside Sora. She stirred and opened her eyes. "Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you."
She shook her head. "Its okay." She looked at the other people in the room who were standing. Her eyes fell upon Kari. "Kari?"
"Hi Sora," Kari gave her a weak smile. Sora jumped up and hugged her and she hugged back. "Too bad we couldn't see each other under happier conditions."
"What do you mean?" She looked at Matt. "Where's Andie?"
Matt stood up and took her hand. "Why don't we talk?" He pulled her out of the room.
Tai watched the two from where he stood. Sora had collapsed onto Matt, crying. Tai started to walk out of the room, angry. "Tai, where are you going?" Kari asked.
"To see if Gennai needs any help," Tai replied.
He went to the door and knocked. "Come in." Tai walked in and saw Gennai typing away over a laptop. He looked at Tai. "Oh, hello Taichi. What do you need?"
"I came to see if you need help," Tai replied.
"Sure. Go back to the cavern and bring me Ken's body."
"Yes sir." Tai left. Within seconds he was back with Ken's body in his arms.
"Just set him beside Andie. I'll be out in a minute with results." Tai nodded before he walked out of the room. He went to the living room. TK held Kari on his lap in a recliner. Matt sat on the couch holding Sora who cried against his chest. Tai sat down in a wooden rocking chair.
Minutes past in silence. An hour came and went before Gennai emerged from the room. By now Kari had slipped into a fitful sleep and TK had to wake her up. "What's going on?" TK asked. "Can you save her?"
"Yes," Gennai replied.
"That doesn't sound like a very good yes," Matt said.
"Andie's long gone. She died after Dark Azulonmon hit her with the first attack."
"How'd you know about that?" Matt asked. "I didn't go into that much detail."
"I watched the battle using my laptop. The only reason Andie was able to fight was because Kari gave Andie her ability to become an angel."
"We know this already," TK interrupted. "Can you save my daughter?"
"I have something to confess to you. I never expected Andie to live past five years of age." He looked straight at Matt and Sora. "Was she sick a lot all her life? Fever, that type of thing."
Sora nodded. "Yeah, but we brushed it off as a weak immune system like Kari had when she was little."
"No it wasn't a weak immune system. On the contrary, she has the strongest immune system in the world. You could introduce anything into her and it would be killed instantly," Gennai explained. He looked down at the floor before continuing. "Andie is unbalanced. Since both of her parents were made purely of light she has absolutely no darkness inside of her. That's not normal. So when she was sick it was her own body trying to balance itself. The thing was it was impossible and it was killing her. I never expected her to live past five, but she did because she never came to the digital world or used her powers. That's why Ken wanted her to destroy the Stones. The more power she used the more of a chance she would die instantly upon destroying the Stone of Hope and Light. Well, as you can see it didn't work out as planned."
"So you had no faith Andie was going to live at all?" TK exploded.
"Yes," Gennai replied. "But I wasn't going to save her then, that's why I couldn't bring myself to tell you. I can bring her back to life; that's the easy part. But keeping her alive would require some work. I would have to balance the light and dark inside her. He held out his hand and inside it was a ball of light that was much like the one that had come from Kari before. Except this was purely black. "This was Ken's darkness. I got it out from him. If you want I can put it in Andie and she will be balanced. But you have to keep in mind that now she would be tainted then. She would not be pure and she could not ever fight along side you. Ever. And an angel's job is to defend the Digital World. That is why you're here. She'd be the same as a human pretty much."
Kari looked at TK. He looked detached, but she knew exactly what he was thinking. "It doesn't matter. Bring her back."
"Alright," Gennai nodded before walking back to the room. Everyone in the living room jumped up to follow. They got to the room and saw Ken's body on the floor on the other side of the room. Gennai approached Andie who still was on the bed, lifeless. He placed the black orb of light on her chest and it disappeared inside her. From a pocket inside his jacket he pulled a syringe out of it. He stuck it in her arm and allowed the clear liquid to disappear inside of her.
With a gasp and coughing her chest began to move up and down allowing air inside her lungs. A tiny bit of color returned to her face. She didn't open her eyes.
"It'll take a while for her to wake up. She'll be sick again, but she won't be dead," Gennai said before ushering everyone from the room.
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Okay, what did you all think? Told you someone was gonna die. Nobody's happy. Shrugs It happens. Well, please read and review. Sorry about the amount of cuss words.
A/N: Cherry Seraphym I read your review for 'Child Of Revenge' (Damn I hate that title) and no I didn't get Yama from Yamato. :)
