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Hope Unleashed: The Sleeper has Awakened
"Watch out!" TK shouted. He had just managed to push Kari out of the way. The energy ball dove into the ground and exploded with tremendous force. The blast was so strong that TK felt like he could have been practically ripped in half. Being thrown back and rolling a countless amount of times, TK slammed into a tree with bone shattering force. TK tried to move but the pain was too intense, all he could do at the moment was lay there helplessly. His mind was all in a jumble. Different types of scenarios were going through his head, and all the outcomes didn't look very good. The only thought that was common in all of them were to protect Kari.
Kari couldn't see anyone. It looked like she had been separated from the rest of the group. She felt very
sore even though TK had pushed her out of the initial blast. She rolled over on her back and grabbed her
pounding head. The world spun around her, making her sick in the stomach. Kari
fumbled for her digivice, she knew that Gatomon had to digivolve. All of a sudden a dark shadow loomed over her. She looked up and
saw a rather huge digimon. It was a dark figure. Its body had a basic
shape almost like a human's shadow. Kari tried
to move but her body didn't respond. The evil digimon extended its
hand and grabbed Kari. "Let go of me! Help! Gatomon! TK!" Kari yelled,
trying to pry herself from the digimon's immense grip. The digimon emanated an intense darkness. Every
second Kari felt like her life was being drained away. She had caught a
glimpse of Gatomon, but her heart sank as she saw the little cat digimon was
unconscious unable to help. Her heart then broke at the sight of TK. He was barely conscious, and quite battered up to
say the least.
TK slowly got up from the ground. His body ached all over,
and there was a sever cut on his forehead. He
tried to stand up with no luck. Slumping back down he searched desperately
for Kari. He then heard laughter
not too far away. Straining his eyes he could just make out a rather large and
shadowy digimon. In its hand it held Kari, who was clearly in pain. "I
can't let Kari down! I promised to protect her!" He reached deep into
his pocket and yanked out his digivice, but it would be of no use to him. He caught a glimpse of both
Patamon and Gatomon, they were unconscious and clearly there was no one else,
but him able to
help Kari. TK pounded his fists on
the ground in frustration, then coughing at the dust that flew up. Knowing that every second counted TK
struggled against every feeling of pain and staggered to his feet. It felt like a thousand knives
were stabbing into him, if it weren't for Kari being in danger, he would have passed out.
Wiping the blood from his eyes TK, limped towards the digimon.
"Ha, what are you going to do human?" laughed to
evil digimon, seeing TK's futile attempts to stay standing, "Are you
going to attack me?"
Kari was crying now seeing TK in such pain, the injury on his
forehead made her crying even worse. "TK, please save yourself, it's no use
to get us both killed" sobbed Kari. The thought of TK losing his
life brought on more sobs. The darkness was still slowly sapping her
life away. Kari felt so weak that her digivice slipped from her hands and fell
the ground. The digimon exercised its cruel nature and brought its foot down on
top of it grinding the digivice into nothing but a pink clump of electronic
components.
"No!" TK shouted, seeing Kari's digivice reduced to nothingness.
"You're so pathetic without your digimon, and
digivices," the
evil digimon mocked, while waving the sobbing Kari in front of TK as if to taunt him.
"So what are you going to do? Leave your little girl friend and run, or
stay and get killed?"
TK clenched his fist tightly and snarled at the digimon. "I'm the only chance Kari has," TK thought.
He could feel that every step he took drained him; sooner
or later he knew that he will not be able to stand, let alone walk. "I won't give up," TK
said, "I won't give up on Kari." A river of emotions was building
up in him. TK felt extreme anger, and hatred toward the digimon, but love for Kari, and hope. He felt
like he was going to explode. TK's vision started
to blur, and his balance became very unsteady. Finally the forces of gravity
were
too strong for him and he collapsed. TK had lost a lot of blood, and now he
was feeling the effects. He felt very tired, and the feeling for sleep beckoned
him.
"This is the end for the both of you." said the
digimon. "Any last words before I rip you limb from limb?" The digimon
inched closer to TK, while laughing hysterically.
Kari saw that TK's condition was getting worse, sooner or
later he wouldn't be able to escape. "TK! Please run! I care too much about
you to see you get killed! Please run!" Kari gasped her last breath.
"It can't end like this," the darkness was
too overwhelming,
and she blacked
out. Tears still flowing from her closed eyes.
TK slowly raised his head. "You may only care for me Kari, but I love you with all my
heart. If I never saw you again, my life will never be worth living! I will never
leave you!" TK, had reached his breaking point all the emotions in him
had to be released, he finally snapped. Somehow defying what his body told him TK stood up and
glared at the evil digimon. Something was rising inside TK, it was filling him
with an unknown energy powering him to go on. "As long as I'm still
breathing, I'm never going to give up on Kari!" yelled TK at the top of
his lungs. The ground started shaking uncontrollably around him. Beneath
his feet it started to crumble away. Whatever feelings he had inside of him must
have triggered a power that was inside him. Now a yellow light materialize out of
nowhere and was fusing into TK, causing him to glow. When it didn't seem like
anything couldn't get weirder his hair which was once blond ignited into a
burning gold. Letting out all of his feelings at once, a powerful blast erupted
from TK slamming into the digimon.
The digimon was overwhelmed by the intense light, it was practically burning right through its flesh. The digimon twisted wildly trying to escape the light, in its frantic attempts the digimon lost grip of Kari, letting her limp body hit the ground.
TK was shocked at what happened, it all seemed to happen
so fast. All he knew was that his strength returned to him. Placing a hand on
his forehead, he noticed that the gash was gone. He snapped out if his trance
when he saw Kari's body lying motionless on the ground. TK practically tore
up the ground as he dashed to Kari's aid. Kneeling down beside Kari, TK could now
see how badly she was hurt. He lifted her up
slowly. "Oh no, Kari
please be alright! It can't end like this!" He wrapped Kari in a tight hug. TK looked down to see
Kari's pale face, it brought the boy to
tears. "Please don't leave me Kari! I have so much I want to tell
you," With tears streaming down his cheeks, TK kissed Kari softly on the lips. The kiss was
just a short one, but filled with the love he had towards her. As he pulled away
he could see a yellow
light surround Kari and her eyes slowly fluttered open.
"What..." began Kari, it was like she had been
brought back from a deep sleep. She looked up at TK who had been crying.
He appeared to have
changed. For one thing TK's hair was no longer blond, but a shining gold.
"TK your hair!" Everything seemed like a dream, TK looked incredible.
She was about to reach out and touch his golden hair, but stopped when she heard
the digimon's roar, snapping her back into reality.
TK knew that there wasn't enough time to get away safely, and a feeling inside urged him to fight. "Stay here Kari," instructed TK, as he turned to the direction of the digimon. He wiped away the tears from his eyes and replaced them with a glare that could kill. "No way am I letting that digimon get away with almost killing Kari." TK thought. His glowing seemed to intensify, as with his anger . The anticipation of the fight seemed to call him on, TK had to have revenge.
The digimon barreled straight at TK. With deadly speed it swung it's left arm, but TK matched its speed, and ducked. It then followed with it's right arm with the same ferocious velocity as before, but again TK countered. With the digimon off balance TK leapt up towards its head. Now it was TK's turn to go on the offensive. With a burning fury in his eyes he pulled back his right arm and let it fly with blinding speed. Upon impact there was a blast of energy. Kari shielded her eyes from the sudden flash. When she looked up she could see TK, but the digimon was about fifty yards away laying on it's back reeling in pain. The whole event took place in a blink of an eye.
TK was quite surprised at
what had just happened. He was still letting things set in. It was like he had
lost control of his own body for that brief moment. He inspected
himself; physically he felt stronger, had golden hair,
and a yellow aura encircling him, but nothing else physically was different. On the inside though, he felt like a completely
different person.
Kari was so relieved that TK was safe. "TK!" she shouted. TK turned around to see Kari run up beside him. She hugged TK so tightly as if not wanting to let go. "You had me so worried" Kari whispered and she looked at TK with watery eyes. She was so of afraid of losing him. She gazed down at her broken digivice, or what looked like it. "Do you think it can be fixed?" She said with sadness in her voice.
"I'm sorry Kari," TK said "I don't know what we can do." Seeing Kari like that made him feel terrible. She didn't deserve any of this. Extreme anger welled up in TK's mind, he was going to reduce the digimon into digi-dust.
Letting out a massive roar the dark digimon jumped to its feet ready for a second round. "You're going down!" shouted TK as he took stance. As if out if nowhere more of the dark digimon appeared. "The more, the better!" TK laughed. TK clenched his fists, this seemed to further intensify the light radiating from him. "Come on! I'll take you all down!" TK called out to now more than twenty of the digimon.
"TK? What are you doing? It's too dangerous to fight them all!" Panicked Kari. She looked in to his eyes and saw that they were blazing like a wild fire. "TK snap out if it! Let's just get out of here!" TK didn't respond. He looked like he was thrilled to fight all those digimon. "TK you're scaring me! What's has got into you?" TK wasn't himself, she was sure of it.
Now there were an army of dark digimon gathered in front of them. They seemed to be waiting for something, maybe unsure of the glowing boy.
"Don't worry Kari I can take them," TK said with a deady voice. TK was ready attack at any second.
Kari grabbed TK's arm and pulled him to face her. "TK, I believe that you can beat them, but what about me? It's too dangerous for me to be around," Kari said with a frightened voice. She stared into his eyes searching for the TK she once knew. "If you l..., care for me, you must stop!" She then saw that TK's eyes revert back to their usual calm blue. She the let out a breath that she was holding "Come TK lets get out of here." Kari said.
"You're right Kari," TK replied, "I don't know
what had got into me." TK was finally able to think clearly, without having
his judgment clouded. "Quick let's grab our digimon, and get out of here."
TK said. Kari nodded in agreement. Even though the urge of staying to fight was strong, he knew that Kari was more
important. The both of them got their partners and headed
for the nearest digiport.
They ran as fast they could not looking back. Kari was
having trouble keeping up with TK's extremely fast pace. "Wait TK! I can't
keep up!" shouted Kari. Her legs gave out and she could no longer run let
alone stand up. TK quickly got to Kari knowing that the window of opportunity was
getting smaller, he decided to carry her.
"Kari hold Patamon, I'll carry you the rest of
the way" instructed TK, handing Kari his still unconscious partner. TK bent
down, but had
an uneasy feeling on how he should carry her. "Worry about this some other
time," thought TK. He then quickly placed both of Kari's arms around his
neck, and placed each of his arms around her, one supporting her back, the other at
her legs, also making sure the their digimon were secured.
"Wah, TK not so fast!" yelped Kari, she felt like
she could have been thrown in to the air. "I didn't
know you were that strong!"
"Neither did I" replied TK, he was surprised at
how light Kari was. "Just hold on tight, and we'll be out of here soon." Feeling Kari's grip
tighten around him. He bolted to the nearest digiport. Running through the dense
forest TK weaved between trees hoping that he could lose their pursuers. Quickly
glancing down to see how Kari was doing, he noticed she had a small smile on her
face. Kari then looked up to see
TK staring at her, and she blushed.
"TK, I..." Kari started.
"Hold that thought Kari" TK said, he had spotted
that the digimon were on hot pursuit trying madly to catch up with them. Making
matters worse they started a bombardment of attacks tearing up the ground around
them. TK tried frantically to keep the distance between the attacking digimon. Again looking down at Kari, he could
see her scared eyes peering over his shoulder every time tightly shut when an
attack whizzed by them. "Kari, nothing will happen to you. I promise,"
TK said soothingly, flashing a small smile.
Kari looked up and returned with a smile of her own, "Thanks TK." Looking over TK's shoulder one more time she could see the digimon were losing their ground..
"We're at the digiport" replied TK. Kari released one of her hands from TK's neck and grabbed his digivice. She was about to hand it to him when it activated in her hand. Without giving a second thought she aimed it at the digiport.
"Digiport open!" Kari shouted and a white light
surrounded them. When the light faded they were in the computer lab. TK
placed Kari on a nearby chair. Kari let out a sigh of relief, then putting both Patamon and Gatomon down.
"What happened?" the two digimon said in unison,
who were now awake.
"We were attacked by evil digimon, but managed to
escape, the rest I don't know if I can explain," replied TK.
Kari was holding up TK's green digivice, clearly surprised how she could have used it. "TK, how could I use your digivice?" She said handing it back to TK.
"I have no idea, a lot of strange events just took place." TK said while pocketing his digivice.
"Speaking of strange..." came a small questioning voice. TK shifted his gaze downward and saw that Patamon was staring at him with wide eyes. He was clearly shocked at TK's appearance. Everyone began to give questioning stares at TK.
"I probably know what you guys are thinking, but I have no idea myself," replied TK running his hand through his bright golden hair, and lifting up his arm in front of him to examine his strange glowing aura. "I really don't know, but I have to say that this is pretty cool. My mom is going to freak out if she sees me like this."
"We better head over to my place before everyone starts to worry." Kari added. "Maybe Izzy can shed us some light" Said Kari staring at TK. "Um, can you change back to normal? I mean if you go out like that people will start thinking."
"Maybe, I don't really know what to do," TK closed his eyes and began to focus, thinking relaxing thoughts to ease his mind from the recent battle. After about five minutes, TK opened his eyes to see that the aura had vanished, and also he felt like a great majority of the energy had left him. "So, how is it now?" TK let out a little yawn.
"Your hair is still that gold color, but it will do. Besides it looks good on you," replied Kari. "How did you… um, stop glowing?"
"I think I just had to relax a bit, everything had me on edge," answered TK. He remembered the moment he nearly lost Kari, that was what really pushed him over, but he didn't want to mention about it.
"Oh, I see. Well let's get going," yawned Kari, she was getting tired.
"Can you walk?" asked TK,
"If not I probably will have to carry you home." Kari leaned forward
and attempted to stand up but tumbled over, if it wasn't for TK's quick reaction, she
would have fallen.
"I guess you'll have to carry me." Kari said shyly,
her cheeks turning red.
"Yeah, I guess" replied TK. He was blushing too.
"I wonder if Kari heard what I said back there in the digital world?"
TK block the thought out of his mind. All he wanted to do was bring Kari home
safely. Again TK was carrying Kari, and she was once again smiling. "Hey Pata and
Gato, hop on." Gatomon hopped on to Kari's legs, while Patamon took a seat
on TK's shoulder, because he was unsure of TK's hair. On occasions he would give
it a poke.
Kari was so grateful that she had a friend like TK, who cared so dearly about her, but it scared her for a moment back there when TK wasn't acting like himself. Kari became very curious of TK's shimmering hair, it looked so beautiful. "May I?" inquired Kari holding her hand inches away from TK's golden hair.
"Um, sure." TK responded. He was getting very uncomfortable.
Kari slowly inched her hand closer, and finally ran her hand through it. "I always wanted to do this!" thought Kari as she smiled. "I feels so smooth, and soft," Kari blushed even more. "I just wanted to see what it was like. You know, with the shining and all," Kari said trying to cover up. "Whoever gets to cut your hair will be rich," she joked.
"Yeah..." replied TK as if in a dream like state. Kari's soft delicate touch made his legs feel practically like jelly. He could have sworn that Kari was enjoying every moment, but he didn't mind one bit.
***
Outside of the school the sun was setting in the direction of Kari's apartment. It was a beautiful sight. TK had been walking for about five minutes and it looked like Kari and the digimon had fallen sleep. The setting sun seemed to shine on a perfect angle only highlighting Kari's already beautiful face, not to mention reflected quite magically off his shimmering hair. This would have been a perfect moment for TK, but something deep down told him that there was a great evil at work. His grip tightened around Kari, for he felt that her life was still in danger.