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Hope Unleashed: Dreaming the Unknown
A dark energy swirled deep inside the blackest part of the digital world. A digimon similar to the one that attacked TK and Kari slowly walked up to the swirling spirit. "I have bad news my master," the minion said trembling.
"I already know," said the darkness, "but I expected this to happen."
"What are you going to do?"
"This event may have altered our plan slightly but our objectives are still the same."
"Won't the bearer of hope interfere?"
"No, his powers are nowhere close too mine, he has a lot to learn."
"Why didn't you destroy him master? When you had the chance?"
"I can't use my powers in this spirit like state. I must find a suitable human body to occupy so then I can unleash my powers." The swirling darkness then paused for a while plotting its next move. "All we have to do is find someone who is willing to accept my powers, and then, my dream of revenge will come true!"
***
Davis steamed as he paced back and forth across Kari's living room, while the other digidestined watched him. It had been about two hours since they had left Kari and TK alone in the digital world, and it was agitating Davis as the seconds ticked by.
"Stop it Davis you're making me dizzy," said DemiVeemon. The little digimon clutched its round head trying to fight off a wave of dizziness.
"Davis if you keep this up you'll wear a hole right through the floor," Tai said. "I wouldn't worry about Kari, she can take care of herself." Tai walked over and plopped onto the couch. By that time everyone was staring at him, even Davis had stopped at Tai's comment. "What?" Tai said clearly annoyed being the center of attention.
"I believe they're staring a you, because you said something that total contradicts what you usually do," Izzy explained to Tai. "You see, ever since we known you Tai. You watched out for Kari twenty-four hours seven days a week, worrying over her like an over protective mother."
"Yeah, so? I can't smother her for the rest of her life. Anyway she's been bugging me to lay off, and as a good brother I respect her wishes." Again Tai was bombarded by the confused stares of the digidestined. "What? Do I have to put this in writing for you guys to believe me?" Tai was clearly getting frustrated.
"Don't worry Tai we believe you, it's just has to take sometime to sink in, that's all, maybe longer for others though" Izzy stared at Davis.
"Hey, don't pick on me. My day has been brutal," groaned Davis, again recalling TK and Kari all alone in the digital world. "He's probably making his moves on her right now!" Davis thought quietly balling up his fist. "When I get the chance TF is going to get it!"
"And besides TK is with her, he'll make sure Kari's safe, " Tai added, "If he doesn't..." but stopped in mid-sentence, knowing that he shouldn't go back to his old protective self.
"Yeah, TK's a great kid, I can put my trust in him," replied Izzy who had started to type away at his laptop.
"Forget about that loser TP, can we talk about something else?" Snapped Davis. "I had it up to here listening about him." Davis had his arm fully extended over his head indicating how annoyed he was.
"What do you got against him?" questioned Cody who was sitting in the corner on a beanbag chair with Upamon.
"Oh, here we go again!" Yolei sighed, she and Ken had heard Davis' ramblings about how TK is a complete loser compared to him." Several minutes went by as the digidestined and digimon listened to Davis' ranting, while impatiently waiting for him to finish. It was almost like Davis had this whole thing memorized like an important speech.
"I don't know what Kari sees in him anyway," Davis concluded, "If he was here right now I'll show him real good!" If almost on cue the front door flew open. To be more exact flew off its hinges. That caught everyone's attention and they were on their feet and heading to the door, glad that something remotely exciting happened.
***
TK walked into the apartment and was greeted by a room full of stares. He wasn't sure if it was because of the door, his golden hair, Kari, or all of the above. "Um, hi guys. Sorry about the door. I promise that I'll knock lighter next time." TK said as he walked over to the couch and gently placed Kari down. Then walking over to the empty beanbag chair and placed Patamon and Gatomon down. Turning around he noticed that everyone had followed him not saying a word; they all possessed a questioning stare except Davis who was staring daggers at him. Tai was the first to speak up.
"What happened?" Asked Tai as he walked over to his sister, and sat down beside her. "Is she alright?" Tai was trying hard to control himself.
TK walked past the other digidestined to get to his former leader. He couldn't help but over hear them whispering about how his hair looked, how he should have knocked more lightly on the door, and of course Davis grinding his teeth. "Don't worry Tai. Kari's all right, she's just tired. I promised her that I will protect her, and I live by my word," TK said reassuringly placing a hand on Tai's shoulder to calm him down.
"Thanks," Tai said as he looked down on his sleeping sister.
"If you don't mind me interrupting," Izzy said walking over to TK, "can you explain the events that took place when you and Kari were in the digital world?" He was now examining TK's radiating hair.
"Yeah!" shouted Yolei, "That's so cool! How did you get you hair that shinny, can you tell me your secret?" She ran up and took a good look. "What shampoo do you use? Your hair is practically lighting up half the room!"
"Keep it down!" Hissed Tai, "We'll discuss everything later, let Kari get some sleep." Tai pointed to the couch where Kari still laid fast asleep.
"I'll bring Kari to her room, if that's ok with you Tai?" offered TK.
Davis of course wasn't happy with this idea and was about to speak his mind, but caught a glance of Tai ready to kill him if he made a scene. "Why does TK always get the break with Kari," thought Davis trying to control his raising anger. Seeing Tai's approval to TK's offer only made him angrier. TK gently pick Kari up and carried her to her room. "He's probably enjoying every second of this, and he has the nerve to rub it in my face!" fumed Davis.
***
TK carried Kari into her room. He had been in here several times already but not in this situation. Walking to her bed he slowly laid her down. He gently pulled up the covers, not wanting to wake her up. TK made sure Kari was as comfortable as possible and headed to the door.
"TK?" He turned around to see Kari half awake.
"Hush, Kari. Get your rest. You had a long day," TK walked up to the side of the bed and kneeled down beside Kari. She had a disappointed look on face.
"But..." Kari pouted.
"No buts," TK said putting his finger on her lips. "Get your sleep. I'll see you at school tomorrow anyway." Kari nodded. She was too tired to hug him, so she kissed his finger, which hadn't moved for her lips.
"Good night TK," then closing her eyes, Kari was fast asleep. She didn't know if she was dreaming but it felt that TK kissed her lightly on the cheek.
"Good night Kari, and may you have sweet dreams."
***
"What the heck is taking TB so long?" Davis grumbled to himself. What seemed like seconds to everyone else, were like hours to Davis.
"Come on Davis, calm down," Ken said obviously hearing Davis' protest. "Tai knows that TK is a good person, so he puts his faith in him to take good care of Kari." Ken was trying to bring some logic into Davis' train of thought. "You look up to Tai, so why can't you get along with TK like Tai does?"
"Listen Ken. As long as TZ keeps flirting with Kari he's my rival. If he gives up then maybe I'll consider him otherwise." Said Davis with a coldness in his voice. "Kari loves me and I love Kari end of story. It was like a dream come true, but along comes TJ and gums everything up!"
"Ha, looks like you got some of those characters mixed up in your story Davis!" Smirked Yolei, who then sat beside Ken.
"Whatever," snapped Davis crossing his arms, "If things don't work out my way, I'll make them," he thought to himself.
TK walked out of Kari's room and closed the door slowly behind him. Seeing the group was waiting for him around the couch he walked up there. TK sat beside Izzy because he would probably be doing all of the questioning. "You, guys probably have questions, so fire away. I'll try to answer them with much detail as possible." said TK. As if they had been holding their breath, the digidestined let out a barrage of questions at once.
"Hold it!" Tai said waving his hands, "One at a time, and keep it down."
"Alright so why not..." Izzy was sharply cut off by Davis.
"What happened between you and Kari in the digital world TP? I want answers!" Davis commanded.
"It's none of your business Davis," replied TK, "but if you want to know, nothing out of the ordinary happened between us." Seeing that Davis wouldn't accept his answer, TK looked at Tai for assistance.
"Save the 'least' important questions for later, right now let Izzy do the questioning," said Tai who had asserted his authority. Davis sat back down, but not without grumbling. "It's all yours Izzy." Tai said sitting back down.
"As I was saying, why not start off when this all happened." He was clearly fascinated in what TK had to say. TK then proceeded on explaining about the explosion, and the dark digimon. He then continued on to the part when he snapped and how he went through the miraculous transformation, and finally their escape. Izzy had taken great mental note of the events and typed everything on his laptop.
"Wow, that's some amazing stuff" Tai said, "I'm just glad that you and Kari are alright. Thanks for looking out for her."
"TK are all these events true? I wish I had cool powers like that!" said Ken.
Davis of course hated when TK always was looked up to. He had to prove him wrong. "Ha, they're all lies I tell you! What TR described to me, the energy blasts, golden hair, and yellow lights, it sounds like a certain anime show that I recently saw! What did you do TY? Go ask the barber to dye your hair, and then shove some glow sticks in it?" Smirked Davis. He wasn't going to buy any of TK's story it was probably just a ploy to get more attention. "You're just some crazy anime fan trying to play with other people minds."
"I don't have to prove anything to you Davis," TK replied never losing his cool. He didn't want to lose any control over his emotions, remembering how he had scared Kari. "I don't even know if there's anything special about me in the first place." TK said trying to make his answer as humble as possible.
"That's right. There is nothing special about you, so stay the heck away form Kari. She deserves someone special like me." Davis said jabbing his finger at TK's chest.
"Back off Davis!" TK said knocking Davis' hand away. "I have nothing against you, but if you push me I'll push back, and you don't want me to push back." TK threatened, as anger slowly crept into his thoughts.
Davis wasn't going to back down. He proceeded with his taunts. "What are you going to do TK? Scare me away with your nice attitude? You already don't have to, just seeing you makes me sick!"
Anger slowly consumed TK's thoughts, it was pushing him to shut Davis up. "You're really going to get it Davis!" TK growled. Anger was now the dominant emotion in TK's mind. TK slowly clenched his fists and a small spark seemed to appear, then another, before long the yellow aura flashed to life, surrounding TK. Everyone gasped at the sight, even Davis couldn't help it.
"Stop it TK!" Tai said, jumping between the two rivals. "I don't want you two to settle your petty differences in my home." Tai then looked at Davis, "I don't want to be the one scrapping up the loser's carcass!"
Realizing what almost happened TK backed off. He let out a calming breath causing the aura to vanish as fast as it came. "I'm sorry Tai, I shouldn't let all that stuff get to me," said TK hanging his head in shame.
Izzy who ignored the little feud was busy at his laptop. "Prodigious!" Exclaimed Izzy. "I just managed to contact Gennai." Izzy continued to type madly away at the keyboard. "I'm sending him all the details right now, he will know what's going on." There was a brief pause as the digidestined waited for a blue bar to reach the other end of its box. Finally it reached its destination signifying that the upload was done.
"So what now?" asked Yolei glancing over Izzy's shoulder.
"We wait for Gennai's reply," said Tai. The laptop beeped indicating that Genni had sent a response.
"I need to see TK at once. Tell him to come over right now. I must see him in person." Izzy said reading Genni's message, "and don't bring your digivice."
"What? Don't need a digivice? What makes TS here so special?" Laughed Davis. He was not willing to accept the fact that TK possessed 'powers'. All it was to Davis was just a big hoax.
"Well give it a try," said Izzy clearly intrigued by Gennai's instructions. "This may prove to be quite interesting."
"Here Tai hold on to this I'm not sure how long it will take," said TK handing Tai his digivice." Promise you won't lose it?"
"Of course I won't," Tai said putting it in his pocket. "I'm a very organized person."
"Yeah, judging by how your room looks like, you are very organized," TK joked.
"You're very lucky TK, if it weren't for my sis liking you I probably would have pounded you real good." Tai chuckled making TK blush, while Davis shaking his fist in anger, "now get going before I change my mind." TK extended his right arm towards Izzy's laptop screen.
"Well here goes," with a bright light TK disappeared into the digital world. The digidestined just stood there in shock as TK was swept into the digital world.
"I got to learn how TK did that!" said Cody.
Davis had also witnessed what had happened but he didn't want to believe a single bit. "No way is TV letting me believe any of that junk." Davis thought to himself, but if he were looking into a mirror his facial expression would say otherwise.
***
The trip to the digital world was the same as any other. In a few seconds TK appeared in a very similar underwater house. "Welcome TK," came a man's voice. TK turned around and came face to a hooded young man in a white cloak with brown outlining.
"Gennai is that you?" said TK "You look a lot younger."
"You look not bad yourself," Gennai said noting TK's golden hair. He removed his hood, and motion TK to sit with him at a near by table.
"Want some digi-cola, and some chocolate covered rice balls?" Offered Gennai. TK gladly accepted, he didn't notice that he was so hungry until now. "You probably have questions to ask me about what had happened, so why not you start asking." Gennai said with a serious voice.
"What happened to me today?" Asked TK between mouth fulls, "what's with the golden hair and the yellow light?"
"To what I know is that you had a hidden power inside of you. You are the digidestined of hope, and you already possessed that power, but somehow yours is much stronger than the others. It may have been because of that dire moment when it could finally be brought forth. Your hair shines a golden radiance, because you and the unleashed powers of hope have fused into one being. The aura is a result of you calling forth the powers within you to the surface. The more you summon the more the stronger light will grow, along with your abilities.
"How do I control these powers? From what you are saying they can be quite dangerous. I don't want to hurt anyone around me especially Kari."
"You must learn to control your powers slowly. To what I can see you have a lot to learn, at least you know how call forth the powers within you to the surface. If you let your darker emotions get a hold of your thoughts you may do things that you normally wouldn't do. Before you exert your full potential, you must learn how to control your emotions."
"Are the powers of hope fused with me permanently, or can I turn it off and on like a light switch?" Asked TK. He didn't want to be a walking lighthouse for the rest of his life, always attracting stares from other people.
"You can fuse, or unfuse with the powers within you at your own will. Take heed though, that this may take time to perfect. You must train yourself to be able to fuse yourself with your powers at any moment's notice. This is all that I know of your power. There rest of it you have to discover on your own. For example you are now able to jump between both worlds without the aid of a digivice."
"So I basically have to learn about my hidden powers on my own?" Said TK slightly disappointed.
"Yes, this may seem like a difficult task, but let your heart, and the hope inside of you guide your every action."
"Why do I have these powers, am I the only one?" TK was curious to know if he was not the only digidestined.
"The child of light may also possess the same type of hidden power, but maybe the time hasn't come for it to be unleashed," replied Gennai.
"Kari may have it too?" Said TK surprised and happily. He then frowned at the next thought. "Are there evils that also own powers like ours?"
"Yes, long ago there was once another digidestined like you who possessed similar powers," replied Gennai almost hesitantly. "Unfortunately he allowed his dark emotions to lead him astray."
"Who?" Asked TK he was. "What happened to him?"
"Let's just say that he poses no immediate threat at the moment. You must concentrate on controlling your powers, and strengthening them," replied Gennai with firmness in his voice. "When the time comes you will probably have to face off against him, but don't let this bother you now."
TK nodded, he didn't want worry about too much at the moment. "I almost forgot. Kari's digivice was destroyed can you get her a new one?" Questioned TK, he remembered to look on her face and never wanted to see her like that, it broke his heart.
"You can give yours to her. You and Kari share an special bond between each other that I don't even fully understand, she will be able to use it from now on," replied Gennai. "Don't worry about Patamon, the powers of hope follow freely within you giving him the power to digivolve as long as you are with him." Gennai then stood up to and walked TK to the computer. "Remember to train your abilities, with practice you will be able to control them as a second nature. Remember to control your darker emotions, and never let then influence you."
"Don't worry Gennai," TK said with confidence. "I promise I will be fine."
"One last thing, you are given great powers for a reason, use them wisely. Protect those who need to be protected and give hope to those who have lost it. You must use your powers to further strengthen the forces of good." TK nodded and said his goodbye. He extended his hand to the computer screen and disappeared.
"I wish you luck TK. For every strong force of good there is always a strong force of darkness waiting to challenge it."
***
TK came through Izzy's laptop with a bright light. He looked around and saw that no one was waiting for him. The laptop was left open on the dinner table probably waiting for his return. He looked at the microwave clock it was almost midnight. "Probably everyone went home." TK thought as he went to get Patamon, then walking to the door. He saw Tai at the doorway lifting up the fallen door, with help from Izzy.
"What took you so long?" Asked Tai, who had just noticed TK.
"Yeah what did Gennai say?" Izzy questioned, he really wanted to know what Gennai had to say about everything.
"I can't really repeat it word for word, but it's a lot of stuff, replied TK. "Maybe some other time, I need to be getting home."
"Yeah the others just left. If you hurry maybe you can catch up with them," said Tai, "and TK, next time watch it with the door." TK let out a laugh and started his walk home. Tai reached into his pocket and realized TK had forgotten his digivice. "I guess I'll have Kari give it to him tomorrow."
It would have been dark but his golden hair seemed to shine even brighter. Luckily it was quite late so very few people were on the streets. TK tried with all his might but couldn't seem to make his hair revert back to it's original blond. Sighing slightly TK decided to give up on the effort and try again later. He also was thinking what Gennai had talked about. TK realized that Gennai never mentioned what his powers were capable of doing. "I guess I have to wait and see," TK said to no one in particular. Finally reaching his apartment he opened the door and walked in. He hoped that his mom was asleep, as he softly closed the door. TK wasn't sure what she would make of his hair. He crept through the kitchen, and saw a note placed on the refrigerator
"TK, I was called to an emergency business conference and I won't be home for a week. I would expect that you know how to take care of yourself by now. I told Matt to come check up on you once in a while," read the note.
TK put the note back and walked over the couch and sat down. He put Patamon down beside him, and the reached for the TV remote. He felt tired but he wanted to watch some TV to ease his mind a little.
After about five minutes of channel surfing he came a cross the anime show Davis was talking about. "What? I don't see anything familiar to what he said earlier." TK saw a young man dress in an orange gi. He had hair like Tai's but it was black and maybe more spiky. It looked like the spiky haired person was ready to fight a mean looking monster. The Tai look alike then raised his fists slightly and there was a sonic boom. In an instant the once black spiky hair transformed into a fiery yellow, and flames of the same color seemed to be coming from his body. The newly transformed person, practically flew forward unleashing a blinding volley of punches and kicks at his opponent "Whoa talk about coincidence." thought TK as he watch the show with growing interest. The yellow haired fighter seemed just exactly like TK, or was TK just like him. TK wondered if his powers were like the ones depicted on the show. Seeing the monster get knocked to the ground, the spiky haired character flew upwards into the sky. "It would be amazing if I could fly!" Said TK, he could just picture himself feeling the air rushing past him. Finally the character stopped in mid-air. He intensified the yellow fire burning around him. He cupped his hands together at his side and slowly chanted a phrase as a blue energy gathered into his hands. Then shooting his hands forward he unleashed a blue wave of power hurtling down at the monster causing a gigantic explosion. TK was practically staring into the TV wide eyed. He wondered if his powers were capable of being that destructive. "Ha, that's a silly thought," said TK to himself, "How can a TV show be real, but it would be so great!" TK turned off the TV and walked into his bedroom, slipped into his night clothes and went to bed.
***
In his dreams he could picture himself fighting off evil with his new amazing powers. The best part was being able to fly; it was the greatest of all feelings. What made the dream even better was that Kari was cuddled up in his arms smiling happily. This was like the best thing that could ever happen in a dream. TK wanted it to never end.
If only all dreams could come true.
To Be Continued...