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Hope Unleashed: My Hope is In You
Davis was getting frustrated at his now stronger opponents. He thought that he had them on the run, but then they were able to DNA digivolve among themselves making a super army. "The moment when TS isn't around and I'm screwing it up!" growled Davis. He wanted to prove that he was better then TK to Kari, hoping that she would see him as the better. He surveyed the raging battle between good and bad, and the good side, his side wasn't fairing to well. He looked over at Kari who was coaching Slyphymon. He was entranced by her every move, she was so beautiful, the perfect girl he ever wanted. Why couldn't things work out the way he wanted? He saw that she would look down at her hand periodically, whispering something. He squinted his eyes and saw the object in her hand was TK's digivice. "Kari probably hoping that TC would come and help us," fumed Davis, " I can handle everything without him. When I wipe the floor with all these digimon, I'll show Kari that TF is nowhere as good as me." Whirling around he turned to face Ken, "so how are we doing?"
"See for yourself," said Ken pointing high in the air. Davis saw Paildramon blasting away at the enemy while barely dodging attacks. "It doesn't look too good, we probably need TK's help, with Shakkoumon..."
"Forget TK!" snapped Davis, "we don't need his help! Beside Armidillomon is out of the action, so they can't DNA digivolve to begin with!"
"What are you saying Davis?" questioned Ken, "we need all the help we can get, even without Shakkoumon, we could us Angemon, and how about TK's powers?"
"What powers?" snarled Davis, he was never going to believe TK would have a hidden power and not him. "He has no powers to start off with! How can that phony TC trick you! And you say you're the genius!" Ken was being pushed the wrong way. Davis was becoming more annoying by every second.
"Shut up Davis! Leave your meaningless hatred toward TK out of this," shouted Ken, "I'll show you what a genius could do to a total ignoramus like yourself!"
Kari and Yolei saw that the guy's arguing had exploded into free for all. The both of them ran up between the two boys and pulled then apart. "What has gotten between you two guys?" scolded Yolei. She then looked at Kari who was holding Davis back.
"Stop it Davis, control yourself!" Kari was in front of Davis with both her hands on each of his shoulders holding Davis back while he swung at Ken. "The fight is not between you guys but over there!" Kari said nodding her head to their digimon who were still in the battle.
"I'll show Ken that I'm better than TR!" yelled Davis as he yet another uncontrolled fist fly, but this time Kari was unfortunately in the path. It was so fast that she didn't have time to react and it stuck her right across the face knocking her down.
Kari fell to the ground, and grabbed her injured cheek. Her head rang from the force of the punch and her vision was all blurry. Why did Davis lose control of himself? "Are you OK Kari?" came voice. She turned her head and saw what looked like Cody. He apparently came to help her. His face was filled with concern "I think you..."
"Back off Cody!" Said Davis pushing the small boy away, "Are you OK Kari? I'm so sorry!" said Davis in the most soothing voice that he had at the moment, which wasn't very soothing one bit.
"What's going on Davis? You're not acting like yourself!" said Yolei and then turning to Ken, "You also have to explain yourself."
"I won't be the one getting in trouble," smirked Ken, "When TK gets over here he's going to give him heck for what he did to Kari."
"That's it!" Davis ran towards Ken.
It looked to Cody that the situation wasn't going to calm down by itself so he decided to intervene. He gave a glance to Armidillomon and then nodded to the digimon. The rookie digimon ran into Davis' path tripping him. The two of them then launched themselves on top of the flailing Davis pinning him down and wouldn't budge no matter how bad his threats got.
***
The dark spirit had witnessed the young boy's sudden out burst of rage, and it pleased the spirit. Apparently the spirit's presents had an influence on this boy, greater than the other children. Having that much dark feeling at his control, fascinated it. This suppressed anger was perfect to use. It then brought its attention the battling digimon. It looked like the digidestined digimon were slowly weakening. "Excellent, soon enough everything will fall into place."
***
Kari stood up slowly still slightly dazed by Davis' punch. What compelled him to lash out like that? Surely he wouldn't do that on his own, or would he? Kari saw that Cody was trying with all his might to calm Davis down, but nothing worked since he was still on top of him. Ken and Yolei then walked over and gave a hand making Cody's job less difficult. Putting a hand to her cheek Kari winced at the pain, was it that hard of a hit?
"Things are starting to fall apart," sighed Patamon who fluttered to Kari's side, "we're losing sight of what is more important."
***
TK ran as fast as he possible could. His golden hair shone brightly in the darkened forest lighting his way. He could tell that every moment counted, he could almost feel something was calling him and was becoming more urgent. He could almost feel that it was Kari calling him. This only made him try to run faster. Kari being in such a distressed state made him panic even more. "Faster!" yelled TK to himself trying to push himself to whatever maximum he could reach. "Faster! Kari's in trouble, and I know the others are too." TK lowered his head and charged with a blinding speed. This though did not satisfy TK one bit, knowing the distance between him and that others was still great he could only get more frustrated not being any faster. "I can't let Kari down. I let her get this far, and I'm the one who has to pull her out." TK was blaming himself for the whole idea of letting Kari got the digital world without him. "I should have told her to wait," Tears were running down his face leaving a sparkling trail behind him as they jumped off his face. "No, Kari I won't let you down! All I have to do is get there now!" he shouted as he rubbed the tears away. The fastest way he could think of getting to Kari was only obtainable in his dreams, but somehow this one came true. TK felt all of the friction from the ground leave his feet. He abruptly stopped and looked at the new turn of events. He was now several feet off the ground. It would appear that was actually flying. Of course under all other circumstances he would be happy beyond belief, but now wasn't the time at all. TK looked skyward, for that was his new path. Focusing his thoughts he willed himself, or at least as he termed it, to accelerated breaking through the forest canopy and into the sky. The wind rushed by him, he had reached another level of speed. Knowing that precious time was slowly slipping away TK kicked it into his highest gear and soared towards Kari with a blazing light. Now with his newfound ability he had a strong hope that things will work out, they just had too.
***
Davis gasped on the ground while the others held him down. For some strange reason they were yelling at him to calm down. "Calm down for what?" groaned Davis as the weight of the others were starting to bother him. They shouted questions at him, about why did he flipped out and why he was so careless enough to hit Kari. He then remembered all the events but why did he do them? He had a lot of pent up emotions but would have never expected them to be released at that moment and on the wrong people. "OK I'm back to normal guys! Get off!" The digidestined slowly got off him and backed off a considerable distance just incase. He saw the hurt look on Kari's face, as she held her bruised cheek. "Oh no! What have I done!" shouted Davis' mind. He was about to walk to Kari when there was such a powerful explosion that knocked everyone down.
"What was that?" Shouted Yolei. Everyone scanned the whole area to see what had happened. What they saw was both Veemon and Wormmon falling to the ground. The blast had probably caused enough damage for the two to dedigivolve. Both Ken and Davis ran out to catch their partners before they crashed into the ground.
Davis dove and just caught his partner. Landing on the ground he gave a big hug to his digimon. "Are you OK? What happened?" asked Davis staring at his pal.
"Wormmon and me couldn't keep it up any longer, somehow they're way too strong even for us." coughed to little digimon then passing out.
"This isn't looking good," said Ken with a grim voice. He held Wormmon in his arms, who was in the same condition as Veemon, both not being able to fight.
Kari and the others ran to see what had happened. Now that Paildramon was no longer able to fight. She could only hope that Slyphymon could hold off the dark digimon while TK could reach them in time.
"Static force!" shouted the DNA digimon firing a blast of energy, while spinning out of the way from at least a hundred energy attacks. This battle was totally one sided and it wasn't on theirs. There was no way that it could fight off that amount of digimon with the limited strength it had. Exhaustion tugged away at Slyphymon. Never did a battle take this long and they were not prepared for this prolonged exertion in this high energy demanding state. It had witnessed the powerful attack that struck Paildramon and instantly dedigivovled the DNA digimon. Again just barely dodging the even more accurate and powerful blasts Slyphymon returned fire. This time the pink energy wave was easily knocked away by one of the evil digimon. The only ounce of energy was used up causing the already tired DNA digimon to fall the ground.
"No!" shouted Kari, their only last line of defense had been defeated. She saw Slyphymon crash to the ground in pure exhaustion, splitting back to Gatomon and Hawkmon.
Kari and Yolei both ran to their digimon and picked then up. Kari saw that dark digimon were closing in, apparently taking their time. "We got to do something!" shouted Kari to everyone, "it just can't end like this!" She searched everyone's face and received no answer. Has it come to this? Has everyone lost their hope? "No I won't believe it! TK will help us," cried Kari, she had put all her hope onto TK and he hadn't shown up yet. "Where are you TK?"
***
The dark spirit had decided that know was the time to acquire its new body. Slowly descending from its hiding place it positioned itself over his target. "Now for the final stage. Eliminate all of them but spare the boy," commanded the darkness only that the dark digimon could hear. It saw its minions charge towards the children, as they scattered with their digimon. The darkness couldn't help but laugh. It then felt someone was coming, "must be the child of hope. Things will get more interesting."
***
"Come on Kari we got to get out of here!" shouted Davis grabbing her hand.
"No Davis, even if we did run there's no place to hide," replied Kari with a determined voice, "I'm going to make my stand here and now. What ever happens I don't care anymore." Davis stared into her eyes. It looked like there was something in her eyes that the others lost, hope.
"Don't be stupid Kari!" shouted Davis, "That fool TS won't save you! He left you, and abandoned all of us!" He shook Kari roughly trying to get her to come with him.
"No he didn't. He's coming and I know it!" Kari was crying now. She held tightly on the digivice in her hand that it began to hurt. "I don't care if anyone doesn't believe in him, but I do!"
"Snap out of it!" yelled Davis as he slapped her across the face, giving her another red mark on the opposite side of her face. It was clear to Davis that Kari had defiantly flipped her lid. Even though it pained him to do it he had to bring Kari back to reality. "What if TK got here in time? What could he possibly do?"
TK was flying at top speed seeing the terrain zoom past him in a blur. "Where are they?" said TK scanning every possible area. "I know that I don't have much time left!" Passing over a mountain he saw an open field. There he saw an army of the dark digimon, but they had changed. He saw several figures running, it looked like Ken, Yolei, and Cody, but they were quickly cut off by the digimon. Where were Kari and Davis? He then caught a glimpse of the two. Davis was trying to pull Kari who wasn't budging. Now the whole group was surrounded.
Kari stared at a lone dark digimon as it led the pack. It had its powerful arm raised to strike her down with one hit. "Why does it have to end up like this," thought Kari as she saw all the events in slow motion. She watched the digimon move closer and closer. Davis said something to her, but she didn't pay attention. "Just remember TK, that I was the only one who believed in you," letting out a tear she lowered her head and waited for her end. It never came. All she hard was a loud crash and a frightening roar. She could have sworn that she saw at streak of golden light.
"What the heck was that?" shouted Davis. He had just blinked for only a second and it was enough time to miss what had happened. The dark digimon was sprawled on the ground not able to get up. Apparently the other digimon had stopped the charge when one of them was knocked down. They had seen who had done it, and gazed into the sky.
Davis and Kari both followed the stares of the digimon and fell upon TK. His hair was burning a fiery gold as he looked down from the sky. TK slowly descended not taking his eyes off the digimon.
"TK!" Shouted Patamon as he fluttered up to his friend.
Kari was so relieved that TK was here. She ran you to him and gave TK a big hug, and cried into his chest. "TK, I knew that you would come," sobbed Kari, "We tried to hold them off but they were so strong."
"It's alright Kari," said TK soothingly stroking her hair. He then glared at the dark digimon. "I'm so sorry that I didn't get here faster." TK's anger was rising like never before. Why did bad things always happen to the ones he cared for? That was enough. He was going to destroy every single dark digimon. TK rised his hand as a burning energy formed around it. Throwing his fist forward he sent the collected energy blasting several of the surrounding digimon.
"How could you that?" Gasped Kari. She started at TK's hand. How powerful is he?
"I don't know Kari," said TK staring at his hand, "it's just like how I can fly, it just somehow happened." TK then put his arm in front of Kari and motion her to back up. "I'll handle this with Patamon"
"Right, lets do this," said the little digimon flying up beside TK.
"Kari I want you to find some place safe, you too Davis," said TK, "Izzy can probably reopen the digiport."
"No TK I won't go, what if you need help?" said Kari in a shaky voice, even though she knew that TK was powerful but she felt something was still going to go wrong.
"Fine you stay her, but keep out of this until I say so," said TK then turning to Davis, "You and others should leave I don't need you to be here,"
"Forget it TF," smirked Davis, "don't expect me to believe that you can truly save the day by yourself."
"Have it your way Davis," sighed TK, "but you guys don't have to stick around if you don't want to," he explained to the others. He then looked to Patamon, "You ready buddy?"
"Ready than I'll ever be!" piped the small digimon. TK glared at the evil digimon, who had not moved for their spot. They were apparently waiting for him to make to first move.
"They're going down, every single one of them!" growled TK. Gripping his fist tightly he raised them in front of his face and concentrated with all his might. The ground shook as TK called forth the powers inside him to the surface. It seemed that the area around TK brighten even more. Yellow lighting bolts seemed to explode from him. Letting out a forceful shout TK unleashed a blinding yellow light. The howls of the dark digimon were heard as they covered their eyes and tried to avoid the light.
"Time to digivolve!" Said TK with a blazing aura that now surrounded him.
Patamon digivolve to... Angemon. With a similar flash of light stepped forth an angel digimon, who was once Patamon.
"Lets get it on!" shouted TK as he charged into the group of evil digimon, with Angemon following beside him. TK unleashed a powerful punch knocking one of the dark digimon right off its feet. He then quickly ducked a power swipe and returned with a kick to the digimon that got too close. Then letting lose an energy attack he targeted it into a mass of digimon, leveling to whole group.
Angemon used his staff with skillful accuracy landing damaging blows onto his attackers. For some reason they never stayed down. It seemed that all he could do was repeat this endless fighting. Jumping back with his blazing fist he released a powerful blast of energy, "Hand of Fate!" The blast made contact with the enemy but as soon as the energy had faded they stood back up. Again the angel digimon repeated his attack with same results. Nothing seemed to be working.
Kari looked on from a safe distance, watching TK's every move. He was blocking the powerful blows of the digimon while attacking with his own. He never stopped for a second as he continued his attacks punching, kicking, and blasting down the evil digimon, but for some reason they always seemed to get back up.
TK swirled around striking a digimon that snuck up behind him. They never stopped coming. For some reason he wasn't strong enough. Unleashing a deadly kick he sent another digimon into the air. Their attacks only seemed to get stronger and faster, or was he tiring out. He felt a sharp pain slam into his back. Normally it would have killed anyone weaker. TK reeled around and smashed his fist into the digimon, but then was struck by another. Again TK countered with his own attack, but then was stuck by another, then another. He was getting swarmed and he knew it. All the attacks he was receiving were taking their toll.
Kari could see TK getting swarmed by attacks from the digimon. "He can't keep that pace up forever!" Shouted Kari who then looked at Gatomon, "We have to help him."
"I want to, but I can't," said Gatomon sadly, "I used up all my energy." Kari looked on and was unable to help. She saw Angemon was blasted from the side by an energy attack, but he was quick enough to put his guard up, but the blast was strong enough knocking him away. With the angel digimon temporally out of the way all the dark digimon focused on TK. This time there was enough of them to out number the young boy. They bombarded him with attacks in all directions.
TK was blinded by wave after wave of pain. There were explosions all around him causing him to focus his energy in blocking all the attacks. Even though his barrier held off most of the damage they were slowly chipping away at what energy he had left. There was smoke everywhere, and he couldn't see anything. All of a sudden a massive arm raced toward him, but he saw it and ducked. Then a gigantic foot came down nearly stomping down on him if he hadn't rolled away. TK knew that he was a sitting target if he stayed there. Flipping up he jumped onto the air, away from the blinding cloud. He hovered in mid-air thinking what he could do next. Nothing. All his attacks weren't working. Then only thing he could think of was to get stronger, but how. He peered down at the cloud and saw hundreds of dark spheres launched towards him. Taking evasive actions TK swerved to his left and then his right dodging as much as he could. Returning with his own energy blasts, TK fired them towards the oncoming attacks canceling them out. This process was draining TK. He wasn't sure how long he could keep up. TK continued to rain down with his blasts of energy. Suddenly he stopped, he could not longer keep up the pace. He was then struck with his guard down and the explosion knocked him down to the ground.
TK slammed hard onto the ground just a few feet away from Kari. His body was aching all over. It felt like he had used up all his energy, but he had still failed. Angemon had gotten back up and was holding the dark digimon at bay, but for how long could he do it? "I failed..."
Kari ran up to TK and kneeled down beside him. She propped him up and rested him on her thigh. She looked at him with sad eyes. "TK," she said with tears running down her face, "Don't give up TK! I believe in you." TK sat up. "Don't give up hope TK, because I didn't." Kari said holding TK's digivice close to her. "You're much stronger than you know, stronger than any of us know."
TK closed his eyes as tears rolled down his face, what Kari said compelled him to go on, but could he? He felt so exhausted. His arms hung loosely beside him as his shoulders slumped. Looking at his partner he could see that he was also losing his edge. "If Kari believes in then I won't let her down." TK searched desperately for something inside of him, for any ounce of energy left inside of him. It was there, he knew it, but why couldn't he us it? Focusing with all his might and pushing out the sounds of the fight around him he looked deep inside of him. It was there, the power was there, and he could see it, an overwhelming amount of it. Try with all his might he could not attain it.
"Try harder," called a voice, it sounded like Kari's, "Don't lose hope, because I didn't." TK felt like he was reaching for it but the more he reached the more it slipped away. "I believe in you TK, you are my hope." He felt Kari hugging him very tightly, and felt wet drops hitting his shoulder they were her tears. "If I can't use this power for anything else, let me just use it to protect the one I love!" That was it TK with all his might reached and just snagged a portion of that immense power inside but it was enough. TK felt an extreme rush of power pulse though his whole body. It felt like he was on an overload. Opening his eyes he could see that his aura was burning with such intensity that he never saw before.
Kari had never left TK side. She hugged him tightly encouraging TK on to find his hidden power, she didn't know if he had heard her, but she was glad it worked. His hair burned so bright that she couldn't look directly at it. His aura had grown so large that was practically doubled in size. TK got up and spread his feet shoulder's length apart. A wind kicked up around TK as he called more of the power that was inside. It looked like there was a tornado around him.
"Angemon!" shouted TK over the rushing wind, "Digivolve again!" Angemon had felt his energy increase dramatically when TK exploded with new power.
Angemon digivolve to... Magnaangemon! The two now even more powerful fighters stood together ready to take on the evil digimon.
Kari had a new feeling of hope that TK could win. She looked at TK's digivice and it changed to a shining gold. "TK's power must have changed it," Kari turned to Gatomon, "how do you feel?"
"Much stronger," replied Gatomon, "Let me in there! I'm ready for action!"
"Digivolve!" shouted Kari, holding TK's digivice towards Gatomon. A shower of light rained down onto Gatomon giving her a boost of energy.
Gatomon digivolve to... Angewoman! The newly digivovled digimon flew in the air joining TK and Magnaangemon.
TK led the attack blazing towards the digimon. Every blow the he landed on the digimon produced an explosion blowing away the portion of the digimon that he struck. Placing both hands in front of him, he unleashed a power wave of yellow energy, dissolving the dark digimons' attack, cutting through everything in its path.
"Gate of Destiny!" called out Magnaangemon. Circling his beam sword he created a glowing gate of power. The immense gate opened creating a powerful vacuum sucking all that was evil into it. With his powerful wings propelling him, he rocketed towards his enemy slashing at every opportunity. The beam sword ripped through what ever it stuck with ease, laying waste to all that opposed him.
"Celestial arrow!" called Angewoman, letting loose an arrow of pure energy piercing the hearts of the evil digimon. One by on the evil digimon broke apart into digital dust. Letting lose more of the magical arrows the digimon were quickly dwindling in numbers.
***
The dark spirit knew that now was the time. The boy known as TK proved to be stronger than he anticipated but he could never use his full power. He and his digimon, and the girl known as Kari and her digimon, were focused on the fight, leaving the one known as Davis wide in the open. The spirit swooped down and landed behind the boy.
Davis could only stare at the spectacle that unfolded in front of him. TK arrived and started to kick the all digimon's butts. At one moment he thought that TK couldn't win when he was struck down, but then Kari did something to help him. "Am I missing something here?" said Davis. Davis felt a cold draft creep up behind him. He turned around and saw nothing, but something didn't feel right. Someone was watching him but whom? He slowly paced backwards to Kari. When suddenly a blackness appeared and hurled itself at him. Davis let out a yell as a sharp pain pierced his body then all was black while laughter echoed in his head.
Kari had heard Davis' yell and she ran up to him. "Davis?" She asked bending down and shaking him, "Are you OK?" He felt so cold, and there was a strange felling she got for him, darkness.
The others ran up to him. "What happened?" Asked Veemon who shook Davis.
"I don't know," said Kari. All she saw was Davis lying there. "Didn't any of you guys see anything?"
"No," replied Cody, "we were too busy watching the fight."
"You guys look after him," said Kari standing back up. "I'm going to make sure TK is alright."
TK fired a forceful punch sending another dark digimon spiraling into the air. He then leapt forward slamming his foot into the midsection of yet another digimon. This time everything seemed to be much easier. Somehow Kari was able to help him obtain a new level of his hidden power. He looked around and saw whatever dark digimon was left was being taken care of by the two angels. TK stood there placing his two hands together. He was going to destroy all the dark digimon with one single blast. All small yellow energy gathered in his hands, growing by the second as he focused more energy into it. "This is what happens to anything that tries to hurt Kari," still TK continued to gather more power into the attack.
Ken's digivice produced a beep. He took it out of his pocket and examined a red dot on it. "That must be the digiport. Izzy must have reopened it." He then looked at the others. Lets get out of here, we'll only be getting in the way of the others." He then looked down at the still unconscious Davis. "Help me lug this guy to the digiport."
"Didn't we already do this yesterday?" whined Yolei
"Weren't you the one who suggest it?" sighed Cody as he grabbed on of Davis' legs.
"Yeah, whatever, but I don't want to do it all the time," replied Yolei grabbing the other leg.
Ken bent down and and hooked his arms under Davis' lifting the boy up. He didn't notice it before, but he felt something strange, something familiar, darkness. Ken looked around and saw nothing. Where was this darkness coming from?
***
Dust clouded the air as Kari covered her mouth. TK had focused a massive amount of energy and unleashed it upon the remaining digimon, in a final attack blasting everything within the radius into nothing but digital dust. The energy blast ripped apart the ground sending large particles showering down. When everything settled she saw a humungous crater and an exhausted TK breathing heavily grasping to catch his breath. His aura had faded away and his hair was it's normal blond again. He was a complete mess and claw marks riddled his clothes. She looked down beside his feet and saw both Gatomon and Patamon, both fast asleep clearly also exhausted from the fight. Kari slowly walked up to TK as he bent down and picked up both digimon, then handing Gatomon to Kari.
"I wish I could say that it's finally over but, I can't," said TK with a sad voice still catching his breath. "Until I find who is ultimately behind all of this, it will never be over." He looked down. At the ground, and let out a tired sigh. "I'm not sure how I'm going to fair against the next encounter. There's so much power inside of me, but I can't even use it. I barely made it out alive." He closed his eyes, "Why is there always darkness in the world? Will the light always lose to it?"
"Don't say that TK," replied Kari with a slightly scared voice, "you're not giving up are you?" She then placed her hand on his shoulder to comfort him.
"Ah!" shouted TK as he winced in pain. He leaned over grabbing his injury.
"I'm so sorry TK!" said Kari, "I didn't know that you hurt yourself that badly." She saw him about to topple over. "Here let me help you," she said putting one of TK's arms over her shoulder to support him.
"You don't have to do this," said TK in a tired voice as he held Patamon in his arms.
"Don't worry TK," smiled Kari, "You saved all of us. You deserve some special treatment."
"Thanks Kari," sighed TK as he leaned his sleepy head on Kari's shoulder. "Thanks for believing in me. I couldn't have done it without you."
"That's what friends are for," smiled Kari. She walked the half asleep TK to the digiport. She lifted up TK's digivice which turned back to its original green color. The digiport flashed to life, and they left the digital world behind.
***
Ken and Izzy were sitting in the computer lab, while Davis laid propped up against the wall. Both Yolei and Cody already left, because it was late. "That's was some amazing events," said Izzy as he listened to Ken's explanation to the epic battle. "What happened to Davis?" He asked looking at the boy.
"I don't know," replied Ken, "none of us had seen what happened."
Davis opened his eyes. He realized that he was back in the computer lab. He slowly sat up and grabbed his pounding head. "What happened?" All he remembered was a darkness flying towards him, and evil laughter. It felt like his whole body was freezing. He rubbed his hands together. "Is it cold in here? Or is it just me?" Izzy and Ken turned their attention to him. "What? Aren't you guys cold too?"
"Not at all," replied Izzy, "it's almost summer."
"What happened?" Asked Ken.
"I don't know," replied Davis, "I think one of those digimon's attacks hit me."
"You're lucky I guess," Said Izzy examining Davis, "It looks to me that you hardly got a scratch on you."
"That's right!" laughed Davis, "It takes much more than a weak attack to put me out of action!" He looked around a saw Kari and TK weren't in sight. "Not again!" groaned Davis, "Where's Kari?"
"Right here," replied Kari stepping out of the digiport with TK leaning on her shoulder. She rested TK on a chair and sat beside TK. "Poor TK he's so exhausted." Said Kari wiping the dirt from his face.
TK looked into Kari's worried eyes, "I'll be fine," he said giving small smile and then standing up. He finally noticed that both of Kari's cheeks were bruised. "What happened?" he asked bringing his hand up to her cheek.
"Oh, it's nothing," said Kari pulling away. She didn't want to cause TK any more things to worry about. She caught a glimpse of Daivs but then looked away rubbing her cheek. "Why not I walk you home TK? It's getting pretty dark, and I don't want you to be walking home by yourself, in that condition of yours."
"You don't have to Kari," said TK walking to the door, "I'll be fine." TK rested on the doorway catching his breath. "Well I guess I'll see you guys tomorrow," he said waving. He slowly walked to the exit.
Kari sighed, as she saw TK trip over his own feet falling to the ground. "I guess I'll see you guys later," she said to the guys running up to help TK.
"Wait!" shouted Davis, "Let me walk with you too!" As he ran up to Kari, he wanted apologize to Kari, but then was grabbed by Izzy.
"I think you should leave those to alone, you caused enough of trouble today, and I don't think Kari wants TK to know. Who knows how he will react," Izzy had seen Davis' reaction, to TK's question about Kari's cheek, it looked like Davis had a guilty look.
Davis sunk his head in defeat. He had caused Kari enough problems for today. "Come on Veemon lets go home." He and Veemon walked out the opposite way and headed home. "You get a free one this time TK." Again he had a cold feeling all over him. "Are you sure none of you are feeling cold?"
***
The cool night air relaxed TK slightly, it been a very long day for him, and probably for Kari too. He looked over at her and saw that she was getting tired. "You know you don't have to do this," said TK.
"For that last time TK, I said I wanted too," laughed Kari, "Don't become a stubborn little boy."
"Really, I'm feeling fine," replied TK.
"Oh, then why do you still have hand your arm around me?" giggled Kari. She the ducked out of the way and left TK to stand on his own, which didn't turn out very well.
"Ouch," said TK rubbing his back when he fell over. "That was mean Kari," said TK but he couldn't help but laugh.
"Now do you want my help?" laughed Kari extending a hand to TK. He reached up and took her hand with a mischievous smile appearing on his face as he pulled Kari down.
"Not so fun is it when you're the one who does the falling is it?" laughed TK.
Kari sat up and playfully slugged TK in the arm, "TK!" scolded Kari, "Now that was mean!" she then broken into more laughter. The two of them were enjoying each other's company, every time when they were together it just made every moment more enjoyable. They had stopped laughing and just were just staring into each other's eyes not saying a word. Kari slowly took TK's hand.
"I can't thank you enough TK," said Kari staring into his ocean blue eyes. "You seem to save my life a countless amount of times, and you're always there for me." She then added a bold question, "What makes me so special to you TK?"
TK was completely caught off guard. What am I supposed to say? He had no explanation at the moment not even one. He fumbled with words in his head trying to string a suitable answer. "Um... We're friends and friends got stick together," TK mentally slapped himself. It looked like Kari was disappointed but he couldn't really tell by her expression. "Its really getting late Kari we better get to my place. You should call Tai when we get there." He pulled Kari back up to her feet. "It seems that the little time out we just had, really did the job," said TK patting his shoulder, and then cringing at the slight sting. "Almost as good as new," he sighed.
They walked in silence down the street, it was very quiet, and not a lot of people were around. Kari was lost in her thoughts. She was thinking what was actually in stored for TK, and is he really strong enough? Did his answer about being friends meant the way he wanted it to mean? There were still a lot of unanswered questions but she didn't want think too much. All she wanted was to enjoy the moment. Then a voice brought her back to reality.
"We're here," said TK opening his apartment door. He let Kari in then closing the door behind him. "The phone is over there," he said pointing to a wall mount phone.
"Thanks TK," replied Kari as she went to grab the phone. "Won't your mom be angry at you for staying up this late?'
"Nah, she's gone for the whole week. It's just me looking out for myself." He then limped into his bedroom. A moment later he stepped back out with a set of clothes and towel. "I'm going to take a shower, I'll be back in a few." TK stepped into the bathroom, and then the sound of running water could be heard.
Kari dialed her apartment and waited someone to pick up the phone, hoping it was Tai.
"Hello?" came a sleep voice on the other side.
"Tai, it's me Kari."
"Huh?" replied Tai still sleepily.
"It's me Tai, Kari. I'm at TK's house right now," said Kari a little louder hoping to wake Tai up a little.
"Yeah? So what you want me to do?" Came Tai's still sleepy voice, "You want me to tell mom and dad?"
"No silly! Just tell them I am at one of my friends house." Her parents would probably think it was one of her girl friends instead of TK, so she wasn't really lying.
"Yeah, yeah," replied Tai yawning, "I need my sleep now. So, finally TK and you realize it for yourselves, just make sure he doesn't do anything funny. Good night Kari"
"Good night Tai," said Kari hanging up. She walked over to the couch and sat down. "Why would Tai say a thing like that?" asked Kari to herself, "did TK tell Tai anything?" She turned on the TV and waited of TK to finish his shower.
The TV blinked to life and it just happened to on the channel that the anime TK and Davis were talking about. Kari stared at the show with interest. There was a young man on the screen fighting a group weird looking monsters, even stranger looking than digimon. He had blazing yellow hair and a burning aura, just like TK.
"Strange coincidence." Said TK sitting himself beside Kari drying off his hair.
"Yeah," said Kari staring into the TV, everything seemed so similar. She then turned to TK, "Um, you don't mind if I stay over tonight?"
"Of course not!" TK said with joy in his voice, maybe a little too much then we wanted too, "Anyway it is too late for you to heading home. Did your parents say that it was OK?"
"I told Tai that I'll be at my friends house, he'll know what to tell them," replied Kari. "So, do you have a spare set of clothes and a towel?"
TK was so delighted that Kari was staying over. He ran to his room and appeared after a few seconds with what Kari asked for. "These are the smallest set of clothes that I have it think they'll fit you nicely." he said handing them to Kari along with the towel. "I guess I'll sleep on the couch tonight, you can have my bed."
"No, you don't have to do that," said Kari.
"It's nothing big, anyway it's the gentlemanly thing to do, I think," said TK not too sure if what he said was true.
"OK, if you say so," giggled Kari, TK was acting funny.
"Oh yeah, you probably have to leave Patamon on the bedpost he seems to like that place the best," said TK walking into his room. He came out with a blanket and pillow and placed it on the couch. "Well I guess you should go and take a shower, it's really late. You don't mind if I don't wait for you?"
"Of course not silly, you need your rest. Besides tomorrow there's no school, so we have to do something, and I don't want a sleepy head to ruin my plans," said Kari.
TK smiled, "Don't worry Kari." He then pulled up the covers "Good night," and fell fast asleep.
After her shower Kari walked out dressed in TK's clothes, they were quite comfortable and fitted nicely. She placed her clothes into her bag. She walked by the couch and saw TK's crest rise and fall. She was glad he was sleeping peacefully. "Good night TK."
Kari placed Gatamon on the side of the bed and then got in. Pulling up the covers she stared at the ceiling. "Why can't I tell TK how I really feel?" thought Kari, "there are some many chances but why can't I do it? Does TK feel the same way? If he does, why didn't he say anything?" Kari sighed as the feeling of sleep crept upon her. "Maybe I have to wait for the right time to come around, maybe it has to be something special. I'm sure we'll have lots of time." Kari closed her eyes and went to sleep not being bothered by any bad dreams this night.
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The dark spirit now dwelled in his new body slowly getting stronger. It must find a way into influencing the boy to accept his powers then he could gain full control of the body. It rested in the deep recesses of the boy's soul slowly corrupting it.
Davis had problems going to sleep. He felt so cold that he had to borrow a spare blanket from Jun. Why was he so cold? Was he getting sick? Finally feeling warm enough, sleep eventually caught up with him. Tonight Davis had weird dreams. In his dreams he couldn't see himself, only a person covered in complete darkness, who was this person that he saw, or was it him?
To Be Continued...