Broken Adonis
Part 1 / Courage of The Damned
Summary: Poison...Potent whether a mindset or a venom, is always a dangerous thing.
In an emotional journey, Ken and Yolei are about to find out that insecurities and pain can take away the very world around you...
Wow! I love this one! It's the Kenlei for Kat-chan!
Mistress Kenlei's is next!
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She looked up the word 'incomplete' in the dictionary. It read:
Incomplete: Not complete; imperfect. Lacking in certain parts. As in some flowers.
Was that her? Was that the emptiness she felt? Being incomplete?
Glancing in the mirror, she looked over her physical self.
Trim, sleek, slender...Long legs...Nice breasts...Elegant hands and delicate feet..
But this was not what she saw.
As her eyes followed her reflection, she saw a scrawny reed...All bumbling legs and lanky figure...To thin by man's definition...To tall by her own...
She looked at her face
Smooth skin...Bright, honey hued eyes...thickly fringed...Full lips and a graceful jawline...Long mauve hair cascading down the gentle column of her neck...
But she was blind to her perfection.
A wan face...Yellow, plain eyes and an ugly visage. Straggly purple hair..An odd color.
Her reflection watched her with somber intent.
Sighing, she turned from her mirrored image, switching on her desk lamp.
The dictionary, in all its wise glory, mocked her with inky faces.
She blinked rapidly.
Incomplete...Imperfect...
Lacking...
Yes, she thought, as she sadly watched the words blur across her desk.
Lacking and alone.
Ken continued to search his mind for the correct definition of 'beauty'
That which is in the eye of the beholder.
The dictionary read;
Any of those qualities of objects, sounds emotional or intellectual concepts, behavior, etc. that gratify or arouse admiration to a high degree, especially by the perfection or form resulting from the harmonious combination of diverse elements in unity, or usually pertaining to a women.
Kari was beautiful.
She stood beside Tk and Davis, smiling softly up at them as they bickered.
Kari was lovely.
She waved him over, smiling, and Ken nodded solemnly. He bent down to pick up a tired little Wormon, and proceeded forward with a grin.
"Hello Kari." He mumbled shyly, and in the corner of his blue violet eyes, he noticed a slim shadow stand up and walk away.
Yes, she was just that. A shadow.
Yolei Inoue. Brash, loud, abrasive and warm, she seemed to dim and darken when beside the child of light.
But then...Most did.
Turning back to Kari, Ken brushed a strand of navy hair behind his ears and smiled.
"What are we here for today?"
Davis, searched the ominous shadows whose comrade had joined them.
"Hey? Where did Yolei go?"
Tk peered behind him, a frown marring his handsome face. "Did she wander off again? That girl is distracted by anything shiny and moving!"
Kari giggled, and covered her mouth. Davis twisted up his face. "C'mon guys! Don't be such jerks! What if she gets lost or somthin?"
Ken smirked, a challenge glinting within the depths of his sapphire eyes.
"Why such concern, Davis? Are you so fickle your feelings have switched to Yolei?"
Loud mouthed, gentle, forgiving, wonderful Yolei.
Another definition of beauty.
Ken drew his dangerous thought's from her, back to taunting the burgundy haired teen.
He must be cautious. It would be too easy to fall into the depths of the shadows.
To easy to slip and fall into the tossing current of all that she was.
He looked back at Kari, whose laughter could brighten even the darkest of hearts, and felt safer, lighter.
"We had best go find her." He murmured as Davis continued to splutter about Kari and love.
The other digidestined nodded, Cody began shouting her name as they entered the forest. Their nerves on edge and with reluctant bravery.
"Why did she wander into here? Why couldn't she go to the beach or somethin? When we find her, I am so gonna tell her that we..."
They paid Davis no heed as they searched for the missing digidestined.
All her insecurities came to surface beside the light.
The smile, warm and soft bestowed upon the tiny brunette sliced her to the core.
Kari was everything she had ever hoped to be. Just like Mimi was everything she aspired to be.
Kari was gentle and graceful, sweet and thoughtful.
She was tiny and curvy, with a nymph-like face and laughing smile.
And she was envious, oh so envious...
She had stood, tracing a path into the welcoming emptiness that filled her soul, like wind howling and echoing through the crumbling ruins of a castle...
And she was the great stone mansions banshee.
Yolei sighed, twirling her fingers around her velvety violet hair, pushing up her glasses with a gloved hand.
Her booted foot splashed gently, and she looked down into the rippling pool of crystal blue before her.
So much like his eyes…
The surface calmed, the ripples smoothing like melting glass, and she gazed upon the unwelcome wavering reflection of herself.
Angrily, she tore off her yellow helmet, tossing it to the side.
Her hand's came to her skin, pale and sad, and she touched her face.
Tear's pooled within the golden depths of her eyes, pouring across the silken sheen and dripping over or beneath her glasses.
She stripped off her white gloves, running a hand though the adorning strands of purple as she sobbed.
She was angry and hurt. Bitter and ugly...
And so weak...So very weak...
To be feeling like this. To be so self-absorbed. She felt even uglier then before.
Furious, she swiped at her water image, splashing herself with more then salty tears.
Yolei stood, brushing a hand over her vest before she tore at the buttons, flinging it aside.
Clad in a light, pearly blouse and her red pants and boots, her lavender hair wild and curling around her face, she resembled some Celtic goddess sent to tame the crushing jade and ebony wildlife around her.
She sniffled, feeling liberated, and continued though the trees.
"Look at this!"
Davis eagerly lifted an orange-yellow helmet out of the dim grass, carrying it above his head like a war prize.
"It's her helmet!" Kari clapped, searching the glade for some sign of their friend.
"But I don't see her..." The blonde digidestined of hope's eyes fluttered around the pool. Crystalline and clear in the shadows of the forest.
Ken looked towards the water, tempted to brush his fingers over the glassy surface, to ripple the perfect imperfection.
"And look! It's her vest! And her gloves!"
The Digidestined leader blushed angrily as he looked sideways at Tk and Ken.
"So what...Is Yolei like, wandering around naked?!"
Kari frowned, arching a delicate brown brow. "The rest of her stuff isn't here, so it's safe to assume she's decent."
"So far..." muttered Tk, and Davis snickered.
Ken remained facially impassive, as he searched his mind for some reason she would leave them like this...Some sign as to were she was gone to.
It galled him to think that he was losing his genius. Things like that didn't just leave you.
His keen eyes darkened to a shade like burnt violets, and he set Wormon upon the ground.
"See over there?" He whispered, and the other Digidestined stopped to listen to his quiet words.
"Over there, the twigs have been broken. And the leaves are disturbed."
Cody, who had remained silent until then nodded. "I see. I take it she went that way. And in a hurry..."
Davis frowned, scratching his burgundy hair. "Is she running from us? But why?"
Ken looked deep within himself, frightened and worried for the graceful girls safety.
"Maybe she's being chased?"
Kari shook her head, not understanding. "By what? Or who? She left the camp by her own free will..."
The blue haired boy shook his head, attempting to quell his growing anxiety.
"By herself..."
The comment had come from their leader, who gazed pensively into the shadows before giving the gesture to follow.
It was then that Ken noticed the single drop of a crystal tear, clinging elegantly to an emerald strand of green.
And he knew...
And his heart cracked, just a little more...
She gained control of herself, quieting her sobs when the realization of just how far she had fled hit her.
The black woods were alive and seething with a thousand different threats from the glowing eyes cloaked within a shroud of ebony.
Yolei whimpered, turning to leave the way she had come, but she couldn't find it!
She spun, throwing herself against the back of a tree, no less in danger.
"Oh God!" She whispered frantically, as the leaves rustled. Steps drew closer.
"I'm gonna die!"
She closed her eyes, pushing against the chafing bark of the tree.
"I want Hawkmon...!"
She blinked rapidly as a gust of warmth scathed her skin.
She opened her eyes...
And screamed.
An enormous digimon, insectoid and organic, hissed at her, it's shiny black eyes like glistening wet marbles as they rolled within it's head.
"Oh nononononnooo!" She whispered as it opened its jaws, saliva dripping over its fanged and bristly face with all the horror of Hell.
It drew back upon its arachnid like body and hissed again.
She screamed.
"Oh my God! That's Yolei!"
Ken gasped as a shattering scream tore throw his soul like shredded paper.
Laden with terror and tears, the high pitched, blood curdling cry was like icewater flowing through his veins.
He felt moisture fill his eyes, desperation cloud his judgement, as he bolted off in the direction of the sound, the Digidestined right behind him.
Wormon, Veemon, Hawkmon, Armadillomon, Patamon and Gatomon darted around the pounding feet, and the crash of green wood and wildlife echoed through their consciousness.
They would be too late, he would be too late!
The mantra burned itself on his mind as his breathing grew labored.
Another screech rent the air, the sound panicked and hopeless, just as they burst through the forest.
Kari cried out and Tk gasped as the huge, spidery digimon lunged for the terror stricken Yolei.
"Don't!" Screamed Ken, darting forward.
He crashed in front of the girl, listening with shocked fascination as an answering scream of his name pounded though his hears, along with the loud tear of a gray school uniform.
A vaporous mist, like acidic pollen filled his lungs, and his face tuned red.
He felt the jarring impact of the ground, the cried attack of Stingmon, and the dim silence afterwards.
He hacked again as a desperate pair of slender arms pulled upon his shoulders.
Ken struggled to his knees, dizzy and frantic as the world dimmed.
The far away scream of Yolei shouting his name bounced through his brain, and he gasped, a dragging, shuddering breath that sounded as if he was breathing in mud.
And maybe he would be...
He felt as if his world suddenly burst into flame, and he clutched weakly at his throat, scratching at the fabric.
His wild blue eyes looked at the ground, and he coughed, blood spattering across his lips. and onto the grass.
A wail of agony hit his fading consciousness, the sound again the girl he had saved, and the last thing he saw was the single drop of ruby dew, clinging darkly to an emerald strand of green.
And Yolei knew...
And her heart cracked, just a little more...
"He's been poisoned!"
Davis stood in shock over the prone form of the dead looking boy.
He lay in a puddle of his own red blood, his eyes glazed and half open. His pale fingers clutched the shirt sleeve of Yolei Inoue as her hands desperately fluttered over him, screaming.
Tk had felt the steady, albeit weak pulse, and he had stepped away, leaving the girl in her anguish.
"We've got to do something!" Kari yelled, summoning forth Gatomon.
Wormon stood across from Yolei, in shock at the limp body of Ken Ichijouji.
The heather haired girl sobbed, petting his hair as she made sure he could breath.
Her agonized golden eyes, wide and glazed with shock and fear, cut Davis to the quick as he realized two things.
One. She loved him. Two. To do this, Ken loved her to.
He turned away from the gruesome scene, as Cody knelt beside the barely there body.
"Ken seems to have absorbed that Digimon's poison when it attacked Yolei. But I don't know what to do..."
Yolei stroked the pale face, smearing blood across the skin.
"Why is there so much blood! Why was he coughing up blood!"
Davis pulled her away from the sprawled form, and Tk stepped forward, carefully lifting the slender boy up and carrying him to Pegususmon.
"Why was there so much blood Cody!" The girl wailed, staring at her hands. She wiped them along her white shirt, a red smear of life's pain across the pearly silk.
"I should have been me! I should be there! He didn't have to save me!"
She struggled within the strong arms of Davis, who silently pleaded for help with Kari.
The brunette stepped forward, resting a soothing hand on the wailing girls shoulder.
"Stop it, Yolei! Ken is still alive, and-and...He's coughing up blood because of that poison! But it can't be that bad, or else he wouldn't be with us right now!"
Breaking down, the girl sank to the ground and sobbed, her tears darkening the souls of all who heard, with sorrow.
"Is Ken gonna make it, TS?" The weak query made the blonde sigh, and he ran a hand through the short spikes upon his head. "I'm not a doctor, Davis..."
The leader, sitting atop of Flamdramon as Tk hovered above, cast a worried gaze to the unconscious body of the boy genius. The blue eyes still half open, a blind sheen covering the intelligent depths.
"That was Arachnimon, a poisonous plant digimon with a nasty attitude. His acid burn attack will knock you off your feet!"
Frowning, the blonde looked at Flamedramon.
"Is there a cure for him? Can you get it?"
The digimon nodded vaguely.
"There's a plant called Trikodania that will cure the poison...But the attacks effect on a human...We don't know what the antidote would do now, either..."
Clenching his fists, Davis looked at the unconscious Kaiser. "We have to try! Look at him now! He's just dyin' away!"
Silently, Pegasusmon and Flamdramon looked at each other, then at their companions.
"We will find it, Tk. But one of us has to stay here. Hawkmon can go because the way Yolei is now...I don't think Halsemon will be making another appearance."
Sure enough, when they looked up, they saw Yolei clinging to the back, fading before their eyes.
With a quick shout, an explanation and a transfer of bodies...Halsemon and Pegasusmon left to find the flower..
Davis looked at Ken, blood painting the front of his shirt.
"But...Why all the bleeding, TR?"
Tk sighed, confused as the other. "I don't know! Cody said it was because the poison was acidic and it caused million's of tiny scratches along his throat...He seems steady now, but none of us know about medicine beyond what they just said."
The rest of the journey was made in silence.
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On to part two
Part 1 / Courage of The Damned
Summary: Poison...Potent whether a mindset or a venom, is always a dangerous thing.
In an emotional journey, Ken and Yolei are about to find out that insecurities and pain can take away the very world around you...
Wow! I love this one! It's the Kenlei for Kat-chan!
Mistress Kenlei's is next!
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She looked up the word 'incomplete' in the dictionary. It read:
Incomplete: Not complete; imperfect. Lacking in certain parts. As in some flowers.
Was that her? Was that the emptiness she felt? Being incomplete?
Glancing in the mirror, she looked over her physical self.
Trim, sleek, slender...Long legs...Nice breasts...Elegant hands and delicate feet..
But this was not what she saw.
As her eyes followed her reflection, she saw a scrawny reed...All bumbling legs and lanky figure...To thin by man's definition...To tall by her own...
She looked at her face
Smooth skin...Bright, honey hued eyes...thickly fringed...Full lips and a graceful jawline...Long mauve hair cascading down the gentle column of her neck...
But she was blind to her perfection.
A wan face...Yellow, plain eyes and an ugly visage. Straggly purple hair..An odd color.
Her reflection watched her with somber intent.
Sighing, she turned from her mirrored image, switching on her desk lamp.
The dictionary, in all its wise glory, mocked her with inky faces.
She blinked rapidly.
Incomplete...Imperfect...
Lacking...
Yes, she thought, as she sadly watched the words blur across her desk.
Lacking and alone.
Ken continued to search his mind for the correct definition of 'beauty'
That which is in the eye of the beholder.
The dictionary read;
Any of those qualities of objects, sounds emotional or intellectual concepts, behavior, etc. that gratify or arouse admiration to a high degree, especially by the perfection or form resulting from the harmonious combination of diverse elements in unity, or usually pertaining to a women.
Kari was beautiful.
She stood beside Tk and Davis, smiling softly up at them as they bickered.
Kari was lovely.
She waved him over, smiling, and Ken nodded solemnly. He bent down to pick up a tired little Wormon, and proceeded forward with a grin.
"Hello Kari." He mumbled shyly, and in the corner of his blue violet eyes, he noticed a slim shadow stand up and walk away.
Yes, she was just that. A shadow.
Yolei Inoue. Brash, loud, abrasive and warm, she seemed to dim and darken when beside the child of light.
But then...Most did.
Turning back to Kari, Ken brushed a strand of navy hair behind his ears and smiled.
"What are we here for today?"
Davis, searched the ominous shadows whose comrade had joined them.
"Hey? Where did Yolei go?"
Tk peered behind him, a frown marring his handsome face. "Did she wander off again? That girl is distracted by anything shiny and moving!"
Kari giggled, and covered her mouth. Davis twisted up his face. "C'mon guys! Don't be such jerks! What if she gets lost or somthin?"
Ken smirked, a challenge glinting within the depths of his sapphire eyes.
"Why such concern, Davis? Are you so fickle your feelings have switched to Yolei?"
Loud mouthed, gentle, forgiving, wonderful Yolei.
Another definition of beauty.
Ken drew his dangerous thought's from her, back to taunting the burgundy haired teen.
He must be cautious. It would be too easy to fall into the depths of the shadows.
To easy to slip and fall into the tossing current of all that she was.
He looked back at Kari, whose laughter could brighten even the darkest of hearts, and felt safer, lighter.
"We had best go find her." He murmured as Davis continued to splutter about Kari and love.
The other digidestined nodded, Cody began shouting her name as they entered the forest. Their nerves on edge and with reluctant bravery.
"Why did she wander into here? Why couldn't she go to the beach or somethin? When we find her, I am so gonna tell her that we..."
They paid Davis no heed as they searched for the missing digidestined.
All her insecurities came to surface beside the light.
The smile, warm and soft bestowed upon the tiny brunette sliced her to the core.
Kari was everything she had ever hoped to be. Just like Mimi was everything she aspired to be.
Kari was gentle and graceful, sweet and thoughtful.
She was tiny and curvy, with a nymph-like face and laughing smile.
And she was envious, oh so envious...
She had stood, tracing a path into the welcoming emptiness that filled her soul, like wind howling and echoing through the crumbling ruins of a castle...
And she was the great stone mansions banshee.
Yolei sighed, twirling her fingers around her velvety violet hair, pushing up her glasses with a gloved hand.
Her booted foot splashed gently, and she looked down into the rippling pool of crystal blue before her.
So much like his eyes…
The surface calmed, the ripples smoothing like melting glass, and she gazed upon the unwelcome wavering reflection of herself.
Angrily, she tore off her yellow helmet, tossing it to the side.
Her hand's came to her skin, pale and sad, and she touched her face.
Tear's pooled within the golden depths of her eyes, pouring across the silken sheen and dripping over or beneath her glasses.
She stripped off her white gloves, running a hand though the adorning strands of purple as she sobbed.
She was angry and hurt. Bitter and ugly...
And so weak...So very weak...
To be feeling like this. To be so self-absorbed. She felt even uglier then before.
Furious, she swiped at her water image, splashing herself with more then salty tears.
Yolei stood, brushing a hand over her vest before she tore at the buttons, flinging it aside.
Clad in a light, pearly blouse and her red pants and boots, her lavender hair wild and curling around her face, she resembled some Celtic goddess sent to tame the crushing jade and ebony wildlife around her.
She sniffled, feeling liberated, and continued though the trees.
"Look at this!"
Davis eagerly lifted an orange-yellow helmet out of the dim grass, carrying it above his head like a war prize.
"It's her helmet!" Kari clapped, searching the glade for some sign of their friend.
"But I don't see her..." The blonde digidestined of hope's eyes fluttered around the pool. Crystalline and clear in the shadows of the forest.
Ken looked towards the water, tempted to brush his fingers over the glassy surface, to ripple the perfect imperfection.
"And look! It's her vest! And her gloves!"
The Digidestined leader blushed angrily as he looked sideways at Tk and Ken.
"So what...Is Yolei like, wandering around naked?!"
Kari frowned, arching a delicate brown brow. "The rest of her stuff isn't here, so it's safe to assume she's decent."
"So far..." muttered Tk, and Davis snickered.
Ken remained facially impassive, as he searched his mind for some reason she would leave them like this...Some sign as to were she was gone to.
It galled him to think that he was losing his genius. Things like that didn't just leave you.
His keen eyes darkened to a shade like burnt violets, and he set Wormon upon the ground.
"See over there?" He whispered, and the other Digidestined stopped to listen to his quiet words.
"Over there, the twigs have been broken. And the leaves are disturbed."
Cody, who had remained silent until then nodded. "I see. I take it she went that way. And in a hurry..."
Davis frowned, scratching his burgundy hair. "Is she running from us? But why?"
Ken looked deep within himself, frightened and worried for the graceful girls safety.
"Maybe she's being chased?"
Kari shook her head, not understanding. "By what? Or who? She left the camp by her own free will..."
The blue haired boy shook his head, attempting to quell his growing anxiety.
"By herself..."
The comment had come from their leader, who gazed pensively into the shadows before giving the gesture to follow.
It was then that Ken noticed the single drop of a crystal tear, clinging elegantly to an emerald strand of green.
And he knew...
And his heart cracked, just a little more...
She gained control of herself, quieting her sobs when the realization of just how far she had fled hit her.
The black woods were alive and seething with a thousand different threats from the glowing eyes cloaked within a shroud of ebony.
Yolei whimpered, turning to leave the way she had come, but she couldn't find it!
She spun, throwing herself against the back of a tree, no less in danger.
"Oh God!" She whispered frantically, as the leaves rustled. Steps drew closer.
"I'm gonna die!"
She closed her eyes, pushing against the chafing bark of the tree.
"I want Hawkmon...!"
She blinked rapidly as a gust of warmth scathed her skin.
She opened her eyes...
And screamed.
An enormous digimon, insectoid and organic, hissed at her, it's shiny black eyes like glistening wet marbles as they rolled within it's head.
"Oh nononononnooo!" She whispered as it opened its jaws, saliva dripping over its fanged and bristly face with all the horror of Hell.
It drew back upon its arachnid like body and hissed again.
She screamed.
"Oh my God! That's Yolei!"
Ken gasped as a shattering scream tore throw his soul like shredded paper.
Laden with terror and tears, the high pitched, blood curdling cry was like icewater flowing through his veins.
He felt moisture fill his eyes, desperation cloud his judgement, as he bolted off in the direction of the sound, the Digidestined right behind him.
Wormon, Veemon, Hawkmon, Armadillomon, Patamon and Gatomon darted around the pounding feet, and the crash of green wood and wildlife echoed through their consciousness.
They would be too late, he would be too late!
The mantra burned itself on his mind as his breathing grew labored.
Another screech rent the air, the sound panicked and hopeless, just as they burst through the forest.
Kari cried out and Tk gasped as the huge, spidery digimon lunged for the terror stricken Yolei.
"Don't!" Screamed Ken, darting forward.
He crashed in front of the girl, listening with shocked fascination as an answering scream of his name pounded though his hears, along with the loud tear of a gray school uniform.
A vaporous mist, like acidic pollen filled his lungs, and his face tuned red.
He felt the jarring impact of the ground, the cried attack of Stingmon, and the dim silence afterwards.
He hacked again as a desperate pair of slender arms pulled upon his shoulders.
Ken struggled to his knees, dizzy and frantic as the world dimmed.
The far away scream of Yolei shouting his name bounced through his brain, and he gasped, a dragging, shuddering breath that sounded as if he was breathing in mud.
And maybe he would be...
He felt as if his world suddenly burst into flame, and he clutched weakly at his throat, scratching at the fabric.
His wild blue eyes looked at the ground, and he coughed, blood spattering across his lips. and onto the grass.
A wail of agony hit his fading consciousness, the sound again the girl he had saved, and the last thing he saw was the single drop of ruby dew, clinging darkly to an emerald strand of green.
And Yolei knew...
And her heart cracked, just a little more...
"He's been poisoned!"
Davis stood in shock over the prone form of the dead looking boy.
He lay in a puddle of his own red blood, his eyes glazed and half open. His pale fingers clutched the shirt sleeve of Yolei Inoue as her hands desperately fluttered over him, screaming.
Tk had felt the steady, albeit weak pulse, and he had stepped away, leaving the girl in her anguish.
"We've got to do something!" Kari yelled, summoning forth Gatomon.
Wormon stood across from Yolei, in shock at the limp body of Ken Ichijouji.
The heather haired girl sobbed, petting his hair as she made sure he could breath.
Her agonized golden eyes, wide and glazed with shock and fear, cut Davis to the quick as he realized two things.
One. She loved him. Two. To do this, Ken loved her to.
He turned away from the gruesome scene, as Cody knelt beside the barely there body.
"Ken seems to have absorbed that Digimon's poison when it attacked Yolei. But I don't know what to do..."
Yolei stroked the pale face, smearing blood across the skin.
"Why is there so much blood! Why was he coughing up blood!"
Davis pulled her away from the sprawled form, and Tk stepped forward, carefully lifting the slender boy up and carrying him to Pegususmon.
"Why was there so much blood Cody!" The girl wailed, staring at her hands. She wiped them along her white shirt, a red smear of life's pain across the pearly silk.
"I should have been me! I should be there! He didn't have to save me!"
She struggled within the strong arms of Davis, who silently pleaded for help with Kari.
The brunette stepped forward, resting a soothing hand on the wailing girls shoulder.
"Stop it, Yolei! Ken is still alive, and-and...He's coughing up blood because of that poison! But it can't be that bad, or else he wouldn't be with us right now!"
Breaking down, the girl sank to the ground and sobbed, her tears darkening the souls of all who heard, with sorrow.
"Is Ken gonna make it, TS?" The weak query made the blonde sigh, and he ran a hand through the short spikes upon his head. "I'm not a doctor, Davis..."
The leader, sitting atop of Flamdramon as Tk hovered above, cast a worried gaze to the unconscious body of the boy genius. The blue eyes still half open, a blind sheen covering the intelligent depths.
"That was Arachnimon, a poisonous plant digimon with a nasty attitude. His acid burn attack will knock you off your feet!"
Frowning, the blonde looked at Flamedramon.
"Is there a cure for him? Can you get it?"
The digimon nodded vaguely.
"There's a plant called Trikodania that will cure the poison...But the attacks effect on a human...We don't know what the antidote would do now, either..."
Clenching his fists, Davis looked at the unconscious Kaiser. "We have to try! Look at him now! He's just dyin' away!"
Silently, Pegasusmon and Flamdramon looked at each other, then at their companions.
"We will find it, Tk. But one of us has to stay here. Hawkmon can go because the way Yolei is now...I don't think Halsemon will be making another appearance."
Sure enough, when they looked up, they saw Yolei clinging to the back, fading before their eyes.
With a quick shout, an explanation and a transfer of bodies...Halsemon and Pegasusmon left to find the flower..
Davis looked at Ken, blood painting the front of his shirt.
"But...Why all the bleeding, TR?"
Tk sighed, confused as the other. "I don't know! Cody said it was because the poison was acidic and it caused million's of tiny scratches along his throat...He seems steady now, but none of us know about medicine beyond what they just said."
The rest of the journey was made in silence.
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On to part two