This story dedicated to my mum for supporting me, Koani for drawing
really well, Sarah Bien for doing the same, Kale for writing great
books, the creators of Digimon for giving me something to write about
and Nicholas for reading this.
WARNING: There is a lot of Takari in this book. A lot more than the
last one, anyway.
P.S: Takari is focused on the relationship between T.K and Kari.
(However if you didn't know that you probably shouldn't be reading
this)
WARNING2: The author (me) will occasionally make bracketed comments
throughout the story. They are however mostly harmless and only
sometimes terribly confusing and inexplicable.
Note: This story takes place two years after they return from the
digital world. The digidestined have already defeated Diaboromon as
well. That makes T.K, Kari, Tristan and Willis 10, Joe 14, Matt, Tai,
Sora and Cerin 13, Mimi and Izzy 12, Z.K and Merla 16. Plus, Tristan's
Dragomon is not the sea dragon creature from the show. He is a dragon,
strictly speaking.
Disclaimer: All digimon characters and names appearing in this book
are owned by Saban Interactive, Toei Animation and Bandaii and are
borrowed by me. All other characters in the story and the story itself
are original creations of the author.
Book 2: The Heart of Darkness
(c) 2001 Daniel Assange lockpick@iq.org, All Rights Reserved.
(Sorry I needed to put that in for security reasons)
Tyriel:How'd you come up with a dodgy name like that? Couldn't you just
call it 'The New Adventures of the Digidestined' or something?
Nova:Come on Tyriel, be grateful, he invented us.
Author:Precisely. Probably my best invention next to the hypersonic desk
vacuum cleaner.
(Whenever I change scenes, there will be a little *****)
Chapter 1: Reunion Picnic
Cerin buried his head in his hands. The teenage child did not
take defeat well. It had just been 12 months ago that the
digidestined had annihilated his completely perfect plan and sent him
and Merla back to the real world. He had been awake for the last 48
hours planning his revenge. Destruction had said they needed to wait a
little longer, until Tristan's forces had been successfully
neutralised. Cerin's brother and the bunch of loony digimon teamed
with him were becoming a real thorn in Destruction's side.
The evil black-haired child genius looked up and smiled evilly.
Almost time, he thought. Cerin fiddled with his crest, the crest of
Death. "Cerin, dinner's ready." Cerin heard the voice of his adoptive
mother call him. Tristan and Cerin's parents had been killed three
years ago by an car crash, and Cerin had been adopted. Everyone
thought Tristan had died, but the child had gone to the digital
world.
"In a minute." Cerin said calmly from his chair. He was sitting in
front of his computer in his bedroom. Oh god, why was I cursed with
such an ordinary life when I could be the ruler of the world! Cerin
thought. Well, At least I'll get a small vacation in the digital
world. Cerin started up his computer and contacted Destruction.
"Master, I think it's time to attack the digidestined." Cerin
said. The huge Ultimate level demon digimon on the screen nodded. "I
am preparing right now. Get on to Merla and inform her quickly. Hikari
must not be allowed to defeat us again, the Chosen child's power is
immense. But we have found it useless without the other young child,
or Takeru as he is known." Destruction replied. "So what is your master
plan this time boss?" The child hated to have to suck up, but this was
the only way with powerful beings such as Destruction around. "All in
good time. Now it is time for me to prepare. Cerin nodded and switched
off the computer. Heh... Soon I will be back in the digital world with
freedom to wreck havoc as I please!
He walked out to have dinner with his so-called "family".
*****
"C'mon Kari, we are meeting Izzy, T.K and Mimi for a digidestined
picnic in half an hour." Tai said to his little sister, waiting
patiently by the door to their house. "I'm coming." Kari replied. Kari
was happy, it had been quite a while since she had last seen T.K and
the others. The brown-haired girl walked out of her room (Her and Tai
had moved into separate rooms after returning from the digiworld)
carrying a bag of food and drinks. "Okay, lets go." She replied.
"Mum, we are meeting T.K, Izzy and Mimi for a picnic and we'll be back
by about four-o'clock okay?" Tai shouted across the house. "Alright
Tai, you two have fun and don't get hurt." Tai and Kari's mother
replied.
The two digidestined siblings walked out the door. They walked through
the busy streets for a while and eventually came to the park where
they were having the picnic. "It's a great day for a picnic, not a
cloud in sight." Kari said, examining their surroundings. Tai
nodded. The two of them walked down the concrete path through the park
and spotted Izzy sitting at a table working away furiously at his
computer.
"Hey Izzy, whatcha up to?" Tai called, running over to the other boy.
"I'm attempting to conduct a detailed analysis of Tristan's
progress. He has been delaying the evil children and
Destruction/Deverilmon as long as possible. I have concurred that they
will make their move soon." Kari shivered as she remembered the time
that Destruction had tortured her endlessly in her nightmare a year
ago when they had returned to the digital world. The digidestined had
met Tristan and his digimon Wyvermon. They refought Piedmon, Myotismon
and Devimon then battled the two evil children, Merla, who had the
crest of Darkness, and Cerin, who owned the crest of Death and was
Tristan's brother.
Tai shook his head at Izzy. "I thought you said this was a vacation,
we're supposed to not even talk about Destruction, Cerin, Merla or any
digimon stuff." He said. Izzy nodded. "Sorry about that. But we do
have to face our adversaries sooner or later, they might not take such
a un-worriable attitude." He replied. "You're right, but this meeting
is just a reunion, you know, normal kid stuff." Tai said. Izzy nodded
again.
"Hello everybody!" A voice shouted from across the other end of the
park. The three children turned around to see a tall blond haired
boy running towards them. T.K had lost his hat during the battle with
MetalGigadramon and Merla. The kid had grown and matured considerably
during the past two years and was now approaching the height of
Matt, even considering he was three years younger than his older
brother. Everyone else had likewise grown mentally and physically
since the incident where they first went to the digital world.
T.K reached the other three children, panting from the exertion of
running all the way. He took a seat at the public table where Izzy was
busy working away at his computer. "Hey T.K, no luck in finding a new
hat?" Kari asked, pleased to see someone her own age. T.K shook his
head. The ten year old kid looked quite different without his hat he
had worn for the past couple of years. Kari thought he looked
cute. Everyone took a seat at the bench. Izzy suspended his laptop and
packed it in his backpack, bringing out some food instead.
"I wonder where Mimi is, it's not like her to be late." Izzy asked as
he laid down the food. "Apparently she is moving to America next
year." Tai said, biting into a slightly warm hot-dog. T.K and Kari
were quietly chatting about school while eating cheese sandwiches.
"Did you know they banned gameboys at school now? That's kind of
annoying, I just got one for Christmas." T.K said. Kari nodded.
"School sometimes does things that are really annoying." She replied.
Mimi silently walked up to the four other children. "Mimi?" Izzy
asked. Mimi smiled. "You didn't think I'd miss a digidestined picnic
did you?" She said. Tai and Izzy shook their heads. "Hi Mimi." T.K and
Kari said in unison. Mimi waved to them and took a seat. "Ooh,
chocolate-covered rice-balls! I love them!" She said happily as she
took a little ball of rice and began munching on it.
After everybody had eaten something, they turned towards the subject
of something to do. "Why don't we go ice skating, they have some
temperature regulator thing on the pool here and have turned it into a
ice skating ring." Tai suggested. Mimi and Izzy nodded. The two
younger digidestined appeared to not hear Tai, talking away happily.
"Let's leave them to it, they haven't seen each other for half a month
since school finished." Izzy said. He packed away the picnic stuff and
left his backpack on the computer table. "T.K, Kari, we are going to
the pool to ice-skate. Don't get out of each other's sight and don't
go off too far." Tai said as he walked off towards the pool with the
other two. He managed to get a brief nod and wave from the two. "Tai,
we are ten years old now." Kari said. Yeah, that's what I'm afraid
of. They'll get way too cocky. Tai thought as he headed towards the
pool.
The three older kids walked down to the frozen pool, asking a man if
he had any spare ice-skates. "Sure kids, but bring them back when you
are finished." The man replied, handing over three pairs of
ice-skates. Tai, Mimi and Izzy put the skates on and headed out onto
the ice. Mimi fell over as soon as she put her feet down. Izzy did the
same soon afterwards, however Tai appeared to be more
experienced. "This is one dange-aaa!" Izzy yelled, falling over onto
the hard ice.
Mimi pulled herself to her feet and started to skate again, only to
ram straight into another child who was skating. "Hey watch it!" The
child yelled. "He wasn't very nice." Mimi murmured angrily. In a few
minutes everyone was panting and sitting down on the banks of the
lake. "Let's go check up on T.K and Kari, even though they are pretty
smart and mature for their age I don't think it's a good idea to leave
them alone for too long." Tai said. Everybody nodded at this and rose
to their feet, taking off their ice-skates and handing them to the
man. They started walking back towards the place they had left the two
youngest digidestined.
******
Kari felt happy talking to T.K again after such a long time. Having
someone like T.K around made everything seem more manageable.
Strangely enough, their crests glowed whenever they were
near each other, a regular occurrence which they had figured out near
the end of their second trip to the digital world, the one which they
had fought the Dark Masters in.
Kari thought she loved T.K as more than a friend, though that wasn't
really an adequate word for what she felt. But she could never bring
herself to say it, partly because she wasn't sure, but mostly because
she was afraid of the response. Also, she wasn't quite sure she knew
exactly what the word meant in itself.
Kari also knew that this was a fairly foolish way to behave and she
should tell him and get it over with. But a little voice in the back
of her head kept telling her that it wasn't time yet and she would
know when it was the right time.
"Ummm, so you want to go for a walk?" T.K asked. Kari looked at him and
smiled. T.K felt really happy every time Kari looked at him like
that. It made him wonder. He felt the same way about Kari as Kari did
about him. Kari nodded and rose from her seat. "We better go check on
Tai and the others." She said. The two of them started walking towards
the pool.
Suddenly, Kari felt a intense sharp pain flow through her right arm
and she fell unconscious instantly. "Kari!" T.K shouted in alarm. He
looked to see what had caused the problem and gasped as he spotted a
sharp needle protruding from Kari's upper arm. T.K turned around to
hear a whistling noise. He also felt an intense pain and then fell
down onto the soft grassy ground...