Chapter 3: Takari: The Perfect Couple
"WHAT! They've escaped?! That's impossible!" Cerin shouted, looking at
the screen. "You should have been watching them!" Z.K snapped. Cerin
shot a dangerous look at Z.K. "I'm the leader around here. If you want
to go and get them then do it yourself." He replied. "Fine. I will."
Z.K said. He and DemiDevimon walked out of the control room and into
the jungle outside.
"DemiDevimon, warp-digivolve too, Devimon, Fallen Angemon, Unholymon!"
A 8-foot black armoured humanoid rose above Z.K. He had a strange
reptilian shaped head and claws on his hands. A black cape flowed out
behind him. "Okay, Unholymon. Let's get down to business." Z.K leapt
up to the digimon's right shoulder and they both flew off towards T.K,
Kari and Wizardmon.
*****
"They've been taken to the digital world Tai, all the proof says that.
I'll make a gate so we can get there too, the digimon have already
been contacted so they know we're coming." Izzy said. Tai nodded,
looking depressed. Izzy got up from his seat at the picnic table and
furiously pounded away at his keyboard. "Digiport open!" He shouted.
The computer's infrared adapter shot a beam out and a gate appeared in
a tree, which all three of them ran through.
They appeared outside the structure that Cerin, Merla, and Z.K were
hiding in. They all looked up to see a huge partly metal dinosaur
standing over them. "MetalGreymon!" Tai shouted as he recognised him.
The huge dinosaur nodded. They all climbed up onto Metal Greymon's
back. "Glad you could make it!" came the sweet voice of Lillymon,
flying beside them. "Lillymon! Are we glad to see you!" Mimi
shouted. Izzy could make out the giant shape of MegaKabuterimon over
them as well. "All our Ultimate digimon are here. Let's go get those
evil kids!" Tai shouted in his usual fashion.
*****
T.K knocked a branch out of the way as he walked through the jungle,
Kari at his side. Wizardmon was slightly in front of them. "How's that
for a picnic? Sucked into a different world, captured by three evil
children with bad hairstyles, and then travelling through a digital
forest with a wizard that's been brought back to life and hatched out
of an egg." T.K said. Kari giggled a little. Wizardmon stopped
suddenly, and the two children stopped before they ran into him. "I
think we have company." Wizardmon said.
Unholymon landed a bit in front of the kids, the trees flying away as
he moved. With one hand he sent a black ball of energy towards the
three escapees, causing them to dive to the side. "Heh! You stand no
chance against my Mega, Unholymon!" Z.K shouted. He leapt down to
the tree stump filled ground. "Wizardmon! What do you hope?" T.K
asked, getting to his feet. Wizardmon's face went skeptical, he
wondered what kind of question this was. Then a light shot from T.K's
crest into him and he felt a strange transformation...
"Wizardmon, warp-digivolve to, Sorcerermon, Archonmon!" Wizardmon's
Mega form was quite different to his Champion and Ultimate forms. He
was now 6-feet tall and completely covered in purple plate armour,
except for his head. On his head rested a red cone hat with picture of
blue moons covering it. His cape was plain bright blue. In his right
hand he held a shining white bladed sword with a gold handle.
"Wow..." Kari was lost for words as she stared at the glowing Mega
digimon. "He's amazing." T.K agreed. "Fmph. I think this digivolution
is going to help you.... not one bit!" Z.K shouted calmly. Unholymon
and Archonmon proceeded to lock themselves in battle. "Gaia Beam!"
Archonmon shouted, pointing his sword at Unholymon. A beam of blue
light erupted from it and pushed Unholymon back.
"Black Ball!" came the cry from Unholymon. He threw another ball of
energy. But, instead of hitting Archonmon, it swivelled around and hit
T.K full force in the stomach, flinging him to the ground. Kari gasped
in fear and ran over to see him. T.K screamed for a single moment then
was silent. He was breathing very hard and had severe bruises over
much of his body. A single tear streamed down Kari's face as she
looked at him, on her hands and knees. "T.K... You can't die
yet.. you're even littler than me..." Kari sniffled.
The two Mega digimon raged on in their battle. "T.K... Please don't
die... You can't die!" Kari shouted angrily. "If you are going to...
die... Then I just want you to know... I love you... Takeru
Takaishi. Now that I've said it, more than I ever could have
imagined." Kari felt relieved she had finally let loose her emotions,
but also felt embarrassed at the same time. She had thought herself
far too young to feel like that about a boy.
T.K's eyes blinked open. Unknown to Kari, her face was bright pink.
"Did you just say what I think you said?" T.K asked, staring at her in
barely conscious disbelief. Kari nodded and bit her lower lip. "Well
Hikari Kamiya? I love you too. From the deepest corners to the highest
reaches of my heart." T.K said. They both felt as if that moment was
one T.K and Kari wished they could stay in forever, they felt so
happy. They had reverted to their proper names, as they did when
things were serious. Kari prevented herself from giggling at T.K's
statement, but she remembered he wrote books and poetry and decided
that must be the reason for it.
Well, we have been friends for over two years, what do you expect?
Kari scolded herself. They became oblivious of the fact that they were
in a life-threatening situation. Kari quickly leaned over and kissed
T.K on the lips, then both of them turned slightly. T.K almost
fainted, but all of a sudden his wounds automatically healed. "Ummm, I
think we better do something to help Archonmon." T.K said. Kari
nodded, still just believing what had just occurred.
Kari got to her feet then pulled T.K to his. The two ten-year olds
looked towards the battle. "There is just one thing we can do." Kari
said. T.K nodded and held out his crest, Kari copying him. The
crest's appeared to be glowing immensely brightly, because of the last
few moments events or for some other hypothetical reason they did not
know. "Archonmon! Use the power of the crests!" Kari shouted to the
digimon.
Archonmon nodded and concentrated. Beams shot out from both of the
crests and hit him, making him glow white. "Zephyr Storm!" Archonmon
shouted his attack. The air around him crackled with electricity.
Suddenly, clouds appeared over the battle, lightning cracking down.
Unholymon and Z.K backed away from the three goodlings. Suddenly,
five lightning bolts shot down from the sky, the four outside ones
joining with the middle bolt and hitting Unholymon right in the head.
Unholymon screamed an inhuman cry and then de-digivolved to a small
blackish Tokomon-like digimon. "Arghh! You stupid digidestined! You
shall pay for this!" Z.K shouted. He picked up his digimon and raced
off into the jungle. Archonmon de-digivolved to Wizardmon, who landed
on the ground. "So where'd you come up with a line like that? 'from
the deepest corners to the highest reaches of my heart' Sounds like
something a poet would write." Kari asked. T.K blushed a
little. "Let's just say I started reading Shakespeare." He said. Kari
burst out laughing.
******
"They must be inside that building. It's the only logical location
around here for them to hide." Izzy said, standing atop
MegaKabuterimon. They all turned and faced the building. "So how do we
get in?" Tai asked. "Easy." The gruff voice of MetalGreymon
said. "Giga Blaster!" He cried, the launchers on his chest opening and
firing two deadly missiles at the building.
******
"What's going on?!" Cerin asked. He turned around to find a hole in
the roof with the three Ultimate digimon standing outside. "Looks like
some intruders have found their way in... Let us deal with that."
Gitamon said. "Gitamon, digivolve too ---- LadyDevimon!" The evil
version of Angewomon rose out of the building. "Hagurumon,
warp-digivolve too, Mekanorimon, SkullGreymon!" The huge skeleton
dinosaur caused the roof to explode as it digivolved.
"You are going down, Cerin and Merla!" Tai shouted. "SkullGreymon, get
that little pink flying thing!" Cerin screamed, referring to
Lillymon. "Uh-uh, sorry about this, I just have to do it! Flower
Cannon!" Lillymon fired a blast which hit LadyDevimon straight in the
stomach. "That little buzzing pinkish insect is getting on my nerves!"
LadyDevimon grinded her teeth. Before LadyDevimon could retaliate
however, MegaKabuterimon decided to step in.
"Horn Buster!" The huge blast sent LadyDevimon flying to the ground,
yelling in pain. LadyDevimon de-digivolved back to Gitamon. Merla
picked her up. She took one look of hatred at the digidestined and
then ran off into the distance.
Cerin grinded his teeth as Merla and Gitamon ran off. "SkullGreymon! We must
leave! This battle cannot be won!" He shouted. The huge dinosaur nodded.
Cerin hopped up to Skullgreymon's head and they leapt out, fleeing from
the battle. "They got away again! This is irritating!" Tai shouted.
******
T.K looked about for any signs of well... anything. There was nothing
but forest in every direction. T.K wished he had Tai's mini-telescope
with them. "What's the matter T.K?" Kari asked as she moved next to
him. "Well, there just isn't anything here..." T.K said. Kari
nodded. Then, suddenly, they sighted a whole bunch of tiny
houses. "It's the Koromon Village!" T.K shouted. Kari hadn't been to
the village before since she came to the digital world a whole lot
later than the other eight digidestined.
"That's right, this is the village where all the little pink Koromon
live." Wizardmon said as he floated down from the sky. As they
approached many pink blobs appeared from out of the houses. "Yay! It's
T.K!" They all shouted happily, jumping up and down. The three
escapees ran down to the Koromon and greeted them.
Kari looked up and saw that it was getting quite late. The sky was
almost black. "Do you mind lending us a place to stay the night?" She
asked. The Koromon all jumped up and down. "Sure, anything for the
digidestined!" they all shouted in agreement. "Over in the big tower."
all of them hopped over to the largest building in their village. T.K
and Kari walked down to the tower and Wizardmon floated over.
They all moved inside. The inside was round and reasonably small. The
escapees followed the Koromon up the stairs and found a small bedroom.
There was one bunk bed and another floor mattress. After all of them
unpacked they looked at sleeping arrangements. "I'll take the top bunk
bed." Kari offered. T.K therefore took the bottom, and Wizardmon the
mattress. "Good night T.K." Kari said. She kissed him on the cheek and
climbed up into her bed. T.K sighed and lay down to sleep.
*****
"T.K." A strong voice asked. It sounded slightly like the blond-haired
boy's dad. T.K opened his eyes and found himself floating. The being
in front of him appeared to be a dark-haired man wearing white
robes. At least, he would have been a man except for the fact that
white wings protruded from his back. "Are you an angel? If you are a
teacher and you give me homework in my dream, I'm going to scream!
That's child abuse!" T.K said. The angel was slightly taken aback.
"Well, that's not a very nice way to speak to an angel. But anyway,
I'm not here to talk about work. You have a job to do. My name is
Tyriel, it's a honour to meet you." Tyriel said, smiling. T.K nodded.
"Hi Tyriel. But why would you be happy to meet me, you're the one to
talk." T.K said, looking quizzically.
"I have seen the power you hold with the one known as Kari and it
amazes even me. You have already confronted your evil counterpart and
won, though he still survives. I have been waiting for the day when
you and Kari would finally admit the angelic love you have for
each-other. That is the day I decided I must come."
T.K blushed at this last comment. "Don't be embarrassed, she is
smiling right now as she thinks about you and occasionally looks over
the side of her bed to watch you sleep. I know how old you two are
mentally and emotionally."
"But why come to me? Kari is the Chosen one, I am just another
digidestined."
"Kari may be the holder of Purity, but only you can hold the power of
Truth. The one who was shrouded in Darkness will eventually bring you
such power. Only Truth can destroy Deverilmon completely. This is the
only information I can give you."
"Alright then Tyriel, I'll try and figure it out by myself. Bye!"
"Good dreams, little one. Good dreams." The scene faded away from T.K's
mind and he fell into a deep sleep.
*****
T.K slept peacefully for the rest of the night. When he woke, Kari
and Wizardmon were already up. "Good morning T.K." They both
said. "Hello." He replied, propping himself up by his elbow on the
pillow. "Well, now everyone's awake, I suppose we better be off."
Wizardmon said, floating up and bumping his head on the
ceiling. Strangely, a light started to glow around
Wizardmon. "Wizardmon! Look out!" Kari shouted. The light formed into
a cage then disappeared, taking the digimon with it. They both thought
they could hear Wizardmon's voice whispering "Goodbye...".
"Wizardmon... He's gone." T.K stated, jumping out of his bed. But
that's not possible, The blonde-haired child thought. Kari nodded as
if she had read his thoughts, staring at the spot where the digimon
had disappeared. She looked on the verge of tears. "Without
Wizardmon... How will we ever get back?" She asked. "Don't worry
Kari. Remember, I made a promise long ago to protect you and I plan to
keep it." T.K replied. "Thanks T.K." Kari said. She buried her head in
the boy's shoulder, gathering herself again. T.K hugged Kari tightly
and a distant look grew over his eyes.
Okay Tyriel, you are right. It's up to me. T.K thought, looking
out the small window of the building. He shook his head as he
thought he saw an angel smiling outside.