Chapter 6
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Kari woke from her unconsious state, her eyes slowly opening, her sight blurred. Shaking her head as her mind pounded on the lining of her skull as if trying to escape, she tried to recap what happened. Yolei grabbed her and jumped out a window, and she remembered Yolei, amazingly, landing on her feet. Then she remembered Yolei's fist raised, and then--
The sound of footsteps and a closing door were heard. Kari, whose vision has returned, eyed upward where she saw Yolei, her body slowly approaching from the darkness into the light emerging from the cheap swinging bulb. The room was very, very small and enclosed, making Kari feel uncomfortable. Yolei's face was blank, as if she were a zombie. Her entire body was ridden of any hints of emotion. Shivering, Kari looked off to the left, her eyes narrowed. Yolei, still emotionless, raised her hand and cupped it into Kari's chin, moving her head to face her own. Kari eyed her, up and down. No weapons. She tried to escape, but found that she was tied into a chair. Yolei simply kneeled down to Kari's sitting body, and stroked the hair out of her face. Kari simply shook her head, trying to block out anything that was happening at the time.
Yolei, whom planted a sinister smirk on her face, ran her fingers on Kari's cheek. Kari, who felt pain as this happened, flinched. Suddenly, the feel of fresh blood trickling down her cheek made her shiver, and Yolei retreated her fingers and licked the blood off them.
"What's happened to you, Yolei?" Kari asked simply. Yolei didn't reply, she just pulled out a knife and shined it to Kari.
"What are you going to do with that?" she calmly asked. No reply from the purple-haired girl, instead she ran the knife across the skin of her neck lightly. She pulled the knife down to Kari's wrist, and with one quick motion, slit it. Kari yelped in pain and shock while Yolei rose the wrist up to her mouth and licked off the blood. She rose her head to face the angelic face of the keeper of light, her mouth surrounded by blood. Kari shook her head, fresh tears streaming down her face. Yolei, with a few swift motions of her knife, cut the rope that sustained Kari, and grabbed her by the hair and threw her to the floor.
"Go. Tell all your pathetic friends what I have done to you." And with that, she took the knife and drove it into Kari's back. The brunette's eyes shot wide open, her mouth gasping for air. Yolei threw her out of the room, onto the cold streets.
Kari, dying from not only from blood loss and the knife driven into her back but the extreme pain of her friend turning her back on her, managed to limp an amazing two blocks down to Davis's apartment complex. Davis, whom was walking down the street, noticed Kari. His brows raised, and his face showing complete shock, ran over to her limping body. Her back and arms were drenched with fresh blood.
"Kari!" He yelled, holding the body in his arms. "What happened? Oh god Kari.. HELP! Someone, HELP ME!"
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"You didn't find her yet?!" exclaimed a hysterical Mrs. Inuoe, whom has been crying for hours upon hours. Yolei's siblings simply sat in silence, not knowing what to think of the whole situation, really. The police officer rubbed his head, taking his hat off.
"I'm terribly sorry, Mrs. Inuoe," he said sympathetically. "But we haven't found your daughter yet. Odaiba is a big city yaknow, and she could be anywhere." That statement only caused the mother to let out a groan of despair, and sobbed hopelessly into a sofa pillow. The police officer sighed, "We'll keep a good eye off her. We're still loooking, and we'll keep you informed. Get some rest, Ma'am, your a wreck. 'Night." The officer walked off without saying another word as the room flooded with Mrs. Inuoe's cries of despair.
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An ambulance rushed along the highway, carrying an injured Kari and a sobbing Davis. The medical staff were desperately working at Kari's wounds as people asked Davis questions.
"I-I just found her, laying there with a knife in her back!" he exclaimed with teary eyes. "I don't know what happened!"
Many frustrating hours later, the whole group of Digidestined waited in the waiting room, minus Yolei of course. All of them sat in silence except for Takeru, who paced around the room anxiously. Davis had bags under his eyes, his face extremely pale. Yamato looked at him with extreme concern.
"You okay, bro?" he asked timidly. TK stopped and looked at his big brother for a moment before replying, "Y-y-yeah, I'm f-fine." Taichi was at tears, sobbing silently into his hands.
"Who would do such a horrible thing? Who?" he asked to noone in particular. Everyone shook their heads except for TK, Davis, and Ken. They had a good idea who would so such a thing.