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The figure laughed, the darkness around her shaking. As she glanced at the Agumon before her, her white eyes glittered. She would make those Digidestined learn their REAL purpose. This creature had taken away the Gabumon, now he would pay. He would suffer the price. Then as quickly as she raised her arms, she dropped them. What was she doing? She could make the digidestined suffer more than a little pain of losing the digimon. They didn't know what would happen if they were to lose their partner. The one with the blonde hair, the one they called Matt had had only a taste of it. She could give the other the same taste, only much worse.
But still, it wouldn't be as fun. She shrugged her shoulders. She had already disposed of the two children, the newborn and the toddler. She had already tried to get at the twins. Luring them into the digital world with the digimon didn't work. They were too smart for that. How was SHE supposed to know that they would know how to use the digivice and reverse her work? Well, she'd have them in good time. So, the only thing left now was to either torture this digimon to death and make the boy suffer, or she could torture him mildly and give those stupid digidestined a few hints as to where she was. Then she could destroy them all. That would be the most satisfying thing of all. Yes, that was what she would do. She gazed into the fearful green eyes of the Agumon and raised her arms slowly again.
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As Tai rushed to Sora's side, he stopped still in his tracks. Matt reached Sora and held her in his arms, oblivious of Tai's previous rush to Sora. As he held Sora, her eyes caught Tai's and she gasped. His normally brown sparkling eyes were being taken over by the black of his pupil, his face turning white and damp from perspiration. She pushed against Matt slightly and he turned to her. She pointed to Tai and he turned in his direction, concern etched on his face. Tai was staring at them, or rather past them, his brown eyes now black. He stood for a few moments more before he fell to the ground. Sora broke free from Matt and she fell down beside him.
"Tai! Oh Tai! What's the matter? C'mon! Speak to me! Matt! Help him!" She cried frantically as he knelt beside her. Tai's body began to shake and his eyes squinted shut. "Tai buddy! Come back! Come out of it Tai! C'mon." Matt coaxed, shaking his friend. Tai's body began to convulse and as before, a light shot forth from his chest, blinding his friends with it's orange glow. Sora grabbed onto Tai as he began to convulse harder, his body flying every which way. "Tai, Tai, Tai. Stop!" She cried. As she held his brown head in her arms, he suddenly stopped. His body lay still and limp in Sora's arms as tears dripped down her face from the fright of it all. Matt watched his friend's face, waiting for some sign. The others watched them silently, their faces wide with fear, little Tai and Tora hiding behind their parents. Suddenly, Sora gasped as Tai's head moved. "Tai?" She whispered softly. His eyes opened. Sora was relieved to see the eyes open, but what frightened her was the black ominous pupil, slowly shrinking in size, leaving the brown that had formerly preceded it, only it was stained with a tinge of white. "Sora. Agumon." He whispered, as he fell back into unconsciousness.
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She smiled, but also frowned in annoyance as she watched the squirming Koromon. She had taken his energy, made the boy not only give his friends a scare, but himself as well. She had let him see where she was. There wasn't any point in prolonging it. They would come to her soon enough without her help. But what annoyed her was that that stupid girl had ruined her fun, just like that other boy had, the brother of Matt. Whenever someone her victim loved came into the picture and told them to 'Stop!' then everything was ruined and her torture was cut short. She scoffed. It wasn't fair, but hey, life wasn't fair at times. She had the Koromon and she had the digidestined slowly walking into her trap. It wouldn't be long now. It wouldn't be long.
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Sora trembled from head to foot as she watched Tai slumped in his chair, drinking some tea they had managed to find in the dishevled apartment. Matt sat beside him silently, his hand on Tai's shoulder. The rest of the digi-destined sat around the apartment wherever they could find a spot. The digimon sat either beside them, for the first time stonily silent. "I don't like this at all. The denominations for this sequence just do not makes sense." Izzy muttered. "Would you speak English brain?" Davis yelled out suddenly. Izzy frowned. "I AM speaking English Davis. Though I'm not sure which language you're speaking." Davis frowned and would have rushed towards Izzy, had Kari not grabbed his arm. "Leave him alone Davis. It's okay to be worried. We all are." She said quietly. Davis relaxed and looked at Kari. She smiled, but the smile was one of worry.
"I just don't understand. Why would someone want Matt and Sora's baby?" Ken thought out loud, his chin resting in his hands. "Maybe someone who wants power. You did alot of things that seemed strange when you were the Digimon Emperor." Wormon pointed out. "Yeah, but he's not the Emperor anymore Wormon." Yolei said suddenly. Wormon blushed and looked to Ken, who smiled reassuringly and turned to Yolei. "It's okay Yolei. Don't worry." He said. Yolei smiled and sat back against the couch. "It's just so scary. I mean, having this life that we don't even know about. And what's even stranger is that I feel like it's taking me over. Like I can't remember anything of my past, just now. I'm starting to remember things that I don't know. Like a girl named Tana Xiji and the name of a college. It's strange. But what my memory tells me is that this girl was my best friend in college." Yolei said, her voice sounding like she was far away in another world.
Ken frowned. "Resist it Yolei. Don't let the future take over your past." He said firmly. "I can't help it." She whispered. Cody sat on the floor, fingering the chain around his neck, his other hand around Armadillomon. "What's happening to me?" He whispered. Formerly he had rubbed off the black eyeliner that surrounded his green eyes so that now he looked somewhat like his old self. "What's the matter Cody?" Armadillomon asked. "I don't know. I'm remembering things. Weird things. Things like that my Mom is married again and that, that my Grandpa is dead." Cody said, his voice choking on his words. "Don't worry Cody. It'll all be alright, you'll see. It's all just a bad dream that we'll get out of sooner or later." Armadillomon said reassuringly. "But what if it's not a dream? What if we never get out of here?" Cody said desparingly. Armadillomon didn't speak, but simply lay his foot on Cody's leg and sighed.
At the table, Tai put down his glass and sighed. Matt sat erect and looked at him. "Are you okay Tai? Do you wanna tell me what happened?" He asked quietly. Tai blinked and looked at Matt as if he had just seen him for the first time. "I, I don't know. I'm not sure what I saw." He muttered. "It's okay. Just tell me what you think you saw. You gave us a pretty bad scare back there." Matt said, smiling. Tai didn't smile, his face remaining as of stone. "Well I saw a, a, I don't know. It was in the form of a lady, but I couldn't see anything else. She was tall, but, but you couldn't see any details. She was all black." Tai said. "She was dressed in black?" Matt asked. "No. She was all black. Her face, her body. Everything. She didn't speak to me, but she just gestured around her." Tai said, shaking his head.
"What was she pointing to?" Matt asked quietly. Tai flinched. "Everything around her was black. She was standing in the middle of the darkness. She, she looked like she was in the digital world, but not. Like somewhere in between. Or maybe that was just me." Matt frowned. "Whaddya mean?" He asked. Tai placed his hands over his eyes for a few moments, then removed them. "She was standing by Heighton View Terrace. She was pointing to it and, we were standing there. All of us. Then in the darkest area, there were, there were two kids. One kid was, well, she looked like Mimi. The other one, I didn't see that well, it was a baby. Both of the kids, were all black. They were just standing there, staring at us. Like they had no idea who we were or what anything was anymore. They looked like the lady, all black. And their eyes," Tai shuddered. "Their eyes were white. Pure white, looking straight through us. Like they couldn't see." Matt started as he stared into Tai's brown eyes. As he stared at him, the stripe of white on his pupils came into his view and he shuddered.
"Well Tai, what do you think we should do?" Matt asked quietly, trying to avoid the white stripe lining Tai's eyes. Tai sat still, staring off into oblivion. "I, I don't know. I guess we should look for the kids. I mean, I don't think that it had happened to them yet, but, I'm just not sure. Not sure even where to look." He said, shrugging his shoulders helplessly. "Well maybe we should go to Heighton View Terrace, if that was where you saw them." Matt suggested. Tai looked at him and Matt looked away, then looked back, peering into Tai's eyes. The twin stripes on Tai's eyes seemed like they were pulsing, glowing. Either way Matt didn't know what they were doing. He merely wished that they would go away. "I really don't wanna go back there. I don't wanna know what I will find." Tai said firmly. Matt looked away and put his hand on Tai's shoulder. "If that's where the kids are we gotta face our fears."
A sudden cry from Kari brought the two boys' heads erect. Kari was running about the house, peering under furniture and all around. Tai and Matt stood up as they watched her run about frenziedly. "Um Kari, did you lose something?" Tai asked quietly. Kari looked at him with wild eyes. "Have you seen the children?" She asked. "What children? Oh, YOUR children. No, why?" He asked. Matt's eyes widened. "Kari, when was the last time you saw them?" Kari pressed her hands against her head and squinted her eyes. "When Tai was, well, being attacked by the darkness." She said suddenly, dropping her hands. Tai looked at Matt, who looked back at him. Tai stared at him for a while, then sighed. "We've gotta go to Heighton View Terrace. I think we'll get our clues from there."
The figure laughed, the darkness around her shaking. As she glanced at the Agumon before her, her white eyes glittered. She would make those Digidestined learn their REAL purpose. This creature had taken away the Gabumon, now he would pay. He would suffer the price. Then as quickly as she raised her arms, she dropped them. What was she doing? She could make the digidestined suffer more than a little pain of losing the digimon. They didn't know what would happen if they were to lose their partner. The one with the blonde hair, the one they called Matt had had only a taste of it. She could give the other the same taste, only much worse.
But still, it wouldn't be as fun. She shrugged her shoulders. She had already disposed of the two children, the newborn and the toddler. She had already tried to get at the twins. Luring them into the digital world with the digimon didn't work. They were too smart for that. How was SHE supposed to know that they would know how to use the digivice and reverse her work? Well, she'd have them in good time. So, the only thing left now was to either torture this digimon to death and make the boy suffer, or she could torture him mildly and give those stupid digidestined a few hints as to where she was. Then she could destroy them all. That would be the most satisfying thing of all. Yes, that was what she would do. She gazed into the fearful green eyes of the Agumon and raised her arms slowly again.
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As Tai rushed to Sora's side, he stopped still in his tracks. Matt reached Sora and held her in his arms, oblivious of Tai's previous rush to Sora. As he held Sora, her eyes caught Tai's and she gasped. His normally brown sparkling eyes were being taken over by the black of his pupil, his face turning white and damp from perspiration. She pushed against Matt slightly and he turned to her. She pointed to Tai and he turned in his direction, concern etched on his face. Tai was staring at them, or rather past them, his brown eyes now black. He stood for a few moments more before he fell to the ground. Sora broke free from Matt and she fell down beside him.
"Tai! Oh Tai! What's the matter? C'mon! Speak to me! Matt! Help him!" She cried frantically as he knelt beside her. Tai's body began to shake and his eyes squinted shut. "Tai buddy! Come back! Come out of it Tai! C'mon." Matt coaxed, shaking his friend. Tai's body began to convulse and as before, a light shot forth from his chest, blinding his friends with it's orange glow. Sora grabbed onto Tai as he began to convulse harder, his body flying every which way. "Tai, Tai, Tai. Stop!" She cried. As she held his brown head in her arms, he suddenly stopped. His body lay still and limp in Sora's arms as tears dripped down her face from the fright of it all. Matt watched his friend's face, waiting for some sign. The others watched them silently, their faces wide with fear, little Tai and Tora hiding behind their parents. Suddenly, Sora gasped as Tai's head moved. "Tai?" She whispered softly. His eyes opened. Sora was relieved to see the eyes open, but what frightened her was the black ominous pupil, slowly shrinking in size, leaving the brown that had formerly preceded it, only it was stained with a tinge of white. "Sora. Agumon." He whispered, as he fell back into unconsciousness.
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She smiled, but also frowned in annoyance as she watched the squirming Koromon. She had taken his energy, made the boy not only give his friends a scare, but himself as well. She had let him see where she was. There wasn't any point in prolonging it. They would come to her soon enough without her help. But what annoyed her was that that stupid girl had ruined her fun, just like that other boy had, the brother of Matt. Whenever someone her victim loved came into the picture and told them to 'Stop!' then everything was ruined and her torture was cut short. She scoffed. It wasn't fair, but hey, life wasn't fair at times. She had the Koromon and she had the digidestined slowly walking into her trap. It wouldn't be long now. It wouldn't be long.
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Sora trembled from head to foot as she watched Tai slumped in his chair, drinking some tea they had managed to find in the dishevled apartment. Matt sat beside him silently, his hand on Tai's shoulder. The rest of the digi-destined sat around the apartment wherever they could find a spot. The digimon sat either beside them, for the first time stonily silent. "I don't like this at all. The denominations for this sequence just do not makes sense." Izzy muttered. "Would you speak English brain?" Davis yelled out suddenly. Izzy frowned. "I AM speaking English Davis. Though I'm not sure which language you're speaking." Davis frowned and would have rushed towards Izzy, had Kari not grabbed his arm. "Leave him alone Davis. It's okay to be worried. We all are." She said quietly. Davis relaxed and looked at Kari. She smiled, but the smile was one of worry.
"I just don't understand. Why would someone want Matt and Sora's baby?" Ken thought out loud, his chin resting in his hands. "Maybe someone who wants power. You did alot of things that seemed strange when you were the Digimon Emperor." Wormon pointed out. "Yeah, but he's not the Emperor anymore Wormon." Yolei said suddenly. Wormon blushed and looked to Ken, who smiled reassuringly and turned to Yolei. "It's okay Yolei. Don't worry." He said. Yolei smiled and sat back against the couch. "It's just so scary. I mean, having this life that we don't even know about. And what's even stranger is that I feel like it's taking me over. Like I can't remember anything of my past, just now. I'm starting to remember things that I don't know. Like a girl named Tana Xiji and the name of a college. It's strange. But what my memory tells me is that this girl was my best friend in college." Yolei said, her voice sounding like she was far away in another world.
Ken frowned. "Resist it Yolei. Don't let the future take over your past." He said firmly. "I can't help it." She whispered. Cody sat on the floor, fingering the chain around his neck, his other hand around Armadillomon. "What's happening to me?" He whispered. Formerly he had rubbed off the black eyeliner that surrounded his green eyes so that now he looked somewhat like his old self. "What's the matter Cody?" Armadillomon asked. "I don't know. I'm remembering things. Weird things. Things like that my Mom is married again and that, that my Grandpa is dead." Cody said, his voice choking on his words. "Don't worry Cody. It'll all be alright, you'll see. It's all just a bad dream that we'll get out of sooner or later." Armadillomon said reassuringly. "But what if it's not a dream? What if we never get out of here?" Cody said desparingly. Armadillomon didn't speak, but simply lay his foot on Cody's leg and sighed.
At the table, Tai put down his glass and sighed. Matt sat erect and looked at him. "Are you okay Tai? Do you wanna tell me what happened?" He asked quietly. Tai blinked and looked at Matt as if he had just seen him for the first time. "I, I don't know. I'm not sure what I saw." He muttered. "It's okay. Just tell me what you think you saw. You gave us a pretty bad scare back there." Matt said, smiling. Tai didn't smile, his face remaining as of stone. "Well I saw a, a, I don't know. It was in the form of a lady, but I couldn't see anything else. She was tall, but, but you couldn't see any details. She was all black." Tai said. "She was dressed in black?" Matt asked. "No. She was all black. Her face, her body. Everything. She didn't speak to me, but she just gestured around her." Tai said, shaking his head.
"What was she pointing to?" Matt asked quietly. Tai flinched. "Everything around her was black. She was standing in the middle of the darkness. She, she looked like she was in the digital world, but not. Like somewhere in between. Or maybe that was just me." Matt frowned. "Whaddya mean?" He asked. Tai placed his hands over his eyes for a few moments, then removed them. "She was standing by Heighton View Terrace. She was pointing to it and, we were standing there. All of us. Then in the darkest area, there were, there were two kids. One kid was, well, she looked like Mimi. The other one, I didn't see that well, it was a baby. Both of the kids, were all black. They were just standing there, staring at us. Like they had no idea who we were or what anything was anymore. They looked like the lady, all black. And their eyes," Tai shuddered. "Their eyes were white. Pure white, looking straight through us. Like they couldn't see." Matt started as he stared into Tai's brown eyes. As he stared at him, the stripe of white on his pupils came into his view and he shuddered.
"Well Tai, what do you think we should do?" Matt asked quietly, trying to avoid the white stripe lining Tai's eyes. Tai sat still, staring off into oblivion. "I, I don't know. I guess we should look for the kids. I mean, I don't think that it had happened to them yet, but, I'm just not sure. Not sure even where to look." He said, shrugging his shoulders helplessly. "Well maybe we should go to Heighton View Terrace, if that was where you saw them." Matt suggested. Tai looked at him and Matt looked away, then looked back, peering into Tai's eyes. The twin stripes on Tai's eyes seemed like they were pulsing, glowing. Either way Matt didn't know what they were doing. He merely wished that they would go away. "I really don't wanna go back there. I don't wanna know what I will find." Tai said firmly. Matt looked away and put his hand on Tai's shoulder. "If that's where the kids are we gotta face our fears."
A sudden cry from Kari brought the two boys' heads erect. Kari was running about the house, peering under furniture and all around. Tai and Matt stood up as they watched her run about frenziedly. "Um Kari, did you lose something?" Tai asked quietly. Kari looked at him with wild eyes. "Have you seen the children?" She asked. "What children? Oh, YOUR children. No, why?" He asked. Matt's eyes widened. "Kari, when was the last time you saw them?" Kari pressed her hands against her head and squinted her eyes. "When Tai was, well, being attacked by the darkness." She said suddenly, dropping her hands. Tai looked at Matt, who looked back at him. Tai stared at him for a while, then sighed. "We've gotta go to Heighton View Terrace. I think we'll get our clues from there."