Davis had decided that the best way to find the digimon was to split up into pairs. The six were split up into Davis and Ken, Sasami and Ashley, and Richard and Yolei. Ken had really wanted to go with Yolei, but since Davis had chose the groups, there really was no hope there. Davis said, "Alright gang! Come back to the lake by sunset." The three pairs split up.
Ken was enjoying this less and less. He thought of all the horrible things that Richard and Yolei could be doing. 'Hugging and kissing come to mind,' Ken thought grumpily. Davis also noticed Ken's mood.
"Hey don't be so down. It's not like Richard's gonna pull anything." Ken looked at Davis surprised. Davis had read his thoughts clearly.
"Davis. How would you know?"
"I keep my eyes on the group too you know. I saw how you were gawking at Richard and Yolei before when they shared their private moment. You know that was an accident. I mean c'mon. They're digidestined too."
Ken felt better. Ken thought that he must have been having paranoid delusions or something. 'Yolei wouldn't do that,' he thought. "Thanks Davis." 'But what about Richard?' he thought.
"Anytime."
Sasami and Ashley were walking through a nearby forest. They wanted to go with Ken or Davis because they didn't know their way around. None of them spoke until the silence was unbearable. "Hey Sasami. How did you know Richard?"
"Well... he was totally lost at the airport and he asked me for directions."
"Why were you at the airport?"
"I was just waiting for a friend. What were you doing in the airport Ashley?"
"I was here in Japan for a vacation and I needed to catch the flight to New York."
"Okay." They walked on a little bit more before stopping to rest on a tree stump.
Yolei was scared. She couldn't see a thing and her only hope to find the way out was someone who was just like Izzy. At the moment, Richard was typing on her laptop and pulling her in various directions. Yolei was shivering a little bit. She jumped when she heard a voice. "Are you scared Yolei?" It was just Richard.
"No. I'm just a... a... little nervous." Richard knew that she was freaked out of her mind. He needed to say something or do something to make her more relaxed.
"So where do you live Yolei?"
"Odaiba."
"I see."
"I got a question Richard."
"What?"
"What were you doing with my laptop?"
"I'm was using it to track down the digimon."
"Okay. Just one more question. How did you know me?"
"Like I said, Koushiro. And Kari helped a lot with your personalities."
"Kari? You know Kari?" By now Richard had put Yolei's laptop back into the bag that she was carrying.
"Yeah. Dated. Dumped. Still friends. Visits my house to get away from Davis."
"You were dumped by Kari?"
"Yup. It's not a big deal really. We didn't take our relationship seriously. When she dumped me, it was like nothing. We just became friends. It's much easier to be a friend than to be a boyfriend with someone who you know it's not going to work out."
"Have you ever been to the digital world?"
"Kinda and it was with Kari."
"What do you mean?"
"We were transported to this place where there was a dark ocean."
"Dark ocean?"
"Yeah and that was where I lost my digimon. He sacrificed himself to save me, Kari, and Gatomon."
"Oh. I'm so sorry."
"It's okay. I really miss him though."
"What did your digimon look like?"
"Well it was sorta like Tai's except a much darker orange. You know Tai right?"
"Yeah." Yolei now felt sorry for him. The first time he got to the digital world, or at least the dark side of it, he lost his digimon. She felt bad enough that Hawkmon was missing, but if he were deleted, then that would be too much.
"It's no big deal. I mean someday I'll find him again." They continued to keep walking. Yolei kept a tight grip on Richard's hand while he lead. Richard couldn't find the digimon anywhere. He had already given up on using Yolei's laptop before when they started talking. Richard decided to head back to the camp when an Ogremon appeared. "Damn. Yolei. We're going to be running again."
"Okay," was Yolei's response. They soon took off with the Ogremon close behind them.
Davis and Ken had finally returned. They didn't find any digimon. Next was Sasami and Ashley. They had found Veemon, Hawkmon, Wormmon, and Patamon. Davis asked, "Where were you guys?"
Veemon answered, "We were just getting some food."
"We didn't see you guys at that volcano before," Ken said.
Hawkmon explained the reason to this. "We just took another route. Then we collected all of this food." The digimon dumped their arm loads of food in front of the digidestined.
Before they could dig in however Ken noticed something. "Where's Richard and Yolei?" As if on cue, Yolei came through one of the bushes near the lake shore carrying an unconscious Richard. Gatomon was following right behind them. Everyone rushed to the two to help Richard and to take the load off Yolei. Everyone got closer to the lake shore before asking questions about what happened.
Davis asked first. "What happened to him?"
Gatomon replied for Yolei and Richard. "They were running from an Ogremon. Yolei tripped and Richard paused to help her, but he was hit by Ogremon's club. That was when I hit Ogremon with my Lightning Paw." Everyone looked at Yolei then to Richard. Ken couldn't believe that he thought that Richard would take advantage of Yolei. 'What was I thinking? Davis was right. I doubted my own fellow digidestined. How am I supposed to be their friends when I can't trust them,' he thought to himself.
Yolei then asked, "Is he going to be okay 'cause I can't tell if he is or not." Davis looked at Richard lying there. He then looked up slightly at Sasami. She had her eyes closed and was on her knees in what looked like praying. Ken noticed this too. Next to her Ashley was staring at Richard's body with worry in her eyes. The digimon were chattering while taking worried glances at Richard. Next to him Ken was looking down at the floor with guilt in his eyes. When Davis finally looked at Yolei however, he couldn't see what she was thinking through her eyes. He thought to himself how long it would take to for Richard to heal.
Davis finally decided to answer Yolei's question. "He'll be alright Yolei. He just needs about a week or so. I also think his arm is broken." Davis looked at the arm that was bent in an odd direction. He felt sick just looking at it so he looked away. By now it was really dark so the digidestined decided to go to sleep after eating the food that the digimon found.
During the middle of the night Yolei woke up. She was worried about the boy she hardly knew that saved her life. Yolei always pretended that she felt for any cute guy when in reality, she just wanted someone plain. She looked toward where she thought the injured body of Richard was. He was like her dream come true and yet. And yet she still couldn't bring herself to care about this new and unusual boy. She had for some reason remembered his face, his every feature. It was the same thing with Ken. But Ken was different. She knew that she was in love with Ken, but Richard was something else. She remembered reading on the internet something about soul mates and that they were probably your true love. But that couldn't be true because Yolei felt that she was Kari's soul mate and yet she was in love with Ken and she could pour out her heart and soul to Richard. He sort of acted like Davis, but that wasn't his real personality. She thought about this for a moment before her head started hearting and she soon drifted off to blissful sleep. Ashley had watched Yolei get up and sit up for a moment before lying down again. Ashley was confused. She was in a whole new world with people she hardly known and not to mention Richard. He was horrible. She felt uncomfortable with him and when she had set him up three years ago, she had laughed at his face. That was when he had given her a look that she had never seen before. She never thought that she couldn't read an expression off of someone's face, but she had read what he was feeling like a book in a short minute. She witnessed Richard's pure look of sadness and disappointment. But what bothered her most was that there was a hint of guilt inside of it, like he had done something to make her set him up. Ashley knew then that she had done something far worse than play a practical joke on this guy. That moment he whispered to her, "I forgive you. I hope you can forgive me." Her heart literally shattered when she heard that, but her friends were oblivious to what was going on in front of their ignorant faces. They didn't notice the tear that was running from her sweet, brown eye down her cheek. She quickly ran to the nearest bathroom and cut the whole days worth of classes. That day was one of her most miserable. She wished that he was never born. Then this would have never happened. Ashley too eventually got tired thinking her most secretive thoughts and she fell asleep like the rest of the group. Meanwhile in the shadows, a lone figure was watching the group and looking at them sorrowfully. He thought, 'I'm sorry digidestined, but soon your time will be up.'
The next morning Richard woke up early. He had a horrible dream that an Ogremon had been chasing him and then tried to go after Yolei. He then got hurt for trying to protect Yolei from Ogremon. He felt really exhausted. He then slowly got up and went to the lakeshore. Richard found it funny that he was sleeping near here. He didn't remember falling asleep. As Richard made his way to the lake, he felt a cloth that was around his forehead. He pulled it off and examined it. It had stains of blood. Richard felt his forehead to see that he was bleeding slightly. He then remembered the dream and the Ogremon smacking him across the head. 'It wasn't a dream,' he thought. Richard looked toward the sleeping digidestined. He saw that all of them were okay and Yolei didn't look like she was hurt or anything. He went to the beach and sat by the water. It was a very calm morning and it was hard to see because the sun wasn't up yet. Richard was sitting there thinking about this and that until a voice interrupted his thoughts. "You okay?" It was Ken. Richard turned around to look at the shadow of Ken. Ken slowly made his way to Richard and as he sat down next to him Richard nodded his head in agreement. Ken noticed that Richard looked a whole lot better than he was yesterday. He looked like he just got a little bruise or something. Richard's arm wasn't bent out of shape, his face wasn't a mess of blood, and he looked pretty much okay. "Yesterday, you saved Yolei's life. Why?"
Richard sat there for a moment before answering, "Well I wasn't going to let her get hurt. You know she's a part of the team." Ken looked at Richard. He was now a part of the team too. They all were. And to be a team, they had to help each other out in every way possible. Ken felt kind of stupid for not realizing that sooner. "Besides Ken. I know that this may sound funny, but I think that any of the digidestined were to disappear, we wouldn't be able to save it."
"I guess that's a plausible theory, but a life for a life is not a good trade-off. I just think we should be a little more careful."
"Okay Ken. That makes sense. Hey look at the sun. It's starting to rise now." They beheld the sun rising in the early morning. The two boys were staring at the sun rise. It was a spectacular scene with reds, yellows, oranges, blues, purples, and all sorts of colors mixing together to form the perfect mix of light. Then in the middle of the sun, Ken saw an unusual symbol. Richard noticed it too. It was a picture of the Crest of Light. Ken gasped at the sight before him. Richard just sat there shocked. The crest eventually started glowing a faint pink. Then the crest faded just as Sasami stirred and woke up. She went over to Ken and Richard who were still staring at the sun amazed. Sasami looked at them with curiosity.
This went on for a few minutes. Sasami was staring at Ken and Richard who look like they have just seen a ghost. Eventually, Sasami said, "Should I wake the others up?" It took a moment for Richard and Ken to react.
Ken just replied, "Yeah. Sure." They then looked at the sun once again, but there was no signs left of what just happened a few seconds ago. "Guess we better help her."
Richard nodded. "Yeah. It'll take forever to wake up Davis." So Sasami woke up Ashley and Yolei while Ken and Richard woke up Davis. The digimon were already awake by now because Davis started snoring louder. Soon everyone was settled again.
Davis blinked once. Then twice. "What time is it?"
Ashley checked her watch and said, "Around 6 in the morning." Davis groaned and he kept mumbling something about killing Ken and Richard.
Soon the whole group was ready to go again. This time Richard was leading and he borrowed Yolei's laptop to navigate the way. Now it was Ken's turn to help Yolei and he thought that he was in heaven. They were going through the mountains now and Richard had chosen the way through the snow stating that that was the fastest route down. They continued their perilous journey. Yolei almost fell once, but luckily Ken was there and didn't let her fall off the ledge they were walking on. Davis was shivering along with the rest of the group except Richard. Even the digimon started to complain that it was to cold. Gatomon had been used to cold weather, but not like this. It was at least fifty below and she knew it. She told Richard, "It's fifty below. Why did we come this way?"
Richard looked at Gatomon who was actually talking to him in a friendly manner. Gatomon didn't trust that many people and Richard was on the list of being not trusted. Gatomon had always thought that he was evil after seeing his digimon. "Gatomon. This is the fastest way off the mountain. And I don't want to meet up with those Meramon again."
"Oh," was all Gatomon replied with. She looked back towards the rest of the group. Hawkmon and Patamon were racing each other to see who was the faster digimon at flying. Veemon was telling jokes to Davis who was obviously not amused. Wormmon was talking to Ken about something and Ken was answering him. Yolei was shivering with Ken's hand in hers. Ashley was full of energy just like Richard. And last Sasami was really mad. 'Who wouldn't be in this kind of weather,' Gatomon thought with a chuckle. The group had finally reached the base of the mountain and there was still a lot of snow on the ground. It was a little warmer though so nobody would freeze to death soon. Richard put Yolei's laptop back into her bag and then started to lead the group away from the mountains. However, they soon reached a group of Frigimon who didn't look to happy about the intruders.
Kari and TK were now standing in front of his computer wondering what was wrong. "I don't get it. Why can't we get in?" TK thought out loud. Kari was wondering the same thing.
"Maybe there's something wrong with the digital world."
"Yeah. There something weird in the digital world. What should we do?" Just as TK finished this sentence, there was a bright light and when the light from the monitor went out, the two were gone.
None of the digimon could digivolve. Davis said, "Veemon! What's wrong?"
"Sorry Davis. I just can't seem to digivolve." The other digimon were couldn't digivolve either. Only Gatomon was strong enough to fight the Frigimon, but there were way too many of them. Suddenly there was a beep from Richard's pocket. He pulled out what looked like a D- Terminal, but it was slightly smaller. He typed something on it.
"Richard. What's that?" Richard looked up to see Ken.
"Watch this." He called out, "Patamon! Gatomon!" They turned to him. "Kari and TK are in the digital world. You know what to do." Gatomon's face lit up while Patamon just followed along and then to everyone's amazement, they digivolved. Where Gatomon was stood Angewoman and where Patamon was was Angemon. They soon took care of the rest of the Frigimon. After the fight was over, Angemon and Angewoman reverted back to Patamon and Gatomon. Richard smiled triumphantly. The other digidestined looked on with shocked looks on their faces.
Davis came out of his state of shock first. "What happened?"
Richard just stated, "I'll tell you later."
Ken asked, "Why not now?"
"Because right now, we have to find Kari and TK." There was another stunned silence. Finally, Yolei started to talk again.
"How do you know?"
"My digivice is a little different from yours. Let's go." They started to go again. Yolei was wondering how he knew all of this. Actually everyone was. Sasami was asking questions to Ken and Ashley was annoying Davis by asking the same questions and other pointless ones. The digimon were all quiet partly because of the new revelation and partly because The new guy had known that someone had entered the digital world.
"Kari. Are you okay?" TK was whispering slightly. Kari opened her eyes and was shivering. She sat up slowly. She looked around at the snow all around them. They were at the base of a mountain. Suddenly, Kari's digivive came to life and it was beeping. TK's had the same reaction.
"What's going on TK?" Kari's voice was filled with worry.
TK took a look at his digivice. There were six different colored dots on the digivice. They were blue, red, black, orange, yellow, and what looked like white. TK then said, "It looks like the digidestined are here. But some of the colors aren't real digivices. It's really weird."
Kari looked at TK again before taking out her digivice. She paled at the sight. "This can't be happening."
TK looked at Kari and noticed that some of the color was drained from her face. "What's wrong Kari? Are you okay?"
"It's him. He's here." TK had no idea what Kari was talking about, but Kari knew that he was coming. He had forgiven her, but she never forgave herself. She thought that it was her fault even though it wasn't. Losing a digimon was one of the most painful things in the world and he had lost his partner digimon because she couldn't fight that digimon.
Richard was practically running now and the digimon with their partners were now struggling to keep up. Finally Richard came to an abrupt halt when he saw the two of them. TK and Kari were just 10 feet away. TK and Kari stared at the group. TK stared from face to face. Then he noticed Richard. He recognized him immediately. "You," he said in a low growl. "What are you doing here?"
"Well I know why I'm here," Richard answered before saying, "But what do you think you are doing? Why are you still angry at me?" Richard had said with a smirk on his face. "Besides. I'm a digidestined too you know."
TK then got angrier. "You aare not a digidestined! No digidestined has the power that you possess. You used him! And he still forgave you!"
Kari then stopped the fight that was about to ensue. "That's enough you two."
"Kari?" TK had a look of mild shock on his face. "Why? He's the enemy."
"Not anymore." Kari had looked at TK with a cold glare. Then she stared at Richard with that same icy look before saying, "We should get out of this snow and set up camp. Then we'll talk about this." The others nodded in agreement. The eight kept on walking and eventually set up camp inside a cave that was really big. The digimon had fallen asleep first. The other kids waited for Richard to explain his story to them.
"Once long ago, there was five digidestined and they represented everything good. Evil digimon were not able to beat them until one of the digidestined turned on his friends. At the time, the crests were hope, sincerity, kindness, friendship, and love. Friendship had turned on his allies and with the help of Piedmon beat the other four. Then Friendship realized his/her mistake and tried to defeat Piedmon on his own, but just didn't have the power. Finally, Friendship sacrificed his own life, but it was in vain because Piedmon had put a curse on himself that stated he would return to the digital world and face the digidestined three times. And the catch was that they would all be in different locations. The first battle was in the real world. The second battle had the eight original crests and that was in the digital world. The last one was at the Dark Ocean. Well anyway, I am the descendant of the original digidestined, the Crest of Sincerity. When I was young, I learned a lot about computers and I knew almost everything. After the digidestined's battle with VenomMyotismon, I was envious that I had not been chosen to do the work of my ancestor and even more irritating was the fact that they had chosen who I thought at the time, was an annoying, complaining, self- centered dumb blonde. So I did the only thing that was logical of my messed up brain at the time. I created the Dark Spore by accident and sent it to the digital world because to me, it was nothing. I think that was why Ken had become evil. Then when I had messed up my first attempt, I decided to trick the digidestined. I became Koushiro's friend and played that act real well. I gathered enough data and eventually, I made my orange digivice in honor of Tai. Even though I was plotting to be the digidestined's enemy, I still respected their leader. When the Destiny Stones were made, they had the power of each of the crests so I stole that power and used it to make my digivice complete. Also my digivice kept the digimon from digivolving. Since none of the digimon could digivlolve, they were all weak and I beat them easily. By then I had gone insane and I was ready to take over the rest of the digital world. I had imprisoned the digidestined. Every morning I would pass by the cells that the digidestined were in and I saw Kari. She was nine at the time and I was eleven. I always stared at her chocolate brown eyes and I grew more and more saddened when each day passed. Finally I staged a breakout. I convinced Tentomon to pretend he had escaped and then the digimon followed the plot because they didn't know that I had let him free. However, Koushiro decided to see me one last time. I told him that I would disappear and probably never return. I told him to tell the digidestined that I was dead. Then I asked him for one last favor. To tell Kari what I did in the future, in like a year or two. He agreed and he forgave me."
Kari then spoke up. "He told me right away. I couldn't believe that you were a kind person. When we got our new digivices, I went to his house for the first time and I met him. When I saw him for the first time, he looked so kind and gentle. Three years later, he had grown more and had the same look of innocence. I felt sorry for him. When he noticed me, he said, 'Would you forgive me?' and I said yes. Eventually I visited his house more often and we saw a lot of buildings and things like the World Trade Center and others. We even visited Mimi's house. Eventually, we had to fight BlackWargreymon, so I couldn't visit for a while until after we defeated MalaMyotismon. When I came back to his house though, he had a digiegg. It was a black like nothing you ever seen before. It was so entrancing yet so unwelcoming. We went into the digital world to et help to hatch it, but instead we got sucked into the Dark Ocean. There the digiegg hatched into EvilAgumon the Rookie form of BlackWargreymon. Richard was happy to see it and EvilAgumon was too. Richard's digimon was also happy to find out I had won the battle with MalaMyotismon. Then our happiness was cut short. Piedmon had shown up. EvilAgumon didn't have the strength to become BlackWargreymon, so I prayed that everything would turn out all right. Then something like MagnaAngemon's Gate of Destiny appeared and when the door opened, Angewoman appeared. That was when Angewoman beat up Piedmon."
Richard continued on for the rest of the story. "Unfortunately, Piedmon had one last thing to do before he was deleted. He used an attack called Doomsday Device. It deleted my digimon on impact. That's the end of the story."
Ken was still skeptical about the story so he asked, "How come you couldn't use the power of all the crests?"
"I can only use it when the digidestined are in the same world as me. Like when Kari and TK were in the digital world." Kari noticed that Yolei was unusually quiet. Kari looked at Yolei and sat next to her. Yolei didn't even seem to notice.
Kari said to Yolei, "Hey Yolei?" Yolei had been looking down at the black at her feet when she heard Kari's voice. She looked up. Kari gasped at the unusually dull and dark look in Yolei's eyes. "What.. what... happened?" She said while trembling a little.
Yolei's eyes filled with tears as she hugged her best friend Kari hugged back hoping that it wasn't what she thought it was. "Kari. I've gone blind. I can't see."
Ken was enjoying this less and less. He thought of all the horrible things that Richard and Yolei could be doing. 'Hugging and kissing come to mind,' Ken thought grumpily. Davis also noticed Ken's mood.
"Hey don't be so down. It's not like Richard's gonna pull anything." Ken looked at Davis surprised. Davis had read his thoughts clearly.
"Davis. How would you know?"
"I keep my eyes on the group too you know. I saw how you were gawking at Richard and Yolei before when they shared their private moment. You know that was an accident. I mean c'mon. They're digidestined too."
Ken felt better. Ken thought that he must have been having paranoid delusions or something. 'Yolei wouldn't do that,' he thought. "Thanks Davis." 'But what about Richard?' he thought.
"Anytime."
Sasami and Ashley were walking through a nearby forest. They wanted to go with Ken or Davis because they didn't know their way around. None of them spoke until the silence was unbearable. "Hey Sasami. How did you know Richard?"
"Well... he was totally lost at the airport and he asked me for directions."
"Why were you at the airport?"
"I was just waiting for a friend. What were you doing in the airport Ashley?"
"I was here in Japan for a vacation and I needed to catch the flight to New York."
"Okay." They walked on a little bit more before stopping to rest on a tree stump.
Yolei was scared. She couldn't see a thing and her only hope to find the way out was someone who was just like Izzy. At the moment, Richard was typing on her laptop and pulling her in various directions. Yolei was shivering a little bit. She jumped when she heard a voice. "Are you scared Yolei?" It was just Richard.
"No. I'm just a... a... little nervous." Richard knew that she was freaked out of her mind. He needed to say something or do something to make her more relaxed.
"So where do you live Yolei?"
"Odaiba."
"I see."
"I got a question Richard."
"What?"
"What were you doing with my laptop?"
"I'm was using it to track down the digimon."
"Okay. Just one more question. How did you know me?"
"Like I said, Koushiro. And Kari helped a lot with your personalities."
"Kari? You know Kari?" By now Richard had put Yolei's laptop back into the bag that she was carrying.
"Yeah. Dated. Dumped. Still friends. Visits my house to get away from Davis."
"You were dumped by Kari?"
"Yup. It's not a big deal really. We didn't take our relationship seriously. When she dumped me, it was like nothing. We just became friends. It's much easier to be a friend than to be a boyfriend with someone who you know it's not going to work out."
"Have you ever been to the digital world?"
"Kinda and it was with Kari."
"What do you mean?"
"We were transported to this place where there was a dark ocean."
"Dark ocean?"
"Yeah and that was where I lost my digimon. He sacrificed himself to save me, Kari, and Gatomon."
"Oh. I'm so sorry."
"It's okay. I really miss him though."
"What did your digimon look like?"
"Well it was sorta like Tai's except a much darker orange. You know Tai right?"
"Yeah." Yolei now felt sorry for him. The first time he got to the digital world, or at least the dark side of it, he lost his digimon. She felt bad enough that Hawkmon was missing, but if he were deleted, then that would be too much.
"It's no big deal. I mean someday I'll find him again." They continued to keep walking. Yolei kept a tight grip on Richard's hand while he lead. Richard couldn't find the digimon anywhere. He had already given up on using Yolei's laptop before when they started talking. Richard decided to head back to the camp when an Ogremon appeared. "Damn. Yolei. We're going to be running again."
"Okay," was Yolei's response. They soon took off with the Ogremon close behind them.
Davis and Ken had finally returned. They didn't find any digimon. Next was Sasami and Ashley. They had found Veemon, Hawkmon, Wormmon, and Patamon. Davis asked, "Where were you guys?"
Veemon answered, "We were just getting some food."
"We didn't see you guys at that volcano before," Ken said.
Hawkmon explained the reason to this. "We just took another route. Then we collected all of this food." The digimon dumped their arm loads of food in front of the digidestined.
Before they could dig in however Ken noticed something. "Where's Richard and Yolei?" As if on cue, Yolei came through one of the bushes near the lake shore carrying an unconscious Richard. Gatomon was following right behind them. Everyone rushed to the two to help Richard and to take the load off Yolei. Everyone got closer to the lake shore before asking questions about what happened.
Davis asked first. "What happened to him?"
Gatomon replied for Yolei and Richard. "They were running from an Ogremon. Yolei tripped and Richard paused to help her, but he was hit by Ogremon's club. That was when I hit Ogremon with my Lightning Paw." Everyone looked at Yolei then to Richard. Ken couldn't believe that he thought that Richard would take advantage of Yolei. 'What was I thinking? Davis was right. I doubted my own fellow digidestined. How am I supposed to be their friends when I can't trust them,' he thought to himself.
Yolei then asked, "Is he going to be okay 'cause I can't tell if he is or not." Davis looked at Richard lying there. He then looked up slightly at Sasami. She had her eyes closed and was on her knees in what looked like praying. Ken noticed this too. Next to her Ashley was staring at Richard's body with worry in her eyes. The digimon were chattering while taking worried glances at Richard. Next to him Ken was looking down at the floor with guilt in his eyes. When Davis finally looked at Yolei however, he couldn't see what she was thinking through her eyes. He thought to himself how long it would take to for Richard to heal.
Davis finally decided to answer Yolei's question. "He'll be alright Yolei. He just needs about a week or so. I also think his arm is broken." Davis looked at the arm that was bent in an odd direction. He felt sick just looking at it so he looked away. By now it was really dark so the digidestined decided to go to sleep after eating the food that the digimon found.
During the middle of the night Yolei woke up. She was worried about the boy she hardly knew that saved her life. Yolei always pretended that she felt for any cute guy when in reality, she just wanted someone plain. She looked toward where she thought the injured body of Richard was. He was like her dream come true and yet. And yet she still couldn't bring herself to care about this new and unusual boy. She had for some reason remembered his face, his every feature. It was the same thing with Ken. But Ken was different. She knew that she was in love with Ken, but Richard was something else. She remembered reading on the internet something about soul mates and that they were probably your true love. But that couldn't be true because Yolei felt that she was Kari's soul mate and yet she was in love with Ken and she could pour out her heart and soul to Richard. He sort of acted like Davis, but that wasn't his real personality. She thought about this for a moment before her head started hearting and she soon drifted off to blissful sleep. Ashley had watched Yolei get up and sit up for a moment before lying down again. Ashley was confused. She was in a whole new world with people she hardly known and not to mention Richard. He was horrible. She felt uncomfortable with him and when she had set him up three years ago, she had laughed at his face. That was when he had given her a look that she had never seen before. She never thought that she couldn't read an expression off of someone's face, but she had read what he was feeling like a book in a short minute. She witnessed Richard's pure look of sadness and disappointment. But what bothered her most was that there was a hint of guilt inside of it, like he had done something to make her set him up. Ashley knew then that she had done something far worse than play a practical joke on this guy. That moment he whispered to her, "I forgive you. I hope you can forgive me." Her heart literally shattered when she heard that, but her friends were oblivious to what was going on in front of their ignorant faces. They didn't notice the tear that was running from her sweet, brown eye down her cheek. She quickly ran to the nearest bathroom and cut the whole days worth of classes. That day was one of her most miserable. She wished that he was never born. Then this would have never happened. Ashley too eventually got tired thinking her most secretive thoughts and she fell asleep like the rest of the group. Meanwhile in the shadows, a lone figure was watching the group and looking at them sorrowfully. He thought, 'I'm sorry digidestined, but soon your time will be up.'
The next morning Richard woke up early. He had a horrible dream that an Ogremon had been chasing him and then tried to go after Yolei. He then got hurt for trying to protect Yolei from Ogremon. He felt really exhausted. He then slowly got up and went to the lakeshore. Richard found it funny that he was sleeping near here. He didn't remember falling asleep. As Richard made his way to the lake, he felt a cloth that was around his forehead. He pulled it off and examined it. It had stains of blood. Richard felt his forehead to see that he was bleeding slightly. He then remembered the dream and the Ogremon smacking him across the head. 'It wasn't a dream,' he thought. Richard looked toward the sleeping digidestined. He saw that all of them were okay and Yolei didn't look like she was hurt or anything. He went to the beach and sat by the water. It was a very calm morning and it was hard to see because the sun wasn't up yet. Richard was sitting there thinking about this and that until a voice interrupted his thoughts. "You okay?" It was Ken. Richard turned around to look at the shadow of Ken. Ken slowly made his way to Richard and as he sat down next to him Richard nodded his head in agreement. Ken noticed that Richard looked a whole lot better than he was yesterday. He looked like he just got a little bruise or something. Richard's arm wasn't bent out of shape, his face wasn't a mess of blood, and he looked pretty much okay. "Yesterday, you saved Yolei's life. Why?"
Richard sat there for a moment before answering, "Well I wasn't going to let her get hurt. You know she's a part of the team." Ken looked at Richard. He was now a part of the team too. They all were. And to be a team, they had to help each other out in every way possible. Ken felt kind of stupid for not realizing that sooner. "Besides Ken. I know that this may sound funny, but I think that any of the digidestined were to disappear, we wouldn't be able to save it."
"I guess that's a plausible theory, but a life for a life is not a good trade-off. I just think we should be a little more careful."
"Okay Ken. That makes sense. Hey look at the sun. It's starting to rise now." They beheld the sun rising in the early morning. The two boys were staring at the sun rise. It was a spectacular scene with reds, yellows, oranges, blues, purples, and all sorts of colors mixing together to form the perfect mix of light. Then in the middle of the sun, Ken saw an unusual symbol. Richard noticed it too. It was a picture of the Crest of Light. Ken gasped at the sight before him. Richard just sat there shocked. The crest eventually started glowing a faint pink. Then the crest faded just as Sasami stirred and woke up. She went over to Ken and Richard who were still staring at the sun amazed. Sasami looked at them with curiosity.
This went on for a few minutes. Sasami was staring at Ken and Richard who look like they have just seen a ghost. Eventually, Sasami said, "Should I wake the others up?" It took a moment for Richard and Ken to react.
Ken just replied, "Yeah. Sure." They then looked at the sun once again, but there was no signs left of what just happened a few seconds ago. "Guess we better help her."
Richard nodded. "Yeah. It'll take forever to wake up Davis." So Sasami woke up Ashley and Yolei while Ken and Richard woke up Davis. The digimon were already awake by now because Davis started snoring louder. Soon everyone was settled again.
Davis blinked once. Then twice. "What time is it?"
Ashley checked her watch and said, "Around 6 in the morning." Davis groaned and he kept mumbling something about killing Ken and Richard.
Soon the whole group was ready to go again. This time Richard was leading and he borrowed Yolei's laptop to navigate the way. Now it was Ken's turn to help Yolei and he thought that he was in heaven. They were going through the mountains now and Richard had chosen the way through the snow stating that that was the fastest route down. They continued their perilous journey. Yolei almost fell once, but luckily Ken was there and didn't let her fall off the ledge they were walking on. Davis was shivering along with the rest of the group except Richard. Even the digimon started to complain that it was to cold. Gatomon had been used to cold weather, but not like this. It was at least fifty below and she knew it. She told Richard, "It's fifty below. Why did we come this way?"
Richard looked at Gatomon who was actually talking to him in a friendly manner. Gatomon didn't trust that many people and Richard was on the list of being not trusted. Gatomon had always thought that he was evil after seeing his digimon. "Gatomon. This is the fastest way off the mountain. And I don't want to meet up with those Meramon again."
"Oh," was all Gatomon replied with. She looked back towards the rest of the group. Hawkmon and Patamon were racing each other to see who was the faster digimon at flying. Veemon was telling jokes to Davis who was obviously not amused. Wormmon was talking to Ken about something and Ken was answering him. Yolei was shivering with Ken's hand in hers. Ashley was full of energy just like Richard. And last Sasami was really mad. 'Who wouldn't be in this kind of weather,' Gatomon thought with a chuckle. The group had finally reached the base of the mountain and there was still a lot of snow on the ground. It was a little warmer though so nobody would freeze to death soon. Richard put Yolei's laptop back into her bag and then started to lead the group away from the mountains. However, they soon reached a group of Frigimon who didn't look to happy about the intruders.
Kari and TK were now standing in front of his computer wondering what was wrong. "I don't get it. Why can't we get in?" TK thought out loud. Kari was wondering the same thing.
"Maybe there's something wrong with the digital world."
"Yeah. There something weird in the digital world. What should we do?" Just as TK finished this sentence, there was a bright light and when the light from the monitor went out, the two were gone.
None of the digimon could digivolve. Davis said, "Veemon! What's wrong?"
"Sorry Davis. I just can't seem to digivolve." The other digimon were couldn't digivolve either. Only Gatomon was strong enough to fight the Frigimon, but there were way too many of them. Suddenly there was a beep from Richard's pocket. He pulled out what looked like a D- Terminal, but it was slightly smaller. He typed something on it.
"Richard. What's that?" Richard looked up to see Ken.
"Watch this." He called out, "Patamon! Gatomon!" They turned to him. "Kari and TK are in the digital world. You know what to do." Gatomon's face lit up while Patamon just followed along and then to everyone's amazement, they digivolved. Where Gatomon was stood Angewoman and where Patamon was was Angemon. They soon took care of the rest of the Frigimon. After the fight was over, Angemon and Angewoman reverted back to Patamon and Gatomon. Richard smiled triumphantly. The other digidestined looked on with shocked looks on their faces.
Davis came out of his state of shock first. "What happened?"
Richard just stated, "I'll tell you later."
Ken asked, "Why not now?"
"Because right now, we have to find Kari and TK." There was another stunned silence. Finally, Yolei started to talk again.
"How do you know?"
"My digivice is a little different from yours. Let's go." They started to go again. Yolei was wondering how he knew all of this. Actually everyone was. Sasami was asking questions to Ken and Ashley was annoying Davis by asking the same questions and other pointless ones. The digimon were all quiet partly because of the new revelation and partly because The new guy had known that someone had entered the digital world.
"Kari. Are you okay?" TK was whispering slightly. Kari opened her eyes and was shivering. She sat up slowly. She looked around at the snow all around them. They were at the base of a mountain. Suddenly, Kari's digivive came to life and it was beeping. TK's had the same reaction.
"What's going on TK?" Kari's voice was filled with worry.
TK took a look at his digivice. There were six different colored dots on the digivice. They were blue, red, black, orange, yellow, and what looked like white. TK then said, "It looks like the digidestined are here. But some of the colors aren't real digivices. It's really weird."
Kari looked at TK again before taking out her digivice. She paled at the sight. "This can't be happening."
TK looked at Kari and noticed that some of the color was drained from her face. "What's wrong Kari? Are you okay?"
"It's him. He's here." TK had no idea what Kari was talking about, but Kari knew that he was coming. He had forgiven her, but she never forgave herself. She thought that it was her fault even though it wasn't. Losing a digimon was one of the most painful things in the world and he had lost his partner digimon because she couldn't fight that digimon.
Richard was practically running now and the digimon with their partners were now struggling to keep up. Finally Richard came to an abrupt halt when he saw the two of them. TK and Kari were just 10 feet away. TK and Kari stared at the group. TK stared from face to face. Then he noticed Richard. He recognized him immediately. "You," he said in a low growl. "What are you doing here?"
"Well I know why I'm here," Richard answered before saying, "But what do you think you are doing? Why are you still angry at me?" Richard had said with a smirk on his face. "Besides. I'm a digidestined too you know."
TK then got angrier. "You aare not a digidestined! No digidestined has the power that you possess. You used him! And he still forgave you!"
Kari then stopped the fight that was about to ensue. "That's enough you two."
"Kari?" TK had a look of mild shock on his face. "Why? He's the enemy."
"Not anymore." Kari had looked at TK with a cold glare. Then she stared at Richard with that same icy look before saying, "We should get out of this snow and set up camp. Then we'll talk about this." The others nodded in agreement. The eight kept on walking and eventually set up camp inside a cave that was really big. The digimon had fallen asleep first. The other kids waited for Richard to explain his story to them.
"Once long ago, there was five digidestined and they represented everything good. Evil digimon were not able to beat them until one of the digidestined turned on his friends. At the time, the crests were hope, sincerity, kindness, friendship, and love. Friendship had turned on his allies and with the help of Piedmon beat the other four. Then Friendship realized his/her mistake and tried to defeat Piedmon on his own, but just didn't have the power. Finally, Friendship sacrificed his own life, but it was in vain because Piedmon had put a curse on himself that stated he would return to the digital world and face the digidestined three times. And the catch was that they would all be in different locations. The first battle was in the real world. The second battle had the eight original crests and that was in the digital world. The last one was at the Dark Ocean. Well anyway, I am the descendant of the original digidestined, the Crest of Sincerity. When I was young, I learned a lot about computers and I knew almost everything. After the digidestined's battle with VenomMyotismon, I was envious that I had not been chosen to do the work of my ancestor and even more irritating was the fact that they had chosen who I thought at the time, was an annoying, complaining, self- centered dumb blonde. So I did the only thing that was logical of my messed up brain at the time. I created the Dark Spore by accident and sent it to the digital world because to me, it was nothing. I think that was why Ken had become evil. Then when I had messed up my first attempt, I decided to trick the digidestined. I became Koushiro's friend and played that act real well. I gathered enough data and eventually, I made my orange digivice in honor of Tai. Even though I was plotting to be the digidestined's enemy, I still respected their leader. When the Destiny Stones were made, they had the power of each of the crests so I stole that power and used it to make my digivice complete. Also my digivice kept the digimon from digivolving. Since none of the digimon could digivlolve, they were all weak and I beat them easily. By then I had gone insane and I was ready to take over the rest of the digital world. I had imprisoned the digidestined. Every morning I would pass by the cells that the digidestined were in and I saw Kari. She was nine at the time and I was eleven. I always stared at her chocolate brown eyes and I grew more and more saddened when each day passed. Finally I staged a breakout. I convinced Tentomon to pretend he had escaped and then the digimon followed the plot because they didn't know that I had let him free. However, Koushiro decided to see me one last time. I told him that I would disappear and probably never return. I told him to tell the digidestined that I was dead. Then I asked him for one last favor. To tell Kari what I did in the future, in like a year or two. He agreed and he forgave me."
Kari then spoke up. "He told me right away. I couldn't believe that you were a kind person. When we got our new digivices, I went to his house for the first time and I met him. When I saw him for the first time, he looked so kind and gentle. Three years later, he had grown more and had the same look of innocence. I felt sorry for him. When he noticed me, he said, 'Would you forgive me?' and I said yes. Eventually I visited his house more often and we saw a lot of buildings and things like the World Trade Center and others. We even visited Mimi's house. Eventually, we had to fight BlackWargreymon, so I couldn't visit for a while until after we defeated MalaMyotismon. When I came back to his house though, he had a digiegg. It was a black like nothing you ever seen before. It was so entrancing yet so unwelcoming. We went into the digital world to et help to hatch it, but instead we got sucked into the Dark Ocean. There the digiegg hatched into EvilAgumon the Rookie form of BlackWargreymon. Richard was happy to see it and EvilAgumon was too. Richard's digimon was also happy to find out I had won the battle with MalaMyotismon. Then our happiness was cut short. Piedmon had shown up. EvilAgumon didn't have the strength to become BlackWargreymon, so I prayed that everything would turn out all right. Then something like MagnaAngemon's Gate of Destiny appeared and when the door opened, Angewoman appeared. That was when Angewoman beat up Piedmon."
Richard continued on for the rest of the story. "Unfortunately, Piedmon had one last thing to do before he was deleted. He used an attack called Doomsday Device. It deleted my digimon on impact. That's the end of the story."
Ken was still skeptical about the story so he asked, "How come you couldn't use the power of all the crests?"
"I can only use it when the digidestined are in the same world as me. Like when Kari and TK were in the digital world." Kari noticed that Yolei was unusually quiet. Kari looked at Yolei and sat next to her. Yolei didn't even seem to notice.
Kari said to Yolei, "Hey Yolei?" Yolei had been looking down at the black at her feet when she heard Kari's voice. She looked up. Kari gasped at the unusually dull and dark look in Yolei's eyes. "What.. what... happened?" She said while trembling a little.
Yolei's eyes filled with tears as she hugged her best friend Kari hugged back hoping that it wasn't what she thought it was. "Kari. I've gone blind. I can't see."