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-Chapter Seven-
Davis P.O.V.
After the dust had settled Gigaveedramon reverted back to Demiveemon. Seeing this, I walked over and put him on my shoulder. I congratulated him on a job well done. Now it was time to get back to Kari and the others, so I pulled out my digivice and called Kari.
"Kari, I took care of the digimon, he won't be able to hurt anyone ever again."
"I know Davis, it was on the news, I appreciate what you did, but why did you have to do destroy so much of the harbor district?"
"I wasn't in my right mind, seeing Tai hurt like that enraged me, by the way, did any civilians get hurt in the battle, I tried to give everyone enough time to evacuate."
The face on my digivice screen smiled and replied, "Thankfully no one was hurt, they all started running as soon as the first warehouse exploded and Machinedramon revealed himself."
I let out a sigh of relief before responding, "That's good to know, anyway Kari, what hospital are you guys at?"
"Oh yeah, we brought Tai and Sora to West Odaiba Hospital, would you like to know how they're holding up?"
"No, I don't think I want to worry about that until I get there, see you later."
"You too."
Demiveemon and I made our way to the Hospital as quickly as we could, but I didn't have any money, and after the battle I couldn't let Vee digivolve so we were forced to walk. We didn't make it to West Odaiba until very late that evening, we finally got to the hospital at about 8 o'clock. The secretary at the desk directed to where Tai and Sora were. When I got over there I found Kari and T.K. sitting on a bench outside the room, Kari was crying while T.K. was giving me a blank stare.
"How are they?" I asked in a hushed tone.
"Sora has only minor injuries since Tai shielded her with his body, thanks to him, the baby is fine," replied T.K.
"That's a relief, what about Tai?"
His eyes became clouded and his voice was brimming with worry as told me, "They don't know if he'll make it, he had several broken bones, some bad internal bleeding, and that nasty head wound."
"It's Tai, if anyone can pull through something like this it's him, by the way, did any of the others make it?"
"Yes, but they out getting something to eat right now."
All of a sudden T.K. turned to Kari and said, "Why don't you go check up on Sora?"
After she had walked out of earshot he looked at me with an angry glare and said, "Davis, what were you thinking, destroying half the harbor district, don't you have any restraint, did you even think of how many people could have gotten hurt even when you gave them time to run!?"
"The only thing I was thinking about was destroying Machinedramon, he had already hurt two people, what's to say he wouldn't have hurt even more people if I hadn't stopped him."
"Do you think that makes it okay to completely disregard the safety of everyone around you!?"
"What's important is that no one was hurt and Machinedramon was destroyed, now I'd like to go see Tai, where is he?"
T.K. was still fuming, but he did tell me that Tai was in the room at the end of the hall. I made my way to the room and opened the door. Inside, Tai was laying on a bed, wrapped in bandages and hooked to tubes. It was very depressing to see my childhood hero and friend in such a state of helplessness. Agumon was sitting next to him sleeping.
"How you doing Tai?" I asked quietly, no response obviously.
I pulled up a chair next to the bed and sat down, before long all my pent up thoughts and emotions began to rush out, "Tai, you have to get better, something terrible is happening, I don't know what it is, but it's big, Kari's been having premonitions and I know that Machinedramon was not the one who destroyed your apartment, his attacks are too obvious, so it has to be someone more hidden, all of these things combine to tell me that I'm not strong enough to handle this alone, but I will make you one promise, even if it costs me my life, I will never let them have Kari!"
Right then I heard the sound of the door to the room closing, in my despair I had not heard it open. I looked up and saw Kari standing there smiling. I immediately began to blush furiously, "How much did you hear?" I asked in embarrassment.
"Enough to know that my brother would be proud of having you as the one to lead us in his absence."
"What do you mean, I'm not strong enough, or wise enough to do this without help."
"That you say that proves just how wise and talented of a leader you are."
T.K. came rushing through the door at just that moment, when we were standing face to face looking into each other's eyes. He gave us one long look before shouting, "You guys have to come quick, there are hundreds of dark digimon outside!"
"Damn!" I said in surprise and anger, "I was right, Machinedramon was not alone, but this is worse that I thought."
"What do we do?" asked Kari.
"You two meet me at the front desk with your digimon," I said.
"Right," they both replied simultaneously before running off.
We met at the desk in five minutes and I told them my plan, "T.K., you and I will handle the battle until the others arrive, Kari, you have to stay in here."
"What, why!?"
"Because they're probably after you, and I won't let them have what they want, Gatomon will stay and guard you."
"I understand."
T.K. and I walked through the front doors to confront our enemy. What we saw was a young man about our age dressed all in black; he was surrounded by hundreds of dark digimon. When we made it out to the front parking lot the man began to speak, "My name is Vayle and I am here for Kari, I expect you to bring her to me right away!"
"I will never give you Kari!"
"I was hoping you would be reasonable about this, but I sort of expected you would resist, oh well."
He raised his right hand and pointed towards us, the digimon charged.
"Vee, you have to digivolve to Gigaveedramon now!"
"I'm sorry Davis, I'm too tired to digivolve."
"Crap, T.K., Veemon is too tired, Patamon will have to hold them off until the others return!"
"Ok!"
Patamon warp-digivolved to Seraphimon and began to attack. He fought long and hard but it was just not enough. Just when it looked like we were going to lose the battle for good, we heard a voice from behind us.
"Mega Claw!"
The voice was followed by a raging golden whirlwind that came tearing through the front gates, tearing up the enemy front lines like a meat grinder. Blood splattered every other digimon and person involved in the battle. Soon the wind dissipated and we saw that it was Wargreymon. I looked back to the hospital and saw Tai limping towards me. As for the battle in progress, we were holding our own now. Wargreymon was legendary in the digital world and most other digimon were afraid of him. But I knew it wouldn't last, we were still too badly outnumbered, even if the others did make it in time, there were still too many of them. So I decided on a new plan of action.
"Vayle!"
"Yes Davis."
"I challenge you to a one on one duel, man to man, if I win, you don't return for a week, if you win I give you Kari."
"Sounds interesting, I'll do it."
To Be Continued…
For those of you who think Davis's plan is a little strange, wait until next chapter to find out why he did it.