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-Chapter Nine-
T.K., Kari, and I decided we would spend the night in some vacant hospital rooms that were adjacent to Tai and Sora's rooms. It was late and we were all tired from the battles so we went straight to bed. I had become quite a light sleeper during my time in the Digital World, so a few hours later I was awakened by a strange, faint scratching noise. I decided not to wake Vee since he seemed to be sleeping so peacefully. It only took me a few moments to realize that the noise was coming from Kari's room on the other side of the wall. I quickly ran to her room and when I entered I saw where the strange noise was coming from. Kari was sitting up in her bed scratching some kind of message into the wall with a knife. She appeared to be in some kind of trance. As worried as I was about Kari, it was the message on the wall that piqued my curiosity, so I read the words.
"The Lord of Darkness will pursue the Child of Light into oblivion, so that he may spread his darkness over all that lives. But in Darkness there is always Dawn. In death a resurrection, and with that resurrection will come, at last, a victory."
After writing the last letter Kari suddenly came out of the trance and dropped the knife. When she saw what she had written she began to cry, I quickly threw the knife off of the bed and gathered her into my arms.
"Oh Davis, it was horrible, I had that dream again, except this time some sort of terrible creature was chasing me along the river of blood."
"Don't worry, T.K. and I are here and we won't let anything hurt you, so go back to sleep."
When I crawled out of the bed Kari grabbed my wrist.
"Davis, I'm frightened of what will happen when I fall asleep."
"Well then, I guess I'll have to stay up and keep watch so you can rest easy."
"Thanks Davis."
I got into the bed and she laid her head down on my lap. After about fifteen minutes I was sure she was asleep, but then she said, "Davis?"
"Yeah?"
She sat up before speaking again, "Davis, I have to tell you how I feel, ok…Davis seven years ago before you left us I always thought of you as sort of a wildfire, and I loved that part of you, the part of you that made you continue to fight no matter the odds, don't misunderstand me, I love T.K., I probably always will, but he has never had the fire or the passion, the sheer emotional fury that always drew me to you, and now seven years later, you still have that fire, and that passion, only now you've learned to cultivate it, to turn it into both power in battle, and into loyal friendship in everything else.
I just sat there, silent as she tried to sort out her feelings.
"Davis, I think what I'm trying to say is, I love you, and now that I found you again after so long, I never want to lose you."
I had seen it coming, but it was still a blow to my senses to actually here her say the words. As I sat there stunned, with this dumbfounded look on my face she just started to laugh at me.
"I'll take that as a yes," she said before wrapping her arms around my neck.
Before she could say anything more I grasped her shoulders and pulled her back a little, then I said, "I'd rather give you a yes with my own words, Kari, I love you."
As we both lay down together on the bed, I had one last question, a question I never thought I'd here myself ask, "Kari, what about T.K., you told me that you and he had uh…?"
"Had sex, yes, we have a few times, and no, I don't know exactly how he'll react to this, but I think all that really matters right now is our feelings."
I decided that was enough for tonight and we both fell asleep soon after that with my arms around her.
When I woke up the next morning Davis wasn't in the bed with me, and his stuff was cleaned out of his room, Vee wasn't there either. T.K. was just waking up also so he didn't know where he had gone. Just when I was about to go look, Davis rolled into the room T.K. and I were in with a cart that had three trays of food on it.
"Well," he said, " I went to get some breakfast and when I saw how crappy the food was I took over the kitchen and made my own, I figured you two would be angry if I didn't bring you some."
We were all very hungry; so without any further conversation we all sat down to eat our breakfast.
After we were done eating, I got up and told Kari and T.K. that I was going to go and find Matt, so he and I could begin today's training session. I quickly left the room, hopefully Kari would tell T.K. about us before he came to training. She didn't, and she didn't tell him for three more days. It was around this time that Tai was let out of the hospital with a clean bill of health. The doctors called it an honest to god medical miracle; we just called it Tai doing what he does best. He joined us in Mega training after that. It was Thursday morning, the beginning of Tai's second day of training with us, that Kari finally told T.K. about her and I. I had gotten to an early start training with Tai and Matt so I wasn't there when she told him.
"Tai, Matt, I've heard stories about your battle with Diaboromon, stories about how Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon DNA digivolved to become Omnimon," I stopped to clear my breath, "I think were going to need that kind of power for the battles ahead, so our main goal with the training from here on out is to try and do that again until you learn to control it and are able to form Omnimon whenever it becomes necessary."
"DAVIS!" shouted T.K. across the park I had chosen to train at. He quickly stormed towards me. I knew from the expression on his face and the tone of his voice that Kari had finally told him, but I decided to let this one play out.
"What is it T.K.?"
Without saying a word he simply punched me across the face, I had taken harder hits before so I barely even moved.
"Well, if that's how you want it, I was never one to back down from a fight," I said as I punched him in the gut. He keeled over and fell to the ground, "How could you, she was mine, not yours!" T.K. quickly tried to trip me with a kick from the ground. I jumped it easily while saying, "She changed her mind, deal with it!"
"Oh, she changed her mind huh?" he said with a snicker, "So if I win the next battle and be a hero will she come running back to me?"
"How dare you!" but it frightened me to think of how close he could be to the truth of the matter, no, I had to have faith in Kari's love.
"You look kind of scared," he said sarcastically, "are you beginning to wonder if maybe she's not this loving young woman, maybe she's just a dog like all the rest!"
That did it, I hit him with an uppercut so hard that he flew a few feet into the air, and he was out cold before he hit the ground. As I stood there breathing heavily, I suddenly remembered that I had spectators. Matt and Tai had watched the whole thing. Tai already knew about Kari and I so he wasn't quite as surprised as I thought he'd be, but Matt had not been told. From the look on his face, I figure he must have pieced together what the fight was about from our yelling. I didn't know what to say to a guy who had just watched me floor his little brother, so I didn't say anything, I just started to walk away. From behind me I heard T.K. coming around.
"Ok, I guess I deserved that," he said between coughs.
I turned around and said, "T.K., I'd just like to say one last thing, maybe now you understand how I felt for the last seven years."
That said, I just turned around and walked away.
The rest of the week went pretty much without a hitch. Thanks to hundreds of eyewitness reports Joe and Mimi were able to get the surrounding area evacuated, leaving us some area to work with. Ken, Izzy, and Cody did just as well in rigging a detection system.
On the day before Vayle was supposed to return, Kari and I were sitting at the table in her apartment. We were eating the lunch I had just finished cooking.
"Kari, when the battle begins I want you to stay out of it."
"What!?"
"I'm sorry, but I've been thinking about everything that's been happening since I found in that cave, and the prophecy you wrote on wall last week just clarified it, I don't think that Vayle just wants to imprison you or torture you like our other enemies, I think that he really wants to kill you."
There was no response from Kari.
"I think he wants to kill you, because if he kills the physical manifestation of all that is good and right in the world then evil has no competition, remember Azoolongmon told us that 'light keeps shining,' well, what if it stopped shining."
"You think I don't know that?" said Kari with her head bowed.
Before anything more could be said my digivice beeped, it was Izzy.
"What is it?"
"It's Vayle, he's back and he's brought even more dark digimon with him this time!"
To Be Continued…
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