Total Darkness, Total Control

Total Darkness, Total Control

[A/N: Yay! Shinji's aged five years and she's completely turned to the darkness! And what's Myotismon talking about when he murmured something about a Protector? Well, listen up and listen good! Read, review, and I hope you enjoy!]

[Disclaimer: Don't own.]

"Kari? Hey, Kari?"

Kari slowly woke up and winced as she sat up. She took a deep breath and rubbed her chest slowly. Her heart began to beat normally again and she looked up. Tai was sitting in a chair beside her bed, watching her.

"How are you today?" her older brother asked. "Bad, like everyday." Kari sighed, "But I'll be fine." Tai nodded and then headed off towards another room.

Kari slowly and angrily thought back to that day four months ago…

"Bolt Of Darkness!"

Those words echoed over and over in her mind as she thought of the fallen Digi-destined child. Child. What a laugh. That…demon was less a child than she was human. How could someone age five years within the span of five minutes? And Devimon's return…

Suddenly, TK ran into the room and grabbed Kari's wrist. "C'mon!" he whispered, "They're coming!" Kari nodded and hurried out of the room with TK.

Outside, a marching group of digimon scoured through the street. The creatures shoved their ways into homes and searched for something.

"You!" a Gazimon ran into the apartment where the Digi-destined hid out, "Brats! Where are the Children of Light?" "What're you taking about?" Tai wondered, "It's just us six and our parents here." The Gazimon snarled, but sniffed the air carefully.

TK and Kari held back the urge to sneeze when they heard the Gazimon sniff the air.

The Gazimon snorted angrily when it couldn't smell the Children of Light. "Fine, but if you've been lying, my masters will know!" he growled, pointing a claw at them all in a threatening manner. The Virus digimon bounded out of the room, and Tai made an angry gesture when it vanished.

"Yeah, just like you said yesterday." the leader of the Digi-destined sighed, "Hey, you guys can come out now!" TK's small hand closed around an air vent and shoved it outwards. He and Kari crawled out of the air duct and into the room, brushing dust and other items that they had sat in. Tai and Matt hauled their younger siblings to their feet and sighed.

"There has got to be a cleaner way of hiding." Kari murmured, "I don't like hiding in the air ducts, and Mom isn't too happy either." "Well, until the digimon figure out a way to get free, we're kind of stuck with this."

"Agumon, you're going to break off all your teeth if you keep trying to chew the bars." Tentomon sighed. "If someone else has a better idea, I'd love to hear it." Agumon snarled. He turned back to chewing on the bars. "Well, maybe if someone's powers weren't so useless, we'd be out of here by now!" Biyomon glared at Myotismon.

"At least I don't look like a pink, freakin' chocobo!" Myotismon snapped back. The two glared at each other, but a black bolt of electricity shot between them and left the wall smoking.

"Enough of your bickering!" Shinji ordered, "You two annoy me more than those stupid creatures we're supposed to have as an army!" "If you want a real fight, let us out!" Gatomon hissed. Shinji raised her hand and a sphere of ice shot onto Gatomon's tail. It was frozen to the ground.

Gatomon tried desperately to pry her tail free, but couldn't. Shinji walked away with an evil smirk on her face.

"You still haven't found the Children of Light?" Ladydevimon asked with a very irritated sigh. "N-no, ma'am." a Tapirmon said nervously, "They were able to get away, or hide, or—" "Quiet!" Devimon snapped. The Tapirmon fell silent very quickly.

"Mother, father, let me look for those children." Shinji appeared from behind the Tapirmon, "The digimon we have searching can only smell for the children, but I can sense them." Devimon thought carefully. "All right, considering that you can sense their power." he sighed, "They won't be able to run away from you."

"I want to do one other thing." Shinji grinned darkly, "Let me release the Digi-destined's partners." "What for?" Ladydevimon asked, "We've captured them." "I haven't had a good challenge in a long while." Shinji replied, "I want to see if they actually live up to what father has told me." Ladydevimon looked at Devimon in wonder, but Devimon grinned and nodded.

He snapped his fingers and the digimon looked about. "Is it just me, or can we get out now?" Agumon jerked his thumb towards the space where the bars used to be.

Fifteen minutes after the search, there was a loud knock at the door. TK and Kari rushed back towards the air duct, but the door opened before they could hide and get very dirty.

"Kari!" Gatomon launched into Kari's arms before anyone realized what was going on. "Patamon!" TK ran to his little partner and hugged him tight. "Hey, how'd you guys escape?" Tai asked as Agumon squeezed him tight around the waist. "The bars on the cell just vanished!" Gabumon replied, "I think TK and Kari should hide, and quickly!"

"Why?" Matt wondered, "The army already did the search for today!" "I don't think that we would be set free unless there was some other reason!" Palmon answered, "It's something weird!"

The sky outside turned dark as pitch and a cold wind swept through the street. People in the street looked towards the darkest region of the city, towards the place that the Dark Army resided. Shinji stood at the end of the street, a cold grin on her face.

The thrumming of Light energy pounded against her chest, and the Fallen Child grinned. They were so, so close…

"Oh, the dying of the light." Shinji sighed with that familiar maniac glint in her eyes, "It will be so beautiful!"

"OK, you two are hiding, good and dirty, right?" Tai whispered into the vent. "Yeah, now be quiet!" Kari whispered back.

Shinji walked through the street, humans on every side running away in fear. She looked up towards the Odaiba Mansion. They were there…

"YOU ARE MINE!!"

Everyone looked up. That sound…someone had shouted that loudly?

The door cracked—cracked? The chilling clearness of ice curved in through the tiny holes around the door, and the door was completely frozen.

"Everyone, out!" Tai ordered immediately. The parents ran from the apartment, using the door that combined the rooms all the families owned.

The lights flickered, and then died. The chilling blackness outside gave off a disturbing glow that lit the room slightly. "We're on the top floor, and whoever shouted that said it twenty seconds ago." Tai's eyes shook with minor fear, "They can't be up here by now!"

"Then who froze the door?" Matt hissed angrily.

Shinji closed her eyes and concentrated hard. This place was inadequate to fight in. It would take much energy, but she had plenty to spare.

Electricity snapped through the room slowly, and the digimon and Digi-destined felt a dark surge of power. And then, quite suddenly, they all faded out of existence.

The group of Digi-destined, digimon, and the Fallen Child reappeared in another dark region, slightly away from the city of Tokyo.

"You!" Tai growled, "You traitor!" "I am not a traitor!" Shinji replied with that evil glint in her eyes again, "I have returned to the darkness, from which I was born!"

"You are not of the darkness!" Myotismon said angrily, "You have been chosen as a Protector! Only those digimon that are named as humans and are human-born are Protectors!"

"I am no Protector!" Shinji roared in response, "I am of the darkness, and I will destroy the Light at all costs! HAND OF RIME!" A sphere of ice shot from her outstretched hand and flew at Kari.

"LIGHTNING CLAW!" Gatomon leapt at the ice attack and counteracted it—only to have her paw frozen. "BLOODY CLAW!" the Fallen Child shouted, running at Kari.

Myotismon rushed forwards and grappled against his once partner. The ground beneath the two trembled against their power and then, sank downwards as they forced more power at each other.

"Look around you, my traitor friend." Shinji hissed, "We're in a place that I chose especially. I wanted you all to die in a place like where I first showed my powers. The darkness is slowly covering the earth, and I will personally destroy this entire pathetic world!"

With those words, the Fallen Child threw Myotismon into the air and ran towards Kari once more.

Kari choked loudly as Shinji's clawed hand closed around her throat. The other Digi-destined and digimon made a move as if they were going to rush in and help, but Shinji held up a hand that crackled with her dark electricity.

"The dying of the Light is so beautiful!" she cackled insanely, "I will fulfill my destiny of ending the reign of Light!" She grinned in a completely insane way and whispered, "When there is total darkness, my family and I will have total control of both worlds."