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."
