**So I don't quite know what's going on with the whole Apache thing, but it gave me time to type the third chapter of this fic! So we left Sora and Matt alone with the demonic Tai. What is going to happen to them? Read this to find out!**

The Evil Within
Cold

Sora looked up in terror as Tai smiled sinisterly down at her. She felt her skin crawl as she faced her best friend as an enemy. Tai clenched his hand into a fist and took a step toward Matt and Sora. Sora looked down at her unconscious boyfriend and glared back up at Tai defiantly.
"Get the hell back, Tai!!" Sora shouted. Tai's face looked like it was frozen in an evil style, his lips twisted into a cruel snarl, his eyes coal black and burning with hatred.
"I have to do this. It's my job. Don't bother fighting, because I'm going to get you eventually, Sora. But now I must finish with Matt. I thought I killed him the first time, but I was sadly mistaken." Tai replied slowly, inching closer to Sora and Matt with every step he took. Sora jumped up and put her fists up, preparing to fight for her and Matt's lives. Tai chuckled, amused, then grabbed Sora's left arm and twisted it roughly.
"Tai stop it, you're hurting me!" Sora screamed as Tai twisted her arm harder. Sora felt a snap, then a wave of pain as Tai broke her arm. Tai let go of Sora as she sreamed and collapsed to the floor in pain. Matt's eyes shifted open as Sora held her arm gently. Matt sat up and looked at Tai with confusion written on his face.
"What are you doing Tai?" Matt asked groggily. Tai smirked and punched Matt in the jaw, sending him to the corner of the tent. Blood trickled from a cut on Matt's lip. He wiped the red liquid from his mouth and glared at Tai, who looked at Matt with no sorrow or regret. Sora was drifting into unconsciousness from the pain and shock of her injury. Matt scooted over to her, ignoring the pain he felt throughout his body.
"Sora. . ." Matt cried as he noticed her broken arm. Tai sneered as Sora looked at Matt through half closed eyes.
"Matt. . ." Sora whispered before passing out. Matt looked up at Tai in time to recieve a kick to the head, rendering him unconscious with Sora.
"Finally, I have you right where I want you. . . " Tai whispered as he raised his foot to kick the sleeping couple. Someone tapped Tai's shoulder, and when Tai turned, he recieved a hard punch to the face. Tai collapsed in the doorway to the tent at the feet of his assailant. Mimi brushed a strand of chestnut hair from her angry rust colored eyes and glared down at Tai.
"And I thought I loved you. . ." Mimi sneered as Joe and Izzy ran in with TK and Kari hot on their heels.
"We have to get out of here!" Kari cried as Izzy and Joe checked Matt and Sora for injuries.
"Sora's arm is broken. I can set it now, or later, depending on when Tai wakes up." Joe reported. TK took the rope from the boys' tent and tied Tai up tightly.
"Set it now. Then we'll move and figure out what the hell has gotten into Tai." TK stated, helping Izzy move Matt away from Sora. Matt stirred and looked around dizzily.
"NO!" Matt yelled. Kari and Mimi leapt to Izzy and TK to help hold Matt down.
"It's us, Matt! Everything's going to be okay." Kari soothed. Matt stared at his friends, then looked over at Sora, who was still unconscious with Joe. Joe set Sora's arm into a makeshift cast and bandaged it up carefully.
"That jerk broke her arm. He's going to pay for this as soon as I don't feel like I was hit by a mack truck." Matt threatened angrilly. Izzy looked over at Tai, who was still out like a light.
"I don't think Tai did it. Mimi said that she saw his eyes turn black, then spark with red before returning to their normal color. So I have the theory that something has inhabited Tai. We could ask him, but Mimi knocked him out pretty good." Izzy confirmed. Matt looked incredulously at Mimi, who blushed.
"I'm not as helpless as you may think!" Mimi said shyly. Matt nodded as he tried to get up slowly. He cried out in pain and sank back down to the ground.
"I wouldn't do too much moving. I think you have some cracked ribs among other injuries, so movement isn't really an option." Joe advised as he shook Sora gently in an attempt to wake her up. Sora's eyes fluttered open, and she instantly cried out for Matt. Joe led her to her boyfriend, and they hugged gently.
"I was so worried!" Matt said quietly. Sora nodded and rested her head on Matt's shoulder. Matt winced slightly, but didn't let Sora know it hurt him.
"What in the world is going on with you guys!?" Tai cried suddenly. The Digidestined turned and faced their once leader, who was struggling with his bonds. Mimi walked up to him and looked him in the eyes carefully.
"This is Tai. His eyes aren't so. . . .so cold." Mimi reported as she backed away from the boy, who looked at the kids as if they were crazy.
"Let me go! I have to get away from you guys! It's in me, and I don't think I can-" Tai tried to explain, but cried out in agony and fell onto his back. The Digidestined backed away as Tai began to holler angrilly.
"RUN!" Tai screamed as the entity inside him started to overtake him menally. Joe picked up Sora, who was standing up shakily. TK put Matt onto his shoulders, then followed the other kids out the tent hastily, running toward the woods. Tai shuddered, and screamed as red beams shot out of his eyes, breaking his bonds and setting him free. Tai stood up and dusted himself off.
"This is going to end NOW!" Tai yelled as he raised his arms above his head. TK and Kari looked back and watched the tent Tai had occupied fly into the air. Screaming, Kari caught the attention of the others, who watched in horror as Tai sent black beams from his hands into the sky, blackening it totally. Clouds covered the once clear sky as rain spattered the ground.
"Run!" Mimi cried as Tai began to pursue the chosen children. They made their way through the woods, stopping at a large boulder formation.
"We can hide in here!" Izzy proclaimed. Joe and TK went in first, setting Sora and Matt into the corner of the formation to keep them safe. Mimi, Izzy and Kari followed and cowered with their friends. Tai walked through the woods, calling their names evilly. He looked at the river, the woods, some shrubs, and the boulders.
"Eeny, meeny, miney, mo." Tai said darkly, pointing at the rocks positively.
"What has happened to Tai!?" Kari cried as she bagan to sob on TK's shoulder angrilly. Tai poked his head around the rocks, looking for his sister, who he had just heard crying.
"Kari! Come help me!" the evil cried, mocking Tai's voice. Kari got up to aid her brother, but was yanked down by Izzy and Joe.
"Kari, don't you want your brother back? Don't you want to banish me, the ultimate evil, from his body?" the evil Tai asked tauntingly.
"Tai must be inhabited by pure evil!" Izzy pointed out. Everyone gasped with shock and peered over the rocks at Tai, who saw them. He pointed his hands and let a stream of black light hit the rock, breaking it slightly. TK dusted himself off and looked at everyone around him. Matt and Sora were holding each other close, Mimi was crying, Joe and Izzy were trying to figure out how to defeat the evil in Tai, and Kari wasn't anywhere to be seen.
"Kari!" TK screamed as he watched his love walk out and face her brother alone.

**Ooooh, cliff-hanger! Sorry guys! But it looks like you're going to have to read the ending to find out what happens! Will Kari be able to take her brother on? And if she wins, will her body be able to take the strain? Find out later, y'all!**