Well, I hope you're enjoying the story! I AM trying to make regular additions, but with the construction on this site and my crazy schedule....... It's not working very well, Sorry.
Ken: Dria, put the make up down, and step away from the wig.
Dria: Aw c'mon it's no fun that way. *continues advancing on him*
Ken: *screaming* Somebody help me!!!!!
Enter Yolei: Dria, I thought I told you to STAY AWAY FROM KEN!
Dria: And I thought I told you he's MINE!
Yolei: No he's not!
Dria: Yes he is!
Yolei: NO he's NOT!
Dria: YES he IS!!
Yolei and Dria: *do that lightning between rivals Usagi and Raye thing*
Ken: *sweatdrop*
"Davis." Davis could hear the struggle in his voice. "That's Chantramon, she......" Veemon was really struggling now. "She...... has the......" Now he was panting. "the power to control--" That was the last thing Veemon could say. He then began moving toward the water. Davis watched. He tried calling to Veemon to stay away, but Veemon seemed completely unable to respond. Soon he was sitting next to Augumon and Gabumon. Davis went over to them to try to get them to come back to reality, but nothing he did seemed to work. Finally he decided he would have to get the other kids to help.
"Yolei, Cody, Matt, I need your help," Davis ran out of the cave screaming. When Davis told the others what had happened, Hawkmon and Aquillamon looked stunned.
Matt noticed their looks. "Who is Chantramon?"
Hawkmon was the one who answered. "She is a digimon we thought only existed in stories. If what I've heard about her is true, I am surprised Veemon was able to resist at all."
Davis was getting worried. "What do you mean?"
"You know how things in the Digital World mostly got there start from things in your world, right" The kids nodded. "Well Chantramon is something like what you would call a Siren. Beautiful beyond belief, with long jet black hair, and eyes as blue as the sea. She is supposed to wear a long blinding white gown and look like a human girl." He waited a moment for emphasis, "But as disarming as she looks, she is that dangerous. She sucks the energy out of any digimon she comes in contact with."
"Veemon." Davis began to run back to the cave. He stopped when he heard Hawkmon yell at him.
"I don't know of any way to defeat her. If either myself or Aquillamon try, we'll only become mesmerized too."
"If I get them away from her, maybe out of the cave, do you think the hold she has over them would go away?"
"It's worth a shot." This was Yolei and Matt in chorus.
Davis sent Tai, Ken and Kari an e-mail telling him to meet them at the cave. And just that quickly all of the Digidestined were running at full speed to the place Davis had described.
Kari and Ken sat looking into the water for a moment after Tai had left. Kari was really worrying about Ken. He just sat there, staring. She noticed the darkness around him, and again she wondered if there was anything she could do. Ken eventually realized she was looking at him, but he kept looking at the water. Every so often he would cautiously look up at her but every time she was always looking away. Finally he got tired of it and asked her what was wrong.
Kari hadn't been expecting that. "Huh? Oh nothing."
Ken looks away from her. A few more minutes passed until Kari got the nerve to respond.
"It's just that I'm worried."
"Your brother will be fine. You know Tai--"
"Not about him, about you."
"Why? I'm fine, really."
"Ken I've known you for three years. I know something's bothering you, something big."
Ken looked at her, surprised by the compassion in her voice.
"It's just that I can't stand the thought that someone else is suffering because of me. I can't help but wonder if someone else is gonna be taken. Maybe I should just give myself up. Let Daemon have me if that's what he wants. At least that way everyone would be safe."
Everything was silent for a couple of seconds. Wormmon began to say something but Gatomon stopped him. She knew that Kari had some things she wanted to say, and was just thinking of how to put them. Ken however took the silence as an agreement and looked away from her, then he stood up. He was about to walk away when Kari reached for his arm and held him back.
"Ken, what good would it do to give yourself up? I mean there is no guarantee that Daemon would give TK back. Even if he did, we don't know what purpose Daemon has for the dark spore. What if it makes him so powerful that he's unstoppable?"
Ken looked at her but didn't say anything. Kari wondered if anything she said was reaching him. But at least he sat down. She took that as a good sign, so she sat next to him and continued.
"How do you think it would make your friends feel to know that we couldn't save you? For right now TK is still alive. I believe the reason he isn't talking is because he believes in the power of our friendship. He believes we are going to save him."
Ken sat quietly contemplating that for a couple of seconds then he turned to face Kari. "Do you really think that we'll be able to save him?"
Kari answered with out hesitating. "Hai!"
A slight smile started to show at the corners of Ken's eyes and mouth, but he looked away again. In a small voice he said, "What if we can't? What if he-" Ken's hands curled into fists on his lap.
"Ken, you can't give up, please. I know we will save him. We have to. We will." Kari's voice broke and all the fear and pain she had been feeling came spilling out in a torrent of tears.
Ken looked at her, surprised. "Kari, gomen nessai. I wont give up. I will keep as much hope as I can. I will hold onto it with all my heart, only please don't cry." He put his hand over hers and she rested her head on his shoulder.
"TK, please be okay." She said it so quietly Ken almost wasn't sure she had said it all.
"He will be. " Ken said it with such assurance in his voice that he almost believed it. "Kari, I don't' know that it's my place but I think he knows you love him. I think you should talk to him when we get him back."
Now it was Kari's turn to be surprised. "How did you-"
That is when both of their D-terminals rang with Davis' message.
Back in the cave, when Davis' team arrived, there were Augumon, Gabumon and Veemon. Davis noticed that they were much closer than before to Chantramon. In fact they were all about half way in the water. Davis gave a startled gasp. He ran to Veemon to try to wake him up. Again it was no use. Matt saw Gabumon and had run to him at the same time as Davis had gone to Veemon. Yolei and Cody stayed out of the water, not sure of what to do, and it turns out it was a good thing they did. Chantramon opened her mouth as though she would scream, but no sound came out. However all three digimon went rigid and then slowly turned toward the people who would dare disturb the pool of Chantramon.
Davis was the first to notice the look in their eyes. "Matt, I think we should back out of here slowly." As he said this he had already begun to do so.
"Why?" Then Matt looked at the digimon and understood. He began to back away too.
But it was too late. Both boys only had time to gasp before their own digimon began to rush them.
"Howling blaster" The blast only just missed Matt, but Davis wasn't so lucky. He had been standing just behind Matt. He would have been okay if Veemon hadn't attacked at the same time.
"Vee head butt" It knocked Davis into the path of Gabumon's attack. He tried to dodge it and was almost successful. However it grazed his leg and left a fairly deep gash. Matt ran to the hurt boy and tried to help him up. Then Augumon attacked.
"Pepper breath" This was aimed for Matt. Davis saw it and jumped up to push Matt out of the way, but he wasn't fast enough to get out of the way himself. This attack hit him in the stomach and sent him sprawling. Luckily for him, none of the digimon's attacks were at full strength because of Chantramon. She had been sucking out their energy. Using their attacks was bleeding all of the energy out of the digimon. Davis however was now in real trouble. He couldn't seem to stand up and for some reason, he couldn't breathe very well either. His mind was foggy and he watched his world go black.
"Davis," Yolei screamed in a panic, "Davis, get up!"
There was no answer from the boy and Yolei ran to him, followed closely by Cody. They pulled him up onto the bank of the river. The reason Davis had felt like he couldn't breathe was because he had been lying face down in the water. Yolei listened to his breath and was relieved to see that he was still breathing. Matt only saw all this out of the corner of his eye. He was busy with the digimon that were still in front of him. He noticed that they were getting slower and less frequent in their attacks.
"Guys, we need to run out of the cave. I think that the digimon will follow us."
"We can't. Davis is out. There is no way for him to get out of hear."
"Don't worry about it. I can carry him out. When I give the signal, just run!"
"Okay, we're ready!"
One, two, three.....GO!"
All of them ran out of the cave and Matt only took the time to bend down and pick up the unconscious digidestined boy.
When they got out of the cave, as predicted, their digimon followed, weakly. Tai and the others had just arrived and were about to enter the cave when they saw Yolei and Cody run out followed closely by Matt holding the bleeding Davis.
"Davis!" Kari shouted and began to run towards them. Then she saw the digimon run out. She saw something the others did not. Black. Pitch Black. That was what she saw, surrounding the digimon. She was about to say something when, simultaneously all three of them dropped.
It took only a minute for the digidestined to tell the story fo what happened to them. None of them were quite sure what to make of it.
"Chantramon, huh? " Tai was trying to figure things out, but not even he could come up with a reasonable answer. "So, does anybody know how we wake them up?"
"Veemon....." The word came out slowly. Davis was beginning to wake up, but he was still in pain. "Is Veemon okay?" His eyes brimmed with tears and he tried to sit up. Feeling a pain in his stomach he decided to lie back down. "Please, tell me if Veemon's okay. I couldn't bare it if......."
Kari, who was holding Davis' hand was about to say something when her crest and Davis' started to glow. They were beeping in unison and a light shot out of it. Just then Matt and Tai's started to glow too. All lights merged in the sky and light particles that looked like snow began to descend on the sleeping digimon. They woke up. Matt stood up, getting ready to protect Davis as the other boy had protected him. It was not necessary. The digimon were back to normal, though none of them remembered anything that had just happened.
"Davis!" Veemon shouted in a panic when he saw his best friend. He ran to him. "Davis, what happened? Who did this to you?"
Davis looked onto his digimon's eyes. He couldn't bare to tell him. "Don't worry, the digimon who did this are long gone. I'm just glad you're safe." It hadn't been a lie. As far as he was concerned, it hadn't been Veemon or Augumon or Gabumon who had done this. Because it wasn't there fault, they were being controlled.
Tai wisely changed the subject. "What happened to you guys?"
"I don't really know, Tai. We were on our way to meet you when we came across a waterfall. We heard someone calling out for help from the cave behind it. We knew it would probably be a trap, but if it wasn't we couldn't just leave. So we went in. That's the last thing I remember, until I woke up just now."
"Matt, what did happen to us? I have a feeling you're not telling us something."
"It was Chantramon."
"CHANTRAMON?" The two digimon chorused. A thought went through all of the digimon who had been enchanted's heads. They stared at Davis. The others had taken off his shirt to properly dress his wounds. He had a bruised side, burn marks on his stomach and a gash in his leg.
"Davis, it was us, wasn't it?" Veemon was unusually quiet.
Matt saw the look in Davis' face and knew he wouldn't be able to answer. "No, not really. It was Chantramon. You had no control."
"Davis, why did you lie to me."
"I didn't. I said the ones who did this were far away. They are! I don't think we'll ever see those three again."
"Davis...." Veemon looked at him, "Okay, what's next?"
"We should get Davis some help." Matt said this. He was beating himself up mentally for not having tried harder to protect the younger boy.
"No." It was said flatly. "Matt, your brother is still missing. I'll be fine." He stood up and winced because of the pain in his leg.
"Davis you are in no shape to be walking around the digital world. Look at yourself. You can't even stand up strait. You might have cracked ribs and I'd say that leg needs stitches." Matt's voice was heated, he seemed angry. But then his attitude softened, "It should have been me."
"Stop that! The only thing that really hurt was Augumon's attack. But that attack was aimed right at your head. It would have probably killed you. It's better a couple of cracked ribs then a dead Matt!" He said it quietly, not wanting Augumon to hear it. Luckily Augumon and Tai were at the edge of the group, so they didn't hear a thing.
"You're right, gomen ne. But you still need to see a doctor, whether you want to or not! I'm gonna call Joe and tell him to meet us at your house.
Tk was REALLY getting hungry by now. He still hadn't found any sign of food anywhere. He was beginning to wonder if there was any. But then he thought of Daemon. 'Even Daemon has to eat. ' So he kept looking. His stomach was loudly protesting by now and he couldn't take it anymore. He was about to try to take a nap to shut up his stomach when he stumbled over something. TK looked down and saw something that made him forget all about the noises coming out of his midriff. On the ground, right under his feet was his back pack. 'I guess it must have fallen off when I got sucked into this dimension' Tk was just relieved to see something familiar. He looked inside and saw a couple fo energy bars, four juice packets and his survival kit. He looked in the kit to see what was still in there. He found some rope, fishing line, three quarters of a box of matches, a flint, and a Swiss army knife. He looked in the outside pocket and saw two hand warmers and an emergency blanket. Then he looked in the secret pocket. 'Yes,' he thought to himself, 'it's still here.' He pulled out a miniature katana. He had bought it just a few weeks ago at a knife shop while shopping with his brother. It was supposed to be just as sharp as a regular katana but smaller and easier to handle. TK knew it wasn't gonna protect him against Daemon, but he felt better just knowing it was there. He took his fishing line and found a stick and set out to catch his dinner. Or at least he assumed it was dinner..... It was really beginning to bother him that he didn't know what time it was, or how long he had been there.
After Davis and Matt left, Tai told the others about Devimon and what he and Lady Devimon had been talking about. The others were glad Matt had decided to take Davis for help. They discussed the situation, but nothing they came up with made any sense.
"I wonder what they meant when they said Ken didn't have much time either." Yolei had been looking at Ken almost the entire time. She couldn't stand the fact that she couldn't help TK. The thought that Ken might be given the same fate soon was making her angry. She looked into Ken's eyes and saw............ nothing. She didn't know why but she had the feeling that he knew this was going to happen. Or maybe it was just that he was accepting it. Not knowing what else to do, she walked over to him and slipped her hand in his. Tai looked at the faces of all the digidestined as he told his story and noticed the same look on Ken's face. More than that he also saw the way Kari was looking at him. He wondered what the two of them had talked about when they had been alone before. He had a feeling it was important. He decided to ask his sister about it later.
TK had found a place to lower his fishing line. It was in a cove near where he had found his back pack. Because of the way the water flowed, any fish that got in there would have a difficult time getting back out. It seemed perfect and much to his delight he had caught three good sized fish in only about thirty minutes, or this was his guess. In no time flat he found enough wood to make a good sized fire. While he was waiting for the fire to become hot enough to cook with he ate half of one of his energy bars. Then while he waited for the fish to cook he thought of the last time he had gone camping. It had been just Matt and him. He remembered that Matt got mad at him because no matter how hard he tried, Matt couldn't catch a single fish. The memory made him smile. He hoped Matt was doing okay. His parents too. The all too familiar feeling crept over TK's heart again. It hurt so badly every time he thought of his mother's tears and his father's agony. He was spared further pain when he smelled the fish and his mind was then occupied with getting his dinner ready. When TK cut open the first fish he noticed that the color was slightly off. He assumed it was because it was a Digital World fish. As he ate he assumed he must have been right, because the fish tasted normal.
Before he knew it he had finished off all three.
Before he knew it he began to feel fatigued.
Before he knew it he was fast asleep.
Heheh, I think this is the longest chapter yet! Sorry, again for the wait! Thanks to all of you who are kind enough to respond. And a big thanks to the person who informed me of the purpose of the Dark Spore! Hey, new question. Do you think I should use the original purpose or make one up, since I'm basing the rest of the fic on the dubbed version.
Ken: Dria, put the make up down, and step away from the wig.
Dria: Aw c'mon it's no fun that way. *continues advancing on him*
Ken: *screaming* Somebody help me!!!!!
Enter Yolei: Dria, I thought I told you to STAY AWAY FROM KEN!
Dria: And I thought I told you he's MINE!
Yolei: No he's not!
Dria: Yes he is!
Yolei: NO he's NOT!
Dria: YES he IS!!
Yolei and Dria: *do that lightning between rivals Usagi and Raye thing*
Ken: *sweatdrop*
"Davis." Davis could hear the struggle in his voice. "That's Chantramon, she......" Veemon was really struggling now. "She...... has the......" Now he was panting. "the power to control--" That was the last thing Veemon could say. He then began moving toward the water. Davis watched. He tried calling to Veemon to stay away, but Veemon seemed completely unable to respond. Soon he was sitting next to Augumon and Gabumon. Davis went over to them to try to get them to come back to reality, but nothing he did seemed to work. Finally he decided he would have to get the other kids to help.
"Yolei, Cody, Matt, I need your help," Davis ran out of the cave screaming. When Davis told the others what had happened, Hawkmon and Aquillamon looked stunned.
Matt noticed their looks. "Who is Chantramon?"
Hawkmon was the one who answered. "She is a digimon we thought only existed in stories. If what I've heard about her is true, I am surprised Veemon was able to resist at all."
Davis was getting worried. "What do you mean?"
"You know how things in the Digital World mostly got there start from things in your world, right" The kids nodded. "Well Chantramon is something like what you would call a Siren. Beautiful beyond belief, with long jet black hair, and eyes as blue as the sea. She is supposed to wear a long blinding white gown and look like a human girl." He waited a moment for emphasis, "But as disarming as she looks, she is that dangerous. She sucks the energy out of any digimon she comes in contact with."
"Veemon." Davis began to run back to the cave. He stopped when he heard Hawkmon yell at him.
"I don't know of any way to defeat her. If either myself or Aquillamon try, we'll only become mesmerized too."
"If I get them away from her, maybe out of the cave, do you think the hold she has over them would go away?"
"It's worth a shot." This was Yolei and Matt in chorus.
Davis sent Tai, Ken and Kari an e-mail telling him to meet them at the cave. And just that quickly all of the Digidestined were running at full speed to the place Davis had described.
Kari and Ken sat looking into the water for a moment after Tai had left. Kari was really worrying about Ken. He just sat there, staring. She noticed the darkness around him, and again she wondered if there was anything she could do. Ken eventually realized she was looking at him, but he kept looking at the water. Every so often he would cautiously look up at her but every time she was always looking away. Finally he got tired of it and asked her what was wrong.
Kari hadn't been expecting that. "Huh? Oh nothing."
Ken looks away from her. A few more minutes passed until Kari got the nerve to respond.
"It's just that I'm worried."
"Your brother will be fine. You know Tai--"
"Not about him, about you."
"Why? I'm fine, really."
"Ken I've known you for three years. I know something's bothering you, something big."
Ken looked at her, surprised by the compassion in her voice.
"It's just that I can't stand the thought that someone else is suffering because of me. I can't help but wonder if someone else is gonna be taken. Maybe I should just give myself up. Let Daemon have me if that's what he wants. At least that way everyone would be safe."
Everything was silent for a couple of seconds. Wormmon began to say something but Gatomon stopped him. She knew that Kari had some things she wanted to say, and was just thinking of how to put them. Ken however took the silence as an agreement and looked away from her, then he stood up. He was about to walk away when Kari reached for his arm and held him back.
"Ken, what good would it do to give yourself up? I mean there is no guarantee that Daemon would give TK back. Even if he did, we don't know what purpose Daemon has for the dark spore. What if it makes him so powerful that he's unstoppable?"
Ken looked at her but didn't say anything. Kari wondered if anything she said was reaching him. But at least he sat down. She took that as a good sign, so she sat next to him and continued.
"How do you think it would make your friends feel to know that we couldn't save you? For right now TK is still alive. I believe the reason he isn't talking is because he believes in the power of our friendship. He believes we are going to save him."
Ken sat quietly contemplating that for a couple of seconds then he turned to face Kari. "Do you really think that we'll be able to save him?"
Kari answered with out hesitating. "Hai!"
A slight smile started to show at the corners of Ken's eyes and mouth, but he looked away again. In a small voice he said, "What if we can't? What if he-" Ken's hands curled into fists on his lap.
"Ken, you can't give up, please. I know we will save him. We have to. We will." Kari's voice broke and all the fear and pain she had been feeling came spilling out in a torrent of tears.
Ken looked at her, surprised. "Kari, gomen nessai. I wont give up. I will keep as much hope as I can. I will hold onto it with all my heart, only please don't cry." He put his hand over hers and she rested her head on his shoulder.
"TK, please be okay." She said it so quietly Ken almost wasn't sure she had said it all.
"He will be. " Ken said it with such assurance in his voice that he almost believed it. "Kari, I don't' know that it's my place but I think he knows you love him. I think you should talk to him when we get him back."
Now it was Kari's turn to be surprised. "How did you-"
That is when both of their D-terminals rang with Davis' message.
Back in the cave, when Davis' team arrived, there were Augumon, Gabumon and Veemon. Davis noticed that they were much closer than before to Chantramon. In fact they were all about half way in the water. Davis gave a startled gasp. He ran to Veemon to try to wake him up. Again it was no use. Matt saw Gabumon and had run to him at the same time as Davis had gone to Veemon. Yolei and Cody stayed out of the water, not sure of what to do, and it turns out it was a good thing they did. Chantramon opened her mouth as though she would scream, but no sound came out. However all three digimon went rigid and then slowly turned toward the people who would dare disturb the pool of Chantramon.
Davis was the first to notice the look in their eyes. "Matt, I think we should back out of here slowly." As he said this he had already begun to do so.
"Why?" Then Matt looked at the digimon and understood. He began to back away too.
But it was too late. Both boys only had time to gasp before their own digimon began to rush them.
"Howling blaster" The blast only just missed Matt, but Davis wasn't so lucky. He had been standing just behind Matt. He would have been okay if Veemon hadn't attacked at the same time.
"Vee head butt" It knocked Davis into the path of Gabumon's attack. He tried to dodge it and was almost successful. However it grazed his leg and left a fairly deep gash. Matt ran to the hurt boy and tried to help him up. Then Augumon attacked.
"Pepper breath" This was aimed for Matt. Davis saw it and jumped up to push Matt out of the way, but he wasn't fast enough to get out of the way himself. This attack hit him in the stomach and sent him sprawling. Luckily for him, none of the digimon's attacks were at full strength because of Chantramon. She had been sucking out their energy. Using their attacks was bleeding all of the energy out of the digimon. Davis however was now in real trouble. He couldn't seem to stand up and for some reason, he couldn't breathe very well either. His mind was foggy and he watched his world go black.
"Davis," Yolei screamed in a panic, "Davis, get up!"
There was no answer from the boy and Yolei ran to him, followed closely by Cody. They pulled him up onto the bank of the river. The reason Davis had felt like he couldn't breathe was because he had been lying face down in the water. Yolei listened to his breath and was relieved to see that he was still breathing. Matt only saw all this out of the corner of his eye. He was busy with the digimon that were still in front of him. He noticed that they were getting slower and less frequent in their attacks.
"Guys, we need to run out of the cave. I think that the digimon will follow us."
"We can't. Davis is out. There is no way for him to get out of hear."
"Don't worry about it. I can carry him out. When I give the signal, just run!"
"Okay, we're ready!"
One, two, three.....GO!"
All of them ran out of the cave and Matt only took the time to bend down and pick up the unconscious digidestined boy.
When they got out of the cave, as predicted, their digimon followed, weakly. Tai and the others had just arrived and were about to enter the cave when they saw Yolei and Cody run out followed closely by Matt holding the bleeding Davis.
"Davis!" Kari shouted and began to run towards them. Then she saw the digimon run out. She saw something the others did not. Black. Pitch Black. That was what she saw, surrounding the digimon. She was about to say something when, simultaneously all three of them dropped.
It took only a minute for the digidestined to tell the story fo what happened to them. None of them were quite sure what to make of it.
"Chantramon, huh? " Tai was trying to figure things out, but not even he could come up with a reasonable answer. "So, does anybody know how we wake them up?"
"Veemon....." The word came out slowly. Davis was beginning to wake up, but he was still in pain. "Is Veemon okay?" His eyes brimmed with tears and he tried to sit up. Feeling a pain in his stomach he decided to lie back down. "Please, tell me if Veemon's okay. I couldn't bare it if......."
Kari, who was holding Davis' hand was about to say something when her crest and Davis' started to glow. They were beeping in unison and a light shot out of it. Just then Matt and Tai's started to glow too. All lights merged in the sky and light particles that looked like snow began to descend on the sleeping digimon. They woke up. Matt stood up, getting ready to protect Davis as the other boy had protected him. It was not necessary. The digimon were back to normal, though none of them remembered anything that had just happened.
"Davis!" Veemon shouted in a panic when he saw his best friend. He ran to him. "Davis, what happened? Who did this to you?"
Davis looked onto his digimon's eyes. He couldn't bare to tell him. "Don't worry, the digimon who did this are long gone. I'm just glad you're safe." It hadn't been a lie. As far as he was concerned, it hadn't been Veemon or Augumon or Gabumon who had done this. Because it wasn't there fault, they were being controlled.
Tai wisely changed the subject. "What happened to you guys?"
"I don't really know, Tai. We were on our way to meet you when we came across a waterfall. We heard someone calling out for help from the cave behind it. We knew it would probably be a trap, but if it wasn't we couldn't just leave. So we went in. That's the last thing I remember, until I woke up just now."
"Matt, what did happen to us? I have a feeling you're not telling us something."
"It was Chantramon."
"CHANTRAMON?" The two digimon chorused. A thought went through all of the digimon who had been enchanted's heads. They stared at Davis. The others had taken off his shirt to properly dress his wounds. He had a bruised side, burn marks on his stomach and a gash in his leg.
"Davis, it was us, wasn't it?" Veemon was unusually quiet.
Matt saw the look in Davis' face and knew he wouldn't be able to answer. "No, not really. It was Chantramon. You had no control."
"Davis, why did you lie to me."
"I didn't. I said the ones who did this were far away. They are! I don't think we'll ever see those three again."
"Davis...." Veemon looked at him, "Okay, what's next?"
"We should get Davis some help." Matt said this. He was beating himself up mentally for not having tried harder to protect the younger boy.
"No." It was said flatly. "Matt, your brother is still missing. I'll be fine." He stood up and winced because of the pain in his leg.
"Davis you are in no shape to be walking around the digital world. Look at yourself. You can't even stand up strait. You might have cracked ribs and I'd say that leg needs stitches." Matt's voice was heated, he seemed angry. But then his attitude softened, "It should have been me."
"Stop that! The only thing that really hurt was Augumon's attack. But that attack was aimed right at your head. It would have probably killed you. It's better a couple of cracked ribs then a dead Matt!" He said it quietly, not wanting Augumon to hear it. Luckily Augumon and Tai were at the edge of the group, so they didn't hear a thing.
"You're right, gomen ne. But you still need to see a doctor, whether you want to or not! I'm gonna call Joe and tell him to meet us at your house.
Tk was REALLY getting hungry by now. He still hadn't found any sign of food anywhere. He was beginning to wonder if there was any. But then he thought of Daemon. 'Even Daemon has to eat. ' So he kept looking. His stomach was loudly protesting by now and he couldn't take it anymore. He was about to try to take a nap to shut up his stomach when he stumbled over something. TK looked down and saw something that made him forget all about the noises coming out of his midriff. On the ground, right under his feet was his back pack. 'I guess it must have fallen off when I got sucked into this dimension' Tk was just relieved to see something familiar. He looked inside and saw a couple fo energy bars, four juice packets and his survival kit. He looked in the kit to see what was still in there. He found some rope, fishing line, three quarters of a box of matches, a flint, and a Swiss army knife. He looked in the outside pocket and saw two hand warmers and an emergency blanket. Then he looked in the secret pocket. 'Yes,' he thought to himself, 'it's still here.' He pulled out a miniature katana. He had bought it just a few weeks ago at a knife shop while shopping with his brother. It was supposed to be just as sharp as a regular katana but smaller and easier to handle. TK knew it wasn't gonna protect him against Daemon, but he felt better just knowing it was there. He took his fishing line and found a stick and set out to catch his dinner. Or at least he assumed it was dinner..... It was really beginning to bother him that he didn't know what time it was, or how long he had been there.
After Davis and Matt left, Tai told the others about Devimon and what he and Lady Devimon had been talking about. The others were glad Matt had decided to take Davis for help. They discussed the situation, but nothing they came up with made any sense.
"I wonder what they meant when they said Ken didn't have much time either." Yolei had been looking at Ken almost the entire time. She couldn't stand the fact that she couldn't help TK. The thought that Ken might be given the same fate soon was making her angry. She looked into Ken's eyes and saw............ nothing. She didn't know why but she had the feeling that he knew this was going to happen. Or maybe it was just that he was accepting it. Not knowing what else to do, she walked over to him and slipped her hand in his. Tai looked at the faces of all the digidestined as he told his story and noticed the same look on Ken's face. More than that he also saw the way Kari was looking at him. He wondered what the two of them had talked about when they had been alone before. He had a feeling it was important. He decided to ask his sister about it later.
TK had found a place to lower his fishing line. It was in a cove near where he had found his back pack. Because of the way the water flowed, any fish that got in there would have a difficult time getting back out. It seemed perfect and much to his delight he had caught three good sized fish in only about thirty minutes, or this was his guess. In no time flat he found enough wood to make a good sized fire. While he was waiting for the fire to become hot enough to cook with he ate half of one of his energy bars. Then while he waited for the fish to cook he thought of the last time he had gone camping. It had been just Matt and him. He remembered that Matt got mad at him because no matter how hard he tried, Matt couldn't catch a single fish. The memory made him smile. He hoped Matt was doing okay. His parents too. The all too familiar feeling crept over TK's heart again. It hurt so badly every time he thought of his mother's tears and his father's agony. He was spared further pain when he smelled the fish and his mind was then occupied with getting his dinner ready. When TK cut open the first fish he noticed that the color was slightly off. He assumed it was because it was a Digital World fish. As he ate he assumed he must have been right, because the fish tasted normal.
Before he knew it he had finished off all three.
Before he knew it he began to feel fatigued.
Before he knew it he was fast asleep.
Heheh, I think this is the longest chapter yet! Sorry, again for the wait! Thanks to all of you who are kind enough to respond. And a big thanks to the person who informed me of the purpose of the Dark Spore! Hey, new question. Do you think I should use the original purpose or make one up, since I'm basing the rest of the fic on the dubbed version.
