Wrenched From Calm, Thrown To Battle: Part 3

Wrenched From Calm, Thrown To Battle: Part 3

[A/N: Hey, this is the non-suffering version of my Ninth Child thing, as deemed by my brother. He's my beta reader. So, read on darn it!]

[Disclaimer: Don't own.]

The vampire carefully strode into his lair and into his chamber. As expected, Demidevimon was already there, as well as Gatomon. "What orders do you have for us, oh great one?" Gatomon bowed with false courtesy. "Leave." was the single word the vampire commanded. "Sure, we'll get out of your chamber!" Demidevimon said, saluting and flapping towards the door.

"No." the vampire said, "Leave the Real World." Demidevimon paused, smashing into the wall in shock. He jumped up and fluttered into the air. "Boss, what'd you mean?!" he questioned, "We're so close to finding the Eighth Child!" The vampire slowly withdrew the true Crest of Light and handed it to Gatomon. "Find them if you wish." he said, "But if not, tell the troops to return home." "Sire, might I ask why?" Gatomon inquired.

"From now on, make your own destiny." the vampire said silkily, "I have no power on your fate." Gatomon and Demidevimon blinked. "Boss, I'll tell the troops to head back!" Demidevimon saluted again. He flew off quickly to get back to the Digiworld.

"Sire, I'm going to keep searching for the Eighth Child." Gatomon held up a paw in salute, "If that's all right." The vampire nodded. "Thank you, master Myotismon." the cat bowed and scampered away. As soon as Gatomon was gone, Myotismon flicked his hand. The door slammed shut and bolted into lock. The vampire slowly walked to the darkest corner and reached into the shadow. He slowly and gently pulled the human girl he had met that night from the Shadow Realm.

"Shinji…"

Tai jerked out of sleep with an extremely loud snore and blinked for a minute. Suddenly, he realized the strangest thing. The sun was streaming through the blue drape… The leader of the Digi-destined jumped out of bed and wrenched aside the drape. The fog had disappeared and the sun was shining bright.

But the thing that caught his eye was the purple and white cat that was sitting on the ledge of the balcony. It was wearing the Crest of Light, and holding a digivice.

Kari and Gatomon slowly stared at each other for what seemed like an eternity before either said a word. "You're cuter than most the digimon I've seen!" Kari laughed. Gatomon smirked. Tai and Agumon stood stunned. Gatomon had turned to their side? And turned out to be the Eighth Child's digimon? And Kari was the Eighth Child?! "Man, the guys are gonna freak out when they hear this." Tai muttered, running his bare hand through his hair.

Myotismon strode through the passages of his hideout. There was no sound, except for the clopping of his boots against the floor. Every digimon that had been employed in his army had gone, and he finally went back to his chambers, pondering.

The strongest digimon had come to the Real World because of one measly human? Or Digi-destined now…

As he opened the door to his chamber, he saw that the human was conscious now. She was trying to hide in a corner, sitting upright with her knees against her chest. "Might I ask how you are?" the vampire digimon asked.

Shinji jumped at the sound of his voice and looked away. "So, save me for a quick and easy meal?" she asked softly. Myotismon chuckled softly and strode over to her. He knelt down and Shinji stared at him. Myotismon reached out a single finger and pressed it against Shinji's forehead.

"Listen…"

He started to trace his gloved finger down between her eyes.

"To what…"

He traced down the bridge of her nose.

"I have to say first."

He tapped the point of her nose and grinned.

The Digi-destined were congregating in Tai's room. There was a strange feeling of foreboding and mystery in the sunlight. There was a problem. "OK, we've got all the Digi-destined." Izzy restated, "But we have to tell our parents about everything."

"But there's no way we can do that!" Mimi insisted, "They'll know that we've been hiding something from them, and they'll never trust us again!" Joe put his hand comfortingly over Mimi's.

"I'm sure that they'll understand if it was for the good of two worlds, Mimi." he chuckled lightly. "Still, we have to get our parents together and tell them the truth." Tai said, cupping his chin thoughtfully.

Mr. Kamiya stared at the digimon, as did everyone else in the room except the Digi-destined. "This…is what you've been keeping from us this whole time?" Mr. Izumi questioned. The kids nodded with a sad look. The parents all let out a collective sigh.

"We thought that something bad had happened!" Mrs. Izumi explained. "When you all acted so strangely, we thought that something strange was going on, like a country-wide conspiracy or something." Mrs. Tachikawa laughed.

"So you aren't worried about our going back?" Tai asked, "Even Kari?" Mr. and Mrs. Kamiya shook their heads. "As long as you take care of each other, you should be just fine!" Mr. Tachikawa said, "It's gotten you this far already!" The kids stared at their parents for a few seconds, but then let out happy laughs and ran to their parents, embracing them in hugs.

Tai strained as he tried to pick up the bag his mother packed for him. The Digi-destined were meeting one last time in the Real World, hiding in a park to head back to the Digiworld. Their parents didn't want to see them go, because it would be too hard to let them go. But they had said the most heartfelt goodbyes in their lives.

"All right, let's get moving!" Tai ordered, holding out the first of the digivices. His best friends, and Kari, held out their digivices, one by one. "Here we go!" the Digi-destined leader said, excited. The digivices beeped louder and louder until the Digi-destined could hardly stand it.

Then the sound stopped.

The kids blinked and stared at the digital devices. The screen bleeped the words 'Insufficient output' over and over. "Insufficient output?" Matt raised an eyebrow, "What's that supposed to mean?" Izzy cupped his chin in careful thought.

"This is a brain-teaser." he said softly, "We've never actually used our digivices for inter-world travel before." "In English?" Tai said crossly. "The first time we went to the Digiworld, that huge tidal wave swept us there." Sora translated, "And when you came back, Tai, there was some sort of vortex. But this time, we have to use the digivices."

"So are you saying that we can't go back to the Digiworld?" Joe asked anxiously. "Not at all." Izzy replied, "I just don't know what to do." "Izzy…doesn't know what to do?" TK said slowly.

"WE'RE STUCK HERE!!!!" Mimi yelled to the sky.

"I really think you should have given me a better explanation before dragging me through that vortex, vamp-boy." Shinji muttered sarcastically. Myotismon grinned. "There wasn't any time." he half-snickered. "I'm so sure." the human replied.

Suddenly, the silver device clipped to her belt started to beep rapidly and loudly. "Got a quick explanation for this?" Shinji inquired. Before Myotismon could even say anything, the digivice's screen fired a beam of white light into the sky.

The digivices began to beep furiously again, and let loose beams of white light. The eight beams connected with one last beam that flew down from the sky and created a powerful vortex. The kids let out yells of fear as the vortex drew them closer and closer. Finally, it sucked them in, and the Digi-destined were gone.

The beam of light flickered a few times, and then faded into nothing. Then, eight kids and eight other monsters appeared as tiny dots in the sky, screaming loudly and falling fast.

Raising an eyebrow, Shinji asked, "Does it normally rain kids here?"

Shaking his head, Myotismon replied, "No. No it doesn't."

The two looked at each other and blinked for a few moments. Then they screamed, in unison, "RUN AWAY!!!!" The two turned from each other and dashed into the surrounding forestry, running away from each other. A few seconds later, the kids and monsters slammed into the ground with a large explosion of dust, and many shouts.

When the dust cleared, a boy in brown shorts was stuck in the ground by his head. A blond boy with a green tanktop dashed over and yanked him out quick. "Tai, I don't like the trip to the Digiworld." a brown-haired girl with a whistle around her neck groaned.

Shinji stared around the tree at the kids. Were these those kids that Piedmon mentioned? Her digivice suddenly started to beep quite loudly. She tried to crush it into being quiet, but the kids had already noticed it.

"Who's there?!" the boy called Tai shouted. Shinji literally rippled in fear and tried to shut her digivice up.

"Agumon!" Tai ordered. The orange dinosaur sucked in a deep breath and shouted, "PEPPER BREATH!" The fire attack felled the tree Shinji was hiding behind and started to fall. The huge tree slowly fell to the ground with a huge shaking and a loud crash. The kids waited, watching the tree.

"So you kids are those Digi-destined? I would have expected a little more for people that are saving the world." a voice said from behind the group. The kids and monsters whirled around to find a tall girl of fourteen balancing on a thin branch. It was a few feet above the ground, and bent slightly on her weight.

She smirked at the kids. Then the branch gave way under her feet and she fell to the ground unceremoniously. With a streak of dirt across the bridge of her nose and under her eyes, she leapt back up. "I'm not good at calculating the amount of weight something can take." she said, shrugging with a small smirk.

"And I thought you were supposed to be very good on your feet." another voice chuckled. The teen whipped about and said, "Shut up, vamp-boy!" The voice chuckled, and the one person the Digi-destined didn't want to see stepped out from behind the tree.

"M-M-M…" Mimi stuttered. "Myotismon." Tai growled. The girl turned slightly and blinked at Tai. The vampire digimon stared lightly at the large-haired human.

Gatomon hissed angrily and half-shouted, "Drag a human back here for a few good meals?!"

"Gods, why won't you people stop it with the vampire thing?" Myotismon asked sarcastically. He crossed his arms over his chest and smirked at the Digi-destined.

Gatomon let out another hiss and launched herself at the Ultimate level digimon. "Gatomon, don't!" Kari shouted. The cat digimon flew at the vampire, and suddenly jerked to a halt.

Gatomon started to swing by her tail, upside-down in the air. "Leave vamp-boy be." the teen said, holding Gatomon's tail tightly.

Izzy stared intently at the teenager. He could have sworn that…

"Wait a second…" the red-haired boy stepped forwards. The group turned to face the genius, Gatomon from her upside-down position too.

"I've seen you before!" Izzy insisted, "I know I have!" The fourteen-year-old blinked at Izzy for a few moments.

"Oh yeah…" she replied, dropping Gatomon without a care, "You're that Izzy kid I ran into a few days ago." Kari gasped. "I ran into you in the fog yesterday!" she said. "WHAT?!" Tai shouted, "Kari, why didn't you tell me about that?!" "The same reason I didn't mention running into her a few days ago!" Izzy cut in, "We didn't think it would be important! We didn't know that she's the Ninth Digi-destined!"

"All right smart-girl!" Tai whipped around and held up his fist at the girl, "Who's your partner if you're the Ninth Digi-destined?!" The girl raised an eyebrow.

"Say…what?" she questioned. "HA!" Tai laughed, "Told ya Myotismon just brought her back for-"

"I'm her partner." Myotismon interrupted.