Wrenched From Calm, Thrown To Battle: Part 5

Wrenched From Calm, Thrown To Battle: Part 5

[A/N: The quick rebound of trust! Yahoo! And Demidevimon won't be stopping the trust flow now! He might make a special appearance though…]

[Disclaimer: Don't own.]

The Digi-destined were hardly concerned with the Dark Masters, and were enjoying being back in the Digiworld. Tai and Matt were wrestling like they used to, and the others were laughing at them.

Kari was riding on Shinji's shoulders, laughing hard at her brother. The digimon were having plenty of fun as well. They liked being back in their rightful home. But one of them, the Ninth one, wasn't very happy with the situation.

"This mission is far too dangerous for these stupid children to be acting so carefree." Myotismon silently thought. He glanced at his partner. She was smiling at Tai and Matt, holding tight to Kari's ankles as the eight-year-old sat on her shoulders.

The smallest fraction of a smile crept onto his face as he saw Shinji. "But still…" he thought.

"Hey, vamp-boy!" Shinji said, "You're the ex-villain! Where do we go from here?" The vampire digimon blinked once and replied, "The Dark Masters reside at the top of Spiral Mountain. If we want to defeat them, we have to climb to the top."

"Hear that everyone?" Shinji called, "It's off to Spiral Mountain we go!" "Great!" Tai laughed, "Let's get rid of those Dark Masters!" The group cheered and headed towards the multi-colored mountain.

"Not so fast, you little brats!" a sadly familiar voice shouted. A somewhat large bat flapped out from a tree on the Digi-destined's left, from the forest. Myotismon stared at the bat for a moment. "Boss?" the creature asked.

Myotismon slapped a hand over his face and groaned, "Oh no! Not you again!" "Demidevimon!" Tai snapped angrily. "You'll never get to my new bosses!" Demidevimon laughed, "You'll have to go through me first!" The original seven Digi-destined, Gatomon, and Myotismon stood ready to fight.

Suddenly, Kari and Shinji started to snicker. Everyone turned to look at them. "WHAT'S SO FUNNY?!" Demidevimon screeched. "You think that you can beat us? A pathetic little bat?" Shinji got out before breaking up in laughter. She and Kari couldn't speak from laughing.

The Digi-destined blinked and then Matt laughed. "She's right!" he howled, "All you are is a pathetic little bat!" The Digi-destined howled with laughter. "SHUT UP!" Demidevimon screamed, "I'LL SHOW YOU PATHETIC!" He flew as fast he could and swooped down low, nearly against the ground. He flew fast enough to knock Shinji's feet out from under her. Kari and Shinji immediately stopped laughing and Kari let out an ear-piercing scream.

"KARI!" Tai called, "SHINJI!" The two girls vanished into the rising darkness of the crevice. The sun had begun to sink below the horizon, but there was still much light left. Demidevimon laughed loudly, rolling about on the ground. But then he choked as Myotismon grabbed him and lifted him from the ground.

"You little rat with wings!" the vampire hissed, "No matter what happens to those children, you will not live beyond this second!" The Ultimate level digimon let out an angry yell and released a blast of energy. Demidevimon was deleted and the Digi-destined were frozen.

Kari screamed as she and Shinji fell off the side of the cliff and down into the same crevice as before. Shinji pulled Kari off her shoulders and held her against her back and leant back slightly. The odd movement pulled the two back against the jagged stone wall of the cliff. Shinji's feet abruptly slammed against the rock and she started to skid down the wall. Kari clung tightly to Shinji's t-shirt and stared around her side.

"What are you doing?" she questioned, half-screaming. "I'm skiing down the wall, what's it look like?" Shinji replied, "I think that if I do this, it'll cut down the speed and we won't hit the ground so hard!" Kari's eyes widened at those words and she screamed again.

Suddenly, a large bend appeared and the wall jutted out into a somewhat makeshift ramp. The two girls flew off the ramp, and both let out shouts, expecting to slam into the side of the wall. But they passed by the wall and flew right into a strangely placed cave in the side of the wall.

A dull thud resounded through the lower area of the crevice and then a dull yell of, "OW!"

"We can't go down there right now." Myotismon said softly, "The sun just set, and if we try looking for them right now, we'll get lost." "But they could be hurt!" Tai snapped. "They aren't." Gatomon meowed, "If Kari was injured, I would know. They'll be just fine until morning."

"You're OK, right?" Kari questioned. The light of the fire flickered slightly, but it was good enough to light up the cave. "Yeah, even though my nose was bleeding for at least two minutes." Shinji rubbed her sore nose. She leaned back against the wall of the cavern and looked at Kari strangely.

"You know, you packed a lot of stuff." the fourteen-year-old said, "Why is that?" "My mom wanted to make sure that I would be OK if I got separated from the others." Kari giggled. Shinji looked out at the dark night in the crevice, sitting cross-legged and hands behind her head. "Your mother sounds like a nice person." she muttered.

"She's the best!" Kari giggled, "And Tai's the best brother I could have!" "Tai's…a good kid." Shinji agreed almost apprehensively. The two were silent for a moment. Kari stared at the warming fire while Shinji watched the infinite darkness of the place outside the cave. "So what's it like?" Kari asked.

Shinji jumped and looked at the eight-year-old. "What's what like?" she questioned back. "Having Myotismon as your partner." Kari answered, "How is it?" The light of the fire turned their skin a deep orange color, and Shinji blushed a crimson red. "Well…it's fine I guess." she said jerkily. She rubbed the underside of her nose, discretely wiping away a new drop of blood. When she pulled her hand back behind her head, the blush was gone. "Vamp-boy's pretty nice, sometimes." she said, "He doesn't try to bite me."

After a few more hours, everyone had fallen asleep and both fires had died into nothing but burning embers. One pair of the Digi-destined remained awake. Myotismon almost never slept. And Shinji had no desire to rest. Perhaps the threat of the Dark Masters made them less weary.

As the sun slowly rose above the eastern horizon, the Digi-destined almost immediately woke. "OK, let's get going!" Tai ordered. Knowing the order, Tentomon digivolved to his Champion form, and the kids clambered onto him. Kabuterimon slowly fluttered down into the crevice, being careful not to hit the walls.

"See them anywhere?" Tai asked anxiously. "No, but this place has more holes in it than swiss cheese." Mimi replied. Although the joke was pretty bad, the crevice and the walls had hundreds of holes and caverns. "They probably fell into one of those holes." Joe surmised, "So we had better go and look through them!" Taking the initiative, Tai leapt into the closet hole.

A few seconds later, he jumped back up, screaming, "MY PANTS ARE ON FIRE!!!" He ran around, screaming bloody murder until Matt helped him put out the blaze on his khaki shorts. "OK, they weren't down there." Tai panted, regaining his composure quickly.

Kari yawned and woke up a small time after sunrise. But in the cave, it still looked like it was dark. "What time is it?" she wondered. "Well after sunrise." Shinji replied. "Then why is it so dark?" Kari wondered. "We're stuck in a shadow." Shinji answered.

Kari blinked. "What?" she questioned. "Believe me, we're stuck in a shadow." Shinji answered. "So how do we get out?" Kari asked. Shinji shrugged.

"Can someone help me?" Tai's voice called up from another hole, "My legs are frozen!" Matt bent over and grabbed onto Tai's outstretched arms and yanked him up, brushing the ice off of Tai's legs. "Why are we searching hole by hole?" Tai chattered, trying to warm up, "Why don't we try our digivices?" "For some reason, they aren't working." Izzy replied, "That's why we're searching hole by hole."

"Gatomon, can you sense where Kari is?" TK suggested. "Well, I can sort of smell her…" the cat digimon sniffed the air carefully, "And I've got a faint idea of where she is…" TK craned his head back as far as he could, staring up at the edges of the fissure. "What are you looking at?" Patamon asked, unable to stay on his partner's head anymore.

"Didn't they fall down about there?" TK pointed nearly straight up. Izzy cupped his chin thoughtfully and studied the area. "That's right…" he surmised. "And you see that big rock?" TK continued, "I don't think they're on the rock. It looks kinda curved." "The one thing you're forgetting is that there isn't a hole where they would have hit the wall." Sora said, crossing her arms and frowning.

"Do you know the one way to get rid of a shadow on a wall?" Shinji questioned suddenly. "Shouldn't you shine a light on it?" Kari asked in reply. "And what is your Crest?" the teen continued. "Light, I think." Kari pulled out the Crest from underneath her shirt, "But I don't even know how to make it work, so how could it help us?" "You have hope, love, courage, friendship, reliability, sincerity, knowledge, and understanding." Shinji said quite plainly, staring at the other side of the cavern. "So?" Kari raised an eyebrow.

"Light, in this case, is everything." the fourteen-year-old explained, "You have TK's hopefulness, Sora's compassion, Tai's bravery, Matt's friendliness, Joe's reliability, Mimi's sincerity, Izzy's knowledge, and my understanding. Just show it and release the Light in your Crest!"

"But that's one weird shadow." TK blinked, "How could there be a shadow on the wall?"

Kari concentrated on searching through herself. Her hands were closed tightly around her Crest, and Shinji waited patiently, her eyes shut. The Crest of Light started to glow brightly and the black cave shattered suddenly.

The Digi-destined were staring at the shadow on the wall, when it suddenly shattered. Kari and Shinji appeared from the black and started to fall. Kari let out a fearful scream and Gatomon called, "KARI!" The gleam of the Crest of Light reached Gatomon's sapphire eyes and she learned a new way to digivolve.

"GATOMON DIGIVOLVE TO!" the cat digimon yowled. Her furry form grew taller and more slender. Wings emerged from her now-humanoid back and a silver helmet slid over her face. "ANGEWOMON!" the Ultimate level angel cried.

The two Ultimate level digimon leapt up and flew towards their partners. The opposing forces of Dark and Light raced forwards to save their partners from falling to their deaths at the ground. Angewomon gently caught Kari in her long arms and Myotismon did the same.

When the digimon landed, their partners in arm, the rest of the group dashed over. "Kari, are you OK?" Tai asked, extremely worried. "Hey, I'm the one who flew into a wall!" Shinji snapped, "The worst little Miss Light-Child was injured was a bruise!" A 'THWAP' sound echoed through the crevice. "You're scaring the others." Myotismon said easily, his hand flat over his partner's head, "Stop that."

Shinji sweatdropped, and fell over with a 'whump'. "You…hit too hard." she groaned. Myotismon blinked at his partner, then at his hand. "Oh right!" he laughed, "I'm a digimon! I completely forgot!" The entire team sweatdropped. TK looked up and spotted something.

"Hey look!" he yelled, "The ocean!" The group looked where TK was pointing and saw the gleam of the blue sea. "Let's get moving!" Tai laughed, "If we get to the sea, we can probably get to Spiral Mountain!" Tai started to run towards the crest of blue, the rest of the kids following. As he passed by, Tai bent low and grabbed the back of Shinji's t-shirt, hauling her to her feet. The Digi-destined rushed towards the digital sea, hoping to fight their enemies.