Hiya. Kalariona here, apologising on the big delay on chapter four. I have had writer's block badly. I know how the story is going. It's just writing it down. Also, I have been on holiday and I've been reading the Harry Potter fanfics. (Read VanityFair 's Love under Will. It's brilliant!) This chapter is a little shorter than the others and is setting the scene for what is going to happen in chapter 5!
Quick note. This story may have one of two endings. I can't decide whether it should end as a Daikeru of a Takari! It would be nice if you could vote and tell me what you would rather!
As usual, please please review. Tell me if it's any good. How it could be improved. I welcome all constructive criticism, but no flames. I don't need to be insulted! Thanks!
As usual, I don't own Digimon. This is just satisfying my own imagination for a decent ending of series two!
Dreams Seeping into Reality
It began as such a nice day!
The Digital World was bright and sunny, with only a few clouds in the sky. A gentle breeze blew the grass lightly, tickling my leg as I sat, leaning against a tree. Iori and Koushiro sat to my left discussing for some reason, cause and effect. Ken was lying in front of me, engrossed in a book and Yamato sat beside the stream, strumming his guitar.
I'm not actually sure why Yamato decided to come with us on our little picnic, but he looked tense and worried when he called in the computer room looking for Taichi and Takeru. Koushiro suggested a trip to the Digiworld for a bit of a rest for him. He jumped at the idea, claiming he wanted to escape his rabid fans.
Now everyone thinks that I have a big mouth and I speak before I think. This is true, to a certain extent. Even I admit that I have an overly large mouth and I am constantly putting my foot into it. This time though, even though I could see a problem, I kept my mouth shut.
There were things that Yamato was trying to keep buried deep inside him. This wasn't obvious to everyone, but I saw it. Sora would too, if she ever decided to hang out with us again. As we both held the crest and digimental of love, it was something we could easily see. Yamato had a problem and was too scared to act on it!
His brother Takeru was another enigma. One of the sweetest guys I have ever met. That anyone is likely to meet, with a bone-mushing smile. Cute too! But his eyes! He always looks like he is in pain with a sadness, which never seems to fade. I can't tell what is wrong with Takeru. He has unyielding surface that I can't penetrate.
Getting my thoughts back in order, I looked up to see an overcast sky, totally different than a few moments ago.
"Huh?" I mumbled to myself, just before the torrential downpour began. If our Digimon had still been with us, they could have helped us find shelter, but they did have their own lives to lead as well so we make sure that they lived them. We could actually have used them at that moment because as soon as we began to run for shelter, Yamato was raked from calf to thigh by something that had claws and wings. He fell to the ground with a sharp cry and as shocked as I was, I still managed to run over to him. Blood was gushing from his leg and his guitar lay discarded, but undamaged beside him.
"Uhhhrrr!" I heard him groan as I kneeled beside him. "What the hell was that?"
I didn't reply. I didn't need to for the attacker landed in front of us.
"Well hello, brother of the child of hope." A girl's voice trilled out. "How did you like my little love tap?"
I looked up at the attacker. She looked almost human. Shoulder length brown hair, black eyes, pale completion. Only she had pointed ears, fangs, claws and wings. Couldn't miss the wings!
"Who are you?" I asked, helping Yamato get into a sitting position. Ken, Iori and Koushiro hovered around us, all staring at the strange, girl like 'thing' in front of us.
"Never you mind dearie. Now, where is Takeru?"
"Dearie!" I began to fume, until Yamato stood up, balancing on his good leg.
Takeru! What do you want with him?"
The girl ignored him and stared around the surrounding area.
"No matter. He is on his way. We will wait!"
What was going on? Who was this person and what did she want with Takeru? I pushed my glasses up my nose then walked forward until I was nearly nose to nose with the winged girl.
"Excuse me honey." I said sarcastically. "I hate to be ignored more than anything so explain what you want, now!"
"Miyako!" I heard Koushiro hiss at me. I turned and glared at him, them went back to staring at the girl in front of me.
"Well?"
The girl gave me a thoughtful look, then threw her head back and laughed.
"I like you." She said with a smile. "Maybe I'll spare you in the end, but for now, sit down and be quiet."
She placed her hand in front of me, palm out. The next thing I knew, I was sitting in a heap next to Yamato, holding my arm in pain. I opened my mouth to start ranting again, but nothing would come out.
"That's better." The girl smiled. "Less noise. Hello Takeru!" The last remark was directed at the boy who had stumbled out of the trees a few yards away. He stared, first at the girl, then at us.
"Let everyone go, then we will talk!" Takeru said to her firmly. Takeru has a demanding presence. His expression shows authority when he is serious about something and when he talks, people listen. He isn't a born leader, but a strategist. He can plot! I looked from Takeru, to the girl. Instead of looking intimidated, she was staring at Takeru with...was that lust? Nah!
"I'm afraid not Takeru." The girl's voice came out syrupy and sweet. "We need words and the others will listen." She stared over at us, as if suddenly interested in our presence. "Where is the child of light? And the bearer of friendship and courage? I most definitely don't want them to miss this!"
"They're not here and they're not coming!" Takeru began yelling, loosing his authoritive gaze. "I won't let you hurt them Darkness. This is between you and me!"
Darkness. Original name! But how did Takeru know who she was? We have never met anyone like her before. Heck, I thought we had vanquished the Digital world from all the suspicious characters. Obviously not!
For the second time, the girl called darkness threw back her head and laughed.
"Oh Takeru." She said fondly, drawing closer to him. "You dear, dear boy. I see that you do not understand out intentions. It is not them that we want. It's you! I am here to kill you! I just thought that it would be nice for the two people that you love to be here to watch. Oh well."
Kill? Takeru? Why? My mind was swimming with questions but I still couldn't speak or move. I swerved my eyes over to Yamato. He looked murderous, but he also couldn't move or speak. Darkness had apparently trapped us all with the same spell. My eyes swerved back to the drama in front of me as Darkness began to speak again.
"I know Takeru honey, I'll just call them shall I? Along with the missing few." She raised her arm above herself, then gestured. Suddenly, all of our terminals began to beep and I saw Takeru reach for his and read from the screen, a frown on his face.
"Now." Darkness said brightly. "Let us wait."
Takeru was missing!
I had searched practically everywhere I could think of. Phoned or been to nearly everyone's houses looking for him. Nothing! I had forgotten my D-Terminal in the rush that morning to find Takeru so I couldn't mail him. I decided to go to the last chance that I had. The place I had tried to avoid going to. Taichi's and Hikari's.
Tai gave me a strange look when I asked to see Hikari. He arrived at the apartment at the same time that I did. Apparently he had been to football practice. He opened his mouth to say something, then closed it again and ushered me inside. Obviously Hikari hadn't told her brother about our little fight yesterday, otherwise he would now be kicking my ass to kingdom come!
"Kari isn't well." Tai told me when we reached his bedroom door. "A headache and nausea I think. Speak quietly." He then opened the door and pushed me inside.
The room was dark. The curtains had been drawn and the only light came from under the door. There was a lump under the covers on the top bunk, breathing heavily.
"Hikari." I called quietly. No answer, but the lump turned over and sighed. "Hikari." I said again, louder this time.
"What do you want Daisuke?" Hikari's voice came from under the covers. She didn't sound mad, stressed or upset, just tired. It would probably be easier to talk to her in this state, when she didn't want to punch my lights out.
"I need to talk to you about Take-ch.......Takeru." At the last second, I thought I'd better not use the endearment on the end of his name in front of Hikari, for a safer conversation.
"What about Takeru?" Hikari's voice sounded sullen now, meaning she didn't really want to hear it.
"Well, do you think he's been acting a little strange lately?"
"Nah." I heard the sarcastic tones come from under the covers in waves. "He has always gone around snogging blokes and making declarations of love to them! Of course he's been acting strange." She sat up. I saw her faint outline look in my direction. "Why ask?"
"He's vanished." I said bluntly, then wordlessly handed her the letter that was still clutched in my hand. She took it from my fingers, then leaned over the bed and flicked on the wall light. Hikari looked awful. She was fully dressed in rumpled clothing and her shoulder length hair was sticking up all over the place. Her eyes were red rimmed and her face was flushed. I watched her mouth form a straight line as she read the note, then her eyes looked up into mine.
"When did he give you this?" She asked quietly. I have to admit; she does know how to stay calm in a crisis.
"Nearly an hour ago. He said that he had to see Miyako about something, then left his apartment. He never came back and I've been trying to find him ever since."
"Have you tried mailing him?" She was acting too calm and it was starting to make me a little angry.
"No, I haven't." I growled at her. "I haven't got my terminal on me. I was a little occupied this morning." She rolled her eyes at me and I was sorely tempted to hit her, girl or no. Instead I held my ground and stared at her.
"So," she tapped a finger to her lip thoughtfully, "He writes a note, telling you that none of us will ever see him again! It's to save our lives and he doesn't want us to get hurt!" Hikari was now beginning to look angry. "He doesn't explain the problem and expects us to just go along with this? I don't think so!" She got off her bed and began to rummage through her wardrobe. "I'm not taking this. We're going to find him!" Hikari pulled out her D-Terminal and turned it on. It immediately began to beep with an awaiting message. Once again I cursed my forgetful memory, then I was pulled out of my musing with the D-Terminal being thrown at my face. Hikari was running out of her bedroom door, yelling to her brother and I looked down at the message.
[HIKARI-TAICHI-DAISUKE-SORA-JYOU-MIMI
WERE IN THE DIGITAL WORLD. WE NEED HELP. GOT ATTACKED BY A WINGED LADY. TAKERU IN DANGER. EVERYONE ELSE ALREADY HERE. PLEASE HURRY.
MIYAKO.]
A very cryptic message, I thought but I didn't have time to dwell on it, as Hikari had ran back into her room, grabbed my arm and dragged me down the hall and out the front door. Her brother was in front of us. At least we now knew where Takeru was but I was really worrying about him. I would never forgive myself if something happened to him.
While we were running towards the school, my mind cast back to what Takeru had said to me as we were lying together on his sofa:
"You would never do something stupid enough to get yourself hurt, would you?" He asked me seriously, staring at me with those sad fathomless eyes. "I don't ever want you to get hurt because of me!"
"Why would I?" I replied, confused. Takeru had stopped crying and shaking and was now just laying on me.
"I've been having these dreams..." Takeru trailed of and looked at the clock on the wall. "Oh no. I'm out of time!"
Takeru knew what was going to happen. He was going to tell me what had been bothering him all of this time. Something about dreams. He had gone to confront his dreams.
This will be it for now. I'm working on chapter 5 now and it will get right down to the nitty gritty! I love that saying!
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See you soon
Kalariona
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