CHAPTER 17 "The Healer."
After her story, Mariana went upstairs to her room and locked her door. She started her journal entry. Everyone downstairs was watching Ken opening the rest of his presents. He got a laptop, CDs and goggles from Tai, and Davis asked if it was his pair. Tai told the gang that he bought a new pair for Ken so he'll have goggles for diving or any other water sports since Joe and Cody got Ken a surf board. When Ken finished opening almost all of his presents, except for the mysterious box for both him and T.K., he got all sorts of gifts. While all of this was happening, Aurora and I were having a wonderful time talking and riding on the motorcycle as the breeze blew by.
"How about we go a bit faster?" Aurora asked.
"This is fast enough," I said.
"Alright then, we'll keep it at this speed," he told me.
"Let's head back," I suggested and he approved. Now we were on our way back to my house when an unknown vehicle approached us at an intense speed. We screamed as it crashed into us.
From there on, someone called for help. The ambulance came, found us both unconscious, and rescued us to the nearest hospital while the cops studied the scene of the accident. We were rushed to the hospital, but the driver of the unknown vehicle was nowhere to be found. From the hospital, one of the nurses called the house and Mariana answered the phone call from her room. While in the living room, Ken and T.K. had opened the deceitful gift and found calamity. Screams could be heard from Mariana's room while she was still on the phone. The box was full of poisonous spiders and one spidery, control spire Digimon. Every Digidestines' Digimon, except for Ken's and T.K.'s, either digivolved or armor-digivolved. They began fighting the deadly creatures while Mrs. Ichijouji fainted into her husband's arms after she saw the spiders bitting around the necks of both T.K.'s and her son's. Both of them fell unconscious as well and their Digimon were unable to move to the next level of Digivolution.
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After the phone call, Mariana hurried downstairs to find the Digimon fighting horrible looking creatures in the living room. "What's going on here? Hey, Wishmon, you digivolved? How?"
"Arukenimon and Mummymon will be pleased. My job here is done," the evil control spire Digimon bragged as he glanced at the motionless bodies of two Digidestines. Then, he disappeared. It was quite unusual, no one opened the gate for him to return to the Digital World perhaps.
"T.K.! Ken! Tell me, what happened to them, Tykylomon," Mariana demanded. "How did you digivolve to ultimate without me?"
"Annye came and helped. Got your D-3 and D-terminal, Mariana? We'll need to contact Ange back here," Tykylomon said. She was a large, winged cat with grey fur. "Fire Blasts!" she shouted as enormous fire balls shot from her mouth. They were targeted at the deadly spiders.
"I have them! But Ange and Aurora got into an accident, and they're at the hospital! Tykylomon! Terminate them all!" Mariana commanded furiously, getting her D-3 from her left pocket while her right pocket had her mini-sized D-terminal, with tears bursting out from her eyes.
"What?" everyone who just heard the news from Mariana asked in horror.
"The spiders?" Tykylomon asked and got a positive reply from Mariana. With the others, she continued attacking the deadly spiders.
"I'll call the paramedic!" Joe shouted as he escaped from the living room and entered the kitchen to find the safest phone. He called for the ambulance while the Digimon finished off the spiders.
"No! Ken!" Mrs. Ichijouji screamed in terror of losing her son as she stood up from her husband's arms.
"It's okay now," Wishmon reassured when they'd gotten rid of all the spidery pests in the house. Every Digimon returned to their usual forms. Mariana grabbed a broom and dust pan and began sweeping the floor. "What are you doing?"
"Cleaning up this mess before my dad gets home," Mariana said as she continued tidying the living room. "Ewww! Totally too revolting to clean up by simple ways. Time for some magic, Wishmon," she complained and chanted a tidying-up spell for the house. When the entire living room was cleaned, everyone was shocked and yet quite amazed. "You were supposed to get their attention from me, Wishmon," she said and got a shrug from her Digimon partner, "Never mind."
"How are Ken and T.K.?" Patamon asked.
"Not well, they've got no vital signs," Mariana stated when Joe returned with news that he called for help.
"What do we do now?" Wormmon asked.
"How about CPR and rescue breathing?" Joe asked.
"Alright," they all replied.
"Come on over, Mrs. Ichijouji, Joe here is going to instruct you on how to do CPR and rescuing breathing for Ken while I find someone to do it for T.K.," Mariana requested as she kneeled beside T.K.'s body. Ken's mom and Joe agreed, and they started their rescue job for Ken. "Now what about T.K.? Hey, Matt. Come here. I'll instruct you how to do CPR and rescue breathing for your brother."
"Good. I don't remember CPR and rescue breathing very well."
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At the same time when the rescue breathing and CPR were being done, the spirits of Ken and T.K. were just floating around the living room. "What happened, Ken? How come we can't get back into our bodies?"
"We're dead. We're not able to return into our own bodies," Ken answered T.K. Suddenly, two other spirits emerged. "Sam? Annye? What are you doing here?"
"I was going to ask you the same question," Sam said and smiled, he was much taller and still older looking than Ken.
"Hey, Annye, what's exactly going on here?" T.K. asked as the two brothers hugged each other. "How come we're unable to return to our bodies?"
"Both of you are ghosts like us now. But this wasn't supposed to happen, T.K. I wonder what went wrong."
"Hey, Uraina, what are we going to do now? They're taking their bodies to the hospital," Sam said as the hug ended.
"You're Uraina, Annye?" Ken asked in surprise.
"Yes, Ken. She's the one that I was talking about on the tape."
"What matters now is to follow them to the hospital while we try to figure out how to get both of you back into your bodies. So much for visiting Ange and Ken on their birthdays, Sam," Annye whined. "So, where's Ange?"
"At the hospital. She and Aurora were rushed to the hospital when they got hurt," T.K. replied as the ambulance came and picked up the bodies with the others.
"I'm sorry," Sam tried to comfort Annye when she began to shed tears from her eyes onto his shoulder.
"They'll be fine," T.K. assured.
"Let's go now before both of you become permanent ghosts!" Annye said as she stopped herself from more tears. They began following the moving vehicles to the hospital.
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"Tell me, Nurse, what happened to the guy that came in with me to the hospital?" I asked when I got up from the bed and saw her entering the room with a clipboard.
"Oh. Unfortunately, he was injured badly so he's in critical condition in another room," the nurse answered as she wrote something onto the clipboard. "You're very lucky that you don't even have one single scratch on you."
"Please take me there," I begged as I recalled the recent accident.
"Alright then, but just for a few minutes since you're not hurt. But don't interrupt the doctor or the patient," the young nurse said kindly as she led me to the room.
I could see the doctors as well as other nurses inside the room, trying to heal him, through the clear window that they've forgotten to lower the blinds on. They came out and I asked one of them how Aurora was doing. The doctor said that he's stable for now, but he also said that he's not sure if his patient will make it through the night.
"Can I stay with him for some while, Doctor?" I begged kindly. "I promise I won't disturb his rest."
"Okay then," the doctor agreed when there was an emergency call. "Nurse, come with me," he requested and they dashed away to the entrance so they could sadly welcome two unexcepted patients. The paramedic lifted the bodies out of the truck and rushed them into the hospital to the nearest available room for more doctors and nurses while the others ran as well to be seated so some of them can wait to fill out papers.
Inside the room, I was seated near Aurora asleep in the bed with needles and other junk that might have no-good effect on him. "I'm sorry, Aurora. It was my fault that you ended up like this, I shouldn't have suggested riding on your motorcycle in the first place. And I should have warned you sooner. I should have been more alarmed at my nightmare and refused the ride. I have special powers to heal me but it'll take more than special medicine to heal you. But, I'll cure you myself if it takes all of my healing powers, Aurora. You don't deserve to die. I am sorry," I cried as I held his hand. "Let the healer heal the sick, let me heal him quick!" I repeated as I kept hold of his hand. My healing powers started to flowed through my hands and into his body. Eventually, he'll be well again.
After ten minutes, he was healed, but he was still asleep and that was okay. I found an eternity band or perhaps a wedding ring inside a small blue box inside the pocket of his jacket. I studied it and discovered that it was meant for me. What led me to this was a small note found inside the same pocket when I tried to place the ring back in. He was going to surprise me on my birthday. After this discovery, I became frustrated and I decided to write him a reply. Fortunately, I found a pen and a small note pad along with his note.
While I was writing him a reply, the others found out that Ken and T.K. didn't make it. "What's going to happen now, Annye, if we become permanent ghosts?" Ken asked.
"Don't worry, everything is going to be fine. Let's check on Ange and Aurora now and see if they're okay," Annye suggested, "Then, we'll see what happens until midnight."
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After writing the message, I tore the page out of his note pad and slipped it into the blue box containing the ring. Then I returned his stuff back into his pocket. "Take care, Aurora," I said as I kissed him gently on his lips and one tear dripped onto his cheek unexpectedly. With tears falling from my eyes and onto the floor, I slowly started walking towards the door to exit the room so he can get some rest as he heals. When I touched the doorknob, I felt drowsily exhausted. I fainted as the door opened from the other side. Before I fell onto the cool floor, the person who opened the door caught me.
"Ange! You should take better care of yourself," Matt said as he was aided by Tai to help me onto the nearest seat. All the other Digidestines were there with their Digimon while Ken's parents were still in the room with the motionless bodies.
"What happened to her, Annye?" T.K.'s asked, still floating around.
"She's used up half of her healing powers to save Aurora. Now, she's going to have to use the stone to cure her sickness before she loses all of her healing powers," Annye explained.
"Can't we help her?" Ken asked.
"I'm afraid we can't, Ken," Annye declared, "but I can tell her how to use the stone."
"How?" T.K. and Ken asked at the same time.
"Through her psychic connection with Ange," Sam replied as Annye began contacting me when she closed her eyes.
"Oh," the new ghosts said.
The other kids were sitting just right outside of the room where Ken's parents were. As for me, I was with them, still asleep. "I've got it!" I shouted as I startled the others when I woke up.
"Got what, Ange?" Mariana asked.
"I know how to use the stone," I answered. "And I have a way to save both of them."
"You mean Ken and T.K.?" Wishmon asked.
"Yep! Just help me get there, Mariana," I requested as I got up with a warning of an approaching migraine. Mariana helped me in and I placed a chair between the two beds. "Don't cry, Mr. and Mrs. Ichijouji, I'll bring back Ken for you. As for you, Matt, I can save T.K. also. Just trust me on this," I demanded as I sat down on the chair.
"Okay," they all answered.
"How are you going to do that, Ange?" Wormmon asked.
"With this stone crushed and equally divided into two portions," I replied as I took off the pendant from the chain and handed it to Mariana. "Would you do the honour?"
"Gladly," she answered as she accepted the opal stone. She magically conjured up a small metallic plate onto the table over Ken's bed. When they became startled at her powers, she reassured, "Don't worry. I'll fix things up later." Then, she clutched the stone in her left hand. She created a tiny hole through through hand as she crushed the stone so the dust of the stone could escape onto the plate. Then she divided them equally with the blink of the eyes. "Done."
"Good. Let's see. We'll help Ken first and, Mariana, make sure that there are no intruders watching or entering. Okay?" I requested and she nodded.
"Think she could do it?" Ken asked.
"Absolutely!" Sam replied as Annye reopened her eyes.
"There's just one problem," Annye said and paused. "The stone can only heal one person."
All three of them were alarmed by her immediate bad news. "Then, who is it going to be?" T.K. and Mariana asked.
"Both of them. I'll heal them both."
"You can't heal them both with just one stone, Ange," Mariana reminded.
"Besides, the stone was meant for you to heal yourself, Ange," Wishmon added.
"I must admit that the stone can only help one of them, but we can't be selfish. I'm going to assist the stone to heal them both," I confessed, "even if it takes all of my energy. We have to do. Don't you understand, Wishmon? We have to help them before midnight before they are fully turned to ghosts."
"That only leaves us with fifteen minutes," Patamon mumbled to himself when he saw the clock.
"What do you mean?" Mimi asked.
"If their bodies lose all their warmth, I'll never be able to save them," I explained. "Now, help me."
"Alright," they all answered.
"Now, Mariana, sprinkle half of it over Ken's wound on his neck while I sprinkle the other half on T.K.'s," I ordered and she nodded. Both of us used our magic to sprinkle the dust carefully. "Okay then, now for the hardest part," I said as I grabbed hold of one hand of Ken and one hand of T.K.
"Transporting healing powers into their bodies through the hands," Annye and I said together to the others.
"Just ten minutes left," Palmon said, "Think she could do it, Mimi?"
"Of course," Mimi, Patamon and Wormmon said together.
"She has to," Gatomon added.
"And she will," Wishmon said. "Nothing is impossible."
"You said it, Wishmon! All of us must have faith in her," Gabumon agreed.
"'Cause if we don't, she'll die with them," Mariana confessed sadly with tears dripping from both eyes. What Mariana just said shocked the gang and Ken's parents.
"Don't worry, Mariana, we know she can do it," Agumon encouraged.
"Yeah, that's right!" Gomamon said and the others agreed.
"Perhaps," Mariana said as she magically wiped her tears away, "no way she's going to lose." I continued my concentration while the others watched.
Author's Notes: Don't own Digimon.... Sorry if I forgotten to mention it in some chapters...