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Dark Creation, Dark Future

Kari was half running, half walking trying to catch up with TK. She was cautious about being too near him since last night. She had phoned him to talk to him about Alysha and Gabby becoming digidestined. TK seemed very ratty about something, but Kari was too scared by his sudden change in attitude to ask him what was wrong. She remembered the conversation.



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Kari stood with the phone by her right ear, waiting for TK to pick up the phone, she knew his mum wasn't in at this time. Just as she was about to hang up, she heard TK's voice.

"Hello? Who is it?" he answered angrily. A sense of irritation in his voice. Kari realised this.

"Er, TK?" Kari said worriedly. TK's voice became less irritated as he realised who it was. "Oh, sorry Kari." Kari hesitated after that. After this morning she didn't expect him to act like this.

"TK, I was wondering if we could talk about Alysha and Gabby."

"Can we save it 'til later. I'm a little busy right now."

"Oh, alright then, talk to you tomorrow, bye."

"Bye."

Kari hung up the phone and sighed. 'That was bizarre.' she thought as she slumped down on the sofa.

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She finally decided to approach TK. She caught up with him and walked beside him. It shocked her to see a sad expression on his face, a boy so normally happy, so cheerful and bright. After a few seconds she spoke up.

"Hey TK, how are you today?" she asked cautiously. The boy gave no response. His expression never changed and he kept walking forward.

They arrived in the classroom just as the bell rang. Alysha, Davis and Ken were already there.

"Hey, what took you so long?" Alysha asked as she sat down next to Kari.

"Nothing." she sighed. "TK's just feeling a bit off today."

"Oh, really?" Alysha asked curiously. "How come?"

"I dunno, he just seemed really sad, that's all."

Alysha looked to the other side of the classroom, TK was sat next to Ken. He seemed so sad, like something bad had happened, or was going to happen.

* * *

The day wasn't at relaxed as it usually was. There was tension and worry clouding Kari's mind, and Alysha was just plain worried. TK usually liked to answer questions that other kids wouldn't know, but today he just sat there without saying a word.

Finally the end of the day arrived, and everyone made their way to the computer room. TK was walking slower then everyone else, so he was easily overtaken.

"Hey Gabby!" Alysha said happily as she entered the room. Lynkmon walked up to her.

"Hey 'Lysha!" the digimon chirped.

"Hey guys, how about we discuss what we'll be doing in the Digital World today." Davis suggested. Everyone agreed, except Kari, who had her head poked through the door and was looking around the corridor. "What's up, Kari?" the goggle-head asked.

"TK hasn't come yet." The brunette replied, her scarlet eyes full of worry. A small smile met her face. "Wait, here he is!" Her smile turned straight into a frown though when he approached. "TK, what's wrong?" TK had walked into the room with everyone staring at him. Cody noticed something else other than TK's mood.

"Where's Patamon?" the young boy asked, looking around. TK put his backpack gently on an empty space on one of the computer tables. He opened it and took out a very weak looking digimon - Patamon.

It shocked Kari greatly to see the little digimon in seemingly so such pain. You could hardly tell it was the same digimon that had been so cheery the previous day. His eyes were all dull and blurry, and his fur was dull, with no shine to it.

"What's wrong with him?" Kari gasped worriedly.

"He's been like this since last night." TK said grimly. "I told my mom but neither of us know what's wrong with him." Yolei was thinking of what could have been wrong.

"Maybe he's just got a cold." she suggested.

"Or maybe he ate some of your mom's cooking!" Davis joked.

"Yeah, that's so funny I forgot to laugh." TK said sadly while picking up the weak digimon.

"Davis, that didn't help." Ken said irritably, thinking of hitting Davis if he didn't shut up. Yolei wanted to brighten the mood.

"Hey, how about we go to the Digital World, that might make him feel better!" she suggested.

"Yeah!" Kari said, lightening up a little. "You game, TK?"

"Yeah, sure." The blond replied grimly.

"Let's get going then!" Davis said impatiently. "Digi-port open!" The port opened and the digidestined went to the DigiWorld.

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When they arrived in the Digital World, Patamon was no different.

"I guess going to the DigiWorld didn't help then." Yolei said, looking at the little digimon.

"Well, we can look around still, y'know." Davis suggested. "We might as well try to find out what happened with that Monochromon yesterday."

"OK, TK agreed unenthusiastically. They were about to walk off to look around, when suddenly an echoey laugh surrounded the area, despite the fact that the area had no cliffs and was a virtually an open space. The digidestined stopped dead in their tracks, looking around. The laugh echoed around the area again, this time louder then before. Finally, a purple clothed figure gently floated down towards the ground from nowhere. The figure stopped roughly one metre above the ground.

"Who's that?" Yolei asked trembling. The figure just smirked and chuckled quietly.

"My name is Psymon, not that it's anything to you."

"That's a digimon?" Kari gasped. The only digimon she had seen that had a human-like figure were the most powerful of digimon. The digimon smirked maliciously.

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I am a digimon." Psymon said evilly. "And now if you don't mind," he turned to face TK. "Takeru Takaishi, I will be taking your partner now." TK gasped and stared at Psymon. It was weird enough that this digimon knew his name, but it was even stranger that the purple-clothed digimon wanted his digimon. He was shocked but stood his ground. "You're not taking Patamon anywhere!" the blond yelled defiantly.

"Oh really?" Psymon asked maliciously. His voice became angry. "Well, if you won't give him to me then I'll just have to take him by force!" as he finished this sentence he fired white-hot blasts at TK and Patamon.

"TK, WATCH OUT!" Kari screamed as the beams hurtled towards the two.

"Veemon digivolve to.Exveemon!" "Hawkmon digivolve to.Aquilamon!" "Armadillomon digivolve to.Ankylomon!" "Wormmon digivolve to.Stingmon!" "Lynkmon digivolve to.Cougamon!"

"Digi-armour energise!" Kari cried.

"Gatomon armour digivolve to.Nefertimon, the angel on light!"

"Nefertimon, you've got to block that attack!" Kari called to her digimon.

"Right!" the digimon nodded, and flew as quickly as possible to stop the attack from injuring TK and Patamon. She arrived just in time, only to be hit by the attack full on.

"NERFERTIMON! NO!" Kari screamed as her digimon fell to the ground, dedigivolving into Salamon. Kari ran up to her. As she got up holding Salamon in her arms after picking her up, she looked at TK. He was staring unblinkingly at Psymon and breathing rapidly. It scared Kari to see him like this.

"Be careful," Ken advised. "he may be a digimon but he's a powerful one of that!"

"Right!" Davis said, standing his ground. "Let's attack!"

"V-Laser!" "Horn Rings!" "Tail Hammer!" "Spiking Strike!" "Sonic Blaster!"

All the attacks hit Psymon full on. The smoke cleared, only for the digidestined to discover that there was no damage done.

"That's impossible!" Yolei cried.

"No one can withstand that, can they?" Cody questioned. Kari looked at TK again, He still stared at Psymon, his eyes never leaving the digimon. Patamon was lying in his arms completely lifeless, looking like he was going to die. Finally he managed to say something:

"TK," he said weakly. The blonde snapped out of his trance-like state and looked at the digimon. "I can't fight it much longer."

"Huh?" the boy looked shocked. "What are you talking about, Patamon?" Suddenly, there were yells coming from the digidestined. All of the fighting digimon had been hit! They fell to the ground, but sluggishly got up, standing their ground.

"Gabby," Dulphimon said to her partner. "I have to digivolve."

"OK," Gabby said. She held out her D-3. It began to glow.

"Dulphimon digivolve to.Alamon!"

As the bright light faded, Gabby saw that were there was once Dulphimon, stood a majestic light blue digimon. It was on all fours, and had huge golden wings on its back.

"Wow, Alamon." Gabby said quietly in awe. She gazed at her digimon as she flew into the air ready for attack. All the other digimon followed her.

"Who's that?" Davis asked.

"That's Alamon, the champion form of Dulphimon. She's a animal data type digimon, and her attacks are Tornado Blast and Hyper Blast."

"ATTACK! NOW!" Alamon cried to the other digimon. They used their best attacks again.

"V-Laser!" "Horn Rings!" "Tail Hammer!" "Spiking Strike!" "Sonic Blaster!" "Tornado Blast!"

The attacks hit Psymon full on again, but still had no effect. While all the digimon were attacking him, he had no intentions of fighting back. TK was still looking distantly at Psymon, as the evil digimon steadily floated there, smiling maliciously to himself.

"Is that the best you've got?" he asked mockingly. "Let me show you real power!" With that he spread his arms out and white hot beams shot out towards all the digimon. The beams hit them full on, and the digimon collapsed to the ground. They all dedigivolved into their in-training forms, Cougamon into Pukamon, and Alamon into Temamon.

"What do we do now?" Cody asked, as the digidestined picked up their digimon, who of which had made their way towards them.

"Now, where was I before I was so rudely interrupted?" Psymon wondered sarcastically . He turned back towards TK. "Now, Takeru, be a good little digidestined and give me that digimon!"

"What do you want with him anyway?" Kari cried to Psymon.

"He's essential for my plans." Psymon said. "That blast that hit your pathetic excuse for a digimon. He never told you about it, but he saw me as I teleported away."

"He teleported?" Davis said wondering how that was possible. Ken realised what was going on. "He must be psychic!" he said quickly as he turned to face Davis.

"Huh?" the goggle-head was confused.

"Patamon said it was just a bug." TK said to himself in disbelief.

"He may of said that it was just a bug, but I actually managed to insert a virus into him. The reason he's so sick is that he was using up all of his energy trying to stop the virus completely taking over his body. All I have to do is fully activate the virus and he's mine."

"NO!" TK cried out. He held Patamon tight in his arms, not wanting to give his partner up without a fight.

"Now, if you don't mind," Psymon held out his right hand in a fist infront of him, then, he opened it and it began to glow. Three bright light ropes came out of his palm and headed for Patamon. Despite TK's grip on Patamon, the ropes were too strong. They pulled Patamon away from him and retracted back into Psymon's palm. He grabbed the little digimon as the ropes disappeared.

"GIVE HIM BACK!" TK yelled at the digimon.

"But I'm not finished showing you what I can do." Psymon sneered back. "You worthless digidestined and your pathetic excuse for digimon; you're nothing compared to me. Now, it begins." He psychically commanded for Patamon to float to the ground, then he chanted a few inaudible words, and a dark swirl began to spin around Patamon. It grew bigger and bigger, like a black tornado. All the digidestined could do is stand there and watch. TK was horrified at what he was seeing. Nothing could have prepared them for what was about to happen. Soon the dark tornado was so powerful that the all the digidestined and digimon had to shield their eyes; except Davis, who put his goggles on. What actually was about twenty seconds, seemed like twenty years to TK, who was so terrified that he didn't even want to see what had happened, but was paralysed with horror. Finally, the tornado died down, and as the digidestined removed their arms from infront of their eyes, and as Davis removed his goggles they looked up in pure shock at what stood before them. TK was the last to look, and as he did, he gasped and nearly choked from fear and shock. There, infront of him, stood a digimon that he hoped he would never have to see ever again.

'Who exactly is this new evil the digidestined have to face, and what has happened to Patamon. Find out next time on Digimon: Digital Monsters.'

I love suspense, don't you? Anyway, you probably all guessed who it is by now, but I just had to be evil! ;-D Well, anywho, same as before, NO FLAMES, but constructive criticism welcome, 'kay?

DigiDudette ^_~