Still don't own it and its most likely a good thing too. I could have used
the money though.
Chapter 9.
It had been three days sense their aborted attempt to confront Travis, three days sense they had heard things that made them think about the sometimes strained relationships in their little group. Kari loved Sora like a sister, and the fact that she had chosen Mat over her brother, Tai, had hurt her almost as much as she knew it heart him.
To her Sora and Tai had been married for years, they had been the mother and father during their time in the digital world, the driving force and most likely the only reason that any of them were still alive, besides she was the only person that Kari didn't mind sharing her brother with.
With all the other girls he had tried to date over the years, it had never felt right, non of them had been worthy of her brother, who yes could be an idiot but was one of the most loving and caring people she had ever known. Really her own best friend TK was the only one who could come close to matching her big brother.
What they had heard from Travis' conversation with his digimon wasn't anything new really, Mimi and Joe would end up together, Kari new that Joe was probably the only person in the world grounded enough to put up with Mimi for forever.
Ken and Yoli was a bit of a surprise, well not really, Yoli hadn't really put much effort into hiding her attraction to Ken, it was more surprising to find out that he felt anything back, no it was how he had put her and TK's relationship that had her a bit worried, why did everyone think that she and TK were anything more the friends?
They had had to put up with Mimi saying they were perfect for each other sense they were eight and the whole school ether trying to get them together or convinced that they already were, as far as she could tell the only person who didn't think that they were was Davis and his group of friends and even most of them had tried and one point or another to tell him he didn't have a chance.
Well that wasn't really true, he had had a chance, a good one at that, he is so much like her brother she couldn't help but feel *something* for him, but as time went on the very thing that gave him a chance with her had now made it an impossibility. As it had turned out it was all her brothers BAD traits.
She loved her brother beyond reason sometimes but Davis was like everything that she couldn't stand about him in a concentrated form and to make matters worse for him, he was also the bad side of someone else. Someone she didn't like much at that. Mat.
Mat, TK's older brother, the only human she had ever come close to hating. It hadn't always been like that, oh no, she had liked and respected Mat for a long time, had even had a crush on him at one point, no it was the fact that he had done something that was unforgivable. He had hurt her brother and hurt him bad.
He had given him a wound that might yet prove fatal and so she had come as close as she could to hating the boy who had been like an Uncle to Tai and Sora's mother and father act in the digital world, and she most likely would have succeeded had it not been for Tai, who for the sake of friendship would plaster on a fake smile and hang out with him still. She heard Tai crying afterwards sometimes, but if he who was hurt couldn't or wouldn't hate Mat how could she?
But it was with the death of her hopes for Tai and Sora that any chance Davis had died with Mat's treachery, if not before...
(Like right when TK had walked though that door and back into your life as something more then just a voice on the phone or the sender of an e- mail...)
She shook her head to clear it 'where the heck did that come from, he's my best friend for goodness sake!' and that was when she felt it, a dark presence and then she saw it, a bank of fog that seemed to be moving with a mind of its own, but before she could call out to TK in warning they where cut off leaving her alone, it was odd though, the fog seemed to almost be repelled by her and that was when she heard the voice.
*******
TK had been walking with his beast friend for the past three days, they didn't talk much, mostly because they both where thinking about what they had heard. His thoughts like Kari's were mostly focused on the Tai, Mat and Sora love triangle, his point of view was quite different then Kari's though, because he had been there at the beginning, and he knew the whole story.
The fight that had started this war had happened almost immediately after they had arrived in the digital world. Tai had taken charge and Mat had taken offense, it had gotten so bad one time that Joe of all people had tried to scale that stupid mountain all by himself, and had almost been killed because of it.
TK like all the other DD's had thought that the battle had been finely put to rest, when, after the battle with Etamon and Tai's disappearance, they had fallen apart as a group. Mat had tried to lead but he wasn't Tai, in the end they had all gone there separate ways, hell Mat had even left him.
In the end, Tai's return had saved them all, and he had been accepted as leader by all of them. Everyone of them had decided that they would fallow him through hell if need be had he played the wrong card at that gateway door.
Or at lest it seemed like they all had. TK wasn't so sure now, his brother had separated from the group and they hadn't seen it until Puppetmon, he had even attacked Tai again to prove he was the dominant one. Once again Tai had offered friendship and once again he paid for it.
This time the payment was Sora, it was an attack that he had never believed his brother would use, Sora and Tai had had a better relationship then he and Mat's own parents. They had been the ones that TK had thought would last forever. But he had been wrong, Oh how wrong he had been.
Mat had taken the one thing in this world that Tai wouldn't fight for. Some might say that if he really loved her he would have fought, TK wasn't one of those people. 'If you love somebody you have to let them go' is something that Tai seemed to have taken to heart. It was surprising to TK sometime that Tai had ended up with the crest of courage when he showed both love and friendship truer then either one of their holders.
But it was in this final battle, the first one that Tai ever lost, that he won a war he hadn't even been fighting for years. Mat proved that he wasn't worthy of leading the DD's that day at lest in TK opinion but then again he didn't know which one he was more upset with, still didn't.
Mat or Sora.
Tai was someone he looked up too, he was the other big brother that he had never had and they had hurt him much worse then he had ever seen him hurt except when Datamon had kidnapped Sora. Kari had even told him that she had heard him crying at night. Big macho Tai reduced to crying in his pillow because two of the three people who mean the most to him had decided to try and destroy him.
Thoughts of Relationships sprang off from there, Yoli and Ken. The more he thought about it the more he like it, Yoli was the holder of both love and sincerity and as such might be the only way Ken will ever forgive himself for what he did when he wasn't wholly himself.
TK believed that, he had too. The Dark Spores changed people for the worst and so Ken wasn't fully at fault, once he under stood that the better for all of them.
The loss of Mimi to Joe, well that was another matter, he had had a crush on her for a long time.
(Yes, a long time. You had it since you saw her to when Kari's digimon turned into Angewomon then that little infatuation went right out the window now didn't it?)
'Yep.' And he stole a look at his best friend. She had stolen his heart that day, it had most likely just been his eight year old mind thinking that sense their digimon were so alike then they had to belong together, but since then, since he has saved her life. 'Over and over and over again!'
(You like it! Your even hoping that if you do it enough times she'll come to you first instead of Tai!)
Now that caught him off guard, but he had to admit the idea of her calling to him or coming to him for help first instead of it always being Tai made him feel worm inside.
Tai, it all comes back to Tai. This was a fact that TK had lived with most of his life. Tai kept them together and his loss pulled them apart. He was the strongest of all of them, the first to every level of digivolution, he was the first to know of the Emperor, the one to release the D3's and start the new round of wars and sadly he had the single highest kill count of all the destined.
TK had watched him grow from a kid barley mentally older then himself to a man and he had watched that man almost killed by his own brother. Tai was the only father figure that TK had ever really known, he was the patriarch of the destined, the grandfatherish type figure for Davis and co.
And that is when it hit him. Why the both the barriers of love and friendship would turn there backs the one their crests means the most too. Sora was the closest thing Mat had to a mother too. THAT was why he couldn't ask Kari out for fear that it would hurt Tai even more. Sora's damn crest was making her stay by Mat until he could face the world without a safety net and Mat was clinging for all he was worth! And that was when he noticed he was alone and seemingly trapped in a bank of fog, "Kari!" he yelled, but it wasn't her voice that answered back.
Chapter 9.
It had been three days sense their aborted attempt to confront Travis, three days sense they had heard things that made them think about the sometimes strained relationships in their little group. Kari loved Sora like a sister, and the fact that she had chosen Mat over her brother, Tai, had hurt her almost as much as she knew it heart him.
To her Sora and Tai had been married for years, they had been the mother and father during their time in the digital world, the driving force and most likely the only reason that any of them were still alive, besides she was the only person that Kari didn't mind sharing her brother with.
With all the other girls he had tried to date over the years, it had never felt right, non of them had been worthy of her brother, who yes could be an idiot but was one of the most loving and caring people she had ever known. Really her own best friend TK was the only one who could come close to matching her big brother.
What they had heard from Travis' conversation with his digimon wasn't anything new really, Mimi and Joe would end up together, Kari new that Joe was probably the only person in the world grounded enough to put up with Mimi for forever.
Ken and Yoli was a bit of a surprise, well not really, Yoli hadn't really put much effort into hiding her attraction to Ken, it was more surprising to find out that he felt anything back, no it was how he had put her and TK's relationship that had her a bit worried, why did everyone think that she and TK were anything more the friends?
They had had to put up with Mimi saying they were perfect for each other sense they were eight and the whole school ether trying to get them together or convinced that they already were, as far as she could tell the only person who didn't think that they were was Davis and his group of friends and even most of them had tried and one point or another to tell him he didn't have a chance.
Well that wasn't really true, he had had a chance, a good one at that, he is so much like her brother she couldn't help but feel *something* for him, but as time went on the very thing that gave him a chance with her had now made it an impossibility. As it had turned out it was all her brothers BAD traits.
She loved her brother beyond reason sometimes but Davis was like everything that she couldn't stand about him in a concentrated form and to make matters worse for him, he was also the bad side of someone else. Someone she didn't like much at that. Mat.
Mat, TK's older brother, the only human she had ever come close to hating. It hadn't always been like that, oh no, she had liked and respected Mat for a long time, had even had a crush on him at one point, no it was the fact that he had done something that was unforgivable. He had hurt her brother and hurt him bad.
He had given him a wound that might yet prove fatal and so she had come as close as she could to hating the boy who had been like an Uncle to Tai and Sora's mother and father act in the digital world, and she most likely would have succeeded had it not been for Tai, who for the sake of friendship would plaster on a fake smile and hang out with him still. She heard Tai crying afterwards sometimes, but if he who was hurt couldn't or wouldn't hate Mat how could she?
But it was with the death of her hopes for Tai and Sora that any chance Davis had died with Mat's treachery, if not before...
(Like right when TK had walked though that door and back into your life as something more then just a voice on the phone or the sender of an e- mail...)
She shook her head to clear it 'where the heck did that come from, he's my best friend for goodness sake!' and that was when she felt it, a dark presence and then she saw it, a bank of fog that seemed to be moving with a mind of its own, but before she could call out to TK in warning they where cut off leaving her alone, it was odd though, the fog seemed to almost be repelled by her and that was when she heard the voice.
*******
TK had been walking with his beast friend for the past three days, they didn't talk much, mostly because they both where thinking about what they had heard. His thoughts like Kari's were mostly focused on the Tai, Mat and Sora love triangle, his point of view was quite different then Kari's though, because he had been there at the beginning, and he knew the whole story.
The fight that had started this war had happened almost immediately after they had arrived in the digital world. Tai had taken charge and Mat had taken offense, it had gotten so bad one time that Joe of all people had tried to scale that stupid mountain all by himself, and had almost been killed because of it.
TK like all the other DD's had thought that the battle had been finely put to rest, when, after the battle with Etamon and Tai's disappearance, they had fallen apart as a group. Mat had tried to lead but he wasn't Tai, in the end they had all gone there separate ways, hell Mat had even left him.
In the end, Tai's return had saved them all, and he had been accepted as leader by all of them. Everyone of them had decided that they would fallow him through hell if need be had he played the wrong card at that gateway door.
Or at lest it seemed like they all had. TK wasn't so sure now, his brother had separated from the group and they hadn't seen it until Puppetmon, he had even attacked Tai again to prove he was the dominant one. Once again Tai had offered friendship and once again he paid for it.
This time the payment was Sora, it was an attack that he had never believed his brother would use, Sora and Tai had had a better relationship then he and Mat's own parents. They had been the ones that TK had thought would last forever. But he had been wrong, Oh how wrong he had been.
Mat had taken the one thing in this world that Tai wouldn't fight for. Some might say that if he really loved her he would have fought, TK wasn't one of those people. 'If you love somebody you have to let them go' is something that Tai seemed to have taken to heart. It was surprising to TK sometime that Tai had ended up with the crest of courage when he showed both love and friendship truer then either one of their holders.
But it was in this final battle, the first one that Tai ever lost, that he won a war he hadn't even been fighting for years. Mat proved that he wasn't worthy of leading the DD's that day at lest in TK opinion but then again he didn't know which one he was more upset with, still didn't.
Mat or Sora.
Tai was someone he looked up too, he was the other big brother that he had never had and they had hurt him much worse then he had ever seen him hurt except when Datamon had kidnapped Sora. Kari had even told him that she had heard him crying at night. Big macho Tai reduced to crying in his pillow because two of the three people who mean the most to him had decided to try and destroy him.
Thoughts of Relationships sprang off from there, Yoli and Ken. The more he thought about it the more he like it, Yoli was the holder of both love and sincerity and as such might be the only way Ken will ever forgive himself for what he did when he wasn't wholly himself.
TK believed that, he had too. The Dark Spores changed people for the worst and so Ken wasn't fully at fault, once he under stood that the better for all of them.
The loss of Mimi to Joe, well that was another matter, he had had a crush on her for a long time.
(Yes, a long time. You had it since you saw her to when Kari's digimon turned into Angewomon then that little infatuation went right out the window now didn't it?)
'Yep.' And he stole a look at his best friend. She had stolen his heart that day, it had most likely just been his eight year old mind thinking that sense their digimon were so alike then they had to belong together, but since then, since he has saved her life. 'Over and over and over again!'
(You like it! Your even hoping that if you do it enough times she'll come to you first instead of Tai!)
Now that caught him off guard, but he had to admit the idea of her calling to him or coming to him for help first instead of it always being Tai made him feel worm inside.
Tai, it all comes back to Tai. This was a fact that TK had lived with most of his life. Tai kept them together and his loss pulled them apart. He was the strongest of all of them, the first to every level of digivolution, he was the first to know of the Emperor, the one to release the D3's and start the new round of wars and sadly he had the single highest kill count of all the destined.
TK had watched him grow from a kid barley mentally older then himself to a man and he had watched that man almost killed by his own brother. Tai was the only father figure that TK had ever really known, he was the patriarch of the destined, the grandfatherish type figure for Davis and co.
And that is when it hit him. Why the both the barriers of love and friendship would turn there backs the one their crests means the most too. Sora was the closest thing Mat had to a mother too. THAT was why he couldn't ask Kari out for fear that it would hurt Tai even more. Sora's damn crest was making her stay by Mat until he could face the world without a safety net and Mat was clinging for all he was worth! And that was when he noticed he was alone and seemingly trapped in a bank of fog, "Kari!" he yelled, but it wasn't her voice that answered back.