Disclaimer:
I do not own Digimon.
Author's Note: Okay! Now that it is the holidays, I will type as ferociously as can! I have the plot completely thought out…I just hope that I don't forget it. Well…nothing else to say here.
TRUE COLORS
Chapter Six: Bonds of Friendship
By: UNKNOWN
"So that's what happened?"
Ken nodded grimly and looked down at his hands.
Yolei, T.K., and Cody, along with the digimon, stood around Ken in a circle. Ken had retold the tale of how he had escaped from the Dark Ocean, but left Davis and Kari behind.
"If they get seriously hurt…it's going to be all because of me! I just…can't think…!"
The other digidestined glanced at each other and smiled.
"Ha! Don't be so worried Ken! It's not your fault!" Yolei said.
Ken looked up. "It's not?"
"Sure! Davis has a million ways of taking care of himself! You know, he could um…attack with his spiky hair or release some toxic gases…"
T.K. and Cody stared at Yolei and then slowly backed away from her.
Yolei yelled, "It was only a suggestion! I'm trying to be helpful here!"
"Well, technically she is right," T.K. started. "Davis is a really tough guy. I'm positive that Davis's spirit can get them both out."
"Thanks guys…but I don't care if they're able to get out eventually! I'm getting them out now!" Ken growled.
"Yeah, but how are you going to do that?" Wormmon asked.
Ken grinned. "Follow me."
"Is she awake…?"
"Perhaps she is dead."
"I do not think so…her stomach still makes movements…"
Kari blinked. Her vision was blurry but she could make out black figures standing around her. She shook her head and rubbed her eyes. Six dark digimon surrounded her, each with a seemingly special attribute.
"Well…she is awake now."
She glanced quickly around the room for an escape route, but found none. The digimon around her suddenly stepped back to the walls and coagulated into statues. Kari sat up and hopped down to the stone cold floor. Her gloves were missing and so was one of her shoes, but they didn't matter now. She felt the walls as if she were a mime, and began to feel frustration after she had searched the entire room.
"Having fun?"
She jumped. The voice was in the room, but she saw nothing. At once, the wall in front of her began to shimmer. It flowed back and forth like water so crazily that she could not understands why it did not already crack into millions of pieces. Dragomon's hideous head emerged, then came the rest of his body. Kari backed up as far as she could from Dragomon.
"Why am I here? Why did you take me?"
"You have something I need…"
She stammered. "W-what?"
Dragomon growled, his voice echoing in the small empty room.
'Foolish girl! Do you not know what powerful ability you possess? Your light! I need it to escape from this foul place! I will make you part of me so that I will carry the power necessary to tear a hole in the space-time continuum and reach the digital world!"
Dragomon was practically shrieking now, and his eyes seemed to bulge from their sockets. Kari could tell he was desperate. He wanted to go to the digital world obviously, but that wasn't his true intention. From the look in his eyes, she could see that he was frantic for strength. Dragomon wanted strength over anything else, but why would he need it? Apparently, he was already the strongest in the Dark Ocean and no other dark digimon had the power to overthrow him…
Kari stood silently as she watched Dragomon.
"I don't know what your powers are doing to me now…but I will…get you…tomorrow!" Dragomon cursed.
Kari stared n disbelief. She was actually using her powers on him? I can't even feel it anymore…like it's out of control or something. Kari watched Dragomon walk through the shimmering wall while twitching and mumbling. After he had disappeared, she quickly attempted to also run through. When she was approximately five feet away from it, the statues liquefied and once again became digimon. In less than a blink of the eye, they were in front of her. She backed down and once again sat on the stone platform at the center of the room. Where am I? Where are the others? Where's Davis…?
Davis moaned as he stirred to life. What happened? He stood up shakily as he recalled the events that occurred before he was knocked out. Oh yeah, they took Kari… He brushed off the dust and dirt on his shirt and stood up. He looked around for the tunnel in which she had been taken to, but could not find it.
"Damn it. They must've covered the holes up. I thought that these digimon were stupid too…"
Davis began to walk groggily to the coast. He looked down at his reflection in the dark waters. A teenage boy with dark brown eyes and raspberry brown hair looked back. He sat down and laid back. What am I doing?
"Where are we headed to Ken?" Stingmon asked.
"Just keep going. I'll tell you when to stop." Ken replied.
He looked back to see Yolei, Cody, and Armadillomon riding on Acquilamon, and T.K., Veemon, and Gatomon atop of Pegasusmon.
Ken's hair fluttered wildly in the wind as he squinted to scan the land below. Where did I land after I escaped from the Dark Ocean? Right then, he felt a spasm in his temple. He yelled out in pain and Stingmon flipped.
Stingmon was going straight down; he couldn't regain altitude. His wings were flapping helplessly as he pummeled to the ground like a two hundred pound weight.
"Pegasusmon! We have to get them!" T.K. yelled.
Pegasusmon was fast, but in this case, not even the fastest flyer could have saved Stingmon and Ken.
"Acquilamon! See that body of water there?"
Acquilamon nodded and swerved to the right to get across from the falling Stingmon. Pegasusmon and Acquilamon both fired an attack at the water and it gushed forward at Stingmon, inches from the ground. The water didn't help much, but it slowed Stingmon's descent enough for him and Ken to survive. Stingmon whapped the floor and Ken bounced off.
Stingmon laid lazily on the muddy floor. " Ah…so this is what a mud bath feels like."
Ken grasped throbbing head. What happened to me? The pain had disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared. He looked around. It was the place that he had arrived in after he went through the portal in the Dark Ocean. There was the familiar slanted hill, along with the patch of blue flowers lying next to a cut down tree.
"We're here," Ken said.
T.K. jumped off Pegasusmon and landed nimbly onto the soft mud.
"Yeah, but where exactly is 'here'?"
Yolei, Cody and all the other digimon joined to stand next to Ken.
Stingmon, Pegasusmon, and Acquilamon had de-digivolved to their rookie stages.
Ken touched the air with the tip of his finger. A barely visible flash of purple was seen.
"The entrance is here," Ken confirmed.
"All right! …How do we open it?" Cody asked.
Ken scratched his head. "I haven't figured that part out yet, but we have to try anyways."
"Enough with the yapping, let's get to work!" T.K. yelled.
Everyone stared at him, then shrugged. Ken began to pound on the invisible force field like a maniac, but nothing happened. Armadillomon, Hawkmon, and Patamon digivolved to their champion forms and used all their might against the force field. The force field held and the energy focused on it lanced back at them.
"Yikes! I could feel the heat from that attack!" Ankylomon complained.
Angemon clattered the force field with his staff until he tired out. Meanwhile, Ken, T.K., Cody, and Yolei sat on a cluster of rocks nearby.
"This is hopeless…how can we get through that impenetrable force field?" Yolei asked.
Ken's head snapped up like a whip. "I got it!"
The digimon stopped their relentless attacks on the force field to look at Ken. The other digidestined silenced to listen.
"I was thinking…friendship got me through that gate. I wasn't willing to go through, but Davis's urge for me to save myself was what finally made me go through." Ken stood up. "I think that if we focus our energies, we can send our friendship through that damn gate to reach Davis and Kari! Then maybe…maybe the gate will unseal."
"Well…it's the only plan we've got. Besides, I kind of like the sound of it," Yolei said.
"All right! Let's go!" T.K. exclaimed.
The digimon walked forward to watch the digidestined.
"What a smart handful of kids. You can always count on humans to come up with sophisticated plans like that!" Angemon remarked.
"So…you're saying that digimon aren't intelligent?" Stingmon replied.
"I didn't say that…"
"You two! Quiet!' Acquilamon scolded. "The kids need silence to concentrate!"
Gatomon and Veemon sat by quietly and watched curiously.
Ken, Yolei, Cody, and T.K. stood in front of the force field. The soft wind ruffled their hair and leaves were scattered about.
"All right, here we go!" Ken said.
The four digidestined held up their D-3s to the gate and closed their eyes. Their eyebrows crunched together and their faces were full of determination.
Come on guys…we're here for you! We're here to get you out of the Dark Ocean! We're giving everything we've got, and I'm not about to give up!
Kari…Davis…though you guys might not survive long enough to ever see us again, I just want you guys to know that we'll always be there for you, like we are now! I just can't imagine life without you guys…
I know we can do this! You can trust us to get you guys out of the Dark Ocean! Then we can go back to the real world together! Just hang on…!
Listen to me! Even when things are looking their worst, never give up! I don't know exactly what you're going through now, but we'll get you guys out of that damned place. Trust me…!
Acquilamon, Angemon,Ankylomon, and Stingmon watched from afar.
"Nothing…if this doesn't work, then nothing will!" Angemon whispered.
"What do you mean?" Acquilamon asked.
"The strongest bond between people- humans and digimon- is friendship. Friendship ties people together, like a wire connected to each other. If this can't get through to Davis and Kari, I don't see how anything can open this gate!"
"Oh…I see," Stingmon replied.
Then, the digidestined began to glow.
Angemon smiled. "This is exactly what I meant."
A black streak shot out of Ken, yellow out of T.K., green and pink out of Yolei, purple and gray out of Cody. The streaks flashed towards the gate, shrugging off massive amounts of energy. They hit the invisible force field in a blinding explosion. The force field, once invisible, was now becoming clearer. The gate fuzzed with static as electricity swarmed all about it. Sparks bounced off its covering and fires erupted from the ground below it, but it still held.
"I think it's weakened! Attack it!"
The four champion digimon attacked at once, smashing the gate to pieces. Behind it was darkness. T.K., Yolei, and Cody shivered.
"Is that the Dark Ocean?" T.K. asked.
"Come on! Let's go before it closes!" Ken yelled.
The four digidestined and their digimon jumped into the hole in the sky. Right behind them, the deleted data reformed as the purple barrier reformed. A translucent beam sealed the gate and the purple color gradually faded to opaque.
Davis sat by the dark waters, watching it flow back and forth. It's hopeless. Even if I were able to find where Kari was, Dragomon's minions would obliterate me.
Ken squinted as he looked around in amazement. He was traveling through the rift, along with everyone else. It looked like a bunch of lights and glowing balls, exactly as he remembered it the first time he went through. The other digidestined stayed silent and looked around while Yolei made barely audible whines of terror.
Davis stood up. He felt warmth surge through him. The soul breaking power of the Dark Ocean was lifting. What's going on? I feel…brave…courage! It's like all my friends are here by me right now! He looked around and saw Ken, Cody, Yolei, and T.K. Am I hallucinating or are they really here? Davis shook his head. How could they be here? It's impossible…but still…Davis stared at the hallucinations until they began to move. Davis jumped.
"Whoa! That's a first! My hallucinations are moving like real people!"
Yolei walked up to Davis and slapped him in the face, knocking him to the floor. Davis choked.
"That's a first too…my hallucinations are kicking my ass…"
Ken grabbed Davis by the collar and yanked him upwards, then straightened Davis's shirt.
"Davis…where's Kari?" Ken asked.
Davis's eyes lowered to the floor as he began to shuffle his feet.
T.K. growled. "Don't tell me you let her be taken away!"
"She was…by these weird invisible things."
T.K. ran up to Davis and grabbed his collar, slamming him against the wall.
"You bastard! How could you let them take Kari! What the hell were you doing that was so important?"
Davis threw T.K.'s hands off then shoved him back.
"Well I would like to see you take her to safety from Dragomon, the fend off invisible vine things and then avoid getting knocked out by a large branch that drops onto your head! I'd like to see you do that T.J.!"
"How do I know you're not just making up some stupid story- I've never heard or seen any invisible di-" T.K. began.
"Actually T.K., there are four known types of invisible digimon in the Digital World. But since this is the Dark Ocean, I can't exactly put Davis's descriptions to use," Patamon informed.
T.K. groaned. "Sorry Davis. I guess I got a little over-tempered."
Davis patted his jacket.
"A little? Are you crazy? You went ballistic! I bet you would've killed me if I didn't push you away. But…you had a good reason too. I let them take Kari away…and I don't know what they're doing to her! She's alone, and most likely scared. I need to get to her!"
T.K. removed his hat and scratched his blond hair.
"How do we see these invisible things- I mean in case they attack us?"
Hawkmon shook his head.
"Impossible I'm afraid. Only a very powerful light source could reveal them, or a digimon with special eyesight."
Davis and Veemon were hugging and practically beating each other up in joy.
"Davis!" Ken yelled.
"Yeah?"
"Do you know where Dragomon's base is?" Gatomon asked.
Davis rubbed his chin, then looked out at the black waters which extended to as far as the eye could see. The winds blew the waters and created waves that splashed gently against one another.
"I think it's somewhere around there. When I first saw Dragomon, he was standing over there," Davis said, finger pointing.
"All right, let's go Davis!" Cody said, walking forward in sync with the others.
"Go where?" Davis asked fearfully.
Cody smiled and motioned for him to follow along.
"Do you really need to ask?"
Finally! A chapter long enough to be able to read for more than seven minutes! I have decided that there will be two more chapters until the end, so then I can move onto my next story. It will involve the attack on Dragomon's base and their final confrontation with Dragomon. Will the digidestined be able to destroy Dragomon before he can absorb Kari into himself? If you are really bored, you can try to guess who is thinking what in that part where the digidestined are focusing their powers to open the gate. Just post it up with your review in order from top to bottom. If it's right…I don't know what I'll do. Just leave your e-mail address and maybe I'll use you as a beta reader! Okay, anyways, just review please!