Disclaimer: How many ways are there of saying I don't own Digimon? Well? DO
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A/N: FYI, most of this fic is showing what's happening at that part of the story, so the scene changes a fair bit, but stick with it anyway! Enjoy! ^_~
Darkness Dawning
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"TK, NO!" Kari screamed as Psymon grabbed the blond. Gabby and Alysha were nowhere to be seen, unlike yesterday's events. Psymon looked at the girl and smirked. He flew high into the air, so high that all she could see was a small dot in the sky. Suddenly that dot grew bigger and bigger, as TK's limp body shot to the ground at a tremendous speed! Psymon had thrown him towards the ground in an attempt to destroy him! Kari screamed as she tried to catch him, but she wasn't fast enough. He hit the ground, dust flying everywhere on impact. She knelt down beside him and tried to wake him, but to no avail. His face was as white as a sheet, and there was barely any sign he was alive.
"Mission accomplished." Kari turned around, and found that Psymon was stood behind her. There was a huge smile on his face. "And now for you..." He powered up an energy ball in his hand, then threw it at Kari. She let out a chilling scream as the attack moved closer and closer...
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Kari shot up like a rocket out of her bed. She was covered in a cold sweat and was breathing rapidly. She quietly got out of bed and made her way to the kitchen for some milk. She sat down at the table and sighed heavily. 'What am I gonna do?' she thought sadly. 'What if TK gets hurt, or Gabby. I hope Alysha's OK.' She drank the rest of her milk and went back to bed, not knowing what she was going to do tomorrow...
* * *
Kari wasn't the only one having nightmares. In the Digital World, TK was lying in the dungeon, dark thoughts and fears racing through his head.
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TK was stood in a forest. He didn't know where he was, whether he was in the Digital World or the real world, but he could tell he wasn't alone. A few seconds later Psymon arrived infront of him.
"What do you want?" TK asked angrily. "And where am I?"
"That's up to you." the psychic digimon said coolly. "This is your mind. Wherever we are is where you want to be."
"But I want to be with Kari!" TK said suddenly.
"That isn't what your heart wants right now..." Psymon replied. TK suddenly started to feel faint. He held his left hand to his head and looked around him to see that the scene around him was changing into the lifeless black ocean and the grey cliffs.
"What's going on?" TK asked aggressively. Psymon gave him a what-did- I-just-tell-you kind of look. "Why am I at the Dark Ocean?"
"It's obvious." Psymon said simply. "You belong with darkness, no matter how hard you try, it will always come back to you."
"I don't belong with darkness! I don't belong with anything like you!" TK spat at the digimon.
"Ah, but you do." the psychic digimon replied. "You see, according to many, Hope and Light are the best defences against the powers of darkness, but haven't you noticed that you and Kari are the only one's to be more or less taken over by them, rather than the others."
"Then what about Ken?"
"Ken is also one you wouldn't expect, having the Crest of Kindness and all, but to us he was in the right place at the right time. He proved a worthy asset to us until he went back to being Mr Goody-two-shoes!"
"So what do you want with me now then?" TK asked cautiously.
"Ah, that's an easy answer." the purple-clad digimon snapped his fingers and the ground began to shake. TK looked down and found that the sandy beach beneath him was beginning to rip apart! "The darkness is waiting for you, join it before it destroys you." The ground beneath TK completely disappeared, and he began to fall into the chasm created in the middle of the beach, screaming as he fell further and further into the darkness...
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TK woke up suddenly in a cold sweat. He looked around to see where he was. The same dark dungeon he fell asleep in. His side still ached with a dull pain, along with his head, but he ignored it. 'It's no good.' he thought in grim defeat. 'There's no way I'll be able to get out of here, Psymon's too powerful, and the others will only get hurt trying to free us!' Suddenly, TK's Crest began to darken. It was surrounded with a dark aura, and when the aura faded, in the Crest of Hope's place, once again, was the Crest of Despair. TK began to feel dizzy, and he shut his eyes tightly, hoping it would go away, but it was no good. His Hope was gone. He opened his eyes seconds later, and where there once was a bright sparkle, there now was the icy stare that he once had three years ago. He sat there, his back to the wall, staring into the darkness that was before him.
* * *
Gabby woke up to find that she was still in the same place last night, and that it wasn't just a dream. She looked upwards to find TK standing infront of her, glaring at her.
"Oh, morning TK." she said, realising who it was. "At least, I think it's morning." She giggled nervously at this comment. TK didn't answer. Gabby got up off the ground, and saw that his eyes were lifeless, full of despair and hatred. She also saw that the Crest of Hope was once again the Crest of Despair. She realised what was going on. "TK, whatever he's done to you, you can fight it!"
"What are you talking about?" TK asked cockily. "He hasn't done anything to me, I did it all myself."
"TK, you have to fight this! Kari and the others don't want you like this, and neither do YOU!!" Gabby cried angrily.
"What does Kari have to do with this, along with everyone else, what I want to do is my choice!" Gabby noticed that his eyes had widened as she mentioned Kari's name. 'This ought to bring him back to normal!' she thought, figuring out what to do.
"You miss Kari, don't you?" she asked slyfully. TK started to look panicked.
"N-no I don't!" he stammered shockedly.
"Yes you do! You want her back and she wants you back! You've always belonged together and DON'T YOU DARE DENY IT!!!" TK stared at her for a few seconds into her determined face, until the Gabby had been waiting for slipped from his mouth.
"I...miss her..." he said weakly. His lifeless eyes started to fill with tears. He suddenly fell to his knees, and started to cry. "I want her back!" he cried. "I want to see her again!" Gabby tried to comfort him. 'Nice one, Gabby, you really helped!' she thought sarcastically.
"It's OK, TK..." the brunette said gently. "You'll see her again, I promise." TK's Crest began to glow with a golden light. He opened his eyes, and Gabby noticed that they were no longer lifeless and cold, they gad that sparkle in them that only TK made look natural. His eyes were full of tears which he was trying to hold back, and he looked up at the young 13 year old with him. "Welcome back." she said happily. She paused for a couple of seconds, then spoke again. "I'm...sorry I did that to you, TK."
"It's OK Gabby, you were only trying to help. Thanks." TK said, smiling.
"Don't worry about it!" Gabby replied, smiling in return.
* * *
Kari was quiet for the whole trip to school. She'd never felt this empty except for when TK was being controlled by Psymon.
"We'll never defeat him on our own." she said grimly. She looked at her Crest and ripped it off from around her neck. "And this stupid thing is no use at all!" She threw it to the ground and walked off. It's colour darkened slightly as it lay there. Davis walked up to it minutes later on his way to school.
"Huh?" He picked it up off the ground. "Kari's Crest? What's it doing on the ground?" He put the Crest in his pocket and walked off to find Kari.
Davis entered the classroom and found Kari sitting there.
"Hey Kari, you dropped this!" he pointed out to her. She looked up at him angrily.
"I know." she said simply. Davis looked at her for a few seconds, then held it out to her.
"Well, here it is!" Kari took it, looked at it, then threw it to the ground.
"Whoa! What are you doing?" the goggle-head asked in surprise.
"I don't want it anymore!" Kari said coldly. "One week ago, yes, two days ago, yes, but today, NO!"
"Kari, what's wrong with you today?" Davis asked worriedly.
"Nothing. I'm fine." the brunette replied simply. Davis stared at her for a few moments until Ken walked into the classroom.
"Hi Davis." he said plainly. He noticed Kari with him. "Oh, hi Kari." She didn't answer. He went over to Davis. "What's with Kari?" he whispered to him.
"Beats me! She threw her Crest on the floor before you came in!" Davis whispered back. They sat down and waited for Alysha to arrive to see if she was alright. Ken had called her but she didn't answer. The room was silent for a few minutes until Alysha finally entered the room. Ken got up and walked towards her.
"You OK?" he asked gently. She looked up at him.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Alysha replied. She and Ken sat down with Davis. "I told my mom what happened." she finally said. "When I went to bed all I could hear was her crying." Ken gave Davis a nervous look when she had said that. Davis automatically looked equally as worried and nervous as him.
The day past slowly for the digidestined. Alysha kept looking at the clock, longing for the school day to end. Finally the bell rang and everyone began to leave the classroom, along with Kari, she didn't see the point of going to the Digital World because she didn't think it was possible to defeat Psymon this time.
"So, 'Lysha, are you OK to come to the Digital World with us?" Davis asked.
"Yeah, of course I'm going! We've got to get Gabby and TK back!" Kari's stopped outside the classroom as she overheard what Alysha had said. 'She's being so optimistic, despite the fact that this situation is hopeless...' She hid behind a filing cabinet as she heard the others leave the room. When she was sure they were gone, she walked back into the classroom, and found her Crest on the teacher's desk. 'He must have picked it up off the floor while I was working.' she thought as she picked it up. She retied it around her neck and walked off. The colour of the Crest darkened even more...
* * *
Psymon was continuing work in his lab. He seemed to be searching for something on one of his main computers. Patamon and Dulphimon were sat in their cages, watching him as he typed different commands into his computer. After glaring at him for hours in silence, Patamon finally spoke.
"Hey Psymon!" he called over the purple-clad digimon. He turned around to face the little digimon.
"Yes?" he asked innocently.
"Why did you kidnap us?"
"For testing. And don't think you can escape, because I have you friends' D-3s." Patamon and Dulphimon looked worriedly at each other.
"What do you want to do with us?" Dulphimon piped in.
"What is this, the Spanish Inquisition?" Psymon snapped. He sighed, then continued. "Fine. I may as well tell you, since there's nothing you can do about it. I'm going to use your friends' D-3s to find a way to make you a virus type permanently, unlike the mere temporary solution Ken Ichijouji used when he was the so-called 'Digimon Emperor'." Patamon began to feel scared. 'If he does that then I'll be Devimon again, and I don't want TK to go through that again!' he thought worriedly. 'There's got to be something I can do...'
* * *
"So, do you have any idea where Kari went to?" Yolei asked Ken.
"No, we went looking for her, but we couldn't find her anywhere, it's like she's vanished."
"So where do you think we should start looking to find TK and Gabby?" Cody asked.
"Well, in reality, our D-3s should be able to find their D-3s." Davis started. "But with Psymon, it'll be just about impossible, and there's no leads on their whereabouts." "So, you mean, we can't find where they are?" Yolei asked grimly. "Hey, I didn't mean that!" Davis answered quickly. "I was just putting this situation into perspective! Of course we'll find them, it'll just take a lot of searching, that's all!" "Well, as long ass we stand a chance, then I'm not gonna quit!" Alysha said confidently. "Yeah!" Davis agreed. Everyone else nodded in agreement.
* * *
TK and Gabby were sitting in the dungeon. They got bored so they decided to tell each other amusing stories from when they were younger. Gabby was in the middle of telling the story of when she was in the school's Christmas play when she was 8, when suddenly TK began to lose consciousness. He held his right hand to his head, and started to feel light-headed. Gabby quickly went up to him.
"TK, what's wrong?" she asked worriedly.
"I...don't know..." the blond answered weakly. He completely lost consciousness and slammed into the ground. Gabby tried to wake him.
"TK, com'on, wake up!" Gabby pleaded. 'If I knew what was wrong with him, I would be able to help. But I don't know if it's Psymon, his Crest or something else...'
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Kari was sat down on the beach, looking out into clear blue water, Gatomon at her side. 'Why did I have to act like that to the others?' she asked herself worriedly. 'I know I should be in the Digital World helping them, but something's telling me that there's nothing we can do...'
"Hey, Kari?" Gatomon broke her out of her deep thought. She looked at her partner digimon.
"Yeah?" she asked.
"What was wrong with you earlier today? You didn't seem to want your Crest anymore."
"Oh, that." Kari said nervously. "Look, I was angry because I was really worried that something bad had happened to TK."
"So why didn't you go with the others?" the feline digimon asked.
"Well, I, err, I..." Kari stammered trying to think of some reason why. "I...guess I just didn't want to see anyone get hurt." she lied. "There's a chance that TK could've become evil again."
"Tell me the truth Kari." Gatomon said stubbornly, not believing what her partner had said. Kari sighed, then looked out into the ocean again.
"I...I just don't think there's a way of defeating Psymon! It's hopeless!" she said loudly and clearly. Suddenly, her Crest burst out in dark energy. She looked down at it, shockedly. "What's going on?" she asked, terrified. Suddenly the beach disappeared, and in it's place was the lifeless black ocean that still haunted Kari's mind...
Oooohhhh, things are tensing up! Kari's in the Dark Ocean, TK might have come down with something, Psymon's trying to make Patamon and Dulphimon evil permanently, and (least exciting of them all) the rest of the digidestined are in the Digital World. Anyway, I hope that wasn't too confusing, that switching places style suited that chapter perfectly! Another thing, MVGamer333, I think your suggestion may be used, the way this story's going! Thanx for the idea! ^_^
Final thing, I've decided that because I'm not getting enough reviews for this fic so far, I'm putting up my next chapter until I get at least 15 reviews! I doubt that I'll have finished the next chapter by then, but if I do, I won't put it up until then!
A/N: FYI, most of this fic is showing what's happening at that part of the story, so the scene changes a fair bit, but stick with it anyway! Enjoy! ^_~
Darkness Dawning
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"TK, NO!" Kari screamed as Psymon grabbed the blond. Gabby and Alysha were nowhere to be seen, unlike yesterday's events. Psymon looked at the girl and smirked. He flew high into the air, so high that all she could see was a small dot in the sky. Suddenly that dot grew bigger and bigger, as TK's limp body shot to the ground at a tremendous speed! Psymon had thrown him towards the ground in an attempt to destroy him! Kari screamed as she tried to catch him, but she wasn't fast enough. He hit the ground, dust flying everywhere on impact. She knelt down beside him and tried to wake him, but to no avail. His face was as white as a sheet, and there was barely any sign he was alive.
"Mission accomplished." Kari turned around, and found that Psymon was stood behind her. There was a huge smile on his face. "And now for you..." He powered up an energy ball in his hand, then threw it at Kari. She let out a chilling scream as the attack moved closer and closer...
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Kari shot up like a rocket out of her bed. She was covered in a cold sweat and was breathing rapidly. She quietly got out of bed and made her way to the kitchen for some milk. She sat down at the table and sighed heavily. 'What am I gonna do?' she thought sadly. 'What if TK gets hurt, or Gabby. I hope Alysha's OK.' She drank the rest of her milk and went back to bed, not knowing what she was going to do tomorrow...
* * *
Kari wasn't the only one having nightmares. In the Digital World, TK was lying in the dungeon, dark thoughts and fears racing through his head.
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TK was stood in a forest. He didn't know where he was, whether he was in the Digital World or the real world, but he could tell he wasn't alone. A few seconds later Psymon arrived infront of him.
"What do you want?" TK asked angrily. "And where am I?"
"That's up to you." the psychic digimon said coolly. "This is your mind. Wherever we are is where you want to be."
"But I want to be with Kari!" TK said suddenly.
"That isn't what your heart wants right now..." Psymon replied. TK suddenly started to feel faint. He held his left hand to his head and looked around him to see that the scene around him was changing into the lifeless black ocean and the grey cliffs.
"What's going on?" TK asked aggressively. Psymon gave him a what-did- I-just-tell-you kind of look. "Why am I at the Dark Ocean?"
"It's obvious." Psymon said simply. "You belong with darkness, no matter how hard you try, it will always come back to you."
"I don't belong with darkness! I don't belong with anything like you!" TK spat at the digimon.
"Ah, but you do." the psychic digimon replied. "You see, according to many, Hope and Light are the best defences against the powers of darkness, but haven't you noticed that you and Kari are the only one's to be more or less taken over by them, rather than the others."
"Then what about Ken?"
"Ken is also one you wouldn't expect, having the Crest of Kindness and all, but to us he was in the right place at the right time. He proved a worthy asset to us until he went back to being Mr Goody-two-shoes!"
"So what do you want with me now then?" TK asked cautiously.
"Ah, that's an easy answer." the purple-clad digimon snapped his fingers and the ground began to shake. TK looked down and found that the sandy beach beneath him was beginning to rip apart! "The darkness is waiting for you, join it before it destroys you." The ground beneath TK completely disappeared, and he began to fall into the chasm created in the middle of the beach, screaming as he fell further and further into the darkness...
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TK woke up suddenly in a cold sweat. He looked around to see where he was. The same dark dungeon he fell asleep in. His side still ached with a dull pain, along with his head, but he ignored it. 'It's no good.' he thought in grim defeat. 'There's no way I'll be able to get out of here, Psymon's too powerful, and the others will only get hurt trying to free us!' Suddenly, TK's Crest began to darken. It was surrounded with a dark aura, and when the aura faded, in the Crest of Hope's place, once again, was the Crest of Despair. TK began to feel dizzy, and he shut his eyes tightly, hoping it would go away, but it was no good. His Hope was gone. He opened his eyes seconds later, and where there once was a bright sparkle, there now was the icy stare that he once had three years ago. He sat there, his back to the wall, staring into the darkness that was before him.
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Gabby woke up to find that she was still in the same place last night, and that it wasn't just a dream. She looked upwards to find TK standing infront of her, glaring at her.
"Oh, morning TK." she said, realising who it was. "At least, I think it's morning." She giggled nervously at this comment. TK didn't answer. Gabby got up off the ground, and saw that his eyes were lifeless, full of despair and hatred. She also saw that the Crest of Hope was once again the Crest of Despair. She realised what was going on. "TK, whatever he's done to you, you can fight it!"
"What are you talking about?" TK asked cockily. "He hasn't done anything to me, I did it all myself."
"TK, you have to fight this! Kari and the others don't want you like this, and neither do YOU!!" Gabby cried angrily.
"What does Kari have to do with this, along with everyone else, what I want to do is my choice!" Gabby noticed that his eyes had widened as she mentioned Kari's name. 'This ought to bring him back to normal!' she thought, figuring out what to do.
"You miss Kari, don't you?" she asked slyfully. TK started to look panicked.
"N-no I don't!" he stammered shockedly.
"Yes you do! You want her back and she wants you back! You've always belonged together and DON'T YOU DARE DENY IT!!!" TK stared at her for a few seconds into her determined face, until the Gabby had been waiting for slipped from his mouth.
"I...miss her..." he said weakly. His lifeless eyes started to fill with tears. He suddenly fell to his knees, and started to cry. "I want her back!" he cried. "I want to see her again!" Gabby tried to comfort him. 'Nice one, Gabby, you really helped!' she thought sarcastically.
"It's OK, TK..." the brunette said gently. "You'll see her again, I promise." TK's Crest began to glow with a golden light. He opened his eyes, and Gabby noticed that they were no longer lifeless and cold, they gad that sparkle in them that only TK made look natural. His eyes were full of tears which he was trying to hold back, and he looked up at the young 13 year old with him. "Welcome back." she said happily. She paused for a couple of seconds, then spoke again. "I'm...sorry I did that to you, TK."
"It's OK Gabby, you were only trying to help. Thanks." TK said, smiling.
"Don't worry about it!" Gabby replied, smiling in return.
* * *
Kari was quiet for the whole trip to school. She'd never felt this empty except for when TK was being controlled by Psymon.
"We'll never defeat him on our own." she said grimly. She looked at her Crest and ripped it off from around her neck. "And this stupid thing is no use at all!" She threw it to the ground and walked off. It's colour darkened slightly as it lay there. Davis walked up to it minutes later on his way to school.
"Huh?" He picked it up off the ground. "Kari's Crest? What's it doing on the ground?" He put the Crest in his pocket and walked off to find Kari.
Davis entered the classroom and found Kari sitting there.
"Hey Kari, you dropped this!" he pointed out to her. She looked up at him angrily.
"I know." she said simply. Davis looked at her for a few seconds, then held it out to her.
"Well, here it is!" Kari took it, looked at it, then threw it to the ground.
"Whoa! What are you doing?" the goggle-head asked in surprise.
"I don't want it anymore!" Kari said coldly. "One week ago, yes, two days ago, yes, but today, NO!"
"Kari, what's wrong with you today?" Davis asked worriedly.
"Nothing. I'm fine." the brunette replied simply. Davis stared at her for a few moments until Ken walked into the classroom.
"Hi Davis." he said plainly. He noticed Kari with him. "Oh, hi Kari." She didn't answer. He went over to Davis. "What's with Kari?" he whispered to him.
"Beats me! She threw her Crest on the floor before you came in!" Davis whispered back. They sat down and waited for Alysha to arrive to see if she was alright. Ken had called her but she didn't answer. The room was silent for a few minutes until Alysha finally entered the room. Ken got up and walked towards her.
"You OK?" he asked gently. She looked up at him.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Alysha replied. She and Ken sat down with Davis. "I told my mom what happened." she finally said. "When I went to bed all I could hear was her crying." Ken gave Davis a nervous look when she had said that. Davis automatically looked equally as worried and nervous as him.
The day past slowly for the digidestined. Alysha kept looking at the clock, longing for the school day to end. Finally the bell rang and everyone began to leave the classroom, along with Kari, she didn't see the point of going to the Digital World because she didn't think it was possible to defeat Psymon this time.
"So, 'Lysha, are you OK to come to the Digital World with us?" Davis asked.
"Yeah, of course I'm going! We've got to get Gabby and TK back!" Kari's stopped outside the classroom as she overheard what Alysha had said. 'She's being so optimistic, despite the fact that this situation is hopeless...' She hid behind a filing cabinet as she heard the others leave the room. When she was sure they were gone, she walked back into the classroom, and found her Crest on the teacher's desk. 'He must have picked it up off the floor while I was working.' she thought as she picked it up. She retied it around her neck and walked off. The colour of the Crest darkened even more...
* * *
Psymon was continuing work in his lab. He seemed to be searching for something on one of his main computers. Patamon and Dulphimon were sat in their cages, watching him as he typed different commands into his computer. After glaring at him for hours in silence, Patamon finally spoke.
"Hey Psymon!" he called over the purple-clad digimon. He turned around to face the little digimon.
"Yes?" he asked innocently.
"Why did you kidnap us?"
"For testing. And don't think you can escape, because I have you friends' D-3s." Patamon and Dulphimon looked worriedly at each other.
"What do you want to do with us?" Dulphimon piped in.
"What is this, the Spanish Inquisition?" Psymon snapped. He sighed, then continued. "Fine. I may as well tell you, since there's nothing you can do about it. I'm going to use your friends' D-3s to find a way to make you a virus type permanently, unlike the mere temporary solution Ken Ichijouji used when he was the so-called 'Digimon Emperor'." Patamon began to feel scared. 'If he does that then I'll be Devimon again, and I don't want TK to go through that again!' he thought worriedly. 'There's got to be something I can do...'
* * *
"So, do you have any idea where Kari went to?" Yolei asked Ken.
"No, we went looking for her, but we couldn't find her anywhere, it's like she's vanished."
"So where do you think we should start looking to find TK and Gabby?" Cody asked.
"Well, in reality, our D-3s should be able to find their D-3s." Davis started. "But with Psymon, it'll be just about impossible, and there's no leads on their whereabouts." "So, you mean, we can't find where they are?" Yolei asked grimly. "Hey, I didn't mean that!" Davis answered quickly. "I was just putting this situation into perspective! Of course we'll find them, it'll just take a lot of searching, that's all!" "Well, as long ass we stand a chance, then I'm not gonna quit!" Alysha said confidently. "Yeah!" Davis agreed. Everyone else nodded in agreement.
* * *
TK and Gabby were sitting in the dungeon. They got bored so they decided to tell each other amusing stories from when they were younger. Gabby was in the middle of telling the story of when she was in the school's Christmas play when she was 8, when suddenly TK began to lose consciousness. He held his right hand to his head, and started to feel light-headed. Gabby quickly went up to him.
"TK, what's wrong?" she asked worriedly.
"I...don't know..." the blond answered weakly. He completely lost consciousness and slammed into the ground. Gabby tried to wake him.
"TK, com'on, wake up!" Gabby pleaded. 'If I knew what was wrong with him, I would be able to help. But I don't know if it's Psymon, his Crest or something else...'
* * *
Kari was sat down on the beach, looking out into clear blue water, Gatomon at her side. 'Why did I have to act like that to the others?' she asked herself worriedly. 'I know I should be in the Digital World helping them, but something's telling me that there's nothing we can do...'
"Hey, Kari?" Gatomon broke her out of her deep thought. She looked at her partner digimon.
"Yeah?" she asked.
"What was wrong with you earlier today? You didn't seem to want your Crest anymore."
"Oh, that." Kari said nervously. "Look, I was angry because I was really worried that something bad had happened to TK."
"So why didn't you go with the others?" the feline digimon asked.
"Well, I, err, I..." Kari stammered trying to think of some reason why. "I...guess I just didn't want to see anyone get hurt." she lied. "There's a chance that TK could've become evil again."
"Tell me the truth Kari." Gatomon said stubbornly, not believing what her partner had said. Kari sighed, then looked out into the ocean again.
"I...I just don't think there's a way of defeating Psymon! It's hopeless!" she said loudly and clearly. Suddenly, her Crest burst out in dark energy. She looked down at it, shockedly. "What's going on?" she asked, terrified. Suddenly the beach disappeared, and in it's place was the lifeless black ocean that still haunted Kari's mind...
Oooohhhh, things are tensing up! Kari's in the Dark Ocean, TK might have come down with something, Psymon's trying to make Patamon and Dulphimon evil permanently, and (least exciting of them all) the rest of the digidestined are in the Digital World. Anyway, I hope that wasn't too confusing, that switching places style suited that chapter perfectly! Another thing, MVGamer333, I think your suggestion may be used, the way this story's going! Thanx for the idea! ^_^
Final thing, I've decided that because I'm not getting enough reviews for this fic so far, I'm putting up my next chapter until I get at least 15 reviews! I doubt that I'll have finished the next chapter by then, but if I do, I won't put it up until then!