Authors notes: This struck me one day so I decided I was going to write it. It's a different perspective of the Dark Ocean. Is going to have lot's of Takari! I might throw in some Taiora and Mimato in later. Ages below.
Cody: 11
Tk, Kari, Davis: 13
Yolei, Ken: 14
Mimi, Izzy: 15
Tai, Matt, Sora: 16
Joe: 17
Disclaimer: No matter how much I wish I will never own digimon.
The light under the ocean.
Kari looked over her shoulder for the seventh time since she had left her house. She shook her head and scolded herself, it was just one nightmare about the Dark Ocean it couldn't mean anything. But the feeling of fear in her stomach didn't seem to go away. Last night she had woken up at four in the morning drenched in sweat after she had had a nightmare of the Dark Ocean taking her again, she started to replay it in her mind. Her walking along the beach and the scubbamon creatures coming out from the water and begging for her help. She was so engrossed in playing the dream again in her mind that she was shrieked when someone placed her hand on her shoulder.
"Sorry Kaz, didn't mean to scare you." Kari turned round to face Takeru 'Tk' Takaishi. She studied him, he had grown a lot since their digital world adventures. He was a lot taller and still had the same messy blonde hair but now without a hat, his ocean blue eyes could tell anyone what he was feeling if you knew him well enough. And today he was wearing his usual white shirt and jeans. The pair walked in silence side by side for a while.
"You going to tell me what the matter is or am I going to have to force you?" Kari chewed her lip, she knew that she couldn't lie to Tk. He could tell exactly what was on her mind the by just glancing at her.
"I didn't sleep to well last night."
"Because . . . . .?"
Kari sighed and looked down at her shoes and picked at her pink flares. She shivered slightly and pulled her pink puffer jacket more tightly around her, she shouldn't be cold she was wearing a long sleeved top and coat for heavens sake!
"Please Kari I only want to help!"
"I had a dream about the Dark Ocean again." Kari said in barley a whisper. Tk bit his lip harder and started into the sky.
"How many?"
"Just the one."
"They may try and take you today though."
"Tk stop being so over protective!" Tk turned to face her with a look of hurt on her face and she could understand why. While her family babied her and never thought she could do anything by herself, Tk let her do whatever she wanted. Well anything that wasn't to dangerous, and if she did it anyway he would be the first there to protect. She knew she shouldn't have yelled at him but she needed to yell at someone and he was the only one close at hand. The pain that know filled those blue orbs of his made her hate herself. Turing round she fled away from school from the Tk she ran as fast as her legs would carry her. She found herself at the beach dropping onto the sand she burst into tears. She pulled her hands away from her face and stared at them, they were flickering like a broken television. They were taking her she suddenly realised because she was upset. She shut her eyes, think of nice thoughts, think of nice thoughts! T didn't world her whole body was flickering now, she shut her eyes waiting for them to take her when a pair of arms wrapped themselves round her. She fell onto the person's chest and allowed herself to cry. She knew it was Tk, he always saved her no matter what.
"It's okay they're not going to get you." She nodded into his chest and he gently picked her up and walked away.
She didn't know where he was taking her until he gently sat her down on his sofa. She kicked her shoes off and curled up next to him, her head resting in his lap. He gently ran his fingers through her hair, "You feeling better now?"
"Y . . . yes."
"Good, do you want to watch something?"
"Yes please." Tk picked the remote up and turned the TV on. A white cat and a orange pig looking creature with bat's wings appeared beside them.
"What are you two doing here? I thought it was a school day."
"It is Pata" Tk said gently stroking the digimon, "but Kari had a few problems and we thought it best to come home."
"He means the Dark Ocean doesn't he?" Gatomon whispered to Kari. Kari nodded and tears welled up in the cat's eyes.
"Why do they want to take you? Can't they leave you alone?" Kari didn't answer she didn't know what to say. Patamon knew the questions wouldn't be answered so he asked his own.
"How come they didn't take her?"
"Tk protected me."
"What do you mean protected?"
"Well" Kari said sitting up, "I think because it's a dark place that when I think 'Dark' thoughts like when I'm upset or angry I'm weaker. Tk came up and hugged me, he placed a barrier between me and the Dark Ocean."
"Alright I get that, but what are we going to do about the Dark Ocean?"
Tk didn't reply, he didn't know what they were going to do. They wouldn't go to school today and they would talk to Tai and the others when they got back from school. After explaining this to the other three Gatomon and Patamon moved to the kitchen but Kari stayed in Tk's arms. He pulled her into his lap and hugged her, "I won't let them hurt you."
"I know you won't." He smiled and turned to his eyes to the TV though he didn't really watch it. His mind was on the Dark Ocean.
Two hours later and Patamon and Gatomon were eating food alongside Tk and Kari as they watched TV. Tk picked Kari up and left her beside the two digimon and stood up. She looked at him with her eyes filled with fear.
"I'll be just a second I need to do something." She nodded and but didn't turn back to the TV she watched him as he walked across the room to a notebook and pen on the table in the kitchen. Picking up the pen he started to write.
Dear digidestined,
The Dark Ocean is after Kari again. We skipped school so that we could protect her. At the moment she is alright when somebody happier than her hugs her because it creates a barrier between her and the creatures from that land. I'm writing this in the case that the Dark Ocean takes Kari and we go with her. If this does happen then I hope you can find a way to the Dark Ocean to help us.
Tk
Tk put the pen down and sat back on the sofa and looked at Kari. Her usual rosy face was pale and her shoulder length brown hair was a mess. He pulled her into his arms and whispered to her, "Are they trying to take you?" She nodded and that's when he felt it. A feeling of despair swept over him, all his worst memories floated to the surface and he felt like he was being stretched over a large surface. He glance at Kari and he knew this was what he must have been feeling. Gatomon and Patamon ran over to them, "What's going on?" Tk couldn't say he felt like he was going to throw up, his head hurt and he could feel the darkness slowly enclose upon him. The pair started to flicker and Gatomon and Patamon cling onto them as the four were pulled into a whirlpool of darkness. They spun round and round spinning towards another dimension.
Matt slammed threw the door of his locker open, his day was fine until now. He had the feeling that he was supposed to be doing something. He usually got this feeling when his brother needed to be protected or when he needed a shoulder to cry on. The only other person that understood this feeling was his best friend Tai. Tai also got the same feeling and they had started to call it the 'brother love'. The two now seemed to have a sick sense to when their siblings were in trouble. Grabbing a few books and stuffing them in his bag he slammed his locker shut to see Tai leaning against the lockers.
"What's up Tai?"
"Kari."
Matt gave a slight smile if one of their siblings was in trouble the other would always try to help.
"You two?"
"You think we should check on them?" Tai nodded and the duo set off towards the Sakura blossom tree where the younger digidestined hung out. Approaching it they were surprised to see the rest of the digidestined there.
"Hey you two" Yolei yelled waving them over, "Where are Tk and Kari?"
"You mean you haven't seen them?"
"Not at all today. We thought they were ill or something."
Sora being one Matt and Tai's best friend realised that Matt and Tai had sensed that something was up.
"Have you two sensed that they're in trouble?" The pair nodded and began to run through the possibilities of what could have happened to their younger siblings. Being the quick minded one Izzy had come up with a plan, "Let's go and check their homes first and if they're not there we e-mail them. If they don't reply we bring up a map of the digital world and see if they are there. Okay?"
"Okay, can we check my house first as Kari was really off this morning and pale come to think of it." Matt could see the fear in Tai's eyes and new they had to check there first as Tai had been feeling the 'brother love' since the beginning of school. Nodding the pair set off at practically the pace of a run towards the Kamiya household.
Tk moaned and pushed his hair out of his eyes and sat up, looking round he saw Kari beside him with her arms still wrapped round his middle. Patamon and Gatomon lay beside her. Gently pulling away from Kari he stood up, they were on a cliff overlooking the sea. It was freezing and Tk could see footprints in the sand below though none had come close to the cliff. He sat down beside Kari and gently pulled her into his arms as she was shivering. He didn't dare go down and find something to light a fire with as he may alert the creatures that they were here that is if they didn't already know. Kari stirred in his arms and opened her crimson eyes and stared up at him, "Have they found us yet?"
"Not yet and I hope it stays that way." She nodded and cuddled closer to him, hoping that like all the other times he hugged her all the pain would vanish. Like when her boyfriend Michio had split up with her, it wasn't Yolei she went to but Tk. Because he always understood and would hug her and everything painful and upsetting inside her would vanish and she would take in his words and believe him. He was the one person in the world that could always make her feel better, but not this time. Because the pain was inside her it was around her. The place seemed to be in pain, she could practically hear it moaning out to her. Begging for help she could not give. A tear made it's way down her check, this place was not meant to be like this.
Tai and Matt ran along the corridor of Tk's building the others trailing behind them. They had checked out the Kamiyas and no one was there. Matt slotted the key his mum had given to him into the slot and opened the door. Darting inside the pair checked every room to find nothing. Walking into the kitchen Matt slumped on the counter, while Tai was hugged tightly by Sora. It was then that Matt noticed the note beside him. Picking it up he realised who it was addressed to and opened it up while calling Tai over. The more the pair read the paler they grew. Practically in tears they had handed the note to the others and stood there. Their worst fear had come true. Tk and Kari were in trouble and they weren't there to protect them.
Kari nuzzled herself into Tk's chest and breathed deeply, his special smell of flowers and chocolates reached her nose comforting her. They had been sitting there for fifteen minutes now, Patamon and Gatomon had woken up and they were sitting there waiting for something to happen. Nothing did, it seemed that the place was dead. Nothing apart from the sea moved, even the ghastly cold wind couldn't make this world move. Kari shivered, the very soul of this place was dead. That's when they heard the ghostly chant go up.
"Queen Kari. Queen Kari, Queen Kari, help us. Come to us."
Tk pulled away from Kari and looked over the edge, at least fifty of the scubbamon creatures had risen out of the sea and were making their way towards the cliff. They reached the base of the cliff and started to climb up. Tk pulled Kari to the back of their cliff to where it started on the second and pulled their digivices out and waited. The chant grew louder and louder and they held their breathes. Suddenly the appeared over the top and at the same time Angemon and Angewomon stood before Tk and Kari. The creatures seemed to fear them for a moment before they charged towards them. The two angels attacked and some went down injured, but that's all they could do before twenty each jumped onto the digimon pinning them to the ground. While the remaining ten split into two and grabbed Tk and Kari. Tk punched and kicked as hard as he could but he couldn't get free he looked over at Kari and saw she was in the same position. They looked up to see Angemon and Angewomon de-digivolve and four creatures pick them up. They were taken down the sides of the cliff and towards the sea. Tk could see the dark swirling waters as they dragged him into it. And the last thoughts that he had before the water consumed him was that he hoped that they wouldn't hurt Kari if they made it.
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