Authors notes: I apologies for the spelling and grammar on the last chapter and for the ones that will be on future chapters. I will try my best but it may not turn out perfectly. I'm going to use some Japanese terms, I hope they're correct if they're not I apologise. The translations are at the end of the chapter.
Disclaimer: On the first chapter.
The light under the ocean. Chapter two.
Matt watched as Tai continued to pace the room, Cody had said they were doing all they could to find them, but it wasn't enough.
"Izzy, have you finished yet?" Tai roared, Izzy had e-mailed Gennai telling them what had happened. Gennai had replied telling them he was going to look for a way for them to get into another dimension.
"He hasn't e-mailed me again Tai so I can't do anything until he does." Tai sent Izzy a glare but the red head ignored him and continued to type away. Matt looked at everyone else, Joe was polishing his glasses something he did when he was worried about something and he didn't want to complain, Cody was sitting next to him staring into space with a look of horror on his face, he had been like this since he read the letter. Davis was playing a game of noughts and crosses with Yolei, the pair were trying to take their mind of what was happening. Mimi and Sora had both nearly broken down as they were pretty much big sisters to Tk and Kari's best friends, they were now eating their way through a tub of ice cream. Then he noticed Ken, the boy was sitting away from everyone with his eyes shut, his face was dark and a look of pain was upon it. Matt turned back to Tai and pulled the boy onto the sofa beside him, Tai glared at Matt.
"You were giving me a headache." Tai nodded and the pair sat there in identical hunched over positions staring at the floor.
Tk coughed and rolled over and looked around him. He was in a dark room, there was a basin with water on it, a wardrobe and chair. There were no windows and the black light seemed to come from a lantern on the wall. Looking over he saw Kari was lying beside him on the bed, after checking on her pulse and finding she was alive he stood up. After looking around for Patamon and Gatomon and finding no trace of them he sat down on the chair and looked over at Kari. The door opened and Tk was standing up in a second, one of the creatures stood in the doorway. Tk moved so he was in front of the bed and protecting Kari, but the creature didn't move to attack. It placed down a tray of food and turned and left, locking the door. Tk studied the food, it looked like food back home apart from all the colour was missing.
"Tk?" Kari was slowly sitting up, rubbing her eyes. She looked round the room and then gazed back at him.
"Where are we?"
"Somewhere under the Dark Ocean I think."
"Not good." She moaned then sniffed, her eyes lit up slightly. "Can I smell food Keru?"
He nodded smiling, even in the worst situations she would still call him by that stupid nickname she had given him. She scrambled off the bed and sat down beside the food, "Do you think it's safe?"
"Dunno, but if we don't eat then we're going to starve to death aren't we?"
"Precisely my point of view" Kari said as she picked up a bowl of noodles and began to tuck in. Tk did the same and soon all the food on the tray was gone. Kari leaned back against the bed and sighed. She worried about her brother, she knew how worried he would get when he found she was gone. He could have done himself some serious damage by now, she didn't know how long they had been out. Tk sat down beside her and pulled her into a hug, "I'm sure Izzy and everyone else will stop him from hurting himself in an attempt to get into the Dark Ocean." Kari nodded and rested her head n his shoulder, if it wasn't for Tk she would be so scared right now.
"Izzy come on! How long are you taking?!"
"Tai it isn't me that is doing the e-mailing it's Gennai. And even though shouting at me may make you feel better it isn't going to speed things up." Tai growled and sat back down on the sofa, "Stupid old idiot of a human being why isn't he being fast!"
"Tai" Sora whispered taking his hands in hers, "It's probably difficult for him to fins a way to another dimension. But once we find it, we'll go and help Tk and Kari, okay?"
"Alright."
Beep beep.
Tai and Matt sat bold upright as Izzy scanned his e-mail, the genius's face fell. Matt frlt fear well inside him even more.
"Iz what's the matter?"
"Gennai doesn't have a way of helping us reach the Dark Ocean."
Kari and Tk looked up as two of the creatures entered the room. The pair stood up and looked as they shut the door and turned to face them. One made a gesture with it's hand signalling that they sit down, Tk and Kari glanced at each other before doing so. The two creatures went to the opposite end of the room and faced them then one spoke.
"Bad." It whispered in a croaky voice, "He bad."
"Who's he?" Kari whispered back to them.
"Our Master . . . . . . evil." It was as if the creatures hadn't spoken hardly any Japanese for a long time and they were finding it difficult.
"If your Master is evil why do you follow him?"
"He . . . . . m . . . make us."
"How?"
One opened it's mouth to reply but another stuck it's head through the door and spoke in a different language and the two left. But they forgot to lock the door.
"I don't believe this! He failed us after all the times we saved him and the digital world he can't help this one time!"
"Tai we never said we could!"
"You made it out like he was going to!" Tai accused as he pointed a finger at Izzy.
"Taichi Kamiya! There is no point in saying it's Izzy's fault because it isn't and you should know that. His plan failed but we should get up and try again. They might not even need us, but if they I'm sure we will work something out and be able to help them in time." Tai's words died in his mouth, Sora was right he shouldn't yell at Izzy. He turned round and apologised to Izzy. Mimi was looking at Matt who had gotten up and walked over to the kitchen. She followed and was surprised to see Matt crying, he hardly ever should any emotion. The only person he really should emotion to was Tk.
"Are you o.k. Matt?"
"No" Matt whispered, tears falling faster now, "He . . . . .he's gone and I can't help him. And then I tell myself there is hope, but what hope is there when hope is gone?" Mimi didn't know how to reply that, he was right whenever something went wrong and they lost hope Tk would make them believe again. Like when he was eight and they were beaten in a battle he would smile and say "Let's try again I'm sure we'll do it this time." Or when he was eleven he would push people on and tell them they could do it, that nothing could stand in their way if they all worked together. But they weren't all together and there was no Tk to tell them that it would be o.k. or no Kari to agree and laugh with him and go and try and do it on their own if no one else would. Matt had let his armour down to her, he needed help. But what help could she give? Mimi didn't say anything she just hugged Matt and let him cry on her shoulder.
Tk checked left and right again before pulling Kari down the corridor. After the three creatures had left they had waited a minute before sneaking out, now the pair we're trying to find a way out. They had been up many flights of stairs as they appeared to be on the bottom and the pair were now hoping they were near the top.
"Which direction Kaz?" Tk whispered to her from the doorway they were hiding in.
"Dunno er maybe right again."
"Okay we'll-
Tk shut up, he could hear voices coming down the corridor.
"Hurry up Daemon, now I finally found it I'm going to know everything!" A digimon passed, it was huge and was black all over. It had tentacles as legs and a huge body and a ugly black face. Daemon looking the same as last time followed mumbling a, "Yes Master." He was carry something in his arms, but the pair couldn't tell what. A few minutes after they had left Tk spoke.
"Daemon is still here and is following something else now."
"But what did Daemons er 'Master' find that was so important?"
"I have no idea, I just hope it doesn't help him find us!" Kari nodded and they listened for a while before they started to move, but pulled back fast when they heard a bell go off. Daemon and his 'Master' appeared rushing down the corridor with the 'Master' yelling at the top of his voice.
"What have those dratted slaves of mine done now? I thought they learnt their lesson yesterday when I killed five of them!" The pair vanished down a pair of stairs and Kari ran out dragging Tk behind her.
"Kari what are you doing?"
"I want to find out what that thing was?" Kari replied as she walked into a room. It had a huge black throne at one end and grey drapes on the wall and ion the middle of the room was the thing that they had seen Daemon holding. It looked a bit like a bird bath, it had a long stand and a wide circular basin on top. There was a table and a jug beside it, stepping up the pair saw that water had been poured into the basin. Kari waved her fingers over the top, Tk grabbed her hand.
"Don't touch the water. You don't know what will happen." Kari looked into Tk's eyes and their fingertips brushed the edge of the water. Peering into the basin the water started to ripple and a picture appeared on the surface, a beautiful ocean deep blue with children with pointy ears playing on the beach. It was as if they were viewing from the air and they travelled past the seas and white cliffs they saw forests with beautiful yet strange creatures running around. Then they snapped back to the beach and above it the sky ripped open and out fell the 'Master'. He fell into the sea then pulled himself out and looked at the people they shrieked and ran. But with a wave of his hand he had turned the children into the creatures that had pulled them here. The grown-ups were changed into more evolved creatures with wings and clawed hands. The 'Master' then raised his hands to the sky and darkness seemed to creep out of them poising the lands and turning them dark.
"Who are you!" Tk and Kari looked up from the vision to see the two standing there. They gulped, this creature was obviously powerful if he was able to do that to the lands. And Daemon, they knew he was powerful. Tk looked round to see a way out and saw a door to the right grabbing Kari's hand he pulled her across the room and out the door. Stopping to slam them shut and blot them they ran on. Out into the corridor and down the steps, into a room on the right then on down another flight of stairs, through more rooms and down another three flights of stairs. Tk and Kari found themselves leaning against the wall breathing deeply.
"I think we lost them." Tk panted Kari nodded unable to speak because she was so out of breath. There was a sound of footsteps and they turned to see one of the once grown-ups advanced towards them, hands outstretched. Kari found her voice, "We're going to help." Nothing, they still walked towards.
"We're going to stop your so called Master and" Kari panicked slightly as they came faster, "return your lands to how they should be." The creatures stopped a centimetre away from them, they lowered their hands then heard footsteps land Daemon's voice. They grabbed the pair and pulled them into the room they had come from. Kari and Tk saw the pair pass by through a crack in the door. When they were sure they were gone they turned to the creatures, "Who are you?"
"He call us his kyouchou. Because he . . . he said that once he was ru . . . . ruler we would be an omen of his e . . .evil coming."
"The other creatures?"
"They his akuzetsu. Because of the way t . . .they ru . . rude to him. They man . . .manage to rebel be . . . because th . . .their innocence helped to pro . . .protect them."
"What is his name?"
"Dragomon."
"We have to help them!" Kari exclaimed turning to Tk.
"Don't worry we will. But the question is how?"
Tk and Kari sat with their backs against the wall in a room much like the one they had started in. The kyouchou had shown them to the room to hide. Kari had been thinking of what she and Tk had seen in the water. All those innocent made to serve this one creature forever, in a dark land that was once beautiful. She couldn't help but let a tear slide down her cheek, Tk noticed and pulled her into a hug.
"When Daemon and Dragomon have stopped looking for us we can go and help." She nodded against his chest and hugged him tighter. Even though she knew this world wasn't truly evil, it still made her feel scared and weak. Tk understood that and he gently ran his fingers through her hair, trying his best to comfort her. Kari pulled her head up and looked Tk in the eye and smiled.
"Miss Kamiya, what is there to smile about?" He asked in a joking way.
"I was just thinking of how you always know what to do to make me feel better."
"Well after being your best friend for fives years I should know a bit about you!" Kari's face fell, she knew she couldn't think of Tk as more than a best friend. But it still didn't stop it from hurting when he said it.
"Hey, what's the matter?" Tk whispered placing a finger under her chin, making her face him.
"Nothing." She whispered turning away from him.
"Come on Kari." Tk whispered in her ear, "You know that I can tell when you're hiding things." She turned and looked at him in the eyes. She forgot everything as she found herself lost in an ocean of blue. She slowly moved forward and her lips gently brushed against his, Tk brought his hand up and gently caressed her cheek as the kiss deepened. They parted and Kari wrapped her arms round his neck. She smiled at him and leaned her forehead against his.
"Love you."
"Love you too."
She snuggled deeper into his arms and closed her eyes. Even though she wanted desperately to kiss him and just to stay blissfully unaware of everything she knew she couldn't. She started to think of all the possible ways they could help. She sat up and looked Tk in the eye.
"He's a digimon."
"Come again?"
"Dragomon, he's a digimon. We have digimon, we might be able to beat him." At that point the kyouchou came in, Kari stood up and helped Tk to his feet.
"They stopped looking and are tr . . . trying to make the kijutsu ido w . . . work."
"kijutsu ido?"
"The ba . . basin you saw. It can only be wo . . .worked by a pure heart, they not p . . pure."
"Do they know that it can only be worked by a pure heart?"
"No."
"So they're going to be trying to work out how to see things in the water for a while. Then we can find our digimon and launch a surprise attack on the pair."
"Nice plan apart from the fact that six of us couldn't beat Daemon alone. What chance do two of us have against Daemon and Dragomon, who has got to be stronger then Daemon or why would he serve him?"
"Okay, so let's . . . . . . . . . get out of here and bring the others to us!"
"Okay but where are our digimon." The kyouchou waved it's hands, the pair looked over at the creatures as thy walked out the door. Tk and Kari followed them out the door and along a few corridors before they turned into a room. It was like their own, and Patamon and Gatomon were lying on the bed. Running over to the pair they picked up their digimon and headed out the door.
Matt stared into space occasionally rubbing his eyes. Izzy had been typing away at his computer for ages and not getting anywhere. Tai had stopped pacing long ago and was now sitting at the table drumming his fingers.
"I think I might be able to get us there."
Tk and Kari walked out the door and looked up to see Daemon and Dragomon standing before them. Daemon gave them a wicked smile and said, "Hello and bye bye digidestined."
Translationskijutsu
Magic
ido
water well
kyouchou
evil omen
akuzetsu
evil tongue; gossip
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