A/N: Things should get more interesting by
this chapter. It's also the longest one in this fic so far. And it only took
me two days to write!
Disclaimer: I don't own digimon or any digimon characters, but Eterna and
Plutomon are mine. Tam the pink Otamamon is mine, but an Otamamon is a real
digimon that I did not create. I just made up the fact that they could be
pink. I also don't own Pokémon or Card Captor Sakura, both of which
have references made to them later in this chapter. Thank you.
Dark Enchantress
Chapter Three
Kidnapping
As the group walked through the ruins of Gigabyte
City, peering at the ruins, Kari was deep in thought. On the one hand, she
didn't trust Amelia. The girl was just too... perfect. There was no other
way to describe it. But on the other hand, Amelia hadn't done anything suspicious,
and Kari felt almost guilty about not trusting her.
Maybe she really is trustworthy, Kari thought, Maybe I'm just being
paranoid.
She kept her doubts to herself though. The others all trusted Amelia implicitly.
It would do no good if she were to tell them, they wouldn't believe Amelia
could be anything but on the side of good.
"Do you have any idea why the city
might have been destroyed?"
"No," Ken replied to Yolei, who had asked the question, "I
suppose it could have been a rogue mega digimon, but that still doesn't
explain the perpetual darkness.
"I know," said Yolei. She shivered, "It's so cold!"
Ken held Yolei protectively, "Don't worry," he told her, "We'll
be OK."
"Well I certainly hope so," chimed in Hawkmon, "Because my
feathers are going to ice up in a moment."
Yolei turned in surprise, "Oh--Hawkmon! I forgot all about you."
"I think we all forgot about our digimon for a moment." Cody
said, slightly ashamed.
"Yeah," Kari murmured, not really listening, "Sorry 'bout that,
Gatomon."
There was no reply.
"Gatomon?" Kari turned around. Everyone looked, but no-one could
see Gatomon.
Kari began to panic. "Where is she? Where's Gatomon?"
Gatomon, meanwhile, had taken a wrong turning.
She wandered around, calling out.
"Kari! TK, Patamon! Can anyone here me? Yolei! Cody! Ken! Anyone?"
Gatomon sat down, her head in her hands. She was most hopelessly thoroughly
lost.
"Davis?" Still no response, "Darn."
Back with the humans, while the others were
all looking for the missing digimon, Amelia smiled to herself. Gatomon's disappearance
made things just that much easier. She turned away from the others and brought
out her digivice. She began to speak into a small microphone concealed within
her digivice.
"Section A, this is Eterna. The digimon of light has gone missing. Yes,
you heard me, the digimon of light. Find her and bring her to base. I'll take
care of her human. Eterna out."
"What are you doing?"
Amelia froze. She looked up to see who had asked the question, and it was
Kari Kamiya herself.
"I was just seeing if I could locate Gatomon on my digivice," she
lied.
"I think the digivices only pick up other digivices, Amelia."
"Oh," Amelia lowered her eyes, "I wouldn't know." She
looked up again, and saw that Kari was crying.
"Poor thing," Amelia said sympathetically, patting Kari on the shoulder,
"It must be horrible for your digimon to go missing, I know I wouldn't
like it to happen to Plutomon." Then, very secretively, Amelia attached
a small, metal thing, about the size of a fly, to the back of Kari's neck,
just underneath her collar, so that no one would see it.
Kari immediately felt something. "What was that?" she asked quickly.
"What was what?" Amelia replied, with all the innocence she could
muster.
"I felt something, on the back of my neck."
"Here, let me have a look," Amelia walked round and peered, "Nothing
there, Kari," she lied, "Come on, we better get looking for Gatomon."
But of course, Amelia had called some digimon,
and they were already looking for Gatomon.
A group of various digimon, dressed in ninja suits, walked through the streets,
their feet making no sound at all.
"Stoneman, this is Frogman. Approaching target now. Over." a Geckomon
whispered, walkie-talkie style, even though they weren't using walkie-talkies.
"Roger, Frogman. Over." a Gotsumon, who was obviously Stoneman,
whispered back.
Stoneman and Frogman continued to sneak up on Gatomon, along with their accomplices,
Firey (who was a Candlemon), Watery (an Otamamon), Windy (A Biyomon, who was
blue with pink bits instead of the other way around), and Earthy (who, strangely
enough, was Bulbasaur from Pokémon).
A/N: OK, I'll say this right now; I don't own Pokémon, and I also
don't own Card Captor Sakura (Windy, Watery, Firey and Earthy are the names
of four of the cards, for those of you who don't know.) Now, back to the fic.
Gatomon, meanwhile, was unaware of the danger. She was crying too, by
now. She felt something, and looked up. Her ears pricked. She had felt Kari!
Kari had felt something, on the back of her neck, when she was talking to
Amelia, but Amelia had said there was nothing there. Kari didn't trust Amelia,
and then, neither did Gatomon. And then the ninjas sprung from the shadows
and grabbed hold of Gatomon. There wasn't just the group we learned the names
of earlier, there were another two groups as well.
"Lightning Paw!" Gatomon managed to knock a few ninjas away from
her, but as soon as she did more grabbed hold of her. She kept trying, but
didn't really get anywhere.
"Flame Bomber!" Firey the Candlemon attacked. The attack hit its
target, and Gatomon fell silent.
Kari felt Gatomon cry out.
"Gatomon!" she cried, "She's hurt! I have to go to her!"
"No," Amelia said, stepping out, "You don't. And the others
won't either. As far as they're concerned, you and me are exactly where we
were before you felt her. They can't here us, Kari, and pretty soon, they'll
never hear you again.
Kari gasped.
"Where's Gatomon!"
"Gatomon's with my people now, Kari. And you are going to join her. Come
with me and Plutomon--now!"
"I'll never go with you."
Plutomon stepped forward, "Why don't you see your partner... It might
change your mind."
Eterna held up her digivice. It projected an image of Gatomon as she was at
the time, fighting the digimon ninjas. Kari gasped again as Firey the Candlemon
hit Gatomon with his Flame Bomber.
Please let Gatomon be alive. Kari prayed, as she saw Stoneman the Gotsumon
attach a small, metal clip to the back of Gatomon's neck.
"Oh, so sweet, praying for the little digimon. Don't worry, Pretty Light,
Gatomon is fine... for now, anyway. But unless we take you, well... I cannot
guarantee you'll ever see her again."
"No! I'll get her back!"
"Kari, Kari, Kari... Oh so naïve. That little device I installed
on you does a good job of making sure you obey me."
Plutomon grinned evilly, "And unless you comply, that device will do
a good job of wiping you out."
"I should never have trusted you." Kari glared.
Amelia smirked, "That's life, Pretty Light, you can't trust anyone."
There was a flash, and Amelia was back where she had been before Kari felt
Gatomon, but Kari was sure she saw Amelia's eyes flash red. Then one hundred
digimon ninjas leaped upon Kari.
"Kari! No!" Davis and TK yelled in unison, too worried about Kari
to realize they practically agreed on something.
And Kari was taken by the ninjas.
Kari awoke, some time later, in a dark room.
Gatomon was there, curled up a couple of feet away from Kari.
"Gatomon!" she called out, and moved towards her partner...
Gatomon opened her eyes, "Kari... You're safe!"
"Well, I wouldn't be too sure about that, actually." said a voice.
Kari and Gatomon looked. Amelia stood in the doorway, now dressed in a long
indigo dress.
"Amelia." Kari spat.
"Oh, Kari Kamiya, why should I use that awful name anymore, when
I would really prefer to go by the name... Eterna."
A swirl of colors, black, red, purple, swirled up around Amelia, and when
it subsided, in place of her usual bright red hair were raven black tresses
that seemed to have red highlights, and her clear blue eyes were now blood
red. It was a tall, slim adult that stood there in place of the fourteen year
old girl of before.
"Ahh," Eterna, no longer Amelia, sighed. She looked Kari and Gatomon
full in the face. The child of light and her digimon stared back up at her.
They looked her in the eyes, but as Eterna met their gaze, the fire of those
blood red eyes was too much to bear, and they had to look away again.
"And that's why I was never beaten in a staring contest," smirked
Eterna, "And allow me to introduce myself. I am Eterna, Queen
of the Night, Mistress of Darkness, Lady of Evil. Whatever you may call me,
I assure you, you will see me often before your lives are over. Which,"
Eterna grinned, "shall be as soon as I feel like it." And, with
that, Eterna turned, and headed for the door. Then, as an afterthought, she
paused, turned again, and said, "And don't even think of trying to digivolve.
I have your little toys right here." Eterna closed her hand into a fist,
then opened it again, and lying on her open palm were Kari's D3 and D-terminal.
Eterna smirked at Kari and Gatomon, then left. Gatomon ran after her, but
the door closed just as Gatomon touched it. Gatomon felt around, but felt
only solid wall.
"I don't believe it!" she cried out, "The door's disappeared!"
"Man, I can't believe it, first Gatomon
wanders off, then some ninja digimon take Kari, then Amelia and Plutomon disappear!"
Davis exclaimed.
"Don't worry Davis. We'll find them." Said Flamedramon. The digimon
had all digivolved at Yolei's suggestion, on the grounds that they would cover
more ground that way. Davis, Flamedramon, Cody and Digmon were searching the
ground, and TK, Pegasusmon, Ken, Stingmon, Yolei and Halsemon were looking
from the air.
"Mmm. I hope so, Flamedramon. I hope so," Davis said, worried about
the two girls and their digimon. He called up to the 'Air Team' as they had
been dubbed, "See anything yet?"
"Sorry Davis," TK called back, "but it looks pretty hopeless."
"And I don't know about you guys, but I can hardly see anything in this
dark." Stingmon chipped in.
"Your not exactly helping, Stingmon." Ken pointed out.
Eterna sat in her chair. She had cast a spell
to see what her prisoners were doing, but it was being depressingly boring.
She wished she had left something in there with them. Kari and Gatomon had
been pounding the walls for a while, but that, Eterna knew, was pure frustration.
There was no way the could escape. There was only one door, and the tags Eterna
had clipped to their necks prevented the prisoners from walking through it
when it was open, and it wasn't even there on the inside if she closed it.
No matter, anyway, she would deal with them later.
"Eterna?"
Eterna jumped. It was only Plutomon, nothing more, nothing to be worried about.
"Plutomon, you're back at last." Plutomon had been off hunting,
again.
"Eterna... what are we going to do with the digidestined we captured?"
Eterna stared at Plutomon, slightly shocked that her digimon didn't know,
"They will be killed, of course."
"Killed?" Plutomon was shocked. Evidently she had not seen the full
extent of her mistress's plans.
"You aren't going soft on me now, are you, Plutomon?" Eterna's
tone suddenly became hard, and stony.
"No," Plutomon said, a little too quickly. She shook her head, "All
I meant was, why not toy with them a bit first?"
"Plutomon, you underestimate me. That thought has already crossed my
mind. Now, don't you have a job to attend to?"
Plutomon nodded and left, and Eterna turned back to the mirror that allowed
her to see her prisoners. She smiled. A third prisoner was waking up. Things
might get interesting...
Gatomon saw a movement in the shadows.
"Who's there?" she called sharply.
"Only me." replied whatever was there. It pulled a box of matches
from it's pocket, and lit one. It was a bright pink Otamamon.
"Tam?" Gatomon asked, peering at the Otamamon.
"Yeah. And you're Gatomon," the pink Otamamon, who we now know is
Tam, "Never thought I'd see you again."
"Erm, am I missing something here?" Kari asked.
"Tam lived in a village right near where I hatched from my digiegg,"
Gatomon explained, "It turned out she hatched around the same time I
did. But of course, I left when I was Salamon, and I've only been back there
once, just after Apocalymon was defeated."
"Which reminds me, who's your friend, Gatomon?" asked Tam, curiously.
"Tam, this is Kari Kamiya. She's a human."
Tam looked at Kari, "Hey, no way! You're a digidestined, right?"
Kari nodded.
Tam turned to Gatomon, "Gato-chan, you didn't tell me you were a digidestined's
digimon!"
Gatomon blushed slightly, "You never asked."
"So why does Eterna have you in here?" Kari asked Tam, changing
the subject.
Tam sweatdropped, "Long story. Basically, Eterna destroyed my village,
and took us all to become part of her forces. I had to go along with it, because
I did wanna live, you know. Not much chance of that now, though."
"What do you mean?"
Tam stayed silent, turning to face the wall.
Eterna glared. Gatomon, Tam, and Kari were being
anything but interesting--to her, anyway. She felt like going and deleting
Tam, just to relieve her boredom. But somehow, she couldn't go and kill it--not
now, anyway.
This is stupid, Eterna thought, Next thing you know I'll be prancing
about 'saving the world' like those digidestined brats. But even so, she
felt a lump in her throat. She HAD saved the world once, one part of her brain
seemed to be saying. She even had vague memories of being part of the digidestined
herself. She pulled out her crest. Black, but with the faintest hints of neon
orange, and no real symbol, but a slight suggestion of a wolf howling at the
moon. Loyalty, one part of her mind seemed to be saying, but a greater part
told her it was the Crest of Darkness.
I must be going crazy. I can't let this get in the way of my plans. And
even if Amelia was a digidestined, I'm Eterna, not Amelia.
She turned to a Kiwimon. She needed to vent her feelings some how.
"General Kiwimon, send out the troops. Those digidestined are getting
dangerously close to my base."
A/N: Well, how do you like that? The longest chapter yet! And I told you things would get more interesting by this chapter, didn't I tell you? Don't forget to R&R while you wait for the next chapter!
