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!