A/N: Well, here is the fifth part of Dark
Enchantress. One thing, in this chapter there is a fake Kari and a fake Gatomon,
as well as a real Kari and a real Gatomon. To avoid confusion, the FAKE Kari's
name will be written as 'Kari' and the FAKE Gatomon will be written as 'Gatomon'.
See, between apostrophes like that. Just be sure not to get confused!
Disclaimer: I don't own digimon or any of the digimon characters. I DO own
Eterna/Amelia, Plutomon, and Tam the pink Otamamon.
Enjoy the show!
Dark Enchantress
Chapter Five
Freedom Beckons
"Eterna?"
Eterna jumped, not quite comprehending her surroundings for a moment. She
had dosed off again. She had been doing that a lot, lately.
"Mistress Eterna?"
There it was again. Eterna turned her head. It was only Plutomon, returned
from her hunting. Eterna never could quite understand why Plutomon preferred
to hunt for her own food, when she could easily have someone catch it for
her. Perhaps it was the thrill of the chase, Eterna mused.
"You have returned, then, Plutomon."
"Yes, my mistress," Eterna noticed a slight nervousness in Plutomon's
voice, and raised her eyebrows.
//Mistress, I was wondering...// Plutomon began projecting her thoughts through
the mind-link Eterna had established some months back, rather than speaking
them. It was a much more private form of conversation, as it allowed you to
speak with someone without others listening in. The only drawback was that
it took a very complex spell to establish the link, and once established,
it allowed one person to see the other person's thoughts, if this person so
desired, and the other was not safeguarding their mind.
//Wondering what, Plutomon? Just be careful how you phrase your words this
time.//
//I was wondering, why do we need the copies of Kari and Gatomon at all? I
mean, we could easily destroy the digidestined without them.//
Eterna raised her eyebrows again, //That is a very good question, Plutomon,
and the reason is this. The digidestined are extremely strong, as I can only
assume you have noticed, stronger than even they realize. But remove just
one--destroy them, corrupt them, or whatever--and they will fall. And imagine
if their fall is caused by the child of light...//
"How did you get out, Kari?" Yolei
asked.
"Yeah, and more importantly, how did you find us?" added Davis.
"I'm not sure," 'Kari' put her hand to her forehead, looking dazed,
"To tell you the truth that part is all a blur to me."
"Use an apostrophe, you stupid girl!"
Eterna yelled, watching 'Kari' through one of her spells, "Do you want
them to figure you out?!"
Plutomon raised an eyebrow.
"You guys don't happen to know the way
out of here, do you?" 'Gatomon' asked, cocking her head to the side.
"Erm, to tell you the truth, we're pretty lost ourselves." Izzy
admitted, putting his hand behind his head in the classic sweatdropping pose.
_Everybody_ facefaulted, "Just great..."
Kari and Gatomon--the real ones, this time--
were still sitting in Eterna's prison. Kari had finally fallen asleep, but
something was keeping Gatomon awake this time.
*There's something here,* Gatomon thought, *something other than Eterna. But
I just can't figure out what it is! I know it's a dark presence, but it's
not like any darkness I've ever felt before. It's not like Myotismon's darkness,
or the dark masters, or even Apocalymon. It's... cold. Like it lost it's passion
hundreds of years ago, and it's just going through the motions. But I can't
tell anything else! Urrrr, this is _so_ frustrating!* She banged her paws
on the wall, angrily, and felt something strange, something electric, shoot
up her arms. A dark electricity. She cried out and went flying backwards,
such was the force of the dark electricity. A cold, chilling darkness swept
through her, a sensation of pure evil. Then she stopped flying backwards and
landed on her butt.
*Great,* she thought, *just great. Now, on top of everything else, I have
to deal with an incredibly evil wall.*
'Kari'--back to the fake one again-- smirked evilly as they walked along. Soon, she vowed, she would strike, at her mistresses orders she would destroy them all. And the beauty was that they would go to their graves believing that their precious child of light had been the cause of their destruction.
"Kari! Kari, wake up!" Back in Eterna's
dungeon, Gatomon was shaking Kari awake.
"Gatomon, what is it?"
"I think I know how we can get out of here."
All the memories of the past few hours flooded back into Kari--the darkness
in the digiworld, Gatomon getting lost, being captured, and all the time she
had spent in this prison, not able to do a thing, just waiting for
her own death.
"Gatomon, we can't get out," Kari said, "There's no
door."
"That's what I'm saying," Gatomon continued, "The reason there
is no door is because there are no walls! They aren't really there
at all, so if we believe we can, we can just walk right through it!"
"I've tried that." said a voice behind them. It was Tam. Gatomon
jumped, not having realized their little pink friend was even awake.
"It won't work," Tam continued, gloomily, "The walls might
not be solid, but they're pure dark energy. I've been in this place before,
and other prisoners came upon the same idea. Some of them got part way through,
but the dark energy killed them before they could make it to the other side."
"We'll be killed anyway, if we stay here," argued Gatomon, "and
I'd rather die trying to get out then just wait around and be killed anyway."
"At least it's worth a try." Kari put in her two digicents as well.
"Hmmm," Tam at least seemed to be thinking it over, "Well...
all right. I suppose anything is better than this place."
It must have been about an hour later when results
finally started showing. One time Kari almost made it through, but it bounced
her back about halfway through the foot thick mass of energy that just happened
to look like a wall.
"Kari!" Gatomon cried as her partner fell over after being forced
out of the wall.
"I'm OK," Kari panted.
"I really don't think we should keep trying," Tam said, having become
rather pessimistic of the whole thing, "Next time you might not make
it back out."
"No! We have to keep going!" Kari cried out passionately.
"Right. One more try--together, this time."
They linked arms, and ran at the wall (geez, remind anyone of Harry Potter?).
Kari closed her eyes, feeling that the energy was about to destroy her. They
reached the wall, and began to pas through, not stopping. Kari felt the energy
crackling around her, stinging her. She didn't quite dare to cry out. And
then, suddenly--they were through!
"We're free!" Tam grinned, hardly daring to believe it.
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