A/N: Yeah, yeah, I know I haven't written in ages. I had writers block, but yesterday, I conquered it! And today, I have completed this chapter! Go me. OK, in this fanfic, Kari and Gatomon both have evil clones, so the evil clones will be referred to as 'Kari' and 'Gatomon'. See the difference? Good.
Disclaimer: I do not own digimon or any digimon characters. I do own Eterna and Plutomon. As for Tam the Pink Otamamon... An Otamamon is a real digimon that appears in the show and cards, however they are purple, not pink. I just made up the pink ones.

Dark Enchantress

Chapter Six
Hope's Light

"Great. We got out. Now, where are the others?" Kari grinned.
"Who knows," Tam said, looking gloomy, "This level of Eterna's fortress is a maze of interconnecting tunnels. Worse yet, all the tunnels look almost exactly the same! Unless you know the exact way around, you'll almost certainly get lost."
"Will you stop being so gloomy already!" Gatomon yelled, "You were like this about the wall too! You told us we couldn't get through it, and look! We're through."
"Gatomon's right, we have to try," Kari said, "Besides, I'd rather be lost trying to get un-lost, than lost just being lost."

"TK?" 'Kari' said, "I'm scared."
"Don't worry, I'll protect you, Kari!" said Davis, butting in.
*Rats. Forgot about the goggle brat.* 'Kari' thought.
"TK?" 'Kari' said again, ignoring Davis. She looked up at TK, making eye contact with him, with her large, empty eyes.
TK looked back at 'Kari'. There was something about her eyes, something... not quite right. But her eyes were beautiful, even so... All thoughts about something not right about those eyes floated right out of hhis head. Her eyes were, really, very beautiful almost hypnotic.

//Everything is going according to plan, my mistress.// Amelia heard the thought projected at her. Plutomon? No, it was her cloned version of Kari. She looked round. 'Kari' was staring at TK, her eyes locked with his. Amelia smirked. It was working out perfectly. Then, she suddenly felt a flash of something, suddenly gone wrong. The real Kari and Gatomon, and that pink Otamamon in the cell with them, had escaped, and were roaming the halls.
She turned back to the rest of the group, "I'm going to scout ahead, see if I can find a way out. You just stay here." And she headed off, turning a corner, Plutomon following close behind.

Amelia strode purposefully through the halls.
//Mistress, what are you doing?// Plutomon thought to Amelia.
//The child of light, and her digimon, have escaped, along with that brat of an Otamamon,// Eterna replied, //They must be found, now. And destroyed immediately. Now that they know the secret of my prison, throwing them back in there would do absolutely no good. Now, every second that they exist threatens my plans.// Eterna went back to concentrating, letting Plutomon know that she wanted to be left alone. She needed to concentrate. She shut her eyes, letting her thoughts guide her to the escaped prisoners. She and Plutomon turned several more corners. Plutomon felt that they were just getting lost, but she trusted her mistress not to lead them in the wrong direction. She had to trust her.
Eterna turned more corners, Plutomon behind her, and then opened her eyes just as she turned the final one. Sure enough, she found herself face to face with Kari, Gatomon and Tam.

It was beginning to look hopeless. Tam, Kari and Gatomon had been walking through the maze for Goddramon-knows-how-long, and they still hadn't found anyone. Then they rounded a corner and came face to face with the one person Kari didn't want to see. Amelia.
"Why, you look so tired, Kari," Amelia said, her voice sweet as sugar, "Why don't you rest?" A swirl of colors, and Amelia was Eterna.
"So much better," Eterna grinned evilly, "And now, welcome to... your own destruction!" Eterna began to wave her hands around, commanding the darkness to do her bidding. A visible evil energy began to twist around her hands, and Eterna sent it snaking out towards Kari, Gatomon and Tam.
Kari felt it wind around her, chilling her.
"Soon it will be all over..." Eterna murmured, grinning evilly at them.
*She's right,* Kari began to think. She could feel herself begin to disappear, *Soon I'll just be nothing, not even able to fight her.*
"That's right," Eterna sneered, "Nothing. It'll be like you were never there. And believe me, the same fate will befall your little digidestined friends."
"No." said a voice, softly. It was Gatomon.
Eterna's mood turned to rage as she rounded on Gatomon, "What did you say?"
Gatomon kept quiet.
"I asked you a question, you insolent little digimon! What did you say?!"
"She said no." Kari said, before she could stop herself.
"What?!"
*Oh you've really gone and done it this time, Kari Kamiya," Kari thought, *Might as well keep on the same track.*
"I said, she said no," Kari told Eterna. She felt herself begin to reappear. She wasn't going to let anyone force her out of existence, "And I agree with her. I won't let you harm any of my friends! I won't let you! I WON'T!" She screamed out the last part, and there was a tremendous burst of light. When it died down, Kari was no longer held by the darkness Eterna commanded. She was glowing, with a bright white light.
"What the?!" said Plutomon, stepping backwards.
Kari was pretty surprised herself. She looked at her own hands in wonder, as a beam of light shot out from them, and hit the wall, illuminating the wall for a second. She grinned, as an idea came to mind. She thought about Tam and Gatomon. There was a glow of light where they were, and she looked round. The darkness that was binding Tam and Gatomon was disappearing. In about two seconds the darkness had completely disappeared.
"No!" Eterna screamed, "She's unlocked her power!"
Kari turned to Eterna, and concentrated very hard. Bright white lights flashed where Eterna was.
"You've won the battle, child of Light, but you haven't won the war!" Eterna yelled, as she and Plutomon fled.

"TK," 'Kari' said, staring deeply into his eyes, "I have something I need to tell you."
"What is it... Kari?" TK said, staring back into her eyes, half hypnotized. There was something different about them, he knew it, but they were so beautiful... Hypnotic.
"TK, ever since we met... I've felt that there was something different about you, and now I know what it is," 'Kari' said, her voice full of passion and something like sadness, "I... I love you, TK."
"But I thought you loved me, Kari!" Davis exclaimed.
"I'm sorry, Davis," 'Kari' said, "But you just aren't right for me, and TK is. But I'm sure, some day, you'll meet a woman you love, and she'll love you back. And now... TK..."
"Kari..." TK said, caressing 'Kari's soft, smooth skin, her beautiful... hair.
'Kari' looked deep into TK's eyes, then took his mouth in hers and kissed him.

Izzy was sitting by himself at the time, looking deeply troubled. Yolei came up to him.
"You can feel it too, huh?" she asked him.
Izzy looked surprised, "I can feel something... But I don't know what it is. What are you referring to?"
"I hope you can feel it, 'cause that'll mean I'm not going mad," Yolei grinned slightly, but the smile had no humor to it, "Either that or we're both nuts. But it's like there's something entirely wrong about this whole setup. Like when we went into that weird world that wasn't the digiworld." Yolei said, referring to their battle with MaloMyotismon.
"I know..." Izzy said, grimly, "It's kinda hard to describe."
"It's kinda like the Dark Ocean," Ken remarked from behind them, "Except that it doesn't give me headaches all the time."
Izzy and Yolei jumped. They hadn't realized Ken had been listening to their conversation. In fact, not only Ken had been listening, but Cody as well.
"I know what you mean..." Cody murmured, "Everything about this place is wrong. It's wrong that it's nighttime permanently. It's wrong that Gigabyte City was in ruins. It's wrong that this fortress is here, and that it has a maze of tunnels. It's even wrong that Kari and TK are kissing, and they're probably the most perfect couple I know!"

"Kari," Tam said, in wonder, "What did you do?"
"I don't know." Kari said, looking at herself. She was still glowing.
"Has this ever happened before?" Tam asked.
"Yes," Gatomon stepped forward, "It has happened once. When we were fighting the dark masters, these Numemon kept calling Kari their queen... and she was glowing then, unless I'm not remembering it properly."
"Why am I glowing?! Why can't I just be normal?" Kari asked, beginning to panic.
"Kari," Tam said, "This is a potentially wonderful thing. If this power scared off Eterna, it's pretty safe to assume it poses some kind of threat to her. And if you can dispel darkness, maybe you can do other things with this power as well."
"Like getting us to the others!" Gatomon cut in.
"But-- but I can't!" Kari sank to the floor.
"Kari, listen to me," Tam said, taking Kari's hands in her flippers, "I'm the one that has been thinking we can't do these things-- and pow! We've done them! If you believe you can do something, you can. But you have to be brave. You have to believe you can do it!"
"All right," Kari said, standing up, "I'll try." She closed her eyes, and thought of the others. There was a flash, and when she opened her eyes again, she was right there with them. She had teleported--somehow. She didn't know.
Amelia wasn't there. Izzy, Yolei, Ken and Cody were all off in a little group together, looking glum and talking about something. Davis looked like something had upset him, and TK--TK was kissing a girl.
*How--What-- But there were no other girls with us!* Kari thought. The girl TK was kissing broke away from the kiss and looked up at Kari. Kari let out a small scream as she saw her own face staring back at her.
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