The Saga of Good: Chapter 7
A/N: Sorry about the sugar incident! *gives the sugar that was eaten by Wormmon back to everyone* and please review.
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Disclaimer: I don't own okay?
*All is peaceful and almost back to normal in the heath household. There are only the original muses back, and the author has her feet up on her computer desk with her head resting on her chest, sound asleep. Her own muse Wormmon is curled up on her stomach, sleeping off his sugar hangover, and Ken, well, he's rocking back and forth in a corner muttering "Sam... Sam... where are you?"*
*Then the computer screen flicks on for no reason*
heath 999: *still 99.9% asleep* Huh?
*Sam comes flying out of the computer*
Sam: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
*If you don't know what's going to happen already you haven't season 02 in a long time*
*CRASH!*
*Now, Sam is lying on top of heath, who's crushing poor Wormmon who's at the bottom on the floor*
Ken: SAM YOU'RE BACK! *jumps on top of the pig pile, in which you hear a groan from heath and a muffled squeak from Wormmon*
heath 999: EVERYONE GET OFF!!!
Ken and Sam: Sorry! *climb off*
heath 999: *getting up and holding a very bedraggled Wormmon* What took you so long? I read Ken's Luver's e-mail in which she transported you to me after I asked her if I could borrow you hours ago.
Sam: YOU HAVE THE SLOWEST INTERNET CONNECTION IN THE WORLD!!! I WAS TRAPPED FOR HOURS IN BETWEEN THE COMPUTERS WHILE I WAS LOADED!
heath 999: *sweatdrops* Sorry! I'm using dial-up since my dad hasn't fixed the cable connection for two weeks now; it's a little slow.
Sam: A LITTLE?! I'VE SEEN SNAILS GO FASTER! *goes into a long rant*
heath 999: I think I'll have Stingmon drop him off when it's time for him to go back... please review.
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~Dream Sequence~
The burning pain as the scanner scans the back of my neck where the dark spore resides in which I used to think was the greatest thing in the world...
Before I found out the Digiworld was more than a game.
Me wishing Sam would just disappear as pain shoots up my neck as jealousy engulfs me.
The sudden change from a sweet innocent little kid to a monster in one moment.
Oikawa laughing like a maniac, mocking me in the helplessness of the situation I'm in.
Sam's warning in my dream....
The betrayal I feel about him not telling me about the dark spore.
Sam's warning in my dream...
The children willingly allowing the dark spore to be implanted...
Sam's warning in my dream...
The pain...
Sam's warning in my dream...
The helplessness...
Sam's warning in my dream...
The betrayal...
Sam...
why didn't you tell me?
"I couldn't Ken, some things you have to find out yourself." The ghostly figure that used to be my brother steps into the nightmare that is my life.
"Why?" I whisper, my voice hoarse with sadness, my eyes holding back tears that haven't been shed yet today.
"Destiny works that way." Sam says sadly, his voice filled with his own regret. "I never wanted to see you in pain, but I couldn't interfere. I'm not allowed to."
"I'm so scared," I whisper, the burden of the dark spore kids weighing me down.
"I know," Sam says simply, pulling me into a hug for comfort. "You have friends now, they will help you when you need it the most. I love you, Ken, and I'll always be there when you need me."
"SAM!" I shout helplessly as once again he disappears from my life.
~End of Dream Sequence~
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I jolt awake, careful not to wake my sleeping partner curled up next to me.
I sit for a few moments, the events of the day overwhelming me once again.
Determination fills me as I realize what I have to do.
Sam's right.
I have to stop the dark spore kids...
no matter what.
~*~
The others meet me at my house the next day; everyone except T.K. knowing what this is all about.
I slowly explain the painful experience again with T.K., bringing him up to date on what happened yesterday.
I hope I never have to explain it again.
"So, what now?" Cody asks, for once giving me a sympathetic look at the end of my recount of the events.
Surprise fills me at his look; this is the first time except for the Christmas party that he's given me anything but hostility.
Maybe friendship with him isn't impossible, after all...
"My dad works with Oikawa, and has information about him that he's willing to give us, so I suggest that we go see him first." I say, now glad that my dad knows about the digiworld and is willing to help us out.
I just hope that we can stop the dark spore children before it's too late...
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Determination surges through me as I look at the list of the dark spore children, with their names and addresses written down on a piece of paper.
I have to stop them from turning into Digimon Emperor's.
It's my entire fault about what happened to them, and I couldn't stop them from getting the dark spore...
Maybe...
maybe with the rest of the digidestined, we could stop them from being like me.
Nobody deserves to be who I was.
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I walk slowly to the door of one of the dark spore kids, Davis and Kari with me for support and to back me up with what they know the dark spore can do.
I ring the doorbell, only to hear the window open from above.
I look up in surprise to see one of the dark spore kids looking down at us.
"You're not going to change my mind, you know." The kid shouts down stubbornly.
"You don't understand, you don't know what it's like to be me." I beg softly, tears of sorrow filling my eyes. "I was a monster, I caused so much pain, the dark spore makes you evil, not a genius."
I see the others nodding their heads, completely agreeing with me.
"You just don't anyone to be like you," the boy says with a sneer on his face, and slams the window back down. But I hear him mutter something that makes a chill go down my spine...
"Insects!"
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I look sadly at the floor as the reports of the other dark spore children come in.
It's too late...
it's my entire fault that they're like this.
If I didn't go into the moving truck...
they wouldn't be like this.
They're already turning into Digimon Emperor's,
and there's nothing that I can do about it...
I have to make sure that they don't destroy the Digital World,
it's my responsibility alone.
The others aren't to blame for my own sins.
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I quickly hide behind a lamppost, watching one the dark spore kids walking home.
I have to make sure that Oikawa doesn't get to her.
"You know, you don't have to follow me everywhere." The girl says, scorn filling her voice as she turns around and looks at me.
"I'm just trying to help you," I say softly, trying to convince her that this wrong. "You don't know what's it like to be me."
"I don't know, and I don't care. I'm what my parents always wanted me to be, and that's all that matters." She says with a scowl, storming away.
My shoulders slump in despair as Davis and Cody come up, asking how it's going. "It's hopeless, these children are so brainwashed there's no way to get to them."
A scream interrupts our talk on what to do, and shocked I watch as a flower emerges from the dark spore resides in the girl I was just talking to.
I've never seen anything like this before...
A triumphant laugh makes me whirl around, as I instantly recognize the laugh from the nightmares that plague me every night.
Oikawa.
Horrified, I watch the dark spore girl go directly to Oikawa, and I charge after her, stopping dead in my tracks in horror when I see Arukenimon and Mummymon blocking the way.
"You've lost your usefulness, ex-Emperor." Arukenimon says with a mocking laugh.
I watch helplessly as Oikawa absorbs the flower.
Sadness and despair fills me.
I failed again.
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I watch the children at Highton View Terrace, the place where BlackWargreymon sacrificed himself to keep this portal closed.
I have to make sure that the sacrifice was not in vain.
Something big is going to happen, I can feel it in my bones.
I have to make sure that it doesn't happen.
I ignore the other digidestined chatting away behind me.
This is my fault; I have to correct it on my own.
I see Oikawa standing with the children and I storm out of the bushes, "HOLD IT RIGHT THERE! DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH THEM, OIKAWA!" I spit the last word out like it's a curse.
"I would like to, but if I do, the roots of the spore will still grow, and they will turn into dark trees." He says mockingly.
Bewildered, I just stare at him...
that never happened to me.
"You're lying!" I spit out the words, my voice filled with accusation.
"The dark spore was specifically made for you, so you won't have the same problems as these poor children." Oikawa says mockingly.
I grit my teeth.
Even if he's lying, I can't risk the lives of these children.
I hate how he knows how to pull my strings.
He knows exactly what to do make sure that I'm his puppet.
"Now, without further ado, I'm going to the place that I only dreamed about." He says mockingly, opening his laptop.
I charge forward, the other digidestined hot on my heels, only to be blocked by Arukenimon and Mummymon again.
Helplessly, despairingly, I watch him open the gate to the digiworld.
"NO! IT'S JUST AN ILLUSION! DON'T GO!!" I shout.
Too late...
I watch helplessly as the children and Oikawa walk through Arukenimon and Mummymon following.
I charge after them, not even thinking about the consequences.
I can't let him win this time.
No matter what happens...
TBC...
~*~
A/N: Please review.
A/N: Sorry about the sugar incident! *gives the sugar that was eaten by Wormmon back to everyone* and please review.
~*~
Disclaimer: I don't own okay?
*All is peaceful and almost back to normal in the heath household. There are only the original muses back, and the author has her feet up on her computer desk with her head resting on her chest, sound asleep. Her own muse Wormmon is curled up on her stomach, sleeping off his sugar hangover, and Ken, well, he's rocking back and forth in a corner muttering "Sam... Sam... where are you?"*
*Then the computer screen flicks on for no reason*
heath 999: *still 99.9% asleep* Huh?
*Sam comes flying out of the computer*
Sam: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
*If you don't know what's going to happen already you haven't season 02 in a long time*
*CRASH!*
*Now, Sam is lying on top of heath, who's crushing poor Wormmon who's at the bottom on the floor*
Ken: SAM YOU'RE BACK! *jumps on top of the pig pile, in which you hear a groan from heath and a muffled squeak from Wormmon*
heath 999: EVERYONE GET OFF!!!
Ken and Sam: Sorry! *climb off*
heath 999: *getting up and holding a very bedraggled Wormmon* What took you so long? I read Ken's Luver's e-mail in which she transported you to me after I asked her if I could borrow you hours ago.
Sam: YOU HAVE THE SLOWEST INTERNET CONNECTION IN THE WORLD!!! I WAS TRAPPED FOR HOURS IN BETWEEN THE COMPUTERS WHILE I WAS LOADED!
heath 999: *sweatdrops* Sorry! I'm using dial-up since my dad hasn't fixed the cable connection for two weeks now; it's a little slow.
Sam: A LITTLE?! I'VE SEEN SNAILS GO FASTER! *goes into a long rant*
heath 999: I think I'll have Stingmon drop him off when it's time for him to go back... please review.
~*~
~Dream Sequence~
The burning pain as the scanner scans the back of my neck where the dark spore resides in which I used to think was the greatest thing in the world...
Before I found out the Digiworld was more than a game.
Me wishing Sam would just disappear as pain shoots up my neck as jealousy engulfs me.
The sudden change from a sweet innocent little kid to a monster in one moment.
Oikawa laughing like a maniac, mocking me in the helplessness of the situation I'm in.
Sam's warning in my dream....
The betrayal I feel about him not telling me about the dark spore.
Sam's warning in my dream...
The children willingly allowing the dark spore to be implanted...
Sam's warning in my dream...
The pain...
Sam's warning in my dream...
The helplessness...
Sam's warning in my dream...
The betrayal...
Sam...
why didn't you tell me?
"I couldn't Ken, some things you have to find out yourself." The ghostly figure that used to be my brother steps into the nightmare that is my life.
"Why?" I whisper, my voice hoarse with sadness, my eyes holding back tears that haven't been shed yet today.
"Destiny works that way." Sam says sadly, his voice filled with his own regret. "I never wanted to see you in pain, but I couldn't interfere. I'm not allowed to."
"I'm so scared," I whisper, the burden of the dark spore kids weighing me down.
"I know," Sam says simply, pulling me into a hug for comfort. "You have friends now, they will help you when you need it the most. I love you, Ken, and I'll always be there when you need me."
"SAM!" I shout helplessly as once again he disappears from my life.
~End of Dream Sequence~
~*~
I jolt awake, careful not to wake my sleeping partner curled up next to me.
I sit for a few moments, the events of the day overwhelming me once again.
Determination fills me as I realize what I have to do.
Sam's right.
I have to stop the dark spore kids...
no matter what.
~*~
The others meet me at my house the next day; everyone except T.K. knowing what this is all about.
I slowly explain the painful experience again with T.K., bringing him up to date on what happened yesterday.
I hope I never have to explain it again.
"So, what now?" Cody asks, for once giving me a sympathetic look at the end of my recount of the events.
Surprise fills me at his look; this is the first time except for the Christmas party that he's given me anything but hostility.
Maybe friendship with him isn't impossible, after all...
"My dad works with Oikawa, and has information about him that he's willing to give us, so I suggest that we go see him first." I say, now glad that my dad knows about the digiworld and is willing to help us out.
I just hope that we can stop the dark spore children before it's too late...
~*~
Determination surges through me as I look at the list of the dark spore children, with their names and addresses written down on a piece of paper.
I have to stop them from turning into Digimon Emperor's.
It's my entire fault about what happened to them, and I couldn't stop them from getting the dark spore...
Maybe...
maybe with the rest of the digidestined, we could stop them from being like me.
Nobody deserves to be who I was.
~*~
I walk slowly to the door of one of the dark spore kids, Davis and Kari with me for support and to back me up with what they know the dark spore can do.
I ring the doorbell, only to hear the window open from above.
I look up in surprise to see one of the dark spore kids looking down at us.
"You're not going to change my mind, you know." The kid shouts down stubbornly.
"You don't understand, you don't know what it's like to be me." I beg softly, tears of sorrow filling my eyes. "I was a monster, I caused so much pain, the dark spore makes you evil, not a genius."
I see the others nodding their heads, completely agreeing with me.
"You just don't anyone to be like you," the boy says with a sneer on his face, and slams the window back down. But I hear him mutter something that makes a chill go down my spine...
"Insects!"
~*~
I look sadly at the floor as the reports of the other dark spore children come in.
It's too late...
it's my entire fault that they're like this.
If I didn't go into the moving truck...
they wouldn't be like this.
They're already turning into Digimon Emperor's,
and there's nothing that I can do about it...
I have to make sure that they don't destroy the Digital World,
it's my responsibility alone.
The others aren't to blame for my own sins.
~*~
I quickly hide behind a lamppost, watching one the dark spore kids walking home.
I have to make sure that Oikawa doesn't get to her.
"You know, you don't have to follow me everywhere." The girl says, scorn filling her voice as she turns around and looks at me.
"I'm just trying to help you," I say softly, trying to convince her that this wrong. "You don't know what's it like to be me."
"I don't know, and I don't care. I'm what my parents always wanted me to be, and that's all that matters." She says with a scowl, storming away.
My shoulders slump in despair as Davis and Cody come up, asking how it's going. "It's hopeless, these children are so brainwashed there's no way to get to them."
A scream interrupts our talk on what to do, and shocked I watch as a flower emerges from the dark spore resides in the girl I was just talking to.
I've never seen anything like this before...
A triumphant laugh makes me whirl around, as I instantly recognize the laugh from the nightmares that plague me every night.
Oikawa.
Horrified, I watch the dark spore girl go directly to Oikawa, and I charge after her, stopping dead in my tracks in horror when I see Arukenimon and Mummymon blocking the way.
"You've lost your usefulness, ex-Emperor." Arukenimon says with a mocking laugh.
I watch helplessly as Oikawa absorbs the flower.
Sadness and despair fills me.
I failed again.
~*~
I watch the children at Highton View Terrace, the place where BlackWargreymon sacrificed himself to keep this portal closed.
I have to make sure that the sacrifice was not in vain.
Something big is going to happen, I can feel it in my bones.
I have to make sure that it doesn't happen.
I ignore the other digidestined chatting away behind me.
This is my fault; I have to correct it on my own.
I see Oikawa standing with the children and I storm out of the bushes, "HOLD IT RIGHT THERE! DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH THEM, OIKAWA!" I spit the last word out like it's a curse.
"I would like to, but if I do, the roots of the spore will still grow, and they will turn into dark trees." He says mockingly.
Bewildered, I just stare at him...
that never happened to me.
"You're lying!" I spit out the words, my voice filled with accusation.
"The dark spore was specifically made for you, so you won't have the same problems as these poor children." Oikawa says mockingly.
I grit my teeth.
Even if he's lying, I can't risk the lives of these children.
I hate how he knows how to pull my strings.
He knows exactly what to do make sure that I'm his puppet.
"Now, without further ado, I'm going to the place that I only dreamed about." He says mockingly, opening his laptop.
I charge forward, the other digidestined hot on my heels, only to be blocked by Arukenimon and Mummymon again.
Helplessly, despairingly, I watch him open the gate to the digiworld.
"NO! IT'S JUST AN ILLUSION! DON'T GO!!" I shout.
Too late...
I watch helplessly as the children and Oikawa walk through Arukenimon and Mummymon following.
I charge after them, not even thinking about the consequences.
I can't let him win this time.
No matter what happens...
TBC...
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A/N: Please review.