Authors notes: This story is going to have lot's of depth to it, Takari wise. This chapter is going to have more action in it, and a decent amount of Takari if I can fit it in.
Disclaimer: No matter how many wishing stars I wish on, digimon will never be mine.
Hope to Despair. Chapter Two.
Tk grabbed hold of Kari's hand and pulled her into the trees. Running through the forest towards the camp. Sora, Tai and Matt were standing up talking quietly while the others slept. When the pair arrived the three turned to face them, relief spread over Matt ad Tai's faces while a look of triumph over Sora's.
"See" Sora said turning to her two best friends, "See, they only went off for a midnight stroll or something. I told you they would be fine."
"We might not be for much longer."
"What?"
"We saw a digimon a bit further off. We're not sure if he's good or . . . ."
"Evil." Tai finished for him, "Right the four of you wake the others up I'm going to see if there's anywhere we can hide." They wouldn't usually hide but stand and fight but the fact that they didn't know if the digimon were evil or just being controlled by someone evil but a damper on things. So to make sure they didn't delete any good digimon they were going to try and keep clear of most of the digimon until they reached Gennai. They were going to see of Gennai could help them tell the difference between the controlled and evil digimon. Tk and the other three ran round waking everyone up, once they were all up they waited for Tai to return. They didn't have to wait long, he came back a few seconds later panting.
"There's no where to hide. We'll just have to run for it." They nodded and ran as fast as they could to the right. Five minutes later they stopped all breathing deeply.
"Do . . . . you . . . . think . . . . we . . . . lost . . . . him?" Sora asked panting deeply.
"Dunno" Tai said striating up and looking round, "I guess so." A roar split the air, telling them that Tai was wrong. A digimon burst through the trees, it growled as it looked round. It was a loin that stood on his hind legs, it was clad in a pair of trousers and had a sword attached to his belt.
"Leomon!" Mimi cried out happily, "We thought you were an evil digimon!" The loin turned to look at Mimi and she shrieked. The reason being his eyes, once bright were now a dull grey colour. The rest of his body was duller then usual, as if he had been painted a darker shade of his original colour. They stood there staring at the digimon who in turn stared back. Then out of the blue he leapt towards Tk and Patamon. Picking the two up, one on each paw he turned and ran away. Matt choked yelling noise in the back of his throat and gave chase. But the loin digimon slowly disappeared from view. Matt tried to stop tears from falling as the other digidestined caught up with him.
"Tai, what do we do?" Mat turned to his friend and for the first time in his life Matt wasn't the one doing the helping he was the one needing the help.
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Tk wriggled and kicked against the digimon. The only thing he could see was the ground, he sighed and fought the urge to throw up. When Leomon had grabbed him the illness had started to come back. What ever was controlling Leomon had something to do with the illness and screams he had been having. He chocked and shut his eyes, maybe if he didn't focus on the ground swimming back and forth.
"Tk, are you okay?" Patamon's voice floated through the air towards him, Leomon was holding Patamon in his other hand. He mumbled an uh huh and continued to think of something other than his stomach. Somehow Tk fell asleep and when he woke up he found himself bound with rope on the floor. Looking up he found himself in a large cave, he was propped up against one of the walls. Across from him was Patamon, the digimon was in a small cage. And at the very back of the cave was a stand. It had a black arch made out of what looked like black marble, the two poles leading up to the curved area had chains attached. While the curved bit had symbols written all over it. Tk didn't know what most of them meant, the only one he could make out was the crest of hope. Tk heard a noise and Leomon walked past him, stirring up sand from the floor. Tk bent down and coughed and when he looked up again Leomon was standing on one side of the stand and Ogremon the other. The pair shut their eyes and breathed deeply then Leomon started to speak.
"We shall start the ritual at your command." A cold voice whistled through the air, Tk didn't know where it came from but he sure heard it.
"Start bring the boy to the alter." Ogremon walked forward and picked Tk up dragging him over to Leomon. This creature had obviously realised that it would be strong if it got Leomon and Ogremon. After Leomon had been reborn the pair had put away their rivalry and became inseparable, it must have been easy to catch them. Leomon raised his claws and cut through the rope. They chained Tk's arms to the pillars, spreading his arms like an eagle would his wings. Then they became chanted and Leomon picked up his sword and raised it in front of Tk.
~*~
Matt shut his eyes slightly against the biting winds. He was travailing on the back of Garurumon and was racing across the desert. The group had arrived at Gennai's three hours after Tk had been kidnapped. After talking too him they had discovered that the digimon that were being controlled acted very much as if they had black gears inside them. But that hadn't helped much, so after Izzy and Gennai had a 'nerdy' talk as Mimi but it they had gone off tracking Tk. They were now coming closer to finding him, a little more further. Though Matt didn't know where they would be hiding in a desert. Rubbing his eyes Matt looked around. That's when he saw it a small black mound to his right, he would have missed it if he didn't have to turn away from the winds.
"Stop Garurumon!" The wolf obeyed, "Over there to our right!" The wolf nodded and turning he speed across the sand.
"Matt!"
"Wait!"
"Where're you going?"
Matt ignored them, the device on his digivice told him he was getting closer to Tk. He had too find him. The closer they got, the more Matt could see. It wasn't a mound it was a cave, nearly completely hidden by the raging sands. Bursting into the mouth cave let out a strangled cry as he saw Leomon's sword coming closer to Tk.
Garurumon and Matt leapt forward only to be knocked away by Ogremon. The two were sent crashing into the wall. Pushing himself up Matt shook the sand out of his hair and glanced over at the cave entrance as the other digidestined entered.
"What's going on?"
"They're trying to kill Tk!"
Tai's eyes snapped onto the blonde as he watched Leomon raise his sword yet again.
"We have to get past him, lets go!" Tai screamed and the digimon leaped towards Ogremon.
~*~
Tk felt so sick he couldn't speak. He watched as Matt and the others launched themselves at Ogremon, desperately trying to get to him without hurting the digimon too much. But he knew they weren't going to make it, Leomon had turned back and was once again lowering the sword towards him. He looked up as the lion brought the point of his sword too his colour bone, and moved it forward slightly. Blood began flowing from the wound and Leomon uttered a few dark words. He wind started to blow lightly at first, the stronger and stronger. Tk tried to cry out as the winds created a small hurricane around him, then the wind moved to the side of him. A pain like he had never felt before struck him, he felt as if his insides were being pulled and as if everything warm and happy was being removed from his mind. He could only see and feel darkness. He noticed that a golden light was pouring from the wound that Leomon had created and being pulled into the hurricane. When it reached the hurricane and was being turned to a dull black. If Tk could feel any worse he did, and a pained scream managed to tear itself from his lips. Leomon's head snapped up and he stared at Tk. Tk's body began to thrash about, twitching, fighting, desperate to get away from the pain coursing through him. Leomon's eyes widened and slowly started to focus, he looked like he had just woken up after a long sleep. Colour started t slowly return to his body as did Ogremon's. Blinking Leomon suddenly roared and brought his sword down one of the chains holding Tk, he quickly severed the other one. Picking up the boy he turned and ran for the cave entrance.
"Everyone get out!"
Tk's eyes closed as he felt Leomon run for the outside, he felt so tired so ill.
~*~
Matt turned and picked up Patamon and leaped onto Garurumon's back. The digidestined and their two friends ran for the desert. The digidestined stopped a few metres after they had got into the sands.
"Do not stop! We must keep running or he shall find us!".
"There was no one else in there Leomon!" Matt growled his icy blue eyes fixed on the digimon.
"Very well let us stay here and we can hand your brother to him and we'll let him murder Tk!"
Growling Matt pulled himself back onto Garurumon and followed the two digimon. They set off and travelled the whole night not stopping once until they reached Gennai's house.
Matt slowly stroked his brother's hair as he looked down on Tk's pale face. Tk hadn't stirred once the whole time they had been travelling. Matt was really worried about him, looking up he looked round the room. The other digidestined were sitting in chairs, beanbags and other things. All their eyes were fixed on either Gennai, Ogremon and Leomon or Tk. Matt watched as the three came over.
"We apologise for attacking you and taking Tk . . . ." Leomon trailed off and they could see pain fill his and Ogremon's eyes.
"It's alright, but what's the matter with him?"
"You remember Devimon right?"
"I do, but the younger ones don't."
Leomon turned to the second digidestined, "Devimon was one of the digidestined's first enemies. He used black gears to turn digimon dark, Tk and Angemon managed to destroy him. But at a price . . . ."
"Angemon was deleted and reborn." All eyes turned to Ken, who blushed slightly and looked down at his hands.
"He told me about it in order to help me get through the time when Wormmon first came back."
"Right" Matt said, "But what does that have to do with this?"
"He's back."
"What?"
Sorry it took me so long to update! Been a tad on the busy side recently!
