Author's Notes: Well, I'm up to the fifth chapter already!! I don't own
Digimon and I never claimed to. I feel really guilty now because one of my
reviewers told me that this fic seemed very familiar, but I haven't read
any fics like this on the site, so I'm very sorry if this plot is taken
already. This fic came from my own strange imagination, not from anybody
else!
A Different Destiny, Chapter 5
Agumon and the others fell silent as Gennai entered the room.
"I'm sorry for all of the distractions that have been appearing since you have arrived. It isn't everyday that we find two traitors, but I fell that I should apologise to you about leaving you alone. I'm also sorry that your friend is a traitor. Who would have thought that he would be one of the people destined to find the missing children? Anyway, I apologise again for leaving you alone for all of this time," Gennai bowed his head and he looked sincere, but Sora couldn't shake off the feeling that he was just acting to gain their trust.
"That's all right Gennai, you shouldn't apologise for Tai as it's not your fault that he is a traitor. As for leaving us here alone, it's been a good opportunity to talk and relax a bit from the shock of arriving here in the digital world," Matt told him as Gennai sat down, "Now, what are the signs that you can tell the Prince and Princess by?" Gennai looked a bit startled for a moment before he replied,
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot about the signs. The Prince has green eyes and he has a small tattoo on his left arm, just above the wrist, that symbolizes the crown and which child he is in the family. His tattoo therefore has a number '1' on it as he is the first born child of the late King and Queen," his voice went sad as he mentioned the Majesties and most of the people in the room felt sorry for him, "There is another way to recognise the Prince and that is . . . he has a long scar running down his right arm after he fell from a wall and landed on some barbed wire." Gennai was forming a plan in his head as he went along. He knew of a boy with green eyes that also had a scar down his right arm. All Gennai would have to do would be to put a tattoo on the boy and then the digidestined would find him. Gennai knew that he could control this boy that he was thinking of, so he would have the digital world under his control in everything but name. He knew that his plan would work and so he silently congratulated himself.
"That's wrong," everyone in the room turned to Joe in astonishment. Even Joe himself seemed to be trying to stare at himself in surprise.
"What was that? I think that I should know what the Prince looks like and the signs that pinpoint the Prince. I was the trusted friend of the King and Queen after all," he put anger into his voice, but made sure that it sounded mainly hurt. He didn't want the others to suspect anything about his true evil plans after all.
"The part about the Prince having a tattoo on his left arm is correct, but the rest is wrong. If my memory is correct, then the Prince's eyes were turning brown when he disappeared, and he never fell off of a wall. The Prince may have been reckless, but he was an excellent athlete and he could keep his balance anywhere! Besides Renamon was always so strict that the Prince was never allowed off the grounds of the palace, so we always had to come here if we wanted to play, with Renamon watching us like a hawk! The only times that he went near a wall were the times we managed to escape from Rena, but he never fell off, not once!" Joe grew more confident as his little speech went on and at the end everyone was staring at him in surprise.
"What do you mean when you said 'so we always had to come here if we wanted to play'?" Mimi demanded to know, "You've never been here before in your life, so how did you know all of that?" All of the eyes in the room continued to stay on Joe and he sighed, wondering how he was going to explain the sudden return of all of his memories.
"As I said before, I was in a car accident when I was only seven, so my memories of before that disappeared, but they returned just before while I was trying to puzzle out why that necklace was so familiar to me. I still can't remember the necklace, but I DO remember basically everything else. My family used to live here until digimon started becoming evil and attacking innocent people, then we moved to the 'real' world if you want me to put it that way. There were not many people who were the Prince's age around here, so all of the kids that did live around here became friends. The Prince was a very popular person, but sometimes I felt sorry for the poor guy because some of the kids were only friends with him because their parents had forced them to be. Anyway, I used to come over here and play all of the time, to keep the Prince company. I don't really remember the Princess much, but that was because she was so little and she could never play with us. But the Prince *never* fell from anywhere," Joe explained, looking Gennai in the eye for the first time since they had arrived.
"If you were such good friends with the Prince, then you would remember his name. All of his friends knew his name, so what is it?" Gennai probed, hoping that he would get this useful bit of information from Joe before he found a way to dispose of him. He didn't want anyone else to reveal that he had been lying. He would, of course, lie and say that it wasn't the Prince's name whatever Joe said just so that the others would believe him. Joe thought for a second before he answered.
"I'm not going to tell you. Only we kids, Rena and his parents knew what his name was, just as a security measure. We had to promise never to tell anybody his name and a lot of other stuff. We had to do the same with the Princess, although not many people wanted to be her friend as she was only a baby," Joe smirked at Gennai, seeing that his plans were ruined. Sora was considering all of the evidence so far to try and see if she could puzzle out where the Princess could be.
"Well, what can the Princess be recognised by then?" she asked, breaking the tense silence between Joe and Gennai. The latter turned to her, shaking his head over something.
"The Princess doesn't have anything to recognise her by. She was too young to get the tattoo and she didn't have any scars or anything as she couldn't hurt herself. Her eyes were in the middle of changing colour, so I have no idea what colour they are now. That is why we have to question Tai; he is the only one that seems to know where the Princess is" Kari held her whistle in her hands, looking as though there was something on her mind. T.K saw this and rushed over to where she was.
"What's wrong Kari? Why are you staring at your whistle kind of funny?" T.K asked her, concern showing in his eyes. Mimi had to smother a giggle as she looked at the two youngsters, who were looking so cute. She could see that the pair cared for each other very much, even though they were only eight years old. Kari looked up at the sound of T.K's voice, her expression turning happier just by seeing him.
"Nothing is wrong, I'm just thinking. Tai told me once that if I would know when to do something when he gave me this whistle and I want to know what he meant by it. Something tells me that he forgot to tell me something important, or that he is hiding something important from me, but I can't think of what it could be. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to wait for him to tell me," she looked down at her whistle again, a distant look in her eyes, "Maybe I'll find out what it is if I blow this. My whistle always told me the truth." She put her whistle in her mouth and blew, but no sound came out of it at all. Instead the whistle started to change shape until it turned into a little key with a crown at the end of it. The number two was engraved into the crown and everyone gasped in shock as it turned into a replica of the necklace that Tai wore.
"Kari, does that mean that you are a part of the terrorist group too?" T.K asked his face sad. He looked like he was going to cry and on an impulse Kari hugged him.
"No, I'm not a part of a terrorist group. He's been lying this whole time about what these necklaces mean! I don't know why Tai didn't tell you guys this, but I will tell you, for now I understand! These necklaces are symbols of the Royal Family. The number engraved onto the crown symbolizes which child you are. Mine has the number two because I am the second child or the Princess as you would call me. Tai's has the number one on it because he is the first born of the family. He is the Prince that we are supposed to find!" Kari was angry at Gennai as she knew that he had known about that all along. She glared at him across the room, still holding T.K's hand that she had grasped during her big speech. Palmon looked between Gennai and Kari, trying to decide who was telling the truth and who was lying. The other digimon were doing the same thing, as were most of the digidestined.
"I believe Kari. She'd never tell a lie," T.K exclaimed, his cheeks going red as he realised that he was holding Kari's hand, "But you're a stranger and you could lie." Gennai didn't move, nor did he say a word. He just watched to see who would ally themselves with whom.
"I believe Kari too. I never thought for a second that Tai would actually be a traitor," Sora said, climbing to her feet and standing behind the young girl, backing up her words with this action, "Besides, I've known Kari ever since she was a year old and I can tell if she is lying and this time she isn't" Biyomon chose to join Sora behind Kari, not using words, but allying herself with her digidestined partner.
"We're over there too, aren't we Gomamon? You've known for ages that this was the truth, as you grew up with me until I left here. You just weren't saying anything. I remember the necklaces now, Prince *Tai* always wore one around his neck. And I'm not joking, the Prince has always had the name Tai," he and Gomamon quickly joined Sora and the others behind Kari, with Patamon flying with them.
"Patamon! You've decided to join us here!" T.K called happily as Patamon came and settled down on his hat.
"Of course T.K, I know that you would never lie. And besides, I believe Kari anyway. That's what Tai meant when he said that he took the Princess but didn't kidnap her- he couldn't kidnap his own sister!" Patamon looked comfortable sitting in T.K's hat and Gennai started to worry that no one would support him.
"Prodigious! This is way better than a computer game; a real life mystery! Tentomon, I think that I have found the answer," Tentomon looked closely at the screen that Izzy had been working on and he seemed to agree with what was written on it.
"I agree Izzy. That is a great theory that you have come up with there. Now let's just sit here and wait for everybody else to decide before we tell which side we're on," they stayed where they were sitting, which was basically in the middle of the room. Sora saw them move slightly towards her side of the room though and she smiled secretly to herself. Even without thinking about it they had betrayed which side they were on. Luckily she was the only one that saw it. Mimi was also in the middle of the room, but she crossed over and stood beside Joe, without giving a reason as to why she had chosen to side with them. Palmon, Matt and Gabumon were the only ones who hadn't decided, as Agumon had decided before Kari had even spoken.
"Come on guys, who do you believe? You've got to believe someone!" Mimi told them, although she had never said why she chose the side she did, "And Palmon, you should be over here! I know that you are feeling guilty because of some of the things that you said to Tai, but you won't be able to make it up to him if you choose to side against him, will you?" Palmon shook her head before she walked to join Mimi.
"I know, it's just that I feel terrible. I said all of those mean things to him even before I believed that he was a traitor. I just was worried about the Royal Children though, because I thought that they were in danger. I'm sorry guys," Palmon hung her head a little as she approached her destination, but they all just smiled.
"It's okay Palmon, I'm sure that Tai understands. All of this would have been easier if he had just told us all of this from the beginning," Sora smiled at Palmon, who lifted her head up again and nodded determination evident in her stance.
"Well, we'll just have to find out why he didn't tell us before then, once we get him out of the dungeon place he's in. Now we just have to worry about why Gennai has been lying to us in the first place," Palmon's eyes narrowed as she looked at him, then at Matt and Gabumon who hadn't joined either side yet. She knew that Izzy and Tentomon wouldn't move until they did, and she thought that she knew what they had decided anyway. Gennai was starting to move backwards slowly, reaching for one of his possessions. It was a small ball that seemed to be made from elastic bands, but if you looked closely you could see that it was glowing a soft black.
"Matt, Gabumon, whose side are you on?" T.K was getting more than a little impatient with his brother, who had seemed to have frozen ever since Joe had spoken about his memories, "It can't be that hard to decide. You have to choose between Kari and Joe's stories or Gennai's story. Whichever one you want to believe, you have to choose quickly." Matt didn't even seem to be listening and he didn't seem to be thinking either. He just seemed to be . . . standing there.
"Matt? Are you there Matt?" Izzy, who was next to him, waved his hand in front of Matt's face and he shook himself out of his trance and looked confused at the two groups on either side of the room.
"What's going on? Why are you all over there? I don't know what is going on here," Matt looked totally confused and everyone, including Gennai, stared at him incredulously. Matt just looked even more confused with everyone staring at him, so he just went over and stood next to T.K, trusting his little brother to have made the right decision.
"You're coming over here but you don't know what's going on? That's what I call having faith in your friends," Sora heard Mimi and Joe mutter at the same time. She glanced at them and saw that they were both red with embarrassment at having spoken together, but Sora was sure that she saw more in the glance that the two had shared before they had looked away. She smiled to herself, knowing that she was the only one again to have noticed something. She had noticed the same thing with Mimi and Joe that she had noticed with T.K and Kari, although the two older kids weren't as obvious about it.
"Izzy, what about you? You made up your mind ages ago, but you haven't told us what you've decided yet," Kari asked the slightly older boy, "What have you written on your computer?" Tentomon and Izzy looked at each other and nodded.
"I have here all of the evidence for both sides. This is the only logical explanation that I can come up with that matches what I believe and the other one seems to be a little bit too farfetched to be true and involves a few insane people," he stopped for a second to scroll down the screen as if to check something, "Kari, when is Tai's birthday?" Kari was surprised for a second, so she took longer to answer.
"The 9th of July," Sora answered for the little girl, who just nodded in agreement with her. Izzy typed something quickly into his lap top, muttering to himself quickly as he did so.
"Okay. Now that was the only thing that was unexplained about this whole thing. Tai's birthday should have matched up with the Prince's birthday, but he knew that somebody might try to find him one day and kill him, so he changed the date. His birthday *was* the 21st of June, which consists of the numbers 2, 1 and 6, if he didn't include the year. Those numbers add up to make 9, so that's where he got the day of his birthday that he uses now. To get the month he just added 1 and 6, and so he got the moth July. So when he got to the Kamiya's he told them that his birthday was the 9th of June," Izzy explained, looking away from the computer screen, "To get it so the Kari was younger than six months old, he just made her birthday later than it really was. Her birthday is supposed to be in December, but he changed it to be in March, am I right?"
"Yeah, I've always thought that my birthday was the 17th of March, and that would have made me three months old when the Kamiyas found us, but my birthday must be the 17th of December. Is that right?" she asked, looking at Gennai.
"The Princess was born on the 17th of December, so that is correct," they turned around to see the new comer into the room that had answered the question. In the doorway stood a digimon that looked like a lion, but he was standing up on two legs. He was wearing three-quarter length black pants and at his waist was a big black belt, made from leather. He had a shaggy mane, but the thing that made the children afraid was a big huge sword that he carried on his back, "I'm sorry if I scared you children, I just heard the conversation. My name is Leomon, and I have suspected that something hasn't bee quite right about this search for the missing children for a while now. Gennai seems to be a bit too eager to find the children in a hurry. Something didn't seem quite right about him and now I believe that I am right." He took out his sword and stood facing Gennai, who had finally reached the ball that he had wanted to pick up.
"I'm really glad guys, but I have to go. I'll be seeing you around," he cackled evilly and whispered something into the ball, before disappearing from sight. The children just stared at the spot where Gennai had been, wondering where he had managed to go.
"Well, he's gone now, but at least we can go and set your friends free. Follow me and we'll go and release the prisoners now," Leomon set off quickly and they all followed eager to get Tai out of the dungeon prison that he was in. The dungeon was at the bottom of the castle, so they had to climb down a whole lot of stairs, "The dungeons are behind that door that we can only just see. The Prince will be free again in a moment. They moved faster and Leomon blasted down the door. They entered a room that was empty save for three small doors that each lead to a different cell. Leomon knocked out the guard before taking the keys down from a hook. He threw each pair of keys to a different digidestined.
"Open the doors and see where they have put both the Prince and Renamon," he stood at the main door of the dungeons, making sure that none of Gennai's followers came down and saw them. Kari opened the door of the cell on the far left hand side and found that there was nothing in there but dust and dirt. Joe opened the door in the middle of the three, only to find the same thing. Sora took a deep breath and opened the door on the right. The first thing that she noticed was a bowl of water that was sitting near the door. On the ground in the middle of the room was a wet cloth, but other than that the room was empty. Something shiny caught her eyes and she bent to see what it was. There was a message written in a red substance that looked a lot like blood.
'HA HA DIGIDESTINED, I HAVE WON!! I'VE TAKEN THE PRINCE AND RENAMON AND YOU'LL NEVER FIND THEM ALIVE!' Sora shook as she read this message and she had a terrible feeling that the message *had* been written in blood. Gennai had won this round, but she was going to make sure that he didn't win the next one. Still, she couldn't help but stare at the blood that was now drying on the ground without wondering where it had come from . . .
End of Chapter 5
Well, this chapter turned out differently than I expected and I didn't even make a Tai's point of view. Oh well, I'll do it next chapter. It would have been boring this chapter if I had done one anyway, because Tai is unconscious with his sickness and he wasn't dreaming or anything. Well, he could have been, but you're going to have to find out next chapter, aren't you? I tried to put a bit more Takari into my fic, but they are only eight years old, so it was a bit hard, especially as I can't really write romances very well. I also put in a bit of Jomi, because they are my second favourite couple out of the 01 couples. Well, please review so I know what's going through your head as you read this, I really need to know so then I can fix the storyline wherever I need to! Thank you to all those that have reviewed this fic, I love you all, really I do! You've been very helpful and I thank you very much. Please review!! Thank you!!
A Different Destiny, Chapter 5
Agumon and the others fell silent as Gennai entered the room.
"I'm sorry for all of the distractions that have been appearing since you have arrived. It isn't everyday that we find two traitors, but I fell that I should apologise to you about leaving you alone. I'm also sorry that your friend is a traitor. Who would have thought that he would be one of the people destined to find the missing children? Anyway, I apologise again for leaving you alone for all of this time," Gennai bowed his head and he looked sincere, but Sora couldn't shake off the feeling that he was just acting to gain their trust.
"That's all right Gennai, you shouldn't apologise for Tai as it's not your fault that he is a traitor. As for leaving us here alone, it's been a good opportunity to talk and relax a bit from the shock of arriving here in the digital world," Matt told him as Gennai sat down, "Now, what are the signs that you can tell the Prince and Princess by?" Gennai looked a bit startled for a moment before he replied,
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot about the signs. The Prince has green eyes and he has a small tattoo on his left arm, just above the wrist, that symbolizes the crown and which child he is in the family. His tattoo therefore has a number '1' on it as he is the first born child of the late King and Queen," his voice went sad as he mentioned the Majesties and most of the people in the room felt sorry for him, "There is another way to recognise the Prince and that is . . . he has a long scar running down his right arm after he fell from a wall and landed on some barbed wire." Gennai was forming a plan in his head as he went along. He knew of a boy with green eyes that also had a scar down his right arm. All Gennai would have to do would be to put a tattoo on the boy and then the digidestined would find him. Gennai knew that he could control this boy that he was thinking of, so he would have the digital world under his control in everything but name. He knew that his plan would work and so he silently congratulated himself.
"That's wrong," everyone in the room turned to Joe in astonishment. Even Joe himself seemed to be trying to stare at himself in surprise.
"What was that? I think that I should know what the Prince looks like and the signs that pinpoint the Prince. I was the trusted friend of the King and Queen after all," he put anger into his voice, but made sure that it sounded mainly hurt. He didn't want the others to suspect anything about his true evil plans after all.
"The part about the Prince having a tattoo on his left arm is correct, but the rest is wrong. If my memory is correct, then the Prince's eyes were turning brown when he disappeared, and he never fell off of a wall. The Prince may have been reckless, but he was an excellent athlete and he could keep his balance anywhere! Besides Renamon was always so strict that the Prince was never allowed off the grounds of the palace, so we always had to come here if we wanted to play, with Renamon watching us like a hawk! The only times that he went near a wall were the times we managed to escape from Rena, but he never fell off, not once!" Joe grew more confident as his little speech went on and at the end everyone was staring at him in surprise.
"What do you mean when you said 'so we always had to come here if we wanted to play'?" Mimi demanded to know, "You've never been here before in your life, so how did you know all of that?" All of the eyes in the room continued to stay on Joe and he sighed, wondering how he was going to explain the sudden return of all of his memories.
"As I said before, I was in a car accident when I was only seven, so my memories of before that disappeared, but they returned just before while I was trying to puzzle out why that necklace was so familiar to me. I still can't remember the necklace, but I DO remember basically everything else. My family used to live here until digimon started becoming evil and attacking innocent people, then we moved to the 'real' world if you want me to put it that way. There were not many people who were the Prince's age around here, so all of the kids that did live around here became friends. The Prince was a very popular person, but sometimes I felt sorry for the poor guy because some of the kids were only friends with him because their parents had forced them to be. Anyway, I used to come over here and play all of the time, to keep the Prince company. I don't really remember the Princess much, but that was because she was so little and she could never play with us. But the Prince *never* fell from anywhere," Joe explained, looking Gennai in the eye for the first time since they had arrived.
"If you were such good friends with the Prince, then you would remember his name. All of his friends knew his name, so what is it?" Gennai probed, hoping that he would get this useful bit of information from Joe before he found a way to dispose of him. He didn't want anyone else to reveal that he had been lying. He would, of course, lie and say that it wasn't the Prince's name whatever Joe said just so that the others would believe him. Joe thought for a second before he answered.
"I'm not going to tell you. Only we kids, Rena and his parents knew what his name was, just as a security measure. We had to promise never to tell anybody his name and a lot of other stuff. We had to do the same with the Princess, although not many people wanted to be her friend as she was only a baby," Joe smirked at Gennai, seeing that his plans were ruined. Sora was considering all of the evidence so far to try and see if she could puzzle out where the Princess could be.
"Well, what can the Princess be recognised by then?" she asked, breaking the tense silence between Joe and Gennai. The latter turned to her, shaking his head over something.
"The Princess doesn't have anything to recognise her by. She was too young to get the tattoo and she didn't have any scars or anything as she couldn't hurt herself. Her eyes were in the middle of changing colour, so I have no idea what colour they are now. That is why we have to question Tai; he is the only one that seems to know where the Princess is" Kari held her whistle in her hands, looking as though there was something on her mind. T.K saw this and rushed over to where she was.
"What's wrong Kari? Why are you staring at your whistle kind of funny?" T.K asked her, concern showing in his eyes. Mimi had to smother a giggle as she looked at the two youngsters, who were looking so cute. She could see that the pair cared for each other very much, even though they were only eight years old. Kari looked up at the sound of T.K's voice, her expression turning happier just by seeing him.
"Nothing is wrong, I'm just thinking. Tai told me once that if I would know when to do something when he gave me this whistle and I want to know what he meant by it. Something tells me that he forgot to tell me something important, or that he is hiding something important from me, but I can't think of what it could be. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to wait for him to tell me," she looked down at her whistle again, a distant look in her eyes, "Maybe I'll find out what it is if I blow this. My whistle always told me the truth." She put her whistle in her mouth and blew, but no sound came out of it at all. Instead the whistle started to change shape until it turned into a little key with a crown at the end of it. The number two was engraved into the crown and everyone gasped in shock as it turned into a replica of the necklace that Tai wore.
"Kari, does that mean that you are a part of the terrorist group too?" T.K asked his face sad. He looked like he was going to cry and on an impulse Kari hugged him.
"No, I'm not a part of a terrorist group. He's been lying this whole time about what these necklaces mean! I don't know why Tai didn't tell you guys this, but I will tell you, for now I understand! These necklaces are symbols of the Royal Family. The number engraved onto the crown symbolizes which child you are. Mine has the number two because I am the second child or the Princess as you would call me. Tai's has the number one on it because he is the first born of the family. He is the Prince that we are supposed to find!" Kari was angry at Gennai as she knew that he had known about that all along. She glared at him across the room, still holding T.K's hand that she had grasped during her big speech. Palmon looked between Gennai and Kari, trying to decide who was telling the truth and who was lying. The other digimon were doing the same thing, as were most of the digidestined.
"I believe Kari. She'd never tell a lie," T.K exclaimed, his cheeks going red as he realised that he was holding Kari's hand, "But you're a stranger and you could lie." Gennai didn't move, nor did he say a word. He just watched to see who would ally themselves with whom.
"I believe Kari too. I never thought for a second that Tai would actually be a traitor," Sora said, climbing to her feet and standing behind the young girl, backing up her words with this action, "Besides, I've known Kari ever since she was a year old and I can tell if she is lying and this time she isn't" Biyomon chose to join Sora behind Kari, not using words, but allying herself with her digidestined partner.
"We're over there too, aren't we Gomamon? You've known for ages that this was the truth, as you grew up with me until I left here. You just weren't saying anything. I remember the necklaces now, Prince *Tai* always wore one around his neck. And I'm not joking, the Prince has always had the name Tai," he and Gomamon quickly joined Sora and the others behind Kari, with Patamon flying with them.
"Patamon! You've decided to join us here!" T.K called happily as Patamon came and settled down on his hat.
"Of course T.K, I know that you would never lie. And besides, I believe Kari anyway. That's what Tai meant when he said that he took the Princess but didn't kidnap her- he couldn't kidnap his own sister!" Patamon looked comfortable sitting in T.K's hat and Gennai started to worry that no one would support him.
"Prodigious! This is way better than a computer game; a real life mystery! Tentomon, I think that I have found the answer," Tentomon looked closely at the screen that Izzy had been working on and he seemed to agree with what was written on it.
"I agree Izzy. That is a great theory that you have come up with there. Now let's just sit here and wait for everybody else to decide before we tell which side we're on," they stayed where they were sitting, which was basically in the middle of the room. Sora saw them move slightly towards her side of the room though and she smiled secretly to herself. Even without thinking about it they had betrayed which side they were on. Luckily she was the only one that saw it. Mimi was also in the middle of the room, but she crossed over and stood beside Joe, without giving a reason as to why she had chosen to side with them. Palmon, Matt and Gabumon were the only ones who hadn't decided, as Agumon had decided before Kari had even spoken.
"Come on guys, who do you believe? You've got to believe someone!" Mimi told them, although she had never said why she chose the side she did, "And Palmon, you should be over here! I know that you are feeling guilty because of some of the things that you said to Tai, but you won't be able to make it up to him if you choose to side against him, will you?" Palmon shook her head before she walked to join Mimi.
"I know, it's just that I feel terrible. I said all of those mean things to him even before I believed that he was a traitor. I just was worried about the Royal Children though, because I thought that they were in danger. I'm sorry guys," Palmon hung her head a little as she approached her destination, but they all just smiled.
"It's okay Palmon, I'm sure that Tai understands. All of this would have been easier if he had just told us all of this from the beginning," Sora smiled at Palmon, who lifted her head up again and nodded determination evident in her stance.
"Well, we'll just have to find out why he didn't tell us before then, once we get him out of the dungeon place he's in. Now we just have to worry about why Gennai has been lying to us in the first place," Palmon's eyes narrowed as she looked at him, then at Matt and Gabumon who hadn't joined either side yet. She knew that Izzy and Tentomon wouldn't move until they did, and she thought that she knew what they had decided anyway. Gennai was starting to move backwards slowly, reaching for one of his possessions. It was a small ball that seemed to be made from elastic bands, but if you looked closely you could see that it was glowing a soft black.
"Matt, Gabumon, whose side are you on?" T.K was getting more than a little impatient with his brother, who had seemed to have frozen ever since Joe had spoken about his memories, "It can't be that hard to decide. You have to choose between Kari and Joe's stories or Gennai's story. Whichever one you want to believe, you have to choose quickly." Matt didn't even seem to be listening and he didn't seem to be thinking either. He just seemed to be . . . standing there.
"Matt? Are you there Matt?" Izzy, who was next to him, waved his hand in front of Matt's face and he shook himself out of his trance and looked confused at the two groups on either side of the room.
"What's going on? Why are you all over there? I don't know what is going on here," Matt looked totally confused and everyone, including Gennai, stared at him incredulously. Matt just looked even more confused with everyone staring at him, so he just went over and stood next to T.K, trusting his little brother to have made the right decision.
"You're coming over here but you don't know what's going on? That's what I call having faith in your friends," Sora heard Mimi and Joe mutter at the same time. She glanced at them and saw that they were both red with embarrassment at having spoken together, but Sora was sure that she saw more in the glance that the two had shared before they had looked away. She smiled to herself, knowing that she was the only one again to have noticed something. She had noticed the same thing with Mimi and Joe that she had noticed with T.K and Kari, although the two older kids weren't as obvious about it.
"Izzy, what about you? You made up your mind ages ago, but you haven't told us what you've decided yet," Kari asked the slightly older boy, "What have you written on your computer?" Tentomon and Izzy looked at each other and nodded.
"I have here all of the evidence for both sides. This is the only logical explanation that I can come up with that matches what I believe and the other one seems to be a little bit too farfetched to be true and involves a few insane people," he stopped for a second to scroll down the screen as if to check something, "Kari, when is Tai's birthday?" Kari was surprised for a second, so she took longer to answer.
"The 9th of July," Sora answered for the little girl, who just nodded in agreement with her. Izzy typed something quickly into his lap top, muttering to himself quickly as he did so.
"Okay. Now that was the only thing that was unexplained about this whole thing. Tai's birthday should have matched up with the Prince's birthday, but he knew that somebody might try to find him one day and kill him, so he changed the date. His birthday *was* the 21st of June, which consists of the numbers 2, 1 and 6, if he didn't include the year. Those numbers add up to make 9, so that's where he got the day of his birthday that he uses now. To get the month he just added 1 and 6, and so he got the moth July. So when he got to the Kamiya's he told them that his birthday was the 9th of June," Izzy explained, looking away from the computer screen, "To get it so the Kari was younger than six months old, he just made her birthday later than it really was. Her birthday is supposed to be in December, but he changed it to be in March, am I right?"
"Yeah, I've always thought that my birthday was the 17th of March, and that would have made me three months old when the Kamiyas found us, but my birthday must be the 17th of December. Is that right?" she asked, looking at Gennai.
"The Princess was born on the 17th of December, so that is correct," they turned around to see the new comer into the room that had answered the question. In the doorway stood a digimon that looked like a lion, but he was standing up on two legs. He was wearing three-quarter length black pants and at his waist was a big black belt, made from leather. He had a shaggy mane, but the thing that made the children afraid was a big huge sword that he carried on his back, "I'm sorry if I scared you children, I just heard the conversation. My name is Leomon, and I have suspected that something hasn't bee quite right about this search for the missing children for a while now. Gennai seems to be a bit too eager to find the children in a hurry. Something didn't seem quite right about him and now I believe that I am right." He took out his sword and stood facing Gennai, who had finally reached the ball that he had wanted to pick up.
"I'm really glad guys, but I have to go. I'll be seeing you around," he cackled evilly and whispered something into the ball, before disappearing from sight. The children just stared at the spot where Gennai had been, wondering where he had managed to go.
"Well, he's gone now, but at least we can go and set your friends free. Follow me and we'll go and release the prisoners now," Leomon set off quickly and they all followed eager to get Tai out of the dungeon prison that he was in. The dungeon was at the bottom of the castle, so they had to climb down a whole lot of stairs, "The dungeons are behind that door that we can only just see. The Prince will be free again in a moment. They moved faster and Leomon blasted down the door. They entered a room that was empty save for three small doors that each lead to a different cell. Leomon knocked out the guard before taking the keys down from a hook. He threw each pair of keys to a different digidestined.
"Open the doors and see where they have put both the Prince and Renamon," he stood at the main door of the dungeons, making sure that none of Gennai's followers came down and saw them. Kari opened the door of the cell on the far left hand side and found that there was nothing in there but dust and dirt. Joe opened the door in the middle of the three, only to find the same thing. Sora took a deep breath and opened the door on the right. The first thing that she noticed was a bowl of water that was sitting near the door. On the ground in the middle of the room was a wet cloth, but other than that the room was empty. Something shiny caught her eyes and she bent to see what it was. There was a message written in a red substance that looked a lot like blood.
'HA HA DIGIDESTINED, I HAVE WON!! I'VE TAKEN THE PRINCE AND RENAMON AND YOU'LL NEVER FIND THEM ALIVE!' Sora shook as she read this message and she had a terrible feeling that the message *had* been written in blood. Gennai had won this round, but she was going to make sure that he didn't win the next one. Still, she couldn't help but stare at the blood that was now drying on the ground without wondering where it had come from . . .
End of Chapter 5
Well, this chapter turned out differently than I expected and I didn't even make a Tai's point of view. Oh well, I'll do it next chapter. It would have been boring this chapter if I had done one anyway, because Tai is unconscious with his sickness and he wasn't dreaming or anything. Well, he could have been, but you're going to have to find out next chapter, aren't you? I tried to put a bit more Takari into my fic, but they are only eight years old, so it was a bit hard, especially as I can't really write romances very well. I also put in a bit of Jomi, because they are my second favourite couple out of the 01 couples. Well, please review so I know what's going through your head as you read this, I really need to know so then I can fix the storyline wherever I need to! Thank you to all those that have reviewed this fic, I love you all, really I do! You've been very helpful and I thank you very much. Please review!! Thank you!!