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except for Deathmon, but you guys already knew that. This fic is probably
going to end soon, as it is coming to a close and I want to finish it
before I go back to school on Tuesday next week. So, enjoy this chapter, I
think that there are only three chapters left in this fic!
A Different Destiny, Chapter 6
Tai was vaguely aware that he and Renamon were being carried, but that was basically the extent of his knowledge other than pain. His right arm was throbbing and he could feel a warm liquid running all of the way down it. His head felt like it was being attacked by thousands of little needles and he barely had the strength to open his eyes. As far as he could tell, they were being carried through some sort of desert that was filled with street signs designed to confuse anybody that wandered into it. Tai couldn't see who was carrying him, but he could tell that whoever it was, they were confident about where they were going. He could see a building in the distance that seemed to be surrounded by a hazy black aura, but as Tai fell unconscious he was almost certain that he had just imagined it. Then the darkness took him again and he ceased to notice anything around him.
* * * * * * * * * * * *
Sora and the other digidestined were staring at the blood in shock, hoping that Gennai hadn't done anything drastic.
"Do you think that Tai and Renamon are okay?" Kari asked in a small voice, a bit traumatized by the speed of the events that had happened so far that day. It was only 2 in the afternoon and already she felt that she had been through enough events to last her a whole life time. She was only eight after all.
"Renamon will be fine; she can take care of herself. If she is with the Prince then he'll probably be fine as well. If they have been split apart, then I have no idea if either of them will be okay. The necklaces that the Prince and Princess have are able to give energy out to digimon that have sworn to protect them. Renamon swore to protect the Prince a long time ago, so I have no doubt that they'll be okay as long as they are together. Not many digimon know of the truth about the necklaces and I doubt that Gennai would know. As much as he liked to think that he was the most trusted man in the kingdom, it is not true. He was not told many things. I just hope that the Prince has enough energy left with his sickness," Leomon explained to the children, but that information didn't make the children feel any better.
"Maybe I can try and find out where he is on my lap top. There must be some way of tracking them," Izzy plugged his lap top into the wall and started typing away madly, trying to find anything that could help them find Tai. Sora's arm brushed against something attached to her hip as she went to brush her hair back behind her ear. It was the strange device that she had caught when they were back at summer camp. She pressed one of the buttons that seemed to catch her eye and immediately a screen that looked like a map came up. In one spot she could see 7 different coloured spots all in the same place. An orange dot was the only thing that moved on the screen and it was moving rapidly away from them. Sora knew just by looking at it that the orange dot represented Tai. After all, his crest had been orange, so she knew that it was him.
"I know where he is guys, look at this!" she called and everyone came crowding around to see what she was going on about, "This device that came to me at camp, it's showing where all of us are on this screen! This orange dot here has to be Tai, his crest was orange and I think that this device is tracking the device that he got. All of these other dots have to be the seven of us and this dot that is moving away has to be Tai as he is the only one not here. All we have to do is follow this and it will lead us straight to them!" The other digidestined all picked up their digivices and six 'clicks' echoed throughout the room as they all switched their digivices onto map mode. Leomon looked at the devices curiously.
"What are those little square things?" he asked, looking over Izzy's shoulder at the device the boy held in his hand, "And why do all of you have them?" Gomamon decided that he would answer Leomon's questions.
"These things are called digivices. They help us digimon digivolve somehow, as do the crests. As for why these guys have them, they are the digidestined, and their destiny is to protect this world and the other world that they came from," he told the big beast digimon, sounding as though he was reciting it from heart, "There is an ancient prophecy about these kids . . .
When what seems to be the truth
Is found to be nothing but a lie
The Chosen Ones will go to the Castle of the Night
And fight the evil they find.
To truly win their fight
They must find what they hide
Otherwise defeated they will be"
The other digimon in the room nodded as Gomamon finished, but all of the children were confused.
"What on Earth does that mean? It all sounds like a load of gibberish to me," Matt told Gomamon, who just shrugged and went back over to Joe, who was searching through his big bag for something.
"I never said that I knew what the prophecy meant, I just said that there was a prophecy. To understand it, we'll have to go to this 'Castle of the Night' and find out what's going on," Gomamon watched as Joe turned everything out of his bag before putting everything back in, obviously not finding what he was looking for, "What on Earth are you looking for Joe? You're turned everything out onto the floor and made a small mess. What are you so desperate to find?" Joe ignored him, still desperately searching for whatever it was he was looking for. After he had replaced everything in his bag, he turned to the others.
"Has anyone else lost their crest? Mine was around my neck, but it's not there anymore," Joe told them, feeling like a complete idiot, "I know that the crest didn't fall off by itself, but I don't remember taking it off. I don't usually lose things, so I am a bit confused." The other digidestined looked down to see if their crests were still around their necks, but to their surprise the crests were gone.
"My crest! Where is it?" Mimi screamed, using her hand to finger around her neck for the string that should have been holding her crest. Everyone else was doing the same, except for Sora. She was holding her crest in her palm, studying the strange pattern on it. Tai had told her that it was the crest of Love and she was wondering why her crest was the only one that hadn't gone missing.
"My crest is still here," Sora told the others quietly and they stopped their frantic searching for their own crests to look at her, "Its right here. Whilst we were talking to Gennai were any of you holding your crests?" They shook their heads in response to her question and Sora thought that she knew what had happened.
"Well, I held onto my crest for some reason unknown to me and it didn't go missing. Gennai must have managed to get them off all of you whilst we were talking somehow. Now he probably has seven of the crests because I doubt that Tai would be able to keep his crest away from Gennai. Maybe he can use the crests against us somehow," they fell silent for a minute before Agumon stood up from where he had been sitting on the ground.
"I don't care that the crests are missing. All I care about is getting Tai back and giving Gennai what he deserves. We don't know what condition Tai and Renamon are in and they could need us. Why are we sitting around here talking about prophecies?" it was obvious that Agumon's patience had run out completely and the children shook themselves out of their pensive moods.
"Your right Agumon. Tai needs our help, so let's go and help him!" T.K exclaimed, surprising everyone in the room, even his brother.
"I agree, we'd better get moving quickly," they stood up and made their way to the gate of the castle.
"Where do you think you traitors are going?" the children turned and faced what seemed to be an army of digimon, all wearing an armband on their arms that symbolized that they were a part of Gennai's army.
"We're doomed," Joe told them as the army began to close in around them. The other kids could only agree as the endless rows of digimon surrounded them . . .
* * * * * * * * * * * *
Tai awoke as he felt himself be thrown against a wall and he almost wanted to laugh at the quirk of fate.
'Aren't people supposed to fall unconscious once they have been slammed against the wall?' he thought to himself, trying to distract himself from all of the pain that his body was in. He felt as though someone had dragged him through barbed wire or something and his head continued to pound, refusing to stop. He heard a small groan come from his right, but he couldn't turn towards the noise. All he could do was stare at the wall in front of him and breathe, his body having no energy for anything other than that. His right arm seemed to have been bandaged roughly, but he couldn't remember who had done that.
'Hikari, what has happened to her?' he knew that she had been discovered as the Princess as Gennai had made a vague comment about it before he had picked up Tai and Rena, but Tai didn't know what had happened to his little sister after that. He closed his eyes as the world started to blur around him and his last thought before he became unconscious again was of his sister and of a certain red-haired girl that was probably also in danger.
~DREAM SEQUENCE~
Tai looked around and the only thing that he could see for miles was an army of digimon closing in around him. He was standing with Kari, T.K, Matt, Joe, Mimi, Izzy and their digimon, including Biyomon and Agumon. Sora stood apart from the group, separated from them by a lion digimon. The digimon pulled out his sword and seemed to be challenging the army of digimon all by himself. Tai knew that that couldn't be a good idea.
'Agumon, you've got to digivolve,' he thought and to his surprise, his digivice started to react.
"Agumon digivolve to . . . Greymon!" Agumon was surrounded by the orange glow and when he emerged from it he was Greymon.
"Greymon, how on Earth did you digivolve? Tai isn't even here!" Salamon asked the dinosaur digimon, who looked to be almost as confused as the other digimon.
"I'm not really sure myself. Maybe Tai is in trouble, or it may just be that he knows that we are in trouble," Greymon turned back to the army of digimon, before glancing back at the others, "You know, I may have digivolved, but I won't be able to fight alone. What are you waiting for guys? Digivolve!" Seven beams of different coloured light flew from the seven digivices and wrapped themselves around their respective digimon.
"Biyomon digivolve to . . . Birdramon!"
"Salamon digivolve to . . . Gatomon!"
"Patamon digivolve to . . . Angemon!"
"Gomamon digivolve to . . . Ikkakumon!"
"Palmon digivolve to . . . Togemon!"
"Tentomon digivolve to . . . Kabuterimon!"
"Gabumon digivolve to . . . Garurumon!"
The newly digivolved digimon stood in a group that circled the children, to make sure that they were safe.
"Nova Blast!"
"Wing Blade!"
"Lightening Claw!"
"Hand of Faith!"
"Harpoon Torpedo!"
"Needle Spray!"
"Electro Shocker!"
"Howling Blaster!"
The digimon attacked and some of the army disappeared after turning into dust. However many digimon they destroyed though, more came to take their place.
"Sora look out!" Tai called, knowing that she wouldn't hear him. He dived into the way of the attack that had managed to get past Birdramon and his crest flared up. An orange glow came up out of nowhere and surrounded Greymon again.
"Greymon digivolve to . . . Metalgreymon!" the brown skull-like thing on Greymon's head was encased in metal, as was Greymon's left arm. Long spikes that were also metal came out of Greymon's back, giving Metalgreymon wings. A metal chest plate also appeared on Metalgreymon. He quickly turned and managed to blast the attack heading for Sora out of the way with missiles that came from the metal plate on his chest. Sora was staring at the spot where Tai was, not noticing anything else.
"Did anybody else see the orange glow that came from over there?" she asked, pointing straight at Tai. The other digidestined turned and looked, but they saw nothing there.
"Sora, nothing is over there. We have to get out of here. Birdramon, Kabuterimon, can you guys fly us out of here?" Izzy called to the two flying digimon, "It seems that the only way we can escape is by using the skies."
"Sure, as long as the others de-digivolve," Birdramon told him confidently, whilst protecting Sora from another attack, "Quickly divide into two groups and hop onto our backs." The children did as they were told and soon their digimon de-digivolved and did the same. Only Metalgreymon remained in his ultimate form as he could also fly. Tai felt himself fade from the scene and he closed his eyes . . .
~END OF DREAM SEQUENCE~
Tai found himself back in the place where he had been thrown before, with Rena leaning over him.
"Are you alright Prince?" she asked, retying the bandage on Tai's right arm, "You were thrashing around quite a bit in your sleep and your crest started to glow. Are you feeling okay?" Tai groaned softly as his forehead started to burn, but he was determined to answer Rena.
"I-I'm okay, I guess. W-Where are we?" his eyes were beginning to focus better than they had been and he could now see that the wall was made out of . . . darkness. That was the only thing that the wall was made out of. Solid darkness. Tai wished that he was somewhere else, anywhere than the room he was in at that moment. The room was lit by a candle that seemed to hold a black flame. Although the flame was black, it somehow managed to light the room up pretty well and Tai could see what was around him. Of course he found it hard to sit up, so he wasn't really able to see everything in the room, but he would have been able to if he had the energy to.
"We're in the place that is referred to as the 'Castle of the Night.' It is named this way because the whole castle is made up of darkness. These walls are very stable, although it seems that they are just shadows. It is rumored that an evil thing lives here and now I believe that the rumors are true. There is just something that doesn't seem to be right about this place. Now, are you sure that you're okay? You look to be too pale to me," Rena looked at him, worry evident on her features and Tai was reminded very vividly of Mrs. Kamiya.
"I'll be fine Rena, I know that I will be. I just hope that the others are okay. I saw them in my dream. They were being surrounded by an army of digimon that all obey Gennai and all of the digimon had to digivolve. Somehow my crest began to glow and Greymon digivolved to Metalgreymon and then they escaped in the air by using Birdramon and Kabuterimon. I just hope that they are alright. The Princess is with them, she holds the crest of Light. I need to know that she is okay," Tai winced as Rena pulled the bandage on his arm a bit too tight and she loosened it quickly in apology.
"The Princess is here too? This is really bad. If Gennai captures the both of them and gives you to his master, then the digital world is doomed! We have to find a way to warn the others away from here before the Princess is captured!" Rena was so caught up in her worries that she loosened the bandage too much and it fell off straight away. Rena swore under her breath and picked it up off the ground. Tai could see that it was covered in blood and he moved his head so that he could see the wound. It stretched the entire length of the outside of his arm and it was still bleeding slightly.
"We'll find a way," Tai felt dizzy again and he knew that it was his sickness kicking in again. He tried to fight the darkness that had come to claim him, but he was too weak and he fell into a dreamless slumber.
* * * * * * * * * * * *
Sora was in a gloomy mood as she sat on Birdramon's back, staring at the digivice although not actually seeing it. Her left hand was holding onto her crest of Love tightly and she was determined not to lose it. She couldn't believe what had happened over the past two days. She had found that her best friend was a Prince of a completely different world and that his little sister, whom she considered a sister too, was the Princess of the same world. Then he had been captured and they had had to fight digimon to get away with their lives and . . . he was gone. Whenever Sora was feeling down or was just lonely he had always been the one to cheer her up and the one to keep her company. Now he was gone and it was up to her to help him for once in her life and she felt as if she couldn't do it. At the battle she had been wishing that he was there to help them and she had felt something. She had turned to look and an orange light had exploded out of nowhere and had made Greymon digivolve to Metalgreymon. She just couldn't figure out if it had somehow been Tai's spirit.
"Hey Sora, are you okay?" Kari came and sat down next to Sora, although she had a bit of difficulty getting there without losing her balance.
"I'm fine Kari, I'm just worried, that's all," Sora smiled sadly at the young girl before turning her gaze back to her digivice. The dot that represented Tai was still now and it had been for a while. Sora just hoped that he wasn't hurt, she didn't know what she would do if something happened to her best friend.
"Sora, I know your worried about Tai, but he'll be fine. I've lived with him all of my life and I know that he will never give up on anything. Just have faith . . ." Kari drifted off and looked down at her crest and her Royal Necklace, blinking to get the tears out of her eyes. She was worried about her brother too and she just wanted him to be okay. The two girls sat in silence, both worrying about Tai, but for different reasons . . .
End of Chapter 6
Okay, this chapter is weird, but I like it. This fic is made up of whatever comes into my head when I'm typing, so it's not planned at all. Anyway, thank you to the people who have reviewed so far, I appreciate ALL of your comments! Please review again and I'll try to get the next chapter up tomorrow . . . but because of the time difference it might seem to be later than that . . . oh well, I'll get the chapter up as soon as I can! Till then, see you!
A Different Destiny, Chapter 6
Tai was vaguely aware that he and Renamon were being carried, but that was basically the extent of his knowledge other than pain. His right arm was throbbing and he could feel a warm liquid running all of the way down it. His head felt like it was being attacked by thousands of little needles and he barely had the strength to open his eyes. As far as he could tell, they were being carried through some sort of desert that was filled with street signs designed to confuse anybody that wandered into it. Tai couldn't see who was carrying him, but he could tell that whoever it was, they were confident about where they were going. He could see a building in the distance that seemed to be surrounded by a hazy black aura, but as Tai fell unconscious he was almost certain that he had just imagined it. Then the darkness took him again and he ceased to notice anything around him.
* * * * * * * * * * * *
Sora and the other digidestined were staring at the blood in shock, hoping that Gennai hadn't done anything drastic.
"Do you think that Tai and Renamon are okay?" Kari asked in a small voice, a bit traumatized by the speed of the events that had happened so far that day. It was only 2 in the afternoon and already she felt that she had been through enough events to last her a whole life time. She was only eight after all.
"Renamon will be fine; she can take care of herself. If she is with the Prince then he'll probably be fine as well. If they have been split apart, then I have no idea if either of them will be okay. The necklaces that the Prince and Princess have are able to give energy out to digimon that have sworn to protect them. Renamon swore to protect the Prince a long time ago, so I have no doubt that they'll be okay as long as they are together. Not many digimon know of the truth about the necklaces and I doubt that Gennai would know. As much as he liked to think that he was the most trusted man in the kingdom, it is not true. He was not told many things. I just hope that the Prince has enough energy left with his sickness," Leomon explained to the children, but that information didn't make the children feel any better.
"Maybe I can try and find out where he is on my lap top. There must be some way of tracking them," Izzy plugged his lap top into the wall and started typing away madly, trying to find anything that could help them find Tai. Sora's arm brushed against something attached to her hip as she went to brush her hair back behind her ear. It was the strange device that she had caught when they were back at summer camp. She pressed one of the buttons that seemed to catch her eye and immediately a screen that looked like a map came up. In one spot she could see 7 different coloured spots all in the same place. An orange dot was the only thing that moved on the screen and it was moving rapidly away from them. Sora knew just by looking at it that the orange dot represented Tai. After all, his crest had been orange, so she knew that it was him.
"I know where he is guys, look at this!" she called and everyone came crowding around to see what she was going on about, "This device that came to me at camp, it's showing where all of us are on this screen! This orange dot here has to be Tai, his crest was orange and I think that this device is tracking the device that he got. All of these other dots have to be the seven of us and this dot that is moving away has to be Tai as he is the only one not here. All we have to do is follow this and it will lead us straight to them!" The other digidestined all picked up their digivices and six 'clicks' echoed throughout the room as they all switched their digivices onto map mode. Leomon looked at the devices curiously.
"What are those little square things?" he asked, looking over Izzy's shoulder at the device the boy held in his hand, "And why do all of you have them?" Gomamon decided that he would answer Leomon's questions.
"These things are called digivices. They help us digimon digivolve somehow, as do the crests. As for why these guys have them, they are the digidestined, and their destiny is to protect this world and the other world that they came from," he told the big beast digimon, sounding as though he was reciting it from heart, "There is an ancient prophecy about these kids . . .
When what seems to be the truth
Is found to be nothing but a lie
The Chosen Ones will go to the Castle of the Night
And fight the evil they find.
To truly win their fight
They must find what they hide
Otherwise defeated they will be"
The other digimon in the room nodded as Gomamon finished, but all of the children were confused.
"What on Earth does that mean? It all sounds like a load of gibberish to me," Matt told Gomamon, who just shrugged and went back over to Joe, who was searching through his big bag for something.
"I never said that I knew what the prophecy meant, I just said that there was a prophecy. To understand it, we'll have to go to this 'Castle of the Night' and find out what's going on," Gomamon watched as Joe turned everything out of his bag before putting everything back in, obviously not finding what he was looking for, "What on Earth are you looking for Joe? You're turned everything out onto the floor and made a small mess. What are you so desperate to find?" Joe ignored him, still desperately searching for whatever it was he was looking for. After he had replaced everything in his bag, he turned to the others.
"Has anyone else lost their crest? Mine was around my neck, but it's not there anymore," Joe told them, feeling like a complete idiot, "I know that the crest didn't fall off by itself, but I don't remember taking it off. I don't usually lose things, so I am a bit confused." The other digidestined looked down to see if their crests were still around their necks, but to their surprise the crests were gone.
"My crest! Where is it?" Mimi screamed, using her hand to finger around her neck for the string that should have been holding her crest. Everyone else was doing the same, except for Sora. She was holding her crest in her palm, studying the strange pattern on it. Tai had told her that it was the crest of Love and she was wondering why her crest was the only one that hadn't gone missing.
"My crest is still here," Sora told the others quietly and they stopped their frantic searching for their own crests to look at her, "Its right here. Whilst we were talking to Gennai were any of you holding your crests?" They shook their heads in response to her question and Sora thought that she knew what had happened.
"Well, I held onto my crest for some reason unknown to me and it didn't go missing. Gennai must have managed to get them off all of you whilst we were talking somehow. Now he probably has seven of the crests because I doubt that Tai would be able to keep his crest away from Gennai. Maybe he can use the crests against us somehow," they fell silent for a minute before Agumon stood up from where he had been sitting on the ground.
"I don't care that the crests are missing. All I care about is getting Tai back and giving Gennai what he deserves. We don't know what condition Tai and Renamon are in and they could need us. Why are we sitting around here talking about prophecies?" it was obvious that Agumon's patience had run out completely and the children shook themselves out of their pensive moods.
"Your right Agumon. Tai needs our help, so let's go and help him!" T.K exclaimed, surprising everyone in the room, even his brother.
"I agree, we'd better get moving quickly," they stood up and made their way to the gate of the castle.
"Where do you think you traitors are going?" the children turned and faced what seemed to be an army of digimon, all wearing an armband on their arms that symbolized that they were a part of Gennai's army.
"We're doomed," Joe told them as the army began to close in around them. The other kids could only agree as the endless rows of digimon surrounded them . . .
* * * * * * * * * * * *
Tai awoke as he felt himself be thrown against a wall and he almost wanted to laugh at the quirk of fate.
'Aren't people supposed to fall unconscious once they have been slammed against the wall?' he thought to himself, trying to distract himself from all of the pain that his body was in. He felt as though someone had dragged him through barbed wire or something and his head continued to pound, refusing to stop. He heard a small groan come from his right, but he couldn't turn towards the noise. All he could do was stare at the wall in front of him and breathe, his body having no energy for anything other than that. His right arm seemed to have been bandaged roughly, but he couldn't remember who had done that.
'Hikari, what has happened to her?' he knew that she had been discovered as the Princess as Gennai had made a vague comment about it before he had picked up Tai and Rena, but Tai didn't know what had happened to his little sister after that. He closed his eyes as the world started to blur around him and his last thought before he became unconscious again was of his sister and of a certain red-haired girl that was probably also in danger.
~DREAM SEQUENCE~
Tai looked around and the only thing that he could see for miles was an army of digimon closing in around him. He was standing with Kari, T.K, Matt, Joe, Mimi, Izzy and their digimon, including Biyomon and Agumon. Sora stood apart from the group, separated from them by a lion digimon. The digimon pulled out his sword and seemed to be challenging the army of digimon all by himself. Tai knew that that couldn't be a good idea.
'Agumon, you've got to digivolve,' he thought and to his surprise, his digivice started to react.
"Agumon digivolve to . . . Greymon!" Agumon was surrounded by the orange glow and when he emerged from it he was Greymon.
"Greymon, how on Earth did you digivolve? Tai isn't even here!" Salamon asked the dinosaur digimon, who looked to be almost as confused as the other digimon.
"I'm not really sure myself. Maybe Tai is in trouble, or it may just be that he knows that we are in trouble," Greymon turned back to the army of digimon, before glancing back at the others, "You know, I may have digivolved, but I won't be able to fight alone. What are you waiting for guys? Digivolve!" Seven beams of different coloured light flew from the seven digivices and wrapped themselves around their respective digimon.
"Biyomon digivolve to . . . Birdramon!"
"Salamon digivolve to . . . Gatomon!"
"Patamon digivolve to . . . Angemon!"
"Gomamon digivolve to . . . Ikkakumon!"
"Palmon digivolve to . . . Togemon!"
"Tentomon digivolve to . . . Kabuterimon!"
"Gabumon digivolve to . . . Garurumon!"
The newly digivolved digimon stood in a group that circled the children, to make sure that they were safe.
"Nova Blast!"
"Wing Blade!"
"Lightening Claw!"
"Hand of Faith!"
"Harpoon Torpedo!"
"Needle Spray!"
"Electro Shocker!"
"Howling Blaster!"
The digimon attacked and some of the army disappeared after turning into dust. However many digimon they destroyed though, more came to take their place.
"Sora look out!" Tai called, knowing that she wouldn't hear him. He dived into the way of the attack that had managed to get past Birdramon and his crest flared up. An orange glow came up out of nowhere and surrounded Greymon again.
"Greymon digivolve to . . . Metalgreymon!" the brown skull-like thing on Greymon's head was encased in metal, as was Greymon's left arm. Long spikes that were also metal came out of Greymon's back, giving Metalgreymon wings. A metal chest plate also appeared on Metalgreymon. He quickly turned and managed to blast the attack heading for Sora out of the way with missiles that came from the metal plate on his chest. Sora was staring at the spot where Tai was, not noticing anything else.
"Did anybody else see the orange glow that came from over there?" she asked, pointing straight at Tai. The other digidestined turned and looked, but they saw nothing there.
"Sora, nothing is over there. We have to get out of here. Birdramon, Kabuterimon, can you guys fly us out of here?" Izzy called to the two flying digimon, "It seems that the only way we can escape is by using the skies."
"Sure, as long as the others de-digivolve," Birdramon told him confidently, whilst protecting Sora from another attack, "Quickly divide into two groups and hop onto our backs." The children did as they were told and soon their digimon de-digivolved and did the same. Only Metalgreymon remained in his ultimate form as he could also fly. Tai felt himself fade from the scene and he closed his eyes . . .
~END OF DREAM SEQUENCE~
Tai found himself back in the place where he had been thrown before, with Rena leaning over him.
"Are you alright Prince?" she asked, retying the bandage on Tai's right arm, "You were thrashing around quite a bit in your sleep and your crest started to glow. Are you feeling okay?" Tai groaned softly as his forehead started to burn, but he was determined to answer Rena.
"I-I'm okay, I guess. W-Where are we?" his eyes were beginning to focus better than they had been and he could now see that the wall was made out of . . . darkness. That was the only thing that the wall was made out of. Solid darkness. Tai wished that he was somewhere else, anywhere than the room he was in at that moment. The room was lit by a candle that seemed to hold a black flame. Although the flame was black, it somehow managed to light the room up pretty well and Tai could see what was around him. Of course he found it hard to sit up, so he wasn't really able to see everything in the room, but he would have been able to if he had the energy to.
"We're in the place that is referred to as the 'Castle of the Night.' It is named this way because the whole castle is made up of darkness. These walls are very stable, although it seems that they are just shadows. It is rumored that an evil thing lives here and now I believe that the rumors are true. There is just something that doesn't seem to be right about this place. Now, are you sure that you're okay? You look to be too pale to me," Rena looked at him, worry evident on her features and Tai was reminded very vividly of Mrs. Kamiya.
"I'll be fine Rena, I know that I will be. I just hope that the others are okay. I saw them in my dream. They were being surrounded by an army of digimon that all obey Gennai and all of the digimon had to digivolve. Somehow my crest began to glow and Greymon digivolved to Metalgreymon and then they escaped in the air by using Birdramon and Kabuterimon. I just hope that they are alright. The Princess is with them, she holds the crest of Light. I need to know that she is okay," Tai winced as Rena pulled the bandage on his arm a bit too tight and she loosened it quickly in apology.
"The Princess is here too? This is really bad. If Gennai captures the both of them and gives you to his master, then the digital world is doomed! We have to find a way to warn the others away from here before the Princess is captured!" Rena was so caught up in her worries that she loosened the bandage too much and it fell off straight away. Rena swore under her breath and picked it up off the ground. Tai could see that it was covered in blood and he moved his head so that he could see the wound. It stretched the entire length of the outside of his arm and it was still bleeding slightly.
"We'll find a way," Tai felt dizzy again and he knew that it was his sickness kicking in again. He tried to fight the darkness that had come to claim him, but he was too weak and he fell into a dreamless slumber.
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Sora was in a gloomy mood as she sat on Birdramon's back, staring at the digivice although not actually seeing it. Her left hand was holding onto her crest of Love tightly and she was determined not to lose it. She couldn't believe what had happened over the past two days. She had found that her best friend was a Prince of a completely different world and that his little sister, whom she considered a sister too, was the Princess of the same world. Then he had been captured and they had had to fight digimon to get away with their lives and . . . he was gone. Whenever Sora was feeling down or was just lonely he had always been the one to cheer her up and the one to keep her company. Now he was gone and it was up to her to help him for once in her life and she felt as if she couldn't do it. At the battle she had been wishing that he was there to help them and she had felt something. She had turned to look and an orange light had exploded out of nowhere and had made Greymon digivolve to Metalgreymon. She just couldn't figure out if it had somehow been Tai's spirit.
"Hey Sora, are you okay?" Kari came and sat down next to Sora, although she had a bit of difficulty getting there without losing her balance.
"I'm fine Kari, I'm just worried, that's all," Sora smiled sadly at the young girl before turning her gaze back to her digivice. The dot that represented Tai was still now and it had been for a while. Sora just hoped that he wasn't hurt, she didn't know what she would do if something happened to her best friend.
"Sora, I know your worried about Tai, but he'll be fine. I've lived with him all of my life and I know that he will never give up on anything. Just have faith . . ." Kari drifted off and looked down at her crest and her Royal Necklace, blinking to get the tears out of her eyes. She was worried about her brother too and she just wanted him to be okay. The two girls sat in silence, both worrying about Tai, but for different reasons . . .
End of Chapter 6
Okay, this chapter is weird, but I like it. This fic is made up of whatever comes into my head when I'm typing, so it's not planned at all. Anyway, thank you to the people who have reviewed so far, I appreciate ALL of your comments! Please review again and I'll try to get the next chapter up tomorrow . . . but because of the time difference it might seem to be later than that . . . oh well, I'll get the chapter up as soon as I can! Till then, see you!