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A Different Destiny, Chapter 10
Tai was floating in a formless place that was filled with darkness. He was trapped there, unable to go more than four steps across the seemingly endless darkness. The most frustrating thing about being trapped there was that he had no control over what his body was doing. And he could see that. There was a giant screen on one side of the place he was trapped in which showed what his eyes could see. In other words, the darkness had trapped Tai's conscious thoughts at the back of his own mind. He watched through the screen as he walked down a long dark hallway with Renamon at his side. They were being led by what seemed to be an extremely large bat.
"NO! What am I doing, siding with these evil beings? I am the Prince of the Digital World and I believe in what is good and true. The digidestined are the people that I should be siding with, I should be fighting these shadows, not joining them!" he managed to reclaim control of himself for two seconds, but then the darkness seized him again and threw him back to his cell at the back of his mind.
"Are you alright Prince of Darkness?" the bat asked him, bowing its head a little as it did so. Tai's dark self just waved his hand as if to dismiss it.
"I'm fine, just a little problem that I took care of easily," Dark Tai's voice was cold and harsh as he spoke to the bat like it was just a speck of dirt that he was walking on. Rena laughed.
"I know what you mean Prince. They like to put up a fight, don't they? It's pointless and yet they still try and regain control," the two of them laughed cruelly and the bat just shuddered at the sound of their cruel delight. He continued to lead them down the corridor until they reached a series of three doors. He opened the door in the center for them and they went through it without even acknowledging his presence. The good Tai tried again to regain himself.
"Kari, you've got to help me! The light always defeats the darkness! Please lend me some of your light so that I can fight this darkness that has completely taken over my mind!" he pleaded, but his plea was just rebounded by the stifling shadows in his mind. He sighed and sank back to the ground, knowing that it was hopeless. But he also knew that he couldn't give up. He watched where they were going through the screen and his eyes widened as he saw who his enemy was. . .
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Kari huddled closer to T.K as they wandered around inside the Castle.
"Something isn't right. . . Tai's in trouble somewhere, I know he is! There is something that is really wrong about this place. It's like the darkness is waiting for us to come, waiting for us to make a mistake or reach a certain place. We're in trouble. I know that we are!" Kari kept close to T.K, feeling a tiny bit comforted just by his presence. She knew that they would have to stick together if they were going to get out of there alive and well.
"I know that there is definitely something wrong here. Everything is dark and it seems that the path we have to take is filled with shadows that are making fun of us as we speak. This place is filled with hate," Sora agreed, eyeing the shadows that managed to show up on the dark walls of the castle, silently praying to God that they would escape unharmed.
"I see that you have finally arrived here. You sure took your time about it," the digidestined all quickly turned their heads at the sound of a dull but cruel voice coming from their right. They hadn't even seen the staircase that the figure was coming down; the darkness covered it too much. The voice was male and it was hauntingly familiar to the seven children.
"I wouldn't get too comfortable whilst you are here though, because you won't be staying long," this female voice came from the same area as the male's voice and they could barely see two figures, one human and one digimon, standing at the top of a staircase. The female's voice was deep and filled with hate, but in a way it was also familiar. The digidestined unconsciously moved closer together, shuddering at the cruelty present in the voices. They were afraid; for some reason they had lost all of their courage.
"W-Who are you?" Matt yelled towards the two silhouettes of the figures, hoping that they were in front of him, not behind him. He was wishing that Tai would show up so that he wouldn't have to face the figures as the leader; he wanted to have his friends around him and he wanted to work with his friends, not lead them.
"I thought that you guys would know, but I guess. . ." the voice trailed off and they watched as one of the silhouettes doubled over, whether in pain or something else they could not tell, but the figure was shaking it's head as though trying to dispel something. Then a new voice, a warm and familiar voice flowed down towards them urgently, "You have to get out of here guys, it's not safe! They've managed to take over Rena's mind and mine also, though I can control it sometimes. You have to get out of. . ." Tai's voice trailed off and the human figure stood upright again. The hearts of the digidestined sank as they realised that they were going to have to go against Tai.
"How are we supposed to fight against Tai and Rena?" Kari asked her voice quiet and she sounded like she was almost about to cry. Sora didn't blame her. After all, Tai was Kari's brother and Rena had looked after her as a baby, so of course she would feel sad. Sora felt tears creep up into her own eyes and she tried to blink them away. Tai, her best friend from when she was six and the guy that she was in love with, was fighting a long battle against the darkness that she couldn't help him with and if he lost then she would be forced to fight him. A single tear slipped down her cheek and she wiped it away quickly, before anybody else could see it.
"We won't have to Kari, and we wouldn't anyway," T.K reassured her, squeezing her hand comfortingly, "Just because the darkness has taken over their minds for now doesn't mean that they're gone forever."
"Don't give up Tai; you have to keep on fighting the darkness!" Sora called to him desperately, hoping that he would be able to hear her somewhere, "You too Rena! I believe that you can do it!" her words seemed to have no affect on Rena, but once again there was a change in the human figure. The dark light in the hall brightened suddenly and the digidestined could actually see the figures standing at the top of a staircase, instead of just their silhouettes. Tai's eyes were dull and blank, as though something was shielding him from himself. Sora assumed that that was the darkness that was keeping the real Tai away from them. Rena's eyes were also dull, as she was under the same treatment as Tai was. Sora saw that in Tai's eyes there would be sudden flecks of warmth, as though the real Tai was beating the dark Tai, but then his eyes would go back to the dull colour that symbolized the darkness.
"Please Rena, please don't hurt us! I don't want to fight you, you're my friend! Remember us please, and remember your promise to my parents, please Rena, I know you can do it!" the light of Kari's crest began to glow again and the glow surrounded the digimon nurse and Tai. The glow surrounded them for a minute before it disappeared. As the light left them, the two figures fell to the ground, unable to support themselves after all of the energy they had used up in trying to fight the darkness. Joe rushed over to them to check that they were okay.
"Are they alright Joe?" Izzy asked the aspiring doctor, watching as the boy checked the pulse and breathing of his two 'patients'.
"Yeah, they'll be fine. They're just unconscious, probably because they used up all of their energy in their fight against the darkness. They'll wake up soon," his words were punctuated with a small groan of pain from Tai before the thirteen year old opened his eyes and blinked, taken aback by the sight of the rest of the digidestined leaning over him.
"Uh . . . hi guys! What happened back there?" he asked as he sat up slowly, being careful not to bang his right arm against anything. It was still aching from the huge cut that stretched down it.
"Well, Kari told Rena to remember things and then her crest lit up and sent light towards the two of you. Then you were freed from the darkness and you fell unconscious for a few seconds, and now you're up and we're talking to you," Matt told him quietly, relieved that he was awake. Agumon came up beside Tai and glared at him.
"Next time you get taken away, TELL ME! You know very well that you're supposed to contact me when you're in danger, so why didn't you?" Tai leaned forward and whispered something to the small dinosaur digimon, who nodded and smiled at what Tai told him.
"Ah, I see. Maybe I was a bit too hasty to make my judgment," Agumon admitted, after hearing what Tai whispered to him. He looked from Joe to Mimi, then from Kari to T.K, then from Matt to Izzy and then he finally looked from Sora to Tai, "You were right then Tai. I see that now." Tai smiled and slowly got to his feet, his energy having been recovered somehow. Rena also stirred, but continued to sleep, needing to get her energy levels higher.
"I see that you have been freed Digital Prince, but that it of no consequence. You will be defeated now, as will your digidestined friends. Then nothing shall stand in my way for taking over the digital world," the digidestined's gaze snapped towards the bottom of the staircase, where Gennai stood. Behind him was a huge digimon that was completely black. The base of the digimon was a huge box and on it was a figure that looked to be almost human. He was attached to the box by two pipes and he looked very angry. It was he would had spoken, "I am Apocalymon and I am going to be the master of the digital world! Now my servants, defeat them!" Gennai stepped forward and on either side of him were two bat digimon.
"Come on guys, let's get them!" Zudomon called to his friends and they immediately split into three groups. Zudomon and Lilymon attacked the bat digimon that Izzy called a DemiDevimon, the one that was on Gennai's left, whilst Magnangemon and Angewomon attacked the other one. That left Megakabuterimon, Weregarurumon, Garudamon and Agumon to fight Gennai.
"Come on Agumon, digivolve!" Tai called to his digimon partner and the orange glow surrounded Agumon again.
"Agumon digivolve to . . . Greymon! Greymon digivolve to . . . Metalgreymon!" the group of four digimon rushed to attack Gennai, who easily dodged their attempts to pin him down.
"Wing Blade!" Garudamon let her attack go, aiming for the ground in front of Gennai. It ripped the ground open in front of him, causing him to trip before he could reach the children.
"Mega Electro Shocker!"
"Missile Blaster!" (Sorry, I've forgotten Metalgreymon's attack)
"Garuru Kick!" the three digimon launched their attacks at the same time, but even all of this power didn't seem to make a scratch on Gennai. Soon though, all eight digimon were against Gennai, as the two DemiDevimons hadn't been that hard to defeat.
"You digidestined will never defeat me! You are not united towards a common goal; you are all over the place! You will suffer from the power of my wrath!" Gennai laughed manically and Tai smirked at him.
"At the moment we DO have a common goal and that is to destroy you!" All eight of the digidestined digimon surrounded Gennai and charged up their attacks.
"NOW!" Metalgreymon called and they all let their attacks loose. They connected with their target and Gennai screamed in pain before he burst into million upon millions of pieces of data. Tai covered Kari's eyes and Matt did the same to T.K. They didn't want the youngsters to see what was going on.
"You digidestined are actually quite good. You managed to destroy my servants, but you won't defeat me!" Apocalymon sent a claw attack straight at Tai, who only just managed to get out of the way before it went straight through him.
"We'd better watch out guys, we don't know what this guy is capable of. Metalgreymon, you'll have to digivolve again. Apocalymon seems to be too tough to handle in only your ultimate form," his digimon nodded at Tai's instructions and the other digidestined watched as Metalgreymon transformed in a ray of orange light.
"Metalgreymon digivolve to . . . Wargreymon!" Tai felt weak again and he knew that he had used up a lot of energy making Metalgreymon digivolve, but he also knew that he had to. He leaned back slightly against the rail that trailed all of the way down the stairs, hoping that none of the digidestined would see that he was almost out of energy. Wargreymon and the other digimon surrounded Apocalymon, ready to attack.
"You digidestined will never defeat me because I know of something that was in your past and soon you will all know it too. Using this I will rule the world!" Apocalymon laughed insanely and all of the digidestined felt a chill go down their backs . . .
End of Chapter 10
Sorry this is short, but this story is getting harder and harder to write, but I'll finish it. I'm going to finish my other fic too. Don't worry, I'll write another chapter of this fic after I finish my Geography project on the weekend *shudders* Now I remember why I am dropping Geography as soon as I can. . . Anyway, please review, even though this chapter was short and really stupid as I can't describe battles really well. Please review!
A Different Destiny, Chapter 10
Tai was floating in a formless place that was filled with darkness. He was trapped there, unable to go more than four steps across the seemingly endless darkness. The most frustrating thing about being trapped there was that he had no control over what his body was doing. And he could see that. There was a giant screen on one side of the place he was trapped in which showed what his eyes could see. In other words, the darkness had trapped Tai's conscious thoughts at the back of his own mind. He watched through the screen as he walked down a long dark hallway with Renamon at his side. They were being led by what seemed to be an extremely large bat.
"NO! What am I doing, siding with these evil beings? I am the Prince of the Digital World and I believe in what is good and true. The digidestined are the people that I should be siding with, I should be fighting these shadows, not joining them!" he managed to reclaim control of himself for two seconds, but then the darkness seized him again and threw him back to his cell at the back of his mind.
"Are you alright Prince of Darkness?" the bat asked him, bowing its head a little as it did so. Tai's dark self just waved his hand as if to dismiss it.
"I'm fine, just a little problem that I took care of easily," Dark Tai's voice was cold and harsh as he spoke to the bat like it was just a speck of dirt that he was walking on. Rena laughed.
"I know what you mean Prince. They like to put up a fight, don't they? It's pointless and yet they still try and regain control," the two of them laughed cruelly and the bat just shuddered at the sound of their cruel delight. He continued to lead them down the corridor until they reached a series of three doors. He opened the door in the center for them and they went through it without even acknowledging his presence. The good Tai tried again to regain himself.
"Kari, you've got to help me! The light always defeats the darkness! Please lend me some of your light so that I can fight this darkness that has completely taken over my mind!" he pleaded, but his plea was just rebounded by the stifling shadows in his mind. He sighed and sank back to the ground, knowing that it was hopeless. But he also knew that he couldn't give up. He watched where they were going through the screen and his eyes widened as he saw who his enemy was. . .
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Kari huddled closer to T.K as they wandered around inside the Castle.
"Something isn't right. . . Tai's in trouble somewhere, I know he is! There is something that is really wrong about this place. It's like the darkness is waiting for us to come, waiting for us to make a mistake or reach a certain place. We're in trouble. I know that we are!" Kari kept close to T.K, feeling a tiny bit comforted just by his presence. She knew that they would have to stick together if they were going to get out of there alive and well.
"I know that there is definitely something wrong here. Everything is dark and it seems that the path we have to take is filled with shadows that are making fun of us as we speak. This place is filled with hate," Sora agreed, eyeing the shadows that managed to show up on the dark walls of the castle, silently praying to God that they would escape unharmed.
"I see that you have finally arrived here. You sure took your time about it," the digidestined all quickly turned their heads at the sound of a dull but cruel voice coming from their right. They hadn't even seen the staircase that the figure was coming down; the darkness covered it too much. The voice was male and it was hauntingly familiar to the seven children.
"I wouldn't get too comfortable whilst you are here though, because you won't be staying long," this female voice came from the same area as the male's voice and they could barely see two figures, one human and one digimon, standing at the top of a staircase. The female's voice was deep and filled with hate, but in a way it was also familiar. The digidestined unconsciously moved closer together, shuddering at the cruelty present in the voices. They were afraid; for some reason they had lost all of their courage.
"W-Who are you?" Matt yelled towards the two silhouettes of the figures, hoping that they were in front of him, not behind him. He was wishing that Tai would show up so that he wouldn't have to face the figures as the leader; he wanted to have his friends around him and he wanted to work with his friends, not lead them.
"I thought that you guys would know, but I guess. . ." the voice trailed off and they watched as one of the silhouettes doubled over, whether in pain or something else they could not tell, but the figure was shaking it's head as though trying to dispel something. Then a new voice, a warm and familiar voice flowed down towards them urgently, "You have to get out of here guys, it's not safe! They've managed to take over Rena's mind and mine also, though I can control it sometimes. You have to get out of. . ." Tai's voice trailed off and the human figure stood upright again. The hearts of the digidestined sank as they realised that they were going to have to go against Tai.
"How are we supposed to fight against Tai and Rena?" Kari asked her voice quiet and she sounded like she was almost about to cry. Sora didn't blame her. After all, Tai was Kari's brother and Rena had looked after her as a baby, so of course she would feel sad. Sora felt tears creep up into her own eyes and she tried to blink them away. Tai, her best friend from when she was six and the guy that she was in love with, was fighting a long battle against the darkness that she couldn't help him with and if he lost then she would be forced to fight him. A single tear slipped down her cheek and she wiped it away quickly, before anybody else could see it.
"We won't have to Kari, and we wouldn't anyway," T.K reassured her, squeezing her hand comfortingly, "Just because the darkness has taken over their minds for now doesn't mean that they're gone forever."
"Don't give up Tai; you have to keep on fighting the darkness!" Sora called to him desperately, hoping that he would be able to hear her somewhere, "You too Rena! I believe that you can do it!" her words seemed to have no affect on Rena, but once again there was a change in the human figure. The dark light in the hall brightened suddenly and the digidestined could actually see the figures standing at the top of a staircase, instead of just their silhouettes. Tai's eyes were dull and blank, as though something was shielding him from himself. Sora assumed that that was the darkness that was keeping the real Tai away from them. Rena's eyes were also dull, as she was under the same treatment as Tai was. Sora saw that in Tai's eyes there would be sudden flecks of warmth, as though the real Tai was beating the dark Tai, but then his eyes would go back to the dull colour that symbolized the darkness.
"Please Rena, please don't hurt us! I don't want to fight you, you're my friend! Remember us please, and remember your promise to my parents, please Rena, I know you can do it!" the light of Kari's crest began to glow again and the glow surrounded the digimon nurse and Tai. The glow surrounded them for a minute before it disappeared. As the light left them, the two figures fell to the ground, unable to support themselves after all of the energy they had used up in trying to fight the darkness. Joe rushed over to them to check that they were okay.
"Are they alright Joe?" Izzy asked the aspiring doctor, watching as the boy checked the pulse and breathing of his two 'patients'.
"Yeah, they'll be fine. They're just unconscious, probably because they used up all of their energy in their fight against the darkness. They'll wake up soon," his words were punctuated with a small groan of pain from Tai before the thirteen year old opened his eyes and blinked, taken aback by the sight of the rest of the digidestined leaning over him.
"Uh . . . hi guys! What happened back there?" he asked as he sat up slowly, being careful not to bang his right arm against anything. It was still aching from the huge cut that stretched down it.
"Well, Kari told Rena to remember things and then her crest lit up and sent light towards the two of you. Then you were freed from the darkness and you fell unconscious for a few seconds, and now you're up and we're talking to you," Matt told him quietly, relieved that he was awake. Agumon came up beside Tai and glared at him.
"Next time you get taken away, TELL ME! You know very well that you're supposed to contact me when you're in danger, so why didn't you?" Tai leaned forward and whispered something to the small dinosaur digimon, who nodded and smiled at what Tai told him.
"Ah, I see. Maybe I was a bit too hasty to make my judgment," Agumon admitted, after hearing what Tai whispered to him. He looked from Joe to Mimi, then from Kari to T.K, then from Matt to Izzy and then he finally looked from Sora to Tai, "You were right then Tai. I see that now." Tai smiled and slowly got to his feet, his energy having been recovered somehow. Rena also stirred, but continued to sleep, needing to get her energy levels higher.
"I see that you have been freed Digital Prince, but that it of no consequence. You will be defeated now, as will your digidestined friends. Then nothing shall stand in my way for taking over the digital world," the digidestined's gaze snapped towards the bottom of the staircase, where Gennai stood. Behind him was a huge digimon that was completely black. The base of the digimon was a huge box and on it was a figure that looked to be almost human. He was attached to the box by two pipes and he looked very angry. It was he would had spoken, "I am Apocalymon and I am going to be the master of the digital world! Now my servants, defeat them!" Gennai stepped forward and on either side of him were two bat digimon.
"Come on guys, let's get them!" Zudomon called to his friends and they immediately split into three groups. Zudomon and Lilymon attacked the bat digimon that Izzy called a DemiDevimon, the one that was on Gennai's left, whilst Magnangemon and Angewomon attacked the other one. That left Megakabuterimon, Weregarurumon, Garudamon and Agumon to fight Gennai.
"Come on Agumon, digivolve!" Tai called to his digimon partner and the orange glow surrounded Agumon again.
"Agumon digivolve to . . . Greymon! Greymon digivolve to . . . Metalgreymon!" the group of four digimon rushed to attack Gennai, who easily dodged their attempts to pin him down.
"Wing Blade!" Garudamon let her attack go, aiming for the ground in front of Gennai. It ripped the ground open in front of him, causing him to trip before he could reach the children.
"Mega Electro Shocker!"
"Missile Blaster!" (Sorry, I've forgotten Metalgreymon's attack)
"Garuru Kick!" the three digimon launched their attacks at the same time, but even all of this power didn't seem to make a scratch on Gennai. Soon though, all eight digimon were against Gennai, as the two DemiDevimons hadn't been that hard to defeat.
"You digidestined will never defeat me! You are not united towards a common goal; you are all over the place! You will suffer from the power of my wrath!" Gennai laughed manically and Tai smirked at him.
"At the moment we DO have a common goal and that is to destroy you!" All eight of the digidestined digimon surrounded Gennai and charged up their attacks.
"NOW!" Metalgreymon called and they all let their attacks loose. They connected with their target and Gennai screamed in pain before he burst into million upon millions of pieces of data. Tai covered Kari's eyes and Matt did the same to T.K. They didn't want the youngsters to see what was going on.
"You digidestined are actually quite good. You managed to destroy my servants, but you won't defeat me!" Apocalymon sent a claw attack straight at Tai, who only just managed to get out of the way before it went straight through him.
"We'd better watch out guys, we don't know what this guy is capable of. Metalgreymon, you'll have to digivolve again. Apocalymon seems to be too tough to handle in only your ultimate form," his digimon nodded at Tai's instructions and the other digidestined watched as Metalgreymon transformed in a ray of orange light.
"Metalgreymon digivolve to . . . Wargreymon!" Tai felt weak again and he knew that he had used up a lot of energy making Metalgreymon digivolve, but he also knew that he had to. He leaned back slightly against the rail that trailed all of the way down the stairs, hoping that none of the digidestined would see that he was almost out of energy. Wargreymon and the other digimon surrounded Apocalymon, ready to attack.
"You digidestined will never defeat me because I know of something that was in your past and soon you will all know it too. Using this I will rule the world!" Apocalymon laughed insanely and all of the digidestined felt a chill go down their backs . . .
End of Chapter 10
Sorry this is short, but this story is getting harder and harder to write, but I'll finish it. I'm going to finish my other fic too. Don't worry, I'll write another chapter of this fic after I finish my Geography project on the weekend *shudders* Now I remember why I am dropping Geography as soon as I can. . . Anyway, please review, even though this chapter was short and really stupid as I can't describe battles really well. Please review!