Chapter 2- The Change
It had been a few weeks since Tai's eyes had ah . . . changed. His parents had found out one way or another. Their reactions weren't very cooperative, but they became adapted to it eventually. Kari helped in that, as well as telling the rest of the gang.
::Flashback::
"Maybe Gennai will know what's wrong with ya Tai." Izzy suggested.
Tai narrowed his eyes at Izzy, "What?"
"Well, I'm saying that Gennai might know what happened to you."
"You mean 'what's happening' right?" Tai pointed to the yellow, jagged markings on his neck and chin that had appeared over the weekend a few weeks back.
"Maybe you shouldn't worry about it for a while unless something else happens to you." Matt suggested with a grin on his face, he had thought it was kinda funny after he got use to it.
"Well, incase you haven't noticed, Matt, I'm turning into a lizard I have a lot of things to worry about." Tai snapped back.
::End of flashback::
Tai was walking through the digital world, hoping to find Gennai. He wanted to ask a lot of questions. He wanted to ask about the dream, about the screaming voice in his head, and mostly about what was happening to him. It was dark and lonesome. Tai came to a clearing in the forest. Ferns came up to knees, making his legs itch. A sudden pain came into his chest, and he fell to the ground. He supported himself with one arm, while holding his chest with the other. The pain was increasing and Tai yelped in pain. With the last of his strength he looked up to find a figure standing before him. Then he blacked out.
* * *
When Tai awoke, something felt different about himself. He didn't know what it was but there was definitely something different. Maybe it was the fact at how weak and tired he felt. He could barely move. Then he got a view of his surroundings. He was laying on a bunch of hay. The place he laying on was small and compact, and there were bars surrounding him, he was in a cage. Why was he in a cage? The room he was in, looked like a big control center. He heard the door open and used most of his strength to move his head in the direction of the door. Through the door came . . . Gennai! Gennai seemed different as well. He had a sort of shadowiness over his face. He gave Tai a sort of evil grin and walked over to the cage. He bent down on a knee and just stared at Tai. Tai didn't like the look he was giving him but was too weak to look away. He smirked, and then spoke. "Well, well who would have ever thought. I thought you were extinct Tai."
* What? * Tai thought to him self. He was too weak to speak.
"I never thought you would still be alive. See." There was a pause. "Now I can tell you anything and everything, and you can't tell anyone."
*What is he talking about? What did he mean by he couldn't tell anyone?*
Gennai continued, "As the digidestined the old man told you and you friends his name was Gennai and he helped through your troubles and fights. This amused me, I figured you would believe me if I befriended you." He stood up and folded his arms across his chest. "So I began to grow a rat tail, and by the time you had returned from defeating Venomyotismon it was a good enough length. So I used a ghost digimon to speak through your little sister and give a logical story. It was all a lie. I'm not Gennai. In fact everything this form has told is one big lye. You thought your sister was special. She's just as worthless as the rest of you kids. Your sister. Hmm. She is too easy, and she expects evil to show its true form. She expects everyone and everything to tell the truth, and she's too weak and dense. She probably wouldn't know if the devil came to her disguised as a ball of light. To her anything bright must be from heaven, Ha! And to think you risked your life and everyone else's lives for her. What do you think she's gonna think or even say for that matter when she sees you like this? Bared up like in a prison? Do you think she's even gonna recognize you? I bet I wouldn't have even recognized you if I hadn't seen you before you changed." There were voices at the end of the hall. The man once known as Gennai gave another evil grin, "Well . . . that would be them. Lets see how well your friends know you.
The man left the room. Tai was so confused. All the bad things he had said about Gennai (the real one) and the digidestined and . . . and Kari. He had said such awful things about Kari. He heard voices again. He heard the man who called him self Gennai talking with the voice that was always so nice and comforting. He heard the voices of his friends talking happily as the greeted and talked with "Gennai." The door reopened and in came all the digidestined. Mimi, Izzy, Joe, Sora, - he flared his nostrils and rolled his eyes at her entrance - Matt, Yolie, Cody, Davis, Tk and Kari. It was like those two were glued at the hip. Tai felt his eyes close from a sudden attack of weakness. All he could do was listen to the voices. Mimi: Where is it Gennai? "Gennai": Over there. (He pointed at the cage) Everyone slowly walked toward the cage containing Tai. Matt: What the hell is it?
Izzy and Cody chocked back a gasp. Everyone looked at them. Izzy: Well we . . . ah know what it is but ah . . . I don't think. Cody: Ya see this animal is . . . well extinct. At least it should be. Davis: Well what is it? Tk: Yeah come on what is it? Cody: It's a. . . . Izzy: Velociraptor.
A WHAT?!?! Tai thought in his head, considering he couldn't speak. He had been trying desperately to talk but there was some around his mouth keeping him from opening his mouth. Joe: A What? Izzy: Velociraptor. It has a long snout, binocular vision, six inch claws on each foot. Well paleontologists say they were smarter than dolphins or whales, even primates. Sora: Why does he seem so weak and motionless? "Gennai": I found him in the forest and I thought he might cause a major problem in the digital world. I hit him with a shoot of morphine and brought him here. Sora: Morphine? Izzy: It's a drug that puts you in a temporary paralyzation. It leaves your muscles and nerves very weak for a while.
Tai just lay there, listening. He realized that what was keeping his mouth from opening was a mussel. He wanted to say something, anything to get them out of there. He felt a very small amount of strength come to him, so he used every bit of it to open his eyes. Everyone looked back at Tai as he made strange moaning sounds from his closed mouth. The moans were depressing and mournful, as though he was crying for help that no one would answer. Tai felt a sudden burst of energy and stretched his jaw snapping the mussel in two. After breaking the brace of the mussel, he began making a soft, yet horrific chirping noise. The ceiling of the cage was so low that he couldn't stand. Everyone, including Tai, was amazed at the strength of him and the noise it was making. Tai did his best to speak words they would understand but he couldn't say anything, not even his own name. This must have been what "Gennai" was talking about when he said he wouldn't be able to tell anyone anything. He could speak, but it was just a different language. As he yelped, he saw the fear on Kari's face stopped him, and he settled back down. Laying his head back down he closed his eyes again. Mimi: So where do you think he came from Gennai. Tai started twisting his head around in the hay. Gennai: He came from another Earth just like yours but this one, never had the accident that wiped out the dinosaurs. Matt: Then how the hell did it get here? "Gennai" shrugged his shoulders. Everyone else was looking at the creature. It was shifting its' body from side to side against the sides of the cage. The cage began to rock. Everyone immediately realized what it was doing but it was too late. Before anyone, even "Gennai" could reach for the cage, it toppled over onto its' side. The creature, leaped out of the door and landed gracefully on the tiled floor. Everyone wanted to run but something stopped them. The creature didn't make a move. He just stood there. Tai was mocking "Gennai." He couldn't do anything that would make the others suspicious. Izzy: You have any morphine left?
Tai's eyes widened. Now he would be put back into that cage without anyone thinking anything of it. "Gennai": Yeah it's on the counter over there.
He pointed to the counter. As Izzy walked slowly over to the counter, Tai's instincts took over him and he charged Gennai. He knocked him down and ran for the door. It was closed yet not locked, if he could only open the door. He looked back to see Izzy making his way, almost running, back to Gennai. Tai charged Izzy making him drop the Tranquilizer gun and dart. Joe kicked the gun over toward Gennai just as Matt, who was already sitting down, leapt for the dart. Tai stared as Matt threw the dart across the floor. He backed up as the Tranquilizer was raised at him. He thought Gennai did a good job at acting good. He felt the sting of the dart as it hit his chest.
As the limp body hit the floor Kari whispered, "He did so much to get away from here."
Yolie heard her and replied, "It might have hurt someone. It was the best thing to do. Besides Gennai will take care of it." But Kari wasn't listening. She was staring at the yellow, and jagged markings on the creature's neck, and lower jaw.
* * *
The room was dark and quiet. Gennai had gone of somewhere, leaving the cage unguarded. In a small corner in the darkness an animal lay motionless and unconscious in a small cage. In the darkness the door to the room opened. Three or four bodies crept through the crack in the door. There were a few hand motions, and one of the bodies went over to the cabinets and started looking through them. When the body came to one individual cabinet, it took out Tai's digivice, and two necklaces. Mean while the other three bodies went over to the cage. The one in the center quietly and slowly reached a hand in and put it on the creature's head. Then it spoke in a low voice, but not a whisper. "He's sedated," The creature gave a moan then the voice continued "really heavily." The voice sounded like a girl's voice, "Here, help me get him out." She said this and immediately the other two bodies reached their hands in, and lightly the bodies carried the unconscious creature out of the cages' door and walked quickly out of the room, followed closely by the fourth body.
It had been a few weeks since Tai's eyes had ah . . . changed. His parents had found out one way or another. Their reactions weren't very cooperative, but they became adapted to it eventually. Kari helped in that, as well as telling the rest of the gang.
::Flashback::
"Maybe Gennai will know what's wrong with ya Tai." Izzy suggested.
Tai narrowed his eyes at Izzy, "What?"
"Well, I'm saying that Gennai might know what happened to you."
"You mean 'what's happening' right?" Tai pointed to the yellow, jagged markings on his neck and chin that had appeared over the weekend a few weeks back.
"Maybe you shouldn't worry about it for a while unless something else happens to you." Matt suggested with a grin on his face, he had thought it was kinda funny after he got use to it.
"Well, incase you haven't noticed, Matt, I'm turning into a lizard I have a lot of things to worry about." Tai snapped back.
::End of flashback::
Tai was walking through the digital world, hoping to find Gennai. He wanted to ask a lot of questions. He wanted to ask about the dream, about the screaming voice in his head, and mostly about what was happening to him. It was dark and lonesome. Tai came to a clearing in the forest. Ferns came up to knees, making his legs itch. A sudden pain came into his chest, and he fell to the ground. He supported himself with one arm, while holding his chest with the other. The pain was increasing and Tai yelped in pain. With the last of his strength he looked up to find a figure standing before him. Then he blacked out.
* * *
When Tai awoke, something felt different about himself. He didn't know what it was but there was definitely something different. Maybe it was the fact at how weak and tired he felt. He could barely move. Then he got a view of his surroundings. He was laying on a bunch of hay. The place he laying on was small and compact, and there were bars surrounding him, he was in a cage. Why was he in a cage? The room he was in, looked like a big control center. He heard the door open and used most of his strength to move his head in the direction of the door. Through the door came . . . Gennai! Gennai seemed different as well. He had a sort of shadowiness over his face. He gave Tai a sort of evil grin and walked over to the cage. He bent down on a knee and just stared at Tai. Tai didn't like the look he was giving him but was too weak to look away. He smirked, and then spoke. "Well, well who would have ever thought. I thought you were extinct Tai."
* What? * Tai thought to him self. He was too weak to speak.
"I never thought you would still be alive. See." There was a pause. "Now I can tell you anything and everything, and you can't tell anyone."
*What is he talking about? What did he mean by he couldn't tell anyone?*
Gennai continued, "As the digidestined the old man told you and you friends his name was Gennai and he helped through your troubles and fights. This amused me, I figured you would believe me if I befriended you." He stood up and folded his arms across his chest. "So I began to grow a rat tail, and by the time you had returned from defeating Venomyotismon it was a good enough length. So I used a ghost digimon to speak through your little sister and give a logical story. It was all a lie. I'm not Gennai. In fact everything this form has told is one big lye. You thought your sister was special. She's just as worthless as the rest of you kids. Your sister. Hmm. She is too easy, and she expects evil to show its true form. She expects everyone and everything to tell the truth, and she's too weak and dense. She probably wouldn't know if the devil came to her disguised as a ball of light. To her anything bright must be from heaven, Ha! And to think you risked your life and everyone else's lives for her. What do you think she's gonna think or even say for that matter when she sees you like this? Bared up like in a prison? Do you think she's even gonna recognize you? I bet I wouldn't have even recognized you if I hadn't seen you before you changed." There were voices at the end of the hall. The man once known as Gennai gave another evil grin, "Well . . . that would be them. Lets see how well your friends know you.
The man left the room. Tai was so confused. All the bad things he had said about Gennai (the real one) and the digidestined and . . . and Kari. He had said such awful things about Kari. He heard voices again. He heard the man who called him self Gennai talking with the voice that was always so nice and comforting. He heard the voices of his friends talking happily as the greeted and talked with "Gennai." The door reopened and in came all the digidestined. Mimi, Izzy, Joe, Sora, - he flared his nostrils and rolled his eyes at her entrance - Matt, Yolie, Cody, Davis, Tk and Kari. It was like those two were glued at the hip. Tai felt his eyes close from a sudden attack of weakness. All he could do was listen to the voices. Mimi: Where is it Gennai? "Gennai": Over there. (He pointed at the cage) Everyone slowly walked toward the cage containing Tai. Matt: What the hell is it?
Izzy and Cody chocked back a gasp. Everyone looked at them. Izzy: Well we . . . ah know what it is but ah . . . I don't think. Cody: Ya see this animal is . . . well extinct. At least it should be. Davis: Well what is it? Tk: Yeah come on what is it? Cody: It's a. . . . Izzy: Velociraptor.
A WHAT?!?! Tai thought in his head, considering he couldn't speak. He had been trying desperately to talk but there was some around his mouth keeping him from opening his mouth. Joe: A What? Izzy: Velociraptor. It has a long snout, binocular vision, six inch claws on each foot. Well paleontologists say they were smarter than dolphins or whales, even primates. Sora: Why does he seem so weak and motionless? "Gennai": I found him in the forest and I thought he might cause a major problem in the digital world. I hit him with a shoot of morphine and brought him here. Sora: Morphine? Izzy: It's a drug that puts you in a temporary paralyzation. It leaves your muscles and nerves very weak for a while.
Tai just lay there, listening. He realized that what was keeping his mouth from opening was a mussel. He wanted to say something, anything to get them out of there. He felt a very small amount of strength come to him, so he used every bit of it to open his eyes. Everyone looked back at Tai as he made strange moaning sounds from his closed mouth. The moans were depressing and mournful, as though he was crying for help that no one would answer. Tai felt a sudden burst of energy and stretched his jaw snapping the mussel in two. After breaking the brace of the mussel, he began making a soft, yet horrific chirping noise. The ceiling of the cage was so low that he couldn't stand. Everyone, including Tai, was amazed at the strength of him and the noise it was making. Tai did his best to speak words they would understand but he couldn't say anything, not even his own name. This must have been what "Gennai" was talking about when he said he wouldn't be able to tell anyone anything. He could speak, but it was just a different language. As he yelped, he saw the fear on Kari's face stopped him, and he settled back down. Laying his head back down he closed his eyes again. Mimi: So where do you think he came from Gennai. Tai started twisting his head around in the hay. Gennai: He came from another Earth just like yours but this one, never had the accident that wiped out the dinosaurs. Matt: Then how the hell did it get here? "Gennai" shrugged his shoulders. Everyone else was looking at the creature. It was shifting its' body from side to side against the sides of the cage. The cage began to rock. Everyone immediately realized what it was doing but it was too late. Before anyone, even "Gennai" could reach for the cage, it toppled over onto its' side. The creature, leaped out of the door and landed gracefully on the tiled floor. Everyone wanted to run but something stopped them. The creature didn't make a move. He just stood there. Tai was mocking "Gennai." He couldn't do anything that would make the others suspicious. Izzy: You have any morphine left?
Tai's eyes widened. Now he would be put back into that cage without anyone thinking anything of it. "Gennai": Yeah it's on the counter over there.
He pointed to the counter. As Izzy walked slowly over to the counter, Tai's instincts took over him and he charged Gennai. He knocked him down and ran for the door. It was closed yet not locked, if he could only open the door. He looked back to see Izzy making his way, almost running, back to Gennai. Tai charged Izzy making him drop the Tranquilizer gun and dart. Joe kicked the gun over toward Gennai just as Matt, who was already sitting down, leapt for the dart. Tai stared as Matt threw the dart across the floor. He backed up as the Tranquilizer was raised at him. He thought Gennai did a good job at acting good. He felt the sting of the dart as it hit his chest.
As the limp body hit the floor Kari whispered, "He did so much to get away from here."
Yolie heard her and replied, "It might have hurt someone. It was the best thing to do. Besides Gennai will take care of it." But Kari wasn't listening. She was staring at the yellow, and jagged markings on the creature's neck, and lower jaw.
* * *
The room was dark and quiet. Gennai had gone of somewhere, leaving the cage unguarded. In a small corner in the darkness an animal lay motionless and unconscious in a small cage. In the darkness the door to the room opened. Three or four bodies crept through the crack in the door. There were a few hand motions, and one of the bodies went over to the cabinets and started looking through them. When the body came to one individual cabinet, it took out Tai's digivice, and two necklaces. Mean while the other three bodies went over to the cage. The one in the center quietly and slowly reached a hand in and put it on the creature's head. Then it spoke in a low voice, but not a whisper. "He's sedated," The creature gave a moan then the voice continued "really heavily." The voice sounded like a girl's voice, "Here, help me get him out." She said this and immediately the other two bodies reached their hands in, and lightly the bodies carried the unconscious creature out of the cages' door and walked quickly out of the room, followed closely by the fourth body.
