Takeru got on Matt's back. He couldn't walk anymore since he was so tired.
They've all been walking for three days non-stop now and were about to lose
all hope, not to manage, Joe's lunch.
"How much farther till we actually get there?" asked a worn out Gomamon.
Izzy opened his laptop and checked, "Well, according to the map, we should already be there."
"What do you mean?" Sora said.
They all walked up and peeked at Izzy's laptop, "Well," Izzy explained, "It says that were right on the exact location of the Empire, but I don't understand. There's nothing here but the same old trees."
Tai looked around, "Maybe it's hidden or something, you know."
Joe pushed up his glasses, "Well, I say we just keep looking around. No point in just standing here all day." He took one step and the ground suddenly collapsed beneath them.
It seemed like it all happened in the blink of an eye. Tai pushed Agumon's foot off his mouth and crawled to stand up. He scanned the place before him. Black lifeless trees were linked together with these huge cobwebs filled with large cocoons that had just hatched and were creamed with goop. He looked up to the surface where they all fell from, he couldn't see it anymore. He looked and saw a pathway, or that's what it appeared to be, made with vines and moss, his eyes followed it and saw where it had led to. A huge, black willow tree. Just looking at it gives him the chills.
A hand touched his shoulder and Tai jumped back.
"Tai?" It was Matt and Takeru, "Where are we?" asked Takeru.
"Mimi!" cried Palmon.
Matt suddenly turned around to see that Mimi had collapsed and was gripping her head, with Sora and Palmon at her side. Matt rushed to her.
"Mimi? Mimi, what's wrong?!"
"I." She kept groaning and Matt laid her head on his chest.
The rest of the group ran to her, Takeru clung onto Sora leg, "W-what's happening?" he asked in concern.
Mimi ignored the pain drilling in her head and forced a smile on her face, "I-I'm fine. Don't worry, I'm probably just catching a cold, that's all. No need to worry over me." She grinned as she slowly crept to her feet and almost fainted again when Matt caught her and swiftly carried her on his back, not questions, "Thanks" Mimi faintly whispered and he nodded.
"Mimi" Tai began, "Maybe you should rest for a whi-"
Tai was abruptly interrupted when at that moment a red torch lit up and caught all's attention. Another one followed that and one by one a torch was magically lit up around the whole place. The Digidestines slowly sidled closer to each other. Biyomon pointed up onto the willow tree.
"Look!"
They all gazed at what the girl was pointing at and saw Kaoru slowly crawling out of the side of the willow tree. He didn't look like he recovered much from their last battle, legs were covered with blood stained bandages and his face was badly bruised. Without hesitation the Digimon all digivolved and were about to charge at Kaoru when a voice came from up the tree.
"Welcome, Digidestines, to your humble graves." The voice said casually.
"W-who are you?" hollered Birdramon.
"I am Mayumi. Queen of the Dokugomon Empire." Tai's eyes widened as he remembered what Mammothmon had said.
"Why have you been terrorizing the creatures of the Digiworld?!" Tai managed to call out.
"Terrorize? More like annihilate. Kaoru should have already told you my plans and no puny kids shall ever get in my way so if you want to get home in one piece you'll do as I please and leave!"
"Who's gonna stop us? You and what army!" yelled Matt.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Bad choice kid. Guards!"
Mayumi snapped her fingers and an army of Dokugomon filed around the place and surrounded the Digidestines. They were trapped.
A grin appeared across Mayumi's face, "This army."
The Dokugomon all grinned and laughed in amusement as they sharpened their claws and got in a fighting position.
Mayumi slightly yawned, "This is getting boring. I think I'm going to leave these children at you hands my precious Dokugomon. No one shall keep me from reigning the whole Digiworld!" and with that she disappeared up onto the tree with Kaoru at her back.
"C'mon, we have to follow her before she gets away!" commanded Tai.
"We're kind of busy right now if you haven't noticed!"
"Get ready to run for cover, guys." Ikakumon whispered.
"W-what? You expect us to leave you here?!" scowled Joe.
"We have no choice," Greymon explained, "We're completely outnumbered and we can't risk all of you getting hurt so we'll distract these Dokugomon while you go off to fight Kaoru and Mayumi. On the count of three, run as fast as you can towards the willow tree."
"But-" Tai started but Matt held him back.
"Come on, Tai." Tai nodded.
The Dokugomon's red eyes narrowed and so did the Digimon's. Angemon and Gururumon gave way for the children to escape with.
Both good and evil met and began the fight of their lives. Even though they were outnumbered, the Digimon still prevailed and were full of energy and hope. Each Digimon was at least fighting four Dokugomons at a time and at least three of them were defeated.
The Digidestines ran across the huge obstacle course, jumping over branches and fallen Dokugomon as Angemon and Togemon cleared the way for them. They couldn't bare leave their friends nor look back to see them in pain just to protect the children. The were almost there when another Dokugomon appeared and Togemon and Angemon had their hands full and couldn't make it to the Digidestines.
"No one will dare hurt her Highness!" it swiftly charged at the children but was blocked by Birdramon who dove in front to take the blow.
"Birdramon! No!" Sora yelled back as Joe and Tai pulled her up to the tree.
The three fell back with a thump as they all found themselves floating above the leaves.
"What the-" Matt said.
"There's a whole other palace inside this tree!" Joe cried.
There was another palace inside the tree. The Digidestines found themselves standing in a dim hallway filled with small torches. Tai took one and led the way. They started to walk and soon came upon a huge room filled with mirrors and torches. They looked around to find about five other paths that they could take, problem was, which one?
"I see you made it, Digidestines." Came an echo around the room, it was Mayumi.
The Digidestines huddled closer and scanned around the room to find the source of the voice.
"Kaoru," Kaoru suddenly appeared from one of the openings, "Please take care of guests and escort them to their graves."
Kaoru smirked, "As you wish, Mayumi."
"Web Inferno!" Kaoru cried as a red web string shot out from his claws and towards the Digidestines.
"Watch out!"
Kaoru missed and shattered the mirror behind them, the pieces fell to the floor and reflected the image of Tai who rapidly grabbed a long piece of glass and charged at Kaoru but missed as Kaoru dodged and dove one powerful blow to Tai's stomach. "Tai!" cried Matt.
Tai slowly fell to the ground and looked at his friends, "I-I'm okay. Go on. I'll d-distract him. G-go!"
Kaoru wasted no time and gave another hard blow onto Tai back. The Digidestines ran into one of the openings. Sora stopped as they heard Tai cry out in agony.
"Sora! What are you waiting for?!" Izzy yelled.
"We have to stay and help Tai!" explained Sora.
"We can't just leave you here!" yelled Matt.
"Don't worry, I'll stay back with both of them!" Joe called out bravely.
They heard Tai yell in pain as Joe and Sora ran back to help him.
"GO!" Sora yelled back.
The rest couldn't bare leave them but they had no choice but run. Sora and Joe ran to Tai as he skidded across the room, receiving another torment from Kaoru. Kaoru was about to stop the other children when Mayumi appeared in the room.
"Let them go, Kaoru. I'll take care of them!"
Tai, Sora, and Joe couldn't believe their eyes. They stood there in complete bafflement as they stared at Mayumi. A chill ran up their spines, they didn't know if they should be scared or what.
Matt breathed heavily. They had abruptly stopped since they felt like they couldn't go on any longer. They were worried about their all friends that were left behind.
"What.are, we going to, do now?" Izzy gasped between breathes.
"I don't know." Matt replied.
"Tai. Sora. And Joe. They're gone." cried Takeru.
Mimi smiled, "Don't worry. They'll be fine, for all we know they're on their way to find us right now."
"Matt, you're the leader of the group now. What do you propose we should do now?" said Izzy.
Matt looked at him, "Me? How'd I become the boss here?"
"Because you're the only one who's capable of protecting us." Answered Mimi from behind him.
"C'mon big bro." Tugged Takeru at his brother's jeans.
Matt smiled, "Okay. Let's go find Mayumi." And they set off, unaware of the eyes watching them closely.
"Let's see who finds who first." Mayumi eyed two of the children carefully. "Hmm.Let's narrow it down, shall we? It's not that fun when they're all clumped up together. I think a separation's in order."A smile spread across Mayumi's face as she watched little Takeru closely.
"Ah. Our first candidate."
"Wow!" Takeru cried out.
They stumbled into which appeared to be a mini circus. Right smack in the middle stood a grand carousel filled with bright cheery lights and colors. On it was the happiest looking bunch of horses with all sorts of colors; brown, caramel, white, gray, spotted and more. It was like a mini carnival. The three remaining Digidestines stared in complete awe, as for Takeru, he hopped up onto the carousel as it began to go around. Matt called after him.
"TK! Come back!"
Takeru didn't seem to hear his brother calling out since he was having so fun and was oblivious to the world around him, also the eyes that watched him. Takeru laughed and laughed as the horse carried him all around the room.
"TK!" Matt still called out. He was stopped when a soft hand touched his shoulder. "Don't worry," Mimi said with a smile, "He'll be fine."
"Mimi's right," started Izzy, "I mean, what's the harm in riding a carousel?" The moment that last word slipped out of his mouth the lights started to flicker.
The room got quite dim and the carousel started going faster and faster, the carnival had turned into a Carn-evil. The carousel, as it went faster, got higher. The horses that rode on the ride seemed to have come alive and were laughing stridently as each one turned black and their eyes turned red. Matt ran quickly to his little brother-who was too scared and shocked to jump off the wild ride-followed by Izzy and Mimi.
"Matt help me!" Takeru cried out, tears roughly streaming down his cheeks.
"TK, no!" Matt managed to grab hold onto a pole as he swung himself on board and began running to his brother.
"Matt!" Mimi yelled out as she and Izzy watched in sheer terror.
"TK! Hold on!" Matt slowly paced up to Takeru but was getting held back by the swift force of the carousel's speed as it went faster.
Matt had almost reached Takeru and slightly reached his hand out when he was suddenly thrown out of the ride by some force other than the ride's.
Mimi rushed over to Matt, "Are you okay?"
Matt nodded as they both looked at the terrified little boy huddled closely inside the madness. What they didn't notice was what Izzy was up to. As the carousel got higher they knew they wouldn't be able to reach it anymore. Matt and Mimi quickly stood up and ran as close as they can. They could see Takeru at the edge trying to reach his hand out. Suddenly, Izzy had appeared beside Takeru. Somehow, between the time that Matt got thrown off and the carousel getting higher, Izzy had managed to jump onto it and come to Takeru's aid.
"Don't worry!" Izzy called down to the two, "I'll be with him! We'll be fine, go on!!" And with that, they both disappeared onto the darkness in the ceiling. Izzy's laptop fell to the ground and Mimi walked to it and picked it up and looked back at Matt.
Matt ran into the middle of the room, "TK! Izzy!"
Matt suddenly stopped as warmth covered his whole body and comforted him. His eyes started to water again, "I couldn't help."
He opened his eyes fully to find Mimi staring at him, with a soothing smile across her lips.
"Don't worry," Mimi said, "They'll be fine, it wasn't your fault." She looked up onto where the two have vanished, "It wasn't the carousel who threw you off, something wanted only TK and Izzy to be separated."
Matt's eyes widened, "Mayumi." He said bitterly.
"Exactly," Mimi said, "She wanted to split us all apart thinking that she probably couldn't take us all at once since we might defeat her. She left Kaoru with Tai, Sora, and Joe on purpose and by separating Izzy from us, she knows that he's the only one capable of using his laptop to figure where we are. And by taking TK away from you, she knew that would've broken your heart and spirit to go on." She abruptly stopped when she caught the star struck face Matt gave her.
"Just a lucky guess?"
Tai, Sora, and Joe had managed to weaken Kaoru and to run away from him. They ran to the direction of where they thought the others had gone to, and this path led to a whole other room from where the others have gone through. The room seemed to have been made completely with glass mirrors. Everywhere around the room's walls were covered up with a mirror.
Sora breathed heavily, "Mayumi-she's."
"No," Tai shook his head, "That's too scary to imagine. She's even scarier than I thought!"
"But, it all doesn't add up. And Kaoru-" Joe stated.
Tai shook his head, "No, let's forget what we saw. It's probably nothing, maybe it was just us."
"You're saying we all hallucinated the same thing?" said Joe.
"Forget it, okay?" Tai said firmly, and the subject was closed.
Sora began to change the subject before they got into an argument, "Look at this room."
"Wow, Mayumi must be a collector." Tai remarked as he tapped on the glass.
"Do you think Kaoru will find us? What about the others? What if they already found Mayumi? Man, I think I'm getting nauseated." Joe started.
"Chill, Joe. They're probably fine by now." Said Tai.
Sora slid down against the glass mirror, "I'm so tired, I don't feel like I could go on anymore-Whoa!"
"Sora!" Tai turned around to find her gone, "Where is she?"
Tai looked to his side and stared at Joe as he was pointing at something on the mirror. He turned his head and saw something he'd never thought he'd see.
Sora was inside the mirror, or at least, that's what he thought. Anyways, she was banging on the glass and yelling but they couldn't seem to hear her, nor she couldn't hear them. Joe and Tai ran to her and the three started to bang, kick, and ram themselves, trying to shatter the mirror.
"Get me outta here!" Sora cried out, but they didn't hear her.
Tai looked up to Sora and with the blink of an eye, or the flash of the mirror-she was gone. Tai stepped back while Joe kicked it harder.
"What happened to her? Sora!" Joe called out.
"What's happening here? It's like some insane asylum!"
"Sora."
Sora spun around, "Who's there?" The lights gave out and the whole place went dark. Sora screamed.
"I know you're afraid of the dark, Sora." Only one person knew that Sora was afraid of the dark.
"Mayumi! I know this is you! Why are you doing this?" She fell to the ground, leaning against the wall she hugged her knees as she tried to forget where she was.
"No use in denying it, Sora."
"Stop it! Stop it!" She cried.
"Why should I?! This is how I felt when I was growing up, no one to help me. This is how I felt! Nothing but Darkness! You, you and your little friends had your little happy lives to live while I had to suffer in Darkness with no one beside me!"
"Stop it!"
"Welcome to my world, Sora."
"Ha, ha!" Takeru ran through the backyard.
It was summer. And every Sunday their mom would grill them steaks outside for dinner. Takeru ran around the grass, flailing his arms, laughing as Matt, Gabumon, and Patamon chased after him.
"TK! Wait up!" Patamon cried as he flew onto Matt's head as Matt ran after his little brother.
Takeru looked back and glanced at his mom and dad. His mom was swiftly flipping up the steaks as his dad was setting the table on the table outside the veranda.
They both looked so happy. The cool breeze ran through Takeru's soft blonde hair as he ran around the trees. He laughed and laughed, feeling that the world was suddenly coming together for him and that life just couldn't get any better.
"Boys! Lunch is ready!" his mom called out.
"Coming!" Matt replied as the three headed back to the table, leaving Takeru.
"TK! TK! TK.!"
"TK? TK! Please wake up!" cried a very concern voice.
"I'm coming, Mom." Takeru whispered as he laid on the ground.
Izzy stepped back, "M-mom?" He shook Takeru, "TK! It's me, Izzy. Can you hear me?"
Takeru shook his head and his vision started to clear out and he could make out Izzy's worried face.
"TK.?"
"Izzy. Hi." Takeru managed to say. It was all a dream. TK sighed.
Izzy sighed in relief, "You're okay, good."
Takeru slowly sat up, "Matt. Where's Matt? And Mimi?"
Izzy shook his head, "We got split up, member? That carousel went haywire and separated us from them."
"Oh, right."
"Don't worry, TK. I promised your brother I'll take care of you and that's exactly what I'm gonna do. We'll find all of them soon."
Takeru nodded cheerfully and they both stood up. The carousel was gone. The room was dim. They somehow ended up in the same kind of room Sora, Tai, and Joe were in.
Glass. Mirrors. Everywhere.
"That Mayumi person must be pretty concerned on how she looks if she has this many mirrors, you could even look behind you!" Takeru exclaimed.
"If only I had my laptop with me." Izzy pondered.
"I know where it is."
"You do, TK?" asked Izzy.
"Do what?"
"You just-didn't you just-"
"Huh?" Their conversation was interrupted when they heard a footstep behind them. Someone was watching them.
"Matt."
"Hmm?"
"TK's fine, stop fidgeting." Said Mimi.
"Yeah, I know." Matt grumbled, "But he's only a kid."
"And so are you. TK's just the same as you and me. He's not as little and weak as you take him for." Mimi smiled at him, "Besides, if anything happens, Izzy'll be there."
"Yeah." Matt replied as he took Mimi's hand in his and they walked on.
An awkward silence followed. Something's wrong, Matt thought, Mimi would usually be full of smiles and would never be this quiet. He felt so distant from her when she was walking right beside him. Matt felt the tenseness in Mimi's hand. She stared at the ground with a blank face, her cheeks a crimson red, and sweat trickling down her forehead. Her hazel eyes were half shut and looked completely empty, the ponytail that dangled behind her head was plastered to her neck. Matt's eyes widened.
How could he have been so blind?
Mimi's sick! Matt blamed himself for not noticing before, She's been sick this whole time, but why didn't she say something.? Matt pulled hr arm back to motion her to stop. She looked back at him in puzzlement.
"Matt?" Matt saw the pain stricken face that he failed to notice looking at him.
"Mimi.I" Matt lowered his gaze.
Mimi's eyes slowly fell, as so did she.
"Mimi!" Matt wrapped his arms behind her waist and caught her as they both fell to the ground. "Mimi! Mimi, please wake up!"
"Who's there?" asked Izzy.
Takeru hid behind him as they slowly stepped towards to where the voice came from. They froze when they saw two small green eyes appear in the shadows. A small head suddenly poked out; It had on a metal head in the shape of a small bowling ball with fluffs of green spiky hair that shot out on top, and the metal extended out to be a long sharp beak.
"W-who are you?"
The rest of its body popped out; it had a long neck that connected to a brown fluff ball body and long legs. It eyes them carefully before speaking.
"I'm sorry," it greeted cheerfully, "I thought you were 'her'. Please to meet you lads, name's Kiwimon.
"Kiwimon, huh?" repeated Takeru.
The digimon nodded and sat down followed by the two.
"Excuse me for asking but," started Izzy, "Who's 'her'?
The creature winced, "Lady Mayumi."
"You work for her?"
"Sadly, yes. She has kept me prisoner ever since I hatched out of my digi egg. I'm the one who keeps things in tip top order here. Honestly, I was ordered to 'pick up' things you children had dropped.
"My laptop!" exclaimed Izzy.
"Yes, that for instance. I was about to get it when a young girl with brown hair like yours picked it up." Kiwimon replied.
"Mimi!"
"Tell me Kiwimon. Could you by any chance help us gather al our friends? There's about seven of us scattered around this place and we all need to be together to defeat Mayumi."
The Digimon's face lit up and jumped up and down around them in joy, "Of course! I know exactly where they are! Anything to get me out of this horrid place!"
"Great!" both said.
"I know every ins, outs, corners, bottom, trap doors, top to bottom like the back of my head-of course, if I can actually see the back of my head- but then that would be pretty odd if you ask me."
Takeru and Izzy stared in confusion.
"Arrgh!" Tai rammed himself onto the glass for the hundredth time, no luck.
"Tai, it's no use. Give it up, you're just wasting your time-and mine. We have to find another way."
"No! Sora's stuck in there all by herself, how can you just sit there doing nothing?!"
"I am doing something. I'm thinking! Tai use your brain if you even have one! We've been ramming ourselves into the wall and what had that done? Nothing! We're just making ourselves tired and when the real battle begins, we won't have the strength to even fight!" Joe finally lost his temper.
Tai ignored him and continued. He ran against the wall and stayed leaning against it as he slid to the ground.
"We can give up.not now" his voice trailed off, "I'm sorry, Sora."
"Mmm.Stop it!!" Sora yelled grasping her head.
She had been sitting in complete darkness for what seemed like forever to her. She felt her heart pounding so fast that her mind couldn't keep up with it. Tears of fear had escaped her tightly shut eyes and were viciously streaming down her cheeks. She knew what she had seen with Tai and Joe. She felt so confused and scared-and betrayed somehow. She could hear soft laughter around her.
What's wrong, Sora? You look a bit pale.
"Just leave me alone!" Sora screamed.
What's this? Don't tell me that the famous tomboy is actually scared.
Sora just sat there and silently cried. How she despised the name some kids would call her.
Oh how the mighty have fallen. Whoever thought that we'd see the day.
A silence followed. Sora was reluctant to let go of her helmet and to slowly open her eyes to find nothingness surrounding her. She hugged her knees tighter.
"Biyomon, Mimi, everyone," She whispered, "Please, get me out of here. Tai."
Tai? Sora's eyes widened, she could've sworn Mayumi had left her in peace. Oh yeah, how could I forget. Our Little Miss Sora's in love. Too bad he doesn't feel the same way.
"Leave me alone! You don't know anything!"
Oh but I do. I know every secret you keep, Sora. I've spent most of my time listening to every single disgusting one! And as for your lover boy, who in their right mind would like someone who spends most of her time playing around the mud and dresses up like she just came out of the garbage?!
"Arrgh! Can you be anymore annoying!!" Sora managed to say something sarcastically. But Mayumi just replied by laughing.
Cheer up, Sora. There's one thing we will ever have in common-no one will ever like us.
Sora couldn't hear anything anymore but a small muffling sound that rang in her ears. She gripped her head tighter to shut the voice out of her head and wept.
"Get outta the way!" Gururumon yelled as he shoved past a mound of Dokugomon.
The Digimon had been battling it out the whole time and weren't getting anywhere. Some were starting to lose their energy while the Dokugomon seemed to be multiplying every time they beat one.
"We-have to-help the children!" called Birdramon blasting a Dokugomon off her, "They might-be in danger!"
"I can go to them if some of you clear the way for me!" cried Togemon.
Gururumon and Ikakumon nodded in agreement as they quickly left their burden to the others and helped clear a way for Togemon to make it to the tree.
"Are we almost there? It's like we're walking around in circles or something!" Takeru called out.
"Don't worry, just two more lefts and one more straight and we're there!" called back Kiwimon from in front, "Or was that one more right and three more corners..?"
Izzy and Takeru unwillingly followed the walking chat room around in circles for about fifteen minutes when they finally came to the spot where they had met Kaoru. They slightly could make out two scrawny lying figures on the ground. They had found Tai and Joe.
"Tai! Joe!" both cried out.
Tai and Joe slowly opened their worn out eyes to find two beaming faces smiling at them, "Hey guys." Tai said.
"It's about time." Commented Joe.
After a while, Joe and Tai regained most of their strength back.
"Hey, where's Matt and Mimi?"
Izzy and Takeru exchanged glances and looked at the two apologetically, "It's a long story. Bottom line, we got split up. But we found Kiwimon here," Kiwimon nodded in salutations, "He knows exactly where they are and he's gonna help us find Sora and the others."
"That's great! What are we waiting for?"
They cheered and again followed Kiwimon around the halls as he once again talked non-stop to himself turning here and there, stopping every once and a while. The Digidestines were about to give up on the Digimon when they started to notice their surroundings getting darker. They were running through a small hallway everything went quiet and dark. Kiwimon stopped.
"We're here."
They looked around, "Here where?"
Kiwimon shivered, "Mayumi's little playpen. This is where she keeps some pitiful soul and torments them by using their fears against them. She slowly feeds on their fear and torments them for fun. Seeing that it's gotten dark, I'm guessing she's got company. The one you call Sora is in here," Tai's eyes widened as Kiwimon got more serious, "I cannot assure you that your friend is okay, I do not know exactly how long she has been here and how long Mayumi has been causing her pain. We can only hope. Follow me, but be quiet and aware. Most of all, do not show your fear."
They gravely nodded and followed as instructed. They couldn't see where they were going, they only followed the taps of Kiwimon's feet. They stopped when they heard screaming.
It was Sora. Tai quickly ran to her calling out her name.
"No! Stop!" Kiwimon called out. Too late, Tai was already gone.
"Sora! I'm coming!" Tai yelled.
Sora suddenly looked up, eyes widened as she made out the figure running towards her, "TAI!"
She stood up as she was suddenly engulfed in Tai's caring arms. She felt Tai holding her so tight that she almost had trouble breathing, she could hear his heart beating so fast and she smiled, welcoming the tears that flowed freely down her cheeks and onto his collar.
"I'm so sorry I wasn't there when you needed help!" Tai kept saying. Sora blushed, You were wrong, Mayumi, she blamed.
Tai and Sora finally realized the position they were in and quickly let go and Tai stood there grinning at her clumsily. They heard footsteps running towards them and their friends calling their names out. Tai began waving his arms but realized that it was too dark for them to see so he called out to them.
"Over here!"
They ran towards them and everyone hugged Sora and kept asking her if she was okay. Kiwimon abruptly interrupted the moment.
"Sorry to bother you. But, we have to go now, Mayumi might come back and you do not want to know what she might do to us when she finds out. Follow me and we'll get the rest of your friends!"
Sora shivered, "I agree. I can't stand this anymore. It was like I was in hell or something." They fled and followed the Digimon.
"No! This can't be, they can't get away!"
"How much farther till we actually get there?" asked a worn out Gomamon.
Izzy opened his laptop and checked, "Well, according to the map, we should already be there."
"What do you mean?" Sora said.
They all walked up and peeked at Izzy's laptop, "Well," Izzy explained, "It says that were right on the exact location of the Empire, but I don't understand. There's nothing here but the same old trees."
Tai looked around, "Maybe it's hidden or something, you know."
Joe pushed up his glasses, "Well, I say we just keep looking around. No point in just standing here all day." He took one step and the ground suddenly collapsed beneath them.
It seemed like it all happened in the blink of an eye. Tai pushed Agumon's foot off his mouth and crawled to stand up. He scanned the place before him. Black lifeless trees were linked together with these huge cobwebs filled with large cocoons that had just hatched and were creamed with goop. He looked up to the surface where they all fell from, he couldn't see it anymore. He looked and saw a pathway, or that's what it appeared to be, made with vines and moss, his eyes followed it and saw where it had led to. A huge, black willow tree. Just looking at it gives him the chills.
A hand touched his shoulder and Tai jumped back.
"Tai?" It was Matt and Takeru, "Where are we?" asked Takeru.
"Mimi!" cried Palmon.
Matt suddenly turned around to see that Mimi had collapsed and was gripping her head, with Sora and Palmon at her side. Matt rushed to her.
"Mimi? Mimi, what's wrong?!"
"I." She kept groaning and Matt laid her head on his chest.
The rest of the group ran to her, Takeru clung onto Sora leg, "W-what's happening?" he asked in concern.
Mimi ignored the pain drilling in her head and forced a smile on her face, "I-I'm fine. Don't worry, I'm probably just catching a cold, that's all. No need to worry over me." She grinned as she slowly crept to her feet and almost fainted again when Matt caught her and swiftly carried her on his back, not questions, "Thanks" Mimi faintly whispered and he nodded.
"Mimi" Tai began, "Maybe you should rest for a whi-"
Tai was abruptly interrupted when at that moment a red torch lit up and caught all's attention. Another one followed that and one by one a torch was magically lit up around the whole place. The Digidestines slowly sidled closer to each other. Biyomon pointed up onto the willow tree.
"Look!"
They all gazed at what the girl was pointing at and saw Kaoru slowly crawling out of the side of the willow tree. He didn't look like he recovered much from their last battle, legs were covered with blood stained bandages and his face was badly bruised. Without hesitation the Digimon all digivolved and were about to charge at Kaoru when a voice came from up the tree.
"Welcome, Digidestines, to your humble graves." The voice said casually.
"W-who are you?" hollered Birdramon.
"I am Mayumi. Queen of the Dokugomon Empire." Tai's eyes widened as he remembered what Mammothmon had said.
"Why have you been terrorizing the creatures of the Digiworld?!" Tai managed to call out.
"Terrorize? More like annihilate. Kaoru should have already told you my plans and no puny kids shall ever get in my way so if you want to get home in one piece you'll do as I please and leave!"
"Who's gonna stop us? You and what army!" yelled Matt.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Bad choice kid. Guards!"
Mayumi snapped her fingers and an army of Dokugomon filed around the place and surrounded the Digidestines. They were trapped.
A grin appeared across Mayumi's face, "This army."
The Dokugomon all grinned and laughed in amusement as they sharpened their claws and got in a fighting position.
Mayumi slightly yawned, "This is getting boring. I think I'm going to leave these children at you hands my precious Dokugomon. No one shall keep me from reigning the whole Digiworld!" and with that she disappeared up onto the tree with Kaoru at her back.
"C'mon, we have to follow her before she gets away!" commanded Tai.
"We're kind of busy right now if you haven't noticed!"
"Get ready to run for cover, guys." Ikakumon whispered.
"W-what? You expect us to leave you here?!" scowled Joe.
"We have no choice," Greymon explained, "We're completely outnumbered and we can't risk all of you getting hurt so we'll distract these Dokugomon while you go off to fight Kaoru and Mayumi. On the count of three, run as fast as you can towards the willow tree."
"But-" Tai started but Matt held him back.
"Come on, Tai." Tai nodded.
The Dokugomon's red eyes narrowed and so did the Digimon's. Angemon and Gururumon gave way for the children to escape with.
Both good and evil met and began the fight of their lives. Even though they were outnumbered, the Digimon still prevailed and were full of energy and hope. Each Digimon was at least fighting four Dokugomons at a time and at least three of them were defeated.
The Digidestines ran across the huge obstacle course, jumping over branches and fallen Dokugomon as Angemon and Togemon cleared the way for them. They couldn't bare leave their friends nor look back to see them in pain just to protect the children. The were almost there when another Dokugomon appeared and Togemon and Angemon had their hands full and couldn't make it to the Digidestines.
"No one will dare hurt her Highness!" it swiftly charged at the children but was blocked by Birdramon who dove in front to take the blow.
"Birdramon! No!" Sora yelled back as Joe and Tai pulled her up to the tree.
The three fell back with a thump as they all found themselves floating above the leaves.
"What the-" Matt said.
"There's a whole other palace inside this tree!" Joe cried.
There was another palace inside the tree. The Digidestines found themselves standing in a dim hallway filled with small torches. Tai took one and led the way. They started to walk and soon came upon a huge room filled with mirrors and torches. They looked around to find about five other paths that they could take, problem was, which one?
"I see you made it, Digidestines." Came an echo around the room, it was Mayumi.
The Digidestines huddled closer and scanned around the room to find the source of the voice.
"Kaoru," Kaoru suddenly appeared from one of the openings, "Please take care of guests and escort them to their graves."
Kaoru smirked, "As you wish, Mayumi."
"Web Inferno!" Kaoru cried as a red web string shot out from his claws and towards the Digidestines.
"Watch out!"
Kaoru missed and shattered the mirror behind them, the pieces fell to the floor and reflected the image of Tai who rapidly grabbed a long piece of glass and charged at Kaoru but missed as Kaoru dodged and dove one powerful blow to Tai's stomach. "Tai!" cried Matt.
Tai slowly fell to the ground and looked at his friends, "I-I'm okay. Go on. I'll d-distract him. G-go!"
Kaoru wasted no time and gave another hard blow onto Tai back. The Digidestines ran into one of the openings. Sora stopped as they heard Tai cry out in agony.
"Sora! What are you waiting for?!" Izzy yelled.
"We have to stay and help Tai!" explained Sora.
"We can't just leave you here!" yelled Matt.
"Don't worry, I'll stay back with both of them!" Joe called out bravely.
They heard Tai yell in pain as Joe and Sora ran back to help him.
"GO!" Sora yelled back.
The rest couldn't bare leave them but they had no choice but run. Sora and Joe ran to Tai as he skidded across the room, receiving another torment from Kaoru. Kaoru was about to stop the other children when Mayumi appeared in the room.
"Let them go, Kaoru. I'll take care of them!"
Tai, Sora, and Joe couldn't believe their eyes. They stood there in complete bafflement as they stared at Mayumi. A chill ran up their spines, they didn't know if they should be scared or what.
Matt breathed heavily. They had abruptly stopped since they felt like they couldn't go on any longer. They were worried about their all friends that were left behind.
"What.are, we going to, do now?" Izzy gasped between breathes.
"I don't know." Matt replied.
"Tai. Sora. And Joe. They're gone." cried Takeru.
Mimi smiled, "Don't worry. They'll be fine, for all we know they're on their way to find us right now."
"Matt, you're the leader of the group now. What do you propose we should do now?" said Izzy.
Matt looked at him, "Me? How'd I become the boss here?"
"Because you're the only one who's capable of protecting us." Answered Mimi from behind him.
"C'mon big bro." Tugged Takeru at his brother's jeans.
Matt smiled, "Okay. Let's go find Mayumi." And they set off, unaware of the eyes watching them closely.
"Let's see who finds who first." Mayumi eyed two of the children carefully. "Hmm.Let's narrow it down, shall we? It's not that fun when they're all clumped up together. I think a separation's in order."A smile spread across Mayumi's face as she watched little Takeru closely.
"Ah. Our first candidate."
"Wow!" Takeru cried out.
They stumbled into which appeared to be a mini circus. Right smack in the middle stood a grand carousel filled with bright cheery lights and colors. On it was the happiest looking bunch of horses with all sorts of colors; brown, caramel, white, gray, spotted and more. It was like a mini carnival. The three remaining Digidestines stared in complete awe, as for Takeru, he hopped up onto the carousel as it began to go around. Matt called after him.
"TK! Come back!"
Takeru didn't seem to hear his brother calling out since he was having so fun and was oblivious to the world around him, also the eyes that watched him. Takeru laughed and laughed as the horse carried him all around the room.
"TK!" Matt still called out. He was stopped when a soft hand touched his shoulder. "Don't worry," Mimi said with a smile, "He'll be fine."
"Mimi's right," started Izzy, "I mean, what's the harm in riding a carousel?" The moment that last word slipped out of his mouth the lights started to flicker.
The room got quite dim and the carousel started going faster and faster, the carnival had turned into a Carn-evil. The carousel, as it went faster, got higher. The horses that rode on the ride seemed to have come alive and were laughing stridently as each one turned black and their eyes turned red. Matt ran quickly to his little brother-who was too scared and shocked to jump off the wild ride-followed by Izzy and Mimi.
"Matt help me!" Takeru cried out, tears roughly streaming down his cheeks.
"TK, no!" Matt managed to grab hold onto a pole as he swung himself on board and began running to his brother.
"Matt!" Mimi yelled out as she and Izzy watched in sheer terror.
"TK! Hold on!" Matt slowly paced up to Takeru but was getting held back by the swift force of the carousel's speed as it went faster.
Matt had almost reached Takeru and slightly reached his hand out when he was suddenly thrown out of the ride by some force other than the ride's.
Mimi rushed over to Matt, "Are you okay?"
Matt nodded as they both looked at the terrified little boy huddled closely inside the madness. What they didn't notice was what Izzy was up to. As the carousel got higher they knew they wouldn't be able to reach it anymore. Matt and Mimi quickly stood up and ran as close as they can. They could see Takeru at the edge trying to reach his hand out. Suddenly, Izzy had appeared beside Takeru. Somehow, between the time that Matt got thrown off and the carousel getting higher, Izzy had managed to jump onto it and come to Takeru's aid.
"Don't worry!" Izzy called down to the two, "I'll be with him! We'll be fine, go on!!" And with that, they both disappeared onto the darkness in the ceiling. Izzy's laptop fell to the ground and Mimi walked to it and picked it up and looked back at Matt.
Matt ran into the middle of the room, "TK! Izzy!"
Matt suddenly stopped as warmth covered his whole body and comforted him. His eyes started to water again, "I couldn't help."
He opened his eyes fully to find Mimi staring at him, with a soothing smile across her lips.
"Don't worry," Mimi said, "They'll be fine, it wasn't your fault." She looked up onto where the two have vanished, "It wasn't the carousel who threw you off, something wanted only TK and Izzy to be separated."
Matt's eyes widened, "Mayumi." He said bitterly.
"Exactly," Mimi said, "She wanted to split us all apart thinking that she probably couldn't take us all at once since we might defeat her. She left Kaoru with Tai, Sora, and Joe on purpose and by separating Izzy from us, she knows that he's the only one capable of using his laptop to figure where we are. And by taking TK away from you, she knew that would've broken your heart and spirit to go on." She abruptly stopped when she caught the star struck face Matt gave her.
"Just a lucky guess?"
Tai, Sora, and Joe had managed to weaken Kaoru and to run away from him. They ran to the direction of where they thought the others had gone to, and this path led to a whole other room from where the others have gone through. The room seemed to have been made completely with glass mirrors. Everywhere around the room's walls were covered up with a mirror.
Sora breathed heavily, "Mayumi-she's."
"No," Tai shook his head, "That's too scary to imagine. She's even scarier than I thought!"
"But, it all doesn't add up. And Kaoru-" Joe stated.
Tai shook his head, "No, let's forget what we saw. It's probably nothing, maybe it was just us."
"You're saying we all hallucinated the same thing?" said Joe.
"Forget it, okay?" Tai said firmly, and the subject was closed.
Sora began to change the subject before they got into an argument, "Look at this room."
"Wow, Mayumi must be a collector." Tai remarked as he tapped on the glass.
"Do you think Kaoru will find us? What about the others? What if they already found Mayumi? Man, I think I'm getting nauseated." Joe started.
"Chill, Joe. They're probably fine by now." Said Tai.
Sora slid down against the glass mirror, "I'm so tired, I don't feel like I could go on anymore-Whoa!"
"Sora!" Tai turned around to find her gone, "Where is she?"
Tai looked to his side and stared at Joe as he was pointing at something on the mirror. He turned his head and saw something he'd never thought he'd see.
Sora was inside the mirror, or at least, that's what he thought. Anyways, she was banging on the glass and yelling but they couldn't seem to hear her, nor she couldn't hear them. Joe and Tai ran to her and the three started to bang, kick, and ram themselves, trying to shatter the mirror.
"Get me outta here!" Sora cried out, but they didn't hear her.
Tai looked up to Sora and with the blink of an eye, or the flash of the mirror-she was gone. Tai stepped back while Joe kicked it harder.
"What happened to her? Sora!" Joe called out.
"What's happening here? It's like some insane asylum!"
"Sora."
Sora spun around, "Who's there?" The lights gave out and the whole place went dark. Sora screamed.
"I know you're afraid of the dark, Sora." Only one person knew that Sora was afraid of the dark.
"Mayumi! I know this is you! Why are you doing this?" She fell to the ground, leaning against the wall she hugged her knees as she tried to forget where she was.
"No use in denying it, Sora."
"Stop it! Stop it!" She cried.
"Why should I?! This is how I felt when I was growing up, no one to help me. This is how I felt! Nothing but Darkness! You, you and your little friends had your little happy lives to live while I had to suffer in Darkness with no one beside me!"
"Stop it!"
"Welcome to my world, Sora."
"Ha, ha!" Takeru ran through the backyard.
It was summer. And every Sunday their mom would grill them steaks outside for dinner. Takeru ran around the grass, flailing his arms, laughing as Matt, Gabumon, and Patamon chased after him.
"TK! Wait up!" Patamon cried as he flew onto Matt's head as Matt ran after his little brother.
Takeru looked back and glanced at his mom and dad. His mom was swiftly flipping up the steaks as his dad was setting the table on the table outside the veranda.
They both looked so happy. The cool breeze ran through Takeru's soft blonde hair as he ran around the trees. He laughed and laughed, feeling that the world was suddenly coming together for him and that life just couldn't get any better.
"Boys! Lunch is ready!" his mom called out.
"Coming!" Matt replied as the three headed back to the table, leaving Takeru.
"TK! TK! TK.!"
"TK? TK! Please wake up!" cried a very concern voice.
"I'm coming, Mom." Takeru whispered as he laid on the ground.
Izzy stepped back, "M-mom?" He shook Takeru, "TK! It's me, Izzy. Can you hear me?"
Takeru shook his head and his vision started to clear out and he could make out Izzy's worried face.
"TK.?"
"Izzy. Hi." Takeru managed to say. It was all a dream. TK sighed.
Izzy sighed in relief, "You're okay, good."
Takeru slowly sat up, "Matt. Where's Matt? And Mimi?"
Izzy shook his head, "We got split up, member? That carousel went haywire and separated us from them."
"Oh, right."
"Don't worry, TK. I promised your brother I'll take care of you and that's exactly what I'm gonna do. We'll find all of them soon."
Takeru nodded cheerfully and they both stood up. The carousel was gone. The room was dim. They somehow ended up in the same kind of room Sora, Tai, and Joe were in.
Glass. Mirrors. Everywhere.
"That Mayumi person must be pretty concerned on how she looks if she has this many mirrors, you could even look behind you!" Takeru exclaimed.
"If only I had my laptop with me." Izzy pondered.
"I know where it is."
"You do, TK?" asked Izzy.
"Do what?"
"You just-didn't you just-"
"Huh?" Their conversation was interrupted when they heard a footstep behind them. Someone was watching them.
"Matt."
"Hmm?"
"TK's fine, stop fidgeting." Said Mimi.
"Yeah, I know." Matt grumbled, "But he's only a kid."
"And so are you. TK's just the same as you and me. He's not as little and weak as you take him for." Mimi smiled at him, "Besides, if anything happens, Izzy'll be there."
"Yeah." Matt replied as he took Mimi's hand in his and they walked on.
An awkward silence followed. Something's wrong, Matt thought, Mimi would usually be full of smiles and would never be this quiet. He felt so distant from her when she was walking right beside him. Matt felt the tenseness in Mimi's hand. She stared at the ground with a blank face, her cheeks a crimson red, and sweat trickling down her forehead. Her hazel eyes were half shut and looked completely empty, the ponytail that dangled behind her head was plastered to her neck. Matt's eyes widened.
How could he have been so blind?
Mimi's sick! Matt blamed himself for not noticing before, She's been sick this whole time, but why didn't she say something.? Matt pulled hr arm back to motion her to stop. She looked back at him in puzzlement.
"Matt?" Matt saw the pain stricken face that he failed to notice looking at him.
"Mimi.I" Matt lowered his gaze.
Mimi's eyes slowly fell, as so did she.
"Mimi!" Matt wrapped his arms behind her waist and caught her as they both fell to the ground. "Mimi! Mimi, please wake up!"
"Who's there?" asked Izzy.
Takeru hid behind him as they slowly stepped towards to where the voice came from. They froze when they saw two small green eyes appear in the shadows. A small head suddenly poked out; It had on a metal head in the shape of a small bowling ball with fluffs of green spiky hair that shot out on top, and the metal extended out to be a long sharp beak.
"W-who are you?"
The rest of its body popped out; it had a long neck that connected to a brown fluff ball body and long legs. It eyes them carefully before speaking.
"I'm sorry," it greeted cheerfully, "I thought you were 'her'. Please to meet you lads, name's Kiwimon.
"Kiwimon, huh?" repeated Takeru.
The digimon nodded and sat down followed by the two.
"Excuse me for asking but," started Izzy, "Who's 'her'?
The creature winced, "Lady Mayumi."
"You work for her?"
"Sadly, yes. She has kept me prisoner ever since I hatched out of my digi egg. I'm the one who keeps things in tip top order here. Honestly, I was ordered to 'pick up' things you children had dropped.
"My laptop!" exclaimed Izzy.
"Yes, that for instance. I was about to get it when a young girl with brown hair like yours picked it up." Kiwimon replied.
"Mimi!"
"Tell me Kiwimon. Could you by any chance help us gather al our friends? There's about seven of us scattered around this place and we all need to be together to defeat Mayumi."
The Digimon's face lit up and jumped up and down around them in joy, "Of course! I know exactly where they are! Anything to get me out of this horrid place!"
"Great!" both said.
"I know every ins, outs, corners, bottom, trap doors, top to bottom like the back of my head-of course, if I can actually see the back of my head- but then that would be pretty odd if you ask me."
Takeru and Izzy stared in confusion.
"Arrgh!" Tai rammed himself onto the glass for the hundredth time, no luck.
"Tai, it's no use. Give it up, you're just wasting your time-and mine. We have to find another way."
"No! Sora's stuck in there all by herself, how can you just sit there doing nothing?!"
"I am doing something. I'm thinking! Tai use your brain if you even have one! We've been ramming ourselves into the wall and what had that done? Nothing! We're just making ourselves tired and when the real battle begins, we won't have the strength to even fight!" Joe finally lost his temper.
Tai ignored him and continued. He ran against the wall and stayed leaning against it as he slid to the ground.
"We can give up.not now" his voice trailed off, "I'm sorry, Sora."
"Mmm.Stop it!!" Sora yelled grasping her head.
She had been sitting in complete darkness for what seemed like forever to her. She felt her heart pounding so fast that her mind couldn't keep up with it. Tears of fear had escaped her tightly shut eyes and were viciously streaming down her cheeks. She knew what she had seen with Tai and Joe. She felt so confused and scared-and betrayed somehow. She could hear soft laughter around her.
What's wrong, Sora? You look a bit pale.
"Just leave me alone!" Sora screamed.
What's this? Don't tell me that the famous tomboy is actually scared.
Sora just sat there and silently cried. How she despised the name some kids would call her.
Oh how the mighty have fallen. Whoever thought that we'd see the day.
A silence followed. Sora was reluctant to let go of her helmet and to slowly open her eyes to find nothingness surrounding her. She hugged her knees tighter.
"Biyomon, Mimi, everyone," She whispered, "Please, get me out of here. Tai."
Tai? Sora's eyes widened, she could've sworn Mayumi had left her in peace. Oh yeah, how could I forget. Our Little Miss Sora's in love. Too bad he doesn't feel the same way.
"Leave me alone! You don't know anything!"
Oh but I do. I know every secret you keep, Sora. I've spent most of my time listening to every single disgusting one! And as for your lover boy, who in their right mind would like someone who spends most of her time playing around the mud and dresses up like she just came out of the garbage?!
"Arrgh! Can you be anymore annoying!!" Sora managed to say something sarcastically. But Mayumi just replied by laughing.
Cheer up, Sora. There's one thing we will ever have in common-no one will ever like us.
Sora couldn't hear anything anymore but a small muffling sound that rang in her ears. She gripped her head tighter to shut the voice out of her head and wept.
"Get outta the way!" Gururumon yelled as he shoved past a mound of Dokugomon.
The Digimon had been battling it out the whole time and weren't getting anywhere. Some were starting to lose their energy while the Dokugomon seemed to be multiplying every time they beat one.
"We-have to-help the children!" called Birdramon blasting a Dokugomon off her, "They might-be in danger!"
"I can go to them if some of you clear the way for me!" cried Togemon.
Gururumon and Ikakumon nodded in agreement as they quickly left their burden to the others and helped clear a way for Togemon to make it to the tree.
"Are we almost there? It's like we're walking around in circles or something!" Takeru called out.
"Don't worry, just two more lefts and one more straight and we're there!" called back Kiwimon from in front, "Or was that one more right and three more corners..?"
Izzy and Takeru unwillingly followed the walking chat room around in circles for about fifteen minutes when they finally came to the spot where they had met Kaoru. They slightly could make out two scrawny lying figures on the ground. They had found Tai and Joe.
"Tai! Joe!" both cried out.
Tai and Joe slowly opened their worn out eyes to find two beaming faces smiling at them, "Hey guys." Tai said.
"It's about time." Commented Joe.
After a while, Joe and Tai regained most of their strength back.
"Hey, where's Matt and Mimi?"
Izzy and Takeru exchanged glances and looked at the two apologetically, "It's a long story. Bottom line, we got split up. But we found Kiwimon here," Kiwimon nodded in salutations, "He knows exactly where they are and he's gonna help us find Sora and the others."
"That's great! What are we waiting for?"
They cheered and again followed Kiwimon around the halls as he once again talked non-stop to himself turning here and there, stopping every once and a while. The Digidestines were about to give up on the Digimon when they started to notice their surroundings getting darker. They were running through a small hallway everything went quiet and dark. Kiwimon stopped.
"We're here."
They looked around, "Here where?"
Kiwimon shivered, "Mayumi's little playpen. This is where she keeps some pitiful soul and torments them by using their fears against them. She slowly feeds on their fear and torments them for fun. Seeing that it's gotten dark, I'm guessing she's got company. The one you call Sora is in here," Tai's eyes widened as Kiwimon got more serious, "I cannot assure you that your friend is okay, I do not know exactly how long she has been here and how long Mayumi has been causing her pain. We can only hope. Follow me, but be quiet and aware. Most of all, do not show your fear."
They gravely nodded and followed as instructed. They couldn't see where they were going, they only followed the taps of Kiwimon's feet. They stopped when they heard screaming.
It was Sora. Tai quickly ran to her calling out her name.
"No! Stop!" Kiwimon called out. Too late, Tai was already gone.
"Sora! I'm coming!" Tai yelled.
Sora suddenly looked up, eyes widened as she made out the figure running towards her, "TAI!"
She stood up as she was suddenly engulfed in Tai's caring arms. She felt Tai holding her so tight that she almost had trouble breathing, she could hear his heart beating so fast and she smiled, welcoming the tears that flowed freely down her cheeks and onto his collar.
"I'm so sorry I wasn't there when you needed help!" Tai kept saying. Sora blushed, You were wrong, Mayumi, she blamed.
Tai and Sora finally realized the position they were in and quickly let go and Tai stood there grinning at her clumsily. They heard footsteps running towards them and their friends calling their names out. Tai began waving his arms but realized that it was too dark for them to see so he called out to them.
"Over here!"
They ran towards them and everyone hugged Sora and kept asking her if she was okay. Kiwimon abruptly interrupted the moment.
"Sorry to bother you. But, we have to go now, Mayumi might come back and you do not want to know what she might do to us when she finds out. Follow me and we'll get the rest of your friends!"
Sora shivered, "I agree. I can't stand this anymore. It was like I was in hell or something." They fled and followed the Digimon.
"No! This can't be, they can't get away!"