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Digitalgirl: Just get on with the story!
A Reflection of Darkness
Chapter 3. Heightened Suspicions
"Okay, now where did I leave my purse?" Yolie continued to mutter to herself all the while searching her room for some money. She pulled a blue strappy bag from out of her dresser triumphantly, looking inside it for her wallet. "I think I'll have enough." She added, looking at the wad of cash stuck in her wallet.
"Yolie, you do know that taking to yourself is crazy!" Poromon stated in his high-pitched voice from his resting spot on her bed.
"I'm not taking to myself, I'm fighting with myself. There is a difference." She replied while applying some lip-gloss.
"That sounds even worse! You're crazier then me on sugar!"
"No one is crazier then you on sugar, not even me!" Yolie said through giggles at the thought of Poromon on sugar.
It was already 5:30pm and Yolie had a dinner date with her boyfriend, Shinya at 6:00pm.
She took one last check on her appearance in the mirror, trying in a desperate attempt to make her hair stay flat by gelling it some more. It of course didn't work, no matter how much gel you use it just doesn't seem to make fly-away hair stick! "You look fine! Now go on you're date or you'll be late!" Her digimon prompted.
Yolie decided that her hair would have to do, and took Poromon's advice by leaving her room. Of course not without giving him the reminder, "Absolutely no sugar while I'm gone! Don't come out of this room either!" With that she shut her bedroom door and made her way over to the door that left the apartment.
She would have made it too, if it weren't for the phone ringing.
"Hello!" She said in what was unmistakable irritation.
The voice didn't seem bothered by her harsh tone, in fact his was worse! "She's gone!"
"Davis? Who's gone?" Yolie asked, quite surprised at the panic evident in his voice.
"Kari, she went missing at school!!!"
It took Yolie a moment to register what Davis had just screamed in her ear. "Kari disappeared?"
"Well duh, isn't that what I just told you?" Davis shouted, clearly panic- stricken.
Yolie thought for a moment. "I saw her sitting with you guys at lunch, and I passed by her on the way to class after that. When was she last seen?"
" That was the last time she was seen! She never showed up for class, and Cody hasn't seen her either!"
"Well did you phone her place? Maybe she went home."
Davis actually growled at that. "I may be an idiot Yolie, but I'm not that stupid!! Do you think I would be freaking out like this if I hadn't already tried her at home?"
Yolie stopped to think about that one. 'yeah, you probably would,' came to her mind instantly, but she liked her life and decided to humor him. "No of course not! I just don't have a clue where she could be."
"Well neither does anyone else. I don't know, Cody doesn't know," Davis stated listing names off the top of his head. "Even stupid T.P. doesn't know!"
"Davis, you know his name is T.K., not T.P." Yolie corrected.
"Oh whatever! Even Tai doesn't know where she is!" Davis exclaimed, exasperated with Yolie.
Yolie thought for a moment to consider where Kari could have gone.
"Davis, have you phoned Ken yet?"
"Nope, I'm gonna do that when I get off the phone with you. I don't think he'd know anything though, he doesn't even go to our school." Davis replied, all the while hatching a plan in his head.
"So what are we going to do? We can't just sit around and talk about it, we have to go looking." Yolie said wryly.
"Well duh! Tai said we should meet at his house, since his parents are away for the weekend. And we should be there in." He stopped mid sentence to glance at his watch, "an hour and a half."
"Crap! Now I'll have a short dinner date! Well gotta go, bye!" Yolie stated all in one breathe before hanging up the phone and running out of the apartment.
Davis was left still holding the phone to his ear ready to say "bye," when Yolie hung up. "I phone people to tell them something important and this is the thanks I get! Whatever!"
Ken sat in the back seat of the family car; staring off into space to pass the time on the boring trip.
'What does this all mean? Why are there voices in my head? Am I crazy?' These, among other less pressing issues, were bouncing around Ken's head. Even while thinking over his current dilemma with the disembodied voice and Kari's mysterious disappearance, Ken's eyes never left their respective position focused out the window.
"So Kenny, what's so important that we have to drive you all the way to Odeiba for?" His mother turned from the front passenger seat, to gaze at her son worriedly.
Some would consider Ken's parents a little over-protective and awkward. To Ken that was an understatement he would have gladly done without.
'Well it's not like I can exactly tell them that Kari went missing?'
Deciding that a lie; plausible and comforting enough to ease his parent's apprehension, would be his best option.
"Well," Ken began, trying desperately to make up something as he went along. "Davis invited me over to spend the night at his place."
"Then why are we dropping you off at the Kamiya's?" Now both of his parents were in on this game of twenty questions, which was enough to drive Ken nearly mad.
"Oh, that! That's only 'cause Davis is visiting Tai; soccer advice I suppose." He was very sure to add in the last bit in a casual, laid back sort of way. Suspicion was not something he wanted to draw at the moment.
Ken saw, what he though was a quizzical glance pass between his parents. The kind almost any adult would use when doubting a teenager's intentions, but without the proof to say anything against it either.
Nothing more of the matter was said as they pulled into the apartment complex and parked at the front. Ken dutifully climbed out of the back seat and went to grab his backpack from the trunk.
His mom gave him a quick hug, while he looked around the parking lot frantically, with hopes no one saw.
"Have a good time and remember that if you need anything we're only a phone call away." She reminded him, climbing into their car.
He watched as his parents drove off, both of them waving.
"Glad you got rid of them, I thought we weren't going to even make it here."
"I didn't ask you for your opinion on the matter!" Ken spat, for it wasn't anyone or thing he wanted to hear from.
"Well I came from your head, am I not somewhat your opinion in that sense?"
Ken buzzed up to Tai's and the main door to the building opened.
He stood waiting for the elevator, inwardly wishing it would hurry up, as he really didn't think he could handle the voice any longer.
"Do you not wonder where your friend is at this very moment?" It's cold, sarcastic whisper rung out in the dead silence of the room.
The elevator arrived at precisely that very second, yet Ken couldn't budge, he stood with his hands trembling by his sides.
"You know where she is, don't you?" Ken asked deadly quiet in the empty room. He hopped on the elevator before it left and hit the button for the correct floor.
"Tell me where she is! I'm sure you know!"
"And what makes you so positive that I am the one responsible?"
The elevator was one floor away from the correct, yet Ken had no intention of getting off; not until the argument with 'whatever it was' closed.
"This is your floor and I suggest you take it. They are awaiting input on the situation from you. If it were me, I would simply tell them she is dead, for it would spare them even worse pain and suffering."
Ken solemnly stepped off on the right level and went towards the Kamiya's apartment. Never before in his life (not even as the Kaiser) would he have believed a disembodied voice held truth even he couldn't begin to grasp. No, not ever, for now he knew 'it' had her and wasn't about to give her back.
Tai ran to answer the door when he heard Ken knock softly. "Hey, it took you awhile to get up here!" The former goggle wearer of the digidestined exclaimed agitatedly.
Ken was ever so slightly annoyed at how Tai automatically jumped on his case. After all it's not like he could control how fast the elevators moved. He was about to make a point of this too, but quickly changed his mind upon taking a closer look at Tai.
Tai looked like hell, and even that would be putting it mildly! Never before had Ken seen him look so utterly lost. Like a hopeless case, without a clue where he was, would be the closest description one could give.
He ushered Ken into the living room, where eight of the other ten digidestined sat (Joe had to study for an exam and would be phoning later to get the inside scoop. Mimi was in America.)
Izzy seemed to be at the epicenter of all the bustle, as he typed away on his pineapple laptop, sitting on the floor oblivious to everyone around him. On one side of him sat Davis, clearly on his last nerves. Sitting on the other side was T.K. peering over at the laptop's screen, trying to take in any information he could get.
Yolie and Sora sat on the couch going over the last time Kari was seen. Matt sat across from them; presently in the middle of a phone conversation with one of Kari's other friends and beside him was cody, giving him the phone numbers to call. Even the digimon were there, sitting off in the corner of the room talking amongst themselves. Apparently Kari didn't tell anyone about leaving, as Gatomon was even left in the dark about it, when Kari just didn't show up home from school.
Tai pulled up a chair in the room for Ken and he sat down. Just then Matt hung up the phone.
"No luck?" Tai asked, though he already knew the answer.
"None, it's like she's disappeared from the face of the Earth. Should we call the police?" Matt finally added.
Tai sat down on the floor cross-legged. "No, I don't think she's been kid napped, or run away."
"Ken looked at Tai startled. 'Maybe he knows too.' "Where do you think she is then Tai?" He asked hesitantly for the last thing he wanted at that point in time was to tick Tai off.
"Lately she's started having nightmares, and she hasn't had those since the last time the Dark Ocean came for her. I think that might be where she is."
Everyone was silent in the room. Ken wasn't surprised at this, the Dark Ocean was a nightmare in itself; evil and frightening. Of course now that he knew his suspicions were the same as Tai's, it gave him the extra confidence in his own opinion.
"T.K.", Tai started, "Tell me all you know about the Dark Ocean."
"Well, I've only been there the one time, when Kari was taken there. It was creepy there, and there where some really strange digimon. T.K. stopped talking, apparently he was finished on the subject.
"Do you know how to get there?" Tai didn't know where to begin and T.K. seemed to be the best option for information.
"No idea. Last time I went a portal opened up on the beach, but I think Kari was what made it open. Ken might know though."
All heads turned to Ken, who really wanted to crawl under a rather large rock and stay there for the rest of his life. It was bad enough being known as the former Digimon Emperor, but having advice on how to get to the Dark Ocean; that sent any ego he had into the minus category.
"I'm no expert, in fact I'm not sure how we could go to the Dark Ocean to get her back. The last time I opened a portal it wasn't strong enough to transport a group of humans there, it was hard enough to send a digimon.
"Could you try to open a portal again?" Matt asked; clearly running low on ideas.
"For all we know he could accidentally kill himself, or even ship us all to a completely different dimension, one we know nothing about." Izzy stated from behind the screen of his laptop.
Sora finally spoke up. "And we're not even sure she is there, what if she was kidnapped?"
"Oh, I don't doubt she's in the Dark Ocean." Ken finally admitted.
"How do you know?" Izzy asked, by now very curious.
"You're all probably going to think I'm crazy, but a voice told me." Ken kept his gaze on the floor when telling everyone this; after all hearing voices doesn't make you seem all that sane.
"The Voice talks to you too!?!" Yelled out Davis, T.K. and Cody at exactly the same time; causing everyone else to jump. One being unfortunate enough to land on hid butt!
"What do you mean, 'me too'? Ken asked while climbing back on to his chair from where he was on the floor.
"Kari was complaining about a voice at school today." Cody started. "Right after that is when she disappeared."
"Okay, so who is this voice?" Tai asked Ken, clearly not quite sure on what to believe.
"I think it's the Dark Ocean itself, but I can't be sure." Ken said thoughtfully, trying to figure out what it was.
Tai stared at him for the longest time; it made Ken uncomfortable like he was under a microscope and being inspected.
"Ask him." Tai finally said after coming to what must have been some kind of conclusion.
"What? What do you mean 'ask him'?" Ken questioned. He was beginning to like this less and less.
"Contact the voice and find out for sure if he has Kari. Bargain with him if you have to; just get Kari back!" Tai looked over at Ken very seriously.
Ken sat up from his chair and started to the door. "Okay, I'll do that, but what if he won't give her back?" "Make him. Do whatever it takes!" Tai replied in a tone that meant get her back or else. Ken didn't like it very much, but didn't really have a choice for that matter, after all he was the only one there who had any sort of contact with the voice. What kind of person would he be if he didn't at least try? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Author's Notes: Hey people! Sorry for taking so long to update this. I had major writer's block, so that's why this chapter is really boring. If you have any suggestions feel free to E-mail me or put them in a review. *Hint Hint* Anyways I got my learner's license 2 weeks ago when I turned 16, so that's partially to blame for the severe lack of updates. Gomen Nasai for the wait, and Thanks a bunch to all those who reviewed, you guys rock!
Prep-empress86: I own Digimon! Muawahahahaha! Yes it's all mine!
Digitalgirl: You own Digimon the day I own Beyblade!
Prep-empress86: Hey, if I wanted your opinion I would ask for it!
Digitalgirl: Oh well, I gave it to you for free! Normally it cost 25 Cents a word, so consider yourself privileged!
Prep-empress89: You should have to pay people to listen to your half-assed advice!
Digitalgirl: yes but that still doesn't change the fact that you don't own Digimon and never will!
Prep-empress86: The truth hurts! Hey the story is mine though, so mwahahahah!
Digitalgirl: Just get on with the story!
A Reflection of Darkness
Chapter 3. Heightened Suspicions
"Okay, now where did I leave my purse?" Yolie continued to mutter to herself all the while searching her room for some money. She pulled a blue strappy bag from out of her dresser triumphantly, looking inside it for her wallet. "I think I'll have enough." She added, looking at the wad of cash stuck in her wallet.
"Yolie, you do know that taking to yourself is crazy!" Poromon stated in his high-pitched voice from his resting spot on her bed.
"I'm not taking to myself, I'm fighting with myself. There is a difference." She replied while applying some lip-gloss.
"That sounds even worse! You're crazier then me on sugar!"
"No one is crazier then you on sugar, not even me!" Yolie said through giggles at the thought of Poromon on sugar.
It was already 5:30pm and Yolie had a dinner date with her boyfriend, Shinya at 6:00pm.
She took one last check on her appearance in the mirror, trying in a desperate attempt to make her hair stay flat by gelling it some more. It of course didn't work, no matter how much gel you use it just doesn't seem to make fly-away hair stick! "You look fine! Now go on you're date or you'll be late!" Her digimon prompted.
Yolie decided that her hair would have to do, and took Poromon's advice by leaving her room. Of course not without giving him the reminder, "Absolutely no sugar while I'm gone! Don't come out of this room either!" With that she shut her bedroom door and made her way over to the door that left the apartment.
She would have made it too, if it weren't for the phone ringing.
"Hello!" She said in what was unmistakable irritation.
The voice didn't seem bothered by her harsh tone, in fact his was worse! "She's gone!"
"Davis? Who's gone?" Yolie asked, quite surprised at the panic evident in his voice.
"Kari, she went missing at school!!!"
It took Yolie a moment to register what Davis had just screamed in her ear. "Kari disappeared?"
"Well duh, isn't that what I just told you?" Davis shouted, clearly panic- stricken.
Yolie thought for a moment. "I saw her sitting with you guys at lunch, and I passed by her on the way to class after that. When was she last seen?"
" That was the last time she was seen! She never showed up for class, and Cody hasn't seen her either!"
"Well did you phone her place? Maybe she went home."
Davis actually growled at that. "I may be an idiot Yolie, but I'm not that stupid!! Do you think I would be freaking out like this if I hadn't already tried her at home?"
Yolie stopped to think about that one. 'yeah, you probably would,' came to her mind instantly, but she liked her life and decided to humor him. "No of course not! I just don't have a clue where she could be."
"Well neither does anyone else. I don't know, Cody doesn't know," Davis stated listing names off the top of his head. "Even stupid T.P. doesn't know!"
"Davis, you know his name is T.K., not T.P." Yolie corrected.
"Oh whatever! Even Tai doesn't know where she is!" Davis exclaimed, exasperated with Yolie.
Yolie thought for a moment to consider where Kari could have gone.
"Davis, have you phoned Ken yet?"
"Nope, I'm gonna do that when I get off the phone with you. I don't think he'd know anything though, he doesn't even go to our school." Davis replied, all the while hatching a plan in his head.
"So what are we going to do? We can't just sit around and talk about it, we have to go looking." Yolie said wryly.
"Well duh! Tai said we should meet at his house, since his parents are away for the weekend. And we should be there in." He stopped mid sentence to glance at his watch, "an hour and a half."
"Crap! Now I'll have a short dinner date! Well gotta go, bye!" Yolie stated all in one breathe before hanging up the phone and running out of the apartment.
Davis was left still holding the phone to his ear ready to say "bye," when Yolie hung up. "I phone people to tell them something important and this is the thanks I get! Whatever!"
Ken sat in the back seat of the family car; staring off into space to pass the time on the boring trip.
'What does this all mean? Why are there voices in my head? Am I crazy?' These, among other less pressing issues, were bouncing around Ken's head. Even while thinking over his current dilemma with the disembodied voice and Kari's mysterious disappearance, Ken's eyes never left their respective position focused out the window.
"So Kenny, what's so important that we have to drive you all the way to Odeiba for?" His mother turned from the front passenger seat, to gaze at her son worriedly.
Some would consider Ken's parents a little over-protective and awkward. To Ken that was an understatement he would have gladly done without.
'Well it's not like I can exactly tell them that Kari went missing?'
Deciding that a lie; plausible and comforting enough to ease his parent's apprehension, would be his best option.
"Well," Ken began, trying desperately to make up something as he went along. "Davis invited me over to spend the night at his place."
"Then why are we dropping you off at the Kamiya's?" Now both of his parents were in on this game of twenty questions, which was enough to drive Ken nearly mad.
"Oh, that! That's only 'cause Davis is visiting Tai; soccer advice I suppose." He was very sure to add in the last bit in a casual, laid back sort of way. Suspicion was not something he wanted to draw at the moment.
Ken saw, what he though was a quizzical glance pass between his parents. The kind almost any adult would use when doubting a teenager's intentions, but without the proof to say anything against it either.
Nothing more of the matter was said as they pulled into the apartment complex and parked at the front. Ken dutifully climbed out of the back seat and went to grab his backpack from the trunk.
His mom gave him a quick hug, while he looked around the parking lot frantically, with hopes no one saw.
"Have a good time and remember that if you need anything we're only a phone call away." She reminded him, climbing into their car.
He watched as his parents drove off, both of them waving.
"Glad you got rid of them, I thought we weren't going to even make it here."
"I didn't ask you for your opinion on the matter!" Ken spat, for it wasn't anyone or thing he wanted to hear from.
"Well I came from your head, am I not somewhat your opinion in that sense?"
Ken buzzed up to Tai's and the main door to the building opened.
He stood waiting for the elevator, inwardly wishing it would hurry up, as he really didn't think he could handle the voice any longer.
"Do you not wonder where your friend is at this very moment?" It's cold, sarcastic whisper rung out in the dead silence of the room.
The elevator arrived at precisely that very second, yet Ken couldn't budge, he stood with his hands trembling by his sides.
"You know where she is, don't you?" Ken asked deadly quiet in the empty room. He hopped on the elevator before it left and hit the button for the correct floor.
"Tell me where she is! I'm sure you know!"
"And what makes you so positive that I am the one responsible?"
The elevator was one floor away from the correct, yet Ken had no intention of getting off; not until the argument with 'whatever it was' closed.
"This is your floor and I suggest you take it. They are awaiting input on the situation from you. If it were me, I would simply tell them she is dead, for it would spare them even worse pain and suffering."
Ken solemnly stepped off on the right level and went towards the Kamiya's apartment. Never before in his life (not even as the Kaiser) would he have believed a disembodied voice held truth even he couldn't begin to grasp. No, not ever, for now he knew 'it' had her and wasn't about to give her back.
Tai ran to answer the door when he heard Ken knock softly. "Hey, it took you awhile to get up here!" The former goggle wearer of the digidestined exclaimed agitatedly.
Ken was ever so slightly annoyed at how Tai automatically jumped on his case. After all it's not like he could control how fast the elevators moved. He was about to make a point of this too, but quickly changed his mind upon taking a closer look at Tai.
Tai looked like hell, and even that would be putting it mildly! Never before had Ken seen him look so utterly lost. Like a hopeless case, without a clue where he was, would be the closest description one could give.
He ushered Ken into the living room, where eight of the other ten digidestined sat (Joe had to study for an exam and would be phoning later to get the inside scoop. Mimi was in America.)
Izzy seemed to be at the epicenter of all the bustle, as he typed away on his pineapple laptop, sitting on the floor oblivious to everyone around him. On one side of him sat Davis, clearly on his last nerves. Sitting on the other side was T.K. peering over at the laptop's screen, trying to take in any information he could get.
Yolie and Sora sat on the couch going over the last time Kari was seen. Matt sat across from them; presently in the middle of a phone conversation with one of Kari's other friends and beside him was cody, giving him the phone numbers to call. Even the digimon were there, sitting off in the corner of the room talking amongst themselves. Apparently Kari didn't tell anyone about leaving, as Gatomon was even left in the dark about it, when Kari just didn't show up home from school.
Tai pulled up a chair in the room for Ken and he sat down. Just then Matt hung up the phone.
"No luck?" Tai asked, though he already knew the answer.
"None, it's like she's disappeared from the face of the Earth. Should we call the police?" Matt finally added.
Tai sat down on the floor cross-legged. "No, I don't think she's been kid napped, or run away."
"Ken looked at Tai startled. 'Maybe he knows too.' "Where do you think she is then Tai?" He asked hesitantly for the last thing he wanted at that point in time was to tick Tai off.
"Lately she's started having nightmares, and she hasn't had those since the last time the Dark Ocean came for her. I think that might be where she is."
Everyone was silent in the room. Ken wasn't surprised at this, the Dark Ocean was a nightmare in itself; evil and frightening. Of course now that he knew his suspicions were the same as Tai's, it gave him the extra confidence in his own opinion.
"T.K.", Tai started, "Tell me all you know about the Dark Ocean."
"Well, I've only been there the one time, when Kari was taken there. It was creepy there, and there where some really strange digimon. T.K. stopped talking, apparently he was finished on the subject.
"Do you know how to get there?" Tai didn't know where to begin and T.K. seemed to be the best option for information.
"No idea. Last time I went a portal opened up on the beach, but I think Kari was what made it open. Ken might know though."
All heads turned to Ken, who really wanted to crawl under a rather large rock and stay there for the rest of his life. It was bad enough being known as the former Digimon Emperor, but having advice on how to get to the Dark Ocean; that sent any ego he had into the minus category.
"I'm no expert, in fact I'm not sure how we could go to the Dark Ocean to get her back. The last time I opened a portal it wasn't strong enough to transport a group of humans there, it was hard enough to send a digimon.
"Could you try to open a portal again?" Matt asked; clearly running low on ideas.
"For all we know he could accidentally kill himself, or even ship us all to a completely different dimension, one we know nothing about." Izzy stated from behind the screen of his laptop.
Sora finally spoke up. "And we're not even sure she is there, what if she was kidnapped?"
"Oh, I don't doubt she's in the Dark Ocean." Ken finally admitted.
"How do you know?" Izzy asked, by now very curious.
"You're all probably going to think I'm crazy, but a voice told me." Ken kept his gaze on the floor when telling everyone this; after all hearing voices doesn't make you seem all that sane.
"The Voice talks to you too!?!" Yelled out Davis, T.K. and Cody at exactly the same time; causing everyone else to jump. One being unfortunate enough to land on hid butt!
"What do you mean, 'me too'? Ken asked while climbing back on to his chair from where he was on the floor.
"Kari was complaining about a voice at school today." Cody started. "Right after that is when she disappeared."
"Okay, so who is this voice?" Tai asked Ken, clearly not quite sure on what to believe.
"I think it's the Dark Ocean itself, but I can't be sure." Ken said thoughtfully, trying to figure out what it was.
Tai stared at him for the longest time; it made Ken uncomfortable like he was under a microscope and being inspected.
"Ask him." Tai finally said after coming to what must have been some kind of conclusion.
"What? What do you mean 'ask him'?" Ken questioned. He was beginning to like this less and less.
"Contact the voice and find out for sure if he has Kari. Bargain with him if you have to; just get Kari back!" Tai looked over at Ken very seriously.
Ken sat up from his chair and started to the door. "Okay, I'll do that, but what if he won't give her back?" "Make him. Do whatever it takes!" Tai replied in a tone that meant get her back or else. Ken didn't like it very much, but didn't really have a choice for that matter, after all he was the only one there who had any sort of contact with the voice. What kind of person would he be if he didn't at least try? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Author's Notes: Hey people! Sorry for taking so long to update this. I had major writer's block, so that's why this chapter is really boring. If you have any suggestions feel free to E-mail me or put them in a review. *Hint Hint* Anyways I got my learner's license 2 weeks ago when I turned 16, so that's partially to blame for the severe lack of updates. Gomen Nasai for the wait, and Thanks a bunch to all those who reviewed, you guys rock!