Back to the Digital World
Chapter Four: The Disappearing Sprits and Magic Items
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
~*~*~*~
Sapphire looked toward the direction of where Emerald and the others were. Then she looked back in the front and sigh.
Takuya noticed this and said, "Hey cheer up Saphy it's not like you won't see Emerald again," then added, "So don't be so down."
"Yeah, but Izumi said it's dangerous here, what if they get attack and I'll never see her again . . . like my mother and everyone else," Sapphire said those last few words very soft that Takuya and Tomoki didn't hear it, they only hear the first part, Kouichi however did hear it.
"What was the last part again?" Takuya asked. "I didn't hear it."
Sapphire shook her head and said, "Nothing," back in her usual cheerful voice and smiled.
"Okay, now lets go find the others," Takuya yelled punching his fist upon the air.
Sapphire stared at him then yelled, "Yeah," punching her fist up on the air like Takuya.
"I thought I said to stop with the shouting or yelling already," Takuya said.
"You yelled too."
"Yeah but not as loud as you."
"What's the difference?"
Takuya sighed and said, "Never mind," then glared at the other two who were laughing.
~*~Izumi & the others~*~
Izumi, Kouji, and Emerald walked toward the forest, except for the times Izumi try to make them talk by asking questions they were silent. When Izumi tried to make them talk they would only shake or nod their head or sometime when she's lucky they say a few words but that's all.
Both Kouji and Emerald didn't mind the silence, they actually like it but for Izumi, she didn't like it one bit. 'I should have known this would happen, both of them doesn't like to talk at all, I don't like silence! Don't they know that? Why wont they talk for pate's sake?' She looked at Kouji then to Emerald.
"Arrrgg, I give up!" Izumi walked faster ahead of them feeling really frustrated, leaving two very confused children staring at her.
"Amm . . . " Kouji tried to say what was in his mind but was too confused. Then he finally asked, "Did I say something wrong?"
Emerald chuckled and said, "I think it's what you didn't say."
"Huh?"
"Izumi was trying to make us talk by asking those silly questions. She doesn't really like silence that much."
Kouji nodded and continue to walk.
"You and Kouichi are twin brothers right?" Emerald asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"Nothing really, I thought talking might make Izumi less frustrated since that's what she wants and I was wondering about you and Kouichi, you both seem really close."
"Yeah, but I didn't know I had a twin before I went here on the Digital world."
Emerald raised an eyebrow and asked, "Really? Would it be okay for me to ask why?"
"When we were born our parents divorce, each of them took one of us, my . . . " As Kouji explained what happened to him and to his twin brother Kouichi Izumi noticed that they were finally talking.
'Yay, finally they talked.' Izumi slowed down so the other two could catch up. When they were close enough, Izumi could hear what they're talking, 'I should have thought of that, they both have twins, oh well at least they're talking.
Izumi was going to say something but decided on waiting till Kouji finished explaining.
~*~Sakura~*~
"So that's what happened, huh?" Kero said.
Sakura nodded then said, "So how am I going to find them?"
"Maybe you can use a card."
"What card should I use?" Sakura opened her purse and took out fifty-two cards, some were pink but most were red.
"You can use fly to get out of the forest."
"What if someone sees?"
"You mention that the only humans here are you and your friends, I don' think those digital monsters that they call digimon will find it surprising to see me flouting on the air or someone flying."
"Yeah, but what if one of them sees."
"They probably won't be too surprise, it seems to me that they already saw a lot of strange things and if they can keep this digital world a secret then maybe they could keep your magical powers a secret too."
"I guess, will hear it goes."
Sakura took out her key neckless and hold it out. The key started to spin while floating on the air while Sakura chanted, "O Key which hides the power of the stars, reveal thy true form before me. I, Sakura, command thy under contract. Release!"
The key turned into a pink staff with a star on the tip and a circle around the star with a small wing on each side of the circle. (AN: I forgot to tell you the Sakura in this fic haven't changed all the cards into Sakura cards yet, they're somewhere in the beginning on turning the Clow cards to Sakura cards.)
When Sakura caught the staff, she took out the fly card and chanted, "O card created by Clow, discard thine old form and be reborn. Under the name of Sakura, thy new Mistress. Fly!"
Suddenly wings started to grow on each side of the staff. Sakura sat on it and began to fly up. When Sakura was above all the trees she looked around and saw some kind of a giant beetle holding Syoaran.
~*~Junpi&Syoaran~*~
"Syoaran!" A familiar voice shouted from behind.
Beetlemon turned around to see who it was but never thought to see Sakura flying toward them riding some kind of a staff with wings.
When Sakura arrived, Syoaran immediately said, "Sakura, this is Junpi, he turned to a digimon."
"Hey! Where did you find that . . . what is that called?" Beetlemon asked looking at the staff.
"I'll explain later when we find the others."
"Hey it's that some kind of a digimon? I never saw it before." Beetlemon asked pointing at Kero.
"No, I'm not a digimon, will at least you didn't call me a stuffed toy or any other kind of toy."
"You're a stuffed toy?"
"No! I'm not a stuffed toy!"
"Oookkaaay."
~*~Takuya's group~*~
"Takuya?" Tomoki asked.
Takuya looked at him then answered, "Yeah?"
"What if we don't find them?"
"Don't worry little buddy, I'm sure we'll find them."
Tomoki nodded but was still worry.
"Wow!" Sapphire yelled.
"Sapphire! How many times do I have to say stop yelling," Takuya said but Sapphire wasn't listening she was running toward the ocean.
"Wow, the ocean is sooooo beautiful."
"Haven't you ever seen the ocean before?" Takuya asked.
Sapphire looked back toward them then shook her head, "Nope, this is the first time I ever saw the sea."
"Well, we can play in the ocean later when we find the others," Kouichi said.
"Really?" Sapphire and Tomoki said in unison both sounding really excited.
"Yeah, sure why not," Takuya said.
"Yay!" Both Sapphire and Tomoki shouted.
"I think my eardrums are going to break if I continue to hang out with both of them," Takuya stated as Kouichi chuckled.
~*~Izumi's groups~*~
When Kouji finished explaining his past Izumi said, "You both finally spoke."
Emerald smiled at her while Kouji just kept walking.
"You're both not going silence again are-" Izumi stopped when she saw something above the tress in the forest. "Hey! Beetlemon!" Izumi shouted.
Beetlemon heard this and flew down, Izumi saw that he was holding Syoaran then she saw Sakura riding a staff with wings with them.
When they finally landed Izumi started to ask, "Where were you? What happened? And what's-"
"They'll have to tell us later when we find the others so they won't worry," Emerald interrupted.
Beetlemon had de-digivolve.
"Okay, but why can't they tell us while we're walking?" Izumi asked as they started walking.
"I think it'll be really tiring for them to explain twice."
Izumi nodded then looked at Kero, "I never saw a digimon like that before."
"Kero isn't a digimon," Sakura said shaking her head.
"Is it some kind of a mechanical toy or something?"
Kero was about to say that his not a toy but Emerald interrupted, "Sakura can tell us about Kero later too."
"Yay, someone actually called me Kero not a mechanical toy or a stuffed toy," Kero said glaring at Syoaran when he said *stuffed toy*.
Emerald smiled at that but Izumi was surprised by what kero said, "It can talk and hear people?"
"Kero is a living being."
"Wow and I thought digimons were surprising."
They started to walk toward the ocean, Kero was sleeping in Sakura's purse, Izumi, Emerald, and Sakura were talking, Kouji and Syoaran were silent, and Junpi was eating something out of his backpack. Then suddenly a giant bird like digimon flew toward them from the forest.
"Hoooeee," Sakura shouted as the bird started to attack them.
"Maybe you guys should turn to digimons," Emerald said to Izumi, Kouji, and Junpi. "I'll take care of Sakura and Syoaran."
"Okay," Izumi said. "Spirit-evolution! Kazemon!"
"Spirit-evolution! Lobomon!"
"Spirit-evolution! Beetlemon!"
The three headed toward the digimon.
"Hurricane Wave!" Kazemon attacked but when the dust disappeared the digimon didn't seemed to have been effected by it at all.
"Lobo Kendo!"
"Thunder Fist!"
Lobomon and Beetlemon attacked but like Kazemon's attack it didn't effected the digimon at all.
"Why isn't our attack working?" Lobomon asked.
"Let's change to our beast form," Kazemon suggested. "Slide evolution!" she shouted but she didn't turn to Zephyrmon. "Guys! I can't turn into Zephyrmon!"
"Let me try," Lobomon said but the same thing happened. Beetlemon also tried but also failed.
"Why can't we turn to our beast form?" Izumi asked.
"I don't know but we'll figure that out later, right now we need to defeat him," Lobomon said.
"But his too-" Izumi was cut off when the digimon shouted, "Destruction Wave!" A hurricane bigger and stronger than Kazemon's Hurricane Wave knocked all three of them down. They de-digivolve back to Junpi, Izumi, and Kouji.
"We got to help them!" Sakura said.
"I know, but we can't do anything we can't turn to digimons," Emerald said in a worried but calm voice but Sakura and Syoaran were already running toward the other three.
"Wait, you can't fight him," Emerald said still in her calm voice while running with them.
"You stay here, we can't turn to digimons but we do have something to help us fight him," Syoaran stated.
Emerald stopped, she watched them ran closer toward the digimon, Kero had woken up and was now floating beside Sakura.
"Fly!" Sakura shouted then flew toward the digimon. "How am I supposed to defeat that monster?"
"Use an attack card, maybe thunder, shot, arrow, or something," Kero suggested.
Syoaran was on the ground running, he took out an orange paper then hit it with his sword and shouted, "Magical thunder, come fourth!" A very strong lightning appeared from the sky and struck the digimon.
~*~Takuya's group~*~
"No sign of them anywhere," Takuya said frustrated that they didn't found a single clue of where the others were.
"Takuya, I'm tired," Sapphire whined her voice sounded very exhausted.
"Me too," Tomoki said.
Kouichi looked at Sapphire then at Tomoki then suggested, "Maybe we should rest for a while, Takuya."
"What time is it, Sapphire?"
"Two twenty-three."
"Okay, then I guess we can rest for a while then go back to meet the others."
"Yay!" Tomoki and Sapphire cheered.
"I thought you two were tired?" Takuya asked.
"We are that's why were happy that we can rest," Sapphire stated.
"Where should we rest then?" Takuya asked.
Kouichi looked around then pointed at a tree near by and said, "We could rest under that tree."
Sapphire and Tomoki ran toward the tree and collapse under it.
"How can they run that fast if they're tired?" Takuya asked sweat dropping.
Kouichi was also sweat dropping but didn't say anything.
Takuya and Kouichi sat down with them. Then sapphire said, "I'm hungry, I haven't eaten lunch yet."
"We haven't eaten lunch either but we do have food, we were supposed to be going on a picnic," Takuya said.
"Really? Can I-" Sapphire was interrupted when a very strong lightning lighted a few miles away from them.
"That's weird, there's not a cloud in the sky," Kouichi said.
"Come on let's check it out, that might have something to do with the others," Takuya said standing up.
Tomoki groaned since he was still tired, "But I'm still tired."
"The others might be in trouble," Takuya said. "Hey! Where's Sapphire?"
"Come on! Hurry, Emerald and the others might be in trouble!" Sapphire shouted a few feet away from them.
"She's really fast," Takuya said eyes wide.
Kouichi chuckled and said, "Then we better get going if we want to catch up with her."
~*~Izumi's group~*~
Syoaran's lightning was strong and it effected the digimon a lot.
The digimon started to attack Syoaran but was stopped when Sakura used, "Freeze!" The digimon become frozen.
But the digimon didn't stay frozen, it broke through the ice and freed itself. Sakura took out another card and shouted, "Fiery!"
Fiery came out of Sakura's card and headed toward the digimon. It certainly did a lot of damage. "Shot!" Sakura shouted.
Shot came out and started to shoot at the digimon, but before Shot can hit him for the fifth time he disappeared.
"Huh? What happened? Where is he?" Syoaran asked.
They started to gather around the three digidestines.
"Wow! Sakura, Syoaran how'd you do that?" Izumi asked while getting up.
"Magical Clow cards," Emerald said.
"How'd you know?" Kero asked.
"I'll explain later when you explain to them about the cards."
"Hey!" Someone shouted.
"Takuya, Saph, Tomoki," Izumi shouted. It was Takuya that shouted. They were running toward them.
When Takuya finally caught his breath from running he asked, "Junpi, were you the one that made that really strong lighting?"
"Nope, it was Syoaran," Junpi answered.
"Syoaran?" All four of them, Takuya, Saph, Kouichi, and Tomoki, asked.
"Hey, cool sword Syoaran, where'd you get that?" Takuya asked as he saw Syoaran's sword, Syoaran was about to answer but Izumi spoke first, "Now that they're here, can they tell us about it now?"
"I'm tired," Saph said as she collapses on the ground.
"Maybe we should find a place to rest while they tell us about it," Emerald said.
"Who would tell us? And what would they tell us?" Takuya asked.
"Sakura and Syoaran," Kouji answered.
"About what?" Kouichi asked.
"About the Clow cards," Emerald answered.
~*~Somewhere in the Digital world~*~
"Your back," someone said in the darkness.
"Yes master," the digimon that just appeared said.
"Did you defeat them?"
"No, it seemed-"
"They don't have their beast spirit and you still didn't defeat them!" The digimon in the dark shouted.
"Yeah, the other two kids that are with them have these magical items, the little girl has a staff to release the magical powers in those magical cards and the boy has a sword and an orange paper with some Chinese writings on it," the digimon explained.
"Then get rid of those magical items!" The other one shouted.
"As you wish master."
~*~Takuya&the others~*~
The kids had been walking through the forest for about two hours trying to find a good place to rest but the forest was too thick. "There's a good place," Takuya said pointing at the big clearing surrounded by trees.
"Yay, finally my legs are almost as weak as a jelly by all the walking," Sapphire said running toward the clearing then collapses on the ground by the tree. Tomoki would have done the same but was too tired.
"If she's tired how could she have run?" Kouji asked.
They all walked toward the clearing and sat.
"Okay! Now can you guys tell us about the lightning?" Takuya asked.
"We were attacked," Kouji stated.
"You were? By what?"
Izumi, Junpi, Kouji, Sakura, Syoaran, and Emerald told them about the digimon and about what Sakura and Syoaran did. It took them about half an hour to explain everything including how Junpi, Syoaran, and Sakura got lost.
"Wow! Really?" Takuya asked.
"Yeah, Syoaran's lightning was a lot stronger than mine," Junpi said.
"By the way how were you two able to do all those things?" Izumi asked.
Sakura, Syoaran, and Kero explained about the Clow card, their magical powers, and about Kero. By the time they finished it was getting dark.
"Awesome, there won't be anything you can't do with those magic," Takuya stated.
"Yeah, that's incredibly awesome, Emerald and I are the only that are helpless in this world now," Sapphire said.
"Yeah, those magic are way better that mine," Junpi said.
"By the way, Emerald, how'd you know about the Clow cards?" Kero asked.
"When I was a little kid I always dreamed about them. In the dream, I saw Sakura, I saw how she fought and captured them. The test, and . . . "
"And what?" Syoaran asked.
"And the future that you two will face, but I cannot tell you or it will change everything Clow is planning."
"What do mean?" Sakura asked.
The others that were only listening were very confused on what they were talking about that they decided to only listen.
"You already captured all the cards, right?" Emerald asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"There's been weird things going on where you live."
Sakura nodded.
"And you'll have to use the card but you need to change them to Sakura cards to use them."
Again Sakura nodded.
"How'd you know all this?" Kero asked.
"My dreams can tell me the future, then . . . "
"Then what?" Syoaran asked.
"When I was three, I dreamed that our mother was going to die but I didn't like that dream and I didn't want to believe it, so I ignored it."
"Sorry," Syoaran apologized.
Emerald shook her head and said, "It's okay." Then she continued to explain, "After that I started to write down my dream on a journal, unfortunately I didn't bring it. Anyway, after our mother died, I started to have this dream about you and Sakura's adventures and what will happen to both of you."
Then Takuya remembered something, "Hey, Kouji, Izumi, Junpi, if you three weren't strong enough to defeat that digimon how come you didn't use your beast spirit?"
"Oh yeah! We almost forgot to tell you guys about that, our beast spirits are gone," Izumi explained.
"What!" Takuya asked.
"How about your beast spirit, do you have it?" Kouji asked.
Takuya, Tomoki, and Kouichi took out their D-Tectors.
"Beast spirit-evolution!" Takuya tried but didn't work.
The other two did the same but failed.
"Why isn't-" Takuya was interrupted when Sakura shouted, "Hoooeee."
"What's wrong?" Kouichi asked.
"My key and my card disappeared," Sakura said.
"What!" Kero asked.
"My sword and my incantation papers are gone too," Syoaran said. "It just disappeared in thin air."
"The only cards that didn't disappear are Earthy, Wood, Watery, and Mirror, but I can't use them without my staff."
"What do you think happened to them?" Kouichi asked.
Then suddenly, Emerald's emerald gem in her neckless glowed and Sakura's card, Wood, also glowed.
"What's happening?" Takuya asked.
Then the trees around them started to glow and so did Emerald's eyes.
"Emerald!" Sapphire said worried.
Then all the trees that glowed went back to normal making it really dark since it was already night. Emerald's eyes and neckless and Sakura's card also stopped glowing.
"What happened?" Kouichi asked.
"I just saw why Sakura's and Syoaran's items disappeared and why all of your beast spirits are gone," Emerald said. Before anyone could say something Emerald continued, "The new evil has taken them and the digimon that attacked us is one of them."
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