Authors notes: Firstly, I dislike authors notes, with that being said I would first of all like to apologize to Rob. Sorry about that, my computer died and my good friend posted it for me but the disk reformatted it K . I'm also sorry about not answering questions.. um.. next time I will (nods) !!! K
Believe none of what you see
Chapter VII
It's raining
" Tai?" Sora stirred awake for the second time.
'I swear I'll make her forget about him', Lyle thought to himself
Sora slowly pulled open her eyes and soon realized where she wasn't.
"Umm, thanks Lyle," She muttered pulling herself out of his arms.
"No problem!" Lyle quickly jumped to his feet. He held out his hand to help Sora up.
"No thanks, its okay!" She smiled politely, and attempted to stand on her own. A sharp cry escaped her lips and she collapsed…well at least she thought she did. She realized the reason she was not on the ground was because Lyle caught her.
" You most of hurt your ankle", Lyle said softly. Sora felt trapped by his eyes, which were an intense blue which was hard to look away from. She suddenly broke the gaze.
'Damn', thought Lyle.
"Are you hurt?" she suddenly remembered to ask.
" Not that I know of ", Lyle mumbled, amused by her sudden concern. He loved the way she felt in his arms.
" We have to go find Tai!" Sora said suddenly attempting to pull out of his arms and stand up again.
'No!' Lyle held on to her.
" Remember you hurt your ankle", he gently reminded her.
"And the others", she finished. Sora stopped struggling as well.
Lyle lifted her into his arms, "I'll carry you", he said. His eyes flashed, " Later", he continued. " Right now you need to rest, if you haven't noticed we have just been through an explosion of clashing forces."
Sora narrowed her eyes. She decided to ask Lyle about that later, or at least tell Tai.
'Everyone needs as much rest as possible,' Lyle thought. ' But its not like they'll know, and its not like I know 'exactly' where they are to tell them. Besides I want as much time with the holder of love as possible'. Lyle looked at Sora. 'Love suits her so perfectly'.
"I wonder where Tai is," Sora said aloud. It wasn't like that was all that was on her mind, but for some reason she had the feeling that Tai was in serious trouble. It just gnawed at her sub consciousness. She voiced this.
"I was just worrying that Tai was in trouble somewhere." She smiled faintly. "But hopefully I'm wrong".
'That name again…and I know he's in trouble somewhere '.
"I'm sure he's looking for you!" Lyle voiced.
'If I were him I would be'.
"Thanks", Sora said smiling faintly.
Lyle flinched when he realized he said it aloud. 'Oh well', he concluded, 'no harm done'.
It was not as easy as Lyle thought it was to remember the important things on his mind with Sora in his arms. However, Lyle knew that he needed to do something quick. He could feel the evil strengthening as they breathed. If it worried him now, and the evil was getting stronger, they all were in serious trouble. Especially the strongest Digi-destined.
Yolei stared curiously at her surroundings. Her purple hair surrounded her, coming lose of its pony tail.
They had just seemed to wake up ten minutes ago.
"We should start looking for the others", Cody mentioned quietly. He was still the same quiet person, that aspect about him didn't change through the years. Although the once small Cody wasn't small anymore. Cody was now equally as tall as everyone in the group and was built from the years he dedicated to fencing, and training.
"Agreed", Michael nodded. What were the chances of landing in the mountains with no one for company except…
"Everyone's o.k. right?", Yolei asked the two young men which just happened to end up in the same place as her after the explosion.
On a mountain, not high enough to overlook the whole Digi-world but high enough to see a great distance.
"Since you first mentioned finding the others", Michael gestured to Cody, "lead the way!"
Cody nodded and began his decent down the mountain with Yolei close behind. Michael picked up the rear.
The wind began to pick up as they walked and began to cover the sun.
" It's going to rain", Michael said grimly.
"Storm", Cody corrected automatically.
"Great", Yolei mentioned sarcastically.
That's when it started to rain. It rained lightly at first, but then more heavily, making the ground once solid ground slightly muddy.
"This day can not get any worse", Yolei mumbled exasperated.
"You spoke to soon!" Cody stated. They heard the sound of thunder in the distance getting closer. "Way to soon."
Yolei groaned and rang her damp hair out. Not that attempting to dry it would make a difference however. The three of then soon began to walk slowly and cautiously in the hard rain .
Yolei suddenly slipped and fell, causing Michael to rush over to her side immediately and helped her up.
"Maybe we should stop". Michael yelled over the thunder. "Then continue when the rain stops falling".
"That makes sense", Yolei agreed, she rung her hair out again. "I'm cover with mud", she slightly whined.
"Under the tree", Michael said pointing to large tree near to them. The tree seemed like an umbrella, sheltering the ground beneath it from the rain.
The sky was rather dark and a stroke of lighting streaked across the sky.
As they got closer to the tree Yolei suddenly commented, "I don't think this is a good idea."
"Because?", Cody asked, obviously frustrated with the rain himself.
"Tree's conduct elec -", Yolei screamed as in those same seconds lighting struck a large branch sending it crashing down on her.
"Spoke to soon," Cody mumbled under his breath as he quickly ran to help her. Michael pushed him out of his way.
"Yolei?" He yelled loudly. "Yolei", he whispered "you better be alright."
He quickly attempted to pull the large branch out of the way.
"It's a small tree", Cody said moving forward to help Yolei.
Slowly, both were able to move the branch off her. Yolei's still form laid on the ground covered with mud and scratches.
"Ken's going to kill us", Cody yelled quickly. He checked her pulse then began to pick her up.
"I'll do that", Michael said defensively, taking Yolei from Cody.
As soon as Michael secured Yolei in his arms he turned to Cody.
"Lets go ", he said starting to walk. "When I planned to make us stop it was neither for your or my benefit".
Cody nodded. He knew that from the time Michael spoke. All three where now soaked to the bone with the rain water. A daunting thought suddenly hit Cody.
"Michael, we need to turn around, where going the wrong way!"
"What?," Michael questioned immediately.
"Where going the wrong way", Cody said again. Then he explained himself. " Think about it logically, the storm had to be created. Cant you feel it, something evil is happening, something evil obviously wants us dead."
Michael tried to interject but Cody beat him to it. " All day before this it was a perfect day, then all of a sudden the Digi- portals don't work. Soon after that it starts to storm? It's quite obvious. If we go down hill we could get swept away by a landslide!"
"But if we go uphill, not only would it be harder, but if there was a land slide we would still go down", Michael pointed out.
"We stand a better chance heading up hill!" Cody insisted, now he was getting frustrated.
" I suggest we continue as we are", Michael argued. "We need to find a place so Yolei can rest. Carrying her around is not helping her!"
" In this weather?", Cody yelled. "We should go up hill and wait out the storm."
"Look Cody", Michael yelled angrily now, " I'm taking Yolei, and we are going down the mountain. You can go the other way if you want". Michael shifted Yolei in his arms. "But my first priority is to keep those important to me safe!" Michael said with his attention on Yolei.
" She's my best friend", Cody yelled frustrated. They had been best friends for years, although he thought she never seemed to pick the ideal guys to be with. For some reason, it seemed to Cody that every guy was with he had something against.
" She should come with me!", Cody said sternly. "Just because she's your ex. Girlfriend doesn't mean you can go off and get her killed".
"Just because she was my ex. Girlfriend doesn't mean I don't lo-," Michael yelled hotly then stopped, soon regretting what he was almost about to say. 'Great', he thought to himself, ' I practically told Yolei's best friend that I still love her'. Michael then said coldly, " And how the hell do you know about us?"
"Ken doesn't know you had anything to do with her", Cody said in response answering the real question that was asked.
'But he suspected something!' Michael thought to himself.
"Look Cody, If we go this way we also stand a chance of finding a cave!", Michael said with clenched teeth. He suddenly discovered he didn't like Yolei's best friend. And the look Cody was giving him assured him the feeling were mutual.
"Michael", Cody said slowly, I'm telling you this is our only chance if we want to get out of this alive."
"I'm not giving up Yolei", Michael snorted. Something was off about this argument. It felt like they were arguing about much more. Everything that was said had a double meaning. Michael would of found it hard to believe he was fighting with Cody over something like this if it wasn't for what it was implying. How could Cody be best friends with a beautiful, intelligent, alluring person like Yolei and not have the slightest feelings for her? That was impossible, and Michael knew that Cody subconsciously knew that too.
"Look Michael-", Cody began before he was cut off.
" We have wasted enough time standing here", Michael said beginning to walk, dismissing Cody all together. "We could have been much further if it wasn't for you." He then mumbled.
And that's when Cody snapped. "I'm not going to let you accidentally kill my best friend!", Cody yelled.
"You're the one that wants to kill her", Michael countered.
Cody lost his temper, Michael never saw it coming. Cody drew back his fist , stalked in front of Michael, and punched him in his jaw. Stunned, Michael dropped Yolei and took a few steps backward.
"Damn you", he yelled back, then immediately punched Cody in his face. Cody's attention was focused on Yolei and didn't see the punch in time to block it. Now both if they weren't angry before were really angry now.
"Bastard", Cody screamed. "If we work together we could get out of here alive!"
Cody stooped down and scooped an unconscious Yolei in his arms. She stirred slightly. Then she was immediately removed from his arms by Michael.
"Were going to get out of here!"
"Alive?", Cody asked. He would of like nothing better than to gently place Yolei somewhere safe then kick Michael ass. But now was not the time. 'Unfortunately', Cody thought to himself.
Suddenly, they both heard a distinct sound of a rumble heading closer to then by the second.
"Spoke to soon", Cody mumbled and shook his head. 'Or maybe just on time', he thought.
Then in a loud voice he yelled at Michael, "and that's what we call a landslide!"
' I swear if I live through this I'm going to beat Michael up!" Cody thought quickly.
' I swear if I live though this I'm going to beat the Cody kid up!' Michael though suddenly.
Izzy woke up to the beeping of his lap top. Ignoring the strangeness of his surroundings he immediately checked it.
Izzy's eyes widened.
"A corroding to my calculations, we are in a lot of shit!"
The funny thing was Izzy only swore when he was drop dead serious….or thought someone was going to die!