Believe none of what you see
Chapter X
The Dark Ocean
Disclaimer: Digimon is not mine! Simply put!
"Tai", Matt said stoically.
"Matt", Tai replied similarly. They stared each other down, grinned and gave each other a lose hug.
" Well I can't say that was a great idea!." Tai dusted himself off, referring to attempting to open the Digi portal.
"I cant say that was an idea", Matt said dusting himself off likewise.
"Well this automatically proves it!"
"That were completely screwed?" Matt asked.
"I knew we were completely screwed from the moment Lyle showed up", Matt rose an eyebrow at what Tai said and decided to remember it for later.
"It proves", Tai continued, "That every time the Digi-destined are unintentionally split up, you and me are always going to land in the same place".
" Well that's daunting", Matt blinked.
"What? The fact that Genii sent Lyle?", Tai said. "Because I think so to, but not exactly in those words".
" What do you have against Lyle?", Matt asked.
"Don't trust him!"
" I can't say I trust him either!", Matt agreed.
"So we can conclude then that he needs to be watched," Tai stated.
"I'd say you did a good job of watching him already." Matt smirked. "Relax, you looked like you wanted to kill him!"
"So what if I do?" Tai blinked. "Forget it!"
"Lets go look for the others!"
"No, lets go back to the place where we all met and wait till everyone comes there!"
"Look for the others", Matt said in a stern voice.
"Go back", Tai challenged in another stern one.
"In any case", Matt said quickly coming off the subject, "lets get out of the desert!"
"Agreed". Both Tai and Matt headed in a random direction … for an hour. Tai stopped, looked around, sighed, took two steps foreword… and tripped on his shoe lace.
"You didn't see that!", he said quickly getting up. "Shut up Matt", solving his own problems, Tai pushed Matt face foreword in the sand.
" Were even", Tai called over his shoulder.
"You keep thinking that," Matt replied. "And I'd watch your back while your at it!"
"Whatever!"
Then Tai said, "I knew it!"
" What? That were lost, because I already knew that!"
"No," Tai scoffed. "that we should of made a right turn an hundred and fifty paces ago".
Matt sighed as he rolled his eyes. "Sure Tai, I'm sure that's it!" he said sarcastically.
Then suddenly…Tai tackled him.
" What the-", and Matt didn't need to finish when he saw the fire ball of red fly over his head. If Tai hadn't tackled him that would of it him.
" What did that!", Matt wondered aloud.
"Correction", a confident voice corrected. "It's 'who did that'".
Matt and Tai tossed themselves in opposite directions as another ball of fire hit directly where they were.
Tai and Matt both glanced up at the same time.
"You're a Genii?" Matt and Tai said in sync.
"And?", the Genii asked. He paused for a few seconds. "What gave it away..?" Another tiny pause and then "Ah, the uniform!"
To Tai, that proved the theory that not all Genii's looked alike, thought alike or acted alike. This one looked nothing like the Genii he was used to, or Lyle for the matter. 'For which some unknown reason I'm thankful', Tai thought to himself.
The Genii stood at six feet with light brown skin and dark hazel brown eyes.
"Well Genii!"
"Malcom", the Genii said off handedly.
" Why in the hell did you almost kill us?", Tai said boldly.
"Bad aim", sighed Malcom.
"What the - " Matt said irritated. Then turned his angry stare to glance at the golden brown sand. "I'll take it as a joke", he said menacingly.
" I have a message to give you by the way", said Malcom. "According to my sources, all your loved ones are in danger".
"Tell us something we don't know!" Tai yelled.
'And he digs the whole deeper', Matt mumbled under his breath.
"Like your Digimon are too preoccupied to help you and that's going to be your biggest problem in the next five minutes?"
"Yeah", Matt mumbled sarcastically, "Good job Tai!"
"Shut up", Tai said briefly to Matt, glaring at Malcom.
"Hey," Malcom said with a smirk, " I'm not the one who asked". And with that, Malcom promptly disappeared.
Kale was crying and Ken couldn't calm him down, despite him many numerous attempts. The more Kale cried the more edgy Ken got. The place he found himself in was the worst possible place he could think of…well maybe the second worst place. What made it even worse was that he had T.k.'s and Kari's child with him as well.
" Give him here", T.k. said running from somewhere in the forest. Ken took it that T.k. landed the same place as he did as he gave T.k.'s son to T.k.
"Shh", T.k. hushed while gently rubbing circles on his sons back, slowly his son quieted.
"Great place", T.k. mumbled to Ken sarcastically.
" I would say so myself", Ken nodded likewise.
"T.k., we need to get out of here right now!" Ken said urgently in all seriousness.
Strangely, T.k. ever so slightly glowed vaguely pink. "I think Kari's ok now" he said, relief evident in his voice.
"Takaishi, we have to move faster!", Ken warned.
"Roger, but I don't want to accidentally hurt him! "T.k. said on the hunter's jog Ken opted to to get them out of their environment immediately. The headed to where Ken thought was an exit.
And that was when they felt it.
"Do you know where we are?" Ken asked T.k., checking to see if he knew the answer.
"The dark forest!", T.k. answered in a low voice. The feeling of darkness intensified. "They're getting close", T.k. murmured. Before Ken could respond Kale began to cry again.
"Correction!", Ken said bursting into a full fledged run, expecting T.k. to follow.
"They're already here".
"That would explain why my son's crying," T.k. said harshly
" That would explain many things!" Ken added, eyeing how dark the tree's were as well as everything around them. Suddenly he came to a complete stop.
"They've cornered us!" Ken said angrily when T.k. stopped beside him.
"I've gathered that much", T.k. said grimly.
Ahead them stood the transparent wall of darkly colored mist, cloud and light that separated the dark forest from the Dark Ocean.
"Damn", Ken mumbled. All they could do was wait. Slowly, the slimy, slithery Digimon that T.k. and Ken knew where chasing them dragged themselves out to plain view. T.k. immediately recognized them as the ones that wanted Kari to be their queen. He hated them!
They stood up on their two feet, however their arms dragged on the ground.
T.k. came to a grim conclusion, either he would stay their and fight the Dark Digimon, or he could bring his son into the dark ocean. T.k. refused to think of the last possibility.
T.k. and Ken stood their till they finished leaving their hiding spaces. Escape at the moment wasn't possible, especially since the dark ones equaled roughly twenty.
" Give ussss you sssson", they all hissed in a low slithery voice.
"In hell!" T.k. said angrily. "even then, not even!" he added as a quick after thought.
Ken nodded in agreement. "No way in hell", he breathed.
"Ssssso be itttt", they hissed, and lunged to attack T.k. and Ken.
"Put Kale down", Ken yelled as he intercepted the fist meant for T.k. "Behind us, so we can fight!"
T.k. quickly did so. Three of them charged him at once causing him to dodge one, kick the other and give the last one a blow to the face, however these Digimon were not so easily stopped. Five minutes found Ken and T.k. battered, and bruised with the slithering Digimon the same way they started. But the worse thing was Kale stilled cried.
"Ittttttt Beginsssss", the Digimon and suddenly hissed together coming to a decision. T.k. and Ken narrowed their eyes as the Digimon stepped away.
"That cant be good", Ken panted.
T.k. only nodded as their enemy put their hands together.
"Get down", he suddenly warned Ken, "their getting ready to attack".
Suddenly a dark mist erupted from their hands, surrounding the area, advancing on T.k. and Ken.
"There's no escape", Ken yelled.
T.k. nodded then said, "Give me your shirt". T.k. quickly pulled off his own and beckoned for Ken to do so as well.
Ken nodded in quick understanding, pulled off his shirt and tossed it to T.k.
T.k., taking both shirts, rapped them gently around his son, praying that they would protect him from the mist that was now beginning to take effect on him and Ken. His vision darkened around the edges.
Simultaneously T.k. and Ken ran foreword to resume their fight, they had no other option.
Kale crying was the last thing he heard. Both T.k. and Ken fell unconscious.
"Take the child", one hissed, as Kale was scooped into one of their filthy, slimy arms they all hissed together, "Itttt hassss begun!"
Suddenly, the one holding Kale began to scream. "Take ittt offff". It quickly released Kale from it's arms. Something around Kales chest was glowing.
"We musssst return ttto tthe dark ocean", they hissed the solution to their problem.