Authors notes: I got a review saying that they want this story to have Mimato in it, and all I can say is that I planned it too be a Mimato all along. I will try and add some more Taiora to, if I can! Thank you to the reviewers!

Disclaimer: Never had, never will own digimon, but I do own the plot.

The Magic Within. Chapter three.

            Kari stared out the window as she stroked Gatomon, ever since Tk and his friends had left two weeks ago she had been upset. It was like there was an emptiness inside of her that only he could fill. She knew it was Tk that had made her fell happy, they way he smiled, the way he talked everything about him seemed perfect. She felt like she had been drawn to him, and now she would never see him again. She sighed and got up, picked Gatomon up and walked out into the gardens. She spotted Tai and Sora sitting in the shade. Sora was in Tai's arms and he was reading to her.

"Tai, Sora?"

"Yes sweetie."

"Do you feel that something is about to happen?"

"No, why?"

Kari squirmed it was difficult to explain what she felt, what did she feel? Okay, so she felt like something dark was coming, something that could destroy this town. And what if she had had a nightmare about the town and palace in ruins. Maybe she was just being silly. But Tai and Sora had noticed the look on her face as she had thought it through and were know beside her.

"Tell us what's going on?" Sora said in a motherly town, but before Kari had thought of a reply the sky had darkened. She peered into the sky as great black clouds made their way across the sun, blocking it from view. She shivered, this was the darkness she had felt, it was here now. Matt, Joe, Izzy and Cody ran out of the palace and made their way to them.

"What's going on?" Matt yelled as thunder rumbled across the sky, rain began to fall and the wind took up.

"Don't know." Tai replied, as the seven gazed at the sky.

"We have to get everyone out of the town and palace" Kari said still staring at the sky, everyone turned to look at her, "I saw everything ruined in a dream and the darkness in the air. It feels the same." Tai nodded, he too could know feel the oncoming darkness, everyone could.

"I tell my father. We can get everyone to the tornado emergency cave." Matt said turning to run back to the palace, but looking around he saw his father had turned the distress signal on and everyone was making their way to the cave already. There was a crack of lighting and the clouds began to spin. The flew round and round in a circle, and something started coming out of it. The wind got stronger, the sky darker as the thing emerged from the clouds.

            A huge animal hundreds of feet long dropped onto the ground. It had a huge black scaly body, and a pair of great black leathery wings came out of it's back. It's snout sniffed the air then let out a great burst of black flames, it's red eyes scanning the town. It took a step forward and the places were it's feet had been were gigantic burning holes in the ground. The children's digimon ran over to their partners, somehow knowing that they were needed. The digimon and partners stared at the dragon as it slowly made it's way towards them. It growled and took in a deep breath, the children shirked and turned and ran. A burst of flame followed them, gaining on them with every second. Kari threw herself on the ground and the others followed suit, it grazed over their head making them feel like they were in an oven. The second it had gone they had picked themselves up and ran as fast as they could, leaping over the palace wall they proceeded to run through the town. The dragon followed closing in on them. The group did not go to the cave, knowing that if they did, the people would get caught instead they headed towards the sea, dragons don't like water. They raced towards the ocean the dragon on their tail, another flame swept over them as they dived to the ground

            The place was built on a hill looking over a town, the town was big and reached the sea. On one side of it there was country side and paths that lead to other villages and the other side was sloped grassland until you reached the cliffs. This was where the children were heading. They ran through the town and onto the slopes, the dragon followed crushing housed underneath it's feet. The dragon was now right behind them and raising it's claw. Just as the dragon started to bring down it's claw Gatomon leaped at it. She hardly did any damage, but managed to do what she wanted. Stop it from hurting Kari and  the others, the dragon shook her off and she landed on the ground and ran. The group found themselves on the edge of the cliff, they turned and stared as the beast stood above them, fear implanted itself and they couldn't move. The beast raised itself onto it's hind legs and glared at the children below, it sucked in a deep breath and WHAM! The dragon's head was hit by something gold. The golden blur landed on the ground and the light surrounding it died down, Tk stood there. Four more different coloured blurs rushed up and the rest of the group emerged from the light. The dragon glared at the new enemies and turned ready to attack them, once it's back was turned five attacks hit it.

"Boom bubble, pah."

"Poison Ivy."

"Buzz saw."

"Vee head butt."

"Sticky net."

Four attacks hit the dragon and the last one covered it in a net. The dragoon ripped through the net and rounded on the digimon, Veemon who had a sore head for hitting a creature so hot was nearly out of it. With one swipe of it's claw the digimon had fallen and a light covered it and it changed into a smaller creature. Davis ran over and picked it up and went back over to Tk and put it down. The digimon were all soon down and had transformed into smaller creatures. The digimon that belonged to the royal people took up the fight. It was a matter if minutes before they to were down Davis glared up at the creature that had just hurt his friends, "Time to give this thing a beating."

The other four nodded their heads and raised their hands, all of their hands glowed and a protective bubble formed around each one. Tk's was gold, Mimi's was light green, Davis's was navy blue, Ken's was a purple and Yolei's was a turquoise. The five leapt at the dragon, all five of them digging their heels into it's back. It roared in pain and the five leapt off, it shot a ball of flame at them and they ducked. The Tk jumped at it and the dragon turned to hit him and as he did Mimi jumped at him. The five continued doing this again, each time causing him to growl in pain but the growls became quieter and quieter and it soon worked it out. Davis jumped at the creature and it turned and Yolei leapt at it from behind, it immediately turned and whacked her to the ground. Her bubble shattered as it's claw made contact. Ken gave a strangled cry and ran over to her, the bubble had protected her from the attack but not falling ten feet to the ground. As Ken pulled her into his arms the bubble formed around the two and Ken started to check if she was o.k. or not. Tk knew that trouble was at foot, there was no way they could win against this thing. It was working out all their plans of attack and hurting them, they needed help and fast. The dragon threw Mimi to the ground, she pulled herself away from the creature, her bubble was gone and she had no protection. But it wasn't interested in her, he had turned to the royal group and reached out for Kari. Tk felt a fierce force well inside of him, it picked the terrified girl up and threw her down on the ground and raised a foot to stomp on her. Tk ran forward with a new found energy and grabbed Kari before she hit the ground. He slung her over his shoulder and moved out of the way of the huge foot that was coming towards them. The dragon growled at Tk and he watched as it took to the air. It began to prepare itself for a deadly attack and that's when it hit him. He ran over to Ken and Yolei, Kari still in his arms. Yolei was coming round at this point, Tk set Kari down and turned to Yolei, "Do you have enough energy to create a tornado that can hold that thing?"

She looked it up and down before answering, "Yeah, but I would faint after for sure."

"Don't worry we all will."

Davis and Mimi had managed to make it over by now and listened as Tk explained what to do. They nodded and took up their positions, just as the dragon was about to launch an attack Yolei created a small tornado it got bigger and bigger and soon the huge dragon was trapped inside spinning round and round. The attack they were about to use, was deadly. Tk had used it once when a pack of wolves had rounded on Mimi. Everyone of them can use as they all had done in the past, but only if you believe in what you are doing. Tk wanted to save Mimi and the powers inside of him had reacted and did so. But would it be enough to destroy this creature. Yolei nodded to Tk and he raised his hands, "Power within come now, save this world and people I care about." A golden beam of light shot towards the dragon, Tk heard the other three say it too and another three beams hit the dragon, each their respective partners colour. They heard it roar in pain before it dissolved into pieces, the five children stared into space for a second before collapsing on the ground.

            Tk slowly opened his eyes and looked round, he was in a huge room. Potions and herbs were stacked on shelves lining three of the walls. The fourth wall had five beds against it and he and his friends were sleeping on them. He sighed, they were probably in the palace hospital by the looks of it. A woman with long grey hair and pointed face that made her look like a bird walked in, she noticed that Tk was awake and walked over to him.

"So you fainted when you saw the dragon?"

"Er" they hadn't fainted when they saw it, but he realised Kari must have said that to protect them, people did still hated their race even if they did save them, "Yes, it was a bit of a shock."

"Shock? You were out for two days because of it."

The old lady said as the walked out the room, she returned minutes later with a tray full of food. Tk sat there eating the food, wondering what was going on. He had to talk to Kari and her friends, he had to make them understand. He finished his food within five minutes and pulled himself out of bed, he noticed his small cuts had been seen too. He looked round for his shirt and cloak, he was rather cold. Kari came in at that moment.

            Her eyes landed on him and she couldn't help smiling. He was even better looking without the top in her opinion, he was well tanned and toned. Probably because he goes round saving people she thought.

"Er Tk?"

"Yes Kari"

"Um, I was wondering how you were feeling?"

"A lot better, Thank you. And er" he said as he pulled hit top over his head, "Thanks for saying we fainted with shock."

Kari couldn't help but giggle then, it seemed rather a stupid thing to be thanking someone for. Saying they were frightened when they really saved the town.

"Kari, I need to talk to you."

"Certainly, do you want to go somewhere other than the healing room?"

"Yes please."

He didn't say anything again until they reached the gardens. Kari had led him to a small grove of trees which were near the edge of the huge football sized garden. She slipped through the trees and Tk followed, it was an amazing sight. The floor was covered in flowers of all kind apart from two rocks opposite each other, which they sat down on. It was like a small paradise and if you listened carefully you could hear the stream running past somewhere close by.

"No one else comes in here. They don't know about it, whenever I come to the palace I come and sit here. As we come all the time, I sit here a lot."

Tk chuckled, he liked this girl, he really did. But that wasn't why he was here. He knew Kari better than the others and she seemed the better type to tell. He wasn't being mean to them, it was just she seemed to understand better. There was something special air about her, that he couldn't help but like.

"The reason we came here was because someone told me something was going to happen to you."

She gave him a confused look, and Tk launched into an explanation of what he had found out and what the old man had told him. Ten minutes later, they sat there in silence. Until Kari broke it, "So you think we have to go and save the world?"

"No, I don't think, I know."

"O.k., I'll talk to everyone and see if I can explain it, but I might need your help."

Tk nodded and the pair stood up and walked out through the trees and into the sunlight. They went back to the castle as fast as they could. They had to figure out what to do.

            A hour later the twelve were sitting in one of the libraries, Tk and his close friends had explained what was going on and now everyone was thinking.

"Tk could I take a look a the prophecy again?"

Tk nodded and handed Izzy the paper, the boy scanned it quickly taking it all in and processing it.

"O.k. I get the part about being breathed in fire and darkness, it was the big evil scary dragon as Tai called it when we were running." Tai blushed at that moment and looked down but Izzy carried on, "But what about the army? I mean how do we stop it, d we have to wait until they attack?"

The group of travellers didn't reply, fro a bit and they sat there in silence. Something was coming to destroy the world and somehow they had to save it. The door opened and in walked an old man. The old man that had given Tk the prophecy, Tk immediately stood up and turned to look him.

"Hello again Tk."

"Um hello er" He trailed off not knowing the man's name. The old man chuckled and walked over and sat in a chair near the fire. Which was lit because of the cold sense of evil in the air.

"How come you were let in the castle?"

"Who says I was allowed? I came in without permission."

"That's not possible."

"Actually child it is I used my will power to move from one place to the other. But you will learn of that later. Right now you need to know of what you face."

"And what's that?" Matt asked being the only one who seemed to have a voice.

"I'm sure Takeru er Tk told you what I said, and you know all about our hiding from the rest of the world. Well we have spies stationed around some areas to check what is going on and we came across some valuable information. The Master as he calls himself is building his army on a remote island out to sea. It has a next door neighbour though, they supply him with goods, but the important thing is that you have to get there and stop him from unleashing the army."

"Yes, but how do we-

He had gone vanished in a puff of white cloud.

"Great" Tai said throwing his arms into the air, "He comes and tell us we need to defeat an evil Master but doesn't tell us how."

"I think we're suppose to find it out for ourselves." Izzy said, Tai sighed and sat down. They had no idea what kind of army they were going to face. Tk was the first to rise, he stood up and looked round.

"We can't just sit here and mope you know. We've been told we are the only ones to help so let's get going."

"There's no point how are we supposed to win against a huge army when we don't know how to fight properly? It's impossible!"

"I've been told it's impossible lot's of time before an I've gone and down it. We can od it together, we can do this together."

Mimi smiled and stood up, Tk always knew what to say to make you feel like you could do anything. The other slowly stood up all smiling.

"Let's go kick some ass and save the world!" Tai yelled at the top of his voice, the group walked out of the room as fast as they could and back into the down heading for the boat. Now they had to find the army and destroy it, if that was possible.

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