Authors notes: This chapter is probably going to be darker than the last one. I'm going to try and develop Matt's and Mimi's relationship and Tk's and Kari's. I'm also going to try and add a bit of Matt and Tk friendship.
Disclaimer: First chapter.
The Magic Within. Chapter six.
"It starts. Destined you must save us." Gennai had shut his eyes and he was shivering suddenly his eyes snapped open, "The darkness comes!"
Kari shrieked as a huge blur of black plummeted towards her, she ducked and looked up. What looked like huge black bird floated above them, it had huge scaly wing and a huge body made out of the same substance. It had two pairs of glowing red eyes and a gigantic grey beak that could fit one of them in whole.
"Gennai, what's going on?"
"It's is the start of the prophecy."
"What is the prophecy?"
"The Butai nearly destroyed,
driven out my fear,
shall be called on once again.
The book of souls that was thought destroyed,
shall be found,
and one of their own will open the book once more,
the land will be covered in darkness,
from top to toe,
unless the scared twelve go forth and destroy it.
It will start with the birds,
that carry pain on their wings,
they shall chase the destined,
next will be creatures of the deep waters that come,
they will kill all that travel the seas and rivers,
the last will be beast that roam the lands murdering all innocent.
The destined will stop this,
and the great war will begin,
all evil shall go against the sacred,
and the war of light and dark shall have begun."
They stood there fear imprinted in their eyes, Tk looked up and saw the birds coming once more. They were obviously supposed to catch them and bring them back to be killed. He scowled as and raised his hands as one swooped for him, golden light rose out and covered the bird in a kind of net. The creature shrieked and fell to the floor wriggling in the golden net, Mimi also raised her hand and tentacle like plants shot out and wrapped themselves round the bird. It was strangled to death, but no one was concentrating on it. They were looking at the sky which was growing black with the huge birds. They looked at Gennai, who whispered a few last words before vanishing, "You are the only ones that can save us Destined. Fight for what you hold dear."
Matt's face broke into a sly grin, "Shall we go and exercise our weapons?" Tai laughed and nodded as he drew his sword. Other people also drew their weapons and looked up at the birds. They flew there in a row staring at the digidestined before diving towards them. The first row's heads were cut off the moment they came in range the second row was smarter thought. They circled the destined, the destined moved into a circle themselves, protecting their backs from any attacks. The birds dived and swords flew, some were cut into pieces others had there heads or wings cut off. The third and fourth rows did the same and even more began to come.
"We're not going to be able to beat all of them. More and more are coming and we're going to get tired." Tai nodded at Tk and looked up. He was right there was no way they could beat all of these. They had to run. But the birds were faster, they wouldn't be able to get away. Mimi turned to see a bird rip up another tree and she growled, this creatures could attack them but why did they have to destroy the wildlife as well? That's when she saw the birds nest in one of the trees the bird was aiming for, Mimi ran towards it and scaled the tree. Standing in front of the nest she pulled her sword out and fought of the bird, but she didn't see the one coming to her from behind. Her shriek pierced the air and as the others turned to see what was going on they saw a bird sink it's claws into her arm. She screamed again and tried to pull away, but it held her tight and began to life her into the air.
"Mimi!" Yelled Palmon, Tai's eyes landed on Mimi's digimon that seemed to be glowing a light green now. She began to grow, spines forced their way through her green skin, red gloves appeared on her hands and before them stood, "Togemon!"
The creatures knocked the bird out of the sky with a giant fist and caught Mimi in her hands as the bird let her go. Placing Mimi down beside Matt, the huge digimon called out, "Stand back destined." They obeyed finishing the fight they were in and running to Mat and Mimi, as soon as they were out of the way Togemon attacked. She spun round and round until she was a green blur and her spines began to shoot off hitting all the birds in the air. The creatures hit the ground and lay there. Togemon turned to the destined, where Joe was bandaging the cut's on Mimi's arm.
"We must move. More will be back and we can not wait." Togemon picked up Mimi and began to walk away, the destined ran after her. Tk looked up, the birds were getting back their strength and were coming in faster. Tk turned to see a bird diving for Kari who had her back turned to tend to Mimi. Tk sped up and reached Kari just in time, pushing her out of the way Tk landed n the floor. Rolling over onto his back he saw the bird come towards him, he rolled over getting out of the way just in time. Standing up he drew his sword and he slashed at the bird. Just as he finished with the first another dived towards him, he ducked and turned to face it not seeing the second coming from behind.
Matt looked up from killing three birds to see some go from Tk. Matt felt panic rise inside him, he had to protect Tk. He didn't know why he just felt it was his job, turning he ran towards Tk yelling at the top of his voice.
"Tk behind you!" Tk spun round but didn't have time to move. The bird picked him up with his claws and took to the air. Matt saw Tk's sword fall to the floor, they had got him. There was a whistling of wings and he saw Patamon shoot past him after Tk.
"Boom bubble." The bird flew back put didn't let Tk go. Another bird came up from behind Patamon. Patamon who was so engrossed in trying to help Tk didn't notice and soon he too was caught.
"Let me go!" Matt's head snapped round and saw a bird pick up Gabumon. Matt ran over as fast as possible. He drew his sword and slashed at the bird it flew higher but refused to go away. The bird flew in closer trying to get Matt even though he had Gabumon in it's claws. Matt took an attacking position and was just about to attack when a second bird dived at Matt making him roll out the way and drop his sword. He gulped and try to duck the bird as it came round for a second attack but ended up running into the one that held Gabumon. He turned to run away and found a pair of huge black claws grab him. He was lifted into the air and watched as Togemon and the other digimon tried to reach them. It was obvious that the destined were going to win, so the birds took that as their cue. They turned and flew away with Tk, Matt and their digimon.
Tk moaned and slowly opened his eyes, he tried to move his arms and found he was chained to the wall. Looking round he found he was in a grey room, it was bare apart from two cages opposite him with Patamon and Gabumon in it. On his right he saw Matt who was also chained to the wall. Matt began to wake up.
"Where are we?" Matt whispered.
"I think we're in the castle that was on hikage island."
"Great! This is wonderful! This couldn't get any worse."
"Never say that!"
"Er, why not?"
"Because whenever anyone says that, it jinks us and something worse does happen!"
"You are kidding right?"
"No, it's happened to me eleven times now." Matt just stared at Tk in disbelief. At that point a man walked Into the room heavily guarded. He had long black hair tied back into a ponytail, his face was a waxy white and he had a pair of red eyes that seemed to glow with evil.
"Hello destined, good of you to finally wake. Well you defiantly need your beauty sleep, don't you? Well, I'm here to taunt you before I kill you, and I seem to be making a good start to it don't I?"
"See" Tk whispered, "It just got worse."
Tai stared into the sky, he was hoping that he would catch a glimpse of Matt and Tk running across the meadow. He growled, and turned back to the others. Mimi was awake now and Togemon had de-digivolved and the pair were regaining their health. Tai sat down heavily, Matt was his best friend and he had grown to like Tk. It was pretty difficult not to, I mean the kid was so cheerful and he never looked on the down side of things. This whole trip he had been the one telling them they could do it, and now they had him. He growled and slammed his fist into the ground. A pair of arms wrapped round his waist and a pair of lips kissed the back of his neck.
"It's not your fault Tai." The by didn't reply and Sora came round to face him.
"You had to protect yourself. And we'll get them back, don't you worry about that." Tai nodded slowly and Sora hugged him gently kissing him at the same time. They separated and joined in the discussion with the others. They were arguing with Mimi about going after Matt and Tk, Mimi was insisting that she was alright and that they should go now. While the others were saying that they could rest for a while and then go and save them.
"We have to go and help them now!"
"You're not going to be able to help them, if you collapse from blood lose when you get there."
"I haven't got bad blood loss. I'll be fine."
"How do you know you haven't got bad blood loss?"
"Because it's me we're talking about."
"Stop fighting!" All eyes turned to Kari, she was usually a calm and quiet girl and it surprised them when she yelled.
"Mimi, Tk and Matt wouldn't have wanted you to hurt yourself because of them. Nor would they have wanted you to all fight because they would feel it was there fault. And remember what Matt always says, I draw myself from you as you do from me. Because our power comes from friendship."
"My name's Hideki if you wanted to know. So Takeru are you happy now you've found your real family?"
"Real family?" Tk asked, confusion obvious.
"Are you telling me you haven't worked it out yet?" Hideki laughed, "You are dumber than I thought!"
"Whatya mean?"
"I mean little Tachikawa or should I say Ishida that the blonde beside you is actually your brother."
Tai stared into the horizon, the sea was endless. They had rested for a day before getting a ship and starting off for hikage island. Mimi hadn't been allowed to help even though she had tried. They had had to lock her in her room to stop her from hurting herself. They were about a day away now, he hoped Matt and Tk were okay.
"Wh . . . what are you talking about?"
"Well Takeru, your family had a problem with you so they left you out to die."
"Not true!" Matt yelled, glaring at Hideki.
"Ah but it is true. Your grandfather took him an left him in the forest to be eaten."
"Yeah, he did because he's an evil old man. Mum and dad were really upset and annoyed about it, they've always hated him because of it!"
"Your family still hates Tk!"
"No! Grandfather is a stupid old man who isn't alive anymore. Everyone would love to have had Tk, they would've never tried to hurt him. You stupid son of a b****!"
Hideki moved forward and backhanded Matt across the face, "You are going to die more painfully and slowly then the others."
Matt didn't reply, he simply glowered at the human that stood before him. Hideki smiled and waved a goodbye to them before leaving. The pair didn't say anything to each other. Matt could understand why, he wasn't offended by it like most people would be.
Mimi practically jumped up and down with anticipation as they came closer and closer to the harbour. They were pretending to be bringing more supplies over, once they were in the base they were going to let all hell lose. Mimi gripped the railing with her hands, she needed to get over and help Tk . . . . . . . and Matt.
Tk ran what the man had said over in his head, Matt was his brother. Of course it made sense to him now, why they looked so alike, why he felt a connection with the boy. But even though he was happy that he found his real family he felt like he was betraying people Mimi especially. Mimi was like a big sister to him, because she had been for nearly his entire life. And the fact that he felt so close to this boy that had suddenly appeared in his life made him feel like he was evil. Mimi would feel hurt if he just decided that Matt was his family but he felt that his connection with Matt was amazingly strong and he didn't want to lose him. A tear slid down Tk's cheek, how come life was so confusing and difficult. Matt looked over at Tk, "I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you upset."
"It's not your fault. It's just I . . . . . . I" Tk found tears sliding down his cheeks at an amazing pace. Matt didn't know what to do, Tk said he was fine yet he was crying and it was all his fault. Matt looked over at the boy that now had his head bowed. He felt so evil at this time, he sighed and looked round. They needed to get out of here fast, Matt turned to look right and the chains duck into his wrists.
"Stupid metal chains! Couldn't they have tied us up with ropes." Matt trailed off, an idea had struck him and the dumb Hideki hadn't thought of it. Looking over at Tk he concentrated on the chains next to the wall. It started to ice over, Matt raised his leg and kicked out. Tk jumped in surprise as he heard one of his chains, turning he saw what Matt had down. Tk saw the keys to his left, moving around so he was pressed against the wall Tk managed to grab the keys. Pulling back he unlocked himself and set Matt free as well. Running over to the door Tk tried to open it, it was locked. Matt pulled Tk back and froze the lock on the door before slamming his foot into it, the lock shattered and the two stepped outside. Looking left and right and seeing nothing the pair ran down one of the corridors. They stopped and hid behind a suit of armour as a pair of guards passed, Matt glanced at Tk and whispered so quietly he was surprised that Tk heard.
"You know where we are?"
"Nope never been t this part of the castle before." Matt swore under his breath, this wasn't good, they had no idea where they were and Hideki was going to come back and find that they were gone. Seeing no one the pair came out from behind the armour and ran down the passages. Higher and higher they went, hiding from the guards and hoping that Hideki wasn't about to return to find them gone. Five minutes later the boys found themselves hiding behind another suit of armour counting the guards in front of the door.
"How many?"
"Twenty." Yet again Matt swore under his breath, and fixated his eyes on the guards.
"They don't seem to bright, do you think we could knock them all out really quickly?" Tk stared at Matt in disbelief then turned to look at the guards. He shrugged, "Why not?" The two leapt out from behind the armour knocking two out, the rest came drawing their swords, but the two ere quicker. Tk knocked a sword out of when of the guards hands and blocked an attack from his right. Mat ducked and resurfaced to fight with a sword in his hand which he took from one of the fallen guards. Tk noticed a guard sneaking off to tell someone and Tk threw his sword at the guard, it sunk deep into his back and he collapsed on the floor. Ten seconds later all the guards where down the two turned to the door to find it locked. Tk noticed a set of keys on the floor. A bell went off, Tk fumbled with the keys trying to find the right one. A guard appeared round the corner and Matt threw a sword at him just like Tk had done. Tk slotted the right key into the lock and swung the door open and raced outside. The two ran down the path as guards started to pour out.
"Hey Matt" Tk said turning his head slightly to look at the boy as he ran, "Do you know what we should do now?"
"Er no not really. I was sort of concentrating on getting out and wasn't really thinking about what we should do later."
"Well we better think of something soon as they're catching up!" Matt looked behind him and gulped, they were catching up and they had no where to go. He felt Tk tug on his arm and he looked at him, he pointed ahead and Mat smiled. A ship was coming in to moor on the docks, if they could get on it and take control of the helm then they would be free. As they got closer they started to be able to make out the look of people on the boat and one of them looked and awful lot like "Mimi!"
Mimi spun round and looked at path, two blondes were making their way towards the ship with at least forty guards running after them.
"Tai get ready to move away!"
"Why?"
"Because Tk and Matt look like they need a fast get away!" Kati ran to stand by Mimi, and smiled slightly at least they looked okay. The pair ran up the dock with the guards running after them. With a flying leap the pair jumped off the dock and landed on the boat. The guards began to leap over, most of the destined ran over and started to throw them over. Yolei raised her hand and a great wind came knocking all the remaining guards off and sending the boat forward. Tk looked back at the island as they sailed away, Hideki knew who they were, he probably knew more about themselves then they did. How where they going to defeat a person who knew their weaknesses and strengths?
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