CHAPTER 8!!!
Sorry it took so long for me to update. I got really sick, than I had summer school, and than my horse got sick and seriously like EVERYONES birthday is in July! So to make a long story short I've been really busy lately!!! And more bad news, I'm going on a trip this Saturday and I'll be gone for two weeks so this will probably be my last update for a while.
Anyway, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. I think this turned out a bit slow. I had too much talking in the first half BUT ITS NESSASARY! It'll give some answers to where Tai and Matt are and how they got there. lol I call this chapter my 'explanation chapter'. So anyway enjoy. . .
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"Why are you not at your station?" Boran said with a powerful coldness brought on by worry.
The runner lowered his head sheepishly.
"SPEAK!" Boran commanded.
"I am sorry Sir, but when we reached the south exit it was already to late. We saw-we saw them escaping into the exit. We sought to shoot but dared not risk your daughters life."
"My daughter." Boran spook passionately. "Please tell me-you must speak the truth for my ears, was she held hostage???" Boran wished with all his heart she was.
The runner shook his head sadly. "I speak the truth Sir as you ask, she went of free will."
Boran's eyes widened than narrowed in sorrow than in hatred. "The demons. The Bastard demons. First they take my wife, now my DAUGHTER!" He flung his head back and shouted to the sky. "WHAT MORE DO YOU WISH TO TAKE FROM ME?!? I SWARE BY MY SWOARD I WILL KILL YOU. I SWARE IT!!!"
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Matt stumbled threw the darkness, his breath quick. Tai was damn heavy. He could barely make out the shape of Tonai's figure. They had been walking in silence for almost twenty minutes now.
Matt finally decided to speak. "How much longer?"
Tonai stopped short, as if realizing that Matt was behind her for the first time. "I-" She whirled around and almost tripped, but Matt steadied her. She looked around than up into Matt's face. "Thank you," She said faintly.
Matt nodded. Tonai motioned towards the ground. "We may rest here for a moment, there is still an hours walk at least." Matt groaned at this, and slowly lowered Tai's limp form to the ground.
Worry crossed his face. What was wrong with Tai anyway? He took a quick moment to search for any wounds on his friend that might explain his condition, but it was too dark to tell. Deciding that he had done all that he could for Tai at the moment, he sat back to catch his breath.
It was then that he heard a slight sniffle. It had come towards where Tonai now sat. "Tonai?" Matt asked cautiously.
He could hear her clear her throat and saw the faint image of her arm reach up to her face to wipe away . . . tears?
"Yes," She answered weakly, trying with out success to conceal her sadness.
"Are you. . . I mean. . . are you alright?" Matt asked sheepishly, knowing the clear answer.
Tonai sniffled in thee darkness than answered. "I will be, in time. It is just hard to leave my people. . . my father. . ."
"You can still go back-"
"No." Tonai said with firm determination. "I have chosen my path, and I will follow it."
"You don't have to come though, if you don't want to." Matt said kindly.
Tonai took a deep breath and began to compose herself, "Thank you, Yamato, but I want to help you."
"You-you do?"
Tonai let out a bit of a laugh at Matt's surprise. "Yes, when I first saw you," She paused as if wondering if she should go on, than decided to continue, "When you fell from the sky, I saw the way you helped your friend, Tai. You could have drowned, and yet you never let him go. You held on.
"I remember thinking, how brave, and kind, that act was. . . there was not that much kindness in my life. . .after the merge. But when I saw you, lifting Tai out of the river, I knew that you had something great in you. And Tai has shown that same greatness in how he rescued you.
"This is why I wanted to help you. You-I feel as if you are to do something great, perhaps even defeat the Dark Lord."
Matt shifted to face Tonai a bit more and coked his head, "Thank you, I . . . I don't know what to say-we'll try our best-to defeat the Dark Lord, whoever he might be."
"You do not know who the Dark Lord is?"
Matt shuck his head, "Nope."
"Then you were telling the truth, at the council?" Matt nodded. Tonai was silent for a moment than spoke. "Than I shall tell you of the Dark Lord." Her voice became cold when she spoke his name.
Matt shivered as he looked to her figure. Tonai began, "Before he came, my people-my world, was a happy place. We lived in peace. There was little crime in our cities. But than one day. . . a great rumbling came from the ground, and the sky turned red and purple.
"A giant hole appeared in the sky, and from it a floating box emerged."
"A space ship?" Matt said thinking aloud.
Tonai looked over to Matt, "That is what they called it. How did you know?"
Matt let out a sigh, "I'll explain later. What happened next?"
Tonai turned her attention inward, and she began to replay the memories in her head. "The 'space ship' floated above our city for many hours, until finally it landed in our fields. From it, thirty men came, dressed in metal. They said that they came in peace, and only wished to be friends.
"We believed them." Tonai said sadly. "For two seasons they lived with us, and we began to trust them. They were our honored guests. In the day time, they would wander the villages of our kingdom, wanting to know of our technology, marveling over our culture.
"Than after two seasons, they boarded their 'space ship' and left into the sky. We thought this was odd, but. . . they had proven odd in the past. Three moons after they departed the earth began to tremble once more, only this time with more force." Tonai's eyes narrowed coldly and her voice became hard with emotion.
"Many buildings fell, and some were killed in the sudden collapses. My people were scared. Then the sky turned red and black and began to swirl in a vicious shape. From the sky, a 'space ship' appeared, than another, and another. They grew in number, until one could no longer see the sky.
Matt sat silently, listening.
"And than. . . than the already giant swirling hole tripled, and a 'space ship' the size of which made all others look small in comparison emerged." She stopped short, letting out a short sob. Matt reached across Tai to comfort her.
"It's alright, you don't have to continue-"
"No. If I do not tell it now it will never be told." She held his hand firmly. Matt slowly nodded, unsure. Taking a deep breath she continued.
"A loud voice shouted form the sky, saying that he was 'the Dark Lord' and that if we joined him he would spar us. He proclaimed himself a God. A few weak of will fell under his power and joined his ranks but most of us decided to fight.
Matt looked at Tonai's figure thru the shadows in both awe and pity. She had gone thru such a horror. Her voice rang out from the shadows once more.
"For seven days we fought against the Dark Lord's demon servants (1), and on everyday we were on the losing side. They knew our defenses, they knew the ways of our land. The servants who had come before had been the scouts. Little had we known we were taking part in our own demise," she let out a sob, "when we gave them the tour of our cities. It seemed harmless, we did not show them any of our armories. . . and yet they knew. . . they knew everything."
Tonai's eyes brimmed with tears, though Matt could not see them, he could hear it in her voice. He softly got up, and sat down next to Tonai. He put a hand on her shoulder as a sign of comfort, and as soon as he had done so she whirled around and began sobbing into his shoulder.
Matt froze for a moment, not knowing what to do. He slowly rapped his arms around her as well, blushing ever so slightly. He gave her comforting 'shushes' the way he used to comfort T.K when they were younger. He patted her back, gently swaying from side to side.
"Shush, its ok, shush, it's over now, you don't have to worry, me and Tai are going to help you, I promise. Ok, shush, its alright." Matt just hoped he could keep that promise. . .
Tonai looked up thru wet eyes, "Thank you," She whispered weakly. "Thank you so much." Matt nodded and put her head back down, resting his chin on top it. He held her until she stopped crying, which was several minutes later.
Tonai pulled away, realizing for the first time how close she was to Matt. In the darkness, she blushed. Matt blushed as well.
"I. . . I'm sorry-"
"No, don't be-I mean. . . well it's not your fault-I mean. . ."
They sat in an uncomfortable silence for along time, than Tonai said in a sad voice. "They had short staffs that shot fire."
Matt looked up a bit disoriented, "Who did?"
"The Dark Lords servants."
Matt eyed Tonai sadly, "You don't have to continue if you don't want to. . ."
Tonai continued. She didn't want to, she had to.
"They killed anyone who could not work or resisted. Men, woman, children, no one was safe. They killed my mother."
"I'm-"
"-They took most as prisoners. Before they came, our numbers were in the thousands, after just seven days, our numbers were in the hundreds.
"My father led the few that had not been killed, or captured to the sacred caves, where we now live-where they now live." She corrected sadly, "Eight powerful mages, created an artificial world for us."
"So back there," Matt pointed, "Was fake?"
Tonai shook her head, "It is real, just not naturally made. The mages gave up their youth to save the us, this is how they became the elders." Matt's eyes widened in surprise, but Tonai continued.
"I was among the last to escape into the caves. As I entered the cave I looked out up to the sky, for what I thought was the last time. I saw. . . great masses of land falling from the hole, on them, monsters. They came in all shapes and sizes, some could fly, some could swim. I-It was as if a whole world was falling down upon us."
Matt's mind jumped with thought, "The digital world???" He turned desperately towards Tonai, "Did you see data? Was there data?"
"Data? What is data?" Tonai asked.
"Uh-shimmering stings of-of-stuff." That was the only way to describe it.
Tonai's face grew with confusion but than she nodded. "Yes, yes there was 'data' than. It fell with the land."
Matt sat back. The digital world. There was no way to be certain but-this could be bad.
"Do you know of this world that fell from the sky?"
Matt looked at Tonai, uncertainty written across his face. "Maybe, I-I'm not sure."
Tonai's ears perked up. "We must go, I am not sure if my father would be desperate enough to send runners after us, but if he is, than we must keep up a fast pace."
Matt nodded. "Right." He went to go pick up Tai than turned to Tonai. "Tonai, if what I think has happened is true, then. . . well I'm going to help you, I promise. And if there's anything I can do-to make you feel better I-"
"No, but thank you Yamato. It. . . it means a lot to me."
Matt nodded, and lifted Tai onto his back once more. They began to walk again. "By the way Tonai, my names not Yamato. Its Matt."
"But you said your name was Yamato. Did you lie?"
"Well no not exactly-you see it goes like this. When I was a little kid, there was this T.V show and-"
"T.V? What is a T.V?"
"Well it's this thing that you watch and. . ."
Their voices receded into the darkness.
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Izzy rubbed his eyes from exhaustion. They had been at Matt and Tai's apartment for over six hours now and they still hadn't made much progress in finding Matt and Tai. All they knew was that they (Matt and Tai) were in some sort of new world, not surprisingly that didn't help calm their worries.
(Its now like um 6. . .ish. ::sweatdrops::)
"Sorry guys, but I have to get home, I have to catch that flight back to America." Mimi said sadly.
(Mimi had been visiting.)
"I have to go too." Yolei said, getting up from the couch. "I have a job interview in the morning."
Izzy saw T.K's fist clench. "So your just giving up then." He said hotly.
Mimi and Yolei looked at T.K a bit hurt. "What? No T.K that's not it at all- " Mimi tried to say but she was interrupted.
"Is it?"
"T.K we want to help, we do, but we have to get home."
"FINE!" T.K said slamming his fists down on the table overturning a glass. It's liquids spilled out and on to the floor. "JUST LEAVE! GO HOME TO YOUR SAFE HOUSE WHILE MATT AND TAI ARE GOD KNOWS WHERE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES!"
"T.K-"
T.K pushed Kari away and turned his back on the two shocked girls. Ken watched T.K sadly. He had been noticing the rising anger inside the boy since he had arrived. It was only a matter of time until it bubbled over.
Joe stepped forward, "T.K, Mimi and Yolei * do * care about Matt and Tai, but we've done all we can tonight. It's getting late. We'll come back in the morning."
"Oh, so your leaving too?" T.K said angrily.
"T.K I didn't say that-I will have to soon though-we all have to-"
"NO! WE HAVE TO FIND THEM!"
"T.K!" Sora said stepping forward. "We've been * trying * to-"
"THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!"
Ken stepped forward and grabbed T.K by the shoulders looking him straight tint he eye. T.K tried to struggle but Ken held him fast. "T.K," Ken said in an even voice. "I realize that you want to find your brother, we all do, but it's going to take * time *. And I think that we'd all work better after a good nights sleep-In the morning we'll start again." He added quickly as T.K let out an angry snort.
Ken paused for a moment than continued. "And besides, I think that it'd be good to have some people at their houses just incase Matt and Tai come back and end up going there instead."
T.K looked wildly at Ken for a long moment than slowly, ever so slowly, relaxed. Ken let go of his grip on T.K's shoulders. "Fine." T.K said. "Your right." He added. Ken nodded.
Mimi and Yolei left shortly after leaving Joe, Sora, Kari, Izzy, Ken and T.K in the apartment.
Izzy rubbed his eyes again. What a long day.
Joe turned on the T.V. to a news station, "Just incase they have something about. . . them." He explained.
Sora nodded.
The newscasters oh so fake laugh filled the room. "Ha Ha Ha. Thanks Jim. In other news * today *, yet another street * gang * member has gone * missing * today. That will make the * third * person missing this *week *. Over the last * month * the number of missing * persons * has nearly * tripled * with little to * no * evidence as to exactly * who * is behind it. Almost * ΒΌ * of the cases are for suspected * gang * members. Officials say that. . ."
Izzy stopped listening. He turned back to the computer screen and read over Gedi's letter and the prophecy one more time.
" Two beings will mix with the data. . ." He repeated the words. This part didn't make sense. If Matt and Tai were the 'two beings' than when had they 'mixed with the data?' When they had gone to the digiworld? No. The other digidestined had gone to the digiworld too and they hadn't been transported to this 'other world.'
Then when? When had they mixed with. . .
"Internet."
"What?" Joe asked from the couch.
"The Internet! OF COURSE!"
The group all looked at the raving Izzy. "The Internet, of course what?" Sora asked.
"The internet! They-they 'mixed with the data' when they went into the internet."
T.K grabbed one of Izzy's flailing arms trying to calm him down. "Who did?"
"Matt and Tai." Izzy said with a giant grin across his face.
"Um and when did they do this?" Joe asked confused.
"Wh-when the fought Diabramon."
(A/N ok I haven't seen the Digimon movie in a really long time and for the life of me I cant remember what the evil Digimon's name was on the Internet that they fought. I think that its Diabramon but I could be wrong, (and I probably am) so if anyone knows what it is could you PLEASE tell me!!! Thanks)
"When they fought who?' Ken asked confused.
Izzy turned towards Ken. He had forgotten Ken didn't know. "Just before the new digidestined got their D-3's an evil Digimon attacked the internet. His name was Diabramon. Matt and Tai somehow were able to go into the * internet * and fight Diabramon-that's when they first spirit evolved. Anyway," Izzy waved his hands in front of his face.
"The point is, * that's * when they 'mixed with the data'-the internet."
"Ok. . . wait." Sora said a bit confused. "What's the difference between the * internet * and the * digiworld *. I mean their both data right-their both digital."
'That's what I thought too." Izzy said, sitting back in his chair. "But than I remembered something Gedi told me once. He explained it too me. You see the digital world is only * half * digital."
"-What?"
"Just listen. Ok, here's the thing. Its only half digital because a being can be put into a stable form there, but the internet is made entirely of * data *, it wasn't designed to create a stable form. But, Matt and Tai did somehow."
"So what does that mean?" T.K asked.
Izzy looked at the computed screen for a moment than answered. "The transition between their * real * world forms and being entirely data must have-have altered their-their, "Izzy looked for the right word.
"It left a marker." Ken finished for Izzy, picking up on his train of thought.
"Exactly." Izzy said.
"So . . . when the two worlds merged. . . that marker must have triggered something. That's why they were transported to the new world." Ken concluded.
"In theory at least." Izzy ended.
The group was silent for a moment.
"It sounds. . . feasible . . ." Sora said at last.
"So what does that mean for Matt and Tai?" T.K asked.
"Well-" Izzy stopped short. He turned his chair around to look at the computer screen.
"Well what?" T.K asked.
Izzy took a deep breath and looked up and around the group. "I think we might just have discovered a way to contact Matt and Tai."
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A shadowed figure sat in a room filled with red. Two beings dwelled in this body, both as evil as hate. Their eyes flashed blood red as they sensed two presences. Its head curled to the left to where it had sensed the two presences and its eyes glistened red once more. With silent decision, it raised its hand, and twenty pairs of red eyes leapt from the darkness behind him.
The figure stretched out a bony hand filled with death, one clawed finger pointing. The twenty pairs of glowing eyes smiled in sinister joy. A hunt was on its way.
It lowered its hand and slowly sat back in its chair. The figures lips cracked open ever so slightly, and a silver slit of moon fell across its smile.
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OOOO CrrrreEepy! ^_^ What will happen to our trio? How does Izzy plan on contacting Matt and Tai? But most of all, what does the 'Dark Lord' have in store for our heroes?
It's all on the next chapter of: Digimon: Digital Monsters!!!
Yeah all you Tai fans are probably unhappy with this chapter cause it doesn't have him in it. . . well it does but he doesn't talk so it doesn't really count. . . Anyway! Don't worry! I promise in the next chapter I'll have * a lot * of him to make up for it. K? K.
Preview of Next Chapter:
The trio reach the outside * finally * but the Dark Lord is expecting them. Now it's up to Matt to save Tai and Tonai, but wait. Whose that girl? And can she be trusted? Oh yeah! And Tai will wake up! YEY! Its all in the next chapter of Merge.
::starts singing the theme song::
Duh Duh Duh Merge.
Duh Duh Duh Merge.
Duh Duh Duh Two worlds Merge.
MERGE!!!
^_^heh Yeah I know pretty sad. . . OH WELL!
(1) "For seven days we fought against the Dark Lord's demon servants. . ." This gives reference to the creation of earth. This is appropriate because it takes seven days for the destruction of earth. The Dark Lord's demon servants could be interpreted to be the damned, and thus the Dark Lord would be Satan or the AntiChrist.
Lol Um ok On that cheery note I leave you. ^_^ Until next time! ::waves::
Reion
Sit Ubu sit.
07/26/03
Sorry it took so long for me to update. I got really sick, than I had summer school, and than my horse got sick and seriously like EVERYONES birthday is in July! So to make a long story short I've been really busy lately!!! And more bad news, I'm going on a trip this Saturday and I'll be gone for two weeks so this will probably be my last update for a while.
Anyway, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. I think this turned out a bit slow. I had too much talking in the first half BUT ITS NESSASARY! It'll give some answers to where Tai and Matt are and how they got there. lol I call this chapter my 'explanation chapter'. So anyway enjoy. . .
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"Why are you not at your station?" Boran said with a powerful coldness brought on by worry.
The runner lowered his head sheepishly.
"SPEAK!" Boran commanded.
"I am sorry Sir, but when we reached the south exit it was already to late. We saw-we saw them escaping into the exit. We sought to shoot but dared not risk your daughters life."
"My daughter." Boran spook passionately. "Please tell me-you must speak the truth for my ears, was she held hostage???" Boran wished with all his heart she was.
The runner shook his head sadly. "I speak the truth Sir as you ask, she went of free will."
Boran's eyes widened than narrowed in sorrow than in hatred. "The demons. The Bastard demons. First they take my wife, now my DAUGHTER!" He flung his head back and shouted to the sky. "WHAT MORE DO YOU WISH TO TAKE FROM ME?!? I SWARE BY MY SWOARD I WILL KILL YOU. I SWARE IT!!!"
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Matt stumbled threw the darkness, his breath quick. Tai was damn heavy. He could barely make out the shape of Tonai's figure. They had been walking in silence for almost twenty minutes now.
Matt finally decided to speak. "How much longer?"
Tonai stopped short, as if realizing that Matt was behind her for the first time. "I-" She whirled around and almost tripped, but Matt steadied her. She looked around than up into Matt's face. "Thank you," She said faintly.
Matt nodded. Tonai motioned towards the ground. "We may rest here for a moment, there is still an hours walk at least." Matt groaned at this, and slowly lowered Tai's limp form to the ground.
Worry crossed his face. What was wrong with Tai anyway? He took a quick moment to search for any wounds on his friend that might explain his condition, but it was too dark to tell. Deciding that he had done all that he could for Tai at the moment, he sat back to catch his breath.
It was then that he heard a slight sniffle. It had come towards where Tonai now sat. "Tonai?" Matt asked cautiously.
He could hear her clear her throat and saw the faint image of her arm reach up to her face to wipe away . . . tears?
"Yes," She answered weakly, trying with out success to conceal her sadness.
"Are you. . . I mean. . . are you alright?" Matt asked sheepishly, knowing the clear answer.
Tonai sniffled in thee darkness than answered. "I will be, in time. It is just hard to leave my people. . . my father. . ."
"You can still go back-"
"No." Tonai said with firm determination. "I have chosen my path, and I will follow it."
"You don't have to come though, if you don't want to." Matt said kindly.
Tonai took a deep breath and began to compose herself, "Thank you, Yamato, but I want to help you."
"You-you do?"
Tonai let out a bit of a laugh at Matt's surprise. "Yes, when I first saw you," She paused as if wondering if she should go on, than decided to continue, "When you fell from the sky, I saw the way you helped your friend, Tai. You could have drowned, and yet you never let him go. You held on.
"I remember thinking, how brave, and kind, that act was. . . there was not that much kindness in my life. . .after the merge. But when I saw you, lifting Tai out of the river, I knew that you had something great in you. And Tai has shown that same greatness in how he rescued you.
"This is why I wanted to help you. You-I feel as if you are to do something great, perhaps even defeat the Dark Lord."
Matt shifted to face Tonai a bit more and coked his head, "Thank you, I . . . I don't know what to say-we'll try our best-to defeat the Dark Lord, whoever he might be."
"You do not know who the Dark Lord is?"
Matt shuck his head, "Nope."
"Then you were telling the truth, at the council?" Matt nodded. Tonai was silent for a moment than spoke. "Than I shall tell you of the Dark Lord." Her voice became cold when she spoke his name.
Matt shivered as he looked to her figure. Tonai began, "Before he came, my people-my world, was a happy place. We lived in peace. There was little crime in our cities. But than one day. . . a great rumbling came from the ground, and the sky turned red and purple.
"A giant hole appeared in the sky, and from it a floating box emerged."
"A space ship?" Matt said thinking aloud.
Tonai looked over to Matt, "That is what they called it. How did you know?"
Matt let out a sigh, "I'll explain later. What happened next?"
Tonai turned her attention inward, and she began to replay the memories in her head. "The 'space ship' floated above our city for many hours, until finally it landed in our fields. From it, thirty men came, dressed in metal. They said that they came in peace, and only wished to be friends.
"We believed them." Tonai said sadly. "For two seasons they lived with us, and we began to trust them. They were our honored guests. In the day time, they would wander the villages of our kingdom, wanting to know of our technology, marveling over our culture.
"Than after two seasons, they boarded their 'space ship' and left into the sky. We thought this was odd, but. . . they had proven odd in the past. Three moons after they departed the earth began to tremble once more, only this time with more force." Tonai's eyes narrowed coldly and her voice became hard with emotion.
"Many buildings fell, and some were killed in the sudden collapses. My people were scared. Then the sky turned red and black and began to swirl in a vicious shape. From the sky, a 'space ship' appeared, than another, and another. They grew in number, until one could no longer see the sky.
Matt sat silently, listening.
"And than. . . than the already giant swirling hole tripled, and a 'space ship' the size of which made all others look small in comparison emerged." She stopped short, letting out a short sob. Matt reached across Tai to comfort her.
"It's alright, you don't have to continue-"
"No. If I do not tell it now it will never be told." She held his hand firmly. Matt slowly nodded, unsure. Taking a deep breath she continued.
"A loud voice shouted form the sky, saying that he was 'the Dark Lord' and that if we joined him he would spar us. He proclaimed himself a God. A few weak of will fell under his power and joined his ranks but most of us decided to fight.
Matt looked at Tonai's figure thru the shadows in both awe and pity. She had gone thru such a horror. Her voice rang out from the shadows once more.
"For seven days we fought against the Dark Lord's demon servants (1), and on everyday we were on the losing side. They knew our defenses, they knew the ways of our land. The servants who had come before had been the scouts. Little had we known we were taking part in our own demise," she let out a sob, "when we gave them the tour of our cities. It seemed harmless, we did not show them any of our armories. . . and yet they knew. . . they knew everything."
Tonai's eyes brimmed with tears, though Matt could not see them, he could hear it in her voice. He softly got up, and sat down next to Tonai. He put a hand on her shoulder as a sign of comfort, and as soon as he had done so she whirled around and began sobbing into his shoulder.
Matt froze for a moment, not knowing what to do. He slowly rapped his arms around her as well, blushing ever so slightly. He gave her comforting 'shushes' the way he used to comfort T.K when they were younger. He patted her back, gently swaying from side to side.
"Shush, its ok, shush, it's over now, you don't have to worry, me and Tai are going to help you, I promise. Ok, shush, its alright." Matt just hoped he could keep that promise. . .
Tonai looked up thru wet eyes, "Thank you," She whispered weakly. "Thank you so much." Matt nodded and put her head back down, resting his chin on top it. He held her until she stopped crying, which was several minutes later.
Tonai pulled away, realizing for the first time how close she was to Matt. In the darkness, she blushed. Matt blushed as well.
"I. . . I'm sorry-"
"No, don't be-I mean. . . well it's not your fault-I mean. . ."
They sat in an uncomfortable silence for along time, than Tonai said in a sad voice. "They had short staffs that shot fire."
Matt looked up a bit disoriented, "Who did?"
"The Dark Lords servants."
Matt eyed Tonai sadly, "You don't have to continue if you don't want to. . ."
Tonai continued. She didn't want to, she had to.
"They killed anyone who could not work or resisted. Men, woman, children, no one was safe. They killed my mother."
"I'm-"
"-They took most as prisoners. Before they came, our numbers were in the thousands, after just seven days, our numbers were in the hundreds.
"My father led the few that had not been killed, or captured to the sacred caves, where we now live-where they now live." She corrected sadly, "Eight powerful mages, created an artificial world for us."
"So back there," Matt pointed, "Was fake?"
Tonai shook her head, "It is real, just not naturally made. The mages gave up their youth to save the us, this is how they became the elders." Matt's eyes widened in surprise, but Tonai continued.
"I was among the last to escape into the caves. As I entered the cave I looked out up to the sky, for what I thought was the last time. I saw. . . great masses of land falling from the hole, on them, monsters. They came in all shapes and sizes, some could fly, some could swim. I-It was as if a whole world was falling down upon us."
Matt's mind jumped with thought, "The digital world???" He turned desperately towards Tonai, "Did you see data? Was there data?"
"Data? What is data?" Tonai asked.
"Uh-shimmering stings of-of-stuff." That was the only way to describe it.
Tonai's face grew with confusion but than she nodded. "Yes, yes there was 'data' than. It fell with the land."
Matt sat back. The digital world. There was no way to be certain but-this could be bad.
"Do you know of this world that fell from the sky?"
Matt looked at Tonai, uncertainty written across his face. "Maybe, I-I'm not sure."
Tonai's ears perked up. "We must go, I am not sure if my father would be desperate enough to send runners after us, but if he is, than we must keep up a fast pace."
Matt nodded. "Right." He went to go pick up Tai than turned to Tonai. "Tonai, if what I think has happened is true, then. . . well I'm going to help you, I promise. And if there's anything I can do-to make you feel better I-"
"No, but thank you Yamato. It. . . it means a lot to me."
Matt nodded, and lifted Tai onto his back once more. They began to walk again. "By the way Tonai, my names not Yamato. Its Matt."
"But you said your name was Yamato. Did you lie?"
"Well no not exactly-you see it goes like this. When I was a little kid, there was this T.V show and-"
"T.V? What is a T.V?"
"Well it's this thing that you watch and. . ."
Their voices receded into the darkness.
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Izzy rubbed his eyes from exhaustion. They had been at Matt and Tai's apartment for over six hours now and they still hadn't made much progress in finding Matt and Tai. All they knew was that they (Matt and Tai) were in some sort of new world, not surprisingly that didn't help calm their worries.
(Its now like um 6. . .ish. ::sweatdrops::)
"Sorry guys, but I have to get home, I have to catch that flight back to America." Mimi said sadly.
(Mimi had been visiting.)
"I have to go too." Yolei said, getting up from the couch. "I have a job interview in the morning."
Izzy saw T.K's fist clench. "So your just giving up then." He said hotly.
Mimi and Yolei looked at T.K a bit hurt. "What? No T.K that's not it at all- " Mimi tried to say but she was interrupted.
"Is it?"
"T.K we want to help, we do, but we have to get home."
"FINE!" T.K said slamming his fists down on the table overturning a glass. It's liquids spilled out and on to the floor. "JUST LEAVE! GO HOME TO YOUR SAFE HOUSE WHILE MATT AND TAI ARE GOD KNOWS WHERE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES!"
"T.K-"
T.K pushed Kari away and turned his back on the two shocked girls. Ken watched T.K sadly. He had been noticing the rising anger inside the boy since he had arrived. It was only a matter of time until it bubbled over.
Joe stepped forward, "T.K, Mimi and Yolei * do * care about Matt and Tai, but we've done all we can tonight. It's getting late. We'll come back in the morning."
"Oh, so your leaving too?" T.K said angrily.
"T.K I didn't say that-I will have to soon though-we all have to-"
"NO! WE HAVE TO FIND THEM!"
"T.K!" Sora said stepping forward. "We've been * trying * to-"
"THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!"
Ken stepped forward and grabbed T.K by the shoulders looking him straight tint he eye. T.K tried to struggle but Ken held him fast. "T.K," Ken said in an even voice. "I realize that you want to find your brother, we all do, but it's going to take * time *. And I think that we'd all work better after a good nights sleep-In the morning we'll start again." He added quickly as T.K let out an angry snort.
Ken paused for a moment than continued. "And besides, I think that it'd be good to have some people at their houses just incase Matt and Tai come back and end up going there instead."
T.K looked wildly at Ken for a long moment than slowly, ever so slowly, relaxed. Ken let go of his grip on T.K's shoulders. "Fine." T.K said. "Your right." He added. Ken nodded.
Mimi and Yolei left shortly after leaving Joe, Sora, Kari, Izzy, Ken and T.K in the apartment.
Izzy rubbed his eyes again. What a long day.
Joe turned on the T.V. to a news station, "Just incase they have something about. . . them." He explained.
Sora nodded.
The newscasters oh so fake laugh filled the room. "Ha Ha Ha. Thanks Jim. In other news * today *, yet another street * gang * member has gone * missing * today. That will make the * third * person missing this *week *. Over the last * month * the number of missing * persons * has nearly * tripled * with little to * no * evidence as to exactly * who * is behind it. Almost * ΒΌ * of the cases are for suspected * gang * members. Officials say that. . ."
Izzy stopped listening. He turned back to the computer screen and read over Gedi's letter and the prophecy one more time.
" Two beings will mix with the data. . ." He repeated the words. This part didn't make sense. If Matt and Tai were the 'two beings' than when had they 'mixed with the data?' When they had gone to the digiworld? No. The other digidestined had gone to the digiworld too and they hadn't been transported to this 'other world.'
Then when? When had they mixed with. . .
"Internet."
"What?" Joe asked from the couch.
"The Internet! OF COURSE!"
The group all looked at the raving Izzy. "The Internet, of course what?" Sora asked.
"The internet! They-they 'mixed with the data' when they went into the internet."
T.K grabbed one of Izzy's flailing arms trying to calm him down. "Who did?"
"Matt and Tai." Izzy said with a giant grin across his face.
"Um and when did they do this?" Joe asked confused.
"Wh-when the fought Diabramon."
(A/N ok I haven't seen the Digimon movie in a really long time and for the life of me I cant remember what the evil Digimon's name was on the Internet that they fought. I think that its Diabramon but I could be wrong, (and I probably am) so if anyone knows what it is could you PLEASE tell me!!! Thanks)
"When they fought who?' Ken asked confused.
Izzy turned towards Ken. He had forgotten Ken didn't know. "Just before the new digidestined got their D-3's an evil Digimon attacked the internet. His name was Diabramon. Matt and Tai somehow were able to go into the * internet * and fight Diabramon-that's when they first spirit evolved. Anyway," Izzy waved his hands in front of his face.
"The point is, * that's * when they 'mixed with the data'-the internet."
"Ok. . . wait." Sora said a bit confused. "What's the difference between the * internet * and the * digiworld *. I mean their both data right-their both digital."
'That's what I thought too." Izzy said, sitting back in his chair. "But than I remembered something Gedi told me once. He explained it too me. You see the digital world is only * half * digital."
"-What?"
"Just listen. Ok, here's the thing. Its only half digital because a being can be put into a stable form there, but the internet is made entirely of * data *, it wasn't designed to create a stable form. But, Matt and Tai did somehow."
"So what does that mean?" T.K asked.
Izzy looked at the computed screen for a moment than answered. "The transition between their * real * world forms and being entirely data must have-have altered their-their, "Izzy looked for the right word.
"It left a marker." Ken finished for Izzy, picking up on his train of thought.
"Exactly." Izzy said.
"So . . . when the two worlds merged. . . that marker must have triggered something. That's why they were transported to the new world." Ken concluded.
"In theory at least." Izzy ended.
The group was silent for a moment.
"It sounds. . . feasible . . ." Sora said at last.
"So what does that mean for Matt and Tai?" T.K asked.
"Well-" Izzy stopped short. He turned his chair around to look at the computer screen.
"Well what?" T.K asked.
Izzy took a deep breath and looked up and around the group. "I think we might just have discovered a way to contact Matt and Tai."
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A shadowed figure sat in a room filled with red. Two beings dwelled in this body, both as evil as hate. Their eyes flashed blood red as they sensed two presences. Its head curled to the left to where it had sensed the two presences and its eyes glistened red once more. With silent decision, it raised its hand, and twenty pairs of red eyes leapt from the darkness behind him.
The figure stretched out a bony hand filled with death, one clawed finger pointing. The twenty pairs of glowing eyes smiled in sinister joy. A hunt was on its way.
It lowered its hand and slowly sat back in its chair. The figures lips cracked open ever so slightly, and a silver slit of moon fell across its smile.
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OOOO CrrrreEepy! ^_^ What will happen to our trio? How does Izzy plan on contacting Matt and Tai? But most of all, what does the 'Dark Lord' have in store for our heroes?
It's all on the next chapter of: Digimon: Digital Monsters!!!
Yeah all you Tai fans are probably unhappy with this chapter cause it doesn't have him in it. . . well it does but he doesn't talk so it doesn't really count. . . Anyway! Don't worry! I promise in the next chapter I'll have * a lot * of him to make up for it. K? K.
Preview of Next Chapter:
The trio reach the outside * finally * but the Dark Lord is expecting them. Now it's up to Matt to save Tai and Tonai, but wait. Whose that girl? And can she be trusted? Oh yeah! And Tai will wake up! YEY! Its all in the next chapter of Merge.
::starts singing the theme song::
Duh Duh Duh Merge.
Duh Duh Duh Merge.
Duh Duh Duh Two worlds Merge.
MERGE!!!
^_^heh Yeah I know pretty sad. . . OH WELL!
(1) "For seven days we fought against the Dark Lord's demon servants. . ." This gives reference to the creation of earth. This is appropriate because it takes seven days for the destruction of earth. The Dark Lord's demon servants could be interpreted to be the damned, and thus the Dark Lord would be Satan or the AntiChrist.
Lol Um ok On that cheery note I leave you. ^_^ Until next time! ::waves::
Reion
Sit Ubu sit.
07/26/03