The Capture
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon or "The Crown of Stars" by Kate Elliot.
Hikari watched in horror as a fiery creature appeared in front of Tai causing him to fall back into the water. Well at least he was out of the heat but the moment Tai touched the surface of the water steam erupted from it and Taichi didn't even fight to stay on the surface but rather continued to slip downward.
Hikari and Yamato dived down after Tai at the same time and noticed that there was no bottom to the ocean but rather a pit of blackness that Tai was falling into Hikari kicked faster and she and Yamato managed to get a hold on Taichi's arms. However they couldn't seem to pull him back up, in fact the black put was pulling them into it now as well. Hikari gave out a cry of alarm before realizing that they were under water and lost all of the air that she had taken in.
'I'm gonna drown, we all are!' Hikari thought as she saw Yamato struggling to fight down the need to take a breath of air. Suddenly they passed through the black pit, and landed on solid ground in fresh air.
"Damn, she's got him, I'm dead meat," the demon said furiously as he gazed down at the water where his half-brother had fallen.
"Y… You can talk?" one of the human boys asked pulling of his white hat and ringing it out.
"Are you a digimon?" the girl with pink hair asked.
"A what? I'll let you know that you happen to be talking to a Daimone," he said using the name that they called themselves, "but I believe you humans call us demons." He relished the expression the humans gave until he felt a presence at the back of his mind, it was his mother.
"Shoot, well I've got to go, oh and you'd better hope that my mother is in a good mood or you and your entire world will be engulfed in flames."
"Wait a minute… where's Taichi,
"Wh… What's going on?" Taichi murmured as he stirred. He slowly opened his eyes and had to shut them again from the sun's bright glare. He heard someone stir next to him and slowly turned his head to see Hikari lying next to him and Yamato lying a bit further off. He blinked a few times before groaning and pulling himself into a sitting position. He heard Yamato groan and glanced over at him, his mind too fuzzy to process anything completely.
"Urgh… Tai?" Yamato murmured fuzzily as his vision came into focus.
"Yamato? What's going on?" Taichi asked thickly as his head began to clear.
"I don't know… Where's Kari?" Yamato asked before noticing the stirring figure lying in the grass.
"Are… we alive?" Hikari asked as she finally came around and jerked to her feet.
"I believe so… unless I'm also dead, and I'm pretty sure I'm not," a woman's voice said sweetly from a few feet off. Taichi turned and discovered the woman who had spoken to him a few days before, Anna, smiling innocently at the group her head tilted in an almost seductive way.
"Who are you and what do you want?" Yamato shouted angrily.
"I believe that one of you knows very well what I want," she said looking at Tai her face now serious.