Discovery
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"…" means speech
'…' means thoughts
… means a demon's speech
"What do you mean? Mommy and daddy are from our world!" Hikari shouted attaching herself to Taichi's arm shaking her head. Yamato simply stared at Taichi in disbelief, but he quickly recovered and forced Taichi to look him in the eyes.
"How can you be so sure? And wouldn't that mean Hikari too?" he asked sternly.
"No, it's just my father, I was adopted," Taichi said dropping his gaze.
"But how do you know all of this?" Yamato asked again.
"She told me," he said gesturing towards Anna, "but when I asked my mom she agreed that I was adopted."
"Taichi! This doesn't change anything, we're still going back home to mommy and daddy and you're not going to leave, or stay here!" Hikari sobbed startling Tai.
"You can't," Anna interrupted staring at them with cold eyes.
"What do you mean 'we can't'?" Yamato asked angrily, already fed up with this woman.
"There is a 75% chance that the demons of flame have destroyed your world," Anna stated with a shrug, and everyone turned towards her angrily.
"What do you mean?" Taichi asked dangerously, and Anna could see an unearthly glow in his eyes that frightened her.
"Y… You mommy and daddy and everybody are all dead?" Hikari stuttered.
"Correct, you see it was the demons of flame that caused that sharp rise in temperature that you felt was probably caused by one," Anna said.
"So why would they destroy our world?" Yamato asked.
"Are you sure that you are ready to hear this?" she asked.
"What do you mean they're not in this world or the digital world? They have to be in at least one!" Daisuke reasoned.
"No… there, apparently, are other dimensions that are sealed off from our, and the digital, world. I'll see if I can track them down from one of these…" Koushiro said typing furiously on his laptop.
"Do you need any assistance?" Ken asked.
"Um… yeah… could you hook up that computer with my laptop…" Koushiro said waving in the general direction of the computer. Ken quickly complied and began typing just as quickly as Koushiro, only pausing to receive further instructions from the only boy who seemed to know what was going on. Daisuke, meanwhile, watched on in annoyed silence, angry at being ignored.
"Any ideas on what's going on?" Takeru whispered questioningly to Daisuke.
"Not a clue…" Daisuke seethed as he glared holes into Koushiro's back.
"What was that?" Ken asked Koushiro as the computer and laptop screens turned red and began to flash.
"I don't know… but I really don't think it's a good thing…" Koushiro said back away. Smoke began to erupt from the computers and everyone ducked as the screens burst out.
"WHAT DID YOU DO?!" Daisuke screamed at Koushiro.
"Note to self…" Koushiro said ignoring Daisuke, "never try to access other dimensions the way you access the digital world." The other three digidestined in the room stared stunned at the supposed genius before Daisuke screamed in rage and stormed out of the room.
"He's really suffering…" Ken said sorrowfully.
"I guess… he really does love Hikari…" Takeru said staring down at the floor.
"Don't just sit there you guys! We've gotta do some research! Let's get these computers up and running again so that we can find another way to reach them!" Koushiro ordered and Ken and Takeru quickly snapped out of their trances and hurried to help Koushiro with his work.
Have you located him yet? Ka'li'li asked.
No my lady, the demon at the locater orb said without even looking up.
A bit uptight are we? a soft voice said from the shadows.
What would you know? You can't get worked up about anything, your lover could die and all you'd do would laugh! Ka'li'li snapped back angrily.
Why sister! I'm hurt, the voice said and a figure appeared smirking. The wind spirit simply whirled around Ka'li'li before settling to her right.
I was so close to finding my son again, and if you're not here to help then you can get out, she seethed.
On the contrary, I know where Anna's base world is… it's most likely that she would have taken the boy there, the wind spirit said.
Dammit Sa'ri! Why didn't you say so in the first place? Tell me where it is immediately so that we can launch an attack!
AN: Sorry again that took so long but I've had absolutely NO time for myself, let alone to work on my fanfiction. Hopefully I can get the next chapter out a bit faster.