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An Old Box
Chapter 7
"So, we know all of this about this dream thingy and we've done nothing so far?" Tai could not believe it. After all of the knowledge they had of the dream, they hadn't found a way to get out of it. Matt looked a little guilty.
"Well, we didn't have our esteemed leader to help us get out of this situation," he protested a little sarcastically, earning a strong 'look' from Tai.
"Well, do you have any ideas Tai?" Izzy asked, heading off the fight that the two were almost certainly going to get into. After all, T.K always did remember that Matt and Tai had not gotten along in the Digital World the first time.
"Yeah, it's simple. I just tell him to wake up and he will. Then we will all wake up and the digimon we have to fight will be right there. We destroy the digimon and there you go, this whole ordeal is over," they gaped at him as if they could not believe it, "What?"
"It's not that simple Tai, we have to destroy the digimon first, and then we will all wake up anyway," Kari told him simply. She loved her brother and all, but she did not think too highly of his intelligence. The general feeling in the room agreed with her. But Tai shook his head.
"No, if we destroy the digimon, then it will be deleted for forever. If it does not free us from this dream first, then we will be trapped here for forever, with no way out. Trust me; I've spent a long, long time here. And 'Master' cannot keep a secret if you paid him a billion dollars. Trust me; I will get us out of here. When have I led you wrong before? Wait, don't answer that one. If you want to get out of this dream, it is simple. Just leave it to me," they were about to continue when the door opened. A strange yellow light engulfed the room for about five seconds before it faded away and the door closed. The light had been too bright to look at and so no one had been able to see what had come into the room, if anything had.
"T.K?" Kari guessed, knowing that his crest was the same golden yellow as the light had been. There was no reply, but Joe heard something fall softly against the floor.
"Someone is in here; I heard them either fall to the ground or step on something. I just can't see because the light in here is so bad," he complained, adjusting his glasses even though he knew that he couldn't see. Tai shrugged.
"If you want light, just tell me," he told them and in two seconds he had created a small fire which rested on the palm of his left hand. The room was now lit up so that they could see everything.
"Whoa, I didn't know you could do that," Izzy exclaimed before he went silent. Tai just laughed.
"Yeah, it is pretty cool I guess. Basically the only thing that I cannot do is play with the wind. Not that I'd really want to do that anyway," he muttered this last sentence to himself as he turned the flame so that it faced in the direction of the door. There, lying on the ground was T.K. Joe pulled his medical bag around to go and help the seemingly unconscious boy, but Tai stopped him.
"What is it Tai?"
"There's no point in going over there to help him. I'm pretty sure that he'll be fine in a minute or so. Hope is a crest that is likely to have high healing powers. That means that he'll probably be up in a second telling us that he is fine," almost as soon as Tai had finished speaking T.K slowly sat up and looked around at the others, confused.
"Are you okay T.K?" Kari asked, surprised that her brother was right about something for once. The young blond blinked, looked down at his left hand, and then looked at the girl, his eyes now a deep gold.
"Yeah, I'm fine," he looked to Tai's hand, where the flame was still burning. T.K watched it for a second before a smaller flame appeared in his left hand. He looked down at it. "Cool."
"I can see that you were 'experimented' on," Matt could hardly believe his eyes. His little brother could create fire with his hand. It had been hard enough that some of his friends could do it.
"Yeah, I…err was…" T.K stood up so that he didn't have to look up at everyone, extinguishing his flame as he did so.
"Heri ali odi maordio?" it sounded like gibberish to everyone but Tai and T.K. It was the older of the two that had spoken. T.K looked at him uncertainly before replying.
"Yelio aber tanishi."
"I thought so," Tai finished, in a language that everyone could understand, "'Master' used basically the same procedure on me, except that he had to fiddle around with it first. He used a different technique for Sora though. That could limit her understanding of the whole process." T.K nodded, as though considering what Tai had just told him.
"But if so then why would 'Master' be so liberal with the secrets?"
"Because it is in his programming to do so. Besides, he believes that as soon as he 'experiments' on us we're going to go over to his side. He couldn't be more mistaken than if he thought a potato was a flying saucer, but he believes it. So I assume that he told you how to wake up from this delinquiter?" T.K nodded.
"What on Earth are you talking about? I don't understand a word that you are saying!" Mimi had finally had enough. She hated feeling as though she was outside of the loop.
"Don't worry Mimi, we'll be out of this place soon enough. Just tell me to wake up," Mimi looked confused, but opened her mouth anyway.
"Wake up T.K?" it was more of a question than a command, but it worked anyway. In Odaiba hospital, 12 sets of eyes opened. In Subiaco Hospital in Western Australia, another five sets of eyes opened, looking confused. All over the world, groups of children and teenagers were opening their eyes, awakening from comas that they had been in for up to ten weeks. But at Odaiba Hospital, the digidestined were not the only things that awakened…
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"Sora… your eyes!" her mother exclaimed as she looked over her daughter. She could hardly believe that Sora had woken up after being in her coma for seven weeks. The guy that had pushed her down the stairs had disappeared, though Mrs. Takenouchi had the Police hunting everywhere for him. Nobody hurt Sora unless they had a death wish, was the way that Mrs. Takenouchi looked at it.
"Relax Mum; it is okay," the red head replied, searching through the ward to find her other friends, "Is everyone alright? I don't really remember what happened…" Her mother stopped and began to explain what had happened, but Sora tuned out. She knew now that her friends were all there somewhere, although she had no idea how.
"Hey Sora," Matt, Izzy and Joe entered the ward, heading towards her. Mrs. Takenouchi stopped her explanation as she realised that her daughter was not listening. She left to go and get a cup of coffee instead. Something told her that she was going to need her.
"Hi guys, what's up?"
"You have to come with us. Tai, T.K, Davis, Yolie and Ken are fighting the digimon that was controlling us, but I think that they're going to need your help," Joe informed her, "We'd help but we're not really equipped to fight. Come on, they're at the park." Sora didn't stop to think. She stood and ran out of the ward, ignoring the cries of the nurses to walk. The others needed her help, so she was determined to give it to them.
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It was raining outside where the fight was going on.
'Pretty ironic eh? In the movies it is always raining when evil guys are around. I wonder why it is raining now…' T.K thought sarcastically as he dodged another of the digimon's attacks. It seemed that the digimon preferred to attack with water, probably because he knew that Tai's main attack was fire. Ken and Yolie were on the other side of the digimon, waiting for Tai and T.K to distract it so they could attack.
"Hey, over here, have some fire!" Tai called out to the digimon before he released a wall of fire. It literally was a wall. T.K was amazed that Tai could create that much fire. The digimon, who still hadn't introduced himself, dodged the attack and shot water back. Tai managed to erect a shield of Earth just before the water attack hit him. Whilst the digimon was distracted, both Ken and Yolie launched an attack. But the digimon sensed them coming and managed to send them flying straight back at the two teenagers. Ken thought quickly and put up some sort of barrier. If this kept on happening, the fight was going to last forever.
"Give it up digidestined, you are not going to win!" the digimon cackled evilly, sending a shiver down T.K's spine. This was the guy that had been controlling his dream, the guy that sent them all into comas. He deserved to be defeated.
"We're never going to give up. Our whole world is depending on us and we're not going to let you win that easily. You may have controlled our comas, but you're NOT going to control our lives too!" T.K called out, embarrassed at how corny he sounded. He sounded like he had watched too many movies. Davis gave him a strange look, before he reached out and seemed to grab thin air. The digimon was lifted into the air, but then in a flash Davis was in the air and the digimon was on the ground.
"Hey!" Davis cried as he was flung to the ground.
"Are you okay Davis?" Cody called as he raced to join the group. Cody was always worried about the welfare of others.
"Yeah, I'm fine Cody. Good to see you not screaming," Davis scrambled to his feet and grabbed Cody as a flaring attack screamed their way.
"Thanks," Cody told him as they got up from the ground. The pair of them always seemed to be on the ground or in rooms screaming. It was almost as if the digimon had a particular grudge against them. Or maybe just T.K did.
"T.K look out!" he had been so absorbed in watching Davis and Cody that he had forgotten to check where the digimon was aiming its next attack. And it happened to be right at him…
End Chapter 7
Litanya: Okay, that was a lame ending. Please review, I'll update when I can.