Other World
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, or any of it's characters.
Author's Note: I completely realized in chapter 3 that I said Apathy was a boy when I meant girl hard to explain this exactly but I'm replacing chapter 3 with the change in the detail of Apathy's sex.
The blood, death, and sex (no sex written but lots of kissing and males and females sharing beds that could or couldn't reply sex) content in chapter is rather high.
One these notes, Happy Reading!
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Chapter 5: Learn Something Two/Too
The Digidestined woke up early the next morning, everyone met in the lobby, It seemed almost sad to be leaving the Green Grass Inn, and none was sadder then Gatomon. They had decided that they would eat breakfast and head to the pier and get on a ship and head east. Luckily the pier idea was Wizardmon's and he left them enough Digi-Dollars for the fare.
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The light from Izzy's computer had just faded when he began to freak out, "We have to go to the Digital world now!"
"Calm down Izzy what's wrong, they have only been gone ten seconds," replied Tai.
"Yeah and in another 40 seconds they will have been gone a month! Gennai is in trouble, he just e-mailed me!"
"Well maybe it was fake, and it's a trap," said Sora.
Izzy just stared at her, "You want to question my computer knowledge? I'll explain when we are in the Digiworld why I know it is real."
"Wait what about Mimi?" asked Joe.
"I already e-mailed her, she'll meet us there," replied Izzy putting his digivice to the screen of his laptop. Everyone followed in suit and were sucked into the engulfing white light.
The older Digidestined landed in a pile in a grassy field, not to far away was a big blue building with a sign that read Green Grass Inn. Digitammamon walked out to see what all the noise was, "Wow I just brought that old TV over here from that dangerous cliff and I'm getting customers."
The Digidestined didn't see him or hear him they were looking at Izzy. Izzy pulled out of his backpack his spare lime green laptop and began to type furiously, "Ok look, this is what Gennai's message should say, this is what it would look like if it was a fake, and this is what it says."
The Digidestined all went over to Izzy and looked over his shoulder at the computer screen.
Help Digidestined!
HelllP DIigidessstiNEDD!
Hdlp dikjmgiidcefv st,inn edc
"Ok Izzy now that last line is gibberish," said Matt.
Izzy sighed, "Look 'Hdlp' it is obvious that he missed the 'e' in his hast and hit 'd' so it reads Help now 'dikjmgiidcefv st,inn edc' now remove in this order the following letters 'd, i, g, i, d, e, s, t, i, n, e, d. Help Digidestined, See! Gennai was kidnapped and we must go find him!"
"Ok, but where are we?" asked Patience. Izzy began to bring up his map of the Digiworld when Sora pointed to a sign.
"We're at the Green Grass Inn," said Sora. Everyone looked at the blue building and Digitammamon standing in the door.
"Yes now that is correct, I am Digitammamon, come in, come in stay the night. No charge except you must Learn something. Now your digimon friends are already inside."
The Digidestined looked at Digitammamon, they couldn't tell whether to trust him or not. Just then Agumon poked his head out of the door, "What is taking so long? I'm tired, don't you know it is getting late!"
The Digidestined looked around Agumon was right it was already dark. The Digidestined slowly got up and followed Digitammamon into the Green Grass Inn. Digitammamon didn't take to much time on the room selection because they walked in, in the pairings he wanted. Tai was first followed by Sora, they received room key H80, the next two were Matt and Patience who received room key H78, Izzy and Joe were next, Digitammamon looked a little worried because Mimi wasn't there. Digitammamon handed Izzy room key H76, "Is there only you two?" asked Digitammamon.
The dark night sky briefly light up and Mimi tumbled to the ground. Joe looked out of the door quickly, "Mimi we are staying here tonight, get in here."
"You know hello, is what normal people say or 'are you alright?' since you know I just tumbled out of a TV," said Mimi walking into the Green Grass Inn.
"You two have room H74," said Digitammamon looking at Mimi and Joe, then he turned to Izzy, "Your alone, Ok?" They all nodded, before they were all tackled by their Digimon partners, in hugs. The Digidestined talked to together in the lobby until retiring to their rooms.
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TK walked up from behind Kari who was standing by the railing on deck of their small ferry. Kari had been on her way to bed, when she stopped to look at the clear Digi-sky and all the bright stars, it was really beautiful.
TK wrapped his arms around Kari's waist, "Were you planning on coming to bed?" on the ship the Digidestined were split up into two rooms Davis, Mor, TK, and Kari in one, and Ken, Yolei, Cody, and Zoemi in the other, they shared the two rooms with their digimon partners.
Kari turned around and looked at TK, "Well..." Kari's D-Terminal beeped as she received an e-mail. Kari quickly looked down and opened her D- Terminal, not to long after Kari's face went white as a ghost she gasped backing herself as close to the railing she could. In the shock from what she read the D-Terminal dropped to the floor. Kari quickly turned away from TK and looked at the passing water.
TK was very confused and picked up Kari's D-Terminal for her, he couldn't help but read her e-mail it was from Gennai, I heard two evil digimon talking one was afraid that now that the Digidestined have put aside their differences that, evil would be conquered for good (if that was possible) the other agreed but said that Wizardmon accidentally messed up and Light and Hope were to close, which would be their weakness. I don't know what it means Kari, but I figured you would, good luck!
The D-Terminal once again hit the floor. Kari turned around and picked it up, "It was a spell TK, we don't really love each other, because if we did then it would have made us stronger, but lying to our hearts and to each other makes us weak."
TK nodded in agreement, though his heart was 'shaking it's head', TK figured from the spell that Wizardmon cast, he believe that it would make them stronger, "So do we tell the others?"
"No, we know the truth now, and it is obvious Wizardmon only wanted the best for us. No one will expect us to hold hands or anything while we are together, so there is no reason to worry them. They might begin to think that Wizardmon messed up with them as well, which he didn't."
"Hey are you guys good?" asked Yolei walking up to TK and Kari.
"Yeah just sick of being on this boat, a month is a really long time," replied TK.
Yolei nodded, "Well one more week and we dock in Server."
The three of them walked down to their cabins which were across the thin ships hall from each other. They said good night and went into their separate room.
As TK and Kari walked in their room they caught the end of Davis and Mor's conversation, "... I am just really surprised that we haven't had to fight any digimon since we got here. With this new evil you would believe that we wouldn't have time to sleep!" replied Davis.
"Well you know what they say Davis, 'It is always the quiet ones, you have to watch out for,'" replied Mor.
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Digitammamon and Wizardmon were talking in a hall far away from the Digidestined, after they were all asleep, "So how long for this group?"
"The same amount of time as the last one, "replied Wizardmon, "Tai has always loved Sora but always got nervous when the words really counted and screwed up, she also always liked him. Patience is the only one with enough patience to be able to deal with Matt's normal schedule, he might be friendship but that isn't the whole Matt, he also has a not so sunny disposition that Patience can deal with. Once Matt realizes this he'll treat Patience better, and she wont need to be so patient with him. Joe and Mimi just need to learn and swallow their pride or whatever and listen to their hearts much like TK and Kari. Izzy... he'll have to wait, but he right now he has a prophecy to decode."
Digitammamon nodded, "But why always boy to girl? And never girl to girl, or boy to boy?"
"Well, human boys think in a completely different way than a human girl. Two guys together might not figure out the answer because they look at the question the same way, it's the same with two girls," replied Wizardmon.
"So your making them all fall in love? Isn't that tampering with fate?" asked Digitammamon.
"Yeah maybe so, but challenging fate is safer right now then letting them go into a battle they wont win without love, and letting the Digital world, Human World, and Maeguumii, plunge into darkness, not to mention not being able to tell what would happen to the other worlds," replied Wizardmon. ----------
The next morning Tai got up bright and early and decided to search for a restaurant and breakfast. The door wouldn't open, he just figured that it was jammed and someone would come and fix it. Tai walked back over to his bed and decided to e-mail the younger Digidestined.
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Davis woke up to Veemon shaking him and hitting him with a pillow, "Davis you got mail from Tai wake up!"
Davis rolled over and picked up his D-Terminal and read, "Gennai was kidnapped, so we are going to find him, you guys just worry about this new evil." Davis quickly wrote his replied and laid back down.
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"Sounds good. Where are you guys?" Tai read the reply from Davis.
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Davis groaned when he heard the beep one more time, "Laying on my bed at the Green Grass Inn the door is jammed and I can't get breakfast!" Davis's eyes popped when he read Tai's reply.
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Everyone was awake at the Green Grass Inn after Tai read the e-mail from Davis, and screamed, "You won't be let out of that room until you learn something, I had four torture filled days including a bloody nose, but Mor and I became good friends after that. To everyone's surprise we got out before TK and Kari they had done homework! Don't worry about the breakfast, pull the red pull string for room service. So who are you stuck with?"
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Davis lifted an eyebrow, "Sora."
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"Well have fun. I'm going to sleep," Tai read, then his voice became sarcastic, "Have fun? We all no my painful history with Sora, she'll hate me more when this is finished!" Tai quickly wrote back to Davis.
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Davis rolled over and moaned when he heard the beep from his D- Terminal, "What do I need to learn you got to help me?"
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"One: come on, this is me your talking to, how would I know? Two: You have to figure it out on your own. Three: I'm not answering you anymore, I'm trying to sleep!" Tai sighed after reading that, but before he could e- mail back Tai got another e-mail from Digitammamon.
"We regret to inform you that you didn't learn anything. So the charge is you time, you will stay in the room until you learn what you are meant to learn. Room service will still be running. Thank You – Digitammamon," Tai read, "Thanks a lot!"
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Izzy had just finished reading the e-mail from Digitammamon, and knew that the others had read it as well, Patience, Matt, and Mimi had all screamed. Tai of course had also screamed but he had been complaining for awhile.
Izzy was sorting his e-mail, he was just about to delete Gennai's distress mail when he discovered an hidden attached file. It was another prophecy, Izzy read:
"Fifteen to Nine is even so add one more
The old and wise must bend to the innocence of a child and wish
Light and Hope forever stronger, but Love is stronger
The young, and feeble, but strong, must lead
On a day when time is equal, and the Moon and Stars meet the sun
Old and New will band together in new ways to fight good
With the strength of that, that was BANNISHED and killed."
Izzy just sighed, "For once can't we get a prophecy that say something like, '07.07.07(July 7, 2007) come the new evil, Evilmon(made up digimon for Izzy's example(there is no Evilmon right?))' so then we would know who the evil was and on what day he would attack!" Izzy began working on decoding the prophecy.
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Tai sat down at his newly arrived triple banana split. He picked up the spoon and was about to dig in to his breakfast when Sora interrupted him, "Come on Tai! Ice cream for breakfast!" Sora sat down next to Tai and eyed the ice cream, Tai holding the only spoon.
"Hey, hey don't dis the ice cream. Anyways it only cost me my time so why not use my time wisely and drown these semi-sorrows in ice cream? And your just mad you didn't think of it."
As fast as lightning Sora grabbed Tai's spoon, and scooped up a spoonful of chocolate ice cream. Before Tai realized what was happening the spoon was hovering by Sora's open mouth.
"You can have a bit, but the first is mine!" replied Tai unsuccessfully reaching for the spoon.
"Lady's first," Sora smiled.
"My ice cream!"
"Lady's first!"
"Go spend your own time on ice cream!" (A/N: get it because it cost time, SPEND your own TIME....lol couldn't resist)
"Lady's First, be a gentleman for once Tai!"
"Fine, lady's first," Tai replied with a smile and bow(more of a bob).
Sora ate the ice cream and then retrieved another spoonful of ice cream. Before Tai could object she put the spoonful in his mouth. Sora took the next bite, then slowly retrieved the next bite and held it out to Tai. Tai leaned forward, but Sora moved the spoon away, Tai leaned closer to the spoon that slowly retreated.
Tai's face was by Sora's he quickly thought up a plan that he figured would spill that spoonful of ice cream on the floor and get him slapped. But at that moment it was worth it for the ice cream. As soon as that ice cream had arrived he had stop thinking with his brain and his stomach took over.
Tai leaned towards the ice cream, but then turned his head towards Sora and gave her a kiss. He kissed her right on the lips nothing special, just a little more than a peak. Tai pulled away slowly he was surprised at how much he really wanted to kiss her again. Those thoughts were erased when out of the corner of Tai's eye he could see Sora's hand, Tai braced himself for the slap, he disserved.
Sora's hand laid softly on the back of Tai's neck and pulled him back the whole two centimeters that had grown between them. Sora kissed Tai, as he had down to her.
Tai got over the shock of being kissed and not slapped quickly and deepened the kiss. Tai held Sora closed to him, as he heard the spoon hit the floor and Sora's hand that once held the spoon wrapped around his neck. At least he was right about one thing, he wouldn't get to eat that spoonful of ice cream.
The lock on the door made a clicking noise of it unlocking.
Tai slowly pulled away, That was wonderful, that was right, that was perfect... Tai! What are you thinking she is Matt's ex, more importantly she is your best friend! But she kissed you the second time, I only kissed her to get the spoon back and eat the ice cream. Ice cream! You know I don't think I'm hungry anymore, how much did I eat? One bite?
Sora starred at Tai, disbelief and confusion consumed her stare, What were you doing? I just kissed my best friend! Not to mention its still to soon after Matt. You know I'm completely over him and Tai kisses better. Oh geez I just kissed Tai! But he was the one who put his tongue in my mouth, not me. But what teenage guy wouldn't, with a willing girl, it doesn't mean he likes me right? It doesn't mean I like him... this is Tai. He probably only kissed me to get the spoon, but for that the tongue wasn't needed. Oh god! I'm analyzing a kiss, a great kiss but that is not the point.
Tai bent over and picked up the spoon, he didn't have the appetite to eat, but Tai knew that she knew that it was un-Tai-like to not eat ice cream. But he just couldn't bring himself to eat the ice cream. A disappointed look from Sora made Tai dig into the ice cream, well at least he didn't get slapped.
The door relocked.
Tai began to eat the ice cream, he was afraid that he might still get slapped. A punch from a guy was livable, but a slap from a girl was something else. Girls know how to slap just right so your face is red and it stings.
"Hey, I'm sorry Tai, I don't know what came over me, "said Sora, Oh great I lied I know what came over me, the gentle touch of the most perfect kiss, I just wanted to feel it once more, is that wrong?
"Hey forget about it," smiled Tai, half the ice cream gone, Forget about it! This just in the world finally ends and Taichi Kamiya hasn't forgotten the kiss he gave Sora Takenouchi.
There was an eerie silence, between the two, a silence that reeked of lies. Tai couldn't stand it anymore he leaned towards Sora, to Tai's surprised she leaned to him. Tai lifted his hand to bring Sora's face to his, just then a thump was heard coming from Matt and Patience's room, Matt! He'll kill me, they just broke up a little bit ago, I know he isn't over Sora yet. I won't get slapped by Sora, but I'll get blooded by Matt! Tai pulled away from Sora, Kissing her might feel good, and right, but that doesn't mean that it is right. Now I wonder what is up with Matt and Patience?
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Patience lay on the floor, with a stunned look on her face. Matt laughed at Patience, at the way she had flopped to the bed and slip off, and most of all her face.
"I thought that you weren't talking to me?" asked Patience.
"I wasn't talking..." began Matt.
Patience laughed, "That's talking! Come on Matt just grow up and get out of the first grade, you can't not talk to me."
"This is the last thing I'm saying! If I'm in first grade your in preschool! I wasn't talking I was laughing at you! Do you need a bigger bed? Or a crib maybe so you wont fall out?" replied Matt. Matt didn't like Patience, with in that morning she had driven him insane with digimon/world questions, even when it was obvious he wanted to sleep in more. Matt turned and went in to the bathroom figuring that it would be better to use his time in imprisonment to get a shower.
When the water was heard from out side the bathroom Patience smiled and got off the floor, "I'm to patient for you Matt, you'll give in. All I need is a sit in!" Patience pulled the covers up so that they didn't hang over the edge of her bed on the side that faced Matt's bed. Then Patience did the same to Matt's covers and pushed the beds together. Patience straitened out the sheets and sat down right in the middle.
Matt walked out and was very surprise to see what Patience had done. His first impulse was to yell at her, but then he remembered for stupid reasons they weren't talking. The second impulse was to pull the beds apart while she sat on them. Than Matt realized that Patience would fall most likely, knowing Matt's luck, hit her head on the wood bed frame. And Joe being the medical expert locked in another room. Matt was mad at Patience but he didn't want to hurt her.
Matt slumped down against the wall and watched Patience, Why couldn't I share a room with Tai, or Izzy, or Joe, or Sora an ex-girlfriend is better than Patience. Now I wonder how Mimi and Joe are doing? great I'm figuring.
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Joe sat up in the bed he had to share with Mimi, Joe was very surprised that Mimi had objected to Joe sleeping on the floor. Joe knew that he loved Mimi, if he didn't why did he send her the huge pink heart while she was on vacation in Hawaii?(A/N: from Digimon the Movie)
Joe just watched Mimi sleep after they had received the e-mail, she decided on getting as much beauty sleep as possible. Oh I can't believe how beautiful, sweet, and innocent she looks while she sleeps. Well she always looks that way but it is more child like when she sleeps. I just wish that I could tell her how I feel, how sad I was she moved to America, and most of all that I love her. Oh get a grip Joe, you'll never have the courage, and she couldn't possibly love you, every guy loves her! And your just another sheep, and she is your goddess, your shepherdess. I wish I could just say... "...I love you Mimi, with all my heart."
Joe brushed back Mimi's hair and gave a yawn. Joe began to think that Mimi had the right idea about sleeping, he had stayed up late on Thursday studying and since he was only going to loose ten minutes or so of studying time. Why not give his sleep deprived body, sleep?
Joe laid down close to Mimi and subconsciously kept a hand on her shoulder, as he smoothed her hair till he fell asleep.
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Tai sat down on Sora's bed next to her, they had just finished lunch. "So why did you and Matt break up, you two were always good together?" asked Tai, bored half to death and without a soccer ball.
"He broke up with me. He said he was being unfair to me and that he wanted me to have a real relationship. He even suggested I go out with you! Which I found odd my ex-boyfriend telling me to go out with my best friend," replied Sora, she no longer thought it odd to go out with Tai she figured it to be the right thing now.
"Well to tell you the truth," Tai began nervously with his hand rubbing the back of his neck, "It always hurt me to see you two together, because I always liked you, it was just I always messed stuff up."
"Like throwing up in my hat? And then saying that no one could see my hair because I always wore that hat and that's why you bought those hair clips for me?"
"Yeah, umm... about those hair clips what I meant to say was,... I thought they would look great on you if you had ever decided to not wear a hat you would have something for your hair. And that I wouldn't have minded if you never wore those hair clips because you looked great in the hat."
"You know what Tai, I always liked you too. But I, I the bearer of Love couldn't say it, and you had always tried so hard that it made it look like you didn't care. And then there was Matt I loved him but I don't know, I guess it was just that I had waited so long for you to ask me out that I lost hope in that thought."
"Sora..."
"Yeah..."
"I'm sorry I didn't say this earlier, I love you."
"I love you too Tai," replied Sora with a sweet smile. Tai hesitated a second before putting his left arm around Sora and with his thumb and index finger of his right hand, Tai slowly lifted Sora's head to his. Tai hesitated again before he leaned down and kissed Sora, this time long and passionate.
The door unlocked it's self and stood unnoticed.
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Mimi woke up, she jumped slightly not knowing who's hand was on her shoulder. Mimi slowly turned around under the light warm touch of Joe's hand. Mimi smiled at the sight of Joe sleeping, Oooo He is sooo cute! I can't believe how cute he looks! I mean he was always cute, but now he is all tall, manly, and cute no longer, scrawny, clumsy, and cute. You know I think I still have that heart he gave me one year while I was on vacation, that was sweet. Joe really is a great guy, I just wish I had the courage to say... "...I love you Joe, I always will."
Mimi got out of bed and decided to order a big breakfast/lunch/dinner, for her and Joe but she let him sleep for then. Mimi knew how much studying he did and how tired he was. Mimi walked over and pulled the red pull string. A Gotsumon entered a few minutes later through the digimon sized door in the normal door. Mimi ordered two of the days specials, though she didn't know what it was.
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"Fifteen to Nine is even so add one more(?)
Gennai(?)(The old and wise)must bend to the innocence of a child and wish
Kari (Light) and TK (Hope) forever stronger, but Sora and/or Yolei
(Love) is stronger
The younger Digidestined (The young, and feeble, but strong), must lead
When time re-returns (On a day when time is equal), and there is an
eclipse (the Moon and Stars meet the sun)
Dark Masters etc. will return (Old and New will band together in new
ways to fight good
With the strength of that, that was BANNISHED and killed)," Izzy read his attempt to decode the prophecy out loud, but it didn't sound right.
Izzy became frustrated, "I know I must learn what this prophecy mean, so we can all leave here and find Gennai. But it is unfair! We always figure these prophecies out five minutes or so before they come true! We are lost, stuck here! Gennai is doomed!"
---------- Next Day/Late the Second Night(early the next day)
Mimi bolted strait up in bed, she was soaked in a cold sweat and breathing heavily. Mimi raised a hand and held it to her forehead half out of shock for what she had dreamed, also to make sure she wasn't sick, and most importantly to make sure that she was alive.
The dream that had shook Mimi enough to not be sure if she was alive. Was a dream of the past and the future, or that is what she had assumed. The dream had began with the fight with Diaboramon, who had been defeated only seconds after the missiles had hit their intended marks. In the heat of that battle were all the Digidestined, Mimi no longer enjoying the warm sun of Hawaii. The battle had reverted all the digimon to eggs, leaving Matt, Izzy, Sora, and Joe dead, TK and Tai internally bleeding and seconds from dying, the sad and mournful Kari for the two that she loved, not crying a tear over the bodies, but in a deep shock, until her own wounds took over and threw her in a coma, And Mimi, Mimi was left seemingly unharmed with the horrid thought that it was completely her fault that she didn't try hard enough.
The second part of the dream was when they fought Willis' digimon that was controlled by the essence of Diaboramon. Which was ended pretty much the same way that it had for real (or the way Mimi had been told it ended) except Mimi was there, because she was a American resident and was close enough to help. But Mimi let the group down and was knocked out in the very beginning, making them almost loose the battle because they were worried about her and not the task at hand.
The first two parts were very odd because Mimi hadn't been present for either, but the guilt still loomed. But the last part of her dream was disturbing Daemon upset with being banished made a digiegg much like Willis had but in the digital world and it was infused with once again the essence of Diaboramon. And the egg that Mimi had seen reeked of revenge for Diaboramon's death and the banishment of Daemon, and worst of all it leaked an eerie green glow of Death. Seconds, more like milliseconds before Mimi met the deadly green glow she had jolted awake.
A hand reached up slowly and rested on Mimi's shoulder. Mimi completely forgetting that she was sharing a bed with Joe jumped in fright, putting her hand to her mouth and letting out a muffled scream.
"Mimi?" said the tired voice of Joe, "are you alright?"
Mimi relaxed, and tried to smile but the fright and guilt that consumed her didn't allow her to smile, "Yeah, just had a bad dream."
In the early hour of the new day Joe completely forgot that he didn't have the courage to talk to Mimi the way he wanted to. Joe gently pulled Mimi back down to lay on the bad. Then Joe moved closer to her, wrapping her in his arms, "Don't worry I'm here, and I wont let go. The nightmares will retreat, and I'll listen to the dream in the morning. I don't want you to continue to think about that dream now. Just relax and go back to sleep."
Mimi completely calmed by the touch and kind hearted words of Joe smiled and cuddled close to him laying her head on his chest, "Thank you Joe, good-night."
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Kari's eyes shot open she was breathing heavily and soaked in sweat her dreams had scared her half to death. It had left her hopeless and in complete fear, for the battles she had seen, she wasn't part of, only the last part of the second battle she was there for. But the battle she had seen she shouldn't have been there.
In the dream, a blood curdling scream, was heard from Kari as Devimon picked her up and squeezed the life out of her. Angemon's already launched Attack hit Tai who had jumped in the way of the attack that would've ended Devimon's life, as well as Kari's. Kari could only watch as Tai fell lifeless and the pure angle was thrown into despair for hurting a child. Kari watched as the others hopelessly tried to save her dying one by one. TK, young little TK was the last to try and save Kari. Devimon slowly squeezed TK to death, ringing the blood out of TK like a wet cloth. Kari cried once more as Devimon let go of TK and shacked his hands free of the blood before dropping Kari. And just like with Piedmon, she fell hopelessly, but unlike that time she was there for, no angel caught her.
She fell to the cold stone floor in the dark castle that belonged to Myotismon before her loomed a battle as the evil digimon tried to get through the door to the human world. Kari moved her eyes from the door and watched the battle she was almost happy to see that everyone was alive. Just as the faintest non detectable smile formed on Kari's lips for the soul reason that everyone was alive and well, for war standards, suddenly Tai was disintegrated along with Sora. TK still young was thrown to the wall near Kari luckily still alive and conscious, although it was only the thinnest strand of luck, for he was nearing death. Kari ran to his side just as TK died, Matt came running over in a panic and pushed her aside. Matt held TK's lifeless body and turned to Kari, "Why do you let us risk our lives for you? What do you do? We are the Digidestined, we are going to find the eighth Digidestined and save the world! What are you going to do, not move when an attack comes your way expecting another one of us to kill ourselves for you!?"
Kari had been shocked by the un-Matt-like words but then realized it was true, there was an attack aimed at her that TK threw himself into, while Kari was stunned at the horrible death of her older brother. All Kari could say to Matt was, "But I am the eighth child."
"I'll believe when I see you take responsibility. Just because TK promised Sora that he would always protect you, during the battle with Piedmon. Doesn't mean you have to stand around like an idiot and let him kill himself for that damned promise!" Kari was taken back by what the dream Matt had said, she didn't even realize at the time that the dream was happening Piedmon was nothing more then a mere nightmare, that none had dreamed of.
Suddenly Kari was just standing there in a grassy field in the digital world, a hand intertwined in hers. Kari was taken aback and dropped TK's hand when she saw him alive and well beside her. But before she could smile, she saw a digiegg which seemed to be infused with once again the essence of Myotismon or one of him higher forms like that, that possessed Oikawa, and of Devimon. And the egg that Kari had seen was saturated in revenge for Myotismon, and Devimon's death, and worst of all it leaked an eerie green fog of Death. The green death like fog reached TK's feet and he dropped down dead, seconds, more like milliseconds before Kari would have met the deadly green fog. Screaming for TK to get up, while not letting herself touch the fog, Kari heard a laugh that seemed to be Daemon's voice, That's when in the fear and loss of it all Kari's eyes shot open.
Without thinking of the morality of the next few seconds, that she and TK were no longer together. Kari climbed to the top bunk where TK slept, and slid under the covers next to him. Knowing that she would not sleep without the reassuring thought that the child of hope was stationed behind her and that indeed TK was alive. Kari grabbed TK's hand and put it around her waist as she held it tight in hers.
Kari was surprised that all this had not woken TK, and Kari was just about to drift back to sleep when she heard the quietest of whispers, "Kari? What are you doing?"
"Please TK this has nothing to do with love, I'm scared I can't sleep and I need to know that you are alive, the second I wake up. Please don't kick me out let me just sleep here a few more hours till morning, then I'll explain to you better why," begged Kari in the same low whisper. TK could feel Kari shacking in his arms, he didn't answer her all he did was hold her tighter. Kari slowly drifted into a peaceful sleep.
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Sora shot out of her bed in a cold sweat, heavily breathing while looking around nervously. Unknown to Sora her nightmare was if possible the lesser of the Nightmare seen that night, which seemed the soul purpose was to bring depression and torture back in her life.
In Sora's Dream she was with Davis who had to choose between the younger Digidestined while Sora had to choose between Tai, Matt, and her Mom. While Ken or the Digimon Emperor laughed and told them that they had to choose before Deltamon ate them all. Davis' choices turned to Bakemon, when the real younger Digidestined showed up but Sora's were real. The younger kids yelled at Sora for not being able to pick, or do something helpful. Because an attack against Deltamon could not be done until Matt, Tai and Sora's mom were safely out of the way. Biyomon digivolved to Birdramon and then in an attempt to kill Deltamon, Matt and Tai were burned to death. The charred remains of her friends dangled in the air as Sora's mother was eaten by Deltamon. TK and Kari were in tears as they confronted Sora about being careless and unloving. It had come as a shock to Sora to hear such words from the two she considered as her own younger siblings.
Suddenly Sora was younger again and back in the cave, back in her depression, While Matt this time unsuccessfully couldn't get her out of. Was it because those words that Demidevimon had told her were true. Sora thought in her depression that it really was almost required to love your parents and for your parents to love you, unless violence was involved. So was it really that her mother loved her or that the 'Mother Handbook' said that she had to? And since Matt couldn't save her this time was it because she never loved him and he her?
The first two parts seemed to just disappear as the darkness lifted, but the tortured feelings soon returned. The last part of Sora's dream was disturbing Daemon upset with being banished, or at least Sora was pretty sure it was Daemon, made a digiegg much like Willis had but in the digital world, specifically in a green grassy field that was stretched out in front of Sora's Mind, and it was infused with the essence of Digimon Emperor, or was it the Dark Spore that had made Ken that way? No Sora was certain it was the essence it was the tortured part of Ken's soul, the Dark part, That, that could torture others. And the egg that Sora saw was radiating Torture, Hate, and Sadness of the heart, and revenge for the banishment of Daemon, and worst of all it leaked an eerie green glow of Death. Seconds, more like milliseconds before Sora met the deadly green glow she had screamed until she awoke.
Sora rushed over to Tai and shook him awake, "Tai please I had a nightmare can I sleep here with you?"
Tai still half asleep and confused replied, "But we are sleeping in the same room, what's wrong?"
Sora began to cry, which woke Tai up. Sora told Tai about her dream, although it was hard for him to understand. While Sora was crying and had her head face down on Tai's bed half the time. Tai just lifted her onto his bed and rocked her in his arms till she fell back asleep.
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Yolei awoke quickly, finding that she was having trouble breathing and was very cold. She wondered if she really could have been so scared of those toy like digimon, that she had dreamed of.
Yolei had found herself in a corner of a play house, staring strait at a laughing wooden puppet in front of her. The other Digidestined were having troubles fighting the puppet digimon but they never asked for Yolei's help. After a while of watching thee only semi realistic scene unfold, where in Yolei's dream half of the older Digidestined were dead or knocked out of the battle. Yolei decided that if they ask her or not she had to help, Yolei tried to move, but was unable. Yolei's eyes being all that she could moved inspected her own personal dilemma to find that she was a string puppet, that was unwanted and cast aside.
Yolei suddenly found her self at the top of spiral mountain watching from the ground as a huge clown digimon, known as Piedmon, slashed a rope and both a young TK and Kari fell to their deaths. Yolei watched horrified at how not even Angemon, tried to save them. Only seconds before TK and Kari hit the ground Angemon was turned to a key-chain by Piedmon. TK and Kari hit the ground hard,. And Yolei snapped out of the shock she was in from what she just had seen. Yolei ran to the side of the two dead eight year olds, Yolei lifted their dead bodies and cried. Piedmon slowly walked to Yolei and picked her up by the collar, "So, you try and help your friends now? After the danger for them has past? After they are dead?" needless to say Yolei was shocked at these words, that embedded themselves in her heart. Piedmon dropped Yolei and left, left Yolei alone with the dead bodies and a collection of key-chains. She swore the key-chains where asking her why she had come is she wasn't going to help.
The first two parts were very odd because Yolei hadn't been present for either, but the strong feeling of guilt for ever being a Digidestined was present. But the last part of her dream was disturbing, It had seemed that Daemon had made a digiegg it was infused with the essence of both Puppetmon and Piedmon, how Yolei knew this to be true was unknown. And the egg that Yolei studied was consumed in revenge for Puppetmon and Piedmon's death and the banishment of Daemon, and worst of all it was surrounded in an eerie green fog of Death. That inched closer to Yolei, Yolei screamed that was when she had jolted awake.
Yolei wanting, needing to know that she was loved at least enough so that Ken would share his bed with her that night. Yolei knew that sleeping alone although only overhead Ken could not be done. Yolei climbed down and woke Ken up, "Ken can I sleep with you I had a bad dream and can't sleep alone?"
Ken lifted up the covers with a weary smile, "So tell me about the dream."
"Tomorrow Ken not tonight, do you really love me?" asked Yolei climbing in the bed next to Ken and laid down in his arms.
"I love you, and will forever. Sweet Dreams Yolei," replied Ken kissing Yolei's forehead and holding her close to him before they both drifted to sleep.
---------- Joe woke up, he smiled at the girl that was peacefully sleeping in his arm. He smiled not so much that Mimi was in his arms, but more because she was peacefully sleeping. Joe decided that he would get up and order breakfast, besides remembering horrifying dreams, was always easier with chocolate.
Joe slowly slid out of the bed careful not to wake Mimi. Just before his retreating hand that was draped protectively over Mimi's waist, left her body a hand caught Joe's.
"Please Joe, come back I'm not hungry," replied the weak petrified voice that once was so full of energy and happiness. Joe concerned about the girl who no longer spoke with her own voice, sat back down in the bed pulling the trembling girl to him, her head on his shoulder.
"It's ok Mimi I wont leave. Tell me about this dream, you'll feel better afterwards I should know I'm going to be a doctor," replied Joe holding Mimi close to him and giving her a sincere smile.
"This has nothing to do with physical health," replied Mimi trying in her sorrow to make a joke.
"Well I'm also taking Psychology classes," Joe smiled wider and softly, gently played with Mimi's hair.
"Ok, well I should have been there, and I don't think it was just a dream it seemed so real though I know it wasn't, because I wasn't there. I never met Diaboramon..."
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"Good Morning, I'm still alive. So could you please tell me why you insisted that we share this small bunk?" asked TK in a very sympathetic voice, he wasn't trying to be mean, but since it had been such as late hour he had almost forgotten the shacking Kari. That memory from his half sleep came flooded back as the peaceful sleeping Kari was stirred by his words to a trembling half awaken state. TK automatically felt guilty when he saw her tears.
TK hushed Kari but her tears would not render, "TK please I am so sorry I know it isn't good for us to be together but I need you. I couldn't see the blood squeezed out of you again even if it wasn't because of me."
TK was shocked, she had seen his death and that's why she didn't want to leave his side and he trying to be all responsible knowing that they couldn't be together, tried to worry her more! "Kari, what are you talking about?" this time TK's voice was concerned, sympathetic, and sincere as he turned Kari to face him. TK held Kari tight to him letting her tears stain his shirt. To any observer it looked like a very compromising position, more so then any that the two were in, the month they were together.
"Break your promise TK please, don't die for me I know now even if it isn't love I could never live without you. So stop protecting me please I'm not worth it."
"I don't break promises Kari ever, I'll always protect you."
"Then will you promise me something?" Kari asked hoping to still get him to break his promise to Sora to always protect her.
"I promise I'll protect you without sacrificing either of our lives. I promise you always a place next to me when you need it. I promise I'll love you even after the worlds en..."TK cut himself off as he realized what he had said, "Now please tell me what you saw. Because I can't stand to see you like this."
Kari smiled at TK and thought, Maybe Gennai heard wrong that was no spell speaking but TK's heart. "I saw...I saw yo...you...r d...d...eath mostly, I saw Tai's death, I saw death that was caused for my life, when I should have been at home in bed sick..."
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Yolei had woken Ken up early and as soon as Ken's eyes were opened, her story spilled out of her mouth. Ken automatically realizing what she was doing listened to the end and then comforted her.
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Tai had tried to leave Sora's side but found that she would shiver and scream out to him, in her strange half sleep as soon as he let go of her. Tai laid back down next to Sora holding her close to him and gently coaxed her awake.
"Sora I love you with all my heart. I know you are the right person to hold Love. If you weren't then such unloving thoughts and memories, battles of fiction would not phase you one bit. But since they say your love is false it is like a knife in your heart. Sora listen to your heart, what does it tell you?"
Sora starred at Tai, she had been in a restless sleep and was awaken by Tai who in the first few seconds said exactly what she needed to hear, "I love you Tai." Was all that Sora could say. In some unspoken way Tai could see that Sora was better and needed some real peaceful sleep.
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"Don't think like that!" said TK, Ken, and Joe to the girls laying in their arms.
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"Mimi I wasn't there either to fight Diaboramon. At least you were with your family I was... Well..."
"Taking a test?" replied Mimi with a smile.
Joe smiled back at the pink haired girl in his arms, "Yes a test, and afterwards I always feel guilty that I missed a Digidestined meeting, or something. But they always forgive me, like they have forgiven you."
"I know Joe but it isn't just the guilt it is that I feel.... I feel... so unwanted and brushed aside and..."
Joe couldn't believe what Mimi had just said. I love you! I love you Mimi! I wont brush you aside! Joe wanted to say those words to Mimi, he knew she needed to hear them, but Joe's courage was loosing its grip and his tongue was being twisted into knots.
Joe started down at Mimi who had paused in the middle of her scattered sentence. Mimi began to speak again. Without think Joe lifted Mimi's chin in his right hand placing his thumb in front of her mouth stopping her from speaking. Joe moved his thumb from her mouth and slowly brought her face to his. His lips gently touched Mimi's and softly caressed them for a minute before he slowly moved his face away.
"...and... I love you Joe," replied Mimi starring into Joe's eyes.
"And I, you," said Joe leaning forward and passionately kissing Mimi.
Click The door was unlocked.
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Davis rolled over and looked at TK's top bunk only to see Kari's back and TK's arms around them, "Hey what's going on?"
Kari let out a small yelp and almost rolled out of TK's bed who luckily didn't remove his hands fast enough. After Kari got over this shock she turned to Davis refusing to let TK completely let go of her, even after he reassured her that everything wasn't her fault, "Oh, good mornin' Davis. Nothing is going on I just had a nightmare."
"Well I hope your ok, nightmares can be dangerous, not to mention scary. If you need me I'll be here sleeping, but I think TK can completely take care of it," replied Davis rolling back over and assumingly going back to sleep. There wasn't even a hint that he was being a normal guy, in saying what he did. He had spoken in a normal tone not one that was secretly saying 'Go TK, you and Kari great!'.
TK looked at Kari when she turned back to him, "So do you feel better, are you ready to go back to your own bed and a peaceful sleep?" kindly asked TK. Kari shook her head, "Kari we didn't even sleep in the same bed when we were..."
Kari cut him off with a light finger on his lips, "Shh... TK, Davis. I know but I'm still scared to find you dead," then Kari moved closer and whispered in TK's ear so that only he could hear, "TK it's my turn to make you a promise, I promise I'll love you even after the worlds end."
TK looked shocked as Kari pulled away and kissed TK quickly on the lips, "Kari...Gennai..."
"You can't lie to me TK and I can't lie to you I know your heart meant those words you said and I know you know I meant my words. Gennai was mistaken. Wonder Takeru I will wait for you forever, till the day you return to my castle, for I Princess Hikari love you," interrupted Kari as she closed her eyes and fell into a quick sleep. TK was tempted to wake her up once again but then realized how tired he was and before the words formed on his lips he was asleep.
Mor's head came into view from the lower bunk, she whispered, "Davis? Davis I know your not asleep. What is with those two?"
Davis rolled over and whispered back to her, "I think they are finally going out! Kari had a bad dream and spent the night in TK's bunk."
"I had a bad dream too!" whined Mor in a quiet joking manner, "Though I'll take it to my grave! I still wish I had a nice boy to comfort me."
Davis caught her drift. He knew that she although in the amazingly short time Mor was Davis's best friend and he wouldn't chance it on a relationship. But he knew Mor's troubled past and knew she lacked a caring male figure other then her brother. And her brother wouldn't hold her close to him to sleep. Davis lifted up the covers and motioned to Mor who eagerly scrambled into the bed next to him. Mor grabbed Davis hand and brought it around her waist, he tickled her, subconsciously not wanting to seem as though it was love, because it wasn't...yet.
Mor grabbed his hand and held it tight in hers almost hurting Davis, "Hey, I know we aren't going out but that is no ground to sleep uncomfortable! And like I would ever go out with you!" Mor whispered loudly looking over her shoulder at Davis. Davis made a playful face of hurt before he laughed and went back to sleep.
Everyone slept, all those that returned to sleep, for another few hour. Since the disturbing events of the previous night had everyone awake at around five or six in the morning.
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The morning held a lot of questions for all fifteen of the Digidestined. Unknowingly using their D-Terminals and other e-mailing devices that normal were not allowed to be used after the e-mail from Digitammamon was sent. But under the most peculiar circumstances of the previous night a limited e- mailing usage was allowed. Although the Digidestined didn't know that it had been prohibited.
The four girls with their nightmares all admitted to the other girls that they all coward to the guys, for comfort from the red dreams and the deadly new digimon egg. Everyone was told and retold each of the dreams and Izzy was happy that it was in the end a big help in decoding the prophecy. Izzy specifically asked Patience, Mor, and Zoemi if anyone of them had a similar dream. Mor held her tongue.
Mor had the same type of dream the other girls did, or at least the end was the same. There was the digiegg leaking it's green substance and there in front of it, Mor had stood Davis at her side. The green mist met Davis who dropped down dead within seconds after coming in contact. Forgetting the mist and her own life she ran to Davis and cried. Mor couldn't even remember the last time she had ever cried, but it wasn't tears for true love, but love of her best friend, only friend in the world...worlds with the exception of Prehimon. The green mist never touched her it seemed to stop before her at the will of the person who was laughing at her, at her tears. Mor didn't even have to look up at the digiegg and it's puppet, that the digiegg would please until hatched. The only person who would laugh at her for tears, the person she turned to the most, the person who knew that Mor didn't cry. 'Dairen, I can't believe you!'
Her brother stopped laughing at her and just stared at her, 'Oh Mor! You knew I was darkness, I'm not evil just darkness. You could join me, you know, help me...You never did forgive me for choosing to live with dad while you chose mom...' his voice trailed off as Mor was plunged into darkness.
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Later that afternoon Mimi that now completely felt better wanted to get up and out of that room. She was completely happy with staying with Joe but the plain white was were driving her insane. That and the blue-green color theme was bugging her.
Mimi walked to the door, while yelling back to Joe who was finishing his lunch, "I was thinking we really did learn a lot about our feeling, and each other. So I'm figuring we have 'paid' and can leave now." Joe just watched in amazement, and with a few noodles hanging out of his mouth, as Mimi successfully opened the door.
Joe slurped up the noodles and ran to the door. He picked Mimi up and gave her a quick kiss, "Mimi you're a genius! Let go see if anyone else is out."
Mimi dragged Joe to the way end of the hall to start with Tai and Sora's room so they could work their way to the lobby. Mimi's hand raised to the door already balled into a fist, Knock, "Sora! Tai!..." the door creaked open under Mimi's hand.
"Well I guess, they learned something. I wonder what it was," pondered Joe as the door opened to reveal Sora on Tai's lap, making out.
At the creaking of the door Sora looked up and with a small yelp stumbled off Tai's lap, "Mimi!" said Sora angry, "Mimi!" Sora said the second time when she realized that she was looking at Mimi, and the door was open.
"Well I guess I know what they learned," replied Joe looking at Tai who was completely content, "that they love each other."
"Was that what we were supposed to learn?" asked Tai standing up and walking to Sora's side, putting an arm around her. Joe and Mimi nodded, with a smile.
"So Mimi what did you learn?" asked Sora.
Mimi smiled, a mischievous smile and turned and faced Joe who was only a step behind her, "Oh I don't know, what did we learn?"
Joe smiled and pulled Mimi close to him, giving her a short but passion filled kiss, "Something along the same lines as they did."
Clap, clap everyone turned towards the door to see Wizardmon standing there, "Well I usually just show up for the first pair who get out and let them tell the others, excluding my name. But in this case the second pair who's door unlocked were the first to realize it. Good work Mimi and Joe. Now let me explain I enlisted Digitammamon to help me test you and train you. Without this knowledge, this strength as you will. You wont be strong enough to defeat this new evil. And of course you can't tell Matt, Patience, or Izzy."
"Wizardmon?" they all exclaimed, Wizardmon just smiled.
----------Three Days Later
Kari bolted strait up in her bed hitting her head on TK's low bunk above her own. She was completely scared for TK's life. She once again had the dream but TK's death was slower and more painful, if at all possible. Kari had awoke right when she saw the green field and felt TK's hand in hers, not wanting to see him die yet again.
Kari scrambled up the small ladder and crawled into TK's bed shacking him gently, "TK I had the dream again..." TK didn't wake up, "TK!" Kari cried tears streaming down her face, Kari buried her head in the blankets hoping that TK wasn't dead.
After a few seconds a hand rested on her shoulder and pulled her to lay next to him, "It was just a dream Kari I'm not going to leave you, I said I would protect you. What kind of protector would I be if I wasn't around?"
"I know TK, it just seemed so real, please just tonight," begged Kari tears still in her eyes.
TK turned Kari to face him, he dried her tears with one hand while caressing her cheek with the other.
TK loved her of course that was not the question the question was is loving her healthy? And in TK's eyes the answer was no, it was turning Kari to the trembling figure in front of him.
Kari smiled and starred into TK's tired blue eyes, she could see the love in them. Kari leaned forward and kissed TK on the lips although she was trembling she tried to deepen the kiss, but TK didn't react. Kari pulled back fresh tears in her eyes.
Or is the question, 'Is not loving her unhealthy?' that I know is a yes TK thought as he watched what little color Kari had left disappear so that her skin glowed iridescent in the dark. Kari was looking very tired and sick. TK knew that he looked not to much better. In all of this he was sticking to what Gennai had said. But strangely at the early hour his mind lost control and his heart took over, "I'm sorry." TK who's arms were already wrapped around Kari pulled her closer, loosening his grip with one hand he dried Kari's tears once more. Then he lifted her face to his and gently kissed her, after a second or two he deepened his kiss.
That was when his mind began to think again, but strangely it agreed with heart though not fully. TK stopped kissing Kari who smiled and seemed to fall asleep happily within a minute.
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Patience and Matt were sitting on the bed cross-legged staring at each other. It was early, too early in the morning of the fifth day, and they hadn't spoken a word. Matt sighed not really talking to Patience, but was talking to himself out loud, "I miss my guitar!"
Patience looked at him with an strange and intrigued look, "You play guitar? Me too!" Matt opened his mouth to speak, "I know I talked to you, lets just forget this. I'm sorry I was bugging you about the digital world, lets just be friends ok?"
"Ok. Yeah I play guitar, in a band," replied Matt.
"Cool, I learned from my father, does your brother play too?"
"No, we didn't grow up in the same house, he lived with my mom and I with my dad. I think if we lived together then maybe."
"Really that is so strange my family was split up as well, I picked to live with my dad to learn guitar. Then Mor picked to live with mom, Dairen, my brother chose dad, and Zoemi went to mom. After a year we switched so I lived a year with mom. We were lucky and our parent lived in the same district, but I never really got to spend time with my sisters."
"Yeah I know how you feel," Matt said looking into Patience's blue eyes, "So why is your nickname Patience?"
"I never complained when I didn't get something I wanted strait away I always patiently waited."
"A brother you say? Is he also a Digidestined?"
"You know I don't know you think he would but as far as I know he didn't come with us. But my family was always a little messed up, There was me the oldest and a complete girly girl, and my wild brother who hated his soft blue eyes and pinkish hair, Mor who, if it wasn't for her long hair and obvious girl attributes you could swear was a guy, and Zoemi who was in the middle."
"Yeah, but it is all understandable."
"I know. Hey were you and...umm... Sora(?) going out? It just looked like you were."
"Yeah," replied Matt who not until the mention of Sora's name was looking in Patience's eyes.
"What happened?"
"I broke up with her," Matt said, he looked at Patience, who wanted a better explanation, "Well I though it was unfair to her. See the thought came to me when a friend of mine who was 20 dated a fifteen year old. See for us that is illegal so they never did anything, no dates, no nothing. But they had plans for the day she turned eighteen and they could legally date. Well he ended up breaking up with her because he wanted her to be a normal teenager, and not be just waiting for him. I realized that Sora came to my band practices but I never saw any of her tennis matches. That she waited for me though she wasn't patient. I think if it was in her nature she would have broken up with me. I realized that it was unfair to make her wait forever, that she needed a life. I knew she loved Tai, and he loved her. Even if he didn't miss a friendly soccer match or two to watch her play tennis. So when I broke up with her I told her to date Tai, and that is what I think is happening now."
"Wow, that... that really is sweet in a way, as well as sad. Hey I'm sorry."
"Don't be, not your fault."
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"Fifteen Digidestined against nine Dark Digidestined so add Luna (Fifteen to Nine is even so add one more)
Izzy (because I'm the child of knowledge and older then Cody)(The old and wise) must bend to the innocence of a child and wish
Light and Hope always strongest against Evil, aren't strong enough
without Love, none of us are.(Light and Hope forever stronger, but
Love is stronger)
Cody and Zoemi (The young, and feeble, but strong), must lead
When time re-returns (On a day when time is equal), and Luna Selena
Sternkind (the Moon and Stars) comes out and meets the world (meet the
sun)
Dark Masters etc. will return with the strength of Daemon and become
one. (Old and New will band together in new ways to fight good
With the strength of that, that was BANNISHED and killed)," read Izzy, at his latest attempt at the prophecy. It actually didn't sound bad and made complete sense.
A loud Click was heard, as Izzy's door unlocked.
Izzy's head shot up, he slowly got off his bed and walked to the door. Izzy's hand rested on the doorknob for a second, before he turned the knob and pulled. The door slid easily open, "I did it! I figured out the prophecy before we were attacked!"
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Kari stood in the grass, the evil digiegg in front of her and TK next to her. Kari again shocked to see TK alive let go of his hand. The green fog touched TK and he dropped down dead. But instead of running, Kari no longer cared for her own life, she fell to her knees and picked TK up in her arms as best she could. Kari braced herself for her own death but the fog seemed to go out of its way not to touch her. Kari looked at the egg and noticed a person standing next to it. The person was a blond girl with black highlights, she was very pale and had green eyes. 'Who are you?'
'Apathy,' said the girl with a mock bow.
'And your name?'
'That is of little consequence, all you need to know is I'm Apathy,' replied Apathy with a pleased smirk.
Kari looked Apathy over and noticed she was wearing a sport sweatshirt like the ones you get at school with your name written on it. Kari could tell Apathy or should she say Sala, didn't realize this fact, and wasn't about to tell her.
'Do you know why my good counterpart is dead?'
'Because it would be my worst nightmare. What I don't know is why I'm alive. Your Apathy, emotionless even to the emotions and enjoyment of my torture. Your not true Apathy, only despair. Since you're his dark counterpart then you must be in love with mine. And love you know is an emotion.'
'I am Apathy, this is your dream. You're the one who puts yourself through the torture,' snapped back Sala.
Kari's dream faded away and her eyes bolted open. For a second she was happy to be in TK's bunk, but then she realized that he was gone. "TK!" Kari screamed sitting up and looking around.
Gatomon and Patamon, climbed to the top bunk from where they were sleeping in Kari's bunk, "Kari what's wrong?" asked Gatomon concerned.
"Where, where is TK?" frantically asked Kari.
"He left earlier, he said not to wake you," replied Patamon.
"I must find him!" exclaimed Kari, attempting to jump down from the bunk, but in her weak and trembling state she fell to the floor. Kari slowly got up and rushed for the door. But the hands of Mor and Davis stopped her.
"Kari what is wrong?" asked Mor.
"I must find TK, now!" replied Kari.
"Kari you don't look well you should go back to bed," said Davis motioning to bring Kari to her bed.
Kari turned around to face Davis tears filled her eyes. Kari weakly slapped Davis across the face, "You...you don't understand! I... I... s...saw... I saw him die! I saw Sala!"
"Who's Sala?" asked Mor, the name sounded very familiar to her. Mor knew that her brother Dairen had a depressed friend named Sala.
"Apathy! They are here, and I got to make sure TK is alive!" Kari screamed while shaking Davis' hand loose and bolting out of the door being trailed by Gatomon, and Patamon.
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"What!?" yelled Dairen at Sala, after Sala explained the dream she had, "You know why the counterpart to Hope is Apathy and not despair?"
Sala shook her head, "Well Apathy it is because Hope is for all emotions. If you were just despair then you too would feel the hopelessness for all emotions. But to be a true opposite you need to be emotionless and hopeless, Apathy!" Dairen replied.
"Dairen..." Dairen was about to object, "No! Dairen there are no goody goodies, or another one of our Digidestined around. Dairen you know me, you weren't afraid of me, I am Apathy. Although I didn't mean to, it was in complete self defense I killed my abusive father, and not once did it haunt my dreams. Or the point that it was blamed on my cheating mother and her new fling of the week, which sent me to the streets. None of that haunts me, hurts me. You know that I have lived my life in emotionless despair, in Apathy. So don't question me don't believe Light's words I don't feel! I don't love!"
"G'mee(Pronounced: Ga-mee)..." Dairen began.
"G'mee? What happened to Apathy, names are power? And why don't you call me Sala like everyone else?"
"Like you said no goody, goodies. Well I never saw why they took Sala from Gameesalaonii (Pronounced: Ga-mee-sa-la-oe-nee)." Dairen smiled, then finished under his breath, "maybe she didn't speak true for you, but I always tried to make you feel, it hurt me to see the apathy in your eyes."
"What?" asked Sala.
"Apathy! You are our best fighter, or potentially. You wont care for the others or life. You'll fight to the death as long as you stay emotionless!" Dairen snapped back, assuming authority.
"And you Darkness? Are you just as strong?" asked Sala. She laughed when Dairen didn't answer. She slowly walked to Dairen, she put her hand on his neck and pulled his face to hers. Sala kissed Dairen, trying to make it seem passionate and loving, though Sala didn't know the meaning of either word.
Sala pulled away and walked towards the door of Dairen's small, ship's room, "I didn't feel that, you know. But you did, so in your own words I would be stronger, why don't I lead?"
Dairen ran up to Sala and grabbed her arm with his right. Dairen slammed Sala against the wall and with in seconds had a knife to her throat. Sala laughed, "I'm not afraid, I could lead you don't scare me. You know I could kill and would wake the same the next day, but I know something the others don't... you can't kill. Your afraid that when the battle comes you'll have to kill little Zoemi, or Mor..."
"Shut up! Why do you say such things? Why did you do that?"
"Because it is true, because I was right."
"That is not why you kissed me. You saw Light and how she cried, loved Hope, how knowing that the green fog would kill her, but she still stayed. You want to feel."
"So what if I do, it wont happen. And you, you know that I could make you stronger like Hope to Light, but unlike Light to Hope it would make me weaker. And your not willing to sacrifice that."
Dairen still holding Sala against the wall put the knife away, "Are you sure?" said Dairen loosing his rough grip and wrapping his arms around Sala's waist, "I love you."
"What is that, what does it mean?" asked Sala completely confused. She had never heard such words in her life, but somehow looking into Dairen's eyes she could see that whatever 'love' was he loved her and there was also a hint of sympathy in those eyes. Dairen always felt sorry for her and always loved her, it was always his goal to make her feel even the smallest of emotions, even if it destroyed the perfect fighter. Dairen figured it had to work both ways that he could make her stronger. If Light and Hope are the strongest against evil and together even stronger, then Darkness and Apathy are the strongest against good and together they must be stronger.
Dairen slowly lowered his head and softly kissed Sala, a long passionate kiss. Sala might not have known love and passion and her weak attempt to show passion and love in that kiss. But Dairen knew love knew passion or at least the meaning and that was what he showed Sala.
Dairen pulled away, but still held Sala close. Sala had to admit it, she felt nothing. During that kiss though she thought she felt something though she wasn't sure, it was like using a drug for the first time. Her body didn't know what was going on, but there was a temporary high, a high of feelings. But the feelings were gone now, there was nothing. She was no longer true Apathy, but only when he kissed her like that. Otherwise she still didn't care what happened, even if it was Dairen's death. She knew drugs were bad, that being high just dulled the senses and was dangerous. To Sala that was what love was a drug, she might have then been addicted to this love, but it was a drug and in her mind she thought it was dangerous like other drugs.
But Sala was addicted, so she leaned forward a little and kissed Dairen once more letting him fill the kiss with passion and love.
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"TK!" Kari yelled running to TK, who was looking over the side of the boat at the water in the exact same spot that Kari received the e-mail from 'Gennai'. TK didn't respond he was to wrapped up in the silver water that passed below him. The silver water that matched the gray clouds above, it would rain that day. TK thought about his own nightmare that was much like Kari's in what he saw shouldn't have happened. The blood and death that he saw, and the egg that radiated green was infused with Kimeramon the digimon that Ken had created. But that wasn't all that he saw by the egg and like Kari that previous night was not the first time he had that dream or saw the girl by that egg. She was young and tan with blue hair that matched her blue eyes. At first she had refused to give a name, but in the dream the previous night she was mumbling to herself and said her name 'Telaageesmae' (pronounced: Tell-a-gee-s-may) or Ella. She, she was the source of TK's uncertainty about his love for Kari, not just that she was the source of uncertainty. But her words and actions weren't reliable so why did he believe them?
"TK!" yelled Kari once more laying a hand on TK's shoulder and turning him towards her. TK for the first time heard her and not just that saw her. Kari was not a healthy color she looked pale and gray like the clouds. Kari was trembling and within seconds her arms were around TK and she was crying into his chest.
"Kari, it's ok. What's wrong? What did you see?" asked TK in a soft comforting voice while he gently rubbed Kari's back.
"I saw Apathy, your counterpart, she is evil, she said it was my fault I kept seeing you die. But that is not the worst part I know they are here, on this boat all of them, all the Dark Digidestined."
TK was about to reply, and say that he had the same feeling as Kari when his D-Terminal beeped. Kari's also beeped at the in coming e-mail but in her hast she left it in the room. TK took out his D-Terminal and opened it to read the e-mail.
"It's addressed to all of us from Izzy he figured out the prophecy: Hey you guys! Here is the solved and simplified version of the prophecy;
Fifteen Digidestined against nine Dark Digidestined is evenly matched so add Luna
Izzy must bend to the innocence of a child and wish
Light and Hope always strongest against Evil, aren't strong enough
without Love, none of us are.
Cody and Zoemi must lead
When time re-returns, to be equal in at least the human world and
Digiworld, and Luna Selena Sternkind comes out and meets the world.
Dark Masters etc. will return with the strength of Daemon and become one.
Also no one get mad, especially the new couples TK and Kari, Tai and Sora, Joe and Mimi, and even Ken and Yolei. The love was always there and this was under no circumstance a spell or other form of manipulation to force love upon you guys for the prophecy.
Now note to Matt, Tai, and Davis to you three it might be hard to except this especially since I have been filled in privately by the person who set this whole learning thing up. But TK and Kari are no longer little kids and are very responsible besides the point we all saw this coming. So don't freak out because they are together.
Now to other news as soon as Matt and Patience's door unlocks we will search for Gennai who seems to have been kidnapped about a week or two Digiworld time after the younger Digidestined came here. Lets just hope he is alright!
Good luck! Bye Izzy"
"Wow ok that explains a lot," said Kari looking a lot better then she did before.
"When did we get that email from Gennai? Five days ago or so? It was a fake!" exclaimed TK.
"Then why do you still seem so uncertain about... You saw her! You saw Uncertainty!" said Kari.
"How did you know it was a her?"
"I don't know, but that's not the point. TK you believed her!"
"We thought it was Gennai!"
"But you still believe her!"
"And you! You believed Apathy I can see it your loosing hope!"
"TK I would be so mad at you right now if I didn't love you!" Kari yelled but then she realized that it was a lie, not a lie she still loved TK but it just seemed that she no longer knew love. TK could see the hesitant, the close to apathy in Kari's eyes. TK had never seen her quite like she was now, it scared him.
TK didn't know what to do, he did the first thing could think of, something that his brain had thought of, and not just to make her feel better, but it was because he loved her and he knew it. TK leaned down and passionately kissed Kari.
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"They know we are here!" exclaimed Fear.
"Doesn't matter! Now did anyone else see one of them in a dream?" replied Darkness to his group of Digidestined that had called an emergency meeting in Darkness's room.
"I saw Hope," replied Ella, "a few times. He seems very uncertain now."
"Good work Uncertainty," replied Darkness.
"And there was no effect on you?" asked Rivalry.
"I Hope not, but I'm sure that there was none," replied Ella, not realizing that she had said 'Hope' and 'sure' as in certain, in the same sentence. Words she never used before in such content.
"This could prove to be a problem," said Malevolence.
"Yeah first Apathy, then Uncertainty, anyone of us could be next!" exclaimed Fear.
"I said I was fine, "replied Sala in a toneless, emotionless voice.
"Don't worry it wasn't your fault," replied Darkness.
"Forgiveness! You saw her, Mor!" exclaimed Rivalry.
"I suggest we don't sleep because this could be a problem," replied Hate.
Ella looked uncertain, "I don't know, If we don't sleep, we wont be good to fight."
Malevolence smiled, "Or maybe not..."
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"You know Matt, we are a lot alike right?" said Patience. They had been talking like friends for the whole day and were getting ready to go to sleep.
"And then in other aspects complete opposites," replied Matt with a smile.
"But you know that's what I find attractive, someone who understands but the can also give a complete different thought to the situation," said Patience laying down in her bed that was still pushed against Matt's.
"I love that too. Hey since we aren't fighting why are the beds still together?" asked Matt giving Patience a 'What are you thinking?' look.
Patience shot Matt a playful sly look, "Oh well this way you can stop me from rolling off."
Matt raised an eyebrow, "And what if you roll in the other direction?"
"Then I'll have to sleep..." began Patience sliding over close to Matt, "here. In your arms, only to save me from a splitting headache tomorrow morning, of course."
"Yeah of course," said Matt rolling his eyes and laying a hand casually over Patience's stomach.
"Oh what I don't even get a good night kiss?" asked Patience, Matt turned his head to Patience and raised an eyebrow at her, "a good night hug maybe?"
"Maybe tomorrow morning," replied Matt.
"Oh please, please I can't wait that long!"
"And what happened to being Patient?"
"Who cares, I'll become an actress, please...please..." Patience was cut off by Matt's lips pressed against hers, but only in a friendly manner, there was no love or passion.
The door made an exceptional loud clicking noise of it unlocking.
Matt pulled away from Patience, "The door is unlocked."
Patience gave Matt a short but more passionate kiss, "Tomorrow, I'm too tired."
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Sala slipped silently in Dairen's single room, it was pitch dark and at that hour one would expect that the inhabitants would be asleep. But Sala knew that Dairen was awake and sitting on his bunk, elbows on his knees and face in hands.
Sala placed a hand gently on Dairen's shoulder, "Dairen?"
"What do you Want? Apathy!" Dairen seem to spit out the words with a furious anger.
Sala was taken aback, but not surprised she knew what apathy did to those who were not born to it. "I'm sorry," Sala admitted, "Your becoming emotionless, but not until years of depression and anger consume you, and if you live through that, then you have a small chance of an emotionless life. So I'm sorry."
Dairen was beginning to feel overwhelming guilt. Until he looked into Sala's eyes and realized she was still what her crest implied, Apathy. "Your sorry? You don't know what that means!" Dairen yelled angrily.
"That is what I'm here for, I want you to tell me what some words mean," Sala said lowering her head as she sat on the floor at Dairen's feet.
Guilt and sadness completely took over Dairen, as well for his love for the girl at his feet. The love that was dooming her when expressed and dooming him when not. "Like what?" his voice was almost cheerful.
Sala whispered almost inaudibly, "Love..." she hesitated before continuing her list, this out of all was the one she wanted to know.
Dairen sighed, and pulled Sala up off the floor sitting her down next to him rubbing her back caringly with one hand. Dairen spoke as if reading from a dictionary, "Love: A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness."
Taking a second to consider this answer Sala replied, "And, Passion, Hope, Kind, Apologize, Darkness in a person, and Light in a person?"
Dairen keeping his dictionary tone replied, "Passion: A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger, ardent love, or strong sexual desire; lust. Hope: To wish for something with expectation of its fulfillment, and to have confidence; trust. Kind: Of a friendly, generous, or warm-hearted nature, showing sympathy or understanding; charitable, humane; considerate, forbearing; tolerant, and/or generous; liberal. Apologize: To make excuse for or regretful acknowledgment of a fault or offense. Darkness: Characterized by gloom; dismal, sullen or threatening, concealed or secret; mysterious, and/or being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor. And Light that I don't know."
Sala excepted Dairen's answers although not so warm and meaning full they were the answers. What surprised, if possible, Sala was that Dairen didn't even hesitate in his definition of Darkness. His own crest which said what he was, and now laying the truth out for Sala. Sala didn't want to leave Dairen, for love? She still knew the meaning not. It wasn't really worry or kindness either but she knew he wanted her to stay to feed him more Apathy like Hope feeds Light more hope when in close proximity, was the most likely reason.
Sala pulled Dairen down to lay on the bunk she saw in his eyes that he wanted to cry and she tried her best to comfort though she knew not how. The two drifted to sleep. ----------
That night held nightmares for all, or at least new nightmares for the males of the Digidestined. Bloody battles that shouldn't have happened, all ending in a green grassy field with an evil digiegg radiating a green death substance as the digiegg was infused with Arukenimon, Mummymon, Datamon, MetalEtemon, SkullMeramon, Machinedramon, Megadramon, MetalSeadramon, Cherrymon, and Apokarimon.
The nightmares that night were specifically, and only seen by the males of the group, except Kari. It was then again at the field that held the evil digiegg, and as normal the strong hand gripped in hers belonged to TK, and just like every other night she let go and he died. One again realizing her mistake although only subconsciously she rushed to his side, hoping to whatever god that there was (She now having trouble in see a truth in one religions belief) that he was alive or the egg would kill her too.
"You know if you didn't let go he would be alive," replied a soft yet emotionless voice that was coming from the direction of the egg.
"What do you want?" asked Kari tears in her eyes as she turned towards Sala.
"He isn't dead, I'll drag his own subconscious mind to this dream when it is time. I want you to answer some questions for me and I'll give you much needed information in return," Sala tried to force a smile, Kari nodded, "For you to answer my question your going to have to know me better so we will start there. In Maeguumii divorce was very popular and so then the rules were changed people had to be married twenty years before divorce was allowed, but the could get separated if the had the money and children. One morning my parents woke up with a hang over and a marriage license. A few weeks later they found out that my mom was pregnant, well that day my mom swore off alcohol, and my father swore his allegiance to that substance. I grew up a simple life with out seeing my parents much, every Monday I found 50 maec (maec = Maeguumii currency)on the table for lunch and weekend activities. That and if I or another said that my parents weren't providing for me my parents would find themselves in a mess that they couldn't afford. My father was abusive and I believe my last tear fell when I was two or so, realizing it wasn't going to stop the drunken man who worked in the evenings and slept not always drunk in the day. My mother busied herself with boyfriends a new one every week or so. Now I know I said my father was abusive but not to the extremities, he was abusive to my soul, making no feelings the better alternative. When this dawned on me, happened without my asking, I was three. I was six I believe when my father found out where, or better who my mother was with, at the theater with her rich boyfriend. Though my parents didn't love each other it was still something not allowed in Maeguumii society, resulting in heavy fines and marriage classes of some sort for all three involved. My father blamed me and got drunk more(if possible) then normal. At this time I was dicing onions that I was going to cook up and bring to school the next day, of course the whole meal wasn't the onions but that's what I was chopping when he attacked me. A golf club or broom stick hit my back the knife in my hand clattered to the floor along with my fathers weapon. Then he beat me with his own hands he wanted to see the tears in my eyes to match his own, but they didn't fall. I don't remember the pain but I remember that I knew it was wrong I groped the floor for anything to stop him. My hand clenched the knife, my brain not at all cloudy when I stabbed him. He died and I passed out a result of a few of my broken bones I assume. Well according to what I was later told my mother returned home with her boyfriend expecting my dad to be at work she was in a black evening dress with long black velvet gloves. She found me and my father in the kitchen, and for whatever reason removed the knife from my father and enticed her boyfriend to help her remove the bodies (assuming Sala to also be dead). Well a policeman drove by or a concerned citizen when seeing my mother and her boyfriend drag my fathers body out of the house, called the police and ambulance. I woke up outside my house with a temporary amnesia. Claiming that I need to go in the house and finish cooking tomorrows lunch because I had no time in the morning. Me saying those words brought any thought that me, the six year old girl killed her father, to a quick and abrupt end, and put my mother who was already in trouble, to death row. At seeing my fathers body I remembered what I did. To explain the feeling then... there was none. I was given to my uncle which was a druggie, I spent more time on the streets then at home. Why didn't I end my life? Some ask, it is a simple answer: I had no reason to live as well as none to die. No overwhelming feelings to push me one way or the other."
Kari was horrified at what she had heard, and she knew it was all true, "I'm so sorry, no one should go through that."
"I know. Well yes ok now tell me what Love is, and what is Light when in a person such as yourself?" asked Sala ignoring Kari's sympathy, "and please no answers that were read from a dictionary."
"Love for a person? Someone you could marry? It is a feeling deep in the soul that makes your body cold when their hand has left yours, the knots in your stomach when the kiss another (hoping that it was before the knotted stomach one and the other implied person aren't together. If they were together then it wouldn't have happened), you'll know that if they are gone that you will die, even if it is only on the inside. That is Love. In reality there is no words to describe it, it just is what it is, Love. And though you may not know exactly, when you feel it, you'll know." Kari replied not taking her eyes off of TK while the words slipped from her mouth with ease and knowledge.
Sala excepted this answer it was better then she had heard before, "And Light?"
"I've asked myself that and I'm afraid all I know is what I read in a dictionary, Light: A person who inspires or is adored by another. For a real answer you'll have to ask him." Replied Kari motioning to TK.
Sala sighed. She really didn't know if she could bring him here but she knew that he was have the same type of dream and she hoped forcing the dream TK alive that it would bring the dreaming TK's mind to them. And of course bring Dairen also to them being the one who was chosen that night to try and push Hope into the lonely Darkness, and TK was chosen that night to try and give the impending Darkness Hope. "You know he loves you, but for this battle it is to late. He is to uncertain now and your to hopeless now and what I have to tell you will just make such things worse. We dream like this at the joint efforts of both sides to scare us, weaken us, to teach us. So that's what we are doing now learning something, and this is no alliance."
The words were cold and soul piercing all though they were said not in a cold way, but in the bland, plan truth. Kari gripped TK's lifeless hand as he woke up to this shared dream. Brought there by the strong pull of his heart, or for the simple reason that, that night he was meant to meet Apathy as well as Darkness. Uncertainty playing with Cody's mind and not TK's, or was it TK not playing with Ella's mind but Cody was?
"Who are you?" TK asked looking at Sala, "Your Apathy." TK answered himself.
Sala nodded, "What is Light when in a person like her?"
TK was confused but Kari gave him an encouraging squeeze of his hand, "Optimistic, but not to the point that they don't see the pain in front of their eyes. A person who could never hate. And cares for every creature's well fair, forgetting the past that was horrible when needed when the creature is in need of help."
"That she is," replied Sala, then she quickly changed the subject, "We the Dark Digidestined aren't your only problem you'll been torn four ways. We are here for only the girl, you on the other hand are here to stop this new evil digimon, stop us, find the girl, and find Gennai... was it? Just think about it all the evil you have fought poured into one digimon. You'll be split to groups of four and one of three. Unlikely odds I know."
The words stunned Kari she knew it before but now hearing the words without emotion attached to it, her inevitable death just seemed true with no sinister laugh to make her realize that she would win. TK was now so unsure what to do the impending death seeming to just be the only outcome.
"Traitor!" said a voice from behind Sala it was dripping with anger, loss, and sadness, malice even toward the blond hunam. Sala turned around to see Dairen standing there, with out a second to respond Dairen tackled Sala.
A few rolls and Sala had Dairen pinned to the ground switchblade in hand held to Dairen's throat, "I am not! It doesn't matter what I tell them it just pushes them farther apart. I know you love me but your life means nothing to me!" with the last part Sala pushed the knife harder against Dairen's exposed neck. Being it a Maeguumii belief, that if you die in a dream you die for real, or be it that he forgot it was even a dream. Dairen calmed down and Sala loosened her grip.
"Sala..." began Kari forgetting she wasn't supposed to know her name.
Dairen still being a strong believer in 'Names are Power' responded, "Sala? Now G'mee what have you been telling them?"
"The truth... my life, whatever," replied Sala with a grin, (a real grin, though the feeling left as quickly as it had come and Sala didn't even realize it).
"Well since I'm hear I could just give them more to think about. Your traveling with Patience, Mor, and Zoemi right? You know why they hold both light and dark crest? Patience is well, as patient as they come with one exception... guys. I'm not saying she is a slut, but she'll go far in little time if she wants to and is very impatient with the guys she surrounds herself with. Guys who are also patient and don't necessarily want to go far, she breaks them. Mor your doomed if you ever think of her as a girl. She is as forgiving as they come but very self protecting a blow to her self esteem and she'll never forgive youm, let alone let you walk again. Zoemi because of the family situation she was forced to grow up and be responsible, but she is only nine and the youngest in her family giving her a 'Claire and Sofae' (Maeguumii equivalent to 'Dr. Jekyl Mr. Hyde') effect when enticed to immaturity that one her age should be. With those three as 'friends' watch your back. But it's not like you didn't already have to watch your backs, battling three worlds, for the fate of all," said Dairen without to much emotion in his voice, it was his family to explain them wasn't hard and to connect himself to them in anyway was pointless.
"Let me guess you want to hear our stories now?" asked TK eyeing the evil pair with a sullen look. In truth Dairen's story sent shivers down his spine hearing that at any second Mor or Zoemi could betray them.
"No I got what I wanted from you two. I know that you two are strong but no longer strong enough you (Kari) are thinking there is no hope, and you (TK) are uncertain and sullen," said Sala with a smile that lasted longer.
Kari replied in voice that remand toneless for the wanted effect she wanted her words to have, "And you (Dairen) have hope that both your souls will be redeemed and that you wont die because even four to nine you know we'll win, and you (Sala) are to optimistic and happy about all of this, I can see in your eyes that whatever hate that you could muster now wont come. But more importantly Sala you love Dairen."
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Izzy grips the lush green grass he didn't have to see the egg to know it was there, he really couldn't believe what he saw. And though he knew it never happened it was eating him up on the inside. It was Izzy not Matt who went to the Forest of Delusion. But unlike Matt, Izzy had succeed in killing all the other Digidestined including Davis, Yolei, Cody, Patience, Mor and Zoemi. Izzy also knew what he was to see in that egg, what essence that it absorbed; Cherrymon.
Izzy's thoughts that were solely set on removing the memory of the first half of his dream was interrupted by a soft cry. Izzy slowly raised up to his feet before he looked at the source of the sadness, he was expecting a trick of some sort, one of the Dark Digidestined.
Izzy slowly raised his head to see a girl sitting on the ground her face buried in her knees. She was white, quite literally maybe not a complete albino but her long wavy hair was more white then blond, and her skin a cream that was almost white, like it has never seen the sun.
The girl murmured, "What is this place? What is this water in my eyes? What is the bright ball above me? What is this feeling? Why is it so bright!?"
"Umm... excuse me..." Izzy said walking over to the girl not sure if it would be wise to put a reassuring arm around her or not.
Just when Izzy was about to place a hand on her shoulder, the girl's face shot up and looked at him. The girl let out a short yelp and squinted in the light her pupils incredibly small. Her eyes where red from crying, it was more noticeable against the whiteness of her skin. Her ice blue teetering on a more violet or red shade, stared at Izzy trying to analyze him, see what he was. "W...who...who...r...r...are...you?" the girl sutured while trying to push herself away from Izzy but was half frozen in fear for never seeing such a creature in the whole of her fourteen years.
Izzy looked at the girl it wasn't that she was trembling in fear as much as she was shivering, from not wearing any clothes. Izzy's face turned a beat red when he realized this fact and tried unsuccessfully to hide it. "My name is Koushirou Izumi, and you are?"
The girl gave him a questioning look not sure that she trusted him or not, after a minute or two and a soft gentle smile from Izzy, she answered, "L....Luna Selena Sternkind... Hello Kou...shi...Koushi...rou...Koushirou(?)."
Izzy smiled, "Hello Luna, are you alright?"
Luna's lips were trembling and she began to cry again, "I...I don't know, What is this place? What is this water in my eyes? What is the bright ball above me? What is this feeling? Why is it so bright!?"
"This is a field," began Izzy, Luna looked confused, "a field is where lots of this green stuff called grass grows, this field is in a dream, the pictures you see while you sleep. The water in your eyes is called tears and come when you cry, you cry for many feelings happiness, sadness, fear, pain, etc. The bright ball is called the sun it warms and brings light to the day. I think you mean the feeling of cold, which is caused by the not warm air and the point that you have no clothes on, like the clothes I'm wearing," Izzy took off his school jacket and handed it to Luna, "Here, take it, it will make you warm. It's bright because of the sun, and is just the way it works." Izzy had spoken with great care reading each of Luna's expressions to make sure she understood.
Luna examined the jacket before she put it on and then stood up spinning around like it was a brand new dress. Izzy had to smile, his jacket fitted her like a low cut dress with oversized sleeves. For Luna was shorter the Izzy by about fifteen centimeters or so and was very thin and frail.
Luna began fiddling with the buttons and then looked at Izzy for help. Izzy walked over to her and buttoned up his green school jacket for her. Izzy tried to do the buttoning so she could learn to do it herself, but she refused to look away from his eyes. When Izzy was done he took a step back but Luna took a step forward and caught Izzy in a big hug(big for Luna), "Thank you Koushirou."
Izzy returned the hug and smiled down at her, "Your welcome."
"Koushirou?" asked Luna still hugging Izzy.
"Yeah."
"Do you know the way back to my home?" she asked hopefully.
Izzy almost wanted to lie to her so not to break her heart. She was so frail and child like and though it might have seemed that she was stupid she was not, it was just that she had no use for some words while she lived a sheltered life, "I wish I did Luna."
"I wished you did to..." said Luna and then her eyes lit up at what she saw to her right side. There stood a cave made of orange stone, "I don't remember a field(?) at the entrance I remember that one entrance was with water and the other was a sandy patch in a forest, at the base of a orange rock mountain. Well come on Koushirou." Luna began to pull Izzy towards the cave.
Suddenly blocking the path was a very fast digimon that must have only been at the In-Training level and shrouded in a onyx darkness so Izzy couldn't see what it looked like. Luna screamed as the rather large immature digimon grabbed her and held a blade of some sort forcing Izzy to back up.
"It's alright Luna, it isn't real. Wake up, Wake up, Luna you have to wake up, please Wake Up!" said Izzy while continuing to walk backwards. To Izzy's relief Luna froze, her consistent struggling stopped and then a second later she faded to wakefulness.
The stunned digimon continued to hold Izzy at bay, forcing him to continue to back up. At this point he was willing himself to also wake up. Izzy heard a faint crunching noise under his foot, a faint sound of breaking small unnoticeable brittle pieces of something into smaller microscopic pieces. Izzy had no time to look down.
Izzy shot strait up in his bed sweat pouring down his face, he was cold realizing that his green jacket that he wore to bed was gone. It couldn't be... It was a dream... A more horrifying thought found its way into Izzy's head. It horrified Izzy in many ways that he forgot about wondering if Luna had his jacket or not and hoping he wouldn't freeze in only the white button up shirt that he had worn under his jacket. A sense of déjavu washed over Izzy as he said, "The egg has hatched."
Author's Note: lesser in as the nightmare was more to draw fear and that the evil was only one and compared to the others was not as strong while it's being, still lives(Ken is still alive).
Besides giving the smallest of hints to the new evil it was also to show that Mimi felt guilty about moving or going on so many vacations and not being able to help out.
Kari, that she shouldn't really let go of TK's hand and that she couldn't let him always protect her. Also to show that Kari feels guilty for making the other Digidestined go through many things for her, and showing how she isn't all that strong especially alone.
Sora to show that she still doesn't believe that she was right to be the holder of Love, with her whole Matt situation. Sora thinking Matt had said such things to her because he thought that she needed to much love.
Yolei, because Yolei believe that she is unwanted, that people believe that she is untrustworthy and unlovable. Part of which comes from the whole Ken situation, in the beginning Yolei was obsessed with Ken just like every other girl, not getting to know him before saying 'yes' and then the whole 'attempted suicide'.
Mor, so that you could see how much Mor really counts on Davis' friendship. Being a non popular tough girl at home she didn't have to many friends, girls were always to girly even other tomboys and the boys didn't like a girl that could turn them into a walking blue and purple balloon, or something much worse. That, and she knows where her brother is.
TK, was basically to feed the uncertainty and confusion that consumed his body after the e-mail from the unknown source that said it was Gennai. Although not detailed his battles with Kimeramon made him feel extremely unneeded especially by Kari.
Izzy, To scare him into brutality, and pure immoral forms of murdering friends, even if only a dream. That and so he could meet Luna and have a flash of déjavu: the egg hatching.
Other Digidestined, to scare them and mess with their virtues weakening both Dark and Light Digidestined: Cody to Ella, Ken to Deception, Davis to Malevolence, Tai to Hate, Matt to Fear, Joe to Rivalry, and of course Kari to Sala, and TK to Dairen, as well as the impossible match up of Izzy and Ignorance (being apposing the effect of the emotional change doesn't happened.) so Izzy met Luna, Knowledge to Wish.
I know that I had a six year old kill her father, but it is to show how impressionably young she was making it seemingly impossible that she felt no guilt. I would also like to say that any sex related content wont be out of a possible reality. So if you believe that they are to young or they wouldn't act like they do in my story, I am telling you that I at least know one person who acted the same at that age or younger. Also trust me that the sex content of this story wont be high, even though I am tempted to see how many of my stories can receive Marysue attention (I find it hilarious what they say. Not that I'm crazy but it is life, some like ya some don't, and not to be a complete kindergartener but 'Sticks n' Stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me!') If I have done this already I'm sorry but... I request creation credit if Luna and the Dark Digidestined are used Thanks! Also Dairen's definitions as well as Kari's for light came almost directly from dictionary.com.
I am also sorry that it took so long to post I just kept getting interrupted and all. I am also sorry that I didn't go into detail of half of the nightmares in this chapter. But this chapter alone is 38 pages (Ariel 12pt.) and I didn't want it to be 76 pages long, plus I already wrote enough blood. So basically double the blood I wrote about and the death count or how many times a person died and that is basically the out come of the less detailed nightmares.
Well I hope you enjoyed, please tell me what you thought! Happy Reading!
Na
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, or any of it's characters.
Author's Note: I completely realized in chapter 3 that I said Apathy was a boy when I meant girl hard to explain this exactly but I'm replacing chapter 3 with the change in the detail of Apathy's sex.
The blood, death, and sex (no sex written but lots of kissing and males and females sharing beds that could or couldn't reply sex) content in chapter is rather high.
One these notes, Happy Reading!
Na
Chapter 5: Learn Something Two/Too
The Digidestined woke up early the next morning, everyone met in the lobby, It seemed almost sad to be leaving the Green Grass Inn, and none was sadder then Gatomon. They had decided that they would eat breakfast and head to the pier and get on a ship and head east. Luckily the pier idea was Wizardmon's and he left them enough Digi-Dollars for the fare.
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The light from Izzy's computer had just faded when he began to freak out, "We have to go to the Digital world now!"
"Calm down Izzy what's wrong, they have only been gone ten seconds," replied Tai.
"Yeah and in another 40 seconds they will have been gone a month! Gennai is in trouble, he just e-mailed me!"
"Well maybe it was fake, and it's a trap," said Sora.
Izzy just stared at her, "You want to question my computer knowledge? I'll explain when we are in the Digiworld why I know it is real."
"Wait what about Mimi?" asked Joe.
"I already e-mailed her, she'll meet us there," replied Izzy putting his digivice to the screen of his laptop. Everyone followed in suit and were sucked into the engulfing white light.
The older Digidestined landed in a pile in a grassy field, not to far away was a big blue building with a sign that read Green Grass Inn. Digitammamon walked out to see what all the noise was, "Wow I just brought that old TV over here from that dangerous cliff and I'm getting customers."
The Digidestined didn't see him or hear him they were looking at Izzy. Izzy pulled out of his backpack his spare lime green laptop and began to type furiously, "Ok look, this is what Gennai's message should say, this is what it would look like if it was a fake, and this is what it says."
The Digidestined all went over to Izzy and looked over his shoulder at the computer screen.
Help Digidestined!
HelllP DIigidessstiNEDD!
Hdlp dikjmgiidcefv st,inn edc
"Ok Izzy now that last line is gibberish," said Matt.
Izzy sighed, "Look 'Hdlp' it is obvious that he missed the 'e' in his hast and hit 'd' so it reads Help now 'dikjmgiidcefv st,inn edc' now remove in this order the following letters 'd, i, g, i, d, e, s, t, i, n, e, d. Help Digidestined, See! Gennai was kidnapped and we must go find him!"
"Ok, but where are we?" asked Patience. Izzy began to bring up his map of the Digiworld when Sora pointed to a sign.
"We're at the Green Grass Inn," said Sora. Everyone looked at the blue building and Digitammamon standing in the door.
"Yes now that is correct, I am Digitammamon, come in, come in stay the night. No charge except you must Learn something. Now your digimon friends are already inside."
The Digidestined looked at Digitammamon, they couldn't tell whether to trust him or not. Just then Agumon poked his head out of the door, "What is taking so long? I'm tired, don't you know it is getting late!"
The Digidestined looked around Agumon was right it was already dark. The Digidestined slowly got up and followed Digitammamon into the Green Grass Inn. Digitammamon didn't take to much time on the room selection because they walked in, in the pairings he wanted. Tai was first followed by Sora, they received room key H80, the next two were Matt and Patience who received room key H78, Izzy and Joe were next, Digitammamon looked a little worried because Mimi wasn't there. Digitammamon handed Izzy room key H76, "Is there only you two?" asked Digitammamon.
The dark night sky briefly light up and Mimi tumbled to the ground. Joe looked out of the door quickly, "Mimi we are staying here tonight, get in here."
"You know hello, is what normal people say or 'are you alright?' since you know I just tumbled out of a TV," said Mimi walking into the Green Grass Inn.
"You two have room H74," said Digitammamon looking at Mimi and Joe, then he turned to Izzy, "Your alone, Ok?" They all nodded, before they were all tackled by their Digimon partners, in hugs. The Digidestined talked to together in the lobby until retiring to their rooms.
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TK walked up from behind Kari who was standing by the railing on deck of their small ferry. Kari had been on her way to bed, when she stopped to look at the clear Digi-sky and all the bright stars, it was really beautiful.
TK wrapped his arms around Kari's waist, "Were you planning on coming to bed?" on the ship the Digidestined were split up into two rooms Davis, Mor, TK, and Kari in one, and Ken, Yolei, Cody, and Zoemi in the other, they shared the two rooms with their digimon partners.
Kari turned around and looked at TK, "Well..." Kari's D-Terminal beeped as she received an e-mail. Kari quickly looked down and opened her D- Terminal, not to long after Kari's face went white as a ghost she gasped backing herself as close to the railing she could. In the shock from what she read the D-Terminal dropped to the floor. Kari quickly turned away from TK and looked at the passing water.
TK was very confused and picked up Kari's D-Terminal for her, he couldn't help but read her e-mail it was from Gennai, I heard two evil digimon talking one was afraid that now that the Digidestined have put aside their differences that, evil would be conquered for good (if that was possible) the other agreed but said that Wizardmon accidentally messed up and Light and Hope were to close, which would be their weakness. I don't know what it means Kari, but I figured you would, good luck!
The D-Terminal once again hit the floor. Kari turned around and picked it up, "It was a spell TK, we don't really love each other, because if we did then it would have made us stronger, but lying to our hearts and to each other makes us weak."
TK nodded in agreement, though his heart was 'shaking it's head', TK figured from the spell that Wizardmon cast, he believe that it would make them stronger, "So do we tell the others?"
"No, we know the truth now, and it is obvious Wizardmon only wanted the best for us. No one will expect us to hold hands or anything while we are together, so there is no reason to worry them. They might begin to think that Wizardmon messed up with them as well, which he didn't."
"Hey are you guys good?" asked Yolei walking up to TK and Kari.
"Yeah just sick of being on this boat, a month is a really long time," replied TK.
Yolei nodded, "Well one more week and we dock in Server."
The three of them walked down to their cabins which were across the thin ships hall from each other. They said good night and went into their separate room.
As TK and Kari walked in their room they caught the end of Davis and Mor's conversation, "... I am just really surprised that we haven't had to fight any digimon since we got here. With this new evil you would believe that we wouldn't have time to sleep!" replied Davis.
"Well you know what they say Davis, 'It is always the quiet ones, you have to watch out for,'" replied Mor.
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Digitammamon and Wizardmon were talking in a hall far away from the Digidestined, after they were all asleep, "So how long for this group?"
"The same amount of time as the last one, "replied Wizardmon, "Tai has always loved Sora but always got nervous when the words really counted and screwed up, she also always liked him. Patience is the only one with enough patience to be able to deal with Matt's normal schedule, he might be friendship but that isn't the whole Matt, he also has a not so sunny disposition that Patience can deal with. Once Matt realizes this he'll treat Patience better, and she wont need to be so patient with him. Joe and Mimi just need to learn and swallow their pride or whatever and listen to their hearts much like TK and Kari. Izzy... he'll have to wait, but he right now he has a prophecy to decode."
Digitammamon nodded, "But why always boy to girl? And never girl to girl, or boy to boy?"
"Well, human boys think in a completely different way than a human girl. Two guys together might not figure out the answer because they look at the question the same way, it's the same with two girls," replied Wizardmon.
"So your making them all fall in love? Isn't that tampering with fate?" asked Digitammamon.
"Yeah maybe so, but challenging fate is safer right now then letting them go into a battle they wont win without love, and letting the Digital world, Human World, and Maeguumii, plunge into darkness, not to mention not being able to tell what would happen to the other worlds," replied Wizardmon. ----------
The next morning Tai got up bright and early and decided to search for a restaurant and breakfast. The door wouldn't open, he just figured that it was jammed and someone would come and fix it. Tai walked back over to his bed and decided to e-mail the younger Digidestined.
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Davis woke up to Veemon shaking him and hitting him with a pillow, "Davis you got mail from Tai wake up!"
Davis rolled over and picked up his D-Terminal and read, "Gennai was kidnapped, so we are going to find him, you guys just worry about this new evil." Davis quickly wrote his replied and laid back down.
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"Sounds good. Where are you guys?" Tai read the reply from Davis.
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Davis groaned when he heard the beep one more time, "Laying on my bed at the Green Grass Inn the door is jammed and I can't get breakfast!" Davis's eyes popped when he read Tai's reply.
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Everyone was awake at the Green Grass Inn after Tai read the e-mail from Davis, and screamed, "You won't be let out of that room until you learn something, I had four torture filled days including a bloody nose, but Mor and I became good friends after that. To everyone's surprise we got out before TK and Kari they had done homework! Don't worry about the breakfast, pull the red pull string for room service. So who are you stuck with?"
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Davis lifted an eyebrow, "Sora."
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"Well have fun. I'm going to sleep," Tai read, then his voice became sarcastic, "Have fun? We all no my painful history with Sora, she'll hate me more when this is finished!" Tai quickly wrote back to Davis.
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Davis rolled over and moaned when he heard the beep from his D- Terminal, "What do I need to learn you got to help me?"
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"One: come on, this is me your talking to, how would I know? Two: You have to figure it out on your own. Three: I'm not answering you anymore, I'm trying to sleep!" Tai sighed after reading that, but before he could e- mail back Tai got another e-mail from Digitammamon.
"We regret to inform you that you didn't learn anything. So the charge is you time, you will stay in the room until you learn what you are meant to learn. Room service will still be running. Thank You – Digitammamon," Tai read, "Thanks a lot!"
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Izzy had just finished reading the e-mail from Digitammamon, and knew that the others had read it as well, Patience, Matt, and Mimi had all screamed. Tai of course had also screamed but he had been complaining for awhile.
Izzy was sorting his e-mail, he was just about to delete Gennai's distress mail when he discovered an hidden attached file. It was another prophecy, Izzy read:
"Fifteen to Nine is even so add one more
The old and wise must bend to the innocence of a child and wish
Light and Hope forever stronger, but Love is stronger
The young, and feeble, but strong, must lead
On a day when time is equal, and the Moon and Stars meet the sun
Old and New will band together in new ways to fight good
With the strength of that, that was BANNISHED and killed."
Izzy just sighed, "For once can't we get a prophecy that say something like, '07.07.07(July 7, 2007) come the new evil, Evilmon(made up digimon for Izzy's example(there is no Evilmon right?))' so then we would know who the evil was and on what day he would attack!" Izzy began working on decoding the prophecy.
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Tai sat down at his newly arrived triple banana split. He picked up the spoon and was about to dig in to his breakfast when Sora interrupted him, "Come on Tai! Ice cream for breakfast!" Sora sat down next to Tai and eyed the ice cream, Tai holding the only spoon.
"Hey, hey don't dis the ice cream. Anyways it only cost me my time so why not use my time wisely and drown these semi-sorrows in ice cream? And your just mad you didn't think of it."
As fast as lightning Sora grabbed Tai's spoon, and scooped up a spoonful of chocolate ice cream. Before Tai realized what was happening the spoon was hovering by Sora's open mouth.
"You can have a bit, but the first is mine!" replied Tai unsuccessfully reaching for the spoon.
"Lady's first," Sora smiled.
"My ice cream!"
"Lady's first!"
"Go spend your own time on ice cream!" (A/N: get it because it cost time, SPEND your own TIME....lol couldn't resist)
"Lady's First, be a gentleman for once Tai!"
"Fine, lady's first," Tai replied with a smile and bow(more of a bob).
Sora ate the ice cream and then retrieved another spoonful of ice cream. Before Tai could object she put the spoonful in his mouth. Sora took the next bite, then slowly retrieved the next bite and held it out to Tai. Tai leaned forward, but Sora moved the spoon away, Tai leaned closer to the spoon that slowly retreated.
Tai's face was by Sora's he quickly thought up a plan that he figured would spill that spoonful of ice cream on the floor and get him slapped. But at that moment it was worth it for the ice cream. As soon as that ice cream had arrived he had stop thinking with his brain and his stomach took over.
Tai leaned towards the ice cream, but then turned his head towards Sora and gave her a kiss. He kissed her right on the lips nothing special, just a little more than a peak. Tai pulled away slowly he was surprised at how much he really wanted to kiss her again. Those thoughts were erased when out of the corner of Tai's eye he could see Sora's hand, Tai braced himself for the slap, he disserved.
Sora's hand laid softly on the back of Tai's neck and pulled him back the whole two centimeters that had grown between them. Sora kissed Tai, as he had down to her.
Tai got over the shock of being kissed and not slapped quickly and deepened the kiss. Tai held Sora closed to him, as he heard the spoon hit the floor and Sora's hand that once held the spoon wrapped around his neck. At least he was right about one thing, he wouldn't get to eat that spoonful of ice cream.
The lock on the door made a clicking noise of it unlocking.
Tai slowly pulled away, That was wonderful, that was right, that was perfect... Tai! What are you thinking she is Matt's ex, more importantly she is your best friend! But she kissed you the second time, I only kissed her to get the spoon back and eat the ice cream. Ice cream! You know I don't think I'm hungry anymore, how much did I eat? One bite?
Sora starred at Tai, disbelief and confusion consumed her stare, What were you doing? I just kissed my best friend! Not to mention its still to soon after Matt. You know I'm completely over him and Tai kisses better. Oh geez I just kissed Tai! But he was the one who put his tongue in my mouth, not me. But what teenage guy wouldn't, with a willing girl, it doesn't mean he likes me right? It doesn't mean I like him... this is Tai. He probably only kissed me to get the spoon, but for that the tongue wasn't needed. Oh god! I'm analyzing a kiss, a great kiss but that is not the point.
Tai bent over and picked up the spoon, he didn't have the appetite to eat, but Tai knew that she knew that it was un-Tai-like to not eat ice cream. But he just couldn't bring himself to eat the ice cream. A disappointed look from Sora made Tai dig into the ice cream, well at least he didn't get slapped.
The door relocked.
Tai began to eat the ice cream, he was afraid that he might still get slapped. A punch from a guy was livable, but a slap from a girl was something else. Girls know how to slap just right so your face is red and it stings.
"Hey, I'm sorry Tai, I don't know what came over me, "said Sora, Oh great I lied I know what came over me, the gentle touch of the most perfect kiss, I just wanted to feel it once more, is that wrong?
"Hey forget about it," smiled Tai, half the ice cream gone, Forget about it! This just in the world finally ends and Taichi Kamiya hasn't forgotten the kiss he gave Sora Takenouchi.
There was an eerie silence, between the two, a silence that reeked of lies. Tai couldn't stand it anymore he leaned towards Sora, to Tai's surprised she leaned to him. Tai lifted his hand to bring Sora's face to his, just then a thump was heard coming from Matt and Patience's room, Matt! He'll kill me, they just broke up a little bit ago, I know he isn't over Sora yet. I won't get slapped by Sora, but I'll get blooded by Matt! Tai pulled away from Sora, Kissing her might feel good, and right, but that doesn't mean that it is right. Now I wonder what is up with Matt and Patience?
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Patience lay on the floor, with a stunned look on her face. Matt laughed at Patience, at the way she had flopped to the bed and slip off, and most of all her face.
"I thought that you weren't talking to me?" asked Patience.
"I wasn't talking..." began Matt.
Patience laughed, "That's talking! Come on Matt just grow up and get out of the first grade, you can't not talk to me."
"This is the last thing I'm saying! If I'm in first grade your in preschool! I wasn't talking I was laughing at you! Do you need a bigger bed? Or a crib maybe so you wont fall out?" replied Matt. Matt didn't like Patience, with in that morning she had driven him insane with digimon/world questions, even when it was obvious he wanted to sleep in more. Matt turned and went in to the bathroom figuring that it would be better to use his time in imprisonment to get a shower.
When the water was heard from out side the bathroom Patience smiled and got off the floor, "I'm to patient for you Matt, you'll give in. All I need is a sit in!" Patience pulled the covers up so that they didn't hang over the edge of her bed on the side that faced Matt's bed. Then Patience did the same to Matt's covers and pushed the beds together. Patience straitened out the sheets and sat down right in the middle.
Matt walked out and was very surprise to see what Patience had done. His first impulse was to yell at her, but then he remembered for stupid reasons they weren't talking. The second impulse was to pull the beds apart while she sat on them. Than Matt realized that Patience would fall most likely, knowing Matt's luck, hit her head on the wood bed frame. And Joe being the medical expert locked in another room. Matt was mad at Patience but he didn't want to hurt her.
Matt slumped down against the wall and watched Patience, Why couldn't I share a room with Tai, or Izzy, or Joe, or Sora an ex-girlfriend is better than Patience. Now I wonder how Mimi and Joe are doing? great I'm figuring.
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Joe sat up in the bed he had to share with Mimi, Joe was very surprised that Mimi had objected to Joe sleeping on the floor. Joe knew that he loved Mimi, if he didn't why did he send her the huge pink heart while she was on vacation in Hawaii?(A/N: from Digimon the Movie)
Joe just watched Mimi sleep after they had received the e-mail, she decided on getting as much beauty sleep as possible. Oh I can't believe how beautiful, sweet, and innocent she looks while she sleeps. Well she always looks that way but it is more child like when she sleeps. I just wish that I could tell her how I feel, how sad I was she moved to America, and most of all that I love her. Oh get a grip Joe, you'll never have the courage, and she couldn't possibly love you, every guy loves her! And your just another sheep, and she is your goddess, your shepherdess. I wish I could just say... "...I love you Mimi, with all my heart."
Joe brushed back Mimi's hair and gave a yawn. Joe began to think that Mimi had the right idea about sleeping, he had stayed up late on Thursday studying and since he was only going to loose ten minutes or so of studying time. Why not give his sleep deprived body, sleep?
Joe laid down close to Mimi and subconsciously kept a hand on her shoulder, as he smoothed her hair till he fell asleep.
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Tai sat down on Sora's bed next to her, they had just finished lunch. "So why did you and Matt break up, you two were always good together?" asked Tai, bored half to death and without a soccer ball.
"He broke up with me. He said he was being unfair to me and that he wanted me to have a real relationship. He even suggested I go out with you! Which I found odd my ex-boyfriend telling me to go out with my best friend," replied Sora, she no longer thought it odd to go out with Tai she figured it to be the right thing now.
"Well to tell you the truth," Tai began nervously with his hand rubbing the back of his neck, "It always hurt me to see you two together, because I always liked you, it was just I always messed stuff up."
"Like throwing up in my hat? And then saying that no one could see my hair because I always wore that hat and that's why you bought those hair clips for me?"
"Yeah, umm... about those hair clips what I meant to say was,... I thought they would look great on you if you had ever decided to not wear a hat you would have something for your hair. And that I wouldn't have minded if you never wore those hair clips because you looked great in the hat."
"You know what Tai, I always liked you too. But I, I the bearer of Love couldn't say it, and you had always tried so hard that it made it look like you didn't care. And then there was Matt I loved him but I don't know, I guess it was just that I had waited so long for you to ask me out that I lost hope in that thought."
"Sora..."
"Yeah..."
"I'm sorry I didn't say this earlier, I love you."
"I love you too Tai," replied Sora with a sweet smile. Tai hesitated a second before putting his left arm around Sora and with his thumb and index finger of his right hand, Tai slowly lifted Sora's head to his. Tai hesitated again before he leaned down and kissed Sora, this time long and passionate.
The door unlocked it's self and stood unnoticed.
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Mimi woke up, she jumped slightly not knowing who's hand was on her shoulder. Mimi slowly turned around under the light warm touch of Joe's hand. Mimi smiled at the sight of Joe sleeping, Oooo He is sooo cute! I can't believe how cute he looks! I mean he was always cute, but now he is all tall, manly, and cute no longer, scrawny, clumsy, and cute. You know I think I still have that heart he gave me one year while I was on vacation, that was sweet. Joe really is a great guy, I just wish I had the courage to say... "...I love you Joe, I always will."
Mimi got out of bed and decided to order a big breakfast/lunch/dinner, for her and Joe but she let him sleep for then. Mimi knew how much studying he did and how tired he was. Mimi walked over and pulled the red pull string. A Gotsumon entered a few minutes later through the digimon sized door in the normal door. Mimi ordered two of the days specials, though she didn't know what it was.
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"Fifteen to Nine is even so add one more(?)
Gennai(?)(The old and wise)must bend to the innocence of a child and wish
Kari (Light) and TK (Hope) forever stronger, but Sora and/or Yolei
(Love) is stronger
The younger Digidestined (The young, and feeble, but strong), must lead
When time re-returns (On a day when time is equal), and there is an
eclipse (the Moon and Stars meet the sun)
Dark Masters etc. will return (Old and New will band together in new
ways to fight good
With the strength of that, that was BANNISHED and killed)," Izzy read his attempt to decode the prophecy out loud, but it didn't sound right.
Izzy became frustrated, "I know I must learn what this prophecy mean, so we can all leave here and find Gennai. But it is unfair! We always figure these prophecies out five minutes or so before they come true! We are lost, stuck here! Gennai is doomed!"
---------- Next Day/Late the Second Night(early the next day)
Mimi bolted strait up in bed, she was soaked in a cold sweat and breathing heavily. Mimi raised a hand and held it to her forehead half out of shock for what she had dreamed, also to make sure she wasn't sick, and most importantly to make sure that she was alive.
The dream that had shook Mimi enough to not be sure if she was alive. Was a dream of the past and the future, or that is what she had assumed. The dream had began with the fight with Diaboramon, who had been defeated only seconds after the missiles had hit their intended marks. In the heat of that battle were all the Digidestined, Mimi no longer enjoying the warm sun of Hawaii. The battle had reverted all the digimon to eggs, leaving Matt, Izzy, Sora, and Joe dead, TK and Tai internally bleeding and seconds from dying, the sad and mournful Kari for the two that she loved, not crying a tear over the bodies, but in a deep shock, until her own wounds took over and threw her in a coma, And Mimi, Mimi was left seemingly unharmed with the horrid thought that it was completely her fault that she didn't try hard enough.
The second part of the dream was when they fought Willis' digimon that was controlled by the essence of Diaboramon. Which was ended pretty much the same way that it had for real (or the way Mimi had been told it ended) except Mimi was there, because she was a American resident and was close enough to help. But Mimi let the group down and was knocked out in the very beginning, making them almost loose the battle because they were worried about her and not the task at hand.
The first two parts were very odd because Mimi hadn't been present for either, but the guilt still loomed. But the last part of her dream was disturbing Daemon upset with being banished made a digiegg much like Willis had but in the digital world and it was infused with once again the essence of Diaboramon. And the egg that Mimi had seen reeked of revenge for Diaboramon's death and the banishment of Daemon, and worst of all it leaked an eerie green glow of Death. Seconds, more like milliseconds before Mimi met the deadly green glow she had jolted awake.
A hand reached up slowly and rested on Mimi's shoulder. Mimi completely forgetting that she was sharing a bed with Joe jumped in fright, putting her hand to her mouth and letting out a muffled scream.
"Mimi?" said the tired voice of Joe, "are you alright?"
Mimi relaxed, and tried to smile but the fright and guilt that consumed her didn't allow her to smile, "Yeah, just had a bad dream."
In the early hour of the new day Joe completely forgot that he didn't have the courage to talk to Mimi the way he wanted to. Joe gently pulled Mimi back down to lay on the bad. Then Joe moved closer to her, wrapping her in his arms, "Don't worry I'm here, and I wont let go. The nightmares will retreat, and I'll listen to the dream in the morning. I don't want you to continue to think about that dream now. Just relax and go back to sleep."
Mimi completely calmed by the touch and kind hearted words of Joe smiled and cuddled close to him laying her head on his chest, "Thank you Joe, good-night."
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Kari's eyes shot open she was breathing heavily and soaked in sweat her dreams had scared her half to death. It had left her hopeless and in complete fear, for the battles she had seen, she wasn't part of, only the last part of the second battle she was there for. But the battle she had seen she shouldn't have been there.
In the dream, a blood curdling scream, was heard from Kari as Devimon picked her up and squeezed the life out of her. Angemon's already launched Attack hit Tai who had jumped in the way of the attack that would've ended Devimon's life, as well as Kari's. Kari could only watch as Tai fell lifeless and the pure angle was thrown into despair for hurting a child. Kari watched as the others hopelessly tried to save her dying one by one. TK, young little TK was the last to try and save Kari. Devimon slowly squeezed TK to death, ringing the blood out of TK like a wet cloth. Kari cried once more as Devimon let go of TK and shacked his hands free of the blood before dropping Kari. And just like with Piedmon, she fell hopelessly, but unlike that time she was there for, no angel caught her.
She fell to the cold stone floor in the dark castle that belonged to Myotismon before her loomed a battle as the evil digimon tried to get through the door to the human world. Kari moved her eyes from the door and watched the battle she was almost happy to see that everyone was alive. Just as the faintest non detectable smile formed on Kari's lips for the soul reason that everyone was alive and well, for war standards, suddenly Tai was disintegrated along with Sora. TK still young was thrown to the wall near Kari luckily still alive and conscious, although it was only the thinnest strand of luck, for he was nearing death. Kari ran to his side just as TK died, Matt came running over in a panic and pushed her aside. Matt held TK's lifeless body and turned to Kari, "Why do you let us risk our lives for you? What do you do? We are the Digidestined, we are going to find the eighth Digidestined and save the world! What are you going to do, not move when an attack comes your way expecting another one of us to kill ourselves for you!?"
Kari had been shocked by the un-Matt-like words but then realized it was true, there was an attack aimed at her that TK threw himself into, while Kari was stunned at the horrible death of her older brother. All Kari could say to Matt was, "But I am the eighth child."
"I'll believe when I see you take responsibility. Just because TK promised Sora that he would always protect you, during the battle with Piedmon. Doesn't mean you have to stand around like an idiot and let him kill himself for that damned promise!" Kari was taken back by what the dream Matt had said, she didn't even realize at the time that the dream was happening Piedmon was nothing more then a mere nightmare, that none had dreamed of.
Suddenly Kari was just standing there in a grassy field in the digital world, a hand intertwined in hers. Kari was taken aback and dropped TK's hand when she saw him alive and well beside her. But before she could smile, she saw a digiegg which seemed to be infused with once again the essence of Myotismon or one of him higher forms like that, that possessed Oikawa, and of Devimon. And the egg that Kari had seen was saturated in revenge for Myotismon, and Devimon's death, and worst of all it leaked an eerie green fog of Death. The green death like fog reached TK's feet and he dropped down dead, seconds, more like milliseconds before Kari would have met the deadly green fog. Screaming for TK to get up, while not letting herself touch the fog, Kari heard a laugh that seemed to be Daemon's voice, That's when in the fear and loss of it all Kari's eyes shot open.
Without thinking of the morality of the next few seconds, that she and TK were no longer together. Kari climbed to the top bunk where TK slept, and slid under the covers next to him. Knowing that she would not sleep without the reassuring thought that the child of hope was stationed behind her and that indeed TK was alive. Kari grabbed TK's hand and put it around her waist as she held it tight in hers.
Kari was surprised that all this had not woken TK, and Kari was just about to drift back to sleep when she heard the quietest of whispers, "Kari? What are you doing?"
"Please TK this has nothing to do with love, I'm scared I can't sleep and I need to know that you are alive, the second I wake up. Please don't kick me out let me just sleep here a few more hours till morning, then I'll explain to you better why," begged Kari in the same low whisper. TK could feel Kari shacking in his arms, he didn't answer her all he did was hold her tighter. Kari slowly drifted into a peaceful sleep.
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Sora shot out of her bed in a cold sweat, heavily breathing while looking around nervously. Unknown to Sora her nightmare was if possible the lesser of the Nightmare seen that night, which seemed the soul purpose was to bring depression and torture back in her life.
In Sora's Dream she was with Davis who had to choose between the younger Digidestined while Sora had to choose between Tai, Matt, and her Mom. While Ken or the Digimon Emperor laughed and told them that they had to choose before Deltamon ate them all. Davis' choices turned to Bakemon, when the real younger Digidestined showed up but Sora's were real. The younger kids yelled at Sora for not being able to pick, or do something helpful. Because an attack against Deltamon could not be done until Matt, Tai and Sora's mom were safely out of the way. Biyomon digivolved to Birdramon and then in an attempt to kill Deltamon, Matt and Tai were burned to death. The charred remains of her friends dangled in the air as Sora's mother was eaten by Deltamon. TK and Kari were in tears as they confronted Sora about being careless and unloving. It had come as a shock to Sora to hear such words from the two she considered as her own younger siblings.
Suddenly Sora was younger again and back in the cave, back in her depression, While Matt this time unsuccessfully couldn't get her out of. Was it because those words that Demidevimon had told her were true. Sora thought in her depression that it really was almost required to love your parents and for your parents to love you, unless violence was involved. So was it really that her mother loved her or that the 'Mother Handbook' said that she had to? And since Matt couldn't save her this time was it because she never loved him and he her?
The first two parts seemed to just disappear as the darkness lifted, but the tortured feelings soon returned. The last part of Sora's dream was disturbing Daemon upset with being banished, or at least Sora was pretty sure it was Daemon, made a digiegg much like Willis had but in the digital world, specifically in a green grassy field that was stretched out in front of Sora's Mind, and it was infused with the essence of Digimon Emperor, or was it the Dark Spore that had made Ken that way? No Sora was certain it was the essence it was the tortured part of Ken's soul, the Dark part, That, that could torture others. And the egg that Sora saw was radiating Torture, Hate, and Sadness of the heart, and revenge for the banishment of Daemon, and worst of all it leaked an eerie green glow of Death. Seconds, more like milliseconds before Sora met the deadly green glow she had screamed until she awoke.
Sora rushed over to Tai and shook him awake, "Tai please I had a nightmare can I sleep here with you?"
Tai still half asleep and confused replied, "But we are sleeping in the same room, what's wrong?"
Sora began to cry, which woke Tai up. Sora told Tai about her dream, although it was hard for him to understand. While Sora was crying and had her head face down on Tai's bed half the time. Tai just lifted her onto his bed and rocked her in his arms till she fell back asleep.
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Yolei awoke quickly, finding that she was having trouble breathing and was very cold. She wondered if she really could have been so scared of those toy like digimon, that she had dreamed of.
Yolei had found herself in a corner of a play house, staring strait at a laughing wooden puppet in front of her. The other Digidestined were having troubles fighting the puppet digimon but they never asked for Yolei's help. After a while of watching thee only semi realistic scene unfold, where in Yolei's dream half of the older Digidestined were dead or knocked out of the battle. Yolei decided that if they ask her or not she had to help, Yolei tried to move, but was unable. Yolei's eyes being all that she could moved inspected her own personal dilemma to find that she was a string puppet, that was unwanted and cast aside.
Yolei suddenly found her self at the top of spiral mountain watching from the ground as a huge clown digimon, known as Piedmon, slashed a rope and both a young TK and Kari fell to their deaths. Yolei watched horrified at how not even Angemon, tried to save them. Only seconds before TK and Kari hit the ground Angemon was turned to a key-chain by Piedmon. TK and Kari hit the ground hard,. And Yolei snapped out of the shock she was in from what she just had seen. Yolei ran to the side of the two dead eight year olds, Yolei lifted their dead bodies and cried. Piedmon slowly walked to Yolei and picked her up by the collar, "So, you try and help your friends now? After the danger for them has past? After they are dead?" needless to say Yolei was shocked at these words, that embedded themselves in her heart. Piedmon dropped Yolei and left, left Yolei alone with the dead bodies and a collection of key-chains. She swore the key-chains where asking her why she had come is she wasn't going to help.
The first two parts were very odd because Yolei hadn't been present for either, but the strong feeling of guilt for ever being a Digidestined was present. But the last part of her dream was disturbing, It had seemed that Daemon had made a digiegg it was infused with the essence of both Puppetmon and Piedmon, how Yolei knew this to be true was unknown. And the egg that Yolei studied was consumed in revenge for Puppetmon and Piedmon's death and the banishment of Daemon, and worst of all it was surrounded in an eerie green fog of Death. That inched closer to Yolei, Yolei screamed that was when she had jolted awake.
Yolei wanting, needing to know that she was loved at least enough so that Ken would share his bed with her that night. Yolei knew that sleeping alone although only overhead Ken could not be done. Yolei climbed down and woke Ken up, "Ken can I sleep with you I had a bad dream and can't sleep alone?"
Ken lifted up the covers with a weary smile, "So tell me about the dream."
"Tomorrow Ken not tonight, do you really love me?" asked Yolei climbing in the bed next to Ken and laid down in his arms.
"I love you, and will forever. Sweet Dreams Yolei," replied Ken kissing Yolei's forehead and holding her close to him before they both drifted to sleep.
---------- Joe woke up, he smiled at the girl that was peacefully sleeping in his arm. He smiled not so much that Mimi was in his arms, but more because she was peacefully sleeping. Joe decided that he would get up and order breakfast, besides remembering horrifying dreams, was always easier with chocolate.
Joe slowly slid out of the bed careful not to wake Mimi. Just before his retreating hand that was draped protectively over Mimi's waist, left her body a hand caught Joe's.
"Please Joe, come back I'm not hungry," replied the weak petrified voice that once was so full of energy and happiness. Joe concerned about the girl who no longer spoke with her own voice, sat back down in the bed pulling the trembling girl to him, her head on his shoulder.
"It's ok Mimi I wont leave. Tell me about this dream, you'll feel better afterwards I should know I'm going to be a doctor," replied Joe holding Mimi close to him and giving her a sincere smile.
"This has nothing to do with physical health," replied Mimi trying in her sorrow to make a joke.
"Well I'm also taking Psychology classes," Joe smiled wider and softly, gently played with Mimi's hair.
"Ok, well I should have been there, and I don't think it was just a dream it seemed so real though I know it wasn't, because I wasn't there. I never met Diaboramon..."
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"Good Morning, I'm still alive. So could you please tell me why you insisted that we share this small bunk?" asked TK in a very sympathetic voice, he wasn't trying to be mean, but since it had been such as late hour he had almost forgotten the shacking Kari. That memory from his half sleep came flooded back as the peaceful sleeping Kari was stirred by his words to a trembling half awaken state. TK automatically felt guilty when he saw her tears.
TK hushed Kari but her tears would not render, "TK please I am so sorry I know it isn't good for us to be together but I need you. I couldn't see the blood squeezed out of you again even if it wasn't because of me."
TK was shocked, she had seen his death and that's why she didn't want to leave his side and he trying to be all responsible knowing that they couldn't be together, tried to worry her more! "Kari, what are you talking about?" this time TK's voice was concerned, sympathetic, and sincere as he turned Kari to face him. TK held Kari tight to him letting her tears stain his shirt. To any observer it looked like a very compromising position, more so then any that the two were in, the month they were together.
"Break your promise TK please, don't die for me I know now even if it isn't love I could never live without you. So stop protecting me please I'm not worth it."
"I don't break promises Kari ever, I'll always protect you."
"Then will you promise me something?" Kari asked hoping to still get him to break his promise to Sora to always protect her.
"I promise I'll protect you without sacrificing either of our lives. I promise you always a place next to me when you need it. I promise I'll love you even after the worlds en..."TK cut himself off as he realized what he had said, "Now please tell me what you saw. Because I can't stand to see you like this."
Kari smiled at TK and thought, Maybe Gennai heard wrong that was no spell speaking but TK's heart. "I saw...I saw yo...you...r d...d...eath mostly, I saw Tai's death, I saw death that was caused for my life, when I should have been at home in bed sick..."
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Yolei had woken Ken up early and as soon as Ken's eyes were opened, her story spilled out of her mouth. Ken automatically realizing what she was doing listened to the end and then comforted her.
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Tai had tried to leave Sora's side but found that she would shiver and scream out to him, in her strange half sleep as soon as he let go of her. Tai laid back down next to Sora holding her close to him and gently coaxed her awake.
"Sora I love you with all my heart. I know you are the right person to hold Love. If you weren't then such unloving thoughts and memories, battles of fiction would not phase you one bit. But since they say your love is false it is like a knife in your heart. Sora listen to your heart, what does it tell you?"
Sora starred at Tai, she had been in a restless sleep and was awaken by Tai who in the first few seconds said exactly what she needed to hear, "I love you Tai." Was all that Sora could say. In some unspoken way Tai could see that Sora was better and needed some real peaceful sleep.
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"Don't think like that!" said TK, Ken, and Joe to the girls laying in their arms.
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"Mimi I wasn't there either to fight Diaboramon. At least you were with your family I was... Well..."
"Taking a test?" replied Mimi with a smile.
Joe smiled back at the pink haired girl in his arms, "Yes a test, and afterwards I always feel guilty that I missed a Digidestined meeting, or something. But they always forgive me, like they have forgiven you."
"I know Joe but it isn't just the guilt it is that I feel.... I feel... so unwanted and brushed aside and..."
Joe couldn't believe what Mimi had just said. I love you! I love you Mimi! I wont brush you aside! Joe wanted to say those words to Mimi, he knew she needed to hear them, but Joe's courage was loosing its grip and his tongue was being twisted into knots.
Joe started down at Mimi who had paused in the middle of her scattered sentence. Mimi began to speak again. Without think Joe lifted Mimi's chin in his right hand placing his thumb in front of her mouth stopping her from speaking. Joe moved his thumb from her mouth and slowly brought her face to his. His lips gently touched Mimi's and softly caressed them for a minute before he slowly moved his face away.
"...and... I love you Joe," replied Mimi starring into Joe's eyes.
"And I, you," said Joe leaning forward and passionately kissing Mimi.
Click The door was unlocked.
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Davis rolled over and looked at TK's top bunk only to see Kari's back and TK's arms around them, "Hey what's going on?"
Kari let out a small yelp and almost rolled out of TK's bed who luckily didn't remove his hands fast enough. After Kari got over this shock she turned to Davis refusing to let TK completely let go of her, even after he reassured her that everything wasn't her fault, "Oh, good mornin' Davis. Nothing is going on I just had a nightmare."
"Well I hope your ok, nightmares can be dangerous, not to mention scary. If you need me I'll be here sleeping, but I think TK can completely take care of it," replied Davis rolling back over and assumingly going back to sleep. There wasn't even a hint that he was being a normal guy, in saying what he did. He had spoken in a normal tone not one that was secretly saying 'Go TK, you and Kari great!'.
TK looked at Kari when she turned back to him, "So do you feel better, are you ready to go back to your own bed and a peaceful sleep?" kindly asked TK. Kari shook her head, "Kari we didn't even sleep in the same bed when we were..."
Kari cut him off with a light finger on his lips, "Shh... TK, Davis. I know but I'm still scared to find you dead," then Kari moved closer and whispered in TK's ear so that only he could hear, "TK it's my turn to make you a promise, I promise I'll love you even after the worlds end."
TK looked shocked as Kari pulled away and kissed TK quickly on the lips, "Kari...Gennai..."
"You can't lie to me TK and I can't lie to you I know your heart meant those words you said and I know you know I meant my words. Gennai was mistaken. Wonder Takeru I will wait for you forever, till the day you return to my castle, for I Princess Hikari love you," interrupted Kari as she closed her eyes and fell into a quick sleep. TK was tempted to wake her up once again but then realized how tired he was and before the words formed on his lips he was asleep.
Mor's head came into view from the lower bunk, she whispered, "Davis? Davis I know your not asleep. What is with those two?"
Davis rolled over and whispered back to her, "I think they are finally going out! Kari had a bad dream and spent the night in TK's bunk."
"I had a bad dream too!" whined Mor in a quiet joking manner, "Though I'll take it to my grave! I still wish I had a nice boy to comfort me."
Davis caught her drift. He knew that she although in the amazingly short time Mor was Davis's best friend and he wouldn't chance it on a relationship. But he knew Mor's troubled past and knew she lacked a caring male figure other then her brother. And her brother wouldn't hold her close to him to sleep. Davis lifted up the covers and motioned to Mor who eagerly scrambled into the bed next to him. Mor grabbed Davis hand and brought it around her waist, he tickled her, subconsciously not wanting to seem as though it was love, because it wasn't...yet.
Mor grabbed his hand and held it tight in hers almost hurting Davis, "Hey, I know we aren't going out but that is no ground to sleep uncomfortable! And like I would ever go out with you!" Mor whispered loudly looking over her shoulder at Davis. Davis made a playful face of hurt before he laughed and went back to sleep.
Everyone slept, all those that returned to sleep, for another few hour. Since the disturbing events of the previous night had everyone awake at around five or six in the morning.
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The morning held a lot of questions for all fifteen of the Digidestined. Unknowingly using their D-Terminals and other e-mailing devices that normal were not allowed to be used after the e-mail from Digitammamon was sent. But under the most peculiar circumstances of the previous night a limited e- mailing usage was allowed. Although the Digidestined didn't know that it had been prohibited.
The four girls with their nightmares all admitted to the other girls that they all coward to the guys, for comfort from the red dreams and the deadly new digimon egg. Everyone was told and retold each of the dreams and Izzy was happy that it was in the end a big help in decoding the prophecy. Izzy specifically asked Patience, Mor, and Zoemi if anyone of them had a similar dream. Mor held her tongue.
Mor had the same type of dream the other girls did, or at least the end was the same. There was the digiegg leaking it's green substance and there in front of it, Mor had stood Davis at her side. The green mist met Davis who dropped down dead within seconds after coming in contact. Forgetting the mist and her own life she ran to Davis and cried. Mor couldn't even remember the last time she had ever cried, but it wasn't tears for true love, but love of her best friend, only friend in the world...worlds with the exception of Prehimon. The green mist never touched her it seemed to stop before her at the will of the person who was laughing at her, at her tears. Mor didn't even have to look up at the digiegg and it's puppet, that the digiegg would please until hatched. The only person who would laugh at her for tears, the person she turned to the most, the person who knew that Mor didn't cry. 'Dairen, I can't believe you!'
Her brother stopped laughing at her and just stared at her, 'Oh Mor! You knew I was darkness, I'm not evil just darkness. You could join me, you know, help me...You never did forgive me for choosing to live with dad while you chose mom...' his voice trailed off as Mor was plunged into darkness.
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Later that afternoon Mimi that now completely felt better wanted to get up and out of that room. She was completely happy with staying with Joe but the plain white was were driving her insane. That and the blue-green color theme was bugging her.
Mimi walked to the door, while yelling back to Joe who was finishing his lunch, "I was thinking we really did learn a lot about our feeling, and each other. So I'm figuring we have 'paid' and can leave now." Joe just watched in amazement, and with a few noodles hanging out of his mouth, as Mimi successfully opened the door.
Joe slurped up the noodles and ran to the door. He picked Mimi up and gave her a quick kiss, "Mimi you're a genius! Let go see if anyone else is out."
Mimi dragged Joe to the way end of the hall to start with Tai and Sora's room so they could work their way to the lobby. Mimi's hand raised to the door already balled into a fist, Knock, "Sora! Tai!..." the door creaked open under Mimi's hand.
"Well I guess, they learned something. I wonder what it was," pondered Joe as the door opened to reveal Sora on Tai's lap, making out.
At the creaking of the door Sora looked up and with a small yelp stumbled off Tai's lap, "Mimi!" said Sora angry, "Mimi!" Sora said the second time when she realized that she was looking at Mimi, and the door was open.
"Well I guess I know what they learned," replied Joe looking at Tai who was completely content, "that they love each other."
"Was that what we were supposed to learn?" asked Tai standing up and walking to Sora's side, putting an arm around her. Joe and Mimi nodded, with a smile.
"So Mimi what did you learn?" asked Sora.
Mimi smiled, a mischievous smile and turned and faced Joe who was only a step behind her, "Oh I don't know, what did we learn?"
Joe smiled and pulled Mimi close to him, giving her a short but passion filled kiss, "Something along the same lines as they did."
Clap, clap everyone turned towards the door to see Wizardmon standing there, "Well I usually just show up for the first pair who get out and let them tell the others, excluding my name. But in this case the second pair who's door unlocked were the first to realize it. Good work Mimi and Joe. Now let me explain I enlisted Digitammamon to help me test you and train you. Without this knowledge, this strength as you will. You wont be strong enough to defeat this new evil. And of course you can't tell Matt, Patience, or Izzy."
"Wizardmon?" they all exclaimed, Wizardmon just smiled.
----------Three Days Later
Kari bolted strait up in her bed hitting her head on TK's low bunk above her own. She was completely scared for TK's life. She once again had the dream but TK's death was slower and more painful, if at all possible. Kari had awoke right when she saw the green field and felt TK's hand in hers, not wanting to see him die yet again.
Kari scrambled up the small ladder and crawled into TK's bed shacking him gently, "TK I had the dream again..." TK didn't wake up, "TK!" Kari cried tears streaming down her face, Kari buried her head in the blankets hoping that TK wasn't dead.
After a few seconds a hand rested on her shoulder and pulled her to lay next to him, "It was just a dream Kari I'm not going to leave you, I said I would protect you. What kind of protector would I be if I wasn't around?"
"I know TK, it just seemed so real, please just tonight," begged Kari tears still in her eyes.
TK turned Kari to face him, he dried her tears with one hand while caressing her cheek with the other.
TK loved her of course that was not the question the question was is loving her healthy? And in TK's eyes the answer was no, it was turning Kari to the trembling figure in front of him.
Kari smiled and starred into TK's tired blue eyes, she could see the love in them. Kari leaned forward and kissed TK on the lips although she was trembling she tried to deepen the kiss, but TK didn't react. Kari pulled back fresh tears in her eyes.
Or is the question, 'Is not loving her unhealthy?' that I know is a yes TK thought as he watched what little color Kari had left disappear so that her skin glowed iridescent in the dark. Kari was looking very tired and sick. TK knew that he looked not to much better. In all of this he was sticking to what Gennai had said. But strangely at the early hour his mind lost control and his heart took over, "I'm sorry." TK who's arms were already wrapped around Kari pulled her closer, loosening his grip with one hand he dried Kari's tears once more. Then he lifted her face to his and gently kissed her, after a second or two he deepened his kiss.
That was when his mind began to think again, but strangely it agreed with heart though not fully. TK stopped kissing Kari who smiled and seemed to fall asleep happily within a minute.
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Patience and Matt were sitting on the bed cross-legged staring at each other. It was early, too early in the morning of the fifth day, and they hadn't spoken a word. Matt sighed not really talking to Patience, but was talking to himself out loud, "I miss my guitar!"
Patience looked at him with an strange and intrigued look, "You play guitar? Me too!" Matt opened his mouth to speak, "I know I talked to you, lets just forget this. I'm sorry I was bugging you about the digital world, lets just be friends ok?"
"Ok. Yeah I play guitar, in a band," replied Matt.
"Cool, I learned from my father, does your brother play too?"
"No, we didn't grow up in the same house, he lived with my mom and I with my dad. I think if we lived together then maybe."
"Really that is so strange my family was split up as well, I picked to live with my dad to learn guitar. Then Mor picked to live with mom, Dairen, my brother chose dad, and Zoemi went to mom. After a year we switched so I lived a year with mom. We were lucky and our parent lived in the same district, but I never really got to spend time with my sisters."
"Yeah I know how you feel," Matt said looking into Patience's blue eyes, "So why is your nickname Patience?"
"I never complained when I didn't get something I wanted strait away I always patiently waited."
"A brother you say? Is he also a Digidestined?"
"You know I don't know you think he would but as far as I know he didn't come with us. But my family was always a little messed up, There was me the oldest and a complete girly girl, and my wild brother who hated his soft blue eyes and pinkish hair, Mor who, if it wasn't for her long hair and obvious girl attributes you could swear was a guy, and Zoemi who was in the middle."
"Yeah, but it is all understandable."
"I know. Hey were you and...umm... Sora(?) going out? It just looked like you were."
"Yeah," replied Matt who not until the mention of Sora's name was looking in Patience's eyes.
"What happened?"
"I broke up with her," Matt said, he looked at Patience, who wanted a better explanation, "Well I though it was unfair to her. See the thought came to me when a friend of mine who was 20 dated a fifteen year old. See for us that is illegal so they never did anything, no dates, no nothing. But they had plans for the day she turned eighteen and they could legally date. Well he ended up breaking up with her because he wanted her to be a normal teenager, and not be just waiting for him. I realized that Sora came to my band practices but I never saw any of her tennis matches. That she waited for me though she wasn't patient. I think if it was in her nature she would have broken up with me. I realized that it was unfair to make her wait forever, that she needed a life. I knew she loved Tai, and he loved her. Even if he didn't miss a friendly soccer match or two to watch her play tennis. So when I broke up with her I told her to date Tai, and that is what I think is happening now."
"Wow, that... that really is sweet in a way, as well as sad. Hey I'm sorry."
"Don't be, not your fault."
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"Fifteen Digidestined against nine Dark Digidestined so add Luna (Fifteen to Nine is even so add one more)
Izzy (because I'm the child of knowledge and older then Cody)(The old and wise) must bend to the innocence of a child and wish
Light and Hope always strongest against Evil, aren't strong enough
without Love, none of us are.(Light and Hope forever stronger, but
Love is stronger)
Cody and Zoemi (The young, and feeble, but strong), must lead
When time re-returns (On a day when time is equal), and Luna Selena
Sternkind (the Moon and Stars) comes out and meets the world (meet the
sun)
Dark Masters etc. will return with the strength of Daemon and become
one. (Old and New will band together in new ways to fight good
With the strength of that, that was BANNISHED and killed)," read Izzy, at his latest attempt at the prophecy. It actually didn't sound bad and made complete sense.
A loud Click was heard, as Izzy's door unlocked.
Izzy's head shot up, he slowly got off his bed and walked to the door. Izzy's hand rested on the doorknob for a second, before he turned the knob and pulled. The door slid easily open, "I did it! I figured out the prophecy before we were attacked!"
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Kari stood in the grass, the evil digiegg in front of her and TK next to her. Kari again shocked to see TK alive let go of his hand. The green fog touched TK and he dropped down dead. But instead of running, Kari no longer cared for her own life, she fell to her knees and picked TK up in her arms as best she could. Kari braced herself for her own death but the fog seemed to go out of its way not to touch her. Kari looked at the egg and noticed a person standing next to it. The person was a blond girl with black highlights, she was very pale and had green eyes. 'Who are you?'
'Apathy,' said the girl with a mock bow.
'And your name?'
'That is of little consequence, all you need to know is I'm Apathy,' replied Apathy with a pleased smirk.
Kari looked Apathy over and noticed she was wearing a sport sweatshirt like the ones you get at school with your name written on it. Kari could tell Apathy or should she say Sala, didn't realize this fact, and wasn't about to tell her.
'Do you know why my good counterpart is dead?'
'Because it would be my worst nightmare. What I don't know is why I'm alive. Your Apathy, emotionless even to the emotions and enjoyment of my torture. Your not true Apathy, only despair. Since you're his dark counterpart then you must be in love with mine. And love you know is an emotion.'
'I am Apathy, this is your dream. You're the one who puts yourself through the torture,' snapped back Sala.
Kari's dream faded away and her eyes bolted open. For a second she was happy to be in TK's bunk, but then she realized that he was gone. "TK!" Kari screamed sitting up and looking around.
Gatomon and Patamon, climbed to the top bunk from where they were sleeping in Kari's bunk, "Kari what's wrong?" asked Gatomon concerned.
"Where, where is TK?" frantically asked Kari.
"He left earlier, he said not to wake you," replied Patamon.
"I must find him!" exclaimed Kari, attempting to jump down from the bunk, but in her weak and trembling state she fell to the floor. Kari slowly got up and rushed for the door. But the hands of Mor and Davis stopped her.
"Kari what is wrong?" asked Mor.
"I must find TK, now!" replied Kari.
"Kari you don't look well you should go back to bed," said Davis motioning to bring Kari to her bed.
Kari turned around to face Davis tears filled her eyes. Kari weakly slapped Davis across the face, "You...you don't understand! I... I... s...saw... I saw him die! I saw Sala!"
"Who's Sala?" asked Mor, the name sounded very familiar to her. Mor knew that her brother Dairen had a depressed friend named Sala.
"Apathy! They are here, and I got to make sure TK is alive!" Kari screamed while shaking Davis' hand loose and bolting out of the door being trailed by Gatomon, and Patamon.
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"What!?" yelled Dairen at Sala, after Sala explained the dream she had, "You know why the counterpart to Hope is Apathy and not despair?"
Sala shook her head, "Well Apathy it is because Hope is for all emotions. If you were just despair then you too would feel the hopelessness for all emotions. But to be a true opposite you need to be emotionless and hopeless, Apathy!" Dairen replied.
"Dairen..." Dairen was about to object, "No! Dairen there are no goody goodies, or another one of our Digidestined around. Dairen you know me, you weren't afraid of me, I am Apathy. Although I didn't mean to, it was in complete self defense I killed my abusive father, and not once did it haunt my dreams. Or the point that it was blamed on my cheating mother and her new fling of the week, which sent me to the streets. None of that haunts me, hurts me. You know that I have lived my life in emotionless despair, in Apathy. So don't question me don't believe Light's words I don't feel! I don't love!"
"G'mee(Pronounced: Ga-mee)..." Dairen began.
"G'mee? What happened to Apathy, names are power? And why don't you call me Sala like everyone else?"
"Like you said no goody, goodies. Well I never saw why they took Sala from Gameesalaonii (Pronounced: Ga-mee-sa-la-oe-nee)." Dairen smiled, then finished under his breath, "maybe she didn't speak true for you, but I always tried to make you feel, it hurt me to see the apathy in your eyes."
"What?" asked Sala.
"Apathy! You are our best fighter, or potentially. You wont care for the others or life. You'll fight to the death as long as you stay emotionless!" Dairen snapped back, assuming authority.
"And you Darkness? Are you just as strong?" asked Sala. She laughed when Dairen didn't answer. She slowly walked to Dairen, she put her hand on his neck and pulled his face to hers. Sala kissed Dairen, trying to make it seem passionate and loving, though Sala didn't know the meaning of either word.
Sala pulled away and walked towards the door of Dairen's small, ship's room, "I didn't feel that, you know. But you did, so in your own words I would be stronger, why don't I lead?"
Dairen ran up to Sala and grabbed her arm with his right. Dairen slammed Sala against the wall and with in seconds had a knife to her throat. Sala laughed, "I'm not afraid, I could lead you don't scare me. You know I could kill and would wake the same the next day, but I know something the others don't... you can't kill. Your afraid that when the battle comes you'll have to kill little Zoemi, or Mor..."
"Shut up! Why do you say such things? Why did you do that?"
"Because it is true, because I was right."
"That is not why you kissed me. You saw Light and how she cried, loved Hope, how knowing that the green fog would kill her, but she still stayed. You want to feel."
"So what if I do, it wont happen. And you, you know that I could make you stronger like Hope to Light, but unlike Light to Hope it would make me weaker. And your not willing to sacrifice that."
Dairen still holding Sala against the wall put the knife away, "Are you sure?" said Dairen loosing his rough grip and wrapping his arms around Sala's waist, "I love you."
"What is that, what does it mean?" asked Sala completely confused. She had never heard such words in her life, but somehow looking into Dairen's eyes she could see that whatever 'love' was he loved her and there was also a hint of sympathy in those eyes. Dairen always felt sorry for her and always loved her, it was always his goal to make her feel even the smallest of emotions, even if it destroyed the perfect fighter. Dairen figured it had to work both ways that he could make her stronger. If Light and Hope are the strongest against evil and together even stronger, then Darkness and Apathy are the strongest against good and together they must be stronger.
Dairen slowly lowered his head and softly kissed Sala, a long passionate kiss. Sala might not have known love and passion and her weak attempt to show passion and love in that kiss. But Dairen knew love knew passion or at least the meaning and that was what he showed Sala.
Dairen pulled away, but still held Sala close. Sala had to admit it, she felt nothing. During that kiss though she thought she felt something though she wasn't sure, it was like using a drug for the first time. Her body didn't know what was going on, but there was a temporary high, a high of feelings. But the feelings were gone now, there was nothing. She was no longer true Apathy, but only when he kissed her like that. Otherwise she still didn't care what happened, even if it was Dairen's death. She knew drugs were bad, that being high just dulled the senses and was dangerous. To Sala that was what love was a drug, she might have then been addicted to this love, but it was a drug and in her mind she thought it was dangerous like other drugs.
But Sala was addicted, so she leaned forward a little and kissed Dairen once more letting him fill the kiss with passion and love.
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"TK!" Kari yelled running to TK, who was looking over the side of the boat at the water in the exact same spot that Kari received the e-mail from 'Gennai'. TK didn't respond he was to wrapped up in the silver water that passed below him. The silver water that matched the gray clouds above, it would rain that day. TK thought about his own nightmare that was much like Kari's in what he saw shouldn't have happened. The blood and death that he saw, and the egg that radiated green was infused with Kimeramon the digimon that Ken had created. But that wasn't all that he saw by the egg and like Kari that previous night was not the first time he had that dream or saw the girl by that egg. She was young and tan with blue hair that matched her blue eyes. At first she had refused to give a name, but in the dream the previous night she was mumbling to herself and said her name 'Telaageesmae' (pronounced: Tell-a-gee-s-may) or Ella. She, she was the source of TK's uncertainty about his love for Kari, not just that she was the source of uncertainty. But her words and actions weren't reliable so why did he believe them?
"TK!" yelled Kari once more laying a hand on TK's shoulder and turning him towards her. TK for the first time heard her and not just that saw her. Kari was not a healthy color she looked pale and gray like the clouds. Kari was trembling and within seconds her arms were around TK and she was crying into his chest.
"Kari, it's ok. What's wrong? What did you see?" asked TK in a soft comforting voice while he gently rubbed Kari's back.
"I saw Apathy, your counterpart, she is evil, she said it was my fault I kept seeing you die. But that is not the worst part I know they are here, on this boat all of them, all the Dark Digidestined."
TK was about to reply, and say that he had the same feeling as Kari when his D-Terminal beeped. Kari's also beeped at the in coming e-mail but in her hast she left it in the room. TK took out his D-Terminal and opened it to read the e-mail.
"It's addressed to all of us from Izzy he figured out the prophecy: Hey you guys! Here is the solved and simplified version of the prophecy;
Fifteen Digidestined against nine Dark Digidestined is evenly matched so add Luna
Izzy must bend to the innocence of a child and wish
Light and Hope always strongest against Evil, aren't strong enough
without Love, none of us are.
Cody and Zoemi must lead
When time re-returns, to be equal in at least the human world and
Digiworld, and Luna Selena Sternkind comes out and meets the world.
Dark Masters etc. will return with the strength of Daemon and become one.
Also no one get mad, especially the new couples TK and Kari, Tai and Sora, Joe and Mimi, and even Ken and Yolei. The love was always there and this was under no circumstance a spell or other form of manipulation to force love upon you guys for the prophecy.
Now note to Matt, Tai, and Davis to you three it might be hard to except this especially since I have been filled in privately by the person who set this whole learning thing up. But TK and Kari are no longer little kids and are very responsible besides the point we all saw this coming. So don't freak out because they are together.
Now to other news as soon as Matt and Patience's door unlocks we will search for Gennai who seems to have been kidnapped about a week or two Digiworld time after the younger Digidestined came here. Lets just hope he is alright!
Good luck! Bye Izzy"
"Wow ok that explains a lot," said Kari looking a lot better then she did before.
"When did we get that email from Gennai? Five days ago or so? It was a fake!" exclaimed TK.
"Then why do you still seem so uncertain about... You saw her! You saw Uncertainty!" said Kari.
"How did you know it was a her?"
"I don't know, but that's not the point. TK you believed her!"
"We thought it was Gennai!"
"But you still believe her!"
"And you! You believed Apathy I can see it your loosing hope!"
"TK I would be so mad at you right now if I didn't love you!" Kari yelled but then she realized that it was a lie, not a lie she still loved TK but it just seemed that she no longer knew love. TK could see the hesitant, the close to apathy in Kari's eyes. TK had never seen her quite like she was now, it scared him.
TK didn't know what to do, he did the first thing could think of, something that his brain had thought of, and not just to make her feel better, but it was because he loved her and he knew it. TK leaned down and passionately kissed Kari.
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"They know we are here!" exclaimed Fear.
"Doesn't matter! Now did anyone else see one of them in a dream?" replied Darkness to his group of Digidestined that had called an emergency meeting in Darkness's room.
"I saw Hope," replied Ella, "a few times. He seems very uncertain now."
"Good work Uncertainty," replied Darkness.
"And there was no effect on you?" asked Rivalry.
"I Hope not, but I'm sure that there was none," replied Ella, not realizing that she had said 'Hope' and 'sure' as in certain, in the same sentence. Words she never used before in such content.
"This could prove to be a problem," said Malevolence.
"Yeah first Apathy, then Uncertainty, anyone of us could be next!" exclaimed Fear.
"I said I was fine, "replied Sala in a toneless, emotionless voice.
"Don't worry it wasn't your fault," replied Darkness.
"Forgiveness! You saw her, Mor!" exclaimed Rivalry.
"I suggest we don't sleep because this could be a problem," replied Hate.
Ella looked uncertain, "I don't know, If we don't sleep, we wont be good to fight."
Malevolence smiled, "Or maybe not..."
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"You know Matt, we are a lot alike right?" said Patience. They had been talking like friends for the whole day and were getting ready to go to sleep.
"And then in other aspects complete opposites," replied Matt with a smile.
"But you know that's what I find attractive, someone who understands but the can also give a complete different thought to the situation," said Patience laying down in her bed that was still pushed against Matt's.
"I love that too. Hey since we aren't fighting why are the beds still together?" asked Matt giving Patience a 'What are you thinking?' look.
Patience shot Matt a playful sly look, "Oh well this way you can stop me from rolling off."
Matt raised an eyebrow, "And what if you roll in the other direction?"
"Then I'll have to sleep..." began Patience sliding over close to Matt, "here. In your arms, only to save me from a splitting headache tomorrow morning, of course."
"Yeah of course," said Matt rolling his eyes and laying a hand casually over Patience's stomach.
"Oh what I don't even get a good night kiss?" asked Patience, Matt turned his head to Patience and raised an eyebrow at her, "a good night hug maybe?"
"Maybe tomorrow morning," replied Matt.
"Oh please, please I can't wait that long!"
"And what happened to being Patient?"
"Who cares, I'll become an actress, please...please..." Patience was cut off by Matt's lips pressed against hers, but only in a friendly manner, there was no love or passion.
The door made an exceptional loud clicking noise of it unlocking.
Matt pulled away from Patience, "The door is unlocked."
Patience gave Matt a short but more passionate kiss, "Tomorrow, I'm too tired."
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Sala slipped silently in Dairen's single room, it was pitch dark and at that hour one would expect that the inhabitants would be asleep. But Sala knew that Dairen was awake and sitting on his bunk, elbows on his knees and face in hands.
Sala placed a hand gently on Dairen's shoulder, "Dairen?"
"What do you Want? Apathy!" Dairen seem to spit out the words with a furious anger.
Sala was taken aback, but not surprised she knew what apathy did to those who were not born to it. "I'm sorry," Sala admitted, "Your becoming emotionless, but not until years of depression and anger consume you, and if you live through that, then you have a small chance of an emotionless life. So I'm sorry."
Dairen was beginning to feel overwhelming guilt. Until he looked into Sala's eyes and realized she was still what her crest implied, Apathy. "Your sorry? You don't know what that means!" Dairen yelled angrily.
"That is what I'm here for, I want you to tell me what some words mean," Sala said lowering her head as she sat on the floor at Dairen's feet.
Guilt and sadness completely took over Dairen, as well for his love for the girl at his feet. The love that was dooming her when expressed and dooming him when not. "Like what?" his voice was almost cheerful.
Sala whispered almost inaudibly, "Love..." she hesitated before continuing her list, this out of all was the one she wanted to know.
Dairen sighed, and pulled Sala up off the floor sitting her down next to him rubbing her back caringly with one hand. Dairen spoke as if reading from a dictionary, "Love: A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness."
Taking a second to consider this answer Sala replied, "And, Passion, Hope, Kind, Apologize, Darkness in a person, and Light in a person?"
Dairen keeping his dictionary tone replied, "Passion: A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger, ardent love, or strong sexual desire; lust. Hope: To wish for something with expectation of its fulfillment, and to have confidence; trust. Kind: Of a friendly, generous, or warm-hearted nature, showing sympathy or understanding; charitable, humane; considerate, forbearing; tolerant, and/or generous; liberal. Apologize: To make excuse for or regretful acknowledgment of a fault or offense. Darkness: Characterized by gloom; dismal, sullen or threatening, concealed or secret; mysterious, and/or being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor. And Light that I don't know."
Sala excepted Dairen's answers although not so warm and meaning full they were the answers. What surprised, if possible, Sala was that Dairen didn't even hesitate in his definition of Darkness. His own crest which said what he was, and now laying the truth out for Sala. Sala didn't want to leave Dairen, for love? She still knew the meaning not. It wasn't really worry or kindness either but she knew he wanted her to stay to feed him more Apathy like Hope feeds Light more hope when in close proximity, was the most likely reason.
Sala pulled Dairen down to lay on the bunk she saw in his eyes that he wanted to cry and she tried her best to comfort though she knew not how. The two drifted to sleep. ----------
That night held nightmares for all, or at least new nightmares for the males of the Digidestined. Bloody battles that shouldn't have happened, all ending in a green grassy field with an evil digiegg radiating a green death substance as the digiegg was infused with Arukenimon, Mummymon, Datamon, MetalEtemon, SkullMeramon, Machinedramon, Megadramon, MetalSeadramon, Cherrymon, and Apokarimon.
The nightmares that night were specifically, and only seen by the males of the group, except Kari. It was then again at the field that held the evil digiegg, and as normal the strong hand gripped in hers belonged to TK, and just like every other night she let go and he died. One again realizing her mistake although only subconsciously she rushed to his side, hoping to whatever god that there was (She now having trouble in see a truth in one religions belief) that he was alive or the egg would kill her too.
"You know if you didn't let go he would be alive," replied a soft yet emotionless voice that was coming from the direction of the egg.
"What do you want?" asked Kari tears in her eyes as she turned towards Sala.
"He isn't dead, I'll drag his own subconscious mind to this dream when it is time. I want you to answer some questions for me and I'll give you much needed information in return," Sala tried to force a smile, Kari nodded, "For you to answer my question your going to have to know me better so we will start there. In Maeguumii divorce was very popular and so then the rules were changed people had to be married twenty years before divorce was allowed, but the could get separated if the had the money and children. One morning my parents woke up with a hang over and a marriage license. A few weeks later they found out that my mom was pregnant, well that day my mom swore off alcohol, and my father swore his allegiance to that substance. I grew up a simple life with out seeing my parents much, every Monday I found 50 maec (maec = Maeguumii currency)on the table for lunch and weekend activities. That and if I or another said that my parents weren't providing for me my parents would find themselves in a mess that they couldn't afford. My father was abusive and I believe my last tear fell when I was two or so, realizing it wasn't going to stop the drunken man who worked in the evenings and slept not always drunk in the day. My mother busied herself with boyfriends a new one every week or so. Now I know I said my father was abusive but not to the extremities, he was abusive to my soul, making no feelings the better alternative. When this dawned on me, happened without my asking, I was three. I was six I believe when my father found out where, or better who my mother was with, at the theater with her rich boyfriend. Though my parents didn't love each other it was still something not allowed in Maeguumii society, resulting in heavy fines and marriage classes of some sort for all three involved. My father blamed me and got drunk more(if possible) then normal. At this time I was dicing onions that I was going to cook up and bring to school the next day, of course the whole meal wasn't the onions but that's what I was chopping when he attacked me. A golf club or broom stick hit my back the knife in my hand clattered to the floor along with my fathers weapon. Then he beat me with his own hands he wanted to see the tears in my eyes to match his own, but they didn't fall. I don't remember the pain but I remember that I knew it was wrong I groped the floor for anything to stop him. My hand clenched the knife, my brain not at all cloudy when I stabbed him. He died and I passed out a result of a few of my broken bones I assume. Well according to what I was later told my mother returned home with her boyfriend expecting my dad to be at work she was in a black evening dress with long black velvet gloves. She found me and my father in the kitchen, and for whatever reason removed the knife from my father and enticed her boyfriend to help her remove the bodies (assuming Sala to also be dead). Well a policeman drove by or a concerned citizen when seeing my mother and her boyfriend drag my fathers body out of the house, called the police and ambulance. I woke up outside my house with a temporary amnesia. Claiming that I need to go in the house and finish cooking tomorrows lunch because I had no time in the morning. Me saying those words brought any thought that me, the six year old girl killed her father, to a quick and abrupt end, and put my mother who was already in trouble, to death row. At seeing my fathers body I remembered what I did. To explain the feeling then... there was none. I was given to my uncle which was a druggie, I spent more time on the streets then at home. Why didn't I end my life? Some ask, it is a simple answer: I had no reason to live as well as none to die. No overwhelming feelings to push me one way or the other."
Kari was horrified at what she had heard, and she knew it was all true, "I'm so sorry, no one should go through that."
"I know. Well yes ok now tell me what Love is, and what is Light when in a person such as yourself?" asked Sala ignoring Kari's sympathy, "and please no answers that were read from a dictionary."
"Love for a person? Someone you could marry? It is a feeling deep in the soul that makes your body cold when their hand has left yours, the knots in your stomach when the kiss another (hoping that it was before the knotted stomach one and the other implied person aren't together. If they were together then it wouldn't have happened), you'll know that if they are gone that you will die, even if it is only on the inside. That is Love. In reality there is no words to describe it, it just is what it is, Love. And though you may not know exactly, when you feel it, you'll know." Kari replied not taking her eyes off of TK while the words slipped from her mouth with ease and knowledge.
Sala excepted this answer it was better then she had heard before, "And Light?"
"I've asked myself that and I'm afraid all I know is what I read in a dictionary, Light: A person who inspires or is adored by another. For a real answer you'll have to ask him." Replied Kari motioning to TK.
Sala sighed. She really didn't know if she could bring him here but she knew that he was have the same type of dream and she hoped forcing the dream TK alive that it would bring the dreaming TK's mind to them. And of course bring Dairen also to them being the one who was chosen that night to try and push Hope into the lonely Darkness, and TK was chosen that night to try and give the impending Darkness Hope. "You know he loves you, but for this battle it is to late. He is to uncertain now and your to hopeless now and what I have to tell you will just make such things worse. We dream like this at the joint efforts of both sides to scare us, weaken us, to teach us. So that's what we are doing now learning something, and this is no alliance."
The words were cold and soul piercing all though they were said not in a cold way, but in the bland, plan truth. Kari gripped TK's lifeless hand as he woke up to this shared dream. Brought there by the strong pull of his heart, or for the simple reason that, that night he was meant to meet Apathy as well as Darkness. Uncertainty playing with Cody's mind and not TK's, or was it TK not playing with Ella's mind but Cody was?
"Who are you?" TK asked looking at Sala, "Your Apathy." TK answered himself.
Sala nodded, "What is Light when in a person like her?"
TK was confused but Kari gave him an encouraging squeeze of his hand, "Optimistic, but not to the point that they don't see the pain in front of their eyes. A person who could never hate. And cares for every creature's well fair, forgetting the past that was horrible when needed when the creature is in need of help."
"That she is," replied Sala, then she quickly changed the subject, "We the Dark Digidestined aren't your only problem you'll been torn four ways. We are here for only the girl, you on the other hand are here to stop this new evil digimon, stop us, find the girl, and find Gennai... was it? Just think about it all the evil you have fought poured into one digimon. You'll be split to groups of four and one of three. Unlikely odds I know."
The words stunned Kari she knew it before but now hearing the words without emotion attached to it, her inevitable death just seemed true with no sinister laugh to make her realize that she would win. TK was now so unsure what to do the impending death seeming to just be the only outcome.
"Traitor!" said a voice from behind Sala it was dripping with anger, loss, and sadness, malice even toward the blond hunam. Sala turned around to see Dairen standing there, with out a second to respond Dairen tackled Sala.
A few rolls and Sala had Dairen pinned to the ground switchblade in hand held to Dairen's throat, "I am not! It doesn't matter what I tell them it just pushes them farther apart. I know you love me but your life means nothing to me!" with the last part Sala pushed the knife harder against Dairen's exposed neck. Being it a Maeguumii belief, that if you die in a dream you die for real, or be it that he forgot it was even a dream. Dairen calmed down and Sala loosened her grip.
"Sala..." began Kari forgetting she wasn't supposed to know her name.
Dairen still being a strong believer in 'Names are Power' responded, "Sala? Now G'mee what have you been telling them?"
"The truth... my life, whatever," replied Sala with a grin, (a real grin, though the feeling left as quickly as it had come and Sala didn't even realize it).
"Well since I'm hear I could just give them more to think about. Your traveling with Patience, Mor, and Zoemi right? You know why they hold both light and dark crest? Patience is well, as patient as they come with one exception... guys. I'm not saying she is a slut, but she'll go far in little time if she wants to and is very impatient with the guys she surrounds herself with. Guys who are also patient and don't necessarily want to go far, she breaks them. Mor your doomed if you ever think of her as a girl. She is as forgiving as they come but very self protecting a blow to her self esteem and she'll never forgive youm, let alone let you walk again. Zoemi because of the family situation she was forced to grow up and be responsible, but she is only nine and the youngest in her family giving her a 'Claire and Sofae' (Maeguumii equivalent to 'Dr. Jekyl Mr. Hyde') effect when enticed to immaturity that one her age should be. With those three as 'friends' watch your back. But it's not like you didn't already have to watch your backs, battling three worlds, for the fate of all," said Dairen without to much emotion in his voice, it was his family to explain them wasn't hard and to connect himself to them in anyway was pointless.
"Let me guess you want to hear our stories now?" asked TK eyeing the evil pair with a sullen look. In truth Dairen's story sent shivers down his spine hearing that at any second Mor or Zoemi could betray them.
"No I got what I wanted from you two. I know that you two are strong but no longer strong enough you (Kari) are thinking there is no hope, and you (TK) are uncertain and sullen," said Sala with a smile that lasted longer.
Kari replied in voice that remand toneless for the wanted effect she wanted her words to have, "And you (Dairen) have hope that both your souls will be redeemed and that you wont die because even four to nine you know we'll win, and you (Sala) are to optimistic and happy about all of this, I can see in your eyes that whatever hate that you could muster now wont come. But more importantly Sala you love Dairen."
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Izzy grips the lush green grass he didn't have to see the egg to know it was there, he really couldn't believe what he saw. And though he knew it never happened it was eating him up on the inside. It was Izzy not Matt who went to the Forest of Delusion. But unlike Matt, Izzy had succeed in killing all the other Digidestined including Davis, Yolei, Cody, Patience, Mor and Zoemi. Izzy also knew what he was to see in that egg, what essence that it absorbed; Cherrymon.
Izzy's thoughts that were solely set on removing the memory of the first half of his dream was interrupted by a soft cry. Izzy slowly raised up to his feet before he looked at the source of the sadness, he was expecting a trick of some sort, one of the Dark Digidestined.
Izzy slowly raised his head to see a girl sitting on the ground her face buried in her knees. She was white, quite literally maybe not a complete albino but her long wavy hair was more white then blond, and her skin a cream that was almost white, like it has never seen the sun.
The girl murmured, "What is this place? What is this water in my eyes? What is the bright ball above me? What is this feeling? Why is it so bright!?"
"Umm... excuse me..." Izzy said walking over to the girl not sure if it would be wise to put a reassuring arm around her or not.
Just when Izzy was about to place a hand on her shoulder, the girl's face shot up and looked at him. The girl let out a short yelp and squinted in the light her pupils incredibly small. Her eyes where red from crying, it was more noticeable against the whiteness of her skin. Her ice blue teetering on a more violet or red shade, stared at Izzy trying to analyze him, see what he was. "W...who...who...r...r...are...you?" the girl sutured while trying to push herself away from Izzy but was half frozen in fear for never seeing such a creature in the whole of her fourteen years.
Izzy looked at the girl it wasn't that she was trembling in fear as much as she was shivering, from not wearing any clothes. Izzy's face turned a beat red when he realized this fact and tried unsuccessfully to hide it. "My name is Koushirou Izumi, and you are?"
The girl gave him a questioning look not sure that she trusted him or not, after a minute or two and a soft gentle smile from Izzy, she answered, "L....Luna Selena Sternkind... Hello Kou...shi...Koushi...rou...Koushirou(?)."
Izzy smiled, "Hello Luna, are you alright?"
Luna's lips were trembling and she began to cry again, "I...I don't know, What is this place? What is this water in my eyes? What is the bright ball above me? What is this feeling? Why is it so bright!?"
"This is a field," began Izzy, Luna looked confused, "a field is where lots of this green stuff called grass grows, this field is in a dream, the pictures you see while you sleep. The water in your eyes is called tears and come when you cry, you cry for many feelings happiness, sadness, fear, pain, etc. The bright ball is called the sun it warms and brings light to the day. I think you mean the feeling of cold, which is caused by the not warm air and the point that you have no clothes on, like the clothes I'm wearing," Izzy took off his school jacket and handed it to Luna, "Here, take it, it will make you warm. It's bright because of the sun, and is just the way it works." Izzy had spoken with great care reading each of Luna's expressions to make sure she understood.
Luna examined the jacket before she put it on and then stood up spinning around like it was a brand new dress. Izzy had to smile, his jacket fitted her like a low cut dress with oversized sleeves. For Luna was shorter the Izzy by about fifteen centimeters or so and was very thin and frail.
Luna began fiddling with the buttons and then looked at Izzy for help. Izzy walked over to her and buttoned up his green school jacket for her. Izzy tried to do the buttoning so she could learn to do it herself, but she refused to look away from his eyes. When Izzy was done he took a step back but Luna took a step forward and caught Izzy in a big hug(big for Luna), "Thank you Koushirou."
Izzy returned the hug and smiled down at her, "Your welcome."
"Koushirou?" asked Luna still hugging Izzy.
"Yeah."
"Do you know the way back to my home?" she asked hopefully.
Izzy almost wanted to lie to her so not to break her heart. She was so frail and child like and though it might have seemed that she was stupid she was not, it was just that she had no use for some words while she lived a sheltered life, "I wish I did Luna."
"I wished you did to..." said Luna and then her eyes lit up at what she saw to her right side. There stood a cave made of orange stone, "I don't remember a field(?) at the entrance I remember that one entrance was with water and the other was a sandy patch in a forest, at the base of a orange rock mountain. Well come on Koushirou." Luna began to pull Izzy towards the cave.
Suddenly blocking the path was a very fast digimon that must have only been at the In-Training level and shrouded in a onyx darkness so Izzy couldn't see what it looked like. Luna screamed as the rather large immature digimon grabbed her and held a blade of some sort forcing Izzy to back up.
"It's alright Luna, it isn't real. Wake up, Wake up, Luna you have to wake up, please Wake Up!" said Izzy while continuing to walk backwards. To Izzy's relief Luna froze, her consistent struggling stopped and then a second later she faded to wakefulness.
The stunned digimon continued to hold Izzy at bay, forcing him to continue to back up. At this point he was willing himself to also wake up. Izzy heard a faint crunching noise under his foot, a faint sound of breaking small unnoticeable brittle pieces of something into smaller microscopic pieces. Izzy had no time to look down.
Izzy shot strait up in his bed sweat pouring down his face, he was cold realizing that his green jacket that he wore to bed was gone. It couldn't be... It was a dream... A more horrifying thought found its way into Izzy's head. It horrified Izzy in many ways that he forgot about wondering if Luna had his jacket or not and hoping he wouldn't freeze in only the white button up shirt that he had worn under his jacket. A sense of déjavu washed over Izzy as he said, "The egg has hatched."
Author's Note: lesser in as the nightmare was more to draw fear and that the evil was only one and compared to the others was not as strong while it's being, still lives(Ken is still alive).
Besides giving the smallest of hints to the new evil it was also to show that Mimi felt guilty about moving or going on so many vacations and not being able to help out.
Kari, that she shouldn't really let go of TK's hand and that she couldn't let him always protect her. Also to show that Kari feels guilty for making the other Digidestined go through many things for her, and showing how she isn't all that strong especially alone.
Sora to show that she still doesn't believe that she was right to be the holder of Love, with her whole Matt situation. Sora thinking Matt had said such things to her because he thought that she needed to much love.
Yolei, because Yolei believe that she is unwanted, that people believe that she is untrustworthy and unlovable. Part of which comes from the whole Ken situation, in the beginning Yolei was obsessed with Ken just like every other girl, not getting to know him before saying 'yes' and then the whole 'attempted suicide'.
Mor, so that you could see how much Mor really counts on Davis' friendship. Being a non popular tough girl at home she didn't have to many friends, girls were always to girly even other tomboys and the boys didn't like a girl that could turn them into a walking blue and purple balloon, or something much worse. That, and she knows where her brother is.
TK, was basically to feed the uncertainty and confusion that consumed his body after the e-mail from the unknown source that said it was Gennai. Although not detailed his battles with Kimeramon made him feel extremely unneeded especially by Kari.
Izzy, To scare him into brutality, and pure immoral forms of murdering friends, even if only a dream. That and so he could meet Luna and have a flash of déjavu: the egg hatching.
Other Digidestined, to scare them and mess with their virtues weakening both Dark and Light Digidestined: Cody to Ella, Ken to Deception, Davis to Malevolence, Tai to Hate, Matt to Fear, Joe to Rivalry, and of course Kari to Sala, and TK to Dairen, as well as the impossible match up of Izzy and Ignorance (being apposing the effect of the emotional change doesn't happened.) so Izzy met Luna, Knowledge to Wish.
I know that I had a six year old kill her father, but it is to show how impressionably young she was making it seemingly impossible that she felt no guilt. I would also like to say that any sex related content wont be out of a possible reality. So if you believe that they are to young or they wouldn't act like they do in my story, I am telling you that I at least know one person who acted the same at that age or younger. Also trust me that the sex content of this story wont be high, even though I am tempted to see how many of my stories can receive Marysue attention (I find it hilarious what they say. Not that I'm crazy but it is life, some like ya some don't, and not to be a complete kindergartener but 'Sticks n' Stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me!') If I have done this already I'm sorry but... I request creation credit if Luna and the Dark Digidestined are used Thanks! Also Dairen's definitions as well as Kari's for light came almost directly from dictionary.com.
I am also sorry that it took so long to post I just kept getting interrupted and all. I am also sorry that I didn't go into detail of half of the nightmares in this chapter. But this chapter alone is 38 pages (Ariel 12pt.) and I didn't want it to be 76 pages long, plus I already wrote enough blood. So basically double the blood I wrote about and the death count or how many times a person died and that is basically the out come of the less detailed nightmares.
Well I hope you enjoyed, please tell me what you thought! Happy Reading!
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