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[Signs]
(Thoughts)
Summary: Abandoned by the others, after he made Greymon digivolve into SkullGreymon, Tai seeks a meaning to his new life. Not as a Digi destined, but as a Digimon. After months as Myotismon's new pet servant, Tai finds himself back on earth, looking for the eight child. Unknown to him, Matt and the other digi destined have begun to work with fusing digimons together.
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Twist of fate
Part VII
Gatomon's Doubt, The Digi Destined Returns to Earth
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Things were not looking good at the moment to the feline digimon with the multicolored hair standing in a guarding position before the person he had called little sister when he was human. Across the room, jumping down from the window, Gatomon was still keeping an eye on him as she tried to find the best way to attack him.
Tai on the other hand, was in an emotional crisis, while he would do anything to protect his little sister, it meant that he would have to fight against someone he thought off as a friend. Looking back at Kari, Tai gave a quick smile. "Sorry Kari, I had hoped this wouldn't happen." Then Tai turned back to face the other feline digimon in the room. "Look, can't we talk about this? Gatomon you're my friend, I don't want to fight you."
Smiling in a superior way, Gatomon moved to the left as she listened to Tai talk. "Well, if she's not your partner, why did you come here?" Making a quick jump, Gatomon moved to a better place to attack Kari. "No, I'm sure. You are Kari's little pet digimon, the digivice you gave her proves it, and Myotismon will reward me well for removing another digi brat." Jumping, Gatomon held out her right glove covered paw and felt the energy of her attack build up. "Lighting paw!"
Tai cursed as he spotted the attack and jumped through the air before he even began to think about it. "Get away from Kari, Fire Claw." The two attacks met in a bright flash of light that sent Tai tumbling to the floor, and Gatomon flying onto the bunk bed.
Kari had moved back to a safer place when the two digimon had begun to fight, and was now standing at the door, feeling more confused then she ever had before. "Tai, is that you. Why are you fighting with Gatomon?" Stepping closer, Kari gave a gasp of surprised when Gatomon turned to face her. "Stop it, you shouldn't fight. Aren't you friends?"
Gatomon purred as she stood up and held out her clawed glove. "No, this Digimon is a traitor to Myotismon." Moving to end of the bed, Gatomon grinned as she looked at Kari. "It a shame to kill you, you nice, nicer then most others I have met." Pulling back, Gatomon jump off the bed and moved towards Kari.
"No." Jumping up and wrapping both arms around Gatomon, Tai pulled her back down onto the ground and into a wild roll across the floor as they tried to overpower the other, breaking out of the roll, Tai found himself facing a glaring Gatomon. "Don't you even dare to think of hurting her, if you do, I will kill you." Running forward, Tai lifted up his hand and summoned up the power of his attack.
Moving rapidly, Gatomon smacked her paw into the side of Tai, sending his flying past Kari and into the desk with a loud crash. "Well, why don't you try it now Chimon." Smirking as no response came from wild haired digimon, she turned back to Kari and lifted her paw at the frightened girl. "Prepare yourself Kari…"
Jumping towards Kari, neither of the digimons nor the human was prepared when the room was filled with a blast of bright white light for the second time, this time coming from between Gatomon and Kari as the feline digimon was just a few centimeters away from her. Losing her focus, Gatomon went past Kari and bumped into Tai who had gotten up from where he had landed behind Kari.
Pulling themselves apart, both Tai and Gatomon stared across the room at the girl lying on the floor. On the carpet before her, the digivice belonging to Tai was glowing a bright orange color as it was once again in one piece. Turning to glare at Gatomon, Tai lifted his hand and felt the power he had only just recently learned to really tap into flare up. "Fire Claw!" The floor groaned loudly in protest to the fire claw attack and a large spot of it turned black color where Gatomon had been standing just moment before.
Landing on her back paws, the smaller feline digimon stared at Tai with a curious look on her face. "Well, well. Looks like you're dead set on protecting her, but make no mistake Chimon." Turning around and jumping back up into the window, Gatomon glared down at Tai. "But don't count on anything. As soon as I finish off the eight child, I'm coming back for her." Before anyone could anything, she was gone.
Standing on the floor, Tai stared out the window after her, feeling a sudden pit in his stomach, the same he had felt when he lost Agumon, and when the other digi destined had just left him, to fend for himself in a world he didn't know anything about. The feeling of loneliness was still there when a pair of hands pulled him away from the black spot of the floor and into a warm hug.
Slowly, Tai drifted into the welcoming darkness, giving in to the desire to escape it all, the fighting and the useless cries. He could hear someone calling out his name, but it was so far away, and what was it worth anyway, he would just end up hurting someone again. Like the time with Skullgraymon, and the time with… Kari.
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The wind swirled around in a violent way, tossing the snow around and splattering it against the side of the cabin. Slowly, and then faster, a ball of light form and grew until it filled the whole area. Then it vanished and left in it places, twelve figures, six humans and Six Digimons getting up from where they had landed on the ground.
Dusting himself off, Matt chuckled as he looked around the area. "Yes, this is it." Above the area, the sun shone down on them with a bright and warm light. "Well, it is a bit a head of plan, but I just can't wait to show everyone what I can do."
Next to him, Izzy was standing up with the help of Tentomon. "Speak for yourself." The computer wizz grumbled as he pushed away the helping hands, or claws away from him. "Why couldn't I finish the tests on the gate?"
Matt stopped his grinning, and turned around to glare down at the boy before him. "Because I'm in a bit of a hurry right now!" Pulling Izzy, closer, Matt narrowed his eyes to slits, giving the best evil glare he could. "And, if you ever talk to me again like that, you will face the same fate as every one else." Pushing Izzy back, he turned halfway around and stared into the horizon. "Now, we need to get back to Odaiba and find the last thing to the puzzle. And remember, Myotismon is mine to deal with, I won't to see how much power I can get out of him."
Behind them, Sora was staring up at the blur sky with closed eyes. "Matt, where should we go when we get back to Odaiba? Are we going back to where we live? Or somewhere..." Shaking her head, Sora looked down from the sky and opened her eyes as the sudden overwhelming feel of dizziness faded down to a mild discomfort. "Why do I feel so funny?"
Turning around, Matt stared at Sora for a few minutes, than he reached out a hand and gently gripped her shoulders. "We are going to the one place in Odaiba where I can find what I need." Looking closer at Sora, he softly moved his hand down and grabbed her digivice. "As for your discomfort, all it will take is a little of my power, to make you all better"
Sora's mind glowed with pain as the sudden infusing of darkness into the device linked to her, rushed through the strange bond with it, infusing her body with darkness as well. Then the pain faded away, and she found her body more relaxed then she remembered it ever to be. "Thanks Matt." Sora smiled as she took the digivice back from Matt and looked at Biyomon. "Well, first thing first, we need a way to get to Odaiba. So, are you ready?"
Biyomon looked up from where she stood and nodded her eyes a deep red colored. Then she felt the rush of power, a cold power, but a power that came from Sora. "Biyomon, digivolve too… Birddramon."
Behind the three, Joe was standing still staring at the group before him with an indifferent smile on his face. As the giant bird type digimon landed on the ground, he walked forward and stared at the digimon with a casual look. "We are never going to fit onto it. There's too many off us."
Matt blinked and looked at the taller boy wit the glasses, and then he frowned when he noticed that Joe was right. "Mimi, use your digvice, and try and see if Lillymon can carry you?" Stopping, Matt shook his head and then looked at Izzy. "Wait, your gate, can it transport a digimon here safely by now?"
Izzy looked up from where he had sat down to work and then blinked. "Well yeah, the time difference between this world and the one we came should have allowed the slaves to have complete the gate by now." Turning the laptop around, Izzy showed the gate program he had installed on it back in the digital world. "But, I would like to run some tests before we try it."
Matt shook his head and as he walked over to Izzy. "No tests, we need Fusionmon here now, he should be more than able to carry us all." Looking at the group of kids under his control, Matt stepped away from where Izzy sat. "Okay group, let's all back up and give him some space."
A bright light once again filled the place as the gate program activated.
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Slowly opening his eyes, Tai found himself looking at nothing but a black sky. No matter where he looked, all he could see where an endless black void. Pushing his arms down, he expected to find solid ground to lift off from. Instead his arms fell down to hang limply in the air. Panicking, Tai moved his head to one side, and then to the other, finding that in every direction, all he could see where the same black void. "Where am I?"
Every bit of his body was heavy and numb as he began to try and swim through the darkness, looking for a place he knew, or someone who could tell him what he was seeing. Slowly stopping his swimming, Tai felt like screaming when he noticed that he hadn't moved a single bit in this place at all. "Just what is going on?" Looking around with an angry glare, Tai waited for someone to answer.
It was the faint movement in the darkness that made him aware of the other presence in the same void, Turning over and staring at the place where he felt it from. Tai blinked when he noticed the wolf like Digimon, standing on two legs like him, but instead of a pair of pants, it was sporting a ragged set of shorts and T-shirt. The hair on its head was pulled backwards in three spikes, like horns. Tai blinked when he noticed that the hair was multicolored like his own. "Chimon, are you ready?"
Tai blinked as someone yelled out the name for his digimon form, and looked in the direction it had come from, to see a person hidden by a deep shadow the only thing he could make out were a spiky hairstyle and that the person was holding up a strange type of digivice. "Come on Chimon, it time to Digivovle, we need it to defeat him."
"Yes, it's time to end that nightmare." The voice that spoke out belonged to a girl as Tai guessed from the skirt she was wearing. Looking closer, he saw that she was lifting up her own digivice and holding out to the wolf like digimon "You should digivolve too, Ishimon Come on."
The Wolf like digimon stiffed and then began to glow a brilliant white. "Ishimon digivolve too…"
Tai felt himself become rigid as well, and then a warm feeling rushed trough him, filling him with the joy of his partner's determination. "Chimon digivolve too…"
"Wake up Tai!!"
Tai sat up straight and shook as he felt his breath coming in rapid gasps. If it was from the rude awakening, or the fact that he had for once thought off himself as a pure digimon, he didn't know. Looking to his left, he spotted the concerned face of his sister. "Kari?"
The girl moved fast and held a hand over his mouth before he could speak anymore. "Keep it down, mom and dad are really upset with the damage."
Tai turned his head and stared at the black spot on the floor as large sweat drop moved down his head. "Ah, do they know that?" Tai lifted his hand and pointed at himself.
Kari shook her head and looked at Tai with a stern look. "I told them that it was someone yelling outside, but what should we do about that?"
Tai lifted a hand and scratched his head as he stared at the damage, then he looked at his sister with a blank look. "I don't know, call the repairman to fix it!" Looking at the pained look on his sister face, Tai jumped down and looked at the floor. "Hey, what happened to my digivice?"
Kari stared down at the white thing with a confused stare. "Is that what it is? What does it do?"
Tai stopped listing to Kari as he felt someone sniffing his foot, looking down, Tai blinked as he found Miko standing on the bed behind him. The cat was busy trying to figure out what he was, to Tai's annoyance this meant sniffing what she could get to, and patting him from time to time with her paws. His tail received most of the pets as it moved away when she sniffed it or tried to touch it with her paws. "Uh, Kari. Mind doing something about this?"
Kari was giggling at the sight of the small human like digimon her brother had become, and her pet cat getting to know one another. Finally, when her brother was starting to get angry, she reached down and picked Miko up to pet her, and keep her away from Tai's tail. "Um… Tai? Who was that Digimon? And why are you a digimon?"
Tai sighed and jumped up to sit next to Kari. Keeping clear of Miko's reach as she tried to get out of Kari hold and back to looking closer at Tai. Not wanting another session of petting by his little sister's pet cat. Finally feeling safe, Tai looked up at the young girl with a serious look. "Well, it all started back at the summer camp."
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Night had fallen over the city, and everyone was deeply asleep. In a more open part of Odaiba lay the local school. At the moment, it was closed as no student or teacher was present. IT was therefore not seen by anyone when the large shadow descended down from the night sky to land of the rooftop.
Stepping out of the shadow cast by the digimon, Matt stared up into the sky with a pleased look on his face. "The day draws nearer. Soon, everyone will bear witness to my triumph." Looking back into the shadows, Matt grinned when she spotted his digi destined teammates step out from the shadow as well. "This is the new place where we will work from, remember if vital to the plans that we find the last digimon whose power I need."
Stepping away from him, the other kids nodded as the looked out over the city. Standing in the center of the group, Matt stared out over the city with a bored look. "Seven days, seven days until they all see what I can do." Looking up at the moon, Matt laughed as he saw the digital and normal world becoming his in the near future.
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The window into the bedroom slowly opened to allowed the digimon outside to enter. Pressing in through the opening that had been made. Gatomon grinned as she lifted her paw up. "Soon, little Kari, you won't be more then a former digi destined, and you Chimon, I will show you what happens to traitors." Creeping closer to the bed, Gatomon stopped and blinked when she failed to see Tai anywhere. "Where is he, has he left his own partner?"
Creeping closer to the sleeping girl, Gatomon lifted her left paw up and grinned as the moonlight glinted off the three sharp metal claws on the glove she wore. "It really is a shame, you seem like such a nice Kid, but I'm not going to take any chance." Moving the glove down, Gatomon frowned when she found that she couldn't do, every nerve and bone in her body spoke against her doing it.
A shadow suddenly fell on the ground next to her as her arm and paw shook with the mixed emotions she was feeling. Finally she gave in to the part of her that didn't want to hurt the girl. Staring down at the ground, Gatomon noticed the shadow and looked up rapidly. "Chimon, so you're awake as well. Having trouble sleeping Traitor?" The words were harsh and carried all of Gatomon's anger and frustration.
Tai looked down at the feline digimon with a feeling of pity. "Why do you work for him, you could leave him at any moment." Jumping down to stand on the bed next to her. Tai looked at the feline digimon with a look of pain. " I'm sure that if we work together, as a team, we can find a way to defeat Myotismon."
Gatomon stepped back and glared at Tai with a look of cold contempt. "I would never betray Myotismon. He took me in and taught me just how cruel the world is." Moving away from the bed and jumping back up into the window, Gatomon stared back at Tai. "This isn't over yet traitor, next time there will be no mercy."
Tai stared at the window long after Gatomon had left. "You lie Gatomon, you want to escape from Myotismon as much as I wanted too." Stepping over to look up at the moon through the window, Tai felt his feeling of fear rise. "But, can we defeat him, Devimon was strong, and we have gotten stronger since then, but Etemon was even stronger, and he's nothing compared to Myotismon." No answer came, and Tai went back to the bed after closing the window and pulling down the shades.
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The next day, Tai found himself facing a problem he didn't want too. How he was going to get out of the apartment with his mom noticing him. And then there was the matter of searching for the eight child. He could leave without Kari, and didn't want her to run into any evil Digimons from Myotismon's army.
Which was way he was staring blankly at Kari as she stared back. Both had just gotten out of bed, and while Kari was going out to eat breakfast, Tai was facing with the problem of either bringing Kari with him on the search and get her into danger, or leaver her behind with a feline digimon waiting to kill nearby.
Kari walked back into the room, holding her school bag in one hand, and a glass of juice in the other. "Here, I'll try and see if I get something for you to eat as well." Sitting down on the bed, Kari pulled open the top of the bag and began to pull her school things out. "I think that you can fit into this one Tai." Dropping it down onto the ground next to Tai, she stared at it. "Well, your head will be sticking out, but as long as you play a stuffed animal it won't be that bad."
Tai glared as he found himself showed into Kari's backpack like a normal teddy bear. "Come on Kari, this is not funny!" Mumbling a few curses, Tai crawled out of the bag and landed on the ground. "I'm sure no one will notice, after all. I'm a master of disguise." Walking towards his closet, Tai stopped when he remembered that none of his clothes would even come close to fitting him.
Looking up from where she was tying her shoes, Kari smiled in a good-natured way. "Come on Tai, this is the best way for you to move around without people getting suspicious." Standing up and putting the pink hanker chief she used as a scarf around her neck she walked over to the table with Tai glaring death at her school bag as he turned away from his closet. "Well, you can always return to wearing your own disguise, but since it a rather hot day, I would say that this would be the best solution."
Feeling like tossing a curse at the world in general, Tai walked over to the school bag and crawled down into it, letting his head pop out of the back as soon as he had settled into an somewhat comfortable position. "Just don't close it, and do we have any food? I'm dying of hunger."
Kari sighed and pulled the school bag on and walked over to the door. "Man, for someone so small, you ain't that lightweight Tai." Stepping out of the room, Kari quickly grabbed a few apples from the table and a soda can from the fridge, dumping it all down into the bag, which started to move instantly when Tai began to eat. "Wait until we get out okay." Looking down into the back of the apartment, Kari spotted her mother as she watered the houseplants. "Mom, I'm going out for a bit."
Standing on the rooftop across from the apartment, Gatomomon lowered the binoculars she had stolen and began to pace on the rooftop. It had been so hard to ignore the feeling that had been tearing her up since yesterday. "Why couldn't I kill her, I had the chance, but I… I was so reluctant to do it." Turning back to stare down at the little girl holding the backpack with Tai in it, she narrowed her eyes. "Well, the next time they won't be so lucky at all."
A bit further down, and on another rooftop, Wizardmon lowered his own binoculars, and began to pace back and fourth on the rooftop. "Gatomon, my friend. Things are not as they seem to you." Stopping and lifting the crest of light into the air, Wizardmon nodded to himself. "The more I look at this, the more I'm sure of what you told me." Hiding the crest in his clenched hand, he looked back at the apartment where Kari and Tai were walking out of the door. "Chimon, I think its time we had a talk."
Inside the Yagami apartment, Miko stared long and hard at the strange thing she had found under the table. Flat and white with a small screen, It didn't look anything lie the cat toys she normally had. Moving a paw out, she pushed it around, and then began to play more with it when nothing strange happened.
TBC: Day One: Shadows of Darkness.
AN: Well, here's the next chapter in the series. As you can read, things are moving into place for the true beginning of this story. The seven days of Darkness.
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