Disclaimer: I do not… understand disclaimers but I guess I better do this. I do not own Digimon nor shall I ever.
Sorry for trying to put a little culture into my stories. I'm sick of waiting so I'm gonna tell ya'll what ha'way means. It means "Come on!" in Geordie. If you don't believe me then go the Sunderland Stadium of Light cos it's right there.
Thanks to everyone who reviewed. Honestly I'm really grateful. I'll be the first to admit my writing is a bit far out and weird… and no I'm not on drugs, even though my geography teacher seems to think that… but he picks his nose so I guess I can't blame him.
Right then, on with the Show!!!!!
Ken ran down the street, his legs moved in a pattern and his heart beat was at a rhythmic pace. He liked this. The adrenaline pumped through him quickly he was immediately refreshed.
He told his mum what he was doing and to make sure she could contact him, he had his cell phone. He liked running it was one of his favourite sports apart from soccer. It involved stamina rather than brute strength and it was a lot more relaxing than kicking a ball around a pitch.
He always ran, well as often as he could. Tonight was a perfect opportunity, he had no homework and nothing to let his mind wander from the simple beat of his feet against the pavement.
As he turned a corner he saw something in the distance. A lump in the road. A bit big for a rubbish bag though. He came closer and saw it was a person. Ken's heart skipped a beat.
Was it dead… He came to a stop near the lifeless figure. Blond hair, pale-ish skin and a leather jacket. It could only be one person…
"Matt?" Ken voice was completely choked. He shook Matt's body gently. No movement. He gasped quickly. He might be… dead…
Ken bravely placed his hand on Matt's neck to find any sign of circulation, instead he found a warm leathery feeling. Carefully he peered over to see scales… Scales! Ken jumped back. Carefully he nudged the body over with his foot. Matt rolled over to reveal 3 large scratches on his stomach. Ken began to get even more worried. They weren't deep at all actually, simple scratches. But they looked big… no not big, HUGE!
What had Matt been doing? He immediately mentally hit himself. He grabbed his cell phone and rang for an ambulance.
"Hello? This is K-Ken Ichijuoji, there's been an a-accident, some ones been… attacked… I'm at Cherry Blossom road… Thanks." Ken kept his voice as steady as possible. He looked back at Matt. What was the use in calling the emergency services if he was already dead?
He looked back at Matt's broken figure once again. Ok he could do this. It wasn't that he was afraid it was more on the lines that he didn't want to know if he was dead. He bent back down and put his hand in front of Matt's nose. If he was breathing he would feel warmth… nothing…
He grabbed Matt's hand. No he can't be dead… He check his watch to find a pulse. He found one, but it was faint. Then why wasn't Matt breathing if he had a pulse.
He looked over to Matt's face again, and once again he placed his hand beneath the nose to detect any breathing. Nothing. He checked the mouth, he felt warmth there, and it was rasping so gently, that was why there was no breath…
Ken waited so long for the ambulance, he made sure Matt was in the recovery position. When the ambulance did arrive he was allowed to get in with Matt and explain what he saw… which was nothing, just seeing Matt.
He got off as they wheeled Matt into the hospital and rang his mum outside to tell her what was going on, she immediately drove there with Mr Ishida, Matt's dad.
As the doctor walked out of the examination room everyone was on their feet.
"Matt has an extremely unusual case, I've never seen scratches like that before," the doctor shook his head still in amazement. "But he'll be ok." He added quickly as Mr Ishida approached him.
"Good, can I see him?" Mr Ishida asked carefully, he was really ready to loose his temper.
"Sure, go ahead." The doctor replied even more quickly. As Mr Ishida walked through the door the doctor shook his head sadly.
"He's going to be ok right?" Ken asked timidly.
"Do you want the truth?" the doctor looked at him up and down. Ken nodded.
"Truth is I don't know," He sighed.
"What do you mean?" Mrs Ichijouji asked. She was as worried as everyone else, even more so…
"He had another injury. This was underneath the scratches and we don't know if he'll be ok. It could be infected, or could be worse. Internally we don't know." The doctor shook his head again. "I'm sorry…" and he walked off.
Ken was left standing there in awe. One of his friends was on the brink of death and he could do anything. He looked out of a near by window. And something zoom past his vision. It looked strangely familiar and then again so different.
Tai flew over the town, the air catching his skin, absorbing the warm and sweat. He was flying, higher and then lower, passing buildings without a care in the world. His wings doing all of the hard work, he just enjoying the ride. He flew to one of the highest buildings he could find and perched on the top. Looking down on the town.
He panted for a few seconds but relaxed. He had never felt so free in his life. It was incredible, the whole town was beneath him and he had a small power they didn't. Flight.
He looked up to the sky. The moon reflecting in his eyes. The only light he could see apart from the million little stars above him and the million little stars below him. The buildings the homed all the citizens of Tokyo. Each one had light and a solar system, or a life and a family… That's exactly what he had. Living the same mindless drone of life each day. What was the point…
He looked down carefully and then towards the horizon. He felt like seeing the sunrise. Basking in the warmth of a new day. It sounded good. Maybe it would relax his mind a bit more…
He stood up carefully. His wings still tired from the last flight. But he willed them to flap, to lift his feet up from the ground. They disobeyed and stayed perfectly still. His mind was growing impatient. Screaming and cursing his new wings. Then he decided, they don't want to fly because they don't need too. Ok then let's give them a reason… Tai grinned. Looking down. The road nearly a mile away, but it would be worth it. He wasn't afraid of death, he wanted to live life and this was definitely living it.
He braced himself and threw himself off the building without giving it a second thought.
The air hit him like a knife. It was sharp and cold. He had never realised this before. Maybe it was the adrenaline or the fact that he didn't care, but this time it hurt.
He fell a few stories and his wings still take a hint. They were still.. Well still. The wind continued to beat him, he wounds feeling like they were receiving another bashing! He felt the air getting quicker and quicker. The earth getting closer and closer…
"Come on!" Tai screamed and the wings obeyed him…
They spread immediately and Tai felt the whole experience stop just like that. The up thrust lifted him a couple of feet but he was safe. He was flying again.
To the beach he goes.
Izzy's sleep was interrupted by an irritating beep. It just went on and on and on. He just had to wake up, at least to stop it and let him get back to sleep.
He opened his eyes one by one. Sora was still there. She looked about the same. He turned to her heart monitor. A long straight line ran across it. Oh dear god!
"Help! Some body! Help!" Izzy shouted at the top of his lungs. Footsteps began to rush towards the curtains and silhouettes raced through the curtains. Nurses and doctors raced in immediately working at Sora's lifeless figure.
"Deliberators," a doctors screamed and one nurse ran out. Izzy stood back in horror. The doctors started to stick small stickers and plasters to Sora's pale skin. She didn't move. Her eyes were completely closed, her lips almost blue. She looked almost…
No she wasn't! She couldn't be! She was stronger than everyone else, infact she was the strongest person Izzy knew. She couldn't die. Not like this.
A nurse rolled in the Deliberators and started to turn to electricity on. Izzy took another step back.
The doctor grabbed the deliberators and rubbed them together. "Clear!" He shouted everyone stood back. He rested the deliberators onto Sora's skin. Her body jumped, but the movement didn't continue. She seemed almost alive but she was dead again.
"Come on…" Izzy whispered. Ignoring the tiredness that was creeping over him.
"Clear!" The doctor repeated and turned the electricity up again. Placing them on Sora's chest.
Still the same again, a large jump and then nothing. The doctor was getting impatient and this may not work. He believed she could be dead, and there was nothing they could do for her… One more time. He cranked the electricity up again, even higher.
"CLEAR!" He shouted this time more urgently. Everyone stepped back and took a deep breath. Sora's body jumped once again. For a second everyone thought she was completely gone. But there was a faint beep on the heart monitor. The doctor spun around.
"A heart beat!" A nurse exclaimed. "But it's faint…" She added sadly.
"I want her under surveillance for the next 24 hours. Contact her family now!" The doctor had saved her, but on barely…
Yeoli couldn't believe she was actually so impatient to get this done but she raced over to Mimi's apartment. She needed to return her CD and the fact was that she promised to return it last night but she forgot… So best do it now. She tapped at the door quickly. No answer. She tapped again more impatient. Still nothing…
"Hey! Helloooooooo!" She squealed. Nothing still. She pressed her ear against the door to see if she could hear anything. But not a thing.
She pulled out her cell phone and dialled Mimi's number quickly. She could hear the ring tone from out side the door just faintly.
"Come on Mimi." Yeoli whispered. But no one answered. She groaned and looked at her toes irritably. She saw the floor… blood… She now felt she needed to get into that apartment. Don't ask why but she simply knew something was wrong.
She bent down and stared at the blood carefully… fresh, she could tell this because it was still damp and red meaning not all of the red blood cells had died yet. She peeked under the door. She saw red… Blood? No it was a lot redder than that… She moved her vision along… Blonde… Hair? Yeoli rummaged in her bag. This was one of those fancy key card locks. A bus pass would do… She sighed and ran the card through the card key lock. Ok now to see what time these people got there.
She pulled out a bit of sand from her pocket and a some cello tape. Joe had taught her always to be prepared so she always brought completely random things with her wherever she went in the hope they could help her. She had also learnt forensics from her cousin. He was always into that sort of stuff. Luckily he taught her the old key card trick.
She poured a thin layer of sand on to the card. The shook off any excess sand and pulled of a little bit of cello tape and stuck it on to the length of the card and pulled it off slowly. She did this all as quickly as possible because she was worried these people were in trouble. She examined the cello tape quickly, there were the little lines on the tape made from the sand. The amount of lines told you what time the card was last swiped.
19:47. Yeoli looked at her watch… 20:08... They were in there for 21 minutes alone… Yeoli shook her head. They were just asleep right. But it still troubled her.
She decided to run downstairs to get the card key for the room from the rich reception.
"I just hope that Mimi's ok…" Yeoli sighed.
Kari looked at Joe in dismay. Her brother just flew out the window an hour ago, yet she was rooted to the spot. Looking for her brother flying over the town. But she hadn't seen anything yet. Joe sighed. He was tidying his belongings throwing the broken in the bin and the not so broken some where safe…
"We've got to save him." Kari mumbled. "We just have to…"
"We will… But how?" Joe said quietly as he threw a broken piece of glass into the bin.
"Think of our enemies…" Kari said slowly completely guessing.
"We have no enemies, only those in the digi-world. But we defeated all of them." Joe grimaced. He missed Gomamon, he was always cheerful and taught Joe a lot in the ways of life. Like to have a little fun every once in a while. Then he remembered their adventures, good times. Although their lives were almost always in danger but it wasn't too bad in the end… He made some friends…
Kari looked at Joe, then realised something. Digimon are reborn! It could be any of the evil digimon they defeated years ago. But that just gave Kari a headache thinking of all the evil they had defeated. "But maybe we can find out…" Kari whispered. Her chest began to glow. The crest of light shone out. Joe covered his eyes in shock. Kari turned to the nearest wall and a hologram flickered on.
"Gennai." Joe said slowly, half in amazement and half in complete shock.
"Yes Joe." Gennai smiled. He was in his young body and he looked better than ever, although there were large bags underneath his eyes and he looked just the tiniest bit tired. But apart from that he was fine!
"What are you doing?" Kari snapped and pointed to her chest irritably. This was not feeling good and she felt slightly drained as Gennai smiled at her. He was using her as a by pass!
"Well, I had to get through to you some how." He said simply.
"Through me!" Kari snapped again. He never gives a straight answer.
"Well you're the only one not possessed and besides would you rather me go through Joe?"
"Possessed?" Kari picked up on that singular word.
"Hey!" Joe was upset about the comment about him to pay much attention to the rest of the quip.
"Yes possessed, by the seven deadly sins." Gennai frowned. "You didn't know?"
"No! I just thought everyone was loosing it." Kari sighed.
"Oh dear dear dear." Gennai was completely exasperated. "Listen, the seven deadly sins have been unleashed to destroy the digi destined."
"Ok, why not me or Joe?" Kari seemed a bit unwanted by this. Why was everyone else getting possessed but not her?
"Because you have protection. Light is more powerful than any sin." Gennai added. "Joe, sorry buddy they wanted someone else."
"No problem. I'm fine here." Joe laughed. Although this was serious he still found the energy to laugh. It helped him to clean the rubble of this apartment.
"Well, the sins possess their victims and turn them in to the vision of the sin." Gennai pondered for a few seconds then continued. "The body of the victim can't take the transformation and gives in."
"Wha-Why?" Kari was a bit tongue tied. This was extremely too much to take in. Her friends had all been possessed and she was the link between the digi-world and oh yeah they were all going to die!
"It's like the body's fighting an infection. But it can't win, the data is far too strong and so body packs in." Gennai said solemnly.
"Well… can we save them?" Joe asked as he saw Kari's face fall.
"Yes." Gennai's voice suddenly brightened up. "You must unlock the seven Heavenly Virtues-"
"Where are they!?" Kari interrupted.
"That's the thing… No one knows." Gennai was suddenly all sad.
"Great!" Kari groaned.
"But you've got to find them!" Gennai said quickly. "And I've got a person who can help you both!" Gennai's face brightened up completely.
"Who? A demon creature thingy that finds things?" Kari asked sceptically.
"No, but good idea." Gennai grinned. "No it's even better!" he smiled a smile of pearly whites. He raised his arm and pointed it towards Kari. "This is gonna hurt a little." Gennai said fore warningly. Kari gulped. A red beam shot from Gennai's wrist and went into Kari. Kari swallowed hard. She wasn't going to cry… She was not going to cry… The red beam reflected off her and appeared in front of her. A figure began to form.
"Gatomon?" Kari's voice rasped.
"Kari!" Gatomon purred.
The burning sensation stopped. And there stood Gatomon.