Chapter 6

Takuya woke up in a place unknown to him, he felt his arms being pulled up. He hung chained to the wall his hands bound.

It was dark, his eyes strained to see any sighn of Kailey or Koji. He tried to yell, but his thought ached, he couldn't talk and barley see.

The pain in his wrists was unbearable, he wondered how long he had been hanging here?

The room was cold, like a freezer, if hadn't' have woken up he would have froze to death.

He scanned the room, for anything, just a wooden door, locked. The rest of the room was cold black concrete, cobwebs and dust.

Creek! The door opened carefully and slowly, but nothing was there. Like the door had opened itself.

"Welcome," An eerie bone chilling voice called, and echoed throughout the empty room.

He tried to speak but no words would come out.

"I suspect that you are wondering where you are?" It called out.

Takuya used all his strength to try and speak, but came out as a small whimpering noise.

The voice laughed. "Your are experiencing much pain now, good..." The voice trailed off.

Takuya struggled to talk, but his voice was cut off.

"You are presently in the realm where the ghosts and Shadows rule, otherwise known as...Meifu kokuei, the land of the dead shadows."

Thoughts rushed through Takuya's head. Am I..dead? No, I feel normal, but I can't talk...

" No." The voice said as if reading Takuya's thoughts. "Not yet at least..."

Suddenly the room became colder as he began to shiver not just from the cold, but from fear.

The voice laughed again. " We have searched for you for many years. We had never been able to locate you, but now that your here, I still feel

our mission is still not complete."

All silent noise filled the room for a moment, nothing moved.

Slash!

Takuya tried to scream, a pain like fire ripped across his chest and face, but nothing came out.

"Now it feels more complete. I have waited for many years to get my revenge, on all of you."

As the voice finished it's sentence he herd both Koji and Kailey coming down the hallway into the room. They were pushed to his feet.

Kailey looked up with a glowing smile, "Takuya! Your alright!"

Slash! Kailey screamed as she lay on the ground unable to move.

Koji sit beside her in a mystery. He had a look of confusion in his face.

AS Kailey lay sill but able to talk, and Koji confused Takuya tried to talk again.

What did you do to them! He thought.
Reading his mind once more, the voice replied. "Each one of you, have lost an ability that allows you to spirit evolve." It paused then went on.

"Kailey have lost her ability to move. She cannot move her own body." At once Kailey was tossed backwards into the wall with a thud as she yelled.

Koji suddenly clamped his hands over his head and yelled.

"Koji, will never hear again, he is deaf. But I am still able to communicate with him, through his mind..."

Koji yelled louder and in much more pain.

"And you... will never say another useless word."

Takuya swung the chains forwards hoping he could kick the voice, the it just laughed loader at the amusement.

"T-takuya..." Kailey whispered weakly. "It was him...he's the one that blew up the buildings and dragged you underwater..."

"Yes...the voice replied. "It was me."

A figure started to form in front of the hanging Takuya. It was glowing an eerie pale green color, and formed the shape of a man. It was a ghost Digimon.

Another formed in front of Kailey. It was dark, like a shadow with blood red eyes.

"We have been waiting." The ghost said. " To make you pay..."

Slash! The ghost raised his sharp glowing claws, fire ran across Takuya's chest again.

The Shadow turned to Kailey, Slash! Across her back. Slash! On Koji's face.

The cries from them both went straight to his heart, but could do nothing to stop them.

"What! What did we do! Why are you punishing us!." Kailey yelled.

"You poses the spirits," The Shadow said coldly. "The three sacred spirits. Before the other seven, Fire, Light and Stars were the sacred

rare spirits. Before the others, they protected and fought along side with the three Guardians of the digital world."

The ghost took over. "Until the day came that our village was brought upon by those three spirits. They killed us all one by one. It was a giant slaughter.

Once we were killed they refused for us to be born again, they turned out data into ghost's and we were sealed away here. Many of us were ghosts, some were

cursed enough to become shadows. We waited for the day to come where we would have our revenge on those spirits."

He could hardly take in what the ghost was saying. His spirit would never kill? Did this make him evil? Maybe he did deserve this punishment...

"We were able to locate the spirit of the stars," The ghost went on. "We beat her until she was nothing but trash. She disappeared one day. We didn't care through. She

had got more then enough punishment."

Then let Kailey go! Takuya wanted to scream, but nothing came out.

Slash! Blood began to run down Takuya's arms.

"Takuya!" Kailey cried out.

Koji sat confused and scared, but he grabbed his head again in pain.

Please...Takuya thought. Please just let them go...

The ghost stopped, "Destroy it...destroy our own spirit, and let us keep you...then we shall release them both.

Destroy his spirit? If he destroyed it, Agunimon would be no more, he had just been asked to kill a legendary warrior.

He looked at Kailey and Koji. Agunimon would want it that way...He thought.

"No Takuya don't do it!" Kailey pleaded.

Slash! Slash!

At both Koji and Kailey.

Silently, Takuya nodded.

"Excellent."

The Shadow waved it's hand over both Kailey and Koji.

"I...I can hear..." Koji muttered out.

Kailey got up and ran to Takuya, just as she reached him, the Shadow through her back into the wall.

"You shall go...now." The ghost commanded.

The shadow grabbed them both and pulled them out the door, with Kailey screaming Takuya's name. But Takuya smiled his warm comforting smile.

It's going to be okay Kailey, He thought. Find your destiny...

Chapter 7

Tears ran down Kailey's cheeks as she laid on the ground. Koji stood looking into the distance. It was a mountain, surrounded by dark shadows. They sat on the outskirts

trying to soak in what had happened.

"He's gone..." Kailey wailed. "Shit, we should have done something."

" I want to know why we wanted Takuya's spirit so much, there must be a clue..."

"Your worried about his spirit at a time like this!" Kailey yelled as she continued to cry. "There going to kill him you idiot! We have to save him-"

"No."

"Why!"

" By the time were able to get in there and find him, he'll be dead. It would be a waste of time. Takuya wouldn't want us to come after him."

"How would you know what he wants?"

Koji was silent.

"You may have known and seen him longer but you may as well be blind..."

She looked straight down at the ground. " All you see is his smile and assume that he's okay. There's more behind the smile and

laughing. I should know, I do it all the time. Only I act tough and strong to hide my pain. He smiles and pretends that nothings the matter, but inside he's tortured."

Koji didn't know what to say, he just blurted out whatever came to his mind first. "So...so?"

"So!" Kailey swiped his hand across Koji's face, then ran.

Kailey ran until her lungs were on fire and fell to the ground. Her stomach was in knots. Just the thought of Takuya being in there made her sick. She sat and cried, there was nothing else she could do, just nothing. She breathed in hard, she couldn't think of how

she would have to tell Takuya's parents that he was dead. It wasn't fair. Takuya didn't deserve this, he didn't deserve to feel pain o be killed at his age.

But life's not fair. Kailey thought. It wasn't fair for Moonshinemon to be taken on my own doing, it wasn't fair that I couldn't protect her.

And now I can't even help Takuya. I deserve his fate more then he dose. I'm not worthy of a spirit. But why do I feel like I should have it, I'm supposed to be here. I-

"Kailey," Her thoughts were interrupted by Koji's voice.

"What do you want?" She asked while she laid the ground, tears pouring out of her eyes.

"Look I-"

"I don't want to hear it. I'm sorry and all, but I don't want to hear anymore excuses of why we shouldn't help him."
Koji turned around. "What was that?"Kailey didn't say anything.
Within the blink of an eye, a shadow appeared, and slashed his claws through Kailey's back, as she screamed in a cold, eerie way. The Shadow just laughed.