Hi, I would just like to say that i do NOT own digimon and if I did i wouldnt be writing fanfiction. Anyways, this is my first fanfic so dont be to harsh but I'd like to know whereI can improve. Enjoy! And dont forget the popcorn!
Chapter 1:
Targeted
"Yeah! Come on Davis, you're doing great!" Tai shouted to the brunette boy as he ran toward the opposite teams goalie. Davis glanced toward the stands where the other digidestined were sitting. The two teams were tied with only one minute left.
"Don't look at me! Watch what you're doing! Don't forget you are still playing soccer against the Red Dragons!" Tai yelled at Davis as one of the Red dragons run toward him quickly.
It's the captain of the Red dragons and is a few years older then Davis. His short blonde hair is wet from sweating. His name is Bret and he grins at Davis as the brunette is only a few feet from the goal with the soccer ball. There is only about twenty seconds left on the clock. Davis looks at the goal as he shoots. The digidestined hold their breath as they watch the ball. Davis isn't paying attention to Bret and the blonde runs to him. Bret slams into Davis, wrapping his arm around Davis's waist. Davis gasps as he feels himself being forced forward at one of the goals metal poles. Before he can do anything about it, he smashes into the pole with a sickening crack. That's the last thing Davis remembers before everything goes blurry and he blacks out. Bret falls to the ground along with him because his arm is still wrapped around Davis's waist. A whistle echos across the field as the ball goes into the goal when the clock hits zero.
"Goal!" The referees voice echos.
The crowd cheers because Davis's team beat the Red Dragons. Bret slowly gets off Davis and stands up. He looks down at the unconscious boy laying on the ground. "That's for ruining my game and making me look stupid," Bret growls in a low voice to Davis. He then walks away toward his coach and the rest of his team. The other digidestined cheer loudly with their digimon sitting in their laps, who are trying not to draw very much attention to themselves. Tk was the first to notice that there was something wrong. He stops cheering and he stares out onto the field where Davis lays where he fell. Tk's digimon, Patamon, notices Tk's strange behavior and looks up at him.
"Tk?"
Tk doesn't look at him but stands up suddenly, knocking Patamon out of his lap and onto the bleachers. Tai looks at him, concerned.
"Tk, what is it?" Tk doesn't look at him.
"Something's wrong. Something's just not right, why isn't he getting up . . . "
The others follow his gaze to where Davis is still laying. By then, others are also starting to notice he's not getting up and are making their way across the field. The group of digidestined grab their digimon partners and jump off the side of the bleachers, avoiding the celebrating fans because of the great win by Davis's team. (Note: I don't know the name of his team. Sorry) They run across the field toward their friend. When they reach him, a small medical team is lifting his limp body onto a stretcher. Kari gasps. A large bleeding gash is across the right side of his face, running from his forehead down to the bottom of his jaw. The wound bleeds badly and the blood is dark. He is then being loaded into the ambulance. Tai looks down at the ground as he sees Davis's goggles laying next to the pole. He picks them up, noticing that their lenses are shattered. Ken and Yolei walk to the pole. The metal pole is bent badly by the force of the impact.
"Wow, he must have hit that hard to bent it like that," Yolei says as she puts her hand to the warped metal. Ken nods slowly. Tai picks up demiveemon and he walks to one of the guys in the medical team. Demiveemon pretends to be a toy as he holds his partner's, broken goggles tight.
"Hey, can I go with him," Tai asks once Davis is loaded into the ambulance. The guy look's Tai over but doesn't see any reason why he can't.
"Um, sure kid. Get in the back and stay out of the way."
"Thanks," Tai nods and then he turns quickly to the others. "Call the others. Let them know what happened. Matt's at one of his concerts with Sora and Joe's studying for exams at his house. As for Izzy and Cody, I don't know where they are."
The others nod.
"If you are going kid, get in," the medical guy says, agitated. Tai jumps in the back of the ambulance and sits down next to Davis with demiveemon in his lap. He looks at Kari as she waves and shouts, "we'll meet you there!" Tai nods to his sister as the doors to the ambulance are closed and the vehicle lurches forward. Yolei takes out her d-terminal and she sends Mimi and Sora an email that says:
Hey guys,
Davis was hurt at his soccer game. Tai went with him to the hospital and the rest of us are going to meet him there.
Yolei
Tk sent an email to his brother while Kari sent one to Cody, Izzy and Joe. They then start to head toward the hospital. Patamon clings to Tk's hat, still quite angry that he was dropped like a sack of potatoes. Gatomon is curled up in Kari's backpack sleeping. Yolei carries poromon and Ken holds wormmon.
Tai is silent as he watches a nurse help Davis.
"Here, hold this against the wound to stop it from bleeding," the nurse tells him. Tai gets up, sitting demiveemon down. She hands him a thick piece of cloth and Tai presses it against the wound. Almost instantly the white cloth is covered with the dark blood. A few minutes pass in silence. Tai jumps when Davis gasps as he jolts awake. Tai looks at him, still shaking slightly from being scared. Davis winces as Tai takes the blood-soaked towel from the wound down the right side of the face.
"Hey, welcome back," Tai says as he smiles and looks down at Davis. Davis looks up at him, a dazed look in his eyes.
"Keep him awake and keep putting slight pressure on the wound," the nurse says as she hands Tai another towel. Tai nods and she walks into the front of the ambulance and sits in the passenger seat. She closes the door behind her, leaving Tai and Davis alone. Tai presses the towel against the wound and Davis winces in pain. Tai looks down at him and sees him wince.
"Sorry."
Demiveemon jumps up next to Davis.
"Davish, are you ok?"
Davis looks at his partner slowly, and looking dazed.
"I...what happened?"
"You -" Tai is cut off when the ambulance swerves hard to the left. He is thrown backward and onto the floor along with demiveemon and several metal trays with medical instruments lain on them. The stuff hits the floor with a deafening clang. Davis falls onto the floor as the vehicle tips over onto its side, sliding fast across the road.
At the same time, the younger digidestined had arrived at the hospital and were surprised to find that Davis and Tai weren't there.
"Are you sure?"Tk asks again at the front desk. The desk attendant looks at Tk and sighs, getting annoyed because he was asked three times already.
"Yes, I'm sure. A Davis Motamiya isn't here. Now go and wait in the waiting room."
Tk and the other four digidestined walk into the waiting area and sit down.
"I wonder why they aren't here yet. It's been almost fifteen minutes since we all left the soccer field. And they would have gotten here before us," Kari says as Gatomon crawls out of her backpack and yawns, stretching. 'Something must have happened. I hope they're ok,' Kari thinks to herself as she gets a sinking feeling in her stomach.
Tai slowly tries to get up but something huge and heavy smashes into the ambulance that is still on its side. The roof is bashed in badly and the vehicle lurches sideways, knocking a large piece of twisted metal over. It was part of the medical table Davis was laying on. The half piece of the table falls and lands across Tai's midriff. He screams as the heavy metal slams down onto him. It takes a few minutes for him to catch his breath because the air was crushed from his lungs. Davis can't be seen from where Tai is trapped underneath the heavy metal table.
"Davis? Davis! Are you ok? Come on, say something!"
Davis doesn't answer. Demiveemon crawls out from under a pile of white sheets next to tai. He looks over at Tai. 'What else could possibly happen?' Tai wonders silently but his question is soon answered. He looks up at the side of the vehicle above him as large claw marks are cut into the metal. Demiveemon finds Davis laying by the back doors, half covered by shredded sheets, metal and broken bottles.
"Tai, I found Davish!" Demiveemon calls from across the room.
'What is causing this? It can't be human, can it?' he wonders as he keeps looking up at the claw marks. He then gets a cold feeling and he feels sick. Looking in front of him, Tai sees a dark figure that's cloaked. It looks more like a shadow then a real person. The cloak is hooded and the wearer's face can't be seen, just electric blue eyes glowing in the darkness of the hood. Tai gets a wave of nausea and tiredness as the shadow walks forward toward him. The trapped digidestined looks up at the figure and his vision suddenly goes blurry. He gets a bad headache as he feels more sick. Across the room, he can hear Davis scream in pain and he is about to ask what happened but stops as he feels a white-hot pain rip across his forehead. Everything then starts to go black. The last thing he remembers before he blacks out is that the shadow vanishes as suddenly as it appeared and he hears someone calling his name in the distance . . .
Matt has gotten to the hospital with Sora but Izzy, Joe, Cody and Mimi aren't able to go. It has been at least 20 minutes and they are starting to get worried. Sora sleeps across some of the chairs and Yolei is starting to doze off also. Matt looks at his watch. 'Why are they so late?'
Just as he finishes thinking that, the emergency room doors bust open, making Yolei jump. The group of digidestined look at the two people being brought in. Matt gets up to get a better view of what's going on at the emergency door. One of the nurses move, and Matt sees an unconscious teenager with crazy brown hair. Matt steps forward as he keeps looking at the young teenager.
"Tai?" Matt says as he walks toward him. Kari looks at Matt, confused. She then gets up and follows him
"What? What is it?"
Kari looks at Matt as she keeps following him. He doesn't answer. Kari then looks at what Matt is staring at. She stops and she grabs Matt's arm, making him stop. She looks at her brother laying on the bed. His T-shirt is streaked with blood and torn across the middle. A shallow cut is across his neck that slowly oozes blood and he is still unconscious. He is then taken back into the ER. Kari sees Davis being taken back along with Tai. The cut down the right side of his face is worse and she sees blood on the left side of his head, running from his hair from a wound she can't see. His left arm is badly cut and the wound is deep. Its laying in a slightly strange position that makes Kari flinch. The black T-shirt to his soccer uniform is torn and she can see a wound through the tear but can't see it well. The other digidestined walk to Kari and Matt. They are still staring after Tai and Davis. A nurse looks at the group of kids and goes over to them.
"Do you know them?" The nurse asks them. Kari turns to look at her.
"Yeah, we know them. Tai Yagamii is my brother and Davis Motamiya is our friend. What happened?"
"Well, they were in a car crash or at least that what we believe happened. Oh, I almost forgot," the nurse takes demiveemon off the front desk counter. He stays perfectly still and he's holding Davis's goggles tight
"We found it with them. It's a strange looking stuffed animal," she hands Kari the digimon still looking at it strange. Poor demiveemon is covered in shattered glass and he has a blood streak across his cheek. He holds his partners broken goggles tight. Kari holds him as she looks back at the nurse.
"Thank you, will you tell us when you find anything about Davis and Tai?"
The nurse nods and the group of digidestined walk back to their seats and sit back down. They make sure no one is paying attention to them and they all look at demiveemon who is sitting is Kari's lap. He is taking the glass shards off himself but is still holding the shattered goggles tight.
"Demiveemon, what happened?"Matt asks in a quiet voice.
The small digimon looks up at him and they can see tears forming in his normally cheerful eyes.
"It happened so fast. I remember something heavy hitting the side of the vehicle, knocking it onto its side."
Yolei shrugs slightly. "It could have been another car that didn't stop for the ambulance. There's nothing unusual about car crashes."
"Maybe not," Tk says as he gets up. "But I have a feeling that this wasn't a normal crash. I think it was planned."
Matt looks up at his younger brother from his chair.
"What makes you think that? Why would anyone want to purposely crash into another vehicle and who would want to?"
Tk is silent as he thinks but then looks at the others, including demiveemon. "Well we'll just have to ask Tai and Davis when they can answer." He was tempted to say if they survive this but decided to choose his words more carefully. They call their parents after deciding to stay the night at the hospital. Kari tries to calm her parent s down as she talks to them on the phone. Kari then goes back to the others who are making beds on the couches and floor.
"My mom and dad have to work so they can't come till tomorrow. Hey Sora, did you talk to Davis's parents?"
Sora throws a pillow on her temporary bed as she gets up. A blush rises into her cheeks.
"Well, no. not exactly."
"Why not?"
"I called them and only got an answering machine. It said they were gone on a trip to Africa and wont be back in another four weeks."
"4 weeks!" Matt nearly shouts.
People look at Matt as they walk past. Sora nods and Matt lowers his voice.
"Their son is hurt and they are off chasing gazelles in Africa!" He sighs and falls back onto one of the couches. "I guess we're lucky schools out so we can stay with them. Well, lets get some sleep."
The other nod and fall asleep in the hospital waiting room.
While the others are sleeping, Tai and Davis are fighting to survive. They have been there for almost four hours and they were taken into the O.R., right away. The two of them are still being worked on. After several more tiring hours, the two young teens are sent into a recovery room in the intensive care unit.
"Tai! No!" Kari screams as her brother gets hit by a car. Kari runs to him and gets on her knees. She pulls his limp body into her lap. Tai slowly looks up at Kari as blood runs from the corner of his mouth.
"Kari, never give up . . . "his eyes slowly close and he breathes for the last time. He then goes still. Kari gasps and wakes up breathing heavy. She sits up still shaking. She looks around the waiting room. Yolei is still sleeping on one of the couches, snoring slightly. Matt is sitting in a chair across from her and is awake. He looks at her as she wakes up.
"Are you ok?" Matt asks as he studies Kari's face. She is breathing heavy but is starting to calm down she looks at Matt, brushing her hair out of her eyes with her finger.
"Yeah . . . Im ok. What time is it?"
Matt looks at his watch
"Around 9:15 a.m. The others are eating breakfast. I wasn't hungry so I stayed here to wait for you and Yolei to wake up. I'm glad I did, are you going to be ok?"
Kari nods as she looks at the blonde.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. Have you guys heard anything yet?"
"No, we decided to wait till everyone was together so we wouldn't have to repeat it to everyone as they woke up."
It was a little after 10 when all of the digidestined were back in the waiting room. Yolei yawns as Sora goes to get the nurse that was talking to them yesterday. She comes back a few minutes later with her. Sora sits back down next to Kari.
"So, how bad is it? How are they?" Kari says in a rather small voice. The nurse looks at them and sighs slightly.
"Well, Tai was pinned under a metal table that fell on him. His ribs were broken and his lungs were badly damaged. Something cut him across his neck. The wound wasn't very deep but still did damage. When he fell, he got a minor concussion. We were able to repair his lungs but weren't able to fix the damage done to his throat. He can't talk but we don't know if its permanent. He hasn't woke up since he got here." She stops and lets her words sink in. Tears run from Kari's eyes and Sora hugs her close, comforting her. Ken looks at the nurse.
"What about Davis?"
"Davis's injures are far worse then Tai's. His left arm was shattered on impact. The cut down the right side of his face was cut open even more. He hit his head on the side of the vehicle when it flipped and got a serious concussion. Something stabbed him in his left side. The wound was deep and did a lot of damage. Heavy damage was done to his back. We repaired the shattered bones in his left arm and put stitches in the cut down his face. But when we were operating on his left side, we found it hard to repair the harm done. Because of the serious concussion, he may have memory lose but we don't know how permanent or how serious it will be." She pauses for a minute and looks at the floor.
"What? What is it?" Ken asks as he leans forward, getting nervous.
"He could be paralyzed from the waist down."
The digidestined fall silent at hearing that. That would mean that he'd never play soccer again or play basketball with Tk again. Demiveemon was listening inside of Kari's backpack along with the other digimon. Gatomon and Wormmon try to comfort the sobbing demiveemon while poromon sleeps. Patamon is still listening intently to the conversation going on the other side of the backpack. After a few minutes of no speaking, Kari breaks the silence.
"Can we go see them?"
The nurse looks at her and their eyes meet.
"Yeah, they are in the same room. I'll take you there if you will follow me."
The group of digidestined get up and Kari grabs her backpack. The nurse then leads them down a corridor. Tk wrinkles his nose at the smell of the hospital. They follow the nurse through a sliding glass door with large letters painted in white on them. The door reads: Intensive Care Unit and lists the hours for visiting. She walks to one of the far rooms, the door closed. The names' Davis Motamiya and Tai Yagamii are to the right of the door. The nurse then leaves them and walks to the nurses' station, leaving the digidestined standing in front of the closed door. Kari stares blankly at it, still holding Sora's hand tight. Sora looks at her and smiles gently.
"Are you ready?" She asks Kari quietly.
Kari then nods and the other digidestined opens the door slowly, still holding Kari's hand as she leads her into the room. The room is quite large. To their left on the left side of the room is the sink and bathroom area. The large window is on the far wall and a few couches are sitting in front of the window. To their right is the first bed. More tears run from Kari's eyes as she walks to her brother laying on the first bed. Thick bandages are wrapped around his neck, covering the wound on his neck. He is wearing a short hospital T-shirt that shows his midriff. Heavy bandages are wrapped around his chest and all the way down to his waist. He is wearing baggy pants made of the same material as the shirt. Kari pulls a chair up to the side of the bed and sits down, watching her brother. Sora stands next to her. Tai is wearing an oxygen mask that helps him breathe and is hooked to several other machines.
A curtain is pulled horizontally across half the room, and Davis can't be seen. Ken and Matt walk around to the other side of the curtain. The other digidestined can hear Matt speak through the curtain.
"Whoa . . . "
"Is it really bad Matt?" Sora asks as she looks at the curtain, staying at Kari's side.
"Um, yeah. I'd say so," Matt answers as he pulls the curtain back, letting the others see. Davis is laying on the bed, unconscious like Tai. A heavy bandage is around his forehead and over the place on the left side of his head where Kari saw blood running from his hair yesterday. Another bandage is covering the bad wound down the right side of his face. His left arm is in a blue cast from his shoulder down to his wrist. He is wearing the same type of clothes as Tai. He has a blue cast on his chest down to his waist. Like Tai, he is having help to breathe and hooked to even more machines then Tai, that quietly beep, making the room hum. Yolei walks to one of the couches in front of the window, collapsing onto it. Kari stares at her brother. They all look at the door when it opens. The nurse walks in again.
"Did you hear anything more about what happened?" Tk asks as he looks at her.
"Well, its very odd. They said it wasn't another car that hit them. And they said there were giant claw marks ripped into the side of the ambulance."
Yolei coughs as she nearly chokes on the water she's drinking.
"Claw marks?" Ken asks, his full attention on the nurse now.
"Yeah, claw marks. Both the passenger nurse and the driver were killed but we don't know how. What's even more strange, when we found Tai and Davis, they were ice cold to the touch even though its over 98 degrees outside. That's all I've heard right now but I'll keep you informed. Oh, and a few of you can sleep on the couches in here."
"How long till they wake up?" Kari asks as she looks at her.
"Tai could wake up anytime now but as for Davis, it could be awhile. He's basically in a coma."
A few of the digidestined nod. She looks at Kari.
"Is there anyone you want me to call?"
"My parents are coming sometime this afternoon. They had to work so they couldn't come yesterday," Kari answers.
"Davis's parents are in Africa," Matt says as he glances at Davis's limp form.
"What about June?" Tk asks his older brother from where he sits in the corner of the room.
"She's at college in America. I could call her and tell her what happened but she wouldn't be able to come," Matt says as he gets up. Ken watches Matt leave the room then looks at Davis. The nurse leaves and the digimon crawl out of Kari's backpack. Demiveemon crawls onto Davis's bed and lays at his partners side. Gatomon yawns and climbs into Kari's lap.
"Im so tired," Poromon says in a tired voice as he lays on a chair. Ken looks at him.
"You guys are probably starving. I'll go down to the kitchen and bring back some food," Ken says, getting up and walking to the door.
"I'll go with you," Tk gets up and follows Ken out the door. Kari sighs as she starts to doze off, leaning on Sora's shoulder who is sitting in a chair next to her. Sora lets her mind wander as she stares at Tai. She remembers all the good times they had together. A tear runs down her cheek as she realizes she may never hear Tai's voice again. She snaps back to reality when Tai's eyes slowly start to open. She quickly wipes away the tear. The last thing she needs is for her boyfriend to think she's falling in love with his best friend. She sits up as she looks at Tai, waking Kari up. Kari smiles at him. Tai slowly looks at the two girls at his side. A tired look is in his eyes. Sora smiles too as she looks down at him.
"Hey, welcome back," Sora says as she tries to hold back tears. Tai looks at her and opens his mouth to talk.
"Tai, you can't talk. Your neck was cut but we don't know how long you wont be able to talk. I'm sorry," Sora says quickly. She can see him wince in pain and her smile fades.
"Are you ok?"
Tai slowly nods. Sora hand him a dry erase board and a marker. Tai writes something and then turns the board around so they can read it. It says:
what happened to Davis?
"He wasn't so lucky. He was badly hurt," Sora answers but quickly adds, "he's doing ok right now" when she sees the look on his face. She points to the bed to Tais right.
"He's over there."
Tai looks over at the younger boy then writes:
how long have I been out?
"About a day."
"Mom and dad are coming in a few hours."
Tai nods slowly but then he suddenly blacks out, closing his eyes.
"Tai? Tai? Kari stay here. Im going to go get the nurse."
Sora leaves the room and comes back a minute later with the nurse. Kari notices the nurses name tag for the first time. The name on it is Karen. Karen checks the machines.
"He passed out, he could have gotten a blood clot in his lung. We need to get him to the O.R. now," Karen says as she pulls up the side railings on Tai's bed. She pulls Tai's bed out of the room and Sora looks at Kari. The younger girl collapses into Sora's arms as Matt, Ken and Tk come back into the room confused. Ken walks to one of the chairs and dumps some snack food from a vending machine into the chair, ignoring Yolei who is still sleeping on the couch. Matt and Tk walk to Sora who is trying to support Kari.
"What happened?" Matt asks Sora.
Tk starts the ask Kari if she's ok but Sora shakes her head, making him stop.
"Im going to take Kari back to her apartment and stay with her there. Call me if you hear anything about either of them," is all Sora says as she walks to the door with Kari leaning heavily on her. Matt nods. Kari's face has gone really pale and Sora starts to get concerned as she leads the younger girl into the elevator. The elevator button dings when Sora presses the ground level and she lets her mind wander as the elevator jerks to life and starts to drop. All of a sudden the elevator stops half way down with a violent shake. Kari grabs for the side bar on the wall of the elevator as she starts to fall forward. Sora gasps as she sees her breath rise in a cloud of mist in front of her. The light in the elevator flickers, casting a neon green light over everything and she sees ice starting to coat the control panel of the elevator. It slowly starts to spread across the walls and ceiling. Sora can feel Kari shiver as the temperature falls to a chilling 40°.
"What's going on?" Kari asks as she backs away from the ice coated walls so she is in the center of the elevator. Sora stays at her side, wondering the exact same thing.