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 the second chapter! yay! Personally, I think this is better then the last one but whatever, onward!

Chapter 2

Haunting Ice

Kari holds her head in pain, falling to her knees as she screams.

"Kari!" Sora yells as she drops onto her knees next to the brunette girl. "What is it? What's wrong?" Kari's eyes are closed and her face is turned toward the floor. She doesn't look up at Sora.

"Come on Kari, tell me what's wrong so maybe I can help."

"The darkness. I can feel it coming."

Sora is speechless, not knowing what to say. She looks around at the frozen elevator. Both girls jump when the thick ice covering the inside of the elevator shatters suddenly with a deafening smash. Sora puts her right arm in front of her face, trying to shield it as she turns her head the other way while her other arm is around Kari. The shards of broken ice fly from the walls. Kari instinctively covers her face with her hands. Kari screams as the elevator drops again and hits the bottom floor with such a force the two girls almost fall over. The door then opens with a loud crunch, dislodging more ice but the ice vanishes as though it never existed. Kari and Sora stay on their knees in shock, not knowing what to say. Their breathing is heavy. The elevator doors stay open, patiently waiting for the teenagers to get off. Sora slowly gets up and helps Kari to her feet. They leave the elevator, the doors closing rather quickly behind them, Kari looks at the older girl shakily, her breathing heavy.

"I never want to do that again," Kari says, her voice shaking. Sora nods quickly in response.

"Lets get out of here before something like that happens again," the red head says grabbing Kari's hand tight, pulling her toward the entrance door of the hospital. They leave without another word, not looking back once.

Matt sits up in his chair back in Davis and Tais room, getting a strange feeling. Tai hasn't been brought back yet and Davis is still out cold. Ken notices Matt sit up and looks at him. The digimon have already devoured the vending machine snacks. Tk and Yolei are talking quietly. Gatomon decided to stay with demiveemon instead of going back with Kari and Sora. The two digimon are curled up together on Davis's bed at the boy's side, asleep. The other digimon are also asleep on one of the couches.

"What's wrong?" Ken whispers quietly so only Matt can her him because he doesn't want the others to worry.

"I thought I felt something," Matt replies in the same quiet voice. "June said she'd try and call her mom and dad about Davis when she gets around to it."

"How supportive. 'when she gets around to it'. Talk about sisterly love," Ken sighs as he shakes his head, being sarcastic. Matt nods as he looks at Davis.

"What if he never gets better Matt? What if he is paralyzed permanently after this or what if he..." Ken cant seem to finish as he looks down at the floor. He gulps then finishes his sentence, "Dies."

Ken looks up but quietly closes his eyes as a sharp pain rips across his left cheek. His head snaps to the side by the force. He had been slapped.

Tk and Yolei look over at the two of them as they hear the loud slap. Ken puts his hand over the burning red mark on his cheek as he looks at Matt, stunned.

"Whatya do that for?" Tk asks his older brother.

"Ouch, that sounded painful," Yolei adds as she looks at Ken.

"You cant think like that. You're Davis's best friend. If you don't think he will survive then he wont stand a chance. He needs all of our support," Matt growls in a low voice to Ken. Ken slowly takes his hand away from his cheek and silently nods.

"You're right. Thanks Matt, I needed that," Ken smiles at the blonde.

"Anytime. If you were Tai I would have punched you. Hard."

"Man, you have one heck of an arm," Ken says, rubbing his still very red cheek. Yolei tries to cover a giggle.

Kari fumbles with her apartment key as she turns it in the lock. The two girls walk into the empty apartment. Kari collapses onto the couch as Sora walks into the kitchen. She notices that there are two mew messages.

"Hey Kari, there's two new messages on the answering machine. Do you want me to answer them?" Sora calls from the kitchen.

"Sure! I don't want to move!" Kari yells back, laying face first on the couch. She can hear the answering machine slightly from where she is. The answering machine clicks on when Sora hits the red message button.

Answering machine: you have two new messages. BEEP: Kari, I don't know when you'll get home and get this. This's mom, I'm sorry honey but your dad and I cant get to the hospital. We have been sent to England on a case. Take care of your brother until we get back. I don't know if we can call you again. BEEP. End of message. Kari doesn't listen to the other message but instead falls asleep. Sora returns to the living room, a soda in her hand. She smiles at the sleeping brunette and sits down in a large armchair. She takes a drink from the can of soda she holds as she goes into deep thought. 'Why did Kari's mom sound like she didn't care at all what happened to Tai? If I was her, I'd be freaking out. Maybe I'm just paranoid or over protective of him. But still...she was panicking yesterday. Why not today?' A tear slides down Sora cheek but hastily brushes it away when she looks at the younger girl sleeping on the couch. She picks up a book off the coffee table as she opens it and starts to read.

Matt shivers as he gets the weird feeling, but he ignores it as he looks down at his watch. It's late evening now. Tai was brought back two hours ago. He had a blood clot in his lungs and was being suffocated. His blood was thinned and it got rid of the clot. They are keeping him unconscious. Matt looks over at Tai and gets the cold feeling again. 'What if Ken's right? What if they do die?' Matt thinks to himself but his attention is then drawn to the shadows underneath Tai's bed. He sees a pair of electric blue eyes glowing in the dark shadows. Inch thick ice starts to cover the metal bed frame. Matt gasps as the cold eyes look at him and hold his gaze.

"Hey Matt, what are you lookin at?" Yolei asks as she notices that he's staring underneath Tai's bed. Matt doesn't answer but instead watches as the ice and the eyes vanish without a trace. He keeps staring at the place where the eyes used to be and he doesn't notice that he has stood up. Tk walks to him looking concerned. Yolei stays where she is, watching the two teenagers.

"Matt?" Tk puts his hand on his shoulder but quickly pulls it away as though he got scorched. Matt doesn't look at him but still keeps staring forward.

"Really hot?"

"No, more like really cold. His skin feels like ice," Tk says surprised. "Matt?" He waves his hand in front of his brother's eyes but they don't even blink. "Yolei-" Tk starts to speak but stops instantly when Matt collapses onto the floor, his eyes slowly closing.

"Matt!"

Kari gasps as she wakes up with a jolt. Sora looks over at her, putting the book she was reading down.

"You ok? You look like you've just saw a ghost. What's wrong?"

Kari tries to calm down.

"Bad dream?"

"No, more like a bad feeling. Sora, something's wrong. Something happened to Matt, I can feel it," Kari answering, looking at the older girl.

"What?" Sora gasps, horrified. But then the phone rings and she gets up, walking into the kitchen. Kari can only hear Sora's end of the conversation but she can tell something's wrong. She hears: "What! Is he alright? Of course, we'll be there in 10 minutes."

Sora then comes back and her face is pale and worried.

"You were right. Matt passed out after acting strange. I told them we'd be the in 10 minutes. They also have news about Tai." Kari nods and gets up, following Sora out the door.

Tk lays across a large arm chair at the side of Matt's bed. Matt's clothes are soaking wet with freezing cold water and his skin is like ice. His skin is as pale as snow and is coated with frost slightly. Water runs from his frozen blonde hair. Tk looks at the doorway when Sora walks in the room. She walks to Matt and touches his soaked black t-shirt, then looks at TK.

"What happened?" she asks as a single tear runs down her cheek. Tk sighs, sitting up and rubbing his eyes looking tired. He tells her how Matt felt ice cold and collapsed onto the floor. Sora again touches Matt's cold black t-shirt, heavy because of being drenched.

"But he's soaked with water and there's ice in his hair. He's nearly frozen, how could this happen?" Sora asks absently as she looks down at the unconscious teenager. Tk shrugs. Just then Karen comes in carrying a large pile of big blankets. She dumps the blankets onto the bed and looks at Sora as she starts to cover Matt with the blankets.

"It's strange, this is almost exactly how Davis and Tai were found. They were really pale and their skin was cold but not as severe as this," she says as she puts the last blanket on Matt. She then takes his temperature and Tk looks up when she curses rather loud.

"What?" Tk asks, trying to cover a yawn but fails.

"His temp is dropping still. It's 90° and falling. He is quickly getting hypothermia." Karen says, looking at Sora.

"How much lower can it go?"

"Once he reaches 82° he'll die. But I don't just don't understand. Oh, if one of you can bring him some dry clothes, I'm sure that would help keep him warmer," Karen answers, gently pulling ice from Matts dripping hair. "Well, I have to go check on Tai and Davis. Keep him warm and try to get him to wake up."

Sora nods as Karen walks from the room. She sits on the side of the bed, next to Matt. Tk yawns again, leaning back in the large armchair.

"He's soaking wet. It hasn't rained for days and he's been inside since the other two were in brought in. He's frozen when it's 98° outside. Tk, it doesn't make sense."

"I know, he was acting strange. He looked like he was staring at something underneath Tai's bed." Tk then looks at her when she sits up and gasps, "What? What is it?"

"When me and Kari were in the elevator, leaving the hospital, something odd happened. Thick ice covered the inside of the elevator but then it shattered and vanished as though it was never there. It was so cold, it felt like the ice was coating my bones."

Tk is silent as he listens.

"When Matt had been taken from the room, I heard a dripping noise. It was cold water running off the metal frame of Tai's bed. What if he really saw something but where did all the cold water come from? This is getting stranger by the minute. I'm beginning to think someone's purposely going after the 3 of them, but who or what would do it?" Tk looks at Sora as he finishes. Sora is gently removing ice off Matt's neck and his bright blonde hair. His lips have began to turn bright blue, making his extremely pale skin to look even more frosted and it gleams in the light.

"Well, I'll go get Matt some dry clothes. Be back later," Tk says as he gets up and walks out the door, covering a yawn. Sora leans forward, laying her head on Matt's chest as she sighs and closes her eyes. She slowly drifts off to sleep.

"Those brats may still live!" yells a shadowed figure in the dark corner of a dark castle. "The two holding the crest of courage are badly hurt and if they die, I will finally be rid of the digidestined forever! But the two of them may still live because of friendship!"

"But master, the wolf child was frozen when he just looked into your eyes! They are no match for you!" a small bat like creature says as he bows down in front of the shadowed figure. The dark shadow laughs as it looks at the small creature in front of him with his glowing electric blue eyes.

"Flattery will get you everywhere," the shadow laughs evilly, the laughing echoes off the walls and intensifying. The small creature just looks up and grins.

" I am at your service master."

"I have a job for you, get rid of the digidestined's digimon!"

"Yes master," the bat type creature says as he flies out of the castle, toward the unexpecting digidestined.

"Tai, try not to move," Kari says as Tai tries to sit up after he just woke up. He winces and falls back as he holds his badly damaged ribs. He grabs the marker board and marker, writing something down. After a minute, he turns it around so Kari can see what it says:

Kari, will you do me a favor? Can you find Agumon for me?

I want to see him again. What happened to Matt?

"Yeah, I'll find him. Matts in a different room," Kari answers as she looks at the floor. She then tells him what the others said had happened. Tai writes something back and shows her:

Is he ok?

"I don't know but I'll go check," she gets up and walks from the room. Tai watches her leave and he wishes he could comfort her like he always has in the past. He remembers when they were younger and he was teaching her how to roller blade

Flashback

"Tai! It hurts!" a six year old Kari cries as she hugs her bleeding knees to her chest with her scratched arms. Tai kneels next to her and he gently wipes the blood away with a Kleenex. Kari winces as the wounds get touched. Tai smiles slightly as he looks down at her.

"Sorry, is that better?" he asks as he finishes wiping away the blood. Kari nods slowly as she brushes away the tears in her eyes and looks up at Tai.

"Tai, will I ever be able to rollarblade?" she sobs, looking into his caring eyes. He smiles as he helps her up.

"Of course. Just not today. Lets go home and fix up your knees, ok?"

"K!" Kari smiles but gets unbalanced and starts to fall. Tai grabs her arm firmly but gently, keeping her in a standing position. He then rollarblades home, helping Kari along side him.

End flashback

A tear slowly runs from his eye at remembering that. 'Why cant I comfort her now? she needs me more then ever and I cant sit up!' he thinks angrily to himself.

'Because she no longer needs you! You were only fooling yourself, she never needed nor wanted your help. It's all your fault you know, Davis never would have gotten hurt so bad if you hadn't been there,' a cold voice says in the teenagers mind. Tai gasps as the words echo through his mind, leaving a cold numb feeling behind. Tai shakes his head, trying to get rid of th creepy feeling.

'No, that's not true! It cant be! Can it? Is it really my fault Davis almost got killed?' Tai wonders. He then slowly closes his eyes as he feels exhausted. Darkness consumes him almost instantly as he falls unconscious.

Matt slowly opens his eyes and he sees a blurred figure standing in front of him that is cloaked and looks like nothing more then a shadow. The teen blinks several times, trying to clear his vision. He tries to lift up his arms but finds them to heavy to lift, almost like they were made of iron. His vision slowly clears and he looks down at his legs. Two inch thick ice is covering his legs up to his waist keeping him standing and in one place. Matt looks at the cloaked figure's glowing electric blue eyes and gasps, knowing instantly.

"You!" Matt tries to scream but his words come out as a hoarse whisper. Her coughs, surprised at the way his own voice sounds but he looks back at the cloaked figure. "It was you, you were under Tai's bed," Matt coughs, his throat really sore for some reason.

"Yes, your fragile human body couldn't handle it when I just looked at you."

"What did you do to me..." Matt asks as he winces.

"See for yourself."

A small tv screen appears in front of Matt. The digidestined looks at it closely, trying to see its image better because he still cant move. He gasps but because of his sore throat, its more of a groan. It was him! He was in a hospital bed and he was soaked with ice water, blankets piled on top of him. There is someone else there and he looks harder at the screen as a tear runs from his eye. It was Sora. She is sitting at his side, her head laying on his chest and is asleep. His skin is whiter the snow and his lips are bright blue. His eyes are closed because he is unconscious and his breathing is shallow. The screen slowly melts away and Matt looks back at the cloaked figure.

"What happened to me?" Matt asks quietly as he starts to feel tired.

"You were frozen the instant you looked into my eyes. I couldn't have you warning the digidestined of my presence."

"I'm going to tell them anyways when I wake up. I guess your plan failed," Matt snaps back angrily. He hears a deep laugh come from inside the hood.

"What's so funny!" Matt tries to yell, getting angry because he's not getting any answers. The laughter slowly dies.

"Because young Matt, holder of the crest of friendship. You will never again see the light of day."

"No! You cant do that!"

"Cant I? I was the one who attacked Davis and Tai! You unexpectedly got in the way so I had to stop you, but it is working out better then I thought."

Matt glares at the shadowed figure.

"Then show yourself you coward, instead of hiding in the shadows! Are you afraid to show yourself to a dying teenager!" Matt yells, letting his anger go. He shivers when a low growl comes from the hood. The cloak drops to the floor but Matt cant see who it is because he is still in the shadows. He looks harder as his vision starts to get blurry again.

"Come into the light..."

The creature slowly steps into the light and Matt suddenly realizes how big he is. A shiver runs down his back as he looks up at him.

"I am Icedevimon. I am the last being you will ever talk to Matt Ishida," Icedevimon says, smiling. Matt tries to answer but he suddenly feels exhausted.

"Enjoy your last few minutes of life Matt because they are almost over," Icedevimon says smiling. Matt looks at him, finding its getting hard for him to keep his eyes open as he tries to fight a new wave of sickness. Icedevimon spreads his wings.

"Frozen claw!" Icedevimon's voice echos off the ice coated walls. Matt looks at the fallen angel digimon but instantly closes his eyes again as intense pain rips through him. He screams in pain as the attack hits him. It feels like his whole body is getting cut by a knife and the cold goes down to his very bones, freezing them. He screams again in pain.

"Gabumon!" Matt yells as he falls to the floor, the ice on his legs shattering with a sickening smash. He hears Icedevimon laugh as he slowly blacks out.

Sora wakes up instantly as she feels Matt suddenly tense up and become rigid. She looks at him and his breathing gets really shallow.

"Karen!"

Karen comes in quickly

"What happened?" Karen asks walking to Matt, looking at the heart monitor. The line is jumping up and down out of pattern.

"I don't know, I felt him get tense and his breathing got shallow."

"He's freezing again!" she flings back the blankets covering the teen's chest. Sora holds Matts cold limp hand tightly as she look at him, horrified. Dark blood slowly runs from Matt's mouth, that looks black because of his white skin. Karen glances at the blood and tilts him on his side, his hand falling from Sora's grasp. Sora backs up to let Karen through.

"Come on Matt, wake up." Karen says as she grabs Matts arm and injects a clear liquid into his left arm. She then rubs the place where she injected the liquid, trying to get it to spread quicker. A minute or two passes silently except for the beeping of the machines in the room. Sora jumps when Matt suddenly gasps and jolts awake. He coughs as though trying to breathe in very thin air and blood splatters the white bed sheets. Karen smiles, obviously relieved that he was at least awake. Matt gasps again as he holds his left side tightly and winces.

"Matt, are you ok?" Sora asks as she steps forward. Matt doesn't answer as he closes his eyes in pain and holds his side tighter. His clothes are still drenched and are heavy. He is now shaking and shivering uncontrollably, making the bed shake slightly. Karen pulls the blankets back up onto him.

"Your brother's bringing you dry clothes. Hang in there Matt," Karen says as she leaves the room. Sora sits back down on the edge of Matt's bed and looks down at him. She could feel the bed move because he was shaking so badly.

"Matt..." Matt looks up at her, as she brushes his wet hair out of his face with her finger. "Are you ok? What happened?"

"Im so cold..." Matt whispers in a slightly tired voice as he keeps shivering, the dark blood running from his mouth slightly.

"Tk's bringing you dry clothes, I'm sure he's coming back right now. Just hang on" Sora says as she wipes the blood off Matt's face. Sora looks up when Kari walks in. She gets up and walks to her at the door. "Hi Kari."

"Hi. What happened..."

Sora turns and looks at Matt and shrugs slightly. "I don't know but I don't want to ask him right now." She turns back to Kari and the younger girl sees tears running down her cheeks. "He almost died Kari..."

"Oh Sora..." Kari says, not knowing what to say. She definitely knows how Sora feels because the same thing is basically happening to Tai. Though she didn't expect the older girl to pull her into a tight hug. She winces slightly but then slowly hugs her back. Sora releases her a minute later, tears still leaking from her eyes.

"Oh, by the way. Have you heard anything else from your parents yet?"

"No, I haven't. I guess they will call when they get the chance. Where did the message on the answering machine say they were going?" Kari asks.

"Um, England I think."

Kari nods absently and was going to tell Sora that she just realized it was strange for her parents to be in England right now but Tk suddenly came in. She didn't want Tk to know she was worried about her parents also, he had enough on his mind. He's holding a large bag that appears to be filled with clothes and he's out of breath like he was running. But the things the two girls noticed first was the large dark purple bruise covering his left cheek and a nasty looking cut under his left eye at the edge of the bruise. The cut oozes dark blood slowly, streaking his face with blood. His pants are torn in the knees and across his shin. Kari stares at Tk, in disbelieved. It looked like he was in a fight.

"Tk...what happened? Are you alright?"