Chapter 32:

The Return Home: Part 2

Tai was surprised that he was able to open his eyes because Sara told him that he was going to be placed inside of Female Tai's body, but how come he was able to control the eyes? He sat up in the small cat bed that he fell asleep in before and glanced at himself. He was still a cat.

His looked around and saw that he was still in Sora's room, the same place he had fallen asleep in the night before. He didn't think that he was still going to be here, so he pretended to be Sora's pet cat for the night. He felt depressed when he realized that he might be Sora's pet for the rest of his life.

He heard a noise behind him and he turned around. Sora was already awake and had her back to him. She was searching in her closet, dressed in only her red bra and panties. Tai stared as she pulled out a blue sweater and an orange skirt and pulled them on. She turned around and Tai quickly turned his head away from her. He heard her gasp and run over to him. She knelt down and stared at him. "Tai, is that still you? Nod twice."

The small cat did and Sora gasped again. "Oh no! I thought that…" She picked him up, "Well, come on, we'd better go see Sara and Sam."

She put him in her backpack. She gently swung her backpack onto her back and walked out of the apartment. She stopped in the hall. "Maybe we should get Kari too. If your Mom and Dad let her leave."

When they got to the Kamiya apartment, they could hear Mr. and Mrs. Kamiya through the door.

"Why did you leave the hospital?" Mrs. Kamiya shouted.

"We were so worried about you! Why did you leave before we got there?" Mr. Kamiya shouted.

"Where's your brother?" Mrs. Kamiya shouted again, "He's been missing for twenty days! You've been acting weird since he left, and then you went into that coma! I want to know what's going on!"

"Listen Mom," Kari said, "I will tell you everything, but, I can't just yet."

"Does this have anything to do with that Digital World?" Mr. Kamiya shouted.

"Yes and No," she said, "It's a lot more complicated then that."

No one said anything for a long while, so Sora rang the doorbell. The door opened a second later and Mrs. Kamiya appeared. "Oh, hello Sora."

"Hi, Mrs. Kamiya," Sora said, "Um, can I talk to Kari?"

"Oh, yes, I guess. Kari, Sora's here to talk to you."

Kari appeared at the door a second later, wearing her long sleeved pink dress. "Hi Sora."

"Kari," Sora whispered, "Tai's still a cat. We're going to see the others."

"Okay, let's go." She grabbed her hat and pulled on her black shoes. "I'm ready."

"Aren't you going to tell your parents?" Sora asked when Kari closed the door.

"I don't like doing it, but I know that they wouldn't want me to leave. So let's just go."

The two girls and the boy-turned-cat arrived at the warehouse where Sara and the others were staying. They walked inside and saw that the others were already awake. Sara and Sam ran over to her. "Do you have Tai?" Sam asked.

Sora nodded and opened her backpack. She held Tai in her arms. "What happened?" she asked.

Sara frowned. "The body possession thing didn't work. I thought I was strong enough to do it, but I guess I'm not. "

Female Tai, Derwood, Takato and Rika walked over, along with two more digimon. "Gatomon!" Kari shouted as the white cat jumped into her arms, "Gatomon, oh, I missed you so much!"

Agumon was there too. He looked at the cat in Sora's arms. "So, you're really Tai? You've been missing for such a long time."

"So what happened?" Female Tai asked.

Sara shook her shoulders. "It just didn't work. But, I think that he may have gained an ability from the attempt."

"What?" Kari asked.

"I think he may be able to talk."

The cat blinked. "Go ahead," Sam said, "Try it."

"Say my name," the blond girl suggested.

Tai was surprised when he was able to say, "Sara. Hey, I can talk! I can talk!"

Sora smiled. "That's great Tai!" she hugged him, "Now at least you can talk to us."

"Which is good," Sara said, "Because you may be stuck like that until we find Ryo."

"Perfect," he sighed.

"All right," Takato said, "Now that that's out of the way, Hypnos has just sent a large team over to North America, Colorado to be precise. This is a big one, Alice, Yamaki and Dark Ryo himself have gone over there. We'd better find out why."

"How are we going to get there?" Gatomon asked.

"Bidramon could take us," Sora suggested, "but I don't know if she could fly that far."

"Buy the time we bought a ticket for an airplane, I bet whatever Hypnos is doing over there will be over," Rika sighed.

"Wait!" Derwood grinned, "I've got an idea."

Dark Sora walked down the sidewalk, ignoring the people who were passing by her. She couldn't understand why they kept staring at her, was it because of the serious expression on her face? The part of her that enjoyed to laugh died the day that Emperor Tai killed Matt. So who cares what anyone else thinks?

"Hey good looking!"

She stopped and looked up. A teenage boy was staring at her with a grin on his face. Dark Sora ignored him and kept walking.

"Hey Babe, I'm talking to you."

She growled. "Don't ever call me that, got it?"

The boy walked forward and put his hand on her shoulder. "What's so wrong with that?"

Dark Sora turned to look at him over her shoulder, her eyes starting to turn black. "Remove your hand, now!"

He did and she started to walk away again. "Wait!" he shouted.

She spun around to face him. "You can't take a hint, can you?" Her body started to crackle with dark lighting and her denim jacket blew behind her. She fired a bolt of dark lighting into the boy. He shot backwards into a building wall and Dark Sora returned to normal. She turned around and walked off.

"This was a great idea!" Rika shouted.

"What's so wrong with it?" Derwood asked.

"I just love being used as cargo!" she screamed.

"Look, this was the only way we could get to America, right?" Derwood asked, "And what's so wrong with flying?"

"We're in the cargo hold!" she shouted.

"What are you complaining about?" Female Tai shouted, "You at least have fur! It's freezing in here!"

The other girls agreed. Tai, who had his own fur coat, wasn't cold at all. "How long until we land?"

Derwood looked at his watch. "About another hour."

"Perfect!" Takato sighed,"By the time we land, Hypnos is going to be there and gone!"

Oikawa smiled to himself as he stood on top of the bridge, staring down at a boy with black hair as he walked on the sidewalk underneath of the bridge. He walked off of the bridge and entered a residential section of the city. He stopped to look at a girl with long brown hair as she walked into the apartment with her mother. "So many children with the Dark Spores, I'll be able to complete my plans!" He frowned, "But why are these children disappearing? Who is interfering in my plans!"

He suddenly heard the sound of lighting crackling and he turned around to see a redheaded girl floating in the air. He hid between the buildings and watched. The redheaded girl shot a bolt of lightning into a boy, then started to walk away. Oikawa gasped when he saw her face. "Is that Sora Takenouchi? How was she able to command the darkness like that? This requires more study. "

By the time that Tai and the others were able to get out of the cargo hold of the plane and sneak through the airport, it had taken about hour. Thankfully, there was a cargo plane bound for Colorado, or it could have taken even longer to get there. They were able to find an airplane hanger that was unoccupied to hide in. "Now we just have to find out where Hypnos is."

"Wait, look at this!" Sam said, running over to them with an American newspaper that she got from the airport. "There's some kind of prophet or something that lives up in the mountains. This article says that he gives predictions and read peoples fortunes and they come true!"

"It does seem like a big coincidence that Dark Ryo would come to Colorado specifically," Derwood said.

"I'm with him," Tai said, "Sam, does it say exactly where he lives?"

Sam read the article quickly. "Yeah, right here! We might have to do some walking."

"Fine with me," Tai said.

Sora stared down at him. "Of course, I'm the one that's going to be carrying you!"

"What about us?" Rika asked, mentioning to Gatomon, Takato and Agumon, "We can't walk around in public either."

"And you're too big to fit inside of backpacks," Derwood frowned.

Sam kept reading the paper. "I think we can take a car until we get to the mountain. According to this, his family lives by themselves on the top of this mountain. We might be able to get up there without anyone else seeing us."

Takato nodded. "Then let's go."

Dark Ryo smiled as he, Alice and Yamaki walked up the snowy mountain to reach a large white house hidden between the thick trees. "So," Dark Ryo grinned, "This is where the Mountain Prophet lives?"

Yamaki nodded. "Yup, Colorado can't seem to get enough of their soothsayer."

Alice chuckled. "Should we knock, or let ourselves in?"

Dark Ryo grinned. "I think you know."

Alice raised her hands and formed a giant ball of black energy. She was about to through the darkness at the house, when the front door opened and a blond teenage boy walked out. "You don't need to do that."

Alice's dark energy disappeared. "Who are you?"

"My name is Willis, and I've been expecting you."

"You are the prophet?" Yamaki gasped.

He nodded. "Yes. My Crest of Fate gives me powers to see the future, the past, and everything else. You are Alice, Yamaki and the evil half of Ryo, partnered to Milleniumon."

Dark Ryo frowned. "Well, we have come.."

"You have come here looking for the entrance to the Ultimate Reality, the place where wishes can come true, haven't you?"

Dark Ryo was speechless. Willis turned to Alice. "I've been eagerly expecting you."

"Me?" she gasped, "Why?"

"You have a past you can't remember, a really interesting one."

"W..what are you talking about?"

Willis placed a hand on his forehead and closed his eyes. "I can see you and the one you call Emperor Tai walking through a desert together. I believe you two were really close, weren't you?"

Alice felt a strange feeling shoot through her head. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"Really?" he smiled slightly, "What if I mentioned Apocalymon?"

"Apocalymon?" she shrieked. She seemed to go into a seizure at the mention of his name, but she quickly returned to normal. She glared at him. "What did you do to me?"

"I didn't do anything," he said, "You experienced something in the desert about five years ago, didn't you? Something that gave you those powers, huh?"

She palmed her forehead and staggered backwards. "I…I…I…"

Dark Ryo stared at Willis. "Enough of your prophecies! I came to this world because I know that the entrance to the Ultimate Reality is here!" He grinned, "That poor fool, Taichi the Digimon Emperor, sought to find that reality, but the entrance was here all along. Ha! Now, where is it?"

Willis shook his head. "I can't tell you."

"Why not?" he snarled.

"Because I can see into your soul, and I know what you plan to do, conquer all realities. I can't let you do that."

"You'll die if you don't tell us!" Yamaki shouted.

"I'm a precog, of course I know that." He suddenly smiled and glanced at his watch, "Right on time."

Yamaki turned around and shouted, "Matsuki and the others are here!"

Dark Ryo nodded. "Alice, take care of them!" When he turned to look at her, he saw that she was still clutching her forehead in shock.

"Fine. Yamaki!"

"Gladly sir." He shouted into a walkie-talkie, "Send in Quatro, now!"

"Uh oh," Sara paled, "I remember him."

The ground started thundering as the large, four-armed creature ran up the mountain. He smashed his fist into one of the large trees, making it tip over. He caught it before it hit the ground and ran towards Tai and the others. Kari grabbed her digivice. "Gatomon digivolve!"

"Gatomon digivolve to Angewomon!"

Takato looked to Rika. "Can we digivolve?"

"I don't know. We still have our digivices, maybe we can do it on our own."

"It's worth a try!" he shouted, "Digi-modify! Digivolution activate!"

Both Takato and Rika glowed with the light of digivolution and grew into larger, more powerful forms. Takato was now a larger version of his previous form, with white hair and two red blades on his forearms. Rika's body was more developed and had fur around her thighs like shorts. Nine tails twitched behind her and her chest area was covered in a white mane.

Takato, Rika and Angewomon started fighting against Quatro. "I wish I brought Biyomon," Sora said, "But she still in the Digital World, recovering from her fight against Skull Satanmon!"

Agumon turned to the cat in Sora's arms. "I bet Wargreymon could stop him, but I don't think you can be my partner now."

"I know," Tai said.

Female Tai looked at Tai's digivice that Sora was holding. She grabbed it, "Maybe I can." She pointed the device at Agumon. "Digivolve!"

"Agumon digivolve to Greymon!"

"Yes!" Female Tai grinned, "I did it!"

Kari grabbed Sora's shoulder, "They'll fight them, we'd better see this prophet." The girls, Tai and Derwood ran over to where Dark Ryo was facing Willis. Kari gasped.

"Willis? You're the prophet?"

"Kari?" he asked, "What are you doing back here?"

Dark Ryo turned to look at Kari and the others, then back at Willis. "So, I see you already know each other. Well, it doesn't matter, Willis, you will tell me what I want to know, now!"

"I refuse," Willis said flatly.

"Then you die!" He formed a black energy sword on his hand and attempted to strike it through Willis's chest, but a gold blast shot from his crest and deflected the sword. Dark Ryo growled. He turned around but saw that Alice was still in shock and that Quatro had been defeated. Yamaki was about to jump into battle, but Dark Ryo called him back. He ran over and grabbed Alice, "Yamaki, we're leaving now!" He turned and looked back at Willis, "I will be back, mark my words!" He, Yamaki and Alice vanished in a burst of black light.

"They just left?" Female Tai asked.

"He will be back," Willis said, "Trust me."

"Alright Willis," Tai said, "We've got to talk."

The blond teenager nodded. "Yes, and I've got a lot to tell you."

Dark Sora munched on her burger in the food court as she stared at the other Digidestined seated at their own table. She could hardly believe that Matt was sitting only a few tables in front of her, just the shock, that's all. This Sora had given up any feelings she had for anyone after she watched her Matt die. And now he was the girl named Sara. She could probably have this Matt here. If she used her reality powers and did some alterations to her physical features, she could become the girl that he wanted, but why bother? She was having plenty of fun in her new self, without any loyalties, without any worries, completely free and she was enjoying it. But it wasn't enough, she needed more power to do exactly what she wanted, and if she took what power Dark Ryo had, she could.

She finished her meal and walked out of the food court. She walked down the mall, stopping to stare at a mannequin wearing a revealing, skin-tight leather dress. She wondered how many guys she could entrap with that dress when she felt a dark presence behind her. She thought that Alice had returned, the power level was roughly the same, but not as strong as Dark Ryo. She turned around and saw an older man with long dark hair. "Who are you? I can tell you possess formidable dark powers."

"My name is Ukyo Oikawa, and I need to speak to you at once."

To be continued…..

I'm sorry these chapters are so short, but I have some form of writers block for these chapters. I know what I want to do, but getting there is the problem.