"We're done for." Cody mumbled.
"Don't give up hope, Cody. We'll get her back." Yolei replied. The group turned as they heard fast footsteps pounding on the floor. The sight was Takeru running away into the forest.
"I'll go after him." Matt replied.
"DAMN IT! Why didn't I see it coming?" Takeru yelled to himself as he thumped a tree.
"Takeru, it wasn't your fault."
"Yes it was! If I hadn't have been so hesitant I could've saved her!"
"T.K, she had a knife against her neck. And, considering that that heartless fool doesn't care about anyone or anything, he would really have done it. You had every right to hesitate."
"Why didn't I notice that Tai wasn't Tai at all?" He yelled at himself, hitting the tree with his fist again.
"Because he was well hidden. You didn't actually come in physical contact so you wouldn't have been able to tell. It's not your fault."
"ARGH! If it wasn't for my stupidity Kari would still be here!" He yelled. Matt grabbed him and whirled him around.
"Takeru, listen to me. It wasn't your fault. You hesitated because her safety was in danger, not because of cowardice. You didn't notice because of my stupidity. It was my argument that made you not notice. So if you should be blaming anyone, it should be me." Takeru looked at his brother with a calm face, one ready to crack at any moment.
"Matt, I'm sorry-"
"No T.K, I'm sorry. It's all my fault."
"Matt, it's not your fault. It's really no one's fault if I think about it. I was just so mad that I didn't do anything that I was ready to blame it on myself."
"We all feel like that sometimes T.K. Come one, let's get back." T.K nodded and headed back to the group with his older sibling behind him. He had his head hung low so no one would see the tears strolling down his face. He had to stop thinking that it was his fault.
'Clear your mind of all emotions except your determination to complete your goal.' Kari had told him that sometime in the past. That's it, now he remembered. It was at one of his first basketball matches. It worked too.
He was snapped from his trance by the cackling of the campfire. Without noticing, he had walked back into camp and had sat back down beside the campfire. He stared into the dancing flames and felt his eyelids droop. Having a lack of sleep the previous night was a bad thing at the moment. It turned out to be even worse due to the fact that, if he had just stayed back at camp, she wouldn't have come back with him and she'd still be safe at the beach. Then again she'd probably have come back sooner or later. There was no way to escape the inevitable.
The group slowly thinned off to do their own activities while T.K remained at the fire, which slowly died. Even though the only thing to look at was a pile of blackened twigs, he still continued to gaze at where the fire had been.
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"Let me go!" She yelled. The Scubamon ignored her and just tightened it's grip on her wrist. If it was painful before, it was agony now.
"Is the little child of light scared?" Piedmon taunted, "How does it feel to not have your digimon here to protect you?"
"First of all, she not MY DIGIMON, she's my friend. I don't own her and she has every right to leave me at any time she wishes. Second of all, I feel quite god actually. After not getting a proper chance to defeat you, I can finally prove my worth." She replied. Piedmon smirked.
"Do you really want to fur fill that promise?"
"I'm ready when you are." She spat back. Again, an evil smile played across Piedmon's lips.
"Bring him out." Kari was released while her Scubamon walked into the shadows. They returned a few minutes later with another figure. The hair was unmistakable.
"TAI!" She yelled. He lifted his face. It was pale and his eyes were lifeless, but it was still him.
"Every time you get hurt, or sustain an injury, he will have the same. Better be careful, hadn't you? He sneered. Kari, finally realizing the seriousness of the situation, thought about her offer.
"Do you want to take it back? Remember, if you win, you can both go free. If you lose, you both either die, or become slaves to my will. Which ever I think most suitable at the time. Will you swallow your offer?"
"No. I'm a person who's true to her word." She stood in a fighting stance, "Bring it."
A digimon walked out of the shadows, swords pointing out from various different places on its body. It pulled a sword out, and matched her stance.
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The two stood facing each other, as though they could destroy each other by staring holes into their body. One on one, human against digimon, both in a fight to the death, both with something to gain or lose if they won or lost.
Swordmon charged at Kari, who twisted out of the way just in time, but not without a small scratch on her side.
Swordmon lunged at her, stabbing the air repeatedly. She revolved her arms in self-defence and walked backwards, Swordmon only advancing on her further.
She gasped as met back met a stonewall; it's iciness sending shivers down her spine. Swordmon leered at her, and lunged once again…
…only to get his sword stuck in a small crevice in the wall. He let go and frantically looked around for any signs of the girl. It appeared that she had flipped over him while he had lunged. She had grabbed up a sword off the floor, his sword. It must have fallen off of him while he had been lunging at her. She brandished the sword, as though tempting him to charge at her, which he did. She then threw the sword at him, which he missed, then flipped backwards, her feet catching his chin sending him flying backwards.
"Kari…" Tai started, "Where did you learn to do that?"
"I…have no idea…" She replied.
Swordmon stood up again and charged at her. She ran to meet him, jumping above him at the last second. He couldn't stop in time, and so turned only to go flying into a pile f boxes.
"You…are a stubborn little a girl. A silly, stubborn, little girl. Go pick your flowers." He told her, emphasizing each word as though he were talking to a toddler.
"Better a silly girl with a flower and stubbornness, than a silly digimon with swords that you don't know how to use." She replied.
"Oh, and you know how to summon a sword, do you? Go on then, you stupid show off." Kari's face remained confident, but her mind wasn't sending out the same message.
Then, out of nowhere, words came to her. Like a language, long, dead and forgotten.
"Elendil de Muerta!
Parient an Anuck!
Ha'thlyan! Ha'thlyan!
Elendil de Muerta!" (1)
A bright light filled the room, but Hikari didn't flinch. She thrust one hand up in the air and a long glowing pole appeared. It transformed into a sword, silver and white gold encrusted the hilt, with a pink diamond in the middle. The sword gleamed a slight tinted pink, and gave off an aura of the same colour. (((You should see my drawing of this sword. Wow!)))
In the cage, Tai gawked at her. He had never seen his sister do that before. He had never even heard those words, they didn't make any sense.
He took in the whole image of his sister, and then did a double take at what she was now wearing.
She now wore a black one-piece cat suit, sleeveless at the top, starting in two arcs that stuck to her chest, moving further down, he noticed that she was wearing a belt with a hilt on her left hip and a small, leather pouch on her right hip.
The pants ended at her knees, two small throwing daggers at each side of her leg, one at the front and another sideways at the back of her knee on both side.
Coming from under the trousers were knee-length leather boots with a moderate heel.
He looked at Kari's face. Her hair was now down to her hips and was loosely curled. Her face had matured, and so had her figure, sporting more curves and making her look a lot more grown-up.
"So it is you…master Piedmon will be pleased to know this." Swordmon muttered as he looked at the human. He turned and quickly scampered off before anyone could stop him.
Kari turned and ran towards her brother. As smoothly as something can be done only when you have practiced many times, she placed a hind on the lock, which glowed a faint pink. It unlocked itself and Tai stumbled out. He hugged his sister tightly.
"Kari," he started once he had let go, "how did you do that?"
"Once again, I have no idea." She replied.
Tai was about to suggest getting out of the building when Kari started swaying slightly. Tai had to rush around behind her to catch her before her unconscious body hit the floor. She glowed a bright pink.
When the light had faded, she was just normal Kari again. Tai was thankful. He didn't know what he would have told the rest of the gang if…
The gang! Surely they would be worried about Kari and him. He lifted Kari up into his arms and walked towards the door, half expecting it to be guarded. Luckily it wasn't. He pushed it open and squinted as the sunlight first entered his pupils. When his eyes finally got used to the light, he carried on walking.
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1
Elendil de Muerta!
Parient an Anuck!
Ha'thlyan! Ha'thlyan!
Elendil de Muerta
-Pronunciation-
Ellen-dille deh Moo-err-ta!
Pear-ee-ent an An-uck!
Hath-lian! Hath-lian!
Ellen-dille deh Moo-err-ta!
-Translation-
Elendil I summon you!
My powerful will to do!
Come forth! Come forth!
Elendil I summon you!
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Kari: So…what on earth happened there?
H-4-T: You came back then?
Kari: I wanted to know what happened to me.
H-4-T: Well, everything will be explained later. Bye for now!