A/N: okay sorry it's token so long to update I've been busy with speeches, science, french and all that other fun stuff! Anyways Italics are flashbacks…I need 18 reviews to update (5 more to go)…ENJOY.
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Chapter Seven
Mixed Emotions
Tai's POV
I walked around aimlessly for hours; I realized I had just left without even asking how to use the transmission thingy. I sat on a bench and thought for hours if I was ready for this. I thought if maybe I should just stop the fighting against that thing for losing seemed inevitable. I thought about all this, until it started to rain but by the time it started raining I knew where I needed to go. With each step down the alley I could hear our cries.
"MATT!"
"Tai…please help me…."
It had started raining making an eerie mist rise from the ground. As I stood at the entrance of the baseball diamond I saw the scene in my minds eye. The things I desperately wanted to forget came rushing towards me again
I could see the mist slowly rising up from the ground I could see all the times we played baseball, tag and all those other goofy kid games we used to play. I ran toward Matt and stumbled on Garurumon limp body I crashed down on my shoulder and realized that I must have fractured or broken it when I ran into the wall. I kept running toward Matt as Garurumon dematerialized behind me. I bent over and held Matt in my arms his eyes were shut, a look of peace on his face.
"Shhh…. you've got to be quiet" I whipped my head around. Who was that? It must have been my imagination… I walked toward the center of the baseball diamond and sat in the middle. I took out Izzy's laptop and opened it up. It was only drizzling so I didn't think it would affect the laptop…much. I opened the file in which the transmission had arrived on and sat. I stared at the screen for minutes waiting for it to do something, and then I smacked it.
"Why isn't my laptop working?" Izzy groaned.
"Here all you need to do is give it a good smack!" I struck out my hand and slapped the laptop Izzy horrified moved it out of the way as my hand came for another smack.
"Tai!" Sora yelled hopelessly.
I laughed softly at how much I was still like my old self…I didn't really expect smacking the stupid laptop to work. I was looking far into the distance when multicolored lights lit up my face. I looked at the screen to see it flashing.
"What the…?" I staggered back amazed at the power slapping the laptop had. Suddenly I was pulled into the air like a puppet. I was just hung there. I hole started forming right where I had been sitting. It looked a lot like what happened the first time we had entered the digital world. The light illuminated my face blinding me momentarily until my eyes got used to it.
"Wha…?" I was sure someone AND something was standing there looking at me. Who was that?
? POV
It was creepy looking at Tai's face. It looked like he was just going to tell us some scary ghost story like old times when he had tried to creep us out.
"I'm scared" I looked at the blue digimon standing beside me. It was creeping me out too even though I didn't want to show it. The lights stopped as Tai was dropped into the hole that had formed on the ground. It started closing, from what I heard this was our last chance into the digital world and no one was allowed to follow but I didn't count right? I mean I NEEDED to save Kari! T.K. is to chicken so I MUST go it is my duty!
"Your sure about this?"
"I have to be" I jumped into the hole after Tai screaming the whole way.
Sora's POV
I quietly shut the door as Tai walked out of view. I heard sniffles behind me. I turned around to see most of the original digidestine in tears. The news looked kind of…confused. Except for Takuya, he was leaning against the hallway entrance sobbing heavily. They must have had a fight…
"We have to find a way…" I spoke slowly so everyone would understand "to help Tai…"
"There is no way we aren't allowed to follow" T.K. said angrily. He had wanted to go badly I could tell. Well I wouldn't be surprised I don't think it was just rumors that he was planning to purpose to Kari. I looked at each digidestine hopefully each returning my look except for Izzy. A look of understanding crossed his face.
"There may be a way…but I'll need my laptop"
"Tai took it with him" Izumi replied.
"We'll have to find it then" Izzy started walking defiantly towards the door but I stuck out my hand stopping him.
"We need to give Tai some time…" I looked at the clock it read 3:00 "give him till 7:00 then we can go look".
"But it will be dark and we all know it isn't safe for people to be prowling around at night, we don't even know where Tai is going…" Joe stuttered.
"I think I know…" I replied darkly looking downward "the place where…Matt…took his last…breaths"
Kari's POV
When I woke up the next morning I found myself wrapped in Kouji's embrace. I quietly untangled myself and stood up. I walked over to the wall and leaned against it. Did Kouji really kiss me last night? How could I have kissed him? I love T.K. don't I? I looked at the dark haired boy, even in his sleep he looked troubled, troubled by invisible monsters and terrors that no one else could see. I wanted to reach out and help him, but it looked like no one could do that, no one except himself. It didn't matter anyways even if I did…love…Kouji, It would never work. Like seriously how much older am I? It doesn't matter anyways…or at least that's what I keep telling myself.
"Hhhmmm?" Kouji stirred in his sleep. "Kouichi?" he shifted his position. I leaned down to observe him.
"Where………are…………..you?" he shifted again so he was on his back. Sweat was pouring from his face.
"Kouji?" I was no doctor but I didn't think this could be good. Suddenly I felt a presence in the room. I froze. I had had this talent for quite some time. I could sense the things others couldn't, some call it a gift, others a curse. I was scared I thought for a second that it was some mind trick that that "thing" was trying to pull on us. I let out a chuckle knowing Tai he would come up with some thing that they had an elaborate plan to turn us all against each other, he could always make any situation funny, that's why I loved having him as a brother. I realized I was no longer tense. The presence I felt in this room was friendly but lost, loving but longing.
"W...ho…. are you?" but just then the presence was carried away on a breeze leaving Kouji with a peaceful but concerned look on his face.
Tai's POV
This territory was unknown to me, it must have also helped that it was pouring rain. I had never been in this part of the digital world before. It looked something like the pictures of Mt.Fuji I had seen in the school textbooks.
"Oh great" I muttered to myself when I heard something stir behind me. I turned around this was NOT my imagination, for if it was I was getting a bit to paranoid for comfort!
"Hey anyone there?" I asked to the emptiness nervously. When a screaming goggle head ran out of the bushes followed by a blue digimon.
"HELP! HELP!"
"Davis!" I asked, surprise creased my face when I turned to see what he was running from.
"Davis what did you do?" I muttered sadly to myself as I surveyed the new threat.
Sora's POV
We set out at 7:00 that night. Joe being the worrywart like old times, he insisted we bring two flashlights and that we carry the nightstick that he had tucked away in his bag. Only Izzy and I went, seeing that it would be pointless to bring the others and that the younger digidestine needed to get home. While we were gone Joe was going to look into getting a few extra hotel rooms for Takuya's parents and brother would be arriving home soon. As we exited the house a blast of cool air surrounded me. It was refreshing; Izzy and I walked down the streets slowly, him carrying the nightstick and flashlights in his laptop bag and me carrying the umbrella. It was pouring in buckets now the thunder residing in our ears.
"I wonder what is happening to my laptop right now?" Izzy said giving a worried look at the rain that was surrounding the areas that were unprotected by the umbrella.
"Maybe Tai didn't leave it out…" I started but we both knew that he did leave it out, for Tai had never liked Izzy's laptop it had given him more than one bump on the head. As we turned to the alleys entrance we each flicked on our flashlights and Izzy rested a hand on the nightstick. We kept walking only imagining the horrors that Tai had been through, the guilt he must always suffer knowing that he couldn't save Matt. As we walked into the entrance to the baseball diamond it was torrential downpour, no seriously.
"Are you sure it is here?" Izzy asked.
"Yeah it should be! Let's take a look around I'm sure it will be somewhere here" so we went around the baseball diamond looking to see if the laptop had been discarded anywhere in the vicinity when I heard a groan.
"What is it did you find something?" I ran over to see Izzy bent over his laptop.
"What is it?" Izzy opened his laptop under the umbrella, fortunately it seemed in perfect condition. Izzy pulled out his mouse and clicked a flashing icon. His e-mail inbox opened with the ever ritual "You've Got Mail" the sender:
digitaldestroyer
To Be Continued…Hello again! Sorry I took so long to update plus I am sorry it is ssuuucchhh a short chapter (well to me it is short anyways) I hope to update soon but before I update I am going to need at least eighteen reviews (five more to go), as soon as I get that number I promise to try to update as soon as possible! Also guys the flashback with Tai and the laptop happened during the first season. I was going to use the actual script (for I actually have that episode) but it must be somewhere in my closet Tee Hee