Chapter Ten: Diary
(Unknown's P.O.V)
They were growing antsy; they have to be patient if they want this to work out right. One out of all them was getting fed up with me, they might be 'close' to me but they wanted the fun to begin already.
"When is everything going to be set up; I may be patient but even I'm growing weary of this 'plan' of yours." I knew annoying my sister was one thing but pissing him off was not a good idea.
"In due time; before anything we have to get rid of their strongest point." He stood up and I took a step back; even I am afraid of him so how is she not afraid of him?
"Which would be what? According to you what is their 'strongest point'?" I took a deep breath and I let it out.
"Their strongest point is the Light that they placed so much trust in. Get rid of the Light then they'll lose the trust and they'll try to fight us on their own unknowing who they can trust." He smirked slightly and he laughed at me.
"How do you plan to break the trust they have in the Light then?" I let the outer appearance drop and I stood in front of them in my true form.
"They all believe that the Light can't be swallowed by Darkness, prove them wrong and take control of that Darkness then they'll lose their trust in the Light." My sister snickered and stood up.
"Then how about you allow me the pleasure of breaking the Light?" I didn't speak up knowing that I only made the plan but he made the decisions about who did what.
The leader smirked and he laughed; that scared me because his laughter wasn't the kind he did when he mocking people but when he had an idea.
"The Light is oh so guarded but the Light is still weak. Take the innocent of the Light and the Light will quickly become Darkness." Even if I had long ago fallen from grace I still felt a small pang of guilt for the plan that he had, yet not enough guilt that I wouldn't go along with it.
"What's the plan then? I need to know the plan so I know how to arrange the pieces." He looked at me and smirked.
"You are all dismissed; yet my little planner stay here. I'll tell you the plan along with give you something since you've been oh so helpful ever since the beginning when we first met." I wasn't sure what to expect from the smirking demon.
My sister shot me an evil look before she left and she went to terrorize someone; she loved terrorizing people no matter what it cost. Once they were all gone I felt the fear I had developed of him ever since he found out how to change worlds and he began gathering his group together. He was the reason I had fallen from grace; I had chosen to follow him instead of the World of Light's laws.
(Ken's P.O.V)
I studied over the image in one of the old Digital World Books that Gennai had. I was working by myself trying to break the code of 'World Crossing'. Through the months of searching and working with Gennai I found a reference of 'World Crossing'. Tai was here helping me, since Daemon had popped up here and there he began learning the Digital Writing to try to help find a way to Kari.
"Why did everyone else give up on her once we found her diary?" I looked at Tai; why would he be asking me?
"I think it's because that they felt betrayed; I truly don't know why Tai." I grabbed my pencil and I began writing what I had translated so far.
"Why are you working so hard to find a way to Kari?" I stopped and I chewed on my lip; wondering upon that question myself.
"Something is just, driving me to find a way to her. Something inside of me just won't let me rest knowing that Kari could be hurting." He gave me a look; a look that he used to always give T.K. and Davis.
"Do you like my sister Ken?" I sighed and I looked back to the image.
"I did love her at one point, I'll admit that Tai. As I got closer to her though I began feeling more like I had to protect her, like a brother feels towards his younger sister. Soon that love became sibling like." That seemed to shock him, yet I saw a small smile on his face.
I stopped when I got the sense that something was wrong, as if something bad was going to happen. I remember the feeling from when I had the Dark Spore; it felt like a huge wave of Darkness was coming. I have no clue what could cause it but I sensed it and it sent a shiver down my spine.
"I got a bad feeling Tai; something's about to happen that isn't going to turn out to well. I can sense it…" He looked to the book and bit his lip as if he knew something that he didn't want to tell me.
"I think I know what you're sensing, well not exactly but the text I was looking through is a prophecy I believe and most of the things in it have happened already." I quickly snatched the paper he had been translating on and read what he had written; well I tried to read what he wrote, when I looked at him he laughed a little in embarrassment.
"You're handwriting sucks Tai; I can't even read what you wrote…" His checks were tinted with a light red from embarrassment after my comment.
"Well excuse my handwriting, anyways it's basically said that old enemies will 'rise from the shadows' so more than likely we'll have to face Digimon we've fought once before." I sighed and took the book he was looking in; they weren't really books but that's what I'm calling them since Izzy printed them straight from an email that Gennai sent him.
"I'll translate this one since I can do it faster and I have a feeling that we'll need this information for this evening's meeting." He didn't reject that since now he was placing his sister above the matter of who decodes the texts.
Hours passed by as I decoded the text and it was confusing; they were in no order and it kept referring to another DigiDestined. The DigiDestined of Harmony was mentioned a few times by different names such as The DigiDestined of 'Connections' or 'Peace' but it was odd. It spoke of two different DigiDestineds of Light, a DigiDestined of Darkness, DigiDestined of Flames and someone they referred to as 'half-breed'. By the time it was six in the afternoon everyone had gathered at my house and I showed Izzy the translated text to see if he could make heads or tails of it; it was more of a story than a prophecy it seemed like.
"This is interesting…" He grabbed a pencil and he began writing something, looking back to the translated texts every few moments.
"Well since Izzy found something within what you guys found I'll wait for his conclusion, but anything new found out?" Only Izzy, Tai, Matt, and I were into trying to find out what Kari's connected to; I was surprised by the fact that everyone else abandoned her.
"These references were used once before, think about the titles." Tai quickly pulled out Kari's Diary, that he has taken an interest in reading so he can see into the life she had hidden, and he paged through it and then stopped on a page.
As he read the page over his face showed the gears spinning in his head; it showed that he was connecting things together and making connections between whatever Kari had writing and whatever Izzy had meant. He had only disclosed a little bit of Kari's diary to the DigiDestined; he had told them that she had played many of us for a fool while there was a different side to her the whole time that very few of us had seen. The people who had seen that side had been Tai and Matt, Matt had seen it without realizing it until Tai told Matt of the page that Kari had written 'I slipped up today and I accidentally allowed Matt to see the hidden side of me yet he didn't seem to notice'.
"Kari stated here in her diary that Takuya Kanbara was the DigiDestined of Flames, while Koji Minamoto was the DigiDestined of Light and Koichi Kimura was the DigiDestined of Darkness. Kari also stated in here that while she worked with them she was referred to as the DigiDestined of Harmony." I was surprised to hear that considering that like the others I didn't know much about what Kari had hidden in her past besides what Tai told me which was very little but unlike the others I looked over it and believed that Kari didn't tell us about her past for a reason.
"So are you saying that, that prophecy refers to Kari and her friends?" Izzy looked to Matt, and then he shook his head.
"This isn't a prophecy; this is a Digital Record about what happened in that battle five years ago with Kari and her friends." That made our eyes go wide; that has the secrets of what happened five years ago.
"Then the part of the three disappearing was how they left five years ago?" Izzy nodded his head at my question.
They vanished before her eyes and she was left there crying. It had said 'saying farewell the Light would come to know the true meaning of loneliness'. She was alone from that day forward when her only friends had left. Before it had stopped it stated 'the battle they fought was a hard battle that many would not fight by will. The native light would crumble to pieces and it would need time to put the light back together. Once the battle was over and it was time for saying farewell the Light would come to know the true meaning of loneliness.'
"The text said that the light crumbled to pieces, meaning Kari, but she didn't seem broken." Izzy looked to me, getting that I didn't know what he knew.
"Tai, how about you tell him since you have the diary." He just bit his lip, instead of telling me he flipped a few pages and handed me her diary, telling me to read the page he opened to.
August 25th, 1999
I just got back from the Digital World; it's different from what I thought it would be like. The battles I fought there, it was hard to act as if they scared me since I found them fun considering the battles I had fought against the Demons. It's hard to hold myself together, I'm trying to listen to Yune but it's hard. I can't see or hear her anymore since that day I saved the Numemon when I was possessed and the power allowed our Digimon to evolve to help us. She was the last of the ones who understood me. I've decided that I'll never allow anyone to ever see the true me ever again. I will make him eat his words; he said I would never have friends. I will make him eat his words and get friends; even if doing that would mean to lock away my true self. When I start school I'll go by Kari, I won't go by Hikari anymore. I feel broken and wounded inside; it feels like a part of me was taken away when they disappeared from in front of me; every time I think about what the DigiDestined I am known as it will forever remind me of Koji for we are both the DigiDestineds of Light, even if he is usually called the Warrior of Light. Why did two loners get chosen to be the DigiDestineds of Light?
I looked to Tai; he was staring at the ceiling. "There is more than just one entry that shows just how much she was unsure of her place. Of her mentioning her friends, them and the Yune girl, she never clearly said who the Yune girl was."
I flipped the through the pages but as I did I felt as if we invading her privacy by reading her diary but something told me in a time like this she would forgive us for reading it, yet then again I don't know the 'true' Kari. I stopped when a date caught my eye, along with my name.
December 25th, 2002
I was happy when Ken had invited me to his Christmas Party; I was worried about him oddly enough. I couldn't help but slip up around him and let him see the true me but like Koji four years ago he accepted it, he didn't even seem to notice my changes but I'm glad. At times I find myself at home with him, maybe it's because we share the Dark Ocean thing in common, I don't know why but I'm glad he was laughing with us during his party.
I stared at the words she had written and they replayed in my mind a few times; I had seen the true her but I never noticed it and just accepted it since I knew back then that there was more to her, I had guessed she had hidden a secret, just not this kind of secret. Tai took her diary from me and he read the date I had stopped on; he looked to me once he had read it.
Sorry about the late update, I had some troubles in life. I got into a car accident and everything was up in the air between school work, physical therapy, and lawyers. I'm sorry!