Hey there y'all!

Finally figured out how to word this. I fear that these chapters are coming out crappier and crappier...oy. Help needed.

Oh! And, just for those who are curious about the last chapter, Sonya rarely speaks, but she is capable of speach. She says she's mute so she doesn't have to actually talk to Electmon.

I had a question about that in a message.

"Good morning Kari! Sleep well?" said Tai cheerily as I came out of my room.

"No." I said bluntly.

"Why? Bad dream?"

"You could say that."

"What about?"

"Nothing you should concern yourself with."

"Awe, c'mon! I'm curious!"

"Awe and I'm serious. I'm not in the mood." I said darkly. I really wasn't in the mood for Tai's cheerfulness. That confrontation last night had disturbed me more than anything. Had I really seen my darkness?

"Whoa, I see. That bad, huh?" said Tai more seriously.

I nodded.

"Well then I'll leave it alone, but tell me if you feel like talking about it. Okay?"

I nodded again.

"Thanks, Tai." I said and walked to the kitchen for breakfast.

It was Monday today. I had work every Tuesday and Friday, so I was able to relax today. I felt that I needed it to think about my situation.

Was the girl I saw really an apparition of my Darkness? Or was I going crazy? I had no idea, but I had some feeling that it had something to do with the scroll.

I wanted to know what it was, if it had something to do with us, and why T.K and I were left out. What if he told us to leave because it did have something to do with us?

But, he would have told us, right? I couldn't tell.

I had suddenly lost my apatite, so I left and went back to my room. On my way, I palmed a light off of the counter and took it with me.

I shut the door behind me and locked it. I paced around the room in thought, flicking the lighter on and off as I went.

I forgot to mention, I have an obsession with fire. I don't know why, but I find it fascinating. Fire's so bright and warm, it destroys and creates, and a part of me feels content around it. It's really my preferred way to go, actually. I'm careful with fire, but I feel urges to set things on fire. I set my Chemistry book and lab table on fire last year at school and got a three day suspension for it.

I flicked the light on again and burned my finger. I flinched and looked at my thumb. It was a little withered in one spot, but it wasn't going to fall off. I'd live. I continued flicking the lighter and then stopped.

I felt as though I were being watched.

I turned around, but saw no one. I continued looking around my room in complete paranoia. I then remembered what the girl in my dream had said.

"Kari, Kari, Kari. What will I ever do with you? You refuse to listen to reason, fight back with your 'Light overpowers Darkness' non-sense, and now it looks like I have to make my point."

"Make my point…." I repeated.

It had only just occurred to me. What if she truly wasn't a dream? What would she do to 'make her point'? I threw the lighter on the desk and ran out of the room. Of course, I ended up just running into the door at first because I'd forgotten that it was locked, but I got out.

"Hey where are you going?" asked Tai as I raced past him and out the door.

I didn't answer, I had to find T.K.

Something was going to happen, but I didn't know what. I would go and consult T.K. about it. He had a tendency to make educated assumptions about these things, and he's been on the mark on more than a few occasions.

This was important, I needed his advice.

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I was on the ground, my shirt ripped in several places and blood dripping from the fresh cuts on my arms.

Mom stood over me in a drugged and angry daze.

"Why do you do this to our family?!" She screeched.

'What family?' I thought. I tried to get up, but she kicked me in the sides and I fell to the ground.

"You don't talk to me, you don't take any responsibility, and you sneak out at night!" she kicked me in the ribs, making me turn over on my back yelling in pain.

"Mom! I didn't go anywhere!" I said.

"Where were you two nights ago, then? You left to house, and why? Why T.K? What do you do, get high? Get drunk?" she accused. I was beginning to get tired of her accusations, but I couldn't convince her that I hadn't done anything wrong.

Wait a minute, did she mean the night I got pulled into the Digital world?

Oh no….

"You have no consideration for me whatsoever! You leave without consulting me and go to GOD knows where and-" she stopped, a look a pure rage on her face. I looked up, trying to calculate my escape routes.

"You went to that Digital World again, didn't you?" She screamed. She staggered to the closet and pulled a bat.

Oh shit.

I didn't answer. I tried to get up and run somewhere, anywhere.

I got on my knees when she kicked me in the stomach and hit me in the back with the bat.

"You know I hate when you go there, T.K! You are such a disrespectful, inconsiderate, pathetic waste of flesh!" She said and jammed the bat into my diaphragm. I gasped, trying to find air. She twisted the bat and dug it into my flesh. I could feel a bruise coming on, and I think she was tearing skin.

"Out of everything in my life that has gone wrong, you are the cause of it! You are the one regret in my life that I wish never happened! You were never supposed to exist!" She screamed in my ear.

This was something that she hadn't said before. It stung worst than any other words that I've endured. It made me want to roll over and die, and just give up trying.

This truly was hate. I don't think there was anything I could do to change her mind at that point.

I let a tear run down my face, knowing that it wouldn't do any good.

I just wanted the pain to stop.

She hit me with the bat over and over. I rolled on my stomace, not wanting her to inflict any more damage on my organs.

She beat me in the back and even tried to smash my head in. I covered my head the second time she hit.

She screamed in anger and frustration.

She threw the bat aside and dropped to her knees beside me. She grabbed my hair and pulled me from the ground.

"I know what you do late at night. You've tried to kill yourself. That would be the only achievement you'd ever make." She spat. I didn't answer.

"WHY WON'T YOU JUST FUCKING DIE?!" She slammed my face into the floor and gave me one last kick in the hip. She then growled in anger and stormed off to her room, slamming the door on her way.

I stayed there for a long time, blood staining the carpets and my clothes.

It drenched my skin and filled me with pain.

I turned over, getting my face out of the pool of blood and felt where she jammed the bat. It felt broken, but I could deal with it.

The only thing that hurt above everything else was my heart.

Did I even do anything? Did I do something wrong? I must've for mom to act this way toward me.

Then again, she's done this same exact thing ever since I was Thirteen.

I would go to the hospital for some stupid reason like falling from the stairs, getting hit by something, or getting beat up on the street, like I couldn't take care of myself.

It was always mom. She gave me my bruises, my marks, my pain... I was sick of it. Kari was right. This isn't going to pass, I had to do something to make her stop. I had to get away. But how?

I tried to pull myself up, but ended up falling back into the red pools. I just lay there, waiting for the pain to subside enough to get up.

I lay there for a very long time, the pain never left.

I decided that I needed to get myself taken care of, so I got up, ignoring the searing, icy pain that ran through my body.

I felt cold and dizzy.

I looked at the ground.

That's a lot of blood.

Things stated to go white. I leaned against the wall, trying to keep my consciousness. It took a minute, but I stayed conscious and stumbled into my room.

I shut and locked the door, and tried to walked. I lost my footing and fell, feeling myself slip out of reality once again.

I felt a pair of arms catch me just before I lost consciousness.

Everything went silent.

All I could see was white. There was absolute silence, not a sound at all. I wasn't on the ground, I wasn't falling, I was just floating

"Am I dead?" I asked myself.

"No. You're asleep." I heard a voice say. I looked around and saw a guy standing behind me, back turned to me.

He had his hands behind his head casually.

"Wow, dude. You really got her pissed this time, eh?" he said. His voice sounded smooth.

"I don't know what I did." I answered, looking forward.

"Yeah you do."

I looked back at him.

"You went to the Digital World." He said simply, putting his hands in his pockets.

Our backs were completely turned, so I couldn't see his face, but he sounded familiar.

"Where am I?"

"From the looks of it, we are in a white abyss; floating off into nothingness. Fun, eh?"

I turned around and looked at him.

He had white hair that reached his shoulders. He wore dark blue chain covered Jeans and a black jacket with a hood.

Why was this guy familiar?

"Who are you?" I asked.

"Someone from the Light." He said, then disappeared into the light.

I looked in confusion, then felt a pull on me. I felt as though I was being pulled back by a powerful force. Suddenly, I saw black.

The light was gone, replaced by a thin darkness. I opened my eyes to see that I was in my room. I tried to sit up, but to no avail.

I lay back down, feeling the pain all over. I sighed and looked down at myself.

How did I get here? I had no shirt on, and my torso was covered in wrapping bandages. I leaned my head back and closed my eyes.

I felt a damp rag touch my forehead and I looked up at the person above me.

"Kari, what are you doing here?" I asked weakly.

"I came to see you about something, but I guess I came during a Mother/Son moment." She answered.

"Geez T.K, 11:00 in the morning and you get yourself pummeled. What am I going to do with you now? They don't allow pets at our apartment." She joked.

"Very funny." I said then coughed, holding my ribs.

"She beat you pretty bad, you have broken ribs and a broken arm. It looks like your hip's been fractured, and you may end up with scoliosis. You need to go to the hospital." She said.

"No, I can't."

"Okay, now that's just talking like a moron."

"I can't, Kari. They ask how this happened, I tell them, mom harps on me. They'll take her side though because she has such a high position at work."

"Well, we'll just have to gather witnesses, won't we?" she asked.

"What do you mean?" I asked. What witnesses?

"I called your brother so he could take you to the hospital. He should be here any time." She answered.

Right then, we heard the door open and someone say "Oh my God!"

They ran through the room and tore my door open.

"T.K! Oh my God, are you okay?" Matt said worried to Hell.

"Yeah, I'll live." I answered.

"What happened?" He asked me.

I didn't answer.

Kari looked between me and Matt.

He looked at her.

"What happened?" he asked again.

"Mom got angry." She said.

I closed my eyes and sighed inwardly.

Great, thanks Kari.

"What? Mom would never do that! She loves T.K too much!"

"She's in her room right now. If she loved him so much, why didn't she save her son from the invisible bat carrier?" said Kari, crossing her arms.

Matt looked at her, stunned.

All of the sudden, the door was shoved open, revealing mother in all of her drunken glory.

Shit.

"What's going on in here?" She said angrily.

"Mom? What did you do?" asked Matt, shocked and wide eyed. He'd never seen mom like this.

The lucky bastard.

"T.K had completely disregarded what I told him and he tried to fight me. So I fought back." She said.

I felt angry.

That lying little-

"And then you left him?" Matt shouted angrily.

"He deserves it. Now, leave!" she said, pointing out the door.

Matt didn't really look like he could believe what was going on. Mom turned to Kari.

"As for you, you fucking floozy. Stay the fuck away from my son! You've messed him up enough! Get out! Get out, get out!" She screamed at her.

I growled and sat up.

"Mom, just shut the FUCK up!" I shouted at her. She stopped and stared at me, so did the other two.

"What did you say?" she screeched and ran at me. Matt blocked her off and pushed her away.

"I'm calling the police. Come open guys, we're taking T.K. to the hospital." said Matt, glaring at mom.

Kari took my arm and helped me out the door to Matt's car. We left mom there at the apartment with my blood staining the floors and walls.

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Sonya felt weak, and very dizzy. The kind of feeling you get after you've lost a lot of blood. She fell back on her bed in exhaustion, trying to catch her breath.

She found it getting harder and harder to breath, her diaphragm was in so much pain.

'What is this? Did something happen?' She thought. Everything began to go white.

She saw only white. It was cold, like snow. Cold, but welcoming, comfortable.

Sonya looked around the white space.

She saw two boys, a blond and a boy with white hair.

The blond looked injured in everyway. It scared her for a moment, he looked like he was close to death.

The other boy had no mark on him, he just stood idly by.

The blond spoke. She couldn't hear what he said, but he received a response from the other boy. The white haired boy spoke to him, then turned back and smiled.

There was silence between the two. The white haired boy turned and said something else. They exchanged words for a moment, then silence.

The white haired boy said one last thing then.

"Someone from the light." She heard it as though he were standing right next to her. He then disappeared, followed by the blond being pulled back by an invisible force and then vanished. Sonya felt a pull of her own, then everything went black.

Sonya opened her eyes and found herself on her bed. She sat up and looked out the window.

It was dark.

'Something must have happened.' She thought. She was worried.

She lay back down and turned over on her side.

The pain had subsided, but if she was feeling someone else's pain, then they were still feeling the same agony. She sighed shakily.

'If only…. I wish there was something I could do.' She thought, and then closed her eyes to sleep.

Again with the crappy randomness. This is starting to get choppy. OH NO!!!!!! But Don't worry! I'll come back and fix it!!!!!...Later...Whenh I know what I'm talking about...

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