Hikari sighed from where she stood, her arms crossed as she looked at the darkness around her. She wasn't exactly sure where she was. She wasn't sure how much time had passed, everything seemed to have happened really fast. She had to admit, she was a bit surprised when she up and vanished from Piedmon's headquarters and couldn't help feel a bit disappointed when she realised Takeru hadn't been teleported with her but, at least, Gatomon was with her. She was more worried about where she was. She was completely surrounded in darkness I reminded her of the darkness dimension the V2s used to travel. The cold emptiness was somewhat unnerving. Could it be part of the Dark Ocean? She didn't particularly like the idea.
"Gatmon are you alright?" she asked as she walked up towards her digimon.
"I'd be more concerned with your own wellbeing." Hikari would recongisne her own voice anywhere.
Gatomon hissed as the original digidestined turned to face the V2. The young girl was standing only a few feet away, a wicked grin on her face. Hikari couldn't help notice the crest of Hope hanging around her neck. It looked really out of place around the girl's neck. Hikari felt anger swell up in the pit of her stomach- that was the cause of Takeru's anguish.
"I thought you'd be here." Continued the V2, then uncrossing her arms, she mockingly moved a finger left and right like the pendulum of some old clock. "Tsk, tsk, it seems little Ms Light Holder has some darkness in her heart after all."
To Hikari's horror, a trail of shadows suddenly began to swirl around the V2 as her figure morphed. Within seconds Hikari was looking at an identical copy of her current self. The original digidestined quickly put her hand on her digivice.
"Sorry to disappoint but I think it looks better on me."
"Hmm, you really think that?" asked the V2, putting her hands on her hips. "Want me to ask Takeru?"
"Leave him out of this!"
"Oh I pushed a button there." Said the V2, cackling. "I'll be sure to ask him when he gets here."
"How are you so certain he'll come for me?" Tough Hikari knew it was an empty question- he always came looking for her.
"Because he's a moth and you're the light that attracts and burns him". Answered the v2 mockingly. "If I can convince him that I have enough light in me to trick him into believing I'm you, then the crest of light will be mine for sure! And with both the crests of hope and light under my control the digital world will be mine!"
"Your one sick Kitty." Hissed Gatomon.
"He'll see trough your charade. Definitely." Countered Hikari, still holding her digivice.
"Ah, but do you think, if I can promise him what his heart desires, that he'd question me?" The V2 took a couple of steps towards Hikari as she let her words sink in. She mockingly put her hand on the stunned Hikari's shoulder. Gatomon hissed, was ready to pounce. "After all, you and I share the same emotions and yours are the same as his." Then with her free hand, which was glowing with a dark glow, pushed her roughly backwards ,causing Hikari to stumble. Gatomon pounced, but she just fell trough the V2's body as if she were a ghost.
"What's going on!?" hissed Gatomon pouncing at the V2 again, but she just passed trough her and to her surprise, this time, she did not continue to fall to the ground as expected, she just hovered where she stood, mid jump, as if in some zero-gravity simulation. Hikari had noticed this too from when the V2 had pushed her back. she did not fall, she just hovered.
"What did you do?!" gasped Hikari trying to stay in place.
"Oh I don't have to explain anything else to you." laughed the v2. "It's almost Showtime." And with that the V2 vanished.
"Great. Hikari, how are we going to get out of here?" said Gatomon trying to swim towards her partner. However, the girl wasn't really listening, she was more interested with a small circular screen that had suddenly appeared under her. She could recognise the grey sand and dark water anywhere, that was definitely the Dark Ocean. And sprawled on the sand, unconscious, was Takeru.
"Takeru!" She gasped. That idiot, he really had followed her. Though she couldn't help smile when she thought this.
"Hikari, why isn't he moving?" gasped Gatomon as she finally managed to swim towards the screen. She was right, Patamon had somehow bgan to stagger to his feet but Takeru hadn't moved.
"I hope he's okay…" her voice had trailed off as Takeru continued to lie motionless. "Oh… Takeru wake up!"
Relief washed over her when she saw her friend move but he still hadn't woken up.
"Do you think the darkness got him?" enquired Gatomon, worried.
No, not Takeru.
"Takeru wake up. You said you are going to find me, remember?" Hikari murmured so quietly that not even Gatomon heard her as she remembered what he had told her over a year ago. As if he had heard her, Takeru sat up. Hikari released the breath she couldn't help but hold.
Gatmon and Hikari, with not much else to do, were forced to watch Takeru's and Patamon's journey in the Dark Realm. Hikari was practically yelling as she saw the V2, clearly impersonating her, embrace him. She felt like punching her look-alike as she sat on Takeru and forced him to stay beside her and she was blushing almost as much as Takeru when the V2 began to trace circles on his chest with her fingers.
In the spam of just a few minutes Hikari had felt a turmoil of strange emotions, was this jealousy? Envy? Her heart was pounding so fiercely that she thought it might erupt from her chest.
Something the V2 had said entered her mind, was this the darkness that had entered her heart. No, this darkness had always been in her and it was not caused by her emotions. No, those were what made her human. There must be something else…
Frustrated, she saw the V2 lean begin to lean towards the confused Takeru. She knew it was pointless but she yelled at the screen. "No! Takeru, please help me! I need you!" Don't kiss that witch! she's not me! This, she didn't say out loud.
Helplessly Hikari and Gatomon watched as their friends struggled against the V2's control, even when she destroyed Piedmon , she knew he had caused both her and Takeru much sorry but she still wished he hadn't been destroyed so brutely.
"Oh look, we finally made a appearance." Joked Gatomon as, at last, the hovering, sleeping figures of Hikari and Gatomon appeared.
"But if we're here, who are they? This makes no sense!"
"Hikari, has any of this ever made much sense?
"That is very true."
Hikari continued to watch and listen as the V2 and Takeru spoke. No. A more accurate word would be argued. She saw him take his first struggling step towards the hovering forms, could they be another copy? Takeru then, somehow, ran to the sleeping figure and grabbed her hand. Hikari gasped as she felt sudden warmth engulf one of her hands. Amazed she lifted it hand to eye level, could the hovering figure really be her?
"Hikari I will get you out of this." He whispered his voice coming out of the screen like it had been doing all this time.
"Oh how Nobel. Mr Knight in shining armor. " laughed the V2.
"Takeru…" Hikari couldn't help look at the screen longingly. But with a newly found determination she crossed her arms, wait until she got out of here, the V2 is going to have a run for her money.
"She heard me, didn't she?" Takeru said.
"I bet you can her me too right?" Hikari yelled out into the void like a mad person. "I told you he wouldn't fall for a copy!"
"That can't be..."
Takeru turned his back to the copy and nearly crushing the original's hand his he whispered, so that only she could hear him. "I told you I'd find you."
And she did hear him, not from the screen, but with her actual ears, his voice echoing in her mind. She smiled to herself. In a blast of light the screen vanished, engulfed by the pale yellow light of the crest of hope. Like a laser beam a road of light erupted from the crest. Hikari and Gatomon found themselves being pulled towards the light.
"Hikari, what's going on?" gasped Gatomon as Hikari grabbed her paw.
"We're getting out of here."
Groggily, Hikari's vision shifted, the light and darknes vanished, replaced by Takeru's big blue eyes.
"Takeru." She whispered, smiling.
He smiled back at her, relieved.
She blinked against the sudden brightness which was quickly fading.
"Of coarse, a s damsel in distress for the shining knight." Hissed the V2 as she looked at them, her palms steaming from touching the crest.
Takeru helped Hikari into a standing position, it felt bizarre to have been hovering in mid air and to defy most of the rules of physics. Gatomon, gracefully, landed on her feet besides her partner.
"Are you alright?" whispered Takeru finally letting go of her hand. Hikari couldn't help feel a bit disappointed when he let go of her. However, she crossed her arms and, facing the V2 she, corrected her with her calmest voice. "I was just a lady in a mess, not some damsel in distress."
So there you are! Another chapter! I know, it's just like the last chapter but from Hikari's point of view but I hope you still liked it, sorry if the story is becoming a little lame but thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed it and please tell me what you think! I'll try update soon :D
-LunaPendragon