A/N: Thank you everyone for your reviews. Here is the biggest chapter to date, just don't expect them all to be this long! oh by the way i have no-idea how the japanese school holidays work, so i'm using the British system here.
Disclaimer: Digimon Adventure 3, following the adventures of TK and Karis' kids is in the works... I wish! well it would be if i owned Digimon. But i don't... oh well..
Enjoy! Please review!
Hope's Sacrifice
The room was wide and spacious, in the centre was a large throne,.A keyboard resting on the arms. Darkness filled the chamber, the only light emanating from the large screens that seemed to hover in mid-air. Sat in on the throne, was a blued hair boy of no more than eleven, his eyes hidden by large sunglasses with golden frames. This was the Digimon Emperor, the bane of every free Digimon and the cruel enslaver of thousands of others, his real name Ken Ichijouji.
"with this monster those pesky Digidestined will be out of my world forever!" muttered Ken "with the speed, of Garurumon, the defence of Kabuterimon and the style of Metalgreymon, it will be unbeatable!"
"But master, what will you do when their crushed? And all of digiworld is yours?" Asked Wormmon a little way back from the chair "I know! You'll make a Digimon emperor theme park for all the baby Digimon!"
"Quiet you worthless runt! With this new monster I won't need you!" Spat the Dark Prodigy "Until then go! Find another worthless creature to stop those kids destroying my Control Spires!"
Wormmon, looking hurt, just nodded, "yes master," and shuffled out of the room. "oh ken, what happen to the caring, kind boy i used to know, i wish you would come back,"
Turning back to the screens Kens eyes danced of the readouts as his fingers flew around the keyboard, "Soon... Soon No-one will be able to stop me!" his resounding mad laughter filling the base.
Dark Ocean
"The Tyrants' monster is powerful but lacking, a little of my power shall aid him and allow me a little freedom from this prison!"
A black mist rose from the oceans depths, slowly flowing through a rip in reality into the Beast which lay in the belly of the tyrants' base
The creature below the waves closed his eyes, now tired, "i need more power before i break down these walls," he smiled as he drifted to sleep, "and i know just where to get it..."
A week had passed and the half term holidays were upon the digidestined. It was Saturday, Matt was busy rehearsing for a concert that evening. Joe was studying, Tai Sora and Izzy had gone to the airport to collect Mimi (who was staying at Soras').
Izzy was a wreck, he had bounced around the Kamiya apartment asking if he looked alright and whether he should bring anything to greet Mimi. Tai was Laughing to hard to say anything, while Sora tried to placate the nervous teen.
Eventually the trio had reached the airport, they looked at the boards.
"Well Romeo, it looks like Juliet will land in a few minutes, are you ready?" teased Tai
"Quit it with the 'Romeo' stuff Tai, you two are much more the part anyway and of course i not ready, is my hair OK?" Izzy complained
"your hairs fine and what's that supposed to mean?" Sora said with a look.
"Mimi tells me things my dear; kind, caring, intelligent, Sora. Details and gossip is her speciality" he replied with a smug look, before dashing off into the shopping area.
"hey where You Going!" yelled Tai, he sighed and turned to Sora, muttering "you didn't tell Mimi that stuff did you?"
"why? are you embarrassed Taichi?"
"No!" Tai practically yelled, several bystanders turned to stare at the pair, Tai lowered his voice, "I mean, no, it's not that, it's just I wanted to keep those things private... you know, special moments between us" he had gone very red by then.
"Oh Tai.. your sweet" Sora reached out and gripped his hand in hers looking deep into his hazel eyes, they inched their faces closer to one another. Tai was about to press his lips to Soras' when...
"I KNEW IT!!!!" Screamed a Pink haired girl "I KNEW IT!!!" the girl danced a little jig before throwing her arms around Sora. Tai look at the ceiling, red as a beetroot
"Bugger," he whispered, before "Hey Mimi! How are you?"
"Don't try to change the subject Taichi," said Mimi with wide grin on her face "When? How?"
"Well-" Sora began but Mimi was looking around the terminal absent mindly.
"Looking for me?" asked some one behind her. Whipping around Mimi's smile grew larger, "I bought this for you" Izzy said raising a single rose. Mimi took the rose and slipped it into her hair before pulling the red haired whiz into a deep hug.
Something was beeping. Tai pulled out his D-terminal and read the message. His face fell, worry crept into his eyes, "Guy's, I hate to break this up, but we've got to go back, now. Some thing's gone wrong with the kids... their at home," he spoke feverishly, then dashing back to the taxi rank.
Kamiya Apartment
Kari was curled into a ball on the sofa, her head in Yoleis' lap. She Sobbed quietly, steady stream of tears flowing down her face. Kari held something tightly, pressing it to her cheek. Yolei sat in shock, slowly stroking the crying girls hair, in a soothing motion. Cody had taken the single chair and was staring blankly at the wall, upamon on his lap sleeping. Davis stood facing out the French windows his hands balled into fist, a look between barely restrained anger and guilt across his features.
"Kari! What happened Davis?" Tai suddenly realised what Kari clung to... TK's hat, "Kari, where's TK?" he asked kneeling in front of the sofa, face to face with his sister. At the mention of TKs' name Kari let out a loud sob, crying harder then ever before, Yolei snivelled a bit and Cody looked down to his feet as though ashamed.
"TK...He..He's Gone..." Davis said, he drew back a fist and slammed it into the wall, Roaring "He's gone!"
Sora and Mimi gasped, tears forming in their eyes. Izzy stood stupid as Davis' words washed over him. Tai looked angry and shocked "Davis," he whispered "What Happened? Tell me everything,"
Davis sighed as if to stop himself from falling to tears, "well OK..." he began "It started when we stopped clearing control spires for lunch..."
Digiworld, an Hour before...
In a small clearing, near the edge of a wood, Yolei spred a red checked banket out across the grass. Sitting against a tree she began to layout the food and paper plates. Hawkmon hovered near by wanting to be the first to the Jam Doughnuts.
"Guys! Hurry up!£ the bespectled girl shouted "Hawkmon looks like he could eat everything!"
"I resent that remark, yolei! What do i look like? a Locustmon?"
as expected Davis, astride Raidramon, was first on scene, "lemme at it!" he cried "destroying those spires is a great way to build up an appitite!"
"I say!" added a now de-deigvolved Veemon "and i was doing all the work!"
"Hey who pointed you in the right direction?"
"My nose did! You got us lost...Twice!"
"It's not my fault I fall asleep in geography!"
As the partners kept on arguing a tunnel erupted from the ground, Digmon followed by Cody made their way to the picnic, "wow, nice spread! How much did this cost Yolei?"
"Nothing Codes, I put it on my tab at the store!" she replied.
Lastly descending from above came TK and Kari, riding Pegasusmon and Nefertimon, "Nice one guys, no control spires for miles!" congratulated TK
"Yeah and you were no help TJ, what where you doing? Flying around in circles!" grumbled Davis
"It's TK! And he was keeping watch up there, you know protecting us all!" Kari snapped
"Guy's, lets not make a big thing of it OK? I'm sure if Veemon could fly, Davis would do the same, now lets eat!" TK said heading over to the picnic
Nobody argued with him, about 20 minutes passed. all seemed well until a faint, buzzing sound filled the air and a shadow passed over the clearing. "What is that? There's no clouds in the sky." cody said
Davis and TK looked up and spotted the most hideous Digimon they had ever seen. It looked like a Frankenstein monster, with parts from a dozen digimon. The beast opened its mouth and a orb of green energy began to grow, "MOVE!" the boys yelled. Grabbing their Digimon everyone dived into the wood.
THOOOMMMMMM!!
The blanket and everything on it was disintegrated.
"Another of Ken's goons!" Davis spat
"Maybe, but I'm not so sure Davis," Patamon began
"Yeah this one isn't a slave, no ring... and it has an evil aura" finished Gatomon
"Whatever we can still beat this guy, everyone ready?" Davis asked turning to the group, each nodded, pulling out their Digivices the held them at arms length towards their partners
"DIGIARMOR ENERGIZE!!!"
Light engulfed the Digimon, the light dispersed and in the place of the rookies stood, Flamedramon, Halsemon, Digmon, Nefertimon and Pegasusmon.
"OK guys, go get him, but watch out for that energy blast!" Cody said, concern in his eyes.
The Digimon launched into battle, it raged for minutes, soon it became apparent that this monster was too strong for armor level Digimon. Suddenly Nefertimon was slammed against a tree and de-digivolved, Kari dashed over and pick up the cat-type, "Gatomon are you ok?"
Seeing an opportunity, the large monster swiped a massive claw at Kari. She screamed as the nails dug into flesh, leaving bloody grooves. But it was not Kari who felt the pain, she lay on the ground, a dead weight on her chest. Looking down she saw familiar blond hair and a blood stained, torn shirt. "TK!" No response "TK WAKE UP!" he stirred rolling off her, he inhaled sharply. Time seemed to stop. The Digidestined ran to their fallen friends side.
"Run... get out of here... Davis protect her, like I should've," TK was having trouble breathing. He winced as he drew another rattling breath.
"TK were going to get you to a hospital and you'll be fine, and everything will be OK!" Kari said frantically tears pouring. TK placed an hand on her cheek "No. The Digimon are tired, they won't last much longer. You go, Pegasusmon and I will hold it off..." TK's breathing was really shallow now, "Kari, your really beautiful, you know that right?.." his hand fell from her face his eyes closed and he spoke no more.
Davis paused, it was too hard for him, his best friend, (although he would never admit it) was gone.
"Davis," Tai said softly "what happened after that?" the former leader was as shocked as the rest but he had to show resolve, be strong... He would cry later, when no-one would see.
Davis inhaled and sighed to try to calm himself and stop shaking, "I did what he said, we ran. I had to practically drag Kari. The Digimon had De-digivolved from the battle" another pause to control his shaking, "W..we...we nearly got to the escape terminal when the buzzing sound came back. We looked up, that...that thing had TK in one of its claws and Patamon in another. They looked so lifeless, Patamon had changed colour to a dull grey." Tears appear at the corner of his eyes, "It flew overhead, probably back to Ken. TK's hat fell onto the terminal as it passed."
That was it, Davis broke down he fell to his knee's and wailed loudly "I failed! I'm the leader, I'm responsible for the Team, supposed to look after everyone and I failed!"
It was quiet in the apartment, the only sounds were occasional sobs. The Darkness had taken one of there own and everyone felt a little hope had been lost.
Dark Ocean
Suspended under the waves was a bloody human form, his hair rippling in the current. The deep scars down his back were slowly healing as a mysterious force fed dark energy into TKs' body.
"You are the Key, Chosen of Hope. The Key to my freedom and the powers of darkness." muttered the dark one. The figure began to laugh as he contemplated his recent victory and the dark future to come.
A/N: Things are getting darker for the Digidestined, Next time: Torture of the Heart