A/N: Here's another one. Please review.
What do you think should happen next?
Half-way to the Venus Rose, the Legendary Heroes found their path blocked a wall of thunderbolts, striking at every second. The ferocious sounds were paralleled only by its powerful strikes, one single hit could torch miles of ground.
"We need to find another way," said Kouji.
"There's no time," exclaimed Takuya confidently, "We can make it."
"Don't be reckless," Junpei protested, "even if we evolved the lightning's moving way too fast for any of us to dodge all of them."
"But…" Takuya started, but Kouichi interrupted.
"I know another way," he said, nervously.
"Really," Izumi asked.
"Yeah, but its rough trail." Kouichi's voice was so quiet it was clear that there was more to the path than he was letting on.
But Takuya quickly shook it off and announced with his most confident voice, "At any rate, we don't have any other choice."
Kouichi nodded in agreement and led the team to an underground tunnel not too far from the storm area. It was almost impossible to see anything, though Kouichi managed to navigate the tunnel with more ease than the others. But, other than a thick darkness enveloping them, the team found no other complications.
"Hey Kouichi," asked Junpei, "I thought you said this trail was going to be hard."
"That's because the trail hasn't made up its mind yet."
Everyone looked at him with a look of surprise and confusion. "Made up its mind?" Izumi enquired.
"Yes. These tunnels are interchanging, you never know what will happen." Kouichi noticed the slight worry painted on some of their faces and reassured them, "But there is one section that never changes, and that will lead us directly to the castle."
Everyone was quickly reassured, as they all composed themselves and continued their onward trek. But while the others were so full of cheer Kouichi was secretly dreading to reach the area where nothing changed.
A part of Kouji could sense his brother's unease, unfortunately, there wasn't that much he could do to cheer him up. He didn't know his twin well enough to do anything for him as much as he wanted to try. Kouji had spent the rest of the trip trying to muster the courage to talk to his counterpart, though the two worked well together when they were fighting adversaries, neither one could get a word in edgewise with the other.
But, as Takuya had told him before, if he didn't try anything the two would never get anywhere. It would be the very first time where he would open his heart.
"Kouichi," he started, trying to maintain a calm, steady tone.
He stared at his brother with an unsure expression in reply. But, before Kouji could continue, the tunnels began to shift. A new wall was rose from the ground, creating a wedge between Takuya and the twins, and the others.
Everyone tried calling out to the other three, but it was pointless. The wall was too thick for any sound to penetrate.
"What do we do now?" Tomoki asked.
"No choice," Bokomon stated, "We have to go to that place Kouichi mentioned. The others will meet us there."
The gang all nodded in agreement and quickly made their way through the rest of the cavern.
The trembling had ceased and the three boys began to compose themselves from the sudden shock.
"Is everyone alright," Takuya asked.
"Yeah," Kouji replied.
Takuya surveyed the cavern, trying to find another way out, but he could only see the one tunnel that was created before them. He took a breath and courageously walked into the unknown while the other two followed.
Tomoki and the others ventured into the dark cave before them. Their inability to see constantly troubled them, as they kept hearing eerie sounds that kept them off-guard. Sometimes they felt strange touches on their shoulders, but there was no one else.
"I hope we reach that place soon," Junpei shivered, "I don't want to be here any longer than I have too."
"Don't be scared Patamon," Bokomon said trying to sound confident, "Mother-Father's here for you."
But Patamon didn't mind the darkness as much as the rest of them. In fact, he seemed to be playing a game of hide and seek with them.
Fearing that he would run off on his own, and into trouble, everyone quickly ran after the young Digimon, while trying to ignore the creepy feeling lingering in the air.
Takuya and the twins didn't bother to stop at all. The stubborn leader was adamant to reach the castle and rescue Ophanimon, while Kouji and Kouichi were trying to start a conversation with no avail. Suddenly, they hear something in the distance. It sounded like thousands of stampeding buffalo heading right in their direction. The boys tried to find the origin of the noise and saw, right before their eyes a shadow of a beast, it looked extremely large and seemed to have the power to crush mountains, and while they could not see the body that was encased with darkness it was easy to tell that it was preparing to charge them.
It came at them as quickly as it appeared. Takuya and Kouji prepared to evolve to defend themselves, but Kouichi stopped them.
"What are you doing?" Kouji demanded.
The beast was getting closer and closer, heading directly towards Kouichi who was the barrier between the behemoth and the boys. But the moment it reached him, the strange creature began to disperse like dust in the wind.
Takuya and Kouji stared at Kouichi in amazement, but he in turn was unfazed by it all.
"How…?" Takuya wondered.
"It's like I said before 'you never know what will happen.'" Kouichi looked straight at the tunnelas if he were challenging it. "Let's go before more show up."
Kouji looked at his brother, he seemed to be hiding something more about the tunnels, something that affected him personally. The one thing he learned about his twin was that no matter what happened he would always keep all of his personal problems buried away from others, so no one else could be troubled by them. How badly he wanted Kouichi to confide his fears with him? But nothing more could be done.
A/N: Let me know if you want more.