Ch. 2
An Old Friend finally returns
Kari had made up her mind before she'd plunged into the digital world. She would fight this alone. Hearing more about the Mistress of Darkness only cemented that thought. Light abolished dark, and so she had to destroy this new threat.
Gennai had been more than helpful. He told Kari that their were digimon who knew more than what gennai knew, who could help Kari, and so she left Gennai's house with a plan to locate the digimon, and the first step was searching out an old friend.
Back in the real world…
"Okay," Izzy said, "I've rerouted the portal that Kari locked to my computer and with Tai's digivice its now open, bad news is we have five minutes, and we can't go back through the same portal."
"Well there's more than one portal in and out," Matt said, "It'd be best to go now."
Tai nodded, and grabbed his digivice. "Then lets go."
The portal opened and they headed into the forest on file island where they had left their digimon. "Tai!" yelled an overly excited digimon named Agumon.
"Hey buddy," Tai responded turning toward him.
Agumon glanced at the group, "Where's Kari?"
"We don't know," TK told the yellow digimon, "We where hoping that she was here with you guys and Gotomon."
"Gotomon's not here," Agumon stated. "She disappered this morning. We've been looking everywhere for her."
Tai frowned. At least she was with Gotomon, or at least he hoped so. The other digimon had started coming out from the forest and meeting up with their fellow partners. They looked happy to see each other again.
"Its not like them," Agumon stated, having Tai turn his attention back to him, "Gotomon and Kari aren't the types to go wandering off."
"I know," Tai told him, "According to TK, Kari thought guys were in danger."
Agumon looked at him, "Why would she think that?"
"I don't know…maybe her nightmare spooked her is all," Tai stated.
"Nightmare?" Agumon asked.
"Yeah, she had a nightmare last night-"
"So did Gatomon," Agumon told him.
Tai's eyes narrowed. The best chance seemed to be to go and ask some of their digifriends if they knew where she was. He knew he should have pressured her for details, but the time for that was past.
With Kari and Gatomon…
"This is where you met him?" Gatomon nodded in response to Kari's question.
"I still remember it like it was yesterday…maybe he's come back here since we saw his ghost. Gennai said that he met him once, and that he'd been interested in the masters of distruction," Gatomon looked around at the digitown, "I guess we should ask about him hmm?" Gatomon asked.
Kari nodded. It seemed to be the best course of action. She walked to a nearby building and opened the door. There were several digimon eating around a bar. Kari hesitated for just a moment, before going inside. 'I'm going to have to stop relying on everyone else being with me. I'm going to have to destroy her myself, so this shouldn't be too bad.'
Lucky for Kari Gatomon took the lead, "Has anyone here seen a digimon known as Wizardmon?"
A digimon looked their way, his face obscured from them, "I may have…,"the digimon responded,"…for the right price…"
"A price," Kari muttered. The digidesten rarely had to get anything for paying for it, the exception being food, but information was another matter.
Gatomon growled, "We're not paying any price, now tell us where you saw him."
"Patience, is a virtue, the digimon said, quickly finishing his meal, "I just wanted to know if you would treat me to a contest, a battle. Its been a long time since I've fought anyone really strong."
Gatomon looked at Kari, Kari shook her head. They didn't need any extra fights. She and Gatomon didn't have guarantees of nights that could be spent resting. "Or you could not find him," the digimon said as if he'd read Kari's mind, "Choice is yours."
Gatomon twitched her ears, this digimon was messing with her, "C'mon Kari, we'll find him ourselves," Gatomon turned to the door. Then realized when Kari hadn't moved she turned, "Kari?"
"We accept your challenge, but no digivolving and no fighting to the death," Kari told the digimon.
Gatomon moved her ears into a more upright position, this was unusual for Kari. The digimon chuckled, and walked toward them, lets take this outside then shouldn't we?"
They headed outside and out into the town square. Gatomon turned to Kari and Kari nodded. Gatomon decided to make the first attack. She sped toward the digimon, "Lightning paw," She cried moving to strike the digimon. Her paw struck something made of wood underneath the cloak he hid behind.
The digimon pushed toward her holding up his left hand he fired a ball of lightning at her. Gatomon instinctively jumped out of the way and sprinted again to hit with another lightning paw. This time the digimon ducked causeing Gatomon's paw to get caught on his hood.
She was then hit back with a staff of wood with a sun on it, but she tour the cloth of the hood, revieling the digimon underneath. And as Gatomon hit the ground, she saw the digimon, "Wizardmon?"