Chapter 13
Yumi was walking by the middle school again, Iinomon in her backpack, when she noticed that Kari seemed…out of it. She went up, but Kari seemed paranoid. "Calm down, Kari. It's just me." She seemed to relax. "What's wrong? You don't look so good." "I'm just not sleeping very well. I'll be fine." "Okay…" Yumi said uncertainly, but kept walking to the high school. The whole day, she was wondering what could be wrong with her friend. "She probably watched a scary movie or something." Iinomon said as they walked by the middle school on their way to Yumi's. Yumi looked to her right, at the beach, when she saw Kari. She stopped when she noticed Kari seemed to be…disappearing. "Kari? Kari!!" She yelled, worried. Gatomon appeared beside her, but a truck passed by. When the truck passed, Kari was gone, and her backpack fell to the ground. "KARI!!" Yumi yelled, and Iinomon poked her head out of her backpack, sniffing the air. "Where is she, Iinomon?"
"I…don't know." Yumi ran to where Kari disappeared, and Iinomon said, "Her scent stops here. I can't follow her." Yumi sighed in despair, and said, "We need to tell the others!" She ran with Gatomon to the computer lab, and said, breathless, "Kari's…disappeared." They were all surprised. "She just…vanished. I saw her looking over the beach, and the next minute, she was gone!" Davis thought she was in the Digital World, but T.K. kept saying she wasn't. "Where is she, T.K.?" Yumi questioned. "She said…she had gone to the beach…when she started disappearing in class…" In a moment, he ran out of the room, with Patamon and Gatomon right behind him. Yumi sighed, scooping Iinomon into her arms. She turned to the others, saying, "I'll e-mail you if we find her!" Before running out of the lab, running to the beach.
T.K. was running along the length of it, and Yumi sighed before following him. She followed him to a grassy hill, where he shouted Kari's name. Yumi sighed. It's not like she could stop him or anything, so she just sat down. Patamon joined him, when a pink light shone in the sky. Yumi was on her feet in a moment and ran over, seeing Kari. She was calling to them, and they jumped into the light, vanishing. They fell on a ledge overlooking a dark beach. Yumi stood, and saw Kari running below them, waving. She waved back, when she saw a large flying Digimon. Patamon Armor-Digivolved to Pegasusmon and fought the Digimon. Gatomon couldn't Armor-Digivolve, because Kari didn't have her Digivice or D-Terminal. Gatomon jumped on Pegasusmon's back, instructing him to hit the lighthouse, so she could Digivolve.
He shot it, revealing it to be a Control Spire, and it fell. A pink column of light appeared, and Gatomon jumped in, Digivolving to Angewomon. Yumi had climbed down by this time, and Angewomon destroyed the Digimon with Heaven's Charm. Angewomon came down, and released the dark colored Scubamon from the dark spirals. They looked normal, until they began to transform into strange, shadowy figures. They grabbed Kari, and Yumi ran forward, tackling one, but it threw her off. Iinomon snarled, Digivolving to Miharumon.
Yumi got up on her hands and knees, shaking the sand from her hair, and heard one say, "She's powerful, too. I can feel it. We could take her instead." Yumi stood up, to feel one grab her by the arm. She resisted, but they started pulling her into the water. When it reached her knees, she yelled, "MIHARUMON!!!"
With the Control Spire destroyed, Miharumon could Digivolve, but she didn't Digivolved to Haramon. She Warp-Digivolved to Ayumimon, and ran over the water, using Ice Sword. The being dodged, retreating from Ayumimon's light, and Ayumimon grabbed Yumi, running back to shore. After setting her down, she turned to see them coming back, and used Wind Blade, a shot of wind in the shape of wind. It flew over the water, making a wave in front of it before striking a creature, making it disintegrate.
The beings retreated, and a light appeared in the sky. Ayumimon picked Yumi up, and they went home through the light, and Yumi felt safer then she'd felt in quite a while.