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Quarantine

Chapter IV

"What?!"

Gennai knew they were going to react like that. The digital gates had been their only way to pass between the two worlds. Without them, they were stranded.

"I know its a lot to ask-"

"A lot to ask? We would never be able to leave!" Tk snarls.

"Tk, I realize you're upset but by destroying the gates, we can protect both our worlds. Isn't that more important?"

Kari who had been silent gasped slightly, making the others look at her. They could see tears running down her cheeks.

"I'll never get to see my family again….." she sobs, falling to her knees as she covers her eyes. Yolei kneels next to her, putting an arm around the other girls shoulders. Cody walks forward a few steps.

"You cant be serious….." he says. When Gennai doesn't answer, he laughs slightly but the others could tell he was getting very upset. "This is insane! We cant stay in the Digital World forever!"

"Please, you must realize this is the only way," Gennai sighs.

"We would be leaving our entire lives behind. Everyone we care about would never see us again," Yolei says quietly.

There were a few minutes of awkward silence before Tk suddenly says something.

"What does Davis and Ken think of all this?"

Gennai looks over at Tk, giving him a look of slight surprise.

"They don't know." he said so matter-of-factly that the Digidestined felt a new wave of anger.

"You never told them? Jeeze, we knew you liked to keep us in the dark but this is our lives we're talking about here. Think of how our families are going to react to our disappearance." Tk answers. Cody gives Tk a sideways glance but the other boy didn't seem to notice.

"I felt it was better not to bring something as shocking and life changing to them-because of their condition. They have enough to deal with right now, its unwise to upset them."

Kari suddenly looked up. She didn't like what he was implying.

"What do you mean, 'their condition'? You said they were doing fine," she says with a trace of an accusing tone.

Gennai sighs. This wasn't going well at all.

"Ken wanted me to say they were doing fine-"

"We aren't five Gennai. Try telling us the truth for a change. Tell us how our friends are doing," Cody interrupts.

He hesitates, deciding it was best to tell them the truth then to lie and risk the chance that they would do something foolish.

"They have high fevers and Demiveemon is having trouble lowering them," Gennai says at last.

"No….." Kari whispers and Yolei hugs her as the child of light cries into her shoulder.

"Will they live?" Tk asks so calmly that they looked at him with surprise.

"Tk, its too soon-" Gennai starts but gets cut off when Tk holds up his hand and talks over him.

"I didn't ask that, I asked if they live."

"It doesn't look good. The virus is traveling quickly and making it hard for them to fight back."

"This just keeps getting better and better! What else could possibly go wrong?!" Cody yells, making the others jump. He usually doesn't raise his voice even if he is angry.

"Please, you must understand that all the digital gates must be destroyed. And it has to be soon. Your decision has to be quick," Gennai says, spreading his arms in dismay. The Digidestined looked at each other uneasily. They knew what they going to have to do but they just couldn't believe it.

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Ken woke up with a jolt. At first he was disoriented and confused about where he was. It took a few minutes for him to calm himself. He slowly sits up, wiping his forehead and finds it covered in cold sweat. Demiveemon wasn't anywhere in sight but Ken's attention was drawn to Davis. He appeared to be asleep. He was shaking terribly. Ken tried to get up but he fell over, unable to stand. It was like someone had drained his energy and strength with a flick of a switch. He cringed, he had a skull splitting headache that made his head throb. Davis mumbled something in his sleep, causing Ken to look over at him. It looked like he was having a nightmare. Crawling on his hands and knees, he slowly made it to his friend's side.

"Davis, wake up," he says and was ashamed at how weak his voice sounded. He lightly touched Davis's shoulder, trying to wake him up. Demiveemon walked in then, dragging more large palm leaves. Ken turned to look at him and the small digimon seemed surprised to see Ken awake.

"Ken, how are you feeling?" Demiveemon asks as he drags the leaves to the cave wall where the rest of their stores were. Dropping the leaves, he turned to Ken. It slightly surprised Ken to see the small Demiveemon doing such heavy and demanding chores.

"You sure have a lot of energy, Demiveemon," Ken comments, his voice still scratchy and weak. The digimon laughs slightly.

"Yeah, I do feel really energetic today. Its weird. Maybe its because I'm back in the Digital World," Demiveemon answers. Ken shrugs lightly, not wanting to make his headache worse by thinking about something like that. He was still on his knees next to Davis and he looks down at him. He tries to wake him up.

"Ken, what are we going to do? shouldn't we make the camp more permanent? We may have to stay here for awhile," Demiveemon asks. Ken doesn't look at him when he answers.

"I don't know but to built a permanent shelter we need supplies. Which we don't have and I don't know if we can get them," he snaps. The small digimon steps back slightly, a hurt look on his face. Ken looks at him, wiping his forehead

"I'm sorry…..I didn't mean that….." he says, his breathing slightly heavy. "the fever's getting worse…..and I'm getting headaches….."

Demiveemon nods slowly. "I know, its ok. I'm scared Ken…..what if there's nothing we can do? I don't want to die in this cave….." he says as a tear runs down his cheek. Ken motions for him to come over to him. Demiveemon does and is surprised when the Digidestined pulls him into a one armed hug, while leaning heavily on his other arm. Ken has never hugged him before. The small digimon could feel him shaking and his skin was warm to the touch. His fever was indeed worse. Ken slowly pulled away and was about to say something but stopped when Davis said his name.

"Ken?" He sounded even weaker the Ken. Ken looked back down at him, leaning over him slightly.

"Yes?" Ken asks. Demiveemon watches at Ken's side.

"Can you help me sit up?" Davis whispers. Ken slides his arm under Davis's shoulders and slowly helps him sit up. Once he's in a sitting position, he notices Demiveemon next to him.

"Hey Demiveemon, how are ya?" he asks. He leans on Ken for support to stay sitting upright, even though Ken could hardly keep himself up.

"I'm ok. I feel like I have a lot of energy today."

Davis nods slightly which makes Ken cringe because of his own headache.

"So, how are you feeling Davis?" his partner asks.

"Better I guess."

Demiveemon smiles, happy to hear that. "What about food? Are you hungry?"

Davis is quiet for a minute, "A little. I guess I could try eating."

The small digimon moves to the food pile and fills a coconut shell with berries.(they were like chewy cherries) He brought it back to Davis and between Ken and Demiveemon, they helped Davis eat at least half of them.

"ken, how are you doing?"

Ken smiles, "Just fine Davis. Me and Demiveemon have been trying to decide what to do. It looks like we're going to be stuck here for a while."

"I have news that will help you with that." They look over at the cave entrance, seeing Gennai standing there. He looked upset and troubled. "I have bad news."