Chapter 6: Missing
"It's Kari."
"KARI!"
"Tai, wait!"
"Come on guys, we need to find her and the others!"
"We know, but we can't find them in this darkness."
"He's right."
"I hate when you're right, Izzy."
Matt walked towards the door, taking the lead. Sora followed him closely as the other four destined paid attention to them.
"What are you doing, Matt?"
"I'm going to find my brother and the others."
"Give me this thing." Tai took the candle from his friend's hand. "I'm the leader. So follow me."
Izzy sighed at Tai's desire to always be the first one at everything. Matt had an angry look on his face. Sora reached out and squeezed his hand gently before stepping up to talk to her best friend.
"Tai." She placed her hand on his shoulder. "I want to talk to you."
"Sure, what is it?"
"Why don't you let Matt be the leader this time?"
"But I'm always the leader, Sora."
"True, but I think he can be this time. Let him do it."
Tai looked from her best girl friend to his best boy friend and sighed.
"I guess you're right." He handed the candle to Matt. "Try it, Matt."
The blonde took the candle, smiling, and glanced at his girlfriend, whispering a 'thank you'. The older destined then headed to the door once more. Mimi was right behind Joe and felt a hand on her shoulder. She stood dead on her feet but slowly turned around. The scream that was about to come out of her mouth was stopped by the same hand. She was pulled into a secret room. The sound of a door being closed startled the other teenagers. They all turned around.
"Where is Mimi?!"
TK took out his digivice. He thought it would help finding the rest of the Destined.
"Oh god!"
"What?" Both Kari and Ken said at the same time.
TK thought for a moment. He didn't want his friends to worry. But he chose to tell them the truth anyway.
"There are only seven blinking lights on my digivice."
"Seven? Are you serious?"
The other two took their digivices as well.
"That means there only eight of us left."
"And five of them are in the same place."
"Either Davis, Yolei and Cody are with them…"
"…Or they vanished." Kari finished TK's sentence. "But how come there are only seven digivices if there are twelve of us around the house?"
"My guess is that there are secret rooms in this house."
"But we told Davis and the others to stay together."
"And we know Tai, Matt and the rest wouldn't split up like that."
The three kids looked at each other, worried.
"Where's Mimi?" Sora repeated her question.
"Wasn't she behind you, Joe?"
"She was. Or I think she was."
"You think?"
"How come you let her walk after you, Joe?" Tai harshly asked. "If something happens to her I won't forgive you."
"Tai." Sora said calmly. "It's not Joe's fault."
"What we need to do now is find Mimi."
"How are we gonna do that, Izzy?"
"Well, we know she was here when she disappeared. I think there must be a secret passage here."
"We need to find it then."
"This place is officially starting to scare me."
Matt reached for Sora's hand to comfort her. She smiled a little.
"I'm here to protect you."
"I know."
"How come I didn't think of it before?" Izzy tapped his forehead lightly as he reached for his pocket to grab his digivice. His eyes widened for some seconds.
"What's going on, Izzy?"
The other five took their own digivices since Izzy didn't reply. They all had the same looks on their faces.
"Can you tell me what's happening, Izzy? Izzy?" Tai shook his hand up and down in front of his face.
"Tai, we can't find Mimi." Joe replied instead.
"I know that. But I want to know why there are only three lights when it's supposed to be six."
The other destined looked at him in shock.
"I think we should find the rest of the Destined so we can figure out what to do. I'm sure Izzy has an idea."
TK, Kari and Ken started to head towards the other teenagers.
"I wonder what happened to Davis, Yolei and Cody. I mean, I think there's someone – or several people – hidden around the house just waiting to come out when we least expect."
Kari was starting to regret her decision of renting this house. They have been here for less than 24 hours and lots of things had already happened to them. And to make things worse, it seemed like there was no way out.
Mimi slowly opened her eyes and noticed she was all tied up. Her eyes widened when she looked around the room and saw Davis, Yolei and Cody also tied up but asleep. The auburn girl continued to scan the room until she saw someone.
"Hey, you!" She shouted. "Let me go!"
The woman turned to Mimi.
"You're up."
"What did you do to them?" She mentioned her friends with her head.
"They should wake up any minute now." The woman said calmly.
"Why did you bring me here?"
"We need you."
"You need me for what? And we who?"
"We are gonna kill each one of those kids."
"What?! They didn't do anything to you."
"How can you be sure?"
"I know them. They wouldn't hurt people like that."
Mimi noticed a movement in a shady place. She held a scream back as the person came to view.
"Oh my god!"
She instantly turned her head to where the voice came from. The other three had been awakened because of the loud conversation Mimi and the woman were having.
"Davis, Yolei, Cody!"
"Mimi!" Yolei screamed.
Davis kept his eyes focused on the male figure that had just stepped out from the shadow.
"Davis, what…" Cody followed his gaze and his voice trailed off.
"That guy… he's been following us for quite a while."
"What? Are you sure? Cause I'm seeing Gennai here."
Davis looked at Cody, confusion written all over his face.
Tai and Matt automatically stepped ahead the other three Destined when they heard the door open. They immediately backed down when they saw TK, Kari and Ken walking in. The leader and his best friend walked to his sister and brother, respectively.
"I'm glad we are all together now." Sora said.
"Where are Davis and the others?"
"We have no idea." TK sighed.
"Where's Mimi? I don't see her."
"She got kidnapped. But we don't know how or by who."
They all shared a look with each other, fearing what else could happen to them.
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