So in this chapter it's mostly about trying to get Kari back to normal. Hope you like it!
Because I'm your brother
Taichi:
Pain, I can't feel anything but pain, not even my body hurts, okay it does hurt but my heart aches a lot more and I can't even describe how much, it hurts so bad that I feel like I'm gonna losing it but I will not let her down, it's my sister we're talking about and I will do everything that I can to win her back. After the others finally reached us I really thought that things are getting better, but Piedmon unfortunately knows exactly how to harm me and that's just the perfect way to do it. There, on top of a Seadramon in the air is she. My little sister, sitting there with her arms crossed on her chest and looking down on the battle with an expression on her face that shows that she would love to rip us apart. I don't know what this ugly clown did to her but I'm sure that that's not my little, lovely sister up there. And that's actually the reason for my heartache. I look at her and gasp when she turns to me and glares dangerously at me. For just a second I could swear that my sister is up there but just a second after that her expression changes again.
"What are you staring at big brother?" She asks hostile. I don't respond I just lower my glance to the ground in front of me, ignoring the pain in my heart and focusing on Sora who's standing next to me.
"Kari what happened? I can't even recognize you and that means something!" Davis shouts from his spot a couple of meters next to me. I turn to look at Sora who took my hand in hers to obviously show me that I'm not on my own. Our digimon are all in front of us, ready to beat everyone's ass who just tries to come near to us. I never really saw them so angry before. Maybe it's because they have captured somebody of us and brainwashed her. Or just because they're really pissed off that these guys send us flying like we're little dolls.
"Okay you know what? You're annoying me! Piedmon, Finish them. I don't have a nerve to listen to their drivel any longer. Oh, and leave my brother out of it. I want to take care of him." Kari says and glares right at me and now I'm totally sure that this thing isn't my sister.
"Who said you're the one who gives orders?" Piedmon turns to look at my sister and I really have to pull myself together to resist the desire to punch him in the face that he dares to talk with her in such a tone. Nobody talks to her like this. NOBODY! Not even me!
"Kari just turns rolls her eyes annoyed and as suddenly she appeared, she flies back into the castle on top of the Seadramon. T.K doesn't even hesitate, he shots me aquick glance to ask if he should go after her, I just nod and he runs after her in the castle. Good luck buddy, please bring my sister back...
When T.K enters the castle I focus again to the enemy. Piedmon is standing in front of our twelve Mega-level digimon's and doesn't even bother to look a little frightened. He smiles sheepishly and starts to walk towards us. "I thought you might remember this" I can't see what Piedmon is doing but I notice that all our partner start to back away from him.
What could actually make them back up when we're finally able to beat him? My heart stops for a second when Piedmon come's in my view and I see him waving with a white cloth in his hand. Memories what happened last time when I saw this white cloth comes back and I can't do anything but back up as well.
"Why are we backing away?" Davis asks from his spot on the ground. I realize that he's actually injured and can't even get up again.
"Davis, do you remember the story about how Piedmon turned us all into Key Chains first time we fought him?" Joey asks, as we all watch Piedmon walking towards us. The grip of Sora's hand tightened and I pull her a little closer to me so our shoulders touch. Davis nods what makes Joey to continue. "That's how he did it..." Davis eyes wide when he finally realizes why our digimon are backing away like that.
"That trick isn't going to work again Piedmon" WarGreymon says, stepping forwards. "I will rip any cloths apart if I have to; so long until I will be able to rip you apart too clown."
"Who said anything for this being for you?" Piedmon asks with a laugh before he throws the cloth over himself. "Get him!" Magnamon shouts and all ourdigimon rush forward. Rosemon is the first who reaches the cloth, but Piedmon is already gone.
T.K
"Kari wait!" I shout, but she doesn't even think about that. She just turns to the right and runs faster than before. Since when can she run so fast?! The corridor is the same as all corridors in the middle age castles. Dark stone with a few torches on the walls. I don't know how long I'm trying to reach Kari, I just hope that she will get tired any minute and stop, but it doesn't look like that. I turn right when I last saw Kari turn and catch a sight of her. She looks right at me before turning left. I don't hesitate, I just run again, following her trough a door and I slow down my running when I realize that Kari ran into a large room without a second door. The only escape for her would be the door that I just entered. The room is large and on the walls are torches like it on all corridors. It looks exactly like the room Tai described when he was captured.
"Why are you following me T.K?!" Kari asks with anger in her voice. I turn to look at her and my heart stops for a minute. Although I know that this is a brainwashed Kari Kamiya I can't help but just feel the deep love for this woman.
"Kari what happened? Are you mad at us or what? Tell me so I can fix it!"
"Piedmon happened, he showed me that there's more than being a digidestined. I'm tired to be the good one T.K, you know, to be on the other side has his pros." She says smugly. I can't help but get angry. Angry at Piedmon and angry at Kari that she let somebody to brainwash her like this. "Oh really?! Like what?" I reply, considered to not let my anger get over me.
She smiles evilly... "Oh I don't know...Something like...THIS!" And with that she throws a dagger right at me but misses me by a hair's breadth; instead it's stuck in the wall now. I turn in shock to her and her expression changed to totally unconcern.
"Eww, you know that this blast could kill me when you didn't miss me right?" I ask her, just to be sure that she actually really tried to kill me. Me! Her best friend respectively her boyfriend.
"To be honest. It actually was my intent." She replies, still with this unconcerned and emotionless expression. She starts to walk towards me and I don't even bother to move. I want her to reach me. She stops just a few feet before me but that's enough for me to grab her arm and press her against the wall behind me. Her face is just inches away from mine and I force her to look me straight in the eye. I look right in her beautiful auburn eyes and just for a second I could swear I look in the eyes from my girlfriend but the sparkle that I caught in her eye disappeared as fast as it appeared. Okay, now I know that my Kari is somewhere in there in this thing right in front of me. Okay, new plan...
I lean forward 'til and I can almost feel like her eyes wide when she realizes what I'm up to. But I don't even bother to hesitate. I kiss her. I almost jumped in the air when she starts to return the kiss. I want to deepen the kiss but she stops but doesn't push me away that I notice happily. Our forwards touches and I open my eyes just to see that she didn't open them yet so I just improvise.
"Kari I love you, you know that and I will not let anything harm you. I care too much for you. You're my best friend Kari and I'm not willing to let Piedmon have the control over you. That's not you, you're lovely, caring and you don't hate anything more than to hurt your friends. You love us to much so stop this thing, please." I can feel her froze immediately after I said that. She avoids my glance and tries to reply.
"T.K I..- "but it's like something switches in her head because she suddenly pushes me away and glares at me angrily.
"How dare you do that T.K! It's really cute that you think I feel the same way as you do. But I don't. I never did and I never will! I probably would rather fall in love with Davis than you!"
Okay, that hurt.
She grabs me by the collar and I'm really surprised how easily she pushes' me against the wall, causing me to gliding on the ground, with the wall behind me. Leaving me without escape.
"You can't imagine how I enjoy seeing you like this. Weak and totally delivered. Like you ever was digidestined." Wow, she could actually be Piedmon in female when I hear her talking like this. The takes the dagger from the wall and points it straight at me. Maybe it's weird but I'm not afraid at all, no I'm happy that the last thing I probably see is the woman that I love and I know that deep down she feels exactly the same way even that she's brainwashed and doesn't even know what she's doing right now. I close my eyes and wait for the pain, but it doesn't come. Instead...
"T.K!" I hear my brother's voice coming nearer. I open my eyes to see Kari locked in Tai's arms, totally unable to move. Matt helps me to my feet.
"You know brother; I wondered when you would appear." Kari says.
"Yeah, sorry I let you waiting" Tai replies a little taken back from her tone. I turn to look at all digidestined who are all a little exhausted. Looks like they ran.
"What happened? Where is Piedmon?" I ask them. Yolei is the first to respond.
"He did this with cloth thing with himself and disappeared. We thought he probably would be in the castle but we can't find him. Instead we found you."
"what do you mean; he disappeared?" I ask, it really doesn't sound good when you hear that your enemy disappeared and nobody knows where he is.
"Yeah, but luckily you're the one who has the Crystal, right?" Izzy asks. I nod and reach into my pocket to check on the Crystal. But it's not there. I turn in shock to Kari who started to laugh.
"What are you looking at me T.K? I wasn't the one who let himself distract by a kiss" She says mischievously but her amuset expression changes in one of annoyance and pain when Tai tightens his grip around her she turns to glare at him but he doesn't even bother to look at her. Probably because it hurts him too much but he would never admit something like that.
"You took it!" I shout at her but she just shakes her head. "No I just distracted you. My Master took it." Our reaction on what she just said is enough for her to escape from Tai's grip and run away, through a door didn't see before in a dark corridor.
"T.K I take care of her. Take the others and find Piedmon, we actually have a big problem if Piedmon really has the Crystal." And with that Tai runs after his little sister through this creepy door, just as he enters it, the door disappears. I turn to the others.
"I'm really sorry... I didn't know that – " I start but Joey interrupts me.
"It could happen to every one of us. Don't blame yourself. Piedmon is just a little smarter than he was when we fought him the first time. I'm sure that we can find him and end this whole mess. Okay?" he says and I immediately feel better. I look around to check everyone's expressions and they all don't look like they're angry at me.
"Okay, where should we head now?" Matt asks. Sora just points to the door that they entered a few minutes ago.
"I guess we should leave this room and search everywhere. We don't' have a choice, have we?" Sora says. Every one nods and with that we head out of this room.
Taichi:
I don't even know where I am. Okay it's dark. What else? Hm, there are torches. Is this detail new? No it isn't. The walls are of stone, also not new. Is my sister anywhere here? No. I stopped running a couple of minutes ago when I finally realized that I will not find her. So I just walk through this creepy corridor. I would probably panic when I would be in such a place a few years ago but now I can't think of anything else as my sister. I don't even think about how we will beat Piedmon when he has the Crystal now and gets to such a high level that probably wouldn't be in the charts. I don't think about in what a danger Sora is right now. All this things are totally unimportant when it comes to Kari. She's the middle point of my life.
"Searching for something big brother?" I turn around to the voice and see her leaning on the wall. I didn't realize how the surroundings changed. The walls look old and are partially smashed.
"No actually...I already found what I searched" I reply forcing me to look at her. She just looks at me, she looks...what? Tired?
"Kari what happened to you?" I make a step forward and she backs immediately back, her eyes wide.
"Nothing, what are you up to? Do you want to try the same thing like T.K? Saying how much you love me and hoping that it fixes everything?" She asks annoyed.
"No, actually I wanted to ask you something..." I start. I gave up listening to my brain. So I just say what comes to my mind. Hoping the best. She looks at me with pure confusion written all over her face so I take this as a sign to continue.
"Do you remember the time you were on the dark ocean?" I ask. Yea, good one. Make her remember that. Idiot! Her confusion grows but she nods anyway.
"You told me you missed me that Tai but you never said why. And you also told me that when you arrived there the only thought you had was me. I never asked you about that because I didn't want you to remember that but like you see. I don't care right now so I'm asking you now. Why me? Why not T.K?" the words just slip out without me even noticing what I'm saying. But obviously my worlds have an affect on her because her eyes wide again and she breaths a little faster than normal.
"Why do you even care?!" She shouts angrily at me. "You weren't there!"
Okay, now I know the problem. It probably was also my fault that Piedmon had a chance to control Kari's mind.
I can feel my heart sink and the guilt grow. How could I let her down like that?
"You're right. I wasn't there. Like I wasn't there the last three years, that's the real reason why you're so mad, right?" I ask her, just to be sure. But I already know the answer and her nodding just gives me assurance. I can't help it anymore and just reach her, to my surprise she doesn't even back away. I caress her cheek and force her to look at me.
"And now you're going to apologize to me and look at me with your puppy chocolate brown eyes and think everything is going to be fine? I control Kari's mind like Puppetmon controls bodies and nothing, I reply, nothing can free her mind from my control Tai. Not even her loving brother" Kari says in a totally different voice but I pull myself together and just continue with not hearing on my brain who screams at me in the background of my head. Instead I just continue to say what comes to my mind...hoping for the best.
"Come on Sister I know you're in there somewhere...remember the times we laughed so hard that you couldn't breathe anymore, or the time we smashed mom's car and told her that a giant dinosaur stepped on it and she wanted us to go to the psychiatric? Or, our time in the digital world when I almost lost you. you can't imagine how I suffered Kari. But all this things made us stronger and closer. There's a reason why we're so much closer than other siblings Kari. Most of the siblings just get along because they know they are related and of course they love each other. But we are totally different. Kari you were my first best friend and you will be it forever. I love you more than I can put in words. You're the light in my own darkness. I love you, I care about you, I mean, I'm your brother. This isn't just word you know..." I don't know why but I make the last step and hug her. Not willing to ever let her go. She buries her face on my shoulder. Suddenly I feel a sharp pain on my left, just above my waist.
Right, how could I forget about the Dagger...
"Nice try, brother." Kari says her face still on my shoulder. She pulls herself away and I slid on the ground. I turn to look from where the pain comes and notice the dagger is stuck just above my waist on the left side. I can't even move to take it out. I can't even speak; I never felt something that hurt just half so much like that. I look up to Kari. She leans forward and takes the dagger with one quick move what makes me whine in pain. But that's not even the worst thing. The worst is that Kari, my lovely sister is just about to kill me and I can't do anything against it. I didn't notice that my eyes are actually watery 'til I feel a single tear making his way down my cheek. Kari also notices because her eyes wide when she realizes that I, Taichi Kamiya, is actually crying. I reach into my pocket, hoping that I will find something helpful and gasp when I feel something metallic there. Kari's whistle!
~Flashback~
3 years ago, international airport.
"You know Kari; you don't have to hold me that tight. I like breathing you know." Tai says to his little sister. Kari giggles and pulls away from her brother.
"Sorry. But the thought that I will not be able to hug you for three years is a little... you know, horrible?" Kari says a little sad. Tai caresses her cheek caring and smiles at her.
"Three years pass faster than you think. And you can call me every time you want to. I promise I will not get mad at you when you forget about the time difference and call me at 3am." Tai says playfully that makes his little sister laugh the first time this day.
Tai checks the time on his phone and looks at her with an expression like: you-know-that-i-have-to-go-right?
Kari just nods and hugs her brother again.
"Okay, I guess that's it." Kari says, fighting against the tears
"Yeah, Take care little angel." Tai responds and makes his way to his gate.
"Tai wait!" Tai turns around totally surprised, watching his sister running towards him.
"Kari what is it?"
"I forgot something." And with that she takes the whistle from her neck and pulls it in Tai's hand she doesn't even let Tai respond something she just turns away and makes her way back. Out of the airport.
~END OF FLASHBACK~
I didn't take the whistle off the whole time I was away. I wanted to give it back to her before we went to the digital world. Looks like I forgot something.
Kari obviously recovers from her shock because she kneels next to me on the ground, raising her hand with the dagger in it, preparing herself to end my life, here, and now. I don't even realize what I'm doing right now. I just do it. I blow into the whistle. And it's like everything in Kari's head breaks apart and the emotions reappear in her eyes. She looks at me with wide eyes and then to her hand with the dagger in it. Her eyes grew wide even more and she pales immediately. She turns her glance to me again, with total shock written in her eyes. She let's go of the dagger and it falls clanking on the ground.
"I didn't really do what I think I did, did I?" She asks in a scared whisper. I just smile at her.
"I'm alright Kari, don't worry" I reply and she just throws herself into my arms and I don't really want to think about where we are or what happened just a few minutes ago. The only thing what's important right now is, how much I love her. Suddenly Kari pushes' herself from me and stares at her bloody hand and then at me. She doesn't even bother so ask me, she scans my body for any injuries and gasps when she finds the one that she did to me a couple of minutes ago when I thought I have my sister back.
"Oh my God. Tai we need to get you in a hospital. Now!" she starts to try to get me to my feet but I just resist her help and take her by her wrists.
"Kari listen, everything's fine. I'm okay. That's just a scratch, you actually missed me almost" I tell her with a grin on my face, to calm her down. Actually you did a quite good job in trying to kill me but that doesn't matter, right?
But that doesn't calm her down at all.
"We need to find the others. Joey sure has something to bandage that. oh my god Tai I'm so sorry. I didn't want that. I swear to god I didn't want that! I love you, I wouldn't give you my whistle if I wouldn't love you."
"Nice that this thing is as important as me to you" I try to make her laugh but she just smiles weakly at me.
"Where's Gatomon?" She asks me after she helped me to sit up.
"She's with the others. They're trying to find Piedmon. As you probably know he disappeared quite a while ago." I tell her. She just nods thoughtfully, staring on the wall opposite of us.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to give him the Crystal. It was like my body just does what it wants and I'm just in there and screaming for my body to stop but nothing helped until you came up with the idea to blow the whistle." She tells me and I can truly say that I'm quite proud of myself for being such a genius. I feel myself getting a little tired so I rest my head on Kari's shoulder.
"Tai? Tai you alright?" She asks me with deep concern in her eyes. I can't respond anymore I'm just too tired for it so I just mumble something that should sound like a yes but I'm not sure what I said. She lays me back on the ground and I can hear her scream for the others. I want to get up and ask her, what causes her to scream like that and why she's so scared but the tiredness just overcomes me, so I just keep lying there. The pain is almost gone.
Kari:
I really thought my life would be a lot easier when my brother returns from the States. But actually it's just getting worse any minute! I was so happy when I had him back and then I almost lost him because of Piedmon. Then Gennai managed to fix him again but Piedmon just couldn't let him be. No he had to capture me and brainwash me so much that I was the one who actually attacked Tai this time and now it's all just my fault that he's losing his consciousness and I just can't find anyone! I don't know how long I'm screaming for the others help right now but I just can't anymore. I turn to look at my brother who actually managed to sit up again and is now leaning against the wall with his eyes closed. His injury stopped bleeding but I'm sure I didn't miss him. It looks quite deep for me and it just has to be really bad because I know my brother. He's not a softy like Davis would be. He can stand a lot of pain. I return to him and hug him as tight as I can. Preparing myself for the worst to come. I'm sure I would probably getting insane when my brother would die right now and all that would be my fault. I would probably take the dagger and kill me too. Just go escape the guilt and the pain what Tai's dead would cause me.
Please God just show me once that you truly love me.
And as he really heard me the castle is suddenly gone and Tai and me are sitting on the ground of the battlefield where the others fought Piedmon a couple of hours before. I let Tai lean against a big enough rock and turn around to check the space. That's when I see them.
"Matt! Joey! Sora!" I shout as loud as I can. The three turn around as the other digidestined too. As soon as they recognize me they start to run towards me and Tai. Joey is the first to reach me.
"Kari, you alright? Are you back to normal again?" he asks me with a really relieved expression. But his expression changes suddenly when he takes a better look at me.
"Kari what happened?" Matt asks instead of Joey. I can't to anything but stammer.
"I-I didn't want to! I swear Guys you have to believe me! I would never ever do something to hurt my brother!" Joey, Matt and the others who just arrived look at me like I'm insane already.
"JOEY!" Yolei shouts and everyone turns to her voice that comes from the ground next to Tai. Joey's face pales immediately and he doesn't hesitate, instead he's on Tai's other side, trying to get a clear response from him. Sora, Davis, Izzy and Cody are immediately on Tai's side and try to help Joey as best as they can. Matt turns to me, and hell, he looks really pissed.
"Did you do that to him?!" He almost shouts at me and my heart sinks. I just look at him, trying to find out what I actually could say to calm him a little down. I open my mouth to respond to him but T.K responds for me.
"Matt do you really think Kari would to that on purpose? You know just as good as me that she never would harm her brother. Piedmon controlled her mind. She didn't do what she did, or she said." On the last one he throws me a look from the corner of his eye and I know what he means. Although I didn't want to say or do all the things that I did / say. I knew what I was saying. So I know what I said to T.K and I will apologize, but first I want to know that my brother is safe and I didn't kill him. There's nothing I want more than to go and see how Tai's doing but first I turn to look at Matt again and he looks at me with a softer expression now.
"I'm sorry Kari. T.K's right, you never would do something like that on purpose." I smile to him as a response and turn to walk over to my brother and the others when
"KARI!" I turn to the voice and just a second later Gatomon jumps into my arms. I immediately feel better with her on my arms and hold her as tight as I can.
"I missed you Gatomon" I whisper to her and she just nuzzles at me before she jumps on the ground again, smiling at me. Everybody except Sora and Joey are now sitting in a circle and enjoying the time we gained with Piedmon's disappear. I don't really care about Piedmon now. I just want to know what's going on with Tai.
"Joey? How's he doing?" I ask him in a whisper. Joey just smiles at me.
"Why don't you ask me?" I hear the familiar, a little raspy, voice of my brother. I turn to look at him and he grins just goofily at me.
"Thought you spend the whole day sleeping, like every time." I shot back with a small giggle. Sora just stays quiet. I look at her and frown a little. She just shakes her head and gives me a small smile.
"Okay guys. I don't think that we have a lot of time before this creepy clown gets back here. What are the digimon doing right now?" Tai asks and gets up from his spot.
"Tai you shouldn't really get up just like that!" Joey shouts at him what causes the other digidestined to laugh. Sure, they immediately feel better when they see him alright.
Tai scans the area and his glance stuck by the digimon who are eating and gaining their energy back to digivolve to Mega later.
"Joey I feel much better thank you." Tai responds and looks up to a cliff a couple of meters away. "Where is this creepy clown?" He asks in a whisper, more to himself as to us. And just at the moment when he said that,
"Here I am Tai. Missed me already?" a rather familiar voice says and we all turn to look at the cliff in front of us. There, on top of this cliff is Piedmon, but he looks different. He wears totally white boots with white trousers on. His red top is now pitch black with a red heart on his stomach. The wrists of his top are white as his gloves and his collar. The only thing what didn't change is the four swords on his back and the black and white mask on his face. I admit with disgust that he looks creepier than ever.
"Izzy, what happened to him?" Cody asks. Izzy is typing on his computer before he responds.
"He obviously used the Crystal what makes our situation worse because he was a Mega before and skipped the next level. He's out of charts now..." Izzy says surprisingly calm.
"Tai, what do we do now?" Sora whispers, pure fear in her voice. He caresses her arm gently.
"Digivolve." Tai responds calmly, his glance still on the top of the cliff. Without any hesitation the digimon digivolve to their highest levels.
"You know, Kari, I'm really disappointed in you. I really thought you could manage to take care about the leader" Piedmon says with his typical smile on his face. I can't help but get angrier than ever.
"Piedmon I swear to god you will not sample the next sunset and I will take care of that by myself if it's necessary!"
And as I said that a bright light appears in front of us all and enwraps Gatomon.
Gatomon...warp digivolve to...OPHANIMON
Everyone turns to the digimon who looks (to not my surprise) quite similar like Seraphimon just in female. I can't resist smiling uncontrollably and looking over to T.K who just smiles as sheepishly as me. He catches my glance and blinks. I'm quite proud of myself when I realize that I never got to use the Crystal and made Gatomon warp digivolve on my own.
Piedmon just keeps smiling at the twelve Mega's in front of him.
"Now that looks interesting Digidestined. Let's start this again."
I honestly don't know what you think about my story. I really hope that you don't hate it or something. It would be really nice of you when you just could write a short review if you like it or not, because i really wonder what you think about the last few chapters?
I will definitely end this story. (I think I will write 2 or 3 more chapters) tell me what you think. Thanks :**
I decided to give you a little preview about Tai in the next chapters. He got injured in this chapter and I'm not finished yet. I planed something about him (Great Taiora Moment) I hope i will get the chance to write the chapter like i did plan it
Next chapter will be up in a week i think. I try to write it as fast as I can but I'm really busy right now because of school. ((: