Chapter 9
Highton View Terrace?
Mole the Trailmon sped through the Digital World, following the tracks in the direction of Lucemons' layer. All of the Trailmon were eager to help the Digi-destined save the Digital World from Lucemon once again, seeing as the last time the children succeeded, so their confidence in them had boosted.
"We're almost there, its right up ahead," Mole said, pointing out the giant building on the horizon.
"Still just as creepy as it was last time," Kouji said.
"What, did you expect it to look any different?" Takuya asked.
"Mole, do you think you could go faster?" Izumi asked.
"Of course," the Trailmon said speeding up.
"Cupidmon, do you want to wait outside when we get there?" Kouichi asked the angel Digimon, noticing that she hadn't said much since they met her.
"No, I must face my brother," she replied, but then went back to being quite.
After about 10 minutes they arrived a few feet away from the layer and said their good-byes to Mole. They walked up and noticed the search lights weren't on, and there were no guards anywhere.
"Do you think he knows we're here?" Junpei whispered to Tomoki, who just shrugged in response.
"Let's go," Takuya said, walking toward the door.
The others followed close behind, and descended down the stairs, but to their surprise Lucemon was alone in the middle of the room, looking amused.
"Cupidmon, sister, you did well," he said.
"I brought them brother, just as you requested," Cupidmon replied.
"You were working with him the whole time?" Takuya asked.
"Why of course, did you really believe her sob story about me kidnapping her?" Lucemon said.
"So Meramon and Skullmeramon were just your pawns?" Kouji asked. "And you were fine with letting them be destroyed?"
"Meramon and Skullmeramon are replaceable; they will just be born again and come back to me."
"And what about Merukimon?" Kouichi asked. "Was he part of your little plan too?"
"Not exactly, for you see, those to weren't supposed to get their Beast Spirits, but I decided to have Merukimon and his Otamamon slaves guard the Biyomon village where the Beast of Love was hidden just in case, but I never thought you would get past him.
"And I take it the Bakemon were the same?" Junpei asked.
"The Bakemon had no meaning to me what-so-ever; they didn't even worship at my feet like I requested, you just saved me a lot of time and energy by destroying them."
"How could you just let all those Digimon die for you?" Izumi cried.
"You are just a big bully," Tomoki said.
"Yeah, you just think that people will bow at your feet and worship you for being alive!" Mindy said.
"I have a sister like that," Kelly said. "Well, she used to be like that; when she was 3!"
"Is this the Warrior of Love insulting me?" Lucemon asked in shock. "You were my greatest creation, these people aren't your friends; they destroyed you."
"I'd rather my friends destroy me than you destroy me with your selfish ways," Kelly said, but she sounded as if she was speaking with Venusmon at the same time.
"Well, I guess I'll have to make you follow me then, all of you."
"Do you two wanna try fighting him?" Takuya asked Kelly and Mindy. "You two have rocking Beast Sprits now."
"I'd love to," Kelly said, pulling out her pink and black D-tector.
Both the Warriors of Time and Love Beast Spirit Evolved.
"Love Guns!" Hartmon said, her guns slithering out of her hands and firing glowing hearts at the Angel Digimon.
"Cannon Fire!" Cannonmon sent her cannon balls at Lucemon, both attack hit him and he laughed at them.
"Weaklings, Grand Cross," the attack flew toward the 2 warriors, and before they had time to react it was crashing into them, causing them to De-Digivolve.
Lucemons eyes glazed over and sent Kelly and Mindy flying into the wall.
"Kelly, Mindy!" everyone yelled.
"Takuya, Kouji, I'd advise you Digivolve into Emperorgreymon and Mangagarurumon," Bokomon said.
"Right," both boys said, pulling out their D-tectors, and everyone else followed.
"Wind into Flame!"
"Ice into Flame!"
"Thunder into Light!"
"Darkness into Light!"
"Execute, Unified Spirit Evolution!" both boys said, but when the Digivolution was complete, both warriors were missing big pieces of armor.
"What happened?" Takuya asked.
"I don't know," Kouji replied, thinking the same thing.
Lucemon laughed, "You don't know?"
"Don't know what?" Emperorgreymon asked.
"After you left the Digital World, you lost the spirits of the evil Legendary Warriors, meaning you can't fully evolve into Emperorgreymon and Magnagarurumon."
"Well that would have been nice for Ophanimon to tell us," Takuya said.
"At least we know now," Magnagarurumon said. "But it still makes this harder."
Both boys de-digivolved, figuring they wouldn't have much luck beating the Angel Digimon without most of their power.
"Does this mean you are giving up?" Lucemon asked amused.
"Like we would do that," Takuya said, taking out his D-tector and fusion evolved, Kouji followed the action.
All the others spirit evolved as well.
"Thunder Fist!" beetlemon yelled, smashing the ground with his thunder.
"Tempest Twist!" kazemons' legs flew in circles as she did her attack.
"Crystal Breeze!" the bear-like Digimon said, blowing frozen breath.
"Shadow Metoer!" the Warrior of Darkness said, removing his hands from over his extra lion mouth on his chest and sending a blast of darkness out.
"Cleansing Light!" missiles and a laser shot out of Beowulfmons arm.
"Atomic Inferno!" the fireball missiles from his Rudri Tarpana.
The attacks went at Lucemon, but they were no match for him, and he easily brushed them off with a movement of his hand.
"Is that all you've got? That's pathetic!" The Digimon snorted. "Grande Cross!"
The attack moved so fast that they had no time to get out of the way of it, and ended up all de-digivolving.
"Now, Cupidmon, finish them off!" Lucemon ordered his sister.
"Cupidmon, that's not what you want," Takuya said, trying to stand up after the powerful attack. "He's only using you; something happens to you and he wont shed a single tear."
"Liar, my brother would never do that to me! He would never even put me in danger!" Cupidmon exclaimed.
"It's true," Kouji said weakly. "You're no more than a pawn to him in his game."
"Stop telling her lies!" Lucemon ordered, giving the two boys his powerful glare.
"Takuya!" Mindy yelled.
"Kouji!" Kelly yelled.
"Cupidmon, I was under the control of one of the evil Digimon like Lucemon once, you don't know that they're controlling you until you do something that you're going to regret," Kouichi said. "I nearly killed my own brother, I nearly destroyed this world. Don't do that, don't make those mistakes like I did, all they do is tear you apart and make you wonder why the people you hurt didn't just destroy you when they had the chance."
"Stop it," Cupidmon said, pushing her hands against her ears. She didn't want to believe it, but she knew that Lucemon was controlling her, and she had to stop it, but how? She was just one Digimon who didn't have any power, and he was powerful, so powerful that he had defeated the royal knights and the Digi-destined. She had to make a choice to listen to the voice of wisdome or the voice of her brother. She turned to Lucemon; "I'm sorry," she said.
"What are you talking about?" Lucemon asked.
"Blinding Wing!" she yelled, her eyes turning all white and her wings glowing in a very faint blue color.
Lucemon jumped back in shock as the stack went towards him. "Grand Cross!" he said, throwing his attack at his sister, hoping to defend himself.
All of the children were blinded by the great light, but as both attack slammed into each other all the children went flying, and when they opened their eyes they were no longer in the Digital world, but split up in the middle of a big city!
Mindy slowly opened her eyes. Where am I? She wondered, looking around the area. It seemed like a small city; there were big buildings and billboards all over the place. The street lights shown brightly into her face, blinding her while her eyes adjusted. She sat up and looked around, wondering if the others were near when she saw bright lights and heard something honking at her, she saw a car in front of her, getting very impatient with her standing in the middle of the road.
"Sorry," she said, and moved out of the way of the car. "I wonder where everyone else is…"
"Izumi!" Junpei called, wandering around. "Izumi!" People started opening their windows and yelling at him to keep it down because it was 12 o'clock in the morning, but he just kept shouting. "Its ok Izumi, I'll protect you!"
"Junpei?" he heard a voice say. Junpei thought the voice was familiar, and when he turned, he saw Izumi standing behind him. He nearly jumped with joy at the sight of her.
"Izumi, you're ok!" he exclaimed.
"Yeah, but do you know where we are?"
"No idea, I was gonna find someone first and then find out…"
"Uh huh…"
"Is anyone here?" Tomoki called. "Takuya, Junpei, Kouichi, Izumi, Kouji, Mindy, Kelly, can anyone hear me?"
"Tomoki, is that you?" Kouichi asked.
"Kouichi!" Tomoki cried, running up and giving the boy a hug. "I was so worried."
"I was too, have you seen Kouji?"
"No, you're the first person I've seen."
"Oh," Kouichi looked disappointed.
"Ow, what hit me?" someone asked as they walked down the street toward the two.
"Is that Takuya?" Kouichi asked.
"Yeah, I think it is!" Tomoki replied. "Hey, Takuya!"
Takuya looked up and saw Tomoki waving to him, "Hey buddy!"
"Where do you think we are?" Kouichi asked. "We're obviously not in the Digital World anymore."
"I don't know, but I don't think we're home either, cause it doesn't look at all familiar," Takuya said.
"So we're lost, aren't we?" Tomoki asked.
"We're not lost; we just don't know where we are…" Takuya replied.
Kouji opened his eyes; the light from the street lights didn't bother him, because he was surrounded by light all the time.
"Hey, Kouji!" someone called to him.
Don't tell me that's Kelly's annoying friend… he thought, and sure enough it was.
"Kouji, thank God I found someone!" Mindy said, breathing heavily.
"What do you want?"
"I can't find anyone else, what are we supposed to do?"
"Don't worry; those guys would make sure to find each other, even if it meant waking up the whole city to do it…" Kouji said, reassuring her, but he also wondered where Kouichi was.
Kouji stood up and the two started walking somewhere; they weren't exactly where they were going, but at least from that creepy spot, Kouji only thought it was creepy because there was a lavender house.
They walked in the road for what seemed like hours, after passing the same lavender house that stood out, they decided that they had been going in circles the whole time.
Mindy laughed as she told Kouji all the stories about stuff she and Kelly used to do, and about the time the two girls made a story about them being Ninjas with Naruto, and about all the other stories they wrote, and the funny things they did together.
"Would you stop it?" Kouji asked in an impatient voice.
Mindy was shocked; she had never seen Kouji like this, she barely knew him, but she had still never seen him act like this. He looked very annoyed.
"Fine," she said, but couldn't help laughing as she thought of all the great times she and Kelly had.
"Would you stop laughing?" Kouji snapped.
Mindy's smile faded and she felt offended. "Fine, it's obvious you don't need me," she said in a sad voice. "No one ever needs me…"
Kouji felt a flash of guilt run over him; he was being a jerk to one of the nicest girls he ever met! He had to stop, he had to apologize, but the only thing he had on his mind was Kouichi.
Mindy started crossing the street to go off on her own. "Wait, Mindy, I'm-" Kouji was cut off by bright lights speeding closer and closer to the girl, he looked and saw a car racing toward her, and the driver didn't even seem to notice. "Mindy, look out!" he yelled, racing into the road, jumping in, and pushing her out of the way, but he was to late…
To be continued… Just kidding!
"Man, can't we just find somewhere to sleep right now, I'm worn out," Junpei complained. He was tired of walking too much, it was bad enough to walk everywhere in the Digital World, but even here? That was too much!
"Oh quite complaining, we'll find a bench or something soon," Izumi said.
Izumi was also getting tired of walking so much, but she decided to just keep going and not bother stopping until they found somewhere familiar.
They heard sirens and saw an ambulance speeding down the road.
"What do you think happened?" Izumi asked.
"I don't know, but it can't be good, cause look," Junpei replied, pointing to police cars also speeding down the street behind the ambulance.
"Let's go see what happened," they said, racing after the ambulance and police cars.
"Kouji!" Mindy cried. "No, why did you do that?"
The car had been speeding down, and just before it hit Mindy, Kouji jumped in and pushed Mindy out, but didn't have any time to get out himself, therefore getting hit.
"Come back here stupid driver!" Mindy yelled. "Don't you realize you just hit a kid with your stupidity?!"
The driver just laughed at her anger, not realizing why she was so mad, because he was drunk.
"What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?" Mindy asked over and over again, pacing back and forth.
"Call a doctor idiot…" Kouji chocked out.
"Hey, that's a good idea!" Mindy said, pulling out her D-tector for some reason, but found out it turned back into her cell phone. "Yes!" she said, dialing 9-1-1.
"911, what's your emergency?" the lady on the other line said.
"My friend just got hit by a car," she replied, still freaking out. "He's hurt badly, I think the driver was drunk, and he's bleeding, and I need you to get here fast."
"Ok, just calm down and tell me where you are."
"Um, well I don't know where I am, I just found myself here, but there's a lavender house, and a big terrace."
"Ok, I know where you are, someone will be over shortly."
"Thank you soooooooooo much!"
She hung up the phone and started pacing around impatiently
After a few minutes an ambulance and 2 police cars showed up.
"Ok, what happened here?" one of the officers asked.
"I was just crossing the street, and a car came speeding down, I didn't notice it, but just before it hit me my friend jumped in and pushed me out of the way," Mindy explained.
"Ok, what's your friends name?" the officer asked.
"Kouji," she said.
"And where are you guys from?"
"Well, I don't know where he's from, but I'm from America," she replied. The officer eyed her suspiciously.
"Mindy!" Someone called from behind her. She turned to see Izumi and Junpei running toward her.
"Izumi! Junpei!" Mindy said, very happy to see them.
"What happened?" Izumi asked.
"It was terrible; Kouji just got hit by a car!" Mindy burst out.
"What?" the Digi-destined asked.
"Yeah, and the worst part is he did it to save me…" she replied, almost bursting into tears.
"Well that sucks, where is he?" Junpei asked.
"They just took him off in the ambulance; he was in pretty bad shape."
"Excuse me, but who are you two?" the officer asked.
"I'm Izumi, and this is Junpei, we're friends of Koujis'."
"I see, than maybe you can tell me where he's from?"
"We're from Shibuya," Junpei said.
"Shibuya?" the officer asked. "But that's miles away, what are you doing out here?"
"Where exactly are we anyway?" Izumi asked.
"This is Highton View Terrace," the officer replied.
"Highton View Terrace?" they all asked.
"Yeah, well, it looks like you guys are all clear on this case; if you want I can give you a ride over to the hospital."
"That would be fantastic!" Izumi said.
"Sure, hop in."
They all got into the back seat of the police car and drove off to the hospital.
"Should we try getting through to Kouichi, Takuya, Kelly, and Tomoki?" Junpei asked.
"Yeah, but how? Wouldn't they not have their cell phones?" Junpei asked. "And we don't even have ours."
"Actually," Mindy said, pulling her phone out of her pocket.
"Your phone is normal again!" Junpei said.
"Yeah, I found out after Kouji got hit, but does one of you want to call? I feel like I shouldn't be the one to tell Kouichi…"
"Sure," Izumi said, taking the phone from Mindy and dialing Kouichis number. It rang a few times before he picked up. "Hey Kouichi, it's Izumi, can you meet us at the Hospital?"
"Why?" he asked.
"Kouji got in an accident, and he's really badly injured," she replied, trying not to cry herself.
"What happened?" Kouichi demanded.
"He was hit by a car."
"We'll be right there," Kouichi replied. "I'm with Tomoki and Takuya right now."
"Has any of you seen Kelly?"
"No, we thought she was with you guys."
That's weird, Izumi thought. Seeing the way she acted with those Bakemon, it doesn't seem normal for her to wander off on her own.
"Well, we're on our way there right now, call us if you have any problems," Izumi said before she hung up the phone.
"Kouichi, what's the matter?' Takuya asked, noticing his friends' lifeless face.
"Kouji was hit by a car," he replied. "We gotta get to the hospital, now!"
They ran in the direction they thought the hospital might be, and they finally found it after wandering for a little while.
Kouichi rushed in the doors frantically looking for Izumi, Junpei, and Mindy. When he finally spotted them he yelled "what happened?" a little more loudly then intended.
"They haven't told us his condition, but last we heard he was in pretty bad shape," Izumi said.
"Did they find the guy who did it?"
"No, Kouji was the only one who saw the car or license plate number."
"Well he's going to be ok, right?" Takuya asked.
"I hope so," Junpei said.
Tomoki noticed that Mindy hadn't said anything the whole time, she just sat in a corner holding back tears, and dreading having to tell Kouichi about what really happened.
"Come on kid," the doctor said. They had been trying to get Koujis' heart beating normally for what seemed like the last 2 hours.
The Heart Monitor stopped beeping steadily, and the lines went flat, there was no hope left.
The doctor got the paddles that were connected to the Defibrillator… "clear!" a shock went through Koujis' body, but it did nothing.
"Kouji, it is not your time yet," Ophanimon said to him. "You must get through this, I have a way to help you, but it you may not like it…"
The monitor started beeping steadily again, the lines moving up and down.
How did he make it? The doctor wondered.
"Dr. Kido, there are some kids outside waiting for news on the patients condition," a nurse said, standing in the doorway. "What do you want me to tell them?"
"I'll be right out to speak with them," he replied, still staring at the boy in astonishment.
He walked out into the hall and saw the gang waiting there.
"Well?" Kouichi asked.
"He's fine, it's a miracle; he has a broken leg and a few scratches, but that's it," Dr. Kido replied.
Kouichi sighed with relief, but Mindy still felt like it was her fault.
"Can we see him?" Kouichi asked.
"Not right now, but maybe if you come back in the morning; it's pretty late. Do you kids need a ride anywhere?" Dr. Kido said.
"Well, we don't really know where we'd go, cause we don't know where we are exactly," Takuya said.
"Hey, I have a son about your age; maybe you could stay over night, and then come check on your friend in the morning," Dr. Kido suggested.
"Well, it's either that or sleep on a bench somewhere, so I'm good with that idea," Takuya said. "What about you guys?"
Everyone decided that it was either stay overnight with a nice guy, or share a park bench with a homeless guy, so they waited until Mr. Kido was done with his shift and they went home with him.
"Oh yeah, you're in Highton View Terrace by the way," Mr. Kido said as he drove his mini-van back to his house.
"We knew that much, but we don't really know how we got here though," Izumi said.
"Yeah, we just woke up here in the middle of town, so we don't really know where anything is," Takuya said.
"Well, there have been some crazy things that happened recently here in Highton View; some Digital Monsters attacked out of nowhere, and my son happened to be one of the kids who could stop them," Mr. Kido said laughing.
"Digital Monsters," Tomoki asked. "Does he mean Digimon?"
"Maybe," Junpei replied. "But it'd be weird for Digimon to be here."
"Hey, have you guys noticed that Bokomon and Neemon haven't showed up yet?" Takuya asked.
"Yeah, oh well, they're probably getting into trouble somewhere," Junpei said smiling.
Kids these days, Mr. Kido thought. They believe anything you tell them, even about Digital Monsters."
"Well, here we are," Mr. Kido said as he pulled into a driveway.
The house looked pretty big, and it was even bigger when they stepped inside.
"Honey, is that you?" Mrs. Kido asked, stepping out of the kitchen.
"Yeah, and I picked up some kids at work who need a place to stay for the night," he replied.
"Oh, I'm pretty sure Jou is still up on the phone, so feel free to go upstairs to his room; take a right when you get up and it's the first door on the right," Mrs. Kido said.
"Great, thanks," Takuya said. They wandered through the huge house and finally found the stairs. They walked up the stairs and looked around the big hall at the top and turned right and found the door.
Knock, knock, knock, Takuya knocked on the door quietly. "Come in," they heard.
They walked in awkwardly to find a kid about Junpeis age with blue hair and nerdy glasses. He wore a sweater vest over a button-down t-shirt, and he also had grey shorts.
"Who're you?" he asked.
"Uh, well, your dad told us we could stay here for the night…" Takuya explained.
"Like a sleep-over?!" Jou asked. "I've always wanted to have one of those!"
"Aren't you a little worried that you don't even know us?" Izumi asked; a little weirded out by the boys' enthusiasticness.
"Well you seem like nice people," he replied. "And my dad is good at picking people I can and can't hang out with. Maybe tomorrow you can meet some of my other friends that I met at summer camp!"
"Well we can only stay for the night because our friend is in the hospital right now, and we're stuck in this town until he gets better, and we can't see him until tomorrow moring," Takuya said.
"Oh, well is your friend a patient of my dads'?" Jou asked.
"Yeah, kinda. He got hit by a car, so I guess," Takuya replied.
"Oh, is he ok?"
"I hope," Kouichi said. "He's my brother, and our parents would kill me if something happened to him."
"You're the older one, huh?" Jou asked. "From what I see being the oldest isn't all it's cut out to be; you get the responsibility of watching the younger ones, and not really getting time to do anything for yourself."
"Yeah, but sometimes it's good because you can tell your siblings what to do," Takuya said.
"Well, it's pretty late, and if you guys wanna see your friend in the morning you may want to get to bed," Jou said.
"That'd probably be a good idea," Junpei said yawning. "And besides, Tomoki is about to fall asleep anyway."
They all agreed that they would go to bed, and leave early in the morning to see Kouji, but in the morning, Mr. Kido got a phone call about a big emergency about the boy, bigger than anyone could've imagined…
To be continued…
I'm serious…
Really, I'm not joking this time…
WHY ARE YOU STILL READING?!?!?! IT'S OVER! THE END, ADIOS! COME BACK FOR CHAPTER 10 IN A COUPLE OF DAYS, IT'S OVER!!!!!
But before you leave, I would like to say a few things; I am the youngest of 7, and from what I've seen the oldest don't really get to do that much, but they do get to do stuff for themselves, and I've heard of people that say it's terrible for people to make your older kids take care of the younger ones, and it's not! And second, sorry it took so long for this one; I have been bust all week cleaning the house for my party on Saturday, so I haven't had time for writing, but I am working as fast as I can because I can only write at night and even then I don't have that much time, so please just be patient. And third, please review…
