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Ken didn't leave my side at all until I calmed down. He just stayed sitting next to me rubbing my wrist where my scar was. 'It's scary, you don't want to be evil.' He noted calmly. I just moved so my head was on his lap and closed my eyes. I felt Ken stroke my hair soothingly, muttering soft words to calm me. 'Let me help, please.' He whispered his kindness shining though his voice. I want to let him, but something was stopping me. Well I wouldn't let it; I was strong enough to listen to my own voice and not anyone else's.
'Sorry, that would be problematic.' I gasped as I recognised the voice of that woman from Ken's room and made to sit up. Ken spun me so I was kneeling behind him in the altar as he stood between us. I looked at the woman wearing that strange red outfit with silver hair.
'What do you want?' He hissed coldly his anger evident. I resisted the urge to smile as he protected me yet again. Why did I want him to stop this again?
'Simple, she's causing us problems, we eliminate problems.' The woman said as she shifted into a large spider form. I gasped and moved closer to Ken rather frightened by the change. That was no plain human, but that hadn't been a digivolution.
'Who are you? Are you a Digimon or human?' Ken demanded after he took it in.
'Both actually.' I jumped as another Digimon came up, this one like a mummy and more suited to the environment.
'Not that it's any of your business. Right now you have more pressing issues, like dieing!' The spider said shouting a web at us. Ken moved quickly grabbing me and jumping out of the way of the attack.
'Lalamon, warp Digivolve!' I shouted raising my Digivice. I was startled when nothing happened. 'Huh?' I asked looking to the rather confused Ken.
'Tell me just who do you think came up with the anti-digivolving signal?' The spider lady asked cackling. I gasped as I was caught by some bandages and lifted up away from Ken. He reached trying to grab me but got caught by the spider webs.
'Ken!' I screamed fearfully as I struggled, as much as I could being suspended in mid air like this. Ken gritted his teeth as he was knocked to the ground by more webs capturing his legs. I felt the bandages cover my mouth as I tried to yell even more.
'Be quiet girl. This will all be over soon.' The spider lady said starting to walk over to me. Then she yelped as a familiar laser hit her. Ex-Veemon charged into the room and punched her hard sending her flying. 'Arukenimon!' The Mummy like Digimon yelled. Ken moved so he was kneeling as he pulled of the webbing stuck to his clothes. 'Ken, Sakura!' The Digidestined yelled as they ran into the room. Cody was with them so they'd obviously made a detour. Cody glared at the Mummy like Digimon and pointed. 'Let's show him what happens to people who mess with my sister!' He said coldly. Ankymon immediately charged and started to hit him repeatedly with his tail mace. I felt the bandages holding me dissolve and let out a scream as I fell only to be caught safely by Ken as we fell in heap him taking most of the impact. 'Ken?' I said alarmed moving to see if he was all right. He smiled at me as he sat up so I kissed him firmly from relief. His eyes widened but I pulled away quickly aware of the more pressing concerns.
'Davis!' Ken yelled as we stood up still holding each other. Davis nodded grinning. I caught a flash of light and realised that Wormmon was there and had Digivolved coming up to join Ex-Veemon.
'Ex-Veemon!' Davis said drawing his partner's attention.
'Stingmon.' Ken added looking to his friend. Both Digimon nodded.
'Ready.' They said in unison. Ready for what, I wondered curiously.
'DNA Digivolve!' Ken and Davis shouted raising their Digivices. I watched amazed as the two Digimon went though a digivolution sequence actually merging together. When they were done a new Digimon stood in their place.
'Sakura, meet Paildramon.' Ken said smiling at the huge Digimon with blue and green colouring that looked like a powerful mix of the two.
'Awesome.' I muttered weakly still shocked.
'Let's go, Mummymon!' Arukenimon ordered starting to leave quickly.
'Wait for me dear!' Mummymon said running after her swiftly. We waited until it was clear they were gone before sighing.
'Guys, I…' I started to speak but Ken put his hand over my mouth.
'This wasn't actually real.' He said firmly. I frowned.
'Eh?' I asked batting his hand away.
'We used Talankomon's powers over time to create a place where you could battle the dark spore, like Ken did, and remove it's influence completely. Now you've done that we can go home. No time's passed in the real world.' Cody explained coming up. My eyes widened.
'It, it was all fake?' I asked stunned. They nodded.
'All except Arukenimon and Mummymon, they were real so this had the added advantage of revealing our enemies.' TK noted pleased.
'I, I think I need to lie down.' I admitted leaning against Ken as I tried to take it all in.
'Sure, let's take you home.' Ken said soothingly picking me up into a bridal carry. I smiled and rested my head against his chest content.
'So, I didn't hurt anyone?' I confirmed weakly.
'Not one Digimon.' Kari agreed smiling coming up beside us.
'It turned out that the only way to stop the spore draining your energy was to fully awaken it, turning you evil, and then have you fight of the spore. Izzy's thing about the Digi-Egg was just to throw you off so it would work. If you knew about it their wouldn't be the same effect.' Ken continued the explanation as we walked out into the desert.
'Yeah. We knew that we'd need to cover for the time you were evil so Gennai told us to see Talankomon and create a moment of frozen space where we could spend as much time as necessary. Also everything in that world, except us and Talankomon, wasn't real so no one even knows except a few people.' Yolei added laughing.
'So, that news program and the rest of it?' I demanded frowning.
'All faked.' Ken noted cheerily shifting the hold slightly. I gave him a look saying I could walk but he just kissed my forehead telling me he didn't want me to.
'Still, I'm sorry you guys.' I told them smiling sadly.
'Sakura, you would of died if you hadn't become evil for a bit. I say it's a small, tiny, not worth mentioning, price for us to take.' Davis noted as he came up at Ken's side.
'What about DNA digivolving?' I demanded suddenly remembering what they'd done.
'No, that was real. See while Talankomon was setting up the area we had to stop Ken's old base exploding and we DNA Digivolved then.' Davis filled me in.
'Huh, sounds like I missed a bit even with the Time Lapse.' I noted frowning.
'That's all, nothing to major.' Ken assured me as we stopped by the TV.
'Let's go home, Digiport open.' I said smiling and raising my Digivice.
It took us three seconds to appear in the Hida Dojo. I was startled as I recognised the room though being in Ken's arms limited my view, not that I was complaining. 'Sakura!' I jumped hearing Mira as she ran up and hugged me. I gasped but was glad that I didn't get taken out of Ken's grasp.
'Mum.' I whispered hugging her back. She froze and looked at me with tears in her eyes.
'You, you just…' She stammered shocked. I grinned and nodded.
'Yeah.' That was all I said, and all I needed to say. She let me go and walked away happily.
'Sakura…' I looked up to see the older members of the team standing with concerned looks. I smiled at them as well as Ken set me on the ground.
'Hey guys, miss me?' I asked. Joe shook his head as he came over and hugged me.
'Try not to do that again.' He muttered letting me go and joining the others.
'Okay guys, Sakura's tired so let's let her sleep, all right?' Davis said authoritatively.
'Oh, we didn't tell them.' Tai said realising something.
'Huh? Tell us what?' Us younger ones repeated confused.
'Digidestined Sleepover!' They said merrily as they pointed to a large pile of sleeping bags and other items for the sleepover.
'That's right, you guys have the Dojo for the whole weekend so enjoy.' Mira said laughing while Cody's grandfather nodded.
'Thank you very much.' We chorused grinning.
'Alright, let's split up the space.' Tai and Davis began giving orders as we moved to set up. Everyone laughed as Davis fell over trying to carry too much to 'speed things up'. He laughed too after a bit of a moan and joined in easily. When we were finished it was starting to get late so we decided it was best to just turn in. Ken and me had our bags right next to each other with the zips open turning it into one large one. Turns out that we didn't have a bag for the Digimon so Cody gave them his and joined Ken and me resting on my other side. TK and Kari had copied our arrangement with Tai on Kari's side and Matt doing the same with Sora on TK's. Izzy had managed to fall asleep with his laptop on but Joe turned it off after saying night to Mimi who'd been talking to Izzy wishing she were here. Davis and Yolei had their sleeping bags closed but they were next to each other like the rest of the couples. I fell asleep easily for once not concerned about any nightmares greeting me thanks to the unintentional protection of my friends. Slipping closer to Ken I sighed and let myself drift off, but not before a soft 'I love you' reached my ears making a small smile appear on my face.
What will happen to the Digidestined? What are Arukenimon's plans for hte digidestined? Find out on the next The Possibility of Kindness.