"City Under Siege"

Here is the next chapter. It might be a little short, sorry. Please enjoy and review.

I was laying down to rest up so my energy would return to me after using my Crest to do the healing on Kaitoumon.

Man, who would've thought it would drain me like that?

"Poor, Agumon. You're always getting beat up." Kari said as she helped him by bandaging the dino's paw.

"There, how does that feel?" she asked.

"You're getting good at this." Agumon said as she laughed.

"No way!" Tai's exclamation made us all look over.

"Way. It's true. I saw the whole thing." Matt said.

"That creepazoid. He's cut off the whole entire district." Tai said.

"Mm-hmm. It's that crazy fog bank of his." Matt said.

"This is insane. Holding thousands of people prisoner just so he can find the Ninth Child." Tai said.

"And there's no telling what he'll do if he doesn't find her." Matt said.

Guys, shut up.

You're making Kari feel guilty about what's going on.

Knowing her, she'll give herself up just to save all those innocents.

Tai kicked a can in his anger before he sat down on a bench.

"This is all my fault, isn't it?" Kari asked softly making the two males gasp as they looked over at her.

"It's all happening because he's looking for me, right? Um, that's why Mom and Dad and everybody are-"

"Now don't say that. It's not your fault." Tai said walking over and placing his hands on her shoulders with a small smile.

"It's just the way things are. It's called destiny." He said.

"And it sucks." I called over to them.

"Don't you worry. I'm gonna bring Mom and Dad home safe and sound and your little buddy Gatomon too." Tai chuckled trying to lift the tense mood.

"Hey, Matt. Do me a favour and look after the girls till I get back." My brother said.

"Uh, sure. No problem." Matt said unsure as he came over.

"Kari, I need you to be a big, strong girl for me while I'm away. Do it for Daisuke, too, OK?" our brother asked.

"OK. Please be careful." Kari said as I struggled to get up from the floor, V-Mon picking me up and walking over with me on his back.

"Yeah, don't do anything stupid. I already did that." I said with a tired smile.

"Hey, aren't I always?" Tai asked giving a thumbs up as his digivice started beeping.

"OK, it's 7:30 am. Give me two hours. If we don't make it back by then, you guys get out of here. Let's go, Agumon!" Tai said.

"OK!" the dino said.

"Be careful, man!" Matt called.

"Wait! I'm coming too. I'm not letting you get yourself killed just to make Daisuke worry even more." Kaitoumon said as he flew after them.

"See ya soon! Everything's gonna be all right!" Tai before he tripped and fell down the stairs, Agumon following while Kaitoumon sighed in exasperation.

Our heroes.

"I hope so." Kari said.

"I swear, if they die, I'll kill them." I muttered as V-Mon set me back down.

"How about cha try and get some more sleep first?" he asked.

"He's right. You're going to need it to make V-Mon digivolve when the battle starts." Gabumon said.

I nodded as my eyes slid closed, getting lost in the darkness of my dreams.

Sadly, the nightmares came back, but there were also these three angels in my dreams, two of them I knew as Angemon and V-Dragomon.

But who was this female angel that fought alongside them.

"Wizardmon, huh? Is that your digimon's name?" the child of Friendship's voice woke me up.

"No, no. mine is Gatomon. Wizardmon is like her best friend, but he's gone now. He got captured by the bad digimon. It must be awful losing your best friend. Our mommy got captured by them, too. But not our daddy! Do you think maybe my daddy got away?" Kari asked as my eyes fluttered open to see my sister standing next to Matt with a hopeful look.

"He's all right, don't you think? And Mommy will be too 'cause Tai's gonna rescue her, right?" she asked.

"Uh, sure he will, Kari. But let's remember, Tai's just one kid and he's fighting hundreds." Matt said.

Oh no.

You idiot. See, I knew he wasn't mature enough to deal with girls that are upset.

Kari just started crying loudly make V-Mon jump over to her side.

"I want Mommy to come back!" she cried.

"Nice work." Gabumon commented sarcastically.

"Do it with compassion. Can't you see she's worried about her family? You're worried about yours, aren't you?" the canine/lizard asked.

"Ah, calm down. I'm sure Dai had a vision about your parents and they're perfectly fine. So is Tai. He has Agumon and Kaitoumon there to help him out, remember?" my dragon said rubbing her back.

Kari's sobbing died down to sniffling while I stood up from the bench I was sleeping on and walked over to them feeling back to normal.

Matt looked over at me, seeming a bit worried.

Good reason to be too.

I kicked his leg, making him yelp as I went over to my sister.

"Ya had that coming." V-Mon said as Gabumon nodded.

"Dai?" Kari asked looking at me with her cherry eyes.

"I didn't have a vision about Momma and Dad, but I did see angels." I said.

"Angels?" Kari asked surprised.

"You mean Angemon? Did you see TK, too?" Matt asked getting over his pain as worry for his brother took over.

"Nuh-uh. But I know he's fine. I can feel it. The Crests of Hope, Light and Miracles are connected to each other. If something was wrong with TK, I'd feel it." I said holding my Crest with a smile.

I gasped when I felt one of the Crests reacting and saw a vision of Joe drowning, along with a new digimon saving him called Zudomon.

Way to go, Joe.

Matt's digivice beeped, signaling the two hours were now up.

"Your brother should've been back by now. Where is he?" he asked.

"Hey, is anybody there?" someone called.

We all gasped and looked over to see that Birdramon was swooping down with Sora and Lillymon.

"Sora! What's up?" Matt asked as we ran out.

"Matt! Dai! Thank goodness. Myotismon's rounded up the whole district. He's holding everybody at the convention center." The child of Love said.

"So what do we do now?" Matt asked.

"I have a suggestion." Someone said making us all tense up as Kari and I clung to each other.

Up on top of one of the buildings was Phantomon.

He must've followed Sora here.

"You see, I've never understood why the Master's wasting all his time searching for the Ninth Child, but it would be so much easier just to…destroy you all." Phantomon said.

The ground shook and a large green dinosaur with black and red horns burst from the ground.

"Say hello to Tuskmon and watch out. Avoiding his razor sharp horns is no easy tusk. Sorry." The phantom said laughing at his own pun.

"Here's the second member of our tag team." He said as the sky swirled and a large green bug digimon with sickles for hands appeared.

"Snimon, a deadly praying mantis digimon. Which is so appropriate because…you're all about to become his pray." Phantomon said as the two green freaks stood in front of us ready for battle.

"Watch out!" Sora yelled.

"Gabumon!" Matt cried.

"V-Mon, you too!" I yelled.

.Gabumon digivolve too…GARURUMON!"

"V-Mon digivolve too…XV-MON!"

"Don't worry, we can take these guys." Birddramon said as she flew up to Snimon while Garurumon pounced on Tuskmon.

XV-Mon went after Phantomon, the fighting between all of the six digimon getting pretty bad as Kari's nails started digging into my arm, her worry and guilt building up.

"Hey, you're going the wrong way." Matt called as Garurumon was punched by Tuskmon and was sent flying over the ware house we were in and landed in the lake.

Phantomon slashed his syth at XV-Mon, making him cry out in pain as the phantom threw out his chain and wrapped it around Matt's neck, trying to slash at him with his syth next.

"Get back!" Sora yelled as she picked up a long stick and ran at the phantom to help Matt out.

Phantomon used his syth to break the stick and send the orange haired girl flying back over to where the injured Lillymon was.

"Birdramon digivolve too…GARUDAMON!"

Garudamon went after Snimon, but was hit by his Twin Sickles and was sent back into the wall of the ware house, Kari watching this all with sad eyes.

"Kind of chokes you up, doesn't it?' Phatomon joked as he tightened his hold on the chain around Matt's neck.

XV-Mon came in and punched Tuskmon, the two going to the ground to wrestle.

"Stop it now!" Kari yelled.

"Hikari, don't you dare do what I think you're gonna do!" I said holding onto her arm tightly as tears filled my eyes.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" she yelled ignoring me.

She shook me off of her and walked over to Phantomon.

"It's me you want. I'm the Ninth Child. If you just stop hurting my friends, I'll come with you quietly. Wherever you want." She said.

"No!" I cried.

"What a refreshingly helpful attitude. It's a deal." Phantomon said as Snimon and Tuskmon got off of Garudamon and XV-Mon.

The chain around Matt's neck was gone, making him drop to his knees as he tried to get his breath back and Garurumon came back over after he got out of the water.

"I'm ready." Kari said as an orb appeared around her.

"Hurry, Matt! Stop her!" Sora cried as she held Lillymon.

"No, Kari! You don't know what you're doing!" Matt yelled as the orb was lifted into the air.

"KARI!" I yelled running after the orb with tears streaming down my face.

"Oh, no, Matt. What're we gonna do?" Sora asked.

"I don't know. Tai is gonna be so mad at me." Matt said.

Imagine how I must feel.

"BIG SISTER!" I yelled as the orb kept floating up to where Phantomon was waiting on her and my Crest glowed.

"XV-Mon digivolve too…V-DRAGOMON!"

V-Dragomon took to the air, pulling out his sword as he did so.

Phatomon waved his syth and Snimon came back out, cutting off my angel's path to my sister.

"I don't have the time for this!" V-Dragomon called out as he swung his sword at Snimon.

The bug was cut down in half and was turned into data, but Phantomon had already disappeared with Kari.

My legs lost all feeling and I dropped down to the ground, crying long and hard at losing my big sister.

To be continued…