Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ DIGIMON: The Pure Darkness ❯ The Goodbye that came too soon! ( Chapter 7 )

AUTHOR'S NOTES:
Heh! Nothing like killing off your own characters on a sunny winter's day…
…I don't have much to say today *lol* Hope you enjoy this chapter I'm off to download the 6th digimon movie :p Oh yeah and that I stol…*cough*… I mean "Borrowed" the episode title from a Martian Successor Nadeisco episode… can't remember which one!!

DIGIMON: The Pure Darkness

LAST EPISODE:

KOUJI: - Takuya became hospitalised with the deadly virus and soon died while I watched by his bedside and things got even worse when I discovered that August, my own roommate had also come down with the same virus that had just killed my best friend. Meanwhile Kouichi was given a proposal by the darkness to kill my friends and I but when he turned it down the darkness took things into it's own hands and possessed Kouichi in order to make him do what it wished...

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Episode Seven: - "The Goodbye that came too soon!"

Kouji slowly opened his blue eyes to the beautiful autumn morning as the sun shone through the small opening in the curtains. At first kouji wondered where he was, then he realized he was in August's room and remembered that he had fallen asleep there the previous night. Gradually he sat up and looked over to where August was sleeping on his left side... she looked so peaceful asleep, like Takuya had been...

Kouji then looked around August's room. Her walls had various posters of anime programmes she liked to watch and had some of the pictures she had drawn all over the place, her imagination and creativity was shown throughout this room...

"To bad she'll never use those talents to her potential" Kouji thought before carefully standing up and quietly walking out of the room so not to wake up his roommate.

He slowly wandered into the kitchen before standing still and glancing around him with a sigh before deciding to make breakfast.

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"What the...?"

August was caught by surprise as she saw what state Kouji was in as she wandered into the kitchen. She had gotten up just twenty minutes after he did and in that time he had made a real mess in the kitchen, there was pancake-mixing dough all over the place and Kouji was just stood still by the cooker staring at the ceiling. August joined him and eventually looked up too, only to find one of the pancakes stuck to the ceiling.

"I flipped it but...it kinda...got stuck..." Kouji told her, not moving his eyes from the pancake. August couldn't help but laugh.

"What am I going to do with you?" she sniggered, which turned into a fit of giggles when the pancake finally fell and landed straight on Kouji's face. "Lemmie help you"

August gently removed the pancake from kouji's face to reveal an embarrassed smile behind it.

"Sorry..." he said. "...this was supposed to be a surprise for you"

"Well it certainly was a surprise" August laughed. "Come on, I'll teach you how to do it and not make a mess"

Kouji nodded, but as he did his mobile rang. Kouji saw that it was Ken so answered it.

"Hi Kouji..." Ken's voice began on the other end. "...Junpei told me about takuya...and August..."

Kouji watched August at the cooker, making a better job of the pancakes than he had. He then turned his back on her before replying to Ken.

"Yeah, I know... it almost...doesn't seem real"

"Yeah..." agreed Ken. "... I am so gonna kick that darkness' ass for both of them" Ken then paused before he continued. "We need to think up some sort of strategy against it..."

Kouji thought for a moment as he watched August again, this time out of the corner of his eye.

"Come over..." he said. "...bring the others and come over here as soon as you can"

"Are you sure?" asked Ken. "What about August?"

"I don't think she'll mind, anyway she doesn't seem all to bad at the moment and I wanna get my revenge on this darkness..."

"Well okay..." Ken sighed. "...I'll phone the others and be around in about twenty minutes"

"Cya then..." Kouji replied before hanging up, he then looked back up at August who now had quite a neat pile of pancakes on a plate beside her.

"I've gotta go somewhere for a few minutes..." he told her. "...Ken and the others will be over soon"

With that Kouji just left the dorm room without another word spoken. August just watched him leave with a confused frown, he seemed so happy a minute ago, why was he all serious now?

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Kouji quickly walked through the college grounds as a bitter cold wind blew around him, but he didn't feel it, he was too deep in thought to feel it.

Soon he had reached the doors of the classroom he had his lessons in, he did have a class this morning but he doubted he would be attending anymore for a while. With that he slowly opened the door and walked in, prompting everyone in the class to look up at him.

"So Mr. Minamoto..." began his English tutor as he adjusted the glasses he wore on his face. "...decided to make an appearance at last"

Kouji just stared at his tutor from the back of the room and even from there he could make out the cold heartless look on his face.

"I won't be attending this class for a while" he told him, his face expression not changing as he did. "My room mate is ill with that virus so I need to be with her"

"First your friend and now your room mate... you sure have had quite a few people come down with this thing"

Kouji's eyes narrowed as his tutor spoke.

"And your point is?"

An evil smirk appeared on his tutors face.

"No point... but if your gonna be away from this class any longer I might aswell not even keep you on this course"

"Fine!" Kouji snapped. "Do what you wish, being with my friends during the last moments of their lives is more important to me than this stupid course"

With that Kouji turned his back on the class and walked out of the door, slamming it closed after he had left. The tutor just murmured something unpleasant about Kouji before picking up his pen and was about to cross kouji's name off the class list when TK stood up.

"Excuse me sir..." he said. The tutor looked up at him then rolled his eyes.

"What is it TK?"

"I know you don't seem to like Kouji much but please...keep his name on that list, I know no matter how much work he misses, he'll try hard to catch up... and I know he will"

The tutor thought for a while, then put his pen down on the table. TK smiled and thanked his English tutor for giving his friend another chance.

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August was lying on the couch flicking through the various channels on the TV when there was a sudden knock at the door. Realizing it must be Ken and the others August got up off the sofa to answer it but when she opened the door all she found was Kouichi behind it.

"Oh hi Kouichi" she said as cheerfully as she could. "Your a little early but come in, everyone else should be here soon"

Kouichi didn't reply, he just walked through the door silently not even acknowledging that August was there and just sat down at the table. August watched him closely, there was something about Kouichi that seem very unsettling to her, but she just ignored it as she closed the door slowly.

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Walking back from the English block of the college Kouji suddenly got a sense that something was wrong, he stood as still as he could not even flinching in the cold strong wind around him and concentrated on this feeling. It seemed to want him to go back to his dorm as quickly as he could, his first thought was of August.

"Damnit!" he muttered harshly as he began to run fast towards his dorm.

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As he burst through the door he saw all his friends surrounding the kitchen table who all looked up at him puzzled at why Kouji seemed in such a panic. Kouji looked at them, then at the sofa where August was sat also looking totally confused at her friend's behaviour.

"Something the matter Kouji?" Junpei asked. Kouji simply calmed down and shook his head.

"No... I'm okay..."

With that he closed the door behind him and walked over to his friends but none of them noticed the sneer on Kouichi's face as the group greeted each other.

"So any of us have any plans on how to defeat this thing?" Ken asked as he folded his arms over his chest.

"Maybe I do..." spoke up Kari, as she stood up from the seat she had been sitting in by Kouichi. Everyone's eyes fell on her as she explained her plan. "What would be the one thing that can get rid of darkness?" The others fell silent as they thought, then Kouji finally replied.

"Light..." he said. "...with Light you can get rid of darkness"

"Exactly" Kari said.

"But how are we going to use this information to our advantage?" Asked Rika who was leaning against the kitchen top. Once again the group fell silent, they all knew that this required a bit more thought. Then their thoughts were directed towards kouichi who suddenly began sniggering under his breath.

"Erm...something wrong?" Kouji asked his brother. Kouichi just narrowed his eyes as he slowly stood up.

"No matter what plan you think up you will not be able to defeat me"

"Er... okay...this is freaky" junpei commented as he backed off.

"Kouichi what are you..." Kouji began, but he broke off when he saw Kouichi's eyes, they were so dark and lifeless. Kouji's own eyes grew large with shock as he realized what was wrong with his brother.

"The darkness..." he snapped. "...It's possessed him!"

Suddenly kouichi lunged for his brother, pinning him up against the wall and drawing out a knife as the others gasped. Kouichi held the knife next to Kouji's neck as he tried to struggle out of kouichi's grip, but the sharp point of the knife against his skin made him stop.

"Kouichi, I know your not doing this..." Kouji begged his brother. "...Just fight it!" Kouichi just sniggered evilly some more as the grip on Kouji tightened.

"No use in calling for your brother... he can't help you" Kouichi moved the knife slightly so it was positioned just under Kouji's neck as he leaned in closer. "I don't know who you are or why you have this affect on me but it will stop NOW!"

Kouji shut his eyes tight as Kouichi got ready to move the knife across his neck, but before he could Rika grabbed the nearest object she could, a frying pan, and ran towards kouichi at full force.

"EAT THIS!!!" she yelled as she brought the frying pan down onto Kouichi's head. Kouichi yelled out in pain as a dark shadow suddenly flew from his mouth and out of the window. He then just collapsed unconscious in his brother's arms. Kouji knelt down, mostly because of the shock from the sudden events and just looked up at his friends with a determined look on his face.

"That's it!" he sneered. "This time it has gone too far... we'll figure out how to destroy it .... nobody kills my friends and turns my own brother against me and gets away with it"

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"Hey... Kouichi?"

Kouichi slowly opened his eyes to see his brother stood over him. He blinked a few times to clear his vision he then sat up in Kouji's bed gradually groaning and holding his head as he did.

"What happened?" he moaned. "Feels like Rika hit me over the head with a frying pan or something"

"She did" Kouji replied as he folded his arms across his chest.

"Oh..."

The two brothers exchanged glances as Kouichi's memories before being possessed by the darkness came back to him, as they did he turned away and looked down at his hands.

"Did ... I hurt anyone?" he finally asked reluctantly. Kouji shook his head.

"No fortunately..."

Kouichi gave out a sigh of relief as he closed his eyes again. Then he heard a harsh coughing coming from the living room, which caught his attention.

"Is takuya here?" he asked kouji. Kouji's eyes suddenly filled with sorrow as he realized Kouichi hadn't been around to hear the news.

"Takuya died..." Kouji replied. "... August is ill now"

"I wish I could do something to help..." Kouichi sighed.

"Me too Kouichi, me too...."

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Later that night after Kouichi had left Kouji was sat up in his bed reading a book, mostly because he couldn't sleep. Too many thoughts about the darkness were going through his head, especially one thing that Kouichi had said while possessed by it.

I don't know who you are or why you have this affect on me but it will stop NOW....

"Affect...?" Kouji muttered to himself. "...what did it mean by that?"

Just then he looked up from the book as he heard August walk past his door to the bathroom, coughing harshly on the way there. Kouji just frowned as he listened to her fumble about in the bathroom, dropping things and cursing to herself. With that kouji threw back his covers and got out of bed. Eventually he reached the bathroom where August was stood in the doorway.

Her condition had rapidly gotten worse over the past few hours, she looked so pale, so tired and weak, just like Takuya had looked before he died. Kouji knew she didn't have much time left but he tried to push it to the back of his mind, he didn't want to think of it.

Just then August stumbled as she tried to walk out of the doorway but managed to stop herself from falling by grabbing hold of the doorframe. Kouji slowly walked up to her as he did he could see the tears rolling down her face and she was shivering all over. Kouji simply held out his hand which August finally grabbed hold of and he led her out of the bathroom doorway. They slowly walked over to the sofa where Kouji sat August down before grabbing the white blanket from the back of it. He sat down beside August and wrapped the blanket around the both of them. August simply just laid her head against Kouji's chest and closed her eyes.

"It'll be warmer like this," he whispered to her. August hummed softly to kouji to tell him she agreed then fell silent before whispering the words "Thankyou" to him. Kouji watched August and decided he'd just stay with her until he was sure she was asleep, but eventually he felt his eye begin to get heavy so he rested his head on top of hers and closed his eyes.

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Some hours later Kouji opened his eyes and realized he had fallen asleep, he looked over to the clock stood on top of the TV and saw that it was about two in the morning. Sighing he looked down at August who was still laid in his arms, looking so peaceful. Carefully he got out from under the blanket and gently laid August down on the sofa but as he did he felt a strange urge to touch her face, but when he did he realized that it felt stone cold. Kouji felt a surge of dread go through him as he began checking August over for any signs of life...

...but there were none.

Kouji sat back as he looked at August in shock; he then gently lifted the blanket over her head and closed his eyes as he bowed his head in respect for his friend.

"Goodbye..."

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NEXT EPISODE -

JUNPEI - As we are all in shock over August's death but it doesn't hit us as hard as it hits Kouji, who suddenly delves into a pit of depression over the deaths of his two friends. In an attempt to help him out of it we all take him to the annual winter festival held around the college, but a surprise visit from the darkness doesn't help when it possess someone there. Ken tries to help by becoming HueStingmon but something goes wrong and HueStingmon goes out of control...

...next time it's "Tragedy at the winter festival!" Keep reading! ;)