Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Undersea Master ❯ Frozen ( Chapter 5 )

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Frozen



The waves crashed at her feet as Kari ran along the beach. They were following her, and nobody was there to help her. She tripped and landed in the water, then scrambled to her feet and kept running along the shore. They were gaining on her. They were going to take her to Dragomon. They were going to make her their slave and she'd never see her family or T.K. or Yolei ever again. It wasn't fair at all.

Suddenly Kari ran out of room to run. She was at the lighthouse on the point. They were going to corner her so that her only escape would be either to somehow fly or jump into the water. They most certainly wanted the latter to occur, so they could jump in after her and then they would have won. Kari prayed for a miracle, like Nefertimon showing up so she could fly away to safety. But it wasn't happening. They approcahed ever so slowly, making Kari even more nervous... and then...

"AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!"

Gatomon jumped three feet in the air at Kari's scream. Kari was sitting bolt upright in bed, her body dripping with cold sweat, breathing like she'd run a marathon. It was another bad dream.

"Kari? Kari are you okay?" Tai called, running into his sister's room.

Kari shook her head. "It was a dream. Another bad dream..." she whispered.

"You're glowing again," Tai pointed out.

Kari looked down and saw the pink light being emitted from her chest. She clamped her hand over it as her parents came in. Gatomon hid behind Kari's pillows.

"Kari, what happened?" her mother asked.

"I had a bad dream," Kari murmured.

"Another one?" Mr. Kamiya said. "How many is that this week?"

"Four," Tai remembered.

"Will you be okay?" Mrs. Kamiya asked.

"Yeah, I think so," Kari breathed.

Her parents left the room after giving their daughter reassuring hugs and kisses, but Tai stayed behind.

"It was the same thing wasn't it?" he asked.

Kari nodded. "It was so real..."

"It always is, isn't it?" Gatomon commented, curling up on Kari's lap.

"Every time," Kari muttered, scratching the cat Digimon behind her ears. "I can't stand it. Maybe after we defeat Dragomon these dreams will go away and so will my stupid powers."

"And every time you have one of those dreams you start glowing. I don't think the powers will go away Kari," Tai told her. "You've had them for so long I doubt they'll leave. I think you need to learn how to use them to help in saving the Digital World."

"That would be a good idea Tai," Kari said. "But like I've said, I'm not even sure what they are exactly."

"They're obviously very useful, seeing as Digimon want to make you royalty," said Gatomon.

"Mmmhmmm. But that doesn't mean I like it," Kari said.

"It's late," Tai pointed out. "Go back to sleep. I'll see you in the morning."

"Good night Tai."

"'Night Kari."

~*~**~*~

"Today's the day," Kari annouced, walking into the computer room slowly.

"What day?" Davis asked, thinking hopefully, <The day Kari will go out with me?>

"They day we defeat Dragomon," she answered. Davis tried to keep himself from facefaulting, but a sweatdrop would do.

"Defeat him?" Cody repeated. "We've never even fought him before!"

"I know," Kari said. "This'll be the first time, and also the last. Who's with me?"

T.K. gave Kari a funny look that she didn't see. <Why is she so determined all of a sudden? This used to scare her out of her socks! It doesn't matter, I'm with her.> "I am," T.K. said.

"Me too!" Davis chimed in. Yolei and Cody also agreed.

"All right! Digi-port open!" Kari held her pink DigiVice to the computer and was sucked into the Digital World along with T.K. and their respective Digimon.

Davis was fuming. "What? Why couldn't we go?"

"I don't know, but the gate is closed now," Yolei said.

In DigiWorld...

"Um, where's everyone else T.K.?" Kari asked.

"They didn't make it!" T.K. exclaimed. "I wonder why."

"That's weird," Kari said.

"Try using your powers," Patamon suggested.

Kari did, and soon, Davis, Veemon, Yolei, Hawkmon, Cody and Armadillomon were there. "Okay, that's just strange," Kari muttered.

"Um, what's that?" Cody asked.

"What's what?" said Gatomon.

"THAT!"

They all turned around to see the dark figure rising out of the water. There was no mistaking it. It was Dragomon.

"So, Kari, I see you brought some friends," a menacing voice boomed. Dragomon's voice.

"H-h-how do you know my name?" Kari stuttered.

"I know all things," Dragomon said, "like the fact that your friends can't help you!"

"What?" Davis exclaimed. "Of course we can help her! Why can't we?"

"Because you are all useless in comparasion with Kari!" Dragomon yelled. "But I shall allow one of you to try. Kari may select that person."

Kari turned to face her friends. "I-I-I don't know who," she whispered. "You've all got skills that are useful, and I don't know which ones would be effective against him. I don't think I can choose." She stared at her feet.

The others were silent, thoughts running through their heads.

<This is like when Ken made the Bakemon look like them and I had to choose,> Davis thought. <I understand how she feels.>

<She doesn't have to pick me. In fact, I don't want her to pick me,> thought Cody.

<This Dragomon character is ridiculous,> Yolei thought. <This isn't fair!>

<I don't like this... Wait a second... Maybe...> thought T.K.

Kari looked up. "T.K."

"Me?" T.K.'s eyes went wide with surprise.

"Yeah. I don't know. Just... come on, let's go," Kari said. "I might change my mind, so let's go before I do."

T.K. looked at the others. "Wish us luck," he whispered. They nodded.

Kari faced Dragomon again. "I choose T.K.," she called.

"An interesting decision," Dragomon said. "Now those six are no longer needed." There was a flash of light as Yolei, Cody, Davis and their Digimon disappeared. "Are your Digimon prepared for battle?"

"Can we Digivolve?" Gatomon whispered to Kari.

"Patamon can, but you still don't have your tail ring," Kari said.

Gatomon grumbled disappointedly, but Armor Digivolved to Nefertimon.

"Patamon Digivolve to... Angemon!"

Dragomon gasped. <An Angel Digimon? Impossible... but they should still be no match for me.> "All right. Let the battle begin."

Dragomon let out a lash of darkness. They dodged it.

"Hand of Fate!" The golden light plummeted towards Dragomon and fizzled. "What the-" Angemon was stunned.

"Rosetta Stone!" Nefertimon's attack wasn't too effective either.

"Why aren't their attacks working?" Kari cried.

"I don't know," T.K. admitted. "Something's not right... I can feel it..."

"I can feel it too, T.K.," Kari whispered. "We're not going to win this battle, are we?"

As if on cue, Nefertimon was blown back by one of Dragomon's attacks and hit the sand with an unpleasant thud. Immediately the pink light jumped back into Kari's D-Terminal and Nefertimon de-digivolved back to Gatomon.

"Gatomon!" Kari shrieked, and she ran to her Digimon's side.

Dragomon looked at the girl. He could keep fighting Angemon for a while... or he could kill the girl and get everything overwith. That's what he set out to do, wasn't it? Perhaps delaying the inevitable would be a good concept. Like Myotismon had once said, blood tasted better with fear in it... Dragomon had no intention of becoming a vampire anytime soon, but it was always such fun to watch someone scared out of their wits as they perished... He sent another attack Angemon's way and hit the angel pretty badly, although he wasn't hurt badly enough to stop the fight. A well-aimed Hand of Fate knocked Dragomon temporarily off-guard, and the evil Digimon fell over, taking a few seconds to get back on his feet... er, tentacles.

"Good one Angemon!" T.K. called.

This was the last straw for Dragomon. <That little twerp,> he thought. <He'll pay for this. They'll all pay. Every last DigiDestined on Earth!>

~*~**~*~

"This is SO unfair!" Davis whined. "Why do we have to stay here while Kari and T.D. are saving the world?"

"I don't know Davis," Cody said. "Maybe we should contact someone, in case something happens..."

"Like who?" Yolei asked.

"Matt and Tai. It's their siblings in there, they should be here," Cody said.

"I'll go call them," Davis offered, and he ran from the computer room to the phone in the hall, punching in the Kamiya's number.

"Hello?"

"Tai, it's Davis," he said quickly.

"Davis? What's up?"

"Kari and T.K. are in the Digital World battling Dragomon," Davis answered.

"And why aren't you there?"

"That creep Dragomon kicked the rest of us out!" Davis exclaimed. "He said we were no longer needed and we wound up back in the computer room."

"Do you think they'll be okay?"

"I don't know. They haven't e-mailed or anything. We'll try contacting them."

"All right. Do you want me there?"

"I suppose. Cody suggested that you and Matt come," Davis said. "There's not much you can do."

"I'll call Matt and we'll be there soon," Tai told him. "Bye."

"Bye."

Davis walked back to the computer room slowly. "Tai's coming. Although I don't see what he could do."

"We just contacted Kari," Yolei announced. "Gatomon's down, and it seems like Dragomon's getting angry."

"Who's winning?" Davis asked.

"It's going back and forth faster than a ball at one of Sora's tennis games," Cody answered. "Sometimes it's Angemon, other times it's Dragomon. T.K.'s angry because Gatomon and Angemon can't go to ultimate anymore. He says if Angewomon and MagnaAngemon were there, they'd win no problem."

"I wish we could help," Yolei said. "It's not fair."

"I know," Cody sighed.

~*~**~*~

Angemon was on a winning streak. Dragomon was getting beat up pretty badly, but then again, so was the angel Digimon. T.K. and Kari were now sitting on the beach with Gatomon, relaying information about the progressing battle back to the others.

"This isn't going anywhere," Kari sighed. "They're winning and losing an equal amount of times. It could go on forever."

"I'm sure Angemon will win," T.K. said, but there wasn't much in his voice to convince Kari of that. Most likely becuase he wasn't convinced himself.

"I can't take it anymore. I'm outta here," Gatomon said, and leapt up, running far down the beach.

"Gatomon come back!" Kari called. She took off after her Digimon friend.

<Ah, opportunity knocks,> Dragomon thought. He attacked Angemon again, then turned towards Kari. He unleashed an attack towards her. "Tentacle Claw!"

"Kari!" T.K. yelled. He started running towards her.

"What?" Kari looked up to see the attack coming towards her and froze in her tracks. <This is it,> she thought. Everything seemed to go in slow motion.

"Run Kari! Run!" T.K. ordered. But the brown-haired girl didn't move. He kept up his pace as he approached Kari. <Why don't you move?> he thought.

The attack came closer.

"T.K. I can't!" she said.

The attack came closer.

"Try!"

"Help me!"

The attack came closer.

"Kari get moving!" Gatomon said.

"I'm trying I'm trying!"

The attack came closer.

"What's wrong with you?" T.K. yelled.

"My feet won't move!" Kari said. "Help!"

The attack came closer. It was almost there.

"NO!"