Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Undersea Master ❯ Fighting Darkness ( Chapter 6 )

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Fighting Darkness


Kari blinked her eyes open slowly and stared at the surface in front of her face. Sand. There was a heavy weight on top of her and she couldn't distinguish what it was. Her head was throbbing and there were lots of loud noises going on around her. She couldn't recall the past hour at all; the only memory was the impact of Dragomon's Tentacle Claw and then feebly telling Gatomon to "use the new Digi-Egg... Digi Armour Energize..." before passing out.

Turning her head to the right, she saw a familiar hat--T.K.'s. She murmured his name a few times, getting no response. Summoning a bit of strength, she moved the hat away and saw T.K.'s unconscious face. It was him that kept her from getting up. "T.K.," she said, trying to wake him up. "T.K., get up. Come on, T.K., we have to go." Kari shook his shoulder gently, but he remained unconscious. She winced in fear... fear for herself... for T.K.... of what was going on behind and above her. She had no indication of the severity of this battle, but somehow...

Kari managed to slide herself out from underneath T.K., slowly stood and saw how badly he was injured. Almost his entire back was stained red from some heavy impact, several gashes were flowing freely with blood, and his left arm was bent at a strange angle. "Oh God..." she gasped. But there was nothing much she could do.

She glanced at where the battle should have been raging... and saw nothing. "What the..." Ignoring the throbbing in her chest, she started walking to where the water meets sand, but was stopped by some invisible force. It was like a wall--Kari could beat her hand against it and knew it was there--yet it seemed to block out the sights and let in the sounds. This was agonizing to the girl.

Sighing dejectedly, Kari walked back to where T.K. still lay and dropped to her knees, pulling his head into her lap. If she couldn't help out there, she'd try to help in here. Kari brushed the blonde hair back from T.K.'s face and held her hand over a wound there. She didn't want to move his arm--it was most likely broken--so Kari sat there, holding T.K., as she waited for something, anything, to happen.

After half an hour--which seemed like days--T.K. slowly woke up. "Wha? Kari?" he murmured softly, seeing the sad face above him as he opened his eyes. "Are you okay?"

"Yes, T.K.," Kari said, smiling now that he was awake. T.K. tried to sit up, but Kari gently pushed him back down. "No, don't try to move. I think you broke your arm. Stay still."

"Where's the battle?" T.K. asked.

"Out there," Kari replied, explaining about the wall. "I don't like it."

"Me neither..."

"T.K., what happened? Did anything happen to us or our Digimon that I should know about?" asked Kari. T.K. didn't say anything. "Please T.K.. I need to know."

T.K. bit his lower lip thoughtfully. "I couldn't get to you in time when Dragomon attacked..."

--Flashback, T.K. telling the story to Kari in *stars*.--

"NO!" *That was me, as the Tentacle Claw hit you. I was so scared. This huge light covered you and I couldn't see anything. Then it faded out and you were just lying on the sand.*

T.K. skidded onto his knees at Kari's side. "Kari! Kari, get up! He's gonna attack again! KARI!" He shook Kari gently. Amazingly the attack hadn't done much but render the girl almost unconscious. *Maybe it was the light or something, but you were completely fine... but you weren't talking to me. Gatomon came over and you talked a little to her.*

"Gatomon... use the new Digi-Egg... Digi Armour Energize..." and then she passed out.

"Kari! Kari, wake up! Please get up!" T.K. pleaded. But he was distracted by Gatomon's new Digivolution.

"Gatomon... Armour Digivolve to...

"Spectermon."

*By using the Digi-Egg of Peace, Gatomon to Armour Digivolved to Spectermon, and somehow she transferred some of her power to Angemon so he could Digivolve to MagnaAngemon. It was pretty cool watching it happen. Then they went back to the battle.*

"Tentacle Claw!"

"Divine Strike!" Spectermon's attack overtook Dragomon's and he recoiled slightly. One of his tentacles lashed out at MagnaAngemon, who stopped it using the beam sword on his hand. They battled for a while, until...

*Dragomon somehow began winning. It was strange--two ultimates losing against one. Anyhow, he went to attack us again...*

"Tentacle Claw!" The attack sped towards T.K., who was carefully guarding Kari. Spectermon and MagnaAngemon tried to stop it, but the attack was moving too fast. T.K. didn't notice it until it was too late.

As it hit, T.K. fell at an odd angle, landing on his left arm--hard. Because of his desire to keep Kari safe, his body shielded her from any more attacks. T.K. soon fell unconscious.

--End Flashback--

"...and that's all I remember," T.K. finished. "Are you sure you're okay? I mean, look what happened to me."

"I'm fine T.K.," Kari assured him again.

T.K. closed his eyes and looked thoughtful for a while. "Where's my hat?" he finally asked.

Kari laughed gently and picked up his hat. "Right here. I'm gonna contact the others back home," she said, taking out her D-Terminal.

~*~**~*~

Beep! New Mail!

"Wha?" Yolei was awoken from her near-sleep at the computer. "Hey! Mail!"

"Finally," Davis said. "What's it say?"

"'Hey guys, it's Kari. I can't see the battle right now because there's this weird wall thing around T.K. and I, but we can hear it. We're both okay, except I think T.K.'s arm is broken. It's a long story. I don't know if we can leave, but I'll figure out something. Kari,'" Yolei read.

"At least they're alive," Cody said.

"Let me write back," said Tai. He'd arrived long ago, and hadn't done anything except pace the room like a caged tiger. Yolei moved away and Tai leapt at the computer and typed frantically.

~*~**~*~

"Hey, T.K., Tai's there," Kari announced, receiving her brother's mail. "He's really worried... I want out of here."

"'Course you do," T.K. said. "Me too."

"Hold on a sec. I'm gonna try something." Kari closed her eyes and concentrated on being outside the wall.

Minutes passed, until T.K. sat up and interrupted with, "Kari, it's not working." The atmosphere in the room darkened slightly, but they didn't notice.

Kari sighed. "This is hopeless..." This time the darkness was more noticable.

"Kari, did it just get darker in here?" T.K. asked.

"I think so."

"Hmmm... either way Kari, it's not hopeless. You've got me with you," T.K. said, grinning cockily. The darkness lifted a bit.

"It just got brighter," she pointed out. "What is that?"

"Clouds maybe?" T.K. suggested. "I don't know."

"I don't like it..." Kari trailed off, continuing to concentrate on being outside. Then she started getting mad. "I don't like any of this. I can't stand it anymore! I am sick and tired of being special and having these ridiculous powers! Sometimes I wish I wasn't a DigiDestined!"

Suddenly it went pitch-black, and Kari stopped. "T.K.... you're still here aren't you?"

"I haven't moved," T.K. assured her, reaching for Kari with his good arm.

"Ow! That's my eye!"

"Sorry Kari. Where's your hand?" he asked, groping around in the darkness.

"Right here," Kari answered, finding T.K.'s hand and gripping it in her own. "The darkness is reacting to our feelings," she proclaimed.

"What?"

"When I said it was hopeless, it darkened. So if we lose hope, the darkness closes in," Kari explained.

"That sounds right to me," T.K. said. "But remember there's always light Kari. Concentrate on it. I will too."

"Okay," whispered Kari. She felt the glimmer of light left in the room and visualized it getting larger...

~*~**~*~

"Woah! They disappeared!" Davis exclaimed.

"Huh? How do they just vanish?" Tai yelled.

"Tai, keep it down," Yolei warned. "The area they're in just went black."

"Like when there was a control spire," Cody said, "but I don't think that's possible."

"Strange... I'll try e-mailing them," said Yolei. "Hey, it won't go through!"

Tai pounded his fist on the desk. "It has to! I have to know if she's okay!"

"They will be Tai, calm down," Cody said.

"No they won't! As long as I don't know, I have to assume the worst!"

~*~**~*~

"T.K., I think it's working!" A grin lit up Kari's face.

"All right!" T.K. exclaimed. "Let's keep it up, come on."

The two continued to focus on the light, think about home and talk about everything but any sort of impending doom.

"Hey, it stopped," Kari noticed.

"What? How come?" T.K. asked.

"I don't know."

~*~**~*~

"The e-mail finally went through," announced Yolei.

"Hey, the space is lighter now," Davis commented. "I wonder what that means."

~*~**~*~

"Uh-oh. Tai's getting frustrated," Kari read. "Yolei says that the space we're in just went dark, but now it's lighter. T.K., maybe their thoughts are involved too!"

"Then tell them! We're gonna get out of here Kari," he said. "We're gonna get outta here. We have to. I have basketball practice tomorrow."

Kari laughed. "With that arm? Not for a while. There's another reason to get out -- you need your arm checked."

"Let's think of a reason to give my parents," T.K. suggested. "How about... 'I was attacked by an evil monster from another world'?"

"No, I don't think they'll buy that. Maybe, 'I was running from an evil monster from another world and I tripped'?"

"That sounds a little more believeable," T.K. grinned, "but I think the evil monster part should go..."

They spent quite a while thinking up excuses. In the end, Kari and T.K. decided that perhaps they'd believe, "I was hanging on the jungle gym and fell off." Their lighthearted talk made the room completely light again, and soon...

"The wall's gone," T.K. noticed with worry.

"But we're winning!" Kari exclaimed, jumping to her feet.

She was right. MagnaAngemon and Spectermon were delivering most of the hits and taking few of them.

Kari took a moment to study her Digimon's new form. Spectermon was surrounded by a continuous aura of gold and rose-coloured light, which seemed to mask whatever physical form she had taken on. Kari could faintly make out the lines of a face and arms, but other than that, Spectermon was just that: a specter, a spirit, more of a ghost than anything else. But the power! The Digimon Analyzer described her as an incredibly rare Digimon, thought to have disappeared from the Digital World thousands of years ago. Her attacks were Divine Strike and Pious Storm. Divine Strike consisted of a repeated lashing with a beam of pink light. Pious Storm was a thunderous wind howling with angry spirits.

"Divine Strike!" Spectermon impaled one of Dragomon's tentacles with her attack and he let out a howl.

MagnaAngemon snuck up behind Dragomon. "Gate of Destiny," he said in his set tone.

"Pious Storm!" Spectermon announced. Kari and T.K. covered their ears as the attack shrieked through. Ghostly faces filled the air as they swirled towards Dragomon. Pallid arms extended towards him.

"No! Get away!" Dragomon called. For a single moment, Dragomon realized something: He was afraid. "Tentacle Flapping!" The attack was useless against the Pious Storm, and the spirits in the wind latched onto Dragomon's tentacles and head. "You can't win DigiDestined!" Dragomon shouted, wanting to make his last words stick in their heads. "There is a power out there greater than I, and that you shall not defeat!" His words faded out as the spirits dragged him into the Gate of Destiny, which promptly closed and dissolved. He was gone.

"Kari? Are you okay?" T.K. asked, coming to her and resting a hand on her shoulder.

Kari stared straight ahead to where Dragomon had been, and whispered, "He's gone... gone... we won... T.K. we won!" She shouted the last line gleefully, turning around and hugging T.K.. "We won!"

"I'm right here, no need to yell," T.K. told her, smiling. He put his unhurt arm around Kari. "Think we can go home now?"

Kari nodded, then looked to the ground. "Hey, Salamon, haven't seen you in a while," she said, kneeling down and picking up the Digimon. "You were amazing!"

"I was, wasn't I?" Salamon joked.

T.K. picked up Tokomon. "Great fight Tokomon," he said. "Kari? Home?"

Kari grinned. "Oh yeah. Home would be great." And she closed her eyes, concentrated, and...

"They're back!" Davis exclaimed.

"What? Kari! Kari, are you okay? What happened?" Tai morphed into OverProtective Big Brother mode and barraged Kari with questions.

"Tai, I'm okay," Kari assured him. "T.K.'s not. He has to go to the hospital. His arm might be broken."

T.K. winced. He hated hospitals, so tried to change the subject. "Gatomon has a new form," he announced.

"Oooh, what is it?" Yolei asked.

"Spectermon," Kari answered. "All she looked like was, well, light. But she's quite powerful."

"So is this whole thing over?" asked Cody.

"I certainly hope so," Kari sighed, staring into space, knowing it probably wasn't.