Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Vacation-Gone-Wrong ❯ Chapter 2/8 ( Chapter 2 )

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Vacation-Gone-Wrong

By: Hopeful Writer

Chapter 2

TK let out a loud moan, cracking his pencil in half. He heard someone groan out in the front room. "Oops," he whispered. "Better go see what that was about."

TK left his story ideas on the desk and went to see what had happened. He reached the front room to see Yolei and Kevin up from their sleeping bags. 'Where'd they go?' he thought, especially worried about his little brother.

Then a toilet flushed and the youngest blond came out of the bathroom, rubbing his eyes sleepily. "I hope you washed those hands," TK teased, a feeling of relief flooding him, though he wasn't sure why.

"I did. How come you're still awake, TK?"

"I've been writing. Did you see Yolei anywhere?"

Kevin shook his head. "I didn't look. I was too tired."

"Just be glad this cabin's got running water. In the old days, you would have had to go outside."

"I would have held it." The brothers shared a laugh.

Tai snorted in his sleep. "Go back to bed," TK suggested, lowering his voice so as not to wake the sleeping figures. "I'll go find Yolei."

"Okay. Good night, TK."

"Night, Kevin." He kissed the little boy's forehead quickly before leaving in search of his missing friend.

TK shivered slightly. 'This place is creepy,' he realized. 'At least, in the dark it's creepy.'

He made his way into the kitchen, thankful for the electricity in the cabin. It had been modernized since its ancient days. Then he saw Yolei, lying face down on the table, a cup of water next to her. TK smirked. 'She must have fallen asleep getting a drink.' "Wake up, Yolei," he whispered, trying not to wake his sleeping friends. When that didn't work, he shook her gently, then roughly. A warm liquid touched his hands, and he pulled them back, half-expecting to find drool on them. But a dark red substance was not what he had in mind.

"Ah!" he shrieked, not caring who he woke. Fortunately (or unfortunately), most of his friends were heavy sleepers.

"TK? What's the matter?" a quiet female voice wondered.

"Kari!" he cried. If this was scaring him, he didn't want to see the effects on Kari. "Stay out there!"

But Kari didn't listen to him, as usual. "What's the matter?" she began in a joking tone, as she entered the kitchen. "See a mouse?" Then she froze upon seeing Yolei's limp body and the dark red liquid on TK's hand.

"I told you not to come in," TK growled, trying to hide his hand from Kari's view, knocking Yolei as he did so.

She was shoved backwards, the chair tipping over, landing Yolei on her back, her head resting on the floor. TK and Kari both let out screams, and Kari swayed. Yolei's throat was slit, blood soaking the skin, a gap wide enough to see the fleshy innards of her neck. Her mouth was agape, her tongue lolling out like a dog's. But it was the eyes that were the worst. They were open and unfocused, but the younger kids could detect emotion in them: pain, panic, and surprise, as well as horror.

"Oh, God. Oh, God," Kari gasped, her face white in fear.

TK gathered her into his arms as they mourned the loss of their friend. "We have to tell the others. They'll know what to do."

"We should leave Cody and Kevin out of this. They're too young for this," Kari remarked, shaking violently.

But TK shook his head. "No matter how young they are, they need to know there's a murderer among us."

Kari burst into fresh tears. "Are you sure it wasn't suicide?"

TK gave her a rather reproachful look. "Look at her eyes, Kari. Was it suicide?"

"No," she whispered weakly. "Yolei's really dead. She was really murdered. Oh, God. What if the murderer strikes again?"

"Oh, God."

Suddenly a tiny scream was heard from the front room. Kevin was shaking badly as Kari and TK ran into the room. Kari cradled the little boy gently, while TK prodded him for answers. "What's the matter, Kevin?" he demanded.

"I had... had... a nightmare," he stammered. "These big monsters were going to attack me. Then an angel tried to save me, but while he was fighting some of the monsters, the rest attacked me again. They were about to kill me!" he wailed, not caring who he woke up.

TK nearly fainted with relief. "The angel would have found a way to save you, Kevin."

"Go back to sleep, guys," a very tired Davis grumbled.

"Wake up," TK ordered. "We need to tell you something."

"If this is about your love life, I'll kill you, TK."

TK drew a breath quickly. 'Wrong choice of words, Davis,' he thought grimly. 'No, I'm just being paranoid.' "Get up," he repeated stoutly.

Kari began to wake the others up, her voice quavering slightly as she spoke to them. When all the people were awake (or partially awake), TK drew another, much deeper, breath. "Okay," he began nervously. "We have a problem."

Tai already sensed how TK was going to announce the issue, though he had no idea what the issue was. "Don't talk in circles, TK," he commented, studying the pale face intently.

TK sighed. "Okay, okay. Yolei's been murdered."

Sora burst into tears, as did Kari (again). Davis's eyes widened considerably, and the blood drained from his face. Tai and Matt looked at each other with identical faces of pain, for both had yelled at the girl only hours before her untimely death. Kevin sucked in air and held it, his eyes wide, glimmering with unshed tears. He didn't know Yolei as well as the others, but he felt the pain nevertheless. Cody looked the most affected. He was crying, but his eyes were dull. He seemed to be in shock. He body quivered as chills ran up and down his back. Finally he croaked, "Yolei." And that was the last word he said.

*END*

A/N - There will be another chapter.