Post by Mistress Fangs on Jul 18, 2008 12:44:56 GMT -6
Medallion of Reliability and Crest of Loneliness
Amanda
Last time, we found out that Christina’s medallion and crest were upgraded into evil copies. We knocked her out and that’s when I disappeared! I hope they can find me and help save Christina before something happens!
I struggled to break free of the chains that were keeping me strapped onto a wall but it was no use. Piedmon entered, a gleeful smile was seen on his face.
“Well, I have the Keeper of Serenity kept in the castle while I have the life of the Keeper of Loneliness in my grasp.” Piedmon replied.
“They will find me and we will help my friend!” I spat.
“It seems that you’ll never lose hope, unless I kill your friend by destroying her crest and medallion. Only Christina is bonded to her crest and medallion so if I destroy the real copies, I’ll destroy her as well.” Piedmon whispered then started to laugh.
He walked off and I stopped struggling to break the chains. I hope the others will find me soon so I can get my hands on his throat, I thought.
Christina
I was lying on the forest floor, weak as an in-training Digimon. My powers were sucked out of me and I was having hard time breathing and I was close to being paralyzed. The others went out in search of Amanda and my real crest and medallion. I needed to contact them to let them know that I’m in bad condition.
I faced my communicator up to my face and told the communicator to get all of the digidestined to reply to the message I was sending.
“Digidestined, I know you are either out searching or you’re out there somewhere, I just wanna say that I am not doing well. I lost my powers and I am close to being paralyzed. I hope that you do find my crest and medallion because I can’t hold on much longer. I have only like 3 days to live and I know it’ll take much less time to find my crest and medallion.” I said as I sent my message and I fell to the ground.
Alie
I was with the group looking for Amanda when our communicators beeped. They delivered a message from Christina and they stopped beeping after the message was done with.
“We really need to hurry up.” Kari replied.
“I’m up here!” a voice shouted.
We looked up and saw Amanda waving from the top window of a castle tower.
Gatomon digivolve to… Angewomon!
“Jump and I’ll catch you!” Angewomon shouted as she went over to the tower. Kari’s Gatomon also went with my Gatomon to catch Amanda. Amanda jumped and landed in the arms of Angewomon (both).
“Thank you for coming but we really need to find the others.” Amanda replied quickly using her communicator to locate them and she disappeared. We followed her.
We landed on top of the others while they were walking.
“You can get off now!” Yolei replied.
We all jumped off of the group and went searching for Christina’s crest and medallion. Meanwhile, Piedmon laughed as he tightened his grip on the crest and medallion.
Falconmon flinched as they walked in the hallways and then she collapsed.
“Falconmon! You all right?” I asked.
“I feel Piedmon beginning to destroy Christina’s crest and medallion!” She gasped.
“Alie, we’ll go faster if you and I go up to the tower and distract Piedmon so that they can get the crest and medallion.” Silver Falcon replied.
We went up to the tower door and Silver Falcon and I went through the door while the rest just crept in and camouflaged themselves.
“Well, isn’t it the Keeper of Faith. Did you come here to get the crest and medallion for your friend?” Piedmon asked.
“No, we are here to see if we can join you.” Silver Falcon said looking at me to see if I agreed of this. I nodded.
“Oh really? Well if your gonna join me then I suggest you take the crest and medallion and destroy it when you get close to Christina.” Piedmon said as Purple Unicorn made him say the last part of what he was saying.
“Ok, thank you Piedmon. We won’t let you down!” I shouted as I took the 2 items and ran out of the door with the others.
We ran all the way outside and rode on Megakabuterimon’s back. We all laughed as we flew towards Christina.
“I can’t believe he fell for it!” Cody replied happily as we landed.
“I can’t believe it either but at least we got the crest and medallion back safe and sound.” Izzy said as he walked into the forest.
We all walked until we came to a clearing where Christina layed. I took out the crest and medallion and layed it down beside her. Matt looked at her and then his crest glowed a bright blue as Christina’s crest glowed gold. The 2 colors combined and made a beam that had Christina in it. The beam disappeared as Christina began to wake up. As she was waking up, Matt hugged her tightly.
“Your alive!” He whispered as he gently gave her a kiss on her forehead.
“I was never dead.” Christina replied weakly.
Christina tried to stand up but had a hard time. Matt helped her up and she used him to keep her up.
“I think that Piedmon did some damage to your crest and medallion, Christina.” Izzy replied looking at her crest and medallion.
“My legs just won’t let me stand up.” Christina said weakly.
“That would be a side effect then.” Joe said, “Would you please come over here?”
Matt helped Christina over to Joe and Joe layed her down beside a tree and propped her up against the tree.
“I am going to examine her to see if something is wrong so please steer clear if you wish not to see her insides.” Joe advised as we all walked off.
Joe
After the others went off, I opened my bag and started to search through it.
“So Joe, you’re going to open my leg up and see if anything is wrong with my leg right?” Christina asked me.
“Yes, that is exactly what I was planning.” I said smiling.
“Oh, well I hope you do a good job of finding out what went wrong.” Christina replied as she rested her head against the trunk and fell asleep.
I looked at her before going on to what I am suppose to do. She really looked like an angel and her voice was so much like an angel that I almost thought she actually was the digidestined’s guardian angel.
After I opened up her leg, I bent in low enough for me to see in her leg. Of course it was a mangle of muscle, bone, nerves, and many other particles when I saw what was wrong. Her bone was almost completely split, only a millimeter was left holding up the bone. I knew that the same thing was happening to her other leg. I sewed it back up and went to the group.
“Welcome Joe!” Mimi said.
“I was examining Christina’s leg and I finally found out what was wrong, only a millimeter of bone is left holding up the bone. If something were to break that piece of bone, her foot would still be attached but it will be limp.” I explained.
Mimi put her hand to her mouth as Alie and the rest just stared at me. I knew they couldn’t believe it but I was the only one beside of Christina who took medical classes.
“Are you kidding us?” Cody replied.
“No, I’m afraid that what I said is true unless you want to look for yourselves.” I said.
Cody looked at me in disgust then shut up.
“Now, I am planning to take her to our world so real doctors can handle this.” I said.
“I’ll go with you Joe.” Matt said looking into my eye.
“Anyone else?” I asked looking around.
No one else raised his or her hands. I looked disappointed and motioned for Matt to come with me.
“We need to use a lot of our strength to lift her since no one else is coming with us.” I said just as Kari and Alie came over the hill.
“We’ll come to.” Kari gasped.
I smiled as I woke Christina up. She woke up and smiled up at me.
“Christina, we are going to carry you back to the real world and take you to a hospital ok?” I asked her. She nodded.
Matt, Kari, Alie, and I picked Christina up as Gatomon used Alie’s D3 to open the gate. As we got back, we called an ambulance and watched as Christina was taken away.
“Alright, let’s go back.” Kari said as she opened the gate.
Once again, we were zipped back to the digital world.
“Is she in the hospital?” TK asked.
“She is on her way.” Alie responded.
“Think she’ll be ok?” Golden Eagle asked worriedly.
“She’ll be fine.” I replied.
Matt
I sat down on the ground and placed my hands on the ground only to find a rose. I looked at it and smiled, the Guardian of Nature must be at work. I felt tears fall down my cheeks as I heard the one song that Christina first sang for our school Christmas concert.
Feel the magic in the air
Christmas is all around
It’s something about this special time of year
A blanket of snow falls
Down from the sky
Voices of angels
Open our hearts so we can open our arms
And we’ll all join hands to celebrate the goodness
That shines inside of everyone
I must have been a part of some grand design
Guess it’s Christmas time
See the face of the little boys and girls
Singing their first noel
A sweet refrain heard all around the world
A song of forgiveness
Comforting peace
A time to remember
What life really means
The important things
And we’ll all join hands to celebrate the goodness
That shines inside of everyone
I must have been a part of some grand design
Guess it’s Christmas time
Open our hearts so we can open our arms
And we’ll all join hands to celebrate the goodness
That shines inside of everyone
I must have been a part of some grand design
Guess it’s Christmas time
Chorus
I almost swore I heard Christina sing it. It mostly sounded like angels singing together but I knew Christina sang it in my head. I felt something nudge my shoulder so I looked around and saw Blue Wolf standing there.
“What do you want?” I asked.
“Did you just hear something?” Blue Wolf asked.
“Like singing?”
“Yeah, everyone was wondering who was singing but Alie said it was Christina.”
I heard some more singing and I realized that Alie was right, it was Christina.
“I have news!” shouted Joe, “I heard from the hospital that Christina has been sewn back on.” We all cheered.
“But that’s not all, the doctors swore they heard what sounded like an angel but it was Christina. They think she was blessed with a special gift to sing like angel and it seems we hear it as well.” Joe continued.
“I always knew Christina had a gift to sing.” Alie replied.
Out from behind a tree came Christina. She looked absolutely like she did before she broke her ankles. She looked more like an angel then before, except she didn’t have wings and a halo. I ran over to her and hugged her tightly as she gave me a gentle kiss on my cheek.
“Your back! How do you feel?” I asked.
Christina put her finger to my lips as she shushed me. She looked deep into my eyes before she let her finger come off my lips.
“I have some unfinished business I need to fulfill before I can go back to being with you guys.” Christina replied softly.
“What do you mean?” Tai asked.
“I got some things to do before I can rejoin you guys.” She repeated.
Gennai appeared by her side and looked at us all.
“What she needs to do is inform the 4 guardians of something she was told. After that, she can rejoin you.” Gennai explained.
I watched as Christina used her communicator and disappeared. Gennai waited until she was gone to give us some news. Then Gennai disappeared. We all just stood there as stiff as statues. None of us could ever believe what was going on, what was happening to us. All of a sudden, a letter dropped in front of us when we got home. I opened it and read:
Digidestined,
You are invited to play survivor. You need to pick 12 from your group and they will get on the plane I have listed. Send us a reply of which you have picked.
It wasn’t signed. I looked to the others just as Christina joined up with us.
“What’s this?” She asked looking at the letter.
“We are to pick 12 members, which means only 6 will be left.” Tai said.
“All right, who wants to go?” I asked.
Christina and Alie raised their hands but no one else did.
“Ok, Alie and Christina, you pick 10 of us you thing are fit to be in this game.” Izzy said.
“All right, I think Davis and TK are pretty good at competition so I suggest them.” Alie replied as Davis and TK went over by Christina.
“How about Tai and Matt?” Christina asked.
“I think they will be suitable for this kind of atmosphere.” Izzy replied as Tai and I went over by Christina.
In 3 minutes, only Mimi, Joe, Izzy, Yolei, Kari, and Cody were left. They wished us luck as we went home to get ready. I had a weird feeling about going to play a survival game; maybe it’s because of TV’s watching us doing these wild and crazy things. When I was done, Christina was waiting outside me since she lives inside the same apartment building as me. I jumped inside of my truck as Christina went in hers. My truck was a SUV and Christina’s was a Dodge Durango. I started up the car and slowly backed out of the parking lot and drove off to the airport. I got to the airport first and I saw the other’s cars parked as Christina’s just parked.
“Ha, I beat you!” I shouted as Christina came out.
“I never said that we would race.” She shouted back as I chuckled.
I got my stuff out and stepped into the terminal. It seemed so empty, about as empty as a ghost town. The rest were in line, waiting to be let in.
“Finally you made it.” Sora replied.
“Matt decided to race without me okaying it!” Christina said looking at me.
“At least we made it in time for us to board.” I replied returning the look.
2 months later….
It’s summer! My favorite time of year! I am happy since I am going to be in 12th grade as soon as summer is done and I can go on to college. Christina decided when she was done with school she’d go to acting school and become an actress. We ended Phoenix so we could go on with life, Christina has signed up for soccer along with Alie, Tai was already signed up for the boy’s team, Sora was on the tennis team, Davis was into football, TK signed up for basketball, Cody was still in kendo, Kari signed up for photography classes, Joe was in college, Izzy was a part of the computer club and Yolei was in it. Mimi came back to Odiaba and signed up for cheerleading, Ken is still playing soccer, and me, I didn’t sign up for anything. I wasn’t an outgoing type of person. Kaye-Lani and Nicole didn’t sign up for anything while John and Katie signed up for volleyball and Amanda was going to be a veterinarian.
Us digidestined got together for a meeting. Our Digimon all went back to the digital world so they could rest.
“What are you guys going to do when you’re out of high school?” Cody asked Tai, Christina, Alie, and I.
“Well, I’m going to California to enroll in acting school.” Christina replied.
The rest of us didn’t know what we were going to do. I can’t believe Christina was going back to live in America. As she said she was going back to America, I felt my heart break in 2. She was leaving just when I was going to marry her.
“Are you going to come visit us?” Yolei asked.
“Of course, it won’t be for like another year. My parents really want to get away from Japan ever since the monster attacks.” Christina replied sadly, “I don’t want to move but I have to. I don’t want to leave you all but life has its ups and downs. This whole moving thing has really got me tangled up and pretty much heart broken that I’ll be leaving you guys to go to acting school.”
“We’ll miss you when you move but we can visit at least.” Tai responded.
“I know, I really wanted to go be an actress but when I met you all it only made me feel welcome here in Japan. You have been great friends and we’ve had so many adventures together.” Christina looked down.
I felt bad and went over to Christina to give her a hug.
“When you leave, we won’t forget you. We all have a strong bond with each other so we could try many different ways of communicating to each other.” I said softly.
Christina looked up at me and said, “I really love you Matt and I know that we might cross paths again. I am really sorry that I am moving and that it’s going to mess up our relationship. I was really hoping that I would marry you but me moving…” She let her voice trail off.
“Maybe I can move with you.” I said.
“Maybe, but it depends where you’re excepted and what career you will be going for.”
“I was thinking of becoming an actor when I first entered high school.”
Nothing was said after that. I looked at Christina and I began to feel something weird happen. I couldn’t explain it but it felt like I was destined to be with her. I guess she felt the same feeling.
“I need to get to football practice.” Davis replied as he left.
“Oh yeah, our soccer practice is going to start real soon.” Alie said as Christina stood up and went with her.
Tai followed them out the door. Then we all left to go to our summer activities but I just went home. I looked at some photos of past events. One was with the prom. I was going to my first prom at high school and with me was Christina. She wore a light blue silk dress with a blue rose in her hair. We were linked with our arms and smiled for the camera. Every couple has to have a picture and one of them gets to keep the picture. I flipped through until I found a particular picture. It was when we defeated Apocalymon. It had Davis, Ken, Cody, and Yolei much younger than us.
I heard a knock on my bedroom door.
“Yeah?” I asked my dad.
“Someone is here for you, Matt.” Answered my dad.
The bedroom door opened and revealed Christina. I guess soccer practice went by fast. She walked in and shut the door. Then she sat down beside me and handed me a letter.
Dear Mr. Ishida,
You are accepted at the school of acting in California. You and your friend are going to be arriving here during the summer of next year. I will be waiting for your answer that you will come.
California’s School of Acting
I looked at Christina, who was smiling. This meant so much to me. I never thought that I’d be accepted into acting. I sent a reply and asked dad to stop by the post office to mail it on his way to work. As soon as dad was gone, I turned to Christina.
“Why did you come here?” I asked.
“To see you. I know that I saw you an hour ago but I just wanted to see how you were doing.” Christina replied but I silenced her as I locked lips with her.
I felt her tongue touch mine and I began to float to a different world. As we kept on kissing, the more open I felt.
Christina
I stood up and stretched as Matt sat on his bed without his shirt on like when I had gotten there.
“You know, my dad won’t be home until late so like wanna go out to see a movie?” Matt asked.
“Ok.” I said as I got done calling mom.
Matt put on a shirt and escorted me out of his apartment. Since he didn’t live to far from the theater, we just walked there. We got inside after we got our tickets and saw Tai and Alie there.
“Well, ain’t this a coincidence? We are in the same theater and we are going to see the same movie.” I said.
“I never knew you guys were gonna see this movie.” Tai said looking at us.
“Well, are you 2 dating?” Alie asked.
“Yeah, and are you 2 dating?” I said.
“Yeah.” Tai said nodding his head.
I rolled my eyes as we walked into the theater. Matt took me by the hand to be sure I wouldn’t get lost. I heard Alie giggle and I gave her a look that made her stop giggling. Tai gave Alie a little peck on the temple as we entered. Not very many people were in there so we found some good seats. As the movie started, I found out that Matt was gone. I looked around and saw no one there, even the movie wasn’t playing. That’s when a mist appeared and formed into Daemon.
“Come with me, Keeper of Loneliness. Together, you and I shall rule the worlds and have them beg mercy.” Daemon replied, laughing.
I felt someone tap my shoulder and I woke up. I was lying on the floor and I looked up into the worried face of Matt. Alie was already calling an ambulance.
“You alright? When the movie started you looked pale and all of a sudden you fell to the floor. You started to twitch and I couldn’t get an answer out of you, you kept on saying no over and over again.” Tai explained.
“All I remember is the whole theater was empty and Daemon came to see if I was interested in joining him. He explained how we would rule the worlds and…” I let my voice trail off, not wanting to tell them more.
“Are you sure you’re all right?” Alie asked getting off her cell phone.
“Yeah,” I replied getting up, “I’m fine.” But it seems that they didn’t buy it.
We walked out of the theater and Alie told the medics I was ok but they checked me to see if I was ok. After they went off, I told the others that I can walk home but Matt insisted on walking me home.
“I really care about you, Christina. I don’t want to lose you nor do I want you to be alone with all these evil Digimon around.” Matt said as he walked up 3 floors from his house.
“I really care about you too, Matt. I will always love you no matter what we go through.” I said kissing him before I went inside my apartment.
“I love you very much.” Matt replied as I went inside my apartment.
No one was home so I kicked off my shoes and went in my mom’s room to see if she was sleeping.
“Mom?” I asked as Puppetmon wrapped himself around me and knocked me out.
Tai
The next day I didn’t see Christina in school or at the meeting at my house. Matt was really worried and so was Alie.
“Where did she go?” Matt asked himself.
“I would say she was kidnapped.” Joe replied, “They said this morning a girl was kidnapped from the same apartment building as you Matt.”
That’s when I turned on the news and they were at the apartment building Matt lives in.
“Last night, an 18 year old girl was kidnapped by a strange looking puppet. Her mom said that once she came in that puppet grabbed her and he disappeared with her.” A news reporter said.
“She just came home from her date when that puppet grabbed her then he just disappeared with my baby.” The mother said.
I found out that that was Christina’s mom! So Christina must’ve been kidnapped, kidnapped by Puppetmon!
“There has to be a reason why Puppetmon kidnapped Christina.” Ken said after I turned off the television.
“I really hope that Christina is alright.” Matt said worriedly.
“I’m sure she is alright. She’s a strong girl and she knows how to handle this kind of situation.” Golden Eagle replied.
That’s when my phone rang. I answered it and I was surprised to hear Christina talking.
“Is Tai there?” Christina asked.
“I am Tai.”
“Thank god I can reach you! Listen up; I am locked up in Puppetmon’s house on the second floor. You need to make a plan to rescue me without being seen.”
“Ok, we’ll rot our brains trying to think of a plan to save you.”
“Very funny Tai. Please come soon!” Then the phone went dead. I hung up and went to the others.
“I got a call from Christina. She said that she is locked up in Puppetmon’s house in the Digiworld.” I said seeing the look on Matt’s face.
“We have to get her back.” Matt said giving me a look that explained everything.
“We just can’t go rushing Matt, you don’t know if this is a trap!” Sora argued.
“Sora may have a point Matt, for all we know Christina could just be bait for whoever Puppetmon wants to get revenge on.” Izzy replied not seeing TK’s expression.
“Puppetmon might be using Christina to capture me!” TK said.
“Or what if he just wants to control her?” Ken asked.
“I’d doubt that.”
All of a sudden, Matt sank to the floor holding his head.
“What’s wrong Matt?” Yolei asked.
“My head…. The pain…. It’s horrible!” Matt yelled.
Ken then knew something was either hurting Christina or trying to control her. Falconmon and Golden Eagle also felt pain. In a few minutes the pain went away.
“You guys alright?” Kari asked as Matt, Falconmon, and Golden Eagle both stood up.
“Yeah, we’re just fine.” Matt said.
“I think the reason why they were in pain is because whoever they are linked to is either in trouble or that person is in pain.” Izzy explained.
“The only person that is linked to Golden Eagle, Falconmon, and Matt would be Christina. I didn’t see anybody in here in pain.” Cody responded.
“I agree with Cody.” Kestrel said.
Will the digidestined get to Christina in time? Find out in the next book: The Rescue.