Post by Mistress Fangs on Jul 18, 2008 22:50:34 GMT -6
Sora
Hey digi-fans its Sora here; we’re looking for the crystals to get Christina and Tai back. I’m in the second group and we’re heading to the West and South Islands to look for the golden crystals that will bring back Christina. Well let’s get started.
We had finally gotten to the edge of the ocean but all we could see was water and a small pinprick of an island. We used the communicator to transport us to West Island.
“Wonder where we can find all the crystals.” Davis wondered.
“They are scattered around the whole island so we better have our eyes open.” Izzy said.
While we were walking, I noticed Davis staring at his feet the whole time. I realized that he was doing what Izzy said to do, keep an eye out for any golden crystals. Davis can be such a pain in the butt but sometimes he can be smart.
“Hey, there’s a castle up ahead.” Joe said.
Joe was right but this castle seemed big. Matt wasn’t surprised the least bit. I wondered why.
“Hey Matt?” I asked.
“Yeah Sora? What is it?”
“Why aren’t you surprised to see this castle like the rest of us?”
“Well, when Tai, Alie, and I had to look and find Christina we had to go to this island on which she had been born on. It brings back several memories since my island was the closest to her. I remember when I would ring the bell and ask if she was around. I would always play with her like pummel tag, hide-and-go-seek, and several games.
“I also remember when we would have balls at her place and I remember that dress she always would wear. Alie and Tai were there of course.”
I nodded my head and stared at the castle. Hard to believe that Christina had lived in there. It looks so old and ancient.
“Owww!” Davis shouted.
“What now?” Matt asked.
“Something sharp pricked my back!”
We looked at what Davis said he felt and realized that he had found another crystal.
“2 down, 4 more to go.” Matt said, taking the crystal and putting it in his pack with the other golden crystal.
Suddenly, our digivice or D3’s started to beep.
“Hey! It reads a gold spot.” Ken said.
“Maybe it’s another crystal.” I said.
“It is another crystal.” Matt said.
Before anyone could slow him down, Matt went up to the castle. Joe shrugged and followed him.
“Seems like they know where the 3rd crystal is.” Cody said, running after Joe and Matt.
“I agree.” Yolei said as she went after Cody.
“Wait up Yolei!” Hawkmon and Ken shouted, dashing after her.
“Ken has a crush on Yolei.” I whispered to Mimi. She giggled and nodded her head.
“Uh, Mimi, Sora.” Izzy said.
“Yeah Izzy?” Mimi asked him.
“We’re the only three left.” He said. We looked around and saw that it was true so we ran to catch up with the others. When we caught up with the others, we saw Matt and Joe trying to open the door and Davis was opening and closing his mouth, making smart remarks.
“This door won’t open.” Joe said.
“That’s because you need the password.” A voice said.
“Who’s there?” Mimi asked.
“Christina. I can speak using the wind and your minds.”
“Oh. Now that’s sci-fi.” Davis said.
“Shut up Davis. You need to give the password to the door and see if it opens. It’s fairly simple, if you think about it.” Christina said before the wind disappeared.
“Okay. We’re hanging on a cliff and she leaves us like that.” Davis said, crossing his arms around his chest.
“She can only give hints,” Matt said, “Alie told me so. When she had to get the sword of Caring, Tai and Christina gave her some hints on how to get the sword. They also told her some instructions on how to bring them back. I realize that they both mean a lot to her. Now we must get the door to open and we can find another crystal.”
“Okay let me think: Christina?” Davis said the door did not open. Then he tried others as follows:
“Lightning?”
“Matt?”
“Caring?”
“Friendship?”
“Alie?”
“Heart?”
“Faith?”
“Ice?”
“Family?”
“Davis, shut up!” Izzy said and the door opened.
We all laughed, including Davis.
“Well, that is very simple. Just tell Davis to shut up.” I said, trying to stop laughing.
After we stopped laughing, we went inside the castle. The candles were lit, which gave light. The hallway seemed to go for miles until we came to the grand staircase. It split into 3 staircases that seemed to go in different directions. One lead straight up into another hallway, the second one went to the east and the third one lead west.
“Okay, we have to split into 3 groups. The first group will be Joe, Mimi, and I. The second group will be Ken, Davis, and Yolei. Sora, Cody, and Izzy will be the third group. My group will go up the middle staircase. Yolei’s group will take the east staircase and Sora’s group will take the west staircase.”
We all nodded and took off into our groups. Cody and Izzy were talking about different theories on how to bring Christina back while I was just looking out for the crystal. I stopped to look at a picture and the 2 guys also stopped to look. It was a picture that looked like it was taken long time ago since it was black and white. I saw 6 princes and 5 princesses in the picture. The 2 taller princes of course were Tai and Matt, no mistaking their hair. Christina wasn’t in the picture somehow. Or maybe she was taking the picture.
“Look at the date. It says Princess Christina took it in year 1754. That’s a long time ago.” Cody said. I agreed, though Christina did tell me she was born a thousand years ago. We walked on; seeming to look interested in the pictures.
“These pictures tell of a time long ago.” Izzy said.
“Past life’s my guess.” I said.
“You’re probably right.” Izzy said, Cody agreed.
We headed down the hall and saw another picture, this time it had Tai, Alie, Matt and Christina in it. Matt and Christina were holding hands and Tai was behind Alie with his arms around her and his head on her shoulder.
“Hey look.” Izzy said, pointing to a statue of a hippogriff. In it’s mouth was another golden crystal. I reached forward and took it out. We contacted the others but Matt said to keep looking that there was one more here. So the search continued.
Brian
I waved good bye to the others as the groups split up. Alie said that we were going to the island that Kari’s family had ruled over the North Island. Alie had also told us that Kari and Tai’s old family had also ruled over the real world even though they were still considered digital prince and princess. I noticed that John had gone into Alie’s group so I went also to make sure that he wouldn’t try anything funny. No one talked much about what happened, especially Alie I knew that she was the most devastated out of all of us. Alie and I were leading the group and John and Jake were bringing up the rear.
“So what did you go talk to John about?” I asked Alie.
“He wanted to give me back my necklace, the one that great grandpa had given me.” She said.
“Where did he find it?” I asked her.
“He swiped it when I had come to visit before freshman year.” She said looking at her I saw that she had tears in her eyes.
“What’s wrong Alie?” I asked her.
“He said that he loved me, he said that he loved me probably more than Tai.”
“He did!”
“Yeah and I got mad at him cause the only two that can love me the most are you and Tai.”
“It’s okay.” I said.
When we hit the ocean edge Alie used the communicators to transport us to North Island; Alie told me that she could here Tai and Christina talk to here mentally and in the wind. I nodded my head in agreement every so often I could here the too then all of a sudden…
“Ow!” Jake shouted jumping up.
“What is it Jake?” Alie asked.
“I sat on a crystal.” He said handing her an orange crystal.
“Well four more to go.”
Alie got up put the crystal in her pack with the other then she head up to the castle and we followed. By the time we had reached the top of the mountain we were all winded. Alie told us to take a break while she checked out the door.
I watched as Alie put her hand on a pad and inserted a crystal into a hole and the doors opened. The rest of us got up and headed in side.
Alie
I was glad that Brian was here he could keep an eye on John for me while I concentrated on finding the crystals. When we got inside we saw that there was one staircase that spread out into three different staircases and there was a side hallway.
“Okay everyone grab a partner and each group will go a different way.” I said. Before Brian could come over John came and took my hand. I took my hand out of his and I looked at Brian. He just shrugged and he went over to Katie and asked her to be his partner, she agreed. Before John could say anything to me I headed up the center stairway.
“Do you know where we are going?” John asked me.
“Yeah. Good thing I still have my scanner otherwise I couldn’t find the crystal that easily.” I said.
He wanted to say something else but he didn’t I was just hoping that he wasn’t going to try to kiss me. We walked further down the hallway until I heard a loud thump and a groan. I looked behind me and saw John. He looked like he just ran into the column. I tried to stop laughing but I couldn’t hold it in and I burst out laughing.
“It’s not funny.” John said as he stumbled over to me.
I couldn’t answer because I was too busy laughing. When I heard something I stopped laughing.
“What was that?” I asked John. He shook his head. When we heard it again, he jumped into my arms. I instantly dropped him down on the floor, like Shaggy would do from Scooby Doo.
“What’d you do that for?” John asked me, getting up off of the floor.
“Because I wanted to. Look I love Tai more than I like you okay?” I said to him. He didn’t answer he just looked at me. We walked a little bit further before we saw a griffin.
“Hey look inside his mouth.” I said to John. He looked at me and shrugged. He placed his hand inside the mouth and revealed the orange crystal.
“Hey guys we found the crystal.” I said into my communicator.
“Great we can get out of here.” Brian said.
“Actually we have one more to find and when we do we will be transported out of here.” I said.
After I finished I told Matt and he said that he had one more to find also. When I finished, John and I headed higher up into to the castle.
“I just forgot something.” John said.
“Now what?” I asked looking back at him. He was staring out the window.
“I’m afraid of heights.”
“Oh brother. Then don’t look out the window.”
“That’s just it. I can’t stop looking out the window.”
I pulled him away from the window and practically carried him up to the top. The top of the tower didn’t have any windows so John couldn’t look down.
“How-How high up are we?” John asked me.
“Well, I really don’t know. Look around the room to see if you can find any crystals.” I said to him.
John sighed and walked around the room, checking everything that looked capable of holding an orange crystal. So far he hadn’t found anything. Yet anyway.
“See anything?” John called to me.
“No. Maybe we are in the wrong tower.” I called back.
“Are you sure? Your scanner said a crystal was here.”
“I wasn’t completely sure. I thought we were getting closer to it but maybe we passed it.”
“So you’re saying that the crystal maybe hidden in the staircase and not up here?”
“Maybe.”
‘Having difficulty finding the crystal.’ Tai thought.
“Yes.”
“Alie who are you talking to?” John asked.
“Tai. He is talking to me mentally.”
“Oh. Talk to him mentally also so you don’t freak me out.”
‘It is hidden in the staircase but you need to use your eyes, not your scanner to find this crystal since it is very easy to see.’ Tai thought before he stopped talking.
“John, follow me.”
“Now what?”
“Tai told me that the crystal is easy to find but I need to see it with my own eyes.”
“Oh so he’s throwing hints at us. Very good idea Tai.”
“Shut up John. He can’t hear you or can he?”
“Oh he can hear me alright. He can hear me fine.”
I bumped into something that felt sharp and very hot. I looked behind me and saw the crystal inside a fire that was in a torch. I placed my hand inside the fire and pulled it out without burning my hand.
“John, I got the crystal.”
“Good, now we can get out of this castle.”
We were transported to the East Island and we all landed on the same spot.
“I’m guessing you found it.” Amanda said.
“Yup, we sure did.” I said, placing the crystal in my backpack along with the others.
Joe
I walked along a very long hallway that seemed to last forever without a single curve. Sure there were doors and pictures of the past life but it was getting very boring. Mimi was always examined the pictures while Matt and I searched for the last crystal on this island. We had gotten word that the other group had already found there two on the north island and they were on the east one now.
“Why can’t we just find this crystal and leave? I’m tired of just standing here looking at the pictures.” Mimi complained.
“Well we need to search the whole castle and then we can go to the West Island and find the last crystals. After that we can reunite with the other group and we can get Tai and Christina back.” Matt explained for the 10th time to Mimi. I sighed and searched through the mouth of a hippogriff. Seems like it has been years since we found the last crystal.
“Any luck Matt?” I asked him. He shook his head.
“No, not a single golden crystal. Maybe we are searching in the wrong hallway. We might as well move on to the next corridor and search there since we searched this place several times.”
“Having a hard time finding the crystal?” Christina said through the wind.
“Yes, we are.” Mimi said.
“You haven’t even searched around Mimi. I can watch you from all around since my data is spread all around the 2 Islands where my crystals are.”
“Can you give us some hints as to where the crystal is?” I asked.
“Sure. It is hidden in a statue of either a hippogriff or an eagle. Search throughout the hallway you are in since you are very near the next crystal.”
“That helps a lot. Now we know we haven’t been searching in the wrong hallway.” Matt said sarcastically.
“I must go now. I can’t talk long.”
“Wait! Oh man, I wanted some more hints.” Mimi said.
Matt and I looked at each other and burst out laughing. Mimi stared at us and looked a creepy-looking eagle.
“This looks so freaky. Why did Christina have them here in the first place?” Mimi asked.
“I don’t know Mimi. Supposedly they were built to honor spirits or just to protect the palace from evil. But that was a long time ago so they really don’t work.” Matt said.
“And you would put up a creepy looking eagle just to help protect you?” Mimi asked.
“This was a part of our past lives. The eagle didn’t look so creepy back then. It was colored bronze and it would talk to you ever once and a while.”
While they chatted about the eagle, I searched all over it and found the last golden crystal on this island.
“I got it.” I said before we were transported over to the East Island. The others were there also.
“Now all we have to do is find the last 2 crystals.” Yolei said.
“They can’t be that hard to find.” Ken said.
“Actually they are.” Christina said.
“Thanks for telling us that Christina. That lifted our spirits up.” Mimi said.
“The other group has 2 more left to find. I’ll give you a map that will lead you to the crystals.” Christina said, handing me the map.
Matt
Christina handed Joe the map that would help us find the last 2 crystals. I still wanted to make her jealous of what happened when they kissed. But how? Maybe I could kiss… Nah that’s a stupid idea, or else maybe all that would happen is that Tai would be mad at either Alie or I or both of us and they both would be mad at me well actually they would be pissed.
“Be sure to follow the map correctly or you can’t find them that easily. Some of the things here appear bigger than on the map. Like that hut is actually the size of a small house.” Christina said. She looked pretty faint.
She disappeared and we all stared at each other. Joe was looking at the map, studying it so we could get going.
“Okay the first crystal should be in the small cabin nearby.” Joe said.
We walked for what seemed for about a minute until we saw the small house or should I say hut. I volunteered to go in and find this crystal but Joe already went inside. I sighed and went in after him. The hut seemed very empty but Joe looked like he had just hit a wall.
“What happened Joe?” I asked him.
“Invisible walls. I should have known.” Joe said. I tapped the area around Joe and felt like I had just tapped a wall.
“You should have at least thrown a rock in first.” I said walking around him.
“Well I didn’t know that there would be booby traps.” He said. I rolled my eyes.
“Let’s try to get find a switch to turn off the invisible walls.” I said.
“Don’t you think that I’ve tried that already?” Joe said. All of a sudden, the invisible walls disappeared and Joe fell to the floor.
“That was a relief.” I said.
“Glad I undid the walls huh?” Christina said.
“You did that?” Joe asked.
“Yeah, I wanted to see what your reaction would be when I put up the walls.”
“When you come back to life I swear I will get you.” I said.
“Oh yeah? And I thought you were trying not to get close to me.”
I was at a lost for words and finally Joe got the crystal. We came out of the hut and read the map for the next place.
“Okay, it’s somewhere around the shoreline.” Joe said.
“Great, I need a swim.” Gomamon said.
I walked along the shore but Joe had to be paired up with me. My guess was that he had to watch over me in case I did something wrong. I heard a shout and some cheers. I looked at Joe and he just shrugged. We both walked over to where Mimi and Sora were.
“What is it Sora?” Cody asked.
Sora held up the last golden crystal and let out a shriek of delight. We were transported over to the shrine where we would meet the others.
Jake
I looked around and saw we had landed on a beach and as soon as we did Alie moved away from John, she looked relieved that she didn’t have to deal with him any more. Alie put her hand in her back pocket and pulled out a map. She unfolded it and looked, then she refolded it and headed into the woods and she was closely followed by John who was being closely followed by Brian. I sighed and followed. We had finally hit a hut that Alie went into and came right back out of.
“What’s wrong Alie?” I asked her.
“There’s a sleeping Scorpiomon in there.” She said.
I looked inside and I him asleep and in his claw was an orange crystal
“I see what you mean Alie.” I said.
“Well I guess I need to go inside and get the crystal.” Alie said.
We watched as Alie headed inside and carefully took the crystal out of his claw but when she did she got cut bye his claw. When she came out she wasn’t worried about him. “It was a reflex.” She said.
“Uh Alie.” John said.
“What?” she asked.
“Your arm.” He said. She looked at it and saw it was bleeding but just shrugged.
“So, what about it, right now all that matters is that we find the last crystal.” She said and she started towards the beach, after awhile we had nagged her enough to make her at least tie a bandana around it. As we walk I put my arm around Amanda and pulled her close, I didn’t want her to get hurt.
“Need some help finding the other crystal?” Tai asked.
“No.” Alie said.
“Oh come on. I know you need my help.”
“No we don’t need your help.” Alie shouted at him.
“Okay, fine I’ll leave you alone then without any help.” Tai said before he disappeared.
“Alie.” Brian said reaching for her.
“Don’t touch me Brian.” She said and she headed off ahead of the group.
“What’s with her?” I asked. No one knew.
Alie
I sat on the beach with tears running down my cheeks, “I’m just one girl, a teenager, why are they putting such a heavy burden on my shoulders.” I whispered to my self hugging my knees. I wished that Tai was back, then I could just rely on him instead of having to do most of the work myself we could share the burden.
“What was I thinking I’m strong and I can handle this myself.”
I put my head on my arms and I closed my eyes. I wished they had just found the last crystal so I could be reunited with my only love. Though John loves me and Matt’s just using me to make my sister jealous, I still love Tai and only him. I felt a hand rest on my shoulder, I looked behind me and saw John and I shook his hand off my shoulder.
“Go away John, I need to be alone.” I said.
“Alie I need to speak with you.” John said.
“No, now please go away.”
“Alie, I know you’re going through a hard time.”
“Just leave me alone.”
“No I won’t leave you alone.”
I looked up and stared at John. He had a look of worry all over his face; you could also see it in his eyes. He was wearing a blue t-shirt and a pair of cut off jeans. His hair was somewhat curly. I really thought he looked cute I don’t know why but I did. Wait, I’m supposed to love Tai, not John.
“Why do you have to watch over me all the time?” I asked John. He shrugged.
“I have to protect you since Tai isn’t here.” John said.
“Well Matt could’ve done the job, not you.”
“Good point. Well, it’s getting late and none of us have found the last crystal. I have a feeling that it is somewhere around the edge of this island.”
“How did you guess, Einstein?” I joked.
“Funny. I have a feeling that it is somewhere around the edge of the island. It’s like something told me that the crystal is on the edge of the island. Even if everyone else is asleep, I’m going out to find the crystal in the moonlight.”
“You shouldn’t do that. You might get hurt so I’m coming with you.” I said standing up and facing him.
“Alie… I don’t need you hurt more than you were today. I feel like I should go alone and do this on my own. It’s the only way that I could prove I can survive anything.”
“Yeah right.”
John leaned closer and kissed me. I tried to pull away but he held me closer to him. I pulled away and just looked at him, he reminded me of Justin the way he looked. John leaned in closer again and kissed me, once again I tried to pull away but he held me there with his arms around my waist when he tried to French kiss me he had gone to far so to make him let go I punched him in the gut. I knew he had punched him to hard when he doubled over in pain.
“Why did you do that John?” I asked him.
“I thought that it would convince you that I’m more right for you and not Tai.” He wheezed.
“Don’t you dare say that, even though you love me and Matt is trying to make Christina jealous through me, I will always love Tai. You said that you didn’t want to hurt me any more well you failed you just did.”
“Look Alie whether you like it or not I love you and I always will and nothing can change my mind, so I guess I’ll have to try harder.” He said and he headed down the beach.
I got up and headed the other way. That’s when Tai’s spirit appeared in front of me. “I heard everything.” He said.
“Oh Tai I wish you were here.” I said and I tried to hug him but I couldn’t, I fell to my knees and cried.
“I know I wish I was back to but hey all you need is one more crystal.” He said and he some how managed to lift my chin.
“I know it’s just that… well you know you saw what John did.”
“I know, but it’s okay what’s good is that you know who you love and I love you in return.” He said and he some how managed to kiss me.
“How did you do that Tai you’re just a spirit.” I said as we broke apart.
“Gennai said we could be solid for one thing that we knew that would count and I thought that this would be a good time.” He said.
I looked into his eyes and I felt warm, even though he was gone his eyes still gave me warmth inside.
“Put your hand down next to you.” He said and he was gone.
I put both of my hands down and my left hand felt the last crystal. I jumped up and I ran back to the others. “I got it, I got it!” I shouted.
“What?’ Jake said groggy.
“The last crystal.” I said as John showed up and we were transported to the shrine where we met up with the others.
When I saw Matt I gave him a huge hug. “I hope we don’t have to split up again.” I whispered into his ear.
“Why?” he asked and I told him what John had done. He looked pretty much pissed off.
“Well let’s get this over with.” I said.
Matt and I headed up to the shrine and we inserted the crystals in order that they were suppose to go, Matt had time to figure it out but I was just using dumb luck. When all the crystals were inserted, we stepped back and watched each crystal glow bright gold and orange. All of us had to shield our eyes from the bright light. Tai and Christina’s spirits floated over the crystals and got sucked into the crystals.
“What’s going on?” Ken asked.
“So far Tai and Christina’s spirits have gone into the crystals and are ready to become human again.” I said.
The middle crystals glowed and formed the middle parts of Christina and Tai. Then the bottom crystals formed legs; the top crystals formed the arms and heads of them also. I watched in amazement as Tai struggled to open his eyes while Christina already had hers open.
“Bright light.” Christina said, shielding her eyes. Tai finally opened his eyes.
“Hey, who turned on the lights?” Tai asked. I had tears in my eyes and I hugged him.
“I’m glad you’re alive Tai.” I said.
“I know I am too but please let go before I actually start to feel pain again.” Tai said.
“Sorry.” I said as I let go of him.
I looked over at Christina, who seemed to be ignored because everyone else was over here by Tai. She looked very nervous and uncomfortable. Her breathing didn’t seem normal.
“Hey what’s wrong?” Falconmon asked her.
“I-I don’t know. Something is definitely wrong.” She said.
“What do you mean?”
“Something just doesn’t feel right about this. Like if somehow the hole has a spell or some weird chemical that is making me feel very weird.”
“I feel the exact same Christina.” Tai said.
Just then, the scene around us changed and after it was done, Tai and Christina were gone.
Christina
Just when things couldn’t get any weirder, it just did. Suddenly we were transported to the Dark Ocean, the world full of darkness and negative thoughts. Tai was the only one with me when I got transported.
“Okay, this is bad.” Tai said. I agreed.
“We should see if we can even get out of this place.” I said. Suddenly, my digivice began to glow
“Hey, now what?” Tai asked. I shook my head as I took out my digivice.
It shifted into the shape of a D3 but it switched between the colors of black and gold. Tai’s shifted into a D3 also but the colors switched to either black or orange.
“Weird, our digivices are changing. Thing is, it might turn into a dark D3 like Ken has.” I said, starting to freak out.
I could clearly see that Tai was frightened like I was. But if Tai’s crest changed it would be known as the crest of Fear and mine would be the crest of Hatred.
“Christina… Christina, Tai can you here me…” Alie said, from the communicator, the screen was really fuzzy.
“Alie we can hear you.” Tai said.
“Where are… you.” She asked.
“The dark ocean.” I said.
Then the connection was lost and we looked around everything was really creepy, “Christina! Christina!” Matt called.
I ran through the woods and saw Matt, Joe, John and Alie. “Matt, Joe, Alie, John over here!” I shouted.
They headed our way but he just walked right through me. “That was creepy.” Tai said as Alie walked right trough him.
“Uh Christina.” Tai said.
“What?” I asked him.
“My D3 is almost completely black.” He said.
“Hey Alie.” Matt asked.
“Yeah Matt.” She asked.
“Why don’t you try the sword?”
“I would except we have to be by the ocean.”
“Dang it I want to find Christina.”
“So do we Matt but just have patience.” Joe said and they headed deeper into the woods.
Tai was about to follow Alie and John but I told him not to. Al of a sudden he glowed an eerie black color and he shouted out, I backed away slowly from him.
Tai
I felt immense pain and I knew why, it was because I was afraid of losing Alie, I mean she was with John and Matt I knew that I could trust her but I couldn’t help it.
“Aaahh!” I shouted, al of a sudden I heard some one shout.
“Tai hold on we’re coming!” Alie shouted I looked to my left and I saw Alie.
She knelt down beside me; “I’m going into the darkness.” I said.
“I’m not letting you go.” She said holding onto me.
Christina
I watched Alie go over to Tai, whose D3 was completely black now, including his crest. My D3 was half-black and half-gold. I saw John and Matt go over to Alie. I know that Tai is going into the darkness but Alie won’t let him. I swear I could actually feel his fear. I feared no one would find Tai and I but I was wrong. John and Matt were trying to get Alie away from Tai but they couldn’t so Joe had to help. I was leaning against a tree, apparently an old tree that would collapse at any minute. I closed my eyes and pictured what would happen if Tai and I weren’t sent here.
“I want things to be normal.” I murmured to myself. But I knew things weren’t going to be normal, they never were. “I don’t want this kind of responsibility. This is all way too much for a group of kids to handle. But then we wouldn’t have learned so much about each other or about several other things that taught us how to cope.”
Tai was falling into a pit that’s for sure. A pit of darkness that can get you if you’re not careful. Our friends are making sure that Tai doesn’t fall in but they can’t handle it if I fall into it.
“Alie let go of Tai!” John shouted trying to pry her off.
“No I won’t lose Tai again!” she responded.
If they shout any louder it would drive me nuts. I looked at my D3 and saw no changes. I sighed, relieved that it wasn’t changing quite yet. I knew Tai could feel that black hole inside his body. I knew I could. It is there, no mistaking it. All of our negative feelings come from that hole. I checked my D3 again and saw nothing.
“What brings you here?” Came a voice.
I looked around and tried to find out where that voice came from. The only way was to actually look for it. While the others were busy, I went into the thick forest. Each tree was black and very old. It made it seem really dark. I carried on through the forest until I saw the figure that talked to me.
“Who are you?” I asked the figure. He turned around and all I saw was a pair of eyes and darkness covering his body.
“I am the Lord of the Dark Ocean. Like I said before, what brings you here?”
“I thought you would know since you brought me here.”
“Oh yeah, a servant of mine had those holes fixed so that you would come here. Seems like Courage has changed but so far you’re half-half.”
“So? I think I like it half and half.”
“You won’t be. You see, Tai isn’t going to be an instrument of Darkness. I need someone stronger.”
“Oh no. Don’t even think about it.” I said.
“I will think about it. After all I get to pick between Faith and Caring. I could pick both; the powers are much stronger if you combine them. Maybe I’ll do that, starting with you!” He shouted, taking me under his blanket of Darkness.
“No! Let me go! You’ll be sorry if you do this!” I shouted at him.
“Oh will I?” He asked me.
The Lord took my D3 and placed it into a small pool that looked like pond water only black.
“You’ll…never…make…me.” I said, trying to avoid the darkness that would soon take over me.
“Oh yes I will. In this place, I always win.”
“Not…really. Alie…will…not…” I said but I trailed off.
The Lord took out my D3, which seemed to be a little gold and tons of black color.
“Yes… let the darkness take over. Feel it spread all over your body.”
I ignored him. I closed my eyes and realized that the crest of Courage was now known as the crest of Fear. I knew my crest was almost black, I saw it hanging on the wall opposite from me.
‘Alie, Joe, Matt, John, I have failed. I have completely been taken under the wings of the Lord.’ I thought as my D3 was completely black and I never saw any light again as I blacked out.
Matt
I tried and tried to get Alie away from Tai but it was no use. Even with the help of Joe and John she wouldn’t let go. I saw Joe look over the place, seeming to find something.
“What are you trying to find Joe?” I asked. Everyone looked at Joe, giving Tai the chance to escape.
“Something’s wrong, Christina ain’t here.” Joe said.
“You’ll never find her.” Tai said, his voice was lower than usual.
“Oh yes we will.” Alie said, clinging back onto Tai.
“Alie would you please let me go?” Tai asked.
“No, not until you go back to normal. I know the real Tai is still in there I will not lose him again.”
Alie’s crest began to glow bright silver and tried to overcome the darkness that blanketed Tai. Surprisingly, it seemed to work and Tai was back to normal. Alie cried out in delight and hugged Tai.
“Uh…Alie? Please…let…go!” Tai choked. Alie let go of Tai.
“Sorry.” She said.
“Now that we got Tai back, we need to find Christina.” Joe said.
“I really don’t know if you will really recognize her when you see her.” Tai said.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“Well, I better not explain it.” Tai said.
“Was she taken over to the dark side?” John asked.
“Could you be more original?” Joe joked.
“Shut up Joe.” John said.
“Tai, could you please tell us?” Alie asked Tai sweetly.
“Um…I guess. Uh how do I begin?” Tai stuttered, well Alie got him to talk at least.
“The beginning?” John asked. I glared at him.
“Well, when I was about to give in to the darkness, I saw that Christina had left. I could feel that she was trying to find something. She found this Dark Lord that owns this world and took her with him. He had her in his secret lab and took her D3 away from her. It was half-black and half-gold so she was in between. He put it into his dark pool that could turn anything black. Well maybe except Alie. Christina started to feel like she has been injected with darkness. Her D3 was now fully black except for a small spot of gold left. She made a small goodbye before she finally gave into the darkness. Sorry Joe and Matt, I’m afraid your girlfriend has just been turned into an instrument of Darkness and Alie, I think, you’re next.”
“Oh brother.” She said.
“Well let’s go find her.” Joe said.
“We need to find the others first.” Alie said.
She took out a small dagger and cut a hole into the air and she went through, she stuck her head back out and said, “You guys coming or what?”
Tai just shrugged and followed and I went after him, then Joe came through, after that a cloaked figure that turned out to be Christina, well the evil Christina.
Alie
“Well the idiot got her into a new look.” I said.
She was wearing a black leather mini skirt and a leather jacket with a black t-shirt underneath, oh yeah and she had black hair that didn’t work to well with her. At the moment Matt and Joe’s jaws had dropped and they were panting.
“Well I think we’ll send you two to the others.” I said transporting them to the rest of the group.
So only Tai, John, Christina (Evil Christina) and myself were there. Well to say what the scene looked like well, Christina was poised to attack. Tai and John were ready to attack; well actually they had both sent some thing at her; Tai a fire ball and John a bronze beam from his palm. I was standing there with my arms crossed not about to attack my sister.
“Aren’t you going to attack?” Christina asked me.
“No.” I said plainly.
“Maybe this will make you attack.” She said sending a blast of black lightning at me and all I did was lean to the side and it hit a tree.
“Is that all?” I asked.
Christina growled and closed her eyes.
“Fear, Loneliness, Hate, Doom, Darkness, Hatred, Ignorance, Temptation, Come to me and combine into one.” Christina whispered as all the crests, except they were black, were sent into the sky and glowed an eerie black color and shot beams of darkness at Christina.
“Alie, crystal sword.” Tai said. I nodded and called upon the crystal sword.
Christina opened her eyes and looked right into me.
“You think that sword could possibly destroy? Would you kill your own sister?” Christina asked.
“No, this isn’t to kill you.” I said.
“Oh really? Then why aren’t you using it if you have the power to destroy me? I know you really don’t want to hurt your own sister.” Christina said, taking out a totally black sword that reminded me of Christina’s sword of Caring.
“Wasn’t that the sword of Caring?” I asked.
“It was until it turned into the sword of Hatred.” Christina said.
I stepped back a little but not too far. I sent a beam of silver light at her and it hit.
“That was refreshing.” Christina said sarcastically.
Christina started to whirl the sword around her and it glowed black. She closed her eyes and started to spin with the sword.
“Uh Tai, John you guys might want to go.” I said.
John left but he came back and grabbed Tai by the collar and dragged him with.
“You wanted to save your friend and boyfriend from getting hurt. Very clever but for I will come back to get you soon.” Christina said before disappearing.
“Glad that’s done and over with.” I said, still holding my sword. I touched my wound on my arm and felt pain shoot through. Soon enough, the others came back but Amanda wasn’t with them.
“Good thing we found you Alie.” Jake said, his face was all pale.
“What did Christina do now?” I asked.
“She took Amanda.” Jake said, looking down.
“Crap. Jake, it’s okay we’ll find her before she becomes an instrument of Darkness like Christina.” I said. Jake nodded his head and looked up at me.
Amanda
Christina was dragging me into her lab. It looked like the one lab Frankenstein was made in except there were bottles everywhere with some kind of liquid in it.
“What are you going to do with me?” I asked Christina.
“I’ll make you like me, an instrument of Darkness. I feel lonely because I’m the only one of my kind right now.” Christina said.
Christina strapped me onto a table and took my D3 away.
“What are you going to do with my D3?” I asked, afraid of what the answer might be.
“I need to turn it black so I know if you’re actually one of the instruments. I know that Ken’s ain’t completely black.” Christina said. “After you are one like me then I’ll give you your new look.”
“Like what you’re wearing?” I asked.
“Not exactly. I’ll do things a little differently. The Dark Lord fitted me into this outfit. I have a different idea for you.” Christina said.
“Good Lord.” I said.
Christina placed my D3 into the black water that was in a small bowl.
“I don’t care for the Dark Lord anymore. I will need your help along with my sister’s help to defeat him. Afterwards, we can take over this world.” Christina said.
I looked down, not noticing that my D3 was halfway black. I think Alie would rather just get Christina and me back than turning against the digidestined. I then realized that Alie had a pure heart so it would be really difficult to turn her. Christina hadn’t realized that.
‘Hi Amanda.’ Christina thought.
‘You can talk to me?’ I thought.
‘Yes. Good thing I didn’t tell the evil one about Alie having a pure heart.’
‘Yes a good thing.’
‘Well I better go.’
‘Bye.’
I felt a pain inside and I started to glow a black light I knew that I was turning evil.
Tai
I was glad to be back with everyone, Matt had told me of what Alie did to make me good again, I knew that she defiantly did love me. At the moment everyone was doing something different. Matt, Mike, Willis, Davis, Jake, T.K, John and Joe were playing a card game. Ken, Cody and Izzy were trying to find a way to cure Amanda and Christina on Izzy’s laptop. Katie, Sora, Mimi and Katie were talking and Alie was sitting on a rock fiddling with her ring that I had given her. I was sitting against a tree looking at my D3; it was like Davis’s except for the parts of his that are blue are orange on mine.
I got up and went over to Alie, I kissed her on the cheek and I sat down next to her. ‘Hey Tai.’ Alie thought.
‘Hey.’ I thought.
She didn’t reply.
‘What’s wrong?’
‘Christina and Amanda.’
‘Why them?’
‘Well one of my best friends and my sister have been turned evil.’
‘Oh.’
‘Yeah that and I was thinking of what Gennai had told me earlier.’
‘And that is what?’
‘About a new digidestined.’
‘Cool.’
‘She’s about the same age as Willis and she’s from Japan like you and I.’
‘Cool, what does she look like?’
‘Well she has short bland hair, green eyes, and she’s about the same height as Willis.’
‘Do you know who her Digimon is?’
‘Saramon.’
‘Who?’
‘It’s a Digimon that digivolves into Leomon, and she’s Izzy’s new little sister.’
‘Huh?’
‘Izzy’s mom & dad are going to adopt a teenage girl that’s going to be a digidestined.’
‘Do you know when she going to become a digidestined?’
‘Nope, I have to go and pick up her crest, Digimon and D3 though.’
‘What’s her crest?’
‘It’s Bravery and it’s color’s mauve.’
‘Oh.’ I thought and I put my arm around her when my hand touched the bandana on her arm she cringed.
“What’s wrong?’ I asked her
‘I got hurt trying to get one of your crystals.’ She thought removing the bandana, the wound on her arm started to bleed.
“Give me your crystal.” I whispered she handed me the crystal and I touched the wound with it and then place my hand over the cut. I removed my hand and it healed.
“Well I gotta get going.” She said getting up.
“Where are you going?” I asked her.
“I have to go and get to new digidestined’s stuff.”
“Oh well good luck.” I said getting up and kissed her. Then she left.
Joe
When Jake got the Old Maid, I started laughing until a huge wind came and blew all the cards away. I looked and I saw Amanda and Christina, all dressed in leather. Amanda had a brown skirt that was the same length as Christina’s, a jacket that had no sleeves since they were ripped off, and a pair of gloves that reached up to her elbows. Her hair stayed the same except that it was pulled into a ponytail.
“Look at what we have here.” Amanda said, clutching her whip.
“If you’re looking for Alie, she isn’t here.” Tai said getting up.
“Really, I wasn’t even looking for her. Not yet.” Amanda said.
“What do you want?” I asked.
“A little fun.” Christina said.
“Not unless we stop you.” Matt said.
“Ah, isn’t it Matt, the one who is making the goody-goody hurt.” Christina said, staring coldly into Matt’s eyes.
“What do you mean?” I asked, standing in front of Matt in case he gets hurt.
“What I mean is that I can read Christina’s past thoughts. When I heard that Matt was mentally hurting Christina since they are soul mates, I told her I could pay him back but she didn’t agree to that.”
“How hurt was she?” Matt asked.
“She felt tons of pain, sadness, longing to be with you, etc.” Christina said, taking out her own small whip.
Matt looked down and I put my hand on his shoulder.
“Don’t listen to her. I know the real Christina would never feel that much pain.” I said looking at him.
Christina whipped me in the back to shut me up. I went down on the ground.
“You’re as weak as I thought.” Amanda said.
Just then, a bright silver beam of light hit Amanda in the stomach. She doubled over and looked to see Alie.
“Well, what a surprise.” Alie said sarcastically.
“Not as much surprise to see you.” Amanda said before she went down. Her D3 turned back to normal and she was unconscious.
“We got one more left.” Matt said looking at Christina, who was furious.
Christina tried to whip Alie but Alie moved out of the way. Then Alie slashed Christina’s arm.
“Curses!” Christina shouted.
Since Christina was distracted, Alie sent a silver beam at Christina. Christina groaned and fell down to the ground. Her D3 slowly went from black to gold. Alie cheered and so did the rest of us. I’m sure that Jake was happy that Amanda was normal. I checked on that wound Christina had on her arm. It seemed sort of deep but not bad. I took some gauze and wrapped her arm with it. I heard her groan and she woke up.
“Where am I?” Christina asked.
“You’re safe now.” I said.
“What happened to my arm?” She asked, staring at her bandaged arm.
“Alie accidentally slashed your arm.”
“Oh. Because I don’t remember a thing.”
“You don’t?”
“Well, maybe except for when I got turned over.”
“Weird.”
“Yeah really.”
Matt
I looked over at Joe and Christina and it brought a tears to my eyes, I wish that the fake Queen hadn’t taken us, then it would be me over by Christina instead of Joe, I put my head in my hands and I felt a hand rest on my shoulder I already knew who it was.
“Hey Alie.” I said.
“You okay Matt?” she asked sitting down in front of me.
“Yeah.” I said but she just looked at me.
“I know you’re lying Matt. You can tell me.”
“Well… ever since we were taken by that evil Queen I have this weird feeling that we shouldn’t have been taken.”
“Because of Joe and Christina right?”
“Yeah. It should have been Joe instead of me.”
“She chose you because of your strength, she chose the two strongest guys and the…”
“But she didn’t chose the two strongest girls.”
“It’s okay Matt I know that she will chose you.”
“Maybe if I…”
“Matt skip the jealousy thing okay it doesn’t work.”
“But I know how.”
“What are you getting at Matt?”
“If I were to kiss…”
“No way Matt you’re not kissing me.”
“But if I did then Christina would be jealous and…”
“No Matt.” She said and she got up and walked away and I followed.
“Look Matt, you shouldn’t hurt Christina more than she already is.” Alie said.
“So? She doesn’t love me.”
“Yeah right! She still loves you it’s just that she is trying to say something to you.”
“I don’t think so.”
“Stop being so stubborn!”
That’s when I heard something. I turned around and saw Christina. She didn’t look so happy as I thought.
“Hey Christina.” I said. She didn’t answer.
“What’s wrong?” Alie asked.
“Nothing.” Christina said, looking down.
“Yeah right.” I said.
“Leave me alone Matt. You hurt me long enough. That’s why I gave into the darkness.”
“Christina you think that Matt and I kissed don’t you?” Alie asked.
“Yes.”
“Well we didn’t I was telling Matt that he was being stubborn and that I wouldn’t do it.”
“Still. I think I should be off on my own so that I can recover my broken heart.” Christina said.
“Well you will, because I was going to tell everyone that we were going to head back to the real world because tomorrow we have school.”
“Well, I’d rather heal it here where I can at least be alone and away from Matt.”
“Well no one is going to be at home, Mom and Dad are away on business and I have to go to the school for rehearsal I can just bring you back your script for you.”
“You can’t imagine what pain I felt when Matt had left me. I felt even more pain when I was turned. I felt all the pain and misery inside myself double up. You just can’t imagine how painful your own negative thoughts are.” Christina said.
“Look, don’t be so negative. I never had seen you like this.” I said.
Christina looked down. She looked very uncomfortable.
“Look, I am having a hard time ever since I was just an instrument of Darkness.”
“Exactly right.” A voice said.
Christina turned pale and looked up to see her worst nightmare.
“Now what?” She asked, her voice was shaking.
“Come with me. You are meant to be with me. I choose who would bond with me and I chose you, child of Caring.”
“No, you will not get me.” Christina said.
“Oh yes I will.” The Dark Lord said, grabbing her by her neck.
“No! Let…go!” Christina shouted.
The Dark Lord started to walk away when he shouted out in pain. Tai had sent a ball of fire at one of his legs.
“Let her go.” Tai said heading over by us.
“No, I will not let my destiny be destroyed.” The Dark Lord said.
“You won’t take any one any where.” Alie said landing in front of the Dark Lord.
“How did you get in front of me?” he asked her.
“I jumped.” She said.
“Well anyway now I can get both of you,” he said.
“Both of what?” I asked.
“The children of course.” The Dark Lord said.
“I’m not a child.” Alie said.
“You will be once I get you.”
“Yeah right. I will never be your child.”
“Then you’re useless to me.”
The Dark Lord took one glance at Christina, who was quiet, the whole time. He smiled darkly.
“Look at her Alie. She is quiet, which is what I like.” He said.
“Very nice. Like I care.” She replied.
“I have a great idea. Keep her, for until I will get her when she is older.” The Dark Lord said, throwing her to the ground.
Christina got up and left so did Tai. “I tell you what leave Christina out of this and I’ll tell you everything I know about the Digital world and about the digidestined if you only take myself.” Alie said
“If I do you must stay with me forever.” The Dark Lord said.
“Fine but you must only take me agreed.” She said holding out her hand
“When I come again you will see my answer.” He said. The Dark Lord disappeared.
I got back to the others and I found Christina sitting near the river, tossing rocks into it.
Christina
I was so bored that I was throwing rocks into the river I was next to. Alie had come back but I didn’t want to say anything. Matt and Joe tried to talk to me but I brushed them away. I knew I hurt their feelings but I needed to be alone to heal myself. I was broken into pieces and I just needed time to heal, which would take quite awhile. I watched as Alie sat down next to Tai but then Matt sat down next to her. I looked back at the river. I grabbed my pack and took out a book on the totem pole.
“At least I can see what spirit I am.” I whispered to myself. I did the meditation that it said in the book and I found my spirits they were the wolf, the horse and the raven.
I looked behind me and I saw Alie had her eyes closed and she was ignoring what Tai and Matt were saying. She seemed like she was concentrated hard on something then she opened her eyes and leaned back.
‘What were you doing Alie?’ I asked her.
‘I was trying to figure out my animal spirits.’ She thought.
‘So what are you?’
‘I’m an eagle, a horse and a wolf, and you?’
‘A horse, a raven and a wolf. I think you should talk to Tai.’ I thought.
‘Okay, later.’ she thought and she started to talk to Tai and Matt.
I wished that Matt would leave Alie alone, she looked like she could use a break.
“I’m gonna head back to the real world you guys I gotta pick up some stuff.” Alie said and she headed through the port.
Tai looked like he wanted to go with her, but he didn’t. Though he looked like he was depressed. ‘What’s wrong Tai?’ I asked him.
‘Nothing… well it’s just that Alie and I never get some time to ourselves.’ He thought.
‘I know how you feel, Tai.’
He walked away. I knew I had to let him go on his own for awhile so he could heal. I got back to reading about my animal spirits.
“Raven means inner journeys and dreams. Wolf means earth wisdom and protection. Horse means stability and courage.” I said to myself.
I had found out what my spirit guides are. Raven could guide me along with the wolf. The wolf could protect anyone. Horse can run wild and free. I closed my eyes and pictured each animal. I could hear their calls, calling to me. I could hear the soft neighing of the horse, the howling of the wolf, and the cawing of the raven. I then felt a wing on my shoulder; it was the raven passing me by. I felt the paw of the wolf and the hoof of the horse. I felt a tap on my shoulder and I opened my eyes to discover that Matt was still there.
“Hey.” Matt said.
“Hi.” I said.
“Look, I’m sorry about this morning.”
“It’s okay Matt, I completely understand. You really were worried about me.”
“I only wanted to protect you.”
“The wolf.” I whispered.
“What?”
“You probably are a wolf. All I know is that I am a raven, a wolf, and a horse. They are my animal spirit guides.”
“How do you know they are your animal guides?”
“I meditated and I heard them call to me.”
“Oh.”
“You know, you should give up on making me jealous. You hurt me more than you thought you would. It hurt me really bad to see my only boyfriend hanging around my sister.”
“Maybe you’re right. I really don’t know if I should give up since I really like to tease you.”
“Stupid Matt. You always have been weird and that will never change.”
Matt stared into my eyes and looked away, blushing. I laughed.
“What’s so funny?” Matt asked.
“You.” I said.
“Wha?”
“Never mind.” I said innocently.
“Okay.”
He turned around and stared at me again. I leaned closer to him so that I could lie on him. Matt looked surprised but he put his arms around me, running one of his hands through my hair.
“I always will love you Matt.” I whispered.
“And so will I.” He whispered back, giving me a kiss on the neck.
“You were crazy and you always will be.”
I looked at him and smiled. He looked confused but then I kissed him back. Once I let go, he smiled.
“That was nice.” Matt said. I playfully hit his shoulder.
“Stop it, you’re embarrassing me.” I joked.
I leaned against him and I fell asleep.