One Honest Heart part 4

  "Noooooooo!" Mimi screamed, even though her voice could not be heard by anyone that was still alive. She looked towards Tai. He had the same look of despair on his face. Mimi once again looked towards Dallas. He had his gun pointed at Joe's head, but neither Joe nor Sora noticed. She let her head fall slightly. Her friends were going to die. All of them. Dallas would, for sure, make sure that they were all dead before he went away.

At that moment, Joe brung his head up. His eyes met with Dallas's. Dallas placed his finger on the trigger, and was just about to shot, when the door to the room swung open, and Matt, TK, Kari, and Izzy hurried in. Dallas didn't hesitate, now. As Mimi and Tai watched with horror from above, and the others watched in terror from down below, Dallas pulled the trigger, and let the bullet fly towards Joe.

Someone screamed; but Mimi couldn't be sure who it was. She finally concluded that it must have been Kari, for Dallas whirled around and pointed the gun at her.

"NOOOOOOOOO!" Tai screeched. But, there was nothing he could do. He was dead. He couldn't save her. As they watched, Joe suddenly appeared with them, and Mimi knew that he, too, was dead. It wasn't long before Kari, too, was dead and standing with them.

TK was next, with Matt screaming the whole time. And, because of that, Matt was soon with TK again. They appeared with the now large group above the room. The now large group of their dead friends. Seconds later, Izzy joined them, having been shot right through the head.

Sora was the only one still living. She looked up at Dallas with fright, surprise, anger, but most astonishing of all, love. "Dallas…" she let her voice trail off.

"It's been a long time, hasn't it Sora?" Dallas sneered in his familiar voice. Sora nodded her head slowly.

Mimi couldn't believe her ears. Sora…knew…Dallas? But…how? She stared down at her best friend and her worst enemy, and listened closely so as not to miss a word of their exchange.

"Dallas…why?" Sora demanded. "You were never like this…before!"

"I've changed, Sora," was Dallas's reply. "That is…outwardly. Inwardly, I've always felt like this! I've always planned on killing them! It's just recently that I've outwardly showed it though!" he sneered. "I only dated you to get to know them better! To plan their deaths!" he laughed.

Mimi was shocked. Dated? She DATED Dallas? Mimi was more then horrified. She watched as her best friend's eyes filled with tears.

"Is that it? Just to plan their deaths? You used me?" Sora choked out. It was easy for Mimi to see that Sora did not exactly feel the same way that Dallas did.

"What? You thought you actually meant something to me? Think again, Sora, dear!"

"Why aren't you going to kill me?" Sora demanded.

"Oh, I will. Sooner or later. Maybe sooner. Maybe later…"

"Just kill me! I want to die, now!" Sora cried,

"And why is that, Sora?"

"Because, other than my friends, you were the only thing that meant anything to me! And now, my friends are gone! And, it's easy to see that you are gone from my grasp as well! For the whole year after you left up until now, I haven't loved anyone else! And, now that you are gone, as well as my friends, just kill me!"

"Very well," Dallas stated coolly, raising his gun one last time. He pulled the trigger, and the bullet flew towards Sora. The last thing she saw, was Dallas staring at her coldly. And that was the last thing she ever saw; she never again saw the dead bodies of her friends, and she didn't see Dallas slip back out the window.

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"Where's Sora?" Mimi demanded. It was one hour after Sora, too, had been killed, but she had not yet joined the others.

Izzy shook his head. "I don't know. We're all dead…and so we're here…but Sora is dead too…so she should be here as well!"

"Strange!" Kari exclaimed.

"Whether it is strange or not matters nothing right now," a strange voice replied. Kari whirled around to see who had responded to her comment.

Before the Digidestined, stood two girls. It had been one with reddish-blond hair that was styled somewhat like Mimi's and blue eyes. She wore a white dress, and had a flower in her hair.

"And you are…?" Joe let his voice trail off.

"Who we are doesn't matter, either," the other girl replied. She had dirty blond hair, with streaks of white, black, red, and brown, sea green eyes, and wore all green.

"What does matter, is that we have come to tell you how to re-reach your bodies," the first girl replied.

"Here is what you do…each of you must show what your crest means," the girl with the dirty-blond hair continued. "Like you, for instance," she pointed a finger at Tai, and smiled at him. "You have the Crest of Courage. So, you must show an act of courage. But…you have to really mean it."

"The same goes for all of you," the girl with the reddish-blond hair picked up. "Once you have shown the act of your Crest, you will be reunited with your bodies."

"But…what about Sora? What will happen to her? She…she's not here!" Mimi questioned.

"Will she be able to be reunited with her body, too?" Kari added to Mimi's question.

"You will see in time," both of the girls replied at the same time.

"Um…could we please get your names? That way we at least know who we're talking to!" Matt queried.

Each of the girls looked at each other, and gave the other a slight nod. The first girl, the one with the white dress, stepped forward slightly. "I'm Saph," she introduced herself.

"And I'm Kate," the other girl, the one wearing all green added. "Now! You must get started!" and, turning, both Kate and Saph started to leave.

"Oh! And, one more thing! You must commit the act of your Crest without knowing it! By doing it intentionally, it will not work! It does not work, that way!" Saph added this last bit of information.

"And remember…you have a time limmit! A time limit, before Dallas comes back!" Kate told them, before she and Saph turned and left.

"Oh, wonderful!" Joe complained, stressing the last word.

"Don't worry, Joe! We'll make it! Saph and Kate wouldn't have told us about it if it weren't possible! Don't give up hope!" TK tried to reassure his friend, not knowing what he was doing.

At that moment, TK disappeared.

"TK!" Matt shouted. Then, looking down, he saw the once-dead body of his younger brother stir slightly.

"He showed an act of hope!" Izzy explained. And, at that moment, Izzy, too was gone.

"And Izzy showed an act of knowledge, by explaining what happened! It really does work!" Kari exclaimed.

"So. Do we just sit here and wait for someone to commit some act, or what?" Matt asked with a sigh.

"I don't know!" Mimi's voice was getting really frustrated. "Am I supposed to know?" she looked away and took several deep breaths. She then turned back to Matt. "Sorry. I'm just worried about Sora."

Matt smiled. "No problem! We're friends, remember?" and, at that moment, Matt was gone.

"I get it!" Tai exclaimed. "We just be ourselves!"

"But what do we do until we do what we're supposed to?" Kari asked, looking up at her brother and two remaining friends. She then looked down into the room below her, where TK, Matt, and Izzy stood, gathered around Sora's body, occasionally looking up, as if wondering when their four, still-dead friends would join them back in the world of the living.

"Just don't worry about it! Good 'ole Joe is here to rely on!" Joe replied cheerfully. And then, suddenly, Joe was no longer with them, but looking up into space from the room below.

"Just three of us left," Kari mentioned, watching her brother and Mimi. They stood close together, Mimi clutching Tai's hand.

"Your really worried about Sora, aren't you, Mimi?" Kari asked softly.

Mimi nodded her head. "She's my best friend!" she whispered.

"Don't worry! We'll find away to bring her back! There's got to be a way, somewhere!"

And then, Tai watched as his younger sister disappeared. He then turned to Mimi, and gave her a quick hug. "We'll soon be down there, with everyone else! And Kari is right! We'll find away to bring Sora back!" he looked back down at where Kari was now talking with TK. "I'm just glad she's safe. I have a feeling that something bad is going to happen. So, I'm just glad that she's out of it's reach," he said softly.

"You can feel it, too?" Mimi asked, surprised.

"Feel what?"

"That something bad is going to happen! I though that it was just me…!"

"No. It wasn't just you. Something bad is going to happen!" Tai sounded convinced.

"But of course it is!" at that moment, they heard a sneering voice. Mimi knew who it was even before she turned around. Dallas.

"How did you get here!?!?" Tai demanded harshly, moving in front of Mimi as if to protect her.

"Oh, I have my ways!" Dallas replied, laughing his now familiar laugh. "Actually…I'm no only cold blooded…" he was interrupted by a whisper from Mimi to Matt.

"At least he admits that!"

Dallas stared coldly at her, before continuing. "…I am also a genius!"

"Not exactly modest, huh?" Mimi whispered this second comment to Tai.

"I figured out a way to get up here…with my wonderful knowledge of everything. But, that doesn't matter! What matters is…that not only your bodies will be dead…but soon, your souls will be dead. With this "soul appearance device." It can make your souls take on a form…a form, that, once dead, will no longer let your souls live!" Dallas laughed evilly, once again. His voice lowered. "Prepare to die…again!" He motioned for Tai to move out of the way. "I want to kill her first!" he explained. "So move!"

Tai held his ground. He would not move. Not even if his soul died in the doing of it. And so, Dallas held up a device that looked kind of like a gun, aimed it, and shot. At first, though nothing happened. Tai could feel his body taking on a shape, of course. Once he was done solidifying, Dallas pulled out a gun, aimed it, and fired. But, just as the bullet was inches away from Tai's face, he disappeared. Mimi ducked, and the bullet missed her by millimeters.

She glanced down into the hospital room below. Tai stood there, looking up at the sky, trying to spot her, fear evident on his face. He showed Courage in protecting me, Mimi thought, dully. But now, I am going to die. His act of Courage was for nothing. Because I'm going to die anyway.

Sure enough, after a grunt of disgust at realizing that Tai had escaped, Dallas pointed the first gun-like object at Mimi, and fired. She could feel herself solidifying. In just a few seconds, he would kill her.

But, instead of cowering like he had expected her to, Mimi stood straight and tall, her eyes sparking with fire. He had killed her best friend. She had known for a while that Sora was never to come back. Had she been to come back, she would have appeared with them. And so, she waited to be killed with anger, not fear, evident in her eyes. Waited until she could be with her best friend. She cast one last glance down below; took once last look at Tai's face.

But…the bullet never came. Dallas had been swayed by the look on her face. He knew that she was no longer afraid. And that disturbed him. He preferred for all of his victims to be cowering in terror; but this one wasn't.

"Why don't you just kill me, huh? Why don't you just get it over with?" Mimi shot at him, not even a slight tremor in her voice.

"I'm waiting for you to become afraid!" Dallas shot back at her.

"Is that it? Well, then, you're going to have to wait an awfully long time!" Mimi hissed at him. She stood still for a few seconds, thinking. "It's not that, is it? You can't do it, can you? There is some good in you…and you can't bring yourself to shot me!" she taunted. It wasn't that she wanted to die…but she would like to have it over with, sooner, rather than later. "You can't do it!" she taunted again.

Dallas's face wavered, and his eyes became angry. But, before he could move, he was gone.

Mimi was startled when he suddenly disappeared. Though, she was also so relieved, that she sank down to her knees. She looked down below her. But Dallas was not there. She let out a sigh of relief at this.

"You defeated him," a voice told her. Turning, Mimi saw Kate and Saph. It was Kate that had spoken.

"You defeated him because you told the truth…you showed Sincerity. You were right…he couldn't bring himself to do it," Saph said.

"And now, you will be reunited with the others," Kate added. Then, under her breath, she muttered, "And you'll get to see Tai. Wish I could be with Tai…"

Saph heard this comment, and gave a small laugh. And then, they both disappeared. Mimi was alone…but not for long. Within seconds, she was standing amid her friends, as Tai hurried up to her and threw his arms around her. Mimi accepted his embrace.

"What about Sora?" Kari asked in a small voice, fearing that she already knew the answer.

"She's dead, Kari. Really dead. She won't be coming back." Mimi said, as tears welled up in her eyes at the thought of her best friend.

"But…why?" Kari demanded.

"It was different with Sora, Kari," Mimi started to explain. "None of us wanted to die. But Sora did. When she realized what Dallas was really like, she wanted to die. Wanted to die…because we were gone…and because she realized that Dallas was gone, as well. I guess she really loved him…though just how she could stand him…I don't know." Mimi finished.

Tai drew her back into his arms, and, tipping her face upwards, gently kissed her. "I just thank God that you didn't join her, Mimi," he whispered. Mimi smiled. She knew for certain, that she had found her one honest heart.

  THE END.