AUTHOR'S NOTE: All you Gatomon, T.K., and Matt fans, please don't kill me for this...
Chapter II
In the real world...
T.K. sat down to breakfast. He finished quickly and then dumped his dishes into the sink.
T.K. walked into his room and saw the digivice again. His was now black, as opposed to the gray it had been when it first arrived. He knew something was wrong in the digital world again, and he had been worried about Patamon for days, but he knew it was different this time.
He had been so deep in thought that he didn't hear the doorbell ring until the fourth time. He jumped up and answered it. It was Kari, his girlfriend. He let her in.
"Hi T.K." Kari said. She had a large bag on her shoulder.
"What's with the bag?" T.K. asked.
"I'm going. I can't stop thinking about Gatomon. She needs me."
T.K. just nodded. "My digivice turned black. Something doesn't feel right about it."
"You're going to abandon Patamon. He may need you." Kari said.
"Kari haven't we done enough for the digital world? Anyway, Yamato went, he'll watch over Patamon for me."
"I can't believe you. You'll let Yamato go, but you won't. T.K., I thought more of you than that! You're going and that's final!"
"But..." T.K. began, but Kari had stormed into his room, she immediately grabbed the black digivice, and shoved it into T.K.'s hand.
"Please come." Kari pleaded.
T.K. saw that he had no choice, and relented. Together, hand in hand, and digivices in their free hands, they returned to the digital world.
Yamato didn't see the digimon until he almost tripped over it. He didn't recognize it at first, but only a second later he realized it was Gatomon. She was dirty and beaten, and even bleeding from numerous wounds.
"...Matt." she whispered.
"Setsuna!" Yamato called. He then turned to Lumon, "Go get Setsuna." Yamato knelt down to pick up the injured digimon as carefully as he could.
"Gatomon, what happened?" he asked her.
"Angemon..." she answered weakly.
A moment later Setsuna, Lumon, and Tiaramon appeared.
"She needs help." Yamato told Setsuna. Who, like Joe, had a knack for doctoring.
"Poor thing. She doesn't have the virus, but whatever did this sure as hell did." Setsuna declared.
Setsuna carried the injured Gatomon all the way back to their make-shift camp.
After Gatomon's wounds were cleaned and dressed, Yamato made a bed for her and put her to bed, she fell asleep almost immediately.
"Poor cat." Yamato heard Setsuna say.
"Her name is Gatomon. She's Tai's sister's, Kari's digimon." Yamato told her. It hurt him to see Gatomon this way, it hurt him even more to know that his brother's digimon had done it, and even worse that Gabumon was now like that as well.
"I've never delt with something like this..." Yamato admitted to Setsuna, "...it was always an evil digimon, not one of our own. I don't know if I could make Lumon take Gabumon."
"If it comes to that, Tiaramon can take him." Setsuna offered. Yamato gave her a half smile.
"It's a deal."
It was then they heard the scream. Gatomon woke up immediately.
"Kari!" Gatomon yelled, or tried to, but it came out as a whisper. Yamato heard the digimon anyway.
"Come on Lumon." Yamato said. He held his arms out to his digimon and Lumon jumped into them.
"Stay here with Gatomon, Setsuna." Yamato told her. He looked at his digimon. "Ready?"
"Yes!" Lumon yelled. Yamato ran off towards the scream.
Kari looked at Angemon, for the first time, in fear. She glanced at T.K., but now he looked like he was possesed. Kari turned and fled from her boyfriend and his digimon.
"Kari!" T.K. yelled, his loyalties split, and the virus was already taking him. He looked at his digimon, and then at Kari, as she ran from him. T.K. stood frozen to where he stood.
Kari ran still, even after T.K. called her name. She ran until she ran into someone. Kari fought the person, thinking it was T.K.
"Kari, stop it!" Yamato said. Suddenly, Kari stopped.
"T.K., Go get T.K.!" Kari yelled at him.
"Okay. Go back the way I came." Yamato told her. He then ran towards his brother. When he came upon T.K. he grabbed his brothers arm and pushed him behind himself.
"Go to Kari, now!" Yamato demanded. T.K. needed no further persuasion.
"Lumon, digivolve!" Yamato yelled. He could remember all to well Gatomon's limp form. The in-training digimon digivolved quickly to Learmon. He looked like a small flying black wolf, with a golden V on his head.
"Careful Learmon!" Yamato shouted. He knew Learmon would have to digovolve further. The rookie digimon would not be able to take down the champion.
"Hand of Fate!" Angemon attacked. The attack caught the rookie digimon in the side, and Yamato heard Learmon's whimper.
"No!" Yamato yelled. He picked up a rock and flung it at Angemon, trying to capture his attention. In that he succeeded. Angemon came after him instead.
"Yamato, run. I can take him." Learmon said, but Yamato still taunted Angemon. Angemon then surprised him by grabbing him.
"Gabumon needs you." The digimon told him.
"Never..." Yamato growled. Angemon squeezed him tight.
"Learmon...Help...!" Yamato gasped.
"Frozen Rain!" Learmon yelled before he did his attack. He pelted Angemon with hail. Angemon again did his Hand of Fate, and again it found it's target. Learmon fell to the ground.
"Yamato...s..ss..orry..."
"Digivolve!" Yamato said. Suddenly, his digivice glowed. Moments later Learmon digivolved into Daemon, or dark angel.
"Shadow Stars!" shouted Daemon. He hit Angemon so hard that the digimon dropped Yamato. Daemon did his attack again, but was attacking a retreating digimon. Angemon fled.
Daemon returned to Learmon after he was positive Angemon had gone. Yamato walked over to his loyal digimon.
"Are you alright?" Yamato asked.
"Yes....I'm hungry." Yamato just laughed.
"Come on." He said. He got up and returned to camp with Learmon by his side.
At camp...
Kari was genuinely worried about T.K. He had said very little since they had reached Setsuna and Yamato's camp, but he had not let Kari go since Angemon's virus had almost taken him.
"Kari." Gatomon said weakly. She was still in poor condition.
"Give me a second," she stood up and T.K. reluctantly let go. Kari walked over to her digimon.
"What is it Gatomon?" Kari asked.
"Kari, be careful. T.K. is half taken by the virus. One more close encounter with Patamon or Angemon, and he'll be taken by it." The cat-like digimon said in a voice that was barely a whisper.
"I will." Kari promised Gatomon. She patted the digimon's head and then got up and walked back to T.K.
Moments later Kari spotted Yamato as he strolled back into camp, carrying a very tired Learmon.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Okay guys, you know the drill, give me feedback and I'll give
you a Chapter III, Kay?
~Angel~
