Part 6 - Temptation Rises 

*Ouch, does my head hurt or what? Where am I?* I looked around to find myself.... I’m not too sure. The ground I am standing on, or whatever is keeping me on firm ground was blanketed in a thick fog. "Mimi, T.K.?" I shouted out into the foggy mist. *Where am I?* ~You are in the world of your mind. You are in your subconscious, an easy place where I can destroy you.~ *Destroy me? Why would he want to destroy me? I know, I’ll ask him that.* "Why do you wan-" ~No need to talk, I can read your mind. After all, I am in your mind. I can see everything you are thinking and make any image I want appear. Your worst nightmare will come alive.~ *This is crazy! How can I be trapped inside my own body?* ~Easily, you thought you could stop me by moving into separate rooms, you were wrong! Very wrong! Now for your worst nightmare!~ It seemed to be quiet for a couple of minutes. A little too quiet. "Matt, don’t be so over protective!" "T.K., what are you doing here? I-" I stopped to see this was an image of my past. It was when we were facing Puppetmon and everyone else was vanishing into thin air. I felt the need to protect him so badly, it still haunts me to think how protective I was of him. And still are. "Matt, I can take care of myself. I can take care of myself!" The image suddenly vanished appearing with a new one. T.K. was older in this one. *Hey, this is from last year!* I began to watch the image. "Matt why did you be with Mimi in the first place? Don’t you pay attention in school about safety or just plain waiting till you’re ready?" I could hear the image side of me say, "I can’t think right now." "Please stop these images!" I pleaded falling on my knees. The images disappeared and left me back to the foggy mist all alone. "Matt!" Cried Mimi’s voice. *Oh no, not another image. Please no!* "Matt!" I felt someone shake me. "Mimi, why are you in my mind?" "In my mind? I don’t think so! You’re in my mind. The voices even told me they put me into a coma and trapped me into my mind." "They told me the same thing," I said turning to see if anyone else was there. "I’m guessing we are the only two this happened to. Everyone must think we’re crazy." Mimi nodded. "Matt, kiss me!" I nodded and turned to her red lips and began to kiss her like never before. I felt like my life depended on this kiss. I kissed harder and harder. I stopped and looked down at her, she was in a different outfit, her halter top and shorts gone, replacing a green robe. I looked down at myself, a blue robe took place of my previous clothes. I looked behind Mimi, a huge bed was in the mist, blue and green swirls were the colors of the quilt an pillows. I smiled and lifted her up into my arms and carried her to the side of the bed. I lay her on and then leaned on top of her. I kissed again, the only thing on my mind was kissing her to make all the troubles fade away. 

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"T.K., do you want me to take over for the rest of the night?" Tai asked closing Matt’s door behind him. "No, I can’t sleep anyway." "Well, I’m going to stay anyway, I can’t sleep. I thought you might need a break considering you’ve been up here since we found out this morning. Kari’s starting to worry." "I’m worried too." "T.K., you have the Crest of Hope. You need to believe in your brother. Have faith, he’ll pull through with flying colors." "How can you be so certain? My brother isn’t exactly the easiest person to put my faith into. I mean, I have the feeling he’ll take the temptation that Gennai’s positive will be given." "T.K., have hope."

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I put my hand inside her robe, feeling her skin as I kissed her. I stopped for a moment. "Matt, don’t stop." Mimi begged, she untied her robe revealing her naked body. I leaned down and began to kiss her bare breast. I went higher, to her neck and began to kiss there as well. She pulled my face to her lips as she started to undo my robe. Surprisingly, I pushed her hands away and started to kiss her again. She tried again to untie my robe, but again I pulled her hands away. "Matt, come on." ~Come on Ishida. There is Mimi, willing to sleep with you. Take her.~ *Wait a second, that’s not my voice. I shouldn't be doing this! The voices are making us feel this temptation. The closer I get to Mimi, the more danger we’re in!* I pulled away. Mimi looked at me, a bit frustrated, "Come on Matt!" "Mimi, we shouldn’t be doing this. Remember the voices want us to do this. They’re killing us this way!" Mimi looked confused, but then it was as if someone turned a light bulb inside of her head. "Pass me my robe." I threw it to her and when she had it one, we sat there in silence, too scared to move. ~Fools! You should get closer together, you’ll die if you don’t!~ "That’s a lie!" I yelled out. The voice in our heads started again. ~Sincere Friendship will die! Both worlds into darkness! You will all suffer! Once I kill you two, I will kill Loving Courage, Reliable Knowledge, and Hopeful Light!~ "Matt, I need you!" "No, I have to go the opposite way. Remember what Gennai said." "We can’t do this forever! How can we just put our relationship too an end! I won’t do it!" "We don’t have to, we just can’t see each other for now!" I concluded, running the opposite way from Mimi. "Matt, come back!" 

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Part 7 - Back in Reality "It has been a week, they’ll never pull through!" Joe exclaimed. Just then, T.K. walked into the room. "Sorry T.K.," Joe muttered. "It’s okay," T.K. looked over at me. "I want to see Mimi, but for some reason her door is locked." "What?" I asked. "Is Kari still in there?" Tai asked. "No, she left when I went to see her to go into the bathroom." "Is Matt’s door locked?" I asked. T.K.’s face paled as he ran up the stairs followed by Tai, me, Izzy, and Joe. Kari’s face appeared at the top of the stairs. "Mimi’s door is locked!" I could see T.K. push past her and run a short distance to Matt’s door. He pulled and began to pound on the door, "Matt.... Matt!" T.K. finally broke down into tears in front of us for the first time this entire trip into the Digital World. "Matt..." T.K. sobbed. I walked over with Tai cutting in front of me. He helped T.K. stand up and walk him over to his room. I followed, holding Kari’s shaking hand tight. Tai sat T.K. down on the bed and Kari let go of my tight grip and sat next to him. I pulled Tai out of the room with me and shut it quietly. "Poor T.K." Joe said heading downstairs. Izzy followed agreeing. "Joe’s right, I never thought of what T.K. was going through. This must be hard on him. I mean we’ve been here for two weeks and Matt has been up for two days. First he fell unconscious for eight days and now he’s been in a coma for a week. I wish there was something to do." I wrapped my arms around Tai and burst into tears. "I wish we could do something too."

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 I ran for what seemed like hours, not stopping until I tripped over my own two feet. I fell, hitting the ground hard. I stood up and then she was there. "What are you doing here?" Mimi stared at me. "You can’t escape me. He’s making you run in circles, even though you thought you were escaping." "How will this end?" "I don’t know. I wish we had our friends here, and the digimon too." I nodded. "I want to get out of here." ~There is no way to escape. You are trapped in here forever.~ "I won’t let that happen! You won’t win, whatever you are trying to do." ~You mean you haven’t figured it out yet? And you call yourselves the Digidestined. I attack each of your crest partners one by one. First I will kill you, then Loving Courage, followed by Reliable Knowledge, and by the last two, the boy won't have any hope and will commit suicide as well the girl. Of course, I will have some fun with the last two first. You know, the kind of fun you two would have had if you, stupid Friendship boy hadn’t ruined it.~ "You are sick," I scowled. ~Wait, you haven’t heard my purpose. Once I kill all of you, the protective layer around the Digital Word will be destroyed and will allow me to come into an actual form in reality. And if you some how manage to escape, it will allow me to escape as well, allowing me to kill everything in all worlds. No matter what, you will die.~ "There must be some way to get free!" "But Matt, you heard him , we escape and so does he." "Yeah, but we would at least be able to have a chance to fight him." "You’re right!" Mimi said, "And everything will be okay and we’ll have three weeks of summer left." "Plus, we can help let our friends know we won’t let them down!" "I love you, Matt." "I love you too, Mimi." I leaned down and felt the urge to kiss her, but this time it wasn’t a life threatening urge, but more of a loving urge. I kissed her. It was pure and passionate. "Matt, our crests are glowing." "You’re right." The blue and green light shone through the fog and lit up a brown door. "Sincere Friendship will live." A voice said peacefully. We opened the door, bright light filled our eyes.

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"Gennai, isn’t there any way we can transport the digimon here sooner?" Sora asked peering over my computer to the signal that was still a day and a half walk away that represented the digimon. "No, Sora. Digimon aren’t meant to be transported here." "I’m going to try to get an image of them, maybe we’ll find out why they’re so slow walking here," I mentioned as I began to type furiously on my laptop. What I saw made me gasp. "What is it Izzy?" Tai asked. "Our digimon aren’t there." "What do you mean? I thought you had them signaled on your digivice. "I did, but the appear to be digital robots." "Robots?" Tai, Sora, Joe, T.K., and Kari asked in unison. "Yes robots, I’m guessing whoever has put Matt and Mimi into the coma, deceived us as well." "Who would do this?" Kari asked. "I would!" The door to Gennai’s house opened us revealing the water path widen again and black in the sky. "Oh my gosh!" I said, but I don’t think anyone heard me due to the sound of the howling wind.

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My eyes fluttered open, it seemed hard at first, it felt as though I haven’t opened my eyes in a week. Suddenly, pictures of what happened. *Matt.* I sat up, finding myself out of the green robe and back into my regular clothes. I leaped out of bed and threw myself out the door. "Mimi!" Matt called through the dark air. "Matt!" I ran toward the stairs. "Matt!" "I’m right here!" He called. I found him back in his regular clothes again at the top of the stairs. "Oh Matt!" I hugged him. It suddenly occurred to me that it was very dark and misty. "Why is it so dark?" "I don’t know, but I have a feeling T.K. and the others are in trouble. 

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Part 8 - The Wakening "T.K.!" I called running down the stairs with Mimi in my hand. "T.K.!" Mimi stopped in the doorway of the living room. "Matt..." I turned back and could see what she could. The window showed the Digidestined facing the unknown darkness. "Come on, lets go!" We ran out the front door. "We need our Digimon!" Our six friends turned around to see Mimi and I fully awake. "Matt, you’re okay," T.K. said, wiping a tear from his eye. "Yeah, I woke up. No thanks to him." "Who?" Sora asked. I pointed up. "The darkness is the voice in mine and Mimi’s head. He’s trying to locate himself a physical form." "How did you escape?" Kari asked. "I’m not sure," Mimi replied smiling, "but right now we have to focus on our lives." "I am free!" The darkness called out, and not to me and Mimi’s heads, but outloud. The darkness swirled and into a tornado form, but didn’t feel like one. It swirled for another couple of minutes until it stopped and became smaller. A bear like digimon appeared in front of us. The bear was black with nine eyes. It snarled and said, "You may have escaped me Sincerity and Friendship, but you will feel my wrath now." "T.K.!" Called a small voice. Patamon flew around the house followed by a flying Tentomon and Biyomon along with Gatomon, Agumon, Palmon, Gommamon, and Gabumon running. "It’s time to Digivolve," I cried out, holding out my digivice. "Gabumon, Warp Digivolve to, MetalGarurumon!" "You too Agumon!" "Agumon, Warp Digivolve to, WarGreymon!" "Digi Armor Energize!" T.K. and Kari cried out. "Patamon, Armor Digivolve to Pegasusmon. Flying Hope!" "Gatomon, Armor Digivolve to Nerfertimon! The Angel of Light!" The four flying digimon began attack. Pegasusmon and Nerfertimon were struck hard. They de-digivolved back into Patamon and Gatomon. "Patamon!" T.K. said running toward the two falling digimon. "Gatomon!" Kari cried out, running after T.K. They caught the two digimon and fell to the ground. "Go get him!" Tai and I shouted. "They need your help Biyomon. Do you think you Warp Digivolve like last year?" Biyomon shook her head. "For some reason I can’t. I think we did just for a one in a life time thing." "Well, Digivolve anyway." "Biyomon, Digivolve to Birdramon!" "Birdramon, Digivolve to Garudamon!" "Go Tentomon!" "Tentomon, Digivolve to Kabutarimon!" "Kabutaimon, Digivolve to MegaKabutarimon!" "Gommamon, join the fight!" "Gommamon, Digivolve to Ikkakumon!" "Ikkakumon, Digivolve to Zudomon." "Palmon, help Matt and the others." "Palmon, Digivolve to Togemon!" "Togemon, Digivolve to Lilymon!" "Can you give it another go?" T.K. asked his friend. Patamon replied by, "Patamon, Digivolve to Angemon!" "Angemon, digivolve to MagnaAngemon!" "Gatomon, give it all you’ve got!" Gatomon nodded at her friend. "Gatomon, Digivolve to Angewomon!" The six newly Digivolved digimon joined the fight in no time at all. The mysterious digimon laughed as he took on the two Megas and six Ultimates. "Flower Cannon!" "Wing Blade!" "Vulcan’s Hammer!" "Horn Blaster!" "Celestial Arrow!" "Gate of Destiny!" The attacks all hit the digimon. The smoke cleared revealing the laughing digimon. "You think you can beat me with those puny attacks? I am a Mega level digimon, no Ultimate attacks can affect me." "Izzy, have you gotten a reading on that digimon yet?" Tai asked nervously. "No, he doesn’t appear on my Digimon Analyzer." "Terra Force!" WarGreymon yelled out, hitting the digimon dead center. "Ice Wolf Claw!" MetalGarurumon’s attack hit as well. As the smoke cleared, I could see the Mega digimon slightly bruised, but far from being defeated. "Izzy, anything yet? Our digimon will lose if we don’t get some information on him soon." "I know Matt, but he doesn’t seem to exist. It’s as if he’s not a real digimon." "That is true Izzy," Gennai said coming from inside his house, "this digimon doesn’t show up because he cannot be classified as a Vaccine, Virus, or Data digimon. Since your Digimon Analyzer only focuses on those three types, he is not listed." "Then how will we know his weaknesses?" Sora asked. "If you want a name it is Endoimon. He can go into peoples’ minds and make illusions. He can also create temptation so you cannot resist." "A little late to warn us," I said accusingly. "Well, to prove yourself, you had to resist the temptation and you wouldn’t be here if you hadn’t," Gennai pointed out. "If only it didn’t take a week for you to succeed," Tai said. "Get him WarGreymon!" "A week?" I asked. Then I got focused back into battle, "Show him whose boss, MetalGarurumon." The two Mega digimon stroke again leaving Endoimon on the ground clutching his side. "Horn Blaster!" "Flower Cannon!" The attacks hit again. Endoimon fell back on the ground. "You haven’t seen my best trick!" "Oh, time for me to scidadle!" Gennai said running into the house and shutting the door. "Nice time to leave," Joe snickered. "Guys, lets get away from Gennai’s house. We don’t want it to blow up or something." "I wouldn’t care," I responded definitely. "Matt, how can you say that?" T.K. asked. "So you have a grudge against the guy for telling you things to late. He’s still a person!" Tai yelled. A smile came on my face. "Chill Tai, I was joking. Lets go before the tables turn." We ran towards land through the familiar path. "Almost there!" Panted Kari. "Yeah!" Tai cried out when we reached safe land. I high fived Tai in the air and laughed as we missed. I could hear Sora, Mimi, Joe, and Izzy’s giggles too. "What are you two so excited about? Here a battle is happening and you guys are cheering about making it on to safe ground," T.K. said, stopping the giggles immediately. "Zudomon, no!" Joe cried out as he caught the de-digivolved Gommamon. "MegaKabutarimon!" Izzy cried out as the digimon half flew to him. "Garudamon!" Sora caught the falling Biyomon in mid air. "Angewomon!" Kari ran toward the white cat digimon that lay on the ground. "MagnaAngemon!" T.K. yelled out as he picked up the fallen digimon. "Flower Cann-" Lilymon yelped as she was attacked by Endoimon’s Mind Thriller attack. "Lilymon!" Mimi cried out, running to the fallen Palmon. "It’s up to us, Matt!" Tai yelled to me. I nodded, "Get him MetalGarurumon!" "You too, WarGreymon!" "If only they could digivolve to Amnymon like they did on the internet!" I hollered to Tai. "I wish so too Matt!" "Mind Thriller!" Endoimon shot out. "Terra For-" The shot hit WarGreymon, leaving him bruised and a cracked shield. "Mind Thriller!" "Ice Wolf Claw!" Metal Garurumon shot before getting hit by Endoimon’s attack. MetalGarurumon was left completely bruised and cracked. "Oh no!" I shouted out. "Hang in there!" Tai yelled up to the weakened Megas. MetalGarurumon was first to stir. "Ice Wolf Claw!" The attack hit Endoimon sending him flying near us. "Wrong way, MetalGarurumon!" I hollered. Endoimon flew to his original spot and shot out a another attack. "Mind Thriller!" The attack hit WarGreymon. He came flying in the air as he de-digivolved to Agumon. "Mind Thriller!" This one hit MetalGarurumon, thus, making him de-digivolve back to Gabumon. "Great, now how are we supposed to win now?" Asked a tired Joe. "I don’t know, but whatever happens, we all will have love to help each other through it!" Sora smiled as she said. Her crest glowed a bright red. "This time there were no prophecies to help, but there must be a solution!" Izzy inquired before tuning purple. "I guess you’re right Izzy, we are here for a reason, aren’t we?" Joe asked as he suddenly tuned a grayish teal color. "We will fight till the end!" Tai shouted as a orange light surrounded him. "We will never let the darkness take over when I have the light!" Piped up Kari as she turned pink. "The hope will never disappear either Kari, as we were told a long time ago, hope and light are the ones that keep the Digital World from plunging into evil!" T.K. yelled grinning as he glowed yellow. "I will never forget you guys! I just wanted a peaceful vacation and not fall unconscious or in a coma. I just want to be a normal teenager without saving the world!" Mimi cried out as she began to glow green. "Mimi, don’t lose faith. Losing faith in your friends is the worst thing that could happen!" I said as the blue light surrounded me. The eight colors swirled around us, I could feel the others crests flow through me. I could feel the love from Sora, the knowledge of Izzy, the reliability from Joe, the courage from Tai, Kari’s light, T.K.’s hope, and the sincerity Mimi has to offer. I know that the others could feel the friendship I have as the light surrounded us. I looked at everyone’s faces, they were all in awe, as mine was. The colors continued to swirl and flow, but more light came from it and hit Endoimon. It looked as though we could win, but he was still laughing. *This should work, this is similar to how we had beaten Myotismon!* "This isn’t working," Joe shouted to Tai. He agreed by saying, "Try to power your crest more!" I nodded as did the others. *Friendship! Friendship! I love my friends. My friends are the most important thing to me. I can’t let them down!* I could feel more power go into the crest as the light grew deeper and brighter. "This should work!" Sora yelled. What we wished, didn’t seem to come true. Endoimon was still laughing as if our powers were tickling him. "This isn’t working!" "What can we do?" Mimi asked. "We’ve already given our crests as much power as possible." ~Sincere Friendship!~ Came the voice that was there when Mimi and I escaped our close call to death. *That’s it. Sincere Friendship isn’t bad, it’s good. Endoimon used it to make us not believe it is good! We have to believe in whatever Sincere Friendship is.* ~I agree Matt!~ Mimi’s voice came into my head. *How did you read my thoughts?* ~I’m not sure, but I think it is because we are starting to believe in Sincere Friendship which is obviously referring to us. Never mind that now, lets stand out and yell it on the top of our lungs!~ *Okay, on the count of three: one.... two.... three!* Mimi and I grabbed each others hands and walked in front of the six remaining Digidestined who stood in a line. "Matt, what are you doing?" Tai asked. I looked toward Mimi who nodded. "Sincere Friendship!" The light on Endoimon returned to the owners, but still swirled. A blue and green light came from our crests and began to twist into one huge light beam. The blue and green light beam went to Endoimon before he could react. His face went into horror as he knew he was defeated. "You may have found out how to kill me. I lied, I would never be able to kill Loving Courage, Reliable Knowledge, or Hopeful Light. I tricked you, that is why I only went after you two. I only had the power to kill Sincere Friendship, but you found a way to destroy me. My rivals will destroy you Digidestined. Be aware Hopeful Light, he w-" Endoimon concluded as he dissolved into dust. "We did it!" Joe exclaimed practically jumping. "We did it Mimi," I whispered into her ear. She stretched up and gave me a kiss on the lips. "Lets never go through that again." "Matt, Mimi I’m so glad you’re okay," Sora said. "Yeah, me too." Mimi said running to Sora for a hug. "Matt, I was so scared," Choked out T.K., "I thought you were a goner!" "Never happen!" I said giving my brother a hug. "Let’s go home, and make sure we have the digimon with us!" Joe said. "Yeah, I’m sure Gennai will send us home now," Izzy agreed, walking toward the house next to Joe. "I’m tired, lets get walking before it gets too dark," Kari said pulling T.K. away from me. "Tai, promise me when we get back to take a nice long bath," Sora said, practically falling into Tai’s arms. Tai nodded, "Of coarse Sora, anything for you." He walked past me and Mimi and winked. "Hey Tai?" I called. he looked at me, motioning me to continue. "I’m sorry for misunderstanding you." He winked again. "Forgive and forget!" I took Mimi’s hand. "Matt, what did you misunderstand about Tai?" "Never mind. Lets go finish our vacation. How much time do we have left?" Izzy hollered back, "Twelve days!" "At least we have some time."

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Epilogue "I can’t believe we have to leave in two days," Pouted Mimi. "It’s okay Mimi, maybe we can come back next year. Or go to another one of your uncles hotels," Matt said, reassuring his spoiled girlfriend. "We’re going to go down to the restaurant and have some dinner. Anyone want to come?" Izzy asked as he and Joe were heading downstairs. "We’ll come!" Tai and Sora said. "Want to go Matt?" Mimi asked. "Sure," Matt answered. They begun to head for the stairs. I took hold of Kari’s hand and she put her finger to her mouth. We turned the other way. "Aren’t you coming T.K., Kari? Matt’s voice asked. I blushed and turned around for the prepared lie, "Kari and I were planning to have a quiet evening upstairs before we have to leave." "Oh, okay. See you tomorrow morning T.K.," Matt said disappointed. "Come on T.K., lets go." We headed back for our room and took the key to unlock it. "Should we start practicing?" Kari asked heading on to the bed. "I guess so," I said throwing off my shirt. "I can feel them coming T.K. In six months he’ll come after me. He knows my association with the dark ocean." "I know Kari, I can feel them too. That’s why we’ll be prepared and not suffer as much as my brother and Mimi did," I said sitting next to her, "Hopeful light will be strong!" 

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Author’s Note: I know, I know, corny ending. Now you know what the next story will have to do with. I’m finally finished this thirty eight paged story. I hope you liked it. E-mail me for any suggestions or comments at [email protected]