I do not own Digimon or Stanely Kubrick's 'The Shining'. They belong to Toei and Stephen King.

This fic contains a bit of Mimato, Takari, Taiora and Kenyako. Enjoy! ^_^

'Little pigs, let me come in. Not by the hair on your chinny chin chin. Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in!' Jack Nicholson in 'The Shining'.

The Digital Shining

or

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Digimon

8:00 am

"Well, guys, it's been two hours since we left home but we finally made it!" said Tai driving along the road round the high snowy mountains. It wasn't too long before the eight tired travellers finally caught sight of a large black building high on top of an approaching slope. Matt and Mimi got up from the short little nap and yawned as they stretched their arms and rubbed their eyes.

"Well, it's about time. TK here kept kicking in his own sleep while you were driving, Tai." Said Matt angrily. At the same time TK and Kari opened their and gave out some tired moans.

"Hey, you're the one who kept me up while I was sleeping, Matt. You snore real loudly." Said TK.

"Oh, quit complaining, you two." said Sora looking back behind the car at the squirming boys.

"Hey, Ken! We're here!" said Yolei jumping round her seat nudging Ken constantly on the shoulder. Ken woke up in no time at all when he heard the loud voice of Yolei shouting in his quiet ear.

"Hey, Tai." said Kari yawning, "What is this place called again?"

"Um, I think's it's called……"

The Overlooked Hotel

The front sign of the gate to the big looking house said. Tai drove in through the path that lead into what seemed to be an empty parking lot. No sign anyone anywhere. It was all so quiet.

"Oh. What luck!" said Mimi jumping out of the car and running round like a headless chicken, "There's nobody here but us! We're the first visitorss here for this Spring Break!"

"Calm down, Mimi. That doesn't change anything about the amount of luggage I've had to drag for you this entire journey." Said Matt pulling out Mimi's suitcases with much difficulty. TK gave him a hand and pushed the bags out of the trunk.

"This place gives me the creeps." Said Ken quietly.

"Oh, you worry too much, Ken, this place is going to be great!" said Yolei helping Ken with their bags.

"What a hotel!" said Tai in amazement to the size of the actual building.

"I bet it could fit thousands of people in it." Said Sora standing beside him.

"Tai, more talk, less work." Said Kari moaning behind the gazing couple.

The eight tired visitors got all of their bags and made their way through the main entry and into the lobby.

"Hello?" shouted Tai along the long deserted corridor, "Is anybody here?"

Silence.

"Where is everyone?" said TK with a puzzled face.

"There's nobody in the reception either." Said Sora. Tai and Matt just looked at each other and shrugged. They then headed towards the big black book which was on top of the reception desk, open wide and with a small little note that sat between the pages all folded up.

"Hmmm. I wonder what this could be." Said Matt picking up the piece of paper and unravelling it to see what it had to say:

'To whom this may concern,

Please enjoy your stay here.'

"That's it?" Said Yolei lifting up her glasses and raising her right brow.

"Who's it by?" said Ken.

"It doesn't say." Said Matt frowning.

"Oh, well." chuckled Tai taking out the pen from the black book, "It must be the workers' day off or something!" Tai realized that nobody else had signed in the book. Tai did nothing but shrug again before he signed his name and the date into the book.

"So how many rooms did we order?" said Sora signing her name in the book.

"Four." Said Tai, "Matt and Mimi are staying in Room 240, Ken and Yolei will be in Room 239, TK and Kari are in Room 238 and you and I are in….let's see…." Tai looked closely at what the book said on the page. "Room 237."

"Well, what a coincidence!" said Kari clapping her hands together. "It looks like we're all together!"

Everyone signed their names in the book and helped themselves with finding the keys on the long keyboard shelf without much problem. They had to climb over the counters and back in order to obatin them. They all made their way through the lobby and into the large complex lounge, which had a long steep staircase in the middle of the other end of the room.

"What a lounge!" said Mimi with a big smile on her face.

"I wanna stay here for months!" said Yolei looking round the luxurious room.

"We're only staying here for five days, Yolei." said Ken. Yolei's smile faded and she couldn't do anything else but sigh miserably like a sad puppy. After admiring the splendors of the room they all made their way upstairs along the high staircase. Then it came to their surprisement of how not even nobody was here either. Just ahead were the elevator doors leading upwards. A room reference guide hung on the wall to the left. Everyone observed the poster and tried to find the floor leading to their rooms.

"It looks we're all on the third floor." Said Sora.

"You're right, Sora." Said Tai. Matt in meantime pushed the button to summon the elevator. All waited for it to come. The boys let the girls stand in front of the elevator doors as they all stepped aside for them.

"Ladies first." Smiled TK as he let Kari walk forward.

"Thanks, TK." Said Kari.

"Yeah thanks, Matt." Said Mimi blushing a little.

"Let's just say we think that you girls should the have the honor of taking the first step into the elevator of this great hotel." Said Tai.

Ding!

The door elevators slowly slid and open, and all of a sudden, a large tidal wave of red dark blood splattered all over the girls and literally pushed them down to the floor as more blood covered them and flowed along the marble floor. The girls screamed as the smiles on the boys instantly dimmed away and turned into a facial expression of shocking horror.

"AAAA!!!!!!! My dress! All ruined!" cried Mimi getting up from the floor, all covered in red.

"Agh….is everyone okay?" said Sora wiping the blood off her face and eyes.

"I'm fine…..just fine….." replied Yolei in a sarcastic tone taking her glasses off and wiping them thoroughly. The boys rushed to the girls and tried to help them get up.

"Is my hair all right?" said Sora anxiously to Tai.

"Well, there's something you don't see everyday." Said Ken taking Yolei's hand to help her stand up right.

"Oh, we sure had the honor taking our first step into the elevator of this GREAT hotel!" growled Kari.

"Mimi, are you hurt?" said Matt.

"Huh! And they called this a five star hotel! Hmph!" Mimi snorted as she marched herself into the elevator with the others.

"Man, they really need to sort out their services around here. Dangerous stuff could happen." Said Tai as the elevator lifts closed shut.

The Digidestined found their rooms and the girls immediately took showers to wash off all their red stained marks on themselves, while the boys just admired the entire suite of their room. It just made them drool with saliva. So beautiful. So romantic. So…..

"Huh?" said Tai looking through his bags.

"What the?" Matt opened his eyes staring at his suitcase.

"Hey, where's?" TK gasped as he couldn't find……

"My Digivice! Where is it?" Ken uttered loudly rushing through his things.

Nowhere.

"No." said Tai panicking.

"It can't be." Said Matt breaking sweats across his forehead.

"Without my Digivice, I won't be able to see Patamon for five days!" cried TK clutching his head.

"The horror!" cried Ken, "I can't live without you Wormmon! Not for five whole days!" Ken began to shiver as he was already beginning to suffer from side effects.

No Digivive. Not anywhere. Gone.

"What will I do?" said Tai shaking vigorously.

"Must control myself…." Said Matt with his teeth chattering.

"Yeah, I w'll be fine…..just fine without Patamon……I have Kari with me after….yeah that's it….Kari….." said TK wrapping himself together as he began to form goosebumps on his back.

"I can feel the anger boling….burning……..the rage of not being there……too strong……" said Ken with saliva dropping down his lips from his open mouth and staring into emptiness.

"NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" they all cried in a high pitched tone. Echoes of their screams ran through the valleys of the mountains outside. Making the crows fly away in their groups. Wolves began to howl away in respond to the cries of injustice and pain. It was most unbearable the boys could not stand it. Five whole days without Digimon. After all they had experienced with them. What would they be without them? The horror. The horror….the pain……the desire…… It could very well make them go……kind of…….crazy………just without them…..alone…….only with the girls to keep them company…..no…..it wasn't enough……….if the girls were going to be a nuisance…….then they might as well be better off…….

9:00 am

"Phew! Okay, Tai, the bathroom's all yours now!" said Sora coming out of the bathroom with bath her robe on.

"You can take your shower now, Matt" said Mimi softly in her bath robe.

"Go ahead TK. I'm done." Said Kari wiping her red warm cheeks with her bath robe.

"Ken. I'm out!" said Yolei smiling as she tied on her bath robe.

Tai suddenly came up from the side of the door and clutched Sora by the neck as he threw her onto the bed violently. Matt stood right on front of Mimi and took her by the waist, raised her from the ground and suddenly rushed at the open window nearby while carrying her like a log as he threatened to throw her out of the window. TK leaped down from the corner of the ceiling like a spider and tackled Kari onto the ground, he then grabbed her leg and bent it into a position as if he was going to break it. Ken jumped from the bed like an ape and grabbed Yolei and threw her onto the couch in the next room along with himself and grabbed her arm round her back and put it into a twisting position.

"Ugh…..T…..Tai…….." squealed Sora.

"No…..TK!" cried Kari in pain..

"Please let me go, Ken!" shouted Yolei in agony.

"You don't want to do this, Matt! Please!" shouted Mimi.

The boys gave no mercy upon their girlfriends. They looked at the girls sternly and showed more of their threatening terror.

"Guess what Mimi?" said Matt grinning demonically.

"I'm gonna……gonna……" said TK smiling.

"K….K…..K…." laughed Ken like a hyena.

"Kill you! I'll kill you all if that's what it takes!" cackled Tai tightening his grip on Sora.

"MWA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" their laughs could be heard throughout the hotel corridor.

The girls suddenly shouted their boyfriend's names with their last cry of hope, and somehow, it managed to work.

"Hey, what am I doing?" said Ken thinking to himself suddenly as he let Yolei go.

"Wait. This isn't right." Said TK getting off Kari's back.

"Um….sorry, Sora….." said Tai rubbing his hair and smiling innocently at Sora.

"I guess I got a little carried away there……" said Matt heading for the main door.

"I think I'm going to check on the others and go out for some fresh air." Said TK closing the door.

"I'll be back later during the day." Said Tai shutting his door.

"I really need to time out. I'm just going to hang out with Tai for a while, Mimi. You can stay here if you want." Said Matt leaving the room.

"I'll see you later, Yolei." Said Ken as he smiled while opening the door that led to the hotel corridor.

And before the girls could say anything from the boys' most unexpected behavior, they had all gone.

1:00 pm

Sora, Yolei, Kari and Mimi walked down through the gardens of the Overlooked Hotel, discussing about the way of how the boys were behaving recently. They were all confused of whatever made them do such things to them. They didn't realize that all the boys craved for was their Digvices of which they had forgotten to pack during the trip to this amazing place.

"C'mon, why do you really think they would act so…..so….." said Sora trying to think of the correct word to use.

"Man-ish?" said Kari.

"Yeah, Man-ish!" said Mimi.

"Do you think they're gay?" said Yolei before everyone looked at her in complete horror in the silence that surrounded them. Yolei just smiled. "I take that back."

"NAH!" said the four girls as they laughed together along the stone path. Lttle did they notice of the strange hooded figure approaching in front of them.

"Kari, Yolei, Sora, Mimi." Said the hooded man in front of them.

"EEK! It's the Grim Reaper! Here to take our souls! Run for it, girls!" Kari cried.

"No, wait!" said the hooded man taking off his hood, "It's just me!"

"Gennai!" the girls cried.

"Shhhh! Not so loud!" whispered Gennai with his finger to his lip. "I've come here to tell your girls something very important and you really need to know this."

"What is it?" said Sora as the other girls waited for Gennai's reply. But then Gennai all of a sudden paused before answering and instead began to think to himself.

"Oh, how should I tell them? I don't want to upset them by saying that Tai and the others are going to make mince meat out of them."

"Gennai? Why are you talking to yourself? And who did you say's got minty feet?" said Kari making Gennai jump.

"You heard that?" said Gennai growing pale.

"I heard it." Said Mimi.

"Me too." Said Sora.

"Me three." Said Yolei.

"Oh my God!" Gennai gasped in shock and made the sign of the cross, "You girls have the Digital Shining!" The girls at first looked at each other in confused manners.

"The what……?" they said to Gennai.

"The Digital Shining. You all got it too!" Gennai immediately grouped the girls together in a private circle and whispered what he had to say to them. "Listen, girls and listen good. Have any of the boys been acting strange lately?"

"Well, Ken tried to twist my arm." Said Yolei.

"Tai tried to strangle me." said Sora.

"TK tried to break my leg." Said Kari.

"Matt tried to throw me out the window." Giggles began to surface among the circle. Mimi got annoyed by the humiliation. "It's true! You have to believe me!"

"Okay, okay okay!" said Gennai trying not to laugh anymore, "This is serious. Do you know the history of this hotel?"

"No." Yolei said.

"No" said Mimi.

"No." said Kari.

"Yes……oh no, wait…..that's the French Revolution….sorry!" said Sora.

"Look. There have been real strange stuff happening in this place in the past few years.And I mean really strange as in supernatural. All I'm saying to you girls is that you better keep close eye on the boys. Because you never know what activities they could get up to."

"What sort of activities?" said Mimi.

"Oh, you don't want to know! I'll be damned if I tell you!"

"Really?" said Sora.

"No, not really, I just don't want to give it away for you in this story. But anyway, if you girls ever need help, just contact me with your Digital Shining. And I'll be there."

"But…." Yolei was interrupted when a chirping sound of a bird was heard nearby.

"Did you hear that?" said Gennai.

"Yeah, we all did." Said Kari getting up from the circle.

"Oh my God!" said Gennai making the sign of the cross again, "Another one that Digitally shines! I must leave you girls on your own now! But remember what I said" Gennai left the girls and ran towards the forest hedge maze just a few meters away from where the girls were standing. The girls just shook their heads instead of just trying to bother argue Gennai's instant belief.

"Um, Gennai….." said Mimi as she saw Gennai head into the hedge maze.

"Never fear, Mimi! I've been here before! The map's all in my head!" Gennai pointed to his head when he strode off into the shadows of the green hedges. Mimi just sighed and crossed her arms.

"I was just going to tell him that there was a map guide he could take with him just by the side of the entrance."

Author's note: I had to separate this story into two parts. Sorry. I guess I'm just a little filled up with homework for now. I'll get the next part out soon.