Chapter 1
A Meeting of Light and Darkness
Kari fell down the cave floor and was cut off from Gatomon and the other Digidestined. She began to walk to find a way out when she could hear the sound of wings flapping ahead of her in the dark path in front of her. A swarm of bats flew at her and they bit, clawed and scratched her. She fell to the ground as the bats flew around her. She could hear a woman chuckling. Appearing through the shadows was a woman. She wore a semi-black outfit with a mask covering the top half of her face and wore chains all around her body. It was Ladydevimon as Kari could see with an evil smile on her face.
"Haven't you grown princess," said Ladydevimon in her normal evil tone as the bats flew around her. Kari slowly got to her feet and said,
"You can't hurt me Ladydevimon my power can destroy all darkness creatures".
"Oh I'm quite aware of that, although I think you wouldn't," Ladydevimon replied still sounding very confident.
"You want to risk it?" said Kari as she took out her Digivice and held it in front of her so that the face was facing Ladydevimon.
"Please you hate taking the life of any Digimon, no matter how evil they are, you always just let your friends take care of it," said Ladydevimon who was now walking towards Kari.
"You may be older but I'm sure your conscience hasn't changed," said Ladydevimon as she continued,
"Well Gatomon isn't here so it comes to it I will be forced to," said Ladydevimon as Kari was backing up against the wall showing weakness.
"What makes you think I want to hurt or kill you," Ladydevimon laughed evilly.
"But I'm the princess of light enemy to all dark Digimon, why wouldn't you?" said Kari who was now with her back against the wall.
"True you may be a disadvantage to all dark Digimon but that doesn't mean killing you is the only thing to do, you can also be an advantage to dark Digimon," explained Ladydevimon as Kari began to lower her Digivice until it fell to the stone floor.
"What do you mean?" asked Kari still trying to act strong.
"By corrupting you," said Ladydevimon as Kari froze at this as she didn't think Ladydevimon would be capable of doing so to her.
She thought that Ladydevimon was bluffing or that her power couldn't be corrupted.
"Your powers can't do anything to me Ladydevimon," said Kari as Ladydevimon just laughed at her captive Digidestined. Just then Ladydevimon raised her gloved hand up pointing at Kari.
"We'll see about that, goodbye princess," she said as her gloved hand started to glow a dark purple as beams from Ladydevimon's had hit Kari's heart creating a dark aura around her.
Kari tried to get away from it but she was frozen as she was still held against the wall by Ladydevimon's free hand as she could feel an evil presents entering her body.
A few seconds later Kari's vision went dark as she collapsed to the ground with her pink Digivice halve buried in the lose sand that was disturbed from the walls as Ladydevimon looked down on Kari's unconscious body.
"It may take some time to fully infect her, but the darkness will take her over," She said as she looked at the wall to her right and could feel the presence of some the other Digidestined and their partners. She then walked into shadows and vanished along with the bats flying around leaving the unconscious Kari in the cold underground tunnel with nothing but her Digivice beside her.
A few seconds later cracks formed in the wall collapsed as Digmon came through it. He was followed by Tai, Cody, Joe, Agumon, Gatomon and Gomamon. Straight away Tai and Gatomon saw Kari and ran over to her. "Kari! Kari please wake up, come back to us," they said as Tai Supporting his little sister trying to get her conscious before continuing,
"Joe what's wrong with her? She was walking a few minutes ago," he said as Joe walked over to them and checked Kari's head for injuries.
"It could be a delayed concussion," he said checking the rest of her body for injuries.
"She did fall pretty high Tai, she could have banged her head then walked over here were the concussion took place," he finished explaining his idea.
"Can that happen?" Cody asked.
"It doesn't matter, will she be okay?" Gatomon shouted at them.
"Yes, Yes, she should be," replied Joe who was trying to keep Gatomon calm.
"Just give her some time to recover," Cody said as he took out his D terminal and told the others they found Kari and to go on ahead as Gatomon picked up Kari's Digivice and said,
"We got to be more careful when were near Drimogemon again," explained Cody as he walked to them with Digmon.
"Yeah he may only be a champion level Digimon but he can still throw us off," replied Joe before he turned his head looking at Tai.
"She seems alright, just a few scrapes and bruises from the fall nothing serious," Tai smiled at Joe relieved but Gatomon just clenched her paws.
"I could have got here to help her if you would have dug down the way she came" screamed Gatomon at the Digmon.
"Hey! If I did that, the rubble would have fallen on the sides crushing her" replied Digmon who was afraid that Gatomon would lash at him.
"Please you're just afraid of falling from high heights," replied Gatomon as Digmon went quiet at this. "That's... not true," he said trying to hide the truth.
"Guys stop, she's waking up," Tai shouted at them. They turned to see Kari regaining consciousness. "Are you alright Sis?" Tai asked as he helped her to her feet.
"Yeah I'm okay" She replied a little woozy.
"Kari!" Gatomon screamed jumping up to Kari hugging her.
"I'm so happy you're alright," Kari smiled at this happy to be back to her partner and friends.
"Hey! Move away from the rubble," they turned to were the rubble sat and could hear Ifritmon's voice on the other side.
They quickly turned around the corner before hearing him scream "Terra force" and a loud explosion as rubble from around the corner smacked off the wall in front of them. They walked around the corner to see Ifritmon where the rubble was and Christine and her partner.
"Good job" Christine said to him examining the melted ceiling preventing a cave in.
"Thanks" he grunted walking over to the others saying,
"I see she's alright," said Ifritmon as Gatomon interrupted,
"Why were you expecting worse?" Gatomon said giving cheek to him. He just ignored her and looked around the area they were in.
"Did you find her over near the pile?" asked Christine.
"No we just found her unconscious over there," replied Joe as told him indicating the spot behind them. "She must have had a delayed concussion and walked over there," continued Joe.
"Really?" said Ifritmon as he looked at this spot and turned to Kari
"Did you see anybody or anything while you were down here?" he asked as she sat up against Tai's body and replied
"No, I remember falling and then everything's a blank until I woke up" She replied.
"Are you sure Kari?" replied Ifritmon with a nod.
"Right, let's get out of here" said Tai as they started to walk the way Ifritmon and Christine came in. "Whoa, these tunnels are amazing," Cody said looking only to see nothing but a never ending tunnel as he said,
"I've never seen anything like this," as Joe and Tai helped Kari through the tunnels
"Yeah they were made by Drimogemon as their nests," Ifritmon answered looking up at the large hole to the surface he made.
"I can get us out of here two by two," he explained as they divided into 4 sets of pairs.
"Right Kari and Gatomon better go first," Tai told him but Ifritmon shook his head.
"No, I don't want to leave her on her own so you and Agumon better go first," replied Ifritmon as he used his powers to jump out of the cave to the surface with Tai and Agumon on each hand.
When Tai and Agumon were back above land, Ifritmon went back down to get Kari and Gatomon and so on until it was him, Joe and Gomamon.
"That was no concussion and you know it" he said to Joe.
"There was someone down here with her and they had a dark presents about them, replied Ifritmon as he was making his way up to her surface.
"What! Who was it?" Gomamon asked.
"I'm not sure they repressed their powers so I couldn't recognise them but this was all planned from the fight up above and I'm sure I recognise them," He told them.
"What, why are you telling us this, and not the others?" Joe asked.
"Because you're the original Digidestined who carried the crest of reliability right?" asked Ifritmon.
"Yes but..." replied Joe as they stood in the light from above them.
"Anyway best not tell the other's especially Tai, It's best we just stand back and wait, but be prepared for the worst got it," said Ifritmon in a stern voice as Joe and Gomamon nodded in response as Ifritmon walked to them grabbing them and with a great jump got them out.
"What took you guys?" Tai asked them.
"Just wanted one last look at the place, let's move," replied Ifritmon as they moved to the nearest TV set.
"Me or Luke will inform you of anything we hear, until then remember what I told you" Ifritmon whispered into Joe and Gomamon's ears before reverting back to Luke.
As they reached the TV, Luke and Christine said their goodbyes as they left back to their countries.
After Kari and Gatomon got home they went straight to bed after the day they had. But in Kari's heart an evil was starting to grow and take over her.