TK placed a bunch of flowers on Kari's coffin. The remaining Digi Destined were all gathered to say farewell to yet another friend of theirs who had tragically deceased.
"This is horrible…Why is this happening to us?" Mimi weeped.
"I'm not as affraid of that as I'm more concerned, if these killings will not stop here," Sora said.
Everyone became quiet.
"How can you even think of such a thing?" TK finally asked.
Sora leaned towards TK "I'm just concerned of the well beings of us all. We don't yet know what or who killed all of the other ones or why."
"Actually… I've studied these cases a little and this ones a different from the others," Yolei corrected.
Mimi brushed her tears away, as she asked "Really? How so?"
"Well, you see… In all the previous cases, the Digi device had been broken near completely. But this time, Kari's device was still functional," Yolei explained.
Silence filled the room. Could this be related to the murders somehow? Why would the murder break the devices?
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Gatomon was finally beginning to think clearly. She tried to bit through her
straight jacket. She tried to rip it open. But nothing helpt. She gave a pained
sigh and leaned against the comforted wall.
Suddenly, she blinked. She couldn't believe her eyes. The door was slightly open. But she could have sworn it was still closed few moments ago. She slowly got near it and pushed it open a little with her head, while looking around if the guards were near to see if it was a trap.
Gatomon got into the hallway and backed up against the doorknob, while rubbing the jacket ‘til it was loosened enough for her to break free. She held her sore paws and looked around one last time to make sure no one was around. She could hear footsteps coming closer, so she quickly pulled the jacket loosely on top of herself and went back inside the room.
The guard came and opened the door and got closer to Gatomon to give her a new injection.
However, when he reached towards her, she suddenly bit his arm and pulled her paw and injected the drugs into the guard, making him pass out on the floor in an instant. Seeing her chance to escape, Gatomon began to run away before she noticed three guards in front of her. She quickly jumped into a laundry pipe, just in time before they could notice her. Unknown to her however, the doctor who had treated her shifted his glasses a little and smiled while observing her from the security camera.
"The game’s afoot," he said silently while smiling.
AT THE SAMETIME…
Patamon punched the punching bag Veemon was holding.
"I can't believe someone would want to harm Kari," Patamon groaned while, giving another punch.
Veemon held the bag still "There’s nothing we can do about her anymore. But we can train so we can protect TK and the others, so they don’t have the horrible fate as well."
Patamon breathed hard and dropped the punching gloves.
"Your turn Veemon," he said.
Veemon started putting the gloves on "You know what I was just wondering about?"
"What is it?" Patamon replied, as he took a sip of water from a bottle.
"See, the first person who died was Davis… That was last Monday. Then Matt died and that was Thursday," Veemon said.
"Yes? And?" Patamon questioned.
Veemon punched the bag few times "And it's Wednesday now."
"Wait, are you saying that…" Patamon mumbled while placing the bottle on a seat nearby.
"The killer may strike again tomorrow. And it may be another girl… Or a guy," Veemon said.
Davis…Matt…Kari…
TK walked with Sora towards his home.
"TK… I'm so sorry about Kari. And… I'm sorry you must take care of Veemon too, it must be real hard for you," she spoke up.
He looked down on the ground "Kari…Used to help take care of them."
"I'm so sorry TK… So, so sorry…" Sora whimpered and hugged TK gently.
"Thank you Sora… You are a true friend." TK said while smiling a little.
The two continued to walk.
"Ummm, TK? What do you think of what Yolei said?" she
suddenly asked.
He looked up at sky as he pondered, "You mean about all the other devices
being broken? I don't know, but I've got a feeling that if we'll open the
device, we'll learn more about all this."
"TK, do you know what day it is today?" Sora suddenly asked while giggling.
"Uhh, no I don't. What day it is?" TK inquired and stopped moving.
Sora placed her hands on top of TK's.
"Today was the day we first time got to talk together," Sora
said accompanied with a gentle smile.
TK was not able to hide his amazement "You actually remember that? Who cares about a day like that during times like this?"
Sora suddenly looked annoyed.
"I do," she said.
Before TK could say sorry or even ask what she had meant, Sora suddenly burst into tears.
TK was taken by total surprise as she hugged against him "S… Sora?"
"I'm sorry, I'm just being stupid." Sora cried.
"No you are not… But Sora…Why is this day so important to you?" TK asked.
She looked down on the ground "Because…"
Suddenly a loud thunder interrupted the two.
"Ah, shit it's going to rain soon!" Sora exclaimed.
TK gently placed his hand over her cheek and made her look back into his eyes "Don't let that bother you. Why is this day so important?"
"Because… Because…" she said while looking left and right, as if making sure no one was watching.
"Sora?" TK asked.
Sora finally gathered enough courage and let out a near muffled "Because on this day you took my heart."
The thunder stroke again and several raindrops started to come down on them.
"Okay Sora. That's not something to joke about," TK finally slowly said.
"I'd never joke about something like this right now!!" Sora screamed while looking directly at TK's eyes.
He shook his head as he tried to outcry her "Why Sora, why do you tell me all this? Why now at times like this?!!?!"
Long moment of silence. The only sound was made from the water hitting against
them and the ground.
"Because…. Because of what’s going on… I don't know if I’ll ever have the chance to say so any other time..." Sora confessed while looking down.
Raindrops. Rain starts and ends the life. And so does a human. Red. The color of blood. The color that embraces my hands… Why… Why must the humans torture me so… So much…?
Gatomon gave a cough. The rain was starting to make her get soaked wet. She covered her eyes with her paw, while desperately trying to manage to go forward. The rain was starting to get even harder. Suddenly, she noticed two familiar people. TK and Sora! She started to run towards the two with smile starting to reappear on her face.
"TK! Sora!" she yelled.
TK turned to the direction of the voice "Gatomon?"
"What? Gatomon, where have you been?" Sora asked when Gatomon ran to hug the two.
Gatomon looked to the direction of the asylum "They…They think I've killed Kari. And they locked me up in there, oh please help me. Please... I don’t want to go back…"
"Okay, I'll help you," TK soothingly said as he tried to calm her down.
Suddenly, Sora took hold of his shoulders "TK, you've got your hands full of supporting the two Digimon you have already now. Let me take care of Gatomon."
"You are right. Having two Digimon to protect may give us a better chance of survival anyway…" TK spoke, while wiping the water off his face.
TK ran off to the direction of his house. Gatomon and Sora ran off to her house.
AT THE SAMETIME…
Yolei suddenly rose up and pulled up a phone.
"I must warn the others! They are in a great danger!" she thought to herself.
The phone of Sora was ringing.
"Come on Sora, please answer… Please God; don’t let me be too late!!
" Yolei begged in her head.
Suddenly, Biyomon picked up the phone.
"Sora?" Yolei asked.
Biyomon laughed a bit "No, Sora's out. This is Biyomon speaking, may I leave a message?"
"Biyomon! You've got to warn Sora and others! The killer it's… “ Yolei shouted, when suddenly the line went down.
Biyomon shivered a little "Yolei?"
Silence.
"Yolei?!" Biyomon shouted into the phone.
The phone was hanging from its cord over the now dead body of Yolei.
FEW DAYS LATER
Veemon shook his head after hearing the news.
"It's worse than I thought. There’s no pattern in the killings at all… We… We cannot know when the murderer strikes again…" he groaned as he hang the phone up.
To be continued…