Chapter eight- Kari’s conceived power and the tongue of the king.

Kari rounded the corner and headed for Takeru’s house, she knew this had something to do with him. She only hoped that Matt was ok. Kari knocked on the door until she heard noise on the other side.

The door swung open, and sora stood before her. She smiled a big toothy smile. Kari felt herself shudder.

“T.k told me you were coming.” She said. Kari nodded

“I figured he would.” She said “I need to talk to him”

“Why?”

“I don’t know what he thinks he is doing but I want it to stop, I know he killed my mother!” Sora laughed.

“Your mother, his mother.” She waved her hand around “what difference does it make?” Kari stared

“He killed his own mother?” Sora nodded.

“That bastard” she mumbled. “Who else does he plan to kill?”

“Matt is first on his list, Mathew, Mimi, Taichi, and about everyone close to you.”

“What does he want with me?” Kari demanded.

“Oh honey, he doesn't want you as much as he” T.k shoved her aside.

“Come in.” Kari followed him. He led her out into the back yard. “How nice of you to show up.” He offered her a glass of water but she pushed it away.

“Not thirsty?” Sora asked. Kari just shook her head.

“No, now tell me T.k what is it that you want?”

T.k looked like he was deep in thought. “Well…you still don’t know do you” he paced around in front of her. “What I want is simple. I am almost ashamed that people thought you were the strongest of us digidestin. Apparently, with power comes stupidity.

Kari glared at him “you the one who let Sora turn you into a vampire, so don’t talk about me being stupid.” She said to him.

“Kari, your bravery amuses me. I don’t want you, and really I never did, but you were part of my plan. I want your whelp.”

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Brittany grabbed the gun from Davis, and threw it to the side. Matt held tightly onto his wound ‘I am going to die…’

“Davis, you idiot…look what you have done!” Brittany turned to look at Matt. “poor human” she walked over to him. She lightly brushed the hair out of his eyes.

He looked up at her, the life draining from his body, draining away with his blood. “who a-are you?” he asked, coughing up blood.

She smiled “don’t worry, I wont hurt you.”

“Why are you here?” 

“I was sent here to stop T.k and his plans.”

He struggled to take in breath. “Sent by whom?”

“The queen of the vampire world of course.” He was confused, but didn't really have time to ask questions.

“Am I going to die?” he asked her.

“No, someone still needs you”

“Kari?” she nodded her head. She reached down and laid her hand on the wound.

“I am going to have to kill you.”

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Kari didn't know what to do. She was just trying to buy herself some time. “My whelp cannot be a vampire.”

T.k stared at her, seemingly amused. “And why not?” he asked her.

“Because I am not a vampire, duh!” he shook his head.

“But still, the blood of our king courses through your veins.”

“How long have you had this planed T.k?”

He laughed. “Longer than you could imagine.”

“So what are you going to do to me?”

“Well…I could either wait for you to have the baby, or I could take him from you”

“Take him from me?” was that even possible? Takeru reached into his pocket and pulled out a knife.

“Do me a favor and hold still”

“To hell I will!” but when she tried to move she found it impossible.

She screamed, but T.k was going to torture her first, so he threw the knife at her. She desperately tried to struggle free from his magic, but to no avail. Just at the last second, a light appeared around her body and she fell to the ground, the knife falling harmlessly beside her.

She breathed a deep sigh, but it wasn't over yet. T.k was annoyed by this; he wanted to hear her scream. So, he came after her with another knife. He dove down upon her, but she rolled away just in time.

She stood up, out of breath. She was horrified that this was the end. He came at her again, Sora just watched in amusement. Just as he caught a hold of her arm, something inside her screamed out. T.k fell backwards mostly from confusion. He stared up at her.

She was shaking insanely. Pictures were flashing in her brain, of bloody teeth and dead people, of a man with dark silver hair and a cold stare. Of claws ripping at tender flesh. Blood was splattered everywhere in these pictures, deep and red. It was like some kind of crime scene. The pictures stopped for a moment, when another voice rang out.

She realized it was her own voice, as clear as day. “STOP!” she screamed, hot tears falling to the ground under her. She bit down hard on her bottom lip, making it bleed. “S-stop” her legs could no longer support her, and she began to fall.

She could feel the baby inside of her, now more than ever. She could feel his slow heart beat, his soft cries. He was screaming. Her heart-beat sped up, and the light spread all across her body.

T.k was ready for another attack; he was going to have that baby if it killed him. If he was to kill the king, he would be a true immortal. No one could stop him, not even his no-good brother and Taichi. Kari was the only thing standing in his way, he had the will to kill her but he wasn't sure if he had the raw power.

Kari swayed like she was drunk. She was in serious pain; the whelp inside of her was ripping at her insides, memories of his other life driving him mad. Her eyes were beginning to cloud over and she was suddenly cold.

T.k’s bravery had returned to him, and he jumped at her again, pinning her to the ground. She screamed and tried to get out of his grip. The blade met her side, splattering her blood along the ground.

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Matt ran as fast as his legs would take him. He hoped she was alright, he had gone to yolie’s house looking for her and Yolie had told him she had left.

Brittany was close behind him. She was also worried, if T.k was to inherit the power of the king the world would have no one to stand up to him. Kari was the only thing standing in T.k’s way, but could Kari kill T.k if she had too?

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Suddenly, Kari’s mind threw her into a shadowed memory, of when she met the king of vampires.

She was just a little girl, hardly seven years old. It was dark outside, and black clouds rolled over the horizon just in the distance. She turned to corner, and saw a man. She wanted to run, but found herself locked in place, none of her muscles willing to move.

She watched him walk, slowly toward her, holding her to her spot with his mind. He was tall with long waist length silver hair and cold silver bone chilling eyes. He wore a black long sleeved velvet shirt and black pants, a gold cross hanging from his neck. He had two sharp teeth on his upper row of teeth and two on his bottom.

His mouth glittered with a red color, something she recognized as blood. She tried, desperately to pull away from his grasp but again she did not move. He continued to stride towards her, with an air of superiority over her.

He stopped, in front of her. He licked his lips carefully as he continued to watch her, seemingly enjoying her fear.

“Let me go” she begged, Staring up into his transfixing silver eyes.

“Do you know why I chose you?” he asked, looking to both sides as if he was paranoid.

“What?” she was no longer a seven year old, but herself?

“I waited, long past that little girls great-great-great granddaughter.” He said

“I don’t understand” he released her from his minds hold and she stood on her own. She was well aware of the piercing pain in her side where T.k had thrust his blade.

“Out of all your ancestors, you were the most powerful.” He seemed to be thinking. “They were all weak, I waited inside of them but they became over-whelmed by my power.”

She watched him; he was now looking at her wound. “Why is T.k trying to take your from me?” he shook his head, but ignored her question.

“The women all died. None of them were able to control my dark memories, my raw power. They all exploded from the inside out, and I moved on to the next generation. They all conceived children of course, but none could conceive me.”

He traced a sharp claw along her wound, ripping the cloth away and dropping it to the ground. When he touched her, she felt shivers run down her spine, and she felt her face get hot. Chills running up and down her spine, it bothered her to feel this way. 

“For one reason, or another, you had the power to control me.”

“Why am I so special all of a sudden? I just used to be a normal teenage girl.”

“Until I became you whelp, yes?” she nodded her head.

“As long as I am yours, I will never let any harm befall you.” He leaned down, still inspecting the hole in her side. She watched him, curious to see what he was about to do.

He moved closer to her side, breathing in the scent of her blood. To him it was intoxicating; he lightly stuck his nose in it. She let out a little yelp, it wasn't every day people stuck there nose into your side.

He closed his eyed “don’t worry” he breathed. “I wont hurt you” his tongue came out, and scraped across her wound. He continued to lap up her blood until her entire wound was clean. Kari’s whole body was burning and her skin was tingling, shivers shot up her spine. What was he doing? And why did she like it so much?

Then, she felt his sharp fangs cut into her skin. She cried out as he drank the blood pouring into his mouth. She found herself shaking. Then his words came across her brain again “I won’t hurt you” 

When he was done he ran his tongue across the middle of his own bite mark, before looking back up at her. His face was tinged red from her blood. “See?” he said. The pain she had felt earlier was gone now and what was left was just a strange tingling feeling.

“What do I do now?” she asked “T.k is still a vampire, there is no way I can defeat him.

“Of course you can, I told you, I will always protect you.” He began to fade before her.

“Wait!” but before she knew it, the whole scene was gone and she was lying in the grass, T.k had been thrown into the table on the porch, and Sora was trying to figure out if he was ok. She stared at them for a minute.

T.k rose, and glared at her. “You just love pushing my buttons don’t you?” he held up his knife, it was snapped in half and the other half lay by her side, she grabbed it and stood back up. T.k stared at her, clearly confused.

“What?” why did he have that stupid, ‘did I miss something’ look on his face. Then she realized, she looked down at her side. Her shirt was torn and a chunk of it was missing, but instead of a gapping hole, the only mark on her milky white skin was two twin fang marks. The mark of a vampire bite.

“Where the hell did that come from?”

She laughed; for once she had the upper hand. A voice tugged at T.k’s mind, but he tried to ignore it. It rattled his brain until he chose to listen.

“I will never allow you to have my power, or the girl. I will protect her with my life, you cannot touch her, for I have marked her.” His voice was as poisonous as venom seeping into his brain and corrupting his mind, he couldn't brake free from it.

Kari had to kill him now. She could feel her baby, the vampire and her heart synchronized, became one. His power slowly urged her forward, he was no longer haunted by his own memories, and he was ready to help her. Possibly ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for her.

Matt jumped the fence and landed in T.k’s backyard, he watched as Kari moved forward. When she came to T.k, she stopped. Could she kill him? He was her father’s child!

T.k watched her hesitation, and attacked. Stabbing her right in the heart, not even the king of vampires saw that coming. Kari’s pupils dilated, and she instinctively grabbed her stomach, passing out.

Matt jumped at his brother, and they rolled around in the grass, thrashing at each other. Sora raised a knife above Kari; she was going to make sure that Kari stayed dead.



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