Yolei sniffed as she walked into her room later that night. Her parents had not been at all too happy to see that her hair was black, but when she had gone to go and dye it back, the hairdresser said hat the dye wouldn't work and that her hair just remained black. Odd.

She laid down on her bed, Poromon asleep beside her. "I wonder what Ken is doing right now..."

"Why are you still thinking about him?" asked the little pink bird. Yolei turned her gaze over to her partner. She grumbled in annoyance form the question.

"Because I have a heart, unlike all of you! Sure he's done some nasty things in the past, but now he's in trouble and he needs our help. He's all alone" Yolei answered.

"Yes Yolei, but he has Wormmon with him" Poromon pointed out.

"I hate to break it to you Poromon, but that cute little bug is about as strong as a marshmallow" sighed Yolei. Poromon shook his head. She sighed as she laid her head on her pillow. "I just hope he's okay..."

Ken reluctantly followed Arukenimon to his 'supposed' new home. They crossed the gray wasteland and came upon the North side of the Digital World. It was still wasteland, it was just more dark and vacant. Wormmon shivered at Ken's feet. This was their new home? He didn't like it.

Ken looked around him to see just where his new home was. All he could see was gray. About ten minutes more of silent walking, Ken began to see the outline of a large building. He soon realized that it was a castle. Arukenimon stopped and smiled wickedly at him.

"You little boy emperor. What do you think of your new home?" she asked teasingly. Ken silently gulped in fear. This wouldn't have been his first choice, but beggars can't be choosers.

"It's...quaint..." he hissed with sarcasm. Arukenimon gritted her teeth.

"Well you had better get used to it Little Monster, for this is your new home. Whether you like it or not, you no longer have a place in the digital world nor the Real world, so unless you wish to live a humiliating life, I suggest you stay here and live here" she explained through bared teeth.

Ken raised his head determinedly. There was no way he was going to be a coward in this. He got himself in this mess, so he was going to take it like a true emperor would. he refused to be baby and cry out his misery. he sighed internally, knowing that was going to be impossible for him to do. Though he still refused to cry in front of Arukenimon. He hated showing his weakness to others.

Ken stepped forward and made his way to the entrance of his new home.

"Have a good time Little Monster!" Arukenimon mocked at him. Ken ignored her, and with Wormmon at his feet, he walked into the large black castle, storm clouds filled the sky surrounding the castle grounds.

Closing the large black doors behind him, Ken was engulfed by the darkness of the castle.

"What are you doing Yolei?" asked Poromon the next morning she he was his partner fiddle around in her room, making a mess of things. "I'm looking for my digivice!" she squeaked in anger and impatience.

Poromon sighed, flapping his tiny pink wings. "Why do you want that? Today's Sunday, we are not going to the digital world today."

Yolei threw a shirt at him unknowingly as she searched her room. The little bird flapped his way from underneath it. "I'm going to look for Ken!"

"You're still on about that? Why don't you just let it go Yolei. For all we know he may have already gone back home!" argued the bird.

"In the condition he's in? I doubt that!" Yolei shot back at him.

She brushed back some of her black hair from her face and smiled as she found her prize. her red digivice was underneath a pile of jeans she had had on the floor next to her dresser. "Here it is!" she cried in delight. She raised it high in the air, quite proud of herself that she had found it.

She walked over to the computer. Poromon squeaked in surprise and waddled his way over to her. "Digiport Open!" Yolei cried and the computer screen flashed a blue light and they were gone.

Ken had broken his promise to himself in being brave and not crying. Not long after Ken had walked into the castle, he made his way up the stairway and up to the highest floor, where he found a bedroom with a balcony. Inside the room was a large king-sized fluffy bed, and considering that he hadn't slept in over two days, he fell onto the bed, exhausted.

Although sleep refused to claim him. he couldn't fall asleep not matter how hard he tried. So, in utter despair, he cried. His black tears soon stained the white pillows and sheets of the bed. Wormmon, weeping himself for his master, could do nothing but plop himself on a lonely side pillow and watch helplessly as his master cried his heart out.

This was their new life, and there was nothing they could do about it.

His robes fell off him as he slipped underneath the freezing covers. His new body feeling odd to him. Making himself comfortable, Ken was finally able to fall into an uneasy sleep.

"You want me to what?" asked the confused and bewildered Tentomon. The little mechanical bug looked at Yolei as though she had two heads.

Yolei looked Tentomon straight in the eye. "You heard me! I want you to help me find Ken!" snapped Yolei. She was not in a very happy mood at the moment, and clearly, neither was the weather is the digital world either. Dark storm clouds were currently taking over the whole area.

"Yolei, I don't think Tentomon will be able to help us" spoke Hawkmon wisely.

"And what exactly is that supposed to mean?" demanded Tentomon, feeling quite offended by his statement.

"I'm just saying that it will probably be impossible for even you to find him, replied the bird.

"So, you don't think I could find him do you? Well, we'll just see about that" Tentomon challenged.

Yolei smiled down at Hawkmon and winked at him, who winked back.

Groaning in exhaustion, ken flipped and turned under the covers of the bed. he just couldn't get comfortable. And he wasn't at all used to having a tail, making it all the more harder to find a good place to sleep. Thunder boomed in the darkness of the outside.

Tears continued to roll down ken's cheeks, staining his face.

He looked outside. "Curse the world and all it's inhabitants" hissed Ken suddenly, spooking out Wormmon, who sat on a pillow nest to him.

Anger began to boil Ken's blood as he lay there on the bed. "I hate everyone in this pathetic world" he moaned, twisting and turning. "They caused me to be like this!"

Wormmon shook his head. "No they didn't! The only ones to be blamed for all this is yourself and me!"

Ken snapped his head up to look up at the large green worm. "What? He is this your fault, besides the fact that you always annoyed me?"

"It's my fault because I didn't have the courage to stop you when things began to get out of hands, and it's your fault for saying you wouldn't care if you were a monster when you really would!"

Ken growled. "Shut up! I didn't mean what I said! Arukenimon did this to me!"

"She wouldn't have had you not gotten so power hungry!" retorted Wormmon.

Ken glared at him but said nothing. He knew deep down that the worm was right. He couldn't deny it any longer...This was all his fault!

"Come on Ken...Get some clothes on and we'll go out to find some help..." offered ken.

Ken sighed. "We're not going anywhere Wormmon! We're staying put and that's that!"