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Fandoms: Digimon Adventure 02
Title: By Blood Bound
Characters: Yamato, Ken
Word Count: chapter 7: 500||story: 3,500
Genre: Family, Drama||Rated: PG-13
Challenge: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, section G1, a drabble novel; Written for the Halloween Trick of Treat (Advent), Day #14, write a drabble novel
Notes: This takes place in my breeds-verse.
Summary: The Kaiser has found out a secret of Ishida Yamato, and he's not going to rest until he's extracted everything that he can from it.


Perfect. The Kaiser took only what he needed. One drop of blood was what the program – he refused to call it a spell even though that was what Piemon's instructions referred to it as – called for. He carried it on the flat of the blade to where a very specially crafted Spiral awaited.

He'd spent nearly a month making this one, ensuring that it could control a half-breed human and Digimon. Or at least it did in all of the simulations that he'd run. He hadn't been able to test it on a real one, since they were notoriously difficult to capture.

The only ones he knew of being his enemies, who refused to sit down and patiently let him take them prisoner for his experiments, made matters that much more difficult. Really, they were so annoying about that.

At least he had this one now, and Anbumon would make the perfect test subject in so many ways.

There was a small depression on one end of the Spiral. The Kaiser slid the drop of blood in there and sealed it inside. While the instructions hadn't insisted on the control device being a Spiral, he found using a shape he already knew would bring control over some of the most powerful entities of the Digital World much more to his liking.

The Spiral glowed. It actually glowed a brilliant blood-red. The Kaiser smiled. He could not have been happier about this.

Now he brought it over to Ishida, who hadn't stopped trying to escape for a single moment. Not that he'd ever stood a chance. Piemon's notes gave him a plethora of information about his wayward son.

Brother. The word sang in the Kaiser's mind, above and beyond the niggling annoyance that someone else should have that title.

He didn't waste his time with any more words, but clipped the Spiral firmly onto Ishida's arm. It would not convey instant and absolute control, not in the sense that his normal Spirals did to powerful Digimon. No, this would have a similar, but not identical effect.

Ishida threw his head back, not caring that it slammed against the wall. He screamed, the sound echoing off the steel walls of the chamber. The Kaiser watched, his expression that of a small child tearing the legs off of some helpless animal.

I wonder if Motomiya would scream like that if I did it to him. A project for the future, perhaps.

Again and again Ishida squirmed and struggled. After nearly ten minutes of that, he collapsed against the wall, breathing hard, covered in sweat, but the fight had gone out of him. The Kaiser stepped forward.

Ishida's head snapped up. His eyes glimmered scarlet and the smile on his lips spoke of madness only dimly under control. "Akogimon. So good to finally meet you."

His voice hadn't changed, but his tone had: darker, crueler, with a hint of command to it even when he offered a greeting. Again the Kaiser smiled.

"Prince Anbumon."

To Be Continued

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