These days he rarely heard anything anymore with the way the tar covered him, and when he did hear things he actually wished the tar was thicker so it would completely block out noise. The only sounds he ever heard anymore came from the demon, thus were bound to be awful no matter what, and were either screams and shouts or laughing.

In todays case it was it strangled combination of both.

The creature couldn't seem to decide if it was amused or extremely pissed, either way he had never really heard this sound from it before, and despite all his newfound hope the sound was so terrible he simply wanted to die. Though if he could die he would have months ago after he lost his hope in the first place, he wasn't sure if he should feel lucky or not right now that the demon needed him alive enough to insure he couldn't die just yet.

The demon had just gotten home from chess club to find his room a mess and Jun trying to clean it up. When she saw him walk in she quickly tried to come up with a lie, and just before she failed entirely, sighed in defeat and admitted to searching his room for drugs.

She talked, gives her reasoning, for a good few minutes, and after she's done the demon keeps making that horrid sound.

When it's somewhat calmed itself it replies, probably something slightly formal and gives some reason as to why he's so good a stuff now that will satisfy her. There's a pause, Jun seems to think it over, before grinning and nodding, then she tries to walk out of the room. The demon grabs her arm on the way out.

It says something and by the look on her face it must be threatening her, he wants to save her, but the tar holds him back. The demon lets go when it's dome talking, smirks at him as he glares at it, and outside his body Jun nods and leaves the room.

The demon makes short work of straightening up the room, and when it's done, it lays on his bed as if to sleep.

He knows what's coming, and he hates it.

Now that the demon no longer has to worry about controlling his body from the moment it steps away from its post and makes its way over to him.

Using its ghastly claws it removes some tar from around his ear so it can speak to him and be heard.

"Your sister," It starts in it's raspy, hellish voice, "Was quite amusing. Your family doesn't know about the digital world and therefore doesn't know about the dark spore, or me. That works in my favor, so thank you for being so sneaky during your time in control. Your sister thought you got good at everything because of drugs or something as she put it. Now she, like your parents, just believe it to just be puberty or your old classes were so easy the bored you into getting poor grades. How does it feel to know you have even less hope than the rock bottom you had yesterday!" It laughs at the end and reapplies the tar to his ear before going back to it's post to work.

'Drugs, well my sister was close. The dark spore was a drug of sorts that made something worse when I fought it.' He thinks when his daily pep talk was finished.

Just another update on how things just got a little worse for him. Had been going on since about a month after the demon appeared and it learned with the loss of his voice it had gained one to speak to him with.

He just had to remind himself the demon was losing without knowing it, that his friends had a plan to save him.

His friends, he figured out a few hours ago after thinking about it for the past two days straight, had likely used Matt to gain a little more proof on their theories, thus the pictures, and had used whatever proof and theory they had to get Gennais help. Ken had likely noticed a difference in the way the two of them acted with dark spores and came up with the majority of whatever theory they had and plan of action. Ken would know best when it came to this after all.

Real dark spores, he had come to realize during his time infected, only took root in the pure and good, like him and Ken, because the spores evil was so great if they took root in something that wasn't pure or good then the extreme amount of evil flooded into the body by a spore would kill the host. A pure and or good host acts as a balance toward that evil thus keeping the host alive. Ken probably knew the same.

It sucked beyond all measure.

Cutting off his thought process there before it got to bad, he decided he might as well just try and sleep for now. Nothing else to do anyway.

He just hoped his friends would hurry up with their plans to save him. Hopes that he'll walk up and the demon will be gone.

Mentally yawning he offers himself one final thought.

'Maybe hope isn't enough. What we might just need is a miracle...'

And as he drifts to sleep with that thought, somewhere far away, a tiny crest flickers with a bright golden light...


Okay so new chapter. I hope between this and the last one I cleared up the questions of if Davis' family noticed him acting different. They did, in his parents case they thought puberty or late bloomer of sorts, and his sister thought drugs. Now I also did get some other questions that I'm not sure if I will be able to completely answer in the story, so I'll answer them here real quick.

I was asked why the demon doesn't have access to Davis' memories. Good question.

It was states earlier that real darks spores are more dangerous than copies, and if someone knows and fights off the spore rather than accepting it or not knowing and being neutral then the spore will fight back to get some kind of control. Ken was neutral to his spore since he didn't know about it, so he didn't fight it and the spore didn't have to fight back, it just took root and feed on his sadness after his brother died. But with Davis it was much different. Davis knew about his spore and fought it for a long time, so it fought back. When the spore fought back for so long, in order to gain control it had to create something to fight for it to gain control and it used all its evil energy to form the demon. Since the spore couldn't take root it couldn't get his memories. If it wanted the memories if would have to kill Davis' soul (currently trapped in tar as a form of restraint) If it did that it could have the memories, and the body would still be alive so it could control it, but the body with out the pureness of Davis' soul would begin to decay quickly. So Davis is kept alive and the demon doesn't get his memories because it isn't worth it to have the body it fought so hard for just start to decay like that.

I hope that made sense to all of you, if not, or if you have more questions, then put it in a review or PM me and I'll do my best to explain. Love you all, thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed, and yeah... Reviews are lovely.