Author's Note: Well... I wanted to add some things to this chapter, but doing it, would make it a rated "M", so... I decided not to. Um... yeah, that's all I can think of saying right now. I want to say something else, but than I'll spoil the chapter. Enjoy reading chapter ten!

Chapter Ten:

Fatality

"Bakemon! What is wrong with you? Why are you not speaking?" Demanded Myotismon roughly, and than he grabbed the poor ghost digimon. "Where is my wife?..." The lowly little Bakemon's eyes never shifted back to his master's mocking ones, and the vampire himself wondered this. Myotismon watched the ghost's gaze and followed it slowly. The vampire saw it, and at that exact moment, he felt as if his world had suddenly shattered in front of his eyes. He knew that Bakemon was starring at what seemed to be Kyle. There was no mistaken it. What bothered, and even frightened, Myotismon was the fact that her head was bowed in a most distressing manner, and that it looked as if her whole body was bleeding. The two virus digimon just stood there dumbstruck, as the disturbed female slowly turned and walked into a darken alley between two ruined buildings.

"What are they starring at?" Kari whispered to T.K.

T.K. shook his head, "I don't know, but whatever it is, it's scaring the heck out of those two; and I never had seen Myotismon afraid of anything when he was around... in our world." The digidestined and their digimon watched the two bewildered evils. In mere seconds, the Bakemon that once stood by his master's side, quickly shrieked and flew away into the skies. The children knew that something was around that might be more threatening than the vampire lord himself. "I don't like this one bit you guys..." T.K.'s eyes widened as he saw Myotismon slowly walk the way as to which that girl went. It seemed the vampire looked as if he was in some sort of trance. The young boy and the others just stood there and watched the vampire walk past them. "Myotismon! We're not through here!" He called out angrily to him, but when Kari lightly put a hand on T.K.'s shoulder, the boy calmed down and watched as well. "Just where is he going? What did he see?"

Joe and Kari just shrugged slightly, "Do you think we should follow them?" The girl asked meekly.

"If we follow..." replied Joe sternly, "We are most likely going to run into something that is far worse than Myotismon."

T.K. nodded in agreement, "You may be right, but... whatever it is -- no matter if we run or not, it's going to come after us... I think... we should follow quietly." The children and digimon breathed in with fear, but than they began to walk; taking each step with great caution.

Myotismon would of easily have flown above rooftops to find the girl that he saw much faster, but he was too afraid of what he might discover. He knew where she had gone, and deep down, wherever she was, he hoped that she was still there; waiting. As he continued to walk and gaze around at the empty surroundings, the body count seemed to increase. He wondered just how the humans could suddenly end up like that. The vampire wished to rule over everyone, but not like this. The bodies that were lying in the streets and such, all their faces were turned from him. He knew this wasn't some coincidence. Those poor souls didn't want anyone to see their faces. But why?

"Hush little baby, don't say a word... I will go and buy you a mocking bird..."

Hearing this voice chilled Myotismon's body from inside. A voice that sounded soft, but very disturbed when singing. He knew he was getting closer to whoever spoke; the voice was growing. Than the vampire approached to the edge of the alley. This place had probably the blackest shadows that anyone had ever seen. Even he, could not see all that well in these obscurities! As Myotismon walked through this wide open alley, he saw a few bodies of young men lying on the ground; their faces were turned as well. He was tempted to look at them closer, but afraid to know the truth. Now... continuing his walk, he saw her...

"If that mocking bird don't sing... I will go and buy you a diamond ring..."

At the end of the alley, was Kyle. Her back turned from Myotismon, but he knew before hand that something was terribly wrong here. He became even more alarmed when he saw her scratching into the brick walls, at what appeared to be a disfigured heart -- with her own nails!

"Kyle... " Myotismon's voice sounded a bit frightened as he called her name. "I know it is you, all except..." he looked over his shoulder and onto those bodies. Now his mind was a blank at what to say.

"And if that diamond ring don't shine..." Myotismon turned back to Kyle and approached her more closely. "I am going to take your soul... and make it... mine..." Myotismon grabbed her shoulders and turned the girl around. At that exact moment he saw Kyle's face, he gasped and dropped her to the ground. Kyle lay lifeless and limp on the ground for a few moments, but than she slowly got up and starred into Myotismon's eyes.

Her face was now more disturbing than ever before. Her body looked as if it was still bleeding some, but from her eyes was a large trail of red, and even her wild, matted hair contained this. The only visible features on her lineaments, was an eye and those pouty lips. Everything else was covered by the hair. Myotismon staggered a bit when the demonic girl slowly paced forward to the vampire, with her arms all stretched out and the hands eager to grab him. He growled and grabbed the girl's wrists with one hand, and a shoulder with the other. "I do not know who you are, but you are not her!" He hissed, and than he forced the demonic girl back onto the ground roughly. While on the ground, she began to cry and grabbed her head with her bad hands. Myotismon covered his ears as this girl let out a high-pitched shriek that could be heard from all around the city.

The vampire stood there and starred down at this girl horrified, but than, he heard the bodies that laid inanimate on the ground slowly rise up; lifeless moans and groans were followed with it. He spun around and hissed once more when he saw the disoriented bodies of zombies standing in front of him. Zombies that were just too horrible to stare at no more than a second. Much to Myotismon's dismay, both the zombies and now the demonic Kyle, were staggering but advancing towards him. "What the devil is going on in this world?" He sneered under his breath. Before the three deformed monsters could grab at the vampire, Myotismon quickly shoved the zombies away and made his way out of the alley.

Myotismon wasn't the only one to experience this madness that was starting -- than again, it was just getting worse. The digidestined and their digimon were whimpering and frantically looking around themselves in great fear as zombies, male and female, and even children, kept appearing around corners, buildings, and darkened alleyways. The monsters limbs and such leaned into uncomfortable forms, and the arms were out-stretched oddly, and seemed eager to grab at any that was not... like them. "What's... happened to them?" Squealed Kari with fear, as she hugged T.K. with support.

Joe shook his head, but than his eyes caught attention to someone else in mind. "I don't know, but I have a feeling that she might know... That one looks slightly different from the rest..." The young man pointed to a demonic figure slowly floating out of the alley. The digidestined also took notice of the vampire lord, who was slowly backing away as both the demonic figure and a few zombies were approaching him.

"What did you do to them, Myotismon?" T.K. hollered at the vampire as he was slowly walking, but accidentally, toward the digidestined children.

The vampire snorted and crossed his arms. "I did not do anything to these lowly... beings..." He gasped as the demonic Kyle had suddenly come up to him. As the monster girl was about to even touch the vampire, a voice echoed from the city. A voice that sounded frightened, in distress.

"No! No! Let me go! Don't kill me!" The children gasped as zombies came around, holding a man tightly in their gruesome hands. The demon monsters and some of the other undead slowly turned in place as the human man came closer. Kyle slowly floated to the man and stood before him as she did with Myotismon. The vampire and children watched in horror as the demon's haired flared slightly and her hands became more wretched than they already were. The human man screamed in agony as the demonic Kyle thrusted her hand into his chest, and as quickly as that, she slowly with drew it. In its place, was a transparent shadow of the poor soul she just made lifeless. The zombies let go, and the body dropped to the ground like a ragged doll.

"What... did she do?" T.K. managed to spat out, despite that all his worst fears were now coming true right before his very eyes.

Myotismon merely blinked. His mind was wondering deep... very deep. Trying to remember something from before. He jumped as a voice rang through his head. "Welcome... to my nightmare!" Myotismon's eyes widened when the demonic figure jerked her head in his direction. "She is mine now; they are all mine. Soon... you will be next! I want your soul! I want everyone's souls!"

"You..." Myotismon whispered breathlessly as he watched the demon girl slowly start to float his way. The body in which she took the poor man's essence, began to moan and groan lifelessly. Soon enough, the man became active once again, but only as the form of a zombie, who started to drag himself along side of the demonic child.

T.K. nudged Patamon lightly with his foot. "Hey -- um, I think it's time for you guys to digivolve about now..." His eyes grew wide when the demon zombie held out her hands to grab at anyone that came close.

Patamon looked at the other few digimon, who gave the little creature the same nervous expression. "T.K. ... we can't digivolve." The small digimon backed himself into T.K.'s side. "They're innocent people; they're alive. We can't just attack innocent humans."

"Innocent? Them?" T.K. swiftly raised his hand in the general direction of the zombies. "Those are clearly zombies, Patamon. How can they be innocent?" The young boy saw Myotismon step forth. "It seems that he isn't afraid to take on some zombies... and their master..."

Myotismon snarled as he held out his cape. "No weakly monster is going to take what has given me a will to live! GRISLY WING!" An army of bats came fluttering furiously out of the vampire's cape. Strangely enough, this was his usual attack, for the exception that now these bats were surrounded in a large, electrical charge; making them more powerful than ever. Without power, bats like these couldn't have such potential. When these bats passed by the zombies and the demon with force, the monsters instantly had fallen on their backs from this attack. Myotismon's mouth curled into a slight smile when the zombies did not move a for a few seconds, but than that smile quickly subsided when the demonic girl sat up and starred in the direction of the evil lord.

Everyone's spine tingled and their skin shuddered when the demon Kyle spoke in a rasp whisper. "You can bury me into the ground... As deep as you like, but I'll grow back. I will always grow back." She parted her hair to look into Myotismon's sapphire eyes. "He'll always bring me back..." the vampire gasped when she suddenly approached him as quickly as throwing on a light switch. Kyle grabbed his shoulders and held them there. Myotismon didn't hesitate to put his hands on her shoulders and shove her hard to the ground. His cape swirled as he turned on his heel and went up to the digidestined children. "I'm assuming that if we stay here any longer, we will end up like them..." He looked over his shoulder as the zombies continued to crawl and stagger about to get to the living. "You children are coming with me back to my castle to try and figure out a solution to this problem..."

T.K. rolled his eyes and threw his arms in the air in exaggeration. "And why do you want us alive? I would think that the 'great' Myotismon would love to see the day we 'died.'"

Myotismon merely chuckled and shook his head. "You are mistaken. I do not care for any of you, and I would love to see you dead, but not in the hands of a zombie demon. I want to be the one to make you all suffer to your death..." The vampire grunted when he felt one of the crawling zombies grab at his boots. He struggled a little, but managed to kick the desperate monster away. "We are going now... stay close to me." The children and digimon groaned with revulsion when they huddled close to Myotismon. T.K. and the rest closed their eyes as the vampire swirled his cape over everyone, and than everything grew dark.

"This better not be any trick, Myotismon," said T.K. sternly to the vampire lord as his eyes fluttered open. The vampire paced around a room that seemed empty, all except for a large desk and a single candle on it.

Myotismon shook his head as he went over to the desk, "This is no joke, you annoying child. If something is not done, this 'zombie' problem is only going to get worse..." he turned to the confused digidestined and their digimon.

Joe pushed his glasses more towards his eyes and narrowed them at the vampire, "You know what's going on here, don't you?..." his voice trailed softly away. The digidestined returned the same stern look to Myotismon, as well as the digimon. Gatomon's look was more menacing though.

"Not precisely," Myotismon replied, "I do not know how, but the one responsible for this is..." he turned his gaze away from the children's line of sight. "Daemon... and some other creature... I have never seen nor heard before. They are taking souls from the living and bringing them..." he closed his eyes and let out a depressing sigh. "Unfortunately, I do not know where they are stationed. What I do know, is that they took the soul from my love, and now... she is one of them."

The children starred at the vampire lord with wide eyes, and their mouths slightly a gap. T.K. was the one to break the silence with a sarcastic snort; to sound as if he didn't believe a word Myotismon was saying... which he didn't. "I... don't believe you..." T.K. whispered, but than his voice rose, "How can any of us trust you, Myotismon; from what you have done to our world, the digital world, and now here! Because of you, these people are now these flesh hungry zombies, or whatever! If Daemon and 'whoever' is doing this, than where are they?" Kari patted T.K.'s shoulder lightly for him to calm down. "Daemon is dead, Myotismon... how can he be alive?"

Myotismon's nostrils flared with slight surprise to T.K.'s angry tone. He somewhat ignored the boy's statement and continued on with his own. "If you so help me with this problem, I will spare your family and friends from being my eternal, mindless slaves..."

"How do you know you'll keep your word?..." T.K. spoke softly, but still a little demanding.

Myotismon's lips curled into that mocking smile of his. "You don't..." The children were silent and looked amongst themselves for consideration or thought to all this. "I can understand you are confused by all this, but I don't think you have a choice. If you don't become in service to me, than I'm afraid you are going to end up like those disturbed humans below us..."

"Myotismon..." T.K. sounded tired; stressed, "Just what is going on? I want to know the truth about all this. How... is helping you... going to explain all this? The truth..." Hearing this little word perked up Gatomon's ears. Her eyes grew wide and the slits in her sockets were barely noticeable. Her dream... what did Wizardmon say to her?...

"If you ever wish to know the truth, than you must find that way through the Dark Ocean. That is how he gets around..."

"The Dark Ocean..." The digidestined and Myotismon turned to the little feline who spoke up.

"What?" Grunted Myotismon.

"The Dark Ocean -- Kari!" Gatomon clutched the young girl's hand. "I had this dream about Wizardmon before we came to this world. He said that if we wanted to know the truth, than we have to go to the Dark Ocean to find it..." Her eyes shifted to meet Myotismon's cruel ones. "'That is how he gets around...'"

Myotismon breathed in and than exhaled softly. "I can get to the digital world from here, it is not a problem now. Since we have nothing yet to follow, than we trail on what Gatomon has dreamed up. Let us just hope that are answers we seek -- the answers to all of this... are at this Dark Ocean."

"We still don't trust you, Myotismon... but..." T.K. looked at Kari with a slight of hope glimmering in his eyes. "You better keep your word, about returning our family and friends... You better, Myotismon..."

Myotismon smirked at T.K.'s rash voice, but began to walk swiftly to the door of the room. "Than follow me, we must go to my laboratory. The only way to the digital world is a secret way known only to the 'evil ones.' A way of traveling from world to world. Anywhere they choose..." The children and digimon sighed depressingly. He was right though: staying in this world can do no good, since people are turning into zombies, one-by-one... and if they stayed, they would most likely become one too. The digidestined and digimon followed Myotismon silently through his winding hallways; twists and turns were a many in this forsaken place. "I can just easily bring myself to the laboratory, but it's difficult with yourselves though. Therefore, we must walk..." T.K. growled under his breath. Hearing Myotismon's voice every time just makes his skin crawl.

Than... after going down some long, narrow stairs, everyone stood in front of a titanium door that resembled nothing like the ones in Myotismon's other rooms. "This is it. You will wait quietly inside while I make some... arrangements. We cannot travel unless I do the right spells..." The vampire pushed open the doors with ease and gracefully approached the lap tables of many fluid tubes, cylinders, and objects of science that any human has never seen. "Wait quietly now! I need concentration on this..." The children quickly went to a dark corner and waited silently and watched the dark lord do his spells and such.

"Just what are you doing?" Kari asked in a soft voice to the vampire.

"I'm making a door to the digital world; via, to the Dark Ocean from within my castle. Now quiet, girl!" Kari gasped and huddled close to T.K. for comfort.

The digimon were the first ones to notice the tiny pool of blood that was forming between the distance of Myotismon to the children. The blood was trickling down in small drops. The creatures slowly tilted their heads up, and once they did, they let our cries of fear that echoed through out the room. "Look out!" Patamon squealed as he quickly darted away from his partner. The digidestined looked up and covered their mouths to stop themselves from screaming. The demonic Kyle had somehow found her way into the castle, and now, she was crawling on the ceiling; hands reaching down and wanting to grab at the children. the splotches of blood were trailing down her arms and hands.

"Going where?" The demon zombie asked in that raspy whisper. She cocked her head so her eyes could get a better look at the children.

"Myotismon..." Joe and the others quickly backed away from the demonic figure hanging from the ceiling. "Are you done?"

"Yes..." Myotismon whispered breathlessly, and he turned around to face everyone. In his hands was a small tube, with glowing violent fluids and smoke trailing down from it. "Now watch and stand away." The vampire tossed the glass object away from the humans, and when all the contents were clear, a dream-like door appeared in its place. "This is how I get around to wherever... when I am not in the digital world. Otherwise, I just use the gateway." He looked up, and his eyes wanted to well with tears when he saw the young woman who once was a quiet, yet kind human. "I will find you... I swear it. Whoever did this to you... will suffer greatly..." Myotismon beckoned the children to the door and they went inside without question. They wanted to question, but with a demon practically breathing down their necks, they thought it should wait.

Before Myotismon went in after them, the demon child held out her hands for him. Not to grab at him... but a gesture as to wait. "Myotismon..." the vampire didn't look back at her as she replied in a soft voice, "You hurt me... you hurt me, Myotismon..." Myotismon breathed in as he stepped inside the doorway, without a second word or anything to the demon. "Why did you do it?"

It is so dark in this place: the Dark Ocean, and all the area around it. It's as if the whole land came out of a black and white picture, or perhaps a movie. The Dark Ocean was still full of mysteries, but one... will be a bigger mystery yet as for anyone to discover. Myotismon had walked onto the outskirts of the Dark Ocean, looking around for those digidestined children and their digimon. To be honest, I think he was just taking in more of the surroundings than the children, but than again, he already knew where they were. It's just the surroundings that still surprise him.

"Gatomon... or whoever was in your dream... was right..." said Kari softly to the rest that were around her. "How can... anyone do this?..." Myotismon walked towards the muttering children. His eyes were fixated on that Dark Ocean. He could see what they were seeing. He couldn't believe it as well.

"So... what do we do about this?" Joe asked. "Who can do something like this?"

Myotismon stood at the edge of the waters and his eyes widened at what he saw. At edge of the beaches, but in ocean waters, was a large slit in it. A gash, similar to a wound on a child. The waters seemed to part in the strangest way possible; parting... to make way for a large hole that led somewhere.

"You guys... where does that lead?..." T.K. wondered out loud to everyone. He felt the urge to just jump into that strange hole and see where it goes, but he was too afraid too.

"...you must find that way through the Dark Ocean. That is how he gets around..."
"If this is how he gets around..." Myotismon sighed deeply, "Than I am going in there to make him stop coming around..."

Author's Note: I got the idea of "demon Kyle" um... part from Samara from The Ring movies, and... some horror games I have seen, but hardly played. I'm sorry if this chapter was confusing, but I promise that things will be explained in the next chapter, and other chapters to come. Please remember to read and review! And thank-you all for reading this story. I really do appreciate it.