Sylvyr: OK Myotismon, I finally got you in, see.

Myotismon: Good, it's about time.

Kaiser: You really like torturing people, don't you.

Sylvyr: I have my moments. Thank you to all who have reviewed. I have taken more space at the bottom of the page to be a little more specific about that. I don't own digimon, big surprise there, huh?

Kaiser: Not really. You don't own anything.
Sylvyr: I do so. I own a dog and two fish. So there. I think I have taken care of everything.

Dracula: Hey, what about me?

Sylvyr: Huh, oh yeah, your cameo. Next chapter, I promise.

Dracula: You sure, I think your just making it up.

Impmon: Hey fang-face, why don't you just leave her alone, not that I care or anything but...

Dracula: Shut up you little troublemaker.

Impmon: Little huh, I'll show you who's little. Badda-Boom.(misses Dracula but the couch goes up in flames) Badda-Boom(misses again, torches lovely hole in carpet though.)

Sylvyr: I better go see if I can get them to stop, enjoy the story. Oh, I don't own Dracula, though I think he is old enough to be public domain.

Dracula: I heard that little comment about my age young lady, when I get done with shorty here I will take care of you.

Impmon: Shorty! I'll shorty you...

Chapter 9: A Dish Best Served Cold. Pt2: Escape

Kari sat on her knees in the snow, totally confused. How did I get here? A minute ago I was trying to get away from Daisuke...

She shuddered, remembering the horrible things that had happened such a short time before. There had been a huge stadium, filled with cheering digimon slaves. Out on the field had stood Daisuke and TK. The Enchantress had made them battle each other, saying the winner would get to keep Kari as their prize. Of course they were being controlled, they never would have acted the way they had otherwise.

Kari had been tied up on the side of the stadium, right where she could see all the action. The Enchantress had allowed each boy to kiss her before they began their fight. Kari had nearly choked from those lustful kisses. Kisses filled with a lust that neither boy possessed in their hearts, Kari knew that the lust had been instilled in them by the Enchantress, but it still made her head swim.

Daisuke had obviously been the stronger of the two, easily beating TK, and then toying with him.

Then Daisuke killed him. Kari could not believe that TK was really dead, even now when she had seen him, sprawled out on the sand, his blood staining it crimson. After she had heard him take his last rattling breath, fallen on his cold body, she still could not believe that she would never see her childhood friend again.

As if killing TK was not torture enough, The Enchantress had ordered Kari to be dropped onto the field with Daisuke so he could "claim his prize."

Kari's head was still spinning from that seemingly endless chase, where he had chased her around the ring trying to pin her to the ground long enough to satisfy his need. All those horrid digimon, cheering him on, just as they had when he killed TK. Just when Kari had collapsed, unable to run any farther, a hole had opened up in the ground beneath her and swallowed her up.

The next thing she knew she was sprawled out in the snow, the same way she had collapsed in the stadium. Slowly she pushed herself to her feet. She was going to freeze if she did not get moving, her shorts and thin shirt were no protection against the cold. Maybe there was a digiport nearby so she could get to the real world and get the older kids and come back to rescue the others.

"WHY DID YOU DO THAT?"

The Kaiser looked at the furious Enchantress with a cold, slightly amused look. She was storming around her control room, raging at him like a tigress in a cage. "I had her right where I wanted her."

He waited several minutes, allowing her to vent her rage; she used quite a bit of his less than savory vocabulary. When she had finally blown herself out and sat on her throne, out of breath and waiting for him to answer.

"Perhaps we had a communication problem," he answered smoothly, his voice as cold as ice. She could tell that he was also angry, he always got icy and cold when he was. It was times like that when she felt as though she hardly knew him, "You said for me to release her before thing went too far. Apparently we have different ideas of what is too far."

She thought about it for a minute then let out a sigh, "No. I am glad you let her go when you did, in all truth that's probably not something I would want on my conscience. I was just enjoying her anguish, I guess I got a little carried away."

He smiled and sat down on the arm of her throne, one leg stretched out along its length, the other pulled up close to him so he could rest one arm on it, "I figured that is what happened."

She had begun to calm down, and he had begun to warm up, things would be all right between them again.

"So, Sweets, what should we do to pass the time until she returns?"

Ken waved a hand at the monitor, which showed their prisoners, locked up in the dungeons. "I think we should go fill our guests in on their recent activities."

Both of them stood and walked to the door, he wrapped his arm loosely around her waist.

Unbeknownst to them the two 'rulers' of the digital world were also being watched. One of the ultimate level digimon watching them snorted in disgust at their actions, her pretty face twisting into a sneer. "You see what I mean. They completely counter the darkness in each other. They trust each other completely, and unfortunately that show of trust brings out the best in them. Only when he is around her does he allow his kindness to take over; in the six months since I claimed her and left her for him to find, has he done anything unkind to her? And his kindness causes her to love him, really love him, not just lust. If things continue at this rate we might lose them both."

Strong arms wrapped around Ladydevimon's waist from behind.

"Now, don't worry so much, I have a plan to ruin their trust in each other," a soft seductive voice whispered in her ear. She twisted around to face him, running a finger over his thick red lips, knowing it made him itch to feed when she did that. He bit snappishly at her fingers, but she knew she was safe; being a demon-type digimon had the advantage of not having any blood.

Myotismon's blue eyes glistened as he glanced down his eyes lingering over her chest: he lowered his head and applied his tongue to the rift in her clothing which revealed the top of her plentiful bosom. She shivered delightfully at his icy touch.

"What is your plan, then?"

"I learned quite a bit about humans when I was in their world. Often when humans become lovers they lose trust in each other. If they have sex with each other it will weaken their trust in each other. Work on the girl, she is very easy to arouse."

"And you will work on him? After all he is your toy."
"Yes, I will work on him, but he is hard to work with. He was much younger when the spore was implanted, and when I designed it I designed it to suppress any of his emotions aside from hate and disgust. It also squelches his lust. He was not really intended to have a companion, so the spore was not designed to interact with another one. Hers was. When you implanted it, it was with the intention that she would help him. Her spore is capable of reacting to his, in a way giving her the ability to know exactly what he wants to see, even when he doesn't know. So you see, our best chance of getting to them is to go through her."

Ladydevimon sighed; it seemed as though somehow she always wound up doing all the work. She turned her mind away from the problems with the two rulers and allowed Myotismon to pull her down into his coffin.

Izumi Koushiro, known to his friends as Izzy looked worriedly over the screen of his laptop. "I still can't find any trace of them, Matt. It's like they just disappeared. They're probably in the digital world somewhere, but without a d-3 there is not way we can be certain."

"I know, but I can't stand not knowing. I bet the Kaiser turned on them. It's the only explanation that makes any sense for them disappearing."

"Now wait a minute Matt," Sora interjected. "That still doesn't explain why Tai's also missing. It's not like him to go off on an adventure with them and not tell us."

Everyone gave her a 'get real' look.

"Reality check, Sora, we are talking about the same Tai aren't we? The one who rushed off on a whim and made Agumon digivolve into Skullgreymon," Joe asked her.

"Hey, come on you guys, Tai's changed a lot since the old days. And even if he hasn't, one of the other kids would have e-mailed us to let us know if he was with them."

The four older kids had snuck into the Junior High computer lab to try and find the younger children who had been missing for almost a week. Their parents were beginning to get really worried.

Suddenly the computer started glowing and the digiport opened up, dropping a sobbing Kari in Izzy's lap. He just managed to push his laptop out of the way of being crushed.

Sora jumped to her feet and rushed over to hug the younger girl. She was shivering as though she were really cold, her lips were turning blue and Sora could have sworn she saw a tinge of blue around the edges of her bare feet. Kari collapsed in Sora's arms, sobbing. Kari's back and feet were bleeding and her clothes were torn.

"Kari, what happened? Where are the other's?" Sora had thought that no one could cry harder than Kari was at that moment, but when Matt asked her about the others Kari somehow managed to cry even harder.

"Give her a few minutes Matt. She's obviously been through a lot."

Joe got out his first aid kit and started trying to tend to Kari's wound, which was kind of hard because she would not let go of Sora.

Finally Izzy's curiosity got the best of him; "Did the Kaiser turn on you? Is he the one who did this?"

Kari sniffled and tried to answer him, "N-no. The Enchantress captured us. All of us. The last time I saw him he had been injured pretty badly. Th-the Enchantress told me that she raped him. I think she did too."

"What about the others, are they OK?"

Kari raised her eyes to look Matt straight in the eyes, tears streaming once again down her face. "No Matt. I'm sorry. The Enchantress can somehow control people; she controlled everyone but me. She made TK and Daisuke fight. TK-TK is-"

She could not finish the sentence. She lowered her eyes and sobbed.

"TK is what Kari?"

"He's dead Matt."

^.~ You like?

For my reviewers:

Twilight writer: I aim to please, I can't stand sad endings. Unless something goes terribly wrong this story will have a happy ending, hard as it might seem to believe at the moment.

Kaiser: Yeah, but happy for who?

Sylvyr: Who asked for your opinion?

Devidramon: Can you think of a good reason for committing suicide. There is always a better alternative; but it makes for a real interesting plot. Also, I don't particularly dislike the Kamiya family, I had Kari set up as the fall man for Miyako's revenge, but I couldn't for the life of me think of a good way for her to get revenge, without taking this story some place I didn't want it to go. I asked around for some help and my mom said that torturing someone's family was always a good way to get revenge. Having Tai in this story was kind of a last minute addition. All of season 01's characters seemed flat to me though, maybe because I didn't start watching the show until the middle of 02. Flat characters seem to be a little more expendable somehow.

Kaiser(muttering to self): Torturing family huh, hey Jun, com'ere.

Ken's luver: Thanks for the many reviews. I miss you, you won't read this 'til you get back but have a safe trip.

Evil Cassidy: Thank you, I know I do. My plan is working. The subliminal messages I planted in this story are working. Soon the whole world will bow down to me. Mwhahahahahahahah...

Kaiser: I think somebody watched 'Josie and the Pussycats' on time too many.

Ken: Yup.

Both at same time: Did we just agree on something! Aaaaah!(run around screaming in terror)

Dracula(stops chasing Impmon for a minute): What is public domain anyway?

Impmon: Badda-Boom.(misses Dracula but knocks a HUGE hole in wall)

Sylvyr(sighing): I guess it was just too much to expect to get through a whole chapter without having the house blown up. Oh well. I also don't own 'Josie and the Pussycats.' Life is just so unfair.