"Light and Kindness' Evil Lullaby"

Thank you so much digilover23 for the help with this chapter, I really appreciate it, so this chapter is dedicated to you. Everyone else, please enjoy and review. I hope you all like it and let's hear a round of applause for digilover23 for coming up with the idea. OK, here it is.

Davis was dragging Ken with her to the Digital World to meet the other members so that they could all learn to work together and hopefully help him learn how to use his Spirits.

Ken was clinging to his friend's arm as they neared the computer room, unsure of how the others would react to him being around.

"Hey, you don't need to worry. The others will be happy to have you around." Davis said as she smiled at her friend as he had both arms wrapped tightly around her right arm as Minomon and Demiveemon sat on their shoulders.

"How do you know that?" he asked fearfully.

"Come on, so you made a mistake. They know what Koichi did, which was just as bad as what you did and they forgave him, so I'm sure that they'll welcome you. No worries, OK?" she said bumping her shoulder gently to his, gaining a small grin from him.

They soon made it to the door, so the girl opened the door and revealed the four other Digidestinds and their digimon on the other side.

Kari looked up and smiled when she saw Davis at the door and was a bit surprised when she saw Ken was also with her, hanging onto her like a child would their mother on their first day of grade school and it was cute.

"Davis, glad to see you're coming with us this time." She said as she and Gatomon walked over to their friends with a smile on both their faces.

"Sorry we haven't been around much, but we were busy." Davis said.

"Izzy said you were visiting another Digidestind. Will he be joining us?" Cody asked looking at Ken warily.

"Nah, Ryo's more of a solo type of guy." The leader said as she pulled ken further into the room as Demiveemon led Minomon over to the other digimon to introduce him to them.

"So why's Ken here?" TK asked as he silently fumed over the fact that the other boy was clinging to Davis

"He's one of us, so he'll be joining us on our missions from now on." Davis said as Ken finally let go of her arm and smiled at everyone else in the room, Kari and Yolei being the only ones who gave him real smiles as TK gave him a jealous look and Cody had a conflicted one, unsure of what he should say or do when around the plum haired boy.

"It's great to have you, Ken. We were never properly introduced. I'm Kari Kamiya and this is Gatomon." The child of Light said as her cat went off to talk to Minomon with the other digimon.

"And I'm Yolei Inoue. Nice to meet you again." The child of Love and Sincerity said smiling brightly at having the boy she used to have a crush on there with her.

"It's nice to see you all again." The child of Kindness said with a small blush.

"I'm Cody Hida, welcome to the team, Ken." The child of Knowledge and Reliability said bowing his head a bit to the older boy.

He may not be too sure about having him around, but that was no reason to not greet him properly, his grandfather and Davis would both scold him for it.

"And I'm TK Takaishi. So what you decide to join us?" the child of Hope asked.

"Dai finally warred me down and convinced me to join. I really am sorry for all of the terrible things I've done and want to make amends for it no matter what." Ken said.

"Dai?" Yolei asked.

"Yeah, me. Dai is short for Daisuke, which is my real name, remember?" Davis said with a smile.

"I guess we're just so used to the Warriors and Matt calling you D that it was a surprise. Normally it's Shinya that calls you Dai." Kari commented.

"Let's get moving. We have work to do after all." TK said frowning at the fact that Ken had been allowed to call Davis by one of her pet names.

"Teeks' is right, let's move out." Davis said making the blonde smile that she had used the name she rarely used.

She used the favoured TK or Takeru more than that.

The six Digidestinds all held out their D-3s and they were soon downloaded into the portal, Davis and Veemon going first, soon followed by Ken and Wormmon, Kari and Gatomon, TK and Patamon, Yolei and Hawkmon were after and finally it was Cody and Armadillomon.

They landed in a forest that was very familiar to Davis since she had been there a few weeks ago when they were looking for the Emperor's base.

"Davis, Ken, look! Your clothes both changed." Yolei said.

"What?" the two Warriors asked as they looked at each other, then themselves to see that the lavender haired girl was right.

Ken was now wearing a dark green t-shirt over a long sleeved yellow shirt, jeans that he could easily move around in and grey sneakers with silver stripes.

Davis on the other hand was wearing a violet tank top with a turtle neck, black gloves that reached her elbows that were fingerless, brown shorts , yellow convers and her hair was tied up in a short ponytail in the back as her bangs were brushed to the right side of her face instead of just hanging in the front.

"Well, that's new." Cody said.

"I wonder why you guys have different clothes now." TK said.

"Maybe it's because of the DNA evolution. Maybe it gave them new clothes because of it." Cody guessed.

"I don't know if it's that. I mean, look at these clothes and our D-tectors." Ken said as he pulled his out.

Davis pulled out her own D-tector and saw how her clothing matched her own device.

"Whatever. Let's figure this out later. We still need to find Arukenimon and Mummymon and find out why they're turning the control spires into digimon."She said as she pocketed her D-tector.

"And who's giving the orders." Wormmon spoke up.

"How do we find them?" Armadillomon asked.

"We could split up to do it." Patamon suggested.

The leader tapped her chin in thought, then nodded to the idea.

"Kari, Ken and Yolei will go that way to find out whatever you can while TK, Cody and I will go this way. I have some old friends to get some information from." She said.

"All right then." Hawkmon said.

"We'll keep in touch." Kari said.

"Digi Armour Energize!" Yolei and Kari cried.

"Hakwmon armour digivolve too…Halsemon: the Wings of Love!"

"Gatomon armour digivolve too…Nerfertimon: the Angel of Light!"

"Wormmon digivolve too…Stingmon!"

The three mounted their partners and then took off and Davis watched them go, feeling a bit worried for them as they went.

"So who are these friends you wanted to see?" TK asked his friend and secret crush.

Well, it was a secret to her since everyone else already knew about it.

"You'll like them. Come on." Veemon said as he led the way.

The others all followed him into the forest where it was dense and thick with plantation and hard to walk in.

(With the team of Light, Kindness, Love and Sincerity…)

They had stopped flying and were now all just walking around, trying to figure out where they should try looking first.

"If I were an evil spider woman, where would I be?" Kari mused to herself.

"At the beauty salon?" Yolei joked.

Ken smiled at bit at the two girls, then looked around the area they were in.

"Ken…" a frosty voice called.

He gasped and looked at the two girls and the digimon, wondering if they had heard that.

"Perhaps we should start looking near some caves. You never know, they could be hiding out there." Hawkmon said.

"That's kind of clichéd, don't you think?" Gatomon asked.

"We'll never know unless we try." Kari said.

It looks like they hadn't.

"Ken, do you really think they forgive you?" the voice asked.

The child of Kindness didn't notice a dark purple wisp of smoke coiling around his body as he felt all the self-doubt and hatred come back to him, slowly creeping in his soul.

'They're my friends. And so is Davis. I trust them.' He thought.

"Oh, you truly are pathetic." The cruel voice said.

Kari sensed that something was off and so she turned to see that Ken had a dazed look in his eyes as he began to walk off somewhere.

"Ken, where are you going?" she asked as Wormmon and the others looked at the boy.

Ken kept quiet as he continued on into the dark part of the forest.

"Ken, where are you going?" Yolei asked.

"We should stay together." Wormmon said.

"Yeah, Davis will be pissed if anything happens to us. She'll come to our rescue and then kill us for scaring her." Gatomon said.

Kari ran over to Ken and placed her hand on his shoulder.

"Ken, why are you-"she trailed off and gasped as she felt the piercing cold of tainted Darkness radiating off of him and slowly creeping into her.

"Ah, so the child of Light has decided to enter the game." A dark childlike voice chuckled.

'Who are you?' Kari thought.

"Hey, Kari, Ken! Snap out of it! What's wrong with you two?" Yolei asked worried as she saw her two friends lost in a trance.

"Uh oh. I think the tainted Darkness is after them." Wormmon said scared for his partner.

"Tainted Darkness? You mean that thing Davis told us about?" Yolei asked.

"It would seem so. Whoever is manipulating the Darkness is going after Ken and Kari because of their original fears of the Darkness." Hawkmon said.

"Oh, we should have never split up. The only one who could help us is Davis and she's too far away from us." Gatomon growled softly in frustration.

Yolei looked over at her two friends who's eyes were glazed over and their bodies were shaking a bit in fear.

What could she do to help them?

(Back to the team of Miracles, Hope, Knowledge and Reliability…)

As the three humans and their partners walked on into the dense forest, the boys watched in fascination as the trees seemed to move out of the way, allowing them to pass.

"Wow, that's weird." Patamon said as he flapped by Veemon.

"Why are the trees movin' like that?" Armadillomon asked.

"It's because of Davis. She's the Queen of the Digital World, so even the plants respect her." Veemon said making the young Queen blush at that.

"It's not that big of a deal." She said as they came to a large crater in the ground.

"What is this place?" TK asked as he peered down into the large hole in the earth.

"Who could have made this?" Cody asked as Davis smiled and patted his head.

"You'll find out as soon as we go down there." She said.

"How do we get down?" TK asked.

"Like this." The blue dragon said before he jumped over the side and into the hole, curling his body up and holding onto his legs.

"Cannon ball!" he yelled as he fell down into the hole.

The boys were both shocked by this as Davis just laughed and jumped in also.

"Yahoo!" she cheered as she fell down.

"Are they crazy?" the blonde asked.

"Well, if ya can't beat 'em, join 'em." Armadillomon said before he curled up into a ball and rolled off into the hole.

"Cowabunga!" he cried.

The three remaining all sighed before they jumped in too.

"Whoa!" TK cried.

"I hope my mother doesn't find out about this." Cody said as he jumped.

"Wait for me!" Patamon cried before he went down too.

They all yelled as they fell down the dark hole, but they were soon stopped when a large light grey paw was held out and they landed on the silky soft paw safely, the duo of Miracles landing on their feet giggling while the other duos were on their hands and knees, panting in shock.

"Davis, promise me you'll never do that again." TK said as he looked over to the girl with pleading azure eyes.

"Sorry, didn't mean to freak you out like that. Just don't tell Takuya and Koji what I did because I think they might have a conniption. Tai and Matt might have one too." The girl said with a nervous laugh and cute lopsided grin.

"Where are we?" Cody asked as he stood up as the lights were turned on to view that they were in an underground chamber that was filled with digimon that they were familiar with and some that were thought to have been extinct.

"Nice of you to drop in." an amused deep voice said from behind them.

TK and Cody both stood up and turned around to see that there was a large rabbit digimon behind them and that he was the one who caught them.

"Antylamon!" Davis giggled as she ran past them and hugged the rabbit's cheek.

"Thanks for the hand, pal." Veemon said as he smiled at the Ultimate Beast type Celetial.

"Big Sister!" another male voice cried out as a silver and purple blue came by and picked up the maroon haired girl, making the boys look and see that she was hugging a male angel, TK and Patamon both gasping in shock when they saw what digimon it was.

"MagnaAngemon?" the blonde gasped at the sight of the male angel giggling like crazy as he hugged the girl.

"Oh, Big Sister, I am so happy to see you again!" MagnaAngemon said.

"MagnaAgemon!" an accented voice called making the two human boys look down to see a white chicken digimon and yellow bunny wearing red pants.

"You put her down right this second and greet your other guests. Honestly, I raised you to be more polite than this." The chicken scolded as he wagged his finger with a frown.

"Sorry, Papa/Mom." MagnaAngemon said dejectedly as he placed Davis back down on Antylamon's paw.

A blonde female angel dressed in white and had a purple sash flew over to them, smiling kindly at them.

"I'm sorry for MagnaAngemon. He just gets so excited all when Davis is mentioned or around. My name is Angewomon and I welcome you, Chosen Children." The female said.

"Nice to see you again, Angewomon." Veemon greeted her and the angel blushed as she looked at him.

"Cody, TK, this is Antylamon, MagnaAngemon and Angewomon. They used to be Cherubimon, Serpahimon and Ophanimon, the three Great Angels of the Digital World." Davis said as the Celestial Beast lowered his hand to the ground and let them off where the chicken and bunny were.

"These two are Bokomon and Neemon, they were the first digimon we met who were actually nice to us and helped us on our journey." She said as the two came over to her and she kneeled down, embracing them both.

"Oh, my sweet little baby girl has become a beautiful young lady." Bokomon cried.

"I feel like a pillow." Neemon said.

"So all of these digimon are old friends of yours?" Cody asked as he looked around and saw the Floramon, Mushroommon, Burgermon, Starmon, SuperStarmon, Gotsumon, Meteormon, Trailmon and many others.

"Amazing." Armadillomon.

"Davis, why are you here?" Meteormon asked the girl.

"We were looking for Arukenimon and Mummymon so we can find out who is behind all this damage." The leader said.

The three angels shared a look, wondering themselves what was going on.

(With Kari, Yolei and Ken's team…)

Ken and Kari looked to still be in trances as they started walking towards the dark area and Yolei chased after them with the digimon, calling out their names, but they didn't pay them any mind.

"What is up with them?" Yolei asked.

"I don't know. I've never seen this before." Gatomon frowned.

The air around the team was getting colder and soon they were all enveloped into this dark smoke and they were transported to a beach that was filled with stars glittering in the dark sky and a forest behind them.

"What is this place?" Hawkmon asked as he looked around.

"This is the Dark Ocean. Ken was here a long time ago and he was turned bad after that. But it looks different." Wormmon said when he saw that the fear and depression that would be thickening the air here was now gone.

"That's because Davis used her D-tector to purify it when she brought Veemon and I here to rescue Kari." Gatomon said.

Ken was fighting off the voices in his head that were taunting him, but he was having a hard time doing it.

"Aw, poor little Ken. Too weak to protect yourself and you're so called friends. They all hate you. Why trust them? They hate you for the terrible things you've done." The voice whispered in his mind.

Kari on the other hand was actually shaking in fear as the voice taunted her.

"The sweet little Princess. The Queen isn't here to protect you this time. The darkness will rise and consume you." The voice laughed.

'No, that isn't true. Darkness isn't evil! Davis said it wasn't. I've seen true Darkness. This isn't it!' Kari cried in her mind as she saw herself standing in the middle of an ocean that was so cold that it began to burn her.

'Please stop this! I can't hear you! I won't listen!' Ken yelled in his mind as he was also standing in the ocean, alone and with no on there to help him.

"You can't escape me. You can't run from your past. What about Sam?" the voice asked feeding off of Ken's sorrow and pain that was growing.

'S-Sam?' Ken asked.

"Sam. You wanted him gone, you hated him. You wished for him to disappear and he did. He died because of you. Because you're selfish!" the voice cackled as two icy blue eyes glowed beside Ken.

"NO!" Ken yelled in fear and self-hatred as he fell to his knees, making Yolei and the digimon look at him in shock.

"Ken, what's wrong?" Wormmon asked as he quickly went to his partner's side.

"You aren't strong enough to save yourself. You'll only let the ones you love get hurt. You'll have them killed as they try to save you." The voice whispered in Kari's ear making her shiver in revulsion.

"You will get them killed. The people you care for. Now, who are they? Ah, yes. Your partner." The voice said as the cat's image appeared in front of Kari's face.

'Gatomon…' she said.

"Your brother." The voice continued.

'Tai…' Kari said as the image of her brother appeared.

"Your friends…" the voice said as the faces of all of Kari's Digidestind friends appeared, Davis' face standing out more than the others, TK's being a close second.

"And the one you love." The voice whispered in sick satisfaction at her horrified state.

Kari gasped as the image of a brown haired boy with snowy skin and beautiful emerald eyes was shown.

'Tommy…' she cried.

The voice's figure was shown beside her as it smirked at how easily she was falling to the Darkness.

The figure then turned their attention back to Ken, who was whimpering on the ground, his fingers in his hair as he tried to deny that he was a terrible person.

"Face the facts at hand. You will always be evil. No matter what you do and say, the ones who trust you, you will turn on them all. There is nothing good or pure about you." The voice cooed.

'I can't be evil, please stop. I don't want anyone to be hurt!' Ken cried.

The figure smirked as they got closer to the boy, about to touch him, but he was cut off by a silver light and a figure appeared in front of Ken, standing there protectively.

"What is this?" the evil figure asked as they backed away.

Ken looked up at the good figure in the silver light and looked to see that it was a tall man dressed in a green body suit, silver boots that were made out of metal, he had yellow stripes around his knees, his left arm was made out of a metal, he wore a yellow and white helmet and a red scarf.

'Who are you?' Ken asked the new figure.

"You know who I am, Ken. I have been waiting so long for you to come find me. You will figure out my name in time when it is needed." The man in green said.

Ken's eyes widened when he stood up and looked at the man, forgetting his anguish.

'You…You're the Warrior of Metal, aren't you?' Ken asked.

The Warrior smiled behind his helmet that hid his face and nodded.

"Yes, I am. We'll be meeting again soon, Ken, but you need to believe in yourself to do it." the Warrior said.

Ken nodded with a smile as the evil figure left angered.

'Thank you for your help.' Ken said.

"We are a team, after all." The Warrior of Metal said to his human host before he disappeared.

Ken closed his eyes and then shook his head, shaking off the fog in his mind.

He then opened his lavender eyes to see Yolei and the digimon were all crowded around him, smiling in relief.

"Ken, what happened to you?" the child of love and Sincerity asked.

"There was a voice in my head. It was trying to make become evil again. But then…" Ken trailed off as he pulled out his D-tector and smiled at it.

"I saw him. My human Spirit. He helped me." He said.

"That was nice of him." Wormmon said.

"But we have a problem. Kari is still out of it and I think that same evil voice is trying to get to her." Gatomon said as she looked at her partner who was still standing there, shivering as a sick mist was around her.

"What do we do?" Yolei asked.

"I wish I knew, but I don't have a clue right now." Ken said with gritted teeth as he mentally cursed whoever it was that was messing with them.

If Davis got word of this, she'll tear whoever it is apart and then revive them to clean up the mess and then kill them all over again.

No one messes with one of her loved ones and gets away with it, especially Kari.

He just hoped that they could save her before something bad happens.

TBC