Piedmon
[A/N: Again, bad title. I KNOW!]
[Disclaimer: I don't own.]
[Prologue: The children had been searching for each other since being separated. Shinji and Myotismon met Warumonzaemon but Shinji quickly took care of him. Myotismon had been injured in the battle and Shinji bandaged his wound. They came across Machinedramon attacking the other children and Myotismon digivolved to Venommyotismon! But Piedmon still lurks in the shadows…]
But a shadow fell upon Shinji…
She opened her eyes because she thought she heard something. A hand slid over her mouth, preventing her from shouting out. She struggled against the hold and found a sword against her throat. She was pulled roughly to her feet. "Now, now." a voice said in her ear, "You wouldn't want to do anything foolish." Shinji looked out of the corner of her eye and saw Piedmon. She froze in fear and the sword moved away from her throat. She wanted to let out a sigh of relief, but a heavy force smashed into the back of her head. She fell forwards, unconscious and Piedmon stopped her from falling into the dirt.
Piedmon restrained to laugh. He quickly took off her tag and Crest along with her digivice in one swift movement. Piedmon then dropped the items along with a piece of paper onto Myotismon's chest. He chuckled under his breath and walked away, Shinji in his arms.
The next morning…
The children and digimon woke at the exact same moment, even Mimi. Myotismon sat up and didn't notice the things on his chest slide to the ground. "Where's Shinji?" he asked. He put his hand on the things and then acknowledged them. He picked them up and held them in both hands. The Crest and digivice in on hand and the paper in the other. "Shinji wouldn't go anywhere without these." he said. He opened the folded piece of paper and read it. He gasped. He gave to paper to Tai and stood up. The note was written in red ink and Tai read it aloud.
"Dear Digi-destined, I have taken the liberty of taking your newest ally, the girl Shinji. I don't suppose you would want her back? If you do, come to Spiral Mountain and take her. Piedmon"
"Now he's gone too far!" Tai, Matt, and Myotismon shouted at the same time. "We have to go to Spiral Mountain!" Myotismon shouted. "Where is that?" Kari asked. They had traveled up to above ground and Myotismon pointed to a multi-colored mountain. "Right there." he said. They began to walk towards the mountain.
Shinji woke into dim light and had an aching headache. She tried to move her hand up to her head to rub it. She found her arms tied to her side and her ankles tied together. She was sitting in the strangest place. Shinji was sitting on a long couch. She looked around frantically and tried desperately to break free of her ropes. "It won't do you any good." Piedmon's voice said out of the darkness. Shinji looked in front of her and saw Piedmon sitting before her in a chair holding a glass of wine. "Where am I?" Shinji asked. "On top of Spiral Mountain young lady." Piedmon answered, taking a sip of wine.
"Who is this, Lord Piedmon?" a sultry voice asked out of the shadows above Shinji and Piedmon. Shinji looked up just in time to see a black shape fly out of the shadows. It landed in front of Shinji and Shinji looked at it. She had to restrain a gasp of terror when she saw it. It looked like Gatomon had digivolved incorrectly. It was a woman Devimon. The only difference was that a weird black thing was on her shoulder. "Lady Devimon, this is our new guest." Piedmon said to the digimon. "Who is she?" Lady Devimon asked. "Her name is Shinji. The 9th Digi-destined child." Piedmon explained, "I decided that it had been too long since we had a guest here, so I brought her here."
Lady Devimon had her back to Piedmon and was glaring at Shinji very darkly. "May I?" she asked, suddenly smiling. "I suppose." Piedmon said, also smiling. Lady Devimon grabbed Shinji's ropes and pulled her up to eye level. Shinji finally found her voice. "Witch." she said. Lady Devimon was taken aback. She slapped Shinji across the face, hard. Shinji looked back at Lady Devimon. Lady Devimon grinned and threw Shinji into the wall. She walked over to Shinji and started to kick her in the stomach. The kicks became harder and harder and Shinji never cried out. "Black Wing." Lady Devimon said. Her right hand turned into an extremely sharp point and put it to Shinji's throat.
"That's enough Lady Devimon." Piedmon said. Lady Devimon was visibly disappointed. She moved the point to Shinji's forehead and ran it across it. A gash, running the entire length of Shinji's forehead, appeared when she pulled the point away. She turned to face Piedmon with a small grin on her face. "Shinji is bait for the other Digi-destined. We can't kill her yet." Piedmon said. Shinji was lying next to the wall, half conscious. "You hear that?" Lady Devimon said, 'You are nothing but bait." She kicked Shinji again for good measure. She laughed while sliding back into the shadows.
Piedmon waited until Lady Devimon couldn't hear or see either of them and walked over to Shinji. He picked her up and brushed her off. "Pardon Lady Devimon. She is envious of anyone I bring here." Piedmon explained, "I hope she didn't injury you too badly. She often acts out of her own judgment." He wiped the blood out of her face and put her back on the couch. "You are alright?" he asked. Shinji nodded her head. Piedmon walked away into the darkness leaving Shinji half conscious. The gash began to bleed again and it ran into her eyes and down her face. Shinji weakly raised her head and wondered…
Myotismon and the other Digi-destined were hiking up the mountain. Myotismon was royally ticked off at Piedmon. He was extremely angry that Piedmon had kidnapped Shinji. And he wondered how he was torturing her…
Shinji was wondering why Piedmon had brushed her off and asked her to forgive Lady Devimon. Piedmon was supposed to be one of the evilest digimon in the Digiworld. But he had asked her to forgive one of his Nightmare Soldiers. But she didn't know something…
It had gotten dark in the Digiworld and the Digi-destined were sitting around a fire, save one digimon. Myotismon was pacing restlessly. "C'mon Myotismon. We'll get Shinji back." Kari said. Myotismon merely growled. "Calm down!" Tai said standing up. "HOW CAN I CALM DOWN?!" Myotismon shouted. He grabbed Tai's collar and lifted him off his feet. "WOULD YOU BE CALM IF THE ONE YOU LOVE WAS IN THE STRANGLEHOLD OF THE EVILEST DIGIMON IN THE WORLD?!" Myotismon shouted. Tai shut up and so did everyone else. "You love Shinji?" TK asked, finally breaking the silence. Myotismon suddenly realized what he just said. He dropped Tai and turned away. "Myotismon…" Tai said.
Shinji was fully conscious again and was thinking things over. Piedmon reappeared from the shadows. He was holding a white cloth in his hand. Shinji looked at him and he threw the cloth over her. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Shinji cried. An extremely strong shock went through Shinji and she went limp, still conscious however. Piedmon laughed and pulled the cloth away. "How did he get that much larger?" Shinji thought. Piedmon moved a single hand towards Shinji. He grabbed her in one hand and picked her up. "Or did I get a heck of a lot smaller?" Shinji thought. "I hold the keys to your existence." Piedmon said grinning, "And I need a place to put them. So you are going to hold your keys yourself!"
Shinji realized that Piedmon had turned her into a key chain.
[Epilogue: Piedmon's plan all along was to kidnap Shinji and turn her into a key chain. Myotismon had accidentally told the other Digi-destined that he loved Shinji. But he didn't say anything about Shinji loving him. The Digi-destined would soon find out about Piedmon's plan. Shinji's fate would soon be decided…]
[Next: Shinji's Fate]
[A/N: OK, this was when I just learned how they beat Piedmon. I have many other stories of how that happens! This just goes with the series.]