::dances around room:: Yippie!!! No more writer's block for Tai Chick! Anyways I think I finally have something *original* and something I'm excited about writing and not forcing myself to write! Okay now let's see what happens...All disclaimers apply.

Dancing in the Dark
By: Tai Chick

Part One: A Dark Invitation

It was cold...so very cold.
Daisuke pulled his shirt up close around his neck trying in vain to get warm. He ran from his house into the dark deserted park. His parents were fighting *again* and they yelled and screamed at him *again* but this time they started throwing objects across the room. Daisuke's favorite tea cup now lay in shattered pieces on the floor, and had very nearly hit him in the head on it's flight across the room.
Daisuke sniffled. "What's their problem?" He asked himself miserably. "And if they have a problem with each other why do they always take it out on me too?"
He kicked a rock. Where was he supposed to go now. His boyfriend, Ken, he was sure was tired of Daisuke going to him so often for the same problem. Besides...he really didn't want to have to explain the whole situation...he was too tired, tired of explaining and tired of dealing.
'Come to me.'
Daisuke whipped around. "Who's there!?" he demanded. But when he turned he saw no one. Deciding that he had just imagined it he continued to walk, trying to decide what to do.
'Come to me.' It was the same voice. It sounded as though a woman, with a soft beautiful voice was speaking into his ear.
"Please tell me who you are!" Daisuke begged, suddenly scared. He hoped to god he wasn't going crazy. He knew that it wasn't just his imagination now...it sounded too real.
He heard light laughter. 'Come to me, I wish to speak with you.'
"Where are you?" He asked, again looking around in vain.
'Come to me.'
Daisuke felt his eyes flutter shut. When they opened again he knew where he was to go. He dashed down one of the paths toward the center of the park...there he saw one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen in his life. She had long dark blue hair that swept to her waist, almost the same color as Ken's. Her skin was as pale as he had ever seen. Her height matched his and she had the perfect figure...the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. Her perfect head was tilted up toward the sky, her eyes closed and mouth partially opened.
'You came.'
His mouth fell in shock. Why was this voice in his head!? Why wasn't the girl talking!? Suddenly her eyes opened and she smiled warmly. "Daisuke...you're here."
"How did you know my name...?"
"She knows a lot about you Daisuke...our poor, poor Daisuke...but not nearly as much as I know about you."
Another woman had come up to the two of them as Daisuke had been gawking at the beautiful girl. Daisuke didn't like this women...at least not at first, but as he continued to look at her he decided she wasn't so bad, he didn't even flinch as she put her arms around him.
"Our poor Daisuke, so cold, so afraid, so alone."
He stiffened. "How do you know so much about me?"
The older woman smiled. "How about we go somewhere warmer first."
"Names first." He demanded.
"Very well. My name is Sealya, and this..." She waved her hand indicating the beautiful girl. "Is my almost-daughter Hotaru."
"I'm pleased to finally meet you Daisuke." Hotaru said still smiling.
"*Now* can we go someplace warmer?" Sealya asked.
Daisuke nodded, still uneasy.
Before his eyes a type of portal opened and he, Sealya and Hotaru were sucked inside.
When they landed it was still dark, but it was also so much warmer.
Sealya turned to Hotaru. "I congratulate you on your psychic abilities. Someday you will be as strong as I am."
"Where are we?" Daisuke asked, interrupting the two of them, but not really caring.
"Why Daisuke, I'm surprised you don't recognize it...take a good look around...and think very hard."
Daisuke looked...and gasped. "We're in the Digital World!"
Hotaru smiled again. "We are! Isn't it so beautiful! And to think that soon it's all going to be ours...this and the real world! Isn't it wonderful?"
Daisuke could only gap at her.
"My dear almost-daughter...you have gone too fast, and have startled him...Let me start over." She turned to look at Daisuke and forced him to sit down. "About six months ago, My almost-daughter and I found our way into the Digital World. We fell in love with it, unlike the real world it seemed kind to us." She clenched a fist. "But we were wrong. It too began to hate us...just as the real world had, so many times. The Digimon here began to abuse us, just like the real world. Don't you see Daisuke we were wronged! They had *no right* to do anything to us that they did!" An evil smile crept onto her lips. "But we discovered how to take revenge...yes we did. We have almost full control over the Digital World...and now we have you...Of course this is your own choice wether or not you stay."
"I don't like where you're going with this lady, you can't control the Digital World! And why would I want to join you?!"
"Because you have been wronged as we have. You cannot tell me that you do not tire of leading a band of Chosen Children. One that is so convinced that they know so much more than you. Don't you long to be know? To be worshiped? We can give you all that...and more...join us."
"You know about..." Daisuke thought fast. They knew everything, they wanted him to join them...but why? And they almost had total control of the digital world? He and his friends didn't even have a clue! Things were looking bad...really bad, this was an enemy they would not be able to beet by sheer force...even trying to out think them. There seemed to be no answer! Suddenly, he had an idea...
"Why do you want *me* of all people to join you?" Daisuke asked.
It was Hotaru who answered. "Because we like you Daisuke! You should be with us...please, please say you'll join us."
"Why are you so convinced that I will join you?"
"Because I know you Daisuke...I know you...I have watched you...I know that you will join us."
"Please Daisuke?" Hotaru begged once again.
Daisuke closed his eyes. He had to stay with them, there was no choice. His friends knew nothing of their threat. The only way to beat them was to be on the inside...he made his decision...he would stay, and teach them to doubt his loyalty to his friends.
"All right."
Sealya clapped her hands together once. "Excellent!" She said. "Now I will send you back to your home, and you will meet with your friends tomorrow as originally planned...tell them *nothing* when the time is right...you will reveal yourself...and things will begin to shape. Farewell Daisuke...our little prince."
"Goodbye Daisuke." Hotaru said as she placed a kiss on his cheek. "Until we meet again."
It made him cringe. Ken was the only one he was supposed to love, even if no one else knew about it...but before he could think another thought he was in his bedroom, still warm. The room was dark and his family now asleep. Not knowing what else to do he climbed beneath his covers...and drifted off into a restless sleep, afraid of what tomorrow would bring...and what he would have to do.