Disclaimer: I don't own digimon, or the characters, or the stories, or anything else that has to do with TV.
Little Note: Please ignore any little spelling or grammatical errors. English really isn't my strongest class and my computer likes to make up words or sometimes just completely ignore ones that are spelt(is that even a word) wrong.
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Pain
by Kalika
"Demiveemon, we need to go now. Demiveemon. Wake up!" Davis smacked his friend on the head. The little blue digimon rolled over and glared at him.
"What do you want Davis? I was having a great dream," The little ball of fluff growled sleepily. It was 1:30 in the morning. What did Davis think he was doing, waking him up at this hour?
"Hurry up. We need to go. Wormmon e-mailed me. Ken's been kidnapped by Arukenimon and we have to help find him." The little blue digimon nodded quickly and headed for he door. "Just wait Demiveemon. First I'm going to e-mail the others to let them know what's happening. I'll get their replies on the way."
"Armadillomon, do you think Ken will be ok?" Cody looked up at his friend hopefully. He was visiting his aunt for the week. The next day they were going shopping. there was almost no chance that he could get out of it and go to the digital world.
"I'm sure he will be Cody. Davis was going over tonight and even though the others are out of town I'm sure at least one of them will be able to get there and help." Armadillomon smiled supportively. He didn't want Cody to fell guilty about not being able to go.
"All right Armadillomon. Let's go to bed."
"I'm sorry Kari, but you can't leave," Mrs. Kamiya explained quickly. "I need your help with cleaning up tonight."
"But mom, I really need to go"
"No Kari, now go and help your father." Mrs. Kamiya began to pick up paper plates and garbage that were laying o the ground.
'This is just great" Kari thought to herself. 'Why couldn't my cousin have his wedding some other day. I'm never going to get to the digital world if I have to clean up the mess from the reception. Stupid drunks. One of my friend is in trouble and I can't go help them because the best man couldn't throw his napkin in the garbage can. Perfect. I sure hope the others can find Ken without my help.'
'Well this is just perfect. My friends are in trouble and I have to watch after my grandmother.' Yolie sighed as she put her d-terminal back into her bag. Quickly she grabbed her grandmothers medication and a glass of water.
"Hey, Grammy. It's 8 o'clock, time to take your medication." Yolie shook her grandmother gently to wake her. She helped the older woman swallow the pills before letting her go back to sleep.
'I can't believe I'm the only person here. Why did my entire family have to leave. If I had gone to America with my brother and sisters I may have been able to sneak away and get to the digital world. But no, I had to stay behind so I could hang out with my friends. It's to bad that my grandpa's brother had that heart attack. My parents had to drive him over for a visit so I got left at my grandparents to make sure that my grandmother take all of her medication on time. Damn it. I hope the others can help Ken without me.'
"What's wrong honey. Is everything all right?" TK looked up from his d-terminal.
"Um yeah. Mom, when are we going to be getting home?"
"Oh, in about nine hours dear. Are you sure there's nothing wrong. You look worried about something."
"No mom, I'm fine." TK turned to look out the window. Nine hours. Just great. He wouldn't be able to get the digital world until the next day. The others would have to do without him.
Ken groaned weakly as he woke up. He couldn't see anything. He hoped that it was just too dark where he was. The ground that he was laying on was made of stone. The room was damp and cold. Fighting against a huge headache, Ken forced himself into a sitting position. Swaying uncertainly, Ken forced himself to his feet. He collapsed almost immediately as his knees gave out in weakness.
"Are we having problems, Emperor?" Arukenimon stepped out of the shadows and approached Ken slowly. With one hand she lifted the pale boy to his feet and pushed him back towards the cold stone wall.
Arukenimon tilted Ken's head back until it cracked against the stone wall behind him. She held his head back as she gently ran her fingers across his chin. He tried to pull his head free and Arukenimon pressed her other hand against his throat, hard.
"What do you want with me?" Ken gasped. It was getting hard to breath. His vision was starting to blur and fade out. The pounding in his head was starting again, as well as the chest pains.
"Oh, Ken. I thought you were a genius. Haven't you figured it out yet?" Arukenimon laughed as she tightened her grip on is throat even more. She watched as his eyes became unfocused. She loosened her grip slightly as he started to gasp for breath.
"Whyhere?" Ken asked between gasps.
"You just keep getting in the way Ken. My little implant didn't succeed in killing you, thanks to your little digimon friend."
"Implant? What do you mean?" Ken was beginning to catch his breath, but the headache and chest pains were getting worse. Ken groaned in pain as Arukenimon took her hand away from Ken's chin and gently placed it at the back of his neck and pushed his head forward.
"The implant is installed here," Arukenimon gently rubbed the back of Ken's neck making him cringe. "You've been feeling the effects for sometime now. First, the headaches," she said stroking his hair, "then the chest pains," she released his throat and slid her hand down to rub his chest lightly, " and finally it stopped you're heart. unfortunately, the humans were able to save you. The implant only had enough power to stop you're heart once, but it is still active and contains enough power to give you those head and chest pains off and on for the rest of your life. Which, if I have anything to say about it, won't be for very much longer."
"When...?" Ken managed to choke out despite the pain
"Right before I made you the Digimon Emperor. I thought that it would be a good idea to have a safeguard in case you turned against us. Unfortunately, I was unable to activate the implant until about a month ago. If I had activated it sooner then so many of the problems you and the other digidestined caused could have been avoided." Arukenimon growled angrily.
"Please stop the pain." Ken was in so much agony that the only thing keeping him standing was Arukenimon. The pain had never been this bad before. Even without full power the implant was still making the sensations stronger each time.
"Even if I wanted to, which I don't, I couldn't remove or turn off the implant. It is installed between two vertebras in your spine. One wrong move during the procedure and you'd' either be dead of paralyzed. Don't worry though Ken, you won't fell the pain much longer. You probably won't survive the week."
"Arukenimon," called Mummymon from an adjoining room, "it's ready now."
"Thank-you, Mummymon." Arukenimon let go of Ken completely and watched him slump to the ground in pain before she turned and walked past Mummymon and out the door. On her way she called, "Mummymon, bring the boy with you."
Mummymon nodded and walked over to the blue haired boy on the ground. "Get up," growled Mummymon as he kicked Ken in the side knocking him over onto his back. Mummymon was surprised at the pain written across the boy's face. With a sigh he bent down and lifted Ken up, cradling the boy gently to his chest, before he turned and went up the stares after Arukenimon.
"Put him in the cell, Mummymon." Arukenimon turned as the other digimon entered the room carrying Ken in his arms. "What are you waiting for? Hurry up."
Mummymon looked at the boy in his arms. Ken was unconscious, but his face was tranquil. It looked like the pain had stopped for now. Quickly the digimon dropped Ken in the room before slamming the door shut and locking it.
"Wormmon. Wormmon. Where are you?" Davis whispered as he pushed the door to Ken's room open. He didn't want to wake Ken's parents and worry them. He had picked the lock to get into the apartment and didn't want them asking any questions. Hopefully, he and Wormmon could find Ken and get him home before Ken's parents got up and saw that he was missing. Davis had left a note for his parents telling them that hen had needed Ken's help on a project and that he would spend the night at the Ichijoui's place.
"Davis, I'm over here." The boy turned to find Minomon laying under the computer desk. "Is everyone else here?"
"Sorry, Wormmon. Everyone else is on vacation. I e-mailed them to let them know what's happening. None of them can make it tonight but they wanted to wish us luck. They'll try to get to the digital world tomorrow."
"That's good," Wormmon whispered softly.
"Are you ok?" Davis dropped to his knees and picked Minomon up. The digimon didn't seem to be injured but he was rather weak.
"I'm ok Davis. I'm just weak because I haven't eaten much of anything since Ken was taken into the hospital a week ago."
"Well then I'm going to go snag some food for you from the kitchen before we go to find Ken." Davis quietly slipped out the door and into the kitchen. He grabbed some fruit from the bowl on the counter and was about to leave when he had an idea. Quickly he went through the cupboards trying to find an empty bottle. Luck was with him. He found three one liter bottles that he quickly filled with water. They didn't know where Ken was. The search could take awhile and they may not have time to find water. And everyone always calls Davis dumb. If they could see him now.
Davis hurried back to Ken's room. He gave Minomon the fruit and opened the digiport. As soon as Minomon was ready he and Davis went through the digiport to the digital world.
To Be Continued
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Sorry that part was so short I decided to just submit what I had instead of making you guys wait a week or two for the next part. I'll try to make the it longer thought. My teachers have been assigning a lot of tests, and assignments lately.
