Dragon Lady: Hi!!! *waves happily*
Ken: Yes!! You decided to update this story!
Dragon Lady: Yes I did! I got enough positive reviews in my opinion.
Ken: Good. Because if you had decided to forget this story even existed I was going to have to hurt you, because you left the thing in a damn cliff hanger.
Dragon Lady: ^^;; yeah…sorry about that. I loathe cliff hangers when I'm reading, but at the same time, being an author myself I love it when I can do the same thing. Its refreshing to know that I hold the audience in my power when they're reading my fic. ^_^
Ken: Power corrupts you know.
Dragon Lady: ^^;;;
Ken: Well lets not make this a long muse chat! It was a cliff hanger, lets get on with the fic already! *crosses arms impatiently*
Dragon Lady: All right…all right. *rolls eyes* ^_^ Its still Kensuke people, so be warned. If you don't like that couple and you're reading it anyway don't flame me because its your own stupid fault. ^^; Sorry…just had to say that. Of course this is chapter two…non Kensuke fans (how could anyone not be a Kensuke fan?) should know that by now…
Ken: DigimonDragonLady does not own digimon…by the way. Just thought I'd throw that out there…By the way…try and ignore dl's pathetic "spell" in this…She only got the words by writing some stupid verse and turning the words around backwards…
Dragon Lady: -_-; Anyways…on with the fic!
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Magical Game
By: DigimonDragonLady
"No way!" Jun exploded. Daisuke just gave her a miserable look.
Jun wasn't sure if she should laugh in excitement and jump around the room in joy, or burst into tears. It was a wonderful thing…to find ones soul mate, but the position that Daisuke was in…
Daisuke only sighed when his sister sat there dumbly, not knowing quite how to react. Jun seemed to remember then that he was looking for some kind of encouragement. "Well there's not a chance in hell that I'm going to let my little brother loose his soul mate! We'll think of something Daisuke! If it comes down to Ken's life or your secret from the Chosen don't you hesitate to expose your magic, understand me?!"
Daisuke only nodded miserably. "I guess…"
* * *
"I'm almost finished…" Ken smiled. "This is going to be extremely beneficial to my rein…I can tell. When I gather the information I seek and turn the Digital World's protective magic to my advantage I will become unstoppable, and the Chosen Children will be finished!" His dark laughter rang through his base, sending shivers down the digimon's spines.
"Master…?"
Ken stopped laughing immediately. "What?!" he snarled.
"What are you doing Master? Can…can I help you?"
"You?" Ken sneered as he whirled to face the rookie digimon who had the nerve to enter his room. "You help with this project? Don't make me laugh!" The digimon cringed backwards at his master's tone. "Digimon know nothing of magic! Don't waste my valuable time Wormmon!"
"Yes Master!" the digimon yelped out and apology and beat a hasty retreat from the Kaizer's presence.
Ken only scowled. Why was it that genius was always surrounded by stupidity? If anyone reminded Ken of how much this was true, it was Wormmon. He sighed and turned back to his work. His energy level was full enough for his intent…the project was nearing completion…
* * *
The Chosen Children were trekking through the Digital World looking for spires to destroy. They were all laughing and talking amongst themselves…well, everyone but Daisuke that is. It seemed that because of the ease of the past few days work they had completely forgotten about the serious threat the Digimon Kaizer posed.
Daisuke was nervous. The Digital World was too quiet. There was an oppressive silence hanging in the air. He wondered if he was the only one that felt it. To Daisuke it seemed as if the only sound to be heard for miles was the noise the Chosen Children themselves were making.
He used a little of his magic to send his senses as far as he could ahead of them in an attempt to locate any danger before it came upon them. But he didn't want to use too much, because the Digital World taxed his magical energy, and even though he was a very powerful enchanter it would exhaust him quickly.
Then Daisuke hit upon a huge spot of power. There was something there, but when he let his eyes slide over the area it appeared to be only a quiet clearing in the middle of the forest. He was trying to discover just what it was that made him so uneasy about it when the Chosen deemed it a good time to get his attention. He had only left a small amount of his senses behind him and obviously not enough of his hearing…but that was one of the most important things he needed right that second.
"Daisuke…Daisuke…" Iori was attempting to get his friends attention, but he appeared to be completely out of it.
"No, no Iori," Miyako shook her head. "That's not how you should go about getting Daisuke to listen to you." She took a deep breath and shouted in the boys ear. "DAISUKE!"
Daisuke jumped in surprise and looked like he'd just had a heart attack. He was breathing heavily with a hand over his heart. "What the hell was that for?!" he demanded of them. Miyako, little did she know, could have just killed him.
He had gone much too deeply into his magic and just then he had run the risk of separating his soul from his body when his conscious mind had been snapped back too quickly to the source of his power. A body can't live without the soul. Daisuke would have died instantly, but it seemed that luck had been on his side that time.
Daisuke had stopped walking. A shudder passed through his body when he thought about what it would have felt to have his soul torn from him. The Chosen couldn't help but notice how pale he had become.
"Daisuke? What's wrong with you?" Hikari asked in concern.
Daisuke's eyes grew wide as he identified the unexpected power source he had ventured across in the forest clearing only moments before being pulled back. It was a strong hiding spell with a lot more power radiating through it, caused by whatever it was there to hide.
"Damn," he hissed. "You moron!"
"I beg your pardon…" Miyako began angrily when she thought Daisuke was referring to her, but it soon became clear that he wasn't.
"What the hell does he think he's doing using all that power?! He is going to get himself killed!"
Daisuke took off running as fast as he could and the Chosen starred after him. Veemon looked at the other children, shrugged in confusion, and bounded off after his partner. "What is with that boy today?" Miyako shook her head in wonder.
"I don't know…but might I suggest that we follow him and find out what the moron is doing to get himself killed?" Takeru suggested.
"I agree," Iori nodded, and so the Chosen began running in the direction that Daisuke and Veemon had gone.
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Daisuke stopped running when he came upon Ken's magic shield. This was it. He had to decide right now what he was going to do. It was too much too hope that the others wouldn't follow him…and he heard them approaching that moment. Veemon was at his side. The very air around him seemed to quiver with anticipation of what would come next.
Here. Right now Daisuke, the wind seemed to whisper. He could walk away and leave to boy, whom he was sure was his soul mate, to certain death, or he could break one of the biggest unspoken rules of the magical people. He trembled and tried to look away from the shield.
He clenched his hands into tight fists at his side, closing his eyes and forcing his head to look away. His whole body stiffened in place when he tried to take an experimental step backwards, and he was forced to open his eyes once more as he let his body relax once more.
Jun's words rang through his head. 'If it comes down to Ken's life or your secret from the Chosen, don't you hesitate to expose your magic, understand me?' Daisuke knew that his heart was not going to allow him to forsake his soul mate.
He placed a hand on Ken's magic shield, making it visible to the other Chosen as well as himself. He was amused by the color of Ken's magic. Pink. The feared digimon Kaizer had pink magic? He smiled. If the color of Ken's magic was not corrupted with darkness maybe that meant that it was not too late to save his lover's soul.
"What is that thing?!"
"Its enormous…"
Daisuke was halfway aware of the whisperings of Miyako and his friends and he could feel their eyes on him with every movement he made. But he didn't have time to worry about what they were thinking about all this. He had a soul mate to save.
The guardian of Courage and Friendship took a deep, calming breath. In a loud, seemingly unruffled voice he called out his name of power; a word so powerful that it made full grown enchanters, wizards and all magic people tremble when they were made to use it, especially in front of ordinary mortals, for it gave another person power over you to know it.
Because the name is the thing, and the true name is the true thing. To speak the name is to control the thing. The rule had been drilled into Daisuke's since childhood, it was the rule of the wizarding society. They lived with names that could destroy them. Never, he had been told, let anyone else discover your true name, for fear of death or worse.
But his name was powerful and it easily shattered Ken's seemingly impressive shield into miniscule magical pieces.
* * *
The Kaizer stared at Daisuke and the other Chosen Children in open mouthed shock and confusion. "How…how the…"
Daisuke took a quick step forward. "Stop Ken, don't use your magic now please!"
Ken blinked but attempted recompose himself. "What do you know of my magic Chosen? And what I do is none of your concern," he declared coldly, his eyes sweeping over Daisuke in contempt. "This world and everything in it belongs to me, I can do as I want."
"Please Ken, listen to me! Whatever spell you're about to use, don't! Its taking too much of your energy! You'll burnout. Or worse! You cold start using up your life force energy, then you'll die!"
"I know what I'm doing!" Ken snapped.
Daisuke muttered under his breath and risked sending his mind out once more. He cautiously probed Ken's own mind with his powers, trying not to alert the other boy of what he was doing…he wasn't the best at reading thoughts, that was Jun's specialty really, then again Ken probably wouldn't understand what was happening even if he halfway felt Daisuke's presence. He had probably never felt the mental touch of another enchanter, so Daisuke was pretty sure he was safe in what he was doing.
When he found he information he wanted he pulled back quickly. "Time displacement?!" he gasped. "Time displacement?!! You can't do that! You'll die for sure!"
"As I said before I will do as I please, and I'd just love to see you try and get in my way Motomiya," Ken sneered. He stared straight into Daisuke's eyes with his own indigo ones, he slowly raised his hands, making sure to keep full eye contact with Daisuke so that the boy knew exactly what he was doing.
Panic welled up in Daisuke's heart. This couldn't happen, not to Ken. It just couldn't! What could he do? What could he do?!! He couldn't just stand by and allow his soul mates destruction. He had to stop him somehow…
As Ken began to speak a small wind stirred around his feet and grew stronger with every word spoken. The cape of the Digimon Kaizer billowed out behind him as he set the spell in effect, never taking his eyes off Daisuke.
"Cigam secrof neddih peed…" Ken chanted softly, but soon his voice rose as his power slowly built.
"Noooooo! Ken!" Daisuke yelled in anguish. It was too late to stop him now, once the spell had been started. Even if he pulled him out of it Ken would still die, because the power had been called and released. It was sealed the moment Ken had spoken the first word. Daisuke's mind was screaming at him to help Ken. And he reacted without pausing for a second, for time was precious, to consider what he was doing. There was no time for uncertainty. Daisuke only had one chance left…
He threw all the magic he could gather on such short notice into the spell along side Ken's in a feudal, desperate attempt to get the spell Ken had started to draw on his own magic as well. He didn't stop to think about his own life. He didn't remember more than just his own life, and Ken's life was at stake. All he thought about was maybe…if he could do this, it would save Ken…
As the power and wind built Daisuke's voice rose above the howl with Ken's, forcing out the last words of the spell the Kaizer had begun. "…wohs em eht sterces taht uoy peek!"
For maybe two agonizing minutes Daisuke's body burned with an intense, excruciating pain. Liquid fire rushed through his veins, filling him with an unbearable heat. Even for a powerful enchanter his was too much to take…
Daisuke screamed. It felt as if he were being burned to death from the inside out. All of the most painful tortures in human existence ever inflicted upon a living soul combined would not equal what Daisuke was feeling then. The only thing that was in his mind was the pain. So great was his agony that he couldn't even register the pain filled screams of five other Chosen Children.
Then multicolored spots began to dance before his eyes as the world around him slowly faded from light to dark. 'I've failed,' was the last thing he thought. 'I was wrong, and now I've killed us all…' And then, his world went completely black.
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Ken: Damn it all DL you did it again!!! And it was shorter too!!!
Dragon Lady: *wails* I know I did, and it was!! I'm so sorry! Please, please, please don't hate me!! I can't help it! This story is writing itself…I don't know that I have any control over it anymore!!
Ken: Oo.
Dragon Lady: I'm sorry!
Ken: You'd just better come out with the third chapter soon.
Dragon Lady: *stops wailing* What third chapter? *blinks*
Ken: What do you mean "what third chapter"?! The third chapter I know you're going to be writing if you want to live a long, harm free life!!!! *glares at authoress*
Dragon Lady: *gulps at murderous look in muse's eyes* hehehe…Ohhhhh yeah …*that* third chapter…^^;
Ken: -_-;
Dragon Lady: ^_~ I'll have it out ASAP peoples.
Ken: Somebody has had waaaaay too much sugar…
Dragon Lady: SUGAR!!!!!!! *giggles* ^^;;
Ken: Um…right…I think its time for us to go now while, you still regard this girl as mentally stable…
Dragon Lady: *being dragged away from computer by muse*
Ken: Have a nice day.
Dragon Lady: Read and Review pretty please!!!!! And I'm perfectly stable! Don't let Ken fool you. I'm only insane by association. ^_~