The Saga of Good: Chapter 6
A/N: Please review.
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Disclaimer: Do you think I would own it after all these chapters of claiming not to?
Ken: *comes strolling in* Hey, Another World says hi and thanks for finding and bringing his muse Young Ken back.
heath 999: *munching on an Oreo* No problem, it was fun having him.
Ken: Is Wormmon back yet?
heath 999: Well, he crash landed at XxdaLoveSovereign4evaxX's place, and then came back here, but then he left because he ate all the sugar in the house, to conquer all the sugar-holding facilities in the world. I think he spent too much time with my Emperor ex-muse before he went to Ken's Luver.
Ken: I told you to not make them share the same room...
heath 999: Well, you were the one who wanted to share a room with Sam.
Ken: I didn't know the Digimon Emperor's personality was going to rub off on Wormmon.
heath 999: I wonder if the Digimon Emperor's personality is more like Wormmon's. *picks up another Oreo Cookie*
Ken: *sweatdrops as he sees three truckloads full of Oreos at her feet* Where did you get that?
heath 999: A grateful writer who wanted to thank me for reviewing her story, and this is going to help bring Wormmon back.
Ken: How?
heath 999: *sticks head outside and hollers out* WORMMON!!! OREOS!!!
Ken: You shouldn't have done that...
heath 999: Why?
*rumble*
heath 999: What's that? An earthquake?
Ken: You'll see...
*ALL OF THE WORMMON'S OF THE WORLD (A/N: Yes, all, don't ask me how many there are) come charging in*
heath 999: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! *jumps into Ken's arms to avoid the stampede*
Ken: Hey! That's Ken's Luver's Wormmon!
heath 999: I should contact her!
Ken: Maybe Sam can come and get him! I WANT MY BROTHER BACK!
My Wormmon: *comes crawling in, last to arrive* Hello!
heath 999: WHY COULDN'T YOU BE THE FIRST ONE!!! DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY THERE- *cuts off to see her Wormmon eating the Oreos with all of his other ones*
heath 999: *sweatdrops* I can't win! Please review.
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~Ken's POV~
The darkness swirls around.
I keep my eyes closed, fearing what I'll see if I open them.
I feel a pain radiating from the back of my neck, the place that in my last minutes of consciousness caused me more pain than I have ever felt.
Even more than that from back there when Sam died.
Sam...
I remember the dream as if it was last night, his warning about the pains in the back of my neck still ringing in my head.
I feel deep betrayal.
Sam...
why didn't you tell me?
I hear voices penetrating my thoughts, the harsh voice of my captor that makes me want to crawl into a hole and die, and the children.
The children...
They want to be exactly like me.
They don't understand.
They don't know what it's like to be me.
They don't know what it's like to cause the pain that I have caused.
They don't know what it's like to harm and kill innocent creatures just for fun.
Tears fill my eyes, as sadness and regret sink in.
I should've fought harder; I should've done something to stop Oikawa.
Instead,
instead, I was weak, helpless to do anything.
Not anymore.
I slowly lift my head, trying to fight off the wave of pain and dizziness as I do so.
Only to see that I'm too late.
I see one of the children willingly allowing Oikawa scan the dark spore into him.
I try to move my arms, cursing silently as I realize that they're still bound behind me by my own scarf.
I never felt so helpless before.
Even when Wormmon was dying in my arms.
"Please," I whisper, too weak to say it any louder, tears of pain and sadness streaming down my face. "You don't want to be like me, I have killed so many innocent creatures, I have caused so much pain, you don't want to be like me."
My pleas fall to death ears.
And I cry harder each time a child gets a dark spore.
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"It's so nice that the children look up to you so much," Oikawa taunts me, a demented grin on his features as he looks down at me still lying on the floor from where he probably dropped me after scanning my spore.
I glare daggers at him, wishing that my hands were free and I was strong enough to get up and strangle him.
"You know, your father talks about you all the time at work, it's so good to know that he cares so much about you." He continues mockingly.
I stare at him as the words sink in.
He knows my dad?
I need to talk to him to see what he knows about Oikawa.
Even if I have to tell him about the Digital World to do it, to protect it from this jerk.
~*~
I take a deep breath, exhausted by the sheer effort of trying to get up to my knees.
Whatever Oikawa did to me took a lot out of me.
"Highton View Terrace, what a terrible name for such a dark place, I mean it's been the epicenter of digimon attacks. In my opinion, it should be called Dark View Terrace." He laughs, a deep mocking laugh that would shake anyone to his or her core.
I scowl at him, really not in the mood for any jokes.
"Look, he thinks all of you are insects to him. That he's superior to you in every way, so he doesn't even acknowledge you." My captor says mockingly, the children looking delighted and entranced at his words.
I turn my head away, for once during this whole thing not able to meet his eyes.
I'm disgusted and hurt by his words.
He brainwashed these children to believe every word he says.
And there's nothing that I can do about it.
Also...
I'm so mad at myself.
For allowing for this to happen.
For allowing myself to become the Digimon Emperor in the first place.
For allowing myself to be famous, so these children will want to be like me.
How much more pain am I going to cause?
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I finally stagger to my feet, shaking my head to try to clear the wave of dizziness that strikes me when I do.
I hear the squealing of breaks, and I suddenly am thrown forward, cursing once again at the fact that I'm hindered with my arms tied behind me.
Enraged, Oikawa kicks the door that's leading to the front. "WHAT'S GOING ON?!" He demands in such a way he kind of reminds me of myself as the Digimon Emperor.
And that scares more than anything else that has happened to me ever since I met this nut.
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I sweat in fear at the realization of what I have to do to stop Daemon.
I have to open the gate to the Dark Ocean; it's the only way.
"Dark digiport open!" I shout, holding up my corrupt digivice, hoping to hold off the pain of the dark spore and the darkness long enough to trap this demon.
I scream as the spore reacts immediately to the effects of the ocean, sending pain shooting up my neck into my brain, almost to the point where I black out.
I have to fight it!
I feel the others shouting, giving me words of support, and holding my arm up to try to stop me from dropping my digivice.
"Don't fall to the darkness Ken! You're on our side now! YOU'RE NOT THE DIGIMON EMPEROR ANYMORE!!!" Davis's voice seems like miles away, but pierces through the cloud of pain that surrounds me.
I snap my eyes open.
He's right!
Dark spore or no dark spore, I am regular Ken now, and I'm happy to be him.
Especially with friends.
I no longer feel pain radiating from my neck; the spore is no longer battling for control.
I won the battle with darkness.
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"OIKAWA!!!" I shout, desperately chasing after the car with him in it.
I fall to my knees, panting with exhaustion, wishing for once that the dark spore was active again so I could catch up, and feeling awful for thinking like that.
I bang my fist against the ground in pure frustration and helplessness as the car gets out of sight.
He won again.
I turn to the others, watching me with surprise; Jim's car parked a short distance away.
"I have to talk to all of you tomorrow." I say softly, drained mentally and physically by the events that have transpired today.
~*~
I smile as T.K. offers his seat to me, "it's really no big deal, and my apartment is a short distance from here." He says with a smile.
"Thanks," I say with a smile, glad to be able to not have to worry about going home.
I slowly explain everything that has happened tonight to me to the others, Wormmon nuzzling me for comfort as I get to the part about the dark spore.
"Do you think they'll turn into Digimon Emperor's?" A horrified Kari asks at the end.
I start to sweat, remembering all the terrible things I did under its influence. "I hope not."
~*~
I hold Wormmon up, allowing my parents to see a digimon for the first time in their lives.
I won't tell them everything.
If I did, Mama would never let me leave the house ever again.
But, I need to tell my family...
if it's the way to stop Oikawa.
~*~
I lay staring at the ceiling, lost in thought over the events of the day; Wormmon curled protectively next to me.
I feel betrayal about Sam.
He knew.
He knew all this time about the dark spore, and he didn't tell me.
"Sam...." I whisper, hearing my emotion of betrayal fill my voice.
"Sam... why didn't you tell me?"
I keep on whispering the same thing over and over until I fall into a nightmare-filled sleep.
TBC...
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A/N: Please review.
A/N: Please review.
~*~
Disclaimer: Do you think I would own it after all these chapters of claiming not to?
Ken: *comes strolling in* Hey, Another World says hi and thanks for finding and bringing his muse Young Ken back.
heath 999: *munching on an Oreo* No problem, it was fun having him.
Ken: Is Wormmon back yet?
heath 999: Well, he crash landed at XxdaLoveSovereign4evaxX's place, and then came back here, but then he left because he ate all the sugar in the house, to conquer all the sugar-holding facilities in the world. I think he spent too much time with my Emperor ex-muse before he went to Ken's Luver.
Ken: I told you to not make them share the same room...
heath 999: Well, you were the one who wanted to share a room with Sam.
Ken: I didn't know the Digimon Emperor's personality was going to rub off on Wormmon.
heath 999: I wonder if the Digimon Emperor's personality is more like Wormmon's. *picks up another Oreo Cookie*
Ken: *sweatdrops as he sees three truckloads full of Oreos at her feet* Where did you get that?
heath 999: A grateful writer who wanted to thank me for reviewing her story, and this is going to help bring Wormmon back.
Ken: How?
heath 999: *sticks head outside and hollers out* WORMMON!!! OREOS!!!
Ken: You shouldn't have done that...
heath 999: Why?
*rumble*
heath 999: What's that? An earthquake?
Ken: You'll see...
*ALL OF THE WORMMON'S OF THE WORLD (A/N: Yes, all, don't ask me how many there are) come charging in*
heath 999: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! *jumps into Ken's arms to avoid the stampede*
Ken: Hey! That's Ken's Luver's Wormmon!
heath 999: I should contact her!
Ken: Maybe Sam can come and get him! I WANT MY BROTHER BACK!
My Wormmon: *comes crawling in, last to arrive* Hello!
heath 999: WHY COULDN'T YOU BE THE FIRST ONE!!! DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY THERE- *cuts off to see her Wormmon eating the Oreos with all of his other ones*
heath 999: *sweatdrops* I can't win! Please review.
~*~
~Ken's POV~
The darkness swirls around.
I keep my eyes closed, fearing what I'll see if I open them.
I feel a pain radiating from the back of my neck, the place that in my last minutes of consciousness caused me more pain than I have ever felt.
Even more than that from back there when Sam died.
Sam...
I remember the dream as if it was last night, his warning about the pains in the back of my neck still ringing in my head.
I feel deep betrayal.
Sam...
why didn't you tell me?
I hear voices penetrating my thoughts, the harsh voice of my captor that makes me want to crawl into a hole and die, and the children.
The children...
They want to be exactly like me.
They don't understand.
They don't know what it's like to be me.
They don't know what it's like to cause the pain that I have caused.
They don't know what it's like to harm and kill innocent creatures just for fun.
Tears fill my eyes, as sadness and regret sink in.
I should've fought harder; I should've done something to stop Oikawa.
Instead,
instead, I was weak, helpless to do anything.
Not anymore.
I slowly lift my head, trying to fight off the wave of pain and dizziness as I do so.
Only to see that I'm too late.
I see one of the children willingly allowing Oikawa scan the dark spore into him.
I try to move my arms, cursing silently as I realize that they're still bound behind me by my own scarf.
I never felt so helpless before.
Even when Wormmon was dying in my arms.
"Please," I whisper, too weak to say it any louder, tears of pain and sadness streaming down my face. "You don't want to be like me, I have killed so many innocent creatures, I have caused so much pain, you don't want to be like me."
My pleas fall to death ears.
And I cry harder each time a child gets a dark spore.
~*~
"It's so nice that the children look up to you so much," Oikawa taunts me, a demented grin on his features as he looks down at me still lying on the floor from where he probably dropped me after scanning my spore.
I glare daggers at him, wishing that my hands were free and I was strong enough to get up and strangle him.
"You know, your father talks about you all the time at work, it's so good to know that he cares so much about you." He continues mockingly.
I stare at him as the words sink in.
He knows my dad?
I need to talk to him to see what he knows about Oikawa.
Even if I have to tell him about the Digital World to do it, to protect it from this jerk.
~*~
I take a deep breath, exhausted by the sheer effort of trying to get up to my knees.
Whatever Oikawa did to me took a lot out of me.
"Highton View Terrace, what a terrible name for such a dark place, I mean it's been the epicenter of digimon attacks. In my opinion, it should be called Dark View Terrace." He laughs, a deep mocking laugh that would shake anyone to his or her core.
I scowl at him, really not in the mood for any jokes.
"Look, he thinks all of you are insects to him. That he's superior to you in every way, so he doesn't even acknowledge you." My captor says mockingly, the children looking delighted and entranced at his words.
I turn my head away, for once during this whole thing not able to meet his eyes.
I'm disgusted and hurt by his words.
He brainwashed these children to believe every word he says.
And there's nothing that I can do about it.
Also...
I'm so mad at myself.
For allowing for this to happen.
For allowing myself to become the Digimon Emperor in the first place.
For allowing myself to be famous, so these children will want to be like me.
How much more pain am I going to cause?
~*~
I finally stagger to my feet, shaking my head to try to clear the wave of dizziness that strikes me when I do.
I hear the squealing of breaks, and I suddenly am thrown forward, cursing once again at the fact that I'm hindered with my arms tied behind me.
Enraged, Oikawa kicks the door that's leading to the front. "WHAT'S GOING ON?!" He demands in such a way he kind of reminds me of myself as the Digimon Emperor.
And that scares more than anything else that has happened to me ever since I met this nut.
~*~
I sweat in fear at the realization of what I have to do to stop Daemon.
I have to open the gate to the Dark Ocean; it's the only way.
"Dark digiport open!" I shout, holding up my corrupt digivice, hoping to hold off the pain of the dark spore and the darkness long enough to trap this demon.
I scream as the spore reacts immediately to the effects of the ocean, sending pain shooting up my neck into my brain, almost to the point where I black out.
I have to fight it!
I feel the others shouting, giving me words of support, and holding my arm up to try to stop me from dropping my digivice.
"Don't fall to the darkness Ken! You're on our side now! YOU'RE NOT THE DIGIMON EMPEROR ANYMORE!!!" Davis's voice seems like miles away, but pierces through the cloud of pain that surrounds me.
I snap my eyes open.
He's right!
Dark spore or no dark spore, I am regular Ken now, and I'm happy to be him.
Especially with friends.
I no longer feel pain radiating from my neck; the spore is no longer battling for control.
I won the battle with darkness.
~*~
"OIKAWA!!!" I shout, desperately chasing after the car with him in it.
I fall to my knees, panting with exhaustion, wishing for once that the dark spore was active again so I could catch up, and feeling awful for thinking like that.
I bang my fist against the ground in pure frustration and helplessness as the car gets out of sight.
He won again.
I turn to the others, watching me with surprise; Jim's car parked a short distance away.
"I have to talk to all of you tomorrow." I say softly, drained mentally and physically by the events that have transpired today.
~*~
I smile as T.K. offers his seat to me, "it's really no big deal, and my apartment is a short distance from here." He says with a smile.
"Thanks," I say with a smile, glad to be able to not have to worry about going home.
I slowly explain everything that has happened tonight to me to the others, Wormmon nuzzling me for comfort as I get to the part about the dark spore.
"Do you think they'll turn into Digimon Emperor's?" A horrified Kari asks at the end.
I start to sweat, remembering all the terrible things I did under its influence. "I hope not."
~*~
I hold Wormmon up, allowing my parents to see a digimon for the first time in their lives.
I won't tell them everything.
If I did, Mama would never let me leave the house ever again.
But, I need to tell my family...
if it's the way to stop Oikawa.
~*~
I lay staring at the ceiling, lost in thought over the events of the day; Wormmon curled protectively next to me.
I feel betrayal about Sam.
He knew.
He knew all this time about the dark spore, and he didn't tell me.
"Sam...." I whisper, hearing my emotion of betrayal fill my voice.
"Sam... why didn't you tell me?"
I keep on whispering the same thing over and over until I fall into a nightmare-filled sleep.
TBC...
~*~
A/N: Please review.