"Good morning Kari." Tai called. There was no answer. "Kari…." He called as he snuck into her room. Nothing, the bed was made, and the room was empty. "Hey mom where's Kari?"

"She went to the circus, something about a clown…" She called, as she walked by with a pile of laundry.

"Oh….." Tai said. I told her that I'd take her to the toy store to make up for yesterday, he thought. Oh well.

"Hi." Kari smiled and waved. The clown sat on his bed ignoring her. She sat down on a small stool and just watched him happily.

"Why is she looking at me like that….." He thought. "Doesn't she have anything better to do…..stupid child."

"Kari, I'm glad you're here." A voice called out. She turned to see a tall man come out of the shadows.

"Mr. Ringmaster sir." Kari said jumping up.

"Oh goody…." The clown thought in disgust.

"Oh please call me Kale, I'm glad you're here. I'm sure your friend is too." He said smiling at the annoyed clown. Kari just blushed.

"Thank you, um but I've tried to talk to him but…" She started.

"Oh well, I'm afraid he hasn't been able to talk for about a year now….he had an accident, when he fell into a gate…." The clown glared, and turned his back to them.

"Oh….." Kari got up and walked around the cage to face him, he just glared at her. "I'm very sorry…" She said sweetly, not noticing his evil looks. "I hope you get you voice back soon…"

"And I hope you lose yours so I don't have to lesson to you…"

"So what's his name?" Kari asked. Kale stopped for a moment a little shocked. He hadn't thought of this.

"Um his name um…….Parrott…ya that's it Parrott." He said quickly.

"That's not my name! What kind of a name is that?" The clown thought.

"That's a very nice name." Kari said to him.

"And I think Kari is a stupid name you little rat!" He thought, turning around so his back was to her again.

"And why is he in this cage again?" Kari asked. Kale smiled, he knew she'd ask again, and this time he had a better answer.

"Well my dear, you see a long time ago, this clown was doing a new stunt. He had to do everything I said, but he didn't do it, and a lot of people got hurt including himself. After that he lost his voice, and was never the same. He started not lessening at all, and causing lots of trouble. Sadly he has no family and nowhere to go, so I kept him. He's still an incredible performer, just some times well, he's un-trustworthy. Then one day, one of the lions got lose and into an employ's room, after all they were just tents. Well after that everyone has caged room, for protection, he just has his locked when there is no one else around."

"Oh…."Kari said. Some of what he said made sense; she'd want to have her room protected if she were around lion cages. But then some of it just made no sense, but she didn't want to argue.

"If the kid buys this, she dumber then her brother…."

"I understand…" Kari lied.

"Good, now that you're here you can help me, I want you to help get the meals organized for lunch, then you can hang around here if you want until the early show starts."

"Ok, bye bye." Kari waved as a young lady took her hand and let her away.

"And why on earth are you having her cook the meals?" The clown thought to himself.

"Because I need to keep her occupied, so she doesn't become bored with you….Piedmon." Kale smiled.

"I hate you, stop reading my thoughts! As soon as you leave me alone with that brat, I'll tare her apart…"

"You lay a hand on her, and I'll let you become a scratching post for the tigers. I've soon had enough of you Piedmon. You had just better hope I stay amused by your suffering because as soon as I get bored of you, I'll lock you up in a box and leave you there for the rest of your life!"

Piedmon lay on his back. It had been over a year since he was defeated. The gate of destiny had sent him here, as pay back for his evil deeds. Piedmon was weak, helpless, and powerless. He couldn't even talk, and he was now trapped here, with Kale. He didn't know what Kale was, but he knew, he had traveled all over the world in slaving people, for his twisted show. It seemed, he didn't care so much for power, more for torturing and playing with others. He would be no match for him if he were in his digimon form again.

"Ah to be all powerful again…" He thought.

Piedmon was an evil genies, he had single handed, planed the take down of the four digi-gods, and the take over of the digital world. He was not about to sit back and let his life be spent amusing that cocky little man. No Piedmon with his knowledge of magic had a plan. He looked around carefully, no one was there he was alone. He reached under his bed, and pulled out a small box.

Back when he was ruling the digital world, he could never become strong enough as fast as he wanted to. He had been working on a powerful spell that would make any form of energy that hit him make him stronger. In theory, he was trying to change his data to react to any energy that toughed him, and brake it apart. It would then absorb it into him, making his power grow. What he liked most about this was in theory; any digimon attack that hit him would only make him stronger.

He had finally created a program formula to do this and the items were simple enough, but the things he needed had been in the human world. Now that he was here he had most of the items, he was only missing one thing, an earth element mostly used in jewelry. A diamond. Sadly he hadn't come across it yet, and to make things worse, he didn't even know if he was still a digimon. If he was no longer data, then his efforts were useless. He had to hope that only his form and powers were removed, if so then his program would fix that by reactivating those parts of data. The he would be able to have revenge.

He opened the small box, full of the things he needed. Humans were sloppy and it was easy to snatch things from them when they were paying attention to stupid tricks. It was amazing the things he could get from them. Game boys, cd's, and music players. Once he even snatched a lab top, that thing, helped give him almost everything he needed. He had assembling that he could attach to the lab top; he would then hook himself up to a cord on the devise, and download the program into his data. In theory it was almost perfect. But until proven that it worked, it was still theory, and useless until he had all the pieces.

"Hello." He jumped to shove the box back under the bed. He looked up to see the small girl smiling at him. In her hand she held a large tray full of food. He raised eyebrow as she pushed the plate through the food hole.

"I made it myself, they wanted to give you this really gross stuff, so I made this for you when I was alone." She said smiling pleased.

"Well…" He thought. He walked over and picked up the tray. On it was I large sandwich full of different meats, with three cheeses, mayo, and fresh veggies, all made on cheese bread. Next to it was some chips, a large glass of juice, and a big bowl of ice cream.

"Maybe the kids not so bad…" He thought as he wolfed down the food. For the past year all he had eaten was this mushy gruel and the food she had prepared for him, tasted better then anything he had ever tried. Then again she could have served him anything other then growl and he'd be just as happy. For the first time in over a year, he was full and satisfied. However now that his meal was done he wished for her to leave.

Kari however just sat on a stole next to the cage, and watched him, her cheeks red, and eyes dreamy.

"Why are you staring like that child!" He thought. "What's with you anyways, are you stunted or just stupid, go away…" Piedmon got his wish because shortly after he thought it, it was time for the circus to begin.

Now almost five weeks had past, every day Kari had come to visit him. Even though school had started, she never missed a single day. She would sit on the stole next to him, sometimes for hours, ether looking at him dreamily, or even talking to him. Sometimes she would bring him snakes, which he would enjoy, then he would ignore her. She would tell him, to be what he considered the stupidest things like how her day was, things happening in her life. He recalled she talked a lot about a boy called TK, and he hated every minute of it. He hated hearing about he life, he hated anything she said, and he really hated TK. The little boy had been on his mind ever since he ended up here, he often dreamed of how he would touchier and kill him right in front of his digimon and brother, and then how he would finish the rest off one bye one. His daydreams normally ended with there leader Tai, being the last to suffer, but lately the last one was Kari. And it had been just he, and the girl alone, and then…it seemed to end.

Sadly he had to admit that those were just dreams, dreams of freedom, dream's of revenge. Kale had started to realize he was up to something, and now he was never able to get close enough to anyone in the audience to even look to see if they had what he needed. Now he was stuck in his cage waiting…sitting quietly.

"That was quite the show Piedmon, I know I enjoyed it, I always do…" Piedmon sat up hearing the voice. Kale smiled at him, then it faded.

"Oh poor clown, it looks like you little fan missed the show tonight…maybe she found a new crush."

"Crush?" He thought. " No it can't be…."

"Oh it can, haven't you noticed, ever since you saved her, she's been head over heals for you." Kale said teasing him.

"So that's why….that little brat! How on earth could she like me?" He was now passing back and forth in anger, the vary thought, bothered him more then anything, although he knew how she felt deep inside, he choose not to believe it. Maybe because, he hated her and the thought sickened him, maybe because it was crazy, or maybe….because her feelings scared him.

"Hello, clown." He jumped. He small girl stood there smiling holding something behind her back.

"Guess what! I told all my friends at school about you, and were coming to the circus in five days, as a class, we have front row seats and everything, isn't that great?"

"Hmpf!" Piedmon thought. "Ya great more little brats like you…five days huh….hmmm…" he stared into he brown eyes for a few seconds, and then caught himself. Kale laughed as he watched them.

"And you know what, today it the one month anniversary of the day you saved me." She blushed. "And well…I worked really hard on this for you…" She said softly, her face red as she handed him a large paper.

He took it from her a little shocked. As he held it up close to his face, he could see on it was a fairly well done child's painting, of him, and her. He just stared at it, Kari smiled up at him full of pride and hope, that he would like it.

"Oh how cute, your blushing Piedmon." Kales voice taunted in his head. "When is the wedding…."

At that moment he lost it, all the mixed emotions that were filling up inside him. He glared angrily at Kari, this time she notices. He held the picture up above his head, and RIP! Kari felt large tears welling up in her eyes. And even though she tried to suppress them, she felt them rolling down her cheeks as she watched her gift being torn into many pieces, just like her heart. It took a second or two for Piedmon to realize what he had done, and Kari stood there stunted, and full of pain. He was written as clear as day all over her young face.

"That took me all week…I worked so hard…"

Before he could even attempted to pretend he didn't feel a little guilt welling up inside him, the child ran out of the tent bawling.

Piedmon sat quietly and looked at the clock that hung near his cage.

"8 pm…" He told himself. The last show of the night ended an hour ago. It was the next day, or night, now and he found himself watching the clock, almost ever five minutes. Hours past. "1 am…." He told himself as he looked at the pill of confetti on the floor. "I guess she's not coming today…" The word today seemed to stick in his mind, up until a few hours ago; he believed she would be there just like every other day. As the rides shut down and he was left in the dark, he told himself she would be there again. He didn't know why he believed that, he just did.

As the days past, they became longer, Piedmon had even stayed up late one night reassembling the tiny pieces of paper on the floor, staring at the picture. He was utterly depressed and alone, he kept telling himself that he was glade she was finally gone, but if he was why could he not stop thinking about her, dreaming of her. He couldn't get her out of his head, and he hated it.

The fifth day, he seemed to not feel bad at all, he was in a great mood. He told himself, it was just a phase, and as he went out to his act he felt just as evil as ever. He began his act then something caught his ear.

"Hey Kari, that's the clown in you picture right, wow he is great…" Piedmon spun around the small girl sat a few feet away from him. Her eyes, although turned from him, were still full of pain. He knew she was ignoring him. He stood there watching her. And the longer he looked at her the harder it became for him to turn away from her. The thought hit him like a shot to the heart. This was it, this would be the last time he would ever see her. After this she would be gone, out of his life, she would never visit him again, and if he ever did see her again he would be Piedmon, and it would mean her end.

Without warning, he ran across the ring towards her. She had to notice the face he was standing right in front of her, as the rest of the circus wondered what was going on. With a few waves of his hand, a bouquet of flowers appeared in his hand, he smiled and handed them to her. She just looked at him, tears in her eyes, then turned to her teacher.

"May I be excused…" She said softly, the teacher nodded dumbfounded. Kari stood up, and began to make her way up the ail. He watched her for a minute, and then just as he was about to run after her, he felt the circus grads pulling him back.

"That's enough from you today…" One of them said.

"No…" He thought, he felt like he was being ripped apart inside, all he could think about was getting to her, stopping her, from leaving him. He didn't understand why, and he didn't care. Then his eyes grew wide in terror, it happened so fast, the crowd was running screaming in terror. The Lion jumped there the crowd right in front of her. The small girl fell backwards, and rolled down the stares into the ring, as she was fallowed by the hungry cat.

"NOOOooo! " He heard himself screamed inside.



Hehehe cliffhangers, I love um ^_^ Well did u like it? I hope so please tell me you thoughts. I will continue if u review! Hehehe u have to work for it if u want more! Oh and VampireNaomi, please write a pied/kari too, that would be soo cool! ^_^