Disclaimer- I do not own Digimon. And when I look at where this fanfic is going . . . The Digimon Emperor does.
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Author's Note: Chapter 16!!!

- Rose
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Imperial Princess
Chapter 16
The emperor walked down the dimly lit corridors of the Imperial Palace in the Real World. He was smirking slyly to himself. He had just made the deal of a life time.

When he'd been explaining to Wormmon how he was planning to take over other worlds, a red light had started shining at the back of the control room. All of a sudden a man with red horns and a red tail had appeared out of no where.

When Ken had demanded to know who he was, where the hell he came from and how did he get into the control room, the creature and angrily snapped back that Ken was planning to take over a world that *it* already ruled.

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"You are not taking over hell!" the creature snapped.

Ken looked at him, obviously irritated. "Who are you to tell me what and what not to do?!" the emperor asked through clenched teeth.

"I'm Satan, and I have a right to order you not to take over hell! Hell is a place that I already rule. I have always ruled it. Ever since the beginning of time. I do not plan on losing my kingdom now."

Ken raised an eye brow and smirked. "Okay, let me get this straight-"

"Now, I relise the irony of ruling a place which is supposed be where the dead are supposed to suffer, but even though I never die, death is supposed to be my favourite thing, 'cause that's how I'll get more subjects. Don't remind me, please. God nags me enough about that."

Ken chuckled. "God?" he asked.

"Yes, God," Satan snapped. "Could you believe the guy tried to sue me once? I mean, *please*, where did *he* plan on getting a lawyer?!"

At this point, Satan noticed that the emperor was looking at him strangely.

"Well, anyway, you are not taking over hell," Satan said.

Ken rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Okay, I have an idea. Let's have a war over it!" the emperor suggested with fake brightness.

"No, I mean it. Look, I'll make a little deal with you."

"Go on, I'm listening."

Satan nodded, than smiled evilly. "How would you like to go down in history-?"

"Oh, yeah, great," Ken interrupted. "The worm told me to do something nice." Ken shook his head. "The idiot. Apparantly, taking over the world wasn't enough. I tried to kill my wife when she gave birth to a bi*ch and go down in history that way, but some British as*clowned ruler had already done that."

"Yes, about that," Satan said.

"What? The King of England? Yeah, the Brits were the biggest whiners when I took over-"

"No-o-o . . . About your daughter, I mean. She's part of the deal."

"Oh, yes, the deal. Go ahead."

Satan took a deep breath. "If you don't take over hell, I will give you great powers. Hell will always be an allie to you when you try to take over any other world in the galaxie, including heaven. Think of the power. The control."

The emperor smiled for a second. "And where does my daughter come into this?"

"Give her to me." Satan said simply. Getting no reply from the emperor, the king of devils continued. "Other devils and I will train her and raise her. We will transform her into a powerful and dominant warrior. You have our word on that. Just let us have her."

The emperor frowned before replying. "Do you know what good women-"

"Please, I don't want to hear it. If that's how you really feel about womankind, emperor, you're getting a very good deal here. So, what do you say?" Satan reached out his hand.

Ken stared at the pitch blackness above him, toward the ceiling. Then, he stared and Satan and without taking his eyes off the him, the emperor reached out grabbed his hand in a hand shake.

The emperor had just made a deal with the devil, and in Ken's opinion, it was the best a person could make.

End of Chapter 16

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Author's Note: Okay, so I decided to be nice. If I don't get 7 reviews for this chapter, I'm not updating chapter 17. Too bad. I don't plan on being nice this time.

- Rose