Chapter 8:
One Step Closer (part two)
"Kyle... Kyle... Kyle wake up. Please wake up," said a young boy's voice that sounded very familiar to the girl. There were allot of voices that Kyle was familiar with, but she will always recognize Matt's.
Kyle slowly opened her eyes and saw Matt kneeling down in front of her. Looking at her with great concern. Kyle sat up and looked around her surroundings. She was in a very large, open area, except for a few pillars holding up the floors above her, and all around the room were wide windows where you could easily get a better view of the outside.
"Wh-where am I?" asked Kyle drearily as she rubbed her eyes.
"We're in the TV station's lobby... just like all the rest of the prisoners here, and us: the digidestined," said Matt somewhat drearily as well, and then he gestured to the whole room.
Kyle looked around herself to see allot of people sitting around on the floors; sleeping, crying, muttering worriedly to one another. Near her, were the digidestined kids. They were all quiet and some were leaning against one of the pillars. She also saw that Kari was with them, and she was resting her head on Tai's shoulder.
"Where's Ed?" Kyle asked Matt.
Matt tilted his head downwards. Kyle looked down next to her, and she saw her little brother sleeping on the floor.
"What about Myotismon? Where is he, or at least his henchmen?"
"I don't know where Phantomon or Myotismon went too, but there are allot of Bakemon hovering above and... Demidevimon was told to keep a close eye on us..." said Matt, and than he looked over his shoulder to see Demidevimon a little ways from him.
Demidevimon heard Matt and grinned happily. "That's right, digi-brats! Lord Myotismon wanted to make sure none of ya tried anything... you know, to ruin his plans and all..."
Kyle shrugged slightly as she looked at Demidevimon also. "Huh... I was wondering where the heck he went. I guess he's been in here all this time. Watching over the people in here." Than Kyle grunted a little sarcastically, "Why is Myotismon worried about somebody ruining his plans? He's got the power now to easily stop anyone that gets in his way..."
Kyle sighed and rested her back against one of the pillars like some of the digidestined were. She leaned her head back and closed her eyes.
Matt turned to Tai and asked, "Do you think there's any way out of this place?
Tai turned his head slightly towards Matt and said dully, "I doubt it... I really do... I hate to say it, but... I really think that Myotismon... won. Now he's gonna take over Japan... the world... I hate to think what's beyond that."
Kyle shuddered to think about Myotismon taking over the world... because if he took over their world... the vampire's next move would be to... take over hers...
"Hey! Aren't you the girl that married, that um... that sexy vampire guy?" Asked a voice that sounded like it belonged to a young woman. Kyle turned to her side and looked up to see two beautiful young women starring back at her. The woman that was talking to Kyle had long, dark hair with an hourglass figure. Kyle frowned in jealously.
The woman next to the dark haired one started to speak. "If you don't wanna be married to that guy anymore... can we have him?" This woman had wavy blonde hair, and she had an hourglass figure too. Kyle blinked at them awkwardly. "Yeah, so... can we have him?"
Kyle turned away with a disgusted look on her face, but then, she began to cry softly into her hands. The two women looked at each other, and then back at Kyle. They started to back up slowly and then away from the weeping girl.
Matt sighed and moved next to Kyle's side. He put a hand on her back and said. "I'm sorry Kyle... I really am. If I stayed in my apartment longer... I'm so sorry..."
Kyle clutched her hands, but once she did, her eyes got big. She looked at one of her hands, and saw the wedding band that Myotismon put on her finger. Her hand began to tremble badly.
"This ring... represents the passion and desire I have for you... my darling..."
Tears streamed down her face when she remembered Myotismon putting it on her... the words he said to her...
"Kyle..." said Matt, wondering what Kyle was thinking about, but as the boy started to pat her shoulder, she rudely shook his hand away. She stood up and walked over to the wide windows, where she sat down next to it. Kyle rested her head against the window and sighed depressingly.
Very oddly enough, and a very rare moment in her life, Kyle started to sing very softly. She never sang all that great, but when she does sing softly... it sounds pretty good.
"It starts with one..."
Matt and the other digidestined kids turned and looked at Kyle. Some of the other people that were around looked at the girl as well. Demidevimon frowned slightly, but Kyle still continued.
"One thing: I don't know why, but it doesn't even matter how hard you try.
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme,
to explain in due time that
all I know..."
The digidestined moved a little closer to Kyle. Some other people that were listening, moved closer as well. Demidevimon grunted, but continued to frown at Kyle.
"Time is a valuable thing;
watch it fly by as the pendulum swings.
Watch it count down to the end of the day,
the clock ticks life away...
It's so unreal..."
Eddie started to wake up to Kyle's soft, but odd sad singing. More and more of the people in the TV station kept moving closer and they started to form a circle around Kyle. Trying to listen to her song.
"Didn't look out below,
watch the time go out the window.
Trying to hold on, but didn't even know:
wasted it all just to watch you go...
I kept everything inside, and even though I tried, it all fell apart.
What it meant to me, will eventually be a memory of a time when..."
Suddenly, a Bakemon flew down from the floors above, and it whispered something to Demidevimon. The rounded creature nodded slowly and then the two digimon looked at Kyle
"I tried so hard, and got so far...
but in the end, it doesn't even matter.
I had to fall, and lose it all...
but in the end, it doesn't even matter..."
Everyone got startled when Demidevimon and Bakemon flew by Kyle. The people started to mutter and whisper worriedly to each other. The digidestined just gasped and their eyes started to widen on what Demidevimon wanted from her. "Nice singing girl, but it has to end now. Bakemon here says that Myotismon wants to see you upstairs..." Demidevimon gestured to the Bakemon next to him.
The Bakemon nodded, "Girl -- um, it's my Lady now, isn't it? Anyways, Myotismon wanted me to tell you that he wished to see you alone upstairs. I will show you the way. Follow me now..."
Kyle slowly got up the ground and wiped a single tear away from her eyes. That was her favorite song she just sang. Now she realized just how close that song sounded to her whole miserable adventure.
As she started to follow the Bakemon, Matt reached out a hand as if he wanted to stop her. To grab her so she wouldn't go with the ghost digimon. "Kyle... you can't go..." Matt said, his voice sounding nervous.
Kyle stopped and turned slightly towards Matt. "Do I have a choice? If I don't go... Myotismon, my husband, would just get mad..." Both Kyle and Matt shuddered when she said 'my husband.' Then, Kyle started to follow the Bakemon again; up the stairs (which was at the other end of the room) and away from Eddie, Matt, and the rest of the digidestined, who continued to watch Kyle until she was not in their sight anymore.
While going up the stairs, Kyle couldn't stop thinking what Myotismon could want from her. He got the powers, he's going to rule the world soon enough, and have his own slaves to do his will; what more does he want?
Both Bakemon and Kyle were very high up when the ghost creature suddenly stopped walking up the stairs and started to float down a small hallway. He reached a door and turned around and waited for Kyle to come to it. Kyle took a deep breath and approached it. "He wants you to wait inside..." said Bakemon in his ghostly tone, and he opened the door and gestured Kyle inside. Kyle walked in, and the ghost immediately shut the door behind her.
Kyle looked around the room. This place was very familiar to Kyle, and then it hit her: this room was where Phantomon took Kari to wait for Myotismon to arrive and kill her... in that one episode. "Wizardmon's Gift, was it?" She thought, but then she shrugged.
The room was not too big, but a good medium sized one, and all the walls were glass--windows, very large like the ones Kyle saw before in the room where the digidestined and Eddie were being held in. Kyle slowly walked over to the windows and looked outside. The whole city was empty, except for the ghost digimon flying about here and there. There was also the thick fog, which made the whole place look even creepier.
Kyle shivered a bit so she clutched her arms and rubbed them slowly.
Just then, she shivered even more when she felt a strange sensation of someone entering the room. She didn't want to know if she was right or not, so she just kept looking outside and waited. A moment later, a couple flowers appeared in front of her. Kyle looked at the flowers and followed the hand that held them to the owner of it. She gasped and covered her mouth when she turned around. In front of her was Myotismon, looking down at his wife, smiling.
Kyle pressed her back against the windows and slowly started to slide along it to get away from the vampire. She was so afraid of him. She didn't want to be near him. Myotismon gently smelled the flowers and then he started to approach Kyle. The young girl whimpered but suddenly stumbled to the ground. She cowered when Myotismon got closer to her.
"Please... go away..."said Kyle, sounding like she was just crying, and then she put her hands over her head and cowered even more. Myotismon stood in front of her, and she was trembling and shaking with fear.
"My darling..." Myotismon purred, and then he roughly grabbed Kyle's hand and got her up from the floor. "I only wanted to give you these flowers..." Myotismon brushed one of the flowers across Kyle's cheeks, her lips and then her neck lightly.
Kyle took the flowers and looked down at them sadly. Myotismon looked a little concerned for her sadness, so he tilted her chin up a bit so she was looking up into his cold, blue eyes. "What's the matter?" Myotismon asked, and then he wrapped his arms around her back to bring her in closer to his body.
Kyle gasped as she starred at Myotismon's lips and then into his eyes. "I-- " she stammered, "I don't want to be this close to you Myotismon..." Kyle started to slump as in attempt to get away from the vampire, but now Myotismon just held her tightly and even closer to himself. This close to Myotismon... Kyle thought she was going to melt right into him.
Kyle turned her head away from Myotismon and closed her eyes. She cringed and whimpered when the vampire started brushing his lips against her cheek, and then he spoke, "I want to be close to you, my dear... I want you to love me, to want to hold me, to touch me..."
Kyle whimpered loudly, and without time to react, she shoved Myotismon gently from her and started to back away from him. "No..." she said, "You don't want me. There's other women who are more beautiful and thinner than me. Why won't you go with them? Why won't you love them? Why don't you marry them, and make them yours? Why-why... why..." Kyle's head started spinning and it was filled with voices: they were muttering, screaming, and crying angrily at Kyle. She wished she knew what these voices were saying, but she couldn't understand a thing. When she was about to fall over, Myotismon quickly caught her and held her close once more. "I'm... not like those other women... I'm not like them at all..."
Myotismon closed his eyes and nuzzled his face against Kyle's. "I don't want those other women, my pet... I only want you, and only you." Kyle closed her eyes as well and left her mouth a gap. Her breathing starting to get a little heavy. "My darling..." Myotismon whispered, and his hands slowly went up Kyle's back and then he just held them there. He brought her even closer to him.
Kyle got the courage to open her eyes, and they went wide when she was starring straight into Myotismon's. She started to feel dizzy, and it felt like all the strength was leaving her body. Kyle gasped as she started to fall again, but this time it wasn't on purpose. She actually held onto Myotismon's jacket so she would quit falling over. "I'm... I keep falling... I feel to weak to stand," Kyle whispered to Myotismon.
Myotismon smiled and murmured quietly, "Don't worry, my darling... I will never let you go..."
Kyle gasped as she continued to stare into Myotismon's eyes, but his own kept shifting to her lips and then back to her eyes. She knew what he wanted to do. Myotismon brought his face closer to hers and continued to stare at Kyle's lips. She closed her eyes and lips quivered a bit when she felt him breathing gently on her.
"M-Myotismon..." Kyle whispered quietly, "I... I never kissed anyone before...'
Myotismon's own breathing grew heavy when he nudged his nose against hers. He was glad Kyle never kissed any man... never fallen in love with a man... never been touched in ways by one... He wanted her all to himself. To kiss, to fall in love with, and to touch... "Don't worry..." Myotismon said breathlessly, "Kyle... I've been wanting to kiss you for so long... so long I've waited to be with you again..."
The two brushed lips with one another, but than their lips locked in a gentle kiss. Kyle put her hands on Myotismon's shoulders, while the vampire wrapped his arms around her back more so he could kiss her harder. Myotismon's lips were cool and moist, and felt so good against hers. Kyle didn't want the kiss to end... she didn't want Myotismon to let her go. For the first time in her life, she felt so safe and comforted right now.
Their romantic moment was ruined when they heard a steady knock on the door. Myotismon growled as he looked past Kyle and to the door. "What is it?" Myotismon asked angrily.
The door slowly opened, and Phantomon popped in and floated on over to the vampire lord and his wife. Phantomon bowed, "My Lord and... Lady, the carriage is ready for you to return to your castle... in the Digital World. Whenever your ready, that is" He bowed again and quickly left the room.
Myotismon smiled as he looked down at his wife and ran his fingers through her hair. "Are you ready to go home my sweet?"
Kyle just merely nodded. "Excellent..." said Myotismon. "Tonight, my servants are preparing a ball in honor of my victory for having powers of a God -- and of course, our marriage to each other... The party will start tomorrow evening." Myotismon wrapped an arm around Kyle's waist, and with the snap of his fingers with the other hand, they suddenly appeared to be outside the TV station.
Kyle's eyes grew wide at what Myotismon did with his new powers. She was actually kind of fascinated by them. Myotismon's smiled curled; he liked seeing his wife's reaction to the powers.
Straight ahead of the two and a little ways from them, was the carriage that they are supposed to get into. Beyond the carriage was a large black hole, and Kyle guessed that it would take them back to the Digital World. Myotismon and Kyle began to walk for the carriage.
As the two were walking, Kyle looked to the side of her to see a line of people from the TV station, slowly going in another direction but into the same black hole that was already open for the carriage to go in. Kyle squinted her eyes to see the digidestined in the line, and when she saw Matt, her eyes got wide and tears began to fill her eyes. Matt saw her and starred back at her as well.
"Matt..." Kyle whispered silently to herself. Myotismon looked in the direction she turned to, and he clenched his teeth in some jealously towards Matt. Myotismon brought Kyle closer to himself, so she would stop looking at the boy. The girl obeyed and eyed the ground as they continued to walk for the carriage.
When Myotismon and Kyle reached the carriage, there was a Bakemon that stood by its doors. The ghost creature bowed and opened the door for them to get into. Myotismon was the first to go in, and than Kyle just went in last. "How nice..." Kyle thought, "Not to let a Lady go first..." Bakemon closed the door behind them and went away.
Inside the carriage, were two small windows on either side of it, and dark velvet cushions to sit on during the ride. Myotismon sat on one end while Kyle sat on the other, across from each other. The carriage moved all by itself, and it slowly went forward into the black hole.
Kyle was still too shy to look at her new husband, even though they had a romantic moment from before, she was still unsure and nervous about everything that's been going on. Myotismon just kept starring at Kyle hard. Never taking his eyes off her, which made Kyle blush slightly and squirm around a little in her seat.
Myotismon gently put a hand on Kyle's knee and murmured to her, "Don't worry my sweet darling. Everything will be so perfect for you when we get home. Our ball, our event, our party... It will be something you shall never forget..."
Kyle sighed and bit her lip a little nervously. As the carriage continued to move through the black hole, Kyle kept hearing those strange voices inside her head again. She wasn't sure if she was paranoid, losing her mind, or what... but whatever it is, she wished it would stop. Fortunately for Kyle, the voices did die down again, but not before a voice said:
"This... can't... be... happening... to me!"
Author's Note: "In The End" by Likin Park: Hybrid Theory (the song that Kyle sings) -- just so that you know the song wasn't made up or anything.