Chapter 17

"So...What do you want to talk about now that we are here?" asked Ken. Yolei had wanted to spend the day relaxing at ken's for some reason, and so they now sitting on his bed.

"I don't know" was the reply.

Ken shifted from his spot on his back and smiled.

"Have you ever kissed anyone besides me?" he asked softly.

Yolei blushed a furious red at this question.

"I am NOT answering that question!" she yelled, laughing.

"Oh come on!" pleaded Ken, sitting up.

"No!"

Yolei the started giggled as Ken tickled her.

"Come on! Tell me or I'll keep tickling!" he insisted. Yolei was trying to get away but Ken had a tight yet gentle hold of her.

"No! No more tickling! But I won't tell you!" she cried.

"Then I'm forced to keep tickling!" Ken cried back. They both laughed. Wormmon and Hawkmon not too far away from them on the bed, watching their partners happily have a good time.

"Please!" Ken pouted. He stopped long enough to give her his best puppy dog face. Yolei shook her head.

"No way! I invented that in this relationship! I'm the only one of these two of us who is allowed to use that face!" Yolei defended, pointing at him.

Ken sighed, then his eyes landed on his partner. He smiled. Wormmon gulped when he saw Ken looking at him mischievously. he tried to scurry away but Ken was too fast for him.

Ken raised the cute looking worm in front of his face and tried again. Behind Wormmon he was giving the puppy look again.

"Come on Yolei. You can't resist this little guy! Wormmon's cute and you know it!" pleaded Ken. Wormmon blushed at the compliment.

Yolei laughed and petted Wormmon on the head.

"Alright" said Yolei, defeated.

Ken cheered as he set Wormmon back down next to Hawkmon.

"So...come on, tell me" said Ken, waiting.

"I've never kissed anyone, save you" was the answer. Ken blushed at this.

"Wow...So...Am I any good?" he asked.

It was Yolei's turn to blush. "Wah...Of course you are! But remember, I have no one to compare you with."

Ken smiled as he took her hand and kissed it. "Let's hope it stays that way" he whispered. Yolei laughed as a beeping went off on the other side of the room. They both turned to see what the sound was.

"I think its your D-3 Ken" commented Hawkmon. Ken got up and climbed down the latter and over to his desk where he grabbed his D-3.

After several moments of reading, he looked up at his girlfriend and their two digimon.

"Everyone's meeting at the Digital World. Should we go?" he asked.

"I suppose."

"They're so cute!" cried Kari as they all gathered around in the little forest.

"Yurimon, tiny little pink digimon who love to play"

Ken and Yolei had just arrived, holding hands, when they were attacked by these tiny little balls of pink energy.

One jumped up into Ken's arms and started bouncing happily.

"Play! Play! Play! Play!" it cried. Ken laughed.

"They all want to play" Cody observed.

"So let's play with them!" concluded Yolei, grabbing Ken's hand and dragging him in the middle of the army of Yurimon.

"What should we play?" asked TK.

"I don't know about you, TL, but I wanna play soccer with these little guys! You wanna help me teach them to play soccer ken?" called Davis.

Ken was about to reply, when a sharp pain shot through his chest. he fell down in pain and just as the others were going to get close to him, a large black cloud formed from behind him, causing the others to stay back.

"Ken!" cried Yolei and Wormmon together.

The voice that ken had heard the other night suddenly spoke for them all to hear.

It laughed. "Ken is mine. He hasn't gotten the time to play. We have work to do with him" it hissed.

"Who are you and what do you want with Ken?" TK demanded.

"That's...really none of your business" it sneered back. Then, suddenly a form could be seen behind Ken.

It was Daemon.

You're avoiding ANOTHER cliffhanger everyone!

Pain shot through Ken once more and he screamed in pain. Daemon then walked up to ken and held his chin, making Ken look up at him.

"Do not worry Ken. If you come with me, I will soothe your pain" he purred.

Ken shook his head. "N-Never!"

"No one denies the powers of darkness Ken. You know that!"

Daemon was now standing behind Ken again, and right when Ken was going to stand up and run, Daemon grabbed him around the waist and took off into the air, disappearing in a black whole in the air.

"Yolei!" cried Ken. And then he was gone.

Darkness.

All he could feel was darkness. His neck was killing him. And he knew why, The Dark Spore was trying to control him.

Opening his eyes, Ken saw that he was in a dark and dank cell. Cold and shivering, Ken stood, only to have his legs collapse under his weight.

"You feel it don't you ken. You are turning into one of us..." came Daemon's voice. Ken looked up to see Daemon in front of him. He was confused. What was he talking about?

"What do you mean I'm turning into one of you?" he asked.

"Just what it sounds like. The only way to keep you away from defeating me with the Golden Radiance and your Crest of Kindness is to make you one of us. A digimon cannot have such human powers. So if that's what I must do to you keep you away from stopping me is to turn you into a digimon, then I will. With the help of that Spore of yours." the evil digimon explained.

ken shook his head. That's why it hurt so much? Was he changing now?

Similar thoughts went on in Ken's head as he struggled to get up, but his strength was draining fast.

Daemon laughed at his attempts. "They should be coming soon...Have you ever wanted to fly Ken..." Daemon asked. "For soon you will have the ability to."

And as Daemon said these words, Ken could feel his back go numb with pain. It felt as though something was ripping outside of his body. The pain was too much, but Ken refused to black out.

Whatever was happening and coming out of him was long. Two of them. When the transformation was done and the pain subsided a bit, Ken looked back to see two devilish looking black wings attached to his back. He tried making a motion with them, and when the wing moved and Ken knew it really was his, he then blacked out. The last thing that went on in his head before he did black out was..."I really am a monster now..."