Chapter 22

"Alright, well, from what I know from Tentomon, there is a digimon causing some trouble, if you hook up your e-mail on your computer, I'll send you some pictures of her now" Answered Izzy.

Ken dived for his computer as confused Davis stood there watching. He flipped on his internet and put up his e-mail. he had mail. He clicked on his mail and up came a picture of a plant digimon.

Lilymon. A beautiful yet seductive digimon who will do anything to find her mate.

"Lilymon..." Ken whispered.

Davis thought of something.

"Hey, isn't that Mimi's digimon?" he asked. Ken looked back at Davis.

"Yes" replied Izzy on the phone, who had heard Davis. "But this is not the same one. Anyway, now that you know who she is, I need to tell you that she has been causing some trouble in the digital world. She's been tearing down cities and creating what appears to be a castle made of plants and flowers. Here's a picture of it."

Another e-mail popped up on Ken's computer and it was another picture, only this time, it was a picture of a plant castle. Flowers and vines flooded it.

Everything was made of some type of plant. Any plant you could think of was somehow welded into the plant castle.

"I was wondering if anything strange has been going on with any of you. I know Davis is there. Has he told you anything that was going strange about him. Like wanting water, or sunlight a lot. I say this because, according to Tentomon, she's looking for a mate. I was just curious if she hadn't somehow tried anything on the digidestined, since we go there about everyday" Izzy explained, oblivious to Ken's shaking since he was on the other side of the line.

"W-What do you mean wanting water? Are there any other symptoms, that might prove she's after one of us?" asked Ken in a quivering voice.

"Well, if one of us is turning green...that's a good sign" was the reply from Izzy.

Ken dropped the phone, letting it clank to the floor.

'No...please, not again. Why can't I just be normal? Why do things always happen to me. First Devimon, now this. What will Yolei think?' thought Ken. He was in denial at this point. 'This isn't happening! It can't be! This is a dream!'

Davis ignored ken and grabbed the phone off the floor to explain things to a confused Izzy.

"We'll, we have a problem then don't we? Is he completely green?"

asked Izzy, trying to analyze the problem.

"Is water wet? Of course he is! Hair and all!" said Davis heatedly.

"Hmm...I'll have to get back to you on that. I would like to come up with some kind of a plan first. Don't worry you two, I'll figure something out. For now, just keep Ken from hyper-venerating" Izzy said, trying his best to make a joke. They hung up. Davis looked over to Ken, who was staring into space as he sat on the floor.

"Hey buddy. Don't worry, Izzy is going to figure something out okay?" Davis tried to reassure Ken. Ken dreamily nodded, taking a deep breath as he continued to stare into space.

"Why me?" whispered ken. Davis titled his head.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean...why was I the one destined to become the Digimon Emperor. Why did MaloMyotismon choose me? Cause I was vulnerable enough? Why did Devimon choose me to turn into a Tigramon? Why did that digimon have to have me as her mate?" asked Ken, still staring into space. Davis just shook his head, beaten by not knowing what to say.

"Cause you the Holder of Kindness. The evil forces are afraid of you the most because you are the only one out of all of us who can control and release the Golden Radiance" came Wormmon's voice. Ken looked over at his digimon sitting next to him on the floor. The little worm seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. Ken nodded slowly.

"But still...sometimes I wish I was just normal, like everyone else. Not a genius, not digidestined, just plain simple Ken" Ken continued to whisper.

Davis' eyes grew wide. "What are you talking about Ken? We are the luckiest kids alive! We get to have digimon, and save the world!" he said.

"Oh what do you know?" Ken snapped suddenly. Tears stung at his eyes. "You've never been trapped by the darkness, never been turned into a digimon, never...never...had the...chance to be with girl you love. Yolei has already seen me in too many bad ways. I just want to be perfect for her. Perfect, sweet, normal Ken."

Davis' eyes fell to the floor, knowing Ken was right, none of that stuff had ever happened to him.

"I just...want to things to be normal is all..." Ken whispered, all the anger gone.

Suddenly the doorbell rang. Ken ignored it, but Davis went to go and listen at Ken's door. He pressed his ear against the door and heard Mrs. Ichijouji open the front door.

"Hello, Ken is the his room with Davis, you can just go one in" Davis heard Mrs. Ichijouji say.

"Who is it?" asked Ken from his spot on the floor. He was now holding Wormmon. '

"You're mom didn't say, but whoever it is, they are coming in here. It's gotta be one of the guys" came the rushed reply. Davis backed away from the doors as ken sat there frozen. Who was it? TK? Kari?...Yolei?

The door then burst open and in came a hyper-active Yolei.

"Hey Ken!" she cried as she walked up to him and gave him a peck on the cheek. "I brought some food. It started raining, so my picnic idea went down the drain."

Davis and Ken stared at Yolei. Yolei noticed this and asked, "What?"

Davis pointed to ken, who was now sitting on the bed.

Yolei looked at Ken and shrugged. "Yeah, so?"

"He's green!" Davis blurted out. Ken sighed and rolled his eyes.

Yolei shrugged once again and sat down next to Ken. "So? He's still ken isn't he? Still sweet and full of sugar right?" Ken nodded, unsure. "Then alright! I don't care what color you are! You're still my cutie pie Ken!"

Ken hugged Yolei tightly, then when they parted, he asked, "How do you come up with all those nicknames you give me?"

"I have help" Yolei laughed. Ken nodded, unsure if he should be happy or scared.

"So...Why are you green?" asked Yolei. "Was Wormmon playing with the paints again?" Wormmon, who was sitting next to them, blushed, then replayed what she said in his mind and got a little mad.

"Hey! I don't make THAT big a mess when I play with paint!" Ken smiled and grabbed Wormmon around the waist to have him sit in his lap. That was when Davis and Ken started explaining the last few days and what Izzy had told them over the phone. Then Ken showed her the e-mail pictures Izzy had sent him.

"Wow...So, she wants you to be her mate?" asked Yolei.

"I guess" shrugged Ken.

"But you're my mate Ken. Right?" asked Yolei.

"Of course! No one could replace you Yolei!" said Ken. They kissed.

"Aw, Geez! Don't get all lovey-dovey on me!" moaned Davis. Ken and Yolei looked at him and chuckled.

"So...what are we going to do?" asked Yolei.

"Izzy coming up with a plan" replied Ken. "But until then, we can only wait and see what happens."