Chapter 25

Depression...

That didn't even come close to describe what Ken currently felt. He has awoken a half hour ago and he had found himself back up on the pink bed. Lilymon must have stuck him there after he had passed out. Ken groaned.

A wedding...?

Why a wedding? Didn't she understand the fact that he didn't love her, let alone like her. He didn't even like being in the same room with her and she wanted to get married? He couldn't do this...No. Not to Yolei.

Ken pulled himself into a large ball and snuggled up underneath the covers, resting his weary head on the pink pillows. His eyes shut from exhaustion, he tried not to think of what was going to happen to him.

Instead, he thought of happier things, such as Yolei. Or Davis and the others coming to rescue him. He only hoped that was what they were going to do...

"Okay...We've searched this area...but still no sign of Lilymon's castle. I'll have to re-check with Tentomon, see if he's found anything" Izzy was saying. Everyone was looking for Lilymon's castle. Yolei was near hysterical with worry, along with Wormmon.

"Then check!" Yolei cried.

That was when Tentomon himself buzzed into view and flew over to them.

"Well?" asked Izzy, looking up at his digimon partner.

"I have found her castle. But believe me, you don't want to go there" Tentomon replied.

Yolei pushed Kari aside to get closer to Tentomon. "Of course we do! Ken's there! We have to save him! Ken would do the exact same thing if things were the other way around!"

"Alright then, follow me" said the mechanical bug. TK, Kari, Davis, Cody, Izzy, and Yolei then started walking towards the area Tentomon said her castle was.

After over an hour of walking however, Yolei was not as determined to go on and find Ken.

She groaned, doubling over with exhaustion. She panted for breath.

"Tentomon, are you sure its up top this large hill...cause if it isn't, I will personally dismantle you and through away the pieces in different parts of the digital world" she threatened. Tentomon sweat dropped.

"I'm sure it is. Unless of course it floats and moves around like ken's old base used to...Then I'm not too sure.." Yolei growled under her breath.

"Look on the bright side Yolei, we're almost at the top, just a few more paces to go" encouraged Kari.

They were soon up at the top of the hill and everyone collapsed to catch their breath.

"Wow. That is one killer hill" commented Davis as Demiveemon panted on top of his head.

Everyone nodded.

"There it is!" cried Cody suddenly. he was the only one who was standing. He was pointing to what looked like a large fort covered in vines and plants and flowers.

"Well what are we waiting for!" cried Yolei, suddenly bursting with energy. "Let's go!" With that she took off, running down the hill and getting closer and closer to Lilymon's castle.

Everyone sweat dropped.

Reaching the entrance of the castle, everyone stopped to take a quick look at their surroundings. Ken was in this large place somewhere, and Yolei was determined to find out where and get him out of here.

Walking into the main hall they heard the sound of someone crying.

"Is that ken?" asked Kari. Everyone was silent, listening. The crying sound seem to die off, but the feeling of sad depression still hung in the air.

The whole place seemed a depressing haven. Even with full sunlight emitting in from the ceiling and windows, it seems dark and empty. Perhaps it was because of the deadly looking vines and flowers all over the room and walls, that slowly moved every now and then in the wind.

Suddenly, something grabbed Kari by her ankle and flipped her upside down. "Aww! TK!" she cried in fright. Everyone turned around to see Kari being hung upside down by a large thick vine. Similar to the one that had been holding Ken right before Lilymon took him away the other day.

"Patamon digivolve to...Angemon!"

"Hawkmon digivolve to...Aquilamon!"

"Veemon digivolve to...Ex-Veemon!"

"Armidillomon digivolve to...Anchelomon!"

"Gatomon digivolve to...Angewamon!"

"Electro Shocker!" yelled Tentomon, shooting the vine with electricity. The vine flinched in pain but only gripped Kari's ankle harder.

"Ow! It's hurting me!" Cried Kari.

"Well" called Lilymon, appearing out of the air. Everyone looked up. "That's what you get when you come uninvited."

Izzy suppressed himself from gasping. He saw that Lilymon was at least twice her size then when they last saw her.

"What is it Izzy?" demanded Yolei.

"She's at least twice her old size now...which means..." he trailed off.

"Which means what?" Yolei continued to demand, Kari's screams of pain and their Digimon's fighting attacks could be heard behind them.

"She's...done it with Ken..." answered Izzy. "That's the only way she could get more powerful. Lilymon does that in order to get power. Mimi's Lilymon is the only who doesn't. She doesn't have to."

Yolei was silent for a moment. "Wha..." IT then dawned on her. She looked up at Lilymon in disgust. Oh her poor sweet Ken!

"I have to find him" Yolei whispered. "Distract her so I can go and find him!"

Izzy nodded. He ran over to the others and told them, seconds later, all the digimon save for Ex-Veemon were going for Lilymon. Ex-Veemon was still wrestling with the vine.

Yolei was able to sneak her way behind Lilymon while she was distracted. She snuck into a hallway and began searching each room.

She looked into every room, until she came to the very end. She peeked in quickly and saw a large pink bed with a lump on the bed. She then went to the next room. She stopped, and looked back into the room.

There was a person underneath those sheets. Yolei ran into the room and up to the bed.

"Ken...?" she asked. She looked up towards the head of the bed and saw Ken's face peeking through a mound of covers. He was currently sleeping peacefully. He looked so calm and relaxed, yet afraid and sad at the same time. She smiled. Her prince was safe. He wasn't even green anymore. She hated to wake him up, but she knew she had to.

"Ken...Ken...wake up Ken" she whispered, trying to gently shake him awake.

Eyelids fluttered open. "Yolei?" Yolei smiled. Ken's eyes filled with tears as he hid underneath the sheets, hiding himself completely.

"Ken? What's wrong? I'm here to save you Ken" said Yolei, sitting next to him on the pink bed. That was when she heard him crying. So it had been Ken they heard earlier.

"I betrayed you..." he choked. Yolei's eyes widened a bit at this statement.

"What?" she asked.

"I...betrayed you. I...did it...with someone else..." he choked again.

Yolei smiled sympathetically. "You're so silly Ken."

Ken came out from under the covers and looked up at Yolei at this.

"I know you didn't mean to do it. Lilymon had you under a spell. I still love you just as much" She kissed him on the lips. Ken happily kissed her back. "Nothing will ever make me stop loving you."

"And nothing will ever make me stop loving you Yolei" whispered Ken, sitting up from out of his cocoon of covers. They hugged each other tightly, enjoying each other's warmth.

"That's where your wrong ken sweetie!" came Lilymon's voice. The two lovers looked up and saw Lilymon glaring at them. "You and I are getting married today and that's that!"

Ken glared at her, hugging Yolei tighter. "NO! I don't love you! We're not even the same species!"

Lilymon laughed at that. "Well, that can be fixed."

Vines once again crawled up and encircled themselves around Ken as Yolei was pushed off the bed by Lilymon.

As the vines grew tighter, Ken's skin began to change green once more, and his eyes turned green as well. His hair turned green last, and once he was all green again, the lime green toga came on him again. ken struggled but the vines were too much for him. Lilymon smiled seductively at Ken as she drew closer to him. Before Ken could react, she kissed him.

Yolei, who was on the floor, stood there in shock as her boyfriend was getting kissed. Her eyes wide, she hissed with anger.

When the kiss broke, Ken managed to kick Lilymon in the side, making the fairy digimon howl in pain.

"Why you little- I'll have you know that I will love you so much more than that girl!" yelled Lilymon.

Ken shook his head in order to keep from listening to her. The last time he had listened to her they had done it. But not this time.

Lilymon's hands began to glow as a large green head band materialized in her hands. She grabbed the struggling Ken's head and stuck it on. Three large rubies surrounded in gold sat in the middle of it, directly dead center of Ken's forehead.

"Ken!" cried Yolei when she saw this. She was afraid the band had put a spell on him. It didn't, for Ken as still struggling.

"Now...don't you look handsome for our wedding...just let me get changed" with a snap of her fingers, Lilymon was now wearing a pink and green dress and a pink and yellow hat. "Now...we're ready for the wedding."

Yolei gasped at this. They couldn't get married! That was what she was going to do! She wad going to marry ken. Yolei stopped her thoughts. That was what she wanted to do? Marry ken? Yes. She wanted to be his forever. But if she let Lilymon have her way, that wouldn't happen.

Standing, Yolei tried to grab Ken, but Lilymon and ken disappeared. Yolei panicked She had to find them before it was too late, but where could they be.

Blaring music suddenly attacked her eardrums. Wedding music. She had to follow the sound of the music and stop her from marrying Ken.

She ran as fats as she could back down the hallway, and taking several turned down other hallways, she finally came to the source of the music.

"YOLEI!" came Ken's desperate voice. Yolei looked over and saw Lilymon doing her Hypnotic Seed attack on Ken, making him completely under her control. His eyes were glazed over as Yolei ran up to him, Lilymon floating there and holding his hand as the slowly walked down the aisle. Yolei looked in front of her and saw that another plant digimon was doing the ceremony, ready to pronounce them husband and wife.

"Ken! You can't do this Lilymon!" cried Yolei. She grabbed Ken's arm and pulled him out of the grip of Lilymon, who snarled at her.

"And why can't I?" Lilymon demanded. "All my life I have been waiting for this moment. The perfect person to marry and get power from. I have been made fun of all my life due to my size and now that I have Ken I can remedy that!"

"By making love to him? That's how you get your power!" demanded Yolei.

Lilymon snorted. "That's how we always have. I'm a lot bigger and stronger than I ever was before thanks to Ken. And I will not let you take him away from me!"

"Well that's just too bad! Cause I won't let you have him!" With that she pulled off the band around Ken's head and shaking off the powder from Lilymon's attack from off his head.

Ken blinked as he was released from the spell. He looked around and smiled when he saw Yolei holding him.

"NO!" Screamed Lilymon at the top of her lungs. She threw her hands in the air and started making a large ball of purple energy. The ball then fell to the floor and changed to a digimon. Or at least, what they thought was a digimon. It looked like a tangled mess of tree roots with a face.

"Roottromon...a plant digimon made of tangled tree roots. Watch out, he'll squeeze you into a pancake and eat you for dinner."

"If I can't have you, then no one will!" Lilymon cried as she motioned for Roottromon to attack. Yolei and ken dodged out of the way just in time, and when they did, they skidded behind Lilymon, who was right in the path of Roottromon, who didn't care who he attacked, just as long as he got to eat. Roottromon grabbed hold of Lilymon and started to try and eat her. Lilymon screamed.

"You dumb plant! Not me!" Yolei and ken stood up and watched as Roottromon attacked her. Lilymon tried to escape by using some of her energy but that only backfired, hitting her along with Roottromon ,and within seconds, they both de-configured, never to be seen again.

Ken sighed with relief as he changed back into his Tamachi uniform and blue hair, peach skin, and indigo eyes.

"What's going on?" demanded Davis as he burst into the room along with the others. "We were just now able to get Kari free"

Indeed, TK came in next with Kari in his arms. Her ankle was ankle swollen and bruised. Ken and Yolei smiled as they looked at each other.

"Ah, nothing much...stopped a wedding, vanquished a villain. Everyday kinda stuff..." joked Ken. Yolei and Ken kissed.