Nightingale: ch3— Kage (shadow)

Yey! Angst scenes, finally! And even Ryu is here to ensure chaos ensues.

RYU: 0o I'm not sure what that meant, and i thought you wanted angst... not chaos

... Well, chaos will lead to angst. You'll understand once you read this, I think.

RYU: Evide dose not own any frontier anything and if she did, I wouldn't be here doing a disclaimer.

Ken held his breath to keep from getting winded as he felt the world around him rush. His arms carefully held his partner, protecting him from this strange ordeal. He felt himself being buffeted around violently but refused to let his grip down or to fall. His defiance paid off as the invisible wind died down and dim light started to fill up around him. Ken found himself surrounded on all sides by a circular white marble wall, the only thing in the room (if you could call it a room) was a lone staircase, circling above him. Perplexed and confused, Ken found nothing better to do than climb the stairs, not knowing were they would lead.

With his D-3 gone and his partner out cold, Ken was feeling quite vulnerable and he was getting very frightened the higher he climbed. His footsteps echoed silently up the stairs and his breath started to get shallower. Every step Ken took he felt like he was getting closer... And then there were other sounds.

It sounded like voices; talking and yelling above him. The teen tried to sneak upwards even more to listen, trying to keep his breath quiet. The closer he got the more he could understand.

"Do you know where you are?" A voice shouted above him. He couldn't hear the voice that answered but was sure someone else was there. After some sort of reply there was a loud /crack/... it made Ken shiver at the memories. All the time he, as the kaiser, had whipped the innocent digimon... that sound was not pleasant at all.

"Where is the seed, you parasite?" The voice shouted. There was another inaudible reply. 'A... seed...?' Ken thought and stopped suddenly. Wormmon stirred in his arms as another /crack/ echoed loudly down the hall. Ken continued to climb, shifting his hold on the digimon a bit."Ken-chan? Where are we?" Wormmon croaked out softly. Ken gave him a reassuring smile and hushed him as the conversation from above calmed down. The digimon crawled down onto the stairs to walk beside his partner.

As they circled, the two finally found the end of the stairs. In front of them was a marble wall... in other words, a dead end. Ken sighed in disappointment as Wormmon inched up to the end. His pointed little arms reached out to feel the stone to try to find some sort of weak point and he gasped as his hand fell through suddenly and his balance was lost. Ken looked down at the digimon who glanced up at him before heading right through the wall. Ken gasped and hurriedly tried to follow his friend and stumbled through the marble.

This part of the tower didn't have the same white marble as the rest of it had. It was a larger circular room covered in shadowy grey stone. It reminded Ken of a dungeon; the wall lined with black shackles that gave him chills. The teen turned around to find regular stone and pressed his hand up against its rough, cool surface. There was no way to get back. To his side his eyes found wooden steps protruding from the walls continuing up into another place by an open trap door.

"...wh— who is that?" Ken jumped as he was suddenly addressed by a young, hurt voice. The sound came from the darker part of the round room and Ken had to step closer to see...

Meanwhile...

Kouichi was swept off of his feet, landing on hard stone instead of the soft grass of the hill he had been on. Winded, the teen tried to get up by putting a hand on the stone. He gasped as a foot was placed in front of him. He was pulled up suddenly by a rough, gloved hand by his hair and he let out a cry.

"Ow! Let go!" Kouichi demanded, hands trying to pry whatever was holding him. He gasped as cold blue eyes met his. He was looking at another kid, with crazy blue hair and a strange outfit made for some sort of... emperor. He was released and the stranger placed some sort of sun glasses over his eyes.

"Your not the one I wanted, but I guess you will do." He spat coldly. Kouichi just stood there in confusion, starting to look around himself at the round, stone room. Where was he? Where was Kouji? The stranger grasped him suddenly by his neck, lifting him off of his feet. Kouichi struggled for breath his mind filling with fear.

"L-let me go!" He gasped, his mind getting foggy as the other pressed him up to the wall. It was getting so hard to breath...

"Insolent fool, do you know who I am!" There was no answer as the air was pressed out of Kouichi's lungs. The stranger smirked. "I am the Digimon Emperor. And you... shall never see the light of day again." He could barely understand him... darkness was swimming in front of his vision... he couldn't breath...

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Kouichi coughed violently as he regained consciousness. He felt very disoriented as he noticed his feet did not touch the ground and yet he was standing up. And there was a stinging pain in his wrists... He felt very cold as the stone scraped against his bare side, making him shiver uncomfortably. He moaned in pain and jarred the shackles on his hands in frustration. The rattling chains caught the attention of the Emperor as he appeared in front of the twin. Kouichi's blood ran cold as he identified a weapon in the others hands.

"So, you decided to wake up." Kouichi was having difficulty thinking. This person... was the digimon emperor? He never heard of an emperor... or never knew of another humon in the digital world at all. Was he even human? "Answer me when I address you!" He cracked his whip on the ground as a threat. Kouichi winced and turned his head away; this guy meant business.

"Wh-what do you want?" Kouichi croaked out defiantly.

The emperor griped his whip harshly and pointed it above Kouichi's head. He looked up to see the through a trap door out through the top. Outside were dark clouds swirling above him, and a dark light that gave him the chills.

"Tell me where you are." It was so familiar... he was entranced. It was so cold, too. He didn't understand.

"I said, Do you know where you are?" The other shouted. Kouichi snapped back to him frightfully.

"I-I don't know," he said quietly, looking down. The emperor grew angry and cracked his whip against Kouichi's pale skin. It stung and the twin could feel warm liquid seep down his back.

"You've been here before," the other hissed under his breath. He smirked again and shook his head. "No matter then. I'll just take your seed instead."

"I don't know what your talking about." Kouichi glanced at him from the side. His face grew angry again.

"The seed," he hissed, "Where is the seed, you parasite?" His hands raised above him and came down with another loud whip. It hurt so much that Kouichi started to pant. His back tingled painfully and irritably; he wished it would stop.

"Humph. You must have a seed to come here... or otherwise be the child of light." Child of light? Was that Kouji? Was his twin here? "I will find your seed, even if you don't know what it is." And with that, the emperor disappeared. Kouichi let out a small sigh... at least he would be left alone. And his head hurt so much...

There was a sudden gasp in the room and Kouichi could make out two figures enter into the prison. The first was bug like but way too big to be any insect he knew of... unless... it was a digimon? And the other figure was a person. Kouichi almost thought it was the emperor again, but saw that his blue hair was smoother. Was it... could it be Kouji?

TBC...

I could go on and on with this, but I'll just leave you hanging. I know I'm so mean and all, but now you've got to read the next, ne? See how I can do that to you? I hate it too, but at least I update pretty fast.

RYU: i still didn't see any chaos.

Oh well. It'll be more chaotic in the next, I promise... mwahahaha! (/shifty eyes/)

RYU: Angst is good for the soul! Chapter four coming soon!