1Despairing Darkness
By: Angel Of Darkness
Chapter 6 - " The Warning."
She stood on the top of the building. Her outline formed in the black, the purple tint of her glasses shining off the moon's reflection, giving an eerie feeling to the silent night. She could hear Ken in his room laughing around with Minomon, whom he had just received again back in The Digital World. The Dark Spore had seemingly stopped growing in the boy all-together. He was thinking on his own again. She scowled. The plan had been so perfect, flawless, but that brat had ruined it for both her and her master. But she wasn't here to worry about Ken right now. She was here for something else entirely. She watched as Ken's bedroom light shut off before jumping down onto the ground floor of the apartment. She smirked. It was time. She crept silently into the house, and into the boy's room. She could hear him breathing evenly, and it sickened her. She wanted to strangle him right now, but she had a job to do. She watched Ken out of the corner of her eye before turning on the computer. She searched the documents. There it was. The Control Spire data. She heard groaning from behind her. Without turning, she knew Ken was waking up.
Ken's eyes fluttered open and he leaned over to see the woman near the computer, doing something. He gasped. Minomon poked his head up and sleepily looked up at Ken.
" What is it, Ken?"
" Hey, who are you?" Ken demanded, his eyes narrowing.
The woman slightly chuckled to herself.
" Emperor, are you having trouble sleeping? That's because you're through."
Ken's eyes widened. " What? Who... who are you?" he asked, his voice cracking.
Her eyes locked onto him. " You were just so useless," she spat.
" What are you talking about? And what do you think you know about me?" Ken asked.
The woman turned and faced him now, face lit with an amused smirk that reflected off the computer light.
" You had so much potential."
Ken gasped as she was pulled through the computer, and an eerie voice spoke through the speakers.
" Ken, you had a chance for true greatness to rule in infamy forever, and you wasted it. How unfortunate."
Minomon was slightly nervous. " Is she gone?"
Ken's eyes widened again at what he had just seen. " I hope so."
He waited a few moments before turning to Minomon again. " I think I know where she went."
Minomon nodded stiffly." The Digital World."
" Yeah," Ken lied back down. " We got somewhere to go tomorrow, then. We'll see what she's up to."
Minomon rested his head against Ken's chest. " Okay. Good night, Ken.."
Ken smiled. " Good night, Minomon."
Ken soon drifted off to sleep, leaving Minomon awake next to him. The tiny Digimon could not sleep. Not after what had just happened. That woman had made him nervous, and he was afraid she would come back and do something to Ken. He stayed awake the whole night listening to his partner's heartbeat.
They headed to The Digital World that afternoon. Minomon, now digivolved to Wormmon, was walking along beside Ken, who was walking past a control spire. They were silent for a few minutes before Ken broke the ice.
" These things are disgusting," Ken hissed, glaring up at a control spire, " I'm sorry I ever made them. We should start knocking them down. Whatever that woman's got planned , it seems like..."
" Well, look who decided to show his face back in The Digital World."
Ken recognized that voice and spun around. His eyes narrowed in hatred.
" You," he growled.
The woman grinned when Ken recognized her. " Me."
Ken backed up, slightly. " What do you want?"
" Oh, Ken," the woman grinned, shaking her head, " you have a question for everything, don't you? I thought you were a genius! You're supposed to have all the answers."
She took a step towards them when Wormmon jumped in front of Ken, protectively, sensing his partner was in danger.
" Oh, what's this?" the woman teased.
Wormmon's expression hardened. " Don't take another step or else!"
The woman chuckled amusingly. " Or else what? It's actually a rather shock that you are willing to protect him after all of the cruel things he did to you. He didn't care for you, right, Ken?" she glanced over at the boy who reacted with a low hiss.
" Shut up!" he yelled, clenching a fist. " Now what do you want? What were you doing in my house!"
She pretended to act surprised. " Wow. You got quite a temper.."
" Tell me!" Ken demanded, " tell me what you were doing on my computer and who you are!"
She smirked. " I believe that is my own personal affair, boy, but I will tell you who I am - Arukenimon."
Ken locked his eyes onto her's in a cold stare. " What are you doing in the Digital World?"
Arukenimon laughed. " Oh, you're so nosy, aren't you, Ken? Why don't you do the world a favor and take your nose out of other people's business and go home where you belong? The Digimon don't want you here for all of the cruel things you've done to them. And, quite frankly, neither do I. Now, I order you for the first and last time, stay out of my business or something bad might happen. Especially, to those Digi-Destend kids in Primary Village." she threatened.
Ken's eyes widened. " How do you know about them?"
" I don't think you need to know," she said, flatly, simplifying she was getting tired of his questions.
" Tell me," Ken replied, " Or I'll –"
" You'll what? Hit me with a whip? Heh." Arukenimon didn't seem phased by his threat.
Ken was about to argue back when she held up her hand. " I don't have time to argue with you, Emperor. Now, why don't you get lost, and take that pathetic worm with you?"
Wormmon growled. Ken held up his d-3, ready to fight.
" Oh, you want to play, do you?" she sneered at Ken, " Well, I have a little playmate for you. Spirit needle!" She ripped out a piece of her hair and sent it flying into a control spire that was beside Ken. Ken watched in shock as it slowly transformed into a Thundermon. The Digimon growled in anger and threw a fist down at Ken.
" Ken!" Wormmon dodged forward and pushed Ken out of harm's way, soon taking the blow himself.
" Wormmon!" Ken screamed urgently. He ran forward to help Wormmon when something pulled him back. It appeared to be Arukenimon's hand.
" Going somewhere, Emperor?" she sneered, hanging tightly onto his arm. Ken growled.
" Wormmon!"
Wormmon lifted his head and saw Arukenimon holding Ken with a death-like grip.
" Oh no, Ken!" He jumped to his feet when Thundermon pummeled him with another fist and sent him flying into the ground again.
Ken's D-3 started glowing a bright Purple. He reached into his pocket and pulled it out.
Arukenimon's other hand reached forward and snatched his D-3.
" I'll take that." she laughed. " What do you plan to do now, pathetic worm?" her eyes met Wormmon. " Let me ask you. Do you care enough about Ken to try and help him? Or are you going to let your beloved genius get hurt?"
Wormmon crawled over, weakly, injured from the fight. Thundermon was about to hit Wormmon again when Ken's D-3 started going crazy. The light caused Arukenimon to drop it to the ground. A light shone on Wormmon. Ken watched in stunned silence as Wormmon digivolved to his champion level. Stingmon.
" What? He digivolved?" Arukenimon hissed. She suddenly let go of Ken's arm and threw him to the ground. " You may have won this battle, boy, but you won't win the war. Thundermon, find the Digi-Destend and destroy them!" she began to run off.
" No!" Ken shot up to his feet and snatched his Black D-3 that was thrown on the ground by Arukenimon before calling up to the newly changed Stingmon.
" Stingmon, let's go! We've got to stop her!"
" I'm with you," Stingmon replied, catching Ken in his hand. Ken was amazed with how Wormmon was able to Digivolve, even with a control spire standing. He reached inside his pants pocket and pulled out his Crest Of Kindness. It was glowing the same as the Digivice was before. He smiled.
" Looks like this thing is good for something," he announced. His eyes spotted Thundermon attacking one of the Digi-Destend in the distance. He gasped. " Stingmon, we've got to help him!" he pointed ahead to where Cody and Ankylomon were batting Thundermon.
" I'm on it, Ken." Stingmon replied, flying over an amused Arukenimon.
" Go ahead and help them. They won't forgive you. They never will." She chuckled. Ken growled at her before they reached the cannon where the Thundermon was attacking Cody.
Ken saw the child flying into the air, stuck in a whirlwind of rocks that would with no doubt kill him. " Oh no.. Stingmon, save that boy!" Ken jumped out of his hands and onto a small tower.
" I'm on it!" his Digimon replied.
" Look up there!"
" Ken?"
The Digi-Destend watched in shock and Ken showed his face from behind a spiked tower. Stingmon flew over to him and de-digivolved back into Wormmon. Ken caught him in his hands and took a small gaze at them for a moment before jumping down and leaving the scene. He could hear them talking about him from a little ways, and wondered if Arukenimon had been right. Would they forgive him for all of the horrible deeds he had done as The Emperor? Right now, though, that wasn't his main concern. His main concern was Arukenimon and what she had wanted, how she had created Thundermon from a control spire. His creation. That thought brought him back to Wormmon.
" Are you all right, Wormmon?" he asked, patting the small Digimon on the head.
" I've been better... but... I let her get away."
" Don't worry, my friend. We'll have another chance." he replied.
The Digimon nodded. " You're right. Next time, I won't miss."
" Besides," Ken smiled, " you digivolved into champion level. It was actually surprising because there was a control spire there."
" Yeah, but it was all thanks to your crest. I told you it belonged to you."
" I guess..." he bowed his head. " I just don't think I'm worthy of it... for all of the horrible things I've done... to you and the Digital World. And the Digi-Destend."
" Well, look at it this way, Ken," Wormmon started, " you've changed. I'm giving you a second chance and that's all that matters. It doesn't matter what other people think. You told me that before. So why are you letting what that woman said get to you?"
" I don't know.." Ken replied, " she just seems... familiar, somehow. I can't really remember... but.. I think I've seen her somewhere before. All of my memories are blurry, though, like someone's stopping them from being processed. But," he changed gears, " we're going to have to knock down all of those spires now, for sure. If they continue standing, she could dominate the whole Digital World and destroy the Digi-Destend, and us... but whatever it is she has planned... she doesn't want me to know about."
The rest of the trip home was spent in silence.
" Master," Arukenimon entered the room, which was dark save for a small light in the corner of the room. She waited a moment before responding.
" the brat is starting to know our plans and is beginning to knock down our precious control spires. I think we need to get that little runt out of the way. He's becoming a pest already."
" No, Arukenimon. Not just yet, anyway." the man replied, spinning around in his computer chair. A smirk was on his face. " I want you to get those Digi-Destend with another Digimon. If that plan fails... well, then Ken's little Crest Of Kindness can be used in our next plan."
He let out a laugh. Their plan was slowly, but surely, progressing..
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