Author's Note: Just so you know, this story doesn't get any "brighter" it gets darker (that's kind of the whole point to the title), and I know that you're kind of getting tired that it switches from the girl, to the digidestined, the girl, and sometimes Myotismon. Well, I can't help that, since everyone is mostly in different places in the story, but I hope that everyone meets at somepoint.

Chapter Five:

Beautiful Demon

"Kyle..."

The young girl turned her head the other way and whimpered softly to that voice. The voice that was haunting her memories, her mind. She wanted it to go away, but it seems that he just wouldn't leave her alone. He didn't want to.

"Kyle, my love..." the voice hoped the girl would answer him back.

"Go away..." the girl whispered pleadingly, and her lips were slightly a gap as her breathing increased steadily. "Please leave me alone..."

She felt a hand go across her cheeks slowly and then to her lips, where the fingers parted them a little more. "Why won't you come back to me?..." The girl gasped quietly when she felt someone's lips brush against her own. She missed them so, and she didn't want that warm sensation to go away. "You know you love me..."

The girl sighed wearily as she answered to the voice, "I know... I can't stop thinking about you..."

"Than why won't you come back to me? I miss you so..."

The girl didn't answer until a moment later. She was afraid to say it. "I-I'm afraid of you... You're hurting everyone, and even people I love, just to find me..."

"That's not the only reason you're running away, is it?" The voice almost snickered evilly. "You know what's happening to you... and you're afraid everyone will find out..."

A thin blooded tear slowly ran down her cheek. "Yes... They won't -- no one will love me if they find out... if they see me..."

The lips moved to the girls ear and purred, "But I love you... so much..." he kissed her cheek lightly before whispering, "I am not afraid of what you're becoming..."

"I know..."

"Than please... get off the train, and wait for me. I will be with you shortly after the arrival; I know where you are. It is pointless to run anymore..." the voice suddenly turned to a sinister edge, as if demanding the poor girl to stay put until he finds her. "I love you, Kyle..."

Kyle opened her eyes and saw her own reflection looking back at her, and other landscapes going by at a fast pace. The girl lifted her head off the window of the train and stretched a little, but not too much, for she was afraid of waking her little Victoria. The little girl needed rest after all, it has been a rough and terrifying day... and it never will be over with. Not until Myotismon finds Kyle, and even then, his reign will never stop until he rules every single world he can find out there. It seems that Myotismon will never stop his terror.

Kyle looked at her transparent reflection once more. What did Myotismon see in this young woman? The girl would read fictitious stories of handsome men falling in love with gorgeous woman, and sometimes Kyle would read stories about Myotismon falling in love. She wasn't thin like these women, she wasn't as beautiful, and she dresses herself as a male most of the time; and she hardly revealed any skin on her body, all except for her face, neck and her hands. Overall, she didn't look anything like those women in the stories. Kyle was so much different from them. So different indeed.

Kyle's heart skipped a beat as the train entered a darkened tunnel, and was starting to slow down greatly. The girl knew the train was arriving on its platform. She wasn't sure if she would stay like the voice told her too, or try and hide away until it was all over with.

"Don't leave me again. Come with me, my love. We could rule worlds together; you and I. Please don't runaway from me..."

Kyle groaned as her head began to throb with pain, and strange visions kept racing through her mind. It took her a minute to figure out what was going on, but then it hit her: Myotismon was trying to read her mind, to find out exactly where she was! "Stop it..." Kyle whispered to him, and she clutched her head in her hands to make this strange, but painful feeling go away. "You're hurting me Myotismon..."

Victoria groaned quietly and looked up at her Aunt with concern. "Kyle?..." The little girl grabbed Kyle's fingers gently and formed a wry little smile on her face. The pain was now subsiding in Kyle's head. Perhaps the thought of her family had made Myotismon stop. Myotismon did not like this. He wanted Kyle to only think of him; not her family and the others she loved.

Kyle panted softly and a bead of sweat rolled down her face as she looked at Victoria. "Feeling okay?" She asked the little girl, who was now sitting next to Kyle.

Victoria titled her head downwards to stare at her dangling feet off from the hard seat of the train. She did not answer Kyle back, and by the feared look on the little girl's face kind of told Kyle she was not doing okay. Kyle could understand that; she felt the exact same way, but worse. Myotismon didn't want anybody else except for Kyle, or at least that power he's still trying to find. Kyle hoped that it was still safe. She figured the villains would never guess that she put it --

Kyle and Victoria were jerked forward slightly when the train finally came to a stop on the platform. Kyle panted heavily in fear and both hesitation. She didn't know what to do. Should she keep running away and avoid Myotismon or his henchmen, or should she just give herself and rule the world with him? She just didn't know what to do. So many emotions and memories were going through her head, that it made her whole body feel weak, tired, and almost numbing. While holding Victoria's little hand, the two girls slowly made their way off the train with the rest of the few crowd. Kyle staggered a bit as she was walking, but tried to control it for she didn't want to arouse people's concerns or suspicions.

"What should I do?" Kyle asked herself in her own mind. "Should I keep running, or should I just give in to him? He is right: I can't hide that much longer. He'll find me wherever I go..." For the sake of her niece, Kyle quickly decided she'll try to keep running and hiding for as long as possible. She didn't know how she'll do it though.

As Kyle and Victoria entered a recreation center of the train station, they saw exotic and hordes of crowds bustling past them. Oh yes, Kyle knew this was Chicago, but this was only a small portion of the people in the city. You could easily get lost in that city of people! Kyle looked around and realized that Myotismon nor his henchmen did not vandalize this city; at least not just yet. It also seemed that the people here weren't affected by what's going on past their large location. Kyle wondered why people haven't heard of the trouble that the digimon were causing. Very strange.

"Kyle... I'm hungry," Victoria mumbled oddly, for she had a few fingers in her mouth. This was something that children liked to do at times.

Kyle looked around at all the small stores, cafes, and restaurants around them. The people here seemed to like to crowd in these places. "Alright, Victoria... I'll get you something to eat..."

While holding the little girl's hand, Kyle walked through the crowds of people and to one of the small cafes. Victoria pointed to a plastic display of some pastries, specifically a glazed donut, and that's just what Kyle ordered for her. "I just want one glazed donut please," Kyle replied softly, and than looked around herself as if Myotismon was standing right next to her. The cashier at the cafe very briefly smiled at Kyle as he handed her a donut. She paid for it and held it down for Victoria to grab. "Okay, Victoria, here's your donut. We should probably get out of here now --" Kyle looked down and saw that her niece was not by her. "Victoria?"

Kyle threw the donut away as she looked all around the cafeteria for the little Victoria. "Victoria?" She called out softly, and her voice was starting to rise with panic. A little girl getting lost in Chicago... it's almost no use to try to keep looking. "Victoria." She left the cafeteria and began to wander around the recreation center for her niece, but where could she possibly had gone? The little girl was standing right next to Kyle just a second ago.

Suddenly, the lights throughout the whole center started to flicker and grow dim. Most of the people stopped and looked up and around themselves, wondering why the lighting is acting so strange. Kyle felt a very cold sensation run through her body, as if the winter season had decided to go for her instead of the state. "Why... do I feel so cold?" Kyle shivered and hugged herself tightly. She started to breath heavily in fear. Why did she feel so cold? The last time she felt like this was when...

Kyle's eyes grew wide as she started to look around herself carefully, but hoping she was wrong at what she thought. Her gaze turned to a small convenient looking store, and as she slowly walked toward it, she could feel herself getting colder. It felt like a frost had just passed over herself, making her feel even worse.

"Miss... are you okay?" Kyle turned to the side to see who this kind voice belonged too. She saw a young woman approaching Kyle slowly and putting a hand on her shoulder. "You feel like ice..."

Kyle took a small step away from this young woman and answered softly, "I'm fine..." the young woman still looked concerned for Kyle, but eventually she walked away and carried out her own life again.

Kyle continued to walk to that small store, and when she got there, she looked around for him. If Myotismon was really here, than he must be the one who took Victoria away. Somehow, she knew this was all his fault.

Kyle saw only a few people in this store, but no resemble to Myotismon whatsoever. She still did not feel right though: the dim lights, how cold she felt; she knew something was terribly wrong here.

"Excuse me, but I never caught your name..."

Kyle went over to look at the magazines as she heard a young woman's voice talking in a low, and somewhat seductive tone to someone. Kyle rolled her eyes and couldn't believe that women talk like that to men. Than the girl heard another voice speak to the young woman. It chuckled lightly and said, "I'm sorry, my dear, but I'm afraid I am already married to a lovely girl..."

Kyle's heart suddenly froze over when she heard that voice. A male that seemed frightening to be with, but yet, you just wanted to get closer to him. He was such a handsome vampire, that could charm and woo any type of woman. The young girl slowly turned around and saw a young woman, a little older than Kyle, showing off herself as she was talking with a tall, dark silhouette of a man. This man wasn't wearing a cape, nor that medieval suit Myotismon would usually wear. The man was wearing a dark, turtle neck sweater, black jeans, and tall boots that made him look... tall! He wore a long, black coat that would sway with him if he walked.

When that young man looked over his shoulder to Kyle, she starred right into those cold, cruel sapphire eyes, and knew that it was Myotismon.

Kyle staggered back and her mouth was wide with fear. She slowly backed away from the two and started to walk away quickly. Myotismon never took his eyes off his wife as a twisted smile formed on his face.

"Oh my God, this can't be happening..." Kyle shrieked silently to herself, as she walked through the recreation center to look for a way out and into the busy streets of Chicago.

When she thought she was nearing the exit, she passed by someone that held out his hands to her. "Please, can you spare?" Kyle turned to see one of the unfortunate people sitting against the walls. She looked around herself quickly to see if the coast was clear before she handed the poor man twenty dollars. "Thank-you... my darling..." Kyle gasped loudly in fear as the man stood up and looked down on the girl evilly. This man wasn't the unfortunate, it was Myotismon. He grabbed her wrists with one of his hands, as so she wouldn't try to hit him like before.

Kyle started to sob as she looked away from Myotismon, "What do you want from me?..."

Myotismon ran his other hand through Kyle's hair, and than he slowly tilted her chin upwards so she would look into his eyes. A smile was forming on the corner of his mouth. "I want you to be with me again, my love..." He wrapped an arm around her waist to bring her closer to his body.

Kyle groaned fearfully and looked away from her husband once more. "Where's Victoria? Where's my niece?" She asked quietly, and her voice was quivering badly.

Myotismon put a finger to her lips to shush her. He hugged her closer and said with concern, "My dear, you feel so cold..." He brought her face closer to his and nudged his nose against hers. "Don't worry, everything will be fine now... your family have not been harmed -- "

Out of the blue, a security guard happened to pass by the two, dark couple, and he stopped by them. He looked at the girl's wide eyes and frightened expression on her face, and the security guard looked at Myotismon sternly. "Is this man bothering you, ma'am?" He turned to look at Kyle.

Kyle just blinked at this man. She was too frightened of what was going on to say anything. "This is my wife..." Myotismon answered to the security guard for Kyle. "We are fine. You can carry on with your duties..."

The security guard raised an eyebrow at Myotismon. "Your wife?" He had the most puzzling expression on his face. "This young lady here looks too young to be your wife, Sir..." He approached Myotismon more assertively. "I'm gonna have to ask you to come away from the young woman here, Sir. She doesn't look like she wants to be with you..."

When the security guard grabbed Myotismon's shoulder roughly, the vampire growled angrily and spun around to face the cop. The guard hollered in fright when Myotismon squeezed wrapped his hand around the guard's throat and lifted him off the ground. Now the poor security guard was coughing and gagging for air. Kyle cringed and screamed loudly, and her voice echoed off the walls of the recreation center. She hesitated for a second, but then she darted out of the recreation center and onto the bustling walkways of Chicago.

Myotismon's eyes grew wide and he dropped the guard hard to the ground. The poor guy crawled away a little as he was still gasping for air. "No! Don't runaway again, PLEASE!" He cried out for his love, and just as he was about to go after her, Arukenimon and Mummymon had just appeared in front of him out of thin air. Myotismon suddenly changed his expression to a more serious one. After all, he didn't want anyone to think that he was fixated on wanting his wife back with him.

"Lord Myotismon..." Arukenimon's voiced wheezed oddly, "The digidestined brats are in this world..."

"What?" His voice rose in anger. "What do you mean they're here? How could they have possibly gotten to this world?"

Arukenimon and Mummymon cowered in fear slightly. "We don't know, my Lord, but they are here, and they're trying to find that girl of yours..." said Mummymon with a hint of worriment in his voice.

Myotismon's nostrils flared in somewhat surprise to this. His eyes gazed around himself as he saw people around cowering and hiding from him and the rest of the digimon. "You two will come with me now..." the vampire demanded, pointing to the two hideous digimon. "We need to form up my digital army, and besides that, I'm going to have to recruit more and stronger allies to aide me. I want those digidestined fools destroyed or working for me!"

Matt groaned and opened his eyes as he saw himself in a dark and mysterious looking woods. He gasped when he saw a couple horses dart past him. What were on those horses foreheads? Were those horns? Impossible. There were no such things as unicorns... He got up quickly and looked around himself once more. Just where on Earth was he? Was this some kind of dream? Was he even dreaming? The young man just picked a certain place and started to run through the dark woods, and hoped there would be an end to it. Just what was going on here? Why does this place feel and seem so real to him? It's as if something or someone is making this happen...

When Matt thought that these woods would be an endless one, it suddenly stopped. There were no more trees, and the woods opened up onto a very large lake, that sparkled and twinkled with the night stars and the moon. As the boy emerged from the trees, he realized that he was not alone. It seemed that there was a girl standing at the edge of the lake with her back turned to him. This girl was most frightening looking. Because of the moon that shown brightly, Matt had a pretty good visual of this being: the arms that were at this girl's side, were very long and abnormally thin, and the skin seemed dry and dark looking. In place of human hands, there were large and sharp claws that looked as if they could hack and cut someone up in a matter of moments. This creature also had long, radiant hair that trailed behind her and would flow when a breeze came through. How did Matt know this was a girl -- why, she wore a long, and tattered looking black gown that barely go past her ankles.

As Matt approached this creature slowly, the girl looked over her shoulder and her large, sparking eyes looked straight into his. The boy stumbled and staggered around in great fear. "Matt?..."

Matt felt like he suddenly ran into a brick wall. He knew who that voice belonged too. He just couldn't believe it. "Kyle?..."

The girl squealed and cowered as her back was turned to Matt again. He slowly walked up to her and asked, "My God, what's... happened to you?"

Kyle went down on her knees and covered her face with her claws. She sobbed quietly. "I don't want to look like this. You kept seeing what those powers did to me -- in your dreams? I'm... horrible..."

Matt knelt down beside her to try to get a good look at her face. Is that four arms he sees? Where did they come from? He only saw two from before... "Kyle... just -- what..." the boy was at a lost for words now.

"You remember that blue ball, don't you? Remember what Gennai told you about it's power merging with my soul when it was inside me?..."

Matt nodded but eyed Kyle suspiciously, "Yes, but how did you -- ?"

Kyle stood up and turned to look at Matt. The boy's eyes widened even more, and he gasped softly. "Matt, look at me? Look what it'sdone to me..."

Matt saw her face, and to him, it wasn't as bad as she thought she looked. Her face was both frightening, yet very beautiful and somewhat of a mysterious look. Although she did still have her own human features, but the radiant hair that she had hid a quarter of her face; making it seem she had more beauty to hide underneath. And those eyes, they seem more beautiful than before. They glowed a bright blue, and seemed to send sparks of electricity here and there. Her skin, the hair... it all seemed to have different shades of blue, but mostly of a midnight-blue.

"Kyle..." Matt spoke softly and calmly, "Just what are you? What did those powers do to you?"

The boy shuddered when Kyle gently grabbed his hand and held it against hers. "I'm a demon, Matt... Ever since I was a baby, it was changing me; little by little, but now the powers have grown and -- made me into this..." She let go of his hand and stretched out all her arms for him. Her lips pouted a little, to make her even more mysterious and somewhat lovely looking.

"Does Myotismon know about this?" He whispered.

"Yes... he's always known, and somehow, he seems very happy about it..." The girl turned around to stare out onto the lake once more. She saw some unicorns from afar drinking the water.

"He wants you back with him... He wants you to love him..."

"I do love him though... and he loves me too..."

Matt's jaw dropped, "What?" He couldn't believe what he was hearing, "How can you love him? Look what he's done to your world -- to everyone in it! If you love him, than why aren't you with him? I know you keep running away from him..."

Kyle was silent for a moment, "I love him, because he loves me. My whole life, I never met someone who loves me the way Myotismon wants too; but, somewhere in my heart, it's telling me to stay away from him, and yet, I do really want to be with him. For him to love me..." The girl hugged herself and closed her eyes, "He's doing everything you saw around you, because he wants me back..."

Matt blinked and looked out onto the lake as well. "I'm sorry, Matt. I really do care about you, your friends, and my family... but I really love Myotismon. It's come to the point where I'm tired of running from him... He still scares me so, though..." The boy shuddered once more when he saw her resting her head on his shoulder. "My world is growing darker, Matt. I remember when it used to be bright and sunny everyday, but look what he's done to it. It's almost as if... I'm living in a nightmare..." She gently grabbed his hand and whispered frighteningly, "Don't leave me in the dark..."

As Matt turned to look at Kyle again, he was surprised to see her as a human, and not in that demon form. The young man grabbed her hand and held it tighter in his. "I won't, Kyle. We'll find you, and we're gonna help you out of this nightmare..."

The two young children just gazed out onto that lifeless lake that seemed so dreamy and beautiful. Matt and Kyle wished they didn't have to leave this dream world, but it was only a dream. They would go back to their nightmare as soon as they woke up.