Chapter Seven:
Lost and Found
Myotismon sighed deeply as he stood on top of a building once more. He was in deep thought about all this. For all his life, he knew it was his destiny to become ruler of the Digital World, and make any other world beyond that his. To have a woman by his side had never really occurred to mind. Yes, every now and then in his years he would have a slave girl to relieve himself of his 'manly urges', but now having a young woman of his own would mean to fulfill his pleasures to her only. A twisted smile formed at the corner of his mouth, and crossed his arms as he viewed the whole city from where he was. Even though he was a very arrogant man, he still wanted to learn to love his wife, and please her as much as he could. He wants his love to have the same passion that he desires for her. He just hopes that in the end, everything will be so perfect. To be the ruler of this Earth, to make all humans his slaves, and to love his wife and rule with her. In his years, which would prove to be endless since he's immortal, he felt so alone inside -- even though he had the servants, the victims to endure his pleasures, and even all that power... he still wants somebody to be with him. His body feels empty without no one to share the desires with him; he wishes that his love could understand that. He wants to be with her, to feel whole again.
"Master..." called out a raspy whisper. Myotismon just briefly glanced over his shoulder to see Arukenimon standing a little ways from him; as if respecting the space between them.
"What do you want?" The vampire asked gruffly, he than looked out onto the city once more.
Arukenimon was once again in her mysterious human form. She tilted her light violet hat to cover more of her face as she took a few steps closer to the vampire lord. "The digidestined's digimon are now yours to enslave. We have injected them with your virus as you instructed us too. They shall be under your control in a matter of a few hours."
"What about the children, did you capture them as well?" Myotismon's voice started to rise a little angrily.
Arukenimon was somewhat glad she had dark glasses to mask the fear that was going through her. "N-no..." she stammered softly, "They got away from Phantomon and the others. My Lord, we will find them before --" The spider creature hissed fearfully when Myotismon turned on his heel and glided towards her with an almost distorted look to his angelic face.
"Listen, my servant: I do not care if the children get to my wife first or not. They have no digimon to fend for themselves anymore. They cannot hide forever from me! Once I become ruler of this planet, every single life form will bend to my will!" Myotismon hollered at Arukenimon. The woman cowered slightly and took a few more steps away from her master.
"W-what do you wish me to d-do then, My master?..." She whispered.
"You and the others will continue to search this city for the digidestined. They will not stray far, not as long as she is here. I am going to go to my wife soon. She is waiting for me at this 'mall' that is not far from here..." Myotismon looked over his shoulder at all the tall buildings that surrounded him.
Arukenimon bowed, "Yes master, we will all continue our search..." than like before, she disappeared into the ground.
Myotismon smiled menacingly, "I'll find my wife, and she will tell me where she's hidden that power. I will take over cities, states, countries..." he snickered quietly. "And I will rule this world. It's almost all to easy..."
There were many people in this mall in Chicago, but this place wasn't as nearly as big as the mall Kyle had gone before with her Victoria. This place had many floors, but they were not big at all, and did not have as many stores to shop around in. She would pass by the shops and see her transparent reflection through the glass, but it wasn't exactly her that she saw; her eyes would go wide when she saw herself with the long dark, radiant hair, those bright blue eyes, and four arms protruding from a tattered gown. This scared her greatly, and she didn't know how long this was going to last until she would really look like that.
Right now, she was sitting at an open cafe that was right in the middle of one of the top floors of the mall. Some of the workers were a little concerned for Kyle, for she was drinking a lot of cappuccino and bought assortments of pastries. Yet again, she looked like a horrible wreck, with her hair matted and covering most of her face, and her eyes looked somewhat tired.
The workers behind the counter of their little cafe stand were whispering and muttering to each other, while quickly glancing at the tired, poor girl. The young man employee rolled his eyes briefly and than he started to approach Kyle with some caution, as if she was going to suddenly explode on him. "Excuse me, miss, but you have been sitting here and buying out our menu for a while now. Are you alright?" He leaned in towards Kyle as he stood a foot away from her.
Kyle barely turned her head towards the worker and replied dully, also somewhat rudely, "No... I'm not alright. I-I feel depressed, and right now, I really just want to be left alone, thank-you very much..." The young man was a little shocked by the girl's rude reply, but said nothing of it as he walked back to his post behind the cafe counter.
Kyle sighed depressingly and closed her eyes as she buried her face with her hands. A moment later, she groaned irritably when the two workers began to whisper and mutter about her again, but they ceased to do it when a customer had finally approached the cafe. As the girl eavesdropped on the conversation, she thought it was odd that this customer didn't order any food, but (as Kyle put the words together) she heard the person ask the workers if they had seen somebody he knew. Kyle took a sip of her cappuccino as she heard nothing more after that.
"Do you mind if I sit with you?" Asked the person who had just talked with the employees. Kyle's eyes widened and she almost dropped her drink as she heard this sensuous voice speak to her. She looked up and saw Myotismon starring down on her with those piercing sapphire eyes.
"I... don't mind..." Kyle answered back quietly, and her gaze turned towards the floor when the vampire took a seat across from the table.
"It has been awhile, my pet..." Myotismon smiled at her, like he would smile to any of his enemies; that cruel, and almost mocking smile. The girl gasped softly when Myotismon took one of her hands in his. He kissed it gently and held it, as if he didn't want to let go.
"Yes... it has..." Kyle's voice got even softer and quieter, but sounding a bit frightened.
Myotismon stood up and guided his wife to stand by his side also, for he was still holding onto her hand. He frowned slightly as he looked around the mall area. "I would like a little more privacy with you when we speak. I do not wish for any of these other humans to listen onto us..." he snapped his fingers after that, and Kyle waited to see what was going to happen. She didn't hear or see anything at first, but then, a swarm of bats came flooding into the building; obscuring anyone's view. It looked as if specks of paint or whatnot was all over the place. Everyone in the mall screamed in fright and began to run here and there to get away from these bats. Kyle screamed as well, but Myotismon roughly brought her closer to his body, as he wrapped his cape around her. He held her like that until everyone was cleared out of the building. Now, it was only them that were left. The vampire released the girl as his bats flew out somewhere. Kyle breathed heavily as she took some staggering steps away from her husband. She was still frightened by everything that's happened to her life.
"I've missed you so..." breathed Myotismon as he starred at his wife hard. He took those few steps to Kyle and made no hesitation to wrap his arms around her back, as so he could bring the girl closer to his body. He ran a hand through her hair and said with concern, "My love, you look so dreary..." he tilted her chin up so she would look into his eyes. Kyle still breathed heavily with fear.
"I..." Kyle stammered, and she cringed slightly when he ran his hand across her cheek. "I've missed you so much too. I... can't stop thinking about you..." Myotismon's smile curled when he heard this. "Ever since that day I came back home, I've tried so hard to forget -- even you, but... I just can't." The two lovers both breathed softly, but heavily as Myotismon began to nuzzle his face against Kyle's.
"Your friends are coming..." Myotismon whispered somewhat annoyed to this. Kyle looked very puzzled. "They know you are here, for they most likely saw my bats fly away from here. I do not care; I want them to come here... We will have more time for ourselves at a later hour, now you will sit at this table and wait for them to come to you..." he snickered evilly.
Kyle bit her lip nervously, "W-what are you going to do with them?"
Myotismon purred in her ear, "Whatever you wish..." he grinned somewhat menacingly as he thought of ways to torture the digidestined children.
Kyle shied away from Myotismon for he kept starring at her intensely; waiting for an answer, and hoped it had some sort of cruel punishment. She looked around herself, thinking hard. "I... don't want you to hurt them..." she whispered. Myotismon frowned slightly. "No matter what, I still care about them..."
Myotismon breathed in, thinking about considering what his wife wished for. He had hoped that she would only care for him and no one else. "Very well... I won't hurt them," he said, but the tone of his voice sounded as if he wasn't very reassuring. "For all the trouble they have caused me though, they will still serve me and attend to my every whim..." Kyle gasped at this, and didn't want the digidestined to serve him. Especially Matt, she'll feel so guilty if she should ever pass him somewhere.
"I won't hurt anyone... if you give me what I want, my love. I won't hurt the digidestined, your family, no one, if you will show me what you have done with that power of yours."
"Look at all those Bats!" said Davis, who was astonished by the many bats that flooded onto one particular building in the city. All the rest of the digidestined children, and even the people on the streets, sidewalks all pointed and cried out in fear as they saw these winged creatures.
Matt squinted his eyes to try to get a better look to where the bats are. "It shouldn't be that hard to find out where they're going. Wherever they are, Kyle must be there too." None of the children started to run in the direction of the bats though. They just stood there on the sidewalks and starred at each other worriedly.
"We don't have our digimon anymore..." Ken looked down at his feet nervously. "What if we meet Arukenimon, Mummymon, Phantomon, or even worse: Myotismon?" Tai, Sora, Davis, and Izzy looked at Ken, and than turned to Matt, as if he had a remark to that.
"I can't just leave Kyle in there, wherever that is. I don't know what she's doing, but I got a feeling that she's surrendered herself to Myotismon." Matt turned to the direction the bats were flying to. "If she does give up, than that fang-face will most likely get the 'power.'"
Tai rolled his eyes and threw his arms in the air, "Hello! We can't just walk to wherever that creepy girl is, especially if Myotismon is there! We don't know what we're up against. Without our digimon, we are just practically helpless!" He put a hand lightly on Matt's shoulder. "Unless we miraculously get super powers, I think we should look for some kind of computer terminal and try to get a hold of Gennai or somebody..."
Matt shook his head and pushed Tai's hand off his shoulder. "You can go do that, but I want to find out just where those bats are going." Than the young man began to tread quickly down the sidewalks to see where those bats have gone too. The digidestined children stood around for a moment bewildered, but than they started to catch up to Matt.
"Matt, get back here! You don't know what you're doing!" Hollered out Tai. "Matt!"
Matt didn't listen to Tai's demands and just kept on going forward. He couldn't tell his friends that the girl had been talking to him in his dreams -- no. They wouldn't believe him; they would think he's gone crazy, than again, with all that's happening, why wouldn't they believe? The young man knew Kyle was going to go with Myotismon, since she had confessed that she loved the vampire. Matt still wonders if Myotismon truly loves her. He just couldn't let Kyle give up that easy though, especially since she knows what Myotismon really wants.
As Matt continued to walk, he passed by screaming people, and also crowds of them that were muttering and whispering worriedly to each other. Soon the young man came across the one place where all those bats seem to have came from. Just on the other side from the boy, was a large building, which seemed to be a mall of some sorts. When he quickly ran across the street, he saw a couple bats flutter out of the doors of this mall, and no more afterwards. He didn't want to wait for his friends, if they follow the bats like he did, then the children should know where to find everyone.
Matt took a deep breath as he pushed open the glass doors to go inside this strange looking mall. His eyes became wide when there was absolutely no one inside, all the exception for the creaks, cracks, and some other strange noises about. As he walked in further to the mall, he saw an escalator going up to the next level from across the room. It stopped moving, but was still good as just any normal set of stairs. There were escalators on every floor, since I said before that this place is not big at all. Matt took the escalators on all the floors until he reached the top. As he took those first few steps off from the stairs, he saw her. Kyle was sitting at a table, centered on the whole floor. He noticed that her hands were shaking badly when she was trying to sip a drink of hers.
"Kyle?..." Matt almost sounded troubled as he called out her name softly. He knew she heard him, but didn't bother to answer back or at least turn herself to look at him. Matt walked up to her table and stood right beside her. "Kyle, what are you doing here?"
Kyle set her drink down and held her hands together. She continued to look straight ahead, as if her eyes were fixated on something else. "I was waiting for you, Matt..." she said this so softly, it's almost a whisper.
Matt slightly turned as he heard echoing foot steps bouncing off the walls. He knew that his friends had just arrived here, and will most likely meet him here shortly. He looked back at Kyle and was about to speak, but was at a loss for words.
"He said that he wouldn't hurt you or anyone if I gave him what he wanted willing..." Kyle slowly looked up at Matt. "He knew you would come here to try and get me, but I don't want to go with you..." Her eyes became wide, and Matt suddenly jumped back a little as Kyle groaned and then collapsed unconscious on the table. The young man shook her gently, but she was out.
"You were so foolish to have come..." sneered a menacing voice. Matt glimpsed over his shoulder to see Myotismon approaching over to him gracefully. Matt cringed his face in anger as the vampire went up to the table and took his wife up in his arms. He stroked her cheek gently with his hand. "My love needs rest, boy. She is still taking all of this not as well as I had hoped..." His lips curled and eyes narrowed as he continued to stare at Matt, than he looked beyond the boy. Matt turned around to see Myotismon's men holding the arms of his digidestined friends. Matt knew he was going to end up like them fairly soon.
Myotismon chuckled nastily as he leaned in towards the boy. "You and your little friends have caused me so much trouble over these years, and even the days that came by..." He shifted his eyes over to his henchmen, and then to Matt. He licked his lips slowly as he could feel the fear rising within this human. "I can smell the fear within you, boy. I like fear you know... perhaps you'll do me some good as -- my meals," he bared his teeth and grinned when Matt seemed to stagger a little.
Myotismon gestured his hand to the Bakemon that were on the same floor, "Take this boy away with the others -- oh, and by the way, why don't you show these children their poor digimon. I bet they would love to know what has become of them..." his smile twisted.
All the children gasped and began to struggle with their captives. "Just what have you done with them?" Davis demanded, and he wriggled more furiously than the rest.
"You will see..." Myotismon mused, and than he wrapped his cape around his wife. "For now, I and my Lady need to attend to something..."
"You won't get away with this!" Matt yelled out. "Don't think you won! We still have friends out there! Don't you underestimate our friendship and powers..."
Myotismon smiled. "I won't... I've learned my lesson once from that, and ironically, you children were the ones who taught me this..." He approached Matt and slapped him hard across the face. The boy groaned in pain quietly, but tried hard not to show it. "All I want is to rule this world -- including yours; to manipulate you humans to my will, and I desire my love to share this with me. Nor you, or your other meddlesome children, will not get in my way again!"
"Souls..."
"What?..."
"I need souls..."
"Who-who are you?..."
"Bring me souls -- human souls..."
"Wait, who are you?"
"You'll find out in time... right now, just bring me souls!"
"What do you want souls for? Who are you?"
"Never mind that, just go out and get them..."
"How am I supposed to get souls?"
"You're the demon, you figure it out..."
Kyle groaned and her eyes fluttered open as she had just woken up from a long rest. She awoke to find herself in Myotismon's horseless carriage, laying down on the velvet seats across from where the vampire himself was. He was sitting at the end gazing out the window, his lips were stern and face was expressionless.
"Souls?..." Kyle muttered, "Why do you want souls?" She sat up and starred at Myotismon with her tired eyes.
The vampire lord shifted his eyes to Kyle, but didn't turn himself toward her. "What, my dear?"
"I..." she could see that her husband was not even slightly interested in what she had to say. She looked down at her feet, "Never mind..." Kyle looked out her small window of the carriage as well. "Where are we going?" Her voice trembled a bit.
Myotismon smiled, "Back to your home... do not worry, we are almost there..." Kyle gasped as the carriage slowed itself to a stop in front of Shaun's house. The fine wooden doors slowly opened on their own and the vampire stepped out from his carriage and glided over to the house doors. Kyle blinked and got out as well. She followed behind with caution as to what Myotismon might do. "I know you are just living here temporarily with your family, but you must show me what you have done with those powers. I so long to have them again..."
Kyle walked up to the doors and jiggled the knob. "I don't have a key to open the doors, maybe if --"
Myotismon took the door knob in his hand and broke the whole thing off. "You don't need any keys..." he pushed open the door lightly and a twisted smile appeared on his face as Kyle walked into the house first. Suddenly, her cat Katie came running up to the girl's feet, but as soon the gray cat saw the vampire walk in, she hissed and took off straight into a family room. Right when Kyle was about to go after her cat, Myotismon grabbed her shoulder roughly and spun her around so she was starring at him. "You can chase after your pets later, my dear, now is the time that you tell me where you've hidden that power... it belongs to me now." Kyle's eyes widened with fear when she saw the angry look the vampire was giving her. "Remember your family and friends... you don't want them to get hurt, do you?"
Kyle spat out, "It's my cat. She has it -- please, don't hurt her. I'll get it for you... just please... don't..." Myotismon didn't say a word, he didn't need to. Kyle took a step back and went through the house to find her cat. It wasn't very long until she saw her cat sitting in a large window, looking out onto the small backyard. Kyle approached her cat slowly as to not scare her or anything. Kyle's eyes shifted to the small, blue bell on the collar. The cat turned her head when Kyle got close enough to remove the bell. "It's okay Katie..." she whispered to the cat, "Don't runaway please..." the girl fumbled around with her cat's collar, and managed to get the little bell off before her cat got angry.
"Is this it?" Myotismon asked rudely, and he snatched the little bell out of Kyle's hands.
"Yes..." Kyle whispered quietly, "It is, now you have your power again... to make you even more stronger..." Once again, the cat hissed angrily at the handsome stranger, and took off up some stairs that were near the window the gray cat had just sat in. While Myotismon toyed around with this little bell, Kyle chased after her cat up the spiraling stairs and than stopped dead in the narrow hallway.
Kyle used to live in this house, but now it was her older brother's since her parents got divorced, and what once used to be her room, was now her guest bedroom here. She slowly walked down to her bedroom, which was at the end of the hallway, and that's just what she had liked most about it when she was allot younger. She felt a little relieved to see her cat hiding under the bed of the room when Kyle walked in. "It's so quiet here..." she whispered, and her eyes gazed around the room. She had made this guest room look very identical to her other room at her mother's place. Tears were brimming in her eyes as she looked at the frames of her family up on the walls, drawings she did, videogames all over floors... it all made her start to cry. Kyle threw herself down on the bed and buried her face in the sheets as so her weeping could not be heard.
For those moments to herself, she made believed that this was all a dream; that she had just woken up in the guest room, and now everything was right again. None of this had ever happened. Much to her dismay though, she knew it was all real, especially when she suddenly felt strong hands massaging her back, and a heavy body leaning down on hers a little. Kyle moaned softly into the bed as these hands continued to massage all the aches and tension that she had in her body.
"My darling... your body feels so tense..." Myotismon said breathlessly. He leaned down on her body more so he could kiss her cheeks gently. "I promise... everything will be so wonderful for you, that you will forget all your sadness and your worries for any humans here..." he murmured softly to Kyle. Myotismon turned her over and pulled her up to his body. "You and I will rule worlds together, as King and Queen, Lord and Lady, Emperor and Empress... no one will stand in our way..." He stood up and held onto her hand. "Come, my darling, I grow tired and wish to return to our castle to rest..." He smiled as he guided his love out of the house and into that horseless carriage once again.
As Kyle seated herself across from Myotismon, she heard a rash whisper inside her head, demanding, "Where are my souls? Why aren't you feeding on them?"
"Souls..." she whispered, and when she looked out the window, a blooded tear slowly trailed down her cheek from her eyes.