Author's Note: Finallly! I am finally done with this chapter, but sadly, it will be another long while before I can submit the next chapter to this story. This chapter is going into a major turning point of the story, and quite frankly, the next chapter will be my favorite one to write! I hope all of who have supported this story, continue to review and such; I really do appreciate it, since college is bringing me down will all the load of homework! Thank-you all for the support of the story!
Chapter Nine:
The Darkness Is Coming...
When Daemon had deceased to live, and Nightmare had let his soul live in the dream world, than would it be the same for any other soul if granted permission to exist? Is this how we dream of old friends, enemies, and loved ones? Because their souls are alive elsewhere?
"Gatomon..." The little white feline perked up her ears as she heard this soft voice calling her. For a moment, she didn't want to believe it was her old friend; a friend she so longed to see again. Than she heard that voice once more, "Gatomon..."
"Wizardmon?" Her voice sounded hopeful, yet sad all at the same time. She looked frantically around until she saw her long-time friend step out from the shadows. Gatomon was so joyous to see that he looked exactly the way he was before Myotismon had ruined him. She ran up to him and hugged wizard creature tightly. "Wizardmon! I thought I would never see you again!" Tears were starting to fill her large eyes.
Wizardmon gently embraced her back. "It has been a long time, Gatomon," he said softly to her, but than he took a step away from her. "Do you know where Tai is?" he asked somewhat urgently. Gatomon blinked and began to think.
"Tai?" She was confused.
"Agumon..."
She shook her head, "No... I don't know where they are." Wizardmon's voice now sounded more urgent, "You should wake up, my friend. You're not ready to be with the rest of us yet. The time... is not right..." Gatomon blinked her eyes with much confusion. Wizardmon looked around himself as if making sure no one else was around before he continued. "If you ever wish to know the truth, than you must find that way through the Dark Ocean. That is how he gets around..."
Gatomon eye's widened. "Wizardmon, what are you saying? Who's he?" The cat jumped as she suddenly heard the most disturbing sounds all around herself. These muttering and odd languages. She knew Wizardmon could hear them, for he was frantically looking around as well.
"They heard us!" He whispered fearfully, and Gatomon was stunned when he placed his hands on her shoulders and began to shake her lightly. "You have to wake up! You must find the rest of the digidestined! Don't let him use your sou--"
The cat's fur was damped with sweat as she bolted herself up and began to pant heavily with fear. "Gatomon... did you have a bad dream?" She heard this sweet, gentle voice speak to her, and when this feline looked up, she starred into Kari's beautiful eyes; looking down on her with concern. Gatomon had almost forgotten that she was napping on Kari's lap, and that the girl, T.K. and Patamon, had all gone down to the park this afternoon together. Gatomon's eyes focused better as she gazed around her comfortable and warm surroundings of the sunlight and children playing in the grass. "Gatomon... are you alright? You're not answering my question..."
Gatomon observed around herself once more before she finally answered Kari, "Yeah... I had a bad dream..." She starred up at the young girl. "Kari... where's your brother?" Kari left her mouth a gap as she didn't really know how to remark to that. She briefly glanced over to T.K., who happened to be sitting right next to her on the park bench.
"I..." Kari began slowly. "I don't really know. This morning, he said he and some of our friends were going to Izzy's place for... some reason..." she turned to T.K. again, but all the boy did was shrug in a manner that he didn't know what anyone else was up too as well.
"I'll give Matt a call..." T.K. rummaged through his coat pockets until Kari saw him dialing his cell phone. As he put it up to his ear, a few seconds later he shook his head and turned to Kari. "No answer. It says that he's too faraway for the call to be connected to him. I have no idea -- but where could Matt go for a long distance this fast during the day?"
Kari bit her lip, "Try calling Izzy. Do you remember his number?" T.K. nodded and punched some numbers into his cell phone again. Kari waited, but after a few minutes chatting to someone on the other line, the boy hung up his phone and shook his head once again.
"I was just talking with Izzy's mom, and she has no idea where he, or everyone else had went. She's starting to get worried too!" T.K. sighed and buried his face in his hands. Kari shifted her eyes to think of what to say to her good friend in comfort, than she gently patted his arm softly.
"We can't give up already," she said sweetly and calmingly to T.K., "We just have to keep trying until we know for sure to where our friends have gone too. If they were in any kind of trouble though, why didn't they contact us?" Herself and T.K. starred at each other with worriment growing inside them. T.K. picked up the sleeping Patamon in his arms, and than the two humans got off the park bench and now had determined expressions on their faces.
"We just have to keep calling some of our other friends and ask if they know where... the ones we're looking for are," T.K. said sternly, but just than, the cell phone in his coat pocket rang. The boy quickly answered the call and hoped that it was either Matt or Izzy on the other end. Kari's eyes grew wide as she heard the conversation go on between T.K. and the other person, and the girl knew it wasn't a good call by the tone of T.K.'s voice. The boy nodded as he ended his call. "That was Joe..." he said quietly to Kari and the others. The rest blinked their eyes as they waited for T.K. to continue. "He's at the library, and upon doing research there, he suddenly got a message from Gennai -- right on the library's computer! How Gennai managed to find Joe is a good mystery there!"
"Did Joe mention why Gennai has contacted him? Does Gennai know where our friends are?" Kari edged herself closer to T.K. in an attempt to make him answer her as quickly as he could.
T.K.'s eyes widened a little as to how close Kari got to him. "All Joe know is -- is that Gennai wants us to go meet him at the library; says Gennai thinks our friends are in 'grave danger.'" He rolled his eyes in slight sarcasm, but saw the look Kari was giving him, told the boy that he shouldn't joke around with such matters.
"This isn't funny that our family and friends are in danger," Kari said somewhat testily to T.K., but than she sighed and shook her head, "I'm sorry; I'm just worried about my brother, and everyone else. Let's just go meet Joe at the library as fast as we can. I want to know what Gennai has to say." T.K. nodded, and than the two (and of course, with the digimon in their arms) they quickly crossed some sidewalks and roads to make their way to the library.
The library was located almost on the outskirts of the bustling Tokyo city, but was fairly large considering the amount of people who live around this place. This large building has many floors, but more particularly separating the adult content of some books. To the point, the bottom floor has stories and such for little children to read, whereas, the top floors has books that contain adult content, or have information that only mature citizens could understand. There was also a floor -- more towards the center of the floors, which has a room containing a number of computers at anyone's disposal to look up information not enclosed in books. This floor was where our more grown-up digidestined, Joe, is present. He was seated farthest away from any contact with other people, for they would get suspicious as to what he was doing.
Joe formed a small smile on his face as he saw T.K. and Kari quickly approaching the young man, but trying to keep as quiet as they could since they were in a library after all. "Believe me... I am sorry this is such short notice," stated Joe, and he shifted the glasses on his face to make them stay on better. Kari waved her hands lightly in a gesture that it was alright.
"Joe, you are our friend -- and besides that, you said that Gennai has sent you a message about our other friends and family. T.K. and I, and along with our digimon, wish to know what has happened to them. We couldn't reach them since T.K.'s cell phone says that they are to faraway to make a good connection for a call." T.K. nodded in agreement.
Joe turned back to the computer terminal and began to type a few things. "I was just doing research for one of my college courses -- medical, to be more specific, and a message from Gennai had suddenly popped up on the screen. How that strange man managed to find me here is something I would like to know myself!" He cleared his throat softly and continued, "To get straight to the point: Gennai's message stated that our friends are in danger in a whole other world. He also said that Myotismon is the cause of all this." Kari covered her mouth as she gasped so loudly; even Gatomon was most shocked by this news. The feline didn't want to believe that this vampire was alive once more. T.K. merely tilted his head downwards in great disgust.
"M-Myotismon is alive again?" Kari tried to hold back her frightened voice as much as possible. "Did Gennai explain how this happened? Just how can Myotismon live again? We defeated him as MaloMyotismon years ago!" She quieted herself down as a few people in the room shushed her.
Joe shook his head, "Gennai didn't say, but... he wants us to go help our friends right away. He already set the location and everything in this computer terminal. All I need to do is press some of these keys, and than we're in... to go to this world." The children were silent for a few moments in some thought to all of this. Why didn't Gennai explain with more detail as to how that vampire came existent again? Why is Myotismon not coming after the children here, in Japan? Just what was he up to? The confused children and digimon alike did not know the answers they seek... but they will soon enough; the hard way, I guess I could say.
"We should go..." T.K. said quietly to his friends, and he looked around to make sure no one else in the library was looking their way or even near them. T.K. nodded his head to Joe to gesture that the close was clear. Joe breathed in heavily... and than out.
"Alright... here we go..." Joe pressed some keys lightly on the key board, and an odd port opened up in the computer. The children and digimon cowered and covered their eyes as a blinding light suddenly came as quickly as turning on a light switch. Just like that... they were gone.
As Kyle started to wake up from a long rest, she couldn't help but feel a little violated and... very cold for some strange reason. The girl still felt very cold; feeling so chilled on the inside. Why was she feeling this? Her thoughts of this slowly seeped back into her mind as her eyes caught sight of Myotismon sitting on the edge of the bed with his back faced to her. Kyle covered herself up more with the bed sheets as she watched the handsome figure slowly slip his arms back into his suit; buttoning himself up and smoothing out his hair as so it would look sleek and neat once again. Kyle gasped as Myotismon looked over his shoulder and formed an odd smile on his face. "To be honest, my dear, I thought that you would never awake -- than again, I can understand especially from... last night..." he took one of his hands and ran it down the side of Kyle's body. Even though touched many times by him, the girl couldn't help but cringe slightly.
"Myotismon..." Kyle squirmed around as she thought of the right words to say, "Please don't tell anyone... about what happened... last night..." She turned her head slightly away as the vampire's eyes widened. "I don't want anyone to know... yet. I was still too young to..." she closed her eyes and knew it was no use continuing to speak, since her husband understood exactly what she meant.
Myotismon chuckled mischievously; sounding as if he wouldn't do as his love wished. "Very well," he replied, "I will not speak of the matter, but servants and anyone else alike are bound to find out sooner or later someway... somehow." A twisted smile formed on his face as he saw the outline of his wife's body through the sheets. He than continued to button himself up.
"Where... are you going?" Kyle asked drearily to Myotismon.
The vampire turned himself around, and leaned his body on top of hers. "I'm planning on making this world another digital frontier, but only my men will be trained and work for me," he whispered somewhat enthusiastic by the idea, "I want to conquer all other worlds that I can contact with..." Myotismon stood up on the floor and headed towards the large doors of his bedroom. "I'm sorry, my love, but my time must be spent planning making this world more mine... I will take my leave now." As the vampire opened the doors, Kyle gathered her strength and tried to get up from the bed as well. Instead of standing on two feet though, she immediately collapsed on the floor hard. Myotismon hissed slightly with bewilderment as he spun around and quickly scooped his wife up in his arms. "You should not get out of bed just yet, my darling. Your body is not used to... being with another..." He cooed as he gently laid the girl back down in bed. Kyle whimpered ever so quietly to that statement. He planted his lips on hers and kissed her softly. "In your condition of feeling so cold, I will have my servants attend to you every so often. Do not know why, but I never felt a human so cold. I will be back with you later in the evening..." And than that was the last Kyle would ever hear or see of Myotismon as he gracefully walked out of the bedroom and shut the doors softly behind him.
Kyle turned herself around in the bed and shivered badly. "I don't feel so well..." she whispered, and as she breathed out, she could of sworn she saw her own breath. The girl squealed and closed her eyes tightly as she tried to warm herself up as best as she could, but it was no use. Her body felt like it was getting colder... and colder... When Kyle opened her eyes, she gasped loudly as a tall silhouette figure stood before her. She whimpered and cowered into the bed more as her eyes gazed upon the figure's heavy attire of leather and many metal chains that latched onto his clothing. The stranger formed a menacing smile as he looked down on the frightened girl. "Who... who are you?" Kyle whispered frighteningly at this odd looking man.
The stranger snickered and reached out his arms to her. "Your worst nightmare..." he said breathlessly in a deep voice. The last thing Kyle remembered was the hands reaching for her... and the blood tearing from her eyes...
"Where... are we?" Kari asked nervously to the friends and digimon around herself. If the children knew ahead of time or America better, they would of known that they were in the city of Chicago. I say ahead of time, for this large place looked nowhere near like the city it once was before. The skies were all a darkened red. The streets nor the sidewalks had people; no one was to be seen anywhere within the distance of where the digidestined were! Seeing no people and looking up to see that most disturbing sky spooked the children and digimon badly. Kari hugged herself as a cool breeze passed through. "Where is everyone?..."
T.K. and Joe looked around themselves. T.K. whispered, "I never seen a place with... no one around. Especially a place that looks like a city. Is it like this because of... Myotismon?" Gatomon whimpered and buried herself into Kari's leg as she heard that name. T.K. squinted his eyes in the distance and saw a few people lying facedown on the streets and partially on the sidewalks. As his view became a little more clearer of that surrounding, he could barely make out a very dark looking figure sitting against the side of a building; its head was titled downwards, which made the figure's hair cover the face. A few moments later, the mysterious being slowly got up and walked into the darkest shadows of an alley. The boy didn't know if the figure wore a long black, torn dress, or a long black, tattered robe; it was hard to tell from where he was at. "Did you see that?" T.K. asked his friends as he pointed in the distance to which he saw that 'thing'.
Kari, Joe and the digimon squinted their eyes to see where T.K. was pointing to. "No... I don't see anything," Kari replied softly. "What did you see?"
T.K. started to walk slowly in the direction of where he saw that strange being. "I... saw the strangest person over in the distance -- and there are people lying on the ground. They could be hurt, or even worse..." Kari bit her lip and closed her eyes ever so slightly as she breathed heavily in distraught.
"Now that you mention it... there are people lying on the ground, if you adjust your eyes better. I just hope... they're still breathing..." Joe turned to T.K. and Kari. He fixed his glasses so they were placed better on his face. "Let's go over there and see if they're not hurt badly..." T.K. and Kari slowly nodded their heads. The children almost dragged themselves down the empty and quiet streets of the city as they made their way to the other side. They didn't want too, but they knew it was the right thing to make sure that the people they saw... were still alive; the children wanted them to be alive. If they had died, then they would think that Myotismon was cruel enough to kill his victims, and leave them in the street. No one else could do such a horrible thing... right?
"I got a really bad feeling about this..." T.K.'s voice quivered a bit as he gazed left and right in between the buildings. He could feel inside himself that someone was watching them all... from the darkest shadows that they overlooked to observe better.
"I already knew that when we first came here," Kari remarked softly as-a-matter-of-factly. Joe and Kari reached one of the sprawled out humans, but the face was turned away from them. Joe kneeled down to get a better look at the poor soul.
"He's breathing..." Joe muttered under his breath. "But the breaths he takes... is very slow; very short." He looked up at Kari with the fear growing inside him. "He's dying..." Kari gasped while Gatomon whimpered as she buried herself within the girl a little more.
T.K. wasn't really near the two though, nor was his digimon by his side; the little Patamon was watching the lost humans with despair. There was an alley in which the young boy had first saw this odd being go into, with its hair over the face. He took a closer look and squinted his eyes in the blackness of this place. He saw her; a girl in a long, torn black dress pressing herself against the wall. Her eyes almost shined through this darkness. T.K. wanted a better look at this girl, but the hair was matted and all over her lineaments. He was hypnotized by the girl's eyes, and he never realized, but now he was drawing closer to her; wanting to get near her...
"T.K.!" The boy heard Kari's soft voice calling him. T.K. turned to see the young girl walking toward him. He looked back at the dark young woman; the expressionless face of her as she put a finger to her lips, and backed away so T.K. could see her no more. "T.K! What are doing? What did you see?" Kari looked down the alley and then her eyes averted back to T.K.
T.K. shook his head, "No one... I saw nothing."
Just than, Gatomon hissed, and the sounds of the cat bounced off the buildings of the city. T.K., Kari, and Joe spun around to see the vampire Lord standing in the streets sneering at them all. The vampire flung his cape over his shoulders as the nostrils flared with some shock as to the digidestineds arrival. "I should have known more of you would have bound to come here." he said flatly, but with some amusement to his tone. "How fortunate I am indeed..."
"Where are they Myotismon?" T.K. blurted out angrily. "What have you done with them?"
Myotismon chuckled ever so quietly, "What makes you think I have done anything to your friends?..."
"Only you would know the answer to that!"
Myotismon took a few steps closer to them, "I wouldn't want to pain you, but I will say that they now make... excellent servants to me..." Kari gasped and covered her mouth as to not scream or anything of the sort. "They hardly say a word and obey my every command..." His lips curled as he saw Kari crying into Joe's shoulder. T.K. was taken aback by this and didn't want to believe what that evil vampire was telling him. The three digimon stood in front of their partners and looked ready to digivolve into action.
"You're going to regret this, Myotismon!" T.K. almost sobbed but tried to hide the tone as best as he could.
Myotismon stretched out his arms as if wanting them to attack, "I am more powerful than you can imagine. I would rather make use of you all as slaves rather than to give death... but... if that is what you wish, than so be it!" The vampire chuckled nastily as he grabbed his cape and held it out. The digidestined held out their digivices and such; they were ready for anything that evil threw at them. "GRISLY --!" A lowly little Bakemon quickly jetted down from the sky and stood between the vampire and the heroes. Myotismon was infuriated by this. "Dear Bakemon! This had better be a very good explanation! I have waited long to end the digidestined's reign over me!"
The Bakemon kept shifting his eyes to his master and than the children. "I'm... sorry my Lord, but... " the small ghost grew quiet.
"Well?..." Myotismon was growing impatient by this, while the children just blinked their eyes and wondered what on Earth was going on with the vampire and the small digimon.
The Bakemon spat out, "She's gone, Lord Myotismon! That Lady of yours is gone! The servants and I have checked on her as you had told us, but... she's not there! She's not in the castle." Myotismon's body felt as if it was suddenly frozen over with Death itself (again it would be for him, wouldn't it be.) "She's gone -- " The Bakemon's eyes were now not on Myotismon anymore, but past him -- and the digidestined. The transparent spirit saw a dark girl standing in the middle of the street. Her head was bowed and the hands folded neatly on her dress. The Bakemon's mouth was a gap when he saw the heavy splotches of blood dripping from all sides of the body.