Author's Note: Throughout most of the story now, it's going to be A.U., since -- well, Myotismon and the digidestined (and everyone else) are in a dream world; where anything can happen... it'll all go back to normal... probably in the last few chapters of the story. For now, this is the dream world... I hope all you enjoy this anyways!
Chapter Eleven:
My Dream World
"Myotismon..." T.K.'s voice sounded so soft that anyone could barely hear him. "Just what is this thing? Do you know what it is, or where it can go?" The young man was referring to the most strange looking gash in the Dark Ocean. This was indeed, a very odd thing to find in such waters, but than again, the Dark Ocean is full of mysteries and wonders that are still to be discovered. This is one of them to have found.
Myotismon closed his eyes briefly in thought. "No... but I am not afraid to find out where it goes..." he approached the edge of the ocean, where the waters would slowly wash out and barely touch the front of his leather boots. "Wherever I go though... I expect you to go in first... If you want no harm done to your friends and family, than I suggest you obey with no betraying me..."The vampire looked over his shoulder and smiled menacingly at T.K. and the others. T.K. just growled quietly in anger.
"How do you know it will go anywhere?" Joe asked flatly, "For all we know, this could be some sort of trap; set up by a -- digimon, or something of the sort."
"This is why you children and digimon alike, are going inside that gash before I do," replied Myotismon, and than his eyes swiftly moved from one digidestined to the other, "So who would like to volunteer first?" The three children and digimon turned back to the edge of the waters and just starred at the strange slit in it. "If none of you decide quickly, than I'll just grab one of you and toss you in myself!" He snarled impatiently.
T.K. sighed and took a few small steps into the ocean waters. He jumped when he felt the coldness on his skin. Kari gasped and latched onto the young man's arm. "No T.K.! Don't go! I'll go first -- I don't want you to get hurt -- !" T.K. looked over his shoulder to see Kari's eyes full of tears, ready to brake down and sob for him. Myotismon saw this and crossed his arms irritably.
"Kari... " T.K. gazed back at Myotismon, and narrowed his eyes angrily at the vampire. "Myotismon is just going to make me go in whether I want to or not." He hugged the young girl close to him. "I don't know why, but... Kari, I'm going to be alright in the end. You'll see." T.K. began to wad through the darkened waters and stood at the edge of the strange slit. "I'll see you... hopefully, on the 'other' side..." Than he let his body go, and made his weight go forward so he would fall straight into the darkness. Patamon, brave as he is, quickly followed after his partner. Kari started to cry softly, and hid her tears as best as she could from the vampire lord.
Everyone all braced themselves for the worse, incase something had happened to T.K. Myotismon's face became expressionless as he leaned his body towards the ocean to get a better look inside this gash. "Hmm..." he was in small thought, "I do not see a battered body of a boy coming back to us, so I am presuming that he made it on the other side unharmed... perhaps..." The vampire's eyes shifted to the frightened girl. He pointed to her, "You -- girly, you will go after him, since you so long to be with him..." a twisted smile formed on his face as Kari and Gatomon stepped into the waters and both approached the edge.
"We are not doing this for you, or whoever you are looking for, Myotismon..." stated Kari sternly, "We are doing this for our family and friends, and don't you forget it." The girl closed her eyes and picked up Gatomon and held the feline close to herself. They both gasped worriedly when Kari just jumped into the hole, as if she didn't have a care in the world as to what could be down there. A few moments later, the vampire turned to Joe, who was shaking badly with fear.
"Shall you then?" Myotismon gestured his hand to the hole.
Joe shifted his glasses once again before he spoke. His voice quivered slightly. "Why do you even want us along? Won't we just be in the way? How do you know... that they are alright?"
Myotismon's nostrils flared a bit; a little surprised by the questions. "Why, if any you stayed behind, dear fool, you either would of have tried to free your friends from captivity of my rule, or been a mindless monster walking around the city for her..."
Joe thought about the vampire's words but than merely nodded, "Either way, I have to go in that hole, whether I like the idea..." than the young man looked down on his oceanic digimon. "Or if we don't like the whole situation..." Joe breathed in and out heavily as he picked up his Gomamon and wadded through the dark waters to the edge of the gash. He hesitated for a second, but than managed to gather up some courage and make his body tumble into abyss.
"I have nothing to leave behind here..." Myotismon muttered under his breath, as he too, quickly approached the Dark Ocean's mysterious slit. His cape flowed in the waters; rippling as he walked through the liquid. "I do not fear death, if this is where it could lead, although..." he closed his eyes and sighed softly. "I have a feeling that this strange space will bring me to something that is far from death..." And then he jumped into theabyss as well.
The obis was like falling into a dark tunnel, where you would be just as blind if you closed your eyes and tried to find the way. As soon as Myotismon had entered this pitch-black realm, he had to cover his ears tightly, for all that was heard was this ear-piercing screams; screams of people in agony and ones who were crying for help. These agonizing wails were so loud, that they were actually hurting Myotismon's inner ear. People were screaming for help; screaming that they wanted this 'pain' to go away; and even some were screaming... that they just wanted to die. One of these howling wailers though, the vampire did recognize...
"No! No! Help me! Don't touch me! Let me go! No!"
As quickly as that voice came, Myotismon was out of that nightmare. There was no more screaming, no more darkness, and no more falling... Myotismon was in such opposites of that right now. He had landed in a place where he would of never thought of being. There were bright blue skies, an endless meadow of green grass as far as the eyes can see; and there was even a little cottage not to long a way from where he was.
Myotismon slowly blinked to see as if he was dreaming or not; but it had to be. Blue skies? The light? Wouldn't he had burned to ash about now? His kind cannot survive in this kind of light, but how is he now? He sighed in some relief and laid down on his back, doing so, he witnessed a few twittering birds quickly flying through this sky. He began to close his eyes for he was very tired at the events he had to endure through this day.
Than, there was a voice coming from a young man which the vampire did not want to here at this moment. It spoke in a sarcastic, uncaring kind of tone, "Yes, thank-you. We made it through this 'dimension' safe and sound. Thanks for being concerned for our wellbeing..." Myotismon opened his eyes to see the digidestined children and their digimon standing around him; making this odd looking circle. T.K. was the one who had spoken. T.K. bobbed his head slightly to Myotismon, "Good you didn't plan on leaving us here..." He looked around himself and than back down on the vampire, "I have no idea how we're going to get out of this place..."
Myotismon grunted as he hoisted himself up from the ground, and was now starring down at the confused children and digimon. He narrowed his eyes menacingly at Gatomon, for she couldn't stop starring back at her former master the same way. "No matter how much I hate the idea..." began Myotismon as he looked away from the feline and onto the small cottage he saw when he came to this world. He barely pointed to this hut and said, "Let's see if those inhabitants have any clue as to where we are... and perhaps why all of this is happening..." Than the undetermined group started to slowly make their way to the small, but pleasant looking house that sat on a small hill, but still over looked the grassy plains.
As everyone was walking quietly and not even talking amongst themselves, Myotismon couldn't help but slightly growl when he noticed that T.K. kept glancing at the vampire every few seconds that passed by. Finally, Myotismon snapped at the boy, "Why do you keep looking at me with those eyes of yours?" He demanded furiously.
T.K. merely shrugged, "It's just that... when all of us have battled with you a long time ago, you were... allot crueler than, but now... you've changed allot..." Myotismon didn't reply nor look back at the young man, until he asked, "She changed you, didn't she?" Myotismon turned and looked down on the boy with wide eyes. He was caught off guard by this question. Was he right? Did he change that much because of a girl? The vampire quickly turned away, but he never did answer T.K.'s question. The young man didn't expect him to; Myotismon was too proud to admit such things.
When they all got closer to this cottage, everyone could see a couple dressed in peasant clothes, who were gathering and chopping wood, but to where this wood could of came from is a mystery right there. The couple stopped what they were doing as Myotismon and the rest stood a few feet from them. "Honey..." replied the peasant looking man, who appeared to be an older kind, and a bit hefty at that. "It seems we have some strangers at our home."
The wife nodded slowly in agreement. "Are you the dreamers or..." the older woman shifted her eyes to Myotismon. "Or henchmen to Nightmare? Daemon perhaps?" The children and all the digimon just blinked at this woman. "Or maybe that one child stole your souls..." This statement seemed to perk Myotismon's attention a little.
"So you know what has happened here?" Myotismon asked softly, but tried hard, for his voice started to quiver a bit in fear.
The heftier man nodded and grunted before he spoke, "Not just here: our world and that -- you folk are from earth, right?" To not make things more complicated than they are now, everyone just bobbed their heads 'yes' even though, none of them were from the earth where Kyle and her family are from. "Well... it seems that our old friend, Nightmare: the king of nightmares, got in cahoots with this demon creature named Daemon -- " The man suddenly stopped and eyed everyone oddly. "Are you sure none of you are part of Nightmare or Daemon, for if you are, none of us want no part of it!"
Kari shook her head quickly, "Oh no! We would never want to join evil creatures such as Daemon... nor that other monster you spoke of -- just who is Nightmare exactly?" The wife and husband looked at one another, and than back at the confused faces of the children and digimon.
"As I said before..." the older man began to speak in that soft, gruffly tone, "Nightmare is the king of nightmares. The creature that makes all of your nightmares. You ever had a nightmare, than the king of them made it. It's not that simple for someone to just 'think' of something to dream up though. Do any of you know how your dreams actually come to life while you sleep?" Everyone shook their heads. "Well... it just so happens that, when you sleep, your soul escapes from your body and comes into our world and dreams up everything that you see here..." The man stretched out his arms and gestured to everything that was around them.
"Wait a minute..." Joe crossed his arms and glared at this man a little. "You're saying, that the only way to dream is when our 'souls' leave our body and come here -- come on! That is impossible to believe! Things like that don't happen! It's not... right..."
The hefty man chuckled heartily and wiped a single tear from his face. "You know what, young man? How can you not believe in such things? Look around you... do you believe in this? Do any of you know where you are right now?" Joe tilted his head downwards to not stare at this man no more. "It may sound corny and silly, but y'all in our dream world; where the impossible... happens here -- well, it could happen, but Nightmare took over our world. Now it's in a total hell of a place, with his minions and such running around; making sure none of his souls don't leave here..."
"Speaking of souls..." Myotismon interrupted the older man, "You mentioned a girl stealing them..."
"I was gonna get to that..." the older man spoke in a more annoyed tone, but than began to speak normally as before, "Well, it seems that Nightmare got tired of being just a mere monster in people's dreams, so he decided to take everything to the next step: become real; living among all them earth folk. Well, the only way to do that is to collect souls for himself, since they're living and all. Problem for Nightmare is: he don't have enough power to just go into that real world and steal souls from people. By his rate -- with having enough power and all, he can only steal one soul from a human for every long while. So... Nightmare came up with this plan: to steal one soul from a human, keep the soul for himself, and replace that human body with another soul he created from his own powers..." Myotismon's eyes grew wide as an image of that demon zombie flashed into his mind; wanting to grab at him, and starring at the vampire with those tear-stained, blood eyes. "With the soul he replaced in a human body, the being is controlled by him. Like an 'outside source' for him. Well, he makes this minion steal souls from other humans, and than this creature transports them back here to Nightmare -- although, I don't know how someone could bring souls from that earth world to here. Seems... hard to me." The older man scratched his head once more and shrugged. "That's about all I can explain for you part. How exactly did you folk get here anyways? The only other way I can think of is if you went sleeping somewhere..."
"Um... " T.K. looked towards the skies to see if there was some kind of hole or even a strange tunnel, after all, all of them did fall from the sky -- or did they? None of them could clearly remember. "We got here... from the Dark Ocean. There was this... gap in it, and when we went in, it led us here." The older couple just blinked at the child. Obviously, they didn't know what the Dark Ocean was.
"Dark Ocean?" Questioned the older woman, and she cocked her head slightly to the side. "I never heard such a thing. Does that have something to do with the creature Daemon?"
Before any of the children spoke, a young woman wearing a peasant gown like the older one was, exited the cottage with a large crate in her arms. Myotismon's eyes widened when he saw the beauty of this young woman. She had long, wavy dark-brown hair, and an hourglass figure that would probably make any man turn his head to look. "Father... did you chop any more --" Than she caught sight of the handsome figure starring at her. "Oh..." she smiled sweetly at Myotismon and waved lightly at him. "Hello..."
The older man quickly glanced at his daughter and than the vampire, and smiled. "I see you noticed my daughter here. Hard not to see her anyways. You folk, this is my daughter Melissa: the beauty of our dream world -- at least that's what I say..." Melissa blushed for Myotismon couldn't stop starring at her.
The vampire snapped out of his own mind and starred sternly at the older man, "Do you know where Nightmare or Daemon are at this moment? I -- we..." he looked over to the digidestined children and their digimon. "We would like to pay them a little visit..." The hefty man looked around himself and than beyond his own cottage. His gaze turned back to the vampire and children.
"Well... I know the way to Nightmare's part of this world, but it's a long way there, considering this is the 'dream' part. My daughter can take you there though. She got more energy than me and my wife put together, so she'll be more help in bringing you to that world..." The older man smiled at Melissa as she gracefully approached Myotismon, who was taken aback some for her sudden closeness to the vampire.
"I can take you there, although I haven't been to Nightmare's realm that much, but I do know the way. Do you wish me to take you there?" Melissa spoke in a very soft voice and than starred into Myotismon's eyes. This got the digidestined a little suspicious of the young beautiful female. Melissa put the crate to the ground and continued to stare into the vampire's eyes tenderly.
Myotismon's lips curled into a smile, and caught himself in time, for his hand was about to stroke Melissa's hair. "Yes... most grateful of you, my dear." Melissa giggled quietly to the vampire's purr of a voice.
"Just be careful... with Nightmare and Daemon's men running around; don't let them take you with them," warned the older man, than he looked sternly at Myotismon. "Please protect our Melissa, but something tells me that she'll be just fine..."
Myotismon nodded. "Yes... she'll be fine..." he smiled down on the beautiful woman once again. "Just fine." Before anyone had started to walk, the married couple hugged their young daughter tightly, and than, everyone else began to stride away from the cottage and through the grassy plains of this world. While the digidestined and the small digimon trailed behind the vampire lord, the beautiful Melissa walked closely beside him, and every now and then, she would look up sweetly to his face.
"Why are you here?" Melissa asked softly to Myotismon, and than looked over her shoulder to the digidestined. "Why are you all here for?"
Myotismon sighed quietly before answering, "I am here, because someone took my wife away from me. I am here to bring her back with me, and than slay the one who did this..."
Melissa blinked at the vampire and than briefly looked down on him. "You are married?" She asked puzzled, and than glanced at his hands. "If you are married, than where is your ring? Your wedding ring?"
Myotismon left his mouth a gap for he did not know what to say. What did happen to his wedding ring years ago? Oh yes... it must have gone away when the digidestined had killed him... those years ago. Ever since then, he had never thought about getting another one. For him and his love, even though, she had lost hers on purpose. From that time, she didn't really love him. "I must have lost it years ago..." The vampire answered under his breath. "I had just lost track of making another one for myself... and my wife..."
Melissa than eyed his chest, "Then where did you get that? That jewel around your neck?" Myotismon raised an eye to the young woman, but than looked down to see a blue, crystal ball around his neck. He parted his lips a little and starred at this small object. He slowly twirled it in his hands.
"I... do not know..." he mumbled silently, and than he looked back at Melissa. "This wasn't around my neck before."
"Did your wife give it to you?"
Myotismon than recalled that Kyle had worn this necklace around her neck. The very same crystal ball she had worn before the vampire had met her the day not so long ago. How did this precious little object get to him? Why was this present with him right now? Will it ever have some importance to the vampire?
"It's very beautiful..." said Melissa softly, and her voice lowered. Myotismon's body shivered some when she clung onto his arm gently. "If you have no ring... would that not mean you are not married?..."
"No... I just have no ring," he answered gruffly to her, "I am still married... no matter what." Oddly enough, Myotismon did not push the young woman away from him, but let her cling onto him even more. Melissa loved the feeling of the vampire being so close to her.
"I want him to be with me..." she spoke in her mind dreamily, and when she looked over her shoulder once more to the children, she shot a dirty grin at them. "No one will take him away from me..."
Author's Note: I'm sorry if this chapter sounded lame, but it did explain some things -- even though, there is still much to explain, but it'll still be told through the rest of the chapters. This chapter would of been longer, but than it would of been one of those lengthy ones, which I want to avoid. So... whatever I would of put in this chapter will be in the next one.
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