OoC: Hey, y'all!! I've been back from Spain for a while now, but I've only just now started to get back into my daily rhythm, which is why this update has taken so long. I hope that a lot of people are still with us, because this is the point where it starts to get good...

Chapter 6: Sealing of Fate

"Honestly, Master, I had no idea that those Dark Masters had taken your castle. If I had known that they would do that to us, I would never have..." Phantomon ranted, but he was cut off by Myotismon.

"I don't even want to hear it, Phantomon!! Once we have the real world under our control, we will have more than enough resources to deal with them. If I hear you so much as breathe their names before then, I'll have your head, do you understand??" Myotismon growled, conjuring up a Crimson Lightning attack in his hand to make sure Phantomon did, in fact, comprehend what was being said to him.

"Of course, Your Excellency," Phantomon demurred, bowing gracefully. "Now then, my forces are ready to move out as soon as you give the word."

"Good, but first I have some unfinished business to deal with in the form of those Digi-Destined brats. Once they're out of the way, I'll give you the signal. In the meantime, though, I probably will require some of your troops-the better to cut off any of them who might try to escape," Myotismon replied, opening a portal to the real world as he did.

"As you wish, Master," Phantomon smiled, directing a small detachment of troops through the gate that Myotismon had formed and that he and Hikari had just stepped through themselves.

Meanwhile, courtesy of a few obvious clues that Myotismon had left to lure in the Digi-Destined, the Seven Chosen Children were ready and waiting for Myotismon. "Ah, I see that you brats picked up the clues I left for you," Myotismon laughed derisively, readying a Grisly Wing attack to catch the Children off-guard.

"Yeah, and leaving those clues will be the last mistake you ever make, Bat Breath!! Now, if you're smart, which we all know you're not, you'll give me back my sister right this minute!!!" Tai spat back, getting his Digivice ready.

"Far be it from me to deny a dying wish," Myotismon growled, which was Hikari's cue to come all the way through the portal.

"What??? That can't be my sister!!! My sister is a little girl!!!" Tai protested, even as Hikari batted him aside with one hand.

"Did you learn nothing from your time in the Digiworld??? 24 hours of your time ago, I sired your sister as my vampire bride and sent her to the Digiworld under Phantomon's care so she could be trained and mature inside one of your days-and soon you shall all join her in servitude!!!" Myotismon roared, lashing at Tai with a Crimson Lightning attack, which he barely dodged.

"You monster!!! You're going down!!!" Tai rashly swore, activating his Digivice and Digivolving Agumon to Greymon.

"Is that all you've got??? GRISLY WING!!!" Myotismon, sending a flood of bats which, tai dodged, but which hit Greymon head-on, hurting him badly.

Meanwhile, the other Digi-Destined were busy with the contingent of Bakemon that Phantomon had sent to assist Myotismon. Mimi and Togemon, in particular, were not faring well; Mimi had been caught early on by a Zombie Claw attack, while Togemon was slowly being torn apart by the Bakemons' sheer numerical advantage. Noticing this, Jyou threw himself in the path of an oncoming Zombie Claw attack, which hit him straight in the heart, causing him to crash down at her feet.

"Jyou, you idiot!! Why did you do that??? Enough of us will probably die as it is," Mimi wept, knowing quite well that the attack would have killed her and would kill Jyou in a matter of moments.

"As long as you're alive when it's all over. I'll know my life was worth something," Jyou breathed out painedly, as his eyes glazed over in death and his joints entered rigor mortis.

"NO!!!! YOU CAN'T BE DEAD!!! YOU CAN'T BE!!! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!!!!" Mimi wailed, hardly noticing either that a quartet of Bakemons were carting her off to Myotismon or that Ikakkumon had also and was being deleted even as she wailed.

"Now just WHY are we doing this again??" one of them asked.

"Orders straight from Myotismon-we are to bring him all the females from the group," another one explained.

"Well, then, one of us might want to deal with THAT when we're done here," a third said, motioning to the now-Digivolved Togemon's Ultimate form, Lillymon.

Soon, Mimi found herself in front of her nemesis. "Oh, yes, my dear, you, Hikari, the others, and I will have such times together," Myotismon leered, wrapping his right arm around Mimi's waist and his left across her shoulders as he started to feed on her. Mimi had always imagined that having two sharp objects pierce your carotid artery and suck your blood would be a singularly painful experience, but she found it surprisingly painless, pleasurable even, that same warm feeling that she felt around Yamato or the late Jyou. The thought of Jyou made her struggle against Myotismon for a bit, but the unceasing waves of awe-inspiring pleasure drowned any thoughts of anything else. Before Mimi could comprehend what was happening to her, her eyes glazed over for a bit as though she were dead, but her mind was still functional. A few short moments later, she awakened as though out of a trance and felt a strange new connection to Myotismon that she had never felt before.

Soon after, Mimi realized that she wished to spread that rapturous pleasure to Lillymon and Yamato, but Myotismon held her back very gently with his embrace. "It is not time for your first feedings yet, darling, but soon we shall all be together again," Myotismon cooed into Mimi's ear, which would have made Hikari supremely jealous if she had seen the event. However, she- along with a squadron of Bakemon-was busy with Takeru and Angemon.

Though Angemon was still faring well against the Bakemon, the wave of reinforcements that resulted from Ikakkumon's defeat would clearly overwhelm him soon, while Takeru was about to be sired by Hikari.

"In a few short years, Takeru, you'll have grown up to be big and strong, and we can spend eternity together. Doesn't that sound fun??" Hikari smiled in her new, fakely sweet way, while caressing Takeru's face and neck.

"Please, Hikari...if you are Hikari...please stop this...why are you serving Myotismon...why???" Takeru pleaded, clearly not understanding that his mortal life was in great danger.

"Join me, and all will be made clear," Hikari purred, sinking her fangs into the little boy she had been such good friends with half a lifetime ago. Takeru felt the pleasure every bit as much as Mimi had; he thought of it as the same sort of pleasure he might feel if his family were back together, the way it used to be. Soon, he, too, entered the brief trance, and awakened from it with the bond he had once felt with Hikari restored with interest.

Noticing this, the Bakemon dealing with Angemon restrained him and brought him down to Takeru for him to feed on. "Please, Takeru, you MUST fight the urge to do this!! What you're serving isn't Hikari, but merely her shell!! Please listen to me, or we will all look back on this day with regret," Angemon begged; however, Takeru would have none of it, and commenced feeding on Angemon. Unlike the humans, Angemon felt excruciating pain during this, because being a celestial was a part of Angemon's very programming, and the feeding was changing that programming. Nevertheless, Angemon was just as unable to fight back as Takeru had been, and quickly joined him in immortality.

Meanwhile, Myotismon had released Mimi to bring Yamato and Lillymon into the fold. Angemon did his newly-assigned part in this: "HAND OF FATE!!!" The attack weakened Lillymon to the point where she could no longer fly, and she landed, barely conscious, in Mimi's waiting arms. Yamato, too, was waiting for Mimi; he had been isolated from the others, and even WereGarurumon was not able to last forever against a torrential wave of Bakemon. After they had dealt with WereGarurumon, the Bakemon brought Yamato to a predetermined staging area, where he would await his inevitable fate at Mimi's hands.

"My God, Mimi, just tell me what's going on here," Yamato gasped in fear, knowing only that something had gone terribly, terribly wrong.

After she had finished feeding on Lillymon and Lillymon had reawakened an immortal, Mimi addressed this request. "What's going on here?? There is a new order upon us, and the master has plans for it that involve you," Mimi whispered into his ear, straddling his waist and bending down to kiss him, a kiss he was helpless to fight back against, since Mimi had him pinned to the ground. "Now close your eyes, and in a short while, you'll wake up and all of this will be a bad dream," Mimi smiled gracefully, bending down again and piercing Yamato's neck ever so gracefully. In a few moments, Yamato felt the fear and dread he had previously felt wash away in the euphoria that came into him through Mimi's fangs. Soon after, his eyes awakened, and, as Mimi had predicted, his past life seemed like a distant, fading dream, and after Mimi got off of him, he eagerly got up to join Mimi in this new life.

That left only Taichi, Sora, and Koushiro against the legions of Bakemon and their newly-sired former friends. "You might as well give up, Tai-one of your friends is dead, and three of them have joined the new order that I am forging!!" Myotismon cackled, cheerfully finishing Greymon off with a lash of Crimson Lightning.

"We'll never surrender to you, you monster!!! As long as there is love on this planet, we will continue to fight you!! And if we should fail, someone else will eventually defeat you!!" Sora retorted; however, Myotismon got the satisfaction of vindication when Angemon and Lillymon struck the finishing blows to a badly injured Garudamon: "HAND OF FATE!!!" "FLOWER CANNON!!"

Seconds later, Sora found herself in front of a gloating Myotismon. Myotismon licked his lips in anticipation of his third conquest of the night. Taking her up in his arm, he plunged his fangs into her, and Sora became the latest Digi-Destined to feel that indescribable rapture. However, she fought it long enough to lament her failure: "I'm sorry tat I failed all of us, Tai. This looks like the end for our lives as we know it."

"NO, IT CAN'T BE TRUE!!! PUT HER DOWN, YOU FIEND!!" Tai wept, realizing that his own fate had probably been sealed as well.

Soon, Sora woke up, with none of the regret she had carried in her heart before. In fact, she resented her old life, and wanted nothing more than to please Myotismon and serve his every whim. Myotismon placed her down, and she quickly went towards the stll-weeping Tai.

"What is there to miss about what we'll leave behind, Tai?? Your friends await you-I await you-and we'll never have to be separated again," Sora smiled exuberantly, running one hand through Tai's big hair and the rhythmically up and down his back in an almost massage-like fashion. The still-sobbing Tai did not respond to her entreaties, and Sora then gently pierced Tai's carotid artery with her fangs. Tai Slowly felt all the guilt, the sadness, the regret from his past life fade away and be replaced by a deep happiness he had never felt before. Soon, he entered the trance, and when he snapped out of it, he saw the world through new eyes. Sora knew her work was done, and took her new spawn's hand to guide him into his new life.

Koushiro, meanwhile, waited for the end. He hoped he would be granted an honorable death, rather than the twisted immortality of an eternity of servitude to Myotismon. MegaKabuterimon was still alive, but it was clear that he would not be for much longer-he had sustained much injury and the Bakemon continued to attack him.

Myotismon approached the terrified, angry, ashamed Koushiro and laughed: "So this is how it ends, is it? Here you are, last of the Seven Chosen Children, denied immortality because no Digi-Destined cares enough about you to give you the gift of immortality. Any last requests???"

"I ask only for a quick, honorable death, since that is all I can do to honor the memory of my fallen comrades," Koushiro shot back defiantly, determined to meet the end of his short life with dignity.

"Very well, you have made your choice. I regret slaying such an awesome mind, but you've made that mind up, I suppose. CRIMSON LIGHTNING!!!" Myotismon intoned, bringing the whip straight through Koushiro's neck, severing it from the rest of the body and killing him immediately.

"That was too easy. I can only hope that the rest of Earth offers more resistance," Hikari chuckled, overjoyed at the prospect of being Myotismon's queen.

"Indeed. I must go back to give Phantomon the signal to come through into this world. I shall return shortly," Myotismon replied, jumping through the still-open portal.