Series: Sanguine Bindings||Story Title: Ruler of the Shadows
Characters: Ken, Daisuke||Romance: Ken x Daisuke/Daisuke x Ken
Chapter: 8-40||Chapter: 500||Total: 4,000
Genre: Supernatural, Romance||Rated: PG-13
Notes: In the setting of this story, these are the differing points: the Chosen are roughly five years older than in canon, meaning that Ken, Daisuke, Takeru, & Hikari are sixteen, while Miyako is seventeen, and Iori is fourteen. There are some other differences, but those will be revealed during the course of the story. Except for this: this story will involve vampires. It begins in episode 2, once Daisuke's been captured.
Summary: On his second trip to the Digital World, Daisuke is captured by the Kaiser. Time to learn a little about the guy he's just started fighting. Like the fact he has sharp, pointy teeth and a thirst for more than conquest.
Three months. Three months since the day they'd come to the Digital World and he'd acquired Daisuke the day after that. He'd learned so much, enough that he could've taken them all with ease within the first weeks. But the more time passed, the more he decided that he would make their defeat something epic. Something worthy of bards to sing of, if Digimon had bards.
And if there would be any to sing about what happened.
Kaiser made his plans with the greatest of care. He spoke nothing of this to Daisuke; he wouldn't need to know. Daisuke could and did obey him at a single word and that was all that was necessary.
Now the time came.
The Chosen gathered in the Digital World, pounding on one of his towers yet again. He'd already made plans to repair the damage after they left, once he saw who they put in place as the guardian. Sometimes he took a place back. Sometimes he didn't. He would have them all in the end, so whether or not he recovered one right away didn't matter a great deal.
As the spire blew, he reached out toward Daisuke with the bond that tied his servant to him.
Daisuke.
The Chosen watching saw nothing. But Daisuke's head turned a fraction, all of his attention now on his master.
Come to me. They can follow you if they wish, but tell them nothing. I'm in the cave in the next valley over.
Sunlight annoyed him, but so long as he carried his Dark Digivice, it didn't burn him. That, and his visor, helped him conceal his identity and his nature from the Chosen. But he'd long since reached his limit on keeping things from them.
They need to know who it is they're actually fighting. The fear this would spark would, if they were at all sensible, send them out of his world and he would never have to worry about them ever again.
Even better, he would be able to keep Daisuke all to himself after this. He would have to do something about the Motomiya parents and his sister, but that wouldn't be difficult. He'd made up his mind over a week earlier that he would not let Daisuke go back to the human world after this.
What did Daisuke need to go back for, anyway? Everything he needed or wanted was in the Digital World, and most importantly, Kaiser wanted him to stay with him. There wasn't anything else worthy of consideration.
The Chosen did follow Daisuke, which wasn't a surprise. The closer they got, the more he could hear them yelling, trying to get him to talk to them.
"Do you think the Kaiser did something to him?" It was the blond. The one who'd been watching Daisuke a little too closely. Kaiser didn't like him. "Come on, Daisuke, say something!"
Kaiser stood at the entrance to the cave. He saw his pet coming through the trees, and smiled.
Finally.
To Be Continued
Notes: And a major turning point is reached.