Series: Sanguine Bindings||Story Title: Ruler of the Shadows
Characters: Ken, Daisuke||Romance: Ken x Daisuke/Daisuke x Ken
Chapter: 15-40||Chapter: 500||Total: 7,500
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.
Miyako spent the first few minutes after Kaiser took off his glasses and showed who he was trying to pretend that this was some kind of trick. It couldn't be that Ichijouji Ken and the Digimon Kaiser were the same person, let alone that they'd – that he'd – done some kind of weird mind controlling of Daisuke. She barely knew the guy; their sisters were friends and she'd seen him once or twice before they'd both become Chosen – but it just wasn't something she could get her head wrapped around, not yet, anyway.
But all the while, her mind kept putting together other things, things that would be more useful. Kaiser wanted them out of there. He wanted to keep Daisuke. He was a vampire. He stood in a cave, one that kept him protected from the sunlight. There weren't any other Digimon around – not that they could see.
Her mind stumbled over that one and words froze on her lips. "Where are his Digimon?" Miyako murmured, hands tightening into a fist. "He's never anywhere without his slave Digimon, so where are they?"
Kaiser's lips thinned for a few seconds as he pulled Daisuke closer to him. "It's about time one of you noticed. I thought you'd just get eaten and never even see them coming."
As if they'd awaited nothing more than that, Ringed Digimon rose upward from all around, some of them hidden behind thick clumps of woods and high mountain rocks, some just flying down from where they'd circled out of sight.
It took only moments for them to evolve their partners, Holsmon and Digmon and Nefertimon and Pegasumon and -
And V-mon stood there, gaze torn between Daisuke, who still struggled against the Kaiser, and the rest of the group.
"Daisuke, evolve him! You can do it, I know you can!" Miyako shouted, going to leap on Holsmon as she did. "You're too much of a pain not to do it! You're going to let him tell you what to do all the time?"
Miyako thought she saw a small twitch of something between Daisuke's eyebrows. She didn't have time to wait and see, because there were more Digimon coming in from above, and she had to take care of those.
But she wanted to have seen it, wanted Daisuke to put this too pretty idiot in his place – she deftly ignored exactly how pretty and how much she'd admired that pretty face not all that long ago – and for all of this battling to end. She wanted to get to know the Digital World the way it should be and not as a war zone.
She bent over and pressed her fingers against Holsmon. They had a lot of fighting to do, and the sooner they got it all done, the better.
The Kaiser wasn't going to give them any chance to win it if he could. She'd never seen this many Digimon in the air before. All they could do was fight.
And win.
Hopefully.
To Be Continued
Note: I want to at least hit everyone's thoughts on this at least for one chapter's worth. Let's see how that, and the fight, proceeds.