Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Saved By Love ❯ Jogress Bond ( Chapter 8 )

Chapter 8: Jogress Bond

Daisuke paced back and forth in his room. His parents were out on some kind of weeklong cruise and his sister was on a school trip. Resulting with him left alone with his thought. Oh he had his Digimon with him, who was currently napping on the bed, but DemiVeemon wasn't good when it came to figuring out a way to communicate with Ken. Daisuke was the only one who was able to communicate with his Jogress partner through their bond. The problem is that Ken needs to be not unconscious.

 

Daisuke was about to do another round of pacing when a sudden hunger followed by the feeling of pain hit. Daisuke fell to his knees as he tried to think through the pain. What's weird about this pain and extreme hunger was that it wasn't his. He had just eaten a large plate of food and shouldn't be hungry. Unless it wasn't him he was feeling but Ken's. This must mean that Ken has finally awaken or at least conscious.

 

Ignoring the pain and hunger, Daisuke sat down on the floor, crossing his legs like a pretzel and closed his eyes. Daisuke cleared his mind, like he had done so many times before, and searched for the link that connected him to the Child of Kindness. After a few moments Daisuke felt a warm and gentle energy. Daisuke smiled and mentally reached out to touch the energy that belonged to his Jogress partner. As soon as he felt the energy Daisuke felt his spirit leave the Physical World, temporally, to enter the mental one.

 

***

 

Daisuke opened his eyes and found himself in the Mental World. Unlike the Human or Digital World, the Mental World is a place spirits go to escape to temporally from their current troubles. The Mental World for a matter of better words is called the Dream World. From what Daisuke knew of this place, the Mental World had the ability to connect people in their dreams or daydreams. The Mental World is also made of pure positive energy, so there is no evil or darkness here, which was a good thing if he was going to find Ken.

 

Daisuke looked around and found himself in a corridor with four doors. Each door had a symbol or symbols on them and a single word under it. The first two doors were his. Both doors had the symbol of the Crest of Courage, Friendship, and Miracles. Under the symbols of the first door was “Dream”, while the second had “Physical”. The other two doors had the symbol of the Crest of Kindness with the same message as his under them.

 

Daisuke floated to the doors that had the Crest of Kindness on them. The door that said, “Dream” would have transported him to Ken's World. However, this door had chains on them, which meant that he wasn't asleep. Daisuke faced the other door that had “Physical” written on it. With this door he would be able to teleport, well his spirit anyway, to Ken's exact location.

 

Daisuke placed his right palm to the door. The door radiated a familiar warmth that reminded him of Ken. As soon as he touched the door the other three doors shimmer away, while the one he was touching began to glow in a blind light. Daisuke shielded his eyes at the blinding light as he felt himself being transported to his friend location.

 

***

 

Daisuke blinked his eyes rapidly as he tried to focus on his new soundings, which was hard considering how dark the room was. Well, maybe not really a room. The room he was currently in was half the size of his own bedroom, with about four candles as the only source of light, from what he could tell. Daisuke scanned the room and noticed that he was in a cell with copper or steel bars. In the far corner there was a boy with navy, chin length, hair and a green caterpillar Digimon. Daisuke got on his knees next to the Virus Digimon. Daisuke watched curiously as the Digimon broke off a piece of the sandwich he was holding and tried to feed it to the boy. Daisuke eyes widen at the sight of his best friend.

 

Ken was pale and slightly skinnier and bony, due to the lack of food and water. His torso was wrapped in bandages, that looked like it needed to be changed and reapplied, and the only clothing he had left on was his silk blue boxers. Daisuke swallowed hard. Ken looked bad. Noted, he felt his Jogress partner's emotions and saw a few images when his friend was being hurt but this was different. They were both asleep when he saw the other images and they were both in the Dream World not the Physical one.

 

Daisuke continued to watch Wormmon feed what little food they had. When Ken finished eating and drinking he stared over Wormmon's head and directly at Daisuke. Ken smiled faintly and asked in a weak, hoarse voice, “Dai?”

 

Daisuke smiled at his best friend. “Hi, Ken. I'm so glad you're awake.” Ken smiled in return.

 

“Ken-chan? Is Daisuke here?” Wormmon asked looking behind him, but seeing no one.

 

Ken didn't remove his gaze from Daisuke when he replied, “Yes, he's here. You can hear him if you tune into him from our bond.” Daisuke watched as Wormmon closed his eyes and took a few breaths.

 

“Hello Daisuke.”

 

“Wormmon can hear me right, Ken?”

 

“Yes I can hear you now Daisuke.” Daisuke fell backwards not expecting Wormmon to reply to him.

 

“Damn Wormmon don't scare me like that!” Daisuke glared at Wormmon, despite the fact that he can't see him.

 

“You do realize he can't see you, Dai?” Ken voice said with a hint of amusement.

 

“Whatever! Where are we anyway?” Daisuke crossed his arms, still glaring at the digimon.

 

“A cell, ” Wormmon supplied helpfully.

 

Very helpful, Daisuke thought sarcastically. Daisuke looked at his Jogress partner, questioning with his eyes. Ken had a very sad look on his handsome features. Daisuke frowned, whatever Ken was going to tell him he knew he was not going to like.

 

“We're in some kind of castle in the Digital World.” Daisuke frowned there was more to the story. “I'm not sure where though. The last thing I remember was that we were passing a forest.”

 

“Wait I think we found the forest you passed. We found your D-3.”

 

Ken smiled. “I thought you would. I tossed it before they could take it from me. What about my crest.” Daisuke frowned. His crest? Now that he thought about it he didn't find the Crest of Kindness or his D-3, only his D-Terminal and cell. Daisuke just assumed that maybe Ken's crest was taken or still in mansion. Wait a minute. If Ken is asking about his crest than he must of dropped it for them to find. If that's the case than… “Damn why didn't we think of that before! You had both your crest and D-3! You left it for us to find it!”

 

Ken chuckled at Daisuke's remake but ended up gasping and moaning in pain from the beatings and rapes he endure at least a week ago, or at least he taught it was a week ago. Fresh tears stun his eyes as extreme pain shot through his spine and back.

 

“KEN!”

 

“KEN-CHAN!”

 

Daisuke rushed to his best friend's side, while Wormmon rushed to the corner of the cell to get supplies. Daisuke bit his lip as he moved his hand to wipe away a tear. Unfortunately, his hand went straight through him. Daisuke huffed in irritation, wondering why his body couldn't be here too, so he didn't have to watch helplessly as his friend suffered. Ken opened his eyes and smiled weakly at him. Daisuke groaned when he saw that Ken was on the verge of passing out from the pain.

 

Daisuke raised an eyebrow when a panicked Wormmon returned with a pretty large bundle of gauze, medicine, wound clean solution, and a whole bunch of other medical stuff. How Wormmon managed to carry all those supplies was beyond him. Scratch that, where in the DigiWorld did he get those supplies anyway? Daisuke looked towards the direction that Wormmon came from and notice a bag overflowing with medical supplies. Where on earth did he get those supplies anyway? Daisuke eyed his friend questionably.

 

Ken winced when Wormmon started to remove his old bandages. Daisuke eyes went wide when he saw the full extent of the damage on Ken's body. Daisuke had known about his previous scars from when he used to live with his mother and father. But Ken's current state was enough to convince Daisuke that Yamato had the right idea to go Bastard Hunting.

 

Along Ken's torso and back were crisscross lashes, probably due from a whip or cane or maybe both. Daisuke watch as Wormmon cleaned the wounds that were still seeping with blood. Oh Ken, what have they done to you? Daisuke remained silent while Wormmon continued to patch up his friend. When he was done cleaning, Wormmon began to rub some kind of ointment on the crisscross wounds and on varies areas that had small circular burns. Daisuke narrowed his eyes in unsuppressed rage. He had an idea on how Ken got those burns and it was not a pleasant thought.

 

Ken saw the way he reacted and immediately pleaded with him to understand, to not overrate and jump to conclusions, to listen to him. Daisuke wanted to protest, wanted to argue that what he was seeing was inexcusable, but there was no time. Ken was slowly losing consciousness. Daisuke only had a moment to hear his friend's last words before he was pulled back from the Physical World and back into the Mental World.

 

“Dai, go to the Dream World.”

 

***

 

Daisuke yelped in pain as he was thrown out of Ken's physical door and into the Mental World. Daisuke rubbed the back of his head that he suspected a bump might be. He winced slightly as the back of his head began to throb from his head colliding with the floor. Damn, spirit transporting can sure hurt; you would think it wouldn't hurt as much since he is well a spirit.

 

The sound of a door closing caused Daisuke to ignore his current pain and looked up at the four doors. Daisuke watched as Ken's door slammed closed, followed by chains wrapping around it. Great, now it looks like he won't be going through that door anymore. Ken is unconscious now. Daisuke sighed and looked at the other doors. Both of his doors and one of Ken's had chains on them. The only one that didn't have chains was Ken's second door.

 

Daisuke thought back to what Ken told him before he was thrown out. “Dai, go to the Dream World.” Ken must be there now. Ken did tell him to meet him there so…

 

Daisuke reached out to touch the door. Just like before the door radiated the same warmth that belonged to his best friend. Daisuke watched as the other three doors disappear, leaving him with the door he was touching. Daisuke moved his hand to the doorknob and turned it. As Daisuke opened the door the sound water can be heard. Smiling to himself Daisuke entered the open door to Ken's dream.

 

***

 

Daisuke looked around and noticed he was at some kind of beach. The beach looked familiar but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. This beach meant something to his best friend, but what?

 

Daisuke shrugged his shoulders when he couldn't answer his own question. He'll just have to ask Ken then. This is his dream after all. Daisuke walked along the beach. There weren't any children around, like normal beaches have, but there were digimon everywhere. On the shore some Agumon and Gabumon were making sandcastles or playing tag, there were a bunch of Gomamon in the water, and there were a bunch of Veemon, Gatomon, and Patamon running around or sleeping. Daisuke smiled, looks like everyone was having a nice time.

 

Daisuke came to a stop when he found the person he was looking for. Lying down on a blanket with a picnic basket next to him was Ken along with their digimon, Minomon and DemiVeemon. Daisuke took a seat next to his friend. Ken look very relaxed and at peace with his surrounds. He looked so innocent; so happy; so adorable. Yes, he just thought his best friend was adorable. Daisuke had always loved his best friend since he first played against his soccer team when they were in elementary school. Daisuke never did believe that Ken was evil. When he played with Ken that day he saw many emotions in Ken's eyes that made his soul want to help him. Daisuke saw a boy who had lost his way, a boy who was filled with anger and hatred and was in so much pain. But there was something else in those violet orbs that he saw that wasn't Ken at all. There was another presence there, a dark presence that was trying to imprison the boy. Daisuke was interrupted from his thought when Ken finally decided to end the comfortable silence.

 

“It's beautiful, isn't it?” Ken eyes were closed when he asked his question. Daisuke studied him before answering. Ken was wearing nothing but blue swimming trunks on his non-scared body. Daisuke frowned sadly; it was a shame Ken could only do this in his dreams. Ken usually avoided going to the beach altogether or simply wore a T-shirt to hide his scars when he and Veemon dragged him along with them.

 

“Yeah, it is. Everyone looks happy.”

 

“Yeah, they are.” Even though the statement sounded positive, Ken voice had a tinge of sadness as he spoke. “Shame it just a dream.”

 

Ken opened his eyes and looked at his best friend. Daisuke hesitated momentarily when he saw sadness and pain in those violet orbs. Does he want to know what Ken has been through? Maybe, it could help them in their search. Is he comfortable that Ken might have to relive those moments? Not at all, but what else could he do? He could always tell Ken not to bother; they'll find a way to find them. Then again, it took them almost two weeks to find Ken's D-3. Who knows how long it would take before they found the mansion? By then it could be to late.

 

“They're…trying…to…break me,” Ken whispered softy as if something bad would happen it he was overheard.

 

“What? What do you mean?” Daisuke asked. He wasn't sure what Ken meant be that.

 

Ken took a deep breath before replying. “They're trying to break my spirit, Dai. They're trying to confuse me, to make me believe that you guys are not coming for me.”

 

“That's not true! We are looking for you!” Daisuke hadn't meant to yell but he couldn't help it. He was really starting to hate this whole situation. When he finds Ken's kidnappers he was seriously going to sick Flamedramon at them. Maybe with Omnimon's help they could stand a chance against this evil digimon and Ken's father.

 

“I know, Dai. It's just so hard to not give in to their lies. Everything hurts so much and the digimon, she's so evil and scary.” Ken paused as he tried to hold back a sob. Daisuke rested a hand on Ken's shoulder, reinsuring him that it was okay, he understood. “She…she's so evil. She can use darkness to…she can use it to attack my mind. I'm forgetting things Dai! I'm forgetting things about myself and I don't know how long I can hold on…” Ken's voice trailed out as he began sob.

 

Daisuke pulled his best friend onto his lap and held him as Ken cried into his shoulder.  Daisuke wasn't sure what to think. Ken was being beaten and raped by his father and on top of that the evil digimon was erasing Ken's memories. At this rate Ken will lose himself and would believe anything they tell him. Daisuke felt his anger boil inside. This was some twisted and cruel way to brainwash someone. He was not going to let this continue if he had anything to say about it.

 

Daisuke loosened his grip on his friend when Ken's tears began to subside after several long minutes of crying. When Ken stopped crying he rested his head on Daisuke's shoulder and stared at him. “Thanks, I needed that.”

 

Daisuke smiled and chuckled lightly. “Looks like I'll be doing more of that when we find you.”

 

Daisuke attempt of trying to lighten up the mood seemed to work when Ken chuckled softly with him. “I guess so. You want to know the rest don't you?” Daisuke froze when Ken asked. Did he want to know? He knew Ken would be hurting reliving those memories. He was not going to put Ken through that.

 

“You don't have to tell me, Ken.”

 

“I'm not going to tell you.” Confused, Daisuke looked into Ken's eyes. There was a spark of determination in his eyes, that Daisuke thought that had been shattered and destroyed by his father, as well as fear. “I'm going to…” Ken lifted his head from Daisuke shoulder and shifted his body into a better siting position. Daisuke felt his eyes go wide when Ken rested his arms around his neck and stared into his eyes uncertainly. “…show you. If that's okay?”

 

Daisuke's shock of what Ken was implying and doing didn't last very long. He felt a spark of hope within him that Ken might have the same feelings for him that he has for Yamato. Daisuke wrapped his arms around his best friend waist, pulling him close. Yamato may have been Ken's soul mate but his bond with Ken was far deeper than that. He couldn't explain how or why he just know. When they first Jogress together he could feel Ken's heart right beside his. It was an amazing feeling that he couldn't describe how amazing it was. After that day Daisuke could always feel Ken's mood swings and just knew things about him that no one else knew. That was the reason why he wanted to be Ken's friend in the first place. His own soul was crying, telling him they were destined to be best friends and even something more. It might not be at the same level as the bond Ken shares with Yamato but it will get there and maybe even beyond.

 

Ken tightens his hold, making it more secure, as he inches closer. Daisuke did the same in turn and pressed his rough lips to Ken's soft ones. An instant spark ignited between the two, making Daisuke giddy with joy as well as fear. Daisuke titled his head a bit, allowing his lips to lock with Ken's slightly parted lips, in order to deepen the kiss. Daisuke loved the texture and softness of Ken's lips. He loved how Ken's lips just seem to fit perfectly over his. He loved the smell of him, his taste; the wonderful sensation that Ken's touch gives him. But he knew that once their souls were linked together he would be able to see everything that had happened to his best friend. The fear in his eyes and the condition of this delicate body made him fear that the situation was a lot worse than he can imagine.

 

As soon as he finished that thought he felt Ken's body begin to shudder. Before Daisuke had a time to react images exploded into his mind. Every memory, every image, every scene was like a movie playing from the moment Ken got kidnapped to the moment he appeared in spirit form to him. Daisuke felt his insides turn into knots as he saw every vile action done against his best friend. But the most frightening thing of all was not the action committed against his friend. No it was worse. It was the image, in full detail, of the mega level digimon. He could see clearly that the digimon was a beautiful fallen angel in a purple dress. She wore makeup and jewelry that made her very beautiful but that was what made her frightening and dangerous.  She was rotten to the core and clearly had every attention of breaking Ken; making him into her personal slave.

 

He felt the digimon's beauty, intentions, and horrible laughter forever imprinted into his mind. It was in that moment when he felt the spirit link sever as he is thruster back into his body. Daisuke eyes shot open and he gasped for air. His eyes were blurred with tears and his heart ached with sorrow and rage.

 

“Dai?” Daisuke looked down to see DemiVeemon hurling himself into his lap and hugging him in a comforting embrace. Daisuke didn't say anything to his digimon. He didn't have to. His digimon felt his distress and acted the only way he knew how. Daisuke picked up his digimon and hugged him close to his chest. Overwhelmed with emotions and pain he began to sob.