Story Title: Ruler of the Shadows
Characters: Ken, Daisuke||Romance: Ken x Daisuke/Daisuke x Ken
Chapter Word Count: 500||Story Word Count: 500||Chapter Count: 1/40
Genre: Supernatural, Romance||Rated: PG-13
Challenge: Diversity Writing Challenge, J8, multichap with more than 25 chapters; One Ship Boot Camp, #31, ancient; Valentine's Day to White Day 2016, day #13, drabble novel about your OTP (Ken x Daisuke); Advent Calendar 2016-2017, day #7, Diversity Writing Challenge, J8, 25+ chapters; Halloween Drabble Collection Celebration
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.

Daisuke struggled, fingers clutching fruitlessly at the dirt walls as the Digimon dragged him away from his friends. The light vanished, no matter how hard he fought, and the Digimon grabbing him yanked him away.

"V-mon!" he shouted, the word falling flat and unheard. He thought he'd seen his partner coming after him, but getting dragged into a tunnel against his will meant he wasn't exactly sure of anything right now.

"Daisuke!" There he was! "Where are -"

"Take the Digimon to the fortress," a voice interrupted, cold and unyielding and merciless. "Put him in one of the cells."

Daisuke couldn't see anything but from what he could hear, some Digimon he couldn't see had hold of V-mon and dragged him away. He struggled against the one gripping onto him and tried to see who did the talking.

"Who's there? Who are you?" Wait, he knew. Only one person made sense. "Are you the Digimon Kaiser?"

"That I am." That same relentless voice and now it sounded that much closer to him, but he hadn't heard any footsteps. He wasn't even certain of where he was at the moment, other than somewhere very dark. "And you are Motomiya Daisuke."

That sent a small chill down Daisuke's back. He wasn't used to people that he didn't know knowing his name. Especially ones that he was kind of fighting. He didn't know if it counted as 'fighting' if he'd only started the day before.

Light flared all around, not normal electric light or sunlight or moonlight. Pale and sort of blue-ish, and just bright enough so that Daisuke could see a corridor in front of him, where the earth tunnel became steel walls.

Far too close to him stood a tall, slender figure, most of his face hidden behind a strange mix of a visor and a pair of oversized sunglasses, wrapped up in a blue and white uniform with a flowing cape.

"Who dresses you?" Daisuke wanted to know. The Kaiser bared his teeth and the first thought on Daisuke's mind was that that was supposedly a smile.

The second one came slipping out on the heels of his first question. "Why do you have fangs?"

"I would think that even you could understand why. Have you ever known a vampire who didn't have fangs?"

"Never known a vampire at all," Daisuke retorted, trying not to remember a certain time when he was a child…

The Kaiser stepped closer and set his hand against the curve of Daisuke's jaw. "You and I have a great deal to discuss. You're trying to interfere in my game and I refuse to have that."

"Game?" Daisuke tried to shake his head, but that grip kept him from moving. "Look, just let me and V-mon go and stop trying to conquer this world and that's it."

He couldn't speak after that. The Kaiser's grip tightened, his eyes too large and too dark and too enthralling. "Motomiya Daisuke. Shut up."

Against his will, Daisuke shut up.

To Be Continued

Notes: I can't keep away from KaiDai. And I don't really want to.