Disclaimer- I do not own Digimon and never will. My fifth grade teacher was right! Life is not fair. ****************************************************** Author's Note- The answer to the question is in this chapter. Do you think you got it right? I bet you did. It was pretty obvious. Sincerely Rose ****************************************************** The Empress Chapter 4 After a few minutes, Yolei decided to get up. It was getting hot in her room. She walked infront the full length and starred at herself. She gasped. Something WAS different. She thought it was the room, but it was her clothes. According to her memory, she went straight to bed in her uniform without changing. Heck, she hadn't even bothered to take her shoes off! She was way too tired after the operation and had gone straight to bed! Now, here she was in a . . . a beautiful, silky, white, sexy night gown. As she starred at herself, she became aware of something. She looked pretty. She twirled around infront of the mirror. She actually looked good. Cool!   Then, another thought struck her. Who had changed her clothes? A Digimon couldn't have done it. No way, hosay! Most of the Digimon here had spirels around them. Maybe Wormmon, but she doubted it. He was small. The only other person in the whole base was _ _ _. She blushed bright red. Partly, because she hadn't quite gotten over her crush yet. The other part was because, she wasn't wearing ANYTHING (A.N. No! Nothing! No under garments, no clothes, no anything, no nothing!!!) under her gown. She then spotted a piece of paper on the table next to her bed. It was balck and gold and had a drawer. Still blushing, she went over and picked it up. Her hands trembling, she read what it said: . . . don't let the bed bugs bite . . . my Empress . . . Yolei stood still, frozen in shock. She read the note over and over again. After she read it for the about the 17th time (note that it was a small note), she put it down. "Mind as well get dressed . . . " she mumbled to herself. She took a shower and found her uniform in the closet. She put it on, picked up a brush, sat on the edge of her bed and started to work out the tangles in her hair. Wanting to read the note again, she picked it up. This time, she noticed something on the back of the page. Curious, she read what it said: If you want to know who changed your clothes while you were asleep, look in the drawer. It was the same hand writing. "Look in the drawer?" Yolei asked herself. She wondered if a Digimon was asleep in there or something. If you want to know who changed your clothes while you were asleep, look in the drawer . . . Yolei slowly opened the drawer and looked inside. She gasped. There was only one thing in the drawer. The Digimon Emperor's dark glasses. Yolei picked them up. "So, it was him," she muttered to herself. She felt the colour rise into her cheeks. Pressing the glasses against her chest, she smiled. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "We have to keep looking for her," Hawkmon said. "But, we have to destroy the control spires first," Davis argued. Kari groaned. "I say that we split up," TK said. "What?!" everybody asked him. "Both jobs are important," TK explained, "we have to find her before the Digimon Emperor gets to her. But, then again, if she goes into an area that's controlled by the Emperor, that's just as bad because there might be lots of Digimon with dark spirels and she doesn't have Hawkmon there to protect her." "And if that's the case, we might end up in the same area as her when we're trying to destroy the spires," Kari added. TK nodded and smiled at her. "It would be a waste of time and for all we know, Ken already got to her and she joined him!" Davis exclaimed. Without thinking, Kari slapped Davis right across his face. Davis stumbled back and put a hand on his cheek. "Kari?" he asked. "Davis, you have gone nuts!" Kari exclaimed, "Yolei would never do that! Even if she did, we'll all know that we're the main reason she did it!" "Yeah, Kari's right," Cody agreed, "if we hadn't said all those things-" "If we hadn't spoken the truth, you mean," Davis interrupted. "That's enough, Davis!" TK shouted, "it's our fault she ran away and you know it! As the leader, you're supposed to be making attempts to find her!" "TK's right," Kari said, "why don't you want to find her anyways, Davis?!" Davis stayed silent. "You know what," he said after a momment of silence, "I'm out of here! Come on, Veemon!" Davis stomped away. Veemon hesitated before saying, "I'm sorry, guys," and following. "What now?" Cody asked. TK was still angry. "TK?" Kari asked. TK glanced at his watch. "It's almost lunch time," he noted, "we have to get back or our families will have a fit because we didn't call them saying that we won't be at home for lunch, so we better get back." "I have kendo lesson after lunch," Cody told them. "That's fine," TK said. He turned to Kari. "We'll see what we can do after lunch," he told her. Kari nodded. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Yolei starred at herself in the mirror. Was it just her or did the colour of her hair get darker? She fingered her hair. Then, she noticed something else. Did her hair get longer or what? It looked like it grew 20cm in the shower. It came way past her back. She had her uniform on. She had put her hair in the same style Mimi had in Season 01, but she took the pony tail out. A black hair band was in her dark, lavender hair. She had found some things in the drawers and cupboards. There were lots of things in the drawers she had already checked. She still hadn't opened most of them. But the ones she had already opened had things like lipstick, nail polish, cream, gel, combs, brushes and other things like that. Most of the things were make up. In the closets were, well, dresses. Lots of them were black and silky with long skirts which came all the way down to the floor. She had added scarlet nail polish and red lipstick. Then, just for fun she sprayed some perfume on herself. The perfume smelt like lavenders. She thought that she looked incomplete, somehow. Then, she knew what to do. She found her Digi-world clothes and looked for something in the pockets. She pulled out a pair of ear rings. They were long. Very long. She put them on. They almost came down to her shoulders. There were like a set of five black wires in each ear ring. The wires were twisted and turned and there were three red jewels in each ear ring. Looking into the mirror, Yolei smiled. A fierce, yet beautiful girl smiled mischieviously and proudly back at her. The girl in the mirror was so cunning. So sexy. So, so . . . perfect . . . Then, she tried to decide whether to get out of the room or stay inside until something happened. She thought that it was kinda stupid to go out on her own because the base was pretty much a maze. It was her first time here and she most likely would get lost. Almost imediatley, there was a knock at the door. "Come in," Yolei said. The door slowly opened and Wormmon crawled in. Once, he saw Yolei, he opened his mouth to say something, but the words just didn't come out. "Yes?" Yolei asked. "Umm, Ken-chan sent me to, umm, get you . . . " Wormmon started to fidget. "Okay, then," Yolei said, slowly, "let's go." "Alright," Wormmon said avoiding her eyes. He led her through a maze of corridors and hallways, until he finally stopped infront a large door. Without knocking, he just pushed it open. Yolei wasn't sure that that was a smart move. She found out that it wasn't. "Wormmon, don't you know how to knock?!" she heard Ken shout. "I, er, um, uhh," Wormmon stammered. "What?!" Ken demanded. He hadn't seen Yolei yet. "Um, here's Yolei," Wormmon said quickly. Yolei didn't hear him say anything. Then, she heard Ken say, "tell her to come in and you get lost." "Yes, sir," she heard Wormmon mutter back. Wormmon came out. "Go in," he said simply and crawled away. Yolei pushed the door open and stepped into the control room. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CLIFFHANGER!!!! This part was short, too. I know. I bet all of youreaders out there are getting annoyed with the short chapters. Well, I'm just so damn lazy and you know . . . I still have to work on a new fic and end it by Sept 20 for a Kaiyako contest and I have no idea what to do! - Rose Silverstein