"tailmon? hikari?" they were curled up on the floor sleeping when he went in he immediately made a more conscious effort to stay quiet not that he ever made much noise. He put down the food and silently sat down against the wall in order to wait for them to awake.

It was hikari who woke up first

"wizarmon?" she said sleepily

"yes, I brought you food"

"I'm glad you're alright"

"I'm fine, can I help you at all? Are you hurt?"

"no I'm not only tailmon got hurt"

"yes that was my fault"

"don't be stupid-"

"it was I moved and an attack meant for me hit her"

"that's an accident" said hikari trying to console him

He walked over to tailmon who was still asleep

"may I?"

"you don't need to ask…"

wizarmon knelt down and moved his hands in several different patterns over tailmon the wounds she had were closing before hikari's eyes

"I'm sorry I'm not at full power"

"you're fantastic" wizarmon blushed and looked away "can you explain to me wizarmon?"

"I will try" he said "I don't know how but everyone has come back and we came back in the digital world, it was maybe to be expected digimon are normally reconfigured and end up as an egg, its rare you actually die, I thought I had that it was the nature of vamdemon attack and that I was in the human world that meant I didn't" he swallowed thinking he was talking too much before carrying on "but I came back in this form, everyone came back in reverse order, at first we were very weak I am still so I only came back two days ago"

"and they haven't allowed you to gain much strength?"

wizarmon shuck his head "the opposite is true, I was captured and now I must serve vamdemon, he's the strongest but he's not full power yet"

"so now would be a good time to attack him" came a voice from the doorway

"taichi how did you get out?"

"I blew a hole threw the door!" said agumon coming into view

"lets go get the others"

wizarmon frowned "wait" he said "are there no guards?"

"none place is deserted"

"come on" said hikari tugging his arm "while we have the chance"

"no, its too…easy"

"wizarmon's right" said tailmon coming to stand next to her friend "he's testing you" she said to him, wizarmon's eyes widened

"he expects me to free you?"

"of course" exclaimed hikari "you're right it has to be a test"

"and I'm guessing he's waiting outside the exit to this part to see what you do" said taichi

wizarmon nodded

"you will have to do what you would do if you really were a loyal servant" said tailmon quietly

"there's no other way" agreed taichi

wizarmon hung his head

"er….what are we going to do about the door" piped up Agumon

"I'll shut you in here for now and tell vamdemon" decided wizarmon "after I give everyone else there food"

"right" said taichi

"I will see you all soon"

wizarmon shut the door locking it behind him and sighing

He moved into the next cell

***

"takeru?"

"wizarmon!" takeru stood "thank god you're okay"

"I'm fine, are you?"

"yes, yes. But patamon?"

wizarmon looked away "I don't know, nothing has been decided yet. The original base was

for bait to get the rest of you here I don't know what he'll do now"

takeru nodded he looked worried

"I'm sorry, I brought you food" he added

"its not you're fault"

"and I can't free you right now we think vamdemon is waiting for me to do that"

"fair enough, that way we can get out when its unexpected"

"I must go, I will try and tend to patamon"

"thank you"

***

"v-head butt" wizarmon was knocked to the floor as he entered the next cell he hit the ground hard and was winded. He was then grabbed roughly by the front of his cloak his hat falling off his head and shuck violently

"tell us how to get out of this castle!" diasuke was yelling

"please…."wizarmon managed to gasp, struggling for air "listen….I was" he coughed hard "at…the TV…station"

"what?" diasuke was confused

"I'm…tailmon's friend"

"wait diasuke I recognise him, he was the ghost"

"ghost? what ghost?"

"you were the ghost who gave us the warning right?" wizarmon nodded "but you're not a ghost now?" he shuck his head

"everyone's come back" he was getting his breath back "please listen I'm doing my best I can't free you yet, there's no chance of escape, vamdemon is expecting it"

"so your just going to leave us here!" yelled diasuke

"I'm sor-" he was cut off by the sound of hikari's voice through the wall

"diasuke stop giving him such a hard time"

"er…okay hikari" he let go of wizarmon who immediately retrieved his hat, feeling exposed and less safe without it, then his staff

He bowed then handed a package of food to veemon who's eyes lit up before leaving the cell

***

In the next cell were all the digidestined who had been captured outside luckily this time sora and koushiro were able to explain who he was and after he filled them in on what had happened to bring them all back he left.

***

He walked down the eerily quiet cells corridor and out in to the next one also mysteriously deserted he went to open the door at the end and found it to be locked. He spun round his heart racing the corridor was still deserted suddenly he felt vamdemon claws at his throat

"that took you long enough" he hissed

wizarmon cast his eyes downwards "I'm sorry lord vamdemon" he said quietly "I will do my work more quickly in future" vamdemon laughed slightly

"good, one more thing" vamdemon claws closed round the clasp on wizarmon's cloak "I'm in need of blood" wizarmon swallowed fear gripping him he was trembling violently he felt the clasp on his cloak break and it fell away from his shoulders his hat was knocked to the floor again he looked away trying to hide his face he shut his eyes bracing himself vamdemon closed his hands one around each of his arms more or less holding him up already he felt vamdemon fangs pierce his skin and he screamed in pain his legs buckling. The pain was unbearable he momentarily lost consciousness.

When he awoke he had been thrown to the floor vamdemon was wiping blood off his lips.

wizarmon realised he was as weak if not weaker than when he first got back to this world he then realised that this was probably the idea and this was part of his punishment. vamdemon thankfully left, unable to move he curled up on the floor where he was once again losing consciousness

***

"wizarmon! wizarmon!" he awoke to an urgent whisper

"tailmon what are you doing here?" he asked weakly

"I heard you screaming so I picked the lock in the cell, it took me ages but they're yet to find a lock I can't pick, he drank your blood?"

He nodded, she reached for his cloak and hat and handed them back to him he put them on gratefully feeling safer with most of his face covered

"thank you"

"I must return"

"I know" she put her arms round his arm for a moment before slipping into the darkness

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