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Four: Follow me down

The three gasped in unison. It all sounded too good to be true. Reuniting with the ones they cared about? There must have been some kind of trick.

"What's the catch?" BlackAgumon asked.

"You have to go together or not at all," hooded figure nodded. He pointed to the door behind him and continued. "With those cards you will traverse each of your memories."

Alice winced, there were several of her memories that she knew she wasn't ready to share with anyone. They were her personal bits of Dobermon and even without him she still had them.

"Wait, what happens if we fail?" Wizardmon whimpered.

Hooded figure ignored the mage's inquiry, "Each of you has three that you need to relive and if you all make it through the nine with no problem you will face the final trial." Hooded figure pushed on the door and stepped through. "Follow me if you please."

Alice stepped forward first, resolute in what had to be done. She could hear Dobermon's bark once more all she would have to do was begin a quest.

BlackAgumon stepped forward next, confident that beyond the doors lay the path to finding his one true purpose.

Only Wizardmon moved with trepidation. He was unsure of whether he really deserved to go back to his friend.

***

"Naminé what is that?" Roxas asked slowly. He knew what the sketchbook was and also of the things that usually lie inside, but clarification made him feel so much better.

"It's a drawing that I didn't do," Naminé murmured. She was still shy around people even though she knew everyone present. "I think someone else is about to get trapped in Castle Oblivion."

Sora said nothing even though he knew first hand of what could happen if you got lost in the castle. If its powers began to work on you, memories you slowly fade from your mind until you reached the top and you were completely devoid of the memories most dear to you.

Riku had also been in the castle, but he had been in the basement, working his way up to the top floor. Because of that the effect of the castle was reversed, he was forced to remember things that he would have rather forgotten.

"Do you know who they are?" Kairi asked, breaking the silence.

"No, but I have that feeling I did when Sora went into the castle the first time…" Naminé whispered.

"What feeling?" Sora asked.

"Well, I…knewallofyourmemories," Naminé said as quickly as possible.

The moment that Sora had entered the castle Naminé was loaded with his memories like a deck of cards. That happened because of her tie to Castle Oblivion.

"Can't you use that to figure out who they are?" Sora asked.

"I co-" Naminé started to say, but then she fainted.

"Naminé!" everyone exclaimed.

Of course it didn't matter because one by one the rest of them fainted too.

***

Alice was getting tired of wondering where she was, but it seemed to be the norm for her as of late. She resolved that it was going to be something that she would have to learn to accept, but it still grated on her nerves.

"We're in the digital world," Wizardmon breathed.

BlackAgumon nearly roared, "This isn't the digital world!"

Neither Digimon remembered it being as desolate as the version of the digital world they saw before them.

"It's not our digital world," Wizardmon amended. He turned to Alice, "But maybe it is yours?"

"Yeah, I guess,"

Alice surveyed the land. None of it looked familiar, but it was likely to be apart for the same place that Dobermon had taken her to. When she thought about it when she first came she had been in the sovereign's palace.

"How do you like it?" hooded figure asked from on top of a sandy mesa. "I did find it odd that you would choose to remember this place like this, but hey that's all you buddy."

"Wait a second, you sound different!" Alice shouted.

"Bingo," hooded figure said as he removed his hood revealing a mane of spiky red hair. "The name's Axel, got it memorized?"

I just know that you weren't completely expecting that.

Remember Axel died!