DAY 3 PART 2

"You mean you've never decided on going to his house to check on him?" the boy asked Veemon as Davis' house was in the distance.

"No, we've been busy with he missions." he replied. They all stopped at the front door.

"Alright listen." the boy said facing the Digimon. "They can't see you nor hear you so I don't want you two doing something that would distract me OK?"

They nodded and he knocked on the door. Davis' mom answered it and told him that her son and his friends were in Davis' room. The boy thanked her and went over to the room; she didn't notice Veemon and Gatomon behind him.

All eyes were turned on him when he opened the door. Everyone was there and they seemed to be waiting for him. At the sight of their partners, Veemon and Gatomon wanted to grab their attention but then remembered that they weren't supposed to.

"Nice to see that you're all here." the boy said and he approached Tai. "I'm Yoshiya Kiryu but you can call me Joshua."

He extended his hand expecting Tai to shake it but the latter just looked at him. Joshua retracted his hand and said: "None of you trust me. Good thinking; even I would've done that."

"Are you a DL? Gabumon and Palmon told us all about you guys and the games." Tai said.

"I'm not one of them. I'm here to help." Joshua replied.

"I don't buy it." Palmon said. "If you want us to trust you then prove it."

At this point, Joshua smiled slyly and faced Kari and Davis. "Your partners were the one that were recently killed right."

"Yeah." They said with a nod.

"Well, I've been keeping an eye on them."

Davis and Kari seemed more interested and Kari said: "Really, are they OK?"

"Oh yes they're fine. In fact," he gave the biggest smile of all. "They're right behind me."

This shocked everyone even Veemon and Gatomon. Davis checked behind Joshua expecting his partner to be there but found nothing.

"Oh yeah, we can't see them. So how do we know if your bluffing?" Davis asked.

"True you can't see nor hear them." Joshua said smiling again. "Unless I do this."

He pulled out a stick of dark red chalk. With it, he drew a strange symbol on the wall: a dark red tattoo skull with two bones crossed under it. The skull flashed and when it cleared Veemon and Gatomon were visible to their friends.

"N...No way..." Davis said quietly.

Veemon looked around until finally realizing that Davis was looking right at him. "Y...You can see me?"

"Hell yeah I can see you!" Davis shouted and Veemon raced into his arms while shedding tears of joy. A similar thing happened to Gatomon and Kari who also had tears in her eyes. Everyone else went over to them and exchange cries of delight at their return.

Davis looked right at Joshua. "Thank you Joshua."

"You're welcome. Now can we get to the matter at hand?"

Everyone settled down and Joshua began to speak. "Alright, tell me what you know and I'll tell you what I know."

"Well, here's what we know so far." Izzy began. "The guys running the games are called the DL's or Demon Lords, seven powerful Digimon who think it's fun. This is actually the second week of the games and Gabumon and Palmon here won the first week."

"Well, to me it started not too long ago." Joshua began.

Flashback

" Joshua, I need you to get to Odaiba."

"Hm? Whatever for Mr. Hanekoma?" Joshua asked in turn.

"The games have started there. I don't know how but I need you to investigate. Look for a group of kids called the Digidestined; they should help you out."

"Alright, you can count on me."

End Flashback

"Alright listen," Joshua began. "This isn't the first time time the games were held. The original games were held in Shibuya with humans as its players. I decided to stop the games in the end and tried to hide the secrets of the Noise but apparently, the DL's discovered it and created their own twisted version of the games."

"Wait, you stopped the games? How?" Matt asked.

"I became the Composer in other words, the ruler of the games." Joshua answered. "So it can be understood that these games have a Composer too. If you become the Composer like I have..."

"You can end the games for good." Izzy finished.

"The only way to be the Composer is to beat the old one but that's easier said then done." Joshua continued. "Just being the Composer give you incredible power and topped with the fact that he isn't even human. But they haven't learned all the secrets of the job like this symbol that make players visible when they enter a building."

"So what now?" Kari asked.

"I'm going to go get more info on the DL's." Joshua said walking towards the door. "Once I find out where their base of operations is, I'll contact you guys. In the meantime," He looked at Veemon and Gatomon. "Good luck with the rest of the games."

With that, Joshua left the room. There was a few second of silence.

"Hey," Veemon said as he looked at his hand and saw the timer vanish. "Looks like someone else finished the mission."

"Hey Gatomon, what're you entry fees?" Gabumon asked.

"Entry fees?" she asked confused.

"You weren't told about them?" Palmon asked. "Before a player enters the games, something very important to them is taken away and they can only get it back if they win."

"Well I guess that explains where my tail ring went." Gatomon showed them her tail.

"What about Veemon? What was taken from him?" Palmon asked. Gatomon looked over to Veemon and saw him having a serious discussion with Davis.

"He doesn't remember me." she answered quietly. "I think his memories of me were taken."

"Oh...But d'you know what that mean?" Gabumon asked. "It means you're really important to him."

Gatomon had never considered that though before. And before she could say anything else about it, she suddenly fell to the floor; Veemon did the same.

"What's going on?" Kari asked alarmed. Everyone else was.

"It's alright. It's OK; they just blacked out because today's mission's over. Now they're going to be transported somewhere and will wake up tomorrow." Gabumon explained.

True enough, Veemon's and Gatomon's bodies glowed white and then vanished. Davis looked at the spot and where they were and said seriously: "Take care you two."