Digimon: Finding Lost Souls
Chapter 6: A Way 'Home'
Place: Kingdom of Souls
"Lady Harmony, Lady Harmony!" Gantza came running into the room. "Lady Harmony, the Crystal Sphere is acting up! It's glowing on it's own!"
Lady Harmony was shocked. The only reason the Sphere would act up would be if… "Start a search spell and prepare a portal."
"Very well, My Lady, but what are we looking for?"
"The children…"
Place: Realm of Broken Dreams
"Important to your sister?" Kari asked. "But we only met you today! I don't even know who your sister is!"
"Oh, we've met before, although we weren't properly introduced… But that is neither here nor there. You must understand, I have nothing against you personally; you're just the means to an end. You see, my sister would suffer greatly if you died, and causing her pain is my greatest…what is this!"
Discordia stared off into the darkness. Turning around, none of the children could see what she was looking at, until a white dot appeared about fifty meters away. It grew larger, becoming a large doorway. Discordia screamed profanities as the door began to shrink slowly.
"I'm guessing that door's our way out," Ryo said.
Koji grabbed his brother and started running. "I think I actually agree with you this time." The rest of the children took off as well, quickly overtaking Koji and Kouichi.
"Koji, I can run by myse…" Koji felt his brother's arm slip from his hand and turned around. Kouichi was picking himself up after tripping from being pulled along by his older brother. Koji ran back to help him up.
"Kouichi, watch out!" he yelled, pushing his brother back onto the ground, only to be grabbed by Discordia. "Run, get out of here!"
The other six had stopped running when they heard Koji shout, and Ryo and TK ran back to help. Koji pointed at them as best he could and said, "Get my brother out of here already!" They grabbed Kouichi by the arms and pulled him toward the door, which was over halfway gone. When everyone else was through, Ryo turned back.
"If you run back here, I swear I'll hit you!" Koji was NOT in a good mood. He was still fighting the psycho lady and had no time to focus on Ryo too. Ryo hesitated but knew all he would do was get in the way, so he turned and ran through the portal just as it closed. Koji smirked, but stopped as he saw Discordia's expression.
"They'll be back. After all, I have you, don't I? And even if they don't come…well…we'll just have to go to them, now won't we?" Then she placed her hand on Koji's face.
Koji screamed.
Place: ?
"Where are we?"
"I don't know, Zoe, but if you tell me then we'll both know."
"Ha ha, very funny Takuya. What about Koji?"
Ryo winced. "He didn't make it."
Tears started running down Kouichi's face, and the other's stood there in silence for a while until Kari pointed toward a village across the field. "There's a town over there. Maybe they can help us…" All seven children began walking, Kouichi crying the whole way.
Place: the unknown village
As the children came into town people stopped working to stare. One man approached them.
"By the spirits, you're alive! But what are you doing here? Why aren't you at the castle? And where is the Lord of Strength?"
The children looked at one another, none of them knowing who this "Lord of Strength" was. "I think you have us confused," TK said. "We've never met, and we've certainly never been here before. In fact, if you could tell us where we are…"
"Never been here before! Of course you ha…"
"That's enough, Harets. You forget they've lost their memories." The children looked over in surprise as a young redheaded woman walked toward them. The villagers backed away and bowed. Again TK bravely asked the questions.
"Excuse me, but who are you? And where are we?"
The lady smiled sadly. "I am Lady Harmony and this is West City, located in the Kingdom of Souls. Where the Kingdom is at is a tricky question, but, simply put, it is one of the many worlds that exists side by side with the Human World. I have waited two years for this day. You don't know it yet, but the seven of you are finally home."