They arrived in a house in the Koromon Village but something was wrong.
"Why is everything so quiet?" whispered Akio.
"Maybe everybody's asleep," replied Hotaru.
"No," murmured Yasu, "Something's wrong . . . right, you guys stay here, I'll be right back."
"Yasu, wait," said Hayato, too late, Yasu had already slipped out the door with Dracomon.
Yasu froze as he stepped out into the village it had been laid to waste everything had withered.
"N-no way . . ."
Dracomon curled his lip, "Diseased Digimon, it's Wither again . . ."
Yasu fell to his hands and knees, "It's only been a day, . . . and now, the Koromon and Botamon . . . Dhampirmon, . . . they're all gone . . ."
"Yasu . . ."
". . .We can't let this continue . . . even if it kills me I swear . . . I swear, I will defeat the people who caused this . . ."
"Yasu . . ."
The others were standing in the doorway behind them now, but Yasu didn't seem to realize that they were there, tears had fought their way to his eyes and were streaming down his face.
Suddenly, Yasu felt that all too familiar dizziness and his vision began to go dark again, No, not now.
His vision faded back to normal for a moment then suddenly went black and he passed out again.
Yasu found himself back at the pool the sense of hatred and fear rushing over him again, the fear much stronger then it had been, but now the image of AOD in the water was gone.
"Huh?"
"Do not fear, Pulse, all is not at an end, . . . look, see what has happened since you have been gone."
"What?" Yasu turned back to the pool, and the water's surface changed to a scene of a young man with blond hair with two digimon, one looked like a large, black snake and the other appeared to be a giant, bipedal rabbit, walking down towards the Koromon Village. As they neared the village, the young man stopped and the snake digimon stopped with him, "Sebastian?"
"Let's let the diseased handle this one, go, Antylamon."
The rabbit like digimon leaped down on the village and within the next few minute everything was laid to waste, the young man smiled, "Ah, how beautiful, eh, Boitamon?"
"Mm . . ."
The scene faded out and Yasu lowered his face to the ground, "A false digidestined?"
"Yes, do not be sad though, many of the young digimon escaped thanks to Dhampirmon's bravery, though he lost his life for it, he will forever be honored, . . . this is the last time I will visit you, I have no more strength to fight the barrier between us but soon, soon, Pulse, come to me . . ."
Out from the darkness stepped a tall black haired humanoid digimon, his face was hidden by a black mask with no markings, two large, white wings attached to his shoulders, his armor was black but the cloth holding the armor together was white, and a red cloth circled his throat and swirled around his body as if it had a mind of it's own, "I am Mastemamon."
Yasu woke up in the house that he and the others had appeared in when they returned. He sat up slowly and looked around. Dracomon was the only one in the room with him, the rookie digimon was sleeping soundly, but as Yasu stood he raised his head, "You're awake."
"Y-yeah."
"You okay?"
"I'll be fine in a few minutes."
"The others are all outside, shall we join them?"
Yasu nodded.
Outside the rest of the group had been setting up camp and gathering food. As Yasu walked up Yuuki glanced over from his place tending the fire, "You okay? You've done that to us twice now."
Yasu sat down beside him, "Three times actually, and, yeah, I'll live, just . . .," he stared into the fire quietly for a long moment, "Well, it won't happen again for a while . . ."
"Mm."
Silence reigned for a long time then the others came back with food, water, and more fuel for the fire.
Hayato came and sat down with Yuuki and Yasu, then called the others over while the food was cooking, "Alright, we need a plan."
Hanako fell over in surprise, "What made you so responsible all the sudden?"
"Well, I am the oldest and . . . stuff . . . anyway, where should we go from here?"
There was silence for a moment, then Yuuki spoke up, "I think we should go find this 'Gennai' person, I mean he sent, Dhampirmon and Firamon to us to help us, maybe he can tell us more and besides . . . we should tell him what happened here."
"Sounds good, but how do we go about finding him?"
"Maybe the digivice knows something, it seems to do everything else."
"Who knows . . . I can't figure the thing out."
"Maybe there's a way we can contact him from here?"
"Hm, but how?"
Yuuki took out his digivice and looked at it, pressing the button to bring up the map, "Okay, so here we all are, right in the middle of nowhere, and . . . Er, we need someone to tell us what we have to do!"
"Mm," said Hanako, "We can't just wander about randomly like we did before."
Yasu leaned back and looked at the sky, he sighed, "Hanako's right, but we can't just sit here either, so let's try to make an educated guess, hm, Yuuki, you're the only straight A student here, where do you think Gennai is?"
Yuuki glared at him for a moment, then sighed and looked down at his digivice, ". . . does this thing have a projection device?"
He pressed a couple of different buttons until suddenly the digivice's screen glowed and projected the map in the air, "Cool! Now, let's see, this would appear to be an ocean, this is where we are, look, there are markers for where we've already been, sweet, but, . . . uh . . . let's see, I'm guessing this marker that's blinking over here," he pointed to a place on the map that was several miles south of Firamon's cave, "is something important, and there are a few Xs that probably mark the places that have been destroyed like this place, hm . . . I think if we head towards the blinking marker we may find out something or other and that seems as likely a direction as any to find Gennai at, though why the guy didn't just come to meet us when we first got here is a mystery to me . . ."
"See, I knew we could trust you to figure something out."
Yuuki nodded, "Well, let's get some rest then we'll head out, tomorrow."
"Right."
Author's Comments
No, cute digimon were harmed in the making of this fan fiction! . . . but this is one of the reasons this story is rated T.
Yuuki shows us why he's a straight A student, he hated every minute of it, and Yasu is swearing . . . I love this story, don't you?
To be continued . . .