So sorry for the lack! I was too busy! Anyway, this is a new chapter.
I hope you like it.
Thank you for the comments, Kaito Lune and May Kat.
Chapter 12: Broken
I'll make him receive all the bad emotions of people. I'll give him more than he can take. Even if this brat is the Heart, in his conditions, he's not going to bear it. I've already lost one arm, and one of my rings is still with my doll. Besides, my power is being taken away quickly. I think I can just use people of this neighborhood. That's more than enough! Traum was thinking. The Heart was still grabbing his leg and stealing his code. The boy was losing blood quickly and his wounds were getting worse. Just a little more, the Heart thought.
Traum concentrated and gathered a good amount of bad emotions and thoughts from the people in the neighborhood. He didn't like to use that power because he couldn't control it and suffered the effects too. But it was all or nothing.
"KOMUNION!" Traum yelled. A massive wave reached the Heart. He was suddenly filled with uncountable number of nasty voices, memories and feelings in his mind. He couldn't deal with all that information in his conditions. Koushiro's brain is going to melt at this state, and I... no! I'm going to make it, no matter what happens to Koushiro, I'M GOING TO MAKE IT!
The Heart released all his energy. The white light glowed brighter than the glowing on Traum's drawn lines. No! Traum felt his body burning. His purple lines were moving towards the boy's body. It can't be! I can't die like this. I CAN'T DIE LIKE THIS!
The light went towards the sky and was seen in the entire city. In the hospital, the people inside Aurélia's room saw it too. Tentomon felt something strange. Yoshie and Masami had just one concern in their minds: Koushiro.
When the light vanished, the Heart was still grabbing Traum. But, then, his arm let him go. The boy didn't move. Traum was still on his feet. The lines which once covered his body had disappeared. A lot of small shining particles were coming undone from his body and fading away. Traum knew he was dying. He fell and hit the ground.
I'm cold. My vision is getting dark. So that's how it is... I wanted to play more, I wanted to laugh more... I wanted to see fear and despair in my doll's eyes. At least, the Heart is going to die with me. That bitch of Unschuld will get so angry... ha! I wonder what she really wanted to do with the Heart... and what is her true connection with him.
Sabine woke up. She looked around, looking for Izzy. But she regretted that when she found him.. She approached the body lying on a blood puddle, slowly, as if she expected she would realize it wasn't Koushiro lying there. But the closer she was getting, more sure she was becoming. When she finally reached him, she fell to her knees.
Blut! (blood), she thought in despair. Sabine tried to stop the, now weak, blood flow that was coming from uncountable wounds. She put her hands on him and pressed the large and deep wound on his chest. Then, she put herself above him, in order to cover the largest number of bleeding that was possible for her. His body was too cold. She barely could feel his breathing, she barely could feel his heart beating.
"Sterben... nicht!" she whispered, as if she was begging, "STERBEN NICHT! KOUSHIRO, STERBEN NICHT!" she began to yell. She hugged him tightly, still putting pressure on his wounds. Traum wasn't believing in what he was seeing.
Flash-back
Earlier, Sabine was in her room when she heard Aurélia yelling and throwing things against the wall. When she came to see what was going on, Auri had left already. But Sabine felt someone behind her. She knew who was.
"You finally came, Mr. Dream." she said without emotion.
Traum smiled.
"You look so much like your mother. I wonder if your mind is like hers too."
Sabine turned around and looked at Traum. Her eyes bothered him. Nobody ever had looked at him with eyes like those. Fearless eyes.
"Aren't you scared?" He asked.
"No. I wanted to meet you." she answered simply.
"You what? Do you have any idea what I'm going to do with you?"
"I think that you're going to torture me and drive me crazy, then you will kill me." Sabine said without hesitation. Traum didn't like that. This girl is weird. Doesn't she fear death or pain?
"Why did you want to meet me?"
"There are things I want to understand. I think you're my best clue."
Clue? How dares she? All right, so! Let's see until when she keeps her pose. I'll make her see her mother's despair, I'll make her feel despair. I can't wait for seeing her crying and with fear in her eyes.
Traum put Sabine in a nightmare and took her to the park. Before that, he went to her bedroom and wrote a little note to Koushiro. I can't forget him, he's pretty interesting too! he thought. He also threw a GPS that was in one of Sabine's pockets on the ground. Good thing I have read that dark-haired boy's memory. I just want Koushiro to find us.
End of flash-back
Traum was fading away quickly, he was still watching Sabine's despair. I tried everything to make her cry like this. I didn't expect she would care about Koushiro so much. It must have happened while she was stuck with him in that place. He was almost vanished, his vision was getting blank. At least..., he thought, I could see this before I died.
Traum disappeared in a white fog. He had died. Sabine wasn't paying attention at him at all. Suddenly, she felt someone approaching. She turned her head and saw a figure wearing a beautiful white coat above a white dress. She had a beautiful face, but Sabine frowned when she saw lines drawn on that face.
"Stay way!" Sabine ordered. She was trying to not move. The figure in her front said gently.
"I came here to help him. If I don't hurry, he'll die."
"You're one of them!" Sabine said disgusted. She felt a touch on her right shoulder. She turned her head and saw Weisheit.
"Don't worry, Sabine." he said, trying to calm her down, "Koushiro is going to be fine now. Leben is here."
"...Life?" Sabine asked. "Yes," Weisheit answered. He offered his hand to help her to stand up. Sabine agreed, but, before, she whispered in Koushirou's ear, once more, what she was asking to him.
"Don't die."
Some minutes later, an ambulance arrived at the park. From it, Dr. Kido and Izzy's parents came out. The rest of the people had stayed in the hospital. The three people saw a shining green sphere with three figures around it. Yoshie almost fainted when she saw Koushiro inside the sphere with his clothes dirty with blood. Masami went pale when he realized the sphere was floating above a big puddle of blood. Koushiro's blood?, he asked himself in panic. Dr. Kido was the one who made the questions, since the couple was still in shock.
"What's going on here?"
Leben ignored the doctor. Weisheit approached him and answered.
"This kid was seriously injured. Leben is healing him."
"I can see that he's seriously injured, I'm a doctor. But what happened?"
"He has lost around 70% of his blood, his Aorta artery and one of his lungs were torn. Several veins in his entire body were crashed. His bones are thin and breaking, his muscles, including the cardiac muscle, are almost in pieces and his brain... I don't even want to start talking about the damage in his brain." Leben said without turning her head. Dr. Kido was speechless.
"This kid... is practically dead." he said. Yoshie couldn't stand that. She started to shake furiously, Masami was hugging her, but he was shaking too.
"My son..." the woman cried, "My little boy... no... no..."
"This can't be!" Masami was crying as well, "I can't lose him. This can't happen..."
"Do you have anything wrong with your ears?" a voice came from behind of them. A thin pale girl with light pink hair in a ponytail and wearing a simple brown dress was coming from among some trees, two other figures were following her. "Master Leben is healing him. She's the lady of life and death of the Digital World, she never fails!"
The three people just stared at her, Weisheit yelled at the figures:
"Persefonemon, Chainmon, Ceresmon! You were supposed to check the area."
"My priority is master Leben, master Weisheit. I was worried that some enemy could appear, so I came back." Ceresmon, the one with pink hair, said.
"I saw her coming towards here, so I followed her in order to not let her get in trouble." Persefonemon said.
"I was bored." Chainmon said simply.
They're digimons? Yoshie and Masami were trying to understand the situation. Leben said a thing to them.
"Your son will be completely healed. He's going to be fine."
The couple felt a deep relief when they heard that. Suddenly, some car's noises were heard.
"Oh no. I think it's the journalists. It's better we leave this place." Dr. Kido said. Weisheit took a sword from under his black coat and put it in the ground, saying "Don't worry, I've already thought about that." A flash appeared and they all were transported to other place. Except the ambulance driver, who had no idea what was going on there.
When they realized, they were in the Izumi's living room, two swords were in the floor. Weisheit took them and put them under his coat again.
"In order to transport us to this world, I sent one of my swords to this place. Since it's connected to my other sword, I can travel through-"
"Master Weisheit, nobody is interested." Persefonemon said. In fact, Dr. Kido was staring amazed how Leben was able to heal the boy's wounds. Masami and Yoshie were watching the process as well, they were deeply concerned. Weisheit noticed that there was a person who hadn't been noticed by the others yet.
"Sabine!" he called her. The others looked to Sabine, realizing there was a teenager girl sitting on the floor with her clothes dirty with blood. Dr. Kido was the first one to reach her.
"Are you hurt too?" he asked, examining her.
"No, it's Koushiro's blood. I was trying to make the blood flow stop." Sabine said with a sad voice, she was looking to Koushiro. Yoshie walked toward the girl.
"You... tried to help my son?"
"Yes."
The woman smiled sadly. She offered one hand to Sabine to help her standing up.
"It's better you take off these clothes and take a shower. I can lend you something to wear."
"You don't need to..." Sabine said. Yoshie interrupted:
"I want to. There's nothing I can do for my son right now, besides believing he's going to be fine." her voiced broke, "At least... I want to do something for you. You can even tell me what happened."
Sabine saw tears in the woman's eyes. She felt that she should agree and go with her.
"OK." Sabine said. Dr. Kido's cell phone rang. "It's Joe! He must want some news," he said. Masami stayed where he was. How did I let this happen to Koushiro? he was thinking, I wanted to take care of him. I wanted to protect him. Even when I try to do the things right, I still can't avoid... the man looked to the ground, tears were dropping from his eyes, Please, don't die, Koushiro. I beg you, don't die. I... I love you... son... I'm sorry.
Weisheit was looking to Masami. So that's Shunsui's cousin? The one he tried to call that night?
Izzy saw himself in a dark and cold place. He had been there for a long time. He couldn't see anything in that moment. That made him glad. "It's over... it stopped...," he whispered to himself. But soon he felt the feeling again, things were becoming clear around him and he could hear that voice saying happily "time to play. Time to see my doll." How many times did Izzy hear that voice? How many times did he see through Traum's eyes? He had seen Traum toying people and killing them for what looked like years. He didn't know what was happening, the last thing he remembered was being attacked by Traum in his inner world. He wondered if he was still in that place. It seemed to be Traum's mind, Traum's memories. Where could be Sabine? Izzy didn't expect to see her in his front so soon.
"...Sabine?" he asked when he saw a woman in an empty white room. No, it couldn't be Sabine, the woman was an adult. But she was identical to the German girl Izzy knew. That place... Izzy remembered how Sabine had described her inner world, it was like that place. The woman seemed scared, she was staring at Izzy. But Izzy knew it wasn't him who she was seeing. He heard that voice again:
"Maria Rose Weiss. My beautiful doll. I missed you."
"Stay away, Mr. Dream." The woman begged. "Please, leave me alone."
"Leave you alone? How could I do such a thing? I enjoy your company so much. I've been visiting you every day for six years, I gave you a little break and you already wish to be left alone?"
"The doctors... they said that I could return home... I saw my little girl, Sabine is so beautiful. All I could do was cry and hug her, I didn't say anything... I waited for that moment so hard..."
"Heh, I shouldn't have left you alone for a week. It's what I gain for wanting to have fun with other dolls. Well, now we should continue."
"Mom..." a voice was heard in that place. Izzy recognized that voice, even if it sounded a bit different because it was a six years old girl who was talking.
"Sabine!" the woman said with tears in her eyes. "She's with me again."
"Don't be stupid!" Traum said, "She doesn't know you can hear her. For her, it is like talking to a vegetable."
Sabine continued, Izzy couldn't say from where that voice was coming, but it seemed to give hope to the woman in his front.
"Mom, I came here again. These days, you acted weird. You hugged me. You were looking right into my eyes. I'm scared, I don't know what's going on or what it means. The doctors said you're getting better, you even can go home. Is this really true, mom? I can't say how it's going to be... I never talked to you. I don't know anything about you besides what people say to me. I wanted to... mom... can you hear me? You're not looking at me today. Do you know I'm here? Do you know... who I am? You must not know... or maybe you know and don't care. Nobody cares anyway. My father says to me all the time that I only exist to bother people. If you can hear me now, am I bothering you? Have I bothered you all this time? I don't know why I come here... I think I'm just being selfish, I don't have other people to talk... but it's not like we ever had a conversation. You're just a stranger to me and I am a stranger to you. But you hugged me and cried. Did you know what you were doing? What did that mean? It felt strange. Mom, please, say something to me. I need to hear something. Please."
The woman started to cry: "SABINE! I'M HERE FOR YOU! I ALWAYS HAVE BEEN HERE FOR YOU! I ALWAYS HAVE LISTENED! You... you're the only thing I care about. I love you, Sabine."
"It's useless. She can't hear you, you fool!" Traum laughed, what made Izzy feel hatred as he never felt before. Sabine's mother was crying quietly. Traum wasn't satisfied with that.
"Why are you so quiet? I have more fun when you yell. Yell to me!"
Flames came from nowhere and attacked Maria. She screamed in pain.
"STOP IT! MR. DREAM, STOP IT, PLEASE! I BEG YOU!"
"YES! THAT'S HOW I LIKE IT!" Traum was laughing loudly, "That little girl must be with a hilarious face now."
Maria stopped screaming, at least she tried. "My daughter," she said, "you can make her hear me? You always made her... hear me?" Traum made the flames go away and answered:
"Just the funny moments. Of course I never let her hear you mentioning her or worrying about her. It would not be good in the future."
Maria went pale. Then, she put a furious face "Don't you dare to get any close of my daughter, you monster!"
"Monster?" Traum laughed, "Yes, I really am a monster, aren't me? But there's nothing you can do about it. I think it's time to finish this, it was fun. Let me take you to my inner world."
Traum took off one of his rings. Maria suddenly started to walk. It was hard for her to move, but she started to walk forward.
Her body... is moving too, Izzy heard Traum's thoughts. She's very determinate. What is she planning to do?
Maria walked until a point and stopped, Traum suddenly realized what she did.
"Your body, you made your body walk towards the window. Why?"
"Mom, what are you doing?" Sabine's voice was coming from somewhere outside.
"I've been in the same room for several years. The few moments you were not in my mind, I could see where the things were. And I knew too that, if my mental strength was big enough, I could even move my body as my wish."
"So you walked until the window. You're on the tenth floor, there's no way you can... wait!" Traum went pale. This woman is going to...
"If I die in your inner world, I'm going to die for real, right? But, what happens if my real body dies while you're here?"
"Idiot! What do you gain by doing this?"
"If you die with me... Sabine will be safe. And I'll be free." She leaned forward and started to fall. Her image started to fade away. Traum was leaving her mind.
"Wait!" Izzy cried, seeing everything through Traum's eyes. "Stop it!" he could hear, from the distance, a little girl's scream. "STOP IT!"
"Izzy, you're awake!" Izzy heard Tentomon's voice. When he realized, he was on his bed, in his room, and Tentomon was next to him. The bug hugged him, he seemed to be relieved.
"Izzy, you have been sleeping for two days. We were so worried." Tentomon's voice was cracking. Sleeping for two days? Izzy was trying to process the information. The door was opened and Yoshie walked in. She had heard the voices. She stared at Izzy for a while, as if she wasn't believing in what she was seeing. Then, she ran towards him, hugged the boy and started to cry.
"Koushiro... you're fine? I was so scared, your father too. When we saw you... my gosh..." she barely couldn't talk.
"Koushiro?" Izzy heard a voice coming from the door. Sabine was standing there, spying into the room.
"Sabine, come here!" Mrs. Izumi called her happily. Sabine seemed to resist the idea.
"Koushiro must rest, there's no need for me..." the girl started to say.
"Sabine... I want to talk to you." Izzy said, staring at the girl. Yoshie seemed surprised at the beginning, but then she smiled and told Tentomon:
"Let's leave them alone. They really need to talk."
Yoshie and Tentomon left the room. Sabine sat on a chair in front of Izzy.
"Sabine... we're really in the real world?"
"Yes. What's the last thing you remember?"
Izzy closed his eyes for a moment, then he said:
"I remember the pain... Traum's sword tearing... you disappeared and then I remember hearing your voice saying we were getting out..."
"I made that Mr. Dream be killed by the skeletons, so that world vanished and we came back. I found you lying on a puddle of blood, Mr. Dream was next to you. He was fading away."
"Traum died? How did this happen?" Izzy was in shock.
"According to Mr. Wisdom's eyes, his code is inside you now. It means you absorbed him."
"WHAT? BUT... BUT I... the Heart."
"So it was the Heart?" Sabine asked. A shadow crossed her face. The Heart made all that to him, she thought. "Anyway. You were going to die if Mr. Wisdom hadn't shown up. He brought miss Life with him. She's the second, but is on our side."
"Miss Life?" Izzy asked, Sabine replied:
"Yes, frau Leben. She healed you. Mr. Wisdom brought us, dr. Kido and your parents to this apartment using his swords. I wonder of what kind of material they're made, they seemed to be able to break the space-time continuous... after you were healed, he examined you and said to me, and just to me, about Mr. Dream's code. He wondered if you were having access to his memory or something like that."
"His memory... of course!" Izzy understood now the things he had seen. Sabine looked to him with curiosity, but decided to continue the report:
"Miss Life borrowed one of the swords and disappeared. She left behind a digimon that followed her, I think her name was Ceresmon. Miss life said that Ceresmon should follow Mr. Wisdom's orders from that moment on. She also gave him a bottle, saying there was a special healing substance in it, in case of someone else needed to be healed. She had already left when Tentomon and some of your friends, I think their names were Joe, Matt and Sora, came from the hospital."
"What? Joe, Matt and Sora? Hospital?"
"It's a very long story and I don't know if I understood everything right. In few words, now your parents and those three know the entire thing about the incident, the Heart, Unschuld trying to take you... the most incredible is that they believed in everything."
Izzy felt something warm inside him. My friends... believed in me...
"Continuing, when they came here, they were very worried about you and stayed by your side for a long while. Then, Mr. Wisdom asked them to take the bottle to Auri, who was still in the hospital. They took it. Yesterday Auri left the hospital and came here to see you. Grayman came too. He said that it wasn't safe for us to keep our room, so your friends offered their homes. I think they wanted to be useful. Grayman is in Matt's place now. Auri is with Sora. Your parents said that I could stay here. I slept on the sofa... it's very comfortable. You were unconscious until now."
"...All this really happened?" Izzy was speechless. Sabine suddenly said a thing:
"I almost forgot! Mr. Wisdom came with two followers: Persefonemon and Chainmon. He ordered them and Ceresmon to protect each member of the association. Chaimon went with Grayman, Ceresmon with Auri and Persefonemon stayed with me. I think she's with her master now. Mr. Wisdom is somewhere outside, probably on the roof, he said that he's watching."
"Watching?"
"Yes. It's to prevent someone dangerous from approaching you again. He also was feeling terrible for what happened, he blamed himself."
Izzy was in silence. I made them all worry and feel bad, the boy thought, his heart felt heavier somehow. Sabine stood up and was going to leave the room when Izzy said abruptly:
"Sabine, I have... I have to tell you an important thing."
Sabine was surprised. Is he going to thank me for having saved him, like his parents did? I hope he doesn't do it...
"I saw a lot of things... in Traum's memories." Izzy said in low voice, almost a whisper. Sabine sat on the bed, next to him.
"You... have his memories?" she asked with wide eyes.
"Yes... I think I've seen for the last two days... what he did to people." Izzy almost couldn't say that. It was hard for him to remember those things... to remember how those people had suffered.
"You don't need to talk about it, if you don't want..."
"I saw your mother."
Complete silence. Sabine was pale. Izzy couldn't look at her. He stared at the ground, but he knew he had to keep going:
"Right before she jumped...Traum was torturing her."
"I know this. There's no need in telling me what I already know." Izzy heard the girl saying.
"She could hear you. She always could hear you."
Silence again. Izzy looked to Sabine's hands, next to his. They were shaking a little.
"...What...did you say, Koushiro?" Sabine asked muttering, "Say it again."
"She knew that you were there. She was concerned about you. She jumped because she wanted to kill Traum... in order to not let he gets near you. Sabine... your mother loved you so much... that she sacrificed her life to protect you."
Izzy would never know for sure for how long Sabine stared at him. Her eyes were wide opened, her hands continued to shake a little. He wanted that she said something, anything. But all what the girl did was to stand up and leave the room. Izzy stayed sat on his bed for a while. Did I do the right thing? What if I made her sad?
Some time later, Mrs. Izumi entered the room, she seemed concerned with something.
"Koushiro, Sabine passed me quickly and without telling me anything or even looking at me at all. Did something happen between you?"
Izzy didn't say a single word. He stared at the ground for a while. Then, he stood up and walked towards the hall.
"I'm going after her. Everything is fine, don't worry." he said when he was reaching the front door. Mrs. Izumi was going to protest, after all he had just recovered from his wounds, but Izzy didn't give her the chance. He left the apartment too fast.
"Why, Koushiro?" Mrs. Izumi was speaking to herself in low voice, "Why don't you tell us what happens to you?"
The woman began to remember what had happened. Yoshie couldn't avoid to let some tears drop again.
"Why don't you tell us, Koushiro? How can we protect you? How can we take care of you if you don't let us approach?"
Weisheit was sitting on the roof of the building, watching the city. Persefonemon was with him. Suddenly, he saw Koushiro leaving the building and reported Persefonemon.
"I'm going after him, just in case." she said.
"Don't let anyone see you." Weisheit alerted.
Izzy felt a cold heavy rain falling. It was really bothering him, but the other people on the street seemed not to care about it at all. I hate rain. I hate to feel cold...What am I thinking? This is not the time for it... I must find Sabine. How stupid I am. How could I just say all that stuff to her like that? I should know better than anyone how it is... how it is to have all the things you believe in, all the reality, destroyed suddenly. I should know better than anyone the despair of not know... this damn rain.. .it is so nasty... everything...
"Izzy!" Koushiro heard suddenly. He turned his head to the left and saw Tai next to a building. He was with a serious face staring at him. "I was heading to your apartment. I've been trying to talk to you for two days, but your parents never let me enter. They said you weren't in conditions to talk to me."
"Tai..."
"I really need to talk to you. For Kari's sake."
"Kari? What do you...?"Izzy suddenly remembered when he met Kari two days ago, and she seemed to be possessed by something.
Tai took from a pocket a piece of tissue and showed it to Izzy. Izzy recognized it. It was a piece of the cloth he was wearing that night.
"Kari disappeared a night. When she returned, she was strange and was with this. It is yours, right? You were with her, weren't you?"
"Tai, I..."
"TELL ME THE TRUTH!"
Tai was very nervous and angry. He went close to Izzy, grabbed him and pushed him against a wall. "Were you with Kari?"
"...Yes." Izzy said. Tai's hands started to shake in fury.
"What the hell you did to my sister?"
"I did nothing to her, Tai. Please, believe..."
"SO WHAT DID HAPPEN THAT NIGHT!"
"I-I'm not sure..."
"YOU'RE NOT SURE!"
Izzy was getting nervous with Tai's yells. Tai was getting angrier with Izzy's attitude. He pressed the redhead against the wall harder and was going to punch him. Izzy closed his eyes. Suddenly something reached Tai and he let go of Izzy. Koushiro opened his eyes and saw a pale girl in a Gothic dress in front of him. Tai was lying on the ground next to Izzy, with a furious look.
"Are you okay?" Persefonemon asked Izzy. The boy barely confirmed with his head.
"You're..." Tai said, "you're that damn dark digimon who attacked my sister. The server of Weisheit. Why did you help Izzy?"
"Tai, let me explain." Izzy tried to talk.
"It's a brainwash, isn't it? That digimon made a brainwash in Izzy." Tai said.
"My master doesn't make brainwashes. He's a good digimon." Persefonemon replied.
"You seriously expect that I believe a digimon who gathers dark energy and that is the master of the digimon who attacked my sister is good?"
"Tai, wait, please." Izzy said, "It is true. Weisheit is not the enemy."
Tai was shocked. Izzy continued.
"Unschuld is the real enemy. She and her followers have been lying to you all."
"What... are you saying?" Tai was almost speechless, "You really are..."
"Weisheit did nothing to me, Tai. In fact, he saved my life more than once."
"What the hell are you saying? What about what happened in that mountain?"
"It wasn't him. Traum was the one who harmed me. Don't you understand, Tai? You and the others have been fooled by them."
Tai stared at Izzy in total disbelief. Izzy realized that.
"Tai, look at me." Izzy asked, "Do I look brainwashed to you? Do I look someone who does not know what is saying?"
Tai stayed in silence for a while, then he said:
"No, you don't look brainwashed or anything like that."
"And I'm not, Tai." Izzy said a little happier, "I don't know for sure what's going on with Kari, but I think she's been possessed by something. Something that is after me."
"After you?" Tai asked in a cold tone.
"It's a long story, but I'll explain everything-"
"When did it happen?" Tai questioned in a colder tone, what scared Izzy.
"What?" The redhead wasn't understanding.
Tai looked at him with anger and contempt and asked:
"When did you sell your soul to Weisheit?"
Izzy was in shock. He couldn't believe he had just heard that. Persefonemon seemed disgusted because of what Tai was saying. Tai continued:
"What did he offer you in order to make you be on his side and betray us?"
Izzy went pale with the question. Persefonemon got angrier and shot a thorn next to Tai, what made him retreat a little.
"Damn you! I'm not going to listen you talk things like this anymore. You have no idea how much my master has suffered for the sake of the Digital World and the human world or through how much pain this boy has gone!"
"Pain? What pain? My sister is the one who's suffering the most and I'm sure it has something to do with Weisheit! And now... now I discover that a person who I used to see as a reliable friend... is just a disgusting traitor! I don't even know why I'm so shocked. A part of me always knew."
Izzy was just hearing everything without saying a single word until that moment. But he finally talked.
"What do you mean with 'always knew?'"
"You were a weird kid without friends when I met you. I knew the other kids rejected you and you isolated yourself. I thought it was awkward, but I understood that you were just shy, so I approached you."
"You're saying..." Izzy's voice was very low, "...you approached me and was nice to me because you pitied me?"
"Don't play the victim! I'm the one who must be upset here! All this time you just used me and everyone. You pretended to help us and care about us, but it was all for your own interests!"
"My interests?" Izzy didn't know how to react, "I never... I-I..."
"What it was, huh, Koushiro? You wanted to be around me and the others because you wanted us to protect you from the kids who didn't like you? Or maybe because you felt that, by being among us, you wouldn't be anymore such a pathetic lonely kid?"
Silence. Tai continued:
"So what did Weisheit offer you? Was it knowledge? You always liked to know new stuff, in fact, you always preferred that to people. Or was it power that that monster offered you?"
"SHUT UP, YOU STUPID KID, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!" Persefonemon shouted furiously. Tai didn't care about her. Izzy started to walk toward Tai. When they were close enough, Tai saw the other boy was with the saddest face he had ever seen.
"So that's it, Tai?" Izzy asked, "After all this time, after all what we lived... that's what you truly think about me?"
Tai didn't answer. Izzy started to tremble. Some tears began to drop from his eyes. Tai didn't know how to react. Izzy turned his back to Tai and started to walk quickly. Persefonemon went after him. But Izzy disappeared among the people, and the digimon couldn't know to where he went.
Izzy walked faster than he had ever walked. The rain felt heavier and colder. He felt difficulty to continue his way. He entered a desert street. He felt tired. More tired than he ever had felt. The weight of the water was too great for him. He fell, powerless. He started to sob on the ground and fainted.
When Izzy woke up, he saw himself in a dark place. He was in what looked like an ancient ruin of tower. Around him, he could only see some other ruins and a huge amount of water that looked like a sea. Even there, he was feeling that cold heavy rain.
"Be welcome again to your inner world, Koushiro!" someone said behind him. Izzy turned his body to that direction and saw himself.
"Heart? What...? Why am I here?" Izzy was confused and scared. The Heart walked toward him and said:
"I brought you here."
"...Why?" Izzy asked. The Heart got closer and whispered in a deep cold tone:
"I brought you here because I want to end all this misery of yours... and mine."
I don't believe I finally finished this chapter. I wrote it too quickly and didn't realize the huge quantity of errors. So I corrected them, but I'm sure there must be some yet. The next chapter may come before the new year. Izzy's true personality will be finally worked. I hope you liked the chapter and haven't given up on reading the story. Please, review me.