Hydroumon, Ross, and Aquamon stopped by a river to rehydrate themselves. Hydroumon allowed them to use their arms and Ross was digging through his backpack. That was when he noticed his black notebook was missing as he looked every inch through it. He was worried that he couldn't find it anywhere in his backpack

"Where is it?" Ross whispered and remembered when Hydroumon knocked them both down. 'I must have dropped it.' He thought.

"Alright, let's go." Hydroumon said as he reformed the threads. "We're not that far from one of my dens."

"Wait, one? You have others?" Ross said.

"Yes and you'll meet Davis soon enough." Hydroumon said.

…

The Digidestined

After Patamon fell over, all of them rested. Now Patamon was fully recovered and was flying back in the air again.

"Are you feeling better?" T.K. said.

"Much better. I needed that rest." Patamon said.

"We better get going. They'll probably miles ahead of us by now." Cody said.

"Hey guys, come look at this." Kari said as they saw they were reading the inside of the notebook.

"What is it?" Yolei said as they gathered around her.

"As I said earlier, this notebook belongs to Ross." Kari said. "Look at the first page." She turned it over and saw most of the page filled out. The top had a few numbers and said "Faster".

"What is this?" Gatomon said.

"You can crash and burn. Sharpen your turns. No one to hold you back." Ken read. "What does that mean? Is he some kind of writer?"

"It looks like it." Wormmon said.

"Is he some kind of poet?" Yolei said.

"I don't think so. Hardly any of the words rhyme." Kari said. "There are also a few lines that repeat a few times. "We start to race harder as we go faster. I thought you want to see the world as we go faster."

"What does that even mean?" T.K. said.

"It's not poetry, but the same line repeats." Ken said as he tried to think about it. "Guys, I think it might be a song."

"A song?" Yolei said.

"Yeah. The line repeats and it seems like it has a beat to go with it." Ken said. "Yes it looks like it's written like a paragraph, but it seems like that's just because he tried to write it all down on one paper."

"If it's a song, then where are the notes?" Hawkmon said.

"Maybe he doesn't know how to write the notes. I think he can only write the lyrics." Kari said.

"So then, what do these numbers mean? What about that number one in the corner?" Gatomon said.

"I think that means page one." T.K. said.

"What about the other one? It says 3:00." Patamon said. "Is that when he wrote it?"

"I don't think so." Kari said. "I think it means three minutes. It must be how long the song is with the music added. He must have timed it himself. So this song would take about three minutes if someone performed it."

"Kari, why are you showing us this?" Yolei said.

"I thought this would give us an idea on what Ross is like and it doesn't stop there." Kari said as she turned through the pages. "He's got a lot others. There's Say Goodbye, Dusk to Dawn, Know and Feel, and keeps going. I saw he had a blue notebook and a red notebook. He must have those ones filled out with stuff like this."

"Wow, he must have enough for a few albums. Does he plan on being a musician or something?" Cody said.

"Yeah, but there is something that really confused me. Look at the last one." Kari said. She turned the pages until she got to the one she was looking for. When she got there, everyone was confused as well on what they saw.

"What the heck? What's this about?" Cody said. This song was only a couple lines filled and was titled "Treachery".

"Why is there only a couple lines to this one?" Armadillomon said.

"He must have just started to work on it, but why is it called Treachery?" Ken said.

"Listen to what these couple lines say." Kari said and started reading. "Beware of those you trust. Even those close to you are not what they seem."

"What does that mean?" Gatomon said.

"I don't know. That's the part that confuses me." Kari said.

"Beware of those you trust. Is he trying to say we can't trust him like Cody has been telling us?" T.K. said.

"I don't think so. The next line is "Even those close to you are not what they seem." Kari said. "What does he mean by saying those close us aren't what they seem?"

"We're the only ones that he's met other than Gennai." Ken said and that's when a strange thought crossed his mind. "You guys don't think he's talking about Gennai do you?"

"Gennai? Why him?" Cody said.

"Well, we all trust Gennai and he has been real close to us. Especially Kari and T.K. since they were kids." Ken said. "He's also the only other person that Ross knows from our group."

"Yeah, but Gennai wouldn't be up to anything behind our backs like this." T.K. said. "He's been helping us for years. Why would he act in secrecy and if he was what would he be hiding from us? What would Ross know that we don't?"

"I'm not sure. He must be trying to say something, but I can't figure it out. There's not enough evidence." Ken said.

"This is so weird. We find out that he is a song writer, but this recent one of his is kind of weird." Yolei said.

"Well, there's only one way to figure out what this means. We'll have to track Ross down and ask him himself." T.K. said. "We better get going. It time we find out what he's hiding from us." Everyone agreed and got back to following the trail.

…

Hydroumon

Hydroumon took the both of them out of the forest and into a wasteland. He brought them to a giant boulder. Hydroumon placed his free hand on it and unleashed a small spark of his dark flame. Ross saw that it was some kind of sensor as a door opened up and saw a case of stairs down leading down.

"I guess we're here." Ross joked. Hydroumon led them downstairs and the door closed behind them. Gotsumon came out of his hiding spot from behind some rocks that he blended into and saw what happened.

"Okay, according to the plan I'm suppose to wait for the others to arrive." Gotsumon said. Inside, all three of them were walking down a hall that was only lit by torches. He looked around to see only doors and other paths. They all looked the same and looked like the place goes on forever.

"Nice place I guess. It seems like it's catching your dark mood and looks just like an evil lair." Ross said.

"Thank you. I'm sure the other digidestine will think so too." Hydroumon said and that shocked the both of them.

"What are you talking about?" Aquamon said.

"You knew, didn't you?" Ross said.

"Yes. Did you honestly think I wouldn't notice your buddy Gotsumon was following us?" Hydroumon said. "I also knew that he was leaving a trail that was meant for the digidestined. It will only be a matter of time until they get here and when they do I'll have something special for them."

"I don't like the sound of that." Ross said.

"Ross, I could digivolve now and get us out of here. He already knows the others will be on their way and he has a trap set for them." Aquamon whispered.

"I don't think that's an option. We won't get very far and we've seen how powerful he is." Ross whispered back.

"We're here." Hydroumon said. Ross and Aquamon stepped forward into a larger room. They saw some sort of shadow dash around in the air. It landed down and it looked like some sort of winged creature with sharp claws. It changed form to a smaller being and they saw someone having a seat on a couple stairs in the back. He saw that he was human shaped, but it was difficult to see because there wasn't much light. Even though it was dark, they could see the person opening his eyes and they could see it. The cold and emotionless stare in his eyes. Ross knew who this was, the digidestine's search was over.

"You're late."