Visions

Chapter 10: Unbound

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"All humanity is sick. I come therefore to you as a physician who has diagnosed this universal disease and is prepared to cure it" -The Buddha

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Savaria read a plaque on the doors of the hotel before entering, it read:

"THROUGH ME THE WAY INTO THE SUFFERING CITY,

THROUGH ME THE WAY TO THE ETERNAL PAIN,

THROUGH ME THE WAY THAT RUNS AMONG THE LOST.

JUSTICE URGED ON MY HIGH ARTIFICER;

MY MAKER WAS DIVINE AUTHORITY,

THE HIGHEST WISDOM AND THE PRIMAL LOVE.

BEFORE ME NOTHING BUT ETERNAL THINGS

WERE MADE, AND I ENDURE ETERNALLY

ABANDON EVERY HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE."

Savaria read the quote from the Divine Comedy, slightly on the edge, and then she opened the doors for herself and entered the hotel.

Savaria looked around to the hotel as she finally entered. She watched as Satorii fell into a chair that showed the antiquate of the room; dust making a cloud of dust from the chair. She looked to the elegance of the room, a room that time seemed to forget.

She examined the room, from the well-set chairs, to the old bellhop's outfit which was placed on the counter. The American girl let out an audible sigh as she let the room intake her. The room was just so much to look at, with long drapes hanging from the walls, and just a very old feeling to it.

Savaria watched the others as they examined the place. It did not look as if it were from the Digital World, rather that it were from their own. But no one let out any audible complaint as they ran hands along the walls and simply examined the area. Nothing seemed to be in place in this world; maybe it was beyond human reason and they were trying to understand something like God. Savaria sighed as she considered the notion of this world being one out a side of them. It was like trying to understand why people prayed, futile.

She looked up to the chandelier which lit the room through emerald, ruby, sapphire and onyx crystals. It was brilliantly knotted gold with silver tiers as well. But the thing that struck her the most was the absolutely angelic light it exhumed. There was a brilliance to it beyond any corporeal thing, and ethereal black light with a hellish white light. God crafted it himself, for such dazzling light to be possible to exist.

Nekamon looked over to her partner in wonderment at her awe. The cat let its curiosity be the better part of valor and discretion as she asked what Savaria found so fascinating, but the girl could not answer the Digimon. Savaria focused on it as she began to wonder about the true beauty of it, and about her own.

She had never really thought of how beautiful she never knew she was, but seeing this forced her to think about it. How could something so intricate probably have lost the beauty that it could have had, when she had not ever had it. Even the creatures in this world surpassed her in her mind, from Faeriemon to Shedimon, all of them were more beautiful then her. Like the stars and the eclipse, she saw the beauty in the world around her, but she never saw it in her, and she just wanted someone to tell her how they cared.

But that overwhelming hopelessness began to consume her again. There was something similar to this hotel to that area of the mountain trail where she first felt this unbound sadness. She fell to her knees as she began to feel the deep somber feelings consume her, as if shadows had enveloped her in their grasp, as if something were trying to cause this.

She began to hear voices again. "...And please bless my mommy, and my daddy, and Johnny and Bobby and grandma, and grandpa, and everyone in the world but Mrs. Hartman, send her to hell, she failed me on a test" She heard a young voice say from afar. It sounded like a prayer.

"Dear God, I need to ask you for the most important thing I ever could, God, I want for you to take my life" The voice she now heard was familiar, though it broke by the end. She just covered her ears and shut her eyes as she bit her quivering lower lip. The voice she heard was a masculine one, and she knew she had heard it before, and within the last three days.

"Please save my mommy, I'll be good, I'll do everything you need of me, please don't let mommy die" Another child, it was so depressing to hear these children weeping and she couldn't take it. Savaria let tears drain from her eyes, like too often over this journey.

"Smite those nine who are trying to destroy us" Another voice asked, a gruff voice, but she could tell it was inhuman. She knew that it was from this world.

"Save us, please, Tabernamon, enable your Saviors to win against Sheolmon" Another voice asked, again from this world. Savaria wondered why she was hearing the voices of these people and creatures, what made a mediocre girl from North East Philadelphia special. She was just another American.

"Please let Savaria be okay . . . " She heard another prayer ask, and her eyes darted open as she heard her name. That voice she knew to be Sakura's voice. She began to wonder, she had believed this was just coincidence, but she also wondered what exactly she was hearing, were they prayers of people who needed her help? Was she God? No, there was no such thing. She could not be God.

She managed to look over to Sakura. She was biting her lip; she always did that when she was worried, but she was the only one who saw her. But as the influx of voices boomed louder, more and more, with request for the most superficial things, she retrogressed to viding her head into her eye lids. She just was so sick of the tension and the terror she was constantly stuck with meditating on. She was also sick of making everyone worry about her, she well knew that everyone from Sakura to Fernirmon worried about her at least a little bit. She just could not take it any longer.

Finally, it all stopped, and through the chandelier's black light, she saw the silhouette of Sin. Why he was here was far beyond her, but she did not mind either. He extended a hand to her and after she accepted it, he helped her up. She looked into his cold eyes, sensing that something was up, or else he would not be here. Through the corner of her eye, she saw Dantes, whom looked like he was out for blood.

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"Why the hell are you here?" Alighieri looked to Sin with the utmost malice. Who the hell did this ass hole think he was to just walk up and help Savaria up? He was supposed to be the hero, not some jerk-off he could beat with his little finger. He knew by yelling at him, Dantes would be risking the scorn of the others, but he was more then willing to take that risk, he was supposed to be dead.

"I reached this place before you. Therefore, should I not be the one asking the inane questions of why you are here, and without a reservation?" That cocky bastard. With the same melancholy expression, he all but blatantly told him off. Dantes couldn't stand not doing anything to hurt him, when he and Ultimon were fully capable of truly hurting the boy and his goddamned bird. Dantes did not really care, though, he had other agendas to fulfill, even though he knew he would eventually kill Sin.

"Don't you dare give me that bull shit" Dantes threw his arms out in anger, his trench coat flapping open with Ultimon looking across to Dismon on Sin's shoulder. Sin quickly unsheathed his sword as he looked to with the first change in his expression, showing even more cold malevolence.

"Going to cry if things aren't just so? A pity" Sin held the blade before his eyes as he entered a fighting stance, and Dantes entered more a karate-type stance, with no weapon but his fists. Maybe if Sin attacked first, he would get to kill him, no harm and no foul. He was very confident in his abilities to defeat Sin, he knew the boy was self taught, he knew a great deal about him.

"Stop it!" Savaria stood in front of Sin with her arms spread out, hoping that he would not attack through her, and she was very right. Sin simply let go of his blade and looked to Savaria and sighed. Dantes smirked, though no one noticed as they watched the sword hit the ground, but Dantes was very happy with what he had learned. Sin would not fight despite Savaria, and he could easily use that to his advantage.

Dantes decided to further instigate the scene. "Fuck it" He simply said, holding his middle finger up to Sin. He then left the group, Ultimon following beside him. He briefly looked back and saw Savaria look to him and then back to Sin. She would be his, no matter what he would get her as a prize after killing Sin.

He knew more then any sane human should about her and Sin, for they were his prey. Sin still looked to him with malevolence although knowingly as well. He could not help but wonder why, what did the Asian boy know that could be important to him. He had to know. It could be something that could be volatile to his mission, and he would not let anything compromise his means.

All of the others were watching the two, and then after the stand off they saw them all head off to examine their new dwelling. Were it only temporary or their new home, he did not know, or at least he would not be confirming, these games were his fun, and this had become the grandest game of them all, one of life or of death, if they were going to live, they would need to observe better than they did, but he truly could not complain about the ordeal, he had a royal flush, to Sin's pair.

He looked around at the paintings up the stair case. They were all just stupid abstract bull shit. Picasso would have been proud, but a kindergartner could have done better work. This art style truly was for the retarded and the mentally unable. But then something caught his eyes. It was a different painting, a more realistic style. He recognized the painting and tore it off the wall and had Ultimon devour it. This pleased Dantes as he spat on the piece of artwork. He then simply continued up the stair case, finally leaving the painting as it was.

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Sakura had walked down a path with Satorii and their Digital Monsters. She was so confused, because this world was truly too much. Once again, Savaria had an episode, but she was still stuck on the fact Savaria had seemed to look at her while having it. She had said a prayer for her in her mind, but she did not think she had been audible at all. Something was up with her, and Sakura really wanted to know what.

So many of their own groups were enigmatic to her. Savaria talked, but she was still an enigma, but more so were Dantes, the Digimon and the unofficial member, Sin. Sin was probably the most intriguing of them all, because she was yet to talk to him, unlike Dantes or the Digimon. She thought he was probably with good intent, even if he was far from ever hesitating to kill.

She sighed as she looked to the art work on the walls of the hall and to the end of the hall which was none too far away. The paintings were obviously water colors, a lot of landscapes, and many she knew were from their world. She looked to Satorii. She would not tell him if he did no know.

"Sakura, I was wondering, do you think anyone could be Sheolmon? Like Jijimon had said" Satorii asked quite simply. Sakura thought about her answer as she coddled Kittenmon. It was truly a good question, with two people like Sin and Dantes with them; two people who were so enigmatic. Maybe there was no answer, maybe existentialism truly won the argument and there was no good or evil, only existence and humans were wandering blindly with no true perception of either concept.

"I don't really know, Satorii, it's not an easy question" She answered in an attempt to avoid the question, but she wondered if her answer was right, or maybe there was a true answer. But, of course, what is truth but an exemplification of everything that is perceived as good. Maybe she should pray some more and see if God knows the answer, though that was more doubtful then if Nietzsche had some answer or if Gilead's balm were real.

"May it is Savaria" Fernirmon spoke quite simply. The others stopped and looked to him in wonderment. How could he blame her? She was nice and she was pure, and she could heal, though that was among Godly attributions she had.

"You can't be serious" Kittenmon jumped from Sakura's arms and over to him as she spoke, resting on his head and looking down to the wolf-like creature. Sakura considered it for a second, but she knew that Fernirmon would elaborate, he was not the type to leave words unspoken when he spoke.

"Think about it; she reacted to the symbols of Sheolmon and she had been very much of an enigma since we met her. Maybe her kindness and everything we know about her is just a rouse so we do not expect her to be the vile creature" Sakura looked stunned. The chance he could be right was astounding. But she would not believe it, she trusted Savaria, regardless. She was good in her nature, that was definite. She also would never willingly believe in a female devil.

She was not a Christian, she was not so naive to believe that God was male and that women were as evil as the Bible portrayed them in so many places. Was it not Delilah who cut off Samson's hair? Was it not Rebecca who allowed Jacob to take Esau's inheritance? The Bible was sexist text, no matter what any contextual person said, the original intent of Eve from Adam's side was meant to be that Man was first, and that Man was to have Woman as his side, as his help and nothing more.

"I was hoping that Sheolmon would at least be more vile then THAT" Kittenmon spoke with disgust, causing the others to smile for the first time in awhile. Sakura truly did not believe that anyone she had met yet could be all that evil, except maybe Sin, since she did not know much about him. But even he did not seem like he would stop at nothing to kill them.

Out of the corner of her eye, Sakura caught a glance of a painting, and it was not a landscape. She walked over to the painting as if guided but and other worldly being. It was truly a beautiful piece of art, a painting of a woman with dark black hair and earth-toned eyes. She seemed so familiar. She examined the painting's subject of a woman with milky white skin, wearing a long, elegant flowing white gown. She was the pinnacle of beauty and perfection. But why did she look so damn familiar and why was a human's portrait in the Digital World?

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Savaria sighed as she looked to the now empty entrance hall. Even Nekamon had left. She wondered why Dantes and Sin were always fighting. They, or rather Dantes, always seemed to have tare into Sin. What happened that this was always the case? Did they know each other from something in their past? She simply sighed again as she thought about it, but she felt responsible, so she walked off to find Sin.

He had headed down the corridor at the north upper hall. It was a long stair case with oil paintings of Digimon hanging on the walls. Savaria passed them and one of a woman had caught her eye, but she decided not to examine it at all, she wanted to finally find something out about Sin. She simply put one foot in front of the other as she continued up the spiral stair case's mahogany tiers.

She panted as she finally reached the top step. She reached out to the knob of a door but was cautioned as she did. What if he was going to take it the wrong way? She had to take that risk as she turned the knob a half turn and the door opened to her. There was Sin, alone and with out Dismon, sitting by a table and drinking saki from a small bowl.

"May I help?" He spoke in his usual plain English. Savaria knew something was wrong, though. She could easily feel it with her abilities to sense this sort of thing, like the ability to heal, she had always been able to empathize easily.

"I was just wondering if you were doing alright in this world, since always alone" She stood in the door way with her left arm across her chest and holding her right arm as she leaned on the door way. She did not want to seem like she was prying, but she knew she did anyway. She was really just worried, he was always so alone.

"I'm used to being alone" Sin looked to the table and the green rice wine. Savaria walked nearer to try to find out what was up with him. He simply continued to look into the bowl after emptying it, as if her were transfixed upon the bowl.

"But do you want to be alone?" He was struck by this as she looked to him and put and hand on his shoulder. Sin felt some comfort for the first time in years. He looked to her hand and simply meditated on her milky skin. She was so beautiful. "Sin, are you alright?" She implored seeing his distress.

"Yes... I'm fine..." He looked back to the table. "Sorry" He simply wondered if he was doing anything that was alright. He'd done so much back in his past that he could not change if he wanted to and be here now. She did give him some solace and a piece of mind, though he still felt just as desperate as he always did. He just wanted it all to finally end. He just hated the loneliness and the fear.

Savaria hoped she could help him somehow, but she knew she had no one to. "If you don't want to be alone, you can travel with us, or if Dantes won't let you, I'll come with you" She tried her hardest to get through to him, though he simply continued to look into the empty bowl. She was worried about him, though; he was always alone and he always seemed to have so much angst. She just wanted to help him however she could.

Sin stood up and looked down to her through his dark eyes. He put his hand on her cheek and looked to her somberly. "All I can say, is thank you, but I must decline. I am sorry" He turned away from her and she looked to him.

"Please, Sin, just consider it" Savaria begged him, wishing that he would trust her. "I haven't told you yet, but my name is Savaria, and the others in my group are Sakura, Kilroy, Mitsuko, Matt, Aya, Dantes and Satorii, Sakura is the person who owns Nekamon, Kilroy has Agumon, Mitsuko has Ridomon, Matt has Dracomon, Aya has Hexamon, Dantes has Ultimon and Satorii Fernirmon. But regardless, please consider my offer, I don't want to see you hurt by anything that's evil..." She tried to convince him, but then he broke her speech.

"I am evil" He spoke simply and walked by her whilst looking squarely to the ground. She wondered what she meant, but she knew it was not literal. She grabbed for his arm, trying to stop him, but she only got his sleeve. She got it slightly pulled up and saw a multitude of slashes that looked like they were self inflicted and fell back, gasping. She wondered why he would do that to himself as he walked off. She just did not understand why he would do it. Maybe he was evil... NO. She did not believe he was evil, but she wanted to help him

She wondered what she could do as he walked off, knowing he would not be willing to do anything about it. She left after him, though he went further up and she headed back down. She was just se worried now that se knew that he would hurt himself, she wanted to know why, and what happened in his past. Why would he call himself evil, and what would he have done to feel that way.

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Matt sat on a bench in the north back hall. The hall looked really different then the other two, it was extremely bright with optical illusions on the walls. He patted Dracomon as he wondered about this world. So much was happening and he was unsure if was about to do anything at all. He was not as smart as Kilroy, as determined as Dantes, as strong as Sin or as likable as Satorii, for all he knew, everyone hated him. He could not blame them if they did, though.

Aya sat down next to him, holding Hexamon. "Matt, look, about earlier I'm..." He cut her off.

"Don't worry about it, I deserved it" He looked up to the ceiling which was painted like the nights sky as he sighed. He simply wanted to know what his purpose was through all of this. "We're all still dirty from the town where garbage was thrown at us, I think I saw a hot spring bath, let's find the others and then just get clean" He knew she'd probably take this the wrong way, but he still knew that they all needed to bathe. He walked off to find the boy, and Aya to find the girls.

They had managed to find everyone but Dantes and Sin. There were changing rooms to go out to the divided baths. Matt felt awkward seeing two other men nude, but he needed a bath, so he grabbed a towel and walked out, dropping into the warm water.

As he looked around the pool he saw Sin at the other end of it, sipping saki from a small bowl. "Why are you here?" He asked Sin, looking across to him, while standing up.

"You know they have suits in there?" Sin yelled seeing Matt's penis while covering his own eyes. Matt simply shrugged and jumped in. Kilroy and Satorii were in suits like Sin, but Matt did not seem to care anymore, he was content enough to be nude, apparently.

"Matt, you're an idiot" Kilroy sipped a mug of coffee and looked to him. Him and Satorii both looked rather disgusted.

"Why are you humans acting like it's such a big deal, we're always nude" Agumon sat in the bath next to Kilroy. Matt had not really thought about until now, but they always were, and he was yet to see any indication on them.

"Yeah, but you're all lacking a little something below the waist" Matt stood back up, showing his man hood again. Everyone just sighed and looked away; modesty was not one of Matt's attributes.

"You stupid American" Kilroy sighed and tilted his head back, throwing the soap at Matt and hitting him into the dividing wall.

"God do you humans bicker over the slightest thing" Dracomon layed along the rim of the tub, not wanting to get it's wings wet.

"We're not the ones with a global war of religion" Kilroy defended his race.

"Um, Kilroy, yes we do, Islam, Judaism, Atheism, Other and above all Catholicism" Satorii was rather blunt in his speech. He simply sighed as Kilroy realized just how right he was. Both worlds were torn by religion, and the majority of wars in there world's history were rooted in religion some how, from World War II to the American Revolution and even the most recent war in Iraq, they all had some root in religion, money or territory. Religion was obviously both a root of good and of evil.

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Mitsuko walked out to the girl's bath, wearing a red two piece bikini. She looked across to the other three girls, Sakura had put her hair up with two chop sticks through it, wearing a light blue two piece, and Savaria left her hair down with a white two piece as well, and Aya wore a purple two piece, keeping a hat on her head. The Digimon were in there with them, but she had a feeling as if someone were watching them.

She sat in the tub and simply washed herself, trying to get clean. She had felt dirty since they arrived in this place, away from a shower and away from everything that they new, she was happy to get to bathe, as were Aya and Sakura, Savaria was the only one who did not seem to care as much.

"You okay, Savaria" Aya had looked over to her and asked. Savaria dipped her head under the water to begin to clean her hair before answering.

"It's really not important" She tried to defend though the others were able to read her like an open book. Mitsuko did want to know, but she also did not want to pry.

"Oh come on, you can tell us" Hexamon broke the silence and said what the others were afraid to ask. Mitsuko let out a silent sigh of relief, since now she did not feel like she may have to.

"Yeah, Savaria, why not tell us what's up?" Ridomon asked, swimming acrossed the bath from Mitsuko to Savaria. Mitsuko tried to stop her Digimon, but only fell into the water as she did so. Before Savaria could react, Nekamon was standing before them with her claws out.

"If Savaria doesn't want to tell you, that's up to her" Nekamon defended her partner. All of the others looked over to them. Something just felt so odd about the day. Savaria got out of the bath and grabbed a towel. She began to towel off as she tried to stop the Digimon's fighting. But then, as if on cue, Matt's head appeared over the fencing and he looked over to them.

"Hiya" With his usual nonchalance he looked down to them, watching them bathe.

"Pervert!" Aya punched the fence and it began to shake and rock and due to Matt's clinging onto dear life, the fencing quickly began to rock and it fell, exposing the boys to the girls, and the girls to a nude Matt. Aya quickly hurried over and smacked him as the other three boys simply sighed, Sin sipping his saki with eyes shut. Mitsuko looked over to Savaria and saw her looking at Sin and smirked. She lightly elbowed Sakura and motioned over to her, smirking as she did.

Kilroy and Satorii sighed and began to drag Matt in, with a towel over his man-hood. Sin simply sighed and looked to the girls, "I apologize for you having to see that"He bowed to them as he spoke "You all may use the bath, again, I apologize on behalf of the others" Through his deep voice he apologized, his eyes still shut, Dismon flew down to them but Savaria stopped the bird from reaching his partner who had already gotten into the building again. Why she stopped the Digimon, was unknown to any of the others though.

"That ass-hole! I think of giving him a chance to prove to me he's not a perverted and in the end he is" Aya yelled as she stormed off. Mitsuko and Ridomon simply took the fencing out of the tub and got back in.

"What are you doing?" Sakura asked her, wondering why she was still soaking in the tub.

"We won't have one when we leave, I want to make use of it, besides we both know Kilroy will have something to bitch about later, so I'm resting for now.

"I fully agree" Hexamon jumped in with her. The other Digimon looked to the rabbit in confusion.

"Why are you staying, Aya left" Ridomon looked to her and asked.

"We aren't joined at the hip, ya know, besides, Nekamon's here and Savaria isn't" Hexamon simply immersed it's self in the liquid happily.

"Where is Savaria anyway?" Ridomon asked as it got in the tub again as well.

"I think she grabbed Dismon and walked off" Kittenmon said, half-asleep on Sakura's head.

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"Why did you wish to talk to me? And what is your name anyway?" Dismon looked to Savaria in wonderment. He had been yet to talk to any human other than Sin, so this was a new experience for the Digimon. He looked to the woman and thought about what she may want to talk about.

"Savaria Harper, and I want to talk to you about Sin" She implored as she looked to the crow with her somber, yet respectful eyes. "I saw his arm earlier" She recalled about an hour ago, when she saw all of those gashes on his arm. She was simply worried about him, and why h might be this way.

"I'm sorry, but I won't be of much help, I don't know much about him, he is my partner and I simply except that, I worry about him but I try not to pry too much" The crow permeated distress, though Savaria could not see it's eyes through the leather vale. She looked to him sorrowfully and sighed, wishing she could find out more about Sin.

"He's just such an enigma to everyone, I worry about his due to it" She sighed and looked to the towel around her legs. She tightened her grip around it. "If you can, Dismon, I asked Sin if he could join us, can you please help me try to convince him?" She practically begged the Digimon, wishing she could somehow help him, she knew she was probably meddling into something that she shouldn't, but she wanted to help him heal his wounds, she could tell he had been bleeding for way too long.

"I will do what I can, but I cannot promise you anything; I honestly don't know what I can do" Dismon sighed and looked to Savaria through it's vale.

"Thank you Dismon, also, if you think that I'm prying too much, please tell me" She looked to the cement beneath her feet, happy to have her first sense of home in what felt like forever, despite being so worried about the animosity between Sin and Dantes.

Dismon flew off and she returned to the others. Everyone had gone in, and it had gotten very late over the time that they were bull shitting and exploring.

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Predictably, Kilroy called everyone for another talk, with Savaria, Sin and Dantes not included. They stood in the main hall after thinking that the others were asleep or atleast would not care. "So then, you all know why I asked you here, I want to talk about this all again" Kilroy said looking about the five other humans.

"So then, oh great preacher, what is our first order of business" Matt spoke sarcastically to Kilroy, looking to him and wondering what the hell they were going to be talking about.

"Fuck you Matt, but regardless, I wanted to ask about Savaria have another one of those periods where she has a panic attack, does anyone know anything about this or have any thoughts about it" As Kilroy spoke, Mitsuko and Sakura looked to each other, both shaking their heads, as if implying something.

"I was thinking about it, with Sakura, and I wonder, since she is having these problems in places related to Sheolmon, maybe she is the one that Jijimon said about being evil" Satorii said, Sakura looked to him a bit stunned that he mentioned it.

"Sakura, would you care to elaborate" As Kilroy spoke, Mitsuko and Sakura looked to each other, not wanting to break the bow they made to Savaria about keeping her secret.

"I honestly don't know if we can really say, besides, it was Fernirmon's notion, not Satorii's or mine, so he would probably be more viable to ask" She tried to save face un the pressure to tell everyone what Savaria told Mitsuko and her. Mitsuko looked to her friend and gave her a nod of approval for not telling them about Savaria hearing the dreams of humans and Digimon

"I wouldn't say that she were necessarily evil, it may just be because they are at all holy, maybe she's hearing prayers or Tabernamon or God and just can't take it" Aya hypothesized. The two that knew the truth looked over to each other in wonder, a bit worried that Kittenmon or the other had told everyone about what had happened, or that someone had seen or heard them talking, and knew about Savaria's secret.

"You have nothing to back that up, it's pure speculation so we can't know if you're right or not" Matt bit on her comment quickly, and the two girls sighed in relief as she did not fight back, signifying to them that she did not hear them.

"Shut up, you, it's just as valid as any other theory" Aya noted in her rebuttal that it was just a theory, further easing the mind of the girl. Maybe Aya had heard them or maybe she was just being intuitive, they could not say, but neither of them had betrayed Savaria, that much they knew.

"No, with most theories people have reason to assume the conclusion" Matt was being unusually smart in this conversation as he argued Aya, maybe because everyone though him to be an idiot for his neglecting to put a towel on earlier. Matt and Aya continued to gaze at each other during their argument, both passionately defending their side.

Kilroy finally broke the brief argument after keying it all into his silver Alienware laptop. "Aya is right that it is a possibility, but in the same instance, Matt is right to believe there is not enough information to verify the claim, and that it is simply speculation. On that issue, we must consider both, but except neither" Matt and Aya both looked upset with Kilroy's decision on the matter, not that either of them cared what the self proclaimed moderator thought. "Does anyone have anything else to add on that" Kilroy tacked on to his comment as he looked around to the others, Sakura perked up and raised her hand.

"There is one thing I saw which distressed me, I saw a portrait of a woman in the hall way, and I thought it looked like Savaria, I just wondered how this could be in the Digital World" She spoke, biting on her thumb in stress, as she often did.

"Your mind was probably just playing tricks on you, this is a whole new dimension, it was probably just a Digimon like Faeriemon that looked human, but you mistook it for Savaria" Kilroy said, quickly ending any argument on the matter. "Alright then, on the next issue, what of Sin and Dantes, they are always fighting whenever the eight of us run into Sin, but what should we think of their arguments, and should we assume they will escalate?" Kilroy again provoked conversation.

"They seem to have a history, maybe they were enemies from school or something" Mitsuko was happy to finally be able to join without any fear of betraying her friend's confidence. Mitsuko and Sakura smiled to one another, happy to have weathered that storm.

"But Sin never seems to initiate the fighting, maybe Dantes had a self imposed problem with Sin, or maybe he sees him as competition for something" Sakura sited Savaria's affection towards both, thinking that Dantes may see Sin as competition for her heart.

"What if Dantes sees him as evil, and due to his over done convictions, he may just have too strong a sense of justice, due to being such a devout Catholic, he has come to think that Sin is unjust" Christopher provided the Devil's advocate against them as he defended Dantes. He did not necessarily agree with the notion, but he still knew that he had to provoke further thought into the issues.

"Maybe Sin just doesn't want to fight another human, maybe he is only willing to fight Digimon and doesn't see them as living creatures" Satorii fought back against Kilroy, still holding that Sin and Dantes were both evil. Satorii believed that both species were living, so to him Sin was hypocrite in the worst way.

"This is all assumption" Matt spoke about how he still held that they should not assume anything with this, but they should only base it on what they knew.

"We can't rule anything out like that. We have assume the impossible as possible" Aya still seemed bothered by Matt's rebuking her earlier, and saw this as an opportunity to bite back.

"Ya know what, fine, woman, be naive" He got himself another firm smack for his comments, but Matt still did not seem to care.

"Now that you two are done, do you all think we should trust Sin, Savaria or Dantes, and should we even trust each other?" Kilroy's words permeated through the minds of his companions. No one could think of anything to say, as no one really had anything to make an argument either way.

Sakura finally broke the silence. "I think we should continue to trust each other, and at the very least Savaria. As for Sin and Dantes, I cannot say if we should trust them, since neither give us much reason either way, they are both just extremely willing to fight, and even to kill" Sakura gave her take on the matter, and she would stand by it if she were rebuked, but she honestly had no idea if she were right.

"Maybe that's all we can do" Kilroy sighed and looked to the others. Sakura's mind wandered to Savaria, though, wanting to know if she were safe.

--

Savaria was asleep in a bed for the first time in ages, with Nekamon held tightly in her arms. She began to dream, like so many times before, though she knew it was no normal dream. She was walking down a hall with blood secreting from the walls. She continued to the end and opened a door, seeing a small child kneeling over a woman who had a sword through her chest and crying. The child then looked to his father who came at him and took the sword from his mother and thrust it into his father, killing him.

Savaria watched in horror as a switch blade appeared and began to carve into the child, opening gash after gash into the child, until he simply died. Savaria gasped as she fell back against the wall and saw this in horror; but then the small blade was at her throat, until the sword came out of the man's body and took on it's own life, killing the switch blade, and two dark eyes looked to her before everything vanished.

Savaria looked to the ground under her as the room began to shake. The walls had opened and a river of blood began to fill the room. She tried to escape to hire ground as the blood ate away at the corpses on the floor. She had stepped onto a table and pounded on the ceiling, begging for anyone to save her. No one was responding. The level of blood had reached her feet, eating away at the leather of the shoes as she desperately pounded for someone to save her until it became apparent that no one was going to.

She saw a computer screen on the table she had climbed onto and a hand came out of it and grabbed her leg, pulling her into it as she heard a cackling. She fell deep into it, seeing familiar faces go by. When she finally stopped she saw a younger version of her self reaching out to two people who simply vanished. She followed herself and clung to the apparition as it vanished, and Dantes appeared before her.

"Please, someone help me" She managed to say as the others and the Digimon appeared around her as well. She ran to them, only to be shunned away. They weren't going to help, though she tried and tried again to try and obtain their help, and some solace and a piece of mind. They all just looked to her with mouth's gaping and pointing, only Dantes looked sane.

"They can't help you, they are not worthy enough to be near you" He popped open a soda can and looked to her, speaking in a stinted English. She looked to him in fear, wishing that he would helper, though it quickly became apparent that he would not. He quickly came upon her and grabbed her around her neck before his face morphed into and absolutely demonic one with canines the length of her index finger, and whiter then her skin.

Savaria was horrified and tried to kick him off to no luck. She struggled and writhed as she kicked a meaty arm as the other neared her belt. As she kicked, his arm as his hand reached into her pants, moving along her underwear. She could not help blushing as she was touched, though she far from wanted it. Why was this happening, she did not know, but she tried to wake up as Dantes' long tongue snaked from his mouth and licked the side of her face. She gasped and fought to get him off as his fingers entered her vagina. It moved her against a wall of her friends and hands groped at her as she struggled.

Dantes inserted his tongue down her throat and pulled down her pants. Before he could take advantage of her, though, a sword came through his chest, and before she could see who did it, she was awake in a cold sweat, with Nekamon in her arms, who was awake and gasping for air. Savaria simply wished she knew what happened, but then something else happened, and she was out of her bed.

--

Sin held onto the hilt of his sword and looked across the ceiling to Dantes who began to speak. "Mr. Toriyama, how may I help you?" Dantes spoke as he stroked the perfectecly arched back of Ultimon while looking to Sin with a large, Cheshire grin.

"How do you know my name?" Sin looked to him with malice as the moonlight struck his sword in a horrifically majestic light show.

Dantes swung a pendulum before his face. "If the right wins the tug-o-war of these sides before anything happens that may effect them, I shall tell you all that I know about you" He began to laugh as he looked to the golden medallion he used as a pendulum. "This is like the tug-o-war between us, myself the light, and you the dark, we vie off of each other for what we need to survive, but the thing is, you willingly give me what I need from you"

"What the hell are you talking about, I don't even know you!" Sin completely pulled out the sword he held along his bet as Dantes began to absolutely cackle.

"Oh, but I know you, and you shall know how before this game is done" He continued to exhume a malice absolute as he looked to Sin and laughed. "Oh, and don't think about telling the others, they won't believe you, besides, I can simply claim that my temper got the better of me"

Sin smirked as he left a fighting stance. "Savaria would believe me" He looked to him, content with his belief, which seemed to strike a cord with Dantes.

"No, she would not! Besides, my powers of persuasion run deep, and she would be unable to resist, she shall be mine and you shall loose it all" Dantes seemed to be on edge, and then Sin ran at Dantes, but as the blade of his sword would have hit the American boy, he simply vanished. Sin stopped and heard a rumbling, running towards the source.

--

Sin raced to the other end of the roof to see a swirling chaos, and everyone was there, including Nekamon, but Savaria was missing. "What's going on" He put a hand on Mitsuko's shoulder when he asked, hoping that everything was alright.

"We heard a scream and then we came up here and saw this and found out that Savaria was missing and we saw this" Sin's gaze turned to shock as he looked to a concerned Mitsuko. But as they spoke from the chaos came a large anthrop leopard. It held Savaria in one arm and a double edge sword with a penis drawn on it. The creature wore a robe with a bulge in it, and a sword on it's back with a vagina engraved into it. Sin knew that in Dante's Inferno, the Leopard was a symbol of the Sins of Lust.

Sin held out his katana as he looked to the creature, ready to strike. "Welcome, one and all. I am Puratomon, the ruler of the first three Circles of the Digital World. The Pope has given me the pleasure of executing you, I shall take great pride in this" It smirked and looked to them and dropped an unconscious Savaria.

Kilroy analyzed the creature and looked to his computer screen in horror. "Purgatomon, Ultimate Level, a Vaccine type, his attacks are Acheron, Glutton for Pain and Hell's Lust. We should retreat" He said, but before he could do anything, every Digimon had already reached it's champion form.

Draconismon and Celestiamon were the first attacking, bombarding the creature with blast, though Purgatomon had taken the shield off of it's back, absorbing every shot into it, and then launching the strikes back at the two Digimon. A Luna Beam and Dragon Cinder were quickly shot back at the adjacent Digimon, and due to the power of the blasts, they were shot back.

Greymon and Shinjumon were quickly upon Purgatomon in an attempt to help the other Digimon, Greymon attempted to ram it as Shinjumon used Digitosse. Both Digimon connected, but Purgatomon called out "Acheron" and swung it's sword, devastating the two Digimon and causing them too to revert to their Rookie forms. All hope began to disappear as the humans looked in horror.

In desperation, Faeriemon, Sorceressmon, Nekamon and Shedimon all charged Purgatomon, but he successfully took all four of them down, only Nekamon maintaining form as they all fell through the three floors of the Hotel.

"Damn it... Virgilmon, let's go!" Sin called out to his Digimon as they both ran at Purgatomon. Virgilmon used it's Longinus maneuver, each of which Purgatomon cut out of the sky, but he neglected to notice Sin, who quickly made a grab for Savaria and tried to run off.

"No you don't, the Pope want's her!" Purgatomon quickly slashed Sin, causing him to drop his sword and fall onto the ground, writhing in pain.

"Sin!" Everyone looked to him as he bled, shouting his name. But then they saw a miracle, Savaria began to glow an ethereal light, rising from under Sin, though still limp. A beam shot from her to him, and his wound began to heal, but the damage was still done, Sin was still out of the battle. Savaria fell back down, on top of him, and he held her tightly to his body.

"Master!" Virgilmon called as it became enraged, lifting his sword with it's mind and cutting the bindings of it's arms, still able to fight since Purgatomon had yet to land a blow. "Virgilmon... mode change to... Virgilmon Unbound" He held onto his master's sword and looked to Purgatomon with the utmost malice as the leathery wings spread further and his long arms neared the ground.

"Wow, you can break your restraints, pity that it won't help you" Pugatomon smirked as it raised it's sword and shield.

Virgilmon came running at the creature, with it's sword ready to strike. "Michael's Sword!" It called out as a light disc came from a slash, cutting at Purgatomon. The menace struggled to stop the attack, though it did in the end win out against it, canceling the blast.

"You aren't as weak as most of these champions, but I can solve that" It dropped the sword and shield, and prepared a large ball of energy above it's head. Virgilmon took what little time it's had and called out it's new attack, sending the Holy sword at Purgatomon. "Glutton for Pain" It hit Virgilmon with the blast, the sphere of it engulfing the Digimon and causing it a world of pain. Purgatomon did not notice the sword though, distracted by wanting to defeat Virgilmon, and it took a major wound to it's right side due to the panning of the energy wave.

"You got too cocky" Sin looked to Purgatomon, despite the dedigivolution of his Digimon. Each Digimon hurried to it's master, Dismon grabbing the sword as Purgatomon's pain held it's attention completely.

"Mark my words, apostles of the false God, I shall defeat you another time, until then" Purgatomon used it's good arm to prepare a warping blast, hitting the building with it and opening the portal to the Second Circle, and everyone fell through.

Sin held dearly onto Savaria as Dismon and Nekamon on to them. He also saw Kilroy grab Mitsuko and their Digimon, and Fernirmon grab Sakura, Satorii and Kittenmon. In his typical fashion, Matt clung onto Aya, with their Digimon free falling with them. Some where along the line, though, Sin lost his hold on Savaria, and he passed out. The rest of the fall to the Second Circle became a blur to him.

Savaria woke up in a foreign area, cold, and alone.

Sakura's Theme I:

"Buried Myself Alive" by The Used You almost always pick the best times

To drop the worst lines

You almost made me cry again this time

Another false alarm

Red flashing lights

Well this time I'm not going to watch myself die

I think I made it a game to play your game

And let myself cry

I buried myself alive on the inside

So I could shut you out

And let you go away for a long time

Chorus:

I guess it's ok I puked the day away

I guess it's better you trapped yourself in your own way

And if you want me back

You're gonna have to ask

I think the chain broke away

And I felt it the day that I had my own time

I took advantage of myself and felt fine

But it was worth the night

I caught an early flight and I made it home

Chorus

Nicer than that

Nicer than that With my foot on your neck

I finally have you

Right where I want you Chorus Nicer than that

And if you want me back

You're gonna have to ask

Nicer than that