Digimon: Visions

Chapter 15: Rain Song

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"You cannot simply bead your happiest moments into a sort of rosary. One cannot live this way, most of all, I cannot"- Shinji Ikari's other self/ Neon Genesis Evangelion

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That had reached the end of the barren wasteland of snow and ice. Sin simply looked to the ground beneath his feet. The permafrost was replaced by dirt and dead grass, a subtle comfort for him. The weather did not look to foreboding for once in his life as he looked down to his Digivice again to see if there was anyone near by. It was still really just Savaria and he.

He looked to his right to see the earthly goddess who paid him mind to stand next to him despite how little he deserved such an honor. He was so used to walking alone, though, that it was welcome to have company for once, as he usually was even without Dismon. He simply looked to her ebony hair and alabaster skin feeling warmth despite the temperatures still not breaking sub-zero.

Savaria placed a fragile hand upon his stern shoulder and a smile grew upon her face, despite being able to see all of the injuries covering his body. He tried to smile, though he had lost those muscles during one of the many blasts in his life's Russian Roulette.

Sin held his head as he remembered all of the times he spent alone, the Thanksgivings spent eating a McDonald's cheeseburger, the Christmas tree that made Charlie Brown's look like it belonged in Rockefeller Plaza. He never liked to celebrate holidays, and this was why, he had nothing to celebrate since that night.

"Are you all right?" Savaria noticed his disposition and worried if he was all right. He put his hand upon hers but did not speak. His dark colored orbs simply looked out to the digital world. He wondered what to do; he thought he was weak, and that he could not defend her. "Sin?" She begged him to answer her, but he did not.

He heard her sigh as he began to walk on, she hurried to follow him as he looked down to his Digivice to see where the others were, but they were not getting any closer, he did not think. He simply tried to get closer to them, to get Savaria safe.

"Sin . . . " Savaria looked to the red clay dirt with her earth-colored eyes. She worried about him as she held Nekamon to her chest. She had worried about him more since she found out about his scars, she wanted to know why he would do such a thing to himself. Sin suddenly stopped.

"Savaria, why are you so interested in my past, when I know nothing about yours" He gestured with his left hand as he looked back to her. She was taken aback by this, no one in this world had asked her about her history yet, and she was sure it would be Sakura or Mitsuko who would be first. He waited for her to answer. His ever cold eyes looked to her calmly.

She held her hands to her chest, with her nails collapsing in onto her palms and her big brown orbs were half shut and watery. She had weighed in her options, and her curiosity to know about Sin was strong. She simply wondered if she should tell him anything, or if she should keep with her silence until she was more comfortable with the notion. As if she had lost control of them, though her lips moved and the sound came from them, saying "What would you like to know about first?"

Sin had not expected her to bend to it, he had expected some remarks that would basically tell him that she was unwilling, and thus he would be able to keep his personal secrets. He walked through the field of idea of what to ask her about as they fell upon his mind like rain. "I guess, tell me . . . Tell me about your parents?" He ran his hand through his dry black hair as he scooped up some of the snow to try to work the gel out of it.

Savaria was stricken by the subject, what could she really say? She never knew her parents, her mother died when she was young and her father was in a car accident, that was why she lived with her aunt and uncle now. She told him that, thinking it would suffice. "I told you about my parents, tell me about yours" She said through tear drops which froze as the hit the planet.

Sin heaved a heavy sigh, he knew that it was very much hard for Savaria to confide in him, so he would have to give her an even exchange. "I was eight when they died . . . My father killed my mother, he came for me, and I killed him, I was sent to a juvenile hall, blamed for both murders" The sting was sharp in his voice, but he was comforted as Savaria looked to him with beautiful eyes and wrapped her thin arms around his frame, pressing her head against his chest in a hug. He placed a hand upon her head and ran it through her hair as the rains began to fall upon the two of them.

Dismon had been looking to Nekamon, neither of them had ever heard these traumatic stories of what had happened to their parents. None was more shocking then Sin's. They knew that he was different then the other humans. They just did not know the extent of it.

Savaria looked into Sin's eyes, the eyes of a fallen angel, the eyes of tragedy. Through the obvious, she knew he was not lying in his recollection. It was still difficult not to feel a little bit afraid, she had no idea of the extent of what he had done, but in his embrace she felt warmth of an ethereal quality. She did not want for this to end, this nirvana she knew was long but temporary.

Sin whispered to his demons to back away and allow him this happiness to see what he could, despite all that he had done in his life. Despite all of the harm, he was actually happy. This was the first time he ever felt happy, that he was able to escape the pain which plagued his wretched existence, as he tried to find the green grass, he had only just found in this goddess he had been blessed to hold within his arms.

He for the first time did not feel betrayed by life, like he had all of these wasted years. He cleared every thought he could. It was hard to fail, but not easy to win, but for once he did not care about anything but the moment within Savaria and he. If he could take the signs up to this point, he wondered if he would take any of them despite all that had happened leading up to this

Dismon and Nekamon looked on to their partners beside them, they were both nearly moved to tears, though they thought that this was just what happened when the stars did cross. They worried about what would happen if anything continued of this relationship. Both were happy to see them open up, but they were also both trapped within two worlds, and Sin and Savaria did not seem like they were Tabernamon's.

Savaria still wept onto the chest of the boy she knew as Sin. She had never allowed herself to be so happy as she did now, she had blamed herself for the deaths of her parents and had too often meditated on that pain, but for once, there was no pain within her mind, only the bliss she had in this release from getting to be within this boys arms and strong embrace.

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Elsewhere in the Digital World, Matt's hand smacked as it hit Kilroy's and they met up, the others all looking happily to one another in their group of seven. They had met up at a camp that Kilroy and Dantes had prepared, with a few thick logs around a fire for all of them to sit on. They were all so relieved to see another, despite the brooding weather above them.

Sakura rubbed Mitsuko's hands with ointments she had in a small hand bag, tending to her burn wounds. Aya sat near them as she rubbed the ears of Kittenmon and Hexamon while watching the other two girls. They told each other stories of what had happened in their journeys through out this second circle of the world.

Everyone seemed to have a regaling adventure of triumph over this oppressive evil. Sakura hated these notions of good and evil, but from how Fernirmon described the Centarumon he once knew, she understood the hatred the Digimon felt for the creature. As Fernirmon told the group about Centarumon, Aya raised her head and looked to the Digimon.

"Fernirmon, the four of us went into a temple and I found holy text mentioning seven Iscariots, seven betrayers, would Centarumon be one of these?" Aya asked the Digimon as she recalled the text she found, upset that Birdramon had destroyed it, she added that to her comments, to assure that no one would ask to see the now destroyed text they had lost to the ashes of the earth.

"I'm going to go take a piss" Dantes put a hand on Kilroy's shoulder as he told him he was leaving and walked off. Kilroy looked over in wonderment as to what Dantes was doing, but he quickly returned to the conversation to feed his intellectual curiosity.

"Damn shame it was destroyed, but if I know the passage you mean, then I am quite certain that he would be, he would probably be the first, the betrayer of his friends, the next should be the betrayer of his kin, then the betrayer of his faith, then the betrayer of his life, then the betrayer of himself, then the betrayer of his faith, then the betrayer of Tabernamon" Fernirmon took in a breath with a pause. "The betrayer of Tabernamon may appear before some of the others, but he is like Judas in your Christian Jesus story, the worst of them all, but unlike Judas, he shall not regret anything"

"This all does seem quite parallel to our bible, but why does it have to be this way?" Satorii asked the Digimon as he sat beside Fernirmon and bit into an apple.

"Do you believe in free will?" Ridomon asked as she rested her head upon the log which Sakura and Mitsuko were tending to her burns on. She did look to Satorii as he bell rubbed against the wood and she moved her head to look at him

"A better question is 'who does not believe in free will'" Kilroy interjected as he sat upon his stump with Satorii, an arm around the younger boy, treating him like a brother.

"Does God know everything?" Agumon was quick to ask his partner. He knew he was asking a group of atheists, but he asked the question anyway, knowing its relevance to the questioning.

"It is believed that if there is a God, yes, He would know everything, past, present and future and is infallible" Matt made sure that no one shoved the belief in atheism further down the throats of everything around them as they had been.

"So he would know what choices you're going to make, and you cannot alter them, because God knows you will do so, therefore, if God told prophets that their would be those seven betrayers, there will be those seven betrayers with out any doubt, and it cannot be altered, regardless what you do, in fact, us having this conversation and if we were to go out to alter it could be the stimuli that causes the person to betray, leading into the question of whether they would have betrayed had you not told them they would betray" Kittenmon said from beside Aya while her head was being rubbed.

"Then wouldn't that just say everything is futile? Plus, if God knows, why wouldn't He intervene?" Aya asked still petting the two Digimon. Her lavender hair had gotten into her face so she paused from petting the Digimon for a minute to comb the threads of pale lavender back behind her cream colored ear.

"God cannot exist on the plane which we do in your world, but in our world She can. Tabernamon can have an absolutely corporeal form" Dracomon began while surveying the humans. "But, in that form, Tabernamon does not know anything absolute, she can have vague visions of what is and will be, but she cannot know. The fact she does not know, allows a limited freedom of will, but free will can only come from never having foreknowledge..."

Hexamon picked up from where Dracomon was, "And it is the existence of said foreknowledge that destroys the notion of free will, for you are destined to do something, and though you feel as though you are making the choices of everything you do, ultimately, someone, though they cannot tell you, does know"

"So there will be these 'iscariots' regardless?" Sakura asked as she finished tending to the tender burns upon Mitsuko's hands. She took out a small saki bowl that Sin had been using in the Hotel and poured water over the wounds, hoping that what she had done would relieve some pain.

"Thank you" Mitsuko bowed her head to Sakura. "But then what's the point of this all? If we don't make our own choices, what's the point?" Mitsuko looked genuinely confused and as if she were not just saying this for argument's sake. She rubbed her hands along the fabric of her clothing as she dried her hands and blew on them to see if they would be okay. She wondered why she had helped Tapirmon, though she had no regrets in doing so; she simply wished she had not gotten injured in the process.

"We act out what's been written. We cannot know our destiny, only God does, so therefore, to our knowledge, we do have free will, it is just that ultimately, someone has the knowledge of what we will decide. But of course, in this world, for what I know, time is cyclical. Notable would be the fact that you are here, and saviors are mentioned in the holy text" The discussion returned from whence it came, with Fernirmon getting in the last word. He looked to Sakura, and she looked back to him. No one but Satorii seemed to notice how close they had gotten in these past six days since they arrived in this world.

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"What will we do about finding Savaria?" Dantes after he had returned. It was unusual that his right hand, Ultimon, had stayed behind, Mitsuko noted that to her mind as she looked over to him. He was right, though, they did need to decide what they were going to do to find her.

"She's probably with Sin, I trust him enough to keep her safe" These words were a bit surprising from Kilroy, he had oft seemed adamant in a slight resentment of the enigmatic boy. Kilroy never did hate him, he just was not sure if he should trust him. Though Sin had helped him, he needed some evidence that he was truly there to help them, especially with this new found knowledge of the Iscariots, which he had already keyed into his lime green laptop with the small alien head on it.

"Besides, Nekamon and Dismon are there, they'll help to keep her safe" Agumon said, brushing it off like his partner for the most part. The orange dinosaur knew that they were both very much trust worthy, irregardless whether or not Sin was, those two Digimon would keep Savaria safe.

"Is that all the lot of you make of this!" Dantes shouted throwing his arms out in a fury. "You TRUST Sin enough to let Savaria alone with him for this long?" He through his hands into the air as if it were attacking him as he shouted his hatred. "For all we know he'll rape her, how can we trust someone we don't know anything about?"

"We trust you and you aren't exactly open, now are you?" The typical smarmy they knew of Hexamon permeated in that retort. Dantes balled his hand into a fist as he clenched his teeth so tightly his gums began to bleed.

"But I've been here, and I've experienced everything by your side, as your comrade" Dantes spit his own blood onto the ground casually. "For all we know Sin's killed humans, he carries that goddamn sword, now doesn't he? How do we know that blood has not stained his bleed due to his malice, look how readily he killed, look how he attack, I may have attacked Rhinomon with malice but I defended you, I saved you, he..." Dantes was abruptly cut off by a smack from Sakura. This only preceded to aggravate Dantes more.

"He saved Faeriemon and Savaria, and you damn well know that, and regardless what he may have done in his past what matters is that he merits our trust now" Dantes pointed to his other cheek and told her to smack him, trying to paint her into a bad person. She did not smack him, knowing he was trying to make himself the martyr.

"You're just jealous of Sin, that's kinda' cute... in a pathetic sort of way" Kittenmon said from the shoulder of Mitsuko, her voice a whisper after the word cute. The Digimon put her hands over her mouth as she noticed Ultimon's ears perk up.

"We'll go to find them in the morning, now Dantes, regardless your feelings for Savaria, not another word about this" Kilroy snapped at him as he typed furiously on the black keys of his laptop. Kilroy wanted to find Savaria just as much as Dantes, but he was not about to be so rash in doing so, Dantes practically wanted Sin's head on a silver platter.

"If she's dead, then her blood is on your hands, Kilroy" Dantes waved his hand and man's best friend followed behind him as they left the camp. He seemed utterly furious as he left them, with his timberland boots leaving marking in the dirt.

"Dantes, don't do this!" Sakura shouted. She was right to be upset, united they stand, divided they would surely fall prey to the slings and arrows of this world. He ignored her, though, and walked on.

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Savaria had fallen asleep with her elbow under her ebony hair as she attempted to keep the dirt from her hair. Sin simply looked to her through half shut eyes of his own. He knew he would not sleep tonight, it would be like last night, he would watch for any enemies, and make sure that sleeping beauty was unharmed. He threw a piece of wood on his fire and rested his chin upon his knee as he looked to the moon of this world.

It was a full moon, a beautiful moon in every way. He could see every crater in the bright light of it. He looked over to Savaria, he wondered why he felt driven enough to tell her about his history which he oft kept only to himself in attempt to hold up the barriers that separated him from the others. He still did hate himself for what he had done, and he wondered why Savaria did not hate him the same. He had killed, how could anyone feel anything for him for what he had done.

He held his hand in front of his cold, dark eyes, moving his fingers as he saw the bright red stains upon it. He had often washed his hands, trying to absolve himself of the stains of yesteryear. He still had the pain from that night, when the rain fell and the sky was the color of that which he saw upon his hands. His parents were working on a new project for Lycoming Defense Systems, working late, when he walked in, when something when wrong. The tranquility within his depressed mind was then broken.

"Are you alright, master Sin?" Dismon asked, motioning it's head to the fire that was about die out. Sin still did not take much notice to the lowly dancing flames. Dismon simply heaved a sigh as it could and carried a few logs and tinder to the flames. The crow looked to his partner, worrying about him, and if he were alright.

"Dismon, one thing I've picked up about humans, they're an odd bunch to read" Nekamon said while the cat sat by her partner, and trying to make sure that she were warm. They were still in the cold, she had to make sure that Savaria was warm enough to survive.

Dismon looked to the cat through its leather mask. "I think that I would know that better, Sin isn't exactly good at communicating, probably worse then your Savaria" He was not wrong, but nor was he right, though Sin was not that talkative, nor was Savaria, she was just as reserved from the others as Sin. The Digimon now knew why, though, they had both lost their parents

Sin did not care about what the Digimon were talking about, he simply was lost within his own dank mind with his thoughts fighting within each other. He wondered if this was all he was brought on to this earth for. He clenched his hand into a fist as he looked over to Savaria, worrying if she would be okay, and of what use he would be anyway.

Sin recalled the embrace they shared not long ago, and all that he could feel permeating from her body. There was something different about her, that he could feel within her. She was special somehow, it we just the how he did not know. He looked to her as the light of the flames danced over her body. She looked like she was glowing, like when she healed him, that same heavenly glow. She was truly like a goddess.

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Matt simply sighed and put a fish over the fire. He was sick of fish and apple, but he knew that they needed substance, regardless what it may be, to live. It had been three days since he had anything other than fish and fruit, but he knew that they could not exactly go back to the hotel, they were basically in a parallel version of that world.

He heaved another, though less heavy sigh, as he looked to Aya. The setting sun hit her hair and shimmered through the beautiful tiers of light violet. She was undeniably beautiful, he'd argue with God is He said she was not. But at the same time, he knew he dug himself into a hole where he could not have her, he knew he had killed the possibility of them having a relationship with his own hands.

He planted the fish into the ground and slumped back onto the ground, with pelvis in the air due to the contortion of his body. He ran a hand along the rough bark and green grass as his thoughts were continuing to focus only on Aya, he felt like he was becoming obsessive in his thoughts of her, but he still told himself that he had sabotaged it himself, and that they could never be together, and it was his own damn fault.

He ran a hand along the blonde tips of his otherwise brown hair and along the flaking gel which had held it spiked. Another sigh as he realized that his hair was faltering and that he was soon going to need to apply gel that did not exist. Matt then simply looked to his right to see Dracomon's behind immediately next to his face, he prayed to whatever that would make sure that the Digimon did not have any flatulence.

The light left his blue hues as he dismissed the troubles of the world around him and his eye lids covered those hues. He quickly drifted into a dream, the world changing to the one he knew. He was back within his bed, wondering which one of these was the true world as he looked around him, his sisters' cats in his rooms, and a dog barking outside.

He rubbed his eyes as he looked around, seeing, above other things, Dragon statuettes, two of them, with a dinosaur next to them, and a wolf too. He went to open the one window in his room, and he saw a large black bird. He ignored the bird as he pushed up the window, despite the brisk December air.

He put on a sweat shirt and black jeans and left his room after shutting the window. He noticed that the rest of his family was seemingly out, there was even a note that sad that they had left to go out to breakfast at the Mayfair Diner, and then they were then going Christmas shopping, it said they had tried to wake him, but he was dead asleep.

He crumpled the loose leaf paper and grabbed some cinnamon-sugar pop-tarts and walked out side into a bright sun of the late autumn, with not a cloud in the sky, or a leaf on the trees. He sat upon the stoop in front of his house and bit into one of the prepackaged pastries. He looked next door; new neighbors had moved in the day before he wondered what they were like, or how old the people there were, the street already had an old couple, it did not need another one.

But then the door opened, and he saw some one who was too familiar. He spit out the partially chewed food in his mouth in shock to see the same lavender haired girl he had met in the dream he only just awoke from. It was Aya Lisavinski. "You" He said allowed as he looked to her, throwing his breakfast to the cold concrete.

"What are you staring at?" The girl snapped in her accent, she was just like the person in his dream. He wondered if the other people he'd meant in it will real. Maybe it was just because his father told him to take his medication last night, and he just had as fevered imagination due to it.

"Sorry, did you just move here?" He attempted to save face, though he knew that he has already he had dug his hole in this world too. He found it odd that he had seen her in a dream for the first time. Maybe he had seen her the night before and only realized it in his mind. But that did not explain the others, and how he had seen them.

"What of it?" She asked looking to him with scorn. She was just like in his dream, but how could he attribute any of her emotions when this was the first time he had ever talked to her. For a brief moment, he wished that Kilroy or Sakura were there, the two of them knew plenty about this stupid shit in his dream. He did not know if they were real, though.

"I'm sorry, I was just curious, I had not seen you before, no need to bite my fuckin' head off" Even in a dream she smacked him, it was all too predictable. He held his hand over the red hand mark on his face and sighed. "Listen, I'm sorry if I came off as rude, can I treat you to breakfast or something?" He looked ready to kill her as he spoke through his tightly clenched teeth.

"If you're buying sure, where to?" Matt was amazed she took his offer and had not really thought that far, but he remembered a place not too far from here other than the Mayfair where he could grab a bite to eat with her, though it was only in biking distance, not walking.

Before they left, he left a note for his parents, telling them where he was going and Aya did the same as they grabbed their bicycles. After a few minutes of peddling to the restaurant, the put chains on them and put them to post outside the place, though most of the space was taken up by a Suzuki Hayabusa motorcycle.

Matt opened the door for her as they entered into the quaint small diner called "Tait's". They sat them selves, but not before Matt noticed another person from his dream at the counter, it was the boy, Sin. Straps on his pants swept the ground as he bit into a bacon cheese omelet.

"You're boy friend?" Aya took quick note of how intently Matt was looking to Sin. Matt simply looked angrily to her, but before he could retort the waitress, a blonde woman who wore a navy blue t-shirt and blue jeans, asked for their drinks. A coke for each of them, and she was off.

"I know him from somewhere..." Matt said as he sipped on the soda that arrived quickly in the slightly chewed cup he always had there. After a "What are yous gettin", they ordered their food, but Matt continued to look to Sin, he wondered how it was possible for a person he knew he had never seen to be real.

"Oh, where then?" The Russian and French girl asked as she looked to him with disinterest. She barely looked to the boy as she swirled her soda and ice with the straw that was in the clear yellow glass. She leaned her head upon the pale skin of her hand as her beautiful eyes looked to the boy across from her.

"From a dream I had last night, same reason I was so weirded out when I saw you" Matt was always one to wear his heart on his sleeve, and he easily let it slip. It was now that he caught Aya's attention. She quickly stood in the booth and grabbed the collar of his shirt with one hand, looking to him in confusion and malice.

"What the hell do you mean?" She hit the chrome metal napkin holder as she shouted at him. He knew why, so he could not act dumb, he'd accidently told her he had a dream that featured her. The other patrons of the restaurant all looked to the duo in shock, though they mostly just dismissed it as a young couple out to breakfast and probably breaking up.

"Calm down, you don't want to make a bigger scene" He tried to get her to sit down, and slowly he did as he tried to console her despite her rage.

"Like hell I do" She barked at him. "Tell a person this sort of thing when you meet them! I'll stay for the food, bur you are a sick fucker" She was disgusted that he mentioned having a dream about her, he interpreted it as that she took it as he had a sexual dream about her.

"Not like that, I had a freaky dream, and you were in it, and he was in it, and she was in it" He pointed out the window noticing Savaria walking down the street with a plastic bag of groceries. He would have sworn he was going insane.

"You should go home and get some sleep" She bit into the hard hoagie roll of a cheese steak, the grease dripping from it as God intended. She was not about to provoke an insane person, so she simply ate, waiting for the breakfast to finish, wondering why she agreed to it with some idiot she never met.

"You think I'm insane don't you! Well he is an Alien!" Matt shouted with the most expression he could. He hit the window with his right hand with his back to the door as he looked to Aya. Even he now wondered wether he was all there.

"The hell are you talking about, who's an alien?" Aya asked through squinted eyes. She sighed and left monies to pay for the food, walking out of the restaurant. Sin walked out after her and when he did he straddled the midnight blue Hayabusa and road off down Torresdale Avenue.

"Maybe she's right, I am talking aloud to myself" He chewed on a french fry dipped in Heinz ketchup. He sighed and payed the check, leaving tip upon the table top as he walked out. He then grabbed his bicycle and pedaled home.

He plodded into the row home and went up into his room falling upon his bed, still wondering what was going on. He wondered what his dream really was, it had seemed so real, and yet now it was apparent that it was not real. But how could he know people he had never met? He decided he would take a nap and think about it when he awoke.

The second he fell asleep, he was back in the Digital world. He wondered if he was just having a continuation of the dream, but he did not care, he was finally happy to be here, this relationship with Aya would be easier to salvage then the one in the dream, or reality, or whatever.

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Savaria had awoken to let Sin get some sleep. She felt horrible that he felt obligated to protect her. She looked to him as he slept restlessly. Even the Digimon had succumb to sleep she was alone as the rain began to fall. She simply let the rain hit her as she thought about everything.

She was worried about Sin, he had killed, she had no idea how it had affected him. She began to sing lightly in a beautiful voice that angels would envy as she wondered about him. She still only knew one thing about him other then the fact he had typically cold demeanor, but now she knew why he was so cold. He did not know much about her, though, so in that she took some simple comfort, in that she had some secrets of her own.

The thoughts of her past plagued Savaria's thoughts, though. She wonder about what had happened. She recalled a time years ago when she was young and on their first computer, she was just clicking around on it, not really doing anything, but something happened, it began to glow, and she felt something from within her, but then the computer just shut off. She had passed out after that and only awoke in a hospital, with her aunt and uncle watching over her. She never knew what it was, but since, she's had vague dreams and these powers.

She was never a very social person due to this difference, Savaria felt that she would do something wrong and lose her friends, this was really the first time she was very social. She was not upset she had become such good friends with Sakura, Mitsuko, Aya and the others, they were all so nice, despite these conditions.

She was happiest to have met Sin, though, since he saved her from Dokugumon, she felt like he would be there for her, and so far, she was right. On the other hand, though, she had Dantes, he had all but shouted from the roof tops he had a crush on her, where as Sin was constantly ambiguous and impossible to read. She wondered which one of them she should go out with, or if she should, though she knew it was almost inevitable that she would. It was not as inevitable as Aya and Matt, or Mitsuko and Kilroy, but she knew it was likely. Dantes was a very interesting person, albeit that he had killed, he did try to protect her.

As her thoughts deepened, she lost her thoughts to voices. She began to hear the pleas she had heard a couple of times before again, he mind being prodded at by the thoughts within; the thoughts were those voices of prayers. She was hearing the pleas of these Digimon again, and she worried about what they all were asking for, though she tried to block the voices out. They grained upon her mind like nails on a chalk board, though, trying to break into her thoughts.

She held her ears and shut her eyes as she asked them to go away, despite knowing that they would remain in her head as they kept on asking her for their personal desires and needs. Some voices begged her for deliverance from the Order of Sheolmon, but she knew not what she could do, or if she could do anything. She wanted to help these oppressed people, but she knew that she had no ability to.

She wondered what singled her out to have these voices in her head. She was quite sure that the others had not had any such thing. So what made her special when she was just another human in this world, no different then the others, with the exception of her power.

The voices finally began to let her be, but she now was alone with her thoughts of what it all meant, and what separated her from the others. She wondered if it was because of her powers, but then, of course, why would they only be acting like this in this world, and not in the world they knew. The thought crossed her mind that maybe she was effected by something in this world all those years ago, but she quickly dismissed it, that was just a computer glitch, not anything of this world.

As her thoughts finally let her be, the rain cleared and she noticed how wet she was, but through her brown eyes, she saw a rainbow. The Digimon and Sin finally woke up, and then they left the camp to find the others in silence. Savaria wondered if she should tell Sin about the voices and what she thought, but decided against it.

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"So then, which way?" Mitsuko looked to Kilroy as she tossed an apple to the ground. As the group waited to know which way to go to find Savaria and Sin, they looked to Kilroy, still just wondering.

"North east," Kilroy began as he shut his laptop, conserving its energy, "and if these read outs are right, that is where we shall find another temple, maybe we shall get some useful information on how to attain the level to defeat Purgatomon" Mitsuko knew that Purgatomon was not Kilroy's chief concern, but she did not say anything about finding Veedramon and the Meramon brothers.

"Good, the sooner we get her away from Sin the better" Dantes said angrily. Mitsuko just looked to him and shook her head as they all walked from the camp to find the two. Dantes had seemed on edge all night since he first grew concerned about Savaria.

"What would you do if you were, ya know, wrong about Sin?" Sakura pet Kittenmon in her arms as she looked to the blonde boy. Dantes looked just as angered as he had been, and Fernirmon put a hand on Sakura's shoulder as he looked to Ultimon and Dantes. Satorii looked to his Digimon, wondering what had happened between the two of them that this was happening.

Dantes just stroked Ultimon's back as he looked to the girl and her protector. "If I'm wrong then I'll forsake everything, my pride, my self, my honor, my life, and then I won't have to worry about it anyway" The others in the group just looked to him, knowing he was deadly serious.

Silence. They all just looked to one another, wondering why Dantes would put everything on the line to believe Sin was evil. Maybe Dantes did know if Sin were evil, but no one else was that sold on the prospect. Sin had saved them and helped them against numerous opponents, more then Dantes had yet. But maybe they were wrong, and Sin was only trying to gain their trust, and like Jijimon had said, was the embodiment of Sheolmon, and thus the true evil of this world.

"More important matters must be dealt with then your feelings about Sin, Dantes" Kilroy said trying to lead them to the others. Everyone was slow to move and seemed so removed, so when he finally got them to leave the camp ground, they were slow in their haste.

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Matt looked to Aya from the back of the group, with Dracomon by his side. His thoughts were still focused on that dream, or his return to reality, which ever it may be. He wondered if he could do anything to salvage his relationship with Aya, or if anything in all of this was real in any way.

"You okay, Matt?" Dracomon asked his partner, looking to the man in slight discomfort. Something seemed very different about this Matt then the one he had come to know so far. These humans were overly and unnecessarily complex for what they were.

"I just didn't get much rest last night," Matt said as Aya doubled back to the two of them with Hexamon upon her shoulder.

"Why, did the baby have a bad dream?" Hexamon asked with the sarcasm she always had. Even Aya was not in the mood for the sarcasm. Hexamon simply shut up and rested upon Aya's shoulder as they followed Christopher's lead.

"Why are you really like this? Are you thinking about the fight with Allomon or Purtgatomon or something, I can't yell at you if they're why" Aya spoke with genuine concern, her eyes meeting his. Matt felt comforted as he looked into her pools of blue.

"I just had a bad dream, that's all, nothing interesting." Matt looked to his hand. It was a peculiar thing, for something like that to have such dexterity despite being of simple design. Aya hit his hand, to get his attention. She seemed flustered about the whole of it, and that he would not tell her anything.

"What happened in it, please tell me" She implored. It seemed out of character for her to be so concerned, but since this was only the end of their first week in this world, Matt did not know what to expect, really. He stopped in his tracks and so did Dracomon and Aya, both looking to him.

"If you won't tell her, tell me, I'm trust worthy" Dracomon said as he looked to Matt. The boy simply sighed and looked to the two that were before him.

"Fine, I dreamt I was in our world, but I woke up and fell asleep, so is this world the dream or is that one?" The two just looked to him, a bit perplexed. They all knew he should tell this to one of the others, Kilroy, Sakura or Fernirmon, all of them were much smarter.

Aya put a hand on Matt's shoulder. "You shouldn't worry about it so much, we'll find the answers, as long as you keep you hands to yourself, I'll help you" It seemed a bit left handed, but Matt took it for something good, smiling to her as they fell behind the others. He placed his hand on the one she put upon his shoulder and smiled to her warmly.

"Aw... Dracomon, don't you feel good that the sexual tension between them is finally over?" Hexamon could not resist the opportunity to get some comment off. She put her head upon Dracomon's body and pretended to weep. The dragon sighed as the two humans both hit the rabbit, blushing.

"Come on, Aya, Matt, Dracomon, Hexamon, you're falling behind!" Dantes shouted back to them with authority. They both knew why he did, but ran to catch up anyway.

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Sakura held her hands to her chest, thinking deeply about everything that had happened over the past couple of days. The thoughts of what they were drafted into weighed heavily on her mind. There was just so much going on that she did not completely understand, between these scriptures, and what Savaria was in this world. She remembered the statue in the temple, and the painting in the hotel. She also remember what Savaria talked to Mitsuko and her about, and how she had put her confidence in her.

"You okay?" Mitsuko waved her bandaged hand before Sakura's eyes. Sakura had spaced out and this brought her back to reality, but her thoughts were still racing. It was now confirmed, one of them was a betrayer, and thus the seventh Iscariot. She wondered who it could be, she ruled out Sin, since he wasn't one of them, as well as Savaria, since they had found that statue in a temple of Tabernamon, but everyone around her was fair game, even herself, as they had discussed the day prior, she could be the betrayer.

"Sakura?" Kittenmon patted on her forehead from on top of her. The two who also knew Savaria's secret of hearing what could be interpreted as prayers teamed up to try to get through to her, but she remained sleep walking. Sakura was just so focused upon her thoughts that barely anything was getting to her.

"Are you in there?" Satorii joined them in trying to get Sakura out of this state, but he did not seem to be able to get through to her either. Sakura wondered why Satorii was there as he attempted to get through to her. He was younger then everyone else, and he was weak physically and weak willed. The only thing that off set his weakness was Fernirmon's strength.

"Are you alright, Sakura?" Fernirmon spoke this time. Sakura had come to trust him for his strength and personal convictions. Despite his willingness to fight, Fernirmon was a Digimon of the utmost respectability. His constant selflessness also aided to her caring for him. He was gallant and kind with strong convictions, and she truly admired his ability to be so.

"Sakura, snap out of it" She finally returned to reality as Kittenmon shouted into her ear. Sakura held the Digimon in her arms as she looked to the others in embarrassment.

"Sorry, I was just thinking about a few things" She smiled as she tried to dismiss herself. No one seemed too convinced that she was just thinking about anything normal, but they did not say anything either, everyone just walked on as if it happened daily. Sakura sighed as they came upon a temple, wondering where Savaria and Sin were.

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Rain Song By Cold

From "Year of the Spider"

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When it rains

I don't mind

Let me stand

Here all night

Did she take

her own life,

Let me know,

She's all right.

Every time it rains,

I feel her holding me

And every time it rains

Are the Angels crying

I'll stay strong

I'll be fine

Carry on with my life

I still stare at the sky

Pray for rain

All the time

Why'd you run

Did you hide

Why'd you leave

No good bye

When the clouds

Take the sky

Does this song

Give you life

And every time it rains

I feel her holding me

And every time it rains

Are the Angels crying

And every time it rains

I feel her holding me

And every time it rains

Are the Angels cry For me

I'll never be the same

I'll never be the same

Be the same

Be the same

And every time it rains

I feel her holding me

And every time it rains

Are the Angels crying

And every time it rains

(And every time it rains)

I feel her holding me

(Never be the same)

And every time it rains

(And every time it rains)

Are the angels cryin