Haku laid on his side, his breathing was deep but it was not from sleep. His eyes were dilated and held fear within them. He had watched in the mirror not too far away as he was punished. He thought that digimon couldn't hurt humans this badly but it was true, he had to sit there and watch the whole while as the clown like digimon got one of his servants to beat him, not bring one hand down on the boy. He made a small whimper of pain as he was lifted up by a digimon not knowing which one. His mind couldn't form much thought as he rested with his arms tied behind his back and his hung on the shoulder of the digimon, his head not hanging much higher then the floor.
His mind registered the sound of a door opening and himself being dropped to the floor, in the corner which he knew so well. Piedmon was sitting in his chair resting his elbows on the arm rest as he turned his eyes over to look at the broken blonde boy, a smile growing on his face as the boy whimpered softly as he was roughly tied back to the wall by the same chains as before.
"My, my dear Haku. I hope they were not too rough with you, you still have to watch me destroy your friends first, before you can rest." The digimon over lord stated, turning back to look at the screens that watched the large castle. The blonde closed his eyes, as he tried to will himself to sleep. It would hurt less then he figured.
-Switch-
"Come on!" Sera called running franticly in one direction, but not knowing where she was going. The wolf-like digimon was trying to calm her but it was not working very well. Haku was somewhere in this castle, he could be in trouble and it was too much for Sera to handle. Matt finally grabbed onto her arm, and pulled her aside.
"Listen. We are all worried for your friend, but what yo are doing is not helping. Look at them." He stated pointing over to the large group of Digidestine and their digimon. "They are tired. We need to rest. If we don't there is no way that we are going to be able to help your friend or even get ourselves out of this mess." Matt stated his eyes holding a bit of dominance and power. Sera finally sighed and nodded her head.
"Alright." She stated softly, wrenching her arm from Matt's grip and walked over to a corner and sat down, Talamon came over and sat beside her. The red haired girl let out a sob. "It's all my fault." She stated softly, into her arms as she wrapped them around her knees that were rested against her chest. Talamon nuzzled at the girl's shoulder.
"No, it's not. You had no idea what was going on." The digimon stated softly, as she sat and the girl lurched forward and clung to the wolf-like digimon. "Shhh. Everything will be okay. Trust me." The digimon stated.
Haru stood over by his digimon, Cyrusmon not too far off weeping with hawkmon over Haku's disappearance. The older boy's eyes watched his long time friend cry within her own world, with the wolf-like digimon next to her.
"Shouldn't you do something?" Tai stated coming over to the slightly older boy, and clenching the front of Haru's shirt within his fist, and slamming the other against the wall making the other Digidestine look over to them. Haru shook his head, reaching up and taking Tai's hands from his shirt, being much stronger the other boy.
"No. This is something that she has to over come. I will not stand in her way. And neither should you." Haru stated, his eyes narrowing at the messy brown haired boy.
"You mean we just sit back and watch her tear herself apart because she can't find your damned FRIEND!" Tai ended up shouting at the ever so calm French boy. Again Haru shook his head. TK beginning to walk over to the two, along with Matt and Sora.
"You don't understand." Was all the brownish-reddish haired boy stated before turning away.
"What do you mean I don't understand? Can't you see she's hurting! And you are just going to sit around and do nothing!" Matt and Sora tried to calm Tai down but it was not working. At that point Haru's cam demeanor was all but gone. He turned around quickly on his heels and all but ran over to Tai, landing a punch on the younger boy's cheek bone and hearing a crack. Tai feel backward with a gasp from everyone but Sera who was still in the corner, not knowing any of this was going on.
"Don't you ever imply that I don't care about her!" Haru stated in a deadly calm and angered voice. "You don't understand. This has happened before! Only last time we could not save our friend. She ended up dead when we found her." Haru explained still in his deadly voice. Everyone was in shook. "Unlike here, back in France the other Digidestine other then ourselves died, one by one. Two died before our eyes and the other died when she was kidnapped and traded in for another false one, much like what they did with Haku." He turned back around and punch the wall behind him, leaving a dent in the wall. He was calming down but it was going to take time after his big blow up. Tai sat up slowly, one of his hands coming to rest on his cheek. "She didn't tell you did she?" Asked the older teen looking over his shoulder at Tai, who shook his head.
A/N: Sorry it took so long! I've been re-writing this chapter forever because I never liked the way it turned out... But I finally got this one and it was the best of the bounch... So that's what took me so long. Sorry again!
