I have to apologize for not updating for what almost three weeks? I couldn't figure out what to write, I didn't know what to write and the two ideas that popped in my head sucked. I'm not that sure how I feel about this chapter. It seems like I have been very touch and go with my chapters recently.

Chapter Forty Four: Unraveling [Pt. 1]

(Unknown's P.O.V)

I sat at the desk, the words that were on the paper left me stunned. I couldn't believe what was written. There in ink was one of things that I've sought after for so long. Yet what else surprised me was the book that I had found it in. He stood by my side, waiting for something. I haven't spoken since I found the paper. I haven't said anything or reacted at all.

"Are you ok?" I closed my eyes.

The words swirled around in my mind. I can't believe what I had read. We were toyed with. Our very lives foretold but nothing had been done to stop anything. Did they let us suffer just so we really could live to fulfill it?

"Why?" They had to have known.

They had to have known what it spelled out. Had they just sat back and let everything happen? Were we only tools? I can't believe it but I knew it was true; the words I read were true. I don't know how I knew but I just knew.

"They probably did try to change it." I placed my head in my hands, tears welled in my eyes.

"They were strong enough to seal the Demon Lords away, why couldn't they save some helpless kids from events they knew would happen?" Why couldn't protect us from such a harsh fate?

"Stop it." He seemed so demanding but I heard how his voice shook slightly.

"They had to have tried. Don't think you know just because you read that, you don't know what happened to them. All you know that might be how they ended up dying; maybe they died trying to change it." I bit my lip.

I wish I had never found it. I had found the prophecy. The prophecy spoke of the last battle and this battle. Why did I have to find it? They knew the group before us knew that the group who would fight the Demon Lords after them would suffer even before the battle started. My shoulders began to shake as I began to cry.

"Don't cry." My head snapped up, out of my hands.

The voice seemed to echo around the room. My companion was on edge as well. Who was the voice? It was the same person who had lit the books that held different clues that we needed. I had pieced things together thanks to whomever it was helping us.

"They tried hard to rewrite the fate that was given to you and the other seven actors." I watched as white light appeared and swirled around in a mini tornado.

I was surprised when a ghostly appearance appeared. It was a woman in her late twenties. She had snow-white hair, it reached her waist and she had soft red eyes. She gave me a gentle smile, as if telling me she knew exactly who I was. Something unnerved me though. She wore a white shirt and silver pants. Was she a ghost? If she was a ghost then the power that I sensed from her was surprising, no ghost should have that kind of power.

"Who are you?" I watched her bow.

"My name is Snow, DigiDestined of Miracles." She stood up straight after a few seconds; something about her seemed to soothe me.

"How would you know?" She shook her head.

"How about I say it this way, we fought hard to change the fate for the eight actors after us." My eyes widened.

"You fought in the battle?" When I said the book had their names, I more meant that they referred to them based off of what they had been the DigiDestined of.

"It was a saddening battle, it was long and hard. It was cruel and heartbreaking. It was horrific." Her eyes dulled and her voice almost sounded dead.

"No matter how hard we fought everything we did was met with something stronger." She raised her hand and she stared at it for some reason.

"No one got the happy ending that they thought they would get. We all walked away with scars in some form." Her hand curled into a fist.

"If we were lucky they were physical scars." Just what had they seen?

"You guys sealed the Demon Lords away, why couldn't you change the unfair fates that were given to us before we were even born!" I couldn't help but scream.

I was hurt. I was scared. I had always wonder why it happened but to learn it was all a part of some stupid prophecy was crueler than anything that I had ever suffered. I always hated those prophecies because I refused to believe in 'destiny'. We chose how we lived our lives but those stupid prophecies always played out as they predicted. I hate knowing that what I suffered was just doing as whoever wrote it out.

"We tried." I glared at her.

"You didn't try hard enough then!" I yelled it at her.

I hung my head a few seconds later, tears slipped down my face and dropped onto the table. Why couldn't it have been changed? It hurt so badly. No one ever did anything. No one ever knew. No one ever helped me. No someone knew, the people who sealed away the Demon Lords knew but they didn't change it. They probably wanted us to fulfill the prophecy so they probably didn't want to alter destiny.

"One shall suffer by the hand." The words just dug into me more when she spoke them.

"That's the one you are from the prophecy aren't you? You're the one who was given the fate of abuse." It wasn't fair.

Why couldn't someone save me? Why did I have to suffer the abuse? Day after day, year after year it's been almost seven years since it started. Nearly seven years I've been abused. All the while no one ever helped me. No one noticed how much I suffered. I was left alone to continue suffering. No one notice what happened because I was insignificant, no one cared about me.

"Why?" It was fair.

"We despised the fates, we wanted to change it but we couldn't because of how hard we tried." How can you try too hard?

"Why would you despise the fates, you guys probably wanted the prophecy to be fulfilled." I heard her laugh; it was dark and pained sounded.

"We cursed the fates that we bestowed upon our own children simply because we dared to defy our destiny we cursed our children." My eyes widened.

'Our Children', our parents were the people who fought the Demon Lords before us then. No, that didn't make any sense. My parents didn't know of the Digital World, if my parents knew especially if they knew about the prophecy. My father wouldn't abuse me if he knew. Unless he wanted the prophecy to be fulfilled, that stung worse. He chose to do it then. I closed my eyes trying to just keep my strength to stand.

"My father knew then?" How twisted could my father be?

"Actually, your father wasn't the DigiDestined parent. Your mother was." My eyes opened and widened at that.

My mother was a DigiDestined? I couldn't believe that. My mother tried so hard to protect me. She kept me with nearly always. She was always smiling, when I was with her I felt like I mattered. I felt like I truly belonged when my mother was with me. She was only light that I had to cling to; I didn't know that until she died.

"She tried hard to change it didn't she? She also taught you something that you haven't realized." I raised my head and I stared her, she had a pained smile on her face.

"Look how you have grown up but you haven't broken. You have yet to give up." Even if I haven't given up doesn't mean that I haven't thought about it.

"You keep moving forwards, refusing to let some stupid thing known as 'destiny' control you. There are things you can't change but there are things that you can." I faintly caught sight of her unfurl her fist and place her hand on her stomach.

"Yes, there are things that can change. One of my old friends, she loved saying 'the future isn't written in stone it's the past that we can't rewrite, the past is an undeniable part of us'." She closed her eyes, she was starting to fade.

"Ah, I can't hold this form for much longer. We did our best to try to change what we could but we couldn't. We only managed to seal Lucemon completely; we sealed the strength of the others besides one." She gave me smile, she knew something.

"They interfered with us; they kept us from fully changing it. They made sure those fates happened; they thought that it would break the next group and cripple them. Only three people know of that prophecy, well four now." I watched as she faded away before my eyes.

My legs gave out and I fell back into the chair that I had stood up from so suddenly. A part of my mind briefly wondered how it hadn't flipped over when I stood up so suddenly. Her words played over in my mind. My mom had been a DigiDestined. I never knew that my mom had been a DigiDestined. My mom made sure that no one hurt me. It also shed some light onto why my mom acted the way she did at times. Whenever I had a bruise show up, usually caused by me having an accident while playing with my only friend, she would freak out and ask who hurt me. She was afraid of someone hurting me. It explained why, she wanted to protect me from suffering abuse.

"Are you…" I shook my head, he stopped.

"J-just leave me alone. I need some time." He was quiet for a few moments, my mind buzzed with so many thoughts.

"I'll continue to look." I heard his footsteps grow farther and farther away from me.

What would have been different if my mom was still alive? Would I have been abused by my father still or would she have saved me from that? No strike that was the story my father told me even true? He told me that my mother died in an accident. Did my mother really die in an accident? My father couldn't have just suddenly become abusive could he have? As I thought on that my mind brought back the images I had never had the answer too. The random bruises and cuts my mom would have occasionally. Did my mom suffer the abuse back then? Had my father started to abuse me not because my mom died but because he didn't have her to beat on anymore?

What was true and what was false? Is anything I know the truth anymore? The only thing that I know for sure is that my mother loved me. She always made me feel wanted and loved. That's the only thing I know for certain.

"Mom, I need you help some more." I closed my eyes.

She was always there when I needed help. I swear even the nights when I would lay curled up on my bed just begging anyone or anything that I wouldn't get hurt I swear I saw her at night. I swear I would see her sitting in my desk chair smiling sweetly at me. I would always go to sleep thinking everything was a horrible nightmare only to wake up the following morning and remembering that it wasn't a nightmare.

(Chrono's P.O.V)

I sat on the bed staring at my hands. What should I do? It's obvious that I can no longer stay here. If Valkyrimon was turned against me I don't know who else has turned against, who were now my enemies in disguise. I couldn't leave him here though. Yet I don't have the strength to transfer us both while maintaining the healing that is keeping him alive. I reached up and grabbed the crest that was glowing.

"I already have to borrow strength to maintain it now." I closed my eyes.

My energy was failing. It was different for me being a DigiDestined because thanks to my blood I could do things that others couldn't. I was born into a world of magic and mages. I had the blood of a mage in my veins but magic wasn't limitless, everyone had a limit and I was reaching my limit. I might be more advanced than others of my age thanks to my bloodline but I still had a fitting amount of my age.

"You could use some help I guess." Despite the fact that my body ached now I stood up and held my hand out.

White light pulsed around my hand while it was held out towards the person who just arrived; well it was Digimon but still. I was surprised to see who it was though. I didn't expect to see him here. No I expected that he would be trying to keep his home world under control.

"Leopardmon, what are you doing here?" He walked into the room but I didn't dare drop my guard.

It was odd that he showed up here and at such a time as this. It seemed a little too convenient. I hated the fact that I doubted him but I had to think he was being controlled. I would highly doubt that he would fall under their control then again I never thought that Valkyrimon would betray me. He was faster and stronger than Valkyrimon. I wouldn't make the same mistake of just assuming he was on my side because that could be a very fatal mistake.

"Hesitant to trust me after Valkyrimon betrayed you?" I nodded and he stopped where he stood.

"It is rare that I leave my world now of days isn't it?" I nodded again.

I watched him and I gulped when I saw him draw his sword. I didn't really have the strength to fight him and I can't remove the seal again. I couldn't remove it again; I had to wait at least four more hours before I could remove it. I hated the seal because of how it worked and now I couldn't help but wonder about what it was actually sealing. Yet he surprised me, his sword clattered to the floor and it slid until it was at my feet.

"I'm still on your side, hopefully that'll make you feel a bit better." It did make me relax slightly.

He still knew how to fight hand to hand but he couldn't actually use any kind of attack without his sword, as far as to my knowing at least. Well he could if he shifted and took on his other form but he couldn't shift anymore without permission.

"What do I owe your visit to Leopardmon?" I let the light fade and I picked up his sword, it was heavy but not as heavy as I've seen it.

His sword was interesting. It was as light as a feather for him but it seems to change in weight depending on who is trying to pick it up. His apprentice could pick up without a problem; it was as light as feather to his apprentice. His sword wasn't that light for me but I could lift it and probably wield it if I had any kind of training with a sword.

"Imagine my surprise when the hologram of Leo just suddenly disappeared, the hologram would only disappear if he or Spark died since Spark created them both with her strength but the holographic Spark was still present." I almost, almost, asked who Spark was before I remember that we knew her by different names.

"I spoke to Spark, she said that he died. Said that he vanished into data swallowed by white light when I spoke to her, I decided to stop by and see if you had something to do with the light." I glanced over my shoulder.

"I had a feeling you would be spying and you would step in, after all your energy recovers quickly but your body recovers slowly." I looked back to Leopardmon but he was staring at Leo.

Leo lay in the bed bathed in light that was healing him. It was keeping him alive currently. It was the only thing that I could do currently.

"I have to thank you for doing such a thing, especially when unlike Leo and Spark your power doesn't come from the Digital World, your power is limited to what your soul can handle. You've gone far past what you should be able to handle." I looked away when he looked at me.

Their power came from the Digital World. Their power was technically unlimited; it was limited only by what their body could handle. They were only human so by no means were they stupidly over powered; if they were this battle wouldn't even be that hard in the first place.

"Not to mention, pushing yourself could very well end your life." His words chilled me.

He sounded so dark at that moment. It reminded me well of what Chronomon had told me. There was a period in the past when Leopardmon was actually evil. He had been on the other side; he fought alongside the forces of evil. Even if it was true I hated that he spoke it out loud. I was trying my best not to think about it because if I did a seed of doubt would be sowed and grow not long after I would unknowingly slowly stop healing Leo.

"Yet you and Leo can no longer remain here, they've decided that they don't appreciate you interfering." My empty hand furled into a fist.

I knew it was going to come this. I knew I had to leave already but now I had to wonder if they would attack this world. I would hate to see this world fall. I loved this world despite the fact of how cruel it was to me the one time I had gone to the Human World.

"If you leave now they won't attack this world Chrono. Once they're here they won't leave though." To save this world I had to be displaced.

"Where would I go?" I looked at Leopardmon.

I had met him back when I was a child. Chronomon had an alliance with the Digital Ruler of the World that he resided in, Gallantmon was the Digital Ruler. Chronomon and Gallantmon worked close together. I met Leopardmon when I was young but I had met Spark and Leo four years ago. Leopardmon didn't like me at first; he actually tried to attack me for some reason. Chronomon though scared him and told him that I was his 'daughter'. I don't know how I came into Chronomon's care but I know he views me as his daughter even if I am human.

"I would take Leo back to my world; we have something that will keep him alive there. It's up to you to keep yourself alive." I narrowed my eyes at him.

"What, did you expect me to give you the answer? You're only alive because Chronomon granted you the protection he did. If it wasn't for Chronomon you would've been dead long before now." My eyes widened at his cold words.

I knew he used to hate me but I thought he didn't hate me anymore. It seemed to have changed back when I made friends with Spark and Leo but I guess he just became more tolerant of me or just acted better to hide his disdain for me. I watched him he tilted his head backwards. Yet I got what he meant.

"You don't understand do you?" I held his sword out so it was pointing at him.

"If I don't understand then make me understand." There was something that I learned.

Leo taught me something, I didn't know how to use a sword but I knew how to channel my energy through his sword. Yes I was taught to use that with Leo's sword but it was fundamentally the same with Leopardmon's sword. I guess even now everything isn't what it seems to be. Stay focused and don't let a single thing slip past you, it could prove to be a fatal mistake.

"If you say so, I hope you don't underestimate me." His sword glowed but surprisingly it wasn't white, it was red.

Yet I couldn't give much time. I forced the surprise away and I swung it in one of the basic forms that Leo taught me one of the few times he attempted to teach me how to wield a sword. An arc of red rushed through the air towards Leopardmon.