IV

Unexpected help

"Im looking for the digidestineid." Vazz responded.

All of them stood there silently. They were very surprised but at last Matt spoke.

"Why do you want to find them?" He asked unconfidently.

Vazz looked at him evaluating if it was a good idea to tell him, but he decided that Matt wasn't dangerous at all.

"Well, I was sent to protect them." He answered simply.

"By whom?" Matt asked

"Sorry Matt I can't tell you that." He answered.

"Well again I suggest you to come back to your world, it's very dangerous around here for humans…" Suddenly an idea came to Vazz mind. Okay… humans in the digiworld looking for a friend, there shouldn't be humans in the digiworld so…

"You… are the digidestineid… aren't you?" Vazz asked.

"Yes we are the digidestineid." Sora answered.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?" Vazz shouted.

"What? YOU NEVER ASKED OR MENTIONED ANYTHING UNTIL MATT ASKED!" Sora answered also shouting.

"WELL THIS IS A KIND OF SECRET MISSION YA KNOW? I CAN'T GO AKING FOR THE DIGIDESTINEID IF IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SECRET!"

"WELL IF YOU DON'T ASK YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AND BESIDE, HOW THE HELL WE WILL KNOW THAT YOU WERE LOOKINGFOR US!" Sora complained.

"WELL THATS… uh… well that's." Oh shit I did it again. "Maybe, you are right, uh I… am sorry". Gees I hate when this happens. "Sorry." He said again.

Sora laughed, for first time in two weeks, everyone looked at her surprised.

He is… cute… She thought.

"I accept your apologize Vazz , after all you have saved me tow times."

"Well as I told you a man needs a hobby and after all it's my job to kill this things, they are too dangerous for normal digimon." Vazz answered.

"I would like to know more about this digimon Vazz , what are they? Because I doubt they are entirely digimon." Izzy said.

"Yeah may be you are right, but I really don't know a thing about this creatures." The hunter said.

"Well I think it's better to leave this desert before another of those beasts decides to appear." Matt suggested

"I agree." Vazz said simply as he started to walk.

After a while walking they arrived to a strange forest, there they stopped to rest a bit and drink some water.

They were all sitting except foe Vazz, who was apparently in an eternal alert.

"I wanna know Vazz, why you are supposed to protect us?" Matt asked seriously.

"I was told to by someone, he said it was my mission, just that."

"Really? Someone just told you to protect us and you did?" Matt asked surprised.

"Well yes, it was an odd situation so I did." Vazz answered.

Matt said nothing feeling that Vazz wanted to stop that conversation.

"There's something I wanna know… you are the digidestineid, aren't you supposed to have digimon of your own?"

"Yes… we are supposed to have them, but they were captured that's why we came when Tai… wheni disappeared." Matt said choosing his words very carefully.

"I see…" Vazz said quietly.

"Are you going to help us finding Tai and our digimon?" Sora asked him.

"Well… you are the digidestineid and I'm supposed to protect you, and you are going to look for both your digimon and your friend Tai, so… I think I will." He answered to her.

"Thank you! Thank you very much!" Kari said containing her tears.

Vazz looked at her smiling but obviously no one was able to see his smile.

"You're welcome Miss Kari." Vazz said to the girl. "Rest a little more, the person that told me to protect you also told me to take you to a place named 'the avernum' maybe your digimon are there."

"Take us there." Matt interrupted.

"He also told me to warn you, that place is very dangerous, digimon like Myotismon, Piedmon and Apocalymon were born there."

Everyone shivered when he mentioned the name of Apocalymon.

"So… do you wanna go?" Vazz asked. "Maybe there you will find information about your friend."

No one said nothing.

"I will go." Kari said firmly.

"Me too." Sora answered.

"I'm with them." Matt said.

"And I think that all of us will also go." Mimi said.

Izzy, Joe, and T.K. nodded.

"Well then, I suggest to keep going, 'the avernum' is far from here." He said and started walking.

The digidestineid stood up and followed him.

When the night arrived they were still walking in that forest.

"Well we will sleep here tonight and we will continue at the sunrise, rest, it's a long road the, I will look after you this night so don't worry." Vazz said.

That night Sora slept restless, in her dreams always was the scene of Tai smiling to her before disappearing. She woke up of one of her dreams at the middle of the night crying.

I miss Tai so much… She thought. We just started to talk to each other again.

She stood up, she was so sad, so confused. Did she was in love with Tai? How could it be? She was with Matt. She get rid of her feelings for him, or she didn't?

No… it's just that he was my best friend… Yeah… he was just my best friend and nothing else and I don't… love him. She tried to convince herself.

She looked around. Matt was lying in the ground, close to where she was sleeping. She looked at him and smiled with love. Yes, I love… Matt. She said trying t convince herself again.

She looked around again. She saw Kari who was calling her brother in her dreams. Sora couldn't repress a face of pain. Besides Kari everyone was sleeping peacefully, except for Vazz, who was sitting on the branch of a tree.

Sora walked toward him, he heard her but he didn't move.

"You are supposed to be resting Miss Sora." He said in a very respectful way without turning his head.

"I don't need to rest now, I'm not tired." She lied, she was afraid of dreaming of Tai again.

"But what about you?" The girl asked.

"I don't like to sleep." Vazz answered.

"Why?" She asked.

"I don't know."

"Vazz, the thing about the dark slyer, since when you are one? I mean what you were or did before that?" Sora asked.

"I don't know." Vazz answered simply.

"What?" Sora asked. That wasn't the answer she expected.

"That, I don't remember what I was, I lost my memory I don't remember anything of my life before the past tow weeks, not even my name, nothing." Vazz said with something close to sadness

"But why?" Sora asked.

"I don't know tow weeks ago, someone found me near death and took me to his house, there I woke up without knowing who I was or anything about me. He told me that I was a dark slyer and told me of my abilities, he asked me to find you and I accepted."

"That's horrible." She said. "I mean to forget everything, your live, your name and your loved persons."

"Yes it's horrible." And for the first time Sora saw his eyes, tow brown chocolate eyes full of doubt and sadness but, at the same time tow very serenely eyes, and in that moment a question come to Sora's mind.

"Vazz would you let me see your face." She asked

"Sorry Miss Sora I.."

"Just, call me Sora." She interrupted.

"Uh? Well sorry Sora but that person told me to never let anyone see my face until I remember everything he told me that not even me can see my face before I recover my memory." He said.

"I understand." She said and she yawned.

"I thought you weren't tired." Vazz said laughing.

"Well… at this very moment I also don't like to sleep." Sora answered.

"It's because of him?" Vazz asked.

"What?" Sora asked surprised.

"You can't sleep because of your missing friend, Tai?"

"Well… I…" Sora tried to answer nervously plying with her hair.

"So you do, were you very close to him?" Vazz asked.

"Well you see…" Sora started trying to speak with her brain and no with her heart. "He was my best friend but I while ago we… had a little problem."

"Do you love him?"

Sora stood froze, did she?

"No, he was just… my best friend, I just… appreciate him a lot."

"I see… well Sora I think that you should try to sleep, tomorrow morning we will continue our journey."

"I think you are right, goodnight Vazz." Sora said.

"Goodnight Sora." Vazz replied returning with a jump to his branch.

Sora returned to where she was sleeping, she laid down near Matt, and she closed her eyes, but this time she slept peacefully the whole night.

The next morning all of them woke up ready to continue their search, and with a beautiful sun shining, a renewed hope and the unexpected help of Vazz, the digidestineid started their real journey to find Tai and they digimon.

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