Tailmon awoke with a start then sat up wondering what had awoken her. She and wizarmon were on taichi's bed he was sleeping on the floor insisting, despite his protests, that wizarmon needed the bed more than him hikari was on the bunk above the room was dark except for a slit of moonlight threw the curtain but being a cat tailmon could still see reasonably well. She looked at her friend next to her and was shocked to see him tossing and turning in his sleep he had a pained expression on his face
"wizarmon, wake up" she shook him. He awoke with a gasp his breathing ragged
"tailmon" he whispered putting his arms around her "you're okay"
"hey, its just a dream don't worry its okay" he was shaking
They heard a yell from above them
"hikari" they both said at once, tailmon jumped up onto her bed wizarmon flew so he was level
"hikari wake up" tailmon shook her awake. Hikari sat up gasping for breath
"tailmon…you're here…it was…a dream"
Tailmon nodded "nothing to worry about"
"it seemed so real" she was shaking slightly "so vivid"
"I know" said wizarmon suddenly "it was…the same as mine"
They looked at each other surprised
"but that…what does that mean?" asked hikari
"I don't know" he looked worried
"hikari often has dreams that come true…" said tailmon quietly, hikari nodded
"I hope this one isn't one"
"me too"
"tell me what it was"
"no!" they both said together in alarm
"I was in it wasn't I?"
Wizarmon nodded looking downwards
"great, let me guess I'm screwed? You're telepathic hikari has some kind of conection with spirites and her dreams sometimes come true , this is going to happen and I want to know what it is"
"hikari I'm sorry"
"huh? What for?"
"I think I read you're mind while you were dreaming"
"oh! That means I gave you my dream because its something that you're worried about too so you read it out of my head"
"that makes sense, I'm sorry I didn't mean to"
"no I'm sorry, it's my fault you had a bad dream"
"want to tell me why everyone's up?" asked taichi standing up
"bad dreams" said hikari
"oh right, okay"
"they had the same dream" said tailmon gesturing to wizarmon and hikari
"hikari what did you dream? It's important what if it comes true again"
"taichi not all my dreams come true"
"but wizarmon had the same dream"
"I think I read it out of her head" said wizarmon looking embarrassed "that made me have the dream too"
"what?"
"it does make sense he picked up on my thoughts in his sleep"
"have you ever done that before?"
"I don't think so, I've been having dreams like this since I was alive again"
"dreams like this?" said hikari scared
"nothing this vivid, this was much more real"
"I don't think you read her mind" said taichi quietly "I think you both had the same dream….someone is trying to tell us something"
"but who? The same people as before?"
"perhaps, I don't know it could be anyone"
"you think they want us to stop it?"
"how can we, we only know what happened not how it happened"
"he's right taichi we don't even know when it'll happen….how can we stop it…" she put her
head in her hands
"what do you mean? hikari what did you see?!" taichi said forcefully "you have to tell me"
"I…I…can't"
"why not. Hikari it's important"
"I know I'm sorry"
"who was in it?" he said more gentally
"vamdemon, and all of us, I think I don't know if I was"
wizarmon nodded at her "I saw you"
"I must have seen it through my own eyes…and you through yours"
"what was vamdemon doing?"
Wizarmon and hikari both looked at tailmon
"okay so he was doing something to tailmon what?"
"he said he was making her pay for what she did" said hikari quietly
"how was he making me pay what was he doing?"
"he was…we were watching you get hurt then you had to watch as we were"
"what did he do?"
"you really want to know?"
"I can be prepared"
Hikari's eyes glazed remembering "you were screaming…first picodevimon was taking little bits out of you…then vamdemon himself started wipping you and then there was fire…"
"the pit!" gasped tailmon,
wizarmon nodded "you were chained to the wall" he closed his eyes looking pained "just high enough for the flames to hurt but not kill you, then they…" he trailed off "I hadn't been chained like the others, I don't know why"
"phantomon had you didn't he? You were struggling against him but he hurt you every time you tried to get to tailmon"
"wizarmon…"
"then he let you free for a little letting you go to her before pulling you back, taunting you letting you so close but not enough"
He nodded "I…I couldn't reach you, or the other's I couldn't free them…but then they released hikari and brought her to vamdemon"
"what happened?" asked taichi his mouth dry
"I woke up" he muttered
"I had a few more minute's but he was just getting started before I woke up to"
"we can't let this happen! Right agumon?"
"right taichi"
"no way is that over grown bat getting away with that"
"but how can we stop it?" asked hikari "why show us this? it's of no use we can't do anything"
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Vamdemon chuckled "good work phantomon, now we need to work to make that dream a reality, get some rest"
"thank you master" phantomon gasped he was not yet at full strength from returning to life, and crossing the barrier twice had not helped him.
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