This is a redone chapter, k? Reason why, is because it now makes MUCH more sense. :)

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This chapter is dedicated to: ERUMINA

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Flowers Are Blooming

Sequel To Puzzle Pieces

Main Characters:::

Matthew (Scope) -14 - 8th grade - BlackAgumon - Strength

Taichi (Romeo or Romie) -14 - 8th grade - Guilmon -Trust

Ryo (Hazy) -14 - 8th grade - SnowAgumon - Compassion

Kanaye (Soldier) - 13 - 7th grade - Terriermon - Dreams

Sakura (Shy-Shy) - 13 - 7th grade - Lopmon - Innocence

Maro (Sunny) - 12 - 7th grade - Koemon – Peace

Noah – 14 – 8th grade – Commandramon – Light

Haru – 13 – 7th grade – Dobermon – Hatred

----------------------Chapter Nineteen – A Special Sacrifice ------------------------

With Sakura…and an unconscious Ryo…

SnowAgumon grunted as the three continued walking with Ryo on SnowAgumon's back. "Why do I have to get stuck dragging him around?"

Lopmon glared back at him as she and Sakura walked in front of him. "Did you really think Sakura could carry him?! She would collapse!"

Sakura crossed her arms over her chest and growled to her digimon partner. "Are you calling me weak, Lopmon?"

Lopmon shrugged. "Well, you're pretty small."

"So?"

"So…I rest my case."

Sakura threw her hands up in the air. "How?! You haven't had a case to introduce since I'm not weak!"

"I'm not saying you're weak."

"Then what are you saying?"

"I'm not sure at the moment, but let me get back to you on that." Lopmon stated.

Sakura sighed. "Whatever."

SnowAgumon panted and stopped walking, making Sakura and Lopmon stop and turn back to him. "Can we please stop and rest for a couple of minutes?" He asked.

"Is Ryo really that heavy?" Sakura asked curiously.

SnowAgumon nodded quickly. "Yes he is!"

So the three settled down on the grassy ground and BlackAgumon gently laid Ryo down and let himself rest.

"SAKURA!" They heard from a distance.

Sakura perked up. "Soldier?" She thought out loud. When Kanaye called again, she was sure it was him. "Soldier!" She yelled.

Soon enough Kanaye appeared with Terriermon and he ran up to Sakura. "Are you alright?"

Sakura nodded. "I'm fine, but Hazy isn't. He protected me when Commandramon attack us. But he ended up with a head injury."

Kanaye blinked. "Whoa. You two have been a little busy. When did Hazy get here?"

"When everyone came to help. So I didn't tell anyone anything." Sakura shrugged. "Not our fault. What have you been doing?"

"Looking for you and Sunny." He stated simply. "I hope Sunny is alright."

"He should be." Sakura commented. "Takeo and Willis Jr are the ones who found me along with Hazy."

"Takeo was here?" Kanaye asked in disbelief. "Who else is here?"

Sakura bit her lip before answering. "I'm not entirely sure about that, but I know Aiden, Scope, and Romie should be here."

"Is mom or dad here?"

"Nope."

Kanaye let out a breath of relief. "Thank goodness."

"But apparently Aiden is ticked."

"Crud."

They heard a groan sound and turned to Ryo, who was sitting up now. "Ryo! You're awake!" SnowAgumon announced loudly.

Ryo flinched. "How can anyone sleep with everyone talking and yelling?" He stood up with the help of Kanaye and SnowAgumon. "We need to find our team and fast."

Kanaye and Sakura gave a firm nod. "Right!"

Ryo made the two let him go as he grabbed his digivice. "SnowAgumon! Digivolve!"

Sakura grabbed hers. "Lopmon! Digivolve!"

Kanaye did the same. "Terriermon! Digivolve!"

"SnowAgumon digivolved to…Frigimon!"

"Lopmon digivolved to…Antylamon!"

"Terriermon digivolved to…Gargomon!"

Ryo gave a nod. "Lets go!"

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With Maro, Aiden, Dishi, Micah, and Kyle

"Keep running, Maro!"

Maro ran as fast as he could through the woods, trying to outrun Commandramon. He came to capture Aiden and them. Aiden didn't want Maro hurt so he told him to run. Maro was very hesitant at first, but when his dad gave him that look of fear in his eyes, it told him to go before something bad happened. Koemon's egg still rested in his arms safely.

Back at the battle…

Aiden and Micah were fighting off the Commandramon as Dishi and Kyle were already on the ground, hurt. Commandramon growled. "You four are coming with me!"

Aiden snorted. "Not in a million years!"

"Don't you want to see your wife again?" That struck a nerve in Aiden. "She's all alone in a dark cell, hungry and cold."

Aiden let the Commandramon go, leaving Micah to hold him off and held his head with his hands. "Stop it! I can't hear this anymore!" It killed him inside.

But what Aiden didn't know was that all Commandramon was saying was a lie. It was just an act to get Aiden to come. He decided to keep going. "She has been losing her mind. Calling and screaming your name…begging for you to come save her." He kept taunting as Aiden dropped to his knees, practically hyperventilating. "She was torn away from the others, as she cried for someone, anyone to just be there with her so she wouldn't be alone in the pitch black cell."

Aiden lost his cool now. "I said stop!" He clenched his fist tightly and ran towards Commandramon. Micah quickly moved out of the way as Aiden's fist made contact with Commandramon's face, but it didn't give him a scratch. Aiden backed away. "You torture my wife for no reason! You'll pay for that! You'll pay for everything you have done to her!" –Its bad enough that Taya is still devastated over Cody's death still to the point she cant even get out of bed some days, but this is by far the worst for her fragile mind!-

Commandramon started chuckling. "Can't handle the fact that you have failed as a husband to your wife?"

"Shut up!" Aiden snapped. "I will kill you!"

"But if you kill me, I can guarantee that you will never see your wife again." Commandramon threatened.

Aiden froze. Not seeing Taya again? Does that mean they'll kill her? Or hide her somewhere where he could never find her? It was too much for Aiden to handle. He had no choice. If he wanted his wife safe and well, if he wanted to see her again and hold her like always, he had to do what this monster said. "Fine."

Dishi's eyes widened. "Aiden, you can't be serious!"

"I am." Aiden answered. He glared to Commandramon. "If I go quietly, will you take me to my wife?"

"I can't promise anything, but most likely yes." Commandramon said.

Aiden looked over to Micah with a dead serious look. Saying, "Go and find the kids" look. Micah gave a quick nod. "I'll go."

Dishi stood up quickly, forgetting the pain. "I'm going too! I won't let Aiden face this alone!"

Commandramon smirked. "Good." He looked to Micah and Kyle. "Well? Will you both come quietly?"

Kyle got up and snorted. "Please. I'm in the army! I won't give up without a fight! All for one and one for all!"

Everyone's sweat dropped anime style. Micah sighed. "Kyle that made no sense. What does that phrase have to do with the situation?"

Kyle sighed. "I don't know, but it sounded smart to me."

Micah rolled his eyes. "Dork." He muttered. Micah glared at the evil digimon. "But he's right! I'm not going!" Micah looked to Kyle. "Run!" And the two did exactly that.

Commandramon growled. "I'll come back for them later." He opened the portal to the Castle where everyone was located…almost everyone. "Step in now." He demanded. Aiden looked to Dishi with a serious look. Dishi did the same. And then they both turned back to Commandramon and the portal. They walked slowly into it and Commandramon followed, then the portal was closed.

With everyone in the castle…

The captured digidestend were being held in a fairly large cell located below the castle. It was a long walk to there and back. Everyone was pretty much sitting down or pacing. Thinking about a lot of things, but no one was talking. Taya ran her hands through her hair and sighed deeply. Ever since she got that scary feeling, she couldn't feel at peace. She stood up and walked to the cell door. Everyone looked to her.

"We need to get out of here." She said simply.

Marc sighed. "We know, Taya, but there isn't a way."

Taya turned to everyone in disbelief. "How can you say that?" She asked. "You're the leader, Marc! You're supposed to be the one who never gives up or loses hope!" She yelled.

Kiyoshi stood up. "Taya, I think you should calm yourself."

"I think you all are losing it!" She snapped. "I want to get out of here! Something is wrong with my son, I can feel it! I need to get out!"

Bridget glared. "And Kimberly and I need a doctor, but obviously we all can't get what we want now, can we? Get a grip!" She was sitting against a wall, her ankle broken and shoulder cut, but the bleeding ceased for now. Esamee was sitting next to her in concern, afraid of Bridget's ankle getting infected.

Kimberly was pale as Marc comforted her, hugging her close. That hit from Palmon hurt her bad. They both needed a doctor aka Kannon soon, but Kannon and Marisol had yet to arrive yet, but a digimon informed them that the two would be there soon.

Kiyoshi relaxed a little when he heard that. Kiyoshi was currently standing close towards the cell door, seeing for any sign of Marisol and Kannon.

Esamee was worried sick about her husband the same amount Taya was worried about Aiden.

Kira and Nikko sat together against a wall, but Kira couldn't keep her mind of the boys that were still out there in danger, praying that they would be alright.

Willis Jr and Takeo sat next to each other in silence, both worried about the same as everyone was.

Everything.

Suddenly a bright light appeared, blinding everyone. When it disappeared, the cell door opened before Taya and Taya's face brightened greatly when she saw who was arriving into the cell. "Aiden!" She ran up to him and hugged him. Aiden was surprised to see her there with everyone and not alone, like Commandramon said. He was tricked. But it didn't matter anymore since he was finally reunited with his wife. He embraced her tightly, almost getting tears. "I was so worried about you and Maro!"

Aiden scoffed. "You were worried? No, no. I was way more worried than you can ever imagine." He pulled back, but looked into her eyes as she did the same. "I was so scared that something horrible happened to you. Commandramon told me all these lies about what was happening to you…and it killed me so bad that I collapsed. I couldn't hear how much they supposedly tortured you."

Taya sighed. "I'm sorry, Aiden."

Aiden was surprised by this. "What? What do you mean you're sorry? Taya, what could you possibly be at fault for?"

"For being too weak to fight back when Stingmon captured me." She mumbled so only he could hear her confession.

Aiden shook his head. "You're not weak."

"But I am." Taya cried. "Why do you think they came after me first?!" She snapped loudly. "Because I've always been the one to get captured! The one who was also the victim! I hate being so weak! I'm twenty-eight, I shouldn't be like this!"

Aiden kept shaking his head. "Don't do this, Taya. Don't belittle yourself so badly." He took her face in his hands gently and made her look at him. "You aren't weak. Not at all. Every bad guy is just so jealous of how pretty and brilliant you are." He grinned.

Taya giggled. "You're so sweet, Aiden. I love you."

Aiden got serious and smiled gently. "I love you more than anything, Taya." And then they kissed gently, embracing each other tightly.

Esamee gagged in Dishi's arms, looking at the scene. "Jeez, you two weirdoes! Get a freaking room already!"

Dishi rolled his eyes. "Esamee, you can be so childish at times."

"What was that?!"

"….Nothing."

Suddenly the cell door opened again. This time it was the person they didn't expect at all. "Hey, you're the psycho kid who is making everything go nuts!" Marc yelled, pointing to the keeper of hatred.

Haru snorted as he walked in with Dobermon at his side, growling. "I didn't come here to get yelled at, stupid." He stated. He looked to Kira with a serious look. She didn't see it, but Nikko, who was right next to her did and he didn't like it one bit. "There is still two of you out there, most likely with the digidestend. They wont come without a fight, I know that's for sure. Keeper of Trust comes with me to get the keeper of Hope to come. He'll come if he saw you in distress."

Kira clutched to Nikko's arm. "N-Nikko…"

Nikko stood up. "You're not taking Kira anywhere!"

"No one asked for your permission." Haru stated.

Dishi growled. "You'll have to get through us first."

"Do you all want to get hurt?" Haru said. "Kira is just coming with me to get the last two. No harm will come to her." Haru stared them with a serious expression. "She's blind. I may be evil…but I'm not heartless."

Kira stood up next to Nikko and put her small hand on his shoulder, making him looked to her. "Kira, no-"

"Yes, Nikko!" Kira said, looking elsewhere. "I need to feel Micah again. I know it sounds selfish, but it also isn't in a way. If we all are located in this one cell, then the kids will come quicker." She whispered to him, so Haru wouldn't hear.

Nikko sighed. She had a good point. "Kira…" He ran his fingers through his hair, stressed out. "I hate to do this, and I know that Micah and Kannon are going to beat me up for this, but alright. I know you'll be alright because no matter what you are, blind or not, you can take care of yourself when it really does come down to it. You're pretty strong."

Kira smiled. "Thanks, Nikko."

Nikko gave her a quick hug. "Be careful."

Haru smirked. "I knew you would see it my way."

Nikko glared. "If she gets hurt, I'm going to personally strangle you and I don't care if you are younger than me." He threatened.

"WAIT!" Everyone looked to Kiyoshi, who was angry. "Where's Marisol and Kannon?! Not only do I want them here, people in here need Kannon to help them!"

Haru sighed heavily, obviously annoyed. "They will be here soon. Chill out. You all will live."

With Kanaye, Ryo, and Sakura…

Ryo and Kanaye were riding Frigimon's shoulders, while Gargomon ran next to them and Sakura sat on Antylamon's shoulder as she jumped from tree to tree, making Sakura get a little motion sickness, but she didn't let anyone know it because she didn't want to slow anyone down. Unfortunately for her, the sickness wasn't going to leave anytime soon unless she stopped, which she wouldn't. –Ugh, this sucks.-

Ryo sat quietly, waiting for any sign of his other cousins. –Man…where are those three boneheads?-

-I don't know, but dang, they are hard to find! What is their problem?!-

-…who the heck are you?-

-…um…I'm your inner.-

-Hn.-

-You're so talkative there, Ryo! What's your problem?! You know what, you all got major issues!-

-Pssh, you just now noticing this.-

-I wanted to tell you something I've been observing ever since we fought that Noah kid.-

-WE?-

-Okay, okay! You! But seriously, isn't it strange that Noah is suddenly the keeper of light with a digivice and everything, while Haru is up there with his own digivice being the keeper of hatred?-

-You got a point to this?-

-I think that Noah is working for Haru! Or they're both in this together!-

-…I never thought of that. Because I know for a huge fact that Noah isn't as good as he claims to be.-

-Exactly! Now you're finally using your brains!-

-What do you mean finally using my brains?!-

-uh…oh, look at that! in front of you!-

Ryo snapped out of his conversation with his inner and looked. "It's the…"

Sakura shivered. "…castle…"

"Where everyone is being held captive." Kanaye finished.

"Shy-shy! Soldier! Hazy!" The three turned and saw Maro running up to them in a panic state.

Sakura smiled. "Sunny! You're okay!" But her smile faded once she saw the digi-egg in his arms. "Is that-oh, Maro, I'm so sorry!"

Kanaye sighed with guilt, understanding what that meant too. "We should've never left you alone." He told Maro. "I'm sorry."

Maro shook his head sadly. "No, it's fine. Really." But he snapped back to reality. "Oh yeah! I had to leave my dad, Dishi, Micah, and Kyle to battle it out with Commandramon!"

Sakura and Ryo's eyes widened. "Commandramon?" Ryo asked.

"That's the same digimon that took Takeo and Willis Jr!" Sakura informed the two.

Kanaye clenched his fist. "Guys, we have to get in that castle." He looked up to the fairly large castle, as did the other three.

Sakura looked to Kanaye. "But we need Scope and Romie."

"No need."

The four of them turned around and saw Matthew and Taichi on their de-volved digimon with pride and seriousness. Matthew was looking up at the castle while Taichi was looking to the others. "Are you guys alright?" He asked them.

Maro nodded. "Yeah, we're fine."

"Good." Taichi closed his eyes for a second, but then opened them to see fire in his eyes. It made Ryo, Sakura, Kanaye, and Maro cringe in fear. "WHAT WERE YOU THREE BONEHEADS THINKING??? RUNNING OFF INTO THE DIGITAL WORLD IN THE MIDDLE OF A DANGEROUS WAR ALL ALONE WAS SO STUPID! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH-OW!"

Matthew shook his head. "About time you shut up." Taichi was now seeing stars after Matthew smacked him over the head. Taichi was crying anime tears on top of Growlmon's head. Matthew sighed. "Guys…its time to move."

"Not yet, kid!" A voice called out. "Thunder Blaster!"

Lightening flashed out in the middle of the kids' little group circle, making the kids fall backwards, the digimon flying back farther, blinding them, and making Sakura scream bloody murder where Micah and Kyle knew where the kids were just by Sakura's scream and the lightening.

Micah and Kyle's eyes widened. "That was Sakura!" Micah whispered.

Kyle nodded. "We need to get to them."

Back to the somewhat of a fight, Taichi groaned. "Dang, Shy-shy, must you scream like that?" He muttered.

Sakura grabbed onto the closest person, which happened to be her twin brother. Maro slapped his forehead. "Does it ever end?"

Ryo and Matthew were next to each other and groaned. "Man, this job sucks at times." Ryo mumbled.

Matthew shrugged. "We were chosen."

"Whoever chose us, I'm gonna kick their –"

"Don't finish that sentence!" Matthew yelled to Taichi with a glare. Taichi responded with rolling his eyes.

"Quit joking around and lets get out of here!" Kanaye yelled as he and Sakura got up.

"No!" Matthew yelled. Everyone looked to him like he was mad. "We can't run anymore! We need to fight and face this! We are the digidestend! We can do this or else we wouldn't have been chosen!" Matthew told them. "That is what Marc told me a few weeks ago and I'm going to carry it out!"

Sakura gave a small smile. "Well, alright then." She looked to Antylamon. "Ready?"

Antylamon gave a nod. "Ready when you are, Sakura!"

"Go!"

Antylamon ran towards Wizardmon and attacked. "Bunny Blades!"

"Gargo Pellets!"

Sakura looked to Kanaye who smirked. "You're so not doing this alone, sis."

Sakura smiled. "Well, duh!"

Wizardmon dodged and headed towards Sakura and Kanaye, who braced themselves.

"Don't think so!" Matthew looked to DarkTryannomon. "Now!"

DarkTryannomon nodded. "Fire Black!" The blast hit Wizardmon directly and he fell backwards quite far.

"Yeah, don't ever mess with our little brother and sister!" Taichi yelled out with a proud tone.

Matthew looked to the others. "We have to hurry!"

A portal suddenly opened behind them and Commandramon came through. Ryo glared. "Don't you ever go away?"

Commandramon looked around and then looked to the kids. "Where are they?"

Now they were all confused. Matthew raised an eyebrow. "Who?"

"That last two digidestend we have yet to capture." Commandramon stated. "Keepers of Hope and Friendship."

Kanaye got confused. "Micah and Kyle?"

Matthew looked to Maro. "You told us that he got your dad, Dishi, Micah, and Kyle."

Maro shrugged. "They must've escaped after I ran off."

"Brilliant." Taichi mumbled. "We don't even know where those two are and now we're going to suffer."

Another portal opened up. "Oh, now what?" Maro asked Ryo, who shrugged. But who they saw made them freeze. "Oh, crap! Kira!"

Kira moved her head around. "Maro?"

"Enough." Haru said, letting Kira's hand go. "Where are the keepers of Hope and Friendship, Commandramon?"

"Right here!" A angry voice called out. Everyone turned to the sound of the voice and almost everyone saw a very enraged looking Micah and Kyle, who had a similar emotion. Micah began to walk towards the group, Kyle followed close behind. "You take her from me and now you use her to get to me?" Micah asked as slowly and firmly as he could, motioning to Kira, stopping next to Matthew.

"I haven't harmed Kira here." Haru sighed. "But I knew you and your mini-me wouldn't come easily, so I had to use bait."

Kyle narrowed his eyes. "Did he just call me a mini-you?" He pointed to Micah.

Micah ignored his best friend and clenched his fist. "Low."

"I know."

Micah took a deep breath. "Micah." Kira's voice rang in his ears and he looked to her.

"K-Kira, are you hurt?" He stuttered.

Kira shook her head. "No."

"Good." Micah closed his eyes. "Alright, I already know what you want. Both Kyle and I will come quietly."

Haru smirked. "Exactly." He looked to Matthew. "Of course, I could most likely destroy you six here and now, but that wouldn't be any fun, right?"

Sakura lost it. "What will you get out of this, Haru?" She asked.

"That's none of your business, Sakura." He answered. "Now shut up. I liked it better when you were shy and didn't talk."

Kanaye glared. "You shut up! No one ever talks to my sister like that!"

"I'm trying to get this over with!" Haru snapped. He looked to Micah and Kyle. "Hurry up and enter the portal! You six," He looked to the team. "You already got your plan and I know its very similar to mine. Get to it. I'm ready for this battle to begin."

Matthew glared. "This isn't a battle or just a fight, Haru! This is a war!"

Haru chuckled. "Whatever you want this to be, Matthew, I don't care anymore." He stated. "You're going to lose and that's all everyone needs to know. You all are going to be destroyed and along with the older digidestend I have in a cell. You digidestend will end."

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