Aoi kept comfortably vaguing around his house without caring being alone, or just with palmon with him. He was happy. Or so he thought. The weather was really nice, soft breeze was blowing, everything was perfect.

Palmon was observing him a long time now, she sensed something was really wrong but didn't say anything because the boy seemed so happy. From a moment to another, Aoi found the room that it was supposed to be his mother's.

"What's this?" he said, entering the room. It was all tidy up, very feminine decorated and smelled very good.

Soon he found a photograph in the night stand that called his attention. It was one of Aoi when he was little and Mimi in a gorgeous portrait; they were smiling and seemed very happy. They looked so similar… back then Aoi was so much more alike to his mother than he is now.

"Aoi?..." palmon entered the room too, and spoke with a worried tone.

"What's wrong?" the blonde said turning to see his partner's sad expression.

"I have a bad feeling" said palmon with the same tone.

"What are you talking about?" he responded laughing, like nothing was wrong. Until he turned around the frame of the photograph and there was something written.

"You'll will always be remembered. I love you no matter what. I hope you found dad and I hope you are happy"

"What?" Aoi said to himself, although palmon was near enough to hear him.

"What is this?... my mother is?... no, it can't be…" he had kneeled dawn beside the big bed in the room, while the breeze was blowing the curtains softly.

"Aoi… are you okay?" palmon asked. She was so worried about him right now. It seemed like her bad feeling was true and something was going on, something feel strange since the beginning when Hana, Hiroki and the digimon weren't with them anymore.

"Palmon… it seems my mom is not alive anymore… how can this be?" his voice was starting to break, little by little and lifted his head to look at palmon with honey eyes and tears forming in them. "I never suspected this would happen, ever. How bad of a bad son am I?" he smiled fantly.

"Bad son? You're not bad, Aoi" she said with her voice cracking as well, trying to calm the boy. Even though the day was so beautiful, and the room in where they were was pretty too, the moment was darkness and sadness.

"I feel so guilty right now, palmon. She is dead now and I was relaxing around in the house without a notice" he was sobbing now, it was the saddest moment in his life.

"When I was with her I didn't listen to her, I wanted to know everything about her love life, complained of her food… God, how could I be so selfish and cold with her? She was everything I had…" he trailed off while a tear fell on the photograph of them two, he couldn't stop clenching his heart out.

"Aoi… you're not a bad boy, I love you so much, and you might be grown up but I know who you are. You love your friends, you're caring, and I don't want to see you cry like this because you have a beautiful smile" palmon said putting herself close to the blonde.

"And I know you love your mom too, you have such a good heart, Aoi. I'm sure your friends love you too, don't think otherwise, please".

"Palmon… what would I do without you?" he wiped his tears. "You have the biggest heart ever, and you're the only one who trusts me even when I don't even trust myself" he said grabbing the flower digimon's hands.

She smiled at him happily "I trust you because you trust me. I don't know what I would do without you either"

Aoi closed his eyes embracing palmon and thinking to himself.

"Mom, I'm sorry. I see so much of you in palmon in that is front of me. Your kindness, sympathy, well… sometimes your silliness, but I really loved who you were, and I'll never take you for granted again. I love you"

"Aoi!" palmon called him.

When he opened his eyes and looked where they were, he realized it was all an illusion and his house was not there anymore. Now it was empty, a big space with mixed images of his mother to confuse him. But soon he called palmon again, there was a big hole on top of them and it seemed that they could get out through it.

Palmon evolve. Togemon.

A big cactus with a flower in his head appeared, but it couldn't reach that hole. It seems that only flying both could reach it.

"Togemon, it seems only flying we'll reach that hole to get out of here!"

"Flying?" togemon responded.

Aoi nodded. "Fly? How can we fly? There's nothing here... No, I can't get down" he shook his head. "I have to see my friends again, I have to see my mom again! I have to save the digital world for palmon and the others live in peace!"

"Aoi?" togemon looked at the blonde in wondering.

"Togemon we can do it! Come on, we have to save the digital world and everyone in it!" he smiled at his partner with belief in his eyes that everything will be alright.

Togemon ultra-evolve. Lillymon.

Now togemon was a beautiful fairy-like digimon, held his hand and took him flying up to the hole that will bring the out of that place. It was still full of images of Mimi that Aoi kept staring and smiling warmly at while firmly grabbing lillymon's hand.

"Mom… I'm sorry. I love you"

Agumon had stared nervously at Hiroki for while now, the same screaming for help was heard every now and then, and Hiroki was positive that it was Hana calling. He was about to go to the dark castle and rescue her, but his feet didn't move a step, because deep inside he knew that he will die if he goes, and agumon too.

"Hiroki…" agumon said to the boy, who was clenching his fists in desperation.

"agumon… I can't save her, can I?" he whispered, and then let fall himself in the ground as if he couldn't do anything.

"Hiroki, I sense something strange… where is Aoi and palmon? They were with us"

The brown haired boy looked around. It was true, something felt weird. He was so focused in that voice that sounded like Hana that he forgot about everything else.

"But… Hana is inside that place, isn't she?" he said looking at agumon frowning in wonder.

Agumon shook his head slowly, and both kept staring at the big castle in the distant.

"Atlurkabuterimon, we have to find Hiroki and Aoi!"

Hana's hair flowed while she was in the gigant bug digimon. They broke the glass with atlurkabuterimon's technique and now they were looking for their friends through a big white space where there was nothing but blur colors.

Soon, they saw two individuals going up out of nowhere. That's right; it was Lillymon who was taking Aoi's hand to fly through the hole they found to get out of the dimension they were in.

"Lillymon, I see something there" said the blonde, catching eye of a big thing coming at them.

"I see it too, Aoi" responded the fairy digimon.

"Aoi?" Hana had her doubts, but she wished so bad that it was one of her friends.

When they got closer, they could see each other perfectly. They recognized each other and got really happy of seeing each other. Aoi climbed to atlurkabuterimon's back with Hana and kept looking for Hiroki with Lillymon flying by their side.

Although they just reunited, both noticed a change in each other.

"What do I do… this is definitely strange. I can't risk our lives just like that. Damn, I need help!" Hiroki was going mad himself.

"Hiroki" said the dinosaur digimon who never left his side. The boy looked at him and blinked a couple of times.

"You're not alone. I can see that you're struggling, but if you want to fight or have anything in thought, you can count with me!" he said, smiling kindly.

"Agumon…" Hiroki's eyes seemed to have tears in them; he didn't know what to say.

"No. I trust you. If you say there's something strange here, I believe you. I'll trust you my life, once and over again" he said smiling at his dear partner.

Agumon's eyes were shining with happiness for Hiroki's words.

"Since we got together I wanted to thank you for coming. And for not being scared when I was hiding behind that bush as a koromon" he said with his smile bigger than ever.

The brown eyed boy laughed at this. "I'll always come when you need me"

Both grabbed each other's hand and nodded, as if they were making a pact.

"HIROKI!"

"Am I hearing thing again?" said the boy looking down with a disappointed tone.

"HIROKI!"

This time it sounded nearer, and it was a boy's voice, not a girl's. Bot agumon and Hiroki looked up and saw a big digimon and, it looked like a fairy there too?.

"H-Hana?" said the boy, hoping with all his heart that it was his beloved friend.

As the giant digimon descended, the red haired girl's head popped out, and then jumped in the place where her two friends were, followed by Aoi.

"Hiroki!" Hana said, throwing herself into the boy in a big hug. Hiroki could almost hear her sniffling. When he saw her, her dark eyes were in tears as he suspected.

"Are you okay Hana?" he asked worried.

"Yes, this are happy tears, don't worry" the girl smiled at him happily, wiping the tears away. "We have to get out of here, nothing here is real. We were all sent to different dimensions" she explained.

Hiroki felt as if a weight lifted from his whole body. He couldn't explain how relieved he was that Hana wasn't inside that place. Now that he knew that, whitout noticing it, tears were already rolling in the boy's cheek.

"Hey, are you alright? Are you hurt?" Aoi asked, concerned.

"Thank goodness…" Hiroki said looking down. "Thank goodness you're safe Hana…"

Both Aoi and Hana put a hand in Hiroki's shoulder to calm him and as appreciation for his concern to them. The brown haired boy was still flushed, but soon wiped his tears away and continued talking with their friends to make a plan to get out of there.

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"Then… how do we get out of here?" Asked Hiroki, still a little confused.

Everyone looked around to find anything that make them out of that world, but nothing could be seen.

"Aoi, I don't see anything, do you?" said Hana softly, looking around.

"No, me neither" responded the blonde.

After another moment, both remembered that they found their lost data in those dimensions. Maybe Hiroki would find it too.

Aoi and Hana stared at the younger boy for a moment, then at each other and nodded.

"Hiroki, we both found our lost data in those dimensions we were. Maybe the key for agumon to ultra evolve is in there, too" the girl explained softly.

"What? Are you sure?" asked the boy, surprised.

Hana grabbed his hands together and looked in his eyes. "I know it is".

Hiroki blushed a little, but understood what she said. He and agumon walked to that big dark castle. With every step, both felt confident, as if they weren't going to lose.

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"I'm going to ultra evolve, Hiroki!" agumon said excitedly. Hiroki smiled at him and nodded.

While they walked, images of when greymon saved Hiroki's life went through his mind. He would have fallen in that instant, but he evolved just to save his life.

When they got inside the castle, and started to investigate it, they discovered doors through a big hall. Agumon wanted to open one of them, but Hiroki stopped him.

"You're too careless, agumon" he said putting one hand in his hip, as scolding him.

"But you don't want to know? Maybe the lost data is in here" he said curiously.

That made the teen boy think for a minute that it could be true, but there could be traps everywhere.

"Come on, have a little courage!"

Those words made Hiroki react. An image of his dad flashed in his mind quickly, and with that, the words Taichi said to him too.

"I always can find courage inside me, huh?" He swallowed anxiously.

"Alright, agumon, let's open the door"

As soon as he said that, agumon nodded confidently and opened it. A blinding light appeared.

Agumon evolve. Greymon.

Greymon ultra-evolve. Metalgreymon.

Metalgreymon appeared out of nowhere, destroying part of the castle and Hiroki stared at it a little first before noticing that the whole place was falling apart.

"Let's get out of here, metalgreymon!"

The boy hooped up to the digimon's back and flew away to where Hana and Aoi waited nervously.

"Is that Hiroki?" the girl was biting her nails out of the stress.

To see Hana there waiting for him, his feelings for her boiled up inside him like fire again. More than before, he though.

I am so sorry! I've been trying to upload this chapter for a week and I couldn't until I figured out the problem. My apologies.

Anyway, you know what to do :) Review and let me know anything your thoughts, opinions, etc. OXOX