Davis collapsed, the blood from his leg sticking to the ground. When he and his team had tried to digivolve their partners, nothing happened. Instead, Davis tried to rely on his physical strength. When he ran at the attacking Frigimon, Davis' leg had come in contact with… something. He had no idea what, but he wasn't able to hit the snow bear digimon. And now, his leg was stuck to the ground. Ken tried to pull it out, but it had made the boy's leg feel worse. "T-take V-v-veemon. I-I-I can't move and y-y-y-you need t-t-to help K-Kari. Sh-she needs us t-to find out what we c-can."

"No." Ken said, "I can't leave you."

"K-ken." Shakily, Davis reached up and took off his goggles. In his own timeline before he had been brought here, Davis had broken his pair on his first trip to the Digital World. His hero, Tai Kamiya had given his own pair to Davis, saying that the leader had to have them. With this in mind, Davis took a breath.

"No, I won't leave."

Davis smiled, sucked in another breath and offered his goggles, "As we all know, the leader of the Digidestined just wouldn't look right without them. So here, I want you to have mine."

"But, you."

"No, I was the leader and I did good but, well you need to move on and without a leader." Davis coughed, "Without a leader you just wouldn't be able to do anything."

Yolei was crying while Cody just stared. Willis had never been part of a team but he stood by, knowing this was important.

"No."

"I won't last long. I can't move and now my leg isn't the only thing that is numb. Give Jun my stuff but tell her to give it to those who would like it."

"But I'm no leader."

Davis struggled and then grabbed Ken's hand, forced it open and then put the goggles in it, closing it with his own. "Y-you had the courage to face your fears and to face the trials. Th-there's no one else who c-could. E-except, T-T.K-K. B-but h-he's with his own team n-now." Davis' hand fell to the ground and the boy was still, a smile on his face.

Minutes passed by and then Ken looked up. The changes that Seraphimon had made to him were seemingly gone, the boy now completely human. With tears in his eyes, Ken put on the goggles and spoke. "Whatever is here will need to be reported to the others. Davis would not want us to do nothing so we need to continue on. Whatever hurt Davis is blocking our way and without the ability to Digivolve, our partners won't be able to help with that. We need to run back to the meadow, it should only be a day away if we move quick."

"But, we need to bury Davis." Yolei said.

When they turned around, the blood and the boy were both gone, the only indicator that he had been there was the dent in the snow. Saddened, Willis sank to his knees. This boy had been here for him, and now he was gone. Suddenly, Willis felt himself sinking. "RUN AWAY!" He yelled. When no one responded, Willis pushed the closest person, Yolei. "Go! Something's happening, I can't move, I-I'm sinking."

"We can't leave you!"

Willis whipped around to Ken. "Yes you can. You can and you will. I don't know what's happening but if you stay here you'll get caught too. Go find Harry or Takuya or Tai or-or Marcus or even Takato. Hurry, they'll know what to do!"

Before anyone else could move, hands shot up and grabbed Yolei. At this, Ken glanced at her and pushed Cody forward. The two ran full tilt south, not looking behind. When one slowed down, the other smacked them, starting the slow on up again. When they reached the end of the snow line, Cody shoved Ken, the goggled boy falling to the ground. Cody ran forward and collided with something, flying out of sight.

Ken got up, misty eyed. Davis, Cody, Willis, Yolei. He was the only one who had made it. He slowly trudged, not even noticing that he was walking through a portal that had opened up. The only time he noticed something was when he felt heat across his face and saw the Quidditch pitch in the distance. Unable to maintain it any longer, Ken collapsed, his tears turning the dirt to mud.

A.N. Davis is dead. I-I am trying to hold back the tears but they just want to fall. Before the death thing crossed my mind, I was deciding if Davis or Marcus would be the one but Davis won out. I don't know if we will see him again but Yolei and Willis are not dead. I guess it was Hypothermia and blood poisoning. Being the land of snow, this was Ebowamon's territory but they never met the turtle, or did they? All I know is that we will find out when the two return. For now, can Ken handle the burden placed on him?