As soon as everyone was seated, the lights went out in the room, and a spotlight lit up the stage, a bunch of people came on stage and began to sing in unison, their voice rang out through the entire room. Takajin wondered if he was the only one that didn't know what they were singing, since it was in some sort of strange language.

Once the people stopped singing, Brother Roland made his way on stage, he stood in behind the altar, he expression that of sombre reflection, he looked down for a moment, and then he walked side to side like he was trying to make eye contact with everyone there. "Digimon are a poison, and must be eradicated, for the safety of all humanity, a virus brought on by them nearly wiped out this very village, soon we will bring this wisdom to the rest of the world before it is too late for them" he said making a wide-angle pointing gesture. "We need to prove to these travellers they need to abandon their digimon and become just like us before the corruption of digimon is irreversible we will wash them of this darkness"

While he was talking men in while robes blocked the entrance, with them was the large man with the beard, they all carried Batons.

Mikuni standing, she charge at the first incoming white robe, driving her fist into his midsection, she tackled by the bearded man, who now had her in a bear hug, Takajin and Hikaru were surrounded by men in white robes.

"I told you this would be life changing" said Brother Roland "Take them to the tower, and capture their digimon, find those two that aren't how can you let another one slip away like that girl, and take those devices they carry with them"

Digimon Sync episode 14 "True Believers"

Juniko watched as Takajin, Hikaru and Mikuni had been taken, there was no sign of Huang, something tapped on her shoulder, and she turned to see it was Huang.

"I sneaked out during that whole singing number of there" said Huang sounding uninterested with the whole situation. "Found you, now we get them out and leave" turned and was leaving.

"We should rescue them now" said Juniko pointing toward Takajin, and Hikaru being hauled off by white-robed men.

"If you want to be captured too, then go right ahead, I would just have to rescue you as well, like I have nothing better to do, like find the people killed my entire family" said Huang just leaving Juniko standing there, before she made up her mind to follow him.

The temple decor got scarier the further in they went, it was either priesthood was a cover for something else or they haven't gotten this far for redecorating. The next room was a cage filled with digimon of various types, all scared out of their minds for some reason.

-Tabula Rosa forest-

Mikemon looked out at the village from a tree, she had just climbed, waiting here was just making her restless, more so than before she had been reunited, being separated again after such a short period of time made things worse, she suddenly noticed that Lopmon was missing, when she looked down. She still could see Moonmon and Sunmon in his cage, she had the feeling they had to get out of here, she jumped down from the tree, grabbed Sunmon's cage "it's better safe than sorry, grab Babdymon, and let's move somewhere else" she said with great urgency. They were away just in time before the men in white robes showed up.

"Where are they" said a girl in a purple robe, stepping out of a crowd of white-robed men, "those digimon should have been here, their corruption needs to be contained. Find them now"

"That was a close one" said Mikemon leaning against a tree breathing heavily, keeping an ear out for any sort of movement. "We have to keep moving they will find us here" she picked up Sunmon's cage, it was different from before but also a case of Déjà vu running from these people again.

-Tabula Rosa Temple-

The men in white robes shoved Mikuni, Takajin, and Hikaru into a cell, it was highly decorated like the rest of the temple, but somewhat dingy at the same time, there was two other people in the cell with them, one a very old man, and the other a middle age woman, they looked like they were meditating.

"More chosen have arrived" said the old man cheerfully, he turned to face Takajin "kind of young for Chosen ones"

"What do you mean Chosen ones" Mikuni asked sniffing the air around, and looking for ways to get out of the cell.

"The Chosen ones are people picked to advance in the priesthood; they are the lucky few that will be purged of their digimon, and become a warrior for the pure, oh where are my manners my name is Kenji" said the old man.

"How can you even believe that nonsense, and I can't believe I got capture" said Mikuni said looking around, she side glanced Hikaru, and then walked passed Takajin "you better do something about your sister before she hurts herself" she sat down to figure out what to do next.

Hikaru was about to charge the door, he fear of being in this cell had overwhelmed her, but was stopped by Takajin, who grabbed her by the arm, and pulled his sister into a hug, she began to cry into his shoulder, "Sister we are going to get out of here soon, Neither Huang or Juniko are here so they are out there, and they will come to rescue us" he whispered into Hikaru's ear, hoping that it would settle her down. Juniko had rescued his sister once before, that time when she somehow ended up outside the Digitopia shield; she had pulled her back in right before the wild digimon had attack and possibly killed her.

Mikuni ignoring the sibling drama was figuring out a plan instead of waiting for hypothetical rescuers that may or may not show up, she walked and picked up the old man, putting him into a choke hold, she now pressed his face into the bars of the cell "let us out before I kill him" she said trying not to break the man's tender frame, it wouldn't be any good actually killing the hostage. The threat was good enough.

"What are you doing?" Hikaru shouted, the shock of what Mikuni was doing broke her out of her current freak she had seconds ago, "That is just horrible"

The breaded large man peered into the cell "Go ahead he is willing to die for his cause" he said before turning around, and leaving.

"That didn't work, now plan be goes into effect" said Mikuni pointing toward the cell window, Lopmon squeezed his way into the cell through, he was clutching Mikuni's digivice, and chip.

"I thought they took that away?" Takajin asked feeling the absence of his own, and was very confused about how Lopmon had Mikuni's.

"That one was a decoy I made a few when I was worried that my brother would eventually find out I was digidestined I always give the real one to my digimon partner because I trust him with my life" she said, as Lopmon placed both chip and digivice into her palm. "Digi chip of Courage activate" she placed the chip into the digivice; both Mikuni and Lopmon were enveloped in glowing spheres.

"Sorry it took so long your highness, it took me awhile to track you, you told me to wait 15 minutes then follow you" said Vasantmon taking a measure of the room, "you need stand near the door to distance yourself from flying debris"

"At least he knows who to listen to otherwise we would be stuck here" Mikuni said, and ignoring the nasty look she got for that comment.

"We are taking the old people with us; it's not safe for them here" said Takajin brushed off the annoyance and looked at the two of them crumpled on floor wheezing

"We could pump them for information as soon as we gotten safely away" Mikuni replied looking down at the old people.

Once Vasantmon had destroyed the wall and created a way out, the digidestined escaped from the priesthood's temple, and began their look for someplace to hide, and then they would find the rest of their digimon, and Juniko. It took them a few hours before finding a safe place to hold up, it was some old ruins on the outskirts of the village, it looked like it had been deserted for some time now, it was littered with bone fragments from decaying body from a long time ago, it must have been victims of that plague that villagers had mentioned.

Vasantmon put down the old man and woman that they had brought from the cell, they were still asleep, they had fallen a asleep as they were rescued, they needed to be gentle in waking them up, they decided to wait until morning, so they could be awake enough to deal with it.

-Back in the Temple-

Two white-robed people walked by, one of them was Brother Roland, the other was a woman that they didn't meet before, they were talking inaudibly to each other in some kind of weird language, I heard this dialect before somewhat but can't put my finger it thought Huang, as he watched them go by. As they were gone Juniko, and Huang came out of their hiding spot, Huang had the sudden urge to follow them to see what this priesthood was up to, he started going in the direction they had went only to be stopped by Juniko.

"I thought we were looking for our missing friends?" she said taking her hands off Huang, "I don't think they are in that direction, something about that way just feels wrong"

"Look they are your friend not mine, and I go where I want to go despite how you feel, and I am following them to see what is Truly going on around here" he replied giving Juniko a look of annoyance, and not caring at all about the others. He continued like she hadn't even tried to stop him at all, Juniko sighed and followed him, knowing it was the smarter idea not to be left alone in this place, when they caught up to Brother Roland, it was another room filled, that look like they were worse shape than the ones in the room they had left.

-Ruins-

It was morning, The two old people they had rescued/abducted were coming around, they still seemed like they were out of it even though they had sleep well enough, they were dazed and confused about where they were. After another hour they would start questioning them to find out the truth about this Priesthood of the Pure.

The ruins were almost as silent as the grave; it was eerie being there among the dead, people whose mortal coil had been cut short by the Logene virus, it was saddening to think that people hadn't even bothered since then to bury them.

Hikaru vomited at the horrors that lay before, the putrefaction hung in the air around them, the stench got worse the farther they went in the ruins, "I don't want to go any further, I can't handle being surrounded by so much death" she said looking at the others.

Takajin nodded in agreement "I think we should find a place to settle down. Someone needs to go ahead to search for a less putrid place for camp" he said looking around.

Mikuni turned to look at Vasantmon, and nodded in his direction, who then vanished "my digimon partner is looking ahead, he will come back and take us there"

-Temple-

They were following Brother Roland till the alarms sounded, and he rushed out of there like there was no tomorrow, but Juniko and Huang continued to follow the unnamed woman, there was something off about her.

"I remembered when you showed up in Digitopia, you spoke of your family, and how you swore on their deaths, I have been taught that vengeance doesn't solve a thing, and it doesn't bring back the dead?" said Juniko giving Huang a look of concern.

"You have no right to talk about my family, and what I should be doing about their deaths" Huang replied through gritted teeth.

"I know Vengeance, my mother died and I blamed my father, until I grew up realizing it wasn't his fault that my mother died protecting the king, I even tried getting to the one responsible, the one who killed her. It got me absolutely no where I was nearly killed in the process. Vengeance is a poison for the heart" Juniko said looking directly into Huang's eyes.

Huang expression lightened a little "We need to talk about this later" he said gesturing to the woman as she was moving out of sight. "One question was the one responsible ever brought to justice?"

"My dad killed them, he said it didn't make him feel better it only made him feel worse staining his hands with blood in the name of vengeance" she answered Huang looking at the ground "my father hasn't been the same since, he might seem cheerful and aloof to the casual observer but I know him better than that."

Huang just stared at Juniko, how this girl dares to tell him how to feel, he didn't speak, and neither did she raise her head to look him in the eyes, they both just stood there in silence.

Breaking the silence a voice called out to them "You can come out of hiding he is gone" said a voice that startled them, neither of them knew this voice, Huang looked away from Juniko to see who was talking, and all that was there was the unknown person that had been with Brother Roland, now she sounded completely different, and younger than she sounded before, she still had her back to them. So they couldn't see her face.

Huang and Junko stepped their hiding place, something made them feel like they could trust her, if she wanted them captured, she could have done it quite easily without drawing attention to herself like she just did.

"You shouldn't be here, this place is dangerous, and the fate of the world depends on you" she said still not turning around to look at them.

"Who the hell are you?" asked Huang in a demanding tone, as he glowered at the back of the stranger that was talking to them.

"You are not ready to know me yet" she said with sympathy in her tone "Now get your friends, and get out of here before it's too late, these people aren't what they appear to be" a ball of light appeared out of the robes, and flew up into the ceiling, and the robes fell empty to the floor.

-Tabula Rosa Ruins-

They finally found a place that wasn't filled with decay, it was a temple somewhat like the one in the main city but this one was falling apart, it was like this place had been vacated before the dying started, Hikaru still looked pale from seeing all the corpses earlier, which would probably something she would never get over. Mikuni and Vasantmon were first watch, since Mikuni was the only one who still had a digivice, and Digi chip. Also being separated from their digimon didn't help things either; but it was a good that they had left them behind, who knows what would have happened if they had brought them into the city of Lunatics that think digimon caused a virus that did all this.

Looking out into the wasteland of this part of Tabula Rosa slightly unnerved Vasantmon, it reminded him of Dark Haven but ten times worse, at least all the corpse were buried unlike here, and there was no sign of plant life-like something in the air was killing that two. "Does this bother you your highness" he asked Mikuni, as he turned to look at her.

"its gross, but what is dead is dead, you should know that kind of stuff doesn't bother me at all, the only thing I care about is getting the whatever did this and bringing them it to justice" Mikuni answered looking Vasantmon in the eyes, and he nodded in response to her reply.

"There here" said Vasantmon, his ears twitched, he sniffed the air, and a small smirk creased his face, as Moonmon entered the room, Holding Babdymon snoring away, and followed Mikemon holding Sunmon's cage, placing Babdymon down, Moonmon walked over to Hikaru, and lays down beside her master. Mikemon look at Hikaru and Moonmon, she missed her human partner and wanted to be with her now.

Vasantmon look down at Mikemon, knowing at look, he had seen it on himself not too long ago, when he was looking for his master "You will be with your partner soon, I promise you" he said removing his left gauntlet, and patting Mikemon on the head "What are champions of justice for"

"I hope you are right, it's been so long since I have seen I feel like half of me is missing, and it's making my heart ache. I wish I was like Babdymon, who is sleeping through this whole ordeal" said Mikemon looking over at Babdymon, who was snoring away across from her.

"Pass me some more waffles" said Babdymon in his sleep, and then rolled over and continued to snore, and now began to drool.

Mikemon laughed, and then sighed. She was slightly jealous of Babydmon's oblivious nature "and thanks a lot you just made me hungry too" her stomach growled when she said that. "this place is nasty I don't think I'll be able to find food here" out of nowhere a packet of food dropped into her lap, she looked up to see it had been Vasantmon that had given it to her, she thanked him and started eating it. Soon she will be with her partner, and every will go back to normal.

-To be continued-

Is there a darker purpose for the Priesthood as the mystery woman warned, and who was she? to answer these questions, and more, please tune into the next Digimon digital monsters!