There was a loud bang noise, and Takajin woke up "I am awake, mommy!" he said yawning, he rubbed the sleep out of his eye, and noticed it wasn't Mr. Sagisa, it was Wilhelm, was he dreaming, why was Wilhelm in his dream instead of Shiru impersonating a school named Sagisa, he looked around class and none of his school friends, instead all of the other digidestined were there, even Sorami was there, only thing normal was that Juniko was here, she was the only classmate he spotted, but even his sister was in this class, another thing who was this strange girl with black hair, who was sitting beside Mikuni.

Mikuni stood up at her desk "I am Mikuni Suzubuya, From East Suzubuya Junior high. First off I am not interested in ordinary people, if any of you are Digidestined, Hybrids, or evil deities, please come see me, That is all!" she said, then looked around the room, before sitting down.

Was that supposed to be funny Takajin thought to himself, as her turned to look at Mikuni, she was acting weird, even for being in a dream, looking back I wished it had just been a dream.

Digimon Sync "Weird, Layer: 22"

"Before you get any bright ideas forget about it, she is beyond eccentric" said a voice to the side of Takajin interrupting his frame of thought, who ended up being Huang "if I were I would go for Lilith" the person who spoke pointed him to the girl who Takajin didn't recognize. He thought to himself how Lilithmon could have a representation in his dream, when in truth he had never meet her, with her dying centuries before he was born.

Lilith stood up and left class, and Takajin followed her, she went down a hallway and into another class, this one was empty, and she wasn't there either, he entered to find Mikuni forcing Juniko to change into a maids outfit, Takajin stepped out of the room quickly, his heart pounding in his chest, he peaked back in the room just to notice Sorami was there too, she was reading a book, and Juniko was trussed in the maid outfit already, she was so cute in it too. Then Lilith walked passed him, he turned just see her walking around a corner, he followed her once again, she looked like she was heading into another door, but stopped in front of the door, she turned to face Takajin, and ushered into the room, she let go of his hand, and crossed the room, and turned to face him.

"I wanted to talk to you about something" Lilith said, but not letting Takajin respond at all "it's about Miss Suzubuya, what do you think of her?" she asked and didn't let him reply to that either "people always say it's much better to regret something you did, than something you didn't do, what do you think about that?" she continued without a pause or even letting him answer that question as well, it was like she was talking to herself "Well then let's pretend if you kept things the same you would be completely broke, and you don't know how to make things any better, I wonder what you would do about that?... as a start would you think about trying to change something or anything, Nothing is going to change if you do nothing to change?... then you agree with me!… it's not right to just twiddle your thumps, it's ok to force change to happen, if it's all for the best?... "

Takajin started to wonder what the heck Lilith was talking about, she wasn't making any sense at all, if this was supposed to represent Lilithmon in his dream, why was she talking nonsense, "What do you want?" he asked finally having it up to here with her rapid fire questions"

"I am just getting bored and just feed up, watching something that's not changing at all" said Lilith like Takajin had not said a word at all, and continued with what she was talking about " That's why I am going to kill you, to see how Miss Suzubuya reacts" a weird looking thing that looked like a blade but wasn't exactly a blade appeared in her left hand, and she charged at Takajin, with him barely dodging her.

Takajin in the process of the dodge, he was panicking since landing on his butt felt so real, could he die in his dream, and this girl was going to kill him "please I don't want to die" he shouted without thinking.

"You don't want to die, and you don't want me to kill you, I don't understand the concepts of death for organic life forms" said Lilith touching the tip of the blade to her index finger. "I can't because even if you don't care about it or not I really want to kill you" she charged at Takajin again, he tried to run for something blocked his path, but before she could strike, Takajin fell through the ground, all around him was a ticking, and a countdown he could not read.

Digimon Sync "Girls, Layer: 22"

It was a concrete city, full of lights of various colors, all blinking in sync with each other, people drove in strange looking vehicle made of metal, people walked across big paths filled with them, on top of one of these large concrete structures was a girl on all fours breathing heavily, she had to be in her late teens, she was crouched over a book bag, she was in a panic like something had been chasing, it was like a wall of hands appeared behind her, the girl ran towards edge of the building, and then looked down. From this distance the lights below spelled words, "Present day, Present time" she read them out loud, she was suddenly interrupted by laughter.

The wall of hands dissolved into particles, which streamed toward the girl, they were now binding her, and then some of the particles streamed right into her ear, then they let go of her. She began to walk toward the edge of the building, stepping over the safety barrier, she held on the rail with one hand, she reached toward the sky with her other hand, which now held her glasses, she mouthed a few words, she let go of the rail, and plummeted to her death, dissolving into sparks as she hit the ground.

Digimon Sync "Psyche, Layer: 22"

A sudden slam, and he awoke in class again, it was the same group of people except Lilith wasn't there anymore, and people wore different attire, Takajin rubbed the sleep out of eyes, also Wilhelm wasn't teacher anymore, it was a strange man, with one normal and the other was almost all white, it had a pupil but it was nearly not there. The strange man was eyeing him like a predator looking at his lunch, and with complete distain, he couldn't on that what had that been before, that girl and that thing that had attacked her, it made her commit suicide, she had shattered into sparks. He tried to force those thoughts out of his mind because they did not make any sense.

The strange that was looking at him, suddenly raised his arms in the air, like someone who performed an acrobatic routine, and then random digimon burst, like some sort of demented parade, all of them playing instruments or singing, they all charged at him, the wall fell over like a movie set, he ran out of their way, he was now in the middle of a street, Takajin from the Digimon parade that wanted to stomp him flat. He was running, he spotted Lilith, who was running in his direction, she pulled him into an alley as the parade had nearly caught up to him, the parade stormed passed the alley as he watched them from safety, he wanted to wake up, so he pinched his own cheeks, he had forgotten that he could feel pain in this dream, more like a nightmare that wanted to wake up from. How did he even get here, last thing he remember was getting on a ship, and then he was here among this insanity.

Lilith gestured him to stay where he was, she went to peak around the corner, she turned back to him, and nodded wordlessly that it was ok for him to get up, Takajin went to stand up, and the world vanished again, leaving him in the weird clock world once more.

Digimon Sync "Distortion, Layer: 22"

Juniko awoke, she wasn't on a ship anymore, but where were, she was all by herself now, the ship they had been on was over there, she turned to see a little village, She decided to go looking for Takajin and the others, as she walked into the village, she was suddenly surrounded by people, they were all laughing at her for some reason, she ran to get away from them, she ran headlong into a huge tidal wave of water. Struggling to get to the surface Juniko realized she for some reason could breathe under water, it was just really weird, she shrugged it off knowing that finding Takajin was more important now. As she came around a corner she was now in the sky looking, and the water was gone, she was now looking down at the island they were on, she still could not seeing any of her companions, even her digimon partner was nowhere to be found, she was now freaking out, she just got back with her friends a couple of weeks ago, met a friend Mikuni, even though kind of full of herself thinking she is the champion of justice even with a prissy attitude, she still saw potential In becoming fiends with the princess from Suzubuya. She took a deep breath remembering the training her father had given her to relax in situations like this, as she did this, she was then standing on the moon, looking down on earth, and everything around her vanished around her.

Digimon Sync "Feudal, Layer: 22"

"Juniko!" shouted Takajin as he awoke once again, the sound of his own heart was beating in his ear, he looked around, he was in some sort of shrine and holding some kind weird jewelry, before he could realize what was going the door to the shrine bursts open and on the other side were a bunch of angry looking villagers. Takajin jumped to his feet startled and unintentionally launched himself through the roof of the shrine, he had to get away from here he thought to himself as he now stood on the roof of the shrine, he ran for it. but for some reason he still was holding the jewelry but it now had all the Digi chip symbols on it, they flashed by in no particular order at all, he was now out of the village when someone suddenly yelled his name, he turned to see Lilith dressed in a red and white kimono, she was holding a bow and had just fired an arrow at him, it hit him dead center launching him back, and somehow pinned him to a tree.

When he woke up, he was pinned to the tree with an arrow, Juniko was on him and playing with his ears that's when he realized that they weren't normal ear but animal like Kitsumon, and then he realized as well that Juniko wasn't just playing with his ears, she was trying to get his attention, behind her was a man in a baboon costume advancing on her from behind.

"Migoku* shouted Mikuni throwing a giant boomerang, which was way too big for her to be to even carry, at the man in the baboon costume, who jumped out of its path.

Huang stepped out of nowhere "Wind Tunnel" he shouted taking some beads off his hand, he had to stop when some strange looking insect digimon appeared.

Juniko grabbed the arrow that pinned Takajin to the tree, and it vaporized freeing, he charged at Migoku, getting ready to slash him with his claws without even knowing what exactly what he was doing. He destroyed him in one slash, but it disappeared leaving what looked like a wooden toy in its place.

Something that looked like a fox person hopped out of nowhere, and realized it was his sister, tiny with fox ears and bushy tail.

"Sit Boy" shouted Juniko, and an unseen force shoves Takajin into the ground, and through it, for some reason it shattered like glass, and he plummeted into the void.

Digimon Sync Episode 22 "Last Test"

Takajin landed with a thud, everything around him was a blur, all he knew was he was now inside. Soon as his vision cleared he realized he was now in a fun house, but it didn't feel fun at all it gave him the creeps, he slowly made his way down the hallway in front of him, the walls were lined with mirrors, and each one had a picture of someone he knew in it.

He had a feeling that he was being watched, he turned around to see if there was anyone behind like he had felt there had been but no one was there. Takajin turned back around and continued his way down the hallway not noticing the silhouette following him in the mirrors, a black gloved hand. Takajin now entered a very large room, a man was standing at the end of it, he turned to face Takajin, it was the man with the weird pupils, on closers examination the pale eye was the normal one, the other was completely black with no pupil at all.

"You finally arrived; I am Mr Teatime, its pronounced Teh-ah-time-eh" said the man with a voice slightly over that of a whisper, he gave Takajin a sinister grin that gave him the creeps.

"Where are my friends and companions" Takajin shouted at him making the mirrors in the room rattle for some unknown reason.

"You will see them soon right after you face one last test, you have to fight me" said MR. Teatime, as a Anubismon walked out of a mirror that just appeared in the room, in that moment Takajin swore he saw Sorami placing a sheet over a girl laying on the floor, the one he saw fall off that building in one of his dream earlier.

Anubismon went to strike Takajin, who just managed to dodge him, only to be clocked by a left hook from Teatime, knocking him into a wall, Anubismon charged once again but stopped an inch from Takajin's face, Takajin was suddenly face planted by Teatime "this is why you can't even reach champion level and why I am going to kill you"

Takajin couldn't breathe out of his noise, since Teatime had broken it, he tasted the blood that flowed from his noise, he needed to get out of there before this man killed him like he probably killed that girl that he spotted with Sorami in the mirror this man was an absolute monster

A blast of fire hit Teatime squarely in the back, forcing him off Takajin. Standing at the door Takajin was Coronamon, a flame hovered over his forehead.

"Walk all over him" said Teatime pointing at Coronamon, and Anubismon proceeded to beat the crap out of Takajin's digimon partner, Takajin expression of relief turned into one of complete horror.

"This is only a dream" Takajin repeated while closing his eyes, but only to be slammed into the wall by Teatime, knocking the wind out of his lungs, he felt his arm break, he screamed in agony, at this point he saw his sister in a mirror that just appeared behind Teatime, she was suffering, this made Takajin forget his pain as surge of adrenalin surged through him. Takajin and Coronamon was enveloped glowing sphere forcing both Teatime and Anubismon to back away. Replacing Coronamon was what looked like a flaming lion called Firamon

The grin did not leave Teatime's face, like this did not surprise him at all, he only watched as Firamon pounce Anubismon, who reversed it and now had Firamon pinned to the wall with his elbow to Firamon's windpipe. Takajin gasped for air as he felt everything that happened to his digimon partner, and things weren't looking good for him or Firamon, they were going to die here by the hands of this psychotic monster of a man.

But everything started going static and digitize, and now he stood in a room with his companions, they all stood in front of a mirror, and etched in it was the symbol of what looked like a sideways eight, and it was talking.

"Digidestined Now that you all have arrived, I am here to warn you that the storm is coming and she will return" said the mirror, now replacing the sideways eight was a girl in a cloak with long flowing red hair, her back was turned to them in the reflection in the mirrors surface. Even in the mirror she glowed and her presence calmed all of them, each of his companions expressions still looked like they had been put through the ringer, the girl in the mirror's voice resonated through the entire room, whoever she was didn't seem like a threat at all.

"Who are you and what do you want with us" asked Juniko walking toward the mirror, but wary of it because of the experience she had before with mirror that had the symbol that was there before the girl appeared in it.

The girl in the mirror seemed to ignore Juniko's question, "Mikuni your brother seeks your crown and will come after you soon" she said "Takajin Digitopia will be in danger if Akira assumes the throne of Suzubuya" she continued "Hikaru you have yet overcame all your fears, you need to do so before you can gain true strength" she paused for a few minutes, when she continued the mirror stuttered with every word "You think you know... What you are, what's to come? You haven't even begun" when she finished the mirror shattered and crashed to the floor.

The next moment Takajin was back the floor of the room with the psychotic man with the strange eye, and his digimon who was strangling the life out of digimon partner Firamon, Takajin tried to get up only to scream since he had just put weight on his broken arm, Mr. Teatime put his foot to Takajin's broken arm putting pressure on the place of the break. Takajin screamed and Teatime laughed evilly. The world vanished as Takajin passed out.

When Takajin woke again, he was on deck of the ship that was heading to the guardian sanctum, Sorami was standing over him, and she was taking some sort of device off his right temple of his forehead. He now noticed that they were at a strange port, "Welcome to the Guardian Sanctum" said Sorami, before standing up and started to walk away from him.

Takajin grabbed her by the arm. "What the hell was that" he yelled at her angrily still trying to pull himself together from what he had been put through.

"They were test to see if you can handle an unknown or unwinnable situation and you passed, now get over yourself and follow me" said Sorami giving Takajin a very cold look making Takajin back down, and Huang who seemed to be about to protest to not even begin, none of them wanted to get on her bad side.

They would deal with this later if need be. They were now at the Guardians sanctum its was now time to find out why they had been summoned, would it be a good thing or a bad thing.

-To Be Continued-

What do the guardians want with the Takajin and his companions, and will the mirror girls warnings come to pass? To answer these questions, and more, please tune into the next Digimon digital monsters!