-3 years ago-

The moon glowed in the night illuminating the guardian's sanctum, a man stood on a balcony, he stared up at the early morning night's sky, as the sun crested in the distance, walking through the door behind him came a girl about 12 in age with the same silver hair he had, below the balcony people of various ages all wearing Gray Tunic that was bearing the guardian's emblem star on it, the girl on the balcony walked up to the railing and went instantly to one knee.

"Today we indoctrinate the guardians newest member my daughter Sorami Kamiya, as we are the last in maintaining the world, and protect it from darkness, we welcome her into our order "She is the youngest to ever to pass the tests needed to join us I am so proud of her" he gestured for Sorami to stand "We are the Light and the Purifying Flame" this was echoed in the crowd below, who then broke out a chorus of cheers and clapping, as Sorami was handed Guardian vestments, after what seemed like the longest two years of her life, she stood now at her father's side as a member of the Guardians.

As Sorami's father looked upon her with such pride, "We are the Light and the Purifying Flame" she said still looking up towards him, she would do anything to keep him proud of her; she placed her hand over the symbol on her tunic.

Digimon Sync episode 28 "In the Mouth of Madness"

He had a hard time believing it; he had seen her burying his entire family. All of them, Huang stared confusedly at his younger brother who was currently wearing the cloak of the Kurokami brigade and was protecting the one person he hated the most. He hated Scythe; she stood there with the same expression as when she buried the bodies in Logonia "Why did you leave home, why are you wearing that cloak, and why in the name of Lilithmon are you with her" he shouted breaking the awkward silence.

"I rescued them, I am sorry I couldn't have done the same for your parents. Migoku stepped in before I could, and he killed them" Scythe said not even breaking her monotone, but her hair turned ashen gray showing she was having sympathy. "What I did while he was doing this, I slipped them out the back and buried other killed villagers that Migoku had murder with your parents, your siblings aren't members of the Kurokami brigade I don't think I am either, at least not anymore"

"You expect us to believe that" Sorami said giving scythe a colder expression, a lot more scary than her usual one "I have information that you were the one who captured my father, you sneak attack him, I got this from him before he lost consciousness again, once we get you to the Sanctum I'll make sure everything the Kurokami brigade did to him I'll do to you tenfold" she ended her sentence by yelling.

"That wasn't me either, I did find him hurt and slipping in and out of unconsciousness, but I wasn't there alone, Migoku was there, all I could do was to take him to the citadel" said Scythe with her hair never changing from ashen gray.

Something suddenly registered with Huang "you said Siblings, you mean my other brother is also alive, where is he?' Huang demanded, with the hatred leaking out of his face, and replaced with one of concern. He ran up to Scythe, and grabbed her by the collars of her cloak.

"That's what we came here, I will surrender to your custody, if you help up find him, and he has been taken by those responsible for the disappearing children the ones that come back insane" said Scythe as she put her hands together like she expected to be bound by a rope or something of that nature.

"We can't we will take her back, and then come back with reinforcements. As she has to be interrogated to get into the Infinite Citadel to rescue our companion digidestined" said Sorami advancing on Scythe, even she couldn't look Sorami directly in the eye.

"No it would be too late by the time you get back" Echo said getting back and pulling back her hood, she walked up to Sorami only to receive a backhand slap across the face, but she continued getting closer "I am not letting you take unless you rescue my friend, and those digidestined you are talking aren't in need of rescuing I got them out on Scythe behalf they aren't in the Citadel anymore"

"I am not leaving, and let one of my brothers get turned insane like that child, we met when we got here" said Huang through gritted teeth "We must rescue him now"

Sorami shook her head, and sighed "OK fine, tie up Scythe. Then we will look for your brother" she said looking at each of them in turn.

Flying overhead unnoticed was a flymon; it looked like it was surveying the area, it spotted Sorami and Huang, it turned around, and flew toward city hall, it entered the buildings smoke stack, it flew through a series of tunnels till it reaches a room full of cells, each had a child in it, it flew past them, it landed in front of a man wearing a scarf over the lower of his face, with shades on "Paragon I report that Sorami is still here with the other digidestined boy Huang. It's confirmed they are investigating the children disappearing" it said sniffling from being outside.

"I thought they were only here to get Scythe, and then to return back to the Sanctum, that's what intercepted orders were" said Paragon sighing "We need her gone project epsilon has to continue as ordered by Paladin, and Beautiful Skies won't like it being stopped either"

"They won't find this place, we are why underground" said Flymon breathing in and out heavily like it was having a panic attack.

Paragon stood up and walked out of the room without saying a word, he pressed a button on a wall, and another cloaked face appeared "Take N10D and deposit it where it can make the most noise" he said before clicking off the screen.

They were now in the cottage, passing back and forth information, and getting absolutely nowhere, none of them had any new information that wasn't already known by all of them by now, Sorami slammed her palm as Aural started recounting the same info but reworded, and she hid behind Scythe, she began to whimper as the action scarred the heck out of.

"That wasn't necessary" Scythe said as her hair turned bright crimson, showing Sorami scarring Aural had pissed her off "She is a child, you do no traumatize them to get information, we need to be out there searching for the location of where these people are taking the children before it is too late to rescue Silence"

Sorami got up and left the room, "I am leaving before I kill this Heretic" she said heading towards the door, she left Huang alone with Scythe and her rescued orphans.

"For the longest time I hated you, I guess I was blaming the wrong person" said Huang looks over at his younger brother "do you have any info on where I can find Migoku, he's the one I should be killed"

"Likely in the citadel, as you were told it's protected by a barrier now, even if you have me I can't let you in as only our members of the Kurokami Brigade can pass through, so my children can't go in either, the barrier is in place to protect the reborn Lilithmon. She is the light, she is the darkness, she will reunite us with her love, and guide into a new tomorrow!" said Scythe with her hair turning to sky blue.

Huang the opposite of Scythe's hair, it seemed drain of color, he stared at hearing the sudden news, she must be lying he thought to himself, but why would she lie about something like this "I don't believe you, she would try to destroy the world again, like before she was stopped by the legendary digidestined, they killed her" he finally determined not believe it at all.

"They didn't destroy her Animus, the center of her very being, which was protected by Ankou, that glowing ball you saw hovering over his chest, when you sneaked into his room, we tried everything to revive her, but all we needed to do was wait for her reincarnation to appear" Scythe retorted placing her hands together in what appeared to be a strange prayer gesture.

At that moment the cottage was rocked by an enormous explosion, Huang pulled out his digivice and digichip, and went to charge out the door but Scythe seized him by the arm "There is something horribly wrong with your virtue, its corrupted somehow, the symbol is upside down" she before Huang yanked his arm away, and left the room.

There was a big smoking hole in the cabin wall, was a boy with brown hair, the expression on his face was one of pure insanity, beside him was a dark red and black dinosaur, which shared the boy's expression, "darkness in a hole, darkness given life, darkness bleeds!" the boy screamed, and dinosaur fires a ball of fire through the roof of the cottage, and then charges Huang, who managed to dodge him.

Huang looked around to see where Sorami was, she was across from him, and she had her hands cupped around her ears the explosion probably had disorientated her, he needed to buy her time to recover, he placed his digichip in his digivice. "Digi synchronization, hope chip activation" both him and digimon partner Babydmon were enveloped in silver spheres of light, but something did feel wrong this time, for both of them.

"once the seal is broken a every shadow will be stricken from down foot" said the boy screaming again, with his digimon partner blasting another hole, it then digivolved, into ShadowGrowlmon, it seemingly expanded into it, from all appearances, it took the ceiling completely off the cottage.

Dracomon blasted ShadowGrowlmon, with electric blue flames, making it howl in pain, "Scratch, scratch said the mouse in the house like a couch, do you want some sausage" said ShadowGrowlmon in a howling tone of voice, like it was in complete agony.

The boy now wore a sick and demented grin on his face "I Bastion, crawl but not run in the dark of the sealing grace" he said, before starting to scream again.

"Everything he is saying is complete nonsense!" said Huang confused, he shakes it off, and get ready to fight the insane boy named Bastion.

"The Door of the forest of the dwarf sealed a tuna fish can" Bastion said as he punched himself in the face, until red bruises pockmarked his face, then he began to drool, with digimon doing the same thing, he pulled something out of his pocket, it glowed darkly in his hand "Sour power do flower*

At this point Sorami was back on her feet, she pulled out her digivice "Digi synchronization, friendship chip activation" she said as she ran outside, Impmon and herself were enveloped in spheres of light, when they dissipated, Sorami's Impmon was now Thunderbirmon. Waves of electricity now emanated from its wings launching ShadowGrowlmon through another and out of the cottage, but it landed on its and howled with rage, thunder knocked him away again.

Thunderbirmon flew up into the air, and she swooped down upon ShadowGrowlmon, knocking him into a tree, which cracked in half, and fell to the ground with a loud thud.

"Door dig, shovel the dove" Bastion shouted, and ShadowGrowlmon seemed to melt into a pile of black ooze, waves of darkness came from it, and sounds of laughter, the sound of it sounded so familiar, then it formed into a thing that Huang never wanted to see again, which was PhantomGreymon.

"Good to see you, Huang, I feel you are still full of despair!" PhantomGreymon said with its bone-like sinewy black claw rising in the air.

"You were killed by Hikaru, she defeated you" Huang said trying not to show fear, he was feeling well up in his gut, he just wished this was some sort, he now tried to run but his legs wouldn't move it was the despair taking hold of him like it did before while they were in the, this thing wouldn't be able to be here if it was morning, which was over 2 hours away.

"Shall I give you despair, on your knees so I can relish every moment of" PhantomGreymon said before he was interrupted by a thunderbolt from Thunderbirmon, which was absorbed into its maw, but it still knocked it backwards and nearly off its feet. "Do not interfere; Huang is all I am interested in!" He said only to be lashed down with electricity again.

"Not very likely" Said Sorami charging at PhantomGreymon with pulsing electricity in the palm of her hands, which engulfed her hand completely, as she planted in her opponent's chest, and kicking off of it and landing on her feet. It exploded a hole in PhantomGreymon, it screamed as it regenerated. She now crossed her arms each forming a blade of thunder; she smashed them together causing a rippling Shockwave shattering PhantomGreymon's form, which still came back together.

"Curse you!" PhantomGreymon said as it disappeared into a cloud of mist and flew away, and Bastion ran after it

Huang just realized he had collapsed to his knees, and could have had been killed where he was if it wasn't for Sorami, he wouldn't admit to it, because he still didn't like her, she still had to answer for abandoning his companion digimon to the mercy of the Kurokami Brigade regardless if they had escaped.

Sorami gave chase to Bastion ignoring Huang, and leaving him behind, and flying over him was Thunderbirmon not paying him any heed either.

Bastion kept running, it wasn't because he was being chased, it was like a part of him was flying away and he didn't want it to get away, it was probably had to do with what had been done to him, that digi chip he had used was fabricated and dragging had destroyed his very sanity. Something suddenly tackled another boy, at this time bastion began grasping at air until the mist had completely gone, Bastion's eyes rolled into the back of his head, he stopped breathing.

Sorami caught up with bastion, and on top of him was the boy who they encountered when they arrived, she ran over to check Bastion who was now dead, PhantomGreymon had severed his ties with his digimon partner killing him, this had to be the reason, since there was no sign of him being hurt what so ever, but how can digimon sever their connection with their human partner.

"Cut, Slice, hole" said the boy he was rapidly in a random direction, and then began to jump up and down, and fell through the ground, and into what appeared to be an underground tunnel. A siren started to sound, the sound of it echoed through the tunnel; Huang had gathered his nerves and managed to catch up with Sorami at the edge of the tunnel, it was coming from further down, they both eased themselves down into it, and started to run, but being wary of their new surroundings.

(Unknown location)

The man scarf and shades wearing man Paragon had nodded off in front of the monitors, and was startled awake by the siren, he jumped to his feet, and checked the monitor, he hit the communications, and the other figure appeared on it, "The digidestined are in the tunnels we need to deal with before…"

"Before what?" said another, this time a female voice, she was standing direction she was wearing the same cloak, but she wore an animal mask.

"Beautiful sky, when did you arrive, we have had a small security breach, we can handle Renegade is taking care of it" Paragon said having stopped himself from jumping back at her sudden arrival had caught off guard.

"I picked heard you saying digidestined, I knew they were heading in this direction but how did they find that tunnel is the good question, you were supposed to reinforce it last week" said Beautiful Sky with venom in her tone "we need them alive, capture them, and let's see if we can glean more info on digivolution, and the connection between a human and their digimon partner.

"As you command Beautiful Sky" Paragon said as he was about to leave, but Beautiful Sky stopped him.

"I wasn't talking to you" Said Beautiful Sky as a purple light flooded the tunnel behind "you have 10 minutes use them well my partner" she was so caught up in what she was she didn't notice another shadow joining hers, it formed the shape of PhantomGreymon, then the shadow formed back into the one of Beautiful Sky.

Sorami and Huang ran down the tunnel, followed closely by Dracomon and Thunderbirmon, but Thunderbirmon was having a hard time squeezing it mass through the tunnel, its head kept hitting the ceiling as it tried to keep up, no matter what she will keep up with Sorami.

A figure materialized in the tunnel in front of them, was some sort of man wearing an animal mask, a business suit, and a jacket with spikes, it also wore spiked boots, its eye glowed read as it focused on them, whatever he was wasn't human, and it wasn't any digimon they had ever seen before, and it gave off a horrendous aura like it's very presence was affront to nature, and that was blood thirsty gleam in its eyes, it wanted to murder them, a projectile weapon of some kind appeared in its hand "Hey intruders I am Astamon, just give up already my master wants you alive"

-To be Continued-

Have the digidestined come up against something they can't handle, and will they stop the people behind the missing children? To answer these questions, and more, please tune into the next Digimon digital monsters!