digi

Returning for the Last Time

Prologue: The Crests Regain Their Glow

"Takeru?"

"Yes, Hikari?"

"I want to go back…"

"But that's almost impossible,"

"I know…but I can't forget what the Nunemon called me when we were fighting the Dark Masters and Warumonzimon,"

"Yeah…I know. That was kind of weird. And I feel like I don't belong here anymore,"

"TAKERU! HIKARI! DINNER!" a voice called.

"Coming!" Takeru called. Yamato, Taichi, Joe, Mimi, Sora, Takeru, Hikari, Daisuke, Koushirou, Miyako, and Iori were having a barbecue at Taichi and Hikari's new house. They had moved just down the street from Takeru and Yamato so they had all become even closer than they had been before. Especially Takeru and Hikari.

"What were you two doing?" Yamato asked as they walked back to the porch from behind a tree.

"Oh, nothing," Hikari replied. Yamato knew that his brother had the biggest crush on Hikari, but Takeru was too afraid he'd loose her friendship if he told her. Takeru was jealous, because he also knew that Daisuke had a crush on Hikari, and whenever he was going to tell her that he liked her, he always showed up.

"Yeah, sure. Whatever," Sora said. Sora had been dating Yamato for a while and Taichi had first been angry with her and Yamato. But soon got over it and started dating Mimi. Joe and Koushirou didn't date. They were both too busy with school and computers. Daisuke was still chasing after Hikari, even though he knew that Miyako liked him. And Iori, well he was just Iori. Hikari and Takeru took their food and sat down on the porch steps. They were about to start talking when Daisuke sat down between them. Takeru didn't know that Hikari felt the same way about him, they never had the chance to tell each other.

"Daisuke…can I talk to you for a minute?" Miyako asked him.

"Uh…yeah, sure," he said as he got up to talk to her. Hikari motioned for Takeru to follow her into her bedroom.

"You wanted to tell me something?" she asked him as she shut her door.

"Um…well…I," he started to say but was interrupted by a beeping from her computer. When Hikari walked over to it and turned on the monitor an animated image of an old man was flashing.

"What is it Hikari?" Takeru asked her.

"Go get Koushirou and the others," she said as she sat down. When her room was filled with all of the digidestined children, she opened the file from Genai.

'Greetings digidestined. I hate to do this to you, but another evil force has appeared in the Digital World and we need Hikari to defeat her."

"But why Hikari?" Taichi asked.

'You're probably wondering why only Hikari can defeat the evil. I can't explain it until you are all in Digiworld. I must warn you, you may never be able to return to your world after this,'

"What do we do?" Miyako asked.

"I need to go back…I just know it has something to do with the Nunemon," Hikari stated.

"But that means you'll be stuck there, forever," Daisuke stated.

"I know,"

"Hikari, what do you want to do?" Taichi asked her.

"I want to go back," she replied.

"I'll go with you," Sora said.

"So will I," Mimi stated.

"I don't want to go back," Iori said shyly.

"Why not?" Jou asked him.

"Well, I just don't want to stay there is all," he replied.

"I think the original Chosen Children should go," Takeru stated.

"What? No way are you cutting me out of this," Daisuke said.

"Takeru's right. We'll need to have some of us stay here in the real world in case the dimensional rift reopens and evil Digimon start to come through again," Hikari said. She sorted through her drawer and pulled out her old digivice.

"You kept that?" Iori asked.

"Yes…I kept all of the other's digivices too, here," she said handing the digivices to the original digidestined children.

"Crest of Courage…"

"Crest of Friendship…"

"Crest of Love…"

"Crest of Sincerity…"

"Crest of Knowledge…"

"Crest of Reliability…"

"Crest of Hope…"

"Crest of Light…" all of the children said. A rainbow of lights circled up around the digidestined and they vanished, leaving Miyako, Iori, and Daisuke standing in Hikari's bedroom.