Finally, here's the third part to the Destiny's End series. This one took me longer to write than I expected, but then again, I was having a mild case of writers block.
I know there's I need to explain how, and why, a lot of the stuff that happened last chapter, so you can understand more of the story. I did my best in this part, but there are still a few things that have gone by unexplained. I will explain those few things in future parts.
All the disclosure information and explanations on the setting and characters are at the top of the first and second parts of this fic. I don't want to have to repeat that information each and every chapter, so if you want to see it, just got to the first and second parts.
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Part 3
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The six people crowded in Izzy's room were all sobbing uncontrollably. Joe, Izzy, Ken, Cody, Yolei, even Davis, were shedding tears for the greatest digi-destined there ever was. His name was Taichi Kamiya. And, as of 48 minutes ago, he was dead.
They all held each other, releasing their cries of sorrow together. None of them would ever forget what Tai had done for them. No, what Tai had done for the world. For Tai had done what no other digi-destined had done, nor what no other digi-destined would ever do.
He had sacrificed his digimon and himself. Why? To give the world a chance. Not to insure victory, not to destroy the evilness of the digital world. Just, simply, to give the others a chance. To give them the possibility of winning.
And for that, among all of his other great deeds, he would never be forgotten.
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"Tai! Why did you have to leave me! You didn't have to do it Tai! We could have won even if destiny existed! Tai, I loved you!" Sora cried to herself. She was sitting in a tree, spurting out more tears than humanly possible in remembrance of him. All she could think about was his death, and how he didn't have to kill himself, even though in her heart she knew it wasn't true. But that didn't stop her grief.
"Love, not loved." Sora looked down to see Kari staring up to her. Strangely enough, the young girl had taken Tai's recent death best. Kari had shed tears, but not nearly as much as the others. It didn't mean she wasn't sad; it was just like she knew something else the others didn't. Kari started talking again. "You love him, Sora, not loved him. He'll never leave us entirely, as long as we keep a piece of him right here." Kari pointed to her heart. Sora nodded, then smiled, her first one that day since Tai's death.
"You know, you're right Kari. Besides, Tai wouldn't want us to forget our mission by grieving over him, would he?"
Kari shook her head. "No, he wouldn't. In fact, he'd probably be disgusted by the amount of crying going on, especially from the people over in Izzy's room. I can here their sobs coming in over the d-com."
Sora looked surprised as she just realized the crying her d-com was picking up from Izzy's room. "Guess we forgot to undo the whole 'keying into' thing with the d-coms. Anyways, let's get back to the others. Oh, and Kari, thanks," Sora smiled as she expressed her gratitude to the younger girl for her help.
"No problem, Sora."
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The group in Izzy's room had lost track of the time. They were all sitting in different places in the room, either sobbing quietly to themselves, or thinking about what had happened. None of them felt like talking, since it hurt them to speak about Tai.
Yolei was sitting next to the computer when it happened. Nobody had really paid any attention to it after Tai had died, since they were still all to caught up in their grief. Yolei, on the other hand, was staring straight into the monitor, but not really caring about what she saw. She was just thinking with her eyes open, but she wasn't paying any attention to her vision. She was just staring. In fact, she was staring at it so intently that she barely noticed when a group of words started blinking on the monitor.
-Main Protocol Transfer Initiative Download Complete. Digital Angel Program Database Installation Begin. Activation Upload. Reformation Cycle: Ta23211. Restart.-
Yolei watched the words on the screen with mild interest. Even though she understood a little of it, she doubted it was important. She figured it was just a game Izzy had downloaded or something. Anyways, it didn't matter to her. She wen't back to her thoughts about Tai and forgot about the words blinking on the screen.
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That night, the now five member group of digi-destined, sat down in the remains of the cave at Converging Point. They had started a bonfire at the place of Tai's death, and were sitting around it. They each had a bundle of flowers, and were throwing them into the fire along with a few words about Tai (it had been Mimi's idea).
"For the greatest friend there ever was. He taught me what friendship truly was." Matt shed a tear as he chucked the purple flowers he had gathered into the roaring flames.
"For the most courageous and fearless person there ever was. Being around him always removed my fears." Mimi threw her pinkish roses away.
"For the greatest brother and kind spirited person there ever was. He always knew how to lighten the most dire situations." Kari didn't cry as she ditched her flowers, only stared at them intently as they burned to ashes.
"For the best leader and hero there ever was. He never stopped trying to do what he new in his heart was right." TK tossed his flora into the fire with a simple nod.
The rest of the group looked at Sora as she prepared to speak. Her flowers were more of a bouquet, since she had spent her entire afternoon on them. "For being Tai. I'd burn every flower in my mom's shop if I could, just for you." Tears streamed down her face as the bouquet was consumed by the fires. They all nodded at what Sora had said.
After that semi-funeral, the group talked a little bit more in remembrance of Tai, chatting about all the courageous, funny, and sometimes stupid things he had done, allowing a few tears and smiles to grow on their faces. But they didn't stay up to late, since they knew that the next day they would have to prepare for battle. By 11:30 that night, they all were sound asleep.
Except for one person. "I'll always love you, Tai," Sora whispered into the night.
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Izzy woke up in the middle of the night startled. He checked his clock, and then seeing that it was three in the morning, cursed.
"Fuck, I could have sworn I heard my alarm clock go off. Why did it go off now?" Izzy spoke out loud to no one in particular. He checked his clock again, than saw something he hadn't noticed before. His computer was on.
"What the hell? I know I turned the comp off last night. Why did it turn on?" Izzy walked over to it, and since he was to lazy to go through the whole shutdown procedure, decided to just manually turn it off. He reached his finger up to the button, and was about to press it, when he heard a sound.
It was the same sound he had heard that had woke him up. And it came from the computer. Izzy, now more curious and awake than before, stared more intently at the monitor. He leaned in closely, but jumped back in surprise when the computer beeped again.
"Huh?" Izzy asked outloud. He couldn't understand what was going on. Than came something that confused him even more. The computer started to show words on the monitor. He read them.
Izzy sat back in his chair, dumbfounded. He watched as the words flashed on his screen, as if something was trying to communicate with him. But how could that be? Something communicating with him through his computer? But then again, he was a digi-destined and had experienced lot weirder things in his adventures than this could possibly be. So he decided to try to talk back to it. He put his hands on the keyboard, and started to type.
Who ar- Izzy was cut off by the text now displayed on the computer.
"Whatever," Izzy said. It still was all confusing. How could this thing understand what he said, or hear it? But he had more important questions to deal with now. "Tell who to move?" Izzy asked calmly.
"You must mean Sora and the others. How do you know about them? For that matter, who are you?"
Izzy sighed as the computer repeated its message for the third time. What could it mean by tell them to move? It made no sense. And why wouldn't it tell him who it was? He decided to try again. "What is your name? What are you?" Izzy asked.
Izzy was surprised by the more high-strung outburst of text the thing had written. He decided to ask later about what it was, since now he would focus more on what it was telling him. "What do you mean, tell them to move?"
"How do you know this? How can I trust your information if I do not even know what or who you are? You have not given me any information that would incline me to trust you!"
Izzy sighed. It seemed that there was just no arguing with this creature. He pushed his chair over to his main computer, plugged in the coordinates of his friends, and then watched as the scan commenced. After about fifteen seconds he shut the scan off, then wen't back to his laptop with a worried look on his face.
"How did you know they were in danger? How could you tell there were evil digimon near them? In fact, how did you even know where they were?"
"Fine, have it your way. But I need this laptop to communicate with my friends d-coms."
With that, the text disappeared. Izzy sighed as he watched the normal desktop screen return. Now the problem was trying to wake his friends up.
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"Guys, wake up!" Sora sat up immediately as Izzy's screaming voice slammed into her ears. She looked at her wristwatch, than seeing how early in the morning it was, flopped back down onto her pillow.
"Go away, Izzy," she heard Matt mutter through the d-com. It seemed like him and TK in the other tent wanted as much sleep as the girls did.
"No, you guys go away. Far away! In fact, run while you're at it!" was Izzy's reply. Sora sat up again, and looked into the confused faces of Kari and Mimi. "There are ten evil digimon coming your way. They'll be there in less than five minutes! And since I know you're digimon are tired from yesterday's battle, you need to move it! Go!" Sora jumped out of her sleeping bag, and immediately started folding it to take with her.
"Ok, Izzy, we hear you. We'll be gone in a minute," Kari calmly said. She then went back to folding her bag.
In two minutes, all five of them had gotten ready to go. They had decided to ditch the tents and most of the other stuff, only taking with them what was absolutely necessary. TK had muttered something about it being just like the good old days. So, after they had everything, they all started running in the direction Izzy told them to, ditching their tents and other camping gear.
"Go left, no I mean right! There we go, now just keep
running forward until you get to a ravine!" Izzy told them over their
"You know, his directions have gotten worse since the last time he gave them to me when we were in the digital world." Mimi was obviously talking about the time she had been in a maze and Izzy had tried to steer her out of it. They heard a slight roar in the distance and decided to run with a little more vigor.
"Thank god there's a full moon," Matt muttered. Mimi nodded her head, since it would have been kind of hard to run through a forest in total darkness.
A few minutes later, they reached the edge of a semi-steep ravine in the middle of the forest. "Now what, Izzy?" Kari asked.
"Go down until you get to a tree stump next to a large, and I'm talking empire state building large, tree."
"Izzy, this whole forest is full of those size trees and tree stumps! Are you sure that it's the only one down there?" an exasperated Tk asked.
"It's the only tree of that size with a tree stump next to it in your immediate vicinity, yes," was the reply.
"Just go!" Sora said as they heard the voices coming closer. The rest of he group nodded, then moved as quickly as they could until they got to the tree Izzy was talking about.
"Were here Izzy, now what?"
"Go to the side with all the moss. Look under the biggest root you can find, and you should see a small hole. Go into it. Do it now, they're almost to you!"
The group quickly walked around the tree, which was rather hard since the tree was huge, the roots were as large as people, and it was all on a down hill slope. Finally, they found the hole, and each human and their partner digimon, dived into it without another thought.
They landed on soft leaves inside the tree. Looking around, they saw the perfect home crafted into the tree, especially since it was impossible to notice from the outside. In fact, it seemed like it was a home, or at least had been, since there was a kitchen, bedroom, and large living room type of place. But their discovery was soon forgotten as they heard the digimon outside searching for them.
"Where have those damn kids gone! They must be around here some where!"
"Fuck, if we don't find them, Zurodatamon will have our heads!"
Sora quickly whispered into her d-com. "What should we do Izzy?"
"Don't do anything. The place your in is completely secure. It's sound proof too, so you don't have to whisper. I have to do something else right now, but if you need anything, just call me. Oh, in case you were wondering, this little hovel belonged to Leomon before he died," was Izzy's reply.
"Leomon!" Mimi exclaimed. They all sat back in wonder at the little home, and peeked around the house. But soon they grew tired again, since it still was early in the morning, and decided to go back to sleep. For the first time in days, they felt truly safe as they fell asleep, as if they knew both Tai and Leomon would be watching them in their little, hidden house.
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Izzy sat furiously working on his computer. After the encounter with the thing on his computer, Izzy had realized something that he had overlooked due to Tai's death. He couldn't sleep thinking about it, so he decided that the only course of action t take was to solve the mystery.
First, Izzy needed to talk to Gennai. He knew how to contact the man, but he also knew that most of the time Gennai wouldn't respond. But he needed to understand badly enough that he dismissed that fact and opened up a video chat screen on his computer in hopes of talking to him. Then he set up all the other things on his computer that he needed to talk to Gennai with, and tried his luck.
"Gennai, you there?"
"Izzy! How are you?" Izzy was rather surprised by Gennai's
immediate response and happy nature, but shook it off since he wanted the
information.
"Fine Gennai. I can imagine you're a bit busy at the moment, but I have a favor to ask. You told the others that a "digital angel", which I still don't understand why you call yourselves that, told you about the end of the world."
"Yes, so I did. And isn't it amazing that Tai was able to change destiny! I still don't understand how he did it… but I'm getting off topic. Look, were a little pressed for time around here, with the whole fate of two worlds coming up, so let's do this quickly. So what's your question?"
"I'm wondering if you can tell me something about that conversation."
"Actually, it wasn't a conversation. It was an e-mail."
"Great! That'll work even better. Is there anyway I can get a copy of that e-mail, along with its source code?"
"Sure, Izzy. We'll e-mail it right to you. Glad I could help!" Gennai smiled.
"Thanks Gennai. Bye!"
"Bye!" was Gennai's reply. Izzy smiled as he closed the video link. This could be a lot easier than he had thought.
Izzy sat anxiously watching his inbox for any new messages. After about two minutes of waiting, the e-mail finally came, along with the copy of Gennai's e-mail attached. Izzy opened it up, and immediately started working on it. A short fifteen minutes later, he had his answer.
It was dated today.
So, whoever had sent that e-mail to Gennai those few days ago, had only sent it from a couple days in the future. That meant that the world would have been destroyed today, if Tai hadn't sacrificed himself and destroyed destiny.
"So he really did change the future," Izzy whistled out loud. He was amazed at what Tai had done, something so impossible that it had changed all of destiny, or, in fact, destroyed it.
The computer beeped. Izzy glanced over and saw text flowing on the screen again. So it seemed the thing was back.
Izzy was instantly mad at the thing for what it said. It was talking about his friend, a friend who had sacrificed himself and his digimon, for a change. And what the computer was displaying was dishonoring him. "He changed the future! He destroyed destiny! He broke free of the clutches of destiny to do it! How can you say he didn't change anything!?" Izzy yelled at the computer.
"No! Don't you understand! He destroyed Destiny! He broke free of it to do it!"
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A/N:
There's something really screwed up with fanfiction.net. Up above, the parts where the computer is talking to Izzy is supposed to be in bold font, like where it says "My name is Taichi Kamiya". The part where the computer talks is all bold on my saved version on Microsoft Word, but when I upload it to Fanfiction.net it doesn't keep that part bold. It makes no sense. So I'm sorry if it was a little screwed up, I'll try to edit it soon.
Ok, I'm really starting to hate the amount of cliffhangers I leave on this fic. Maybe my next series should be called "Cliffhanger's End." Anyways, I'm sorry this one took me so long to write, especially since it's the shortest part of this series so far. I know not much happened this chapter, since it was mostly about Izzy communicating, but I promise there will be more adventure in the next parts. Also, again don't expect the next chapter out for a while, I do have to recover from this stupid case of writer's block. But you know what they say; a good review will cure anything. So please, just take a short minute and review. And if you're looking for future parts of this story, make sure you check under "updated by chapter" since it will show when I post new parts. Happy Independence Day everyone!