Faded Memories

Shadow- "Weeeeee! Last chapter of the second to last part!"

Renamon- "You sure are in a good mood."

Shadow- "Yup! Finally decided how to end the story. It's frickin' awsome. That's all I'll say."

Renamon- "...okay..."

Shadow- "Oh, by the way, do you know how many chapters everyone's read?"

Renamon- "...no... how many?"

Shadow- "This is the 90th chapter."

Renamon- "...WHAT?!"

Shadow- "Yeah, I know... crazy, huh? Especially since at the start, it was only going to be one part, with less than 15 chapters..."

Renamon- "You... are insane... fortunately, you don't own digimon."

Shadow- "Seamless. Oh, and please review. I look forward to your reading in the next (and last) part of the series!"

digital world, separate, citadel level S-1

The digidestined had lost.

Despite their best efforts, they now lay at the mercy of the ruby and gold digimon, Sacrosamon.

Sacrosamon grinned. "Goodbye, digidestined." He said, raising his cannon, glowing with energy.

He fired.

A sudden burst of light from nowhere lit up the entire room, forcing both Sacrosamon and the digidestined to cover their eyes.

The light faded slightly, but still remained. Sacrosamon's attack had vanished.

"What the hell?!" the digimon shouted.

"Well, it seems that my work wasn't completed..." a voice said.

Rika looked up. "...Huanglongmon? Is that you?"

"I glad to see some of you remember me..."

"How is that possible?!" Sacrosamon yelled. "I destroyed you!"

"Yes... but I transferred my data to their digivices before I was completely gone."

Takato nodded. "Yeah... you allowed us to travel between the worlds freely..."

"Yes... but that is not the only purpose my data can have..."

Sacrosamon growled. "What are you-" but was cut off as another bright flash of white light filled the room. When it had disappeared, the digidestineds' wounds were gone. Each digidestined also had an aura of brilliant color around them. They stood up.

Hunaglongmon continued to speak, his voice fading. "I'm afraid, children, that that was the last of my energy... you will no longer be able to traverse the worlds with ease... but you shall be able to defeat this enemy..."

Tai grinned. "All right!"

Davis looked down at his digivice. "Umm... why is my hand glowing?"

"It is the power of your crests..." Huanglongmon answered, his voice nearly gone. "Use it and you shall b..." his voice faded.

"Yeah!" Davis yelled.

Sacrosamon nervously grinned. "You may be restored... but I still have enough power to defeat you!"

"Yeah right!" Rika yelled. "Let's do this!"

Their digivices glowed, and they began to digivolve.

digital world, separate, citadel level J-1

Erika sighed. "Fine! Don't have fun! See what I care!"

Justin sighed. "Erika... give it a rest..."

Erika started to respond, but stopped when an aura of black light surrounded her. "What the hell?!"

An aura of a different color surrounded the others, as well. Kari and Kouji had a white aura, Ryan had a blue aura, Justin and Carrie had a silver aura, and Koichi also had a black aura.

"Umm... what is this?" Ryan asked, trying, and failing, to brush the color off of himself.

Justin sighed. "It must have something to do with our crests... the colors match up..."

Carrie groaned. "What the hell is going on?!"

digital world, separate, citadel level S-1

Sacrosamon growled as the digidestined finished biomerging. He looked over the more than thirty mega digimon in front of him. He laughed nervously. "So what if you got a power boost? I'm still strong enough to destroy all of you!"

He pointed his left arm at the digidestined. "Supernova Cannon!"

The explosion washed over the digidestined, but did little damage. Sacrosamon growled.

Takato laughed. "I guess you used up too much energy this time. I think it's time we finished you off! Shield Of The Just!"

The other digimon added their attacks, and they all swirled together, creating a maelstrom of light, fire, and steel that slammed into Sacrosamon. The ruby and gold digimon screamed.

When the smoke cleared, the digidestined were shocked to see Sacrosamon still existing. However, he wasn't doing much more than that.

He clutched a hole in his chest that went right through, with data and blood dripping from the wound. "Damn... it..." he whispered, before collapsing to the ground.

"Yeah!" Tai yelled.

"Don't... celebrate... yet..." Sacrosamon gasped. "You may have beaten me... but your world is still gone..."

Everyone stopped celebrating at this pronouncement. Izzy looked over at the fallen digimon. "...do you know how to fix it?"

Sacrosamon laughed, spitting up blood. "You've killed me, and you're asking me that?"

"Well..."

The digimon closed his eyes. "I know why you're here... I suppose it was impossible to delay it... Just do what you came here to do..."

"Restore our world?"

"Yes... and more..." The ruby and gold digimon brought his right arm in front of his face, the arm that held his sword. "This sword... was not originally part of my armor... I found it... and used it to create my empire... Ask what you must of it... it seems fate has chosen a new home for this damn thing..."

"Wait..." said Takato. "...we can ask it to do... anything?"

"It has the power... to warp spacetime... you can change anything you like... I don't care what you do with it anymore..." And with that, Sacrosamon disappeared in a cloud of data.

Takato, still as Gallantmon, walked over to the sword. It was too small to fit in his hand, so he de-digivolved. The others followed suit.

Takato picked up the sword. "Umm... so, how do I use this thing?"

Ask what you will of me.

Rika jumped. "W-what said that?"

I did.

The digidestined looked around.

No, over here... down... down... there you go.

Takato looked at the sword. "So... that's-"

Yes.

"And-"

Yes.

"Can-"

Are you actually going to ask anything?

Takato flushed. "Sorry... can you bring back our real and digital worlds?"

Of course, but I must warn you-

"Can you or not?"

...yes.

"And make sure the people there don't remember earth being destroyed." Izzy piped up.

I only take orders from the wielder of me.

"Umm...yeah... do what he said..." Takato said.

As you wish.

The sword glowed for a moment, then ceased. Is that all?

"Yeah, I thi-" Izzy started to say, but Takato cut him off. "Can you fix the world so that there's no darkness?"

I could, but you would not believe that I did.

"What do you mean?" Trish asked.

Most of what you call 'darkness' in your world actually has some components of light to it, and is therefore correctly referred to as 'shadow'.

"So then... if you got rid of shadow and darkness... there'd only be light?"

Correct.

Takato nodded. "Okay then... fix the world so that darkness and shadow no longer exist, and that light can exist by itself!"

As you wish...

digital world, separate, citadel level J-1

Justin and Kari sat on the ground, playing games with the pack of cards.

"Got any threes?"

"Go fish."

Kari picked a card off the top of the deck. She sighed. "How long until the others get back, you think?"

"I have no idea... got any queens?"

Kari frowned, and picked two cards out of her hand. Justin lay down two more, to make another complete set.

Kari groaned, and looked up at the ceiling. "I'm really bored..." she sighed again, and looked back down to see Justin faded in and out. "What the heck?"

Justin looked at his hand. "I dun-" then yelled in pain as he flickered in and out of existence.

"Justin!" Kari yelled, and grabbed him and pulled him closer. Across the room, she saw the same thing happening to Koichi, Erika, and Carrie. Kouji held his younger brother.

Justin continued to fizzle in and out of existence. "Justin!" Kari yelled. "Please don't leave!"

digital world, separate, citadel level S-1

The sword stopped glowing. I'm afraid there's a problem.

"What? Why?" Takato asked.

Light does not wish to give up either shadow or darkness.

"Can you force it?"

Yes, but I must w-

"Just do it!!"

The sword glowed with a red tinged light. As you wish... the sword said in a deeper voice.

digital world, separate, citadel level J-1

Kari held Justin close. He had stopped fading in and out just a few moment s ago. "Justin? Are you okay?"

"I-I think so..." Justin whispered. "I felt like... that time Takato killed me... just a sense of getting weaker and weaker..."

Kari pulled Justin closer. She whispered "Don't ever leave again..." before kissing him lightly.

Justin blushed, and whispered "I'll try not to..."

Though Justin and Kari did not notice, the other three had stopped fading as well. Kouji held his brother, and Ryan held Carrie.

The four digidestined suddenly began to fade again. This time, however, the two children of light did not protest.

After a few moments, the four digidestined, their digimon, and their digivices, were gone.

Ryan, Kouji, and Kari were left alone in the room.

digital world, separate, citadel level S-1

The red light faded from the sword. It is done.

"Good..." Takato said. "Can you take us back to our worlds now?"

There will be transport waiting at the base of this tower.

"Good."

Do you require anything else?

Takato looked around at the others, then said "No, I think we're good."

I'm sure you do... the sword said, before fading into nothingness.

digital world, separate, citadel level J-1

A quiet had descended over the room. Ryan looked around, and saw only Kari and Kouji remaining.

He scrambled over to Kari. "Kari? Are you okay? What happened to the others?"

Kari slowly looked at him. Her eyes were dull. She started to speak, failed, then finally whispered "Who's Kari?"