There are a lot of things written in Portuguese with translation. I hope you don't mind.

Chapter 21: Batendo na porta do Céu

Aurélia was in a dark tunnel with a light in the distance. She was no longer feeling pain, just relieve and peace.

"Um túnel com uma luz no final? Isso quer dizer que estou morrendo? (a tunnel with a light at the end. Does it mean I'm dying?)... Eu sei que isso é só uma coisa causada pela falta de oxigênio no meu cérebro... eu nem acredito em pós-vida. (I know this is only a thing caused by the lack of oxygen in my brain... I don't even believe in afterlife)."

Aurélia tried to find something funny about the situation, but she just couldn't. No matter what she had done until that moment, she was going to die. Every effort was completely useless. The worse was that she had been brought down by the one who brought disgrace to her family. Would Friede ever understand what she did to her? What she did to the most important people of her life?

"Eu só queria que ela pagasse (I just wanted that she paid). E se isso que estou vendo não for na minha mente? Será que poderia mesmo ser um caminho para o Céu? (what if this that I'm seeing is not in my mind? Could this really be a path to Heaven?). Será que os meus pais estão lá? Poderia a mamãe estar feliz? Estarão esperando por mim? (Are my parents there? Could mom be happy? Are they waiting for me?)."

Aurélia began to walk toward the light.

"Eu perdi tudo. Fracassei em tudo que me propus a fazer. Eu vou morrer e meu corpo vai virar cinzas. O triste é que eu não tenho ninguém para lembrar de mim. A minha família brasileira, o meu avô alemão, os meus amigos... eu nunca deixei ninguém se aproximar de mim de verdade ou me conhecer (I lost everything. I have failed in all that I wanted to do. I'm going to die and my body will turn to ash. The sad is that I don't have anyone to remember of me. My Brazilian family, my German grandfather, my friends... I never let anyone truly approaches me or knows me)."

Aurélia kept walking.

"Se ninguém se aproximasse, eu não me importaria de perder mais ninguém. Eu não me importaria se mais alguém desistisse da vida e se deixasse abater. Eu não podia suportar isso de novo. Eu nunca consegui perdoá-la.(if nobody approached me, I wouldn't care about losing someone again. I wouldn't care if someone gave up on life and let himself be down. I couldn't bear that again. I never could forgive her)."

Auri's mother, Capitu, had loved Karl so much, she thought her disease was a way of the universe tell her it was her time. She could go. Right after Auri had discovered that she was sick, and worse, that she knew about that and refused treatment, Capitu told her reasons to the girl. When Karl's experiment failed, everybody turned their back to him and he became depressed. She tried to cheer him up, she told him that he was brilliant and soon would make some important discovery and everybody would recognize him. But he told her that the experiment wasn't for his glory. He wanted to prove the existence of parallel universes to show people how insignificant they were. That way, they would realize it's foolish to make wars and cause unhappiness to each other. "All the problems of the world are caused by pride, fear of the unknown and ignorance," he used to say. Karl also told her that if he were able to expand the horizons of at least one person and make this person happy, his dream would be accomplished in part. When he had that accident in the laboratory and died, however, Capitu was devastated. She began to think it didn't matter how much a person loved, worked or dreamed, everything would be taken away from this person in some moment. The fate of everything was to be forgotten. Capitu began to believe that life wasn't worthy and that all that was solid dissolved in air. Auri called Capitu coward and promised she would never be like her and that she would prove that she was wrong.

Auri stopped walking. Was that really the end? Was she going to give up on everything just like her mother did? She wanted so badly to be different and prove that Capitu was wrong. She lamented her mother had died before she could prove that. When Albert Schultz came to visit her and asked her to go to German, Auri saw there an oportunity. If she could understand more about her father and his dreams, if she could accomplish them... her Brazilian family didn't want her to go, though. They said that she was running away from her problems. Aurélia felt she had to go. Besides her determination about her father, she didn't want to be close to her family. She was afraid something could happen to them and she would be thrown in misery again. She promised herself she would never make strong bonds to people again, to not suffer. She would be always nice and friendly, so nobody would worry about her or try to reach her true self. It worked well, until she met him.

"Ele disse que odiava o que eu o fazia sentir. Ele não fazia ideia do quanto eu odiava aquilo também. No começo era só uma diversão provocá-lo, eu o achava interessante. Eu não queria... eu não tinha planejado... quando o meu avô me contou a história dele, eu pensei que pudesse ajudar. Se eu expandisse os horizontes do Charles e o fizesse parar de mentir para si mesmo e ser feliz, o sonho do meu pai se realizaria em parte. Se eu pudesse mudar o Charles... eu poderia mudar o mundo. Por que eu tive que desenvolver esses sentimentos por ele? Nada disso importa mais. Eu não consegui ajudá-lo em nada. Minhas ações foram inteiramente inúteis. Mas, apesar de tudo... eu não queria morrer sem ter feito nada... se eu não puder realizar os sonhos deles... se eu não puder mudar o mundo... pelo menos... é isso! Ainda há algo que eu posso fazer. (He said he hated what I made him feel. He had no idea how much I hated that too. At the beginning it was just funny to mess with him, I found him interesting. I didn't want... I had not planned... when my grandfather told me his history, I thought I could help. If I could expand Charles's horizons and made him stop lying to himself and be happy, my father's dream would be accomplished in part. If I could change Charles... I could change the world. Why have I had to have these feelings for him? Nothing of this matters anymore. I couldn't help him in anything. My actions were entirely useless. But, despite everything... I didn't want to die without having done anything... if I can't turn their dreams true... if I can't change the world... at least... that's it! There's still a thing I can do)."

Weisheit was lying on the ground. Small pieces of data were vanishing from his body. He was going to die. Persefonemon was desperate. She tried to run to where her master was and would have clashed the electrical web if Kari hadn't stopped her.

"LET ME GO! MASTER WEISHEIT IS GOING TO DIE!" Persefonemon cried. Kari kept holding her.

"That digimon is too strong for any of us. You'll just get killed."

"Who you think you are to tell me what to do? You're the one who almost killed Chainmon that time!" Persefonemon was sobbing. Kari was serious.

"I'm truly sorry for that. But Weisheit showed up to rescue you guys that time. If you just waste your life to try to save him now, it would be disrespectful to him."

Persefonemon stared at Kari. She knew the girl was right, but she just couldn't leave her master that way.

"What should I do, then?" she asked.

"Every time we thought we were doomed, a miracle happened. I'm sure everything will be fine at the end." Kari told her. Friede laughed when she heard that.

"You really don't get it, do you?" Friede asked, "The digidestineds are just a thing Lady Unschuld made up to make digimons and humans have a good relationship. The digimons were afraid after the incident. A lot of them thought that was an attempt of attack and that they should attack first. Those fools! But Lady Unschuld wanted to protect the humans for some reason since the day Weisheit helped the heart's keeper to escape in safety."

"Heart's keeper?" Ken asked. Friede continued:

"I have no idea what was the cause of her sudden change of mind, but orders were orders. So I managed to make some greedy digimons evolve and create chaos in the Digital World. Then, Lady Unschuld chose some human children to fight them. She managed to take the ones with the best virtues. She even built the digivices to turn the power of their hearts into battle power. The digimons would fear these enemies and, once the human digidestineds defeated them, they would be so grateful that they would never attack the human world. At the same time, if other humans heard about the Digital World and had the same sort of fear, wanting to attack the digimons, the digidestineds would avoid that too. If the enemies we created caused chaos in human world and their savers were humans with digimons, they would be grateful and wouldn't attack the Digital World."

"What are you saying?" TK asked, in shock, "Our battles... the attacks in human world and the Digital World... the deaths... all of that was planned by you?"

"Yes." Friede smiled, "It all worked very well with every group of digidestineds. Lady Unschuld had total control of the situation all the time. You never found that weird? A bunch of kids winning strong enemies without any death in the group? The evolutions happening in the most crucial times? All this time you were just doing as Lady Unschuld had planned."

"You gave Myotismon, the Dark Masters and other dangerous digimons power...?" Mimi was saying, "Why? Why this? All that misery they created... all the deaths... how could you do that? Why?"

"Haven't I told you already? Everything was for peace. If today digimons and humans can get well along, it is thanks to that. If it is necessary, we'll do it again. Those who died and suffered in the process were just sacrifices for a greater objective."

"YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO PLAY WITH LIVES LIKE THAT!" Angewomon yelled, she had remembered about Wizardmon. Did he get killed for nothing as well? Friede laughed more.

"Why this reaction? Oh, you thought all this time that everything was your merit and you were the true heroes who protected both worlds, right? Well, you are, the fact that you were manipulated is just a mere detail. But don't be ashamed, the thing is that children are too easy to manipulate. You asked me who I thought I was. I'm the fifth strongest digimon that exists. You can fight all you want. You can join forces, hope for a miracle or whatever. You'll never be strong enough to beat me. You're just worthless insects... there's nothing you can-"

The digidestineds watched in shock a black sword stabbing Friede right in the middle of her chest, where her core was, by behind. The digimon fell, Auri was behind her. Aurélia had stood up, grabbed the sword and walked in her direction without the other noticing. Friede turned her head to see her. Her body was shaking, her control over her power was disappearing. The electrical web vanished. Persefonemon ran to Weisheit, who was fading away faster. The black sword was fading away slowly.

"You ant..." Friede was furious, "I'LL DESTROY YOU!"

Before Friede could do anything, Auri was wrapped by chains and pulled from that place. Few meters from there, Charles and Chainmon were standing. They had just arrived.

"It's Grayman!" Matt was surprised. Charles didn't give any attention to the others, he was focused on Auri. Her clothes were red because of the blood. Ceresmon, who had been observing the situation, unable to do anything, came to examine her.

"She has lost too much blood and her lung is torn." The digimon said.

"But you can do something, right?" Chainmon asked.

"I don't have any healing substance and her wound is too serious. If at least master Leben was here..."

Charles was holding Auri in his arms. She was getting cold. It had to be something he could do. She couldn't die like that.

"... Charles..." Auri had opened her eyes a little and spoke in a weak voice. "... is it you?"

"Yes, I came." Grayman couldn't help, he was shaking and could feel water in his eyes. "Don't talk. You must rest."

"You really came..."

Auri felt water dropping on her face. Soon she realized it was not rain.

"Why... did... you... come?"

"You think what? You're not the only idiot who falls in love for someone you shouldn't!"

Auri stared at him. Charles forced a smile, saying:

"Yeah, I understood what you told me that night." he hugged her tightly, "You're a stupid girl. But you'll never be as stupid as I am."

Auri gave him a true smile.

"You're not stuck in your little world anymore... I'm so happy... it was worthy... we both accomplished..."

Auri closed her eyes and didn't talk anymore. She also didn't move.

"Frau Schultz." Grayman called her without answer, "Talk to me. This is not funny! Talk to me!"

Matt and Sora had approached them. Charles was sobbing.

"Frau Schultz... Aurélia... talk to me! TALK TO ME!"

"Grayman..." Matt tried to say something, but Charles didn't want to hear.

"I beg you, Aurélia... talk to me!"

Meanwhile, Friede was lying on the ground. This can't end like this. I can't be killed by lowlives like them! Everybody despised me. Nobody respected me. They treated me as a weak brat. I can't bear this humiliation. I'll drag them all to Hell with me!

Even fading away, Friede's lines began to glow with intensity. Weisheit, who was almost done for, was scared.

"She's going to use her final attack."

"But she was hit in her core by a mithiryl sword. There's nothing she can do to save herself." Persefonemon said.

"She's not trying to save herself. This is a suicidal attack that turns her body into energy and cause a massive explosion." Weisheit told her, "It's impossible to escape."

The digidestineds were afraid. Matt and Sora tried to convince Grayman to go with them to a safer place, but the boy refused to move. He stayed there crying and holding Auri. Friede stood up.

"You all will turn to ash. You'll all pay for your insolence. FEGEFEUER!"

A huge explosion took place, destroying Tokyo. The barrier Weisheit had built around Izzy's block was able to protect the ones inside it from the explosion. After the shock wave, the sword that was supporting the barrier fade away and the barrier disappeared. Tai was lying unconscious on the ground. Izzy was still awake, but he couldn't move. Glaube was on his knees with both hands holding his head. He seemed to be in pain.

"Stop it!" the digimon was saying, "I'm in control of this body!"

His mind was tormented, as if someone was trying to take control of him. Someone was shouting "he's hurt!" desperately in his mind.

"STOP IT! I'M THE THIRD! I'M STRONGER THAN YOU! I WON'T LET YOU TAKE CONTROL! GO BACK TO YOUR PLACE!"

Mr. Izumi, by hearing the yells, reached the place where Glaube, Izzy and Tai were. Glaube was out of control.

"Everything is your fault!" Glaube began to say, staring at Izzy with pure hatred. He pointed the spear to him, "DISAPPEAR!"

When Glaube was about to kill Izzy, Masami fired a hand gun against the digimon. The bullets, however, weren't able to hurt Glaube. When Masami saw the other's face, he went pale.

"You... you are..." he began to speak. Glaube looked like a man he had known a long time ago. The bullets made Glaube even angrier, he wanted to destroy everything, to kill everybody. But suddenly, a light came from the sky, paralyzing everyone. A man appeared before their eyes, between Izzy and Glaube. His mere presence made them have trouble to breathe and even stay on their feet. Glaube stared at the man as if he was seeing a ghost. Masami had the same reaction.

"Glaube, you seriously were going to kill Koushiro, weren't you?" the man asked, Glaube was unable to speak, "I'll let Innocence sweetheart deal with you."

A light gate appeared behind Glaube, who was pulled by it, disappearing. The man looked to Izzy. The boy had fainted.

"I guess my presence was too much for him to take now. It's fine, we'll deal with it later." The man grabbed Izzy and held him in his arms. A huge white door that reached the sky appeared behind him. Mr. Izumi, still unable to move, was in deep despair.

"Don't take him!" he yelled, "Please, don't take him! DON'T TAKE KOUSHIRO AWAY!"

The man looked to Mr. Izumi as if he was saying nonsense, then he smiled at him and said:

"Why this reaction, Masami Izumi? Koushiro will return to the place he belongs to. You always knew that he wasn't yours. But we thank you for taking care of him for so long. As a sign of our gratitude, we'll let you all be fine."

The door opened. Everything was consumed by light.

When Sabine realized, she was in Dr. Kido's apartment, next to him was his wife and Mrs. Izumi lying on the couch. They seemed to be confused. Few time after Sabine and Yoshie had entered the place, a shock wave had knocked the building down and nobody remembered anything after that. It had been too fast. But now the building was up again, as if nothing had happened. And the most surprising thing was Yoshie waking up suddenly.

"What's going on?" she asked. Dr. Kido examined her and realized the deep wound she had when she entered the apartment had vanished, as if it had never been there. Sabine took a look outside the window and saw that everything was calm and the place didn't seem to have suffered any sort of serious damage. There were people on the street who seemed confused.

"It's some kind of miracle. There's no other explanation." Mrs. Kido said. Dr. Kido wasn't able to talk. Sabine approached Yoshie.

"Mrs. Izumi, are you OK?"

"Yes, I don't feel pain or anything. I don't understand what happened.

"Wait here, okay? I'll look for Izzy." Sabine told her, but Mrs. Izumi wouldn't let the girl go alone.

"I'll go with you." she said. Meanwhile, where the digidestineds were, Persefonemon opened her eyes and saw that all the buildings in the area were intact and everybody was alive, including her master.

"Master Weisheit!" Persefonemon hugged the digimon tightly. Weisheit wasn't hurt anymore. Even his sword that was fading away a while ago now was intact in the place where Friede had been before using her attack. Davis and Ken realized, astonished, that there was someone else among them.

"IMPERIALDRAMON!" they yelled when they saw their partner alive. He turned back to V-mon and Wormmon and didn't know what had happened. Charles was holding Auri a little far from there. He noticed that the wound in her chest had vanished. The girl opened her eyes and looked to him. Charles was speechless.

"Aurélia?" he asked, astonished. Auri smiled.

"So you know my name after all-" she was interrupted. Grayman kissed her on the lips. She kissed him back. Matt, Sora and the others were looking at them. After the kiss, Grayman told her, angrily:

"Don't dare die in my arms ever again! Otherwise, I'll chase you even in Hell if it's necessary!"

"You destroyed all the romanticism of the situation." Auri joked, but then she added, "I'll try my best, Charles."

Davis, suddenly, made a question:

"Everybody is here and fine. You guys don't think this is Heaven, right?"

"What kind of question is this? We are all alive!" TK stated, "We just don't know how."

Weisheit was concentrated, using his eyes to look for Izzy. In the place where Tai and Masami were, Tai was awake by someone. When he opened his eyes, he saw Wargreymon leaning over him.

"WARGREYMON!" Tai couldn't believe that his friend was alive. He hugged him and soon noticed his wound had disappeared and the buildings around them weren't destroyed at all. Izzy, however, wasn't there anymore. Tai saw Mr. Izumi on his knees few meters ahead.

"Mr. Izumi? What are you doing here? What happened?" Tai approached the man, but the other didn't answer. Masami seemed devastated. Tai, suddenly, heard steps behind him. He turned around and saw Mrs. Izumi and a pale teenager girl walking toward him. He had no idea from where they had come.

"Masami?" Mrs. Izumi called her husband. Masami gave her a sad look "What happened? Where is Koushiro?"

"He was taken away..." Masami answered in a very low tone of voice, "I couldn't protect him... he took him away."

"What? Who are you talking about? Who took our son away?" Yoshie was shocked. Tears were falling from Masami's eyes before he answered:

"Shunsui."

In another place, Izzy woke up on the grass. He felt no pain, but he was tired. His wounds had been healed. He could hear a conversation a little far from there.

"So you denied the deaths and the destruction?" a male voice asked.

"Yes. Friede was the only one I didn't bring back. She told inconvenient things to the digidestineds. Besides, she wasn't ordered to commit suicide and destroy the entire city. At least for now, I won't bring her back." a female voice replied.

"What about Glaube?"

"I haven't decided what to do with him. He's locked in a special room."

"I think the boy woke up." the man said. Izzy turned his head to the left and saw a man coming to where he was. When he got close enough, the boy recognized his face from a photo Auri had showed him a while ago.

"You're... Shunsui Yukimura?" the boy asked in shock.

"What? No, I was just made to look like him. You can call me Achtundzwanzig." he said, smiling, "There's someone you need to know. Innocence sweetheart, come here!"

Innocence? He means Unschuld? Am I in her dimension? Damn it! So I was caught. Now I'm going to meet her.

Flash-back

"The subjective universe, where it is the Digital World's central code and that is deeply connected to the World of Dreams." Izzy muttered. The Heart continued:

"Exactly. As you know, my conscience is based on your personality, or on your inner world, if you prefer. It's not different with the other part. The Digital World is shaped by the World of Dreams. For example, the dark sea, a dimension of the Digital World, is made by the dark feelings of people. So, the central code is related to the World of Dreams as well."

"Sea?" Izzy suddenly asked himself if it was a coincidence that the darkness in his mind also had formed a kind of sea.

"But I can't really say if that sea and the rest of the Digital World are like that because of the entire World of Dreams or the one that had originated her self." The Heart said. Izzy and Sabine frowned.

"Her self?" the boy asked.

"If she was a result of billions of inner worlds, it would be impossible for her to develop a single 'self.' That's why I believe she had her personality based on someone's personality. Probably a scientist that was in that laboratory when the incident happened. While 'I' was attracted by your inner world in formation, she must have had some contact with an inner world of an adult. Probably, at the same time the wave reached you and I was pulled by your mind, she had contact with this person's mind. But they didn't become one because it was impossible for the 'body' to leave our dimension that time. Even now, if she did it, she would just bring instability to any world she entered." The Heart was talking fast.

"HEART!" Izzy yelled, "Who's 'she?' What 'body' are you talking about?"

The Heart analyzed Izzy for a while. Then, he said:

"I thought it was obvious. I'm a 'heart,' so I'm talking about the body I belong to: the universe created by the incident. And when I say 'she,' I'm referring to the body, the universe, the Digital World's central code, it doesn't matter how you call her. But she calls herself... Unschuld."

"No." Izzy refused to believe in that, "You're lying! This can't be true! You told me you were the heart of the Digital World and that Unschuld wanted to unite you with the central code to control it. If she's the central code, why would she...? It doesn't make sense. Nothing in your story makes sense! It's illogical to even think that the central code would be in another universe outside the Digital World!"

"I already explained that! It's not just the central code, but also a large amount of information and energy of other universes that came from the wormholes. It originated a subjective universe connected to the Digital World and the World of Dreams. I'm sorry for not having told you the whole story before. But nobody besides me and Unschuld knows her true identity."

"It's nonsense!" Izzy was too confused.

"It makes a lot of sense, if you stop to think about it." Sabine said, "But if Unschuld is the central code, she doesn't need Izzy to control the Digital World, right?"

"Yes. But I don't believe she wants to control anything." The Heart replied, "All she wants is to be complete again. She wants her heart back."

"How do you know that?" Izzy asked suddenly.

The Heart pointed to the white door and said:

"Sometimes I can hear her. She cries a lot and talks to herself. Even creating 'brothers' and 'sisters' and giving them her powers... none of them is strong enough to live with her in that place. The loneliness hurts. For her, having me back is like a last hope, a way out of her misery."

"So you feel sorry for her?" Izzy asked.

"I understand her. But I don't want to give myself to her. It would be like become an 'it' again. She has a lot of stability already. After all these years, she never lost her original self, even not sharing a body with a human. But it's just a shadow of someone, not a complete self. She thinks she can be complete again by having me."

End of flash-back

It's the time to meet her. What will happen from now on? Izzy was wondering. When the woman reached the place where he was, she put herself on her knees and touched his face gently.

"I'm glad you're here, Koushiro." she said. When Izzy looked to her, he went pale. The long and bright red hair. The kind brown eyes. The woman he had seen in that photo next to Shunsui. It was impossible. She couldn't be Unschuld! He didn't want to believe. But that face... it was, without a doubt, the face of Catherine Renoir. Unschuld smiled at him and said:

"It's time now. We shall begin."

If you're wondering, the translation of the label is "Knocking on Heaven's Door", I just think it sounds cooler in Portuguese, and since Auri had a big participation in the chapter...

I hope you liked it. Starts now what I call the final part. But the next chapter will take a while to be written.