Mukuro: Welcome to the final chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own digimon, and that goes for the action figures, videogames, cards, and everything else.
Digimon: Dawn of the Shadow
Chapter 50: All Good Things…
"You will not survive! I will embrace both worlds in darkness!" ShadowGulfmon shouted, firing an enormous blast of dark energy. Upon hitting me, it disintegrated into nothingness.
"This is the end, 'God'." I said, holding out my hand.
"Rainbow Cannon!" I shouted, blasting a multiple colored blast of energy, which shot forth into ShadowGulfmon.
Two worlds of darkness… how I wanted to see them… ShadowGulfmon thought, disappearing into the light.
"I can't believe it… I won… I saved the world…" I said, defusing back into myself and Rubimon.
"No, we both saved the world, partner." Rubimon said.
"You're wrong, too." I said, looking at my unconscious friends.
"It was all of us." I said, smiling.
Suddenly, the island started shaking.
"What's happening?!" I shouted.
"It seems the island is falling back into the sea!" Rubimon said.
"Thanks for the concern!" I said.
"Riyo!" Gallantmon shouted, falling down the tunnel.
"Gallantmon!" I shouted.
"We need to go!" Gallantmon said.
"What about them?!" I asked.
"Henry?" Gallantmon asked, and suddenly, the shaking stopped.
"Takato, do you have any idea how heavy this thing is?" Henry shouted.
"Come on, Henry! Momentai!" Terriermon said.
"MegaGargomon's carrying this thing?!" I asked.
"Yeah, kind of." Gallantmon said.
"Okay, I'm setting this thing down!" MegaGargomon said, placing the island next to the base.
"Okay, let's get everyone off." Gallantmon said, carrying a few people to the base.
"Yamaki, the shadow has stopped moving!" Jarrod said, looking up. "In fact, the shadow is receding!"
"Good. We'll move ahead as planned." Yamaki said.
"So, is everyone going to be okay?" I asked.
"Yeah, it looks like it." Jeri said.
"Phew…" I said, sitting down.
"I'm… awake…" Jami said, sitting up.
"Hey, Jami! You woke up!" I said.
"Yeah, you're right." Jami said. "All I remember is that I gave you some energy to fight… and…"
"Yeah, everyone else should be waking up soon." I said, looking around the medical room.
"Hey, they're waking up now!' Jami said, smiling.
"So it's time for us to go, huh?" Jami said, looking at the beam of light jutting down from the sky.
"Yeah…" I said.
"It's too bad we can't take the digimon with us…" Li said.
"It's okay. As long as we're alive, we'll see each other again…" Rubimon said, smiling.
"Thanks, pal."
"So, is everyone who has to go ready?" Takato asked.
"Let's see… Ari, Li, Kai, Riyo, Jami, Lauren, Zakuya, Raiji, Alex, Leo, anyone else?" Kenta asked.
"Yeah, I'll go." Ren said, walking over to us.
"Really? Why?" Ari asked.
"I have to apologize to someone." Ren said.
"If Ren's going, I'm going, too!" Sakura said.
"Okay, fine." Ren said.
"Hey, why aren't you guys coming? I asked everyone else.
"Well, I have nowhere to go, so I might as well stay here." Ryuo said.
"Same here." Jarvais, Lori, and Marcus said.
"I still have a debt to repay to the digital world." Hiruko said. "I caused great suffering to the digimon of this world. I need to repay that by staying behind and devoting the rest of my life to repairing the damage I caused, regardless of what happens."
"Hey, Hiruko." Ren said.
"Yeah?" Hiruko asked.
"If it goes to far bad, I know a little village you could go to that won't persecute you for anything." Ren said.
"It's time to go, guys." I said, walking into the beam of light.
"Remember, Riyo!" Rubimon shouted after me. "I will always be with you in spirit!"
"Bye, Owelmon!" Jami shouted.
"See you, guys!" Kai shouted, walking in.
"Bye!" Everyone shouted.
And we moved forth into our future.
"Yamaki! We've got a lock on them! They're coming home!" Jarrod shouted.
"Perfect." Yamaki said, adjusting his sunglasses.
"They're emerging from some burned down hotel!" One person shouted.
"Let's go, then!" Jarrod shouted.
"Where are we?" Jami asked, looking around at the burnt remains of a building and a small lawn.
"We're home." I said, looking around.
"Yeah…" Ren said, looking around, sadly.
"Of all places to be taken, why'd it have to be here?" Sakura asked.
"Jami!" A voice shouted, and a car skidded to a stop in front of the grass we were standing on.
"Jami!" Jarrod shouted, getting out of the car and running over.
"Daddy!" Jami said, hugging him, crying.
"Blackmail time!" Kai said, pulling out a camera and taking a few pictures of Jami's tear-streaked face.
"Leo!" A voice said, and a girl appeared, jumping on Leo, crying.
"MJ, get off your brother! He may have been gone a while, but he's back now." Leo's dad said, smiling.
"Hey, look! It's my dad! I've been gone so long, I didn't even realize it was them!" Raiji said.
"Hey, there're my parents, too!" Alex said.
"Big Brother!" Lauren said, smiling.
"Li! Where are you?!" Li's parents asked, carrying a flashlight, looking around.
"I'm over here, guys!" Li shouted, running over too his parents.
"Hey, Kai! Sorry we're late, we kind of got lost on the way!" Kai's mom said, bowing apologetically.
"Shocker." Jami whispered to me, as I stifled a laugh.
"I'm just surprised my mom isn't here yet." I said.
"Riyo!" My mom shouted, running up, hugging onto me.
"I'm home, mom." I said, crying a little.
"Hey, Zakuya, where are you going?" I asked.
"My dad ain't gonna be there, so there's no reason to be here." Zakuya said.
"…Zakuya?" A voice asked.
"Dad…?" Zakuya asked, turning around.
"Where… are you going?" Zakuya's father asked.
"Dad!" Zakuya said, crying.
"Ari!" A voice shouted.
"Oh, crap…" Ari muttered.
"Ari, you're going to be grounded until you're thirty!" The woman said.
"Oh, Ren. If you don't have anywhere to go, you can stay at our house for a while." Ari said, walking towards the car.
"Riyo, I want a full explanation of what happened to you." My mom said.
"Sure, mom. But we should probably go home, first. It's a long story." I said, smiling.
"So, Ren… explain to me why Sakura's here?" Ari asked.
"I told you! I'm going to go wherever Ren goes." Sakura said, taking another bite of the food.
"Thank you for the meal. I had better go, now." Ren said.
"Huh? You're leaving?" Ari's mom asked.
"Yup." Ren said, picking up his jacket. "Besides, I never expected you guys to look after me, anyway."
"Okay, then I'm going too!" Sakura said, standing up.
"Oh no, you don't." Ari's mom said, grabbing onto her, pulling her back down.
"Well, that's the whole story, mom."
"Unbelievable." My mom said. I never would have expected that.
Suddenly, the phone rang.
"Riyo, it's for you!" My mom said, handing me the phone.
"Riyo, it's Jami! Guess what? My dad found that a portal is still active under the surface of that old building!" Jami shouted into the phone.
Ten Years Later…
"Ugh… I can't believe I gave up soccer game tickets to go to some ten year reunion…" I muttered, walking towards the fully restored hotel and hot springs.
"Oh, stop complaining, Riyo! You should be happy that we get to see everybody again!" Jami said, smiling.
"You're too social, Jami…" I muttered.
"Hey, guys! How's it going?" Kai shouted, running up to me with Li right behind him.
"Not so great…" I said.
"Hey, guys, what's taking so long? The parties already started…" Lauren asked, walking up.
"Oh, we were just talking. Nothing much else…" I said.
"Well, stop talking! We're here!" Jami said.
"Hey guys! It's about time you got here!" Leo said.
"Take off your shoes before entering…" Ren said.
"Yeah, how can I forget that you own this place." I scowled.
"Technically speaking, Riyo, I own it, since it was bought with my money." Ari said.
"Yeah… so, is everyone else here?" I asked.
"Yeah, except Raiji still has some school and Lori has some work at the office." Zakuya said.
"Hey, guys!" A voice said, and a helicopter landed on the front lawn, with Lori and Raiji in it. After getting off, the helicopter shifted back into Rotomon.
"You know, if you were going to come, there were half a dozen other ways to do it." Jarvais said.
"Yeah, but I figured if we were going to come last, we might as well come in style." Lori said, smiling.
"Same old Lori, huh?" I asked, smiling.
"Yep." Lori said.
"Okay, now that everyone's here, it's time for the commemorative photo!" Ari shouted, setting up a camera on the tripod in front of the building.
"Okay, this camera will shoot in one minute, so let's go, people!" Ren said.
"Okay!" I said, standing in front of the building.
"Okay, now that we're all gathered, Hiruko said, smiling. "Then let's smile.
Click. And the camera caught a photo of the seventeen of us, smiling.
The End and the Aftermath
Riyo: After graduating from high school, Riyo and Jami went to the same university and were married 4 years later. He currently works at Rens' hotel and hot spring
Kai: After graduating high school somehow, he got a soccer scholarship and joined the team in the same university as the rest of the group. To note, he and Lauren get married 12 years after their return to the real world.
Li: Due to his 4.1 grade point average, Li was excepted into a top tier university, but turned the offer down to stay with his friends. After graduating, he began work at Hypnos and became one of the few people to stay in complete contact with the digital world.
Jami: After graduating from high school, she and Riyo went to the same university and got married 4 years later. She currently has a job working for Ren at his hotel and hot spring.
Ren: After marrying Ari at the age of 20, he used some money to completely repair and buy the abandoned hot spring building, due to sentimental reasons. He currently runs it, and makes a very profitable business due to its good location.
Ari: After marrying Ren and using some of her money to restore the hot spring, she took over her mothers' fashion industry.
Lauren: After her graduation, she married Kai and settled down in a job at a zoo, where she gets to be around animals all she wants.
Lori: The other person besides Hiruko to stay in contact with the digital world, he runs Hypnos now and uses it to create good will between the human world and the digital world.
Zakuya: He became a librarian after his high school graduation, so he gets to stay around tons of books and is never in need of anything to do.
Leo: After high school he moved to playing professional basket ball, traveling the world with his team.
Raiji: Raiji currently attends a university, and he gets very good grades, though his professors have many things to say about his "overactive imagination".
Marcus: Marcus currently works for Hypnos, and is designated along with Ryuo to find digimon in the human world and return them to the digital world before anyone notices.
Ryuo: Along with Marcus, he works for Hypnos to find digimon and return them to their world.
Sakura: She currently works as the maid for Rens' hot springs, happy because she gets to be around Ren, her brother-in-law.
Alex: Alex currently travels the world in search of digimon, and is also in charge of covering up events at Hypnos. He and Fuepmon usually just have their hands full keeping people from knowing about Fuepmon in the first place.
Jarvais: He currently works as the butler for Rens' hot springs, and while he completely despises doing it, he does it because of the generous pay.
Hiruko: After the 10 year anniversary, Hiruko and Yubamon disappeared in the digital world along with Leviamon. Their whereabouts are currently unknown, but Hiruko said he was going to look for his true path in life.
Mukuro: And that's it! This is the last chapter in this story. All in all, I'm very proud of it, and I had no idea it would get this many reviews. I can honestly say that this story completely wrote itself after chapter 3. Past that, I had no idea what would happen. I would also like to apologize for the short battle, but I believe the point of this chapter was not the end of the battle, but the end of the story. For RazenX, the people that matched the essences were:
Riyo: Will
Jami: Wind
Kai: Power
Li: Water
Ryuo: Dark
Sakura: Light
Ren: Lightning
Raiji: Energy
Marcus: Fire
Lori: Metal
Lauren: Nature
Alex: Aura
Ari: Earth
Hiruko: Mind
Leo: Courage
Zakuya: Ice
Jarvais: Chaos
Also, here's a little ending that my brother came up with that I thought would make a funny ending.
"So, how is it?" Jarrod asked.
"Excellent, sir. They seem to completely think it's real life. The realism of this project is incredibly convincing, don't you think?"
"Good. They'll think it's all real, so it's perfect simulation of it if it were real." Jarrod said.
Funny, huh? It was all a dream...
That's it. I would like to greatly thank everyone here who stuck by this story to the end, whether you reviewed or not. I would like to thank my Beta, for helping me with plot ideas, my brother for "constructive" criticism, people who submitted characters, whether they were included or not, and anyone else I may be missing. Thank you, for this is truly the end of this story.
Mukuro Out.
