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Destiny of Courage
-Chapter 12-
4 months later…
In the midst of all this suffering and chaos, our Digidestined group has found something to rejoice over. Sora gave birth to Tai's son a little over a month ago. They named him Daisuke Kamiya in honor of me. Everyone says that when Sora told me what she had decided to name the child, I looked more shocked than when Tai returned from battle only to find he had a newborn son. I am happy to say that Davis is a healthy young boy who, like me, knows how to appreciate a well-cooked meal. Sora doesn't come with us on missions anymore, she asked to, but I told her that she had to stay at base and take care of my little namesake. Seriously though, having a baby around our base has helped improve everyone's mood a lot. It has helped us to remember that no matter how deep the darkness gets, the sun will always rise again.
As for the war, we are holding our own. In the last four months many of the other Digidestined from around the world have come to help us, including my good friend Willis. It is good to have a friend around who did not witness the massacre I committed four months ago. Many of the other Digidestined have been sort of distant since then, except of course Kari. Kari is, as always, the light that guides my path.
We have managed to close all of the dimensional gates into our world, so the enemy forces have no way to escape. Now all we have to do is destroy whats left of the forces that are already here in our world. Fallen is not making our job easy. With all of Japan pretty much in ruins, Fallen has devoted all of his attention to hunting us down and finally ridding himself of the only resistance that can possibly hope to stand a chance against his "Fires of Destruction." Despite the fact that he is slowly, but surely wiping out our forces, we fight on.
We will always fight on.
December 15, 2008
I was sitting the room I shared with Kari, thinking of how we would live our lives together after accursed war was finally over, when Willis walked in. He had a grim expression on his usually cheerful face.
"What is it Willis?" I asked, rising from my chair.
"It's bad Davis, our base on the Pacific coast has been completely wiped out," he said in an utterly defeated tone of voice.
I stared at him, stunned, trying to form words, "What about all the Digidestined from Australia and the Pacific Rim?"
"All dead."
I fell back into my chair, unable to think of anything to say. This was not the first time that Digidestined had died, just the first time it had been so many at once. Between Australia and the Pacific Rim there had probably been two or three hundred Digidestined.
I had often wondered why there were so many Digidestined in the other countries, while in Japan only us twelve had been chosen.
"Do we have any info," I finally asked, "on where Fallen and his are headed next?"
He shuffled some papers he had been carrying under his arm before finally speaking, "Davis, I have to warn you, if that last report was bad, this could be worse."
"I'm ready, go on."
"It looks like he's turned inland, and his entire army appears to be making straight for this base."
I immediately got up out of my chair and started to leave the room, Willis followed me.
"That's not very much time, we had better make preparations."
I immediately sent an American Digidestined who was walking the halls to round up everyone on the base and have them report to the big gymnasium we used as a cafeteria and a meeting hall. After everyone had finally arrived I walked up to the podium and began to speak.
"Everyone, I have just been informed that Fallen and his entire army are headed straight for this base." I paused, allowing the danger to sink in. "I know that everyone of you here would willingly stay here and fight with me against the forces of darkness," once again, I paused, "but I do not want to see anyone die here, I have already buried too many of my friends in the last seven months." I paused now to reassure myself that I am doing the right thing, "To that end, I am ordering the evacuation of this base, I want everyone out of here by tonight."
Everyone immediately began to protest these orders loudly, I raised my hand for silence. Soon all of the angry voices died down.
"You may either leave this country, or, if you wish to continue this fight, you can report to one of the other bases around the country, and I will contact you later."
With that, I walked away from the podium and went to speak with my friends as the others left. Soon it was just us surviving Japanese Digidestined and Willis left in the room.
I looked at them all, and then finally rested my gaze on Sora and Tai, who were holding little Daisuke.
"Sora and Tai, I want you two out as soon as possible."
Tai quickly protested, "Davis, I know you plan to stay and fight, we will not leave without you!"
"Tai, I will not let you stay, you have a child, and as much as I respect Biomon's power, I know that if they are attacked, she will not be enough, your family will need Wargreymon to protect them."
Tai hung his head before speaking, "I know."
I put my hand on his shoulder, "And, if we all die here, your child will need a father."
He lifted his head and looked me in the eye for a moment, then nodded. I turned to the others around me, "The rest of you may leave if you wish, but I am going to stay and try to slow down Fallen's army."
Willis stood and loudly exclaimed, "Davis, Terriermon and I will stay and fight with you!"
As the others voiced their enthusiastic agreement Kari clasped both my hands and forced me to look into her beautiful, mysterious eyes.
"Davis, I will not leave your side, not again."
I looked at everyone, as they stood around me in a circle, all ready to fight with me to the end, no matter the cost.
All I could think to say was, "Thank you, everybody."
"Now, I'm going to go pack my things and get them out of the base so they don't get destroyed while we fight, I suggest you do to."
"After that I think we should all go and say goodbye to Tai, Sora, and little Davis."
A little while later, after we had all finished saying our good-byes to Tai and the others and the base was pretty much empty except for us and a few stragglers, I had all of us sit down and eat a big dinner together. It was kind of strange, even though we had all been living under the same roof for several months now, this was the first time in a long time that I could remember us eating together like this. Sad thing was, I knew that it could very well be the last supper any of us ate. I could tell that the others were thinking much the same thing, but instead of dwelling on that, we tried to make it a very happy memory. Kari was hanging all over me the whole night, which, you know, made my day. We had a little private concert of our favorites of Matt's music. When you put the whole group together though, we pretty much liked all his music, so Matt got one hell of a workout. We played a bunch of games like Ultimate Frisbee, Football, and even a few games of Soccer. All around it was probably one of the happiest times I had in the last seven years, if not my entire life.
Late that night, once we were finally done having our little party, Kari and I went back to our room. I went over to my closet and was just taking off my shirt when I heard an alluring voice from behind me.
"Davis…"
I turned around and there, right in front of me stood Kari. She was only wearing her bra and panties, it was something I had seen several times before, but it always took my breath away. As I watched, she slowly took off the two pieces of clothing that she was still wearing. I had never seen her completely naked before, so I just kind of stood there in a daze.
"Davis," she said, "I wanted to make love to you tonight since this might be our last…"
I could see that she was about to cry and I knew what she was going to say anyway, so I silenced her with a kiss. After our lips parted I gently lifted her and carried her over to our bed, where I laid her down. Then I got undressed and climbed in with her.
Neither of us got much sleep that night.
Our group spent the whole next morning preparing for battle. Fallen's army arrived in the middle of the afternoon, by that time we were all in our positions and our strategy was pretty much planned out. Kari was standing in the courtyard, hoping to lure at least some of his troops into the smaller area and give us time to pick them off one by one where they had little room to maneuver. Our plan appeared to be working perfectly. Fallen went straight for her.
"So, little child of light," he said in that voice of his that sounded like it came straight from hell, "your friends have finally abandoned you to the wolves."
"I told them to leave me to you if it would make you go away."
"Ha ha ha, I'm sorry, but once I kill you, I will have no more resistance, why would I stop then," he said as he continued to move closer to her.
My instincts were to run to her side, but I knew that the only hope we had lay in sticking to the strategy. He was almost in our trap anyway. Just a little bit farther in…. "NOW!!!"
From each side of the courtyard came the twin attack calls from two digimon.
"Celestial Arrow!"
"Ice Wolf Claw!"
The twin beams of Ice and Holy energy tore a swath of destruction through the enemy flanks, but they were also the signal for the rest of us to attack. And we did in force. The battle seemed to be going pretty well for our side, but then we noticed that Fallen wasn't doing anything. He was just sitting in the middle of his army and laughing at us. The battle quickly came to a grinding halt when our digimon saw that his forces were just as confused as we were. When we stopped he finally made his move.
He lifted his arms and let out a soul-shattering call, "Eye of the Storm!"
A huge, swirling black cloud formed in the sky above us and shot out blood-red beams of light at all of our digimon. They all reverted back to their Rookie forms when they got hit. As I stood there stunned, trying to think of what to do, he made his next move. He lifted his darkly flaming sword and drove it blade first into the ground below him while yelling, "Blades of Annihalation!" Then I saw a huge dark blue explosion expanding from his sword, I tried to run to Kari, but it was going too fast to get to her in time.
Then it hit me, and everything went black.
To Be Continued…
Thanks for your patience with this story, time to say goodbye!