Thanks for all the great reviews on the last chapter, now here's the epilogue. Fair warning, this epilogue is more of a summary of how the world changes after the Battle. Kind of like the end of the last episode of 02, and it will set the stage for the events of "Rebirth of Courage".
Destiny of Courage
-Epilogue-
Everything changed when Davis died, both in my life, and in the world. For starters, the existence of the Digital World and digimon became common knowledge, though how to get there, thankfully, did not. Beyond that, the extreme amounts of dark energy released during the War for Existence, we were forced to abandon the nation of Japan, normal humans just could not survive long anywhere on the islands, with one exception. The place where we laid to rest Davis and Veemon, who died not long after Davis of a wasting disease, became one of the most beautiful places on the planet, and developed a strange quality. The grave and the area around it for a mile in all directions somehow came to exist in both our world and the Digital World.
That wasn't all that changed though, I'm sure you're wondering what happened to the other digidestined, along with my child and I. Well, since relations between our world and the Digital World continued to become a bigger and bigger part of everyday life, a new government was formed, an alliance of both worlds, in which humans and digimon were equally represented. The first President of the new Alliance was none other than Tai, with Agumon as his Vice President, along with Willis, Terriermon, T. K., and Patamon as his chief aides. Sora, who had next to no duties as First Lady, became a happy wife and a wonderful mother, eventually bearing Tai no less than five children and raising them all to become wonderful, responsible adults.
Joe never really got over the death of Gomemon, but he did go on to become a very successful doctor who was well known and respected in both worlds. Mimi, who we had all thought was going to marry Joe, eventually broke up with him because of how serious and depressing he became due to the death of his partner. Instead, she started seeing Matt and eventually married him and had a son and daughter, unlike Sora though, she continued to work, creating her own designer clothing line, along with some digimon fashions. Matt continued to make his music and his songs were loved the world over, especially the song he made in Davis' memory, "Soul of the Hero".
Izzy, despite being paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life, continued to play a highly active role in the world. In fact, it was he and Cody who realized the enormous potential of the Digital World's ability to change data into matter. After realizing this, they went together and started a company devoted to research of the Digital World, which they called Knowledge Inc.. The company quickly became a huge success, as humans and digimon alike made use of the new technologies coming from the company every day.
Now for myself, well, my daughter was born several months after the father she would never know, and I named her Ruki. After Ruki's fifth birthday, when I decided she was strong enough to deal with the small dangers, I took her and moved to the Digital World. I never again left the Digital World for any reason, I believe that Davis would have been happy to know his child and lover lived their lives in the world he loved so much. I never got married, I never even lived with another man, though there were lots of offers, even after I left civilization behind.
And so, the world continued on in a sort of Golden Age, brought about by the sacrifice of Davis. It was not until we, the digidestined, began to get old and pass away that things began to take a turn for the worse. Tai was the first, with his death came a new President, but this President did not believe in equality. He thought of digimon as lesser beings, and before long they no longer had equal representation, but were instead slaves in all but name. Willis, T. K., Sora, and their families became political targets because of their pro-digimon positions, so I had them come to the Digital World and live with me. Izzy and Cody both died not long after under mysterious circumstances, leaving Knowledge Inc. in the hands of a committee. This committee turned Knowledge into a digital weapons manufacturer that created artificial digimon weapons. The rest of us slowly faded into the background as time went on and the world began to forget the horrible danger that once threatened all of existence.
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I had been travelling through the digimon villages on vacation when I received an urgent message from Uncle T. K., "Ruki, your mother's time is almost up, and she has asked that you come and spend these last moments with her."
I sent back an instant reply, "I'll be there as soon as possible, tell her to wait for me."
I called Gatomon and had her warp-digivolve into Magnadramon to take me to my mother. I made it home in only a few hours and ran to my mother's room as fast as I could. I found the old, gray-haired woman lying in her bed, sleeping. When I sat down next to her she woke and grabbed my hand with an iron grip.
"My dear Ruki, daughter of my beloved, I have one last prophecy to pass on, and you must give this one to the people."
"I promise I will Mother," I whispered.
Then her eyes took on a glazed look and she began to speak in a voice that I had never heard before, "In an age yet to come, when mankind has forgotten what it means to truly live, Evil will return to darken the land, but in this time of greatest hardship, heroes will rise and He Who Is One With The Dragon will be born again to protect The Child of the Light so that she may save us from the darkness we create for ourselves."
Then, as those words were burned into my soul, and as I watched my mother's eyelids close for the final time, I just barely heard her whisper my father's final words.
"This is not the end, we will be together, in this life or the next, I promise you that."
-fin-
I know that was a very short chapter, but it was more of a filler than a real chapter. Well I hope you all enjoyed "Destiny of Courage" and that you will read the sequel "Rebirth of Courage". Until then, farewell!