Hey! Wow, you get TWO whole chapters in one day, isn't that great? Since school is going to go back to normal after exams now, the very last chapter will take much longer to come out, but you never know. Anyway, this is a prologue AND an epilogue cuz it can end on this chapter or you can read this chapter, and go back to chapter 1 and restart the story, isn't that such a cool concept? Anyways, enjoy!

Disclaimer: After 12 chapters and you still read the disclaimer? Well, I don't own anything from any part of Digimon.

Prologue/Epilogue – Chapter 13

Retelling the Story

~*15 years later…*~

            "Mommy?"

            The mother looked up from her work and smiled at twin identical faces.

            "Can you read us a story?" the girl asked her, holding up a book. The older female recognized it as the book she had written with her husband.

            Nasuki Takaishi looked at the expectant faces of her children. They were identical twins born four years ago. Two girls with brown hair and blue eyes, they were versions of angels. Behind the angel facades, there lived mischievous elves. There was no forewarning of the trouble that these two got into. They almost always got away with it, their smiles so sincere when they apologized. But their parents knew better.

            One named Hope and one named Faith, they had been welcomed since the day they were born and even before that. As was Josh, Takeru and Suki's six-year-old boy. All their names had a special meaning. Hope, Faith and Fate, for Josh, roughly translated, would mean fate. (Actually, I just made that up. The actual word is joss, which is another word for fate. Josh just seemed better than Joss, don't you think?)

            "Hope, Faith, would you like me to show you the Digital world instead?" It was time to show them that it was real, not just a story.

            Being the eager four year olds that they were, they quickly agreed.

            "Go put on your jackets while I go find your daddy, 'k?"

            Watching her little girls scramble away, Suki began her search through their house. She finally found them outside where TK was teaching their son the joys of basketball. Suki smiled. Josh was so much like his father, from his hopefulness right down to his blonde hair and blue eyes.

            "Come on, guys, we're going on a trip," Suki told them, grabbing the ball and shooting it through the hoop. Josh stared at his mother in amazement.

            "I didn't know girls could do that."

            TK laughed, "Josh, you've got a lot to learn about girls."

            The twins ran out of the house and TK looked at Suki. She nodded and smiled. TK understood what they were about to do. It was time for them to return to their rightful home.

            Standing in the middle of their yard, they stood in a circle.

            "Hold hands and don't let go. I don't want to lose any of you."

            Suki closed her eyes and a bright beam of light fell from the sky, spotlighting the family. Then one by one, each of them grew wings and started to fly up and up.

            Faith was bewildered, "Are we angels, mommy?"

            Suki smiled at her, "Something like that, Faith, but we're more special."

            Reaching their destination, they landed softly on the grass. The children hadn't even noticed their change in clothes, they stared around in awe.

            "This is the Digital world?" they all asked in unison.

            "This is our world, children, where we really belong."

            For some unknown reason, they all seemed to understand. Perhaps they knew all along, perhaps the change from the real world to the Digital world had helped them understand. But whatever it was, it didn't matter.

            "Want to hear the story now?"

            And this was where you would find the Karmeta-Takaishi family on sunny afternoons, underneath the shade of a tree, a couple surrounded by their kids as they retold the story of their adventures right there in the Digital world.

            "It all started fifteen years ago when your dad was having problems and when I first moved to Japan…"

And each time the story was told, it seemed to come alive, again…and again…and again…

And there, my friends, is the end of my story. Thank you all for reading; I hope you enjoyed it immensely. The next chapter doesn't really have anything to do with this story, but remember what Nakiro said before trying to kill her? Something about Suki looking like her mother? Well, aren't you curious about that? So the next chapter will be…The Story Behind the Evil! Again, I hope you enjoyed this story!

Luv & Hugs,

Kayla