HEY EVERYONE! I know this will seem rushed, but I wanted to finish it on Christmas so it was out there. I hope you all have a good one! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!
CHAPTER 3
Isaac looked at Matt and then got a gleam in his eyes, "That's it! That's what is going to convince you..." Isaac looked up at the ceiling and said, "Okay, you've never been born."
A bell rang in the alarm for the clock as it struck midnight and Isaac said, "Someone just got his wings, I hope this works and I get mine. You see, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings."
Matt looked at Isaac, "Ha Ha, very funny. You know your one crazy guy." He walked over to where his clothes were drying on a line in the toll booth, and frowned.
"No, you don't seem to understand," Isaac said, "You've never been born."
"Riiight." Matt noticed that his clothes were dried, "Hey my clothes are dry. That's funny." Then he noticed that his forehead was no longer bleeding.
Isaac was looking at him, "Don't you see, Matt, none of that happened. You were never born."
Matt stared at Isaac as he got dressed. He saw Isaac getting dressed as well. "I think that there is a homeless shelter near my house, or at least there used to be. Let's go there. My car is around the corner." Matt put on his coat and led the man out the door.
They walked for awhile, and they got to where Matt had originally crashed his car, but he found that it wasn't there. "WHERE IS MY CAR?" Matt yelled.
He kept walking and Isaac walked behind him as they came into Odaibu, where Matt lived. But instead of a town there was a large factory. "Where is the town? What is going on here?"
Everything was dark and cold, and where Matt remembered there being a small district and his home, he saw only bleakness. "I don't understand. What is going on?"
"You never existed. Don't you see? Things are different without you."
"Your the crazy one here, not me."
They walked for awhile, and Matt looked for anything familiar. He thought that since he had been away for two years that maybe things had changed, but he still didn't think that they had changed this much. Everything looked like it had been destroyed for ten years, if not more.
Finally they came to where Matt thought his house was. But what they found was devastating. It was a grave yard. On the other end of the grave yard was a light, and Matt slowly stumbled towards it.
He was so overcome with grief that he didn't see the gravestones that he stumbled over. He looked up from his spot on the ground and looked straight into a gravestone. It read, "Takeru Takashi 1991-1999". Matt just gasped at the gravestone. "Isaac! What is this? Where is Tk?"
"He died, Matt, because you weren't there to save him from the dark masters!"
"But I was there, and we all bonded together to defeat them all."
"No," Isaac said slowly and motioned towards some other grave sites. "You didn't"
Around them were gravestones for Mimi, Kari, Izzy, and Tai.
"NO! This isn't real! They live!"
"Matt, you weren't there for Tai when he needed help to defeat Piedmon. He didn't have his best friend to help him and he didn't make it. Izzy and Kari were killed right after Tai and when Mimi showed up to help, she was slaughtered."
"What about Tk?"
"Tk was the first to go. He was killed the first week. He didn't have you to protect him, or give him hope."
"Where is Joe? And Davis, Yolie, Ken, and Cody?"
"Well, they are alive. Joe is still working in that shop because you weren't there to help bail him out. He never realized his reliability because you weren't there."
"And the others?" Matt was completely panicking by now.
"They are with the other humans."
"Show me." They were immediately transported to a place that looked like a prison camp. What Matt saw there brought tears to his eyes. All the humans were in chains, working as slaves for the dark masters. The dark masters had completely taken over everything and the humans were dying right and left.
He fell to the ground in tears, whispering, "No ... this can't have happened. We saved the world ... Tai, Tk, Kari, Joe, Mimi, Izzy, and ...." He looked up at Isaac " Where is Sora? Where is my wife?"
Isaac looked at the ground, "You don't want to see her."
Matt got up and took Isaac by the collar, "WHERE IS MY WIFE!!!"
Isaac shrunk back from Matt, "Okay, I'll take you to her."
They were suddenly transported to a dark place, and there sat Sora, still in her blue jeans and yellow shirt. She sat in the same position that she had been in all those years ago. She was older, but still sat there, hunkered over.
Matt ran to her and put his arms around her, "Sora, your alive."
"There is no use in living. Everything has gone wrong. We were failures and Tai is dead. It was all my fault. I am a failure, and this darkness won't let me die."
Matt shook her and she looked up at him with those eyes that held the darkness, and yet it was so much more. "Sora, you don't need to die."
"I wish it would all just end, I hate this. Why can't I just join the others? Why did Tai send me to find Joe? Why were we chosen? I want to die!" Then Sora let out a harsh scream of pain and agony that ripped into Matt's heart. He looked at her and started running. He couldn't face it anymore.
He ran and ran and ran, crying all the while and finally reached the bridge again. "I WANT TO LIVE, Isaac! I want to live!!!!"
It suddenly got very cold again and Matt had his head down on the bridge. A car suddenly pulled up and the door opened. Matt looked up to see a figure that looked familiar.
"Matt!!! Is that you? We've been looking all over for you."
The figure looked very familiar. "Tai? TAI!!!! YOUR ALIVE!!!!" Matt hugged Tai hard and looked at him.
Tai looked back at Matt and frowned, "Matt, you really have lost it. Of course I am alive, buddy. And you have a very worried wife and kids waiting for you at home."
"SORA!!! I have to get home!" And he took off running. He got to the district and saw that it was covered in Christmas lights and bustling with people. He smiled and kept running, yelling, "MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!"
He ran and ran and ran and finally got to where his house was. The lights were on and he ran inside. "Sora?" He ran up the stairs and looked everywhere. Where was Sora?
"Daddy is that you?" His son looked at him and Matt smiled and hugged him. His little girl ran up to him and hugged him too. He was on the stairs hugging his children when Sora walked in the door.
"MATT!!!!" She ran up the stairs and kissed him full on the lips. "I've been looking for you everywhere!" She kept kissing him and he kept kissing her back.
"I love you Sora!!! I am so sorry!! Please forgive me!"
"Of course, but I have a suprise for you. Come down here by the Christmas tree!" She drug him with the two kids down to the Christmas tree and smiled.
All of a sudden Izzy, Kari, Mimi, Tk, Davis, Cody, Yolie, Ken, Tai, Joe all came running in, and hugged Matt. It was all of his friends. In came his parents and Sora's mom and dad. Then all their parents came in. The house was packed with people wanting to see Matt.
Matt just smiled and watched everyone who loved him congregate around him.
Suddenly a bell rang on the Christmas tree. "Daddy, teachers says - 'Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.'" His son told him.
Matt grinned as he tightened his grip around his wife and stared at those who cared about him, "That's right son, that's right. Way to go Clarence." And Matt Ishida, who's importance to the world was immeasurable, realized he was truly blessed with friends.
THE END
A/N - MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
CHAPTER 3
Isaac looked at Matt and then got a gleam in his eyes, "That's it! That's what is going to convince you..." Isaac looked up at the ceiling and said, "Okay, you've never been born."
A bell rang in the alarm for the clock as it struck midnight and Isaac said, "Someone just got his wings, I hope this works and I get mine. You see, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings."
Matt looked at Isaac, "Ha Ha, very funny. You know your one crazy guy." He walked over to where his clothes were drying on a line in the toll booth, and frowned.
"No, you don't seem to understand," Isaac said, "You've never been born."
"Riiight." Matt noticed that his clothes were dried, "Hey my clothes are dry. That's funny." Then he noticed that his forehead was no longer bleeding.
Isaac was looking at him, "Don't you see, Matt, none of that happened. You were never born."
Matt stared at Isaac as he got dressed. He saw Isaac getting dressed as well. "I think that there is a homeless shelter near my house, or at least there used to be. Let's go there. My car is around the corner." Matt put on his coat and led the man out the door.
They walked for awhile, and they got to where Matt had originally crashed his car, but he found that it wasn't there. "WHERE IS MY CAR?" Matt yelled.
He kept walking and Isaac walked behind him as they came into Odaibu, where Matt lived. But instead of a town there was a large factory. "Where is the town? What is going on here?"
Everything was dark and cold, and where Matt remembered there being a small district and his home, he saw only bleakness. "I don't understand. What is going on?"
"You never existed. Don't you see? Things are different without you."
"Your the crazy one here, not me."
They walked for awhile, and Matt looked for anything familiar. He thought that since he had been away for two years that maybe things had changed, but he still didn't think that they had changed this much. Everything looked like it had been destroyed for ten years, if not more.
Finally they came to where Matt thought his house was. But what they found was devastating. It was a grave yard. On the other end of the grave yard was a light, and Matt slowly stumbled towards it.
He was so overcome with grief that he didn't see the gravestones that he stumbled over. He looked up from his spot on the ground and looked straight into a gravestone. It read, "Takeru Takashi 1991-1999". Matt just gasped at the gravestone. "Isaac! What is this? Where is Tk?"
"He died, Matt, because you weren't there to save him from the dark masters!"
"But I was there, and we all bonded together to defeat them all."
"No," Isaac said slowly and motioned towards some other grave sites. "You didn't"
Around them were gravestones for Mimi, Kari, Izzy, and Tai.
"NO! This isn't real! They live!"
"Matt, you weren't there for Tai when he needed help to defeat Piedmon. He didn't have his best friend to help him and he didn't make it. Izzy and Kari were killed right after Tai and when Mimi showed up to help, she was slaughtered."
"What about Tk?"
"Tk was the first to go. He was killed the first week. He didn't have you to protect him, or give him hope."
"Where is Joe? And Davis, Yolie, Ken, and Cody?"
"Well, they are alive. Joe is still working in that shop because you weren't there to help bail him out. He never realized his reliability because you weren't there."
"And the others?" Matt was completely panicking by now.
"They are with the other humans."
"Show me." They were immediately transported to a place that looked like a prison camp. What Matt saw there brought tears to his eyes. All the humans were in chains, working as slaves for the dark masters. The dark masters had completely taken over everything and the humans were dying right and left.
He fell to the ground in tears, whispering, "No ... this can't have happened. We saved the world ... Tai, Tk, Kari, Joe, Mimi, Izzy, and ...." He looked up at Isaac " Where is Sora? Where is my wife?"
Isaac looked at the ground, "You don't want to see her."
Matt got up and took Isaac by the collar, "WHERE IS MY WIFE!!!"
Isaac shrunk back from Matt, "Okay, I'll take you to her."
They were suddenly transported to a dark place, and there sat Sora, still in her blue jeans and yellow shirt. She sat in the same position that she had been in all those years ago. She was older, but still sat there, hunkered over.
Matt ran to her and put his arms around her, "Sora, your alive."
"There is no use in living. Everything has gone wrong. We were failures and Tai is dead. It was all my fault. I am a failure, and this darkness won't let me die."
Matt shook her and she looked up at him with those eyes that held the darkness, and yet it was so much more. "Sora, you don't need to die."
"I wish it would all just end, I hate this. Why can't I just join the others? Why did Tai send me to find Joe? Why were we chosen? I want to die!" Then Sora let out a harsh scream of pain and agony that ripped into Matt's heart. He looked at her and started running. He couldn't face it anymore.
He ran and ran and ran, crying all the while and finally reached the bridge again. "I WANT TO LIVE, Isaac! I want to live!!!!"
It suddenly got very cold again and Matt had his head down on the bridge. A car suddenly pulled up and the door opened. Matt looked up to see a figure that looked familiar.
"Matt!!! Is that you? We've been looking all over for you."
The figure looked very familiar. "Tai? TAI!!!! YOUR ALIVE!!!!" Matt hugged Tai hard and looked at him.
Tai looked back at Matt and frowned, "Matt, you really have lost it. Of course I am alive, buddy. And you have a very worried wife and kids waiting for you at home."
"SORA!!! I have to get home!" And he took off running. He got to the district and saw that it was covered in Christmas lights and bustling with people. He smiled and kept running, yelling, "MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!"
He ran and ran and ran and finally got to where his house was. The lights were on and he ran inside. "Sora?" He ran up the stairs and looked everywhere. Where was Sora?
"Daddy is that you?" His son looked at him and Matt smiled and hugged him. His little girl ran up to him and hugged him too. He was on the stairs hugging his children when Sora walked in the door.
"MATT!!!!" She ran up the stairs and kissed him full on the lips. "I've been looking for you everywhere!" She kept kissing him and he kept kissing her back.
"I love you Sora!!! I am so sorry!! Please forgive me!"
"Of course, but I have a suprise for you. Come down here by the Christmas tree!" She drug him with the two kids down to the Christmas tree and smiled.
All of a sudden Izzy, Kari, Mimi, Tk, Davis, Cody, Yolie, Ken, Tai, Joe all came running in, and hugged Matt. It was all of his friends. In came his parents and Sora's mom and dad. Then all their parents came in. The house was packed with people wanting to see Matt.
Matt just smiled and watched everyone who loved him congregate around him.
Suddenly a bell rang on the Christmas tree. "Daddy, teachers says - 'Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.'" His son told him.
Matt grinned as he tightened his grip around his wife and stared at those who cared about him, "That's right son, that's right. Way to go Clarence." And Matt Ishida, who's importance to the world was immeasurable, realized he was truly blessed with friends.
THE END
A/N - MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
