Chapter fifteen: A Letter and A Phone Call

The vortex that appeared previously covered the sky again. They slowly went through it. Just then, Matt fluttered his eyes open. He sat up rubbing his head and saw that the digimon and Gennai were waving goodbye. He followed their gaze and gasped as he saw a large bubble going through a vortex. He stood up.

"What is that thing?" He asked. Gennai panicked.

"Uh it's nothing, you're dreaming!" Matt didn't buy it. He noticed a blond girl looking straight at him with wide eyes. She then smiled and waved at him. The bubble disappeared as well as the vortex. Matt was stunned.

"What was that thing? Why was that girl waving to me? And why does the back of my head hurt?" He questioned Gennai.

"You ask too many questions, just be happy that you and your friends saved us all." He replied. Matt then noticed that all of his friends were unconscious. He was about to ask another question when Gennai spoke again.

"I can see that the battle against Apocalymon was pretty tiresome, you all just collapsed into a deep sleep." Gennai walked away so he wouldn't have to answer the same questions and decided to let Matt do that for him. Matt sat down confused. He then heard Sora moan. She rubbed the back of her head as she sat up.

"Oh, why does my head hurt?" She asked tiredly. She saw that everyone was asleep but Matt and the digimon.

"Nice to see that you're awake Sora!" Biyomon piped.

"What happened?" She asked. Matt shrugged.

"Gennai said we were tired after the battle and just went to sleep." Matt explained. Sora looked at him confusingly.

"When I woke up, I thought I saw this giant bubble carrying a group of kids, adults, and digimon; one of the kids waved to me." Sora stared at him with confusion written on her face. Soon they heard a complaint.

"My head hurts, I need aspirin!" Mimi cried. Sora stared at her.

"What? Is there something on my face?" Mimi asked.

"No, it's just that your eyes are puffy like if you were crying a lot." Sora explained. Mimi ran towards a lake to look at her reflection. She gasped when she found out that Sora was true to her word.

"My beautiful eyes, somebody get me cucumbers right now!" She cried.

"Keep it down, can't a guy sleep in peace?!" Tai groaned. He sat up rubbing the sleep out of his eyes and rubbed the back of his head afterwards.

"Man do I have a headache." He said yawning. He got to his feet and stretched. Everyone else began to wake up having the same pain. After Matt explained what Gennai had said to him, he then told them all what he saw in the sky. Everyone just looked at him oddly.

"You were probably dreaming Matt." Tai said.

"I was wide awake! Don't any of you believe me?" TK smiled at him.

"Matt, you know I love you and all, but sometimes you can say the strangest things." He told his older brother. Matt let out a frustrated groan.

"Come on, we better go and look for Gennai." Tai said. He led the group towards the direction Gennai went in, Matt turned back to the sky with a confused expression. 'I know what I saw, it wasn't a dream, Gennai even tried to cover it up!' He thought to himself. Sora turned to see that Matt hadn't moved from his spot. She looked towards where he was gazing. She thought that the phenomenon he told everyone was odd, but then again, their whole adventure in the digital world was even stranger.

"Are you coming Matt?"

"I know what I saw, you believe, don't you?" Sora stuttered a little.

"Well, um, I sort of believe you." She said. Matt smiled.

"It's okay, you don't have to say you believe me just to make me feel better." He started walking towards her.

"We better catch up to the others." He said. She smiled and nodded. The two of them ran after the group ahead of them. Matt felt something in his pocket and stopped running. He pulled it out. He was surprised to see a wallet-sized picture of four people he didn't even know. There was a tall blond man, a woman with chestnut brown hair, and two kids resembling them. He figured it was a family. He turned it over to see writing. He was shocked when he found out it was addressed to him.

Dear Matt, or should I say Dad?

I no I'm risking not being born, but I hate being forgotten by a person I like. Ariyo and I hope you and Sora will be able to see us again in the future even though it's not likely thanks to this picture I'm giving you. Maybe this info will help though, I was born in 2020 and my brother 2022, you got married in 2017. Hope to see you in 21 years.

Your future daughter,

Yamara Ishida a.k.a. Mara

P.S. If you want to no who my mom is, I gave you a hint in my letter.

Matt was stunned. He looked at the picture again. He then remembered the little girl that waved to him from the bubble, it was the same girl in the picture.

"I was right after all!" He stared at the young girl and smirked.

"Don't worry, I'll make sure that Sora and I will see you two again." He then heard a voice call after him.

"Hey Matt, you better catch up before we leave you behind!" Sora called. Matt tucked the picture back into his pocket and ran after everyone.

"Why'd you stay behind?" Sora asked him.

"I thought I saw something." He lied. They all reunited with Gennai. Meanwhile, in the year 2027, everyone was heading home from the meeting at Izzy's house.

"Bye everyone, see you at school tomorrow!" Yelled Nazo. They waved back. She went inside her house expecting a scolding from her dad like the other children were going to get when they got back to their own home. Her father closed and locked the front door. He faced his daughter. Nazo looked up at Izzy's stern look.

"I'm sorry that we played with your machine Daddy, I tried to inform everyone that you didn't want us in the basement but they wouldn't pay attention." She explained.

"It's okay Nazo." Nazo was surprised that her father wasn't punishing her.

"I'm just glad that you're alright, perhaps I should learn to lock doors to restricted areas from now on." Nazo smiled and nodded. It was now dark and it was a school night meaning that she had to go to bed.

"Get ready for bed, it's getting considerably late, I'll be up later to tuck you in." Izzy said.

"Okay." She hugged her father around the neck and ran to the bathroom. She took a quick bath, put on her pajamas, brushed her teeth and hair and then hopped into bed. Izzy walked in a while later and tucked her in. He planted a kiss on her forehead.

"Sweet dreams Nazo." He said before turning off the light.

"Sweet dreams." Nazo said and slowly drifted off to sleep. Izzy closed the door and went to take a bath. Ten minutes later Nazo awoke when she heard the phone on her nightstand ring. She picked up the receiver and a video screen appeared revealing Andoru.

"Hey Nazo, did I wake you?" He asked.

"No, I just decided to sit in my bed in the dark." She said sarcastically.

"Really?" Andoru asked.

"Of coarse you woke me up!" She said agitated.

"Oh, anyways did your dad punish you?" He asked.

"Actually no." She replied. Andoru gawked at her.

"What?! I got grounded for a week!" He shouted.

"Well don't play with things you shouldn't from now on." Nazo smirked.

"Whatever, anyways, while we were in your basement, I saw this really cool looking gizmo, how about tomorrow we all check it out?" Nazo gave him a blank look. She then pulled the receiver away from her ear and hung up causing the video screen to go black and disappear. She then pulled the covers up to her shoulders, sighed peacefully and drifted off to sleep again.

The End

Before I corrected my mistakes, I had left a note at the end saying that I thought this story really sucked. After I reread it, I now think that it's pretty good. I guess I say that everything I do sucks because I'm insecure, but now that I know that a few people enjoyed it, I received a positive attitude. It lifted up my spirits and made me think twice about my fic. Thank you to those who reviewed and who are reviewing now. You guys make my day.