I know it's been awhile, but here is the final chapter. I know it's short, but I had to finish everything. No time for it. I'm sorry, but I just can't keep writing like I used to anymore. If you like my style of writing (wording, details, etc.), then email me with a topic u want me to write on. I'll do my best for you. If you want to see my poetry, I'm Procrastinator at www.allpoetry.com Thanks, and enjoy!

THREE WEEKS LATER

Ryo was in Rika's apartment, talking about recent events.

"Wow...everything seems to be going great now, eh?" he said to her.

"Yeah, I got my digimon back...I have all my friends...and I'm doing a very important thing with my life."

"Yes, indeed," Ryo responded.

"That's not quite right, now is it?" Rika got up to straighten a picture on the wall, and didn't notice a small puddle from when she had cleaned the floors earlier. She slipped, but before she could fall, Ryo had caught her.

"Ryo..." Rika said. They just stared into each other's eyes. Ryo leaned in, and gave Rika a long kiss on her lips. She returned it, and a second later, they were standing up and removing each other's clothes. They went to Rika's bed and were "intimate" with each other.

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They lay sleeping, when an alarm went off.

"Agents!" Ryo screamed, jumping out of bed.

"Wha? How did they find us?" Rika yelled out while throwing clothes on and grabbing weapons.

"Hurry up!" They out into the hall, and saw dozens of agents pouring in through the garage. They had machine guns, and were cutting down people left and right. A bloody battle ensued, and soon all were dead. She witnessed Takato, Henry, and Susie round a corner heavily armed. She would have gone as well, but was trying to hold off more agents from entering. Most were dead now. Ryo followed them, and Rika was shortly behind then when a series of screams followed. She entered and saw the scene. Ryo was the only one standing, up against a few agents. They were fighting when the floor collapsed. It was heavily damaged in the battle, and they fell to the basement. Ryo was mortally injured.

"Ryo! Are you okay?" Rika screamed down, jumping into the darkness.

"No." was the weak answer. It was all over.

Rika lay over Ryo, crying and holding him in her arms.everyone was dead.

"Oh Ryo! There is nothing in this world worth believing in."

"Don't...don't you dare say that, Rika!" Ryo gasped out. "Don't give up the fight...please, don't, or everything will be for nothing." He kissed her. "Now, get out of here!"

"Why? Why must I leave now?" asked Rika.

"I feel a bomb here...go now!" Ryo replied.

"Please, just let me die here...with you. You know I love you, Ryo! I can't live without you!"

"No! Get out of here...and keep up the fight." With that, he kissed her again and used his recently gained mental abilities to float her out through the structure to safety outside. Even at an insane speed, she fought to get back to her Ryo. Going out, she saw so many bodies. All the people she had fought with. Henry's head lying around, but nothing else. His eyes were wide with a frozen expression of pain. Susie was full of bullet holes by a door. Bits and pieces of a grenaded Takato were around. She cried in the grass, a quarter-mile away from the building. Ryo had saved her, but not had the strength left to rescue himself. The bomb, placed by the agents in the heart of the complex, exploded. The whole thing was lit up in a huge fireball, and imploded afterwards into the ground. Standing up and looking around, she found Renamon and Guilmon unconscious on the ground. They were the last three survivors, alive solely do to Ryo.

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12 YEARS LATER

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Rika stood at the rubble, next to a brown-haired, blue-eyed boy. Renamon and Guilmon were beside them.

"This is where your father and I said goodbye, Rayou."

Quietly, he said to her, "I wish I had seen him."

"Look in a mirror, kiddo," she half-laughed.

"He was a great man, Rayou...I was proud to know him," Renamon said, shedding a tear.

Guilmon replied, "yes, but he is still watching us from Heaven."

"I don't doubt that at all," Rika said, hugging the dinosaur and fox. "Let's go, guys."

With that, they got in her camaro. It had been dug out and repaired, still maintaining the exact parts Ryo had helped her install. Rika started the speed demon, put it in gear, and drove away.

The End of a Story, but not the Battle Against the Corruption. God Bless.