Epilogue
16 years later:
Rayne Ishida reclined on a lawn chair by the family pool, sunbathing in her new bikini. She reached over lazily and took a sip from her drink. " Mercy, are you coming out or not?"
Mercy Kido inched nervously out of the changing room. " I'm not comfortable in this."
Rayne glided up from her chair and snatched the towel Mercy was clutching in front of herself.
" Rayne!"
" Shh!" Rayne circled Mercy once looking her up and down critically. " You look great, but you could stand to lose the glasses."
Mercy rubbed the frames, " I can't see without them."
" So get surgery your dad's a doctor."
" He isn't an optometrist; he's a pediatrician." Mercy tugged the towel back. "And the issue isn't how I look in a two-piece. The point is that I'm not comfortable."
"That suit looks better on you than it does on Rayne, Mercy." Alexander Ishida smiled, before jumping into the pool.
" I'm gonna skin that twin of mine alive." Rayne complained before noticing Mercy five-alarm blush.
Laughter could be heard on the other side of the pool as Justice Kido held his girlfriend Cammy over his head.
" You throw me in this pool and I will unleash the unholy powers of Hell on you." She threatened.
" They already have been, I'm dating you." Justice smirked and dumped her in the pool.
Morgan Kamiya shook his head at the antics and went back to his book.
" You do realize that by being an intellectual, you've stopped the cycle of goggle-wearing leaders." Samuel Ichijouji pointed out taking off his shirt.
" And you're a rebel without a cause that takes you out of the tradition line as well." The brown haired boy shot back.
" Naw, my mother was like that for a while."
Cammy was out of pool chasing Justice around trying to exact her powers of Hell on him.
***
Yolei Ichijouji smiled at the ruckus going on outside the house. She checked her e-mail and ran her fingers through her now gray striped hair. Ken insisted that it looked like sliver, she told him that he was nuts.
She read over the e-mail from Kari and TK. They were the self-appointed guardians of the digital world and they rarely left. She was disappointed that they hadn't had any kids, but the extent of the trauma they had suffered as children made natural conception impossible and neither were well adjusted enough to go through science's miracles. Kari now remembered everyone; TK had helped her through the difficult process of regaining her memories. They never figured out were Myotismon had kept her all those years or exactly why the merge had happened and unhappened, but they weren't complaining. TK acted normal most of the time, there were a few slips, but Kari always brought him back.
The digimon were no worse for wear, despite their deaths or time merged with their partners. They worked with TK and Kari to keep the digital world safe from harm. As for Myotismon, they never saw him again, after the refreshing he vanished without a trace. Yolei unconsciously touched the scar on her neck from his bite.
It was strange to think back over those times. Matt and Mimi had gotten married two months after the whole ordeal and the twins were born about six months after that. It amazed Yolei how similar, yet different the children were. Rayne had her father's hair, mother's eyes and personality; she was loud, vivacious, and conscious of her beauty. Alexander was withdrawn and sarcastic his mahogany hair always shaded his deep blue eyes. As for their parents Mimi has become a partner in Lexi's modeling business and Matt opened his own record label.
Tai and Sora had the flower shop, three children and a wonderful life. Morgan, their oldest preferred books to people, but his brown hair and sorrowful brown eyes attracted girls left and right. Collin was a typical middle child; he was a dead ringer for his father, was okay at everything and didn't really stand out in anything. Yolei furrowed her eyebrows at the thought. Poor Collin just hadn't found his niche yet. Bailey was the youngest and the only girl. She was a soccer-playing tomboy, for now. Yolei knew when she started getting interested in boys heaven help her everyone was going to try protect her.
Joe and Taylor only had one child together, but Joe formally adopted Justice. Yolei smiled remembering the conversation Taylor relayed. Taylor had told her six-foot- six-inch tall son that he looked like his father, but Justice shook his head, hugged her and said, " I don't look anything like dad, he's white." Mercy was painfully shy; she'd worn glasses since she was two, but she was pretty. Her features were dark, but small and her prettiest feature were the gray/blue eyes that peered out from behind her glasses.
Davis has never married; he'd been content to travel the world on a motorcycle. Yolei got letters from him every month, along with pictures from where he'd been.
Izzy and Lexi had stayed together, although they went counseling, which turned out to be good for them. They never had children of their own, first they decided they were too busy than Lexi got in car wreak and destroyed the option. They adopted a little girl from China about a month ago and were just finalizing the paperwork. Good lord a baby running around their circle again, it was unreal.
Cody and Solitaire got married a couple years after everything. They toned down a bit, but not much. Cody's mother is living with them now and its actually working out. They had one little girl, Oleanna, which meant trick. The name was prophetic. Oleanna screamed and screamed so they all thought she had exceptional hearing and the noise was driving her nuts. It turned out that Oleanna was completely deaf and still was, but that didn't stop her from getting into trouble.
Yolei certainly wouldn't complain about her life. She was married to a very sweet man, had a great family and an even better extended family. Ken asked her to marry him after the incident, with Cammy and she'd accepted. They'd married at quiet ceremony a few months after Matt and Mimi's very public wedding. Cammy loved being the only child and wasn't so sure about Samuel. Eventually the two had become very close. Samuel, who looked like his father, except for the his eyes which were golden like hers, the nose stud, the three earrings and the tattoo she'd let him get for his last birthday. Her son was quite the troublemaker at times, but it wasn't until Isabelle, who was born five-years ago, that she truly learned what trouble was. Isabelle was colored just like her father and had his knack for figuring anything out, anything. Cammy was the wild one though, she had started dating Justice two years ago and it had been one heart attack after another. Oh well, so was life. Yolei decided long ago that she'd rather have her children getting into to trouble than not be there.
" Mommy, can I go swimming now?" A little hand tugged on Yolei's shorts.
" Of course, angel. Let's get your life-vest on." Yolei picked up her youngest and walked out onto the patio.