Digimon {Digital Monsters}
Past and Present Lives Collide
Evil's Fate

Aquamon: looks like I have to do this stupid disclaimer again.... Gomababe does not own Digimon- Digital Monsters only the new characters described in the flashback sequence.

Author's Note: Thanks for your patience, I ran out of ideas then I had extra work to do so... yeah I never had time to update until now. I hope you like this chapter; it's a long one and has a flashback sequence. Please remember to read and review at your discretion.

Centauramon gasped for breath as he dashed after his new partner. He was confused and little angry at Izzy for running of like he did, but when he remembered what Azulongmon had told him and Izzy about his parents he found he couldn't stay mad at the destined child of Wisdom. He noticed a movement just in front of him and slowed down. He had come out at a slow moving river, and there was Izzy sitting on the bank, silently skimming stones across the water's surface. Centauramon trotted out and stood next to the young man at his left side.

"What do you want Centauramon?" Izzy asked sullenly, not facing his partner, face scowling. Centauramon sighed gently and looked at Izzy face. Even side on Centauramon could tell he wasn't exactly welcome,

"Izzy why did you run off like that? You know that it's much safer to stay in a group, especially with Daemon and Dragomon loose." Izzy hung his head in shame, yes he did know better, but he had allowed his anger to cloud his judgement.

"I'm sorry Centauramon, you're right..." Izzy sighed again, this time looking at Centauramon's helmeted face, "Guess we should get going before Daemon and Dragomon realise I'm separated from the others huh?" Centauramon's face split into a smile,

"I think we should too, and don't worry about the others being upset with you, they'll have to get used to the mood swings anyhow." Izzy laughed lightly as he listened,

"Reckon we could blame it on hormones?" he asked, snickering, earning a confused look from the Centaur-like Digimon at his side. "I'll explain it to you later." Izzy sighed, shaking his head.

"You may as well tell him now you pitiful excuse for a destined child... because your not going to last for much longer." Came an evil cackle. Izzy and Centauramon looked around the darkened riverside uneasily, knowing that Daemon and Dragomon had found them. There was an evil chuckle, as a mist suddenly appeared on the river behind them, Centauramon noticed this and took a protective stance between Izzy and the mist. His golden eyes narrowed as Daemon and Dragomon sauntered out of the mist, seemingly not at all threatened by the champion level Digimon standing before them.

"Well, well, well, what have we here? I didn't think you'd have the guts to stand up to me once again Centauramon, especially after what happened the last time we met." Dragomon hissed menacingly. Centauramon gave an angered snort, while Izzy gave both Digimon a confused look.

"What does he mean by that Centauramon?" he whispered, rather perplexed by the situation. Daemon smirked evilly,

"What he means by that is that Dragomon would have conquered both the worlds, after all he had almost defeated the original digidestined. Their Digimon partners could not help them..."

FLASHBACK

"Centauramon!" Yoshi screamed as his partner was thrown against a cliff side. He glowed for a moment before reverting back to his rookie stage, Aierimon. Yoshi's dark eyes filled with tears as he ran to aid his partner. Kira looked on with horror as Saberleomon, Elfinimon and Solastramon were easily defeated by the evil Digimon standing before her, only Angewomon seemed to be able to withstand Dragomon's power.

"Kira, we have to get out of here, he's too powerful for us to handle!" Melissa cried, rushing to Dwarvimon's side. Kira shook her head,

"No we can still beat him, I know we can!" she yelled back to her only female companion, never taking her eyes off her own Digimon guardian. Melissa was about to protest when a dark hand was laid on her shoulder,

"Let her be Mel, I am sure Kira has a plan...she has always a plan."

"I hope you're right Jacques... I really hope you're right." She laid her head on the young man's chest, sighing deeply.

"Ocht, don't worry Mel. Kira always has something up that sleeve o' hers, just you wait, she'll pull off the best get-away plan ever devised." Josh scoffed, his sandy blond hair getting into his eyes as he picked Kimbamon off the ground. Suddenly there was a scream; all three young teens looked to the sky in time to see Angewomon plummeting to the ground, reverting back to Gatomon as she fell. There was a collective gasp as Kira shone with a bright white light as she collapsed to the ground. The other digidestined children gathered around Kira, Yoshi was the first to arrive, Aierimon trotting at his side.

"Kira? Come on wake up...Kira...." Yoshi gently shook the young girl's shoulder, her flaming red hair coming loose from the clips she always wore to keep it tidy. Dragomon laughed in triumph as the light surrounding Kira began to dim, the crest around her neck losing its light pink colour,

"No..." Yoshi gasped, "HIKARI!" {Okay so I used the same name as Kari, get over it, makes perfect sense to me.} He screamed his dark eyes filling with unshed tears, his dark red hair clouded his eyes for a moment before he looked up at Dragomon, eyes flashing dangerously.

"What have you done?" he whispered angrily. Dragomon stopped laughing and smirked at the young man holding the destined child of Light, still trying to wake her up.

"I have done nothing, boy... she is too weak to counter the dark energy that is manifesting in this world. The child of light? HAH! Her light is nothing more than a sputtering candle with no more wick to keep it alight." He spat, "As for you, child of Wisdom, you are the weakest, even more so than your little friend. You have not even got your crest to glow yet, why so?" he asked an evil smirk crossing his features. Yoshi glared at the evil water Digimon standing before him,

"I have always felt that even the evil Digimon we had encountered had some good in them, even if they never showed it. I have always been against deleting a Digimon simply because they are evil, but you are the only exception I have come across. You destroy everything in the world and even extinguish the light, the only thing others didn't try to do... if you extinguish the light then all is lost, the world cannot exist and yet you still do it...why?"

"It doesn't matter if the light is no longer there boy! If darkness reigns supreme then I can reign supreme as the epitome of darkness." Dragomon scoffed. Yoshi scowled, getting up, his anger apparent.

"Yoshi what are you doing?" Melissa hissed, trying to get hr friend to back down. Yoshi only gave her a wry smile,

"I'm going to do what I should have done a long time ago. You ready Aierimon?" The little ram-like Digimon nodded in understanding as he digivolved,

"Aierimon digivolve to... Centauramon." The Centaur replaced the ram and stood at Yoshi's side, glaring up at Dragomon. Yoshi began to speak in a deep, mystical voice,

"Everything in this world exists on a balance, good and evil, light and dark. You have threatened to upset this balance permanently, and in doing so have endangered all the worlds connected with this one. This I cannot allow..." The crest beneath Yoshi's shirt began to glow with a deep, amethyst light, bathing everything in a translucent purple colour. Yoshi continued,

"For your misdeeds, Dragomon, you must pay the ultimate price... as there is life, there is surely death, and that is the only thing you deserve." The glow brightened, completely covering Centauramon, who began to digivolve to his ultimate level for the first time,

"Centauramon digivolve to........." Centauramon's shape slowly grew in size, the armour covering his body from before lifted off and changed into simple clothing, woven from Chromedigizoid. Black hair tumbled down the Centaur's shoulders and back, the tail changing to the same colour. Silver wings grew out of the horses back and the helmet was replaced by a silver screen, from under which bright silvery eyes shone, giving an air of understanding, yet devoted protection towards those who needed it. As the light dimmed the digidestined could see the colour change from light brown to midnight black, the simple shirt silver in colour, covering his bare chest. The Digimon held a bow in his hand and stood serenely before a forest, raising the bow in defiance,

"...Sagitarrimon!" The digidestined stared at the newly digivolved ultimate in awe. Yoshi continued to glow in the amethyst light as Sagitarrimon soared into the air to fight Dragomon head on. Dragomon stopped smirking when an arrow connected with his head,

"Well, looks like you finally came to your senses, let's see if you can handle my real power." He hissed.

Yoshi watched the battle for a moment before he turned his attention to Kira. He knelt by her side and held her hand,

"Come on Kira, we need you. I will not allow Dragomon to win just because he managed to overpower you." He whispered. Melissa, Josh and Jacques looked on with disdain, they could not help and their Digimon partners were too weak to fight. The battle between Sagitarrimon and Dragomon raged on, neither gaining the upper hand for a long time. Yoshi continued to try and coax Kira out of her coma, to no avail.

Suddenly there was a yell as Sagitarrimon was thrown back with unimaginable force on Dragomon's part.

"You think you can defeat me... think again. As the light grows weak, I grow strong, and there is nothing anyone can do about it." Dragomon laughed insanely as Sagitarrimon glowed and reverted back into his in-training state Chiromon.

"NO!" Yoshi yelled, as he realised that unless Kira woke up, Dragomon had won. The balance was going to be destroyed, no matter what he did. Then he remembered what Azulongmon had told him,

"As long as there is hope, the light can never be extinguished, and as long as there is darkness there will always be light to bring hope... No matter if the darkness gets so strong that it overpowers the light, as long as we have hope it will never be completely extinguished." He whispered. Yoshi smiled again as he realised that Dragomon still hadn't won as long as someone had hope... And Yoshi had plenty.

Chiromon groaned as he came to, rubbing his head with his hoof to try to get rid of the pain. He looked up in time to see Yoshi glow with the light from his crest. Chiromon felt the power, but realised it wasn't helping him to digivolve. Instead it was forcing Dragomon back. Chiromon looked over towards the other digidestined and gasped as he saw Kira stir and sit up, with the help of Josh and Melissa. Dragomon hissed angrily as Kira joined the fight, but then Chiromon gasped in fright as he saw his partner sway to the side.

"The power is too much for him to control." He thought, beginning to panic as Yoshi fell to the ground, still glowing. Chiromon rushed to his partner's side,

"YOSHIN!" he called. He heard Yoshi's wheezing and struggling for breath as he pushed his nose against his destined child's cheek. Melissa, Josh and Jacques looked on with sorrow, as Yoshi lay dying before them. Chiromon began to cry, as he understood Yoshi's fate. However, Dragomon's triumphant roar caused a change in the digidestined.

"Kira is losing again, we must help." Melissa cried, "The only one who had enough faith in her ability to defeat the darkness was Yoshi. I only have this to give now." She whispered as she glowed with a silvery light, the diamond white light from her crest streaking towards Yoshi's crest.

"May this token of our friendship finally bring peace to both worlds." She said, before collapsing to the ground, dead.

"It's not much, but I hope it will help Yoshi and Kira bring justice to Dragomon's doings." Josh said before a sapphire streak of light connected to Yoshi's crest, before he too died.

"As Yoshi say, there is no life without Death. The gift of Life I give to them both, so that they may protect our worlds from evil from now until eternity." Jacques smiled before an emerald light connected with the crest of Wisdom and Jacques also died. All three Digimon partners smiled before dissolving in a cloud of golden pixels.

"Chiromon, do not let this sacrifice go unnoticed, help Yoshi, Kira, Gatomon and any other digidestined children in the future understand the reasons why it happened... do not let our gifts to you all be in vain either now or in the future." They whispered in unison before the dust disappeared to Primary Village. Yoshi stirred, his crest still glowing. The first thing he noticed were his dead team-mates, Chiromon explained what the other Digimon had told him and Yoshi understood.

It took some time, but Dragomon was finally defeated, locked away in a dark world to live a fate worse than death. Dragomon cursed both of the remaining digidestined as they left for their own world and vowed to get revenge on them someday.

END FLASHBACK

Centauramon glared at Dragomon, remembering the grief he had felt when his friends had died to ensure that Yoshi would live.

"So you see child of Wisdom," Daemon hissed, "You are a very big danger to Dragomon here, so lets get this over with. Either you give yourself to us willingly, or you die. It's your choice." Centauramon whirled round to face Daemon and Izzy, the fear on his face apparent.

"Izzy, you can't..." he looked towards Daemon, "I will not allow you to take him with you without a fight." He threatened. Izzy looked at Daemon and Centauramon. He sighed and hung his head,

"Centauramon, no... I'll go with them, but only under one condition." Dragomon smirked; this was easier than he thought,

"And what would that condition be my young friend." He hissed. Izzy looked up at Dragomon, confidence burning in his gaze, making him look like Yoshi for a moment.

"Actually make it two... Let Centauramon go and leave my friends alone, they have done nothing wrong to you Dragomon. As for Daemon, you're going down anyway so..." Izzy shrugged. Both evil Digimon considered the proposition for a moment, before coming to a decision.

"Alright then... You strike a hard bargain." Dragomon hissed, he turned to Centauramon, "you may go, but do not come near my domain to rescue your partner, or there will be dire consequences for you both." Centauramon was about to argue, but seeing the determined look in Izzy's eye he relented. The evil Digimon smirked and walked off into the mist. Centauramon watched after them, collapsing to his knees, sobbing.

"Hello...Izzy, Centauramon!"

To be continued.

I know I'm being cruel here, but I swear you'll like the next bit even better. Please read and review and I might consider having the next bit posted by tomorrow. Until then bye!