Bright Hope
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'Thoughts'"Speaking"
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Chapter 18He watches as Kimie's partner Digivolves and sends Arkadimon into the building. Soon Rikyumon, Hakeomon, and Chaos all Digivolve as well. He then spies Matt and the other Digidestines. He leads the others to where the others were waiting. He lets Takuya introducing their distant cousins to the other people. He could see Matt look him over and could see worry in his older brother's eyes. He just sighs and turns to watch the fight.
He could see that Arkadimon has taken a lot of damage and with fresh Digimon ready to battle, Arkadimon didn't stand a chance. He also begins to notice the damage done to the surrounding area. Then about how tired the other Digimon were. "I guess we missed quite a bit, huh?" He says and could hear Matt sigh. "How are you known I was here?" His brother asks. He answers, "We've had some trouble for the last eight weeks. How long has it been here?" Matt walks up to his left side and answers, "About a day. How did you get those wounds?" "Some Digimon put Flamemon and Takuya under a spell. And don't go blaming Takuya and Flamemon. Their bad enough, trying to apologize all the time. I also think you were also once having someone pull your strings. You did attack Tai and had MetalGarurumon attack poor WarGreymon. I think we need to really talk about just what's going to be happening Matt." He tells his brother. Matt sighs, "You want to stay." He nods at that, and then adds, "I can't be T.K. any more. I used to be him, but I'm Shade now. If I go back, they'll want T.K., not Shade. I've long since grown out of being that naïve, Matt. I wonder if Gatomon could maybe stay here. You say that one month where you guys are, it's a year here, right? If Gatomon stays here and then goes back to that reality, then she'd be gone for maybe three years, at the most there." Matt then says slowly, "You might want to talk to Kari about this." He just nods, and then says, "After this, I will. Thanks for understanding Matt." Matt puts his hand on his left shoulder. "I knew from the moment I saw you by your adopted parents bedside that you didn't want to leave. I guess T.K. really did die all those months ago." Matt muses. He just sighs and doesn't answer. He felt better about this now. He just hopes that Kari will be able to live without Gatomon for a while.
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He charges in and finally grabs Arkadimon's neck in his jaws. He then begins to chop down. He could tell that even though Arkadimon was now an ultimate, he wasn't as strong as he was suppose to be. All that damage Arkadimon received was now catching up to him. Whatever berserker rage Arkadimon once had, was gone once Shade arrived back here with the others.
He's jaws finally close shut and Arkadimon gets transformed into data. He then watches as Cliguwmon and Shi'tunemon attack the data. Cliguwmon uses Pyro Needles and Shi'tunemon uses Inferno Wheel. The attacks hit and the data some of the data is deleted right before their eyes. For the first time in a while, he felt that everything was right with the world.
He looks for Gatomon or Angewomon, but can't find her. He looks puzzled as he walks up to a white Digimon. "I don't suppose you know where to find Gatomon or Angewomon?" He asks the Digimon. Then right in front of his eye, the Digimon glows and then separates into two different Digimon. "Gatomon!" He says and then transforms into ChaosPupmon.
He then races up to Gatomon and then stands still as Gatomon hugs him. "Great to see you! I've been so worried!" He tells her. "And I haven't been?" Gatomon asks. He just sighs and says, "It's been a good nine weeks for me." Gatomon lets him go and then looks at him. They then turn and walk to where their partners were.
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It's been a day since Shade and them came back. She now can't wait to go back home. Gatomon and Chaos were always together since Chaos got back. She then notices Shade coming her way.
"We need to talk, Kari." Shade tells her. She nods and they walk out the door. They then wait for a bit. "So, what do you want to talk about?" She asks. "I'm not going back, Kari. I talk this over with Matt and then Tai." The blond tells her. She blinks in surprise, and then says, "Then why tell me separately?" Shade looks into her red eye and says, "I want to talk about Chaos and Gatomon. I think that maybe, Gatomon could stay here. For every month where you guys are, it's a year here, right? So in a good five years in your reality would be a good sixty years here. So, I thought that she could stay here for those five years then Chaos and she could go back to your reality." She feels her throat close at that. She was shocked at not only Shade wanting to stay here, but at asking for Gatomon to stay for five years too. She says, "But I thought that you might want to go back." Shade looks at her sadly and then says, "I really can't go back to being T.K., Kari. I know I used to be him, but if I go back, everyone will be expecting me to act like T.K. and I don't what to live a lie. I can't remember everything and I think that it's my minds way of protecting me from when Arkadimon messed with my memories. The reason I ask about Gatomon staying here is, because Chaos wouldn't want to leave me and I don't want to make him unhappy. I think you also don't want Gatomon to be unhappy either." She nods in agreement with him. "I never thought that with Arkadimon gone, you'd remember everything. I guess it doesn't, I'll have to think about this." She tells him honestly.
Something in her just wants to plead with him to change his mind, to convince him to come back with them. But she just couldn't bring herself to do it. 'It's his choice. What right do I have on trying to have him change his mind? I think T.K. was lost long ago, back when he stormed out of that room. If he still were T.K., then his D-3 would have still been white with green trim. But it's not white with green trim; it's red with black trim, the same colors as Chaos. Chaos will never be a Patamon again either.'
She hears Shade enter the house and then as someone comes out. She turns to looks at Tai. "He told you, huh?" Tai says. She just nods at that. "So, you want to talk about it?" Her brother asks. "Why? Why could we just humor him back when he told us about that warp? If we had just gone with him, maybe this wouldn't have come to past." She tells her brother. Tai just sighs and says, "We just didn't feel like it. Davis gave us an excuse and we took it. We didn't really think that such a small problem would grow into this huge one. I guess we learnt the hard way. We lost a member of our group and we can't go back to the way it was. Shade's thinking ahead, he knows he can't change back into the same person we remember and is being more mature the any of us at the moment. I think we just want him to come back with us in hopes that he'll go back to being T.K. We're not thinking clearly, what he's been through was a life-changing event, one that's always going to mark him. It wouldn't be fair to judge him as we would T.K."
They stayed silent for a few minutes, and then she just nods. "I'll let Gatomon remain. What's five years? I waited that long before, I can wait again." She says. Tai just nods and they then walk back into the house.
One Year Later:
She's working on her homework when her computer glows and then watches as a red and black dog appears and is then followed by a white cat. She just blinks as the gate disappears. "Well that was fun!" Gatomon says. Chaos snorts and shakes his head.
Her mouth is open as they get up. Then Gatomon and Chaos turn to look at her and Gatomon says, "You don't look 17 Kari." She recovers and says, "It's only been a year!" The Digimon just blink at that and look stunned. "O" Was all they would say. "Why, how long as it been?" She asks. Chaos and Gatomon look at each other then Chaos answers, "A good sixty years."
She just blinks at hearing that, and then a thought crossed her mind, "Shade?" They look at each other, and then Gatomon says, "He's gone, Kari. He passed the keys to Chaos. He died saving a lot of people's lives. But when he died, this appeared when his body disappeared." Gatomon hands her an egg with the crest of Hope on it. It didn't look like the Digi egg of Hope, it look like a normal Digi egg with the crest of Hope on it. She picked it up and just sighs.
Then she puts the egg onto her bed and asks, "Didn't he marry?" Chaos just shakes his head. "Nope. He did adopt two kids though. It's been a good three months since the funeral, of course they didn't have a body to bury, but that didn't stop the funeral from happening. We talked to Agunimon about what to do with the egg though. It seems that time in the void changed Shade, that's why there's an egg. All the Legendary Warriors agree that what's going to come out of it will be a hybrid Digimon. Very likely a variable type. We tied up loose ends back there, you know, before coming here." Chaos informs her.
She just sighs and looks at the egg in a new light. "So, basically, that's what Shade? Or something new person?" She asks as she looks at the egg. "Well, yea." Gatomon says. She then moves her hand gently over the egg. It warms under her touch. She smiles a bit, wondering just what kind of Digimon will be hatching.
Then Gatomon asks, "So, what's new around here?" She gives Gatomon a sour look. "You know how Davis and I were dating last time you saw us? He got to protective for Tai's liking and they got into a fight. I thought that Davis learnt from that, but was wrong. I got partnered up with Zack and Davis thought that Zack was hitting on me. Davis punched Zack, giving the poor guy a black eye, and then I broke up with him. Lobomon was right, Davis is a nice guy, but he need time to mature." She tells the two Digimon.
She lies on her bed with a hand on the egg, she thinks about other things that had happened. "Joe got himself a girlfriend. Ken and Yolei are still going strong. Cody's been in a tournament for Kendo and won third place. Izzy got to work on a fantasy movie and is now a computer animator for a TV show. Matt's band broke up and Sora's back to playing soccer. Tai is working harder at school. Mimi is pretty much the same; she is now working closely with Sora to finish off this Digimon fashion line. That's everyone I can think of. So, just how were things after we left?" She asks. Chaos and Gatomon settle on the floor and they think about it. "People freaked for the most part." Chaos says finally. Gatomon nods and continues, "Shade's parents got over the fact that Chaos wasn't really a dog and after a year, they had a baby girl named Jen. Shade was a great older brother to Jen. Takuya and Zoe got together after a long dance. Tommy and Shinya became best of friends and with Kumamon started to help guide people through the colder parts of the Digital World. Kimie got to be a big star and Vicky was her manager." Gatomon pauses and then Chaos continues, "Omi and Rikyumon were famous hit actors. J.P. became a big business person for a computer company. Zoe a fashion designer. Takuya and Shade when into business together as computer animators, their three hit DVDs were Tails Across Times, Bolt of Storms, and Stars Beyond. They worked on this one TV show called Zoids Cross Fusion. Kouji and Kouichi helped out with the advertising for the DVDs that Shade and Takuya came up with." The Digimon finish talking.
She thinks it over and looks at the egg sadly. "So, just what happened that Shade would lose his life?" The Digimon just look sad and Chaos just looks away. Gatomon gives her husband an understanding look, then looks at her and begins. "There was this terrorist group that wanted to get rid of all Digimon. They blackmailed, bribed, and killed people to get this virus created. But you see, some of Arkadimon's data entered into this virus, so once it was released, it came straight for Shade. We didn't have any warning about this Digimon and when it got close to Shade, the keys began to glow. So Shade thinking fast, transferred the keys to Chaos and then raced away from the train station. He jumped into the water with the virus following him. We did get him out of the water, but the virus tried to infect him. He took his own life just as the virus was absorbing into him. With Shade died, the virus couldn't continue and deleted itself. Once the virus was gone, Shade's body transformed into a Digi egg. It was hard on everyone that knew." Gatomon finishes the story.
She now wonders just what to do. She had one Digi egg that had been Shade Kanbara, who himself used to be one T.K. Takashi, and two Digimon that were supposed to show up in another four years. She decides to phone Matt and tell him about this.
She gets up and then looks at the Digi egg on her bed. She then reaches over and pets it one last time before leaving her room. Chaos and Gatomon walk out of the room too. She then watches as the Digimon continue to the kitchen. She just shakes her head and picks up the phone and dials Matt's number.
Soon Matt picks up the phone. "Hello?" Matt says. "Hey Matt. I thought I should let you know that Chaos and Gatomon are over." She says to Matt. There's a long pause then. "But it's only been a year. Is Shade with them?" Matt asks. She sighs and answers, "Shade died and his body got transformed into a Digi egg. Acording to Chaos and Gatomon, sixty years have passed and that's why their here. Chaos has the keys, for before Shade died he passed them onto Chaos. They also brought that Digi egg with them." Matt then answers slowly, "Can I talk to Chaos?" She puts her hand over the receiver and says, "Chaos! Matt wants to talk to you!" "Coming!" Chaos shouts.
She then knees and holds out the phone to the dog Digimon. "Hey Matt!" Chaos says into the phone. She doesn't catch what Matt says, but Chaos sighs and says, "Yea, the egg is fine. You coming over?" Then Chaos says, "Ok Kari, Matt wants to talk to you." With that Chaos turns and heads back to the kitchen.
She puts the phone to her ear and asks, "So?" Matt says, "I'm coming over." They say bye and then she hangs up the phone. She then head to watch as Chaos and Gatomon make a mess in the kitchen.
Soon that door bell rings and she answers it. Matt comes into the apartment and takes off his shoes. "Hey Gatomon. Good to see you Chaos." Matt says. Then she leads the way to her room. When they open the door, they find a small child Digimon on the bed, fast asleep.
She takes a closer look at finds that the child has dirty blond hair. Also that he only had a pair of shorts on. She notices the white feathers in the blond hair. As Matt moves closer, the child turns his head and opens his blue eyes. He blinks in surprise and then asks, "Hi! I'm Tenashimon. Who are you?" She could see that Matt's speechless and she answers, "I'm Kari and this is Matt." She watches as Tenashimon looks confused. "Kari? Matt?" The newly hatched Digimon says. She nods and Tenashimon sits up and looks around the room. She wonders if this was it, that it's going to be like this all over again. She feels a ach in her chest and then to her surprise, Tenashimon begins to glow and then there sits T.K. She could tell it was T.K. just by looking into his eyes.
Matt asks, "T.K.?" T.K. nods and looks confused. "How did I get here? Is Patamon ok?" She feels relief at this. Then notices a D-3 on the bed that looks like T.K.'s old one. Soon Chaos comes into the room. T.K. and Chaos look into each others eyes. "Patamon?" T.K. asks. "Use to be, but now it's ChaosPupmon, just call me Chaos." Chaos says softly. T.K. just sighs and nods. "Ok then. Now why am I in Kari's room and just wearing a pair of shorts?" T.K. asks. She just couldn't help it but smile at this. "I'll just go and phone you mom and the others to tell them that your back. I've missed you T.K., a lot." She tells him. Matt then walks to the bed and she goes to call everyone.
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He just stares around his room. It's been a good two years since he and Patamon spotted that warp. He just felt odd, is all. It seems that he hatched out of a Digi egg as a Digimon and then transformed into himself again. He just hopes that everything will go back to semi-normal.
He turns to look at Chaos sleeping on his bed. He didn't mind the change in his partner, for if an hint of truth in the stories he had been told might be true, the he just got a second chance at life as T.K. He wonders just why he would transform back into a human once he saw Kari and his brother. But then, he could wonder until the sky is pink and red. He had a date to get ready for. He just hopes that Kari likes the movie that he was planning on taking her to. He just didn't know why, but fate seems to have smiled on him. He finally gets to go out with his crush, and he wasn't going to pass it up. Life was too short, and sometimes never came crashing down like rain.
To Readers:
I thought that a happy ending was in order. Hope never dies, they say. So, hope has returned to the group. Thanks to everyone who read this story and big thanks to reviewing it. No clue what my next story will be about, yet. Got something in the works, but it if won't be a saga this time around.