A/N: for the terms...
REAL WORLD - events occured within normal world.
EITHERNET - events occured within Eithernet.
THE WORLD - events occured within THE WORLD.
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Chapter 6: The Fragments
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finished: 23 April 2006.
KITE's mind
Why... and for what... all my.. fights then...
All... are for naught...
All... are useless...
..bzzt... bzt...
".. KI... T.. KITE..."
"KI..TE.. answ...er... please..."
That voice... Shigeo?
"Answ.er... me.. KITE!"
Shigeo? Is that you?
Everything surrounds him is blank. KITE is floating in the midair, his will to fight has depleted completely. Everything is dark... no more.
However, an image of Shigeo materialized from the dark. Little by litte KITE opens his eyes, facing his precious Shigeo.
"Shigeo..." he whispers.
"KITE... is that really you?"
KITE opens his eyes wider. Now he can see Shigeo clearly.
"Shigeo... why am I here? Why... am I even exist?" he asks slowly.
Shigeo looks at him with sadness. He have never thought about that before... yeah, this won't be forever... after he one day separates from KITE, then... what would become of him?
They are in silence, both of them engulfed within their own thought.
"To... fulfill our destiny..." Shigeo's voice breaks the silence.
"What?" KITE lifts his head to look at Shigeo.
"Even I... will leave the world some day. But, as long as I'm here, I'll do what I can do. My own destiny, I still have something to fulfill in this life."
Shigeo moves toward KITE, lifting his hand to KITE's face.
"I don't know why I am existed? For God who created me? I don't know..." he tells him, tears slowly forming at his eyes.
"Shigeo..."
"I know... one day, I will leave you. How much I don't want it... definitely it will..." he says. There is no more holds him to cry.
"Maybe humans are selfish... after all."
KITE hugs Shigeo, for a while he can feel Shigeo's sadness, feel his deep sorrow. And ultimately, he could feel completely how both of them want to be like that forever.
"I cannot be a child forever, KITE. I..."
"... at least, you are with me now, Shigeo. Right?"
"KITE?" he whispers.
"I still cannot understand, why I... no... every D.A.T.A has ever built... but, we will find it someday."
KITE releases himself from Shigeo.
"You are right, Shigeo. I still have my duty, my destiny to fulfill."
"KITE..."
"Good bye, Shigeo," then KITE dematerializes from that place.
"KITE..." Shigeo's image soon dematerializes too.
THE WORLD
"KITE!" BLACKROSE's voice welcomes him from his sleep.
"BLACKROSE..."
"You are okay... I'm so worried."
"Yes..."
"So, what's your answer?" SKEITH asks him.
"I... I will stop you. No matter how, we D.A.T.A are not supposed to live in the Real World. This Eithernet is our home!"
"Fool!"
"I have my duty. This is the destiny I have to fulfill," he shouts with determinition. Soon, he was enveloped by the Twilight Force once again.
"BLACKROSE... stand back. This battle is for both of us," he tells her.
"What..." somehow BLACKROSE could see the faint image besides KITE.
"...Isn't that right, Shigeo?" KITE whispers.
Then, the force becomes stronger. KITE is engulfed by a great force, and with him Shigeo also fights alongside him.
"This is our final battle, SKEITH! Time for end all of this!" he yells at SKEITH.
For a moment, the two of them investigate each other, trying to predict the foe's moves.
In the same moment, they lunge toward the other. KITE readies his twin blades attempt to strike at SKEITH. SKEITH transforms his right arm materializing a sword of light. The first clash of their battle echoing across The World.
"KITE!" BLACKROSE shouts.
Battle between the two D.A.T.A.s becoming fiercer after another minute. They cross their weapon at their foe, also parrying the enemy's attack. Their battle moves faster and faster, BLACKROSE cannot see their movements anymore, only hearing the clash of their attacks.
"Don't you understand? I'm fighting for all D.A.T.A.s!" SEKITH shouts at KITE.
"You are ruining everyone's lives with your action!"
"Fool D.A.T.A.! I fight so we can become "something real"!"
SKEITH strikes his blade, and KITE defends the attack with his twin blade.
"This... this world, Eithernet is the place we belong. This... this is our place!" he shouts, parrying the attack then counters at SKEITH.
SKEITH becomes angry, he unleashes his power to strike back at KITE. Seeing the upcoming great power, KITE defends with both of his twin blades.
"FOOL! Then, what becomes of all the D.A.T.A.s!" he yells at him.
"I will win over! I will fight for all D.A.T.A.s!" he breaks through KITE defend, then he slashes at him.
"Uaaarrghhh..."
"And for YOU! I WILL DESTROY YOU AND THIS WORLD!" SKEITH yells then unleashes his force. The World is being scattered, every moveable things whirling encircling the whole force.
"NoBODY! CAN DEFEAT ME AGAIN!" he shouts. He floats in the air slowly, his marvelous force becoming wider every seconds. The World scatteres circling around him.
"KITE!"
"... you are... so sad, SKEITH..." KITE says to him, while trying to get up and stand.
"YOU..."
"You are alone, SKEITH... that's why you never understand the meaning of D.A.T.A. ..."
"Shut up, you don't know everything."
"I have Shigeo with me. Together, we can overcome everything..." he tells him with determinition.
He clutches his hands together. SKEITH floats in front of him, his great force even enveloping both of them. KITE smiles, somehow image of Shigeo also with him.
"This is our meaning, right Shigeo..." he whispers.
SKEITH lunges at him with marvelous speed, KITE calms down. He even closes his eyes.
In the Real World, Shigeo also close his eyes, their minds become one.
"This is for everyone..." then KITE opens his eyes, his Twilight Force focuses on him, then he readies his twin blade.
"Good bye... Shigeo..." he whispers.
In the Real World, tears forming at Shigeo's eyes,"Good bye, KITE..."
KITE and SKEITH glow intact, then the force explodes, destroying the whole The World into smithereens. However, BLACKROSE is shielded by the Twilight Force. She sobs seeing the sacrifice from her friend.
From that moment, The World finally destroyed once again. The Fragments fade into nothing.
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10 years later...
Shigeo has became the scientist. He devotes his life for the future of Eithernet. In the next version of Eithernet, D.A.T.A.s who are left by their owners able to form the cyber city, living their own lives.
"The place where you belong will flourish with happines... KITE..." he whispers.
Tears forming at him remembers at his best friend, "forever... I will remember you."
The end.
A/N: At long last, I finally be able to write the last installment of this fic. It's been about a year or even more and now I can move on to another fic. Thank you for reading, and I really appreciate these moments.
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