Hello, once again everyone. My finals are finally finished and now I'm free for three months to finish this up!

Shoutout to Whiteling, (Thought you already faved the story) abbydobbie, and BlackAngel1234 for the faves and follows.

And of course shouts to MadDogLucario96, Whiteling, God of the Challenge, DigimonAT0318, and GreenD109 for the reviews. Boy, you guys were obsessed with my Mummymon maiming.

Today… is also a special day. Today is now one year to the day I started writing this whole beast and it has truly been fun. Hard to believe that I almost didn't do it. I actually wanted to complete the whole thing and then start uploading after I was finished but if I never had people that were counting on me and deadlines… I don't think I ever would've finished. So, thank you all for being with me as long as you have, true thanks to Challenge for being my first true follower (that I'm aware of.) and MadDog for all the support and fun chats we've had. Same goes for everyone else, you made this all possible… and fun for me as well.

Now then, I've rambled plenty long… let's start winding his down; now in the home stretch!

Chapter 52: Dark Flower! BlackWarGreymon's Seal!

Digital World. December 29th, 2002. 0954 Hours.
P.O.V. – Third Person

Things were moving fast for the Chosen Children in their fight against Oikawa and his plans. In the Digital World, the Digimon, excluding Agumon and Guilmon who were back in the Real World once again, were busy on their end. They were bracing the cold elements as they were busy trying to build a seal to keep Digimon like Demon from traveling between the Digital and Real Worlds. It was also a double edge sword as it was also to close off the gate at Hikarigaoka that the children predicted that Oikawa must be planning to use in the coming future.

Back in the Real World, the Chosen were keeping their eyes peeled on the infected children and were actually starting to get their folks involved. Ross was sitting in the passenger seat to his father's F-150 as they were watching one of the apartments that one of Oikawa's victims lived at.
"Hold on, turn up the radio…" Phil told Ross as they kept looking. Ross complied and turned up the radio that was playing a news bulletin.
"After refraining from making any statements, the government has finally commented on this monster fiasco. In the recent press conference, they have stated that these monsters will be deemed as unidentified organisms, and mobilizing the Self-Defense Force is considered. In order to discover the cause of this situation as soon as possible, a joint investigative organization will be formed." The radio crackled.
"Bet you two-thousand yen President Gore calls you later about this…" Ross put down his binoculars. Phil nodded.
"Sounds like we've both got our work cut out for us." He sighed as he spit out some of his chew into a bottle.
"Make that three of us." Guilmon reminded from the small back seat. Both father and son nodded.

Hida Residence, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. December 29th, 2002. 1003 Hours.
P.O.V. – Iori Hida

I was sitting quietly and praying at Father's shrine before I turned to find Armadimon underneath the table right by Grandfather. Armadimon's stomach then suddenly growled which got his attention.
"What was that sound?" I ran back to the other side of the table and waved my hands.
"It was nothing!" I assured him as I was starting to sweat.
"No, I'm sure I heard it from here…" He started to lean down to look under the table.
"No…" I muttered but that wasn't going to stop him. As soon as he was getting ready, he must have left his Chu-Chu Jelly too close to Armadimon who just reached over and started to drink from it. He was like a lot of pets; leave your food unattended, he'll eat it in a heartbeat.
"It actually moved…" Grandfather was somewhat surprised.
"Iori, I'm sorry, dagyaa…" He ran out from under the table over to me.
"It talked!"
"I couldn't resist with it right in front of me, dagyaa."
"It's okay, Armadimon." I picked him up. "Grandfather, I'm sorry for keeping it from you all this time. The truth is…"

"As I expected." Grandfather interrupted me as he stood up. What he said had confused me.
"As you expected?"
"I didn't think it was a normal stuffed animal." He turned and walked out to the patio. "That… Armadimon, is it? Is it a creature from some digital realm?" My jaw practically dropped as he asked that.
"Grandfather, a digital realm?" Armadimon and I ran out onto the patio. "Do you know about the Digital World?"
"So it's called the Digital World…" He kept looking out towards the sea before he turned back around to me. "You see, I was going to tell you someday… Well, I know I had to tell you someday, but… The truth is, your late father always talked about wanting to go to a place called Digital World." Just yet another surprise as my jaw dropped again.
"My father did?" I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Father actually knew about the Digital World and wanted to go to it?

"Yes." Grandfather nodded as he looked back to the sea once more and put his hands on the rail. "Your father Hiroki had a great interest in videogame characters when he was young. It looked like he could see things that other children couldn't. He believed there was a world where those characters lived freely." I was just completely shocked. I never knew this about Father… perhaps that's why I was destined to be a Chosen Child then…
"Father…" I looked down.
"What Hiroki believed was true, it seems." Grandfather glanced over to Armadimon as he said that.

"Iori?" I heard Mom's voice and turned around to see her walking towards us. "You're not going out again today, are you?" She asked.
"Mother… but I…" I was tried to argue.
"You were out yesterday and the day before… It's dangerous now, so please stay home, Iori." I closed my eyes and prepared to argue once more.
"Mother, I'm sorry, but I have to…"
"Fumiko-san, you worry too much." Grandfather walked up next to me. "Iori was about to go practice kendo with me." I looked up at him as he put his hand on my shoulder. "Come on, Iori, let's hurry."

P.O.V. – Third Person

At a small rundown house located in one of the more broken down parts of the city, Mummymon, who in his human form was missing an arm now, was sitting on the steps of the building. This was where Oikawa was now making his hideout as he kept his proximity to his children even closer than what it was before. Of course, the issue remained that his plans still weren't truly ready yet and the Chosen Children were now starting to be much more of an irritant than before.
"So, what do you believe we should do?" Oikawa asked Archnemon as the two of them were back inside the dark lit house and looked out the window.
"With the Chosen Children watching them, we can't do much… But the Dark Seed children are progressing as planned. Should actually be ready in two days actually…" She told him which gave him a sick smile on his face. "However, it's just…" She spoke up once again.
"What?"
"One of the Seeds is about to sprout… sooner than we expected. What should we do?"
"This was always a possibility; there are still more than enough for my goal… still… we can play this earlier bloomer to our advantage."

Meanwhile at the home of Noriko Kawada, the Dark Seed was rapidly growing inside her; sadly, she wasn't aware of the true damage it was slowly doing to her, nor was she aware that she was merely a pawn in Oikawa's twisted game.
"My former self wasn't my true self." Noriko thought to herself; the Seed already affecting her mind greatly now and twisting her like it had done to Osamu before. "Now that I have the Dark Seed, I'll show everyone my true potential." She was sitting at her desk doing her work before there was a knock on her bedroom door before it opened up and her mother walked in.
"Noriko, what are you doing? Studying?" She asked. She tried to reach out to touch her shoulder but Noriko picked up her book and closed it loud and fast; all the while having a very upset look on her face that kept her mother from touching her. Noriko then slammed the book on her desk as her mother took a slight step back. She then realized that Noriko clearly didn't want to talk to her so she decided to leave the room and her daughter alone. Noriko then stood up out of her rolling chair.
"Those filthy adults can't touch me. I'm going to become more and more of a perfect human." Her neck glowed red as the Seed was clearly reaching a critical point… and it was going to spell dark omens for her and the Chosen Children.

P.O.V. – Iori Hida

"Miyako-san! Sorry I'm late!" I shouted out to her as Armadimon and myself arrived to Noriko's house for our watch. I was carrying my kendo equipment with me as well as I ran over to her.
"Ah, Iori." She turned towards me when she heard my voice. "It's okay, I have lots of time in winter break." She explained.
"Miyako-san, you can take a break." I told her. "Armadimon and I will be more than happy to take over your watch."
"Sure. Actually, I'll come back in a bit to join you. I'll go get some drinks for us, okay?" She took off running for the nearest store while Hawkmon flapped his wings.
"Get some meat buns too, dagyaa!" I shook my head and smiled upon hearing that request. Oh, Armadimon. Don't ever change.
"Understood! Meat buns, right?" called Hawkmon.

I stood around and waited for Miyako to return before something glass, perhaps a bowl, a plate, a vase or something like that, was shattered from inside Noriko's house.
"Where did you lose it!?" I could hear her scream, I guessed the unfortunate victim of her growing rage was her mother.
"Noriko…!" Yeah, that was definitely her mother. Armadimon and I ran closer to her home.
"I put it right here!"
"Nori-chan, I'm sorry…" There was then the sound of a door slamming shut before everything went quiet. I looked down and felt guilty.
"I don't like this…" I expressed my guilt to Armadimon. "I feel like I'm a wiretap."
"It feels like the power of darkness is getting stronger, dagyaa." worried Armadimon. That's not good at all. Osamu and Ken said that the Dark Seeds were growing faster than they expected… but this… this is not making me feel any easier, that's for sure.

"How's it going?" A dark and familiar voice spoke up near me. I turned around… and found myself staring at Yukio Oikawa who was walking right towards me. "Seems like the Dark Seeds are growing well." I quickly dropped my bag and pulled out my still wrapped shinai which I pointed right at him. "Even though you're a Chosen Child, you can't do anything." He took another step forward as he gave a sick grin. I took a step back. "So? Does it bother you?"
"Please return everyone to normal!" I defiantly ordered.
"Why? They all wanted the Seeds. All I did was grant them their wish. So? Don't you want to become a great human who's envied by everyone?"
"Being a great human doesn't have anything to do with being envied. It's only measured by how much you can contribute to others! What you are saying is wrong!" I shouted at him.
"What's with that look…?" He muttered. His eyes then widen as if he saw something that shocked him. "Hida Iori…" He was looking at my name on my bag. "Hiroki's…" I lowered my shinai as he said that.
"How do you know my father's name?" I questioned.

He still looked shocked before I heard running from behind me.
"What happened here?" cried Hawkmon as he and Miyako had returned.
"Right when we're gone!" Miyako added as they ran up behind me. Up ahead, Mummymon, and Archnemon turned the corner and ran over to Oikawa.
"I'll evolve, dagyaa!" Armadimon informed. This was a bad situation though. Right now, Hawkmon and Armadimon could only go to Adult-Level against Archnemon and Mummymon who were both Perfects and they knew it.
"Heh, I'll take all of you down!" Mummymon boasted.
"Wait!" Oikawa turned around and held up his arms. What he said next surprised all of us. "We're leaving."
"Eh?"
"I said we're leaving! Didn't you hear me!?"
"But…" They tried to argue as Oikawa turned back to look at me.
"Come on." He pushed them away and soon left; leaving Miyako and myself confused about what had happened. How did he know Father's name?

P.O.V. – Third Person

Later in the evening that day, Oikawa was walking alone near the train tracks as he stopped at a bridge overlooking them and looking out towards the setting sun. This place was actually familiar to him as he had been here plenty of times in the past. His thoughts, however, were currently focused on Hiroki Hida… the only man whoever considered him his friend. Hiroki wasn't the only one who could see the monsters in the game, Oikawa did too. And they both shared the same dream of going to the Digital World together. His memories went back to one of the last times he and Hiroki met, before Hiroki took a bullet in London. Hiroki was actually making great progress in perhaps making their dream come true; especially after the fight between Greymon and Parrotmon back in Hikarigaoka in '95.

Oikawa's memories came back to this bridge. As a young child, he was always a loner and a sad child. That all changed when Hiroki befriended him and the two were almost like brothers. His memories remembered a good time when the two of them were in high school on their way back home as the cherry blossoms bloomed. Then another time years later after Hiroki was engaged and asked Oikawa to be his best man. Finally, he remembered walking this place alone in the rain and wracked with sorrow as he received word that Hiroki had died in the line of duty. Oikawa grasped the chain-link fence overlooking the rails as another train went by.
"No… I'm not that weak of a person…" He said to himself. "I'm not weak!" He shouted as he ran away.

He soon ran to the cemetery where Hiroki's grave was. He stopped in front of it and pulled out his laptop with an image of a spider that they would've seen in their games.
"Hida… I wanted you to see this virtual life. But you died before I could show it to you. I converted my genes to data and created this. This is part of me."
"Yes, I am you." Archnemon's voice echoed as he soon saw her on his screen.
"This is your true form." Mummymon chimed in as he appeared next to her.
"My true form?" questioned Oikawa.
"Your true form is hideous." They both said.
"I-I'm hideous!?" He was taken aback by their words.
"You don't want to accept your weak soul or your hideous self." They both continued to taunt. "Why did you create me?"
"That's not true!" He slammed his laptop shut.
"You're an alien substance!" BlackWarGreymon's words from yesterday ringed in his mind.
"You're wrong!" He screamed.

"Why couldn't we finish those kids off back then?" Mummymon questioned as he and Archnemon were at a playground with her on the swing set. "Such a great chance…"
"I have no idea… besides… they're not the ones you're wanting right now anyway." Mummymon's mood darkened.
"I swear, if I get my hand on MechaRaptormon, I'll tear off each of his limbs one by one until he begs for death." He growled as he took his left hand with his cane in it and moved it up to his arm stump at his right shoulder.
"Think you can do it?"
"Don't worry about me, my dear, I can easily still kill them even with one arm." He smiled which caused her to roll her eyes once more.
"Whatever…"
"By the way, it may have nothing to do with anything, but… Remember what BlackWarGreymon said yesterday? BlackWarGreymon is a Digimon and Oikawa-san is human, but we're neither."
"Don't think too hard about it." She dismissed his question. "Even if you do, you won't get anywhere."

Motomiya Residence, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. December 29th, 2002. 2116 Hours.
P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

The past few days had been making me think about this and after what Iori said about his Grandfather finding out about Armadimon, both Miyako and I decided that now would probably be the best time to come clean with our families; especially since we could probably use their help against Oikawa. I told them everything first before I let V-mon walk into the living room. Mom nearly screamed but calmed down immediately when V-mon said he loved her cooking. They were both a bit worried about me getting myself in danger but V-mon vouched for me and that was basically it. It was late when I knocked on Jun's door as there was something I needed to get off my chest to her.

"Jun? You in there?" I knocked once again before the door cracked open slightly and I could see her laying on her bed reading a book. "Hey…"
"What do you want?" She asked as she kept on reading. I don't know what was going through her head but I decided to continue.
"Can we talk for a few minutes?"
"About what?"
"I… I want to say… that I'm sorry." She stopped reading. "I'm sorry about… well, being the biggest pain in the neck in your life." Admitting this was hard for me but I had to do it. "Listen, with the things involving Osamu-san and those kids… it got me thinking that I really should at least say this… just in case."
"I thought V-mon said you were going to be okay?"
"Yeah, but… well, you never know. Look, I know we both get on each other's nerves and deep down I kinda wish we had the same dynamic like Taichi-senpai, Ross-san and Hikari-chan but… in the end you're still my sister and I know I don't show it… but I still love you." Nothing was said for a few moments. "Really?" I started to get upset. "I just said that all to you and you don't say any-"

"Thank you, Daisuke." I stopped as she spoke up.
"What?"
"Thank you, Daisuke… I could say the same to you. You drive me crazy sometimes and I probably do the same… but you're right, you're still my little brother and I love you." She got up and walked over to hug me.
"Listen, Jun… if you want me to…"
"No, don't change yourself for me…" She chuckled. "You being a real pain means you're you."
"Yeah… and you going crazy for boys makes you as well… speaking of which, when you giving Osamu-san a bunch of gifts?" I joked.
"Hey, I need to save a bit more money before I do that, I used a lot of it on Yamato before Christmas!" We both broke down and laughed.

Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. December 30th, 2002. 1035 Hours.
P.O.V. – Iori Hida

I was out in front of the apartment building with Grandfather before I turned and started to walk away.
"I'm leaving!" I told him as I was going to rejoin the others in their watching of the kids.
"Take care." He said.
"Yes." I kept moving with Armadimon before I stopped and remembered what happened yesterday. The fact that Oikawa apparently knew my father… I had to at least know a bit more…
"What's wrong?" Grandfather questioned as he noticed me stopping.
"Father wasn't a bad person, right?"
"Huh? Of course your father wasn't a bad person. Did something happen?"
"Yesterday, I met someone who knew Father."
"He knew Hiroki?" I turned around to look back at Grandfather.
"His name is Oikawa." Grandfather's eyes widen as I said that.
"Oikawa? I've heard that name before."

P.O.V. – Osamu Ichijouji

I was keeping a close tail on Noriko as she was walking along with Monodramon. I tried to make sure she didn't notice me as she kept on moving. She soon turned a corner and after a few moments I looked around it… only to find that she was gone! I ran forward a few steps before I just noticed out of the corner of my eye she was at the gate to a small park and looking right at me. She clearly caught me. I sighed and turned to look at her.
"Aren't you Ichijouji-san? What do you want from me?" The tone in her voice sounded much more… arrogant, angry… in a way it sounded like my old self.
"I'm sorry I followed you. I apologized. But I want you to listen."
"Listen to you?" She threw up her hands in an self-absorbed shrug. "Why do I have to listen to the likes of you? Who do you think you are?"
"The poor fool who ended up giving you and all the other kids that Oikawa has tricked into getting my curse."
"Please… you're nothing to me now… it's like you're normal; certainly not a genius anymore."

"You're wrong about that. My mind is still as sharp as ever but I'm better now than I was before without all the attention and praise being focused on me… my brother included as well." I walked up to her.
"You're not going to say you made friends and your parents are happy, are you? What a joke. It's stupid." She scoffed and turned around.
"She doesn't realize that it's taking advantage of the void inside her." I thought to myself. "I… I should've realized all that sooner and what I was becoming but I let it all get to my head… and it made me a monster… please, Noriko-kun, don't make the same mistakes as me. You've got to fight this thing before it's too late!" I pleaded with her. She merely rolled her eyes and walked away.
"Goodbye. And stop following me. You're like a stalker!"

"Onii-san!" I heard Ken's voice cry out which caused me to turn and see him, Daisuke and Iori running towards me.
"What happened with that girl?" asked Daisuke. I sighed.
"Well…" We all looked and suddenly she started to make gasping noises like she was choking and quickly removed her scarf. We then could see the back of her neck glowing red where the Dark Seed had been placed.
"Look!" Monodramon exclaimed as the four Digimon ran forward.
"What's happening to her?" Daisuke worriedly questioned.
"That's…!" V-mon tried to say something before a red aura glowed around her head and her hair practically started to defy gravity and float upward like she was a Super Sayian or something; Ken knows Dragonball more than me. Noriko grabbed her head and just started to scream out in pain, chilling us all to the bone as we didn't know what we could do to help.

She soon stopped screaming as she opened her eyes and they looked completely blank and soulless.
"Something's coming out of her head!" Wormmon noticed.
"What?" Daisuke asked again.
"Osamu-chan, this is bad! The Seed is sprouting!" Monodramon exclaimed.
"What? All I see is her neck glowing!" I informed. Guess that's something only Digimon can see or something… The Digimon all ran further forward.
"What is it? What's going on?" questioned Ken.
"A flower is blooming!" V-mon shouted before we heard the sound of a cruel laughter.
"Oikawa?" Iori wondered. A moment later, he appeared and walked over to Noriko while Mummymon and Archnemon ran in front of them in their Digimon forms. Mummymon was missing the arm from the other day, but still had that rifle that he now held in his left hand.

"Them…" Daisuke muttered.
"What is he trying to do?" Ken asked.
"He's going to take the flower!" Wormmon told us.
"Daisuke." Ken turned to look at him.
"Alright!"
"Wormmon, evolve! STINGMON!" "V-mon, evolve! XV-MON!" "XV-mon!" "Stingmon!" "Jogress Evolve! PAILDRAMON!" Paildramon got to work fast and launched out his nails which caused both Archnemon and Mummymon to jump out of the way. Archnemon then jumped forward and tried to grab him but he simply punched her in the face and threw her away. Mummymon fired his rifle and hit Paildramon in the chest but his armor deflected all of it. Now it was his turn.
"Desperado Blaster!" The shots struck Mummymon in his chest and caused him to fall to the ground. Archnemon jumped up once more and latched onto Paildramon's back causing them to crash into the ground. Meanwhile, Oikawa used this chance to grab Noriko and start running away with her.

"Hurry! We have to get her back!" insisted Iori.
"Armadimon, Armor-Evolve! Steel Knowledge, DIGMON!" Digmon was about to move before Mummymon placed his rifle down and threw out his bandages to tighten around his neck.
"Don't get in Oikawa-san's way!" He declared. Archnemon then threw out her acid attack and hit Digmon causing him to devolve back to Armadimon. Paildramon opened fire again, but his shots got a bit too close to Oikawa and Noriko.
"Stop it, Paildramon!" Daisuke cried. "You'll put her in danger if you attack now!"
"Run away now!" I called out to Noriko as Oikawa put her back down but she merely smiled.
"Why should I?"
"Damn it…" I cursed. "It's no use… she's controlled by Oikawa."
"Now, stay there and don't make a fuss!" Archnemon ordered.

"Oikawa-sama, please." Noriko bowed to him and he moved his hand until it was hovering over her head. He chuckled as we could see a dark purplish aura.
"What's that? What's going on?" Daisuke asked once more.
"It's terrible…" Monodramon admitted.
"He's absorbing the flower!" shouted Paildramon.
"Someone stop him, dagyaa!" Armadimon pleaded as the color from Noriko's skin was leaving her, making her look as pale as him.
"Stop!" Iori ran forward causing Oikawa to turn around.
"What?"
"I can't forgive what you're doing! It's unforgivable!" Iori charged but as soon as he was close Oikawa slapped him in the face and sent him flying a few feet back towards us.

"This is the will of the children." He clearly lied.
"It feels great…" Noriko muttered as she was obviously under his spell.
"He's absorbing the flower's energy…" Paildramon said. Noriko fell over towards him before he grabbed her and tossed away back towards us.
"Here, feel free to have her back now. I have no more use for her." Iori soon caught her as she passed out. I guess the good news is that the Dark Seed is out of her… but it blooming and him absorbing it's power can't be good for us. "Shouldn't you all cut that justice stuff out and put your powers to better use?" Iori brought Noriko back over to us and I held her while he turned back to stare down Oikawa.
"You were my father's friend…" What?! We didn't have much time to process that information as Iori ran towards him once again. "Why are you using Digimon for evil!?"

P.O.V. – Iori Hida

I soon stopped as Mummymon and Archnemon ran in front of him once again. Oikawa just looked at me and had a small smile on his face. It didn't look sinister or anything… more like… remembering happier times.
"They're alike… those righteous eyes are just like Hiroki's. Hiroki… you would be so proud of your boy…" His face then turned dark again. "He's not here anymore." I actually got a bit scared and took a step back as that purple aura soon surrounded him.
"Be careful!" Paildramon warned. "The power he absorbed from the girl's Dark Flower turned into a shadow…"
"The energy is increasing!" Armadimon panicked beside me. We then heard a loud roar of anger before looking up and finding BlackWarGreymon flying right down towards before he landed between me and Oikawa's group with his eyes dead set on Oikawa.
"I won't let you do this!" BlackWarGreymon declared. "Gaia Force!" He threw out his attack and blew away both Archnemon and Mummymon. Oikawa just stood there.

"What is going on here?" WarGreymon asked as he landed right next to Paildramon.
"That energy shadow around Oikawa and BlackWarGreymon's dark power disrupt each other." Paildramon explained as Archnemon and Mummymon ran for cover; clearly knowing they stood little chance to BlackWarGreymon. "Something big is about to happen."
"BlackWarGreymon, what are you trying to do?"
"Don't worry, I just wanted to try this my way." He glanced over to his counterpart. "Oikawa, I have some business with you." He walked forward.
"You were still around? How convenient." Oikawa once again scoffed in the face of something that could easily kill him. "I'll use the power of the Dark Towers you were created from too."
"What?" BlackWarGreymon was taken aback by that declaration. "I won't let you do as you please any more. I'll stop you!"

"What can an artificial object like you do?" Oikawa smirked.
"Then why did you create Archnemon? Why did you create Mummymon?" Oikawa growled as the Ultimate-Level Digimon told him that. "Do you hate loneliness so much?"
"Nonsense…" That purple aura grew bigger. "You're wrong, you're wrong!" He roared at him. "I'm not that weak of a person!"
"What is he agonizing about?" questioned Osamu.
"Still, Iori's father's friend…?" Daisuke was still stuck on that revelation.
"Iori!" We heard Miyako shout and saw her, Takeru and Hikari run over to us with their Digimon. At the same time, we could see Waibanmon flying in with Taichi and Ross.
"This is quite the turn of events, isn't it?" Hawkmon said.
"What is BlackWarGreymon trying to do with Oikawa?" Takeru asked me as he ran beside me.
"Well…"
"Do you want power?" BlackWarGreymon now wondered as he kept up with his tense conversation with Oikawa. "That's no use if you want to run away from loneliness! Even if you gained enough power to control the entire world, loneliness is all you would have." Oikawa took a step back before he grabbed his head. "Am I wrong?"

"So this is what's going on." My eyes nearly bugged out of my head when I saw Grandfather running right towards the two of them!
"Grandfather…" I cried at him, trying to warn him to stay away.
"Sorry I'm late, Iori. So you're Oikawa Yukio-kun after all." He took a few steps forward. "You were always quiet and didn't have many friends, but going this far…" Oikawa turned and glared at him.
"You're…
"Hida Chikara, Iori's grandfather, but you know me as your friend Hida Hiroki's father."
"Hiroki's father…"

"You two believed in a world where the digital characters lived freely. I was worried hearing that from my son, and banned him from talking such nonsense. I still remember his sad face at the time. Even after you two grew older, you two still believed in that digital world, and let that dream grow larger. But Hiroki suddenly died. Your depression over his death didn't seem normal. The reason was obvious if you think about it. Hiroki was the only one you could consider a friend. I wish I could have helped you back then. It may be too late now, but… Will you be my friend? I want someone I can talk to about Hiroki's childhood." We all watched as the dark look on Oikawa's face vanished and turned into one of kindness.
"When I was with Hiroki… Mr. Hida…" He walked forward before he grabbed his head once more. He screamed out in pain before dropping his arms and his eyes were now red with no pupils in them. The dark aura grew even larger.
"Look out, Grandfather!" I screamed out.
"Get out of there, dagyaa!"

Oikawa threw up his arms forward and the dark aura shot forward towards Grandfather! But just before it hit him, BlackWarGreymon moved into the way and took it square in the chest… leaving nothing but a black hole in in; fatally wounding him.
"BlackWarGreymon…" Paildramon and WarGreymon muttered.
"He protected Grandfather…" I said.
"You…" BlackWarGreymon grunted in pain as he fell to one knee. "So it was you…"
"'You'? Who are you talking about?" Takeru questioned. Oikawa's eyes returned to normal as the aura vanished.
"Ah, right… I have to be alone. Like I've been until now, and forever from now on."
"No! Don't let him control you!" BlackWarGreymon begged.
"That's right, I have to collect all the Dark Seeds so my wish can be granted. To go to the Digital World." He laughed as he ran away.

"I won't let you…" BlackWarGreymon tried to get back up. "I'll never… let him get his way!"
"BlackWarGreymon!" WarGreymon ran over to him and tried to help him.
"N-no way… he defeated BlackWarGreymon?" Daisuke stuttered as the rest of us were still shocked about that.
"My body can't last any longer… This life created with Dark Towers ends here. But there's still something I can do…" choked out BlackWarGreymon.
"Stop talking!" Paildramon told him, trying to tell him to save his breath so maybe we could help him.
"Sealing the gate to the Digital World at Hikarigaoka…" He started to walk forward. "I'll do it with this body!"
"What are you doing?" WarGreymon asked as he reached out to try to grab him. BlackWarGreymon then roared and ran forward as he took into the skies. He flew high in the air as purple strands of energy flew out of the hole in his chest before he disintegrated into data.

I nearly had tears in my eyes and I think the rest of us did too for his sacrifice.
"It's funny… he was born to be a villain, to be just another pawn for evil… in the end… he died a hero." Ross said as we kept watching his data scatter across the city.
"I wonder if BlackWarGreymon found that at last…" Takeru muttered.
"Yes, I'm sure." WarGreymon dropped to his knees in sorrow from the sacrifice of his counterpart.
"BlackWarGreymon!" He screamed his name to the heavens as a rainbow soon appeared. It's probably safe to assume that BlackWarGreymon's sacrifice did seal the gate at Hikarigaoka. But there still was the question of this 'you' that he referred to that was controlling Oikawa and the fact that he was still planning to use the other children for his plan to go to the Digital World for who knows what after that.

But one thing I know for sure is that BlackWarGreymon found peace in the end…

Boy, that always tears me up… always get flashbacks to the final moments of Anakin Skywalker with that sacrifice. Also, I thought that little scene with Daisuke and Jun should've been included in the show, gives him more of an arc that shows he's grown as well… even if he is still quite a hot head.

Well, that's it for this one. Thank you all for this great year of enjoying my crazed writings and hope you'll enjoy more. Take care for now.

"Push the button, Frank."