Chapter 42: Epilogue

Could it really have been twenty four years? Twenty four years since I met Kari, twenty four years since we fought Myotismon and Daemon together, twenty four years since I was reunited with the rest of my team? It doesn't seem like it was that long. It seems like only weeks. I can still remember every event perfectly. Even twenty four years later, it still seems so close.

We've had many adventures since then. I won't go into detail, but we've continued to learn throughout our lives, right up to this point. I guess we're still learning, and we've got a lot to learn. I'm almost looking forward to seeing what the future holds for us, and Especially for Connor.

I suppose you'll need an explanation of who Connor is, s I'll start at the beginning. I eventually began my own band, with some pointers from Matt, and played with them in Japan. I finally wrote some songs of my own, both in Japanese and English, and I'd like to think my band was pretty popular. I also swam throughout my high school career. I made the junior Olympics, where I swam for America so that I could be on the same team as Shark. Within Tokyo, I was practically a legend. I led our school's high school to a championship every year for four years. Of course, nothing lasts forever, and I eventually had to move on.

I went to college back in America. I really wanted to reconnect with the rest of my family, but I certainly didn't forget all my new friends. I stayed in touch through the internet and the digital world, and I visited sometimes on holidays and during the summer.

Throughout college, I played with another small local band around campus. We did some fairly successful shows at the college, but never really got anywhere. I studied business management, and as soon as I graduated, I opened my own recording studio in Buffalo, New York. It's there that I started my family, and still I remain there to this day.

Kari studied very hard to learn English, and by the time we graduated from High school, she had all but mastered it. Her grammar was usually better than mine, and quite frankly, still is. She went to college in Japan and, as expected, studied to become a kindergarten teacher. She's great with kids, and I can't imagine her doing anything else. And that brings me back to my family.

I proposed to her as soon as I graduated from college. She accepted, and actually moved to America with me to teach in Buffalo. Of course, we take regular trips back to Japan. We go back at least every other weekend, usually going through the digital world. It's a surprisingly good system of transportation, especially since Izzy perfected his program for controlling the digital gates.

Connor is our son, and he's very much like his mother. He cares very much for other people. He has his own digimon partner now, Salmon, and the rambunctious little digimon sometimes drives me crazy. Still, I can't complain. I'm pretty satisfied with how my life has turned out so far.

Shark is probably the most interesting story out of the group, other than Matt and Gobumon's explorations. Shark did, of course, return to New York immediately after our fight with Daemon was over. The next morning, I found a note where he had slept saying that he couldn't take Japan any more, and that he had to get out. He said he'd email me from the public library as soon as he got home, and he did. We kept in touch as much as possible over the years, and I was amazed as his story unfolded before me.

He kept swimming and working out intensely through his high school years. AT that time, he claimed that he had nothing better to do with his free time He managed to stay in High school and pulled passing if not spectacular grades. As I said, he made the junior Olympic team for his freestyle and we had a great time at that. Then he really began to surprise everyone.

He was offered and accepted a full scholarship to the University of Hawaii. Jesse received a small scholarship to swim there also, and so they both flew off to the island paradise for college. As far as I know, they both focused primarily on swimming and studying while they were there. Shark went into psychology, and shocked everyone once again by graduating early. He opened his own practice and married Jesse. He is now Dr. Flander E. Connors officially, but he still tells his patients and friends to call him Shark. When asked his profession, he doesn't hesitate to say "shrink."

He and Jesse have three kids, the middle one being the same age as Connor. If you were wondering, Connor is named for Shark, despite the "shrink's" protests. I thought initially that it would be a silly idea, but Kari thought it was perfect. She said that she wanted a name that was important to us and meant something, so I guess Shark's real last name counts.

I think that was his plan all along. He certainly didn't want or take anybody's help to get to where he is. He did what he had to in order to survive his youth, worked his way into a college with his arms and legs, and studied hard so that he could enter a profession. Everyone counted him out, and he, with his switchblade in one hand and his middle finger raised sky-high on the other, showed them all up. He is still one of the most amazing people I have ever known.

Of course, what you've just read certainly isn't the end of our adventures. Far from it, what happened next still blows my mind. If it hadn't happened, I might have made the Olympics, of course, but I still would not trade the next part of our story for anything. It's so weird you almost have to believe it.

Author's Note: Thansk to everyone who read this story to the end. I hope you liked it, and If you've got s story that you're writing, I'd love to read it, provided that it's more than 1000 words long ;) . I am going to post one more chapter into this story before I move on to my next big project. It'll be kind of a linking chapter between this story and the next. I plan on making it highly confusing to the point that you'll think I've lost my mind. Please tell me what you think of this story, I love getting feedback!

Just as a reminder, I don't own digimon or any of the characters associated with it. I did create Drakamon, his digivolutions, Will, Shark, Jesse, Ricky, and Laura on my own, as well as Uniquemon and his digivolution. All rights and stuff are still held by digimon's owners, whoever they are.