First, I'd like to start off with a little note. Ahem:
I'M SORRY IF THIS IS GETTING ANNOYING!
One sequel happened, and then Shitza asked for a sequel and I went 'ok, sure.' But I have this problem, where if someone asks, I'll usually write a sequel if the idea comes to mind. Then I wrote Lost! And, checking my reviews for the story, I didn't receive a request for a sequel, so maybe that was my fault or a friend asked for it….And then I wrote Never Separated and I can blame this sequel on a few people.
Joey-chan asked for a sequel, Dragi and Angel Spirit inadvertently got me to write it by asking for another story (not a sequel). So sorry if this is getting annoying. I've noticed that I lost a lot of reviewers as I went along, so I just want to apologize in case the number of sequels is what stopped you all from reading. I PROMISE, REALLY, that this will be the LAST installment of this series of one-shots and stories!
Now on to the story. This one is chaptered, but I'm not sure how long it'll be.
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History
Sequel to Never Separated Takuya is recalled to the digital world, with Kouji and Tommy. Something is going terribly wrong and Kouji must regain his powers in order to save them all. THE FINAL SEQUEL! Takouji
Prolog
"We need you."
Brown eyes opened and stared around in confusion. Where was he?
"Takuya."
He flipped around to see Kouji standing there. Kouji's hair was in it's low ponytail, hanging to the middle of his shoulder-blades and his dark eyes asking Takuya to come towards him. His features were more manly than they had been during their adventures. They should be though, he was twenty-three now, not eleven.
"Takuya."
Takuya's eyes widened as Kouji's formed blurred and reverted to him as he was in the digital world. He knew he must be dreaming. Takuya looked himself over, noticing that he was still his twenty-three year old self. Takuya suddenly noticed something in the distance over Kouji's shoulder. They were standing on a sidewalk in the middle of the city and standing by the crosswalk at the corner around thirty feet away was a young child. Takuya didn't recognize the boy, so he wondered why he would be in his dream.
"Takuya!"
Takuya flicked his eyes back to Kouji in surprise. That had sounded like Zoe. Seeing as it was the blonde Italian girl, he shouldn't be surprised, but he was. Kouji had been there a moment ago! She smiled and waved at him and he managed a small wave back. Tommy suddenly poked out from behind her back and that's when he realized….they were also their younger forms. Why were they as they had been in the digital world!? J.P. popped out from behind Zoe too and Takuya KNEW he had to be dreaming.
The little boy in the background moved a bit, changing positions as he waited on something. Takuya didn't know what, since the road was clear and he could walk across at any time. The little boy checked his digital watch and then looked at the sky. When Takuya turned to ask his friends about the kid, he jumped backwards. It was Kouichi!
"Kouichi! Why? How…Oh never mind." he touched his hand to his forehead and sighed. Kouichi smiled and put his hand on Takuya's wrist.
"I know him."
Takuya's head shot up and he took his hand down, but Kouichi had vanished. Takuya looked at the little boy, deciding he's was about ten years old, and took a step towards him. A sudden rushing noise erupted from behind him and Takuya turned to face the spiral of darkness coming at him. Takuya turned and began to run towards the little boy, just as the kid's cell phone rang. Takuya heard an all to familiar sound come as the phone opened.
"Are you ready to begin?"
The little boy clicked yes and light spilled out of his cell phone. Takuya was almost to him now. The little boy turned away from the street, in Takuya's direction, just as Takuya felt himself ripped backwards by the void. Still, he gasped. The little boy was holding a digi-egg!
"Ahhh!!!!" he yelled as he fell backwards into nothingness, the little boy fading away after a short while.
Two more yells coincided with his own and he managed to turn his head to look to his left. Tommy, twenty year old Tommy. And to his right, Kouji, twenty-three. Before he could call out to Kouji, he felt himself begin to spin faster and faster the farther they fell and he began to yell again in surprise and fear. He noted dimly that his voice had gotten higher and he recognized it as himself many years ago.
"Come back to us, legendary warriors. Come back to save us all, both human and digimon alike."
Just as he was sucked down into the complete darkness and there was nothing, no sound and no sight, no feeling and no….anything…..
"You are our only hope."
Takuya woke up with a start and laid perfectly still. He was staring at the white popcorn ceiling of the room he and Kouji shared. He felt his heartbeat calming and took a deep breath. It really had been a dream. But it had felt so real, like he really was being sucked away into nothing. Takuya turned his head to look at Kouji, who had his face buried in the dip of Takuya's neck. Takuya hoped he hadn't woken the other man with his nightmare…no…
'It was like…a premonition or something. It has to be. I've never heard that voice before, but it called us legendary warriors.'
Takuya took a deep breath and held it for a moment before letting it out. He turned his head away from Kouji's sleeping form, curled against him, and ran his left hand through Kouji's hair.
"Mm…" Kouji murmured in his sleep and turned his head a bit to sink further into the bed and Takuya's neck. It tickled a bit and Takuya shivered to keep from laughing. "Takuya?"
Takuya swore in his mind. Kouji was a light sleeper. So was Takuya. They had acquired the ability while in the digital world, always afraid of attack. Now, even so long afterwards, he and Kouji had managed to retain the ability and woke up to the slightest things. He should've remembered that when he first woke up.
"What's wrong? You're sweaty, and you're shivering." Kouji pushed himself away from Takuya and sat up, disentangling himself from the other male. Takuya stared up at Kouji pitifully for a moment before he took a deep breath and started out.
"I think….I think we've been called." he said softly.
"Called? What, did the phone ring?" Kouji furrowed his eyebrows. He didn't have work today, he'd taken Saturday's off. Looking at the clock, it read 2:23 am. No. It hadn't been the phone, he knew that.
"No." Takuya clarified for him. "It was a dream." the brunette sat up and put his right hand to his face, covering the right side of his face as he stared at the bedspread. "Someone called to us, the legendary warriors, in my dream. And there was this boy…."
Kouji repositioned himself and put a hand on Takuya's shoulder.
"It's late, but do you want me to round up the others?" he asked calmly. Takuya could get rattled at times, but this was the first time that Takuya had mentioned a dream like this. And when Takuya had a bad feeling, Kouji had learned to listen to it.
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Takuya frowned as he watched Tommy run up the hill to them. It was early early morning so no one was in the park at this time. Tommy stopped to catch his breath and then looked around.
"Wait. Where're the others?" he asked. Tommy still had his hair in the silly haircut and still wore ridiculous hats.
"J.P. and Zoe are on vacation with their daughter, Suzy. Hiro got really sick, so Kouichi had to take him to the hospital and he's afraid to leave him alone because Akari is currently overseas. So it's just the three of us this time." Kouji explained. Takuya nodded.
"So what's so urgent?" Tommy looked between the two. Takuya looked a bit pale and Tommy was worried.
"Tonight, I had a dream….I was standing on a sidewalk with Kouji, just standing. Kouji kind of shimmered and then he was twelve years old again. Then I saw something over his shoulder and when I looked, I saw a little boy. He had dark hair, almost black. But it was shining a reddish color in the sun."
Kouji furrowed his eyebrows. Lucky this kid was so young, according to Takuya, or Kouji might have been jealous.
"When I looked back at Kouji, he was suddenly Zoe. And then you," he looked at Tommy, "-and J.P. came out from behind her and I KNEW I had to be dreaming because that's impossible. And you were all the same way you'd been when we were in the digital world." Takuya looked upset at his own confusion. "I looked at the boy again, because it seemed he was waiting to cross the street but there were no cars, and when I looked back at you guys you were suddenly Kouichi."
"Takuya this just sounds like a weird dream. What's so strange about it?" Tommy asked. Takuya nodded.
"I know, but hold on." he took a deep breath. "Kouichi told me that….he knew who the kid was. But then he vanished too and I focused on the kid. But when I went to talk to him, there was this rushing noise and a vortex appeared. I was sucked in and then I heard other screams and when I looked it was…." Takuya trailed off as his eyes widened and he looked around in an almost panic.
"What Takuya? What's wrong?" Kouji asked, putting his hand on Takuya's right shoulder.
"It was just like this. I was there and Kouji, you were on my right and Tommy was on my left, just like now. We were sucked up and we were screaming and spinning and I felt sick and I felt like I would die and then a voice said-"
"Come back to us, legendary warriors. Come back to save us all, both human and digimon alike. You are our only hope."
"That…." Takuya murmured as the voice faded away.
Tommy and Kouji were looking around frantically, Kouji's hand tense on Takuya's shoulder. Takuya looked up as he saw something bright. A light shot down from the sky and hit the ground between the three friends. Then the ground started glowing and a circle surrounded them on the grass. Suddenly there was no ground and they were floating, it was like a great gust of air had blown them off the ground. And then it was over and they fell into the abyss. But they seemed to be going up just as soon as the circle closed and sight of the human world was gone. Takuya reached out to Kouji, who had been ripped away from him as they fell.
"Kouji!"
Then the spinning started. It was worse than in his dream. He spun like something was trying to kill him. (Imagine Digimon Adventure 01 opening, where they fall and then spin into oblivion) All light vanished and blackness surrounded them. Takuya couldn't tell if his eyes were open or shut but it was terrible on his head and he cried out in pain.
"K-kouji!" he cried, and his voice was higher than he remembered it. "KOUJI!"
A hand touched his. It was the lightest touch, but he grabbed the hand tightly and it's fingers closed around his wrist. Takuya suddenly saw Tommy in his mind's eye and his unoccupied hand shot out, latching on to fabric. Everything stopped spinning and now it was just a lot of gushing, rushing air. It was still pitch black and Takuya tightened his grips on the hand and the skirt.
He closed his eyes as they began to water and suddenly the fabric he was holding was ripped from his hand. He flailed for it until he felt the other hand go slack in his and he flipped to grab on to their arm with his now free hand.
"No!" He pulled them in closer and wrapped his arms around them. Just barely visible to him was a face. It was Kouji but he was much younger than he should be. "Kouji…" he gasped out as the air was pushed from his lungs but a suddenly gust of wind.
Kouji was unconscious and Takuya pulled him ever closer. He held him tightly and protectively. Takuya could feel his consciousness slipping and tightened his hold on Kouji. Light exploded from below them and the shock caused Takuya to burst into flame. He tried to keep his eyes open as the flames lightly licked around Kouji and himself harmlessly. Shards of ice fell from above them and Takuya turned his head to see a nine year old Tommy falling while the ice shards met the ground long before they would.
Takuya turned to look down again and saw the digital world spread out below them. The wooshing air was worse now and Takuya's eyes slipped closed. He began to lose consciousness as his own flames increased in power, yet still did not hurt the boy in his arms. The flames grew hot but not harmful as their power increased again and shot out to his left. Something told him that they'd gone for Tommy, but he was just hoping that they all survived the fall. His head felt like it would explode and his eyes were nearly closed when he saw it.
On the back of his eyelids, an explosion of light. The symbol of the warrior of light was burned there in his brain and he smiled as he felt them all slow down.
"Kouji…." he breathed out, and lost all consciousness as they all slowed to a stop just above the ground and then were laid softly on the green grass outside of the digimon palace.
Thus begins the FINAL installment of the series starting with Avalanche. Let me know what you think...I hope someone actually reads this. -worried-