Chapter 11 Farewell

The battle was finally over. Susanoomon dedigivolved back to the six tweens. The Three Celestial Digimon, and Neemon rushed to the heroes.

"You did it!" Neemon cheered.

"Congrats," Tai said with a grin on his face. Bokomon was standing with him.

Takuya stood up, though he was exhausted, he was determined, "Kujo or Tai or whoever you are... Tell us exactly what was going on with you."

Bokomon looked up at him sadly and he nodded back, "Is it okay if I told you?"

Koji and the others were surprised, "YOU KNEW!"

"I'm sorry, the other Tai made me swear not to tell."

"Children, please do not fight amongst yourselves. Let Tai and Bokomon tell you," Ophanimon tried to calm them down before another battle arose.

"It's a little complicated but the Tai that was on the travels with you was not the real Tai. Well he was in memories but mostly he was the power." Everyone's eyes were quite quizzical. Bokomon sighed as his explanation wasn't clear.

Tai cleared his throat. "Let me start from the beginning. First of all, the Tai that was with you was only a part of me. When I was travelling the Earth a long time ago, I came across this power. I don't know exactly what it is called but in it I could feel all of my friends and their powers. The eight crests: Courage, Friendship, Love, Reliability, Sincerity, Knowledge, Light, and Hope; they were the pillars that kept my own digital world safe. But my digital world is gone now. So these powers joined together to form the power that you used earlier. That power was the power of every single thing in the digital world I knew.

"When Malomyotismon ripped time and space to enter this digital world my digimon friends and I were awaken one last time to help you we travelled however the power overcame me and was corrupted. In order to preserve the pure power I split myself into different parts until we entered your world and the power could be purified. I was able to purify the power thanks to Seraphimon here."

"When you had that fever?" Zoe assumed.

"Yes that fever was more than just a typical fever, it was the evil side of the power emerging."

"Why didn't you tell all of us this from the beginning?" Koji wanted to know.

"Because I didn't know it fully when we first met. I didn't even get the full picture when I touched the book of knowledge. There were parts of the story in my mind missing. The only time I knew everything was when the two me's fought."

Everyone understood. However Koichi had a puzzled expression. Slowly he spoke up, "Tai, when you said you were awaken... what exactly does it mean?"

"It means his soul was awaken. Tai has been dead on his Earth for a long time," Bokomon said sadly.

Tai nodded and stood up. He glowed softly and one by one he changed form to each and every age they had seen him in, and more so to a very old man but returned once more to the twenty year old version of himself.

"No..." Takuya's eyes widened. Zoe and Tommy began to tear up. JP and Koji looked distraught. Koichi was somber.

Tai looked at them, "Hey now cheer up guys. It's not like it happened right now. I've been dead for a long time now. I'm probably as old as your great-great-grandparents." He tried to cheer them up. Then he looked at the sky, his smile brightened. "When I died, I promised to look after all the digital worlds, and that's what I'm doing now. You digidestined, you brought back so many memories of when I was your age. It's been great." He sighed but still had that grin on his face. He glowed, "Well I guess it's time to say farewell. Lot's of things to do and my friends are waiting." His body began to digitize like snowflakes blowing in the wind.

"Bye!" Tommy cried out.

"We'll never forget you!" Zoe said tearfully

"See you Tai!" JP called

"So long," said Koichi.

"Goodbye," Koji said.

Takuya cried out, "This isn't goodbye. We'll meet again one day."

Tai laughed, "Yeah if you ever need me again just call."

The digimon waved goodbye. Tai's smile was the last thing he left on the world.

"Goodbye everybody," The six warriors were on a Trailmon heading home. They were saying farewell to Seraphimon, Ophanimon, Cherubimon, Neemon, and Bokomon.

"Thank you digidestined for saving our world once again," Ophanimon said.

"Bye bye" Neemon sniffled.

The Trailmon began to move. The digidestined all sat together. Tired and exhausted the saviours of the digital world were heading home.

There was peace once more

THE END

Thank you all for reading this story. I'm sorry about the super long wait but I hope you liked the ending. Please feel free to review. Thank you for all the feed back from the past couple of years and I hope 2011 will be filled with great things =) Happy New Year.