Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ End of an Era ❯ End of an Era ( One-Shot )

The End of an Era by Chyna Rose

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. This is my gut reaction to the epilogue of episode 50.

~***~

That night proved to be the end of an era. We said goodbye to the fight, and set about living life. It was not the start of a Utopia though. In the twenty five years since then, too many dreams lay shattered for it to ever be.

Miyako never did marry Ken. She works part time at a large grocery store chain to supplement putting herself through collage. She fell in love, got married young, and recently got out of that abusive relationship with three kids, little education, no home, no money, and few friends.

Joyu, became a doctor like his father wanted. And he was good too -until his wife died in an accident. After that, he couldn't deal with both the grief of her passing and all the blood and death he dealt with as an attending in the ER. He's now in rehab for a tranquilizer addiction. His son will live in a foster home until Joyu is capable of taking care of him again.

Koushiro's a grunt for Microsoft. He lives alone in a roach infested apartment whenever he's not at work -which is rare for him as he defiantly qualifies for overworked and underpaid. He's never dated anyone -male or female -in his entire life and none of us have yet to find out why. Not that he talks to us -or anyone for that matter -much.

Sora, and her son, have taken over her mother's flower shop. It's hard for them; hard for her. Sora was brutally rapped about five years ago, leaving her with both her child (thanks to extremist Pro-Lifers who had abortion outlawed no matter what the circumstances were) and HIV. She gets by, but it's hard. On the positive side, she managed to start a non-profit organization to help fellow AIDS patients. Fellow florists donate the unused flowers to local hospitals and about once a year auction flower arrangements to raise money for research.

Mimi still lives in America. We think. You see, in the past ten years, no-one's really heard anything from her. Her parents are dead and she has no living relatives. Michael or Wallace may still keep in touch with her; but we don't really talk much. For all we know, Mimi could be dead.

Iori took over his grandfather's dojo. Aside from teaching kendo, he takes care of his ailing mother. Last time I spoke to him, (which was nearly a year ago -I think) he was seeing someone and thinking about marriage.

Hikari's a teacher at a special needs elementary school. It's for kids with emotional or mental problems rather than physical ones. Most of the kids that she teaches are autistic; like her son. It's hard for her right now; dealing with both an autistic child and the fact that her husband disserted her when he found out that his son wasn't perfectly normal. But at least she's speaking to me again.

Taichi owns a card and comic shop in Tokyo; nothing big. He does pretty ok for a small business owner. And he's pretty happy despite being stuck in a wheelchair. When he was a high school senior, he got hit by a drunk and lost all of his right leg along with most of his left one. For the first year, we were worried that he might try something foolish, but he grew out of it.

My brother Yamato lives with Taichi in a small apartment. He still plays the guitar and sings -usually as part of a small band at weddings and such or for commercials. The work isn't regular, so he helps out sometimes with Taichi's card and comic shop. He's the reason why Taichi's so happy most of the time. But, we're not as close as we once were; and that's really my fault.

I don't talk to Ken much -I guess he's still made at me, not that I blame him. He's… surviving; I guess. I think he became a cop like his father, but I wouldn't be the one to know. What I do know is that he drinks, smokes, and blames me for what happened. Hell, I blame me for what happened.

And Daisuke… He's been dead since high school. He was always so good about hiding his true feelings that we never expected anything was wrong. Maybe if he wasn't, he'd still be around. You see, when I found out that he and Ken were involved, I kind of freaked out. This got me in trouble with Hikari, who had known that her brother was in love with my brother for ages. I blamed Daisuke for my problems with her, even though it was building. I accidentally outed him in the cafeteria. He was taunted, and beat up, but generally took it well -until a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend who was in my class decided to kill himself by jumping off a building. About a week later, Daisuke slit his wrists during the night. It was only after that, that we found out that Daisuke was bi-polar. The Motomiya's never blamed me for his suicide. They knew he didn't want to die, but couldn't stop from hurting himself.

As for me, I'm alone. Never married, never had kids, estranged from my family and pretty much my friends. I've bounced around from job to job; construction, bussing tables, janitorial work… I'm currently a bartender for this seedy little hole in the wall not far from the dump I laughingly call an apartment. In my spare time, I write. I've been working on a novel that recounts all my adventures in the Digital World, seeing as I was a part of it from the beginning. So far, nothing I've ever written has been published, but I'm still hopeful that this will be. Life in general may have gone down the tubes, but I still can't betray my crest. None of us can; not even Daisuke.

~***~