59A/N: Okay. I want to thank all of the people who reviewed this story. It means a lot to me because this is my first fic ever. Thank you soooo much! And...SURPRISE! There will be a sequel for this fic if you want. In the reviews vote if I should make a sequel. And if you say "yes" the sequel won't be published for a while but just wait! And again (sniff) Thank you so much! I'll also be making a new fic too so look forward to it. Here is the ending...
The Grand Ball
Chapter 20: Miracles and Farewells
Steel Building 9:30
Rain still kept on dropping and it reflected Calista's cries. She cried heavily like it would be forever. Lan saw this and all he could do was cry also. Even though he knows what it was like to lose a navi, he felt the pain of Calista and never wanted to see anyone in pain except himself. Calista gasped a few times as she stared at her blank P.E.T. and rain trickled down the glass of the P.E.T.
"...Armella..." She stared at the cold ground as she sniffed. Chaud peered at Lan and all Lan could do was nod. He felt really bad...
Calista was in the ground for a long time being so silent. It was a terrible loss but Lan tried to make it positive for her. Chaud called the Net Police to take Master Shukun but he was more worried about Calista also. Lan was awkward to come near the heart broken girl, but there will be a way.
"Calista..." Lan whispered. "Are you all right?" Calista stayed silent and all she could do was to have fury in her hands.
"DOES IT LOOK LIKE I'M ALL RIGHT?" Calista burst. Lan knew that her reaction will be bad.
"Look I know it's hard. But we can try to bring Armella back." Lan comforted her but he doesn't think it's working. Calista had red puffy eyes but she stood up as she took her cerulean P.E.T and held it tight.
"I'm sorry. But I never experience such things..." Calista frowned.
"I know. We have to take you back to the Scilab now..." Lan held her shoulder and with the cold battlefield standing the teens trembled together and went back to the main entrance of the Steel Building.
"Oh. One more thing." Lan ran over to a machine and he shutdown all the Invisible Dimensional Areas so that the criminal was taken away easily.
Main Entrance of SB
"Hey. Come on." The Net Police had taken Master Shukun away and a helicopter was above them. One of them was a Scilab helicopter and was in them.
"Over here!" shouted. Lan, Chaud, and Calista went up to that helicopter while climbing a wet ladder. As saw Calista he knew that something was wrong. Lan whispered what happened and understands. Then he thought of something that he knew would cheer her up.
"There is someone who is waiting for you Calista." whispered. It made Calista pay attention a little bit but she sighed with depression.
Scilab 10:00
The rain stopped abruptly and the stars gleam with delight, but it was chaos in the Scilab entrance.
"Calista. Are you okay?"
Everyone crowded around the black haired girl but Calista stayed silent. She cleched her blue ribbon that fell during the battle. She didn't want this much attention about what happened but something caught her eye. It was who was smiling behind a completely forgot that someone was looking for her.
She rushed to and went to another part of the lab. When went through a slide door Calista saw her grandmother and Oscar who had smiling faces. It didn't make Calista feel better but someone taller was behind them. Grandma Rana and Oscar moved in a side and she can't believe who she saw.
"M-M-Mother!" Calista stammered. And it was her mother who smiled very happily.
"Calista..." Her mother whispered. Calista couldn't help but run to her and embrace her very tightly. It might be another generation before they let go but Calista stopped the embrace. She held her P.E.T to her mother and she made a sad face.
"Y-You used the chip huh?" She said. Calista made a depressed face.
"Yeah mom...I did..." Calista's eyes began to water but her mother patted her shoulder.
"I'll tell you a secret later..." said. Calista stopped and she wondered what the secret was.
Japan Airport 9:00
'Well, all the happenings from last night has cleared. The Grand Ball at the Ayano Mansion is being cleaned up and not much is known for the next ball. All that's happening is that a known criminal named Shukun is in the Net Police Station for trying to take over the Chip Company and the daughter Calista Rana. This is Ribbita and Toadman speaking for the morning news.'
A television was set in a small area of the airport. It was large with food courts anda place where families reunited from a long trip. It was completely busy withpeople rushing their ways and counters in tip top shape. White and black chairs were there and a lot of suitcases coming from the elastic conveyorbelt. The Rana family was going back to China for business and it might take years for them to come back or probably sooner...
Everyone was saying their good-byes and Lan embraced her tight. The net savers had a couple of injuries but were taken care of last night. Calista had a smile on her face but was hiding the shameful memories. She was wearing a blue skirt and a white uniform top that had her symbol of wings and a black outlined collar. She was wearing a blue hat with a pink ribbon peeking out from the front. Her bags were already inside the airplane and she was just saying a good farewell.
"We'll be waiting..." Lan whispered.
"Okay..." The outfit was recommended by Maylu who smiled.
"We hope you come back soon Cally!" The teens shouted.
"Thank you." Calista saw her family waiting for her inside the airplane.
"You better go. You don't want to miss it." Lan said.
"Right." She didn't want to say good-bye.
"Oh here!" Lan took out something from his pocket and it was the Grand Ball pictures.
"Thank you. This will be a great memory." Calista smiled.
"Everyone! The plane will go to China in five minutes!" The pilot said and Calista had no choice but to give everyone a tight embrace. She smiled and she walked away. When she left Lan quickly thought of something.
/Hold up. Chaud isn't here.../
Japan Airplane Sight
The sun was beaming down in Calista's head and she covered it withthe blue hat. The wind shifted her skirt swaying back and forth like a metronome. Then something caught her eye. Calista frowned with depression.
/I just...never get to tell him how I feel.../
/I know that I told him once...but it's not enough.../ She frowned again as she tipped her hat to cover her eyes. She was referring to the boy she loved and began to go inside the airplane but something made her stop. She heard a voice and it's not just any other voice either.
"Calista! Hold on!" It was...Chaud!
"Chaud!" Calista ran down the stairs to where the airplane entrance was and she hugged him tight.
"Here." Chaud let go of the embrace and held out a small box. "This is a going away present. I lost it but now I finally found it."
"Hold on. You found it?" Calista asked.
"Yeah. I was suppose to give it to you during the Grand Ball but I couldn't find it anywhere in my room. Until my dad took it. He wanted to give it back to me. He just wanted to look at it. But he is so unknown sometimes..." Chaud shook his head.
"Hehe. I wish my father was back though..." Calista said as she held the box.
"Well...I didn't mean it in a bad way..." Chaud said. Calista nodded.
"Oh...well can I open it for you? I still have time." Calista winked at the pilot and he nodded. Calista started to open the box and she was surprised. It was the diamond bracelet that Chaud wanted to give. She put it onand it was shining beautifully.
"Chaud...thank you..." Calista burst into tears and gave him another tight embrace. Chaud was very uncomfortable with it but couldn't help but give it back to her. He tipped Calista's hat seeing her sapphire eyes one last time.
"Calista...zutto katzu..." He whispered. "Always triumph."
"I will." She whispered back.
Then as they stared even longer Chaud moved once and Calista moved once too. They smiled and they did it together. They kissed slowly as Calista had tears in her eyes. They stopped and Calista had her head down blushing. Chaud raised her chin and he whispered.
"You are a great net saver...don't ever change..."
"I won't." Calista whispered back and the pilot made a signal that it was already time to go. She held Chaud's hand and slowly it slipped away. Chaud went back inside the airport where Lan and the others were waiting.
/But I don't have a navi/ She thought as she went inside.
Japan Airport
"Good job..." Lan smiled.
"Uh..." Chaud blushed.
"I knew you liked the girl Chaud." went up to the net savers.
"Well...I'll always miss her. But I know that she will come back." Chaud replied.
Inside Airplane
Calista couldn't stop but to think about all the things that she did and hoped for. Everything was safe and she will be brave to conquer all of dangers in the future. She sat by her mother and she couldn't help but put her head on her shoulder. Her mother smiled and she looked behind looking at the young sleeping child and grandmother in the back. Wrenchman stayed silent for a while, knowing that he had no one to talk to.
All that she could do was stare at the blue sky as she was going to her destination. The pilot smiled in the front and the airplane's engine began to rumble. Calista saw the window where the airport was and she saw the people she loved waving good-bye. Chief Keifer and Manuella waved happily as if they were too late to come due to work of Shukun. Famous was with and Lan and Chaud took each others hands together and raised it high in the air, a sign usually for net savers.
The teens shouted with plea even though she couldn't hear. Calista knew that they were saying to have a safe trip and farewell good-byes once more. Her mother smiled and stared at the white clouds high in the air and the airplane began to wheel over through the road with incredible speed. The airplane flew high in the air as it left Japan and going to China... then something came up. She still holds an empty P.E.T...her mother thinks it was time to reveal the secret.
/Armella.../ Calista thought. /I just wanted to see your eyes one more time.../
"Calista..." Calista peered at her mother's side. She had a soft comforting tone.
"I want you to know that Armella is still in spirit..." Her mother said.
"Wait, do you mean in my heart?" The black-haired girl asked.
"That too but...she is still..." Her mother sighed and began again. "She is still around the Cyber World."
"WHAT?"Calista startled.
"Look all I can tell you Cally is that the Time Chip has one more role. /Your father was smart to do this/ Did the Time Chip crack?" Calista remembered the scene and yes, the Time Chip cracked. She nodded.
"Well when the Time Chip is broken, the data it holds is still intact. The remaining data that was not corrupted goes to the navi that was possessed by it. And didn't itflew out of the P.E.T?" Her mother asked. Calista thought about it and she nodded.
"Well because it flew the data was being transferred to the navi hyperactively. It must have overload once it was finished; making the navi delete at the same the navi was deleted though the chip made a passing code that can..." She paused.
"What mom?" She asked.
"... bring the navi back..." She whispered.
"WHAT? HOW? ARMELLA IS ALREADY DELETED!" She asked eagerly.
"Well it is not that easy Cally. Your father was the one who upgraded the chip. I...I don't know that much. All I know is that I created Armella for you. Her files to create her are back in China. We should look for them if it's possible for another way to get her back." She said.
Calista was disappointed. She needed to know more of the powerful secrets of the chip. She had less information about it ever since her father died. But the chip was already cracked. She also didn't get it back from the battlefield. All she knew was that Armella was still around and she must find her...
The End...
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