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My Blue Moon

"The Egg"

[I remember those days better, clearer, than any other; one in particular]

Within the bedroom of a poor small house, a young girl slept.

[It was like the turning point of both my life, and my fate]

From the other side of her room a light began to glow; the light sorce was the open laptop on the nearby desk.

[That one day changed it all]

The little girl arose to the intrusion of the bright light. Alarm was her response, but curiosity changed this to intrigue.

She approched the desk and laptop.

[For worse...]

She stared a moment in wonder at the cause of the light. She could think of no reason for this to be happening. The

light got brighter. Her panic returned.

[...Or better]

She fell to the ground. She was forced to cover her eyes in fear of blinding them. Her head began to hurt.

[My name is Rae, I'm going to tell you about how my whole life was changed...]

The light finally vanished, slowly Rae removed her hands from over her eyes. It was hard to see but progressively got

easier. The blur slowly lessened...

[Thanks to one...]

She froze at what her eyes saw before her.

[...Little...]

Rae stood slowly, her lags weak from fatigue and shock.

[Digi-Egg.]

There on the keyboard of her laptop sat an egg. Royal blue and small flecks of yellow adorned it's shell. She carefully

reached out to touch it. It was real.

This wasn't a dream.

(The next morning... About 9:00 am)

"So I was right, it wasn't a dream."

Rae sat up in her bed, surprisingly calm, the strange egg sat in her lap between her crossed legs.

"Now what?" She held the egg up testing the weight and feeling about the smooth surface of the shell.

She gave the egg a sniff. "Wonder if I could eat it?" 'Not like mom puts much food in the house anyways...'

Rae examined the egg for several minutes more. She was most in awe of the color, blue was her favorite of everything

after all. In fact that was the young girls motto in a way; "Blue is the best of everything!" She would say. She had

every intention to preserve the shell...

Her examinations were halted by the sound of the house phone ringing. Rae gave a silent pout, set the egg aside and

went to the phone.

She answered it with a polite tone. "Hello Kaimi residence this is Rae."

"Oh hello dear, it's grandma."

Rae's faked happy attitude turned to that of a true one.

"Oh hi grandma, what are you calling for?"

"I wanted to ask if your mother has returned from her trip yet."

Rae shook her head through habit, though her grandmother could not see her.

"No mom wont be back for two more days."

"Ah, so I was off in my guess I suppose. Please ask your mother to call me when she returns, okay dear?"

"Okay, I will."

"Have a good day dear."

"You too, love you."

"love you too honey."

"'Kay, bye."

Rae hung up the phone and quickly scribbled the reminder on a piece of sticky note paper. She peeled it off and stuck

it on the phones side. This way she wouldn't forget to tell mom, and if she did then mom would see the note sooner or

latter.

Rae quickly shuffled back to her bedroom, there was still the issue of this egg to deal with-

She froze. The door was barely cracked, but open just enough that she could see the spot her egg sat. Only now it lay

broken in pieces, shells scattered across her bed.

"I-it h-hatched?" Rae gave a glace around in fear, but despite this entered the room and shut the door behind her.

She faced her room with an unease she never thought possible.

"He-hello?" There was no answer.

Not that she expected there to be one.

Rae checked about her room cautiously. Under her bed, in her closet, in her dresser, around and on top of her

bookshelf. Nothing. What exactly could come out of an egg that big?

"Come on out little...Thingy. I know your in here. 'Somewhere.'

Huh. As Rae looked she focused on her desk. She walked closer. Sure enough she saw what she thought she did.

Eyes. A pair of solid red eyes stared at her from beneath the desk.

"Come on out. I-I can see you!"

Instead of coming out like she requested the creature just blinked at her oddly.

Rae took a few more cautious steps. The little creature continued to stare as the human took her time. When she

finally was reasonably close enough. It gave a cry that sounded like "Zu!" Then it pounced tackling Rae and causing

them to both fall back.

"Hey! Why you little-" Rae's eyes opened and she paused. She got her first close look at the small creature. It was

maybe as big as her head, had yellow skin, It's body was shaped like some kind of blob, has red, almond shaped eyes,

and a large enough mouth that looked as though it could swallow its own body.

"Zu!" It cried again. It stared at her as though it expected something of her.

"Wh-what?" It said nothing.

"What do you want?"

The small yellow... thing then shook as if it were shivering, a growl was heard.

"Wh-what? Are you hungry or something?"

"Zuru!" It jumped up and back down on her stomach.

"Ow! Okay, okay. I'll find something for you. Just don't jump again."

"Zuru~!"

(Few minutes latter...)

"Okay so you like fruit snacks." 'Better write that down...'

She looked at the snacks that had been placed on the ground for him. They had all been eaten (the red faster than

other colors) aside from the green colored ones which were strewn all about the floor. Rae picked up one on the floor.

"And hate the green apparently."

It looked up at her as it chewed. Rae reached into the box and pulled out one for herself. It was green, so she knew it

wouldn't eat it anyway.

"So can you talk?"

Another cry of 'Zu' was the response.

"I'll take that as a no." It looked up at her as there were no 'edible' snacks left on the floor.

Rae pulled another out, this one purple, she tossed it and was impressed when it jumped into the air and caught it. It

chewed, swallowed, and smiled up at her contently.

"If you can't talk...Maybe I should give you a name?"

It looked at her curiously.

"You can understand me right?" She asked.

It nodded.

"'Kay then tell me if you like a name I say. How about... Slime?"

It looked at her as though it was offended and shook it's head.

"Okay that was stupid. How about Aku?" No. "Red Eyes?" No. "Tsuku?" No. "Tsuki?" No. "Geez your picky. Uh how

about... Mi?" NO. "Yokai?" No-

The little blob paused. It considered the name. It smiled, jumped up and gave a happy cry of 'Zuru!' Rae smiled.

"Ya know, your actually kinda cute."

It ceased its jumping and tilted its 'head' to the side in a confused manner.

Rae giggled and reached her hand out to touch it, but it unexpectedly lunged forwards and nipped her had with his

small teeth. Rae swiped her hand back and held it in pain. watching as it began to bleed.

"What the heck was that for!" Rae screamed.

Yokai looked guilty for having bit her. Which made no sense to Rae, why did he bite her then? He moved next to her

and tugged what he could reach of her blue sleeve. Rae slowly lowered her hand, afraid of beeing bit again. Yokai did

not bite her, instead he licked the wound for a moment. When he was done Rae examined her hand.

"Yokai... How did you do that?" The bite mark was gone. "Did you heal it for me?"

Yokai nodded.

Rae gave him a small smile. "Thanks."

"Zu!" He cried. Then...He began to glow.

"Yokai!"

The light grew in its intensity and strength. As Rae covered her eyes she found herself reminded of the night before.

But as the light faded there was no egg but instead a creature, not much bigger than Yokai with grey skin and

squinted eyes.

It blinked seeming in shock. Looked about itself. Then screamed.

"YES! Oh yes, yes, yes!" It hopped about happily.

"Y-yokai? What happ- Is that even you?"

It paused. "Of course it's me! Who else would it be?"

Rae looked beyond the definition of confused. "Well, what happened then?"

"I Digivolved!"

"Digi-what?"

He frowned. "ya know, I got bigger."

"So it's like a growth spurt?"

"A what?"

"Nothing."

"Well anyway now that I can talk, what's your name? You never told me."

Rae paused a moment. She hadn't? Surely she had introduced herself to him... Then again she couldn't recall ever

having said her name...

"Um, it's Rae."

"Rae~?" He tested the name.

"Y-yea?"

He smiled wide then hopped into the girls lap. He buried his head against her stomach. His 'ears' wraped as far as

they could around her waist.

"It's nice ta meet you Rae-chan."

Rae blushed slightly at the affection he showed. She hugged him back however. It felt nice to hug someone for once...

"Nice to meet you too Yokai."


Okay so in case it's hard to understand. Yokai started out as a Digimon called Zurumon. Then digivolved to Pagumon.

Thank you to HeartlessNeoShadow who pointed out some confusing bits in this chapter.