Seven years ago, in 1990. Highton View Terrace. Middle of the night.
Shinito Marc, 3 years old, waddled out of bed, and rubbed his eyes.
[Mebbe mommy give me some milky,] he thought. He plodded over to his mom's room, when something outside attracted his attention. He ran out to the balcony and squeezed through the partially open door. He then peeked through the bars and witnessed the great Digimon battle there.
Because Shini, our friend here, witnessed the battle between Parrotmon and Greymon, he became a digidestined. This changed his life forever, well, at least not until he was 13, because he went to private school. After the two raging Digimon moved off, Shini crept back to bed, milk forgotten, and went to sleep. A brilliant silver ball of light streamed down through the sky and went through the balcony door, and dove under Shini's bed. There it cooled down, and a silver D-3 could be seen. Since it was under his bed, there was no chance of it being found, until years later.
2001, Highton View Terrace, 3 o'clock.
"I'm home ma! Finally school is ooooovvvaaa!" Shini burst in and slammed the door.
"Go clean your room, and don't slam the door. But first Izzy's mom gave me this great prune-juice recipe . . ." said his mom.
"I'll think I'll clean under the bed," Shini ran out to his room and shut the door behind him, quietly. He then grumbled and took out a hand vacuum cleaner and pulled the bed away from the wall. He started absent-mindedly sucking everything up, when something clogged it. A brilliant silver light poured out of the nozzle. Shini shut the vacuum off and pulled out the D-3 (he didn't know it was that, but we do, you know?). It glowed once more, and then stopped. He looked at it puzzled, then smiled happily.
"Cool, Gameboy Advance!" he exclaimed and pushed the bed back, and turned on his computer. As it was booting up, he opened up the back and jacked some wires into it. Then he opened up a program, and started to furiously type.
"Now I'll just program it to give me one extra free life in every game, hehe," Shini started to laugh manically, but was interrupted when the D-3 jerked and tore away from the wires. It closed itself and pointed itself at the screen, which started to glitch, and then open up a portal to the digital world, which sucked Shini in, kicking and screaming.
Some field in the Digital world.
Shini groaned and woke up, dusted himself off, and looked around. Flowers were every where, but caves were to the left. So he headed on to the caves.
"I don't know were I am, but I guess I can find some shelter in these caves. Maybe there are some miners there or something." Shini said. Shini was almost at the caves, when suddenly falling leaves swirled around him, and he became disoriented. Shini started to walk blindly. When the leaves left, he found himself at a huge leaf pile, and in it was a cradled object. On closer inspection, it was an egg, camouflaged by a red, yellow, and green leaf pattern. When, Shini picked it up, his D-3 shed light on it, and the egg began to shake and crack, silver light streaming from the cracks. Out hopped a stringy, swaying, bouncing creature with black eyes and faded blue antennae.
"Hi! I'm Yuramon, a fresh micro Digimon, and I'll protect you here in the digital world. But I'm really really hungry so gimme food!!" squealed the little Digimon. Shini, looked very shocked, but pulled out a chocolate bar and dangled it above the Digimon, who was leaping trying to get it.
"But first, answer me this. What is a Digimon, this thing on my belt, that egg you came from, and where I am. Then you can eat." demanded Shini.
"A Digimon is short for digital monster, but I'm not scary, I'm your friend. I'll protect you from any one who tries to hurt you, don't you worry. And this is the digital world, where all Digimon live, and humans can get here by using D-3's like yours, and it helps me evolve into better Digimon to protect you. HA!" After this speech Yuramon jumped high up and grabbed the bar and tore of the wrapper and swallowed it all.
"Yuramon, digivolve to, Viximon!" yelled Yuramon, as she turned into a little fox like rodent, with black beady eyes, and the cutest little feet. "I'm Viximon, an in training Lesser Digimon. That was digivolving, I need rich food to do it!" squealed Viximon
"Well that's cool, Yura-, I mean Viximon. Let's try to find a way out here right now." suggested Shini. He then picked up Viximon, and started walking.
"Hey! I can walk for myself, hey, listen to me, waaaa!"
Half an hour later . . .
"My feet," moaned Shini "Hey look, there is another, um, Digimon! Let's ask for directions." Shini ran up to a large kiwi bird thingie.
"No, don't ask him, he's . . ." protested Viximon.
" CAW! I'm Kiwimon, and you interrupted by nap. I'll get you back!"
"He's Kiwimon, a ancient bird digimon and you'll wish you never ran into him with his Little Pecker and Nose Attack! I'll save you!" cried Viximon. "Viximon, digivolve to, Renamon! I'm Renamon, a rookie beast man Digimon and I'll take care of anything with my Wisteria Punch and Fox-leaf Arrowhead! That chocolate let me digivolve twice!"
Shini stared in awe at the upright yellow fox, with feathery white fur on her shoulders and feet, and purple bindings on her arms. He wondered what exactly he had gotten himself into.
Renamon leaped high and jumped upon Kiwimon. "Wisteria Punch!" Kiwimon screeched when wisteria leaves slammed into him, and sent him reeling back.
"Little Pecker! Get him, my pretty, heeeheee!!!" screeched the Digimon. Rena stared at the little runt in front of him, and then hit it with a Fox-leaf Arrowhead. The little pecker sailed across the sky.
"Wait, come back!" Kiwimon chased after his little runt, "I'm not done with you rascals yet!" Rena and Shini slapped a high five. "We better get out of here, before he comes back. Let's go!" yelled Rena. The pair set off at a run. After a while, they stopped in the shade of a huge tree.
"I'm beginning to see how this all works. I feed you and make you happy, and you protect me from what ever happens to attack. Ok, cool. Hey, lets go kick some butt! Hiy-ah! Hi-yah! Bring it on!" Shini starts to hop around punching imaginary foes. Rena jumps on his head and knocks him down.
"Take a chill pill, jeez. Let's conserve our energy." Rena sat down on Shini's head and began to meditate. "Humhumhummmmmmm, humuhumhummmmummhum."
"Found you twerps, Nose attack!" Shine and Rena were thrown through the air, and landed in a heap. They bounced right backup. "Hey you can't stop us, we're the best, the best, the best, woohoo! Wooh-" Shini's party dance was interrupted by Kiwimon jumping out of the tree and trapping him under his foot. "Ack! I can't breath! Help! Ack! RENAMON!!" A silver light began to glow once again from the digivice. Shini choked in wonderment. Kiwimon, shied away from the light. "It burns!!" Renamon took it all in.
"Renamon, digivolve to . . .Kyuubimon!" Kyuubimon is a big golden fox with nine silver fire tails; his paws and neck also were ringed in silver fire. A yin-yang was on all four thighs and the forehead. Most important of all she had a large red and white striped rope tied around her neck, the ends tipped in gold caps.
"I'm Kyuubimon and I attack with my Fox-flame dragon, and Demon fireball! Demon FIREBALL!" Balls of silver fire streaked towards Kiwimon and blasted him right into the tree. But he pulled himself up, "Little pecker!" Three little birds swarmed around Kyuubimon, who then batted them all away. "Ack! Nose Attack!" Kyuubimon jumped gracefully out of harms way, and boomed, "FOX FLAME DRAGON!" A silver fox-dragon was formed and streaked towards Kiwimon. It hit him full force, and he sailed into the horizon, and didn't come back. Kyuubimon converted be to Renamon, who flopped over.
"Renamon!, oh thank goodness you're ok. Thanks for saving me, you're the best, no we're the best. Uhuh, the best, WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, MY FRIEND, DUNDUNDUN! WE ARE-" paraded Shini.
"Shuuuuuut-up," said a voice from behind them.
Shini and Rena spun around. A boy with dark brown hair and black clothes faced them, along with a large red dragon Digimon.
"That's Guilmon, he's a rookie like me!" exclaimed Rena. Guilmon snorted at her.
"What are you doing here," the boy raised his head and stared at Shini. Shini shivered as he looked into the depths of the eyes, bottomless, not cold but not caring. Beyond good or evil.
"I dunno, but it's fun!" said Shini, getting no response afterwards. "I just arrived, and we beat this big bird thing and um, uh" Shini couldn't go on. How could you tell a cool story when your listener is staring at you like you're on another planet? The boy turned and started to walk away. "Hey, wait! We need to," Shini started out and reached fro the other boy's shoulder. The mysterious boy spun around and caught Shini's hand; Shini could not meet the stare that followed. Big mistake. Guilmon blasted Rena right in the face with a Fireball. She was blown back, but recuperated and took up a menacing position awaiting orders. Guilmon leaped, claws slashing. Rena blocked each swing, and kneed him in the chest. Guilmon stumbled back, wheezing. Rena jumped up and sent a flying kick towards him. Guil grabbed her foot and swung her into Shini. "Cheater!" Rena protested. She charged Guil, and the boy tripped her. "Umph!"
"Why you little," started Shini, when the boy flicked his wrist and a small knife struck the ground in front of Shini. Shini gasped and fell back, staring at the small taped handle. The boy turned and he and Guil walked away. "Wait, just tell me your name!" said Shini desperately. "My name is, Rei. And Rei means," A sudden light burst from the boys waist, where his digivice was. It was a clear digivice, as opposed to Shini's silver one. Both beeped incessantly, and an arrow pointed an unknown path.
"Guilmon to Growmon, now." Guil digivolved into a larger redder dragon with huge white claws and hair, and muscular legs and arms. On each arm was a natural blade. Rei lept on to Growmon's shoulder and they started off in the direction the digivices pointed. "Hey wait! We could help each other against any monsters, wait!!" yelled Shini as Rena evolved and he climbed clumsily onto her back and she bounded after him. This provoked the slightest smile from Rei and he said "No, it's a race," and he picked up speed. He grabbed onto Growmon tighter as they approached a canyon. 'Fine' thought Shini, and he urged Kyuubimon on. Both boys directed their steeds and urged them on faster.
Kyuubimon began to pass Growmon on the flat ground so Rei directed him to climb up the canyon wall, and he lept from crack to rock to ledge and began to beat Kyuubimon. Never less he started to cheat. "Exhaust Flame!" Shini looked up in bewilderment. His face was soon cooked black when a wave of fire hit him and he groaned. "Here's some of your own medicine!" Kyuubimon sent a demon fireball ahead of Growmon and blasted away the rock where he would have leapt next, so he detoured, giving Shini an edge. But the rock became weak everywhere, and Growmon fell on top of Kyuubimon. This caused an explosion of laughter from the shadows. Both Shini and Rei sprang up in half a second and dusted themselves off quickly. "Who's there!!"
"Whoowhoowhoo! Look what I found!" He picked up the digivice, and then so did the other one.
"And I have a similar one, cool! Two cool things for the two cool Gazimon Brothers!!" They slapped each other a high five.
"Hey! That's mine!" said both boys in unison. The two Gazimon, blinked, than started running through the canyon at top speed, but not before making funny faces at the boys. Them the boys jumped on their Digimons' back and sped after them. When they caught up with the Gazimon they shouted in triumph. But them the two Gazimon disappeared. The boys blinked in surprise.
"Here you go, catch!" The Gazimon danced around on the backs and heads of the Digimon and boys playing a precarious game of catch. But a low outcropping of rock stopped them, and the Gazimon were knocked off. The digivices came plummeting down to the boys awaiting hands.
"Du-ooh, look mon!"
"Whoa, mon, cool!" Two Bakemon swept down and carried off the digivices. And the chase started over again and they all sped down the canyon. Then the Bakemon flew up the wall of the canyon, which conveniently was a structure like a series of steps. So the pursuers bounded up after them. The Bakemon them turned and started the throw rocks at them. But the boys were so angry by now, the rocks had no effect and they finally cornered the Bakemon. "Haha," started Shini "We have you now you runt, you pip-squeak, you um, gulp, ohno." More Bakemon floated in from an unseen crack in the wall and formed an attack formation.
"Ohno you don't, you bakas! Attack!" In from above plummeted a storm Betamon and squashed all the Bakemon, The Leader Betamon returned the digivices, and escorted them to the plateau on the side of the canyon. Then they fled. "Goodbye Digidestined! See ya later! Nice meeting, but we gotta hop!"
A large rock was about a mile off in the distance, and a light glowed from the top. The digivices pointed wildly at it. The boys cried out in joy and turned to their steeds. Who, unfortunately, de-evolved and were sleeping in rookie form.
"Fine," said Rei, once again resuming his mysterious persona, "2-hour break." All slept.
Not exactly 2-hours later.
Shini rolled over and pricked himself on a twig; he woke up immediately and bolted up. "I didn't do it, it's not my, oh oops. Hey where's Rei, the cheater!!!" For indeed Rei and Growmon had a 5-minute lead on Shini. It would have been 15 but Rei was being nice. "Let's go, evolve!" He then leapt on Kyuubimon's back and the race was on.
Rei looked behind him at the noise and glowered at Shini. He nudged Growmon. "Plasma Blade!" An energy blade spun towards Kyuubimon and knocked her off her feet. This let Rei reach the rock first, and Growmon crouched down and leapt halfway up the rock and scuttled the rest of the way up. Kyuubimon skidded to a stop at the rock, and said disappointedly "I couldn't have climbed this slop anyway with out de-evolving and that would give him an edge. Curses!" Rei reached the top and approached the light; Growmon said he couldn't let the light touch him, his loss. Rei stumbled in shielding his eyes, and held up his own light-giving digivice. Both lights then ceased. There in the center of the rock was a Digimon, sitting. It looked like a male valkyri. It stood up raising its arms and Growmon, Kyuubimon, and Shini were lifted to the top and set down next to Rei. "I am Valkyrimon, and I am your guide through this world. This," he lifted up the egg and spun it around slowly, "is a digimental; of courage to be exact. I know you want it, but you have to earn it. That's why I will give you a series of tests so we can see who really earns the digimental. Once you earn the digimental you Digimon can armor digivolve into a new Digimon, your choice of six. You must learn to tolerate each other in order to gain eggs, it's a competition but a friendly one. If you need any guidance, you will have a guide, haha, see a guide for guidance, never mind. Now, you begin your quest for courage!" Valkyrimon drew his Fenrir sword and swept it in a circle of light, he then shot a Aurvandil arrow through it. Rei and Shini were pulled through. Valkyrimon clapped his hands and Agumon appeared in a flash of light. Agumon bowed, and Valkyrimon ordered him to follow the boys and be their guide. "Make sure you follow the exact instructions, commit no treachery, and I will provide the power for any evolutions. Have fun!" Agumon leapt into the portal and it closed. Valkyrimon jumped off the rock and started to fly off when a large clawed decaying hand grabbed his shoulder. Valkyrimon spun and knocked it off.
"I might not be able to enter your little worldssss," the mega Digimon hissed, "but I can do everything in my power to stop those little pawns of yours. I have yet to deal with Gennai'sssss 'children' but I will make sssssure that your pessstsss are no longer an obssstacle."
"Diaboromon, you know that the powers of the digimentals can overpower you any day. You have no chance of conquering this or any world." Retorted Valkyrimon.
"No, that'sssss were you are wrong," Diaboromon shake his straggly yellow hair and gave a strange coughing laugh. "Your eggsssss won't work if the child doesssn't ssuport the characteristic. That fool Myotismon was good for ssssomething you know. I will destroy you, for I am a god not just a lowly mega like yourself." Diaboromon transported away.
"Come on you kids, we need you to finish this job to be ready for the next one" sighed Valkyrimon as he too transported away.
Meanwhile, in the realm of courage . . .
"Ugh, all this sand is in my eyes, I can't see, what about you Rena? Rena?" Shini looked around in surprise, or tried to. He waved his arms about, and accidentally hit Rei in the mouth.
"Imbecile, out of my way." Rei stumbled on blindy for a minute, and then just gave up and fell to the ground. He covered his head and the dust-storm eventually passed on. Rei stood up and shook himself off. Smoke rose in the distance. Rei sighed and stuck his hands in his pockets and started walking towards the smoke, looking for some answers.
The sun was merciless. It beat down on Rei and he started to wish he hadn't worn black. He heard an annoying sound.
"Hey! Hey Rei! (oo that rhymes) Over here! It's Shini and me, Agumon!" the two came sliding down a nearby dune.
"Agumon found me in the storm and lead me out, than we started to call for you and we finally found you! Come on we have to get to the fire and the test!" said Shini. Rei smirked and the three trooped off towards the fire.
Finally, when they reached the site, they saw a huge wall of fire. Yelps could be heard from the other side.
"Help it's really hot in here! It's me Rena and Guil! Get us out of here! Ack!"
"How could you do this to Guil! I'm gonna get you Agumon!" Rei threw one of his little knives.
"Pepper Breath!" the knife was destroyed, "You have to save them, I didn't do anything to them. Go save them, what are you waiting for, you boys aren't being very courageous." The flames started to lick up higher. "That's it," Agumon said, "you need some encouragement. Agumon digivolve to Greymon!" "Nova blast!"
"Hey what are you doing, ahhhhh!!!" both boys jumped and rolled.
"We're cooking in here!! Help!!" screamed both Digimon. Rei ran out of the way of another Nova Blast. He faced the fire, and was about to step through when he had a flashback.
"Reirei? Reirei! Where are you?! *sob* Where's my baby," a woman sobbed and tried to run into the burning house. A fireman stopped her. Another one ran inside.
Little Rei was huddled in the corner, with Kitty, and was very scared. Fire was everywhere, and coming closer. The fireman burst in and rushed towards them. Kitty screamed in fright and struggled out of Rei's arms and ran to the door. All of a sudden a flaming beam started to crack, and it fell ontop of Kitty.
"NOOO!! KITTY! Wahahaawahh!" screamed Rei as the Fireman scooped him up and raced to the door. 'No, I can't leave Kitty!' thought Rei as he reached out his little arms, . . .
"Nova Blast!"
"Look out!" Shini knocked Rei to the ground. "AHH! The fire, it burns!" yelled Rena. Shini gathered all his strength and courage and dove into the fire. Then he stopped, dropped, and rolled towards Rena. "I made it, I'll free you . . ."
Suddenly the two boys and three Digimon found themselves back on top the rock where it all started. Valkyrimon appeared in a flash of light.
"Congratulations Shini, I award you with the Digimental of Courage, maybe next time Rei." Rei growled at him. "Shini, Rena can digivolve into one of 6 armor Digimon, as I said before, they are: Flamedramon, Shadramon, Lynxmon, Boarmon, Allomon, and Baromon. Notice they all have flames, because you have a fiery courage." He showed Shini and Rena flashcards of each Digimon.
"I think I'll choose, Lynxmon. Don't you think so Rena?" she nodded
"Excellent choice, now," Valkyrimon waved his hand over the egg "whenever you digivolve with the digimental of courage, Renamon will armor digivolve to Lynxmon. No go off on your quest to collect the digimentals! Wait where's that other boy?" Rei had left with Growmon. "Ah well, you go off on your own way then, and tomorrow you both will know the way to the next digimental." Valkyrimon clapped his hands and he disappeared and Shini and Rena found themselves on the ground next to the rock. Rena digivolved, and Shini rode Kyuubimon away.
Faraway, in an evil place
Diaboromon moved towards his mons, and then on to the ultimate section. He looked over the crowd and reached a scaly hand over them and gestured one out of the crowd. He looked into it's eyes and said, "Asssssemble a sssssmall troop pf championssss, and prevent thossssse pessstssss from reaching any more eggsssss. The divicccccessss are not ready, even though they ssssssshould be Datamon," he glowered at Datamon, "and I need those eggssss. GO!" The Digimon bowed and called a few names and the troop ran out the massive gates.
Shinito Marc, 3 years old, waddled out of bed, and rubbed his eyes.
[Mebbe mommy give me some milky,] he thought. He plodded over to his mom's room, when something outside attracted his attention. He ran out to the balcony and squeezed through the partially open door. He then peeked through the bars and witnessed the great Digimon battle there.
Because Shini, our friend here, witnessed the battle between Parrotmon and Greymon, he became a digidestined. This changed his life forever, well, at least not until he was 13, because he went to private school. After the two raging Digimon moved off, Shini crept back to bed, milk forgotten, and went to sleep. A brilliant silver ball of light streamed down through the sky and went through the balcony door, and dove under Shini's bed. There it cooled down, and a silver D-3 could be seen. Since it was under his bed, there was no chance of it being found, until years later.
2001, Highton View Terrace, 3 o'clock.
"I'm home ma! Finally school is ooooovvvaaa!" Shini burst in and slammed the door.
"Go clean your room, and don't slam the door. But first Izzy's mom gave me this great prune-juice recipe . . ." said his mom.
"I'll think I'll clean under the bed," Shini ran out to his room and shut the door behind him, quietly. He then grumbled and took out a hand vacuum cleaner and pulled the bed away from the wall. He started absent-mindedly sucking everything up, when something clogged it. A brilliant silver light poured out of the nozzle. Shini shut the vacuum off and pulled out the D-3 (he didn't know it was that, but we do, you know?). It glowed once more, and then stopped. He looked at it puzzled, then smiled happily.
"Cool, Gameboy Advance!" he exclaimed and pushed the bed back, and turned on his computer. As it was booting up, he opened up the back and jacked some wires into it. Then he opened up a program, and started to furiously type.
"Now I'll just program it to give me one extra free life in every game, hehe," Shini started to laugh manically, but was interrupted when the D-3 jerked and tore away from the wires. It closed itself and pointed itself at the screen, which started to glitch, and then open up a portal to the digital world, which sucked Shini in, kicking and screaming.
Some field in the Digital world.
Shini groaned and woke up, dusted himself off, and looked around. Flowers were every where, but caves were to the left. So he headed on to the caves.
"I don't know were I am, but I guess I can find some shelter in these caves. Maybe there are some miners there or something." Shini said. Shini was almost at the caves, when suddenly falling leaves swirled around him, and he became disoriented. Shini started to walk blindly. When the leaves left, he found himself at a huge leaf pile, and in it was a cradled object. On closer inspection, it was an egg, camouflaged by a red, yellow, and green leaf pattern. When, Shini picked it up, his D-3 shed light on it, and the egg began to shake and crack, silver light streaming from the cracks. Out hopped a stringy, swaying, bouncing creature with black eyes and faded blue antennae.
"Hi! I'm Yuramon, a fresh micro Digimon, and I'll protect you here in the digital world. But I'm really really hungry so gimme food!!" squealed the little Digimon. Shini, looked very shocked, but pulled out a chocolate bar and dangled it above the Digimon, who was leaping trying to get it.
"But first, answer me this. What is a Digimon, this thing on my belt, that egg you came from, and where I am. Then you can eat." demanded Shini.
"A Digimon is short for digital monster, but I'm not scary, I'm your friend. I'll protect you from any one who tries to hurt you, don't you worry. And this is the digital world, where all Digimon live, and humans can get here by using D-3's like yours, and it helps me evolve into better Digimon to protect you. HA!" After this speech Yuramon jumped high up and grabbed the bar and tore of the wrapper and swallowed it all.
"Yuramon, digivolve to, Viximon!" yelled Yuramon, as she turned into a little fox like rodent, with black beady eyes, and the cutest little feet. "I'm Viximon, an in training Lesser Digimon. That was digivolving, I need rich food to do it!" squealed Viximon
"Well that's cool, Yura-, I mean Viximon. Let's try to find a way out here right now." suggested Shini. He then picked up Viximon, and started walking.
"Hey! I can walk for myself, hey, listen to me, waaaa!"
Half an hour later . . .
"My feet," moaned Shini "Hey look, there is another, um, Digimon! Let's ask for directions." Shini ran up to a large kiwi bird thingie.
"No, don't ask him, he's . . ." protested Viximon.
" CAW! I'm Kiwimon, and you interrupted by nap. I'll get you back!"
"He's Kiwimon, a ancient bird digimon and you'll wish you never ran into him with his Little Pecker and Nose Attack! I'll save you!" cried Viximon. "Viximon, digivolve to, Renamon! I'm Renamon, a rookie beast man Digimon and I'll take care of anything with my Wisteria Punch and Fox-leaf Arrowhead! That chocolate let me digivolve twice!"
Shini stared in awe at the upright yellow fox, with feathery white fur on her shoulders and feet, and purple bindings on her arms. He wondered what exactly he had gotten himself into.
Renamon leaped high and jumped upon Kiwimon. "Wisteria Punch!" Kiwimon screeched when wisteria leaves slammed into him, and sent him reeling back.
"Little Pecker! Get him, my pretty, heeeheee!!!" screeched the Digimon. Rena stared at the little runt in front of him, and then hit it with a Fox-leaf Arrowhead. The little pecker sailed across the sky.
"Wait, come back!" Kiwimon chased after his little runt, "I'm not done with you rascals yet!" Rena and Shini slapped a high five. "We better get out of here, before he comes back. Let's go!" yelled Rena. The pair set off at a run. After a while, they stopped in the shade of a huge tree.
"I'm beginning to see how this all works. I feed you and make you happy, and you protect me from what ever happens to attack. Ok, cool. Hey, lets go kick some butt! Hiy-ah! Hi-yah! Bring it on!" Shini starts to hop around punching imaginary foes. Rena jumps on his head and knocks him down.
"Take a chill pill, jeez. Let's conserve our energy." Rena sat down on Shini's head and began to meditate. "Humhumhummmmmmm, humuhumhummmmummhum."
"Found you twerps, Nose attack!" Shine and Rena were thrown through the air, and landed in a heap. They bounced right backup. "Hey you can't stop us, we're the best, the best, the best, woohoo! Wooh-" Shini's party dance was interrupted by Kiwimon jumping out of the tree and trapping him under his foot. "Ack! I can't breath! Help! Ack! RENAMON!!" A silver light began to glow once again from the digivice. Shini choked in wonderment. Kiwimon, shied away from the light. "It burns!!" Renamon took it all in.
"Renamon, digivolve to . . .Kyuubimon!" Kyuubimon is a big golden fox with nine silver fire tails; his paws and neck also were ringed in silver fire. A yin-yang was on all four thighs and the forehead. Most important of all she had a large red and white striped rope tied around her neck, the ends tipped in gold caps.
"I'm Kyuubimon and I attack with my Fox-flame dragon, and Demon fireball! Demon FIREBALL!" Balls of silver fire streaked towards Kiwimon and blasted him right into the tree. But he pulled himself up, "Little pecker!" Three little birds swarmed around Kyuubimon, who then batted them all away. "Ack! Nose Attack!" Kyuubimon jumped gracefully out of harms way, and boomed, "FOX FLAME DRAGON!" A silver fox-dragon was formed and streaked towards Kiwimon. It hit him full force, and he sailed into the horizon, and didn't come back. Kyuubimon converted be to Renamon, who flopped over.
"Renamon!, oh thank goodness you're ok. Thanks for saving me, you're the best, no we're the best. Uhuh, the best, WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, MY FRIEND, DUNDUNDUN! WE ARE-" paraded Shini.
"Shuuuuuut-up," said a voice from behind them.
Shini and Rena spun around. A boy with dark brown hair and black clothes faced them, along with a large red dragon Digimon.
"That's Guilmon, he's a rookie like me!" exclaimed Rena. Guilmon snorted at her.
"What are you doing here," the boy raised his head and stared at Shini. Shini shivered as he looked into the depths of the eyes, bottomless, not cold but not caring. Beyond good or evil.
"I dunno, but it's fun!" said Shini, getting no response afterwards. "I just arrived, and we beat this big bird thing and um, uh" Shini couldn't go on. How could you tell a cool story when your listener is staring at you like you're on another planet? The boy turned and started to walk away. "Hey, wait! We need to," Shini started out and reached fro the other boy's shoulder. The mysterious boy spun around and caught Shini's hand; Shini could not meet the stare that followed. Big mistake. Guilmon blasted Rena right in the face with a Fireball. She was blown back, but recuperated and took up a menacing position awaiting orders. Guilmon leaped, claws slashing. Rena blocked each swing, and kneed him in the chest. Guilmon stumbled back, wheezing. Rena jumped up and sent a flying kick towards him. Guil grabbed her foot and swung her into Shini. "Cheater!" Rena protested. She charged Guil, and the boy tripped her. "Umph!"
"Why you little," started Shini, when the boy flicked his wrist and a small knife struck the ground in front of Shini. Shini gasped and fell back, staring at the small taped handle. The boy turned and he and Guil walked away. "Wait, just tell me your name!" said Shini desperately. "My name is, Rei. And Rei means," A sudden light burst from the boys waist, where his digivice was. It was a clear digivice, as opposed to Shini's silver one. Both beeped incessantly, and an arrow pointed an unknown path.
"Guilmon to Growmon, now." Guil digivolved into a larger redder dragon with huge white claws and hair, and muscular legs and arms. On each arm was a natural blade. Rei lept on to Growmon's shoulder and they started off in the direction the digivices pointed. "Hey wait! We could help each other against any monsters, wait!!" yelled Shini as Rena evolved and he climbed clumsily onto her back and she bounded after him. This provoked the slightest smile from Rei and he said "No, it's a race," and he picked up speed. He grabbed onto Growmon tighter as they approached a canyon. 'Fine' thought Shini, and he urged Kyuubimon on. Both boys directed their steeds and urged them on faster.
Kyuubimon began to pass Growmon on the flat ground so Rei directed him to climb up the canyon wall, and he lept from crack to rock to ledge and began to beat Kyuubimon. Never less he started to cheat. "Exhaust Flame!" Shini looked up in bewilderment. His face was soon cooked black when a wave of fire hit him and he groaned. "Here's some of your own medicine!" Kyuubimon sent a demon fireball ahead of Growmon and blasted away the rock where he would have leapt next, so he detoured, giving Shini an edge. But the rock became weak everywhere, and Growmon fell on top of Kyuubimon. This caused an explosion of laughter from the shadows. Both Shini and Rei sprang up in half a second and dusted themselves off quickly. "Who's there!!"
"Whoowhoowhoo! Look what I found!" He picked up the digivice, and then so did the other one.
"And I have a similar one, cool! Two cool things for the two cool Gazimon Brothers!!" They slapped each other a high five.
"Hey! That's mine!" said both boys in unison. The two Gazimon, blinked, than started running through the canyon at top speed, but not before making funny faces at the boys. Them the boys jumped on their Digimons' back and sped after them. When they caught up with the Gazimon they shouted in triumph. But them the two Gazimon disappeared. The boys blinked in surprise.
"Here you go, catch!" The Gazimon danced around on the backs and heads of the Digimon and boys playing a precarious game of catch. But a low outcropping of rock stopped them, and the Gazimon were knocked off. The digivices came plummeting down to the boys awaiting hands.
"Du-ooh, look mon!"
"Whoa, mon, cool!" Two Bakemon swept down and carried off the digivices. And the chase started over again and they all sped down the canyon. Then the Bakemon flew up the wall of the canyon, which conveniently was a structure like a series of steps. So the pursuers bounded up after them. The Bakemon them turned and started the throw rocks at them. But the boys were so angry by now, the rocks had no effect and they finally cornered the Bakemon. "Haha," started Shini "We have you now you runt, you pip-squeak, you um, gulp, ohno." More Bakemon floated in from an unseen crack in the wall and formed an attack formation.
"Ohno you don't, you bakas! Attack!" In from above plummeted a storm Betamon and squashed all the Bakemon, The Leader Betamon returned the digivices, and escorted them to the plateau on the side of the canyon. Then they fled. "Goodbye Digidestined! See ya later! Nice meeting, but we gotta hop!"
A large rock was about a mile off in the distance, and a light glowed from the top. The digivices pointed wildly at it. The boys cried out in joy and turned to their steeds. Who, unfortunately, de-evolved and were sleeping in rookie form.
"Fine," said Rei, once again resuming his mysterious persona, "2-hour break." All slept.
Not exactly 2-hours later.
Shini rolled over and pricked himself on a twig; he woke up immediately and bolted up. "I didn't do it, it's not my, oh oops. Hey where's Rei, the cheater!!!" For indeed Rei and Growmon had a 5-minute lead on Shini. It would have been 15 but Rei was being nice. "Let's go, evolve!" He then leapt on Kyuubimon's back and the race was on.
Rei looked behind him at the noise and glowered at Shini. He nudged Growmon. "Plasma Blade!" An energy blade spun towards Kyuubimon and knocked her off her feet. This let Rei reach the rock first, and Growmon crouched down and leapt halfway up the rock and scuttled the rest of the way up. Kyuubimon skidded to a stop at the rock, and said disappointedly "I couldn't have climbed this slop anyway with out de-evolving and that would give him an edge. Curses!" Rei reached the top and approached the light; Growmon said he couldn't let the light touch him, his loss. Rei stumbled in shielding his eyes, and held up his own light-giving digivice. Both lights then ceased. There in the center of the rock was a Digimon, sitting. It looked like a male valkyri. It stood up raising its arms and Growmon, Kyuubimon, and Shini were lifted to the top and set down next to Rei. "I am Valkyrimon, and I am your guide through this world. This," he lifted up the egg and spun it around slowly, "is a digimental; of courage to be exact. I know you want it, but you have to earn it. That's why I will give you a series of tests so we can see who really earns the digimental. Once you earn the digimental you Digimon can armor digivolve into a new Digimon, your choice of six. You must learn to tolerate each other in order to gain eggs, it's a competition but a friendly one. If you need any guidance, you will have a guide, haha, see a guide for guidance, never mind. Now, you begin your quest for courage!" Valkyrimon drew his Fenrir sword and swept it in a circle of light, he then shot a Aurvandil arrow through it. Rei and Shini were pulled through. Valkyrimon clapped his hands and Agumon appeared in a flash of light. Agumon bowed, and Valkyrimon ordered him to follow the boys and be their guide. "Make sure you follow the exact instructions, commit no treachery, and I will provide the power for any evolutions. Have fun!" Agumon leapt into the portal and it closed. Valkyrimon jumped off the rock and started to fly off when a large clawed decaying hand grabbed his shoulder. Valkyrimon spun and knocked it off.
"I might not be able to enter your little worldssss," the mega Digimon hissed, "but I can do everything in my power to stop those little pawns of yours. I have yet to deal with Gennai'sssss 'children' but I will make sssssure that your pessstsss are no longer an obssstacle."
"Diaboromon, you know that the powers of the digimentals can overpower you any day. You have no chance of conquering this or any world." Retorted Valkyrimon.
"No, that'sssss were you are wrong," Diaboromon shake his straggly yellow hair and gave a strange coughing laugh. "Your eggsssss won't work if the child doesssn't ssuport the characteristic. That fool Myotismon was good for ssssomething you know. I will destroy you, for I am a god not just a lowly mega like yourself." Diaboromon transported away.
"Come on you kids, we need you to finish this job to be ready for the next one" sighed Valkyrimon as he too transported away.
Meanwhile, in the realm of courage . . .
"Ugh, all this sand is in my eyes, I can't see, what about you Rena? Rena?" Shini looked around in surprise, or tried to. He waved his arms about, and accidentally hit Rei in the mouth.
"Imbecile, out of my way." Rei stumbled on blindy for a minute, and then just gave up and fell to the ground. He covered his head and the dust-storm eventually passed on. Rei stood up and shook himself off. Smoke rose in the distance. Rei sighed and stuck his hands in his pockets and started walking towards the smoke, looking for some answers.
The sun was merciless. It beat down on Rei and he started to wish he hadn't worn black. He heard an annoying sound.
"Hey! Hey Rei! (oo that rhymes) Over here! It's Shini and me, Agumon!" the two came sliding down a nearby dune.
"Agumon found me in the storm and lead me out, than we started to call for you and we finally found you! Come on we have to get to the fire and the test!" said Shini. Rei smirked and the three trooped off towards the fire.
Finally, when they reached the site, they saw a huge wall of fire. Yelps could be heard from the other side.
"Help it's really hot in here! It's me Rena and Guil! Get us out of here! Ack!"
"How could you do this to Guil! I'm gonna get you Agumon!" Rei threw one of his little knives.
"Pepper Breath!" the knife was destroyed, "You have to save them, I didn't do anything to them. Go save them, what are you waiting for, you boys aren't being very courageous." The flames started to lick up higher. "That's it," Agumon said, "you need some encouragement. Agumon digivolve to Greymon!" "Nova blast!"
"Hey what are you doing, ahhhhh!!!" both boys jumped and rolled.
"We're cooking in here!! Help!!" screamed both Digimon. Rei ran out of the way of another Nova Blast. He faced the fire, and was about to step through when he had a flashback.
"Reirei? Reirei! Where are you?! *sob* Where's my baby," a woman sobbed and tried to run into the burning house. A fireman stopped her. Another one ran inside.
Little Rei was huddled in the corner, with Kitty, and was very scared. Fire was everywhere, and coming closer. The fireman burst in and rushed towards them. Kitty screamed in fright and struggled out of Rei's arms and ran to the door. All of a sudden a flaming beam started to crack, and it fell ontop of Kitty.
"NOOO!! KITTY! Wahahaawahh!" screamed Rei as the Fireman scooped him up and raced to the door. 'No, I can't leave Kitty!' thought Rei as he reached out his little arms, . . .
"Nova Blast!"
"Look out!" Shini knocked Rei to the ground. "AHH! The fire, it burns!" yelled Rena. Shini gathered all his strength and courage and dove into the fire. Then he stopped, dropped, and rolled towards Rena. "I made it, I'll free you . . ."
Suddenly the two boys and three Digimon found themselves back on top the rock where it all started. Valkyrimon appeared in a flash of light.
"Congratulations Shini, I award you with the Digimental of Courage, maybe next time Rei." Rei growled at him. "Shini, Rena can digivolve into one of 6 armor Digimon, as I said before, they are: Flamedramon, Shadramon, Lynxmon, Boarmon, Allomon, and Baromon. Notice they all have flames, because you have a fiery courage." He showed Shini and Rena flashcards of each Digimon.
"I think I'll choose, Lynxmon. Don't you think so Rena?" she nodded
"Excellent choice, now," Valkyrimon waved his hand over the egg "whenever you digivolve with the digimental of courage, Renamon will armor digivolve to Lynxmon. No go off on your quest to collect the digimentals! Wait where's that other boy?" Rei had left with Growmon. "Ah well, you go off on your own way then, and tomorrow you both will know the way to the next digimental." Valkyrimon clapped his hands and he disappeared and Shini and Rena found themselves on the ground next to the rock. Rena digivolved, and Shini rode Kyuubimon away.
Faraway, in an evil place
Diaboromon moved towards his mons, and then on to the ultimate section. He looked over the crowd and reached a scaly hand over them and gestured one out of the crowd. He looked into it's eyes and said, "Asssssemble a sssssmall troop pf championssss, and prevent thossssse pessstssss from reaching any more eggsssss. The divicccccessss are not ready, even though they ssssssshould be Datamon," he glowered at Datamon, "and I need those eggssss. GO!" The Digimon bowed and called a few names and the troop ran out the massive gates.