AN: Ages of the characters

Ryo: 18

Henry: 16

Rika, Kazu, Jeri, Takato and Kenta: 13

Suzy: 8


Chapter 1: New Guilmon

Before the digidestined, there were the Tamers. A journey fifty years prior to Joe and his group, a small band of tamers faced their destiny. In 1940, each of their lives changed forever. Although this story is more on Earth than it is the digital world. Let's begin this tale of legend.

Takato woke up from his dream. It was tome to go to his school again. He let out a deep breath, and got out of his breath.

"Third night in a row." Takato mumbled under his breath. He walked out of his bedroom to eat his breakfast. His mother called out for him.

"Make sure to turn in your Math. English, and History work today. Oh by the way, Kazu was wondering if you wanted dinner at his house tonight." Takato's mom yelled towards him. All he could do was laugh in response.

"Perhaps."" Takato replied, taking the bread and left the area they lived in.

Takato was thirteen and in the seventh. But he had not been turning in homework for the last couple weeks. It was starting to show on the tests he took. Not like he really cared anyways.

It was the year 1940, one year in about two months after World War 2 started. Takato's father said that the first world war was supposed to end all wars.

"The war to end all wars. What lies. Now look at us. We are in another one just barely twenty years later. Why can't promises be kept?" Those were the exact words spoken by Takato's then Takato knew his father was mad over the conflict.

Why does school require so much time? Takato thought heading to the hut he went to every day before gym. It was where he could play card games with two gamer buddies- Kenta and Kazu. Like Takato, they were also thirteen and in the seventh grade.

Kenta was the shorter of the two. He was also the one with glasses and a button down shirt. Unlike Kazu, Takato never really hung out with Kenta outside of school. He was also the more nerdy of the two, and was the one who showed them to this one really cool card game.

Kazu was the taller of the two. The one with a normal shirt and no glasses. Takato did hang out with Kazu a couple times after school. Mostly just to have dinner however. Despite being the less nerdy. Kazu was the better student of the two. Barely. Unlike Kenta, he also wore a hat.

"How long did you sleep in? There are only ten minutes until classes start. By the way, Kazu is winning the game once again." Kenta said the last part under his breath. Kazu looked ready to giggle.

"WereGarurumon digivolve to MetalGarurumon! Now I beat your MetalGreymon. That makes thirty wins on thirty days." Kazu gave the final command. Sealing the turnout once again. Takato thought of when Kenta first showed up with this card game.

"My babysitters big brother brought me this really cool game. It's called Digimon Tamers. When I said I never heard of it, he replied that it was a game made by his own father. But his father's old, and might now live much longer, so he decided to give it to me. Or at least a small box of it." Kenta told them, and they started playing right away. The three of them liked it instantly, and Kazu was almost always the best.

Takato was brought out of his thinking state when he heard Kenta calling his name. It was to go to gym class. "Come on, we should go to gym now. Or else we will be late."

Takato looked at their secret playing area. He was thinking to himself. How nice it would be to have one of those creatures from the card game in real life? That would be a blast for him. Takato got up, and ran all the way to them.

"Slowpoke. You only showed up with two minutes left." Kazu teased, while the females of the class and teacher came out into the gym.

Takato saw one of the girls, and looked away. Sure he was blushing. It was Jeri, his current crush. Aside from this school, gym class, and them being the same age and grade, they had absolutely nothing in common. Plus, nobody really thinks of her as something special. But on the second week of their school year, when he was bringing some bread and other pastries to his bakery home, she was the only one who helped him. Along with her record breaking score on the long jump in class, Takato couldn't help but form a small and secret crush on her during his seventh grade school year.

Only Kenta knew of the crush. That's because one day, after much (emphasis on much) pestering Takato to admit who he liked, the poor guy couldn't help but say. That was about two weeks ago, if Takato recalled correctly.

The teacher, Mr. Mori was a silly guy. Yet he could still beat everybody on a race around the track. Nobody knows how, and nobody tried to beat him. The teacher had one of the worst teaching motives, yet everybody still got all the information just fine the guy. He was a good and bad teacher both, this was the agreed upon critique of the teacher across all students in the entire school.

"Run around the gym for all of class. After each lap, you may take a fifteen second break. Next class will be note taking, and a quiz the class after that." Mr. Mori told them the next few classes plans as he always did before sending his students off.


Off at another building there was a experiment being held. The head of this program was a tall, thin, blonde man. He was trying to get something ready as his defense over all the threats going on throughout the world.

"Hypnos. It's a beauty isn't it?" The leader of the program said, holding his hand out. Then he walked up the giant staircase to meet his two best workers. Both of which were female. He called out to them.

"Has there been any sign of disturbance from the digital world yet?" He asked, and one of the two females looked at him. She was the younger one. The one with the red hair and looked fairly tan. At the age of twenty-nine currently, she was one of the youngest people in all of Hypnos. But that didn't stop the boss from having a strange liking for her.

"No Yamaki, everything seems alright so far. You can go back to your lunch." She told him, and the man left them alone. Deciding to buy what she was saying for now. But he would check up later to see if another disturbance came. If any side of this war got a hold of the digital worlds creatures, they could possibly win the war or maybe even destroy Earth with them. He was doing this for the sake of the human race deep down.


After that hour and a half of almost constant running in gym class, Takato hit the showers right away along with the other boys in class. Kazu wanted to ask him something, so he pulled Takato to the side. Was was even more weird was that they were both still completely naked from washing their bodies. Takato felt a tiny bit weirded out from it, but Kazu didn't seem to notice or care.

"Dude, I saw you totally look away from one of the girls in class. Who is the special one?" Kenta walked up to the two of them, also naked from the shower.

"I know. He told me because I asked first. Maybe I am the better friend." Kenta started making fun of Kazu. Takato took this moment to put his clothes back on, and leave gym for the next class. He always hated taking the shower, as getting naked in front of twenty to thirty males always made him feel weird. This class coming up both Kenta and Kazu had with him, so they were going to be late for the class.

The next class teacher, Ms. Kaimi was just a normal teacher. One that did her job teaching. If you were a good student, she liked you. Opposite goes if you were a bad student. So pretty much like how every other teacher was like ever.

"Okay class, get out your paper and pencils to take notes on today. We've only gone through half of out units, we the class including myself really needs to step up as a whole." She told them, as most every student did just as she asked. But after doing those two simple steps, Takato started doing something else on his own.

He was drawing something on his paper. It was a outline of a monster as anybody at first glance would say. But Takato was actually drawing out a digimon. What his would be like if he every got one in real life. Yeah, maybe he was a little obsessed with Kenta's card game.

It was really large. Probably at least five feet long almost. Had a red back, arm, leg, and face. With a white chest and black stripes throughout the body. With some horns on it. With large finger and toe nails. Takato thought of what else to do when the teacher called out to him.

"Takato. How many times do you have to be reminded by me to pay attention to what I am trying to tell you guys?" She said. Takato sat there for a little bit not speaking or answering her question until class ended. Then she let them go. "You may leave now." Takato was heading out when she called out to him. "Can we talk to each other for a moment? Just you and me?" Takato stopped, and walked up to her, not really wanting to spend tons of time talking right now.

"What were you wanting to talk about?" Takato asked worried that this time he was to be the one late for the next class. She made him sit down in front of her.

"About you and class. You barely listen to me when I give the lectures anymore. I don't get it. Why are you no longer paying attention to me anymore?" Takato wanted to think of a kind of realistic response first. So he wouldn't sound totally dumb.

"Just all the news lately. And some weird dreams I have. Plus some things I think about or see. Just always gets me away from the subject." Takato gave responses that were real, only shortened to a good answer that she would buy.

"Good enough for now. But pay attention to what I will tell you now if the rest can't be done. Give every study for all subjects the equal amount of attention. Real life will need you to think about these things. Real life will have all studies apply to it in some way. That's all I got to say for now." She let the student go and head for next class.

Takato was thinking about what his teacher said all the way walking to next class. Which was Pre-Algebra, on the Math Category. He didn't know why, but he believed it for some reason. Maybe it won't pay off what she said at the moment, but some years to come. Maybe even the next day.

At Math class, he put a little more attention due to what his teacher told him. He took some notes every few minutes when he thought the important stuff was noted to them. Kazu looked at Takato, worried that he was taken over by a alien life form.

"You normally don't take a lot of notes during class. Why are you doing it now?" Kazu wisphered, but the Math teacher still heard the comment.

"I heard that. Maybe your friend cares a little bit now. Unlike you for talking out while I'm speaking. I think five minutes after class will be good enough. It will be lunch after all. I think you can give up five minutes of that time." The math teacher said, as Kazu leaned back in his seat. Groaning really bad. He wasn't in favor of this.

Takato gave Kazu a dude I'm so sorry look on his face. The lesson went on, and Kazu took some notes at the last ten minutes of class. When Takato saw five seconds was left, he got up along with everybody but Kazu to the door. They left for lunch, as the teacher gave Kazu something to write out.

He waited for Kazu to finish and get out of the class. When he did, they walked over to the lunch room. Kenta showed up, and walked over to the two of them.

"Dudes man. What kept you in Math class so long? I was waiting for you two to get out at the normal time." Kenta asked the two of them and Kazu started to give Kenta a I will kill you face.

"I had to stay after Math class to write some stuff for English class. The classes don't even relate." Kazu complained as the three got their lunches from the line.

Takato was thinking of all the classes he had. Gym first, History second period, Math third period, Science fourth period, and English at the end of the day. He was used to this routine by now, after several months of doing it.

The three of them sat a few seats from a girl. She was looking through some cards of a game. Kazu tried looking to see what it was, but she put it away as Kazu made out the Tamers on the logo.

"I think she plays the same card game as us." Kazu wisphered to them as Jeri sat next to them. She got out her sock with holes resembling eyes and mouth.

"Say hello to Mr. Leo I don't think we've ever sat together. Nobody would let me sit next to them because of Mr Leo." Jeri then started talking like the sock was talking to them in real life.

"Hey what do you want me to teach you about today?" Jeri as the sock said while she couldn't help but let out a little laugh. Kenta gave her a very strange look. As he moved a couple inches away from her. Kazu looked like he didn't care that she was even in his presence. Like he was higher than her. Takato had both his hands on his chin. Like he wanted her to keep this up.

"Teach me how we could get through the medieval unit in History sooner." Takato said, being the only one to play with her games. Jeri laughed at the request. After some thought about it she had the answer.

"Drink a lot of pickle juice every night for a week." Jeri as the sock replied as Kenta looked as if he was about to give up on everything.

"Okay good one Jeri. If only your sock knew the real answer. That would be amazing." Kazu told Jeri getting up to put his food away. "Takato come with me."

Takato got up with Kazu as he threw the food away. He put his hand on Takato's shoulder, looking at him directly in the eye.

"I see how you look her. Not cool man. Remember what we said that we don't need ant girls in our lives? It was a part of our pact. We can't have any girlfriends, so no relationships, no heartbreaks, and no children. That was the exact opposite of what we want." Kazu reminded Takato of rule six of their code. Which we will not go through each rule unless by mention, for it would take far too long.

"Chill out dude. I bet you've had plenty of crushes before. So just lay off a little bit." Takato replied walking back to the table. He took his seat by Kenta who still looked weirded out by Jeri.

"She's really starting to scare me. Can lunch be over with soon please? I don't want to talk to Mr. Leo." Kenta moved the position of his glasses. Like how he always did when he was trying to express how serious he was on a matter.

"I don't like how you talk about Mr. Leo. Even he has feelings to." Jeri snapped, and Kenta looked like he was to run away. But he just a couple more inches.

The girl Kazu noticed that had the card game glared at the three making all the noise. Like she was trying to concentrate, but their talking couldn't let her.

It was soon after when the bell to head to fourth period rang. This class he had with Kenta, and fifth period English with Jeri.

While going to class, Takato bumped into the same girl who was playing that card game during lunch. He fell right hard on his butt. Everybody laughed at him, while the girl glared at him. Jeri helped him get up.

"Rika! Don't pay attention to that guy!" One of her friends called out in the hall. The girl glaring at him walked away. So her name was Rika. Jeri patted all the dirt off of Takato.

"Thanks Jeri. I need to get to Science now. My teacher there is crazy. I don't want to deal with her reactions to mine being late again." Takato got his books, and went to Science class. He sat next to Kenta and listened to the teachers lecture.

"Matter is everywhere. For the same reason, well not really actually, that all living things have Carbon in it. Susan over there has Carbon in her. Even if she doesn't notice it. This time truly for the same reason that say Junior all on the other side of the room has Carbon. Just because he is on the opposite side of class makes no difference. Even plants have Carbon in them." The science teacher said and Takato took notes because this subject matter really did interest him.

Kenta was taking the notes almost as fast as the teacher had the words leave her mouth. He always did this in Science class over the last few weeks. Kenta told Takato it was because he now had a sudden fond in the subject. But Takato knew it was over something else. It was because of this girl named Melissa. Somebody Kenta now liked. He was wanting to impress her with passing his classes, or show he was at least trying.

"When you're walking by a flower or tree, they both have Carbon in it. Size or what the thing is doesn't make any difference in the end. Even Carbon is in the air." The science teacher continued her lecture as she was noting the important pieces on a chalkboard. Takato followed almost word for word. Now this got him interested in the ratio of everything in the air. He raised his hand to get her attention.

"Miss, can I ask you something? What is the ratio in everything that is inside the air we breathe?" The teacher didn't reply but instead looked at him. Glad to see that she had at least one one student care over what she was saying.

"You know, I'm so glad you that you asked and showed that at least you cared, that I will make next class lesson about it. Thanks for making me feel like I'm getting through with at least somebody. But we still need this class for our current lesson." She replied with a smile on her face. Class went by as normal for the rest of the period. But she was more happy while giving the rest of the lecture.

Takato got all his things at the end of class. There was one period left, English. He walked over to the right room, and sat next to Jeri on the right when he walked in. It was nice to be close to her for at least one period and not have everybody look at him strange.

"Before we even start class today, I want to give you some important information. Since it is March, conferences will be next Thursday and Fridays after this one. Then two weeks later, the third quarter will be ending. So if you haven't yet, I would strongly suggest you do all your work, late or not, and turn it in. This is the last three weeks here everybody. Let's finish the third quarter strong." The teacher said and gave them her paper to take notes on. She took a deep breath, and started explaining the assingment.

"For the quarters big assingment, you will be making a poetry book with all the poem types you like and as many as you please. The due date is the final class period of the third quarter. The more poems you make and the more types of poetry you hit, the better you score. Also the quality and if you meet that rule of poetry counts. At the last day, you will hand in all that you did. Even if you only finished one poem, you will still get some credit. You may use all class if you want, but this is the only time I will allow the full period. After this for the next three weeks, you will only get the first fifteen minutes. Now get to work you all." The English teacher went back to her chair to answer all personal questions.

Pretty much the rest of the period was just that, making poetry for this book. Takato made one concrete, one alliteration, two haikus, and one acrostic in that time. While he didn't do the best out of the students in that time, there were others that did worse in their time. The teacher has one last thing to tell the class.

"Next class we will be having a speaker. He's in tenth grade and passed every class in all middle school with full A's. He wants to spend each class period tomorrow talking to everyone of my classes to give you guys information about what's ahead and how to get ready for the following school years. Might I also say he's been my honest favorite student in my twenty years of teaching. His name if Henry, and I will demand from all of you to give him respect until start to end. Or else you will stay after school for two hours erasing peoples writing for school literature books. With that, class was dismissed for students to do their activities they wished now. Takato left class and found Kazu on a bench reading. He looked sad, as he usually did when school was out. Takato made the choice that he would have dinner with Kazu that night after all.

"Hey Kazu, want to go over to your house now?" Takato asked not even noticing Kenta was right behind him. That one punk Rika girl they saw earlier was walking by. Not even giving them a single glance to show she was aware of them.

"Can I come to?" Kenta asked as Kazu sighed putting his book away. He never liked going home. He would be one of the few people alive who would say they preferred school over home. But he was ready to return anyways, nodding to answer Kenta's question.

"Yeah sure, the more people who come home with me the better. Gives me more of a excuse to now have to worry about what's inside, but more on my guests." Kazu said as the three left school grounds. But he seemed distant on the walk back.

While they walked past Takato's house, they saw somebody walk out. It was a boy who looked a few years older than them and had blue hair. He had a stuffed rabbit with him as well. They didn't speak to him at all, just let him walk by only with them sharing a glance at each other.

Kenta had all the cards they used for the game in his bag. But as they got closer to the house, Takato noticed like every time he visited Kazu's house, that he was becoming less like his normal self. More into a serious and well structured figure. Not at all like the guy Takato hung out with.

As the three walked inside, Kazu led them right into his room. Not even giving a notice to his parents or any other family. Inside the room was the ultimate workplace. It had everything that somebody would need to study. Kazu jumped right into his bed, and started working on his homework. Until Kenta spoke to him.

Takato was looking at some of the books and pictures of Kazu. One of the pictures contained Kazu and his parents. He was on the center, and was smiling. His father on his right side of him, and his mother on the left. But for some reason, neither of them were smiling nearly as large as he was.

Kazu saw what Takato was holding and gave a frightened gasp. "Please don't look at that picture!" It sounded like he was about to legit scream. Kenta looked at him shocked over the sudden burst.

Takato put it down, and Kenta was holding his hand up. "Calm down. It's just a picture." At that comment, Kazu closed his homework book and study books. He got up like there was a sudden need to use the bathroom.

"Yeah and what? Ruin one of my precious pieces of my family. I'm not worried that you would ruin it as much as the condition will be worn. But i wouldn't be surprised seeing as you're starting to like some girls Kenta. Why would you like them?" Kazu ran out of his room and into the bathroom.

That was one problem Takato did have with Kazu. He was very sexist. Probably not cause he has anything against females as a whole, as much as just had bad experiences Takato guessed. He knew there was a reason, but every time he asked, Kazu would just go silent as if he was trying to say something. But he would just get quiet. Like there was something he really was trying to hide.

Kenta put the quiet finger on his mouth and started looking through one of Kazu's drawers. There was a number on it. A address to more exact. Takato leaned in closer to see what the address was.

"City Orphanage, 1327, 17th street." They read that out loud and that was when Kazu walked in. Takato put the address in his pocket before Kenta could stop him or Kazu could notice.

"Sorry for that. I said something wrong, my thoughts took me over. I wish I could explain it all, but no adult will be willing to talk to it out. Maybe your parents could do, Kenta or Takato." Kazu looked down at his bed, and laid down upon it. Kenta started rubbing the wall, wanting t talk about something else.

"When is dinner usually at your house? We're sorry if we offended you in any way. But I forgive you for those comments. Everybody does speak their mind, even if the words maybe wrong. It's all a part of growing up. My father would talk to me a lot over that, and how so could be a several hour rant. Plus, the ideas of people when they are barely a teen can be often misguided. I know, I'm in that group." Kenta's little dinner question turned into a mini lesson.

Takato was thinking about what he heard Kenta say while sitting in a chair in the room. It made him take a short nap thinking about the details. What he agreed on, disagreed, related to or not really have related as of yet.

When he opened his eyes again, there was a plate of food next to him. It was night, like nine or ten. Kazu was looking at Takato as if expecting him to say something. Kenta was nowhere to be seen.

'Hope you don't mind cold food. Dinner was three hours ago, and it was pizza. Four slices are on the plate. One cup of A and W Root Beer is there to. Kenta tried talking to me more. Kenta tried talking to me more. But it seems that his attempts to help me more have confused me more than helped." Kazu explained, and pointed to the floor. A sleeping bag was on the floor. "Hope your parents approve. It's too late to go back. You're staying the night."

Takato went inside the sleeping bag. As if there was something he wanted to say or talk about, but nothing could up. He was about to throw in the towel.

Kazu turned off the lights, and they slowly went to sleep afterwards. The darkness taking them both over. If only Takato knew what his following dream would be like, he wouldn't have slept.

For some reason, he was dreaming about that girl who was playing with the cards during lunch. She was walking around the street at night all alone. She looked at a couple making out at a bench, but then just as quickly moved away. Then continued walking.

A bright light flashed far off to the distance, and she started running towards quickly. She looked up at some trees, and yelled something at them. The couple making out stopped when they heard her.

"Renamon get ready! We have something for us to fight!" Those were the words she yelled, and something on the tress started to get more into view. Looked like a fox that could stand on two legs. It had a white chest and pointy ears. It jumped down and met with the girl.

"Okay. Does this mean we should head there right now?" The yellow fox creature asked, and the girl nodded. They ran faster toward the yellow light, to see what was waiting for them.

At the sight of the yellow light, two creatures came out of it. One was a little white cute thing with a red triangle on its forehead. It started skipping away before the girl and her yellow fox could show up, so it was safe. The other however, didn't take the chance to start roaming the city. So when the girl showed up, she was ready to take it down.

"Renamon, go ahead and teach this a lesson." Then she pulled out a device that had a screen, and looked at it. Then something registered, and she got some info that she wanted.

'Lynxmon. Animal type, champion level." The device told her, and the girl looked at it more closely. It was a lion sort of thing but completely covered in fire. This was something that she never saw before.

"What do you want me to do Rika?" The fox creature asked as the girl was sorting through some cards she had in her pocket. So her name was Rika, that meant it must have been the girl from lunch. Because Takato remembered her being called by that. By one of her friends in the hall. But why was he dreaming about her, and about something this strange?

The girl picked one of the cards. Takato couldn't be able to figure out what it was. She swipped the card through the device, and the the girl gave the fox creature her command.

"Digimodify!" The girl yelled the thing you call when somebody uses a card. Then named the type of card she wanted the fox to use. "Diamond Storm!"

The fox creature ran at the Lynxmon listening to the girls command. "Diamond Storm!" It yelled and Lynxmon blocked it at the last second.

Lynxmon threw the fox creature at the ground. Exposing the weak point in its body. It was the one part in the body not covered in fire. The fox creature got back up, and knew exactly how and where to strike now.

"Diamond Storm!" The fox creature yelled, getting the weakness that it noticed. Lynxmon exploded, and all the data particles were sucked into the fox creature. The girl has a happy look on her face.

"Nice job Renamon. Let's go back home before anybody notices my absence." The girl told the fox creature, and they headed out of the area. The white cute looking thing Takato saw earlier just stood around and watched all that happen.


The man who was in his main working building got notification of the events. The worker lady who had red hair asked him what they should do next.

"Don't worry quite yet. I think we can handle a couple of these things. But I do wonder how one showed up and left a couple minutes later. What could cause that?" The man replied, and just looked at the screen curious. Wondering how much more could or would show up.


Takato woke up, and noticed that it was around midnight. He quietly got the picture he drew out of his back pack and started looking at it. Adding and erasing stuff on the picture when he thought about them. "Guilmon." He wisphered, putting the drawing next to him. Then went to sleep at about twelve thirty. Kazu didn't notice or hear any of it.

The picture have a slight glow that lasted a few seconds, then faded away. Takato's dreams were all normal after that.

It was about six forty in the morning when Kazu woke him up. "I was about to leave without you. Did you have any crazy dreams that you want to tell me about?" Kazu asked, putting on his green hat he wears to school every day. Then walked over to the house door. Takato followed him, deciding what answer he should give.

"No, nothing too strange. Just a girl with a yellow fox fighting a fire lion thing. A little odd, but nothing truly absurd." Takato responded, the two walking down to the school. Along the way, they met that same guy who was at Takato's parents store the day prior gain. This time, he had a small girl next to him. He was holding the bunny thing again.

"Are you two heading towards the middle school now? The guy asked Takato and Kazu.. They both nodded. He looked at them interested. "My name is Henry, and I will be glad to be presenting to your English class today. If you're in seventh grade, that is." Then he showed the to the little girl. "This is my younger sister Suzy. I'm taking her to school first. See you later."

The guy walked away from them, the sister following him closely. Takato caught a glance at a green device sticking out of his pocket. He couldn't helped but think it looked absurdly advanced.

Takato and Kazu walked down the streets a little longer, when Takato thought he heard a noise in a alleyway. Followed by a red glow in that direction. Lasting a few seconds. Kazu didn't notice any of it.

"I thought I just saw a glow coming from that direction. I want to check it out." Takato said, and Kazu gave him a confused look. "I will be back in time for school. You can leave without me." Before Kazu could even say anything, Takato started running down the alley.

He kept going down the alley until he reached the red glow. It faded, starting to reveal something strange that looked familiar to Takato. Then he noticed why. It was the digimon picture he drew the day before brought to life. He had no idea how this could even be remotely possible, and it scared him.

Takato started stepping back, terrified. He tripped on his shoes, and fell down on his butt. The red digimon turned around to face him, turning the head slightly down.

"Guilmon." Takato wisphered, scared. He was now uncertain of what he created, and wished now he never drew the picture. He started to get himself up, and slowly took even more steps back.