A hawk-like creature with rust red feathers along it's lower body and white feathers on its head with a head band strapped around a

feather, flew across a red, crag plain of dirt. The air was hot and

the sun beat down, making the creature- identified as female- pant as

she flew. Finally she spotted a tree.

"Finally there's some shade!" She flew into the tree. "I know I should

be looking for Dorbickmon but it's so hot." She lowering toward the

ground. Suddenly lava erupted by her tree. "Gahhh!" She screamed. When the lava fell she looked at where it came from. Looking down she noticed that right on the other side of the tree was a humongous hole with small bits of lava leaking from the ground below. Standing in the hole was a large, dragon man creature covered in red armor and spikes. "Wow I found him; lucky break."

Suddenly another figure leapt up from beneath her. "Flame Fist!" The figure's spiked fist was enflamed. She and the figure landed in the hole by Dorbickmon, his foot on her back. "Lord Dorbickmon, I have found a spying Hawkmon." The figure could now be seen. He was a humanoid dragon and blue skinned. He wore spiked armor on his head, hands and feet. "Shall I dispose of her?"

Dorbickmon looked at Hawkmon, rather than being scared she looked pissed. "No Flamedramon, she is no threat."

Flamedramon nodded, "Yes my lord." He took his foot off of her and she quickly flew away. However she really just hid behind the tree.

Dorbickmon turned back to the ground. "Volcdramon arise! Join my army! Rampage across the Digital World and help make it mine!" Dorbickmon cried. Suddenly the ground started cracking. The Digital Worlds rock started to split apart and fall away as the ground around them shook. Finally, in all the massive shaking and splitting a figure burst through the ground and roared.

Hawkmon stared in horror at the arising beast. She gasped and stuttered. Finally she turned and took off to the sky. "I have to get to Mount Olympus; Jupitermon needs to know what's happening."

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A young man sat in front of his computer in a large, rotating chair.

He stared at the flat, blank computer screen with anticipation. He held his wrist in his hand and started to thumb a watch-like device on his right wrist. It was large in width for a watch, close to being the size of a gauntlet. The color scheme for the device was yellow.

"Man, what's taking so long?" He asked in anticipation.

"Oh calm down, Daire." Said a creature from behind the boy. He laid on the boys twin sized bed. He looked similar to an armadillo, but his face was more human than an armadillo's and he had three spikes on the sides of his face, though they did not appear sharp.

"Sorry Armidillomon, I'm just really pumped!" Daire said, excitement in his voice being obvious.

"Well stop putting so much pressure on the digivice or you'll break it. Come on Daire, excitement is no excuse for stupidity." Said the outspoken little digimon.

Daire looked like he would retort, when suddenly his computer lit up with green and yellow pixels that formed a vortex. Coming towards the screen was a small boat meant for a limited amount of passengers.

"It's here!" Daire cried. "Let's go!" He grabbed Armidillomon by his skinny arm and his suit case and jumped into the vortex. Once inside the computer screen he landed on a seat on the boat. Armidillomon sat right beside him. "This is so cool!"

Armidillomon laughed at his energy filled tamer. He always was able to keep people happy. The boy was fifteen, so he should've been a more experienced tamer. However Daire had only known his partner for a few months, around May, right before summer started. Daire had dark brown, short hair with strands falling on his forehead and brown eyes that complimented his hair well. He was rather tall for his age and had a wide and stocky build with broad shoulders and a rather handsome face.

In a dark alley he might look scary, however with any source of light around it was easy to tell he was a kind boy, just his face gave it away. Finally he wore a simple yellow t-shirt and gray sweats with white sneakers.

"Oh I can't wait to go to school in the Digital World!"

"You won't miss your human world friends?"

As they talked the vortex faded into the Net Ocean. "Well sure, but

I'm really excited to make friends here too! Friends I can talk about digimon with."

"Yeah, it was always annoying hiding in that closet when you had friends over. Couldn't we just pretend I was your pet armadillo? You're kind of strange so it'd be believable."

"And how would I explain the prongs and un-armadillo like face?"

"Maybe I'm deformed."

Daire laughed, "Wouldn't be surprising."

"Hey!" The two laughed hardy laughs.

Suddenly Daire noticed something across the water. "There it is! Digimon Academy!" Daire pointed. Armidillomon put his flat claws to the edge of the boat and stared out towards the giant campus.

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A young girl, around thirteen, sat in a boat with her partner beside her, her head facing towards the Net Ocean. A light breeze of digital air flowed through her hair making it flutter. When the breeze stopped her hair, a lovely shade of brown, fell down about midway down her back. Her green eyes appeared to be bored, despite where she was going. She wore red skinny jeans and a blue leather jacket with brown boots.

She looked down on her small, star digimon and smiled, but kept the bored look in her eyes. Her digimon was silver and wore black sunglasses to give him a rock-n-roll look.

"This is gonna be great! Huh Amelia?" The small digimon nudged one of his points into her side.

She smiled lightly, "I think it might be, SemiStarmon."

"Rock on!" SemiStarmon raised a prong-slash-fist in the air.

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Three children and their partners sat in a clearly full boat sailing towards the academy.

"I hope the three of us get to share a room." The youngest one said.

He was around the age of twelve and looked similar to the eldest in the boat.

The eldest sneered, "They won't let a girl share a room with boys, dumbass." He seemed to be fourteen and had similar attributes to the younger one, such as brown hair and green eyes and looked like they could be related. However the fourteen year old's hair was longer and spiky while the younger's was short and flat. Another key difference was the elder one had an athletic build while the younger one was small and scrawny.

The younger one's face grew red. "Oh yeah James, well I looked it up on the website and they do sometimes have boys and girls in the same room, usually if they come from the same area!"

"Not another stupid fight." The girl sighed.

"God, why do you always have to be such a little smart ass Caleb?"

James said angrily.

"Well I live with you and I don't want too much stupid to fill up the house!" Caleb screamed back.

"Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!" Their digimon cried. The two looked at their candle-like digimon with sorrow.

"Aw great, now look what you did! Poor Candlemon is upset now!" Caleb told James.

"Me-" James was cut off.

"Will you two idiots knock it off? Look at what you're doing to your partner on what should be an awesome day!" The girl stood too. She was about the same height as James despite being a year younger; she might have even been a little taller. Like James she had an athletic, yet female build so she could be intimidating and beautiful. Her gray eyes glowed with death threats. It was quiet for a moment- save for Candlemon's sobs- and a quick breeze blew at her pony-tail kept black hair, the rest she kept under her green baseball cap.

Her partner, who appeared similar to a puppy, sat by Candlemon to comfort him. Candlemon looked like a wicker candle with wax arms and a face. The flame on his head also had a face. The puppy digimon, who seemed to be female, was small and white and had flat paws and rosy cheeks. She wore a Holy Ring around her neck as a collar.

"It's ok Candlemon, they've stopped fighting." She glared daggers at them. "Right guys?" Despite her cute appearance her death glare was rather threatening.

They looked at each other awkwardly. "Yeah, we've stopped fighting." James said.

"Sorry Candlemon," Caleb said, "Sorry Salamon, and sorry Brittany."

"So'kay Caleb, but seriously both of you need to knock it off with the fighting. This school is a great opportunity for us, a great life- don't screw it up." Brittany said seriously.

The boys nodded.

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A young, mocha-skinned man stepped off the boat with his bunny-like partner. From the dock he saw an arch at the end and right past that was a dirt road. Staked into the dirt was a sign that read: Wait Here

He shrugged and dragged his suit case towards the sign. His partner followed suit. Once crossing the arch she shrunk down to her

In-Training form. Now she was not too much larger than a soft ball and was round like one, well more oval shaped form from to back. She was all purple with white around her mouth and a single black stripe on her back.

"Whoa, what happened?" The teen asked.

"How should I know?" Snapped the little fur ball.

"Well it's your body." He snapped right back. "I figured you'd know how you degenerated to Neumon."

"Well I don't." She stuck her tongue out.

"Whatever." So he and Neumon stood there silently...for about a second. "Oh man, I can't believe we're here! This is gonna be so cool!

Making friends, fighting baddies, I can't wait to see what kind of clothes they have at the school store!"

Neumon chuckled at her partner. "Elegon you're terrible at pretending to be straight."

Elegon's face got red, "I'm not gay!"

"Tell that to your ex-boyfriend." She quipped.

"Shut it you little fur ball!"

Elegon's attention quickly went elsewhere as he saw another boat pull up. Another young man his age stepped off with his partner. He had green, spiked hair with a red stripe down the middle, to match his goblin-like partner. His eyes were a steel gray and his face held a cruel smirk. His face was rough and brute. He wore a black leather jacket, green shirt and black leather pants and boots. With his pale complexion he was almost the exact opposite of Elegon.

Elegon was around his height but was more slim while the other guy was more jacked. Elegon's eyes were a dark brown and his brown hair was kept in dreads. He wore a white t-shirt designed like a suit and wore a black vest over it and black jeans with dress shoes. On his head he wore a fedora with a pink strap around it.

"Hey, I'm Elegon." Elegon quickly introduced himself.

The other boy smirked, "Ha, Elegon, what kind of freak name is that?"

Elegon got pretty angry, "Well what's your name, Snot Raggerson?"

'Snot' snorted, "Really, is Snot Raggerson the best you could come up with?" He gave a hearty laugh. His digimon laughed right alongside him. "My name's Erik- an actually normal name. This is Gob-" They stepped past the arch. The rookie quickly shrunk to his smaller In-Training form, which was small, orange furred, round and had a large horn protruding from the top of his head/body. "Uh, Tsunomon. What the hell?"

"Yeah, that happened with Neumon too."

"Elegon can we kick their asses; they're pretty rude." Neumon asked.

"Ha, this turd wants to fight Erik, I say let's fight. I haven't crushed a bug in a while." Tsunomon said rudely.

"Alright, I'm into this." Elegon grinned.

Erik slammed his fist into his hand which made a loud SMACK! "This'll be fun." He took a step forward but stopped when Daire's boat pulled up.

"Hey there!" Daire lifted his hand in greeting. "I'm Daire, and this Armadillomon."

"Hi." Armadillomon said with a smile.

Elegon immediately forgot about the fight and smiled. "Hey, I'm Elegon, and this is Neumon."

"Nice ta meet'cha." Daire said dragging his bag towards the arch.

"Quick warning Armadillomon, you're going to-" Neumon started. Daire and Armadillomon stepped past the arch and Armadillomon shrunk down. "Degenerate." Her face fell.

"Thanks for the warning." What-was-Armadillomon said. Now he was the size of a softball and white but still had three prongs on either side of his head.

"Hey Armadillomon what's this form called?" Daire asked.

"Upamon, and if it's possible I'm even more loud mouthed in this form!"

"Hey!" Erik said. "Ellie, we were in the middle of something."

"My name is Elegon." Elegon said sternly. "And if you want to fight then let's go!" Elegon took a fighting stance.

"Whoa, what did we just walk in on?" Upamon said awkwardly.

"Shit's going down, that's what." Neumon said.

Daire stared at the group awkwardly and bit his lip. "I like her." Upamon said with a smile.

Elegon raised his fist, "Whoa guys let's calm down." Daire said. "Whatever you're angry about can be settled without fist flying."

"Piss off giant." Erik said, referring to how the boy was at least five inches taller.

Upamon's face reddened with anger. "Don't insult my partner!" Upamon jumped at Erik and bit from his right to his temple.

"Gah, get it off me!"

"Tackle!" Tsunomon jumped at Upamon and hit him with his horn. Upamon flew off of him and landed on the dirt ground.

"Neutral Shocker!" Neumon shot a small bolt of lightning at Tsunomon who was still in midair. It was basically a kick and he was shot into the ground.

"Sucker!" Elegon said while laughing.

Erik scowled. He raised his fist and turned towards Elegon, picking up speed and power. Daire grabbed him around his elbow. He pulled him back and grabbed Tsunomon by his horn, then shoved him into Erik's chest.

"Enough ok! We shouldn't be attacking each other on our first day here."

"Yeah, you big jerks!" Upamon piped up.

"Upamon, hush, please." Daire asked.

It was at that moment another boat pulled up. A girl Daire's age stepped off with her dragon digimon. She was much shorter than Daire despite being the same age, and was an inch or two shorter than Erik, so around Elegon's height. Her blonde hair was medium length and kept under a blue hat with cat ears. She was slim and light skinned with freckles around her face and amethyst colored eyes. She wore a dark blue tank top and black mini skirt with red, knit and scrunched arm warmers. Her converse shoes were knee length so not much of her lower body was exposed. Plastered on her face was a wide smile.

"Hi guys." She said. "My name is Akahana Arakawa, but you can call me Hana. This is Dracomon." She motioned to the dragon digimon behind her, who was struggling with her large suit case on his back and smaller bag in his mouth. He was roughly three feet tall, maybe taller, and had two black and red horns going back from his head.

As they neared the arch, Daire said, "Oh, wait, wait, wait-" Daire put his hands out and shook them trying to stop Dracomon.

He was too late though as he stepped past the arch and shrunk down. The bag fell on top of the smaller digimon hiding his entire body.

"Oh, Dracomon!" Hana said in surprise.

He shrugged the bag off of him with difficulty. "Actually it's Babydmon now." He now was more serpentine and his face more lizard like, though he still had similar horns to his rookie form. However his wings were even smaller than his rookie forms and that was saying something. His scaly green body had an even scalier yellow body.

"What happened?" Hana asked her partner.

"Don't know, I just degenerated."

"That happened to all of us." Elegon explained. "By the way avoid this guy, he's a serious jerk!" Elegon pointed his thumb at Erik. Erik just growled at him.

At that moment the next boat pulled up. Off stepped a fourteen year old girl and her vampiric digimon. She was around the height of the rest of the group and had sun kissed blonde hair, shoulder length, with bangs streaked with red. Her emerald eyes were beautiful and gave a look that said shut-up-or-die. She was scrawny for her height and age but had fair, lightly tanned skin. She wore a black tank top with a picture of a skull with fire pokers shot through the eyes. Above the picture read: The Heads of Death. She wore a thick, black leather jacket over it and a red and black plaid skirt. At her waist was a black studded belt hanging and she wore knee high converse.

She walked towards the arch dragging her suit case, her digimon right behind. She glared daggers at everyone, daring them to speak. No one took that dare.

As they crossed the arch the digimon shrunk into a round bat with slanted red eyes and cartoon-styled bat wings. They stood off from the rest of the group and gave one final glare before looking elsewhere.

"..." Erik thought about saying something but decided against it.

Quickly afterward the boat dumped off James, Caleb, Candlemon,

Brittany and Salamon. It didn't take long for them to pick up on the awkward atmosphere and didn't say anything at first. Caleb wore a white t-shirt and khaki shorts and tennis shoes while James wore a black v-neck, jeans and cleats. Besides her cap Brittany wore a gray t-shirt, jeans and cleats.

They stepped passed the arch and all of Candlemon's body disappeared besides the flame. Salamon actually increased in size and became cat-like. She was round and had a yellow body and tail with purple stripes but no other appendages.

"What the?" James said.

"Why did they become DemiMeramon and Nyaromon?" Caleb asked.

"Beats me kid, but it's happened to all of us." Neumon said.

"Aw, I haven't seen you as Nyaromon in such a long time." Brittany smiled.

James looked at the group. "Uh, hey, I'm James and this is my little brother Caleb. This is our partner DemiMeramon and our friends Brittany and Nyaromon."

"Hey, I'm Elegon and this is Neumon, the big guys Daire and his partner's Upamon. She's Hana and that's Babydmon. Snotrag here is called Erik and his partner is Tsunomon."

"You're still using a snotrag? That's still so lame." Erik retorted.

"And no idea who that girl is." Elegon motioned towards the dark girl and her bat-like partner.

She glanced up. "Name's Gwen, and that's Batmon- I know, real creative name."

Batmon stuck his tongue out. "Losers." He said.

"We'll he's next on the list." Tsunomon said.

"That's something I'm actually with you on." Neumon glared at Batmon and stuck her tongue back at him.

Two more boats pulled up at once. One was Amelia and SemiStarmon's boat and the other had a boy about fourteen and had a were wolf-like partner. The boy had neat, mid-length blonde hair and blue eyes. He wore a blue, short-sleeved leather jacket with a short sleeved black t-shirt underneath. Blue jeans with a black belt and black combat boots. On his hands were black, fingerless gloves and on his side were a card holder and the other side his D-Power digivice that's body was blue but had a white circle.

He and Amelia carried their bags towards the arch with their digimon right next to them. When they crossed the line SemiStarmon shrunk down to a metal digimon that looked like a guitar pick with small arms and legs and wearing sunglasses. The werewolf digimon shrunk down to a small In-Training that was round bodied, had gray fur, four small legs, a wolf face and wolf tail.

"Valvumon you degenerated to Brutemon." It was more of an observation than him freaking out. He was calm in tone and seemed pretty level headed.

"Oh, I guess I did. That's pretty strange." Brutemon said.

"It's happened to us all." Elegon said stepping forward. "My name's Elegon and this is Neumon." Elegon put his hand out.

The boy took it and shook. "Matt Ryder." Matt broke the shake and dragged his bag closer to the sign.

"Amelia, introduce yourself." The digimon-who-was-SemiStarmon encouraged.

Amelia shrugged, "I'm Amelia and this is my partner Pickmon."

"That's me!" Pickmon said loudly.

"He reminds me of you Upamon." Daire noted.

"Amelia, so how was the flight?" Erik joked.

"Oh, ha-ha, that's so creative. No one has ever said that to me before." Amelia said sarcastically. "Anyway, the next boat is gonna be pulling up soon; he was right behind us."

"Speak of the devil- oh, literally." Pickmon said.

The boy who pulled up next was rather intimidating and his partner didn't help. His partner was a literal cross between a demon and a koala. His body was koala based but he had long claws, devil's horns and a tail, with blood red bat wings and red lines over his eyes.

The boy himself was twelve, but didn't look like it. He had scruffy blonde, mid-length hair, sharp blue eyes and a small scar on his chin.

He wore a blue shirt with a navy leather jacket and dark gray trousers and black boots.

He began to carry his bag towards the group with a stoic expression and his digimon on his shoulder, wearing a sadistic grin. The group became nervous and antsy, a few backed up while Caleb hid behind James, who guarded him, Erik scowled and readied his fist for a fight, Gwen raised an eyebrow and it appeared Daire was the only one not affected by the boys looks.

The boy now looked a little nervous, which clashed with his intimidating looks. "Uh, hi. My name's Nick and this is my partner Phascomon."

"Hi, I'm Daire and this is Upamon." Nick smiled at the large teen.

Everyone started to relax. "Fair warning when you cross the arch Phascomon will degenerate."

"Really?" Nick crossed the arch but nothing happened to his partner.

"That's weird; the rest of our digimon became In-Trainings when we crossed."

"I'm a bit slow." Phascomon then threw back his head and laughed crazily, like he'd said the funniest thing in the world. Nick just smiled at his strange partner.

"Uh, yeah ok." Daire said awkwardly. "Well anyway, does anyone know how long we're supposed to wait for?"

"Probably until our whole group gets here." Caleb guessed.

"Well how many more are coming?" James asked to no one in particular.

"I don't know, I'm not psychic."

"No shit!" James yelled at his brother.

"James, Caleb," Brittany scorned. The two huffed in frustration.

Shortly after that the next boat pulled up. In this boat was a thirteen year old and his dragon digimon. The boy was scrawny and a little short with short brown hair and blue eyes. He wore a black t-shirt, blue jeans, black sneakers and a black watch.

He grabbed his suit case and walked toward the arch. "Hey, I'm David." He said.

"My name's-" He stepped over the line. He shrunk down to a small, green ball, about as big as a basketball, had a simple face of two eyes and a mouth and over the left eye was a monocle with the chain going to the side of his body. "Um, apparently it's Sapiuntmon."

David looked at his digimon, "Whoa, what the f*ck happened?" There was a layer of anger in his voice.

"Oh yeah that happened to all of our digimon." Amelia explained.

"Well that's f*cking stupid!"

"Yeah, well complaining about it won't help." Amelia shrugged. "So just get over it."

"Get over it!" David nearly screamed.

"David, please calm down. I really don't want to do this on our first day." Sapiuntmon said to his partner.

David looked down at his partner and sighed. Then a huge smile spread across his face. "You're right, Sapiuntmon. I'm really happy to be here and get to know you all better." David's personality did a complete one-eighty flip.

"Aw great, another bipolar kid." Erik muttered.

"Shut it!" Elegon demanded.

"Nice come back, wuss."

"Oh and wuss is so clever?"

"He's got you there, Erik." Tsunomon said.

"whose side are you on?" Erik said angrily.

"What's going on with them?" Sapiuntmon asked.

"Beats me, they've going on like that since I got here." Daire explained.

"You two seriously need to take a chill pill." Upamon told them.

"Shut up!" They screamed in unison.

Finally the next boat pulled up. In this boat were three digimon and three humans.

The first human was fifteen and tall and had longish, ruffled black hair with teal high lights and dark brown eyes. He wore a black and red t-shirt with a black coat and silver scarf and dark jeans and worn sneakers. His partner was a humanoid digimon with a flame based appearance.

The next human was a boy about twelve and had black, untamed spiky hair and green eyes. In his ears were head phones which attached to an iPod in the pockets of his black jeans. Besides that he wore a green shirt with a silver jacket over it and white sneakers. His partner was a purple dragon digimon.

The third human was a girl and was fifteen. Her hair was brown and wavy and reached her waist while her eyes were bright green. She wore a black, long sleeved sweater with a white tank top underneath. Around her waist was a red belt. She also wore a jean skirt and black thigh highs with lace up boots. Her partner was a female, beast man, fox digimon.

As they crossed through the arch the flame humanoid became a roundish, metallic, land mine digimon covered in spikes and with red eyes.

The dragon digimon became a small, purple digimon whose body was similar to a tear drop and had two spikes on its back and fins on its sides. Its tip, bottom and side were gold colored.

The fox digimon became an In-Training very similar to Brutemon, but was yellow and more fox like with a thick fox tail.

The older boy raised an eyebrow at his digimon. "That's happened to all of us." Upamon said.

"It's really annoying." Tsunomon said irritated.

He nodded and quietly said, "Ok," before going off to the side, a few feet from Gwen, with his digimon in the crook of his arm. He nodded to Gwen who nodded back.

The girl muttered something under her breath that definitely wasn't English, maybe Italian. "My name's Luvenia Romano, and this is Viximon."

"Hello." Viximon greeted.

"No idea who that weirdo is, he refused to talk on the boat ride over here." She rolled her eyes at the quiet boy.

"His name is Shu, Shu Kiriyama. Right now I'm Chikurimon. Watch out,

I'll blow up if you tick me off." Chikurimon chuckled.

"Can we test that Erik?" Tsunomon asked.

"I'm into that." Phascomon jumped in.

Nick chuckled. "Knock it off Phascomon."

"We'll try it out later buddy, when we've got more room to run." Erik told Tsunomon.

The other boy forced a smile, "I'm Tsuna Maxus, but you can call me Zero. This is my partner Hopmon."

"Hi." Hopmon said to the group lightly.

"Wassup!" Upamon said."

Hopmon frowned, "Nothing...um, how are you?" Hopmon clearly felt awkward.

"I'm awesome! I'm really excited for this whole year."

"Yeah, it's gonna be really great." Elegon said, not at all lacking enthusiasm. "Damn it, how much longer do we have to wait?"

To answer his question the last boat pulled up. Two fifteen year olds, a boy and a girl, clearly twins, stepped off with three digimon. The two digimon who sat by the boy was a dog-like digimon and a pony-like digimon. The digimon by the girl was similar to a cat.

The boy was somewhat short and had peach colored skin. His royal purple hair reached the middle of his back and was kept in a pony tail by a violet-purple ribbon. His eyes were a red violet color. On his neck was a dark purple line that went from one side of his neck to the other. He wore a black t-shirt and blood red jacket half way zipped up, black jeans and black and maroon red boots.

"Jeez, and I thought demon boy was scary." Erik said.

The girl was a couple of inches shorter than her brother. Like her brother her hair was royal purple and it reached her shoulders, while her bangs were long enough to cover her eyes if she bowed. Her eyes were red violet like her brothers. She wore a white t-shirt with a royal purple, cat eared hoodie, chocolate brown jeans and white and royal purple tennis shoes. From her right wrist to her elbow was an armband white and purple striped.

The boy neared the arch, "Hey, I'm Kiba, and this is my sister, Keeva."

"Hi." Keeva gave a shy little wave while looking down.

"And these are our partners," He crossed the arch. Quickly the three shrunk down.

The wolfish one became a small, pup digimon that was all black except for on its pointy ears and tail where the tips were blood red. Also on his forehead, chest and front paws were the Digital Hazard Symbol. His hind legs and thighs were also blood red but his claws were pure black.

The pony one became a foal-like digimon that was white blue, small, and had a small, whitish-silver mane and tail and hooves.

The cat digimon shrank to a white ball of fluff with chocolate brown ears, a fluffy white tail with chocolate brown tip and big green eyes.

"Um, well right now they're Puppymon, Foalmon and Kitmon."

"Kiba, don't bother with these weaklings." Puppymon said harshly.

"Nice guy." Neumon said sarcastically.

"Hey don't worry about them degenerating, that happened to all of our digimon." Daire said. "I'm Daire, by the way."

"It's nice to meet you." Kiba offered his hand. Daire shook it with a smile.

"Oh and this is Upamon."

"Hiya! Your digimon's kind of a jerk."

"Upamon, don't be rude."

"No need to apologize, our mangy friend isn't really good company." Foalmon offered.

Keeva stood behind the five quietly, holding Kitmon. Brittany walked up to her. "Hi there." She said warmly. Keeva barely looked up. "My name's Brittany and this is Nyaromon."

"Hi." Nyaromon smiled widely.

After a moment or two Keeva finally said, "Um, hi."

"It's really nice to meet you." Kitmon said. "I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone."

"Do you two want to hang out tonight?" Brittany asked.

"Um," Keeva bit her lip in nervousness.

"She'd love to." Kiba butted in.

"Kiba!" Keeva snapped at her brother.

"It'll be really fun!" Kitmon said.

"Great! This year is gonna be really fun." Salamon said.

Caleb looked down the dirt road. "Hey guys, someone's coming."

They looked at the approaching figure, or figures. One was a sixteen year old boy who was tall, lean and thin. He wore a light blue t-shirt, khaki jeans and white and blue high tops. On top of his short brown hair was a blue and white cap. His eyes were a deep blue.

Next to him was a short, reptilian digimon wearing a beast coat which extended to claws and had a horn penetrating from his forehead.

"Hey, I'm Region Lance-Heart, one of headmasters, and this Gabumon."

"Hello."

"You're our group of noobs, huh? Not very impressive; you're all In-Trainings."

"Hey! That's this freaking islands fault! Get some god damn maintenance rather than complain!" Erik yelled.

Region rolled his eyes, "Oh calm down, I was just kidding. Anyway just follow me to the auditorium for orientation. Gabumon, take their bags please."

Gabumon went behind a bush and returned, pulling out a giant red wagon. "Just put your bags in here and I'll take them to orientation."

While most of the kids just put their bags in, but Daire was hesitant,

"Well you don't have to do that; I don't mind carrying my own bag."

"Oh it's no trouble at all, seriously. Ryan," Gabumon looked to his partner.

Ryan smiled and nodded before pulling out his digivice, a blue

X-Loader. The screen cut to a white background with yellow zeros and ones floating up the screen. Region moved his arm across his chest,

"Gabumon..." He swung his arm across and a beam of light, surrounded by circles, followed his digivice screen, "Digivolve!"

"Gabumon digivolve to..." His arms shot out and became large wolf paws, that same happened with his hind legs, his body grew and was like that of a large wolf, and finally his head became like a large wolf with scraggly parts between his ears, "Garurumon!"

Garurumon looked at Daire and Upamon. "Whoa...that is badass!" Upamon cried.

"Allow me to take that." Garurumon requested.

"Oh, uh, sure." He handed his bag to Garurumon who took it in his mouth.

Garurumon put the bag into the wagon and then flipped the handle on top of the bags. Region walked over and fastened a harness from the wagon and put it into Garurumon's mouth.

"I'll meet you there Garurumon."

"Umhm," Garurumon's voice was muffled. He ran off at an incredible speed, leaving the group to stare after him impressed.

"So, let's get going, shall we?" Region said. He started walking off down the dirt road. The group followed him.

After a few minutes of walking up the road they reached campus. It was like most school campuses: green lawns, benches, paths of concrete, the dormitory, a school store, and bleachers. What was interesting was what the people in those bleachers were watching.

A boy stood at one end at the midpoint of the arena, the bleachers behind him with two other students watching him. One of the student's digimon was the same as one of the two in the arena, and the others was like a human sized fairy wearing a skimpy outfit and visor.

The two digimon in the arena were a combat species dragon digimon and a less intimidating worm digimon. The dragon had a humanoid build but had a tail and blue skin with white at his stomach and mouth. He had a yellow V on his head and two yellow markings above his cheeks. This was the digimon identical to the one in the stands. The other was similar to a caterpillar and had a segmented body with points for climbing, two more points on its rear end with a black circle on that segment. His mouth was sideways and was more like pinchers with many points and he had two long antennae. In the direct center of his forehead was a symbol like an arrow with two points down beneath it.

The boy had a fierce look on his face, his eyes growing frustrated behind his purple tinted glasses. His angry eyes were violet and his hair was dyed dark purple. He wore a dark purple shirt with a light purple jacket over it and violet cargo pants and purple sneakers. This kid clearly had some sort of obsession with purple.

"C'mon show more power! You're being too soft!" The boy yelled.

"That's Bright Mitchel, he tends to freak out on his digimon while training." Region explained.

"Vee Punch!" The blue dragon spun his arms like a windmill and rapidly hit the worm digimon, pushing him towards the end of his side of the arena.

"His partners are Veemon and Wormmon, who are brothers. They seem to forget their relation in battle."

"Sticky Net!" Wormmon cried. A gleam of disturbing enjoyment sat in his eyes. He shot a thick web at Veemon, dragging the string at certain points across the field to limit his brother's movements.

"Vee Punch!" Veemon managed to break out with his attack.

"Damn it, neither of you are showing enough power!" He pulled out his digivice, a purple (big shocker) D-3. The screen glowed with power.

"Veemon digivolve to..."

"Wormmon digivolve to..."

"Centarumon!"

"Togemogumon!"

Centarumon was like a centaur, having a humanoid build from the waist up and a horse like appearance from the waist down. Across his body, rather than muscles, there were purple welts. His left arm was a metallic, five fingered claw with a chain and on that shoulder was a metallic shoulder pad. His head was helmeted and the hole in the helmet was T shaped. He had a paper thin, orange tail and a Gatling gun rather than a right hand.

Togemogumon was much smaller than the at least ten foot tall Centarumon, but larger than Wormmon. He was some-what similar to a mole with crystal shards making up his back. His shins were stone and bared the Symbol of Friendship on them.

"Hail Machine Gun!" Togemogumon cried. All of the hundreds of shards shot off his back and shot towards Centarumon.

"Solar Ray!" Centarumon shot a solar blast of energy from his hand-gun. It shot through the shards which dissipated into bits of data. The attack continued towards Togemogumon.

"C'mon guys, keep up!" Region called walking off.

The group tore their attention away from the battle of brothers and walked after the head master. As they walked past the dormitory they saw a young, emo looking boy hiding in the shadow while a much brighter girl stood in the sun and talked his ear off.

As they neared a large domed building, presumably the auditorium, they passed two girls, one thirteen and one fifteen. The fifteen year old girl said, "Hey Region." As she passed the group, her kendo warrior digimon following behind her. The other digimon was cat like.

The group walked past the four and into the auditorium. The sliding glass doors opened for them and they were greeted by a blast of refreshing cool air, which felt nice on the skin. The auditorium's floor was blue tiled and there was a concession stand at one side of the building. Next to that stand were Garurumon and the bags. Before the group were rows of brown, cushioned chairs and a stage stood right past that. On stage were four humans and their digimon.

Region went over to his partner and unfastened the harness. Garurumon shrunk back to Gabumon and the two walked up the stage. One boy, who was also sixteen like the rest of the head masters, walked forward with his partner. "Hey, my name is Danny Granger, lead head master here at Digimon Academy. This is my partner Dorumon." Danny wore a purple hoodie and white undershirt, jeans and running shoes. He was lean and muscular so clearly an athlete.

"Wassup, welcome to Digimon Academy." Dorumon said with a grin.

Dorumon was a purple and white, beast-dragon cross digimon with a red gem on his forehead.

"My mother, Yuan Wang, and my father, Nate Granger, were students here when they were kids and ended becoming excellent tamers. Some people might say the best." He gave a little wink at Dorumon, like that meant something.

Suddenly Region looked nervous, like Danny said something he shouldn't have. "Hey, that's nothing." Region changed the subject. "If you want to hear some real digital history listen to this. My fathers, Ryan Lance and Skylar Heart, were two of the original five founders and head masters of Digimon Academy." Erik looked like he wanted to make a comment- most likely a rude one- but decided better against it.

"Well so long as we're talking about history I'll share my story." One of the female headmasters said. She was slim and had red hair in a ponytail and green eyes. She wore a pink shirt and jeans and converse. "My name is Lily Prescott. My mother also came to this school, her name was Amy Prescott." Her face fell then. "My, uh...father also came here, his name was Tyler Death." Lily explained.

"He wasn't exactly a real father." Her plant-like partner said. "More like a sperm donor."

Lily laughed. "Oh, I'm sorry; I forgot to introduce my partner, Palmon X."

"Just call me Palmon." Palmon X said.

"Guess I'll introduce myself next." Said a punk-looking girl. She had pure black hair, kept wild and spikey, and dark brown eyes. She wore black jeans, black boots, a white blouse and a leather jacket a little above waist length. She had a very slim build. "My name's Dillion Friese, daughter of old teachers Cel Friese and Jeff Lenon, and before you ask, no my mother and father are not separated my dad took my mom's last name." Dillion explained.

This time Erik did comment, "Pussy!" Everyone glared at him angrily.

"Spear Needle!" A giant, red spear shot towards Erik. He jumped up and it landed right between his legs. He and Tsunomon stared in horror. They and the rest of the group looked up to see the attacker. "Do not mock Lady Dillion's family! They are of noble people and highly respected throughout the Digital World." The digimon attacker was an undead knight digimon. He was the height of an adolescent and his chest armor had the appearance of a skull with red, swirling eyes. His helmet was like that of an average knight but had demonic horns on top and yellow glowing eyes peering out. On his back was a flowing black cape. His legs were short and stubbly but for hands and arms he had large, red spears, the same that sat at Erik's crotch currently.

"Relax SkullKnightmon, I can take this punk." Dillion said. Her words were cool and sharp like a dagger.

"Yeah, loosen up pally. You know Dillion can kick ass on her own."

Said Dillion's other partner. He was dog-like in appearance and white fur for most of his body but had a pink tail and ears and pink markings under his eyes.

"Well Labramon, just because she can 'kick ass' with her own skills does not mean we should not defend her honor. That is what a knight does."

"Yeah, whatever." Labramon rolled his eyes.

"Well I guess that just leaves me." Said the final head master. He was of average build and weight for his age and had flat brown hair with a few strands on his forehead and brown eyes. He wore a red, zip up hoodie and jeans with red and black sneakers. "My names Pyralis, and this is my partner Dracomon."

"Hey, just like my partner!" Hana cried.

Pyralis blinked. "Excuse me?"

"My partner is usually a Dracomon." Hana said.

"That's very unlikely." Pyralis' Dracomon said.

"Why?"

"Because Dracomon are an ancient digimon. There originally was only one and all of his descendants became the species Dramon digimon. There are very few Dracomon left and they are direct descendants of the original Dracomon. Except for me, but that's because my father, partner to one of the original headmasters, was from-" Pyralis hit Dracomon in the back of the head, "OW!"

"Shut it!" Pyralis cried. "You know we aren't supposed to talk about the Before Times." Pyralis said in a more hushed tone.

"Before times?" Caleb whispered to himself.

"Anyway," Danny stepped in, "Here's how we do things here at the academy. You stand up one at a time from right to left and front to back and state your name, present your digivice, and state your partners preferred form. Then come up to the stage and we'll give you your room key and other information. We'll start so you've got an idea. My name is Danny Granger, my digivice is a Pendulum X," He presented his red digivice, "And my partner is Dorumon."

Next was Region, "My name is Region Lance-Heart, my digivice is an

X-Loader," He presented his digivice, "And my partner is Gabumon."

Next Pyralis took his turn, "My name is Pyralis Flame, my digivice is a D-3," He presented his red and black digivice, "And my partner is Dracomon."

Then Dillion went, "My name is Dillion Friese, my digivice is a D-Power," She presented her black and silver digivice, "And my partners are SkullKnightmon and Labramon."

Finally it was Lily's turn, "My name is Lily Prescott, my digivice is a Digivice Data Link," Presented her orange and pink digivice, "And my partner is Palmon."

That's when Danny decided to get funny. He pointed his digivice towards Palmon X and the screen glowed. A sphere pulled away from her body with what looked like an X in it. Palmon's body changed and she was no longer an X-Antibody digimon. Then Danny pointed his digivice at Gabumon and he changed, the X-Antibody going into him and making him an X-Antibody digimon.

"Hey!" Both of them cried. Region and Lily tried to stifle their laughter.

"C'mon Danny, change them back." Region asked.

"Aw, ok," Danny did the reverse of what he had just done and fixed the two digimon. "Anyway, all kidding aside, you it's your turn." He pointed to Kiba.

Kiba stood, "My name is Kiba Inuzai, and my digivice is called a D-Cell." He presented his digivice. It looked like a navy blue razor phone with a camera and light blue and silver buttons. "My partners are Ponymon and Mangemon."

"Great, come up and get you're information." Danny said. Kiba walked towards the stage and Danny handed him a brown envelope with his room key and information.

"Thanks." Kiba walked off and gave a small wave to Keeva before continuing towards the bags. He grabbed his bag and left the auditorium with Foalmon and Puppymon resting on the bag.

Next to stand was Keeva. She looked really nervous and was hesitant to stand. "It's ok Keeva, just say the stuff and let's go." Kitmon encouraged.

Keeva stood. "My name is Keeva Inuzai, and my digivice is a D-Cell,"

She presented her D-Cell which was purple with white buttons, "And my partner is Kittenmon." She walked towards Danny, grabbed her envelope, grabbed her bags and ran out of the building after her brother.

Erik rolled his eyes at her shy personality. Next to be called was

Brittany. "My name is Brittany Jules, my digivice is a Digivice Data Link," She presented her yellow digivice, "And my partner is Salamon." She went up and grabbed her stuff. She got her bag and left.

Caleb was next. He raised his hand instead of standing however. "Um, my brother and I share our partner so do we have to do this together."

James rolled his eyes in frustration. He knew that because they shared a partner they would end up being stuck together but he wasn't looking forward to it, even if they had shared a room their whole lives.

"Yes, that would be easier." Danny agreed.

James stood up with Caleb and went through the routine. "My name is Caleb Finch."

"My name is James Finch." James seemed to lack enthusiasm.

"We both have a purple Digivice 01." They presented their digivices.

"And our partner is Candlemon." James said the last sentence. They walked to the stage, DemiMeramon floating by them, and got their information. They each got their bags and left.

Next to speak was Nick. "My name is Nick Farens, my digivice is an

X-Loader," He presented his purple X-Loader, "And my partner is

Phascomon." The head masters were a little confused why he was not an

In-Training, but decided to just pin it as a malfunction. He got his information and bag and left, Phascomon sticking out his tongue.

As he walked out another student walked in. He was of average height and weight for a thirteen year old and had dirty blonde hair kept in a pony tail that reached his shoulders. His skin was lightly tanned and he had hazel eyes. His shirt was black with gold trim and he had grayish black jeans and black and gold tennis shoes. He wore a gold pendant around his neck. "Sorry I'm late." The boy apologized.

Dillion frowned, "Samuel, I told you to be here at twelve."

"I know, I'm sorry." He apologized once again.

"Well since you're here you can go next. State your name, digivice and partner."

Samuel nodded, "My name is Samuel Hart, my digivice is a gold D-Cyber," He showed off his digivice, "And though he isn't here right now my partner is Penguinmon."

Dillion frowned but nodded, "Alright, I guess you can go."

"Thank you." Samuel nodded. He turned and left the building to return to where ever he had come from.

"Alright, now that that is settled, who's next?" Region asked.

Hana stood. "My name is Akahana 'Hana' Arakawa, and my digivice is a

D-3," She presented her digivice which was red with white grips, "And my partner is Dracomon." She smiled widely. She strode towards the stage where she took her envelope and walked off, Bebydomon on her shoulder. She grabbed her bag and exited.

Amelia stood, "My name is Amelia Ekaki, and my digivice is an Element-D." She presented her gear-like digivice. The screen took up the whole center and there were buttons with symbols on all the points. "My digimon is SemiStarmon." She walked over and grabbed her envelope, and then left grabbing her bag and Pickmon dancing on her shoulder.

Matt stood next, "My name is Matthew Ryder, and my digivice is a

D-Power," He presented his navy blue digivice with white circle, "And my partner is Valvumon." He walked over and took his envelope, grabbed his bag, and walked out with Brutemon under his arm.

Elegon stood, "My name's Elegon Laze and I'm really excited to be here!" Elegon said, earning chuckling from the remaining noobs. "My digivice is called the D-Wrist." He showed off his wrist digivice. It was all gray with a red gem in the center and points at either end with black lines on them. "My partner is Zenmon, and just to warn you all she can kick some serious ass."

"It's true." Neumon said smugly, but it was still adorable.

Elegon walked up and grabbed his envelope and ran off, quickly stopping to grab his bag and running out. The next to stand was Erik.

"Name's Erik Lamos," A few people snickered, "And the last person who made fun of my name I beat up using a bat!" That shut people up. "My digivice is a Digivice Burst," He presented his dark blue and orange digivice, "And my partner is Goblimon. Oh and in case any funny guys wanna mess with us he's got a big f*cking club." He went up and ripped the envelope from Danny, who stared at him with distaste. He grabbed his bag and exited with Tsunomon.

"Ok now that the asshole is gone, who's next?" Danny asked.

Some of the kids laughed at the asshole comment. Then Daire stood up, "My name is Daire Kennedy, my digivice is called a D-Quartz," He showed his watch-like digivice, "And my partner is Armadillomon."

"Heya!" Upamon cried.

Danny chuckled a little and gave Daire his envelope. "Thanks." Daire walked away and grabbed his bag. Next Luvenia stood.

"My name is Luvenia Romano, I have an original digivice," She showed off her digivice, "And my partner is Renamon." She took her envelope and grabbed her bag. She left the building and the next to stand was David.

"My name is David Anthony, my digivice is a D-3," He showed his white digivice with black grips, "And my partner is Dragemon." He grabbed his envelope and bag and left.

Next Shu stood, "My name is Shu Kiriyama, I have an X-Loader," He presented his red and yellow X-Loader, "And my partner is Flamemon." He grabbed his bag and envelope and left.

Finally stood Tsuna, "My name is Tsuna Maxus, but you can call me Zero, and my digivice is a D-Cyber," He presented his green D-Cyber, "And my partner is Monodramon, but he likes to be called Blast." He got his envelope and bag and left.

"Alright, that's everyone." Region said.

"How do you think they'll do this year?" Dillion asked.

"Guess we're gonna find out." Palmon X said.

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Daire, Upamon, Elegon and Neumon were in their room unpacking. "Man it's so great we're roommates." Daire told Elegon.

"I know, this is gonna be great! I bet you a thousand dollars nothing will ruin this day." Elegon responded.

Suddenly their door flew up. "Aw shit, I'm rooming with you two?" Erik said.

Neumon looked at Elegon from his bed, "You owe Daire a thousand bucks."

Well everyone that's it, the first chapter of Digimon Academy Year 2: Digital Reboot. Even though it isn't the second year but years ahead in the future. Aw well. I hope you liked it and I'm sorry if it's mostly description. There's plenty of plot to come so stay tuned for the next installment of Digimon Academy! And don't worry I'll finish Academy soon, please don't be angry I started this prematurely. Oh and SuperGarurumon if I take too long to finish Academy just nag me a lot. It shouldn't take too long though since I'm already at the fight scene. Anyway,

Peace People!