Hello! This is Light Dragon SunsSong here, and this is my first Digimon fic. Just so everyone knows, it has no actual ties with other seasons except a few reoccurring Digimon and crests, but it is loosely based on the videogame Digimon World 3. Hope you enjoy! Also, I don't own all the characters. My friend Riverfox237, who allowed me to use her in this story, owns Jenn Maylow. Well, read on…
Digimon: Online
Chapter I
The Digimon: Online center at first glance looks like any other tall skyscraper in Tokyo; tall, dark colored, walls appearing to be made of glass. But, as Brian saw, there was certainly much more to the building. Like the fact that it was blue, or the fact that at the top was a giant sign with a blue dinosaur breaking through what appears to be some kind of blue circle.
A portal, perhaps, the fourteen-year old thought. This is, after all, the Digimon: Online center.
Brian Daniel looked somewhat like a regular American teen. His clothes, a blue T-shirt with a red dragon emblazing the front over a black long sleeve shirt and dark navy blue jeans, were extremely baggy and appeared to be a size, at least, too big. The jeans were almost made of pockets, having at least eight that Brian knew of. The sleeves of the black shirt came over his hands, so he had cut holes in it in order for his thumb to stick out.
Probably the strangest thing about Brian was his hair. It was bleached blonde, almost white, cropped short and jelled up into spikes. The tips of the spikes were died a bright blue, giving his hair the look of white fire. His eyes were bright green.
It was a joke among his friends back home in Chicago that he was Malfoy's twin, as in the Malfoy from Harry Potter. Because of this, and his love of dragons, his nickname was Draco.
Here in Tokyo, he didn't know anyone. The only reason he was even there was because he'd won an all expenses paid trip to Tokyo to be among five kids who would be the first to experience the new Digimon: Online virtual theme park. It was going to be like in the old Digimon T.V. show, where you are paired up with a Digimon and roam the digital world, beating the bad guys. It sounded like fun to Brian, seeing as he was one of the few people who liked Digimon at his school. He'd secretly wondered if there would even be any more 'DigiDestined'.
Brian pulled a slip of paper out of his pocket. When he'd received the letter saying he'd won and the plane tickets, he'd also gotten this piece of paper. The letter had said that on the paper was his own personal password. Upon arriving at the Digimon: Online center, he would tell the secretary his password and would be allowed through. His password, as strange as it sounded, was 'valor dragon'. He didn't know what it was supposed to mean, but he hoped it'd have something to do with his Digimon. He really wanted his Digimon to be a dragon. He crumpled the paper as he formed his hand into a fist.
"No time like the present," he thought aloud, and entered the building.
Leslie Arcane, on the other hand, was nowhere near as transfixed by the building as Brian had been. She'd only stopped long enough to flick a lock of dyed bluish-black hair out of her eyes. She wasn't impressed by the sheer size of the building, or its tacky sign. Well, maybe she was, but she wasn't going to give anyone the satisfaction of showing it. She wore an outfit almost entirely black, from her black T-shirt with a skull and crossbones to her black jeans with their bottoms stuffed into black combat boots. Worn loosely over her shirt was a black leather jacket. Her face was extremely pale from lack of sunlight, as were her hands with black painted fingernails. Her gray eyes were darkened by excessive use of eyeliner and mascara, but she had little more make-up on her face other than dark violet lipstick. Most likely from this description you might gather that Leslie was goth, and you would be correct. She, too, had won the trip all the way to Tokyo, but not because she'd wanted to. Oh, no. Some witch at school decided to put her name into the little bucket that collected them and, low and behold, here she was. She had no freaking idea what Digimon even was, let alone why they'd make a virtual theme park of them. Maybe, if she was really lucky, they'd all speak Japanese and she could pretend to listen.
Leslie definitely wasn't happy about all of this, as if she was ever happy. She was the only goth in a small school, or at least the only goth in her grade, and had no friends. Everyone either feared her or made fun of her. All because she liked being different. Who cares what they think? Not her. Who is it that has the best grade point average? Her. She was the smartest kid in her grade, but no one realized it because they were too busy making sure she wasn't going to snap and kill them all, or something.
Leslie just sighed inwardly. She was here now. At least, if nothing else good came out of all of this, she was away from them. She walked the rest of the way to the door and went inside.
Jenn Maylow was the first of the DigiDestined to come up to the building at a run. She stopped directly in front of the revolving door that led inside. She gazed upwards, seeing just how tall the building was compared to herself. With exhilaration, she wondered what the world would look like from the top.
Jenn's long, straight brown hair wavered slightly in the wind, but her long bangs were kept, for the most part, out of her eyes by an aqua hair clip. Her eyes were a brilliant shade of blue green, and her whole outfit seemed to go on that one color. The T-shirt she wore was light blue, an emblem of a kind of swirly raindrop that was a darker shade of blue. She also wore black cargo pants, the pockets of which were blue. Her sneakers were blue and white, the fingerless gloves she wore were black with blue designs on the back of the hands, and even her Digivice she'd received in the mail was blue! Along with the Digivice, she'd been sent a piece of paper. On it were two words, 'empathy seal', and that was apparently her password.
She couldn't stand waiting outside any longer. She ran inside.
Shinji Yukimura adjusted the wire-rimmed glasses that magnified intense blue eyes. His black hair was nicely slicked back in an attempt to look somewhat dressed up, considering the rest of his outfit was just what he usually wore; his school uniform. White shirt, black and gray striped tie, gray dress jacket, and gray slacks. Under one arm was a black laptop, his constant companion.
Shinji wasn't surprised one bit by anything before him, as far as the building went. He'd seen it all before. The President of the company that had made the Digimon: Online theme park was his father, after all. Frankly, though, he'd been expecting more Japanese winners than just himself. Considering the place was in Tokyo, it would have saved money to 'randomly' pick all Japanese DigiDestined. Oh, well. It was a good thing he knew how to speak English, he'd be using it a lot during this whole thing.
With an air of authority, the fairly tall fifteen year old walked into the building. The room within was gigantic, seeming almost as large as the inside of a cathedral, but with no decorations at all. The only objects in that entire room were the doors inside at the front, a small door at the opposite side that led to the Matrix chamber and further on to the virtualization pods, and the secretary's desk somewhere in between. The secretary herself Shinji had talked to before occasionally. She looked up.
"Oh, hello, Mr. Yukimura," she said in Japanese with a pleasant smile. "I assume you're here for the trial run?" Shinji nodded, then said simply, "Knowledge spider." He took his black and gray Digivice out of his pocket to show it to her.
"Right… You may step right through that door, sir." He nodded and complied.
Through that door was a rickety metal bridge over blackness. Parts of it seemed rusty, Shinji noticed with a frown. He didn't much like the idea of falling through, or even off the side, considering that it lacked any sort of side railing. It was an unbroken fall to the machinery below. With a deep breath, he began to walk across.
He took it slowly, not wanting to rush and accidentally fall. He heard, rather than saw, the door open once more behind him. Another DigiDestined, perhaps? He turned slightly, enough to get a look at the figure behind him. Unfortunately, that's exactly what they were; a black figure. A tall, possibly adult black figure, with… Glowing red eyes? What's going on here?
"Shin… Ji…" Came a rasping voice. Panicking, the boy tried to run forward, but found he couldn't. At the other side were two more figures, exactly like the first. "Shin… Ji…" They all rasped in unison, stepping onto the walkway over the blackness below. Unable to do anything else, Shinji screamed.
Dun dun dun! Sorry about the cliffy. I couldn't help it. (wink) I know the summary says that there are five kids, not four, but the last one will be coming in later. Now it's time for you all to R&R! Oh, and happy holidays!
Next Update: December 28th