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Chapter 1
I skated down the street on my skateboard with earbuds plugged in blocking out the rest of the world. I was going down hill, my red, orange and blonde hair flowing behind me. Trust me, it's awesome hair. The top part of my hair is a blood red color that fades into a warm orange and then blonde at the tips. I had my bangs twisted and clipped back against the left side of my face. Other then that, I wore my usual black choker with a red heart on it, purple tank top and black pants along with plain gray converse.
This was the last week of summer vacation, and I planned to enjoy it.
Finally, I reached my house. It was a two story home, me living on the second floor apartment. I rented it from my land lord who was a nice, old widowed woman. Ryu and I usually went over to her house for sunday dinner since she sometimes got lonely. Okay, she's lonely. Her husband died three years ago and her grandson who was supposed to live in the apartment I call home bailed on her a few months ago. She's like family now. She's also as blind as a bat, which is why she thinks Ryu is a dog.
I do feel sort of bad for deceiving her, but if she doesn't mind a dog, then she wouldn't mind Ryu if I told her what he really was. I sorta know what he is. I've seen his kind on the news a few times, which also involved police. That's why I don't tell anyone about his existence. If I do, then he becomes a rare animal from the bahamas that my father got me as a gift. He wears armor because he gets into trouble a lot and I don't want him to get hurt.
My name is Jenna, and half of my life is a lie.
I don't really have a dog, I don't really live with my grandmother though my landlord easily fits the bill, and I'm not really supposed to be in Japan.
Oh well, what can you do?
Soon, I reach my house and step off the skateboard, then walk up the stairs. When I open the door I'm instantly tackled to the ground with a small head buried into my chest. I pated the samurai helmet with a small laugh.
"You're home!" Ryu exclaims.
"Yes, yes I am, and I missed you too. Can you please get off me though?" I ask him. He nods getting off.
"Sorry Jenna." And he's back to his honorable attitude. Ryu likes to play the part of a Samurai since he sort of is one. I suppose me calling him 'my little samurai' doesn't help either. But every time he gets excitedly, he acts like the little kid he really is.
Ryu looks like a little yellow furry dragon. He has purple and black Samurai armor on his body and a samurai helmet with little cuffs on his paws. A red ponytail flows out from under his helmet and his emerald eyes sparkle with excitement.
So at this point, you're probably thinking 'you have a dragon?'
Correction. I have a digimon. His name is Ryudamon but I call him Ryu. He likes that name better anyway, clamming that every Ryudamon goes by Ryudamon, and even though Ryu is part of the name, it's original enough for him.
(You can look up Ryudamon , he's a really real digimon and you can google him online.)
I prepared dinner for the both of us, grilled cheese. We eat in silence and then we went to kick back and watch our favorite show. NCIS.
"I think it was the wife, how about you?" I ask him coming out of the kitchen with popcorn.
"Oh popcorn! My favorite! And I think it was the brother." He answers as he digs into his own bowl of popcorn. I laugh.
I found Ryudamon about 6 months ago on the streets when I was coming home from school one day. He was shaking and cold and in an alley that I used as a shortcut. Shocked, I brought him back to my house (no easy task) and when he woke up fed him popcorn because I didn't know what to feed him and everyone loves popcorn, right? It wasn't until he was fully rested and had a full stomach that he realized he was with a stranger, but at that point I'd earned his trust.
You should have seen me when he first talked though, but I got over it quickly. When he told me he had no place to go I offered him a spot in my house which he accepted. We've been best friends ever since.
An hour later I groaned while Ryu laughed. He was right, it was the brother. Damn. This week he had solved two more cases then I had, but I would get him back.
We didn't only watch NCIS, we actually watched a lot of cop shows and as long as we hadn't seen the episode before, we had a competition to see who could solve the most cases. This week, he was ahead but I'd beaten him by three last week.
"Alright, I'm gonna go change before we start the next episode."
Ryu nodded with his eyes still glued to the Tv. It was a commercial, and for some reason he loved them. He especially loved watching 'the stupid people on infomercials who can't even eat food.'
As I slipped into black and purple plaid shorts and a black T-shirt, I could hear Ryu's laughter from the living room.
"She got slapped by spaghetti!" He called which made me laugh to. Silly people.
There was a knock on my door, and I figured it must be the land lady because nobody else really knew where I lived. Well, the teachers did, but like they'd be bothered with dealing with children during the summer.
"I got it!" I scream to Ryu and then move to the door. I don't think he heard me but that didn't matter either because he was in no hurry to move.
I swung my door open and instantly became confused. In front of me where three people, a tall blonde boy, a shorter girl with a pixie style hair cut and then a brunette boy who had longer hair then her. They were dressed in some kind of uniform and looking at me expectantly.
"Are you Jenna Cisneros?" the blonde asked. I leaned against the doorway and folded my hands across my chest. My hair was tied up in a messy bun on top of my forehead.
"That depends who's asking."
"We're with the police."
Oh shit! What did I do? Although no emotion shows on my face, I'm thinking of everything that I've done within the past month that would cause the police to be here.
"Sorry, I'm not your girl. My name's Cecilia." I answer smoothly.
The brown haired boy steps forward with an aggravated look on his face. "Okay look, we already know that your Jenna, we're in the same class, and were here because we've heard several reports of a girl hiding a strange animal in her home. That you?"
"Hmm. . .nope, sorry. It's just me here."
"Hey Jenna! They just found a dude in the trunk of a car!" Ryu screamed. It took all of my will power not to face palm.
"And my little cousin Ryu."
"Mind if we come in then?" The girl asks. I block the doorway.
"Sorry, but I'm trying to get Ryu to go to sleep and if you guys come in, he definitely won't go to bed anytime soon."
"I'm sure he'll be fine. It's summer after all." Thomas presses, determined to enter my home.
"You know what? I'll be right back." I say. Then I close the door and run over to Ryu.
"Ryu, go hide. Stay in the bedroom and if you hear footsteps, into the closet. You understand?"
"Yeah, but when I get back, I'm so gonna solve that case!"
I snort. "Please, I've got this one in the bag."
"Trunk." He corrects. I glare at him with a playful smile on my face and he laughs, running to the bedroom. Then, I make my way back over to the door and open it again.
"Sorry about that, Ryu's headed off to bed. You can come in."
I step aside nervously and let them in. Only the girl smiles politely at me and takes a seat on the couch. The boy with brown hair sits in one of my comfy chairs and grins when he see's whats on.
"Man, I love this episode! Never suspected the best friend until the end."
Then, I hear thumping coming from down the hall and Ryu runs in the room and head butts the boy in the chest. He doubles over in pain before Ryu joins me at my side. I'm not sure if I should be mad at him or laugh.
"Hey! I was gonna guess that at the end of the episode and win!"
I snort again. "No you weren't, I was so gonna win that round."
"As if! I knew it was the best friend as soon as I saw the dead body!"
"Please! You didn't even know if that guy had friends!" We're bickering back and forth. I hear a faint "Marcus, are you okay!" I ignore everything except the name. I'm to busy arguing. In fact, I've forgotten about the 'cops' completely. When I get competitive, I fight to win and unfortunetly, so does Ryu.
"It was obvious." Ryu states rolling his eyes.
"Then why didn't you say that before huh?"
"Just thought I'd give you a minute to see if you could match my skills. It's clear though that you can't."
"Hey!" The blonde snaps. We stop and turn to face him.
"Yes?" We ask at the same time.
"Do you realize that you are in the illegal possession of a digimon?"
"Digimon?" I ask playing dumb. "This is my pet iguana from the Caribbean. My dad's a scientist that taught him how to talk. Don't tell anyone though."
"Really? And where's your cousin Ryu?"
"Sleeping."
"Right. And you just so happened to have a digimon named Ryudamon." Marcus wheezes, obviously still in pain from the powerful headbutt. I shrug.
"I couldn't think of a name for him so I named him after my cousin Ryu. Never thought that Ryu would show up here though but hey, what can you do?"
"Stop lying." He scoffs. I glare.
"Now if you're done here, the doors over there."
"Sorry, the fact of the matter is, you still have a digimon and we have to return it to the digital world."
"No way!" Ryu squeaked. He ran over to my leg and hooked himself onto it, refusing to let go no matter what. "I'm staying here with my partner Jenna!"
"Have you ever digivolved?" Thomas asked. Ryu and I exchanged glances. Truthfully, yes, he had digivolved once or twice before, but that was to chase a cat which he kind of killed for scratching me. . . since then he had only digivolved one other time, but we knew that he still could.
"Yes I have." Ryu stated matter-o-factly.
"Well then, we'd love to see it. Why don't you come back to DATS with us and show us there." The girl suggested.
"Umm sure. . ."
"Oh! My name is Yoshi, and these are my partners Thomas and Marcus. Pleasure to meet you."
"I just wish we had met under different circumstances." I mumble. She smiled sheepishly but asked me to follow. I told her I'd be there in a second and ran back to my room, changing into my previous outfit.
"Come on Ryu." I say holding out my hand. The digimon nods and clasps my hand in his own as we follow the cops out the door. I can sense his fear and discomfort which matches my own, so I decided to try and take his mind off things.
"You know, I technically won that case." I start as we enter the squad car. Thomas is the one driving with Yoshi in the passenger seat and Marcus next to me. I sat in the middle because Ryu didn't like Marcus at all and that was fine with me, even though I was practically sharing seats with Ryu in an attempt not to touch Marcus.
"What? No you didn't!"
"Yes I did. I found out first after Marcus screamed it."
"Yeah, but that's cheating."
"Is not."
"Is so."
"Is not."
"Is so."
I see the annoyed look Thomas sends and gently put a hand on Ryu's shoulder, indicating that we'll finish this conversation later. He nods and looks out the window. Out of the corner of my eye, I take a quick look at Marcus. He said he's in my sophomore, wait, junior class so. . .
"Hey! I remember you!" I exclaim suddenly. Marcus looks over at me with an amused look.
"Really now?"
"Yeah! You're that kid from Chemistry who-"
I don't finish my sentence because Marcus slaps his hand over my mouth, catching the attention of Yoshi and Thomas. Yoshi turns from her seat to look at us.
"What about Chemistry?"
"Well. . .Uh. . ." Theres a blush on his face and now I have to tell her just to get back at them for forcing me to leave the safety of my couch.
Quickly, I stick out my tongue and lick his hand. He pulls it back in shock giving me the opportunity to speak.
"He went to show the teacher is solution and when he got there, it started to bubble over and then some of it went down the teachers pants and- "
But Yoshi's to busy laughing at the first part to hear the rest and even thomas is smirking as he drives. Marcus is beat red and glaring at me. Ryu doesn't quite understand the humor of it all. . .
"Why'd you have to say that?"
"That's for forcing me into a freaking squad car!" I shout.
"And revealing the murderer." Ryu huffs. I can't help but laugh at him.
"Okay okay, so what happened next?" Yoshi asks. I smirk and signal her to come closer. Quickly, I whisper the rest of the story in her ear as if we've been friends for years.
" .GOD." And then she's doubled over again laughing so hard you can't even hear it and I laugh too because it was hilarious and the teacher had to leave the school for a while and Marcus got detention for a month.
"Oh look, we're here!" Marcus shouts jumping out of the car. Yoshi and I are still giggling as we get out and start heading into the building which is god damn huge! I grab Ryu's hand again as we walk down the halls.
"Please don't let them send me back." He whispered. His emerald eyes are full of fear, something I promised myself I wouldn't let happen again. I smiled lightly.
"Don't worry my little Samurai. You'll be okay."
"Alright Jenna. If you say so."
"I do."
The corridor ended and we came into this giant room full of awesome technology stuff. In the center was a large tube thing and then there were two girls working at giant computers. My feet clanked as I walked on the metal floors.
"Ah welcome back team and. . ." A tall man with black hair and a digimon wrapped around his neck greeted us. I awkwardly filled in my name and my digimons.
"I'm Jenna and this is Ryu."
"Right. Now why exactly are you here?" It seemed like he was asking Thomas and Yoshi rather then me.
"She is in possession of a rouge digimon that she claims can digivolve."
"Because he can." I defend aggravated. The man looks at me interested.
"Marcus, show her to the examination room. I'd like to see this for myself."
"Yes commander." He answers grumpy. I don't think he likes me. . .With the flick of his hand over his shoulder, he signals for me to follow. Still holding Ryu's hand, we follow him down another passage.
"So. . .do you have a digimon?" I ask breaking the silence. He snorts.
"Of course! Everyone at D.A.T.S does. I've had my partner for about two years now."
"So you got him when you were fourteen?"
"Yup." He states.
"Can I see him!" Ryu asks excitedly. Marcus seems like he's about to say no when this weird orange device he has starts to light up. A second later, a digimon appears in front of us. I've heard of this one before, Ryu told me it was called an Agumon.
"Wow!" Ryu grins. He hasn't seen a digimon for a long time, let alone a friendly one.
"Hi!" He greets. "I'm Agumon and that's my boss." He points to Marcus who groans.
"Agumon. Your supposed to stay in the digivice."
"Sorry boss."
"It's fine." He sighs. Agumon smiles and Ryu lets go of my hand as he goes to talk to Agumon. I catch up to Marcus and fall into step with him while watching the digimon in front of us talk and laugh.
"You said he's digivolved before right?"
"Yeah. . ."
"What happened?" I gulp, not exactly sure I should explain. Ryu would seem hostile then and they might say he's a threat. Really though, he didn't mean to kill the cat, he just, you know, killed the cat.
"I was being attacked by a cat and he digivolved to scare it off."
"Is that the only time?"
"No, one other time."
"What happened then?"
"Just seeing if he could still digivolved. He can."
"Right."
We're silent again but it's short lived because we then enter a room. It's got cement floors like a tennis field and metal walls. On the wall that makes up the hallway I can see a long mirror.
"Double mirror?" I ask. Marcus shrugs.
"Probably."
Wether it's stupid or not, I wave to the mirror even though it seems like I'm waving to myself. Marcus chuckles behind me and then shows me where to stand at the back side of the room.
"Alright, do your stuff." He leans against the wall next to me with Agumon next to him. Ryu is standing in front of me with a serious face. If he doesn't digivolve know, he's a goner.
"Ready little Samurai?"
"Always."
I focus on him and the bond that we share. I focus all of my feelings into my hand and soon it's glowing with maroon data around it.
"You can do a DNA charge?" Marcus asks. I shrug.
"Is that what it's called?"
"Yup."
"Okay. DNA charge." I whisper. I place my hand on the large gem covering Ryu's forehead. He smiles at me and soon begins to glow white from the extra energy that I've added.
I step back and watch as his form begins to grow. His body becomes longer and his two arms are replaced with forelegs. Armor covers his entire body except for legs and face. You can see his eyes and the rim of his mouth which is white on his yellow face. The red jewel still decorates his black helmet and he is hovering in the air.
"Holy shit. You didn't even use a data link!" Marcus exclaims. I walk over to the digimon and pat his head.
"It's been a while since you've taken this form, huh Ginryumon?"
"I still like to go by Ryu." He said with a deep voice while bowing. I laugh.
"Trust me, I know."
The doors open and in walks in the commander guy, Thomas and Yoshi.
"So you weren't lying." Thomas acknowledges. I would love to rub it in his face that he was wrong but the Commander is looking at me expectantly.
"Okay, so, can I go home now?" I question. It's like, midnight and I'm tired as hell. Then again, how tired is hell? You know what, never mind. The gist of it is, I'm tired.
"Actually, I'd like to ask you a few questions first. When did Ryudamon first digivolve."
"Three months ago."
"Why?"
"Cat attack."
"What happened to the cat?"
"Haven't seen it since." That wasn't really a lie, I haven't seen that cat since. . . I think some crows or shit got to its corpse.
"Interesting. Can you change him back?"
"Sure, but it's tiring. Catch me if I faint." I wave off easily. I make my way over to Ginryumon and touch the gem on his head, absorbing the Maroon data back into my body. Don't ask me how it works, I really don't know.
Suddenly, I feel as though I'm about to faint and I stumble forward onto Ryudamon. He grunts as he catches me and places me on the ground.
"Wow Jenna, you really need to lay off the popcorn."
I send the best glare I can manage but the room is spinning, so I'm forced to focus on one point on the ceiling.
"Same to you." I mumble quietly. With nothing better he should be doing, Ryu lays down next to me.
"Is she alright?" Marcus asks. Ryu answers for me.
"Yeah, just give her a few minutes."
They do give me a few minutes. A few long, awkward minutes and them I'm able to get back up and lean against a wall for support, my face still pale.
The commander is looking thoughtfully at me leaving a weird feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Ryu breaks the silence.
"D-do I have to go back?"
In the ten minutes I knew the guy, I never expected the commander to smile, but he did. It was small, just a twitch in the left corner of his mouth, but he did smile.
"That all depends on how Jenna answers my next question."
I looked confused.
"Before you ask, can you tell me what the right answer would be?"
"Yes." He states. I wait a few moments to hear what the answer is supposed to be, but he doesn't say anything more.
"Yes what?"
He snorts. "I meant that you should answer my question with yes."
"O-oh." I can here the other three chuckle a bit from their corner of the room but I chose to ignore them and stand up straight trying to make the situation less awkward.
"First of all, I'm sure the others told that this organization is called DATS. It's a branch of the government that deals with digital world and digimon interference. Though it doesn't happen as often anymore, digimon can sometimes slip through the portal of the digital world and this world, where they come here. We aren't sure why though, but when they come, they can be viscous and harm humans or other animals."
I glanced at Ryu who looked back at me looking slightly guilty.
"Our job is to turn them back to digieggs and then send them back to the digital world. Few exceptions are made as Marcus told you, as members of DATS are allowed to have digimon. Any other digimon has to be sent back to the digital world."
I gulped and grabbed Ryu's hand again.
"I can see you have a close bond and that you don't want him to leave."
I nod in agreement.
"But according to the law, we have to send all digimon back unless they have a DATS partner."
I'm getting a bad feeling about this.
"So, if you want to keep Ryudamon, then there is only one thing you can do. It's still your choice though, so I'll ask you."
He pauses for a second, making the whole thing even more dramatic.
"Jenna, if you can help Ryudamon digivolve, then you've got incredible skills, and that's exactly the kind of quality I need in people on my team. That being said, would you like to become an agent for DATS, along with Ryudamon?"
My jaw dropped to the floor, and I'm pretty sure mine isn't the only one.
"C-commander!" Yoshi exclaims in shock. I still don't move, as I have no idea what to say. Ryu's grip on my hand tightens.
The commander is looking at me expectantly.
"C-could I have a moment alone to think about this?" I finally whisper. He nods and waves a hand, telling the others to leave with him. I can't bring myself to look at them and as soon as the door closes, I drop to my knee's.
"W-what?"
"Jenna." Ryu whispers. His voice is serious and I look up at him. I can see his eyes glazing over with tears.
"I don't want to go back. Theres nothing more that I want to do then stay by your side, but if you don't want to do this, then you don't have to. It's a huge change in the way we've been living, and I can't ask you to change anything that you aren't comfortable with. So. . ."
I cut him off there with a huge hug, holding him tightly as if letting him go means they really will send him back.
"Oh Ryu. I couldn't ever send you back. It may seem weird as I haven't known you that long, but I can't imagine my life with out you. So I've made my choice."
He nods to me with a grin as I get back up off the ground standing tall and determined.
"You sure about this?"
In response, I turn to the mirror and cup my hands together around my mouth.
"I'VE MADE MY DECISION, YOU CAN COME BACK IN NOW!"
About ten seconds later the door opens and the four people walk back in. I look straight at the commander with a small smirk on my face.
"Commander, I would be delighted to be a part of your team."
