The Other Digidestined
Intro No. 1
Lucrecia Montgomery
Setting: Juneau, Alaska, U.S.A. *****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~** The days have grown darker now. Winter has finally drawn upon us, here in Juneau; a time of lasting darkness. But I do not fear. I am used to it. The long dark winters here in Alaska are nothing compared to my journeys through the digital world. My name is Lucrecia Miyax Montgomery. I am half-Inuit, half-American, which is probably why I am full of mixed feelings at times. I live up here in Juneau with my father, Johnathan, working at the Juneau Children's Hospital most of the time. But this isn't about my life in Alaska. It's about how I realized my worth as a digi-destined. Being one of the digidestined is an honor; yet it is full of fear, dispair, and anger as well as happiness and celebration. I shall tell how I first encountered my digimon for the first time... *****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~** The day I met Seomon was in the late winter. It was bitter cold, and I was sledding toward Anchorage to receive a parcel of medicine from their hospitals. It was snowing, but not too bad; yet it was difficult to see through the clouds of white battering my numb face. My team was wearing down, and I was worried that we wouldn't make our 72-hour deadline in time. I was wondering whether to stop and rest my dogs or try my luck with the storm, when I heard one of my dogs up front yelp in surprise. Looking around for danger, I spotted the large crack beginning to develop near my team and myself. Ice! I didn't realize we were treading on the lake in the storm, but it seemed a dangerous mistake to make. "Gee!" I shouted, urging the dogs to turn back, but they were too disorganized and confused to understand. The crack thinned out, breaking off into hundreds of tiny little cracks, edging ever closer. I stepped off the sled, running to the front of my team to pull them away from the breaking ice when it gave way beneath me, causing me to plunge into the freezing waters that could claim any life easily... *****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~** Numbness was all that I knew, my flailing limbs panicking, reaching for the surface that wasn't there. I could not see if I was going up or down, whether or not to reach above or below me. The coldness shocked my body, my lungs, surprised, released what little precious air I had held before I fell. Realizing the hopelessness of wasting my energy, I let myself be pulled by the forceful waters with the tiny hope that maybe I would float to the surface before hypothermia struck. Hope was thin, though. The seconds seemed to last for years, as my mind began to fade, my body finally submissing to the deathly cold... *****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~** "Ohh..." I moaned, coughing and shivering violently. Wondering why heaven was so cold, I sat myself up, wondering if I even was dead or not. I was in a cave, for certain, with a gentle (and very much welcomed) fire. As I glanced about, I saw a small shiny object in the corner of the cave. Puzzled, I peered closer, edging with curiosity. "Hello, there," I was able to say through shivers. "Show yourself." The shiny thing raised itself up. It was no taller than up to my thigh, with shiny reddish scales covering itself up. It had bright yellow eyes and a strange equally yellow crest along the top of its head, down to its tail, which ended in a mermaid-like fin. It looked at me and grinned. "Y'feeling any better now?" It asked. I was going to remark that it could talk, but that would be utterly useless to say, so I asked, "Who...What are you?" "I'm your digimon. M'name's Seomon." It handed me my digivice and a crest. "What's this?" "That's your digivice, and that's your crest. You have the crest of Life." It scooted closer and looked up at me gently. "We're going to be great friends, you know..." It drifted on and on, and I found myself very tired, so I fell asleep to the creature's soft voice. *****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~*****~**