Note ;

Well, here's the first chapter of my CoA story. The first two will be focusing on Rai's past.

Because I have no life, I update quickly. xD

- Rai

I do not own anything except for my own OC, Rai.

"Solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other..."

-Han Suyin

Cold. It was cold.

Rolling her head, trying to wake up, the girl felt the stone wall behind her head. When she came to, her single golden eye flew open in shock. An alleyway. Cobblestone streets. People running around in ragged clothes. This was not her home. This was not her world. Where was she? Confusion sparked in her mind, soon turning into fear. She was four. She knew that. She knew that the eyepatch covering her right eye was never, ever to be taken off. But other than that, she knew nothing.

Bringing her knees closer, she curled up and cried. Tears came out of one eye, her left eye only. She couldn't see out of her right, and was not sure if she even had an eye behind the patch. Crying quietly in the alleyway, she did not move from her spot.

"Hey, are you alright?"

The simple question caused the girl to look up from her knees. A boy with kind eyes and yellow hair stood above her, offering a hand. After hesitating a moment, she took it.

"What's your name?"

The girl opened her mouth to answer, then stopped. Her eye widened. She couldn't remember.

"I.. I don't know…"

The boy just smiled, then replied,

"Well then, we'll just have to give you one. Let's see… I once learned that someone else they call lightning rai. You've got a lighting bolt on your eyepatch. That's it! From now on, you'll be Rai."

Rai groaned in her sleep, unable to wake up yet. Her eyepatch lay on the ground clutched in her hand, and her closed right eye was sparking. Electricity danced around it, but she was out.

"Wow! So you have the flames too? That's so cool! Just like the boss!"

A boy praised her as she showed the group her flaming hands and forehead. Soon, the first boy entered, looking a few years older.

"Okay, everyone. I need to have a talk with Rai alone."

The other boys filed out obediently, and the two were left alone. Rai spoke first.

"You know what I told you, earlier, about… me not being from here?"

The boy nodded. "I do."

"Well… I don't think this power is mine originally." Extinguishing her flames, she pointed to the eyepatch. "I think I somehow copied your flames. It might have something to do with this eye."

The boy nodded, looking deep in thought. "That very well could be true… In that case, we can't let other Families know about you. They might try something."

Rai nodded, "I understand. I don't want to cause any trouble for you."

The girl's finger twitched as a black nose smelled it curiously. She had a cut across her face, shallow, but it was the reason why her eye patch came off. She groaned in her sleep again, causing the shape that had sniffed her to jump back before growling slightly.

"I… I want to fight too! I'm part of your Family, right? I want to protect what's important to me!"

The same boy, a little older, shook his head.

Rai, curled up in a nicely decorated room. She was in the corner, staring at her knees. Then, she sprang up and dashed out of the room.

Following the noises through the street, she found the boy again. His black cape billowing, hands alight. His steel gloves flashed as he took out enemy after enemy. But there were too many. A man with a sword approached from behind him, and Rai saw this.

"NO!"

She yelled, darting infront of the boy, her precious Family member. The sword swung down, cutting the string of her eyepatch and her skin. Falling down, she landed with a thud on the cobblestone street. Grasping her eyepatch, her eyes closed for a moment

"Rai! Rai, say something!"

The boy called over his shoulder worriedly. Soon, her eyes snapped open. The right one did not have a pupil. Instead, golden electricity sparked with it.

"Get… Get away from here! Something's happening!"

Obeying her wishes and seeing the eye, the boy blasted fire backwards from his hands and flew up into the sky, watching in shock as her eye's electricity charged at an impossibly fast pace. It began to overflow, hitting the men and burning them to a crisp. It hit the walls and turn it black. Soon, rips in the space itself appeared. Looking up, she stretched out her hand towards the boy. He flew down towards her, but the rip began to cause her to fall into it. The rip closed just as he nearly reached her hand. She blacked out to his last word.

"RAI!"

With a gasp, the girl sat up. To her left a snarl caused her to look over at a large dog. It looked like a Doberman, but it was extremely thin, it's bones poking out, and it had blades on it's heels. A large spiked collar was around it's neck, and it had red… eyes on it's thighs. As she looked, she noticed that her eye felt funny. Electricity began to conduct around her open eye, and with another gasp, she fumbled with her eyepatch, tying it around her head.

"I don't want to shock you," she muttered to the dog as she felt the electricity die down.

The dog looked at her in surprise, "why are you concerned for my well-being, human?"

"I don't want to cause anyone harm," she said softly, "and your eyes, they look lonely. I'm sure mine must look the same. We're similar."

The dog walked up to her slowly, as if he was taking everything in. "What is your name, human? And how did you come into the Digital World without a partner?"

"My name is.. Rai." The girl said quietly, "and… I don't know. I was dragged here."

With a nod, the dog sat down next to her. "I am a Digimon called Dobermon. I will help you out of here."