Hey you guys! I am back. Sorry I didn't stay to my original date for this story but it took me a while to get somethings stait. But now that doesn't matter because here it is Digital Differences Revised.
Disclaimer: Zakuya Kanbara does not own anything digimon or of that sort saddy. (I wish I did.)
Digital Differences
By Zakuya Kanbara
Chapter 1: When it All Begins
The boy that stood before Zoe looked like Takuya but she knew it couldn't be him. His hair looked as if it hadn't been cut in years. It stuck up in the air in all directions like a very large, chocolate brown bird's nest. Another reason is that he wasn't wearing goggles.
She knew she had to be dreaming because not only was she floating in midair but she was floating between the Digital World and her own, in the strip of darkness that separated the two dimensions, and the boy with the large hair was holding them apart. He had one hand placed on the edge of the Digital World and the other on Earth, each the size of beach balls.
Suddenly the boy spoke, his voice tearing through the darkness and reaching Zoe even though she had been far away from him away from him.
"Are you Zoe Ishida?" the boy said, and that was when Zoe realized that he wasn't a boy at all but a man.
She nodded, unconsciously answering his question.
"Great! I was wondering when one of you kids would be visiting me. My name's Taichi Kamiya, but you can call me Tai."
The man had a grin like a five year old. Zoe couldn't help but notice the resemblance between him and Takuya. They had the same color hair and eyes. The same sun browned skin, even the same famous Kanbara smile. She had to shake her head to get herself to concentrate on what the man was saying.
"Tai?" she asked warily, "Where am I?"
"I thought that much would be obvious," he glanced left and right at the two different worlds, "We're between dimensions."
It all seemed so cartoonish to Zoe because she knew that the worlds didn't really look like that. Otherwise she would be able to see the Digital World floating in the sky above her head every day, and Tai would be a humongous monster in the clouds holding their worlds apart.
"This can't be real," she whispered.
"Of course it is," Tai grinned, although Zoe couldn't comprehend how he had heard her, being so far away, "Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean that it isn't real."
Suddenly Zoe felt a tugging in her chest as if something or someone had wrapped their hands around her and dragging her back to reality. She looked up at Tai and he was farther away than he had been before and growing farther away still.
Just as her dream faded into nothingness she heard his playful voice singing in to oblivion, "Come back soon!"
"Z, wake up!" Takuya said softly, nudging her shoulder.
It was eight in the morning and they had school soon, but the gang always made a point of it to get together before and after classes. Just because they mostly went to different schools didn't mean that they could never see each other.
Zoe groaned and sat up; she had fallen asleep on a bench next to Takuya, her head cushioned by her backpack and Takuya's sweater. The others were looking at her as though she wanted to fall asleep next to Takuya on purpose.
As their argument began to turn heads in the park Takuya looked away from Zoe, who was trying to explain her dream to him and fixed them all with a stern look that caused them all go silent.
"What was his name again?" Takuya asked Zoe; to make shore that he heard the right thing.
"Taichi Kamiya, I believe," Zoe said, biting her lip.
"Man, that's a weird dream," Takuya observed, but sounded a little bit nerves at the sound of that name, "Sounds real freaky."
Zoe eyed him for a while but then just let it go
As hard as it was to believe, in the few months since they had returned from the Digital World, Takuya had remained the unspoken leader of the kids. All of them relied on his advice even more than when they had been trapped in the Digital Dimension because in the Digital World they had all found something they were good at, but on Earth they were all still having trouble fitting in.
Takuya had never had trouble fitting in. He had always been bored and constantly searching for something exciting but he had never had any trouble making friends. He was easy going and funny and people in his classes flocked to him, always giving him more attention than he knew what to do with, especially since he had returned home. His stories and rambunctious nature had increased tenfold and he was more popular in his class than all of his friends combined. Still, he was grateful that he had real friends like Zoe, JP, Koji, Koichi and Tommy because none of those kids at school understood the real him at all. None of the kids at school could comprehend that Takuya Kanbara's craziness had only increased because he was yearning for something exciting to happen and was secretly hoping that some rogue Digimon would amble by and blow up his entire school just to give him an excuse to go searching for another adventure.
"Takuya?" Zoe said, interrupting his daydream of a Seadramon flooding his Homeroom.
"Hm?"
"I asked if you'll be alright going to school alone today."
Takuya looked at all of friends faces in confusion, "But, won't Koji and Koichi be coming with me? We do go to the same school after all."
"No goggle head." Koji droned, "Today's the day we're visiting JP and Zoe's school because our parents are moving again in to a different district. So we'll be closer as a family."
"Oh," Takuya said, he had forgotten, "I remember now, yeah, I'll be fine. You guys better get going or you'll be late."
His friends picked up their stuff and waved goodbye to Takuya who sat on the bench a bit longer. Tommy glanced back at Takuya every few seconds until he was out of sight.
"Zoe?" Tommy asked, pulling on her purple sweater, "Will Takuya be alright by himself? You know he's wanted to go back to Digiworld. It's all he talks about."
Zoe glanced behind them but Takuya was no longer visible, they were too far ahead.
"He'll be fine," Zoe said confidently, "Its Takuya we're talking about. I don't think he'd ever actually be stupid enough to try and go back. Especially after all the trouble we went through trying to get out."
"Maybe goggle head isn't stupid enough to go back in to the Digital World but I wouldn't put it past any Digimon to find a way over here, and I wouldn't put it past Takuya to attract unwanted attention." Koji said.
Takuya was lying in a field. The breeze felt nice and the sunshine was perfect, warm but not overbearingly hot. He rubbed his hands through the billowing grass feeling at ease. Everything was quiet, peaceful, and serene.
Suddenly Takuya lurched upright. His eyes darted across the field and over the endless green grass.
He had no idea where he was.
He stood and his legs felt stiff as if he hadn't moved in days. He stretched them feeling the sudden ominous presence of something - or someone - watching him. The only problem was that no one was there.
He walked a bit, on and on through fields of grass until he couldn't walk any more. He sat down and stared. There was no end to it.
He sat there for a long time and barely stirred until something rumbled underneath his feet. He jumped up and hurled himself out of the way just as the ground where he had been sitting exploded sending chunks of dirt and rock cascading toward him. He covered his face with his hands and peered through the gathering smoke trying to catch a glimpse of what had caused the explosion.
The dust was too thick. He couldn't see but he could hear.
"Give it to me!" a voice growled right by his ear.
He darted out the way, running through the smoke, but just as the field never ended neither did the thick dark smog that surrounded him. It burned his eyes so he put his goggles. He'd breathed too much in that he nearly choked.
"Give it to me!" the same voice shouted, inches from his face. This time though he stood his ground.
"What? What do you want?" he demanded.
"The key! Give it to me if you value the life of someone close to you," it threatened and Takuya shivered as he felt warm breath cover his entire body as if the creature before him had a mouth the precise size to swallow him whole. He cursed, wishing he could see more than an inch in front of his face.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Takuya said, fumbling in his pockets. He wished he had his D-Tector. Even though Agunimon was no longer inside and it had been transformed back in to his cruddy cell phone he still felt safe when he held it.
He put his arms up to block his face, hoping that dying wouldn't hurt so badly when suddenly he was falling. The smoke was gone but the voice was still there, echoing through his ears, "Give me the key, the key, the key," until he was clawing at his head, trying to stop the noise.
"Hey, hey, kid, stop screaming. You are going to be late," a stern voice said in his ear and Takuya sat up so fast that he barely missed the man's head.
Nimbly the man had avoided him and was now giving him a curious look. He had short frizzy red hair and a laptop case, and although he was dressed plainly he held himself in a way that Takuya could tell he was important.
Takuya then realized he was still on the park bench in the park. He must have fallen asleep.
The man pointed a finger at the school just through the trees; the bell was ringing shrilly though the crisp morning air.
"That your school." the man said.
It was.
Takuya lurched off the bench, grabbed his bag and dashed through the park, hardly remembering to say thank you to the red haired man before he made a wild sprint toward the school gates in order not to be caught late.
The man stared at Takuya as he ran away and shook his head, a slow smile forming on his lips.
"Just like his father," he muttered.
Who was the guy in Zoe's dream? What do the Digimon want with Takuya? You will just have to keep watching Digimon Digital Monsters.
TBC...
Wow! Are you as excited as me to find out what happeneds next. So you know how I have seven chapters for this story, well I am going to be deleating them so that on one will be cheating when I am trying to make the story better. Please give me some ideas like should I encluded the Royal Knights and the Deamon Lords. Or should I change it to the Deavas that work for the Deamon Lords. I need your oppinions to make this story the best one yet.
As you may have been seeing I have posted a story on Digimon and Powerpuff girls Z. Now this story does not mix thses two shows up. It is only like that because I don't want to onpen up a new story base and do it all oveer again. So I call it a crossover when it really is not. It is just a series of song-filled events. lots of people are doing it and I have read a couple of stories like that so I was like what the heck and did my own.
Now please continue to read my story even if you have read the first seven chapters already please just wait. All I need is a little bit of time.
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