Silverdiva7: Hello, minna! First of all, I'd like you to put away all sharp objects, as what you are about to read might cause you to fling them at me—I feel that I still have a lot to give to this world and I do not want to die yet. I'm no Digimon expert, I admit that, but after watching my brother get hopelessly addicted to the series, this idea interested me. I know that this doesn't follow at all the story, but, like I said, I'm not expert and this was just an interesting topic—and I wrote it on a dare. Well, I hope some of you like it anyway—no flames, please, I find flamers close-minded. Please read and review!
PROLOGUEThe Discovery of the Archives
Hmmm…let's see now… fourteen-year-old Digidestined Koushiro Izumi was typing away in his laptop, one Saturday afternoon, looking through his files of the Digiworld that Gennai had given him. He was doing some cleanup, deleting the files he didn't need, and limiting his disk space. What with all the Digiworld information he was getting, he's going to need the space.
As he looked through some files, such as Digimon files, he came across something that Gennai never explained to him. It was an icon with the label "Archives".
Clicking on it, he waited for what was going to happen. But nothing did. Frowning, he looked at its properties. There was a program in it.
He tried again, and finally, a message appeared. "Install Archive program?"
Koushiro, intrigued, clicked 'yes'. It took only fifteen seconds, as his connection to the Digiworld made things faster.
The screen flashed once, and turned black. Then, what looked like very strange and old runic symbols began scrolling upwards on the screen. It turned into numbers and number symbols soon after, and faded away to reveal the program title: "The Digidestined Archives"
A choice appeared: "Enter Archives?"
Eagerly, he entered, and the screen flashed again. There were four selections. One was Archive 00, Archive 01, and Archive 02. The last one was 'exit', which he completely ignored.
I wonder what these could be…they seem to be a lot of data… he thought. Oddly enough, he saw that Archive 02 had the label 'ongoing'.
"Ongoing?" he said to himself. "What does that mean?"
Curious, he clicked on the choice, and instantly, what looked like a document of the same runic symbols appeared in front of him in a template that made it looked like it was carved in tan stone. "I can't understand a thing," he said to himself.
As if in response, a message appeared on-screen. "Translate? Yes/No?"
Clicking on 'yes', the writing shimmered and turned into understandable writing. As soon as this happened, however, he stared, appalled. On the opening lines, it said:
"This is the archive of the third set of Digidestined to arrive in the Digiworld, whose task is to unravel the secret of the mysterious Digimon Emperor and defeat the evil residing in the Digiworld. These are the detailed chronicles of their journey and adventures, and all that they do will be kept here until a new set of Digidestined is found."
Scrolling down and quickly looking at the pages, he saw everything that Daisuke, Miyako, Ken, Iori, Hikari and Takeru had said and done in the pages. And to his astonishment, the other Digidestined were there as well! There were Taichi, Yamato, Sora, Mimi, Jyo and himself, although not too often. Pictures were sprinkled all over the document.
Going to the very bottom, he stared at it in astonishment. What was written there was:
"Koushiro looked at the archives in astonishment, wondering what all of it could mean."
"Gosh, this thing knows what I think too?" he said to himself. And to his surprise, his words appeared as if someone was typing them in. Annoyed and mystified, he left this archive.
So that's why it was ongoing… he thought. It chronicles even what happens now since there aren't any new ones after Daisuke and the rest yet. Wait a minute. If these are the new Digidestined's archives, then Archive 01 one must be…
Clicking on the archive, he stared at what was written. It was exactly like what he saw in the third archive, only it was for the second set, which was none other than himself and his friends. Their task in this one was to defeat the evil in the Digiworld as well, from Devimon to Apocalymon.
Everything about them, beginning from the fateful summer camp down to the time when they defeated Apocalymon and after that, was written in extensive detail in this archive, and as in the third, pictures were all over it as well.
Oh, good heavens…even what we ate, what we said, down to what we were supposed to be thinking are written here! he thought.
It rather interested him to read all about what they used to do…how juvenile everyone was then, of course…and then, right when he was reading about an argument between Taichi and Yamato, he remembered something.
There was one more archive in the program: Archive 00. That's odd…it must be about the very first Digidestined, then. Gennai told us about them once, although he never mentioned them again. None of us know anything about them…
He felt rather interested to know what the first Digidestined were like, and what exactly happened to them when they stumbled into the Digiworld.
Clicking open the archive, he was met, for the first time, by a message from Gennai:
Hello, Koushiro!
I knew that you would find this archive sooner or later. I never told you about the first Digidestined, did I? Well, you will find in this archive their story. It is quite interesting, how they were and how they did their task. To tell you the truth, their task was a little stranger than yours.
Well, I will not keep you from their story any longer as I know you are anxious to see it. But I warn you, what happens to them may not be what you expect, as their troubles were little more serious than yours. I suggest you also call the other Digidestined to read it with you so you will all know about the very first Digidestined and the troubles they had to face.
Smiling to himself, Koushiro closed the message, and the first lines of the detailed archive appeared before him like the others. Their message was a little more different.
"This is the archive of the very first Digidestined to enter the Digiworld, whose task is to protect the sacred Digicrystal and the maiden who will harness it's power to fully defeat the evil hounding the Digiworld and give forth a time of peace. These are the detailed chronicles of their journey and adventures, and all that they do will be kept here until a new set of Digidestined is found."
Koushiro was mystified. "Digicrystal? What is that? We never heard of that before…"
He remembered what Gennai told him and got up. Walking to the phone, he dialed Taichi's number. "Oh. Hello, Mrs. Yagami. Is Taichi there?" He paused, and when Taichi came on the line, he said, "Taichi! I'm glad to have found you. You'll never guess what I just found!"
"Really?" asked his friend. "I bet it's something important, then."
"It is," said Koushiro. "I can't tell you everything right now, it'll take too long to explain. I want you to call over Yamato and everyone else you can find and meet me at my house."
"All right," said Taichi. "I'll try and look for them. See you, Koushiro."
Minutes later, a group composed of Taichi Yagami, Yamato Ishida, Sora Takenouchi, Mimi Tachikawa, Jyo Kido and Ken Ichijouji were gathered in Koushiro's living room.
"What is this all about, Taichi?" asked Mimi. "Why did Koushiro ask us to come here?"
"I don't know," said Taichi. "All he said is that it would take too long to explain over the phone and it's terribly important."
"It must be something with connection to the Digiworld, then," said Jyo. "That's about the only thing that important, then."
A door opened and Koushiro hurried out, carrying his laptop. Looking at them, he breathlessly asked, "Are all of you the only ones who came?"
To which Ken replied, "Miyako has to stay in the store, Daisuke is with his parents visiting his grandparents and Iori has kendo practice."
Yamato said, "Takeru can't come because mom took him clothes shopping."
"Hikari caught the flu," said Taichi. "And this time I made sure she stays in bed no matter how big a deal this thing is."
"Oh. We can tell them later, then," said Koushiro hurrying to the table and quickly opening his laptop. He typed for few moments, and he inched back as a large hologram appeared over the laptop. It was a hologram of Archive 00, so that everyone could read.
"What is that?" asked Sora.
And Koushiro pretty much explained everything that he had discovered recently to his friends. When he took a breath when he finished, they were all staring.
"So it's something like a diary, then?" said Sora.
"Well…yes, but chronicles would be a better word," said Koushiro.
"Wow, the first Digidestined," said Ken, moving closer to the hologram. "I wonder what they had to go through."
"That's what Gennai wants us to see for ourselves," said Koushiro. He typed again and as the first lines appeared, their reaction was the same as his.
"Digicrystal?"
"Let's just read and see, okay?" said Koushiro, getting a sweatdrop. "I haven't the foggiest idea either."
As they looked at the first photograph, it showed a picture of six children of jr. high age all in dark red and beige uniforms except for one in a white and royal blue one. There were three boys and three girls.
"So they're the first Chosen Children…" said Taichi.
"That's right," said Koushiro. "I've skimmed a bit of the first part. You'll find how they got into the Digiworld pretty interesting."
And this is where the story began.
Silverdiva7: How's that for a prologue, eh? I'll add the next chapter. Please review!