Hello there! My name is Naruto Uzumaki, and this story is about how a group of eight friends and I…Actually, it's probably for the best I start at the beginning. Just like you, I was born on planet Earth. More specifically, I live in Tokyo, Japan with my mom after my father disappeared four years ago. It all started when I was eight years old when I went off to summer camp with my two cousins, never knowing our lives would be forever changed…
POV Switch
A young boy with wild blonde hair sat at the base of a tree going through the contents of his backpack. His blue eyes glinted with mischief as he sorted through his various pranking supplies that he brought for his time at summer camp, a wide smile stretching his whisker birthmarks on his cheeks so he looked like a literal Cheshire Cat.
"Alright let's see here: itching powder, check. Joy buzzer, check. Rubber chicken, check. Snow in the middle of summer, che…wait, what?" he finished in confusion as he looked up. Sure enough, white drops of frozen water where falling from the sky almost lazily. "Huh, that's different. Bet the weather man is really gonna get an earful today," he said thoughtfully as he stared at the new fallen snow.
Just as suddenly as the snow started, it became a raging blizzard. "AGH! Now I wish I'd brought my snowy weather pranking supplies…and a pair of warmer pants!" Naruto Uzumaki cried out as he grabbed his bag of tricks and ran with the other kids in the area to a shrine located where they were camping at when it became obvious the tents weren't going to cut it.
Once inside, Naruto took note of the other kids he had been introduced to earlier that day. First there were his two cousins: Yamato "Matt" Ishida and Takeru "T.K." Takaishi. Both boys had similar blonde hair and eyes to their cousin but just a shade darker in color. Matt was the eldest of the trio and tended to be overprotective of the two younger cousins. Naruto once described him as a plastic bubble that walks, but he still is a very caring individual. T.K. is the same age as Naruto but by the way he acts at times you'd think he was younger. Naruto gave him the nickname of Crybaby T.K. until his mother gave him a good smack upside the head for it, but the two were good friends considering both boys were raised by their mothers, were babied by Matt, and tended to get into more trouble than boys their age should. They were maternal cousins, three times removed according to their mothers, but the boys tended to just refer to each other as simply cousins.
Sora Takenouchi is a girl who had established herself as a sort of 'mother hen' to the group and was a bit tomboyish in nature. In short, she reminded Naruto of his own mother. Koushiro "Izzy" Izumi was a boy that, while older than T.K. and Naruto, was nearly their height and gave what Naruto dubbed 'teacher talk' in that he tended to take things very literally and explain things to great detail. Not to mention he was a complete computer bug. Mimi Tachikawa was a stereotypical valley girl who looked like she'd be more at home in a mall then out camping, which caused Naruto to wonder why in the heck she was out here. Joe Kido was the oldest and by far dorkiest boy Naruto had ever met. If Matt was a plastic bubble, then Joe was the bubble boy given that he seemed paranoid and germaphobic to the extreme. Finally there was, Taichi "Tai" Kamiya, a jock like boy who wore sports goggles all the time and seemed to take up the leadership role for their camp group almost immediately.
After several minutes of listening to the pounding snow and roaring wind, things seemed to quiet down a bit. Hesitantly, Tai opened the door and they all gaped. The entire clearing was covered in a thick blanket of snow. The others crowded behind him eager to see as well.
"Wow. I want to make a snowman!" TK yelled and ran out pushing past Tai. Matt quickly followed after yelling after him,
"TK slow down!" Mimi also began to wander out.
"Whoa! If only I had remembered to pack my fluffy pink snow shoes," she said wistfully. Joe came out looking worried,
"And I was worried about catching a cold, but just look at this, this is even worse!" But he nonetheless joined the others outside. Sora stood next to Tai with her arms around herself shivering,
"Brrr! I'm freezing!" she exclaimed as she gripped her bare arms. Tai shortly followed with an awed look on his face…right up until a snowball smacked him in the back of the head.
"Hey!" he yelped before turning around to find the perpetrator, only to find Naruto standing with his arms held behind his back whistling innocently. Narrowing his eyes at the younger child, Tai asked accusingly, "Did you throw that snowball?"
Naruto looked surprised at the question. "What snowball?" he asked in confusion before a look of understanding came over his face and he said, "Oh, you mean this snowball?" He finished by whipping out his right arm from behind his back and tossing his second concealed snowball right at Tai's face. Fortunately for the goggles wearing boy, his reflexes were sharp enough so that he was able to duck in time. Unfortunately for Sora, she was standing right behind Tai and took the snowball right to the back of the head.
"SNOWBALL FIGHT!" Naruto called out while throwing out a seemingly endless horde of snowballs from behind his back, nailing each kid at least once. The other campers tried to duck and dodge out of the way and soon it was a full blown warzone. This lasted for several minutes until the kids realized one important fact: none of them were dressed to deal with winter weather warfare! "I'm c-c-cold!" Naruto chattered out as he rubbed his arms furiously, his orange and black T-shirt doing nothing to protect him from the cold, not to mention his khaki shorts provided little protection to his knocking less.
Matt walked up and smacked his younger cousin upside the head, causing him to yelp. "Next time, think of that before starting a snowball fight in summer clothes!" he chided.
Naruto was about to argue back before a flash of light caught all eight children's attention. Looking up, they were greeted by a beautiful sight! A stunning mixture of shades of blue, purple and green lit up the sky and moving slowly around one another as if caught in an unknown breeze. The whole scene glowed with an ethereal brightness that shone from the sky with an intensity and mysteriousness equal to that of the full moon on a clear night. Soon the others also took notice and began to stare.
"Its beautiful..." exclaimed Mimi in an awed tone.
"Yeah but what is it?" asked Izzy.
"It looks like the Northern Lights." said Sora.
"The Aurora Borealis? That's impossible we're way too far south to see it." Izzy rebuked.
"Why don't you tell it that?" she remarked dryly.
"Maybe we should go back inside" Joe suggested (begged).
"And miss this?" Matt responded "It's like the sky is short-circuiting!"
"Hey, somethings happening!" Naruto cried out as he noticed something forming within the lights. A small spinning green disc had appeared in the Aurora. Suddenly light burst from its center and small glowing objects rocketed towards them.
"EVERYONE GET DOWN!" Tai yelled and pulled Sora down with him as the meteors impacted in front of each them hard enough to send the snow flying into the air. As the snow settled everyone began to get up.
"Is everyone alright?" Sora asked.
After a round of affirmatives from everyone they went to investigate the meteors that landed in front of them. A light began to shine from the ground in front of everyone from each of the impacts. A small shape appeared in the light and began to move upwards covered in some sort of bubble of energy. Naruto instinctively grabbed his, along with everyone else.
As he opened his palm he saw a small device rested within it. Looking to the other kids, the whiskered boy took note of what the other kids were doing with theirs. Some, like Izzy, were just examining them while others, like TK, were pushing every button on the device and waiting to see what happens.
The device looked something like a watch it could be clipped onto a belt or sash. Then the screens all began to glow causing the group to look up and stare in shock as a huge wave of water appeared from nowhere and scooped all eight of them up.
Among the screaming and horror filled shrieks of the others Naruto couldn't help but laugh and whoop as they felt the sensation of falling uncontrollably like the thrill rides he loved to go on, followed by bright lights whooshing past him and impossible shapes dancing all around him before it all faded to black.
"Naruto? Na-RU-To? NarutoNarutoNarutoNarutoNaruto?" the voice of a young child was the first thing the Uzumaki was made aware of as his consciousness came back to him.
"maljfah…I don't wanna go to school today," he mumbled in return.
"What's school? Is it some kind of food?" the voice asked curiously.
Slowly, the cobwebs began to fade from the blonde's mind as he sat up with a groan. Rubbing the sleep from his eyes, Naruto looked around and noticed that he was in some kind of tropical forest if the plants were anything to go by. Looking for the source of the voice, Naruto was confused to see no one around him.
"Huh? Did I just imagine a voice talkin' to me or somethin?" he asked aloud in confusion.
"Nope~! I'm right here!" the voice called from his lap.
Looking down, Naruto froze at the sight of a strange creature blinking up at him with a single giant orange eye. The creature had a grayish body and was reminiscent of a spider. However, it was definitely NOT a spider. For starters it was way too big to be a spider, nearly the size of the blonde's own head! It had six claw-tipped legs supporting its body, three on either side, as well as two feeler like appendages on the top of its head. Naruto could only stare in dumb silence as the thing stared right back at him. Suddenly, the eye closed upward that made it seem like it was smiling despite the fact it had no visible mouth.
The thing said in the same young boy's voice from before, "Hiyah, Naruto!"
That caused Naruto's brain to reboot as he let out a (manly) scream and scrambled back on his hands as fast as he could, causing the…spider-thing…to lose its balance and fall off onto the forest floor. Naruto kept backing up until his back hit the base of a nearby tree while he stared at the creature as it righted itself up, the blonde was wide eyed and panting. Keep in mind, Naruto did not have arachnophobia, but having a spider shaped creature that looked as if it crawled its way out of a B-rated sci-fi movie suddenly be on your lap and talking to you would give one a healthy level of respect towards the spider species.
"Hey, that was rude ya'know!" the thing (he?) cried indignantly as it (he?) scuttled towards the human on its six legs.
Calming down his pounding heart somewhat as childish curiosity started to replace mindless panic, Naruto looked over the creature and said slowly, "S-sorry, you just kinda surprised me there Mr…?"
The spider-thing waved a claw in the air dismissively and said, "Ah it's okay, I'd be surprised to see someone as awesome as me too! The name's Tsumemon, and I've been lookin' forward to meeting you for a long time, Naruto!"
Naruto blinked as he gently picked up the now identified Tsumemon and looking him in the eye. "You were…waiting for me? And wait, how'd you know my name? And what are you?"
Tsumemon giggled at that and said in a teasing tone, "Ya'know, you ask a lot of questions. But that's okay! Yeah I was waiting for you, just like the others were waiting for those other humans that showed up. And as for your name," at this he seemed to shrug his shoulders, an impressive feat considering he had no visible shoulders, "I've always kinda knew it. Not sure why really, but does it really matter now that you're here?"
While puzzled by the second part of the odd creature's sentence, Naruto noticed something in the first part that caught his attention. "Wait, other humans? Did more people arrive with me?"
Tsumemon nodded his…body?...before leaping out of Naruto's hands and said, "Yep! There were eight of you guys that showed up and the others should be with them now. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they were all waking up now too!" Gesturing with a clawed limb he continued, "C'mon, I'll take you to 'em!"
Naruto followed Tsumemon as he scurried through the surrounding vegetation. The creature made sure to keep ahead of Naruto, but remained close enough so that they could still talk. "Ya'know, the others and me were waiting a long time so that some of us were starting to wonder if you guys would ever show up! Not me though! I figured you'd all show up eventually, and I was right!"
Pushing aside a low hanging branch, Naruto commented, "You keep talkin' about these 'others'. Are they like you?"
Tsumemon laughed, "Ha! Those guys wish they were as cool as me! But no, we're not all alike even though we share some similar stuff. Though we've been together for a while now, so we're all pretty close in our own ways."
Naruto nodded at that before a question from earlier started nagging the back of his mind. "By the way, you never did tell me what you are exactly," he mentioned.
Tsumemon hummed, "I guess I didn't, huh? Alright, I'm a Digi – GET DOWN!" he finished with a frantic cry as he leapt at Naruto, pinning him to the ground.
Naruto was about to ask what the big idea was when a sound like a mix of insects and a jumbo jet passed over their heads. Looking up, Naruto could only gape at what looked to be an enormous red and green stag beetle passed over their heads. Fortunately, it seemed the thickness of the canopy blocked them from the behemoth's view as it continued flying off in the opposite direction.
Once it was gone, Naruto regained his voice and asked, "W-what…WAS that thing?!"
The one-eyed being seemed grim, "That was Kuwagamon. He's a big meanie who gets his kicks out of bullying smaller Digimon like me," his eye seemed to widen in alarm and realization, "And he's going towards where the others are! They're in trouble!"
While Naruto didn't completely understand everything Tsumemon said, he did understand the little guy's friends might be in danger. And, if he remembered correctly, the other human's Tsumemon mentioned would be with his friends, so they'd be in danger as well! Without thinking, Naruto picked up Tsumemon and began running in the direction Kuwagamon flew off in.
"What are you doing?" Tsumemon asked from his position in Naruto's arms as he sprinted as fast as his small legs could carry him.
"You said your friends are in danger, right? Well we gotta go help them!" Naruto answered as he jumped over a tree stump.
"Do you know where you're going?" Tsumemon inquired.
"Not a clue, but you said that giant bug thing is going in the right direction so all I gotta do is follow its trail," Naruto explained as he used his free hand to point to the tops of the trees they were running under, their tops sheared off if by a giant razor blade.
"…Oh, good idea. I got a smart guy as a partner!" he cheered before asking eagerly, "Do you know what we should do when we get to the others?"
"I'm kinda working on it as we go along," Naruto replied.
"I retract my previous statement," Tsumemon stated glumly.
"Hey!"
It didn't take the duo long to find the group Tsumemon mentioned earlier. Naruto was glad, but not overly surprised, to see the humans Tsumemon mentioned were in fact Tai, Matt, Sora, Izzy, Joe, and T.K. along with their new partners. Tai got a pink ball named Koromon, Matt's partner was named Tsunomon, Sora got Yokomon, Izzy got Motimon, Joe got Bukamon, and T.K. was partnered with Tokomon. Unfortunately for the group, Kuwagamon found them all as well and it was not a warm welcome they received. The humans and their partners were forced to run from the giant insects snapping teeth and blade like claws. They even literally hid inside a tree in order to escape the enraged bug, though it was less of a tree and more like a hologram designed to look like a tree. After they were done hiding, the group properly introduced each other to their new partners and they finally discovered what the strange creatures were. They were Digimon: Digital Monsters!
"Huh, that's weird," Naruto commented as he picked up Tsumemon, barely noticing Joe cringe and inch away from the spider like Digimon (obviously one of his many fears being spiders).
"What's weird, Naruto?" T.K. asked his cousin.
"Well, I coulda sworn Mimi would be here with us. Didn't she get one of these weird watch things too?" Naruto pondered.
Suddenly, a piercing scream echoed through the forest and Naruto said, "Oh, that would be her."
Needless to say the group ran quickly only to find Mimi and her new partner Tanemon being chased by Kuwagamon, and in turn found themselves on the run from the red beetle once more. The angry insect Digimon ran them right into a clearing where they found themselves backed onto a cliff.
"Great, anyone bring a helicopter?" Matt asked sarcastically as Kuwagamon landed in the area before stalking towards them menacingly.
Just when it looked like the kids were done for, their partners leapt forward with a battle cry. However, all the smaller monsters could do was blow bubble like attacks at the larger beast that had no effect, and Kuwagamon easily brushed them aside. Despite the kids yelling for them to run, the little Digimon continued to attack. Suddenly, the devices they had all picked up began to glow and their Digimon followed suit. The small digital monsters cried out:
"Koromon Digivolve to...Agumon!"
"Tsunomon Digivolve to...Gabumon!"
"Yokomon Digivolve to...Biyomon!"
"Tanemon Digivolve to...Palmon!"
"Bukamon Digivolve to...Gomamon!"
"Motimon Digivolve to...Tentomon!"
Tsumemon Digivolve to…Dracmon!"
"Tokomon Digivolve to...Patamon!" (1)
Each of the kids watched mystified as the glowing shapes became bigger and changed, eventually revealing the new forms of the Digimon. Even the Kuwagamon looked confused about what had happened. Without slowing their pace, the now bigger Digimon attacked.
"Alright everybody, attack!" yelled Agumon launching a ball of fire from his mouth while crying, "Pepper breath!" It hit the Kuwagamon in the face causing it to roar and shake its head. Then Biyomon, Tentomon and Gabumon all launched their attacks as well.
"Blue blaster!"
"Electro Shocker!"
"Spiral Twister!" The blue and green fire combined to nail the Kuwagamon in the face. This, along with the electric attack, caused it to rear back roaring with pain.
"Poison Ivy!" cried Palmon as she roped the insect's back legs together destabilizing it further,
"Boom Bubble!" from Patamon swelling up then releasing a large burst of air. This hit Kuwagamon at the same time Gomamon from behind body-slammed its legs causing the Digimon to fall down on its back.
Suddenly, Dracmon appeared in front of the downed Digimon with a wide grin on his face. He opened up his hands to show eyes on his palms which he pointed at Kuwagamon's face. "Eye of Nightmare!" he declared as dark energy shot from the eyes into the insect's face, momentarily blinding it.
"Now all together!" cried Agumon as they all launched their attacks at the flailing Champion causing it to burst into flames screaming and rolling out of sight back into the forest.
The kids stood in silence, gaping at the battle and the sight of their new friends as they turned around staring at the humans. Naruto was the first to snap out of it and whoop, "Holy crapbaskets, that was AWESOME!"
He then yelped when Matt slapped him upside the head. "Mind the language," the elder cousin chided sternly before smiling and saying, "That was pretty cool though."
"Agumon! Good job buddy!" Tai added in. The dinosaur in question smiled and rubbed the back of his head.
"It was nothing Tai" he said bashfully and then tried leaping into Tai's arms like when he was Koromon except this, rather predictably, ended up flattening Tai. It didn't stop him from laughing though. All the other now-Rookie level Digimon also celebrated with their partners, hugging and laughing.
Naruto and Dracmon gave each other a fist bump before looking his partner's new form. Dracmon had gone from being a spider shaped Digimon the size of Naruto's head to being a bipedal human shape nearly as big as Naruto himself. Dracmon was the shape of a human child, but he wore an executioner's hood over the top of his head that had red and green eyes painted over where a human's eyes would be. He had bat like wings coming from his back that he had tied around his front like a belt as well as black pants, shoes, and arm bands. Finally, the Virus type had long red claws on the tips of his fingers and poking out of his shoes along with a devil's tail poking out from his spine.
After giving his partner a once over, Naruto gave the Digimon a thumbs up and said excitedly, "You look totally boss man!"
Dracmon gave a wide smile showing all his teeth as he put his hands behind his head. "Was there ever any doubt?" a look of confusion crossed his face as he asked, "Um, that's a good thing right?"
The other campers were going over their Digimon as well. "So you're Gabumon now?" Matt asked. The dog-like Digimon nodded.
"That's right" he said cheerfully, "We Digivolved."
"At least you can't fly anymore" Joe said thankfully to Gomamon. "Now you can't sit on my shoulders." Gomamon seemed nonplussed.
"Don't worry about that, I'll find a way" he said grinning.
"Great…"
"Wow you look so cool Patamon!" yelled Tk.
The flying Digimon blushed and said bashfully, "You really think so?"
"So now you're a pink bird instead of a plant?" Sora asked confused. Biyomon beamed up at her,
"That's Digivolving for ya!" she said smiling.
"You look a lot more stylish now than before Tane-I mean Palmon" Palmon in response wiggled her root-like feet.
"Thanks Mimi. We showed him didn't we?" Mimi nodded happily.
Suddenly a loud roar came from the forest. The group looked as the Kuwagamon came back into view, notably angered. It was clearly damaged; there was a large dark bruise across the side of its head and one of its pincers had been bent inwards but it was alive and although it had no visible eyes they were certain it was glaring at them with hatred. Before the Rookie Digimon could mount another attack, Kuwagamon lunged forward and sank its long pincers into the dirt in front of them, directly through the rock of the cliff. The earth creaked and groaned as the sound of grinding rock assaulted the children's ears. The part of the cliff they were on gave way and they all plummeted towards the river below screaming.
Patamon and Biyomon trying desperately to fly whilst holding onto Tk and Sora respectively but ultimately being too small. Palmon tried using her vines to grab onto Mimi and the cliff face but only succeeding in pulling more rocks down with them. Tentomon held onto Izzy, angling himself so that the small insect would hit the water first and not the child.
Dracmon and Naruto held onto each other letting out very 'manly' screams as they plunged towards the water. This didn't last long, however, as soon they hit the water knocking the wind out of themselves. Naruto could feel the strong current trying to pull him down the river but he was strangely lifted up.
He surfaced forcefully next to a coughing Agumon as they were both lifted out of the water by scores and scores of brightly colored fish. The fish formed a large raft on which they sat catching the rest of the kids as they fell.
It didn't take long to see the source of their miraculous rescue as Gomamon was at the front leading the fish, barking orders like a proud general. Once all the others were safely on the raft it took them down river; away from the cliff and Kuwagamon.
They were dropped off at a nearby riverbank as Gomamon thanked the fish for helping them and those who had fallen in tried to dry their clothes.
"So you guys became bigger?" Matt asked unsure. Gabumon nodded.
"We Digivolved," Izzy seemed interested rather interested at this technical term
"I assume that that is when you evolve to a higher level," he inquired.
"That's right" said Tentomon. "We were in-training Digimon. But then we Digivolved to rookie."
"In short, we became more awesome," Dracmon commented sagely as he crossed his arms and nodded his head, earning him an eye roll from some of the other Digimon.
"What level was that red bug?" Sora asked
"He was a Champion. The level higher than Rookie" answered Biyomon.
Joe looked panicked and said, "Guys this is way over our heads. We just got attacked by monsters! We need to find a way to get back home right now!"
"We'd love too, but we have no idea where we are," Matt answered folding his arms.
"I theories from what evidence we've seen so far that we might not even be on the same world as before."
Mimi looked at Izzy with worry in her face, "You mean we might not be in Japan anymore?"
"Forget Japan." Matt replied. "We're probably not even on Earth!"
"I think its awesome!" said T.K. excitedly. "We're like explorers!"
"Yeah! Suck on that, Lewis and Clark!" Naruto crowed.
"More like pioneers actually," Izzy declared matter-of-factly. Ignoring Naruto waving his hand and mouthing 'Semantics' to his teammates. He cupped his chin with his hand in thought, "For now we should focus on finding our exact location and building shelter to last the night."
"Wait a minute" interjected Sora, "What if more of those monsters attack us? What will we do then?" Biyomon perked up at this. Standing up straight in front of Sora like her own personal guard.
"Don't worry Sora" she said. "I'll protect you. We're partners after all."
"Thanks Biyomon," Sora smiled.
"Wait a minute. If we're not even on the same planet then how are we supposed to even contact our home!?" Matt asked staring pointedly at Izzy. The smaller boy balked under Matt's intense gaze and harsh words.
"Well...er...I…well...you...see." He continued stammering for a few moments before he paused for breath to compose himself, "I-I don't know," he admitted in a small voice. Matt looked ready to yell and opened his mouth.
Naruto, knowing that his older cousin can get rather offensive whenever he gets riled, decided to defuse the situation. "Hey, relax. It's not all that bad. After all, we coulda ended up on completely different locations or something with more of those big Digimon coming after us," he said with a laugh, unknowingly provoking Murphy's Law.
"Well I think the idea of building a shelter is a good one. We should make sure we have some place safe to spend the night," Sora quickly said, catching onto what the younger boy was doing. Sadly, it didn't quite work.
"If it even gets dark here?!" Matt growled at Izzy,
"That phenomenon would be unnatural!" the shorter boy responded starting to get aggravated himself.
"How is anything that has happened so far been natural?" countered Joe. The Digimon watched in silence having never seen humans arguing before, or even at all. T.K. and Mimi also stayed out of the group argument saying nothing but looking worried.
"And what are we gonna do about food?" asked Matt to the group. "I don't see fruits on these trees, we haven't seen any animals, we could easily starve." he finished.
"Well nothing will happen if we just sit around here" They all turned to regard Tai, Sora standing behind him.
"Then what do you suggest we do then?" challenged Matt raising an eyebrow. Tai grinned and began to walk off in the direction of the flowing river, "Hey, where are you going?"
"I saw an ocean earlier back on the mountain," Tai stopped and looked at Matt, he grinned again, "There might be fish or even a boat. Let's go check it out!" Then continued walking with Agumon following tentatively behind him.
Joe crossed his arms, "Well I think we should stay here and wait for the campmaster to come get us and that-"
"Joe!" cried Gomamon. "Everyone's leaving without you!" Joe looked and saw that everyone, including Gomamon, had indeed stood up and had begun to follow Tai up the river.
Joe panicked and ran after them shouting, "Wait for me!"
The eight kids and the Digimon walked along the river bank following the flow of water to the ocean. Many of them still had questions about the world they were in and the creatures that inhabited it.
"So, Digital monsters. Who exactly came up with that?" asked Izzy.
Tentomon flying next to him replied, "Just call us Digimon, we like that."
"I only asked because your composition isn't at all machine-like," Izzy responded.
"Oh really?" Tentomon asked in a challenging manner; electricity began sparking between his wings as of gearing up for his Super Shocker.
The noise was so loud Izzy had to cover his head and yell, "Quit it!"
"These trees are really beautiful" Sora remarked absent-mindedly looking at the forest on their right. "I've never seen plants like these before". Many of the trees were very odd shapes. Some being as smooth and straight as rods whilst other were twisted and gnarled and even had loops in their trunks.
It was as if they had been made by someone who had heard of trees but didn't understand how they grew. The other plants were just as bizarre. Some of them had flowers as large as she was with beautiful crimson petals. Whilst others were rather more normal-sized; scattered in somehow neatly trimmed bunches along their path.
"You must have some really boring trees where you come from," Biyomon replied light-heartedly walking next to Sora.
"They look rather sub-tropical but many of them I don't even recognize," said Izzy. "This supports my hypothesis of being stranded on another planet," he concluded.
Naruto was chatting it up with Dracmon as this was happening. Currently, the blonde was telling the humanoid Digimon of his pranking exploits, to which the Virus Type found highly amusing if his near maniacal laughter was anything to go by. "- And then when the guy was trying to get the glue off his face, he trips and falls right into the tub full of glitter I set up earlier! He ended up sparkling like a fairy princess for over a week, and to this day most of the guys in my class call him 'Princess Mizuki!'"
Dracmon was nearly on the ground in laughter, his hands clutching his stomach as tears poured down his hood. "Oh man, that was Hi-LARIOUS! You gotta show me how to pull pranks like that!"
Naruto grinned and gave the little demon a fist bump while saying, "Sure thing my man, I always wanted a partner in crime!" For some unknown reason, the other humans and their Digimon felt a chill down to their very souls, like someone walked over their grave.
"Palmon who does your hair?" asked Mimi trying to make conversation, and to put her mind off the strange feeling she just got.
"It's natural. I wake up in the morning like this," she replied.
"Wow! Maybe you can let me work with it," the pink enthusiast said with sincere shock.
"Do you think that maybe you put too much emphasis on appearance?" Palmon shot back to try to hide her blush.
Mimi put her finger to her chin thoughtfully, "Well I never thought about that."
Tai and Agumon were at the front meanwhile with the goggle wearing boy was planning their next course of action while Agumon offered his encouragement. Suddenly, the little yellow lizard stopped and sniffed the air. "The ocean!" Gabumon cried out apparently also smelling it.
Gomamon who was swimming in the river next to them laughed with delight, "Everybody in the water!"
"I'd rather not" said Joe, "I might catch a cold."
T.K. seemed as ecstatic Gomamon; throwing his arms in the air yelling, "I'm gonna build a sand castle!"
Naruto joined in saying, "Maybe I can go Boogie Boarding!"
"Me too!" Dracmon cheered, and followed up while still having the same wide grin on his face, "I have no idea what that is!"
Matt gave his younger cousin a look. "Naruto, you don't have a Boogie…Board," he trailed off as he saw Naruto pull a Boogie Board out of his backpack that was mysteriously smaller than the board. "Never mind," he amended, used to his cousin seemingly pull off the impossible once again.
"I didn't bring my bathing suit" pouted Mimi crossing her arms.
Matt stood there for a minute then shouted, "Hey listen!" Everyone quieted down. A faint ringing could now be heard emanating from the beach. The ringing didn't sound natural, it had an obvious pattern one they all recognized, that of a...
"Telephone!" cried Joe running forward. "With a phone that means people, people means home!" he ran to the beach everyone following close behind. As they got closer they eventually saw five payphones arranged in a line one after the other on an otherwise perfectly normal beach. The one nearest to them was ringing. Tai overtook Joe and opened the door. At which point the phone stopped ringing.
"Well this isn't weird at all" Sora said sarcastically folding her arms.
"Who cares? At least now we can call someone," Matt strode forward to one of the phones with T.K. following him. Izzy also chose a phone booth and walked in muttering something about aliens.
"I'm calling daddy," said Mimi who took another phone booth.
"I'm calling emergency services, they'll know what to do" Joe muttered to himself walking into an unoccupied phone booth.
"Why not just order a pizza while you're at it?" Sora said to him sarcastically. Although she too after a few moments went into the last unoccupied phone booth to make a call.
"Ooh~! Could you order mine with extra pepperoni and ramen?" Naruto asked innocently, apparently not getting the sarcasm. This earned him a few odd looks before the older kids went to work on the phones. However, none of them worked. This, however, didn't stop Joe from trying every phone number he knew, including one that was apparently for the army. How or why Joe knew this number, none of the campers knew and quite frankly didn't want to find out.
Their attempts were eventually halted when the tired and hungry kids decided to take a break.
"Where do we get food?" Sora asked "I haven't got any."
"Joe's carrying all the emergency rations" Tai said pointing over his shoulder at Joe still trying to call someone on the phones. "Hey Joe!" he yelled, "Get over here, you've got all the food!"
"Don't you know its rude to yell at someone on the telephone!?" Joe angrily yelled back. Nevertheless not long after they were sharing out the food. They sat in a circle trying to divide the food. They rations were just enough for eight people for three days they quickly spotted a problem.
"When you factor in the Digimon we've only got enough food for about half an hour," Sora protested.
Gabumon held up a paw, "No worries. We Digimon can hunt and forage for ourselves."
Biyomon also nodded, "Don't worry about us. We know how to get food," All the other Digimon murmured their agreements as well. Agumon's stomach growled. He looked embarrassed as everyone looked at him.
"You can have mine Agumon," Tai said handing him some biscuits, "I'm not hungry right now anyway." Agumon looked shocked.
"Thanks Tai!" he said gratefully and then eagerly began to dig in.
Suddenly, there was a rumble in the ground. Biyomon stood up and turned around. Sora looked up at her, "What's wrong?"
Biyomon looked serious frowning in the direction of the water. "Trouble," she stated.
A large burst of water shot out of the ground near the phone booths. The other stood up gasping. The water blast moved along the beach destroying the phone booths throwing their remains high into the sky only to come crashing down a few moments later into heaps of twisted metal and broken glass. The kids moved further back abandoning their supplies as a large column of sand began to rise out of the beach. The sand then burst apart revealing a spinning shell the size of a small house with spikes on it.
"It's a Shellmon!" yelled Tentomon as the sand was flung everywhere due to the wind.
"What's a Shellmon?!" Asked Izzy yelling back. Out of the bottom of the shell came two large, pink and tree-trunk thick arms. In between appeared a large grotesque head with green tentacles on top to look like hair. It began using its big arms to drag itself towards them.
"Something that gets mad for no reason!" Tentomon replied as they all prepared to defend themselves.
Joe started climbing the rock wall, "Quickly up here!" he yelled. The Shellmon upon seeing this stopped and lowered its head. Out of the mass of tentacles on its head out shot a torrent of water. It collided with the cliffs behind with enough force to cause Joe to lose his grip and fall. He hit the sandy beach unharmed but startled.
"Quickly attack!" yelled Tai, the Digimon happily obliged.
They ran forward with Agumon in the lead. Tentomon, Biyomon and Patamon took to the air to prepare their attacks, while Palmon darted to the side to throw the Shellmon off-balance.
"Pepper Breath!" cried Agumon unleashing a fireball from its mouth. It hit Shellmon in the mouth causing it to shake its head in pain.
"Blue Blaster!" cried Gabumon opening his mouth, but the flame fizzled out.
"Spiral Twister!" But this too fizzled out before it got anywhere near its target.
Tentomon tried next with, "Super Shocker!" but his electricity just weakly sparked in-between his wings.
Patamon inhaled as much as he could, "Boom Bubble?" as nothing but a wheezy gasp of air escaped him.
Dracmon charged forward with his mouth open wide, showing his pointed fangs. "Undead Fang!" he cried, but he then began to move sluggishly and Shellmon easily batted him back to the other Digimon with a tentacle.
"Poison Ivy! Huh?" Palmon said looking at her claws in confusion. Then Shellmon counterattacked. A tentacle whipped out striking Patamon from the sky. He lowered his head and head butted Palmon away. Then finally a torrent of water from his tentacles knocked the rest of the Digimon away. Only Agumon stood back up. He unleashed another Pepper Breath again hitting Shellmons mouth.
Izzy looked on in confusion beside the injured Tentomon, "Why is it only Agumon?"
"We're just too hungry," replied Tentomon weakly.
Sora realized, "Agumon's the only one that's eaten! The rest are still tired from before!"
"Did anyone get the number of that Railmon that hit me?" Dracomon asked groggily as Naruto helped him to his feet, shaking sand from all the wrong places.
Tai looked back at the other Digimon with their partners beside them.
"Agumon!" he cried out, "It's just you and me!" Agumon nodded as he turned towards Shellmon. Tai racked his brains. It didn't look good. A much smaller Digimon against a larger one in a one on one fight isn't good odds and even working together the Rookies weren't able to take Kuwagamon down completely.
When Agumon asked for a diversion, Tai picked up a piece of debris from the phone booth wreckage and chucked it at the turtle like Digimon. "Hey ugly, over here!" he called while trying to draw Shellmon's attention so Agumon would be open to attack. However, the small fireball seemed to just irritate the turtle. Picking up a larger piece of debris, Tai went on the offensive as Shellmon shot its tentacle like hair at the boy, snaring him. Agumon went to help, but soon found himself under Shellmon's paw. Right when Shellmon began to attack everyone else, Tai's Digivice started to glow as he cries out in worry. A familiar light engulfed Agumon as he once again Digivolves.
"Agumon, Digivolve to…Greymon!" standing in his much larger form, Greymon roars his defiance at the one who dared harm his partner and friends.
Seeing the newly Digivolved dinosaur as the bigger threat, Shellmon dropped Tai and the two Champion levels fought. As this is going on, Naruto turns to T.K. "I don't know about you, but this is way more exciting than anything at boring old summer camp!" he cheers happily before turning back to the fight. "Woo-hoo! Go Greymon, you can do it! Kaiju movies got nothing on you!"
"Punish him! Break his legs!" Dracmon joins in on the cheer, earning him odd looks from everyone besides his partner as they scoot away from the possibly psychotic undead Digimon.
Eventually, Greymon defeated Shellmon, blasting him through the air and into the ocean. Exhausted, Greymon reverts to Agumon and collapses onto the sand. Tai ran towards the still prone form of Agumon. "Agumon are you ok? Say something!"
The exhausted Digimon weakly raised his head, "Do you have anything to eat?" he asked weakly. Tai smiled at him.
Turning to Dracmon, Naruto with stars in his eyes asked, "Do you think you'll become as cool as that?"
Dracmon scoffed as he crossed his arms. "Please, I'm already that cool. When I Digivolve, I'll be beyond any definition of the word 'cool' you can think of!"
Soon, a large pile of food from Joe and T.K.'s packs was laid out with all the Digimon eating from it. Sora was also there encouraging them to all eat their fill. It looked like keeping the Digimon fed was going to be an important task to survive out here. She didn't want to think of what would have happened had Tai not fed Agumon.
However, Matt was looking at Naruto expectantly as the whiskered Uzumaki avoided eye contact with his cousin while trying to whistle innocently. "C'mon Naruto, give it up," Matt said sternly.
"I've no idea what you're talking about," Naruto denied stubbornly, which was ruined as sweat began pouring from his forehead.
Giving a frustrated sigh, Matt yanked the younger boy's bag off of his back and began to shake it, much to the boy's protest. Multiple pranking tools began falling out such as joy buzzers, Groucho glasses, and snakes in a can. Suddenly though, package upon package of ramen began pouring out of the bag. Soon a pile nearly the size of the Digimon formed on the ground.
"How did he-?" Izzy started, trying to figure out how the boy was able to fit all the ramen and prank supplies in one tiny bag.
"Don't bother, it'll save you some headaches," Matt advised.
"My ramen!" Naruto wept as the noodles were added to the ration pile.
What none of the children nor their Digimon knew was that this was just the start of an adventure that would determine not only the fate of the Digital World, but their world as well! Tune in next time on Digimon, Digital Monsters!
Dracmon is an Undead Digimon and a carrier of the X Antibody whose name and design are derived from the fictional Count Dracula. It is the Dark Area's most mischievous Digimon. For the sake of a prank, it will meet the challenge unflinchingly even if it is accompanied by some risk. It once nearly got itself killed trying to graffiti the faces of all four of the Sovereigns...(it's unknown whether it succeeded). It was once a bloodsucking Digimon, but these days it forgets to suck blood, and it seems it's trying to play some kind of trick on the Royal Knights.
1. I really don't think its necessary for me to describe each and every canon Digimon in 01 and 02, do you? For those of you who forgot which Digimon is which, the Digimon Wiki is a tremendous help.
AN: What's this? Another continuous story mellra? Are you mad!? Well yes, but that's beside the point. I've been a longtime fan of Naruto/Digimon crossovers for a while now and have been wanting to do one myself but haven't found the right story I wanted to do (see my challenge story DigiDestined of Respect to see some of my earlier challenge ideas), but then this one hit me and I HAD to do it! But don't you worry, fans of my other stories, this story won't be updated until I have at least one more of my other stories completed (unless of course this story gets a larger positive review than my other stories, in which case I'll work on this instead and put one of my less popular stories on the backburner). This is gonna be a fun trip, and it most definitely won't just be a rehash of canon since I've got a couple original arcs planned for our Virus DigiDestined. It will have its similar elements though and I may skip an episode or two if I feel Naruto's presence wouldn't contribute in any way. I even have an all original Crest picked out for him, but that's going to have to wait until later. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I do, and please remember to Read and Review!