Left Behind
Digital Life
Hello Guys! I know I'm starting a lot of new works here, but it kinda helps me to sort out my thoughts for each of them.
And so I don't forget the ideas I got this way.
About this story:
The Parasimon Invasion ended differently.
Gallantmon Crimson Mode has been able to destroy them with his 'Crimson Light' attack, but as a side effect, he and Sakuyamon have been dragged into the digital field, and warped to the digital world.
To make things even worse, the use of the 'Crimson Light' on this digital field, has caused the barriers between the worlds to collapse, forcing the Sovereigns to use their power, building them up again. Unfortunately, this destroyed the possibility of ever crossing the worlds again. Rika, Renamon, Takato and Guilmon are now trapped in the digital world...
Forever
Be ready for unexpected events and twists!
What will happen? Will our four friends be able to survive? Will they ever get back home? If yes, what changes will they have to face?
Find out in:
Left Behind
Digital Life
Chapter One: New Life
Digital World, forest plain
Time: Unknown
Date: Unknown
A crystal blue lake surrounded by grass, bushes, reeds, trees and fields of flowers; it was a beautiful view over this part of the forest plain. A small, wooden pier stood on one side of the lake with a dirt road leading from the pier to a hill close to the lake. Out of wood, there stood a small blockhouse, enclosed by a fence. Flowers and other plants were growing there.
From the house, people had a beautiful view over all of the lake and the surrounding area. A second path led from the back of the house towards a small site, this one surrounded by a fence as well. It wasn't noticeable on the first look, but after the second, it could easily be identified as a graveyard. Two crosses of wood were standing on separate mounds of earth respectively; a flat rock lay in front of both. Letters and Numbers had been scratched into the stone. It was… a gravestone.
Two figures were approaching the small graveyard, both females. One was a tall woman who appeared to be around her mid-twenties, the other, a child who was about five or six years old. Both women had rather long, red hair. The older one had plugged hers into a ponytail, while the child just wore hers down to her shoulders. Their clothes, that much could be told, were not made by humans. To precise was the work to be made from a human hand. Actually, both females lived in the closer surroundings of first large settlement they had found in the digital world, since they came here.
The older woman was wearing a light purple shirt, together with trousers that looked kind of awkward, although, not nearly as much as the first pair she had gotten here had looked. The child was wearing a blue dress that reached down to just above her knees. The sleeves of the dress nearly reached her wrists, and a necklace hung around her neck. Both were wearing casual shoes, which they had gotten at the settlement's marketplace. The only kind of 'jewelry' the older woman wore was a pair of broken, dirty, yellow goggles.
The girl looked up to the older woman as they stopped in front of the graves, placing flowers on the ground next to the gravestone. She could see tears in the woman's eyes, an expression she rarely showed.
"Mommy?" the girl asked, "What happened to Daddy? Last year, you told me 'When you are older, honey', when I asked about him. Now, I AM older, so PLEASE Mommy... tell me... and... could you tell me what happened to 'uncle' too? Auntie won't tell me..." her voice was pleading, just like it was last year.
The woman next to her winced, as her daughter spoke about her 'Daddy' and 'Uncle', but she looked down at her daughter, a small smile on her face.
"Yes honey, you are older now..." she hesitated. Before she could continue to speak, she first had to regain her voice again, not to mention sort her mind. "I will tell you today, but, not right now. You will have to wait until after dinner. Now, why don't you go and help your aunt? I would like to spend some more time here, and I know how you don't like to stay in one place for long."
"YAY!" the girl exclaimed, running off to find her aunt. She was happy, as her mother said she would tell her after dinner and, even better, she was allowed to look for her aunt. Unlike last time, she wasn't being forced to stay with her mother while she just stood there, looking at the graves of the two people. Ruri, that was the girls name, had never met them herself, but was told by her mother, Rika, and her 'Aunt', Renamon, that these two had been her 'Daddy' and her 'Uncle'. She did not really like to stay there, watching her mother in her sorrow over her lost friends. Every year, on this day, her mother would spend hours there, watching the graves with tears in her eyes, remembering all that they had gone through.
She ran back to the hill, looking for her aunt in the garden that belonged to their small house. She turned a corner, running at full speed, her eyes widening a bit as she laughed. Ruri really does like to run like this. "AUNTIE! AUNTIE!" she shouted happily, seeing the yellow fox-digimon nearby.
Renamon turned with a light smile, looking towards her niece. "Hello Ruri" she said, catching the kid as she jumped into Renamon's arms.
The girl instantly snuggled up to her, "Mommy said she would tell me about Daddy and Uncle after dinner today!"
Renamon frowned slightly, but managed a small smile, "How nice of her. So you eventually get what you've been asking for, for years?" She didn't hear Ruri's reply as she was looking towards the small graveyard they had built years ago. 'Rika... do you really feel ready to tell your daughter already? Shouldn't we wait a little longer?' the fox thought.
"Auntie? Are you listening?" Ruri asked, regaining Renamon's attention.
"I am sorry my dear, I was... carried away by some thoughts... what did you say?"
The girl pouted in Renamon's arms, "I asked if you want to play!"
Soon, the child had convinced the fox digimon to play with her. Hours passed, and it was clear night was approaching. To make things worse, dark clouds formed in the sky. Renamon looked up, sighing. "Ruri, get inside, a storm is approaching. I will get your mother."
The girl pouted again. "But I want to play!"
"Ruri!" her 'Aunt' said, sounding a bit harsher than she had intended to, making the girl wince, "I am sorry, honey, but a storm is not to be underestimate... at least here in the digital world." Renamon said, sounding softer this time. "You know that neither your mother, nor I would want you to get hurt."
Ruri looked up to her with big eyes "Can we play later then?"
"Of course we can." Now, the child smiled, hugging the rookie's leg. Renamon patted Ruri's head. "And now, be a good girl and get inside, yes?" The human nodded, running inside, while the digimon headed of towards Rika.
"I know Renamon..." Rika said, turning to face her digimon-partner. "It is also time I start making dinner for Ruri," She smiled faintly. They nodded at each other, walking back into the house. As soon, as they had entered, the storm began with thunder, lightning bolts and, of course, heavy rainfall.
Several hours later, the storm hadn't ended. The three females were inside, sitting around a table in a room that was supposed to be the kitchen, nibbling on the leftovers of their meal.
"…And again Rika, I am surprised by how skilled you are at cooking... I can't remember you ever liking it back when..." Renamon stopped, looking at her tamer, friend and partner.
Rika nodded, "You are right... I guess... I was kind of forced to, as we... you know... he only was good at making bread, and dino-boy would've been the only one, who could eat that all day... So, someone needed to learn how to cook..."
"Mommy?" Ruri interrupted them, "Are you two talking about Daddy and Uncle?"
Rika ran over her daughter's cheek with the back of her hand, "Yes honey, we are... and I think, as the weather possibly won't get better soon, we could talk about them now?" She glanced over to Renamon, who had an unsure look in her eyes, but nodded.
Ruri smiled, "I've waited so long for this! Mommy and Auntie are going to tell me about Daddy and Uncle!" She clapped her hands, and both Rika and Renamon chuckled, though they did not know from whom the child got that, as it was something the raptor had done when he was happy.
Rika sighed.
"It all began years ago, on my thirteenth birthday..."
Outside, lightning flashed, its light reflecting off the water that had gathered in the letters of the gravestone:
'Here lies Takato Matsuki and Guilmon
Friends, partners, beloved ones,
We will never forget you'
For the first chapter, this was a surprise, wasn't it?
Before you going all rampage about what is standing in the first notes, you'll find out when the other chapters are released!
Until then
R&R
Yours,
Guard