Unlock Your Spirits
A "Digimon: Frontier" FanFic
By Kayhera and Ravyn89
Summary: Add two other girls to "Frontier" and things get a little more interesting. Sakura's a girl who's all about teamwork and keeping everyone's spirits up, while Yori's the type who can't seem to trust anyone but herself. Every "Frontier" kid has their issues, and these two girls are no exception. But can the group help each other fight their inner demons and still save the Digital World? Takuya-OC and Kouichi-OC.
Author's Notes: Hello! I'm Kayhera, and I'm doing all of the posting for this fan fic and all the random blah-blah-ness in between. Though keep in mind that Ravyn89—who will hereby be known as Ravyn just because I'm lazy that way—writes sections of this fan fic too and helps with plot in stuff. We're just appointing me as the owner of this fan fic because I know more about the season than she does. rolls eyes Oh, and I know this chapter is sort of long… but they get shorter after this. I should know, we've already written four chapters (have yet to edit. Um…er…too lazy!). So don't be turned off. Print it if you have to, just read it! Please? And I know this explanation stuff is long too… You could skip it if you wanted too. I'm just trying to be clear about stuff, don't mind me!
This fan fic takes place at the start of the TV show. Sakura and Yori—our two OC's—get on the train just like everyone else to the Digital World. Don't think this makes our fan fic dull; sometimes you will re-read things that happen in the TV show. But we re-write them, add stuff, edit stuff, change stuff, rearrange stuff—and adding two very bold girls into the plot sure changes a lot! At first it pretty much sticks to the TV show until the group meets up again. (In the end of episode six Takuya, Kouji and Tommy get separated from Zoe, JP, Bokomon and Neemon). After that our fan fic takes a different track. And even when we go by the TV show it's never dull!
Er, I lied. They get their beast spirits and then it sorta goes off on its own thing. The point is that you shouldn't stop reading the fan fic now because it's still good, promise!
I don't want to talk on forever because you probably just want to read the fan fic, but I do have one more thing to add. Notice the Kouichi-OC-ness part? Oh, well, before Kouichi actually shows up there's a tiny bit of Kouji-OC. Then Kouichi shows up… and there's still a tiny bit of Kouji-OC… then it sorta turns into Kouichi-OC… but it's still Kouichi-OC too! See the issue! Okay, if you aren't a fan of love triangles you have no need to fret because this little conflict only lasts a few chapters. It's not long and drawn out, overly dramatic and a huge issue. Well, compared to everything else. Plus, I've actually written a Love Triangle before and no one complained then so I don't think it'll be that horrible for you to read. Okay? Okay! I mean, I wasn't planning on doing this love triangle thing, it just… happened. And you have to write how it happens, now don't you? But I'll write it just so its there but it's resolved quickly so if you don't like Love Triangles you won't mind too much. And… If you got none of that just now than you can just ignore it and move on with your life. This isn't that important of a paragraph to begin with.
Disclaimer: Are you kidding me? Hello, we're only fifteen and we live in America. How could we possibly be Akiyoshi Hongo and create Digimon! We're not Japanese! Ravyn doesn't even know that much Japanese since she's taking French. And mine's pretty crappy. I can't really form any sentences because all my Japanese is pretty random. Any-who… All we own is the spiffy stuff we added to the already-existing plot and Sakura and Yori. Oh, and most of the stuff in the plot is ours since we changed and took out a lot. Hmm… Ravyn created Yori and I created Sakura. We also created the spirits Sakura and Yori evolve too. Though Sakura has an ancient Digimon that already exists I know nothing about it besides it's attacks, type, name and appearance, so I just made up the other stuff. I changed its looks a bit and changed its attacks around. So I kinda just based her spirit on an already existing one… Yori's spirit evolution-thingy was entirely made up by Ravyn, so Roninmon is Ravyn's property. That all said I hope you enjoy the fan fic. And don't forget to review so we know people are reading! I mean, this site doesn't say how many people have clicked on the topic or whatever so how else do we know besides with reviews?
Oh yeah, if you're wondering what character names we're using, here they are: Takuya, Zoe, JP, Kouji, Tommy, Kouichi. So, basically, the English names, because that's the way Ravyn wanted to do it. Kouji and Kouichi are the exception—technically their English names contain no "u." (So they're Koji and Koichi) But with the u is the correct way to spell it (when it comes to taking Japanese characters and putting them in romanji, which is the alphabetized stuff you're reading right now), and seeing how I understand how Japanese works not doing that would annoy me. I mean, the "o" sound in their name is stronger than in regular Japanese words so sometimes they either do "ou" or "ô" and "ou" is just easier to type than "ô." So there you go. Besides, I'm too used to "Kouichi" instead of "Koichi." :P
Now, sometimes there's a few things from Japanese culture that, if not familiar by it, you won't understand. I'll explain what it means whenever you run into it. This week's vocab word is "Kendo." Kendo is sword practice (at least, that's how I learned it). And usually when there's a school club that deals with the whole sword thing it's called Kendo Club. Easy enough? And "Katana" is the Japanese word for sword. There you go! And I won't translate Zoe's random Italian because the point of it is to confuse everyone because no one except her knows Italian… unless you know both English AND Italian than you're just spiffy…But Google does have a translating thing on their site so if you ever wonder about what her random Italian is look it up there! Now read fan fic already! And review please!
Chapter One
She hated residential areas.
There was ever only one story surrounding Yori. As a small child she had been found near the orphanage with no name and no clues as to who she was. Of course, they took her in and raised her as they did any other child in the orphanage. Many of their parents had died when they were younger. For others their parents couldn't afford them or didn't want them so they left them there. Every single child knew why they were there and possibly even had a name before they arrived. Yori didn't get a name from her family so had no connection to them at all. The name a parent chooses could tell an entire story, but the only story she ever had was she was found. There were never any speculations as to how she was lost, just that she was found.
So family was never anything she really got to know anything about. Sure, she could look it up in the dictionary, listen to others talk about it, but she never felt anything with a family. There was no mother, just the strict lady that told them when to go to bed. There was no father, just the guy that owned the orphanage and showed up to make people like him and give him more money. There were no siblings, just other unfortunate children that never talked about what they knew of before or really cared about what was going on now. They just talked about when somebody was going to come and take them away. They all knew what a family was and what they wanted from it. Not Yori. She couldn't choose what kind of family she wanted. So she chose her name instead.
This, though, did not happen right away. She was given some silly little name down the alphabet that hadn't been used before but wasn't longer than five letters so everybody could remember, and so she could write it in case she didn't learn very well. However, at one point Yori realized that if she had been left out in the open by the orphanage somebody must have put her there purposefully. Nobody had yet to tell her the story that she had ever been crying. In fact, the story always went that she was the calmest baby they had ever met. To be so she decided there must have been a letter, or if not that at least a blanket. When she was refused access to either of these things she ran away. The only stupid thing about this was that it distanced herself from any chance of realizing what a family was and what kind hers had been.
So, yeah, she hated residential areas.
She wasn't exactly sure what had brought her here. Usually she wandered around the city and never took a subway out of it. But when she followed someone on she skipped all the city stops. Now she was wandering around a small town, listening to all sorts of people start up dinner, talk, laugh and watch television. All she was doing was walking on the sidewalk, flipping a cell phone in the air and catching it.
Yori found many things when she wandered around. She had a watch, which she had fixed and now told the time within a few minutes. She also had a simple red headband that she had salvaged. The orphanage had given her red shirt and tan jeans. She apparently had very pretty strawberry blonde hair (a fancy word for golden hair without being brown but still light) but she always kept it in a ponytail back at the base of her neck. Her favorite possession was a small knife in a leather sheath.
But today, as she passed an empty house, a beep had come from a bush. At first Yori had thought nothing of it. The beep persisted however and when she reached down to grab it, a voice said "Yori. Your future awaits." At first it was weird because, um, it was a talking bush? When she pulled out the cell phone she found it hardly should work since it looked like it had been fried. As she looked at the message—something about catching a subway ride or something—she realized that nobody knew her new name.
And yet she kept the piece of junk, flirting with the idea of actually following through. Just when she was about to put it away and figure out what to eat, destiny seemed to take matters into its own hands. A soccer ball rolled out into the middle of the road. A kid wearing a hat and goggles over his brown hair and carrying a cell phone ran over to it. He kicked it back to its owner, not noticing the oncoming truck. With a sort of detachment Yori had learned over the years, she stopped to watch the processions.
"Oh perfect. This is my destiny?" cried the kid. "Man, why do mom's always have to be right?" he added, jumping out of the way.
The truck stopped just in time. Yori seemed to melt out of view as the truck driver got out.
"You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine," said the boy, looking at his cell phone. "Oh no. Hey, buddy, what time is it?"
"Uh… it's a couple before 5:45," answered the truck driver.
Looking suddenly anxious, the kid got to his feet and started running off again. "Oh, why does this always happen to me?"
Just as Yori was about to walk off on her own again she realized that 5:45 was the time she would need to catch the subway that the cell phone had mentioned. Hesitating a few seconds she sighed, turned around and ran after the boy. She reached the station in time to see him take out a weird ticket. With the perfection of a person who had done it before, she put her hands in her pockets and slipped in behind the boy.
"Wait, my destiny!" cried the kid, running up the stairs to get on the subway.
"What a moron…" murmured Yori, slipping through the doors just as they were closing and moving into the crowd but keeping an eye on Goggle Boy.
At one point on the ride the cell phone beeped along with the Goggle Boy's and another guy with a bandanna who just happened to be on with them. It said something about catching some six o'clock train. Just as Yori was checking her watch the goggle guy cried out.
"Give me a break! I'm doing the best I can!" he shouted, catching all attention on him, allowing Yori to slip to another set of doors.
She heard the guy she had followed muttering to himself but she didn't pay much attention. With a certain skill she was able to slip out before anybody else and rushed toward an elevator. As the door closed she saw the goggle guy jump into a second elevator. She didn't see what became of this as the elevator jolted and started down. Yori wasn't sure what button to press but before she chose one the elevator was already past all the possible levels and still going down. She blinked and then shrugged. Finally the doors opened up onto a strange looking train station with a dozen or so trains.
"It's up to you. Which train will you choose?" said her new cell phone. Yori rolled her eyes, flipped the phone once and then slipped it into her pocket.
As she was stepping off and looking at the surrounding trains she noticed another elevator open and the bandanna kid walk out purposefully. She heard the goggle kid call after him and knew right away exactly which train she was going to choose. Slipping on quietly she sat in one of the last booths and waited. Sure enough the whistle went off and a minute later the train started moving. After a while she saw the goggle kid walk in and pass right past her as if he didn't see her. Silently she stood up and followed behind.
"No one… it's like a ghost train in here," said Goggle Boy after the third train car. Then after looking around he sped up his speed remarking: "What if it is a ghost train!"
Finally they entered an occupied compartment near the front of the train. Three other kids were sitting down: a girl with blonde hair wearing lavender clothing, a large guy wearing green and blue and a small kid looking at the floor wearing a large orange hat. The large boy and the girl looked up when Goggle Boy entered and blinked.
"Um… You here 'cause… of the phone thing?" asked the boy, pointing at his own cell phone. The boy and girl nodded.
"With him here, there's four of us. I wonder if that means anything special," said the girl, glancing around at everybody. Yori almost giggled at the fact that nobody seemed to realize she was here.
"Something special? What? Why'd you guys get on this train? I mean was it ...the message?" asked the goggle guy, stepping into the compartment a little bit more.
"I just picked the closest train to the elevator, okay?" said the yellow and blue guy, pointing a chocolate bar at the goggle kid.
"Uh… what about you?" asked Goggle Boy, turning toward the girl.
"Unlike him, it was the closest train to the elevator," giggled the girl.
"I know why you chose this train," laughed Yori, finally unable to contain herself. Everybody jumped and she had to contain her laughter. "I figured you really seemed to get to things late so you would end up having to chase a train. So if you were to catch any train it would have been this one. That's why I chose this train."
"Who are you?" said Goggle Boy, pointing a finger at Yori. She pushed his hand out of her face.
"My name is Yori and I followed you all the way here from the point when you almost got hit but that truck," she said, putting her hands on her hips. "I almost wasn't going to come but it had been a while since I followed somebody onto a subway and you seemed interesting enough."
"Er… that's just creepy," said Goggle Boy. "Well, my name is Takuya."
"JP…" muttered the boy and yellow guy.
"I'm Zoe," said the blonde girl, smiling. "Nice to meet you."
"I'm…" said a small voice. Everybody turned to look at the little kid who was still staring resolutely at the floor.
"I'm Tommy," sniffled the boy. "But I didn't want to get on this train."
"Then why are you?" asked Yori rudely, rolling her eyes.
"Two kids… bullies…" sniffed Tommy still not looking up, "and they pushed me on this train and shut the door." Suddenly the kid had renewed tears and looked up at everybody. "Why are kids always picking on me?"
"Uh…" said Takuya.
"You've got to be kidding me!" said Yori, walking over and glaring down at the kid. "I'm sure the excuse they give is the hat, am I right?"
Tommy thought about it and finally gave a feeble nod.
"Well, the real reason is because you give them a reaction!" snapped Yori. "You're young enough to teach yourself that you don't really care what they think and when they pick on you they'll find out that you don't care and it won't be as fun anymore. So grow up and chin up."
Just then the train blew its whistle. Just as the lights went off the train went over a bump and all five kids were thrown to the ground. Suddenly Yori saw an image of some ancient samurai warrior flash over her. Some red thing flashed over Takuya, a purple thing with wings over Zoe, a blue beetle thing over JP and a small white bear over Tommy. She suddenly felt something in her pocket and pulled out the cell phone she had found earlier. Except it wasn't a cell phone anymore. Well, it was when she pulled it out but in that minute white light passed over it turning it into a silver and red device a bit bulkier than a cell phone but way cooler. Though it didn't have a speaker or more than three buttons.
"This is awesome!" cried Yori, standing up but the train bumped again, causing her to fall back down. When she was finally still, her new device started talking in the same voice as her cell phone.
"Welcome to the Digital World, Yori. This is your D-Tector."
"Digital World? Like a computer?" said Yori, blinking. But no answer came.
" Digital World? You're kidding. What have I gotten myself into?" said Takuya, talking to himself yet again. Then he looked up at everybody else. "Did you guys get that message?"
None of the kids answered but continued to stare at their new D-Tector. Yori gave a smile.
"I'm guessing yes," she said, slowly getting to her feet this time. After a few more minutes the whistle went off again and the train pulled out of the tunnel.
"You could hear that on Mars," said Takuya, as everybody covered their ears.
When the whistle finished, Yori jumped to her feet and rushed to the back of the train, and heading out onto the porch of the caboose. Grabbing the rail, she leaned over the edge, grinning childishly. With her other hand she held her headband in place. After a while the train went through this group of little white things. One of them came over to Yori and she let it land on her hand. After a while the others got a bit frightened and ran off and the others just followed. Finally the train reached the station and Yori stepped off just as it reached solid ground. She then rushed forward to the front to see the other four standing in the doorway staring at a group of ugly grey things with no hands or feet but had creepy red eyes and strange ears. Suddenly a burst of wind pushed the kids out of the train and it went away—though not before saying something about needing a spirit to go home. Not that Yori wanted to go home. But obviously JP, Zoe and Tommy did… Wait, the train talked?
"Wait, come back here!" cried JP, standing up.
"Yeah, pretty please?" called Zoe standing up as well.
For a while Tommy just cried. Then renewed tears came about and he cried out, "Take me home!" Getting to his feet he jumped out onto the train tracks and started running after the train.
"Tommy wait!" shouted Takuya, running after him.
"Why do I get the feeling we're going to spend most of our time saving the baby?" said JP.
In an annoyed fashion, Yori kicked him in the leg then ran after Tommy as well. Takuya was standing at the tracks where the ground ended but Tommy was still out of the tracks doing a good job of balancing.
"This isn't helping. You're going to fall!" cried Takuya as Yori reached him.
"At least I won't be here anymore," cried Tommy.
Takuya looked really frustrated and then slowly said, "I… I'll take you home. Uhh… That's right. Trailmon said that if we find the Spirit, we can go home. Right?"
At this Tommy stopped. He then looked over his shoulder and Takuya had half a look of relief. Finally Tommy seemed to get a hold of himself and Yori sighed in relief.
"Right. Okay, I'm coming back!" said Tommy. He tried to turn around but slipped. Luckily he was able to grab the rail and hang on with his arms and legs.
"Don't move, Tommy!" said Yori, starting on the trail. "I'm coming to get you!"
She heard Takuya start out to and looked back to tell him to stay put. In fact she was thinking about looking in her bag for a rope so if she fell possibly Takuya could catch her. But suddenly a green light came out of nowhere, engulfing part of the town a little ways away from the train station. As they watched two creatures ran out: one little rotund creature wearing what looked like a pink headband around his belly and the other a taller, skinnier tan creature wearing overlarge red pants. They ran straight into Takuya, toppling to the ground. As Yori started back out to get Tommy she heard the conversation behind her.
"It's a human," said the first creature.
"You think everything a human," said a second squeaky voice. She looked over her shoulder to see the round creature examining Takuya with a magnifying glass. He looked up at the tan creature saying "Don't start with me, you!"
Takuya looked from one creature to the other nervously saying "I'm human, now would you mind getting off of me now?"
Yori rolled her eyes and continued across, noticing how slow her progress was.
"I'm so sorry. His fault," said the round creature.
"Yeah, my fault!" said the tan creature. "Hey!"
As Yori bent down and grabbed up Tommy and trying to balance him on his feet a growl caught everybody's attention. She made sure she had both feet firmly on the track before looking over at the green fire burning. Slowly a shadow came forward—a dog with two heads sticking out of its neck on either side. Tommy clung at her shirt and she had a difficult time prying him loose. She finally compromised with him looping his finger through her belt loop. By this time she had missed part of the conversation back on solid ground and wasn't about to head back right away.
"So whenever you're ready, go and get him!" said the short creature, indicating to the menacing dog.
"Now would be good," said the squeaky voice from behind Takuya. Well, the round creature was hiding too, but this one actually looked around and up at Takuya.
"I can sense the Spirit's presence all over this town. I must destroy it!" growled the dog.
"It talks too!" cried Yori. But nobody heard her as Takuya shouted: "No way! It's mine. I… uh…"
Yori hit her head with her hand, looking around for the best possible way to escape. Before anything could be done the dog was spitting emerald fire at Takuya and he and the creatures clinging to his back were rushing out onto the train tracks. When they reached Yori and Tommy she hit Takuya over the head for being such an idiot. Except she didn't have time to tell him this as the end of the train track and part of the station disappeared in this weird light. Instantly Yori grabbed Tommy and slid down the track as best she could and luckily landed on solid ground. When they hit solid ground Yori bounced and rolled, making sure that Tommy got hurt as less as possible. She stood up, brushed off and looked at Takuya staring at his D-Tector. All eyes turned to a bonfire at which the D-Tector was pointed. This bonfire soon became a pillar of light and the first creature said something about it being a Spirit. Yori could hardly remember the significance about it after all the excitement… except that train had said something about it. But since when did trains talk? Just as Takuya was talking about getting the Spirit the weird dog thing jumped down exclaiming how he was going to destroy them all. Tommy took it pretty seriously and clung to Yori for dear life. She saw Takuya glance at them but she was just all annoyed because it was going to take a while to be able to reach down and grab her dagger out of her boot. But suddenly Takuya was stepping forward and grabbing up a metal pole lying next to his D-Tector.
"This sure ranks pretty high on a scale of one to stupid!" he cried as the dog ran at him.
'At least he knows he's stupid,' thought Yori, trying desperately to peel the little kid off of her leg.
The dog had managed the get Takuya to drop the metal pole and was now jumping over him. In an act of pure instinct the kid reached up and grabbed the tail and was carried straight into the pillar of light the bon fire had created. Nothing could be really heard from the pillar but suddenly the dog had caught on fire and was leaping out. Tommy had finally calmed down a little bit, but was obviously worried about Takuya. The kid slowly stood up looking unharmed and his eyes fell upon the floating spirit in the middle of the pillar of light. He shouted something and his D-Tector flew towards him. The same light that had appeared when the train tracks disappeared covered Takuya and when it dispersed there was this tall guy with lots of crazy red armor spouting fire and such. It was all fairly dull… Yori, free of Tommy's death grip, leaned down and pulled her dagger out of her boot.
"What'd he turn into?" asked Tommy staring at Takuya's—as it had to be that kid… because kids didn't just disappear… except apparently entire bits of villages did, so maybe Takuya had disappeared—new look in awe.
"Well, let's see," said the small whitish creature, pulling out a large book from his pink headband. How he kept it in there Yori didn't know and really didn't care. "Big and red…. Likes flame… Not Santa Clause… Oh! Agunimon!"
"What's that?" asked Yori, leaning over the book. The creature immediately slammed it closed and slipped back into its place.
"Agunimon is one of the ten legendary warriors. He is the warrior of fire and your friend Takuya was lucky enough to get the spirit and change into this noble Digimon," explained the creature.
"Oh, so it is Takuya," said Yori, nodding. "But he ain't my friend and what is a Digimon?"
"That's what we're called… Digital Monsters…" said the little creature… Digimon… thing…
Yori had a mental flashback to seeing the village disappear and decided that the strange white light must have been the data. Now the idea of disappearing villages made more sense. Data could easily be deleted, eaten, modified and reset. Something of the sort must have happened. But how a bunch of kids could fit into a Digital World she had no clue. Humans were made up on water and carbon, not data bytes and the sort. But suddenly Agunimon was jumping toward them, picking up the four of them and setting them down with JP and Zoe. Not exactly what Yori wanted to be doing. What she really wanted to be doing was either fighting the big bad doggy or leaving. Yori watched the battle with a detached interest know that it could only end two ways: Agunimon won and they left or Agunimon lost and they ran away. Either way Yori was going to take the opportunity to ditch this group. Though it kind of annoyed her that now Tommy only really cared about Takuya when only a moment ago he had been expecting her to protect him. Not that she would or could, but still, it had been kind of nice.
"Hmph!" said Yori suddenly, turning away. "I don't need anybody. I'll just wait until the next Spirit comes along, snatch it and be on my way!"
With that she left the battle half way through, only distantly aware of the fact that Takuya had one and part of the village had reappeared, even parts that hadn't been there before. Yori thought maybe she would check it out… But in the meantime she wanted to distance herself from the others. Not too much because she had a feeling the only way to get a spirit would be to stick around them. But for the time being…
"Ugh, they just make my stomach churn," murmured Yori, clutching her stomach after she had put her dagger away. "They make me sick. The whole lot of them! I don't need anybody, least of all them."
She liked the number two, so she picked the train second away from the elevator. Not that she really understood what she was doing or why. Perhaps it would just be nice to get away from it all.
There was only one kid on the whole train. Around her age, with long black hair tied back and under a blue bandana. He was also wearing a blue jacket with a yellow line going down the sleeves, with a yellow tee shirt underneath; grey pants and oddly striped shoes too. He didn't look her way when she got on the train. Perhaps he was deep in thought.
Unsure of whether to say hi or not, she sat across from him. She crossed her legs at her feet and started undoing and redoing her braid. Her dark brown hair was in messy braided pigtails and she sometimes liked to redo them. Usually when she was bored or uneasy feeling—today's case was nervousness. She had on an olive green sweatshirt and blue jeans, and orange sneakers that didn't really go with the sweatshirt—but she was just the sort of girl who didn't care about that sort of thing.
With a sigh she fixed the braid she had been messing around with and put her hands at her lap. Putting on a fake smile, she looked up at the boy in blue and went, "Hey, I'm Sakura Hironori! What's yours?"
No response. It was like he was either ignoring her or was thinking so deeply he just didn't hear her. Sakura liked to think it was the thinking one. That's what she did all the time. Which sucked when it came to thinking and walking at the same time—Sakura had yet to master that.
"Um… hello?"
Nope, nothing. Feeling a little bold, she went up, sat down on her knees, and started waving her hand in his face. He looked up and glared. With an eye roll she opened her mouth to say something when the boy muttered, "Kouji Minamoto," and looked the other way.
"Okay then…" muttered Sakura, sitting back down and crossing her arms. She was obviously not going to be starting any conversations with this kid.
Nothing much happened on the ride—not that it was a long ride. Sakura mostly played around with her braid and kept glancing over at the Kouji kid to see if he was going to do something. But no, he just continued to stare out the window, or at his cell phone. And as many times as she played around with her braids why were they always messy?
But then something actually happened. Something besides Sakura's cell phone randomly talking to her about her future and destiny and finding her heart—whatever that meant. The lights on the train shut off and the train hit some sort of bump that made her fall out of her seat. Judging by a similar crashing noise and grunt of pain Kouji fell down too. And, though before it was hard to see anything thanks to the lack of light, Sakura suddenly saw a flash of some strange creature on top of her. Some sort of underwater creature that was blue. That's all she could tell before it went away. Then the cell phone in her hand turned into some weird device.
"What the heck!" cried Sakura, looking down at it. She just got her phone for her last birthday, she couldn't have it just magically transform into some funky device now!
"Welcome to the Digital World, Sakura. This is your D-Tector," said… well, the weird voice seemed to be coming out of the funky device, like it had been coming out of the cell phone before.
"That's… nice?" said Sakura, tugging on her braid. Then she quickly turned around to see if that Kouji kid was still there. He had a weird device too, though his was a different color than hers. While Sakura's was green and blue, Kouji's was white and blue. And while Sakura looked rather bewildered but amused about the whole situation, Kouji just looked serious. In Sakura's opinion, a kid shouldn't look so serious all the time. It almost made her want to go over and poke him all over the place just to find a ticklish spot to make him laugh. That might just make him mad though… Oh well, it was fun to imagine.
By now the train had come to a halt, so the boy in blue quickly got to his feet and jumped off. Lacking of a better idea Sakura decided to follow. But at the station the D-Tector's started talking again.
"Sakura Hironori. Commence your search."
"Okay… What am I searching for?" asked Sakura, feeling a bit silly for talking to a miniature device.
"The spirit."
"What? Like a ghost or something?"
"Find the spirit, and it will all come clear to you."
"What are you talking about? What will come clear?" cried Sakura. "Do you know what that means, Kouji? Kouji?"
He was ignoring her again. Well, his D-Tector was talking him too. It said something like, "Find the spirit, and you will find the answers to all your questions." Whatever that meant. Rolling her eyes, she looked back down at her D-Tector. A spinning globe was coming out of it.
"What is this?" snapped Kouji. Sakura turned around and noticed the same thing happening to his D-Tector. "Huh? This gets weirder by the minute!"
"Hah! You said it!" said… the train!
"Hey, that's my line!" cried Sakura. "But I didn't know inanimate objects could even talk so… er…"
Suddenly hearing voices behind her, she turned around and spotted two kids: one rather big one with brown hair and a odd blue and yellow outfit and a younger looking boy with a cute, large orange hat, a white tee-shirt, and some yellow pants. They were talking to these strange, small, grey creatures with cute bunny-like ears. The large boy was giving one of the creatures chocolate and the creature… was talking back.
Shaking her head, Sakura turned back to Kouji. Muttering about how stupid the two boys were he walked off. She rushed over and decided to walk with him for a little while. Besides, it was away from the weird grey thing that talked.
"Why are you following me?" asked Kouji bitterly.
"Because I have nothing better to do…" answered Sakura tiredly. "Hey, do you know what's going on? I mean, my phone just started doing weird stuff and I kind of went along with it and now I'm here and—"
"What makes you think I would know?" snapped Kouji.
"Good question!" said Sakura, scratching the back of her neck and laughing sheepishly. When the boy didn't join in she gave up and put her arms down.
So then the two didn't talk for a while, just continued walking. Sakura was trying to figure out what she could have done to offend Kouji—was it her hair? Or her sweatshirt that was a little too large for a scrawny person like her? Or the fact that she wasn't that girly and didn't wear skirts? People like this just confused her…
Kouji sighed. "Huh. This is getting old."
"What part? The whole not-talking thing or the walking-endlessly part?" asked Sakura.
He didn't respond, but instead stopped walking and turned to a hole in a wall—a really random hole in the wall. But Sakura was starting to think you should expect anything by now.
"It's probably safer to stay away from creepy holes in the wall. Oh. But I didn't come all this way to play it safe," muttered Kouji.
"Oh, so you won't talk to me but you're just fine talking to yourself," muttered Sakura, going over to the hole in the wall and trying to look through it. Noticing Kouji's glance at her, she turned a little pink and cried, "What? You're the weird one!"
"Whatever," said Kouji, walking into the hole. "This better not be someone's idea of a joke."
"Wait for me! Sheesh!" cried Sakura, rushing after him.
The hole turned out to be some weird tunnel with stairs. It seemed rather empty.
"Anyone here?" Kouji called out. With no response he muttered, "Okay, I suppose not…"
"You have a horrible memory," said Sakura. "I'm here!"
"I meant if there was anyone else," said Kouji.
"Why bother? There's never anyone in creepy, random tunnels," shrugged Sakura. "Actually, this one isn't that creepy."
Just when there seemed to be an opening to the tunnel there were voices again. But these were panicked voices, not conversational ones.
"What's this?" cried Kouji, rushing to the exit. Sakura followed, and the two peered through curiously.
It was those two kids again from before. This time those talking grey creatures were running after them going, "Eat the human! Eat the human!"
"Help! Somebody!" cried the large kid in blue and yellow.
"I'm not a chocolate bar!" cried the little kid with the cute hat. "Wooah!"
"Huh?" said Kouji and Sakura together.
"Help! Anybody, please!"
It was then that Kouji rushed over and started to fend off the grey creatures with a large stick. Where he got this large stick Sakura had no clue. But he was doing some awesome Kendo skills with it. Too bad there wasn't another stick lying around, otherwise she could use some of her Kendo talents to fight them off as well. Though she was only in the club for one year. Kendo was much too serious for Sakura… it was all about focus, focus, focus… Soccer was strategy and teamwork, like chess without the teamwork part. Now that she was good at!
"Er… Um… You know, it's not a good idea to eat humans!" cried Sakura, clenching her fists and kicking the grey things like they were soccer balls. "They'll just make you chubby unless you get one with plenty of fiber!" So she wasn't accomplishing as much as Kouji was with this Kendo-stick-butt-kicking… but she was sure getting rid of her sudden anger!
"Whoa, who's that?" asked the little orange-hated kid.
"That guy's serious!" cried the larger one in blue.
"His name's Kouji!" cried Sakura, kicking at one of the grey things running at her. "And he sure is serious!"
"Feh," she could here Kouji mutter, as he flung the grey creatures to the walls. He couldn't help but smirk with satisfaction afterwards.
"Go Kouji!" cheered Sakura. "Hey, if this was soccer I'd so be better than him… Or chess… Playing a giant chess set would be odd…"
One of the grey creatures grinned a creepy sort of smile and went, "Not yet, human. Don't smile yet…"
Then, with a bright light, the grey creature disappeared and became a bigger one! It was like a cross between a blue/grey seal and a slug, with odd eyes and sharp teeth.
"Eww…" said Sakura, making a face. "Sheesh, Kouji, look what you made it do!"
The new creature roared and the two other kids freaked out.
"W-I'll eat you up!" it cried.
"Wah!" said Kouji.
Suddenly Kouji's D-Tector started talking. It said, "Raremon. A sewer Digimon. If the smell of its rotting flesh doesn't knock you out, its Acid Sludge attack will."
"Er… in English?" said Sakura, going over to Kouji to glance at his device. "Is that supposed to be what… that thing is? And what does it mean 'attack'? We have to fight the ugly thing?"
"Duh!" snapped Kouji.
But suddenly Raremon started attacking and there was no more time for small talk. Sakura dodged to the right and Kouji jumped and knocked the kid in the orange hat out of the way.
"Wah!"
"Acid Sludge!" cried Raremon with another attack.
"Whoa!" cried the orange hat kid.
"Oo, it smells!"
"Huh?" said Sakura, looking around for the new voice. There were three kids nearby that she never even noticed; a blond girl in a purple and blue outfit made the comment. She was also with a brown haired boy with a red shirt and goggles and another girl who stood to the side with strawberry blond hair, a red tee shirt with black trimmings, and a red headband. There was also a strange, small creature that was tan in color with them.
"Spirit, wake up!" cried the brown haired boy. "I need you! Come on, I'm not kidding here!"
The tan creature spoke up, saying, "Hey, Takuya, no pressure, but you might want to think about spirit evolving before Stinky there turns your friends into goop."
"Going somewhere?" hissed Raremon.
"Does anyone else find it weird that these weird creatures are talking!" cried Sakura.
"Come on, come on!" cried the brown haired boy again. Wasn't his name Takuya? He was rather persistent about his spirit thing. "SPIRIT! Aahh!"
Now his D-Tector was doing the talking. Well, it looked like Sakura and Kouji's device, but it was black and red. "It is time."
Sakura couldn't believe it. One minute there was the kid with the weird goggles. Next, after a bright light and something about, "Execute! Spirit Evolution!" he transformed into a large red and yellow human-like creature that claimed himself to be Agunimon. This new creature fought off Raremon for a bit before facing Kouji and the orange hat kid and crying out, "Now's your chance! Run!"
"Oh!" exclaimed Kouji and the orange hat-ed kid. But they didn't do anything because suddenly the red and yellow creature turned back into the goggle head boy.
"What's going on?" cried Takuya. "I turned back into me!"
"I'm still here!" cried Raremon, launching another attack.
"Watch out!" cried Takuya to Kouji. "Oh no!"
He was too late. Kouji had fallen into a hole. What was up with all these random holes!
"Hey!" cried Sakura, rushing over to the hole and trying to see Kouji at the bottom. She couldn't see anything, but she could hear Kouji's voice.
"Ah! Uh? What's going on here? Oh! Uhh… SPIRIT!"
"It is time."
"Execute! Spirit Evolution!"
"Are you alright?" asked Sakura stupidly. At least, she felt stupid. But now Kouji was out of the hole and—well, was no longer the boy with the long hair in a bandana. Now he was like what that Takuya kid had turned into, except he was white, blue and yellow and had a wolf-like head, and called himself Lobomon.
"Oh, wow!" cried the large kid in blue and yellow.
"Man, did I look that cool?" cried Takuya.
The little kid with the hat nodded. "Uh huh! Yeah, but different."
"Woah…" said Sakura, blinking up dreamily at Kouji—well, now he was Lobomon. What! This was really confusing…
The tan colored creature spoke again, this time saying importantly, "That's the legendary warrior of light, Lobomon!"
"But don't wolves howl at the moon?" asked Sakura.
The blond haired girl sighed. "I've never seen anything so beautiful in my whole life!"
"Me neither!" agreed the big guy in blue and yellow.
"You can say that again!" cried Takuya.
The other girl who hadn't spoken a word since Sakura noticed her groaned and said, "Why does he get a spirit? I'm the one who needs the spirit! Why should I have to depend on everyone else for?"
Fed up with the chatting, Raremon cried out, "Acid Sludge!" to Kouji—Lobomon. Why can't he just stick to one name!
"Lobo Kendo!" cried… Lobomon.
The attack hit its target. Raremon cried out just as Lobomon said, "Yeah! Now, you talking trash heap… uh… prepare to be recycled! Fractal code… digitize!"
"What?" cried Sakura. All this weird stuff was making her head spin. But the ugly creature went away and Kouji went back to… Kouji… so that was okay!
"Molto bravissimo!" cried the blond haired girl cheerfully.
"Huh?" said Takuya. Not really waiting for an explanation, he went over to Kouji and said, "You okay? Let me help you up."
"Don't touch me!" snapped Kouji, getting up himself.
"Uh… wha!" cried Takuya.
"I don't need your help," muttered Kouji. "Or anyone else's… But I guess I should thank you for saving me. I always repay my debts."
"I didn't do it so you'd owe me, you know," said Takuya.
Sakura felt like she was missing something…
"My name's Kouji Minamoto. And you are…?" sighing, Kouji said, "So, are you gonna tell me? I can't repay you if I don't know your name."
"I'm Takuya Kanbara," said Takuya.
"Takuya, huh? Well, see yah," said Kouji with a little smirk, turning around.
"What's his deal?" muttered the blue and yellow guy.
The blond girl shook her head. "Come on guys, let's get out of here. This place smells like dead fish!"
"But…" muttered Sakura as the others went the other way. She didn't exactly want to leave Kouji all by himself. Even if he didn't seem to appreciate her company… This other group of kids was great but they had each other, and Kouji was all by himself.
Noticing her standing there, Takuya turned around and called out, "Hey, are you coming or not—Uh, sorry, never got your name!"
"It's Sakura Hironori!" cried Sakura a little timidly. "And—uh—I think I'll go with Kouji!"
"Suit yourself," shrugged Takuya, rushing back to the others.
With a shake of the head, Sakura clenched and unclenched her fists for a moment before rushing towards the direction Kouji went.
"He may be a jerk but I'll worry my head off if I don't follow him!" muttered Sakura. She was grateful for her speedy soccer legs this time around.