Digimon Digital Monsters
Determination to See through Miracles
Ok then folks this is the bog standard disclaimer: Lar-Lar and I do not own digimon ok? Good
Authors' notes
Lar-Lar: I'm pretty pleased with this actually.
Gomababe: Same here, this is our first co-authored fic, I just hope everyone else likes it...
Aquamon: growling they'd better...
Chrystamon: to our reviewers, please read and review the fanfic, and flames will be extinguished, constructive criticism is welcomed.
Gomababe: ONTO THE FIC!!!!
Prologue one - Alana's POV
Oh hi there, I'm Alana Currie a bright, clever, sophisticated young lady....okay okay! I'll quit flattering myself. As I was planning on saying I'm a typical
young girl from Scotland...it's the part attached to England if you don't know
your geography....and no we're NOT a part of England, we're part of the United Kingdom.
Anyways, back to my story. You might wonder why I'm bothering to type all
this, well you see I'm a Digi-destined child. I actually went to a different
dimension known as the Digital World, I met a lot of surprising friends
there including Aquamon and Chrystamon. Wait I'm confusing you, I may as
well start at the beginning...
It had all started when I first met Lucy, a kind of online pen pal of mine when I was only 10 years old. I had always been an avid writer of short stories and poems and I regularly uploaded them onto a website call
Fiction press. It's a website that encourages people to write original
works and hopefully one day publish them if the other authors think its good
enough. I was checking out my stats when I seen a review from someone I'd
never seen on the site before. Her username was Lar-lar, she was very
positive about my work. I clicked onto her account and clicked on her email
address to thank her for the glowing reviews. The next day she'd answered
and soon we were chatting via Yahoo messenger every week. I learned a lot
about Lucy, that she was from a place near London and liked to write as much
as I did, but was more nervous about posting it. I agreed to proof read her
work and help her improve, and in return she reviewed every single poem I posted onto Fiction press.
About six months after I had started chatting to Lucy something really weird happened. I was out in Kinniel Woods, some ten minutes away from my
house at the other side of my primary school, with a group of older teens. I was simply there because it was a nice autumn day and I needed some inspiration for a new poem, then the sky went very dark, I mean pitch black.
Then some swirling colours, all of them converging into some sort of twisted
rainbow effect, headed for me. I screamed as the rainbow engulfed me and I was sent twirling into space...
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"Well I say we keep going!"
"Will you two cut it out? You're giving me a killer headache!" A typical
evening scenario was taking place in the Digital World, Tai and Matt were
arguing over whether the place Tai had chosen was a suitable camping spot for the Digi-destined to camp out for the night. Izzy, Sora, Mimi, TK, Kari,
Joe and their Digimon partners sat to the side, ignoring the argument,
well most of them were. Joe was moaning about his headache to Tai and Matt. No one was listening to Joe's complaints, however, they were too busy
concentrating on the unusual rainbow in the distance.
"Izzy, what's that?" TK asked innocently as he pointed to the
rainbow, Izzy followed the younger boy's finger as he looked up from the screen of his laptop, he frowned lightly,
"I don't know TK, but I assume its dangerous, we've only just arrived
back in the Digital World after all. Anything is possible here...." Izzy
continued on this thread of thought, TK listening politely, though not fully
understanding what Izzy was talking about. About an hour later all the Digi-destined were sitting quietly around the small camp fire Agumon had made, roasting fish and some fruit over it. Other assorted fruits and nuts were placed on makeshift plates made from palm tree leaves. They wee discussing the rainbow that TK had noticed earlier,
"Well, there was a rainbow effect when our Digimon first digi-volved,
maybe its something to do with that?" Tai ventured, remembering the first day he had spent in the Digital World. Izzy shook his head,
"I doubt it Tai, if it was anything to do with our Digimon it would have
been around this area and closer to us than it was." Gomamon swallowed the
fish he was currently chewing thoughtfully on,
"Well maybe its not meant for us, but another kid like you guys. Its not impossible you know." he added when he noticed the stares he was
receiving.
"That has got to be the smartest thing I've ever heard you say
Gomamon!" Joe exclaimed, "maybe you are capable of intelligent thought after all." Matt and Tai snorted with laughter while the seal like Digimon turned his nose up in the air and ignored his partner for the rest of the night. As the Digi-destined turned in for the night, little did they know that the rainbow was going to have the most significant part in their adventure to date...
Prologue two - Lucy's POV
My name is Lucy and I am digi-destined.
One of two English chosen children and one of eight in the entire UK. But I'm a little ahead of myself, lets start from the beginning...
I was eleven, nearly twelve, when it happened. It was summer time and I was out in the garden playing with my sister when the sky went dark. And I don't mean a cloud passed by the sun or anything like that, I mean it went BLACK! My sister ran inside to get our parents but I stayed put, staring up as slowly but surely what looked like a reflection of earth appeared up there. It was at that point my sister and parents arrived and after staring up at the same strange looking world in the sky, they dragged me inside the house.
I went straight up stairs to my room and turned on my computer to see what I could find out about this weird universe on the internet... I didn't get that far however. The computer wouldn't switch on so I checked all the plugs and USB ports but still nothing. I finally resorted to climbing out of my window and sitting on the flat roof of the extension and watched the sky from there. I sat there for hours just staring up and trying to work out what was up with the sky and why on earth this was happening when I heard a strange noise coming from my room.
Quickly, I climbed back in through the still open window to see my computer had decided to turn itself on, only thing was, the screen seemed to be bursting out of itself. I frowned and walked closer, common sense leaving me as my curiosity took over. The screen continued to pulse in and out, it seemed to fall further with every pulse when suddenly, a small white electronic device flew out.
And I mean it flew! It went past me, over my shoulder and banged into my closed door where it finally landed on the floor with a small dull thud. I stared at it for a moment before looking back to my computer screen. It looked normal again now. Same old back drop, no more pulsating.
Normal.
The white device that had flown out of it however seemed to be making a very strange noise. It beeped at me as it lay on the floor where it had landed.
I walked over and picked it up, slowly looking over it with interest. It looked sort of like a tamagotchi, you know, those little virtual pets you get? It easily fitted in the palm of my hand and at that moment, it seemed to glow.
I had forgotten about the sky by then but I remember my mum and dad talking about it later, how each strip of land disappeared, one by one leaving the sky dark until finally, it was gone completely and the sun came out again...
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I didn't find out exactly what that tamagotchi thing was until much later, and for the time being, life went on much the way it had before the sky went all screwy.
I was due to start high school that year, that came and went, and soon I had completely forgotten about the sky and about the thing I now know to be a digi-vice.
My life now consisted of school, homework and my friends.
Until my twelfth birthday...
I got home from school that day, bag filled with presents from my new friends and silly string practically covering me from head to toe, a sign of affection supposedly, and crashed out on my bed.
I kept hearing this weird noise, a beeping sound but also a faint fuzzy buzzing sound too, it was then that I noticed my computer was on and this, in turn, reminded me of the digi-vice. I pulled myself off of my bed and over to my desk where I took a seat directly in front of my computer and reached into the draw for the device...
There was an email address flashing on the small screen. I frowned as I stared at it, I assumed I was supposed to send something to the address but I had no idea what to say.
The next time I looked at my computer, not only was it logged on to the internet but the Netscape window was open and an email, addressed to the same address as was on the digi-vice with a message already attached. All that was left was a space for my name.
Again, curiosity got the better of me and I filled in the name, the colour of what I assumed was the 'digi-vice' it asked for, my age and where in the world I was. Then I hit send and waited.
I didn't have to wait long before a reply popped up on the screen. I narrowed my eyes as I read it, it didn't really explain much and what it did say I found pretty impossible to believe.
There was a whole other world, a digital world, that was linked to our own world. The internet seemed to be a key in it's existence, it was made up from bits of data in our world that was somehow made real in the other world. It also said that I, having received a digi-vice, was what they called a 'dig-destined'.
Back when I saw the world in the sky, the digital world, a bunch of kids in Japan were involved in a battle to save both the worlds and I, having seen the sky was chosen for some reason to become another of these digi-destined.
These Japanese kids were the original digi-destined, there were eight of them, five boys and three girls all of which witnessed a fight between two 'Digimon' in their hometowns when they were kids. Their biggest traits at the time were taken and from them crests were created along with partner digimon for each of them so that in the future, the time when I saw the world in the sky, they could help their partner digimon grow and save both worlds.
As I read this, I could feel my mouth dropping open, wider and wider until it couldn't open any more.
Was this really happening? Or was it someone's idea of a joke? If that were true, how did they get the computer to work? What about the email and the address on the digi-vice?
There was another address at the end of the email, it was a user name actually, if you wanted to know more, you were to click on it and talk to someone who would explain it better.
Now I was getting highly suspicious. I knew a bit about computers and recognized, with a little research, the IM user name and the host used for the messenger was Japanese... That wasn't a problem, I could download it pretty easily but it still confused me...
How could someone in Japan talk to me? I didn't speak Japanese and there was no way this one person, whoever they were, could speak all the languages there were as I assumed having been asked for my location there were others from all over...
I clicked on the name and this guy who called himself Koushiro Izumi told me pretty much that I was a Digidestined and that there were others around the world, and that Alana, my best e-pal, was also a dig destined like me...
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Once again, everything seemed to go back to normal. Over the next two years I received emails from 'K.Izumi' or Koushiro as his real name was, regularly. But nothing seemed any different either here or there. I was informed that there were eight digi-destined on my side of the Atlantic; Two in Scotland which I already knew about, two in Northern Ireland, two in Wales and another one in England. Koushiro sent me on the email addresses of all these other children so I emailed them and now we are all like a little family of our own but what happened next wasn't to involve us all, just two of us...
I was actually at home when it happened, watching TV to be exact. I never was one for watching TV but things had been acting a little odd lately, just little things like some mega strange weather and when you like in England, strange has to be pretty damn strange! It was autumn at the time, but all through summer there had been hail storms and now there was snow one day and sunshine the next... Almost like someone had their hand on the thermostat and couldn't make up their mind.
Anyways, the weather guys seemed as stumped as the rest of us which is when I remembered what Koushiro had said, about before his group of digi-destines got taken to DW and I have to admit my blood ran cold. I didn't want to go to that place! It sounded way too dangerous to me and I never had been a one for hiking. I looked at my digi-vice, but it didn't look any different. I watched it for a moment, trying to calm myself, telling myself it was just my stupidly over-active imagination but I knew deep down there was more to it than that. I had this nagging feeling, don't you just hate those? I couldn't shake it no matter what I did so in the end, I did the only thing I could do, went to email Alana.
At least, that was what I was gong to do but it would seem that fate had other ideas... No sooner had I turned on the computer, had that pulsating screen come back, just like it had done the day I got my digi-vice. That nagging feeling was stronger than ever now, my heart beating so fast I thought it might burst any second and part of me was hoping it would, the alternative didn't seem very inviting and just when I had decided exactly what was about to happen... The screen flipped itself off. I frowned, pressing the mouse and hammering the keyboard as I wondered what had just happened and that seemed to work, I heard a beep and the next time I looked up, there was a small picture on the screen. I leaned forward, straining my eyes behind my glasses to see what looked like a forest. Instinctively, I put my left hand out to touch the picture, my right hand still holding my digi-vice, and all too late did I realize what a bad idea that had been...