Prologue:
Kai had finished packing his bags and was just waiting for his escort to pick him up and take him to the airport. Part of him wanted to say goodbye, but he couldn't work up the nerve, he had been disowned as his parents' son so there just didn't seem to be any good that could come of it. At last the sound their voices faded as they left the apartment he began to visibly relax. He took a look in his bedroom mirror one final time, idly fingering his Crest of Darkness as he sighed in loss for what must have been the thirtieth time since he woke up. He wore black jeans with a tank top of the same color underneath a purple short sleeve woven shirt. His eleven year-old body pale as it had been since his birth. He had blonde hair like his father TK and brown eyes like his mother Kari.
Looking down at the floor he wandered over to his bed and sat down on it as he pondered how everything had gone so wrong. His parents had of course been concerned when the crest he received several years ago was the Crest of Darkness, completely understandable given their own experiences as Digidestined. Even so, they hadn't treated him any differently than before he was their son and they still cared. It would be hard at school and around the district as he and his partner Impmon would often hear snide remarks about how they couldn't be trusted and that it was only a matter of time before they betrayed everyone, other than that everything just seemed to be working out until just a week ago.
7 days was all it had taken for his life to fall apart. The 4 Sovereign digimon had summoned the original digidestined and had delivered news of a Digi-world prophecy that specifically described the wielder of the Crest of Darkness being corrupted by his partner who would eventually become one of the seven demon lords. Later that night his parents had taken Impmon away from him and told Kai that the little mon couldn't be trusted. Maybe it wouldn't have escalated beyond that but apparently there was some worries that Impmon had already corrupted Kai. Before Kai knew it, everyone (except for his twin sister Hikaru and Uncle Tai) was avoiding him like the plague and speaking about him like he was a convict.
Things had escalated to the point where he one day had been mugged on his way home from school one day and if Hikaru hadn't been there to notice, nobody would've even known because they were too busy being afraid of him. His parents immediately assumed the worst with all the tension rising and blamed him for being mugged saying that he was 'street fighting' and that soon enough he would begin attacking defenseless people. Hikaru and Tai came to Kai's defense but nothing they could say would change the minds of TK and Kari as they disowned Kai. The next day, Tai took his nephew down to City hall and used his influence as the Human-Digimon ambassador to get him emancipated knowing that if Kai was sent to a foster home, the rumors and the hate would just follow him.
After being emancipated and changing his last name from Takashi to Eclipse, Kai and his uncle began talking about what he should do. They decided that it would be best if he left Japan altogether since everyone here knew who he was thanks to the rumors and that the country he moved to would need to have the smallest amount of Registered Digidestined per capita. The country ended up being the United States and they choose a city called Wardington. The idea was that he would continue his education until he was 18 while in the meantime, Tai would make sure to send his nephew enough money each month to live comfortably through the rest of his childhood, Kai had always been responsible so Tai wasn't too worried about him blowing everything he was being given.
Kai heard a knock on his bedroom door and opened it to see Hikaru. She was wearing a summer dress with cherry blossoms designed onto it. Her caramel brown hair was neatly combed as always although her blue eyes conveyed sadness and longing.
"Your ride is here, Uncle Tai made sure that his friendliest contact would be here for this so no need to worry." she said softly desperately wanting all of this to be a horrible nightmare. None of this had been Kai's fault, he was one of the nicest people she knew, he didn't deserve this. Kai nodded in response to his sister and grabbed his suitcase. He was about to exit his room as Hikaru ran up and hugged him from behind. "I don't care what anyone says Kai, you will always be my twin brother, and I will always do what I can for you." Tears began filling both of their eyes as Kai returned the hug.
"I'm going to miss you sister" he began "You and Renamon had better look out for each other."
"We will" Hikaru said as they broke the hug. Luckily for Kai his parents were at meetings this morning so he didn't have to endure anymore glares from them. It had taken all of Tai's skills to get them to allow him to stay for the rest of the week so he could get his affairs in order and say goodbye to his sister. But it hadn't been pleasant by any means, TK and Kari had just acted like Kai didn't exist. Things could've been much worse though, Kai had a promising future thanks to his Uncle's help and Hikaru, Renamon, as well as both Gatomon and Patamon who thought that this was just too much helped him however they could whether it be packing up or just giving him company as he was practically shut in his room since being emancipated. His parents neither knew nor wanted to know about what would happen in his life once he left which was fine by him, the less they knew about him the better from this point forward.
Kai picked up his suitcase and slung his backpack over his shoulder as he walked out of his room. Renamon appeared and asked Kai if she could help with his suitcase, which he gratefully accepted. The twins and Renamon made their way down the stairs specifically avoiding the elevator wanting to spend as much time together as possible before he was gone. All too soon they had reached the bottom floor of the complex and saw a Black SUV waiting for Kai. Renamon put his suitcase in the trunk while Kai hugged his sister and whispered one final goodbye before he entered the SUV and shut the door. Moments later, he was buckled in and was being driven to the airport where a private jet commissioned by his uncle would fly him straight to Wardington, his uncle had been able to get him a connection to study for the citizenship test that the US had. Just the day before he had taken it on a secure computer in his uncle's home thanks again to Tai's influence and would be sworn in as a US citizen on Wednesday. Feeling anxious and nervous for the future ahead, Kai lost himself in thought as his trip began.
Six months later
Kai was having a video chat with the only friend he had in Japan besides his sister and uncle. Shun Kazami and his mother had never bought into all the garbage that was spread about Kai and knew him well enough to know he would never fall to evil. As they were chatting, something strange flew into Kai's computer room. Picking it up, Kai saw that it was a card of some kind.
"Kai, is something wrong?" Shun asked
"Shun" Kai began showing the card in front of his camera "this card just flew in to my window and while I was picking it up I noticed that there are hundreds more of them falling from the sky like rain."
"Wow" Shun said before looking out of his window in shock "Kai, the same thing is happening here too." Kai could only gasp in astonishment as a card found it's way towards Shun as well. Within minutes cards stopped falling and the ones in both of their hands glowed and opened up as more cards came out of them along with strange spheres. Shun's spheres were all varying shades of green while Kai's were primarily black with purple as a secondary color on them.
"Shun" Kai said as he turned back to his friend "I think this could be the start of something new."
First chapter done, next a whole new adventure will begin for Kai. Tune in next time for Ch. 1: Battle Brawlers
