A/N: Well, I guess you can be shocked. Kinda, sorta, no not really. This is an idea that's been on my mind since I watched Digimon all those years ago as a young'un, and I guess I can finally write out how Digimon could have gone.
Quick Notes:
Hikari, once again, is not the missing child. All eight of the children are at the summer camp, so there's not really any "Missing Eighth Chosen Child", and all of that will be explained in due time. This is technically a first in a series I'm actually planning on writing out before the end of my lifetime... or before I end up getting swamped with real life problems.
Due to Hikari actually being there, Taichi and Yamato aren't going to have much of a rivalry since I believed that most of the tension came from the fact that Yamato was jealous of Taichi and how Takeru seemed to admire the goggle headed leader. Due to this, the two older brothers are going to be rather out of character in a way, but I think the change is minimal to the point that it isn't much visible.
As you can tell, I'm inclined to use the Japanese names and ages since I technically did see the Japanese version first, despite growing up in the States. That, and I like it better since there's all those puns and intentional links such as Hikari and her crest being that of Light.
Few more important things before I start the story. Everything shall be in third person present tense, since it's a style I'm currently trying to master. This shall also be a Takeru-centric piece despite the heavy emphasis of Hikari being there, mainly because he is my favorite Chosen Child. That, and Patamon is amazing. Also, I'm going to be adding some interesting twists here and there to make the story flow the way I wanted the entire series to go.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Digimon nor anything that has to do with the entire franchise. This work is purely fanfiction and shall not make any profit using the Digimon name nor its franchise.
Everything had started that summer.
Strange things started to happen all over the globe. The fields of Southeast Asia dried up due to a mysterious drought. Heavy rain fall engulfed the Middle East. The temperatures within the United States fluctuated to the extremities. All of these had gone unnoticed to a many others, mostly kids who did not really care of the future and only thought of what was happening in their own little world.
However, for a group of kids at a summer camp, these telltale signs only marked the beginning of an adventure that would change their lives.
Forever.
"Ne, Hikari, what's that?" A young, boyish voice asks, slight confusion mixes with odd fascination.
"What's what Takeru?" A young, girly voice, Hikari, replies with a question, looking up from the ground.
The two children, Takaishi Takeru and Yagami Hikari, are currently playing around in a field close to where the other children are setting up the tents for their Summer Camp. They are both in the second grade, with Takeru going to Kawada Elementary and with Hikari going to Odaiba Elementary.
"That!" Takeru shouts, pointing at a falling white object. He reaches up to grab it, only to have it disappear in his hand. His hand is left slightly wet. "Wait…"
"Snow!" Hikari jumps from her spot, eyes shining in wonder. Times like these, she forgets that she's still recovering from her bout of pneumonia. The young child starts to cough.
"Hikari, are you okay?" Takeru rushes to her as fast as his eight year old legs can take him. Luckily, he and Hikari are not that far apart. He grabs her shoulder and holds her steady, telling her to breathe slowly and deeply.
Her coughs fade away.
"Thank you," she says with a smile, earning one in return from the blond haired child. She notes that the snow is starting to fall much more frequently now, and the winds are getting stronger by the minute. "We should g o to where everyone else is at." She earns a nod in agreement, noting that she was not the only one who was getting worried and confused by the second.
Getting up, the two rush out of the field and through the bushes, carefully at that due to Hikari's constitution. Takeru is the one who spots familiar faces first.
"Bro!" Takeru shouts, catching the attention of another blond haired, blue eyed child. His brother, Ishida Yamato, is with two others. Yagami Taichi, Hikari's older brother, and Takenouchi Sora. All three of them were fifth grade students at Odaiba elementary.
"Takeru!"/"Hikari!" Two voices overlap in concern. Both Yamato and Taichi shout in unison upon seeing their siblings, Sora turning around to see the two younger siblings reach the three of them. As soon as they were close enough, both Yamato and Taichi bring their little siblings into their arms.
More snow falls harder, faster, soon creating small patches of white everywhere.
"Taichi!" Another voice calls and both Takeru and Taichi turn to the source. A small red haired child clutching a laptop in his arms runs towards them. A young girl wearing an absurdly large pink cowgirl hat follows behind him.
"Koushiro! Mimi!" Taichi greets them as Hikari looks into the sky. Izumi Koushiro and Tachikawa Mimi, both fourth grade students at Odaiba Elementary, just like the others—sans Takeru. "Where's Jyou?" Taichi asks, repositioning the goggles that lay on his forhead, keeping his gravity defying hair in check.
"I thought he'd be here with you," Koushiro pants, trying to regain his breath after the running.
The snow fall becomes harsher now, along with the blistering winds. Within a minute, the strong winds and the snow combine into a howling blizzard.
"We need to find shelter!" Taichi shouts over the wind as he puts on his goggles. He grabs Hikari's hand, making sure that he does not lose her.
In turn, Hikari grasps Takeru's hand, who then grasps onto Yamato's, who then takes hold of Sora's, and with Sora Mimi's, and with Mimi Koushiro's. And with that, they made a human chain, preventing anything bad from happening to them—like getting separated for example.
They continue to trudge in snow until a faint shout catches Takeru's attention. He trains his young ears to try and catch what the shout is saying.
"..o'er…. here… uys!" He hears, the voice sounding familiar.
"Everyone! Over here!" He hears again, and this time much more clearly. He turns his head left and right, searching for the source, spotting a shrine house in the process. It seems the voice is coming from there. He knows who the voice is now. The voice belongs to their friend, Kido Jyou, sixth grade student at Odaiba Elementary.
"Taichi!" Takeru shouts over the gale, barely catching the older boy's attention. "I hear Jyou's voice coming from over at the shrine house to the right!"
With that, Taichi himself looks around, finding the shrine house that the younger blond was talking about. Being the leader in the front, he pulls them along to the safety of the shrine house. There, he finds their friend Jyou, hurrying them into the small building before the blizzard becomes worse.
"Get inside! Hurry!" Jyou persists, helping them all get inside and closing the sliding door the minute Koushiro enters. "I already have pillows and blankets laid out for all of you."
And true to his word, there are blankets and pillows put in a circle, one for each of them, much to the groups' chagrin. Takeru smiles lightly, grateful.
No words are said as they all clamber their way into the comfort of a blanket, sitting on one pillow each, and huddle as close as possible with each other. Takeru and Hikari are the lucky ones, being the smallest and youngest. Yamato and Taichi sits them on their respective laps, providing them extra warmth and putting them in the middle of the group huddle.
They all stay like this, silent and shivering, as they wait the blizzard out.
It is two hours until the group hears the howl of the blizzard subsiding until it is no more. Cautious, Taichi hands his sister to the closest person, Yamato. The older blond opens up his blanket, scooting Takeru over to make space for the younger Yagami child. With only eye contact, a silent promise between older brothers is made as Taichi stands to open the door.
"Wow," he says as if in a trance, catching the attention of everyone. Takeru and Hikari are the first to react, jumping out of Yamato's lap, forcing the Ishida child to follow them.
"Snow!" Takeru shouts jovially, making his way under Taichi's outstretched arm. Hikari follows him with a gleeful cheer.
"Takeru! Hikari! Be careful!" Yamato shouts in clear worry, speaking what is both in his and Taichi's mind as their younger siblings rush out of the shrine house.
He rushes out, along with Taichi, planning on keeping an watchful eye on them.
"It's freezing," Takeru hears in the background, noting that it was Sora who is talking. He imagines that she's clutching her bare arms, rubbing them fiercely with her glove covered hands. "You wouldn't even be able to tell that it's summer," she continues and Takeru can hear the soft crunch of snow as she walks out of the shrine house.
"We should probably find an adult first! We don-." The familiar voice of the ever worried Jyou makes it to everyone's ears.
"Wow, snow! It's so pretty!" Mimi interrupts him with a shout, rushing outside. Knowing that his pleas are falling on deaf ears, Jyou sighs and joins them in the snow.
Takeru makes a headcount silently based off the sound of who commented and left the building. He notices that everyone but Koushiro has gone outside.
"No!" Takeru hears the familiar voice of Koushiro shout in frantic despair. Curious, Takeru looks up from the snowman that he is building with Hikari and their brothers, finding the red haired child staring desperately at both his laptop and his cell phone. Shaking his head, Takeru continues building his snowman.
"Wow," Taichi says once again, earning everyone but Koushiro's attention. Takeru looks up once more, this time following Taichi's line of sight. What he sees is commonly known as an aurora, shining colorfully like a rainbow throughout the dark snowy sky. "Koushiro, get out here! You gotta see this!" A few mumbles are heard, and Takeru takes note of the sound of crunching snow once again.
"It's my first time seeing this!" Takeru exclaims as everyone else makes their own claims regarding the aurora.
"Wait, everyone," Koushiro's voice cuts through their musings, stopping them all. "What's an aurora doing in Japan of all places? That just doesn't add up," he concludes, causing Sora to agree with him.
Takeru becomes confused now, looking at everyone and finding that they are all just as confused as he is. A soft gasp catches his attention.
"Big brother! Look!" Hikari shouts, pointing into the sky, past the aurora. Takeru, and everyone else for that matter, follows her line of sight, wanting to find out what she saw.
Takeru gasps slightly as well, finding himself inching his way closer to his brother. Yamato grabs Takeru, hugging him to his side as the two look wearily at the green vortex that Hikari pointed out. The Takaishi child sees Taichi make his way in front of Hikari, slowly making her step backwards along with him until the younger Yagami is close enough for Yamato to reach. Taking his cue, Yamato brings Hikari into his other side.
Everyone is entranced, looking at the green vortex with feelings of fascination and fear and all forms of the two. That is, until, eight bright lights begin to bud at the center of the vortex. These lights soon grow in size, moving towards the outer arms of the spiral, and shooting out towards the children like falling stars.
It all happens too fast, and the only natural reaction for them all is to brace for the incoming danger. Takeru vaguely hears Mimi let out a terrified shriek as the lights come closer, faster than before. One of the lights reaches them before the other seven, landing right beside Sora. This causes everyone to jump down, clutching their heads in fear.
Taichi turns automatically, encircling both Hikari and Takeru in his arms, forming a circle of protection with Yamato. Automatically, the two older brothers drop to the floor, dragging their younger siblings with them. Both Yamato and Taichi cover Takeru and Hikari in a human dome.
The objects continue to fall, lasting for another three minutes, sending snow flying into the surrounding area, obscuring everyone's vision. Takeru counts each impact silently, wishing the eighth one would happen so that they can all get up. His legs are beginning to cramp up.
"What was that?" Mimi asks as soon as the eighth light crashes into the snow covered earth, her voice interlaced with fear.
"I don't know," Koushiro replies as he crawls towards one of the holes. "It could have been a meteorite," he tries to logically conclude.
"Is everyone all right?" Sora shouts in worry, taking a look around as she stands.
"Yeah," Yamato responds, getting up, pulling Takeru and Hikari up. Being part of the human dome, Taichi stands as well. "Somehow."
"What in the world…?" Koushiro's voice piques Takeru's curiosity, finding the red haired child's face to be full of confusion. Something starts to float out of the small crater created by one of the lights. "What is thist?" He asks once more, grabbing the object as it floats in midair.
Seven more objects float out of their holes, which were coincidentally near the other seven children. Takeru is the first to snatch his, starting a ripple effect of everyone else catching their own.
"Is it a game?" Takeru whispers and only his brother and the two Yagamis hear him. "Looks like one of the Virtual Pet ones. Hikari nods in agreement, inspecting the device.
"It's neither a pager nor a cell phone," Koushiro remarks loudly, causing Takeru and Hikari to chuckle to themselves.
"Of course not, it's a game device," Takeru quips, causing the other three to smile. The smiles, however, did not last long.
The ground starts to rumble, breaking everyone from their musings. Again, Yamato and Taichi cling onto their siblings while everyone else tries to stabilize their balance. A light washes over them all, blinding them and forcing them all to close their eyes as they feel their bodies lift from the ground. Yamato and Taichi hold onto their sibling much more fiercely now. Unbeknownst to them, Takeru and Hikari both manage to grab a hold of each other in the chaos. Everyone but the four begin to scream for their dear lives.
"Don't let go!" Both Yamato and Taichi scream at their respective siblings; both earning a tighter clutch on their shirts in return. The pulling force begins to become stronger and stronger until they all feel themselves flying at fast speeds. Due to their positioning, the older brothers' grips on their younger siblings begin to falter. Taichi was the first to let go.
"Big brother!" Hikari screamed as she feels her brother be torn apart from her. She feels another arm clutch onto her. The hand holding her own tightens painfully, her returning the favor in fear. Takeru hears her brother scream her name until he can be heard no longer. "No!"
"Hikari!" Yamato and Takeru shout, wanting to calm her. "It's okay, your brother will be fine!" They both try to assure her, even if they, too, are scared of what may have happened.
Yamato feels his tight grip loosening, causing him to panic. Knowing the promise only the older brother's knew about, Yamato pushes both Takeru and Hikari together.
"Takeru," the Ishida child starts, earning the Takaishi's attention, "don't let go of her." He whispers into his brother's ear sadly. Takeru's mind goes into overload, wanting to figure out what his big brother was talking about, that is, until he notices it.
His big brother's grip isn't as tight as it was before.
"No! Don't let go of us!" Takeru shouts, pulling Hikari into him as he tries to strengthen his grip on Yamato's shirt.
"Don't worry," Yamato's calming voice reaches him, and he feels his brother unlatching his hand from his shirt. "I'll meet you on the other side," he continues and Takeru imagines his brother smiling. "Just promise me that you won't let go of Hikari."
"I won't let go. I promise!" Takeru shouts back, his voice cracking in sobs. He feels Yamato let go, screaming his name just like Taichi before the voice disappeared.
"Please, don't leave me too," Hikari whispers into the sobbing Takeru's jacket.
The last thing the Takaishi child feels are his arms circling around Hikari into a fierce hug before everything goes black.
"Takeru!" A voice permeates the darkness. They sound small and boyish. "Takeru! C'mon, wake up!" Something is jumping on his stomach, he can feel it.
"Ngh…" Takeru grunts, opening his eyes slowly. He blinks thrice, waking to see a small, white pig-like creature on his chest. "What…?" He mutters, trying to grasp the situation as best as his eight year old mind can possibly handle.
"Good morning sleepy head," another voice joins in, this time familiar.
"Hikari?" Takeru groggily makes out, looking left and right until he finally sees the girl. He notes that a cream colored puppy with a ring around the neck is next to her.
"The one and only! C'mon, get up already! Tokomon's been waiting for the past ten minutes!"
"Tokomon?" Takeru asks once more, bringing his eyes to the creature on his chest. He smiles, hugging the creature. The creature nods and smiles, earning a smile from Takeru. "Cool!"
"Wow," the puppy speaks in amazement. "Your reaction was on point."
Hikari giggles in response. "Of course Plotmon, I've known Takeru for two years now! We're best friends!" She smiles at him, and he smiles back.
A shout breaks the four of them out of their reveries, causing them to look around. Takeru's face scrunches in thought, the voice shouting sounding familiar. Wanting to find out who the voice belongs to, Takeru stands up and dusts his shorts, Tokomon hopping off his chest to stand next to him.
"Want to check it out?" He asks them, earning nods. "Let's go!" He shouts as he dashes towards the source.
Their little trek does not last long, five minutes at most. The moment Takeru makes it to the area where the shout came from, he bursts into laughter.
"Takeru?" The cool, familiar voice wonders in surprise.
"Bro!" Takeru shouts in glee, rushing out towards Yamato. Hikari, Plotmon and Tokomon follow behind him. "Was that you screaming earlier?" He asks in feigned innocence, knowing full well that the scream belongs to his brother. In response to the question, Yamato just shakes his head, his face flushing slightly.
"Hello to you too!" Another voice speaks, this time, coming from the creature with a blade for a horn nestled at his brother's side. "I'm Tsunomon! I'm Yamato's digimon partner!"
"Digimon?" Takeru questions, earning nods from Hikari, Tokomon, and Plotmon.
"That's what we are!" Tokomon exclaimed, the smile never leaving his face. The white pig's eyes glaze over, his attention far off. "What's that?" He asks suddenly, hearing something that the others, besides Plotmon, did not detect. He starts on his own, bouncing away from Takeru and into a different brush.
Worried, Takeru follows after him, Hikari and Yamato right behind him along with their digimon. They continue to run a short distance yet again, stumbling upon six other beings within the forest they woke up in. They are Taichi, Sora, Koushiro and three other small digimon.
"Hikari!" Taichi shouts as soon as he sees his little sister appear from the brush. Hearing him, Takeru sees Hikari rush past him, tackling the side of her older brother. Plotmon pads her way to her partner, looking around at the other digimon.
"You did well," Yamato says, staring at the Yagami siblings. He puts a hand on Takeru's shoulder, giving his younger sibling a smile of pride. "You did what was asked and followed it until the end."
At that, Takeru looks at his older brother, smiling back. A shout, however, ruins the heartfelt moment, causing everyone to jump and look towards the opposite end of the forest where the scream originated.
Soon, Kido Jyou makes his appearance, stumbling and tripping over his feet.
"Get it away! Get it away!" He shouts in fear, tripping and falling, with as much finesse a falling child can have, right in front of the gathered group of children. Jyou picks himself up right away, jumping behind Taichi's back, cowering.
Confused, everyone looks to where the oldest child appeared, only to see a gray, floating, dragon-like digimon flying right at them. This prompts Jyou to continue screaming in fear, only to pause when he realizes that the others are not screaming at all. Takeru watches in amusement as Jyou looks around, noticing the other digimon in his presence and almost fainting in shock. After a while, Jyou starts to calm down, breathing slowly to prevent another bout of hyperventilating.
"So, I'm guessing some introductions are in order," Taichi says as he gathers everyone in a circle. Takeru watches as the child with goggles introduces himself and the other children in their stead. As he finishes, Tokomon steps forward from the group of digimon, signaling their start of introductions.
"I'm Tokomon," he says, grinning. "I'm Takeru's digimon partner!"
"Plotmon," the small puppy says. "Unlike the others, I'm a Child level digimon. My partner is Hikari," she finishes, only leaving more questions about what she means.
"I'm Tsunomon," the one with the bladed forehead speaks from his partner's side. "I'm Yamato's partner."
"I am Motimon," one of the digimon unknown to Takeru speaks. This digimon looks like a pink blob shaped like a thumb. "I am Koushiro's digimon partner. Nice to meet you," he finishes.
"I'm Pukamon," the gray dragon speaks, pointing at Jyou. "I'm his partner. Don't be afraid, I won't bite!" He jokes, floating towards Jyou.
"I'm Pyocomon," a pink bulb digimon says, her antenna looking appendage twitching. "I'm Sora's partner. It's nice to meet all of you."
"And I'm Koromon!" The last one shouts, bouncing up and down until Taichi catches him. "I'm Taichi's partner!"
After the introductions, the group starts to interact with their digimon, an odd feeling in creeping in the back of Takeru's mind. When he realizes what is wrong, he opens his mouth to speak, only to be beaten by Sora.
"Where's Mimi?" She asks, causing everyone to look around. They all notice that the girl wearing the pink cowgirl hat is missing. "Wasn't she with you three?" She asks Yamato, earning a shake of the head. "Jyou?"
"I was alone until I found you all," he admits, rubbing his arms together.
"Where could she be?" Koushiro wonders, getting up from his spot. "We sho-."
A loud shriek interrupts them all, sounding eerily familiar to them.
"Mimi!" They all shout, running to where they heard her scream. The group appears in a large clearing, looking for the missing girl, only to see her rush towards them, a green plant-like digimon being carried in her arms.
"Ah! Turn back! Turn back! Tanemon say's it's dangerous!" Mimi shouts at them, panic in her eyes.
"What are you ta-!" Taichi shouts back, only to see something large, red, and bug-like to appear above the forestry. "Not again!" He gripes, turning around as soon as Mimi makes her way to them. "This time, we fight!"
"Don't be reckless!" Yamato shouts at him, putting a protective cover around both Takeru and Hikari. "We have no weapons, and that thing can potentially kill us!" Shouts of agreement reach Taichi's ears, causing the goggle head teen to look back and decide.
"Fine, we run!" Taichi shouts, and everyone springs to action.
Everyone turns around this time, dashing in the same direction from which they entered the empty field. The buzzing of the giant red bug behind them is disconcerting for the younger children, possibly in the process of creating a trauma for them. Takeru shakes his head, clutching onto Tokomon even harder. He doesn't want to lose his new friend.
"What is that thing?" Takeru hears Yamato shout, frankly irritate due to all the running without rest.
"That's Kuwagamon!" Tsunomon replies from his side. "It's an Adult level digimon! Be careful for his Scissor Arms attack. I hear it cuts through digimon like cutting through paper!"
"That's lovely," Yamato grumbles, his legs gaining momentum due to the adrenaline rush. For a second, the Ishida child looks back, noticing how close Kuwagamon is to them. "Duck!"
Takeru feels his entire body being shoved to the floor, acknowledging that Yamato is the one who vaulted into him. He hears a small groan, noticing that Yamato also dragged down Hikari and Taichi with them. The four others also jump to the floor, Kuwagamon missing everyone by a hair's width.
"Keep going!" Taichi exclaims and Takeru feels himself being lifted onto his feet again. "Let's go!"
They all continue running once more; their adrenaline rush enabling them to push their limits to the extreme. Soon, they come face to face with a dead end, a cliff overlooking more of the forest and a rather large and wide river.
"Should we take another path…?" Taichi asks dumbfounded, wanting to deny the reality.
"What other path?" Yamato shoots back, giving Taichi a glare. "There's no other way!"
"Looks like we're going to have to fight!" Koromon exclaims, jumping out of Taichi's arms. All the digimon give a roar of agreement, jumping out of their respective partner's arms to join Koromon.
"Don't be reckless! Remember what happened last time?" Taichi shouts at him, scared for his new friend.
"Don't worry, we're supposed to protect you all," Tsunomon and Tokomon answer back, giving their partners a smile. Koromon nods along, agreeing with their reason.
No one else manages to make a comment as Kuwagamon finally reaches them, its pinchers poised for an attack.
"Take this! Baby Bubble!" All but Plotmon shout, jumping into the air and shooting pink bubbles at the giant stag beetle.
"Sledge Dash!" Plotmon shouts, ramming her full body into the black markings on Kuwagamon's face.
The combine attacks manage to stagger the enemy digimon, but the giant stag beetle manages to plow through all the digimon, sending them all careening back to where their partners are standing.
"Tokomon!" Takeru shouts, grasping his digimon partner. Everyone reacts in a similar way, fearful for their new friends and of the imposing danger of Kuwagamon.
"We have to fight Takeru," Tokomon manages to make out, weakly Takeru notices. "It's our job to protect you."
"No! Not if you're going to get yourself hurt!" Takeru shouts, grasping onto his partner much tighter than before. More sounds of refusal are clear in the air, Takeru noting that everyone else is facing a similar issue.
"Don't worry, we'll be fine!" Tokomon smiles at him, struggling to get out of the tight grip. After a few moments of struggle, Tokomon manages to break free and lands in front of Takeru. The other digimon manage this feat as well, landing in front of their partners. "Let's do it!"
Once again, the digimon charge at the Kuwagamon despite the outcries and protests from their human partners. Plotmon jumps ahead of the rest, her paw poised for another attack.
And that's when a miracle happens.
Takeru notices that everything seems to stop, as if time is frozen. He notes that all the children are staring at the exact same site as he is, all of them feeling a vibration coming from their side. Grasping at it, he remembers the object that fell from the sky before they were taken to this new world.
'Let us assist you, Bearer of Hope,' a voice whispers past Takeru like the wind. He starts looking around for the source of the voice but comes up short.
"What was that?" Taichi asks, apparently having the same experience, but no one has an answer.
Suddenly, eight beams of light shoot from the sky once more, this time, encasing their digimon partners. Everything happens within that instant.
"Tokomon digivolves to … Patamon!" The white pig digimon appears to grow a little larger and slimmer, the antennae on his head becoming similar to the wings of a bat. His white body is covered in orange and cream fur.
"Tsunomon digivolves to … Gabumon!" The blade on his forehead becomes a horn, his body growing in size. Arms and legs sprout from the body as blue and white fur begin to grow along with his body.
"Plotmon digivolves to … Tailmon!" The puppy poised for battle suddenly becomes a white feline ready to pounce. The ring that was once around her neck is now situated towards the end of her now longer tail. Her gloved paws are poised, claws at the ready to strike at the enemy digimon.
"Koromon digivolves to … Agumon!" The small, pink digimon with antennae similar to Tokomon's grows in size, rivaling that of Gabumon. However, no fur or horn is grown at all, and all that is left is a yellow dinosaur like digimon.
"Pyocomon digivolves to … Piyomon!" The pink bulb suddenly sprouts wings for arms and talons for feet, a beak growing to where the mouth once was. The antenna on the top of her head is still there, now only becoming a more decorative feature on her head compared to before.
"Tanemon digivolves to … Palmon!" The green bulb like digimon morphs into something similar to a young plant, a flower now blooming on her head.
"Motimon digivolves to … Tentomon!" The pink thumb blob grows a hard shell, growing into the shape of an insect. His arms become claws, and on his back are now insect wings.
"Pukamon digivolves to … Gomamon!" The gray dragon morphs into a white spotted seal, his arms becoming longer and clawed.
"Wow," Takeru mutters in amazement, looking at the new digimon that stood where their partners once stood. Hikari nods in agreement, speechless.
"Attack!" Agumon shouts, recoiling his head in preparation for an attack. Seeing the new threat, the Kwagamon tries to escape.
"Poison Ivy!" Palmon shouts, extending her purple claws as a rope to catching the Kuwagamon.
"Take this! Air Shot!" Patamon shouts, puffing his entire body before releasing a violent blast of air at the red stag beetle. The attack connects and Kuwagamon falls to the floor. Palmon retracts her Poison Ivy, readying for another attack in case of another escape.
"Now it's our turn!" Agumon shouts. "Baby Flame!" A ball of fire erupts from his mouth, striking the enemy in the chest.
"Petite Flire!" Gabumon lets out a stream of blue flames, striking the same area as Agumon.
"Petite Thunder!" Tentomon buzzes, an electric shock coming from his claws, aimed right at the same spot as before.
Gomamon, being the ever so jolly being he is, simply rolls on his side, tripping up the Kuwagamon and forcing him down even more.
"Magical Fire!" Piyomon shouts in the air, a green spiral of flames striking the Kuwagamon's chest.
"And for the finisher! Neko Punch!" Tailmon shouts, striking the final blow to the chest and sending the Kuwagamon back into the forestry.
"You did it!" Taichi shouts, everyone rushing to their partners to congratulate them.
"Tokomon?" Takeru asks tentatively, looking at the orange bat-pig.
"I'm Patamon now!" Patamon smiles, jumping into Takeru's arms.
Everyone begins to talk animatedly with their partner, unaware of the foreboding danger still in their presence. Takeru hears Sora shout for Taichi, and the moment is broken. Everyone watches as red horns appear from the top of the trees, horns that belong to Kuwagamon. Said horns come crashing down to the ground, at the exact spot where Taichi and Agumon were standing. The earth shudders, cracks stemming from the damage caused by Kuwagamon's horns. The cracks spread farther and longer, spreading until they reach the sides of the cliff, effectively marking the end of the children and their digimon.
It all happens in slow motion for Takeru. Sora is the first to trip over the shuddering earth, bringing Piyomon with her. Taichi falls flat on his back, Agumon soon following. Jyou and Gomamon are the next to go down, being followed by Mimi, Koushiro and their partners. He feels an arm hug hum close and finds Hikari in the same position. Yamato is grabbing onto them, much like last time. Gabumon falls first to the floor, and Yamato is forced to stay on his knees, Takeru and Hikari going down with him.
As they all hit the floor, a definitive breaking of earth is heard, and the entire cliff side breaks apart, careening the children and their digimon towards their doom.
All Takeru remembers is the sensation of falling and screaming once more before feeling the impact of the water.
Kuwagamon looks over the now destroyed cliff for any remnants of the prey that escaped, finding nothing there. With nothing left, the red stag beetle flies away, looking out for future prey.
Little did the rest of the world know, these eight children now hold the power to change the world, for better or worse. The meeting with their digimon was barely just the beginning.
The beginning of bother their longest and shortest summer ever.
A/N: And there you have it. First chapter, or well, first 'Episode' is now complete. If you could tell, I'm modelling each chapter after every episode of the Digimon Adventure saga to act as a better retelling of sorts.
Anyway, thanks for reading and I hoped you enjoyed this first chapter!
This is Van, signing off!