DIGIMON FRONTIER: World of Deception
Chapter 1
"Go ahead! Try to use your little useless attacks. Just make it quick," Sarlakamon laughed in an eerily comical way. "I'm missing some excellent chaos here."
"Agunimon, what's the plan?" Ranamon spoke, softer than she intended.
Agunimon never took his eyes off of the evil digimon as he spoke "I have no idea. I don't know how to kill him! I don't know if he CAN be killed even with our powers combined! The only thing I can think of is just for us to keep attacking." He felt that he had failed his friends, and now they were about to pay for it with their lives.
Seeing the warrior of flames that scared wasn't very common, but he wasn't the only one. The situation wasn't good at all and everybody was fearing the worst.
"At this rate, we aren't going to last that much-" Lobomon stopped because of a ragged cough. His vision clouding for a moment and feeling light headed, he looked up, "We need to end this soon."
"What can we do? We are all hurt and he's too strong for us!" Kazemon said with worry. She then looked at Sarlakamon and gasped. With a snap of his fingers, the sun instantly became obscured, and a heavy downpour started across the land. The evil digimon was attacking again, this time preparing his last move.
"BLACK AURA BLAST!"
And then, everything went black.
"How was school today, Takuya?" Yuriko Kanbara asked her son as she set the table.
"It was sooo boring,"answered a 17-years old boy with lightly tanned skin, brown hair and hazel eyes. "When will you stop questioning that? It's always the same. Same boring professors, same boring classes, same boring classmates...Really mom, I just can't wait for the summer holiday."
As he said that, he remembered his adventure in the Digital World, how he fought to protect this world, how he made amazing friends, how he created a bond with the warrior of flames. He always missed those times and wondered what the digimon are doing, wishing that one day he will visit them with his gang.
"I think you are just being lazy," replied Yuriko. "Oh, can you go to the shop and buy me some rice for the onigiri? I totally forgot about it."
Without response, Takuya got up, put his shoes on and left before his mother could thank him. He walked on the street, lost in his thoughts, when the wind begun to blow strongly and rain drops to fall. The clouds above him billowed across the awakening sun, casting the street into a shadowy darkness.
"Great, a storm is coming."
The wind was getting stronger and stronger and the rain heavier. The whole street was under a black abyss of the clouds. The storm surrounded him and he was well and truly trapped. Suddenly, Takuya felt as if he was floating. He was actually going to the cloud above him.
His eyes grew wide a look of shock, "What is happening? What's wrong with this weather…?! HELP!"
Looking at his hands, he blinked in confusion as he saw something very familiar.
Data.
He was transforming into data which means…
"…I am going to the Digital World."
After several minutes, a bright flash of energy exploded in the middle of a field, incinerating any of the grass that was unfortunate enough to have grown around the source.
"Okay so I fell from somewhere, I'm guessing. Let's, uh, t-take a look around." Takuya opened his eyes, which seemed to be a bad idea as pain surge through them. "Gah!" "Okay, let's try again slower." Taking a deep breath, he began to repeat his action in a new way. "Now that's better." But before he could see the place he'd landed, he realized that a baby digimon with a translucent floating body was flying right in front of him, staring.
"Um, excuse me, sir, but what are you doing at the Flame Terminal?"
"Flame Terminal?" after looking at the place for a moment, Takuya spoke "Hey, uh, what... what's going on here. You look like..." A flashback suddenly got him. He was 12 years old when he last saw this kind of creature. "Y-you are Poyomon, right?"
Ignoring the question, the baby monster continued to examine the human curiously, "What a weird digimon you are! You fell from the sky but you don't have wings. Now that I look better you look like the other digimon that fell earlier today. What level are yo- "
"THERE ARE OTHERS LIKE ME?" he asked with a huge grin.
"Oh yes, there is a big blue one, a purple one with yellow hair, a green one who was shorter than the others and-"
"WHERE ARE THEY?"
"They are talking with the Trailmon, they said something about another world and stuff like that. They were confused just like you!" he giggled.
"Thank you, Poyomon!" said eagerly the goggle boy as he was running to the train station, leaving the creature staring in awe.
"What a weird digimon…" Poyomon muttered to himself.
Takuya who had previously been confused about the change of events was now running on the streets, heading to the Flame Terminal. From the distance he could see four silhouettes.
"Here he is! Takuya's here!" Tommy beamed with excitement.
"Finally I found you guys! What happened?" asked the goggle boy as the 14-year old boy hugged him. Even though Tommy had grown significantly through the years he was still considered the kid of the group and always treated Takuya as his second big brother, admiring and wishing to be like him.
"Maybe they missed us." replied JP, the former warrior of thunder, who even if he had grown up and lost a fair amount of weight, he was still how he used to be five years ago. He was the oldest of the group, but many times he wouldn't act his age.
"Or maybe the Digital World is in trouble again." Zoe contradicted him, her hands on her hips. As expected from her, she had blossomed into a very attractive and popular girl. The blonde then turned to the lone wolf of the group. "There must be a reason why we were transported here. What do you think, Koji?"
He stared for a moment at her emerald eyes and answered "Yeah. But I'm wondering…Why isn't Koichi here?" The former warrior of light had grown over the years, too. He still wore his long black hair in a ponytail, while his twin brother had a completely different style, but they come to accept each other despite the awkwardness of the events that happened many years ago and despite their different personalities.
"Because I am the one responsible for taking the children of Darkness, Earth, Wood, Water, and Steel into the Digital World." And with those words, everybody was suddenly staring wide eyed at Trailmon.
"What?!" Takuya was the first one to speak after a moment of silence.
"Oh, I thought you knew that already." He looked at them, quite confused.
"We don't know anything! That's why we came to you in the first place." yelled Zoe with an annoyed look on her face. Trailmon blushed as the girl stared angrily at him. "Now tell us, where did you take them and why did you do that?"
"T-they are at the Forest Terminal. T-the Celestial Digimon ordered m-me to do that…" he stammered. "It was…their last wish…" He stopped as ancient painful memories returned unbidden to him.
"THEIR LAST WISH?!" they yelled in unison. The place fell silent. Memories of Ophanimon, Seraphimon and Cherubimon appeared in their minds; how the evil Spirits stole Seraphimon's data, transforming him into a Digi-Egg, how Ophanimon sacrificed herself to give Takuya and Koji the power to combine the Spirits to become EmperorGreymon and MagnaGarurumon, how Cherubimon was defeated, how they reborned and, finally, how thankful they were for the efforts of the humans who saved their world.
"What happened to them?" asked JP, who was the first one to recover from the shock.
Trailmon closed his eyes and let some tears fall. "It is said that they fought against an evil digimon along with the Ten Legendary Warriors and in order to protect the Spirits they were killed and turned into Digi-Eggs. That's all I know… After that I've been told to transport some of the digidestined into the Digital World and take them to the Forest Terminal." he explained solemnly.
"That's terrible…" Zoe said looking at the ground.
"What are we supposed to do?" JP questioned.
"Should we find the others?" Tommy wondered.
"But our spirits…" Koji added.
"I'm hungry." A moment of silence filled the place again and everybody was staring at Takuya. "What? It's dinner time! You expect me to think of a plan with an empty stomach?"
Trailmon chuckled, "I'm sure all of you are feeling very hungry, especially after such a terrifying ordeal. It's not easy to be transported by a storm so please, some of the digimon living in the Village of Flames have set up a fine dinner for you all, and considering at least two of you have not eaten dinner, I suggest you take it."
It was only then that JP heard the tell-tale rumbling of his stomach, now begging him at the mention of a meal. "Yes please!"
And for the first time since they arrived, they laughed.
"Wh... where are we?" Katsuharu asked in awe.
What stood before them was not Shibuya's subway station, nor any other area of the city that they were familiar with. Instead, what greeted the five humans was a vast expanse of what once had been a field of tall grasses, except now it looked as though a long drought had took its toll on the land. Most of the vegetation that had grown in the fields had browned in their struggle for life, a sure sign of death. Whatever trees that had stood in the area had very few leaves in their possession, some of them being completely devoid of any semblance of life.
"I don't know," Katsuharu heard Chiaki softly respond. "but I don' think we're in Japan anymore."
"This is the Digital World." stated Koichi. "But I don't remember this place. It looks…different. As if someone-"
"Wait, wait, wait!" Teppei interrupted him. "You mean THAT Digital World where we've been 5 years ago? That Digital World where we met Angemon and after a while the Royal Knights killed him? Man, this place is dangerous! Why are we here?" he spoke swiftly, somehow panicked.
"Koichi, you had a Spirit, right?" questioned Teruo as he turned to the former warrior of darkness. "You know better than us this world and its secrets and dangers. Do you have any idea what is happening?"
Koichi thought for himself for a moment. "I'm afraid not. It's not like we've got a message from Ophanimon… it just happened to be transported here."
"This place is... creepy," Chiaki whispered to nobody in particular.
"Okay, this place is weird I know, but it's probably a common thing in this part of the world. I think... we should try to find a clue or something. Hey, maybe we've got Spirits!" Katsuharu exclaimed, trying to change the mood.
"What is this? I'm sure I've seen this before." asked Teruo examining the brown device from his hand. The raven-haired boy searched in his pocket and found that he has one too.
"It's a D-Tector!" Koichi answered a little surprised. "With that you have the ability to transform into a digimon. It can be used to scan, purify, and then realize Fractal Code." He explained, as the other children looked at their own device.
"I have one too!" exclaimed Katsuharu with excitement, showing the group his green D-Tector. "You know what it means? We can transform into Digimon. I bet mine is awesome!"
"But I think we should take the Spirits first. Am I right?" Teppei turned to Koichi. The boy nodded and then spoke with concern in his voice "I have a bad feeling about this whole thing."
"I for one refuse to allow myself to remain in this dreadful place." Chiaki groaned as she walked away from the group, the boys only staring at her. After noticing no one was following, she spoke again. "Are you coming or what?" The girl stumbled for a moment, but quickly caught herself, willing herself to continue.
"We can't let her alone, can we?" said Teruo with a smile on his face and followed the prissy girl. With that, the group nodded to each other, and started walking in the direction where Chiaki went. However, with every minute, the heat of the world sapped more and more energy from the five of them.
It was what Katsuharu would suspect to be just about an hour of silence before he was fed up as well. That is, until he spoke up. "I don't mean to be breaking any thinking but… if this is the Digital World why there are no digimon at all?" Ironically, right when this late last sentence was spoken, a loud growl could be heard from the sky.
"I must have asked…"
"Be quiet!" Koichi whispered looking towards the quivering boy.
A huge shadow was now covering them and the sound of flapping wings could be heard. The five teens imagined that only a big flying creature could make it and wondered whether it was going to face them or not. They stood there in silence, paralyzed in fear for a few seconds before the giant digimon left in the opposite direction. They sighed in relief and nodded to each other to continue their way.
As they walked, the five talked about anything and everything. At first, the talk was mostly about what they were going to do in the Digital World and suggestions about what kind of digimon they were going to meet. Also, they were questioning if other human children arrived in the Digital World and where they were and when they would find them. As the heat of the day wore on, talk came less and less common, to the point that they were not talking at all, only letting their panting in response to the heat and Teruo's humming break the silence.
Chiaki was in her own deep thinking, asking herself what was going to happen and when she would go back home. Also, why would she be with Katsuharu of all people in this place? The boy she had lov- admired for such a long time and with whom, for fear of rejection, she had been silent for years, never admitting her affection. Or maybe she was just being too arrogant. Why was she walking next to him anyway? She could stand next to any boy from this group, yet there she was, next to him wearing an awkward smile. Wait, why was she smiling? She stepped further so she could stand next to someone else, trying to get rid of this thought.
"What's up with this quietness?" she heard the object of her affection asking with a bored tone.
Katsuharu, on the other hand, never noticed Chiaki's attempt to hide her smile from him. He actually never noticed that she was walking next to him, nor that she rushed from him. He was too busy thinking about what adventures were awaiting for the group and what was his Spirit going to look like. And nothing else mattered for him. Confident, adventurous, loud, daring, full of himself. That's how he was. Tough as steel.
Koichi found himself in an untamed wilderness, asking himself how he and the other teenagers got in there. Would they unearth secrets in their journey and what was the reason why they were taken there? And most important, did his brother arrive in the Digital World, too? So many questions, yet no answer. Just like his relationship with his brother, the lonely wolf. Koichi wanted to be by his side forever, but Koji would always say that he didn't know what is like to be a brother. They were like Yin and Yang, darkness and light, their bond was a special one, at least from Koichi's point of view.
"Say…where are we heading more exactly?" Teppei finally spoke.
Unlike the others, he wasn't thinking of something important. The only thing he was interested in was the attention. If he got the attention, then he got everything. Brash and conceited, he was walking in front of the group, feeling like a leader.
Teruo was walking behind him, who could not help noticing Chiaki's coming next to him. Or was he just imagining things? He felt like impressing the only girl of the group and decided to answer Teppei's question with an intelligent reply.
"Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them."
He felt four pairs of eyes staring at him. He blushed as he looked at Chiaki's blank expression. The girl wasn't that impressed as he expected.
"I mean…look!" he pointed to the left direction. "It looks like a village!"
"You're right!" Teppei burst with excitement. "There must be someone there. Let's go!"
Katsuharu smiled to himself. The next few days were sure to be a lot of fun.