(Alright, my first story. Any constructive criticism is welcome, and if you like it please say so! I promise that there will be mor action in the next one.)
A tall, thin 16-year old with brown hair opened his grey eyes, looking out in a black expanse. A few feet away, a dark, cloaked figure stood watching him with sinister yellow eyes. "Who are you?!" The boy called. This was too weird for him. He couldn't even remember how he got here. The figure didn't answer, but began to remove it's cloak. The last thing Hiroto saw was the creature's horrible eyes before everything went blank. . .
Hiroto screamed, waking from his sleep. His classmates around him all started laughing, and the teacher looked at him disapprovingly. "Sleeping through class again, were we Kagome-San? What's that, the sixth time this week?" he said, coming up next to his desk. The man was relatively short, slightly thinning hair and big glasses. "Is my class really so boring?"
"Sorry Tanaka-Sensei! Won't happen again," Hiroto said, a smile on his face. It had actually been seven times, but he wasn't going to correct his teacher.
"Let's hope not, because next time, there will be consequences." Just then, a bell was heard, marking the end of the school day. "And it appears that you have wasted the last five minutes of class as well. Dismissed." He said, exasperated.
All of the students began filing out of the room and out of the building. On his way out, a girl a few inches shorter than him ran up behind him and smacked him in the back of the head with a book. "Lazy bum!" she said with a smile.
"Ouch! Really Naoko?" Hiroto cried, glaring at her and rubbing the back of his head. He had known her since they were kids, but sometimes she pushed it.
"Yes really. You need to pay attention in class, you know Tanaka-Sensei has it out for you." She said with a laugh. "Come to think of it, he seems to have it out for everyone." She added, twirling her black hair. This was a habit she always had when she was thinking.
Just then, a couple of her girl friends waved to her. "Oops, got to go, promised I'd go out shopping at 109 with them. Why don't we meet at our usual spot later? How about seven?" She asked, smiling.
"Sure, we haven't really had a chance to hang out in a while." Hiroto said, and it was true. Lately the two of them had been drifting apart, which was something he didn't like. She had been one of the first friends he made when his family moved to Shibuya eleven years ago.
"Great, see you then!" She called, and ran off towards the girls.
Meanwhile, in Shibuya station, a scream could be heard coming from a woman who had fallen on the floor. "It's some kind of monster!" She screamed, pointing at a small purple creature standing a few feetaway, rubbing the side of his head. "Damn lady, you could hurt a pipismon's ears with that scream. And I'm not 'some kind of monster', I'm a digital monster. Specifically Impmon. And I'd rather you not draw so much attention." the creature, Impmon, said, tapping his foot.
Upon hearing Impmon speak, the woman fainted, and a group of people were running over to see what was going on. "Oops, better go!" Impmon said, then ran out the door, unnoticed in all the confusion, and jumped into a nearby tree. "Figures that the gate would spit me out in a place crawling with humans, and not one made the digivice react!" he said, holding out a blue device, which looked similar to a cellphone. If I'm going to get stronger than I need to find the human that will activate this thing.
While Impmon was pondering this, inside the station a tall boy with curly blonde hair was looking at a similar device, only in gold. He was wearing a blue blazer with gold cuffs over a white shirt, and black slacks. "Digiradar open." He said, looking at the device. When he gave the command, a holographic image appeared over the devices screen. A small green dot was blinking in the corner. "Gotcha." The man said, smiling.
"Ryudamon, pursue and report back."He added, looking behind him at a squat figure hiding in a shadow. "Got it" came a male voice from the creature, and it ran off in a streak of gold.
A few hours later, Hiroto was walking across the scramble crossing towards the statue of Hachiko, his and Naoka's normal rendezvous point when they were going to hang out. He had changed out of his school uniform and into a blue shirt with a black trinity design on it, jeans, and white shoes.
When he got to the statue, he sat down at one of the nearby benches and checked his phone. It was 6:55, and she was nowhere in sight. That's odd, she's always on time. . . He thought, but he was shaken from this thought upon seeing a bright light in the bushes by the bench. "What the hell?!" He yelled, shielding his eyes.
Inside the bush, Impmon was staring at the glowing digivice. "It activated! That guy bust be the one I'm looking for!" He yelled, then jumped out of the bush, over Hiroto's head, and landed in front of him. "Listen, the names Impmon and you're my tamer, so consider yourself lucky!" impmon said, agrin on his face.
Hiroto blinked a few times , then very calmly said, "What are you, and what do you mean tamer?" Internally, however, he was kind of freaking out.
Impmon sighed. "I'm a digimon, a digital monster, and by tamer I mean that you're my partner. I'll need you help to gain power by defeating other digimon in battle." He hoped that this explanation would be enough, but doubted it. This human seemed pretty slow.
"Alright, but how do you know that I'm your tamer?" hiroto asked, deciding to play along. This. . .digimon didn't seem to want to hurt him.
"I know you're my tamer because this turned on when I got near you." Impmon said, holding out the still glowing digivice. Hiroto took it, and the glow subsided. Just then, a holographic image of Impmon appeared over the screen, along with data on him.
"That's kind of cool. Does it work with all of your kind?" Hiroto asked, curiously.
"No clue, but something tells me your gonna find out pretty soon. I sense a digimon nearby!" Impmon said with a grin.
"What do you me-" Hiroto's question was cut off with a loud shout. "TERRA Burst!" A few seconds later, small balls of energy flew at Impmon, and exploded around him. "Aaaugh!" he cried, getting blasted away.
"Impmon!" Hiroto cried, running to the smoldering digimon, who had collapsed a few feet away. "Are you alright?"
"I'm more angry that hurt." Impmon said, getting up. "Why don't you show yourself! Coward!"
A few moments later, a small golden furred reptilian looking creature appeared from his hiding place in a tree. It was wearing samurai armor, and didn't look very friendly. "Very well, I can respect you wanting to see the face of your opponent" It said, growling.
"Lets see. . ." Hiroto said, holding out his digivice. Like before, a hologram appeared over the screen. "Ryudamon, rookie level, vaccine type, dragon digimon. Says here his attacks are katana attack, terra burst, and helmet reversal."
"We can take him." Impmon said. However, just then, a blonde guy came up behind Ryudamon. "Ryudamon, no. We can't fight in this area. We're just lucky noone's here right now." He said.
Ryudamon growled at Impmon, but then sighed. "As you wish Sho. We'll wait until another time." He said, first addressing the man and then Impmon.
"That's it?! I get all exited about a fight and you just run away?" Impmon yelled as the two departed. As they walked away, the Man gave Hiroto a glance and said, "You better watch out for your partner. From what I've heard his kind aren't exactly well liked. In this world or the other." Then he walked off.
What did he mean by that, and why is this all happening to me? Hiroto thought, then looked at Impmon, who was still shouting at the pair. "Hey Impmon, you said that we were partners?"
Impmon looked up and nodded. "Yeah, I suppose. But don't think I'm your friend, cause I'm not. This is strictly business!" He said, aloof.
"Whatever it is, we're stuck with eachother. And if you want to become more powerful, then I guess I'll help." Hiroto said, crossing his arms. He didn't know why he was saying this. It might have been seeing Impmon getting knocked around by that attack. For some reason or another, he wanted to help.
"Thanks. So what's your name anyway?" Impmon said.
"Hiroto Kagome." Hiroto replied, then he checked his phone again, and sighed. "I guess she's not coming. Better head home then." He started walking away, then looked at Impmon. "You coming?"
Impmon grinned and replied, "I guess I've got no place better to stay."
Next time on Digimon DeCode:
The reason behind Naoka's lateness and why she's been drifting away from Hiroto, and all her other friends. There's more to it than you think!