Akihiro and the Planty... Birdy... Thing
A Non-Crappy Digimon fanfic by Jeremy Lehn
Introduction:
Welcome. This is the first story I've submitted, but it's by no means the first story I've ever written.
This is a Digimon fanfic specifically designed, just like all stories I write, to not suck. This means that
I pick at all issues that may pop up and will even rewrite a chapter if need be to prevent suckitude.
The story itself is about Akihiro, a boy from Japan who seems to lack purpose other than his research.
When a Floramon mysteriously appears and gives Akihiro a Digivice as well as a Crest Tag, he has
no idea what to do, but as he and his new companion explore the Digital World, he begins to see
what it really means to have something to live for.
Characters:
Akihiro:
One of the main characters. He was very solitary, even getting his own house at age 12...
that is, until he met Floramon. He has short brown hair and wears a blue jacket, along with leather
gloves, work boots and goggles. 'Cause you have to have goggles. His crest, shockingly, is the Crest
of Guardiance (an obscure word meaning guardianship), and he carries a classic Digivice...
but not for long.
Floramon:
Akihiro's Digimon partner. Much like Biyomon from Digimon Adventure, she's very sociable, often to the
point of seeming childish, and she often clings to Akihiro when they're walking. There are certain facts
about her that fit more suitably in point form, such as...
-She likes apples.
-She calls Akihiro "Hiro-kun", using the Japanese honorific.
-She hides inside Akihiro's backpack when in the Real World.
-At the beginning of the story, she knows Akihiro's name, but he doesn't know hers.
-She has an extremely varied Digivolution line, taken from a Digidex I found on the internet, and will
become a different Digimon depending on the cirumstances involved.
Many other characters will appear, but that's only once I think of them. Now, let's start the show! Er, story.
Part 1: The Chase
Floramon ran through the streets of Osaka in the dead of night. In her flowery hands, she gripped her
stamens around a small blue device and what looked like a technologically-enhanced dog tag.
As a viewer could probably guess, they were a regular Digivice and a Crest Tag. After all the running,
her root-like feet felt like she'd landed on a block of concrete, but she couldn't afford to stop, because
not only was she looking for her Tamer, Akihiro, but someone was after her, too.
Finally, Floramon couldn't take it anymore. She knew someone was following her, but she had just
realized that if she found Akihiro, whoever was after her would go after him too, and she couldn't let that
happen. So, instead of continuing to hurt her feet running, she stopped, turned around and shouted,
"Stamen Rope!"
As the yellow stamens on her hands extended into the shadows, she wrapped them around two
shadowy figures and pulled them into the light, revealing them to be a pair of Gotsumon who had
followed her. The two rocky Digimon struggled against the grip, but couldn't possibly hope to catch their
plant-like quarry in a position like that. One of them bit the rope it was bound by, but Floramon
managed to barely keep her hold on him despite the sharp pain.
"Go away!" she yelled, snapping the stamens like whips and flipping the two stony pursuers clean over
a building. "Now..." Floramon retracted her stamens and inspected the Digivice she was carrying under
the light of a streetlamp. "Where's Akihiro? He's gotta be here somewhere. Oh, I hope I can find him
before those two goons show up again." With that, she continued running.
Meanwhile, about a block away, Akihiro was taking a walk. He believed that everyone needs some fresh
air every now and then. Even him. His blue jacket was slung over his shoulder and he was whistling a
strange tune to himself. Suddenly, he heard a female voice.
"Oh, no! You again? I said leave me alone! Rain of Pollen!" This was soon followed up by a sharp
cracking noise like a foot colliding with stone and two loud thuds. "What was that?" thought Akihiro.
"It sounded like a fight, but more-"
Akihiro didn't get the chance to finish his sentence, instead replacing it with a sharp gasp as a large
amount of dirt and rock began getting tossed up in the air, along with the two Gotsumon who had been
annoying Floramon earlier.
Of course, Akihiro had never seen a Digimon before, so as you can guess, he stood there in awe.
One of the Gotsumon looked over where he was while still up in the air. "Hey!" he shouted to his
comrade. The other Gotsumon looked at him. "What?" the second Gotsumon snapped. "Look!" said the
first Gotsumon. "Isn't that...?"
The other Gotsumon looked. "Hey, it's that kid the Floramon's lookin' for!" he exclaimed. The two
Gotsumon both got evil grins on their faces and landed on their feet. Floramon stood her ground, not
knowing what they were planning. One of the Gotsumon jumped up over the other. The second
Gotsumon jumped up, sending his partner flying clean over a house to where Akihiro looked on.
The rocky Digimon landed on one knee. "Hey, kid, it's dangerous out here," he said evilly. "We wouldn't
want you... to get hurt! Rock Fist!" The Gotsumon pointed his head at Akihiro and fired out the two
pointed rocks which jutted out of his head like blunt gray horns.
Akihiro barely dodged the attack. "What the- What are you? What do you want from ME?" he asked.
The Gotsumon grinned. "The name's Gotsumon. Too bad you won't live long enough to remember that
name! Hardest Punch!"
The Gotsumon raised his right fist and prepared to attack, but before the punch could connect, a pair of
yellow vine-like appendages grabbed Akihiro and lifted him to safety, forcing Gotsumon to release his
punch into the ground instead.
"Grr! I'll get you yet! And that little savior of yours, too!" He threatened.
Akihiro landed on his feet as the vines dropped him. "Okay," he said, taking a deep breath. "I'm going to
turn around, and whatever I see had better not have glowing red eyes and/or sharp pointy teeth."
He turned around, and didn't see a pair of glowing red eyes and/or sharp pointy teeth.
Instead, he saw a plant-like thing as it jumped onto him and latched onto his leg.
"Akihiro-kun!" she said, using the honorific which was so commonly used there in Japan. "There you are!
I've been looking all over for you!" This came as a shock to Akihiro, as it would to anyone. "Looking for me?
Who and what exactly ARE you? And how do you know my name?"
Floramon giggled. "My name's Floramon! I came to this world to find you!" Floramon nuzzled Akihiro's leg.
He could tell she was a very friendly... whatever she was.
"What do you mean, this world? Are you an alien?" he asked. Floramon simply began laughing. "An alien!
That's rich! Really!" Floramon finally managed to get a hold of herself and calmed down. "Actually, I'm a
Digimon. I- Gah!"
Her explanation was interrupted by several flying stones from the two familiar and quite persistent Gotsumon.
"Hey, girlie! Give us that Digivice you stole!" they shouted. Floramon shook her fist. "Never! And I didn't
steal it! It was never yours!" She took the classic Digivice from the part on her hand equivalent to her palm
and threw it to Akihiro.
"What am I supposed to do with this?" he asked her. "Just keep it safe until I get rid of these clowns!
Stamen Rope!" Floramon extended the yellowish things on her flowery hands once more, gripping the
Gotsumon more tightly than before.
"Alright, I was just playing around before! Now I'm serious! Go away or get deleted!" With that, Floramon
jumped up and flung her stamens downward like hammers, slamming the two Gotsumon into the ground
and causing them to dissolve into data and zip away, undoubtedly to find a computer and get back to the
Digital World so they wouldn't disappear.
Floramon scoffed. "FINALLY! Those two have been after me ever since I had that thing made." Akihiro
looked at the Digivice in his hand, not entirely sure what it was. "I heard those two call it a Digivice.
What is it?"
Floramon walked up to him. "It's a special device which I had made for you. It has powers." Akihiro raised
an eyebrow. "What kind of powers?" Floramon averted her eyes and put her hands behind her back sheepishly.
"Well, you know those guys who were after me? They're not the only ones who're after me. These guys
have been popping up everywhere I go. They're all out to get me because they don't want me giving you
the Digivice."
A cold breeze blew past them both. "It's getting late," said Akihiro. "And pretty cold. You can stay with me
at my house and explain all this to me." Floramon's eyes lit up. "Really?" she asked. Akihiro nodded. "Sure.
I haven't had company in forever anyway." Floramon jumped up and clung to Akihiro. "Yay!"
"This has been a strange evening," Akihiro thought to himself.
Part 2: The Upgrade
Akihiro slurped up some ramen he had made for himself as his new companion Floramon explained what
exactly the strange device she had asked him to protect was. "...so basically, for me to digivolve, you need
to be holding the Digivice." Floramon explained, bouncing up and down on Akihiro's bed. "There's just one
problem." She dropped to her knees. "I don't know how it works."
Akihiro tossed it up in the air with his free hand. "Wow, who would've guessed something this tiny would
be so advanced?" He caught it as it began to fall. "It doesn't look any more complicated than a cell phone,
or a pager, or..." He opened his desk drawer and took out a D-Terminal, which was a standard piece of
technology for people now, even ones who didn't know about Digimon. "...my D-Terminal." Floramon gasped
in realization and grabbed the Digivice out of Akihiro's hand. "How could I forget? I forgot to upgrade it!"
Akihiro looked at her. "Up... grade it? This thing's the most awesome piece of tech I've ever seen and you
have an UPGRADE?" Floramon nodded. "Yep. I have a program for upgrading it to a D-3. It's in... here...
somewhere!" she grunted, reaching into her hands with their stamens and pulling out the Crest Tag and a
small glowing piece of data. "This patch is for your Digivice, and this tag..." She stopped. "I'm not quite sure
what the tag's for, but I'm sure we'll find out. Now, about that upgrade..."
The data hummed quietly and leaped to Akihiro's Digivice, causing it to glow. Akihiro grabbed it and watched
as it began to shapeshift in his hand. When it was finished, it had become more vertical, with two
arrow-shaped buttons to the right of its screen, a little orange button below that, an antenna not unlike
that of a cell phone, a circular pad near the bottom with two arrows on top pointing to the left and right,
and white rubber grips to add some style.
Yes, that's right, that little piece of data had done something very special for Akihiro. It had turned his
Digivice into a D-3.
Akihiro held his D-3 and examined it, still eating his ramen to make sure it wouldn't get cold. "Whoa. You
were right. This IS an upgrade." Floramon nodded and giggled. "Aren't I always right?" Akihiro rolled his
eyes. "I don't even know you that well yet. How should I know?" Floramon ignored this comment.
"Okay, now that we have everything, I'll take you to the Digital World tomorrow and explain everything
that's happened. But for now..." Floramon yawned and curled up beside Akihiro. "...I'm going to sleep.
Night-night." With that, she closed her eyes and nodded off.
Akihiro finished off the last of his ramen and placed his hand on his new companion's back. "This has been
a very strange evening," he thought to himself. "Meh. Maybe tomorrow I'll wake up and this'll just be a weird dream."