Chapter 1: A New Friendship is Born! We Are Digimon Hunters!
The past couple of days before it began, I'd been having the same dream every night. Though I can't really call it a dream, more of a nightmare.
It starts off with me running, I don't know why I'm running or if I'm running away from someone or something, I just am. Then something appears, when I think about it it looks like some kind of tear filled with swirling red, black and purple colours. Then there's an inhuman sound, like a screeching feedback through a dead radio made to sound like a scream. And then a giant white hand appears, and it slowly lowers down and grabs me, covering me in darkness.
I'd wake up the same way every morning, panting and sweating heavily, before having to calm myself down and remember it was just a dream.
Maybe I should have start with describing myself, but I feel like that was the most important part. My name is Mizushima Eiji, just call me Eiji, I'm 13 years old, I have black medium length hair in a straight down spike style, crystal blue eyes, and I live with my guardian...should I have mentioned that first? I didn't really know my parents, so I guess I don't miss them, so I guess they're not that important...does that make me a bad person?
Anyway, I'm getting off track. I have a couple of good friends who are part of this basketball team called Xros Heart, it was Taiki's idea...oops, I mentioned him before describing him.
Well, yes, my first friend is Kudou Taiki, and he's pretty much famous around here now. Just listen and try to believe me, because he helped save the world...I don't blame you if you don't believe it, I didn't when I saw a giant golden robot thing battle a giant evil skull guy in the middle of Tokyo (I swear I'm not crazy). The thing is, ever since Taiki saved the world, he started talking to me, I don't know why, but we're friends now, so I'm not complaining.
Then there's Yuu, he's a really nice guy once you get to know him, and he's always there when you want someone to talk to.
And then there's Tagiru, umm...he's very...passionate and hot-headed, and he does this thing like a bull snort when he gets mad. That's pretty much it.
Anyway, I suppose my more IMPORTANT story started just one ordinary day when I was at school. I was wearing my usual (and favourite) attire, black baggy shorts, white and blue trainers, my favourite green shirt that had a blue sharp 'X' imprinted on the front, and a luminous green band around my right wrist.
I was sitting on the sidelines as Taiki, Tagiru and Yuu played basketball, I'm not really a sporty person myself, so I'm just 'the guy that cheers them on'. That is my position.
"Damnit!" Tagiru snorted after missing yet another basket. "I almost had it!"
"Your getting a lot better though." Taiki complimented him.
"Thanks Taiki-san. But I'm going to get even better then you someday!" Tagiru declared, he always stated that.
"Eiji?" I jumped before looking up, when was Yuu beside me? "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, sorry, I was just thinking." I reassured him before involuntarily yawning.
"Another rough night?" The dirty blonde asked.
"Another rough night." I confirmed. "It's the same dream every night...and I swear it's affecting me during the day, I think I'm hearing voices."
"Listen Eiji, your letting it get to you, I'm sure it'll pass eventually." Yuu theorized.
"I hope so..." I sighed.
"Hey, Eiji!" Tagiru called before running over. "Why are you so down? Don't tell me your still having that same nightmare?"
"Maybe you should stay round my house until it passes?" Taiki suggested.
"No, really, it's nothing!" I said. "It's just a stupid dream..."
The three looked at each other. "Okay..." Taiki said. "But you'll tell us if it gets any worse, right?"
"Promise." I smiled.
"Alright, see ya Eiji!" Tagiru waved before dashing off, leaving us all to sigh.
"He's way too hyper." We all deadpanned.
xxxYoungHuntersxxx
I walked along the path, whistling to myself. I don't know why I never walk home with Taiki, Tagiru or Yuu, I guess I just don't have the courage to. I know that sounds pretty stupid but it was my mindset at the time.
I guess I'd better get a bit more personal if this is gonna work. Nobody knew about the giant monster fight, it was late at night and I just happened to be getting a glass of milk, the media blamed the caused destruction on old support, and the crater on impact, they didn't report the absence of rubble because they couldn't explain that, not knowing that the debris was absorbed by a giant psychomaniac.
Taiki told me about the whole ordeal after I freaked out about it the following day, it was kind of difficult to believe at first, but I had the evidence of sight, and massive amounts of damage that was covered up.
Long story short, those were Digimon I saw. As Taiki described them, they're beings made out of data, but they laugh, cry and feel just like the rest of us. I'd often tried drawing Digimon, wonderingf if I drew an actual one or just an original, but I'd never know, because I'd thought I'd never meet them.
As I walked along, it suddenly grew colder, I shivered whilst holding my arms for warmth. 'When did the temperature drop?'
"Eiji..." I froze.
'...I imagined that. I definitely imagined that...I didn't imagine that!' I turned towards the noise and-oh great, a dark alleyway, it's always a dark alleyway! I shuffled hesitantly into the area. "H-Hello? Is anyone down here?"
I walked further in, looking around but finding nothing. 'maybe I did just imagine it...' After I thought that I felt my foot hit something, so I looked down.
What met my gaze was some kind of device, it looked like some weird white recorder. "What is this?" I thought aloud as I reached down and picked it up. "Did somebody drop this?"
Suddenly the device glowed brightly, and it changed from a white to a light blue colour, and some kind of green portal opened in front of me.
"What the hell!?" I screamed before I fell in, landing on the ground beyond the portal before it closed behind me. "Owowow, what...was...that?"
My jaw dropped as I stared at my new surroundings. It looked like the alleyway I was just in, except it was purple, and the walls were covered in what looked like green cubes and data codes. "Hey! Where am I!?" I quickly ran out only to be met with the same landscape, and a violet sky with grassy ground. "Am I dead?"
Yet another thing startled me, this time in the form of a small earthquake. I look behind me to see a huge dust cloud barreling towards me! "Holy shit!" I dived into another alleyway as the dust cloud stopped in front of my hiding place, but as I looked closer I saw it was actually two monsters fighting. One looked like a giant fire man, whilst the other was a...big blob of slime. The two quickly took their fighting elsewhere.
I peeked out to see if they were gone before creeping out. "Those monsters...were they Digimon? What are they doing here!?"
"Hey!" Another voice!? I turned around and saw something running towards me, I guessed it was a Digimon.
It was quite small, only reaching my knees, it's whole body seemed to be made out of a light blue and violet...matter of some kind. The matter was shaped into a round body, two feet, two very long arms with mitten hands (All the fingers joined together) and a round head. It had a sapphire on it's forehead, with the only indication of a face being two round anime-like dark green eyes, and it appeared to be wearing a silver shirt with a blue crest on it that looked like a diamond.
The small creature ran up to me and hid behind my legs. "H-Hey!" I gasped. "Let go of me!"
"Shhhh!" It hissed. "Please! I need your help! Just let me do the talking! And if they ask, my name's Plasmamon!"
Before I could question further, there was a huge explosion, and I froze stiff as six figures walked out of the smoke.
Three were humans, three were digimon. The humans comprised of a pink wearing blonde girl, a cap wearing bored looking guy, and a serious looking silver haired guy. The digimon were what looked like a small guy in a Halloween costume, a pink and white creature of some kind, and a woman in a dead pig costume wielding A MASSIVE TENDERIZER!
"Ah-ha! There it is!" The girl cried, pointing at the digimon behind my legs. "Hey you! Move out of the way! That digimon is mine!"
"You can't capture me!" The matter digimon cried. "This guys my partner! You can't catch me since I already have a Hunter!"
"WHAT!?" The girl roared with a fiery aura.
"So...this digimon belongs to you then?" The cap wearer questioned.
"Yes." I replied meekly.
"What's its name then?" The girl asked.
"It's name?" I frantically remembered the name. "Plasmamon! It's name is Plasmamon!"
The girl continued to glare at me as the silver haired guy stepped forward. "I see..." He said. "What's your name?"
"I-I'm Eiji! Mizushima Eiji!" I replied frantically.
There was a tense pause, before he nodded. "Looks like there's nothing for us here, let's go." He then turned on his heel and began walking away with his digimon.
The gril grinded her teeth at me. "This is soooo NOT OVER!" She and her own digimon then stomped off in a huff.
"What...just...happened?" I asked.
"What happened is you saved me!" The digimon, Plasmamon, cheered. "Thank you so much, Eiji!"
"It's...no problem at all." I forced a smile.
"So, your a Hunter then?" He (at least I think he's a he.) nodded.
"A Hunter?" I echoed.
"You've got a Xros Loader haven't ya?" He pointed at the device.
"Is that what this thing is?" I looked at it.
Plasmamon raised a non-existent eyebrow. "Are you new?"
"I just picked this thing up and then I wound up here!" I shouted.
Plasmamon bunched his arms up so he could cross them. "So...your not a Hunter? And you just wound up here?"
"What is a Hunter? And where am I?" I panicked.
"Okay, okay." Plasmamon calmed me. "Your in DigiQuartz."
"DigiQuartz?" I repeated.
"I think it's like a digimon world wedged alongside the human world." He shrugged. "I just woke up here one day, then running away from Hunter's who want to catch me."
"And Hunters are?"
"Oh right, they're-"
"They hunt other digimon in the Digimon Hunt." A new voice interrupted us. Me and the digimon turned to see an old man wearing scraggy clothes, with a digimon behind him that looked like a giant clock with robotic limbs and one red eye.
"Who are you?" I asked.
He adjusted his sunglasses. "I don't really have a name, but you can call me the Old Clock Shop Man, that's what everybody else calls me."
"So, the Digimon Hunt is hunting other digimon?" I asked. "Isn't that mean?"
"Mean?" The old guy leaned in uncomfortably close. "These digimon could escape into the real world at any second. Plus, Digimon aren't killed, simply added to your collection."
"So, collect them?" I simplified, looking at my 'Xros Loader'. I had always been fascinated with the stories of digimon Taiki told me, and though this was terrifying, it was pretty cool too. 'To have a team of my own digimon...that would be awesome!'
"Umm...if I want to sign up to the Digimon Hunt, who do I talk to?" I asked timidly.
"Me." The Old Clock Shop Man stated.
"Oh...can I join the Digimon Hunt?"
"Absolutely not." He shot me down.
"Eh!?" I comically collapsed. "Why not!?"
"For one thing, you need a partner digimon." He said.
"Uhh..."
"Uh, hello?" I looked down at Plasmamon. "He's got a partner! Me!"
"Huh? Why would you want to help me?" I asked.
"Well, you helped me." He reasoned. "Plus, I dunno, I like you."
"Wow, thanks Plasmamon." I smiled.
The OCSM 'harrumphed'. "I still don't think it's a good idea."
"Please sir." I bowed. "I promise, I'll be the best Hunter I can be!"
"Yeah! We'll be the greatest Hunter team ever!" Plasmamon cheered.
The ossan grumbled to himself. "Err...okay, fine. But if your gonna be a Hunter, you'll need this." He handed me a small book in the shape of a computer chip. "Just follow the rules and instructions in that book, and you'll be okay."
I gained a huge grin. "Thank you so much!" I bowed.
"I can't believe I'm partnered with a Hunter!" Plasmamon cheered. "Eiji! Let's get the biggest digimon collection possible!"
I don't know why I was so excited at the time, jumping headfirst into a dangerous world of Hunters and digimon, any rational person would have been terrified! I blame the adrenaline, but I thank it more. "Okay! Let's go!" I then ran along whilst reading the book. But if I'd known what was in store for me...I would have ran twice as fast!
Digimon Corner! OCSM: Hey you! Readers! Me and Clockmon are here to give you infor on the star digimon of this chapter! This time it's Plasmamon!
Clockmon: Plasmamon is an Unknown Digimon made out of a strange matter, its origins are unknown, and it is a digimon shrouded in mystery.
OCSM: Plasmamon can unleash a barrage of punches with its Matter Rush, and create an explosive sphere with its Plasma Bomb attack.
Eiji: Let's try something! Plasmamon! Gumdramon! DigiXros! Now he's completely rubber!
Plasmamon: He won't stop bouncing all over the place!
And so here it is, the first chapter of Digimon: The Young Hunters Game! And if your wondering, I'm still planning to do a Xros Wars story with Eiji. How am I going to do that?...I'll think of something.
In any case, thank you for reading! Reviews are much appreciated! And thank you to suntan140, Thief-chan (Yay! I'm so glad your here!) and weather741 for voying! If this goes well I might accept some OC's!
I DON'T OWN DIGIMON! IF I DID IT WOULD SUCK!
