Chapter One
Hannah switched the internet boxes on her computer so that she was looking at the latest version of the HEX episodes. She wasn't exactly sure how she had gotten interested in HEX in the first place - it had all of the sudden happened when Eustacia had played her taped marathon of the show.
cia says:
HEY!
The MSN messenger window popped up onto the screen and Hannah leaned close to her computer and typed back.
Hannah says:
HEY girl!
cia says:
wat's going on?
Hannah says:
oh just checking out the new episodes of HEX - thanks to u i'm addicted :P
cia says:
ha ha - i knew u would like them
Hannah says:
awesomeishness - anyway - wat have u been up to?
cia says:
oh - i've been thinking about planning a trip to tokyo again...
cia says:
btw do u want to come?
Hannah says:
oaiednoaeifna
cia says:
hannah? you ok? where did u go??
Hannah looked at her computer screen as it began to grow black and wondered what was going on. She pressed the ctrl+alt+delete button combination, but nothing happened. All of the sudden, a bright light flashed and she couldn't see...
'Where did Hannah go?' Cia asked herself as her computer screen began to act weird and black out. She tried rebooting, but nothing happened. All of the sudden the screen began to flash a bright light and Cia could feel herself being pulled toward the computer screen. All she could do was close her eyes as she felt her body lifting and tugging.
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Cia's eyes opened to nothing but brown and she couldn't help but wonder what had happened to her. She rolled over and began to breathe in and out slowly, looking towards the blue ... sky?
When Hannah came-to, all she could feel was a heavy weight roll off of her; she opened her eyes to a green landscape. This was not her study at home. She sat up, trying to make her brain work but her eyes only saw green forest. She began to scream, realizing that she wasn't in any kind of dream; feeling like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, she 'wasn't in Kansas anymore.'
Cia, seeing that Hannah was near-by began to scream too - realizing that she was no longer at home and that she shouldn't be in the same place as Hannah. Her breath quickened, and she felt tears come to her eyes.
Cia knew that she had to get a hold of herself. She crawled over to Hannah and hugged her.
"Where are we?" Cia asked, when the ringing from the screaming was out of her ears.
"I have no idea - I was all of the sudden looking at my computer screen and then everything went weird." Hannah stood and looked around.
Cia just sat on the ground, looking up at her surroundings, and that's when she realized she had something in her hand.
She opened it slowly to reveal a cell-phone looking device.
"What is this?" Cia asked, almost recognizing it from somewhere. She turned the device over in her hands, examining it several times. Hannah peered down at her friend and began to open her hand realizing that she too had something in her grasp.
"I think it's a Digivice..." Hannah examined hers closely and Cia stood, looking around. Forrest, miles and miles of forest as far as the eye could see, with the slightest sound of a river near by.
"And if this is a digivice," Hannah cut through Cia's thoughts "then this must be the Digital world." A half smile appeared on her face. Both girls had only heard about the Digital World, but never presumed it to be real.
"Wait - I always thought that the digital world was all made up and in that show..." Cia paused. "Are you sure that 'here' is the digital world?" Cia looked at Hannah once again.
"I'm not exactly sure." Hannah responded, looking around.
'Is it really possible that this place was the Digital World?' Hannah thought as she looked at the same picture that Cia was seeing, miles and miles of green woods.
"What if this is just some plain in between the Digital World and Earth?" Hannah looked back at her best friend.
"Do we have to get into all of the logical stuff?" Cia said, placing a hand on her hip. She tapped her foot on the ground, looking at Hannah in annoyance. Hannah's concentration was elsewhere, trying to figure out exactly where they were. But her thoughts were intruded with the sound of snapping branches. Hannah rolled her eyes, wondering if all that tapping coming from Cia's foot had been so strong that she broke a branch.
"What, did all your tapping break a branch?" She said hotly, turning to look at Cia who's eyes had grown huge. Cia shook her head 'no.'
"Sh... Hannah, what is that?" Cia asked, and then they heard a voice.
"Hey, I think I heard the noise come from over here!" A masculine voice yelled, and it sent shivers and curiosity down both girls' spines.
Cia began to walk toward the area in which the sound came from. Hannah followed, cautious of her surroundings. Cia peered around a large bush to see two guys, one a blonde and the other a brunette.
"It's Matt and Tai." Hannah whispered, and Cia turned to look at her.
"Matt?" she asked, a dreamy look appearing in her eyes. Hannah nodded and peered at the two guys that were searching the underbrush. Cia brushed the thought away swiftly. "Wait, wait, you're telling me that those two guys are Matt and Tai?!?!" Cia exclaimed, almost a little too loud. Matt and Tai had begun to venture over in their direction.
"Yes," Hannah said, then proceeded to drool. "Tai..."
"Control yourself." Cia whispered, handing her a kerchief.
"I think I heard something." Matt said, looking in their direction, and they ducked low into the bush. They didn't know what would happen if they were found - maybe wake up, or worse - thought of as an enemy.
"Hi Hannah." A small voice said, making the two girls jump and scream at the same time.
They turned to see two fuzzy creatures in front of them.
"Hi Cia." The white fuzzy creature said. Then all of the sudden Cia felt a strong connection.
"OVER THERE!" Tai yelled, and both girls ran to their Digimon and picked them up. "Someone was screaming." He said as he ran through the brush and spotted the two frightened girls and their Digimon. Matt followed behind Tai and stopped short, his eye on Cia. Gabumon eyed the white Digimon in Cia's hands and took his attack stance.
"Hi." Tai said a little cautiously to Hannah, and Agumon took to the defense. Hannah put down her Digimon and stared at him.
"Hi." Hannah said sheepishly, and smiled. Tai relaxed a little, but he still wasn't sure the girls were enemies or not. Millions of thoughts ran through his head as he realized that there were two more people from the real world… in the Digital World.
Cia didn't move. She couldn't even bring herself to put down her Digimon. All she could do was look at Matt - as if she had seen him somewhere before - and not from the show that she once thought to be just make-believe.
"I'm Salamon." The white Digimon in her arms said cheerfully, breaking the awkward silence between the two teenagers. She looked down at it and smiled. She put Salamon on the ground and looked up to see Matt standing before her.
"Hi." She said, looking at Matt and putting out her hand. "Cia." She said as he took her hand and shook it. Matt wasn't paying any attention as to what Tai was doing. There was something about this blonde-haired, green-eyed girl that made his stomach twist into knots – it made him feel uncomfortable, but he didn't feel that she was a threat.
"Matt." He said shyly and then looked down at his own Digimon. Gabumon peered up at Matt, more relaxed than when they had first spotted Cia.
"Hannah." Hannah took Tai's hand and shook it, and then looked to her best friend to see that Cia was just looking at Matt - no words being exchanged. The handshake took Tai by surprise, looking at Matt, who was standing close to the other girl. Apparently, Matt nor Gabumon seemed threatened by the two newcomers.
"So, we are in the Digital World." Hannah said, breaking the ice between Matt and Cia. Cia just nodded and looked at Hannah.
"Yeah," Tai paused, his sight focusing on Hannah. "How exactly did you get here?" A puzzled look crossed his face as Hannah shrugged.
"I honestly don't know." Hannah looked down at the white Digimon.
"I'm Tokomon." It responded, and Hannah couldn't help but giggle.
"So you just appeared?" Tai asked, still focused on Hannah.
"Pretty much." She looked at Tai. He seemed to be contemplating something and then he spoke again.
"Well, there is no sense discussing it with ears near by. Follow us to safety." He motioned for the girls to follow, and he lead them out of the forest...