AUTHOR NOTES: Hello, quick author notes by Zero, who is me. This story is completely original, and while some aspects of it are related to previous Digimon media, in no way are any of the universes related, at least at this time. Whether or not I do it in the future is uncertain, but I will probably not. Also, I have only spellchecked/grammar-checked this once and am usually writing when I'm tired, so there may still be plenty of errors within the story. If you find any and leave a note about them along with a comment, I will be sure to edit it if I agree it is an obvious mistake. Please refrain from commenting on only an error since it does not give any impressions on the work to other people. Thank you.
Additionally, I am using Japanese terminology and names for this fanfiction. In other words, I will use the Japanese names of Digimon as well as the Japanese terminology, such as Evolution instead of Digivolution. For readers who are only familiar with the dub version, I will place the Dub name of the Digimon in parenthesis the first time I mention the Digimon, but all future times I will use solely the Japanese name. Thank you for your understanding.
All the Digimon in this story will be canon Digimon, but the evolution charts of these Digimon may be altered for my own benefit. Please understand. Thank you again. I also do not own anything Digimon-related.
With all that out of the way, please enjoy. If you like it enough, please leave a review/comment. It keeps my drive going a bit longer.
Chapter 1
Meeting
A young boy stepped outside of a school, only to pull back due to the heavy rain.
He sighed. "Forecast didn't predict this…"
He looked around at the umbrella racks to find one he could 'borrow,' but none were present. With no other alternative, he held his schoolbag over his head as he dashed toward home. Water soaked into the fabric of his clothes, causing them to become heavier and colder. Every step he took resulted in water splashing around him as well as getting into his shoes. He wasn't tired, but started to breathe heavily because of how cold he was. As he ran down the sidewalk, he suddenly came to an abrupt halt. There underneath a tree was a small dog no larger than a basketball in a mikan box. The tree's leaves barely protected the dog from the rain, but simply by looking at the dog it was obvious that it was cold. The boy looked at the dog, then back at road home, then back at the dog again. After a sigh of defeat against his ethics, he walked over to the dog. He placed a hand on the dog's head to pet it, and immediately felt how cold it was. He continued his hand down its back, feeling bones as well as shivering from the dog. He picked the dog up and out from the box and quickly darted home with his schoolbag clamped under an arm. His dry black hair quickly dampened and his vision started becoming blurry due to the water getting into his brown eyes, but he managed to get back home in one piece.
Upon arriving he quickly pulling out his house keys and opened the door. He slammed the door behind him before catching his breath. The sound of the roaring rain outside was dampened indoors, but the sound of the water dripping from his body onto the hardwood was clear due to the house being completely silent.
"…I need a bath...," he said to himself, and then looked at the dog, "as well as you."
After taking off his shoes and leaving a trail of water from the front door to the laundry room, he placed the dog down and began to strip out of his school clothes. He roughly pulled the blue blazer off and threw it into the washer. Following the blazer was a white button shirt, a red tie, navy blue dress pants, white socks, and gray boxers. He had a hard time taking off his clothes due to them sticking onto his body after being wet.
He opened the door to the bathroom and filled the bathtub with hot water. He soaked into the water with a sigh of relaxation. He looked over at the dog still standing where he left it. The boy gave a gesture for the dog to come over. The dog's mouth smiled like a human and it quickly jumped into the bath, creating a small splash. He picked the dog up so it wouldn't drown in the water.
"You're definitely not a normal dog," he commented.
The only thing normal about the dog was the cream colored fur. Everything else was odd. The dog had huge blue eyes and a mouth that could move like a human. Its feet were also just round shapes with no claws. The only thing missing now was…
"Thanks for helping me!" It cried joyfully in a high pitched voice.
The boy blinked a few times before rubbing his temples. He looked back at the dog who just thanked him.
"Am I sick?" He said to himself.
The dog's smiled turned into a frown. "Oh no…are you?"
He was either delusional or the dog was talking. He gave his cheek a pinch. It hurt. He was still fully aware and the dog was talking.
"…We can talk later." He sighed.
After warming up enough in the bath, he soaped up both himself and the dog. Having a dog with some human intelligence was helpful in that it wasn't going to put up a fight if you tried to wash it. After washing off, he rose from the bath and dried himself with a towel before putting on a t-shirt and some boxers. He knelt down and cleaned off the remaining moisture from the dog after it had shook most of the water off itself.
The two of them walked into the kitchen where the boy opened the refrigerator door for some milk. He looked over at the dog. "You okay drinking milk?"
The dog tilted its head. "I'm not sure."
"I'll take that as a yes. Hot or cold?" He proceeded to grab a glass and a small bowl.
"Cold please!"
He filled up the glass and bowl with milk before setting the carton back in the fridge. He placed the bowl on the ground for the dog to drink. The dog began to furiously drink the milk.
The boy sat in a chair and took a drink of his own milk. "You're going at that pretty hard. When's the last time you had something?"
The dog took a break to respond. "Oh I don't remember. It's been so long since I've had something to eat." It went straight back to drinking.
The boy looked around and found a can of chunky meat soup in a cupboard. He wasn't particularly hungry himself, but thought the dog needed something.
"Well," he pondered to himself, "It's not a normal dog. It should be okay to eat this kinda stuff."
After opening the can and warming up its contents in a saucepan, he poured the soup into the now empty bowl the dog was using. Unlike a second ago, the dog was now taking its time due to the soup being hot, and also due to having satisfied its initial hunger.
"If you don't mind, can I ask some questions?" The boy knew he was taking this a lot more calmly then he should have.
"Okay." The dog ate a piece of meat, and then gave a cheery face.
"Um…what are you and where did you come from?"
"My name is Plotmon(Salamon)! I'm a Digimon!" It said brightly.
"Digimon…okay…," he planted his arm on the table and supported his head with his hand. "What's a Digimon?"
"We're beings from the Digital World: a world that parallel to this one, except it's full of other Digimon like me."
The boy felt it was safe to just consider the dog an alien for the time being. All this Digimon stuff didn't make any sense to him.
"How about you?" the dog asked.
"Huh? Oh." He started like he would in the beginning of school. "My name's Rei Ichikawa. I'm a 17 year old high school student in his third year. My hobbies are soccer and playing online role-playing games. You can call me Rei."
"You can call me Plotmon!"
Rei and Plotmon looked at each other for a while before Plotmon drank more of its soup.
Plotmon wasn't really causing any trouble, so Rei decided to just leave it be. He placed his empty milk glass into the sink before slumping into the sofa in the living room and flipping on the TV with the nearby remote.
He decided to just proceed with idle talk with Plotmon. "Are you a guy or a girl?"
Plotmon pondered a bit. "Digimon don't have set sexes, but if I were to categorize myself, I would consider myself female."
A female dog, Rei thought to himself. "What were you doing before I found you in the rain?"
"Well, it was a few days ago. I was with some other Digimon when suddenly there was this huge earthquake!" Plotmon attempted to raise her front paws for dramatic effect, but quickly fell back down on them. "Before we knew it the ground split in two and I fell into the crack. Next thing I knew I wound up in the human world. I stayed in that box for days without anything to eat until you showed up! Thanks a lot!" A bright smile shined on her face.
Finding nothing good on the tube, Rei clicked the TV off and threw the remote to one side of the couch. "I'm exhausted…" he yawned and closed his eyes.
Plotmon ran up the couch and snuggled in beside him. "Me too…"
With the sound of the rain still pouring outside, the two of them drifted off to sleep.