Devon's P.O.V
I was running through the forest swiftly towards Seraphimon's castle. I looked behind me and noticed two figures following close behind. I gasped silently and tried to speed up but my legs were too tired and wouldn't allow me to go any quicker.
"You can't hide from me!" An eerie voice called out.
I was breathing heavily and felt like I was gonna pass out any second but that didn't stop me. I was suddenly thrown to the bark of a tree and pinned to it by a strong arm.
"Hello there, Sora." I scrunched my nose at the nickname.
"What do you want?" I spat hiding really well the fright in my voice.
"What do you think?" Crusadermon smirked. "Just give it up and maybe then I'll spare you. Besides, there's no one who can help you now."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that!"
Crusadermon turned around, keeping a firm grasp on my neck,not enough to choke me... Yet. Seraphimon was standing a few meters away from us.
"Dynasmon was a bit of a struggle, but he is stronger than you, I think you know what I mean. Leave and never come back!" Crusadermon gasped and froze for a moment.
"Y-you... What did you do to Dynasmon?!" The pain in her voice was obvious.
"The same thing he will do to you if you don't release me at once!" I yelled struggling against her grip.
Crusadermon, enraged, tightened the grip on my neck which I instinctively grabbed her wrist and tried pulling it away from me and failing miserably. I watched in horror as she got ready to attack me but some thin branches began falling from above. She looked up and a cat-like digimon jumped right on Crusadermon's face. Mikemon!
Crusadermon loosened the grip on my neck a little as she tried taking Mikemon off her face. Crusadermon's was moving a lot and in attempt of slapping Mikemon off, she scratched my face deeply an my right eye area and I began bleeding instantly. She released me and threw Mikemon to a nearby tree. I fell to the ground and immediately covered my bleeding eye.
"Mikemon, Devon, go to the castle and stay there!" Seraphimon commanded as he got ready to fight Crusadermon.
Mikemon held my left hand and we began running towards the castle while I still covered my right eye. Mikemon turned to look at me, concern filling his big eyes, and spoke;
"Devon, wake up! Sorcerymon wants to talk to you."
I was confused. Mikemon didn't say that... I began stirring and fluttered my eyes open. I sighed looked up at the ceiling and traced a finger over the scar that had formed on my eye. I sat up and looked around my room and noticed Mikemon standing by my bed with a smile on his face.
"C'mon Di, this seems to be important." Mikemon tugged on my arm and I smiled.
"Tell him I'll be there in a sec." Mikemon nodded and exited my room.
I lied down on my bed again and just when I was about to fall asleep again, the door is flung open revealing Sorcerymon arm-crossed, obviously irritated, and Mikemon with a cheesy grin plastered on his face.
"When I say it's important, I really mean it." Sorcerymon said with his calm voice but I could tell he was irritated.
"What is it?" I asked sitting up and looked at him innocently.
Sorcerymon sighed and gave me a stern look.
"I need you to go to the Flame Terminal and find a certain somebody."
"Okay, when do we leave?" Mikemon butt in the conversation.
"I apologize, Mikemon, but this is a journey that Devon needs to do alone." Sorcerymon explained while Mikemon looked at the floor disappointedly.
"A solo journey... Hm... Interesting." I said rubbing my chin and pretended to be lost in thought. "So, who am I looking for?"
Dakota's P.O.V
"It'll be $84.12." The cashier said smiling.
I gave her my credit card and gave my bags to the family chauffeur -or as I like to call him, my personal shopper. The cashier handed me my credit card back and said something like "Have a great day." or something around those lines.
"Alright, Alfred, that was the last store for today." I said walking out of the store with a small bag while Alfred carried the other 10 or so.
We walked towards the car and Alfred began driving me home. Not even half way, my phone vibrated signaling I had received a text message. I picked it up and read; "Do you want to start? Yes. No." I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion but clicked "Yes."
"Dakota, it's time to decide your future. Dakota, take the 5:45 Shibuya Bound train." I was even more confused than before but I guess it was better than staying at home doing nothing.
"Alfred, take me to the Shibuya station."
"Yes m'am."
We arrived the station a few minutes later. Alfred got off the car and walked over to my door and opened it. I grabbed my phone and exited the car.
"Stay here, I won't take long." Alfred nodded and shut the car door.
I walked over to the thing I was supposed to get a ticket from and noticed it only accepted cash.
"What?! No credit card?!" I kicked the machine and was about to walk away when I noticed a ticket had slipped out. "Oh, lucky me."
I grabbed the ticket at made my way over to the right train. I walked in the train and just as the doors were about to close, a brown-haired boy with goggles ran in.
"I can't... Believe... I made it!" Goggle-head said catching his breath.
Suddenly, my phone vibrated and I checked it. It was another mysterious message. I noticed Goggle-head and a boy with a blue bandana check their phones at the same time I did. 'Could they have gotten the message too?' I shook the thought off and read the message.
"Transfer to the 6 o'clock subway from Shibuya station." I nodded my head lightly toward the screen.
"Agh! C'mon! Give me a break, I'm doing the best I can!" Goggle-head yelled.
I looked at him, rolled my eyes and turned back to my phone. The train stopped and I got out walking passed Goggle-head and behind the kid with blue bandana. I walked through the crowded station towards the elevator that led to the subway and noticed the boy with the bandana going the exact same way. We walked in the elevator and just when the doors were about to close, a certain Goggle-head threw himself into the elevator hitting his head on the process.
"Agh!" Goggle-head whined rubbing his head. "Hey, did y'all get the message too?" He looked form me to the bandana-kid.
'So he did get the message.' The kid with the bandana turned away completely ignoring the brunette while I just simply nodded. He smiled at me then turned to bandana-kid.
"You could answer me at least!" Goggle-head yelled.
Just then, the elevator sped up and even surpassed the limit of the floor levels.
"Aw! My destiny's really starting to bite!" The brunette whined once again.
I rolled my eyes and hung on to the bars to my side. The elevator suddenly came to a stop making Goggle-head hit his head... Again.
"Man, I really need to stop landing on my head!"
I took a peek outside the elevator and admired the place. There were many trains lined up with many other kids around my age group hanging out. I walked out of the elevator and towards a red train that was nearby. As soon as I entered, the door shut right in my face. I sighed and took a seat and second later, Goggle-head walks in.
"Hey, you're the girl from the elevator." Goggle-head said taking a seat across from me.
"What of it?" I replied rudely.
He raised his eyebrows a bit taken back.
"I just wanted to-"
"Get lost!" I interrupted. I really wasn't in the mood.
He shrugged, got up and walked out of the cart and left to the next. A few minutes later, Goggle-head walks in the cart again and makes his way towards me, a smile plastered on his face.
"Hey, you should come hand out with us over here. There's other kids you can talk to." He offered nicely.
I was about to tell him to leave when suddenly, the train began making abnormal noises and the lights began flickering until darkness surrounded us. We both tumbled down to the ground and I looked over at the brunette and noticed some kind of shadow-like image appear and disappear right above him. I held my phone tightly on my right hand and looked at it but found something completely different! It was some kind of forest green with pink device!
"Welcome to the digital world, Dakota, this is your D-tector." The device... Spoke?
I stared at the device in my hand trying to figure out what had just happened.
"Whoo, whoo! Whoo, whoo!" I covered my ears at the annoying sound.
The train began passing through a bumpy part of the tracks and since I wasn't holding on, I jumped up high! I closed my eyes and when I landed back down I was ready to fall on the hard train floor but I didn't land on a hard floor. I opened my eyes and saw Goggle-head right in front of my face. I then noticed I was sitting on his lap! I squeaked and jumped off him, my face red of embarrassment... But not as red as the brunette. I kinda smirked at that.
I sat on the seat I was previously in and looked out the window. I noticed some cute ghost-looking creatures floating outside. I smiled and stared at the creatures amazed. I then felt a tap on my shoulder which made me look away from the window and look at Goggle-head, who had tapped my shoulder.
"Sorry, I didn't introduce myself. My name is Takuya Kanbara." He held his hand out to me.
"Dakota. Dakota Howards." I shook his hand and smiled sweetly at him.
I noticed a tiny tint of red on his cheeks and I mentally smirked. When the train finally came to a stop, we got off and looked around. This place sure didn't seem like Japan.
