"Summer camp?" Ken, eight, asked his mother.
"Mhm! I thought you may want to have new friends." Mrs Ichijouji told her youngest son.
"But what about Sam and Ryo…? They promised that they'd play with me!" Ken said.
"I don't think they'd be-" Mrs Ichijouji was cut off.
"Nonsense. We'll go with him to camp." spoke Osamu, 'Sam', Ichijouji, eleven. Behind him was Ryo Akiyama, eleven.
"Really?" Mrs Ichijouji questioned. Both eleven year olds nodded.
"Yeah." Sam said, "I think it'll be fun."
"Same." Ryo grins. Ken smiles, and hugs them both.
"Fine, you can all go. Camp begins tomorrow."
Recently, climate has been out of control. Ryo, Ken, and myself have only been at camp for a few days, and strangely enough, the climate changes began the exact day camp began, so we didn't know any of it.
The other campers were hanging out.
There were only seven others I knew.
Taichi Kamiya. Prefers to be called Tai. A laidback person my age. He was sleeping in a tree.
Sora Takenouchi. My age. She was walking around. She's pretty okay, Ken seems to trust her, which is good. He needs more friends.
Yamato 'Matt' Ishida. He's kind of a loner, so I don't know much.
Koushiro 'Izzy' Izumi. He was supposed to go to computer camp, apparently. Once Ryo found that out, he went ballistic… I don't blame him, seeing Akiyama IS a computer genius.
Mimi Tachikawa. She's… a total girly girl. I don't like her… at all. She always screams and fangirls, as I'm the 'Great Ichijouji Genius'. Yeesh… I just like to read…
Takeru 'TK' Takaishi. Matt's little brother, and Ken's closest friend at camp. It was amazing how quickly they became friends…
Joe Kido. He's kind of jumpy, but he's nice. He gets along well with myself and Ryo; though he's one of the councilors. He's a year older than me; at age 12.
I'm Osamu Ichijouji, though call me Sam. My best friend is Ryo Akiyama, and my little brother is Ken Ichijouji.
Huh…? Snow…?
I felt it land on the bridge of my nose, so I looked up. I had been playing tag with Ken and Ryo, per Ken's request.
Though, as soon as I looked up, there was a sudden blizzard. Ryo and I rushed to Ken to protect him from the cold. The councilors quickly everyone into shelter.
But just as the blizzard began, it stopped.
...What an oddity. Well, snow in summer was already odd… I must research into this later.
Wait… did I just hear TK and Ken yell about building a snowman?
"TK/Ken, be careful!" Matt and I said, rushing after our brothers. Ryo and Izzy were probably trying to fix Izzy's computer…
"Sam! Sam! Snap out of it!" Ken said, as Tai called over Ryo and Izzy.
"What is it, Kenny-boy?" I asked Ken. The eight year old pointed up to the sky, where an aurora borealis was.
"This… isn't natural…" I gasped.
Everyone then saw a green…. portal…
...Today is going to make my brain explode, just with all these unnatural phenomena…
From the portal, came ten rays of light, each going at Tai, Matt, Sora, Mimi, Joe, TK, Izzy, Ryo, Ken, and myself. Each ray hit the space in front of each of us, making all of us take a step back to avoid snow in our socks.
And there was a LOT of smoke… so we all covered our faces, myself and Ryo protecting Ken again.
Once the smoke cleared, Sora spoke.
"Everyone… are you alright?" she asked. Tai gave a sigh of relief.
"We're still here." Matt spoke next.
"That was scary…" Mimi sighed.
"Wha… What was it?!" Joe exclaimed, freaked out.
"Meteors?" Izzy theorized.
"Aimed directly at us? I doubt it. Besides, there isn't a crater or melted snow." I spoke. Calm and collected… calm and collected…
As soon as I said that, though, the holes in front of us, partially buried by snow, began to glow, and ten… devices floated upwards, towards each of us. We all grabbed them.
"What… are these?" Sora asked. Izzy gave a small gasp.
"My guess is that they are some remote digital apparatus." said the redhead computer geek.
"Does it come with instructions?"
Just then, a large wave of water began to just… come at us. We were all engulfed, but I was able to get into a position to protect Ken.
However, it was in vain. The water split into two, and we all fell into the gap. I heard yells all around me as we fell, though I kept on attempting to protect Ken.
Everything went black before I could…
"Sam… wake up, please…" came a soft, obviously male voice.
"Huh…?" I opened my eyes, only to see two things. A. My glasses are cracked.
B.
What the hell is on my chest…? It appeared to be some type of small worm… encased in pinecone…
What the hell?
The creature seemed to be quite worried about me. So I sat up, picking up the creature before it could fall into my lap. Calm… Calm…
"Who are you?" I questioned.
"I'm Minomon!" The worm introduced itself, "And you're Sam!"
I nodded, "That's correct, I'm Sam." I smiled. Quite an intelligent worm…
Minomon laughed, giving me an obvious smiled. I stood, and looked around.
"Ken? Ryo?" I called out. No answer… a frown appeared on my face.
Just where the hell are they….?
I began to walk.
A win-win. I get to explore, and look for my friend and my brother at the same time.
Though… what just IS this world…?