Hi! Well, this is my first fanfic and whatnot, so I'm a little nervous. I don't know if anyone will like it or not, but I hope so. So please review it and let me know how bad it is, or if I should continue! Thanks guys!
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon or any of its characters, or its world, or any of that kind of stuff, but I love it to death, and so I'm compelled to continue where it left off.
Note: Although I do not own any of the original Digimon characters, I have made up my own characters. These guys are mine, and….yeah. They're mine.
Okay, I'll start now.
Three years have passed since the last group of digidestined returned from saving the digital world, and so far, the digital world has finally been at peace. It seemed like perhaps there was no more need for the digidestined to return at all.
Takuya Kanbara slammed his math book closed and rubbed his aching forehead with a groan. Math was his least favorite subject, and learning to factor trinomials was giving him a headache. It didn't matter how many times the process was explained to him, he just didn't retain it!
"Whatever happened to being digital?" he sighed, brushing a lock of unruly brown hair out of his face.
His hair definitely needed a trim, but he had been reluctant to let his mom cut it. Last time she had given him a hair cut, he ended up with a cut ear and a crooked look. For now, he just went to school with his hair crammed under his favorite trucker hat, which was red and said "FREAK." He didn't know why he liked it so much, but he figured it was because he was one of the only ones who knew about the digital world, besides Kouji and the others, and everyone else he told—like his brother and his parents—thought he was either making it up, or just a freak.
He smashed the hat down on his head now, and threw himself on the bed. "I'll worry about math later," he mumbled, deciding to take a nap instead. His eyes barely closed before a rumbling throughout the entire house snapped him back into reality.
"Earthquake!" he shouted, rushing to the doorframe like his parents had taught him. Or was he supposed to get under a table? "I can't remember what to do!" he shouted down the stairs.
"Takuya!" Mrs. Kanbara nearly shrieked. From where Takuya stood, he could see her clutching his 11-year-old brother Shinya so tight he was having trouble breathing. "Get under a strong table, or in a doorframe!"
"I am!" Takuya answered. He gulped down a lump that was beginning to form in his throat, and felt it sink into his stomach. What if their house collapsed? What if someone got hurt? "Oh please don't let anything happen to our house…" he mumbled, not sure who he was asking, but hoping someone up there would hear him anyway. He gripped the sides of the door frame and hoped for the best.
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Kouji Minamoto scratched his dog's ear, his mind wandering. Today had been a strange day. His Father's job had required yet another move to a new house and a new school, for the fourth time in the last three years. Strange enough, this time they had moved back to Odaiba, the only place Kouji had been remotely close to calling home. It was comforting to him in a way, to be so close to his friends again. Sure, they called each other on the phone a lot, but seeing them face-to-face was different. Besides…he was closer to Kouichi now.
A grin spread across his face. He remembered all the times he and kouichi had snuck away from their houses to meet up somewhere else and spend time together. Those were the best times in the world. And now, he could do it again!
"I'm back in Odaiba, where everything happened," he sighed, speaking either to his dog, or to himself. It didn't matter which. "But this time, I'm going to a whole new school, and living in a whole new neighborhood. As much as I love being back here again, I'm sick of all this moving! I wish Dad's job wouldn't ask him to move so much."
The thought of going to another new school upset him. He hated meeting tons of new people that didn't care an inch about him. His only hope was if he met someone he knew, or if by some miracle, Kouichi went to the same school. However, that was probably impossible.
A jerk of the leash in Kouji's hand brought him out of his thoughts. "Hey boy, what's wrong?" He frowned, and pulled his dog back, as the dog barked and yelped and tried to dash away. "What's wrong with you? You've never acted like this before?"
A sudden rumble in the earth knocked Kouji off his feet, and he fell on his bum unceremoniously. Without wasting a second, his dog leapt out of reach and dashed away, as the earthquake continued to grow in intensity. Suddenly, it all made sense. Of course his dog would know if an earthquake was coming, and he would also know where to go to be safe! As quickly as he could, Kouji tried to follow his dog to get to safety. At the moment, if a tree decided to fall on him, or if the earth decided to open up and swallow him, he'd be in danger. He had to get somewhere safe.
"Wait up for me!" he called after his dog, as he struggled to stay on his feet.
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Tai was trying to talk to Izzy about a problem on his computer over the phone when it happened. The line went dead.
"Izzy?" Tai frowned. "Hello?"
"Tai, the neighbors dog is acting really weird," Kari walked into the house with a strange look on her face. "It was yelping and running as fast as it could, but it didn't seem to know where to go. I wonder what's wrong."
"Man, Izzy hung up on me!" Tai slammed the phone on its ringer and threw himself on his couch. He hadn't really listen to what Kari said in the first place.
"I think something's happening," she mumbled, crossing her arms. She brushed a strand of loose brown hair out of her face and bit her lip. "I can always tell when something's not right."
"You mean digitally?" Tai asked, his curiosity piquing up. He glanced at his sister thoughtfully. She was slender, and taller than she used to be, and her hair was longer. It looked better longer, but no matter how many times he told her this, she still insisted she like it short better. Why she still kept it long was a mystery to Tai, so he shrugged it off.
"I think so."
Then the earthquake hit. The sudden shaking of the house erupted a scream from Kari as she dashed toward the door to get in the doorframe. She had always been told this was the strongest part of the house, and now she took advantage of it.
Tai dove under the table.
"I told you something was up!" 14-year-old Kari called to Tai shakily. Tai couldn't tell whether the earthquake caused her shakiness, or whether she was just scared.
"Yeah well, this seems more like a natural disaster than a digital one!" Tai argued back. "We're just so paranoid we blame everything on the digimon!"
"And we're usually right," she countered sulkily.
And then, as soon as it had started, it stopped, leaving the house a mess.
Tai waited expectantly for an after quake or something, but none came. Eventually, he crawled out from under the table.
"That was scary," Kari breathed, looking like she'd been holding her breath.
"Tell me about it." Tai stretched his back and looked around. "Well, we'd better clean up…" he leaned over to pick up the phone, and jumped back in surprise when it rang. Surprised, he picked it up. "Hello?" he asked, too startled to mention that this was the Kamiya house, and the person on the other line was talking to Taichi.
"Tai?" Izzy's voice sounded over the line. "Did you feel that?"
"Yes of course I did!" Tai frowned. "So if the phone line went down, how can we talk on the phone?"
"It didn't Tai. My house was the only one on the block that had an earthquake." Izzy sounded grave and worried. "If you had an earthquake too, then I'm concerned. Isn't a little strange that you and I had an earthquake, but no one else did?"
Tai thought about this for a minute. "I think you're jumping to conclusions Izzy. Try calling the other digidestined if you want to verify that theory. I'll talk to my neighbors. If they didn't get one, and everyone else did…." He frowned and said good-bye, and turned to Kari. "You may be right," he mumbled, before heading out the door.
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Rika glared at her mother with as much disgust as she could and marched loudly upstairs to her room, slamming the door behind her. What had gotten into her mother's head? "Just because she's a model doesn't mean that I even remotely want to consider trying out to be one!" she hopped on her bed and crossed her arms, sulking. "I thought she agreed not to ask me again! Now she's forcing me to go with her!"
She stared out her bedroom window blindly, not really looking at what was out there, her mind ranting and raving with all the reasons she thought proved she didn't have to go to the modeling tryout tomorrow. When she was sure she had a pretty well-though-out argument, she woke out of her brooding and walked to the window. She lived on a packed street, with houses close enough so that neighbors could look into each others windows. It was a little awkward, and she usually kept her curtains closed. She wasn't even sure who lived directly next door to her, but she did know that their bedroom windows looked right into each other. This was another reason why she kept her curtains closed. But today, the sky was beautiful, and she felt calmer when she was looking at it.
She watched a leaf drift to the ground, wondering why even though she had good friends like Juri, Henry, and Takato, and she still felt so alone. The leaf hit the ground and stayed there, forlorn, on the still ground, as the house began to rumble. Wait...the house was rumbling? Rika gasped and gripped her windowsill tightly as she stared dumbfounded at the ground outside. She could swear that everything else was perfectly still...everything except her house, which was shaking so hard, it felt like the earth was going to rip apart from underneath her and swallow her house whole.
"I've got to get out of here," she breathed, opening her window and jumping out. She landed on the ground and ran toward the street, grateful to be away from her shaking house. "What in going on here anyway?" she asked herself, turning to look at her house. She gaped in surprise when she saw that her house was no longer shaking. It looked as if it had never been in an earthquake in the first place. Before she could even think anything else, she was tossed to the ground as the earth beneath her rolled and shook more violently than it had shook the house.
"This is insane!" she yelled, trying to stay on her feet. "Why is it following me?" she stared desperately around her for help, and could see no one. Struggling to stay on her feet, she fumbled in her pocket for her D-arc and tried to call Takato. Someone had to know what was going on. Why she thought Takato would know was beyond her, but she tried it anyway. "Takato!" she screamed into her D-arc urgently.
"Rika?" Takato sounded frantic. "Can you feel that?"
"The earthquake? Yes. I was just going to ask you the same question!" Rika frowned, and made her way to a tree to hold on. She had nowhere else to turn for support. "How come we can feel it, but no one else can?"
"What do you mean?"
"I'm outside. the earthquake is centered around me. No one else has one. And get this, when I was in my house, just my house was shaking. When I left my house, it stopped shaking, but the ground around me started. Tell me that isn't suspicious!"
"I can;t tell you anything except that...it just...stopped." Takato sounded relieved. "But I can probably make an educated guess in saying it could be a digital attack against a specific group of people."
"Namely, we Tamers." Rika bit her lip and breathed a sigh of relief as the earhquake suddenly stopped quaking as quickly as it had started. "I have a really bad feeling about this."
"Me too. I'm going to call Henry."
"Good idea. I'll call Ryo. He always seems to know what's going on." Rika rolled her eyes at the thought of her calling Ryo. Everyone knew they were competing over the right of Digital King/Queen. They weren't on the best terms, as they had just gotten into an argument over the matter that hadn't ended well, but Rika was willing to give it up in order to be prepared against an attack. "At least I'm mature," she mumbled, disconnecting her call to Takato. Reluctantly, she connected to Ryo's D-arc, and tried not to think about all the annoying comments he'd probably had about her "appologizing first." "Well... here goes nothing..."
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Well, that's all I've got right now. I am going to be adding every single one of the digidestined, and a few of my own characters too, so it is going to get a ton more interesting. I already have the story planned out in my head, but deciding the best way to write it is hard.
Besides, if I'm not careful, it'll get way too long!
So tell me how it is, if I should continue, or if it is just not very good. Oh, and anyone who knows…what is Kouji's dog's name? Cuz if no one knows, I'm just going to name it something. So, it would be great if someone who knew could tell me. And also, just so people know, I watched the show in America, and so I know everyones names as Rika instead of Ruki, Davis instead of Daisuke, Tai instead of Taichi, Henry instead of Lee, etc. so that's the way I'm going to write them. It's too hard for me to change now, so I hope nobody really cares...
Well, until next time!