When Destinies Collide: Chosen Destiny.
A/N: This is the prequel to When Destinies Collide. Four years prior to When Destinies Collide, Greymon and Parrotmon found their way into the human world. Eleven children witnessed this fight, and four years later will meet at Summer Camp. These eleven are known as the DigiDestined.
Italic speech=Narration.
"Who says there are no such things as monsters?" said a female voice.
Two small kids hid under a bridge during a battle taking place right in the middle of downtown Highton View Terrace, Tokyo.
"You are never quite the same after you meet your first digimon." added the narrator. "My name is Catherine. I'm a part of a team known as the DigiDestined. There was only a handful of us at first, but we later found out that there were DigiDestined all over the world."
Catherine was at the beach, on vacation, with a few of her fellow DigiDestined. "That's me, the girl with the black hair and blonde highlights. Next to me is Nalamon, my digimon partner whom I've had since childhood."
A tan lion cub like digimon was curled up under the shady umbrella, next to her pre-teen partner. Not a long ways beside them, was the rest of the group, playing beach volleyball with Upamon, Cody's in-training level partner.
"That's most of my team, the new DigiDestined." Catherine went on narrating. "The girl with the glasses is Payson Shields, my 'cousin', and the pink feather-ball flying around her is Poromon, her digimon partner. Cody is the boy on the opposite side of the net, he's using Upamon as the volleyball. And lastly, there's Davis, the goggle-headed leader of our team. There are three others, but they're in New York visiting a friend of ours from the old team. The other three are T.K, Rini, and Kari."
The three teens were walking around New York city, their digimon partners in their arms.
"The event that led us, as in the old team, happened about eight years ago. I wasn't present then, neither was Rini. We both come from the future, but our parents witnessed it. Rini's mother was present, as were both my mom and dad, but they didn't even know of each other. That event changed their lives, and I remember being told that story by my parents. It was one of my favorite bedtime stories."
"Now did you know that there are actually two worlds? Our world, the Real World, and the Digital World, home to all Digimon. Now don't plan a vacation there: I'm not even sure where it is! But just hearing the stories of my mom and dad's adventures gave me chills."
A infant girl, around four or five years old was staring at a computer screen. Her eyes were wide, as she watched all the digital code scroll across the screen.
"That's Kari, when she was a young tike. She's one of my very great friends. She told me she was very young when she saw the battle, but somehow she remembers it perfectly."
An older boy, around eight years old stirred awake. He gently stepped down from the top bunk.
"That's Kari's brother Tai, when he's older, he'll become the leader of the Original fourteen of us. Even back then he was a born leader. According to what I heard from Kari, that night began like any other night, with Tai making a fourth trip to the bathroom."
Tai walked back to his room, but as he passed by the computer room, he stopped and noticed his baby sister.
"Kari you know we're not supposed to play with the computer." Tai told his sister.
"But it's doing something weird." Kari replied.
"As per usual, Kari was right. A medium large egg came out of the computer that night."
Tai woke up thinking that the egg wasn't real, but he saw Kari asleep with it in her arms. Mrs. Kamiya left for the store, leaving Tai and Kari alone for the morning. Kari sat in her high-chair, the egg in her lap, while Tai made breakfast.
"Okay if anyone asks about the egg, we'll say our chicken coop is on a nuclear waste dump." Tai said, coming up with different ideas about what to say about the egg.
Kari didn't' pay much attention to Tai, but more to the egg. A few minutes later, the egg rolled down the hallway, and into Kari and Tai's bedroom.
The egg shook and cracked in the center. "It's alive." Tai gasped.
A small, black thing popped out from inside the egg. It jumped out and latched onto Tai's face. Now out of pure shock, Tai ripped off the small thing and threw it under the bed.
Kari tweeted on her whistle as she looked under the bed.
"Now that was the first ever known contact between Humans and Digimon. Poor Botamon didn't know what to think about Tai and Kari. And Tai and Kari didn't know what to think about Botamon. But, as usual, Tai came up with a brave plan of action. It worked about as well as his other plans."
Tai took his goggles from around his neck and threw them at Botamon. In retaliation, Botamon fired bubbles from his mouth. Kari giggled as she blew on her whistle.
"It's making a bubble bath." Tai blinked when he saw his room fill with bubbles.
"If only Tai new back then that that was all a baby digimon could do was blow bubbles. And that they're really harmless. Another interesting Digi-fact is that Digimon will eat anything you give them."
Kari dug around and found some of Tai's chocolate bars, and she fed them to Botamon. The phone rang and Tai went to answer it, but all he got was static. When he came back into the room, he found that Botamon had changed.
"Kari, it changed." Tai said, and Kari looked at it.
"Where are we gonna hide him? What's Mom gonna say when she finds out?" Tai asked, panicking in the process. "It can't get any worse!" the small digimon made a flatulent noise" It just got worse"
"Remember when I said that a Digimon will eat anything you give it? Well what happens next will prove just that."
Kari went into the kitchen area and grabbed their cat's food. She put it infront of the new digimon. His red eyes grew wide.
"Koromon had a funny way of showing his appreciation for Tai and Kari. He latched onto Kari's face, until Tai pulled him off. The Koromon did the same to Tai. If you ask me, they couldn't catch a break with him."
Koromon chowed down on the cat food, that is until Miko came in. Miko jumped on Koromon, getting him away from her food bowl. Tai tried to break up the fight, but Miko scratched his cheek. She took one last swipe at Koromon before dragging her food out of the bedroom.
"We don't make much of a good tag-tam now do we?" Tai asked.
Koromon shuttered.
The sun was setting as Yuuko came home, she began to make the kids' dinner. Kari sat by the window with Koromon in front of her.
"So what's your name?" Kari asked.
"My name's Koromon." replied the pink, butterball digimon. "I'm a Digimon, short for Digital Monster. I'm from the Digital World."
Tai and Kari were a little confused. "My name's Kari and that's my brother, his name is Tai."
Koromon smiled. "You two are the two best friends I've ever had." Koromon said.
"We're the only friends you've had." Kari reminded.
Koromon latched onto Kari's face and gave her kisses. He jumped off and turned to Tai, "Thanks for saving me from that scratching furball." Koromon latched on and kissed Tai's face.
After he jumped off Tai told him this, "Just warn me before you do that again."
"Every time the digimon changed shape, which we now know as Digivolving, there was a weird electrical surge throughout the city. But of course there was only one way to wake Tai up."
Kari blew her whistle as loud as she could. Tai shot up out of bed, "What is it Kari?" he asked.
In the bottom bunk, Koromon was shivering under the blankets.
"Now this Koromon isn't the same one that Tai met and partnered with four years later. No, once he became Agumon, he grew so huge that he completely destroyed the bunk beds."
Kari unlatched the windows as Agumon advanced forward. "Piggyback?" she asked, climbing onto the giant dinosaur digimon's shoulders.
Agumon jumped off the balcony and onto a parked car. Tai watched as Agumon then took off. He ran out of his room and down the apartment complex stairs.
"Mom's worried about the lamp, wait until she sees her car!" Tai exclaimed.
Down below, Agumon was waiting at a crosswalk.
"Look both ways before crossing the street." Kari told the giant Agumon.
Agumon looked both ways and continued on walking. He came upon a vending machine.
"Soda, I am kinda thirsty." Kari said to herself.
Agumon stuck his claw into the machine, short-circuiting it. Kari reached down to grab a can for her, Agumon, and Tai. But Agumon advanced forward, and Kari followed.
"Kari! Kari!" Tai kept calling. "How hard is it to find a stinking dinosaur?"
Tai kept running down the streets, looking for Agumon and his sister.
Kari climbed back onto Agumon's back when he stopped, in the middle of the street.
"We really shouldn't be playing here." Kari noted to Agumon.
Suddenly a tuck came upon them. Last second, Agumon jumped and landed on the sidewalk.
"Did you see that?" asked the trucker in the passenger seat."No, I was sleeping." replied the driver."But you're driving!" exclaimed the second trucker.
Agumon fired his 'Pepper Flame' attack and hit a nearby phone booth. He then scanned the area, powering up his attack.
"Tai wasn't far behind them, he was following the footprints in the diet soda."
"Why are you looking at that bus?" Kari asked, worriedly. "Please don't blow it up. know my mom says they're always late, but they can't help it!"
Agumon was just about to attack, when suddenly helicopters flew overhead. So instead, Agumon fired up at the sky. He began to follow the paths the helicopters were flying.
"At that moment, another Digi-Egg was materializing. That's when the second digimon arrived. And that was the digimon that my mother, father, and the rest of the Original DigiDestined saw."
The helicopters created such a disturbance, that it awoke half the sleeping residents of the nearby apartments.
A girl with shoulder length blonde hair rubbed her eyes and pulled aside her curtains. She wore a pink nightgown with a bunny head on it. She also gripped a stuffed rabbit.
A few rooms down, a girl with black hair stood on her balcony ledge. She held a stuffed crow in her arms.
Above her was a girl with short, blue hair. She wore a light blue top with matching pants.
A room to her right was a boy with the same hair she had, he wore glasses and had a phone to his ear.
Next to him was a younger boy with reddish, spiky hair. He wore orange pajamas.
Below him, a girl with brown hair in a ponytail, wearing a green nightgown, was watching the sky.
Across the street, more kids piled onto their balconies or near windows. A young girl with long blonde hair, tied with a red ribbon was shocked at what she saw.
A few floors above her was a young girl with black hair. She held a stuffed cat in her arms. Inside her room, asleep on the top bunk, was her older brother.
Directly below them, two brothers were looking out their window. The older brother had binoculars.
"Yep that's the Original team, aside from me and Rini. But like I said, its because out parents witnessed this event that ties us to the DigiDestined destiny. By the way, we later found out that the bird digimon's name was Parrotmon."
The huge egg hatched and out flew an enormous bird digimon.
"That is a big bird." Kari noted.
Agumon fired his attack.
Tai saw the digimon and was shocked. "Polly want a cracker? A really big cracker?" he turned around and saw Agumon and Kari under the bridge and ran towards them.
"Please don't fight Koromon!" Kari pleaded. She kept begging, as Tai was trying to convince Kari that they had to go.
Agumon fired his attack once more at the bird digimon, but it did little to no damage.
"My turn." chuckled Parrotmon. "Sonic Destroyer!" an electrical attack destroyed the bridge.
"In his efforts to save Tai and Kari, Agumon again digivolved to Greymon, which was this gynormous T-Rex looking digimon."
Tai looked up at Koromon's newest change. "Koromon?" he questioned.
The T-Rex digimon looked down. "I'm Greymon now."
"Call yourself whatever you want, big guy." Tai responded, shocked.
Greymon charged towards Parrotmon. He fired his 'Nova Flame', which was a blast of bluish-white fire and it struck Parrotmon.
All the kids watched the battle with intense eyes. Greymon and Parrotmon held the other off, each giving all his strength.
But Parrotmon got in a few good hits, and sent Greymon into the rubble. It looked like Greymon was down for the count.
As much as they called, Tai and Kari couldn't wake up their digimon friend. Kari tried blowing on her whistle, but was too tired to get out a loud enough sound.
"The whistle worked on me." Tai said to himself. He grabbed the whistle from Kari. Tai inhaled a deep breath and blew into the whistle as hard as he could.
All the kids saw Tai down next to Greymon, and were shocked.
Not two seconds after, Greymon's red eyes shot open.
"Go for it." Tai encouraged.
Greymon fired his 'Nova Flame' attack, and the power behind it, was enough to incinerate Parrotmon. After the smoke had cleared, Greymon vanished.
"It took us all a while to realize that the kids who saw that battle would then become the DigiDestined. That battle changed our lives, well it changed the lives of my parents and their fellow DigiDestined friends. And later on we found out that our fellow DigiDestined, named Willis, received his two digimon partners. Although Willis had to find out the hard way that being a DigiDestined means you have to save the world, even if you're the one that caused the problems."
To Be Continued…