Disclaimers: I don't own the digimon franchise or any digimon, but I do own the human characters of this story.
Chapter One: Beginnings
Favre jolted awake from the nightmare he was having. He sat up, leaning against his oak headboard. His Green Bay Packers pajamas were drenched in a cold sweat. He banged his head against the headboard and sighed. It was the same nightmare that he had the night before, and the night before that. Favre checked the digital alarm clock that sat on his nightstand. It flashed 1:00 a.m., like it did the past two nights. Favre sighed. He wished the dream would go away; it was horrible. Favre slid back under the warmth of his blue New England Patriots blanket, and lay back down in his bed.
He closed his eyes, trying to get back to sleep. It was no use; images of his nightmare seemed to be burnt on the back of his eyelids. One image was of a group of small, pale-pink creatures. They were round with two, streamer like ears. They had two big, blue eyes, and the creatures' mouths were big and full of razor sharp teeth. The name, Koromon, came to Favre's mind as a name for the creatures. What it meant, he had no idea. The Koromon were all huddled together, cowering from something. The other image was that of a snow white, lion-man with black pants and a sword. Favre called this beast, Panjamon. The Panjamon was being impaled by something black. A darkness. A darkness that always awoke Favre from his nightmare.
After some minutes of rethinking the nightmare, Favre drifted back to sleep.
Favre was awoken again; this time, though, it wasn't from a dream. His computer turned on, all by itself. The screen erupted in a bright white light that woke Favre. The light engulfed Favre; the next thing he knew, he was falling.
Kaden flipped through the football playbook, he was studying. It was late. The coach expected him to know and understand the plays by the next practice. He sighed. The coach worked him and his teammates too hard, he and his football friends always complained. But the coach just wants to win, Kaden always told himself. Kaden didn't blame the guy; he wanted to win, too.
Kaden looked down at the playbook, lying on his desk. The plays were not sticking in his brain. Within a few minutes, Kaden had drifted of to sleep. Kaden dreamt that he won the Grey Cup for the BC Lions. He led the Lions to their fifth Grey Cup victory. The lights of the stadium erupted in a very bright light.
Kaden was woken up by the light. His entire bedroom was engulfed in a light that blinded him. He didn't know the source of the light. The light had also confused him; he had no clue what was going on. Although in a moment, Kaden was jolted out of his computer chair.
Topaz placed the blue rose in a vase on her desk, next to her desk. She loved roses, especially all the uncommon colored roses, like the blue ones. Over the past few days, she has been buying roses from the local flower shop. The blue rose was her newest purchase. The blue rose floated in between, the red rose and purple rose.
Topaz opened her desk drawer, and pulled out her digital camera. She zoomed in on all the roses and snapped a picture. For her next picture, she focused on the blue rose and took a solo shot of it. Topaz booted up her computer and connected her camera to the computer, ready to upload her new pictures.
But she didn't get to upload the pictures. Right after she hooked up her camera, a white light erupted from the computer screen, engulfing Topaz and her entire room. A sensation of falling filled her.
Radek jumped off the high dive at his swimming pool. He flipped before diving under the water. Right off of the dive, he began to swim to the opposite side of the pool. Radek swam twenty laps of the Olympic-sized indoor pool. A butler was waiting for him with a blue robe, when Radek climbed out of the pool. Radek put on the robe before he started to shiver.
After leaving the pool, Radek headed towards his room, climbing the main staircase. Once he was finished showering the chlorine off of his skin in his bathroom, Radek dressed in his normal wardrobe, Radek went back to his room. He sat next to his computer. Which was already running, even though he never turned it on. Radek just assumed that a servant turned the thing on, as he always goes on the computer after his shower.
But never assume. Light exploded from the computer screen, engulfing Radek.
Favre opened his eyes, taking in his surroundings, as his eyes became focus. Tall, green- and dark purple-leaved trees towered well above him. He noticed that he lay on a soft, cushiony ground, which Favre correctly guessed was green. Favre sat up, looked at the surroundings on ground level. There were some shrubs and flowers and what not all around him. He was in a forest. Favre noticed he wasn't wearing his pajamas, but his namesake's football jersey, and khaki cargo pants, supporting the Packers' logo.
Favre notice something move in a nearby bush with red berries. Favre made sure he was absolutely quiet, not wanting to be noticed by what was on the other side or in the bush. But then, as fast as a bullet, something jumped from the bush, and crashed into Favre's chest. Favre didn't have enough time to move away. He let loose a loud scream.
"Hey!" The thing, a creature, exclaimed. "What are you screaming for?"
Favre looked down at the creature sitting on his chest. Favre almost instantly recognized the creature from his nightmare. It was the thing he called "Koromon".
"Uh, sorry," Favre apologized, "you scared me."
"Oh, I guess I'm sorry, too," Koromon apologized, then went on to explain, "I am just so excited to see you, Favre!"
"Wait, how do you know my name?" Favre question the Koromon.
The Koromon shrugged, "I don't know. I just do."
Favre just nodded. He asked the Koromon, "Are you Koromon?"
The Koromon laughed, but then saw the seriousness on Favre's face, "Yeah, I'm Koromon."
Favre heard another thing thrashing through the bushes. A boy of around Favre's age, 13, emerged from the bushes. A yellow-green, catlike creature sat, perched on the boy's shoulder. The boy wore a navy blue shirt, with a white stripe down the center and black jeans. The boy stopped and starred at Favre.
"I guessing this is him, Koromon," the cat creature said.
"You got it, Nyaromon," Koromon nodded, happily. "This is Favre."
The boy extended his left hand to Favre to help him up. Favre took the hand and stood up. The Koromon sat on Favre's right shoulder. He brushed the dirt of his Favre jersey.
"Favre, huh?" The boy wondered. "Isn't there an American football player with that name?"
Favre nodded. "I don't mean to be rude, but who are you?"
The boy laughed, "Lutz Schwartz, and this digimon, here on my shoulder, is Nyaromon."
"Hiya Favre," Nyaromon greeted Favre.
Lutz turned and told Favre to follow him. Lutz maneuvered himself through bushes and foliage. Favre followed Lutz, but he couldn't move through the foliage as well as Lutz could. Lutz was an expert at it, as it seemed to Favre. Favre got stuck in a tangle of vines, once. Koromon ripped the vines with his teeth every time it happened. After a few minutes of walking, the smell of smoke filled the air. Favre emerged from the foliage, to find himself in a clearing. Lutz was already tending to the campfire.
"Hungry?" Lutz called over to Favre.
Favre was hungry, both for food and some knowledge, at some understanding. Favre walked over to Lutz, who was holding a roasting rod with a bunch of marshmallows on the end of it. Lutz placed the marshmallows over the top of the campfire's flame. Lutz held out a leaf with already roasted marshmallows on it. Favre grabbed the gooey marshmallow, and ate it in one bite.
"Thanks," Favre said. Koromon jumped off Favre's shoulder and hopped next Nyaromon, on the other side of the fire. "Lutz, do you know where we are?"
Using a leaf, Lutz removed the marshmallows form the rod. Lutz nodded as he bit into an extremely gooey marshmallow. After finishing the marshmallow, Lutz told Favre, "This place is the Digital World."
"The Digital World?" Favre echoed.
"Yeah, that's this world's name. It is a lot like Earth, I figure," Lutz said.
Favre sat on the ground, trying to taking in that he was in a different world. Many questions swarmed in his head. "You said Nyaromon," Favre pointed to the cat-creature, "was a digimon. What's a digimon?"
"Koromon could explain that better, him being one, too," Lutz told Favre.
Favre looked over at the pale-pink creature, talking happily with the Nyaromon. "Koromon," Favre called.
Koromon looked over at Favre, and asked, "What Favre?"
"Could you explain some thing to me?" Favre asked.
Koromon hopped next to Favre, settling on a small rock. "What?"
"What's a digimon?"
"A digimon?" Koromon repeated. "Why I'm a digimon, which is short for Digital Monster. Each digimon is composed of data. We get stronger through something called digivolution."
"Digivolution?"
"Digivolve. Yeah, it takes a while for a digimon to digivolve to reach their next level," Koromon told. "The levels are Baby I, Baby II, Child, Adult, Perfect, and Ultimate."
Lutz fished for something in his pocket. In the palm of his hand, he held a device. "This is a D-Arc. It's a digivice; it allows us to help our digimon digivolve," Lutz added to what Koromon told Favre.
Favre reached into his shorts' pockets. He felt something in his right pocket. It was a device, a D-Arc as Lutz called it, except Lutz's was completely white, where Favre's was blue with, red buttons and a ring around the screen.
Favre grabbed a marshmallow and stuffed it in his mouth. The ground shook. The two boys and their digimon heard deafening roar. A giant, black beast landed in the clearing, next to the camp. It had two, long black arms; at the end of each arm was a hand that had five sharp, crimson nails. The beast was the most horrible thing Favre ever saw.
"Red Eye!" the beast roared. Red beams were unleashed from the beast's four, eerie eyes. The beams just missed the group.
"Run!" Lutz exclaimed.
Topaz opened her eyes. Giant flowers grew next to where she was laying. On the other side of her lay a younger, blond haired boy. Beyond the boy was a sparkling blue lake. The boy sat up and turned to her.
"Where are we," Topaz asked.
The boy shrugged and walked over to Topaz. He helped Topaz up, "Name's Radek Podsednik. What's yours?
"Topaz Anderson."
Kaden was totally conscious as he fell towards the ground. He hit the ground, unbelievably without pain. He was in a middle of some village of tiny huts. Many pink blobs emerged from the houses.
In unison, they greeted, "Welcome to the Motimon Village of the Digital World!"
