"Prologue"
Who says there is no such thing as monsters?
Whoever does is probably lying.
My name is Daisuke Motomiya and I'm 13 years old.
The first time I saw a monster I was very young and didn't even know it was a monster at all.
I just thought they were some freaks in costumes.
They were these creepy ghosts that barged into my apartment and grabbed me, my parents and older sister and they took us to this wreck center where there were a bunch of other kidnapped families being gathered up by the ghosts, who I now know are called Bakemon and Phantomon.
The kids were all lined up and brought up to this dude decked out in vampire clothes called Myotismon and he had a white cat looking creature in his hold.
Every kid that came up to them, he would ask; "Is this the 8th child?"
And the cat would shake her head no and it went on and on until it was my sister's turn and she was shot down from being this 8th child person.
Before Myotismon could ask the cat, who I know is Gatomon now, a bowling ball with wings flew in and said that he had found the 8th child, making the Gatomon gasp in horror while Myotismon was surprised and pleased.
Jun, my sister, grabbed me and pulled me away out of the room just as the Dracula wannabe put the others in a trance and they fell asleep.
We found our parents and ran to them, happy to be safe, then I pulled away to watch as Myotismon took off in a swarm of bas to wherever this unlucky 8th child was.
I watched the sky as lights exploded in different colors of the rainbow, a feeling of anticipation rising in me as I watched and wanted to go out to see what was happening.
I was really worried when I saw my friends' Kari and Tai's parents were also in the center with us but my friends were nowhere to be seen.
After the light show was done it was night time and we were safe to leave, but then there were these weird images of islands in the night sky, then a large beam of rainbow lights lifted these kids up into the sky.
Before I could see what else happened, my parents pulled me away and we went back home, my mother tucking me in and telling Jun and I to just forget about what happened because it was just some hoax for a company and it didn't matter.
A part of me didn't believe her, but I was young and naïve then.
Heck, I'm naïve even now, but not as much.
Anyway, after that day, I met up with my friends Tai and Kari, but was shocked when they acted differently around me.
They tried to hide it, but they had changed and it scared me because they didn't seem to have any time for me anymore and that hurt.
Kari and I used to be like sisters, but now she didn't have any time for me, spending more time with all of the other girls at school, leaving me all on my own.
I had never been good at making friends before and only ever let my wall down around the Kamiyas, but now that they pushed me aside, I don't think I can ever let anyone back in ever again.
At least, that's what I had once thought.
One thing made me change my mind and my life entirely.
Digimon.
To be continued…
