Digimon Adventures 02
A Dark Storm Cometh
About: Sora's got a cousin in America, no big. Until she comes to Tokyo to visit for the summer, and strange things start happening, not to mention, she starts to Ruin Sora's Life.
Disclaimer: I Do Not own Digimon or Any Affiliations, All I own will become know, for it is very little.
Chapter 1
Lucky number 13
TOKYO
June 29th
9:35 am. Takenouchi Residence
USA date/time notation:
June 30th 7: 50 pm New York City
Sora Takenouchi rolled slowly from her warm, soft mattress to land heavily on her bedroom floor. Half awake, she stumbled over to her desktop computer and hit the 'Power' buttons on the monitor and Tower, watching the black screen as the computer woke up faster than she did herself. She turned to gaze into her Vanity mirror and had to laugh at what she saw. Her hair was an absolute mess, locks sticking up here and there, it resembles a bird's nest. She reached for her hairbrush, but dropped it suddenly when a peppy voice came from her computer speakers, crying, "Hi Sora!" She had obviously missed the blue desktops screen, and the computer going into her own screen, as well as her Video IM opening up.
"Rhane!" she scolded the girl, adjusting her web cam to capture her image better, and to allow her to fix her hair. "Its 9:30 in the morning! I shouldn't even be MOVING yet!" That drew a giggle from her cousin, who began speaking in slightly-clumsy Japanese.
"It's almost 8:00 pm here" Sora had forgotten the time-difference, "By my watch, you should be pumped and ready to motor by now." The girl giggled, "And I told you, everyone calls me Erry not Rhane."
"I Like Rhane better" Sora told her, "and it is your first name."
"I guess" Rhane sighed, she still loved her middle name, 'Erryann.'
"So what's with the early morning 911?" Sora asked, referring to the odd hour of their discussion.
"Two more days!" The girl squealed. Sora looked at her cousin's happy face, and saw some changes she had never noticed before.
"What happened to your eyes? They're like, grey" Sora said, puzzled, "And did you change your hair?"
Rhane nodded, "My eyes change between blue and grey, sometimes kinda green. And I got highlights, a summer is never complete without highlights" she said knowingly.
Sora noted that her hair was indeed highlighted, it's usually glossy mocha sheen was made more brilliant with the additions of caramel and bronze. "It looks… good" Sora told her after a moment.
"Whops" Rhane said, pulling her face from the web cam for a moment. "Suppers ready, and Mimi is here, I'll let her talk to you, bye" Rhane's face was replaced by that of a Straw-berry blonde's.
"Sora!" greeted the girl.
"Mimi" Sora said with as much enthusiasm, "How have you been?"
"Great" Smiled the other girl, "are you looking forward to tomorrow?"
"What's tomorrow?" Sora asked in confusion.
"Tomorrow at 3:00 Tokyo time, Rhane and I are set to land" Mimi told her, scolding, "Don't tell me you forgot!"
"About the date change, yeah!" Sora said, a quick look of horror flashed across her face, "Nothing is ready… Not the rooms, not Kari and TK's crew…"
"What do they have to do?" Mimi asked.
"Hide Gatomon, Palamon, Veemon, Wormmon, Hawkmon and Armadillomon" Sora told her with a sigh.
"Why…" Mimi began, before she nodded in realization, "Rhane's never seen… one of them, has she? I didn't let her see Palamon, poor girl" Mimi's face brightened, "Well, good luck! See you soon!"
"But-!" Sora tried, before she realized it was too late. Mimi had signed off. "MOM!" Sora called, racing from her room, "Rhane and Mimi are coming TOMORROW!"
"I know" Said her mother stepping calmly from the Kitchen, "Their rooms are all made up, the cupboards are stocked, and your father and I are ready to settle in to a summer living with three teenage girls" Her mother chuckled.
"Thanks" Sora said, calming down a bit, "where's the phone?" Her mother handed it to her and Sora punched in the Kamiya's number.
"Kamiya residence, Tai speaking" said a voice from the other end of the line.
"Tai?" Sora said, "It's Sora."
"Oh, Hi!" Tai brightened.
"Can you get Kari? It's an emergency" Sora said desperately.
"Oh, ok." She heard him said, then she heard his muffled call of, 'Kari!' and assumed he'd covered the receiver with his hand. "Hey, Sora?"
"Yeah Tai?" she asked.
"Do you want to… have lunch later?" He asked, slightly embarrassed.
"Sure, I'll call –Oh!" She said, realizing what he'd meant, "I'd love to" She said kindly.
"Hello?" Came Kari's voice weakly over the line.
"I'll come by at one" Tai said before he hung up.
"Kari, its Sora" She said.
"Did Tai just ask you out?" Kari accused.
Sora ignored the question, "Rhane and Mimi will be here tomorrow, can you get the digimon out of sight by then?"
"He did!" Kari laughed, "But yeah, it shouldn't be much of a problem." She informed Sora solemnly. "Oops, someone's on the other line"
"I should go anyhow, bye Kari" Sora said, drawing the phone from her ear.
"Have fun this afternoon!" Kari cheered her, before she switched to the other line, "Hello?"
USA
June 30h,
11:00 am NYC Airport
Tokyo date/time notation:
July 30th 1:17 am
"Now Rhane" Instructed the girls blonde mother, "Be you for you aunt, and don't cause any problems, Stick with Sora and Mimi."
"And look both ways before I cross the street, don't talk to strangers and don't follow the trail of bread-crumbs to the gingerbread witches house. I got it!" Rhane teased her parents.
"We'll transfer more money to your account in a few weeks, don't make them pay for everything" Her father said, "Have a good trip" and he kissed her forehead.
"Bye" She said, hugging both her parents.
"Calm down, I'll take care of her" Mimi assured Rhane's parents, "now come Rhane, we've got a long trip and a fun summer ahead of us" She pulled the younger girl to the security gates and pushed her through the metal detector first, placing their carry-on's on the belt as she walked trough herself, unscathed.
"now let's get comfortable, the plane wont be here for a while" Mimi lead the younger girl to a row of padded benches, and stretched out over one, prompting Rhane to do the same across from her.
Rhane realised she must have dozed off, because the next thing she knew, a loud-speaker was calling. "First call for flight TA396, to Tokyo Japan, please board now." Rhane sat bolt upright and smother her denim skirt, before going over to wake Mimi.
"Mimi" Rhane called gently, "Mimi" she shook the girl gently, "There's a 75 off sale…" she had to jump out of the way quickly to avoided bashing skulls with her friend. "C'mon, were boarding!"
"That was a cruel joke" Mimi huffed, "Wait for the second call, we're not going very far, so we'll let all the poor people flying economy-class on first."
Rhane smiled in delight, she'd almost forgotten that they were flying first class. Almost.
Tokyo
July 1st
2:30 pm Park
"Hey, isn't Mimi coming today?" Matt, a tall, good-looking boy with dirty-blonde hair to his shoulders, asked.
"Your cousin Rhane, too, Right Sora?" Tai asked, his brown hair spiked as usual.
"Oh no!" Sora cried, glancing at her watch, "They're supposed to land in less than a half-hour, and I'M supposed to meet Rhane at the airport!" Sora's actions became frantic as she rushed to collect her belongings and herself, then dash to the airport.
"Sora, I'll come with you" Offered Tai.
"Me too I guess" said Matt, standing up, "C'mon, I'll get us a ride."
"Oh, ok..." said Sora, blushing.
"Here, let me get that" Tai said, helping to pack the picnic basket they had brought lunch in.
"Hurry up you two! I've got a cab waiting!" Matt called. Tai and Sora shared looks of surprise at how fast the cab had arrived.
"Get in" Matt had opened the door. Tai climbed in first, then Sora, finally Matt climbed into the front seat with the driver.
"Where to?" asked the driver.
"The airport please" Said Sora, buckling her seatbelt.
"You got it Miss" Said the cabbie kindly, as he merged with traffic and headed towards the airport.
"Can we go any faster?" Asked Tai, "We're meeting a plane at three"
"I'll do my best" Said the cabbie, pressing a bit harder on the gas pedal.
Fifteen minutes later, they pulled up at the front doors of the Airport.
"With ten minutes to spare" Tai smiled as though it was his doing.
"Lets just go in and meet them" Matt said, rolling his eyes, after paying the driver the requested sum, with tip.
When they entered the airport, they headed over to the luggage pick-up station, and Tai glanced at a TV monitor dictating the flight arrivals and departures.
"They're here" He said, without much indication as to him meaning.
"WHAT!" cried Sora, "But… they shouldn't be here for another seven minutes!"
"They got in about five minutes ago" Said Matt studying the monitor, "So they're probably just getting off the plane, and haven't come down yet, but they should be here in about…"
"Three… Two…" Counted Tai, "One… Now."
"SORA!" cried a slightly high-pitched voice, "TAI! MATT!"
"Mimi!" the three cried in unison.
"Rhane!" Sora called alone, seeing the girl. Rhane was probably 5'4", without heels. Her mocha hair was cut about 2 inches below her shoulders and was in layers. It was thick, and suited her appearance perfectly. She was wearing a black off-the-shoulder tee shirt and a blue denim miniskirt with pleats that started about ½ to ¾ of the way down it. One her feet were a pair of stylish and strappy black heels.
"Sora!" Called the girl as she jogged over, only to throw her arms around her elder cousin. "It's SO good to finally see you!"
"You too!" Sora said enthusiastically, hugging back. Pulling away from the embrace, she introduced Rhane to her friends.
"These are Tai and Matt, two of my close friends. Tai's the one with brown hair – he's the soccer player and sort of leader of out little 'posse'. Matt's the taller one with the dirty blonde hair, he's got his own band." Sora smiled proudly at her friends.
"Nice to meet you" Rhane said politely.
"Here are our bags!" Mimi called pulling two suitcases from the belt and pointing to three more.
"I'll get them" offered Matt.
"Thanks" Rhane blushed.
"Let me help" Tai said gruffly, reaching for the largest of the three suitcases.
"Ok" said Matt, stepping back, letting Tai take the heaviest.
"Oh! There's a Taxi Van out there, lemmie go grab it" Rhane said, heading for the doors ahead of the other groups in the building, so as to claim the cab as their own.
"Will you two be alright?" Sora asked the boys as she followed Rhane.
"They're boys, let them handle it" Mimi giggled, heading past Sora, her suitcases in hand.
"If you say so" Sora said dismissively, following Mimi.
By the time Matt and Tai arrived, Rhane, Sora and Mimi were already seated comfortably in the back of the Taxi. The boys placed the luggage in the trunk and climbed into the middle seats. Quickly, Sora gave the address of her house and they speed off in that direction.
"Wow!" breathed Rhane, admiring the house, "this is so beautiful!" Suddenly, a frantic beeping began. "Huh?" asked Rhane, "What's that?" Sora and Mimi shared knowing looks.
"Um… It's my Cell phone, battery's dead, gotta charge it! Hey look, this is going to be your room, why don't you check it out and unpack? You've even got your own bathroom" Sora chattered as she pushed her cousin into the room and closed the door, blocking it from the outside.
"Mimi!" She hissed, "In the kitchen."
"It's going off" Mimi informed her, "My Digivice."
"So is mine. Something's up in the Digital world" Sora said, "Kari and TK are there now."
"And Yolie, Cody, Davis and Ken?" Asked Mimi, naming the four newest digidestined.
Sora nodded in reply. "We need to wait for them to get back before we can do anything." She hung her head sadly.
The two kept talking for a few minutes, until the lights in the house began to flicker, before complete extinguishing, and returning after a blinding violate flash.
"Ahh!" came a shriek from Rhane's room.
"Oh no!" cried Sora racing up the stairs to the room and unblocking the door, "Rhane! Rhane, what is it!" She asked, frantically yanking the door open.
Solemnly, Rhane held up her right hand, to display a black-and purple digivice, modeled after the D-3's.
"Oh no" Mimi breathed from behind Sora.
"Rhane, you'd better come with us" Sora hung her head as she led the group to the front door.
"We're going there?" Mimi asked, meaning the School, where they could access the Digi-port.
"Where?" Rhane wanted to know. She'd been in Tokyo for less than two hours and already she was getting dragged all over the place.
"The school" Mimi said, "Where I use to go. All our friends are there and we want you to meet them" she lied casually.
"Whatever" Rhane said, allowing herself to be dragged.
"Tai? Izzy? Matt? Joe?" Sora called as she entered the computer lab, Rhane in tow. All four heads popped up.
"Rhane, Izzy, Izzy, Rhane. Izzy's the one at the computer" Sora pointed.
"Hi Izzy, and now, you must be Joe" Rhane turned to the other boy,
"Yup" he smiled.
"What so interesting about that computer?" Rhane asked, for they were all crowded around one computer.
"N… nothing" Tai stammered.
"Its OK Tai. Rhane, show him what you showed me and Mimi" Sora instructed.
"You mean this?" Rhane dug in her purse and produced the D-3.
"Whoa!" cried Matt, "Wicked colours!".
"What's happening?" Sora asked, "Did they find anything?"
"Yeah. Yolie was just telling us they found three new eggs" Izzy said.
"So… are their three new children?" Asked Mimi.
"No" replied Izzy, "That's the strange thing. Each had a beam of light, one's black, one's teal and one is pink, and all three aim at this one, large, spot. Something is in there, but they don't know what. Everyone tired getting to the eggs, but when Ken tried, a purple light shot out" Izzy told them, "And I guess, it went to her" he nodded to Rhane.
"Now Rhane, I need you to try something, but you cant laugh" Sora instructed her calmly, "Go up the computer screen and hold the device up, then say 'Digi-port, OPEN" and keep your arm extended until you see something other than the computer screen."
"That's hill-" Rhane started, but she saw everyone's serious faces. "I swear, I'll kill someone if your trying to punk me" She said, before obliging, "DIGI-PORT OPEN!" She held the D-3 in her right hand, and pointed it at the computer screen. A moment later, she was being pulled through a multicolored space, and felt like she was being re-arranged. When she set foot on solid ground again, she was in a cave, and her shoulders felt surprisingly bare.
"Hot outfit" came Matt's voice from behind her. Looking Down, Rhane saw she was indeed dresses differently. She wore a cream coloured tube top with an A-line bottom, the right side ending just below her chest, and the left stopping below her hip. Rather then the skirt she had been wearing, brown Capri pants now adorned her legs, clinging gently. One her feet were a pair of ½ calf, heeled brown boots with a large, stylish cuff.
"Wow!" said Tai, as he appeared behind Matt.
"Ooh! Er - Rhane, that is so cute!" Mimi squealed as she came up and hugged her friend, correcting herself from using the girl's nick-name. The rest of the group gave comments of approval.
"Tai? Matt?" came another feminine voice from inside the cave, "Is that you?" suddenly two people, a girl with short brown hair, and a boy with dirty blonde locks appeared.
"Who's She?" asked the boy.
"Eek!" Rhane shrieked, seeing two creatures with them, one was a white cat on it's hind legs with purple stripes and tuffs on it's ears and tail, the second looked a little like a flying pig, and was orange with a cream coloured belly, and Wings for ears. "What are those things?"
"Their Digimon" said the girl patiently, "This is Gatomon" She indicated the cat.
"And this is Patamon" Said the boy. "I'm TK, this is Kari."
"Rhane" she told them. "Matt… Tai… I'm scared" she said meekly, standing behind them.
"It's ok Rhane" comforted Tai, "Their nice, well, most of them are. That's why you're here."
"Remember that device you showed us?" Said Matt gently, "It's called a digivice. It helps these guys digivolve – transform, to get bigger and stronger, so they can help protect you and keep this place safe. TK, Kari and their friends found three new digi-eggs – transformation tools, and they think they found your partner."
"C'mon" Urged Sora, "let's see who – or what – she is" she led Rhane deeper into the cave to where four more kids and ten creatures were.
"Who's she?" asked a green creature with a flower on her head, "and wheres… Mimi!" she raced to hug the girl.
"Palamon!" cried Mimi, rushing to return the embrace.
"This is Biyomon, my partner" Sora introduced a small pink and blue bird
"Hi there" Said Biyomon kindly, "you must be Rhane, Sora's told us ALL about you."
"Um… hi?" Rhane said, timidly.
"So you're Rhane?" Came a loud voice, Rhane turned to see a younger version of Tai with shorter, spiky hair, "I'm Davis, nice to meet you!" he said enthusiastically, shaking her hand.
"I'm Yolie, and this is Hawkmon" Introduced a purple-haired girl.
"I'm Cody, its nice to make your acquaintance" said a small boy politely, "This is my partner, Armadillomon."
"Hi there" Said the last boy, "I'm Ken, and this is my friend, Wormmon."
"And I'm Davis's partner, Veemon!" said a blue, dinosaur-reptile like creature.
"Rhane, these are our partners" Said Matt, "This is Gaubumon, The dinosaur with Tai is Augumon, the beetle-like guy with Izzy it Tentomon."
"Hello" buzzed a red-and-green beetle.
"And I'm Gomamon" said a small white-and-purple creature, which didn't resemble anything in Rhane's memory.
"Here Rhane" The girl named Kari took her hand and lead her to a pedestal with three objects, omitting light on them, "try and pick these up."
Rhane reached for the First. It was grey and teal, in a rough cone shape, with a silver symbol that looked like '( -' turned on the flat side. She lifted it with ease and it began to glow.
"Here" said Matt, "I'll hold it for you." She gave it to him, and he nearly dropped it. "Maybe we should jut put it on the ground" he said, "I wont be able to hold it."
Shrugging, Rhane turned to the next object. This one shone silver and was shaped like a flat-bottomed rain drop, and had a spiraled horn sticking from it. Its symbol. resembled a six-point star. She lifted this one with ease as well, and placed it by her feet.
Suddenly, Gatomon began to hiss, "What is it?" Kari asked in concern.
"I don't like this" Gatomon shuddered, "I don't like this one bit."
Rhane continued towards the final egg. This one was pure black, slightly resembling a paw. There was a silver spiral etched into it. When Rhane lifted it too, the ball where the three lights had intersected vanished, and a black cat jumped out, launching itself towards Rhane.
"Look out!" cried Kari, concerned.