Love is just a Word

By ravyn89

Time frame: Before the first season to the end of the second season. Expect a different ending for the second season than the T.V. show does and there will be some minor changes in the first season.

Disclaimer: I do not own the digimon, the digidestined, the digital world or any of that good digi-stuff. I do, however, own some of the plot and Lara Thompson/Anderson. She is my own character. I will also be making up some digimon to help a long the plot…

So I was just getting home from seeing from Dad and sister in America when everything seemed to go wrong. I didn't ask for it. Any of it! It just all happened at once. Right after I closed the front door and threw my stuff on the couch I started to notice something was wrong. And not just that Mom wasn't home. No, it was completely quiet outside. Even that early in the morning you can still hear buses and children heading toward school. Plus when I glanced at the clock it was stuck at 5:57 am.

"What the…" I muttered, picking it up and staring at the green numbers. But they refused to change.

Deciding it was just jet lag I started toward my room to get some rest. Hopefully Mom would be home soon and tell me the power went dead. Except as soon as I opened my door I found that my computer was on. And flashing a message at me and everything. Thinking it couldn't get any weirder I decided to check out my e-mail. It was from strange site that I'd never heard of before. But the message was more bizarre:

Lara Anderson

Be careful. Some evil digimon are after you and your powers. You must find a way to come to the digital world and find your digimon partner, digivice and crest. All will be explained soon enough. Just hurry!

-Gennai-

I had never heard of this "Gennai" dude. So I just laughed, erased the message and walked back into the kitchen to grab something to eat. But the crazy didn't stop there. I was leaving my room when I heard somebody laugh. It wasn't some kid laugh either. It was this cold, cruel, cackle of a laugh.

"Who's there? I'm warning you! I know… how to protect myself," I said, looking around.

Just when I was again going to make up some excuse for this too, this clown started floating toward me. That's right, floating. And he was a pretty ugly clown too. But the thing that struck me the most was the fact that he had four swords strapped to his back.

"Lara Anderson I presume?" he chuckled, his feet (finally) touching ground.

"And who you might be?" I snapped, using my bedroom door for support.

"Allow me to introduce myself. I am the leader of the Dark Masters, Piedmon."

"Uh huh," I said, thinking this was just some crazy teenager. "Well the circus left town a week ago."

"Oh yes, humans don't know about digimon," laughed the clown.

"Excuse me?" I said, straitening up. My mind wandered back to my e-mail and I wondered if maybe this Gennai guy knew something. "What do you want with me?"

"If I can destroy you. If not, turn you evil," explained Piedmon, drawing his swords. "Trump Swords!"

As he said this he threw the swords. I screamed and slammed my door shut. Four thunks came to my ears a second later. I locked the door and fumbled over to my computer, trying to send an e-mail to Gennai. It wouldn't go through.

"Come on… Come on! I'm in danger! This freaky clown digimon thing is trying to kill. Where is this digital world of yours, Gennai!?" I cried frantically, searching for his e-mail address.

That was when I just forsake all reasoning. I had finally found his e-mail and was clicking on it when my screen started glowing. Seriously, it was glowing so bright my room was filled with this white light. Then it felt like I was being put into hundreds of tiny little pieces and sucked into the computer. When I woke up… I knew I wasn't in Tokyo anymore.

How did I know this? Well it might have been that I laying on grass instead of carpet. And I was surrounded by strange flora. Then again it might have just been the strange animals looking at me out of the bushes. One of them was this cat that stood on two legs, had strange large gloves, large ears, a white and purple tail and a golden ring at the end of her tail. The other wore a wizard's hat and that was all I really needed to know.

"Who are you and what do you want?" I shouted, jumping to my feet. After my encounter with Piedmon I wasn't about to just trust anybody.

"Calm down," said the wizard guy, holding up his gloved hands and stepping out of the bushes. "I am Wizardmon and this is my friend, Gatomon."

"You wouldn't be buddies of Dark Masters would you?" I asked, remembering that Piedmon said he was one of them. There were obviously more that were just as likely to try and destroy me. But then I got to wondering: why me?

"The who?" said the cat, Gatomon and I think her buddy had called her.

"Some evil digimon bent on destroying me. I guess… I don't know, I just found out about them a minute ago when one of them tried to kill me," I explained.

"The only evil digimon I know is Myotismon," said Gatomon. "And we work for him."

"Oh goody. More evil digimon. Just what I needed," I sighed, rolling my eyes. "Do you mind if you point me in the direction of a computer? I really need to contact a guy named Gennai."

"I don't know anybody by the name of Gennai…" muttered Wizardmon.

"All right. Then would you by any chance know who my digimon partner is? Or where my digivice and crest is? Don't ask, Gennai just sent me an e-mail saying I needed to find them," I said, not sure if I was actually believing this.

"Who are you?" cried Gatomon.

"Lara Thompson," I sighed.

All right, about the name thing. My actual name is Lara Anderson. I'm a 13 year old girl that lives with her mother in Japan, though I'm actually an American. I'm a citizen of both countries. I inherited my mother's temper and red hair. I got my dad's green eyes and freckles. But for some reason I got this wonderful little personality fit for an older sister that doesn't seem to come from either of my parents. But I go by Lara Thompson because that's my mom's last name. My dad and little sister, Katie, live in Los Angeles. I'm constantly taking a plane ride between my two homes and it drives me nuts. When I'm lucky I get to spend time with my friend, Matt Ishida. But not very often.

"It's very nice to meet you, Lara Thompson," said Wizardmon, kindly. It was great to hear a nice voice that didn't sound evil or (in Gatomon's case) threatening.

"Just Lara," I said.

"Well tell me, Lara, how did you get to digiworld?" asked Gatomon, glaring up at me. I found it a bit unnerving that I was feeling frightened by a puny kitty cat. I love cats! It just kind of felt like she could rip me in two. Even Wizardmon felt powerful and he didn't sound like he wanted to hurt me.

"I was sucked into my computer," I said, not believing what I was saying for an instant. But odder things had happened so far.

"May I ask where you were sent to the digital world from?" came a cold voice from behind me. It wasn't Piedmon. This one was deeper and sounded like it was clouded in darkness. Actually, it sounded a bit like he had a Transylvanian accent, like Dracula.

"Lord Myotismon!" cried Gatomon, getting to one knee and bowing her head. Wizardmon did the same.

"Oh, so you're the other evil dude," I said, turning around. I shivered when I looked into this abyss of darkness and saw nothing but some glowing eyes to prove there was a person standing there. "Well I came from my room, which is in my house, which is in Tokyo, which is in Japan, which is in some ocean or another (I forget which) which is on planet earth which… shall I continue?"

"No, that's quite enough," said the cold voice. It seriously sounded like Dracula. Or some guy trying to sound like Dracula. You never know. "Come. I've been expecting you Lara."

"You've been eavesdropping!" I cried.

"Not at all. Like I said, I've been expecting you," laughed the voice. I heard a rustle that seemed the signify he was turning around. Then the shadow seemed to move away. Gatomon pushed me forward so I followed it. Deeper and deeper into the forest. I had no idea where it was taking me…