Chapter 1: Nice Friend

*Disclaimer – I do not own Digimon, however my OC (Melanie) belongs to me and all of these ideas originate from my own mind, and any similarity with this story and another is a pure coincidence. I would not intend to copy someone else's work.

Sup guys! So this is my first fanfic on Digimon, I'm quite new to this. Melanie's appearance isn't described in this chapter but she will be in the next soo yeah! I am Australian so that's why I spell things differently and yeah.

This is the 'beginning' of Melanie's adventures, and this is only really a backstory to what the main plot will be, which will be a separate story from this one, or a sequel I guess. In the sequel things will be revolving less around the Digimon and more on Melanie herself with her friends.

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Melanie's POV

"I love this thing called apple juice, Melanie!" said Kokomon in a high-pitched, soft voice as she clung to my shoulder. Kokomon is a small digimon that has a chocolate-brown coloured coat, three horns on its head and her feet… well let's just say she is kind of shaped like a blob.

"They don't have that in Digiworld?" I asked as she chugged down more apple juice from my glass bottle.

"Nope," replied Kokomon.

"Well you better stock up on some before you steal all of mine," I said and she laughed happily in response.

We were walking back home from the grocery store when fog started to emerge out of nowhere. It was such a thick fog in such a short amount of time, I could barely see the road leading towards my apartment.

"That's strange, there was nothing on the news about the weather being foggy today," I commented as I tried walking through the fog

"You're right, it was so sunny this morning," said Kokomon. "Melanie, watch out!" She shouted and bounced off of my shoulder to push me forward.

I 'safely' fell to the floor with a small 'umph' coming from my mouth. I looked back having a feeling of fear, and I was right to be scared. Kokomon was looking at a floating ghost monster, a monster I had never seen before.

This wasn't a usual day in my life. In fact it was just the beginning. Let's rewind back to three days ago.

3 Days ago…

My name is Kiyoko (Melanie) Izumi! I'm 9-years old and in the 3rd grade, but I'm on summer vacation right now.

I was watching T.V in the living room while my mum was on the phone talking to her friend. Then I heard the front door open and the first thing to pop into my mind was, 'Dad!' Of course, I guess you could describe me as Daddy's little girl. I ran swiftly to the hallway where there is access to any room and there I saw my big brother Izzy at the front door taking his shoes off.

"Izzy, what are you doing here?" l asked in surprise.

"You're home from camp?" Mum asked. Mum is really pretty and she gave me the genes of having purple hair, while my dad had dark hair and blended to make a dark purple.

"It snowed and they cancelled everything," Izzy replied.

Izzy was always a kind, polite and nerdy guy. His smartness would cause me to be dragged into every extra-curricular activity there was because mum would always suggest I go with him to bond with my brother more and become as smart as him. I couldn't refuse to go, especially since I had quite a strong attachment to him, buuuut I'm not the nerdy type of person. Since it was just Summer Camp and not 'Talk about computers every single day Camp', I didn't have to go.

Izzy went straight into his bedroom, and I was quite surprised at the sudden action. Minutes later, he was out the door getting something from Tai's house but something tells me he wasn't.

I went back to watching T.V as mum made dinner. There was a segment about two monsters at the river fighting. They looked very odd, one was a big monster with a single horn and the other looked like a giant squid.

"They look so cool," I whispered to myself with big intrigued eyes.

The next segment was about sports and then I immediately turned off the T.V. I walked outside into the hallway and heard a voice in Izzy's room.

"Kokomon, you can't do that!" I heard a bug-like voice.

"But Tentomon, I'm bored," replied another voice with a high-pitch.

I shouldn't be walking into other people's bedrooms but I impulsively opened the door and looked to see inside. There were two objects on Izzy's bed; a bug-like toy and another toy with a head attached to a blob, maybe that's the feet. I walked over and picked up the blob-like toy.

I had a strange feeling as I examined it. It was very extraordinary, like I could just burst any moment with excitement. I wouldn't wanna sound so cliché, but I really liked this particular toy.

"Woah, you're so cute," I said to myself, or, I thought I was talking to myself.

"Hey, thanks!" the blob smiled and talked. I was so shocked I couldn't even speak properly.

"B-B-But-" I started saying. The next thing I know, the bug-like toy flew towards the door and shut it loudly. I jumped at the loud 'Bang!' and the bug toy looked at me.

"Well, now that you know we can talk, my name is Tentomon!" said the toy.

"I'm Kokomon, nice to meet you!" said the blob in my hands.

"My name is… Melanie," I said with my dark-coloured eyes still popping out from the surprise.

"Are you Izzy's friend?" Kokomon asked with a big smile.

"You sure are a happy little fellow," I said before I continued, "I'm Izzy's little sister. What exactly… are you guys?"

"We're digimon, short for digital monsters," replied Tentomon. "We come from the digital world, and have come here on a mission to find some people. Izzy will continue this explanation later."

"So you're Izzy's digimon friend?" I asked to clarify things.

"Not just a friend, best friends and partners," Tentomon said enthusiastically.

"Are you both his partners?"

"Well, not exactly-.."

"Weeee!" Kokomon cheered as she jumped onto my arm and swung it back and forth.

"Kokomon you need to be quiet-!" Tentomon said and was interrupted by the sound of the door opening. Izzy's head peaked through.

"Waaah!" Izzy said in a panic and closed the door immediately. "Melanie, what are you doing in my room?!" he asked. Kokomon hopped onto my right shoulder happily and smiled at him.

"I'm sorry, Izzy! I didn't mean to!" I replied feeling a bit guilty. "I just heard Tentomon's voice and came walking in because I was curious as to what the voice was and then I met Kokomon and Tentomon ahaha!" I said in a mouthful.

"Did mum see anything?" he asked. I shook my head. He sighed, and brought out a set of tools from his backpack.

"What's that? A door lock?" I asked curiously.

"I know mum and dad won't like it but if they find out about Kokomon and Tentomon then we could be in big trouble," replied the red-head.

"So that's what you were doing when you were out.."

"Izzy! Melanie! Dinner's ready!" Mum called out to us.

I was sitting at the dinner table awkwardly as Izzy was telling a really bad joke. It was something about Newton and pear trees. 'Nice cover-up…' I thought to myself as I sweatdropped. There was an awkward atmosphere arising until I broke out into cheerful clapping in support.

"Go Izzy!" I said with a big smile. Mum and dad also supported him and giving him compliments. All of a sudden Izzy paused from his laughter from receiving compliments.

"Uh... Mum would you mind at all if Melanie and I finished the rest of my dinner in my room?" Izzy asked. I was drinking a glass of water as he said this and almost chocked from hearing my name. He grabbed a big plate almost two servings-full and I followed behind him.

Tentomon and Kokomon were pigging out on the plate of food Izzy brought into his room. I was staring in awe at the amount they ingested within minutes.

"Melanie, I need to ask you something," Izzy said as I played with Kokomon.

"What's that, Izzy?" I asked, looking over at him.

"Listen, do you remember what happened four years ago when we lived at Highton View Terrace?" he asked.

"You mean the fight between those two monsters that caused total destruction?"

"Yeah, how did you know I was gonna ask about that?" Izzy asked in amazement.

"That's the only thing I could remember before we moved away," I replied.

"Now this may seem strange but do you perhaps have something called a digivice?" Izzy asked. I stared blankly at him and tilted my head slightly. He reached over to his backpack and pointed at the small device hanging on the strap.

"Hmm…" I said as I tried to recall any interaction with a device that looked like that. "I don't think so, why?"

Izzy sighed and started to explain, "While I was at camp, I was sucked into the Digiworld and had these crazy adventures. A bunch of friends and I were chosen to be a group called the 'Digidestined' and we all have a single digimon partner."

"So if Tentomon is your partner, then what about Kokomon?"

"We'll get to that part later," Tentomon said.

"Right, currently there are seven of us Digidestined but we got news that there were two more Digidestined left to find," said Izzy. "We came back to our world to find those two, so I was thinking maybe you might have been one of them."

"That sounds crazy!" I commented.

"It's quite barbaric, I know," Izzy said.

"So is Kokomon one of the Digidestined's partners? Is that why she's here?"

"I'm quite surprised you put all of the pieces together like that, Melanie. Kokomon is indeed the partner of one of the unknown Digidestined, but she's lost the digivice that belongs to her. She's only with me because Gennai allowed her to come with us and of all people she was clinging onto were me and Tentomon so we brought her here."

"You say it like it's a bad thing!" Kokomon said.

"What a shame, I wish Kokomon could stay here with me," I said in disappointment.

"Don't worry Melanie, no matter where I go I will never forget such a nice friend like you," Kokomon said cheerfully. That really cheered me up a lot and we continued to laugh and play together while Tentomon was sleeping.

Izzy was browsing his computer and I saw him open up a program called 'Kan Kan'. It had three monsters doing the Kan Kan dance. Kokomon and I laughed till we hit the floor while Izzy thought differently.

"Hold on a second," I said once I stopped laughing. "Who's Gennai?"

"I know all about Gennai!" Kokomon replied. "He-!"

"There's an unidentified digimon lurking in the bay! You're the only one that's still awake!" I heard a voice from Izzy's computer. I looked over as Izzy started panicking and there was a map of Tokyo.

Izzy started calling his friends while my question was left unanswered. He decided to go out and battle this digimon with Tentomon.

"I want to go too, Izzy!" I said.

"No way, it's too dangerous," Izzy protested. "Besides, you don't have your own digimon, I can't let you get hurt."

"But Izzy," I said with a frown. He looked at me with sympathy and held my shoulders.

"It's not safe out there, I'll tell you everything when I come back, okay?" Izzy said with assurance. I nodded.

"Keep Kokomon here too, she doesn't have an owner with digivice to digivolve, neither is she strong enough to join in the fight," Tentomon said.

"Melanie!" Mum called out behind Izzy's door.

"Yes mum?" I called out to her.

"It's almost time to get ready for bed!"

"Just a few more minutes mum! Please!"

"Okay," replied Mum and walked off. I sighed in relief that she didn't open the door to see Kokomon.

"Melanie?" Kokomon asked.

"What is it, Kokomon?" I asked.

"Can we sleep together?" she asked innocently.

"That's a brilliant idea, Kokomon! I'd love to! Let's keep this a secret, you get to sleep with me from now on," I said cheekily. Kokomon nodded.

Without another thought, I instantly ran out the room and jumped on my bed with Kokomon.