WARNING!If you do not like OCs or OCs coupling with characters from the original show, please don't read this!
Okay! After a lot of effort to get my brain working I finally figured out how I want to write this story!
This story has literally been planned out since I was maybe in grade 7 or 8 (I'm a high school graduate now…) and I've attempted to write it a dozen times. But after a serious reality check I realized there was a lot of problems with the characters and for the longest time didn't know how to connect the beginning to the end of the story.
But now I've come up with a complete story outline that I'm quite pleased with. It might change a little bit as we go on, I might add or get rid of some things. But overall I'm very happy with the story I've created!
I hope you enjoy it too and sorry for the long beginning authors note…many of you will probably skip reading this XD
Anyway, I DO NOT own anything to do with Digimon or its characters!
This story is the prequel to Summer in Alaska (go read it if you want! XD)
Enjoy!
Digimon Adventure: Connections
Chapter 1: The White Digivice
The tingling sound of the wind chime by the window seemed dulled next to the louder volume of the television against the young boy's ears. The house was peaceful and the summer breeze was cool, but still a little warm against his bare legs. His mom was in the kitchen, humming whilst washing the dinner dishes. Yuck, they'd had roast beef tonight…his mom was the worst cook ever…
Kari was sat on the living room carpet, lying flat on her stomach with her crayons splayed all around her. She silently coloured in her small colouring book with her legs kicking back and forth behind her. She had been acting slightly strange that day but he didn't pay too much mind to it.
His dad was doing some late work in the computer room on their massive computer. That room was so messy nobody really liked to go in it. He himself wasn't too good with computers; he never usually went on one unless they had to for school. He liked sports, in particular, soccer. He wanted to become a national soccer player and go to the national championships! It was a big dream, but he could do it. There was nothing else he wanted to do.
Suddenly Kari jumped up.
"Hey mom! Look, I've finished," she said and skipped over to their mother with her colouring book. Her mom glanced at it and looked back at the dishes.
"Oh, that's very pretty sweetie!" she said, "do you want to go show your brother?" she added. Kari nodded, excitement sparkling in her eyes. She spun around and jogged over towards him.
"Tai! Tai look at my picture!" she said, bubbling with pride. Tai leaned up from his lying position on the couch and looked at his little sister's drawing. He smirked once he saw it.
"It looks like an alien," he teased and burst out laughing. Kari pouted and dropped the book.
"It does not! It's a princess!" she argued. Tai laughed and pointed to it.
"Then why is her skin purple?" he laughed. Kari fumed.
"Just never mind!" she grumbled, crossing her arms and walking back over to her crayons. She sat down angrily and began packing up her crayons. Tai snickered. She was too fun to tease.
Suddenly Kari started coughing lightly; Tai glanced at her, but then paid no mind. It was until her coughs became more violent that he perked up.
"Hey, Kari, are you okay?" he asked worriedly. Their mom heard her cough and quickly came over, drying her hands on her apron. She leaned down and felt Kari's forehead.
"Oh dear! Honey your burning up, do you have a fever?" their mom panicked. Kari just lolled her head to the ground and kept picking up her crayons. Tai sat up.
"Maybe, it's a cold?" he suggested. Their mom stood up and rushed to the kitchen. A feeling of dread suddenly sprouted in Tai's stomach.
Was that why she had been acting slightly strange today? Guilt took over and Tai bit his lip. Was it his fault? He had forced her to go out with him that day, to go shopping for supplies for the school camping trip they were going to go on tomorrow, even though the list mostly consisted of candy. He should have seen the signs that morning when they were watching TV.
They had sat in the living room watching the news. A bunch of reports were on saying that weather all around the world had changed drastically. Snow in America, floods in the Middle East, and even the swamplands in Southeast Asia had dried up due to draught. The weatherman had said it was due to the current destruction of the environment but Kari had said "he's wrong."
Tai looked at her through a mouthful of his breakfast. "What?"
Kari stared at the TV screen and her eyes almost looked hazed over. "Digi…mon…" she mumbled softly. Tai raised an eyebrow.
"Digimon? What's that?" he asked. He'd never heard that word before. Kari looked at him in surprise.
"You can't see it nii-chan?" Kari asked. Tai squinted his eyes slightly in confusion.
"See what? I don't see anything…"
"Oh," Kari's shoulders dropped slightly, "never mind then, don't worry about it." She turned back to the screen and gazed at the news reports again with that same hazed over look in her eyes. Tai had ignored it then but now that he thought back to it that could have been when she had started to get sick. If he had checked her forehead that time he would have known earlier how she was feeling and couldn't have prevented her fever.
Tai's face crumpled as he watched his mother fuss over his now deflated sister whose face had rapidly become flushed and her eyes half lidded. He felt horrible. If only he had checked…..she wouldn't have a fever now. Tai quickly rushed over to the freezer to get an icepack. If he did this much at least we wouldn't feel has helpless as he suddenly did. His mother had Kari propped on the counter and was giving her two spoonfuls of a purple liquid that made Kari's face crunch as she tasted it. Tai hesitantly handed the icepack to his mom and she peeled the plastic off the back and stuck it to Kari's forehead. Her face broke out into a relaxed smiled and the cold soothed her hot skin.
"Are you okay?" Tai asked weakly. Kari smiled.
"Thanks for the ice pack Tai" she said brightly. Somehow those words made Tai feel a little worse. Their mom scooped Kari into her arms and Kari lolled her head onto her mom's shoulder.
"Alright let's go put you to bed now," Yuuko Kamiya said sweetly to her daughter. "Tai can you go put out the trash downstairs?" Tai pouted. Not liking the chore but too guilty about Kari to stand and complain like he normally would.
"Alright," he said and walked over to the front door where the garbage bag sat waiting for him. "Be right baack," he sang nervously and headed out the door. As he shut it he heard his mom telling Kari she would have to stay home from camp and he sighed. They were supposed to go on a school camping trip for two weeks tomorrow, it would kinda suck now that Kari wasn't coming. She had been as excited about it a he had. Though there were some classmates he knew that were going, and some he knew only as acquaintances.
Tai tightened his grip on the garbage bag and lifted it slightly so it wouldn't drag on the pavement. Once he was comfortable he continued towards the elevator, no way was he carrying this down the stairs.
But when he looked up to see where he was going he stopped. There was…a girl standing there. Tai had never seen her before. But if she was here she must live in the same apartment complex as he did, maybe the same floor? Then why had he never seen her before? She didn't go to his school….or maybe she was in a different class? But even then he would've seen her around the grounds.
The girl looked about his age, but was shorter. She had long blonde hair that brushed just past her mid back. It was messy and drifting about in the wind, but it seemed as if she didn't notice. She was fairly tanned, but not like him, and had pretty small features. She stood close to the railing, looking out at the night city and her small hands lightly gripped the metal bars. It would seem as if she was admiring the view, if not for the completely blank and emotionless expression on her face.
Tai looked at her for a moment longer before snapping out of it. She didn't seem to notice him so he paid no mind to her. Besides, the way she was staring blankly like that…it was kind of creepy. Tai frowned and quickly skipped past her. Once he got to the elevator he looked back. She was still there, and still didn't seem to have noticed him.
Weird girl.
Tai quickly took the trash bag down to the dumpster and tossed it in. He made his way back up, taking the stairs this time, and finally reached his floor.
He almost wasn't surprised to see the blonde girl still standing there. Tai almost made it to his front door when he decided to turn around one last time. Her position hadn't changed. Tai looked her over one more time. She was in her pajamas, and she had no socks or slippers on. He could see her toes where starting to get red from the cold. Wait, when had it gotten cold outside? He shivered as a gust of wind blew over them. He noticed the girl shiver lightly as well. He sighed in annoyance and finally called out to her.
"Oi! What are you doing? Go inside or else you'll catch a cold!" he barked. The girl finally turned, acknowledging his existence for the first time. She stayed silent, just looking at him. Tai got the creepy vibe from her again but walked up closer to her, maybe she hadn't heard him?
"Hey, I said you'll catch a cold," he said walking straight up to her. The girl looked at him for a solid minuet before any emotion finally showed on her face. Her face scrunched up in distraught and huge tears spilled from her brown eyes. She began whimpering lightly, until it became louder. Tai froze. What the hell!
Tai backed away slightly. He hadn't even done anything! Why was she crying all of a sudden?
The girl began to wail and tears streamed down her face, creating wet blotches on the pavement at her feet. Tai was at a loss and really didn't like the situation he was in. So he did the only thing he thought was reasonable.
He ran back to his house, opened the door, and shut it as quickly as he could.
Three weeks had passed since Tai had met the blonde girl. The day after he had gone to camp and participated in the adventure that had changed his life.
He had been taken to the Digital World with six other children, later joined by his sister when she was feeling better, and paired up with his very own digital monster, Agumon! With the eight kids and their partners they helped defeat the evil that had developed in the Digital World and saved all of its inhabitants. The only problem was, in the end, they had to leave their new found digital partners and had to return to their normal lives, not thinking they'd ever be able to see their digimon again.
Tai sighed sadly as he trudged up the stairs to his apartment. It was the afternoon and the cicadas where buzzing loudly in the trees and the sun burned into the back of Tai's sweaty neck. He missed Agumon. He missed all the digimon. But at least he had a new group of friends that he had become a lot closer to than ever before.
Tai hummed the theme to a kids show that Kari liked, it had been stuck in his head all day, and finally got to his floor. He trudged past a couple doors until he spotted a group of middle aged women huddling around the apartment door two down from his own. Tai raised an eyebrow and quickly shuffled by. It wasn't until he heard their conversation that he actually stopped to listen, shocked.
"Is it true then? She really died?" one woman whispered.
"Hush Kimiko! 'Passed away' is much more respectful," another lady barked.
"But is it true?"
"Yes, I heard, about three weeks ago now, the one girl, the sick one that was in the hospital, died!"
"What! What about her sister? They were twins right?"
"Yes, apparently she's sick too,"
"Oh the poor girl! She's only young isn't she?"
"Yes, 11 years old,"
"A shame..."
"they moved to Canada the next day, they'd been planning to go since the beginning of the year, but then the one twin died right before they were supposed to leave,"
"Poor thing, I wonder how the surviving daughter is handling it..."
The ladies then bustled away, changing the topic to grocery sales prices. Because those two topics were completely similar…Tai stood still, eyes wide. Someone in his apartment building had died? And, she had been his age…
Tai suddenly remembered the weird girl he had met right before camp. Had it been her? Was she the surviving daughter? Or was she the one that died? But wait, if she had been crying, maybe she was the one that survived then, and was just grieving. Tai put his hands in his pockets to keep them from shaking.
Such a scary thing…happened to someone… who lived so close to him. Tai felt a little bit cold and quickly rushed back towards his house. His was a little frazzled and wanted to get rid of his fright as quick as possible. He darted into his cool house and shut the door rather harshly behind him, making sure it was locked.
2 Years Later
The short middle schooler ran his pale hand through his short crop of maroon coloured hair. He was hunched over his prized yellow PiBook laptop in his homeroom classroom with his eyebrows furrowed together in concentration.
Even though Izzy was a year younger then Tai, Matt and Sora, and he was only turning 12 this year, because of his superior grades and intellect when compared to the level of education for each grade, he was given special permission to graduate elementary school a year early and start middle school with his friends. The difference in his age didn't bother him at all and he felt more at home with what he was learning now and didn't feel at all that he was behind in his studies. He was never late for class and even sometimes his classmates would come up to him for help on school work. Though not often.
He was even lucky enough to have been placed in the same class as Tai and the others, which means he had at least three familiar classmates. This year he even became Captain of the Computer club, though some of the girls in the club were taller than him. He was only a junior but it seemed his reputation with computers had reached through his middle school and all the club members nominated him Captain with no qualms about his age or the grade he was in.
But none of these recent events were what was taking all of his concentration at the moment. Izzy bit his lip, worry etching across his features.
Was what he was looking at real?
He scanned over the map of the Digital World that Gennai had programmed into his computer years ago and was shocked at what he saw. In each little pixel of the map, black dots would randomly appear and start spreading rapidly to create larger masses. Soon entire towns and cities had been engulfed in black. The blobs kept moving around as well, slowly and steady making their way around the map whilst growing bigger and spawning new blobs. And in the middle, in the middle of the biggest continent, Server, there was the biggest black blob that stayed still and never moved. All the other blobs were miniscule in comparison.
Worried, Izzy moved to grab his D-Terminal from his computer bag but something else distracted him. His small digivice that he always kept clipped to his bag began to vibrate and beep hysterically. Izzy's frown deepened and he unclipped the small device. He looked at the tiny screen and his chest tightened. It was a warning signal from Gennai. Something must be wrong in the Digital World.
Suddenly a message blipped on his computer screen and he turned his attention back to it. No sooner had he sent out the warning, Gennai sent an urgent e-mail to Izzy's laptop. Izzy quickly opened and breezed through the contents. It read:
Quick! Izzy, round up as many digidestined as you can and get to the nearest gate! There is urgent news I need to speak to you about the Digital World! Hurry!
Izzy's heart leapt into his throat. His worries had been confirmed. Izzy quickly shut off his computer and placed it safely into his laptop bag. He threw it over his shoulder and dashed from the empty classroom as quick as his legs could carry him…which wasn't very far considering he wasn't the most athletic of students…
The only digidestined that he'd be able to get to on time was Tai. He had after school soccer but the rest had plans. Just great, of all times for the team to be busy it was today! As Izzy ran he finally spotted the gym door. It was raining today so the soccer club was practicing in the gym. The red-head ran with all his might to push it open. But unfortunately he wasn't strong enough and slammed right into it, bouncing off and falling to the floor. His hands whipped to cover his stinging face and throbbing nose as white spots blinked across his field of vision. He sat in shock before blushing in embarrassment and quickly collecting himself, standing to his feet. He glanced around; making sure no one saw and quickly heaved the gym door open.
He was relieved to see Tai in the gym with the other soccer players practicing drills. Huffing for breathe from all his running he cupped his hand to his mouth and called out.
"Tai! Tai, quick!" he called. Tai stopped the drill he was working on and looked over, surprised. He smiled at first and waved, but then the expression slipped off of his face when he noticed the panic on his friend's features. Izzy needed no more explaining and Tai immediately ditched the practice and ran towards Izzy.
"Hey! Hey Kamiya where the hell do you think you're going!" the gym coach growled in his booming voice. Tai turned and grinned.
"Sorry coach! Be back in a sec!" he sang and speeded out of the room before his coach could think to run after him. Tai reached a panting Izzy by the door and cocked his head.
"What's wrong? What happened?" he said, his voice becoming serious. Izzy held up his digivice.
"I got a warning from Gennai; I think something is wrong in the Digital World!" Izzy said. Tai's eyes widened and he became worried.
"Okay, quick lets go to the computer lab," he said and Izzy nodded. Both boys broke out into a run again, heading for the elementary school computer lab on the second level. Their middle school was right next to the two boys' old elementary school. When they were still students there, Izzy had discovered that the gate to the Digital World most frequently opened on one certain computer in the schools lab. So whenever they all took a trip to the Digital World they would usually use that computer unless the gate decided to appear on someone's home computer.
Once Tai and Izzy got there they were happy to see the lab was empty and Izzy bee lined for one of the computers in the front row. He sat down, turned on the monitor and began typing excessively and a bunch of windows suddenly appeared. Tai hovered over, leaning on the back of the computer chair Izzy was sitting in. Both boys gasped for breath, just having booked it from one school to the other and tried to ignore the sweat dripping down into their shirts.
In seconds Izzy had the map to the Digital World up and another e-mail from Gennai appeared. Izzy opened it immediately and the two boys read.
Hey you two, I'll be appearing in your world briefly as a hologram to give you the details, but I'll have to speak quickly for the transition isn't that good.
As soon as they had finished reading a light shone from the computer screen and both boys squinted and shielded their eyes. A small hologram of an old man emerged and floated about a meter from the screen, glitching every now and then. The old man put a fist to his mouth and coughed.
"Hello boys, is this all that could make it?" he asked in a croaky voice. Izzy looked down at the ground.
"Yeah, everyone else is occupied at the moment, it will take a little longer to get them here but I sent them messages along the way," Izzy mumbled. Tai crossed his arms.
"Okay so get to the point, what's happening right now?" he asked, impatient. Gennai rolled his eyes.
"Very well, I know you guys defeated the last of the darkness that threatened the Digital World two years ago, but…" Gennai started.
"That's not the case?" Izzy said darkly. Tai tensed.
"What!' he growled. Gennai nodded gravely.
"Yes, a new darkness as appeared, out of nowhere," the old man sighed.
"What do you mean out of nowhere? It had to come from somewhere," Tai said. Gennai shook his small head.
"That's just it, we have done so much investigating, but we have no idea where this darkness has come from. Last time it came through the wall o f fire, but this one didn't come from there," Gennai explained. "The only thing we've been able to figure out is that it's slowly been growing under our radar for about two years now, until now it's finally gotten out of control," Tai and Izzy's eyes widened.
"Two years! So it's been there since we defeated Apocalymon and the Dark Masters, Is it because of them?" Izzy questioned. Gennai shook his head.
"We would've known if it had spawned from their evil, no, this is a different kind of evil," Gennai said. Izzy chewed on his bottom lip, deep in thought.
"So, do you know anything else about this thing? Like what it looks like or what its purpose is so we have a clue as to how we can defeat it?" Izzy wondered. Gennai nodded.
"That, we do know! From the information we have gained the darkness is after a great power that grants eternal life. It wants to rule over the Digital World forever. We haven't been able to directly confront it because it keeps spawning these digimon called seekers. It's odd because these seeker digimon have never been recorded or seen before, it's like they are a completely new species! None of them are in any of the Digital data bases," Gennai said worriedly. "These seekers go around in large groups terrorizing the other digimon in search for clues to find the eternal life."
"But there's no such thing as eternal life..." Tai said simply, Izzy nodded in agreement.
"The scientific possibility of any living being successfully being able to surpass the physical effects of time is impossible!" Izzy said. Gennai shook his head and wagged a finger at the two teenagers.
"Not exactly. There are ancient scrolls from way back into the Digital World's history that prove there is an existence that can grant eternal life. It comes in the form of an incredibly strong healing power that can grant eternal life to any healthy being," Gennai explained. Tai snorted.
"That's messed," Tai muttered. Izzy rolled his tongue around in his mouth for a minute before speaking.
"So, we have to defeat the darkness before it finds this supposed eternal power, and that's all? That doesn't seem too hard for us," Izzy said, shrugging. He turned to the computer and begun typing a message. "although we gave up our crests last May to release the four holy beings, we still have the upper hand I think…" he said, though as he continued the more his voice seemed to whittle as he realized they were significantly less powerful then they used to be. Gennai raised a hand.
"Ah! But there's one more thing you m-m-ust k-k-know-w-w" but his transmission began to fuzz dramatically. Izzy and Tai turned to look at him.
"What? What is it?" Tai said before Gennai disappeared. The old man started speaking again but the sound of his voice was so scratched up neither boys could comprehend what he was saying. And then he disappeared. Both boys' shoulders sagged.
"Great…why does that always happen when he needs to say something that, more often then not, is really important," Tai muttered, crossing his arms in a huff. Izzy sighed and turned back to the computer.
"Well, I'll check to see if anyone replied to my earlier message. We need to get to the Digital World with a plan as quick as we can," Izzy concluded. Tai nodded and glanced over the young red-head's face.
"Dude, why's your nose all red?" he asked. Izzy jumped and turned bright red.
"Ugh, nothing," he said, embarrassed. Was it still really red from hitting the door?
Tai shrugged and got out his cell phone to call his mom. He was coming home late tonight…
Luckily about an hour later the two boys got everyone to the school computer lab and explained to them what they both knew. The five other teens nodded in understanding. The total group number made up seven and all were ready to go fight.
There was Sora Takenouchi and Matt Ishida, the same age as Tai. Joe Kido, who was one year older than Tai. TK Takaishi, Matt's little brother who had to come all the way over from where he lived with his mom in Sangenjaya, and Tai's little sister, Kari. They had an eighth member to their group as well, but she had recently moved to America and it was hard keeping in regular contact with her.
"Okay, so you guys know the details, are we going or not?" Tai said impatiently. Kari gave him a stern look.
"Calm down Tai, we need a plan, what will we do once we get there?" she asked. Izzy spun around in his chair from facing the computer screen.
"Personally, I think we shouldn't come in too strong at first. We should go in and take a look around, find our digimon and figure out what they know about the whole situation. Then if we get confronted by a seeker we can determine the level of strength our new enemy has accumulated," Izzy suggested. They all paused.
"Sounds good to me," Matt said, resting his hands in his pockets. Kari looked worried.
"I'm worried about Gatomon and the others…we don't have our crests anymore, can we still beat it?" she asked worriedly. Sora put hand on the young girls shoulder.
"I'm sure we'll all be alright, what else can we do?" Sora said and smiled. Kari smiled weakly back. Everyone paused and worry crossed their features as well.
"C'mon guys! We've always been able to beat the bad guys! It'll be no different this time and you better not think otherwise!" Tai said heatedly and everyone else nodded in agreement. Tai grinned now that everyone's spirits we up. "Alright, does everyone have their digivice?" he asked. Each child held up their own small hand held device and grinned.
"Of course we do," TK laughed. Tai clenched a fist.
"Alright! Then let's go get those seekers!" Tai growled and held out his device to the computer screen. The gate to the Digital World appeared and opened in a quick beep. Everyone else held up their digivice and the familiar feeling of the computer sucking them all in took over. Within seconds all seven of them were gone from the computer room, no evidence left behind that they had been there except for the beeping digital portal that closed up right after them.
As soon as they all whizzed through the portal they landed harshly onto a forested ground. Tai coughed to get his breathe back, winded from the fall. Izzy stood up and brushed off his school uniform, holding up his digivice to look at it. There was a small beeping dot on it that got closer and closer to them. He smiled widely.
"Looks like they already knew we were coming," he said happily, looking up just in time to see a group of oddly shaped creatures rushing up to greet them. Everyone got to their feet excitedly and waved their hands back and forth.
"Biyomon!""Agumon!""Gatomon!""Gomamon!""Patamon!""Gabumon!" they all shouted, calling their own partners to them. Izzy grinned when he saw his partner buzz towards him with, what he assumed, was a happy expression.
The bug-like creature dove into Izzy's outstretched arms. It looked like a cross between a robot and a massive ladybug-fly with long claw like appendages for arms and bulbous green eyes and sparkled in the light. Izzy laughed.
"Tentomon!" he greeted and the creature gave him an equivalent of a hug.
"Izzy! So nice to see you again!" the digimon, now named Tentomon, called even though his mouth did not move. The others all greeted their own partners happily, having not seen them in a very long time. After their first adventure in the Digital world ended the kids thought they wouldn't see their partners again. But it wasn't until November later the same year that Tai discovered a gate that had opened for only a few minutes on his dad's computer at home. After that the gate opened every now and then for different intervals at a time. They had to be careful how much time they spent in the Digital World or else the gate would close on them and they'd be stuck there, unable to return home until the gate opened again.
Izzy stood up and got to business.
"So, I'm sure you guys all know what's been going on here recently, we've just found out, is there anything you know about this new darkness that's appeared?" Izzy asked. The digimon all became alert.
"Yes! It came out of nowhere one day and big waves of the seeker digimon came and destroyed all the temples and buildings in search for some sacred power," Biyomon, a pink bird digimon, explained.
"We've never even heard of any sacred power before," Patamon said as he flew above TK's before landing comfortably on the blonde boy's head.
"If you've never heard of it, how can we be sure it exists?" TK said worriedly looking up at his partner.
"I don't think it does exist, these guys are all just loopy," Gomamon hummed, shrugging his fin-like arms.
"Well, they're still a problem and we need to get rid of them," Tai said, gritting his teeth. Izzy was about to open his mouth to give his own input when a loud cracking of the trees echoed from above them. Suddenly a huge tree branch crashed down towards them. Sora screamed and all the teens quickly jumped out of the way with the help of their digimon. Matt whipped up from where he was thrown to the ground when Gabumon pushed him out of the way.
"What the hell was that!" he asked. Izzy looked up and gasped. There was a huge black figure looming over them. It looked like a large grim reaper with a hooded head that hid its face, though its blood red eyes shone through, glimmering like jewels. It's long black, and ripped cloak flowed to the ground and opened up past its waist to show two large muscular legs that looked like they belonged to some sort of animal with large black claws protruding from the feet. A large intricate scythe draped in chains that clanged about seemed to hover next to the digimon as its arms, if it even had any, were tightly bound by a thick rubber brace around its midsection. The entire digimon was different shades of black, the only colour being the red of its eyes.
"Oh no! It's a seeker!" Tentomon said in a shaky voice. Izzy gulped and quickly stood to his feet. Tai growled from beside him.
"Yeah well, he doesn't look so tough! C'mon Agumon lets teach him a lesson!" Tai called and in a second Agumon was on his feet and glowing bright yellow. The rest of the team followed suit and each of their digimon digivolved into their Champion forms. Greymon, Kabuterimon, Garurumon, Birdramon, Angemon, and Ikkakumon emerged and took their battle stances.
Izzy grinned. Perfect! This digimon didn't seem to be any stronger than a Champion level; with all of them ganging up on it they would defeat it in a second. And with that, the seven digimon each delivered a series of their own attacks, sometimes individually, or sometimes all together.
Only, there was a problem.
With each attack delivered, the mysterious digimon swiped them away meaninglessly with its scythe, as if they were buzzing flies that it was swatting away. Izzy stood in shock. What was happening? This was a Champion level digimon, how on earth was it not being affected!
"Hey! What's wrong Greymon!" Tai yelled. Greymon shrugged his big shoulders.
"I don't know Tai, for some reason our attacks aren't working!" Greymon growled. Izzy bit his lip. This wasn't good.
Just then the big black digimon raised its scythe and in one swift move swiped it down towards them. The teens immediately dropped to their knees and pressed against the forest floor. Their digimon jumped and just barely dodged the attack. The blade swung down and cleanly split all the tops of the trees right off like it was cutting through butter. The branches and trunks all came crashing down around them. Izzy concluded that the digimon was using some sort of telekinetic power to move the weapon with its mind. He heard Tai yell in frustration as he clambered back up to his feet.
"C'mon guys! Try again!" Tai yelled. All the digimon nodded in understanding and each set off a series of their own attacks at the same time, giving the seeker blow after blow of their combined attacks. But the same thing happened; it was just like they were blowing air onto it. Izzy looked around frantically; his friend's faces became worried. He looked back up at their confused and tired digimon and gave up.
"Tai!" he called, "there's no way were going to beat this guy! Something's off we need to re-group and figure it out!"
Tai watched the battle with a burning gaze, not wanting to give up as soon as they had started, but eventually his shoulders sagged. Izzy was right. Something was wrong and before they continued fighting these digimon seekers they needed to figure out how to get around it. Tai turned and looked at his friends, they were waiting for him to give the order, stay or run?
"Arrghh! Let's go!" Tai said in an annoyed tone. He glanced around and saw a nearby cave about two miles ahead in the face of a cliff. He gave the order for the group to head into it and waited until they had all gotten to their feet and managed to get about halfway there before his sister called out to him.
"Tai! Come on!" she called worriedly. Tai huffed in annoyance and just managed to step out of the way of a falling branch. He gave the battle one last look before turning and running after his friends. When they had all successfully entered the cave their digimon de-digivolved and rushed in after them. They all pressed themselves against the walls of the cave and listened as the sound of the seeker started moving away and got duller and duller in their ears.
Tai huffed angrily and dropped into a squat, crossing his arms across his chest and fuming. He hated running away from fights.
"Stupid," he spat. Izzy caught his breathe and looked down at his digivice. His worry escalated and he glanced at Tai nervously.
"Um Tai?" he called.
"What?"Tai hissed. Izzy gulped.
"There's another problem,"
"What!"
"The…the gate is closed, we can't go back…" Izzy mumbled, waiting for Tai's wrath. But Tai only huffed again.
"Psh! Of course it is," he said sarcastically, "great, just great!"
Kari scowled at her brother.
"Tai, grow up, so what if we didn't beat him? We would've died if we kept going," she snapped. Tai shut his mouth and looked and the floor guiltily.
"I don't understand, why couldn't we beat it?" Joe asked. Gomamon was cuddled up in his arms, tired from digivolving and fighting.
"It was only a Champion level yet…we couldn't even get a scratch on it," Sora said. Izzy nodded.
"I speculate there is something more to this, some sort of power that doesn't allow us to affect the digimon in any way, at least through physical combat that is…" Izzy said, rubbing his chin in thought. They all stood in quiet thought before Kari perked up noticing something. She wandered over to one of the cave walls and pressed her hand to it. She cocked her head to the side and began stroking down the wall.
"Hey guys," she called softly, "there's something on the walls of this cave," she said. At this everyone looked up to see what the young girl was talking about. Izzy wandered over and touched where Kari had been stroking the walls. His eyes widened.
"There seems to be some sort of engraving on these walls, and they're not naturally carved," he said looking up. The carving was a bunch of odd lines going every which way and traveled to the floors and up to the ceiling of the cave. Kari stepped back, keeping her gaze on the carvings and gasped.
"It's a picture! They create a picture!" she said. Izzy stepped back as well and the others all crowded around them.
"How curious," Izzy said in an awed voice. The carvings made out different digimon all walking towards something. They all faced inwards and seemed to be walking into the cave. There was cryptic writing on the bottom that seemed to explain what was going on but Izzy couldn't read it. He hadn't brought his laptop with him either to match the characters with the digital language programmed on his computer. His scolded himself for not bringing it. Tentomon wobbled up and inspected the carvings, and then he jumped in surprise and started waving his hands around.
"Oh my! Izzy! This is a temple!" he said excitedly. Izzy raised his eyebrows.
"Can you read the inscriptions?" he asked. Tentomon shook his head.
"Nope, but I recognize these pictures!" he said happily. Patamon hovered over top, looking at the pictures.
"Oh yeah! I think I've wandered in here a long time ago, it's…ummm…actually I don't quite remember what this temple is for," Patamon laughed, sticking out his pale pink tongue. Sora rested her hand on her chin and cocked her head.
"Is it me, or does it look like the digimon in these carvings are worshiping something?" she asked. She walked over and pointed to the pictures. "See? Their arms are all up in the air as if their bowing or something," she explained. Izzy nodded.
"Yeah, it does seem that way," he said. Suddenly all of the children's digivices started beeping rapidly, taking them all by surprise. Izzy was the first to look at his. There was another signal coming from somewhere inside the cave. Joe scrunched his eyebrows in confusion.
"Hey, don't we normally get these signals when there is another digivice nearby? Why are they going off now? We're all here…" he said.
"Unless, it's Mimi?" Matt guessed.
"Why would Mimi be in a random temple?" Tai asked. Matt shrugged.
"Well, do we want to go see what it is?" Kari asked hopefully. TK smiled at her.
"Yeah, I like that idea, let's go in and see what's sending the signal," he said cheerily. He always agreed with Kari. Izzy shrugged.
"It's not a big problem if we go," he said, turning to look at Tai for an answer. Tai sighed.
"Sure why not, we have to wait until the gate opens back up anyway," he said and hopped to his feet. He seemed to be recharged and rid of his anger from before, which relieved all of his friends. Tai was annoying when he was angry. They all agreed and began trekking deeper down into the odd cave-temple.
As they walked the temple looked like any other rocky cave, and the carvings kept going on down the walls. The further they walked though, the more the cave smoothed out into a stone tunnel with smooth walls and the carvings became clearer. Finally after about ten minutes of walking the cave started to open up and emerged into a large temple-like room. There were lamps lit all around giving the large room a warm glow. The walls were decorated with plants and vines that snaked all the way from the ceilings to the floors. This place had obviously been untouched for many, many years. The carvings from before grew more intricate and flooded into the temple, covering all the walls. The worshiping digimon turned into crowds and crowds and in the center of the wall, up a large flight of stone steps there was a large ball, of what looked like a large light, or star, carved into the wall. The rays of the light shone out over all of the digimon as they all crowded around the mysterious light. The group was in awe as they made their way up the flight of stairs, their footsteps echoing and bouncing off the stone walls.
"Amazing, it's very similar to the stories and legends painted on temple walls by the ancient Egyptians," Izzy said, his eyes glued and studying all the carvings and carved passages written around all the pictures. When they all reached the top they found a pedestal in the middle of what looked like a small shrine. On the top of the pedestal was the same carving of the digivice that Izzy and Mimi had discovered in another temple long ago when they were younger. Yet, there was nothing on top of this pedestal.
Tai wandered closer to it.
"There's nothing here…" he said, disappointed. TK looked at his digivice.
"But the signals still there, it's right in front of us," he said, furrowing his eyebrows in confusion. Tai shrugged and tapped the top of the pedestal with his palm.
"Well there must be something wrong with it cause there's nothing…whoa!" he jumped away from the stone pedestal quickly. As soon as he had touched it the pedestal began to glow white. The glowing light spread out from the pedestal and out of the shrine, highlighting all of the carvings in the wall and floor and spreading like wildfire throughout the temple. The light kept travelling and blinded them, causing the group to shield their eyes.
The temple kept glowing for a second before the light dulled and faded away. Sora peeked from her hands and sighed, putting her hands on her hips.
"Good job, you better hope the temple won't collapse now or something," she scolded. Tai shrugged.
"I didn't think it would do anything," he pouted. As the light finished dimming the temple returned to being eerily quiet. Tai was almost about to suggest leaving when Kari gasped.
"The pedestal!" she said, covering her mouth. They all returned their attention to the pedestal and their eyes widened in shock. As if the rock had become liquid a small glowing object floated up from deep inside the stone and quietly drifted upwards. It was small, maybe about the size of half a person's palm, and had an orb of white light around it. Suddenly Tai realized what it was and reached out towards it.
"Tai!" Kari whispered frantically, but Tai turned and gave her a reassuring look. He then reached out and clasped the object in his fist and it immediately stopped glowing and floating and rested peacefully in his palm. Tai looked down at his hand. The others all crowded around him, eager to see what it was.
"Open your hand Tai," Izzy said excitedly. Tai paused, but then slowly un-curled his fingers to reveal the object. Looks of confusion and shock flashed over everyone's faces and a million questions must have appeared in their minds.
"This is," Izzy mumbled, "a white digivice?"
Ta DAH! First chapter donnee
I'm quite happy with it actually, a better first chapter than what I had last time. But it's so hard writing action scenes O_O I don't know how to write them properly _ and there are a few more coming up so I don't know what I'll do *_* gaahh.
Oh well, I hope you enjoyed it anyway, please review! Comments and opinions are greatly appreciated!