OOC: Okay, some apologies, first of all, I'm sorry for having chosen such a cliche
for my first fic to be uploaded here, but there's a reason to my madness, I swear.
Anyways, the sentence/paragraph/writing structure varies quite a bit and there's
a reason for that too. Basically the reason is is that its a collected transcript
of a Digimon RPG I've started. It's set about Ten years after the end of 02
(the real end, not that cruddy prologue.... if you don't believe it to be cruddy
then contemplate this, Matt... is an astronaut. WTF? And he's married to Sora?
Again, WTF? Did he lose a bet?) Anyways, on with the story. I really, really
appreciate any kind of feedback, even flames (I like counter-attacks ^_\\\)
and if anybody's even remotely interested in joining up with the RPG, there's
plenty of space, just e-mail me at Graffi_Girl@hotmail.com


The Next Generation: A New Beginning


Jade walked out of school for what was hopefully the last time, she'd been
all ready to leave when Mr. Izumi had stumbled by with the latest computer
supplies so she had just had to help, and then he'd begun talking, boy that
guy was long-winded when it came to computers. Anyway, an hour and several
escape attempts later she was ready to catch the last bus.

She walked out into the yard to see four others waiting for the bus, probably
in similar situations to her.

There was Kaoru Shirenai, the Mr. Excellent of the class, a jock and a genius
and a social wonder. Talk about breaking the curve.

Then there was Mayumi Yenn, a relatively new girl, whom Jade admired for
sticking up for herself with a good 'So what?' when one of the 'popular'
girls had commented on her supposedly unfashionable clothes.

Off to the side of her slumped Konkojii Usotsu, or 'Just Kon', he was two
years younger than the rest of them but he was in their class because of his
being advanced. He always came armed with a good wise-ass comment, which was
handy because most people found it strange that a ten year old was in their
class.

And standing rigid and significantly taller than the rest was Bryan Follis,
who'd moved to the area from America a while ago, he kept himself to himself
but Samantha was on a first name with him after identifying with the whole
changing countries thing.

The usual, meaningless pleasantries were exchanged, the occasional joke being
thrown in when the group was interuppted by the snow that began to fall, which
was pretty weird, considering the area wasn't renowned for snow.

All five of them gazed skyward, when all of a sudden, the sky tore open and
five objects, glowing in varied colours, shot downwards and lay suspended
in the air in front of them. Without saying a word each child reached forward,
grasping the object like it was a part of them that had been missing for
so long. Then, all hell broke loose. The feeling was like bungee-jumping from
a fighter jet as the children shot into the air, leaving the yard vacant.

******

The tall, slender woman looked up at the disturbance in the sky, turning back
to her responsibilities, five of the crests began to glow and point towards the
direction where the disturbance had been.

"So, it begins again."

*********


As Bryan reached for the device, the prominent emotion was
confusion. It wasn't out of wondering what the device was, which seemed to be
the way others were handling the situation.

Out of impulse, he whispered, "Another one?" Fortunately, no one was
paying much attention to him.

He glanced at the others once more. Kon and Kaoru were trying to
figure out what it was, while Jade and May seemed astonished. They had all
picked theirs up by that time, so Bryan decided snatched his up lest he let
on.

As soon as he grabbed ahold of it, they were caught in some kind of
force. Bryan quickly realized that they were falling through a dimensional
plane, mostly because there was no other possibility.

He hit the ground flat on his feet, but something fell off a nearby
tree and neerly knocked him out. As it was, he was lying face-down in the
underbrush. He was about to get up when he heard some rustling around. He
then heard a voice say, "You'll never escape again! We'll take you back to
Conductor City, traitor. And don't start talking about this 'Digidestined'
nonsense again."

There was some more rustling, and Bryan could tell that at least one
was approaching him. A second voice said, "What should we do with this one?"

The first voice said, "Kill him, then catch up."

The source of the second voice circled around Bryan, while the others
left. When Bryan felt he was about to strike, he jumped up, knocking him
away. Bryan quickly withdrew his rapiers and spun towards his foe.

Seeing no one, Bryan called out, "Where are you?! If you show yourself
and give up I won't have to kill you."

He heard the voice from much closer to the ground than he had
anticipated. It said, "I'm right here! Please don't kill me!" Bryan looked
down and saw a small creature.

"What are you?" Bryan asked.

"I'm a Red Condumon," it said. "a type of Digimon. Please let me go!"

"Fine," Bryan said as it ran off. He took this opportunity to look at
the device he had obtained. He took out his own for comparison. They were
identical, except his original one had gold outlines, while the new one had
silver outlines. He couldn't remember where he first obtained his, he had had
it since the meltdown. In fact, he couldn't remember anything from before the
meltdown.

Before he could spend more time pondering this turn of events, there
was a loud disturbance from a ways off. He walked off to investigate.

Jade sat up and rubbed her eyes drowsily. As her vision became clearer one
thought came to mind, "Since when did the schoolyard sprout trees?"

The area she was sitting in appeared to be a fairly dense forest, all manner
of strange trees and shrubs bursting with colour around her. She stood up to
take a look at one of these when a small, white object barrelled into her,
knocking her to the ground.

"You're here! You're here! You'rehereyou'rehereyou'rehereyou'rehere!" The
tiny creature, which Jade realised looked extremely fish-like, jumped up and
down on her chest, chanting it's little mantra.

"Uhmmmm.... hi?" Jade said, her tone very confused.

"You're here and then the others will come and we'll all be friends and the
Digital World will be safe again!" The creature, which Jade assumed was
female by it's tone, chimed.

"Digital World?" Jade asked, still confused.

"Omigosh, I'm so sorry, you must be curious, huh? Well, this is the Digital
World, and you're a Digi-Destined and I'm your Digimon, Neemon." She said
explaining.

"Oookay, I'm actually just a kid, I should be on my way home."

"No! You're a Digi-Destined, you have to be, you have a Digi-vice!" Neemon
said excitedly, motioning to the device still clutched in Jade's hand, "And
you're supposed to work with the others to save the Digital World."

"The others? Oh no, they must have got sucked here too, I hope they're okay,
I need to find them."

As if to answer that comment Kaoru walked out into the clearing they were
in.
_________________________________

When Kaoru awoke, he found himself lying on his back, spread-eagle, in a strange looking jungle. Last he remembered, he was at school, talking with some schoolmates while he waited for the bus. Then, it started snowing, and meteors appeared. After that, everything was hazy. Now, he was in some strange place, and he didn't know where he was or how he got there. But all that mattered was that he needed to get home.

The boy picked himself up, dusted himself off, brushed his constantly windswept-looking hair back into place, and looked at his surroundings. He was in a clearing in a strange looking jungle, with odd-shaped trees in varying shades of green. There was a crop of hodgepodge street signs from Germany, France, Italy, and England, it appeared, next to a particularly large tree. Hanging on a German street sign was his backpack. As he walked over to pull it off, he noticed an object in his hand. It was a strange looking electronic device, with a small screen in the middle of it and a couple of buttons. He didn't remember where he got it, but it might be important, so he clipped it onto his belt.

As he stuck his arms into his backpack strap, his acute sense of hearing detected movement. There was something out there. As he looked around from the corner of his eyes, trying to locate its source, a beeping noise emanated from the device on his belt.

"Kuso." Kaoru muttered as he turned quickly to where the sound came from. However, the creature was no longer there. It had moved in the distraction of the beeping, and was in a new location. But he expected that to happen, so he was prepared for the worse. He wasn't taken completely by surprise when a small object barreled into his back from behind.

"Hi!" The creature said as Kaoru turned and caught the object in his hands before it fell to the ground. "I've been waiting for you."

"What are you?" Kaoru asked with a puzzled expression as he inspected the small, green spheroid in his hands.

"Not a what, a who. I'm Scalemon, your partner."

"And what exactly is a Scalemon?"

"A Digimon, of course."

"And what exactly is a Digimon?"

"A Digital Monster. Don't you know?"

"No, never heard of them. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back home. My sister is waiting for me." He set the scaly creature down onto the ground. But before Kaoru could take his first step, Scalemon jumped into his hands again.

"Weren't you listening? I am YOUR partner. We are SUPPOSED to stick together."

"I can't. I have to get home, I have to take care of my sister."

"Sister? What's a sister?"

"You don't know what a sister is?"

"No."

"Uhhh, okay. I guess we both need some education." Kaoru began to walk in what seemed to be the best direction, still carrying Scalemon in his hands. "I guess I can take you along. Yuzuriha might like to meet you, as well."

"What's a Yuzuriha?" Kaoru shook his head as he started walking.

The pair continued to work through the odd jungle, talking. In the middle of trying to explain what a family was, Kaoru trailed off. Once again, his ears picked something up. Voices, two female and one of them familiar, to be exact. Kaoru slowly trod in the noise's direction, finding one of the others walking through the thick trees.

"I see you've got one, too." Said an slender girl with short, wavy, light brown hair.

"It would seem so, Ikumino-san." Kaoru replied.

"What did I tell you about that?" Jade said with some irritation. "Call me Jade. There's no need for formalities."

"But!"

"No buts. Call me Jade or don't talk to me at all."

"Alright." He acquiesced. "So, who's your friend?"

"This is Neemon." Jade held out the fish-like creature.

"Nice to meet you!" The long, white creature greeted happily.

"What about yours?"

"This is Scalemon." Kaoru replied.

"It's a pleasure." Scalemon saluted.

"Well, this is an odd predicament we seem to have somehow gotten into."

"Yeah, this is odd alright. Maybe we should go find the others."

"That sounds like a good idea."


"So, Iku-, I mean Jade any idea what's going on here?" Kaoru asked after a
few seconds silence.

"Not a clue." Jade replied, stopping in her tracks to turn and look further
into the forest behind them, she was sure that she'd heard a sound like a
bellowing roar.

Neemon scrambled up onto Jade's shoulder and tried to hide in her hair,
which did nothing to reassure her.

"Uhmm, what's that?" Jade asked.

"A Loud bellowing roar, in the Digital World that's never good." Neemon
said, quickly retreating behind Jade's hair again.

Kaoru was about to say something when a huge figure, which seemed to consist
solely of fangs and teeth burst out of the thick forest, snarling and
roaring.

Jade took a step closer to Kaoru, "W.. what's that?"

"He's Keenomon, he's very nasty and his ribbon claw will... well, cut you to
ribbons.. we might want to run now." She said helpfully.

Jade and Kaoru nodded, gathering their respective Digimon in their arms
before turning tail and running whilst yelling their heads off.

"You know.. Kaoru, now... would.. be the perfect time to do something
brave.. instead of just running like a big.. chicken.." Jade said between
gasps for air.

"Me? You're running too, why don't you do anything?"

"I'm a girl, it's un-ladylike to fight and lower myself to such actions....
now turn around and do something before I knock your block off!" Jade said,
taking note of the ground so she didn't trip.

Their options on whether to turn and fight or carry on running were severely
limited when they came to a large cliff edge, the drop looked like it was
100 feet down.

The pair turned, ready to fight, although, in Jade's case reluctantly, as
the evil Digimon beared down on them.

(OOC: in this next section I'm gonna take the libertie that you've all met
up with your Digimon so as to keep the ball rolling, if anyone wants to play
it differently to that then just drop me a line and I'll alter it for you,
okay?)

From out of the brush being torn up at Keenomon's feet ran three other
figures came running towards them.

Within seconds, Bryan, Jade, Kaoru, Kon and May stood reunited, along with
their newly-acquired Digital Partners, except Bryan for some strange reason. Respectively, Neemon, the optimistic Aquatic Digimon,
Scalemon, the Proud Dragon Digimon, Nekkomon, the wise-ass Feline Digimon
and Faramon, the cute Magneitc Digimon just in case anyone was wondering,
which of course they really wouldn't, considering they were about to become
lunch for an evil Digimon, but if they were wondering that's the response
they'd get.

"Okay, what the hell is that?" Kon asked, staring back at Keenomon.

"Keenomon, an evil Digimon that likes to hurt innocents for no reason.. and
watch your language." Nekkomon answered from his arms.

"And consdiering that we're trapped between it and a very long plummet to
our deaths we're supposed to do what?" May asked, hoping someone would have
a good answer.

"We fight it, of course." Scalemon replied.

"Uhmm, hello? What are we going to do against something like that?" Jade
asked, trying to make everyione see sense, there was no way they could fight
off that thing without getting seriously hurt.

"We may not do much, but we have to protect you, we've only just found you,
we can't let you get hurt." Neemon said, bravely hopping free of Jade's
arms.

The other Digimon did the same, getting between their partners and Keenomon
who had caught up to them and was now getting ready to attack.

Keenomon swung back one of its many, clawed arms and got ready to attack.

"No, come back, you'll get hurt!"

"Hurt? It's suicide!"

"Get away from them you big bullie!"

Keenomon started his attack when a hitch-pitched wail rang through the air.
The devices the kids had gotten back at the bus stop began to shake and
glow, bright beams of energy shooting at their Digimon.


"Neemon digivolved to Aquamon!"

"Scalemon digivolved to Demidramon!"

"Nekkomon digivolved to Toramon!"

"Faramon digivolved to Fimon!"

From the light came the four Digimon, looking different but still somehow
the same, one thing was sure though, they were all ready to kick some
Digital ass.


"Magnerang!"

"Aquaisphere!"

"Fire Dart!"

Fimon, Demidramon and Aquamon yelled, letting loose their attacks, which slammed
into Keenomon with extreme force, forcing him to the stumble back a little
and off to the right, pushing him towards the edge of the cliff. Toramon leapt
forward, seeing his oppurtunity and curling into a tight ball before springing
at his enemy, thrashing out with his fists and feet.

"Tiger Pummle!"

Not able to stand the attacks Keenomon stumbled over the edge, falling down
and landing with a loud crash.

The four Digimon all congratulated each other and crowded around their owners.
May looked distraught, "Am I the only one a little weirded out by all this?"

"Not really, but then I read a lot of sci-fi, it helps." Kon said, in a tone that
implied he was more sincere than mocking for once.

Jade bent down low and stroked Aquamon, "Wow, that was amazing, but, uhmmm,
what are you? And what happened to Neemon?" She asked, looking around the
clearing.

"I am Neemon, I just digivolved... we all did."

"Uhmm, Digivolved? What's that?" Jade asked, once more confused.

"Digivolving is a process in which the Digimon draw on their own strength to
reach new levels of being, however in your case, what with you all being Digi-Destined
the Digimon draw on the strength of their bond with you to make it happen a lot
quicker. As time goes on, you'll find that they digivolve in different ways,
Gods knows that the last set of you kids did, Digivolving, Warp Digivolving,
DNA Digivolving, Armour Digivolving.. even I lost track." Proclaimed a voice
as its owner walked into the clearing.

The woman was tall and elegant, she looked to be about 20 something, she had long, beautiful
white hair that reached down to her knees and fell in front of her as well as
behind her. Her eyes were a striking shade of Purple and she was wearing
a simple, blue silk robe with the pattern of flowers on it. In her hand she
held out five pieces of jewellery that looked like simple silver necklaces.

"Uhmm... hi.. who are you?" Jade asked politely.

"Who cares who she is, she's hot." Kon chimed in from behind her.

The woman sighed and walked closer to the group, "The saviours of the world
always have to be children.." She stopped short of them, "My Name is Genna, I
am here to be your guide."

"Saviours? Of what?" Kaoru asked, showing a lot more tact that Kon.

"That will all become clear in time child of Valour."

"So you're a guide, good then guide us home." May said.

"You misunderstand little one, I am here to guide you on your mission, I can
not yet take you home. You are here to save the worlds, you and your Digimon
partners will free us from the darkness that is coming to engulf us all. There
will be others, I cannot say how many, but they will arrive to help you, eventually."

"Uhmmm..." Bryan said, finally speaking up, "Then why am I here? I don't have
a partner like the others."

Genna smiled softly at Bryan, "You do, but he is in trouble, he is being held
against his will by one more formidable than himself, believe me there is no
other way he wouldn't be at your side. I believe you will find him in a city
due west of here, you will encounter danger there, but I believe you will
be able to handle it yourselves."

"Ourselves? You mean you won't be coming with us?" Jade asked, seeming a little
less calm and collected than usual.

"I'm afraid I cannot, but do not fear, I will be there when you need me, not that
you will, you hold the strength already inside you." As she said this she
shifted around the five silver necklaces in her hand.

"What are those?" May asked, pointing to the necklaces.

"These," Genna said, moving forward, "Are your Crests, they will help you
realise your hidden power, and in time will become very powerful weapons."

She pulled the white crest out of her hand and set it about Jade's neck,
"Purity."

Next was Kaoru, for him it was a Crimson crest, "Valour."

Then Bryan, a silvery blue crest, "Ingenuity."

After this May, a ____ crest, "______" (OOC: If you could give me some info
on May's crest soon I'd appreciate it CP)

And finally Kon, a turquoise crest, "Truth."

Kon looked up at Genna and smiled, "You sure you won't be coming with us? You,
me, the open road, campfires, it'd be magic babe." He said, grinning from ear
to ear.

Genna rolled her eyes, "You, Truthful one," She said, kneeling before him and
looking him straight in the eyes, "Are going to be a handful, I can tell."

With this she got up and walked back into the woods, "Goodbye Chosen Children,
I wish you the best of luck."

Kaoru called after her, "Luck's all well and good, but what are we supposed to do?!"

"Go west, towards the sunset, you'll find Bryan's Digimon there, after that you'll
know what to do!" She replied, dissappearing into the woods and leaving
the Digi-destined alone.