Author: Hi everyone! ^^ This idea came to me while I was chatting with a friend online. Hope you like it!

Oh, and Mek, thanks for the plot bunny!

Disclaimer: I do not own anything. Except my cookies. *runs off with a handful of homemade sugar cookies*

Note: I do not know what happens in any of the digimon video games involving Ryo (Mainly because I can only understand like 2 or 3 kanji, and about 12 hiragana symbols and 4 katakana symbols. ^^ I know enough katakana to write my name!), sans the few that are in English. so it is best to pretend that any of the video games involving Ryo never happened, and that this happened instead.

Note 2: This story was to friggin long, so I have broken it up into chapters! I've also fixed some minor errors. Enjoy!

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Dear whoever finds this letter,

Greetings! I bet you are surprised to get a mysterious letter from a mysterious person. Well, let me introduce myself. My name is Akiyama Ryo, and I am lost. Not in a physical sense, mind you, but in a spiritual sense. I am lost in a way that cannot be recovered by maps or simple directions.

I haven't seen any humans in two years. I don't know if I ever will again. This letter is my only link to the human world. That is, if this Gazimon can get it there like he says he can. I pray that somebody finds it. That way, they won't make the same mistakes I did.

I am in exile in a desert on the continent of Server. Have you ever heard of it? Probably not, if you've never been to the Digital world. I better explain what the Digital world is. You see, there's this place that is inside of all computers. It's a place where everything is data, even the living creatures. That's what the digital world is, sort of. It's hard to explain. But just know that this place exists.

It's called the Digital world because creatures called digimon live there. Yeah, I know it sounds strange. But it's true. The few humans that live here coexist with the digimon. Though, most of the humans who come here don't live here. Most of the humans who come here are chosen children(1) or tag tamers. I was a tag tamer once. Then, all the bad stuff happened…..

But I am getting ahead of myself. Like I was saying, there are chosen children and there are tag tamers. They both do basically the same thing, but in different ways. Every chosen child and tag tamer has a partner digimon. Mine is a V-mon. He is still with me, even now. Actually, he's helping me with the parts I am forgetting.

Chosen children use a small device, called a digivice, to make their digimon grow stronger. When a digimon changes grows and gets stronger, it's called digivolving. The chosen children don't do much work. They are just there to help their digimon reach a higher level.

Tag tamers are different. We do have digivices, and we do help our digimon digivolve, but we do much more than that. Tag tamers actually fight alongside their digimon. You see, tag tamers know a little bit of magic. Not a lot, but enough to make a difference. For example, I know a spell that can fill a bucket of water, making it easier to survive in the desert. Most tag tamers, though, don't actually fight that often. They know more healing spells, and they are there to heal their digimon when they grow weak in a fight. While most tag tamers don't actually do that much fighting, there are some, like me, who fight alongside their digimon as much as possible.

I've always been like that. I guess it is due to my need to be strong. I needed to be reliable. I needed t be the one that people looked to when things were tough. I don't want to be baggage to V-mon (V-mon just sighed and said I am not baggage), so I fight. I even know some complex spells that usually only travelers know. But more on the travelers later. Right now, I want to tell you the basics, so that you can understand why I was banished to the desert of Server.

I guess it was my need to be strong that caused all this to happen. This need of mine was my downfall. This need caused an incident which permanently scarred my family, drove both me and my closest human friend to near insanity, and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of innocent digimon.

And one human.

Every day I remember how he died. I have to live with the knowledge that I killed him, and that his family and my heart were broken due to his death. That is why I write this letter. I don't want you to make the same mistakes I did.

Well, with all that said, I can begin my story. But, I must warn you. It is a frightening and disturbing story. If you are weak of mind or stomach, then I recommend giving this letter to somebody else.

Still here? Good. Now, I shall begin. It all started about four years ago in Real world time…..

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I was ten then. A good age for most, though it sucked for me. Nine years old, and I had to fend for myself mentally. Oh sure, I had a family. A Mother, Father, and two older sisters, to be exact. But they were never there for me. They never went to my soccer games. They never told me how good of a son or brother I was. They never worried about me if I disappeared for hours at a time.

They did not love me.

Mom and Dad were divorced at that time. My sisters, Anya and Claire, lived with our Mom, and I lived with Dad. Anya was 14 at the time, and Claire was 16. Mom was from France. That's why my sisters have such strange names. Dad was from Japan. I'm glad that he named me. Mom wanted to call me Pierre. C'mon, what kind of name is Pierre?! No offense to you if you happen to be named Pierre. I just couldn't live with myself if I had that name. Anyways, Mom lived a few blocks away from me, so I went and visited every other weekend. Anya and Claire came to my house the alternate weekend. They didn't stick around for long, though. Anya had cheerleading practice on Sundays, and Claire always went out with her boyfriend. I think they got married a couple years later. It's kinda cool, but not really pertinent to the story.

Like I was saying, Mom and Dad didn't really notice if I was gone. They were more worried about their issues: Dad had work, and Mom had her new boyfriend. I didn't really like Mom's boyfriend. He never did anything while I was there, but I knew he abused Mom and my sisters. I could see the bruises. I think he didn't hurt me because he thought my dad would do something to him if he hurt me. Well, Dad didn't really give a rat's ass either way, so I was just lucky. Well, I shouldn't say that he didn't care. I should say that he was too busy to care. I'm sure that if he took a break from his busy work schedule, he would have noticed that something was up. He might have even been able to help me before things got as bad as they did…

Anyways, This is how things were. I played the part of the "Athletic and wild-yet-good-natured son." I did alright in school. Not the best, but not the worst either. I played soccer. That had to be my best skill. I was a "mixed player," which meant that I played whatever position I had to play when it was needed. I think the only position I didn't play was goalie. My life was alright. Though it had it's bumps, I somewhat enjoyed it.

Then, everything changed. One afternoon, I was reading a spoiler on the internet for a show I like to watch. I was too impatient to wait to see it on TV. Then, the strangest thing happened. The computer screen got all bright and swirly, and a weird device came out of it! I didn't know it then, but it was my digivice. The brightness had caused me to cover my face with my hands, so I moved my hands and opened my eyes and saw the digivice floating in front of me!

At first, I thought it was a trick. It had to be; things didn't just float like that! But then, a voice came out of the computer. It was the voice of a young man. The voice said, "Greetings, young one."

"wh..Who is that," I said, "Who's talking to me?"

"I am," the voice said without specifying exactly who he was, "You have a choice to make. You can choose to keep your life the way it is, or you can choose to accept your destiny."

"M.My destiny," I said, "What's my destiny?"

"That is not for me to tell you," the voice said, "It is for you to discover."

I actually thought about turning this offer down. Though my life sucked, it was alright. I mean, I wasn't going to bed hungry, and I had an O.K. life. But, for some reason, it wasn't enough for me. My life, though somewhat stable, was boring. I thirsted for adventure. So, I said, "I guess I choose to accept my destiny."

The voice said, "Very well. Touch the digivice floating in front of you, and your adventure will begin."

I sometimes wish that I hadn't agreed to do what that voice told me to do. If I hadn't agreed to do what that voice told me to do, I would never have been banished to a desert. I never would have caused all the pain and suffering I did. That boy would have never died….

But, for whatever reason, I touched that digivice. The room then began to glow a bright white. It was so painful that I wanted to cover my eyes with my hands, but I couldn't. They were locked onto the digivice. Suddenly, I felt something pull at me. It felt like something was pulling me towards the computer. But, there was nothing there! No ropes or anything! As I was pulled closer and closer to the computer, I was afraid that I would crash into it. But, I didn't crash into it. I was pulled into it. Within seconds, the life I had known was gone, and I was swirling though some sort of vortex, heading towards an unknown destination.

I fell for quite some time. Well, I wasn't really sure of what direction I was headed in. I could have been going up for all I knew. But, it felt like I was going down. Then, the light in the vortex became brighter. I could see that something was up ahead. What it was, I was not sure of.

Then, all of a sudden, I reached the end of the vortex. Everything opened up, and I could see where I was going. For a few seconds I just hung there, not moving in any direction. I took this time to look around. I was very high up in the sky, facing down towards a giant world. It looked like there was a giant forest below me, with a few patched of fields here and there. Then I began to fall. Very fast. The wind was whipping by me as I plummeted to a certain doom. I think I even began to scream at one point. Well, that's understandable. I did think I was going to die.

I landed with a thud in a grassy field. It was painful, that's for sure. Not as painful as I thought it would be, though. There was no way that I could have survived a fall like that. I moaned and rolled over onto my back. I glanced up, and I saw something standing over me. My eyes wouldn't focus, though. So, I gave them a moment to adjust. When they did, I was startled by what I saw.

Have you ever seen star wars? Well, this guy looked like one of those Jedi people. He had the whole white and tan robe thing going on, and his hair was short on top, but he had a ponytail at the base of his neck. I sat up and scooted away from him. The man laughed and said, "You have no reason to be afraid of me."

This guy had the same voice as the voice which had come out of my computer! I said, "Who are you?"

"I have many names," the guy said, "But you can call me Gennai. I am the one who summoned you here."

For some reason, I wasn't afraid of this guy. I had been startled at first, but that was because I wasn't expecting him to be standing over me. He seemed to have this air of intelligence surrounding him, and one couldn't help but respect him. I stood up and looked around. It was starting to get dark, and nothing around me looked familiar. I said, "Where am I?"

Gennai smiled and said, "Welcome to the Digital world."

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(1): Digidestened are called Chosen Children in the Japanese version.

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