Me: Hey! Luka here and wlecometo the first chapter of my first fiction! FYI: I don't think I have spell-check, so if my grammer is off on anything, please let me know in your reviews and please, don't flame me! I maybe new, but doesn't mean I don't know what a flame review is! So, in case anyone missed or skipped the summary, this is an AU with genderbender (But the only person being bended is Kazu)...
Kazu: Hey, why am I a girl? *hits in the head with frying pan* OW!
Me: Oh shut up, will you? now, um...where was I?
Takato: The disclaimer?
Kazu: Don't ecourage her! *hits again* OW! Stop that!
Me: Thanks Takato! Take it away Henry!
Henry: Princess Luka vocalzal does not own Digimon or any characters in it.
Me: Well, expect OCs and Fem. Kazu.
Kazu (muttering): Crazy woman...
Me(branishes frying pan threantingly): What was that?
Kazu: Nothing!
Me That's what I thought. Anywho, enjoy and review!
Chapter 1: A Normal Day for Hikaru Shiota...Not Really
The weaher was calm and clear in the city of Shinjuk, Japan. Everyone was going about their ususal daily business, shopping, working or just enoying the day. However, in a local park (If the park has a name, someone let me know), hadany adult been paying attention, they would've notice four fourteen-year-old boys cornering two twelve-year-olds. Littered at their feet were a bunch of green and blue cards with various pictures on them.
These cards belonged to a TV franchiese called Digimon, which became quickly popular among children and most teens. Digimon were digital monsters that resembled just about anything you could imagine and it was quick to become a popular card game of the series became a big hit. So, you can imagine how fourteen-year-old boys could feel about getting beaten by two scrawny twelve-year-old boys.
"You heard us geeks!" The one with red hair snapped, "Hand over the cards or else!"
"T-that was-wasn't part of the deal Dan!" One of the younger boys said, he had short, chestnut brown hair, tanned skin and cherry-red eyes. He wore a blue hooded sweater, brown capice with yellow socks and white and blue shoes. "Deal smeal," A brunette with blue eyes scoffed, "You guys had to have cheated, you couldn't have won!"
"We did no such thing!" The other boy said, having short dark green hair and silver eyeswith glasses and fair skin. He wore a dark grey shirt under a cream-coloured jacket and dark brown shorts with grey socks and black and green shoes. "You calling us lairs, shorty!" The black haired boy snapped, starting to lose his cool as he grabbed the greenette by the collar. "Leave him alone!" The younger brunette cried as he got grabbed by the redhead and the other two started looking through the cards, "Hey, stop that!"
"You're all cowards!" The greenette said glaring, "Try picking on someone who can fight back!"
"Just because you have glasses, doesn't mean I won't punch you!" The black-haired bully growled. "Just wait till Karu gets here!" The brunette boy treatened, trying to be tough, much to their amusements, "She's gonna..." They burst out laughing. "Like we're scared of a little girl!" The brunette bully with green eyes snickered, "She's probably all fraile from playing with dollies!"
"I dunno Sasuke," The other brunette said unsurely, "I heard of her and she's no pushover."
"Uh, yeah, yeah, sure," The brunette, Sasuke, said not convinced. "Hey!" A female voice suddenly yelled, getting their attention.
The voice belonged to a twelve-year-old girl with shoulder-length dark brown hair with slight fringes, tanned skin and greyish-blue eyes with curled lashes. She wore a black muscle shirt with a pair of elbow-long, fingerless, black gloves with blue rings on the wrists and cuffs. She wore a pair of dark blue shorts and black combat boots with blue buckles. She wore a black belt with a dark green pouch for Digimon cards on the left and the other held a black and blue card scanner. She was a bit more developped then most girls her age and had the figure of a runner complete with the aura of a fighter.
"Put. Them. Down," She growled eyes cold like ice. "Karu!" The youngest brunette and the greenette cheered, grinning at the sight of her, while the bullies, minus the green-eyed brunette laughed. "That's your rescue!" The redhead barked in amusement, causing her to glare at them. "Run home and play with your dollys, girly," The ravenette said dismissively, making the two boys gasp in alarm, while the girl stared in blank-anger. "What?" She asked.
"Uh oh, he called her the g-name!" The greenette panicked, covering his eyes. "Are you talking to me?" The girl asked. "Shouldn't have done that..." The brunette boy said nevously as a dark gleam appeared in his friend's eyes. "Are you talking to me?" The girl asked, her voicing raising. "Oh boy," The brunette boy said, covering his own eyes. "Are you talking to me?" She yelled angrily. "Now they're in for it," The greenette said. "The name is...HiKARU SHIOTA!" The girl yelled seeing red, before charging at the stunned bullies with an enraged scream.
Without another word, Karu landed a mean right-hook on the ravenette, before hearing the redhead coming at her after pushing her brunette friend to the ground, allowing both boys to hide behind the slides. Spinning around on one leg, Karu landed a sharp kick to the side, before twisting her body around as the green-eyed brunette came from the side moving from leg to the other, landing another kick to the brunette's chest, knocking him back into a pole. With an enraged yell, the ravenette ran at her blindly, making her smirk as she ducked under his swing and punched him repeatedly in the chest and stomach, sending him right into the slides her friends were hiding behind, making them cringe. Seeing the redhead coming at her again from the corner of her eye, Karu slid around him gracefully while grabbing his wrist, twisting his arm around his back making him yell in pain as she swung him around into the brunette bullies.
Smirking to herself, Karu dusted off her hands before calmly walking over to her friends, who were staring at her in admiration. "So, what I miss?" She asked as if she hadn't just beaten four boys almost twice her height into the ground, making the greenette sweat-drop. "If I said once, I'll say it again," He said, shaking his head, "Karu, you really are something else."
"Why thank you Kenta!" Hikaru 'Karu' Shiota grinned, much to his expasteration. "Are you sure you didn't take it a little far?" The brunette asked, looking at the groaning bullies in concern. "Aw, they'll be fine in a few days so long as they don't cross me again," Karu said dismissively, smiling at him, a complete change to how she arrived, "Honestly Takato, you're too nice for your own good." Takato flushed bashfully, making her shake her head before helping them collect their cards and left before the bullies could come to. 'Another day, another fight,' Karu thought absentmindly, used to coming to her friends' aid. It was no secret that Takato and Kenta were two of the best Digimon players in their school, so a lot of high-schoolers came to see if they were all that, though that didn't mean all of the were good-sports and their were a plently of bullies at their school, so she was sort of like their body-guard when she wasn't playing her own matches. 'I wis something new would happen for a change,' She thought with a sigh, little did she know she was going to regret that wish.
In an unknown space, a little white creature with purple markings and a red triangle on its forehead was being chased by a white unicorn with torn black wings wearing a red mask. "Maybe we should talk about this!" The white creature cried, "I'm sure if you give me a chance, we could work it out!" But the horse didn't listen, "I just wanted to play!"
"Okay," The unicorn chuckled, darkly, "Let's play!" The poor white creature whimpered fearfully as it ran, its red triangle giving a soft glow.
Meanwhile, in a dark room within a government felicity, two women in white were up at the control panels as a large red dot on the giant screen started moving towards a greet target symbol. Sitting in a chair, obversing was a man with short, dark blonde hair wearing a suit and black sunglasses, fiddling with a lighter.
"Are you sure you're playing it right?" The white creature asked, before tripping over its own feet, "Aw nuts..." It whimpered the horse approached, only to rammed into by a large black raptor with red markings and a green scale pattern going down its spine. The white creature watched as the two brawled.
Meanwhile, in a hidden alcove in the school yard, Karu was playing against Takato when a shearing pain lit itself in her head, making her grunt in pain and hold her head, dropping her cards, much to Kenta and Takato's alarm. "Karu?" Takato asked in concern. 'Not this again...!' Karu thought in pain, an odd image came to her, seeing the black raptor start to dissolve under the horse, 'W-What is this...?' There was a large explosion followed by a sound that sounded like glass shattering. "Hikaru!" Kenta called in concern as she nearly double-over in pain. "GAME OVER!" The white creature screamed as it was flung into the air by the explosion and gasped to see the raptor had evoled into an armoured one and deleted the horse, and screamed as it disappeared.
Karu gasped as the vision ceased and panted for breath, before noticing she was leaning against the alcove wall, her boys staring at her in concern, tears beginning to swell in Takato's innocent red eyes (lets face it, Takato's too innocent and nice to the darker sides of life). "What?" She asked as she got herself together. "Another migraine, huh?" Kenta asked, though the way he said it made it sound more like a state then a question. Not being able to lie when he gave her that stare, Karu sighed and nodded as she sat up, rubbing her head, she's been getting these awful migraines since she was a toddler and no one was able to figure out why and it made her father crazy protective of her, though he knew how to keep it at the minimum, which she was thankful for. "Are you okay, Karu?" Takato asked worried. "I'm fine baby dragon," She assured, making him give her a watery-smile, baby dragon was a nickname they though up after playing Digimon for such a long time, Takato got it because he favoured dragon types, Kenta perfered water-types and often used birds, giving him the nickname Bluejay and Karu herself used both dark and holy types, naming her Dark Angel.
Meanwhile, the white creature screamed as he was pushed through a portal into the skies of Shinjuku, his ears extending to allow him flight as he was nearly run over by a helicopter (is that even possible?). "Hey!" He complained, but stared after the machine curiously, before looking around at the sight below him and knew he wasn't in the digital world anymore, 'I wonder where I am...maybe this is the human world,' This thought made him brighten a little, 'Maybe I can find the princess here!'
Back with the three friends, Karu had played Unimon, the same Digimon she had seen in her newest vision and it was against Takato's BlackTyrannamon, the other Digimon she had seen and like her vision, Takato used his turn to digivolve it into MetalTyrannamon, winning the game. "Hah, you're history!" Takato cheered shyly. 'I'm starting to think I'm physic,' Karu though absent-mindly, every time she had a vision parts of it came true not long afterwards, she never told any about them though in fear of being called crazy, but that didn't mean they didn't worry her from time-to-time, like that voice she heard. She knew she didn't imagine it, but it wasn't one she recognized so it worried her, even though she tried convincing herself it was nothing important.
"How'd you do that, seriously?" Karu asked sceptically, "Every time someone gets close to beating you, your luck streak kicks in and you pull off an otherwise impossible move that turns things around into your favor." And she wasn't sugar-coating the fact either, Takato, despite being as shy and usually quite as he was, had yet to be beaten at the game because of this weird sense of luck he seemed to have, but on a brighter note, she and Kenta were just happy there was something that brought Takato out of his shell aside from soccer. "What can I say," Takato shrugged as he swipped a card into his yellow card-reader, "I'm that good."
That made the other two share an amused look, before Kenta said, playfully, "I think we created a monster." Karu just shrugged, "Your own fault for introducing him to the game in the first place, dude." Takato pouted at them, knowing full well they were kidding.
"We better go before we're late for class," Kenta said sliding out of the alcove. "Yeah, if we're late Mrs. Saji's going to make us stand in the hall again," Karu agreed, following him, "C'mon baby dragon!"
"Be right there!" Takato replied while cleaning up, "Don't leave without me!"
Karu sighed, just knowing what was going to happen even without her visions. "Go ahead, just tell Mrs. Saji Takato had to use the bathroom and I stayed with him cause of the whole bodyguard thing, she'll understand," She told Kenta who nodded and both kids cringed at hearing the box for the cards fall to the ground, followed by Takato quiet yelp and whine, "Oh man!" With sigh, Kenta took off and Karu headed over.
"Honestly Takato, I-" Karu started before realizing he was staring at something, "What are you lookin' at?" Following his gaze, her eyes landed on a pure, dark blue card with a yellow and blue Digimon symbol in the middle. "I never seen a card like that before," Takato commented in a soft tone as he got off the alcove and stood by her. Karu curiously bent down and picked it up, then looked over, "I've never seen one like it before, how'd it get in the box?" Her chest tightened with a sense of foreboding, she didn't like this one bit. She yelped when Takato took it from her, "Takato, don't you dare do what I think you're going to do!"
"What's the harm?" Takato asked holding his card reader in the other hand. "You do remember that the last time one of us said that, all three of us ended up in the hospital and my dad nearly had a heart-attack," She reminded, folding her arms but he didn't listen and swiped it. Instantly, a flash of electricity sparked, making Takato drop his card reader as Karu cried out, quickly pulling him away. "Um...is that new?" Takato asked nervously, earning a smack from her. "Dork, obviously not!" She shouted at him, they watched as the spark faded away and the data on the screen started to go haywire.
"Just great, first we're late and now my card reader goes haywire!" Takato complained, yet nervous about being late as he and Karu quickly gathered the cards. "Hey, I told you not to mess with the card, but does anyone listen to me, no!" Karu remarked as she grabbed his bag for him and put his box away, "Let's move!" They ran off as the bell rang.
"Sorry we're late Mrs. Saji!" Takato said as he and Karu rushed into the classroom, having to stop so Karu could grab her white, elbow-long jacket from her locker. "Apology accepted, just next time relive yourself before school," The brunette teacher said, much to Takato's embarrassment, realizing Kenta must've covered for them, Mrs. Saji knew perfectly well that Takato and Kenta had a hard time, Takato more so, over that silly (in her opinion) game since they hardly loosed, and knew full well not everyone was a good sport most of the time, so she understood Karu's reasons for being late.
As class went on about the history of the nation, Karu noticed Takato getting distracted and drawing something with his red and black pens, and shrugged, knowing Takato didn't need to pay much attention since he already had perfect grades in most classes and became distracted herself as her thoughts wondered back to her newest vision. It really unnerved her and she just couldn't let it go, it was the first time she actually heard a voice instead of just seeing the events she couldn't entirely explain. She sighed, why did she even have to have this stupid ability, she'll never know, but it was starting to get on her nerves.
After the school day ended, Karu and Kenta found themselves by the alcove waiting on Takato, having decided to have a sleepover at her house. "Takato, hurry up!" Karu snapped as the wind whistled in her ears, adding to her already growing headache, "Dad's going to have a cow if we don't get there in the next..." She checked the time on her card reader, "Twenty minutes!"
"Guys, the weirdest thing just happened!" Takato exclaimed not using his usual soft tone, his voice was naturally soft, but not like before so it got their attentions. "You making us late for the second time today?" Kenta joked, earning a giggle from Karu and a raspberry from Takato. "No!" Takato said as he jumped out of the alcove and showed them a white device with a three-by-three inch screen, it was ovalish in shape with two red buttons on top of this circle shape, a black circle surrounded the screen and a red one surrounded the black one, and it had a red strap with a buckle.
"No way that's what I think it is!" Kenta exclaimed in shock, adjusting his glasses. "That's...just not possible..." Karu said in shock. "But it is!" Takato said moving it around as he spoke, "I dumped my card box and that weird blue card from before was glowing, then it turned into this!"
"Can today get any weirder?" Karu asked more to herself. "Huh?" The two asked. "Never mind," She said shaking her head, much to their confusion, "Come on, before I'm grounded till we're all thirty!" With that, they ran off. "Oh how bad can your dad be?" Kenta asked. "I was late before and he nearly had a hernia thinking I had another migraine," She replied in simple-bluntness, 'This has been some day.'
Me: And there we have it, my first chapter's complete!
Rika: About time!
Me: Oh, cut me a break, Rika, I had a lot of spelling to not just double, but triple check!
Kazu: Karu sounds nothing like me!
Henry: Isn't that the point of an AU?
Takato: That honestly depends on the author and the goal they want.
Me: Thank you Takato! So, next time, Guilmon comes in and I'm introducing Hikaru's overprotective father and how she got so good at fighting!
Jeri: Please review!