Could the Digiworld be another name for Hell.
Part 1
By. Jennifer
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon or have any affiliation with them or their products; I am not doing this for profit, but just as an expression out of my own warped mind. I don't own any of the characters, but Maki is of my own creation. Yadda, yadda, nough said.
Ages for reference:
Tai, Matt and Sora~15
Joe~16
Izzy and Mimi~14
T.K. and Kari~12
Maki stood there playing thoughts over and over in her head as tears streamed down her cheeks.
Why did she always have to be such a screw up? Why couldn't she just be like everyone else? She wasn't a bad person; she didn't deserve all this crap. No one would even care if she was gone. She would be better off dead.
She looked down to the traffic below; she was so far up that no one could see her standing on the ledge. She took in a deep breath holding her arms out like wings, when she exhaled she shut her eyes and fell forward.
Somewhere far off in another world a group of teenagers were walking in the woods. The leader of the group a young boy about 15 with brown hair and goggles was trying to keep the rest of the group motivated and keep moving. A girl in the back of the group dressed in solid pink made continual whinny complaints, "My feet hurt. I'm tired. I'm thirsty. Can't we just stop to rest for a minute?"
The boy in the front was quickly losing his cool; he stopped dead in his tracks and glared to the back of the group.
"Mimi, we are doing the best we can, can't you just stop complaining for one damn minute? We just stopped and rested not even ten minutes ago!" Tai screamed.
"But, I. I'm just so tired and thirsty." Mimi pouted as her tears welled up, she wasn't used to being yelled at like that, especially by Tai of all people.
"Hey Tai, back off man. What is your deal?" Matt asked crossing his arms and turning to the brown haired boy.
Tai glared at Matt and if looks could kill Matt would have been dead. The blonde hair boy stood his ground and glared back at Tai with a smirky defiant grin.
"I am the leader Matt and we need to keep moving." Tai growled.
"Oh God not that leader crap again!" Matt shouted slightly losing his expected cool. "That is all I hear out of you! Why is it that we need to keep moving ever minute of every day? Why can't we just find a decent place and stay there for like a week and relax? Why do we have to go looking for trouble?!"
Tai was dumbfounded, he did really know why they had to keep moving all the time. Would it be so bad, to stop and let everyone get in a little r and r? Hell, that wasn't such a bad idea, everyone had been so moody and tired lately, and maybe with a little rest they could get back their motivation. Too bad this had to have been Matt's idea.
"Fine," Tai said quietly "but let's keep walking until we find a cave or something by a lake, then we will take a few days and just relax."
Everyone looked at each other and then back at Tai and cheered, all except Matt who walked next to Tai with a big smirk on his face. "I knew you would see it my way." He said. The words made his blood boil but before he could say a word he felt a hand on his shoulder, he turned around to see the smiling face of Sora. If anything could keep Tai's head straight it was Sora, they had been best friends for so long and lately they had been a little more than just friends. Tai returned her smile with his own.
"Don't let him get to you Tai, you know he just likes to get you pissed." Sora said as she slid her hand down from his shoulder to take his hand in hers.
Tai looked down at the two of their hands together, even looking at Sora made him feel on cloud nine, but touching her put him right in heaven. "Yeah, I know." He said shrugging. "I think we will all feel better when we can just relax for a while."
Sora nodded. "So what's the plan?"
Tai stopped and looked around, "Well." He said scratching the back of his head. " I guess we should look around for a decent place to camp, maybe like a cave or something, the cave would be best, it would give us shelter, but also kind of keep us hidden too."
Sora nodded again, "Where to then?" she looked over to Izzy who was typing away obliviously on his pineapple laptop. "Izzy?"
Izzy looked up from what he was typing at the source of the voice calling his name. "huh?"
"What are you doing Izzy? Tai asked.
"Oh well um, " Izzy tried to find the simplest words he could to explain what he was doing. "Well Genni and I worked together on a new program to detect rips in the dimension between the Digiworld and our world. When someone crosses from this world to ours or from her to there, my computer is alerted and I can track where the activity is coming from." Izzy looked at Tai to see if any of this was sinking through, when Matt spoke up.
"So what does it all mean?" Matt asked.
"Well, " Izzy began. "Right now it means that my computer was alerted that a rip opened up and something or someone has crossed from our world to the Digiworld."
"What? Where?" asked Tai.
"Not too far from where we are now. That's all I can tell you." Izzy said plainly.
Augumon who had been listening to the whole conversation decided to speak up, "Do you think it could be another digidestined child?" He said looking from Izzy to Tai.
"Wait a minute, I thought there was only 8 digidestined?" Joe asked.
T.K. tugged at Matt's shirt, "Does this mean someone else will be joining our group, Matt?"
Matt shook his head, "I don't know Teek, could be."
"Well Izzy, could it be?" Tai asked.
"I have no way of knowing if the person who came through the rip is digidestined or not, but I suggest we find him or her and find out." Izzy said.
"How?" asked Mimi.
"Well I am picking up a reading on my computer of the location where the rip opened, I suggest we follow it and hope that person is still there." Izzy stated.
"OK guys, " Tai commanded " let's go find this person, then we will find a place to set up camp."
The kids all agreed and soon they were following Izzy through the woods, their digimon close to their sides.
After about 20 minutes of walking, Izzy stopped and looked around, "Here." He said pointing up to the sky, "This is where the rip happened."
"Well then where is this person?" Matt asked.
Tai looked around, "well let's scout out and look around this area, maybe he or she is still here."
Suddenly they stopped when the hear soft moaning coming from a near by tree, the kids looked at each other and slowly and cautiously made there way over to where the sounds had come from. At the bottom of the tree was a girl with brown hair and blonde streaks wearing black jeans and a black tank top, she appeared to be unconscious.
Tai carefully went a little closer to the girl with Augumon close in toe, he stopped and looked back to the rest of the kids who motioned for him to go. He reached out his hand and clasped it around the girl's shoulder who sat up with a fright. Tai jumped back who was also startled
"Wh.what? Am I dead?" she asked frightened.
"Dead?" Tai asked.
"Is this heaven or Hell? I guess it would probably be Hell, I guess people who jump off buildings don't get to go to heaven. I expected flames, screaming, stuff like that." She said matter of factly.
"Your not dead." Izzy spoke up "Far from it, your in the Digiworld."
"I'm where?" She asked
"The Digiworld, it's a long story, but we'll explain it to you." Tai said smiling.
"Who are you? Are you digidestined? What did you mean you jumped off a building?" Matt asked stepping forward.
"Hey one question at a time, I am sure that she is in a bit of shock right now." Sora said looking the girl up and down.
"Um..I.I'm Maki." The girl said. "Who are all of you?"
"Well, I'm Tai," Tai said pointing to himself, " and this dinosaur like creature is my digimon Augumon, over there," he said pointing to Matt and T.K. " the tall blonde with the big mouth is Matt and his digimon is Gabumon and the little guy there is Matt's little brother, T.K. and his digimon Patamon." Matt and T.K. nodded, Tai then pointed to Sora and Mimi and Kari, "The 3 girls over there, that's Mimi in the pink with her digimon Palmon and in the helmet is Sora and her digimon Biyomon and the little one is my little sister Kari and her digimon Gatomon." All 3 girls nodded and waved. Tai then pointed over towards Izzy and Joe, "The tall one there is Joe and his digimon Gommamon and the one on the computer is Izzy and his digimon Tentemon." Tai finished, Izzy and Joe smiled and waved a friendly hello.
"Uh huh, you sure I am not in Hell?" Maki asked trying to stand up.
Matt laughed and walked over to help the girl up, "you wish, hell may be better then where you are now." He said coldly as helped her to her feet.
Maki stood there and looked at Matt not knowing what to say, she couldn't take her eyes off him. He seemed so cold, but yet there was something in his eyes that said otherwise. "thanks," she said looking at Matt.
"Yeah, whatever." He said and then turned back and walked over to where T.K. was standing.
"You'll have to ignore Matt there, he isn't the friendliest person in the world." Tai said smiling. "Whether you are digidestined or not, you should come with us, it's not safe here by yourself."
Maki looked at all the kids and nodded her head slowly, she wasn't sure if she should go with them or not, but they seemed ok and this new world didn't look too welcoming. "Sure, I guess."
"Great!" Tai said to Maki. He then turned to Izzy, "So where should we go now, we have to set up camp soon, it looks like it is going to get dark within the next couple of hours."
Maki stood next to a tree watching Tai and Izzy talk about where they should go from here, it seemed like everyone in the group was just staring at her and it made her very uncomfortable. Yet her eyes kept falling on one person, the blonde headed boy with the attitude. There was something about him, he seemed kind of mean, but under that, Maki thought that perhaps he might actually be a nice guy. More then that thought Maki thought that he was kind of cute.
"OK guys, Izzy says that there is a body of water very near here, let's get a move on and scout it out." Tai said as he started walking ahead of the group with Izzy by his side for direction.
The group began their journey with Maki in the back of the group, she didn't quite know what to make of them and she certainly didn't feel as though she belonged. What happened to me? One minute I was jumping off a building and the next thing I know I am here. But where is here? And why am I not dead? Maki took out a pendant from under her shirt and looked at it while she thought, little did she know the pendant that she carried greatly resembled the crests that the other kids in her group carried. She rubbed her fingertips over the front of the pendant where a small star was enclosed with a circle. She never did understand where it had come from or why she had it, but it was all that she ever really had to call her own and now it was her only possession that she had. Maki shook her head slowly watching the others in front of her talking and laughing, she felt ignored but in the same thought was happy that she was, she hated being gawked at or made the center of attention. She slowly placed her pendant back in her shirt so it would be unseen, she wasn't trying to hide it, but she knew the reaction that people had had to the star, a reaction of fear and hate. Some had even called her a witch, though she really didn't understand why or really what the star represented. Maki's thought were interrupted when she noticed that she was no longer alone in the back of the group, standing beside her was Matt, watching her intently as if he were trying to read her thoughts.
"You seem like you are thinking pretty hard, what about?" Matt stated.
"Um, nothing really, just thinking, that's all." Maki said, she didn't know him; she certainly wasn't going to spill her guts to this guy.
"Hmmm. Pretty scary isn't it?" Matt asked.
"Scary? What?" asked Maki.
Matt just looked at the girl standing next to him, he felt bad for how he treated her when he first met her, but still he didn't trust her. There is something about her, what is it? Does she intrigue me? Yes. I think she does, but why? He thought to himself.
"The Digiworld, what else did you think I meant?" Matt said trying to sound cold.
"Uh yeah, it's different." Maki said letting her eyes fall to the ground.
"Hey guys, we're here!" Tai yelled.
Maki stopped and looked around, there was a beautiful lake with trees all around it, within her sights she could see a small cave and bushes that looked like they had fruit on it, but not any kind of fruit that she had ever seen before.
"OK everyone let's set up camp in the cave and then we can work on getting food." Tai commanded.
Soon all the kids had split up into groups and were out in search of wood for a fire and food.
To be continued....
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