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Title: Hazard Knight of the Tamers

Chapter One: At the Beginning

Seventeen-year old Takato Matsuki sighed in depression as he watched his friends Henry Wong, Jeri Katou, Suzie Wong, Kazu Shiota and Kenta Kitagawa talk animatedly with their digimon Terriermon, Leomon, Lopmon, Guardromon and MarineAngemon.

Four years ago, digimon began to pop everywhere and they chose their partners. Now every kid had a digimon, every one except him. His friends let him hang out with their digimon out of sympathy but it wasn't the same.

'Why is it that I'm the only kid who didn't get a partner? Am I not good enough? Maybe I'm not worthy of being one.' he thought to himself.

Hoping to distract himself from his depression, Takato took out his sketchpad and began to draw out what his ideal digimon would be like.

He drew a red dragon with black markings all over and a black hazard symbol on the dragon's white belly. The dragon had bright gold eyes and ears much like Patamon's ears. The dragon was also about Takato's height and relatively muscular. Under the drawing, Takato wrote the name, Guilmon.

He then began to write down the stats for his digimon and he was almost done when Kazu called out to him.

"Hey Chumley, it's almost sunset. Didn't your mom say you should be back at home by now?" the spikey-haired Tamer queried and Takato swore loudly.

"Damn, you're right! See you guys later, I gotta go save my hide!" Takato cried, running out of the park without another word.

"Takato gets sadder with every passing day. I wish we could do something, but the only thing I know that will make him happy is if he gets a digimon." Jeri said sadly.

"It can't be helped. Digimon stopped coming for partners two years ago. Takato was just the unlucky one who didn't get a partner. Now, I'm wondering if it really was just bad luck or something different altogether. What if it was something else?" Henry asked his friends, having no idea that he was actually on the right path to finding the reason why Takato never received a partner.

That night, as Takato slept, two glowing fish-like creatures entered his room and took the data he had made concerning Guilmon and then they disappeared without a trace.

After they left, Takato's peaceful sleep was disturbed and he began to toss and turn restlessly.

/Takato found himself in a strange cave covered in ice.

"W-where am I?" Takato stuttered while shivering from the cold. He was only wearing his boxers after all and there was no way for him to warm himself up. 'Damn it's cold. How did I get here? Last thing I remember is going to sleep. Is this a dream?'

Takato suddenly stiffened as two scaly wings covered him from behind.

"Are you cold, my Tamer?" an icy voice sneered from behind him. Takato looked up to see that an IceDevimon was the one who had a hold of him.

"T-Tamer? W-what do you mean?" Takato asked through his chattering teeth. He was grateful for the added warmth, but something about IceDevimon just rubbed him the wrong way.

"You are the only human child left without a partner, but you are, by far, the one child with the greatest potential as a Digimon Tamer. The other digimon were fools to have ignored you." IceDevimon sneered.

"G-greatest potential?" Takato repeated disbelievingly. "I think you've got the wrong guy. It can't be me." IceDevimon just snorted in amusement.

"Oh it's you, alright. I can sense the power coursing through your veins. There's no mistaking it. Just think Takato, together we can show the world that we're the strongest, no one will be able to stop us in our ascent to power. Look at all my trophies, and you'll know that what I say about my power is true." IceDevimon told the red-eyed boy.

Takato obligingly scanned the entire cave and gasped in horror. IceDevimon's "trophies" were in fact frozen digimon, all that had looks of pure terror on their face.

"That's horrible! How could you do this to all these poor digimon!" Takato cried in outrage, fighting his way out of IceDevimon's grasp and glaring at him. "I won't be your Tamer, not now, not ever!" IceDevimon just scoffed.

"You have no choice boy; you will give me the power I desire." IceDevimon snarled, reaching out a large hand for the boy.

Frozen in terror, Takato could only close his eyes as the fallen angel digimon reached for him. 'I wanted a partner, but not him! Somebody help me… Please.'

His prayer was answered fortunately in the form of:

"Pyro Sphere!"

IceDevimon let out a snarl of fury as a fireball burned his outstretched hand and he immediately withdrew it.

"Who dares attack me in my own domain?" he demanded angrily.

"That would be me. And I'd like you to get away from my Tamer." a voice said before Takato's savior came out of the shadows. Takato gaped in shock because there before him was the digimon that he thought had only been a figment of his imagination: Guilmon.

"Your Tamer? What proof do you have that he's yours?" IceDevimon snapped at the dragon digimon who smirked in a feral manner.

"This does." he responded simply as a golden D-Power with strange digital symbols on it appeared in Takato's hands as did his modify cards. IceDevimon cried out in rage and glared at Guilmon.

"He was supposed to be my Tamer! How dare you steal him away!" the ice digimon snarled. "Tundra Freeze!"

"Get behind me, Tamer!" Guilmon ordered before launching an attack himself. "Pyro Sphere!"

Fire held the advantage over ice, so all that was left of the attacks was steam.

"Damn you, you pathetic vermin! Frozen Claw!" IceDevimon yelled.

"I'm going to need your help for this one, Takato." Guilmon said and Takato nodded, not even pondering over the fact that the digimon somehow knew his name.

Takato took out a card and swiped it through his D-Power.

"Digimodify! Digivolution Activate!"

Guilmon immediately began to glow a bright red color as he digivolved.

"Guilmon Digivolve to… Growlmon!"/

"Takato, it's time for school!" Mrs. Matsuki called, immediately waking up her slumbering son.

Takato was breathing heavily and shivering like crazy.

'It was just a dream, but why do I still feel cold?' Takato thought in confusion, putting his hand against the side of his face. He immediately pulled it away, his hand was as cold as ice but his face was as hot as hell. 'Damn, I think I'm sick.' Takato, who had been getting up, fell to the floor as a massive dizzy spell hit him.

Takato moaned in discomfort, too weak to get up.

"Takato, I thought I told you to get up." his mother scolded before opening the door of his room. She gasped and rushed to his side. She felt his forehead and pulled it away almost immediately. He was burning hot. "You've got a fever! There's no way you're going to school in this condition! You're staying home." she decided, before helping Takato back into his bed.

"T-thanks, Mom." he said tiredly.

"You're welcome. I'm going to bring you some medicine and a thermometer. We've got to get your temperature down!" his mother exclaimed before leaving.

Once alone, Takato sighed. Now that he could actually think, the depression came back worse than before.

'It was just a dream. Guilmon's not real and he never will be.' Takato thought dejectedly, not noticing that his drawing of Guilmon was missing along with the digimon's statistics.

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