To anybody whom has seen 'Digimon Frontier': I recommend skipping straight to Episode 6 if ya wanna read something that isn't canon. The first five follow the TV series closely, with only minor but significant differences.
This is the start of the 1st half of the fic.
DIGITAL ADVENTURES
Ep.1. And so it begins…
An 11-year-old boy by the name was about to get hit by a truck. His hazel eyes flashing with brief fear, he couldn't help wondering out loud: "This is my destiny?"
(Five minutes prior…)
The boy with cocoa brown hair, some of which stuck up in a tuft, was sitting at the dining table. He wore a short-sleeved red jacket over a dark yellow T-shirt that had a black swirly symbol, and green-brown cargo pants. His mother was in the kitchen on the phone talking to his father while his little brother lay on the living/dining room floor, playing with a deck of cards next to the sofa.
"But honey, you can't be late tonight!" the two boys' mum anxiously protested. "It's Shinya's birthday!"
"And tell Dad I want something big!" the newly-9-year-old called out, "A fork lift!"
What the heck are you going to do with a fork lift? the preteen thought with a long sigh. He reached out a finger to pick a strawberry off the creamy cake for Shinya sitting in the middle of the wooden, rectangular table.
"Mind your manners, Shinya," their mother scolded lightly, "And don't even think about eating that cake, Takuya."
Takuya Kanbara pushed the berry back into place, a bit of the frosting on his finger.
"Now, honey, I know that you're busy," his mum sighed, "but how would you feel–"
Takuya tuned her out as he complained aloud: "Man, I'm bored. My whole life is boring." He then groaned, licking the frosting off his finger. "Bored. Boring."
He suddenly heard his cell phone beeping. "Huh? Incoming message?"
The 11-year-old glanced at the display screen and found that there was no caller ID. "No name," he muttered.
The message itself said: 'Do you want to start?' Beneath it were the options 'Yes' and 'No'.
"Weird. Well, it's bound to be better than being bored." He pressed the button that selected the 'Yes' option.
"Takuya Kanbara…" a feminine voice mused out of the phone's earpiece.
"Wha–?" Takuya blinked.
"It's time to decide your future, Takuya," the voice told him as he looked around to see if anyone was seeing what he was doing, but Shinya was still playing with his Yugioh cards and their mum was busy talking on the phone with their dad.
"Hey," Takuya gasped, picking up his phone. "Wait a minute. Who is this? What do you mean 'my future'?"
"Your destiny is calling," the woman told him. "Take the five forty-five Shibuya bound train from Jiyūgaoka Station."
"This is way better than being bored," Takuya mused aloud as he looked at the new message, which displayed instructions on the train he was meant to take. "My destiny? That's downright cool."
He looked up at the clock on the wall and saw that the time was 22 minutes to six o'clock.
Huh? Oh… I'll never make it, he thought, staring at the cell phone before grinning in his usual happy-go-lucky way. But that's never stopped me before!
Takuya grabbed his olive green cap, which had square-rimmed goggles on it, hanging off the back of his chair as he proceeded to hop over his brother who was now reading a book.
"Look out, squirt!" Takuya gasped, getting a grunt in reply.
" –And, Takuya, be careful out there!" his mom called after him, "And no playing in the street! It's dangerous!"
Takuya barely heard her as he dashed out the front door, putting on his greenish beige gloves as he hurried down the streets. As the preteen passed a little boy and his father, Takuya saw from the corner of his eye the smaller child's soccer ball go past his dad who was too busy talking on a cell phone.
The brunette kept running forward and stopped the ball on a crossroad, turning around to kick the ball back its owner. A truck was coming towards him and blared its horn. Takuya looked up, and at once exclaimed under his breath: "Why do mums always have to be right?"
He jumped to get out of the truck's way as it swerved to a stop. He got up onto his knees, taking his cell phone out of his cargo pants' pocket into his gloved hand. He looked at the message, then over his shoulder at the truck driver asking him if he was OK. "Hey, buddy! What time is it?"
"Uh… a couple before five forty-five," the driver replied, looking at his watch.
Takuya yelped and hurriedly got up before racing forward again.
As he arrived at the local train station, he found, to his dismay, that he had no money. "Man, I knew I should've asked for more allowance!" Takuya groaned, hitting his head against the ticket machine. To his surprise, one red ticket popped out from it. "Huh? A ticket? Maybe this is destiny…"
The Kanbara boy grabbed it and went past the turn-about gates before running up some stairs while waving the ticket in the air. "Wait, my destiny!"
He barely made it onto one of the carriages of a departing train. He stood at its doors, panting. "I can't… believe… I made it," Takuya huffed.
He found a seat nearby and sat down. Just as the brunette was catching his breath, his phone went off again as well as the cell phones of many other children around him and a few adults. The one person that caught his eye was the girl standing in front of him with raven (most would call it dark blue) hair pulled back into a ponytail under a grey-striped dark blue bandanna. She wore a blue jacket that had a yellow stripe going down each sleeve, a yellow T-shirt and grey trousers.
The girl flipped out her phone, glanced at it and looked over her shoulder at Takuya when she felt his eyes on herself.
"Huh?" Takuya blinked. Wait a minute. Did she get a message too?
He glanced at the new message on his phone. "Wha'!" he gasped.
"Transfer to the 6 o'clock westbound train," the feminine voice told him.
Takuya glanced around and spotted a man wearing a digital watch. The time read 17:54.
"Ahh!" Takuya cried out loud, holding his head. "Come on! Gimme a break! I'm doing the best I can!"
He didn't care that everyone was now staring at him, including the girl with the bandanna. Finally a few minutes later the train stopped and Takuya disembarked.
"Now what?" he wondered out loud.
The bandanna-girl came out from behind him and took off to his left into the crowd. For some reason Takuya felt like he should follow the girl. "Maybe she knows," he muttered as he took off after her.
Takuya found himself running again through the crowded train station before he finally spotted the girl getting into an elevator.
"Hey!" Takuya cried, taking off again. "Wait!"
He managed to literally throw himself into the elevator, but ended up bumping his head into the wall. "Aww," he groaned, rubbing his face before looking up. The girl was staring at him now instead of her cell phone.
"Hey," Takuya chuckled nervously. "Did you get a message too? But the girl merely flipped her phone shut and stopped looking over her shoulder at him. Irritated, he exclaimed: "You could answer me at least!"
Suddenly the elevator's decent accelerated and, according to the floor lights, they were going off the usual scale. Takuya looked behind him and realized that the back wall was made of glass. He could now see that he and the girl were travelling miles underground in a dark, vertical tunnel.
"Aww," Takuya groaned again. "My destiny is really starting to bite!"
Suddenly, the elevator abruptly stopped its descent and Takuya found that he'd bumped his head against the railing again in the landing.
"Ugh!" he cried out. "Man, I really gotta stop landing on my head!"
He looked out the newly opened doors and got his first look of a grand train station.
"Whoa," he sighed. "So weird."
"It's up to you now," the feminine voice from his phone suddenly chirped. "Which one will you choose?"
Takuya could only assume that she'd meant choose a train. He looked over to the girl he'd ridden down with just as she took off.
"Hey!" Takuya called after her. "Which one are you choosing? …Geez. My phone talks more than that girl."
A little boy – wearing a white V-neck T-shirt (with its V, hem and short sleeves being forest green in colour) over a dark yellow one, a big pale orange pumpkin cap and yellow cargo pants with brown leather strips at the back of them – got pushed into one train by two bigger boys. They slammed the door shut behind him, not letting him out despite his cries to be freed.
Another, blond-haired little boy wearing different shades of green and brown trousers was running aboard a train, his spiky-haired big brother chasing after him.
One more who had maroon hair resembling a curled up hedgehog was protesting as his sister pulled him aboard a train, followed by a boy wearing goggles like Takuya (only round) over a blue headband holding his little sister's hand.
Takuya recognized the former of the final pair of siblings as his cousins – Jun and Daisuke Kanbara. They lived next door to him, and often spent the day with him and Shinya at either their or the two brothers' house or yard. Daisuke especially liked learning how to play soccer from his older cousin.
The clock struck six, and all the trains began closing their doors before pulling away from the station. Some people were not onboard at the time and so turned to head home.
"Destiny sure involves a lot of running," Takuya panted as he chased after the nearest train, just barely managing to grab hold of the railing on the last carriage and pull himself aboard.
He tried to catch his breath, and as he looked up he spotted the bandanna-girl standing calmly on the small platform of the caboose of her train. Takuya shot her a glare just before a dividing wall came between them.
"Wherever you're going, Takuya, you're gonna get there in a hurry," the goggle-head muttered to himself as the train sped on in a dark tunnel.
He entered the last carriage of the train, then walked through it and another one, musing: "I wonder if Jun and Dai are here? Did they get that message too?"
When he entered one more carriage, Takuya saw three children. One was the 8-year-old boy with short-cropped mousy brown hair mostly covered by his pumpkin cap.
Another was an 11-year-old honey blonde girl dressed in a light lavender sleeveless, hooded cardigan over a navy blue and white striped T-shirt that revealed her naval, as well as a matching miniskirt and hat with tiny cat ears. Both the cardigan and the miniskirt had a pale lavender vertical line going down the sides.
The last child was a bigger, soon-to-be-13-years-old boy with short-cropped brown hair and matching eyes. He was wearing a blue jumpsuit, a yellow shirt with its sleeves rolled up under it.
Takuya was a little disappointed to not find his cousins, mainly because he always liked looking after Daisuke who was shy and far less demanding than Shinya. Jun on the other hand… Well, that wasn't something he wanted to think about at the moment.
"With him here, there's four of us. I wonder if that means something special?" the blond mused aloud, watching Takuya. She couldn't help feeling a little excited at the thought. Being special would be great!
"Something special?" Takuya murmured to himself, then raised his voice a little so that the other kids could hear. "Umm… Why did you guys come here? Was it the message?" he asked, turning to the chubby boy whom was close by.
"Look, kid, this was the closest train to the elevator. Now just leave me alone," the heavyset boy said rudely.
"Geez, sorree…" Takuya muttered, then glanced at the girl. He had a tendency to not shut up. "But there's gotta be a reason why you picked this train, right?"
Smiling a little, she replied: "I'm like him; it was closest to the elevator."
"Hey, check this out," the 12-year-old said to Takuya quietly before holding up the chocolate bar he had been eating to the girl. "Hey, honey, want some chocolate? My name's J.P., so what's yours?"
"I'm Zoë Orietta," the girl replied, but wasn't the least bit interested in the badly flirting boy who obviously was crushing on her despite only knowing her for all of five minutes.
"I'm… Takuya Kanbara," the goggle-head said, feeling a little unsure – he liked to think that he was pretty good at befriending people, but these two kids didn't seem to want any friends.
"I'm…" a small child's voice sniffled from a nearby seat, and the three preteens turned their attention on the 8-year-old with his hands clasped between his knees. He wasn't looking at them, opting to stare at the floor instead as a few tears dripped off his chin. "I'm Tommy… But I didn't wanna be on this train…"
"Huh? What are ya saying?" Takuya asked, curious.
"Two kids, bullies, pushed me… They shut the door..." the little boy replied before turning to the older children. Tears streamed down his face as he cried: "Why are kids always picking on ME?!"
The other three felt sorry for the little boy, but couldn't really think of anything to say. Takuya opened his mouth, but just then all four were jerked onto the floor by a sudden movement from the train. They all managed to hold onto something, stopping them from being thrown about too much as it felt like the train was a rollercoaster ride. The lights flashed off and on repeatedly. Unnoticed by the children, a different silhouette appeared over each of them and their (or in Tommy's case his older brother's) cell phones glowed with a dim white light.
"What the–?!" Takuya exclaimed as he opened his eyes and picked up what he assumed was his cell phone. But it was changing shape and turning into some kind of bulky device with a spike-cornered hexagon around its screen and a couple buttons. A red square that was the device's scanner was on its flat top's corner.
Glancing around, Takuya noticed the others were covered by silhouettes and had identical devices (apart from the separate colours) in front of them. Zoë's was light lavender with a pale pink grip, Tommy's was white with a green grip (and a golden glow was coming from its screen), and JP's was blue with an orangey-yellow grip. Takuya's own device was black with a red grip.
He looked back at his "phone" when he heard the feminine voice come from it. A strange symbol showed on the screen as the voice said to him: "Takuya Kanbara, welcome to the Digital World. This is your D-tector." The screen then became dark and unresponsive.
Meanwhile, in two more trains the same was occurring.
In one of them, an 8-year-old girl with glasses and her lavender hair tied up in pigtails was surrounded by a silhouette as her older sister's cell phone turned into a wooden brown D-tector with a red grip. The girl was dressed in pink trousers, a white T-shirt, and a dark red dress with pencil-straps.
A 5-year-old toddler with neatly-combed mousy brown hair and emerald eyes was clinging to her in fear of the turbulence, his small form surrounded by a silhouette as well. His clothes consisted of a dark blue shirt and light grey trousers.
From the girl's D-tector's screen came a small glowing bubble that went into the boy's lap, turning into a dark chocolate D-tector with a yellow grip.
The turbulence stopped and the lights stopped flickering off and on. After a minute, Takuya opened a window as he saw a clear light blue sky… and some kinds of ghosts (?) flying around outside.
He stuck his head out while holding onto his cap with one hand, and saw that the train was riding on nothing but a metal track. Hearing Zoë giggle at something, he withdrew his head and saw her holding a little ghost thing [Poyomon] before it flew out of an open window to join its friends.
The auburn train pulled in to a train station. Engine steam billowed out of the train and it groaned. The doors suddenly opened and a bunch of light grey ball-like creatures [Pagumon] gathered around one in particular, their rabbit-like ears flapping as they bounced. Another puff of steam sent the four kids flying out that door and onto the platform.
"Yeah, that first step's a doozie," the train laughed.
"Yeah," J.P. groaned.
"Is it me or did the train just talk?" Takuya asked.
"Hey," growled the train Digimon, "I'm not just any old train. I'm Trailmon. And I'm alive just like you. Although I am more handsome than you scrunched up little pugs, thank you very much. Anyhoo, this here is Flame Terminal. You're in the heart of a Digimon village."
"Digimon village?" Takuya repeated, confused.
Then the Pagumon gathered closer to the four kids, saying something in low voices. Tommy suddenly started crying. "I didn' even wanna be on this train!" he wailed as tears started streaming down his cheeks.
"Sorry you feel bad, kiddo," Trailmon grunted as he began to pull out of the station, "but I can't stick around. If you wanna go home, you'll have to find a Spirit or somethin'."
"This kid should get a job as a fire alarm," JP stated as he watched the Trailmon leave.
"What's a 'spirit'?" Zoë asked Trailmon exasperatedly, standing up. "And where do we get one? Hello?!"
"Where're you goin'?" J.P. added, "Give us an answer! Hey!"
"Hey yourself! I have a schedule to keep!" Trailmon yelled back.
"So… guess that's it," Takuya stated, rising to his feet. "We're all alone."
"Wait!" J.P. called out, "Come back here!"
"Yeah!" Zoë cried out, "Pretty please?"
But the train Digimon ignored them.
"Uhn…" Tommy sniffed. "Take me home!" He ran out from behind the others crying, and chased after the Trailmon.
"Hey wait!" Takuya gasped, running after the smaller boy. "Tommy! Stop!"
"Why do I get the feeling that we're going to spend all of our time rescuing the baby?" J.P. muttered.
The cap-wearing goggle-head arrived at the end of the platform, where uneven and broken up tracks created a dangerous terrain to walk on. "Tommy!" Takuya called out when the little boy ran out on a rail of the tracks that continued out over a cliff, arms stretched out for balance. His heart was racing; this kid could get himself killed!
"Go away!" the upset little boy cried.
"Ahh," Takuya sighed. "This isn't helping! You're gonna fall."
"At least I won't be here anymore!" Tommy retorted.
"I'll take you home!" Takuya said quickly. "Uh… That's right! Trailmon said that if we find the 'spirit', we can go home! Right?"
Tommy turned around. He quickly wiped away his tears, starting to feel better. "Right… Alright, I'm coming back."
The boy suddenly slipped. "Tommy!" Takuya cried out.
He lurched forward and jumped out onto the ruined tracks, soon reaching the ledge. The cap-wearing goggle-head was relieved for a brief moment when he saw Tommy safe on the rail he by clinging to it. Takuya let out a sigh, his face then setting in a determined expression.
"Don't move!" he called out to the younger child, "I'm coming to get you."
Just as he was about to go out on the rail to get Tommy, green flames erupted on his right. One of the nearby metal buildings suddenly glowed and collapsed as two Digimon ran in Takuya's direction, one yellow and rabbit-like but wearing red sock-pants and the white one a bit chubby with a pink haramaki around its waist. The latter only came up to Takuya's knee, its companion a couple inches taller than it.
"Look what you've gotten me into!" the white Digimon yelled at his companion. Whom screamed "Help!" over and over again until they knocked into Takuya, falling into a heap on the ground.
When the two Digimon sat back up, the white one stared down at Takuya and stated: "It's a human."
"You think everything's a human," the rabbit Digimon retorted as the white one pulled out a magnifying glass from his haramaki to get a better look at Takuya.
"Don't start with me, you," the white Digimon snapped.
"I'm human," Takuya gasped, his eyes wide from how freaked out he was. "Would you mind getting off me now?"
"I'm so sorry," the white one bobbed his head. "His fault."
"Yeah, my fault," the rabbit repeated until he realized what he'd just said. "Hey!"
Takuya couldn't help chuckling; these guys were pretty funny! Suddenly a growl came from the flames, and Takuya looked to see if he could spot the source. In the shadow of the flame he saw a hunched four-legged creature. He started feeling uneasy.
"What is that?" Takuya wondered out loud.
"That is one bad dog," the white Digimon informed Takuya. "Cerberumon; Special Attack, Emerald Blaze. And that's why we need your help."
"Where's the Ancient Spirit?" the Digimon growled. He was like a big black dog with two extra heads (that were inanimate) on his shoulders like shoulder-pads.
"Ahh…" Takuya shook slightly. The two small Digimon jumped behind Takuya.
"So whenever you're ready, go and get him," the white Digimon said.
"That would be good," the rabbit Digimon added.
"I can sense the Spirit's presence all over this town," the dog Digimon growled. "I must destroy it!"
"No way!" Takuya cried out, not even realizing what he was saying. "It's mine! I … Ah…" Oh great! Why did I just say that?
"Then you shall be destroyed with it!" the canine Digimon barked. "Emerald Blaze!"
Lime green fire came towards them in a rush and Takuya reacted, drawing up his arms to shield himself. He somehow wasn't caught up in the flames, but was surrounded by them.
"What? Are you crazy?" the white Digimon cried. "Run already."
"Yeah," Takuya huffed. "But where am I supposed to go?"
"Anywhere but here!" the rabbit Digimon cried out just as another burst of those flames hurtled towards them.
Takuya ran out on the rail that Tommy still clung to with the two Rookie Digimon on his shoulders.
"That mutt is going to eat up the entire village," the white Rookie muttered in distaste as they turned to see the "dog" eating what looked like data that used to be the ground and tracks.
"Ah, great." Takuya said sarcastically.
"There go the train tracks," the rabbit Rookie remarked. The beam started to fall, making them cry out as J.P. and Zoë ran over to the edge.
"Takuya!" J.P. called out. Even if he disliked like these kids, that didn't mean he wanted Takuya and Tommy to fall to their deaths!
"Oh no!" Zoë exclaimed, emerald eyes filled with worry.
The little group started to slide down the metal-line that was bending down, then slipped off and fell to the ground, Takuya shielding Tommy with his body as he fell on his back, his D-tector falling in front of him as the screen lit up and beeped. Neither child had gotten hurt by the fall beyond minor scratches, Tommy barely at all thanks to Takuya.
"Hey, my D-tector," he said as it shot out a beam of light over to a vent that had orange flames shooting up and showed off a tiny totem-like object floating in the center of it as everyone got up and stared at it in awe.
"No way. What is…?" Takuya breathed out, trailing off.
"It's the Spirit of Flame," the white Digimon said.
"Spirit? That wasn't so hard. Time to go home. But how am I supposed to get it and what do I do with it when I do?" Takuya asked as he stood up.
Cerberumon then jumped down behind them, prompting the small group to look over as Tommy clung to Takuya's cargo pants in fear, his light forest green eyes tearful again.
"No need to worry about that for it will soon be destroyed," Cerberumon growled, then charged at them.
Takuya looked down at the smaller kid as he saw the fear in Tommy's eyes. He pushed the 8-year-old back, making Tommy and the two Rookies look at him curiously as he grabbed a metal pole.
"This sure rates pretty high on a scale of one to stupid," the goggle-head mused to himself, knowing full well that what he was about to do would be very reckless. As usual.
"Get out of my way, human, or suffer my wrath!" Cerberumon snarled at him.
"No. But I hope his wrath isn't as bad as it sounds," Takuya said, choosing a bad time to joke around.
Cerberumon snapped his fangs down on the pole, breaking it and then jumped over the boy whom instinctively grabbed onto the tail and was dragged along straight into the searing hot red flames. The canine Digimon was then set on fire and jumped away from the circle that had wind flowing straight up from it, extremely hot wind in fact. Cerberumon cried out in pain from all the heat.
"The Spirit's power! That hurt," he said, rolling on the ground to put the flames out.
"Where's Takuya?" Tommy asked fearfully, no longer afraid for himself much and thinking about someone else for a change. He clutched his pumpkin cap with one hand so that it wouldn't fall off from the rising hot winds.
"SPIRIT!" Takuya yelled, facing the totem-like object. His D-tector flew over to him and he caught it as he stood up and downloaded the totem into it through the scanner.
"It is time," the feminine voice said as a red kanji appeared on the D-tector's screen.
Takuya held out his left gloved hand as a fractal coded ring of data appeared around it. He moved his hands away from each other, crossing them, before thrusting them back and then at each other. The ring dragged against the scanner, as Takuya called out: "Execute!" A strip of data came from his D-tector. "Spirit Evolution!" he yelled as the data looped around him in a helix and the Human Spirit of Flame appeared over him, the cap-wearing goggle-head getting completely covered in a fractal code cocoon. When it disappeared, in his place was a man with long, messy blond hair and sky blue eyes. He was dressed in red, white and black armour that was themed kinda like a salamander.
"Agunimon!"
Agunimon roared as flames flickered around him while everyone stared in awe.
"What is this? A human turned into a Digimon?" Cerberumon exclaimed in outrage. As if human type Digimon weren't bad enough, this human had the galls to become a Digimon! Unacceptable!
"What'd he turn into?" Tommy asked, having been too absorbed in the actual transformation to pay attention to what Takuya had been saying. The small white Digimon pulled out a book from his haramaki.
"No way," J.P. gasped from his and Zoë's observation spot above.
"Every way," she stated with a smile. Che é incredibile!
"No matter who you are, you'll lose," Cerberumon said as he charged at Agunimon.
As he used his Emerald Blaze, Agunimon flipped away and grabbed Tommy and the two little Rookies, dodging the next attack and then getting up to where Zoe and JP were.
He then back flipped over to fight with Cerberumon while the others watched in awe or jealousy.
"Moto, cool." Zoë said while J.P. groaned in annoyance at seeing her smile over Agunimon.
Cerberumon then used his Portals of Darkness attack, sending him and Agunimon into what seemed like a different world that made the others watch worried. The two Digimon fought in a black void, Cerberumon appearing in and out of holes.
Meanwhile, the three human children were looking around worriedly, trying to spot Takuya and that Cerberumon dog. The white Rookie flipped through his book, while the rabbit one decided to choose a bad time to take a nap.
An explosion was caused at the mountainside about 50 feet away, Cerberumon and Agunimon coming out of the hole created there with the Ultimate Digimon covered in a strip of data.
Agunimon pulled out Takuya's D-tector and scanned the data, making the mutt turn into a Digiegg and float off.
Takuya then was covered by a fractal code cocoon before turning back to normal. He fell onto his butt, panting a little. "Man, that's tiring! But what happened? How'd I know how to do all that stuff?" he asked, dazed.
"You are a DigiDestined," the feminine voice said, making Takuya look at his D-tector to see the strange symbol on the screen again. It was a four-pointed star with a circle in the middle.
"I'm a what now?" he asked.
"DigiDestined! Chosen for great things. But don't be frightened. The one who chose you… was you," the voice said.
"I chose… myself?" Takuya asked, unsure.
I will avoid putting comments into the text, but if I do they will be between these brackets []. These ones () are part of the story and sort of the character's thoughts and/or how they see things.
As everybody already knows, I do NOT own Digimon. Anything that you know to be canon is NOT mine and neither are any of the characters except Sakura Himi and Digimon O.C.s (who are from Wikia, but will have a back-story and personality I made up; I will be specifying any Digimon that I've mostly made up from scratch, such as Seirenmon, but even those are as canon-based as possible).
I changed Zoë's surname from canon Orimoto to Orietta since she's Italian.
Stressed words, flashbacks/dreams, thoughts, "singing", "speech, which is always Japanese to the characters & English to ya Readers", "foreign language translated into English for Readers", "stuff said while 'TV screen' shows something relevant instead of the speaker". Hope this clarifies the formatting changes I've made! :D