"Kouichi. Kouichi! KOUICHI! Why won't you answer me? Kouichi! What is going on? KOUICHI!" Kouji's voice escalated as he shook the unresponsive boy. Everything had seemed perfect just moments before, but now, with a few drops of water, his world shattered. What scared him most was that he did not even understand why. What had Kouichi seen in the sky that had transformed him from a lively young man to a terrified boy currently screaming with his hands tightly around his chest?

Another flash illuminated the sky, then another, then another. Each new flash drained more color from Kouichi's face. Giving up on a verbal answer, Kouji looked up into the sky in search of any small clue.

He found one. No, he found many: digimon. The flashes were not lightning, but fractal codes materializing in the sky. Each new code left a digimon in its wake. Suddenly, the rain increased and blurred the scene.

BOOM!

An explosion on the left side of the ship shocked the twins from their separate stupors.

"What," Kouichi's voice cracked in fear, "do we do, Kouji?"

"I … I …," Kouji frantically searched for some kind of decision.

"RUN!" Kouichi shouted as he pushed Kouji out of the way of another explosion. The digimon were attacking. Kouichi dragged Kouji into the hallway and down the stairs. The explosions sounded all around them and the passengers started appearing from everywhere.

The twins rushed down the stairs and into the hallway that led to their cabin. Frantic passengers, awoken by the sudden commotion, were crowding the corridor. Among them were the boys parents, who were searching desperately for the twins.

Kouji stopped at the end of the corridor and pulled Kouichi to a stop next to him. "What should we do?" Kouichi whispered. "We can't do anything without our d-tectors and what do we tell everybody? Creatures from another world have materialized and are bombarding the ship with fireballs that they can create out of thin air."

"I don't know," Kouichi answered frantically.

"KOUJI! KOUICHI!"

"That's dad," Kouji said. The twins glanced at each other in a quiet question and answer session.

Do we go to him?

What do we tell him?

He is worried.

I know.

We have to go.

Right.

The silent conversation ended within the minute. They jumped into the sea of people and started pushing towards the voice of their father.

"Dad!"

"Dad!" the boys called out for their father.

"Boys!"

"Dad!"

Though there were voices all around them, they still managed to find each. "Are you boys okay?" their father asked as he grabbed their shoulders and pulled them closer. Their mom and stepmother were right behind him the same question radiating from their eyes. The boys nodded in response, not knowing how verbalize that they were physically unharmed, but terrified.

Suddenly a digimon appeared at the bottom of the stairs and all the passengers started shrieking. It was a werewolf creature with scarlet fur and blood eyes. It growled and started walking forward. The passengers surged backwards down the corridor in a panic, dragging with them the small family with the only two people who even slightly understood.

"DO NOT PANIC!" resounded from the speakers on the ship. "DO NOT PANIC1 DO NOT PANIC! DO NOT PANIC!" the voice went unheeded by the passengers who ran without knowing where to go. Eventually, the crowd passed by a small stairway, which the twins scrambled up in order to free themselves from the mob. Their father followed, but their mothers were swept away by the mass of bodies.

The boys ran up the stairs and into the open air of the main deck, their father right behind them. They were confronted by even more digimon, who, though slightly blinded by the heavy rain, spotted the new figures. Kouji, finally gaining some control of his storming emotions, pulled his cell phone out of his pocket and started pressing buttons.

"Ophanimon! Seraphimon! Cherubimon!" Kouji called as he started bashing the buttons on his phone. "Spirit! Spirit! LOBOMON!!!"

The symbol of light appeared on Kouji's cell phone, but quickly faded. However, that seemed to draw the attention of the digimon on the deck.

"Data!"

"Data!"
"DATA! DATA! DATA!" the digimon started chanting with deep, rumbling voices as they advanced on the three humans. A ruby sword came down next to Kouji causing him to drop his cell phone down the stairs. Kouji turned to retrieve his cell phone, but was stopped by the same sword. Kouichi tugged on Kouji's arm and they scurried down the deck past empty relaxing chairs.

Their father remained frozen by the nightmarish scene that was unfolding before his eyes with his sons as the main characters. Fortunately, the digimon seemed to be too focused on the digital presence they sensed in the twins to notice the stunned man, who could only watch as hordes of monsters persued his sons.

Kouji and Kouichi scrambled randomly down hallways: left, right, right, left, straight, right, straight. Their running finally led them to the outside railing of the ship, where digimon were flying around the ship. More blood eyes focused on the two identical, terror stricken faces.

"O..O..Ophanimon!" the boys called, seeking the aid of their angelic digital guide.

A speaker near the boys emitted a loud static drawing attention to the stairway behind it. Kouji rushed down the stairs, Kouichi right behind him.

At the bottom of the stairs, another digimon confronted them. Red. The digimon was covered in red. It had the same blood eyes as the werewolf, wild crimson hair, smooth scarlet skin, burgundy bat wings, and donned a cloak. The digimon grabbed the two boys by the front of their shirts and lifted them into the air, one in each hand. It scrutinized them, Kouichi first. Apparently not finding whatever he was looking for, the digimon turned to Kouji. After a moment, his eyes widened and he seemed to focus on the boy.

It threw Kouichi over the side of the ship.

Both boys screamed: Kouichi out of fear, Kouji out of concern. The digimon was unemotional. It formed an oval with its mouth and emitted a low-pitched hum. The blasts that had been resounding for over an hour suddenly ceased. The digimon flew over the side of the ship and soared high into the sky, Kouji still in its grasp. The digimon was soon accompanied by all the other digimon and the group dematerialized into bits of fractal code. When the light from the fractal code faded, the rain stopped and everything was still.