Chapter 1: It Came True
Ryo walked towards school like every day. As he walked there, he couldn't help, but thought back about his dream, "Stop thinking about it. What are those digimons thing anyway?" He put his hand on his forehead and grumbled, "Just forget about that dream. I need to focus. Exams are coming soon anyway."
No matter how much he tried to push aside his dream, it always came back as if it was hunting him. He remembered what his mother said, but even so, the dream felt real. No matter how much he tried to push it away, it felt real, "And he said that he was my destined partner. It's just a weird dream Ryo."
He stopped at the bus station and waited for his bus to come. He waited for a few minutes before he checked his cellphone. He noticed that the bus was late and wondered when it could come, when something happened. The screen of his cellphone was starting to glitch, "What's going on now?" he shock his cellphone and the glitches worsen. The screen image changed a few times from black to multi colorful before turning to black and white. The boy was wondering what was going on when he noticed that the lights were suddenly functioning even if it was the day, while the signalisation light changed between the three colors while cars suddenly ceased to work.
Eventually, it turned back to normal. Ryo looked around; just to be sure that everything was back to normal. He checked his cellphone and it was normally functioning. He sighed, asking himself if he daydreamed or it really happened. Simply looking around gave him the answer that it was all too real.
He couldn't understand what everyone was saying, but it was clear that everyone were confused with the sudden glitch in everything electronic. Too many were talking at the same time about what happened without anyone having a good answer.
If there was one thing Ryo was glad, was that no one was injured by the sudden bug that affected everything for a moment. He looked around for the bus, but it didn't come.
"I guess the bus stopped working like the cars... or it has an accident," the boy guessed. He sighed, "Guess I have to walk to school and-"
His cellphone rang and he checked. He got a message, but it was anonymous. He read the content, "The first impact came Ryo. You have no to be careful when you are going to witness the effect. You will survive," he read the message another time and a third time when he whispered, "Is the dream... real?" he felt nervous after reading the message. He shook his head, "I hope it's only coincidence," he hoped it was, but doubt was strong in his mind. He couldn't help, but think what the effect would be and why must he had to survive it.
He put his cellphone back in his pocket and walked toward his school knowing that he would be obviously late, "Osama and Ken are going to be worried if I don't come at school in time," he accelerated his pace.
When he was halfway to his destination, he heard someone yelled, "Help me!"
He stopped and gazed at the alley he was passing by.
"It's coming at me! Help!" someone yelled.
Ryo looked around and saw that no one was there or coming to help whoever was in danger. He grabbed his cellphone and tried to call the police as he entered in the alley, but, "No reception is detected," The boy grunted, "Now of all time!"
"He-" the voice was suddenly cut.
The boy accelerated and turned the corner. He stopped when he discovered what happened to the person in danger. His breathing accelerated as what he witnessed. He wouldn't ever believe what it was in front of him if he wasn't seeing him. Ryo took a step back as his brain was processing the vision of horror.
In front of him, he saw the person who had probably yelled for help, dead on the ground, inside a large pool of blood. It wasn't only that. He also saw the one who killed the guy and heard him.
It was a green being around his size with amber eyes and reddish hair. He wore a brown jacket and a loincloth and a wooden club as a weapon. He was currently tearing down a part of his victim and when it turned around, looking at Ryo, his face was covered with blood while he gulped the part of the flesh he picked from his victim. When he looked at the boy, his eyes shined and the boy knew the creature was still hungry he was his next meal.
The lips of the monster moved, "With you, it will be enough," he took a step towards Ryo.
The boy knew he had no chance and ran away, chased by the monster. He had many question about what was going, but those questions were only superficial compared to escape it.
He ran as fast as he could and for a moment, he was glad he focused on sports at school, because the monster wasn't backing down.
"Help!" Ryo yelled.
He was about to get out of the alley when his shirt was grabbed. The monster threw him against the wall. He raised his club, but Ryo reacted quickly enough and evaded the blow. He checked around if he could pick something to defend himself, but he got nothing. He dodged the next attack and kicked the snout of the monster, forcing him to take a few steps back. He wanted to escape the alley, but the monster was in his way. He turned around instead and went deeper in the alley. He knew it wasn't the best idea, but it was less dangerous right now that trying to go around the monster.
"Don't think you'll escape me!" the monster yelled.
Ryo ran away and grabbed the first thing he could and threw it, but it broke by the club of the green monster. He painfully grunted when the club hit his shoulder and felt on the ground, "Argh. Dammit!" he tried to stand up, but he was grabbed by the throat.
"Another prey for us," it said.
It was then that a flash of purple appeared and collided against the skull of the monster and pushed him away.
"I won't let you kill him Goblimon!" someone else said.
Ryo looked at the one who saved him and saw it was a small dragon with purple scales, wings attach to his arms and three claws at the end of the wings, three sharp toes for his feet, a long purple tail on his back, a golden crystal on his forehead and golden eyes with black pupil at the center of his eyes.
"Monodramon. Don't stand in the way of our clan!" Goblimon yelled before attacking the dragon.
Goblimon attacked with his club, but the purple dragon easily dodged the attacked before using his claws to slash at the other digimon. He almost hit him, but he jumped backward and countered with a blunt attack on the face of the mini dragon. Monodramon rolled on the ground before quickly recovered and evaded the next blow.
"Crack Bite!" the mini dragon yelled before biting the shoulder of Goblimon.
It wasn't long before he was thrown away, but the dragon landed on his feet, ready to continue the fight.
As the monsters were fighting against each other's Ryo snapped out of it and made a decision. He didn't want to stay there and be the price of the victorious, which was probably him ending up as a meal. He turned around and ran away; there was no one he could save anyway. He checked in his pocket and felt the strange object he obtained the morning when he woke up. He didn't know he instinctively checked if he still had it, but it wasn't the time to ask why.
Once he was outside of the alley, he stopped running and panted. He turned around and still heard the two monsters fighting.
He looked around and saw that many civilians were looking at him, wondering why he was in there. None of them stopped to check what was going on in the alley.
Ryo guessed that they thought wild animals were fighting and they were technically right. He also believed that it was better that no one was curious about it, or they would be killed by those monsters.
"At least, I escape those monsters..." he put his hand on his forehead and asked, "What is going on thought," he remembered what the being of his dream said and he indeed, survive what he witnessed, "Are those monsters from the other world?" he wondered. He wanted to believe it was just a dream, but what he saw couldn't be denied since he didn't take any drugs and didn't have anything that could make him hallucinate.
His cellphone suddenly started to ring; he picked up and said, "Mushi Mushi."
"Can you hear me Ryo?" an unknown voice asked in his cellphone.
He wasn't in the mood to receive the call of a stranger, especially after almost getting killed, "I don't know how you got my phone number, but this isn't the time."
"You don't recognise my voice Ryo? I'm hurt you know," the way the unknown voice said in a very familiar way, "Although, voices sounds different in the phone after all."
Ryo knew who it was, but it wasn't hardly believable, "Millenniumon?"
"Exactly Ryo. I'm glad you managed to escape that digimon," he replied to the boy with relief.
"Digimon? What is going on?" Ryo demanded.
"Ryo. Listen to me. You have to reach school as fast as you can," Millenniumon ordered.
The boy realised he was going to be late for school, but he asked, "You didn't answer-"
"Someone is coming to kidnap you Ryo. You have to get to school right now if you want to be safe. So go! I'll explain along the way," Millenniumon sounded serious and the boy heard the urgency in his voice.
With the first warning of Millenniumon being right, he decided to believe him. He ran towards school and said, "Tell me now."
"Of course. We didn't have time during our dream. The first impact happened. I thought I would join you right now, but it is impossible to physically come to you right now. Don't answer. First thing, a digimon is a digital monster that came from the digital world like those you encountered. You have to know that I am also a digimon Ryo. I'll let the detail for another time, but right now, the first impact only allowed weak and few digimons to enter in your world. You are going to encounter many of them from now on, so be careful where you are going now."
"Next?" Ryo asked.
"Second. There is going to be two other impacts eventually that will complete the collision of the two worlds. The last one will permanently change the two worlds forever as they will become one. Then, the most powerful godlike digimons will come to your world and the future of every living being will be unknown."
That sounded really bad in the mind of Ryo, "Can we stop this?"
"It's impossible. The two worlds are going to become one no matter what. No digimon knows how it began and neither do I, but one thing is sure. It's that nothing can stop this. Third. Do you have the digivice?"
"The what?" he put his hand in his pocket where he put the strange object.
"Don't take it out. You are touching the digivice. Ryo, promise me to never show anyone that digivice you possess. If they know you possess this, they are going to be after you. It's a special device that-" the call was suddenly cut when he heard the cellphone beeping. He checked and it was a lost signal. He tried to call again, but the phone call wasn't existing in his list. At this point, he didn't bother wondering how it was possible. He also wondered how Millenniumon knew he was touching it, but those things had no answer, but guessed there was a reason.
He reached school and saw Ken waiting for him at the entrance. He was a young boy with peach skin, blue eyes and black hair. He wore a pink shirt and a green short. He waved at the boy with a smile, clearly feeling relief that he came just in time to school.
"Ken!" Ryu said before walking toward him. It was then that the boy heard a car stopping near him and he turned around. He saw a few men coming out and quickly grabbing him. The boy was confused in what was going on, but he didn't reach safety in time.
The boy resisted with everything he had, but he was dragged in the car, under the gaze of his friend who yelled at everyone to come for help. Ryo felt pain in his neck. Slowly and surely everything was starting to look fade as he grew tired. The last thing he saw before everything was dark was a teacher coming towards him and Ken, powerlessly watching him getting kidnapped.
AC: This is the end of the first chapter.
Next: The Two Prisoners.
