Chapter 3: So… Digimon
Either this Cellia girl was crazy or she was Ashley couldn't tell anymore, Patamon seemed real but what was real anymore was she really inside the computer? Ashley had managed to clam the boy down by convincing him it was safe, but clearly that was untrue they were just attack by a monster! On the other hand it was entirely possible Ashley was dreaming, but then why dream up Cellia? the hunky teen sure even the scared kid could be a metaphor for her own fears, but Cellia a girl her age with light brown hair wearing a tank-top and a mini-skirt. Ashley wasn't usually in such formal wear, her sisters were hosting a party in their home, when the egg had appeared on her screen she'd just finished getting ready. Okay so maybe Cellia was a representation of Ashley's crazier side, that made sense. She was certainly as well endowed as Ashley had wanted to be it only made sense that her sub consciousness would chose to display Ashley's wide side in this way. Digital monsters however that was a stretch.
Well she might as well try to get use to the surrounding if it was a dream she wasn't waking any time soon. Derrick, the older boy, had started to look for some wood to make a fire and something to make shelter. Ashley was left to take care of Mason the younger boy. She didn't mind but it was kind of insulting that she was expected to look after the child. Cellia could have done it but ever since she defeated that monster all she'd done was play on her laptop, how was that meant to help the group? At least Mason had clamed down, he seemed to be happily playing with the digimon.
"What you doing Cellia?" Ashley asked after a couple of minutes of watching her furiously type away.
"I'm trying to contact my parents in the really world so we have a link to the outside digidestined. Not to mention if I could just talk to Izzy I could..." that's all Cellia said before she began mumbling to herself again.
"Well, you seem to know what going on here maybe it would help everyone if you would explain it more." Ashley was clearly starting to lose her patients with the arrogance of the only one that knew what was going on.
Cellia had detected the note of distress Ashley and turned to face her. "I promise as soon as Derrick gets back I'll explain as much as I can, but right now it's important for everyone that I contact the others. We've been predicting this for weeks, and now it's finally happened they need to know so they can help. Now if I could only find and connect to the home server..." she was gone again lost in thought.
Ashley wasn't entirely satisfied by such a meagre response, but as long as she'd promised to explain later it would have to do. In the mean time she might as well learn what she could form the digimon, Mason was now in the middle of talking to them about what it was like to be digital. Ashley walked over to the group and sat down with them, immediately the digimon greeted her. At lest they seemed super friendly, when Patamon had first tried to introduce itself to her Ashley had nearly screamed herself but she was stronger than that she had to be.
"Hey guys mind if I ask you a few questions?" Ashley wanted as much information as possible after all knowledge was power, she wasn't just going to wait for Cellia.
"Sure Ashley, what kind of stuff do you want to know." Patamon was quick and seemed eager to help it's tamer as much as she could.
"Okay, so you guys are digimon and this is the digiworld but what exactly is that?" Ashley jumped straight in with the question. Patamon however wasn't as quick to reply, in fact it seemed like even Patamon was struggling to come up with a suitable answer.
"Um, well it's um... they place where digimon live. I'm sorry but that all I really know I mean I was only born about three hours ago!" Patamon's answer only brought more distress to Ashley if even the digimon didn't know what they where what chance did she have of understanding it. She sighed and lead back on the grass, all Ashley could do was wait for Derrick to return and finally get some answers.
A couple of hours pasted before Derrick returned, the entire time Cellia had just sat typing away. Anytime she was asked what she was doing all she said was trying to contact my parents. Ashley assumed they must have also been digidestined, Cellia was also trying to talk to some one called Izzy, Ashley had no idea who he was or what his importance was but he too must have been and older digidestined.
Derrick walked into the clearing and dumped the wood on the forest floor, "Well that's all I could find I think it's gonna be night soon we should make camp," he said looking up at the setting sun.
"Hum, that's weird night doesn't normally fall in this world till much later if at all." Cellia said thoughtfully while following Derricks eyes upwards.
After they'd set up a camp fire and a couple of tents the group sat around. much to Ashley's dismay Cellia was still furiously typing away. "Got it, finally I found my home sever now I just need to get a message to Mum and we can start finding a way out of here." Cellia seemed beside herself with glee at the thought of successfully making contact.
"That's great but you promised some explanations!" Ashley was done waiting she wanted answers and she wanted them now.
Derrick seemed taken a back by Ashley's assertive tone, however Cellia simply looked up form her laptop and placed it to the side. "Your right I did and I'll try to give you the answers you want, but I don't know everything. Ok so my parents were part of the original digidestined, in fact they were the two youngest at only age 8. So I learnt most of the stuff from them. It was about two weeks ago that they first noticed the digital world was on the frits, I assume you noticed the natural disasters? Toughs were caused by problems here."Cellia took a break form talking waiting for the others to process the information.
"Wait so you knew that you'd end up here before you arrived?" Derrick asked after a few seconds of deep thought.
"No, not exactly we knew there was trouble but we didn't know who the new digidestined would be. I was surprised as the rest of you when my digi-egg appeared on screen. All we know is something is wrong and that it has to be fixed for the real world to become balanced again." Cellia concluded.
"Ok that great and all but what is this place. the manifestation of software or some crap." Ashley pressed Cellia determined to get as much out of her as she could while she was willing to talk.
"Well that's the easiest way to describe it yes, but in truth it's an alternate dimension connected to ours if this dimension is in trouble so is ours. Although yes everything that appears in this dimension is a physical manifestation of technology in ours, well that's what me, Izzy, Wilis and Cody have come to believe. They're all older digidestined Izzy and Willis were some of the first Cody was part of the second group." Cellia once again paused for breath. As she did so she watched the others sit and ponder all the information they'd asked for.
After a few more moments of taking in the information Ashley finally spoke up, "So this Izzy guy you were talking a lot about him while you were typing. who exactly is he?"
"Wow, aren't we full of questions!" Cellia joked but noticed Ashley's stern glare, "He and Willis are the two experts on all things digimon, me and Cody just learnt form them."
"Wait!" Mason finally spoke after a long amount of thought, the others had almost forgot he was there. "Digimon, weren't they a game everybody played in the early 2000's? It was super popular world wide." It took Ashley and Derrick a while to work out what he was on about, but Cellia just started to laugh.
"Well, you see when the second group of digidestined completed their quest everyone in the world was given a digimon, but most people thought as you did it was a game. Those that remembered what they really were lost interest and eventually like all games the popularity dropped and people forgot about digimon entirely. To be honest I was surprised you even thought of it." Cellia told Mason.
Suddenly the computer made a 'ping' sound. Cellia turned to look and yelped with delight, "Yes, Mum came through she said she's assembling the team now we'll have to survive ourselves for a few days I'm afraid, don't worry as soon as I saw the Egg I grabbed a load of food. I brought enough for six people for a month, most of the time there are six dgidestined so we got lots of food!"
Satisfied about the answers she'd dragged out of Cellia, Ashley was finally able to relax. Unfortunately the rest and relaxation didn't last it was about two minutes before they herd the flapping of massive wings to the south. Cellia got her laptop and digivise ready, "that sounds bad..." moments later a flock of six Airdramon flew up over the trees. "Aw, crap!"