So...this is the third chapter! Yay! So, remember how Gennai said Chosen Children will be going to different parts of the world to master their powers? Obviously they will befriend other Chosen Children there. This chapter is in the POV of one of them. Remember Lou, the kid from America? He was one of the Chosen Children that saved Mimi, Michael and Daisuke from other digimon...and which Japanese Chosen will be in this chapter?
Read and find out!
"So,Lou…" the older man started,looking absentmindendly at the riverside.
The boy shifted uneasily. He knew what his grandfather was going to ask.
"This man that appeared yesterday…what was his name again? Len? Ken?"
"Ben." boy corrected."Benjamin. He's…he's a teacher at school. Yeah, he's a teacher, and was just doing some…questionnaire about a trip we are about to take."Lou scratched the back of his neck nervously, thanking God his grandfather was looking so intently at the river. If anyone could read him, it was his grandfather.
"A teacher showing up in the middle of a mountain village just to ask you about a trip. That isn't something you see everyday."
"Well,um…he's very dedicated. To us. And trips .He was just considering we take a trip to Florida."
"If you ask me, he looked more like some crazy hit-in-the-head guy with a ponytail who came to discuss something far more serious than your opinion on a trip to other part of America." the man countered,looking calm as ever.
Lou flinched. His grandfather never spoke like that. He only used the word 'crazy' last time like…never?Well, yeah ,Benjamin can be a little crazy. And kinda pops out of nowhere,which makes it harder for Lou to cover him up with a backstory.
"He takes his job very seriously, as I said. He may get a little…carried away sometimes, but I wouldn't have it any other way." Lou answered. This was a little easier, though ; the fact that he didn't necessarily lie to the most honest person he's ever met took some weight off of his shoulders.
But they all did. Lie, I mean. They had to - they didn't want to worry their parents too much and, well-the stuff going on now was pretty much unbelievable to themselves, children who saw many wild digimon and travelled to another dimension - what would it be like for their parents?
Lou sighed. Things weren't getting any better now. Yesterday was one of those rare days you saw Benjamin serious - he had a good reason to back it up, though.
Their partners might be at stake. Both worlds are in danger. New threat arises…there's so many things to process, as Lou wonders will he ever see his Digimon again.
Lou stared at the river. He loved his home. It was an isolated mountain village with cold climate.
He shivered at the thought of how many lives has this river taken. It might look peaceful, like an ordinary river, but townspeople knew better.
This river was amazingly fast (considering it's a mountain river, after all), and if you spend more than ten minutes in its waters, your body temperature will decrease with unnatural speed. His own grandfather had gotten hypothermia from falling into the river when he was five.
It looked dangerously blue, with few streaks of grey here and there.
Mountains were blue, sky was blue, river was blue..blue,blue,blue,pink,blue…wait! PINK?!
His grandfather jumped to his feet,obviously noticing something pink in the river as well.
Lou ran to the end of the coast."It's coming here, grandfather! What is it?"he asked, trying to take a better look at the…something…that the merciless river was carrying towards them.
"It's a body, Lou!"his grandfather yelled, even though he was right next to him."We have to get it out."
Lou nodded and, within two seconds, both older man and his grandson were already in the river, water reaching a little further than their knees.
"It really is a body!" Lou couldn't believe it. He only hoped that whoever it was, was still alive.
He grabbed girl's (well obviously,clothes were pink, after all) leg to stop the body from going further downriver." I'll carry her, grandfather."
His grandfather nodded, helping Lou take the girl bridal style. Lou wanted to prove himself, obviously, since he was the youngest in the family. His grandfather didn't think of it as necessary, because not every person (or a teenager, in this case), would jump into a freezing river to rescue someone he's never met. But, he let the boy be, nonetheless.
Lou put the girl down on the soft grass .He started massaging her feet, then hands to increase blood circulation. The girl, luckily, survived. It was a miracle.
"We're going to have to carry her home,Lou,"his grandfather announced."Let's just hope she can tell us where's she from and who's her family after she wakes up."
Lou nodded and picked the girl up again, but not before pulling off his jacket and covering her with it. She needed to warm up, after all. Her light brown hair was glued to her face from the water. Her lips were blue from the coldness of the dress code involved pink ,pink and oh, pink again.
As they were itching closer to the house, a thought struck him. Didn't Benjamin say something like this yesterday? How the chosen ones will be sent to different places to learn different bending styles. Lou didn't even have a clue on what that even meant.
He shook his head. No. No way. If there was someone to actually come here for that reason they wouldn't just pop out from the river nearly freezing to death. This was probably just a mere coincidence. But, then again ,you never knew with these things.
Thoughts anyone? Bonus points if you can figure who was that in the river!