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Chapter 2: Hikari no Seizui: Lobomon!
It was getting only later. The lone boy with dark hair looked out at the street in front of him. School was still going on but missing one class near the end of the day wouldn't hurt. His father would have a field day once he had heard that his prize of a son had skipped one class but Koji Minamoto didn't care. He put on his bandana and put it on as cars passed in the street below and his mind wandered to the spectacular event he had witnessed last night. There had been nine stars of red, blue, pink, yellow, and green but he had wondered why there was only one red and two of the others? Koji pushed it from his mind. It doesn't matter, he thought. It has nothing to do with me anyway.
Koji checked his watch. It was drawing near three-thirty. In about ten minutes, he'd have to leave for kendo practice. Why not skip that as well? It'd cause more of an uproar and maybe get his point across that he didn't really like the way of life he had since his father got the new job and remarried that Satomi woman.
At that thought, Koji pulled out the picture of his biological mother and stared down at it. Had she been as nice as his father told him? When he was barely a year old, his mother had died. His father rarely talked about her. As a child, Koji had tried to ask more about his mother but his father would grow quiet and for some odd reason glare at his son. "Quite chasing the past," he told his son sternly. "You're mother's dead. Satomi is now apart of the family. I know you want to know more about her but try to get to know Satomi."
The bell that signaled the dismissal of school brought him back to reality. He ducked down as kids boarded the bus. He put the picture of his mother away and when he was sure that the buses were all gone, he stood up and walked into the abandoned house and on to the side walk. Koji began walking towards the park so he could waste some time and get some homework done.
After a few blocks, he turned around. Koji was sure he felt that he was being followed. He scanned the busy sidewalk as people walked past him. When he saw no one, the dark haired boy continued on his way. Still the feeling of being followed didn't stop but he ignored it until he came to the park. Finally he could bear it no longer and spun around, demanding, "Who the hell are you and why are you following me?"
No one was there but he could make out an arm from behind the tree that was a good few yards behind him. "Who are you? I know you're hiding behind the tree," he said.
The arm disappeared and reappeared before a boy his exact age and height came out of the shadows into the sunlight. He wore a maroon long sleeve shirt under a teal vest, white slacks, and a blue baseball cap that shadowed his face. "Well?" Koji demanded again after the boy wouldn't answer. The boy looked up. Koji flinched. How could this kid look almost exactly like him? The same dark hair and same dark blue eyes with some differences but it was as if . . .
Koji glared at the boy. "What is your name?"
The boy paused for a minute. "K-Koichi," he answered. He seemed nervous and slightly shaky. "I-I can't believe . . . I'm finally meeting you," he continued.
Koji gave him an odd look. "What the hell do you mean?" he asked, backing away a few steps. This kid better not be crazy, he thought.
"Don't you know me?" he asked, confused. "Don't you know about your brother?"
Koji's look turned from annoyed to pissed. "I don't have a brother!" he hissed before turning around and continuing walking. This kid is crazy, Koji thought.
"W-wait!" shouted the boy named Koichi. Koji felt a hand grasp his shoulder. Koji grabbed the wrist of the boy's hand and flipped him over his own body. Koichi thudded against the ground and coughed for breath.
Koji stood over him and glared down at him. "I don't know who you are but you have no right to demand about my family," he said and then walking off again, leaving the boy.
Koji continued walking and eventually came to a clearing. He saw a picnic table that wasn't in use and went over to claim it when something bumped into his foot. Koji looked down to see a Pagumon. "Do you have chocolate?" it greedily asked, licking its lips. A small swarm of Pagumon was off to the left and were as well licking their lips, hoping to get some food.
"Buzz off," Koji said and continued walking towards the table. The Pagumon watched as he left and continued on their way. Koji brought out his homework and began working on it.
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After about twenty minutes, he heard a cry for help. Koji looked up to see some kids run into the clearing and was being chased by the Pagumon he had seen earlier. Koji then noticed that the boy he had seen earlier was among the small crowd of kids.
Koji stood up and the Pagumon noticed him. The boy's eyes widened as the Pagumon dashed towards him. He jumped back as the Pagumon landed where he had been. He backed up a few more steps and picked up a long fallen stick. The Pagumon recollected themselves and flew at the boy, who swung the stick and made them scatter. They came back for another round but he only swung it again to cut off their attack.
He tried to use it to pole-vaulted himself over them but he landed on a Pagumon. The others flew at him again and he shouldered it and spun around, knocking each of them on the head which only managed to piss them off even more and they flew at him. He ran through them, twirling and whacking at the Pagumon with it the make-shift weapon.
The small In-training Digimon took the chance the showed itself and dog piled Koji, who only smirked in response. They weren't all too heavy and Koji knocked them off by spinning around. The Pagumon flew off and crashed into trees and the ground.
"Whoa," said some of the kids in surprise.
"Awesome!" shouted the others.
Koji smirked again and tossed the long stick aside and walked back towards the table with a prideful stride. "Look out!" shouted a boy who rushed over to him and knocked him out of the way as an acid sludge flew towards him. The two boys crashed into the ground a few feet away where the acid landed and melted into the ground.
Koji pushed off the boy who had pushed him out of the way. "Are you okay?" asked the boy. It was Koichi.
"What the hell happened?" Koji asked but the answer soon came to him as a Raremon fired an Acid Sludge attack. Some of the Pagumon had evolved into a Raremon that was giving off a foul stench. The two scrambled out of the way and raced to the others, who had ran out of the clearing.
"GO!" he ordered Koichi. He nodded and ran after the others but green acid flew over their heads and into the middle of a tree. Koichi backed up and ran out of the way of the falling tree.
"Got you," said Raremon from right behind them. The foul smell was nearly suffocating now. Koji and Koichi covered his mouth and nose so not to breath it in and his eyes watered and stung. Raremon knocked them away and Koji crashed into the ground on the other side of the clearing and nearly falling into a hole. Next to him, he saw Koichi crash into a tree and fall to the ground.
"Hey! You okay?" Koji asked the boy but he didn't answer. Koji pushed himself up and ran over to him and checked his pulse. He was still alive but he needed help. Koji hoisted him up onto his feet and began quietly walking towards the forest line but he was cut off by what there was left of the Pagumon. "Get out of the way," he hissed in a low voice.
The Pagumon just grinned and began to inch forwards. "Revenge," they all murmured like a hypnotized pack of zombies. Koji backed up slowly. Koji's foot lost its ground and he nearly fell into a hole. Koji looked down at it and frowned. If he had taken a step back he would have been done for.
Raremon noticed the cornered human and fired cried, "Get them!" The Pagumon jumped at the boys. Koji dodged one but the weight of carrying the other boy only slowed him down and allowed the next Pagumon to crash into him and knock the two into the hole.
Koji kept a firm grip on the unconscious Koichi and tried to frantically grab for a root or something to stop their decent down the hole but he couldn't latch onto anything. Was this the end for me? he thought fearfully. Suddenly something stopped them from falling. Koji waved his hand under him but felt no ground. "Am I already dead?" he wondered aloud.
Light filled the hole from above and Koji covered his eyes from the sudden change in light source. When his eyes adjusted to the light, Koji looked down to see that the ground was only a few feet below him. He still held Koichi and put him down on the ground gently. He looked up and guessed there was about half a mile between him and the surface. He began trying to find a way up but found he couldn't.
He then looked around to see a strange light blue orb floating not too far away from him. What is that? A transparent figure appeared in front of the blue orb. The tall figure had short blonde hair, red eyes, and silver and blue armor and scarf. The Digimon figure nodded down at him and disappeared. A ringing from his pocket caught his attention. He picked his cell phone from his pocket and watched as it turned into a weird device that was white with a blue grip and pale blue buttons. "What is this?" he demanded out loud.
"Take it," said a fuzzy female voice from his device. "Take your Spirit into your D-Scanner and become a Digidestined for it is your destiny." Destiny? Digidestined? D-Scanner? Spirit? Koji looked up at the orb and watched it turn into a small figure that had the upper torso armor like the image of the Digimon he had seen. Koji brought up the "D-Scanner" that he had and aimed it towards the small figure. The small figure disappeared into his device and he shouted "Spirit Evolution" as if on instinct. In seconds, Koji was covered in a data cocoon and it vanished only a second later, revealing the tall Digimon.
The new Digimon grabbed the unconscious boy and jumped upwards to the surface. To Koji's surprise, he was much more powerful in jumping upwards then he was as a human. He landed on the ground. He saw Raremon and the Pagumon laughing at what they thought was their victory but stopped quickly when a Pagumon announced that a new foe had appeared.
"Who are you?!" demanded the small group.
"Lobomon!" announced the new Digimon. "And I'm taking you down!"
"Really?" asked Raremon cockily. "Acid Sludge!"
Lobomon jumped nimbly away and placed the boy on the table where Koji's stuff had been before leaping back into battle. More sludge flew at him but Lobomon pulled out his laser swords and used them to slash the acid away. Lobomon jumped up into the air and landed on Raremon's head, digging the blade into its head. Raremon cried out in pain. Lobomon jumped away as the sludge monster turned into a silhouette with a ring of data surrounding it. "May the Light purify your dark heart!" he declared, summoning his D-Scanner. "Fractal Code, Scan!" He scanned the data ring and the silhouette turned into a DigiTama and flew off.
Koji collapsed to the ground as he turned back into his human self. He gasped for breath. Koji grabbed his D-Scanner and glared at the screen. "What the hell is this about?" he demanded, hoping that the woman who had told him what to do to reply. There was no answer. Koji stood up and walked over to the boy and grabbed his stuff.
Koji began walking away but stopped dead in his tracks and turned to look back at the boy that had saved him. Koji thought for a minute to just leave him but it would be better to bring him to the hospital since the boy did save his life. He walked back to the boy and supported him as he walked him to the street. "Hey!" he shouted for a cab. Koji paid the taxi driver and asked him to take Koichi to the hospital. The taxi driver nodded and drove off.
Koji began walking home, knowing how much trouble he would have gotten into. He opened the door to see his father waiting for him. "Koji," his father said in an angry voice. "Where the hell have you been?"
"Out," Koji replied nonchalantly, walking past his father but he stood in his way.
"You skipped school and kendo," his father said, raising his voice.
At that moment, Koji's stepmother, Satomi, walked into the room. "Koji, are you alright?" she asked. Koji looked back at her annoyed. "I heard that there were several attacks in the city done by rampaging Digimon," she continued in a worried voice. "A lot of people were hospitalized from the attacks. Are you sure you're alright?"
"Yeah," he replied in a hard voice. "Just leave me alone!" He pushed past his father and went up into his room and shut the door behind him. Koji lay on his bed and pulled out his D-Scanner and squinted at it. He began pressing the buttons, maybe to contact the woman that had told him to take the Spirit- if that was what it was.
His mind flashed back to the night before again. Was this Spirit connected to the lights he had seen last night? If so, there must have been more out there. Then his mind flashed forwards to the boy named Koichi. "Don't you know me? Don't you know about your brother?"
"What the hell did he mean by that?" he wondered aloud, continuing his habit of thinking aloud. When nothing came to him, he sighed. Koji walked over to the picture frame and had it spin around to show his dead mother. Koji sighed as he took off his bandana and rested his head on the desk.
He heard his door open. Koji turned to see his father looking at him. "What is it?" the boy demanded.
"Your mother's picture, huh?" asked Koji's father walking over and looking at the picture the boy was looking at. "I haven't seen it for a while."
Koji didn't answer. "What do you want?" he demanded again.
"I just want you weren't so rude to Satomi," he answered. "It's been three years since I married her yet you still are cold to her. Why? I know she'd be no mother but at least treat her like she's part of the family."
Koji ignored him. After a few minutes, Kousei got up and began to leave his son's room until Koji spoke up. "Father," he began. "Did I ever have a brother? A kid that looked just like me asked what I knew about my brother but I don't have one. Is there a possible way-?"
Kousei shook his head. "There would be no way that you could have a brother. Your mother died before your first birthday," his father reminded him. "Can't you just quit trying to beat a dead horse?" Koji didn't answer, so his father left the room and shut the door behind him.
Koji looked back at the picture. The kid looked so much like his mother- and him. Father's hiding something from me, he thought. Tomorrow was a late start for his school and his father and stepmother had to work for part of the day. Maybe the baby book had the truth?
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Okay, maybe this wasn't as long as the other one. The next few chapters may be as short or longer than this chapter but definitely not as long as Takuya's introduction chapter. Koji's chapter is based on the second episode and the memory that we saw in the episode where Duskmon did the memory scan. Um . . . what else? Oh! A translation of the title of the chapter should mean "Essence of Light".
Whee! 8D Koji meets Koichi earlier than in the real story. Will Koji figure out his link between him and Koichi? Well, you'll have to wait about four more chapters since we still have to meet Tommy, JP, and Zoe.
Anyway, R&R please!
