Chapter 4: Digiconfusion
"Digidestined? What?" Cried Henry.
"I told you he was mad." Daniel replied waving his hand at the old man.
Gennai stepped closer. "I'm not mad. Well maybe a little, but anyway…If you are human, then that must mean you are the Digidestined we summoned from the other world."
Everyone looked around at each other. They looked more confused now than when they landed in this place.
"What do you mean; we're not in the human world?" Asked Nancy
Daniel butted in shortly after, stopping Gennai from answering. "Of course we are. There is only one world. That cable car couldn't have brought us to another planet, it wasn't going fast enough to be able to escape earth's gravity to start with, and once we got into space we would have died from the freezing temperatures and the lack of oxygen. It's barbaric! There are also no other planets in our solar system which can harbour life because of their lack of atmosphere and their distance from the sun. This guys just messing with us, trying to have a laugh by confusing us. There is no way we can be in another world. There are also…"
"Okay Daniel! We get what you are trying to say!" Henry yelled in anger. You could see the whites of his eyes turn red with frustration and he was even starting to break out in a sweat. His fists were clenched by his sides but they way he was staring; he could have swung a punch any second.
"You're friend is right" replied Gennai
"Which one?" Hiroaki whispered.
"Both. The cable car would not have been able to bring you into space and you couldn't have survived. But also, you didn't go into space. You were brought through a digital portal, or digiport for short. That portal brought you into the digital world, where data takes on a living form. Come with me, I think it's time I introduced you to some friends of mine, or should I say yours." Gennai walked out of the cable car for the others to follow him.
Unsure of what to do, where they were, how they go here and just generally confused and freaked out, the five kids followed the strange old man out of the car. As they walked down the bridge of earth between the island and the shore five figures came into view.
"Wait, other people? I thought you said this was a digital world?" Henry questioned. Daniel was quick to correct him.
"Those aren't human."
They were approaching things which didn't look human or animal, at least not any from earth.
"These are Digital Monsters, or Digimon, the creatures of the Digital World." Gennai added.
Standing before them were five of these Digimon, on for each human. On the left was a four legged red fluffy creature with red prickles on his far back.
"This is Elecmon, and this is your partner Lisa"
Next, from the left, was a green goblin Digimon carrying a club over his right shoulder. He had spiky red hair and was wearing old trousers held in place with a leather belt.
"This is Goblimon, and this is your partner Henry."
In the middle was what could only be described as a candle with a face. Wax arms stretched out from his body and his wick was alight with a bright orange and red flame.
"This is Candlemon, and this is your partner Daniel."
Second from the right was a strange looking blue and yellow creature. It had a yellow body, with a strange symbol on it. It ware blue fur on it back with bright red claws and a yellow horn emerging from it head.
"This is Gabumon, and this is your partner Hiroaki."
On the right was the last of the Digimon, a brown feathered bird, with green wings and chest. It had to feathers with red tips sticking up on its head and had razor claws at the edge of its wings. Its bright yellow beak was closed tight consoling the diamond teeth it hind inside.
"This is Falcomon, and this is your partner Nancy."
The two parties stood in an awkward silence, until finally; Hiroaki stepped forward to shake Gabumon's hand. That's when they all burst out laughing, and greeted their fellow Digimon.
"Oh, one thing I almost forgot, Digidestined, hold out your hands." Gennai commanded.
They did what he said, and with no more than a twitch, five bright rainbows shone down from the sky straight into their hands, and appearing in this light, where their Digivices.
"These are your Digivices, they will come in handy" And with that, Gennai flickered like an old TV on the blink and disappeared, leaving the Digimon with their partners and the Digidestined alone in a strange world with what would be their new best friends.
But before they could even raise question s about Gennai, a giant something or other, flew close over head. Ducking, they narrowly escaped.
"What is that!" Daniel yelled to Candlemon.
"That red bug is kuwagamon. The nastiest of the nasty bug Digimon. You don't want to be caught by his pincers; they will give you a sting you will never forget."
Nancy looked up, "He's coming back!"
"Run, head for the forest!" Lisa screamed after she had already started running. The followed quickly, thinking that kuwagamon wouldn't be able to follow them in there. But they were wrong. He destroyed every tree in his path, knocking it down with ease.
"Ahhh!" Nancy screamed as she fell face first to the ground; with kuwagamon right behind her.
"Nancy!" Falcomon cried "Scratch smash!" Falcomon yelled and with no regard for himself, he leaped in front of kuwagamon, smashing him with his large metal claws right on the centre of his head. But the attack rebounded and caused Falcomon to land in front of Nancy, badly hurt.
"Ah, little guy, are you okay?" She asked. He didn't have time to answer; kuwagamon was making his attack again, this time coming in quicker, harder.
"She in trouble, we have to help her!" said Hiroaki. The Digidestined rushed back to help Nancy.
"We can't out run this thing, we have to stand and fight" Gabumon commanded.
"You can't fight that, it'll wipe us out in one shot" Henry said with fear as kuwagamon grew closer.
"Well we have to try, were Digimon, and we don't run from a fight, we don't run when our friends need us!" Gabumon yelled
"Right!" The other Digimon replied
"Digimon attack!" Every one of them launched at kuwagamon to stop him, to protect themselves, to protect their friends.
"Super thunder strike!" A zig-zag of lightning flew from Elecmon's tail.
"Goburi Bomb!" Cresting a ball of fire in the palm of his hand, Goblimon launched it at kuwagamon.
"Blue blaster!" Gabumon shot a bright blue beam from his mouth with great force.
"Flame Bomber!" Candlemon shot a flame of hot red fire to kuwagamon.
"Scratch smash!" Falcomon launched his claw, ready to fight.
All of the attacks hit kuwagamon, knocking him to the ground, destroying trees as he feel.
"They did it" Lisa said slowly.
"Outstanding…" Daniel stood shocked.
"Well, I told you we could do it!" Gabumon said proudly, almost mocking the Digidestined.
***
The night was drawing ever closer, the sky was slowly fading orange and a faint figure of the moon was beginning to appear. The group were getting ready to make 'camp' but really had little if no idea what they were doing.
"We've got fire wood" Daniel said as he, Henry, Goblimon and Candlemon approached with a forest full of wood.
"Well we might have the fire wood, but none of us know how to start a fire." Hiroaki said scratching his head.
"Leave it to me. Blue blaster!" And with that Gabumon shot a blue beam of fire at the pile of wood which quickly erupted into flames.
"Were back!" And with that Nancy, Lisa, Elecmon and Falcomon walked back holding braches of berries.
Okay, so it wasn't the best meal to have after a long day travelling, but none of them had any better ideas, so they put them on stick by the fire and watched in an awkward silence as they slowly cooked.
After an awkward 15 minutes, Henry spoke.
"Daniel, what's in the bag?" He asked.
Daniel look rounded to his back remembering that he had been carrying it all day and had forgotten all about it.
"Well I've got two changes of clothes, my diary and a pen, a camera and a box of food I made for I left home, but I'm not sure if it's any good though." Daniel said before examining the food with greater detail.
"You had food this whole time and didn't tell us!" Henry's yell was filled with pure anger.
"Sorry, I didn't even remember I packed it."
"We are trapped in a digital land roasting berries and you forgot about the food you packed in your bag!" Henry was finally snapping. His eyes were filled with pure rage as a moved around the fire and lunged at Daniel grabbing his throat and pushing him down; hard. He went to punch Daniel but Hiroaki grabbed his arm and pulled him on his back.
"Look if we're all going to be stuck here we're all going to have to learn to get along."
"Well then tell that bastard to share his food!" Henry screamed. He clearly didn't like being made a fool of or being embarrassed in front of his girl friend by a total stranger.
"The food is not good to eat. Most of it was fruit and with it having been in my bag for a day it's started to root. Sorry." Daniel said shying away from Henrys glare. He repacked his bad, and put it under his head as a pillow before sitting back down in front of the fire. Henry got up and sat next to Lisa. She put her arm around him and whispered something in his ear, but it was to quite for the others to make out.
"Foooooood!" Cried a voice, breaking the tension between the human side of the group. Candlemon was jumping up and down with the excitement of having something to eat. Gabumon took the sticks from the fire and handed them round and the humans and Digimon sat down for their first meal of what had been a hectic day for everyone.