Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. I only own the original characters and oc digimon within this fic.

The Tyrannomon breathed a steady flame as the Monochromon charged. The two opponents clashed together, claws against an armored hide. The Monochromon suddenly breathed out a flame attack, engulfing the Tyrannomon. But as the flames settled, the red dinosaur digimon reared up again to attack.

"Alright. Tyrannomon is on the rebound!" Came an excited voice.

"Ugh! Come on Monochromon!" Another voice followed.

Accompanying their voices were a series of beeps that could only signify an electronic origin. The source came from two devices, hand held and rectangular, with a solid lcd screen with two buttons on the side. The two devices were locked together, allowing the two devices to be linked. This device was quite popular among Japanese children, for the V-Pet craze was at it's hottest. Two Japanese school boys fervently pressed buttons as their digimon battled one another. And it wasn't just them, for throughout the school yard, teens were playing with their V-Pets. Whether it be battling, training, or simply providing care, their digimon were important.

Yet one boy looked at his V-Pet with disappointment. Who was this boy? His name was Kazuya Miyamoto. He was a fairly good looking fourteen year old junior high student. His hair short and brown with blue eyes. What was first noticeable about him were the pair of silver rimmed goggles across his forehead. Very befitting for a fan of the Digimon franchise.

Kazuya considered himself the biggest Digimon fan in Japan. Maybe even the whole world. He collected the manga, watched the anime, collected the cards, and of course, played the V-Pets. The one he currently held was the latest model. This one was advertised to contain the largest amount of digimon than any V-Pet before it. Players would select an digiegg and raise their digimon, watching as it digivolved to higher levels. Sadly, what Kazuya had didn't feel him with joy, for as he stared at his V-Pet's screen, he sighed.

"Great. Just great." He remarked. At this point, Kazuya was regretting he picked that one digiegg.

"Hey Kaz? Why the long face?"

Kazuya looked up and noticed a familiar face. Before him was a girl around his age. Her hair was long and blond, but what drew everyone to her face were the pair of round glasses covering her green eyes. It gave Kazuya an impression of Yolei from the anime's second season.

"Oh hey Sakura." Kazuya greeted. "Oh it's just my digimon, he digivolved into his Rookie stage last night."

"Really? That's great! Now we can battle each other!" Sakura exclaimed happily. Her digimon had digivolved into the Rookie stage only last week. "But why's that gotten you down?" She asked.

Holding up his screen, Kazuya showed his best friend the reason behind his disappointment. "Just look."

Sakura adjusted her glasses and gazed upon the digimon upon the screen. "A Gazimon?" Sure enough, the LCD image was indeed that of a Gazimon. "Well what's wrong with a Gazimon. They're actually kind of cute."

"You think Gazimon are cute?" Kazuya asked.

"Of course! They're all scruffy and they kind of remind me of a dog and a cat rolled into one." Sakura noted.

This wasn't surprising. After all, Sakura had a fondness for all things cute and adorable. Heck, her entire room was filled with stuffed animals, some from various anime, especially the Sanrio kind.

"Yeah but come on! A Gazimon?" Kazuya lamented.

"Well you didn't really have a lot of options when he digivolved into Pagumon." Sakura reminded.

"Yeah, but I mean. I could have gotten an Impmon, a Goblimon, a Lopmon, or maybe even one of those virus versions of Agumon, but instead I got a Gazimon of all digimon."

Kazuya's reasoning for his disappointment was due to the fact that Gazimon were not considered "good" digimon. After all, they were the henchmen of Etemon, the villain of the first anime's second arc.

"Well he could always digivolve into a cool Adult." Sakura added.

Kazuya had to admit that. If he was lucky, he could get a DarkTyrannomon, a Cyclomon, or maybe even a Deltamon. But then there was the chance he would get the dreaded Raremon. After all, the fourth season of the anime had shown that Raremon was one of Gazimon's (or rather Pagumon's) digivolution lines. Still, none of this deterred Kazuya's feelings. That is until Sakura started to speak.

"Hey Kazuya!" The voice that followed was Sakura's, but there was a high pitched tone to it.

Looking at her, Kazuya noticed she was holding up her V-Pet, the screen showing her digimon: Fairydramon.

"Now don't be sad Kazuya! Gazimon is a very good digimon, and he might just surprise you!" Beaming at her friend, Sakura spoke in her regular voice, "See? Even Fairydramon thinks you should give Gazimon a chance."

Fairydramon was one of the new digimon introduced within this V-Pet, with a card produced shortly after. The concept was both cool and awesome, a fairy and a dragon rolled into one. Though Kazuya had to admit he was a bit jealous. After all, a dragon or dinosaur type digimon was the digimon best associated with "goggle boys".

"Thanks Sakura." Kazuya said managing a smile. "You always know what to say when I'm down."

Before Sakura could say another word, a great commotion made them both turn towards the center yard.

"What's going on?" Sakura asked.

Getting to his feet, Kazuya replied, "Don't know. Let's check it out."

The two strode over to a large conglomeration of students, all gathered around. As the two friends neared, they parted their way through and sure enough, they identified the source.

"You got to be freaking kidding me!" A disgruntled female voice shouted.

Standing dead center was a young girl of about fifteen, garbed in the same school girl attire as Sakura. Her hair was a blueish color, just at her shoulders, her ears pierced with fist shaped earrings. Her amber eyes focused upon the boy across from her. There lay a boy around Kazuya's age, hair resembling that of Ken Ichijoiji's, albeit a black color and not as straight, and his skin a tan color. Matching this, his eyes were hazel. The girl they recognized as Jun Asuka, but the boy not so much.

"Look I'm sorry!" The boy apologized.

"Sorry doesn't cut it! What kind of cheap trick did you use to beat me?!" Jun demanded.

"Tricks? I-I-I didn't use any tricks, I was just pushing buttons, I don't understand how any of this works." The boy stammered.

"Oh yeah right, like you just beat me by luck alone." Jun spat.

The boy looked absolutely intimidated by Jun. Seeing this, Kazuya knew it was going to get ugly. Jun had that sort of affect on people.

"Hey back off Asuka!" Kazuya proclaimed stepping into the center.

Glaring at him, Jun likewise spat, "Goggle Boy."

"Look the guy beat you, so just back off alright?" Kazuya said a little calmer, but still trying to keep a strong front.

"Look this little wimp lowered my win ration. So he owes me!" Jun demanded.

Kazuya could tell the bully's anger would not subside unless she was satisfied, or put in her place. "Look if you want to battle someone, why don't you battle me?" Kazuya said holding up his V-Pet.

Jun looked surprised for a moment, then replied, "Fine, if it will knock that confident look off of your face."

Taking the two V-Pets, the two teens interlocked their devices. In short time, the screen displayed a new image, showing off what digimon they were facing.

"A Gazimon? That weird rabbit thing?" Jun said in surprise.

Kazuya felt a twinge of embarrassment, but that subsided when he noticed what Jun's digimon was. "A Penguinmon?"

Jun's face immediately flushed, "Hey it's not like I could control what he digivolves into!"

Kazuya was about to say one could actually control what a digimon digivolves into, but he wisely kept silent. The V-Pets beeped as the battle followed through. Kazuya and Jun bushed the buttons of their respective devices as their digimon battled it out. Both teens held serious looks on their faces as they input the right commands for their digimon. All the other students watched as well, their expressions showing amazement and excitement over the battle between two rivals. The battle lasted, but soon ended with a final victory beep.

"All right!" Kazuya cheered.

"What!? No way!" Jun cried.

And so it was declared, Kazuya was the winner.

Holding up his V-Pet, the goggle headed boy flashed a cocky grin. "So. What do you think now?"

Jun fumed as she stood in place. Staring at her V-Pet, she nearly threw it to the ground, but relented at the last minute. "Stupid piece of junk." She muttered before storming off.

With the battle over, the crowd dispersed, leaving only Sakura, Kazuya, and the mystery boy.

"Great job Kazuya!" Sakura cheered. Holding up her digivice, she followed with, "See Kazuya? Gazimon surprised you!" Sakura said in her faux Fairydramon voice.

Kazuya didn't really dwell on Sakura's words, despite being grateful for them. Instead, he focused on the fallen black haired boy. "You alright?" Kazuya said outstretching his hand.

The boy looked up. Though he looked hesitant, he accepted Kazuya's hand and allowed himself to be pulled up. "Yeah, thanks." The boy replied.

"You're that new kid right?" Sakura said, noticing the boy's face.

"Oh yeah you moved here from some foreign country right?" Kazuya asked.

"Eqypt actually. My mother's home country." The boy answered. That explained the boy's tan skin. "My name is Shou. Shou Sanbara,

"Kazuya Miyamoto." Kazuya greeted.

"Sakura Kodiro." Sakura likewise greeted.

Looking down at Shou's V-Pet, Kazuya asked, "So you actually beat Jun Asuka?"

Confused for a moment, Shou looked down and noticed Kazuya was staring at his V-Pet. "Oh this? Well I didn't really even do anything. I just started pushing buttons and-"

Sho was interrupted by the sound of the bell, signifying that the break was over. It was time to return to class.

"Sorry I have to get back." Shou apologized.

Before Kazuya could say another word, Shou was off.

"We better get back too." Sakura reminded.

Seeing her point. Kazuya headed back inside.

The rest of the school day passed on in a blur. All the students eagerly awaited for the day to be over. Tomorrow was Sunday, giving them at least a day's break from the drudgery of school. But their patience paid off for the final bell finally rang. School was out and they were free. The group of students dispersed outside. Kazuya and Sakura remained close together, walking out at the same time.

"Sis!"

Sakura looked and noticed a young boy of about 10 standing near the entrance.

"Chiisi!" Sakura waved with Kazuya following.

Chiisi was Sakura's younger brother. Like her he had blond hair albeit short. The rest of his outfit held a similar shade in color, a black short sleeved shirt with a long sleeve under it, along with black pants and shoes. Printed upon the outer shirt was the image of a skull and crossbones.

"Surprised your school still allows you to wear that." Kazuya joked.

Chiisi rolled his eyes. "Funny."

"You know you don't have to walk home with me every time." Sakura said.

"Don't worry, I'm just seeing you off." Said Chiisi. "Besides, I wanted to show off my Digimon, he digivolved this afternoon during lunch."

Chiisi held up his V-Pet showing off the image of a DemiDevimon.

"Very fitting." Sakura laughed.

Seeing this made Kazuya a little jealous. After all, DemiDevimon could potentially become a Devidramon.

"So you guys have any plans for tomorrow?" Chiisi asked.

"Huh what?" Kazuya said jolting out of his disappointment towards not having a dragon digimon.

"Yeah we haven't really made plans for tomorrow have we?" Sakura noted.

"Eh I was just going to make it up as I go along." Kazuya noted dryly. "Hey if you guys don't mind I'm going to head home by myself okay?"

Sakura was taken aback by this slightly, but replied with a good-natured, "All right. See you tomorrow?"

"Yeah tomorrow." Kazuya said before walking off.

As he did, he failed to notice Chiisi remark, "He's jealous you got a dragon digimon isn't he?"

"Well um." Sakura muttered, not sure on what to say.

XXX

"I'm home!" Kazuya shouted as he stepped through the front door of his home. He awaited for any voice, but heard nothing. Looking down, his parent's shoes were gone, accept for his sister's. "Keiko you here?" He called.

"You see me shoes don't you?" He heard a voice call back.

Kazuya grunted. Typical Keiko. Always having to smart off to him. Removing his own shoes, he headed down the hallway into his own room. Booting up his computer, he sat in the chair. What was evident about his room was the large assortment of Digimon merchandise. Posters, toys, all forms of collectibles. His fandom was blatant. As soon as his computer reached the log in page, and began to surf the web. Typing in the correct address, he grinned as he reached the correct page.

"Gazimon V-Pet digivolution lines." He muttered to himself.

"You know, looking up the requirements for what your digimon can digivolve into is sort of cheating."

Frowning, Kazuya whirled his chair around and standing in the doorway was a ten year old girl, sharing the same hair color as him, only curly. She was wearing an orange dress that reached down to her knees, with a white undershirt, overall giving off a creamsicle look. She and Kazuya's matching colored eyes stared into one another.

"Don't you ever knock Keiko?" Kazuya groaned.

The girl shrugged. "The door wasn't closed." Walking over to her brother's computer screen, Keiko looked over it. "You're still upset you got a Gazimon?"

"Yeah so?" Said Kazuya.

"You should be happy with the digimon you got. Just take me and my Candlemon for instance." Keiko said holding up her V-Pet. I trusted my instinct and picked the right egg, and I'm pleased with what he digivolved into."

"Do you have a point to this or are you just trying to be annoying?" Kazuya said narrowing his eyes.

"All I'm saying is that you should play the game without looking up cheat codes." Keiko said before leaving.

Grumbling to himself, Kazuya turned around in his chair returning to he computer screen. But as he did so, he started to wonder if perhaps his annoying sister had a point? Still, he couldn't help but notice something peculiar about the possible Champion digimon. Scrolling down, he couldn't see anything new or exciting. Just more of the same.

With a sigh, he raised up his V-Pet and stared at the device. "So how you going to surprise me huh Gazimon?"

Beep...Beep…Beep… The device went. Beep! Beep! Beep! It went once more. Beep! Beep! Beep! It went more fervently.

Kazuya continued to stare at his V-Pet, knowing something was off. Was it time to feed his Digimon? That couldn't be the case. He especially realized that as a strange hum was starting to come from his computer. Looking to it, he could see the screen was flickering as if there was some interference. The V-Pet continued to beep, and then suddenly, a huge flash of light emanated from the device's screen. Before Kazuya could do anything, the light shined brighter than ever. And it didn't just stop at the screen, it coated the entire V-Pet. Suddenly, the V-Pet flew from Kazuya's hand and settled itself upon his wrist. The device grew in size, glowing all the while. When it at last died down, it had changed in form.

The V-Pet was no circular in shape with the screen dead center. It was now a red color with three blue buttons on the side. Strange code lay around the screen, the coloring blue like the buttons. Encircling that were a series of equally strange symbols.

"This...This is just like from V-Tamer." Kazuya noted.

Kazuya had read the entirety of the V-Tamer manga. This except for the red coloring, this was an exact copy of the Digivice 01 from the manga.

Just then, another light shined from the computer screen, lighting up the entire room. It blinded Kazuya and for a moment, Kazuya could have sworn the screen was growing larger. But he didn't have time to question, nor think. For when the light died down, Kazuya was gone.

XXX

"So it is done. The chosen ones have been called."

And so the task was done. The lights of hope had been called, thrust into their destiny.

But such a destiny, was not easily completed. All they had to do, was hope.

A/N: Okay. Third time is the charm. In case you are wondering, this is actually the third incarnation of my Digimon fanfiction. The first version of a prequel to the first season of the anime. Of course by now, it is rendered non canon with the reveal of the original Digidestined in Digimon Adventure Tri. I later tried rewriting it as an original universe fic. I based it heavily on Adventure, but I stopped at around chapter 14. I did this mainly because I came up with new story ideas that would have disrupted the flow of the story, and if I kind of made it hard to implement them. So I decided to reboot this yet again, this time as something a little more original. Well rather I combined aspects of V-Tamer, and Digimon Adventure. Of course I've added some new surprises here and there, so hopefully you will all enjoy it. Special thanks to my writing buddy, Impstar for bouncing ideas with me. They really helped me develop it.