The Kingdoms are United

The Kingdoms are United

By: Theodore 'Blitz' Leung

TheoLeung@sprint.ca

Disclaimer: All Digimon and their characters (except for those introduced in this fic/series) do NOT belong to me. I do not have permission to use their characters, but it's a FanFic, so, who cares? =) This story line belongs to me and me alone. Please ask for permission if you wish to use it. Thanks. Now let's get onto reading!

Saturday morning quickly rolled in at Pembrokeshire, Wales. For Tiberius Hartz, it was just another day of either relaxation or torturous homework. For today, it was the latter.

Tiberius groaned as he rolled out of bed, landing on the floor with a thud. It didn't take the 15 year old long to stand back up, rubbing his back in pain. He didn't swear, only headed towards the washroom to freshen up.

In about 30 minutes, that teenager was out of the washroom, his long, light brown hair soaked in water. Clumsily taking a band from the table, he tied part of his long hair back into a ponytail, while tying down some other strands into bangs. Satisfied, he took his glasses from his night table, wiping them first with a cloth, then putting it on.

His computer started with a blatantly annoying buzz as the processor working on activating the computer. However Tiberius wasn't fazed by the sound, with his long lasting relationship with this computer. In the meantime, Tiberius stretched his arms, still stiff in the morning state.

With one hand that whizzed back and forth on the keyboard, the teenager already had most of the programs he needed up. The buzzing of his Internet connection blared through the CPU, though it hardly fazed him. In half a minute, his computer connected with the net.

"Well, let's see," Tiberius whispered, rapidly clicking on some buttons. The Hotmail site quickly popped up in the browser window, and with mere thought, the teenager's fingers ran up and down the keyboard, entering his username and password. The modem worked diligently to load the page. Satisfied, Tiberius withdrew a rather large math textbook from his backpack, flipping to the page where the homework was.

"Man…homework is always an issue…" he muttered, removing his binder from the knapsack. Twirling a pencil in his hand, he began his homework, forgetting his to check his e-mail, though the page remained open.

"X squared plus Y squared equals nine…graph the equation…" Tiberius spoke out loud. He sighed, quickly taking a ruler from his pencil case and began his job at graphing. "A circle with the centre at the origin, and a radius of three…" he answered, getting a compass next from his pencil case.

If he had been paying attention to his computer, he might have noticed a small file extracting and installing onto his hard drive. Of course, he was too busy working away at his Math homework to notice…

* * * * * *

One o'clock quickly came as the sun rose high in the sky. Tiberius quietly re-entered his room, happy that he filled his stomach with some lunch.

"Doh…left my connection on…" he spoke, mentally slapping himself. Sitting down on the chair, he decided to finally check his e-mail. "Let's see…two new messages…" he whispered, checking the first one. "Things wrong with Chaos Entity," the e-mail subject read, referring to a FanFic Tiberius wrote sometime back.

"I think I'll save that e-mail for later…" he told himself, getting onto the next e-mail. The subject was definitely more friendly then the other one. The FanFic writer opened the e-mail.

Hey G. Sup?

Just writing a bit more, nothing new, nothing old. Just a bit more crappy stuff to add. Not sure why I bother to inform you. Oh well.

~Blitz

Tiberius smiled, noticing the small 20 KB Fan Fiction file attached to the e-mail. "You aren't bad at writing fics Blitz," Tiberius thought, saving the file onto his hard drive. "You just don't have faith in your writing."

"Of course I got to finish my Math homework before I can do anything else…"

Closing the window and disconnecting from the Internet, Tiberius attended back to his Math homework, still ignorant of the other new file just installed into his hard drive. The student flipped through the Math book, examining what else he had left to complete.

"Oh man…" Tiberius muttered, beginning to doubt he could finish his Math before dinner. "At least the only homework I got was Math…" he thought, reading the next question out loud. "Find the equation of the line tangent X minus five squared plus…"

* * * * * *

"Well, now that I finished THAT," Tiberius spoke, slamming his Math textbook closed. He gave a silent cheer as he stuffed that dreaded book of doom into his backpack. "And still one day free too," Tiberius told himself happily. He rolled his chair over to the computer.

"Huh, what's this?" he asked, noting the new icon on his desktop. "I'm pretty sure I didn't save Blitz's file onto the desktop…It's not even a .txt file, so it can't be Blitz's fic…" Tiberius activated a virus scan, but found nothing wrong with the file.

"Well, if not a vir…huh?" Tiberius asked in a surprised tone. The suspicious file opened on its own will, revealing two new windows. The left window revealed a map, which Tiberius thought looked really familiar. "Kind of looks like Earth…just…a bit mixed up…" he commented, before turning his attention to the other window. It was hard to identify the setting. Darkness still engulfed the land, but the small streaks of orange flare that whipped around indicated morning was coming.

"A forest of some sort?" Tiberius thought, trying to make out the scenery despite the blanket of darkness. He squinted his eyes and moved his face closer to the screen in an attempt to get a better view.

Tiberius was momentarily blinded as the screen suddenly went wild, shining white brightly.

* * * * * *

"Why did it just get dark all of a sudden?" Tiberius asked out loud, removing his arms from his face while trying to block out the previous bright light which mysteriously vanished. Slowly, the eyes of the teenager adapted to the dark, being able to see the partial silhouette of the trees that surrounded him.

"Man, this isn't cool, I can't see ANYTHING," Tiberius muttered, attempting to find a solution out of his predicament. "How did I even GET here in the first place?!" he shouted out next, frustrated.

"Wait…" he muttered, quickly quieting down. He glanced left and right as far as his sight can take him. "Was this…on the screen?" he asked, remembering what he saw on his computer. It was difficult to tell considering how hard it was to see at the current moment.

"Hello?" a voice cried out, scaring Tiberius. The teen quickly tried to identify the source of the voice, but with the blanket of the night around him, it was impossible.

"Who's there?" Tiberius shouted back, hoping to follow the direction of the voice back to the source its self.

"My name is Tentomon!" the voice spoke, coming from the darkness. "What's yours?"

"I'm Tiberius!" the teen shouted, still unsure where the voice was coming from. "Though some people call me Tibbs."

"Hold on for a second Tibbs," Tentomon shouted back. Tiberius wondered what whoever was out there doing at the moment.

He was answered by a large collection of banging of metals, as well as other items. Light suddenly glared into Tiberius' eyes, forcing him to protect the eyes again.

"Oh, sorry!" Tentomon apologised, the light dropping down to the teenager's feet. "Just follow the light, and you'll reach my home," the voice told him next. The circle of light slowly receded, giving the teenager a way towards Tentomon.

"So…where am I?" Tiberius asked out loud as he followed along the path with the light. "The last thing I know was being in my room, then a blinding light before finding myself here."

"Oh, sounds like a trip through a Digi-Portal," the holder of the flashlight told him. "Must've opened on your computer and sucked you into the Digital World."

"Digital World? Digi-Portal?" Tiberius asked next, confused with those two terms.

"Yeah, Digi-World," Tentomon repeated. "You must be the new Digi-Destined Biyomon and Gatomon told us to look out for. For some reason, the new Digi-Destined seems to be coming individually. Speaking of which, what part of the Real World did you come from?"

"Um…Pembrokeshire, Wales," Tiberius answered, halting in front of a tree where the light stopped. The teenager still remained confused, unsure of what this person was talking about. "Digi-World? Digi-Portal? Digi-Destined? What is he talking about…" Tiberius thought, gazing up the tree. Though not clear, he was pretty sure he saw a tree house in those branches.

"Where are my manners! It must be getting a bit cold down there, please come right up!" Tentomon offered, dropping down a rope ladder. Tiberius shivered a bit, finally noticing he was cold. Without much else to go, he headed up the ladder.

* * * * * *

"So…let's get this straight…" Tiberius started, ready to sum up what everything Tentomon told him. "You are a Digimon, or a Digital Monster…and this is the Digital World…which is kind of like a mixed replica or the 'Real' World." Tiberius purposely accented the 'Real' in the sentence, still unsure about all this 'Digital'-ness. "The two worlds are connected by a gates known as Digi-Portals. When ever the Digi-World is in danger, the Digi-Portals open, allowing for a group of chosen known as the Digi-Destined to come through and save us all."

"That is correct my well-informed friend," Tentomon spoke, raising one of his claws. Tiberius regarded the insect type Digimon for a second. Initially, he was extremely surprised that the person he was talking to was a bug, sort of. Second, was the fact that the interior of Tentomon's home was lit brightly with electricity from an unknown source. Despite the size of the home, it still was able to house an average sized human quite nicely. Third, was Tiberius' new attire. He wore jeans, though one knee was torn, and a T-shirt with army boots. The teenager didn't notice until he actually stared at himself in the mirror that was in the house.

"I don't suppose you know the other two, do you? One is Shastina, the other is Tao," Tentomon asked, breaking the chain of thought.

"Shastina? Doesn't ring a bell…but Tao…?" Tiberius though, trying to recall the memories. "Blitz…?" Tiberius thought. "Fics…Blitz…wrote fics…which where by Tao Lee…" Tiberius nodded slightly. "I think I know Tao…not sure…but if this is the same Tao…I've never personally met him."

"Hmm…interesting…" Tentomon mused. "I wonder how all three of you are related."

"What do you mean?" Tibbs asked quickly.

"There is commonly one event that links all the Digi-Destined together…I wonder how you three are linked…" Tentomon continued. "Oh, I'm pretty sure Izzy would figure it out if he were here."

"Izzy? Who's Izzy?" Tiberius asked next. "Another Digi-Destined?"

"That is correct. We were partners. He was brilliant, hence giving him the Crest of Knowledge," Tentomon responded grandly, very proud of their friendship.

"Crest…of Knowledge?" Tiberius questioned next.

"My, you're a curious boy, just like Izzy," the Digimon told Tiberius, remembering those days. "Each Digimon that belonged with a Digi-Destined was able to Digivolve. However, in order to advance from a Champion level to a Ultimate level, the power of the Crests in conjunction with the Digivice was needed."

"So…since I'm a Digi-Destined…I should have a Digivice, and a Digimon, correct?" Tiberius observed. "I wonder when they will be revealed…" Tiberius thought, sort of anxious for it to happen. The teenager was curious about all that has transpired so far, and wished to learn more.

The ground quaked, softly at first, then harder, and harder, then soon with enough force to knock Tentomon and Tiberius off their feet. Both fell into a state of panic, surprised by the suddenness of the quakes.

"Oh no, it must be Tiermon again!" Tentomon shouted, leaping towards the window. Tiberius followed him to see the problem.

The sun was high, finally illuminating the forest down below. Tiberius didn't realize the two had talked for so long, as was tempted to check his watch if it weren't for the disaster at hand.

Trees were being toppled over quickly, as a long worm like Digimon slithered across the ground. The gapping maw that made the creatures mouth crushed its self on a tree, swallowing it in one bite.

"Tiermon is a worm like Digimon who lives in the forest. However, she only started attacking recently, causing fear and chaos amongst the other forest Digimon," Tentomon informed Tibbs. "This has gone to far! I have to stop her!" Tentomon shouted, flying out of the window.

"Hey, wait!" Tibbs objected, seeing the size difference between the two. "Curse it," Tiberius muttered, climbing down part of the rope ladder, jumping down the remainder once it was within safe falling distance.

"SUPER SHOCKER!" was all Tiberius heard before a purple streak of electricity in the form of a bolt lashed out at Tiermon. The massive worm roared out in pain, slamming trees left and right with her rear end, snapping them as if they were mere toothpicks. In retaliation, Tiermon threw her tail at Tentomon, the defending Digimon barely avoiding the attack. Tiermon's tail smashed against another tree, toppling it. Tibbs leaped out of the way to prevent from becoming a pancake by the falling wood.

"Man…that was close…" Tibbs muttered, catching his breath from the fear. The tree snapped in half, the fall cracking the outer shell of this hollow tree. The teenager checked to see if anything was inside, taken by surprise with the contents he saw.

"What's this?" he asked, noting the two items hidden in the tree. The first was a small device, which he took in his hand. "This the Digivice?" he asked, noting the brown grip in contrast to blue and white with the other two that Tao and Shastina got.

The second was the fact there was a Digimon inside the tree as well.

"Hey, you okay?" Tiberius asked, shaking the small Digimon. He resembled a white bunny, with extremely floppy ears. A blue jewel was embed on his forehead; and a red, twelve point star on his chest. The Digimon also possessed a rather large set of feet, which he used to jump up and straighten up. He stood on all fours, shaking his blue, puffy tail into perfection. "Odd how his ears fall right to the ground," Tiberius commented.

"So, you must be Tiberius, or Tibbs, right?" he asked, smiling. "My name is Lepumon, and I'll be your Digimon for a while."

"I kind of figured that out," Tiberius replied, grinning at the Digimon's enthusiasm.

The moment was shattered when Tiermon absolutely decimated another tree with her tail, lashing wildly at her surroundings.

"I think I just made her angry…" Tentomon whispered, hovering over beside the two. Tiermon glared as much as a worm could glare at the trio with intent to cause death.

"Oh, really?!" Lepumon remarked sarcastically. He remained on all fours, ready to attack.

"I'm guessing this means you found your Digivice and Digimon," Tentomon commented, noting the new companion and new item that Tiberius held in his hand.

"Yeah, but it doesn't do us any good if we're dead…" Tiberius muttered, stepping back. Impatient now, Tiermon lunged at the trio.

"SUPER SHOCKER!" Tentomon attacked, hoping to give the attacking Digimon a indigestion by aiming into her mouth.

"SOLAR SPARKLER!" Lepumon shouted, unleashing a golden beam of energy from the jewel on his forehead. Both attacked were aimed directly for Tiermon's mouth.

The massive worm cringed in pain, halting her assault. Recoiling back, her tail again went on a mass frenzy, destroying the nearby trees.

"Again!" Lepumon ordered, unleashing another Solar Sparkler attack, this time, directed at the exposed underbelly of the worm. Tentomon followed the example, unleashing his Super Shocked at the exact same location.

Tiermon hollered in pain, quickly turning around and retreating to whence it came from.

"Good riddance," Lepumon commented, brushing his 'hands' before turning to face his partner.

"Well, at least I know I won't be bored the duration I'll be here for," Tiberius told him, commenting on Lepumon's 'sarcastic' attitude. "Speaking of which, I don't suppose anyone knows what time it is, do they?"

"Why don't you check your watch?" Tentomon suggested, muddling the teenager.

"I'm not wearing a watch," Tiberius stated, wondering what the Digimon was talking about.

"What are you talking about?" Lepumon asked. "There's a watch right there," he told Tiberius, pointing to the small item on his wrist. Tiberius lifted his hand, finally noticing the watch that suddenly materialized on his arm.

"I don't remember putting on a watch…" Tiberius spoke out loud, attempting to find a way to explain this phenomenon. "You know, I don't even think I OWN a watch like this…" Tiberius continued, playing with the newly discovered item. In a matter of seconds, he already deduced the functions of the watch.

"This watch isn't mine, but it has one impressive feature," Tiberius told his two compatriots. "The watch has the ability to tell time in any time zone. However, this one time zone, DWT, baffles me. I've never heard of such a zone, and it is completely different from any other one in this watch."

"Digi World Time?" Lepumon suggested, getting a closer look at the watch.

"Can't be, Digi World time and Real World time are synchronized," Tentomon countered. "It must be for something else."

"Maybe…can't really be sure," Tiberius commented softly, setting it back to his own time, Greenwich Meridian Time. Leaving the watch alone, he decided to examine his Digivice next.

"There supposed to be a…" Tentomon started, but was cut short when Tiberius 'opened' his Digivice. "Digital Terminal function on the Digivice, as you might have just found out. You can send your e-mail in and out, as well as keep track of Crests and Digi-Eggs."

"I'll have to test it out, as soon as I figure out how to get home…" Tiberius told them, closing the Digivice and clipping it to his jeans.

"Well, according to Biyomon and Gatomon…you should be leaving…right about now."

As Tentomon predicted, Tiberius did leave the Digital World, in the same blind light display as the two before him.

"He'll be back, right?" Lepumon asked the other Digimon, a bit saddened that his partner vanished.

* * * * * *

Tiberius found himself back in his room again, a first confused, before remembering what Tentomon said.

"I'm in my room…" he thought, taking his Digivice. He held the item at eye level for a long time, contemplating what to do at the current moment.

"I know," he told himself, sitting down and opening the Digivice. Quickly, he typed in an e-mail address.

Blitz

We need to talk Digi-World, if you know what I'm talking about.

~GTK

Pushing the send button, Tiberius leaned back on his chair. Now all he had to do is wait for a reply.

Fin

Completed: 11/08/00