Chapter One:Dark Calling
"Checkmate."
My little sister growled and cleared the board. "Best six out of eleven?" she offered.
"Kali, will you stop playing with him?" Kali's Digimon partner, Yokomon said. About a year ago, my little sister Kali was involved in a bunch of weird monsters appearing. Something about a dark spore. Either way, she got a Nyokomon as her partner, which has eventually digivolved to Yokomon. "I want to play with you."
"Sure Yokomon." she said. Kali was usually pretty nice, but she was still a sister. She went out to play catch with Yokomon-Yokomon having no arms, she caught it with the top of her head.
That left me to take it down to the basement. I'm Guren Yamagi. I'm a pretty average kid...or so I thought.
[AN:I chose Yamagi because it's Tai's Japanese last name. I figured that since I didn't know any real Japanese names besides Digidestined's, I should choose the only last name to get changed.]
When I came up, my mom and dad were looking out the window with looks of shock on their faces. "What's up?" I queried.
"Your sister just stopped playing and started walking." my mom responded. "I think Yokomon's trying to-" I never did find out what Yokomon was trying to do because my mother stopped in mid sentence. It was like she was in a trance. She didn't hold her arms out, mutter things and/or have red eyes, but I could tell she was being controlled. My dad was the same way. They started following Kali.
"Guys? Guys?" I called. Neither of them answered. I followed them, and found out practically the whole town was walking down the middle of the road. Cars piled on the sidewalk. It looked like everybody was being controlled.
"Yew oho!" a large, dinosaur/dragon thing said, waving it's arms. But the people just walked around it. A large insect buzzed around them yelling "Stop! Stop!" With a start I realized that Envenom and Stingmon were flying around the crowd! My sister had a thousand newspaper clippings about Digimon, and I flipped through them sometimes.
I wondered where the possessed citizens were headed. It didn't take long to find out. It was the large Digiport located in the middle of the city. A portal to the Digital World, it was Odiba's standing landmark. I saw figures that I, almost in an instant, recognized as the Japanese Digidestined standing near the Digiport. I slowly, edged towards them, listening in on their conversation.
"It's just illogical!" Kourishou Izumi said. "They seem to be in some sort of trance, but there's absolutely nothing that I know can be causing it. Unless there's a new enemy."
"Don't you hear it?" said a female. It took me a few seconds to recognize Hikari Kamiya. "It's music."
"I can't hear anything." Taichi Kamiya said. "You must be imagining stuff."
"Uh...hi." I said, calling attention to myself. If some catastrophe was occurring, I wanted my name down on the plaque, and not as the person who cowered away, eavesdropping on the hero's conversation. All eyes were on me, and now that nobody was talking I could hear a faint melody from far off.
"Who are you and why is your chest glowing?" Takeru Takashi asked. Chest glowing? I looked down and saw that a small light was in the middle of my chest. I could practically hear my heart pumping. I wasn't affected! My heart was glowing! Something exciting was about to happen to me.
All my life I had hoped for adventure. And now, it was here, in the form of a small light on my chest.
"Look, all the people all fixing in on one location!" Kourishou, or as he liked to be called "Izzy" said. "The Digital Gate! They must be trying to get to the Digital World!"
Under Taichi(or Tai)'s command, we made a human barrier around the Digital Gate. But the humans jumped over us! I knew they shouldn't have been able to jump that high easily, but they did anyways. I whirled around to meet them, but a flash of light blinded me. In a second, the streets were empty save me and the Digidestined. They had to all be in the Digital World.
An evil cackling filled the air. "Who's there!" Tai yelled, more of an exclamation than a question.
"Why only me." an odd voice said. The holder of the voice emerged from a dark alleyway. I had never seen a Digimon like it. It looked like a human-shaped(and sized) Shakkoumon, except that the gems all over his body had darker colours. Plus he had a large musical instrument that appeared to be a flute sticking out where his mouth should be. "I am Flutemon, an Ultimate Level Digimon! With my Flat Note and Sound Barrier attack, you sure don't want to have a headache!"
[A/N:Flutemon is my own Digimon, so don't steal him without my permission]
"Ha ha." I muttered under my breath.
"Armadillomon digivolved to...Ankylomon!"
"Patamon digivolved to...Angemon!"
"Ankylomon...Angemon...DNA Digivolve to...Shakkoumon!"
I was watching the battle, but not really paying attention to it. Shakkoumon kept using Pachino Blaster, but Flutemon's Sound Barrier always broke the tupperware. But when Flutemon attacked with Flat Note, Shakkoumon just absorbed it and fired it back in a Harmonious Spirit. It was a pretty even match. But like I said, I wasn't really watching it. I was filled with amazement-the amazement that I would have an adventure, possibly even be a Digidestined. The fact that I hadn't turned into a zombie had to mean something.
"Playtime's over!" Flutemon said ominously, adding in a Sound Barrier to break Shakkoumon's attack. "You haven't seen my best attack! Dark Calling!"
My wondering of why Digimon past Rookie level always have to end their sentences with exclamation marks was replaced by pain in my chest. I looked down and while my ears heard odd music, my eyes saw the glowing light in my chest, almost looking like it was trying to get free. "It's that music!" Hikari, or Kari explained.
"Everybody, get to the Digital Gate!" Shakkoumon ordered. We all ran. All of a sudden, the sharp pain in my chest increased. I stumbled to the ground, and all of a sudden the pain stopped. I heard something clatter to the ground, and dimly reached for it. It looked like some kind of Digivice. It had the console of a D-3, except without the bands of colour. Instead, two bands were at the bottom of the device, arched away from each other. One band was orange, the other blue.
I looked behind me and saw only Shakkoumon and Flutemon. The others must have gone through the Digiport. I ran towards the Digital Gate, just as Shakkoumon turned back into Armadillomon and Patamon and jumped through. Flutemon turned around to see me and grinned. "Flat Note!"
Instead of the normal Flat Note, a high-pitched scream filled the air-the kind that breaks glass times five. I covered my ears, and tried the hardest I could not to scream along with it. Almost...there...
CRACK! The screen of the Digital Gate shattered into a million pieces. The machine was broken. I was trapped here, soon to be destroyed by Flutemon-who had stopped the high note.
In desperation, I held my strange device up to what was left of the Digital Gate. "Digiport Open?" I said, as if I was asking it's permission.
To my suprise, it worked