Digimon: The Year of Reckoning
Chapter 1
"Enter the Digital World"
Narrated by Brandon
"FAITH!"
I yelled at the top of my lungs. She whipped her head towards me with a frightened look on her face.
"Get away from the deep end! You know you can't swim very well!"
"I'm sorry," she said as she swam back towards me, Nick, and JT.
Let me back up a little. My name's Brandon. I'm a normal 14-year old boy. I have brown hair, spiked with blond tips, striking green eyes, and am pretty tall for my age.
Faith is my little sister. I treat her like a little kid considering she's 12, but since our dad died and our mom had to get a full-time job, I've had to look out for her. She's got jet-black hair and icy blue eyes.
Nick is my best friend in the whole world. We've been friends ever since we were in diapers. We're a lot alike, but he's got a bit more of a sense of humor, and a bit less of a brain. No offense to him.
JT is his little brother. Nick protects him the same way I do Faith even though their parents are alive and well. Sometimes I'm jealous of that. Anyway, JT is 11 and has dirty blond hair.
Back to the present. We were swimming in a lake that lays in the depths of our state forest. Today it was just the four of us. Oh, there was this other girl on the shore. She was beautiful. She had chocolate colored skin, dark, shiny, long, flowing hair, green eyes like mine, and the face of an angel. She was new to the neighborhood so I didn't know much about her. I didn't even know her name.
"Hey who's that girl?" I asked Nick.
"I don't know. Man, she's hot!"
"Why don't we go over and talk to her? Get to know her."
"Um...I can't…I have a slight problem, that is very evident in wet shorts." His gaze headed down and I understood. I had the same problem. What can I say? We're 14-year old boys staring at a hot girl in a pink, leather bikini. Like it's never happened to you.
"Can we go?" JT asked impatiently.
"We just got here shrimp," Nick replied. "Why don't you go swim with your girlfriend?"
He was talking about Faith. Everyone knew JT liked her but he would never admit it.
"Fuck off."
"Watch your mouth jackass!" Nick yelled.
"Both of you, stop it," I said. "You're causing a scene."
"There's no one here except us." Then JT raised his voice a couple decibels before saying, "And that girl you guys have been checking out all day."
Nick and I blushed as she turned her head our way. Nick splashed JT who splashed back. We started a huge water war.
Suddenly there was a slight rumble and we stopped our splashing.
"What was that?" Faith asked.
The rumbling got louder and the lake started to ripple. From behind me I heard an ear-splitting scream. I whipped my head around to see a monstrous wave arise from the lake and slam down on top of the beautiful girl.
"NO!" I screamed as I tore through the water towards her.
"Brandon, you're gonna get killed!" Nick yelled trailing behind me.
"Stay back! Take Faith and JT back to the shore. Faith can't swim in these waves!"
He obeyed me but didn't look happy about leaving me alone. I continued on towards the girl. All I could see of her were thrashing arms waving above the surface of the water. Another wave toppled over her and I got hit by some of it too.
Now I couldn't see her at all. She was completely under. I dove down through the murky water trying to locate her. Swimming forward I brushed against a lifeless mass. I knew it was her by the bright pink bathing suit.
I wrapped my arms around her waist, resisted the urge to just sit there with our bodies intertwined, and kicked my legs madly.
As soon as our heads emerged from the water I was pulled forward. The two of us continued being dragged around the lake in a circular motion getting closer and closer to the very center. It was a whirlpool!
I turned around and tried to swim against the current and back to the shore. Then two more lifeless bodies floated past me. I recognized them as Nick and JT. I wondered what happened to Faith.
"Brandon!"
My gaze went up and I saw her on a cliff that Nick and I used for diving.
"Faith…" I wave splashed over me. "…Get off of there!"
"I'm gonna save you!"
And with that she jumped off, barreling through the hair. And then she hit…
The blow knocked the air out of me. I lost my grip on the girl and she floated away. The world around me blurred. I slowly sunk down into the water.
And then everything blacked out…
…My eyes slowly fluttered open.
"Brandon! Brandon, wake up! Oh Brandon you're alive!"
I coughed up water and slowly sat up.
"Faith, what happened? Where are we?"
"I don't know. I just woke up a few minutes ago. Wherever we are, it's no where I've ever been before."
I looked around. She was right. This place was odd. We used to be in a secluded forest surrounded by pine trees. Now we were in more of a jungle, with strange looking palm trees.
"Where's Nick? And JT and that girl?" I asked.
"I don't know. They couldn't be too far from here."
"I know where they are," said a strange, impish voice.
"Who said that?" I asked.
"It was me, Hornmon."
A little bouncing head with a rather large horn came out from behind some shrubs.
"Whoa! You're a digimon!" I exclaimed recalling the stories about the digidestined that my grandmother had used as bedtime stories. "I didn't think you really existed. Does this mean we're in the digital world?"
"You got it. And we are very much real." He paused. "And very much in danger."
"What kind of danger?" Faith asked.
"The digital world is being threatened by a huge digimon named Darkmon. He just all of a sudden turned on all the other digimon. He appears to be just a shadow casting darkness over everything he comes in contact with. He wants to take over the digital world."
"Well, someone's got to destroy him. What about the old digidestined?" I offered.
"The old digidestined have been dead for years, and their digimon have aged and moved to Jamaica to retire."
I stifled a laugh. The poor little guy looked scared to death.
"Well, then we'll help you," I said and Faith nodded. "By the way, my name's Brandon and this is Faith."
"BRANDON! As in the Brandon! I've been looking all over for you!" he shrieked.
"Me, why?"
"You are one of the new digidestined. I'm your digimon partner."
He bounced up into my arms and nestled up to my chest.
"We're gonna have so much fun. We'll be an unstoppable force. Brandon and Hornmon! Watch out for us!"
"Calm down. So you're saying I'm a digidestined. Wait, that makes sense. In my grandmother's story she said that only digidestined kids could enter the digiworld."
"So where's my digimon?" Faith asked looking around.
"Well, there's supposed to be three more digidestined, so maybe you're one of them." Hornmon informed.
"Brandon! Faith!"
It was Nick he ran towards us with JT and the beautiful girl in tow. Following them were three little digimon.
"I'm Sandmon, Nick's digimon."
He was basically just a moving pile of sand with eyes. Way creepy.
"I'm Tadpolemon, JT's digimon."
He looked like, well, a tadpole. Go figure.
"I'm Podmon, Mya's digimon."
Ah, so Mya was her name. Podmon had a muffled voice, but so would you if you were wrapped up in a cocoon with openings only for your eyes.
"Well if you guys are the four digidestined, then why am I here?"
"Grandma said that some kids could be digidestined but not have a digimon. Maybe that's you." I offered.
"I want a digimon!" she cried.
"I'll be your digimon," said a dark voice.
"Huh?" we all said.
"Oh no! It's Darkmon!" Sandmon shrieked crawling behind Nick.
"Of course after we have our fun…I'll have to kill you. But then again why wait?"
That's when we saw him. Just like Hornmon had said, he was basically a large shadow in the form of a cloaked man. But his eyes were showing. Blood red, beady, glowing eyes. They made the hairs on my neck stand up.
"Maybe I'll just kill all of you for entering the world that belongs to me."
"This isn't your world!" Hornmon screamed.
"Oh, it will be. Dark Wave!"
A wave of blackness washed over me. I suddenly felt depressed, sullen. All of the worst memories were being played in my head. Being teased for having abnormally big feet. Seeing Faith in the hospital after she nearly drowned. My father's funeral.
I finally awoke from my stupor to see the others with terrified faces. Faith was even crying. But the attack didn't seem to affect the digimon. They charged forward.
"Bubble Blow!" they all yelled.
The bubbles passed right throw Darkmon as if he were only a hologram.
"We need more power!" they yelled.
As if to answer their plea, four beams of light shot towards me and the other digidestined. Mine yellow, Nick's blue, JT's green, and Mya's pink.
I looked down at my hand and saw a small device. I assumed it was a digivice.
"Let's help them out guys!" I yelled. "Go!"
We all aimed our digivices at our digimon. They were absorbed in the yellow, blue, green, and pink light.
"Hornmon digivolve to…Spikemon!"
"Sandmon digivolve to…Crustmon!"
"Tadpolemon digivolve to…Betamon!"
"Podmon digivolve to…Catermon!"
There they were, our rookie digimon. Spikemon looked like a miniature rhinoceros standing on its hind legs. Crustmon was a small crab. Betamon was a frog looking digimon. And Catermon was a caterpillar with a pink bow in its hair.
Will the digidestined be able to beat Darkmon now that their digimon have digivolved? Or will Darkmon finally get what he wants?