Disclaimer: I don't own digimon or any of characters.
Author: Thanks to EVERONE who sent me reviews. You were so nice! I seriously didn't think anyone would review. But 5 people put this under their favorites. Including Nicole; and the war was all in fun girl. *Chants* I got Ken, I got Ken… ok, I'm done. I'll try to get a new chapter out every week.
New ally's, new wonders.
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As the light engulfed me, I felt a floating feeling. All my worries were lifted out of my body. No pain hit me. No loss, not even my breath was taken from me. I opened my eyes. The light was so dazzling, so amazing. So… comforting.
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I felt a damp feeling below me. I now felt pain, my body was throbbing. I took a couple deep breaths, then opened my eyes again. The light no longer surrounded me; I was out on the side of the street. After sitting up with some difficulty, I looked at my aching arm. My sweater was ripped and the skin was torn up pretty badly. Looking around, I notice the truck diver didn't even stop to see if I was ok.
"Jerk" I muttered. I bit I lip, it was the only thing that could keep me from screaming when the cold wind hit against my wound.
"Ken" I heard a faint yell in the distance. The voice belonged to my mom. I got up and started walking away. Maybe I'm just being stubborn and childish, but I'm never going back home. I walked around for about an hour, by the time that I stopped, my arm felt like it was going to make me pass out. I sat down on a bench and leaned back.
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Regular POV
Ken wiped some sweat from his face with his good arm. Not many people were out. The only one's Ken saw were in cars. After Ken got some strength back he got up and started walking into the park. He didn't want his mom and dad seeing him. And if they passed, they would. He walked into the middle of the park and sat on top of a rock by a pond. Hardly anyone came to this area because it was so vandalized.
Ken looked around. There was graffiti on the walls, statues, and on the ground. Almost all the benches were broken, and the water was filled with litter. Ken looked ahead and saw the skyscrapers lit up. No wonder he couldn't see any stars. A noise suddenly came from the water. He jumped up and frantically searched through his pockets. He soon remembered that he didn't bring his D-3. What good would it do anyway? Wormmon was in the digiworld.
Bubbles started rising in front of him. Ken started backing up. He stumbled and hit the back of his head on a statue. For a moment, he couldn't see. But as soon as he could, Ken saw a dark figure climb out of the murky pond water. Ken jumped up and started running in the opposite direction. He soon reached a wire fence. Ken looked back and saw the thing coming after him. He looked up and saw it was about ten feet high. Ken grabbed a wire and started climbing. He completely forgot about his aching arm. When he was about five feet off the ground, something cold touched him. He closed his eyes and felt his hands unintentionally let go of the fence.
Ken was soon so afraid; he blacked out.
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"I think he's coming to" a voice came.
"How can you tell?" Another voice replied.
"Because… I just can" The first voice said.
"I think I should leave. You stay here"
"What?" Ken soon heard a door open and close. He slowly opened his eyes. At first, all he saw was blurry shapes. But they soon took a figure. 'Where am I?' Ken thought. He blinked and saw a girl sitting in a chair next to him. He bolted to a sitting position.
"Lay down Ken. You really hit your head," The girl said calmly. Ken frowned.
"How do you know my name?" Ken asked. She simply shrugged. "Ok? Who are you?"
"You'll learn later, when you're stronger"
"I'm fine!" Ken replied. He sat up again.
"No you're not Ken" she replied as Ken fell back down. "You hit your head really hard" Ken rolled his eyes in defeat. She laughed. His eyes studied her. She had thin brown hair that went about two inches past her tan shoulders. He noticed she had red highlights, but they were barely visible. She had caring emerald eyes. She looked a few months younger than him.
"Can you answer me one question" Ken asked.
"It depends" she replied.
"Where am I?" the nameless girl hesitated.
"I'm not really sure how to explain it," she thought for a moment. "Well" she got up and walked over to the window. She opened the curtains. Outside the sun was shining, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. She then opened the window, and a sea breeze blew through. The sound of seagulls and waves splashing against the sand came through also.
"We're at the ocean? But, I don't live anywhere near the ocean" Ken said
"We are… in between the digital world and the real world. We're at the light ocean" she replied.
"What? I never heard of the light ocean"
"I know. Not many have. Gennai is actually the only outsider who does. It's hidden from the digiworld. No evil has ever reached it. Not even the Dark Masters" Ken stared at her.
"What?" Ken asked. The nameless girl laughed. Ken blushed a little.
"Don't worry. You'll learn soon enough. Right now, you need your sleep" With that, she walked across the room. As she closed the door, another girl's voice came from right outside it.
"Does he know?" the voice asked.
"No. He doesn't have a clue" The door closed all the way, so that was all Ken could hear. He looked at the brown oak door after it had shut. 'Who is she?' he wondered. 'And who was that voice?' Ken looked around the room to find something to do. A bookshelf stood in the corner. Books were scattered across the shelves. He threw caution to the wind and stood up. His head hurt like hell, and his arm was worse.
Ken started walking towards the shelf, but stopped in the middle of the floor. He grabbed a nearby dresser to keep from falling. The door opened again.
"Ken" the girl yelled. He couldn't hold on any longer. Ken let go right as the she grabbed onto him. "You're really going to get hurt if you don't stay in bed" She put his arm around her shoulder and led him to the bed. He sat down.
"I was just trying to get a book," Ken said quietly. The auburn haired girl sighed.
"Then ask me" she replied.
""Ok, can you please get me a book?" The girl walked over to the shelf and looked. "What kind of story do ya wanna read?"
"I don't know. A mystery I guess" Ken replied.
"Ok" She scanned the shelf and threw Ken a thick one. Ken looked at the title.
"A Past Midnight" He read aloud.
"Ya. I haven't read it, but it sounds good"
"Thanks" Ken said.
"Welcome. Now lay down and relax. If I catch you up again…" Ken smiled and nodded. The girl walked out of the room again. Ken lay back down on the bed and started reading.
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Ken slowly opened his eyes. He heard the gulls calling outside his window. He rolled over and looked outside. Some dark blue curtains covered the glass. Ken sighed, sat up and yawned. His head was still throbbing, but his arm had finally stopped stinging. He looked at the clock that sat by his bed. It was 9:56 a.m.
He yawned again and picked up the book he started reading yesterday. Now he didn't even remember what it was about. His eyes were just scanning the page. He didn't really want to read it again, so he lay back down. The white bedspread covered him all the way up to his chin. Ken closed his eyes. He tried to remember the last couple of days. All that he remembered, was he was sitting by the pond and bubbles started coming up.
He wasn't sure where, or what they were coming from. Then, he remembered the fence. The dark figure, and when it grabbed him. After that, he had blacked out. The next day was a blur too. All Ken remembered was the auburn girl. And he asked her a few questions. She refused to answer each one. Except for where he was. She said they were in-between worlds. Ken heard the door open. The same girl from yesterday stood in front of him.
"Hey Ken. How are you feeling?" she asked calmly.
"I feel ok" Ken replied.
"Cool. You feel healthy enough to eat something?"
"Ya. I could eat" Ken replied. The mysterious girl smiled.
"Do you want to eat in. Or do you want to go out?" she asked.
"Go out?" Ken asked.
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The next thing Ken knew, he was walking down a boardwalk in some shorts and a tank top. He didn't know how he got into them; they just… appeared. Children about the same age as the girl and him ran by them.
"Are you going to answer any of my questions?" Ken asked as he saw some teens a little older than him walking by them.
"Yes. Just be patient" the girl replied. They walked into a restaurant. It looked like the kind you would find in Adventure land in one of those Disney parks. They got a seat. "Ok. So, what do you want to know?" She said after they ordered.
"For one, who are you?"
"My name is Catherine Litton" she answered.
"Ok" Ken thought carefully about the next question. "How'd everyone get here?"
"Um…" Catherine hesitated. "All these children disappeared. All without a trace. And we ended up here. All of us were around the same age. Four. We all come from around the world." Ken looked at Catherine in disbelief. "It's a long and confusing story"
"I want to hear it" Ken said. He wanted to know all he could about what was going on around him. Just then, the food arrived.
"What did you order for me?" Ken asked examining the food placed in front of him.
"It's called a hamburger" Catherine replied. "Try it" Ken lifted up the 'hamburger.' He looked at it as if it was an insect. "Ken, it ain't poison. Watch" she lifted up her hamburger and took a bite.
"Ok…" Ken said. Although he was still unsure. Ken took a bite and swallowed. "Wow" he said.
"Told ya it was good. Didn't I?" Catherine said with a laugh.
"Hey Catherine. Who's the guy?" a voice came from behind Ken's head. Catherine half smiled. Ken turned around and saw two girls and a guy. The girls were in bathing suits with a wrap over them. While the guy just wore some swim trunks.
"Ken, these are my friends. This is Katie" Ken looked at the girl with a blue suit and the dark blue wrap. Her hair was the same color as Catherine's. Only her hair was in tight curls. She was, unlike most people here, pretty light. "Janelle is the one in the black" Janelle was wearing black bathing suit with a black wrap. She had very light brown hair. "And this is David" Catherine pointed to the Mexican boy in the gray swimming shorts. He had brown eyes, and brown curly hair. Ken guessed, by a girl's point of view, he was probably 'cute.'
David sat down next to Catherine, while Katie jumped next to Ken. Janelle stood by the booth. She looked a little annoyed.
"Hi. My names Katie Jones" she said shaking his hand.
"Katie, calm down. He's new." Catherine said. She put a little enthuses on the word 'new'.
"Oh" Katie said a little disappointed.
Ken noticed everyone was speaking the same language. Then, thinking back on the past few minutes, he noticed he was speaking English. "Hey. I'm speaking English" David and Janelle laughed.
"You didn't notice that yesterday" Catherine asked after she quietly kicked David in the leg.
"No" Ken said blushing.
"Well. Gennai made us speak the same language. So we can all communicate with each other easily." Janelle explained. She made it sound like it was extremely easy to understand. Janelle's tone also showed she didn't want to be there. 'That's the girl I heard with Catherine' Ken thought.
"Well, we're going to get some food" David said. Janelle smiled and led Katie and David over to the counter. Catherine rolled her eyes.
"Sorry about that. Janelle can be rude at times. David is really nice when you get to know him" Ken nodded. "Any more questions?" Ken battled over what to ask her.
"Why did everyone come here?"
"Ok. Well, Gennai made this ocean. He took five hundred children from all over to world. We used to help Gennai hide this area from Devimon and all the other evil ones." Catherine looked around. "There's this area that keeps most of the data from the digiworld. It's stores the light. You see… the digiworld consists of a balance. Light and darkness. If the darkness takes over, the digiworld is being killed off."
"All the children here have a special trait. But my eight other friends and me are the strongest. I'll tell you about them later. We are all meeting later to go surfing. So, basically, we are here to save earth and the digital world" Catherine finished. Ken sat trying to understand all the information that had just been given to him. "I know. It's really confusing. Even I don't understand it all. Anything else?"
"Um. What was that thing that brought me here? It came out of that old pond" "That was a digimon guard probably. I've never seen one, but I've heard they're really scary. It went to get you here."
"Oh" Ken was silent for a moment. "What am I doing here?"
"Sorry Ken, but that's the one thing I can't tell you. All I can say, is that you'll find out later this week."
"Why can't you tell me?"
"I'm just following orders."
"Orders? From who? Why can't you tell me?"
"Ken, I can't tell you that."
"Do you even know?" Ken asked suspiciously.
"Yes. Wait. KEN" she laughed. "Come on, lets get back to the house" Catherine stood up and Ken followed her out of the restaurant. They walked back up the boardwalk. Ken saw thousands of shops and a beautiful coastline. Surfers blanketed the water.
"Your going surfing in this" she said looking at the crowded water.
"No way. My friends and me wait till later. Around one. That's when the park gets crowded." She pointed towards either a little amusement park, or a big fair. Catherine and Ken reached the house after a couple of minutes. She lives really close to the boardwalk. Catherine opened the door and threw her keys onto a nearby table.
"So. What's there to do here?" Ken asked.
"I'm usually out with my friends, and if we've got nothing to do, I watch TV." Catherine pointed to a 25' screen.
"Cable?"
"Satellite"
"Did I die and go to heaven?" Ken asked curiously.
"You'd think that. Wouldn't you" Catherine said with a smile. Ken looked at the clock on the wall and saw it was 10:56 a.m. Ken sat own on the sofa and clicked on the television. Catherine felled down onto the spot next to him. Even though she was thin, the sofa groaned. They surfed through the channels. About one hour later, Catherine got up and turned off the TV.
"We should get ready to go," she said.
"Go…." Ken asked.
"Surfing" Catherine replied.
"I don't know how to surf" Ken replied.
"Don't worry about it. You'll learn" Ken walked to his room. He opened the curtains to let some light it. It really brightened up the room. Ken walked towards his dresser and found some swimming trunks in the top drawer. He changed into them and put on a navy blue shirt. The black haired boy walked back out to the living room and saw Catherine waiting.
"How the hell do you change so fast?" Ken asked.
"I don't know. You change slow" Catherine replied. They walked out of the house and Catherine grabbed an aqua surfboard.
"Aren't you afraid someone will steal it?" Ken asked.
"Not really. This is a kid community. We know we'll get caught and punished if we steal something. Gennai somehow always finds out."
"Oh" Catherine and Ken walked past the boardwalk and down a sandy path. Ken saw Catherine stop and dig through his bag.
"Here" she held out her hand. Ken looked into it and saw she held a hair tie.
"Thanks" Ken gratefully took it and pulled back his long hair. They continued walking down the sandy path. Flowers decorated the side. "Catherine?" He asked.
"Ya?" she replied.
"I have a question" Catherine sighed. "It's not about how I got here or anything."
"Ok. Then ask away"
"How did my arm and head heal?"
"Well, you know how I told you that we are in-between the digiworld and the real world"
"Ya. I remember"
"In the digiworld, you can get healed at midnight. Earth, it can take over a week for that to heal. Here things heal faster than earth, but slower than the digiworld. You have been asleep for two days-"
"What?! Two days?" Ken asked interrupting her.
"Ya, you were out cold" Ken shrugged. They reached the beach. Catherine was right. It was a lot less crowded.
"Cathy" a voice yelled. Ken looked to see who it was.
"Don't call me Cathy" Catherine replied laughing. "Come on Ken," She yelled back at Ken as she ran towards the boy. Ken walked after her. When he reached her, so had seven other people. Ken walked up beside her.
"Everyone, this is Ken. Ken you've met Katie, Janelle and David. Well, this is…" and Catherine started the introduction again. "Danielle" Danielle had short, red hair and her face was sprinkled with freckles. She looked like the kind of girl you would find in a fashion magazine (she was sure skinny enough). "This is Gus" A Mexican boy with spiked black hair and brown eyes. "Rodrigo. But we call him Rico" She pointed to another Mexican boy. He had frizzy brown hair, and also had brown eyes. "And finally this is Bryan" She pointed to the last one. He was tan, and had dark brown hair that looked almost black.
"Hello." Ken said shyly. Everyone smiled.
"Ever surfed before Ken?" Danielle asked.
"No. I don't really live near an ocean" Ken replied.
"Well, then we'll just have to teach you" David said, his grin growing wider.
Here's a extra surfboard," Bryan said tossing him a dark green one. Ken caught it.
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The nine teens lay on the beach. The whole group had warmed up to Ken except for Janelle. She was still really distant. Everyone else seemed to have a really good friendship with her. So, maybe she was just not interested in being his friend. Sure, that got him down, but he found seven other friends. Kids that he liked almost as much as TK, Kari, Cody, Yolie, and Davis.
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Why was Ken sent to the light ocean? Who are these strange new children? What happened to Diana? Do you like this story still? The next chapter will take longer to get out for two reasons. 1: writers block. 2, I REALLY have to start studying. I have Ds in 3 of my classes (don't worry, I've been doing tons of extra credit)
