I woke up just like every morning, in my bed in the Highton View Terrace apartments in Japan. My name is Trina Kingsley, my father had been transferred here from London, and though I spoke fluent Japanese, I hated this place, and missed my friends in England. We had moved in a few weeks ago, and now it was mid-July but I didn't see any chance of making friends before the school year started because all of the other kids in junior high had gone to a summer camp together, and I was left sulking inside. My mom came in and said "Oh good, you're awake honey, I have a surprise for you! I know you were feeling glum cause all the kids that are your age in the building are off at camp, so I got the name of the camp where they went and called the counselors and they said they could squeeze you in." she sat there beaming at me… "Oh…mom…that's—great…" I said unenthusiastically. She smiled at me and said, "Oh and I forgot to tell you, you start camp today!" "I WHAT???" I yelled "Sorry hun," she said "but you'll need to pack up before we leave so get a move on!" she cried cheerily, then stood and walked out of the room. I sat there for a moment, and then suddenly stood up and began to bustle about, packing up. I filled my duffel bag with clothes, and other necessities, and as soon as I was dressed my mom herded me out the door. I wore a navy blue t-shirt and with a big red stripe across the front. I had on a pair of light blue jeans, and a little green bandana pulled back my short auburn locks. I wore a pair of matching green gloves. I was pretty pale for the summer is but I had freckles dotting my cheeks. I got into the car clutching my bags. My other bag was just a simple reddish-orange messenger bag that had some snacks, sunglasses, a mini fan, a flashlight, my cell phone and portable radio in it. We headed out onto the highway and drove toward the summer camp that would change my life forever.
We arrived about an hour later, in the strangest conditions I had ever seen for a summer camp. There was deep, deep snow covering everything! We pulled into the freshly shoveled parking lot and got out. Great, I thought, heading through the slush for the counselor's office, and these sneakers were brand new too. We walked in and were greeted by a smiling man at a desk. "Ah, you'll be Katrina's mother," he said to my mom, and she nodded, and then he looked down at me, "Hello, Katrina, is it?" "I prefer Trina, thanks," I said, in my sweetest sarcastic Japanese possible. "Well, hello," he said, "I'm glad to have you here, though the weather is a bit abnormal for this time of year," He added looking at my mother. "Some freak snowstorm that meteorologists have yet to explain." He began to speak with my mother, and I sort of zoned out. A few minutes later I think he realized how bored I looked, and said, "Well, I just need to finish up a few things here with your mother, so you could go outside and explore a bit, okay?" I sort of grunted, and walked outside, leaving my duffel, but taking my messenger bag along. I walked off, the camp was pretty quiet, and it looked like everyone was indoors. I walked down a hill and was met by a beautiful sight. There was a big cliff and above it the sky seemed to shine with hundreds of gorgeous bright colors, it was like the northern lights. I walked over to the cliff, and looked up, my hand shading my eyes. I stepped forward and heard a sort of metallic crunch. I lifted up my foot and looked down. There was some kind of little gadget lying there in the snow. I went to pick it up, but just as my hand touched it, a blast of gold light came up. There was a shining rainbow portal looking thing in front of me, and then suddenly, I was falling.
I woke up on the ground. I was in some sort of jungle. I looked around. There were huge trees like none I had ever seen growing all around me. All of the sudden I heard a small voice. "Hello Trina, I've been waiting for you." And there, sitting before me was a little purpleish-tan ball. It had huge long ears and four little feet. He had giant brown eyes, and a little fanged mouth. "My name is Lorimon, and I'm your Digimon partner," there was a pause, "You're my what?" "Your Digital Monster, also know as Digimon," he said, quite frankly. "Oh…" I said, trying to sound as if I understood, but actually had no clue what he was talking about. Now I was pretty scared by now and kind of confused, but I was curious, "So, you're a digimon? Well, what do digimon do anyway?" I asked, "Well," Said Lorimon, "We digivolve!" "You what?" "We digivolve! If you're in trouble, then I'll digivolve into a different more powerful form, that could protect you!" He said. I looked down at this tiny purple basketball and tried to imagine him as a horrible monster. I shook my head, how was all of this happening? And why to me? Now? Suddenly I heard a horrible shrieking noise and a big crash. "Watch out, there are some bad digimon in the forest!" Said Lorimon, hopping up. "There are bad digimon?" I gulped, standing up my self and brushing off my jeans. "Oh yes!" Said Lorimon, "There are all sorts of digimon in the Digital World," "In the what?" I said, "The digital world, where you and I are now," He said. "Oh, okay" I said sounding a little dazed. I got up and started walking, where I was going I didn't know, but I had to start somewhere, "Well, if I found my way here, then I'm sure I can find my way back!" I said confidently and marched off randomly. Lorimon followed behind me. He looked at me strangely, "Where are we going?" He asked after a moment. "Home." I said. "Where's home?" he asked, "London," I said automatically, "Lon-where?" "It's where I live—used to I mean…" "Oh…" Said Lorimon, "Well why are we going this way, do you even know the way to Lunkon?" He said, I paused, looking around uncertainly. "To tell you the truth, I'm hopelessly lost, can you tell me where I am?" "Sure!" said Lorimon, "We're right in the middle of the Monochromon territory," "What's a Monochromon?" I said, but a thundering crash answered my question, as a huge dinosaur looking thing appeared in front of us. It was big and gray with black armor. It had huge red tipped horns, and red claws. I gasped, and Lorimon raced out in front of me. "Stay back!" He called. "Lorimon! Be careful!" I called nervously. Metalchromon reared his head and roared ferociously, but Lorimon stood his ground, "I don't understand" Lorimon called back at me, "Monochromon is usually very timid and gentle!" he called, "Yeah well looks like today he woke up on the wrong side of the bed!" I called, "And if your asking my advice I'd say RUUUUUUUNNNNN!!!!"
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I dashed up and scooped up Lorimon and flat out ran in the opposite direction. I could hear the huge beast gaining on us, bearing down on us. The trees that I wove in and out of it flattened with a single ground-shaking step. It stampeded towards us, and suddenly we came to the end of the trees. A cliff jutted out ahead of us with a lethal 50 foot drop onto razor sharp rocks. "Perfect," I muttered under my breath, I turned and faced the hulking beast. It stood snorting and stomping, winding up for a charge, meanwhile Lorimon was struggling madly against my grip. "I have to fight!" he cried "No way are you kidding?" I yelled, "You'll get creamed!" "I-HAVE-TO!" He yelled, and broke free. He ran up and leapt, he blew a little pink bubble, and it popped harmlessly on Monochromon's thick hide. Monochromon in turn whipped around and struck Lorimon with his huge spiked tail. Lorimon flew through the air and landed in my arms. "I-I-need-your help…" He gasped, but he was in bad shape. Monochromon had turned himself around, and looked really pissed. He began to charge. This is it, I thought, holding Lorimon close, but suddenly there was a glow of that same golden light, I opened my eyes and looked down. Lorimon was glowing. The gadget! I thought. I looked down, and somehow I saw that it attached itself to my messenger bag's strap, and it was lighted up. Lorimon leapt from my hands engulfed in a golden glow. Suddenly he began to change. His body got longer. His ears too, if you can believe it, his legs got longer, and he was up on his hind legs after a second, and then as suddenly as it had apeared the light had gone. Instead of my little Lorimon was a full grown—thing, I wasn't sure quite what. He looked a bit like a dragon rabbit thing. His ears were still huge, and drooped nearly to the ground. He was a lavender tan purple with a golden belly, with scales, and a line of yellow fur down his back. A gold horn came from his head, he had a long spiked tail. He now stood about half a foot shorter than me, and his big brown eyes glowed in anger. "BLUE BUBBLE BLASTER!" he yelled, and a shere of blue light burst from his mouth and hit Monochromon square in the face. He roared with rage, and the digimon formerly known as Lorimon blew another blue ball at him. A gash opened in Monochromon's back. "Go for his back!" I cried, and he leapt up and shot a ball right at his back. A huge round black thing that burst from his back and then disintegrated into a million pieces. Monochromon shook his head, then took one look at us and ran off in the other direction. "YAAAAAAAAY!!!!" I cried, running up and grabbing my digimon, and squeezing him tight, "Ack!" "Watch it!" he laughed. "Wow!" I said, slumping back on the dirt "Look at you!" I said, "So if you used to be Lorimon, who are you now?" I asked. "My name is Lindramon now," he said "You got me to digivolve! I never thought it'd feel so good," he said, flexing his golden claws. But we didn't have too much time to celebrate, because there was crashing in the underbrush and then all of the sudden to my complete shock, seven digimon and seven kids who looked to be about my age walked out of the woods.
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I sprang up. "Who are you?" I said in english. They all looked confused and began chattering quietly in japanese. "Who are you?" I repeated in japanese, they all looked up, surprised. I cleared my throat "Hi, I'm Trina Kingsley, and this is my digimon, Lindramon," I said, stepping aside so they could see him. They began talking again. "Umm, I don't know how I got here, but I just was at summer camp and I found this little gadget thing and then-" I was going to continue, but one of the boys in the group came up. He looked to be about my age, he was wearing a blue shirt and brown shorts, and had goggles on over his huge head of brown hair. "Hi," he said in polite japanese. "I'm Tai," "Hello Tai," I said, shaking his hand, "My name is Trina, umm, can you tell me where we are?" I asked. "Uh, well we're in the digital world, um, what kind of gadget did you say you found?" he asked "Oh," I said, "Umm, it's right here." I lifted up the strap of my messenger bag to show him my little gadget thingie. "Oh my gosh," He said, "Where'd you say you got that?" "I told you," I said, "I was at summer camp and I was walking and then I found it, and suddenly, wham, I'm here with this tiny purple basketball telling me all about digimon and the digital world. We only just escaped this huge grey dinosaur thing, a Metal-chrome-something or the other, he was in a bad mood cause he had some big black thing in his back, but as soon as we took care of it, the dino high-tailed it, and, well here I am…" I said this all very fast, and Tai looked a little overwhelmed, "Ummm, could you excuse me for a second?" he said, and then dashed back over to the group of kids, they formed a little circle, and began to whisper. I only caught snatches, but they were all things like "She has a digivce!" and "I think—" "Why not?" Basically all gibberish as far as I was concerned. I stood there patiently until they finished their meeting, and then Tai walked over, he led Lindramon and I over to the group of kids. "Welcome," He said, "To the digi-destined."