Compassionate Power: Prologue
Ok, this is a Fanfic about me and some Fictional characters. My name has been changed to protect my identity. The Fictional ones are from a TV show called Digimon, which I do not own. The characters in Digimon are copyrighted by... someone, perhaps Bandai. I didn't write this for a profit, and the content of this Fanfic does not necessarily represent the opinions of the people working on the Digimon show. Also, the character of a friend of mine's, Yakanori Heza, is hers, not mine, and that and any other characters that I use that are owned by someone else, I have asked permission to use. I think that's all the legal stuff I needed to include. Now, on to the actual story.
Saiai waited impatiently for the bell to ring. It was currently 8th period, the last class of the day; of the week, for that matter. It was Friday, English Class, and it was a test day. He had already finished his test, but had forgotten to bring a book to class, so he waited. Looking around the classroom, he sighed. *Dang... this is the first time in a while that I forgot to bring a book to class,* he thought nonchalantly. *I know my memory is kinda unreliable, but this is getting ridiculous!* Saiai leaned back in his chair. *Geez... if my memory keeps getting worse, I'll end up forgetting all that Japanese I learned...* He sighed again. *Oh well, there's not much I can do about it. I just hope that my memory holds out through College.*
Brrrrrring!!!
Walking home from school in the forest where his house was, Saiai seemed somewhat out of place. Having an average height and build, spiky reddish-brown hair, and a rather pale complexion, he looked out-of-touch with the forest around him. Even his clothes, which were pretty plain, a logo-less aquamarine T-shirt and blue jeans, seemed unable to connect with the beauty of the forest around him. Saiai was, once again, focused on getting home so he could go on the computer and talk to his friends online. He stopped suddenly in his tracks. On the ground below him were ants, crawling and milling about like people coming home on the freeway. He stepped around the ants and continued walking. Saiai had a thing for ants. He respected them, and their odd ways. He liked most insects, for that matter, but didn't like to keep them indoors. He liked to watch them go about their business outside. The only bugs he didn't really like were gnats. But enough about insects, let's get on with the story.
A bit after Saiai stepped past the ants, he heard an odd noise. He looked up, and saw something that looked like a ball of green energy. "What the..." He ran off the path just in time.
*KABOOOOM!*
The green ball of energy slammed into the ground and let loose a shockwave that shook the entire forest. At the point where it had hit the road, there was a large crater. Saiai, of course, had to go look inside. As he peered over the crater's edge, a small glowing object flew out of the crater. It flew towards Saiai. As if entranced by the glow of the small, greenish thing, he held out his palm, snatched it out of the air, then opened his palm again.
In it was a small device that looked something like a walkie-talkie with a viewscreen installed. Saiai shook it. "Hmmm... seems to be made of plastic... it doesn't seem to be a bomb or something like that... What is it, and where did it come from?"
All at once, the ground began to shake, and a huge fissure appeared in the ground, directly below Saiai. He only had time to think one thing, *Why did I have to ask?!* and he was falling into the crack in the Earth... Falling... Falling...
Once the 14-year-old boy had totally disappeared inside the crack, it sealed itself shut again, revealing no sign of anything ever happening. The only witnesses to this phenomenon were the ants...
"Hey!"
"Huh... What?"
"Hey, you! Wake up!"
"Huh? Where am I?"
Saiai's eyes snapped open. Standing above him was what appeared to be a grizzled old man. "AAA!" He yelled and sprung to his feet. "Don't DO that!" Saiai looked around nervously. "Huh? This isn't the forest where I was... Where am I, and who are you? And why am I here?"
"Whoa, whoa, one question at a time, young one!" Now that Saiai had calmed down, he noticed that the old man was slightly transparent. "All right, now I'll answer your questions. This is the Digital World, or Digiworld, for short. I am the Guardian of the Digiworld, named Gennai. I'd talk to you in person, but you ended up a bit farther away than I had anticipated, so I have to talk to you through this Holographic Device."
"Wait, the Digiworld? Guardian? I'm still confused here."
"Well, let me try to put in terms you would understand. You know what the Internet is, right?" Saiai nodded. "Good. Now, the Internet has a Physical Manifestation. Pretty much anything you do 'online` affects something here. Are you keeping up with me here?"
Saiai nodded again. "That's good. Now, I'm the Guardian here. I try to keep things in the Digiworld running smoothly. Usually I can do this job alone, as long as the Digimon help me."
"Digimon?" Saiai thought for a moment. "Digimon equals Digital Monsters, roughly translated. So there are creatures living in this 'Digiworld`?"
"Basically, yes. There are 3 basic types of Digimon, which are: Virus, Data, and Vaccine. Virus types are usually bad, Vaccine types are mostly good, and Data types are normally Neutral. Got that?"
"Yeah, I follow."
"Now, usually the Data and Vaccine types keep the Virus types in check. But every now and then, the number of bad Digimon increases dramatically, usually because of one REALLY bad Digimon, and I need to call on outside help. That's where you come in. You are a Digidestined, destined from whence you were born to come to the Digiworld and fight alongside the other Digidestined in an attempt to save the Digiworld."
"Cool! So, where are the other Digidestined?"
"Well... I made a mistake. You were supposed to come to the Digiworld a while ago, but I forgot to bring you. The other Digidestined are somewhere else, and have had lots of experience with this place."
"Hmmm, I see."
"Don't worry, you'll probably meet up with the other Digidestined sometime or another."
"Well, alright, I get all this. So, how exactly do I fight these monsters?"
"With your Digimon!"
"Ok, where is he?"
"Um... I forgot."
"WHAT?!"
"Don't worry, as long as you head north, you'll eventually run into your Digimon. Just look for a small egg on top of a molehill. Or was it a mountain? Well, anyway, good luck." Gennai's Hologram began to fade.
"WAIT! Which way's north, and what do I do with the egg?"
Gennai faded completely from view.
"Arrgh... that old man has probably doomed me..." Saiai looked around and saw some moss on a tree stump. He went over to look at it. "Hmmm... I hope the moss-tree-north thing works in the Digiworld too..." He then trekked off in the direction the moss was facing.
Unnoticed by Saiai, several pairs of eyes glittered in the treetops above him.
"Hee hee! Izzat the guy da Boss told us to eat?!"
"Hee, who cares?! As soon as night falls, we shall feast upon his flesh!"
"Heheh, and then we'll use his bones for stew!"
"No, I wanna eat the bones!"
"Too bad, I'm using them to make stew!"
"QUIET! He'll hear you!"
"Not if he hears you first!"
"Are you calling me a loudmouth?!"
"Well, you're no Etemon, but..."
"That's it, you're going down!!"
"Bring it on, loudmouth! I'll kick your sorry butt from here to File Island!"
"HEY! Keep it down!"
"Oh, so you want a piece of me too, Fat Boy?!"
"Fat Boy?! ARRGH!!"
Saiai was too far away to hear the sound of the ensuing battle.
Ok, this is a Fanfic about me and some Fictional characters. My name has been changed to protect my identity. The Fictional ones are from a TV show called Digimon, which I do not own. The characters in Digimon are copyrighted by... someone, perhaps Bandai. I didn't write this for a profit, and the content of this Fanfic does not necessarily represent the opinions of the people working on the Digimon show. Also, the character of a friend of mine's, Yakanori Heza, is hers, not mine, and that and any other characters that I use that are owned by someone else, I have asked permission to use. I think that's all the legal stuff I needed to include. Now, on to the actual story.
Saiai waited impatiently for the bell to ring. It was currently 8th period, the last class of the day; of the week, for that matter. It was Friday, English Class, and it was a test day. He had already finished his test, but had forgotten to bring a book to class, so he waited. Looking around the classroom, he sighed. *Dang... this is the first time in a while that I forgot to bring a book to class,* he thought nonchalantly. *I know my memory is kinda unreliable, but this is getting ridiculous!* Saiai leaned back in his chair. *Geez... if my memory keeps getting worse, I'll end up forgetting all that Japanese I learned...* He sighed again. *Oh well, there's not much I can do about it. I just hope that my memory holds out through College.*
Brrrrrring!!!
Walking home from school in the forest where his house was, Saiai seemed somewhat out of place. Having an average height and build, spiky reddish-brown hair, and a rather pale complexion, he looked out-of-touch with the forest around him. Even his clothes, which were pretty plain, a logo-less aquamarine T-shirt and blue jeans, seemed unable to connect with the beauty of the forest around him. Saiai was, once again, focused on getting home so he could go on the computer and talk to his friends online. He stopped suddenly in his tracks. On the ground below him were ants, crawling and milling about like people coming home on the freeway. He stepped around the ants and continued walking. Saiai had a thing for ants. He respected them, and their odd ways. He liked most insects, for that matter, but didn't like to keep them indoors. He liked to watch them go about their business outside. The only bugs he didn't really like were gnats. But enough about insects, let's get on with the story.
A bit after Saiai stepped past the ants, he heard an odd noise. He looked up, and saw something that looked like a ball of green energy. "What the..." He ran off the path just in time.
*KABOOOOM!*
The green ball of energy slammed into the ground and let loose a shockwave that shook the entire forest. At the point where it had hit the road, there was a large crater. Saiai, of course, had to go look inside. As he peered over the crater's edge, a small glowing object flew out of the crater. It flew towards Saiai. As if entranced by the glow of the small, greenish thing, he held out his palm, snatched it out of the air, then opened his palm again.
In it was a small device that looked something like a walkie-talkie with a viewscreen installed. Saiai shook it. "Hmmm... seems to be made of plastic... it doesn't seem to be a bomb or something like that... What is it, and where did it come from?"
All at once, the ground began to shake, and a huge fissure appeared in the ground, directly below Saiai. He only had time to think one thing, *Why did I have to ask?!* and he was falling into the crack in the Earth... Falling... Falling...
Once the 14-year-old boy had totally disappeared inside the crack, it sealed itself shut again, revealing no sign of anything ever happening. The only witnesses to this phenomenon were the ants...
"Hey!"
"Huh... What?"
"Hey, you! Wake up!"
"Huh? Where am I?"
Saiai's eyes snapped open. Standing above him was what appeared to be a grizzled old man. "AAA!" He yelled and sprung to his feet. "Don't DO that!" Saiai looked around nervously. "Huh? This isn't the forest where I was... Where am I, and who are you? And why am I here?"
"Whoa, whoa, one question at a time, young one!" Now that Saiai had calmed down, he noticed that the old man was slightly transparent. "All right, now I'll answer your questions. This is the Digital World, or Digiworld, for short. I am the Guardian of the Digiworld, named Gennai. I'd talk to you in person, but you ended up a bit farther away than I had anticipated, so I have to talk to you through this Holographic Device."
"Wait, the Digiworld? Guardian? I'm still confused here."
"Well, let me try to put in terms you would understand. You know what the Internet is, right?" Saiai nodded. "Good. Now, the Internet has a Physical Manifestation. Pretty much anything you do 'online` affects something here. Are you keeping up with me here?"
Saiai nodded again. "That's good. Now, I'm the Guardian here. I try to keep things in the Digiworld running smoothly. Usually I can do this job alone, as long as the Digimon help me."
"Digimon?" Saiai thought for a moment. "Digimon equals Digital Monsters, roughly translated. So there are creatures living in this 'Digiworld`?"
"Basically, yes. There are 3 basic types of Digimon, which are: Virus, Data, and Vaccine. Virus types are usually bad, Vaccine types are mostly good, and Data types are normally Neutral. Got that?"
"Yeah, I follow."
"Now, usually the Data and Vaccine types keep the Virus types in check. But every now and then, the number of bad Digimon increases dramatically, usually because of one REALLY bad Digimon, and I need to call on outside help. That's where you come in. You are a Digidestined, destined from whence you were born to come to the Digiworld and fight alongside the other Digidestined in an attempt to save the Digiworld."
"Cool! So, where are the other Digidestined?"
"Well... I made a mistake. You were supposed to come to the Digiworld a while ago, but I forgot to bring you. The other Digidestined are somewhere else, and have had lots of experience with this place."
"Hmmm, I see."
"Don't worry, you'll probably meet up with the other Digidestined sometime or another."
"Well, alright, I get all this. So, how exactly do I fight these monsters?"
"With your Digimon!"
"Ok, where is he?"
"Um... I forgot."
"WHAT?!"
"Don't worry, as long as you head north, you'll eventually run into your Digimon. Just look for a small egg on top of a molehill. Or was it a mountain? Well, anyway, good luck." Gennai's Hologram began to fade.
"WAIT! Which way's north, and what do I do with the egg?"
Gennai faded completely from view.
"Arrgh... that old man has probably doomed me..." Saiai looked around and saw some moss on a tree stump. He went over to look at it. "Hmmm... I hope the moss-tree-north thing works in the Digiworld too..." He then trekked off in the direction the moss was facing.
Unnoticed by Saiai, several pairs of eyes glittered in the treetops above him.
"Hee hee! Izzat the guy da Boss told us to eat?!"
"Hee, who cares?! As soon as night falls, we shall feast upon his flesh!"
"Heheh, and then we'll use his bones for stew!"
"No, I wanna eat the bones!"
"Too bad, I'm using them to make stew!"
"QUIET! He'll hear you!"
"Not if he hears you first!"
"Are you calling me a loudmouth?!"
"Well, you're no Etemon, but..."
"That's it, you're going down!!"
"Bring it on, loudmouth! I'll kick your sorry butt from here to File Island!"
"HEY! Keep it down!"
"Oh, so you want a piece of me too, Fat Boy?!"
"Fat Boy?! ARRGH!!"
Saiai was too far away to hear the sound of the ensuing battle.