I don't own Digimon, I wish I did....
Digital Convergences
Chapter 1 - "Genesis"
by Vivi-Chan
Takato paced about impatiently. "Shouldn't he be here yet?" Leaves crunched
underfoot as he walked to and fro before finally sitting down on a bench, next
to Ruki.
Jianliang Lee stood there. directly across from Takato, leaning against the
railing with his arms folded. His eyes had been closed, but now opened to
check his watch. "It's BARELY six o'clock Takato-kun. Give Ryo-san some time.
He probably doesn't know this area all too well."
Lee-kun, as Takato called him, was in a different class from him. He was
friendly and really seemed really grown up.... smart too. Lee's partner had
been a very laid-back creature called Terriermon.
"I can't believe you gave him my cellphone number! HIM! Of all people!" Ruki
was furious. She'd pulled off her headphones to speak and Takato could vaguely
hear some sort of music blaring from the earpieces. "I should kick your ass."
"I-... sorry! Sorry! I'm really REALLY sorry!" Takato tried to placate Ruki
all the while inching slowly backwards. "It was the only number I could think
of. I don't have a cellphone yet. Neither does Lee-kun." Takato was rather
nervous that Ruki WOULD carry through with her threat to inflict serious pain
upon his being someday.
Ruki Makino was... scary. She really was. She was a complete tomboy. She was
also the reigning D-1 Digimon Card Game Tournament winner. She was called the
Digimon Queen, and anything concerning Ryo Akiyama - the legendary champion of
the D-1 Tournaments was something of a sore point with her.
"Hmph! That's why you're an idiot." With a sense of finalty, Ruki put her
earphones back in place and closed her eyes again. The only signs of movement
were her breathing and her index finger tapping out a beat. The unpleasant
frown on her face served to underscore what a faux pas he had made.
"Yo!!!" The call came from a distance. It was Ryo, jogging along with a
battered brown satchel slung over a shoulder. He trotted to a halt in front of
them. "Sorry I'm late, I got turned around at Shinjuku Station and came out
the wrong exit. Had to backtrack."
"Hmph. Figures," replied Ruki, removing her headphones. "So. What now?"
"Well..." began Takato. "I asked Jian about restaurants in the area... he
suggested this Chinese restaurant nearby."
Jian grinned faintly, "It's owned by one of my relatives."
"Chinese?" Ruki didn't seem impressed. "I suppose."
"I havn't had Chinese in ages," said Ryo. "It sounds like a great idea."
"All-right! Let's go!" exclaimed Takato.
They walked as a group towards the restaurant that Jian had suggested, passing
by various stores, including an internet cafe. As they walked by it, Ryo's
D-Arc began to beep insistently.
Ryo frowned, pausing to glance at it. "What the heck...?" He glanced towards
the place. "Can you guys hang on a minute, I need to check something out."
Without waiting for their approval, Ryo dashed into the place.
"I wonder what's wrong?" asked Jianliang.
"Let's follow him!" suggested Takato, taking a step towards the entrance.
"This is ridiculous," replied Ruki.
"Excuse me-" Ryo's voice could be heard clearly as he spoke to the woman
manning the counter.
Takato decided the lady was creepy. She just had this aura about her. She was
silver haired, dressed in red with an odd hat. Her eyes were obscured by the
thick coke-bottle sized lenses.
"You must be the one this package was supposed to be delivered to," the woman
replied in contempt. She reached under the counter to pull out a package
wrapped in newspaper. "This is for you, Ryo Akiyama."
"How do you know my name?!" Ryo demanded.
"Follow the instructions inside and maybe you'll find out!" With that said,
the mysterious woman leapt over the counter, knocking back Ryo before running
off. "You'll see me again, brat!"
"What was that about....?" asked Takato.
"Saaa...." replied Jianliang, looking equally lost.
Ryo looked at the package that had been left on the counter top. He reached
for it and began to carefully unwrap it. Inside was a note and some kind of
terminal. With the package under one arm, Ryo unfolded the letter and began to
read, his expression growing uglier by the second.
Takato had never seen that look on Ryo's face before, and truth be told, it
frightened him more than just a little. Ryo had read the note in the package
before crumpling it up in one hand.
"Where's the digital gate?" Ryo asked.
"What's wrong, Ryo-san?" asked Takato.
"Where's the digital gate?!" Ryo demanded again. His expression was that of
cold fury.
"Is there something wrong?" asked Jianliang.
"It's none of your business!" Ryo nearly exploded it seemed, then paused.
"Sorry... it's something I have to do."
"We'll help!" volunteered Takato instantly.
"We?" asked Ruki. Trust Takato to assume everyone was game for it.
"No! It's too dangerous. It's not a game," Ryo said, pulling out his D-Arc and
pointing in various directions like a compass. "I'm going alone."
"We're a team!" protested Takato. "We promised to go the digital world
together."
"There might not BE a Digital World if I don't go," he replied breaking into a
run. Apparently the D-Ark had picked up some kind of signal.
"But Ryo! What about food?" Takato asked.
"I'll forage, like I've always done!"
Takato was rather hard pressed to keep up with Ryo as the older boy ran,
although Jianliang raced ahead. "I'll head him off!" Jian reassured him,
sprinting ahead
"This is ridiculous," complained Ruki from somewhere behind Takato where she
was lagging behind, although rapidly catching up.
Jianliang, true to his word, had blocked Ryo's way. "If you'd just explain it
to us, we'd be willing to help."
"I don't NEED your help, dammit! You'll all just end up getting hurt." Takato
had never seen Ryo react so negatively to anything.
What was that supposed to mean? "Is it the D-Reaper again?" Takato asked.
"Are you saying we don't matter?" demanded Ruki. She seemed to take any
implication that she wasn't as good as Ryo as a personal affront. "If you
think you're going to leave us out of this, you're SORELY mistaken." Ruki
emphasized it with a kick.
"No, not that..." Ryo gripped the package that he still had in one hand. "It's
personal. I have to save a friend..."
"Why didn't you say so? Any friend of yours is a friend of ours," said Takato.
See? It wasn't that hard was it.
"It's not that simple... Oh... all right, just stay out of my way..."
"Maybe we should get some supplies?" suggested Jianliang. "Or call our folks?"
"No. There isn't enough time for it, I'm not sure if there's enough time
anymore..." He pushed past Jianliang. "C'mon.. we've GOT to hurry. If you've
still got that PDA, Takato... you'd better email Yamaki later."
Through the tunnel, that Guilmon had dug what had seemed ages ago, Takato
followed Ryo and they ran through the gate.
Takato had forgotten just how scary it was, falling down from the 'real world'
towards the lowest Digital Level... the ground was racing towards him at an
incredibly fast rate and he tried to keep in mind that he was data.
----
Taichi sat up, spitting out a mouthful of sand. It seemed as if the sand had
gotten everywhere in his clothing. Yick. He stood up trying to shake most of
it out. Where was he? Looking around, he could see it was a vast expanse of
beach. Jutting out from the sand like some postmodern piece was a telephone
call booth.
"Ow.... Where are we?" asked Yamato as he sat up, rubbing at the back of his
head. He pulled himself to his feet.
Taichi heard some coughing and spitting, "Pthooey!" It was Koushirou, coughing
up some sand while clutching his Pineapple laptop. "Taichi-san... Yamato-
san..."
Taichi pointed to the telephone booths, buried in the sand. There was a row of
them, apparently left just the way they had been when they had last been here,
nearly five years ago. "Looks like we're back... on File Island."
Taichi patted himself down, "Do either of you have your D-Terminal with you?"
he asked Koushirou and Yamato. As a matter of fact, he was probably lucky he
even had his Digivice with him. "Nevermind... does your laptop work,
Koushirou?"
Koushirou sat down on the sand, indian-style and opened his laptop. Pressing
the power key, the large pineapple obediently appeared on the screen.
"It appears to be functional, Taichi-san."
"Good. Try to email the others and get ahold of Gennai-san." Taichi grabbed
hold of Yamato's arm, "Yamato and I will scout around. Stay put... unless
Shellmon comes after you!"
Pulling Yamato along, Taichi asked, "What was the last thing you remember?"
"Nothing really...." Yamato replied, cramming his hands into the pocket of his
jeans. "Takeru was talking about you wanting to go see a movie. I was going to
take the keyboard from Takeru so that I could message Hikari... I remember
there was a message from Ken."
"Yeah... I thought I saw it a split second before everything went blank...
something about 'get out of the chat room'? Wonder if Ken knows something?"
Taichi hoped that the others were all right. It had been more than just the
three of them in that room.
"Possibly, hopefully Koushirou can contact him," replied Yamato noncomittally.
"So. You take north and I take south and we'll meet back at the beach?"
Taichi gave Yamato a thumbs up, "That's the plan." With a grin and a wave, he
pushed his way through the undergrowth. Hikari... Be careful... he thought to
himself.
----
"Ow.... where are we...?" asked Daisuke as he sat up. Abruptly a gust of wind
seemed to snatch at his clothing and the sand stung his eyes. He pulled his
goggles over his eyes. Where on earth were they?
With his goggles on, he was able to make out the fact that they were on a
windy bluff. It looked like a complete desert or something... except for the
glowing balls that went rolling by as the wind blew.
Looking around he caught sight of a familiar figure, "Hikari-chan! Are you all
right!" Scrambling to his knees, he crawled over to her. "Hikari-chan! Hang in
there!"
"Daisuke...." said a voice just as close by. It was Takeru, holding his hat
down to keep it from being whipped away by the wind.
"Are you all right, Takeru?" asked Patamon hovering anxiously in front of his
partner.
"Waugh!" Takeru made a grab for his partner as a gust of wind threatened to
send his partner flying off. Instead, his hat went sailing off in the wind.
"I'm fine Patamon."
"Where are we...?" It was Miyako, adjusting her glasses as she looked around,
"Hawkmon! Iori!"
"Miyako-san..." the younger boy mumured in confusion, "Where are we...?"
"You're asking me?!" Miyako asked with a hint of hysteria in her voice.
"Ken-chaaaaan!" came the call of Wormmon. "Where are you?!"
"Ken!" Daisuke's head whipped around to focus on the insectoid digimon. If
there were any more conversations going on, he'd have whiplash from everything
that was grabbing at his attention. If Wormmon was here like all the other
partnered Digimon... Ken had to be here too. Standing on the edge of the
bluff, he called out, "ICHIJOUJI!!!!"
Damn the wind... it was difficult to see anything! What if Ken had fallen from
the bluff or something? That was when he caught sight of movement in the
distance. What could have been a solitary figure, pushing against the
direction of the wind. "Ichijouji!"
"Do you see him?!" asked Miyako.
"Down there!" Daisuke pointed. Without prompting, he began to slowly climb his
way down the bluff, V-mon following closly, hopping from outcropping to
outcropping. Wormmon seemed determined to come along for the ride as well.
"I'm going after him! You guys stay here!"
"Wait Daisuke-kun!" exclaimed Takeru. "It's dangerous! I'm coming too!"
Whatever Takeru had said, was lost to the wind. Who said goggles were
useless... Reaching the ground, Daisuke pulled out his D-Terminal, "You ready,
V-mon?" he asked.
"Yeah!" exclaimed V-Mon.
"Digimental UP!" called out Daisuke, transferring the data from his D-Termnal
to his D-3, uploading the Digimental of Friendship.
Disappearing in a flash of light with the Digimental, V-mon called out, "V-
Mon! Armor evolve to...."
Daisuke never got tired of watching the change. It was incredible how the
Digimental could cause such a change in a Digimon - in this case turning V-mon
into a swift four-legged beast.
"Roaring Friendship, Lighdramon!" With a leap, the newly evolved Lighdramon
sprang out of the rabidly fading light.
Daisuke vaulted onto Lighdramon's back, "Let's go partner!" he called out,
urging his Digimon to head towards the figure in the distance.
"Right, Daisuke," affirmed Lighdramon.
--------
The voices wouldn't shut up in his mind. If Ken had been in any coherent state
of mind, he might have screamed. The voices in his mind - the manical laughter
had seemingly narrowed the senses of his world to sound and pain.
"Go away!" he raged in his mind. There was no shutting out voices that were
within his own mind. His neck hurt as if that thing embedded in the base of
his skull had come alive.
"Return to your former self," came the silken seductive and cold whisper.
"Return to the darkness.... find me...." The three phrases continued to mock
him as he walked in a daze. The voices seemed to roar with each beat of his
heart, driving him in search of something. He knew not what, but he was
searching...
Ken was jarred out of his daze as he tripped on a boulder. He rolled, finding
himself staring up at the sky. Up towards the strange blue sphere in the sky
above. He was aware that a red dinosaur-like creature was peering at him.
"You don't smell of Takato but Guilmon hopes that you might know Takato." it
asked with a hopeful air as it sniffed at him.
Takato? He didn't know ANY Takatos.... even at school. "NO... g'away...." His
head was hurting fit to burst. The sunlight seemed to send stabing knives into
his mind and his neck seemed to now be on fire.
"It's a very large world," said a second voice, husky and vaguely feminine. It
belonged to a fox-like creature. "I don't think he knows Takato and the
others."
"Mou-man-taaai!" chimed a white and green creature. "Ne? Monodramon?" It
looked, at least to Ken, like a mix between a dog and a rabbit. "Monodramon?"
The red creature seemed rather lost about things and glanced between the other
Digimon, "Eh?"
The final creature was a grey-ish thing, with a horn-like proturberance. It
was snarling faintly at him, and Ken felt himself baring his teeth back at it
too.
"Monodramon?" asked the golden Digimon. The concern in that Digimon's voice
was hardly of any consequence as his world narrowed in its focus to the
creature called Monodramon. Just as he seemed to reject the Digimon, there was
an urge to posess it.
"Monodramon?" the smallest Digimon hopped off the fox Digimon's shoulder.
"Monodramon. Daijoubu? Are you all right?" It stopped mid question, looking
towards the sky, "Jian...."
"It's Takato!" the red digimon cried out happily, after sniffing the air. "And
Jianliang and Ruki and Ryo! It's everyone!!!!"
"Let's go," said Terriermon, running. Guilmon enthused, echoed the sentiment
and followed the smaller Digimon. Only the golden Digimon and Monodramon
remained.
"Monodramon?" the fox-creature asked warily.
The grey creature lunged towards him with a snarl.
"Monodramon!" exclaimed the fox-creature, grabbing hold of Monodramon's tail.
"Cease this at once!"
Ken just laughed, because it seemed the right thing to do. Laughing seemed to
clear his mind. At last, he knew what he had been looking for... it was this
Digimon known as Monodramon.
Digital Convergences
Chapter 1 - "Genesis"
by Vivi-Chan
Takato paced about impatiently. "Shouldn't he be here yet?" Leaves crunched
underfoot as he walked to and fro before finally sitting down on a bench, next
to Ruki.
Jianliang Lee stood there. directly across from Takato, leaning against the
railing with his arms folded. His eyes had been closed, but now opened to
check his watch. "It's BARELY six o'clock Takato-kun. Give Ryo-san some time.
He probably doesn't know this area all too well."
Lee-kun, as Takato called him, was in a different class from him. He was
friendly and really seemed really grown up.... smart too. Lee's partner had
been a very laid-back creature called Terriermon.
"I can't believe you gave him my cellphone number! HIM! Of all people!" Ruki
was furious. She'd pulled off her headphones to speak and Takato could vaguely
hear some sort of music blaring from the earpieces. "I should kick your ass."
"I-... sorry! Sorry! I'm really REALLY sorry!" Takato tried to placate Ruki
all the while inching slowly backwards. "It was the only number I could think
of. I don't have a cellphone yet. Neither does Lee-kun." Takato was rather
nervous that Ruki WOULD carry through with her threat to inflict serious pain
upon his being someday.
Ruki Makino was... scary. She really was. She was a complete tomboy. She was
also the reigning D-1 Digimon Card Game Tournament winner. She was called the
Digimon Queen, and anything concerning Ryo Akiyama - the legendary champion of
the D-1 Tournaments was something of a sore point with her.
"Hmph! That's why you're an idiot." With a sense of finalty, Ruki put her
earphones back in place and closed her eyes again. The only signs of movement
were her breathing and her index finger tapping out a beat. The unpleasant
frown on her face served to underscore what a faux pas he had made.
"Yo!!!" The call came from a distance. It was Ryo, jogging along with a
battered brown satchel slung over a shoulder. He trotted to a halt in front of
them. "Sorry I'm late, I got turned around at Shinjuku Station and came out
the wrong exit. Had to backtrack."
"Hmph. Figures," replied Ruki, removing her headphones. "So. What now?"
"Well..." began Takato. "I asked Jian about restaurants in the area... he
suggested this Chinese restaurant nearby."
Jian grinned faintly, "It's owned by one of my relatives."
"Chinese?" Ruki didn't seem impressed. "I suppose."
"I havn't had Chinese in ages," said Ryo. "It sounds like a great idea."
"All-right! Let's go!" exclaimed Takato.
They walked as a group towards the restaurant that Jian had suggested, passing
by various stores, including an internet cafe. As they walked by it, Ryo's
D-Arc began to beep insistently.
Ryo frowned, pausing to glance at it. "What the heck...?" He glanced towards
the place. "Can you guys hang on a minute, I need to check something out."
Without waiting for their approval, Ryo dashed into the place.
"I wonder what's wrong?" asked Jianliang.
"Let's follow him!" suggested Takato, taking a step towards the entrance.
"This is ridiculous," replied Ruki.
"Excuse me-" Ryo's voice could be heard clearly as he spoke to the woman
manning the counter.
Takato decided the lady was creepy. She just had this aura about her. She was
silver haired, dressed in red with an odd hat. Her eyes were obscured by the
thick coke-bottle sized lenses.
"You must be the one this package was supposed to be delivered to," the woman
replied in contempt. She reached under the counter to pull out a package
wrapped in newspaper. "This is for you, Ryo Akiyama."
"How do you know my name?!" Ryo demanded.
"Follow the instructions inside and maybe you'll find out!" With that said,
the mysterious woman leapt over the counter, knocking back Ryo before running
off. "You'll see me again, brat!"
"What was that about....?" asked Takato.
"Saaa...." replied Jianliang, looking equally lost.
Ryo looked at the package that had been left on the counter top. He reached
for it and began to carefully unwrap it. Inside was a note and some kind of
terminal. With the package under one arm, Ryo unfolded the letter and began to
read, his expression growing uglier by the second.
Takato had never seen that look on Ryo's face before, and truth be told, it
frightened him more than just a little. Ryo had read the note in the package
before crumpling it up in one hand.
"Where's the digital gate?" Ryo asked.
"What's wrong, Ryo-san?" asked Takato.
"Where's the digital gate?!" Ryo demanded again. His expression was that of
cold fury.
"Is there something wrong?" asked Jianliang.
"It's none of your business!" Ryo nearly exploded it seemed, then paused.
"Sorry... it's something I have to do."
"We'll help!" volunteered Takato instantly.
"We?" asked Ruki. Trust Takato to assume everyone was game for it.
"No! It's too dangerous. It's not a game," Ryo said, pulling out his D-Arc and
pointing in various directions like a compass. "I'm going alone."
"We're a team!" protested Takato. "We promised to go the digital world
together."
"There might not BE a Digital World if I don't go," he replied breaking into a
run. Apparently the D-Ark had picked up some kind of signal.
"But Ryo! What about food?" Takato asked.
"I'll forage, like I've always done!"
Takato was rather hard pressed to keep up with Ryo as the older boy ran,
although Jianliang raced ahead. "I'll head him off!" Jian reassured him,
sprinting ahead
"This is ridiculous," complained Ruki from somewhere behind Takato where she
was lagging behind, although rapidly catching up.
Jianliang, true to his word, had blocked Ryo's way. "If you'd just explain it
to us, we'd be willing to help."
"I don't NEED your help, dammit! You'll all just end up getting hurt." Takato
had never seen Ryo react so negatively to anything.
What was that supposed to mean? "Is it the D-Reaper again?" Takato asked.
"Are you saying we don't matter?" demanded Ruki. She seemed to take any
implication that she wasn't as good as Ryo as a personal affront. "If you
think you're going to leave us out of this, you're SORELY mistaken." Ruki
emphasized it with a kick.
"No, not that..." Ryo gripped the package that he still had in one hand. "It's
personal. I have to save a friend..."
"Why didn't you say so? Any friend of yours is a friend of ours," said Takato.
See? It wasn't that hard was it.
"It's not that simple... Oh... all right, just stay out of my way..."
"Maybe we should get some supplies?" suggested Jianliang. "Or call our folks?"
"No. There isn't enough time for it, I'm not sure if there's enough time
anymore..." He pushed past Jianliang. "C'mon.. we've GOT to hurry. If you've
still got that PDA, Takato... you'd better email Yamaki later."
Through the tunnel, that Guilmon had dug what had seemed ages ago, Takato
followed Ryo and they ran through the gate.
Takato had forgotten just how scary it was, falling down from the 'real world'
towards the lowest Digital Level... the ground was racing towards him at an
incredibly fast rate and he tried to keep in mind that he was data.
----
Taichi sat up, spitting out a mouthful of sand. It seemed as if the sand had
gotten everywhere in his clothing. Yick. He stood up trying to shake most of
it out. Where was he? Looking around, he could see it was a vast expanse of
beach. Jutting out from the sand like some postmodern piece was a telephone
call booth.
"Ow.... Where are we?" asked Yamato as he sat up, rubbing at the back of his
head. He pulled himself to his feet.
Taichi heard some coughing and spitting, "Pthooey!" It was Koushirou, coughing
up some sand while clutching his Pineapple laptop. "Taichi-san... Yamato-
san..."
Taichi pointed to the telephone booths, buried in the sand. There was a row of
them, apparently left just the way they had been when they had last been here,
nearly five years ago. "Looks like we're back... on File Island."
Taichi patted himself down, "Do either of you have your D-Terminal with you?"
he asked Koushirou and Yamato. As a matter of fact, he was probably lucky he
even had his Digivice with him. "Nevermind... does your laptop work,
Koushirou?"
Koushirou sat down on the sand, indian-style and opened his laptop. Pressing
the power key, the large pineapple obediently appeared on the screen.
"It appears to be functional, Taichi-san."
"Good. Try to email the others and get ahold of Gennai-san." Taichi grabbed
hold of Yamato's arm, "Yamato and I will scout around. Stay put... unless
Shellmon comes after you!"
Pulling Yamato along, Taichi asked, "What was the last thing you remember?"
"Nothing really...." Yamato replied, cramming his hands into the pocket of his
jeans. "Takeru was talking about you wanting to go see a movie. I was going to
take the keyboard from Takeru so that I could message Hikari... I remember
there was a message from Ken."
"Yeah... I thought I saw it a split second before everything went blank...
something about 'get out of the chat room'? Wonder if Ken knows something?"
Taichi hoped that the others were all right. It had been more than just the
three of them in that room.
"Possibly, hopefully Koushirou can contact him," replied Yamato noncomittally.
"So. You take north and I take south and we'll meet back at the beach?"
Taichi gave Yamato a thumbs up, "That's the plan." With a grin and a wave, he
pushed his way through the undergrowth. Hikari... Be careful... he thought to
himself.
----
"Ow.... where are we...?" asked Daisuke as he sat up. Abruptly a gust of wind
seemed to snatch at his clothing and the sand stung his eyes. He pulled his
goggles over his eyes. Where on earth were they?
With his goggles on, he was able to make out the fact that they were on a
windy bluff. It looked like a complete desert or something... except for the
glowing balls that went rolling by as the wind blew.
Looking around he caught sight of a familiar figure, "Hikari-chan! Are you all
right!" Scrambling to his knees, he crawled over to her. "Hikari-chan! Hang in
there!"
"Daisuke...." said a voice just as close by. It was Takeru, holding his hat
down to keep it from being whipped away by the wind.
"Are you all right, Takeru?" asked Patamon hovering anxiously in front of his
partner.
"Waugh!" Takeru made a grab for his partner as a gust of wind threatened to
send his partner flying off. Instead, his hat went sailing off in the wind.
"I'm fine Patamon."
"Where are we...?" It was Miyako, adjusting her glasses as she looked around,
"Hawkmon! Iori!"
"Miyako-san..." the younger boy mumured in confusion, "Where are we...?"
"You're asking me?!" Miyako asked with a hint of hysteria in her voice.
"Ken-chaaaaan!" came the call of Wormmon. "Where are you?!"
"Ken!" Daisuke's head whipped around to focus on the insectoid digimon. If
there were any more conversations going on, he'd have whiplash from everything
that was grabbing at his attention. If Wormmon was here like all the other
partnered Digimon... Ken had to be here too. Standing on the edge of the
bluff, he called out, "ICHIJOUJI!!!!"
Damn the wind... it was difficult to see anything! What if Ken had fallen from
the bluff or something? That was when he caught sight of movement in the
distance. What could have been a solitary figure, pushing against the
direction of the wind. "Ichijouji!"
"Do you see him?!" asked Miyako.
"Down there!" Daisuke pointed. Without prompting, he began to slowly climb his
way down the bluff, V-mon following closly, hopping from outcropping to
outcropping. Wormmon seemed determined to come along for the ride as well.
"I'm going after him! You guys stay here!"
"Wait Daisuke-kun!" exclaimed Takeru. "It's dangerous! I'm coming too!"
Whatever Takeru had said, was lost to the wind. Who said goggles were
useless... Reaching the ground, Daisuke pulled out his D-Terminal, "You ready,
V-mon?" he asked.
"Yeah!" exclaimed V-Mon.
"Digimental UP!" called out Daisuke, transferring the data from his D-Termnal
to his D-3, uploading the Digimental of Friendship.
Disappearing in a flash of light with the Digimental, V-mon called out, "V-
Mon! Armor evolve to...."
Daisuke never got tired of watching the change. It was incredible how the
Digimental could cause such a change in a Digimon - in this case turning V-mon
into a swift four-legged beast.
"Roaring Friendship, Lighdramon!" With a leap, the newly evolved Lighdramon
sprang out of the rabidly fading light.
Daisuke vaulted onto Lighdramon's back, "Let's go partner!" he called out,
urging his Digimon to head towards the figure in the distance.
"Right, Daisuke," affirmed Lighdramon.
--------
The voices wouldn't shut up in his mind. If Ken had been in any coherent state
of mind, he might have screamed. The voices in his mind - the manical laughter
had seemingly narrowed the senses of his world to sound and pain.
"Go away!" he raged in his mind. There was no shutting out voices that were
within his own mind. His neck hurt as if that thing embedded in the base of
his skull had come alive.
"Return to your former self," came the silken seductive and cold whisper.
"Return to the darkness.... find me...." The three phrases continued to mock
him as he walked in a daze. The voices seemed to roar with each beat of his
heart, driving him in search of something. He knew not what, but he was
searching...
Ken was jarred out of his daze as he tripped on a boulder. He rolled, finding
himself staring up at the sky. Up towards the strange blue sphere in the sky
above. He was aware that a red dinosaur-like creature was peering at him.
"You don't smell of Takato but Guilmon hopes that you might know Takato." it
asked with a hopeful air as it sniffed at him.
Takato? He didn't know ANY Takatos.... even at school. "NO... g'away...." His
head was hurting fit to burst. The sunlight seemed to send stabing knives into
his mind and his neck seemed to now be on fire.
"It's a very large world," said a second voice, husky and vaguely feminine. It
belonged to a fox-like creature. "I don't think he knows Takato and the
others."
"Mou-man-taaai!" chimed a white and green creature. "Ne? Monodramon?" It
looked, at least to Ken, like a mix between a dog and a rabbit. "Monodramon?"
The red creature seemed rather lost about things and glanced between the other
Digimon, "Eh?"
The final creature was a grey-ish thing, with a horn-like proturberance. It
was snarling faintly at him, and Ken felt himself baring his teeth back at it
too.
"Monodramon?" asked the golden Digimon. The concern in that Digimon's voice
was hardly of any consequence as his world narrowed in its focus to the
creature called Monodramon. Just as he seemed to reject the Digimon, there was
an urge to posess it.
"Monodramon?" the smallest Digimon hopped off the fox Digimon's shoulder.
"Monodramon. Daijoubu? Are you all right?" It stopped mid question, looking
towards the sky, "Jian...."
"It's Takato!" the red digimon cried out happily, after sniffing the air. "And
Jianliang and Ruki and Ryo! It's everyone!!!!"
"Let's go," said Terriermon, running. Guilmon enthused, echoed the sentiment
and followed the smaller Digimon. Only the golden Digimon and Monodramon
remained.
"Monodramon?" the fox-creature asked warily.
The grey creature lunged towards him with a snarl.
"Monodramon!" exclaimed the fox-creature, grabbing hold of Monodramon's tail.
"Cease this at once!"
Ken just laughed, because it seemed the right thing to do. Laughing seemed to
clear his mind. At last, he knew what he had been looking for... it was this
Digimon known as Monodramon.
