Dejital Wars Episode 1
C1: A Search To Begin
[A/N: Bad Lucas! You made me have weird ideas! Ah, shazbit. Oh well. Enjoy,]
[Disclaimer: Lucas and his boys own the original stuff, but I own the new, modified stuff I type down. Don't steal and don't sue.]
"So tell me, young Gennai. Are you prepared to embark upon your quest?"
"Yes, master Pixiemon. I'm ready. But are you entirely sure that there are—"
"Thirteen, there are. Most are on different planets, they are. Yep, yep. Now, go. We need these young knights, we do."
The brown-haired Gennai pulled in a deep breath and let it out slowly. He started away from the Deji Council, heading out the door and towards the spaceport of the capitol city of the planet of Thurinien. It was going to be a very, very long time before he arrived back upon the planet.
"First on my list is a boy named Yagami Taichi and his sister Hikari." Gennai murmured to himself, tapping the semi-solid holographic keyboard, "Only first because they're closest to Thurinien. But at least they're close." He typed in a few more things, coordinates mainly, and sat back, crossing his arms. There was little to do now except wait the hour or so that awaited him.
Gennai thought over the reason for his quest. The Darkness of the Digital was starting to gain strength again. Even without their legendary Dark Knight from two hundred years ago, the Darkness was rising in new Virus Lords and demon learners.
However, two hundred years ago, after the supposed defeat of the Darkness, many of the Deji Knights left the order. There didn't seem to be much of reason for the Deji to remain together.
And the past two hundred years was the time the Darkness needed to gain their feet again. Virus Lords appeared rapidly, frighteningly so, and were beginning to bring down chaos on the universe once more.
A search had begun for new Deji Knights. The Deji Council had found the children that were most powerfully in-tune with the Digital and sent Gennai out to collect them.
Gennai leaned his head back and shut his eyes. Almost immediately, he was asleep.
Destination: Junray. Time: Arrived. Destination: Junray. Time: Arrived.
Gennai jerked awake, snorting in surprise. The computer bleeped the arrival message over and over until the Deji Master smacked his fist against the confirmation button on the holo-board. He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and looked over the planet in his viewscreen. It looked rather normal, like our Earth would look, but with a bit more of silver to signify the cities, and some brown for deserts. Clouds swirled over the water and land, the perfect white clouds were.
Gennai flicked on the communications and requested a landing port. He waited only a few moments before the confirmation came back, and started down onto the planet.
"Let me see." he murmured as the landing started through the planet's atmosphere, reading through the profile data, "'Taichi has very bushy brown hair and wears large goggles on his forehead. He is rarely seen without his younger sister, Hikari. She also has brown hair, but it lays flat. She wears a camera, while the digimon that is often called her partner, Tailmon, wears a whistle that used to belong to Hikari. Taichi's partner is a small orange dinosaur called Agumon. Taichi is fourteen, and Hikari is eleven. They currently reside in the city of Iren.' I'm landing in Iren, so it shouldn't be that hard to find those two."
He tapped in a few final commands and felt the Silver Sword touch down gently in the spaceport. Gennai stood up and stretched, feeling a few bones pop and crack as he did. He strode away from the controls and to the lowered deck, walking out onto Junray. The sun was bright, the temperature warm, and a breeze went by, pulling Gennai's brown hair back.
"Do you know where the Yagami family might be?" Gennai questioned of the man running the sector of the port he had landed in.
"Nah." the man replied, typing in a few things, "But you might try the apartment region. Most of the families in Iren live there." Gennai thanked the man and started off towards the rest of the city.
Children were at play—schools were on break—and adults were walking the sidewalks, heading for work and other things. Parks stood out with the noise of the screaming, laughing children, and some children were riding—some learning how to—on the HTS, or Hover Transport Small. Two circles were placed apart from each other; just enough for the child to stand upon comfortably, and then was activated. Energy binders latched the child's feet upon the circles and then started to hover in the air. It moved on command by nerve pulses sent into the circles by a foot's smallest movement.
It was often used by adults, but more by children. It had many capabilities, and was quite popular. Some Deji had even used them in training and in battles to gain an edge on the opponent.
"Come on, Hikari, just move your foot a little!"
Gennai stopped moving and looked for the source of the spoken words. A boy with bushy brown hair had his back to Gennai, standing on an HTS and flitting about a younger girl with the same color hair, except with a camera about her neck.
"Taichi, I can't move my foot an inch!" the girl protested, "How are you supposed to use these stupid things?" The boy laughed and circled around the girl a few times, his loosely tied blue cloth belt flapping around. His blue shirt was with short sleeves, ending at the elbows, and with large yellow stars on the sides of the arms, and closing over his chest like a large V, finally stopping just below his waist and falling over brown shorts that stopped at the knee. His shoes were normal cloth boots, white and sagging around his ankles, but bound snugly to the HTS.
"Just twitch your big toe forwards a tiny bit." the boy said, combing his brown hair with his big hand, raising his hands behind his head. The girl nervously tried, and jolted forwards abruptly. She shrieked in shock, and the boy roared with laughter, zipping all around on his HTS. The girl screeched that it wasn't funny, her pink tunic-tee-shirt closed over a skin-tight white shirt that ended at her wrists. It was tied tightly with a pink belt and closed over reddish-pink shorts with white cloth boots pulled up properly.
"Come on, Hikari!" a Tailmon called from the ground, "Just relax. If you're tense, it'll be much harder!"
"Yeah!" an Agumon next to the cat agreed, "Just stop worrying and try!"
"Oh be quiet!" the girl cried, but was laughing at the same time. The four started laughing, and Gennai strode over, clearing his throat. All four looked his way and gave him a questioning look.
"Pardon me." Gennai said politely, "Are you two Taichi and Hikari Yagami?"
"Yeah." the boy replied, crossing his arms and looking peeved, "What's it to you? We haven't done anything wrong."
"I'm simply here to find you." Gennai answered, "You two are to be Deji Knights."
Taichi fell flat off his HTS.
"You see, Mrs. Yagami, Taichi and Hikari have a strong connection to the Digital." Gennai explained as the children's mother placed a cup of tea in front of him, "You can see it in the relationship they have with these digimon."
"I honestly thought the silly little things had followed them home one day when they were little, so I let them stay." Mrs. Yagami smiled, sitting across the square white-glass table from the Deji Knight, "But really, Deji Knights…I never expected it."
"I was sent by the Deji Council on Thurinien to retrieve thirteen children that would help rebuild the Deji Order." Gennai explained further, "Your Taichi and Hikari are two of the children. I assume you want to discuss this with your husband and children before—"
"Do you two want to be Deji?" Mrs. Yagami turned to her children with a smile, "Or do you want to stay here?"
"Deji!" the two brown-haired kids cried in unison. Their digimon partners shouted in unison as well in assent.
"They'll go with you then." Mrs. Yagami smiled at Gennai. Gennai stared back rather blankly.
"Ah, Mrs. Yagami, this is a huge task not to be taken lightly." he said, stunned, "Your husband should be notified of this and you should talk—"
"Oh, but he's off on a different planet for a business meeting." she replied, "And it's really their choice. I can't choose their path, and if they want to go after the dream they've had ever since hearing of the Deji, I'm not going to stop them. How about you?"
Gennai blinked a few times, still in shock. It was strange that a parent would so willingly let their children choose such a dangerous path. But the woman spoke true. It was the children's choice, not hers. And so it seemed Gennai had his first initiates to the Deji Order.
He smiled back at Mrs. Yagami and shook her hand in agreement.
"So what's Thurinien like?" Taichi asked as the five—three humans, two digimon—made their way towards the spaceport, "Is it true that there isn't any organic life except the people living there?"
"Yes." Gennai nodded, "It turned into one giant city, and now it's the capitol of the Republic, and the home of the Deji Council. But we won't be going there right away. We have to get the other eleven children."
"Wait a sec!" Taichi snapped, lugging his rucksack over his shoulder and grunting, "Eleven others! We've got to go to eleven other planets?"
"No." Gennai sighed, "Some of them live on the same planet because they're siblings, like you and Hikari. But most of them do live on different planets, yes."
"Ah, crud." Taichi muttered, kicking a rock aside as they entered the dusty spaceport.
"That was fast." the same man was at the controls as before, "And I see you picked up some souvenirs." Gennai, Hikari, and the digimon laughed as Taichi made a face, pulling down an eyelid and waggling his tongue.
"So where are we headed next?" Taichi spun around in one of the five chairs in the main control room, "Some weird place way out in an asteroid belt?"
"Actually, we're going to a planet about five hours away." Gennai tapped in the new coordinates and hit the confirm, "It's called Icae. It's the planet of eternal light and ice."
He paused when he heard loud snoring. Taichi had slipped to the floor and fallen asleep as he was talking. Hikari was giggling from behind her hand.
"Does he do that much?" Gennai questioned. Hikari nodded, still giggling. Gennai sighed.
It was going to be a long time before he saw Thurinien again.
—to be continued—
