Digimon: The Chosen: Chapter One

A/N) Iris: *pouting* Natalie isn't here so I'm writing our author's note for both of us. First I was to thanks the one person who reviewed (at least someone cares!) and now to say on with the next chapter! Oh yeah… and a disclaimer of course…

Disclaimer: Iris: Hate to disappoint you but… I don't own digimon! (and neither does Natalie for that matter…)

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Natalie's POV

"Hey wait up!" I shouted, running as fast as I could after Iris. She was, by the looks of it, a lot faster than me.

She sped up, enjoying the look on Natalie's face.

"Iris you meanie! Get back here!" I yelled angrily.

She slowed down and turned to look at me. "What?" She teased. "Can't keep up?"

"What do you think!?" I yelled, finally catching up to her and panting.

"Well maybe if you actually tried out for Track this year, you could catch me." She smiled.

"Ha ha, very funny! Your legs are longer than mine, remember? Not to mention you still can't beat me in basketball....." I grinned, this was sure to get on her nerves.

She frowned. "I can still try, and you know I'll beat you one of these days, Natalie Romine."

We began walking along the sidewalk together. "Yah, well if you can beat me in basketball, Iris Hall, than I could beat you in track," I said smiling at the thought.

She sighed. "Oh forget this, I don't want to fight right now." She thought for a moment before looking at her watch. "Shoot! Digimon is going to be on in 5 minutes!"

"Well don't just stand here! Lets get going!" I yelled grabbing Iris's hand and pulling her along behind knowing the only reason I was pulling her was because, usually when Iris thinks about digimon, she goes off into La-La Land.

It was almost like she had read my thoughts. "You're the one that was off in La-La Land, so don't blame me!"

I stopped in mid-step. "Wha...how....how did you know I was thinking that?!?"

"Well duh." She looked at me funny. "We've been friends for like forever, what else would you be thinking before a Digimon episode?"

"Good point...." I said suddenly noticing that Iris was now hauling me, along the curb.

"Come on Nat, no slacking." She sounded like my gym teacher. "We're going to miss it, if we keep this up!"

I growled slightly at her comment and ran after Iris as fast as I could without tripping.

Within minutes we were in my house, we both kicked off our shoes, and dropped our bags. My mom and step-dad wouldn't be home for another hour, so we could clean them up later. "I'll get the chips!" cried Iris, heading for our kitchen cupboards.

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Iris's POV

I rushed to grab the chips, before looking in her fridge. "Nat what kind of soda do you want?" I called to her.

"Just some water, I don't like soda remember?" I heard her call from her room.

*Ugg…* I thought stupidly. *We've been best friends for like forever, and I still can't remember simple things like that!*

"Okay!" I called back, while I poured both my soda, and her water.

"Nat? Do you think you could get our laptop out? I wanna check our email. It's in my bag," I added after a thought.

The laptop we had was pretty new, only about a month old. We had done almost everything from mowing the lawns, to painting houses to get it. It had taken us almost 6 months, but we had managed it. It was pretty cool buying it for ourselves... Sure we had begged our parents for one, but I was finally happy when we got on for our own.

"Sure. No prob." I heard her call from the other room, followed by, "Iris, are these your gym clothes from last week?!?"

*I knew I had forgotten to do something!* "Yeah... Sorry about that! Just don't touch them and you'll be fine!" I tucked a small strand of my short blond behind my ear to keep it out of my face, before grabbing both the chips and drinks and carrying them into her room.

"Iris, help me with this," stated Natalie trying to move her bed to the side of her room on her own, which consisted of two mattresses on top of each other.

I groaned. "You know if this were my place, we wouldn't have to move around furniture just to get comfortable." Nevertheless, I helped her.

"Yah well if this was your place we would have to worry about parents," She said.

We both laid down on the bed. "Laptop?" I hinted.

"Oh yah," she said hopping up and setting the laptop next to Iris and her. "Will you do the honors?" she giving Iris a mock bow.

I rolled my eyes, before looking to the computer, and connecting to the Internet. "Nat?" I asked looking up. "Where's the remote?"

"Um." She said looking around, "I think your laying on it." She pointed to the black object sticking out from under my leg.

"Oops." I blushed, grabbing the remote and handing it to Nat. "Here, I gotta check the email."

"Ok." she said turning the TV on and switching to Digimon.

I smiled when I saw what was on. "Genesis of Evil." It's always been one of my favorite episodes, even though I've seen it about a thousand times. Nat doesn't get why I like it, but I always thought it was cool. Mainly because it's centered on Ken, one of my favorite characters.

Suddenly a loud noise came from my laptop. "You've got mail!" I looked down at it curiously. Truthfully, I didn't know who it could be from, I don't have any pen pals other than one of my good friends, Jade. But I don't usually get emails from her anyway.* I thought. We usually chat online...* I turned to Natalie.

"Nat, I'm going to go get another soda, okay?" I asked her. "Do you think you could open it for me and tell me who it's from when I get back?"

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Natalie's POV

"Sure." I said placing the laptop on my lap. I clicked on the inbox section as Iris walked out the door. I was surprised to see that the email contained an icon of none other than Gennai. "Hey Iris!" I yelled towards the kitchen, "Were you asking for Digimon icons again?"

"No..." She said sounding confused, and returned to sit down beside me, soda in hand. "Why?"

"Cause we got one," I said clicking on it. It somehow linked us to one on one chat with the sender.

"Whoa... Cool..." She looked at the icon that was still placed in the bottom left corner. "I've never seen a Gennai icon like that one... Well on the TV show, yeah. But that is TV."

"Who is this?" I typed to the sender.

"My name is Gennai." he answered, "Hello digidestion."

Iris gave me a funny look. "Who do you think this weirdo is? Do you think we should break it to them that Digimon is a TV show and not real life?"

"Yah, it might be good for him to know that," I said wondering who on Earth we were talking to.

"Can I see it?" She was asking for the laptop.

"Go ahead," I said handing it to her.

"Okay..." She mumbled. "Let's get a profile on this guy..." She double clicked on his name giving all the data the computer had on him.

"Wha..." She looked totally confused, and I saw why. Name: Gennai... Hometown: The digital world? The list went on to include other things as well... age... birthday... favorite color...

"Iris, could you possibly pinch me?" I asked, totally confused now.

She pinched me.

"Ok, it's official, I'm awake," I said looking down the list of information.

Iris was already typing something down. "Look, I don't know who you are, and how you know us, but you are not Gennai, and I can assure you we are not digidestine."

"No kidding," I said waiting for his reply.

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Iris's POV

"Would you like proof?" We both looked at each other confused, should we trust this guy? Was the main question in mind.

"What kind of proof?" Natalie reached over me and typed.

That's when the laptop's screen began to glow. No not the type of glowing you might get if you were playing a game or something... It really began to glow, a light purple it fact. "Whoa..."

"Ok, I'm officially freaked out now..." Natalie mumbled staring at the computer.

Then something began to emerge, and I hastily backed away, making the laptop lose it's balance on the bed. It fell to the floor and amazingly, when I looked down on it, it was still glowing, and the objects had fully emerged, laying on the floor with the laptop.

"Iris, I think we can believe him now...." Natalie said sitting up. She had jumped back in surprise and landed on her back.

"D3's?" I looked curiously at the devices before us... And that's when dim relation hit; they weren't those toys you get at the store... They were real! "And a D-Terminal?" It was real, too.

"Mind if I talk to this guy now?" asked Natalie picking up the laptop, gingerly.

"Okay." Personally I didn't care. I reached for one of the D3's, a light blue one, to get a closer look at it... And the other one jumped into my hand! I looked at it, examining its features... It looked exactlly the same as the other one, with only one slight difference. Mine was gold, instead of blue.

"What is going on!?!" Natalie typed still very confused. She put her hand down to examine the other D3 when it jumped into her hand. Light Blue. It was her favorite color.

"I'm sorry to say I can't explain it here." Gennai wrote. "If you will meet me in Stanley Park, tomorrow at 2:00 P.M. I will explain everything there."

"Wait!" Natalie wrote quickly. But it was too late.

*Gennai has logged off*

I looked to the floor where the two D-Terminal's still lay... "Great..." I moaned. "The guy explains to us that we're digidestine, hands us our digivices and then leaves! What's a girl suppose to think!?" I turned to Nat.

"But there are hundreds of kids that could be digidestion. Why us?" she asked.

"How am I supposed to know?" I asked sharply. "The question is why even this dimension? I mean why not pick someone from there own world? After all it's sorta confusing after watching the TV show for months, and then finding out it's someone's personal lives."

I laid down on the bed. "I am going to close my eyes," I stated. "And when I open them, I am going to be in my bed at home. As far as I'm concerned this is just one whacked out dream..."

"Me too." She said lying down next to Iris. "Wait, I am in my bed at home."

I ignored her, and opened my eyes. "Okay this is officially NOT a dream..." I stated, almost calmly, which sorta surprised me. "Now what do we do?"

"Well, I guess if we have digivices we might as well check them out." Stated Natalie, looking at her's which was placed on the bed.

I looked at mine, which was lying beside me on the bed as well. *Do I really want to pick it up?* I thought. *Fine,* I sighed. *Here goes nothing*

I picked it up, and was surprised at the results. It didn't blow up in my face; it didn't really do anything other than light up with a faint glow, which I guess meant it like me.

*Liked me? Where did that thought come from?* I asked myself sharply. *I'm treating it like a pet dog or something!*

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Natalie's POV

I pick up my digivice rather cautiously, not sure what would happen. As soon as I picked it up it began to glow a bluish color.

"Hey Iris I want to try something, can I see your digivice for a second?" I asked.

"Um... Okay..." She handed it to me.

As soon as it left her hand it stopped glowing. *I guess it knows who is who* I thought handing it back to Iris.

"What was that for?" She asked, confused.

"Well I guess it knows who is who. Look when I hold yours it stops glowing, and when you hold mine it stops glowing too." I said placing my digivice in her hand which then stopped glowing.

"Oh... Okay..." She looked like she finally understood. "Here can I have mine back?"

"Sure," I handed her's back while she gave me mine.

"Nat, did it ever dim on you that your parents are going to be home any minute now?" She asked me, me looking around the room. "Look at this mess!"

True my room was a disaster, not to mention the fact that when our laptop had started glowing, I had spilled our bowl of chips. All over the floor!

"Well it didn't dim on you either!" I said hopping off the bed and and gathering the chips in a pile.

"Wait." I stopped. "Do we tell anyone about this?"

"Of course not! They'll think we're crazy! It's not everyday you have mystery men from another dimension chat with you on the internet, and then tell you to meet them at Stanley Park tomorrow at 2pm! By the way..." She looked thoughtful. "Are we going to meet him?"

"Well I guess so," I said looking up from the pile of chips, "Unless we're planning on him to make something else appear out of our computer screen...."

"A digimon would be nice..." She suggested.

"Yah, I certainly wouldn't mind that." I grinned. Actually there was just about nothing I would like more.

We both heard the front door open, and then slam closed again. My parents were home.

"Come on, all we have left is to move the bed." I said walking over to it.

She came over to help me and we both managed to put it back, before my mother walked into the room.

"Hi Mom." I said falling back on the bed.

"Hello Mrs. Romine." Iris smiled at her, lying down on the bed beside me. She was always perfect at acting innocent.

"Hey Mom?"

"What?"

"Could Iris spend the night?" I asked shooting Iris a 'pretty please' look.

She gave a quick nod that was barely visible, before we both started giving her Bambi eyes.

"Well. You'll have to call your mother." She said looking at Iris.

"Of course I will." Another smile.

*Suck up* I thought glancing at Iris. She looked like she knew what I was thinking. Of course it was probably because she saw the look on my face.

"You can spend the night, Iris." She shot me a look. "If you behave." As soon as my mom left the room Iris shot me a nasty glare.

"I don't like being a suck-up." She frowned, before flashing me another grin. "But it does come in handy for some situations."

I laughed. "You'll have to teach me some time."

"Sorry," She smirked. "But it's something you're born with."

Both of them slept the rest of the day and night, wondering and dreaming about what the next day would be like.

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Iris's POV

"Come on Nat! Hurry up, we only got 5 minutes before were supposed to be there!"

"Sorry!" She replied, jumping up and down trying to put her jeans on properly, "I'm going as fast as I can!"

"Fine, whatever, don't blame me if we're late. I'm going to bring the laptop with us, okay?" I asked, shoving it into my small backpack.

"Sure," she said grabbing her backpack, "I'm taking my backpack so I don't have to carry my D3 in the open. People might start asking us where we got them..."

"Why don't you just put it in mine Nat?" I asked, shoving both my D-Terminal and my D3 into my backpack as well. "I'm bringing mine anyways..."

"I don't know, I guess just in case he gives us something else to take home." she said smiling at the thought of her own digimon.

"Yeah that would be cool." I thought about it... It really did sound cool... My own diriment, I'd have another good friend to talk to. "Nat..." I asked her slowly. "Why do you think they would need digidestine here?"

"I don't know...." She shrugged. "I guess they wouldn't." She stated, following me out the front door.

I couldn't think of a reply for that one... We walked the rest of the way to the park, in silence.

We got there in under 5 minutes, and the first question that came out of Natalie's mouth was: "Well where do you think we'll find him? It's not exactly a small park..."

"I don't know..." I looked around. "He could be anywhere..."

"Lets go check over there," she pointed to a distant part of the park.

"Oh, okay." I was about to follow behind her when, suddenly I heard I a twig snap from behind us. I turned around sharply.

"It certainly took you long enough to get here." Stated Gennai.

"Sorry." Said Natalie, gritting her teeth. I could tell she didn't take kindly to that comment.

I put a hand on her shoulder, and gave her a look that told her to calm down. "Sorry, we sorta lost track of time."

"No matter, we have more important things to worry about." He sounded grim.

"Like what?" Natalie asked forgetting all about his last comment.

He frowned, and I could tell he was worried deeply about something. "The digital world."

"Why?" I asked confused. "What's happening there?"

"And what does it have to do with us?" Natalie asked, confused as well.

"The digital world is about to be taken over by a force, that not even the original digidestine, can destroy on their own."

"The digidestine?" I asked confused. "You mean like Ken and the others?"

"Yes exactly. That's why I have brought you here. You can help maintain the balance."

"Us? We're just normal girls." Stated Nat. "How can we help?"

"Yeah!" I added. "Besides you haven't told us what this force is yet!"

"Believe it or not." He frowned, "You are not normal girls... And for the force... I have not seen it yet, only heard of the prophecy, but I do know that we will need your help! I ask you to let me transport you to the digital world." He asked, but it sounded more like an order.

"What do you mean, we're not normal?!" I asked both frustrated and confused. "And how can you expect us to help fight this evil force, if you don't tell us what it is!? We don't even have digimon!"

"Well now you do." He actually had a smile on his face, when he said this. But after a moment in vanished, leaving the deep frown there again. *I have a feeling things are going to get pretty grim.* Thinking about this, I didn't even notice what had fallen into both mine and Natalie's arms. She noticed though.

"Whoa! Iris snap out of it! Look!!!" she said pointing at the eggs in her and my hands. Hers was white with black stripes and mine was a tad smaller than hers and was covered in blue and purple speckles.

"A digimon?" I asked, really not believing my eyes.

"Yes, of course. Now I'll ask you again, will you let me send you to the digital world?" *At least this time it was a question* I thought.

"Well..." I wanted to help, but other emotions got in the way. What about my other friends? My family? "I'll help." I stated quietly.

"If Iris will," Said Natalie intertwining her hand in my own, "then I will too." I noticed the determined look on her face that she got whenever she was about to take on a new challenge.

"Thank you for your help, It might actually be enough to save the digital world. But I must warn you of something, a power-" Suddenly he fazed in and out, and we both watched in surprise. He was a hologram! "Your not the real Gennai, are you?" I asked.

"Alas no, I am only a copy of the real Gennai, he is working out business in the-" He fazed in and out again. "-digital world. But I'm running out of time, the dark forces are gathering, and this is my only ch- chance of send you to the digital world, so we must act quickly." He fazed again.

I looked to Nat and then back at him. "We're ready. What do we have to do?"

"Just close your eyes, and I'll do the rest." He said simply.

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Natalie's POV

I gripped Iris's handed tighter. I was scared, that was for sure. But I had always looked up to Iris, and was ready to go anywhere if she would come with me.

She looked to me, a smile of her face. But I could see it in her eyes, she was scared too. "Well," She mumbled. "Let's get this over with."

I nodded. We were chosen, I didn't know why, or for what purpose, but we were. We'd have to live with that for now.

Before I had time to think of anything else, I felt a strange sensation, like floating and spinning at the same time. I couldn't help it, but it made me want to open my eyes and find out what was going on, so I did. Blurs of colors flashed before my eyes, and then the world shifted into darkness once more.

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Iris: Actually, Nat and I have been working on the next chapter for a while now, but it's going to be quite a bit longer. It's not finished yet, and it doesn't help when your not going to see each other for a while… Doesn't you just love camping…