Digimon Legends

Chapter 2

By Jason Winter

The Digital World - Egg Shrine

The quartet looked at each other for several minutes without a sound, just as surprised as the other, the recent events stuck in their mind. And they just continued to stare until Monika spoke at last.

"I don't know what's going on, but I want out of here right now!" she whined "I wanna get to the store and get my CD-RWs! I've got viruses to fight and MP3s to listen to… And… I can't see that much either!"

Seth was broken out of his trance with her speaking, and saw her glasses on the ground in front of him, which he picked up. Good thing he still remembered his English.

"I believe these are yours?"

Monika grabbed her glasses from his hand and put them on.

"Much better, but I would rather still like to get out of here and go home…"

Jay was the next to speak.

"If there IS a way to get home. I mean, look where we are, I got here by some trippy vortex, and I wouldn't be surprised if you guys had the same thing happen…"

"Of course there's a way to get home!" Monika said "We just have to find another portal. I'm sure there's one around here somewhere, or at least a place to access one. And yeah, same thing happened to me."

"And myself." Seth said "It was weird, it hit the cell phone I sto-- erm, borrowed, and turned it into this thing!"

Monika saw it and pulled out her own.

"Same thing happened to my walkman, way strange. What about you?"

Jay looked at her for a moment and replied when he realized she had addressed him.

"Whoa, same thing with MY walkman!" he said, holding out the device "I guess that means no more Jay Rap to listen to. What about, you? Hey, I'm talking, hello?"

"Hmm?" Karen finally replied, holding out her own "Oh, yeah, ditto. Well, I don't think there's a way home, those vortexes just came out of nowhere, gave us these devices, sucked us in, and put us in here all together… I think… I think we may have been brought here for a reason. Probably something… No, couldn't be."

"What're you talking about, gothgirl?" Monika asked.

"Don't call me, that you nerd."

"Wanna make something of it?"

Seth broke the argument.

"Will you two stop, I think it's because we don't know each other's names. I mean, I woulda called this dude 'slacker' just because I don't know his real name."

"I take great pride in being a slacker, thief." Jay replied "Now, why don't we just get acquainted with each other a bit so we won't resort to name-calling. Sheez. Anyway, I'm Jesse, but everyone calls me Jay, because I like Kevin Smith's work a whole lot."

"Well, snootchie bootchies, I'll be darned, Kevin Smith's okay, nothing compared to Jhonen Vasquez, though." Karen chuckled "My name's Karen, by the way. Hmm, Jesse, that name sounds familiar… Still, it couldn't be."

"Name's Seth, I'm from Japan, I'm probably Tokyo's greatest thief alive, I used to live in the States when I was younger, and Karen and Jesse, those names sound really familiar to me too." Seth replied "So, what about you, girl with the specs?"

"Monika's the name, I'm one of the best hackers in Florida State!" she replied "And, you won't believe, this, but I used to know a Seth, Karen, and Jesse."

"Where'd you go to in Elementary School?" Jesse asked.

"Drintant Elementary." the other three said at once.

"Oh, my gosh!" Monika said "J-Jesse? Seth? KAREN? It is you guys! I don't know why I didn't see it before! Man, we've changed a lot, haven't we?! I mean, I can't even recognize you anymore with the new style, Kar! But your face and your eyes, oh, I see it now."

"That's what I was thinking, too." Karen said "I had a feeling it was you guys, but I wasn't totally sure until we began introducing ourselves. It HAS been too long…"

"This is so cool, I thought I'd never see you guys again when our 'rents all moved away from each other…" Jay smiled "So, Seth, what happened to your mom, she always made the best cookies on the planet!"

"I'd rather not talk about it." Seth replied "Let's just say I changed way too much for her…"

"Ouch." Monika said "So, now that the gang's all here, the question is, WHY? Why were the four of us reunited by swirling vortexes and thrown into this old ruin… And why were we given these strange cell phone thinguses?"

"Just what I was thinking about." Karen said "Maybe it's because of…"

"The incident?" Jay said.

"Not… the incident!" Seth said "That was freaky enough in elementary…"

"And this isn't?" Monika said.

"Good point."

"Anyway, let's forget that and see if there IS a way out of here." Jay said, suddenly looking at something "This place is giving me the creeps… hey, what's that, anyway?"

Everyone turned to look at what Jay was looking at. It was a circular slab of stone, with four pillars around it. Atop each pillar was an egg of some kind, and a different colored stone. The circular slab seemed to be covered in strange writing, as were the pillars. The group got up and began to circle it, looking around.

"Must be some sort of ancient language." Monika said "Because I've seen fonts by the millions, and there's nothing like this. I have no way to translate it, unless I had someone here with us who knew the language."

"Well, I don't know what it says, and if you don't, then we'll obviously never find out." Seth said "But… isn't it strange that the four stones are the same colors as our cell phone items?"

"Might be something to do with this strange, spooky coincidence."

"Well, if that's true, maybe this is why we're here." Jay said, flicking open his device and walking to the red jewel and egg pillar. The small LCD suddenly flashed, and a number appeared on the screen, and glowed within the crystal as well… even stranger, it was in normal numbers rather than the funny language "Now, THAT'S strange. I wonder what would happen if I dialed…"

He dialed the number, but on the LCD came the word "error".

Each one of them went to the pillar of their color, each getting a different number, but when they dialed, the same error message came.

"Let's try dialing together!" Monika said "Maybe that's how this works!"

"Alright, it wouldn't hurt to try, guys." Seth said "Let's do this!"

"I'm with you, but I think it's up to Jay." Karen said.

"Let's do it, everyone!" Jay said "DIAL!"

And, so they did. Suddenly, a beam of light, the color of the crystals and devices, hooked up to each other, making the eggs glow, as well as the runes on the structure… And then, beams of light went from egg to egg, changing it all into a bright orange light, and then, emitting from it, the sound of laughter and voices.

"Woohoo, I'm free!" came one voice, from a sudden burst of purple light from the egg of its color.

"Amazing, I thought I'd be curled up forever!" came a voice from the green "But, I'm out instead!"

"Wow, it's great to see the light again!" said a voice from the burst of pink "Whee!"

"I'm so happy!" came the red "Happy to be freeeeeeee!"

And that's when the glowing stopped, and the flashes of light returned to the devices, as well as four spheres, one of each color, by the owner of each. And then they dissipated, and had transformed… Into… four creatures.

"Hello!" they said, with happy smiles.

"Uh, hi…" the group said, very surprised to see these odd creatures staring at them.

TO BE CONTINUED