Chapter 3
This was almost too much. Sarah and Tara both were staring out the windows at the land that lay around them. Neither one had any idea what was going on, and the both knew that. Just by looking at each other they were almost able to tell what the other was thinking. They are that good of friends. They looked over to Josh, who stood stiff at the back of the train, looking out the rear window.
"Where did the tunnel go?" Josh said in a daze. He didn't even move from his erect pose. He was literally scared stiff. When he got that email message earlier, he never knew that he would end up so obviously far away from home. He wanted to go back.
"I don't know. But what I want to know is, where are we?" Sarah replied as she returned to looking out the window at the glowing green grass. At that time, the train pulled to a sudden stop. All three were thrown to the ground and Josh rolled down the car up just past Sarah and Tara, who were thrown into the back of the seats in front of them.
"Um, what happened?" Tara forced her lungs to breathe out the words as he hoisted herself out of the seat and rightened herself. As soon as she finished a voice came over the intercom, or at least it seemed that way.
"Final stop! Everyone off!" The voice was deep and very monotone.
"...What was that?" Sarah looked around for the speakers.
"We can't get off here...can we?" Tara asked aloud, not expecting an answer.
"...Who said that?" Josh said in a ditsy tone.
All three replied practically at the same time. Each one of them was wondering what to do. Josh thought it was best to just listen to the voice and get off. But, there was no platform, just a big field of grass. Glowing grass.
Josh walked over and opened the door. It wasn't that far to the ground. He could jump. He reached over and grabbed his backpack from the seat next to him. He then prepared to jump out the door.
"Wait!" Tara yelled after Josh. "What are you doing, are you nuts? We can't get off here. We don't even know where here is. We need to go home anyway it's almost four o'clock, I'm late." She looked next to her for Sarah's usual agreement and was surprised to find an absence of Sarah. She looked all around her in her confusion only to look forward again and see both Josh and Sarah standing side by side, holding their backpack straps on their shoulders, at least ten feet away from the train. Both were staring at her. Tara dropped her shoulders and let out a frustrated and confused sigh. Reluctantly she grabbed her bag, letting out another sigh.
~*~*~
It is done. I have set them on their way. The three chosen children must now find their own way to survive, together or alone. But the other girl. I wonder still how she knew to get onto the train. She was not chosen by myself, or the Sovereigns. I suppose we must wait and see how her destiny unfolds. And how it changes that of the Chosen.
The first hurdle has been overcome. Lukas Nonaki has released the Digivices, despite the attempts of one particular Chosen. He was once as pure as the others are. The thought of being the first Chosen was too much for him. His greed swelled into evil. He wishes to keep his hold over the Digital world, but even now it slips. The Digidestined are the ones who can stop him and bring him back to who he once was. But Belialmon has taken the Digi-Eggs of the Chosen Digimon. Only when the Chosen have rescued their partner's Digi-Eggs from Belialmon, can they be called true Digidestined. Then their fate will reveal itself, and the true battle will begin.
~*~*~
Sarah, Tara, and Josh walked through the grassy field away from the train tracks. Earlier, the train told them to head in this direction. That's right, the train. The three of them were practically bowled off their feet to see that the train as alive and actually had a face. It told them that the closest civilization was just over the horizon to the East. Too bad the horizon was so far away. Not a single one of them knew what time it was where they were, but back home it was getting late. Last time Tara checked her watch, at least an hour ago, it said it was after five thirty. Sarah and Tara thought about how their parent must be worrying about them. Josh just thought about how much hair his dad would rip out knowing that his son went missing on his first full day in a new country. His dad still lived in New York. Josh had moved here with his mother. No siblings. He actually missed his dad, who was by far his favorite adult.
Sarah stopped suddenly and bent down. When Josh got closer he noticed she was tying her shoe. He decided to wait for her. Tara on the other hand kept walking, confident Sarah would catch up. Very confident. A slight rumble distracted Tara and she stopped suddenly to make sure she actually felt it. She turned back to face the others "Did any of you just feel that?"
"Feel what?" Josh called back to her. Just then another stronger rumble passed under their feet. The vibrations made Sarah loose her balance and roll onto her back. She lay there for a second like an upside-down turtle before noticing that Josh was brought to his knees beside her. When the rumbling stopped she got up onto her knees. Josh was looking intently at the ground in front of him. "It's coming."
"What did you say?" Sarah asked confused. She kept looking to Josh as he kept staring at the ground.
"It's coming. From under us, it's coming... ... ...Run you fools!" Josh got up to his feet and began funning as fast as he could. He had no idea why he said that, or why he was running. He only knew that it felt very wrong to stay, right down to the sick feeling in his stomach that came when he was kneeling on the ground. Sarah began to follow. As he passed by Tara he simply yelled to run. She slowly began to follow. She picked up speed when she saw that Sarah was running close behind. "Keep running! Don't look back!" Josh yelled back to Sarah and Tara. They looked.
The ground where Sarah and Josh were once standing began to ripple and bulge upward. Suddenly it cracked open. Large and small chunks of earth were flung into the air as the blades of grass flew upwards and then slowly fell back to the ground. A thick cloud of dirt formed around the area. Through the cloud, Sarah and Tara both saw a figure forming. It was definitely not shaped like a human. It was round and long, so long in fact that it was not fully out of the ground. It reminded them of a giant earthworm. Throughout all this neither one of them slowed their pace, only sped up a little.
The dirt cloud cleared and revealed that it was quite like and earthworm, only thousands of times bigger. And hundreds of times uglier. It seemed that it didn't have any face, no ears, eyes, nose, mouth. Nothing but a big line across the end, which could be a mouth, if you look at it the right way. The three of them slowly stopped running and turned to look back. At first it seemed like the worm hadn't noticed them. But a few seconds later it quickly spun around to face them. The three recoiled in surprise and fear, but nothing happened. It just sat there facing them. Just when they thought they could relax a bit, it slowly heaved itself to face straight upwards. The split in it's tip began to move and open. The worm opened it's 'mouth' wider and wider until it was fully open. As quickly as a flash of lightning a large mass moved up through the worm and popped out of the mouth. Still partially inside the worm, the mass took form. It began to look almost human. It soon formed a fully human form. From the waist down was still inside the worm. The body was the same color as the worm and was quite muscular. The head was bald with no face, but it did have ears. The fingers were long and slender but still looked quite strong. The worm's mouth began to close around the waist of the body. When it touched, the waist and the mouth began to meld together until the worm was a part of the body. Even without eyes, the head was positioned to look directly at the three children. The once open and loose hands quickly clenched into fists and rose into a fighting stance in front of the body's chest and face.
"Uh...what's...that?" Josh was barely able to squeeze out the simple words as his amazement and fear froze him to one spot on the ground. He could not move his feet no matter how much he tried. The worm creature opened it's left hand and faced it palm forward at Josh. Josh felt a chill run up and down his spine. It was almost like he knew what to expect. A small point of light formed in front of the creature's hand. It slowly grew large enough to be easily seen. It was a ball of bright yellow light about the size of a baseball. A small hum was emitted from the sphere. Josh's eyes widened.
Sarah and Tara, both frozen in place, looked at the worm with it's hand stretched out. Yet, they saw no yellow sphere and heard no hum. They just looked at the thing with it's ridiculous pose. Still, both of them were too scared to crack a smile. Suddenly Sarah perked up. She strained herself to look over her shoulder at the mountains in the horizon beside her. Tara slowly followed her gaze. Both of them could hear a small hum. Not from the creature, but from the mountains. Four points of bright white light shone from one of the mountains. The points grew bigger. They were rapidly getting closer. 'Now what?' Sarah thought to herself.
The four lights flew through the air, streaking behind them. They flew straight towards the kids. One steak flew higher and zoomed over their heads. Sarah and Tara turned to watch it go, but turned back rapidly to see what the others would do. As they turned their heads, they only saw the lights on a collision course with them. Josh, still focused on the creature, did not notice the other three lights zooming towards them. Tara then screamed out. "Josh!"
Sarah and Tara blocked their faces with their hands. At the last second, Josh put his hand between him and the light. A split second before the lights hit the kids, the creature suddenly let the light go and shot it at Josh. The streak of white light hit Josh's hand and turned solid. He gripped the object just as the creature's shot hit the ground at his feet. The shock threw Josh up into the air. Energy crackled around his legs as he fell back down to the ground. He hit with a thud, knocking the object out of his hand. Sarah and Tara, both with similar objects in hand, ran to Josh's side. the creature lowered it's arms to it's side.
Josh opened his eyes to see a small metallic object lying next to him. It was small and black. It had three white buttons on it and a small screen. An antenna like thing stuck up on one side. He looked up to see Sarah and Tara on either side of him. They were both looking at the creature. Josh sat up and saw it. It was just sitting there, not moving.
Just then, a rock flew up and hit the thing in the head. It seemed undamaged, but it looked over to see where the rock came from. The three followed it's gaze to see another boy standing a few yards away. to their surprise, he seemed very confident. He raised his arm to throw another rock. that's when they saw it. on his belt, he too had a strange device, although his was different. The boy was dead on again, hitting the thing square in the face. Although it seemed quite angry, it slowly sank back into the ground. When he was sure it was gone, the boy walked up to the three.
"Are you okay? that thing's blast has some unusual effects." The boy spoke softly to Josh. Josh just looked blankly at hi for a second.
"Uh, yeah, I'm fine. I think it missed. Just one question..." Josh sat up and started to stand. What no body knew, was that the creature was trying to miss. It did not want to kill josh, but it did accomplish it's mission. It infected him.
"Yeah, what?"
"Who are you?" All three of them asked simultaneously. This shocked the boy a bit, but he was still overly calm.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I'm Lukas. I guess I should say 'Welcome to the Digital World'. I got here a while ago, I don't know how long exactly, I've been walking for a while." He helped Josh to his feet. josh looked to Sarah and Tara. Both of them had devices on their hands. each one was different. Sarah's was taller than Josh's and was black and red with a bigger screen, and the three buttons formed a triangle below it. Tara's was white with a blue rig around the screen. The buttons were similar to Lukas' yellow device. Out of all of them Josh's was the smallest.
"Do you know what these are?" Sarah asked politely as the three of them held them up to see. Lukas then saw something. The Digivices these kids had, were the same as the drawings on the pedestal.
"Those...are...the same. I saw these before, they were drawings on a pedestal. after I put mine on the pedestal, the drawings lit up and flew away. how did you get them?"
"They uh, flew into our hands." Tara spoke quietly, making sure not to sound stupid. She looked at Lukas and saw that he absolutely believed her.
"These things are called Digivices. This shows that we are here to save this world. And, to tell you the truth, a voice came out of mine and told me all this, so maybe it'll happen to you too." Josh said confused. He then went on to tell the three exactly what the voice had told them. Throughout the speech, the girls often became confused and scrunched up their faces trying to understand. Josh shrugged of the confusing bits and stood silent, trying to make sense of it all.
This was almost too much. Sarah and Tara both were staring out the windows at the land that lay around them. Neither one had any idea what was going on, and the both knew that. Just by looking at each other they were almost able to tell what the other was thinking. They are that good of friends. They looked over to Josh, who stood stiff at the back of the train, looking out the rear window.
"Where did the tunnel go?" Josh said in a daze. He didn't even move from his erect pose. He was literally scared stiff. When he got that email message earlier, he never knew that he would end up so obviously far away from home. He wanted to go back.
"I don't know. But what I want to know is, where are we?" Sarah replied as she returned to looking out the window at the glowing green grass. At that time, the train pulled to a sudden stop. All three were thrown to the ground and Josh rolled down the car up just past Sarah and Tara, who were thrown into the back of the seats in front of them.
"Um, what happened?" Tara forced her lungs to breathe out the words as he hoisted herself out of the seat and rightened herself. As soon as she finished a voice came over the intercom, or at least it seemed that way.
"Final stop! Everyone off!" The voice was deep and very monotone.
"...What was that?" Sarah looked around for the speakers.
"We can't get off here...can we?" Tara asked aloud, not expecting an answer.
"...Who said that?" Josh said in a ditsy tone.
All three replied practically at the same time. Each one of them was wondering what to do. Josh thought it was best to just listen to the voice and get off. But, there was no platform, just a big field of grass. Glowing grass.
Josh walked over and opened the door. It wasn't that far to the ground. He could jump. He reached over and grabbed his backpack from the seat next to him. He then prepared to jump out the door.
"Wait!" Tara yelled after Josh. "What are you doing, are you nuts? We can't get off here. We don't even know where here is. We need to go home anyway it's almost four o'clock, I'm late." She looked next to her for Sarah's usual agreement and was surprised to find an absence of Sarah. She looked all around her in her confusion only to look forward again and see both Josh and Sarah standing side by side, holding their backpack straps on their shoulders, at least ten feet away from the train. Both were staring at her. Tara dropped her shoulders and let out a frustrated and confused sigh. Reluctantly she grabbed her bag, letting out another sigh.
~*~*~
It is done. I have set them on their way. The three chosen children must now find their own way to survive, together or alone. But the other girl. I wonder still how she knew to get onto the train. She was not chosen by myself, or the Sovereigns. I suppose we must wait and see how her destiny unfolds. And how it changes that of the Chosen.
The first hurdle has been overcome. Lukas Nonaki has released the Digivices, despite the attempts of one particular Chosen. He was once as pure as the others are. The thought of being the first Chosen was too much for him. His greed swelled into evil. He wishes to keep his hold over the Digital world, but even now it slips. The Digidestined are the ones who can stop him and bring him back to who he once was. But Belialmon has taken the Digi-Eggs of the Chosen Digimon. Only when the Chosen have rescued their partner's Digi-Eggs from Belialmon, can they be called true Digidestined. Then their fate will reveal itself, and the true battle will begin.
~*~*~
Sarah, Tara, and Josh walked through the grassy field away from the train tracks. Earlier, the train told them to head in this direction. That's right, the train. The three of them were practically bowled off their feet to see that the train as alive and actually had a face. It told them that the closest civilization was just over the horizon to the East. Too bad the horizon was so far away. Not a single one of them knew what time it was where they were, but back home it was getting late. Last time Tara checked her watch, at least an hour ago, it said it was after five thirty. Sarah and Tara thought about how their parent must be worrying about them. Josh just thought about how much hair his dad would rip out knowing that his son went missing on his first full day in a new country. His dad still lived in New York. Josh had moved here with his mother. No siblings. He actually missed his dad, who was by far his favorite adult.
Sarah stopped suddenly and bent down. When Josh got closer he noticed she was tying her shoe. He decided to wait for her. Tara on the other hand kept walking, confident Sarah would catch up. Very confident. A slight rumble distracted Tara and she stopped suddenly to make sure she actually felt it. She turned back to face the others "Did any of you just feel that?"
"Feel what?" Josh called back to her. Just then another stronger rumble passed under their feet. The vibrations made Sarah loose her balance and roll onto her back. She lay there for a second like an upside-down turtle before noticing that Josh was brought to his knees beside her. When the rumbling stopped she got up onto her knees. Josh was looking intently at the ground in front of him. "It's coming."
"What did you say?" Sarah asked confused. She kept looking to Josh as he kept staring at the ground.
"It's coming. From under us, it's coming... ... ...Run you fools!" Josh got up to his feet and began funning as fast as he could. He had no idea why he said that, or why he was running. He only knew that it felt very wrong to stay, right down to the sick feeling in his stomach that came when he was kneeling on the ground. Sarah began to follow. As he passed by Tara he simply yelled to run. She slowly began to follow. She picked up speed when she saw that Sarah was running close behind. "Keep running! Don't look back!" Josh yelled back to Sarah and Tara. They looked.
The ground where Sarah and Josh were once standing began to ripple and bulge upward. Suddenly it cracked open. Large and small chunks of earth were flung into the air as the blades of grass flew upwards and then slowly fell back to the ground. A thick cloud of dirt formed around the area. Through the cloud, Sarah and Tara both saw a figure forming. It was definitely not shaped like a human. It was round and long, so long in fact that it was not fully out of the ground. It reminded them of a giant earthworm. Throughout all this neither one of them slowed their pace, only sped up a little.
The dirt cloud cleared and revealed that it was quite like and earthworm, only thousands of times bigger. And hundreds of times uglier. It seemed that it didn't have any face, no ears, eyes, nose, mouth. Nothing but a big line across the end, which could be a mouth, if you look at it the right way. The three of them slowly stopped running and turned to look back. At first it seemed like the worm hadn't noticed them. But a few seconds later it quickly spun around to face them. The three recoiled in surprise and fear, but nothing happened. It just sat there facing them. Just when they thought they could relax a bit, it slowly heaved itself to face straight upwards. The split in it's tip began to move and open. The worm opened it's 'mouth' wider and wider until it was fully open. As quickly as a flash of lightning a large mass moved up through the worm and popped out of the mouth. Still partially inside the worm, the mass took form. It began to look almost human. It soon formed a fully human form. From the waist down was still inside the worm. The body was the same color as the worm and was quite muscular. The head was bald with no face, but it did have ears. The fingers were long and slender but still looked quite strong. The worm's mouth began to close around the waist of the body. When it touched, the waist and the mouth began to meld together until the worm was a part of the body. Even without eyes, the head was positioned to look directly at the three children. The once open and loose hands quickly clenched into fists and rose into a fighting stance in front of the body's chest and face.
"Uh...what's...that?" Josh was barely able to squeeze out the simple words as his amazement and fear froze him to one spot on the ground. He could not move his feet no matter how much he tried. The worm creature opened it's left hand and faced it palm forward at Josh. Josh felt a chill run up and down his spine. It was almost like he knew what to expect. A small point of light formed in front of the creature's hand. It slowly grew large enough to be easily seen. It was a ball of bright yellow light about the size of a baseball. A small hum was emitted from the sphere. Josh's eyes widened.
Sarah and Tara, both frozen in place, looked at the worm with it's hand stretched out. Yet, they saw no yellow sphere and heard no hum. They just looked at the thing with it's ridiculous pose. Still, both of them were too scared to crack a smile. Suddenly Sarah perked up. She strained herself to look over her shoulder at the mountains in the horizon beside her. Tara slowly followed her gaze. Both of them could hear a small hum. Not from the creature, but from the mountains. Four points of bright white light shone from one of the mountains. The points grew bigger. They were rapidly getting closer. 'Now what?' Sarah thought to herself.
The four lights flew through the air, streaking behind them. They flew straight towards the kids. One steak flew higher and zoomed over their heads. Sarah and Tara turned to watch it go, but turned back rapidly to see what the others would do. As they turned their heads, they only saw the lights on a collision course with them. Josh, still focused on the creature, did not notice the other three lights zooming towards them. Tara then screamed out. "Josh!"
Sarah and Tara blocked their faces with their hands. At the last second, Josh put his hand between him and the light. A split second before the lights hit the kids, the creature suddenly let the light go and shot it at Josh. The streak of white light hit Josh's hand and turned solid. He gripped the object just as the creature's shot hit the ground at his feet. The shock threw Josh up into the air. Energy crackled around his legs as he fell back down to the ground. He hit with a thud, knocking the object out of his hand. Sarah and Tara, both with similar objects in hand, ran to Josh's side. the creature lowered it's arms to it's side.
Josh opened his eyes to see a small metallic object lying next to him. It was small and black. It had three white buttons on it and a small screen. An antenna like thing stuck up on one side. He looked up to see Sarah and Tara on either side of him. They were both looking at the creature. Josh sat up and saw it. It was just sitting there, not moving.
Just then, a rock flew up and hit the thing in the head. It seemed undamaged, but it looked over to see where the rock came from. The three followed it's gaze to see another boy standing a few yards away. to their surprise, he seemed very confident. He raised his arm to throw another rock. that's when they saw it. on his belt, he too had a strange device, although his was different. The boy was dead on again, hitting the thing square in the face. Although it seemed quite angry, it slowly sank back into the ground. When he was sure it was gone, the boy walked up to the three.
"Are you okay? that thing's blast has some unusual effects." The boy spoke softly to Josh. Josh just looked blankly at hi for a second.
"Uh, yeah, I'm fine. I think it missed. Just one question..." Josh sat up and started to stand. What no body knew, was that the creature was trying to miss. It did not want to kill josh, but it did accomplish it's mission. It infected him.
"Yeah, what?"
"Who are you?" All three of them asked simultaneously. This shocked the boy a bit, but he was still overly calm.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I'm Lukas. I guess I should say 'Welcome to the Digital World'. I got here a while ago, I don't know how long exactly, I've been walking for a while." He helped Josh to his feet. josh looked to Sarah and Tara. Both of them had devices on their hands. each one was different. Sarah's was taller than Josh's and was black and red with a bigger screen, and the three buttons formed a triangle below it. Tara's was white with a blue rig around the screen. The buttons were similar to Lukas' yellow device. Out of all of them Josh's was the smallest.
"Do you know what these are?" Sarah asked politely as the three of them held them up to see. Lukas then saw something. The Digivices these kids had, were the same as the drawings on the pedestal.
"Those...are...the same. I saw these before, they were drawings on a pedestal. after I put mine on the pedestal, the drawings lit up and flew away. how did you get them?"
"They uh, flew into our hands." Tara spoke quietly, making sure not to sound stupid. She looked at Lukas and saw that he absolutely believed her.
"These things are called Digivices. This shows that we are here to save this world. And, to tell you the truth, a voice came out of mine and told me all this, so maybe it'll happen to you too." Josh said confused. He then went on to tell the three exactly what the voice had told them. Throughout the speech, the girls often became confused and scrunched up their faces trying to understand. Josh shrugged of the confusing bits and stood silent, trying to make sense of it all.