Running
By Fiery-chan
A/N: Glad the first chapter went over so well. Thanks to the reviewers! Although I must say, I got mixed feelings in the reviews. Some people said my characters were OOC and others said they weren't. One review said that the characters were nothing like they are in the show and I must disagree with this. My characters are quite life like and I strive to keep the equality between the fiction and the television. So either the reviewer knows absolutely NOTHING about digimon or was HIGH when they were reading my story.
Disclaimer: I own all for I am the almighty elemental of fire.
The Element of Fire: Yeah right, get over yourself.
Fiery: Hey! Ok, so I don't own anything. Ok, happy now?
Fire: Very.
Chapter 2: Beware of Falling Piximon
Koji walked through the dense forest.
"Damn bastards." He muttered. He continued walking, smacking away tree branches in frustration. Koji sighed and dropped to the ground.
"I get mad way too easily."
"Koji! Koji, where are you?" A voice called out.
"Zoe?" He asked, standing up and heading in the direction of the sound.
"You must find the connection." Ophanimon said from Zoe's D-Tector. A bright light surrounded her and she was gone. Koji gasped.
"Zoe! Zoe! Oh what the hell just happened? Zoe!" Koji ran as fast as he could back to the campsite and found the guys all asleep.
"Crap. Get up now!" He yelled. He ran to each one and shook them. They all awoke from their slumbers.
"Koji? What the hell? Normal people are asleep at this hour." JP said. "Oh wait, we're a bunch of kids who can transform into digital monsters and have to save the day from evil digital monsters. We've surpassed normal. Proceed." Koji ignored his comment and grabbed everyone's attention with just two words.
"Zoe vanished."
***
"Where am I?" Zoe asked, sitting up. She found that she was on a large couch in someone's apartment. She had a blanket draped over her and a pillow under her head. Zoe gasped and quickly felt her pocket. Her D-Tector was back in there. Zoe sighed. If she had lost that, she never would be able to get out of here, wherever here is.
"Oh, hey you're awake." A boy of about 16 said. He walked up to her and grinned. "I though you were gonna be in some sort of a coma." He had cherry eyes and soft brown hair that fell softly down his face, to just above his eyebrows. "My name is Jayson Hallowell. Son to business executive Thomas Hallowell and kindergarten teacher Kari Hallowell. However, my parents are divorced and my mother remarried and took the name of her second husband, but I did not allow him to adopt me and change my name because I respect my father and want to keep his name."
"I see." Zoe said nodding. Although I really don't need to know all of this.
"Ha! Here I am rambling right after you just woke up. Bryon!" Another boy walked in, he looked to be about 13 or 14. He had spiky blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Hey, what's up?" Bryon asked. "Oh, you're awake." He added, noticing Zoe. She nodded.
"Yeah, watch her while I go find mom." Jayson replied. Bryon nodded and Jayson ran off to find his mother.
"So, my name is Bryon. But you already know that. I'm the son of the Odaiba Daily's chief editor TK Takaishi and his first wife Catherine who he met in France when he was younger. She still lives there. But now I'm Kari's step son because she adopted me."
"Oh, I see." Once again, didn't need to know their life story.
"You're totally lost aren't you?" Bryon said. Zoe blushed and nodded. Bryon laughed. "Thought so. Hey, you know you're cute when you blush." This caused Zoe to blush even redder, and Bryon laughed again.
"Bryon, are you tormenting her?" Jayson asked returning to the room. A tall woman followed behind him. Her hair and eyes were the same shade as Jayson's and her hair was pulled into a bun. She wore blue jeans and a pink three quarter sleeved shirt. She walked with elegance and Zoe couldn't help but admire her.
"Hello. My name is Kari Takaishi; call me Kari. You're probably wondering how on earth you got here. Well, since this is Jayson's story, he can tell it."
"Yes, thank you mother. Well it all began when I was heading to my uncle Tai and aunt Sora's house. I had to deliver something for mom. After completing my task, I was walking home, strolling lazily along the street, wasting time, you know, like a normal teen."
"Thinking about Yolei's daughter." Coughed Bryon who was in return thwacked with a pillow by Jayson.
"Anyway, so I'm walking and I see this blob just lying on the sidewalk. I walk over to it and it's a girl, you Zoe. So me being the gentleman I am, I pick you up and carry you home. Then I get inside, my mom freaks out and cleans you all up, and then you laid unconscious on the couch until you finally woke up. Then I told my story about how it all began when I was heading to my uncle Tai and aunt Sora's house." At this point, Bryon smacked Jayson in the back of the head and they all laughed.
"So how exactly did you wind up unconscious on the sidewalk?" Bryon asked.
"It's a long story." Zoe said, putting her hand into her pocket and running her fingers over her purple d-tector.
"We have time, start talking." Bryon said. Kari sighed at her stepson's rudeness and left the room, shaking her head.
"You wouldn't understand. It's very confusing, I lead a very confusing life." Zoe said quietly.
"So do we, were the sons of-" Bryon was cut off as Jayson smacked his hand over his mouth.
"Why don't you leave the girl alone for now Bryon, go to your room." Bryon growled at his brother and left the room.
"Please excuse my brother he can be quite rude at times." Jayson said apologetically.
"It's ok." Zoe replied with a smile.
"Good, now how about some food?" Jayson stood up and led Zoe into the kitchen to get some sandwiches.
***
"She what?" The other three boys cried in unison.
"You heard me, she vanished." Koji described everything that happened and the boys stood in shock.
"But how? People just don't vanish." Takuya said.
"You're forgetting that were in the digital world Takuya." JP added. Anything can happen.
"Good point." Takuya replied. "But that still doesn't change anything. We must begin a search and rescue mission!"
"It won't be that easy Takuya. Ophanimon spoke to her through the d-tector. She said Zoe had to find the connection." Koji explained.
"What connection?" Tommy asked. Koji sighed and closed his eyes.
"I wish I knew. This is my fault. Which is why you guys will travel on without me and I'll go find her."
"No way! We're going too!" Takuya cried.
"Yeah! We can help!" Tommy added.
"Pit bomb!" A voice cried out and a small bomb exploded near them. The boys jumped and turned towards the voice, d-tectors ready. A small, pink, ball of fluff with wings flew down and swooped over their heads before landing on the ground.
"Oh my," Bokomon said, kneeling down on the ground.
"Bokomon you ingrate! You have done a horrible job at training these digidestined."
"I am sorry sir, it was a difficult job, please forgive me!" Bokomon said whining.
"Digidestined?" Takuya asked.
"Of course, who did you think you were?" The pink ball smacked himself in the head and whacked Bokomon and Neemon with his staff. "You mean you didn't even tell them that they were digidestined? Oh I have work to do tonight."
"Sorry to break up this little party but who are you?" Koji asked.
"I am Piximon. Digital trainer extraordinaire. I have trained many digidestined, preparing them for the worst this world has to offer and you're the next batch! And after the last bunch completely ignored me and went straight to the four harmonious ones I will not let that happen again!"
"Right….." Takuya said. "So you're going to train us?"
"Yes, you want to be ready for Cerubimon don't you?"
"Well yeah but-"
"Then it's settled! Follow me!" Piximon said.
"Follow you where?" JP asked.
"To my mansion to train!"
"It's going to be a long night." Takuya said moaning.
***
"So, what's this long story?" Jayson asked, sitting backwards on his computer chair facing Zoe who sat on his bed.
Ring!
"Oh, hold on a second." Jayson grabbed the phone from its cradle. "Hello? Oh hi Matt. Yeah hold on. TK!!!! Ok, he's coming. There he is, see ya." Jayson grinned. "Sorry about that. So where was I? Oh yeah, the long story."
"Yeah that." Zoe said quietly. She reached into her pocket and pulled out her d-tector.
"Oh, my, god." Jayson whispered. "It can't be. We've searched so long and it's finally over." He said to himself.
"Excuse me?" Zoe asked. Jayson jumped up and grabbed Zoe's hand, dragging her from the room.
"Come on! Mom! Where are you?" He asked.
"In the kitchen." Kari yelled. "What's wrong?"
Jayson pointed to Zoe's hand, Kari gasped and picked up the phone.
"TK, Matt, assemble the team at our apartment right now." She said quickly before hanging up. Kari then turned to Zoe. "The connection." She whispered. "The prophecy, it all fits. Everyone in the living room now." Kari ordered, sending them all in there, following behind them.
***
"Cleaning my entire mansion, by hand! This shall be your first training exercise, for all of you except you Koji." He said pointing to Koji.
"Why?" Koji asked.
"Because you have a special task, follow me please." Piximon said, flying off with Koji following behind.
***
Piximon led Koji to a large steel door that stood at the far end of a stone room. In the center of the room was a circular stone table with what looked like spots for nine cards.
"You won't be needing that." Said Piximon heading right towards the door. "We are standing in the ruins of an old castle. This castle belonged to an evil vampiric digimon called Myotismon. He is no longer for he was defeated by the digidestined. However he did come back, twice. First as Venomyotismon, and then as Malomyotismon. But now, he is gone for good for each time the digidestined used the powers of their digivices to defeat him.
"But this is all beside the point. You will not need the cards that the original digidestined used to open the gate, all you need is you d-tector. Just point it at the gate and Lady Ophanimon will do the rest. And do be sure to say hello to Tai and the others for me."
"Ok, but where will I find them?" Koji asked.
"How should I know, check everywhere. Highton View Terrace, Odaiba, Kyoto, Tokyo, or a phone book."
"But then won't I need to know their names?"
"Yeah, try Kamiya, Takaishi, Ishida, Motomiya, Ichijouji, there's a whole bunch of them, just try everything. Good bye Koji Minamoto!"
Piximon flew away and Koji was left alone.
"Well, here goes nothing." Koji held his D-tector up to the door and it opened slowly. Koji walked towards it and through to the other side, where he was whisked swiftly into the real world. "Home, feels good. Now to do what I came here for."
A/N: Short, yes I know. And I apologize for not updating I had a serious case of writers block bigger than you would imagine. It was astounding. But anyway, if you scroll up, you will see that beloved Kari mentions a prophecy. Here's the beginning.
Good and Evil,
Day and Night,
What once was darkness,
Is now light………
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