Disclaimer: Monster Rancher, Monster Rancher Advance and related copyrights are properties of Tecmo and I do not work for them. In other words I do not own Monster Rancher or any related concept, this work of fiction is done purely for fun and not money. Don't sue me I'm poor!
AN: Hello everybody, here is my new project! This story is based on Monster Rancher Advance 2, I have yet to complete the game and I will try to keep from spoiling any major events. Notice that I also take some liberties every once in a while, and I have no idea how long this story will last, I'll see where it takes me. Some faithful reader of my work might recognize my hero's name from my Digimon fic, wich you'll notice is not there anymore.
By: HellRavenmon
Episode 1: Code "DKYW"
The crowd was cheering all around him. A wild crowd surrounding him in stone bleechers. The boy was in the middle of a colloseum looking building. A large stone circle raising high into the sky. He looked around in total surprise and then an explosion attracted his attention to the center of the building. On a raised circular platform he saw two...two monsters! He gasped as he watched a Ducken battle an Antlan. He knew these monsters, he had seen them in the games. He wasn't sure how to react and he just stood there.
The Antlan charged forward, its fist a blaze. The Ducken dodged the attack and quickly retaliated with a series of wing slap, sending its opponent back. Then the Antlan rushed him and attacked with its punch rush, landing a good series of hit. The crowd was cheering even more wildly, but the boy stood there silently, amazed by what he was seeing... and unaware for who he should be rooting. Then he noticed someone, standing on the opposite side of the circular platform. It was a shaddowed form but it was obviously a boy about his age looking back to him. Then the Antlan leaped into the air raising its arm to the sky as the Ducken's eyes started to glow. He knew what was going to happen... The two monsters unleashed their attacks, meteors falling from the sky as per the Antlan's command and two powerful Eye Beam shooting out of the Ducken's eyes.
The two attacks collided and created a large explosion. The light blinded the boy who took a step back. The light engulfed everything and when he reopened his eyes all he could see was a black horizontal rectangle stone slab hovering above the white ground in front of him. On the stone like surface were engraved the letters "DKYW".
"What...what is that?" He asked.
But he never got his answer. The stone exploded, showering him with shards and light once again. And then...he woke up.
Metin Uchara, 14, woke up with a start. The images of his dream rushed through his head as he tried to gather his bearing. He ran his hand through his dirty blond hair before rubbing his eyes. At first he wasn't sure what that weird monster dream meant, until he glanced at the calandar standing by his alarm clock radio. Today was D-Day, or more precisely, SP-day. The day the GBA SP was coming out! The all new Game Boy Advance with light up screen. Keoki had saved money for a long time to not only get the newest version of his favorite console but the sequel to one of his favorite game as well: Monster Rancher Advance 2! The game had been out for a while, but Keoki managed to resist buying it until this very day, as some kind of celebration for his soon aquisition of a GBASP.
The boy quickly leaped up from bed, quickly changing from his green pyjamas in a flash. He put on his baggy grey pants, his green t-shirt and his brown vest. He grabbed hold of his Indiana Jones style explorer hat and took a few minutes looking at himself in his mirror to adjust it. He smiled proudly at his look, behind him on the opposite wall he could see the poster he had of Monster Rancher Advance 2, actually it was just a full page ad he took from a magazine and put on his wall. It had a friendly looking Suezo casting a menacing shadow. The ad was very mysterious.
"METIN! HURRY UP! YOU'RE GONNA BE LATE AGAIN!" Shouted his mom from downstair.
"COMING MOM!" He replied.
The boy quickly grabbed his schoolbag and pushed his unfinished homework from his desk down into his bag, like he was taking out the trash. He had a hard time stuffing it all down but managed to do finally zip. He grabbed his icey clear blue GBA with his Monster Rancher Advance loaded into it. Right now he was training a Dragon of second generation, a Niezheg to be precise, and he hoped to combined it with his second generation Shuri. Training a Dragon prooved to be hard, but now he was starting to apreciate the big lug. Not as much as a Zan tough, his favorite kind of Monster. He quickly pocketed the device and ran out his door. He quickly and loudly went down the stair, barely said 'good morning' to his mom, grabbed a toast as it popped out of the toaster and dissapeared through the door.
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Metin rushed out of the school at the end of the day. He had spent his day thinking about Monster Rancher and his Game Boy Advance SP and he got a detention for his lack of attention in class, and for bringing his GBA to school... but detention were always done on Friday so he was free for the moment and made his way to the store in a heartbeat, slaloming betweem the pedestrian on the busy streets on his way. It took him a good 15 seconds to grab hold of a Monster Rancher Advance 2 copy and after 5 minutes he had his console. He was among the first to reserve one when it was announced. Everything was in order and he left the store. The trip home felt way too long for the boy. Running through the street among complaining bystanders, he even made a buisnessman trip by accident. He finally reached his house and barely had took the time to greet his mom that he was in his room, unpacking his new Game Boy and game, taking great care as not to damage the boxes. He admired his new platinium console for a second, it looked so much diferent from the original Game Boy Advance. It was very small, the screen and the controls were on two diferent parts that could be folded together like an old Game And Watch game. It had a light that made the screen clearer than the original, and the cartridge slot was at the bottom. He quickly loaded his new game. On the box there was two monsters he had never seen, a lion looking critter and some strange devil bunny with claws at the end of it's ears and holding a trident.
"Cool...looks like it still takes place on Age Island." Commented Metin as he started the game, not even taking the time to read the instruction manual.
Quickly he started and put in his name as character. "Woh... Holly's my assistant! How cool!" He added.
Now was time to input his first code to generate a monster. With only four letters Metin wasn't sure of what to put. He pondered for long, staring at his screen blankly, moving his cursor on the letters. At some point he stopped on the 'D' and remembered his dream...it was a sign! IT would probably get him a cool Special monster! He quickly entered the four letters he had seen in his dream "DKYW... that should do it... and 'end' "
Metin watched the round stone spin in the shrine, the letters flying off, turning into glowing symbols. They started spinning around the stone, a light started to shine from within the circle, it was something he had seen a lot of time... but then something happened... something...VERY weird...
The light...it was getting brighter and brighter! Way too much in fact, Metin was being blinded by the bright light...how could that be coming from a simple GBA screen? Then...the light something amazing happened... the light... ESCAPED the screen! It floated up in the air, still shining brightly, Metin could barely see but he saw it expend and soon his whole room dissapeared in pure white light and he felt himself falling!
Metin screamed in fear as he felt like he was falling through a tunnel of light, bouncing off the side of the strange passage. He clutched his GBA SP, hoping it wouldn't be damaged through this ordeal. Everything was spinning and Metin was feeling very dizzy and finally he hit the ground...hard.
For a while the boy just layed there on the stone floor, his eyes closed. He was still feeling dizzy after the fall, he felt his hat fall down on his face, but he didn't care.
"That doesn't look like a monster..." Suddenly said a man's voice.
"He has weird clothings..." Commented a soft girl's voice.
He heard a soft flutter, like wing flapping or something. Someone took hold of his hat and move it away from his face.
"Are you okay?" Asked a higher pitched female voice that had a mischiefous edge to it.
Metin slowly opened his eyes. His vision was blurred at first, but things were getting clearer and clearer. It looked like a girl with pale pink skin and...green hair? She had two things in her hair and she was looking down on him, as things got clearer Metin noticed she looked pretty but then he realised that those things that were in her hair were actually...horns! Sticking out of her head!
"You alright?" Asked the Lip Pink Pixie.
To Be Continued...