Koujimon - Chapter 2
The Adventure Begins

Hours later I awoke in a strange place. I was on a bed, inside a house or hut. It was quite dark and a strange creature was towering over me. I was still exhausted and could barely see, but the creature didn't seem to be a threat. It was like it was taking care of me. I adjusted my eyes and and sat up ,when finally the creature spoke. "So, how did you come here?" said a strange voice. "You took quite a fall! I was suprised you were still breathing." The creature was now sniffing at me. Feeling a little stronger now, I managed to speak. "Well... I umm..." I choked. I could barely say anything, for my throat was dry. "I found a portal....and the next the I knew I was here; in the Digital World..." I looked at the creature, he looked familiar. He was most definately a digimon of some sort. The digimon looked at me curiously. "Wow.. It always amazes me how you humans can get into this place. You aren't the first human we had here, but you are quite different from the others. Anyway, my name's Gabumon and welcome to our village." said Gabumon smiling. "How about something to eat? I bet you're hungry." Gabumon opened a door toward the back of the room and left.
I started to think about what type of food I would be eating when I felt a sharp pain in my head. The pain was incrucination. I fell off the bed onto me knees, holding my head in my hands. I then heard loud noises, loud crashing and banging. I saw people. People in uniforms. In some type of room. There was flashing and people screaming, running everywhere. Then suddenly,everything stopped. I looked up and around me and I was in the room again. I then realized it was sometime of memory, a flashback... I started to get up when the door opened and Gabumon walked in.
He was carrying a tray of all sorts of weird looking foods. "Feeling better?" he asked. I nodded wearily and walked over to a small table where the tray was placed. It smelt delicious and could hardly wait to eat it. "You can have all you want. Try to eat everything, you need your strength." He was pouring a strange looking, glowy liquid in my cup. "I was thinking if after you ate you might want to come and see the village?" I drank some of the liquid, it was like drinking very sweet pickle juice. "uh.. Sure. I love to go! heh" I replied while gasping for breath. "Okay then. Eat up! You're going to love our village. It's so beautiful!" he ramble on and on about the beauty of "Gabumon Gables." I started to eat the food. Actully it was good. I never had anything like it and I ate rapidly. "You seem quite energetic now." laughed Gabumon.
He walked over to the windows and opened the curtains. Light filled the whole room and I was blinded. Squinting I looked toward him. He was gazing out at the village. "So, are you ready yet?" he asked. Stilling trying to adjust to the brightness I said yes and rose from the table. "Good let's get started!" As he aproached he stopped. "Your eyes... they're...they're.." He stepped back and gazed at me. "Yes, I know... they're weird, aren't they?" I sighed, realizing I would proably scare everyone here too. "Well, they're the eyes of Akureimon! He is known by everyone here for the evil he has done." He froze as in deep thought. I was even scared now! How could this be? "Akureimon did many things, including.... well... he one time interfered with a human child,. I know now days in your world everything is ran by technology. The whole process of having children from the very start is somehow connected with computers. I know that when a child is born in your world it's instantly put in a monitoring machine which of course is ran by computers. They insert probes and tubes into the child's head, making sure the child is not retarded, it checks and monitors DNA, it also scans and xrays to make sure the child is perfect. Well somehow Akureimon got into one of these machines and reconstucted the DNA. This resulted in the child having digimon powers and digimon physical abilities and appearances. It mad ethe child half Human, half Digimon... One notable trait that was given was the eyes of Akureimon. There is no doubt that your are that child!" he seemed astonished. "I... I can't believe... It's just that.. well... uhhh." I was in shock. I knew it was all true. I thought I felt bad about myself back then, but now I was ready to kill myself. I would of been happy to be half of any other digimon, but no I got the most evil of them all. Gabumon came up to me and patted me on the back. "Now, now.. It's not that you are him. You'll be fine. No one will care." He hesitated. "Anyway how about we go and visit the village ?" I got up and walked with him as he lead us out of the room.
He led me out of the room and down a small stairway. We were now in the living room. There were several small digimon running around. "Wow! Is that a human!?" cried a small digimon. Several of them ran (or more like hopped) over too us. They were all tsunomons. "Yes, yes. This is a human, his name is..." Gabumon paused. "It's uhh, ...Kouji." I said. All the tsunomon had their mouths wide open staring at me. "What's with your eyes, Mr.?" asked the biggest Tsunomon. "Tsunomon! You shouldn't ask questions like that to a stranger." shouted Gabumon. "Anyway we must be going. Don't get into any trouble while we're gone." "Heh... kids." Said Gabumon as we walked out the front door. Outside was very beautiful. Every type of thing imaginable was growing. The sky was bright blue and there were lots of other Gabumon walking around. In the middle of the village was a giant statue. "Oh, that's the first Gabumon who discovered this place. That was 50 years ago..." I gazed up at it, it must have been 20, 25 feet high! As we walked on the ground turned from grass to coble stone. "Now we are entering the market place." Gabumon pulled me anxiously along. Inside the market area everywhere around us were Gabumons! It was amazing. They were selling stuff, buying stuff, and alot were just goofing off.
Suddenly a large croud noticed us! The all ran to greet us. "Wow! Is that another human?", "Where is he from?" "He's so cuuute!". They all kept chattering, when finally Gabumon spoke up. "This Kouji. I'm not sure exactly where he is from, but I know he's from the human world." All the Gabumon looked at me in awe. "What's with your eyes!" one shrilled. "Oh um.. well there.. uhh." I stuttered. I realized I really need some sort of a excuse for this. "Well anyway, we have to go!" said Gabumon, already dragging me from the scene. When we left they were alll talking about their suspicions. They knew why I was like that. And I guess I couldn't do anything about it. Maybe I should have gotten sunglasses or so... As we toured the market area, groups of Gabumon would come up and do the same thing. This happened all day and when we were finally ready to go home the rumor of "Akurei's child" had spread among the whole village. Everyone was talking about it and Gabumon started to get nervous about me staying with him. "This could become a problem." he started "You see they might think of you as a threat, and if I were to keep you... well... It would be just a huge mess." I could tell he was trying to get me to leave and I really had no problem in doing so, but where would I go? I realized that wherever I go the digimon will be scared of me. I sighed.. It seemed so hopeless doing anything. "I guess I could leave tonight. No one would see me and I could leave peacefully." I said this without thinking. "Well.. I mean.. You don't have to leave, we could somehow work this out." He was acting nervous. I knew he really wanted me to leave. "No I really think it would be best for me to leave. I like this village and all, but I don't want to stay here forever. I need to explore a bit and move on." I stared down at him. "Well if your mind is set I guess I can't change it." He seemed relieved. "You know toward the northeast of here there is town. They have this factory there and are always needing help. They will hire anyone and if you could just get a job then you would have it made." This seemed like a really good idea. "They also have other human workers there." That didn't excite me at all. It made me weary. I knew this was the best thing to do though, so I decided I would try it. "Okay then. I'll set off tonight."
Gabumon went to the kitchen and brought something back. "Here, take this. And good luck on your journey." It was a pack of food. "Thank you." I replied. "You have been very helpful." I started toward the door. Gabumon looked sad, but was also relieved. All the Tsunomon were asleep at this hour and I knew I could escape without anyone noticing. Outside was pitch black and I managed to exit Gabumon Gables. As I left I turned around to look at the village. My very first day in the Digiworld. I found out so much. I also had the most fun I ever had in my whole life.
It was a full moon tonight and I could see that ahead of me was a small clearing. I decided to go there and sleep for the night and start off tomorrow. I wondered what it would be like in this town. If I could get a job and how long I would stay there. I also wondered (I don't know why) about what was happening back at home. Soon after that I fell asleep. Who knew what awaited me after this day.

END Next chapter: The Past is Revealed.