Digimon: New Heroes - The Progeny
By Fumo the Smoker
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, don't be angry at me, it's all good
Rating: PG-13 - for Mild Language, Mature Situations, and violence (the good stuff)
Writer's Note: One of the characters is "based" on me, can you guess which? (giggle, giggle)
Chapter Two - Salvation's Calling
Julian clicked off his CD player and padded down his shaggy brown hair as he stepped of the exit ramp to the airplane. He made his way past other crowds and through customs, amazingly they didn't catch the digimon concealed in his back pack.
He stopped and searched his surroundings cautiously, a force of habit from few days of constant paranoia.
The Puerto Rican Digidestined was on a mission. Someone was defeating his fellows all over the world, and he wasn't about to sit around and be counted among them. So, learning from the warning sent to him by who knows, he'd came to Tokyo, Japan to find salvation from the unknown enemy, and hopefully find a way to fight back.
Julian walked through lobbies on his way out, but before he left, he thought he saw someone he once knew. A beautiful, young girl, with golden blonde hair that was curly on the bottom and one hell of a swanky fashion sense was seated on a bench, looking like she was waiting for something, but with a look of confusion, like she didn't know what she was doing.
That French Digidestined, Catherine, he remembered. He had meet her during the world tour. She was an elegant rich type he remembered. She was probably here for the same reason he was.
He walked over to her, "Catherine?"
She looked up at him with full blue eyes, she smiled, "Ahh, Bonjour... Julian, right?"
"Yeah, hi." He said giving her a gently hug, "Lemme guess, you're here for that rendezvous, too."
She looked kind of upset, "Yes, I waz hoping zat I could stay with one of the Japanese Digidestined I meet on ze World Tour, but... a... I have not been able to reach any. I fear they are no longer around, anymore. So... I'm waiting for... I don't know what..."
"Why doncha you come with me." Julian asked.
"Ah... where are you going?"
"I dunno."
"You don't know?"
"Nope, I was gonna find a hotel I think."
"But, you don't know where." she said trying to clarify
"Yep. So you wanna come?"
She smiled as she scratched her chin, "You are a very different person then I am Julian, I would never be so reckless, but it seems that fate has brought us together, so I will go with you."
"All right, let's go. Do you think that there could be any other digidestined."
"I don't think there iz a doubt." she said gathering her things. "Everyone left will show up here, eventually."
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Izzy was brought back to consciousness by a strange sound. He didn't know where he was. He looked around his surroundings, and realized that he had fallen asleep at his computer desk again. Perhaps, it would have been better if he'd stayed asleep.
Joe's plan had failed and in a span of three days almost every digidestined on the planet had disappeared, including Joe, Mimi, Matt, and TK. The only ones left were him, Davis and Kari, at least.
In fact, Kari and Gatomon were in the guest room of his house, and Davis and Veemon were sprawled out on the floor of Izzy's room, intertwined between sheets and pillows. They had decided they could be more affective against whatever, if they stayed together.
It hadn't worked completely. One by one, the digidestined were tracked going out for milk or walking home, and they were never heard from again.
Izzy yawned.
They were in quite a predicament.
Tentomon, who had just been sleeping on Izzy's still made bed, fluttered in the air as he veered around Izzy's head.
"Good morning Izzy."
"Oh hi, Tentomon."
"Still upset Izzy?"
"Yeah, there doesn't seem to be anything I can do."
"Izzy, I was wondering, what that sound was that woke me up?"
Izzy looked up at Tentomon, "Sound...?" then Izzy remembered the sound, "Oh yeah, it was my priority e-mail reminder."
Izzy jumped into action, he pressed a bottom on his key board, turning off his screen saver. He brought up his Internet connection, and checked his new e-mail.
"Prodigious!" he yelled, causing Davis to groan on the floor.
"Uh... oh, Kari... kissy, kissy... unnnnnnnnnn." Davis moaned giving Veemon a strangling embrace in his sleep.
Veemon woke with a squawk, "Ahhhhh, Davis lemme go!"
"...no Kari... don't fight the love you feel for me...!"
"You know, I think that boy's got problems" Tentomon jeered.
Izzy grabbed a rolled up sock and fired it at Davis's head, and it collided with a thump, "Davis, get up! There's another e-mail!"
Davis coming out of his sleep talking, "Wha ju say...?"
"There's another e-mail! The guy from the digital world sent us more instructions!"
Davis pulled himself up from the floor with a tired yawn, "Well, what's it say?"
Izzy read aloud;
"Dear Digidestined,
I've found a way into the real world and I'm coming to help. I don't know how many of you are left, but I can stop the disappearances. Meet me in Shujini Park, in Odhiba, Tokyo, Japan, tomorrow at dusk.
- A Guardian of Both Worlds"
"Wow, all right. We have a meeting place... I'll wake up Kari, heh, heh."
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Julian looked over the new piece of e-mail on his green hand-held internet terminal. It was a good sign. His plans were working out, the phantom sender was making good on his deal to come.
Sitting in a plush chair in his motel room, he went over the wording carefully. He had to go over every word carefully, make sure that he understood everything correctly. One slip up could lead to his own disappearance.
A yawn drew Julian's attention to a ball of fur sleeping on the floor. His partner digimon, Simianmon. The tree monkey-like digimon was stretched out on the floor snoozing silently in front of the cool air conditioning. It had a slender body like a brown tree monkey, with white tuffs of fur on the side on it's face, and a bushy end tail.
He looked up at the others like him, those that had also come to Japan in search of salvation. Julian and Catherine had found several others.
On one of the beds, Catherine sat quietly brushing her long beautiful hair, the girl from Paris, France grown up in the lap of luxury, now living in a room with several others. Her Floramon seated next to her helping her brush.
Next to her sat another, talking to another of the digidestined. Her name was Gina, she was American, from Charlotte, North Carolina. She was a caring Digidestined, who would give up everything to help another. She had long dark brown hair and smooth black skin with a considerate smile. Resting on her shoulders, her Drakemon, an uncommon digimon consisting mainly of a long reptilian head with no body, only a long scaly green tale, and a pair of leathery wings, was resting and listening to her conversation, as Gina talked to...
Farris. Farris was a calm, patient boy from Edmonton, Canada. He liked to think things through before he did them. You could really relay on a guy like Farris. He had dark green hair, shortly styled with lots of hair gel, and a pair of thin framed glasses. His digimon, one Julian had never meet before, Furrimon, was bouncing on the bed. It was kind of similar to a big hamster, with thicker, dark brown fur with no tail.
Finally, Lani laid on her cot, singing the words to an Italian rock song she was listening to on her CD player. Lani was a firebrand from Palermo, Sicily. She had a fiery and wild personality, despite her being very short. She had shoulder length raven black hair. Her attitude was reflected in her digimon, Dinomon, who sat at the foot of her cot. Dinomon looked a lot like Agumon, but with a redder color, and a row of black spines leading from it's forehead down it's back. It was busy chomping on a cantaloupe.
Julian made a dour face. Where did he get that cantaloupe, he thought.
Catherine counted down with each brush, "Tua... due... i une. Mercee Floramon."
"Nes pa" Floramon returned.
Julian wrote a note on his internet terminal, as he watched the gorgeous Catherine.
"Catherine's cute, learn French." he wrote in Spanish.
Just then, Lani popped up, "I'm hungry!"
Dinomon looked up from finishing his melon, "Me too!"
Julian looked up, "You just ate a cantaloupe."
Dinomon shrugged his shoulders, "Hey, when you're hungry, you're hungry."
Catherine stretched her arms, "What time iz it? We should get some dinner."
Farris lifted his arm to view his watch, "7:36, it's dusk."
They all went silent.
"No, none of us should go out at night." Gina said stoically.
"But Gina," Drakemon said to her, "We have to eat."
"Maybe if Dinomon, hadn't eaten the whole cantaloupe!" Furrimon called.
Arguments started to break out.
"Well, I would have shared it...!" Dinomon yelled
The noise was too much for Julian to take, "I'll go!"
The room quieted.
"Come again." Simianmon said waking up.
"I'm not gonna starve because of fear. I'll go get some food."
"Your a brave one, Julian." Catherine said.
Julian smiled and shrugged his shoulders, "Hey, what can I say."
"I guess I can't let you go by yourself. You'd be helpless with out me, ya know." Simianmon said leaping onto the back of Julian's chair.
Julian smiled, "Sure Simianmon, whatever." He said sarcastically.
He got up with encouragement from his peers, grabbed some money, and opened the door.
"You should probably only go to that deli down the street there." Farris said pointing out the window.
"Ok, we eat sandwiches then." Julian said.
"Good luck." the crew mumbled.
"Tch, I don't need luck. I got pure skill." Julian said boastingly, but only for show and to beguile any nervousness he had.
With that, Julian left. With Simianmon hiding in his back pack, he embarked down the road.
It was a warm night. The darkened road was quite, no one else around. A few cars were parked by the side. Julian had an eerie feeling, but he wasn't going to let that stop him. The eeriness was really starting to piss him off.
Julian pulled out his terminal, and connected to the satellite Internet, he typed in an address, and wrote a little note. Then left it alone in his back pocket. It would be his contingency plan.
He made it to the deli, uninterrupted. He bought a couple loaves of bread, some deli meat, mayonnaise, pickles, and a banana for Simianmon. He paid and walked out into the street, and was overcome with a silence. A strange feeling come over him, he could tell it was happening.
Julian set the bag of food on the ground.
"Running away Julian. That's not like you. Coming all the way to Japan to escape little old me." a mysterious girl's voice called from no where.
Julian wasn't about to let a disembodied jeer call him a coward, "Not at all," he said calmly, "I prefer to call it a tactical retreat. By coming to Japan, I'll be able to come back and get you."
"Well, you should know by now that the original digidestined are gone already."
"I never said I was here for them."
The voice was quiet, thrown off by Julian's calmness and unexpected answer. Julian realized, this voice didn't know about the e-mail. What an advantage.
"Well suit yourself, but I highly doubt you can do anything." followed by a low chuckle.
A giant crash drew Julian's attention. Something big had fallen from up high and smashed threw a car's top and windshield to the side of the road. It laughed menacingly, white eyes glowed at Julian.
Julian wrenched the terminal out of his pocket, and jammed the send bottom.
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In the motel room, the others waited patiently for Julian to return.
Suddenly, Gina's light blue wireless internet terminal blared loudly, a priority e-mail had been sent to her. Gina grabbed it up and read her screen.
"What's happened?!" Lani yelled.
Gina looked over it quickly and read aloud.
"Hey Guys!!!!!
Get your asses out her now!!!!!!!!!
-love, Julian"
Catherine ran to the door, "Let's hurry!"
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It chuckled lightly as it pulled itself out of the wrecked frame of the former Mercedes. It was an imposing sight. It was humanoid in form. It's muscular skin was a pasty gray, with darker gray streaks at different places. It's head was dominated by horribly shaggy black dreadlocks. A scarlet mask covered it's upper face and the tip of it's nose menacingly. It's eyes were replaced by horrifying white slits. It wore black pants, and gigantic black boots. It had a loose black vest on with that skull and crossbones symbol on the back, so common among bad Digimon.
"Greetings coward. I am the prince of the night." It said in a voice unlike the one Julian had heard before, deep and raspy.
Julian crossed his arms, refusing to be intimidated "Is that what your mama named you."
"No, that name I earned. You may call me Vampiromon." He said confidently.
"And you may call me your worst nightmare. Go Simianmon!"
Simianmon leaped out of Julian's backpack, did a flip and landed right in front of him. Julian wrenched out his digivice, as it began to glow.
"Simianmon digivolve to...," Simianmon yelled as he lit up, and soon it's voice was several octaves lower, "... Apemon!"
Apemon was impressive looking, but it had no time to be admired.
Vampiromon lurched from the broken car and ran at Julian.
Apemon dashed toward Vampiomon, and pulled the long bone from off it's back.
"Mega Bone Stick!" Apemon yelled.
Apemon lifted the bone high above it's head, and brought it done on top of Vampiromon.
Vampiromon lifted it's arm and blocked the swing.
Apemon tried to force Vampiromon's arm with the bone.
Vampiromon moved under, and up, hurling Apemon over his head and into a parking meter. Apemon sprawled out across the pavement in pain.
He laughed, and turned to Julian.
"You can't beat me. I rule the darkness you miserable little twit!"
"You're really full of yourself." Julian said smirking.
"When you're as good as I am, your should fill up on as much as you can."
"Then eat this! Mega Bone Stick!" Apemon yelled, hurling the bludgeoning devise through the air.
Vampiromon chuckled and simply caught the tool in the air. He never even turned away from Julian, smiling vilely at him.
Julian crossed his arms and smiled back.
"Pathetic..." Vampiromon said, and then he saw what he was holding. Instead of a long bone, it was the parking meter that Apemon had collided with.
"Sucker…" Julian mused.
"Mega Bone Stick!" Apemon yelled.
Swinging his bone like a baseball bat, Apemon smashed Vampiromon in the back, causing the dark digimon to go barreling forward. Julian leaped out of the way, as Vampiromon crashed into a mail box, rolled across concreit, and into a plate glass window.
"Very nice, Apemon." Julian said, picking himself up.
"Yeah I know, but didn't that seem a little too easy."
Julian scratched his head, "Well, it was really easy for me, ha, ha."
"Yeah, you just stood there..."
"Hey, I had to keep up with the witty repartee…"
An angry scream could be heard from the darkened store that Vampiromon had cascaded into. And then the remaining glass and bricks burst out in a fierce energy blast as the aggravated Vampiromon stepped out of the rubble.
He was seething mad, "NOT GOOD ENOUGH!"
"Julian get back," Apemon said pushing Julian to the side, "Metalic Fur!"
Apemon's chest, face, and hair fur grew shiny, then a blast of silvery energy rocketed out at Vampiromon.
"Ebony Cast!" Vampiromon yelled.
Vampiromon started to pulsated with a strange black energy. He held out his arms at either side like a cross, and then the energy blasted off of him in that cross.
The two energy blasts veered towards each other and collided, but the Ebony Cast simply dissipated the Metalic Fur, and smashed into Apemon head on.
Apemon yelped and sank back into the street.
"Apemon!" Julian yelled
Vampiromon reached into his pocket and pulled out a small saucer-disc and brandished it at Julian.
"Your time is over!" he yelled.
Julian looked around for an escape.
"No way out, twit!"
"Dragon Cannon!"
A massive globe of red fire cascaded out of the sky and smashed into Vampiromon. Vampiromon shrieked and fell away as the small saucer disc dropped and rolled away.
From out of no where, Lani ran into view, and dove for the devise before Vampiromon could recover.
Airdramon came into view, Gina riding on top of her.
"Finally, you guys get here!" Julian called.
"Julian are you all right." Catherine yelled coming into view with Floramon at her side, and Farris with Furrimon running up behind them.
"I'm super." Julian returned with fake grin on his face.
"I could use some help though." Apemon said sitting up.
"I got ya help right 'ere" Farris yelled holding out his glowing digivise.
"Furrimon digivolve to...," Furrimon called, his siluette disappearing in a brilliant yellow glow, "... Pinemon!"
Pinemon, was a fearsome champion digimon. He appeared like a giant porcupine. It had short bent legs, relatively short arms tipped with big claws. It had a feral rodent face with glaring teeth. But primarily, it's body was dominated by long brown quills, sprouting from it's back.
"Spike Ball!" Pinemon yelled.
Pinemon rolled into a ball of pure spikes, and raced over and over toward Vampiromon. Vampiromon held out his arms and grabbed onto the base of a set quills, holding the giant spiny ball back strenuously. Trying to push it back, while Pinemon tried to run him over.
Lani came running over, "Hey Julian, ju get da salami!"
"It's in the bag."
"Good. Now go Dinomon." she yelled holding up her digivice.
"Dinomon digivolve to... Tyrannomon!"
The giant dinosaur eyed Vampiromon wearily, "Fire Blast!"
Tyrannomon released from it's mouth a monstrous grout of flame at Vampiromon.
"Lani watch it you'll hit Pinemon!" Farris called.
"No I won't!"
Vampiromon grabbed Pinemon by two of it's spines and lifted it off the ground. He spun it around and hurled the spiky ball at the flame. Pinemon squealed as it collided with the fire.
"See!" Farris yelled.
"That's not Tyrannomon's fault." Lani yelled.
Vampiromon ran towards Tyrannomon. Tyrannomon spun with the intent to smash Vampiromon with it's large tail. Vampiromon caught the large thing's tail and held it firmly, growling angrily.
Gina jumped off Airdramon's back and ran to the others.
"Julian is that the thing that's causing the others to disappear?" she asked.
Julian shock his head, "I don't think so. There was another, a girl's voice that had no body. It talked to me from... well, no where."
"That's weird." Catherine said.
Airdramon rushed at Vampiromon. Vampiromon strained and spun Tyrannomon around by the tail and smashed him into Airdramon. The two groaned as they fell to the ground.
"His passing record is two for two." Julian mumbled.
"Floramon, it's your turn!" Catherine yelled, holding up her digivise.
"Floramon digivolve to... Kiwimon!"
Vampiromon was wiping his hands off, when he sighted Kiwimon. It began to chuckle.
"Your kidding me." he said.
"Don't underestimate my Kiwimon!" Catherine yelled angrily.
"Fine. Bring it on, peewee" Vampiromon said facing the Kiwimon.
Kiwimon didn't look happy, "Pummel Pat!"
Small replicas of Kiwimon's head appeared and fired out of her head at Vampiromon. Vampiromon had to shield his face to protect himself from.
"Damn you... stupid bird!" he yelled, "Ebony Cast!"
The cross energy fired out disintegrating the little replicas, and smacked Kiwimon across the street.
Vampiromon began to yell, "THAT'S IT! I'm ending this right now!" he searched for something in his pants, "Hey where'd it go..."
"You mean this?" Lani said holding up the disc.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I don't care what she says, I'm going get rid of all of you!"
"No!" the bodiless girl's voice called, scaring the group. She command respect with that voice. "Back off, Vampiromon! We'll deal with them later!"
"But..."
"NOW!"
Vampiromon looked upset, then he pointed strait at the group, "YOU BETTER THANK WHATEVER GOD YOU SWEAR FEALTY TO, THAT MY MISTRESS WANT'S A FATE FOR YOU DIFFERENT THEN WHAT I WANT!" and then he disappeared.
The eerieness faded.
"What ze hell jus' happened!" Catherine said.
"Das one weird digimon." Lani said.
Julian turned to the rest of the group, "We gotta talk. That was some truly pathetic team work."
Farris frowned, "I agree, man. If we're going to fight whatever's out there, we have work together."
"We tried, you guys, but zings just didn't work well for us." Catherine said.
"That's not the only problem." Gina said solemnly.
The group looked wearily at her.
"I'm very sure that Vampiromon is an ultimate." she finished.
Catherine sighed.
"That would sure explain how he thoroughly decimated us." Farris mumbled.
"Hey we beat him, didn't we." Lani blurted.
"Wrong. That weird girl called him off." Farris said.
"We just delayed the inevitable." Gina finished for him.
"Hmm..." Julian groaned, "The way she ordered him around... he totally stopped when she yelled at him."
The group frowned.
"I'm hungry!" Dinomon yelled, who had dedigivolved to rookie like the rest of the digimon.
Everyone laughed.
"Yeah, let's go eat. We can worry about this tomorrow." said Farris grabbing the bag and the group began to walk back to the motel.
"Julian?" Catherine called, causing Julian to halt.
Julian turned to Catherine, she was smiling at him.
"Zat waz very smart of you to send zat e-mail."
Julian was smiling now, "Thank you Catherine."
She wrapped her arms around him, and laid her head on his shoulders. She whispered softly in his ear, "I am glad you are all right."
"Thanks." he said blushing.
She kissed him quickly on the cheek and ran to catch up with the others.
Julian couldn't stop smiling as he watched her leave. He began to dance behind there backs. The happy-go-lucky strutting dance of a man who had just got some.
He sung quietly, "Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah..."
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"I'm glad you came to us with this." Izzy said typing on his laptop.
"I'm just glad we found you at all." Julian said leaning back.
Izzy had taken Julian's digivice and placed it in the digivice slot on his laptop. He was busy typing in his old digimon encyclopedia program put there by Jenye many years ago.
As Izzy worked at his computer desk, Julian sat in the chair next to him quietly watching him work. Gina was perched on the computer desk, stretching out the crinks in her hands. Standing against the book case to Julian's right was Farris, watching Izzy work as well. On the floor; Davis, Kari, Catherine, and Lani played a friendly game of poker, while the digimon watched, like nothing was ever wrong that brought them together.
It was 10:00 in the morning, and late last night the group searched 6 different phone books, and finally found Taichi Camiya's residence, who told them the bad news, and directed them to Izzy's house. So the whole gang, left the motel and found their way here.
"How does this analyzer work?" Gina asked Izzy.
"Simple my friend. My Digimon analyzer uses your digivise to bring up files on digimon you've already seen. These files were all already written by Jenye."
"Oh."
"Hey Kari," Davis blurted, "Do you wanna play strip poker..."
He was answer by a smack in the back of the head and a gaggle of giggles.
"Prodigious!" Izzy said.
"You got it?" Farris asked.
"Yes indeed." he turned the laptop to face the others. On it were some words and a picture of Vampiromon, "Was this the guy who attacked you, last night?"
"Yep, that's the dork." Julian said.
"Can you locate the female voice that we heard?" Gina asked.
"Sadly no. I can only analyze digimon that were seen, not heard. Besides I don't that voice was a digimon at all"
Gina looked surprised, "Yeah?"
"Oh yeah, we've encountered certain humans gone bad in the past. This voice you talked about doesn't seem like a digimon.
Julian scratched his face, "Yeah, that sounds correct. She didn't seem like a digimon the way she talked, if only for a little while."
"What does it say on the screen?" Farris asked.
Izzy leaned in closer, "Vampiromon is a dark digimon with an arrogant personality. He likes to intimidate his targets with his dark sence of humor and original way with words. His Ebony Cast attack exudes negative energy."
"That certainly describes him," Julian uttered, "but that doesn't give us much to go on."
Izzy frowned, "I guess not."
Gina sighed, "I guess there's nothing we can do until the meeting tonight. Do you know where is this... um... park..."
"Oh yeah, Shujini Park, it's right over there."
Izzy pointed to a location through his window. It was a tuft of trees down the road.
"Ok, so that's it, we wait until the rendezvous tonight. Is there anythin' we should go over 'till then?" Julian asked, putting his arms behind his head.
"Ah, yeah." Izzy started, "Do you get the feeling not all of us are taking this seriously...?"
"Of course it's valid, this card's a wild!" Lani yelled.
"Wild card?" Davis blurted, "What is this, crazy Italian rules?!"
Izzy, Julian, Gina, and Farris groaned, annoyed.
(Will Julian find the answer he is looking for, or will he meet the similar fate as so many other of his Digidestined fellows? What is Vampiromon and the Voice's agenda? Is Davis a little too obsessed with Kari? The answers to these questions {the last one we already know} are all in the next exciting chapter of Digimon: New Heros: The Progeny)
[That's my second chapter. Please let me know what you think, I accept all opinions. So now that you've identified the New Heroes, can you figure out which one I'm "based" on me. That's right, My real name is Julian, I'm from Puerto Rico, and I eat sandwiches. Don't hate me cause I'm egotistical, you'd do the exact same thing! Write me!
- Fumo]
By Fumo the Smoker
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, don't be angry at me, it's all good
Rating: PG-13 - for Mild Language, Mature Situations, and violence (the good stuff)
Writer's Note: One of the characters is "based" on me, can you guess which? (giggle, giggle)
Chapter Two - Salvation's Calling
Julian clicked off his CD player and padded down his shaggy brown hair as he stepped of the exit ramp to the airplane. He made his way past other crowds and through customs, amazingly they didn't catch the digimon concealed in his back pack.
He stopped and searched his surroundings cautiously, a force of habit from few days of constant paranoia.
The Puerto Rican Digidestined was on a mission. Someone was defeating his fellows all over the world, and he wasn't about to sit around and be counted among them. So, learning from the warning sent to him by who knows, he'd came to Tokyo, Japan to find salvation from the unknown enemy, and hopefully find a way to fight back.
Julian walked through lobbies on his way out, but before he left, he thought he saw someone he once knew. A beautiful, young girl, with golden blonde hair that was curly on the bottom and one hell of a swanky fashion sense was seated on a bench, looking like she was waiting for something, but with a look of confusion, like she didn't know what she was doing.
That French Digidestined, Catherine, he remembered. He had meet her during the world tour. She was an elegant rich type he remembered. She was probably here for the same reason he was.
He walked over to her, "Catherine?"
She looked up at him with full blue eyes, she smiled, "Ahh, Bonjour... Julian, right?"
"Yeah, hi." He said giving her a gently hug, "Lemme guess, you're here for that rendezvous, too."
She looked kind of upset, "Yes, I waz hoping zat I could stay with one of the Japanese Digidestined I meet on ze World Tour, but... a... I have not been able to reach any. I fear they are no longer around, anymore. So... I'm waiting for... I don't know what..."
"Why doncha you come with me." Julian asked.
"Ah... where are you going?"
"I dunno."
"You don't know?"
"Nope, I was gonna find a hotel I think."
"But, you don't know where." she said trying to clarify
"Yep. So you wanna come?"
She smiled as she scratched her chin, "You are a very different person then I am Julian, I would never be so reckless, but it seems that fate has brought us together, so I will go with you."
"All right, let's go. Do you think that there could be any other digidestined."
"I don't think there iz a doubt." she said gathering her things. "Everyone left will show up here, eventually."
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Izzy was brought back to consciousness by a strange sound. He didn't know where he was. He looked around his surroundings, and realized that he had fallen asleep at his computer desk again. Perhaps, it would have been better if he'd stayed asleep.
Joe's plan had failed and in a span of three days almost every digidestined on the planet had disappeared, including Joe, Mimi, Matt, and TK. The only ones left were him, Davis and Kari, at least.
In fact, Kari and Gatomon were in the guest room of his house, and Davis and Veemon were sprawled out on the floor of Izzy's room, intertwined between sheets and pillows. They had decided they could be more affective against whatever, if they stayed together.
It hadn't worked completely. One by one, the digidestined were tracked going out for milk or walking home, and they were never heard from again.
Izzy yawned.
They were in quite a predicament.
Tentomon, who had just been sleeping on Izzy's still made bed, fluttered in the air as he veered around Izzy's head.
"Good morning Izzy."
"Oh hi, Tentomon."
"Still upset Izzy?"
"Yeah, there doesn't seem to be anything I can do."
"Izzy, I was wondering, what that sound was that woke me up?"
Izzy looked up at Tentomon, "Sound...?" then Izzy remembered the sound, "Oh yeah, it was my priority e-mail reminder."
Izzy jumped into action, he pressed a bottom on his key board, turning off his screen saver. He brought up his Internet connection, and checked his new e-mail.
"Prodigious!" he yelled, causing Davis to groan on the floor.
"Uh... oh, Kari... kissy, kissy... unnnnnnnnnn." Davis moaned giving Veemon a strangling embrace in his sleep.
Veemon woke with a squawk, "Ahhhhh, Davis lemme go!"
"...no Kari... don't fight the love you feel for me...!"
"You know, I think that boy's got problems" Tentomon jeered.
Izzy grabbed a rolled up sock and fired it at Davis's head, and it collided with a thump, "Davis, get up! There's another e-mail!"
Davis coming out of his sleep talking, "Wha ju say...?"
"There's another e-mail! The guy from the digital world sent us more instructions!"
Davis pulled himself up from the floor with a tired yawn, "Well, what's it say?"
Izzy read aloud;
"Dear Digidestined,
I've found a way into the real world and I'm coming to help. I don't know how many of you are left, but I can stop the disappearances. Meet me in Shujini Park, in Odhiba, Tokyo, Japan, tomorrow at dusk.
- A Guardian of Both Worlds"
"Wow, all right. We have a meeting place... I'll wake up Kari, heh, heh."
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Julian looked over the new piece of e-mail on his green hand-held internet terminal. It was a good sign. His plans were working out, the phantom sender was making good on his deal to come.
Sitting in a plush chair in his motel room, he went over the wording carefully. He had to go over every word carefully, make sure that he understood everything correctly. One slip up could lead to his own disappearance.
A yawn drew Julian's attention to a ball of fur sleeping on the floor. His partner digimon, Simianmon. The tree monkey-like digimon was stretched out on the floor snoozing silently in front of the cool air conditioning. It had a slender body like a brown tree monkey, with white tuffs of fur on the side on it's face, and a bushy end tail.
He looked up at the others like him, those that had also come to Japan in search of salvation. Julian and Catherine had found several others.
On one of the beds, Catherine sat quietly brushing her long beautiful hair, the girl from Paris, France grown up in the lap of luxury, now living in a room with several others. Her Floramon seated next to her helping her brush.
Next to her sat another, talking to another of the digidestined. Her name was Gina, she was American, from Charlotte, North Carolina. She was a caring Digidestined, who would give up everything to help another. She had long dark brown hair and smooth black skin with a considerate smile. Resting on her shoulders, her Drakemon, an uncommon digimon consisting mainly of a long reptilian head with no body, only a long scaly green tale, and a pair of leathery wings, was resting and listening to her conversation, as Gina talked to...
Farris. Farris was a calm, patient boy from Edmonton, Canada. He liked to think things through before he did them. You could really relay on a guy like Farris. He had dark green hair, shortly styled with lots of hair gel, and a pair of thin framed glasses. His digimon, one Julian had never meet before, Furrimon, was bouncing on the bed. It was kind of similar to a big hamster, with thicker, dark brown fur with no tail.
Finally, Lani laid on her cot, singing the words to an Italian rock song she was listening to on her CD player. Lani was a firebrand from Palermo, Sicily. She had a fiery and wild personality, despite her being very short. She had shoulder length raven black hair. Her attitude was reflected in her digimon, Dinomon, who sat at the foot of her cot. Dinomon looked a lot like Agumon, but with a redder color, and a row of black spines leading from it's forehead down it's back. It was busy chomping on a cantaloupe.
Julian made a dour face. Where did he get that cantaloupe, he thought.
Catherine counted down with each brush, "Tua... due... i une. Mercee Floramon."
"Nes pa" Floramon returned.
Julian wrote a note on his internet terminal, as he watched the gorgeous Catherine.
"Catherine's cute, learn French." he wrote in Spanish.
Just then, Lani popped up, "I'm hungry!"
Dinomon looked up from finishing his melon, "Me too!"
Julian looked up, "You just ate a cantaloupe."
Dinomon shrugged his shoulders, "Hey, when you're hungry, you're hungry."
Catherine stretched her arms, "What time iz it? We should get some dinner."
Farris lifted his arm to view his watch, "7:36, it's dusk."
They all went silent.
"No, none of us should go out at night." Gina said stoically.
"But Gina," Drakemon said to her, "We have to eat."
"Maybe if Dinomon, hadn't eaten the whole cantaloupe!" Furrimon called.
Arguments started to break out.
"Well, I would have shared it...!" Dinomon yelled
The noise was too much for Julian to take, "I'll go!"
The room quieted.
"Come again." Simianmon said waking up.
"I'm not gonna starve because of fear. I'll go get some food."
"Your a brave one, Julian." Catherine said.
Julian smiled and shrugged his shoulders, "Hey, what can I say."
"I guess I can't let you go by yourself. You'd be helpless with out me, ya know." Simianmon said leaping onto the back of Julian's chair.
Julian smiled, "Sure Simianmon, whatever." He said sarcastically.
He got up with encouragement from his peers, grabbed some money, and opened the door.
"You should probably only go to that deli down the street there." Farris said pointing out the window.
"Ok, we eat sandwiches then." Julian said.
"Good luck." the crew mumbled.
"Tch, I don't need luck. I got pure skill." Julian said boastingly, but only for show and to beguile any nervousness he had.
With that, Julian left. With Simianmon hiding in his back pack, he embarked down the road.
It was a warm night. The darkened road was quite, no one else around. A few cars were parked by the side. Julian had an eerie feeling, but he wasn't going to let that stop him. The eeriness was really starting to piss him off.
Julian pulled out his terminal, and connected to the satellite Internet, he typed in an address, and wrote a little note. Then left it alone in his back pocket. It would be his contingency plan.
He made it to the deli, uninterrupted. He bought a couple loaves of bread, some deli meat, mayonnaise, pickles, and a banana for Simianmon. He paid and walked out into the street, and was overcome with a silence. A strange feeling come over him, he could tell it was happening.
Julian set the bag of food on the ground.
"Running away Julian. That's not like you. Coming all the way to Japan to escape little old me." a mysterious girl's voice called from no where.
Julian wasn't about to let a disembodied jeer call him a coward, "Not at all," he said calmly, "I prefer to call it a tactical retreat. By coming to Japan, I'll be able to come back and get you."
"Well, you should know by now that the original digidestined are gone already."
"I never said I was here for them."
The voice was quiet, thrown off by Julian's calmness and unexpected answer. Julian realized, this voice didn't know about the e-mail. What an advantage.
"Well suit yourself, but I highly doubt you can do anything." followed by a low chuckle.
A giant crash drew Julian's attention. Something big had fallen from up high and smashed threw a car's top and windshield to the side of the road. It laughed menacingly, white eyes glowed at Julian.
Julian wrenched the terminal out of his pocket, and jammed the send bottom.
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In the motel room, the others waited patiently for Julian to return.
Suddenly, Gina's light blue wireless internet terminal blared loudly, a priority e-mail had been sent to her. Gina grabbed it up and read her screen.
"What's happened?!" Lani yelled.
Gina looked over it quickly and read aloud.
"Hey Guys!!!!!
Get your asses out her now!!!!!!!!!
-love, Julian"
Catherine ran to the door, "Let's hurry!"
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It chuckled lightly as it pulled itself out of the wrecked frame of the former Mercedes. It was an imposing sight. It was humanoid in form. It's muscular skin was a pasty gray, with darker gray streaks at different places. It's head was dominated by horribly shaggy black dreadlocks. A scarlet mask covered it's upper face and the tip of it's nose menacingly. It's eyes were replaced by horrifying white slits. It wore black pants, and gigantic black boots. It had a loose black vest on with that skull and crossbones symbol on the back, so common among bad Digimon.
"Greetings coward. I am the prince of the night." It said in a voice unlike the one Julian had heard before, deep and raspy.
Julian crossed his arms, refusing to be intimidated "Is that what your mama named you."
"No, that name I earned. You may call me Vampiromon." He said confidently.
"And you may call me your worst nightmare. Go Simianmon!"
Simianmon leaped out of Julian's backpack, did a flip and landed right in front of him. Julian wrenched out his digivice, as it began to glow.
"Simianmon digivolve to...," Simianmon yelled as he lit up, and soon it's voice was several octaves lower, "... Apemon!"
Apemon was impressive looking, but it had no time to be admired.
Vampiromon lurched from the broken car and ran at Julian.
Apemon dashed toward Vampiomon, and pulled the long bone from off it's back.
"Mega Bone Stick!" Apemon yelled.
Apemon lifted the bone high above it's head, and brought it done on top of Vampiromon.
Vampiromon lifted it's arm and blocked the swing.
Apemon tried to force Vampiromon's arm with the bone.
Vampiromon moved under, and up, hurling Apemon over his head and into a parking meter. Apemon sprawled out across the pavement in pain.
He laughed, and turned to Julian.
"You can't beat me. I rule the darkness you miserable little twit!"
"You're really full of yourself." Julian said smirking.
"When you're as good as I am, your should fill up on as much as you can."
"Then eat this! Mega Bone Stick!" Apemon yelled, hurling the bludgeoning devise through the air.
Vampiromon chuckled and simply caught the tool in the air. He never even turned away from Julian, smiling vilely at him.
Julian crossed his arms and smiled back.
"Pathetic..." Vampiromon said, and then he saw what he was holding. Instead of a long bone, it was the parking meter that Apemon had collided with.
"Sucker…" Julian mused.
"Mega Bone Stick!" Apemon yelled.
Swinging his bone like a baseball bat, Apemon smashed Vampiromon in the back, causing the dark digimon to go barreling forward. Julian leaped out of the way, as Vampiromon crashed into a mail box, rolled across concreit, and into a plate glass window.
"Very nice, Apemon." Julian said, picking himself up.
"Yeah I know, but didn't that seem a little too easy."
Julian scratched his head, "Well, it was really easy for me, ha, ha."
"Yeah, you just stood there..."
"Hey, I had to keep up with the witty repartee…"
An angry scream could be heard from the darkened store that Vampiromon had cascaded into. And then the remaining glass and bricks burst out in a fierce energy blast as the aggravated Vampiromon stepped out of the rubble.
He was seething mad, "NOT GOOD ENOUGH!"
"Julian get back," Apemon said pushing Julian to the side, "Metalic Fur!"
Apemon's chest, face, and hair fur grew shiny, then a blast of silvery energy rocketed out at Vampiromon.
"Ebony Cast!" Vampiromon yelled.
Vampiromon started to pulsated with a strange black energy. He held out his arms at either side like a cross, and then the energy blasted off of him in that cross.
The two energy blasts veered towards each other and collided, but the Ebony Cast simply dissipated the Metalic Fur, and smashed into Apemon head on.
Apemon yelped and sank back into the street.
"Apemon!" Julian yelled
Vampiromon reached into his pocket and pulled out a small saucer-disc and brandished it at Julian.
"Your time is over!" he yelled.
Julian looked around for an escape.
"No way out, twit!"
"Dragon Cannon!"
A massive globe of red fire cascaded out of the sky and smashed into Vampiromon. Vampiromon shrieked and fell away as the small saucer disc dropped and rolled away.
From out of no where, Lani ran into view, and dove for the devise before Vampiromon could recover.
Airdramon came into view, Gina riding on top of her.
"Finally, you guys get here!" Julian called.
"Julian are you all right." Catherine yelled coming into view with Floramon at her side, and Farris with Furrimon running up behind them.
"I'm super." Julian returned with fake grin on his face.
"I could use some help though." Apemon said sitting up.
"I got ya help right 'ere" Farris yelled holding out his glowing digivise.
"Furrimon digivolve to...," Furrimon called, his siluette disappearing in a brilliant yellow glow, "... Pinemon!"
Pinemon, was a fearsome champion digimon. He appeared like a giant porcupine. It had short bent legs, relatively short arms tipped with big claws. It had a feral rodent face with glaring teeth. But primarily, it's body was dominated by long brown quills, sprouting from it's back.
"Spike Ball!" Pinemon yelled.
Pinemon rolled into a ball of pure spikes, and raced over and over toward Vampiromon. Vampiromon held out his arms and grabbed onto the base of a set quills, holding the giant spiny ball back strenuously. Trying to push it back, while Pinemon tried to run him over.
Lani came running over, "Hey Julian, ju get da salami!"
"It's in the bag."
"Good. Now go Dinomon." she yelled holding up her digivice.
"Dinomon digivolve to... Tyrannomon!"
The giant dinosaur eyed Vampiromon wearily, "Fire Blast!"
Tyrannomon released from it's mouth a monstrous grout of flame at Vampiromon.
"Lani watch it you'll hit Pinemon!" Farris called.
"No I won't!"
Vampiromon grabbed Pinemon by two of it's spines and lifted it off the ground. He spun it around and hurled the spiky ball at the flame. Pinemon squealed as it collided with the fire.
"See!" Farris yelled.
"That's not Tyrannomon's fault." Lani yelled.
Vampiromon ran towards Tyrannomon. Tyrannomon spun with the intent to smash Vampiromon with it's large tail. Vampiromon caught the large thing's tail and held it firmly, growling angrily.
Gina jumped off Airdramon's back and ran to the others.
"Julian is that the thing that's causing the others to disappear?" she asked.
Julian shock his head, "I don't think so. There was another, a girl's voice that had no body. It talked to me from... well, no where."
"That's weird." Catherine said.
Airdramon rushed at Vampiromon. Vampiromon strained and spun Tyrannomon around by the tail and smashed him into Airdramon. The two groaned as they fell to the ground.
"His passing record is two for two." Julian mumbled.
"Floramon, it's your turn!" Catherine yelled, holding up her digivise.
"Floramon digivolve to... Kiwimon!"
Vampiromon was wiping his hands off, when he sighted Kiwimon. It began to chuckle.
"Your kidding me." he said.
"Don't underestimate my Kiwimon!" Catherine yelled angrily.
"Fine. Bring it on, peewee" Vampiromon said facing the Kiwimon.
Kiwimon didn't look happy, "Pummel Pat!"
Small replicas of Kiwimon's head appeared and fired out of her head at Vampiromon. Vampiromon had to shield his face to protect himself from.
"Damn you... stupid bird!" he yelled, "Ebony Cast!"
The cross energy fired out disintegrating the little replicas, and smacked Kiwimon across the street.
Vampiromon began to yell, "THAT'S IT! I'm ending this right now!" he searched for something in his pants, "Hey where'd it go..."
"You mean this?" Lani said holding up the disc.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I don't care what she says, I'm going get rid of all of you!"
"No!" the bodiless girl's voice called, scaring the group. She command respect with that voice. "Back off, Vampiromon! We'll deal with them later!"
"But..."
"NOW!"
Vampiromon looked upset, then he pointed strait at the group, "YOU BETTER THANK WHATEVER GOD YOU SWEAR FEALTY TO, THAT MY MISTRESS WANT'S A FATE FOR YOU DIFFERENT THEN WHAT I WANT!" and then he disappeared.
The eerieness faded.
"What ze hell jus' happened!" Catherine said.
"Das one weird digimon." Lani said.
Julian turned to the rest of the group, "We gotta talk. That was some truly pathetic team work."
Farris frowned, "I agree, man. If we're going to fight whatever's out there, we have work together."
"We tried, you guys, but zings just didn't work well for us." Catherine said.
"That's not the only problem." Gina said solemnly.
The group looked wearily at her.
"I'm very sure that Vampiromon is an ultimate." she finished.
Catherine sighed.
"That would sure explain how he thoroughly decimated us." Farris mumbled.
"Hey we beat him, didn't we." Lani blurted.
"Wrong. That weird girl called him off." Farris said.
"We just delayed the inevitable." Gina finished for him.
"Hmm..." Julian groaned, "The way she ordered him around... he totally stopped when she yelled at him."
The group frowned.
"I'm hungry!" Dinomon yelled, who had dedigivolved to rookie like the rest of the digimon.
Everyone laughed.
"Yeah, let's go eat. We can worry about this tomorrow." said Farris grabbing the bag and the group began to walk back to the motel.
"Julian?" Catherine called, causing Julian to halt.
Julian turned to Catherine, she was smiling at him.
"Zat waz very smart of you to send zat e-mail."
Julian was smiling now, "Thank you Catherine."
She wrapped her arms around him, and laid her head on his shoulders. She whispered softly in his ear, "I am glad you are all right."
"Thanks." he said blushing.
She kissed him quickly on the cheek and ran to catch up with the others.
Julian couldn't stop smiling as he watched her leave. He began to dance behind there backs. The happy-go-lucky strutting dance of a man who had just got some.
He sung quietly, "Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah..."
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"I'm glad you came to us with this." Izzy said typing on his laptop.
"I'm just glad we found you at all." Julian said leaning back.
Izzy had taken Julian's digivice and placed it in the digivice slot on his laptop. He was busy typing in his old digimon encyclopedia program put there by Jenye many years ago.
As Izzy worked at his computer desk, Julian sat in the chair next to him quietly watching him work. Gina was perched on the computer desk, stretching out the crinks in her hands. Standing against the book case to Julian's right was Farris, watching Izzy work as well. On the floor; Davis, Kari, Catherine, and Lani played a friendly game of poker, while the digimon watched, like nothing was ever wrong that brought them together.
It was 10:00 in the morning, and late last night the group searched 6 different phone books, and finally found Taichi Camiya's residence, who told them the bad news, and directed them to Izzy's house. So the whole gang, left the motel and found their way here.
"How does this analyzer work?" Gina asked Izzy.
"Simple my friend. My Digimon analyzer uses your digivise to bring up files on digimon you've already seen. These files were all already written by Jenye."
"Oh."
"Hey Kari," Davis blurted, "Do you wanna play strip poker..."
He was answer by a smack in the back of the head and a gaggle of giggles.
"Prodigious!" Izzy said.
"You got it?" Farris asked.
"Yes indeed." he turned the laptop to face the others. On it were some words and a picture of Vampiromon, "Was this the guy who attacked you, last night?"
"Yep, that's the dork." Julian said.
"Can you locate the female voice that we heard?" Gina asked.
"Sadly no. I can only analyze digimon that were seen, not heard. Besides I don't that voice was a digimon at all"
Gina looked surprised, "Yeah?"
"Oh yeah, we've encountered certain humans gone bad in the past. This voice you talked about doesn't seem like a digimon.
Julian scratched his face, "Yeah, that sounds correct. She didn't seem like a digimon the way she talked, if only for a little while."
"What does it say on the screen?" Farris asked.
Izzy leaned in closer, "Vampiromon is a dark digimon with an arrogant personality. He likes to intimidate his targets with his dark sence of humor and original way with words. His Ebony Cast attack exudes negative energy."
"That certainly describes him," Julian uttered, "but that doesn't give us much to go on."
Izzy frowned, "I guess not."
Gina sighed, "I guess there's nothing we can do until the meeting tonight. Do you know where is this... um... park..."
"Oh yeah, Shujini Park, it's right over there."
Izzy pointed to a location through his window. It was a tuft of trees down the road.
"Ok, so that's it, we wait until the rendezvous tonight. Is there anythin' we should go over 'till then?" Julian asked, putting his arms behind his head.
"Ah, yeah." Izzy started, "Do you get the feeling not all of us are taking this seriously...?"
"Of course it's valid, this card's a wild!" Lani yelled.
"Wild card?" Davis blurted, "What is this, crazy Italian rules?!"
Izzy, Julian, Gina, and Farris groaned, annoyed.
(Will Julian find the answer he is looking for, or will he meet the similar fate as so many other of his Digidestined fellows? What is Vampiromon and the Voice's agenda? Is Davis a little too obsessed with Kari? The answers to these questions {the last one we already know} are all in the next exciting chapter of Digimon: New Heros: The Progeny)
[That's my second chapter. Please let me know what you think, I accept all opinions. So now that you've identified the New Heroes, can you figure out which one I'm "based" on me. That's right, My real name is Julian, I'm from Puerto Rico, and I eat sandwiches. Don't hate me cause I'm egotistical, you'd do the exact same thing! Write me!
- Fumo]