Chapter 1 Cards, D-Arcs and Digiports.
Ryo's Flat
Groaning as his alarm went off, Ryo rolled over and checked the time. The clock read 7:15 AM. 'Remind me why I'm waking up this early, Oh! Now I remember, Hypnos... meeting, digivice, cards.' thought Ryo as on his other side Cindy started to protest to the alarm that Ryo had forgotten to turn off while lost in thoughts.
(A.N: a note on what Cindy is or 'The Plastic Peroxide Barbie Doll' as she is so fondly named by Ruki, is a buxom girl who is super thin. Her blue eyes seem dead, indicating that she uses colour contacts, and her bleached hair has the consistency of straw. Ryo reckons that he must have been drunk when he hooked up with her, because she is the most whiney and patronising person he had ever met. All his tamer friends are referred to as "Your darling little friends." who were just so cute!)
"Sorry honey, I gotta go out early today, maybe I'll see you later. If not, I'm in the digiworld and won't be back for a while." said Ryo as he tried to calm his exceedingly disgruntled girlfriend, but when he mentioned the digiworld, she stopped muttering angrily and sighed.
"You aren't going to start trying to convince me that your imaginary world is real again are you sweetie? If you really believe in it you either are taking drugs or you need a psychiatrist!" replied Cindy with a false laugh as her platinum blonde hair shook. Like many people, Cindy didn't believe in the D-reaper incident and merely thought that it was all some government brainwash program acting on a major scale. Not answering, Ryo dressed and left for Hypnos. Before leaving, he made sure that the rent was paid for at least a month and left a note so that Cindy would be aware of this.
Outside, Ryo was halfway to his garage, when a large van drove towards him at a speed akin to that of light, sounding it's horn franticly at him. It screeched to a halt leaving considerable skid marks on the road and the door opened revealing Hirokazu, Kenta, Ai and Mako.
"Need a lift?" called Ai smiling.
"No but I'll join you anyway." replied the startled man.
The ride was fairly short, and would have been made shorter if Kazu had not received a speeding ticket. None of the tames had ever been in the Hypnos building, so they were all waiting in the foyer at the bottom of the main stairs. Takato and Ruki sat together on the lowest step as did Jen and Juri. When Ai and Mako walked in they were greeted by a thoroughly over excited Shiuchon. Who was no doubt ecstatic at the small possibility that she might see Lopmon again. There was an air of excitement and tension buzzing around this group of young adults and children that no one walking passed failed to notice. The tension broke however when a familiar voice behind them said "Hello Tamers would you like to follow me or we can sit here on the steps all day and not get any thing done!"
"Yamaki!" everyone chorused as they stood to follow him upstairs.
Yamaki smiled.
As they walked (or bounced in Shiuchon's case) Yamaki started speaking.
"Okay here's the deal. Over the past seven years the digiworld has been realigning itself with the real world, this explains why we couldn't get you back there. But now the digiworld is aligned enough with our world so that you can go there. We don't know whether we can get you back here yet, but if you're willing to go there and get your digimon, then we'll work full out on that until you can go back." said Yamaki in the simplest way that he could imagine and hoping that everyone would understand. Luckily they all did.
"Sounds good when can we go?" asked Kenta enthusiastically, hoping that by the digiworld would not be ruins when they got there.
Yamaki halted and the tamers in turn stopped also. Without realising it, they were all standing on a manual digiport that only Yamaki could operate.
Yamaki looked over his shoulder and smiled. "You can go now tamers. Goodbye and good luck." With that the digiport was activated and the tamers disappeared.
In the cyberspace around the digiworld, the tamers floated. The lights around them were blinding, but the most experienced tamers still carried sunglasses with them out of habit. Even Takato had exchanged his goggles (which were safe in his room at home.) for glasses which apparently looked better. The ones who weren't wearing glasses, Kenta because he couldn't, Shiuchon, Ai and Mako just because, clung to the hands of those who did.
"So is anyone going to chose which way is down?" asked Takato who had both Ai and Mako clinging to him. No one seemed to keen on this idea, because all of them apart from the younger ones and possibly Ryo remembered what had happened last time when Juri had pointed in what she thought had been the downwards direction.
In the end it was Ruki who said "I think that's down." pointing to the space that was seemingly above her. Instantly they all started falling in the way that had been indicated, many screams escaped the younger tamers and even a few of the older ones panicked more than was cool to. Then with the slam of impact that came when they hit the ground everyone blacked out.
Please Read and reveiw, or be forced to face the consequences