Author note: I decided on only 9 Saviors, it works into the dogma of the
story of the story better that way, as those who have heard of the Divine
Comedy will quickly probably notice.
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, nor do I own any of the characters but Dantes and Sin and their Digimon
Digimon: Visions Chapter I: Eclipse
"The stars are so beautiful, I envy them" Dark brown orbs gazed to the sky, noticing that something was different, other then the eclipse. Something just felt so different, like tonight would be the night when the world would finally change and their would be no more sorrow. But tranquility in Philadelphia was always short lived, the shout of "Shorty, I holla atchu" from down the street livened her pace. Savaria held her groceries close to her chest as she continued to walk down Torresdale Avenue, the prison alone had this air of malevolence. But she looked at the front of it anyway, the eclipse seeming closer the trees and the housed and even the concrete under her shoes seemed farther away.
A person came into view, was she hallucinating? No. Though she was tired, she knew that her eyes weren't deceiving her. Awe struck, she watched as the moon light hit the blade which he held. She was only snapped out of her transfixed state by the milk she'd bought at the deli spilling onto the top of her shoe.
"Oh no!" She hurriedly ran towards the deli again, looking up to the sky once more to see nine shooting stars, seeming to fire from within the eclipse. She kept running despite her altered view, it wasn't everyday the moon and the sun passed and comets shot from them. As she ran, she didn't notice when she plowed into a guy, knocking them both down.
"Sorry" She meekly stated as she picked up her bag and all of the things that fell out, but as luck would have it, the eggs broke now too, it just wasn't Savaria's day. Her mind still wandered to that man on the wall of the prison, not noticing much of anything, not even noticing that she had scraped her elbow enough that it was bleeding.
"Miss, your hair is in you eggs" The boy stated his dual coloured eyes looking to her black hair in the white of the eggs. He had already gotten up, dusting off his blue jeans and grey t-shirt; he'd extended his hand to help her up, despite her dazed state. After shouting "Miss" a few times, she finally snapped to it ad accepted his hand, letting him help her up.
"Sorry, sir, it was my fault" She bowed to him as she held her bags to her chest. Her mind was still on that man, he was just so enigmatic, so different, and yet, so familiar. She was also distressed by those stars that shot from the eclipse. Maybe it was just nothing, but then there was her feeling that something may happen today. She decided to snap back to reality to notice that the boy had put his hand out.
"I'm Dantes Alighieri, and you are?" He nodded to her, kindly and warmly smiling, with a blinding glare off of his perfectly white teeth. She hadn't really noticed him until now, but she wasn't too disappointed, he looked like the perfect all American boy; blonde, blue jeans, a simple look except for his hypnotic blue and green eyes. She put her dainty hand into his again and shook his hand.
"I'm Savaria, Savaria Harper" She looked to her wrist watch, noticing she remembered it was on, "OH NO! Sorry, but I must go". She ran back to the store with her remaining items, leaving a trail of milk and egg in her wake. If only she'd not been a bit more focused, she would not have missed noticing a "shooting star" fall into her bag before she reentered the deli, grabbing her items and paying the woman at the counter, only grimacing about her uninteresting life. She began the trek back home to her aunt and uncle again, only halting to see if the man was on the prison, again, though he was absent this time.
"Sorry I took so long" Savaria placed the groceries in the kitchen, and sorted them, except for her personal treats, which she took with her up to her room in the bag. Her aunt and uncle did not seem to mind her lack of contact and hurry to get to her room, though it was rather rude, which she admitted in retrospect. From her bag she took out the Hershey's Chocolate bar and began to eating the indulgence. Her rapture was broken by feeling a strange object in the bag as she tried to get her Coke out; it was some sort of device. Maybe that boy, Dantes, had dropped something in her bag by accident.
She took it out and studied it. A peculiar little thing; it seemed to have no known function so she just began to press the buttons, and really just try to find a function for the device, though none made itself evident. "I'll crack the mystery of this in the morning. She finished her Coke and chocolate and went to the bathroom, now that she knew she had egg in her hair; she had to get it out. No matter how you look at it, that is a little bit of a disgusting feeling. She turned on the faucet and bent into the tub and began to rinse it out and wash her hair, it was beginning to feel like any other boring night now.
She picked up a towel and dried her hair before turning to the mirror and brushing, and getting her routine over with. She then returned to her room and changed into her night clothes, not anything that interesting, just normal everyday life in this boring city. Savaria then lye on her bed, thinking about the event that had transpired in the evening that just past; who was that man? Furthermore, who was Dantes? Who knew that going to the store instead of her aunt would give her so much to do with her friends all away and the television on the fritz and the computer affected by the eclipse, somehow.
Savaria just couldn't believe it, and while she lye there, silently singing the song "My Immortal" by Evanesces and reading The Divine Comedy out of the corner of her eye, she mind just drifted, like it had earlier. Things just felt off, and usually her feelings meant that caution should be had. She then placed her book mark in her book, setting her alarm to nine am to wake for church. Maybe things would finally clarify then, tonight just seemed too hazy.
She shut her eyes and slowly drifted off, wanting for the night to turn to day, and then back to night, in hopes of solving the last apparent mystery of Philadelphia, other then the bimonthly rape and murder case inciting the NAACP's wrath on the police department because too many suspects are black.
A world lies beneath our own, hidden from our site, and immaculate of all but one human. And as Savaria began to dream, the small device that she had gotten from some unknown source began to click and beep and just to be problematic. It was no mind to her, she had long sense drifted into sleep, unknowing that she was not the only one who had gotten as small device, not the only who felt the effects of the majestic eclipse. Others too drifted from their beds into a metaphysical state of being aware and unaware of what was happening, unknowing that these few were being chosen to visit that world which we meet only whilst we dream. To find the plain between real and surreal.
The flame of a lighter dances upon the city streets. Smoke contaminated the air as the child of Sin placed his cigarette back between pursed lips. With a free hand, he took out a switch blade and braced himself for the one remaining pain he could control. His blood spilled to Pennypack Creek, as he withheld any show of the grief he caused himself and just looked to the ground as he spit the cigarette into the creek. But then, a small glowing thing caught his at the bank of the creek, so he grabbed a rag from his pocket ad bandaged his self made wound and jumped off o the end of the bridge and picked it up.
Sin toggled the buttons and tried to see if he could find any sign of ownership, but it seemed rather immaculate to human touch before him, so he clasped it. "The hell?" He noticed the colour pallet change from this glowing light to a silver body with black grips. Maybe he should just toss it into the river and forget it. Instead, he pocketed it and grabbed the hilt of his sheathed sword and ran back to his apartment, he'd noticed the time, and did not want to be arrested again.
After he got home he placed his new device on his night stand and put his sword on a table, as he began to remove his clothes and go to the shower. There was something odd about tonight, but he did not know what. So he just thought as he lathered himself and let the water fall to his tan skin. After shutting it off he dried off and shaved and brushed his teeth before going to his cot to sleep. But like Savaria, his device had begun to act strangely as well.
Elsewhere in the city, four people found these strange things in there bags from disembarking to come here for pleasure or for business. The youngest of them looking at it, wondering if it was just something his parents made and put in his bag for keeping until a conference with an American company. He just dismissed it otherwise, ignoring its change to a green casing with silver grips; he just tried to sleep, despite the jetlag.
In the same hotel, a girl sat out on her balcony, wishing her father would return from finding the nearest bar. She held close to her the device she had found, watching the eclipse and wanting for a change. She just wanted to find some where; where their was no more pain from this, no more feeling so horrible and worrying about her father coming home that night. She wished this were a real vacation, not just an excuse and her father having to work on it for the U.S. branch of the Lycoming Defense Systems, and to go to a conference with his bosses, the Kioshi's. Maybe she'd see her friend Satorii, their son, and at least have him to talk to. She tried to sleep though, worried none the less. Maybe Satorii could help her get
Another girl, Mitsuko, decided to go to get something to eat, sense she couldn't sleep. When she reached the in hotel restaurant, only one other person was there, a boy who seemed to be not much older then her, but older. He wasn't doing anything, so she walked up to him, seeking someone to talk to and noticed he had one of those small devices too.
"Hey, do you know what this is?" She held her out, not noticing it hers had taken on a teal colour. She looked to him through teal eyes to the black haired English boy.
"I wish, I can't even figure my blasted one out, damned thing has me stumped" He twiddled at the buttons and tried to make it do something to no avail. His green eyes showed malice towards the device as he got frustrated and held it tightly in his hand.
"Well, cursing it won't do much, maybe they just are some sort of prop" She took a seat near him and looked to him as he got frustrated. Mitsuko couldn't help but giggle at his blight; he was getting all frazzled over a little toy, or whatever it is.
"Who are you anyway?" He looked to her for the first time as his order of fish and chips came out and he began to eat it. She stole one chip before answering.
"Mitsuko Naomi Usagi, and you?" She continued to steal his food as she looked to her own device. The thing was peculiar, almost other worldly, but she didn't care much about technology, and just continued to eat his food.
"Christopher R. Kilroy, and stop eating my food; buy your own" He noticed his plate was already empty and sighed, collecting his device and paying for the food.
"Where are you going?" Mitsuko asked, getting up to follow him. She noticed she wasn't too much shorter then him, which was odd, seeing as she was under five feet. But she just followed him, wanting to talk to him some more.
"To sleep, I'll rest then fight with the hell machine in the morning" Kilroy looked to his device and pressed the key on the elevator panel to go up. Both of them got on the lift and were going to the same floor as well.
"Why are you following me!?" Kilroy looked to Mitsuko, wondering why for some off coincidence they were going to the same part of the hotel.
"I'm not following you, I have to go to the same floor, that isn't illegal in the states"Mitsuko raised her voice to Kilroy, sense he wasn't being very nice.
"You're stalking me!" He yelled back her as the elevator came to a halt.
"Believe what you want" She hit the close door button and hurriedly left the elevator. Kilroy just gnashed his teeth as he pressed the open button and went to his room. Once there he laid on his bed and promptly fell asleep, hoping to discover the device's abilities in the morning.
Mitsuko did the same, covering her ears so she didn't have to hear her brothers messing around. With this many men around, she could seldom hear her own thoughts, let alone fall asleep. She was used to it though, the only female in the whole house hold, it was hard not to be used to the testosterone level. She did, though, wish to leave this world for a better one, to find her slice of paradise. This wasn't it, she knew that much, in paradise you are happy, here she was content, but not happy.
In the section of the city called Mayfair, another person seized one of these devices. She was moving into their new row home, though she knew she would be moving again soon enough. This was just another temporary settlement, until they had to move again for business, but she considered herself used to it. She fiddled with the device in her almost empty new room, only bed and a closet full of clothing filled bags to her name.
Aya put a hand through he faint lavender hand and sighed. What on earth was this thing? It showed no purpose and didn't seem to do anything. She bit a strand of her short hair in frustration and continued to force the damned thing to show her what the hell it did. She threw it against the wall and laid down on her bed. Tomorrow she'd find out what the damn thing did, she was too tired from the move. Moreover, she was tired of moving from place to place, she wanted somewhere to just call home, it was stressful to move so much. Maybe there was somewhere where she could just sit down and enjoy life for once, but it did not seem like it would be Philly, especially with her next door neighbor pounding on the wall.
On the other side of Aya's wall, another person holding a device threw the thing against the wall, condemning it for not doing anything. He'd barely done anything with it, but it already annoyed him. He had an excuse though, an un-medicated kid with ADHD could get like this, and he wouldn't take his meds, sense they made him even more violent then this.
He slowly began to wear himself out, and the pounds from Aya next door yelling to him to get to sleep made him decide to give up on the thing and lay in bed until he did fall asleep. He just couldn't stand that the little device wouldn't do anything, despite his agitation.
It began to feel like an out of body experience for her. Savaria felt this strange sensation pulling her away from herself. This wasn't a dream. She slowly opened her eyes and noticed she was fully clothed, with a white spaghetti strap shirt on, and a pair of black jeans, holding her purse, with the small device in it. She then looked around her, seeing that everything had changed. She was in a dimly lit room, with nine beds, including her own, one of which was empty.
"Morning, sleeping beauty" She noticed that that boy Dantes was there, and had said that. This was too surreal. How could they have been transported here? And where was here?
"You seem troubled, is something wrong?" A meek younger looking boy was standing by the foot of her bed. She just examined him quickly, noticing his blonde hair and stunning deep green eyes.
"How would you feel if you woke up to see seven people standing around you, Satorii" For the first time she heard a feminine voice. This girl seemed about her age. Her blue eyes stuck out through her black hair as Savaria examined this one; then she heard another person speak.
"Why are you all gawking at her anyway" This girl had her back to her and didn't seem like she wanted to be seen, running her fingers through her light lavender hair and sighing.
"Just because you don't care doesn't mean we don't" She felt a roaming hand lightly lean on her chest, noticing that a boy had done, she quickly pulled it off.
"I awoke to see you about to grope me, you don't care!" The girl looked to this boy, fuming and shooting a steely glance through dark blue eyes. The boy simply took his hand back and ran it through brown hair with blonde tips, coyly, acting as if he was slick.
"Why don't you guys give her room to breathe?" A girl with her reddish brown hair in a bun walked back a little as she spoke, seeing that Savaria might be crowded.
"Why don't you all just shut up, so I can try to find out where we are?" A boy had sat on a bed next to hers and was feverishly typing on his computer, fiercely at work to try to find things out, a little worried, sense it seemed odd that they were all here.
"What's everyone's name, first? I'm Savaria Harper" Savaria tried to sound respectful of the boy on his computer, but she did wish to at least have a slight meet and greet with the others here. She took out the small device, hearing it reacting to something. She ignored it, though, more concerned with the others.
"I'm Dantes Alighieri, but we already met, Miss Savaria Harper" The blonde boy in a trench coat she'd already met spoke as he took his out too. The colours of his, she noticed, were grays.
"I'm Satorii Kioshi" The young boy at the foot of her bed spoke and bowed before taking his device out too, the things were reacting to something, but no one seemed to care what.
"My name is Sakura Ishida" The girl with bright blue eyes bowed to her as well, also removing her device from the pocket of dark blue flared jeans.
"Aya Lisavkin" The girl with her back to the others grimaced as she spoke; already holding her white and silver device.
"Matt Ikaru is my name" The boy who felt her bowed as well, looking up to view something, though Savaria, and everyone else, didn't notice what until they heard Aya smack him, saying for him to stop looking at girls' chests.
"And I'm Mitsuko Naomi Usagi, and he's Kilroy" The girl with a bun pointed to herself and then the boy on the computer; both of them holding those odd devices too. Everyone smiled and shook hands, though only Savaria seemed to notice that there were nine beds and eight of them, as well as nine shooting stars from the eclipse. Something was off, and she wanted to know what. They all then heard the tapping of a cane and looked to a door at the end of the room, what looked like a small hairy old man was there, though they weren't quite sure if this thing was even human, let alone an old man.
"Now that you've all met each other, I am Arch Bishop Jijimon, arch bishop of the outer circle of the Digital World" The creature bowed to them, though it didn't get far, stopping suddenly, and struggling to erect normally. Everyone just looked at him like he had five heads.
"What's the Digital World? That some kind of freakish pedophiliac organization" Aya was the first to talk, folding her arms over her chest, and looking at him like he was Matt.
"No, the Digital World is a realm of data, similar to the human world, only different in its ways, such as the fact that there are Digimon" Jijimon answered looking to a fire that appeared with the wave of its staff.
"Though I don't understand that, why are we here?" The small blonde boy, Satorii, looked to him meekly. Everyone looked to Jijimon with the same intent. This made no sense that they would be dragged here for seemingly no reason.
"Because our world is falling into darkness. Years ago, Nekamon, one of the digimon in our religion, split a crest into nine fragments, and thrusted them into your world to gain your aid. In fact, Nekamon shall be partnered with Savaria" The old looking creature seemed to smirk, though no one could tell through all of the hair.
"What the hell do you mean by 'partnered'" Dantes seemed about to pounce upon the digimon in frustration, it just kept going in circles.
"You all shall be partnered with digimon, Nekamon to Savaria, Fernirmon to Satorii, Ultimon to Dantes, Hexamon to Aya, Ridomon to Mitsuko, Kittenmon to Sakura, Agumon to Kilroy, and Dracomon to Matt" Jijimon said pounding it's staff to the ground and doors opening revealing the eight digimon,
Each digimon walked to its respective owner and sat by them. No one knew what to make of it, but they noticed that their devices react strangely when they were near the digimon. Everyone did the same meet and greet with the digimon, Savaria looking closely to her digimon; the creature had characteristics like a cat, a light orange and emerald eyes with long claws and cat ears. Kittenmon, Sakura's digimon was a cat too, though it was white and on all fours with small wings. Dantes's digimon too took on the characteristics of something more alike to their world, a large dog with black fur.
But then you had Agumon, Kilroy's digimon, Hexamon, Aya's digimon, and Fernirmon, Satorii's digimon. Agumon looked similar to a small dinosaur, with greenish orange skin, but a huge head and hands. Hexamon looked like a stuffed rabbit with stitching and a jesters hat. Fernirmon was almost taller then anyone there, only Matt close to him, an anthropomorphic wolf with white armour and a helmet. Matt and Mitsuko, though, had dragon like monsters. Ridomon was a dark red dragon, and Dracomon a green one; both looked a lot alike, but of course, how many people saw dragons often.
"Excuse me, Jijimon, why aren't their nine? I split the talisman into nine fragments, and there are nine beds, also Dismon is missing" Nekamon had helped Savaria off of her bed and they all had walked closer to Jijimon, all of them, even the digimon curious for the answer.
"The ninth Savior woke before the others, and he was too headstrong to stay, instead he took Dismon, threatening me with a sword. I would beware of him; he may be the one who unleashes Sheolmon" Jijimon spoke with utter disdain for this person.
"Sheolmon?" Mitsuko began to pet Ridomon down it's back as she asked.
"Sheolmon was a vial digimon who many millennia ago had enslave the digital world with the help of a human child. He is worshipped as a savior by some, as we worship Tabernamon, who had defeated his malice. The order which worships him seeks to revive him to impress all of their ideals onto the digimon of this world" Fernirmon looked down to Satorii as he spoke.
"So basically, they see Sheolmon as good and like a Christ figure, where as you see him as a Satan" Sakura began, "That's not much of something to fight over; religion is just there for comfort anyway". Theses words infuriated all of the Digimon.
Nekamon lashed out on the human first, "You don't understand, they aren't a religion, Sheolmonism is basically the government of the land, and like the Catholics of your world, they won't stop until all free thought is wiped out" The small digimon was obviously upset with the human.
"I'd compare it more to a nation then a religion, it's trying to gain all the land that it can to feed the greed of those in power" Kilroy said as he sipped a soda.
"Where did you get a soda?" Aya yelled to him snatching it before he drank much. She took it as her own, licking the rim of the soft drink. For obvious reasons, Kilroy was taken aback, though he only made another appear.
"This is a world of data, I'm a hacker, I can manipulate the data; it's that simple" He sipped this soda, making sure no one took it, though he made one for his new Agumon, and opened it sense the giant claws held Agumon from doing so.
"Do you have a name for the other person here?" Dantes walked right up to Jijimon and asked his question intently.
"No, all I know is that he had Dismon; which is comparable to a crow from your world" The Digimon said as it turned away from the others.
"What if we don't WANT to be here? Can we go home somehow?" Satorii just stood near Sakura and Fernirmon as he asked his question authoritatively.
"The only known portal, which the Digivices were thrown through, is on the ninth and lowest circle of the world" Nekamon said, looking to the boy.
"So we're screwed into being here no matter what" Dantes stroked the back of Ultimon as he spoke, he was the only one who showed interest in helping this world.
"On each Circle, there is a guardian General, on this circle is Purgatomon, a vile creature who usually just acts through other, though he is quite malevolent. Saviors and Digimon, watch each other, word travels quickly, I'm sure the Order knew you were here before I did" Jijimon gave them this last word of caution before he left the room and with a tap of his staff opened all the doors.
"Alright then, this'll be an adventure, we'll see and experience things no human ever has" Dantes said as him and Ultimon walked out into a barren, deserted, area. "Who's with me?" Slowly, everyone filed out of the room, Savaria, being the last of them all.
"I guess we really have no choice" Kilroy crushed his soda under foot as he put his computer in a backpack he had.
"That's the spirit" The spry, small, dinosaur partner of Kilroy cheered naively. As they noticed the sky turn to red and to the morning sun, they began to set out on their journey. No one noticed a black raven fly above them and back to the roof of the building where they just were though, the clang of sword and chains echoing as the other person jumped from the building after they were long gone. He walked behind a formation, not wanting to cross paths with anyone else.
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, nor do I own any of the characters but Dantes and Sin and their Digimon
Digimon: Visions Chapter I: Eclipse
"The stars are so beautiful, I envy them" Dark brown orbs gazed to the sky, noticing that something was different, other then the eclipse. Something just felt so different, like tonight would be the night when the world would finally change and their would be no more sorrow. But tranquility in Philadelphia was always short lived, the shout of "Shorty, I holla atchu" from down the street livened her pace. Savaria held her groceries close to her chest as she continued to walk down Torresdale Avenue, the prison alone had this air of malevolence. But she looked at the front of it anyway, the eclipse seeming closer the trees and the housed and even the concrete under her shoes seemed farther away.
A person came into view, was she hallucinating? No. Though she was tired, she knew that her eyes weren't deceiving her. Awe struck, she watched as the moon light hit the blade which he held. She was only snapped out of her transfixed state by the milk she'd bought at the deli spilling onto the top of her shoe.
"Oh no!" She hurriedly ran towards the deli again, looking up to the sky once more to see nine shooting stars, seeming to fire from within the eclipse. She kept running despite her altered view, it wasn't everyday the moon and the sun passed and comets shot from them. As she ran, she didn't notice when she plowed into a guy, knocking them both down.
"Sorry" She meekly stated as she picked up her bag and all of the things that fell out, but as luck would have it, the eggs broke now too, it just wasn't Savaria's day. Her mind still wandered to that man on the wall of the prison, not noticing much of anything, not even noticing that she had scraped her elbow enough that it was bleeding.
"Miss, your hair is in you eggs" The boy stated his dual coloured eyes looking to her black hair in the white of the eggs. He had already gotten up, dusting off his blue jeans and grey t-shirt; he'd extended his hand to help her up, despite her dazed state. After shouting "Miss" a few times, she finally snapped to it ad accepted his hand, letting him help her up.
"Sorry, sir, it was my fault" She bowed to him as she held her bags to her chest. Her mind was still on that man, he was just so enigmatic, so different, and yet, so familiar. She was also distressed by those stars that shot from the eclipse. Maybe it was just nothing, but then there was her feeling that something may happen today. She decided to snap back to reality to notice that the boy had put his hand out.
"I'm Dantes Alighieri, and you are?" He nodded to her, kindly and warmly smiling, with a blinding glare off of his perfectly white teeth. She hadn't really noticed him until now, but she wasn't too disappointed, he looked like the perfect all American boy; blonde, blue jeans, a simple look except for his hypnotic blue and green eyes. She put her dainty hand into his again and shook his hand.
"I'm Savaria, Savaria Harper" She looked to her wrist watch, noticing she remembered it was on, "OH NO! Sorry, but I must go". She ran back to the store with her remaining items, leaving a trail of milk and egg in her wake. If only she'd not been a bit more focused, she would not have missed noticing a "shooting star" fall into her bag before she reentered the deli, grabbing her items and paying the woman at the counter, only grimacing about her uninteresting life. She began the trek back home to her aunt and uncle again, only halting to see if the man was on the prison, again, though he was absent this time.
"Sorry I took so long" Savaria placed the groceries in the kitchen, and sorted them, except for her personal treats, which she took with her up to her room in the bag. Her aunt and uncle did not seem to mind her lack of contact and hurry to get to her room, though it was rather rude, which she admitted in retrospect. From her bag she took out the Hershey's Chocolate bar and began to eating the indulgence. Her rapture was broken by feeling a strange object in the bag as she tried to get her Coke out; it was some sort of device. Maybe that boy, Dantes, had dropped something in her bag by accident.
She took it out and studied it. A peculiar little thing; it seemed to have no known function so she just began to press the buttons, and really just try to find a function for the device, though none made itself evident. "I'll crack the mystery of this in the morning. She finished her Coke and chocolate and went to the bathroom, now that she knew she had egg in her hair; she had to get it out. No matter how you look at it, that is a little bit of a disgusting feeling. She turned on the faucet and bent into the tub and began to rinse it out and wash her hair, it was beginning to feel like any other boring night now.
She picked up a towel and dried her hair before turning to the mirror and brushing, and getting her routine over with. She then returned to her room and changed into her night clothes, not anything that interesting, just normal everyday life in this boring city. Savaria then lye on her bed, thinking about the event that had transpired in the evening that just past; who was that man? Furthermore, who was Dantes? Who knew that going to the store instead of her aunt would give her so much to do with her friends all away and the television on the fritz and the computer affected by the eclipse, somehow.
Savaria just couldn't believe it, and while she lye there, silently singing the song "My Immortal" by Evanesces and reading The Divine Comedy out of the corner of her eye, she mind just drifted, like it had earlier. Things just felt off, and usually her feelings meant that caution should be had. She then placed her book mark in her book, setting her alarm to nine am to wake for church. Maybe things would finally clarify then, tonight just seemed too hazy.
She shut her eyes and slowly drifted off, wanting for the night to turn to day, and then back to night, in hopes of solving the last apparent mystery of Philadelphia, other then the bimonthly rape and murder case inciting the NAACP's wrath on the police department because too many suspects are black.
A world lies beneath our own, hidden from our site, and immaculate of all but one human. And as Savaria began to dream, the small device that she had gotten from some unknown source began to click and beep and just to be problematic. It was no mind to her, she had long sense drifted into sleep, unknowing that she was not the only one who had gotten as small device, not the only who felt the effects of the majestic eclipse. Others too drifted from their beds into a metaphysical state of being aware and unaware of what was happening, unknowing that these few were being chosen to visit that world which we meet only whilst we dream. To find the plain between real and surreal.
The flame of a lighter dances upon the city streets. Smoke contaminated the air as the child of Sin placed his cigarette back between pursed lips. With a free hand, he took out a switch blade and braced himself for the one remaining pain he could control. His blood spilled to Pennypack Creek, as he withheld any show of the grief he caused himself and just looked to the ground as he spit the cigarette into the creek. But then, a small glowing thing caught his at the bank of the creek, so he grabbed a rag from his pocket ad bandaged his self made wound and jumped off o the end of the bridge and picked it up.
Sin toggled the buttons and tried to see if he could find any sign of ownership, but it seemed rather immaculate to human touch before him, so he clasped it. "The hell?" He noticed the colour pallet change from this glowing light to a silver body with black grips. Maybe he should just toss it into the river and forget it. Instead, he pocketed it and grabbed the hilt of his sheathed sword and ran back to his apartment, he'd noticed the time, and did not want to be arrested again.
After he got home he placed his new device on his night stand and put his sword on a table, as he began to remove his clothes and go to the shower. There was something odd about tonight, but he did not know what. So he just thought as he lathered himself and let the water fall to his tan skin. After shutting it off he dried off and shaved and brushed his teeth before going to his cot to sleep. But like Savaria, his device had begun to act strangely as well.
Elsewhere in the city, four people found these strange things in there bags from disembarking to come here for pleasure or for business. The youngest of them looking at it, wondering if it was just something his parents made and put in his bag for keeping until a conference with an American company. He just dismissed it otherwise, ignoring its change to a green casing with silver grips; he just tried to sleep, despite the jetlag.
In the same hotel, a girl sat out on her balcony, wishing her father would return from finding the nearest bar. She held close to her the device she had found, watching the eclipse and wanting for a change. She just wanted to find some where; where their was no more pain from this, no more feeling so horrible and worrying about her father coming home that night. She wished this were a real vacation, not just an excuse and her father having to work on it for the U.S. branch of the Lycoming Defense Systems, and to go to a conference with his bosses, the Kioshi's. Maybe she'd see her friend Satorii, their son, and at least have him to talk to. She tried to sleep though, worried none the less. Maybe Satorii could help her get
Another girl, Mitsuko, decided to go to get something to eat, sense she couldn't sleep. When she reached the in hotel restaurant, only one other person was there, a boy who seemed to be not much older then her, but older. He wasn't doing anything, so she walked up to him, seeking someone to talk to and noticed he had one of those small devices too.
"Hey, do you know what this is?" She held her out, not noticing it hers had taken on a teal colour. She looked to him through teal eyes to the black haired English boy.
"I wish, I can't even figure my blasted one out, damned thing has me stumped" He twiddled at the buttons and tried to make it do something to no avail. His green eyes showed malice towards the device as he got frustrated and held it tightly in his hand.
"Well, cursing it won't do much, maybe they just are some sort of prop" She took a seat near him and looked to him as he got frustrated. Mitsuko couldn't help but giggle at his blight; he was getting all frazzled over a little toy, or whatever it is.
"Who are you anyway?" He looked to her for the first time as his order of fish and chips came out and he began to eat it. She stole one chip before answering.
"Mitsuko Naomi Usagi, and you?" She continued to steal his food as she looked to her own device. The thing was peculiar, almost other worldly, but she didn't care much about technology, and just continued to eat his food.
"Christopher R. Kilroy, and stop eating my food; buy your own" He noticed his plate was already empty and sighed, collecting his device and paying for the food.
"Where are you going?" Mitsuko asked, getting up to follow him. She noticed she wasn't too much shorter then him, which was odd, seeing as she was under five feet. But she just followed him, wanting to talk to him some more.
"To sleep, I'll rest then fight with the hell machine in the morning" Kilroy looked to his device and pressed the key on the elevator panel to go up. Both of them got on the lift and were going to the same floor as well.
"Why are you following me!?" Kilroy looked to Mitsuko, wondering why for some off coincidence they were going to the same part of the hotel.
"I'm not following you, I have to go to the same floor, that isn't illegal in the states"Mitsuko raised her voice to Kilroy, sense he wasn't being very nice.
"You're stalking me!" He yelled back her as the elevator came to a halt.
"Believe what you want" She hit the close door button and hurriedly left the elevator. Kilroy just gnashed his teeth as he pressed the open button and went to his room. Once there he laid on his bed and promptly fell asleep, hoping to discover the device's abilities in the morning.
Mitsuko did the same, covering her ears so she didn't have to hear her brothers messing around. With this many men around, she could seldom hear her own thoughts, let alone fall asleep. She was used to it though, the only female in the whole house hold, it was hard not to be used to the testosterone level. She did, though, wish to leave this world for a better one, to find her slice of paradise. This wasn't it, she knew that much, in paradise you are happy, here she was content, but not happy.
In the section of the city called Mayfair, another person seized one of these devices. She was moving into their new row home, though she knew she would be moving again soon enough. This was just another temporary settlement, until they had to move again for business, but she considered herself used to it. She fiddled with the device in her almost empty new room, only bed and a closet full of clothing filled bags to her name.
Aya put a hand through he faint lavender hand and sighed. What on earth was this thing? It showed no purpose and didn't seem to do anything. She bit a strand of her short hair in frustration and continued to force the damned thing to show her what the hell it did. She threw it against the wall and laid down on her bed. Tomorrow she'd find out what the damn thing did, she was too tired from the move. Moreover, she was tired of moving from place to place, she wanted somewhere to just call home, it was stressful to move so much. Maybe there was somewhere where she could just sit down and enjoy life for once, but it did not seem like it would be Philly, especially with her next door neighbor pounding on the wall.
On the other side of Aya's wall, another person holding a device threw the thing against the wall, condemning it for not doing anything. He'd barely done anything with it, but it already annoyed him. He had an excuse though, an un-medicated kid with ADHD could get like this, and he wouldn't take his meds, sense they made him even more violent then this.
He slowly began to wear himself out, and the pounds from Aya next door yelling to him to get to sleep made him decide to give up on the thing and lay in bed until he did fall asleep. He just couldn't stand that the little device wouldn't do anything, despite his agitation.
It began to feel like an out of body experience for her. Savaria felt this strange sensation pulling her away from herself. This wasn't a dream. She slowly opened her eyes and noticed she was fully clothed, with a white spaghetti strap shirt on, and a pair of black jeans, holding her purse, with the small device in it. She then looked around her, seeing that everything had changed. She was in a dimly lit room, with nine beds, including her own, one of which was empty.
"Morning, sleeping beauty" She noticed that that boy Dantes was there, and had said that. This was too surreal. How could they have been transported here? And where was here?
"You seem troubled, is something wrong?" A meek younger looking boy was standing by the foot of her bed. She just examined him quickly, noticing his blonde hair and stunning deep green eyes.
"How would you feel if you woke up to see seven people standing around you, Satorii" For the first time she heard a feminine voice. This girl seemed about her age. Her blue eyes stuck out through her black hair as Savaria examined this one; then she heard another person speak.
"Why are you all gawking at her anyway" This girl had her back to her and didn't seem like she wanted to be seen, running her fingers through her light lavender hair and sighing.
"Just because you don't care doesn't mean we don't" She felt a roaming hand lightly lean on her chest, noticing that a boy had done, she quickly pulled it off.
"I awoke to see you about to grope me, you don't care!" The girl looked to this boy, fuming and shooting a steely glance through dark blue eyes. The boy simply took his hand back and ran it through brown hair with blonde tips, coyly, acting as if he was slick.
"Why don't you guys give her room to breathe?" A girl with her reddish brown hair in a bun walked back a little as she spoke, seeing that Savaria might be crowded.
"Why don't you all just shut up, so I can try to find out where we are?" A boy had sat on a bed next to hers and was feverishly typing on his computer, fiercely at work to try to find things out, a little worried, sense it seemed odd that they were all here.
"What's everyone's name, first? I'm Savaria Harper" Savaria tried to sound respectful of the boy on his computer, but she did wish to at least have a slight meet and greet with the others here. She took out the small device, hearing it reacting to something. She ignored it, though, more concerned with the others.
"I'm Dantes Alighieri, but we already met, Miss Savaria Harper" The blonde boy in a trench coat she'd already met spoke as he took his out too. The colours of his, she noticed, were grays.
"I'm Satorii Kioshi" The young boy at the foot of her bed spoke and bowed before taking his device out too, the things were reacting to something, but no one seemed to care what.
"My name is Sakura Ishida" The girl with bright blue eyes bowed to her as well, also removing her device from the pocket of dark blue flared jeans.
"Aya Lisavkin" The girl with her back to the others grimaced as she spoke; already holding her white and silver device.
"Matt Ikaru is my name" The boy who felt her bowed as well, looking up to view something, though Savaria, and everyone else, didn't notice what until they heard Aya smack him, saying for him to stop looking at girls' chests.
"And I'm Mitsuko Naomi Usagi, and he's Kilroy" The girl with a bun pointed to herself and then the boy on the computer; both of them holding those odd devices too. Everyone smiled and shook hands, though only Savaria seemed to notice that there were nine beds and eight of them, as well as nine shooting stars from the eclipse. Something was off, and she wanted to know what. They all then heard the tapping of a cane and looked to a door at the end of the room, what looked like a small hairy old man was there, though they weren't quite sure if this thing was even human, let alone an old man.
"Now that you've all met each other, I am Arch Bishop Jijimon, arch bishop of the outer circle of the Digital World" The creature bowed to them, though it didn't get far, stopping suddenly, and struggling to erect normally. Everyone just looked at him like he had five heads.
"What's the Digital World? That some kind of freakish pedophiliac organization" Aya was the first to talk, folding her arms over her chest, and looking at him like he was Matt.
"No, the Digital World is a realm of data, similar to the human world, only different in its ways, such as the fact that there are Digimon" Jijimon answered looking to a fire that appeared with the wave of its staff.
"Though I don't understand that, why are we here?" The small blonde boy, Satorii, looked to him meekly. Everyone looked to Jijimon with the same intent. This made no sense that they would be dragged here for seemingly no reason.
"Because our world is falling into darkness. Years ago, Nekamon, one of the digimon in our religion, split a crest into nine fragments, and thrusted them into your world to gain your aid. In fact, Nekamon shall be partnered with Savaria" The old looking creature seemed to smirk, though no one could tell through all of the hair.
"What the hell do you mean by 'partnered'" Dantes seemed about to pounce upon the digimon in frustration, it just kept going in circles.
"You all shall be partnered with digimon, Nekamon to Savaria, Fernirmon to Satorii, Ultimon to Dantes, Hexamon to Aya, Ridomon to Mitsuko, Kittenmon to Sakura, Agumon to Kilroy, and Dracomon to Matt" Jijimon said pounding it's staff to the ground and doors opening revealing the eight digimon,
Each digimon walked to its respective owner and sat by them. No one knew what to make of it, but they noticed that their devices react strangely when they were near the digimon. Everyone did the same meet and greet with the digimon, Savaria looking closely to her digimon; the creature had characteristics like a cat, a light orange and emerald eyes with long claws and cat ears. Kittenmon, Sakura's digimon was a cat too, though it was white and on all fours with small wings. Dantes's digimon too took on the characteristics of something more alike to their world, a large dog with black fur.
But then you had Agumon, Kilroy's digimon, Hexamon, Aya's digimon, and Fernirmon, Satorii's digimon. Agumon looked similar to a small dinosaur, with greenish orange skin, but a huge head and hands. Hexamon looked like a stuffed rabbit with stitching and a jesters hat. Fernirmon was almost taller then anyone there, only Matt close to him, an anthropomorphic wolf with white armour and a helmet. Matt and Mitsuko, though, had dragon like monsters. Ridomon was a dark red dragon, and Dracomon a green one; both looked a lot alike, but of course, how many people saw dragons often.
"Excuse me, Jijimon, why aren't their nine? I split the talisman into nine fragments, and there are nine beds, also Dismon is missing" Nekamon had helped Savaria off of her bed and they all had walked closer to Jijimon, all of them, even the digimon curious for the answer.
"The ninth Savior woke before the others, and he was too headstrong to stay, instead he took Dismon, threatening me with a sword. I would beware of him; he may be the one who unleashes Sheolmon" Jijimon spoke with utter disdain for this person.
"Sheolmon?" Mitsuko began to pet Ridomon down it's back as she asked.
"Sheolmon was a vial digimon who many millennia ago had enslave the digital world with the help of a human child. He is worshipped as a savior by some, as we worship Tabernamon, who had defeated his malice. The order which worships him seeks to revive him to impress all of their ideals onto the digimon of this world" Fernirmon looked down to Satorii as he spoke.
"So basically, they see Sheolmon as good and like a Christ figure, where as you see him as a Satan" Sakura began, "That's not much of something to fight over; religion is just there for comfort anyway". Theses words infuriated all of the Digimon.
Nekamon lashed out on the human first, "You don't understand, they aren't a religion, Sheolmonism is basically the government of the land, and like the Catholics of your world, they won't stop until all free thought is wiped out" The small digimon was obviously upset with the human.
"I'd compare it more to a nation then a religion, it's trying to gain all the land that it can to feed the greed of those in power" Kilroy said as he sipped a soda.
"Where did you get a soda?" Aya yelled to him snatching it before he drank much. She took it as her own, licking the rim of the soft drink. For obvious reasons, Kilroy was taken aback, though he only made another appear.
"This is a world of data, I'm a hacker, I can manipulate the data; it's that simple" He sipped this soda, making sure no one took it, though he made one for his new Agumon, and opened it sense the giant claws held Agumon from doing so.
"Do you have a name for the other person here?" Dantes walked right up to Jijimon and asked his question intently.
"No, all I know is that he had Dismon; which is comparable to a crow from your world" The Digimon said as it turned away from the others.
"What if we don't WANT to be here? Can we go home somehow?" Satorii just stood near Sakura and Fernirmon as he asked his question authoritatively.
"The only known portal, which the Digivices were thrown through, is on the ninth and lowest circle of the world" Nekamon said, looking to the boy.
"So we're screwed into being here no matter what" Dantes stroked the back of Ultimon as he spoke, he was the only one who showed interest in helping this world.
"On each Circle, there is a guardian General, on this circle is Purgatomon, a vile creature who usually just acts through other, though he is quite malevolent. Saviors and Digimon, watch each other, word travels quickly, I'm sure the Order knew you were here before I did" Jijimon gave them this last word of caution before he left the room and with a tap of his staff opened all the doors.
"Alright then, this'll be an adventure, we'll see and experience things no human ever has" Dantes said as him and Ultimon walked out into a barren, deserted, area. "Who's with me?" Slowly, everyone filed out of the room, Savaria, being the last of them all.
"I guess we really have no choice" Kilroy crushed his soda under foot as he put his computer in a backpack he had.
"That's the spirit" The spry, small, dinosaur partner of Kilroy cheered naively. As they noticed the sky turn to red and to the morning sun, they began to set out on their journey. No one noticed a black raven fly above them and back to the roof of the building where they just were though, the clang of sword and chains echoing as the other person jumped from the building after they were long gone. He walked behind a formation, not wanting to cross paths with anyone else.
