Chloe

Hi, I'm Chloe and I'm 15 years old. There's not much to tell you about my life before I met my first digimon, but I'll give it a go.

I was born on some ranch in Colorado, but my family didn't stay there for long. Soon after I was born, that war between the Digi-destroyers and the Digi-destined started up. The battle raged on and everyday it was coming closer and closer to our ranch. My dad thought that my mom and I would be in danger, so he sent us to live in some mountain village. Apparently my dad promised us that he would come back when the fighting stopped, but he never did come back. He didn't die or anything, I think, but he knew that we couldn't be safe with him around. I'm not sad about it or anything. I never really got to know the guy. People say I look like him though because of my blond hair. My mom always tells me that I'm acting more and more like my dad, but unlike him, my mom did NOT want me growing up with any digimon. She thought that the war was the digimon's fault. This was also what everybody else in the village thought about digimon. They weren't welcome.

So that's my life in a nutshell. Living in a digimon-free village for all my life with my mom and my cat Hobe. I would spend all my free time on the farm and ride the horses or collect the eggs. My life pretty much stayed the same, until two days ago. I had just had a big argument with my mom because I wanted to know who my dad was but she wanted me to stay on the farm. We said some things that we didn't mean and I stormed out of our farmhouse, Hobe followed me. I ran all the way to the river at the edge of our farm. I crossed the river and ran into the forest on the other side. I kept running and running, I couldn't take my life anymore. I was tired of my boring life, I was tired of this boring place and most of all I was tired of being alone.

I never got along with the other kids at school and Hobe was my only real friend. I stopped running and sat down under a big tree. The sun was setting and it would soon be dark. I decided to make a fire and went looking for some kindling. I made the fire and sat by it, poking it with a stick. Hobe was still with me, in my lap sleeping. I was very tired and was about to fall asleep when I saw something in the fire. There was something red in the fire and looked like a glowing ball. I just looked at it for a little bit, then down at Hobe. My cat opened her mouth and I thought she was going to yawn. Instead, she spoke.

"Take it" Hobe said "Reach into the fire and take it."

I was in shock. My cat, which I had known for my entire life can talk.

"Take it" Hobe said again. "It's your destiny."

"I can't!" I told my cat. I was still shocked that I was even having this conversation. "It's in the fire and I'd get burned. Plus I'm only 15! I'm too young to have a destiny. And how can you talk?"

"I'm a digimon." Hobe said to me. "I'm YOUR digimon. Now reach into the fire and take your destiny, begin your adventure. Take it."

I reached into the fire. I thought that it would be hot and burn me, but it wasn't. I reached in and I touched the glowing ball. As soon as I touched it the fire became much bigger. I was afraid and took my hand out of the fire. The glowing ball began to take shape. It molded itself into some kind of hand held device. I reached in and took it out of the fire. It was white and there was a red circle around its center-screen. On the back was a picture of a flame. . "You did it!" Hobe said. "You did it. You are now the digi-destined of fire. You have been chosen"

With that, she began to glow. The light became too bright and I had to look away. I heard Hobe say.

"Hobemon digivolve to. Tigrimon."

I looked back towards my cat and she changed. Hobe, I mean Tigrimon was larger than she was before. She was red with white stripes.

"Who are you? Are you still Hobe? And what's a digi-destined? Why was I chosen?" I asked my cat.

"I am Tigrimon. This is my rookie form. I am your digimon partner. You will learn all about why you were chosen soon, just follow me."

"I can't" I replied. "I'm too scared, I'm not strong enough to become a digi- whatever."

"You ARE strong enough. It will be your job to lead them."

"Lead who?"

"The others"

With that, she began to walk towards the fire. Tigrimon walked all the way in and disappeared with a flash of light. I nervously walked into the fire and closed my eyes.