Gate Way of Life
I don't own Digimon
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'Thoughts'
"talking out loud"
'-----' scene change
(V)(V) different point of view
'+' flash back
Chapter 12
They made their way down the stairs. Kouji holds the torch up high, all they could see was stairs, and they walk through some hallways that continue to lead them to more stairs. He had his D-tector out, trying to get readings. He had no luck, he got nothing from it.
Takato stops and turns to face them, "You guys getting tired?" Kouji and him look at each other, he shrugs. "Getting there, so what time is it?" Kouji checks his watch on his right arm. He had packed one, but didn't see the point in wearing it, that is until today. "It's been two hours. This is taking a long time. How can this all be in one building?" Kouji says. Takato answers, "Might be like my pouch, you know, a dimensional pocket. Just a thought, you guys want to keep going?" They think about it for a few minutes and then he answers, "Next hallway, we should be close to one by now." Takato nods and then continues down the stairs.
Soon they did find a hallway, but unlike the others there's more hallways connected to it. They also spy another case of stairs. They stop, and Kouji hands him the torch for a minute. Kouji runs his hand across the wall, soon Kouji seems to find what he's looking for, a large enough crack in the wall to hold the torch. He hands the torch back to Kouji and Kouji uses his strength to push the torch in.
After that's done, they turn to see what Takato's doing. They find that Takato has brought out some water. He hands them each a bottle of water, they drink some and just sit around. "So, where to next?" He asks Takato. "Let's vote, I mean we now have plenty of choices to choose from." Takato says. "I vote we take a look around, we might get an idea of what this place is." Kouji says. He nods, "I agree, what about you Takato?" "Don't see why not. So do we split up or stick together?" Both Kouji and him answer at the same it, "Split up." They look at each other and then they laugh.
"I'm going to guess that this is a twin thing, huh?" Takato asks, he takes out another torch and hands it to him. "I'm going to the right, ok?" They stop laughing and just nods; on their faces were great grins. They watch as Takato gets up and walks toward the hallway on the right.
They wait for a few minutes, and then they both get up. "I guess we'll be going left. So, do you want to stick together until we hit a fork?" Kouji asks him. "Why not, nothing wrong with that. I wonder why nobody knows about this place. Let gets going." He says and they both get up. Kouji take his torch out of the wall. He looks at his and finds the button that turns on the light for the torch. They begin their way down one of the left hallways.
(V)(V)(V)
He left the two on the floor, he didn't need any light for there seems to be enough light for him to see. They had walked down nine hallways, without counting the first level. He didn't know why, but this place felt comfortable. It was like this place was meant for him. That just puzzles him, why would a place like this be build before he even existed? He had a feeling that some of the answers he's looking for were here.
He sighs and looks up at the ceiling. He again looks down and at the walls around him. He didn't see anything different, just walls made out of stones. As time passes, he continues to walk on; he didn't see any other rooms.
Then at the end of the hallway was a room. There was no door, just an opening. He walks through the doorway. He stops; he's looking at a Digimon that looked like an Apemon. Instead of golden fur and red markings, this one had purple fur and orange markings. The band on his right arm was red and had a white symbol of the Hazard on it. Also this Apemon's skin was dark green.
He found himself looking into red eyes of this odd Apemon. "Who are you?" He finally asks. "I am LoreApemon, I was infused with a small amount of power from the Hazard. The one that did this was one of the splinter of the Hazard that invaded this world, in a time long forgotten." He blinked in surprised on hearing LoreApemon's voice, for this one was a female. "What do you mean about a splinter of the Hazard? And just what is this place?" He asks. LoreApemon answers, "Once the Hazard used to invade other realities. It would splinter into other Digimon; some became rookies, while others became champions. These rookies and champions missions were to send the natives into uproars. It was the ultimates and megas that were made to attack the armies of the natives. The whole point that the Hazard was doing was to find it's destined partner. It searched and searched, attacking realities, hoping on hope that the one it was looking for would show itself. Its favorite form was a dark dragon type Digimon, I believe that you know this form." He nods; he really does know that dragon. He sometimes still has nightmares about him.
LoreApemon continues, "Many realities fell to the Hazard, leaving nothing left. You see, humans have not always been close to the Digital World. There are realities out there that have never interacted with Digimon or even came up with them. Some of these worlds have use magic, and have other creatures living along side the humans that live there. Others never have anything special to brag about. The only reason that I know this is because the Hazard had once sent some of its essence to some of these worlds. Then the Hazard decided that what it was looking for would never be found on any of those realities. It again focused its searches to the Digital world realities. You see the gates to this place are scattered over the realities that the Hazard lost interest in. It didn't always destroy the realities that it searched in; it would just leave without warning. The natives would then make stories and myth about the Hazard. Some Digimon learned how to contain its essence; the Hazard didn't care about this, for it was getting tired of looking through realities. So it left these Digimon believe that they could defeat it by capturing its essence. The reality was that it was only making it stronger with every piece they captured. For it has never been whole, for over times long forgotten, it had always been splintered. For more parts of it looking in different realities, the more realities it could search. Then the Digimon that learned to capture its essence finished getting all of it, making it whole for the first time beyond the beginnings of it's search. Then you came into being, instead of it finding you, you called to it. Giving it a new form, and at long last the Hazard found that it was searching for. Now the two of you are together, and that's all that matters." LoreApemon finishes and he just stares, trying to get a handle on just what he has been told.
After ten minutes of not saying anything, he finally asks, "Then why is the Hazard and I fused together?" LoreApemon answers, "It's just how the reality you have enter decided to show you as. It'll take a great deal of energy to get you split apart, but I believe that you will find away. I'll be happy to guide you and your friends around this place. There is much that the Hazard has collected over the ages it's been around. It would be my honor to show you around this place." LoreApemon states. "Thank you, but how did you know that I would come this way?" He was a bit confused on how she knew that he would come down this hallway. LoreApemon smiles a bit at the question, "I knew that you would find me, for the little amount of Hazard that I posses would attract you to me." He understood what she meant.
He sighs and looks around the room; it looked to be a bedroom. For he spied beds to sleep on. He then turns to look at LoreApemon, "Lets go find my friends, and thank you for the history lessen." LoreApemon nods and he lets her to lead the way to his friends, knowing that she would have better luck then him at finding Kouji and Kouichi sooner.
(V)(V)(V)
He looks around the room he has entered. He was on guard for any traps that might be around here. He looks at all the scrolls and books that were in the room. There didn't seem to be any torches or light source for the room. All he had was one torch, sighing he turns to leave the room when he hears Kouji yelling for help.
He runs out of the room, and makes his way back to where they split up. Soon he's racing down the hallway that Kouji took. He then sees Takato with a purple Digimon; the Digimon was holding his brother in its arm. "Kouji!" He yells and they all turn to look at him. "Hey, just wait Kouichi! It's not what it looks like!" Takato says with his arms straight out in front of him. "You can put me down now. I'm certain that my leg doesn't hurt that much." He hears Kouji says, he slows down. The purple Digimon put his brother down gently. Takato puts his arms down and then says, "I like to greet LoreApemon. She decided to show us around, hope you guys don't mind."
Kouji and him share a look at each other, then Kouji says, "I wondering if you're the guarding of this place?" LoreApemon says, "More like care taker of this place. The gates don't let anybody through, you see; this place was created by the Hazard. And only the Hazard could enter into this place. I believe that you were not stopped had to be do to this one." LoreApemon says, waving a hand towards Takato. "My name is Takato." Takato says. Again Kouji and him share a look. They both were surprised to find that LoreApemon was a female Digimon, plus the fact that this place was connected to Takato.
"It's nice to met you LoreApemon. My name's Kouji Minamoto. This is my twin brother Kouichi Kimura." Kouji says to LoreApemon. LoreApemon nods and then points to the room that Kouji had found. "It room contains scrolls and books about histories of defeated realities. There's more room that have more scrolls and books about histories. This whole level contains historical information ranging from simple stone tablets and tapestries to scrolls, books, and CDs. If you want, we could stop in here for you to have a look through some of the scrolls and books. Unless you wish to go some place else?"
"This is good enough. Will these items be ok to look through? I mean, they must be ancient." He asks. "This place has keeps everything from getting too damage. Even if it does, this place will repair the item or recreate it. So don't worry about a thing." LoreApemon says with a small smile. "Cool." Takato says and then walks into the room to find something to read. "But wouldn't these be hard for us to read? You know, different written languages?" Kouji asks as he follows Takato into the room. He walks behind LoreApemon. She answers, "As long as you know how to read and that Takato doesn't mind you reading any of this things, then I believe that you will understand what the writing is." He thinks about it for a minute then says, "The Hazard must have thought of everything in creating this place." LoreApemon nods her head in agreement.
To be continued …
