Chapter 0: Calm before the…
Ugh, It's finally Friday (The 11th of November to be exact). I said hi to Don, my bus driver, and took my usual seat. It had been a pretty boring week. As the bus began to whisk me away to school I put my headphones on. I sat looking out the window and thinking about Digimon, like I usually did. At home I'd been working on a drawing of my own original Digimon, called Herpetomon. I was still thinking out some of the minor details. Pretty soon we arrived at Anissa's stop. Anissa goes to an all-girls school and needs to take the bus to my all-boys school, where she later takes a shuttle to her school. When she got on I took my headphones off and sat back. She took her seat and we exchanged friendly waves as usual. Occasionally we'd bring up some topic and discuss that for a while, then fall back into the awkward morning silence. This went on for about a half-hour, then we arrived at school. I sluggishly meandered into school and went up to my locker, got my books and went down to homeroom. I said hello to my friends and the school day began. As the day progressed I found myself sitting in class, incessantly daydreaming of Digimon. By the end of last period I was completely bushed. At least it's finally Friday. I left and got on the bus to find Anissa and the others waiting. "Hello Brendan how was your day?" Anissa asked in her joking way "It was super, how about you?" I replied, "It was swell" she said. Just then the bus left and we were on our way home. After a while of talking with Anissa I put on my headphones and went back to working out the last details on Herpetomon. So far I have him as a reptile-type Digimon, he stands at about my height, 6 '3". He looks a lot like Flamedramon without the armor, plus Herpetomon would be green not blue. Herpetomon would have dark brown eyes and two big fangs coming out either side of his mouth, but aside from that he looks so bland. Then I had an idea, "Maybe I could have a red sash tied around his arm like Garudamon has", I thought. And another idea "I could give him some kind of pigment pattern." New details had finally sprung to life and I was itching to get home and put them into play. Soon we had arrived at my stop, and my ride was waiting. I got in the car and we sped home, Nana was driving me today. She kept trying to make conversation while I replied with simple "yeahs" and "nahs", trying to dodge conversation so as to remember the changes I'd thought up for Herpetomon. When we got home I slipped into my room and grabbed my sketch book and pencil. I began diligently adding the sash and intricate designs along his body. The design was like a long tattoo that snaked its way from his right shoulder down to his right leg. All of the additions took me about an hour. I was very pleased with the results, he looked exactly the way I'd pictured him. Suddenly I was overcome with a desire stronger than anything I'd felt before. "I wish he was real" I mumbled under my breath "I just wish he was real, and I was his Tamer, we'd be so awesome. We could fight wild-ones and maybe save the world a few times." I chuckled to myself. "Ugh, I just…wish he were real."
Suddenly right in front of my face a small ball of light appeared. I was confused, but my first instinct was to touch it. When I reached my hand out the light began to take a form. It was forming into a small intricate little gadget. It was small enough to fit in my palm and it had a complex rectangle shape. It had a small screen with what looked like an affirming button and some arrow buttons for interface underneath. "Is this what I think it is!" I thought to myself "It's…a Digivice! Someone has heard my plea" The Digivice turned itself on in my hand and a holographic display opened up. On the display I could see a digi-egg that had been cracked asunder. I was confused at what this meant, but then I thought "Digimon come from eggs, right, so maybe this is my Digimon, and he's hatched already." Then the display shifted over to a compass like display. This could only mean one thing… my Digimon was entering the Real World. I had to think fast, I couldn't miss my Digimon's arrival. I grabbed my shoes and a jacket and left. I sprinted down the street following the compass. I was tired before, but seeing the Digivice brought me new energy. It was leading me down the street towards the town park. Luckily it was relatively dark out so it wouldn't be too hard to get him home. Eventually I was led to the Holt School, an old, broken down school down the street from the park. I slowed down as I approached the school. Then, behind the school, I saw a geyser of some kind of smoke shoot up from the ground. I was soon engulfed in the strange vapor. I began walking blindly through the fog. As I was stumbling through the fog I noticed a small field of some kind of black fog, this was it, I noticed a figure starting to rise out of the black field. I could barely see it from the fog, but he was rising, vertically from the black space. Soon the Digimon had risen up from the space and was standing on the ground. I approached slowly and as the fog cleared a little I could make out the Digimon. It was Herpetomon. I could hardly believe what I was seeing, he was absolutely perfect, Exactly what I'd imagined. He was looking the other way so I simply said "Hello?" He turned but he didn't look at all surprised, he just looked at me for a moment that seemed like forever. I can't explain the feeling, it was incredible looking into the eyes of the creature I actually created. In his Dark-brown eyes I could see all of the adventures we'd have, and the relationship we'd build. Then he said in a smooth, deep voice "Oh, hello."