Chapter 1: Something New
"You're Herpetomon, Right?" I asked.
"Yeah, I am." he said "Who are you?" I took a step closer
"I'm Brendan Mehu and I created you, you're my partner." He looked a little surprised at this, but it's not like I could blame him.
"What are you talking about." He asked "I don't even know you."
"Follow me and I'll show you what I mean" I said "But here put this on" I took off my jacket and handed it to him. I figured it's dark out and I could pass him off as just a big human.
"Alright, it's not like I have anywhere else to go." He took my jacket and put it on.
"Good, thanks, now follow me." I began to lead him back to the house. We walked briskly and soon reached the house. "Okay this is my house" I told him, then I led him around back. "Now I need you to wait here while I go inside to open my window, then I'll lower something so you can climb in"
"Ok, I'll wait here" He had a sly look on his face. I quickly went inside to find that Nana was asleep in the living room down the hall from my room, perfect. I went into my room and opened the window. Herpetomon looked up.
"Now hold on let me get something to pull you up" I called to him.
"Oh don't worry about it" he replied "I can jump it" When he said this it hit me. I did give him reverse jointed legs, which probably makes him an awesome jumper. "Watch, back away from the window" he said, so I did. Then he simply bounded into my window and rolled to a stop. My room is on the first floor, but it is still a pretty big jump.
"Woah, that was awesome, you're awesome." I said, marveling at his skill. I finally got a good look at him in the light of my room. He really was exactly what I imagined. He was about my height with muscular reverse-jointed legs and a lean compact physique. His arms looked strong as well, he had 6 fingers counting the thumbs and a set of mean white claws.
"Thanks" He looked a little embarrassed "It comes naturally. Now what's this about you being my creator-slash-partner?"
"Here, have a seat on my bed and I'll tell you the story" He sat down and I was pacing as I began to tell the story. "Okay, well, about 2 hours ago I finished a drawing of my dream Digimon. Strong and athletic yet cool and enigmatic ()Ever since I first heard of Digimon I've wanted to be a Tamer, A human with a Digimon partner. Once I finished my drawing I made a wish, stronger than any before that my dream Digimon would come to the Real World where we could finally meet. When I made the wish this little Digivice appeared and led me to you. You are my dream Digimon, here look at the proof." I showed him the drawing I'd made of him.
"Aww, you caught my bad side. But wait…what you said doesn't make sense" He began pondering something.
"What doesn't make sense?" I asked, I didn't understand the problem.
"Well, I wasn't just created a few hours ago, I can recall hatching from my digi-egg a month or so ago. Then a few hours ago, in the Digital World I passed out and when I woke up I had this sash and designs on my body. Soon after that I was on my way to this world." He explained
"Wow, now that makes no sense." I said bluntly. I had to think it over for a while then I can up with something. "I have an idea, So you know that I finished the drawing of you 2 hours ago, but I actually thought you up around last month. And I bet that when you passed out in the Digital World some force was reconfiguring your data to go along with the changes I made."
"Yeah, maybe." he replied "I don't really know, but all that really matters is that I'm here with you now and there must be some reason"
"Couldn't have said it better myself, but I think I'll leave the "Why" for some other time, I don't know about you, but I'm about to pass out from hunger." His eyes lit up at the thought of food.
"You seem to know a lot about Digimon, don't you know, Digimon love to eat!"
"Alright, well what do you want? I can't really cook you anything because Nana would ask questions."
"Good point, well I love blueberries actually, if you happen to have some." I went and got us a box of blueberries, which happens to be my favorite snack too. I brought them back into my room where Herpetomon was eagerly waiting. I handed him the box of blueberries and sat on my bed with him. "Thanks" he said politely. I, having lost my appetite, just sat watching Herpetomon who was ravaging the food as though he hadn't eaten in days.
"So Herpetomon, what exactly is the Digital World like?" I asked. He looked up with a mouth full of Blueberries and swallowed quickly to answer my question.
"Oh, it's beautiful." he explained "And huge too. The deal with the Digital World is that everything in it is composed of data from the Real World, so you can imagine how huge it is. The only real problem with it is that it's dangerous and unpredictable. It's kill or be killed, way different from how things appear to be here."
"Wow, it sounds interesting" I said sincerely "Maybe I'll get to go someday" Herpetomon had already finished half of the box.
"Yeah, maybe" he said. We were both tired from the events of the evening and it was already 10 o'clock. I figured I'd go to bed when Herpetomon was done. Until then I just sat in contemplative silence. I decided to take a look at the digivice and see what it could do. I pulled it out of my pocket and began messing around with it. I pressed the arrow button and the display switched to some kind of other channel. When I pressed it again there was a new channel or mode. From what I could see there's
Compass mode, which I used to find Herpetomon before.
Digimon-analyzer mode, which I assume, is used to find information on any Digimon we come across.
Then there's something called View mode is a strange mode that allows me to see what Herpetomon is seeing.
Lastly, the strangest mode of them all, is just a blank screen, no title or anything.
"Well this is an interesting gadget, I bet we'll figure out its mysteries too as time goes on." Herpetomon said. He was long finished with the food, but I was too involved in my research to notice.
"Yeah. Gadget, there ya go, I think I'll dub this thing the D-Gadget." I said ". I'll be back in a sec, wait here." I went out into the living room to say goodnight to mom who I hadn't even realized had come home. I brushed and slipped back to my room. I took one of the pillows off my bed and handed it to him. "Here. You can sleep on the throw rug until I figure something else out. I'll lock the door so we should be OK during the night."
"Alright, good" he said "Good night see you tomorrow"
"Yeah, good night" I said.