Chapter 6: All in the Family

Character Shift: Kayla -Wednesday Nov. 14-

"OK, bye Chel' see you tomorrow" I called to my friend Chelsea as we split at a fork in the road. I was heading home after a loooong and borrring day of school. I have a crap-load of homework to do too. I was passing North school, where Brendan and Nick used to go. "I haven't seen B (Brendan's nickname) in a while actually." I said to myself. "It's totally freezing out, I bet it'll start to snow soon." I continued to walk down past North school and down to my street. Then off in the distance to my left I saw a big poof of smoke or gas. I didn't think about it really I just thought that it was from a truck or something. I kept walking, I was nearly home. As I was walking I remembered I forgot my purse at school! Crap! Of all the things how could I forget that? I turned around and began jogging back to school, I had to hurry because it felt like it was getting colder and colder out. I got back to school fine and retrieved my purse. As I left I saw a few more of my friends just hanging around. I gave them a quick wave and hurried on. It had gotten a little darker on the trip back home and the streetlights had turned on. It took out my cell to check the time, wow, 6:00 and it's already dark out. Stupid Winter. Then when I reached North school again I saw someone that looked like a little kid walking around on the sidewalk. I ran up to him or her.

"Hey, what are you doing out here alone, did you get lost?" I asked the person. The person stood still with his back towards me, it was so dark I could barely make it out. Then it turned around.

"Hey, are you going to be my tamer?" It said. When it turned around I found to my horror that it had yellow eyes that cut through the darkness. Upon further inspection I found that it wasn't human at all, it looked like it was made out of rocks.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, What the hell are you?" I asked backing up several feet. It approached a few steps.

"Me, I'm Gotsumon, Will you pleeeeease be my tamer?" The thing said approaching a few more steps.

"What, no, get away from me!" I yelled running away from the rocky creature. I headed home, naturally, now that I had everything I needed. When I finally reached home I checked behind me to make sure the thing hadn't followed me. The coast was clear. I ran inside and locked the door. I leaned against the wall.

"God, what the fuck was that thing." I said. Mom wouldn't be home until at least 9 so I went to my room and began working on my homework. I was still pretty scared about what happened before. Occasionally I checked out my window to see if that thing had found me again. What did he ask me about? Being his "tamer"? Then I heard the phone ring in the kitchen. I ran in and picked it up.

"Hello" the person said, it was mom. I knew what this cal meant right when I picked it up.

"Yeah hi" I said.

"Hey K (Kayla's nickname) I have to stay late tonight do you think you can make some dinner for yourself?" she asked

"Again? Yeah, I'll be fine."

"Ok, thanks hun' I'll see you in the morning, love you."

"Love you too." I said, ending the conversation. This kind of thing was common and I didn't really mind. I hung up and began making some tuna for a sandwich. After about 10 minutes my sandwich was done. I ate it quickly, cleaned up, and finished my homework. It was already 10:00. I didn't really feel tired so I watched TV until 11 then went to bed.

I woke up at 6 and went through the typical morning ritual. I decided to have waffles for breakfast. I wish I could've had some of B's waffles, his waffles are the best, and they're so warm and perfect-licious. I didn't need the bus since I live so close to school so I said bye to mom and began heading to school. I kept a sharp eye out for that creepy rock monster. There was no sight of him. I met up with Chelsea again at the fork in the road. We went on our way to school.

School was so boring, especially Computer tech class. We learned some junk about data or whatever. I had yet more homework to do. I walked home nervously, expecting that monster to find me again. What was his problem anyway? I decided to take a different way home this time to see if it was any faster. It was a bit of a side street, there were a few dingy looking houses along the wide street. I walked cautiously down the street. Then out of nowhere there was another explosion of that weird gas. Right down the street from me. I just stood there as the eerie fog enveloped me. Then from inside the fog I heard some noise, like a deep, rumbling growl. Then a huge stomp, something big was coming.

"Oh no, is that another one of those monsters." I said under my breath as I ran behind a car. I peaked out around the car and looked out to see a huge monster emerging from the fog. It was a gigantic blue dinosaur looking thing, on it's arms were two different skulls. One looked like a dinosaur skull and the other looked like a giant alligator head. It came crashing out into the middle of the street.

"Rrrrrrrroar" It cried as it came tearing down the street towards me

"Oh, what the hell is with all of these monsters all of a sudden" I said hiding behind the car. The monster began rampaging down the street. It stuck one of it's massive arms into a house nearby. I could hear the screams of people who were on the other side of the fog as they ran away.

"Oh no, those poor people." I said. I would have run away, but I felt compelled to stay and see this through. Then the huge beast saw me sticking my head out.

"You!" He said in a low voice. He turned and prepared for a swing at me. I ducked down just in time. The giant alligator arm struck the car and I looked up to see car flip right over my head. The car landed with a crash a few feet away. I got up and began to run away, but the monster was too quick. He struck the ground with a strong stomp that actually cracked the ground underneath me. I stumbled and fell onto the hard ground. Oh no, is this it? The beast prepared for another strong swing. He thrust down his skull arm.

"Aaaaah" I ducked down, but then the small rock creature from before jumped in front of the blow. He braced the attack, he was surprisingly strong given his size. He threw the monsters arm off to the side and ran in for an attack. He jumped up on his arm, jumped again to his other arm, then jumped up and hit him right in the face. Again, he's small, but he is made of rock. The larger monster was knocked down, but he began to get up quickly. The smaller monster, this "Gotsumon" landed in front of me and dug his hands into the ground. He began lifting up a large piece of earth from when the giant monster stomped the ground. He picked up a huge boulder and threw it at the beast. The boulder landed on the beast when he was trying to get up and it just disappeared into a burst of red stuff. Then Gotsumon stood there for a moment absorbing the red particles floating through the air. The small rock creature then turned to me and looked so happy. He ran over to me again. I began to back away, but I realized why would he have saved me if he wanted to hurt me. He hobbled up to me and said, "Hello again. That guy almost got you"

"Yeah, I guess" I was very confused at what I just saw. "So what are you anyway? Are you the same as that huge thing."

"I'm a Digimon, Gotsumon and that big guy was Deltamon, so I guess we are kinda the same." The little guy said.

"So why did you save me, I don't know you, do you want something." I asked searching through my purse for something to give him. He looked up at me hopefully and said, "Could you be my tamer now?"

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhh"…