I was just reading .hack legend of the twilight when I got the idea for this fic… then my friend suggested I mixed it with Gundam Seed as well, but that'd just be too confusing… anyways, my 4th kouzumi fic so please forgive me if I make a few mistakes. Please read and review! No flames please!
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon Frontier nor .hack legend of the twilight, however, I totally admire the illustrator of .hack! Her drawings are so pretty! …At least I think it's a 'her'… Rei Izumi… that's a girl's name right? Hehe anyways, on with the fic!
The whole first chapter's going to be written in Kouji's point of view. Might change in later chapters, but for now, I'm trying not to change POV's too much.
Summary: Kouji and Izumi go to the same school, but they hate each other. Yet without knowing, the two meet in a virtual game, their true identities hidden under their virtual characters known as the legendary Fairymon and Wolfmon. Destined to carry out the duties of the Legendary Warriors, will the two get to know each other better under such circumstances?
Kouji's POV
The bell rang as I lazily got up from my seat. School's finally over. Now to head for soccer practice… what a drag. Why on earth did I join the school soccer team anyways? Well, Takuya would've annoyed me until I joined, but that's still better than soccer practice everyday after school right?
I sighed, picking up my bag and slinging it over my shoulder before jabbing my other hand into my pocket and heading towards my locker to grab my gym clothes.
"Hey Kouji!" I heard a familiar voice shout. My head turned towards the source of the sound, as it belonged to none other than the goggle-head himself, Takuya Kanbara. He was wearing a red t-shirt with the word 'Go!' written on it along with a pair of olive green shorts. He also had his favourite hat pulled backwards, over his amber brown locks, his goggles resting around his neck.
"Hey." I replied in almost a monotone voice, not really feeling up to playing soccer at the moment.
"Hey what's with the tone? Aren't you excited for soccer practice?" he asked, obviously rather hyped up for the oncoming soccer game against a neighboring school. I rolled my eyes at him.
"Of course I'm excited, who doesn't get excited about soccer practice?" I replied sarcastically. He snickered and gave me a playful punch to the arm before turning towards the sound of a loud crash. About ten meters away stood a girl with long blonde hair and emerald eyes, though her eyes held a look of annoyance. She wore a pink sleeveless shirt with separate sleeves that went up past her elbows (A/N: like Hikari or Kari from Digimon 02). She also wore a short denim mini-skirt along with a pair of white boots that went just below her knees. She was standing about a foot away from a boy whom she had just pushed into a locker. She gave him a glare before waltzing down the hall with her friends.
Takuya whistled. "Feisty isn't she?"
"You mean Izumi?" I asked rolling my eyes yet again. "I don't like her."
"Why?"
"She acts like she's so special that just 'cause a few boys like her. She's too stuck up for my liking."
"Maybe… either that or you just don't really know her very well." Takuya replied, giving a shrug as we walked towards the boys' change room.
"Kouji! Over here! I'm open!" I heard Takuya shout. I glanced towards his way, making sure he was open before making a quick pass. Getting the ball, he took this chance to run towards the opposing team's goal, taking aim for an open spot before sending his right foot towards the black and white ball.
There was a loud 'bang' as the ball hit the goal post before flying off in the opposite direction. It was now zooming towards my face, forcing me to duck and let the ball fly overhead.
"Ow!" I heard a female voice say. Turning my head towards to see whom the unfortunate victim was, I found the girl that we had seen in the hallway earlier. It was Izumi. The ball had flown out of the field and onto the sidewalk, hitting her square in the head. Ignoring her, I walked over to retrieve the ball, not bothering to ask whether she was okay or not. I felt her send a glare towards me, thinking I had hit her. Giving her a small look towards Takuya's way, she seemed to understand that I wasn't the one who hit her, Takuya was.
She then glared at Takuya causing him to smile sheepishly, before muttering a soft apology. But her glare didn't fade.
"What? I said sorry!" Takuya whined childishly, trying his best to give her an apologetic look.
Giving one last look, she turned and walks away with a soft 'hmph'.
"Jeez, what's her problem?" I heard Takuya say, giving a 'hmph' of his own before turning back to the soccer field. Rolling my eyes, I followed after him, kicking the soccer ball as I went.
Soccer practice soon ended as Takuya and I walked towards the ice cream parlor for a little treat. Don't ask why. It was Takuya's idea.
"So, did you try playing Legends?" he asked, sitting down on a park bench, licking his ice cream cone.
"No, not yet." I replied. "I'm not really interested in the whole idea of playing a virtual game…" I continued, thinking about the virtual online game known as Legends. Takuya has been nagging me to try it for the past few months.
"Aw come on Kouji! You got relax and have some fun! Join the game! I'll play with you!" he said cheerfully, giving me a playful slap on my back. "There's even this contest that's been going on for the past month. A chance to win and play the game as the Legendary Warriors of Fire, Wind, Light, Dark, Thunder and Ice! The Legendary Warriors are famous man! Only the coolest legends ever! Come on! It'll be fun!" he tried, nudging me with his elbow. I raised a brow at him.
"So what if they're famous?" I replied, not really caring.
"Then you'd be really popular if you won!" Takuya answered, giving his usual lopsided grin.
"First of all, you should know popularity isn't an issue for me." I told him, an image of my rampaging fan-girls at school suddenly popping into my head.
"Right." Takuya continued, rolling his eyes. "Popularity is a bad thing now."
"It's a bad thing when it goes overboard."
"Well you'd just be popular in the virtual world, it wouldn't affect anything in the real world."
"So what's the point of being popular in the virtual world then?" I asked, this question catching him off guard. After about five minutes of thinking and no answer, he finally said something.
"You're no fun!" he whined, pouting like a four year old. I chuckled.
"It took you five minutes to think of that response?" I looked skeptically at him. He gave me a playful glare.
"Fine, fine, I'll try the game." I finally told him, causing him to shout and leap almost three feet into the air, punching a fist upwards before sticking two fingers up in a 'V' for victory sign. I rolled my eyes at him. Typical brainless goggle-head…
It was about 6:30 PM by the time I had got home. My stepmother was making dinner as I walked by, giving a brief 'hi mom' before heading up towards my room and starting up my computer. Typing in the web address Takuya had given me to sign up for the game, I was halfway through making an account when the phone rang. Getting up to reach for my blue cordless phone, I pressed the 'talk' button before putting the phone to my right ear.
"KOUJI!" I heard Takuya's voice yell into the phone causing me to quickly pull the phone away from my ear.
"Quiet down…" I muttered, placing the phone to my left ear while rubbing my right ear in an attempt to rid myself of the ringing noise I now heard.
"Hehe… sorry." He replied hastily before shouting again. "GUESS WHAT? I WON!"
"Won what?" I asked skeptically, refusing to put the phone anywhere near my ear as I waited for his response.
"WON THAT CONTEST I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT! I GET TO PLAY AS THE LEGENDARY WARRIOR OF FIRE! ISN'T THAT COOL?" he nearly screamed into the speaker. My phone was now two feet away from my ear.
"Need I define the word 'quiet' for you?" I half shouted towards the speaker, the phone now on the floor as I sat on a chair at my desk.
"Sorry…" Takuya muttered again. "Well? Did you try the game yet?"
"Was signing up for it just now." I replied, picking up the phone, but still keeping it a good five inches away from my ear.
"Oh, okay. I'm logging on now. When you finish signing up, send me an e-mail and we can meet each other in the game, okay?" he asked, his voice still rather energetic.
"Right. See you later then."
"Yeah… BYE!" he suddenly shouted again before slamming his phone down. I sighed. First note to self: Find a new best friend. Second note to self: Buy Takuya a dictionary to define what 'quiet' means.
Finally finishing the last steps of making an account, I pulled on a of virtual reality helmet or as Takuya called the 'helmet thingy' before reaching to start up the game. Takuya had gotten me that 'helmet thingy' a few months ago while trying to convince me to play this so called 'totally awesome and exciting virtual game'.
Pressing the 'on' button, the screen flashed black, a huge 'loading' sign appearing in the middle before another sign popped up. 'You've got mail.' The new sign read as a virtual voice read it out loud to me.
"Congratulations. You have won the opportunity to play as the Legendary Warrior of Light. Do you accept?"
Ooh... making the virtual voice sound like a certain digimon I know. One who's name starts with an 'O'. If you cannot guess who it is, then I've got one question for you. You haven't been watching too many episodes of digimon frontier have you?