Frontier 02: Home Frontier - Chapter 1: The New Beginning
madjack89: I'm on a roll, so I might as well write the first chapter to go along with that prologue! I already told you about the story last time, so this time I'll just say relax and enjoy the first chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon Frontier! Nope, I do not! And I'm sure their glad that I don't! (heh heh)
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BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! An alarm clock sounded on the desk next to the boy's bed. The boy slowly opened his brown eyes to see that if he didn't hurry, he'd be late for his first day of seventh grade.
"Aw, crap!" he yelled as he leaped out of bed. He quickly ran to his closet and grabbed a random T-shirt and jeans. He pulled them on and leaped through his bedroom door. He proceeded to charge down the hallway to the bathroom.
"Good morning!" said his younger brother, who had just emerged from his own room.
"Yeah, hi, can't talk, gotta go!" he muttered back to him.
He made it into the bathroom and began to quickly brush his teeth and tame his messy brown hair. I can't afford to be late on the first day! I just can't! he thought to himself.
He ran through the hallway yet again, this time emerging into the living room. He ran to the kitchen and grabbed one of the pieces of toast he knew would be sitting on a plate on the counter. "Hurry, young man, or you'll be late!" his mother said, sitting at the table and reading the morning paper.
"I know, I know!" he mumbled, chewing on the piece of toast he had grabbed. He made his way to the front door, grabbed his backpack, hat, and goggles, and left.
He began to sprint down the sidewalk, checking his watch as he went. Gotta make it, gotta make it, gotta make it! he thought as he frantically ran along the sidewalks. Finally, he saw it. The school was in sight!
DING DONG!
He heard the bell go off just as he went through the gate. "NOOOO! I THOUGHT I MADE IT!" he yelled, exasperated.
A few minutes later, he trudged slowly into his classroom. "I presume that you are Mr. Takuya Kanbara, correct?" said the teacher, stopping in the middle of a beginning-of-the-year lecture.
"Yes, ma'am," Takuya replied, embarrassed. He could already feel the accusing stares of his classmates.
"Well, now that you're here, why don't you take the empty seat between Mr. Kimura and Mr. Minamoto?" said his teacher, pointing out the seat.
"Kimura and Minamoto?" replied Takuya, turning around to see two of his best friends sitting in the second row of seats, with an empty seat between them.
Surprised, Takuya took the seat between the two identical twins. One seemed to be trying to suppress a smirk without much success; the other gave Takuya a look of sympathy. "I didn't know you two were in the same class as me," whispered Takuya as the teacher continued her lecture.
"Well, it seems as if you've had a busy morning. What'd you do, stay up all night playing video games?" scoffed the younger of the two twins, chuckling to himself.
"For your information, Kouji, my alarm clock woke me up late," Takuya retaliated, hissing the words through his teeth. It wasn't as if he hated Kouji, he just made it so hard to get along with him.
"Guys, can you please stop fighting? I don't want to listen to this all year," pleaded the older twin, Kouichi, from behind them.
"Tell him that!" said Takuya through gritted teeth.
Kouichi sighed. "What am I gonna do with you two?"
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After a day of lectures and introductions from their teacher, Takuya, Kouji, and Kouichi waited outside the school gate for their other friend, who was a year older than them. They had made plans for this afternoon to take a walk in the park together with two more of their friends. As they stood waiting, groups of girls seemed to be awestruck as they walked by the two twins.
"Why are they staring at us like that? It looks like they want to eat us!" muttered Kouichi, sweatdropping.
"Kouichi, my friend, someday I'll have to teach you the secrets of women," said a voice from behind them. They turned to see their boisterous friend, JP Shibayama, standing behind them with a smug expression on his face.
"JP, stop kidding yourself. When have you ever succeeded in getting a girl?" said Kouji sarcastically, tying his bandana around his head.
"Kouji," began JP, ignoring the rude comment, "when are you gonna get a new bandana to replace that old one?"
"When hell freezes over," replied Kouji, glaring at a pair of sixth grade girls gawking at him. They looked nervous and quickly ran out the gate, giggling as they went. "Girls," muttered Kouji.
"C'mon, guys, let's go pick up Tommy," announced Takuya, feeling a bit put out by all the attention Kouji and Kouichi were getting.
After walking a few blocks, they made it to the local elementary school. As they approached, a short, brown-haired ten-year-old bounced up to greet them.
"Hi, guys! Hi, Takuya!" exclaimed Tommy, looking especially excited to see his surrogate big brother, Takuya.
"Hey, buddy!" Takuya smiled, embracing Tommy. Tommy had been visiting with family for most of the summer, so they hadn't seen each other in a while.
"And suddenly, it's as if we don't exist," muttered JP, looking upon the scene with mock anger.
"Just let them have their moment," Kouichi sighed.
"Yeah, JP. They haven't seen each other in at least a month."
JP jumped at the familiar female voice that sounded behind him. "Zoe!" he exclaimed, happy to see his crush. "It's also been two weeks since we've seen each other, so why don't we…" JP stopped mid-sentence after he noticed what she was wearing. She still had on her revealing mini-skirt clad uniform, the one worn by all the students at the all-girls school Zoe attended. The rest of them knew how she hated her uniform like the plague, and would never permit one of them to touch, much less hug her while she was in it.
"Go ahead, JP. What were you going to say," Zoe enunciated each word, spitting out them out like venom.
Kouji and Kouichi backed away as Zoe ran forward and sent JP flying with a punch. "I'm sorry!" JP yelled as he shrank into the distance.
"C'mon, guys, let's go to the park now," Zoe said in the sweetest of voices. The rest of them followed, scared looks on their faces.
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Later as they sat in the park enjoying the ice cream they had just bought, Zoe continued apologizing to JP for hitting him. "I'm so sorry! I had a rough first day, and I always feel like a skank when I'm wearing this uniform, and I wish my mom weren't so concerned that all my friends are guys that she had to go and send me to that deathtrap of a school, and…"
"Zoe, it's fine. I already accepted your apology a million times," JP smiled.
"Oh, JP…" Zoe cooed, giving him a hug for his kindness. JP hugged back, smiling smugly and making a thumbs-up sign behind her back.
Of course, the rest of them thought, sweatdropping.
After that, they sat in silence for a moment, enjoying the peace of the evening. "Hey, guys," Takuya said, breaking the silence, "I've been thinking about something, and I wanted your opinions."
"About what?" said Kouichi, always trying to prove to them, and himself, that he was a good friend.
"Well, remember how, when we left the Digital World, Agunimon said we might see each other again?" Takuya paused, waiting for their responses. They merely stared back at Takuya, urging him to continue.
"Well…" Takuya said, embarrassed by their pressing stares. "I just had this really weird dream about some girl I'd never met, kind of running through some woods, and then chucking our D-Tectors into a big hole." Takuya paused, and then grinned lopsidedly. "I guess it would be weird to ask you guys if you had the same dream. After all, it has been almost a year and I just thought that it was about time and…"
Suddenly, Takuya realized that his friends were completely ignoring him and staring in shock at the sky. Takuya turned to see that, although the sun was already low in the sky, a bright light was glowing above their heads. But that wasn't all. Ten small dots appeared to melt right through the blinding light. Four of them flew off in random directions, while the remaining six plummeted toward the park. The bright light disappeared, and as their eyes adjusted to the dark, they noticed six D-Tectors sitting at their feet.
"Guys, forget everything I just said," exclaimed Takuya, a determined expression on his face.
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"You were a fool to cross me, Masumon," said a tall, cloaked, female Digimon, spitting at the prisoner lying at her feet. The captive looked up at her captor, pure hatred shining in her eyes despite the harsh punishment she had received.
The cloaked Digimon chuckled. "No matter," she said, smirking. "I'll just have to target the four who don't yet know of their inheritance and capture them first." With that, the hole at the far side of the rock wall began to glow, showing the images of four different children, three boys and one girl.
"You know your mission. Go!" commanded the cloaked Digimon to another Digimon that resembled an owl.
"Yes milady," said the Digimon, stepping into the portal. Once he was through, the glowing ceased, and he was nowhere to be seen.
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madjack89: Well, how was the first chapter? Long enough for you? Suspenseful enough?
Takuya: YES! What happens next? Who are the other Digi-Destined? C'mon, tell me!
Kouji: *ignores Takuya* Why did you make me so sarcastic?
Kouichi: Because you ARE sarcastic.
Kouji: Love you, too.
Kouichi: See?
JP: In the next chapter, the other four Digi-Destined will be introduced, along with the Digimon sent to pursue them.
Tommy: I hope one of them is my age.
madjack89: Uh…well, see you in the next chapter, everyone!
Tommy: What! None of them are my age!
Takuya: I can't take the suspense!
Kouji: I am NOT sarcastic!
Kouichi: YES, you are.
Zoe: *sigh* See you next time, everybody!