Posted on: June 27, 2009
Fc: Sorry for the nine day(ish) delay. It was unforseen, and I apologize. BUT good new is I'm past the boring parts now and am likely to get my butt in gear on this. This has NOT been Proof read... XD Oh dear... on the plus side, it's longer than the last one! (not by much, but eh...)
Chapter Five
Run That By Me Again?
Kouji slowly sat up, rubbing his head. What happened? He blinked, gazing at his surroundings. He nearly gasped when thought he recognized the area. I know this place… This is the Digital World….He couldn't be certain but his gut was telling him this was truly the digital world.
Kouji shook his head, pushing the thoughts from his head. He sat in the midst of a dense forest, trying to remember what happened.
There was a ghost…well two ghosts… Then our D-Tectors went nuts and began to glow… Kouji pulled the device from his pocket. How it got back in his pocket was a mystery to him. He sighed, breaking the strong silence of the forest.
Silence… wait… where is everyone? Kouji began to panic, he was totally alone. Was he the only one who was sent to… wherever he was? Kouji stood up hastily, hoping to find someone else.
"Takuya?" Kouji called out, not expecting nor receiving a response.
He tried again, "Kouichi?" Panic bit at Kouji, "Zoe! JP! Tommy!? Anyone?!"
He heard a soft groan coming from the bushes in front of him. Kouji took a hesitant step towards the bushes, pushing past them. He found his comrades scattered in a clearing. They were lying on the ground unconscious. He did a quick head count and saw that there were two extras…
Danny and Sam… They must have been brought with us. That is not good… Kouji thought leaning against a tree. He would wait for everyone to wake up. He didn't have to wait very long. Soon, Sam began to stir.
She groaned again and clutched her head, "What hit me?" She blinked a few times, getting her bearings, "And Where the heck am I?" Her tone shocked Kouji slightly, as if she was used to strange occurrences. Then again, she did live in a town infested with ghosts.
"You okay?" Kouji asked casually, making the Goth girl jump.
"uh- yeah… Just a little bruised but nothing too bad. What happened? Where are we?"
Kouji shifted his gaze from the girl. "I have no idea what happened. As for where we are, I'm not positive." Kouji lied smoothly; he knew exactly where they all were. As for what happened though, he didn't have a clue.
Sam sighed and accepted his answers. She glanced around at her friends who were still out cold. Danny lay beside her, on his side. Somewhere along the lines he turned back to his human self.
It wasn't long before the rest of the group began to join Sam and Kouji in the land of the living. Kouichi sat up and rubbed his head in a way similar to the way Sam had when she woke up. Takuya, who had been beside the elder twin rose, yawned and stretched like he was waking up from a nice nap.
Kouji snorted at this earning a glare from the gogglehead. Kouichi rolled his eyes and realized that they were in a completely different area than they were before everyone lost consciousness. He jabbed Takuya in the side and both gaped momentarily. Then the three Digidestined exchanged knowing grins that baffled Sam to no end.
Danny, JP, Tommy and Zoe finally joined everyone else in consciousness. The Digidestined vaguely knew the area, well everyone save for Kouichi. They had ended up in the middle of the TV Forest. At night the bark of the trees would illuminate and glow, showing images from the real world. However during the day, the trees looked completely normal.
Sam and Danny were uneasy about the whole ordeal. Sure, they've gone through way worse and been to the Ghost Zone and back. But on a scale from 1 to freaky; the situation got a perfect 10. The Digidestined looked way too relaxed in an unfamiliar area. Both Sam and Danny had a sneaking suspicion they were holding back information.
"Does anyone know where we are or how we got here?" Danny asked finally, fed up with the silence and lack of action. Sam watched as the group avoided eye contact with Danny or Sam.
"If you guys have something you would like to share…" Sam began staring directly at Zoe, knowing she would be the easiest to break.
Zoe bit her lip, before opening her mouth to speak. Surprisingly, it wasn't her voice to speak.
Welcome Digidestined.
Danny and Sam jumped. "What the heck was that?!" Danny asked his voice edgy. Sam clung to his arm.
Takuya withdrew his D-Tector from his pocket.
Now that you are all assembled, you need to relocate your spirits. When you left the Digital World, the spirits of the Ten Legendary Warriors were hidden away once more. You must find the Human and Beast Spirits and come to my castle. You must hurry before Lucemon learns of your presence, Good Luck.
"I'll take it we got the right people then?" Kouichi mused aloud. The original Digidestined grinned.
"Of course we did, Danny and Sam have D-Tectors. I saw their cellphones change like ours did." Zoe explained.
"I just can't believe we have to find our spirits all over again… That's going to waste so much time!" JP complained, earning a few agreeing nods.
Danny and Sam just stared at the group, feeling out of the loop and completely lost. Danny made a loud coughing sound reminding the group they were still present. The Digidestined shifted uneasily, knowing they had to explain themselves now. "What was all of that about?" Sam asked.
Takuya inhaled deeply, "You might want to sit down…" Danny and Sam raised their eyebrow skeptically "Just… let me explain then you can ask questions."
"When we first came to the digital world, we were called with a bunch of other kids. Later we found that only five of us were chosen to inherit spirits of the legendary warriors. At first, it was just Zoe, JP, Tommy, and I traveling together. Kouji later joined our group.
"We fought many evil Digimon who were corrupted by Cherubimon, one of them being Kouichi. We were finally able to free him and face Cherubimon who was bent on taking over the world. Then we had to deal with the Royal Knights and Lucemon who was bent on ruling over the human world and the digital world.
"We eventually beat him but apparently he doesn't give up too easy… because he's back and trying to dominant the worlds again. That's why we're here."
"So let me get this straight, Sam and I have 'inherited' some ancient spirits, like you guys, and now we're in the middle of a world inhabited by creatures made of computer data?"
Kouji nodded, "That pretty much sums it up."
"Wait then, what are these spirits?" Sam inquired, mainly to Zoe.
Zoe blinked, "Well our spirits were each one of the Ten Legendary Warriors. My spirit is Wind; Takuya's is Flame; Kouji's is Light; Kouichi's is Darkness; JP's is Thunder; and Tommy's is Ice. The Other Spirits; Earth, Metal, Wood and Water, were purified by us over time."
"We have no idea what yours are though," Takuya added, "Besides Life and Death… but that could mean just about anything."
Danny and Sam glanced at the devices in their hands. Danny's was mainly black, with bright, neon green buttons. Sam's was a light pale blue with white buttons. They vaguely remembered their cell phones morphing into the new devices after Technus tried to possess Kouichi's D-Tector.
Clearly these things have a mind of their own… Danny thought remembering the sparks, as if the D-Tector was protecting itself.
"Okay, last question… for now. Who's Lucemon and why did that… voice sound so concerned about him?" Danny prodded further.
"Lucemon is an evil fallen angel Digimon." Zoe explained, "Long ago, he rose up and stopped a terrible war… but he went mad with power-"
"And Ten Warriors rose up and stopped him…" Sam finished.
"Yeah," Zoe blinked, confused, "Wait how'd you know that?"
Sam smiled, "Remember that English assignment?" she paused, catching the boys clearly lost expressions, "Danny and I are partnered for our final English project, which is retelling a famous myth. The one we have to retell is called, 'Tiger Gaia; Dragon Seishin'. It's about two lovers looking for a land without war… but they couldn't, so they created their own.
"They settled, and had ten kids, each endowed with an element… and then a great war took place… And an angel stopped it… but he went mad with power… Like Lucemon."
They Digidestined fell silent. JP was the first to break the silence, "Wait... you mean you know the story of The Legendary Warriors?"
"Well I do" Sam stated, while elbowing Danny "DANNY, hasn't even read it yet."
Danny just grinned sheepishly. "It's hard to focus on school work with all the ghost activity…" he shot back.
Zoe blinked and remembered the fight between Technus and Danny Phantom… then she realized something… it hadn't been THIS Danny whose cell phone changed. It had been the ghost boy's. How did Danny Fenton have Danny Phantom's phone/D-Tector… unless…
"Wait a second… How did you end up here with us anyway Danny?" She started.
Sam's eyes widened realizing what Zoe was probably figuring out. "What do you mean?" Danny asked nervously.
Kouji watched the nervous teen, "good question… I didn't see you at all…"
"Yeah… I remember the ghost boy being right next to us and you nowhere to be found." Tommy chimed in.
Sam and Danny exchanged defeated expressions.
"You caught me okay? I'm Danny Phantom."
The group wasn't really expecting that answer, gaping at the pair.
"How is that even possible?" Tommy began, in awe, "I mean… You'd have to be-"
"Dead? Yeah I know. It happened about a year ago. My parents are world famous ghost hunters and were trying to build a ghost portal in our basement. They wanted to be able to create a door from our world to a place called the Ghost Zone.
"Long story short, the portal didn't work. I went inside and got shocked with ectoplasmic energy when it turned on suddenly. I've been half ghost ever since."
Takuya looked puzzled, "how can you be HALF ghost? That doesn't make sense."
"Like I know…" Danny muttered bitterly, "I haven't been able to figure that one out yet."
The gogglehead narrowed his eyes at Danny who returned the gesture. Kouichi and Kouji stepped in between them, "OKAY!" Kouichi said brightly, "Who votes we get moving and find those Spirits?"
The rest of the team quickly agreed, leaving the stubborn leaders left to make up their minds. Takuya and Danny glared at each other but agreed on the motion with everyone else.
"Oh good, I don't want to be out here defenseless if anything decides to rear up and attack us…" JP commented lightly as the team of eight set off in no particular direction.
Zoe and Sam exchanged weary expressions clearly saying, this is going to be a LONG trip.
At least I learned something in Chemistry this year… Sam thought to herself, opposites attract, like object repel… and really like objects want to kill each other.
Fc: I agree with you Sam, only thing I ever took away from High School Chem myself... XD
