Disclaimer: You know the drill; I don't own digimon(nor do I want to)
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Dark Ally
Chapter 1: Atypical Day
Our World
Sitting on the couch of his latest set of foster parents' living room, wearing an all black outfit, 16-year old Leon Draco glanced at his watch, 9:28 pm, almost time. Turning his gray-blue eyes back to the T.V. he watched the final minutes of a nature documentary, nothing he didn't already know, and grabbed the remote; but at that minute the doorbell rang.
He glanced at the door. (I wasn't expecting anyone for a few hours) he thought as he got up to his full, six foot height. The doorbell rang again.
"Hold on, I'm comin'" he said, striding to the door and opening it.
"Leon Draco?" asked the delivery man on the other side
"Yeah" he said
"Sign here, please" the man held out a clipboard and Leon signed the attached paper. After that was done, the man handed him a small package. "Have a nice night" he said
"You too" Leon said before going back inside.
For a few seconds Leon just stared at the 4x3x3 box, then curiosity made him open it. Inside was a note and a strange device Leon recognized instantly.
"No way" he said quietly as he removed the note and a D-arc. Tearing his eyes away from the digivice, he read the note.
'This is no mistake, there is a great evil that threatens to destroy the balance between Light and Darkness. Only one that can use the powers of Darkness with a pure heart may yet save it. Take up the digivice and accept your destiny, Tamer.'
In a dream-like state, Leon set the letter down and took a closer look at the D-arc. Instead of the usual white the main body was pitch black, even the colored ring around the display was black with digi-code on it. At that time, 9:30 pm, it started beeping loudly and Leon was enveloped in a bright light. He screamed loudly and then, just like that, he was gone.
The Tamers' World (9:24 pm)
It was mass pandemonium, but that's to be expected when a multi-story digimon bio-emerges in the business district.
"Tyrannomon" said Takato Matsuki. The goggle-headed Tamer stood with his best friend, Henry Wong, and his secret crush, Rika Nonaka, as well as their digimon: Guilmon, Terriermon, and Renamon. "This guy's a champion level, data type, his attack is..."
"Blaze Blast!"
The three Tamers and digimon leapt out of the way and the fireball exploded where they had been, taking a good portion of the street with it.
"Uh... maybe we should just go straight to champion"
"Ya think!"
"Not now, Terriermon" Henry said, pulling out a digivolution card with Rika and Takato mimicking his actions.
"DIGI-MODIFY!" The three shouted.
"Digivolution, activate!"
"Guilmon digivolve to..."
"Terriermon digivolve to..."
"Renamon digivolve to..."
"Growlmon/Gargomon/Kyubimon!"
The Tyrannomon roared in anger at these new opponents and Growlmon roared right back.
"Cut the chit-chat!" Gargomon shout "Try this on for size, Gargo Lasers!"
The machine gun-like attack hit dead on, but didn't do much damage. It did, however, tick off the Tyrannomon.
"Blaze Blast!" It shouted
"DIGI-MODIFY!" Henry screamed
"Speed, activate!" With the speed boost, Gargomon avoided the attack, but only just.
"Dragon Wheel!" Kyubimon's secondary attack slammed into the Tyrannomon's back, dealing SLIGHTLY more damage then Gargomon's.
The Tyrannomon was now officially pissed and it showed. With an enraged snarl, it twisted and back handed Kyubimon, slamming her into a building.
"Kyubimon!" Rika shouted, feeling a moderate amount of pain. Ever since they had used that red card to biomerge, her, Ryo and Henry had felt part of their partners' pain in a battle, though, not as extreme as Takato who felt every bit of pain Guilmon did. Sometimes Rika couldn't help but wonder how he endured it. No matter though, back to the here and now.
The Tyrannomon turned to face the fallen kitsune, with a murderous gleam in its eyes it readied another fireball.
"Blaze..."
"Pyroblaster!"
The biggest fireball that Growlmon had ever launched impacted the other digimon causing it to roar in pain and forcing it to stop its attack. Rika took the time to swipe a heal modify card and Kyubimon was back on her feet, none the worse for wear.
"Time to take this guy down!" Takato shouted, pulling out a modify card while Rika and Henry did the same.
"DIGI-MODIFY!" They chorused
"Power, activate!"
Their digimon felt what amounted to a surge of electricity flow through their bodies, and acted on it.
"Bunny Pummel!" Gargomon slammed his machine gun hand into Tyrannomon's jaw, causing it to stagger back.
"Fox Tail Inferno!" The nine fireballs flew from the ends of Kyubimon's tails and hit Tyrannomon, forcing it to its knees.
Growlmon extended a blade-like spike on his left arm and charged it. "Dragon Slash!" he slashed the glowing blade across Tyrannomon's chest and the digimon roared in pain before exploding into bits of data. The three digimon absorbed the data and then reverted to their rookie forms.
"Man, that's the fifth one this week." Terriermon said
"And its only Wednesday" from Takato
"I wonder why all these digimon are coming through now?" Henry thought out loud.
"Maybe they know something we don't" Guilmon said
"Yeah, maybe" Takato agreed, petting the dinosaur digimon.
Renamon, who'd been her usual, calm, and distant self, suddenly jerked her head to the left, Guilmon's eyes dilated and Terriermon's ears went up as they followed her gaze.
"Something's coming" she said
"Another digimon?" asked Rika
Renamon shook her head "No, it's something else"
Before any of the others could react to this unusual statement, a bright light appeared where the digimon were looking; the light grew in intensity till everyone was forced to look away. When the light finally dissipated they all looked back and got a slight surprise, in place of the light was a tall, 16-year old, American boy with shoulder-length, coal black hair, black shorts, a black sleeveless shirt, even black shoes.
- - -(Leon)
Leon groaned as he forced himself upright, looking around he saw nothing but skyscrapers.
"Where the hell am I?" he thought out loud.
"Shinjuku" said a childlike voice behind him.
Leon spun toward the voice, then recoiled in shock. He found himself staring at six beings he was very familiar with, the three original Tamers and their digimon.
"Who are you?" Rika demanded
Leon was too stunned to answer and kept staring.
"I asked you a question." she said with annoyance in her voice.
Leon just kept staring
"You do know how to talk, right?" asked Terriermon
Leon shifted his stunned gaze to the bunny/dog digimon and finally spoke.
"Okay, I'm gonna wake up now." he said slowly
"But you're not asleep, at least, I think you're not." Guilmon said
Leon had to admit, this place looked nothing like most of his dreams, but digimon weren't real! Then he felt a small pain in his leg; looking down he saw Terriermon had pinched him.
"Well, that settles it; you're not asleep."
But if he wasn't dreaming then this was really happening , and he was really...
His brain couldn't take it anymore and just shut down; in other words, he fainted.
Hypnos(9:50 pm)
The mysterious youth had fainted about 20 minutes ago and Henry had suggested they take him to Hypnos. The walk had taken 15 minutes and the Tamers had spent the last five explaining the situation to Yamaki.
"He appeared in a flash of light." Yamaki said/asked
"Yep, that's what I said." from Takato
"Is he alright?" Guilmon asked, looking at the young man with concern. He hadn't stirred once in the time it took to get him to Hypnos's medical wing.
"Does it matter if he is?" Renamon asked "He is a stranger to us and I sense a slight aura of darkness around him."
"So what?" Guilmon responded "We made a promise to protect the people in this city, and I don't break my promises."
Renamon raise a furry eyebrow, Guilmon was a strange digimon. Although he was still young, Guilmon taught her a few things now and then. He didn't like to fight but at the same time was perhaps the strongest digimon that ever lived. He had also earned her respect as an opponent she couldn't beat, something she wouldn't admit to anyone. Strangest of all; whenever she looked at him lately, she got an unusual, but not unpleasant, feeling inside of her. Renamon mentally shook herself, she would have to ask someone about this feeling and see if she could rid herself of it, it might be a source of weakness.
Void
Leon woke to pure blackness and a floating sensation, his body was feather-light and had almost no sensation.
(Where am I?) he thought
"Welcome, Tamer" said a soft voice
"Who are you!" he asked fearfully
"We are all that is" a second, hard voice answered
"Life..."
"and Death"
"Beginning..."
"and End"
"Balance..."
"and Chaos"
"Light..."
"and Darkness"
"Yin..."
"and Yang"
"Where in God's name am I" Leon breathed
"Eternity!" Both voices chorused
"Okay, why am I here and why can't I see?"
"You cannot see because Eternity must be willed into order" said Yin
"You are here to accept your destiny" came Yang's voice.
The blackness immediately turned into Leon's bedroom, exactly as he'd left it. A few clothes on the floor, dresser left open and an open book on his desk. The confused boy sighed and sat on his bed.
"So what's my destiny?"
"The Tamers are about to face their greatest challenge, one they are not strong enough to face alone."
"You must assist them. You, and you alone, can control the powers of this crest."
"Aren't crests a bit old fashioned, the last ones to use them were Tai and the others."
"Each Tamer has a crest power living inside of them"
"Takato: Courage, Rka: Love, Henry: Hope, Jeri: Light, Ryo: Friendship, Kazu: Power, Kenta: Reliability, Suzie: Sincerity, and Ai and Mako: Kindness."
"So what crest am I getting?" Leon asked "It sounds like they're all used up."
"There is one other crest, but its powers are too great for any one being."
"So you shall receive half the crest and become who you we're born to be."
There were two small flashes and Leon's digivice appeared in the air before him along with a crest, looking closely at the crest Leon saw it bore the Yin-Yang symbol. A second after the crest appeared it shown with a bright light, the light then split into two separate lights. When the glow finally subsided there were two crests in place of the first; one with the symbol for Yin on it, the other with the symbol for Yang. Leon watched as the Yang crest flew to his D-arc and seemed to merge with it, the symbol appearing on the screen for a split second, before the device returned to him.
"Uh... This is nice and all" Leon said nervously "But I don't have a digimon partner and I left my modify cards at home."
"Look in your pockets" Yin said with a hint of amusement.
Sticking his hands into both his pockets he found two things, in his right pocket were all his digimon cards and in his left was the bio of a digimon he'd made up. Leon raised an eyebrow.
"You want me to pull a Takato?"
"Yes, you created the perfect companion for yourself"
Leon was a little dubious but swiped the bio anyway. The digivice shown with a dark light and a digi-egg appeared.
"We will return you to the mortal world now."
"Good luck, Tamer"
The room dissolved and Leon felt himself being drawn away. "Wait, what are we up against!" he shouted and met only silence. "Yin, Yang; answer me!" again, silence. "ANSWER ME!" The plea went unanswered as Leon vanished from Eternity