I don't own Digimon. All Digimon presented in this chapter belong to their respective owners, i don't own anything!
Chapter Two
Anthony turned to walk through the open door, when he was blinded, he could see nothing colours danced around the edge of his vision, yet a white mist clouded all else. He tried to call out and realised he could hear nothing, he tried to turn to see if there were any life forms behind him and he felt nothing, all sensation was gone, all that remained was his sense of self.
Luke remained calm throughout the transition, he felt as if he had made the journey many times before; he admired the colours and enjoyed the temporary sensory depravation he was facing. In the corner of his eye he saw a familiar dark presence and then felt a twang of fear. The dark presence got closer; and closer; and closer, until it vanished.
Kara panicked when she realised that she could no longer sense anything. She began to hyper-ventilate she would do anything to escape this. She just wanted to feel again. It was awful she needed to feel.
Chris didn't know what to make of the white expanse around him, he was dumbfounded and yet he hated what he was left with, memories flashed through his min, old pains come back to haunt.
The expanse however began to take form, different areas became brighter and dark as the white shifted to form objects the colours began to twist into the shapes and began to take form. The forms became steadier and the colours gained definition.
Anthony stepped forward onto a stone floor, behind him he heard movement. It was the others. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. After being devoid of sight, even if just for a few minutes, it was wondrous to come to a place so rich in colour. The sky was a bright blue, and he could see for miles around. In the distance he saw a continuous forest, that seemed to stretch from around them, and behind he saw; Chris, Luke and Kara, staring around with the same sense of wonder.
"Okay, this is ridiculous," Chris said finally, "Where are we?"
"I have no clue," replied Kara, "but this isn't home anymore."
Silence resumed and they began looking at the scene of beauty that faded into the distance.
"How the hell are we going to get down?"
Kara looked towards the voice, it was Anthony, she then realised what he meant. They were on a tower, with no visible exit.
"Well that's perfect. Of all the places to come to! A bloody tower, but no, not only that but a tower without any bloody doors!" exclaimed Chris, he was frustrated, he couldn't believe it, and he had these three fools with him too.
"Right, everyone please just remain calm," said Anthony, trying to establish authority, "we just need to think. There has to be a way down."
"Maybe we should work together." A small voice said. It was Luke.
"Yeah," snorted Chris, "what are we going to do? Dangle each other down to the nearest tree?!"
Fifty minutes later they found themselves on the ground. Chris' idea surprisingly worked. They managed to use shoelaces to tie Chris to the tower while everyone else lowered Luke down, he managed to reach a tree, and grab some fortunately placed vines which they used to climb down the tower, simple.
"What now?" Kara's question was what everyone was thinking.
They began to wander aimlessly into the forest, after walking for a stretch they decided to rest, suddenly from the thicket of a bush they heard movement, and they looked towards the bush and saw the leaves shaking. Chris broke a branch off of a tree and began to slowly prod it toward the movement.
"Bubble Blow!" a tiny bubble came floating out of the thicket and hit the branch causing it to fall out of Chris's hand. Immediately he leapt backwards. "Don't hurt me!" a voice came from the area the bubble came from Chris jumped out of his skin and leapt behind Kara.
"Don't worry, we won't hurt you." Kara looked toward the voice, it was Luke, and she rolled her eyes. The strange boy was on his hands and knees, talking to the bush. Kara, wondered about him, she decided that when she got home she would get to him better.
"DUDE, you're talking to a bush!" Chris said. Anthony began to giggle, followed by Kara, their minds reacting to the comment in ways Chris didn't intend. Luke glared death at them, and they tried to stifle the laughter.
"Can you come out please; I won't let them hurt you." An ear poked out of the bushes, followed by a second, finally a white face popped up, causing Luke to fall backwards. Finally he looked up and saw the creature look at him. "What are you?" was all Luke could to muster.
"I am Tokomon! I'm a Digimon."
"Right," said Chris slowly and sarcastically, the turned to the others "animatronics are getting good these days, guys, this one looks real."
"I am real, silly, and I'm waiting for four humans, have you seen any?"
Kara just stared at the thing, what did it say it was a 'Digimon'?
"I'm sorry four humans? Well we're human, are you here to take us home?" Kara asked.
"I don't know about your home, I'm here on behalf of those in charge of this world!"
Anthony finally broke through the shock that had engulfed him. "Sorry, but I am confused. What are you, Where are we? Why are we here? I really need to get home, my mu-," Anthony paused; he really didn't want the other three children knowing about his mother and her alcoholism. "That is to say I got stuff to do."
The Tokomon seemed to get a smug grin on its face.
"I know you 'got stuff to do', that's why you're here! And I told you I am a Digimon, and this is the Digital World."
"Yeah," said Kara brightly, "that's going to need some clarification."
"I am a Digimon, a digital monster," the Tokomon said patiently, and this is where all Digimon live, the digital world."
All four children stared at him blankly; finally Chris spoke up, "So if this world is for Digimon, why are WE here?"
"I don't know." The Tokomon said simply, "I was only sent here to tell you that, you have to travel into the tower to find your Digimon."
"What do you mean, 'your Digimon'?" Asked Luke, "you mean like we own them?"
"No." the children waited for Tokomon to continue but he did not.
"What tower?" Anthony asked, thinking aback to the tower they were trapped on.
"This one." And ran through the brush of the forest, the children followed stepped through the bushes and found themselves facing, this time however Tokomon had managed to uncover a door.
"Where was that, that wasn't their before?" asked Chris.
"Really, Are you sure?" asked Tokomon, "that's strange! Now, listen to me. When you enter this door you will be separated from each other, you must try and find you're Digimon. Then you will find yourselves out side here with them. Do you understand?
"Not at all, and can we have a second to think about this?" asked Anthony, "We just want to go home."
"Um sure, I'll wait over here." and sat under a bush.
"Right guys shall we do it?" asked Anthony
"I'm not sure," said Kara, "I'm not sure I want a Digimon."
"Me neither. Why should we trust him anyway?"
"I agree," said Anthony, "All we want to do is get home, not get Digimon."
"Maybe if we do as they ask; we'll go home." said Luke. The children thought for a moment, it could be a possibility, as they had no idea on how to get home themselves.
"I've just thought," said Chris, "We have no idea where we are, really, and since They," referring to Tokomon's 'masters', 'probably brought us here; maybe They can take us home."
"Yes!" said Kara, "That's it, we have to do it guys it might be the only way, I wouldn't want to piss them off, and maybe doing them a favour wouldn't be such a bad idea."
Anthony was beginning to see their logic; he needed to check on his mother. The last time she was left alone she nearly drank herself to death. He needed to get home A.S.A.P. "Okay, we'll help them. Tokomon, we're ready."
"Just step through the door then, I'll wait here, I just need a nap." Tokomon lazily purred. He watched as they stepped through the door, and then as the tower vanished. He would wait for them to reappear and then he would guide them to the Digivices and then they would save the worlds. Yes his masters' plan was running perfectly.
"Sticker Blade," Called a deep voice.
Thousands of small blades materialised and hurled through the air towards Tokomon, who unsuspectingly felt the full force of the impact, and disintegrated into data immediately.
"Now those brats will surely fail," said the same deep voice, and evil laughter was heard and felt throughout the forest. The laughter vanished and all that was left was a sense of sorrow, the forest felt for the fallen Digimon.
3rd Chapter will be coming soon, in a week hopefully.
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