Chapter Three
Brian Kendall walked through Japan aimlessly. He was an American, but he was by no means in Japan for a vacation. He was here looking for specific people.
He was slim, but not enough to be considered skinny. He had sandy brown hair that was unkempt and hung in his eyes. He wore tan cargo pants, a white shirt and a brown jacket. Brian out of all of his teammates was the least honest. He was manipulative and could usually talk people into getting what he wanted from them. His partner digimon was a Gotsumon, that he had in his backpack.
"Man, I wish I understood Japanese", Brian muttered through himself, "it would make finding these people a whole lot easier".
"Just use your digivice to find them", Gotsumon said.
"What do you think I've been doing since we left the airport?", Brian retorted.
Brian had his digivice in his hand and had been constantly searching for the digidestined digivices in the city, with little luck. Since arriving in Japan from the Digital World, he had gotten lost numerous times, mainly due to the fact that everyone spoke Japanese, and everything was written in Japanese."Maybe I should call it a day and find a place to sleep for the night", Brian thought to himself, "some place where the people speak my language".
It was then that several red blips appeared on his digivice. "Never mind", he thought to himself.
"I found them!", Brian said, "and it looks like they're all together"
"Today must be your lucky day", Gotsumon said.
Brian took off down the street towards the other digivices and he came to a park. There were a group of kids there that were apparently having some sort of meeting. Brian hid behind a bush and watched them from there, "That's gotta be them", Brian thought to himself, "now all I have to do is wait for the right moment, and then I'll introduce myself".
The digidestined appeared to be done with whatever meeting they were having and were beginning to leave the park, so Brian decided to make his move. After making sure Gotsumon was hidden away in his backpack, Brian stepped out from behind the bush and approached the Digidestined.
"Um, excuse me. Do any of you happen to speak English?", he asked hoping that they did.
"This is gonna suck real bad if none of them know any english", he thought to himself.
"Yes, we all do", a slender, and cute looking brunette said.
"Thank God! I'm on vacation from America and I've gotten lost. Do you think you could help me?", Brian asked her.
"Sure, what do you need help with?", she replied.
Except for her accent, and occasional mispronunciation of a few words, the girl spoke perfect english.
"I'm looking for an address", Brian said, "I have it written down here"
Brian handed the girl a piece of paper with an address written on it. After studying the address for awhile she looked back up at him.
"Yeah I know where that is. That's the apartment building that we live in. We're on our way there so your welcome to come along so we can show you where it is", the girl said to him.
"Thanks", Brian said smiling at her.
"Wait, who you know that lives in our apartment?", a boy asked her.
Brian looked at him. He very much looked like the brunette but taller, older, and with lots more hair. "Probably the protective older brother", Brian thought to himself. Also, he didn't speak english as well as the girl who was obviously his sister did. His accent was much heavier, and his speech was more broken and not has fluent.
"I don't know anybody there. I was told a family who lived there was renting out an apartment", Brian said casually.
They all appeared to believe his act, and that relieved Brian. The hard part would be earning their trust and learning their secrets.
"Oh. I know who you talking about", the boy said to Brian, "In that case we'll show you the way. These are my friends T.K., Ken, Matt, Yolei, and that's my little sister Kari, and my name's Tai".
Brian noticed the emphasis that Tai put on the word sister, and the way his eyes glared at him. "You know, protective might not be the right word. Overprotective would be much better for him", Brian said.
"Nice to meet all of you. My name's Brian", Brian said to them.
The group all started to walk in the direction of Kari's apartment, and started to get to know their new friend.
"So you're from America right? Our friend Mimi lives in New York do you know her?", Matt asked.
Brian shook his head no, "No, New York's on the East coast and I live in Indiana, which is in the Midwest", Brian answered.
"Oh", Matt replied a hint of disappointment in his voice.
Brian looked in his eyes and saw distrust in them. He saw the same thing in Ken and Tai as well. "It's gonna take some convincing to get them all to trust me", Brian said, "but I can do that". The other digidestined appeared to like him so far, particularly Kari.
"You know, for kids who've never been outside Japan you sure speak good english", Brian remarked.
"Yeah, we have to learn it in school", Matt replied.
"Oh. Back in America they make us take a foreign language but you're the first people I've met who've actually learned something from it", Brian said jokingly.
"Except for Davis and Tai", Yolei said, "during class they just slack off while everyone else is learning something. That's why they aren't as smart as me", she said giggling.
"Hey!", Tai yelled at her.
"What you talking 'bout!", Davis yelled in broken english.
"See what I mean?", Yolei said trying badly to suppress her laughter.
As Yolei rambled on about something or other, Brian started to try and talk to Ken. He was being quiet, and that was probably due to his distrust of Brian.
"She seems talkative", Brian said to Ken trying to start a conversation with him.
"You have no idea", Ken replied shaking his head.
"You haven't met Mimi. If she wasn't in New York right now all you'd be able to hear would be her voice", Matt said.
"In that case I'm glad she's in New York", Brian said.
"Sometimes so are we", T.K. said.
Brian noticed the way that T.K. walked close to Kari. It was protective yet friendly at the same time. "How cute, a young couple", Brian thought to himself, "yet they look like a couple that are at least pretending to be 'just friends'. There's something to tell the master".
Brian had always been good at reading people, and combined with his incredible acting ability, made him very skillful at deceiving people. This was the reason he had few friends.
"So what is there to do around here?", Brian asked.
"Lot's of things", Ken said, "I can give you the names of several tour companies if you like"
"Thanks but I prefer to explore on my own", Brian said.
"Not to mention I would never afford any of them", he thought to himself.
"That be hard if you no speak Japanese", Tai said in his broken english.
"I think I can find my way around", Brian said.
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Master's Castle was the type of place that nightmares were born from, and it gave Nathan the creeps, and he'd been going there for over a year now. Just being in the Dark Area made Nathan feel afraid. It was on an island in the middle of the dark ocean, and it was a huge fortress. The water was guarded by two many Dark Seadramon and Black Mega Seadramon to count. In the air, there were the same number of Devidramon, Karatenmon and Sabirdramon patrolling the skies.
Airdramon landed on the top of the castle and de-digivolved back into Draconomon. Nathan and Victor were soon greeted by three Dark Bladedramon met them. Nathan motioned to the still unconscious Izzy.
Dark Bladedramon were ultimate level digimon that resembled dark knights, when in fact, they were demonic in nature. They all wore jet-black armor and had shields and swords as their main weapons.
"Take this guy to the dungeon", Nathan said.
The Dark Bladedramon picked up Izzy and did as they were told, and Nathan chuckled to himself. He liked being able to boss people around.
"Come on. Master will be waiting for our report", Victor said, walking down the stairs as Demi Devimon perched himself on his shoulder.
"Man, that guy gives me the creeps", Draconomon said wrapping itself around Nathan's shoulders.
"Yeah, you and me both", Nathan replied.
Nathan followed Victor down the stairs that led down into the castle. It's corridors were guarded by all sorts of digimon, but mainly Dark Bladedramon, Boltmon, and some Phantomon.
Finally after what seemed like hours Nathan made it to the throne room. Amy and Erin were already there waiting.
Out of all of his teammates, Nathan had known Erin the longest, and she was one of his closest friends. She had short red hair, and green eyes to go with them. She wore a blue tanktop and jeans, and a white jacket. Erin was very blunt and to the point, and was also rude to most people. She was very efficient and was excellent to have around when it came to machines and computers. Her partner digimon was a Dark Betamon.
Amy, or Amiko if you called her by her full name, was a Japanese American, and was also the youngest out of the Dark Ones, being 14 while everyone else was 16, except for Brian who was 15. She had jet black hair with red highlights. Amy had a fiery personality. Out of all three girls on the team, she was the boss, and she also had a dominating personality over everyone else she encountered. She wasn't the type of girl you wanted to make angry. She wore a black tanktop and cargo pants, and a black hoody. Her fingernails were dyed black and she wore black lipstick and masquera. Her partner digimon was a Black Gatomon.
In the middle of the throne room, their lord and master sat. He was a very powerful digimon and all who heard his name cringed in fear. Nathan knelt down in front of him.
"My Lord, I brought the digidestined to you as you asked", Nathan said.
"Excellent. Arise".
Nathan stood up and looked at the digimon that he called Master. In this form, his Master wore a black cloak and hood that covered his entire body, but that didn't stop him from being an imposing figure. His immense dark power could be felt throughout the entire room, and the entire Dark Area.
"Did you have any trouble in getting the digidestined?", the Master asked.
"No Master", Victor said, "getting him was a simple task".
"Amiko, go and meet our guest when he awakens. In the meantime Erin, have you discovered what went wrong with our device?", he asked her.
"No. The Datamon and I are still trying to figure it out what happened.", she replied.
"It better be fixed before our deadline. I trust I won't have to motivate you to work faster?", the Master digimon said more of a demand than a question.
"Hey, its pretty complicated, and needs to be fully tested before it's used widely", was Erin's reply.
"Of course", the Master said a hint of displeasure in his voice.
Suddenly in front of the Master's throne a holographic image of Brian appeared from the real world. Brian was basically the teams infiltrator, due to his ability to lie efficiently. Nathan like him, but he never trusted him with anything and because of this didn't talk to him much.
"Brian, have you made contact with the digidestined?", he asked.
"Yes I have Master", he said.
"Good. I want you to report to me daily on their activities", the Master said.
"Yes Master", Brian answered.
"Now, leave me, except for you Nathan", the Master said.
"Me?", he asked somewhat surprised.
"Yes, I have something I require you to do……"
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Nathan rode threw the night sky riding ontop of Airdramon. His Master had sent him on another assignment. This assignment took him to Fortress City. Fortress City, if Nathan had his history right, had been created from the corrupted computer data of Fort Bragg. It was simply a massive military installation in the Digital World, that his Master used to control the massive continent known as Router. The digimon in charge of it was a Darkdramon. Aside from that, it was guarded by a large number of cyborg and machine type digimon. Airdramon landed ontop of the fortress and was met by the mon himself, Darkdramon.
"We've been waiting for you", Darkdramon said to Nathan.
"Yeah so what do you want me here for?", Nathan asked ignoring Darkdramon's first remark.
"Master didn't tell you why you're here?", Darkdramon asked somewhat surprised. If Darkdramon had had the ability to, Nathan was sure he would've raised his eyebrows.
"No. He just told me to come here", Nathan replied.
"In that case I'll just tell you myself", the mega level digimon said. "You and your digimon are now under my control. Apparently the Master felt the need to put some…'heavy artillery', here".
"As if he doesn't already have enough of that", Nathan thought to himself, "but if he wants muscle here then that means that Chris should be here after he's done doing whatever it is he's doing". Meanwhile, Airdramon had de-digivolved back into Draconomon and was asking questions.
"So when do we get to blow up stuff?", the snake dragon digimon asked.
"You took the words right out of my mouth Draconomon", I said to him.
"Right now", Darkdramon said, "some of the towers we've set up on this continent are being attacked by groups of digimon who wish to resist our Master's rule. Find and destroy them all!"
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Once again, Nathan was riding on Aidramon. But this time, he wasn't alone. Half a dozen Sabirdramon were in the air with him. Nathan looked on the ground, and even though it was dark, could still make out the black tower sticking out of the ground. He could also see the digimon that were attacking it.
Fortress City hadn't been in Router very long, and in the short time that his Master controlled it, he had ordered that control towers be built all over the continent. However, certain groups of digimon had banded together to stop his Master. They would all be crushed eventually.
"Down there!", Nathan yelled pointing, "don't let any of them escape!. Airdramon let 'em have it!"
"God Tornado!", Airdramon yelled sending a fiery tornado down at the helpless digimon, and starting a massacre.
The Sabirdramon he was with all used their Dark Saber attack, and fired dark fire balls down at the helpless digimon. The digimon on the ground tried to fight back but they were helpless and easily overpowered. Nathan couldn't help but laugh at the sight.
"Look at 'em running around like little roaches when you turn the lights on!", Nathan said hysterically, "you can run but you can't hide!".
Airdramon and the Sabirdramon were relentless in their assault, and destroyed anything that they saw moving. Within thirty minutes all resistance had been annihilated.
"Looks like we took care of everything here", Nathan said, "let's head back and get somethin to eat".
"Sounds good to me", Airdramon said has he flew back towards the fortress.
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Has it turned out, the family that was renting out the apartment was on vacation somewhere, and Brian had it all to himself. He'd save paying the rent for some other time, assuming he paid.
"So what do we do now Brian?", Gotsumon asked.
"Now", Brian said, "we go find something good to eat"
"Great I was getting really hungry", Gotsumon said.
Brian walked to the door of the apartment and opened it. Only to see Kari standing in front of him. Brian had to admit he was a little surprised by this and hoped that she didn't notice Gotsumon.
"Hi Kari", Brian said, "what do I owe the pleasure?"
"Nothing special. I just thought I'd stop bye and give you this", she said quickly.
Brian looked down at Kari's hands and saw the plate in them. It was a plate of cookies. Brian took them.
"Thanks, you saved me some money. I was about to go out to dinner", Brian said thankfully.
"Your welcome", Kari said.
There was an awkward silence between the two. It seemed like hours before one of them spoke again. Suddenly Brian regretted why he was there, and regretted what he would have to do to Kari. Before he could stop himself, Brian said the words that would haunt him from then on.
"Would you like to come in?", he asked her snapping her out of her thoughts.
"Yes, thank you", she said.
Kari let her into the apartment and hoped that Gotsumon was smart enough to hide somewhere. His prayers were answered when he entered the apartment and found him to be nowhere in sight. Then on the kitchen counter he saw that he'd left his digivice ought. Luckily for him, it had the appearance of a normal cellphone, and she didn't seem to notice.
"So have you been to Japan before?", she asked him.
"No this is my first time", Brian replied, "how about you. Have you ever been to America?".
Kari nodded her head, "yup. Me and some of my friends went to Colorado once".
Kari had to refrain from telling him why they were there. She had almost told him that they were there to help Willis with his digimon. "Besides he wouldn't even believe me", Kari thought to herself.
"Cool. This is the first time I've been outside of the United States", Brian told her.
"You'll like Japan", Kari said.
"I already do", Brian said, "I just wish there were more people who spoke english here. And its hard to read all the signs".
"If you want you can hang out with me and my friends", Kari blurted.
"Why did I say that?", she thought to herself. She hadn't meant to say that, she hadn't even meant to give him those cookies. There was something about Brian that Kari liked, but she couldn't name it. "I should just leave", she thought to herself. But something kept her from leaving.
"Sounds good to me. I could use a few good guides", Brian said.
"Yeah. And maybe you could learn Japanese", Kari said smiling.
"Well I think I've found a good teacher", Brian replied to her in Japanese, surprising Kari.
"You speak Japanese?", she asked surprised.
"Not very well. Back in America I have a friend whose Japanese and she tried to teach me. I learned some but not enough to find my way around here", Brian replied.
"Well now you can learn more", Kari said.
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Meanwhile, Tai was out looking for his little sister. She had left with a plate of cookies for Brian, saying she would be right back. But it had been over twenty minutes since then and Tai was getting worried. It's not that he didn't like or trust Brian, there was just something about him that Tai didn't like. When Tai found the room that Brian entered he knocked on the door a few times, and waited.
A few seconds later the door opened and Brian stood in the doorway. Behind him, Tai could also see Kari heading for the doorway.
"Hey, Tai. Here for Kari?", Brian asked.
"Yeah", Tai said nodding his head.
"I'm coming Tai", Kari said walking through the door.
"See you tomorrow then", Brian said to her.
"Yeah count on it", Kari said to him.
Brian caught a hint of regret in her voice has Kari said those words. Has if she still wanted to spend more time with him. "Which is good cause that means I can find out about the Digidestined", Brian thought to himself as he watched Tai and Kari disappear down the hallway.
Brian did however, regret what he would eventually have to do to Kari. "Such a sweet and innocent girl", Brian thought to himself, "she doesn't deserve what's coming to her".
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