Chapter 2: Meetings

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~.:.:.:. ~ Digi's POV ~.:.:.:. ~

I waved goodbye to Aku as I steadily stepped into the vortex. I felt my body dropping to the ground and activated my powers to levitate down safely towards the surface. My powers are called Psionics. It's like magic but more a mental magic then anything else. I saw countless impressive buildings and other things that moved across the skies like bees in an enormous hive... I unfortunately the skies smelled awful, the streets were filthy and kept hearing the people being loud... "Thomas... Where are we?" he hovered by my head and spun around as if observing the new area as well, "Not sure... I think you should probably ask one of the locals..." I nodded in agreement.

I landed gracefully on the paved roads. I saw a small collection of what seemed to be people, leaving an obnoxiously loud building. My eardrums started to hurt as I winced not used to things being so flashy and bright, "What the..." I looked at the crowd that had just left slightly dazed and walked over, "Excuse me, where am I?" I then noticed that the group was abnormal.

One looked to be an honorable samurai with pitch black hair that was placed in a bun and dark eyes. His robes were a white and grey. The others that I had met had a variety of colored clothing. I liked how simple his were compared to those I had met before. The others he had journeyed with were three dogs standing on their hinge legs and talking the common tongue of humans... One was much bigger than the other two and had a golden colored coat. He drooled quite a bit and had a cute little green bow tie on. Another was a shaggy black dog with long haired fur. He had a pipe that hung out of his mouth. The other was a thin fellow with a grey colored fur and wearing a monocle. As well as a cute little red bow tie. They were all wearing the same kind of odd cream colored hat on their heads.

I was stunned and in admiration to see this new development. Aku hadn't told me of where exactly I was headed either. So, I didn't know when and where I was at the time, "What sorcery is this? Are you all magical companions of some sort?"

"Magical? No my dear young lady. We are anything but magical." The dog with a monocle spoke kindly and with a sophisticated tone. I blinked a few times, "That's odd… the dogs and other animals that could speak, that I knew of anyway, would be familiars of those who could use magic. The animals that weren't familiars walked on all 4 legs…" the samurai spoke up as if surprised to hear me say this, "And barked, yes?" I nodded and smiled lightly, "yes. Also who rules these lands? Any kings? Queens? Lords maybe?" The small canine chimed in happily before the samurai could speak up as he used some device that appeared on his face, "I say, my dear lady, you are only a century younger than our friend Jack is here. How do you not know of Aku and his take over? He had enslaved a majority of the planet by the time you were around."

I was confused to hear that the world was enslaved during the time I was there. I could see that the noble samurai noticed my reaction. That shows you how long I've been locked away. "Enslaved? I don't know what you-" I started until Thomas interrupted me, "Look here bigheaded Puppy, we don't even know you, let alone your friend here. And Digi, I told you not to trust anyone! Now look where we are!" I grabbed Thomas and glared daggers at him, "Thomas! Stop yelling at people, it's not nice. We don't know them yes but, maybe they can help us…" I looked back at them shyly when they all seemed intrigued and somewhat offended by Thomas, "Sorry about that… Thomas becomes very defensive when it comes to new people."

.:.:.:. Jack's POV.:.:.:.

A young woman's voice came closer as she asked for our assistants. I had given her my acknowledgment and noticed her clothes were not of this time, just like mine. She had a black and red dress. There were also some kind of black bindings that held the dress close, fitting the shape as well as keeping her waist in a narrow hourglass shape. ((Just so everyone isn't confused, corset dress from the 1700's. Thus, Jack is from the 1600's in this story. Just so things are made clear.)) It slight caught me off guard that a woman would be in such a formfitting dress. She smiled softly and kindly but, she seemed to be hiding as well. She had black symbols under her right eye that read numbers and lines. Her ears were pointed and quite long thus I knew she wasn't human… And if she was, she wasn't completely human. She then spoke with a velvety voice about where she had come from. I had commented and wished to know more. I kept thinking that, maybe she and I both had similar objectives of heading back to our own times and going back to our lives.

As my companions explained who Aku was, her face began to look pale from worry and confusion. She had truly not heard of his awful deeds before now? This made me wonder why she hadn't heard anything from her people. Surly there were rumors or some knowledge of Aku. As the dogs started to question her in her unstable state, a bright royal purple gem appeared from a pocket of her bag.

I was in sheer awe to see such a gem floating. It looked beautiful as it floated up and in front of my new companions that had requested for my assistants earlier in the loud tavern. It suddenly begins to shout in a loud and very crude voice. I blinked a few times surprised at its words. She snatched it from the air and spoke darkly to it like a woman scolding her child. She looked back at us nervously, "Sorry about that… Thomas becomes very defensive when it comes to new people. And when others ask questions."

"I understand. We do not wish any offense Thomas." I said as kindly as I could to the ill-mannered gem. I bowed respectfully towards her and the gem named 'Thomas'. I was becoming interested in how it was able to float and speak. She smiled, "Thank you... Sorry for taking up your time. We will take our leave..." she was kind and gentle with her words unlike the gem.

"Please miss, I wish to simply know your name. We are in need of more than one warrior to help us." One of the dogs spoke up before she could leave. Before I could object to the thought of having her in battle as well as danger she turned towards us with a smile and spoke kindly, "Sure, I'll help you... If you give me your names as well." a mutual agreement had been met and she said her name softly, "I'm Digi and this is Thomas."

"Pleasure my dear, this is Sir Drifus Alexander, this is Sir Angus McDuffy and I am Sir Colin Bartholomew Montgomery Rothchild III. We are archeologists and we have been made slaves to the cruel Aku." I looked at her kindly, properly introducing myself, "They call me Jack." she nodded understanding and listening. She moved some hair from the right side of her face but, she never touched the left, she hid the other half of her face with her long raven black bangs. It made me wonder what her secrets were, I was becoming dangerously curious about her.

"Alright..." she spoke softly with that velvety voice. The way she had spoken had, for a strange reason, caught my attention. She surprised me with such a serious and yet, kind tone. "I will join you all on your quest."

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