Whooo! First chapter! I hope you enjoy it!
January 9, 1926
"Add the finishing touches and…perfect!" a young girl of seventeen exclaimed. After making sure her make-up is Jake, she looked at herself in the mirror. A girl with short bobbed brown hair with green eyes looked back at her. Eliza was sporting a low-waist lilac dress that ended at the knees with silk nylons and a pair of heels. Feeling that she looked good enough for a night on the town, she went to grab her wrap around coat when she heard a knock on her bedroom door. Eliza paused knowing that if anyone saw her like this they would know she was trying to sneak out of the house.
"Um…who is it?" praying that it's not one of her parents because they might not let her leave the house at all if they knew she was disobeying them…again.
"It's Will, can I come in?" her older brother asked through the door. William Woods was only a year older than her and the polar opposite in personality to Eliza. While she was all about having fun and trying anything, Will on the other hand was the cautious and calm one that needed to be pushed in order to try anything potentially dangerous.
"Sure…why not" knowing that even if she lied, her brother would know she was. Eliza put her coat back on the bed and opened the door to rush Will in before anyone saw her.
"Hey! What's with the pushing…why are you all dolled up, Eliza?" Will said finally getting a good look at her with questioning eyes.
"I'm going out with the girls to the Cotton Club" she simply said as if there is nothing wrong with the statement.
"Those three?" He said in disbelief, "They'll leave you alone the minute they find a guy to struggle buggy with. Besides our parents told us we're not allowed to leave the house during the night."
"That's not true…and personally when have I ever listened to mom and dad." She said putting her hands on her hips.
"You should start now besides you're not old enough to get into that club anyway."
"We'll just sneak in. It's not that hard and I'm going no matter what you say." Eliza grabbed her coat and made a beeline for her window to open it up.
"If you're so adamant on going at least don't take any wooden nickels, okay. I'll cover for you while you're gone." Will said helping her out the window.
"You're the bee's knees!" she said before making her way down the side of the house using lattice that was put there for her mother's Morning Glories to grow on during the spring.
Once she was safely on the ground, she looked up and waved good-bye to Will before going to the meeting spot and heading to the Cotton Club.
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"I can't believe Will was right….they ditched me."
Shortly after arriving at the club and sneaking their way in her so called friends found some good looking guys and left with them…probably for some serious necking. So since she came here to dance she did exactly that until she couldn't anymore and took a seat at one of the various tables in the club. After sitting there for a bit, Eliza decided that it was time to head home and hope that everyone is fast asleep if not she is in deep trouble. She got up from where she sat and went to get her coat from the gentlemen at the front. Once outside she saw that it was snowing and it made her glad that she had a warm coat on. Eliza walked down the street for a bit until everything around her had started to have a green glow. She wondered what was happening until she looked towards the sky and saw the most breathtaking sight.
"The Northern Lights? I thought we were too far south to be able to see this." She thought as she stopped walking. Then as an afterthought she said, "Is it supposed to be this bright?" It was then that she noticed that everything around her but the lights in the sky was frozen, unmoving. She was starting to get a little unnerved by everything that is happening but her curiosity got the better of her. Eliza went over to the nearest person and was about to touch him when all of a sudden the person turned to ash in front of her. She let out a gasp as she was backing away, noticing the other people around her were turning to ash as well. When the last person on the street was a pile of ash, the northern lights began to grow brighter and brighter until Eliza could see nothing around her.
When the light faded she found herself in a snowy wasteland with a few mountains in the distance. No life could be seen as far as the eye could see and an icy wind was starting to pick up which made Eliza drew her coat closer to her.
"Okay, some really weird stuff is going on…and I didn't even have one drop of giggle water!" she said to no one in particular. She went to hold the locket that she always wore around her neck at all times but all she felt was the beaded necklaces she had on instead. Eliza felt around a few more times to make sure it really isn't there before she finally started to panic. Whenever she ever became nervous or scared she would always hold her necklace for reassurance and without her anchor Eliza will not be the confident and fun loving girl she is known for. She started looking in the snow around her in a frantic pace, looking for a gold glint to show where it is. After a bit of searching, she noticed a bit of gold among the snowy landscape. Eliza rushed towards it and picked it up to see that it was fine. Its gold front was designed with a pink rose on the front with a picture of her and her brother on the inside she put in there shortly after it was given to her on her sixteenth birthday.
"I'm glad it's alright…I don't know what I do if something were to happen to it." She said before the locket began to glow a faint pink color. In the light the locket began to grow in size until it was the size of a large pocket watch as Eliza stared in amazement. When it was done the outside looked virtually the same until she opened the locket up to see that it was far from just an enlarged version of it. On the inside there was screen that took up half the right side with the bottom half filled with various colored buttons while on the left side it was a full screen with a digital version of the picture she held in there.
"What in the world is this? I've seen anything like this before…" she turned it over a few times before she started to press the buttons randomly till a beam of light suddenly burst from the left side screen and with it a creature was coming through the beam of light. Eliza was getting tired of all these lights bringing about strange happenings and was wondering why she wasn't more scared of everything that was happening. Soon enough the creature was visible and landed softly in front of her. When she looked at it, Eliza immediately scrambled away from it realizing what it resembled in appearance. What sat in front of her was a creature that resembled a wolf with its fur white as the snow around her with black markings all around its body in a haphazard way along with bright yellow eyes. It also had wisps of blue flame circling around its four legs.
"Stay right where you are you you….demon!" backing away while keeping her eyes on the wolf like creature, waiting for a chance to run away. She was never good with dogs especially after her friend's dog bit her in the butt after it went crazy on her the minute she entered her house for some unknown reason.
"That's quite rude to say to someone you just met" the wolf spoke in a female voice. Eliza stopped after the wolf spoke and all she could think about was that an animal just spoke to her…like in the radio stories that she would listen to.
"Animals aren't supposed to talk. It defies all logic!" she squeaked.
"I'm not an animal. I'm a digimon. By the way my name's Arcticmon" she said ignoring her partner's outburst.
"Digi-what? What in the world is that?" Eliza questioned, leaving all thoughts of running away as her curiosity grew with each passing minute.
"Digital Monster…don't you know what I am, Eliza?" it asked while titling its head a bit.
"I wouldn't be asking if I….wait HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME?" Eliza practically yelled at the end.
"You're my destined partner! Of course I would know your name." she said giving a toothy smile that made Eliza cringe.
"Don't do that"
"Do what?"
"Smile, it creeps me out."
"You mean this." Arcticmon gave another toothy grin
"Yeah that…anyway do you know a way out of this snowy place?" she said taking a step back from Arcticmon.
"You don't have to-"the wolf digimon paused with its whole body going into alert. Arcticmon's ears twitched while she was looking around for the source of some sound that Eliza couldn't hear.
"What is it, Arcticmon? Do you hear-" but she never got to finish her sentence when all of a sudden Arcticmon pushed Eliza out of the way as something came out of the ground with snow flying everywhere around it. As the snow cleared it revealed an ogre like creature with ice shards coming out of it. It gave out an evil laugh before setting its gaze straight at Eliza which gave her the heebie-jeebies as she was getting off the ground.
"Finally I found one of you. You digidestined are a very elusive type…the master is going to be very happy when I give you to him, girlie."
"You aren't laying one icy hand on her!" Arcticmon growled. At that moment Eliza's digivice started to make beeping noises which made her open it again and it immediately showed a small hologram while speaking.
Hyogamon
Champion
An icy digimon and a bounty hunter by nature much like its counterparts. Beware of its Ice Pummel, it really pacts a punch!
The hologram disappeared back into the digivice leaving Eliza to say, "Well that isn't much to go on…" As if she or the digivice didn't speak, Hyogamon began to swing his club in an expert way before just laughing at what Arcticmon said seconds earlier.
"Like you can really stop me, puny wolf! Now girlie, if you come nicely your mutt won't be harmed." He said giving a devilish smile. At this Arcticmon rushed forward with blue flames coming forth from its mouth.
"Blue Blaze!"
The flames made a direct hit to Hyogamon face that made it back up a bit. He returned the attack with a snow punch that barely missed Arcticmon who'd dodged in the nick of time. As Arcticmon was readying another attack, Hyogamon grabbed Arcticmon by the tail which made her yelp.
"Hahaha…I've got you no-"
"Wolf Claw!" which made Hyogamon immediately let go of the wolf digimon. Arcticmon backed away growling the whole time.
"Argh! This is too much trouble. I'll come back for you later!" and he left in a whirlwind of snow. Once Arcticmon made sure the threat was gone, she turned to her partner who had a look of bewilderment.
"He gave up? Just like that…"after a moment's pause Eliza began laughing, "What a wimp!"
"I don't think you should be laughing. The Ogre Brothers are not to be messed with…we're lucky to have only met with one of them…and the weakest one at that."
"Oh…I see" Eliza said as all laughter died. It was quiet until she started to hear clapping coming from behind her. She turned around to find a boy around her age with longish black hair tied back with brown eyes and a goatee plus he was kind of tall. He wore ripped jeans with black converse and a black Sabbath t-shirt along with a watch on his left wrist. Right next to him was a samurai like digimon with a black color scheme.
"Who are you?" Eliza said a bit wary of him. She didn't need any more trouble at least not after the encounter with Hyogamon.
"I'm Devon…" he noticed the digivice in her hand and then looked up at her, "Give me your digivice."
"What's that?"
"The thing in your hand. Now give it here" he then held his hand out expectedly. Eliza looked at him for a bit and then at her locket turned digivice before reluctantly handing it over. Once it was in his hands he began to examine it by turning it over a few times before opening it while mumbling a few things to himself. Eliza took a quick look at the digimon next to him and wondering what its name was.
"Here you can have it back. I'm done with it." Devon said giving it back to Eliza. Once it was back into her hand, the boy started to take off. Realizing this, she pocketed her digivice and started to follow him because as far as she knew he is the only human here with Arcticmon tailing behind her.
"Hey, why did you look at my digivice?"She asked once she caught up.
He gave her a hard look before responding with, "Why are you following me? I rather travel alone."
"I don't want to be in a strange place by myself. Besides, you didn't answer my question."
"…..I met someone earlier with one but his was in the shape of a fat plus sign with strange text on it and I wanted to see if you had one like mine. Despite the front cover, they're the same. Happy now?"
"Very much so…." After a few minutes she continued with a question, "So where are you headed?"
"None of your business"
"Oh come on at-"
"NO!"
"Fine…"
Suddenly both their digivices began to make static noises and after quick glances at each other they opened theirs up to reveal a blurry image of a woman. Neither Eliza nor Devon could make out anything other than that and then the image began to speak.
"Welcome Digidestined…You all have traveled a long way. If you want to know more of your destiny, come to the Brissac Castle." and the screen gave way to blackness.
"That's a haunted house in France, isn't it? You know in the real world." Eliza asked.
"You all have traveled a long way" he repeated ignoring Eliza, "That means there are more than just me and you."
"Well if that's true then let's get our wiggle on then! Oh by the way my name is Eliza Woods and this is Arcticmon" she said before she started to walk in a random direction.
"Devon Cain and DarkKotemon" he thought before going in the same direction as her.
But unknown to them a lone figure watched them from the distance with red eyes glowing as it was smiling.
A/N: Just if your wondering the women in the screen is not ophanimon if anyone was wondering. Anyway, thanks to all you who reviewed!