Digimon Adventure – Connections
Chapter 2: The Start of a New Adventure
The group of digidestined and digimon stood stunned and silent. Their breath just barely echoing on the stone walls of the giant underground temple they were in. Tai flipped around the small device in his hands, inspecting the entire thing.
"It really is…a digivice," Sora mumbled in shock. Izzy took the device from Tai and looked at it closely.
"Yes, indeed, it seems to be the exact same model as ours," he said, "but…whose is it I wonder?"
"It's not like we're the only digidestined in the world… there was Willis in America, so there must be others…but as far as we know, we're the only ones in Japan…" Kari muttered. Izzy had informed them before of the young digidestined from America that he had met online.
"Does this mean there is another child in Japan? If so who's their partner?" Joe asked, just as confused. They all really didn't know what to say. Even their digimon partners were at a loss.
Just then, from the pedestal that the mysterious digivice came from a familiar hologram appeared and took form. They all perked up as they recognized who it was. Gennai stood before them once again, as he always did when they had a bunch of questions that they couldn't answer.
"Hello there, digidestined," the old man greeted. The group said their hellos but before Gennai could speak Tai snatched the new digivice from Izzy's hand and held it up.
"So, can you explain this?" he demanded. Gennai nodded.
"Yes, that's just what I came to talk to you about. Do you remember why the Digital World needs digidestined?" Gennai began. Tai crossed his arms.
"What does that old story have to do with this?" he said and Gennai held up a finger.
"Just wait my boy, I'm getting to that," he said, the slightest hint of annoyance coming across in is tone. "Now, the reason the Digital World summons digidestined children in the first place is because they are the force that keeps this world at balance. When darkness emerges that effects the digital world, the real world in turn is affected and the balance between both is broken. When this happens, chosen children are taken from the real world, and paired up with the chosen digimon from this world and create the digidestined. They join forces and together fight and get rid of any dark threats. Only then can both worlds return to peace and stay in balance."
"Yes, that is why we were chosen a long time ago, so we could get rid of the Dark Masters and Apocalymon," Izzy said simply. Gennai nodded, and then looked down gravely.
"That's usually the case, but this is the very first time in history where the threat is different. This is an evil we have never seen before and, with recent research, we've figured out the only way it can be defeated," Gennai said, looking up to face the group. They all gasped. Tai stepped forward a little in excitement. They were finally going to figure out the problem with the seeker digimon they had tried to defeat earlier.
"These new digimon, the seeker digimon and probably the unknown digimon that is controlling them, they cannot be defeated by normal means," Gennai spoke. The rest nodded.
"Exactly! When we tried to fight that Champion level seeker, we couldn't get a scratch on it!" Matt said. Gennai nodded.
"Yes, these digimon have a special ability that no other digimon has. Infused in all of them is the power to block any attacks thrown at them, no matter what the level of digimon delivering the attack. It is a power that comes from within the core and, from what we know, is caused by the pure darkness infused in them. Of course, we still can't comprehend what this darkness is exactly and where it originated," Gennai sighed, "but, the only way to defuse the barrier around these new seeker digimon is to purify them first."
They all paused. What?
"Purify? You mean to null the darkness?" Izzy asked. Gennai nodded. Izzy bit his lip. "But, how on earth can we do that?" he asked. A feeling of hopelessness grew in all of them. They had no idea how to do what Gennai was asking of them. How was this going to work?
"You see, there is the other problem," Gennai breathed, "from what we've discovered in the ancient texts, only one legendary digimon has the power to purify beings, The Legendary Digimon of Life." Another wave of hopelessness flew over the group, dampening their moods. Oh great. How were they supposed to find a legendary digimon? What if it didn't even exist and was just folklore? Though…they had all assumed that about the power of eternal life, yet that supposedly existed.
"How do we find this digimon?" Tai asked. The others glanced at him nervously, unsure if what he was asking was possible. They were all seriously expecting Gennai to say he didn't know, but that wasn't the case.
"You cannot find them, this digimon is only loyal to that who holds life in their hands," Gennai said simply. Tai almost wanted to punch a wall right now he was so annoyed. Just one thing after another. Everyone was silent, feeling the same hopelessness and overall annoyance that Tai felt. They had never felt so useless at all. There were so many things they couldn't do. Some digidestined they were…
Gennai opened his mouth to begin speaking, but as usual, his image started to glitch furiously and he only managed to croak out some goodbyes before the hologram disappeared. A gloom rested over everyone's heads and they didn't speak, their minds running a mile a minute. Izzy's digivice beeped once and he lazily looked at it.
"Tai…the gates open…" he muttered.
The group of seven, now extremely troubled, children lounged around the computer in the school's computer lab, having just gone through the portal to their world from the digital world. Izzy inspected the new white digivice in his hands, looking it over and over as if it was going to do something the longer he looked at it.
"So, from what we know, there is a new mysterious white digivice that doesn't seem to belong to anyone, and isn't connected to a digimon. Also, we know that we cannot beat these new seeker digimon, or the digimon controlling them, unless we first purify them to null the barrier they all posses. On top of that, the only digimon capable of purification is a legendary digimon of life that we cannot find unless we find first the one that's holds life in their hands," Izzy explained, laying down all the different aspects of their new dilemma. Everyone nodded slowly.
"From the way it seems, we need to find the one who holds life in their hands first, then go from there," Sora said, she was leaning on the window sill so her silhouette was glowing in the moonlight.
"But who could that be?" Joe wondered. Izzy held up the white digivice.
"I speculate that because there is this new digivice that we've just acquired, it must belong to that one person who holds life in their hands. I don't see who else or for what purpose this digivice could have," he said.
"So, we need to look for a new digidestined?" TK put simply. Izzy nodded.
"Precisely,"
"So I'm not the last one in Japan…" Kari murmured.
"Assuming there is another digidestined as you said, does that mean their digimon partner will be the legendary digimon we're looking for?" Matt asked. Izzy shrugged.
"That's the best logical assumption," he replied. Izzy turned and took out his laptop, which had been in his computer bag that he'd hidden in the desk. He turned it on quickly and it hummed to life. Once he was logged in he inserted the new digivice into the plug that Gennai had installed into his computer when he was 10 and quickly looked up the device's internal files. Tai leaned on the back of Izzy's chair to get a better look.
Izzy had already memorized all the hard drive and file components to his own digivice after hours of studying them so it was just a matter of comparison to see if anything was different between the two. Everyone was silent as Izzy tapped away and read through file codes. Finally he noticed something and spoke up.
"According to the hard drive, this device it pretty much the same as ours," Izzy started, "which means, like ours, it will activate as soon as it is touched, or gets close to its owner."
"Alright! At least we know that much, way to go Iz," Tai grinned slapping Izzy over the back. Izzy blushed in embarrassment.
"This is nothing, really," he said bashfully.
"So, like we did with Kari, we need to find this new digidestined is' all, right?" Tai said, light coming back into his expression.
"Yeah, basically," Izzy said, smiling. Grins broke out over everyone's faces as they finally figured out what they could do.
"It's settled then, the race to find the 9th digidestined starts now!" Tai called lamely. Everyone nodded in agreement. Finally hyped up again they all left the computer room to sneak out of the school and go home to catch some much needed sleep. It was past midnight and their parents were probably worried sick on their deathbeds. Izzy clutched the new digivice in his palm and nodded to himself.
"Alright, let's go!" he cheered to himself, and put the device safely into his uniform pocket. He quickly packed up his computer and caught up to his friends in the dark hallways, almost excited now that a new adventure had begun.
Skyy stood rigid at the front gate of her new middle school. She was 13 years old now, a middle school freshman. Her long blonde hair, which had now grown down to just past her mid back, blew around her. She tucked some behind her ear and warily observed her new school.
The building was a two-story, red brick building and in the front was a big courtyard with gardens surrounding its perimeter and a beautiful fountain sitting in the middle. The April air made it fairly warm outside, but the air was damp, hinting at a future rainfall later that day. The clouds were also grey and so the grounds looked a little washed out with the lack of sunlight. It was a fairly big property, with the high school and elementary school being right beside it. Students chattered happily whilst walking into the school in groups of two or more, all bundled up to escape the elements. Skyy bit her lip, feeling awkward standing there all by herself. She quickly willed her legs to move and walked through the courtyard and into the building.
She found her new locker and slipped her shoes inside, changing into her indoor shoes, and then quickly dipped out of the crowds of students that usually hung around in the locker rooms before class started. She wandered the hallways until she found the correct classroom and slid the door open. As soon as she entered her homeroom class her ears were filled with the loud babble of students gossiping or making plans for after school. Some students looked up to see who'd entered but looked back down finding it wasn't anyone they knew. She waited by the door, uneasy with the atmosphere. This place was so familiar, yet unfamiliar because she didn't know anyone.
Until recently, Skyy had been living in Canada for the past two years. She remembered what it was like in Japanese schools, but had gotten so used to Canadian schools that she almost wasn't used to the all the formalities and rules that Japanese schools laid down. Just before she finally made a move to step into the room, the teacher bustled in from behind her, knocking her into the door frame. Skyy bit her lip as her shoulder dug into the wood but made no complaint. The teacher clambered in and dropped the piles of paper she had been carrying in her arms onto her desk in a big huff.
The teacher was a woman probably in her late 20s to early 30s. She looked like a complete nerd with big glasses and baggy, unflattering clothes. The woman heaved a breath and quickly stood up. As soon as the students saw her they all stopped chatting and immediately rushed to their seats.
"Students! Rise," the teacher called in a strong, stern voice. The class stood respectfully and bowed, saying good morning. The teacher nodded in approval and straightened up her shirt.
"Alright! Now, to start off today the first announcement is!" the teacher paused, as if for dramatic affect. "We have a new student joining us today!" she finally burst and flung a finger in Skyy's direction. Skyy flinched from the doorway as all the student's eyes locked on her. How on earth had the teacher known she was the new student? She hadn't even introduced herself yet. The students began to whisper and gave her confused glances. Well she could admit it was strange that she was transferring two weeks after the first day of school, instead of coming on the first day like everyone else.
"Now come! Don't be shy and introduce yourself," the teacher commanded. Despite her appearance and her entrance the teacher had a very high and demanding voice. She was definitely the type of person that could command respect and attention through her speech. Skyy gulped and slowly stepped forward until she was standing in front of the class. The teacher gave her a look as if to say she gave Skyy permission to begin speaking. Skyy cleared her throat.
"My name is Tsutsumi Skyy, please take good care of me starting today," she said and bowed politely to the class. She twisted her fingers in her hands nervously. The teacher eyeballed her for a minute and Skyy felt like she was shrinking under her intense gaze.
"Is that all?" she asked. Skyy nodded once.
"Yes," she said and the teacher shrugged.
"Okay then, everyone please treat Miss Tsutsumi kindly. You may sit in that empty seat over by the window," she said in a tone that made it seem final and Skyy hesitated before realizing she was supposed to leave now. She looked up to find her seat and her heart almost stopped when she saw the boy who would be sitting behind her.
He sat casually , wearing a rather wide necked shirt that peeked at his collar bone. His hands were casually in his uniform pockets and his hair was a ragged mess of brunette. His eyes were a soft dazzling brown but seemed to be scrutinizing her as she walked closer to him. She quickly skidded over to the empty seat and dropped in it rather loudly. A couple people gave her long looks before returning their attention to their teacher. Skyy blushed in embarrassment and hooked her book bag onto her desk as quietly as she could. The teacher watched her until she settled in and when she was satisfied she finally turned and began reading off more announcements.
As class dragged on Skyy could feel a burning gaze at her back. Was it the guy sitting behind her? She chanced a glance about halfway through the first period and quickly whipped back around. She was right; he'd been looking at her. She frowned and bit her lip, trying to focus on her studies. Just what was so interesting? She willed with all her might that he would focus on something else but she felt the gaze heating up her back all period. When the bell rang for lunch it seemed like a ray of sunlight from heaven and all the students shot up from their seats. She leaned closer to the window as she heard the chair behind her skid out and the brunette guy breeze by her. She glanced up at him and he passed by her without even giving her a glance back.
She frowned. That was rude. After he had been looking at her all period he completely ignored her and walked past. You think he'd had something to say to her, she found it annoying. She followed him with her eyes and saw him waltz up to a group of three other people who sat in different desks in their class. Two of the students were guys, and the other a rather pretty girl.
The girl was about average height, maybe a few inches taller than Skyy and had flaming short red hair that fanned out at the base of her neck. Her eyes were a deep, but warm brown and she sat perked politely in her chair with her elbows on the desk and her chin resting in her palms. She looked up at the group of guys and laughed happily at whatever they were talking about. She seemed like a nice person.
One of the guys was about the same height as the brunette boy. He was blonde and had thin, piercing dark blue eyes. He leaned on the girl's desk and smirked coolly. He had a very calm and cool atmosphere to him and Skyy knew right away he must have been popular with the girls. With that odd hair and eye colour, plus his thin physique and good features, he really must have been a hot topic. On further inspection his fingers were long and thin and somewhat delicate looking. It made Skyy wonder if he played any instruments.
The second guy, the last one, was the shortest of the entire group. This was a little funny to look at, at first glance. He was the perfect example of a model student in Skyy's mind. He had very short cropped and slightly spiky maroon coloured hair…it couldn't be natural. His eyes were a surprisingly deep striking black. Or they were just such a deep brown that they blended in with his pupils. But it was cooler to say they just looked black. He had an orange laptop bag slung over his shoulder and he clutched the strap lightly in one hand.
They looked like a well-rounded group of friends. Skyy looked down and sat silently in her seat, making no effort to leave. She waited as the group of friends eventually drifted out, and waited until all the other students eventually filtered out to go hang out somewhere and eat or buy their lunches. When they were gone she sighed lightly and leaned over, taking out her packed bento from her bag and lightly placing it in the middle of her desk. She looked at it for a moment, studying it as it sat in the glow of the sunlight. Finally she slipped out her chopsticks and unfolded the cloth around her lunch.
Izzy hummed lightly to himself as he wandered down the empty hallways. He was just heading to the computer room to spend the rest of the break studying the seeker digimon's groups and travelling patterns. He ate quickly so he'd have a majority of the lunch to study. Excited he picked up his pace slightly, eager to get to the computer room. He turned a corner a little too quickly and didn't see as a figure curled around the corner in the opposite direction. He jutted backwards but he had been moving too quick and he collided with the girl straight on.
They both grunted and fell back. Izzy landed hard on the ground and suddenly felt panicked for his laptop. He quickly grabbed his laptop bag and inspected his prized computer. Once he found it was unharmed he picked himself up and held out a hand to the disgruntled girl. He avoided looking at her directly, for she was in a compromising position and he didn't want to see anything he wasn't supposed to.
"I-I'm sorry! I wasn't watching where I was going," he apologized quickly. The girl looked at his hand, and then to him and sighed. She picked herself up, ignoring his hand and flattened down her skirt.
"Nah, it's no big deal, my head was down so it's partly my fault as well," she said simply. Izzy lifted his gaze to her face and cracked a small smile, for he recognized her.
"Ah! You're Miss Tsutsumi right? The new student?" he said in a friendly tone. Skyy paused.
"…Yes," she said. Izzy smiled widely.
"It's nice to formally meet you, my name is Izumi Izzy," he said. Skyy looked him up and down. He was the short boy that was with the brunette guy. Strange. From up close he didn't look old enough to be in middle school. Did he skip a grade?
"Oh, nice to meet you," she mumbled and made a move to leave until she spotted something on the ground. "Hey, did you drop this?" she asked and Izzy turned to see what she was talking about.
"Ah! Yes, I must've dropped it," he said when he noticed the white digivice had fallen on the ground. How could he drop something so important? He moved to pick up the device but Skyy was one step ahead of him. She stooped down and plucked the object from the floor. She held it up to her face and rose and eyebrow.
"What is this?" she wondered. Izzy opened his mouth to answer but then something unpredictable happened. As soon as Skyy laid the digivice in her palm the device began to glow. Skyy was shocked and almost dropped it, gasping. The glow turned into a bright light and spread, engulfing Skyy's hand, and then her arm. The light covered her whole body and Izzy just watched in shock, speechless.
Skyy became a glowing figure and sparkles rained down around her. Skyy was frozen solid, not knowing at all how to comprehend her situation. For a minute she couldn't see anything but a bright white light. She closed her eyes to protect them and clutched the object tightly in her fist. She glowed for a second longer before the light faded and the brightness she could see through her eyelids grew dark. The glow retreaded into the device and the screen's backlight turned on as the device activated. Skyy paused before peeking her eyes open. The first thing she saw was Izzy's shocked and dumb stricken face.
"Y-you…" he blubbered. Finally Skyy collected her thoughts and held up the device.
"Did that just happen! did you see that? What is this?" Skyy said, holding the device like it was a bug. Izzy's mouth opened and closed, so he resembled a fish until he shook his head and dug for his phone. He pulled it out and pressed buttons quickly. Skyy looked at him like he was stupid. Who was he calling? Did he see what just happened? She had been glowing!
She was about to scold him when he suddenly reached out and grabbed her hand. Skyy tensed up and before she knew it she was being dragged down the hallway after this strange maroon haired boy. Izzy bit his lip and finally the person he called answered on the other end.
"Tai! Quick get to the computer room ASAP!" he said and shut the phone. He struggled but managed to shove it into his pocket and continued racing down the hallway. Skyy tried not to trip over her feet. She wanted to stop running but the boy's grip was fairly harsh. Though maybe he didn't realize. She should have been scolding him, telling him to let the hell go of her. She wanted to ask him what on earth the glowing object was and why it made her glow. And why on earth was he so eager to get to the computer lab! Skyy's brain was fuzzy with so many questions. She was running hard and breathing heavily which caused her to be un-able to choke out the questions as she ran. Besides, she thought even if she did start barking out questions, he wouldn't answer until he had gotten them to wherever he wanted to go first. So she just let herself be dragged
Once they had arrived at the computer lab they both buckled over, gasping for air. They both obviously didn't exercise that much if they had been so winded by just running down the hallways. Skyy gulped down a breath of air and straightened up.
"Just… what…happened to me?" she demanded. Izzy stood up and looked at her nervously.
"You might not believe me if I explained it to you," he said. If he outright explained she was a digidestined and there were such things as the Digital World, she might think he was crazy. She gave him a confused look and suddenly the screen door to the computer lab burst open.
"Izzy! What is it!" Tai burst in frantically. He paused when he saw the two standing there. Skyy's eyes widened. It was…the brunette haired boy from before. His gaze landed on her and he gave her an uncomprehendable look. One probably as if to say: 'what is she doing here?' Izzy took her wrist lightly and held it up to show the white digivice.
"It's her Tai! She's the one we're looking for!" he said excitedly. Tai paused. Skyy frowned and snatched her hand away. Izzy jumped in surprise.
"Hey, you can't just grab people like that," she said, frowning. "What are you talking about?" she asked.
"Are you sure? How do you know?" Tai asked, ignoring Skyy's question.
"As soon as she touched the digivice it responded to her and shone like a bright light," Izzy explained, forgetting to apologize for grabbing Skyy's wrist. Tai gave her another skeptical look. Skyy didn't like it.
"Hey, don't ignore me, now what are you talking about?" she asked more firmly. Tai shrugged and scratched his head.
"Do you know what digimon are?" Tai asked suddenly, looking at her. Skyy blinked a few times as she registered his question.
"Digi—what?"
"Digimon, Digital Monsters? The Digital World? Ringing any bells?" Tai asked again. Skyy's face only looked more confused. Tai sighed and scratched his head. "Well, if she really is the one, it might be easier to show her then to explain it to her," Tai said. Skyy stepped back slightly.
"S-show me what?" she asked warily. Just what were these two up to? Izzy nodded.
"Trust me, it'll work, she's the one," Izzy said, nodding surely. Skyy didn't like this. What was this, she's 'the one' business. It was getting annoying. And she hated how they talked about her as if she wasn't even there!
Both of the boys took out some small objects and held them up. Skyy paused; they were the same little devices as the one she held now. Izzy turned and rushed to a computer. He turned it on and began typing out a bunch of codes. Soon a window popped up and a green light blinked. The window was black but as soon at the light beeped it slid open to reveal what looked like a grassy field. Tai stood behind Izzy and called Skyy over to the computer. She frowned stubbornly and stood her ground. Tai laughed.
"Hey, hey, we're not gonna bite, just come try something for us, we'll explain everything, I know your confused," Tai said warmly. Skyy studied his features cautiously. He sounded genuine…
She stepped forward but stopped at a comfortable distance from the boys, still unsure. Tai turned back to look at the screen.
"It's open right?" he asked. Izzy leaned back and nodded.
"Yup."
"We'll, then let's go," Tai said excitedly. Izzy cocked his head to the side.
"But we have school too…" he said. Tai shrugged.
"We can catch up tomorrow, we'll say something urgent came up and we had to leave," Tai said quickly. Izzy thought about it.
"But it's still not good…"
"Oh whatever, if we don't do this now she won't come here with us again," Tai urged. With that Izzy agreed and held up his device. He turned to face the thoroughly confused Skyy.
"Okay, all you have to do is hold up the device in your hand so the screen faces this one," he said. Skyy hesitated but then lifted the device to the screen. Tai and Izzy held theirs up as well and grinned.
"Alright, here we go!" Tai said excitedly, he put a hand on Skyy's shoulder and she flinched. Izzy glanced at her.
"If you feel like your falling, don't worry, just fall," he grinned and suddenly the screen shone bright white. Skyy gasped but before she could flee the light engulfed all of them and she felt herself being sucked forward.
It was the strangest feeling in the world. Her feet left the ground before she even realized it and it seemed more like she had started floating rather than was actually being sucked forward. Skyy's mind went blank as she realized she was floating in an odd white abyss. However it was only seconds until the loss of gravity that seemed to be holding her in place decided to come back and she began plummeting downwards. She was so shocked she couldn't even scream. She was falling down, the white abyss blended into black and she fell so far down she was engulfed in it.
Then she woke up.
Her eyes blinked a few times to focus properly and a bright sunlight temporarily blinded her. Skyy groaned loudly as she started to feel her body again and the compromising position she was in. Then the pain came and her body began to ache. She tried to get up but her arms were cramped and she ended up twitching until her hands came up by her face.
"Oh, are you okay? You didn't really land properly…but I guess it just takes getting used to," a voice mumbled. It sounded like…that brunette guy? What was his name…?
Skyy groggily looked upwards, pushing her shoulders up shakily with her hands.
"What?" she said in an unflattering voice. The male voice laughed and held out a hand.
"Here, take it," he said, still laughing and a large tan hand came into view. Skyy looked at it for a second before grabbing it and letting it haul her to her feet. She winced at the cramped feeling in all of her muscles and she wobbled slightly as the hand let go of her. She stood up straight and used a hand to cover the sunlight from her eyes. Strange, why was it so sunny? They were inside….
Skyy's eyes widened when she realized where she was. She stood on top of a grassy field that stretched into a strange looking forest. There were tall mountains that stretched for the sky in the distance and a small lake that stood behind her with some cliff faces outlining the other side. Skyy opened her mouth to say something but it ended up just staying open stupidly. She heard a chuckle and felt a hand on her shoulder, patting it lightly.
"So, what do you think?" the male voice from earlier asked. Skyy turned around to see who it was. Tai stood behind her with a goofy expression on his face. Skyy jumped and flinched her shoulder away from his touch.
"H-hey! Just what happened! Where are we?" she said stepping away from him. Tai smiled and looked around him.
"We're in the Digital World, you can only access it these days by going through a portal in the computer," he sighed. Skyy looked at him as if he was crazy. What? Digital world?
"You've got to be joking, is this a trick?" she asked. He had to be joking. There is no such thing as digital worlds, except for online computer games, were they in a computer game? If so why did it feel so real? Tai shook his head.
"How can this be a trick, we're here aren't we?" he teased. Skyy stared at him for a moment. Just then she raised her hand and pinched her cheek as hard as she could. She gasped and Tai jumped in surprise.
"Hey, hey, hey! Don't hurt yourself you idiot!" he scolded her. Skyy looked at the ground with wide eyes.
"So…this isn't a dream…or a game…this is…real?" she murmured to herself. Tai sighed.
"That's what I said right?" he muttered. Skyy looked at him.
"But, we came through a computer! How is that possible?" she asked.
"We're not completely sure, no matter how many times I've researched it I can't come up with a logical and scienentifical solution for it," Izzy's voice answered and he walked up behind Tai. "We become digital data once we come here and our bodies become computer files, to put it simply, everything here is computer data, even the digimon."
"Digimon?" Skyy asked. Tai grinned.
"Yup! They're the creatures that inhabit the Digital World, you'll see one soon enough," he said excitedly. Skyy cocked her head. You mean there were creatures that lived here? Skyy's brain became fuzzy again. There were so many things happening to her right now that shouldn't be logically happening. None of this should exist!
Suddenly Izzy grinned and turned around.
"Hey, Tai, they've found us quickly again," he said and Tai turned around. Two small figures were approaching, one flying and one running. Both boys smiled and happily waved their arms around. When the two creatures got closer Skyy's jaw dropped. A huge bug and a dinosaur happily ran up and exchanged greetings with her two classmates.
"See, Tsutsumi these are the digimon, its short for digital monster," Izzy explained. The two monsters looked at her with surprised faces.
"Um, Izzy, who might this be?" the large bug spoke. Skyy flinched. They talked!
"She's the one we've been looking for Tentomon, the white digivice we found the other day reacted to her when she touched it, plus it was able to bring her here," Izzy explained. The bug, sort of, looked surprised.
"Oh how lucky! You've found her!" he said in a joyful voice. His face didn't really show much expression so it was mostly his voice that you had to listen to in order to figure out his emotions. Skyy thought she might faint. Talking monsters, talking monsters, talking monsters!
Just then the small device that she had been clutching this whole time began to beep wildly. Skyy was snapped from her shock and looked down at it. The screen was blinking and there was a small arrow pointing in the direction of the cliffs beyond the lake. She spun the device around and wherever it pointed the arrow remained pointing at the cliffs. Sort of like an electronic compass. Suddenly a shadow loomed over her and she jumped in surprise.
"Oh! You're getting a signal, should we follow it?" Tai said, observing her device. Skyy could feel his breath on her neck and she shrunk away. Izzy looked excited.
"A signal? I wonder what it could be? May as well check it out whilst were here," he said. Tai nodded and looked back down at Skyy.
"Well, you better get up, you're gonna have to tell us which way to go," he said cheerily and pulled her up once again with his hand. Skyy paused and looked down at the thing in her hand. She held it out to Tai.
"Why don't you just take it, it's yours anyway isn't it?" she said. First the thing made her glow, now it was transporting her to weird worlds, she didn't quite think she wanted to be holding it anymore. Tai shook his head and raised his hands.
"Oh no, no, no, this is yours. It reacted when you touched it so it's all yours, you keep it," he said. Skyy frowned.
"But I don't want it," she said. Tai shrugged.
"Too bad, it's yours, we're not taking it back," he said. Skyy frowned and grudginginly lowered her hand.
"Fine," she grumbled.
"So, where to? Where is it pointing to?" Tai asked her. Skyy glanced at the blinking screen again and then pointed behind her.
"Those cliffs," she said bordly. Tai grinned.
"Alright then let's go!" he cheered and grabbed her hand, dragging her along with him. Skyy frowned but let herself be dragged. Even if she didn't want to go, which she didn't, she would rather stay with these guys then wander around by herself. Especially if there were more weird bugs and dinosaurs lurking around.
It took a while but the group of five finally trekked around the lake to the cliffs. Using her new device as a compass Skyy told where the arrow was pointing and the group followed it. The two boys chatted most of the way, also with the creatures, digimon if she recalled correctly. But Skyy stayed silent. They would ask her questions but she wouldn't really answer them. She wanted to go back to school, she was missing her first day of classes and that couldn't be good on her record. Or even her home was good too, yeah, she wanted to go home. But she didn't seem to have the courage to ask them to take her back. They were so comfortable with their surroundings. It was weird, yet curious. A small part of her, she thought, wanted to see what was at the end of this beeping trail.
A strange pull had been tugging at her ever since the device started beeping. She ignored it but as the group moved forward, it got stronger. Skyy didn't know if she liked it or not. She tried not to think about it but she followed the two boy's orders and kept walking forward anyway. When the beeping arrow finally stopped and disappeared, Skyy found herself standing at the base of a large cliff face with a very solid looking rock stretching way up into the sky.
The cliff was covered in vines and all the vegetation around it was very overgrown. Tentomon and Agumon had to hack most of it away for them to get through. This was obviously an area no one ever visited. Izzy rested his hand on his chin.
"Wow, I've never seen surroundings like this before," he said staring at the mass of vines in awe. Tai made a confused face. He leaned over Skyy's shoulder to look at her device.
"What does your digivice say? Is it still pointing anywhere?" he asked. Skyy looked at it. The screen was dark and the arrow had faded away and stopped beeping. She shook her head.
"No, it stopped once we got here," she said. Tai bit his lips and folded his arms.
"Darn,"
"Hey, now that we know there's nothing here, can we go back now?" Skyy asked shyly. Tai shook his head furiously.
"No way! That signal was leading somewhere; we just have to find it. Whatever was setting it off must be around here somewhere…" Tai muttered and began searching around all the bushes. "Agumon! Look over there," Tai said and the yellow dinosaur digimon nodded and trailed off to look in some more bushes. Izzy was walking up and down the side of the cliff, the bug buzzing behind him wherever he walked. They chatted about something but Skyy couldn't hear once they'd gotten farther away. She looked around and sighed. She glanced at the vines and frowned suspiciously.
"Maybe it's behind these vines?" she suggested. Tai perked up.
"Oh yeah! Let's try that!" he said excitedly and stumbled his way over to the vines. He began pulling them off in big chunks and they fell limply to the ground. Skyy stepped out of the way so the vines wouldn't touch her. When Tai broke through to the rock he stopped.
"Whoa," he mumbled. Curious, Skyy peeked around him and raised her eyebrows. Izzy wandered back to see what they'd found and smiled excitedly. On the rock of the cliff face there was a carved handprint with curly swirly carvings encompassing it in a circle that looked sort of like a donut with three curved triangles coming out of it, one at the top and two at the bottom. It looked like a symbol of some sort but Skyy had never seen it before. Tai cocked his head to the side.
"Hey, doesn't it kind of look like a crest Izzy?" he asked. The maroon haired boy nodded.
"Yeah, but what crest I wonder?" he said and stroked the curvy carvings curiously. Tai leaned back and grinned at Skyy.
"Well, put your hand to it, maybe it'll open a secret door or something?" he said. Skyy looked from him to the hand print and laughed.
"Um, no, I don't think so, you guys can go right ahead," she said and stepped back. She had enough of weird things happening today. Tai shrugged.
"Okaaay, but I don't think it'll work," he said and raised his hand. He pressed his palm and fingers into the carving and waited. All five stood silent, but nothing happened. Tai lowered his hand.
"Iz, you try," he said. Izzy raised his hand to the plate. Again they waited. And again nothing happened. They both turned and looked at Skyy. "See? You do it," Tai said. Skyy hesitated but saw there was no getting out of it. She sighed in annoyance and raised her hand. She pressed it into the carvings and bit her lip.
The carving immediately began to glow bright white and the cliff shook slightly. They all froze and didn't move. The shaking stopped quickly and then the rock underneath Skyy's hand evaporated. It disappeared and in its place there was a long dark tunnel leading into the cliff. Skyy's mouth dropped and Tai grinned.
"See, that wasn't so bad," he said and sauntered past her into the tunnel. Agumon ran after him quickly. Izzy patted Skyy's back.
"C'mon, let's go," he said smiling. Skyy lowered her hand and followed behind Izzy, keeping her mouth shut tight. The group walked further into the tunnel and the sounds of their shoes echoed against the walls. It was a short walk before the tunnel opened up into a bigger room. There were more carvings resembling the one outside carved all over the walls and more vines creeping down from the ceilings. There were a few holes in the ceiling and rays of light streamed down into the room, giving it a very fantasy like feel. For the first time Skyy crept closer to Tai, not wanting to touch anything.
"It looks a lot like that temple from the other day, but smaller," Tai said, looking all around. Izzy nodded.
"Yeah, very similar," he murmured. In the middle of the room was a large stone-carved statue. It was of a huge, intricate dragon with jeweled eyes and a long snake like body with four big clawed legs that protruded out. It sat eerily there, like it would come alive at any second, and it stared right at them. Suddenly the bug digimon jumped around.
"Izzy! I know who this is!" Tentomon exclaimed excitedly. Izzy looked over.
"You do?"
"Yeah! This statue is of the Legendary Digimon of Life!" Tentomon explained. Izzy's eyebrows rose and he looked back at the statue.
"No way…" he mumbled in shock. "I thought there were only four great Dragon Digimon?"
"Mm, that's is true but the Legendary Digimon of Life, although it is a dragon digimon, is said to be legendary…as in non-existent. So it doesn't count" Tentomon said simply.
"Hey, Skyy? What are you doing?" Tai suddenly asked. Izzy looked over to see what he was talking about. Unknown to the both of them Skyy had already started walking up closer to the statue with a glazed over look in her eyes.
It was odd. As soon as she had seen the statue, the pull she felt from before had gotten a lot stronger. Before she had realized it she was walking up to it. It was like her legs had a mind of their own. She didn't know what to think and as soon as she stood at the base of the statue a weird sensation flowed over her. She raised her arm up without realizing and raised the digivice in her hand up to the dragon's face. The two boys and their digimon watched her silently.
The statue began to glow bright white and Skyy squinted her eyes to shield them. The entire statue became a glowing form. It floated up from its base and began to shift around radically. It bended and compressed and shape shifted until it was no longer dragon shaped. It became smaller and floated down towards Skyy. It made its way to Skyy's feet and once it touched the ground the light around it blew away and in its place it left a small oddly shaped creature. Skyy stared at it with a slack mouth and wide eyes.
The creature itself was small, about the size of a cat. Its body actually looked like a cross between a cat and a fox. Its paws were small and soft looking though, like a cat's. But its tail was long and bushy, like a fox's. Its head was round and had large flat ears that looked like diamonds, and were topped with black coloured baubles on the tips. Its eyes were large and a dazzling turquoise colour. There was two small fangs protruding from its cute mouth and around its neck was sort of a clown collar that was purple with black baubles on the tips that resembled the ones on the end of the creature's ears. Its fur was white all over except for little orange markings on the end of its tail, reaching from its paws to its elbows, and covering its ears. There was also an orange triangle marking its forehead that pointed upwards.
The creature shook herself lightly and stretched like a cat, yawning and showing off her sharp canine-like teeth. She straightened up and scratched the back of her ear with her back paw. The group watched her silently in wonder. Finally the creature seemed to notice their presence and it immediately looked up at Skyy. Its eyes sparkled and its mouth turned into a wide grin.
"Hi! My name is Pleomon! I'm so glad to finally meet you Skyy!" it squeaked in a cute, cheerful, female voice.
Second chapter done :3
Hoped you like it! _
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