THE DIGI-SAVERS
WARNING: Contains inappropriate language, violence, and suggestive themes.
Rating: T
Main Characters: Kagura Matsuoka, Hiro Matsuoka, Tanaka Arai, Minami Kudo, Kai Minamoto, Kyoko Okuda & Hinata Sakura.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Digimon and the characters [besides the digimon] in this story are all fictional and made up by me. With that being sad.. Don't sue me please.
CHAPTER 02: Buried Treasure
KAGURA'S POV
When I opened my eyes, I expected myself to be in the computer lab working on Hiro's paper; but instead my back was sore and I found myself lying on a floor of gravel.
"What in the world..?" I mumbled as I sat up. I looked at my surroundings which were all rocks and sand being flown in the air. "Is this some kind of joke?"
My eyes widened and I stood up. "No, this is just a dream. A messed up, weird..dream."
"Dream? What's a dream?"
I jumped back, startled. I fell back onto the ground and my body shook the second my eyes landed on a cat with blue eyes, white fur and a bright ring on its tail. "Y-you're a cat... And you just talked... Yup this is definitely a dream."
"Hey miss human, you didn't answer my question!" The talking cat snapped, pointing one of its long nails at my face. "What's a dream?"
"W-well it's like a series of thoughts and visions that play in your head when you're asleep... In other words it's not real, and it's not something that's actually happening at the moment in real life... Maybe it's like an illusion but I'm not sure if that explains it..." I babbled and scratched the back of my head. "I-I'm if that's a bad explanation- I don't really know how to explain dreams but then again I've never had to explain anything to a talking cat."
"The name's Gatomon and I am not a talking cat! I'm a digimon!" Gatomon growled, stopping her small paws on the ground. "And this dream you're babbling on about is probably not a dream because I'm just as real as you are."
"That's a first my dream characters have ever said that," I chuckled nervously. "And the fact that I can control what I say and my movements is cool."
"You're hopeless." Gatomon sighed and shook her head. "-and for the Light Guardian; you're not that bright."
"The Light wha-?" I repeated in confusion.
Gatomon gasped. "Ah, I've said too much already. Patamon's going to kill me!"
"Patamon?" I said but my eyes widened once I recognized that name. "Wait, I know the name Patagon! Who are you and what are you? If this isn't a dream, where am I and why am I always here whenever I fall asleep?! What's your reason for bringing me here?!"
"You brought yourself here, it's destiny Kagura. But don't worry, you're not alone." Gatomon assured. My vision began to get blurry and lights flashed in all directions, but I couldn't leave now. Not without answers.
"What do you mean Gatomon or whatever your name is... I don't understand!" I exclaimed.
"It'll all make sense soon enough.."
HIRO'S POV
It was the day of the three day school trip and we're headed to a campsite with a cool beach and a giant space where we can set up our tents. Kagura as always overslept and by the time we arrived there was about ten minutes left till we took attendance and boarded the buses.
"Hiiiiiiiiiirooooooo!" Tanaka screamed from behind me. I turned around, startled and saw Tanaka running towards me with a smaller looking boy tailing behind him.
"Tanaka?" I said in disbelief. "What in the world are you doing here, it's Saturday, it's a first year school trip, and why'd you bring your.. Brother?"
"Okay first off, I'm volunteering since I have nothing better to do." Tanaka said.
"Nothing better to do?" I repeated. "Or is the principal forcing you to do this because you crashed a window while trying to kick the soccer ball to the goal?"
"..Maybe." Tanaka muttered. "But anyways, this isn't my brother. This is Mr. Wong's son and since he couldn't find someone to babysit the kid he decided to bring him along."
I took a good look at the boy with his dirty blonde hair and blue eyes. Then I realized that I've seen him before.
"Hey, you're a part of the junior basketball team at the sport and leisure centre aren't you?" I questioned. "You're Kai, aren't you?"
Kai nodded and grinned. "Yup, and I've seen you at one of the other gyms in the centre. You're the captain of the senior team, Hiro. Everyone talks about you, we all think you're legendary."
"Legendary?" I said, and grinned widely at my confidence rising.
"Legendary?" Kagura interrupted, coming out of who-knows-where and erupted into laughter.
"Oh shut up," I groaned in irritation but Kagura only ignored me and laughed harder. "At least I can shoot a basket, Miss C-plus at gym class."
Kagura instantly stopped laughing (which was what I was going for) and she clenched her fists in fury. "You're done." She raised her fists that were about to be in contact with my face and I could see three of her friends running over. But just as she was about to smack her fists against my jaw she suddenly froze.
Before I could do or say anything she suddenly turned pale and collapsed onto the grass. A small commotion went off and Kagura's friends finally managed to catch up.
"What happened?" Minami questioned.
"I don't know, one second she's about to try and kill me and the next she's on the ground!" I picked up my sister and sighed.
"Is she going to be okay?" Kai asked worriedly.
I nodded. "I think so."
"She fainted yesterday in the computer lab; I wonder why she keeps passing out." Kyoko pondered.
Kagura's eyes suddenly fluttered opened slowly and she let out a small whimper.
"Hey 'sis, what happened?" I asked her with everyone around me also confused.
"P-Patamon.."
"What?"
"Patamon.. Needs my help..." Was all she said before she closed her eyes once more.
"I think she's out now," Minami said, pointing the obvious
"What was she talking about; it sounded like gibberish to me..." Nagisa muttered.
"I'll go get the nurse, make sure you stay here." Tanaka said before running off.
I continued to stare at my sister, with her words echoing on repeat in my head. Patamon? Why does that sound so familiar?
"Hiro!" Patamon's voice called. Coronamon and I ran to where her voice was coming from and we saw Patamon running towards us. I noticed that one of Patamon's wings were damaged so that was why she wasn't flying even though it would've been faster.
"Patamon!" Coronamon and I gasped in unison, running to her side.
"Where's Kagura?" I asked desperately.
"Kagura rose up a stone wall to release me from being trapped from under it but once I was free a big digimon attacked us and she made me run to safety and look for the others." Patamon explained.
"She's fighting a digimon all by herself?! Has she gone crazy?!" I said in disbelief.
"I-I didn't want to leave her but I can't digivolve and I have used all my energy to come to you guys for h-help... She said she was going to distract it till you guys came." Patamon said.
"Should we go Hiro?" Coronamon asked but winced and dropped one knee down on the ground.
"You're injured though," I said.
"I'm in better shape than Patamon which means I can still fight, and we can't just stand here and find out your sister was destroyed!" Coronamon yelled. "She's family Hiro!"
"But I don't want you to be destroyed! You're family too Coronamon!" I shrieked, bursting into tears. I collapsed my knees onto the ground and wrapped my arms around Coronamon.
"P-please Hiro..." Coronamon pleaded and I could feel his warm tears dripping down my shirt. "You're a Digi-saver.."
I took a deep breath before loosening my grip on Coronamon and standing up. I curled my fingers into a tight fist and raised it up into the air. "You're right Coronamon, thank you."
Coronamon smiled and stood up with me.
"Whether we like it or not, this is our destiny. Millions of lives are at stake, not just digimon but my sister. And I won't back down, not now, not ever." I announced and looked down at Coronamon and Patamon. "Those are just some of the qualities that make up a digi-saver, right?"
Coronamon and Patamon smiled and gave me two thumbs up. "Right!"
I woke up to the voices of people talking, yelling, laughter and the sounds of cars honking as they passed by. I sat up and found myself on the school bus with my sister sitting beside me on my right, still fast asleep and snoring loudly as always. My memory of what happened earlier today suddenly rushed back.
Tanaka came back with the school's nurse and after doing a brief check up on her she said that Kagura suffered from fatigue, probably because that girl doesn't sleep till three am from doing so much homework and watching television and ends up oversleeping and barely having any sleep at all.
That dream.. Patamon... That was the name Kagura called before she passed out. Could it be that she's been getting the same dreams as I've been having for a month now? We are twins and our bond is pretty strong no matter how much we fight.. So it's possible. But she said she didn't know who Coronamon, so maybe I could've just heard her wrong.
"You've finally awoken, welcome back." Hinata's calm voice greeted and waved from the seat across where he was sitting beside Nagisa.
"Hinata! Where were you when Kagura passed out? I thought you would've tagged along with Tanaka."
"Ah, I kind of overslept." Hinata admitted.
"Hey, then you can join the oversleeping club." I joked and pointed at my sister.
Hinata smirked and raised an eyebrow. "She really looks like she's in a deep sleep. It looks like not even the sound of ten garbage trucks could wake her up."
"I guess that's one way to put it," I chuckled. "But I'm surprised her snoring hasn't woken herself up."
Hinata laughed softly and continued to stare at my sister deeply. I sighed quietly to myself and looked at my sister as well... It's really been a year since the accident... I wonder if he's recovered.. My sister sure has.
"How's your sleep been lately?" I asked Hinata, changing the subject completely.
"Huh?" Hinata said, startled.
"That sounded really messed up Hiro," Tanaka butted in and stood up slightly from the seat behind mine and leaned his elbows on the top of the seat. "What kind of question is that?"
"I was just wondering!" I hissed before relaxing myself and sliding down the seat. "It's because I've been getting really weird dreams lately and without my alarm clock I'd probably oversleep everyday just like Kagura. I think she's getting weird dreams too."
"M-maybe it's because your twins?" Nagisa suggested.
"Does that make us fraternal triplets?" Kai asked and stood up and dropped his chin on the seat top. "Because I've been getting weird dreams.. For a month now."
"What?" I gasped, staring at Kai in shock.
"Yeah. Whenever I fall asleep; even if it's supposed to be a short nap I always get the exact same dreams of me being in this strange world."
"That's creepy because I've been getting dreams like that too!" Minami's high toned voice chirped and she revealed her and Kyoko sitting on the seats in front of me.
"Might I add that I am getting strange dreams as well," Kyoko added. "For a month now."
"Now this is getting creepy because so have I, and I'm not just saying that so you can all direct your attention to me... Even though that's something I would do." Tanaka smirked.
"Were you all listening to our conversation?" I hissed, irritated as I stared at all the familiar faces surrounding me. "And I didn't ask any of you, I asked Hinata."
"Well I guess it's time to join you strange dreamers because I've been getting these dreams too," Hinata said.
"So all of us have been getting these dreams?" I questioned and looked at Nagisa. "Even you?"
Nagisa shook her head. "N-no.. And I don't know if I should feel relieved or jealous since I'm the only one who hasn't."
"You should be relieved, the dreams I have are terrifying and I wake up breathless with tears in the corners of my eyes." Kagura suddenly replied causing all of us to jump back in surprise.
"You were awake?!" I exclaimed at my sister.
Kagura sat up and crossed her arms and let out a loud sigh. "Well who could sleep with all the noise you're making?"
"S-sorry Kagura.." Nagisa apologized, squeezing her scarf tightly.
Kagura looked at Nagisa and smiled. "Don't be, and you're definitely not alone on this whole weird dream thing. It's only the seven of us that have them out of forty people on this bus. I'm not counting the others on the three other buses but I highly doubt that anyone else is getting them because; seven people having the exact same dream every single night for a month to now? That's strange enough."
"She's got a point there.." Hinata murmured.
"Your sister's pretty smart Hiro," Kai said.
"And hot." Tanaka said flirtatiously.
"Oh quit it you pervert." Kagura snapped and slammed her fist on Tanaka's head.
"Attention students and teachers," The bus driver spoke up through the intercom. "We will be arriving at River lane's Ranch Camp shortly. Stay in your seats till we come to a complete stop and thank you for your cooperation."
The entire bus cheered loudly and we all looked out of our windows and watched excitedly as our bus parked in front of the camp entrance.
"Has it been three hours already?" I said as I stood up along with everyone else and stretched my arms. I picked up my backpack and threw it over my shoulder. We all exited the bus and met up with the teacher who supervised us.
The first things that we did were getting a look around, talk and ask questions to the teachers. The camp trip's a school tradition for the first years so the teachers basically know this place by heart. That took about an hour.
The next hour was used learning how to set up our tents and knowing Kagura, she struggled the most.
"Great job everyone, even you Kagura because you were able to do it in the end." Mr. Wong congratulated and gave Kagura a thumb up. Everyone erupted into laughter and Kagura turned bright red from embarrassment.
"Moving on," Mr. Wong said and picked up a bunch of papers that were sitting on a crate next to him. "Today we are going to play a game of scavenger hunt, and since we have a huge amount of students with us today; teams will be split up among seven people. The winner of this hunt will win vip passes to the secret camp grounds all you can eat gourmet buffet!"
Everyone - especially my sister - hollered and cheered loudly with excitement and ran forward to grab the scavenger hunt list.
I noticed that I-myself, Kagura, Hinata, Tanaka, Kai, Minami and Kyoko were all standing next to each other and I grinned. "Hey do you guys want to be in the same team?" I proposed.
"That's genius!" Tanaka chimed.
"Well maybe for you guys but Minami, Kyoko and I are going to be on the same team with the rest of my friends." Kagura told, crossing her arms.
"Um, Kagura.. About that.." Nagisa stuttered.
Kagura turned around and gasped once she realized that the rest of her friends - minus Kyoko and Minami who were with us the whole time - already formed a team of seven. Kagura sighed in defeat and I smiled in victory.
"Then it's settled," I said and unfolded the sheet of paper. "We're winning this for sure."
Darkness began to rise which meant that there were only thirty minutes left for the scavenger hunt since we were about to start dinner and prepare to sleep. There we twenty-five items on the list and we managed to get twenty-four of them. Some were really ridiculous to find like a life jacket and instead of it being in the shed near the lake, there was only one sitting on a canoe in the middle of lake. We were pretty lucky that Kyoko swims pretty well and has a part time job as a lifeguard so she was able to get it for us.
"What's the last thing we have to find?" Kai asked, standing on his tiptoes to read the list. Everyone surrounded me since I was the only one with a list.
"It says we have to find a starfish, how random." I said bluntly. Suddenly- it didn't seem real when a few mystical sparkles flew over the sentence and after a small flash of light coming from the sentence; it read something different.
"F-Find the devices for they lead the answers to all your q-questions?" I read in confusion. Everyone around me broke out in hysteria and confusion.
"D-Did that sentence just change from starfish to whatever that is?!" Kai stammered in shock.
"That's illogical and impossible!" Kyoko cried, staring at the paper in disbelief. "How can magical sparkles just come out of nowhere? That sounds like some little Barbie movie if you ask me."
"It looked more like colorful pixels to me, and it had a bunch of zeros and ones jumping everywhere." Kagura inquired.
"Who cares about that, we should turn this in and scientists would be so amazed that we could make profit out of this!" Tanaka beamed in newfound excitement.
"Is that all you really care about?" Hinata sighed.
"Hinata's right you idiot," Kagura snapped, pulling the back of Tanaka's collar and dragging him back down.
"I think we should continue on with this because Kagura's going to kill us if we don't win the passes to the buffet..." Minami added.
"But unlike starfishes where are probably at the beach, where in the world are we going to find 'devices that give us the answers to our questions' or whatever that bogus crap means?" I demanded.
And with a blind of an eye, instead of being in the middle of a lightly dimmed forest, we were standing in the middle of the beach.
We all jumped back in shock and I myself was so surprised I fell back onto the sand. "W-what..? H-how!? This is another d-dream for s-sure!"
Minami instead of speaking with her calm and gentle voice, yelled with a ferocious and frustrated one. "I hate these dreams! They mess with my mind and are the reason why I'm getting eye bags!"
"M-Minami..-" Hinata stuttered.
Kagura despite her looking as confused as the rest of us reached her hand out to pat the shoulder of an extremely frustrated Minami when we were interrupted by a loud, yet warm voice.
"There is no need to be afraid for we are not your enemies..."
I looked around quickly but I didn't see anyone else in sight. Instead, I found a huge light rising from beneath the sandy ground and glowing in our faces.
"What kind of illusion are you playing here? Whatever it is just quit it because we have no time for your foolishness!" I demanded.
"Ah, spoken like a true knight. I can see you are still as stubborn, even though a part of you is still in a deep sleep... Hiro."
My eyes widened. "This is probably Jackson or Chris playing some prank on me isn't it? Well congratulations, you're hilarious; now get out of the bushes you idiots."
"My name isn't either of those, and no matter how many people you name from this world of yours the answer is no."
"What are you saying?! That you're not from this world?!" Kai asked, his kid voice filled with fear and confusion.
"Kai.. How I've missed you so.. But it seems that the brave warrior inside of you hasn't awoken yet and that's a shame especially since we're in such a jeopardizing moment right now in your hometown."
"You're confusing, and I don't know what the hell you are or what you want but you better tell me or I'll get a vacuum." Kagura threatened and sighed out of boredom.
"Kagura, you're speaking with an alien! It could kill you without hesitation!" Kyoko hissed.
Kagura shrugged. "I just want answers, because I'm confused too you know but it's not like I'm going to show off my fear where it can see it."
"K-Kagura... Your presence seems to confuse me the most. You've awoken the most yet at the same time you haven't. It's as if something happened to you in your life that has caused you to possible forge-"
"Shut the hell up!" Hinata snapped and his sudden rush of anger caused all of us to watch back in shock. "Just tell us what you want without bringing personal matters into this!"
"H-Hinata..." Kagura said, clearly not understanding the situation like the rest of us. But we remained silent.
"Very well, but you must promise me to clear out all your fears of me being a dangerous character. I'm not asking you to clear yourself of all fear because its fear that makes us aware of our weaknesses. I am simply asking for you to trust me, just this once."
"U-uh, that sounds simple enough I guess?" Tanaka said, still very shocked.
"Thank you and I am glad your warm heart hasn't been extinguished by the darkness in this world."
"Extingui-wah?" Tanaka repeated-.. Sort of.
"Going back on topic, I want you to relax yourself as much as possible and not freak out on what happens next.. Please promise me that."
We all said a two word sentences that all began with the word 'I' and ended with the word 'promise' in unison. Then, light began to shine even brighter out of the bright spirit and seven separate beams sprung in different directions, each one landing in the palms of our hands. Our eyes all widened in surprise as the bright beams of light began smaller and smaller until the light faded away and revealed a small device.
"W-what is this?" I asked, my mind not able to deal with what was happening.
"These digivices have the power to help your partner digimon evolve into stronger and more powerful creatures so you must remember to fill your heart with happiness so the evolution is not corrupted by darkness."
"Can you put that in words a twelve year old would understand?" Kai asked.
"Or a human being!" Minami exclaimed in unison.
"There is not much I can explain since all the answers you need are located in your heart. What I can say is that you seven are the Digi-Savers and you have the power to save the Digital World for it is under a great deal of destruction and without your help it might be the end of a world you used to live in. I know deep inside of you all you know this place by heart and will protect it because you love it. Please save our world, for it is your destiny."
I stared at the device that I was clutching in my hand. My breath was shaky and a huge part of me had no idea what was going on. But I knew that I wasn't afraid. I tightened my hold on the device and looked towards my sister who seemed to feel the exact same way I did. We both nodded at once and stood up.
"I can't tell if this is a dream or a prank or if I'm really meant for something as intense as saving another world. But right now I'm just going to go through with it because it seems like we can't take no for an answer." I announced.
"I'm going to side with my brother on this one and besides; it's about time some excitement in my life stirred up." Kagura smirked.
"Thank you. With you all, there may still be hope in the digital world.."
The hovering light suddenly shined bright once again that my vision was completely covered in blinding light. I don't know what happened next exactly, but I could feel my body becoming lighter and my feet being lifted off of the ground and the next thing I knew I was alone in a world that I never once stepped foot on until today.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
Thanks all for reading so far and I hope whoever is reading continues to because I worked hard on writing this chapter. I don't know what else to say but bye .x