In The Beginning

[Humon]

IN THE BEGINNING…

It all started two months ago when I was walking in the woods around this campground I never knew we lived by. My family recently moved to Japan from Canada for a change of scenery. I never had a clue that that walk would change my life…

I’m James. I’m just an average kid, 12 years old. I moved to Japan about a week ago. This is my first time outside since I got here. Everything is so different from Canada. The plants, the people, and even the smell of the air is different. Just to brave fate, I decided to take a walk in the woods as I used to do back home.

“MOM! I’m going for a walk! Be back in a bit!”
“Okay, honey. " She mumbled. "Be careful!” she replied

(I heard that), I thought as I shut the door behind me.

I found an animal trail just across the yard, and decided to follow it. The first ten minutes into the trip was uneventful. Just some trees and a couple of squirrels. But shortly after that, I rounded a corner and saw a clearing with a bunch of cottage-looking buildings. And a lot of kids. I never knew Japanese, so my mom got me into a class that teaches Japanese to foreigners. But I didn’t care. I decided to try to make contact. I was lonely after all.

I started down a flight of stairs and stopped to check out the area so I wouldn’t get lost when I return. There was a tickle in my nose so I looked up to sneeze, and a snowflake landed in my eye. That got me really confused…
“Why is there snow?” I asked nobody in particular. “I’m sweating…”

Then a couple more flakes floated down. I looked up, and the sky was clear of clouds. Out of nowhere, it became a Canadian winter. It was snowing HARD! Just when I thought that was weird, a blast of wind suddenly hit and flung me to the now snow-covered ground. By then, I was scared out of my mind. I didn’t know what to think, or do.

I recovered from the fall, and stood up. The snow was over my ankles. I hear a light roar in the wind, and some kind of meteorite slammed down right in front of me. On impulse, I covered my face in an “X” formation with my arms, and fell back into the snow, hitting the stone blocks upon landing.
“OW!” I hollered, not expecting anybody to hear.
Looking around, I flipped over into my knees and crawled toward the meteorite and dug it out of the snow. To my surprise, it wasn’t even a meteorite. It looked like a black pager with two side buttons from a watch. It gave off a high-pitched squeal, and started to lift me off the ground. I tried to let go, but my hand was locked. The area flashed around me, and I was in some weird tunnel, falling.

I could see my body destabilizing, and phasing. Like I was turning into some comic book character with the dot coloring. Then all these numbers, 1s and 0s appeared on my hand, moving up my arms, and through my body. Then everything was black…

I woke up falling. Surprisingly close to the ground, too. My body reverted to that comic color thing. Just then, I see this pink bubble with thin bunny ear-like things coming out of the top of it. It had blue eyes, and a face that looked horrified! I heard someone with a gravelly voice call out “FIRE COMET!” Out of the woods right behind the bunny-thing came a fireball almost as big as me! Just my luck… I thought as the bunny thing jumped ahead of me and took the fireball head on. It exploded on impact, engulfing the both of us in fire and embers. I remember feeling extreme heat as my clothes burned off. We hit the ground hard. Just when I turned my head to my side, the bunny-thing caked in soot laid beside me asked, “are you all right…?” then it exploded into little balls of light that surrounded my body and made a glowing ring around the “pager”. Half dazed, I just looked in confusion as the orbs of light started entering my skin. The pain was immense and I blacked out…

I woke up several minutes later with a kid standing over me. He had Brown hair, goggles, a blue T-shirt, and Brown shorts. He said something, but I couldn’t hear it. I looked at my hand, and the goggle-headed guy did as well. My “pager” thing was sliding up my wrist, and stopped on my arm. The picture of the creature I saw explode was on the screen looking right at me with a smile. Then the “pager” started to expand around my left arm, and bulk up to 2 inches thickness and 3 inches width, locked and sealed around the back of my arm. Just as that happened, I was receiving a huge amount of data! Creature information, language and dialogue info, a multitude of attack techniques and something called “Digivolving” I know now, that the “pager” is called a “digivice”, and that I’m in a place called the Digital world. I took a moment to assess what happened, then my mind felt like it was stretching out. I then passed out again.

I awoke in a cave, naked, surrounded by a bunch of people,
(A girl dressed in pink, a guy with glasses, and blue hair, another girl with a weird touque thing with two cords hanging down the sides, a red-headed boy with a laptop, two blonde headed boys that kind of look alike and are likely brothers, and the boy that found me earlier with his… [A flash in my mind erupted] digimon)
My torn and useless clothes on the floor beside me. I looked up, and the peach colored digimon popped up into view really close to my face. It scared the hell out of me, and I backed out as fast as I could. I slammed into a wall and hit my head hard.

“Get away from me!” I shouted as I crumpled into a ball crying out of sheer horror.

“Tai, I think he’s scared of me… am I really that scary?”

“No way, Agumon! He just never saw a digimon before. You remember how scared I was when I met you.” Tai said patting Agumon on the head.

“W…who are you?”, I asked
“I’m Tai. We met earlier.”
I looked past Tai, and saw the other people had different kinds of monsters I identified as Patamon, Gomamon, Gabumon, Palmon, and Tentomon. “And you guys?” I asked.

“I’m Mimi”
“Sora”
“Joe here; Hi!”
“I’m Izzy.”
“My name’s Matt, and this is T.K.”
“Hi!”

“My head hurts…”
“That’s because you hit your head on the wall”, Tai Chuckles.
“What happened to my clothes?”
Tai looks down at me. “That’s because they, uh… burned off…” Tai said, blushing.
“Hey, Izzy! What about those extra clothes I left with you? Do you still have them?”
“I think so… let me check,” he said as he rummaged through Joe’s duffle bag.
“Hey! What are you doing?!?” cried Joe as Izzy dug through the bag.”
“AH! Found them!”
“And you absolutely had to go through my stuff to get it?” Joe added sarcastically.
“Here.” Izzy tosses me Tai’s Clothes.
I cocked my head to the side and everyone got the point to turn around.

As I was getting dressed, my head got stuck in the neck. Tai came over and helped get it down. I felt something stiff brush against my hip as he was helping me, but I paid it no mind thinking it might me a marker or something. As soon as I got my head through, I Gasped for breath. “Thankth” I said, Accidentally whisping out my thanks.
“Your…Uh…y-your welcome; heh…” Tai said as he was noticeably blushing. I pulled on the shorts, socks and shoes. Surprisingly, they fit perfectly. On top of that, I even look a lot like him, too!
“Thanks, Tai!” I called out. “Thanks for finding me” as I gave him a hug in relief that I wasn’t alone.
“It’s not a problem. Anything for a friend…”

I nodded as I closed my eyes and instantly fell asleep.

[Humon]

In The Beginning: Part 2

I got to know everybody enough to know that they too are in the same boat with me, except the fact that I had more problems than them. My Digivice has somehow merged with me, my digimon got killed before I even had a chance to talk to him, my clothes were burned to cinders and I was naked…ALL DAY! How often does that happen?

All in all, it wasn’t all that bad… I met some new friends, they helped me, and they actually liked me. That doesn’t happen too often either.

I woke up sometime near noon, Tai sitting beside me, smiling. “Thought you’d never wake up”.
“How long was I out?” I asked.
“I’d say just about a whole day. Right when I was talking to you too!” Tai said in a giggling way.
I smiled. “Oh; sorry.”
“Not a problem. That hit you took from the wall must have helped that out as well.”
“oh, yeah. That’s right.” I said feeling around for the bump I was expecting. But I found nothing. “No bump. Good. No headache either then.”
Tai laughed. “well that’s a relief. Joe’s gone along with everyone else to look for some food. I stayed behind to keep watch incase something tries to attack you when your down.”
“thanks, Tai. How long do you think they’d be gone?”
Tai looked shocked and I heard his heart beating fairly quickly. “I’m not sure. Why?”
“just thought we’d go and take a walk somewhere, and talk about stuff.”
“okay; let’s go. I already did, so I can show you the places I checked out.”
As we left, Tai piled up some dirt, and spread it around and wrote something in it. “Just incase they get back before we do.”
“Good idea”, I said. Tai walked to the mouth of the cave and looked around. I followed. To my surprise, this wasn’t a cave that you find in mountains but a cave that leads down, but ended abruptly as if someone stopped digging when it was deep enough. “Over here. We’ll take this path first.”
“Sounds good.” I said as I walked toward him.
We walked side by side for about five minutes when we heard a large snap in the bushes.
I looked in the direction of the snap, worried. “Living in Canada, I learned that something that makes a sound that big is not very good…”
“And the looks of it suggests your right!” Tai yelled looking as if he was ready to pee himself.
“well, well, well… Humans. I never tried those before. YOU;” he called out to me “COME HERE YOU LITTLE MORSEL!!!”
With surprising speed he came running at me. I never saw such a thing in my life. Or at least I thought. I knew I never saw it before, but something in the back of my mind clicked a name of this monster. “Kentaikomon” I said, as Tai was shouting out of horror, and with good reason. This thing was butt ugly. It looked something like an Ogremon with gray-brown skin and a crown of horns jutting from his scalp. The thing wore a loincloth that was shredded with age and held a mean looking spiked club made of digimon bone. This guy easily cleared eight feet in height and stunk of dried blood. That’s as far as I got before he shoved Tai out of the way to get to me. At first, I was scared. And by that, I mean WAS. One of the worst things that I think I don’t want to endure was if one of my friends were hurt. I heard Tai screaming as he flew to the side and slammed into a tree, breaking his arm in the process with a clearly audible ‘snap!’ it sickened me to have to hear that, but after it happened, I felt nothing but sheer rage. I shouted my rage, which made Kentaikomon stop dead in his tracks with a surprised look on his stupid face. I lost it. I mean, I cared for nothing else but the fact that my friend had been hurt for no reason whatsoever. I threw a punch, which connected on his left shoulder blade, sending him soaring into a tree. The tree snapped and exploded into little sparks of data that faded into the air. Kentaikomon laughed. “Not bad, human. But I’m not finished yet…” he threw his arm back, a fireball forming over his fist. What he said next felt like pins sinking into my heart. “FIRE COMET!”
“It was you…” I said. “It was you…! YYYYOOOOUUUU!!!”
The fireball streaked toward me, it’s heat can be felt before it left his hand and was getting hotter as it came toward me. I snapped. Everything seemed to go into slow motion. I can see leaves bursting into flame on the ground as it passed by them. It was eight meters away, then seven, six, five, four, three, two, one…
I raised my hand as it closed in on me, and gave it a backhand swat sending it reeling back toward him. Quick as he was, he just wasn’t fast enough to get away from it. Kentaikomon jumped to the side, the fireball just nicking his leg. But that was all the fireball needed to detonate. It exploded sending Kentaikomon flying back. He landed on the ground 40 feet away. I wasn’t too surprised when he got up. In fact, I wanted him to get up. I wasn’t done yet. I held out my fists and raised them into the air. I wanted Kentaikomon to die. He had to suffer as much as I have. The image of my digimon exploding over, and over, and over again in my head. This time, I had a fireball in MY hands. I felt the power flowing into me. Tai’s power and his bond with his digimon.
“NOVAFORCE!!!” I threw the ball with as much force as I could give. Kentaikomon shouting in horror as he realized his doom.
“Humon! I’ll get you!! I’ll be bac… … …”
There was a gigantic explosion, and then nothing… total silence. Then I heard Tai grunt. I turned around and ran to where he was. And then I witnessed the second thing I didn’t want to endure. He was scared of me. Of ME! He was hurt bad. He had cuts and bruises, and his arm was broken. How he was still conscious I could never know. But I didn’t care. I don’t know what I was thinking, or if I even was. But I kissed him. I held him in lovers embrace and kissed him. What I didn’t know was that I was using another “skill” of mine. I was taking his pain. I felt every cut bruise, and the broken arm as Tai’s wounds were healing. He broke off right before I received the actual broken arm. He was healed and I liked like a mess. My arm throbbed with pain, but it was still in one piece. He looked at me in confusion. “Humon…? James…?” I smiled at him.
“I love you… don’t leave me… ever…”
all around me was the smell of burning leaves, shrubs, and trees. The smell of fear, and death lingered in the air as regret hit. I killed… plain and simple, I killed…
I felt as if I could just lie down and die. Just give myself to the Digital world and die.
Tai dragged me down beside him, and spoke softly into my ear. “I’ll never leave you. You risked your life for me, and so I owe you my life in return.
“No… consider it even…” again I blacked out.
“Humon? HUMON!!!”

[hhvorausgesagt]

Your real name is humon?

[Red Mage Dragon Tiamat]

*slaps hhvorausgesagt* ever heard of using fictional names in fictions? He doesn't have to releave his true name in a story, coz you might enjoy it...

PS: I still haven't much time to read, but I'll give you my 2 cent as soon as possible

[Humon]

*sigh* my name isn't humon... just as your name isn't "hhvorausgesagt"
though it would be kinda cool. meaning that this would be a monologue of my life and it would actually be worth reading about my, but it isn't. it's a story of a character who is burdened with a responsibility far outreaching those of "normal" people. meaning: there are people that can surprise you in many ways, and everyone has a side totally different than what you see in front of you.

ya see? ^_^

and before I forget to write this, I consider that a very good compliment about the story. I'm happy to see that it is THAT believable. it feels good to know that I gave written a good story. thanks ^_^

[Wisemon]

Well, my real name is Wisemon; it's just a minor variation.

[hhvorausgesagt]

one question: this seems like its going to turn yaoi. is it?

[Humon]

I set myself up with it from the first story... so yes it's going to go that way. it'll be light, because I'm not good at that stuff but I'll try to make it good ^_^