Author's Note: I do not own Digimon or any of the characters from it that
appear in this fic. I do, however, own this plot and a few original
characters maybe, so please ask for my permission before you use them! This
fic occurs before 01, so none of the digimon adventures ever happen in this
fic. Oh, and by the way, it's a Taiora and a Takari and probably a Jomi.
Summary: Tai has a huge secret about his past, a secret that nobody knows about. Now he has to protect himself from evil that was disguised as a friend.
A Different Destiny
~DREAM SEQUENCE~
A five year old boy with messy chocolate brown hair and green eyes that seemed to be slowly turning brown watched as his parents started walking with their most trusted friend. It was snowing outside, something that the little boy was pleased with. It was his fifth birthday and he was having a party outside with a few other children that were around his age.
"Rena," he heard his father call out to his nurse who was looking after him and his little sister, "we're going for a walk. Please watch the children and make sure that they don't get into too much trouble." Rena nodded and went on with her duty. She was attempting to get Kari to stop crying, but the little baby wasn't helping her out. Kari was only 6 months old, and the little boy was very proud of his sister. Especially now that she was providing him with a distraction so the he could follow his parents without Rena noticing.
He ran quickly to catch up with his parents and their friend, hoping that he would be able to overhear what they were saying. That was, after all, the only reason that he had followed them. They walked into the forest, the adults still in deep conversation. He was glad that they were in the forest; it provided him with trees to hide behind if they got suspicious that someone was following them. The three adults stopped in the middle of the clearing and the small boy could now hear what they were saying. He quietly hid behind a tree, knowing that they wouldn't be able to see him if they turned around. It sounded like the three were arguing about something.
"The Prince is a courageous young boy, there is no doubt about that, but do you really think that he'll be a good leader once he is older?" his parent's friend asked, his eyes seeming to glint evilly in the dark shadows of the forest, "I mean, he has already shown that he is quite ready to cause trouble and he has no regard for the rules. Will a boy like that be a good leader?"
"Of course he'll be a great leader! Look, he is only 5 years old. Of course he is going to cause trouble! When I was 5 I once burnt down the nursery, and they had to build it up again from scratch! Children cause trouble all of the time; it's their nature. There is no use in us arguing about this now. Let's go back and celebrate his birthday, like we should be doing now," his father told the man, turning to walk back to the castle.
"I'm not really here to argue about it either, *your majesty,*" the King turned around, but it was too late. The man's sword had gone straight through his chest, right where his heart was. The Queen screamed and the boy felt sick. He wanted to go and help his father, but he knew that it would only put himself in danger. He could only keep on watching as the scene unfolded in front of his eyes.
"Gennai, how could you? You are our advisor, why would you do this?" the Queen demanded, turning to face the man, who still had his sword out.
"Well *my Queen,* I found that I have the power to take over this world and there is nothing that you can do about it. Once I get back to the castle it won't be that hard to destroy the little Prince, and the Princess. Then I'll make sure that nobody can ever take the thrown again! I will have complete control of this world and nobody will be able to stop me!" he finished his speech by slitting the Queen's throat, whilst smiling cruelly, "Now all I need to do is to get rid of the two little brats, and my plan will be complete. Well, phase 1 of my plan will be." The watching boy ran, knowing that he had to beat that evil guy back to the castle. He ran swiftly, not making much noise as the snow silenced his movements well. He knew that it was a miracle that he didn't slip, but the snow wasn't very icy. He reached the castle quickly and ran straight up to Rena, who had managed to calm Kari down.
"Rena, the evil guy is coming and he's going to come and kill Kari and me! He-he already hurt mummy and daddy, but he wants to destroy us too! You got to help us get away from here!" Rena looked as though she was going to disregard what the youngster was telling her, but then she took a close look at his face, and saw that he was telling the truth. His eyes already had a haunted look to them, a look that wasn't natural in boys so young.
"If what you're saying is true, then we'd better hurry. You're going to have to leave everything behind. Come with me now," Rena grabbed Kari and they raced indoors. As they passed through the main hallway, the boy glimpsed the calendar. It was June 21st, his birthday. They raced through the castle with Rena looking over her shoulder every five seconds, until they reached a room that the boy had never been allowed in. Rena opened the door and pushed him in, startling him a little.
"Look Prince Tai, you're going to have to look after your little sister. She isn't big enough to walk, so you'll have to carry her. Before you go, take this," Rena held up a silver necklace that had on it a small golden key. At the tip of the key was a small crown and a little number 2 was engraved on it. It was very similar to the necklace that the boy had around his own neck. His key had the number 1 engraved on it though, symbolizing that he was the first child of the royal family. "When little Hikari turns 4, you have to promise me that you'll give her this necklace. You'll have to put it around her neck. You may need to disguise it, but you'll know what to do. Maybe you'll return here someday, but now you need to go to another world. Find some new parents there for you and your sister, people who'll look after you. Now go!" she held up her hand to a screen that was on the wall that was in front of them. He hadn't really noticed his surroundings before, but now he realised that they were in a small room with walls that were completely white. The screen was the only thing in the room.
"Good luck little Prince, maybe I'll see you again," the screen started to glow a turquoise colour and Rena pushed the Prince into it, after handing little Hikari over to him, "Good luck." She whispered again once the two children had disappeared and the screen had stopped glowing, "I hope that you come back here, one day." But the boy never heard those words as he found himself in a park, a long way from home...
~END OF DREAM SEQUENCE~
Tai awoke with a start as his alarm clock started beeping right into his ear. Kari, his little sister was holding it right next to his head, with a cheeky grin on her face.
"It's time to get up Tai. Mum says that you have to get ready for summer camp!" she started dancing around, hyperactive because of her excitement about going to camp. Tai just groaned in response and tried to go back to sleep, but Kari wouldn't turn off the alarm that she was still holding. Finally Tai got up, complaining that it was too early. Kari just smirked at him, looking a bit evil.
"Kari, I already packed for camp and Mum helped me! You've even packed too, so why'd you say that Mum wanted me to pack?" Kari's evil smirk grew wider and she began to giggle at him. Tai got very annoyed at his sister and tried to take the alarm clock off her so that he could stop the radio blurting out an old rock song, but she danced away from him.
"Well, you see, you don't have to pack, but I got bored. Come and play snap with me Tai!" She stopped her dancing and looked at him with the puppy eyes that she had perfected. Tai sighed. How could he say no to her? He forgot about his freaky dream, deciding to decipher it later and pulled himself up off his bed.
"Okay Kari, but make sure that you don't forget to take your cards on camp. I know how much you love them. I'll play one game with you now, before breakfast and then I'll play another game with you on the bus to camp. After all, we don't know anybody else who is going to camp except for Sora, and she can join in on our game. Is that a deal?" Tai smiled as he saw Kari beam at him happily as she nodded.
"Good, then let's play!" they began playing their game, Tai letting Kari win, as he usually did. They could hear their mother making breakfast in the kitchen.
"I win!" Kari shouted happily, just as their mother came in to tell them that their breakfast was ready.
"Good timing! Now, hurry up and eat your breakfast. You don't want to miss the bus to camp," Mrs. Kamiya smiled as she saw Kari jump up and race to the table, eager to be off to camp. Tai stood up slowly, shuffling the cards as he got up. Mrs. Kamiya, or Chris as she was called, was a bit worried. "Are you okay Tai? You seem to be a bit distracted there." Tai looked up from the cards and shrugged his shoulders, as if he was dismissing something from is mind.
"I was just thinking about a strange dream that I had. It was just some memory of mine that decided it wanted to show itself again. It's nothing," Tai smiled, but Chris couldn't help but see the haunted look that was in his eyes. Ever since she and her husband had found Tai sitting in the park with his little sister in his arms, he had had that look in his eyes. It saddened her to know that he had already seen something terrible at his young age, but she couldn't do anything about it. Tai had never told her where they had come from and he had never spoken about what happened to him and little Kari.
"Was it a memory from before you came here?" Chris asked quietly, so Kari wouldn't hear. Tai nodded before putting down the cards and going to eat his breakfast. Chris understood that he didn't want to talk about whatever had happened seven years ago. She just watched the twelve year old sit down and start joking around with his sister whom had already finished her breakfast. Chris smiled again at the sight of the two of them playing around, knowing that they had both seemed to have recovered from their past. Kari didn't even remember it, as she had only been 4 months old when the Kamiyas had adopted her. Chris shook her head from her thoughts and went to eat her own breakfast before it could go cold.
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"Hey Tai!" he turned around as Sora Takenouchi, his best friend for the past 6 years, called out to him. Sora was just a little bit taller than him, with short auburn hair that was mostly hidden by a sky-blue helmet that was unfastened. Her ruby eyes were sparkling with mischief as she ran up to the Kamiya siblings. Kari turned to her and started giggling hysterically whilst she tried to tell Sora about what had happened that morning. Tai just rolled his eyes and turned away, scanning the crowd of kids that were waiting to get on the bus. A lot of them were his age or a few years younger, Kari being among the youngest, but there were also a few older kids. Tai thought that he recognised a guy with blond hair that was spiked up with a lot of hair gel. He had crystal clear blue eyes that seemed to radiate coolness and he was standing by himself, giving icy looks at people who tried to talk to him. Tai tried to conjure up a name from the depths of his memory and he finally remembered who the guy was. Yamato Ishida, more commonly known as Matt, was one of those guys who thought that they were too cool for anybody else.
Tai's eyes moved on to another person that he thought he recognised. It was a boy who looked about a year younger than himself. The boy, Izzy was the name that popped into Tai's head, was typing away at a lap top computer, almost unaware of what was going on around him. Izzy had dark brown-red hair that was pretty short and brown eyes. He was typing away madly and he seemed to be pretty frustrated with his computer.
Tai's gaze moved to a group of giggling girls. The girls were gathered around 1 girl in particular. She was dressed all in pink, with brown leather cowboy boots and a pink cowboy hat. She had long, honey-coloured brown hair, and soft brown eyes that seemed to shine with sincerity with every word that she said. She was talking at about a mile a minute to the girls around her, and they were all giggling hysterically.
Finally hearing Kari's tale come to an end, Tai turned his attention back to his two companions.
"Well, at least he now knows never to keep an alarm clock within your reach," Sora told Kari, who was still giggling and jumping up and down, "but I guess that you didn't like her story very much Tai. Who do we know that is here?"
"Well, there's that Matt Ishida, you know, the guy who is in our class that keeps to himself all of the time, there's a kid Izzy, the computer-freak genius, he's nice when he's not on his computer. And there's that girl Mimi I think her name is. She's in our class too, but she always hangs around with all of the girls," Tai screwed his face up to show what he thought of that and both Kari and Sora glared at him.
"We're girls too you know Tai," Kari reminded her brother, who was looking a bit scared now. He hesitated before he replied.
"But you two are different! You're cool! You play soccer with us all the time and do interesting things, and you don't just talk like those girls over there," Tai was relieved when both Kari and Sora broke into smiles.
"Don't worry Tai, we know what you meant. Now come on, we're allowed on the bus!" they raced towards the door, wanting to get there first so that they could claim the back seat. They were successful in their goal and they settled down for a long trip to the camp.
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The bus stopped a few more times on the way to the camp, to pick up a few more passengers that lived too far away from the first stop, so by the time they reached the camp it was starting to grow dark. Tai, Sora and Kari yawned as they hopped off the bus, eager to get out into the fresh air.
"Hey guys, do you want to go and have a look around camp now? Before anybody sees us and makes us go inside?" Tai suggested, his eyes gleaming with mischief. Sora's eyes also sparkled mischievously. Kari just nodded, eager to do something that involved moving. They quietly snuck away from the crowds of children at the bus and found themselves facing a large area that was made for kids. There was a big playground, and the three of them quickly hid inside it as the bus moved away. All of the rest of the children at that camp were being ushered inside, as the sky was turning pink. Once the last person had disappeared inside, the three of them waited for five minutes to make sure that nobody else was going to come out, before they climbed out from their hiding place in a tunnel and started to wander around.
The camp was in a valley, so it was surrounded by mountains, but the camp itself was on flat ground. There was a lot of room for all of the activities that the camp had to offer and the three of them were in awe at how the camp owners had managed to fit all of the activities into the space that they had. They were looking at the abseiling place when they ran into another group of children. There were five of them and they were all looking confused.
"What are you guys doing out here? I thought that only Kari, Sora and I were out here," Tai asked, looking at the five new comers to see who they were. He was surprised to see Izzy, Mimi and Matt, along with two others. There was a boy who was a younger version of Matt, who looked to be about Kari's age. He looked sweet and caring and Tai saw his younger sister's eyes light up once they saw him. The other person with them was about a year older than Tai himself. He had short blue hair and black eyes that were magnified by huge glasses. He was carrying a big gray bag that looked as though it carried medical supplies and other things that might be needed in case of emergencies. He looked extremely reliable.
"Well, I don't know what made me come out here. Hey, I think that I know you from somewhere. Have I seen you before?" this question he directed at Tai, who was now really confused. That is, until a memory of a young five year old boy with blue hair popped into his head, but that had been when he was still living with his real parents, so he had to be careful.
"I'm not sure. My name is Taichi Kamiya, but you can just call me Tai," he shook the boys hand, knowing that he wouldn't know him by this name.
"Nice to meet you Tai, my name is Jyou Kido, but you can just call me Joe," the boy told him this whilst pushing his glasses up his nose. Tai smiled as the little boy he didn't know went up to Kari.
"Hi! My name is Takeru Ishida, but everyone calls me T.K. What's your name?" Kari blushed a little, shy at meeting a new person. She looked up at Tai, and he smiled back at her, nodding slightly.
"Hi T.K, my name is Hikari Kamiya, Tai's little sister. Please call me Kari though, I hate the name Hikari," the two little kids started chatting straight away about their schools and teachers and everything that little kids talk about. Tai felt like something was going to happen; that all of them being outside at that moment was special.
"Tai, are you okay? You seem to be off this planet or something," Sora was waving her hand in front of his eyes, and Tai shook his head, closing his eyes for a second.
"It's just. I have this weird feeling that something important is going to happen because we were all pulled here, at this exact moment and. wait a second," his necklace, the special one that marked him as a member of the royal family had started top burn. He took it out from under his shirt and stared at it.
"What's wrong? You're looking at that key thing pretty funny," Joe said looking at the necklace, "I have a feeling that I've seen that, but I don't know where. It seems to be an odd necklace." Tai continued to stare at the key, suddenly feeling extremely homesick for his real home, where Rena was.
"I want to go home," he whispered, but to everybody else it didn't sound like he said that. They all stared at him as he spoke in a completely different language that even Izzy couldn't understand.
"What was that Tai? You just spoke in a different language. Stop doing that and speak in a language that we all understand!" Mimi said angrily, in a voice that was used to being obeyed, "Nobody else here speaks your language, so just stick to ours, okay?" The others just looked at each other and shrugged, but Joe felt that something was not right.
"That. that language sounds so familiar. Does anybody else feel like they know it?" Joe asked. Tai snapped out of his thoughts about his real home at this statement.
"What language?" everyone fell to the ground at Tai's clueless face. They couldn't believe that he had spoken a different language two seconds ago, and then couldn't remember.
"The language that you spoke about two minutes ago, when you were staring at that key. You spoke something that we couldn't understand, and I don't think that the language even exists, although I feel that I've heard it before," it was Izzy this time who spoke, surprising everybody.
"Oh, that. um. yeah. I can sort of speak a different language. but it's not likely to be heard very often here. My parents used to speak it all of the time," Tai wasn't concentrating on what he was saying, his thoughts were still a bit mumbled and he remembered his dream. Kari was looking at him funny.
"Mum and Dad never spoke anything like that as far as I can remember. What do you mean?" Tai heard what she said and realised that he had made a big mistake by saying what he did. But he had dug a hole and now he was going to have to lie in it.
"Um. I'll tell you later Kari, okay? But in a second we're going to have bigger problems. Now, if anybody else can see the flying pieces of metal that are heading straight towards us, please tell me so that I know that I'm not going insane," almost as soon as he had stopped speaking, a metal device flew straight into Tai's hand. It looked familiar to him, as if he had seen it before. It was orange and it had a little screen. On it he could see 8 coloured dots. It looked like a map of where they were, and all of the dots were stationed together on the screen. Tai pressed a button on the small device and it turned into a status screen. At the top of the screen it said AGUMON in big letters. Tai's face broke out into a smile as he remembered his orange dinosaur look-a-like friend. He now knew what the device he was holding was. It was called a digivice.
"What on Earth is this?" Sora muttered, also holding one of the devices, but hers was red. Tai didn't get a chance to reply though because huge tidal wave appeared out of nowhere and transported the 8 children to another world...
End of Chapter 1
Well, I didn't really have a plan for that chapter, but now I know what's going to happen. It's 20 minutes to midnight, so I'd better get going to bed. Please review & tell me what you think! Please!
Summary: Tai has a huge secret about his past, a secret that nobody knows about. Now he has to protect himself from evil that was disguised as a friend.
A Different Destiny
~DREAM SEQUENCE~
A five year old boy with messy chocolate brown hair and green eyes that seemed to be slowly turning brown watched as his parents started walking with their most trusted friend. It was snowing outside, something that the little boy was pleased with. It was his fifth birthday and he was having a party outside with a few other children that were around his age.
"Rena," he heard his father call out to his nurse who was looking after him and his little sister, "we're going for a walk. Please watch the children and make sure that they don't get into too much trouble." Rena nodded and went on with her duty. She was attempting to get Kari to stop crying, but the little baby wasn't helping her out. Kari was only 6 months old, and the little boy was very proud of his sister. Especially now that she was providing him with a distraction so the he could follow his parents without Rena noticing.
He ran quickly to catch up with his parents and their friend, hoping that he would be able to overhear what they were saying. That was, after all, the only reason that he had followed them. They walked into the forest, the adults still in deep conversation. He was glad that they were in the forest; it provided him with trees to hide behind if they got suspicious that someone was following them. The three adults stopped in the middle of the clearing and the small boy could now hear what they were saying. He quietly hid behind a tree, knowing that they wouldn't be able to see him if they turned around. It sounded like the three were arguing about something.
"The Prince is a courageous young boy, there is no doubt about that, but do you really think that he'll be a good leader once he is older?" his parent's friend asked, his eyes seeming to glint evilly in the dark shadows of the forest, "I mean, he has already shown that he is quite ready to cause trouble and he has no regard for the rules. Will a boy like that be a good leader?"
"Of course he'll be a great leader! Look, he is only 5 years old. Of course he is going to cause trouble! When I was 5 I once burnt down the nursery, and they had to build it up again from scratch! Children cause trouble all of the time; it's their nature. There is no use in us arguing about this now. Let's go back and celebrate his birthday, like we should be doing now," his father told the man, turning to walk back to the castle.
"I'm not really here to argue about it either, *your majesty,*" the King turned around, but it was too late. The man's sword had gone straight through his chest, right where his heart was. The Queen screamed and the boy felt sick. He wanted to go and help his father, but he knew that it would only put himself in danger. He could only keep on watching as the scene unfolded in front of his eyes.
"Gennai, how could you? You are our advisor, why would you do this?" the Queen demanded, turning to face the man, who still had his sword out.
"Well *my Queen,* I found that I have the power to take over this world and there is nothing that you can do about it. Once I get back to the castle it won't be that hard to destroy the little Prince, and the Princess. Then I'll make sure that nobody can ever take the thrown again! I will have complete control of this world and nobody will be able to stop me!" he finished his speech by slitting the Queen's throat, whilst smiling cruelly, "Now all I need to do is to get rid of the two little brats, and my plan will be complete. Well, phase 1 of my plan will be." The watching boy ran, knowing that he had to beat that evil guy back to the castle. He ran swiftly, not making much noise as the snow silenced his movements well. He knew that it was a miracle that he didn't slip, but the snow wasn't very icy. He reached the castle quickly and ran straight up to Rena, who had managed to calm Kari down.
"Rena, the evil guy is coming and he's going to come and kill Kari and me! He-he already hurt mummy and daddy, but he wants to destroy us too! You got to help us get away from here!" Rena looked as though she was going to disregard what the youngster was telling her, but then she took a close look at his face, and saw that he was telling the truth. His eyes already had a haunted look to them, a look that wasn't natural in boys so young.
"If what you're saying is true, then we'd better hurry. You're going to have to leave everything behind. Come with me now," Rena grabbed Kari and they raced indoors. As they passed through the main hallway, the boy glimpsed the calendar. It was June 21st, his birthday. They raced through the castle with Rena looking over her shoulder every five seconds, until they reached a room that the boy had never been allowed in. Rena opened the door and pushed him in, startling him a little.
"Look Prince Tai, you're going to have to look after your little sister. She isn't big enough to walk, so you'll have to carry her. Before you go, take this," Rena held up a silver necklace that had on it a small golden key. At the tip of the key was a small crown and a little number 2 was engraved on it. It was very similar to the necklace that the boy had around his own neck. His key had the number 1 engraved on it though, symbolizing that he was the first child of the royal family. "When little Hikari turns 4, you have to promise me that you'll give her this necklace. You'll have to put it around her neck. You may need to disguise it, but you'll know what to do. Maybe you'll return here someday, but now you need to go to another world. Find some new parents there for you and your sister, people who'll look after you. Now go!" she held up her hand to a screen that was on the wall that was in front of them. He hadn't really noticed his surroundings before, but now he realised that they were in a small room with walls that were completely white. The screen was the only thing in the room.
"Good luck little Prince, maybe I'll see you again," the screen started to glow a turquoise colour and Rena pushed the Prince into it, after handing little Hikari over to him, "Good luck." She whispered again once the two children had disappeared and the screen had stopped glowing, "I hope that you come back here, one day." But the boy never heard those words as he found himself in a park, a long way from home...
~END OF DREAM SEQUENCE~
Tai awoke with a start as his alarm clock started beeping right into his ear. Kari, his little sister was holding it right next to his head, with a cheeky grin on her face.
"It's time to get up Tai. Mum says that you have to get ready for summer camp!" she started dancing around, hyperactive because of her excitement about going to camp. Tai just groaned in response and tried to go back to sleep, but Kari wouldn't turn off the alarm that she was still holding. Finally Tai got up, complaining that it was too early. Kari just smirked at him, looking a bit evil.
"Kari, I already packed for camp and Mum helped me! You've even packed too, so why'd you say that Mum wanted me to pack?" Kari's evil smirk grew wider and she began to giggle at him. Tai got very annoyed at his sister and tried to take the alarm clock off her so that he could stop the radio blurting out an old rock song, but she danced away from him.
"Well, you see, you don't have to pack, but I got bored. Come and play snap with me Tai!" She stopped her dancing and looked at him with the puppy eyes that she had perfected. Tai sighed. How could he say no to her? He forgot about his freaky dream, deciding to decipher it later and pulled himself up off his bed.
"Okay Kari, but make sure that you don't forget to take your cards on camp. I know how much you love them. I'll play one game with you now, before breakfast and then I'll play another game with you on the bus to camp. After all, we don't know anybody else who is going to camp except for Sora, and she can join in on our game. Is that a deal?" Tai smiled as he saw Kari beam at him happily as she nodded.
"Good, then let's play!" they began playing their game, Tai letting Kari win, as he usually did. They could hear their mother making breakfast in the kitchen.
"I win!" Kari shouted happily, just as their mother came in to tell them that their breakfast was ready.
"Good timing! Now, hurry up and eat your breakfast. You don't want to miss the bus to camp," Mrs. Kamiya smiled as she saw Kari jump up and race to the table, eager to be off to camp. Tai stood up slowly, shuffling the cards as he got up. Mrs. Kamiya, or Chris as she was called, was a bit worried. "Are you okay Tai? You seem to be a bit distracted there." Tai looked up from the cards and shrugged his shoulders, as if he was dismissing something from is mind.
"I was just thinking about a strange dream that I had. It was just some memory of mine that decided it wanted to show itself again. It's nothing," Tai smiled, but Chris couldn't help but see the haunted look that was in his eyes. Ever since she and her husband had found Tai sitting in the park with his little sister in his arms, he had had that look in his eyes. It saddened her to know that he had already seen something terrible at his young age, but she couldn't do anything about it. Tai had never told her where they had come from and he had never spoken about what happened to him and little Kari.
"Was it a memory from before you came here?" Chris asked quietly, so Kari wouldn't hear. Tai nodded before putting down the cards and going to eat his breakfast. Chris understood that he didn't want to talk about whatever had happened seven years ago. She just watched the twelve year old sit down and start joking around with his sister whom had already finished her breakfast. Chris smiled again at the sight of the two of them playing around, knowing that they had both seemed to have recovered from their past. Kari didn't even remember it, as she had only been 4 months old when the Kamiyas had adopted her. Chris shook her head from her thoughts and went to eat her own breakfast before it could go cold.
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"Hey Tai!" he turned around as Sora Takenouchi, his best friend for the past 6 years, called out to him. Sora was just a little bit taller than him, with short auburn hair that was mostly hidden by a sky-blue helmet that was unfastened. Her ruby eyes were sparkling with mischief as she ran up to the Kamiya siblings. Kari turned to her and started giggling hysterically whilst she tried to tell Sora about what had happened that morning. Tai just rolled his eyes and turned away, scanning the crowd of kids that were waiting to get on the bus. A lot of them were his age or a few years younger, Kari being among the youngest, but there were also a few older kids. Tai thought that he recognised a guy with blond hair that was spiked up with a lot of hair gel. He had crystal clear blue eyes that seemed to radiate coolness and he was standing by himself, giving icy looks at people who tried to talk to him. Tai tried to conjure up a name from the depths of his memory and he finally remembered who the guy was. Yamato Ishida, more commonly known as Matt, was one of those guys who thought that they were too cool for anybody else.
Tai's eyes moved on to another person that he thought he recognised. It was a boy who looked about a year younger than himself. The boy, Izzy was the name that popped into Tai's head, was typing away at a lap top computer, almost unaware of what was going on around him. Izzy had dark brown-red hair that was pretty short and brown eyes. He was typing away madly and he seemed to be pretty frustrated with his computer.
Tai's gaze moved to a group of giggling girls. The girls were gathered around 1 girl in particular. She was dressed all in pink, with brown leather cowboy boots and a pink cowboy hat. She had long, honey-coloured brown hair, and soft brown eyes that seemed to shine with sincerity with every word that she said. She was talking at about a mile a minute to the girls around her, and they were all giggling hysterically.
Finally hearing Kari's tale come to an end, Tai turned his attention back to his two companions.
"Well, at least he now knows never to keep an alarm clock within your reach," Sora told Kari, who was still giggling and jumping up and down, "but I guess that you didn't like her story very much Tai. Who do we know that is here?"
"Well, there's that Matt Ishida, you know, the guy who is in our class that keeps to himself all of the time, there's a kid Izzy, the computer-freak genius, he's nice when he's not on his computer. And there's that girl Mimi I think her name is. She's in our class too, but she always hangs around with all of the girls," Tai screwed his face up to show what he thought of that and both Kari and Sora glared at him.
"We're girls too you know Tai," Kari reminded her brother, who was looking a bit scared now. He hesitated before he replied.
"But you two are different! You're cool! You play soccer with us all the time and do interesting things, and you don't just talk like those girls over there," Tai was relieved when both Kari and Sora broke into smiles.
"Don't worry Tai, we know what you meant. Now come on, we're allowed on the bus!" they raced towards the door, wanting to get there first so that they could claim the back seat. They were successful in their goal and they settled down for a long trip to the camp.
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The bus stopped a few more times on the way to the camp, to pick up a few more passengers that lived too far away from the first stop, so by the time they reached the camp it was starting to grow dark. Tai, Sora and Kari yawned as they hopped off the bus, eager to get out into the fresh air.
"Hey guys, do you want to go and have a look around camp now? Before anybody sees us and makes us go inside?" Tai suggested, his eyes gleaming with mischief. Sora's eyes also sparkled mischievously. Kari just nodded, eager to do something that involved moving. They quietly snuck away from the crowds of children at the bus and found themselves facing a large area that was made for kids. There was a big playground, and the three of them quickly hid inside it as the bus moved away. All of the rest of the children at that camp were being ushered inside, as the sky was turning pink. Once the last person had disappeared inside, the three of them waited for five minutes to make sure that nobody else was going to come out, before they climbed out from their hiding place in a tunnel and started to wander around.
The camp was in a valley, so it was surrounded by mountains, but the camp itself was on flat ground. There was a lot of room for all of the activities that the camp had to offer and the three of them were in awe at how the camp owners had managed to fit all of the activities into the space that they had. They were looking at the abseiling place when they ran into another group of children. There were five of them and they were all looking confused.
"What are you guys doing out here? I thought that only Kari, Sora and I were out here," Tai asked, looking at the five new comers to see who they were. He was surprised to see Izzy, Mimi and Matt, along with two others. There was a boy who was a younger version of Matt, who looked to be about Kari's age. He looked sweet and caring and Tai saw his younger sister's eyes light up once they saw him. The other person with them was about a year older than Tai himself. He had short blue hair and black eyes that were magnified by huge glasses. He was carrying a big gray bag that looked as though it carried medical supplies and other things that might be needed in case of emergencies. He looked extremely reliable.
"Well, I don't know what made me come out here. Hey, I think that I know you from somewhere. Have I seen you before?" this question he directed at Tai, who was now really confused. That is, until a memory of a young five year old boy with blue hair popped into his head, but that had been when he was still living with his real parents, so he had to be careful.
"I'm not sure. My name is Taichi Kamiya, but you can just call me Tai," he shook the boys hand, knowing that he wouldn't know him by this name.
"Nice to meet you Tai, my name is Jyou Kido, but you can just call me Joe," the boy told him this whilst pushing his glasses up his nose. Tai smiled as the little boy he didn't know went up to Kari.
"Hi! My name is Takeru Ishida, but everyone calls me T.K. What's your name?" Kari blushed a little, shy at meeting a new person. She looked up at Tai, and he smiled back at her, nodding slightly.
"Hi T.K, my name is Hikari Kamiya, Tai's little sister. Please call me Kari though, I hate the name Hikari," the two little kids started chatting straight away about their schools and teachers and everything that little kids talk about. Tai felt like something was going to happen; that all of them being outside at that moment was special.
"Tai, are you okay? You seem to be off this planet or something," Sora was waving her hand in front of his eyes, and Tai shook his head, closing his eyes for a second.
"It's just. I have this weird feeling that something important is going to happen because we were all pulled here, at this exact moment and. wait a second," his necklace, the special one that marked him as a member of the royal family had started top burn. He took it out from under his shirt and stared at it.
"What's wrong? You're looking at that key thing pretty funny," Joe said looking at the necklace, "I have a feeling that I've seen that, but I don't know where. It seems to be an odd necklace." Tai continued to stare at the key, suddenly feeling extremely homesick for his real home, where Rena was.
"I want to go home," he whispered, but to everybody else it didn't sound like he said that. They all stared at him as he spoke in a completely different language that even Izzy couldn't understand.
"What was that Tai? You just spoke in a different language. Stop doing that and speak in a language that we all understand!" Mimi said angrily, in a voice that was used to being obeyed, "Nobody else here speaks your language, so just stick to ours, okay?" The others just looked at each other and shrugged, but Joe felt that something was not right.
"That. that language sounds so familiar. Does anybody else feel like they know it?" Joe asked. Tai snapped out of his thoughts about his real home at this statement.
"What language?" everyone fell to the ground at Tai's clueless face. They couldn't believe that he had spoken a different language two seconds ago, and then couldn't remember.
"The language that you spoke about two minutes ago, when you were staring at that key. You spoke something that we couldn't understand, and I don't think that the language even exists, although I feel that I've heard it before," it was Izzy this time who spoke, surprising everybody.
"Oh, that. um. yeah. I can sort of speak a different language. but it's not likely to be heard very often here. My parents used to speak it all of the time," Tai wasn't concentrating on what he was saying, his thoughts were still a bit mumbled and he remembered his dream. Kari was looking at him funny.
"Mum and Dad never spoke anything like that as far as I can remember. What do you mean?" Tai heard what she said and realised that he had made a big mistake by saying what he did. But he had dug a hole and now he was going to have to lie in it.
"Um. I'll tell you later Kari, okay? But in a second we're going to have bigger problems. Now, if anybody else can see the flying pieces of metal that are heading straight towards us, please tell me so that I know that I'm not going insane," almost as soon as he had stopped speaking, a metal device flew straight into Tai's hand. It looked familiar to him, as if he had seen it before. It was orange and it had a little screen. On it he could see 8 coloured dots. It looked like a map of where they were, and all of the dots were stationed together on the screen. Tai pressed a button on the small device and it turned into a status screen. At the top of the screen it said AGUMON in big letters. Tai's face broke out into a smile as he remembered his orange dinosaur look-a-like friend. He now knew what the device he was holding was. It was called a digivice.
"What on Earth is this?" Sora muttered, also holding one of the devices, but hers was red. Tai didn't get a chance to reply though because huge tidal wave appeared out of nowhere and transported the 8 children to another world...
End of Chapter 1
Well, I didn't really have a plan for that chapter, but now I know what's going to happen. It's 20 minutes to midnight, so I'd better get going to bed. Please review & tell me what you think! Please!