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Chapter 1
Back to the Monster World
By Macrossgrn
"Ah man! Why can't I get 'er to learn Fire Breath?" a somewhat whining voice went, as the young man stared at the TV screen. On the screen itself was a Janne, who was going through a Jungle of some sort. She'd just gotten past a part where a Gorilla was trying to find her. She passed that easily. After all, the little journey had been through a territory that made a monster rely on intellect rather than brute strength. "C'mon, Janne... I gotta get that Tech!" the voice went again. The boy playing the game looked to be about 15 years old. Short, dirty brown hair was hidden underneath a baseball cap that was on backwards. Nearby and on his bed, a pair of black, sleek rollerblades rested. His backpack, full of who knows what (actually, there was a flashlight, some papers, and a pair of clean gym clothes inside), lay within easy reach, right against the chair he sat on. His shirt had a red and black logo which had four lines curving upwards, and another four curving downwards. The lines never touched one another, but did move in toward the middle of the shirt, where they stopped short of actually connecting.
With both hands busy playing on the controller, the kid laid back into the chair a little, sighing rather harshly. In this game, the Phoenix was a legendary monster. However, in this game, a Phoenix was very easy to get. Combine one monster and another, along with a certain item and poof! Ready-made Phoenix! "Too bad it wasn't really like that..." he said to himself, closing his eyes.
The moment was vivid in his mind. The power that coursed from him was not that of the Phoenix... but that of the energy of 6 beings- Mocchi, the little pink monster with a huge heart. Golem, the gentle rock-giant. Hare, the calculating, but ultimately friendly giant rabbit. Suezo, the manipulative eyeball... not to mention constantly sore. And Tiger, the stubborn pack-leader. Then there was Genki. Energy in its purest form. Genki's energy was friendship. It came to him from his friends, and his love for monsters. But the energy not only came from him and his friends. It didn't come from just their courage alone. Monsters and humans from all over the Monster World lent him their energy. It had to be done, to save the Monster World. The five monsters he had grown to love as family simply vanished, coalesced into the purest energy that was needed to create the fiery bird known as the Phoenix.
He knew, when he had come back to Earth, there was no way to return. The Phoenix had done its job- It and Moo had canceled each other out. Genki had been blown from the Monster World back to a rainy day upon Earth. There were only two others left from his journey, only two who might have survived the aftermath of the end of Moo's war. These two had been among his closest friends in any world. There was the gentle, yet knife-carrying girl, who had turned 15 during their journey. Holly was her name. He had met her when he first arrived in the Monster World. She with her monster friend Suezo had been running from a group of Black Dinos when they had met. A smile lit upon the face of the boy who remembered this.
The other was a monster who was not quite the same person he had met so long ago. He had met Pixie during his group's attempts to save a bunch of humans from slavery. He had slapped her in an effort to make a point. Wasn't a promise worth anything anymore? The slap wasn't hard... at least, not the one that Genki had given her. The fall down the cliff nearby, however, had hurt much, much more. Pixie, however, felt more from the slap than anyone else probably would have. Before too long, Pixie was on his side. She brought her best, and possibly her only friend for a very long time, Big Blue, with her. Then, an unfortunate event happened. Pixie was dying. To save her, Big Blue sacrificed himself, having himself fused with Pixie to save Pixie's life at his expense. Pixie was fused with Big Blue, turning Pixie into Granity in the end.
Opening his eyes, Genki looked to the TV screen and saved the game. It took a moment to do so as the game file overwrote the existing one, but it was soon done. Turning the game off, he again went over the facts (as he knew it) that there were for getting into the Monster World. The game CD he had received in the mail after winning the Monster Battle tournament seemed to be the key, he thought. The TV was soon turned off as well, and he closed his eyes once more to review what he knew. According to the Phoenix, when it had split into five mystery disks, there were four in the Monster World... and one was sent to Earth. That disk, when he opened the package it was in one fateful day, was put directly into the Playstation. He had watched the opening scenes, and then followed through the menu until it got to the shrine. When another CD was prompted, to give him the first monster that he would create on this game, he quickly switched CDs. As he put the original disc back in, the screen began to swirl, and he had been sucked, head first, along with all sorts of other things (including his original Playstation) into the Monster World.
Mocchi had been the resulting monster from that CD, when he had managed to unlock him. Was Mocchi the key to unlocking the gate from Earth to the Monster World? Could it possibly be something like that? Genki's eyes opened quickly, and he grinned. The Phoenix had been split into five parts before. Though he hadn't been around at the end of the battle to see what became of the Phoenix entirely, could it be possible that there was some way to get back? Surely the barrier between the worlds, which had been burned through before, had been weakened enough to allow him access through once again!
And as the one who managed to fuse, with the help of others, five monsters into one, was there no way to return to that ideal world? "There has to be a way..." he told himself, and then he began packing once again. It was summer now, and he was too young to get a job now. No one in America would hire a 15-year old kid. He'd moved here with his family just two years ago, a year after he showed up back on Earth. He had very few friends here, in this gloomy state. It rained a lot, and he was left with very few outlets to vent his energy. It had grown along with him over the years. And now, with so much extra energy... he was sure he could at least make some progress into getting back to his home away from home. He had been readying himself for an opportunity to get back for the past three years now... "I will go back. Soon!" he told himself, and he grinned. There was very little for him here. Only his family... and that seemed to be breaking apart. He hadn't seen his father for a long time- he was always away on a business trip. His mother was often cooking or cleaning or something... but neither had really been able to bond with him the way that the Monster World had.
Genki blinked as he finally thought of something, though. There might be a small problem with his plan. There were only two beings in that world, he realized, that he could consider close enough to be family. Holly and Pixie. Though both were in the Monster world, they were really his only friends now. He was nice enough, and well liked in school... but hey, those people only liked him for what he could do in sports. His extra energy was put to good use in basketball, and baseball... and wrestling! His fighting techniques that he'd learned in the Monster World had been put to good use in amateur wrestling at his 'Junior High School.' But was it worth it to leave his world and family behind, to live in his dreamland? Even as he asked himself that question, he knew the answer to it- Yes!
"Now... how do I get back?" He asked aloud, sighing a little afterwards as he considered the possibilities. Could he manage to fuse a bridge, as it were, from where he was to the Monster World? Even a one way bridge? Maybe he should start searching on the Internet for a new 200X CD game. No... that one was impossible. The game manufacturers had altered them all, after the first one that he had received. Monster Rancher 2 had been the next game to come out, and developers claimed that the 200X CD had been a mistake, or at least a demo version of MR 2. There were no extra copies of the 200X CD anymore. He had looked everywhere he could. Called anyone he could. The same answer had been told to him- They don't have it, it was never released... something along those lines.
Finally, he nodded to himself. Mind over matter, right? The only real chance he had was to get everything he needed, pack it all together, and give the best shot he could give in order to take the leap from Earth to the Monster World. Taking that in mind, Genki grinned, and emptied out his backpack. On second thought, he noticed, as he saw the broken down thing, he shook his head. "Time for a new one!" he said to himself, and he walked over to the nearby closet. Inside was one of the big camping packs that his family would use when they went tent camping. It already had an ultra-light sleeping bag hooked onto it, and he started putting things into the pack. A change of clothes, some CDs... the flashlight with some extra batteries. Genki raced around the room in a hurry, putting everything he could think that he'd need into the pack. Old clothes that could get him some money if he sold them, a few valuables... including the old wind-up watch that had been left o him by his late grandfather.
10 minutes later, he was almost finished. All he had left was to tie his rollerblades onto the pack, and then he'd take his chance. There! With a final twist of the shoelaces, he was done. Sliding first one strap, and then the other, over his shoulders, he hefted the weight. It wasn't too much... though, it would take some getting used to. With a push of two buttons, the TV, and the Playstation, flickered back to life. More than likely, if he duplicated what he had done three years ago as best he can... it might make it easier to cross over. Standing ever closer to the TV, he touched the screen carefully. Nothing. The screen was still there, and as solid as it should be. He sighed. And then grinned. Then, finally, he began to concentrate. On his friends, both living and gone. On the monsters with whom he had created the Phoenix. On the Phoenix itself. The Phoenix may have been gone... but the residual energy currents remained, even after 3 years. It was connected to him... As far as he could tell, no others had ever been to the Monster World.
Suddenly, something snapped. Instead of looking around, Genki closed his eyes immediately. Concentrating hard on what he wanted... no, needed to do, he could feel some energy begin to build within him. The barriers, he could tell, were still rather strong. The walls between worlds was still rather thick. But, the energy he could sense from what had brought him back remained intact. Using his still building energy, he carefully extended his reach along the tendril of energy, trying to source it back to the Monster World. Other worlds surrounded Earth, this he could tell easily. He had to follow this strand... there! Genki unconscious smiled victoriously. He had found the Monster World! Unknown to him, his form had developed an aura that had surrounded his entire body, along with what he wore. His form itself had begun to flicker, as if he was about to disappear. Feeling more energy within him, Genki released some into a focused line, like a rope of sorts, that he tied around himself. Carefully, building up more and more power, he began to send himself through the newly formed vortex tunnel. He felt as if he was actually traveling to the world now! There was no weight on him, only the wind that rushed past him. 'This is it,' he thought, as he watched the monster world grow large before him. Suddenly, he hit a barrier. Nothing would stop him now.
With a lunging punch, the invisible barrier buckled under his energy-enhanced strength. Mental energy though it was, his physical form was lending him extra power now. Little did he know that he was no longer in possession of a physical form back on Earth. The energy he had expended had taken his Earthly physical body's energy, and now, until he got to where he was going, he was stuck in the mental planes of existence. Several more barriers were smashed as he rushed toward the rapidly approaching world. With a thud, however, he found himself smack against the strongest barrier. This one was very strong... and Genki knew just how to deal with it. Gathering a burst of extra energy, Genki flashed the power toward the barrier before him, and it punched a hole straight through. Verbal communication was unnecessary, as there wasn't really any noise in this plane. With a kick off, however, Genki flashed through the opening, grinning wildly, as he was rushed down through another vortex. He blacked out, just as he was thinking 'I'm here!'
Chapter 1
Back to the Monster World
By Macrossgrn
"Ah man! Why can't I get 'er to learn Fire Breath?" a somewhat whining voice went, as the young man stared at the TV screen. On the screen itself was a Janne, who was going through a Jungle of some sort. She'd just gotten past a part where a Gorilla was trying to find her. She passed that easily. After all, the little journey had been through a territory that made a monster rely on intellect rather than brute strength. "C'mon, Janne... I gotta get that Tech!" the voice went again. The boy playing the game looked to be about 15 years old. Short, dirty brown hair was hidden underneath a baseball cap that was on backwards. Nearby and on his bed, a pair of black, sleek rollerblades rested. His backpack, full of who knows what (actually, there was a flashlight, some papers, and a pair of clean gym clothes inside), lay within easy reach, right against the chair he sat on. His shirt had a red and black logo which had four lines curving upwards, and another four curving downwards. The lines never touched one another, but did move in toward the middle of the shirt, where they stopped short of actually connecting.
With both hands busy playing on the controller, the kid laid back into the chair a little, sighing rather harshly. In this game, the Phoenix was a legendary monster. However, in this game, a Phoenix was very easy to get. Combine one monster and another, along with a certain item and poof! Ready-made Phoenix! "Too bad it wasn't really like that..." he said to himself, closing his eyes.
The moment was vivid in his mind. The power that coursed from him was not that of the Phoenix... but that of the energy of 6 beings- Mocchi, the little pink monster with a huge heart. Golem, the gentle rock-giant. Hare, the calculating, but ultimately friendly giant rabbit. Suezo, the manipulative eyeball... not to mention constantly sore. And Tiger, the stubborn pack-leader. Then there was Genki. Energy in its purest form. Genki's energy was friendship. It came to him from his friends, and his love for monsters. But the energy not only came from him and his friends. It didn't come from just their courage alone. Monsters and humans from all over the Monster World lent him their energy. It had to be done, to save the Monster World. The five monsters he had grown to love as family simply vanished, coalesced into the purest energy that was needed to create the fiery bird known as the Phoenix.
He knew, when he had come back to Earth, there was no way to return. The Phoenix had done its job- It and Moo had canceled each other out. Genki had been blown from the Monster World back to a rainy day upon Earth. There were only two others left from his journey, only two who might have survived the aftermath of the end of Moo's war. These two had been among his closest friends in any world. There was the gentle, yet knife-carrying girl, who had turned 15 during their journey. Holly was her name. He had met her when he first arrived in the Monster World. She with her monster friend Suezo had been running from a group of Black Dinos when they had met. A smile lit upon the face of the boy who remembered this.
The other was a monster who was not quite the same person he had met so long ago. He had met Pixie during his group's attempts to save a bunch of humans from slavery. He had slapped her in an effort to make a point. Wasn't a promise worth anything anymore? The slap wasn't hard... at least, not the one that Genki had given her. The fall down the cliff nearby, however, had hurt much, much more. Pixie, however, felt more from the slap than anyone else probably would have. Before too long, Pixie was on his side. She brought her best, and possibly her only friend for a very long time, Big Blue, with her. Then, an unfortunate event happened. Pixie was dying. To save her, Big Blue sacrificed himself, having himself fused with Pixie to save Pixie's life at his expense. Pixie was fused with Big Blue, turning Pixie into Granity in the end.
Opening his eyes, Genki looked to the TV screen and saved the game. It took a moment to do so as the game file overwrote the existing one, but it was soon done. Turning the game off, he again went over the facts (as he knew it) that there were for getting into the Monster World. The game CD he had received in the mail after winning the Monster Battle tournament seemed to be the key, he thought. The TV was soon turned off as well, and he closed his eyes once more to review what he knew. According to the Phoenix, when it had split into five mystery disks, there were four in the Monster World... and one was sent to Earth. That disk, when he opened the package it was in one fateful day, was put directly into the Playstation. He had watched the opening scenes, and then followed through the menu until it got to the shrine. When another CD was prompted, to give him the first monster that he would create on this game, he quickly switched CDs. As he put the original disc back in, the screen began to swirl, and he had been sucked, head first, along with all sorts of other things (including his original Playstation) into the Monster World.
Mocchi had been the resulting monster from that CD, when he had managed to unlock him. Was Mocchi the key to unlocking the gate from Earth to the Monster World? Could it possibly be something like that? Genki's eyes opened quickly, and he grinned. The Phoenix had been split into five parts before. Though he hadn't been around at the end of the battle to see what became of the Phoenix entirely, could it be possible that there was some way to get back? Surely the barrier between the worlds, which had been burned through before, had been weakened enough to allow him access through once again!
And as the one who managed to fuse, with the help of others, five monsters into one, was there no way to return to that ideal world? "There has to be a way..." he told himself, and then he began packing once again. It was summer now, and he was too young to get a job now. No one in America would hire a 15-year old kid. He'd moved here with his family just two years ago, a year after he showed up back on Earth. He had very few friends here, in this gloomy state. It rained a lot, and he was left with very few outlets to vent his energy. It had grown along with him over the years. And now, with so much extra energy... he was sure he could at least make some progress into getting back to his home away from home. He had been readying himself for an opportunity to get back for the past three years now... "I will go back. Soon!" he told himself, and he grinned. There was very little for him here. Only his family... and that seemed to be breaking apart. He hadn't seen his father for a long time- he was always away on a business trip. His mother was often cooking or cleaning or something... but neither had really been able to bond with him the way that the Monster World had.
Genki blinked as he finally thought of something, though. There might be a small problem with his plan. There were only two beings in that world, he realized, that he could consider close enough to be family. Holly and Pixie. Though both were in the Monster world, they were really his only friends now. He was nice enough, and well liked in school... but hey, those people only liked him for what he could do in sports. His extra energy was put to good use in basketball, and baseball... and wrestling! His fighting techniques that he'd learned in the Monster World had been put to good use in amateur wrestling at his 'Junior High School.' But was it worth it to leave his world and family behind, to live in his dreamland? Even as he asked himself that question, he knew the answer to it- Yes!
"Now... how do I get back?" He asked aloud, sighing a little afterwards as he considered the possibilities. Could he manage to fuse a bridge, as it were, from where he was to the Monster World? Even a one way bridge? Maybe he should start searching on the Internet for a new 200X CD game. No... that one was impossible. The game manufacturers had altered them all, after the first one that he had received. Monster Rancher 2 had been the next game to come out, and developers claimed that the 200X CD had been a mistake, or at least a demo version of MR 2. There were no extra copies of the 200X CD anymore. He had looked everywhere he could. Called anyone he could. The same answer had been told to him- They don't have it, it was never released... something along those lines.
Finally, he nodded to himself. Mind over matter, right? The only real chance he had was to get everything he needed, pack it all together, and give the best shot he could give in order to take the leap from Earth to the Monster World. Taking that in mind, Genki grinned, and emptied out his backpack. On second thought, he noticed, as he saw the broken down thing, he shook his head. "Time for a new one!" he said to himself, and he walked over to the nearby closet. Inside was one of the big camping packs that his family would use when they went tent camping. It already had an ultra-light sleeping bag hooked onto it, and he started putting things into the pack. A change of clothes, some CDs... the flashlight with some extra batteries. Genki raced around the room in a hurry, putting everything he could think that he'd need into the pack. Old clothes that could get him some money if he sold them, a few valuables... including the old wind-up watch that had been left o him by his late grandfather.
10 minutes later, he was almost finished. All he had left was to tie his rollerblades onto the pack, and then he'd take his chance. There! With a final twist of the shoelaces, he was done. Sliding first one strap, and then the other, over his shoulders, he hefted the weight. It wasn't too much... though, it would take some getting used to. With a push of two buttons, the TV, and the Playstation, flickered back to life. More than likely, if he duplicated what he had done three years ago as best he can... it might make it easier to cross over. Standing ever closer to the TV, he touched the screen carefully. Nothing. The screen was still there, and as solid as it should be. He sighed. And then grinned. Then, finally, he began to concentrate. On his friends, both living and gone. On the monsters with whom he had created the Phoenix. On the Phoenix itself. The Phoenix may have been gone... but the residual energy currents remained, even after 3 years. It was connected to him... As far as he could tell, no others had ever been to the Monster World.
Suddenly, something snapped. Instead of looking around, Genki closed his eyes immediately. Concentrating hard on what he wanted... no, needed to do, he could feel some energy begin to build within him. The barriers, he could tell, were still rather strong. The walls between worlds was still rather thick. But, the energy he could sense from what had brought him back remained intact. Using his still building energy, he carefully extended his reach along the tendril of energy, trying to source it back to the Monster World. Other worlds surrounded Earth, this he could tell easily. He had to follow this strand... there! Genki unconscious smiled victoriously. He had found the Monster World! Unknown to him, his form had developed an aura that had surrounded his entire body, along with what he wore. His form itself had begun to flicker, as if he was about to disappear. Feeling more energy within him, Genki released some into a focused line, like a rope of sorts, that he tied around himself. Carefully, building up more and more power, he began to send himself through the newly formed vortex tunnel. He felt as if he was actually traveling to the world now! There was no weight on him, only the wind that rushed past him. 'This is it,' he thought, as he watched the monster world grow large before him. Suddenly, he hit a barrier. Nothing would stop him now.
With a lunging punch, the invisible barrier buckled under his energy-enhanced strength. Mental energy though it was, his physical form was lending him extra power now. Little did he know that he was no longer in possession of a physical form back on Earth. The energy he had expended had taken his Earthly physical body's energy, and now, until he got to where he was going, he was stuck in the mental planes of existence. Several more barriers were smashed as he rushed toward the rapidly approaching world. With a thud, however, he found himself smack against the strongest barrier. This one was very strong... and Genki knew just how to deal with it. Gathering a burst of extra energy, Genki flashed the power toward the barrier before him, and it punched a hole straight through. Verbal communication was unnecessary, as there wasn't really any noise in this plane. With a kick off, however, Genki flashed through the opening, grinning wildly, as he was rushed down through another vortex. He blacked out, just as he was thinking 'I'm here!'