Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ CrystalJim ❯ Chapter2: Yellow Fur and the Guy to Beat ( Chapter 2 )

CrystalJim

Chapter 2: Yellow Fur and the Guy to Beat

Written by: Juggalomalice

 

Yumi dragged Jim out of the Matrix chamber and into the main hallway. It looked very similar to the MAGAMI building in the real world except for the fact that it there were what seemed like hundreds of digimon in this hallway alone. “Oniichan, this place is huge. Which way are we suppose to go?” Yumi asked slightly worried. Jim looked around for some sort of direction signs and as if someone knew what they were looking for the crowd thinned out a bit revealing a huge digital map on the wall directly in front of them. There was a huge red star on it that read “You are here”. They were in one of the primarily hallways that connected most of the more vital player locations. Jim looked at the map and saw that the hallway they were in spilled into two main areas. To there right lead to a huge room that read, “Main Lobby, Information, and Digimon Retrieval”. To the left lead to a large room called “Digimon Lab”. “I guess we should head right.” Jim remarked. “Right!” Yumi replied as she began to head right in what seemed like some sort of crazed drill march with her knees lifted high and her arms flaying insanely at her side. The march gave Yumi the impression that she was either very important or very insane. Either way nobody dared stood in her way. Jim followed her through the trail she blazed ignoring the numerous stares people were giving them.

 

They reached the end of the hall and entered a huge room with a large semicircle desk which housed over a dozen MAGAMI employees. Many of them had a line of players waiting to get information. In the center of the room was giant metal ring of some sort with a small opening on the side. “May I help you?” one of the nearby female employees asked. Yumi rushed over and said with an unsure voice, “Uhh, we're new soo…”

 

“Then the first thing you want to do is retrieve your digimon.” The lady said.

 

“Huh, how do we do that?” Yumi asked

 

“It's simple. All you have to do is present me with your account information from the items menu in your satellite and I'll handle the rest.”

 

“Huh, satellite?” Yumi questioned.

 

“If you look up to your right you will see a small glowing orb. This is your Satellite. It operates as a personal portable computer and stores all items, information, and other important miscellaneous items you'll find in your travels. It also operates entirely on mental command. You must simply think of a command and it will commence it. Simply open your Satellite and scroll to the option `Items' and open it. This shall bring up a second menu that will display all usable items. There should be an item in there called `Account Info'. Open it and click send to user. The default address is MEGAMIinfocenter@digimononline.com. This address cannot be changed for security reasons. Never give out your account information for security reason.”

 

Yumi seemed slightly preoccupied. “Hey I did it!” she said exclaimed.

 

“Huh? I didn't see you do anything.” Jim said

 

“Satellites and satellite information can only be seen by the Satellite's owner.” The lady said, “Ah, your account information has arrived. Screen Name: Pink. Please wait while our systems retrieval and summon your digimon.” She pressed a few buttons on her counsel and a computerized female voice boom out of a seemingly invisible speaker. “Digimom retrieval system activated. Please, for safety reasons, do not enter the summoning ring and stay at a radius of 5-feet away from the perimeter. Digimon retrieval in 5…4…3…2…1…Digimon retrieval commencing.” The center ring began to vibrate releasing a strange low pitch hum and the floor with in the ring began to glow a bright white. There was a sudden blinding flash of light and suddenly in the center of the ring stood a short green figure with a flower on its head. The green figure casually walked out of the circle through the small gap in the ring. The computerized voice boom again, “Digimon retrieval complete.”

 

Yumi ran up to the green digimon and nearly shouted, “Oh wow a Palmon! I always dreamed I would be partnered with a Palmon and it seems my dream came true! Oh wow!” Yumi realized her hyperactively and clamed down a bit, “I'm sorry, my name is Pink and I'll be your partner.” She said as she introduced herself to the digimon. The green flowery digimon looked up at her and replied, “A pleasure to meet you. I look forward to working with you.” At this Yumi's calm composure broke up and she became hyperactive again dragging the digimon towards Jim. “Look Oniichan, this is Palmon. Palmon Oniichan. Isn't she cute Oniichan?”

 

“Yes, very cute.” Jim casually said, “And,” Jim took a sniff of the air around Palmon, “Smells slightly of roses. Kind of like you Yumi.”

 

Yumi blushed slightly. “I'm surprised you noticed that Oniichan. Anyway, you should call me Pink in this world you know?”

 

Jim scratched the back of his head, “Sorry bout that. I'll try to remember it next time.”

 

“Good. Ok, Palmon and I are going to go exploring. Remember to meet me back her at 7PM ok Oniichan.”

 

“What!? You mean you're just going to leave me here on my own? It was your idea to come here in the first place.”

 

“I know,” Yumi said innocently, “But if I stay here with you you're just going to travel with me and you'll never get out there and met girls like you should. Miss?” Yumi asked directly her attention to the MAGAMI employee, “Can you make sure that Oniichan doesn't just lounge around here all day and actually gets out and meet some girls. If not he'll have to live the rest of his life old and alone.” The Lady smiled and nodded. With that Yumi ran out of the building with Palmon at her heels.

 

Jim walked up to the counter. Now that he was up close to the Lady and had paid more attention to her he noticed that she was considerable younger than most of the other MAGAMI employees and much more attractive. She had a well developed chest, a seemingly seductive smile, and bright red shoulder length hair. She looked at Jim. “Your sister seems really cute, but she shouldn't worry too much about you. You're pretty cute you know? If only you were a little older.” Suddenly realizing what she was saying the Lady said, “Oh I shouldn't be saying this. I could get in big trouble if an administrator found out I said that.”

 

“It's ok,” Jim said trying to reassure her, “I won't tell anyone.”

 

“Really?” she said delighted, “Aren't you just the sweatiest thing. Cute and considerate.”

 

Jim blushed heavy at the remark and lowered his head to hid red face. This didn't make matters better for while looking down Jim managed to look a little past the desk in front of him and noticed the red headed lady's skirt and legs. The skirt caught his attention for some reason. It seemed slightly shorter than the average employee uniform. This revealed a quite a decent amount of the lady's legs and nice legs they were too. Insanely nice legs making Jim blush even more but unable to look away.

 

“Do you see something you like down there, Oniichan.” The red headed woman said in a strangely seductive voice.

 

Jim looked immediately up, still blushing and blurted, “Yes, no, maybe, I don't know!” Jim took several deep breaths and clamed down and bit and remarked, “It's just your uniform seems a bit shorter than the other employees dresses.”

 

The lady giggled a bit. “Oh that, well what's the point of having nice legs if you can't show them off right, Oniichan?” She said the last word with a cat-like playfulness. “I'll make you a deal. I promise I won't tell anyone you were looking at my legs if you promise not to tell anyone about my skirt ok?” Jim swallowed hard and said yes. “Great!” said the lady. “By the way my name is Anna.” She said pointing to her name plate, “If you need anything, you come straight to me alright Oniichan? Remember anything you need just ask.” She said highly emphasizing the anything part. Jim nodded again. “Alright then, back to work. May I have your account info please?” Anna said as if nothing at all happened. Stunned and confused Jim accessed the information and sent it. “Account information received. Screen Name: Zubin. Activating digimon retrieval.” The familiar computerized voice came on with its warning and countdown followed by the bright white flash. In the center stood a tall slender yellow fox like digimon standing on two legs. Anna gave a slight chuckle and said, “Good luck”

 

“Why do you say that?” Jim asked.

 

“Well, to put it simply Renamon are infamous for being incredibly difficult to train. You'll need all the luck you can get.”

 

Jim noticed his Satellite had begun to flash and make a beeping noise. He opened it and noticed a new option on the menu, Scanner. He accessed the option and it closed the Satellite menu and opened up a different semi-transparent menu over his left eye. Jim looked towards the digimon as it slowly exited the summoning ring and was amazed as the Scanner box began to process information right before his very eye. The information contain a file photo of the Renamon, species info, height and weight, and at the bottom of the box it there was a space called partner and next to it was Jim's screen name, Zubin. “Useful.” Jim thought as he closed the window and walked toward his new digimon.

 

When he met the Digimon face to face he was amazed at how tall it was; almost a full head taller than him. He cried in his mind. “And here I thought I was growing taller.” He held out his hand to shake the Digimon's paw and said, “Hey, I'm Zubin. I'll be your Tamer.” The Digimon said nothing but stared straight at him as if judging his very value. After of a few moments of holding up his hand waiting for a handshake that wasn't coming Jim figured out what Anna meant by difficult to train, dropped his hand, and said in a somewhat sarcastic manner, “Nice to meet you.” The Digimon said nothing. Jim shrugged and walked off down the hall that led towards the exit, the yellow digimon following him at about two steps distance.

 

“You don't like to talk much do you Renamon?” Jim asked as they walked down the hall.

 

There was no response.

 

“That's fine. I honestly don't like to talk much either so I guess there's no problem there.”

 

No response.

 

“You must be the life at parties, right?”

 

No response.

 

Jim thought the hallway was unnecessarily long. The only reason he could find was that it gave MAGAMI a place to post pictures of important company people and founders. Halfway down the hall Jim noticed a huge monitor against the right side wall with a keyboard in front of it. He stopped and looked at the monitor which seemed to be an ever scrolling list of numbers and names. At the top of the monitor it read Digimon Online ranking below that the name of the columns the monitor was organized by. From left to right it was ranking, screen name, wins, and loses. Jim thought for a moment then reached for the keyboard and typed in, Rank One, and pressed enter. The monitor stopped its scrolling and then zoomed past what seemed liked thousands of names to it stopped at the very top of the list highlight the info he requested. It read: 1. Junior (Jim noticed that next to the name there were two gold ribbons.) 1024 wins 0 loses. Below that was the second ranking player, Jmalice with 856 wins and 4 loses. A small window popped up on the screen that read, “Do you wish to download this info?” Below there was a yes and no option. Jim clicked yes and a short bar appeared and then filled up followed by a message, “Information downloaded to Satellite.” He opened his Satellite and there was an option called Info that had the word `New' next to it. He opened the option to bring up a second menu that had an item called `Player Profile' also with a `New' sign next to it. He opened the file and began to read parts of it out load to Renamon. “Screen Name: Junior; 1024 consecutive wins and undefeated; two time server champion and it appears he's also the kid who saved the world from that AOA terrorists attack two years ago.” Renamon had turned its head towards him apparently interested in the information. A half smile appeared on Jim's face as he said, “So that's the guy to beat. Guess it's going to be harder than I thought.”

 

He looked over towards Renamon to find that it was actually paying attention to him for the first time since they met. “I guess I didn't say that I actually planned on trying to become Server Champ.” Jim said.

 

“That's quite an ambitious goal.” The Renamon said in a distinctively female voice.

 

“Yeah, it may be, but.” Jim began but stopped mid-sentence and slowly turned towards

 

Renamon and said, “You're a girl?”

 

“Is that a problem?” Renamon said “Don't tell me your one of those humans that thinks women are inferior to men.”

 

“No nothing like that!” Jim defended, “It's great that you're a girl. I just didn't think you were, not to say that you look like a guy, no, I just mean I wasn't thinking and… and I'm just going to shut up.”

 

“Your choice.” Renamon said with little care in her voice.

 

Jim was always awkward when talking with girls, except Yumi, and it seemed he was no less awkward with digimon women. “This is going to be a long day.” Jim thought as he and Renamon exited the hallway and entered the central digimon world city Asuka City.