Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Digimon Adventure: The First ❯ And so it first begins... ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Disclaimer: I don't own any rights of any kind to any version of the Digimon television series' (Adventure, Adventure 02, Tamers, Frontiers). However, since this is majority an original idea, I do own most of this story. Owarini Akeno, a character that will be appearing in the story later, is the creation of M.C. Zarella. Wohng Lei is another previously made character made by someone I don't know. And much credit goes to her for helping me with ideas in this story.
Author's Note: I am aware that the "original" Chosen Children were just recycled lineart silhouettes of Taichi, Takeru, Sora, Koushirou and Yamato. Their Digimon also being the lineart of Agumon, Patamon, Biyomon, Tentomon and Gabumon. But as you can no doubt guess by the fact that I'm writing this story with completely different looking people, I don't care. So flaming me for it will be pointless. ^_^ Try to enjoy.

DIGIMON ADVENTURE
THE FIRST

"Just shut up, please..." the boy said, cowering beneath the covers on his bed.
"You want me to shut up, you little piece of shit?! I'll teach you to talk like that to your own fucking father!" A large man shouted, his fists being raised as he stormed over to the bed where the boy was hiding. There was the scream of a female voice, the mother rushing over to stand in front of the bed, blocking the man's access to the boy.
"Leave him alone!"
"Its your god damn fault that he's like this! Your fucking fault for babying him all the time! He needs to fucking grow up!" The man shouted, the smell of alcohol filling the air with every breath he exhaled. The raised fists came crashing down against the mothers small frame, knocking her to the ground. But he didn't stop there, he continued to rain his fists down upon her, mercilessly beating her.
"STOP IT!" The boy, who had previously been cowering at the sight of his father, threw the covers off and jumped onto the back of the much larger man, slamming his own hands over and over into his father's skull.

My name is Junnasha Kaizei. And this is how my story started. My father was a good man, really. It was just when he was drunk off his knocker that he was violent and hated me. My mother ... she was so kind and nice, always wanting to protect me, always forgiving my father for whatever he did.
This all started when I was two, the beatings, the drunken rage, him passing out on the floor in a pool of his own vomit.
But her forgiveness only lasted so long. She eventually divorced him ... and took him back. My stepfather was only around for a year or so, long enough to have a child with my mother, Avery. He took her as he left, unwilling to leave his child in the hands of my real father, having heard the stories about him.
She didn't try to stop him.

The fight died down, with Kaizei and his mother rushing out the door, dragging behind him a suitcase filled with what he would need for his time away from home, spending the summer break at his stepfather's. "He won't be like that when you get home, Kaizei... I promise you." She said, through the tears still running down her cheeks, the bruises from his father's fists still forming on her face and arms.
Kaizei said nothing as he walked to the bus stop. His mother patted him on the back, and handed him a pair of goggles. "I know you've been looking at these every time we pass by that store, so I got them for you ... it was supposed to be a birthday present, but you look like you could use it now." She smiled. She always had a kind smile that could lift anyone's downed spirits, Kaizei took the goggles and returned the smile with a soft one of his own.
"Hai. Arigatou." He replied softly.
His mother smiled at him again, and then turned to go back to the house. No doubt it would be an absolute mess when she arrived there, what little they owned smashed up and broken, and her husband passed out in the living room in a puddle of what was formerly the contents of his stomach. The things she does for love.
Kaizei rubbed his arm, his hand feeling over the red fabric that made up his long-sleeve shirt. He held the goggles in his lap, the dark blue frames and yellow lenses standing out against the khaki pants he wore. The bus pulled up and came to a stop with the loud release of air of from its brakes.
He stood, picked up his suitcase, and stepped up the stairs, glancing nervously at the driver and the bin next to him where the money for his trip would be deposited. He dug around in his pocket, retrieving the change he was given by his mother. Only to find it to be short of the price. "Oh no..." he whispered.
He deposited what he could and hoped the driver wouldn't notice that it wasn't exact change. He started for a seat. "Wait a minute, you little brat, trying to get a free ride! Get off this bus if you can't pay."
"But..." Kaizei started to say.
"No buts! Get off!"
"Here, its just a few cents, no big deal." A blonde, with a crewcut hairstyle, boy seated towards the front said, depositing the difference between what Kaizei put in and what was missing. He smiled at Kaizei, who ran a hand through his short, spiky, blue hair and returned the smile.
"Thank you."

That was Ryuukei Keanu, I didn't know it at the time, but I'd soon be leading him and a team of three others into the Digital World to save it from some mysterious enemy.

Kaizei turned his head, focusing on watching the things outside the bus roll by so he didn't notice Keanu coming to sit next to him. Keanu extended a hand. "Hi, my name is Ryuukei Keanu, what's yours?"
He blinked, turning his head away from the window, and to the Keanu. Kaizei glanced at him quickly, taking notice of the green 'V' on his white shirt and matching white pants. "Junnasha Kaizei." He took the extended and shook it, before turning his attention back to the outside. Tall buildings were becoming less and less common as the rickety bus drove on, into the countryside.
"Its great, isn't it? Nature." Keanu said, looking out the same window. "So peaceful, so wonderful."
"Except for when something's hungry and wants to eat something else." Kaizei responded absentmindedly.
"Its no different from how we have to survive. You go to the market and buy grains, but what if that was the last bag? Someone else will go hungry that night, or many other nights."
".. I guess you're right, I just never thought of it that way."


The rest of the day went by so quickly that Kaizei nearly stayed on the bus when it came to his stop. He had told Keanu earlier and the blonde had to poke him awake, or else Kaizei would be riding that bus until the driver decided to kick him off. He rubbed his eyes a bit, before waving to Keanu as he walked down the path to the exit.
He glanced back once more, before stepping off the bus with his suitcase and goggles. He sighed. Odaiba. He had never been here before, only heard of it. The ride through the countryside had been nice, but now he was back in a city. Preparing to meet with a father-figure that he hadn't seen in years, along with a sister he barely remembered.
There were people waiting at the bus stop, but he wasn't sure if any of them were his stepfather and his sister. He stood there a moment or two before moving to mingle in the crowd, then a voice called out for him. "Junnasha! Junnasha Kaizei!"
He blinked, and turned towards the source. An orange-haired girl came running towards him, pausing in front of Kaizei. Her hands resting on her knees as she tried to catch her breath. Then she straightened, and smoothed out the little wrinkles in her school uniform. Her orange hair, reaching down below her shoulders, blowing in the wind. The bangs flopping around wildly. "Kaizei! Its been such a long time!"
"Hai, it has, Ichimei." He blinked again, hoping that he remembered her name right.
She frowned slightly, "I go by the name Avery now, it's so much better, don't you think?"
"Avery ... it has a nice ring to it." Kaizei nodded.

It wasn't long after that first re-meeting that I was reunited with my stepfather for the summer holiday. I thought it would be paradise there, staying in Odaiba, in his little apartment. Paradise, of course, compared to the smaller house that I shared with my parents.
Paradise compared to the constant drinking and abuse caused by my father when his job became too stressful. His boss was a real workhorse, never letting up for a moment. Never relenting in his discipline of those under his watch. My father was his favorite victim.
As I was my father's favorite victim when he got home.

He stood out on the balcony, just watching the birds and aircraft fly by in the evening sky. It was so quiet. It was so quiet living all the way up here. He could still hear the sounds of the cities below him, but they were just a distant echoes. He smiled, a gust of air rippling through his hair.
"Kaizei!" Avery called, standing in the doorway to the inside of the apartment. "It's time to eat. And my dad is a great cook, so you better get in here right away! Or else I'll eat it all." She grinned, then disappeared back into her home.
Her home. He wished this could be his home, too. This brought up thoughts of his mother and his father. He missed his mother. Her sweetness, her kindness. But thinking of his mother, brought his father to the front of his mind as well. His violence, his hatred. Kaizei shivered in the cooling air, then turned and joined Avery and her father inside the apartment.
"And now we eat!" Avery squealed, digging into her own food before Kaizei even had a chance to kneel at their table. The wonderful smells of just-cooked food filled his mind, pushing away the disturbing thoughts of his father. He lifted his own utensils and begun to at the plate of food that was placed in front of him.
Much to his enjoyment, Avery had been right. Her father was a wonderful cook.


Kaizei was sitting in a chair, a game controller in his hand. Avery was next to him, an identical device in her own. Their fingers were pushing and smashing the buttons as fast as they could manage. Neither wanted to lose to the other. Their eyes were fixed on the television set in front of them, where two creatures were fighting.
"Ha! KO!" Kaizei yelled, grinning.
"That's just round one! It's not over yet!" Avery replied, pressing another button. The two creatures stood on the screen again. One leaped high, a leg outstretched. Kaizei's fighter rolled on the ground moving beneath Avery's. Kaizei grinned. His best combo was absolutely deadly if the opponent was in the air and you were beneath them.
Bam.
"KO!"
"Aww ... you did beat me." Avery sniffed. "I don't know how! I play this game all the time and this is the first time you've ever played, right?" She eyed him. "This IS the first time you've played this, RIGHT?"
He blinked.
"Yes, Avery, I told you. I don't have one of these at home. They're too expensive for us, and it would probably just get broken. I guess I'm just better at it than you." He said without thinking.
"Oh yeah?" The game controller left her hand. It was replaced with a pillow. This object of softness was smashed into the back of Kaizei's head, with all the force that Avery could muster.


Kaizei grumbled slightly, and rubbed the back of his head. He eyed his pillow suspiciously before lying down on his pallet, glancing one more time at his headrest. As though he were expecting Avery's arm to appear behind it and smack him again. He had beaten her at her favorite video game, and for that victory, he was beaten without mercy with a pillow. This brought up memories.
He had just curled into a ball, and took the blows as they came. Avery stopped when she thought she had heard him saying things like, 'please, dad, stop, please.' She asked him what he was talking about and he didn't respond. Just said he was tired and needed to get some rest.
Kaizei sighed, his head resting on the soft white block beneath it. His eyes closed and he could feel himself drifting off to sleep. Sounds became more distant, his body felt more relaxed.
Then there came the sensation of thousands of hands grabbing at his body. His eyes snapped open. "What the hell..." There was no one else in the room. Nothing hand changed, but still that feeling that something, or someone, tugging at different parts of his legs and arms remained and persisted.
It all stopped.
"What was that?"
He looked around his surroundings, once more. Begging for a rational explanation to jump out and smack him in the face. He shrugged, thinking maybe it was just his imagination running wild with him. He closed his eyes again. No feeling of being pulled in different places came this time. Nothing at all. He drifted right off the sleep.

* * * *

He went to sleep in a building, a room, a world that he knew. And he awoke in neither a building, nor a room, nor did he awaken in a world that was familiar. It was an alien place that he opened his eyes to see. The blue sky above, clouds drifting lazily. The smell of grass beneath him, and a giant black dinosaur walking in the distance.
"Wait a second..."
He sat up, and quickly climbed to his feet. One hand lifted, feeling the plastic of his goggles hanging around his neck. He blinked. He didn't remember putting them on. His eyes were drawn to the black tyrannosaurus rex. Something didn't add up. Didn't he go to sleep in the room given to him by Avery and her father? If he did, shouldn't he wake up there? And how the hell was a dinosaur walking around and living? All these questions circled in his head.
"You!" came a voice behind him. Kaizei then found himself planted on his belly, a heavy weight on his back. His arms were held against the ground by the hands of the one that sat on him. "Why did you kidnap me?! What is this place!"
"Me!? The last thing I remember is going to sleep, how do I know YOU didn't kidnap me! Get off! You weigh a ton." Kaizei responded, struggling to get out from underneath his attacker. This was rewarded with the attacker's weight being relieved for a moment, then a knee being pressed into his back. "Arr. Get OFF!"
"Why would I kidnap someone like you, huh? You're path--" His insult was cut off by a roar. The black T-Rex that had been in the distance had decided to come closer, to inspect the little creatures that were so odd looking.
"Mm ... food time for me!" Dark Tyrannomon said, with a toothy grin.
"Since when did dinosaurs live and talk?" The voice, belonging to the one on top of him, questioned.
" ... crap." Kaizei muttered. The knee was removed from his back and he arms were released. He heard the sounds of quickly retreating footsteps, and caught a glimpse of a redheaded boy, with a wild haircut, in blue jeans and a black shirt running into a forest. Kaizei climbed to his feet, glanced at Dark Tyrannomon, and charged after the other.
"Prey always tastes better after a chase! Loosens the muscles." Dark Tyrannomon chuckled, giving chase, knocking trees over to clear a path.
"Shit, shit, shit, this cannot be happening..." the redhead kept running. Hard and fast. Kaizei was catching up on him, and then the two were escaping death side by side. The redhead grinned. "I know how to slow it down!"
"How!?" Kaizei asked.
"Like this!" The other responded. Then he shoved Kaizei into a tree. Literally, into a tree. Kaizei didn't bounce off the side and land on his back as the redhead had predicted, but instead fell through and into the interior of the large wooded object. And on top of someone who was also on the inside.
Then there came a scream. A very high-pitched, female sort of scream.
"He screams like a girl."
The redheaded child paused, hiding behind the tree he had just shoved Kaizei into. He leaned against it, and fell through onto the hard ground inside the tree. "What the hell!"
Kaizei, with a big red hand-shaped mark on his face, glared at the fallen one. To his right, stood a female. With an equally ferocious glare on her face, but this was directed at Kaizei. Her arms were folded over her chest.
There was silence for a few moments, the thudding footsteps of Dark Tyrannomon steadily coming closer. Then they were fading off into the distance. The hungry dinosaur had come and gone, they were safe. For now.
"You tried to get me eaten!" Kaizei yelled.
"He wouldn't have spent much on time on you, anyway. You probably taste like crap." The redhead shrugged, standing up. "And the names Akeno. Since you didn't ask me my name before you decided to kidnap me."
"I didn't kidnap you!" Kaizei responded.
"Then how else am I here, huh?"
"Will you both just shut up, please?" The female said. She was dressed in a pair of black jeans, with a navy sleeveless shirt tucked into it. Her light brown hair only reached her ears. "My name is Lei, and I don't think any of us kidnapped each other."
"Then how else are we here?" Kaizei asked, still glaring at Akeno, who was returning his glare.
"I don't know, but pointing the blame at each other isn't going to do any good." Lei said, looking at Kaizei, then at Akeno, and back to Kaizei. "What is your name?"
"Junnasha Kaizei."
"All right, so what's the last thing you remember doing before you were here, Kaizei?" Lei asked.
"The last thing I remember is going to sleep, and then waking up here." He said, turning his attentions away from Akeno and to Lei, the voice of reason.
"And how about you?" She looked to Akeno.
"Going to sleep." He responded.
"So ... the last thing all three of us remember is going to sleep, and then waking up here. Do you think that maybe ... all three of us are dreaming? At the same time, maybe?" Lei asked. Kaizei blinked. He had never had the same dream has someone before. But it did make sense, sort of.
"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Jeez, where do you go to school? Pre-K for the Stupid?" Akeno said, rolling his eyes.
"Hey! It's better than your idiotic 'I was kidnapped' theory!" Kaizei yelled at Akeno.
"If you hadn't kidnapped me, I wouldn't have that theory!" Akeno responded.
Lei groaned, rubbing at her forehead.

* * * *

Kaizei stuck his head out of the tree, having been elected by the other two to check if Dark Tyrannomon was still around. There were no signs of the giant black T-Rex. He stepped all the way out and then the other two followed. "That is one weird tree." Kaizei commented.
"Really. You just noticed. I thought you could always just walk right into a tree and go inside of it." Akeno said, rolling his eyes at Kaizei.
"Please, don't start this again." Lei sighed.
Kaizei glared at Akeno slightly, and then started walking in the direction they had been running from moments earlier. "Maybe there's some clues back where we first woke up." To his surprise, Akeno and Lei were following along behind him. "Did you two wake up in that field too?"
"Yeah, your stench was my wake up call this morning. Thanks." Akeno said, pulling ahead of Kaizei. "You two follow me, we'll check out where I woke up first and then you two's."
"Why do we have to see yours first?" Kaizei questioned.
"Because I'm smarter than you, so shut up and follow me." Akeno replied.
"You are not!" Kaizei responded.
"How about all three of us go to our own spots?" Lei suggested, trying to avoid listening to them argue again. She got the two to agree and sighed, thankful. They stepped out onto the field, still heading in the same direction.
"Did we all wake up near each other?" Kaizei asked, blinking.
"Well, obviously, since we're going in the same direction. Gee, you're just like Sherlock Holmes, aren't you."
"If you don't stop making fun of me, I'm going to hu--" Kaizei's words, as well as his feet, stopped. They were on top of a hill, in the middle of the field. There laid two more figures. Two that Kaizei recognized right away.
"Avery? Keanu?"
"Do you know them?" Lei asked.
"Yeah, ones my sister and the other is a friend of mine."
"Whoa, you have friends? And who allowed your family to reproduce again? Especially after seeing the failure you are? They should be shot." Akeno said, nodding.
"Shut up!" Kaizei yelled.
"And what is up with those goggles? Are you trying to set some kind of fashion trend?" Akeno said, poking at them.
"Don't touch those!" Kaizei shouted, then leaped at Akeno. The Owarini child dropped to a knee, and took hold of the Junnasha's arm. Before Kaizei knew what happened, Akeno had him planted on the ground, holding one arm behind his back. "Grr ... how'd you do that?!"
"Judo. I took it for years." Akeno grinned.
"Will you two knock it off? I'm going to try to wake up the others." Lei said with a sigh. She moved over to Avery and Keanu, nudging them softly with the tip of her shoe. Akeno released his hold on Kaizei and joined Lei by the other two. Kaizei grumbled to himself, and followed. He stood behind the two, glaring holes into the back of Akeno's head.
" ... the answer is five, sensei!" Avery shouted, sitting up straight. "Huh? Where am I?" She blinked, looking around. "And who are all of you?--wait a minute, did you break into my room and kidnap me?!" She was on her feet in a second, her right hand flying fast. Lei didn't have a chance to block the slap that came across her face.
Akeno blinked. "Wow, she's tougher than you, Kaizei."
"I didn't kidnap anyone! Let's not go through this again!" Lei said, wincing as she touched her face.
"What's all the yelling about?" Keanu said, coming to his feet. " ... wait, where am I?" He looked to Lei, to Akeno, to Avery, and then to Kaizei. "Kaizei? What are we doing here?"
"I don't know, I'm just as lost as the rest of you."
"Actually, he's more lost. Because he's stupider than the rest of us." Akeno shrugged. "Poor guy, gotta feel sorry for him, really."
"Shut up!" Kaizei yelled.
"Will you two please stop it!" Lei tried to calm them.
"Stop picking on him, you big meanie!" Avery jumped in.
Keanu sighed. The four of them were all arguing and fighting with each other. Human beings are always like that. He liked to be around people, but he could do without them. Nature was far more interesting and satisfying to watch. How everything is perfectly balanced, perfectly put together to do its purpose. This place he was in, it felt different. The wind blew a different way, the grass looked different, and he was sure that the texture of the trees and rocks were different too.
It was almost as if they were in a whole new world.
A small white ball, complete with eyes, a mouth, and tentacles, came charging up the hill towards the humans. "Someone! Help me! Save me!" The white ball yelled, scaling up Avery's body and hiding in the top of her school uniform. She screamed, swinging her arms around wildly. Lei, Kaizei, and Akeno ceased their argument, turning their attentions to Avery.
"Get it out! Get it out!"
"Heeey ... its nice and warm in here." The ball said.
"Hey you, get out of there!" Keanu said, his hands following the white ball into the blouse of Avery. Her arms were no longer flailing around as though she had no control over their movements, but instead, she was bashing them into Keanu's head.
"What do you think you are doing!" She screamed.
Keanu pulled his hands out, holding a squirming tentacle monster. "There, gotcha." Keanu took several steps away from the fuming Avery, apparently not giving thought to where his hands were just a moment ago. "Now what do we have here? I don't recognize this animal." He poked the little ball-with-tentacles.
"I'm not an animal, I'm a Digimon! My name is Ecchimon." The ball triumphantly announced. "Now will you put me back in my warm hiding place?"
"What a very appropriate name." Lei commented.
"NO!" Avery said, wrapping her arms around herself.
"A Digimon? I haven't heard of those. Is that your class, or family? Maybe species. Well, you're not a plant. So you definitely belong to the kingdom animalia." Keanu said, continuing with his observations. "Wait, how are you even able to talk in the first place?" He blinked.
"Kaaaizei, did you see what he did to me?" Avery sniffed, moving over to stand by her stepbrother.
The ground to their right exploded in a blaze of fire. Smoke filled the air, but the sounds of thudding footsteps told what was coming. The dinosaur that had chosen them as his next meal had returned. Dark Tyrannomon was stomping his way up the hill. "Looks like I found some more! Yummy! Now hold still, I don't want to fry you too much!"
"EEEEE. SAVE ME!" Ecchimon screamed, trying to free himself from Keanu's grasp and make his way into his so-called hiding place.
"I think we should get out of here now!" Lei started backtracking down the hill opposite of Dark Tyrannomon's approach. The ground behind her was incinerated by a blast of fire spilling from the blackened T-Rex's mouth. "I really, really, really think we should get out of here. That is not normal!"
Akeno broke into a flat-out run down one side. His progress was cut short by the ground lying directly in his path was transformed into a ditch of melted rock. "Shit!" He looked back to the other four.
"I don't want to be eaten!" Avery cried.
"If we can't run away..." Kaizei closed his eyes. Then opened them, narrowing his view on Dark Tyrannomon. " ... then we fight!" His hands were clenched into fists at his side.
"How are we supposed to fight something like that!" Keanu shouted.
"Have you lost your mind, or were you always this stupid!" Akeno added in.
"Kaizei, that thing is too big, we wouldn't stand a chance!" Lei said.
" ... I'm hungry, do you have any food?" Ecchimon asked.
"We have to fight!"
A beam of blue light sprouted from the ground in front of Kaizei.
He gasped, taking a step backwards. The sound of Dark Tyrannomon taking another step echoing in his ears. This is how he would die. Eaten by some strange creature, in a place he didn't recognize.
The beam died down, an oval object floated down into Kaizei's hands. It was a dark blue in color. It almost resembled a small mirror, the reflective screen in the middle taking up most of the space. There were two red buttons at the top, and two at the bottom. Words scrolled across the center, "WELCOME CHOSEN CHILD. DO YOU ACCEPT YOUR DESTINY?"
Kaizei gripped the device in his hand. "I ... accept."
"ECCHIMON IS YOUR DESTINED PARTNER. GO FORTH, NOW." the words scrolled across the screen. The ball-with-tentacles was engulfed in the same blue light that had deposited the device in his hands. Ecchimon was lifted from Keanu's hands, and was placed on the shoulder of Kaizei.
"Wow, so, you're going to feed me now?" The hopeful Digimon asked.
"No, but you are all going to feed me! Pretty light show, dinner time! I love dinner and a show." Dark Tyrannomon roared.
"Ecchimon!" Kaizei said, his tightening his grip around the new object in his hand.
The tentacle monster leaped from his perch on his partner's shoulder. His form shifted, and faded. "Ecchimon, ultimate evolution!"
The little ball with tentacles was no longer there. Kaizei blinked. What happened? He had been flying at Dark Tyrannomon just a second ago, hadn't he? Where Kaizei's partner Digimon disappeared from, was where the next monstrosity appeared.
Tentacles upon tentacles upon tentacles touched the ground. Where the larger tentacles ended, several smaller ones sprouted. A large black ball was the beginning of the thickest of tentacles. A single red eye was located on that said sphere, staring straight at the Dark Tyrannomon. "Tentakurumon."
"Tentacle Grasp." The elongate flexible extensions of Tentakurumon stretched out, wrapping themselves around Dark Tyrannomon. Save for those that were busy supporting the massive ball from hitting the ground. Dark Tyrannomon struggled, trying to bite and claw his way free of the tentacles.
Tentakurumon pulled the other Digimon closer, and closer. Just below the eye, a mouth opened. A mouth full of jagged red teeth that sank down into the digitalized flesh of Dark Tyrannomon. He screamed. He screamed and screamed. Those screams echoed in the ears of the children who had no choice but to watch the creature that had been Ecchimon moments earlier.
The screams ceased. Dark Tyrannomon was no longer there, and Tentakurumon had moved his eye from the 'front' of his body to the 'back,' focusing on the children. His monstrous mouth closing. The rest of the Digimon turned to match up with the eye.
Tentakurumon's form shifted and faded, the innocent little white ball-with-tentacles laid where he had been before. Unconscious, and snoring loudly. Muttering something about how it was always important to have a good meal before sleeping.
"My God ... what kind of place is this?" Lei asked.
"THE DIGITAL WORLD WELCOMES YOU." The words scrolled across Kaizei's screen.