Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Rose Diaries - Paris Adventures 2004 ❯ Entry 2 - The Odd Couple ( Chapter 2 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

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Joan smirked as she finished reading the e-mail Colette had sent
to the team after she and Gazimon had returned from the Digital World
following her encounter with Genevieve and Lopmon. She knew that her
little brother hung out sometimes with a girl named Genevieve, and
this Genevieve's mention of her friends Ellen and Rene was all the
confirmation she had needed. Still grinning Joan got up from the
computer, nudging her partner with her foot as she did so.

Elecmon pouted. "Joan, you made me mess up," she remarked, erasing the
stray pencil mark on the paper.

"Worry about your pencil sketches later," Joan told her. "We've got
to pay Rene a little visit."

The object of their search was currently in his bedroom, lying stomach-
down on his bed and looking intently at the object he'd received from
Genevieve's computer. He was so engrossed in his examination that Joan
was able to catch him completely off-guard when she barged into his room.

"Rene, we need to talk," Joan announced. She giggled as her brother
fell off of his bed in surprise.

"Ah! Joan!" he exclaimed in surprise. Pulling himself to a sitting
position he asked, "Don't you know how to knock? What do you want,
anyway?" His eyes widened as he caught sight of Elecmon standing next to
his sister.

Joan smiled smugly. "Rene, I'd like you to meet my Digimon partner
Elecmon."

"How do you do?" Elecmon said, dipping her head. "I'm glad to meet you,
Rene."

"Yeah, likewise," Rene said nervously. Looking to his sister he asked,
"What's all
this about?"

In response Joan held up her digivice. "Little brother, welcome to the
wonderful world of being a Digidestined."

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Rose Diaries - Paris Adventures 04
By Lady Iapetus

Entry Two: The Odd Couple
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"Christ! Could this day get any worse?" Ellen huffed. She was still in
a snit over the airline screw-up with her plane ticket two days earlier,
which was compounded by the fact that one of her teachers had decided to
be a prick about the entire thing. Now, after trying to see if the funky
watch that had come out of Genevieve's computer would go back _into_ the
computer, she found herself zapped from her home into the middle of a
meadow in absolute nowhere.

"Would you _please_ stop screaming?" a feminine voice behind her asked.
"As grateful as I am that your voice carries and therefore allowed me to
find you, it's now getting quite annoying." Ellen turned around,
expecting to see another human being and preparing to rip into her just
on general principle.

What she found was a hawk or eagle-like bird, standing about a meter
high, glaring up at her with her wings on her hips. Around her forehead
was a leather band with a feather sticking up in the back, like the
Native Americans were often depicted as wearing. Ellen was so surprised
that her tirade died on her tongue, and all she could do was work her
mouth silently.

"That's better," the bird said. "Now I can introduce myself properly.
I am Hawkmon, and I have the honor of being your Digimon partner."

"...partner?" Ellen finally managed to get out. Hawkmon nodded. "Partner
for what? Just what am I supposed to do with you?"

Hawkmon looked at her as if the answer were completely obvious. "We help
each other protect the Digiworld, of course."

Ellen walked away, resisting the urge to either scream or laugh
hysterically. "This is nuts!" she exclaimed. "I've _got_ to be dreaming
this; there's no other explanation for it. This absolutely _has_ to be
some kind of crazy nightmare."

"I _told_ you I heard someone!" she heard a familiar voice exclaim.
Both Ellen and Hawkmon turned around to see four figures crossing a nearby
hill. Two of them were human and appeared to be Rene and his older sister
Joan. The other two...well, weren't human. The one walking by Joan looked
like a red lizard with blue markings, and there was a white, miniature
Tyrannosaurus Rex walking next to Rene.

When he recognized who this new person was, Rene waved an arm above his
head. "Hey Ellen! You got roped into this too, huh?"

"This what?" Ellen asked. "What the hell is going on, Rene? One minute
I'm trying to feed this thing back into the computer, and the next I'm
standing here having a conversation with a miniature bald eagle." She
brandished the device as she said this.

"Hawkmon," Hawkmon corrected archly.

Rene blinked. "Whoa. Calm down, Ellen. This is nothing to get excited
over."

"'Nothing to get excited over?'" she repeated. "You call getting kidnapped
nothing to get excited over?"

Joan decided to take the opportunity to step in and prevent any bloodshed
from occuring. "Calm down, Ellen. Don't worry, you haven't been kidnapped
and for that matter neither have Rene and I. You've been chosen to be a
Digidestined, and so you were brought to the Digiworld to meet your partner,
which is Hawkmon I'm assuming."

The avian Digimon nodded. "That's correct," she confirmed.

"And you buy this?" Ellen asked in disbelief.

The brown-haired girl shrugged. "I have since '01, when I was introduced
to Elecmon here."

Elecmon inclined her head in Ellen's direction. "A pleasure to meet you,
Ellen."

"Yeah, nice to meet you too," Ellen responded automatically. Turning to
Rene she asked, "So what's your little friend's name?"

"You can call me Snow Agumon," the white T-Rex replied in a voice that
was of a higher pitch than Ellen expected from a dinosaur.

Rene grinned. "Isn't he cool? We met him just a few minutes after Joan and
I got here. Its like he was waiting for me to show up."

"I _was_ waiting for you to show up!" Snow Agumon said. The pair shared a
laugh while Joan rolled her eyes.

"Well, if you two are finished joking around, how about we keep going?" Joan
asked. Turning to Ellen she explained, "Before we found you I was giving
my brother here a tour of the Digiworld. You're welcome to come along if
you want."

Ellen shrugged. "Sure. It'll give me something to do until I figure out a
way home, or else a way to wake myself up." Hawkmon shook her head in
exasperation as she took to the air and the rest of the group started walking.

"If its getting home you're worried about, there should be a television coming
up here in a little bit," Joan called over her shoulder. "I'll show you how
to work it, if you still want to leave."

Ellen stopped in her tracks. "...television?"

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Some distance away, a Fugamon was tramping through the woods in search of
something or someone to bully around. He had no logical reason for doing
so; he was just bored. And he was a Viral; Virals were supposed to pick
on the small and weak.

Stopping for a moment, Fugamon thought he heard voices approaching his general
area. He grinned to himself; scaring the daylights out of a hiker would
be great fun.

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"So, the Digiworld is as big as the Earth?" Rene asked. Being new to the
whole business of being Digidestined, he and Ellen understandably had quite a
few questions (although most of Ellen's seemed geared towards going home).
As Rene was a hobbyist geographer, he was interested in the geographical
layout of the Digiworld.

Joan nodded. "As far as we've been able to guess, yeah. Each team of Chosen
or Digidestined has its own specific area of the Digiworld that they have to
protect and keep the peace in. For example, the Eastern coast of the continent
of Server and nearby File Island falls under the Odaiba team's jurisdiction,
although they share File with teams from California and Mexico City. And no team
of Chosen has ever been to another team's region of the Digiworld, except I think
the Canadian team."

"Canada has a Digidestined team?" Ellen asked incredulously.

"Yes," Joan answered. "Six kids, all from Edmonton. We met one of them
about a year ago when he 'ported over here."

"'Ported?'" both Rene and Ellen echoed.

This time Elecmon fielded the question. "Anyone with a D-3 can use that
type of Digivice to open a digital portal on any computer. Depending on
how the portal is set, they can also be used to go over to other countries.
The Canadian team has pretty much made a habit of visiting other teams'
territories."

"Some of us prefer more conventional means of transportation, though," Joan
interrupted. "Especially as 'porting to, say, the U.S. would mean you'd be
in the country illegaly."

"So what you're saying is that no team, aside from the Canadian team that is,
has been out of its assigned region of the Digiworld?" asked Ellen.

Joan nodded. "The only ones that rule doesn't seem to apply to, aside from
Canada's team, are the kids we call Wandering Digidestined. They aren't part
of a Digidestined or Chosen team, but they wander around different regions
of the Digiworld and help out various teams when and where they're needed."

"Does France have one?" was Ellen's next question. Joan giggled.

"Technically yes, you could say," she answered. "His name is Allan, and he's
from England originally. But he helps out our team from time to time, so you
could say we 'share' him. I think the last time we saw him was during the
Christmas invasion two years ago, but I'm not entirely sure on that."

Rene tried to steer the conversation back to the earlier topic. "So what's
Paris' general area?" he asked. "What's it like?

"There are a few small towns scattered around our area, but we've mostly
got plains and forests. Nothing as impressive as the Seine or the Eiffel
Tower. And nothing as interesting as the Forest of Irrelevent Street
Signs."

"What?" Ellen asked skeptically. "Run that by me again?"

Elecmon laughed. "It's a forest over on File Island that has street signs
stuck to the trees everywhere, like they just grew there. One of the
Japanese Chosen, Yamato Ishida, dubbed it the 'Forest of Irrelevant Street
Signs,' and that's what its been named ever since."

Ellen blinked, turning this information over in her mind. "...okay," she
finally said.

The Digimon, aside from Elecmon, had been silent this whole time. Snow
Agumon was content to just walk beside his partner, knowing that there'd
be time enough for questions once they got back to Rene's home. Hawkmon,
on the other hand, was having second thoughts about being a partnered
Digimon. Her human partner wasn't acting very enthusiastic about it.
_I wonder if I can get a different partner?_

Snow Agumon stopped walking all of a sudden, raised his head and sniffed
at the air. "What is it, boy?" Rene asked.

"'Boy?'" repeated Ellen. "Rene, he's a midget dinosaur, not a puppy."

"Hmph!" Hawkmon harumphed. "It just so happens that Digimon have
extraordinarily good sense of smell, especially dinosaur and dragon types
like Snow Agumon here. He probably smells another Digimon nearby."

Snow Agumon nodded. "Hawkmon's right; there is another Digimon around
here."

"What kind?" Rene asked.

"We can't usually tell that by smell, Rene," his partner replied with
a grin. "Unless its a Sukamon, of course."

"Ew!" Elecmon and Hawkmon chorused.

"Don't worry; it's not a Sukamon," Snow Agumon assured them. As if that
sentence had been a cue, a red ogre-like Digimon leapt out of the edge
of the wooded area that the group had been approaching, club held high.

"It's a Fugamon!" Snow Agumon shouted as instinct kicked in and the kids
and Digimon ran.

"A what?" Ellen yelled over her shoulder.

"An Adult-level Digimon, Viral class," answered Joan. "Coarse, rude,
and just generally annoying."

Ellen looked up at her partner, who had once again taken to the air.
"You're my partner," she said. "Aren't you supposed to protect me or
something?"

"Are you crazy? You heard what Joan said!" Hawkmon returned. "That
guy's an Adult!"

"So?"

"Elecmon, Hawkmon and Snow Agumon are currently Child-level Digimon,"
answered Joan. "If they went up against that guy without evolving,
they'd get slaughtered." She turned to Elecmon and asked, "You ready?"

Elecmon nodded. "Ready! Elecmon, evolve!" A pillar of light
engulfed the lizard-like Digimon, leaving in her place a Digimon with
the body of a horse and head and torso of a human. "Kentarumon!"

"Oh, good! A Digidestined! That makes this more fun!" Fugamon grinned
as he advanced at Kentarumon.

"We'll see about that. Hunting Cannon!" She growled as Fugamon side-
stepped the attack.

Fugamon grunted. "Not bad. My turn. Evil Hurricane!" Kentarumon
braced herself against the attack. But Joan wasn't ready, and was thrown
back a distance of a couple meters. With Joan out of commission
Kentarumon de-evolved to Elecmon.

"Joan!" Rene called in shock. He then turned to the red ogre and
shouted, "You're going to pay for that!"

"All right! Snow Agumon, evolve!" Snow Agumon cheered. Light engulfed
him as it had Elecmon. When it died away in Snow Agumon's place was
a blue version of their opponent. "Hyougamon. Icicle Toss!" After
attacking, Hyougamon lunged at Fugamon and the two opponents locked hands.
"How does it feel to pick on someone your own size?"

Hawkmon and Ellen watched the fight from the safety of the sidelines.
Hawkmon was trying not to give into the urge to take to the air and start
raining Feather Slashes down onto the Fugamon. "Ellen, he needs my help,"
she told her partner. "I can evolve and help Hyougamon, but only if you
allow me to."

Ellen looked down at her Digimon. The expression on her face was
unreadable, but after a couple seconds changed to grim determination.
"I trust you, Hawkmon. Go for it."

"Hawkmon, evolve!" Hawkmon's form disappeared in a pillar of light,
replaced by a large bird-like creature. "Cockatrimon!"

Cockatrimon hurried into place so that she was standing behind Hyougamon.
"Hyougamon! When I say the word, get out of the way as quick as you can!"

"Got it!" When Cockatrimon gave the signal Hyougamon planted one foot
in Fugamon's abdomen and pushed himself away. Cockatrimon waited until
he was clear before launching her attack.

"Petrifier!" The energy from her attack hit Fugamon, and before everyone's
eyes he turned to stone. Their job completed, the two Digimon de-evolved.

"That was fantastic. You were just great!" Rene exclaimed. He looked
over at Joan, who was just joining them. "You okay, Sis?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," Joan answered. "Nice job, you two."

Ellen walked over to the stone Digimon. "Is he dead?"

"Not unless someone or something tips him over and he breaks," Hawkmon
answered. "The spell should wear off in a couple hours."

"Which means we'd better find that television if we want to get
home," Joan said. "C'mon, everyone, follow me."

Snow Agumon tapped the stone Fugamon with one claw. "Rock solid!" he
joked. The pun was met by groans from the rest of the group. "What?"

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Dear Diary,

I'm still in minor shock as I write this. I can't believe that I was
chosen to be a Digidestined. Heck, part of me is still wondering if I'm
just dreaming all of this.

After our adventure in the Digiworld all three of us ended up 'porting
out in the LaSalle's den, even though I'd gone in through a portal on
my home computer. Joan says that landing on your feet after going through
one of those things takes a lot of practice; I believe her! Getting
home wasn't too large of an undertaking, although Hawkmon complained
about me carrying her instead of allowing her to walk. Fortunately Mom
still hadn't gotten home by the time we did, so I was able to sneak her
in relatively easily.

Apparently Joan gave my e-mail address to the leader of our team,
Catherine, because there was an e-mail from her waiting for me when I
got done with dinner. It was addressed to Rene, Genevieve and myself
inviting the three of us to a team meeting that weekend at some girl's
house. Must be one of those "welcome-to-the-team" informative things.
Guess I'll find out when I go.
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Author's Notes:

The Digidestined from Canada mentioned by Joan is from _Digital Diaries:
Adventure 2003_ by Shaun Garin. Its a series set in the Diaries universe
dealing with a team out of Canada.

Upcoming Entry:
Rose Diaries - Entry 3: All You'll Need to Know
Catherine calls a weekend meeting of the French team at Colette's
house, and the three new Digidestined learn just what they've
gotten themselves into.