Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Shinobimon Trilogy ❯ Introductions ( Chapter 1 )

Introductions

By Jack Manyon

Disclaimer: I own nothing that could get me sued.

This is the first story in a trilogy.

It takes place during the reign of the Digimon Emperor.

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It was a wonderful sunny day in the digital world; everything smelled fresh and inviting after last night's rain. The flowers and trees glistened as the rain droplets mixed with the morning dew. This was one of the most beautiful mornings this area of the digital world has seen since the war against the digimon emperor started and everyone was going to take advantage of this well deserved break in the fighting.

Kari walked along the path in front of her admiring the scenery. She closed her eye and breathed in the fresh air filled with scent of flowers in bloom and all the greenery around.

"It's a beautiful day today," she sighed.

"It sure is," agreed Davis as he walked beside her.

"Yeah, I love the morning after a rain, everything seems so new" chimed in T.K opposite Davis.

They spent a couple of minutes walking in silence as their digimon ran ahead playing in the grass and laughing excitedly.

"I wish we didn't have to be on patrol, we could be relaxing by a lake and taking it easy for once" said Davis, breaking the silence.

"I know how you feel, on a day like today it's hard not to just sit down and watch the digital world go by." Agreed Kari.

"Me too, but if we want to have more mornings like this we have to keep up the war against the evil forces of the digital world." said T.K, bringing a somber note to the discussion.

"Why did you have to bring that up?" complained Davis "I was trying to forget the war for at least a couple of minutes."

"Well, he's right Davis, we can't forget why we're here." Said Kari agreeing with T.K.

"I still think that we can't be on duty forever, all the time. We need a vacation once and a while." Countered Davis.

"Alright, we'll talk it over when we get back together with the others" said T.K

Continuing their walk down the path the three companions once again lapsed into another mutual silence. Their digimon had made it to the lake up ahead and were wadding in the water, splashing at each other and laughing, all except Gatomon who was content to sit on the shore and watch the other two.

"Oh no, I hope the storm's not coming back, I don't want to get wet." said Kari as she pointed to the dark shadow that had appeared over the path.

"That's not a cloud Kari. It's a snimon!" yelled T.K as he turned and pointed at the sky.

"Veemon! Help!" called Davis as the snimon descended towards them, razor sharp sickles razed.

"It's got a black ring! The Digimon Emperor's controlling it!" yelled Kari.

"Get down!" yelled T.K

All three digidestines as one threw themselves to the ground as a blade sliced the air their bodies were occupying just milliseconds ago. With their digimon still to far away to get to them in time, they all knew they were staring death in its ugly face. The snimon stood over them with its sickle razed ready to bring it crashing down, ending it all. Each closed their eyes ready for the end.

Only, it did not come. The only sound they heard was the sickle coming down and a clang of metal against metal, then nothing. Each opened their eyes and saw the snimon's blade poised in mid air, un-moving. What was holding it there came to an even greater shock to the three; there standing above them was a caped figure dressed in black, he wore a hood over head and piece of cloth covering his mouth and nose so that only his eyes were visible. He stood there with a long curved sword in hand pushed against the snimon's blade holding it there with an amazing show of strength, the slight quiver of the blade was the only indication of the strain against the snimon's arm scythes.

He spoke to the three stunned kids under him, "You better get out from under here, I don't know how long I'll be able to hold him."

They wisely decided to follow his advice and hurried to get out of the way.

As soon as the three were out the caped figure let the sickle drop and parried the other with a swipe of his sword as he jumped out of range. As he landed, he reached into his tunic and removed two jagged metal pieces.

Blocking another swipe, he pulled back his arm and cried "Iron Star!" and let fly with both shards towards the dark ring encircling the monster's middle. With twin impacts the stars found their mark, the black ring shattered and disappeared into nothingness. The snimon, released from the dark ring collapsed to the ground with a thud, too weak from the possession to move.

The three just stared at the stranger as he calmly sheathed his sword and turned towards them. "Are you alright?" he said.

"We're fine, thanks for rescuing us," answered Kari, "Who are you?"

"My name is Shinobimon and you're welcome," He said.

"Kari!" "Davis!" "T.K!"

They turned and saw their digimon running at full speed towards them.

"We heard you yell, and we thought you might be in troub…." Patamon's voice trailed off when he saw the form of the snimon laying unconscious on the ground.

"What happened here?" asked Gatomon.

"This snimon was under the Digimon Emperor's control and it attacked us, we were almost killed but Shinobimon here stopped him and destroyed the dark ring." Explained Davis.

"Who?"

"That digimon right over there," said T.K as he pointed to the spot were Shinobimon was.

They all turned to look but no one was there.

Shinobimon was gone.

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"You mean he just disappeared?" asked Cody as the digidestines were walking through the park that was centered in the middle of the city, which provided a small amount of privacy anyone who was passing by.

"What I mean is, he was there in front of us, we turned around and when we turned back, he was gone." Said Davis.

"I've never heard of a digimon named Shinobimon," said Gatomon from her spot in Kari's arms.

"Has anyone ever seen a digimon like him?" asked T.K.

Everyone each shook his or her heads; no one had seen anything like him. He was a complete mystery to all of them.

"Well, from what you told us, it didn't seem that he was just passing by and saw you in trouble and decided to help," said Yolei, "or else he would have stayed instead of leaving."

"Yolei's right, I don't think that was the last we'll see of Shinobimon." Agreed Kari. "Anyway, he saved our lives so he must have some good intentions, I wouldn't mind having him here to cover our backs incase we do get into any more trouble."

Everyone nodded in agreement as they continued to walk towards the other side of the park. They talked about school and how their lives in general were going, about the upcoming summer vacations and of the war in the digital world. When they reached the other side they said goodbye and split up to head to their homes. It was getting late and they didn't want to miss dinner.

As Yolei was crossing the street in front of her apartment she was lost in thought.

"Wow a new digimon that no one has ever seen! I hope he really turns out to be good; I would like to meet him. I wonder where he came from? Is he really following us around or was this a coincidence that we met him? If it isn't, why hasn't he shown himself until now? I guess it's because…"

"Look out!"

The call jolted her mind to once again focus on what was going on around her. Looking around she realized that in her thinking she had stopped walking, right in the middle of the road! A loud honk drew her attention to a large moving van coming down the street and she was right in it's path. She stood frozen in fear not knowing what to do, her mind just couldn't grasp the immensity of the danger she was in and just shut down. The van honked once more and breaks squealed as the driver tried to stop but it was too close to stop in time.

Yolei's brain finally managed to get some of itself working and got one cohesive thought through the fog in her mind: Scream. So she threw up her arms and screamed. She kept screaming until a weight slammed into her side, throwing her to the side and out of the incoming van's path which zoomed by a second later, it would have killed her if she were standing there still.

Yolei opened her eyes; she was on her lying on her back face up to the evening sky above her. She also realized that she was lying on something, and that something just groaned. Realizing that she was lying on her rescuer, she quickly got off him.

"Oh! Are you all right?" asked Yolei as she helped him off the sidewalk.

He was tall, as tall as she was. His hair was brown and covered his head in a thick mop. He was wearing blue jeans and a white t-shirt under a blue open button down shirt that fluttered slightly in the wind in an almost heroic manner.

"Yah, I'm all right, the pavement broke my fall," he said rubbing his shoulder, "but I should be asking you the same question. What were you doing in the middle of the road anyway?"

"I guess I was so rapped up in what I was thinking about I wasn't looking were I was going." She said sheepishly.

"Well, be more careful next time ok?" he said "By the way, my name's Chris."

"I'm Yolei, thanks for saving me," she said as she shook Chris's hand.

"No problem, I try to save at least one beautiful girl each day." He said, smiling, "do you live around here? Would you mind if I walked you home?"

"No, not at all," she said, blushing, "That's my apartment over there."

"Well, let's go." He said as he took her arm.

I think I'm in love. Thought Yolei as they walked under the light of the streetlamps.

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"Wow, you're real lucky that he was there when he was or you would have been in real trouble." Said Kari as the group walked along a path in the digital world.

"But Chris's not a usual name around here, where's he from?" asked T.K

"He said he's from America." Said Yolei.

"America? Then what's he doing in Japan?" asked Cody.

"He's just visiting I guess. He didn't actually say," Explained Yolei.

"Hello? Can we concentrate on why were here? We need to find Shinobimon and find out if he really is our ally." Interrupted Davis. "And we're probably giving every digimon within a mile a pretty good idea where we are! Shinobimon's probably as far away as he could get, we'll never find him!"

"Oh I don't know, he might be closer than you think." Came a quiet voice from behind them.

They all froze, hands on their digivices ready to send their digimon to attack the un-seen threat. Turning, their eyes widened as the speaker came into view. There, back against a tree, sat Shinobimon. Eyes closed and arms crossed, he looked almost asleep but the sword that lay unsheathed at his side warned anyone who might try to bother him to do so at their own risk.

"Were did he come from? He wasn't there a second ago." Said Davis as he stared at the new arrival.

"Wow, he's good." Said Gatomon approvingly.

"Thank you for the compliment Gatomon," said Shinobimon with a nod of thanks, eyes still closed, " As for your question about my allegiance Davis, I assure you I'm on your side."

"Oh yeah? Why should we believe you? For all we know, you could be working for the Digimon Emperor." Countered Davis.

"Because if I was, I would have let the snimon kill you instead of saving you." Responded Shinobimon coolly.

"He makes a good point Davis," said Kari, "But there's one thing I don't understand Shinobimon, why have you been following us? And for how long were you doing it?

"I have been keeping an eye on you digidestines for some time, just in case you get into any serious danger like the snimon yesterday." He said as he eyed the group.

"But why haven't we seen you before?" Asked T.K

"You've never gotten your selves into enough trouble that you couldn't get yourselves out of." He said, closing his eyes once again.

"Well I don't believe him," shouted Davis as he began pacing back and fourth, "Are we suppose to just believe a guy who until just now we didn't know existed, who says that he's been watching us but hasn't helped us in the least! Plus he keeps disappearing and reappearing? How can I trust a guy who won't stand still?"

Davis turned back towards the tree, ready to give Shinobimon another piece of his mind but the space under the tree was empty.

He had disappeared again.

"I wish he would stop doing that." Sighed Davis.

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As the digidestines neared the portal that would bring them home, Davis was getting himself all worked up over what just happened.

"Why can't he just stay put?" shouted Davis.

"You should calm down Davis, there's no point getting your self all worked up over this."

"Kari's right Davis, you should get some sleep. Once we get back to my room we should all call it a night," Agreed Yolei "Digiport Open!"

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They all come tumbling out of Yolei's computer with the usual lack of grace and landed on the hard floor, right at the feet of a very surprised Chris.

Not missing a beat, Yolei said, "Guys, meet Chris Anderson. Chris Anderson, meet my friends."

"Interesting friends." Said Chris.

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End of part one.

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So, What did you guys think? This is my first attempt at an action/adventure Digimon Fanfic.

This is the first of the trilogy. If you want to see more of Shinobimon or Chris, e-mail me. The next chapter will be coming soon.