34Hello again. so my first update, and fast at that. I'm thinking of having a two chapter buffer in case i can't write for some reason that way i can still update. But right now i have no idea how much and how fast i will write, so updates will be pretty much random.
Also Thanks to gallentmon7196 and Mindpoison for reviewing, and Mindpoison, i in no way view that as flaming, that is exactly the kind of reviews i'm looking for, so i hope you'll continue to review in the future. Your also right that this is going to be hard.
so disclaimer time: I don't own digimon, but i do own the original characters and digimon introduced in this chapter.
so without further ado Chapter one of Tamers Legacy!
TAMERS LEGECY
BOOK ONE
CHAPTER ONE
The Broken World
Unknown, Unknown, Unknown
9:32 AM
Boring!
That was what the boy thought of the current situation. It wasn't the area that was boring, quite to the contrary, it was a very nice area. An old blacktop road with open, grassy planes on one side and a nice little forest on the other.
No that's not what made the situation boring, what made it boring was that the boy could do nothing but sit in the tree like he was doing. This was because he had to be able to see the road without being seen from the road.
"Rin!"
The constant nagging from below didn't help either.
"RIN!" he heard the voice say again, almost yelling this time. "If you start daydreaming and fall out of that tree I'm not helping you!"
That was him, Rin, fifteen years old, dull red messy hair, Amethyst colored eyes. He wore a T-shirt that was dark blue but almost looked black with a red and dark gray vest over it, dark brown khakis and brown boots. Although this was all currently covered up by the dark gray traveling cloak he wore.
"Yes mother!" he finally replied without looking down. Now he was bored AND annoyed.
"I told you to stop calling me that!" the voice replied, now just as annoyed as the boy.
"Why? Mom tells me almost the exact same thing all the time, so it seems fitting." He countered, letting the annoyance show in his voice. He ran his hand through his dull red hair that reached his eyes, while thinking back to how happy he was when they got sent out here.
He was happy because he didn't get to go out into the countryside very often. This was simple because traveling was not safe. He finally looked down at his traveling companion, with a very annoyed expression on his face.
All he could see was the back of his companion's head. "Claire, please tell me your not actually pouting…" he said with a sigh.
"Of course not! You jerk!" The girl growled as she spun around, looking just as annoyed as him.
This was his traveling companion slash best friend, Claire. She was the same age as him and also had red hair, although while his is dull red, hers is a fiery crimson color. She also has bright emerald green eyes. She wore a blue shirt, as well as gray jeans and brown knee-high boots, but just like Rin she also wore an identical dark gray traveling cloak.
After finally calming herself down she looked up a Rin again. "So still nothing?" she asked.
Rin looked back over at the road, then looked at his rather unique looking watch. It was red around the screen but had a blue-black color similar to his shirt on the outside. The watch showed 9:42. "Nothing, they're really late, the info said they should pass here headed for Kevail at nine AM." He explained, looking down at her again.
She looked at her own watch, which was similar to Rins, but purple instead of red, and straight black instead of blue-black. "I know, and we need to know if this is where they are stockpiling resources." Now it was her turn to sigh. "I wish they would…" her sentence was cut off as a purple furred bipedal creature emerged from a bush near her. But neither of them so much as flinched, they both just turned to look at it.
"How was it Dorumon?" Claire asked.
The purple creature known as Dorumon looked at her. It had purple fur except on its four paws, the tip of its tail, the tip of its nose, and its chest, which were all white. It also has black strips on its pointed ears and a pair of small black bat like wings on its back. Its most unique feature though was the large red gem on its forehead, which had black metal pieces encasing its sides.
Then it did something that would surprise anyone not use to it. "There's nothing in the area, so I don't think they have sentries along the route." The purple creature replied.
"Well taking that and the fact that it's so late I guess it's not a very important shipment." Rin theorized, before looking back at the road.
Right then a another strange creature, this time red furred, appeared right behind Rin standing on a separate branch of the tree.
"How about you Granmon?" Rin asked without turning to look at the creature.
This creature, unlike Dorumon, stood completely upright. It had red fur, except for a V shaped section starting as the waist and up to the sides of its neck, as well a starting just below it's knees down to its large black clawed feet, three claws in the front and one on the back of the foot, these two sections, while a first glance could be mistaken for short white fur, were actually white scales. It had ears similar shaped to Dorumon's, with similar white tips, which was actually white fur, not scales. It had large clumped, long white fur around its neck, with a hint of something black on its chest, but the white fur covered it. Also like Dourmon it had a very unique feature, in it case it was black gloves that started just after the elbow and down to cover the back of its clawed hands.
The reason Granmon and Dorumon were similar is because they were both Digimon, or digital monsters, and were Rin and Claire's Partners.
Despite its somewhat large feet, Granmon easily balanced on the branch. "Something's coming down the road now," Granmon replied.
"About time." Claire said as she climbed up and sat down on a branch next to Rin. She was obviously annoyed at having to sit around so long.
Right on queue a group of creatures, which to anyone knowledgeable on the subject could tell were digimon, started to come into view. The digimon varied in shape and size, and some were pulling wagons. There was also some people mix in the group.
"Time to move Granmon, don't get caught, I don't want to have to start a fight." Rin said, looking back at his partner, he then started grinning, "Like you'll get caught."
"Understood," Granmon said, almost grinning himself. He then disappeared into thin air.
"Hmm, so they have a MetalTryrannomon, but that's the only battle type Ultimate, those Triceramon pulling the three carts could become problematic." Claire summarized while looking at the convoy.
"Yeah but aside from that the rest isn't much trouble, two apemons, three Kuwagamons, and a devimon, who I think is the leader, other then that it's just the people and a few rookies." Rin added to Claire's analysis
Granmon then reappeared behind them. "I think that devimon almost caught me," he said.
"They always are troublesome, so how did it look?" Rin asked his partner.
Granmon gave a shrug at Rin's comment. "Well I think they were trying to keep this shipment quiet, on the surface its just a food shipment." He explained.
"Bit heavy guard for food, but not unheard of." Claire commented.
"I thought so to." Granmon continued. "So I risked looking into the carts, which is how I was almost found out, and there is Chrondigizoit metal in the bottom of all the carts." He finished.
"That amount is something you wouldn't want people catching wind of." Rin muttered. He then looked back at the convoy, which was just about to be out of site. "Regardless, we have our confirmation that there's a stockpile, and maybe even a base in the town with that kind of supplies." He remarked.
"Then lets head for Kevail, the others will be following tomorrow." Claire said as she started to climb down. Rin just shrugged and followed her.
They headed out onto the road, with Dourmon right behind them and Granmon following out of sight. As they walked they continued to enjoy the freedom of the countryside. They both grew up in the city and with the outside world being dangerous they didn't go out much.
"It's peaceful around here." Dourmon commented from behind them. "But sort of empty at the same time." He added.
"I figure they send a advance party to clear out the wild ones yesterday, prevent any accidents." Rin theorized while looking around at the scenery, which was far from normal. It wasn't uncommon to see craters of varying sized and unnaturally distorted terrain, as well as large bare patches of land. He then looked over at Claire who had yet to say anything. After starring at her for a couple of seconds she looked at him.
"What?" she asked with a questioning look.
"You're brooding"
"No I'm not." She said while looking away from him.
"One: you're a terrible liar when it's not about something important. Two: we have lived together since we were seven, I can tell when your brooding." Rin stated.
She swung around to look at him and looked like she was about to say something, then closed her mouth and looked away again.
It was true that they had lived in the same house for the past eight years. This is because Claire was an orphan with very little memory of her past. Dourmon was the only family she had when Rin met her, and he remembered even less then her. Because of this Rin's parents had decided to take her in. The fact that they grew up together showed. People who didn't know them but heard them bicker often mistook them for siblings, especially in school. The fact that they both had red hair, although completely different shades, didn't help either.
"So are you going to tell me what you're brooding over or do I have to bug you until we get to town?" Rin joked. He then started to poke her shoulder. "Come on tell me, tell me." He kept repeating.
After a few seconds of this, and deciding that he really would bug her all he way to town, she decided to just tell him. "I just wish I could have seen it before all… this." She indicated with her hand that this meant the surrounding area. "Before it was dangerous, before the wild ones started appearing here, I mean there aren't even high level wild ones in this area and look how bad it is."
"What mom and dad told us about before the Yggdrasill incident sure did sound beautiful, and fun, grassy plains, camping, and such." He said while looking lost in though. "Not that they tell us all that much, which I don't get."
"They have their reasons I guess."
"I guess." He agreed. As he continued to look around his mind started to wander, he tried to imagine what it would have looked like before. Unfortunately for him, this meant he wasn't paying attention to where he was going, or the large animal excrement right where his foot was about to be. "Ah! Dang it!" he exclaimed, looking down. "That's going to smell for the rest of the trip!"
"Hahaha, you definitely deserved that for daydreaming, stupid goggle-head!" Claire laughed while putting some distance between them so she didn't have to smell it.
Rin gave her a menacing glare before reaching up and touching the ice blue-lensed, black-rimmed goggles hanging around his neck, hidden by his traveling cloak. "Leave me alone…"
Unknown, Outside Kevail, unknown
12:29 PM
The rest of the walk continued with only some light bickering on the way until the town finally came into sight.
As they entered the town Rin looked at his watch, which showed 12:37. "Well we need to find a place to stay, although I don't know about you, but I'm starving."
"I agree." Came the reply, although not from Claire, but rather Granmon who was now standing next to him.
Rin and Claire just looked at him for a few seconds, and then the both started to laugh. "I never get use to that little personality change whenever food gets brought up." Claire told him while continuing to laugh. Rin was sure that if his fur weren't already red, Granmon would defiantly be blushing, at least as much as a digimon can blush.
"Well I see a few places to eat, let's try that one over there." Rin picked a stall at random and started walking. As he reached the stall he looked at the lady behind the counter and smiled. "What do you have?" he asked.
The lady looked up from what she was doing and smiled back once she saw them. "Not much I'm afraid, only some hamburgers, a few hot dogs I think, and some salad material."
"Three hamburgers." Rin requested. He then looked at Claire.
"A salad and two hamburgers please." Claire replied.
The woman looked a little confused before she saw the digimon standing behind them. "Coming right up, money or barter?" she asked as she moved to prepare the food. In the current world where not everyone had the money to buy necessities, bartering had also become an accepted way of getting supplies and food.
"Money." He then looked up at the prices. "Here you go." He placed the money on the counter. "Lets go get a table." Rin said as he turned to look around. The tables were mostly empty, except for a few people having a late lunch. He then walked to a nearby table and sat down. They sat in silence until the food was brought out. The lady set the salad in front of Claire, and a hamburger in front of Rin, then placed two hamburgers each in front of the digimon.
"Thank you," they all said.
"So shouldn't you be getting restocked soon? We saw a few carts of food on our way in." Rin asked.
"heh, not likely," the lady said, trying to not sound angry. "We see a lot of carts come into town carrying lots of different things, but the town it self gets next to none of it."
"Where does it all go then?" Claire asked.
"Also there were a lot of digimon with them, where are they all?" Granmon added.
"From what I've heard, they head to a compound on the other side of town. Why do you ask?" she explained, raising an eyebrow as she finished.
"Uh… no particular reason, its just odd to see that many tame digimon in one group." Rin lied.
"Really? Pretty common around here." She commented before noticing customers waiting to be served. "Well have a nice meal, I have to get back to work." She told them before walking away.
After she walked away Claire and Rin looked at each other. "Common to see groups of that size? And she never mentioned them leaving. This is starting to look suspicious." Claire said.
"I agree, this may be more then just a store house, it may even be a barracks, which complicates this a lot." Rin replied looking worried. "Well regardless we should wait to meet up with the others tomorrow." He then stood up having finished his meal.
"We should look for a place to stay now, then we can look around town more after that." Claire suggested as she also stood up.
"Sounds good," Rin replied, the digimon also stood up. "Let's go then."
END CHAPTER ONE
I hope you liked it. and for the record, if you found it a bit spy like, that (hopefully) won't last, just helps introduce what their world is like.
Next chapter we are back to Takato, like i said i am keeping two written chapters in reserve. So once chapter four is written chapter two will be published.
Hope you look forward to it, and please review, its encouraging and helps me improve.
Thanks for reading!
-Arenz