Chapter 2: Stranger in a strange land

"Uhhhggg, what a crazy dream, I’ll have to avoid the school lunches from now-", Andrew suddenly realized he was in long chains against a wall in an old castle like room. "Oh no, I’m still asleep." Andrew looked up and saw some walking into the room. "I’m afraid this is not a dream Black Hawk.", said the creature out of the shadows. Shifting gears, Andrew was now very angry about this whole thing, "Who the hell are you, and why the hell am I chained up?!" The creature stepped out from the shadows, "I am Myotismon, and the reason you are chained up is because you are one of the digidestined." Andrew just stood there for a bit, he had no idea what the hell this psycho vampire wannabe was talking about. "Now then, where is your digimon?" Said Myotismon. "Go to hell" Said Andrew, he wasn’t planning on tell this bastard anything. "Heh heh heh, it’s always more fun when they resist, CRIMSON LIGHTNING!" A long whip of red flew out and just ever so nicked Andrew on the chest. "UUHHHAAAAAGGGGGGG!!!" He screamed in pain, it was worse than any hit he had taken in the past. He was almost knocked out by it, and then an idea occurred to him. "You freakin' psycho, I wouldn’t even tell you my name you little sadist asshole!" Myotismon’s smile turned to a sneer, "You’ll pay for you insolence! CRIMSON LIGHTNING!" The red whip stretched out to hit him full on, and he contorted his body so the chains were in the way instead of his body. It snapped them off. "Bad move Myotis!" He charged down at the Vampire digimon. "Is this a joke? GRIZZLY WING!" A flight bats flew toward Andrew, who promptly slid under them and through Myotismon’s legs, giving Myotismon a well-placed kick as he passed. "Grrrrr" Myotismon was momentarily stunned in pain. Andrew got to his feet and dashed out the door. Myotismon flung his hand against a nearby control panel and one of his Gazimon guards showed up in it. "The prisoner has escaped! Don’t let him leave here ALIVE!" The Gazimon looked momentarily scared by Myotismon’s yell and then responded, "Yes your lord ship! Right away!" And the picture disappeared. Myotismon threw himself into a chair, "This is no normal human, I am dealing with..."

Andrew was still cringing from that hit he took from Myotismon; it stung like a bee sting, but the cut a 5 inches long in his chest and all of it felt like that. "Grrr, gotta keep moving...", Andrew told himself. As he rounded a corner he heard voices from an adjoining room. He stopped to listen, "Yea, this kid has some strange stuff, look at this, a wooden sword of all things." Andrew just realized that all of his stuff but his clothes had been taken, but he should have expected that, he told himself. "Yea maybe da boss’ll let us keep some of it." Said another voice. Andrew then charged in ripping his sword from the hands of... "A little walking wolf?!?!" The two of them looked at him angrily, "We’re Gazimon and don’t you forget-" Andrew knocked both out with swift sword strokes. "I have had enough of this crap. I have to get out of here", he gathered his things and swiftly left the room.

Elsewhere

Izzy sat at his computer pouring over some weird data he stumbled upon during his research on the digital world. "This is just crazy, if what I’m seeing here is accurate then someone in America opened a digiport to Japan. But that doesn’t make any sense at all..." He closed his eyes in thought. "I’d better call the others, this person could need help if they’ve never been in the digital world before.", Izzy busily started sending e-mails to the rest of the group.

Back at the castle

"This day just keeps getting better!", Andrew shouted through clenched teeth. The wound burned from his sweat leaking into it as he ran from the 20 some odd Gazimon following him. And he turned and ran into a dead end. He turned to face the horde with his blade drawn, Knowing he couldn’t take on this many foes at once. "We got you now you twerp!" Yelled one of the Gazimon. Andrew was too out of breath from pain and running to argue, but he still squared himself up to fight to the end. Suddenly a large brick in the ceiling broke loose and fell to the floor, from the hole jumped a cloaked figure about chest height with Andrew, wearing a scarf over it’s mouth and nose, and a hood over it’s head. "Oh great, who are you?" Andrew managed to say. "A friend" It said pulling a wooden sword, identical to his own only much smaller, from its cloak. "This boy is under my protection, if you want him", the figure readied its blade, "you’ll have to go through me." The Gazimon looked thoroughly unimpressed "Get 'em!" The largest Gazimon commanded. And the entire group charged the lone digimon. "Do not worry, Black Hawk. I will protect you. IYA!!!!" And with a fierce battle cry it jumped into the melee.

Back at Izzy’s house

Kari had just arrived, "Izzy I came as soon as I got your e-mail, what’s this about a new person in the digital world?" Izzy turned around in his chair to face her, "Well from what I can tell, a digiport opened somewhere in New York and exited in to Japan’s corner of the digital world." They both just looked at each other for a bit. "This is strange, and we’re already having enough trouble trying to figure out how Myotismon got back. What’s worse is this person may have no knowledge of the digital world at all.", Kari worriedly said. "That’s why I e-mailed you and the others, though right now you’re the only one available. I want you and Gatomon to go look for this new entry to protect it, whatever it is. I’m going to stay here and keep trying to figure out what happened. Gatomon is already waiting for you on the other side." Kari nodded and held her digivice up to the screen of Izzy’s computer. "Digiport open!" And she was pulled through to the digital world.

"Took you long enough", Gatomon said in a playful tone. "Sorry, I had to get some stuff together before I came. So do you know anything about this new person we’re supposed to find?" Gatomon grinned, "Just what I beat out of one of Myotismon’s cronies, it’s a guy, and his name is Black Hawk or something like that. He has a D-3, oh, and here’s the best part, Myotismon’s already got him." Kari’s shoulders sank, "Well there goes finding him on our own, I doubt you want to take on all of Myotismon’s army alone." Gatomon folded her arms, "Well we can still go look right, the others should arrive sooner or later and getting a look at where this guy’s being held might help." Kari nodded; some recon would be helpful, so the both started off for Myotismon’s castle.

At the castle

"IYYAA!" The clocked figure shouted leaping above the Gazimon. At the apex of is leap, he removed three small balls from his inside of his cloak and threw them down amongst the Gazimon. They popped covering the area with smoke. "-cough cough- Hey! -cough cough- Where’d they go!?" Shouted one. But the cloaked one had already put Andrew over his shoulder and fled.

Just outside the castle Gatomon and Kari were hiding in the bushes watching for any signs of where this new possible digidestined was being held. "-sigh- I don’t see anything useful Kari, do you?" Kari let out a sigh of her own, "No, I think we should head back now." As the duo turned to leave a loud crash was heard above as a window shattered, from ten stories up the cloaked figure and Andrew plummeted toward the ground. "Oh my god! Do you think that’s him!?" Kari said, her voice full of worry. It looked like the two of them were about to be splattered. Then the cloak on the smaller one was pulled away and a set of bronze dragon wings extended to slow their fall. "Gatomon have you ever seen that digimon before?" Kari asked. "No, but then again he is all covered up." As she said this the dragon winged Digimon made a rough landing a few meters away from them. "Gatomon we have to go help them!" Kari charged for the landing site. "Kari, wait for me!" Gatomon ran after her.

"Please tell me this is all a dream. Just one big psychotic dream." Andrew said seemingly in a bit of a haze. "This is most certainly not a dream." The said the digimon who saved his life. "Who are you anyway? Are you with that vampire guy?" Andrew said still shaken from the crash. "I am Drakemon", said the digimon as removed its cloak and it bowed slightly. He looked exactly like a small bronze colored dragon, only he walled upright and had hands. "And do you think I would have helped you if I was with that Leech?" Andrew seemed to think about it for a bit, "I guess not. Could you tell the world to stop spinning now?" Drakemon looked worried, "The crash wasn’t that hard, did you hit your head or something?", Drakemon put is hand on Andrews’s forehead. He jerked his hand back, "Your feverish? But...", Drakemon then looked at the gash in Andrews chest, it was only an hour old, but looked like it had been sitting uncared for days. Drakemon unfortunately did not know much about medicine. This was a problem. "Hey there!" A female voice cried. Drakemon pulled his sword and turned to face the source. "Another human child?" He put his sword away, "You must be one of the digidestined." Gatomon ran in at that moment, "Yea and I’m her digimon, if you want to hurt her you go through me!" Drakemon started to laugh, "I wouldn’t dream of it, I am this destined’s digimon. Drakemon at your service. Though unfortunately Black hawk is badly injured, and we have to get away from here before Myotismon has time to mobilize all his troops." Kari and Gatomon both agreed so they all helped the injured Andrew to his feet and left as fast as they could.

Later on

Andrew slowly opened his eyes, it was nighttime now, and a fire was going next to him. Drakemon and Gatomon were on one side and he was on the other, Kari wasn’t around. "Unnh, anyone get the number of that bus?" He tried to sit up which was a mistake as he stifled a yell of pain and went back to the ground. "Hey relax you, I don’t now many mons who have lived through getting hit by Myotismon much less a human being hit. You need to rest." Gatomon said. Andrew now noticed his Jacket and shirt were under his head and his chest was bandaged up. "Thanks for fixing me up...uh, sorry I don’t know your name." "It’s Gatomon, and it was Kari you should thank not me.", as she said this Kari returned with some more firewood. "Finally, I was starting to worry that you wouldn’t wake up. Feeling any better?" Kari said sitting next to him. Andrew looked up at her, she’s beautiful he thought, "I am now.", he said with a smile.

Kari just sort of shook her head at him, "Anyway lets change this bandage and put some more of herbs on the wound ok, just relax." She carefully removed the bandage. The gash was still pretty bad, and would leave a deep scar, but it looked much better than it was earlier. "This is going to sting a little ok?", she warned as she crushed up some leaves. Andrew really didn’t care. He had actually found some normalcy today and he was just going to enjoy it for now. "You have the most amazing eyes...", Andrew said quietly. Kari giggled a little and blushed, "That’s just your fever talking. Now I’m going to put this stuff in now so hold still." Andrew didn’t move a muscle as she put the herb mixture all over the wound. It stung worse than iodine, but Andrew wasn’t about complain. Once she was done she covered the wound over with another bandage. "You know, I don’t think it’s the fever talking, Kari.", he said holding onto her hand. She gave him an unamused look, "Just relax ok. By the way, I know your digimon called you Black Hawk but somehow I don’t think that’s your real name. Could you tell me?" She inquired. "It’s Andrew Triaga." He responded. "That last name sounds Japanese. Are you from Japan?" Kari was talking to him mostly to see if he was thinking straight, she wanted to be sure he didn’t have a concussion or something like that. So far he seemed ok. "Well...I was an orphan, my parents adopted me in Japan, but we’ve moved so much that I can’t really tell you much about anywhere else I’ve been.", he looked past her at Drakemon, "why did he care if I lived or not?" Kari was a little shocked, "Well he’s your digimon. Of course he’d want to protect you." Andrew didn’t get it, "Look how about you tell me everything you can about this place and what’s going on, ok?" "That’ll take all night...", Kari said. Andrew took her hand and smiled, "It’s ok, I’m not sleepy if your not." Kari smiled back and told him all about the digital world.


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