Destiny Waits for No One (Private)

Hitomi in nature was drawn to the lights that happened above her, curious as to why it was happening in the early afternoon. If it was in the later evening and night the wannabe artist wouldn't have even bat an eye at this. But no one was insane enough to be in this place at night. It would almost be begging for a mugging to happen.



And yet there the phenomenon was, happening right in front of her. A collection of rainbow and white light that hovered over her world like the light of God. She could almost see the realm that lay behind, if there wasn't a woman who stepped through and quickly blocked it.



It never took much to scare Hitomi, as someone who was so introverted and shy many things could cause her to jump and scream at the drop of a hat. This...was just a little bit extreme. It made so little sense as to what she was seeing the teenager could not help but drop her book and pencil and jump back with a terrified shriek coming out of her mouth.

Hitomi equally had absolutely no clue what she was supposed to say either, this was just too abnormal. She would have turned and ran, but her sketchbook was still lying on the grass in front of her and her legs seemed to be rooted to the floor, refusing to let her move. She just endured a long silence, before finally she found her words again.

"WHAT?!" Was all she had the mental cohesion to scream at the other girl. Clearly she had never heard of the Digital World or any of the phenomena associated with it. Otherwise she wouldn't react in the manner she just did.

What was it that the people at Aegis had told her? Don't cause a ruckus and everything would be fine. Have this holosuit so you wouldn't cause a scene; and don't digivolve in public. Then there was the sleugh of rules that she had to read about general public decency along with other more trivial things. Most of them just didn't make sense to her but if she was to be in the human world she'd have to abide by these rules and laws.

K leaned over a railing and stared idly into the river, frowning slightly as she saw some trash float by. It was a pity really and she wished that she could do more here for this place; it must of been quite fetching years ago before all the filth. The holosuited digimon was reminded curtly of the Terminus location that was full of Numemon; but rather than being full of trash it was quite... barren of the stuff. After all Numeon did eat trash along with regular foods.

Thus the stink. which she thankfully didn't have much of a nose compared to others of her digital likeness. Her thoughts were quickly interrupted by what could only be described as a scream of surprise. It was abrupt; quick and faded just like most but it left a sour note in the air. The only sort that the Shutmon had for the most part associated with things that shouldn't be... and that only meant one thing in the line of thinking she had.

There was either a digimon or something of it's ilk here and she wasn't about to have a major incident unfold right in front of her and do nothing about it. She was quick to trot towards where the scream had come from. It took her maybe a few minutes to actually get where she had thought it had come from.

If she had full blown sprinted towards it she would of made humans suspicious of her as she could run much faster than most humans could even dream of. It might even make it impossible for the holosuit to keep up and therefore would of rendered it moot. But she doubted that...

And arrive on the scene she did, seeing what amounted to two humans, one of which looked rather terrified and the other.. seemingly beyond calm. Both of which were for the most part sitting very close to a portal to what she could only guess? Was the digital world. Gritting her teeth she'd trot up to the duo and politely inquire...

"Is there a problem here? You know others shouldn't see that portal right?"

Things have reached critical mass it appears. What with a new, clearly holosuited being entering the area and misinterpreting the situation entirely. To disastrous results, it seemed as the artist started babbling in everyone’s general direction.

“it’s not like I intended to show the portal to someone!” Alicia shot back to the new comer with a grumble. “I specifically ported in near here because there’s rarely ever anyone around! And then to my terrible luck, here she was! The damage has already been done...”

”Haa... I suppose it was too much to ask for that to be enough to calm her down... Sol, dear? We’re in need of your assistance...” The ice maiden spoke softly and took a few steps back.

In response, with a heavy sigh Alicia’s other advisor manifested himself, a large and armored humanoid dragon scratching his head with a set of claws. ”You guys are far too reliant on me...” he muttered before taking a seat on the ground and focusing his gaze on Hitomi.

”Well, since Fate is conspiring to drag you into this, here’s the quick rundown. There’s another world mirroring this one, the connection between them being the computers of the modern age. Thus, it’s called the Digital World for short. Alicia here-” He paused, jabbing a thumb at the redhead to indicate who Alicia was. ”is one such human who leads a double life on both this side and the Digital side. We didn’t intend to shatter your perception of reality like this, but, again, Fate is conspiring against our efforts. You technically haven’t gotten into anything yet. You can get up, walk away, and pretend this never happened, and everything should be more or less back to normal for you.”

Alicia hummed as she rested her chin on her hands, giving a sigh afterwards. “Sol... I can tell you’re thinking of continuing.

”It’s only fair that she has all her options laid before her.” the dragon spirit replied without looking. ”Anyways. Seeing as this has occurred? Perhaps your life can have something more wild in it. Perhaps there is a second life to lead on the other side as well. I’ll make sure Alicia leaves her number with you so you can call her, should you decide you want to explore the possibilities.”

Sol hummed nodding as he now finished. Then he looked up and over to K. ”I do hope that wasn’t suggested for you, ma’am. That is a terrible disguise that looks like it came out of some freelancer’s manga...” He wasn’t impressed by the uncanny valley look either, and quirked an eyebrow at the disguised Shutmon.

Hitomi could do nothing in response except silently try to absorb the information she was being given by these beings around her. So there was an entire alternate reality that she and most likely a huge chunk of the human race were all blissfully unaware of and young people such as herself were the only ones who knew and even frequently crossed the worlds at their leisure? And apparently all of this was created by the wonders of computers and the freaking internet!

She would never have even considered this was possible, it sounded like it came out of a sci-fi fantasy anime. But this only succeeded in making her feel like a character in an anime herself. What was her life even coming to this was ridiculous! But she was just standing there without any input!

It seemed essentially that she was being offered a choice, walk away and pretend it never happened. Very appealing. Or take this chance encounter all the way and become another person leading a double life of jumping between realities at will alongside a monster.

As much as her objective reasoning of why this was an astronomically bad idea screaming at her, another part was beginning to come to light. She was curious, she couldn't help but be fascinated by the prospect and the concept of a brand new part in her life. Maybe...maybe this could be a chance. The irrationality of why she felt this way was stupendous, but it was quite strong in her. Almost like this was meant to happen and it was an opportunity she was meant to take on.

She heard a term made by the not-quite-human being next to her. Her face finally morphed from one of general fear and anxiety into one of more mild confusion and curiosity.
"Partner?" She asked, tilting her head slightly.

Of all the things she could be asking about it just had to be that. She felt like kicking herself.

K wasn't terrible bothered with how this was turning out, honestly she didn't really even need to explain too much with the way things were panning out. Whoever this spiritual dragon was certainlyw as doing it better than anyone she could figure could. Maybe just shy of how she was explained to about the human world.

Once again she didn't really have much to add to this, at least there wasn't much she could add about the different types of digitally gifted humans. In fact here she was learning about another; a large group of digimon that accompanied a single human? Xros General? That seemed al ittle far fetched but she couldn't really pass the opportunity to learn more about those.

"Can't really say I've heard about Xros General's. Spirit wielders and Destined seem to be a little more common."

She'd quirk an eyebrow and find herself frowning at the Alicia mentioning that she was in somewhat of a pickle. Being only able to take the form of something she'd much rather not. Along with her description of what it meant to be a spirit wielder? Caused the digimon to tilt her head and consider briefly asking what she meant by that.

The way that the one human reacted to everything though, made the digimon honestly question the humans in general. Rather than being fearful [past the initial stages] there was curiousity. No wonder many digimon considered these beings to be dangerous....

"Kind of hard to do that though when you're just getting your feet put on the ground with this whole ordeal that and.. well they don't have a device yet either. Considering how this was lain out wouldn't it behoove either of us to assist them until such a time when they do have a partner of sorts? Not necessarily drop everything mind you."

K's eye's would flick to Hitomi then back to Alicia and she'd exhale softly. Realizing they had likely skipped introductions properly she'd put out a soft attempt at learning names. Now that the one human had.. Well. Stopped panicking as much.

"The name's K. What's yours?"

”Indeed. Xros Generals are fairly rare...” Sol noted with a nod to K. ”But they are out there, just like the other types.”

”Yup. Very dangerous. That’s why Alicia was going to be giving her a number to contact her by. We’re not gonna just drop all this on her and then say ‘See ya, you’re on your own’.” Kisara then quipped, smirking. ”We’re a fair bit more responsible than that.”

Alicia hummed and then jumped from her seat and walked over to Hitomi, keeping her bandaged right arm towards the artist. “If you want my advice? Walk away for now. Think it over very hard. And only when you’ve fully resolved to change your life forever or not should you make a call. I made mine in haste and have been on the back foot for most of my time. And it led to a personal disaster.”

The bandaged arm shifted a bit, which was Alicia’s indication that said disaster involved something life changing occurring on that limb. “But know this. You’re not entirely safe in this world either. If you really are destined to be a part of the Digital World, you’ll start seeing Digimon even hear. Your partner might even be sent to you directly by some method. Or worse, you’ll get caught by a bio-emerging Digimon that is hostile.”

”Alicia...” the ice maiden began with a bit of apprehension in her voice. However, she fell silent after that. It’s not like it was right to keep that information from Hitomi... Anyone faced with this choice should know everything they can learn.

“Oh... yeah actual proper introductions...” the Spirit Wielder muttered as K and Hitomi exchanged names. “I’m Alicia Westfield. The dragon spirit is Sol, and the ice woman is Kisara. They’re kinda like advisors for me.” The redhead inclined her head a bit, and held her left hand out to the artist. “Sorry for all the grimness...”