Frontiers Unexplored

2) Light Shining Below

A few minutes had passed since the group first began walking away from Flame Terminal. Takuya glanced around nervously, halfway expecting another beast like Cerberumon to come jumping out of the shadows for his throat once again. The first attack had caught him by surprise, and if there was anything he could do to prevent that from repeating, he was going to do it, regardless of how paranoid it was starting to make him.

The group was in a forested area now, but the trees didn't seem to be made entirely of leaves. Instead, they were constructed by small puffs of fire. Oddly enough, they didn't spread flames anywhere else though, remaining self-contained despite the light breeze that threatened to blow them around. The ground was dark, and no smoke was in the sky. It was odd to see the overhead area so perfectly normal and blue given how strange things looked on the ground.

"So... Can you start from the beginning?" Izumi questioned, her voice wavering slightly as she fiddled with the edges of her pristine blonde hair. She was the first one bold enough to break the silence as she looked down to Bokomon and Neemon anxiously.

"You're in the Digital World," Bokomon replied from his place at the front of the group. "It is a world made entirely of data that runs parallel to your Earth. We are on the Fire Continent right now."

"Um... We need more of an explanation than that," Tomoki told Bokomon as he shuffled his feet along the darkened ground. "You can't just leave us hanging that way..."

"And what are you two supposed to be anyways? Who was that giant dog thing that attacked us? How did Takuya transform into someone else?" Junpei asked, rattling off one inquiry after another without a moment of hesitation.

"Patience," Bokomon sighed with a shake of his head. "We are Digimon. I am Bokomon, and this is Neemon. The Digital World has no humans in it naturally, so the creatures who inhabit it are Digimon instead. It's a shortened term for Digital Monsters. I am a monster, and so is Neemon, and so was Cerberumon."

"Cerberumon must have been the dog then..." Izumi murmured with a small nod as she attempted to process this new information.

"As for how he transformed... Takuya, you said his name was? I believe he connected with the Spirit of Fire, Agunimon, and he became Agunimon himself," Bokomon replied. "That is a sign that he is one of the Legendary Warriors, fighters destined to save the Digital World from chaos. You must be the ones that are set to free us from the reign of Cherubimon."

"Talk to us like we have no idea what you're talking about..." Tomoki suggested, looking around the group nervously. "We aren't like you. We haven't been around here before."

Bokomon sighed. "The Digital World was once ruled by a trio of Digimon known as the Celestial Three. Those creatures were Seraphimon, Ophanimon, and Cherubimon. Seraphimon and Ophanimon represent the Human Digimon while Cherubimon is the mascot of the Beasts. While Ophanimon was visiting Seraphimon at his palace, Evergreen Dawn, Cherubimon attacked... We don't know how that battle ended, but chances are high that Seraphimon and Ophanimon were defeated," he explained.

"Now, Cherubimon is the only one left," Neemon continued. "Cerberumon was working for him before you appeared and fought him off!"

Takuya looked down at Bokomon and Neemon. "Alright, so... Who are these Legendary Warriors you mentioned?" he asked as he tried to recap all that he had learned internally. Things were moving quickly, but he was still going to try and remember all of this. Chances were that it was going to wind up being rather important, and it was better to know more than necessary than too little.

I'm in the Digital World. It is a place filled with creatures called Digimon, otherwise known as Digital Monsters. The world was ruled by three Digimon until one of them attacked the other two and asserted himself as the only one in power. Seems simple enough, Takuya thought to himself with a light nod.