[IC] Digimon: Digital Monsters- Pillars of Blood (Hard Drive Catacomb v1.0 d6 Playtest)

[tobiax]

___Shafts of dusty light stream through high vaulted windows as a shattering thud rang out. A shadowed figure with glowing red eyes reached out its jagged claws, gripping the sides of an iron container. It snarled, fighting some unseen force which grabbed at its ragged edges and seemed intent on drawing the being within.
___Amidst that same dusty room, a short haggard figure breathed heavily. Dressed in a simple brown rag and orange gloves, the small, hairy headed figure gripped a short staff ornamented with a large round cat’s paw, pointing it towards the looming shadow. With a great step of its large, hairy feet, the short figure took a surprisingly great leap, swinging the staff in a mighty arc, crashing it into the shadow, knocking it into the iron container, shutting with a crash. A bright, twisting flash shot forth as the shadow was locked away, and drove itself into the old one, knocking him to the ground with a crash.
___Knowing the time was dire, the white haired figure released from its hand six shining lights. Slowly, the lights drifted through the high vaulted windows, floating up, higher and higher into the sky, until they broke into small white rings in the sky, seeking help from the Real World.

[Duthguy]

Danny was sitting on his room playing games on his computer.Sure his dad complained he was wasting their entire weekend like this but he really didn't feel like spending time with him. Just when he was about to defeat the final enemy of the area he was in, he monitor started acting weird.The entire screen turned white and a few seconds a small yellow object appeared quickly getting bigger. "What the heck."Thinking his monitor had simply stopped working, he was about to turn it off.
Before he could press the power button though, the yellow object somehow emerged form the screen hitting his hand with just enough force to hurt. Now that the object had left the monitor the screen acted normal again. Curious about what the device was, Danny took out his cellphone and took a picture which he posted online hoping someone would have info on it. Since only the force of the impact hurt when it hurt his hand he picked up and put it in the same pocket as his pocketknife, so he could be sure it wouldn't mysteriously disappear without him noticing.

[Shadolord]

Dante, a man who stood just over Six foot three inches tall, with black hair and green eyes. He was walking down the street with a duffle bag hung over his shoulder it was laundry day. He really wasn't anything remarkable. He looked like the normal young construction worker. He continued walking past peple smiling and calling several of them by name. This town was small he dreamed of going to live in one of the larger cities, but for now Kitchee would have to do. He walked into the Laundromat and spent most of the day there just reading a book and talking to people. When his laundry was done he proceeded to start walking back home. Then he saw a flying ring it landed in his hand changing into a blue and black device. Suddenly he was falling through the air looking towards the ground he saw a forest.

[TalijaKey]

The sun was entering the big window of the study, the light wandering its way to a bored boy sitting on a desk. His brown short hair messy as the hand kept on running thought it. The green eyes staring at his homework papers. He managed to do half of the task on the computer that were described on the paper. The other half was just staying undone as the lose of interest and boredom joined.
Rade yawned he had to get it done in two hours, that was the time the master of the house would return and it was silently await he wouldnt be in the study or any room that the adults would be using frequently.
He sighed slapping gently his cheeks he took a candy out of his pocket for motivation to keep on working. Pulling his shelves up from the white button up shirt he grow out a bit he started to work away again. Doing one formula after another, he froze just like his screen did at one moment. He didnt save.
'' No,no,no...Dont crash on me.'' He mumbled as the screen started breaking up appearing as if it was having static...Like snow on old television. The 15 year old boy tried to press all the buttons and click all the things to save his progress as he really didnt had any energy to redo it. In his slightly panic he didnt notice something starting to grow on the screen at first. But when the light was now taking up half the screen, Rade stopped pressing anything.

It was moving and growing, a bit mesmerizing even. It was leaving the screen and in blind curiosity Rade reached his hand out. For a moment he debated if he fall asleep while doing this boring homework and was now seeing psycho things. The light hit his palm, leaving something of weight in it. A glowing thing of sort.
He didnt got much chance to wonder as the thing glowed even stronger up to the moment were rade closed his eyes. The screen lighted up in sync with the thing and he felt like he fall out of the chair.But somehow not landing on his butt yet.

A house maid passed the study door. Peeking in she saw the study empty, the computer left turned on. The papers all over the table. Closing it she continued on her duties not much thinking about it. Simply assuming the boy went to the toilette or to fetch a snack.

[Razael]

It was a bright and sunny afternoon and the sun beamed down on the city reflecting off of every piece of metal and leaving a glare on each window casting light in all directions, despite it all the light could not touch most of the alleyways and more seedier parts of town as if these places were meant to be left alone as the young women currently being the victim of armed robbery was just figuring out. It was just the three of them the baggy eyed robber gripping a chefs knife with shaky hands, the somewhat plump, crying woman desperately holding on to her handbag. The other man who remained out of sight for the time being was Remus, watching with bright blue steely eyes taking in as much detail on the two as he could, trying to figure out who had the most money on them and judging by the large red stains along the knife the robber was his best bet for a decent haul.
Just as the mugger brought his arm back to stab the woman Remus caught the mans wrist with the hook end of his cane and spoke to the mugger in mocking manner, with a heavy Germanic accent "Dont you know not to play with knives?" The man snarled at Remus "Back off man! I found her first!" "Now why does everyone assume that just because I'm German-" Remus twisted his cane roughly and a sickening crack reverberated off the walls followed by the mans howls of agony "I'm a bag guy hmm?" The man fell to his knees and Remus put a shiny black boot on the back of the mans head, brushing his Dirty blonde, shoulder length hair out of his eyes he extended his knee causing the robber's face to hit the brick wall hard, leaving him dazed on the ground. Remus smirked and quickly relieved the man of his rather large wallet "To the victors go the spoils!"

He opened it up but instead of a large wad of cash he was almost blinded by shiny metal object, as he withdrew it Remus felt himself slowly falling to the ground, the robber must have threw a punch at him when he was not looking, but that wouldn't explain why Remus was able to rationalize something like that happening since he should be unconcious from such a blow, it was then that the light began to clear and Remus found himself lying on his back gazing up at treetops and a clear sky instead of the skyscrapers and industry choked one he was use to seeing.

[Duthguy]

Fifteen minuted had passed since Danny first got the strange device and neither the picture he posted or google helped him with figuring out what it was. His curiosity got the better of him and he took out his pocket and held it close to the computer screen while reaching for his phone to take another picture from another angle. As soon as he got the device close to the screen, it started acting up again. Hoping a few whacks would fix it, he somehow got his elbow sucked in, soon followed by the rest of the brown haired fifteen year old kid.

Danny had no idea where he was or what was going on, all he knew wat that it was somewhere extremely bright and that he seemed to be falling.Still nearly blinded he didn't notice that his surroundings changed into a forest, shortly before he fell to the ground. Oddly enough while he had been falling pretty fast pretty long he landed quite softly. He quickly got up, ready to explore the forest. Before he had the chance to do see however he noticed someone lying on the ground. Thinking that whoever it was had to know what was going he walked over to the blond man. "Do you know what is going on?" He asked in Dutch.

[Razael]

(Pardon my misspellings but I wanted to emphasize some of the accent, if it interferes with the clarity of what is being said I will stop, I also do not plan on doing this all the time just at certain points when a accent would add to the general coolness or atmosphere of the situation)

His mind was racing after thousands of theories as to what just happened but Remus kept lapping the notion that maybe he should just lay there for awhile and get his barrings, if this question needed to be answered it would do so itself. Sure enough something eventually happened and Remus saw a brown haired boy approach him and spoke to him in a language he could not speak fluently but the base premises of the language sounded a bit similar to him and judging by the surroundings the kid was probably wondering where they were just as much as Remus was!

Though his accent was practically impossible to eliminate he figured he would just try to speak English with present company "In all honesty? Nein if I vere to guess I vould have to say I recieved a hard blow from some street ruffian and am having a dream. But you obviously are vell avare that something has indeed gone vrong so if you could be so kind as to help me up Id be more than happy to help you figure out vere ve are and vhat has happened to put us both here, however you arived here shortly after I so perhaps if ve vait awhile more will show up and vith answer ja?" He gave a smile to the boy and extended his hand.

[MasquedMartyr]

Ena Magnus had creamy complexion covered in a smattering of freckles, and an angular-heart shaped face sepulchered in ruddy strands of hair. The red locks were frequently angled across her forehead, slanting downwards from the left side of her face towards the right. Thin tresses hung just past her shoulder blades.

An aquiline nose rested between two cerulean spheres. Standing at an unimposing height and without much mass to make up for it, Ena was fairly small. The girl only succeeded in clearing five feet by two inches. Additionally, she was lacking in curves and a had a bosom that occasionally caused others to believe she was younger than she said she was.

Ena adorned a school uniform consisting of a pleated blue skirt and matching blazer over a simple white dress shirt and a black tie. Black stockings extended over her knees and stopped just before the hem of her skirt. Black mary janes served as her footwear. A blue bow was clipped into her hair as her sole accessory, tugging back a section of hair to the side of her bangs and a black elastic was wrapped around her wrist.

Dainty hands adjusted the purse and backpack she carried with her after she removed her cellphone from the confines of the smaller bag. Having just escaped her school, she began scrolling through her contacts with the arrow key. The phone was a simple flip phone, but it served what purpose it needed to. She only really used it to make phone calls and text.

As the girl glanced at the screen of her phone. Vertical bars of color appeared in strips across the screen similarly to the bars on a TV with bars of gray, yellow, cyan, green, magenta, red, and blue. Something like white noise seemed to be coming through her phone, almost like a static hissing with a series of clicks interspersed between. Her thumb pressed into the power button as she tried to turn the phone off and back on, but her efforts seemed to be futile. She pulled at the cover on the back of the phone that covered the battery and proceeded to tug the battery out of the phone, but that didn't seem to do much either. The bars of color didn't seem to be fading.

Suddenly, the screen seemed to go black. The noises from her phone abruptly halted. Ena was left feeling disoriented and off kilter. Not quite the feeling one got from riding in an elevator. Something more extreme, like the gelatinous feeling she got in her legs after riding a roller coaster. She felt light headed and woozy as she lifted her chin, only to realize that there had been a change in scenery. Ena certainly was nowhere near the route she walked from her school to her home.

[tobiax]

___Moments passed, and the lights faded from the sky. An erie silence was all that was left of the glimmers of hope that had passed. Small creatures who had seen these lights, now lowered their heads, feeling their hope sink into despair.
___However, miles away, several youths now appeared- most huddled against themselves as though having fallen. One, who looked thoroughly confused, had seemingly landed in a small stream nearby. The forest around them was silent, and tall, straight trees stood all about. However, something was not quite right- the ends of the branches, if they could be seen, seemed to end in bare, exposed coils of copper, and plastic rings seemed affixed to the bases of the trees. On the other side of the stream, laying in ruin with a layer of moss covering it, was a large glass tube of some sort, capped with a bulging dome. The end opposite the dome had a black cylindrical object wedged within, from which two equally separated pin like projections stuck.
___Despite the silence of this scene, the humans were not alone. Amongst the brush surrounding the small clearing in which they had landed, several small creatures now stood, looking on with mixed expression.

[TalijaKey]

Rade didnt open his eyes as he fall. He was just gripping onto the device that was in his hand, missing to see the transitions. Well that is until he fall into water with a splash. That made him shot open his eyes. Having you pants now all wet as you were sitting in a steam after falling off a chair in a room where was no steam to begin was ....just confusing. He stood up winning a few curses whispered under his chin as he stepped on land. The thing in his hand the device completely wet too.
Well what ever it is now its probably need rice to dry and work. Mom will be furious for running the pants too... He was thinking before he started noticing how odd the plant life was around him. He had no answer about anything at all. Why was the trees close by looking so weird. He knew a botanic man who could talk about plants all day and night and he never mentioned anything about such exotic plants.

Standing a bit awkward due to wet pants he looked further away hearing first and noticing a few people on the clearing. He came closer but feeling shy stayed on the side hearing them speak. English with..was it Germanic accent?
After taking a breath he stepped up to them speaking in english as he heard the other do. His English accented too, no helping with it if you didnt have to use it anywhere.
''Please, forgive my interruption...but....may you by any chance know ....''
He stopped as he was unsure what to ask first. Where they were, how they come here, where to get a change of pants...
''..anything?'' He finished at lost of better word choose.

[Razael]

Remus jumped a bit when he and his companion nearly ran into another boy while they examined the strange foliage around them, the boy who was soaking wet caused Remus to raise his eyebrows and and scratch at his beard "Hmmm I know that I am Remus Archibald, I know that mein companion can speak for himself vhen it comes to introduction, I know that ve both have next to no idea vhere ve could be-" he dipped his head down and smiled trying to seem friendly "But most of all I have no idea vhere you can get into some try clothing." Remus could not shake the feeling that someone else was around them, someone who wanted to make themselves known but instead of pointing this out Remus decided that if this person wanted to greet them they would soon enough, besides they were all in a confusing situation and there was no need to add panic to the moment.....Yet.

(I feel like I should have rolled for a sixth sense like that I)

[Shadolord]

Dante landed hard on the ground his bag having cushioned his fall slightly. He sat up looking around and saw other people around him. each of them appeared to be trying to figure out the same things. One person fell into the river nearby he waved at him and laughed "I have some clothes in here." Motioning with his duffle. "Hello I am Dante." His voice had a strong Finnish Accent.

[Duthguy]

After Danny had helped up the apparently German man judging by his broken English, someone else did indeed show up. Like him the new kid also had brown hair, but shorter than his own. The new kid asked if the knew anything that was going on speaking in English as well. While the older man explained everything relativity well, he left Danny's introductions up to him. "Ehm, right my naam is Danny, and like Remus I don't really know anything about this strange woud." He was barely finished talking before another fell out the air landing on his bag.

[Razael]

Remus looked his companions up and down, one by one passing each one of them over at least twice, he understood their accents and that none of them knew where they were let alone what was going on, but in all honesty he did not prioritize learning that right away, instead he wanted to learn about his companions for though there was strength in numbers there was also the possibilities of danger within, he had to know if the others were handling the situation as calmly as they let on and how best they could contribute to the group....But Remus absolutely HAD to know what those red eyes that had been watching him belonged to and why they intrigued him on a more personal manner than a frightful curiosity.

[TalijaKey]

The introduction of Rumus didnt clear his confusion up but it made him feel less like the only one lost. ''Nice to meet you both Danny and Remus. I am Rade.'' He introduced himself feeling still cold and wet,somewhat dissapointed at the lack of changing possibilities, holding the device in hand. '' I am positive we arent anywhere in Slovenia.''
It was the offer of cloths that made him super exited, turning to the other guy sitting on his bag. '' Hvala! I will give them back once this dry. '' Rade moved over to Dante reaching his hands to get them. '' I cannot thank you enough for this.''He looked over to the closest tree deciding to change behind there once he was given the cloths. Pnce he was dry he will wonder his head off how he came here and where this here is.

[Duthguy]

The small Machine Digimon had been watching the humans for a while now, hoping to find which of them was supposed to be his partner. All he knew was that his partner would have the yellow Digivice, but seemed the humans had all hidden their powerful devices.

It was clear that no one here had any idea what was going on but Danny was curious about something. "Hey I just remembered that before ending up here, I got my hands on this thing." He reached in his pocket and took out the yellow device that came from his computer screen.

As soon as the Digimon spotted Danny's Digivice, he knew that the kid in the orange shirt had to be his partner. Without thinking about how the humans might react he launched himself at his partner.

Before Danny had any idea what was going, a creature looking a computer mouse with sparks coming from its straight tail head butted him right in the stomach.

[TalijaKey]

Rade hurried behind the tree just out of the view of the others placing the dry clothing on the root of the weird colored tree. The device he was still dragging with him around placed on top of the dry things. He would have examined the device more carefully but as he sneezed his action were put to the more pressing matter. Shivering some as he hurried undressing he didnt noticed a small movement on the top of the tree. A pair of eyes just settled on a brunch. Their owner looking over the back of the boy. It noticed the most important piece of information. The device was the right color. Rustling his feathers for a moment it waited for the boy to take the device in his hand again to be 100% sure. Rade was putting on the dry shirt on when he heard a scream like sound from the place where the group was. Did something happened or was it just childish playing around? He wondered turning around to peek thought the trees back.Not really seeing what was going on, he hurried to get himself properly looking. Buttoning the shirt up he stopped in truck just as he remembering that he nearly forgot something. Bowing over he picked the device, about place it in the deep pocket of the pants, the cloths werent a perfect fit being somewhat big on him but it will work, He felt some weight on his head appear. ''Um...sho.'' His hand going to over his head push the weight off. Rade was sure he got a squirrel or something because of being that close to a tree. ''Hey thats no way to treat your partner!'' The squirrel replied, floating off his head and in front of his face. Rade took in a deep breath and just stared dumbfounded. It was a bird?...a ball of feathers was the closest thing to describe it. The digimon stared back with his big eyes, flying lower it poked the hand holding the device. ''That is yours or?'' ''..I think?'' Rade responded to it, receiving a instant reply to his words. ''Then I am your partner! The others must be meeting theirs too.'' It fly back towards rade who wondered when did he fallen asleep. Because what else could it be? He let it land on top of his head. Still feeling way off guard catch to properly react, letting the ball of feathers chip away. ''Whats your name?'' ''Rade....'' ''Rade~? Thats a nice sound. Rademon~ '' ''Just Rade....I think I should go back with the others'' Rade saidthe device placed in his pocket and hands moving to the top of his head moving the ball of feaths in his arms. It was much easier to walk like that.

[Razael]

While The boy who was soaked to the bone went to change into the dry clothes Remus pulled away from the group to gather his thoughts, he moved over to one of the nearby trees and rested against it. He took a deep,shuddering breath and exhaled slowly. He watched the others intent on picking up anything he could discern. He found it strange that none of them had anything in common other than they had no idea where the rest of them were, he reached into his pocket and pulled out the strange grey object he found in the ladies purse before this whole ordeal had occurred. He held it close to his face and noticed a strange symbol on it but no other distinct markings on the device. As Remus examined the strange device three drops of what appeared to be tree sap fell on it, he turned around to see more of it oozing along the tree and begin to pool together, this would not be strange if the pool did not sit perfectly still instead of continually oozing down the tree, suddenly the drops that fell on his device began to slither along his hand and leap off it to join the blob on the tree. Remus stared in wonder as suddenly two red orbs flared within the blob which suddenly blinked at him! Remus stared dumbfounded at the sentient ball of sap as it turned his gaze to the grey object in Remus's hand, it was then that a mouth seemed to form on the creature (or perhaps it was always there and Remus never noticed it) "You don't look like the others, your pretty unique, that means you and I could achieve some great things together." With that the digimon stretched off the tree and congealed on Remus's shoulder, he was about to protest when he noticed that despite his companions form he left no trace or trail of slime on the surface of the tree or on his clothing.

[Duthguy]

The first though in Danny's head was that the small creature was attacking him, but because it didn't had any teeth or claws he wasn't too worried."Nice to finally meet you, partner. I'm Chroromon." Much more shocking than its sudden appearance was the fact that the creature that looked like an optical mouse could talk. "My naam is Danny, but what do you mean by partner?" The only reason the boy didn't think this was all a bizarre but very realistic dream that the earlier head butting did hurt a bit. "I meant just what I said, you and the other humans are supposed to help us Digimon."