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Digimon Re: Tamers Prologue:

Sometimes a story started off with a storm at the dark of night. Sometimes a story started off in a peaceful meadow just outside of residence, or some other peaceful location of tranquility. Perhaps a desert in the middle of nowhere with a lot of formations of plateaus and mountains could also count as well.

"BADABOOM BLAST IT ALL TO GOSHDARN IT HEEECK!"

Had it not been for the sudden, escalating yelling turned full on roar breaking all sense of peace and quiet and causing the entire ground to shake; the earth ruptured and caused one of the plateaus to shatter into debris, and standing right next to the scene was the form of a humanoid with a long, razor sharp tail and what appeared to be raven-like wings protruding from its back, and its right arm transformed into a giant weapon of sorts.

The winged humanoid, panting heavily after having shouted its lungs out, sounded very gruff and deep in voice as it slowly looked around; three eyes focused on its surroundings as nobody was in sight at all. Catching its breath and growling in frustration, a second humanoid, equipped with arms modeled after a dinosaur and a wolf for its left and right arms respectively, and a striking white form and cape, approached the scene to see the disgruntled being before it.

"Still frustrated over what had happened, Beelzebumon?" The second entity spoke, its voice sounding like a female and male voice speaking in synchronization. The entity, seemingly called Beelzebu-

"It's Beelzemon you blasted idiot! I know what my name is and I'm not letting the Japanese dictate how I prefer to be called, and you're not going to influence that decision for me or anyone else in this whole American owned sector! Capiche?!" Beelzemon corrected the entity before it, angered at the presence of this divine figure before it.

"Look, Beelzemon, I get it; this isn't my turf to call orders or anything, but it is still within the Digital World and-"

"Cut the crud, Raiga! You know exactly why everything went to hell back in your sector and you could've easily stopped it! But no! You chose to run and hide over in MY turf because YOU were too scared to face a threat happening over in the Japanese sectors!" Beelzemon shouted at the entity, allegedly named Raiga, as Raiga raised its saurian arm as out from the tip of the jawline emerged a giant blade with markings on it.

"Is that a challenge, Beelzemon?" Raiga asked, as Beelzemon backed down and moved to turn and leave the scene. "… I figured as much." Raiga spoke, as it moved to sheathe the blade only to immediately be taken off guard by a sudden blast of energy headed its way, in which Beelzemon flew in and smashed its clawed, left arm into Raiga's chest to grab something, in which case a keycard type of object was grabbed from the Raiga's now wounded chest.

"Where do you intend on going with that, if I may ask?" Raiga spoke, as it didn't appear hindered by the injury at all. However, as Beelzemon's left fist began to burn with a fiery energy, it probably wasn't wise to judge the situation too soon.

"I know exactly where I'm going and I'm not going to have you folks interfere with seeing my tamer for the first time! She had been ostracized her whole life and you using the same excuse to get what you want is baffling when you won't even let someone more precious get away with it!" Beelzemon spoke up, as its left fist was ready to launch a powerful punch against Raiga.

"FIST! OF! THE BEAST KING!" Beelzemon shouted, as he suddenly punched Raiga with the intense, fiery energy from which exhaled a massive, lion shaped head of an inferno to engulf Raiga entirely with; in the explosion the occurred at close proximity, Raiga collapsed to the ground in defeat all the while moving to aim its wolf-like head to open up to reveal a cannon to take aim.

Beelzemon, however, was nowhere to be found as Raiga's energy was dwindling fast. With Beelzemon nowhere to be found, Raiga simply sheathed the cannon and tried to move to stand… only to completely pass out when the injuries finally took their toll on Raiga after initially being able to shrug them off. However, Raiga seemed to be chuckling as it slipped into unconsciousness.

"I knew he had it in him after all of these years…"

"Hello?"

A voice could be heard out in the void of another's mind; the mind of a young boy, looking around as he tried to look for where the voice came from. What he heard next was giggling, followed by some playful, barking calls from what was clearly a female voice. As the boy wandered around, he eventually noticed the void was being replaced with a relatively peaceful park at sunset, with a lone bench alone a path facing out towards a large lake.

At the bench was a girl, approximately of his own age, that took his attention clear as day as his face turned a bright red; he was watching her using a puppet she had on her hand to interact with a raven that was perched next to her. It didn't appear to be fully grown all the while the puppet's head was giving the bird seeds for it to eat, with the girl watching with curiosity and giggling a little bit as the raven fledgling allowed her to pet it with her other hand.

The boy slowly moved towards the girl with an intent of trying to speak with her, as he had an odd feeling he recognized her; slowly approaching the girl as he took cautious steps to not startle her, the girl slowly looked over towards him with a confused, curious gaze.

"T-Takato…?" She asked, as the girl remained still in movement as the boy approached her, still taking his time as he moved to sit right next to her. The girl's gaze didn't stray from him at all, as the boy looked straight into her eyes as the boy moved to brush the girl's hair out of the way of her face to have a look at her; his gaze calm and quiet the whole time.

The raven suddenly flew off and began making a call seemingly out of panic, as the girl's eyes widened a bit as the boy suddenly moved to pin her in place, "T-Takato?!" She tried to ask again, all the while the boy moved to hold the girl's chin up in an affectionate gesture; as the girl kept eye contact in fright against the boy, she could tell something was wrong. The boy now sported a smirk on his face, as he forcefully pushed the girl onto her back as she squirmed to get out of his grasp.

"Yes… Say my name, I love it when you say my name…" The boy spoke up; his tone sounding a mixture of creepy in monotone, as well as having a distinct sense of malice to his tone. The girl squirmed more as the boy placed his hand on the girl's mouth with a cloth, as the girl was trying to scream out for help.

"N-N-No! You're not Takato! S-S-Stop… i-i-it…" The girl tried to struggle, all the while the boy moved to lower his head towards her ear, as the girl was beginning to slowly lose her consciousness at an increasing rate.

"Don't lie to me, Jeri; I am Takato; I am all of Takato in all of my own glory…" The boy spoke, all the while the girl was struggling in his grasp still, but her slipping consciousness was causing her body to become limp and weak; the boy forcefully held her on her back with him over top of her, while the cloth on her mouth was quickly causing the girl to fall unconscious because of how the boy was forcing her into submission. The girl's eyes weakly were remaining open, all the while the boy began to whisper into her ear.

"That's right, just fall asleep and let me do all the work; I'll take care of you from there…" The boy spoke to her, as the girl's dread she was beginning to feel was beginning to take over; her mind was slipping into unconsciousness, as her body was beginning to fall completely limp. As she was slipping away from this world, a she looked as the boy's expression turned to show shrunken pupils, a wide smirk, as he slowly could be felt moving around the girl in ways she couldn't process due to her slipping away…

The girl suddenly had her eyes widen in full consciousness; the boy disappeared from her sight, and the calm setting of the lakeside was replaced by her bedroom. Everything looked normal from what she could tell as she was laying down in her bed with her heart beating out of her chest, as she was gasping for air as she tried to catch her breath; a horrible nightmare it was, and from turning her head to face her a small trinket on her table side, she picked it up and looked at the time; 3:42 AM.

Early in the morning, but as the girl shifted in her bed, listening to the soft sound of rain outside of her window, it appeared she was waking up this early on purpose. The girl's room appeared to be decorated in a lot of posters; some of them for very old, vintage cinema movie posters, as well as a relatively small, aged television set in the girl's bedroom that was turned on and only silently showed static in it due to not having a signal. A VCR player was hooked up to it, as was a Sony PlayStation, but the girl's attention did not focus on any of those.

As she slowly moved to sit herself up and allow herself to breathe for a few moments as she tried to make out what had happened in her mind. Her mind was panicked when she saw an icon pop up on the device; something inside of it in the form of a small, cute looking angel of sorts was asking for food. As Jeri focused her mind on calming down, she calmed herself with feeding the creature with a simple press of a button, and repeating it until the creature was fully fed.

It was very early in the morning as it was to even be awake playing a game like this now; perhaps the girl herself knew that, as she seemed to be slowly rubbing her eyes to help herself stay awake, as right her attention was fixated on the device in her hand. With only a handful of buttons on it on the front, with a small screen for viewing the digital creature inside, the girl giggled a bit as the creature got somewhat startled after a small droplet swirl appeared on the screen. However, just as quickly with the press of a button, the swirl was washed away and the creature perked up with a heart above its head, causing the girl to smile as she kept her gaze fixated onto it.

On the back of the girl's mind, she was trying to boot up the training mode on the game; the creature's name registered as "Kyupimon", and the status screen showed it to be an "In-Training Level". As the training screen booted up once it Kyupimon had enough energy to train after having slept already, Jeri shook the device a little bit as Kyupimon was firing off five shots in the process. Hitting a target with the various shots, two of them were only a single projectile, two were three projectiles, and the last was a double projectile.

With the creature's energy depleted after Jeri focused several minutes on training in a similar fashion, Jeri didn't show any sort of fatigue at all as she was awake so early in the morning. As the creature's training was finished, Jeri's eyes widened with the screen began to flash and with a scrolling text saying "DIGIVOLVE", as Kyupimon's sprite shifted in shape drastically from a more angel looking creature, to a taller, more defined devilish looking creature.

As Jeri moved to check the status on it, she nearly freaked when she heard her bedroom window open by itself; keeping her breath low and quiet as she tried to keep herself calm, she turned back towards the device and saw the creature's new form.

"Impmon, Rookie Level. Is that right, Jeri?"

Jeri's eyes widened as she heard somebody speak, as she turned around to face the middle of her bedroom as her eyes widened as a small, but clearly devilish figure moved to raise a hand and ignite a spark of flame in its hands to show itself in the otherwise dark room. Having bright, green eyes and a smiley face on his chest, while wearing a red scarf and red gloves with a purple body, the creature dissipated the flame in its hand as it held out its hand towards Jeri. Jeri flinched at the sudden movement, but wasn't able to find the energy in herself to scream.

"You may call me Impmon, Jeri; I am your Digimon to command as your partner." Impmon introduced, as Jeri gasped a little bit as she slowly moved towards the device she held in her hand; it transformed in shape as the image of the virtual Impmon had disappeared, and was instead replaced with the image of the Impmon before her now.

"I've been waiting for this day for too long, Jeri; you are my tamer, after all." Impmon said, before he moved to jump onto Jeri's bed and have a careful look at her face in the dark; being much more adjusted to the night, Impmon could see her confused eyes rather easily, as Impmon's eyes, while he was stubborn with it, softened in gaze as he moved to sit on the far end of the bed from Jeri.

"Would you like a glass of water, Impmon…?" Jeri asked, as she gulped a bit from nervousness as well as a dry feeling she felt on her throat. Impmon, raising an eye, gave her a small nod as Jeri moved to get out of bed and stand up, and left the bedroom quietly as she shut the door behind her.

Impmon moved to stand up and look around the room; he could tell his tamer was somewhat troubled, it seemed. Jeri appeared to be no older than 10, maybe 13 years old, or perhaps just looking very young by 16 year old standards; Impmon didn't have enough reference material on humans to make up his mind, but he was able to notice that whichever was her actual age, she appeared too old to have the various plushes and toys in her bedroom.

Littered across the room were various stuffed animals of prehistoric reptiles; a giant, long necked aquatic reptile bigger than Jeri herself, an equally large but not as tall plush of a red tyrannosaurus which gave him déjà vu, and also the odd placement of a plush that gave him even more confusion; it didn't look as neatly made as the others ones across the room, as it looked to had been made by hand, and didn't appear to be finished yet. Impmon, moving off of the bed to have a look at it, carefully picked it up before realizing he walked in view of the door by that point.

"Hey, I'm back but I- O-Oh… You noticed my project, I-I see…?" Jeri asked Impmon nervously as she walked back into her room, closing the door behind her, as she was quick to calmly, and carefully, take the plush out of Impmon's hands. Jeri looked scared that Impmon might've tried to put up a fight for the plush, but he didn't bother trying to prevent her from taking it.

"You made that yourself?" Impmon asked, as Jeri looked at him with a nod, before handing him a glass of what appeared to be fruit juice instead of normal water. Impmon couldn't really complain, however, as he was quick, albeit calm, to begin drinking from the cup as he followed Jeri back to have a seat at the side of her bed, before Jeri moved to tiredly lay down on her bed and let out a small yawn.

"Hey, Jeri?" Impmon spoke up, taking a small sip of his drink again as Jeri looked over at him.

"Y-Yes…?" Jeri asked, as Impmon looked up towards her with a smile.

"Thank you… I didn't want to put too much of a hassle, but…" Impmon was beginning to trail off, but by the time he was about to say something else, he noticed how Jeri was quick to end up falling asleep again. As Impmon stood to finish his glass of juice and move to place it on the table next to her bed, he moved to lift the covers over Jeri's shivering form as he lightly, and carefully, brushed her hair out of her face as Jeri gave a small smile in her sleep.

Impmon hesitated with trying to figure out how to respond, as he looked over towards the plush Jeri had started making sometime before he arrived; he looked at the red, white, and black striped form of it, and wondered why it looked the way it did; he couldn't recognize it as any known Digimon that existed, and yet he couldn't help but feel as if it didn't look out of place to actually be one. Regardless, Impmon moved to slowly sit back down at the side of the bed, moving to pull some of the stuffed animals as makeshift pillows and began to lay down against them.

"I'm so glad I'm finally here after all of this time… I can only hope I wasn't too late in showing up in your life for how long you needed me there, Jeri…"

AN: You'll notice I'm using almost entirely dub terminology here. Anybody who already knows that Digimon is fictional in-universe in Tamers before the plot begins can understand my logic that the dub terminology and names used in places such as the United States are being used here because, well, this game takes place in the United States as Beelzemon more or less directly confirmed in this prologue. Not only that, but you can thank lady-warrioress as to why I got the idea for this fic. She posted an AMV earlier this week and a longer while ago which gives the impression of Beelzemon being Jeri's partner Digimon and I honestly liked how she edited together the footage to give the impression. THAT, and the fact I do not want to remotely acknowledge the Leomon "joke" that the canon is far too busy being obsessed with as Digimon Adventure tri. confirmed.

That said, while I do wish to continue progress on Truth and Ideals as planned, and also work on this fic and the still upcoming Reflection Code at the same time, people looking forward to the latter fic might be wondering why it's taking so long despite its cover already being done. Quite frankly when Digimon Re: Tamers was helped inspired by the writer's now current girlfriend, I honestly think writing something more for her to enjoy than most of my other fics could've been is a bigger priority. Especially when you consider Truth and Ideals and my other fics tend to be T Rated or higher, but this fic is instead K+ and went through some editing behind the scenes to go for that rating.

Also to those who saw the cover image posted on DA and notice how this is being uploaded earlier than the date I had given, this page was written much earlier in advance than the future chapters of the story.