Episode One: "Royalty Born"

The bell rang at HVT High for school to be let out. It was even heard on the soccer field where Darryl Jonson was practicing his goal kicks. He was the best in the school: captain of the Varsity team and he was only 15 years old. The bell was a cue for him to get to the showers and wash off the sweat he got from a good practice.

"Score," he whispered to himself as his black and white checkered ball landed in the net for the last shot of the day. He jogged over to his black bag, grabbed it, and headed off to the boy's locker room. In the locker room, he saw his friends Trevor Agres and Jacob Kings cleaning off after PE.

"Hey guys, how was regular PE when you can be with me kicking soccer balls?" Asked Darryl, snickering at his two friends.

"It was fine. Coach Young made us run today. Ugh, I hate running," said Trevor, his long black hair fell down from his head as he took off his red bandana.

"What are you talking about?" Jacob cried. His voice raised in excitement. "I love running! It gives you something to do in this cold weather."

Jacob was right; the weather outside was cold. Not snowy cold, but they still had to wear jackets in summer.

"Yea, well, I like soccer. It maintains my order of things." Darryl stated as his brown hair fell from the water.

Darryl, Jacob, and Trevor have been best friends ever since 4th grade, so they were comfortable showering in front of one another. Once they were clean, Darryl pulled on his black soccer shirt and jeans, Trevor put on his red tee shirt and jeans, and Jacob put on his favorite blue jacket and jeans. The soccer player laced up his shoes and picked up his bag. Something fell from it and made a metallic chink on the ground.

"Huh?" Darryl thought out loud. His shoes made squeaky noises from the water on the ground as he walked over to the fallen object

"C'mon Darryl, we got to get home so you can feed your dog without your mom getting mad." Trevor proclaimed.

Darryl ignored him and picked up the device. It was a watch of some sort with a black band and black pads on the sides of the watch head. It looked like any other watch, but Darryl felt that something was different about it. Puzzled, he strapped the strange watch to his wrist. Almost immediately, he heard a voice: "Welcome Darryl Jonson." The voice seemed but a whisper to his ears.

"Darryl. DARRYL!" Jacob was dancing in front of his hypnotized friend, trying to get his attention. "You ok man?"

"Yea, yea. I'm fine." He looked down at his new watch in confusion.

"Then lets go!"

The brown haired boy laughed. "Ok Jacob. We're going now."

The three left the locker room and headed over to Darryl's house to play games and play with the dog.

They arrived to the lobby of Darryl's building where he lived. His apartment was on the 15th floor, so they had a little ride to take. When they boarded the elevator, a boy a year younger than them walked off. His spiky gold hair seemed to reflect the sun as he strolled out.

"Hey Lucas!" Greeted Darryl. Darryl and Lucas grew up in the same building together.

"Hey Darryl," said the young boy "I can't talk for long, gotta run out to the store for mom."

"Ok man. I'll talk to you later." Darryl eyed the boy's wrist and saw almost the exact same watch, but instead of a black band and accents, they were white.

"See you later my friend." Lucas left the building with his hands in his khaki pants, white shirt blowing from the high winds.

"Weird kid." Observed Trevor.

"Just because you don't like him doesn't make him weird." Remarked Darryl.

"Hey hey guys," interjected Jacob "lets get upstairs and play Halo."

All three boys agreed and got into the elevator. The fifteen flights went rather quickly and they were in Darryl's apartment playing video games.

"Boom! Headshot!" Exclaimed Jacob after getting a good point in the game. Jacob and Trevor were playing against two other people from the US while Darryl was examining the device that was strapped around his wrist.

"Dude, give that thing a rest and help us out here. We need your leadership skills against these guys." Yelled Jacob from the living room.

"I'll be right there." Said Darryl. He wasn't even listening to his friend. He was to involved with his new toy.

"Ok. Whatever man." Said Jacob.

"Oh crap, I forgot to tell my mom I'm over here." Trevor suddenly said. He paused the game and reached into his pocket to grab his phone.

"Huh?" He questioned himself as he pulled out a red watch. It looked almost identical to Darryl's and Lucas', except red.

"What?" Darryl looked up from his seat to see his friend clutching a watch. Once he saw the device, he rushed over.

"Dude, it looks like Darryl's." Said Jacob. In his head, he was wondering why he didn't have one.

Trevor pulled the red strap over his wrist, locking it in place. A voice whispered to him, "Welcome Trevor Agres."

"Hi lady." Said he. He inquisitively looked at his new device.

"Guys," Darryl said. His friends looked up at him. "There was to be a reason why we have these."

"What do you mean by 'we'?" said the annoyed Jacob. "Only you and Trevor have these devices. So don't bring me into this." A dark blue light came from his wrist as he turned around to play his game.

"Actually, Lucas has one too. I saw it on his wrist as he left the building." Said Darryl matter-of-factly.

Trevor was to busy watching the rejected boy's wrist. He tugged on Darryl's shirt. "Darryl, look."

"What?" he asked.

He looked at Trevor as his friend pointed to Jacob. He gaped at what he saw. A dark blue watch formed on their friend's wrist as he unknowingly played his game. The light finally caught the blonde's eyes. "WAH!" he yelled. "What the heck?" As he finished his sentence, a dark blue accented watch lied on his wrist. He heard the same ominous voice that spoke to his friends, "Welcome Jacob Kings." The boys all looked at each other like they've all seen ghosts. Different things were going through their minds, but they all said the same thing: "Holy crap."

*****

"Ok, there has to be a reason why we have these." Jacob excitedly exclaimed.

"Jacob." Darryl calmly stated his friend's name to get him to calm down.

"I mean, lights don't make watches magically appear on your wrist."

"Jacob." Trevor mimicked Darryl's attempt.

"And, look at these." He holds up his wrist. "These aren't normal watches. You can't buy these in stores."

"JACOB!" Both friends yelled his name.

"What?"

"Stop talking man." Darryl said forcefully. "You talk way to much."

"Anyway, there's someone at the door Darryl." Trevor said as a knock was heard.

"Be right there." Called the brown haired boy. He rushed to the door and opened it to find an attractive blonde haired girl standing there. She wore an orange tank top and a pair of black skinny jeans.

"Hi Dar!" The girl said enthusiastically.

"Hi there Tawny. Come one in." He motioned for her to come one in.

"Hey boys." Tawny said to Jacob and Trevor. She knew the two boys through Darryl.

"Yo Tawny." Said Jacob, still examining his watch.

"What you got there Jake?" Tawny always shortened her friends' names. It's part of her spontaneous personality.

"Oh, its nothing."

"Sure looks like something to me."

"It's really nothing." Trevor aggressively interjected.

"Jeez Trev. Don't need to get defensive." Tawny said rudely. "Oh, before I forget, my sister is waiting for us at the park."

"We could get some air." Jacob said.

"Yea, let's go to the park." Darryl agreed.

As the group headed to the elevator, Darryl saw Lucas about to enter his room.

He called out to his friend, "Hey Lucas. You wanna go to the park with us?"

The blonde boy nodded, "Sure, sounds like fun."

Tawny eyed the younger boy's wrist and saw that all of the boys' watches matched. She scratched her head in confusion.

The group of four headed down to the local park to meet Ellena, Tawny's thirteen year-old sister. She was waiting with her long blonde hair in a ponytail flipped over her right side. Her blue sweatshirt was over her knees from the cold.

She saw her older sister and her friends approach. She waved. Each of the older kids waved back. They met up and started to talk about the watches the boys had.

"God, look at these things." Ellena proclaimed, "They're so ugly."

"Eh, I've seen worse." Lucas said. He never spoke much unless he was around Ellena.

They had a little discussion about school and what Ellena had to look out for next year while the older kids were discussing on the importance of the watches.

"Perhaps their alien devices." Suggested Jacob.

"Yea, and I'm the queen of England." Trevor said sarcastically.

Darryl laughed, "My theory is that they're devices chosen by another species."

"Like on TV?" Tawny inquired.

"You never know." Darryl answered unsurely.

"The boy is right." Said a voice. It was the same voice that whispered to the boys earlier in the day.

All five of the teens turned their heads to see the oddest creature ever. The creature stood about three feet tall, covered with purple fur while is belly and snout were white. He had black claws and a tail bout one and a half feet long. To top is off, a red crystal rested on its head that seemed to shine in the sunset. The teens were stunned to see such a creature, let alone hear it speak.

"Do not be surprised humans," said another creature. A small white fox came out of the shadows. This fox was small in size, and had gold markings on its sides and a golden ring on his neck. Followed him was a three foot orange tyrannosaurus, a one-horned reptile-like wolf with a yellow belly and blue fur, a red raptor that stood 4 feet tall, and a blue lizard with a small horn for a nose and a gold v in between its eyes. They went and stood next to the purple furred creature.

"Allow us to introduce ourselves humans. We are creatures known as digimon. My name is Dorumon." The purple creature stated.

The white fox stepped forward, "Pleased to meet you digidestines, I am Kudamon."

"I'm Agumon, and this is my best friend Gabumon." Said the orange dinosaur as he motioned to the reptile-wolf creature.

"Veemon's my name." Said the blue lizard, pointing to his chest.

"And I'm Guilmon." The red raptor said.

"You five posses the Royal digivices, ancient devices that allow us to evolve to the Royal Knights and protect our world that is in grave danger: The Digital World" said Dorumon.

"You have been chosen as our human partners, and us as your digimon partners. Do you accept your mission?" Kudamon asked.

The five kids stared at the digimon speechless. They didn't know how to react.