Azurian Dream
Hello To Nowhere
The Veil To Spurn: A Digimon Survivor Tale
"Digimon almost at the brink of death as an IP in the card world came back swinging out of nowhere in April 2020 taking the trading card industry off guard. The sheer weight of its power helped push the Digimon IP back to the forefront in competition to the likes of other highly successful TCGs. As such in simply four years it is now gracing its appeal to the annual International Digimon World Championships tournament held this year in Toronto, Canada," The announcer continued to gab, and gab about the tournament, and the history of the Digimon franchise as a beanie-wearing girl with a tea slurped lazily watching the massive projector outside the window of the player booth way above the crowds seated.
Raven Clow watched as her competition brother paced back, and forth as the extreme weight of his accumulated victories to get into the tournament was turning into intense panic at the sheer size of the stadium crowd excitedly watching from below for the first round of the card game section of the competition for day one of the Digimon celebration. She had accepted a job hilariously as his "bodyguard" knowing it was she knew Mom, or Dad wouldn't agree to come to this chaos. It was funny in the smaller venues up till this point back in the States he never had this problem. Yet now in the implication of true showmanship, her brother was a noodle jello mess.
"Man card games really be racking in the money nowadays don't they," Raven lightly spoke to her brother who had started to gauge the realm of potential mistakes with the edits to his deck for this match.
"What? Ya? Maybe? OH GAWD SHOULD I HAVE GONE WITH MY OMNIMON SET OR INSECT SET INSTEAD MAYBE I CAN EDIT IN A REACH AROUND STRATEGY," her brother freaked out causing her a lazy smile as she placed her hand on his shoulder with him turning to her expecting warm words to ease the tides of panic.
"Bro you already submitted your deck rules state it's too late to change anything," with those words alone her brother dropped to his knees in defeat. While at first this seemed a bit cruel the irony was Raven knew her brother the most, and there was a reason he had asked her to come. He was at his best in a panic so the best thing for her to do was simply help guide him to his epiphany moment without careening into a wall.
"THIS YEAR'S FIRST-ROUND CHALLENGERS ARE NONE OTHER THAN THE TWO NEWEST POPULAR PICKS JAIME CLOW WITH HIS STALWART COMMANDER DECK, AND WILD CARD KIMI"COOL GIRL" YAGA WITH HER GRAND SLAM DECK WITH ITS WELL-KNOWN LATE GAME RUSH STRATEGY."
"THEY PUT ME UP AGAINST THE WILD CARD AHHHHHHHH," Jaime screamed in terror causing Raven to raise an eyebrow remembering her brother talking about this girl a few times when the selection process of the tournament had begun. Apparently if one were to believe the rumors she came swinging into the international scene out of nowhere, and was a strategic force to reckon with.
"Well I mean at least you get to test your defense deck against an aggressive deck like you wanted," Raven pointed out using her pinky to point to the projectors showing his opponent. Jaime sorta froze at the logic there until hilariously he started to nod.
"Ya you know what you're right I got this in the bag I am the unmoveable wall to her unstoppable force all I gotta do is drain her resources to the brink of lethargy," he spoke finally getting up and starting to even jump in place as if getting pumped up for a big workout.
"Ya this is your dojo bro go out swinging or don't go out at all," she smiled humoring at her brother's swift switch nature as she opened the door with him bellowing out a battle cry.
"THEY WILL REMEMBER THE NAME."
"WOOOO GO JAIME," Raven spoke finally showing some upbeat emotion as her brother went running out towards the competition battle table shaking her head at his boundless energy once he got his mind set on something. Digimon was his thing his bread and butter and though many were confused about a hobby turned into a lifestyle there were few more passionate about it than her brother. Also, it was just nice to have a single thought as to what Christmas and birthday presents for one person were to be too. As she let go of the door to take a seat at VIP seat to watch her brother match there was suddenly... silence.
Raven paused and turned around the straw of her drink finally leaving her mouth at the sight of her brother frozen in place as the whole stadium everything in her sight suddenly was without natural color and dwindled into an unnatural black, and white setting other than herself. She was about to rush to her brother went the computer in the room suddenly unleashed an unbearable scratching sound causing her to drop her drink and take a few steps back away from the noise. As she looked up from the pain the computer screen produced nothing but static as what appeared to be floating veils of cloth made of blue abysmally dark blue started to exit the screen floating out in droves and blocking the door splitting her away from her brother.
"I... Just... Want... To... Feel... That... Warmth... Again..."
Confusion, panic, and sheer overwhelming emotion were now in turn hers to bear as she turned to run away. The static-veiled clothes came alive grabbing all over her body and easily uplifting her with a sudden yank, and scream she was gone along with many other victims as the world returned to its regular color unaware of those it had just lost.
.............................................................................
The wind... the wind rushing past her face Raven's mouth opened a gap as if taking a rough breath of air for the first time in a long time yet as she tried to breathe the overwhelming sense of turbulence set back her senses as she opened her eyes wide quickly realizing she is plummeting wildly through the sky. Letting out a baffled scream as she spun around she noticed many others doing similar out in the distance around her. She wasn't the only one falling, and with every ounce of strength she had she coursed corrected herself stomach down to see below. Wide eyes quickly took in a bizarre sight a vast land mass equivalent to a continent filled with unnatural habitat biomes all mixed against one another with the center being overtaken by a massive mountain from the project of their descent she could conclude they would be dying at the edge of a forest like an area's seaside... not much solace in that was there.
Yet in the descent of it all a mass flurry of colors started to emit from everyone's hand as Raven realized her phone was blitzing out a light green. How she hadn't let go of it in her unconscious state or even at this very moment was a mystery in itself. Yet what only aimed to vex her more was its morph from a flip phone into a touch screen-like device extremely similar but at the moment unidentifiable state. As the device went haywire its screen was flooded with her personal information before accumulating it all into an egg-shaped pixel on her screen yet at the apex of confusion she instead returned her sight to the ground shielding herself and expecting an untimely end before realizing... her momentum was gone.
"Huh," Raven bared cluelessly as she found herself seemingly levitating off the ground just by a mere three feet warbling about for a second as her phone rung out a message.
"Digital Data scan complete Bio-Data collecting now."
Without warning, Raven felt a sharp piercing jab from her phone into her palm as a literal sample of blood was drained from her. The once detailess white egg on the screen started to take form with a prominent green web design with mythical-like red flames underneath before topping off with what was at her best guess a design a beehive mirror design on top. Before she could give weight to her opinion her literal weight returned to her as she smacked straight into the ground groaning a bit in pain at the lose of her flightless ability.
A voice chuckles out in the distance causing her to raise her head up turning towards the ocean now realizing she appeared to be atop of some shrine like alter pillar with a massive staircase leading to land. The altar shrine wasn't anything amazing just rather grey with a somewhat simplistic look as far as altars could go. Off at the edge of it towards the ocean though as a woman casually fishing her clothes made up of what almost appeared to be a cosplay on a sleuthing detective.
With a twist of a smile, she seemed to wave at Raven and everyone else who was now grounded from the fall. Realizing everything she had just experienced all at once Raven shot up looking around and looking for her brother, or any semblance of society to which none existed it seemed there was just the pillar, the forest, and the fishing woman.
"Well look at that right on annual time this year's victims.... oh don't worry I'll give you the tour of hell once you are all done falling in." Her words were at first confusing as the woman laughed again as the pillar started to shake. Something powerful could be felt in the edge of the pillar edge from the ocean stirring hostile waves before eclipsing a silhouette bashing out from the depths. A powerful creature made of metal looked toward all those present with menacing eyes something they would all recognize all too well... a Digimon... a real-life Digimon.
"Welcome to your best and worst nightmare Skyfallers," the woman laughs echoing out into the brand-new world Raven, and the others now found themselves in.
"Chel... be nice to them...," the sea dragon suddenly spoke.
.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Last edited: