Hello. My name is Oz Takaishi, and as my name implies I am related to Takeru Takaishi and his older brother Yamato Ishida. I am their cousin actually. To be honest, I don’t really remember too much about it. I am fourteen years old and a Male. My dominant trait I can only describe as Sanguinity. That means of or relating to blood as well as cheerfully optimistic, confident or hopefulIt was ten years ago now I think. Yeah, that’s about right. This is my earliest memory I have. I was four years old at the time. I remember there was a woman there with a bright smile, and I remember her calling out that I shouldn’t wander off. Then there was a strange feeling and the whole world around me changed. It was like there was no more colour around me, none at all. Then something caught my eye, a flash of blue as a fishy looking woman stood up. Then I noticed the girl that was right in front of her, and the fact that it looked like the blue woman was attacking her. I didn’t know the girl, but I knew that it wasn’t right, so I ran forward to protect her. I think I shouted something, but I don’t remember what it was. I got there just in time, protecting her with my body. I remember it hurt a lot when all those needles went into me, but then everything else was just blackness.
When I woke up I was looking into the face of that same girl as before. She was sleeping right next to me, but I actually knew her name this time. She was Sin, and she was my friend. I guess everything before that was just a nightmare because it seems so blurry now. There was a woman there too, I knew her when I saw her. That woman with short silver hair and yellow eyes, she was our aunt, Ameri. The two of us grew up together in that place with our aunt taking care of us. We were orphans, but we always had each other.
We played, ate, slept, did everything a normal family would do together. Then one day, the year we would both have turned eight our aunt came to us on the beach with a gift for each of us. They were eggs. I remember being told that this egg, the creature inside, was going to be my partner. If I took good care of it then it would become a powerful ally to me one day. I was so excited, and curious about what would come out of the egg. Before too long it hatched and I got a brand new friend in Conomon.
We got to stay together like that for a few weeks, but then the strange things started happening. I don’t remember much about it, but I do remember having a horrible headache and the feeling like I had just lost something very important. I don’t know why I had that feeling, everything I knew, Sin, Conomon, auntie, they were all just fine. I didn’t tell anyone else what I had felt, but I’m told I did nothing but mope around for over a week, and even when I broke out of it I was never quite the same. I will admit though, that I worry about what would happen if I did lose any of my precious ones, just what I might do. Only when I am alone will I let these sorrowful feelings show. I do not wish to burden my friends with them.Over time Conomon grew and eventually became Kokomon and then Lopmon, which is the form she uses all the time now. We learned to fight after that. Spirits of Digimon were coming into our world and trying to disrupt it. We had to protect out home, and that is what we did. I learned how to make Lopmon evolve into Turuiemon, her adult form, so we could defend ourselves better. There was a while where something really strange was happening to Sin, and I felt like she wasn’t all there. All her fire was gone. I was really scared and I did everything I could to bring her back to herself, but nothing worked.
I had worked myself into such a rhythm of fighting the restless spirits over the past few months, I was totally caught off guard when a huge circle opened in front of us dropping out what looked like a freaky clown. I knew there was something different about this guy from all the spirits we had fought before. Those never appeared through giant glowing gates for starters, and second, he looked really bright against the muted colour of our home. Still, if this guy had the same intentions then he was our enemy.
Our partners fought hard, but they were completely useless. Suddenly though, something was happening with Sin’s partner. There was light, and fire, and then I realized she had evolved. AeroV-dramon was pretty amazing, but what really excited me was that my best friend had her passion back. A moment later I noticed that Turuiemon was being attacked. One of the knives grazed his thigh and I suddenly felt pain in the same place like I had been the one hit. I don’t know why that happened, it never did before, but then my partner started glowing as well. Turning my full attention to her I noticed that there was a design drawing itself into the surface of the water where she was standing with her hand over the cut. To me it looked like a chalice with mist rising from it. I didn’t get long to look at it before the water began to churn and spin around Turuiemon creating a ball that rose above the surface of the ocean. I could see the light from my partner’s body grow and change and when the orb broke apart in a rain of liquid she had become her perfect level, Antiramon. After that, I wouldn’t say the battle was easy, but we did manage to gain the upper hand and win in the end.The next few years were pretty peaceful after that. We did still have spirit Digimon to face now and then, but for the most part it was pretty good. I do remember the feeling of something pulling at my chest, a little like the feeling I got shortly after Lopmon hatched, but not as powerful. I was more worried about Tsumi. I had only just gotten her back and now she wasn’t acting like herself again. I tried so many times to cheer her up, but nothing seemed to work. Finally, one day, it was like she just snapped out of it. I don’t know if it was something I did, but I don’t think it is. At the same time the pulling feeling I’d had all that time faded away as well.
After that things went back into a routine for the next few weeks. There was an increasing number of spirits for us to face but we kept up well. Then one day we came across a human girl. I had spotted a human in our world before, a long time ago, but after I told Aunt Ameri about it she said we shouldn’t let the human children see us. I remembered this and made sure Sin didn’t get close. It seemed like she wanted to though, and when Airdramon struck it was all I could do to keep her from fighting him with the girl around. Then I saw our chance, she was reaching out for her friends and I thought we could use that. It was difficult but we used our combined power, Sin and I, to allow that call to get through to the human world and bring her friends to where we were. We’d had to hide quickly after that or the boy would have spotted us.
Nothing strange happened for a while. Well, Sin did say that I was acting strange a lot of times and that I was scaring her, but I have no idea what she was talking about. Then one day we were out exploring when we ran into the same two from before with a bunch of other kids. They couldn’t see us at the time which Sin seemed really upset about. They all split up and Sin decided to follow the two girls, and I followed Sin to make sure she didn’t pull anything this time around. She didn’t do anything, but after they found that other boy they somehow got into our world all on their own. The boy seemed familiar, but I can’t remember why. Trying to figure it out I missed it when Sin disappeared. I really hoped she wasn’t going to do something to get us in trouble.I watched them for a while, right up until the girl with a Hawkmon tried to climb down into a canyon and ended up falling into it, pulling the other girl with her too. I wondered if they were okay, but I was too afraid of being seen by the boy to come out of my hiding place. I don’t know what happened, but soon the girls’ digimon came back out of the hole and told the boy that the girls were okay but needed help to get back up. I figured it was about time they got back to their world, but I didn’t know where Sin was and I couldn’t do it just by myself. Maybe if I got them to the ocean it would be easier, but how could I show them there? I couldn’t let them see me and it was so far away.
I almost stumbled with the force it hit me. I could use the curtains we used to transport long distances. How could I forget that!? Ever since we had opened those portals to bring the kids in we had been practicing with that ability and learning to use it for normal things like getting around. We never did connect to another world again though. It was hard, but I set it up so they would be able to hear the waves through the curtain and hopefully follow them. Only the pretty brunette seemed to hear it, but that was enough because the others followed her.
Something was weird though. One of the girls seemed like she couldn’t see the ocean. Was that normal for these people that they couldn’t see it? Because they weren’t like me? I watched her yell about how she wanted to see the ocean, and I wanted her to see it too, and then she said she did. I was ready to try and open a passage to take them back where they came from, but something else did it for me. I was watching the battle when the two girls did something really cool. I’ve never seen digimon combine together like that before. I wonder if Lopmon and V-mon could do that too.
After they beat Blossomon and left, nothing really big happened for a while. Then one day there was suddenly a tear across the sky above us and a cloaked man with wings appeared through it. He was pretty surprised to see us there, even saying so and that there wasn’t supposed to be any brats like us in the Dark Ocean. This guy was a lot stronger then Piedmon. He said he was called Daemon. Our partners fought hard, but even Antiramon and AeroV-dramon were no match. It was even harder because every time they got hit, we felt the same pain. It was like that ever since the first time when Turuiemon got cut by the damn clown.Both of our partners were down when he started laughing at us. He said that he understood why we were there. He said that we weren’t digimon, and we weren’t Humans. We didn’t belong anywhere else. I asked him what he meant. I had always considered myself a human because I was obviously not a digimon so what else could I be? Well, that wasn’t good enough for him, no. He said that I couldn’t be human because humans were only born from the human world, just like Digimon could only come from the Digital World. He said that I wasn’t anything more than a shell of a creature that had nowhere to belong except in the shadows of an incomplete existence.
When he finally went on to say I wasn’t anything, I was nobody, I think I snapped. It’s foggy, but I could only see red. A deep, vivid, blood red. I didn’t like this jerk putting me down like he was and saying I was nothing. I wanted him gone before another word could escape his mouth. And just like that, it was like my wish was coming true. Antiramon was getting to her feet when my hand clutched my chest which felt like it was burning. A black version of my symbol which had been branded over my heart since that first time Turuiemon evolved appeared in front of me and the same thing was also on Antiramon’s forehead. The black light came out from that spot and wrapped around her, and when she broke free from it she had become the ultimate level Cherubimon.After that I can’t remember anything except that I wanted that digimon gone so badly. I can’t even remember how the fight ended. I just remember waking up and being laid out in a strange looking place filled with toys. For some reason the colours made me smile. I pushed myself into a sitting position, only to feel something hit my lap and make an annoyed squeaking noise. I was only a little surprised to see that it was Conomon. After apologies I looked around and I saw Sin along with Chicomon. Something seemed strange about my friend, but not in a bad way. She just seemed so serene when she was looking after what looked like other baby digimon.
I jumped as a voice spoke up behind me. A red digimon, kinda like a rabbit but nothing like Lopmon was looking at me and telling me he was happy that I was awake. He told me that I was in Primary Village and I had been out cold for just over three weeks. I wondered what could have hit me so hard. Then I remembered fighting Daemon. Why couldn’t I remember much past our partners getting knocked to the ground? Refusing to think about that I only let myself have fun playing with and looking after the babies with Sin and we decided to leave the next morning. Sin was too excited about exploring this world we had never seen before to wait any longer, and I have to admit that I was really curious about it too.
I had fun travelling with Sin for the next two years while she looked for her answers. Where she was busy learning about the pretty brunette we had met before I was finding about the digimon and the world itself. I remember finding a strange egg with that same symbol I saw when Turuiemon evolved, and when we got into a battle that she just wasn’t strong enough to win. Then I used the egg and she evolved in a way I had never seen before, B-ramon. While we travelled through the next two years, I did my best not to think too much about what Elecmon had told me, about how Sin had been injured. A human shouldn’t be able to take a blow through the heart like that and still survive, and that just made me believe even more that Daemon was right. So, if I’m not a digimon, and I’m not human like I always thought, then what am I? Am I even meant to exist?
