Jayr POV - Real World, Earth, Japan, Tokyo - 2001

  I'm stu the ested traffic of the overpoputed district of Shinjuku and all arouhe only thing that I hear are the cars honking and people pining and yelling at each other.

  Despite the fact that I'm actually driving a bike there isn't even enough spae to drive iween, something that makes me sigh as I mutter, "Haa... if there is ohing that it is truly a pain in the in living a "normal life" is without doubt dealing with the traffic caused by the m rush hour."

  While saying that, I also pull out my D-Ark and quickly use one of its most mundane funs, the ohat dispys a clock, ahat it is 7:30 AM making me ent, "It was a lot better when I had to arrive at school very early in the m. But sihe chaos of the first days of school is over, it is no longer required for the teacher to arrive so early in the m, now the homeroom teachers must arrive at 8:15 AM at most. Meanwhile, for teachers who deal with a single subject or are some kind of assistant, they even arrive as te as 9:00 AM and no one will actually care, well, as long as the teacher iio actually have a css before that time..."

  At the same time, I also think back about this st period, 'A few weeks passed sihe day I tried the Card Ssh fun of the D-Ark and had that brief enter with Ruki. The m after, I met with Nikita and Zandeer as usual during our m training, where as it often happens, Agumon started its regur spar with V-mon. Everythi as usual with V-mon gaining an advantage umon thanks to the regur training we do together, until Agumon with Zandeer's help evolved into Greymon. But befreymon could gloat for the obvious advantage over his rival, I and V-mon surprised him with the Armor Evolution. After that, Fdramon and Greymon started their fight once again, and in the end, it was won by Fdramon. After that, I expio Zandeer and Nikita about the Card Ssh fun and told them about how it works and its advantages. Needless to say, after that day they too started to collect the cards of the Digital Monster Card Game.'

  I put the D-Ark ba my pocket as my mind tio wander, 'The period of time was quite peaceful, nothing too out of the ordinary happened. Very few Digimon actually realized into this world, and those who did nearby were quickly taken care of by Ruki and Renamon, while those a little out of reach were dealt with by Nikita, Zandeer, Bluon, and Agumon. But I know that this is simply the calm before the storm, because slowly but surely the arrival of Digimon into this world are being more and more frequent. A clear sign that the events depicted in the anime are about to happen...'

  Suddenly, while I'm thinking that, I sense a small Digital Field quickly opening directly above me, and in response, I quickly look up ahe usual thick fog that surrounds a Digital Field f right in front of a nearby skyscraper.

  But just as quickly as the Digital Field formed, with the same speed it also receded as the thick fog also dispersed, and at the same time, I noticed a small, cute white creature with rge eyes and paratively small limbs floating in the sky.

  Its ears, usually short, are at the momeended as it is using them to fly, and on its forehead bears the Zero Unit, which mas as the gem-like "Crystal Matrix".

  Obviously, that small creature is a Digimon and not any random Digimon, but it is Culumon, the "Catalyst", the physical ination of the "Digi-Entelecheia", otherwise known as the "Light of Evolution".

  (Image Here - Culumon)

  Spoiler

  [colpse]Looking at the small Digimon who is looking at its new surroundings with both curiosity and fear, a smile forms on my face while thinking, 'So Culumohe work and Realized in the Real World... This means that the events of the Digimon Tamers anime are finally starting... the period of calm is now officially over and the storm is about to hit the universe hard.'

  At the same time, I started to weigh the possibility of meeting with Culumon and putting it under my prote, but in the end, I cluded that it is better to simply let it enjoy and experiehe world by itself, and just watch over from the distao make sure that nothing happens to it, not that it needs prote all that much, after all, in the anime Culumon was able to always e up unscratched by all its enters, it even safetely escaped from a Perfect level Digimon and survived multiple enters with the D-Reaper, something I'm pretty sure has something to do with Yggdrasil as the D-Reaper didn't hesitate to delete basically anything else it came in tact with, well, exluding my student Juri who was the vessel it used to reach the Real World.

  Basically, Culumon is too cute to be harmed in any way or capacity, which means that it has the stro plot armor among all the Digimon and Tamers.

  While my mind tio wahe gested traffic start to move again, and I take advantage of the small opening created between the cars to weasel my way through and leave this damraffic behind before I snap and directly teleport to my destination.

  Takato POV - Real World, Earth, Japan, Tokyo - 2001

  I sm the MetalTyranomon card on the board while expining, "With this Option card, Darkranomon evolves to Perfect level as MetalTyranomon!" whistantly makes Kazu pin as he puts his hands on his head as he realizes that he lost this game, "Aw man, that is overkill! I 't believe you pulled it off with that card!"

  Hearing that, I chuckle as I swipe the Option Card on the Card Reader to tally points and the scores, "Heh... I just came up with it." quickly after that, the Card Reder firms my victory as the s indicates 117.3184 points.

  After that, Kazu quickly gathers his cards and pces them in his box before he jumps down from the deck of our hideout, which is basically a blob monster-shaped tower ected to a tail-shaped slide located in the pyground of the park, runs out, and then after a few seds, I hear him yell, "Hey, Takato! What's the hold-up? We're gone!"

  Hearing that, I quickly look out and see him running on the spot in a hurry, I yell back, "Wait up, Hirokazu!"

  After saying that, I fet about my cards for the moment and simply grab them and randomly pce them in my box, but just as I'm about to grab the st handful of cards, the box falls from the deto the ground spilling out its tent.

  Seeing that, I 't help but excim, "Aw, nuts..." but soon, among the cards falling on the ground, I notice a strange blue card among them.

  I quickly jump doick up the blue card, I take a good look at it and mutter, "I don't remember having a card like this..."

  Curious about its effects, I don't hesitate to swipe the card in the Card Reader, but as soon as I swipe the strange blue card, the card releases a strong light that blinds me.

  At the same time, the Card Reader gees some static electricity that lightly shocks me, "Ahhh!" which makes me unsciously y eyes a go of both the card and the Card Reader to cover myself with my arms.

  After a few moments, I open my eyes and ask to no one in particur, "W-What was that?"

  I look down at the Card Reader on the ground ahat it is now releasing some smoke and excim, "I-It broke!" but just as I'm staring at the Card Reader, I remember that if I don't hurry, I'm going to be te for school and yell, "Ah! O-Oh no!"

  I quickly move to gather all the cards and pce them in my box, before hiding the box in the usual spot o Kazu aa and taking my bag, "I'm te!"

  After that, I start to run at full speed while yelling, "Gotta run! Gotta run!"

  But in the end, no matter how fast I ran, I ended up being te and Asanuma-sensei punished me by makiand out of the for the rest of the css.

  After some time, I hear Asanuma-sensei's voice as she asks, "Are you really feeling sorry for being tardy today?" making me instantly reply, "Y-Yes ma'am! I-I've learned my lesson..." as I hear all my cssmates chug at my expenses.

  Then seeing that Asanuma-sensei is fog ba writing on the bckboard, I bring out my notepad from my pocket and sit down on the floor as I start to draw my own inal Digimon, something I've been w on for quite some time while muttering, "He's gotta be red! That's a given color for the stro fighter! His offense power rivals that of Agumon's, the stro of all Child Levels. Except he's even strohan that! His special attack is-"

  But suddenly I hear a familiar female voice that asks, "Is that a Kaiju?"

  I tio focus on the drawing while replying, "W-What are you talking about? This is a Digimon-" but then I suddenly stopped as I realized why the voice was so familiar because that was the voice of Asanuma-sensei.

  Indeed, I soon see her shoes appear in front of me as she says, "Takato-kun... You aren't feeling sorry at all, are you?" making me slowly look up as I try to reply, "N-No... this isn't..." but realizing the futility of ing up with an excuse, I get up and start to bow while saying, "I'm sorry! I'm really sorry!" as my cssmates basically ugh out loud at my plight.

  After that, Asanuma-sensei further punished me by making me write a refle essay after css and not be allowed to leave until I pleted it.

  Because of that, I'm now sitting on my seat with my notebook open looking outside the window as everyone else is leaving school, and iebook I have written only two and a half lines before my mind once again starts to wander back to the incredible Digimon I'm creating.

  Uo hold back, I once again bring out the notepad with all the information aails I was able to write until now and looking at it, I smile and mutter, "His name is Guilmon. A Virus attribute Reptile."

  But all of a sudden, a yellow dog sock puppet with a red mouth, pink ears, bose, and dark brown eyes appears in front of my eyes followed by a loud, "WOOF!"

  This snaps me out of my daydreaming and unsciously makes me yelp, and stand up in attention and say, "I-I'm sorry! I-I'll foy essay, I promise!"

  But soon I hear a girlish ugh and fog on it, I see her, Juri moving toward her desk and searg for something and saying, "O-Oh... it's just you Katou-san..."

  Juri then pulls out something from under her desk and says, "I fot my recorder. Woof!" before she leaves the css, but soon after she is gohe yellow dog sock puppet appears once again from the other side of the door, and as it moves its mouth, I hear Juri's voice as it says, "Woof, woof! Write that refle essay or she will get mad again! Woof!"

  Then I watch as she runs dowairs with a smile on my face while thinking, 'How cute..." but suddenly I hear the voice of a familiar man that says, "Ah, puppy love! How nice... the rite of passage that everyone has to gh... I still fondly remember very well all my childhood crushes..."

  I turn in the dire of the void see a very tall and imposing man with wild dark blue hair and deep green eyes who seems able to lht in your soul, dressed in a servative and businesslike white shirt with a light grey suit and piie, light grey, well-pressed, pants, a dark brow with a normal buckle, and a pair of brown shoes as he walks in the with a smile on his face.

  He is our new English Teacher Pucci-sensei, I admit that at first, I was a little scared of him, after all, I had never seen someone so huge in my life, I almost thought that he was some kind of humanoid Digimon like Leomon, but soon he revealed himself to be a quite fun and easy-going Teacher, all his csses are always fun and iing, so much that it became the favorite any of my cssmates, in fact, many girls in my css seems to like him a lot, he eveo be very well-liked by the other teachers too.

  Looking at the teacher as he walks into the , I quickly greet him and ask, "P-Pucci-sensei! W-Why are you here...?"

  In response, Pucci-sensei leans his body against the wall and replies, "Well, I heard about your punishment from Asanuma-sensei but since she was too busy grading your css homework, I decided to give her a hand and watch over you in her pce. So focus on your essay now... after all, the sooner you finish this the sooner you leave."

  Hearing that, I 't help but nod and say, "Yes, Pucci-sensei!" then I fully focus on pleting the refle essay in front of me.

  After pleting the refle essay and receiving permission from Pucci-sensei, I said goodbye to the teacher and rushed out of the school toward the park he school to finally check what happeo my Card Reader.

  On my way there, the weather quickly started to ge as very strong winds started to rise, and dark clouds started to cover the sky, a clear sign that a storm was about to e.

  Realizing that, I run even faster as I want to return home before it starts raining and soon I arrive in the pyground of the park but instantly notiething strange as some static electricity be seen running over the ground and the other surfaces.

  Worried, I don't hesitate to rush toward the blob monster-shaped tower ected to a tail-shaped slide, the pce where Hirokazu, Kenta, and I usually hide the boxes taining our cards and where we py ames before or after school, and once I climb up the upper deck where our boxes are located, I notice that my box is shining while surrounded by straatic electricity.

  Curious, I quickly grab my box and start to shake it, but the vigorous movement forcefully opens the box as the cover remains in my hands while the body falls on the ground spilling the tent and making me excim, "Ah!"

  At the same time, among all the cards that spilled on the ground, I notice a particur object among them that is covered in bright white light for a moment before it reveals itself to be a retively bulky, hand-sized device, its shell is fully white, while the decoration and the buttons are red.

  I lean forward to take a closer look at it while muttering, "What... is this?" then I slowly move my hand toward the object, timidly toug it to ehat it is safe, and once I see that nothing strange happened with my touch, I don't hesitate any more and quickly grab it.

  I quickly bring the strange device closer to me to take a closer look at it, and the more I look at it, the stronger my suspis about this strange device get, "T-This is... Did my Card Reader turn into this?"

  Then I randomly push the buttons, but all I see on the dispy is always the same message, "... "No Data"... huh..."

  At this point, I notice that the sun is going down, so, I quickly pce everything bato the box before running bae while taking the box with me.

  As soon as I arrive in front of my family shop, the Matsuda Bakery, I notie of our usual ers walking out of the door and hear my mom's voice as she says, "Thank you for ing!" and I run past her, I also politely say, "Thanks!" making the woman cheerfully greet me back, "Hi, Takato-!" as I run toward the batrance of the shop.

  Onside, I see my dad w on the dough and greet him, "I'm home!" I run past my dad and rush toward the stairs that lead to the upper floor of our home, I stop and start to remove my shoes while quickly saying, "School was a lot of fun today!"

  After saying that, I rush up the stairs, but at the same time, I hear Mom yell, "Hey, Takato!"

  But at this point, I'm already in my room, and ohere, I quickly throw my backpay desk and focus on the box in my hands which I quickly open and pour its tents on the ground.

  I start to quickly look through all my cards, but after a few minutes, I only clude that the thing I was searg for isn't there and mutter, "I-It's gone... That Blue card... from before..."

  At the same time, I look at the devi the ground that spilled from the box together with the cards and 't help but feel incredibly excited and happy as my theory seems to get more and more true, so much so that I excim, "I k! Because of that Blue card, this thing ged shape!"

  I once again grab the strange devid with a heart full of hope I 't help myself from voig out my most hopeful suspi, "Maybe... this could have..." but I get distracted by the loud sound of thunder from the outside that makes me take a look at the window just in time to see some lighting falling as a heavy rain starts to fall from the sky.

  Then I once again focus ba the devi my hand and say what I was going to say before, "Maybe this could have turned into a real Digivice."

  At this point, I pull out my notepad with Guilmon's drawing and all the other relevant information and mutter, "If so..." then I don't hesitate to swipe the notepad in the slot on its right-hand side of the Digivice, but just as I start to swipe the notepad something happens, "Huh?"

  The notepad doesn't move anymore, no matter how hard I try, and I immediately realize what is going on, "A-Aw, it's stuck..."

  Before I try to unblock the notepad, I hear Mom's voice as she yells, "Takato, take your bath first!" making me reply with "Okay!"

  I quickly pce the Digivice with the stuotepad on the desk and walk out of my room to take my bath, but just as I open the door, I hear a strange ser-like sound followed by that of the thunder and unsciously look back.

  What I see is the pages of my notepad being swiped o a time by the Digivi their own, a truly bizarre sight that makes me excim, "What the...?"

  Soon all the pages of the notepad were swiped.

  I didn't hesitate to walk bay desk to see if something ged, and indeed, something did ge as the Digivice started to beep.

  I notice that now there is the image of a pulsing egg on the dispy, and seeing that I 't help but hopefully question, "A Digitama?"

  Then a big smile forms on my face as all my hopes and dreams are ing true, I pick up the Digivid while looking at it I mutter, "Something... Something is going to hatch!"

  Jayr POV - Real World, Earth, Japan, Tokyo - 2001

  I'm standing outside of Takato's house uhis torrential heavy rain looking at him as he stares at his D-Ark with a big smile on his fabsp;

  At the same time, I 't help but also feel a smile f on my face, especially since I somewhat uand what he is going through at the moment as I shared some simir ses when I received my D-Ark and Digitama.

  As I tio look at him, I also 't help but ent out loud just to give an increased sense of pathos, "And so... Guilmon is finally born. This is the start of a quick series of events that will shape and decide the fate of this Universe..."

  After saying that I sigh and ent, "Okay maybe this is ying it a little too thick but without a deep narrator voice su iic se seems a little empty and even a little creepy... after all... I'm standing in front of a 10-year-old kid home watg him through his window... even just saying that makes me feel like a torrent of FBI memes is about to pour down on me..."

  After firming that everything is more or less as I remember, I quickly teleport bae, and after araining session with V-mon, Patamon, and Wormmon, I go to sleep to rest for the ing days which will surely bee a lot more busy.

  The following day starts as usual, I get up early, train with my Digimon, take a shower, send V-mon, Wormmon, and Patamon in my Soulbouory, drive my bike to school, and teach my csses while remaining at school until early afternoon.

  After school, I follow Takato and his friends, Hirokazu aa, from the distance as they go into their hideout and start to py with the Digital Monster Card Gamer, at the same time, I hear Takato expining what he saw yesterday night in his dream, "I actually saw them! Really! Trust me on this okay? There really were Digimon fighting in that fog! Real ohey were really-"

  But soon Hirokazu interrupts him by pg his hand over Takato's mouth and says, "As if, Takato. You were in bed when you woke up, weren't you?" followed by Kazu who says, "That's right, you even said so."

  Takato removes Hirokazu's hand and decres, "It wasn't a dream! I could feel it! I did... I evehe cold, falling rain..." which makes Hirokazu snort and snicker before he says, "Takato, don't tell me... at ye..."

  Kenta also starts to snicker as he adds, "No way! Did you wet the bed?!" making an embarrassed Takato yell, "I-I did not! What the heck!? Where did that e from!?"

  Soon after that, Hirokazu runs out while replying to Takato's previous question, "Because you were talking about a little kiddy dream!" followed by Kenta who yells, "Takato wet the bed!"

  At the same time hearing that, I 't help but sigh and ent, "What a cssic way to make fun of your friends..."

  While saying that, I tio keep my serained on Takato as he remains iill thinking about yesterday's events, where he ected with Guilmon for the first time and was able to witness Ruki and Renamon's battle.

  Then I hear Takato mutter, "It.. couldn't have been a dream. That was a Tamer. That was... a Digimon Tamer. And this is proof that I'm a Tamer, too... Eh!?"

  Suddenly what I was waiting for happens as Takato looks at his D-Ark and ents, "The Digitama hatched. The Digitama... D-Does this mean something was born? Then where did it go? W-What is... this? This is... It's pointing toward something."

  After a few seds, Takato also es out with the D-Ark wound around his neck as he is using it to locate his Digimon Partner's position, thearts to run and I calmly follow after him to ensure his safety.

  As I follow Takato, I also sehe opening of a Digital Field, in fact, this particur opening also actually be seen as it releases a pilr of bluish light but no one else seems to care about it, most likely because it only be perceived by Tamers and those with the potential of being one.

  Takato moves through many small passages and narrow streets until he reaches his destination, a stru site, only this time, it isn't a building, but a stru site dedicated to the undergrouricity infrastructure of the city.

  Seeing that, I 't help but question, "What's up with Digimon and stru site!? This is already 6th ohis month! Why do they like to realize in such pces so much?"

  At the same time, the Digimon that Takato was chasing, finally realizes that the Digital Field fully develops followed by the usual thick fog, and soon, I smile as I see the figure of the Digimon that looks extremely familiar and say, "Good, it is indeed Guilmon."

  Odyin