Buried with snow
An invitation to the Digital World Championship 2012 arrived about two months ago. We knew that there are other Digimon Tamers out there in this world but we were surprised about the amount. Once we accepted the challenge we got more and more information about other tamers and their partner. Even well-known people and friends suddenly reviled themselves to the group of challengers.
And now my Digimon partner and I are right in front of another big competition!
But you probably want to know who we are. My name is Sato Ryo and originally my family is from Komoro, Nagano and I was born there 19th of January 1996. In 2001 when I was just five years old we moved to the big city Tokyo. Better jobs for both of my parents were the reason for them to leave the mountains.
Four years later we had a nice new life build up. My parents were mostly out of the house working but at weekends we always had fun together. It was normal for me to be alone during the day and I could look after myself pretty well.
Ironically on a nice, warm and sunny evening in early spring my parents told me that had to talk to me. They reviled that they were not my real parents, that I was adopted when I was just a baby. A small world in me crashed of course but after a few months I could catch myself again and started to life my live a little more normal again but with a light distance to my adoptive parents.
When I was 12 I left home to go to a different school at another part of Tokyo where I also had a small apartment (just a one room one) for myself. Not much kept me at the place I called home and the people I called my parents anymore. Thinking back I would say that it was more likely a little stubborn. But I don't regret my decisions I made. Thankfully I didn't have a too hard live, I of course worked and earned enough money to pay the rent but my foster parents kept sending me money because they still regretted not telling me earlier and also because they loved me like their own child.
I became famous at school for being a quite good drummer and musician in general. Other than that I was not bad at school but also not good. Whatever else I tried I could do on a nice average level.
Another cold day started. Slowly the snow crystals in front of my window started to glitter again. It looked like there were a lot more than I remembered seeing the night before.
My school made a weekly trip to the mountains in late January. I just turned 14 the day before we went there. Tomorrow we would leave again, making this the last day. Because of that we had a free day, doing whatever we wanted. And I wanted to go on the top of the mountain again and ski down as many times as possible. I love skiing and I love the snow and ice in general.
Stepping out of the vacation house we could see that there was really a LOT more snow now. And even though the sun was shining, there were still many clouds around. It would surely snow again during the day which it also did in the afternoon.
I already drove down the mountain three times in the morning. After a nice lunch I went up the mountain again for another round. The snowfall increased even more while I was riding up the mountain again. A voice out of the speaker in the gondola told that they would soon turn the cable car off because of too much snow being too dangerous. So I reached the top for my final downhill knowing that another round would not be possible. I plugged the headphones with some nice music back in my ears and freely drove down enjoying the snowfall and the great atmosphere.
At about one third down the track I suddenly noticed that people stopped on the slope and looked up the mountain. I stopped too and looked into the direction the others did. An avalanche got triggered next to the top station of the cable car and the slope where the snow was not worked. Considering the terrain of the mountain, the avalanche would run down the hill where there was no slope so no person should be harmed. It was an interesting thing to watch. But I turned my head to look down the hill where I imagined the avalanche could possibly run thought. It was hard to see thought all the snowfall but luckily my ski-glasses made me see quite far. I went closer to the border of the slope slowly hearing the deep sound of the avalanche getting closer but still looking down the hill to be sure that the avalanche would pass the slopes. I just wanted to turn away to a saver distance again when I did notice something moving! A little more than 500 meter away I noticed a blue and white thing moving around. Back then I was not sure what it was. It could've been a kid, a snow rabbit or any other animal.
I was frozen in place. That thing down there would die if no one saved it. It was just one or two seconds but it felt like minutes and hours. No one around me seemed to see it because they all already went back to a saver distance. Should I ski down to the moving creature? Risk my live to save it? Would I even reach it in time and then get out of the way too? The longer I waited the more likely I would fail...
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Tasukete - Help
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I heard a voice in my head. Even though the avalanche was getting louder and louder and the music I had still plugged in my ears was still playing I heard a voice calling me to help. It brought me back into reality and I gave a strong push with my sticks. Even though it seemed impossible that the creature could've called for help, I knew it came from that direction. The distance between me and the moving thing became shorter and I slowly could make out its silhouette. It surly looked like a rabbit, but a really big one. Its ears were strangely shaped with big hands with three fingers at the end. On the back of each of the ears were two blue triangles and also the hand shaped tips were blue. The snout looked like the one of a rabbit just shorter. Also the ends of its arms and legs were blue as well as a part around its neck. Most strange thing however, it ran on two legs like a kid! Its small black feet managed to not sink too deep into the light snow but moving seemed hard for it with its short legs and the fresh snow.
The avalanche seemed to be really close already. I did not turn around to look but I could feel a slight trembling underneath my skis.
"Grab my hand!" I shouted at the creature, not knowing if it could understand me. But it did turn its head around in my direction and spread out its right arm. I could grab the small hand which seemed to be just like the one of a kid, with four fingers and a thumb, just that it was all black. I pulled it as close to me as possible in front of my chest.
"Watch out!" said the voice in my head again. But there was no time. The avalanche had reached us already. To my right and my left I could only see a wall of moving snow. Also in front of me I could now see a cloud of snow. Slowly a shadow spread itself over us. I wrapped my arms tighter around the creature, not hearing anything else anymore than the loud growling of the avalanche. I closed my eyes and ducked down.
The avalanche hit me with a brutal force, first from behind, then the sides and the top. We got spun around like a branch in a hurricane. My skis and sticks got ripped me in no time but always giving me a tiny bolt of pain when the joints turned itself in directions they shouldn't. I clamped around the creature, trying to at least save it even though I knew it would be impossible. The pressure built up from all sites, I knew the avalanche was now slowly starting to stop. I lost orientation and didn't know where top or bottom was anymore. The cold now imprisoned us and it felt like thousands of small stings on the skin.
Then suddenly the pressure around me started to loosen up, the sound of the still slightly shifting snow got louder again. First I thought that another avalanche would have been triggered and that we would be brought down even more. But something suddenly seemed to glow in front of me. I opened the eyes slowly to just get glared by a bright light. With my ski-glasses and even the ski-helmet being ripped of my head I needed a few seconds to get used to the light which seemed to glow right at the chest of the creature which I still pressed at mine. I lightened the grip a little, looking down at the creatures face. It lifted up his head, smiled at me and spoke "Finally I've found you". I was so glad it was still alive that I did not feel fear nor was I surprised about the fact that it really just talked to me.
The light spread out, through our bodies and around us like a protecting bubble. The sound of the snow felt silent as soon as my ears got covered by the light and I could not feel any of the pressure on my body anymore. The light bubble slowly rose up and us out of the snow. In just a few seconds we simply slid out of the snow like a beach ball slides out of the water. Outside there was still heavy snowfall so I doubt that any person saw us. The avalanche had taken us more than halfway down the hill too into an unused terrain.
I looked back at the creature which snuggled up at me. "Thank you for saving me" it said but I had to insist "No, thank you" and hugged it tight.
The light bubble started to get smaller again and gathered right in between us. It flowed into my pocked where I had my music player I used to listen music to during the down hills. I took the now glowing device out and held it in my hand. The creature spread out his small hand on top of the shining gadget.
Slowly it changed its form into our D-Power Digivice and the Digimon Terriermon in my arms became my Digimon Partner.