With advancement technology and science not mention the existence of internet led to the creation of a place where mysterious creatures were born and could live - the digital world. The creatures that live in the digital world are known as the digimon. Naturally like in the human world, there are good and evil digimon. In order to keep the evil digimon at bay, chosen children from the human world were partnered with good digimon to fight the evil. Eventually, these chosen children came to be known as 'Tamers.'

However, the evil cannot be vanquished so easily. Five years after the defeat of the D-reaper, another storm seemed to be brewing in the Digital World. In the darkest part of certain island, four digimon gathered. The cave of their rendezvous point consisted of four pillars with inscriptions on them. They seemed to be acting as a seal to contain something trapped in a black cell. In front of the cell was a table on which was a slot containing a pitch black D-Arc. On the next slot were black and silver cards with the symbol of an eye.

"The most powerful digimon lays trapped here like a little bird," said one of them. "Quite a sight I must say. We must find a way to release him."

"But to release him, we need the strength and power of a Tamer," said another. "How are we to hand-pick the one?"

"Fear not, we already know the chosen one. That child will be the one to release our lord and become his strength."

"Nonsense! Why should we have a tamer to take of us? We can become strong on our own!"

"Then tell me why have we failed so far? Why have we failed to taint the world in darkness?"

The shadow cloaked digimon remained silent. The other continued. "Before we go after the tamer, there is something we must do. We require a certain 'data' in order for our lord to wake up. And we the four dark lords will retrieve it no matter what. " With that the four dissipated into the darkness.

In West Shinjuku, a young brown haired tamer was busy helping his parents at the bakery. He was in bright spirits for their shop was very busy seeing as the Christmas was around the corner. He had just pulled out a Guilmon bread from the oven when he heard the thumping of a tail.

"Mmmmm...It smells good. When can we eat, Takato?" asked Guilmon, the red dinosaur and his digimon partner.

"You'll have to wait till the others get here, Guilmon. Don't worry, it won't be long." Just as he said those words, there was knock on the backdoor. Takato opened and before him stood all his friends with their digimon.

"Hey, Takato," said a red haired girl. "Hope we aren't late."

"Of course not, Jeri," said Takato with a blush. "You're all just in time."

"Hey, gogglehead, are you going to let us in or what?" asked the fiery haired girl with a smirk. Takato sweatdropped and let the troop in.

"Head on to my room on the second floor. It's the first one on the right. I'll join you guys in a few minutes." The group quickly made their way into Takato's room where they made themselves comfortable. Guilmon went along with them. The green rabbit digimon bounced from his blue-haired partner's head and landed on Guilmon's. "Momentai! Guilmon give me a ride," demanded Terriermon.

"Terriermon, you've been having a free ride on my shoulder all this time," said Henry.

"Momentai! So what?"

"He probably means you need exercise or you'll get fat, lil' rabbit," said Rika.

"Oh really?"

"Culumon wants to ride on Guilmon as well, culu!" cried the little happy-go-lucky digimon.

"Sure, sure, join the bandwagon. Guilmon will have probably digivolve to Locomon at this rate," said Rika.

"My, my princess. You're on fire today," teased the cerulean eyed boy. "Did something good happen?"

"Oh, shut up, Ryo. You're still as annoying as ever," snapped Rika.

"Now, now, you two don't fight," said Jeri.

"Yeah," said Kazu. "You'll still lose to Ryo."

"Yeah, lose to Ryo," repeated Guardromon, his machine digimon partner.

"Kazu..." warned Kenta, best friend.

"Say that when you beat me, dumb-head," snapped Rika. Renamon who was standing quietly placed her paw on Rika's shoulder and shook her head. Rika hmphed but let the matter drop. Kazu, on the other hand, looked like he would say something but was stopped by Kenta clamping his mouth. At that moment, Takato walked in with a large tray filled with various types of digimon bread, juice and a Christmas cake.

He placed the tray on the centre table. "It's a little early but Merry Christmas everyone!" he greeted.

"Merry Christmas!" yelled the others. Together, the 7 children cut the cake and helped themselves to generous portions of it along with their digimon.

"This cake is yummy! I want seconds!" said Monodramon.
"Hey, hey you can't be a glutton Monodramon,"chided his partner. "The cake is for every-" Before he could finish, Monodramon made a beeline for the cake. Seeing him, Guilmon, Calumon and Terriermon ran as well with Guardromon joining them thinking it was a game. As the tamers tried to restrain their respective partners and Jeri trying to catch Calumon, the cake toppled from the table due to the tug O' war and fell on the fiery haired girl who happened to have been sitting nearby. All there was silence as everyone feared the wrath of the Digimon Queen.

Rika stood up, caked with red velvet icing all over her face and dress, with her arms clenched against her sides. The others waited with abated breath for her verdict. Veins could be seen popping from her head as she trembled in anger. All those who saw the dark aura radiating from her, paled instantly. All except for one digimon who did not seem to read the mood. The little white digimon happily jumped on Rika and dared to lick a bit of the icing off her.

"So sweet, culu!" cried Calumon happily. Rika stood motionless, fixing her stare at the carefree digimon.

"M-Momentai...It was nice knowing you Calumon..." prayed Terriermon with folded hands.

"R-Rika?" stuttered Takato. 'Oh boy... As if the cake falling on her wasn't so bad... Poor Calumon..."

As taking this as a cue, Ryo went beside the fiery haired girl and scooped some of the cake from her. Then he proceeded to lick his fingers clean.

"Wow, Rika. Who knew you were so sweet?" he said non-chalantly. "Maybe I should have another taste of you, to make su-"

"DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT, RYO!" yelled Rika. Her booming voice knocked Calumon, who bounced off the floor into Guilmon's hands. And then Rika truly exploded.

"LOOK AT THIS! WHY CAN'T YOU GUYS BE MORE CAREFUL! UGH, THESE VELVETY STAINS PROBABLY WON'T GO OFF! AND THIS WAS MY FAVOURITE T-SHIRT TOO!"she ranted. Ryo continued to smirk at her.

"Well, I think this new do suits you quite well, princess," he said, bursting into laughter.

"STOP SMIRKING RYO AKIYAMA,OR ELSE I'LL WIPE IT OFF FOR YOU!"

Just as she was about to launch herself at him, Renamon held her back.

"LET ME GO! LET ME AT HIM, RENAMON!" cried Rika, thrashing against her partner to break free.

"Calm down, Rika. You're causing a scene," said Renamon.

"I DON'T CARE! I'M GONNA KILL HIM!"

Henry and Jeri acted quickly to control the situation. The others were too petrified to even move. "What happened to forget and forgive?" muttered Takato, before helping Jeri get a towel. Henry calmed Rika then gave the fiery haired girl his handkerchief to wipe her face with till Jeri brought the towel. The two girls then left the room with Renamon whilst Henry, Takato and the others clean up the mess.

"Some Christmas party this has been," said Kazu. "Really, you'd think Rika could take a joke for once. But no, she has to throw a tantrum."

"Kazu, please shut up. If Rika hears you, there's no telling what she'll do," warned Kenta.

"Kenta's right. Besides, this is a party. Let's play a game or something to lighten up the mood," suggested Takato.

"Good idea, Takato. Let's have a Digi-card battle!" said Kazu, enthusiastically. "Ryo-man, will you play against me?"

"How about we play something else for once?" said the tanned boy. "Like poker or old maid?"

"Good idea Ryo," said Henry, just as the girls and Renamon returned.

They all decided to play old maid and even the digimon joined in. Guilmon had trouble holding the cards and Takato had a tough time teaching him. Terriermon tried to cheat by looking into Guilmon's cards but Henry caught his ears and chided him. The game was going well and it was finally down to two players - Rika and Henry.

"Who knew Ryo would actually lose at something?" said Kazu, in surprise.

"Hey, I ain't perfect you know," said Ryo.

"Quiet you guys. The game is still going on," shushed Jeri.

Rika stared intently at the two cards that Henry held. The blue-haired boy kept pleasant but poker face. The violet eyes girl struggled to decipher the which the right card could be and kept swinging her hand back and forth between the two cards. Realizing the she wouldn't get anything out Henry, she went ahead and chose the card on the left. Henry smiled. Sure that she had lost, Rika flipped the card. It was the Queen of Spades.

She looked up at Henry in surprise, just as he revealed the Joker. "I won!" she cried in joy. "That was a good game!"

"Congratulations, Rika," said Henry. The tamers chit-chatted. recounting the various battles with the Devas and the D-reaper before calling it a night. Takato escorted Jeri and Calumon to the train station, Kazu and Kenta headed their own way with their respective digimons while Ryo, Rika and Henry and the rest of the digimons headed towards Rika's home.

"So, you're staying at Henry's place, Ryo?" asked Rika.

"Yup. Why, do you want me to stay at you're place, Rika?" he asked, arms folded behind his head.

"In your dreams," retorted Rika. "Good luck keeping him, Henry."

"Yeah, yeah," said Henry. "We'll be going this way. You sure you don't want us to escort you home, Rika?"

"I'm sure. Renamon's with me."

"Ok. But do message us when you reach, ok?"

"I will. See ya guys."

"See ya, Rika."

"Goodnight, Pumpkin," said Ryo. Rika rolled her eyes but smiled nonetheless. "Good night Ryo, Henry."

As she walking, Renamon materialized beside her. The two walked in silence watching the snow fall in the starry night. "The snowflakes are beautiful , aren't they Renamon?" said Rika, when a very pretty flake landed on her glove.

"It is indeed," answered Renamon almost in a whisper.

"Merry Christmas, Renamon."

"Merry Christmas Rika."

They turned into a corner near her home when an icy blast sent a chill down Rika's spine. She stopped and turned back to see if anything or anyone was around. But there was no one.

"What's wrong Rika?" asked her partner concerned.
"I-It's nothing. Let's hurry up and get home." Rika pulled her jacket closer, the wind around feeling colder than usual. From a distance, a eerie shadow observed the two before disappearing into the darkness.

Author's Notes (A/N)

This is the first chapter, I hope you liked it. I'm planning to make this more of an adventure with just a little romance here and there.

Also, I will be using the English version of the characters names for Digimon Tamers but the main story will based on the original Japanese version. Also, since I plan to have the adventure characters as well, their names will be as per the original Japanese version.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Digimon series nor its characters.