Digimon Tamers: Digital Princess
Chapter 1: It All Begins
Rika Nonaka impatiently waited outside her gate for her friends to arrive. Yamaki had just called for a tamers meeting at Hypnos and they were supposed to pick her up 7 minutes ago. Even though he was too proud to admit that Hypnos and the Tamers had formed an alliance, the Tamers knew that their days of worrying if their partners would be sucked back to the Digital World were gone but just to be sure they attended every single meeting Yamaki called to make sure he didn't go on a rampage again.
It seemed just like yesterday when I told Renamon to cut Guilmon's head off. Who knew Goggle-head's Digimon would actually save everyone from a Parasimon attack? I still can't believe it's been 6 years. She thought, submerging herself in deep thought, thinking about the times in her life where adventure was the only thing that could keep her going. Suddenly, the honk of a horn surprised her, interrupting both her thoughts and peace of mind. She whipped her head around to find out who it was and saw a white van with a big advertisment on the door that said "Matsuda Bakery: Home of Digimon Bread!" that was being driven by her clumsy friend Takato.
"It took you long enough. What did you do? Pass by all the major roads to advertise?" Rika snapped at Takato who was always the victim of Rika's tantrums. Henry and Jeri sighed at the two who had stared bickering again, wondering how these two had gotten through beating the D-Reaper
Henry, being the group's pacifist, was usually the one who stopped these fights using a calm way, but these two had been bickering so often that his head hurt from just hearing their voices. His head was pounding as Rika began screaming her head off.
"ALL RIGHT RIKA WE GET IT. WERE SORRY IF WE WERE LATE BUT YOU SHOULD ACTUALLY BLAME KAZU FOR THIS. GOT IT?" He shouted silencing both Tamers who then turned to the back, double death-glaring Kazu, who began cowering in fear. As soon as both of them had death-glared Kazu enough for him to hide behind a pilllow, Takato sped down Rika's street towards the towering building in the center of Shinjuku, the newly-renovated Hypnos.
"You guys, I wonder why Yamaki called for a meeting.' Kenta chimed in, breaking the silence as Takato swerved through end-of-the-day traffic. He recalled the recent Digimon attacks they've been having, mostly Rookies and Champions but the kind that were hard to beat unless you Digivolved to a higher stage.
"They probably just want to tell us that the Digimon attacks were nothing and we'll all live Happily Ever After." Kazu said, recovering from Rika and Takato's death glares. He looked down at the new Digimon cards he got, finally happy to recieve a Goliath card after years of hunting and searching.
"Weeerrrreeee Heerrrreeee!" Jeri sang as Takato pulled up into the Hypnos parking lot breathing a sigh of relief that everyone had made it in one piece without ripping each other's throats out.
Rika leapt out of the van. It was bad enough that they were late but facing Yamaki's wrath was horrible. She bolted through the lobby the others close behind her. They all managed to slip through the elevator before Rika slammed it shut. Terriermon barely made it through, his ears almost getting caught through the doors. The tamers dashed up to the main room of the building just in time to see a hotheaded Yamaki sipping a glass of iced lime fizz while checking his watch every 5 seconds.
"YOU'RE ALL LATE!" He screeched once he saw the tamers. Ever since Hypnos had gone global, time was of the essence to Yamaki. Even if they were only 2 minutes late, they deserved a long lecture.
"Chill Yamaki. It's only been 2 minutes." Ryo said. Being older by 2 years, everyone except Rika looked up to Ryo for guidance.
"Seeing as how this matter is classified under Code red, I will have to skip my lecture on time and focus on the details. Have you noticed anything wrong lately?" He prompted them as if they were 5-year-olds.
"Shall I recount the details? We've been attacked 14 times this week by Rookies and Champions. An entire hoard of them actually destroyed our school. Happy?" Rika barked at Yamaki. Yamaki never took them seriously except Ryo but it was time to show him who was boss around here.
"Have you noticed anything SIMILAR about these Digimon?" He prompted again, putting emphasis on the world similar and using air quotes.
"Other than them trying to destroy my life? No." Rika snapped back. Even though she had taken the question lightly, it got Henry thinking. "Similar?" He thought. "They're in different levels but what was similar?. He closed his eyes, everything turning black. "Black...Darkness...Virus!"The thought popped into his head just as he opened his eyes.
He turned to face Yamaki who was standing by the refreshment tables, tossing each of them bottles of iced tea. He caught his own bottle and chugged down half of its contents before speaking up.
"They're all Virus Digimon right?" Yamaki nodded solemnly, pacing the room slowly for a few minutes then he stopped again and faced them.
"This is the biggest problem we've had since the D-Reaper. Thanks to Janyu's recent program we've managed to disable some of the bigger Biomerges within the area but if they manage to break through were going to need some back up. We've decided to recruit a new tamer from Osaka to come here and train with you to test if you guys could live with each other. If not, she will return to her hometown and defend Japan from there. Riley has her bio-data." He said then paused to take a sip of his lime fizz
Rika passed around the sheets of paper that Riley handed her then looked at to her own copy. The girl had wavy chestnut brown hair and sparkling amber eyes. "She looks exactly like my cousin." She thought then went on to read the rest of the girl's bio-data: Alyssa Denise Claire Angelique Sky Watanabe, 17 years old. Her lilac eyes widened and she choked on her iced tea. She could feel Ryo patting her back and didn't even bother protesting. She finally spat out her drink.
"YOU INVITED MY COUSIN?" She managed to shout at Yamaki, whose eyes widened in shock and amazement. He too choked and spat out his lime fizz. He coughed some more than regained his composure and shouted:"SHE'S YOUR COUSIN?"
"Jeez can't they just talk like normal people." Terriermon whined to Henry but the blue-haired boy was intently reading the rest of the bio-data. Unlike the other tamers who were watching Yamaki and Rika in a scream-off.
"Henry?" He called again but Henry didn't answer. He huffed and then shouted: "EARTH TO HENRY THIS IS TERRIERMON!" Henry jumped in surprise then dropped the paper he was reading intently. He sighed before crouching down to grab his paper and talk to Terriermon.
"Terriermon, what did I tell you about surprising people in the middle of something serious?" He said.
"I know my manners." The dog-rabbit huffed. He hopped up on his shoulder and looked down at the picture on the paper. From what he could tell, the girl looked really pretty. "So," Terriermon continued "What was so important about her that you ignore me?"
"I used to have a best friend back at martial arts camp when I was 7. Same name, same eyes. She moved to Osaka after we both turned eight. I never saw her again." He explained briefly.
"Ahem..Ahem..CRUSH..Ahem..Ahem" Terriermon fake coughed. Teasing Henry was like diamonds, wonderful but rare and this was a genuine opportunity.
"She was not!" Henry said but Terriermon could see his ears turning a little pink.
"Henry and Alyssa sitting in a tree-..." Terriermon started to sing until Henry clamped his hand over Terriermon's mouth.
"Not one word, until I know it's really her." He warned. Terriermon pretended to zip his mouth shut once he let go but the even the Digimon could tell that these next few days were going to be exciting.
"Let's just get this straight. You invited my cousin and didn't bother to tell me? Great, I remember she also told me she had an ice skating competition when she comes here." Rika threw her hands up in the air out of frustration
"She also informed us about that which is why you'll be picking her up where she'll be performing." He countered.
"Which will be where?" Lopmon asked rather impatiently seeing as Suzie was just texting on her phone completely ignoring her and the paper she was shoving in Suzie's face.
"I believe it will be at that new Ice Skating rink they built west from here." He supplied
"When is she coming?" Kenta fired another question.
Kazu hit him on the head. "You baka! The paper already said: Arrival: September 5, 2012, 10 a.m." He hit him again.
"AAAHHH!" Kenta cried while running away from Kazu. They both crashed into Eva, one of Yamaki's new recruits, who was balancing an entire tower of papers but dropped everything once the boys knocked her over.
"Tamers are we clear on this?" Yamaki asked them, raising one brow just to be sure.
"Yeah, whatever." They all answered in unison.
"EHMAGAWD!" Suzie shouted. Everyone whip-turned around to see what was wrong with Suzie but just saw her scanning the paper in awe and amazement.
"Is this the Alyssa Watanabe? As in captain of the All-Star Osaka Tigers?" She asked Yamaki, who just nodded.
"EEEEEHHHHMMMMAAAGGGAWWDDDD!" She shouted again. The tamers, especially Henry, rolled their eyes and sighed. Ever since Suzie became a member of her school squad, she'd gone crazy over cheerleading.
"Yamaki, we've detected a wild one just outside the building and it's a big one. It broke through the program" Eva and Riley called from one of the large computers in the room. They were rapidly typing a code to put a lock on the wild one.
"GO TAMERS! GO!" Yamaki shouted before rushing to help Riley.
The tamers rushed out to face the wild one but for some reason Rika felt nervous. Her heart was beating fast not because she was scared but she felt like all their lives were on the single one, unfortunately even Kazu and Kenta's.
MEANWHILE...
"Hurry, my pets. I'd hate to prolong the girl's suffering." an evil voice cackled out loud. It could be heard even from the depths of Dark Area. Loud and clear.
AN: I AM SO SORRY. I'm putting the story under some minor editing before I continue it. I began this story 3 years ago with the intention of finishing it but I guess I didn't really manage my time well. But, I'm back and better than ever. I will try to make as much time for this story as possible while I'm still on vacation.