Print My Heart Chapter One- Print My Heart

Written by: Wa Edited & Revised by: Ai

People walked as fast as they could, trying to catch up with the last bus going home. But Rika walked down the night street on her own, wearing her headphone, with both hands in her jean's pockets. Ignoring the outside world. As she walked by an alley, she heard the sound of a person crying. There were a group of people surrounding a guy. She watched as she shivered.....

No, the Digimon Queen is not scared of anything. She thought to herself.

Then a person tapped her shoulder, which almost made her jump. She was reassure after seeing the person behind her. It was just Ryo....RYO? She thought with more shock.

What is he doing here?

"Rika, what are you doing here?" Ryo asked.

"What are YOU doing here then? Do I have to report to you what I'm doing everyday? Why are you bossing me around?" Rika asked.

"I'm sorry, Rika but I'm not bossing you around. I was just trying to....." Ryo stopped as the group in the alley came out, walking towards them.

"Hey kid, what are you staring at? Get lost and out of our way." The big guy in the front spit at Rika's shoes.

"Hey that's not a polite thing to do to a lady!" Ryo said with a little anger in his voice. It was nice for Ryo to stand for her but Rika didn't feel thankful for it.

Oh look what have you done now Ryo Akiyama. Getting us into trouble again.

"Asking for a fight kid?" The leader smile as he pulled out the knife under his shirt. But Ryo didn't back down, he stood in front of Rika.

"Apologize to her!" Ryo said in a serious tone. Rika was actually impressed with how he was so serious about it.

"I'm sure you are going to be the one who'll be 'sorry' for this." The leader guy point the knife to Ryo.

"Cyberdramon." Ryo summoned his digimon.

And then a dragon like digimon landed on the ground. The group was shocked and horrifies.

Rika watches as Ryo and Cyberdramon scared away the group.

"I'm sorry Rika, I didn't get him to apologize....." Ryo kneeled down and try to wipe away the dirty spit away from Rika's shoes with a kleenex. However, Rika back away.

"What are you doing that for? I could have gotten rid of them myself........"

But Ryo just wipe the spit away while she was speaking and ignored her frustrations. He stood up finally Rika stared at him. Ryo just gave her a big smile, ensuring her that everything is fine now.

What's with this guy, I can never figure out what he is thinking. And why did he think that I'm not capable for taking care of those guys? ...... if only Renamon is here......

Rika held her head down. As she remember when she ran away from home, and how Renamon persuaded her to get back in. But she yelled at her partner and told her not to follow her.

"Come on Rika, let's go." Ryo said, not even asking why Renamon was not with her. Rika stared at his digimon, Cyberdramon, his powerful digimon.

"Where?" Rika asked.

"Home of course! It's 10:30pm already, Rika. Where do you think you are going?" Ryo said as if he was her guardian.

"It's my business where I want to go." Rika said.

"But it's my business to get you home safely." Ryo smile cheerfully against her bad temper.

"..........." Rika turned and started walking again, ignoring him.

"Hey wait Rika, don't walk so fast." And now he was pretending to walk like an old man, shaking his leg and holding his back.

Rika couldn't help but laugh at his appearance, as he laughed at himself too. They walked back to the area where they live.

"By the way, Rika......" Ryo look straight into Rika's eyes.

"You didn't answer my question, what are you doing so late on the street?" Ryo asked.

"So you didn't answer mine either." Rika said.

"I was buying shampoo for my dad, he doesn't know much about the roads in this new area, so I and Cyberdramon went at brought some. Oh no, he will probably get mad at me if he didn't get the shampoo right now." Ryo said.

Rika stared at Ryo, thinking that he is probably going to say something like, 'I got to go now, see you tomorrow'. At least that's what her other friends will do, goole head and those two jerks. She doesn't even know if she call them true friends.

But Ryo turned to Cyberdramon.

"Okay meet you at home later." Rika heard Ryo say behind her. She missed the first part of Cyberdramon and Ryo's conversation while she was thinking about Goggle head and the other two.

"Where is he going?" Rika asked Ryo, as she saw Cyberdramon turn and go the other way.

"Home!" Ryo said cheerfully again.

"Huh?" Rika stared at him in confusion.

"Well, I promised that I was going to walk you home right? So I can't leave you here! Right?" He said with a bigger smile on his baby face.

Rika blushed.

What's with that smile? How come my heart start beating so fast now? I hate it!!!

"We are even now!" Ryo said and he started walking.

We are even now, after Cyberdramon is gone. We both don't have our digimon with us......Ryo thought as he smiled to himself.

But Rika didn't know what he was talking about, and she just followed.

While they were walking back, a beam of light burst into the sky. They ran to the place where the beam came from. It was at the park. The park is not just an ordinary park, as they remember it was the entry and the exit to the digital world. They stared at each other, as they walked forward at the same time examining the place. The light was now gone.

Suddenly, a hand appeared from the ground and grabbed Rika's leg. And the light appeared again, and a vortex can be seen in the ground. Rika was fighting the grab as she grab on to the ground. Ryo immediately ran towards her and try to pull back. But she swung his hand away.

"Rika what are you doing. Give me your hand!" Ryo shouted. But a howling wind blew him away and hit him into a tree.

Ryo!! Rika thought. Oh why didn't I give him my hand!! Renamon where are you? I can't hold on anymore!

"RIKA!" Ryo screamed.

This was the last word that Rika heard. She felt as if she got pulled away and into a hurricane. Turning and turning. Until she was grabbed and pulled away again.

She woke up, in a room where the doors and the windows were crooked. There was six bed in the room, three each on each side. It was the ghost castle that Ryo lived in, in the digital world. She supported herself up from the bed. And this was when a familiar voice called her. The same word that she heard before she fainted.

"Rika!" It was Ryo again.

"Hey it's you....." Rika puts her hand on her head, she must have been hit in the head.

"Are you alright?" Ryo asked with worry in his eyes.

"No, but not dying yet, where are we?" Rika replied coldly.

"The same place where we were two years ago." Ryo said.

"The digital world.....?" Rika said.

"Yeah...." Ryo replied.

"You can't find a way out can you......" Rika said more coldly this time.

She is not dumb, she knew Ryo. If he can find a way out, she wouldn't be sleeping here in the digital world. She would be home sleeping in her bed.

"There must be a way, I'll find it Rika, don't worry." Ryo tried to reassure her.

"We are going to be killed by the thing that pulled me in here....."

"Rika..."Ryo said as he walked inside the room.

"So what if I die, everybody dies sometime.....the minute you born, you start dying. We are destined to die." Rika said.

I should have never ran away from home...even if Mom got a new boyfriend, I shouldn't have fought with her. I shouldn't have said that I hated her......I should have been strong, I feel like Jeri right now when she lost Leomon. And Renamon is not here to help me this time...... when did I become this weak? When did I become the Jeri...... two years ago.....?