A/N: Hey, I'm back (did you even miss me?) and ready for some more. I have to thank everyone who reviewed this story. Personally, I am sorry for making it a final fantasy crossover for those who share no interest in final fantasy, or just weren't looking for one. I didn't even plan for it to really be a FF crossover, I planned only mere references, but one thing leads to another and yeah. So I'll try to make this chapter based a little more on the Tamers, I did post this on digimon after all.

Disclaimer: I do not own digimon, or final fantasy, or the house that I live in, but that's different.

"The Moon Shines."

"My friend, how long has it been?" Sapphire pulled out the D-Ark that he always carried as a reminder.

"It has been a long time, but I am here now. We mustn't worry about the past, I forgive you."

"How could you forgive me for the terrible things that I've done?"

" The things you did were not terrible. You did not know what you were doing was wrong. The Parasimon told you that I was the enemy, and forced you against me. Because you deleted me from this planet didn't mean that I wouldn't reformat and come back. Thankfully the other Tamers defeated the parasimon before anyone else got seriously injured."

"I just wanted to say sorry again," Sapphire was looking at the floor, his usual cheerful mood almost completely gone.

"Why don't we at least go to the hall, there the mood would lighten us up." Sapphire, though his mind still lingered at the thought of deleting his only friend, knew it was stupid to keep mourning for something that had been forgiven by everyone. Thus, he put on a smile and walked in.

" Come on Red, one more," after Nanaki's heroic act, Cid challenged him to a drinking competition. The surprising part was that Beelzumon was going head to head with Nanaki at the moment. The others had passed out neatly half an hour ago.

Now if you must know, this was an all out ball. There was literally a full orchestra ( even the composer) in the floor. Yeah, not on, in the floor. The floor, on its part, was made of a very smooth wood, perfect for sliding and doing all those moves that seemed to defy gravity. Not to mention a huge stereo system, Terriermon the D.J.

"Rika?" Takato was trying to make some conversation. This was apparently a short intermission to all the dancing and Takato wanted to take this chance to flirt with Rika. If this turned out rotten, he would probably go and join Red and Beelzumon with their drinking contest. Seriously, 45 minutes and they were still at it. They didn't even look drunk, then again, Beelzumon always had a weird look to him and Red was a dog-cat thing, it was hard to tell if he was drunk.

" Yeah goggle head?"

"Do you want to go out with me?' Rika's eyes shot up, her eye twitched, and she was a darker shade of red than Red and Guilmon combined.

"Oh no, I have to either tell him or dump him now. Why did he have to ask?"

Takato corrected himself though," I mean to the deck. It's getting pretty hot with the dancing and all."

" Sure. Phew, I thought he was actually going to ask me out."

So Rika and Takato walked out to the deck. It was a beautiful sight. The moon was full, millions of stars shone in the black sheet of sky.

" A the true sky…" Rika whispered under her breath .

"Yeah, this could be called the true sky. During the day, most of the view of space id covered by our atmosphere. The blue color hides the true sky for our protection against it. However, when the sun comes down, there is no reason to hide. Everything is safe and the sky is free to show its true self. Just like people. We try to hide our true selves around the people we try to make impressions on. When we are alone, or around those who have come close enough to know the true you, we announce our true beauty."

"So what I've seen of you isn't the true you?"

"If you truly look for it, you can see the stars and the moon during the brightest and cloudiest of days. The world shows its beauty upon us because it is not afraid of anyone, and thus does not give any false impressions to anyone."

"So you're saying that you've been yourself this whole time because you weren't afraid of what anyone else thought about you."

"Yup, and I'm saying that you shouldn't keep hiding your true beauty from other people. You naturally try to scare people away with an icy exterior. You're really only nice to us and other digimon, but you never even take a second look at most of your classmates. I've seen some of them to and I always ask if they're friends with you. They're more than happy to point me in your direction, but most of them always make remarks, and they still call you the ice queen."

"That's because I don't want to be friends with them! I know you're looking out for my best interests but please don't give me your pity. The last thing I need is your pity!"

"Sorry. You're right, it wasn't my place. It's just, this is the only way I can actually talk to most people without getting nervous or blanking out."

"You mean you get nervous around me goggle head," Rika wanted to change the mood somewhat quickly. She didn't want to scare away the only other guy that had really loved.

Up in the roof, Renamon and Guilmon were sitting back-to-back.

"You're kind of comfortable Renamon."

"Shhh, we don't want them to hear us. If we're caught, we'll ruin the moment," Renamon was having a little moment of her own though

"Ohh, sorry."

Meanwhile, Henry was having some trouble keeping count of how many shots Red and Beelzumon were taking.

"This isn't going to be pretty," Henry was amazed that neither of the contenders had passed out drunk.

"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" was all that was heard from Barret, Cid, and Cloud.

"Man, I hope they don't die from alcohol poisining."

Again, outside with Renamon and Guilmon.

"You know Renamon, Takatomon was right. The moon is beautiful."

"Hmmm, yes it is."

"You know, I've always wondered what it would be like to spend some time alone with you."

"Why do you say that?" Renamon turned away from Guilmon, blushing slightly.

"Well, I've always been with Terriermon since his Tamer is Takato's friend. Calumon always wanted to play with me, and Impmon always tried to fight me. You're the only digimon that I really haven't been able to talk to."

"You have a point. What is it that you would like to talk about."

"Well, I always wanted to know, how did you learn to fight so well?"

"I trained with Rika. She's taught me many of the things that I know. However, when it relies on brute strength, my natural digimon instincts take care of me."

"So you trained. The only training I've ever done with Takato was trying to de-digvolve from Growlmon to Guilmon again."

"I don't think a digimon like you needs training though. You see, you are a strong digimon that relies on his strength rather than trying to be swift and agile. I am not the strongest when it comes to dexterity, that is why my body was made able to shadow walk and have other stealthy capabilities."

"So there is a balance."

"excuse me."

"In one of my dreams, I saw how the digimon were all created. They were all supposed to be balanced. One could be stronger than the other, but the destruction of the weaker digimon would be justified for it is only making room in the digital world for more data. There aren't supposed to be evil digimon, just the basic 'become more powerful' instinct. We weren't meant to have human tamers, or even be able to think past the will to kill and load data. In my dream, it told me that the balance has been tipped, and the digital world has gone into chaos. And we must do with it as we will."

Renamon was awestruck. She would have never guessed that, during the time she was alive, she would hear words that should have come from a philosopher, from Guilmon. Damn, now she owed Terriermon his place as Ms. Pwetty Pants for a week. Why did she even make that bet. It was incredibly stupid. Oh well, Suzy will probably see that I cannot fit the clothes she tries to put on her and she'll be forced to sit and do something else. Wait, why was Renamon going into her own thoughts, Guilmon was right there, his scaly skin felt warm against her fur. The shiny exterior of Guilmon was also threatening to topple Renamon over. Oh no, not the look. This was it, she was going to fall. Renamon lost all control of her motor functions as she let out a "Aww," and started toppling towards the hard deck.

"So Rika, what do you think?"

"Hey guys," Vaan had come to get some help with one of the games," come with m----."

From the top of the ship to the deck was a very long fall. It took both Renamon and Guilmon around 5 seconds to land on the bottom. When they did, however, they landed right on Vaan.

"Don't worry Renamon, I got you."

"Thank you Guilmon."

" mmm mmm mmmmmm mm mmm,"

" Get up, I think he's suffocating."

"He'll live."

"Not if you stay on him."

"Oh yeah," Guilmon lifted Renamon up to see Vaan two floors down.

"Hey, you alright down there!"

"…."

"Takato shouldn't we see if he's alright?"

"Na, let's just go back to the party and pretend like nothing happened."

" Good idea," the whole gang said at once. They entered to see Red and Beelzumon still taking shots.

" Wow, I can't believe the bar hasn't run out of alcohol yet."

Henry passed by them and responded to Takato's comment," actually they did, I think they're taking shots from a bottle of disinfectant."

"Isn't that dangerous?"

"I think so, it's literally pure alcohol."

"They're gonna have one heck of a hangover!"

"I hope we don't do that when we become 21."

"You never know Rika, you never know."

"Are you saying that I'm gonna be a drunk when I get older goggle head!?"

"No not at all, just….okay just hit me."

"POW."

"I did deserve that one."

"POW."

'Don't think I deserved that one, what was that fo--"

"That's for leaving me two floors down."

"So I did deserve that one. Never mind."

Beelzumon then cried," JURI!!!!" before he passed out. Red's head was slopped over the table, he was drooling. The other three now had dresses with polka dots on them, but were still passed out from all the drinking that they had done."

"The winner of the drinking competition is…"

"I bet it's gonna be Red, he stayed in the longest,"

" MARINEANGEMON!!"

"Whaaaaaa!!!!!!!"

A/N: So sorry if the chapter seems lackluster to you. I just wanted a chapter where 1: I could have romantic moments between both of the lead couples. 2: where I could put some depth into Sapphire so he wouldn't annoy people (tell me if he's an annoying OC, it would really help) 3: a closure to the ball, and 4: where there was a drinking contest between Red XIII and Beelzumon. I would again like to thank all my reviewers for..well….reviewing. Remember R+R people.

Rukato forever

Peace J