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Name: Riza Yumi Higarashi
Birthday: July 29
Age: 16
Height: 5'6
Special Talent: A toxophilite (Archery expert)
Appearance: Brown hair that stops just above her shoulders. Grey eyes. Green shirt that says 'Stop reading my shirt' in white, a black jean jacket over it, black hip hugger jeans, green black tennis shoes, and a green hat with the Japanese kanji for turtle on it.
Background: Riza lived next to Dru all of her life but never found the courage to talk to him and he never knew she existed until an accident brought them together. When she was little she used to play by the nearby river despite her mother's warnings. One day when she was five she fell in. Lucky for her, Dru and Rai were passing by and saw her fall in. Rai, being the heroic type he is, and Dru, following everything that Rai does, jumped into the river after her. After pulling her to shore, Rai went off to find her parents while Dru stayed with her. When Riza woke up moments later, she saw Dru and instantly knew that he had saved her. Ever since then, she's never left Dru's side, which he doesn't seem to notice or mind.
Chapter 4: Archmon's Crimson Flare
Last time on Digimon: Angel Sin
Silvamon took Rai, Dru, Kira, Riza, and Blademon to the city of art - - Onegai Aoi. Upon arrival Rai and Blademon accompanied Kira on a tour around the city until they stumbled upon an old mural. After being told about its history, Kira was inspired to try and redo it. When she was near completion, a digimon named Cloudmon attempted to take her life but Blademon and Rai intervened at the last second. When Blademon accidentally knocked over a can of paint it splashed up and surprisingly completed the painting. Velvemon the gunner digimon was freed. With her quick moves and Dark Trigger attack Velvemon annihilated Cloudmon.
After leaving Onegai Aoi, Silvamon gave the gang more information on Shenmon and Destromon.
"Destromon was a Digital Guardian?!" asked a shocked Riza.
"Yes but he was killed in the Varia War, which he himself started." replied Silvamon
"Talk about irony." said Rai
"Yes it is ironic. He was so enraged before he was killed that when he died he was reborn as an evil digimon or Arch Angel as Shenmon calls him. For this reason he is often referred to as Dabih Anstice for it is Greek for –" Silvamon was saying before being cut off.
"Slaughterer Reborn." Said everyone else at the same time and then looked at each other.
"That was weird. That was weird too. Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Ooooooo." They all said really fast at the same time again.
Silvamon coughed, bring their attention back to him. "Anyway, Mako Strife is the next city we must go to if we want to find more information on Destromon."
"Let's go then." The others said at the same time yet again
-20 Minutes later -
Silvamon had gotten them lost in a frozen tundra landscape.
"Silvamon……If I wasn't so damn cold I would kick your ass right now." said a shivering Dru.
Silvamon looked around swiftly and prepared to pull his rapier out of its sheath at a moments notice. "This is impossible. There shouldn't be any snow let alone any wind in this region. Something is wrong here. Very wrong."
At that exact moment, an unidentified digimon appeared from beneath them, catching them completely off guard.
"Frozen Anstiss!" he screamed, firing twin beams of liquid ice from his hands that instantly froze Blademon, Velvemon, and Silvamon.
"Fuck! I can't believe he defeated them so fast! Just who is this guy?" said Riza in obvious disbelief.
"Freezemon. Champion level. Data type. Special Attack: Frozen Anstiss." Kira said while staring at the picture of their new enemy. His body was ice blue and towered over the group. He had knee high dark blue boots that were outlined in lime green with three crystalline hexagonal icicles on the sides. His upper body had a long sleeved midriff top that matched the boots with larger icicles and an additional one on the back of each hand.
"Now I can destroy these accursed Digital Saviors without any problems and Lord Destromon will let me be a part of his personal guard!" said the still unidentified digimon, laughing manically.
"That's what you think." said Rai
"We're the ones that are going to destroy you. Your attempt to defeat us was just pathetic." said Kira
Rai and Kira advanced towards their frozen digimon and reached for certain parts of their weapons.
"You're not going to beat me…you can't even use those weapons." boasted Freezemon.
"We may not be able to use them separately but together we will be able to beat you." said Rai and Kira together
Rai grabbed Blademon's dagger and Kira grabbed Silvamon's rarely used bow, pulling them off the frozen digimon and heading for the others as fast as they could.
"You won't do anything!" shrieked Freezemon, using his Frozen Anstiss to freeze the two barely managing to get the weapons to Dru before the ice took them over.
"Dru, give these to Riza she'll know what to do." said Rai right before he became frozen solid.
Dru nodded and sped off. Being the fast runner in the group, he reached Riza, who was hiding behind a peculiar ice sculpture. Not even a second after handing over the two items, Dru was hit with the Frozen Anstiss.
"Riza….I….believe….in you…." Dru stammered out as he was fully incased in ice. Fueled by his words, Riza formed her resolve and was determined to save them.
"Now there's only one left and she looks like the weakest of them all." mocked Freezemon
Riza ran a safe distance away, Freezemon being too close for her to aim her one and only shot properly. Freezemon slowly followed after her, sneering and wanting to drag out his final prey.
"It may not be perfect but it's enough to get the job done." she stated to herself while turning around, readying her bow, using the dagger as an arrow and aiming at Freezemon's head.
"You think that puny thing can harm me? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" teased Freezemon.
Riza smirked and shot the dagger-arrow at him but a strong gust of wind blew it off course and it only managed to shatter his icicle like ear, causing blood to spray violently from the new hole in his head. The dagger-arrow, covered in blood, went halfway into the sculpture that she had been hiding behind only moments before.
"You bitch! You'll pay for that!" screamed Freezemon while holding the left side of his head, charging at Riza, who was now petrified with fear.
"Stop right there, you bastard." said a mysterious voice.
Freezemon stopped dead in his tracks and slowly turned around. "Th-that voice…..it c-can't be……" Fear was evident in both his eyes and trembling voice. "ARCHMON! I thought I froze you for good!"
Before the new being now known as Archmon did or said anything else she looked around with her piercing green eyes and saw Riza and stared at her. Riza too was staring at her and was marveled by her appearance. Archmon had the most human appearance of any digimon they had seen so far. She had shoulder length dark brown hair, what looked like black spandex but was really just the color of her skin, body was protected by a forest green turtle like shell. Strapped to her back was a large, tan colored bow and quiver filled with pearl colored arrows.
"So it seemed. The only way I could be freed is from her spirit which means she has to be my partner. I can't let you harm her." Archmon removed her bow and a single arrow.
Freezemon shook off his fear and launched an attack at Archmon who barely managed to dodge it and charged at him. As she neared him, she slid underneath him and fired her arrow straight up.
"CRIMSON FLAME!"
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!" he shrieked as he was split up the middle and his two, bloody halves, melted and disintegrated into data, going into Riza's newly appeared black and green digivice, formed from the bow she was still holding.
Since the villain was no longer alive, the snow and ice field he had created slowly disappeared and everyone was freed, though they were chilled to the bone.
"Wow. I have my own digimon now. This is so cool. She's so cool." said Riza dreamily as she stared at her partner.
"P-please don't mention c-cool or anything else that has t-to do with being cold." said Dru while trying to warm himself up and shivering.
"Hey! I knew I was right!" shouted Silvamon
"Right about what?" questioned Rai, faring better than his brother in terms of warmth since he and Kira were huddled together for body heat. Of course it was her idea to do so.
"Mako Strife is right there." stated Silvamon while pointing to the city in the somewhat distance.
"We must have entered another dimension or something when Freezemon turned the whole place into a frozen tundra." said Blademon to which everyone agreed.
"Well let's hurry the hell up because I could use a hot bath right now." said Dru, causing everyone to laugh before setting off to the city.
-Mako Strife, Hotel Restaurant-
After everybody had bathed and changed into their robes laid out for them by the hotel staff. They went down to the special V.I.P area set aside for them to eat the Mako Strife's famous Curry of Life. Only Rai and Archmon were able to handle it.
"Damn. That's good curry." said Archmon after having her seventh bowl.
"I don't see how you can eat that stuff. It's way too hot!" said Blademon in between sips of his constantly refilled glass of water.
"I know how Archmon can eat it, she's a fire type digimon but Rai-san must have an iron stomach or something." said Velvemon somewhat intrigued.
"It's called good taste my friends, good taste." replied Rai, wolfing down his eighth and final bowl. "Plus I grew up eating spicy foods since my mom always loved it. When you couple that with having the money to have the hottest spices around and well, I've been practically desensitized to these things.
"Well that makes sense I guess…." said Riza as she and Archmon stood up. "Well it's getting late so we're going to turn in for the night. See you guys in the morning." The two of them left and headed for their room.
The others all agreed and went up to their separate rooms to get as much sleep as possible. If what they've done the past three days was anything to go by, they'd have one hell of a day tomorrow.
-2:00 am, Dru's room-
Dru woke up in the middle of the night, not sleeping too well from his nightmare and went into the bathroom, just staring at himself in the mirror.
"Why can't I tell Riza I like her?" he said to himself, sighing heavily. "And why do the others all have digimon and I don't? Am I just not good enough?"
After staring at himself for a few more minutes and splashing water on his face he went back to his bed.
-11:00 am, Hotel Waiting Room-
Everyone but Rai and Kira had been up for three hours and there was no indication that Rai and Kira were even awake.
"This is ridiculous. I'm tired of waiting." said an aggravated Riza walking up to Rai's room, Dru right behind her.
When Riza opened the door, she and Dru saw something they were not prepared for. Kira was in the bed with Rai, tightly wrapped in the sheets. Rai was shirtless and had his arm around her. Rai turned to look at the door, as he had already been awake and carefully slipped out of the bed, making sure not to wake Kira. It was revealed that he had on his pants still, though they were unbuttoned. Seeing the look on Dru and Riza's face, he slowly pulled back the covers, showing that Kira was fully dressed before covering her up again. He ushered the other two out of the room and closed the door behind him.
"She was having nightmares about being frozen again. She didn't want to be alone so she came to me and I comforted her until she fell asleep. Don't get any crazy ideas."
-An Undisclosed Location-
"Lord Destromon!" hollered Sakuyomon. "Freezemon went after the children and was defeated by the newly reawakened Archmon!"
"God…..this is getting annoying. Send Burnermon and Torchmon after them. There's no way they can defeat those two." cackled Destromon.
Well that ends Chapter 4. I hope you all liked it.
Chapter 5 Title: Dashmon's Lightning Reiki