Hello again! OMG more than 24 hours after the last update lol. Well, me and Remi do have actual lives, and as well as other projects to be working on.
Btw, you guys should check out the Digimon Fanfiction Challenge forums here on ffnet :). It has lots of prompts/ideas and not enough people XD. It's also where the Too Many Cooks challenge resides (which is where Commencing and Concurring come from)
Anyway, this time it's more Rika. Enjoy! :)
Data Fragment 7: Butterfly
Wind streamed over Rika's face as she rode Kyuubimon through the usual patrol route around the city. Discarded newspapers tried to take to the sky like malformed birds as the many-tailed fox Digimon shot by them. It was a beautiful day, if a bit cold. Some lights flickered here and there. Rika hardly noted any of this.
What's that Ryo up to? Rika thought. First he turns on us and fries the new Hypnos tower with some kind of virus, then he meets up with me and gives me that weird black card. Said black card was tucked away in her pocket, encased in a plastic bag for precautions. And then saying he was part Digimon or something…
Though he certainly enjoyed bothering her, Ryo was never Rika's favorite person. His recent traitorous acts had made him even less so. But Ryo, infuriating as his arrogance and over-cheerfulness could be, was not a liar. He could be deceptive, yes, but he would fess up to the truth if you caught him. So Rika had little doubt about his outrageous words. If anything, it made her doubt Yamaki more. Why was the head of Hypnos holding back such important information from them? She planned to stop by for a not-so-friendly visit by once her watch was done.
Though Rika did want Yamaki to analyze the strange dark card she had received. Ryo had been confident that it would do them no good, but it was still worth a shot. It was better than Rika carrying around a object that she knew absolutely nothing about. It could summon pizzas from the sky for all she knew. Or a swarm of iridescent butterflies, like the ones that would stalk her whenever she spent excessive time in the Digital World. She hated those damn things, always getting in her hair and eyes.
"What you choose to become will determine what that card will do," Ryo had said.
…Because he wants to see what I become, Rika thought. What does he mean by that? Wouldn't it better to give something like that to Takato? Why me?
Because he likes you, another part of her said flatly.
Rika wasn't sure what to think of that particular possibility. She hadn't missed those occasional enticed glances, those peculiar little smiles he seemed to save just for her. And then there was the the light-hearted teasing, the lingering around her, that goddamn butterfly kiss he had snuck in on her cheek one day…
But he was a Digimon, or part-Digimon, or whatever the hell he really was. So what did that make their (albeit definitely nonexistent) relationship? Datality? Digiphile?
The Hypnos tower was looming large in her sight when she got a call on her cellphone. It was Henry, whose voice was a blend of anxiety, bewilderment, and even tired irritation. He claimed he was fighting someone, or something, that seemed to be human and Digimon at the same time. He needed immediate backup to deal with the strange situation. Since he was in battle, he couldn't give much more detail than that.
Rika accepted the request immediately. Kyuubei made a sharp right away from the Hypnos tower and toward the scene of battle.
Human yet Digimon at the same time…Is it someone else like Ryo? Rika wondered. Or is this something different entirely?
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So the plot thickens...yes, generic line is generic XP. Over the next few drabbles the plot will pick up. Also random fluff ftw!