Takato's Friendship
By Nanya
Disclaimer: I
don't own Digimon; the show belongs to Terri-Lee O'Malley, Jeff Nimoy, and
whoever else works on the show.
(A.N. This takes place later in the series, when the three tamers
finally learn what Calumon's importance is to them.)
Takato was just sitting on his
bed thinking about Rika, ok, so he normally thought about her, after all, she
was kinda cold, and she didn't seem to have many friends. He really felt sorry for someone his age
that didn't have many friends; he just knew that she would hate to hear that,
especially from him. But, he really
wanted to get to know her, even if it was just so that he could change her
views on the Digimon. Takato looked
over at Guilmon, he was just sleeping on the floor. "Lazy dinosaur." He could
only smile at that, all Guilmon did was eat, sleep and play. Of course when he, Rika, or Henry was in
trouble, Guilmon was there to protect him.
'I wonder why Rika always looks so depressed every time I offer to walk
her home. She always says 'I don't need
your help.' One time I asked her where
she lived and she looked like she was going to cry, Henry doesn't notice, not
even Renamon, but I do. It's as if she
doesn't want to go home or something.' Sigh Takato just rolled over and went to sleep.
Meanwhile. . .
"We have another wild one."
"Can you get a tracer on it?"
"Yes, sending tracer now."
"When will they ever
learn?" When the tracer finally caught
up to the Digimon in question, the Digimon disappeared. "What happened?"
"It Bio-emerged before the
tracer could catch up to it."
"Not good."
That Digimon that did
crossed-over into the real world just happened to be across the street from
Rika's house.
"I can't believe I got drug out
of bed by a yellow blob. Let's see,
Sukamon: Level Champion Attack: Dig-slug.
Gross! Renamon, take care of
him."
"With pleasure." Renamon jumped into the air right above
Sukamon and crossed her arms in a very familiar pattern. "Diamond Storm!" The cold ice particles rained down on Sukamon, who just jumped
out of the way and behind a trash can.
"Uh, Renamon, you're going to
have to better than that, without Calumon here you can't digivole, so we're
just going to have to go old-school.
Digi-modify! Speed Activate." With that Renamon started to glow and
started to move really fast after the bouncing Sukamon, who had taken the time
to get out of there and started bouncing towards the park.
"Duh, I gotta get out of here,
whoa."
"You're not getting away from
me that easily."
"Hey wait up you two! Uhh, maybe I shouldn't of given Renamon the
speed-up power unless I was sure that Sukamon would've stayed in the same
area." Rika had to stop for a moment
and just relax. "I'll Gasp just huff
wait gasp here for a moment."
Guilmon had just woken up and
was staring out the window growling.
"Huh what's wrong Guilmon?"
"New digimon."
"What?" Takato grabbed his D-power and looked. "Hum,
Sukamon, I'm gonna call Henry." Just as
Takato got to the phone, it started to ring.
'If that's not Henry, I hope they have a good reason to call.' "Hello?"
"Takato? It's me Henry."
"Oh, good, I was just about to
call you."
"There's a new digimon."
"I know, let's go, Rika's
probably already there."
"I'm on my way, I still don't
know why you keep trying to help her, she doesn't want our help."
"It doesn't matter right now,
let's go."
A few minutes later Henry,
Takato, Terriermon, and Guilmon were almost to the park. "So Takato, do you think that she'll let you
walk her home." Henry was smiling the whole
time.
"Knock it off, it's not like
that between us. I hardly know her."
"Sure."
"Let's just get to the park,
we'll deal with it later."
"You ready to give up yet?"
"Duh, uh huh."
"Good, Diamond Storm!"
"Yiii!"
The pelting of ice rained down
onto Sukamon relentlessly. But when the
smoke cleared Sukamon wasn't standing there anymore. "What the?" In his place
was an orange monkey with a Monzaemon beany tied to his waist.
"Uh huh. The king is back
alright." This new digimon said in an
Elvis accent. Renamon took a couple of
steps backwards when Rika ran in.
"What the hey? Let's see, Etemon: Level: Ultimate? Uh oh,
Renamon, I think we'd better retreat."
"Right."
"Now wait a minute little
missy, you see, you attacked me when I could hardly fight, now it's only
appropriate that I fight back yaw hear?
Dark Network!" Etemon fired a
green energy blast at Renamon and then another one at Rika. The first one hit Renamon and knocked her
into a tree and the second one hit Rika and put her on the ground very
hard. Rika was out cold in an instant,
Etemon decided to take off after Renamon, to finish the job. "No need to take out the kid, without her
digimon, she's nothing. Oh ho!" And with that he was gone.
Henry and Takato arrived just
after Etemon knocked Rika out. Guilmon
was about to go to his friend's help when Takato said, "Guilmon wait!"
"Huh? What Takatomon?"
"If we go down there now, he'll
do the same thing to us." Fortunately
by the time they were done arguing, Etemon had left. Takato saw this and took off at top speed, closely followed by
Guilmon, Henry, Terriermon, and Calumon, who had just arrived.
"What's going on you
guys?" No one bothered to answer.
As soon as they got there, they
noticed Takato was looking at Rika very seriously, he was feeling around her
neck. "Is she alright?"
"I don't know? But where's Renamon?"
"I don't know either."
"Ok, you take Terriermon and
Calumon and go look for Renamon and I'll stay here and try to wake up Rika."
"All right. Come on Calumon."
"Ok."
While those three left Takato
desperately tried to wake Rika up. "At
least she's still breathing." He said
almost giving up hope for a moment.
Guilmon was watching out in case Etemon came back. Takato still felt around the neck, in case
he felt something. While he was feeling
Rika started to come around. "Huh,
she's waking up all right!"
Rika opened her eyes just a
little bit and was looking scared for a moment, her eyes hadn't adjusted yet
and someone was holding her. When they
finally did adjust, she saw that Takato was holding her. For a brief instant she smiled and tears
started to form in her eyes. She
immediately turned aside, hoping that he hadn't seen her smile, but with no
such luck. "I guess I owe you one for
saving me."
"No, it's no big deal, we're
friends. Besides if I was in trouble,
I'd like to think that you'd come to my aid as well." Takato said while she was turned away. 'She has a very cute smile, I wish she would smile more.'
"It's the second time you've
saved my life. I really do owe
you." She said still looking away.
"Like I said it was
nothing. Come on, I'll take you
home." She immediately tensed up at the
thought of going home. 'It must be
worse than I thought.' "Why don't you
want to go home?"
She instantly looked at him
with a scowl on her face. "Don't worry
about it."
"Alright then. How would you like to come over to my house
and spend the night?"
"Say what?!?!"
"Just for the night, if don't
want to go home, I'll have Henry bring Renamon over."
"Say where is Renamon?"
"I don't know. Henry went to look for her a while ago."
Meanwhile. . .
"Well, little missy, have you
had enough?" Etemon looked at Renamon,
who couldn't even stand anymore. She
was leaning up against a tree just trying to pull herself to her feet.
"Never, I'll beat you and then
I'll be stronger than I ever was before."
"Hahahaha! You make laugh, a digimon who is a pet to a
human."
"I'm not a pet, I've got a
friend in Rika, and I don't need anyone else but her."
"What ever little lady. Now prepare to be finished." Renamon looked on at Etemon as it looked
like he was going to deliver the final blow.
However, neither of them noticed three figures just ten feet away.
"Henry, we have to help her."
"I know, but we can't beat
him."
"Yes we can, just let me
digivolve and I'll beat him for sure."
"Terriermon, if you digivolve
then we'll all be in trouble."
"Well if you won't let me
digivolve because you're scared, at least let me digivolve to save her. Rika may be mad if Renamon gets deleted."
"All right, go ahead."
"Yes!"
DIGIVOLUTION
"Terriermon digivolve to
Gargomon!" Gargomon raced over to help
Renamon out by kicking Etemon out of the way.
"Gargo Lazer!" Streams of energy
came flowing out of Gargomon's arms and pummeled Etemon. "Ah hah, how'd you like those apples?"
"There are no apples around
here, little bunny, now leave, before I have to use my concert crush."
Henry just looked on. "We need more power, Calumon help out."
"Right." Calumon's ears spread out as far as they
could and the symbol on his head got extra bright.
DIGIVOLUTION
"Gargomon digivolve to
Rapidmon!" Rapidmon looked exactly like
his golden armored form, except that he was green instead of gold. "Rapid Fire!" Two missiles sailed out of his hands and clobbered Etemon.
"Ouch! That hurt!
Dark Network!"
"Rapid Fire!" The two attacks collided in mid-air, which
caused a huge explosion. Henry had gone
over to Renamon during this time and was shielding her with his body.
"Rapidmon hurry, finish
it! We need to get this over with!"
"Right! Golden Triangle!" Rapidmon moved his hands in a triangular pattern and when he was
done a triangle surrounded Etemon holding him still. It's over Etemon.
Multi-Rapid Fire!" Instead of
just two missiles coming out of his hands, ten missiles came out and
continuously pelt Etemon until he was nothing but data once more. Rapidmon and Henry both let out long sighs
as Rapidmon de-digivolved back to Terriermon.
"Henry what should we do with her?"
"Let's take her home." Just as Henry lifted Renamon up, Guilmon ran
over. "Hey Guilmon, what's going on?"
"Takatomon tell me to bring fox
digimon home with me."
"Okay, but why?"
"Girl tamer waiting at
Takatomon's house for me."
Henry just smiled, "Oh, well
that explains it. Here you go." Henry handed Renamon over to Guilmon, who
just put her over his shoulder and walked her home.
"I hope things work out."
At Takato's house. . .
"We have to be quiet, my
parents are sleeping, and if we wake them up, we'll be in trouble."
"You're already in trouble
son."
"Takato, do you want to tell me
why you are out at 9:00 at night, and why you are standing here with a girl?"
"Ahh, well dad, it's
complicated."
"I got all night."
"Well, I was lost and Takato offered
to put me up for the night."
"Is that right son?"
"Um, yeah."
"All right, but we don't have
any extra beds, so she's going to have to sleep in your room." Takato and Rika both did a face-fault after
hearing that.
"Thanks dad."
They both just stood there
smiling until his dad went back inside.
Rika grabbed the collar of Takato's shirt and said; "You didn't say
anything about that."
"I'm sorry I forgot."
"Forgot? How could you forget that you don't have any
extra room in your house?"
"Don't worry, I've got a
bunk-bed."
"If anything happens tonight,
you'll have to face Renamon."
"Don't worry, nothing will
happen."
"Better not, do you have any
extra pajamas?"
"Yeah." So when they got upstairs Takato gave Rika
his extra pair of pajamas and left her alone to change.
While Rika changed she noticed
some pictures on his wall, they were pictures of Takato with his mom and
dad. 'Must be nice to be able to do
things with your mom. I wish my mom
would do things with me.' She was
starting to cry when Takato walked in.
He almost turned around when he noticed she was dressed and crying? It didn't make any cense to him so he just
walked up behind her and put his hand on her shoulder. She didn't turn him away, nor did she get
angry, she just turned into him and started to cry against his chest.
Takato couldn't figure out why
she was crying, until he looked at the photo she was holding. 'She must not have a very good relationship
with her mom and dad.' She continued crying
until her breaths slowed and deepened.
"Huh, she fell asleep on me.
Well, I guess that rules out her sleeping on the top bunk." So Takato took her over to his bed and put
her to sleep where he usually slept and went up to the top bunk. "Good Night Rika." Several hours later Guilmon returned with a comatose Renamon in
his arms, he put her down next to the bed and he curled up on the other side of
the room. Guilmon fell to sleep quickly
and that's how they slept the rest of the night.
The End
So tell me what you think. MST's welcome. Please Review.
(A.N. Comatose means unconscious or asleep. Just a little Rika and
Takato fluff that came to me.)
