"Hey Sam!" Takato called, "I brought a drawing of my favorite Digimon, Guilmon! You want to see it?"
She looked up from her bag she had been digging in. "Um sure, Takato"
He ran up to her, "See, he looks like this!" He handed her his old original drawing.
She looked at it carefully, "It looks kinda like a red Greymon" she commented.
"Hey, I never noticed that! I suppose he kinda does doesn't he?" Takato scratched his head.
"Okay class, we have a short quiz on your Mathematics today to help you with your test coming up next week. I'll write the problems on the board and I want you to copy them down onto your paper Now remember: Show. Your. Work."
Takato sat at his desk a row over and a desk forward. As the quiz began, he knew he was going to have trouble with the test next week. He handed in his done -- and hopefully correct -- paper. He returned to his seat. "Hey, I didn't know you had glasses" he whispered to Sam as he saw her look at the board then pull them off and work on her quiz.
"Takato! No talking during the quiz!"
"Uh!" he turned forward, "Yes ma'am. Sorry, ma'am!"
After class Sam came up to Takato, "Hey, can I challenge you to a battle?"
"You got Digimon cards!?" Takato questioned excitedly.
"Well, yeah! I think I said that on my first DAY!" She told.
"Yeah sure! You know the park with the dinosaur slide?" he asked.
"Yeah"
"I'll meet you there! It's the best place to battle!" he cheered.
"Alright!" she followed him out.
Rika decided she could find this area that Henry had seen this other Digimon practicing. She knew many of the nooks and crannies in this neighborhood.
"Hey! How'd that work out!" Takato was surprised as he found out that he had lost.
"I played by the rules, so you can't say I cheated." Sam commented.
"But but" he hung to his astonishment.
"Come on, you want to battle again?" she asked.
"Most definitely!" They began to shuffle the cards.
"Hey, wouldn't it bee sooo neat if Digimon were real?" she asked. As they began their new game.
"Um Yeah it would be? Wouldn't it?" Takato scratched his head.
"Well to be honest I'd rather have a Digimon that follows the guidelines of the TV show more than the card game" Sam commented.
"Why is that?"
"Well, I think it's better if you fight evil instead of eachother If we destroy eachother, then who would be left to face evil?" she played a few cards.
"Yeah I suppose that's true"
"Oh, to have your own Digi-egg! And watching it hatch!"
"Yeah, I miss that"
"Huh?" she looked at him.
"Oh!" he caught his mistake, "I missed your move that's all. What did you play?"
Oh, this one." She pointed to a card.
"Ah! Okay, thanks!" he played his turn.
Just another summer's day on Grandpa's farm,
With Grandma's bucket hanging off my arm,
You know, the old pump's rusty but it works fine
Primed with water from another time.
"Hey, Henry," Takato asked, "you want to try waiting for that Digimon again today?"
"Yeah sure! I've been itching to get back there." He answered.
"Alright! Let's go!" They followed their trail back to the vacant area in town.
"HEY!" Takato remarked, "Where'd everything go?"
"Hey you guys! What're you doing here?"
The two friends turned around. "Hey, Sam!" Takato said. He was nervous, "what are you ding here?"
"I hang around here often. I find it a place where most of the city noise is muted." She told them.
"Oh" Takato turned slightly to his friend and whispered out of the side of his mouth, "A little help here?"
Henry stepped forward, "How long have you been poking around here?"
"Since I got here. I had a few hours to myself on my first day, and I didn't have a time lag problem -- was ready for it and all -- and so I poked around until I found this place. Why? What's wrong with this place?"
"Um Have you seen anything strange around here then?" Henry continued.
"Yeah, some strange stuff but hey It's a strange city." She went to her bag and pulled out a green corduroy jacket and slipped it on.
"With or without your glasses on?" Takato asked.
"Oh," she tapped them as they sat on her face, "With them on for sure, I need these for distances. If I go through a tall city like this I need them on to keep down the vertigo."
"What kind of strange things have you seen?" Henry asked after he had silenced Takato with a glance.
She folded an arm and leaned her chin on the other. "So you were here? You found my stuff?"
Takato couldn't hold it in any more, "You have a Digimon!? Just like us!?"
"Takato!" Henry barked.
"Oops!"
Sam laughed slightly and answered his question, "Cantermon! Come on out."
"Oh!" Henry breathed.
A clickety-clack came from around a corner as a purplish-white Unicorn came out. It's horn was pink to match the tip of it's lion style tail and puffy fur around the tops of the hooves. It wore a thick pink and purple band style collar with a pink heart pendant.
"Wow! I can't believe it! Your one of us!"
