Me: Well you know the deal I don't own Digimon or anything for that matter.
Rika (Still tied up): Hey you better untie me before gets here or you're really going to get it.
Renamon (Appears right beside her tamer): Well actually I have been here the whole time.
Rika (Looking at her digimon): Renamon untie me.
Renamon: Of course Rika (Bent down and untie Rika)
Rika (Getting to her feet): Thanks Renamon. (Then charged me)
Me (Just stood there and when Rika was near, move to the side and trip her): Okay on with the story before the kid here needs another time out.
In-Training: Chapter one: Collared.
After the run in with that mysterious human nearly two nights ago and the strange behavior of her tamer's mother, Renamon wasn't letting Rika out of her sights. Now quietly following Rika in shadow form, the fox-type digimon had this strange feeling that she wasn't the only one following the young redhead. But Renamon knew that the stranger had the ability of masking her own scent, making it hard to know if he was there of not. And those punches he gave really hurt, she thought as she rubbed a score spot on her stomach.
But what still surprised and puzzled her was the fact that he had sensed her and nailed her hard in the stomach.
And there were other things that complicated all of this even more. Like the way her tamer's mother sudden intense in her daughter's health. Or the weird conversation Rika's mother and her grandmother had that same two nights ago. They were talking about something that happened to both of them when they were around Rika's age. But before Renamon could learn any more, Rika's mother had somehow sense that Renamon was in the room, spying on them. But how the famous model did it still puzzled the digimon
And yet there were other things to add to this ever-growing mystery. A mystery that Renamon to the best of her knowledge hasn't been able to figure out yet
Then she saw something that took her mind off of the matter as the moment. The hut that a certain red-scaled digimon lived in. Just the site of that place made her cheeks grows hot. Luckily for her she was in shadow form or Rika would probably tease her about it. Her tamer knew about her secret crush on Guilmon. But then she picked up a familiar human scent that made her smile. For the human was that of Tokato Matsuki. Renamon knew her tamer had a crush on the unofficial leader of the group of humans known as the tamers. It was really by accident that she found out Rika's secret too.
Renamon had just come home from an evening moonwalk and was getting into bed when she heard the word, Tokato. Wondering what her tamer was dreaming about, she listened in. But she didn't have to wait long. For next Rika said the words I love you. Well that shocked Renamon so much that she actually fainted. Well she woke up the next morning, she saw Rika giving her a question glare. Next Rika told her that she was awoken when she had heard something hitting the floor. Well naturally Renamon her told her about what she heard and promise not to tell anybody about it. But for some reason Renamon told Rika about her crush for Guilmon. And like Renamon herself, Rika promised not to tell anybody about it either. Both tamer and digimon knew they would never betray one another.
She was pulled from her train of thought when she saw the face of Tokato. He was asleep against a wall near the steel cage-like door of Guilmon's home. The young tamer's head was tossing back and forth and was covered in sweat. Renamon had seen this before. It would seem that Tokato was having a nightmare. He has been having them a lot lately. But what could he be dreaming about? Renamon wondered.
(Tokato's dream)
He was back in the digital world, facing down Beelzemon, just after he deleted one his friends Juri Konto Digimon partner Leomon. That was about the time he lost control of his temper and ordered WarGrowlmon to digivolve into a monster called Megidramon. When he notice Beelzemon, he attacked him and the two mega-leveled digimon fought it out. But Beelzemon seemed outclassed even after he uploaded the data of the monkey deva Makuramon and the extra data of Taomon and Rapidmon. But still the monster that had once been Tokato's trusted friend and partner won against Beelzemon. And when he was done with that, the monster totally lost it and begins killing the tamers. Tokato watched helpless as his former went for the tamers, Henry Wong and his little sister Suzie.
Before struck died Tokato heard his friend say," It's all your fault Tokato." And with that his partner struck best friend and little sister down for good. Then Megidrarmon moved to his former tamer's others friends and killed them, one by one. Until he finally reached the only person to ever challenge Tokato. Rika Nonaka, the digimon queen. He watched as the fear and dread grow in her violet colored eyes. And before she was killed by his former partner claws, Rika said, I hate you Tokato." And with that being she was gone for good. Then the monster turned to Tokato and everything around the two just seems to fade, leaving only a dark, lifeless void.
Then Megidramon talked in his Guilmon child-like voice," Isn't this what you wanted Tamer?
Tokato was shocked, but he mannered to shouted back," I didn't want any of this!"
"But you did, my being is proof of that. Your anger caused all of this. You are the cause of all of this, so you must suffer."
Then Tokato felt something begin crawling up his feet. He looked down to see the very darkness itself covering his feet and moving up his body. Then he former partner turned monster vanished after saying," You're the monster not me.
And Tokato stood there being swallowed by the darkness his own raged had created. But before being completely swallowed, he said," I'm sorry everyone."
(End of Tokato dream)
The young man eyes snapped opened to see a young female with strawberry hair, looking just a tiny bit worried.
"Oh hi Rika," Tokato said in a low tone.
"Hey goggledhead what where you dreaming about?" she asked in her usual commending tone.
The male tamer got to his feet and said in a float tone," It's nothing."
And begin walking inside his partner home.
"It was about what happened in the digital world all of those years ago, right?" Rika asked with just a tiny bit of concern in her voice.
Tokato stopped and hanged his head. His grip on the old bar door became tighter as he said with great sorrow. "Yes, but just leave it as that." Then went inside.
Even the digimon queen knew when not to push things. So she just followed him in. Once inside she notice Tokato sitting against a wall to her right with his arms, but refusing to sleep. Even his digimon partner Guilmon, the bread-loving goofy dinoboy didn't seem like himself lately. He just sat there, eating some bread while staring at the person who brought that bread. And it bothered the young redhead tamer more then she lets on.
So to get her mind off of it, she pulled out her cards and begin going through them. But that was just a plan to lure the goggleheaded tamer into a game. And it worked too, for it wasn't long before the two tamers were playing a round of the game. And with Tokato fast growing skills of being a tamer and all, he was quickly reaching Rika's level. But he wasn't there yet. So Rika played a card, (R/N Sorry I don't know much about the game myself), that blew Tokato out of the water and won her the game.
But Tokato didn't look disappointed. Instead he was smiling. Rika liked it when he's smiled.
He's looks so cute when he smiles she thought as she stared into his eyes and he stared back. Both were lost in the moment, until they heard.
"Geeze would you two just kiss and get it over with," an all to familiar voice sarcastically said.
The pair turned their heads to see, Henry and his digimon partner Terriermon. Henry had his head hanging, his eyes closed with his thumb and index finger just below them.
"Well c'mon you are going to kiss or not?" Terriermon asked sarcastically.
Right at that moment both Tokato and Rika rushed forward, grabbed the small bunny/dog by his long ears and shoved him against a wall.
"Listen you, if you even say anything like that again, I'll make sure you would get something ten times worse then anything Henry's sister could even do, got that," Rika said angrily.
"Yeah same here," Tokato said.
"Yeah got you two, never say it again. Don't worry you can count on me," Terriermon said nervously.
"Good," the two tamers said and dropped the digimon.
But Henry who eyes had opened when he felt Terriermon being yanked from his shoulders notice the faint blush on his fellow tamers. But shrugged it off.
"Hey brainiac are you going to stand there all day or are you going to came in?" Rika asked sarcastically.
Henry just raised his right eyebrow as he set down next to his digimon. Out of the whole group, he was the only person that seems to be capable of putting up with her attitude. But he also knew a few things about his two best friends that he would never say. Mainly because he knew he would get a beating from both of his friends.
"So Henry what was so important that I need to give up my morning sleep-in?" Tokato asked jokily.
"Yeah I want to know that too. So out with it branic," Rika said.
Henry took a deep breath and said," Well my dad got a call from Yamaki the other day."
Everyone full attention turned on Henry when he said that name. Yamaki was the head of the secretly fond project called Hypnous, who job was to watch over the digital plane and unsure no wild digimon would even enter into the real world. But that didn't go so well. In truth because of Yamaki, some of the must powerful digimon the world would probably ever see enter into the real world. But if it were for the tamers and their digimon, the world would have probably been in slaved by those evil digimon. But the tamers stopped them and then Yamaki and his people allied with them during the fight with the D-reaper.
"Yeah and what did he say?" Tokato asked.
"Well he said that some kind of massive energy has been gathering between the boarders of the Digital and Real world for nearly two days," Henry explained calmly.
Everyone there fell silent, well almost everyone.
"Oh c'mon guys it's not like we can't take whoever this is on," Terriermon said.
"Terriermon, we don't know what we're up against," Henry said scolding his digimon.
"Oh c'mon we took on the D-reaper remember, so I think we can take on a long digimon," Terriermon said.
Henry just shocks his head. But then he looked over at Rika, knowing all to well that at one point she would have agreed with his partner. But she changed. A lot.
"So what do we do?" Tokato asked.
"Well that's easy gogglehead we wait," Rika replied in he usual tone.
But then they heard a beeping noise coming from their D-arks and Guilmon's eyes narrowed at he begin growling
"Boy that wasn't long," Tokato said.
"Well let's go boys," Rika said as she dashed out of the old building.
"Man some things never change," Tokato said as he and Henry hurried to caught up with Rika.
(Somewhere close)
The mysterious black-cloaked stranger had listen to the whole conversation. And wasn't surprised that the girl was so much like those who he angered so much. She has her mother stubbornness and at the same time her father cold hard determination. But today I'll see who she takes after more. Not that it really matters, but I must know, he thought.
For the passed two days, he had watched over the young girl known as a digimon tamer and learned. And was quite surprised of how much that thing knows as a digimon resemble her tamers father. The stranger could only frown when he thought of that man. The every man who defeated the stranger so long, long ago.
That digimon thing is so much like him. That cold hard stare that hides so much. Her fighting ability so close to that man. Being able to fade in the shadows just like he could. Everything about that digimon reminds me of that man who defeated me, his anger was raising as he ran his thumb down the scar on his cheek.
But he quickly calmed down. If he looses his temper now, everything could be lost. He had worked to hard for the past two days and beyond that for his revenge. And he didn't want to waste his carefully planning to something as stupid as his own rage.
It is said that revenge is a dish best shoved cold. And I have been waiting thirteen years for this. Surely I can wait a few more days for my plans to unfold.
But the stranger could only frown again when the word "thirteen" appeared in his head.
For nearly that long he had spent regaining strength after his fight with that man and he had spent that time planning. He had traveled around the world, collecting things for his revenge, studying in many different arts, taking many test and suffering many embarrassing times. But it was worth it, for now the time was drawing even closer.
Part of his plan was to see how strong that digimon was by pining it against it own. So he had send his consciousness into something called the digital world and found a digimon that was close to entering the real world and bargained with it to hold out for two day, before entering the real world. And if that digimon did that, the stranger would gave the digimon more power to defeat the ones called the tamers.
In the end the digimon agreed and was now just entering into the real world. But the stranger knew even with the power he would be giving the digimon still wouldn't help him won. He pulled himself out of thought because he was needed now.
The stranger begin Levantine off of the tree he was using to spy on his prey and high into the air. He could see a fog beginning to blanket somehow not to far off. Then he begins flying towards the fog with an evil grin on his face.
(Inside the Digital field)
The three tamers ran into the fog and then Henry and Rika took off their shades and Tokato pull his goggles up. Then they looked at their newest opponent. For anyone who is familiar with that cartoon show known as Digimon would recognize this one. He had four roots like legs. His was shaped like a tree's. He had two long arms with a cane type like thing in his right hand. He had bush like hair and cherries sticking out of it. His eyes glowed with a dark red color.
Rika pulled out her D-ark and got the data of this new wild one. "Cherrymon, ultimate level, his attacks are cherrybomb and weed whacker." (R/N I came up with those attacks because I really don't know them and If anyone know the real attacks or a good site where I can found the real attacks of Cherrymon I would love to hear about it)
That was about the time Renamon appeared by her tamer's side. She notice the color of this Cherrymon's eyes were off. She had fought with a few Cherrymon while in the digital world and she knew that their eyes were yellow not red. Plus from the look in those discolored eyes, Renamon could tell this Cherrymon was completely mindless. And for some reason she had a bad feeling about this wild one.
"Ready Renamon?" Rika asked as she pulled out a card from her pack.
"Always," the fox digimon replied calmly as she stepped forward.
"You ready boy," Tokato asked as he pulled a card from his pocket.
"Ready Tokatomon," Guilmon said.
"Henry," Terriermon said as he jumped off of his tamer shoulder and joined his friends
"Right," Henry replied, also pulling out a card.
The three digimon then stepped and readied for battle. Then the wild digimon used his free arm to hit the other digimon.
Then each tamer brought their cards up to their D-arks and screamed," Digi-modify!" and ran the cards through their digivice.
"Hyper wing activate!" Tokato cried out.
"Hyper speed activate," Henry and Rika cried out in unison.
The red dino digimon leaped into the air as glowing wings appeared on his back. Renamon dashed to the right, while Terriermon dashed to the left. The Cherrymon looked between the three digimon angrily.
"Pyro spear!" and a ball of fire launched from Guilmon's mouth.
Renamon leaped into the air and pulled her arms close," Diamond storm!" And throw her arms out, hundreds of appeared and rained down towards the wild.
Bunny blast!" green energy shout out of the bunny/dog's mouth.
The three attacks meat head-on, but did little damage. Guilmon's wings disappeared, then he and Renamon returned back to the ground. Then the wild one stroke all three down with is free arm.
"Guilmon!"
"Renamon!"
"Terriermon!"
"Hey momenti we're fine," Terriermon said as he and the others got to their feet.
"Don't worry Rika we will win," Renamon reinsured her tamer.
"Like Terriermon said we have taken worse then this," Guilmon said.
"Okay then lets gave them some help," Tokato said turning to his friends.
The other tamers nodded and all picked out another card.
"Digi-modify! Digivolution activate!" the tamer called out and swiped the card through their D-arks
Guilmon Digivolve to.Growlmon!
Renamon Digivolve to.Kyubimon!
Terriermon Digivolve to.Gargomon
The three now champion digimon stood tall and pride. Growlmon was just a bigger version of Guilmon, only with white hair. Kyubimon now stood on all fours with nine blue flaming tails and a large collar around her neck. Gargomon was just another bigger version of Terriermon with only pants and guns for hands.
The Cherrymon looked at the three new digimon with a sinister grin. Kyubimon didn't like that and decided to attack.
She jumped into the air and began rolling like a ball. Faster and faster until she was a spinning ball of blue flame. "Dragon Wheel!" And a dragon-like shouts out of the ball and collided with the Cherrymon. But he was unharmed.
Then Growlmon tried," Pyroblaster!" And a bigger ball of fire came out of his mouth. It strikes the wild digimon, but still he was fine.
Finally Gargomon tried his hand, literally," Gargo laser!" and green energy like bullets shout out of his guns and hit it target. But still the Cherrymon wasn't hurt.
But Kyubimon notice that Gargomon attacks were being blocked by some kind of shield. And she knew that Cherrymon don't have any kind and that worried her. But she would do whatever it takes to protect her tamer and the others.
Then Cherrymon took a step forward and titled his head forward," Cherry bombs?" And cherry size objects began shouting out of the bush-like hair and straight at the tamers.
The digimon shielded their tamers and took the full force of the cherry bombs. But with the bonds the tamers shared with their digimon, they felt their partner's pain. The three champion level digimon were hurt badly, but refused to give up. Then the wild digimon fired another around of cherry bombs. And once again the digimon shielded their partners, hurting them more.
But this time a few of the cherry bombs broke through the digimon defense and heading straight towards Rika. Seeing this Rika wished she had the strength to move but with Kyubimon being hurt and Rika feeling her pain the female tamer was frozen in place. But just when the cherry bombs were about to hit, Tokato came running and tackled Rika and both fell to the ground. The cherry bombs flew over the tamers and exploded behind them a few seconds later. But Tokato and Rika didn't seem to notice that. When they fell, both had made eye contact and got lost in them. Time itself seem to stop just for them. But that pissed quickly as they heard the sound of the battle resuming. Tokato quickly shook his head to clear his thoughts and got to his feet, followed by Rika. Both didn't notice the light pink on their cheeks.
Tokato pulled out another card, which turn blue. Bring it to his D- ark, he screamed as he ran it through it," Digi-modify! Matrix Digivolution activate!"
"Gowlmon matrix digivolve to.WARGOWLMON!!"
The virus-type digimon entire upper body was now covered in armor with a metal wipe looking object on his back.
The ultimate roared loudly as he stepped in front of the other injured digimon. "Atomic blusterrrrrrrs!" And two beams of massive red energy shot out of cannon-like things on the digimon chest. The wild one didn't have time to do anything as the attack collided with him and he bust into data right on the spot.
The tamers and digimon watch as the data floated up to the sky and vanished. Then the fog vanished itself and the group of six leaved that scene.
(Close to the digital field)
The stranger had to admit, it was a good fight and he helped the Cherrymon out too. He had sent some extra power to the digimon, giving him a power boost and yet the brats had won. But he was very impressed with the way his prey handle herself.
She good I can say that much. But she had no real idea of what she is capable of. And that's works for me, he thought.
He was now following the tamers high above them. But he wasn't focus on the young redhead. No instead he was looking at the boy with the goggles. This boy gave the stranger something to worry about.
I saw the way those two looked at each other and I understand they both have deep feeling for each other. And that could ruin my carefully lay out plan, he thought.
The stranger knew what he was planning on doing to his prey could easily be broken by true love. And if that boy does care for her deeply then I got a problem.
He stopped and got into a sitting position as he thought. But it didn't take him long to come up with something an idea that could work very well.
Yes why not destroy any hope by dear sister may have of her brat returning to normal by doing some thing to the goggle wearing boy, he thought as he began flying again.
He flew ahead of the tamers and landed in an ally. He began chanting in some strange language and pulled his arms out while still under his cloak. Holes the sizes of hands appeared on the cape and the stranger pulled his hands through. The cape continued to change and shrink until it resembles a normal everyday jacket. His tight fitting pants also became more loss fitting until they also resembled jeans. Then the black color seemed to melt away, leaving only a normal pair of light blue jeans, white sneakers and a light green spring jacket. Then a baseball cape appeared in his right hand and a pair of glasses was in it. He put them on and exited the ally.
But he just stood against the wall next to the ally mouth with his hands on his jacket pocket. But his eyes were looking to his right, like he was looking for someone. Then he saw them, the tamers. The stranger pushed off the wall and started walking towards them.
(To the tamers)
The digimon went to the park another way as their tamers took another way too. But something was on the mind of one certain tamer. Henry had also notice the discoloring in the Cherrymon's eyes just like Renamon had and it worried him.
Something didn't seem right about that whole battle and why do I have this strange feeling that someone was watching us, he thought.
Henry has been known to be a little paranoid in his time as a tamer, but this feeling was something else. But then his mind drafted back to the fight with the Charrymon as something else came to mind. Mainly about Rika and Tokato. Henry hid a tiny smile behind his and when he thought about his friends and fellow tamers. It's written all over both of their faces. But of course Tokato's to sky and Rika would never admit it. But I know those two care about each other deeply, he thought.
Rika was trying her hardest to get the thought of what happened to her during the fight with the wild digimon out of her head. He just did it because we're friends and gogglehead is always doing stuff like that anywhere. But I did kinda like it.
She had to admit she liked that stupid gogglehead more then she lets on. But telling her true feelings wasn't something she was very good at. She tried her hardest not to smirk when another thought popped into her head. She knew that Renamon had deep feeling feels for Guilmon just like Rika had for Tokato.
But then someone bumped into her and she lost her footing. She would have fell if Tokato and Henry weren't there to catch her. But the guy who bumped into Rika didn't say anything as he walked passed the three tamers.
Well that was the point when Rika lost her temper. Pulling free of her friends she screamed," Hey you!"
The person who bumped into her stopped and turned to face her. "What?" he asked in an annoyed tone.
Rika ran up to the man with the boys following close behind. "Are you going to say you're sorry for bumping into me?" Rika asked in her own annoyed voice.
"Me? If anybody should say they're sorry around here it's you," the guy said.
"ME! I wasn't the one who bumped into you, you bumped inot me," Rika's voice was starting to rise.
"No you bumped into me and I went you to say you're sorry," the guy said, his voice calm.
"I'm not apologizing for something I didn't do," Rika said, almost shouting.
"And I'm not apologizing to some brat who thinks she better then me," the guy said still calmly.
"BRAT!?" This time Rika did scream.
"Yeah got a problem with it brat?" this time the guy voice had juat a hint of sarcasm in it.
Well that did it. Rika completely lost her temper and kneed the guy in his grain. But to the surprise of all the tamers, the guy didn't seem to be in pain. He still had the calm expression. Then within a blink of an eye, the guy had reached inot his lift jacket pocket, take something out and hanged it around Rika's neck. Then he slapped Rika hard, sending her to the ground. The guy stepped over her and leaved with a victory grin on his face.
Rika got up and tried to take off the necklace that guy had slipped on her. But it would come off. It just seem like the stupid thing was smaller then Rika's head. And she seems unable to fine the hook to it either.
"Rika are you okay?" Tokato asked.
"I'm fine gogglehead," she replied a little angrily.
But the two male tamers could see a very large blister where she was just slapped. And they also studied the necklace that guy had slipped on their friend. It looks liked to be made gold with a squareish chain. Hanging from the chain was an oval shaped object with a symbol on it. The symbol was a broken heart with an arrow through it. Tokato admitted it suited Rika.
"Turn around and I'll get it," Henry said.
That made Tokato a little jealousy. He wanted to help Rika. But she turned around and Henry began fidgeting with the necklace chain. He fidgets with that the thing for nearly five minutes, but just couldn't seem to fine a hook.
"Would you hurry up brainaic, I don't like the looks some people are giving us," Rika said sounding annoyed.
"Rika I can't find a hook," Henry said in a low tone.
"What!?" Rika sounded really annoyed now.
"Like Henry said, there's seem to be no hook for the thing," Tokato replied.
"Don't be stupid gogglehead, I hear it when that jerk slipped this thing on me," Rika said.
"And Tokato and me see him hook it onto you, but it just seem like the hook has disappeared," Henry replied calmly
"Now that's the most stupidest thing I even heard," Rika said and began to working with the necklace herself. But she too found no hook.
"Well now that's weird," Tokato said.
"Yeah it definitely is," Henry said.
But Rika didn't add in her saying, she was to busy looking at the symbol on the necklace. Then she started to feel a bit light lightheaded. But it passed quickly.
"Well I don't know about any of you but I'm bored and going home," Rika said coldly and lifted the two males tamers alone with their thoughts.
"So what do you think about this Henry?" Tokato asked.
"Wish I do, but I don't," the blue hair boy replied.
(Nonaka household)
Rika was still a little upset about earlier. But what really made her blood boil was the fact that no matter had hard she tried she just couldn't get that stupid necklace off. It was like the stupid thing was to small to just simply slip over her head. Plus she knew how her mother would take this. Now I would have to listen to her talk all night about me having a boyfriend. Just what I don't need, she thought grimly.
She enter into her house and called out," Grandma I'm home."
"Good dinner nearly ready," she heard her grandma say.
"Okay so what are we having?" Rika asked.
"Rice and beef," her grandmother replied.
"Sounds good," Rika said as she entered the kitchen.
Rika set down in her usual spot and waited for her mother to arrive. While she waited, she looked at the broken hearted symbol with an arrow on the necklace. At one point Rika wore a broken heart on her shirt. But that was before she meat Renamon and the others tamers. Before her journey in the digital world had change her.
"Rika could you please set the table," her grandmother voice seems to fade when she saw the thing around her granddaughter neck. First she had a look of worry in her eyes and she was close to dropping the things in her hands. But that soon was replaced with a look of pure hatred and her grip tightens on the stuff she had in her hands. But that too quickly faded and the elder went back to what she was doing.
But Rika notice the look in her grandmother's eyes and it made her a little uneasy. Man I never seen grandma like that before. And it's all because of this piece of junk around my neck, she thought.
"Rika where did you get that?" she heard her mother asked.
Rika sigh and turned to face her mother ready for what was coming next. But what she saw wasn't what she was expanding. Her mother had the same pure hatred in her eyes as her grandmother did only a few minutes ago. And for once in her entire life Rika was scared of her own mother. But she acted like she usual do," Just some jerk."
"What did he look like," Rumiko asked coldly.
"He was just some jerk," Rika said cold as her mother.
"What did he look like?" Rumiko asked again.
"All I know is he had a scar on his cheek," Rika said her voice rising a little.
"A lighten bolt scar?" Rika's mother asked calmly.
Rika was a little surprised by that. But she acted like it was nothing," Yeah, why one of your old boyfriend?"
But Rumiko didn't responded, she just set down at the table. But Rika notices the look in her mother's eyes had remained the same. Pure anger for something, but yet her face was calm and expressionless And Rika really hated to admit it, but her mother looked like she did so long ago. And it made the young female tamer really uneasy.
After dinner Rika want straight to her bedroom, only to find Renamon there, waiting for her. "Rika where did-?"
"Not one word about where this stupid piece of junk came from," Rika said angrily
"I wasn't going to ask about the necklace, I was just wondering where did you get that blister on you cheek form," Renamon replied calmly.
"Huh?" Rika went over to her desk and fished out a mirror from one of her draws. She lifted it to her face and saw a blister on her right cheek. "I wonder how that got there?"
"Well what happened after I leaved?" Renamon asked.
"Well some jerk bumped into me after the battle with the wild digimon," Rika said.
"And let me guess you two got into it right," Renamon said.
"Yeah and he really pissed me off, so I kneed in the grain," Rika said proudly.
"Rika was that really called for?" Renamon asked.
"I was mad, but then something weird happened," Rika said.
"Weird," Renamon fox-like ears twitched when she heard that word.
"Yeah it was like he wasn't even in pain when I kneed, that's when he slipped this hunk of junk on me and he," Rika trailed off, as she thought.
"He did what?" Renamon asked.
"He slapped me, hard too," Rika said after a moment.
"He slapped you," Renamon said calmly. But in her mind she was wondering something. How could a simple slap cause blister? "Rika may I see that necklace?"
"Wish I could but this stupid thing just didn't want to come off," Rika said with a sigh.
"Let me try," Renamon said.
"If you insist," Rika said with a shrug.
"She turned around and Renamon went over to her tamer. The fox digimon had just placed her paws on the chain when she felt incredible heat coming off of it. It was so intense that she felt it through her gloves and was force to pull her paws away, but she didn't blow on them.
"Renamon is something wrong?" Rika asked.
"No it's just I couldn't get it off either," Renamon said calmly.
Rika turned and face her digimon partner, sensing something was off. But the vaccine-type face betrayed nothing. But as the tamer looked at her digimon, the digimon was looking at the symbol on the necklace. Renamon knew she seen that broken arrow through a broken heart somewhere before.
Then Rika yawned," Well I don't know about you but just standing here is boring me to sleep."
"Okay night then Rika," Renamon said then disappeared.
(In the living room)
Renamon was looking through a shelve fall of books, looking for something. She found what she was looking for and took it off the case. It was an old brown leather covered book. And on it was the arrow through the broken heart symbol on the cover. But there was a second symbol next to the heart symbol. The second symbol was a black lighten bolt.
Renamon couldn't resist, she had to open it. But when she did, she was very surprised. And that doesn't happen often either.
It was a photo album of nothing but Rika. The picture Renamon was looking at was of Rika's last birthday party. The fox digimon turned through a few pages and was again surprise by a photo of the reunion of the tamers and digimon nearly two years ago. But the weirdest thing is Renamon doesn't remember seeing either Rika's mother or grandmother there.
But Renamon just shrugged it off and continued to look through the album. And amazing was the only thought that seem to come to the fox digimon's mind. This album was felled with picture of Rika throughout her life. Pictures of parties, of old childhood friends, which kinda surprised Renamon.
But as she continued, Renamon saw picture of the first time Rika was walking to her father. The first time Rika ate solid food. And try as hard as she could Renamon couldn't fight back the single tear that ran down her cheek.
Then she flipped to the last page and studied it. It was of two people in a hospital room. She realized the person in the bed was Rika's mother, looking quit tired. Renamon realized Rumiko must have just given born to her tamer. She also notices the man holding Rika looked very happy, his violet eyes glowing with happiness and his black hair was a complete mass.
Probably from worrying so much. Wait, something seems off. She turns back to the page with a four year old Rika walking to a father with brown hair and green eyes. Yes this person is indeed different from the other person in the last photo, Renamon thought.
But then a hand closed the book and took from Renamon. The fox digimon didn't show her surprise as she watch Miss Makino put the book back in the bookcase.
"Memories are like a river, they never truly die, just got put somewhere else," Rika's grandmother said calmly.
"What do you mean?" Renamon asked calmly.
"Well I created this album so Rumiko would never truly forget about her daughter just as I created one of my own daughter," the elder pull out another book and handed it to Renamon.
The fox digimon took it and opened it to the first page. It was Rika's mother and by Renamon guess, Rika's father on their wedding day. They looked like they both were about ready to kiss and both looked very happy.
She flipped the through pages and saw Rika's parents again only much younger and with that guy Renamon notice from the picture of Rika walking for the first time.
Renamon flipped through the album and saw the life of her tamer's mother life, like with her tamer's album. She turned to the middle of the album and saw a picture of Rika's grandmother with a blonde fur cat. And the elder looked sad for some reason.
"Ma'am what with this one?" Renamon asked as she pointed to the picture.
"Oh that one, that's when Rumiko disappeared and I got that cat because it remind me of her," Rika's grandmother said.
But Renamon notice a signal tear running down her tamer's grandmother's right cheek. But the fox digimon acted like she saw nothing and went back to looking through the album. Once she was done with it, she put it back on the case next to the one of her tamer.
"Memories are like rivers, they're never truly forgotten just misplaced," Miss Mokino repeated.
"But why create something like these?" Renamon asked as she waved to the two albums.
"My daughter went missing for nearly a year. So I decided to create something that I could remember her by incase I never saw her again. About the time Rika was five her father was taken from her and my daughter and granddaughter grew apart, so I decided to create something to help my daughters remembers hers," Miss Mokino said softly.
Renamon was quit moved by all of this, but she didn't show it. She would have never guess of doing something like that. She really cares that much for both of them.
"But I think you know that better then anyone else," Rika's grandma said.
"What do you mean?" Renamon asked, again hiding the feeling of surprise.
"Well in a way you knew that even though Rika acted tough on the outside, but on the inside she was lonely and crying out for a someone to call a friend. And in end you stayed by her side until that day. Until she found friends who liked the way she was. In the you led her to the happiness she secretly wanted for so long," Miss. Mokino said in the must softest voice Renamon ever heard.
But the words of her tamer's grandmother had a ring of truth. But before anything else could be said Rumiko entered.
"Oh sorry didn't know I was interrupting anything," she said in her usual way,
"Oh, it's no trouble, in fact I was I was just leaving," Renamon said, then faded into the shadows.
Once both were sure Renamon was gone, the looked in the two women eyes changed. Pure hatred now burns greatly on both women eyes.
"Now we know that he is indeed alive," Miss Mokino said in a firm voice.
"Yes, but where on Earth did he fine that necklace? I thought it was sealed away, buried somewhere and all records destroyed long ago," Rumiko said with great concerned in her voice.
"I thought so too, but he found it and now using it on Rika," the elder kept her voice firm.
"And there's nothing I can do about it either," Rumiko said in a waving voice and eyes watering up. "I have been such a terrible mother and now this. How can I even live with myself now?" Then the tear came.
Miss Makino went over and tried to comfort her daughter. "I know it hurts now but in time the pain will go away."
"No mother the pain would never go away for me," Rumiko snapped at her own mother. But she quickly realized what she had done. "Sorry," she said bitterly.
"It's alright, I know what you're going through," the elder said softly.
"I just thought that my daughter wouldn't have to go through what I want through at her age. I thought she was free and now this happens," Rumiko voice was raising with each passing second, but it was felled with sorrow and greff.
Miss Makino embraced her daughter in a tight hug and said," I know, but now all we can do it be there for Rika."
But Rumiko wasn't listening, she was to busy crying her out. So the elder jus held onto her daughter tight and let Rumiko have a shoulder to cry on.
(Tokato's house)
The young tamer was in his room, doing what he usual does when he needs to think. Drawing. He was drawing some kind of new digimon
It had a long yellow cape. It armor was similar to that of Galletmon's, Guilmon's mega form. Only instead of the grayish white armor, this new digimon armor was pure gold with a yinyang on its chest. It had a holy staff in its right hand with a sword hanging by it right side. It also had the purple gloves of Sakuyamon, the mega form of Renamon. The also resemble Renamon's mega form, only this one had a face plant. Its arms were thick and built, just a little smaller then Galletmon Crimean mode. This new digimon didn't have clawed hands like Galletmon. No this new digimon had hands closely resembling Sakuamon's. And for some odd reason on its right hand Tokato put a black lightening bolt.
Then he began creating attacks. For some reason attacks like twin justice and black lightening strike stuck in his head. But what he wrote for a name throw him for a loop. The name he chosen was SakuyaGalletmon.
"I wonder why I would call it that?" Tokato asked him.
But then he notices something that he wasn't even aware of when he was drawing. The eyes of this new digimon were violet like Rika's. That just seems to confuse the young tamer more. Why would he draw eyes that resemble a friend? In fact why did he draw this picture in the first place?
But he had admitted it was one of his best works yet. But as he looked at those violet eyes, his mind drafted back to this afternoon.
It was strange he thought. That guy took a hit to the grain like was nothing and easily batted Rika way like she was nothing. And what's with that necklace anywhere's? But thinking wasn't he strong point. So he went back to drawing.
(Outside Tokato's room)
The mysterious cloak figure was nearly standing right in front of the young tamer's window and Tokato didn't even notice him.
The figure watched as Tokato was drawing had hatred it very much. I hate anyone like that. All goody-goody. It makes me sick to my stomach. But soon that will end.
He draws his hands into his cloak and when he withdraws them, he had something in his right hand. He then looked at the young man again. Enjoy this while you can kid, because soon it all will come to an end. Very hard.
An evil grin crossed his face as he fell to the ground without making a sound and just walked away.
But this time the stranger was being watched himself. A ghostly figure appeared next to a trash can with it arms folded across its chest. This ghost wore a white t-shirt with baggy blue jeans and red high-tops with metal tips.
He looked up at the window to Tokato's room and smiled. Thanks kid. Maybe you're the right one. And with that the ghost just faded away.
Me: Well that's it for now. I like you word on my make-up digimon.
Rika (Looking really P.O.ed): Okay I want to know the deal with those two jerks and about the thing around my neck.
Me: Well that would be spoiling now wouldn't it. You would need to wait to see just like everyone else. And I am leaving the ghost dude hanging until another story. (Walked away.)
Rika (Still tied up): Hey you better untie me before gets here or you're really going to get it.
Renamon (Appears right beside her tamer): Well actually I have been here the whole time.
Rika (Looking at her digimon): Renamon untie me.
Renamon: Of course Rika (Bent down and untie Rika)
Rika (Getting to her feet): Thanks Renamon. (Then charged me)
Me (Just stood there and when Rika was near, move to the side and trip her): Okay on with the story before the kid here needs another time out.
In-Training: Chapter one: Collared.
After the run in with that mysterious human nearly two nights ago and the strange behavior of her tamer's mother, Renamon wasn't letting Rika out of her sights. Now quietly following Rika in shadow form, the fox-type digimon had this strange feeling that she wasn't the only one following the young redhead. But Renamon knew that the stranger had the ability of masking her own scent, making it hard to know if he was there of not. And those punches he gave really hurt, she thought as she rubbed a score spot on her stomach.
But what still surprised and puzzled her was the fact that he had sensed her and nailed her hard in the stomach.
And there were other things that complicated all of this even more. Like the way her tamer's mother sudden intense in her daughter's health. Or the weird conversation Rika's mother and her grandmother had that same two nights ago. They were talking about something that happened to both of them when they were around Rika's age. But before Renamon could learn any more, Rika's mother had somehow sense that Renamon was in the room, spying on them. But how the famous model did it still puzzled the digimon
And yet there were other things to add to this ever-growing mystery. A mystery that Renamon to the best of her knowledge hasn't been able to figure out yet
Then she saw something that took her mind off of the matter as the moment. The hut that a certain red-scaled digimon lived in. Just the site of that place made her cheeks grows hot. Luckily for her she was in shadow form or Rika would probably tease her about it. Her tamer knew about her secret crush on Guilmon. But then she picked up a familiar human scent that made her smile. For the human was that of Tokato Matsuki. Renamon knew her tamer had a crush on the unofficial leader of the group of humans known as the tamers. It was really by accident that she found out Rika's secret too.
Renamon had just come home from an evening moonwalk and was getting into bed when she heard the word, Tokato. Wondering what her tamer was dreaming about, she listened in. But she didn't have to wait long. For next Rika said the words I love you. Well that shocked Renamon so much that she actually fainted. Well she woke up the next morning, she saw Rika giving her a question glare. Next Rika told her that she was awoken when she had heard something hitting the floor. Well naturally Renamon her told her about what she heard and promise not to tell anybody about it. But for some reason Renamon told Rika about her crush for Guilmon. And like Renamon herself, Rika promised not to tell anybody about it either. Both tamer and digimon knew they would never betray one another.
She was pulled from her train of thought when she saw the face of Tokato. He was asleep against a wall near the steel cage-like door of Guilmon's home. The young tamer's head was tossing back and forth and was covered in sweat. Renamon had seen this before. It would seem that Tokato was having a nightmare. He has been having them a lot lately. But what could he be dreaming about? Renamon wondered.
(Tokato's dream)
He was back in the digital world, facing down Beelzemon, just after he deleted one his friends Juri Konto Digimon partner Leomon. That was about the time he lost control of his temper and ordered WarGrowlmon to digivolve into a monster called Megidramon. When he notice Beelzemon, he attacked him and the two mega-leveled digimon fought it out. But Beelzemon seemed outclassed even after he uploaded the data of the monkey deva Makuramon and the extra data of Taomon and Rapidmon. But still the monster that had once been Tokato's trusted friend and partner won against Beelzemon. And when he was done with that, the monster totally lost it and begins killing the tamers. Tokato watched helpless as his former went for the tamers, Henry Wong and his little sister Suzie.
Before struck died Tokato heard his friend say," It's all your fault Tokato." And with that his partner struck best friend and little sister down for good. Then Megidrarmon moved to his former tamer's others friends and killed them, one by one. Until he finally reached the only person to ever challenge Tokato. Rika Nonaka, the digimon queen. He watched as the fear and dread grow in her violet colored eyes. And before she was killed by his former partner claws, Rika said, I hate you Tokato." And with that being she was gone for good. Then the monster turned to Tokato and everything around the two just seems to fade, leaving only a dark, lifeless void.
Then Megidramon talked in his Guilmon child-like voice," Isn't this what you wanted Tamer?
Tokato was shocked, but he mannered to shouted back," I didn't want any of this!"
"But you did, my being is proof of that. Your anger caused all of this. You are the cause of all of this, so you must suffer."
Then Tokato felt something begin crawling up his feet. He looked down to see the very darkness itself covering his feet and moving up his body. Then he former partner turned monster vanished after saying," You're the monster not me.
And Tokato stood there being swallowed by the darkness his own raged had created. But before being completely swallowed, he said," I'm sorry everyone."
(End of Tokato dream)
The young man eyes snapped opened to see a young female with strawberry hair, looking just a tiny bit worried.
"Oh hi Rika," Tokato said in a low tone.
"Hey goggledhead what where you dreaming about?" she asked in her usual commending tone.
The male tamer got to his feet and said in a float tone," It's nothing."
And begin walking inside his partner home.
"It was about what happened in the digital world all of those years ago, right?" Rika asked with just a tiny bit of concern in her voice.
Tokato stopped and hanged his head. His grip on the old bar door became tighter as he said with great sorrow. "Yes, but just leave it as that." Then went inside.
Even the digimon queen knew when not to push things. So she just followed him in. Once inside she notice Tokato sitting against a wall to her right with his arms, but refusing to sleep. Even his digimon partner Guilmon, the bread-loving goofy dinoboy didn't seem like himself lately. He just sat there, eating some bread while staring at the person who brought that bread. And it bothered the young redhead tamer more then she lets on.
So to get her mind off of it, she pulled out her cards and begin going through them. But that was just a plan to lure the goggleheaded tamer into a game. And it worked too, for it wasn't long before the two tamers were playing a round of the game. And with Tokato fast growing skills of being a tamer and all, he was quickly reaching Rika's level. But he wasn't there yet. So Rika played a card, (R/N Sorry I don't know much about the game myself), that blew Tokato out of the water and won her the game.
But Tokato didn't look disappointed. Instead he was smiling. Rika liked it when he's smiled.
He's looks so cute when he smiles she thought as she stared into his eyes and he stared back. Both were lost in the moment, until they heard.
"Geeze would you two just kiss and get it over with," an all to familiar voice sarcastically said.
The pair turned their heads to see, Henry and his digimon partner Terriermon. Henry had his head hanging, his eyes closed with his thumb and index finger just below them.
"Well c'mon you are going to kiss or not?" Terriermon asked sarcastically.
Right at that moment both Tokato and Rika rushed forward, grabbed the small bunny/dog by his long ears and shoved him against a wall.
"Listen you, if you even say anything like that again, I'll make sure you would get something ten times worse then anything Henry's sister could even do, got that," Rika said angrily.
"Yeah same here," Tokato said.
"Yeah got you two, never say it again. Don't worry you can count on me," Terriermon said nervously.
"Good," the two tamers said and dropped the digimon.
But Henry who eyes had opened when he felt Terriermon being yanked from his shoulders notice the faint blush on his fellow tamers. But shrugged it off.
"Hey brainiac are you going to stand there all day or are you going to came in?" Rika asked sarcastically.
Henry just raised his right eyebrow as he set down next to his digimon. Out of the whole group, he was the only person that seems to be capable of putting up with her attitude. But he also knew a few things about his two best friends that he would never say. Mainly because he knew he would get a beating from both of his friends.
"So Henry what was so important that I need to give up my morning sleep-in?" Tokato asked jokily.
"Yeah I want to know that too. So out with it branic," Rika said.
Henry took a deep breath and said," Well my dad got a call from Yamaki the other day."
Everyone full attention turned on Henry when he said that name. Yamaki was the head of the secretly fond project called Hypnous, who job was to watch over the digital plane and unsure no wild digimon would even enter into the real world. But that didn't go so well. In truth because of Yamaki, some of the must powerful digimon the world would probably ever see enter into the real world. But if it were for the tamers and their digimon, the world would have probably been in slaved by those evil digimon. But the tamers stopped them and then Yamaki and his people allied with them during the fight with the D-reaper.
"Yeah and what did he say?" Tokato asked.
"Well he said that some kind of massive energy has been gathering between the boarders of the Digital and Real world for nearly two days," Henry explained calmly.
Everyone there fell silent, well almost everyone.
"Oh c'mon guys it's not like we can't take whoever this is on," Terriermon said.
"Terriermon, we don't know what we're up against," Henry said scolding his digimon.
"Oh c'mon we took on the D-reaper remember, so I think we can take on a long digimon," Terriermon said.
Henry just shocks his head. But then he looked over at Rika, knowing all to well that at one point she would have agreed with his partner. But she changed. A lot.
"So what do we do?" Tokato asked.
"Well that's easy gogglehead we wait," Rika replied in he usual tone.
But then they heard a beeping noise coming from their D-arks and Guilmon's eyes narrowed at he begin growling
"Boy that wasn't long," Tokato said.
"Well let's go boys," Rika said as she dashed out of the old building.
"Man some things never change," Tokato said as he and Henry hurried to caught up with Rika.
(Somewhere close)
The mysterious black-cloaked stranger had listen to the whole conversation. And wasn't surprised that the girl was so much like those who he angered so much. She has her mother stubbornness and at the same time her father cold hard determination. But today I'll see who she takes after more. Not that it really matters, but I must know, he thought.
For the passed two days, he had watched over the young girl known as a digimon tamer and learned. And was quite surprised of how much that thing knows as a digimon resemble her tamers father. The stranger could only frown when he thought of that man. The every man who defeated the stranger so long, long ago.
That digimon thing is so much like him. That cold hard stare that hides so much. Her fighting ability so close to that man. Being able to fade in the shadows just like he could. Everything about that digimon reminds me of that man who defeated me, his anger was raising as he ran his thumb down the scar on his cheek.
But he quickly calmed down. If he looses his temper now, everything could be lost. He had worked to hard for the past two days and beyond that for his revenge. And he didn't want to waste his carefully planning to something as stupid as his own rage.
It is said that revenge is a dish best shoved cold. And I have been waiting thirteen years for this. Surely I can wait a few more days for my plans to unfold.
But the stranger could only frown again when the word "thirteen" appeared in his head.
For nearly that long he had spent regaining strength after his fight with that man and he had spent that time planning. He had traveled around the world, collecting things for his revenge, studying in many different arts, taking many test and suffering many embarrassing times. But it was worth it, for now the time was drawing even closer.
Part of his plan was to see how strong that digimon was by pining it against it own. So he had send his consciousness into something called the digital world and found a digimon that was close to entering the real world and bargained with it to hold out for two day, before entering the real world. And if that digimon did that, the stranger would gave the digimon more power to defeat the ones called the tamers.
In the end the digimon agreed and was now just entering into the real world. But the stranger knew even with the power he would be giving the digimon still wouldn't help him won. He pulled himself out of thought because he was needed now.
The stranger begin Levantine off of the tree he was using to spy on his prey and high into the air. He could see a fog beginning to blanket somehow not to far off. Then he begins flying towards the fog with an evil grin on his face.
(Inside the Digital field)
The three tamers ran into the fog and then Henry and Rika took off their shades and Tokato pull his goggles up. Then they looked at their newest opponent. For anyone who is familiar with that cartoon show known as Digimon would recognize this one. He had four roots like legs. His was shaped like a tree's. He had two long arms with a cane type like thing in his right hand. He had bush like hair and cherries sticking out of it. His eyes glowed with a dark red color.
Rika pulled out her D-ark and got the data of this new wild one. "Cherrymon, ultimate level, his attacks are cherrybomb and weed whacker." (R/N I came up with those attacks because I really don't know them and If anyone know the real attacks or a good site where I can found the real attacks of Cherrymon I would love to hear about it)
That was about the time Renamon appeared by her tamer's side. She notice the color of this Cherrymon's eyes were off. She had fought with a few Cherrymon while in the digital world and she knew that their eyes were yellow not red. Plus from the look in those discolored eyes, Renamon could tell this Cherrymon was completely mindless. And for some reason she had a bad feeling about this wild one.
"Ready Renamon?" Rika asked as she pulled out a card from her pack.
"Always," the fox digimon replied calmly as she stepped forward.
"You ready boy," Tokato asked as he pulled a card from his pocket.
"Ready Tokatomon," Guilmon said.
"Henry," Terriermon said as he jumped off of his tamer shoulder and joined his friends
"Right," Henry replied, also pulling out a card.
The three digimon then stepped and readied for battle. Then the wild digimon used his free arm to hit the other digimon.
Then each tamer brought their cards up to their D-arks and screamed," Digi-modify!" and ran the cards through their digivice.
"Hyper wing activate!" Tokato cried out.
"Hyper speed activate," Henry and Rika cried out in unison.
The red dino digimon leaped into the air as glowing wings appeared on his back. Renamon dashed to the right, while Terriermon dashed to the left. The Cherrymon looked between the three digimon angrily.
"Pyro spear!" and a ball of fire launched from Guilmon's mouth.
Renamon leaped into the air and pulled her arms close," Diamond storm!" And throw her arms out, hundreds of appeared and rained down towards the wild.
Bunny blast!" green energy shout out of the bunny/dog's mouth.
The three attacks meat head-on, but did little damage. Guilmon's wings disappeared, then he and Renamon returned back to the ground. Then the wild one stroke all three down with is free arm.
"Guilmon!"
"Renamon!"
"Terriermon!"
"Hey momenti we're fine," Terriermon said as he and the others got to their feet.
"Don't worry Rika we will win," Renamon reinsured her tamer.
"Like Terriermon said we have taken worse then this," Guilmon said.
"Okay then lets gave them some help," Tokato said turning to his friends.
The other tamers nodded and all picked out another card.
"Digi-modify! Digivolution activate!" the tamer called out and swiped the card through their D-arks
Guilmon Digivolve to.Growlmon!
Renamon Digivolve to.Kyubimon!
Terriermon Digivolve to.Gargomon
The three now champion digimon stood tall and pride. Growlmon was just a bigger version of Guilmon, only with white hair. Kyubimon now stood on all fours with nine blue flaming tails and a large collar around her neck. Gargomon was just another bigger version of Terriermon with only pants and guns for hands.
The Cherrymon looked at the three new digimon with a sinister grin. Kyubimon didn't like that and decided to attack.
She jumped into the air and began rolling like a ball. Faster and faster until she was a spinning ball of blue flame. "Dragon Wheel!" And a dragon-like shouts out of the ball and collided with the Cherrymon. But he was unharmed.
Then Growlmon tried," Pyroblaster!" And a bigger ball of fire came out of his mouth. It strikes the wild digimon, but still he was fine.
Finally Gargomon tried his hand, literally," Gargo laser!" and green energy like bullets shout out of his guns and hit it target. But still the Cherrymon wasn't hurt.
But Kyubimon notice that Gargomon attacks were being blocked by some kind of shield. And she knew that Cherrymon don't have any kind and that worried her. But she would do whatever it takes to protect her tamer and the others.
Then Cherrymon took a step forward and titled his head forward," Cherry bombs?" And cherry size objects began shouting out of the bush-like hair and straight at the tamers.
The digimon shielded their tamers and took the full force of the cherry bombs. But with the bonds the tamers shared with their digimon, they felt their partner's pain. The three champion level digimon were hurt badly, but refused to give up. Then the wild digimon fired another around of cherry bombs. And once again the digimon shielded their partners, hurting them more.
But this time a few of the cherry bombs broke through the digimon defense and heading straight towards Rika. Seeing this Rika wished she had the strength to move but with Kyubimon being hurt and Rika feeling her pain the female tamer was frozen in place. But just when the cherry bombs were about to hit, Tokato came running and tackled Rika and both fell to the ground. The cherry bombs flew over the tamers and exploded behind them a few seconds later. But Tokato and Rika didn't seem to notice that. When they fell, both had made eye contact and got lost in them. Time itself seem to stop just for them. But that pissed quickly as they heard the sound of the battle resuming. Tokato quickly shook his head to clear his thoughts and got to his feet, followed by Rika. Both didn't notice the light pink on their cheeks.
Tokato pulled out another card, which turn blue. Bring it to his D- ark, he screamed as he ran it through it," Digi-modify! Matrix Digivolution activate!"
"Gowlmon matrix digivolve to.WARGOWLMON!!"
The virus-type digimon entire upper body was now covered in armor with a metal wipe looking object on his back.
The ultimate roared loudly as he stepped in front of the other injured digimon. "Atomic blusterrrrrrrs!" And two beams of massive red energy shot out of cannon-like things on the digimon chest. The wild one didn't have time to do anything as the attack collided with him and he bust into data right on the spot.
The tamers and digimon watch as the data floated up to the sky and vanished. Then the fog vanished itself and the group of six leaved that scene.
(Close to the digital field)
The stranger had to admit, it was a good fight and he helped the Cherrymon out too. He had sent some extra power to the digimon, giving him a power boost and yet the brats had won. But he was very impressed with the way his prey handle herself.
She good I can say that much. But she had no real idea of what she is capable of. And that's works for me, he thought.
He was now following the tamers high above them. But he wasn't focus on the young redhead. No instead he was looking at the boy with the goggles. This boy gave the stranger something to worry about.
I saw the way those two looked at each other and I understand they both have deep feeling for each other. And that could ruin my carefully lay out plan, he thought.
The stranger knew what he was planning on doing to his prey could easily be broken by true love. And if that boy does care for her deeply then I got a problem.
He stopped and got into a sitting position as he thought. But it didn't take him long to come up with something an idea that could work very well.
Yes why not destroy any hope by dear sister may have of her brat returning to normal by doing some thing to the goggle wearing boy, he thought as he began flying again.
He flew ahead of the tamers and landed in an ally. He began chanting in some strange language and pulled his arms out while still under his cloak. Holes the sizes of hands appeared on the cape and the stranger pulled his hands through. The cape continued to change and shrink until it resembles a normal everyday jacket. His tight fitting pants also became more loss fitting until they also resembled jeans. Then the black color seemed to melt away, leaving only a normal pair of light blue jeans, white sneakers and a light green spring jacket. Then a baseball cape appeared in his right hand and a pair of glasses was in it. He put them on and exited the ally.
But he just stood against the wall next to the ally mouth with his hands on his jacket pocket. But his eyes were looking to his right, like he was looking for someone. Then he saw them, the tamers. The stranger pushed off the wall and started walking towards them.
(To the tamers)
The digimon went to the park another way as their tamers took another way too. But something was on the mind of one certain tamer. Henry had also notice the discoloring in the Cherrymon's eyes just like Renamon had and it worried him.
Something didn't seem right about that whole battle and why do I have this strange feeling that someone was watching us, he thought.
Henry has been known to be a little paranoid in his time as a tamer, but this feeling was something else. But then his mind drafted back to the fight with the Charrymon as something else came to mind. Mainly about Rika and Tokato. Henry hid a tiny smile behind his and when he thought about his friends and fellow tamers. It's written all over both of their faces. But of course Tokato's to sky and Rika would never admit it. But I know those two care about each other deeply, he thought.
Rika was trying her hardest to get the thought of what happened to her during the fight with the wild digimon out of her head. He just did it because we're friends and gogglehead is always doing stuff like that anywhere. But I did kinda like it.
She had to admit she liked that stupid gogglehead more then she lets on. But telling her true feelings wasn't something she was very good at. She tried her hardest not to smirk when another thought popped into her head. She knew that Renamon had deep feeling feels for Guilmon just like Rika had for Tokato.
But then someone bumped into her and she lost her footing. She would have fell if Tokato and Henry weren't there to catch her. But the guy who bumped into Rika didn't say anything as he walked passed the three tamers.
Well that was the point when Rika lost her temper. Pulling free of her friends she screamed," Hey you!"
The person who bumped into her stopped and turned to face her. "What?" he asked in an annoyed tone.
Rika ran up to the man with the boys following close behind. "Are you going to say you're sorry for bumping into me?" Rika asked in her own annoyed voice.
"Me? If anybody should say they're sorry around here it's you," the guy said.
"ME! I wasn't the one who bumped into you, you bumped inot me," Rika's voice was starting to rise.
"No you bumped into me and I went you to say you're sorry," the guy said, his voice calm.
"I'm not apologizing for something I didn't do," Rika said, almost shouting.
"And I'm not apologizing to some brat who thinks she better then me," the guy said still calmly.
"BRAT!?" This time Rika did scream.
"Yeah got a problem with it brat?" this time the guy voice had juat a hint of sarcasm in it.
Well that did it. Rika completely lost her temper and kneed the guy in his grain. But to the surprise of all the tamers, the guy didn't seem to be in pain. He still had the calm expression. Then within a blink of an eye, the guy had reached inot his lift jacket pocket, take something out and hanged it around Rika's neck. Then he slapped Rika hard, sending her to the ground. The guy stepped over her and leaved with a victory grin on his face.
Rika got up and tried to take off the necklace that guy had slipped on her. But it would come off. It just seem like the stupid thing was smaller then Rika's head. And she seems unable to fine the hook to it either.
"Rika are you okay?" Tokato asked.
"I'm fine gogglehead," she replied a little angrily.
But the two male tamers could see a very large blister where she was just slapped. And they also studied the necklace that guy had slipped on their friend. It looks liked to be made gold with a squareish chain. Hanging from the chain was an oval shaped object with a symbol on it. The symbol was a broken heart with an arrow through it. Tokato admitted it suited Rika.
"Turn around and I'll get it," Henry said.
That made Tokato a little jealousy. He wanted to help Rika. But she turned around and Henry began fidgeting with the necklace chain. He fidgets with that the thing for nearly five minutes, but just couldn't seem to fine a hook.
"Would you hurry up brainaic, I don't like the looks some people are giving us," Rika said sounding annoyed.
"Rika I can't find a hook," Henry said in a low tone.
"What!?" Rika sounded really annoyed now.
"Like Henry said, there's seem to be no hook for the thing," Tokato replied.
"Don't be stupid gogglehead, I hear it when that jerk slipped this thing on me," Rika said.
"And Tokato and me see him hook it onto you, but it just seem like the hook has disappeared," Henry replied calmly
"Now that's the most stupidest thing I even heard," Rika said and began to working with the necklace herself. But she too found no hook.
"Well now that's weird," Tokato said.
"Yeah it definitely is," Henry said.
But Rika didn't add in her saying, she was to busy looking at the symbol on the necklace. Then she started to feel a bit light lightheaded. But it passed quickly.
"Well I don't know about any of you but I'm bored and going home," Rika said coldly and lifted the two males tamers alone with their thoughts.
"So what do you think about this Henry?" Tokato asked.
"Wish I do, but I don't," the blue hair boy replied.
(Nonaka household)
Rika was still a little upset about earlier. But what really made her blood boil was the fact that no matter had hard she tried she just couldn't get that stupid necklace off. It was like the stupid thing was to small to just simply slip over her head. Plus she knew how her mother would take this. Now I would have to listen to her talk all night about me having a boyfriend. Just what I don't need, she thought grimly.
She enter into her house and called out," Grandma I'm home."
"Good dinner nearly ready," she heard her grandma say.
"Okay so what are we having?" Rika asked.
"Rice and beef," her grandmother replied.
"Sounds good," Rika said as she entered the kitchen.
Rika set down in her usual spot and waited for her mother to arrive. While she waited, she looked at the broken hearted symbol with an arrow on the necklace. At one point Rika wore a broken heart on her shirt. But that was before she meat Renamon and the others tamers. Before her journey in the digital world had change her.
"Rika could you please set the table," her grandmother voice seems to fade when she saw the thing around her granddaughter neck. First she had a look of worry in her eyes and she was close to dropping the things in her hands. But that soon was replaced with a look of pure hatred and her grip tightens on the stuff she had in her hands. But that too quickly faded and the elder went back to what she was doing.
But Rika notice the look in her grandmother's eyes and it made her a little uneasy. Man I never seen grandma like that before. And it's all because of this piece of junk around my neck, she thought.
"Rika where did you get that?" she heard her mother asked.
Rika sigh and turned to face her mother ready for what was coming next. But what she saw wasn't what she was expanding. Her mother had the same pure hatred in her eyes as her grandmother did only a few minutes ago. And for once in her entire life Rika was scared of her own mother. But she acted like she usual do," Just some jerk."
"What did he look like," Rumiko asked coldly.
"He was just some jerk," Rika said cold as her mother.
"What did he look like?" Rumiko asked again.
"All I know is he had a scar on his cheek," Rika said her voice rising a little.
"A lighten bolt scar?" Rika's mother asked calmly.
Rika was a little surprised by that. But she acted like it was nothing," Yeah, why one of your old boyfriend?"
But Rumiko didn't responded, she just set down at the table. But Rika notices the look in her mother's eyes had remained the same. Pure anger for something, but yet her face was calm and expressionless And Rika really hated to admit it, but her mother looked like she did so long ago. And it made the young female tamer really uneasy.
After dinner Rika want straight to her bedroom, only to find Renamon there, waiting for her. "Rika where did-?"
"Not one word about where this stupid piece of junk came from," Rika said angrily
"I wasn't going to ask about the necklace, I was just wondering where did you get that blister on you cheek form," Renamon replied calmly.
"Huh?" Rika went over to her desk and fished out a mirror from one of her draws. She lifted it to her face and saw a blister on her right cheek. "I wonder how that got there?"
"Well what happened after I leaved?" Renamon asked.
"Well some jerk bumped into me after the battle with the wild digimon," Rika said.
"And let me guess you two got into it right," Renamon said.
"Yeah and he really pissed me off, so I kneed in the grain," Rika said proudly.
"Rika was that really called for?" Renamon asked.
"I was mad, but then something weird happened," Rika said.
"Weird," Renamon fox-like ears twitched when she heard that word.
"Yeah it was like he wasn't even in pain when I kneed, that's when he slipped this hunk of junk on me and he," Rika trailed off, as she thought.
"He did what?" Renamon asked.
"He slapped me, hard too," Rika said after a moment.
"He slapped you," Renamon said calmly. But in her mind she was wondering something. How could a simple slap cause blister? "Rika may I see that necklace?"
"Wish I could but this stupid thing just didn't want to come off," Rika said with a sigh.
"Let me try," Renamon said.
"If you insist," Rika said with a shrug.
"She turned around and Renamon went over to her tamer. The fox digimon had just placed her paws on the chain when she felt incredible heat coming off of it. It was so intense that she felt it through her gloves and was force to pull her paws away, but she didn't blow on them.
"Renamon is something wrong?" Rika asked.
"No it's just I couldn't get it off either," Renamon said calmly.
Rika turned and face her digimon partner, sensing something was off. But the vaccine-type face betrayed nothing. But as the tamer looked at her digimon, the digimon was looking at the symbol on the necklace. Renamon knew she seen that broken arrow through a broken heart somewhere before.
Then Rika yawned," Well I don't know about you but just standing here is boring me to sleep."
"Okay night then Rika," Renamon said then disappeared.
(In the living room)
Renamon was looking through a shelve fall of books, looking for something. She found what she was looking for and took it off the case. It was an old brown leather covered book. And on it was the arrow through the broken heart symbol on the cover. But there was a second symbol next to the heart symbol. The second symbol was a black lighten bolt.
Renamon couldn't resist, she had to open it. But when she did, she was very surprised. And that doesn't happen often either.
It was a photo album of nothing but Rika. The picture Renamon was looking at was of Rika's last birthday party. The fox digimon turned through a few pages and was again surprise by a photo of the reunion of the tamers and digimon nearly two years ago. But the weirdest thing is Renamon doesn't remember seeing either Rika's mother or grandmother there.
But Renamon just shrugged it off and continued to look through the album. And amazing was the only thought that seem to come to the fox digimon's mind. This album was felled with picture of Rika throughout her life. Pictures of parties, of old childhood friends, which kinda surprised Renamon.
But as she continued, Renamon saw picture of the first time Rika was walking to her father. The first time Rika ate solid food. And try as hard as she could Renamon couldn't fight back the single tear that ran down her cheek.
Then she flipped to the last page and studied it. It was of two people in a hospital room. She realized the person in the bed was Rika's mother, looking quit tired. Renamon realized Rumiko must have just given born to her tamer. She also notices the man holding Rika looked very happy, his violet eyes glowing with happiness and his black hair was a complete mass.
Probably from worrying so much. Wait, something seems off. She turns back to the page with a four year old Rika walking to a father with brown hair and green eyes. Yes this person is indeed different from the other person in the last photo, Renamon thought.
But then a hand closed the book and took from Renamon. The fox digimon didn't show her surprise as she watch Miss Makino put the book back in the bookcase.
"Memories are like a river, they never truly die, just got put somewhere else," Rika's grandmother said calmly.
"What do you mean?" Renamon asked calmly.
"Well I created this album so Rumiko would never truly forget about her daughter just as I created one of my own daughter," the elder pull out another book and handed it to Renamon.
The fox digimon took it and opened it to the first page. It was Rika's mother and by Renamon guess, Rika's father on their wedding day. They looked like they both were about ready to kiss and both looked very happy.
She flipped the through pages and saw Rika's parents again only much younger and with that guy Renamon notice from the picture of Rika walking for the first time.
Renamon flipped through the album and saw the life of her tamer's mother life, like with her tamer's album. She turned to the middle of the album and saw a picture of Rika's grandmother with a blonde fur cat. And the elder looked sad for some reason.
"Ma'am what with this one?" Renamon asked as she pointed to the picture.
"Oh that one, that's when Rumiko disappeared and I got that cat because it remind me of her," Rika's grandmother said.
But Renamon notice a signal tear running down her tamer's grandmother's right cheek. But the fox digimon acted like she saw nothing and went back to looking through the album. Once she was done with it, she put it back on the case next to the one of her tamer.
"Memories are like rivers, they're never truly forgotten just misplaced," Miss Mokino repeated.
"But why create something like these?" Renamon asked as she waved to the two albums.
"My daughter went missing for nearly a year. So I decided to create something that I could remember her by incase I never saw her again. About the time Rika was five her father was taken from her and my daughter and granddaughter grew apart, so I decided to create something to help my daughters remembers hers," Miss Mokino said softly.
Renamon was quit moved by all of this, but she didn't show it. She would have never guess of doing something like that. She really cares that much for both of them.
"But I think you know that better then anyone else," Rika's grandma said.
"What do you mean?" Renamon asked, again hiding the feeling of surprise.
"Well in a way you knew that even though Rika acted tough on the outside, but on the inside she was lonely and crying out for a someone to call a friend. And in end you stayed by her side until that day. Until she found friends who liked the way she was. In the you led her to the happiness she secretly wanted for so long," Miss. Mokino said in the must softest voice Renamon ever heard.
But the words of her tamer's grandmother had a ring of truth. But before anything else could be said Rumiko entered.
"Oh sorry didn't know I was interrupting anything," she said in her usual way,
"Oh, it's no trouble, in fact I was I was just leaving," Renamon said, then faded into the shadows.
Once both were sure Renamon was gone, the looked in the two women eyes changed. Pure hatred now burns greatly on both women eyes.
"Now we know that he is indeed alive," Miss Mokino said in a firm voice.
"Yes, but where on Earth did he fine that necklace? I thought it was sealed away, buried somewhere and all records destroyed long ago," Rumiko said with great concerned in her voice.
"I thought so too, but he found it and now using it on Rika," the elder kept her voice firm.
"And there's nothing I can do about it either," Rumiko said in a waving voice and eyes watering up. "I have been such a terrible mother and now this. How can I even live with myself now?" Then the tear came.
Miss Makino went over and tried to comfort her daughter. "I know it hurts now but in time the pain will go away."
"No mother the pain would never go away for me," Rumiko snapped at her own mother. But she quickly realized what she had done. "Sorry," she said bitterly.
"It's alright, I know what you're going through," the elder said softly.
"I just thought that my daughter wouldn't have to go through what I want through at her age. I thought she was free and now this happens," Rumiko voice was raising with each passing second, but it was felled with sorrow and greff.
Miss Makino embraced her daughter in a tight hug and said," I know, but now all we can do it be there for Rika."
But Rumiko wasn't listening, she was to busy crying her out. So the elder jus held onto her daughter tight and let Rumiko have a shoulder to cry on.
(Tokato's house)
The young tamer was in his room, doing what he usual does when he needs to think. Drawing. He was drawing some kind of new digimon
It had a long yellow cape. It armor was similar to that of Galletmon's, Guilmon's mega form. Only instead of the grayish white armor, this new digimon armor was pure gold with a yinyang on its chest. It had a holy staff in its right hand with a sword hanging by it right side. It also had the purple gloves of Sakuyamon, the mega form of Renamon. The also resemble Renamon's mega form, only this one had a face plant. Its arms were thick and built, just a little smaller then Galletmon Crimean mode. This new digimon didn't have clawed hands like Galletmon. No this new digimon had hands closely resembling Sakuamon's. And for some odd reason on its right hand Tokato put a black lightening bolt.
Then he began creating attacks. For some reason attacks like twin justice and black lightening strike stuck in his head. But what he wrote for a name throw him for a loop. The name he chosen was SakuyaGalletmon.
"I wonder why I would call it that?" Tokato asked him.
But then he notices something that he wasn't even aware of when he was drawing. The eyes of this new digimon were violet like Rika's. That just seems to confuse the young tamer more. Why would he draw eyes that resemble a friend? In fact why did he draw this picture in the first place?
But he had admitted it was one of his best works yet. But as he looked at those violet eyes, his mind drafted back to this afternoon.
It was strange he thought. That guy took a hit to the grain like was nothing and easily batted Rika way like she was nothing. And what's with that necklace anywhere's? But thinking wasn't he strong point. So he went back to drawing.
(Outside Tokato's room)
The mysterious cloak figure was nearly standing right in front of the young tamer's window and Tokato didn't even notice him.
The figure watched as Tokato was drawing had hatred it very much. I hate anyone like that. All goody-goody. It makes me sick to my stomach. But soon that will end.
He draws his hands into his cloak and when he withdraws them, he had something in his right hand. He then looked at the young man again. Enjoy this while you can kid, because soon it all will come to an end. Very hard.
An evil grin crossed his face as he fell to the ground without making a sound and just walked away.
But this time the stranger was being watched himself. A ghostly figure appeared next to a trash can with it arms folded across its chest. This ghost wore a white t-shirt with baggy blue jeans and red high-tops with metal tips.
He looked up at the window to Tokato's room and smiled. Thanks kid. Maybe you're the right one. And with that the ghost just faded away.
Me: Well that's it for now. I like you word on my make-up digimon.
Rika (Looking really P.O.ed): Okay I want to know the deal with those two jerks and about the thing around my neck.
Me: Well that would be spoiling now wouldn't it. You would need to wait to see just like everyone else. And I am leaving the ghost dude hanging until another story. (Walked away.)