Hi, I'm back. This chapter is gonna be one of my worst ones, **no good ideas** so bare with me. This maybe a letdown next to IceDevimon, but cut me a break here, okay?

Rika: I'm not cutting you a break!

A/N Not you again... You're the one who's making me lose sleep.

Rika: I'm only haunting you till you write the next chapter. Then you will be given the permission to sleep. So, chop, chop!

A/N **Sigh** I think I like the frogs ribbiting and the crickets chirping better. So, Rika, you do the disclaimer and I will give thanks.

Rika: Angel13 is poor, she's been collecting pennies at the corner and saving money so don't sue if she forgets the disclaimer. She really does mean well. Oh, I'm supposed to do it? Okay, I am Rika Nonaka and I am not owned by Angel13 and neither is digimon owned by Angel13.

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Summer Vacation: I Dare You: Chapter 6

Ryo slept peacefully on his bunk. All the kids were out fooling around at the lake and Rika was also sleeping. Ryo's arm hurt when he moved it so he kept it at his side and made sure not to move too much. Ryo decided he wanted to get out of bed. Which was easier said than done at the time. is arm was pretty much useless until it healed. He was afraid that an icicle was lodged into the cut on his arm. Rika breathed softly and Ryo smiled. They had confessed their love for one another earlier that morning. It felt good to know he was loved by the same person he loved more than anything. He got off the bunk and walked over to Rika's bunk. Ryo rubbed his finger over her cheek and she stirred slightly.

"R-Ryo?"

Rika tried to sit up and Ryo gently pushed her back down so she was lying down.

"You need your rest."

Rika smiled weakly.

"Taking care of me, are we, Akiyama?"

"Yeah, I'm playing nursemaid."

"Do you always flirt with your patients?"

Rika grinned playfully and punched him in the arm.

"Ouch!"
Rika looked at him apologetically.

"Sorry, Ryo. Did I hurt you? Lemme see."

Ryo went to pull his arm away but Rika had it firmly and he groaned as she held it firmly.

"That hurts!"
"Don't whine. Let me see!"

"Fine... if you'll ease up on your grip..."

Rika eased up and she peeked at Ryo's arm. She rubbed it gently.

"What's wrong with it?"

She poked his arm and he flinched.

"That hurt!!"

Ryo hissed through gritted teeth.

"Is something lodged in there or something? Let me get a closer look."

Ryo grunted in pain. Rika felt and probed as gently as she could.

"I feel something."

"Ouch!"

Ryo went to pull his arm away.

"Stop acting like a baby!"

"Well, it hurts. How bout I squeeze one of your bruises?!"

"Sorry."

Rika smiled and took Ryo's hand.

"It'll get better, I promise."

"How do you know?"

"I just do. Should I kiss it and make it better?"

Rika grinned mischievously and Ryo blushed a bright red.

"I don't think that's necessary..."

"We're back! Rise and shine, sleepyheads."

"Ugh, Kazu. You sure know how to ruin a moment..."

Rika rolled her eyes in disgust.

"What I do?"

Kazu wondered out loud.

"Did we do something wrong?"

Kenta looked confused as well as Kazu.

Jodie entered behind Kazu and she grinned at him.

"Oh, Kazu..."

She cooed. Kazu began to blush.

"My goodness, snap back to Earth. We are calling you back to Earth!"

Kila's voice cut through the chatter like a knife.

"My, what a bunch of space cases."

Kila rolled her eyes.

"Finally, the voice of reason."

Rika grinned.

"Hi, Rika. Feel any better?"

"A little. Sleep does the body good. Thanks for asking, Jeri."

Henry and Takato appeared as they shut the door.

"Hey, Ryo, Rika."
"Hi, Gogglehead."

Henry nodded his hello. As usual, Henry wasn't talking much. He'd ask about what happened early later and would suggest something as usual.

"By the way, we were thinking of going to visit our digimon before horse-back riding. Wanna come?"

Takato waited for a reply.

"Sure."

Ryo nodded enthusiastically.

"I suppose I could spare time for it."

Rika shot a frown in Takato's direction which usually meant, 'Don't ask.'

Takato gulped.

"Pleasedon'thurtme.Ijustwantustoallhaveagoodtime."

"In English, Gogglehead."

Kila grinned.

"He said, 'Please, don't hurt me. I just want us to all have a good time.'"
"Thanks for being translator, Kila."

Rika's voice dripped with sarcasm.

Kila knew Rika's sarcasm and winked.

"That's my job!"

She flashed a thumbs-up sign.

"Let's go. I want to see Renamon."

They headed off in the direction of their digimon after telling Gina they were going for a hike.

They walked until they came to the clearing where the digimon were.

"Takato! Do you have any bread for me?"

"How about a cream puff? Those are just as good?"

"Do you guys like me for me or do you only like me because I bring food?"

"Both!"

Calumon giggled.

Takato sighed.

"We brought some stuff from breakfast. It's just..."

"Yay, cream puffs! You are the best, Takato."

"No problem, Calumon."

Guilmon attacked the bread rolls and soon, Terriermon and Monodramon joined in as well.

Kitamon and Guadromon began to snack on the pastries and Wolfmon waited.

"Wolfmon, aren't you hungry?"

Wolfmon took a bread roll and ate quietly.

"Renamon?"

Renamon appeared above her in a tree. Her visible wounds were healing quickly.

"How are you?"

"Better than how a human would've been in my condition. I see you are still not well."

"Very observant of you, Renamon. Something's wrong with Ryo. His arm hurts a lot."

"Strange......human beings are strange..."
"Impmon!!"
"In the flesh, toots. Before you wouldn't give a dirty handkerchief at the thought of Ryo and now you're worried. Geesh."

"Where are your partners, Ai and Mako?"

"I'm meeting up with them soon. Well, gotta fly, later, toots."
Impmon disappeared into the woods.

"He is one strange digimon. But, he is right, Rika. Why the sudden interest?"

Rika looked away.

"He saved my life. He didn't have to come. Besides, without Cyberdramon, we would've been goners, though I hate to admit it."
Renamon chuckled.

"Rika, you have a strange way of showing people you care."

Rika muttered something.

"I brought you some food by the way."

Rika handed her some pastries and a drink.

"What's this?"

"It tastes good. It'll help by restoring vitamins and nutrients into your body."

"Thanks you. Now, I suppose it's time for you to leave."
"Why's that?"

"Your friends are leaving."

"Oh. I'll come see you tonight, Renamon."

"Good-bye, Rika."

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Rika hurried to catch up with the others and Ryo was still rubbing his arm in pain.

"It still hurts?"

Ryo nearly jumped in surprise.

"Yeah."

"Should I tell Gina you should stay back? From horse-back riding, I mean."
"No, I'm fine."

"Ryo, it's not a good idea to do something when you're hurt."

"I'm fine, Rika. I swear."

Ryo forced a smile for her benefit.

Rika rolled her eyes.

"Boys..."

Rika went to talk with Kila and Henry began to talk to her.

"So, what happened? I was worried about you."

"Oh, Henry. Please, you don't have to worry about me."

"They postponed stuff for you guys. Someone had to have cared."
"Look, the nurse was all jumpy. She's a kook is what she is. Stop acting like a kook."

"I'm not. Just making sure nothing bad happened."

"Whatever. Besides, IceDevimon doesn't bother me."

Henry looked at her in surprise.

"IceDevimon?"

"I said too much..."

"I knew something fishy was going on. What happened this morning, Rika?"

"Look, stupid IceDevimon kidnapped me and Ryo came to my rescue, okay?!"

"Why were you and Ryo out early this morning?"

"Ryo wasn't with me!"

"Whatever. Just checking, Rika. Don't get all defensive."

"I'm not getting all defensive!!!!"
"Cool it you guys. We don't want a fight."

"Shut up, Gogglehead! You don't even know what we're fighting about. And we aren't fighting."

"What mood swings you've got their, Rika."

Rika fought back a grin.

"Shut up, Akihabara."

"Couldn't help putting my two sense in. Besides, stop picking on poor Takato."

"I'm not picking on Takato! Jeez, Kila, you're like talking with Ryo!"

"I am not."

Kila looked at Rika indignantly.

"Yes, you are."
"No, I'm not."

"C'mon stop acting like a bunch of two year olds."

Rika and Kila shouted simultaneously.

"Shut-up, Kazu! We're having a fight here."

"Don't pick on my...I mean Kazu..."

Jodie bnushed like crazy. Rika's eyes widened.

"I see what's going on here..."

"I bet..."

Kila quipped and Rika and Kila burst into giggles.

"What's so funny?"

"Never mind, Jeri."

"C'mon. We're gonna be late for horse-back riding."

They jogged after Kenta reminded them of what they needed to be back for.

"Where is everybody?"

"Maybe they were abducted by space aliens."

Kazu suggested.

Kila rolled her eyes.

"Weren't you listening to Gina this morning? We are the only cabin going for this hour. Only one cabin per hour. They only have a small amount of horses."

"Oh, yeah."

Kenta rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.

"Hey, look, it's a girl."

Kenta pointed.

"Wow, Einstein, you are so observant."

Kazu spoke with sarcasm.

"Let's wait for Gina-"

But, Ryo spoke too late. Kazu and Kenta had already run towards the girl.

"Boys, they see any cute girl and they run."

Kila nodded in disgust with Rika.

"We aren't all like that. At least, Henry, Takato, and I aren't."

"Well, you guys already have girlfriends."

Rika grinned like crazy.

"So does Kazu. Jodie and Kazu like one another."

Kila waited for Rika to burst into laughter which she did.

"You are not serious!!!!"

Rika doubled over with laughter and Jodie blushed red.

"It's not that funny."

Jodie glared at them and bit her lip.

By now, everyone was laughing their heads off.

Kila put an arm around Jodie's shoulder.

"It's just funny, Jo. Good thing you don't have a crush on Kenta and Kazu. We'd be howling till next year."

"Hey, guys. Meet this girl. Her name's Lina Nokoira."

"Hey everyone."

The girl grinned and waved. She had shoulder length wavy blonde hair with strange colored eyes. Her eyes were navy blue, about the color of Henry's hair. She was about an inch shorter than Kazu. She had on a pair of denim jeans and a gray tee-shirt.

"Lina, that's Rika Nonaka, Jeri Katou, Takato Matsuki, Henry Wong, Kila Akihabara, Jodie Jamison, and Ryo Akiyama. And, you know I'm Kenta and that's Kazu."

Lina nodded.

"It's nice to meet ya all. My family owns the horses here. I can give you a horse to match your personality to give you a bit of a challenge. Okay?"

They followed Lina to the stables and she led the horses out one by one.

"Jodie, you're gonna have a red chestnut named Curly cause she has a really curly mane. And it's natural."

"Cool, she's gorgeous."

"Jeri, you get Destiny. She's a black bay. She's a real sweetie pie."

"Oh, she's so sweet."

"Takato, you get Goggles. When he was born, he had this marks on his forehead and it kinda reminded me of goggle like markings."

Takato walked up to the bay and smiled.

"He's big..."

"Scared, Gogglehead?"

"Rika, this is your horse, MS."

Lina gestured to a black and white pinto with what looked like a yin-yang on her forehead.

"What's MS stand for?"

"Mood Swings, she's real confusing at times. She is nice one minute and can snap the next. Kazu told me about the girl who crazier than a soup sandwich and MS sounded great for you."

"I like her. She's got spunk."

The horse whinnied and trotted along, stamping a hoof impatiently.

Rika placed a hand on the horse's flank.

"Woah, girl. It's gonna be alright."

The horse snorted but she calmed down a little.

"Ryo, you've got Majestic. He's a white Arabian. he's a good one and he can be a little bit of a show off but he's usually great."

"Kenta, you've got Lone Star. He's a good one, but sometimes a bit over cautious."

Kenta looked at the dark tan colored Thoroughbred.

"Henry, you've got Chocolate. He's a mellow dark brown stallion over there."

Henry nodded and went over to the horse.

"Kila, you've got Lady G. Also known as Lady Ghost. She's that white Thoroughbred by Chocolate. She and Chocolate mated and she's due this coming fall."

Kila grinned at the beautiful horse that stood before her.

"Kazu, you've got Joker. He's the other bay. He likes to pick on the other horses sometime. He's a good horse deep-down though. When he's not causing trouble."

Kazu grinned.

"That's my kind of horse!"

"And I'll be riding, Mudd, my brown and black pinto. I raised her myself. She's a klutz like me."

Lina showed them how to mount and tack up the horses. They did well and mounted. They took a slow and easy trail and the kids got along well with their horses.

"Wanna try this next trail at a canter? We tried the other easy paces, trot and walk."

The kids nodded and they took the trail easily.

Lina spoke up again.

"Now, you've guys got the three basic speeds, wanna try this trail at a gallop? Slow the horse down if your horse looks like it will stumble or you feel like you're gonna fall off."

They returned to the stables and Lina told them to walk them at a nice pace.

"Now, I'm supposed to teach you guys how to jump. I think it's too much to teach jumping after the horses got their run down. How bout I request another riding lesson and I'll teach you jumping then. You can just hang out for the time being. Take a walk, groom the horse you've got or do both."

The others nodded and they dismounted.

Kenta went over to talk with Lina and the tamers headed off in pairs.

Henry and Kila headed to the meadow, leading their horses along.

Rika and Ryo ended up getting into a water battle when they had groomed their horses and then had went to get fresh water and it all started with Ryo dribbling a little water on her jeans and Rika splashed some his shirt and they ended up soaking head to toe.

Jeri and Takato ended up taking a short and quiet trail ride together.

Jodie and Kazu began joking around and they both ended up all wet because Jodie tripped over a bucket and falls right into a trough full of water and then Kazu falls in clumsily to make Jodie not feel like an idiot and they laughed all the while together.

Kenta and Lina had a nice chat at Lina's house while snacking on her mom's milk and chocolate chip cookies.

After about 20 minutes, the horses were put away, groomed and fed. Lina stood by the fence at her house.

"Come and visit me sometime. I'll have you guys up for jumping lessons. Sorry about you guys getting all wet."

"No worries. We like to be sopping."

Rika reassured her, grinned and sopping from head to toe still.

They waved and they headed back to their cabin. Ryo, Rika, Kazu, and Jodie dried off and changed. They had an hour of free time before light-out after dinner. Kenta went back to visit Lina and Takato and Kazu began a digimon card game. Henry and Kila went out on the wooden swing to talk some more. Ryo began to help Jodie with the digimon card game and Rika sat on the bunk with Jeri.

"Guess what I heard, Rika? There's gonna be a dance 2 nights from now."
"So what, Jeri? No one's gonna ask me."

"Ryo will. He likes you. It is so obvious."
Rika rolled her eyes and blushed.

"I know. When Ryo asks you to the dance, I dare you to go with him."

Rika almost said 'Who says I don't want to?' but changed her mind. She'd play along with Jeri into thinking she didn't like Ryo.

"Fine, just to get you off my back, I'll do it."
"Oh, we'll have to figure out what to wear."

Rika sighed.

"Sounds like oodles of fun, Jeri. Oh, and I'll bet Takato asks you out."

Jeri blushed.

"He already did. Let's go see who else got asked to the dance."

"Oh, joy, what fun."

Jeri pulled Rika outside.

Henry and Kila were sitting on the swing and were just leaning into kiss.

"Ooooh, Henry."

Rika spoke tauntingly.

Henry blushed.

"Kiss her already!"
"Go away."

Kila moaned.

"How cute."

Jeri squealed.

"Jeri wants to know if Henry asked you to the dance."

"I did, okay? Now, can you leave?"

Henry pleaded with Rika silently.

"Bye, Kila. I'll get you later, Henry."

"Bye, Rika."

"Light's out, you guys."

Kenta appeared coming up the steps.

"Let's go in, Jeri. C'mon, loverboy."

Henry went inside and Kila followed.

Jeri hissed in Rika's ear.

"I think they were holding hands too."

Rika smiled.

"I'm glad they like each other. They are good friends of mine and they are good friends with each other."
"Yup."

Jeri and Rika went in.

The other kids were already climbing into bed.

Rika couldn't resist as Henry said good night to Kila.

"Gonna give her a good night kiss, Henry?"

"Shut up, Rika."

Rika climbed into bed and snuggled against her pillow. If only Ryo would ask her to the dance.

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SHOUT OUT 2 Fiery-chan! Thanx for being so nice to me in chat. You're a good writer. Check out her fic, called WIldcat! It's Ryuki!