Henrika: A Tale of Two Tamers
Chapter 15
The four heroes exited the castle. Looking around, they could see that the Yuggoth bomb was indeed ruthless. The whole place was dissolving, coming apart at the pixels. And it was happing fast.
"There's the barrier!" shouted Henry, pointing across the de-compiling landscape.
"But it's too far now! We'll never make it time!" cried Rika. Indeed, at the rate things were disintegrating, it didn't seem like they had any chance of escape. Just then, Calumon came running by.
"Ohhhh, this game's no fun any more!"
A strange kind of vortex suddenly appeared before our heroes. The equally strange Calumon made no hesitation jumping into the vortex.
"Well there's something ya don't see everyday!" Terriermon exclaimed.
"What the heck is that thing?" inquired Rika.
"A way out of here!" Henry said. He began to move towards the vortex when Rika grabbed his arm.
"Wait a minute!" she said. "How do you know that thing's gonna take us back to the real world? What if it sends us somewhere else?"
Suddenly, the castle behind them completely collapsed and disintegrated. The destruction was growing closer.
"In a few seconds," Henry replied, "anywhere will be better than here!"
Rika looked back at Renamon. The fox Digimon nodded her head. Rika then looked down at Terriermon, who just gave a little shrug.
"Hey don't look at me, I'm just the comic relief!"
"Alright then," said Rika, her mind made up, "…let's do it."
The two tamers and two Digimon all jumped in at the same time. The vortex disappeared, just as everything else did.
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"Henry? Henry, wake up!"
Henry opened his eyes and found himself staring right into the purple eyes of Rika.
"Huh? Whoa, what happened?"
"It worked Henry," answered Rika, "we made it back!"
Henry got up off the grass to have a good look at his surroundings. He was standing in Rika's backyard, right where it all started.
"We made it…" Henry said to himself. "Wait, where's Terriermon?"
"Over here Henry!" Henry turned to his left to see Terriermon standing along side Renamon.
"Terriermon!" Henry cried with relief. "You made it back too!"
"Yep, we're all smiles over here!" Terriermon said, looking up at Renamon. The fox Digimon just sighed and shook her head. Just then, Takato and Guilmon came running in.
"Sorry we're late. We only just saw the Digital Field a few minutes ago. It looks like you guys took care of it though. So uh… what'd we miss?"
Henry and Terriermon couldn't help but start laughing at that statement. Even Rika, who hadn't laughed in the longest time, joined in. As they were in hysterics, Takato and Guilmon just stood there looking completely clueless.
"Something tells me we missed a lot, Takatomon!"
TO BE CONCLUDED
