Second chapter! Woo! ^_^; Sappy moments though. So watch it! Not much else to say... Unlike last time o.o;

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Summer of Suprise - Chapter Two: Puppishumon

**(The Next Day) 3:30 PM - Airport, Japan**

Crystal sat on the airport benches, waiting for her cousin.

"Finally," She whispered to herself, "I get to see Rika! I haven't seen Rika for such a long time... Infact, I haven't seen her since we were in diapers! I haven't been back in Japan for a while either... I haven't been here since mom and I moved..."

"Crystal!"

Crystal whirled around, standing up. Standing there was a girl, with two boys standing next to her... her face seemed familiar...

"Rika?!" She ran towards her cousin, almost crying with joy. The girls ran towards each other, hugging.

"Wow... I've never seen Rika so happy for ages, especially since Renamon left." The black haired boy commented.

The two girls looked at each other.

"You're so... tall!" Both of them commented in unison. They laughed.

"Rika, aren't you gonna introduce us? Takato here really wants to meet your cousin, after all." Henry said winking.

"Oh right..." Rika said, still smiling. "Crys, meet my friends. Henry, the joker, and Takato, the goggleboy who's crazy about you."

Takato blushed. "Hey! That's not funny."

"No worries," Crystal said, smiling. "I know my cousin's humor. It's no big."

"Woah! Your cousin has a sense of humor?" Takato said sarcastically, but he laughed.

"The name's Crystal, if you haven't heard." She held out her hand to the both of them. They shook.

"So, what's this Digimon card game thing I hear about you? I hear that you're kinda... err..." Henry searched for the words.

"Bad at it? Yeah," Crystal confessed. "It's true. I expect Rika to teach me a bit." She put her arm around her cousin. "After all, we're good friends, she'll let me beat her a FEW times."

"Don't get so cocky," Rika said, grinning wider than ever. "I'll still beat ya."

"So! Let's get going. I haven't seen Japan in ages."

**6:10 PM (Sundown Again) - Park, Japan**

"So WereGarurumon digivolves to MetalGarurumon?"

"Yeah! You're gettin' the hang of things." Henry said smiling.

"But ya still can't beat me, no matter how hard you try!" Rika said. Her smile wasn't fading one bit. She was happier than ever before.

Takato watched, admiring Crystal. She was so beautiful. So...

"Hey Takato! Wanna give me a few pointers? I heard you're pretty good too." Crystal said, looking up at the brown haired goggleboy.

"Um, sure!" He sat down next to Crystal. Suddenly something caught his eye. "Hey, err, actually, can I see your backpack for a moment?"

"There's nothing really in there," Crystal said shrugging. "Why not, I guess... Just don't be too snoopy..."

Takato reached in and pulled out... a digivice.

"Crystal! You have a digivice?!" Rika said, jumping up.

"Is that a big deal or something? I mean, you have one, don't you Rika?" Crystal said.

Rika pulled out hers. "Yeah, I do. But this means you're a tamer! How? I mean... the digimon... the... wait... what?!"

"Dude, I'm confused. Explain this to me..." Crystal said, cocking her head to the left.

"A while back," Takato said, starting it off, "we all had digimon. We were Digimon tamers. We did the whole saving the world thing, like they do in the show. Except it was real."

"Yeah. But a while back, our digimon had to go back to the Digital world." Henry said, adding on.

"And we haven't been able to see them since. Nothing digital whatsoever. And here you get your own digivice." Rika said finishing it.

Crystal picked up both her cousin's and her own digivice. It was just too real. She looked at both.

"Mine's different though... Mine's lighter blue than yours... and mine has dark blue pawprints on it." She stated. She kept looking at both, when suddenly, a bright light shot out of the small paddock where Guilmon used to be kept. All four children ran to the entrance.

"Guilmon!

"Renamon!

"Terriermon!"

All three of the original tamers were reunited with their partners. Renamon and Rika hugged. Takato was glomped by Guilmon. Terriermon flew up onto Henry's head with his usual greeting of "Momentai Henry!"

But yet another digimon came out of the paddock. It walked over to Crystal, smiling. It seemed so familiar...

It was the drawing she drew!

The creature advanced towards Crystal. It looked different than the other digimon... It was dog-like, almost like a puppy, and it had a dark blue pelt the same color of the pawprints on Crystal's digivice. It had a fluffy tail and large floppy ears which touched the ground. It also had equally long white bangs and a black cap on its head. But it was also different in other ways. Its eyes were similiar to human eyes, and the way it walked on its legs, it almost seemed like a human-like walk. It reached Crystal and looked up at her.

"Hey! Aren't ya gonna say hello to me or somethin'? You're bein' pretty rude ya know!" The creature exclaimed. It had a feminine voice that sounded very teenager-like, as if it was just a teenager in a creature body.

"What... what are you?" Crystal stuttered.

Rika's digivice did an analysm of the digital creature. "That's Puppishumon! A vaccine type. Oh, she's just a rookie. But don't let that and her cute looks fool you - She can be one hard hitter with her attacks, like Snow Fire or Icicle Punch, and deafening with her Piercing Howl!"

Crystal kneeled down, still blinking in suprise. "P-P-Puppishumon?"

"Actually, you can call me Puppi." Puppishumon said, twirling around and giggling. "That digivice is only partially right about me anyway. I'm your partner! The cutest digimon in the digital world, all yours. And I'm the most teenage-ish outgoing fun-loving thing you'll find for miles!"

Crystal looked at Rika. "So I'm a tamer... and I have a digimon... Wow, this is too good to be true."

"Yeah, a lot of things are that way." Takato said, smiling. He was happy for her, she could tell.

Crystal picked up her new partner, smiling. "Wow. I have a partner..." She said, almost whispering as she slowly petted Puppishumon's fur. Then she looked up at her new friends, grinning.

"I have a partner!"

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Yeah, sappy. TT; Dun bug me about it. Next chapter coming tommorrow... I'm at home sick and yeah . . Need my rest. *yawns*