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Night's Sky.
Chapter Fourteen-Henry's Calling
I couldn't exactly tell what was up there. It just looked like a hole. A big black hole. I don't know how it did what it did but it made me so scared. I was trembling with fear. In all honesty, I don't think I could move my fingers or anything. I saw another, we all felt it, but this flash was bigger and brighter this time. That made me move. Suddenly I clutched onto Ryo's hand, for safety and security and also because he was the nearest to me...wait I don't need to justify myself! What am I saying; you don't need to know why. The fact is I did it and that's all really.
Anyway, Henry was looking straight up. Alice was too, and asking him what it was.
"Alice please, calm down. Now listen, all of you, that...that thing up there, whatever it is, well it's only here for one person. So if you could all just move away from me..."
"No Henry, you're coming with us, it can't take anyone, what are you saying?" Alice cut in, but Henry just spoke louder above her, I could see the tears forming in his eyes. He didn't want to go, she was making it harder.
"I'm sorry Alice, but it wants to take me, I know that so just go okay?" He said looking away from her so she couldn't see his sadness.
"Henry, don't say that! If...if you're going then I'll go too!" She replied reassuringly.
"No!" Henry said sternly. "No, Alice stay you can't come, it only wants me."
"How do you know?" She asked, she was crying now, well most people would be like that I guess.
"Yeah man, how do you know it wants you? I mean, you gotta explain it." Kazu said, calmly but full of shock. Henry just shrugged and said "I just do." And that was it, which was all he said. He looked at me, and then I knew why he had to go. So instead of saying anything, I just nodded.
"What's happening Rika, you seem to know. Tell us." Jeri said. She was also teary eyed. Her voice was full of sorrow as if she had just lost someone very close.
"No, I can't say." I replied and then ran off back to the direction of the tent.
"Rika wait!" I heard Ryo call after me, but I didn't stop I just ran to the tent and sat outside. Watching my best friend just leave us all here.
"Guys get away!" I screamed at them. They all moved away from Henry. Looking up, I saw that hole moving. It was moving down as if it was about to swallow him up whole. I couldn't watch. I knew why it was happening, but I couldn't tell the others. I couldn't tell anyone. It told me not too, so I wouldn't. Not until the time was right. I just had to wait now. Wait for him to go.
I heard Alice scream, and the others shout things like "Henry No!" "Watch out man!" But none of it could be stopped. It just had to happen.
"Why him?" I whispered. Again I got an answer.
"Because he's been called to them..." It was a hoarse voice but I didn't know whose. Small salty droplets fell down my cheeks. I crawled into the tent and lay down to sleep. I fell asleep listening to the noises of my own sobs and the screaming of the others.
I woke up pretty late the next day. I couldn't tell exactly but it must have been just after one pm. I never slept in that late, but then again, we did have that huge...fiasco last night. Oh it's not right to call it that. It was horrible. Last night was one of the worst of my life. I could feel the sadness around from all of us. It kind of lurked in the air, like sticky, muggy weather. I didn't like it at all because it just felt so bad.
I went outside my tent, finding the others all sat down in a circle.
"Good morning Rika." Ryo said. I could tell he was trying to cheer everyone up. I gave a small smile just to reassure him I was okay.
"So Rika, You seem to know what happened to him last night." Alice said bitterly, not looking at me.
"Alice, it's not my fault." I replied to her quietly.
"I never said that. Did those words come out of my mouth? No!" she replied angrily.
"I'm not going to start arguing with you Alice. Just listen to me okay? Henry went, not went got called upon. I don't know anything else, I can't really tell you anymore then that, not yet anyway. I do know, however, where we can find Henry and try to get him back."
"Why do you know? How?" She asked, almost shouting. She really was mad at me for some reason. Like I was the one who took him away and that wasn't true as everyone knew. The others just sat with their heads down so obviously they were thinking it too.
"I can't tell you." I said simply. It was true, I couldn't tell anyone, not yet.
"Alice, calm now okay?" Takato said to her, looking up. "It's not Rika's fault and she'll tell us when she is able to. Respect her for that please? We need to stick together at the moment."
"Oh. You're right, oh I'm sorry Rika, I am really, and you know I'm not like that, I'm just worried y'know?"
"Yeah I do, but Takato's right. We need to just all be civil, even me."
"Does that mean I can call you pumpkin?" Ryo asked, grinning at me. I rolled my eyes.
"No!" I replied. The others laughed a little. I smiled too. We all needed some cheering up.
After breakfast I told them what we needed to do.
"Now listen, we can only travel at certain times of the day. If we don't, they'll catch us and we could just be killed so everyone, always be careful and on the look out."
"Who?" Jeri asked.
"Kill us?" Kenta gulped.
"Yeah, it's possible. They're a digimon, a watching digimon, and they are really sneaky. They sleep between nine am and noon, then again between three and seven. The only time at night we can move is between eleven and two am."
"That's a really strange sleeping pattern." Said Kenta. "Even for a digimon."
"I've heard of those before, never seen one. Yeah, they only seem to watch you if you're doing something really stupid." Ryo said thoughtfully.
"Okay, well at least you know what I'm on about then." I said.
"Well I've never seen one. I just know they're around." Ryo answered. I nodded.
"Anyways, the time they sleep is the time we can look."
"How do you know this?" Alice asked curiously.
"Alice I can't tell you yet. But I will, soon enough I promise. But for now, well we have to leave as soon as we can, so get everything together and call out your digimon. Get any food you can find to take with us. We'll take it in turns to carry the bags and tents. Then when that's done, we'll talk." Everyone, including myself just started to get everything ready. We were in for a long journey...
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Night's Sky.
Chapter Fourteen-Henry's Calling
I couldn't exactly tell what was up there. It just looked like a hole. A big black hole. I don't know how it did what it did but it made me so scared. I was trembling with fear. In all honesty, I don't think I could move my fingers or anything. I saw another, we all felt it, but this flash was bigger and brighter this time. That made me move. Suddenly I clutched onto Ryo's hand, for safety and security and also because he was the nearest to me...wait I don't need to justify myself! What am I saying; you don't need to know why. The fact is I did it and that's all really.
Anyway, Henry was looking straight up. Alice was too, and asking him what it was.
"Alice please, calm down. Now listen, all of you, that...that thing up there, whatever it is, well it's only here for one person. So if you could all just move away from me..."
"No Henry, you're coming with us, it can't take anyone, what are you saying?" Alice cut in, but Henry just spoke louder above her, I could see the tears forming in his eyes. He didn't want to go, she was making it harder.
"I'm sorry Alice, but it wants to take me, I know that so just go okay?" He said looking away from her so she couldn't see his sadness.
"Henry, don't say that! If...if you're going then I'll go too!" She replied reassuringly.
"No!" Henry said sternly. "No, Alice stay you can't come, it only wants me."
"How do you know?" She asked, she was crying now, well most people would be like that I guess.
"Yeah man, how do you know it wants you? I mean, you gotta explain it." Kazu said, calmly but full of shock. Henry just shrugged and said "I just do." And that was it, which was all he said. He looked at me, and then I knew why he had to go. So instead of saying anything, I just nodded.
"What's happening Rika, you seem to know. Tell us." Jeri said. She was also teary eyed. Her voice was full of sorrow as if she had just lost someone very close.
"No, I can't say." I replied and then ran off back to the direction of the tent.
"Rika wait!" I heard Ryo call after me, but I didn't stop I just ran to the tent and sat outside. Watching my best friend just leave us all here.
"Guys get away!" I screamed at them. They all moved away from Henry. Looking up, I saw that hole moving. It was moving down as if it was about to swallow him up whole. I couldn't watch. I knew why it was happening, but I couldn't tell the others. I couldn't tell anyone. It told me not too, so I wouldn't. Not until the time was right. I just had to wait now. Wait for him to go.
I heard Alice scream, and the others shout things like "Henry No!" "Watch out man!" But none of it could be stopped. It just had to happen.
"Why him?" I whispered. Again I got an answer.
"Because he's been called to them..." It was a hoarse voice but I didn't know whose. Small salty droplets fell down my cheeks. I crawled into the tent and lay down to sleep. I fell asleep listening to the noises of my own sobs and the screaming of the others.
I woke up pretty late the next day. I couldn't tell exactly but it must have been just after one pm. I never slept in that late, but then again, we did have that huge...fiasco last night. Oh it's not right to call it that. It was horrible. Last night was one of the worst of my life. I could feel the sadness around from all of us. It kind of lurked in the air, like sticky, muggy weather. I didn't like it at all because it just felt so bad.
I went outside my tent, finding the others all sat down in a circle.
"Good morning Rika." Ryo said. I could tell he was trying to cheer everyone up. I gave a small smile just to reassure him I was okay.
"So Rika, You seem to know what happened to him last night." Alice said bitterly, not looking at me.
"Alice, it's not my fault." I replied to her quietly.
"I never said that. Did those words come out of my mouth? No!" she replied angrily.
"I'm not going to start arguing with you Alice. Just listen to me okay? Henry went, not went got called upon. I don't know anything else, I can't really tell you anymore then that, not yet anyway. I do know, however, where we can find Henry and try to get him back."
"Why do you know? How?" She asked, almost shouting. She really was mad at me for some reason. Like I was the one who took him away and that wasn't true as everyone knew. The others just sat with their heads down so obviously they were thinking it too.
"I can't tell you." I said simply. It was true, I couldn't tell anyone, not yet.
"Alice, calm now okay?" Takato said to her, looking up. "It's not Rika's fault and she'll tell us when she is able to. Respect her for that please? We need to stick together at the moment."
"Oh. You're right, oh I'm sorry Rika, I am really, and you know I'm not like that, I'm just worried y'know?"
"Yeah I do, but Takato's right. We need to just all be civil, even me."
"Does that mean I can call you pumpkin?" Ryo asked, grinning at me. I rolled my eyes.
"No!" I replied. The others laughed a little. I smiled too. We all needed some cheering up.
After breakfast I told them what we needed to do.
"Now listen, we can only travel at certain times of the day. If we don't, they'll catch us and we could just be killed so everyone, always be careful and on the look out."
"Who?" Jeri asked.
"Kill us?" Kenta gulped.
"Yeah, it's possible. They're a digimon, a watching digimon, and they are really sneaky. They sleep between nine am and noon, then again between three and seven. The only time at night we can move is between eleven and two am."
"That's a really strange sleeping pattern." Said Kenta. "Even for a digimon."
"I've heard of those before, never seen one. Yeah, they only seem to watch you if you're doing something really stupid." Ryo said thoughtfully.
"Okay, well at least you know what I'm on about then." I said.
"Well I've never seen one. I just know they're around." Ryo answered. I nodded.
"Anyways, the time they sleep is the time we can look."
"How do you know this?" Alice asked curiously.
"Alice I can't tell you yet. But I will, soon enough I promise. But for now, well we have to leave as soon as we can, so get everything together and call out your digimon. Get any food you can find to take with us. We'll take it in turns to carry the bags and tents. Then when that's done, we'll talk." Everyone, including myself just started to get everything ready. We were in for a long journey...
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