Hi guys! Sorry I haven't updated in so long! This chapters going to be a really short one so don't expect much. And thank you all so much for the wonderful reviews!

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I do not own Digimon.

Ryou=Ryo

Ruki=Rika

Ages:

T.K.= 21

Kari=20

Rika= 17

Ryo=19

Henry=17

Takato=16

Jeri=16

Alice=17

I'm not really sure how accurate these ages are but in my fic a lot of things are different so either deal with your petty problems about it or just don't read it at all!

Other then that enjoy!

It had been months since the incident with Jeri. Takato proved that asking Henry or Ryo for love advice was the dumbest thing a human being could have possibly done. Many rumors, bruises and false breakups later Takato was able to express his true feelings for Jeri. Everyone had laughed it off and teased him for about three months before it started to get old.

Ryo and Rika finally gave each other another chance and took it slow and steady.

While Henry and Alice on the other hand where still to embarrassed to admit to the other how they felt. It was quite amusing.

Kari and T.K's relationship was growing thin and weary. They fought verbally often and would have been on the verge of a major breakup if it weren't for the fact that they had to cooperate in order to destroy Malus.

While Rika and Ryo couldn't be more in love. Rika believed that Ryo was changing her better and for worse. Just the other day she felt too sensitive. Weird. Meanwhile Ryo and Rika were back to sharing their tent together. They were both asleep at the moment wrapped around each other snug and warm. Ryo eyes slid open slightly still sleepy and tired but content to have the love of his life wrapped around his arms. He couldn't resist, He lowered his head to the base of her neck and kissed her. She stirred slightly and looked up at him smiling.

"Good morning." she said huskily.

He smiled and kissed her full on. Surprised she held still for a moment before she to kissed him back running her fingers through his soft chocolate brown hair. They broke apart for air and shared a smile together before the rest of the camp woke up.

"Good morning." Ryo said breathlessly.

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Some how during the past year the gates to the digital world were closed, sealed, glued or whatever you would call it. In other words they where stranded. And this is where the story we left off starts once more:

Kari yelled frustrated, "What do you mean it's closed?"

The tamers had all decided to leave the digital world for a couple hours to get more supplies from their world and to make amends with their probably Terrified grieving parents, also to respectfully tell Kazu and Kenta's parents why their kid would never come home again. Rika had been in the front of the line to open the gates when they couldn't find anything. No seal or door. No opening from when they all dropped into the world in the first place.

"Maybe the gates move every once in a while. You know it has been a year since we first came here, how would you know if the gates haven't moved?" Ryo asked pointedly.

The others thought it over slowly.

"No it's the right place. The earth knows when something is moved, it screams it, but this place...it's the same place and all but it's like there was know door." Rika said slowly her palms scanning the surface of the earth.

Tired and homesick the group of teens and digimon alike groaned in annoyance. Before they could do anything flaming arrows where thrown at them. They all ducked. Alice Made a pushing gesture with her arms and the fire was extinguished before it could do much damage. But the arrows still kept coming. Rika used her telekinetic abilities and stopped many of the arrows from hitting the others while the other took out their weapons getting ready to fight. That's when they saw him.

Malus.

No army's surrounded him. He was alone. Each one of them tensed while their digimon growled with anger ready to rip his throat out. He smiled a horribly creepy kind of smile and started to clap letting out a cynically evil laugh.

Before either one of them could lift up there weapons or use there powers Malus grabbed Jeri by her arm and brought her closer to him as if he was going to hug her. He placed his hand on top of her head and started to mutter slowly. Jeri started to scream in agony blood poring out of her eyes, mouth, ears, and nose.

The others reacted quickly and tried to get her away from him but it was like there was some sort of force field around them. None of them could get through. Soon Jeri went limp and Malus disappeared with a whoosh of black smoke. The force field evaporated and Jeri lay on the ground dead with a puddle of her blood coating the earth. Takato cried out and grabbed Jeri pressing her against his chest yelling and crying from grief. Takato called out to Kari demanding her to heal Jeri.

"Oh Takato I'm so sorry. It's to late......she's gone."

Takato screamed from agony of losing Jeri. The others looked away and some even started to cry. Rika tried to control her own tears but couldn't one after another her tears started to pour down the sides of her face. Kenta and Kazu might have been major pain in the Asses but they always tried to cheer her up. Jeri was her first and ever friend that just sort of accepted her, and now she was gone. Ryo pulled her close as she started to cry harder letting the tears come freely. She tried to push away from him but felt too weak to do anything but cry.

Suddenly a bright light flashed before them, blinding them all. Rika could no longer hear Takato wailing or smell the metallic sent of blood in the air. When she looked up from Ryo's chest she realized why. Jeri, wrapped in her own white light, like an angel, walked slowly toward Rika. With out saying a word she just gently tapped Rika on her forehead and walked away. Rika tried to call after her but she couldn't use her voice for no sound came out. Just as quickly as the light came it was gone giving Rika all her senses back.

The others just kept starring at the spot where Takato was. Rika gasped. Takato was slowly falling backwards as if about to faint. That's when they all noticed a white light coming out of his open mouth. It was Takato but...not. A spiritual version of him floated out and floated up into the sky. It hit Rika like a ton of bricks. Takato was dead as well.

Rika started to laugh from the irony. She laughed and laughed like a crazy person. Ryo tried to hold her up but she just started to mutter under her breath and laugh until fresh tears started to come and she cried all over again. Ryo hugged her and rocked her back and forth while TK and Henry started to prepare Takato and Jeri for their graves. Alice in the mean time had disappeared and Kari had fainted. Ryo vowed that Malus would pay.

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Thank you so much again for all the reviews! Well here we go if I get five reviews by Friday I'll update on Saturday. If I don't then well you'll just have to wait till I get motivated! Oh and check out my original stories (mostly Fantasy/Supernatural and Romance at under the name ElementalAvenger. Ok peeps til next time!