Never Take A Dare Because Life's Too Short
The Next Morning
Morbid/dead DF103: I'm takin' over this fic now…'cause horror is my specialty…note that nothing will really be scary till about another couple o' chapters…so yeah. And a very important note to help you understand the way I'm doing the POVs; Ryo, as the narrator, will not show up anymore until the last chapter, so the rest of the story will be told in a flashback thingy…okay…good. There are severe out-of-character-ness in the characters, or at least some…just to warn you…okay…none of the four counterparts of DF103 owns Digimon. Don't worry DF103 doesn't own it either. Okay…onwards to the chapter…
At nine o'clock, Takato, Kazu, Henry, and Rika stood in front of the house. They waited for at least 10 minutes, but there was no sign of Ryo.
"Hey Ryo! You can come out now!" Takato yelled out.
"Dude, Ryo man! Come on out." Kazu added.
"Just as I thought, he probably ran back home after we left," Rika commented.
"Rika! Give the guy some credit," Kazu whined.
"Well, then, lets just go see." Rika walked up the set of steps.
"There she goes. Are we gonna follow?" Henry asked, as Rika ventured on into the house.
"Nah, just leave her. See how brave she is," Kazu said.
Rika turned the doorknob and then remembered that last night, Ryo had to go in through the window because the door wouldn't budge. She let go of the handle and walked carefully over some of the loose boards on the floor, to the window. She stuck her head through the window and saw Ryo's stuff. Judging by the dust-covered floor, it seemed that Ryo didn't move any of his things, and only his footprints disturbed the area of dust.
"Ryo? You in here?" Rika walked around, following the footpath. She, then, came to a point where the tracks seemed to go everywhere, and if that wasn't odd enough, she found another set of footprints, about four sizes bigger than Ryo's.
"Was someone else here with Ryo?"
Rika followed the two sets of prints into the kitchen and found Ryo; the lower part of his body caught under a large chandelier. His hair was tousled, with small amounts of a gooey substance smeared over parts of it. The same substance was found on his pale, dirtied face. Rika struggled to get the mass off of Ryo, but it was too heavy. She ran back to the window and called out to the others.
"You guys! Ryo is hurt! You got to come and help!" she yelled out.
"You're pullin' our legs, right?" Takato asked.
"Are you calling me a liar? Why would I lie about something like this?" Rika yelled out. "Get your butts over here and help!"
"Come on. I don't think she's joking," Henry said, running towards the longstanding building.
"Ryo! I'm comin' to save ya!" Kazu shouted, running behind Henry.
A person at a time, they entered the house through the window. All the movement in the house made the dust on the floor churn. Rika stood in the middle of the room, anxious to lead the others to where Ryo is. After everyone was in the house, the floor started to creak. Someone was up and about, while the tamers stood there, motionless. They looked at Rika, as the faint footsteps were heard from behind her. A silhouette soon appeared behind Rika, who seemed to be paralyzed. Kazu's face faltered.
"Aw! Come on, Rika. Very funny…" Kazu yelled out, just as everyone else loosened up.
"What are you talking abou—what the hell?" Rika yelled out, as she felt something wrap around her waist, and something resting on her shoulder.
"How's my pumpkin?" a deep, soft voice asked.
Rika's eyes widened. After a few moments, she recognized the voice. She whipped around and was going to hit Ryo, but he was gone. "Where'd he go?"
The others laughed.
"Am I too quick for you?" Ryo asked, standing next to the window.
"But, how—how did you get there so fast?" Rika stuttered out, in awe of what he had just done. "And, how did you turn loose from that huge chandelier?"
"Forget the questions, Rika. Let's get outta here. This place gives me the creeps." Takato shuddered, standing next to Ryo, in front of the window, looking around the inside of the building.
"You and me both, chumley," Kazu replied.
Rika scoffed. "Fine." Rika was about to make her way out before Henry walked deeper into the house.
"Where did you say you found him?" Henry asked, turning around.
"In there…" Rika pointed to the kitchen. They both walked into the dark kitchen. They found the chandelier, set on the table. The video camera, which Henry let Ryo borrow, was on the floor next to a small crevice. "He was stuck under the chandelier that's supposed to be over that crevice."
Henry walked over to the chandelier and tried to lift it up. "Whoa, I know Ryo is a year older than us, but I don't think even a grown man can even lift this up without another person."
"No kidding." Rika picked the camera up and rewound the tape. She looked at the screen, and pressed play.
The first few scenes were just a look of the house on the inside. After a few moments, Ryo showed signs of struggle and, judging by the way the camera moved Ryo was running from something. There was a creak before a loud crash. Ryo's face soon appeared, looking frightened and in pain. He yelled, "I'M GOING TO GET YOU GUYS IF I GET OUT OF HERE ALIVE!" There were minute signs of anyone else being there, from the tape, but more than one set of footsteps were heard. A scream was heard before the tape was dropped and the screen went snowy.
"What just happened there?" Henry asked; freaked out about what he just saw.
"I don't know."
"Come on, this is freaking me out," Henry said, walking out the kitchen and heading straight for the window.
"Same here." Rika followed.
On the windowsill was Ryo with a look of malice, watching Rika and Henry walk in. Ryo's eyes narrowed, looking at Henry smile wryly and weakly.
"What did you two do in there?" Ryo asked, in a calm, sinister voice.
"We were just retrieving the camcorder," Henry answered.
"Oh really? It took the both of you to get it, hmm?" Ryo asked, his voice getting deeper and deeper.
Rika shot a glare at him. "Why? What if we just happened to be doing this?" Rika kissed Henry right smack-dab on the lips. "Whatcha gonna do about it, huh?" Rika then realized what she'd just done. Henry was stunned and stood there, staring at Rika.
"Um, I'll see you two later," said Henry, slowly. He made his way to the window before Ryo stopped him.
"Where do you think you're going?" Ryo asked.
"Um, look. We didn't do what Rika just did to me, so don't worry about it," Henry explained, trying to make his way out of this. Ryo still didn't move.
"Ryo, stop being a jerk and let him go. I was just mad that you were butting into people's business and I was moving on impulse." Rika grabbed his shoulder and pulled him away from the window.
Henry jumped out and mouthed, "Thanks." He ran up the sidewalk, meeting up with Takato and Kazu.
"Damn it, Ryo. What makes you think I'm yours? I don't remember saying you were my boyfriend, Ryo," Rika paused and looked at his blue eyes. There was a spec of red right in the middle of his pupil. 'Was that there?' Rika shook the thought off, thinking she was hallucinating. "The point is I can hang out with anyone I want without you stopping me. Okay?"
Ryo just stood there and looked at her. He hugged her, tightly before he jumped out the window, and ran away, at an incredible speed. Rika was confused. Something's not right about him…
Morbid/dead DF103: Okay, I know…it came out a little shorter than my other fics…but shorter chapters are easier to work with…I'll keep it at this pace for this fic. Next chapter will not take 6 months to get out, like this one did…tell me what you think. And till next update, peace…
