Deception
"Breakfast, get it while's it delicious" the grandmother shouted upstairs, calling the attention of her beloved grand child, Rika. Silence returned the call for food, neither a sound nor sign of Rika came forward. Minutes pass and still no sign of the young tamer. Once again the grandmother calls to Rika, eventually hearing the click of Rika's door and descending footsteps. A weary, shivering, white faced girl slowly arrived at the breakfast table.
"It's about time you came down, for a minute there I thought you……oh my GOD Rika what happened to you?" the grandmother said. Rika was white as a sheet, trembling like a frightened infant draped in nothing but blankets of cold, merciless darkness. The young child was literally shaking from the horrible memories of her late night visit from Tallos. The grandmother took Rika's hand and gasped "Honey you're trembling, I'll call the paramedics".
Flashback
You'll be scraping your family's brains off the kitchen cabinets!
"No grandma please, please don't I……I'm fine I just……couldn't sleep last night, bad dreams" Rika said. The grandparent looked at Rika with a concerned and care filled stare. Rika offered a weak smile to her "See? I'm fine, I'm just tired". Seeing she was all right the grandmother recoiled her hand from the phone, and sat down beside her grand daughter at the table for breakfast. Grandma sighed heavily "You gave me quite a scare there honey.
For a minute it looked like you'd seen a ghost, because you know how much it hurts me to see you looking like that. I may not be your mother but I don't think I need to tell you that sleep is very important dear". The tamer nodded as she politely chewed down her grandmother's eggs, "Absolutely I promise I won't stay up late again" Rika replied. After finishing her breakfast, Rika quickly changed her clothes and armed herself with her cards and Digivice.
Rika called to her grandmother "I'm going out for a while; I'll be back before dinner, bye grandma". No sooner did Rika run off into the park and into the city was her back being closely watched, not by 1 but by 2. Renamon appeared right behind the wicked Tallos, staring a hateful diamond blue eye at the dark stranger. "You don't really expect Rika to go through with this madness do you? She's not easily persuaded" Renamon snarled.
Tallos smirked "Perhaps so, but no matter how hard the egg is boiled, sooner or later it's going to get cracked……and cooked". Renamon clutched her claws angrily growling "BASTARD, you cold hearted demon. As Rika's Digimon I swear that if you touch one hair on her head". Gemini turned and flashed his glasses at the fiery fox, raising his index finger claws towards Renamon. "Play with fire fox, and your going to get burned" Tallos said.
"I know how creepy it sounds Takato but he was real, and he was dead serious too" Henry said. Soon as Takato had gotten ready to go to the park, Henry made it his top priority to call him and warn him about Gemini Tallos. Henry continued "I don't know, I'm not sure what this nutcase wants but he's definitely not playing around. He knows about our Digimon and is very interested in you. It'd be wise to start watching each other's backs.
Soon as me and Terriermon get down there we'll think something up, maybe Rika has a few ideas herself. I……that's a good idea Takato, I'll call her soon as I hang up here. See you then" Henry said as he hanged up the phone. Henry's quirky Digimon chirped into view "So what's going on? Does Takato know who this claw guy is?" Terriermon asked. The boy shook his head sighing "No he doesn't, he doesn't have any idea who it might be.
It's definitely not someone I know and it sure as hell isn't Yamaki. Yamaki's a real hard case but he's by no means a psychopath, and this guy seemed pretty crazy to me. I just hope Rika's got an idea on how to deal with this guy". Terriermon raised his paws up "Awe let me at him, I'll bunny blast this bozo right back the circus". Henry groaned "It's not that simple. This is a human were talking about, not some rampaging Digimon.
So until we find out anything else about this guy, we've got to be extra careful. There's no telling what trick this guy might pull so be prepared for anything". Soon as Henry hanged up the phone, Takato did the same as he headed down to the park to meet up with him and Rika. The green sneakers of the Digimon tamer clopped down the chunks of grass into the park. Takato was about to head straight to Guilmon, but something caught his eye.
There, in the center of the park, standing by the water fountain, and gazing into the crystal blue water, was Rika. "Wow that was fast" Takato exclaimed. Curious purple eyes continue to gaze into the fountain's contents, acting careless to Takato's advances. Little did Takato realize that Rika was completely aware of his presence. "Now remember, do it just as we discussed" a radio voice buzzed in Rika's ear. The voice belonged to Tallos.
The female tamer scowled in disgust "Don't wet yourself I know the routine, sigh here he comes now". Takato approached Rika with a warm smile "Hey Rika, sure is a surprise to see you get here before I did, man talk about fast". Rika blinked a baffled response "Say what? What are you babbling about goggle eyes?". Curiously scratching his brown hair, Takato was confused as to why Rika didn't remember what they had just discussed over the phone.
"Rika don't you remember? Henry called us to come down here and talk? That is why you're here isn't it?" Takato asked. It slowly came to Rika's attention that Henry had planned on calling her, the girl shook her head and shrugged "Yeah sure, of course, why else would I be here?". Tallos secretly watched the tamers talk from a distance, hidden deep in the forest. The agent's radio signals picking up every word spoken between the 2 children.
Takato smiled "Well guess all we have to do now is wait for Henry (stares at shoe absent mildly), by the way nice work on that fight last night Rika".
Rika shrugged "PFFT whatever".
Takato sighed "Jeez I was just saying you did a good job, if you don't want me to talk all you had to do was say so".
Tallos scowled "NO……I need information from him. You better drop your brat act and start talking or else I swear to god your family is DEAD".
The girl groaned as she heard the silent but snarling response from Tallos, it seems she'd have to play nice with Takato, for now.
"Oh grow up I didn't say that. I just……so w-w-w-here's Guilmon, scarfing down bread no doubt" Rika replied.
Takato blinked "Uh no actually he's still in his little house, I was going to say hi to him first but then I saw you here and well you know".
Rika frowned "All I know is that is one strange little Digimon".
"What's so strange about him? He's no different then Terriermon or any other Digimon" Takato asked.
Rika replied "Terriermon wasn't drawn into existence genius; you made up Guilmon out of thin air. I mean how did you even do that anyway?".
"Huh? Sorry I must have my goggles on too tight, because I thought I just heard you ask about how I made Guilmon" Takato said shockingly.
Rika blinked "Yeah so?".
Takato answered firmly "You've never asked about that before, ever."
"……I uh" was all Rika could reply with.
Takato blinked "Rika is something wrong? You seem like you're……distracted, you're not like your usual self".
Rika asked "How so?".
"Well you haven't even insulted me or Guilmon yet; usually you can't go through a single day without doing that at least once" Takato laughed.
Angrily stomping her steel plated shoes, Rika growled and started to turn away from Takato.
Rika growled "Fine pee wee, if that's the way you want me to act then screw you, you can talk to your dumb dinosaur for all I care".
Takato gasped "No, no, no wait……awe gee. Rika I'm sorry really I'm sorry, it's just I've never really seen you in such a……good mood. Kind of a different look for you".
"Bad or good?" Rika asked cautiously
Takato smiled "Neither…… It's nice on you, very nice in fact".
The girl gasped as she stood still, purple eye shimmering a bit at the boy's words. Could it be Takato just complimented her after she just bit his head off? Rika turned her eyes back to Takato as he smiled a cheerful grin.
"Still want to know about Guilmon?" Takato asked.
Rika nodded "Yeah actually……I would".
Takato chuckled "Sure, no problem, what are friends for?".
"Thanks……Takato" Rika replied softly.
Takato smiled "My pleasure. Anyway it all started right before school, I was putting my Digimon cards away and I found this weird blue card. I ran it through my card scanner and next thing you know, I had a real live Digivice. After school I scanned my drawing of Guilmon into the Digivice, or at least I tried to. I had to eat dinner so I didn't really get to see if it worked or not.
Rika smirked "I think it's safe to say we know what happens next".
"You guessed it, right after Guilmon was scanned through the machine I saw this huge red light. I followed it all the way down into this cruddy alleyway and……there he was, Guilmon was sitting right there" Takato replied.
Rika hummed "So that's how you made Guilmon huh? I suppose the same happened for Growlmon and Wargrowlmon too. You drew them and when Guilmon Digivolved, he turned into the forms you drew for him?".
"Growlmon yes, Wargrowlmon no" Takato answered.
The red haired girl's eyes blinked in complete confusion.
Takato sighed "It's weird, and really hard to explain. I don't know how I did it, but some how a part of me inside helped Growlmon Digivolve. I had never drawn his ultimate form yet so I really had no idea what was going to happen. It's like Guilmon drew his strength from inside my body, using the power of my imagination and his determination to become Wargrowlmon".
"So it wasn't just pencils and paper, something inside of you and you alone gave him the energy to Digivolve. Even without a shape or pre-drawn form as a base" Rika said.
Takato nodded "That's right".
Rika exhaled "Well……that's all I needed to know.".
Takato stared blankly "Say what?".
Rika gulped "I uh mean……uh oh look there's Henry, gotta go".
"Rika wait, hey WAIT" Takato called out.
But it was no use, Rika was already long gone, running from Takato before Henry arrived. The curious tamer blinked as he also saw Rika retreating. "Hey where's she going, I just got here" Henry said, Terriermon chuckled "Momenti". Takato sighed "That is one strange, strange girl, one minute she's her usual broody self and the next, talkative Tanya". Henry frowned, idly scratching his chin "That is weird, Rika's never been the sociable type.
But at least now I know where she was when I called her house". Suddenly Takato shook his head quite blankly, "Wait you didn't reach Rika?" Takato asked. Henry idly shook his head "No, her grandmother picked up and said she went out. But I doubt she knew about meeting up here with us so soon". This problem deeply disturbed the two boys, something seemed very wrong. Takato replied "But then how did Rika know where I was going to be?".
To be continued……
