Assistant: Well, I heard that crash out side the house, and I was outside only a few moments after. The thing was both Renamon and Ronomon were out cold. They have yet to wake up, but they should be around soon. Until then why don't you enjoy the 10th chapter. I must admit it is rather short, but what can you do. Also, for legal reasons, I don't own digimon or the two shows where I get my concepts of alchemy and elemental bending. Those two shows are Full Metal Alchemist and Avatar, The Last Air Bender.
Chapter 10
The Aftermath
It was dark and cloudy over West Shinjuku on the morning of day 3 of the reverse biomerge procedure. It was around 6:30 in the morning when Yamachi woke up. He had spent the night on a couch, in the house of Rika Nonaka, one of the digimon tamers. He sat up and began to rub his face trying to remember the night's events. He then remembered everything, from when the fight began with Myotismon, to when Elementalmon had defeated him and helped Yamachi get the injured Rika into the house. By the time they had all settled down and gotten to sleep it was probably 11:30 at night. He then slowly made his way to the kitchen to get some water. On his way back to the couch he thought he saw something outside the house. He stepped outside while rubbing his eyes to see that Ronomon was sitting on the ground with his legs crossed. He was staring at one spot on the ground; it was as if he was waiting for something to suddenly appear from that spot on the ground. Yamachi walked up behind him and said, "What are you doing up?"
Ronomon didn't move a muscle as he said, "I could ask you the same thing."
Yamachi stifled a yawn and then said, "I got up too get some water, but you look like you have been sitting there since midnight, so what so interesting about that piece of ground?"
Ronomonm stood up, not taking his gaze off that spot and said, "What do you see here?"
Yamachi looked and said, "I see grass, dirt, and the beginnings of some crab grass. Why do you ask?"
"This is where the alchemy circle should be, and when I talked to Henry and Takato they said they were unable to get rid of it. I also remember seeing it when we headed into the house to tend to Rika's wounds, but when I came back out right at 12:30 and found the circle gone. I have been out here since trying to think of all the reasons why it would just stop working like that."
Yamachi sat down on the porch behind Ronomon and said, "Well, what is your diagnosis of the situation."
"I have only been able to think of a few possible situations. The first is that Myotismon was the one directing the alchemy circle. That would be the best case scenario. The second possibility is that who ever was operating the circle in the digital world was distracted from there task or defeated by another digimon. That is also a scenario that would be good for use. Then there is the third possibility."
"What would that be?"
"The circle had fulfilled its purpose. It was no longer any use to the operator, but that would mean some one was just doing this to mess with us, or some else has come to the real world that we have yet to confront."
"You think it's SatinRenamon, don't you." Yamachi said in a low tone.
Ronomon stood up and turned to Yamachi. He looked at his tamer for a few seconds and said, "I have no clue if Myotismon's information is trustworthy, but if he was correct we will probably find out sooner or later." He then walked past Yamachi and into the house. Yamachi turned to watch the blue fox digimon. He even chuckled a little when he heard Ronomon curse. Yamachi thought to himself, "He must have realized what time it is." He then headed inside the house to go back to sleep on the couch. He hoped to get a bit more sleep before confronting several parents about what happened last night. He was glad he had least filled Seiko, Rika's grandmother, in on what happened last night. She had been in the house with her cold when that battle had been going on above the house. She had seriously thought the house was going to fall down. When they first came into the house she had been waiting. Ronomon was the first to walk into the house. That also made him the one Seiko hit with a frying pan. Yamachi then chuckled when he walked up to Ronomon and noticed he still had a good bump on the back of his head from the incident. Luckily Seiko had figured out the rest of the group weren't burglars or they all may have similar bumps. A few minutes after Ronomon had regained consciences Mikino had gotten back to the house. She had left the modeling agency several hours after the trio had left, but the trip across town had taken her a whole lot longer then it usually did. Ronomon was the one to fill Mikino in on what had happened, though he had to stop several times to let his headache quite down a bit. It was midnight by the time everyone was in bed and resting, that is everyone except Ronomon.
Ronomon felt that Yamachi was looking at the bump he had on his head and he decided to head into kitchen and see what the family had in the fridge. When he saw that the fridge was practically empty he walked back out to the living room where Yamachi was just settling back into the couch to finish sleeping when he heard Ronomon say, "Hay Yamachi."
Yamachi looked up to see Ronomon standing beside the couch. He then yawned and asked in an irritated voice, "What is it."
Ronomon rolled his eyes and said, "You want to spot me some money, Rika's kitchen is practically bare and I have a feeling everybody would feel a lot better after a good breakfast."
Yamachi began digging into his pant pocket. He pulled out his wallet and said, "I would usually say no, but I really feel like having some of your delicious pancakes, so here." Yamachi then pulled out a few bills and handed them to Ronomon. He quickly counted the amount and left the room to go find a grocery store that was open, and that would allow him in the door." He then melted into the shadows leaving Yamachi to go back to sleep.