Light and Dark Chapter 2
Tigerlily: People reviewed… Wow! (Looks for Gatomon; remembers that Gatomon has been taken; and hugs Patamon instead)
Hummingbird: My sis still hasn't got over the fact that people reviewed… Thank you we love you!
TK: Hello! Explaintion on profile... why I don't have my usual part!
Tigerlily: Before we forget… Patamon!
Patamon: Tigerlily and Hummingbird do not own digimon, only some DVDs of episodes and a Japanese bell, so don't bother suing, but they do own Rika and Ms. Mishoro!
Hummingbird: (does bow) Thankyou!
Now that the exams are over YES! We can use our computer again!
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TK stared ahead while clicking his pen on and off. No one had been the same since Kari and Gatomon had been taken. It had been three months now, and even though everyone had searched the digi-world back to front several times, there was still no sign of either one of them anywhere.
It hadn't just been the humans that the missed the youngest Kamiya and her cat with an attitude, (A/N: Plz don't think we have anything against Gatomon… in fact she's our fav digimon and her attitude to life is one of the reasons we love her!) the digimon had missed them too. Especially a flying hamster everyone knew and loved. Patamon had been sitting next to TK's computer staring at the screen ever since they had come back. TK had to force him away to eat and sleep; that was when TK was actually fully awake and not in a continuous daydream… which wasn't very often.
TK felt someone poke him on his left arm, waking him from his daydream. He looked up, shook his head causing his blonde hair to fall over his eyes again, and reminding him where he was.
Yolei sighed and poked TK's arm again, he turned to look at her and she slipped the piece of paper into his hand.
TK looked at the paper already knowing what it would say, the same as is it did every morning:
Are you okay?
TK sighed, gritted his teeth and wrote his usual reply:
I'm fine- quit asking!
Excuse me for being worried!
TK rolled his eyes and was about to reply when the teacher came in. The class stood up as Ms. Mishoro came in, followed by a girl. She had dark, black hair and bright, red, catlike eyes which were sweeping the classroom. Her figure was amazing, and out of the corner of his eye TK could see Yolei face frown in jealousy.
"Class, I would like you to welcome Ayimaka Rika to our class." She motioned to the girl beside who nodded, and gave a confident, superior smile.
Ms. Mishoro sat down at her desk and told Rika to go and sit in the place that had been Kari's. TK saw Yolei's frown get deeper as Rika sat down with a flick of her smooth hair. It wasn't long another note was put on to TK's desk, this time with not just Yolei's but Ken's and Davis's handwriting too.
Who does she think she is?
Yolei, you're just plain jealous, and ken don't stick up for her, we all know you fancy her rotten
I DO NOT DAVIS! Get that thought out of you're head and stop picking on her….
TK smiled and was about to reply when he heard Rika give a short laugh. It was hard and cold, like the owner had never known love.
He looked at her, she was looking ahead, looking like she was paying attention to the board, he was about to go on and reply when she spoke, her voice like her laugh, cold… and hard… TK felt sympathy and pity for her.
"You're friends don't like me do they?"
TK's eyes were popping out of their sockets,
"How do you know?"
She turned to him; a scathing look on her face, TK caught the total fury of blood red eyes,
"It's not hard to read your minds, get over her… she probably never loved you." And with that, she turned back to her work.
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"I tell you, Matt, Tai, she's freaky, she can read minds, the way she walks, and it's scary!" TK gabbled on, trying (and failing) to get his brother and his brother's best friend to believe his description of the new girl.
"Look, TK," said Tai, "Do we seriously look dumb enough to buy that crap? You know us better than that!"
"Yeah, for once Tai has a point TK-"
Tai punched him lightly, "Hey!"
"Well it's true! You're probably just upset, because you feel as if she's trying to take Kari's place- Sorry, Tai!" Matt hastily apologized, seeing the look of pain that flashed across Tai's face.
TK swore seeing neither boy was believing it. At the moment Sora came running up, Mimi and Yolei hot on her heels. She skid to a stop and would have fallen over if Tai hadn't caught her.
"Thanks! Has he told you? About the new girl…" Sora waved her hands about trying to remember the girl's name when she saw the blank looks on the boys' faces.
"Rika…?" TK gave her the name.
"Yes!"
"Of course!" replied Matt, "That doesn't mean we believe it, who would?"
Mimi looked up her boyfriend,
"Come with us."
Yolei, Mimi and Sora pulled the three boys with them as they ran to the gym.
"There, look." Yolei flourished her arm at where some of the girls were using the beam and gym mats after gym class. The girls had to hit the guys a couple of times to bring them back to reality after seeing the girls in their gym clothes, but eventually they noticed that Rika was one of the girls lined up. She was wearing a black, skin-tight leotard, which matched her hair perfectly.
It wasn't long before it was Rika's turn on the beam. She walked along the narrow beam as if she was walking down a street. She then did a series of three forward flips followed by a backward flip, without touching the beam. The way she moved was un-natural.
"TK, we're buying it."
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The digidestined were having an after-school meeting with the digimon. Izzy had given his usual report of safe and now they listening to the digimon.
"There's this new digimon… she's deadly beautiful!" frothed Demi-veemon.
Upamon nodded. "She's black all over and with deep red eyes."
TK was looking out the window, and he gasped.
"I never knew she was a digidestined!"
"What?" Tai pushed TK away from the window to see Rika talking to a midnight black cat.
The digidestined looked at each other and raced outside.
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As the digidestined got nearer, they heard Rika and digimon talking.
"I feel sorry for him… I wonder who that girl was?"
They saw the cat smile.
"He certainty looked surprised when you read his mind!"
Rika joined in laughing with her digimon and then whipped round with her eyes ablaze.
"What are you doing spying on me?"
Tai stood forward,
"We weren't we just happen to be walking past and saw that you had a digimon, therefore you must be a digidestined; like us!"
Rika raised an eyebrow; she clearly didn't believe him, she then gave a half-smile.
"Look, " she started, "I feel sorry for you, so I'll give one piece of advice. Stay away form me. You're already high on my master's threat list, don't make yourselves higher." With that she turned away and walked off, her digimon following.
The digidestined stared.
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At 5pm that evening, Izzy got a warning from one of the areas that Greymon protected. He could only get hold of Tai, Sora and TK; so together they went through the gate.
The other side was chaos. They hadn't gone far before stumbling (literally!) over Agumon.
"Agumon! What happened?" Tai asked, cradling his digimon in his arms.
Agumon looked up his partner.
"Tai… Myotismon… he's back… with a vampire-girl digidestined and her digimon, a Ladydevimon. I tried to hold them off, but I wasn't strong enough."
Tai smiled down at him,
"It doesn't matter, you did your best, and can you show us this vampire?"
Agumon led them to a ledge, over looking a city, which had clearly just been taken over. Right in the middle, a girl with black hair, a pair of bat wings, a devil's tail, and white vampire fangs stood upon a building. Next to her stood a Ladydevimon, tears were pouring down their cheeks, cleaning the dusty ceiling beneath them.
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Tigerlily: Sorry, this chapter is out later than I hoped…
Hummingbird: we got addicted to Theme Hospital….(smiles sheepishly)
Tigerlily: Anyway… TK, your turn and Patamon's…
TK: Finally! I thought you guys had forgotten:
Please R&R… otherwise you'll never find out who the vampire-girl is… and more about Rika…