Tigerlily: We wish you a merry Christmas; we wish you a merry Christmas…
TK and Patamon: … and a Happy New Year!
Hummingbird: What do you guys really want for Christmas?
Tigerlily: No more writers' block (collapses) I only just this chapter out!
TK: Kari back! I miss her!
Hummingbird: Don't say Patamon… you want Gatomon…
Patamon: How did you guess? What do you want?
Hummingbird: Later… Before I forget, We do not own Digimon or Cry by Mandy Moore… we've tried a song fic, lets us now what you think!
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TK was the first to get up. He ran back to where his friends had been camping, only to find a black crater. He heard someone laughing, and turned round to see Rika laughing.
"I see Myotismon's plan worked."
"What?" TK's voice had not lost its coldness.
Rika walked over to the cliff and looked down, with a jerk, TK remembered Primary Village. He ran over to the cliff and looked down, and immediately wished he hadn't. Primary Village was a mess of black, broken eggs, and ruined cribs. TK felt tears come to his eyes… how could someone just kill innocent, baby digimon, and ones that hadn't had a chance to defend themselves? It was genocide.
"You bitch!" TK turned round ready to break one of his rules for the first time: Never hit a woman. After hearing Rika's remark; he was ready to beat the living daylights out of her, not just for the baby digimon, but for his friends as well. But he didn't see anyone, only Angemon, who had just digivolved to give Ladydevimon a piece of his mind. He looked down to see her at the bottom of the cliff, searching through the remains of primary village. He scowled and made his way down with Angemon next to him.
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"The bastard! He promised! The bastard! Where is he?" Rika cursed as she began frantically searching through the debris of broken eggs and blackened cribs. The tears were streaming down her cheeks and after a while sank to her knees. Tagomon ran over to her mistress's lap and buried her head in Rika's shoulder, tears also running down her cheeks.
TK and Angemon reached the bottom of the cliff and stopped at the sight of the tears.
I'll
always remember
It was late afternoon
It lasted forever
And
ended to soon
You were all by yourself
Staring up at a dark
gray sky
And I was changed
"Rika?" TK's voice cut through the quiet, "are you okay?" His only reply was her sobs.
In
places no one would find
All your feelings so deep inside
It
was then that I realized
That
forever was in your eyes
The moment I saw you cry
Angemon walked (A/n: hovered? I'm not sure how he moves…) over to Rika and Tagomon and put his hand on Tagomon's shoulder, she flinched at his touch and then looked up in his face, and smiled, the tears still flowing down her face.
It
was late September
And I'd seen you before
You were always the
cold one
But I was never that sure
You were all by
yourself
Staring up at a dark gray sky
I was changed
TK was puzzled and angry, why was Angemon comforting her? At that moment Rika looked up, and TK saw something that made his heart shudder, and a similar picture rush through his mind. In that moment he saw genuine sadness and sorrow rush through the girl's eyes, the same expression of sadness he had seen in everyone's eyes since Kari had gone.
In
places no one would find
All your feelings so deep inside
It
was then that I realized
That
forever was in your eyes
The moment I saw you cry
He walked forward, crouched down and looked into Rika's eyes.
"Who have you lost?"
I
wanted to hold you
I wanted to make it go away
I wanted to know
you
I wanted to make your everything, all right
I'll always
remember...
It was late afternoon
"Our best friend, why would you care?" Rika tried to put some veemon into her voice, but failed miserably.
"I lost mine, after Patamon," he said. "What happened to…" he searched for the right word.
"Him?" Rika found it for him. TK nodded. "He was deleted in one of the battles to takeover a city. Myotismon promised me that he wouldn't destroy his egg, but he did! I hate him!"
Tagomon looked up sadly "He was our only friend!" Her face took on a new expression, "I'm gonna kill him!"
Rika looked down at her digimon, "I'll help!"
TK took her hands in his,
"And so will we! For Kari and Gatomon!"
In
places no one would find
All your feelings so deep inside
It
was then that I realized That forever was in your eyes
The moment
I saw you cry
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"TK? Where are you?" Sora's voice echoed into the night, "Oh! It's hopeless! We'll never find him, he's gone just like Kari!" Sora turned round to see Tai sniggering.
"What's so funny? I thought TK was a little brother to you? Or don't you care?" With that Sora burst into tears and snuggled into Tai's arms. Tai smiled and put his arms around her while she cried.
"Silly Billy," he said affectionately, "hope-less get it? We're are hope-less, without hope, without TK?"
Sora looked up, red faced from crying, "I love you, Tai, you can always make me smile." She then leaned up and kissed him.
"He'll be okay, Sora, I promise, if he can look after Kari, then I think he can look after himself al-
"Hey! Guys!" Tai and Sora turned round to see TK running towards them with Rika beside him and Ladydevimon and Angemon flying behind.
"TK, watch out!" cried Ken, "Rika's beside you! Wormmon, digi-" (A/N: Ha! Betcha you thought we had forgotten!)
"Ken! Stop! She's our friend!" TK cried.
Ken hesitated, for a moment then waited until TK reached them. "Why is she our friend?" he said.
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Later that night, when TK and Angemon, and Joe, Cody, Ken, Tai Sora and their digimon had reluctantly accepted Rika and Tagomon into the group, Cody and Joe sat by the fire.
"Do you trust her?"
Cody shook his head, "No, but TK does, and Grandpa trusts him, so I must."
Joe nodded and the two boys were silent for a while. Gomamon suddenly pulled on Joe's clothing,
"Joe, Joe, I hear something, and it doesn't sound good!"
"Digivolve!"
"Gomamon digivolve to... Ikkaumon!"
Cody looked at his partner, "Digi-armour energize, Armadillomon."
"Armadillomon digi-armour energize to Digmon!"
"Cody, Joe what's going on-" Tai's sleepy question was cut off as bakemon flooded the area.
Rika and Tagomon were on their feet immediately, and were fighting within seconds beside Ikkaumon and Digmon. Tai blinked a couple of times to get the sleep out of his eyes and then got up to wake up Sora, but before he had gotten off the ground, a group of Bakemon had surrounded her.
"Zombie Claw!" Tai closed his eyes feeling sadness and grief well up in him at the death of his beloved. Ok, one Zombie Claw, and Sora would have survived no problem, but this was at least five, there was no chance she would survive. He looked up and saw Rika standing with her teeth firmly locked into a Bakemon's neck, the rest of the Bakemon were watching in horror as they watched a previous ally, sucked the life out of one of their own. Just as the Bakemon was deleted, Rika looked up, her teeth dripping with digital blood. The Bakemon fled.
Meanwhile, Tai had found Sora to be okay, if shaken. Just as the Bakemons' attack had been released, Rika had pushed here out of the way. Tai walked over to Rika,
"Thank you."
"Anytime. I hope you trust me now."
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"Master, your pet, she has changed sides!"
The dark shape the Bakemon was talking to chuckled.
"She always did keep the fight interesting… No worries, this time I will destroy them!"
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Tigerlily: Who is the Bakemon's master? What does he mean by this time? Have Rika and Tagomon been allies with the digidestined before? Will I stop asking random questions?
TK: I can answer that one! No.
Tigerlily: (scowling) Keep out of this!
Patamon: Hummingbird, what do you want for Christmas?
Hummingbird: Reviews! Please? Otherwise you won't find out what happens…