-Doug Firebaugh
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"Biomerge Activate!" Rika hissed, holding out her blue Digivice and then held it to her heart, where it erupted in a blinding blue light. She closed her eyes and fell backwards, the conscious certainty that she'd be there. Sure enough, she soon felt themselves join as one, her seemingly-violet hair blowing back, and for the first time in what seemed like ages, she felt whole again.
This wasn't the reunion with Renamon that she'd been imagining, but it was good enough. She could feel how happy Renamon was to be with her again, and was certain Renamon knew how relieved Rika was.
Doesn't matter. Right now, this thing has to pay, no matter what.
Rika was suddenly curious to why anyone would want to create such a monster. Even with the D-Reaper, it had a reason…somebody goofed this thing up. Bigtime. And like it or not, we've gotta deal with the consequences. Rika was Sakuyamon, and she was going to save Ryo. And God help anyone that tries to stop her.
"Rika, no!" Ryo grunted quietly, his voice unheard even by himself over Rika's yelling and the hunter's scream. He struggled to stand, but was in far too much pain to do anything after he'd done so. Bastard smacked me into a tree, my damn ribs hurt.
He suddenly forgot about the pain as his eyes widened and he-no, everything was covered in a brilliant blue light after Rika's words declaring the beginning of a Biomerge. Ryo didn't even notice Renamon until she was illuminated by Rika's light; suddenly wishing his own friend was here.
Ryo gripped his left side, grimacing as he felt blood trickle down his fingers, more concerned with wither or not Rika could handle this thing. They haven't had a chance to experiment with the limits of this thing's power, and since they haven't had their Digimon until Renamon just showed up now, it seemed like it had no limits.
Maybe Takato, Henry, or the others' partners showed up. Hell, maybe even Leomon…
Nobody was quite sure what happened in the Digital World after the links between the two worlds were broken, but Ryo had hoped Leomon was back. After all she'd been through, Jeri deserved to be as happy as anyone could be.
And the girl of your dreams could very well be about to get her ass kicked, and you're thinking of your best friend's girlfriend? At least pay attention to Rika, damnit!
Straight up. He squinted through the darkness; barely able to make out that it was Sakuyamon that the monster was after. She hovered over the creature, and…
"Sakura Shukujitsu!" Sakuyamon declared as the area suddenly came alive, leaves, dirt, and twigs frantically sailing left and right through the air, which was soon filled with a light which seemed to be distracting the monster. As soon as it was immobilized, Sakuyamon continued her assault with a Spirit Strike, the light penetrating through the monster's gut. It grunted in obvious pain, and-
…eww.
-And Ryo's stomach knotting as he understood what would happen before it actually did.
-And the trees, ground, Sakuyamon, and Ryo were all covered in a thin layer of a light pink liquid. The smell was terrible, worse than the peroxides from when he'd last tried to dye his hair-
-It could smell like cotton candy and ice cream, does it really make a friggin' difference? Stop being such a moron, check on Rika!
Ryo mentally rolled his eyes as he went over to an exhausted Sakuyamon, who looked greatly worn out from the last attack. He tried to run over, but the best he could manage with the pain his side was an unstable jog.
He stopped next to Sakuyamon, who soon de-Digivolved back to Renamon. As the three stared at the surroundings, the silence was soon broken by a slushing sound on the ground in front of them. A slug-like creature the size of a football oozed out of the hunter's dead head, crawling to a clearing as everyone seemed to be paralyzed with either exhaustion, pain, or maybe even fear. The small creature's body began to emit a bubbling sound, and began a process that-
-Can't be happening-
The creature's body was now bloated in the back, small bumps and bubbles surging across its skin as it expanded, and everyone knew that the thing was mutating, becoming something else. It could be more, equally powerful, or even less, but the grim reality of the situation was they didn't have enough energy to find out.
Where are you, buddy? First Henry's dad gets attacked, then we do, and now we find out that this freak turns out to be The Thing That Doesn't Die. How are we supposed to get out of this? Can we get out of this?
Ryo nodded to the two, and they all took off running, Ryo gritting his teeth to bear the pain. They were heading in the direction of the park; hopefully Takato and the others were still there. Ryo shot a quick look to Rika, who seemed to be in as much pain as he was. He felt a cold vise-like grip squeeze at his gut as he saw the one girl he cared so much about in such pain, and he was helpless to do anything but stay with her, which would eventually probably lead to getting killed in the process.
They thought they were safe for the moment, but-
-Oh crap.
The new creature screamed, not far behind them.
"I can't handle this anymore… I'm so sorry, Rika." was his last thought before he passed out, giving into the pain, while wishing over and over that Rika would get away.
Rika spun and gasped as she heard the dull thud of what turned out to be Ryo falling to the ground. Ryo looked terrible, his normally perfect hair was a tangled mess, leaves and grass mixed in with the brown strands. His face was incredibly pale except for the patches of mud, dirt, and a hand-print of dried blood on the side of his neck. She saw that his right hand was squeezing his left side, which she moved to reveal a patch of blood soaking through his shirt. Rika had no idea that Ryo was in such agony this whole time. Why didn't Ryo say anything, though?
You really need to ask that? You know he's the last person who would willingly say anything that would upset you.
True enough.
"Renamon, think you can carry him?"
"Perhaps, but it would slow us down immensely."
Rika chewed at her lower lip, trying to think of a solution. She could run and get help, stay and fight, stay and hope that the monster wouldn't find them when it obviously would.
So pick. Think you could live with yourself knowing you chose your own life over his? Didn't think so.
"I'm staying." Rika said flatly-
-And the pouch attached to Ryo's belt began to glow with a pure white light. The noise was exactly like one she'd heard recently, and Rika knew it must be his Digivice.
The light grew more powerful, and Rika looked up, and noticed she couldn't see the sky past the white-
-But then a dark form appeared, getting closer to land next to Ryo, Rika, and Renamon. Rika squinted through the thrown grains of dirt and sand in her eyes. She stared into the darkness as her eyes tried to adjust after Ryo's light had faded.
"…Cyberdramon?" She asked hopefully. Her response was a reassuring grunt, and tilted his head sharply back to one side, the universal sign for "Let's go." Renamon picked Ryo up and set him on Cyberdramon, and they all climbed on. Rika stared down at the boy lying in her lap who she'd grown to care about so much recently, wishing there was something she could do.
Please, I'll do anything--Fix things with my mother-never argue back with her-Help her with her girly ideas-Stop playing cards--Just…Don't let him die.
They took off, Rika gripping Ryo's unhurt side with one hand, steadying herself on Cyberdramon with the other. Renamon told him to fly them to the park, but Rika hardly heard. She was busy swearing to herself that the monster better not have killed Ryo, and that it would be goddamned sorry if it did.
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Okay, I accomplished SO little in that chapter! I had seven main things I wanted to cover, I only got one and a
half of them. Oh well, at least I know
what I'm doing next time, sort of. Anyways,
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