A/N: To BurningGale, Because of your request for longer chapters I decided to merge this chapter with chapter five since they were both fairly short. Chapter five is the chapter where I put some backstory for Takato and Renay so there you go. I already had chapter 6 written but I now plan on trying to make it longer and after that I'll write chapter 7 however since i did a chapter merge here chapter 6 will really be chapter 5. also in the next chapter there's a two month time skip and an accidental game of follow the leader. lol you'll understand what I mean by that when you read it. In any case I hope you enjoy this chapter.
It was two days after the battle with Shadramon and Jason was walking through the park in that secluded part of it that nobody goes to alongside his partner Guilmon and his brother Takato along with his partner Renay when somebody decided to drop in. That somebody was Shade phasing in with Rika for them to issue a challenge to Takato. "Hey gogglehead! Wanna have a fight? It'll be just me and shade versus you and your Renamon! I'm a little interested to see how good you are and how we stack up so I think a friendly sparring match might be just the thing." Rika said. "Hmm sounds interesting, but I can tell that you're a bit inexperienced." Takato said "Yeah but what we lack in experience we more than make up for in power." Rika replied. "Alright then. Let's fight!" Takato said and with that Renay and Shade charged at eachother. Shade went in for a Shadow Paw while Renay countered with a Power Paw. The two attacks hit and sent both fighters back a ways. During the initial clash Takato pulled up Shadow Renamon on his D-Power and responded with a card that might just surprise his opponents and said. "Digimodify! Shadow Renamon's Arm Guards! Activate!" And with that card exact copies of Shade's black markless arm guards replaced Renay's usual purple ones and then she drew the retractable blade and as she did Takato scanned a Hyperchip card and a Hyperspeed card which let her speed straight at Shade and she punched his face with a Power Paw which sent him sprawling and then she pinned him to the ground and held the blade to his neck and said "Dead! I win!" and with that she did a backflip and landed by her tamer. After that quick display of power it was very clear that she and Takato had won. Rika rushed to her partners side and said "Whoa! Shade are you okay?" and he responded with "Yeah I'm fine. The only thing seriously wounded is my pride." and then Takato, being the diplomatic guy he is, walked over to them and said "Hey are you okay? I hope Renay didn't hurt you too badly." "He's fine! And so am I! We don't need your pity! It's not like you actually care about us! We're just strangers to you so why should you care?" Rika replied "Whoawhoawhoawhoa! You're a fellow tamer and we've gotta stick together! If you ever need my help just give me a call." Takato said and with that he stuffed a paper with his phone number on it into her hands. Unfortunately she tossed it to the side and said "Shade! Get us out of here!" and so Shade looked at Takato apologetically and phased both him and Rika away but at the last second he flashed him a look that said "I'll talk to her." as they faded away.
"Well that was interesting." Jason said "Jason why did she think we don't care about her?" Guilmon asked "Well Guilmon, some people just have a hard time accepting that kinda thing." Jason replied "Why?" Guilmon asked "I don't really know. I guess it depends on the person." Jason said to which Guilmon cocked his head and appeared to be deep in thought which also drew the attention of Takato and Renay who were wondering what Guilmon could possibly be putting so much thought into when Guilmon finally said "I'm Hungry. Can I have some bread?" and everybody sweatdropped then laughed "Did I say something funny?" Guilmon asked and when they kept laughing he started laughing too but didn't know why and eventually they all calmed down and Jason said "Okay Guilmon let's go get you some bread." "Yay! Bread!" the dino happily replied.
Back at Rika's house...
"Ugh that gogglehead thinks he's so great just cuz he and his stupid Renamon can beat us in a fight! I'll show him next time cuz we'll stomp on him just like we did that Lynxmon!" Rika said "Perhaps you're just flustered cuz you find him attractive?" Shade said to which Rika blushed and said "What? No way! You seriously think I'd fall for that douchebag?" Rika asked "If you don't like him why are you blushing? You know you can't lie to me cuz I can sense it when you do." Shade said "Ugh fine! I guess I kinda do kinda like him." She nervously admitted "But it's not like he's gonna feel the same after the way I treated him." she finished "Don't be so sure about that. He strikes me as a forgiving type so he might just surprise you. In any case good luck with him." Shade said "Thanks Shade. I hope you're right." Rika replied.
"Well Lucemon, I hope you aren't still stung by your defeat in the north quadrant. Daemon still hasn't returned from the east quadrant and he was supposed to be back by now. I'd hate for another one of us to be out of commission." Lilithmon taunted hoping to get a reaction from her fellow demon lord. Lucemon whipped around and lunged at her and held her by the throat and pinned her against the wall. "You would be wise not to taunt me. Or have you forgotten your place?" Lucemon maliciously said "Oh my, you know how I love it when you play rough. Perhaps you need some special attention to help work out some kinks?" Lilithmon said lustfully "Perhaps later but not now. We need to try to figure out where Daemon went. After that we need to work together. I'll let the north quadrant have it's little victory for now and we'll try to conquer the other three quadrants starting with the south quadrant and once we've conquered those areas we'll come back for the north quadrant in full force. The celestial angels will rue the day they interfered in my plans and we will destroy them!" Lucemon said "Hm! Well if you aren't interested I guess I'll have to go find someone else to play with. Bye Lucemon!" Lilithmon said as she walked away.
A Few Hours Later In the human world...
Jason and Takato were out by the hideout looking up at the clouds with Renay and Guilmon when Jason asked "Hey Takato?" "Yeah? what is it?" Takato replied "Well I was wondering. How did you and Renay become partners?" Jason asked to which Takato replied "Well it happened about six months ago during a big storm. I was at the park just enjoying the nice weather when all of a sudden a freak storm rolled in extremely quickly..."
"Whoa! The weatherman didn't say anything about this!" Takato yelled as he ran through the woods in the park looking for shelter from the sudden storm. Soon there was a bright bolt of lightning that struck right in front of him. "Whaa!" Takato yelled as he stumbled backwards from the bolt and fell on his ass. He then scrambled to his feet and got running again dodging bolt after bolt until all of a sudden a yellow bipedal fox appeared in front of him and said "I can help you find shelter from this weather if you want." Takato was dumbstruck. Here he was in the middle of a huge storm and out of the blue a Renamon of all things appears to offer shelter. He was a bit apprehensive to follow but then a bolt of lightning struck close again and he said "O-okay lead the way." and so Renamon lead him to the small concrete hut that would later on become the tamers hideout. "Thanks for the help. Although I definitely never expected to run into a Digimon." Takato said to which Renay lightly laughed "Well I couldn't just leave you out there to get killed by that lightning. It was almost like you were made of metal and we all know lightning is best attracted to metal." Renay replied with a small chuckle. "What? Well maybe it was this?" Takato said as he pulled out the small device he'd kept a secret until he showed Renay. "I found this weird blue card a few days ago and scanned it through my card scanner and then my card scanner transformed into this. I thought it might be a digivice at first but i didn't believe it could be real since I didn't think Digimon were real but now I'm not so sure." Takato said and when Renay saw the digivice he was holding her eyes lit up and she said "Well well well. I've been looking to find a Tamer to be my partner and now here you are! I've wanted a Tamer ever since I was just a small Viximon. I got teleported from the digital world by accident about three days ago and decided that while I'm here I should look for a Tamer. I started living in this park until I could find my Tamer because it reminds me of my previous home in the forest." "Whoa! Me? A digimon tamer?" Takato said in shock to which Renay nodded yes and said "Whaddaya say? Wanna be my partner?" "Definitely!" Takato replied
"A few days later I accidentally dropped my Digivice in front of Henry so he found out I'm a Tamer and introduced me to Jake. I had no idea how to use the Digivice until Henry showed me how and explained it's features. Until then Renay had been living in the hideout and once I told her about the Digivice's hideaway feature and that that was where Jake slept each night she asked if she could sleep in my Digivice's hideaway feature and I agreed and so that's how we got our start. Ever since then she's followed me around while Phased out so she can be ready and warn me about bio-emergences. Also the day after she became my partner we gained a telepathic link which means we can talk to eachother telepathically whenever we want." Takato said "Wow. That's a pretty nice story. I wonder what's gonna happen next?" Jason said and with that they enjoyed the rest of their day.