CHAPTER IV:

Out of the V-Pet

After Riza changed, she sat at her bed and opened her laptop. She connected her V-Pet to it and downloaded Moonmon's data. She opened the battle realm and log on.

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There were other Digimon in the battle realm. Agumon, BlackAgumon, Biyomon, Leomon, Veemon, and a lot more. She noticed a fight was going on in the battle arena. She smiled and signed herself on the easy round.

The fights were easy. All she had to fight were Fresh Digimons and In-Trainings. She levelled up real quick as well. Eventually, she evolved to a Lopmon and could actually fight against rookies.

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"Lv. 8 already…" Riza muttered. "Hey, are you okay out there, Moony?"

"D-don't call me that!" Moonmon pouted after she de-digivolve from Lopmon. "I'm fine! Just a wittle hungwy and a wittle twired." She said before falling asleep.

"Ah! Ah!" she smiled. "Guess you really deserve a break." She sighed. "If only you were real, you might get a taste of my Tamago Dashimaki. Speaking of which," her stomach growled. "I'm getting hungry."

She laughed while walking out of the room. She decided to buy something; she took her wallet and left the building.

Little did she know, while she was out buying food at a convenience store. Her V-Pet began to glow, and slowly, a figure was inside the light. And slowly the light started to dissipate, revealing the small figure.

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After Riza got back from the store, she put down the bag on the table. She pulled out an Instant Curry Mix for her dinner and two Onigiri.

She was eating her Onigiri as she entered her room. When she got in there, much to her surprise, sitting on her bed is a…

"Moony!" she yelled, surprised by what she's seeing. She woke up the sleeping Moonmon.

She's kneeling beside her bed and poking Moonmon. She rubbed her eyes and pinched herself countless times.

"Hey!" Moonmon yelled at me. She yawned and blinked. "What's wrong with you, Riza? You look like you saw a ghost."

"H-ho-h-ho-h-HOW!" she was finally able to say.

"Whaddya mean 'how?'?"

She pointed at Moonmon. "I meant… How are you real?" she said, eyes wide open. "I mean you are supposed to be just part of a game."

"Game?" Moonmon repeated. "Oh! You mean the game you made me play earlier?"

"Yes! That game." She said. "God! What did I ever do to deserve this? I'm really going crazy." She said. "I'm sorry if I ever did wrong things to my teachers or beat Shinji up or insult him by calling him 'Flower Boy', so please, don't make me crazy."

"I think you're acting like a Loco, Riza." Moonmon said. "Hey, is that food, can I have it? Can I? Can I?"

Stunned, she gave her the Onigiri on her hand. And she began eating on her palm. Riza could feel her warmth on her hand. It was weird. Why is she warm? Isn't she supposed to be made out of data? Were the questions floating on her head. And then, she remembered. There was a real live Digimon eating an Onigiri on her palm.

"Yum~" Moonmon complimented.

Riza suddenly felt dizzy and then, she fainted.

"Woah!" Moonmon yelped as she fell with Riza. "Huh?" she looked at Riza. "Riza?" she jumped towards Riza's chest. "Riza? Hey? Wake up!" she cried.

From her room, shuffling from the door could be heard. And then, a man's deep voice called out. "Riza, I'm home1"

"O-oh no!" Moonmon cried. "Wake up, Riza, someone's here!"

As the footsteps grew closer, Moonmon was still trying to wake up Riza. And slowly, the door to Riza's room opened.

A middle aged man wearing a black suit and a loose neck tie, entered. He didn't look anything like Riza. His hair was brown and his eyes were a shade of dark brown. And unlike Riza's pale white skin, his were a lighter shade of brown.

Instead of panicking like Riza, he stared at the Digimon for a moment before smiling down. "You must be a Protector of the Moon Guardian?"

"How did you know?" Moonmon looked at the man's tired looking eyes. As though as he was relieve to see Moonmon.

"Mitsuki Tsukino…" he muttered. And then, it hit her. This man knew of everything.

She nodded her head, telling him she understands.