Well now we get to the third chapter of Digivania and this chapter stars Jeri and Ryo starting their appearance in this. The problem is Ryo is going to be a boss at first so Takato has to beat him to save Henry from the Half-Vampire and Strikedramon, Cyberdramon's Champion form. Jeri also stars in this chapter as our Innkeeper and asks that Henry move his shop to across the hall from her.

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Background song is Lost Village from Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrows. Now on with the story.

Digivania Chapter 3: Running into Jeri and Ryo

Takato Narrates "Well that is decided but now we have the souls to deal. Why My D-Ark has the power of Dominance is something I still question. Rika, Renamon, Guilmon, and I found battling the monsters a whole lot easier for now I have the power of souls to help out. Now there is one problem. I only had one soul by the end of Castle Corridor and I had decided to get 100% of the souls. Well this is where I decide to find out if Demidevimon and other digimon drop souls or not. I couldn't think whether or not they were going to drop them but I knew the monsters were so I started to kill more Demidevimon. It annoyed Rika but it was worth it because..."

At Midway through the hallway, Takato destroys Another Demidevimon and out of it pop a soul that entered his D-Ark.

The Card says "Demidevimon... This is a blue soul. Blue souls are called assist souls. The assist souls assist you with a timed bonus when you swipe them. This soul summons a Demidevimon that attacks your foe on occasion. You say 'Soul Assist, Demidevimon' to activate it."

Then a zombie attacks and tries to attack Takato.

An Announcer says "Soul Assist!"

Takato does his card swiping pose and says "Soul Assist, Demidevimon!"

The Demidevimon appears out of the D-Ark and hurts the zombie. Then Takato whacks it with his Dagger. It drops it soul.

Takato says "Well that is three souls. Also It's good to know that digimon drop souls too."

Takato then looks at the Demidevimon Assist Soul card and it now says "Demidevimon... This is a Soul Assist card. This soul summons a Demidevimon that attacks your foe and occasion."

Takato then looks at the Zombie soul card and it says "Zombie... This is a Yellow soul. Yellow souls are buff souls. They permanently buff you and your allies with special effects until you swipe another soul buff card. This soul makes you stronger when Poisoned. You say 'Soul Buff, Zombie' to activate it."

Takato says "I swipe that now."

An announcer says "Soul Buff."

Takato does his card swiping pose and say "Soul Buff, Zombie!"

The D-Ark fires off a magical aura and it goes around Takato, Rika, Renamon, and Guilmon.

Takato then looks at the card and it now says 'Zombie... This is a Soul Buff card. This soul makes you stronger when poisoned."

Takato Narrates "Well after getting and testing those two souls, we continued down the hall and found a door to the next area. What we found there was amazing. It was..."

At the end of this hallway, Takato, Rika, and their digimon continue through a door and down a hall. At the end of the hall, they are amazed to find a whole village was inside the castle. The group of two humans and two digimon continued down the room and found a building to go in. They went in it to find a friend.

The Friend says "Takato? Rika?"

Takato says "Jeri, it's you."

Rika says "So you watch over this building, eh Jeri?"

Jeri says "Yes it's a inn by the way. I take money for people sleeping here. There is another empty building across from me. By the way, is Henry with you?"

Takato thinks "Of course it goes to Henry."

Rika says "Yeah, he is our shopkeeper. Do you want him to move to the building across from you?"

Jeri blushes and says "I... If he doesn't mind, I do."

Rika looked confused by Jeri's Blush at Henry being in the building across from her. Takato wasn't surprised.

Rika says "We can go see him."

Takato says "Hey maybe we can communicator through our D-Arks."

Rika says "Then give it a try."

Takato pulls out his D-Ark and says "Come in, Henry. Can you hear me?"

The screen appears and shows Henry. Henry says "I can hear you, Takato. It's cool that our D-Arks are a form of communication in this world. What did you want to ask me?"

Takato says "Would you like to move toward the village inside the castle. There is a empty building that can be used to house your shop and Jeri's Inn is right across from it."

Henry says "Jeri! You mean she's here too. I'll be right there. Someone has to protect her."

Takato hangs up and says "Henry said he's coming to it."

After a few seconds, Takato's D-Ark suddenly rings.

Takato pulls it out and says "Hello?"

The screen shows Henry and he says "Takato, there is someone on the other side of the way to the hallway. Can you come take care of him? He's fearsome and has a champion level digimon."

Takato says "Rika and I will be right there." He hangs up and says "Rika, come on. Henry needs our help."

Rika says "Following you."

Takato, Rika, Renamon, and Guilmon head back to the door to the hallway and go through it.

Takato says "let's see what this digimon is." Takato pulls out his D-Ark and has Guilmon look at the digimon. Takato reads off the D-Ark "Strikedramon, Cyber Dragon Digimon. Champion level. his special attack is Strike Fang."

It's Tamer appears and says "Ah, A digimon with a tamer but could that tamer be the cause of this?"

Strikedramon says "That digimon he has with him is a Virus type."

It's Tamer says "Yeah it's a Guilmon but he still could be the cause and be pretending to be that tamer."

Strikedramon says "Okay then, shall I attack the digimon while you fight the tamer?"

It's Tamer says "Yeah."

Suddenly A Digivolution card appears in Takato's hands.

Takato says "A Digivolution card... Hmm..."

An Announcer says "Digi-Modify."

Takato does his card swiping pose and says "Digi-Modify, Digivolution activate."

An Announcer says "Digivolution."

An egg engulfs Guilmon and Guilmon says "Guilmon Digivolve to..." The Egg hatches and The now champion level says "Growlmon!"

Strikedramon charges at Growlmon and Strikedramon's tamer charges at Takato. Takato hits the enemy tamer with his dagger.

An Announcer says "Soul Attack."

Takato does his card swiping pose and says "Soul Attack, Skeleton!"

A bone comes out of his D-Ark and hits the tamer of the Strikedramon.

Growlmon says "Dragon Slash!" He unleashes his dragon slash attack on Strikedramon.

Strikedramon gets hit and says "Ha, that's weak. Strike Fang!" A burst of heat goes through his metal parts and comes out his claws to hit Growlmon.

Growlmon dodges it and says "Pyro Blaster." Hitting Strikedramon with Pyro Blaster was easy after dodging Strike Fang. This also sent Strikedramon flying and went down.

The Tamer of Strikedramon tries hitting Takato with his sword but misses.

An Announcer says "Soul Attack."

Takato does his card swiping pose and says "Soul Attack, Skeleton!"

A bone comes out of his D-Ark and hits the Tamer of the Strikedramon out of the battle.

Takato says "We're on the same side."

Growlmon immediately De-Digivolves to Guilmon.

The Tamer of Strikedramon says "What? Now, that voice is familiar and doesn't seem to be a illusion." The tamer gets up and takes off his hood.

Rika yells "Ryo?"

Ryo says "Yep that's me. I am a vampire in this world. I guess I am the Alucard."

Takato says "Then Strikedramon is Cyberdramon's Champion form that is not Digivolved to Ultimate yet."

Ryo says "That's right, Takato."

Henry approaches and says "I wouldn't have been so scared of you if I knew it was you, Ryo."

Ryo says "I had to keep my hood up until I was sure that you guys were my friends and not illusions. This castle is known for making illusions."

Rika says "You need to learn not to check with your fists."

Ryo says "And why is that, Princess?"

Rika says "Because some illusions can't be hit but can hit you. Like the Boos of Mario's Games, they vanish and are hard to hit when they're not attacking."

Ryo says "Hmm... You seem to know that a little too well."

Rika says "Let's just say, On our way here, I ran into one of those illusions I speak of. It took the shape of My father. I don't know why through."

Ryo says "It seems the castle wants to take advantage of our weaknesses and use them to destroy us."

Takato says "Anyway Ryo, Why don't you come with us back to the village? We can all rest at Jeri's Inn."

Ryo says "Sure thing let's go."

Takato and Rika led the way to the Inn and Jeri, happily, took Takato's, Rika's, Henry's, and Ryo's pay for a rest at the inn. She decided to sleep with Henry who had a two person room with two beds and Terriermon took one bed and they took another. Ryo took a one person room with Strikedramon in one bed and Him in the other. That left Takato and Rika with a room with 2 beds so they had their digimon sleep in one and they slept in The other.

Takato Narrates "There is one problem that night but I tell you that next time."

TBC...