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Digimon Continuity
Quest for the Digimon
Chapter 5
Henry's Discovery
:. Real World - Japan, Tokyo, Shinjuku
Nonaka Residence
01:28 PM JST
Ryo's phone rang just as Rika approached him. She stopped in her tracks, smirk fading away to be replaced by one of disgust. Obviously whoever who was on the other end was going to have a visit from Rika sometime... soon, maybe? Unless that person had a very good reason.
Saved by the bell... or in this case, the phone.
"Alright Akiyama, you got 5 seconds to convince whoever on the other end to shut it until I'm over."
Ryo merely gulped. No one ever called him. This person had to have an emergency or something. Either way, he was in a tight spot. But instead of just sitting there, his hands moved to his phone and drew it out. All eyes were on him. The phone just kept ringing, oblivious to the tense atmosphere.
He pressed the call button with exaggerated slowness, never keeping his eyes off Rika in case she did anything. Once he placed the phone to his ear, his eardrums exploded with so much sound that he yelped.
"Ryo! Are you there?! You won't believe it!!"
"Errr... Henry, I'm gonna have to get back to you... I'm kinda busy at the moment..."
"Then whatever you are doing can wait..."
I doubt it...
"...because you have to get here right NOW!!"
Ryo pulled the phone from his ear. Whatever Henry was talking about, he was sure loud about it.
"Why?"
"Don't why me. Get here right now!!"
"Not until I get the full story."
He was attracting looks from the two girls. Rika was holding her fist up not so reassuringly.
"RYO! WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS! GET HERE RIGHT NOW!!"
"No Henry, in fact, I'm hanging up now."
"Noooo... Wait..." he heard a loud breath being taken, before hearing Henry's voice again, this time calm but not without excitement. "Alright, it all started with me deciding to call Takato to try and..."
Now Rika was definitely not happy, "Err... Henry, I really don't have time for this."
Unfortunately, Henry was not listening, nor understanding the seriousness of the situation. "... convince Rika together to get out. But I couldn't reach him, so I thought he was back at the hideout..."
That caught Ryo's interest. Takato is at the hideout? Guilmon's hideout? That's not right. What could have made him go there?
Rika finally to take things into her own hands. She towered over the spike haired boy, and snatched the phone from him. To her utter surprise, and that of Jeri's, Ryo yanked it back from her moments after she did. He did not even seem to realize he did, or that the phone was ever separated from him at all.
"Henry, just get to the point."
"... I found a portal, Ryo."
The latter stood up so fast, the still shocked Rika was thrown to the ground. Before she could react, she heard the magic words that made her forget all else.
"A PORTAL!"
"Yes, yes... I found a portal at Guilmon's old hideout!" Henry gave up on concealing his joy.
"Why didn't you say so earlier?!"
"I tried, but you wouldn't let me."
He took about a second to consider this. "Alright Henry, you get the others over there, I've Jeri and Rika with me right now. I'm coming over."
Henry simply forgot to ask why both Jeri and Rika were with him. "Done."
:. Real World - Japan, Tokyo, Shinjuku
Nonaka Residence
01:30 PM JST
Rika still sat on the floor, barely listening as Ryo continued his conversation with Henry.
She was completely lost, her anger and joy were contrasting each other so evenly that she didn't even know which she was feeling. Henry... found... a portal? Her mind was still considering whether it was fact or fiction when she heard Ryo's voice. It's all... serious. Since when has he been serious?
An arm went around her shoulder. She need not look to know that it was Jeri trying to comfort her. Even during our battle with the D-Reaper, he was still joking around. Like it was just something he did everyday. She mentally slapped herself. Of course it was something he did everyday, he was stuck in the Digital World for a whole year, with no one but that overgrown dragon to talk to.
She looked to Jeri. It's so sad. Jeri lost Leomon... forever. How could I have been so selfish like this?
"I'm sorry." came out before she could stop it. Jeri's smile wavered for a moment, before she understood and shrugged it off.
"Don't worry about me Rika, you just get to Renamon as soon as possible."
A few tears fell from her eyes... however, Ryo spoke.
"Am I interrupting anything?" he asked.
Rika immediately flared, partly because of him being one of the only two (at least to her knowledge) who knew the location of the portal. "Of course you are Akiyama! When are you going to learn some tact and get with the program!"
"So... I take it you want to keep crying and not know the location of the portal?"
Rika's mouth fell. The only things stopping her from punching Ryo's lights out was 1) Jeri, 2)She CRIED?!
Almost as if she said it out loud, "Yes Rika, you are crying. I won't blame you, the others are probably doing the same."
"Errr..." she managed, sounding and acting exactly like Ryo had only moments ago.
Jeri helped Rika in her silence. "Ryo!" she said reproachfully. "Stop it. Just tell us where the portal is."
Rika could not have been more grateful. "Alright... it's at..."
Ryo's phone started ringing again.
Another cliffhanger.
This complicates things quite a bit. What will the Tamers do? What happens next?
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