Betamon X: A Warrior with a mission
Gomamon: A kid with a digimon
Betamon X: and a single mistake in the past caused by Anger
Gomamon: May cause a Greater Grief for himself then it did to a dear friend.
Dawn's Echoes – The Death of a Friend
Chapter 1
The Slayer
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Tai dribbled the ball down the court coming up on Black. "Think you can get this Davis?" Tai asked.
"Did Ken try to destroy the world?" Davis said.
"Oh, sure, remind us of that." Wormmon said covering his partner. Ken just grinned.
Tai went left to avoid Black, who moved accordingly, and Tai shifted his foot to pass it to Davis, flipped the ball back a bit and shot past Black. Going for the goal he stomped the ball into the air and head butted it.
Ken caught the pass and avoided Gabumon. "You humans are so slow." Gatomon said stealing the ball from Ken hitting it with her head forward.
Tai stole it right back from under her as she put her head down to push it, "We may be slow, but at least we can see where we're going." Tai said with the ball and Gatomon chasing after him. Tai kicked the ball to Davis.
Davis caught it and dribbled towards the goal, only for the ball to get stolen by Armadillomon. Tai laughed as Armadillomon didn't kick the ball, but rolled himself into one and pushed the soccer ball along. It didn't matter how many times he's seen it happen it was still funny.
Armadillomon burst out of his ball and kicked it over Cody's head. Agumon bounced it on his head twice before it hit the ground. He dribbled it down towards Izzy. Izzy moved to intercept and made Agumon stumble with the ball, but he quickly recovered and got around the short red head. He dribbled forward Izzy close behind him. Agumon kicked it into the air. Gatomon leaped and did a three-sixty kicking the ball towards the goal. Joe leaped and caught the ball.
"Baihumon you Joe." Agumon said, "You're such a freaking Gesomon."
"Why do you think I'm always Goalie?" Joe asked fixing his glasses, "Hey, look who finally arrived."
"So…are you talking about Michael or Mimi?" Tai teased.
"Well…" Joe saw Tai snicker, "Oh go eat Numemon poo Tai."
"Why is he eating Numemon Poo?" Michael asked.
"No reason." Tai said, "Joe's just getting a backbone."
Joe looked at Tai strangely, "You know something I don't?" he asked.
Everyone laughed.
"Well, everybody's here now." Ken said.
"Yeah," Tai said, "So Teams. Older Destined, Older Digimon, Youngin's and Youngin's Digimon?" Tai asked.
"What?" Ken said, "But you guys will dominate with both you and Sora on the same team."
"And Mimi." Tai said.
Ken laughed, "Oh yes, how could I forget."
"Me?" Mimi said astonished, "But I'm like the worst one out there."
Ken smiled as he and Tai exchanged glances and took a brief look at Joe and Michael. They had figured out that when Mimi was around both Joe and Michael for some reason played three times better. Which meant no goals were getting pass Joe and Michael could outplay Davis.
"Huh?" Mimi, Michael and Joe all said at the same time.
Tai looked over at the stands of the coliseum. It was strange, here was the place that he had caused Agumon to dark digivolve, and yet right here he was more relaxed then anywhere else. He could even talk to Sora normally here.
"Hey," Tai called over to Sora and Matt who were sitting on the bleachers, "Hey you two get off your lazy bums and let's play some SOCCER!" Tai yelled leaping into the air.
Five minutes later the game was about to start. Tai was center with Sora as his left wing and Michael as his right. Mimi and Matt where defense while Joe had goalie. As for the digimon, Agumon(Black) was flanked by Agumon on his left and Gomamon on his right.
It has been three years since they defeated MaloMyotismon. Now that was an intense battle. It was amazing to not only see, but be with Omegamon, Tai on his left arm, and Matt on his right, leading the troops into battle.
It was a month after that battle that they were holding a memorial service for BlackWargreymon when Black showed up and offered his thoughts. Agumon walked up to his counterpart and slugged him right there. They got into a huge fight and ended up beating the data out of each other as rookies. After that they were best buds.
Black disappeared for five months after that. He then came back, and when asked where he was, all he would ever say is that he was fighting for the Sovereigns against a powerful thing. He wouldn't tell anything more then that, and Tai figured that if it scared Black that much, it would be better off not knowing.
After Black got back, he and Agumon went into a smithing business together. Now he's always hanging with the group and hitting on all the female digimon. It was almost freaky how much of a Gentlemon he could be with the girls.
Tai got his head back into the game; behind Black, Agumon and Gomamon was Betamon and Gabumon with Palmon as the goalie. No surprise there. She was the best digimon goalie.
"Alright!" Tai shouted cheerfully, "LET THE GAMES BEGIN!"
The game flew by so RAMming fast. Tai was up field avoiding Betamon when the ball was kicked out from underneath him. Gomamon was racing up the field with it; power slammed it to Black who bounced it over to Agumon who launched it in with a powerful kick. Joe was able to block it, but he was sure that there was going to be welts the next morning.
The game was fast, first Sora would have the ball, launch it over to Tai, who would head butt it in, or at least try to. Palmon was always there with those long vines of hers to block it.
Gomamon ran up the field, faked passed Matt, but as he did, he over jumped and got caught on top of the ball. The ball kept rolling though, with Gomamon holding on to it for dear life until it came to a stop.
Michael ran up the field, kneed the ball up high enough so that Betamon couldn't intercept it by jumping, and did a bicycle kick right below Palmon's arms. It was the first goal of the game.
"Show off." Tai told him.
Michael grinned, "Hey, just because I've been practicing and you haven't isn't any reason to be jealous."
Tai grinned and shook his head.
The game went well until the middle of the second round when Michael took the ball. He tried to fake out his partner, but Betamon didn't fall for it and slammed the ball with his head sending it flying in to the air. Then Gabumon tried to head butt it.
"Come on Gabumon, I just bought that ball." Tai complained.
"Relax Tai; I can always get you a new one." Matt said.
"Yeah… but I had already gotten twenty girls to sign it, and not just fans either, real girls." Tai complained.
"I don't think Kari's friends count Tai." Michael said.
"Nor do female Digimon." Black added. Everybody laughed.
"So now what?" Matt asked.
"Well, me and Mimi brought a bunch of food." Sora said."I hope you didn't cook any Sora, I don't want to die before I'm twenty." Tai grinned.
"Very funny, maybe I did just slip a bit of poison into it." Sora said.
"It's Mimi and I, Sora." Izzy said getting out his Laptop.
Michael chuckled. "Yeah, we very must be grammatically correct." Michael said jokingly.
"Relax Tai, I brought your food." Mimi said, "All fresh from the kitchen." She said.
"Rock on." Tai said. Sora getting slightly mad that Tai dissed her food and loved Mimi's.
Tai grinned at Joe, and then his smile went sour. "DAVIS! You have five seconds to get fifty feet from my sister!"
"How on earth do you know how close I am to her!" Davis said.
"ONE!"
Davis booked it as fast as he humanly could away from Kari.
Sora laughed as Davis fell on his face at the last step.
The group sat down on the grass as Mimi and Sora started handing out what they packed for everybody.
Agumon and Black were talking about smithing stuff while Biyomon and Gabumon listened. Gatomon had both Patamon and Veemon flirting with her. Tentomon and Gomamon where talking politics…well…as well as those two can talk politics. (Take a Very active Liberal and put them with a Conservative who's done a lot of research…and you'll have some idea of what it was like). Palmon and Betamon where hanging out with Armadillomon and Wormmon. Hawkmon was flying around, being paranoid that a digimon was going to attack them.
The destined all sat together.
"Hey, Black, you think we should hire Snow?" Agumon asked.
"Who's Snow?" Gabumon asked.
"He's a SnowAgumon that heard about what we're doing and wants to join. He's not a bad smith at all, but he just doesn't have the strength to work actively over the entire day." Black said, "However, he's a lot better at getting the finer details then I am."
"Well, I think you should." Biyomon said.
"We probably will," Agumon said, "But I just wanted to talk it over with Black first."
"You guys still trying to make rookies Mega's?" a voice said critically.
"What do you want Darkdramon." Tai said biting into a roll.
Darkdramon sighed, "I need your help."
"Forget it." Agumon said.
"I know that we haven't always seen eye to eye."
Black snorted, "You call killing innocent digimon not seeing eye to eye?"
"They weren't innocent." Darkdramon said, "They were Dragons. All dragons will go on a rampage and destroy those who are truly innocent."
"And yet you use the power of dragons." Michael shot back.
Darkdramon looked at the blond, "A police car speeds to catch up to a speeding car. Does that make the police car in the wrong as well?"
Michael just glared. "What you do is still wrong."
"Look, we're not helping you." Gomamon said, "And you know that, so why did you come."
"Because. This is no ordinary digimon that I'm trying to find and beat. Nor even an ordinary dragon. This digimon has the power to destroy an entire quadrant in minutes. But this ability is only activated when it is fought, and I can not take it down quick enough."
Gomamon eyes got curious, "So you need us to help you destroy him fast enough so that he can't destroy the digital world. So why are you fighting it if the power only activates when it's being fought."
"Because, there are Evil Digimon who can stand against his power long enough to destroy a quadrant. If they get to him, then say bye-bye to the digital world."
"What is the dragon Digimon's name?" Tai asked.
Darkdramon shook his head, "I do not know. I have only heard the names it's been called, The Terror, Hazard, Chaos. Words associated with the D-reaper.
Black and Gomamon's eyes widened, "So, you two know who I'm talking about." Gomamon glared.
"You can go eat Raremon sludge!" Gomamon said to him.
Darkdramon smiled, "Think about what I said. Hazard is not a power that should be allowed to exist. Now if you'll excuse me, I have an appointment to go to. " He said leaving.
Veemon glared off in Darkdramon's direction. Gomamon did as well, "I trust that guy about as much as I would Demi-Devimon."
"I agree." Patamon said.
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Takato scribbled out what he just wrote, "No that won't work." He said as he tossed another piece of paper to Guilmon. Who stuffed it in his mouth.
"Takato, how many more of these do I haft to eat." Guilmon said, "It can't be that hard to say that you love Rika."
Takato shook his head, "It's really hard Guilmon. If I say the wrong thing, then she'll kick my butt. If I say the right thing, but she doesn't like me, she'll kick my butt. If I say the right thing and she does like me then she'll still kick my butt." He slammed his head on the desk. He looked over at a picture of him, Rika and Henry in Okinawa. "Of course, Henry might have an idea."
Guilmon looked confused as Takato got up to grab the phone, "How can it be that hard to say you love somebody…I mean, I love Takato and it's not that hard to say that I do."
Takato grabbed the phone and went back upstairs and dialed Henry's number. "Hello is Henry there?" He asked.
"Yes, just hold on a second." Mrs. Wong said.
"Who is it Mommy?" Suzie asked.
"It's Takato; will you run and get your brother?"
"But I want to talk to Takato."
"Alright, I'll go grab Henry." Takato laughed as Suzie got on the phone.
"Hey Takato."
"Hey Suzie."
"Will you take me to see Transformer's on Friday?" She said.
"Uhhh…"
"Suzie, give me the phone." Henry said.
"Alright, well, I'll see you at 4:45 and don't be late." Suzie said handing the phone over to Henry.
"What was all that about?" Henry asked.
"I'm not sure, but I think I have a date with your sister." Takato said slightly confused.
Henry sweat dropped, "Are you sure?"
Takato sweat dropped as well, "No, but your sister seems to think so."
Henry sighed, "She's only eleven and she's already trying to go on dates…great. Anybody else see something wrong with this?"
"You can't hold on to her forever Henry." Takato told him.
"What, now you're supporting her?" He asked.
"No! No, nothing of that sort, I'm just saying." Takato stumbled through.
Henry sighed again. "Anyway's, what were you calling about?" The blue hair kid asked.
"Well…can Terriermon hear this?" Takato asked, afraid the little bunny would start spreading gossip.
"Let me check. Lopmon!" Henry yelled.
"Yes Henry?" she asked.
"Here's five dollars, go and get Terriermon and yourself some ice-cream." Henry said.
Lopmon grabbed the five with her ears and looked at it, looked at Henry, looked back at the five and back at Henry. "What's this for?" she asked curiously.
"I'd like to go a few minutes without a headache." Henry told his sister's partner.
"I am not a headache." Terriermon said, "Besides, you're my Tamer, you should be used to it by now."
"I know, that's why I feel even sorrier for my parents." Henry told him.
Terriermon was about to say something more when Lopmon grabbed him by his ear. "Come on let's go." She said.
Henry grinned as they left. He shut the door to his room. "Alright, so he's gone. Man this must be important…so who's the girl?" Henry asked.
Takato sighed, it had been three years since the defeat of the D- reaper, and Henry knew him inside and out. "Well…it's not problems with a girl, at least not yet."
"Not yet? Is it a fan girl?" Henry asked.
"No, it's not a fan girl." Takato said.
"Not surprised, you were never the one to go for those kinds." Henry said.
Takato got fed up, "It doesn't matter who the girl is Henry. I just need some help."
Henry grinned, "Alright, so what do you need."
"Well…I want to tell the girl that I like that I like her. However, if I do it badly, I'll get my butt kicked and if I do it good, and she doesn't like me I'll get my butt kicked. Baihumon if she does like me and its good I'll get my butt kicked." Takato said in desperation.
Henry's jaw dropped. "By Azulongmon's beard, Takato. Do you even know what you're doing?"
"Yeah…why do you think I called you?" Takato said dryly.
Henry sat down; this was almost too much to take. Takato liked Rika? What next, Ryo and Jeri get together? Or maybe they'll find out the T.V. show of digimon is real. Henry took a deep breath, "Well…I'm not sure how to help you."
"All I need is the perfect poem to say to her." Takato said, "That's all I'm asking."
Henry thought about that for a moment, there was no way Takato was going to be able to recite a poem to Rika. He would be too nervous. Henry got an idea, "You know Takato. You may be able to pull this off. But you're looking in the wrong area."
"What do you mean?" Takato asked.
"Takato, you've got some of the best artistic skills I have ever seen. Give her one of you're pictures, or draw a new one just for her." Henry told him.
Takato smiled, "Thanks Henry. I owe you one."
"Actually you owe me five dollars, but we'll talk about that later."
Takato chuckled a bit as he hung up the phone, Guilmon watching him walk. "So what now Takatomon?" Guilmon asked.
"Well, could you go get my colored pencils; I'm going to need them." Takato told him.
Takato grabbed his art pad and a mechanical pencil with plenty of led in it, "Come on boy, where going to go to the park." He said. It was always easier for Takato to draw in the park; it was relaxing… provided he didn't have a bunch of fan-girls all around him.
"Yeah. The park." Guilmon said gleefully.
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"To the dark zone with it all." Takato cursed. He just couldn't get the picture right. The first one was just a picture of her, but it didn't seem like there was a bunch of work put into it. Then he tried one with her looking up at Renamon, but it focused too much on Renamon and not enough on Rika, the next one had Rika running, but it wasn't quite what he needed to give her. He'd been working on this thing for two and half hours and still hadn't gotten it right.
"Having trouble?" Risa asked from the base of the tree.
"Please just go away; I really can't stand any fan girls." Takato said not realizing who it was.
"Hey, give the girl a break. She didn't do anything to you." Impmon told him.
Takato lifted up his notepad, "oh… it's you Risa… sorry about that. It's just I've been in this tree for awhile, and if I stay in one spot I tend to get a lot of fan girls." He told her hoping down. "Hey Leviamon."
"Yawn. If you have girl problems why don't you and Risa just go out, it would solve everything." Risa kicked the demon lord, "Ow… hey, you were the one who said… OWWW! Baihumon you Risa, why did I get such an abusive tamer."
"Sorry buddy, she was the best I could do on short notice." Impmon told his partner in demonship.
"So, what are you doing here?" Takato asked, "Other then spying on me?"
"Spying?" Leviamon said chuckling, "More like drooling. I swear she's like a Numemon that has just seen Mimi. Owww." He said rubbing a spot on his nose where Risa kicked him for the third time.
Takato laughed and Risa rolled her eyes. "No, I'm babysitting the imp twins."
"I still can't believe that Yamaki is their dad. It just doesn't make sense." Takato said.
Risa chuckled, "Yeah it is pretty strange." Of course so is the fact that Riley is their mom. She thought.
"So what have you been working on so hard that you would actually curse?" Risa asked.
Takato sighed, "Well, I'm trying to draw a picture for a girl, but it's not going so well."
"Hmm.. Well. How about this. Draw Rika standing on the beach in shorts and T-shirt staring off into an orange sunset across the ocean. You could also put yourself in it for extra effect." She told him.
"Wait, but… how in the digital did you know?" he asked confused.
She handed him the crumpled piece of paper with Rika running drawn on it. "You owe me big." She said.
Takato glared, "You know, I would, had you not been so nosy." He told her. He walked off to find a better spot to draw.
"You know Risa, you wouldn't have to hit me so often if you raised you're eyes a little bit higher then below the waist. You know like the back of his head." Leviamon told her.
Risa just shrugged, "Can I help it if he's so hot."
Leviamon sighed. "Let's go get the twins." He said.
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Michael fell from the computer landing on top of Mimi. The door to his room opened at that moment. "Uh… Michael?" His dad said.
Michael got off Mimi, "It's not like that dad." He said quickly.
"Right."
Mimi got up and brushed herself off. "Then why are you two so sweaty and you're lips inches from each others."
"We just came out of the digital world." Michael told his father.
"It's true Mr. Barton." Mimi said trying to back up Michael.
"Whatever, but anyways your parents called Mimi, they were wondering where you were." He told them.
"They're so over paranoid." Mimi said.
"It is three in the morning." Mr. Barton told them.
Michael looked over at his clock and sure enough. "Holy Cow. You better head home." He told her.
"Oh, alright." She said picking up Tanemon and heading out the door.
Michael took off his shirt and fell on the bed, Koromon laying right beside him.
Michael woke up from a dream of Seadramon fighting an Airdramon three hours later as his alarm clock went off. "Mon, I hate how Japan's time is so much different then ours." He said.
Michael went through the morning Ritual of getting ready for school, smiling as he grabbed Mimi's homework which she forgot. She came over early because she needed help with her math homework. He grabbed their homework and shoved it into his backpack. He walked out to the lawn where Betamon was waiting for him with his backpack; it had a large slit down the middle so his fin could fit through it. "Took you long enough." Betamon told him.
"I had to pick up Mimi's homework, but let's go." Michael said.
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"Tai! Agumon! I'm not going to tell you again. Get up you'll miss breakfast." Tai's mom said shutting the door to his room. "Why can't those two be more like you two." She said to Kari and Gatomon.
"Well, life wouldn't be any fun if all your kids were perfect." Gatomon purred.
Kari shook her head, "Somebody's got their head in the clouds."
"Hey, I was complementing you too." Gatomon said.
Tai came out of his room before Kari got the chance to say anything. "Mom, I have a complaint. Actually two."
"Really, are they good ones?" she asked.
"Yeah. First why do I have to go to school after I saved the world at least four times now and second, Why does Agumon get to sleep in and I don't." He complained a tower over his shoulder.
"Well, I don't know what to tell you about saving the world, but actually Agumon should be up. He's supposed to go to school today." She told him.
Tai grabbed a cup and filled it with cold water. "Tai?" Kari said.
"Yeah?"
"Are you sure?" She asked.
Tai grinned. "Oh, I'm sure."
Tai threw his stuff into his locker, and then helped Agumon open his. He didn't say a word to his partner. "I'm sorry Tai; I thought I was being attacked." Agumon apologized.
Tai didn't say a word, and then Biyomon came over and landed on Agumon's head. "What's with Tai?" Biyomon said seeing him mad.
"I…uh… sort of attacked him this morning." Agumon said, placing a claw behind his head.
Sora came up, "You attacked him?" she asked.
Agumon nodded, moving Biyomon up and down.
"It was nothing." Tai said grabbing his books and pencil. He slammed the locker and turned to go to class.
"Ebonwumon's forest, he got you good Tai." She said seeing three large claw marks down Tai's cheek. "Here, let me see." She said. Biyomon very annoyed that her own partner cursed.
"It's nothing." Tai said annoyed.
"Here, I think I have some anti-septic in my bag." Sora said bringing it out.
"I'm fine Sora." Tai said hurriedly and brushed past her.
Sora rolled her eyes and started to follow him, "Tai, you need to at least clean it up, if it gets infected it could really cause some damage."
"Why do you care?" Tai said walking into class as the warning bell rang. Sora sighed and went to her class. What was up with Tai. Why did he always seem to treat her differently these days. They used to have fun together, but Tai won't even have a real conversation with her unless they're in the digital world. She pushed the thoughts out of her mind as Matt came from behind and grabbed her in a hug.
"You alright, you seem to be thinking." Matt said.
"Yeah… you notice that Tai acts differently around me then he did before." Sora asked.
Matt thought about it for a minute, "Not that I can recall. Why do you ask?"
"Well, Agumon clawed him this morning and I went to try and wash it up he just blew me off. Just like he always does." Sora told her boyfriend.
Matt shrugged, "Tai's probably just going through some tough times. You know that Tai doesn't get to see Agumon as much as we do our digimon, so he cherishes every moment. I think that he's just mad at Agumon, and mad at himself for being mad Agumon." Matt told her.
"Maybe." Sora said as the final bell rang and the kids started working.
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Takato looked at the picture one last time and hoped it was adequate. "Well, here goes nothing." He said as he started to walk towards Rika's house. Ten feet from the house he saw Rika come out of the gate.
"Oh, hey Takato." Rika said, "I was just heading to DBS to pick up the new packs that just came in. You want to come?" She asked.
Takato was caught totally off guard, "Uh… sure? I don't have any money though." He said, "I just bought the last series."
"You save the world and you can't even get digimon cards." Rika teased, "Kind of ridiculous."
Takato shrugged, "I guess, but I've been doing fine with my deck." He told her.
"Here, I'll tell you what. I'll buy you all the packs you haven't been able to get." Rika told him.
"Rika, that's nice and all, but I don't need them." Takato told her.
"Takato, in the past six months, other then to me, you've also been losing consistently to Rukato, Taishi and Takashi. On top of that, Steven has been getting a few up on you as well. With how powerful Guilmon is, you should be able to wipe the floor of everybody." She told him.
Takato grinned, "Yeah, but there's something strange about that group and I still have a massive upper hand on Ryo. So why should I be too worried?" he asked.
"Other then the fact that Suzie is only one win away from making you two a fifty-fifty." Rika said, "And that Steven isn't part of that group."
Takato grinned, Steven was the first of the new batch of Tamer's to get his digimon, and he's also the founder of the DA. His Tyranomon is one of the strongest he's ever seen, and Steven is a pretty good card player as well. "Well, that's more of Steven getting better more so then me getting worse. You know he's only two battles away from catching Ryo in that fifty-fifty dead lock."
Rika nodded, "Alright, I'll give you that one. But a good player knows that a wider variety of cards allows for more ideas to be played." She said.
Takato sighed, "There's no way I'm going to talk you out of this. Is there?" Takato asked.
"Nope, and I won't take money back for them either." Rika said grinning. "Hey, can I see what you were drawing?" she asked.
"Oh yeah." Takato said handing her his drawing notebook.
Rika looked through, "You've definitely improved drawing Guilmon." She said looking at picture with Guilmon surrounded by bread. "And you've definitely got his attitude in there."
"Thanks." Takato said, unsure of what to say. (Betamon X: I like that skull on your flight suit)
Rika flipped to the next page. It was a pic of the four friends. Rukato, Taishi, Mina and Takashi. It was pretty interesting how well he got their attitudes. Rukato was posing, Taishi had the, can we get this over with look going. Mina looked like the flirt she is and Takashi looked like he always does. That kid was strange, most of the time he would just stand there watching, taking in everything. It was almost as if the kid had to know everything that was going on around him. "You draw these kids a little too realistic." Rika told her friend.
"Yeah, but can you imagine that group any other way?" Takato asked.
"I guess not." Rika said flipping to the next page. Lopmon and Terriermon had their ears in a tangled mess. Lopmon had the angry sign on her forehead and Terriermon had a Sweatdrop coming off the back of his. "It's nice to see Terriermon be the one to have the joke played on him." She told him.
Takato grinned, "Yeah, well… I had to do something."
Rika chuckled a little bit. "You're alright Takato. You know that." She said looking at the next page. It was a picture of all of Takato's known Mega forms. Dukemon, Dukemon X and Dukemon CM where all lined up in a row. Almost as if they were guards. Behind them was an outline, she didn't need to ask, she knew what it was. "You know, it would be easier to forget these kinds of things if you didn't bring them back up." She said glaring, not her personal glare, but still glaring.
Takato looked at her, "I'm sorry if it upsets you Rika, it's just that I feel that Megidramon is just a fluke like SkullGreymon. I just feel as if he has a purpose."
"Takato, are we talking about the same creature here." Rika asked.
Takato stopped and Rika turned around. "Rika, please, trust me on this one."
Rika looked at Takato for a minute, "I trust you Takato, but are you're other forms holding something out from coming in, or are they making sure that nothing inside will come out."
"Will you just drop it Rika!" Takato said loudly, clearly annoyed.
Rika turned on him. "NO, I won't just drop it Takato. Last time he almost destroyed the digital world, murder Impmon and scared the Baihumon poo out of all of us. What would happen if he attacked Suzie next time. What then Takato, what if he attacks you. You ever think about that!" Rika scolded him.
Takato was surprised at Rika, she wasn't just telling him off, it was more of "don't you ever freak me out like that again" tell off then anything else. He looked at the ground.
"Come on, let's go." Rika said heading off in the direction of the DBS. They walked to the store in silence, neither daring to speak a word lest they start fighting again.
When they got to the store, they found it somewhat busy. That was surprising since a new deck series had just come out, but then again, 50 of the cards were old.
"Hey, DATS is on." Takato said pointing to a T.V. large screen; there were thirty chairs in front of it in theater style.
"Yeah, Suzie's up against Andrew." Rika told him.
Ah yes. Andrew, Takato knew of him pretty well. He was the first Tamer to get a digimon that was partnered to a destined from the show. He was also one of two people to have a Patamon. The girls all flocked to him and he loved it. He wasn't a bad card player either, he had beaten Takato twice. Of course Takato still had a sixteen win lead on him.
"Hey." A voice said, "Rika, Takato, what are you two doing here?" Ryo asked.
"Oh, hey Ryo." Takato said.
"I came down to get the new series and to get Takato some decent cards." Rika said.
Ryo glared at Takato, who shrugged, "It was her idea, not mine." He told his rival.
"Well, let's sit down and watch Suzie kick some Tailmon." Rika said, walking over to the seats, she went in and Takato was about to follow her when Ryo "ran" into him pushing him out of the way.
"Oh, sorry Takato, you alright?" Ryo said after Takato stumbled back.
"I'm fine." Takato said. As Ryo sat down next to Rika with a big grin on his face.
"Welcome Back, tooo DATS. Your Digi-Arena Television Service. In today's match we have 11 year old Suzie Wong and her partner Lopmon VS Andrew Ink and Patamon. Suzie Wong has an amazing record this year, being almost tied up with Legendary Tamer King, Ryo. However Andrew is no push over either, and is only two behind Suzie in Wins. If he can pull this off folks, Andrew will move up to the top ten, pushing Mina Barton out. This will be a fierce battle as Andrew pulls out all the stoppers to be one of the best."
Andrew grinned as he held his fifteen cards in his hand, "Patamon, you ready to kick some darkness rear." He asked, his digimon getting ready.
Suzie grinned, "Thanks for the info." She said.
"What do you mean?" Andrew asked.
"You stacked you'we deck with powewful holy cawds to beat Lopmon." She said, "So now I can countew youw stwategy easiew." She said, "Lopmon, be caweful."
"Don't worry, I will Suzie." She said.
The Referee got onto the edge of the arena. "Decks Ready." He said. Suzie and Andrew both nodded, "Dish it out." The ref called throwing down a data hold field.
"Digi-Modify, Light Speed Activate." Andrew called as Patamon started running faster.
Lopmon just barely dodged out of the way, "Suzie, I can't tell where he is." She said jumping and just barely being mowed over.
Ryo was astonished, "Why doesn't Suzie do something, Lopmon can't keep it up for that long."
"What can she do Ryo?" Rika asked, "It's a light based increased speed. With Lopmon being dark, there's not a whole lot she can do. Besides, I think I know what Suzie's up to."
"Digi-Modiwhy." Suzie called out, sliding a card through. As Patamon slammed into Lopmon. "Lopmon." She cried.
Andrew was worried, "Baihumon, why in the digital world would Suzie be playing a Equip Card." He said.
"Oh, that's gotta hurt." The announcer said, "And it looks like that equipment card that Suzie used didn't work. What's this, it looks like Lopmon has taken to the air."
"What is Suzie thinking?" Ryo said astonished, "Lopmon's a sitting Numemon up there."
Takato grinned, "She's not thinking, she's anticipating." He told his friend.
Rika grinned as well, "You know, she's pretty smart for only just turned eleven."
Ryo was still confused.
Andrew grinned, he was hoping for this to happen. "Digi-Modify, Light Magnification." He said as Patamon started absorbing the light of the sun.
"Bomb's Away." Lopmon called as let go of two large balls of energy, completely demolishing Patamon and stopping his attack."
Rika grinned, "While Light Magnification is a powerful card, it leaves the digimon defenseless."
"Perfect time for an aerial attack." Takato said.
Ryo was just astonished out of his mind.
"What just happened folks. Andrew had this battle in the bag and it was stolen away from him." The announcer called, as the card Suzie used appeared on one half of the screen. Digimon Equipment - Dark Bomb. A ball of energy that increases in destructive power the higher it falls from.
"Now, let's play." Suzie said, "Digi-Modiwhy, Void Meteorite activate!" Suzie called out.
"NO!" Andrew said as Lopmon, now higher because of the blast of the bombs, started to get a black barrier around her streaking down.
"Void Meteorite!" Lopmon called as she slammed into Patamon, and did a back flip out of the dust. All that was left was a Tokomon.
"The winner is Suzie." The announcer called.
Ryo was left stunned, "I don't get it. Andrew had all the right cards and a powerful digimon that was capable of using those cards."
"It's simple Ryo." Takato said to him, "Suzie plays the game like chess more then like the card game. In the card game you use strategy to out maneuver your opponent, or you just build your digimon up strong enough that they can't be beaten. Suzie anticipates what her opponent is going to do and fights accordingly. That's why she has such a hard time dealing with new decks."
"Yeah, and also her deck is built for Lopmon to be able to counter the opponent. She put that Void Meteorite card in her deck to make sure that nobody could perform a slam attack on her, yet it was useful here as well." Rika told him.
"So if I come with a new deck then I'll be able to beat her for sure." Ryo said as the three started walking to the new cards.
"Not necessarily, you see, if she realizes you're using a new deck, she'll fight accordingly. Her greatest weakness is also her greatest strength." Takato told him.
"So how am I going to beat her, in the past 12 battles with her I've only one once." Ryo said.
"Your 11 and 13 with her?" Rika asked.
"No, I'm 19 and 21." He said.
Rika looked at the new packs, "Give me two of the new set?" Rika asked.
"Yeah, no problem." The clerk said, "Here you go." He said handing her to packs of 50 cards. Rika handed him her credit card which he swiped through.
Rika gave Takato a set and they sat down and started to look through them, "Not very good, Ryo?" Takato asked. "Are you kidding me, check this out." He said handing him a card.
"Digimon Attack – Terra Force Zero… A Massively powerful attack that takes the energy from the ground instead of the digimon. May not be used on a Rookie or lower. Earth Type." Ryo read, "Big whoop, you can use Terra Force as a champion."
Rika nodded, "Yeah, that is pretty impressive, but it can only be used in a ground to air situation, which doesn't happen too often."
Ryo nodded, "Yeah, and if it takes time to charge, so it could be easily dodged." He said.
Takato shrugged, "I guess." He said looking through the cards, "Here's a nice one, Wildfire Tsunami. It's one of those cards that can be used for both defense and offense."
Ryo looked at it, "Not a bad card."
Takato got to the end of his deck. They always put a rare-card at the back of the set packs. His eyes went wide, he quickly stuffed it into his deck and grabbed a card out of his pocket. "What rare-card did you get?" Rika asked.
"Just Power Spike." Takato lied showing them the card.
"Nice." Ryo said, "Allows a Rookie to perform an Ultimate's attack."
"At the cost of a random two card discard." Rika said reaching the end of her pack, "By Azulongmon's beard." She cursed, "I've been wanting this card forever."
Takato looked at it, "Are you kidding me. The only person I know with that card is Rukato."
Ryo was also amazed, "Well, Ivan also has it, but his Gizamon doesn't have the hands to wield it."
Rika's grin got huge as she looked at the card.
Digi Equipment - Cloud's SwordA Massive Sword of unbelievable length and size and weight. A nine foot sword a foot wide weighing 30 pounds. This weapon will tear through its opponents.
"I've been wanting this card for so long." She said.
"Yeah, it was pretty impressive when Rukato used it." Takato said.
"Are you kidding, it was like it was straight out of the movies. Dorugamon held the thing on the ground sending sparks everywhere as he raced towards Hyke's Vilemon. At the last moment jumping against the wall and doing a back flip carrying the sword with him. It ripped right through the Vilemon. It didn't stand a chance." Ryo said reliving the moment.
"That group is so crazy." Takato said. "I don't how they've survived all this time."
Rika grinned, "Well look at the line up." She said pointing to a big electronical board."
Rika Nonaka – Renamon – Digimon Queen
Rukato ??? – Dorumon – Split Personalities
Taishi ??? – Ryudamon – "What do you want"
Ryo Akiyama – Monodramon – Digimon King
Takashi ??? – Betamon and Gomamon – Frozen Twins
Takato Matsuki – Guilmon – Hazard
Henry Wong – Terriermon – Protector
Suzie Wong – Lopmon – Child Darkness
Steven Blain – Agumon(Red) – DAC (Digimon Arena Coordinator)
Mina ??? – Lunamon – PREP!
"All four of them are in the top ten." Ryo said. "It's amazing. They have cards I'm not even sure where they got them."
Takato nodded, he looked at his art pad. Rika never did get to see the picture he was going to give to her. He looked at the other two, "Hey, I heard a whisper of a rumor that you two are going out?" he asked/stated.
Ryo smiled and sat next to Rika and put her arm around her, "For three weeks now." He said.
Rika nailed her elbow into Ryo's gut causing him to lunge forward.
"I wouldn't call it going out. I can't stand all of the boy coming and trying to ask me out and hit on me, so Ryo gets to take me to the movies and I get a break from all the boys." She said relaxing on the bench.
Takato nodded, "I see." He said.
Ryo stood up, "Well, I gotta go, so I'll see you later." He said.
Takato had an idea, "Hey wait. Suzie somehow got me to take her to the Transformer's movie on Friday. Why don't you two come with us?" he asked.
Ryo was surprised, "Sure. That would be awesome." He said. "You want to go Rika?"
"Sure, it'll be fun." Rika said.
"Alright, see you then Takato. But I gotta go, so I'll see you guys later." He said.
Rika got up as Ryo walked away, "Come on Goggles, we need to go get you those cards." She said.
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Jouzi is the name for a Joe Suzie Pairing
There are going to be a lot of OC minor character's in this story because there are about 600 tamers now.
Suzie still has a slight speech impediment problem, so all of her r's sound like W's. That's the only set down rule I have for it, but like with Digi-Modify to Digi-Modiwhy, there will be a few other changes. Please tell me if you would like Suzie to have less of a Speech impediment problem so you can understand her better.
There are a few main different kinds of boost cards in the card game (I'm taking it a lot off of the original, but adding a few more features to it).
Digi Attacks – You take the attack of another digimon and use it for yourself. Example SnowAgumon's Frozen Wind
Power Ups – These are cards that modify your digimon to be stronger Example Hyper Speed
Power Blasters – These are cards that allow for data to be integrated into a digimon for a short time. Example Hyper Wing (Guilmon gets the data of the wings integrated into him)(Void Meteorite was a Power Blaster, not a Digi Attack.
Digi Equipments – These are cards that your digimon uses, but are not integrated into the Digimon's data. Example Battle Tomahawk.
Tamer Attack – These are cards that affect your opponent's hand. Example Data Rip – Your opponent randomly discards three cards from their hand. (This is a series I just made up to go along with the DA, so I couldn't provide an example of a season there. Sorry)
You don't haft to declare the name of a Digi Equipment because you're opponent will be able to see what you have. It can force you're opponent to play a counter against would could be a possibly a Numemon poo card.
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Thank you to Minwolf for beta reading my story. (He's the author of The Games, it's really good)
So what do you guys think? Let me know what you guys want to see in this story, I'm leaving it pretty open ended so I can take reader's advice. So is there anything I need to clear up, something I need to change. Is Rika too off character, is this a good sized chapter or do you want longer or shorter. Let me know, cause I can only improve if somebody tells me what I'm doing wrong.
Gomamon: you guys didn't think we'd let you go without us getting a few words in did you.
Betamon X: alright, we need ideas. So, if you supply an idea for a card, then you'll be recognized in the next chapter and you may see you're card used.
Gomamon: on top of that, we'd also like some ideas for some digimon based curses and insults. This is our list right now.
Numemon Poo (Crap)
Raremon (Moron)
Baihumon (often used like the D word)
Azulongmon's Beard ( often used like the S word)
Ebowumon's Forest ( F)
Zhuqiaomon's Flame ( F word when used in a sentence)
Fanglongmon's Name (we'll not go their)
Gomamon: so if you come up with any better ones then let us know.
Betamon X: and we'll use your name and the insult or curse word you came up with in the same sentence all you piece's of Numemon poo.
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You know you live in Alaska when you see a "Dog Musher Crossing" sign on the highway.