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Chapter 10: Pointing Fingers
DF103: Damn, I'm on a roll. But only because I know I won't be updating for a while again. But, I'm hauling ass and getting these up. I have this and IACDTT. All will be updated before summers's end, which for me is the beginning of September. Don't own Digimon.
Ryo checked the channel. "It's legit." He stared at the screen in horror. In the background of all the noise from the news, the digivices started screaming. Ryo got up and ran to his room grabbing his. The actual screen showed what seemed to be a heart beat monitor. "What's this…" The line jumped up and down…and then finally flat-lined. "No…"
Rika grabbed her D-arc as well. "No, this isn't happening. This can't be happening! What just died!"
Ryo heard screaming coming from T.K. and Kari's room. Panicking, he knocked. "What's going on in there? Please come out here!"
TK, with only his boxers on, opened the door staring at his digivice in utter shock. Seeing Ryo, he quickly hid the digivice behind his back. "Wh-what's happening?"
With a troubled look painted upon her complexion, Rika turned to them and answered, "Japan's people have been wiped clean."
"No traces." Ryo looked down at his D-Arc. "And I don't know what this means."
"What about everyone back home?" Kari cried, as she wrapped herself in a blanket.
Rika grabbed her cell phone and frantically dialed Jeri's number. Before the call even connected a system voice said, "We are sorry. Your call could not be connected. Please try again later." Rika shook her head. "My phone's not working."
Ryo looked at the others. "We need to find a way back to Japan… The security over there might be really high and not letting people in so we need another idea."
"TK, you brought your laptop, didn't you? Maybe we can get there through the Digital World?" Kari asked, running back into their room and bringing it out.
"Through the laptop? Wait, the Digital World?" Rika's head perked up.
TK looked at his girlfriend, "But we tried the port the other day and we couldn't get there, remember? It was like the Digital World was in lock-down mode or something."
Ryo looked at Rika. "They know?"
"We're digidestined." Kari said, proudly, answering Ryo's question.
"And we're tamers..." Rika pointed a finger to herself and Ryo.
"And you have a digimon?" TK asked. Ryo and Rika nodded.
"Talk about coincidence. Who knew we'd be in the same room together," Kari noted, before she was struck with an awkward silence.
"Yeah…who knew? No wonder we're all getting along so nicely around here…" TK shot a glare at Ryo.
"Uhm…well…" Ryo shrugged, ignoring anything TK had just said. "We could steal a boat." Ryo looked at Rika, who gave him a rather annoyed look. "Not that I want to… Well, TK, try the computer thing."
"I don't need to be told by you," TK sneered.
"You don't have to be an ass about it, man. I'm just trying to get us out of here!" Ryo retorted.
"I've looked at myself in the mirror a million times and I've never seen an ass! The only one I see around here is the one I'm looking at right now!" TK huffed, lunging toward Ryo before Rika grabbed his ear.
"Let's get through this without killing each other, please," Rika noted.
"Humph," TK grunted, glancing at Ryo. "Well, I don't want to stay out at sea for who knows how many days. It's probably safer to try the Digiworld again."
TK grabbed the laptop from Kari's hand and started it up on the kitchen counter. "It's patching through! Everyone, get your stuff ready."
Ryo ran into his bedroom, quickly packing his things. Rika went into her room and stared at her bags. "Jeez, why did she make me bring all of this?" She wheeled them out.
Kari brought out both her and TK's luggage.
"You ready guys? Hold onto each other and make sure the baggage is somehow attached to you!" TK commented the laptop set to go. "Let's do this. DIGIPORT OPEN!" he yelled, a bright light was flashing before their eyes.
Ryo's eyes blinked open meeting with the sky that looked normal, the always hard ground on his back. He stood to his feet, observing his surroundings. The sky wasn't as vast as he had thought. Buildings surrounded him and in front of him was the seemingly largest building in the area.
"I'm right outside Hypnos?" He looked around and saw his roommate on the ground. "Rika," he said, dropping to his knees beside her. "Are you okay?"
Rika blinked. "Yeah, I'm good." She stayed lying on the ground as she looked around the vicinity. "What happened to going to the Digital World? Didn't TK say that the port would take us there?"
"Who knows? Everything else seems screwed up enough, there's no doubt the port would be, too."
She looked around some more. "Nothing's changed."
He shook his head. "That's where you're wrong, wildcat. Everything's changed. Without people, this place looks so dead."
"This is horrible. Where could've the 128 million people that live here gone?" Kari asked, rhetorically, appearing from behind some of the cars with TK.
Rika brought herself to her feet. "There are no signs of struggle."
"Just poof. We can cancel out disease." He looked at the crashed cars on the streets and in the buildings. "It's as if they were taken away suddenly. The cars had no one to steer for them."
TK scoped the area, too. "We should search for survivors."
"Yes, that's a good idea. We should split up." Kari grabbed TK's arm.
Rika stared down the road. I hope everyone is okay.
"No…" Ryo objected. "We're staying together."
"Why not? We might be able to find out—" Kari said, before Rika interrupted.
"And then, we'd have to find each other again. We don't have anyone to back us up if anything out of the blue happens. We don't know what we're up against."
"We stick together, we'll sleep at my place standing guard," Ryo volunteered, leading the way.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Why does it have to be your place?" TK protested.
Ryo turned around. "I've got a house where each of us can have a room. Would you mind just cooperating for now?"
TK grumbled.
"Then Ryo's place it is," Kari said, grabbing her belongings.
"Lead the way, Ryo." Rika wheeled her things behind him.
Ryo grabbed his things as well and led the way, walking down the roads yelling, "HELLO!" only to hear the echoes answer back.
They began walking before they saw a sudden shadow stretch out before them. "Did you see that?" TK dropped his stuff
"See what?" Ryo asked scanning the area. "I don't see anything."
"Maybe it was just my imagination."
Rika shook her head. Ryo continued walking, still looking for some form of life. A disturbing thought crossing her mind, Rika walked closer to Ryo. She gulped. "Hey Ryo. Remember, what happened in the hospital?" she whispered.
He looked at her a little strange. "How could I forget?" Just how could I forget, Ryo thought, as his mind was flung into a flashback.
A pin could echo in the room; it was that quiet. Henry continued watching the tape in the video camera, with ear pieces in his ears. I heard myself screaming on the tape; that was the point where the creature appeared behind me. Not once did I have a thought about why I took the dare in the first place that evening. In my 'alternate universe', a dare could've cost me my life. In this reality, that single dare that started this all could've killed me. I was lucky to leave with even a limp. And I thought I was lucky that my alternate reality was actually a fake that I didn't have to worry about some bastard screwing with my life. But, that was when Henry yelled, "Holy shit! He's there."
The group gathered around him, before the windows flew open with a huge gust. A black butterfly fluttered in slowly as the gust hit all of our faces.
The wind bellowed, "You're... mine..."
Then, the wind stopped and the black insect dissipated.
"Now that's just plain creepy..." Kazu commented, his visor on the floor from the wind.
Rika looked at me with fear in her eyes.
Rika had the same frightened expression in her eyes as that day. "What if he's come back?" Just remembering his name made Rika shudder. The moments she had with Envymon were far worse than when IceDevimon had her. Ryo could only stare at her petrified expression. "He's after me…"
Ryo pulled her under his arm. "He is not! Don't talk like that!"
Rika couldn't remember a time she'd ever felt so threatened and so afraid, but somehow Ryo's comfort reassured her. After all, Ryo did see Envymon's capabilities, therefore, knowing what to avoid.
"Envymon died with the house."
"I really want to think that, Ryo. But, something in my mind just seems to doubt that."
As the group approached Ryo's house, out of the blue, a familiar voice rang out in the distance before them. "Ryo… Rika… I'm sorry." A familiar goggle-headed silhouette rose on top of a broken down car, pointing to the far teenagers. "Kazu! Now!"
"What?" Rika turned back to find Takato and a fast-approaching figure. Kazu, at incredible speeds, approached the two with what looked like a dagger.
"Run!" Ryo yelled, as Kazu's movement towards him slowed before his eyes, kicking the dagger out of Kazu's hands. "What the hell, Takato!" he yelled, punching Kazu in the face.
Takato just stood there with a certain blankness in his eyes. "Kenta!"
Ushering both TK and Kari, Rika ran away from the fight. I knew I saw something.
Kenta didn't have his glasses on. He jumped high into the sky and aimed for Ryo's head with a bat. Ryo stood there ducking under the blow of Kenta's bat. "What's going on?" He grabbed the bat before Kenta had a chance to swing. "What's going on!" Ryo asked again, the bat now in his possession. Kenta, not wanting to stop, lunged into Ryo again, before he was punched in the face. Ryo threw the bat to the side and stared up at Takato. "What is this about?"
Takato growled, "We want our families back!"
"What?" Silence struck the two.
Rika stepped out into the open. "What do you mean 'you want your families back?' You were there when we left for New York. There's no possible way we could do anything to your families. We want to know where ours are!" Rika retorted.
Ryo spotted a candlestick in Takato's hand. "That's from the house… How did you…"
Takato simply smirked and leaped off of the car. "Kazu. Kenta," he called, sounding as if he were calling his pets. Immediately, the two seemingly unconscious boys slithered up and ran back to Takato. The goggle-headed boy gave the group a final smirk before sprinting off.
"Who was that?" Kari asked, running behind Rika.
"That was Takato…but he's acting weird. The others, too."
Ryo picked up the bat from the ground and looked at the area where Takato once stood. "Looks like everyone was there except Jeri and Henry."
"I hope they know what's going on. Better yet, I hope they're okay. This is getting too ridiculous," Rika added, placing her hands on her hips.
He nodded, running into his house. "TK. Kari. Board up the windows. We have boards in the basement. Rika, help me barricade the doors."
"Okay." Kari grabbed TK's hand and headed for the basement. "Come on."
Rika nodded and pushed a large table, located against the wall, in front of door. Anything in near sight she put in front of the front door. Ryo also carried in a few seemingly heavy boxes and stacked them as high as the door knob.
"How many more doors do you have in this house?"
"Just the back door."
Rika ran to the back and fixed a chair under the door knob. She also managed to move a loveseat against the door.
"We look pretty safe…" He nodded, "If they light the front the door on fire, go out the back."
After a couple of hours of rushing around the house trying to close off every major opening into the house, the four gathered in the living room.
"What are we supposed to do now?" Kari asked.
"We sleep…" Ryo dryly said, leaning back into the couch and staring at the wall with a troubled look on his face.
Kari cuddled against TK. "I wish this was a dream."
"It's far from it," Rika said to herself, lying down on the floor.
Ryo sighed. "TK, the guest rooms are down the hall to your left. Rika you can stay in my bedroom. I'll sleep on the couch."
"Thank you, Ryo," Kari said, getting up with TK and walking into the hall.
Rika got up. "Are you sure we can sleep now?" Rays of the sunlight that penetrated the room through the boards slowly dimmed.
Ryo nodded, although he knew he wouldn't be doing much sleeping.
Rika leaned against the wall, wrapping her arms around her knees. "Is there something you didn't tell us that day, when you woke up from that nightmare?"
"Envymon…was a loyal digimon," he sighed.
"What? Didn't you say he tried to kill all of us except me? If he was loyal, why didn't he want to kill me too?" Rika was confused.
"Because he thought you were Erika."
The name pained her, as a flash of the charred picture of her crossed Rika's mind. After seeing what investigators found at the burned down house, she felt sorry for Erika. "Well, I guess that's true. Renamon would probably do the same for me. But, why was he after you guys, my friends? OUR friends."
"Our friends…"
"We have to go to that house!"
Ryo jerked up from the couch. "Now?"
"Why not? Unless we have something planned here," Rika said.
He stood up, and kissed her.
Rika pulled away. "Stop it. Come on, it's for the sake of all of our friends."
Ryo didn't want to let go of Rika, but he nodded. "Tell T.K. I'll get some… defenses."
Rika walked down the hall and knocked on the door. "Sorry to bother you guys, but we're going to check some place out."
The door never opened. Only a reply. "Yeah? If you need us," he laughed, "We'll be sleeping."
"Fine then." Rika rolled her eyes. "You have a cell phone, right?"
"Yeah…"
"Give me your number and we'll call you." Rika said, taking her cell phone out, and typing in TK's number as he announces it. She walked back to the front door. Ryo was there.
"Let's go."
They crawled out and walked down the street. Chills were sent down their spines as they walked down the desolate streets. Where did everyone go?
Ryo looked at Rika. "Kinda like a horror movie." He gazed up at the defunct stoplights and panned the city's still air.
"I've been wondering since we've gotten here."
He looked at her. "Wondering what?"
"About what the prophet said and what's happening now."
He shook his head, trying to shake out the image of the video rental guy shooting himself in the head. "I know."
"And now, I'm wondering why he sent us pictures."
"Everyone we love is gone…" Ryo clenched his fists.
"Maybe they're just under Envymon's spell like you said you were in your nightmare."
Ryo shook his head, "I don't think so… I have this feeling that we have to expect the worst at this point."
"Hmm..." Rika just looked down.
"But we will find out…" Ryo wrapped an arm around Rika and embraced her.
"Yeah," she replied, placing a hand on Ryo's arm.
The couple neared the burned-down house. The smell of ashes remained in the air and for some reason, both Rika and Ryo's arm hair stood on end.
"Rika… Stay close to me…"
As Rika nodded and approached Ryo, she was stopped by a cold piece of metal that caressed the back of Rika's neck. Ryo yelled out Rika's name as someone dragged him away. Rika, petrified to see Ryo held at gunpoint by Kenta, looked over her shoulder, before a voice threatened her, a voice she clearly didn't want to hear as she winced.
"Don't move, Rika or we'll have to kill you." Kazu's voice was cold. "You just had to take our families away."
Rika didn't move. She gulped, feeling her knees tremble. Regardless of how much she didn't want to feel vulnerable, at the point of knife, she felt she had every right to be. She closed her eyes and prayed for dear life.
A loud bang resounded in the ruins.
Kazu's limp body fell to the ground, blood pouring from a hole in his forehead. From the direction of the gunfire was Ryo, standing in place as he dropped the hot pistol. "Oh…God. What did I do?"
"You…You KILLED KAZU!" Kenta yelled, having been unarmed and pushed back by Ryo. He lunged at Ryo, before TK and Kari came running into the scene, punching Kenta in the face sending him flying.
"Oh my gosh," Rika whipped around and stared at the blood, finally aware of what went on. Two of her friends were lying on the ground.
However, Ryo stumbled back unable to grasp any of this. "Oh…my…"
The blood puddle began to bubble. TK and Kari took notice before the others. "What the hell?"
Ryo quickly looked at it and then ran down the street, moving as fast as he could. TK grabbed Rika's arm. "Come on," he said before letting go and running after Ryo with Kari. "Hurry!" She ran after everyone.
Ryo slid into his house, tears in his eyes. He didn't bother getting up and crawled to his room, sitting in the corner of the room with his head hidden in his knees. The girl who wore black from New York appeared and stood at the other far corner of the room.
"Today you have killed your own," she monotonously said.
The girl looked at Ryo. "He is stained with the blood, his heart now black."
Following TK and Kari, Rika crawled through the small hole and gasped for air.
"I didn't think you guys would come," Rika said, looking at TK and Kari.
"Seriously, there's no way we would be able to sleep in these conditions. It was no problem. But, you should go check on Ryo. He looked pretty upset."
Rika nodded. TK and Kari dispersed from Rika into their room. Rika knocked on Ryo's door. "Ryo, can I come in?"
The girl cracked the door open. "Leave..."
Rika was taken back. "W-wait. I know you." But the girl didn't care to hear what she had to say and slowly shut the door before, Rika slammed her hand against the door and propped it open. "What are you doing to Ryo!"
"Ryo…" She gestured to Ryo's pathetic condition, curled up in a ball. "Is stained with the blood of another." She walked over to him, running her hands through his hair. "His dreams are becoming a reality."
Rushing into the room, Rika grabbed the girl's arm to pull the girl away from Ryo; however, Rika felt a burning sensation in her arm, and found her hand slowly bubbling. She immediately let go. Her arm slowly turned red.
"How did he ever start a relationship with you?"
Stuttering, Rika couldn't find the answer. The only thing she could mutter out was, "Who the hell are you?"
"We should save that for later."
Grabbing the girl's shirt to try to yell at her again, Rika's bones felt like they were bending and the pain was just too much to bear for her. "What the hell are you? And don't give me that 'save that for later' shit. I have had enough of waiting for answers!"
The girl snapped and as if it were a command Rika dropped her. She walked over to Ryo, grabbing his hair and pulling his head up. The tears were running down his face. She bent over and kissed him. "Who do you think I am?"
"I don't know who the hell you are. That's why I'm asking, dumbass. And let go of him." Rika knew if she touched the girl again, something might happen to her body, so she stood her ground.
She dropped his head. "Rika." She approached her, step by step, closer to her. "It's your fault everyone's gone."
Rika's eyes widened. W-what?"
