"Let's see... Rika and Harmony should both be unaware of their powers... I think I'll make it so that they have to find out more about them and where they got them from, as the game goes on."
After a while, he pondered if he should practice creating a scenario. "Perhaps I can make this one the first battle of the game, where Rika gets to know her new abilities..."
So he created an encounter with a Digimon in the park and decided that during the fight, Rika would digivolve to discover her new form.
"Perhaps I should involve a new character," he then thought. "A mysterious warrior, who's identity is shrouded in mystery... Yeah, sounds good. He will give her an impressive speech, before vanishing in the darkness. Yeah, that sounds good!"
Okay, so it was cliche... But that didn't matter to Takato. He liked it, so he went on with it. He quickly created a small map which represented the park, and placed the small form of a Digimon enemy into it, as well as a 'Starting Point' for Rika's adventure. Also, he decided that Rika and Renamon would be the two first members of the party.
He nodded. "Yeah, that should do it. Now, perhaps I should think of a suitable boyfriend for Harmony..."
"Takatomon!" Guilmon said as he came into his room, his arms full with bread. "Your Mom said you should go to bed, because you have school tomorrow."
Takato sighed. "Yeah, but I wanted... Aw, never mind. I guess I'll finish it tomorrow, then."
He saved all the changes he did and left the program. He shut down his computer and got ready for bed.
Guilmon quickly gobbled up his 'bedtime sweets' and curled up on the ground.
"G'night, Takatomon..."
Takato smiled as he climbed in bed and switched off the lights. "Good night, Guilmon."
----
In the darkness of the evening, Rika and Renamon were carefully pacing through the park.
"You sure it's around here?" Rika asked.
"I'm sure of it," Renamon replied. She closed her eyes. "I can feel it."
Suddenly, a massive shape came crashing through the trees with a deafening bellow. "GRRAAAAAARRRGGH!"
"A Minotarumon!" Rika realized as Renamon quickly grabbed her and brought her to safety. "Renamon, are you ready?"
"Ready as ever..." the fox-Digimon nodded and went into battle position.
She prepared her main attack.
"DIAMOND STORM!"
The rampaging bull-Digimon took the force of the attack and grimaced. He then raised his left hand, on which a strange cannon was attached.
"EARTHQUAKE DRILL!" Minotarumon smashed the cannon down onto the ground and created shockwaves that rippled through the surface and came towards Renamon. Swiftly, she jumped over it.
...only to be hit with a mighty backhand punch of her enemy.
With a groan, Renamon flew into the trunk of a nearby tree, before sliding down to the ground.
"Renamon!" Rika shouted in surprise.
"I'm fine..." the Digimon girl coughed. "He just took me by surprise."
But then Rika gasped in shock as she saw how Minotarumon lowered his massive head and stormed towards the fallen Renamon at an increasing speed.
"Renamon! Watch out!"
But Renamon still was too groggy from the first blow Minotarumon had given her, so she didn't jump away.
But then, just before the bull-Digimon hit its target, an orange flash zoomed past them, picked up Renamon and put her down next to her friend, while Minotarumon crashed into the tree.
Renamon looked up at her savior. It was a very human-like digimon, but with the skin, claws, tail and head of a dinosaur. On the nose of his muzzle, there was a small horn. Also, he was wearing armguards, a breast harness and a metal helmet.
"Who... are you?" she asked.
The stranger looked back at her with a mysterious twinkle in his eyes. "I am Ceratomon!"
"Grrrrr..." Minotarumon slowly got up from the ground.
"Watch out!" Renamon said. "He's going to attack again."
She was going to ran towards her opponent, but the orange-skinned Ceratomon held her back. "Don't! He is much stronger than a normal Minotarumon. You're hurt... leave this one to me and your friend."
"Are you crazy? Rika would be killed is she were to fight a Digimon."
"In her normal form, maybe... but... she can always change into her Hybrid form."
"What do you mean?" Rika asked. "Who are you anyway and why are you helping us?"
"I don't think we have the time to talk about this," Ceratomon grumbled as he saw Minotarumon raising his weapon again.
"Oh no, you don't!" he shouted and intercepted the attack with a kick. "Flurry Punch!" he yelled and hit Minotarumon with hundreds of punches at once, so it seemed.
But Rika and Renamon quickly realized that he had no chance of winning by herself.
"Let me go help him," Renamon said while trying to get up. "I can still fight."
"Oh no," Rika protested. "He was right, you have to rest for a while."
She grasped her D-Power, and again, it shone in a strange light.
"I still don't know what he meant... but if there is a way I can save us, I have to take that risk."
And with a determined glare, her eyes flashed in a bright light.
Renamon watched in awe, as her tamer was being lifted off the ground and a blazing aura surrounded her.
"RIKA HYBRID DIGIVOLVE TO... KITSUMON!"
Then the gleaming aura vanished, and Rika dropped to the ground... looking exactly like Takato had designed her new form.
She looked down at the D-Power, which had turned into a smaller device, looking like a high-tech bracelet.
"Kitsumon..." she murmured as she saw a picture of her new form. "Level Rookie. Animal Digimon. Attacks: Flare Bullet, Fox Aura and Dive Kick."
She looked over to where Minotarumon and Ceratomon were still fighting. "I may not know what this is all about, but... If that beefsteak wants a fight, he got one!"
And with her two tails waving through the air, she began running.
Kitsumon jumped right into the air as Minotarumon was just going to smack his opponent with his arm cannon.
"Dive Kick!" she yelled and hit him right in the forehead, between his horns.
The bull Digimon staggered back while groaning in pain. With an angry snarl, he lowered his head, preparing for a charge attack.
"Let's finish him!" Ceratomon yelled and jumped next to the fox-girl. "Aura Sphere!" And he launched a sphere of energy from his palm.
"Flare Bullet!" Kitsumon shouted, moving her hands as if she was going to throw a Hadoken, instead hurling an energy projectile that looked like a burning flame.
The two attacks flew through the air and hit their enemy right into the chest. Minotarumon roared one last time, then he dissolved into data.
Kitsumon closed her eyes as she absorbed the data flow into her body. 'So, that's how it feels like for Renamon...' she thought. 'I'm feeling... stronger!'
She then looked around, wanting to thank Ceratomon. But he was already standing on a branch of a nearby tree.
"Continue to use your new powers, and soon enough, you will find out more about it," the strange dinosaur warrior said. "We'll meet again... Kitsumon! Farewell!"
And then, he vanished.
Renamon limped over to her digi-fied Tamer. "Rika... are you all right?"
"Yeah..." the fox-girl nodded while staring down at her fur. "How the heck did this happen?"
----
The next morning, Takato woke up by the beeping of his alarm clock. He yawned and climbed out of bed.
He shivered. "Brrrr, why is it so cold in here?"
He looked over to the window. It was open.
"Strange..." he muttered. "I could've sworn I closed it before going to bed..."
And he walked past the still snoozing form of Guilmon to close it.
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