The Great Binary Archipelago All Out Race [Kath/Amy][Career]

Even though their walk through the forest had finding the fruits from the list to help a very determined Liquid that had walked off on them earlier as the main objective it was also being very useful for Katherine to get closer to Amelie, which was awesome for a girl who wasn’t very good at making friends, especially human friends. Katherine sighed in relief upon hearing Amy didn’t feel awkward about her calling her a nickname so soon, and then she couldn’t help but giggle reminding the other friend that put her a nickname just some seconds after meeting her: Liquid. Then she frowned, realizing they didn’t know where he was at, and he was probably angry at her.

Extremely interested by it, Katherine listened carefully to Amelie’s explanation, knowing that, even further beyond digimon and places, there were still so many things in this world to discover and that excited the girl so much she couldn’t even contain herself. Hearing the description of this ‘Digimental’ Amy mentioned, Katherine tilted her head, since that sounded awfully familiar. –Uh!?. An object digimon used to ‘armor’ evolve...

-You mean something like –The girl began browsing between her stuff inside her bag –This? –She asked pulling out the weird shaped egg-like instrument Jazz had used to evolve on Terabyte Mountain and showing it to Amy. –I think Jazz uses this to evolve. Is this a digimental? –Having found Amy was definitely a good thing for the curly haired girl, there was so much she could learn from her, so much she didn’t know about digimon and this world. She couldn’t say the girl knew everything so far, but she definitely knew much more than herself. –How long have you been here, inside the Digital World, Amy? –It was probably enough for her to know all of this sort of stuff. Looking at the girl’s digivice, which looked slightly different from hers, being a little longer, more questions popped on Katherine’s head. –Wait, then how do you call this type of digivice? How do you differentiate it from mine? Do they have different type of names? –The girl asked, pulling out her pink and purple digivice, and showing it to Amy. Spirits users were something completely new for Katherine, and she wanted to know as much about them as she could. 

The girl’s conversation had been promptly interrupted by the swarm of ugly dragonflies lurking around the fruit the pair needed, which Amelie had decided to approach in the nicest way possible, using logic as her main weapon, of course: if there was enough fruit to share, why wouldn’t they share it with them? For Katherine, of course, logic wasn’t something applicable to bugs and insects, since she just thought of them as awful mean creatures who just wanted to harm her. She had never had any bad experience with any bugs, actually, but she didn’t want to have one either.

As Amelie approached them, three of the dragonflies flew towards the girl, lowering their height, while they seemed to be having some kind of argument.

-I’m telling you, that stupid puzzle has no solution! You heard it wrong! – One of them said, speaking to one of the other two.

-No, no! I’m sure I heard it right, you’re just not thinking correctly.

-Gentlemen, please, there’s a girl talking to us. –The third dragonfly interrupted the discussion and turned to Amelie. –I’m sorry miss, but we’re not ‘Guys’ as you call us. We’re a bug subspecies from this vast digital world known as Yanmamon, of course calling us like that would be inappropriate since my actual name is Leo. Meanwhile, the other two kept arguing behind Leo, the recently introduced Yanmamon.
-Oh, so you ask what’s the topic of our important discussion today? Very good question miss! –Leo went on, ignoring completely the girl’s request about the fruit. He had a deep, presumptuous, overweening voice. –Today the topic of discussion between these two gentlemen is about a puzzle I just put them through, which, as always, they can’t see to be able to solve.

-Agh! I’m telling you! It can’t be solved –One of the arguing Yanmamon approached the girl and Leo. He seemed utterly frustrated by this puzzle like they had been going at it the whole day.

-Oh, but it can, my friend, you just need to think properly, as your friend Caesar is trying to do. –Leo replied, turning to his fellow.

-Yes, Tyrus. You know Leo always pulls this crap on us, he comes with a stupid puzzle and makes argue about it having no solution and then it has a solution and he makes us feel stupid! – The third Yanmamon, apparently named Caesar, approached the group. –So I’m sure this one can be solved…. Aghhhh! I just can’t seem to get it right –Caesar buzzed, flying in circles, frustrated.

-Well, then let the human try it! She apparently wants some fruit huh? –Tyrus suggested –Listen, girl, if you can solve Leo’s puzzle, we will give you all the fruit that you want.

-Oh! The passion of a young girl for her fruit! Making her jump into the arms of knowledge and wisdom! So beautiful! –Leo said, buzzing in circles, apparently excited about putting the Amelie through the puzzle. –So listen, miss, here it comes! Listen carefully cause I’m not going to repeat it. –Leo said, with Caesar and Tyrus listening carefully too, since they too wanted to solve it.

SkullSatamon + Grizzmon,  

SkullSatamon + Labramon or  

SkullSatamon + The bag of big berries. 

SkullSatamon can use the raft to go from one island to another as many times as he wants, and he can take any of these elements on the raft to and from any of the islands, but whenever he leaves the elements alone on any of the shores, they will act as they please, Grizzmon killing Labramon or Labramon eating the bag of big berries, if they're left unguarded. So… 

… Describe the raft trips SkullSatamon needs to make to get safely these three elements onto the other island.

The puzzle was set. If Amelie managed to solve this, they would be able to get the fruits. Meanwhile, Katherine was still hiding behind a tree, a little far from there, wondering if Amelie might need some help with the situation.  

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The other pair was still on the look for their fruits. As their conversation continued, Jazz began to remember everything that had happened with Bulk, a huge story that definitely moved the bunny much more than the one about her hometown, probably because of the negative consequences involved. –I just had very bad experiences with digimon when I was a baby… -She just wanted to leave it at that, for the time being. Not because she didn’t trust Ooi or something, but because she crying in the middle of the woods due to some awful memories wasn’t going to help the pair to find those fruits. To be fair, it was a story she hadn’t even told fully to Katherine to that moment. Good memories were back when the girl asked about the three stooges from Rustport: Koru, Roru and Boru. Jazz giggled again –Well I haven’t seen them since I left home a month ago, but they did promise after they were done with some things there, they were going to travel around the world too, so I’m probably going to see them again at some point. –The bunny’s eyes were shimmering just from this thought. –Boy, I can’t wait!

Listening to Ooi’s story was clearly entertaining, and it made sense, even though Jazz didn’t know what some words like ‘roomie’ meant, she understood the whole idea. From what Katherine had told her, you just needed to know where the portal was to get to the Digital World, so it was not like you needed to have a digivice or having a partner to get into this dimension. The girl didn’t have a feeling she was supposed to have a digivice, meet a partner or anything, so it was probably very safe to say Ooi wasn’t a tamer and probably wasn’t going to get a digimon partner, at least not for now. Then again, the girl seemed to be having fun on this world, as much as Katherine was, so there was no harm to it. When Jazz was about to ask about Ooi’s goals, the sight of a gigantic digimon sleeping next to a bush that seemed to have one of the fruit they were looking for, made the duo stop their steps.

Upon looking better at it, it seemed to be a Tortomon, serenely asleep. –Well we don’t have a choice, do we? –Jazz replied to Ooi’s suggestion, whispering. It didn’t seem like they had any other call to make, they needed the fruit and they didn’t want to take chances on discovering if Tortomon was a nice guy just having the afternoon nap, or a very angry not-morning person. Going by herself was not an option. Even though she was definitely smaller than Ooi, which meant she would be less noisy, her arms were too short, and she won't be able to grab the fruits from the bush without having to climb it, which would, of course, make too much noise –Okay, so what if I help you to watch your own step? –Even though she wasn’t the best one, Jazz was a bandit with very decent infiltration skills, so she might know better how to walk or where to step when you don’t want to be noticed. Plus, four eyes were better than two when it came to not step on something that could be noisy or making the wrong move. –I could hop on your head and guide you, so you make the less noise possible. –The bunny suggested.