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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Sept 18, 2022 21:18:48 GMT
Though LJ noticed how Procopius shrunk down sheepishly he didn't say anything only showing the BlackToyAgumon a reassuring non judgmental smile that matched Ollie's. At the teen's words, LJ said "Judging by your words it sounds like you have some personal experience with such things, Ollie. I may not have but even I understand that those at the bottom didn't always do something to deserve it. Most of the times they have had circumstances beyond their control and are just trying to get by the best they can. Maybe if the ones in power cared more about those below them their would be more of them helping those in need."
At Procopius' statement regarding Gazimon not being able to open a tin can by himself LJ snickered a bit before getting serious as he looked over at all the clues the Hanumon left behind. "Definitely not that bright if he is leaving all these blatant clues behind. If he were a bit smarter I'd be suspicious of a trap." LJ said crinkling his nose in disgust with his eyes threatening to start watering before he said "His smell is everywhere though. Does he ever bathe?"
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Sept 19, 2022 20:00:23 GMT
"In the multiple years that I'd known him, no. I'm not even sure that he knows what soap IS and if he does it's only because he knows how much he can pawn if for. He was never a smart operator, one of the boys who was tough as nails and followed directions. I wouldn't think too poorly of him, whatever bad acting he's been getting up to was somebody else's idea." Procopius said, despite the fact that Gazimon had attacked him the way he was speaking made it clear that he had a distinct fondness for the grey furred digimon, a preestablished relationship that made it hard for him to truly be mad at the attacker even as he was following hot on his trail.
"When you've only had one support system you could count on for your entire life, it's easy to get swept up on just doing what you think you're supposed to, even if "what you think you're supposed to do" ends up being marching to the drum of someone with a worse heart than you think." Ollie said, sighing. He was "lucky" in a fashion to find out that his orphanage system was abusive and inept at an early age. If he had become too used to it, too comfortable in it, lord knows what he might have been willing to justify.
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Sept 19, 2022 20:20:23 GMT
"You have a point, Procopius. If you are standing up for him there must be something good about him as a person. Yet this raises a question as to why he even attacked you or who put him up to it." LJ said before he continued "Sooner we track him down the sooner we can get some answers, right?"
LJ looked at Ollie and said "It sounds like you also have some experience in this matter Ollie." LJ looked at the teen wondering what Ollie had been through if he sounded like that before he said "I guess we should keep going. Just be ready for anything you two. I don't know if my magic alone will be enough to keep you guys safe if there are too many of them or if this boss is too much for me to handle." Sure LJ was once kinda cocky and his overconfidence had even led him into trouble before he began working on bettering himself. Sure overconfidence was still an issue but it wasn't as bad a problem as it used to be.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Sept 20, 2022 12:19:18 GMT
"He's not a bad kid, he's just a follower by nature. he trusted me implicitly and now that someone else is sitting in my chair he trusts them with the same authenticity, he's never known any other way of doing things." Procopius said, honestly sounding more protective of the digimon that had just tried to kill him than he was angry at him. These digimon had been the only support network he had known for his entire life and now he was being asked to save not only his neighborhood, but also the soul of the group that had always been there for him
"This continues to raise the question of which one of Procopius' former subordinates is now running the show." Ollie said, pawning off the question about how he knew so much about bad authority. He knew that there was a time and a place for his own trauma. This was not that.
"We're here." Procopius said as they turned down into an alley, down a flight of stairs and found a pair of heavy wooden cellar doors in the back of an abandoned building. "If anybody's got any misgivings, now's the time. Once these doors are open we don't get to call time out." Procopius said. Ollie just hitched his backpack higher on his shoulders, smiling at the Digimon who had so recently become his brother.
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Sept 20, 2022 19:35:30 GMT
"Maybe when we sort things out with this new boss we can talk to Hanumon. Now I feel a bit bad if I came off as too harsh towards him." LJ said before he then said "Now I wonder more about this new boss. If Hanumon is not willing to either leave on his own could he be following orders out of fear then?"
"Shame our friend from earlier didn't leave any hints we could use to get some idea of who or what we'll be up against. Chances are it could be almost anybody with the talent to lead." LJ said not put off by Ollie redirecting the conversation. What ever was up with Ollie could wait for another time.
Procopius announced that they had arrived as they went into an alley walking down the stairs found there before stopping before heavy wooden doors in the back of an abandoned building. "Don't worry you guys. I plan on helping you both out on this matter as this guy has to be stopped." LJ's muscles tensed as he grabbed the doors and said "Here we go guys." With that the young magic wielding ninja pulled the doors open.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Sept 21, 2022 12:23:37 GMT
The heavy cellar doors almost shrieked on their hinges as they were pulled open, offering a march down into the darkness for the three new arrivals. Procopius took in a deep breath and took the lead, heavy stamping plastic feet radiating noise down the cellar entryway. The door had already clearly announced their arrival well enough, no real reason to assume they weren't expected by now.
"The closer we get to the root of the problems. The more sure I get that I know exactly-" he was cut off by the flicking on of heavy industrial lights above them as they walked into a long central chamber. There were a couple dozen digimon in the room, all standing to either side, making room for them to see at the end of the long space, an Ice Devimon reclining on a throne, inspecting his wicked, steaming cold claws.
"So nice to have you back, boss. Shame that there's no room for you here anymore." The demon digimon said as he stood up to his full, lanky height, his wings pushing out to cast a long shadow down toward the trio.
"Yuki Agumon. As always, a punk with no respect and a mouth bigger than his brain. Not many other people who were always pushing for as to start stealing from and stepping on our own neighborhood. I wanted to hope it was an outsider, someone who muscled in. Looks like I was dead wrong." Procopius said, laying out their...tense history if only to bring Ollie and LJ up to speed as the devil digimon snarled and gnashed his teeth at the use of his child level name.
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Sept 21, 2022 21:17:10 GMT
LJ's twitched his ears in annoyance at the sound of the doors shrieking on their hinges as he pulled them open. Then as the group made their way into the darkness his eyes adjusted to the darkness. He, like any feline, had the ability to see in the dark. Though the door was loud he, unlike Procopius, was walking quietly out of habit even though the enemy knew of their arrival unless they were deaf.
When the lights above them flicked on he blinked adjusting his eyes to the sudden shift from dark to light. Looking inside the long chamber he saw a couple dozen digimon in the room other than the IceDevimon reclining on a throne examining his claws. LJ, if he was not on high alert before was even more so now as he stared the IceDevimon down. LJ made a move to stand protectively infront of Ollie and Procopius resting a hand on the hilt of the large sword at his hip. Judging by what Procopius was saying it was clear that this was no outsider to his old gang but someone who wanted to move to tormenting their neighborhood.
"So you are the reason for the trouble in this neighborhood and why a decent guy like Hanumon attacked. I may not get the full history between the two of you but what you are doing to this neighborhood has to stop. You are hurting not just members of the community but your gang as well." LJ said as he narrowed his brown eyes a flicker of light purple indicating he was not like the average Leomon X as his inherited magical energies began to flare up.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Sept 22, 2022 12:24:17 GMT
"I'm not little Yuki Agumon. Not anymore." Ice Devimon said as faced the trio, snarling, baring his ivory white fangs almost as white as the icy expanse of his skin. Just being in the same room as him seemed to suck all the warmth out of the space, until goosebumps were rising up on Ollie's skin even from a couple dozen yards away. "Now I'm in charge. I'm on top. And that means we take the kind of lead that you were always too scared to!" he said, the lanky demon digimon doing his best to try and puff up his shoulder, to look big. But Procopius evidently saw right through him.
"That's what this was about?! You wanted to feel like a big man who didn't need anybody? Didn't want to feel little? News flash, you idiot, we were ALL little. Too small and too weak to fight the whole world coming down on top of us. It's why we came together, it's why we supported each other AND the people around us. We didn't have anybody else, and you've poisoned that for what? Pride? You're pathetic. Truly pathetic." Procopius said and the entire room seemed to react to his words. The whole gang, which at once had seemed poised to jump them now shrank down into themselves, looking back and forth at one another and murmuring as if totally confused on what to do.
"You don't talk to me like that, NOBODY talks to me like that anymore!" Ice Devimon said, losing what little amount of cool he still had as he opened up his wings, the insides of them glowing with a dark energy. "Leather Wing!" A single massive flap of his wings seemed to suck all the air pressure out of the room as it swirled up a massive tornado fired directly at Procopius and LJ
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Sept 22, 2022 20:25:57 GMT
LJ maintained his protective stance as he listened to the interaction between IceDevimon and Procopius before he said "Sounds like you may have grown stronger but haven't matured all that much by comparison if you get off on tormenting the weak in this neighbourhood. Based on what little I know about Procopius here it sounds like he was the better leader. Not only was he able to rally the others and convince them to use their unique strengths to work together but your pride is what has led to this senseless fight, IceDevimon." LJ took notice of how the members of the gang were behaving as if not sure what to do and LJ said "What about the rest of you? Is living in fear what you really want? If you keep up with these activities it will be a matter of time before the law deems you all a threat to the neighborhood."
IceDevimon then sent a dark energy shooting their way in the form of a dark tornado causing the Leomon X known as LJ to unsheathe his sword and it began glowing pale blue with aura from LJ as he aimed the blade at the dark storm heading for him as he said "Aura Blade!" He then shot the energy at the dark storm hoping using it to dissipate the darkness.
OOC: LJ uses Aura Blade to dissipate the storm caused by Leather Wing. Aura Blade: Channels a pale blue aura into his sword before launching the energy toward his opponent by pointing the weapon in the direction of his opponent.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Sept 23, 2022 12:43:55 GMT
"Shut up, shut UP!" The Ice Devimon snarled and lashed out, petulantly wishing to silence both digimon for daring to critique him in front of his thralls. "I have the power! I have everything!" He said, wings extending to their full length as LJ's slash connected with the twirling torrent of dark energy, sending a small surge of force out in every direction that left Ollie and Procopius taking a small half step back to try and move with the gale.
"You swapped out family, support and friendship for a throne. You don't have anything anymore. Nothing but a fancy chair, and I'm here to take that away from you too." Procopius said, even in his child form he was standing tall against the demonic digimon that by the moment was devolving into a tantrum throwing child.
"RRRAAAHHH!" The Ice Devimon snarled and leapt into the air, claws extended in a gliding pounce that carried him toward the trio. he wasn't focused on LJ, even though the sword wielding lion was the biggest threat on raw power. Procopius was a threat to his ego, a threat to his position with all the dirty perks that came along with it and that seemed to be what he was actually out to protect.
Procopius was barely able to wobble backward as the Ice Devimon's claws sunk into the floor where he had just been standing an instant before, a chill rolling through their midst just from the close presence of the icy demon.
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Sept 23, 2022 22:10:24 GMT
LJ watched in bewilderment as IceDevimon went from tough guy to toddler throwing a tantrum before his eyes at being judged by him and Procopius. Not even LJ, who was still fairly young by digimon standards, behaved that way when frustrated anymore as he had gotten much better at handling his emotions despite it not being perfect mastery.
"Not only did you do all that for a throne but you have potentially put those in your command in danger. If your remotely cared about them you wouldn't be risking drawing the ire of law enforcement. If this gang keeps up such activities it will only be a matter of time before the Knightmon come banging down your doors." LJ said glaring at IceDevimon before sheathing his sword.
IceDevimon then snarled leaping for Procopius just as LJ had finished sheathing his sword yet was not going for the young Leomon X but Procopius instead. Apparently Procopius had succeeded in bruising the icy demon's obviously fragile ego. While Procopius was barely able to evade the attack LJ had moved forward swinging a punch for the IceDevimon whose claws were sunk into the floor.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Sept 24, 2022 12:35:40 GMT
Ice Devimon pulled himself up from the floor, leave deep, frost coated scars in the floor where he had planted his natural weapons. Procopius didn't seem to be all that stunned though, even as he had clopped only barely out of the way of the attack before it hit, he knew that the best way to get over the ice Devimon was to throw him off balance and so he kept pushing any button he could think of.
"So is this your leadership style then? Leading your enemies right into the middle of the den and then instantly losing your cool? I have to say, it leaves a little something to be desired on the executive side of things." Procopius said, hoping he was stringing these words together correctly, most of it stolen from Ollie to pump up his own streetwise vocabulary.
"Shut up! I'll kill you!" The demon digimon said, so hyper focused that it didn't even see LJ coming in from one side, slugging him across the face with a heavy lion paw. The demon let out a high shriek and shoved one of its heavy wings out into LJ's chest, trying to push the leonine interloper away as it took another swing at Procopius from much closer range this time.
Ollie's bag crashing across his cheek as the nerdy young man swung it with both of his hands and all of his weight. Ice Devimon stood there, stunned at the tiny human lashing out at him, blinking for a couple of crucial seconds.
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Sept 24, 2022 20:42:58 GMT
LJ smirked at how easily the IceDevimon was provoked by Procopius. Maybe this could be used to the group's advantage. When Procopius made a statement regarding IceDevimon's leadership style it seemed the demon man didn't notice him coming as the Leomon X's fist connected with IceDevimon's face causing the foul creep to shriek in pain while swinging one of his wings at LJ in response. LJ sidestepped the attempted attack. Then he realized that it was an effort to get at Procopius.
However before LJ moved to defend Procopius Ollie came at the IceDevimon swinging his heavy bag with all his might. IceDevimon wasn't the only one stunned as LJ seemed shocked by the guts the little guy had. LJ recovered and, as if on auto pilot, moved forward putting himself infront of Ollie protectively. Magic in the form of light purple sparks began dancing across LJ's body as he began channeling it. "I won't let you hurt either of them, IceDevimon. Way of the Warrior!" LJ said before springing at the demon with a flurry of magically charged punches and kicks.
OOC: LJ channels his magic to use his Way of the Warrior. Way of the Warrior: Uses his Karate training to launch powerful punches and kicks at his close range foes while channeling magic into the blows.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Sept 25, 2022 12:45:54 GMT
The flurry of blows left dark impact marks across the light white and blue body of the demon digimon, shoving him back against the wall, bowling over a few members of the gang. Ice Devimon didn't even seem to notice as the smaller digimon picked one another up off the floor. Ice Devimon however didn't even seem to notice LJ anymore. The creature of pride had his eyes set one hundred and ten percent on Ollie now.
"A human? A HUMAN?! HOW DARE YOU?!" The Devimon launched his lanky body toward the small human boy. Ollie held up his arms in front of his face, bracing for impact. Something clamped down on Ice Devimon's shoulder instead, halting his momentum in a single, sharp bite.
What LJ, Ollie and the rest of the assembled Digimon now saw, standing where the waddling Procopius had once stood, was a Raptordramon, metallic wings spread out wide, dinosaur like neck reached out to catch the Ice Devimon in mid air. That neck slung to one side sharply, slamming Ice Devimon into a wall hard enough to leave a shallow crater and cracks where the Ice Devimon landed.
'You. Don't touch. My BROTHER!" Procopius said, his voice backed by a roar that shook the entire room to the bone, leaving every Digimon staring with reverent awe directly at him
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Sept 25, 2022 22:21:36 GMT
LJ's attack didn't have the impact that the young Leomon X was expecting. The magically charged blows sent IceDevimon back while bowling over some of the gang members. What made LJ uncomfortable was that the demon man didn't seem to notice LJ and to the Leomon X's horror had turned his wrath towards Ollie launching himself at the smaller than average teen. "Ollie run!" LJ yelled as the teen braced himself for impact instead of fleeing.
Then the sight of something clamping down on IceDevimon's shoulder with a bite. Getting a closer look LJ noticed it was a Raptordramon that wasn't there before standing in the place of where Procopius once stood. So Procopius had digivolved to protect Ollie and had snatched the IceDevimon out of mid air flinging the demon into a wall leaving a shallow crater in it. Procopius bellowing not to touch his brother. "IceDevimon, maybe you should clear out. I won't kill you but I don't know if I can convince him of otherwise." LJ said indicating to a likely less than happy Procopius.
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