The Gang Embraces Japanese Culture (MATURE CONTENT) [Fin]

The three "women" gave Takeshi their answers, with Willow's being the odd one out. Willow's lips scrunch up when Takashi mentions most of those things don't exist. "Ya huh, there's maids, and magic girls, ladies walking around wearing skirts in general, and I've totally seen killer robots before." Judith smiles when Takeshi says that she is nice. "See, Takeshi thinks I'm nice." "Nice like a hyena."

Shirou says that he will pay for half the cost of the equipment, and Takeshi agrees to pay for the other half. "Yes, that sounds good." Other than the fishing poles, it wasn't very expensive. The gang is impressed with the boat. Somewhat overkill for going fishing, but they did have a lot of people in their group. Shirou tells Judith to put on a swimsuit, and Takeshi asks if they are just going to fish.

"Fishing is our first priority, but it doesn't hurt to have some women in bikinis on the boat. We can always take a dip once we catch plenty of fish."
Kiyoko examines her robes. "Well, I could use something less cumbersome."
"Yes, let's go put on some swimsuits!"

Everyone has the chance to get a change of clothes. Takeshi wouldn't have to pay for that part if he didn't want to, as it wasn't essential gear. Dante goes with a red tank top with white shorts, wearing his gold colored frame sunglasses he had with him. Judith goes with a yellow bikini with a lightweight white robe. Kiyoko opts for a modest one piece purple swimsuit and a tan hat. Shirou goes with a blue shirt and light tan shorts. And Willow picks out a black swimsuit with flame decals. Once they purchase everything they need, they start loading supplies onto the boat.

"Alright, hot dogs, check, cooler full of soda, check, cooler full of beer, check."
"This doesn't sound very authentic."
"Not everyone is hung up on being a culture snob. Some of us just want to have a good time."
"I guess we could be the party boat, and embrace the culture in the same day."
Once everyone is on the boat, Shirou sits down in the captain's seat and pulls out a captain's hat.
"All aboard! This is the S. S. Ego Trip. Please wait until we leave the shore before drinking the beer. We'll be reeling in the fishies in no time."
The engines turn on, and the boat is about to head out onto the lake.
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To Drac's surprise, Keramon is seen laying on the ground after Betamon's attack. The thief enters the limo, surprised by the sight of another Digimon. Drac tells him it's the wrong car. "Oh, I don't think so." Betamon leaps towards Drac and headbutts him in the stomach. The two start brawling around in the limo. Bats are flying everywhere. Drac looks the Betamon in the eyes, causing the Digimon to hallucinate his fears. Betamon starts to freak out at the sight of all the creepy demon bats swarming around him. The thief gets the car running, and takes off down the street.

Soon Drac's bats are swarming all over inside the limo. The thief struggles to see past the bats, swerving all over the road. Keramon sees Drac's eyebat flying back towards the limo, and dashed back towards the car. (Thinking) "Hey, he's stealing the limo! Shirou's going to freak out." The thief loses control of the car, driving off the road and heading towards the lakeshore. He drives over a ledge and crashes into a pile of washed up debris. The thief struggles to open the door and stumbles around on the shore. "Alright, alright, what the hell just happened?!"

Betamon is tossed forward in the crash, slamming against the seat and still hallucinating. Keramon floats over to the ledge and sees that the limo has been damaged. He shouts obscenities in binary. The Rookie Virus type floats down to confront the carjacker. With Betamon incapacitated for the moment, the thief finds himself confronted by the two Virus types. "Okay, take it easy. It's not what it looks like, honest." Keramon takes a good look at the man. He starts to recognize who he is. (Thinking) "Wait a minute, is that who I think it is?"

Back on the boat, the gang hears the loud crash, but are too far down the shore to see. "Oh no, it sounds like an accident. Someone could be hurt!"
"Meh, it's not my problem. Now, let's get out there and party, I mean catch some fish and embrace the culture."
"You're so self centered."

All of the bats bounced around, inside of the car, as it crashed, before DracNos reformed, and toppled out of the car, landing on his backside, as the eyebat flew back to him, slapping itself onto his arm, reforming his hand. He sighed, fighting when not whole was tiring, and that illusion he was currently running wasn’t helping. He peered up at the strangers, waving slightly towards them, “Me. I just happened.” He explained, to the human’s wild exclamation. He shook his head, creating an illusion with only one eye made him woozy. He glanced around the area, “Hey, where are we?” He asked, before he noticed Keramon returning, “Done with your nap, then?” He asked, seemingly already forgetting the prospect of the theft, which makes sense, seeing as it wasn’t his thing being stolen.

Takeshi was actually pretty suprised when he heard their ages, Dante and shirou are both 22 with Judith being one year younger than the both of them at 21. Kiyoko said she was 34 !? Which shocked Takeshi and apparently the rest of the gang. But alas it was a joke and she is the oldest one there at 24. Willow said she is 16 which seemed normal. Takeshi then heard Judith call willow worm but she stopped there which made Takeshi extra suspicious of the situation.

"Ah, I see. Well I am 18 which means no beer for me" while Takeshi did drink before he did not want to do it again.

Willow was disappointed that Takeshi let the fish go "hey, I do not want to eat so need to kill it" he explained, Takeshi believes that there is two situations where killing animals is okay and those are, self defence and sustenance.

Judith goes first and misses losing her bait in the process "do not worry this thing happens to a lot of people. I can help you if you want." Takeshi said with a gentle smile across his face.

Willow then gets a thug, " you can do it reel it in quickly" Takeshi then claps as willow catches the fish but slows down when Willow slams the fish to death. Takeshi stops clapping and is noticeably disturbed. "The hell is wrong with you? That is totaly wrong, if you wanted to eat you could have said and I could kill it mercifully." Takeshi did not mind eating the fish what bothered him was the way willow killed it by.

Takeshi's bag began to shake a little bit, Takeshi did notice it but the twins might be waking up. Hopefully no one else noticed the bag shaking.

Unlike most of the group, Takeshi wasn't too keen on consuming alcohol. Probably for the best, despite Shirou's enthusiasm for hedonism. The tone changed when Willow mercilessly beats a fish to death. Willow smirks after Takeshi objects to his actions.

"I see, so you're one of those, oh, we have to love the animals, people. It's survival of the fattest, and I'm hungry! You don't blame a lion for eating zebras, do ya?"
"I don't even think the lions revel in the kill as much as you."
"Bah, you and your fancy words, Kiyoko. What's a revel, anyway?"

Takeshi offers to help Judith out with fishing. It wasn't exactly one of her hobbies, you don't see a lot of celebrity obsessed and trendy young women out catching fish. "Oh, thank you. I'm having some trouble hooking them after they take the bait." Judith and Takeshi go to one side of the boat to level up Judith's fishing skill.

After a while of not catching any fish, the gang starts reeling them in. Kiyoko gets a nibble, and reels in a decent sized fish. "Please forgive me, innocent creature of the sea." With one quick thrust, Kiyoko smacks it on the head with a small rod, and gives it a quick and painless death. Even Shirou manages to catch some fish. After a while of Takeshi helping her, Judith gets another bite.

"Oh my goodness, this time it is on."

Judith frantically reels the fish in, struggling to get it out of the water. Finally she manages to get it in the boat.

"Yay, I did it! We did it." Judith smiles and blushes at Takeshi.

It looks like everyone was able to catch a fish. Well, everyone except for Dante.

"Come on, any minute now."
Dante stands towards the edge of the boat with his fishing pole. He reaches for his beer and takes a sip.
"I'm not getting anything here. Maybe I should try to cast somewhere else."
Dante reels it in, replaces the bait, and goes up to the bow of the boat to fish. After a few minutes, he reels it in and tries somewhere else. And still, he does not catch a fish.
"This is getting ridiculous. No matter where I cast, I'm not getting any bites."

Kiyoko walks over to Dante.
"If you want to catch a fish, you have to pick a spot and go with it. You have to make a decision and choose. Instead of just casting your line everywhere and hoping to catch the first fish to bite."
Kiyoko heads to the cooler and takes out a bottle of soda, then recasts her line.

Shirou looks around the boat, watching the other people. He approaches Dante and places his hand on his shoulder.
"Hey, uh, you wanna check out some of the gadgets on this boat? Let's go to the cabin."
Dante and Shirou head inside the boat's cabin. There is a huge control panel with several monitors on the wall.
"Whoah, this looks more like one of your lairs than a boat. You probably got all sorts of crazy things up your sleeve."
"That's not why I brought you in here. I'm concerned about having Takeshi around. He is ruining our chemistry."
"Oh, not this again. Chemistry? What chemistry?"
"He's totally hitting on the girls."
"He's being nice to Judith, deal with it."

"Alright alright, I guess you're no expert on relationships, so I don't expect you to understand."
"What did you say, you little weasel?!"
"Didn't you hear what Kiyoko said?"
"Something about fishing. She was sort of unusually cold when she said it."
"Kiyoko was trying to tell you something. She's using some kind of head game women play."
"You're going to ruin this whole party boat experience for me. What makes you an expert anyway? When was the last time you had a serious relationship with a woman that wasn't online?"
"I'm just more comfortable typing instead of talking. It gives me more time to think about what I want to say."
"That explains a lot. Maybe you should start thinking before you speak."

*Moment of silence*

"You may be on to something there."
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Back on land, that no good Cassius was stirring up trouble for a couple of young, well mannered Digimon. Drac was just an innocent bystander that got caught up in an old grudge. Cassius has known Shirou since they were young, and his betrayal was still burned on Cassius' conscience today.

"Hmph, you couldn't take Betamon on even if you tried. You, weird little bat guy, I have no qualm with you, so you are free to let us get down to business. Now I'm not going to ask you again, where is Shirou?"

Keramon facepalms with one of his cables. He types Cassius a message.
"Where do you think? He's on the freaking lake, dummy! Now get out of here, if you know what if good for you." Cassius takes a moment to ponder, as he scratches his chin.
"So he's out on the lake, you say. Maybe I will pay him a little visit. It was nice seeing you again, Keramon. Betamon, let's kick it up."

Betamon starts spinning around, creating a small whirlpool. A bright light flashes as he digivolves into the sea monster, Seadramon. Seadramon tilts his head back and lets out a high pitched cry.
"Go! Ice Blast these scoundrels."
Seadramon fires a chilling Ice Blast. The limo is nearly covered by a giant wave of ice. Keramon gets some of his cables stuck in the ice. Would Drac be trapped by the ice, and if so could he figure out a way to escape? Seadramon slithers into the water, and Cassius gets on the back of his neck.

"It was ice knowing you. Haha, get it? Ice? Ha ha ha, ice puns..."
Cassius puts a breathing device around his face, and Seadramon swims off into the lake. Keramon flails around, trying to free himself. He continues to cuss in binary, in fact Drac might know some curse words in binary by now. One big angry sea monster and a former friend with a vendetta are on their way to crash the gang's party. Was somebody about to land the big one?

Drac threw his arms up in the air, exasperated, "It's like I didn't say anything!" He said, frustrated at how he was being ignored, "And stop comparing me to your goldfish, okay? We're basically nothing alike!" He asked, more concerned with their differences in appearance and traits than actual power. He glanced up, aiming his arm sarcastically to look at the other two, before he realized something had changed, they were in water now, and there was a fish-snake. "Hey! A water hose! That's-" he was cut off, as a wave of ice completely washed over him, locking him in place. His eyes could be seen moving around, before their equivalent to brows furrowed, in anger, or frustration. Light glowed from within the ice, and a portion of it was demolished, as a massive robed leg burst straight through, before the air bent and the ice holding Keramon in place shattered, before a massively tall, but thin creature appeared in front of Keramon. "You can stay here, My honor has been insulted, I shall return." He stated, in a charming spanish accent, before the ultimate level Matadormon vanished, once again, and a series of ripples manifested on the water, trailing into the lake, resembling long strides of footprints.

The warrior watched the lake, as he ran across it, his unnaturally light body and broad-surfaced feet mixed with his incredible speed allowing him to move across the ocean's surface tension, before he came across the long, colorful water hose from before. He moved to the front of the two, before flipping in place, and kicking the water, cleaving the lake apart, in a slash 20 feet down the lake's water, forcing the water apart, making a broad gash appear in the lake's surface, before being filled in with water, once more. This attack was an open challenge from a new threat Cassius had likely not expected. Gone was the goofy vampire child, replaced by an eccentric and honorable warrior. He started jumping around the lake-water, his body appearing for a moment, before vanishing once more, "You claim I am no challenge to you, I cannot allow my honor to be damaged by a baseless claim. I will have to ask you to prove it, niño." His voice echoed over the lake surface.

Takeshi stood there for a second looking at Judith's eyes, he was almost speechless. In fact this whole day was bizarre, it started with him wanting to take Ryu and Ken sight seeing, now he is on a boat with a group of strangers. A nice group of strangers granted, well for the most part, there was Shirou. Takeshi was not so fond of Shirou, and why would he be he has been annoying and disrespectful the whole day. The nicest people were kiyoko and Judith, he then wanted to ask Judith for her number, he hoped that he won't sound like a weirdo.

But before he could say anything Shirou came, of all people Shirou was the one to join them. He then said that he and Judith should give Takeshi some pointers in fishing. "Says the guy, who has not caught a single fish yet" Takeshi said with a light chuckle, you see he is not the type to usually get heated with such things. But Shirou got on his last nerve. He does not whether Shirou likes Judith or not, so far he sees as a pervert especially because of what happened in the train station with Kiyoko.

Shirou then puts his hand on the lower part of Judith's back, without her consent. Judith and Shirou get in a struggle as Shirou tries to hug her. Cementing himself as a pervert in Takeshi's mind.

After the struggle is over Judith pushed Shirou in Takeshi's direction. Judith was strong enough to send Shirou flying but his collide with Takeshi was strong enough to stop his momentum, luckily Takeshi was able to handle the pain, lets hope shirou can as well.

Takeshi then hit the edge of the boat and saw the bag fall, thankfully he has faster than average reactions"NO RYU, KEN!!" Takeshi loudly exclaims. He then quickly holds on the edge and bends over in order to grab the bag which he successfully does.

He then looks at the bag for a second and decides to tell everyone about digimon. He gets up from the ledge and looks at Both Judith and Shirou "hey Guys I was keeping a secret, that I think you guys should know about. First of all I know willow is probably a digimon and that's because I have two partners" he says as he shows them the open bag. He thought this way Ryu and Ken won't face accidental danger.

Inside the bag the two demiveemons sat and looked at shirou and Judith. Ken the red one was too dizzy to do anything, while Ryu the blue one was suprised by Takeshi decision. But he waved awkwardly "umm, Hi"