Not on the Curriculum [4/4]

"OH MY GOSH IT'S SOOOO ADORABLE!" Jitsuko cooed, immediately getting up and hugging the Botamon, which made Adrian have to pull it away from her.


"Okay, okay, CALM DOWN!" Adrian semi-yells at Eito after he starts yelling at him. "I'm going to explain every-" And that's when the fairy popped out and revealed herself, causing Adrian and Rebecca to have anime beads of sweat. 

"Okay... might as well." Adrian holds up his left wrist, revealing his D-Arc. "Shoutmon, realize!" Suddenly, a flash of light shot out from the device and landed onto the floor in front of Adrian, which formed into a small red dragon with headphones. Said dragon was about to say hello, before noticing the other students, causing his eyes to widen.

"Adrian, I think you made a mistake..." The dragon says, not taking his eyes off the students. That's when Adrian took a deep breath and explained everything:

"Miss Hamelin... guys... this black furball, the fairy, and this dragon are beings called Digimon, which is short for Digital Monsters. They're creatures that come from another world, known as the Digital World. Recently, more and more have been coming into this world from the Digital World, either on their own, or due to people like me: Tamers. We partner with Digimon, and both of us benefit greatly from it. Miss Hamelin, where did you find Botamon's egg, may I ask?"

As Miss Hamelin explained the situation, Adrian reached into his backpack and got out a chocolate bar. "The first thing you gotta know about Digimon... they love to eat."

"Hey! I thought that was gonna be mine!" Shoutmon objects.

"I have plenty more, Shoutmon," Adrian said as he rolled his eyes. He then unwrapped the chocolate bar and held it out in front of Botamon. "Here you go, little guy... not the healthiest thing in the world, but it tastes good!"

"Wait a fairy, why is there a fairy here, they're real? how are theoH MY GOD A DINOSAUR!" this is a condensed version of John's thought process on the digimon that appeared, he did listen to Adrian's explanation, despite his mind being in a panic trying to comprehend the creatures that shouldn't even be alive or real. After Adrian gave the food to the newly hatched digimon, John noticed that the device that summoned the creature called Shoutmon looked familiar. "Alright so these creatures are called digimon, they're from another world, and they can be called upon with a device," He pauses before getting up, pull out his device and show it to Adrian, "is it something like this? My uncle gave me this along with a new laptop with this as the icon of a program when I moved into my dorm, I don't know if it's the same as your's since it looks different and it could just be a coincidence, or if that computer is related to digimon, but the way he kept being cryptic about them makes me doubt that."

The Viximon watched on as she saw that one human, from what she could assume, explain what digimon are with an annoyed look on her face. "Great, so now an entire classroom knows about us, they might be more aware of their surroundings and that makes my observations more difficult." She then saw the one she's been observing since he got here bring out his device and ask about it. "Which means I'm probably going to have to stop following him and find a new home, he seemed like a nice guy too but ah well, at least I now know those devices are related too my world now." As she thought this a new question popped in her head. "So where did his uncle get those devices?"

Lise did not really appreciate Jitsuko presuming it would be fine to just walk up to the Botamon and cuddle it. Even though her class was composed of seniors, this was one of the few things she was not okay with. Before Adrian would approach too, Lise took the Botamon out of her arms herself.

"Please don't do that. This is a newly hatched creature, not a toy. You may be frightening it. Return to your seat please" she said curtly. "Thank you, Adrian, I believe I can handle this" she said to Adrian before he approached.

Then, as though this situation couldn't be any more chaotic, Adrian himself revealed that he also had one of these... creatures. And like the others, this one also appeared to be a curious creature, a red lizard-like thing with a white belly and headphones on its 'ears'. By now Lise was more curious than shocked. She looked at Shoutmon with interest, then turned to Adrian as he explained.

"I see... so, these are digimon" Lise repeated, regarding Botamon, Shoutmon and Titania. "That's a word I've been hearing rather a lot these days I must admit. Also, please, everyone, for the sake of all of us, please keep this with yourselves, the events of this lesson will stay with us". She gave a sharp glare to a boy at the back who had his phone out, trying to take a picture. Words did not have to be said, the look Lise gave him told him that if he took a picture, his phone would be confiscated.

Where had she encountered the egg? "Well, from what I remember, I was reading the news on my phone at breakfast before class when the egg just... happened to appear beside me. I thought the waiter dropped it, but... now that I think of it, that does seem somewhat impossible for him to do".

Had the egg appeared while she was reading the news? Oh dear... now things were beginning to get confusing.

Then Adrian mentioned that digimon loved to eat. Lise was initially hesitant to allow him to approach, but, realized that was logical and sound that a baby might be hungry after hatching. "Ah, of course" she said, giving him permission to approach and feed Botamon.

It was then that Lise noted that Shoutmon and Titania could speak. Now this was interesting. "Did I hear you right? You... 'digimon' are able to speak with humans?" she asked. This suddenly piqued her interest from meeting with strange animals to intelligent sentient beings. A truly remarkable discovery!

Lise then noted that other students appeared to have similar devices to her. This also caught her interest. "Alright. For the sake of us all knowing who's in on this... 'digimon' thing, can everyone who has a device like this please raise your hand?" she held up her own digivice. And things proceeded to get more crazy from there.

With his belly full from the chocolate, and with Lise raising her digivice, Botamon began to glow again. "Oh gosh what in the world is happening now?!" Lise exclaimed as Botamon... grew in size. Not only grew, but, transformed. He gained limbs... two legs, two arms, a tail, and... was that an academic cap?

The light faded, and where Botamon had been moments before, there was now a little orange dinosaur, wearing a black academic cap, a white coat, and blinked up at Lise with his green eyes.

"Er... sorry for all this commotion" he said in a nervous voice. "I didn't mean to interrupt the class, sorry about that... er... Miss Hamelin?"

Ordinarily Lise would have been shocked again, but, since the creature had spoken in perfect English, it made her relax a little.

"No, no, that's alright, can't help when you hatch" she said. She looked at the rest of the class, for once in her teaching life, unsure of what to do to continue. Fortunately, the digimon seemed to be more savvy than he let on.

"Well... to make up for it, I can help you teach if you like!" he said enthusiastically. "I heard what was going on from in the egg... you're learning about Verbs, right?"

To Lise's surprise, the digimon seemed to be eager to continue the lesson. Regaining her composure, she cleared her throat.

"Well then, I always believe in honesty, so, if that's all, why don't we continue, hm? You there, Shoutmon and... Titania? Well, no need for you to remain hidden, so, feel free to take a seat and join in. Please don't cause a disturbance though, I expect you to follow the rules while you're in my class".

As fascinating as all of this was, Lise attempted to valiantly resume control of the matter. Yes there were now three digimon in her class, and heavens knows how many more, but, she didn't see them as earth shattering events that would allow decorum to fly out the window. However, once class was finished, she hoped to discuss the situation more with the students involved.

Now everyone in the classroom knows the secret of Digital Monsters, the aliens made of data that sometimes partner with humans. There was much much more to them than has been explained, a whole world of information left untouched. However, Eito was playing ignorant. 

"You brought a bunch of aliens into the classroom," Eito asks incredulously. He actually was surprised. Showing off your Digimon in the classroom? Not even digitizing them into your device to hide them and letting them fly out of your backpack? his was all just crazy and irresponsible. "Why? We're not even allowed to bring pets in, why are Digimans okay?"

The teacher then asks everyone to take out their device if they have one and raise their hand. Eito almost does it, too, but only a slight twitch of his arm would give anything away. He would be incredibly nervous that he would be found out, except for one thing. Ever since passing the Shadow Trials, he was more confident with his persuasion skills for some reason. It was almost as if doing so had given him a better ability to persuade and convince. He could not control the teacher, he could not manipulate all these students, but he could probably get them to believe he does not only have no device, but also has never seen or heard of Digimon before. 

He glances around the room to take stock of who did have such connections to Digimon. It would be interesting to find out who among him were actually possible allies or threats.

Naoko looked at Eito.

Aliens in the classroom? Welllll...

"Yeah, that's basically the sum of it." Yep. They were digital aliens and at least three were in the class right now. Funny how things work, don't they? Titania glanced at the newly evolved...

...Agumon Hakase.

A truly renowned and wise reptile. She bowed. "Hakase." Before she rose and looked at Miss Hamelin. "Wait...So...We're like...shadowing for a day? In class? That's so cool! I've never been to school before. This will be quite an experience!" It was worth noting that Titania sounded actually happy for once. Naoko decided to keep trying to talk to people. She looked to Adrian...Then John...Then Eito, leaning her head against her palm.

"Well, new kid...I...actually don't know. It's about data. Kind of like DNA...It's a big subject that we shouldn't really get too much into or else we'd be here all day...I should just shut up now, forget I said anything."

She settled back into her seat and waited for class to resume, Titania taking her place...at the foot of the desk.

Miss Hamelin explained that she was surfing the Internet on her phone when the egg appeared. "Did you put your phone down at ANY given moment before finding the egg? Because you would've seen the screen glitch up, and see the actual egg pop out of it."

Meanwhile, as Rebecca thought about keeping her hand up, she realized no one was looking. Quickly, she put her hand down as if she never raised it in the first place. She just... kept staring at the scene that was unfolding in front of her, in utter disbelief.

The teacher then proceeded to tell the students to not leave a bad impression on the Digimon. "I think 'Eito' here already has made a bad impression on us," Shoutmon responded. "I think it's only fair that he surrendered his lunch and snacks to us as compensation."

"Nice try, Shoutmon, but he's not going to be fooled by that," Adrian laughed. 

Finally, it was time for class to continue. Shoutmon nodded to Miss Hamelin and proceeded to hop onto the window sill in the classroom, immediately closing his eyes in an attempt to take a nap. Despite all the... craziness that just happened, Adrian was now ready to resume class for the next hour.

John lowered his hand and listened to what everyone had to say, as he did he made a mental list of questions to ask his uncle, of course he would need to be discreet about it in case he had no idea what digimon where, as Ms Hamelin resumed her lesson John looked through the window as he listened to her, he had enough practice that he could register her words as he did this. He started to notice something in the tree however, something that looked orange, but as he tried to focus on it he blinked and then it was gone, deciding it was just a trick of the light he decided to look at the teacher.

Viximon got into a panic when she noticed that John was starting to see her, so when she tried to back away slowly she heard a tree branch snap, then plummeted to the ground. "Ah man, I guess I wont be able to watch that class anymore, still I learned some things about that device so I shou-Ahg!" She slightly yelled out, thankfully no one outside was near her to hear that, as she tried to get up on the leg she fell on weirdly, it would be fine tomorrow but until then she can't jump very high or climb, she decided to hide in a bush and rest her leg.