[Plot] A Golden Week to Remember [Group C]

Golden Week was finally in full swing, and Satoshi couldn't be happier. This was one of his favorite times of year, and now he had the opportunity to share it with Gabumon. He had even gone out to buy a Holosuit for his Digimon so he could enjoy the festivities unimpeded. However, once the duo made it to Hachiko Square, they were stunned.

There were several Digimon walking around in broad daylight. Out of the ones that Satoshi could recognize after all his research into different types of Digimon, there was a Dracmon, a Falcomon, a Guilmon, and a Tentomon. There also seemed to be...a dog with them? Also, there was some weirdly colored Goblimon.

"This is bad, right?" Gabumon asked, crossing his Holosuited arms. "I thought we were supposed to be keeping our existence a secret from the human world."

Satoshi was about to answer, but before he could he took a moment to assess the crowd's reaction. Nobody seemed to be scared of these Digimon, just curious. All of them were Rookie level, and seemed to be taking the time to be friendly towards the humans that approached them. "Why don't we just investigate for the moment? You can drop the Holosuit if you want."

Gabumon nodded and dropped his Holosuit, returning to his normal Digimon form. It was...strangely freeing to him to be able to walk around uninhibited in the Human World. The duo walked up to the closest Digimon, the dog-like creature staring at the statue of Hachiko.

"Excuse me," Satoshi began. "What's going on here?"

This was the first time Zachary ever had a real grasp of this 'Golden Week". He had to wiki-it up. Supposedly it was a week where four major hoidays happened at once and because of that, so close to the end of Spring, many areas in Tokyo was in celebration. Including his own school that they had given the students time off.

That worked out well for Zachary. Since he had become a Digimon Tamer, he had dedicated much of his time to that-- but what he discovered today was nothing he could of expected. He had been in the shadows, in fear of DATS and the other government forces that wanted to silence Digimon. His Digimon, his very own dreamed up Digimon Panthermon-- was a friend and part of him he never wanted to lose.

He came into the Square, wondering if it was going to be a kind of street fair like he seen in upstate New York or other small towns. However, what he saw made him stop and almost drop his cellphone as he came about.

"Um, Panthermon?" Zachary asked aloud-- forgetting about their telepathic link. "What is wrong with this picture?"

Panthermon had been invisible long since they entered this part of the city. He normally remained so and out of sight from other humans. A large jungle-cat rookie digimon was easily spotted otherwise. He was on guard, having sensed multiple Digimon the closer he got. He was about to warn Zachary when he heard the question. He slipped through the crowd, careful not to bump into people-- and saw it too.

Dozens of Rookie Digimon were everywhere around the square. A gomamon was splashing around in a fountain with a Betamon . A Bearmon was eating a honeybun from one of the pastry vendors, and tons of other kinds of adorable Digimon having a ball-- in broad daylight, with other humans. The others looked either unnerved, or surprised to find such adorable creatures.

"Well... this is new." Panthermon growled.

"How the hell did all these Digimon get here? I mean this is disturbing-- and cool at the very same time. I never seen so many in one place."

Panthermon looked around, not sensing any hostility from any of them. "Be thankful they are only a danger if you're made of food. " the panther said-- suddenly met by the sudden rumble of his own stomach. The rare moment when his more mature demeanor gave way to every Rookie's desire for food.

"Let's just try to blend in for now before you drop your camoflauge, buddy," Zachary said, still a bit confused what was going on.

"Agreed," Panthermon said softly and strode along with Zachary through the crowd.

While Panthermon was easily invisible and undetectable by other humans or less-attentive Digimon, nothing was stopping others from bumping into him or feeling him if he brushed by their legs or body.

All the while, Zachary's D-Power/D-Arc was going off-- triggered by not only the digimon but tamers around. He tried to find others like him with Digimon around, but with so many rookies hanging around leisurely with humans, it was hard to tell.

He clearly kept his D-Power out, perhaps able to see if he could track down others like him.

"Oooh, cool color!" a voice said.

Zachary snapped out of his thoughts to soon hear a voice. Below him, looking up like a kid-- was the Bearmon from before. His paw still held on to his half-eaten honeybun as he looked up to the human in the blue coat.

"Are you a Digimon Tamer too?" he asked.

Panthermon was nearby, but still remained out of sight. "I uh-- guess I am." Zachary said and attached the D-Power to his side. "Hi there. I'm Zachary. If I may ask, why are so many Digimon out here? Isn't it a bit risky for you all to be here?"

"Why? It's Golden Week! We just wanna have fun. The human world has so many wonderful things. How could we not visit it?" the bear said happily and chomped down the last bit of his bun with a final bite.

A smile came to Zachary's face. He loved the site he saw-- of Digimon just hanging around and getting along with other humans. Even though some people didn't know what to do or how to act, no one was in any distress.

Golden week! A nice, free week where Otohime could go out and do what she wanted, as opposed to the usual time where she could only go out and do what she wanted *after* she was done with work for the week!
She strolled along the streets of inner Shibuya, eating one of her Teach's amazing melonpan breads, when she heard a commotion in the distance.
"The fuck is going on near the dog statue today?"
The ethereal form of Jiro, her former Digimon partner and now Sprite Spirit companion, appeared near her, putting one claw to his buggy mouth.
"I d-d-dunno, it sounds...like a festival..."
"Oh shit, festival? Is it matsuri time again?? They better not hog the goldfish stand this time!"
She hurried to the square...and was flabberghasted by the appearance of -Digimon-. Real, flesh and data Digimon, in the human world! Like, holy frick, after meeting that DATS lady she thought Digimon would keep their heads down!
"The heck are Digimon doing here! Wont those government fucks stuff them into jail cells or sumthing??"
"I...I dunno, this is all strange!"
"Well, I know one thing! We better have GranKuwaga Mask watch out!"
"Are you -still- on that Tokusatsu thing??"
But Otohime had already retreated into a side alley, and struck a few silly poses before Spirit Digivolving into BlackFairymon. The Digimon but her fingers in the shape of a V to her visor and -sparkled-.
"Time to kick ass and chew mochi. And I am all outta mochi."
"H-h-h-how did you even do that sparkly thing??"
"Trade secret, now let's go!"
With that, the Digimon took a high leap, and landed at the edge of the square, approaching the group of small Digimon.
"Greetings! Is everything alright here?"

"HI EVERYONE!!!!!" Eris yelled out voice pitching an octave up in her excitement as she waved enthusiastically at all the digimon and humans gathered about. Able to see for the first time from her high perch atop the statue just how many humans there really were gathered about. 

"Wow! I've never seen so many humans all in one place!? Is this like all of you? Did you all turn out to say hi too!" She exclaimed bouncing around in excitement and nearly falling to the ground for her enthusiasm before she caught herself.

"Hey! Hey people!" She called out to those around her beaming with all the innocence of youth, "Do you want to be friends?!" The little Gigimon questioned more then a little thrilled to get a chance to get to know these new humans and even the other digimon that had showed up. 

"I promise I'll do my best to be the bestest friend ever!"

The Bearmon was adorable-- as many of the digimon that Zachary saw. It was heartwarming as he saw a little girl with a few balloons walk right up to an adorable Patamon that fluttered around the objects, landing on one as light as air. Somewhere in the trees-- he saw one that looked a large "Kitsune"-- known as a Renamon no doubt-- relaxing in the trees somewhat out of sight.

As the Bearmon took interest in Zachary, he smiled at him. "Well, its nice to meet you. I'm Zachary. " he said-- his worry and concern were slowly fading.

"Um... could you buy me another honey bun?" the bear asked, "I don't have what they call 'money' Please?"

Zachary frowned a bit-- being hit up for money but the bear was too cute. "And here I wanted to save up for Digimon Cards... Fine, might as well buy one for me too." he said.

"YAY! THank you, Mr. Zachary." The bear said.

As they approached the vendor-- they were addressed by the odd duo that caught Zachary's attention. Dracmon-- who looked like some nightmarish chibi from one of those punk gothic clothing store waddled up to him asking about Golden Week. Despite the scary vintage, Zachary paused as he looked at Dracmon. "Um... Sure," he said, also a little concerned by the eyes in the Dracmon's palms. For a tamer with his own Nightmare-Soldier partner, Dracmon's appearance did unnerve him a bit for a second, but he shook it off and continued. "Golden Week is kind of a mass celebration in Japan, where four major holidays collide on the same week. As a result many areas, mostly here in Japan celebrate the time with festivals, street fairs, shops hold sales and all kinds of events. Though I had no clue how you Digimon heard about it from your world-- let alone all came over at once." Zachary said with a laugh. "Not that I am unhappy. I think you guys made my day. Its really cool to see humans and Digimon just having fun together." he smiled, happy to see it.

It was then that the Guilmon approached, and excused Dracmon for his interruption. "Oh, cool. Um but its okay. Anyway its nice to meet you both. I'm Zachary,"

As Eris came running by as a happy red-bolt, he clearly didn't see Panthermon while invisible, causing the cat to dodge just in time-- but no doubt Dracmon would feel the brush of the soft panther beside him but unable to see it.

If Addressed-- Panthermon would reveal himself.

All the while the rumble of Bearmon's tummy was audible all the same. Zachary quickly bought a bunch of honeybuns-- one for Bearmon, himself, Dracmon, Guilmon and Panthermon. If Eris asked, he could buy one for her too.

All the while, Panthermon kept a cool position and watched as the Digimon had fun. He wanted to join them, but his guardian senses made him still on guard, not easily willing to just have fun when he was a stalwart warrior and vigilant to trouble.

This was quite the startling development. Satoshi was very nervous to see that the Digimon had taken revealing themselves to the real world into their own hands, but the reaction still seemed to be a mixture of confusion and positivity. A small crowd of Tamers and Digimon gathered in front of the statue of Hachiko, where Satoshi and Gabumon met a Labramon by the name of Eight.

"This is all so sudden," Satoshi said, sighing.

"I have to admit, maybe it'll be better in the long run to not have to keep everything secret from the world," Gabumon added. "If we can prove that we're not a threat to humanity, I'm sure we can make things better for everyone!"

"If we're going to do it, maybe help from humans familiar with the topic would be good as well," Satoshi pondered. He walked over to the reporter who was interviewing Tentomon. "Hi, I'd be willing to answer some questions if you need. I'm pretty knowledgeable on the subject, after all!" As he said this, he motioned to the approaching Gabumon, who took his side.

"Hi Vee! Hi Gummy! It's nice to meet you!" Eris chirped waving at them in greeting as she slid down the statues head to settle down on her belly on it's back with a smile. Half curling up with her tail tucked around her little body, one each flopping back and forth as she winked playfully at the pair and Eight.



"I'm really excited to be here! Do you guys know what all goes on during Golden.. ." She trailed off her question dying on her lips as she sniffed the air as well her little nose screwing up and brows furrowing in confusion.

"Hey you're right it does smell a lot like sulfur," She quipped following the scent as she turned around to stare behind the statue blinking at the sudden appearance of a new digimon.

"Hello! I"m Eris! Welcome to Golden Week. Have you come to be friends with all the humans too?" She greeted sweetly.