LJ's Interest in Karate(OPEN)

Reiko wasn't sure what to wear for her first outing in the Digital World. What kind of clothing would alien monster creatures find offensive? Well, she figured something casual would suffice. Denim jacket, jeans, and sneakers would likely have to suffice. Hopefully there weren't Digimon that hated the color blue.

Well... she didn't get too much information about the two talking cats that showed up on her doorstep. It seemed like the strays that had been hanging around her apartment weren't normal cats, after all. Reiko honestly didn't pay too much attention, really. They said "Digi" a whole lot, though. She remembered that.

But apparently they were aliens or something, and needed to hang out with Reiko for some reason. At first, she just thought that they were scamming her. After all, even if they were cats, if they could talk, they could lie, right? But she was able to take some strange train to the Digital World, as her two new cat friends called it. And she was admittedly surprised at what she saw! Weird-looking creatures of all shapes and sizes, like some fantasy illustrator's paradise. And she hadn't really been paying much attention to what was going on, and simply following the cats that led her here.

"You're lost, aren't you?" The white cat said, in an almost mocking tone.

"I am most certainly not lost!" The black cat replied defiantly, looking at her surroundings in confusion. "Well... I am perhaps... unfamiliar with this location, so..." The Gatomon let out a wide, cheshire smile as the BlackGatomon remained flustered. "But that doesn't mean we can't find our way back, or... Hey! Human... ahh... Reiko, was it? Where do you think you're going!?"

But the human had walked away from the bickering cats for a while now. She instead found something that pulled her attention. A random car sitting out in the middle of nowhere. With a purple, horned-ball creature hopping around, and two strange-looking creatures sitting together by a tree.

It was only a matter of time until they noticed her, to which she would remain silent for a long second, then lift up her hand in a half-hearted wave and say, "...yo."

The strange creatures were talking to her. Well, she supposed they were also Digimon, right? So it wouldn't be right to call them strange. Well, they were strange, but wasn't Reiko also strange to them? It was pretty complicated, probably. Well, at least one of them returned her greeting. But he asked a weird question. "Partners?" She repeated, turning back towards Pepper and Snowflake. The two had caught up to the young woman at this point and stood in front of her.

"Reiko-san, was it? You shouldn't wander off without our protection! I can assure you that the Digital World can be quite dangerous!"

But Reiko didn't seem to acknowledge the BlackGatomon's warning, instead looking over to the car. So aliens drove cars as well. So did that mean that there was an exhaust problem in the Digital World as well? Reiko began to feel a little less guilty about her own carbon footprint. But she really didn't say much at all. "Partners... I don't think we have that relationship," She finally answered, looking down towards the two cat Digimon. "They're more like... tour guides?"

"T-tour guides!?" Pepper balked, shaking her head in frustration. Meanwhile, the white Gatomon snickered a bit at her sister's irritation.

"Digivice...?" It took Reiko a minute to realize what the strange person was talking about. "Ah. The toy..." She reached into her pockets for a bit. The jeans were more for style than for function, so it took her a little while to get the device dislodged from her pants. Well, at least it didn't have the risk of falling out, she supposed. It was apparently pretty important or something. "Kuroneko and Shironeko kept leaving it at my doorstep, and would dig it out of the trash every time I threw this toy away... Eventually they got so mad they started yelling at me to keep it, so I did..."

"Kuroneko!? Don't give us nicknames without our permission!" The BlackGatomon protested, the fur on her back standing straight up.

"But shouldn't all cats have names?" Reiko asked quizzically.

"We already have names, fool!" She shot back. "My name is Pepper, and my sister's name is Snowflake!"

"Hmm... okay... But I think I like my names better," Reiko's gaze moved from the angry black cat over towards the creature that spoke to her. "...I'm Reiko." She hoped he had heard the cats introduce themselves. She didn't want to introduce them after all that.

The moment Mandrake began to talk about the specifications of the Digivice, Reiko's mind began to start wandering. Pepper tried explaining it to her as well, but she got distracted because she wasn't sure if she left the microwave door open. It wasn't really a big issue, but if she left it open for too long then dust might get inside... and was dust flammable? She wasn't really too sure. She hadn't really seen too much go up in flames inside a microwave except for that one time when she accidentally put that baked potato wrapped in tin foil in one when she was eleven and... no, she definitely remembered closing the microwave door earlier! While still looking at Mandrake, she nodded in affirmation. Wait... had the weird-looking creature been talking to her the entire time? Well, it would be rude of her to say that she hadn't been listening, so she simply gave a gentle smile and said, "Yeah, that sounds about right!" Thank you, acting skills.

Mandrake had introduced himself and his family, and Pepper nodded accordingly. Had Reiko introduced herself yet? Wait... no... yes! She definitely introduced herself. "Well, it is a pleasure to meet you three, but we really must be going, we have many places to head to and..."

"We're still lost," Snowflake piped up without even looking over at her sister. She trotted over towards Lothar, and more specifically, LJ, and looked him over up and down, like the baby Digimon was some toy she wanted to play with.

Yep. That drawing certainly looked like the toy that Pepper and Snowflake kept leaving at Reiko's doorstep. And that she kept throwing away because she hated littering. But the drawing wasn't important. That dude just lifted a stick up with his mind. But he said he was a magician, though so it was probably just a trick. Reiko just shrugged it off. Magicians liked to have their secrets, after all, and Reiko didn't really care too much. But for such a mysterious occupation like a magician, this Mandrake sure did like to explain a bunch of stuff. Not that Reiko was paying too much attention.

Meanwhile, Snowflake just eyes the little horned-Digimon as he asked what she wanted. And what did Snowflake want, exactly? Well... it was hard to say, really. Her irises narrowed as she bared her fangs. "I just want to play," She asked in a menacing tone.

Reiko nodded absentmindedly as Mandrake kept explaining stuff. He really seemed good at explaining stuff. She wondered if he ever took a class where he learned how to explain stuff. Because that would be a useful class to take. Come to think of it, why didn't schools ever teach kids how to properly explain stuff? If stuff could get explained easier, there would be less people would have to explain... but was that why people sucked at explaining stuff now? Because in the past people were so good at explaining stuff that they barely had to explain anything at all, and then because people barely explained anything anymore they all got confused and forgot how to explain stuff? That would explain so much stuff...

Oh, and the little baby creature was glowing and evolving or something, and seemed to want to pick a fight with Snowflake. But the Gatomon just gave the Elecmon a dead-eyed stare, yawned, and turned her head away, and walked off for a bit. "Not interested."