The Holy Mother [Hunt/Invite]

"Ughh, dangit. Lost again." Clayton rubbed his head for a few moments as he walked through the plains, holding his D-tector in his left hand Clay looked like he had been through a fight, his clothes were a bit messed up too. Shaking his head for a moment Clayton put his D-tector away in his pocket as he started walking in a random direction. "Guess there's no going around it, if I want to beat that spirit I'm gonna hafta find another one." Did all spirit tamers have it this rough?

Clayton had been coming around this area for a bit now, trying his hand at passing his supposed spirits 'trial' which apparently meant beating them in one on one combat, which was a lot easier said then done when Clayton only had access to a rookie spirit and Zu. Speaking of the Zubamon she was currently in her sword form on Clayton's back, held up with a pretty simple makeshift holder. She had gotten a bit roughed up during the fight and was simply healing in that form. Didn't hafta worry about her cutting anything since he wasn't a digimon the blade was completely dull on his back.

But with that in his mind Clayton had realized something important, the fact that he was totally lost at the moment. looking around he realized he got turned around after the fight and was now on a path near a river. "Wait, guess I got turned around. Don't remember a river being around here..." Clayton stopped for a moment scratching the side of his head, unknowingly standing directly in the path of another spirit tamer.

Clayton was pretty distracted at the moment, he was trying to mentally make a note of where he was at the moment and where he went on accident. Arms crossed as he thought a bit to himself not even noticing another person walking up towards him, considering he was standing in the middle of a pathway that was probably gonna happen eventually anyway. He did notice when the person in question pivoted around him, breaking him out of his thoughts as he looked over at them. Surprisingly it was a fellow human who seemed around the same age as himself, shorter then him but Clayton had long since gotten used to being taller then most.

She gave him a short wave, which the teen returned alongside smile, realizing he had been standing in the middle of the path. "Ahh, sorry about that." He probably didn't need to apologize since nothing bad happened he still did, felt like the right thing to do.

She seemed to point over to a stump nearby, sitting down and patting the spot next to her. Taking the hint Clayton walked over and sat down taking the sword off his back and placing it right next to him. Then the girl seemed to offer a riceball and water to the teen, making him realize he actually hadn't eaten anything before coming here. "Oh, thanks."

Taking the two items he realized he hadn't introduced himself. "Oh right, my name's Clayton Herron, Nice to meet you."

Clayton was a little bit surprised when the stranger pulled out her phone and started typing on it, was, was she texting someone? Looking something up? Both of those would be pretty weird considering she's the one who called him over. However after a few moments of typing he heard a robotic voice come out from the phone introducing the girl. That also caught him a bit off guard but Clayton elected to not question the reason and just take it in stride with just a smile and a nod.

Then the next question came about Clayton's current state of being a bit beaten up, he had almost forgotten about that. Though seeing the concerned expression on her face Clayton just kept his smile giving her a thumbs up. "I'm fine, don't worry about me." While that was probably a lie Clayton didn't want them to worry about him.

"I'm a spirit tamer and a bit ago I was trying to get one of the totems I need. Except the spirit wants me to fight it in order to use its power and uhh." Clayton gestured to his slightly bruised body. "Yeah that didn't work out too well for me." Clayton let out a small laugh after saying that, while he was annoyed he lost he didn't seem in too bad of spirits about it.

"So what brings you to the digital world today?" He decided to ask figuring he might want to change the subject off him getting his butt kicked up and down the fields.

Just enjoying the scenery huh, well that was as good an answer as any. "Heh fair enough, it is a pretty place." He hadn't really taken a moment to take in the atmosphere but from what he saw the digital world was pretty nice. Then she mentioned leaving her voice at home, then also something about her grandfather limiting her phone use. "You did huh? Man I hate when I do that." Clayton said with a small laugh, though after he gave a quick nod to affirm he did know what she was talking about. "Best get typing then if you wanna make up for lost time." Clayton joked, smiling.

Though that fun time seemed like it was soon to be unfun time as Clayton heard a, well it was some really weird footsteps so he couldn't really identify what it was. Luckily for him he didn't have to infer what it was because it was very willing to let itself known to the two of them.

Looking over at the source of the voice Clayton knew it was a digimon, what digimon he didn't really know but it didn't matter at the moment. All that mattered to him was that it was pointing an arrow at the two of them. Glancing over he saw Misaki raise her arms in surrender. Figuring it wouldn't do either of them any good to antagonize the situation Clayton did the same.

Clayton felt her look at him as the state the business line came up so Clayton decided to state some business. "We were just taking a small sit down and talking a bit. Why is this place off limits or something?" That was pretty much their business.

Well so far this day was just getting better and better for the teen, first he got his butt handed to him and now he was being arrested! "What village are you eve-" Before he could finish that thought though someone shouting 'you dingus' was, well not easy to hear but it was heard as something jolted up from the ground below right square into the digimon that was pointing an arrow at them. Clayton took a step back, eyes wide in shock at what just transpired. Slowly he let his arms go back to his side as he just looked with a confused look on his face.

"Er, you two okay?" While that probably wasn't the right thing to ask after all that transpired it felt like the right thing at the time. "I guess, well I know about being eager to prove yourself." There had been a few times in his life he felt that way, well mostly recently but hey it was a feeling all the same.

Well guess that was the village the Sagittarimon mentioned, Clayton must've missed the sign for it or something. Though getting an arrow pointed at you would qualify as 'your own kind of hospitality.' that's for sure.

While Misaki looked at Clayton he had his arms crossed thinking a bit on it, his hand wandered up to the legacy weapon on his back shaking it lightly, yeah Zu was still knocked out so rest sounded like a good idea at least.

Turning to Misaki he gave a small shrug. "I don't mind if you don't, best not to split up right?" After all it did sound interesting at the very least.

Well this day was seeming like it was getting a lot better, well not hard to really improve after having an arrow pointed at you and a threat to take you into custody but hey, improvement was improvement. Facing the 'Unbending Arrow' Clayton had to admit he was pretty impressed by this speech he was giving, even had a neat name as well. 'Huh, wonder if he's practiced this in the mirror or something?' Clayton thought quietly to himself as he waited for the digimon to finish, though it ended with a weird 'huh' Clayton glanced over just in time to notice Misaki was gone!

"Huh? Wow that was fast." He didn't even notice her move, yet there she was over next to the digimon that had moments ago threatened them taking an arrow out of the quiver and attempting to bend it, unsurprisingly it didn't bend. Gesturing for Clayton to come over he did so without question taking the arrow offered and looking at it with somewhat similar wonder. "Wow, I've never held an arrow before." Flipping it around in his hands he, like Misaki did, tried to bend the arrow with both hands. "Unbending arrow is a very correct name."

However the teen slightly jumped when Sagittarimon yelled at them, almost letting the arrow fly out of his hands but he quickly grabbed it before it could, that was close. "Hehehe, Yeah. Sorry about that." Clayton slowly just put the Arrow back in the quiver.

Well at least they didn't get in too much trouble about the whole arrow thing, mentioning that it was time for them to get going Clayton just gave a simple nod and followed the digimon, while they walked he seemed to talk about little tidbits about the forest they were in which Clayton was pretty sure would be interesting to someone, sadly he wasn't that someone so most of it was just slowly tuned out of the teens mind as he followed, though he didn't want to be rude so just let him continue talking giving vague 'yeah.' and 'oh' sounds as they talked, though what about would be the furthest thing from his mind.

While he was doing that stellar bit of conversing though he felt a tap on his shoulder, glancing over at Misaki he saw her hand pointing towards his back, more specifically to Zu in sword form. "Oh this?" As he asked that Clayton reached up and took the sword off his back giving her a better look.

"Might be hard to believe but this is actually a digimon that can turn into a sword, her name is Zu. I found her in the desert stuck in some cave and pulled her free." Clayton held what should be the sharp part of the sword in his hand seemingly without care for a moment before continuing. "She's pretty much resting right now which is why she's asleep in this form. Though apparently if she's held by a human instead of a digimon the sword can't cut anything." Clayton decided not to scare her by attempting to cut himself with it and simply put the sword back on the makeshift holder he had for it on his back. "I guess I should've said something before, slipped my mind a bit. Hehe." A digimon that can turn into a sword was a pretty weird thing, he still wasn't used to it himself.