The Holy Mother [Hunt/Invite]

Sure Clayton definitely could use a rest, that was definitely something that should've probably happened. Sadly though Clayton had his focus set on whatever that arrow thing was now, and his determination wouldn't let him let it go! Even if that probably wasn't to his benefit that was just the kinda teen Clayton was. He then followed also wordlessly, mostly because he couldn't think of what to talk about that didn't relate to the whole looking for something thing. He assumed she was a spirit tamer. Clayton just hoped that this wasn't like his spirit or else they'd be in for a fight.

However that lead them to a mausoleum it seemed, wait were they going to go grave robbing? Well considering it might be a spirit that would want to go with the human technically it wasn't? Before Clayton could weigh the moral pros and cons of doing something like this he noticed Mitsaki make a prayer gesture and bow, he decided to follow suit not really sure about this whole situation.

Before they could commence in the jolly sport of graverobbing some Goat rocking a Goatee made themselves known. Mentioning it wasn't safe for kids and they needed something to defend themselves. Instantly Clayton punched his open palm with his fist, he had something to defend himself with, these hands!

Oh apparently that won't work, only a sword and a shield would work. Well this was a fine pickle now wasn't it. How were they going to get a sword and.... Oh wait. "I got one of those down, A Legend-arms should be more then enough to cut any, impurities?" as Mitsaki pointed at the sword Clayton reached for it, spinning Zu in the air for a moment before holding it upward. "I mean it's how Zu always describes herself so, maybe?" Clayton mentioned as an aside, after all the goat mentioned they needed her armaments' if she didn't have a legend arms were they Sol?

Though a shield was also another problem, Clayton didn't have on of those..... Yeah he had nothing on hand. He was already providing the sword what else? Meanwhile as the teen wondered what to bring out he felt something slap his chest, looking down he saw a hastily scribbled shield on his chest near his pins. "Uhh, ah. Yeah! No er vile temptations can get by me or my friends while I'm standing!" That was probably a lie but he sounded sincere. "So you can let us past, no worries about it! We She's got both a sword and a shield." Just in one neat little package, Clayton had no idea if this would work or not but he was quite literally out of any ideas.

Clayton stood in his pose for a few seconds, then longer. Then just a bit longer. The more and more time it took for the Goat to say something the less and less confidant Clayton got about this actually working. He didn't even think he took a breath within those moments but sure enough the Goatmon responded with an actual acceptance of them going in there, much to his surprise considering the plan at hand. Breathing a sigh of relief Clayton let his hands drop, the sword lightly tapping the ground as he exhaled.

But what they said did kinda sorta worry Clayton a bit. "Wait what was?" But before he could ask the Goatmon was already on his merry way towards the town they left behind. "I'm uhh, sure there's nothing to be worried about." Surely this could only end well... Right?

Coming up on the large stone doors Clayton joined Mitsaki in pushing them, throwing his weight against them trying to push the heavy doors open. "No consideration for a human entrance huh." Thankfully the doors seemed to give letting the duo enter into the building. It was way darker then Clayton had anticipated, even the light from outside didn't seem to do much to really show them the way.

The teen reached into his pocket and pulled out his own digivice so he wouldn't stumble in the darkness himself. Checking around the room seemed fairly small, just a buncha paintings of some women. "Guess that must be the Maiden." Seemed pretty obvious by the paintings of her littered around the place.

Before long they seemed to found a trap door, Clayton nodded to Misaki waiting for her to descend the latter before following down himself. Didn't seem to be much save for a large statue that looked like the paintings they had walked past, walking over Clayton took a good look at both sets of the sword and shield, well one set and a pile of rocks that looked like another. Before he could get a good look at them though a bright light blinded him for a few moments, backing off Clayton blinked a few times to get his sight back.

What he wasn't prepared for was a ghost version of the same statue looking at the two of them with a sword and shield drawn. Clayton almost on instinct pulled Zu out holding her up against the strange spirit, noticing Misaki winding up a swing he was wondering if she was going to use it to spirit evolve...

When she instead decided to chuck it at the apparition who deflected it easily. Clayton looked at Misaki for a moment before shaking his head and pushing his digivice into her hand. "Should probably go get that, don't worry I'll cover you." Hopefully the light from his digivice would be enough to find her own, taking a step in front of her Clayton raised Zu up defensively, he might not of been able to deal damage with the sword but he could deflect attacks with it!

Clayton was standing ready and able to take this ghost on, so he stood there waiting, Then waiting, Also waiting some more for good measure. Clayton raised an eyebrow as he lowered his sword, yet it still didn't seem to take a swing at him. Which was definitely very odd. Eventually Mitsaki tried to take a step forward towards the ghost lady, to which they decided to now take a swing which caused Clayton's heart to leap out of his chest as she backed up, eyes wide he took a deep breath and calmed down.

"Alright so she only attacks when we're close. I, I think this is puppy guarding?" He hasn't had to deal with that since he was like 7, even still he was definitely sure that Kent was cheating by doing that, the jerk. But Kent's jerkiness aside they really needed to figure out what to do. Which Clayton had a pretty dumb idea, not as dumb as throwing your digivice at it but still pretty dumb.

"Alright so, this might be a bad idea but on the count of three go try and grab your digivice." Clayton reached into his pocket and pulled out a deck of playing cards. "I'll toss this at them, make em block it then attack with the sword. She'll probably try and deflect the attack giving you a moment to grab it." Clayton sounded confidant, but if she could see his face in the darkness he didn't seem too sure. "Unless you have a better idea, cause I sure don't!"

If Misaki agreed to his idea or just didn't have a better one Clayton would start the count. "1.... 2..... 3!" With that he'd throw the deck of cards at the ghost lady before attacking her with Zu hoping to catch her blade with his own into a blade lock

Clayton had to admit, he had no idea if this plan was going to work or if it was going to end up with him getting stabbed or something. But as the saying goes nothing ventured nothing gained. Well technically he wasn't gaining anything from this exchange more so losing something but those thoughts seem to quickly vanish from his mind as he threw his deck of cards for an extreme game of 52 pick up, it was quite surprising when the sword seemed to just bounce off Zu without much issue, almost like there wasn't any real force behind the blow. Though a moments thought made him think that made sense, after all it was a ghost so they probably could've just used a backpack or something and had a similar result! Much less a legendary sword.

Clayton thought about going on the offensive but then realized that much just be moot at this point, they didn't have a sword and Clayton didn't think that actually hitting the ghost would do much considering it was a ghost. He wasn't an expert on ghosts or anything but watching ghost busters let him know that he didn't have any of the tools necessary to solve this problem. "What is that noise, I was trying to sleep." A voice suddenly came from the sword he was holding, it sounded pretty annoyed.

"Oh Zu, you're finally awake. Took you long enough." Clayton held the sword up slightly towards his head.

"How could I not with that infernal banging, what are you slamming my blade against whilst unconscious?" The sword digimon questioned given that the blade was completely dull in the humans hands. Glancing up Clayton managed to catch the tail end of what Misaki had managed to do, walking into a bright light that really hurt his eyes given he was just staring at the darkness for a while. Holding his hand up eventually the light faded and Clayton was able to look at the figure that stood where the ghost once did.

There now stood the ghost but in a more alive format, Clayton saw the smile and the thumbs up they gave him so it was pretty safe to assume this was Misaki, Clayton gave his own smile and thumbs up. "Awesome job Misaki, guess that's a spirit in the bag!" That went a lot better then his hunts seemed to go.

"So while aiming to gain your own spirit, you instead decided to assist another human in getting their own?" His blade asked wondering if she got that right.

"C'mon Zu lay off, it just kinda happened this way. Plus it was fun, at least in a more dangerous sorta way." Which was still a form of fun, if a very deadly version of fun at the very least.

But as he finished giving his thumbs up to Misaki he looked for the discarded weaponry, after all it looks interesting to a sorta weapon nut like him. glancing over where the discarded sword and shield were seemed to be two little kids instead of cool looking weapons! "Huh, what?" Clayton was very confused as he went over to the fallen kids shaking one of them. "H-hey, are you okay?" Please don't tell him that was actually just these kids spirit evolution they just beat up or usurped or something. Did it even work like that? Clayton had no idea there were two kids on the ground, more pressing matters at hand!

Clayton was pretty worried about the little kid, maybe he could've been a bit more tactful about it but hey it was a passed out kid in the middle of what he assumed was a grave that had just been a sword. Pretty sure anything that wasn't panic and worry about the situation would be counted as weird. Luckily the kid started to open their eyes. "Oh good, are you oka- Ughh." Before he could finish he felt a sharp kick right to his shins causing the teen to buckle over. "Oww, darn. What was that for?" He was already still a bit hurt from the fight with his own spirit, now a kick to the shins?

"Maybe next time Clayton you shouldn't grasp and shake a child while visible armed." Zu said sounding a bit disappointed. "Getting taken down by a kid?" Before she could finish though Clayton had gotten up throwing the sword in the air.

"Not another word Zu." As he said that the Zubamon switched back to her digimon form landing next to the teen. Thankfully while he had recovered it seemed Misaki had managed to calm the kid down. "Hey, sorry about scaring you." Clayton figured he should apologize real quick, he didn't mean to be scary. Most of the time.

With a smile Misaki left the dark place followed quickly after by Clayton and Zu, by the time the two of them got out they saw the Goatmon with his jaw hanging looking at Misaki. "Heya, looks like we did return. Turns out I made a pretty good shield after all."

"I was wondering what the note on your chest was about." Well it worked out in the end so complaining about it was going to get them nowhere.

Well as Clayton said sorry the girl look at him, then looked at him a bit more. Then a bit more till finally Clayton was starting to feel a bit uncomfortable at the staring, letting an awkward cough escape as he rubbed the back of his head wondering if he should say anything else. However eventually the girl nodded and even seemed to smile at either him or Zu, probably Zu but still it was much better then the kicking.

Then Misaki seemed to lean over and start writing something on the note, looking at it after it seemed to be the non-descript contact information for that weird tamernet thing he had only looked at for a bit, giving a smile and a thumbs up Clayton gave his own non-descript contact information for that. "Course, you'll be the first one I call." Seems this trip was worth it in the end, more so for her then him but Clayton was happy to help out where he could.

Waving Misaki goodbye Clayton decided to ignore the and start walking forward, hands in his pockets followed by Zu. "So, are we going to try to get your spirit again?" She asked but noticed a different look in his eyes.

"Nah, these things can be found all over it seems. So lets get going! We'll find a spirit that sends that smug ghost packing!" Clayton raised his fist in the air, with a shrug from Zu it wasn't the most triumphant but he was now more resolved to move forward and get his own, can't be lagging behind after all!

~Clayton has left the Building. Thread, thanks a bunch~