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Talk About a Tough Crowd(OPEN)
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Post by ricochet8-Kshin on Jul 14, 2022 22:31:31 GMT
Kshin and Grace walked out of a small beach town covered with bits of various fruits and vegetables. Kshin frowned at the costume Mona had made being an absolute mess. It was once a nice suit top that was deep navy with a red cape with a star pattern. He also had a top hat that matched the suit and was in need of repair tucked underneath his arm. Grace was also in a similar state her matching outfit sans hat also a mess and she had a head of lettuce stuck on her top two horns.
Wrenching the lettuce head off her horns Grace figured she would keep it as they could share it with Mona for lunch. After cleaning the costumes that is. This area had plenty of small villages they could go to and perform. Finding the lake Mona was at the Terriermon Assistant stared at them her gaze emotionless but it was clear she wanted to know what happened without saying anything.
"It was a tough crowd that pelted us with food." Kshin said rubbing the back of his head before removing the costume.
"Yeah but it seemed extreme seeing as you only messed up your final trick. I guess you haven't mastered the trick yet." Grace said peeling her costume off handing the head of lettuce to Mona.
Mona looked at the lettuce and said "Thank you, darling."
Kshin carried all of his clothes as did Grace and went to the lake to wash their costumes before setting them on a tree branch to dry. Then he brought the hat for his costume to Mona and set it down before he asked "Hey, Mona. is it possible to repair the hat?"
"It might take some time, darling, but at least you can perform without the hat. This might take me a few days to fix." Mona said as she grabbed the hat and set it with her things. Meanwhile while Mona was making a campfire Kshin and Grace had brought some Meat Apples and Diginoir after foraging around for awhile.
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Post by Rai Ryuichi on Jul 14, 2022 23:07:10 GMT
Y2K had led Rai off on another adventure, getting on the wrong Trailmon, and winding up somewhere with lots of sand and lots of sun. Rai didn't seem too pleased, but Y2K was sure they would find fun somewhere if they stayed and looked around.
After trekking for about 10 minutes Rai was certain he had digital sand in his shoes. At least Y2K wasn't interested stopping to sample the sand. He'd hesitate to call what the Keramon did walking, but he could do it faster than Rai's human feet could keep with on this uneven ground if he wanted.
The shifting nature of the terrain didn't seem to slow down Y2K at all-- but he also didn't want to leave Rai behind. Last time they got separated was scary-- so he continued to tug his human along; he knew aslong as Rai's hand was gripping his finger, that he was right there.
7 more minutes seemed to pass before they actually saw what looked like a village. "Civilization huh?" Rai observed.
"Oh! Oh! That means people! Lets go, lets go!" the eager Keramon insisted almost dragging Rai towards town.
Sure enough, it wasn't a very big town. There was a lot of produce that seemed like it had been thrown about recently. "What caused all the mess here?" he asked a nearby street vendor.
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Post by ricochet8-Kshin on Jul 14, 2022 23:36:58 GMT
The Babamon vendor looked up at the pair and smiled before she looked at the mess created before she said "A pair of adorable youngsters were performing magic. A Gumdramon with amber eyes was performing tricks dressed up pretty cutely and was assisted by a Gammamon wearing a matching outfit. Unfortunately the dear Gumdramon messed up his last trick and the crowd didn't react so well and began throwing food including some of my products at the poor kids as they ran out of town. To be fair the last trick was very hard so maybe he hasn't yet mastered it."
After thinking for a moment the Babamon said "I'm not sure but I think the young one called himself Kshin."
Meanwhile roughly ten to twenty minutes away on foot. Kshin and his companions were waiting for the meat apples to finish cooking while Mona was beginning work on repairing Kshin's hat. The Terriermon Assistant's movements as she sewed were swift and seemingly flawless.
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Post by Rai Ryuichi on Jul 15, 2022 0:04:52 GMT
Rai blinked with no clear indication of what he was thinking one way or another. "Kshin huh? Which way did they go?"
"Gawww! We missed it Rai!" Y2K whined, dangling his body backwards so his visage was inverted into a frown of dismay. "We could have seen Kshin and Grace perform! Lets go find them! Find-Find-Find!"
Assuming the kind Babamon could point them in the right direction, Rai would thank her rather blandly and begin walking with his far more energetic partner in search of their first acquaintances in the digital world. Would you just call them friends? Rai wasn't sure. He didn't feel like he had enough experience socializing to judge where that line should be. Besides this would be their second time meeting--even if they had already been through something remarkable together.
He knew Y2K called them friends, but he regarded everyone they met who would stop to interact with them as friends.
He probably thought Babamon was a friend now just because she gave them directions.
The walk would turn out to be about as long as the one from the terminal, before they found any signs of the others.
Over there, in the distance was a campfire. Rai couldn't see if it was them from where he was at the moment, but Y2K bolted in the direction of the light with a crazy giggle-- not that kind of crazy giggle.
Rai was displeased that Y2K rushed ahead. It was still a bit aways and running on sand wasn't his strong suit.
"Don't eat the fire!" he called out to Y2K, while trying to make his way as expediently as his shoes and the terrain would let him. "And don't eat anything that isn't given to you." somehow his voice being louder didn't add more feeling to it.
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Post by ricochet8-Kshin on Jul 15, 2022 3:03:40 GMT
Babamon smiled and pointed to the north before she said "The young ones headed that way. There is a lake not far from here and is so large that the towns around here all use it for water." As the pair took off Babamon smiled remembering fondly what it was like to be so young and energetic. Hopefully they would find the ones they sought.
Sometime later Mona, while working on the hat she made for Kshin to perform in, caught a sound that made her ears perk up. Before Kshin and Grace could say anything, Mona said "Shh!" After listening for awhile there was no mistake. There were at least two others coming and one was talking about not eating the fire? How odd. Lowering her ears she then said "There are at least two people coming this way and apparently one has unusual eating habits."
"What do you mean unusual eating habits, Mona?" Grace said looking adorably puzzled.
"One of the voices said don't eat fire." Mona replied flatly.
"So they must be close if you can hear them and they can see the fire. Yet eating fire seems real strange." Kshin said just as puzzled as Grace.
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Post by Rai Ryuichi on Jul 15, 2022 4:51:22 GMT
There was no way Rai was catching up to Y2K at this rate, but he kept trying. The little guy would surely get there first.
"Slow down Y2K, seriously. I'm going to get even more digital sand in my shoes." he called after his partner dully. "I'm serious, don't eat the fire, it will burn." he felt this warranted repetition.
Eventually Y2K would come zooming up to the camp at full tilt screaming "HELLLOOOO!" with Rai still a ways back trying to catch up. "KSHIN, GRACE, MONA HAAAAAIII!" he greeted them with muppet-like levels of energy once he reached the edge of their camp.
"Stop shouting Y2K!" Rai called in a bland tone. He could hear him from where he was.
"EH? But you're still shouting!" Y2K called back.
"That's because I'm over here." Rai droned loud enough for them to hear. Wow, he really had that raising his voice without changing his tone-- or lack there of-- thing down. It was kind of impressive. "Don't shout at people right in front of you."
"Okaaay!" Y2K called back before turning back to the group around the campfire. "Hi."
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Post by kotirsolus on Jul 15, 2022 5:54:39 GMT
There was some type of performance or show that had been going on that it seems the crowd was not too fond of, however the performance is not what brought the Guilmon X here. The devil dragon digimon tend to keep to his own, unless there was the smell of food, more importantly-- Cooked food.
With a few sniffs here and a few sniffs there, the Guilmon X eventually made his way toward where he saw the flickering of ambers, along with the source of the food. The smell made his stomach growl and his winced a little. While he was good at hunting, just some days were worse than others. He didn't like to beg, but maybe they had some extra they could share? Perhaps even he could do something for them to gain whatever it was they were cooking.
As the red digimon started to make his way closer, than is when he spotted...
... A human!
This caused the Guilmon X to take a few steps back. His tail flicked against the sand, as his gold eyes narrowed a little. As hungry as he was, he was in no shape for a conflict, but his gold eyes darted to the other digimon, to the food, then back to the human.
He slowly inhaled, before he started to continue his way over, though with more hesitation than before and wary look in his eyes toward the outsider to the digital world.
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Post by ricochet8-Kshin on Jul 15, 2022 7:12:46 GMT
The silence would not last long as Y2K's familiar voice broke it and the Keramon came at them excitedly. Smiling Grace went up to him the bubbly Gammamon's eyes were lit up as she asked "Hey there, Y2K. How are you and Rai doing? For that matter where is he?"
That question soon answered itself when Rai appeared at yelling distance continuing to yell for Y2K. "Easy there, Y2K. You don't have to yell when you're so close. Remember Mona has sensitive hearing so you don't have to yell." Kshin said while
Grace was excitedly hopping up and down before detracting her wings and flew over to Rai. "Hey, Rai. How are you doing? It's nice to see you." Grace said in a bubbly manner. Then Grace spotted something out of the corner of her eye and she turned spotting what looked like a Guilmon X. The Guilmon X wasn't known to her but she was curious and flew over to the stranger and asked "Hi there. Are you from one of the towns around here? Or are you lost?"
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Post by Rai Ryuichi on Jul 15, 2022 19:07:20 GMT
Y2K answered excitedly. "Interesting! Interesting, not always good. But now found you, so now is very happy! Rai is slow though!" before twisting around to dangle himself backwards, turning his smile quite literally upside down, revealing two more identical eyes on what would normally be the under side of his face to form an expression of dismay. This was as far as one could tell, his only way of frowning.
"Ooohh... but we missed the show! Wanted to see, wanted to see!" he whined both apologetically and disappointed. He would have been in the crowd if he could have been! He probably would have zipped around trying to eat all the food being thrown at the end... he didn't get to do that either!
Rai gave Grace a very slight smile. "I think its nice to see you too Grace. We've been exploring the Digital World a bit more. Even got our hands on one of those Digimental things, though that was... lets just say annoying... to get to."
Rai whipped his head around to look where Grace had suddenly turned her attention, his eyes squinting slightly. It looked like a kind of digimon he saw in Terminus... but it was slimmer... his first thought was it was like Leomon; just a more slender specimen of his kind. But he couldn't be sure. After all some digimon seemed to be different colored individuals of the same species... and others had professed to being completely different digimon thank-you-very-much.
As Grace had flown over to greet them, he decided it probably wasn't an issue either way, and continued hoofing it towards the camp.
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Post by kotirsolus on Jul 15, 2022 21:36:47 GMT
The Guilmon X came to stop in his tracks as Grace flew over. His gold eyes observed her for a moment, as he gently tilted his head one way, then the other. One of his ear fin's flicked a little, before he at last said. " No. Not lost." Then he looked toward the campfire.
Then his eyes were once more drawn to the human, before looking back to Grace. "I-- am just hungry." He tapped his two index claws together. "Had trouble on last hunt, so smelt food. Was going to see if-- could work for some food. But then saw--" He doesn't go much further with whatever he was about to say. His head slowly lowers as he lets out a soft draconic rumble at his own frustration.
"Do... Do you have food that Duke could work for, or do you not have enough? If... If not..." The Guilmon X knit his eye ridges in thought. "Then, I go elsewhere, as don't want to be-- burden." |
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Post by ricochet8-Kshin on Jul 16, 2022 1:39:50 GMT
"Yeah I think Kshin would rather forget that last show as it didn't go very well. He and I got pelted by produce for him messing up one trick. To be such harsh critics to children like us is definitely a little extreme." Grace said with a sigh before she smiled and said "After lunch and after our costumes dry we plan on heading to another nearby town to perform so maybe you and Rai can come see that one."
"I'm sure Kshin and Mona would be happy to see you too, Rai." Grace said before leaning close to the teen and whispered "She may seem a bit too serious at times but as older digimon go she is pretty kindhearted."
"Darling, I don't know why you are bothering with whispering since you know I can hear you at this distance." Mona said in a tone that could be interpreted as teasing but only for a split second as Grace was not the most emotionally expressive digimon that she met. Definitely reminded her of Rai in that regard. How odd.
When with the Guilmon X Grace noticed he seemed a bit strange but very polite. Chances are he was a nice digimon and said "I'm sure both Kshin and Mona wouldn't mind sharing. We always get a little extra food to have leftovers for later even if we treat other people so we don't have to hunt and forage as often." When he addressed himself as Duke she gentle took hold of his arm and said "Duke is a cool name. My name is Grace. The Gumdramon by the fire is Kshin. The Terriermon Assistant's name is Mona. The human and Keramon's names are Rai and Y2K respectively. I know Y2K's name is a bit unusual but it is quite interesting all the same don't you think?" The fact that this was done all in one breath was just mind blowing for Kshin to witness.
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Post by Rai Ryuichi on Jul 16, 2022 2:35:44 GMT
"I'd probably be happy if you threw food at me." Y2K pondered with an oversized finger on the thin lip of his oversized mouth. "If I got to eat it. Was any of it tasty?"
Soon Rai could finally sit down by the fire near Y2K, "Hi Kshin, Hi Mona." he said blandly, yet with a slight something of a smile. "Sorry, I can't keep up so well on sand. You guys... doing okay?" he asked, not exactly a social butterfly. He knew they just had a rough time of it in town.
Y2K waved his arm so the eye on the back of his hand was angled towards Grace and the red lizard, not knowing who the Guilmon X was... "Who's with Grace? New friend?" he asked hopefully. New friends were always good! Maybe he hadn't been paying attention, or perhaps he didn't catch what they had said before. He had been so excited to speak to Kshin and Mona.
Rai looked over towards Grace and the... he wanted to say Guilemon? Or was it Gillmon? He didn't think they had gills --that he remembered. He sort of lazily waved and beckoned them over with his arm.
He opened his messenger bag and pulled out half a loaf of french bread-- the kind with a tough crust and a soft inside, like a fat baguette. He also produced a trio of Blue Apples for Y2K.
"Try and share at least one." he told Y2K "You'll eat properly once we go home, so don't worry too much about filling up here." He knew that Y2K could eat many times more food than was even present before he'd consider it a solid meal. These were just snacks.
The Blue Apples were supposed to make digimon happy if they ate them--that's what he was told, when he bought them in Terminus anyway. He didn't quite appreciate how relatively expensive they had been; Rai didn't know much about the digi-economy. He had bits, they were apples, he assumed they were reasonably priced.
Y2K happily took the apples and paused to think for a minute to avoid immediately dropping them all into his mouth. The Keramon took one apple in his large fingers and tried to pull and twist to split it in half without crushing it. But his hands were so comically large it was hard to hold them properly.
Rai sighed and produced a plastic knife and grabbed one of the apples to start cutting it into wedges to share around the fire, prompting Y2K to pop the one he'd been trying to break into two into his mouth. Nom.
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Post by kotirsolus on Jul 16, 2022 3:32:06 GMT
Duke was led by Grace over to the others or at least, was introduced to who was who. The Guilmon X looked at each as she said their names. The only one who got a long, almost glaring look was poor Rai, which was followed by a gentle snort of smoke from his nostrils.
He watched how this Y2K interacted with the human and this made his nose crunch up a little, but he said nothing on the matter, only looking back to Grace with a gentle, "Thank you." Then made his way closer to the others. With this he gives a bow to all, including the human, before he says, "I am Duke." Then he looks to Kshin and Mona, "Am willing to work for food, if, um, have any to spare."
His stomach growled now and he lowered his shoulders including his head in somewhat defeat. "I'd be very, very appreciative even of scraps..." He murmurs out. The Guilmon X just keeps his head low, ear fins down. Children digimon, also known as rookies were known for their appetite, including if they were growing. This was no exception for Duke, he was a growing digimon!
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Post by ricochet8-Kshin on Jul 16, 2022 5:54:18 GMT
"I wouldn't doubt you'd at least try given you're appetite." Kshin said with a smile before Y2K asked if any of the thrown food was tasty and said "Sadly I don't know. I was too busy getting pelted while running to notice. Though a head of lettuce did get stuck on Grace's horns and we still have it."
"Hi, Rai. It's nice to see you again and I can see how it can be tricky to walk on sand in places. Even I sometimes have trouble." Kshin said as he brought out the head of lettuce that was once one with Grace's horns. Then Y2K asked who was with Grace and Kshin looked up seeing Duke. "No idea. All I know is that is definitely not one of my little sisters since that is not a Guilmon but a Guilmon X." Meanwhile while Rai was bringing out food Kshin was sorting the diginoir he and Grace found while it was clear the meat apples were done cooking. About time since he was getting hungry himself and it seemed things were looking more like a potluck.
Though Rai told Y2K to share at least one of the blue apples the little guy practically inhaled several of them in one go. Guess he was also very hungry. At least he didn't attempt to eat the fire cause Kshin had a feeling that might not go well. Meanwhile Rai was cutting one of the blue apples up with a plastic knife.
Grace had led Duke over and the Guilmon X introduced himself. Mona looked up from her work looking at the newcomer while he spoke and said "Darling, don't worry. We have plenty of food for you to have some too. We don't only have meat apples but also a head of lettuce and digi noir so we got a large amount of food. We're all growing still and need a lot of food after all."
Kshin had noticed that Duke was glaring at Rai and, not knowing why, innocently asked "Hey, Duke was it? Why are you glaring at Rai like that? Do you have bad history with humans? Not all of them are bad."
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Post by Rai Ryuichi on Jul 16, 2022 6:37:09 GMT
Rai finished slicing the apple into eight segments and said, "I don't need any Blue Apple, and Y2K has his own, so you can all take 2 slices." he said to Kshin, Grace, Mona and Duke. "The merchant said Blue Apples could make digimon happy, so I got a few. If any of you want bread, I can share that too. My dad baked it today, but Y2K won't touch it, because its human world food." he set the apple segments still connected by a thin bit of skin at the bottom on a paper napkin and set it down on his bag next to the bread. "I also bought something called DigiBytes, but they kind of look like breakfast cereal." Rai stated blankly, likely thinking he got scammed with the box of supposedly desirable ring shaped grains.
Rai broke himself a piece of the half loaf and casually ate a little. He didn't even notice Duke glaring at him. Kshin would soon mention it however, causing Rai to look back the way of the-- Guilmon thats what it was. Guilmon X? Well alright, he wasn't about to question it. "As long as you can get along with Y2K, you don't have to interact with me more than you want to. It's fine." He didn't mind if Duke ignored him if that would make him feel any better about a human sitting with them. But he wasn't about to pick up and leave in a hurry either; and he didn't see why he should.
Y2K looked very happy indeed, but who could say if it was the apples, the company, or the fact that his species always seemed to smile. Y2K stopped and pondered his remaining blue apple and offered it to Duke. "Here! New friend is hungry yes? Duke can have his own apple! Kekeke!"
Rai blinked and stared at his partner for a moment, thinking that was incredibly selfless of the seemingly always peckish sorta-jellyfish. He gave a small smile, not sure if that would impact how they wanted to divide the apple slices. Well, Rai had offered the slices, Y2K had offered a whole apple. They weren't mutually exclusive. He hoped the others didn't see it as unfair though.
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