"hard to believe it's been a month since Player Death Online started" Davis said, now wearing a customised jacket of brown leather with a fur collar and flame decal on one of the sleeves. It was a lucky find on one of the quests he partook in
"Don't even joke about that man" Kirito groaned
"Sorry" Davis said, he and the other digidestined had form their own guild and use their experience in the digital world to help those in Aincrad. People started to whisper about them, saying they were heroes by saving dozens of players from traps, monster and high level dungeons. Kirito often helped out as did Klein and a few other players. But they could only do so much.
"Sorry, just trying to lighten the mood" Davis said "At least we bumped into that pretty, pretty girl; man she was a keeper. Please tell me you got her contact details" Davis said
"Shut up, you know I'm not looking for that" Kirito said
"Whatever, she was a rapier user, meaning she was most likely a speed built player" Davis said
"As in comparison to..." Kirito said
"Our strength type builds" Davis said Anyway do you think anyone's found the dungeon yet?"
"No clue. But come on the meeting's starting soon" Kirito advised.
Town of beginnings amphitheatre
Kirito and Davis sat down near a cloaked figure
'Its her' Davis whispered nudging his friend when a pulling sensation appeared in his cheek
"So where have you been!" it was Yolei one of his fellow Digidestined and a member of the Digi-virtue guild, Aincrad's first guild
"Around, I just finished helping a trio of merchants out in the deep woods" Davis said
"You got the quest sheet" TK said showing up with the others
"Right here" Davis replied showing the quest log
"Okay, I'll tell Izzy; man Davis you worked fast, oh hey Kirito" TK saiud
"Hey guys" Kirito said waving, even though Davis and Kirito were old friend, he was still warming up to the others.
"Welcome to today meeting, but before we do anything, my name is Diavel and I am a Knight"
"There's no job class system" a random player shouted out
"Okay, now the reason for this meeting, today our party found the dungeon that will lead to the next floor" Divale said
"Wait what?" Davis asked. This announcement shocked everyone. But Diavel continued on to
"Now we need to defeat the boss of this floor to gain access to the door, and after that we tell the peopel of the Town of Beginnings this game is beatable!" Diavel said earning a cheer of the crowd.
"He's good" Sora said
"Something's off here" Izzy said
"Okay, glad to hear your all with me, but we need to figure out how we're going to fight the boss. First I recommend that we team up into parties of six" Diavel said "Since a typical party won't stand a chance against a boss fight we need to create a raid group consisting of several parties"
"Okay so we're already in two parties" Yolei said
"I don't think so" Cody said pointing out Davis was with Kirito and the cloaked girl.
"He's got the right idea" Tai said
"So you got left out as well huh?" Davis asked as he sent the two invites to join his party
"I wasn't left out, everyone seems like they are already friends, plus aren't you apart of a guild already?" the girl asked
"Yeah, but Kirito's my friend and our guild's job is to help those who can't" Davis declared
"Alright I'll accept" Kirito said accepting the invite as his health bar was added under Davis'
"So am I" the girl said as her health bar under Davis and Kirito
'Asuna, huh?' the two thought
"Okay now that everyone's team up"
"HOLD IT!" a voice shouted out "I have something to say"
"Who's the cactus headed clown?" Tai said
"Tai, be nice" Mimi scolded him
"My name's Kibaou. Before we fight the boss, I want get something off my chest. We all know about the two thousand player that died over a month; well I think their needs to be some apologies" he snarled.
"Anybody think I would get blamed if I accidentally stab him in the back" Davis muttered
"I would" Kari said
"Are you talking about the beta testers, or rather ex-beta testers right?" Diavel asked
"Of course I mean them, the day this damn game started the rushed out and got all the best hunting spots and all the best loot leaving us all out there to die! They got stronger while we got weaker. To them we're nothing. Heck I'm guessing some of them are right here among us, so here is how I want you to apologise, drop all of your gold and loot. Make them feel weak and pathetic"
"That's it!" Tai snarled
"Easy Tai, I know how you feel about meatheads like him, but killing him won't do anything" matt said
"He's right, so just chill out and save it for the monsters" Izzy said holding his friend back.
"Excuse me" a deep voice said as a tall man stood up
"Looks American" Mimi said
"But can I say something, my name is Agil, Kibaou right?" he said pulling something out "I want to make sure we're on they same page, that page being that you say the ex-beta testers have abandoned those who weren't apart of the beta and left them to die without any help right, not to mention you want us to give up our winnings as way on an apology, did I leave anything out?"
"No you didn't" Kibaou said
"Good, now the item stores give these out for free, did you get one?" Agil asked
"Yeah I got on so what?" Kibaou asked sneering
"Who do you think you got these from, The Ex-Beta testers." Agil informed them before turning to the crowd "LISTEN UP! Everyone had the same amount of access to this informatiuon but a lot still died. I didn't come here to blame anyone; rather I'm here to learn from their deaths. I'm here to find out how we're to beat the boss and clear the game. I'm here to make sure we get home" Agil said
"Here, here" Tai said nodding, The rest of the meeting was just to inform them about the boss: Illfang the Kobold Lord and the Kobold sentinels and the sharing of loot and EXP. But no one ever thought what was going to happen ever did also that no one noticed was the shady look Diavel had on his face, no one except Davis
'What are you up to Diavel?
After the meeting everyone split up into their group to rest and prep for the boss fight. Davis sat down on a bench eating a bread roll with Asuna, who was scowling at the taste when Davis noticed this and pulled out a small pot
"Where, put this on it, it will make it taste better believe me" Davis said smearing the golden substance on it
"They do taste good, but that stuff will make it taste better, but not as good as these stuff" Kirito said joining them smearing a light yellow substance on his roll. "Mission reward?"
"Yep, you" Davis replied
"Heifer quest one village over" Kirito said
"Honey and Cream?" Asuna spreading both over hers. Once she took a bite with was gone in a flash
"Why are you here?" Kirito asked
"Because I know the struggles of those trapped in a game. I'm here to save those who can't save themselves" Davis said sadly
"I'm here to not lose sight of myself, I don't want to stay in a locked room here in the town of beginnings rotting away. I prefer to stay the way I am until the day I die, even if that means I die fighting a monster, I won't lose to this game or this world, no matter what happens"
"Awesome" Davis said 'I wish Veemon was here'
"Oaky, let's go over this again, we're the backup. So our priority is the minions who want to protect their boss: the Ruin Kobold sentinels." Kiriot said as the raid party travelled to the dungeon
"We get it" Davis said
"And" Kirito said
"You'll use a sword skill to knock them back and then Asuna will switch in to" Davis said before being interrupted
"What's switching again?" Asuna asked
"This is your first party right?" Kiriot asked looking nervous
"Pretty much" Asuna said. Davis was paying attention since something was in the air. He could feel it, something had changed in one month and they were about to find out what it was shortly.
"Well we're done" Davis joked
"Shut up Davis" Kirito said
The raid party finally reached the door. And that feeling Davis had before came back stronger than before
'No it couldn't be coming from there could it?" the digidestined mentally asked
"Alright everyone listen up for this is all I have to say, let's win this thing" Diavel said earning a massive cheer as axes, swords, spears and shields were raised
"LET'S DO THIS!" and with that the raid party entered the boss room, which to everyone shock was active and Illfang a kangaroo looking monster was down to his last health bar holding a nodachi. Suddenly Illfang saw the raid party and charged them.
"Easy victory!" Diavel said as Illfang stopped and a massive fist was shown to have punched right through his chest.
"What?" Diavel asked as everyone froze. Kirito and Asuna was in shock, while Davis started to back up
"We need to leave right now" Davis said as the door behind them shut with great force
"Why, what's wrong?" Asuna asked as Illfang was ripped in two by whatever shove its fist through the boss' chest
"That's what wrong" Kiriot said as a massive minotaur with a zip going from its groin to its neck stood tall in the room and bellowed showing five health bars and the name 'Minotarumon' was displayed
"THIS NEVER HAPPENED IN THE BETA!" Agil shouted out.
Davis looked around for anything that could have helped in this fight.
"Kirito, Asuna look for anything that might hold items in it"
"EARTHQUAK DRILL!" the bull said slamming his left arm down creating a massive shockwave levelling all the players, some got up to try and attack, only to be floor by a stomp or punch killing them in one hit
"No way" Kirito said horror on his face. Suddenly Asuna spotted a small blue chest off to the side.
"There" she said
"Good, now keep that thing off of me for a couple of minutes" Davis said
"Wait, WHAT! You want us to fight that thing!" Kirito exclaim
"NO just delay it about three minutes"
"Okay let's go" Asuna said as she raced in with Kirito
"Okay, come on!" Agil said.
"Okay, I just hope this is what I hope it is" Davis said opening the chest to see six small light teal colour devices, twelve handheld computers and six devices like hand held radios, only one of them was grey with black while the others were white with different coloured grips namely blue, red, green, yellow and pink. Davis smiled picking up his blue D3 and D-Terminal
"Here goes nothing, but DIGI-PORT OPEN!" he shouted pointing it at the ceiling "Please" he whispered as the ground shook
"What's going on?" Kibaou asked. Once the shaking stopped everyone held their breathe
"Now what?" Asuna asked removing her hood as twelve pillars of light emerge
"Agumon, Gabumon, Biyomon, Tentomon, Gomamon, Palmon, Patamon, Gatomon, Veemon, Hawkmon, Armadillomon, Wormmon" a dozen voices said as the light died down to show twelve new, cuter monsters.
"Asuna?" Kirito asked
"Yeah" Asuna said
"Are you seeing, a small dinosaur, a horned dog, a pink bird, a red beetle, some king of seal thing, a walking plant, a bat wing earred guinea pig, a cat with gloves, a blue lizard, a red bird with a headband, an armadillo and a green caterpillar worm thing?" he asked
"Whoa we are we?" Veemon the blue lizard asked
"I don't know, did we take a wrong digiport?" Agumon the dinosaur asked
"VEEMON!" "DAVIS!" the two cried out as the cuter monsters crowded around him
"They're here" TK said
"its not an illusion is it?" Yolei asked
"I don't think so" Ken said
"Okay, we can catch up later but now we have to deal with him" Davis said
"Right with you partner" Veemon said
"In that case Digi-Armour Energize!" Davis shouted as an orange flame like light left his D3
"VEEMON ARMOUR DIGIVOLE TO" Veemon cried before becoming a dragon shaped flame which died down to reveal a taller slimmer Veemon wearing flame armour, which sprouted blade like claws and horn "FLAMEDRAMON: THE FIRE OF COURAGE" the armour level digimon said "Hey Davis how do you like your digi-steak?"
"Well done" Davis said drawing his sword. "Thing you can take that thing?"
"Can you?" Flamedramon asked
"What?" Asuna said
*play Digimon the movie OST-Let's Kick it off*
Davis and Flamedramon rushed in, avoiding any punches thrown by the digital beast. Davis got behind it and swung taking down a fifth of health bar.
"Over here you walking beefcake!" Flamedramon said heating up his left fist "FLAME FIST!" the dragon said dealing nearly half of the health bar worth of damage making the giant stumble back. "Oh what's wrong you pile of leather, did that hurt!" Flamedramon taunted flip kicking it "DAVIS SWITCH!"
"You got it" Davis said doing a three strike sword move, jumping out of the way so Flamedramon could jump back in and punch a couple of more times with the Flame Fist attack.
"He's good" Agil said as the two switched out so Davis got a couple of stabs on the Champion level digimon
"EARTHQUAKE DRILL!" Minotarumon said punching with his drill
"Whoops nearly felt that one" Flamedramon said as Davis swiped at the arm holding the drill.
"Time to finish this: FIRE ROCKET!" Flamedramon said jumping into the air and igniting himself before flying at the bull. The bull like digimon was set alight before falling back
"Somebody order the barbecue?" Flamedramon asked returning back to Veemon
"Good job" Davis said hugging Veemon, unaware that Minotarumon was getting back up, having a sliver of his final health bar. He roared alerting the two
"DAVIS LOOK OUT!" Tai shouted before the pair looked at him
"SHIT!" Agil said as Minotarumon shatter into pixels revealing a panting Kirito.
"Whoa" Ken said as the victory signal appeared, soon the players cheered as Kirito got the final victory screen showing he got the final attack bonus: a black coat.
"HEY!" Kibaou shouted
"Great cactus head" Tai grumbled
"WHat the hell was that, and what the hell are those things?" he asked
"We're digimon" Agumon said
"They live in a parallel world which is almost like this one, a digital world, filled with creatures of all shapes and sizes. Now a few years ago the worlds were aligned and they were allowed to come to our world"
"The Odaiba incident" Asuna said "I thought that was an internet rumour
"It wasn't, most of us were involved. But before that we actually went to their world and defeated several evil digimon. But then again we were involved with a new set of battled three years after that. So we know how to handle them" Izzy said
"You knew!" Kibaou said
"Yeah no shit Numemon brains" Tai said "We came here to make sure what happened today didn't! But we had no idea for a month!" he shouted
"You know Tai calling him Numemon brain was quite offensive, well to Numemon that is" Palmon said
"What was that plant?" Kibaou said about to hit Palmon when Mimi stepped up and placed a knife by his throat
"Don't even think about it" Mimi said as the other went off to the D-Chest to grab their digivices and D-Terminals
"Hey Davis" Veemon said
"Yeah?" Davis asked
"Its open, shall we?" Veemon asked
"Sure, Yo Kirito, Asuna you guys coming?" he shouted back.
"May as well" Kirito said equipping his coat of midnight as the three opened door to the second level opening it up to a lush green field, blue skies and warm sunlight. Asuna smiled proudly before grabbing Kirito's hand and running off to find the nearest village
"Digi-Armour Energize!" Davis said
"VEEMON ARMOUR DIGIVOLVE TO...RAIDRAMON!" the digimon said as he became a four legged armoured digimon with four lightning bolt like spikes around the front of the armour
"Davis, Gennai told us that six new digidestined are trapped inside, and it is our new mission to find them
"What?" Davis asked
Next Time: Frosty