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So it's Sunday once again, and I'm sure all of you are eagerly sitting at your computers waiting for this chapter to come out…haha not! Oh well, enjoy the show!
Chapter 7 Doumon's warning
Davis
"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Thud
Now that didn't feel good at all… I think to myself as I lay on the ground.
"AAAAHHH!" I hear from above me, and just close my eyes. There is a sudden weight landing on top of me, and it increases eight more times before stabilizing.
"Is everyone ok?" A voice that sounded like Mimi asks from the top of the pile.
Izzy must have opened a digiport for her to join us… I think to myself.
"Yea, I think so…Where's Davis?" Another voice asks, and that's my cue for a painful grunt, causing everyone to scramble off of me.
I stand up, wiping the dirt from the ground off of me, and looking around. The TV we had travelled through was not on the ground like it usually was, but rather up in a tree.
"Davis, you ok?" Ken asks, and I nod. Sure having eight people land on top of you never felt good, but I was tougher than that.
"Yea, I'm fine." I tell him as we all look around. We were in a part of the digital world that I had never seen before. It was completely peaceful, a rather bright forest with lots of spacing between the trees, letting light shine down to the forest floor. All around I could hear sounds of animals, or rather digimon I guess, in the distance. It was almost hard to believe that any part of the digital world could be this normal looking. There were not random signs or street cars, or telephone poles, just a normal forest.
"Hey, Izzy, are you sure that we're in the digital world." I asked, looking at the normal forest we were in.
"Davis, we just came out of a TV, where else could we be?" Cody spoke up for Izzy, answering my question.
"Yea, well, this place just seems too normal for the digital world." I reply, justifying my question. Of course a second after I said that a number of little floating bulbs flew right past our group, singing. "Never mind." I said as the bulbs passed us by.
"Hey Izzy, where do we go from here?" Matt asked as we looked around, and I thought it was a good question. After all, where did Gennai even live? Did he live in some sort of house, or a tree like Tentomon? Maybe it was a cave, who knows?
Izzy and Matt started talking about locating Gennai's home, and I turned to Ken and T.K., both of whom were standing right by me, waiting for Izzy to give us a direction to head in.
"So what do you guys think Gennai's house looks like? I bet it's like some massive cave or something!" I start telling the two of them, too bored to not talk to someone.
Ken look slightly intrigued by that idea, but T.K. gave me a grin.
"A cave?" He asked, and I nodded. "Well, I bet he has a house at the bottom of a lake."
"A house at the bottom of a lake?" I asked. I'd seen some crazy things in the digital world, but that would certainly take the cake if it turned out to be true. I still felt that the cave was more likely.
"That sounds pretty unlikely T.K." Ken said, adding his two cents to the conversation. T.K. just smiled at him.
"Ok then, how about a little bet, if I'm right you both have to admit that basketball's a better sport than soccer, and come be cheerleaders at my next game. If I'm wrong I have to do the same thing for soccer." T.K. said, extending his hand with a grin still on his face.
That's an easy decision for me; I shake T.K.'s hand, grinning myself. "Ok T.K., you better get ready to borrow Kari's cheerleading outfit."
Ken though, looked at T.K. thoughtfully, and then decided to shake his hand as well. At that point Matt and Izzy had figured out which direction to head, and lead all of us out, moving at a decent place.
"So Izzy, are our digimon going to meet us at Gennai's?" Joe asked as the nine of us moved through the forest.
"I actually don't know, you guys saw everything that I've heard from Gennai." Izzy replied, just before we heard a shout from up ahead of us.
"Izzy!" We all look up to see Tentomon, with Veemon and Wormmon, standing up in front of us.
"Tentomon!" Izzy shouted, being the first person to see the digimon.
"Veemon!" I shout with joy, seeing my partner standing up ahead of us. I run up to him, just glad to see him. The last few weeks had been the longest we had been separated in nearly two years, and I was surprised how badly I had missed him.
"Davis!" He shouted, looking just as happy to see me. "You miss me?"
"Maybe a little." I say, "Ok, maybe a lot. Who would have thought it was easier to fall asleep with you snoring in my room?" I finish with a laugh. It really had been different without Veemon around, all of the little things the two of us would constantly do, things like annoying Jun whenever she was around, or spending hours over at the Kamiya's, or just spending an entire afternoon eating, things just weren't the same without my partner around.
Veemon just laughed as I said this. Meanwhile Tentomon and Wormmon had also had their happy reunions with their partners, while the rest of the digidestined watched. That's when I noticed, Tentomon, Veemon, and Wormmon were the only three digimon here.
"Hey Veemon, where are the others?" I ask my partner, and that gets most of the remaining Digidestined's attention.
"They're all coming in from their sectors this afternoon." Veemon replied.
"We're here since we protect this sector. Gennai asked us to come and escort you guys in." Tentomon added, telling us why they were here.
"That's probably a good thing he did, if the digimon that attacked Tai showed up, we would have been defenseless." Izzy remarked.
Seconds after Izzy's comment, there was a rather loud cackling, that sounded like it was coming from all around us.
"What's that?" Yolei asks, looking around. The cackling just gets louder as Yolei asks her question, and I tense up. I may not know what that is, but cackling like that can never be good for our side.
"Exorcism Scrolls!" a voice shouts out, just as dozens of pieces of paper are thrown into the air around us.
"Everyone get down!" Someone shouts, and I take the unknown person's advice, diving to the ground, with Veemon following me. As I'm diving to the ground I catch a glimpse of the paper, just as every single one of them explodes in the air. If we hadn't dropped to the ground, someone could have gotten killed, or injured. Just like Tai…
"Tentomon digivolve to! Kabuterimon!" A flash of light came from where Tentomon had been hovering near Izzy as the little bug digivolved into his champion form.
"Electro-Shocker!" Kabuterimon called out, and there were more flashes. I managed to crawl a little ways away by this point, and finally look up, just as I see Kabuterimon get thrown across the clearing that we were in. On the throwing end was a digimon that I had never seen before. Before I could get a good look at the digimon, it disappeared from sight, just to reappear where Kabuterimon was landing.
It lifted the large Kabuterimon up in its arms without any problem, and threw him into the air, Kabuterimon shouting as it happened.
"Exorcism Scrolls!" The digimon shouted, throwing a number of the slips of paper right at Kabuterimon, all of which stuck to the large bug like digimon. After a second the pieces of paper, which I guess were more of scrolls, exploded, all over Kabuterimon's body.
"Kabuterimon!" Someone, I think it was Izzy, shouted as the large digimon was covered in explosions and smoke.
"Gah! Veemon!" I shout to my partner, holding out my digivice. My partner ran up from where he had just picked himself up off of the ground, jumping into the clearing just as the light from my digivice hit him.
"Veemon digivolve to! ExVeemon!" Veemon emerged from the light much taller, with a large x covering his chest, a larger horn, and a pair of white wings on his back.
"Vee-Laser!" ExVeemon shouted as he attacked with his ranged laser attack. The x shaped laser hit the ground just in front of the attacking digimon, who managed to jump out of its way before it hit.
"Vee-Laser!" ExVeemon keeps attempting to hit the digimon, but it manages to avoid his attack every time he fires. Suddenly it lands in between me and ExVeemon, and sends ExVeemon flying into one of the trees in the clearing.
I was left standing next to the digimon, who turned to look at me. It was the first good look I'd gotten of the digimon. Its entire body, and the clothing that it wore, was black or white, almost as if it had been drained of color, leaving the digimon completely devoid of any other color. It seemed to have the body of a fox, including a rather bushy tail, and was clothed in a fairly ridiculous outfit, looking like some sort of wizard or shaman.
I took a deep breath as the digimon turned to look at me, raising what looked like a paintbrush in its hands up to a striking position.
"Davis!" Someone shouted from the clearing, I still couldn't figure out where anyone was, except the injured ExVeemon and the digimon that was about to kill me, so I didn't know who it was.
"Spiking Strike!" A voice shouted just before a green blur crashed into the digimon, and both went flying. The digimon crashed into a tree, while Stingmon, the green blur, hovered in the air above it.
"Davis!" A voice shouted from just behind me, and I turn to see Ken running up to me, and a put on a grin.
"Great timing Ken!" I exclaim loudly. "Now how about we show this thing why you don't mess with us?"
Ken nodded, a smile forming on his face as well, and we both turned towards our digimon.
"ExVeemon!" I shout to my partner, who was just picking himself up.
"Stingmon!" Ken shouted to his hovering partner.
"Digivolve!" We shout in unison, just as our digivices let out a flash of light, which covered both of our digimon.
"ExVeemon! Stingmon! DNA Digivolve to! Paildramon!" The two champion level digimon had combined together into a DNA digimon. His body combines the features and attributes of their bodies, using ExVeemon's wings, body, and tail, and Stingmon's shoulders, hands, and thighs. He had four wings, two blue and two white, his face was covered with a red mask, and a pair of powerful looking blasters hung at his hips, ready for use.
"Someone call for animal control?" Paildramon asked in an attempt at humor. I was a little too caught up in the moment to care about the bad joke, instead deciding to join in.
"Looks like you're out of luck now you weird fox!" I shout gleefully as Paildramon finishes forming. Not many digimon were able to stand up to the power of Paildramon, and this one would be no different.
The digimon that had been attacking us stopped, and stared right at Paildramon as he hovered above it.
"So the Mutant appears." The digimon said in a soft voice, almost too quietly for me to hear it. Of course I did, as did Paildramon.
"Who're you calling a mutant?" He asked in the twin voices of ExVeemon and Stingmon, glaring down at the digimon.
"You." The digimon continued in its soft and very quiet voice.
"Why you…" Paildramon said, diving down at the digimon, extending one of the spikes held above his hands. "Sting Strike!"
The fox-like digimon managed to avoid Paildramon's diving attack, summersaulting backwards out of the way. As it landed it pulled out the giant paintbrush it had earlier.
"What's that crazy fox going to do, paint his face?" I ask laughing, and Ken doesn't seem quite as amused, in fact he seemed concerned.
The digimon paints a symbol in the air, which stays there glowing with an evil glow that I'm starting to not like in the least.
"Paildramon! Back off!" Ken shouts towards our digimon, who does as Ken tells him, just as the digimon attacks.
"Demonic Gate!" The digimon said, its voice undergoing a weird mutation into something much less soft as it attacked. The symbol launched itself forward, hitting where Paildramon had been standing moments before and destroyed a good portion of the surrounding ground, or rather blowing up that ground.
I ducked for cover as dozens of chunks from the ground flew out in all directions.
"Desperado Blaster!" I hear Paildramon's twin voices shout, just as the sound of dozens of energy blasts sings through the air. I hazard a glance up to see Paildramon clearing out the largest chunks of ground before they hit any of us Digidestined.
The attacking digimon, whose name I was really starting to want to know, jumped towards Paildramon as he was clearing out the debris, and luckily Paildramon seemed to have been anticipating this. He swiftly delivered a kick to the jumping fox digimon, which sent it crashing into the ground.
"Alright Paildramon!" I shout, cheering on my digimon. He turned towards the falling fox, powering up his blasters once more.
"Desperado Blaster!" He shouts, unleashing dozens of blue energy blasts that hit the falling fox, causing explosions all around and on the digimon. He keeps the fire on the digimon for nearly twenty seconds, just to make sure the digimon had no chance of surviving that attack.
The rest of the digidestined had started to emerge from where they had been ducking for cover. Mostly from behind several different types of trees, though in one case it appears that Joe and Cody had actually been inside a tree. Anyways, all of us emerged from where we had been waiting, looking to where Paildramon was still hovering, watching the smoke filled area that should hold the collapsed data of the digimon.
Ken and I headed over to where Matt and Izzy were standing, helping Tentomon off of the ground.
"Izzy, do you have any idea who that was?" Matt asked as he finished picking the injured Tentomon up off of the ground.
"No, and I haven't had the opportunity to check yet either." Izzy replied a little irritated. Ken and I ran up to the two of them at this point.
"Good work you two," Matt started to say to us as we ran up, but he was cut off by the digimon bursting out of the smoke that the Desperado Blasters had put up around it. It landed a kick right on Paildramon, sending him flying off into the forest somewhere.
"Paildramon!" Ken and I shout in unison as our digimon goes flying.
"Finally, some peace and quiet." The digimon says as it flies back from where it had hit Paildramon, and lands in front of us. It turns to look right at the nine of us gathered, and seems to just survey us.
"Digidestined, I am here to give you a warning." The digimon said, and my eyes narrowed.
"Give us a warning?" I reply to the digimon. Its eyes swivel and fix onto me.
"Yes. My master wishes me to inform you that he no longer wants you to disturb his world. The bearer of Courage has already reaped the consequences of what happens when you violate my master's wishes." The digimon said, and I clenched a fist in anger. So this digimon worked for the same person that had attacked Tai. The digimon turned away, but continued talking. "But my master is a benevolent ruler, and is giving you this one chance to save yourselves before you meet a similar fate."
I stepped forward, getting ready to tell this digimon exactly where it could take its warning, and shove it; but Matt beat me to it.
"So you expect us to turn and run away, just because you show up with a warning like that?" He asks, stepping forward. The digimon turns to regard him, and then nods.
"This is your one and only opportunity." The digimon says, and I noticed something behind its shoulder. Paildramon was back, hovering just behind some of the trees looking for an advantage. "Leave now and none of you will be hurt."
That didn't really seem to go over well with Matt, who was usually one of the cooler heads with us Digidestined. I guess having his best friend in the hospital for two weeks had really upset Matt more than he let us believe, because he got a lot angrier than he normally would.
"You nearly kill my best friend, and then you expect me to go and run like a little kid?" He asked the digimon, but continued on before it could reply. "Well I got news for you, we're the Digidestined, and it's going to take more than some creep like you to get us to go home."
"Yea!" I shout, jumping up with Matt, and the others did the same.
The digimon regards the nine of us, before nodding. "Very well, I will end this now then."
"I don't think so!" Paildramon shouted, taking that as his cue for a grand entrance. Ken and I's digivices flashed once more as he charged forward, and Paildramon was once more covered in light.
"Paildramon Mega digivolve to!" Paildramon grew in size to massive proportions, keeping the same color scheme of black and blue, but now becoming a massive dragon. His hands and feet extended into massive golden claws, while his head elongated into a much more dragon like structure, covered in a white and red mask. On his back was a massive cannon in between a pair of massive red wings. "Imperialdramon!"
The massive dragon digimon swooped in and grabbed the digimon in one of his massive claws, dragging it away from all of us digidestined.
"Izzy now would be a good time to look through your digimon analyzer." Matt said as Imperialdramon took the digimon into the sky. I listened to the two of them with one ear, while focusing on the battle happening in the sky with the majority of my attention.
Imperialdramon threw the digimon ahead of him as he cleared the forest that we were all still in. With the open skies, and plenty of room to maneuver Imperialdramon was in his element against the digimon. His powerful wings and several powerful ranged attacks would give him an edge over his opponent.
"Take that creep out Imperialdramon!" I shout up to Ken and I's partner, and I can hear his answering growl from the sky. I could tell this digimon had really angered Imperialdramon; usually he would give some response other than a growl, unless he was actually angry.
"Positron Laser!" Imperialdramon shouts as he charges the powerful laser cannon on his back. As it finishes charging it releases dozens of blasts, right at the digimon who was still flying on the trajectory that Imperialdramon had sent it. The blasts flew out from Imperialdramon, covering a wide arc to prevent the digimon for being able to avoid them.
Imperialdramon wasn't the worst shot, in fact he was quite a good shot, but with small targets it was very difficult for him to hit them, so he resorted to a massive application of firepower. His opponents might dodge, or avoid the first several blasts, but eventually they wouldn't dodge one, and then their small size would work against them. Most digimon that got hit by Imperialdramon didn't get back up from where they landed, even if he only hit them once.
All of that had been a strategy that Imperialdramon had worked out during several battles with powerful Ultimates, or the occasional Mega, virus digimon that had disturbed the peace in the digital world. Now he applied it to his newest opponent.
The digimon seemed to have some flying ability as it dodged the first couple of Imperialdramon's blasts, but as I'd just thought about before, no digimon could dodge forever, and finally one of the blasts hit the digimon, causing a fairly big explosion. Imperialdramon kept the fire up though, focusing on the location where he was getting hits, sending blast after blast right at the digimon for nearly ten seconds, when he finally stopped.
"Got it!" Izzy exclaimed from a few feet away from me, and dragged a good portion of my attention back to him.
"The digimon is known as Doumon. It's a Wizard digimon who uses its death-curses to brutally assassinate anyone who gets in its way. Its special attacks are Exorcism Scrolls and Demonic Gate. Apparently it also has many other spells it can call forth, but they're not listed here." Izzy replies, reading off the data he has for our opponent, Doumon.
"One other thing." Izzy said, still looking at his computer screen. "This data says that Doumon is only an Ultimate level digimon."
"What?" Matt asks from next to Izzy, and I find myself looking at Izzy as well. An Ultimate level? No way, this thing was way too strong for a simple Ultimate level.
"Exorcism Scrolls!" I hear Doumon's voice shout, just before a number of its little red scrolls hit Imperialdramon, causing explosions to occur all over him.
"No way…" Joe said as Imperialdramon is covered by the blasting scrolls. Doumon comes into view, looking pretty beat up. Its robes were ripped and singed along with its once bushy tail, but it was still very much alive, something I didn't believe.
"Imperialdramon!" Ken shouted seconds after Joe, worried about our joint partner. Me? Yea I was concerned, but I was also starting to get really pissed at this digimon.
"Take it up a notch guys!" I shout towards Imperialdramon, and Ken and I's digivices started glowing together for the third time that morning.
"Imperialdramon Mode Change to!" The smoke cleared as Imperialdramon's basic shape changed. His legs straightened out and his arm grew more flexible as he took on a more humanoid form. The Positron Laser Cannon on his back transferred down onto his right arm, and he seemed to sprout hands. "Fighter Mode!"
Imperialdramon was now fully recharged, and headed right at Doumon, much faster than he had while in Dragon mode.
"Splendor Blade!" A golden blade of energy extended from Imperialdramon's left arm, similar to Stingmon's Spiking Strike, and he attempted to hit Doumon with the blade. Doumon pulled out its paint brush, and countered the Splendor Blade, just before the two entered into a furious hand to hand struggle.
"Izzy, if that's an Ultimate, how can it even come close to competing with Imperialdramon?" Matt asked the computer whiz, who was still typing away at his computer.
"I don't know…" Izzy replied, slamming the top of his laptop down, which was a sure sign of his frustration. He didn't let me or Tai for that matter, near his computers for the very reason that he said we would damage them somehow, and to see him purposely do something that could end up damaging his laptop was a sure sign of frustration.
"Izzy, how about we scan Doumon, and check its power levels." Ken spoke up, turning his head slightly from where he was watching Imperialdramon. Izzy snapped his fingers as Ken said this.
"Right! I forgot about the scanning equipment I brought!" Izzy said, and turned to his back pack, pulling out several weird looking contraptions, that screamed don't touch, at least to me they did.
He pointed it up towards Doumon, and pressed several buttons. He stared at the screen for several seconds while Imperialdramon continues his close range duel with Doumon, then…
"Prodigious…" Izzy said, using his catch phrase. "Doumon is an Ultimate level digimon, but its power levels have been boosted almost to the same level as Imperialdramon." Izzy exclaimed, and I looked back up at my digimon.
The only times we had fought digimon nearly as powerful as Imperialdramon, or even more powerful, had been when we fought BlackWarGreymon and MaloMyotismon, both of whom had almost succeeded in destroying the digital world. What would this Doumon be capable of? And how did it go so strong?
"How's that possible?" I vocalize, breaking the silence.
"I don't know Davis." Izzy replied honestly, and I nod.
"Well, we might as well make sure it doesn't matter." I say, looking up towards Imperialdramon. "Imperialdramon!"
Imperialdramon shoots a glance down at me, then nods as well, bringing his right arm up. His left arm currently had Doumon's brush in a block, but his right arm was completely free.
"Positron Laser!" Imperialdramon let out a blast of energy, which separated him from Doumon. Doumon was sent spinning downwards, looking even more damaged from the close range blast. It wasted little time in stabilizing itself though, and looked back up to where Imperialdramon was waiting.
"Giga Crusher!" Imperialdramon had extended his most powerful weapon from the dragon's mouth on his chest, and was aiming it right at Doumon. The blast was white hot as it shot towards Doumon, who held up one of its red Scrolls.
"Shield Scroll!" It shouted just as the attack hit it. A massive explosion covered Doumon, and there was no way it could have survived.
Imperialdramon however remained on his guard, watching until the smoke from the blast had completely receded showing nothing but empty space, before landing in the now deserted clearing. He glowed for a second before splitting into Chibomon and Leafmon.
I catch the small blue ball that is Chibomon, while Ken catches Leafmon.
"Did we do good Davis?" Chibomon asked in his tired voice.
"Yea, you were great buddy." I tell the little blue digimon.
"You too Leafmon." Ken tells his partner as he stands right next to me. We spend a few minutes making sure everyone is ok before heading back on our trip to Gennai's house.
Tentomon, who was almost fully recovered by the time the battle was over, lead the group, with everyone keeping up pretty well. No one wanted to say it, but we all wanted to get to Gennai's house and out of the open where we could get attacked.
Everyone was mostly quiet on the way to Gennai's home, but as we finally excited the forest Matt dropped back to the back of the group, where I was walking.
"Hey Davis? You ok?" Matt asks as he starts walking next to me. Matt wasn't the easiest person to get to actually talk to you, but once you were part of his circle of close friends he'd do pretty much anything for you, and I had become part of that circle over the last few months, so him asking that didn't surprise me in the least.
"Yea, why?" I ask in my usual tone of voice.
"Well, you just seemed different back there." Matt replied, gesturing towards the forest, and I realized what he was talking about. I know people always think that I don't really pay attention to anything, or that I'm just a klutz who's around for a good adventure, and I'm not denying any of that, but over the last year or so I'd been changing a bit. Sure I still loved to goof off, and have fun adventures, but I also had a more serious side. It was mostly in the digital world, because honestly it was the first time I had ever been given responsibility for anything, let alone an entire world, and I took that responsibility seriously. So I really could think about things seriously, despite how much Yolei would say that is completely impossible.
Matt and the others hadn't really been around me for any of the patrols in the digital world, so they had never seen my…uh…serious face I guess you'd call it.
"You haven't been patrolling with me in a while Matt." I reply with a laugh. "I take my responsibilities to the digital world pretty seriously, and well I guess that was my serious face." I'm rubbing the back of my head now as I laugh, because honestly that sounds ridiculous.
Matt looks at me, then slaps my back and starts laughing as well.
"Davis, you never cease to surprise me." He said while laughing. We caught up with the others at this point, all of whom were standing at the edge of a lake.
"What did you guys stop for?" I ask, walking up to the group.
"We're here." Tentomon replies and I look at him confused. I don't see a cave, or a house, or anything but a lake here. I look around the others to see if their blocking it, but still see nothing.
"Where?" I ask again, just as the lake seems to open up. A stairwell leads straight down into the lake, with fish floating in the water walls on either side. My mouth is open as I view this, and I slowly turn to T.K., who's grinning at the look on my face, and I imagine the look on Ken's face.
"Looks like I win." T.K. said with a laugh.
Well hopefully that satisfied everyone's thirst for an action sequence. I know that's all the chapter really was, but it did introduce a fairly major player on the part of the bad guys. Well, until next week!
Preview:
"Hey mom, me and Sora are going to go get some food real quick. See you in a bit!" I called out, motioning for Sora to keep pushing me out the door. "Hold it right there you two." My mom said, causing Sora to stop out forward momentum. "Just what makes you think that you're in any condition to go out Tai?"
Sora sits up all the way as I say that. "What could be burning out her…" Sora trailed off and I'm pretty sure she had the same idea as me. "Primary Village!" We say at the same time, quickly getting to our feet. I didn't even want to think what could be happening over in Primary Village if that burning smell was indeed coming from it.
Review Replies!
Lachelle92: Well thank you, I'm glad someone appreciates my humor, and yea…your supposed to, so I guess that's working.
TaioraWarrior: Lol, that's all you got? Well I guess that's understandable, you can be occasionally narrow minded…jk lol. Did you ever figure out the part you were going to comment on by any chance? And yea, they haven't been dating long enough for Sora to really get used to the control she can exert over Tai, though she is a fast learner, so she'll be able to use it more as the story goes on. AND I UPDATE WHEN I WANT! Lol or at around midnight my time lol.
Supershooter: Yea, I think he does like his consolation prize, not that Sora would appreciate being called that lol. And your quite right. And it'll span more than just two chapters since I wanted to get a bit of action in for everyone. And I think you'll be surprised when you read the next chapter about Tai and Sora.
Zeobide274: Yea, it does suck about Tai, but he's a trooper, he'll make it through. And your guess is very good, though all will not be reviled for quite a while. And yea it would be, but I'm focusing Davis towards other things, as this chapter demonstrates, than relationships. He's gotten more serious and he and Matt will be the two people who don't have a significant other to worry about, just their friends, and that'll be good for action scenes.