Chapter 16: Solving the skill problem
(Fate opening theme Ougon no Kagayaki)
After a day of training and meeting a unique group of twins, Ashura finally ends his training day as he and agumon start to walk back to the apartment complex "Whew that was some workout"
"Yeah though I did more while you went out" saber reminded him but with a sudden thought "hey to be curious why did it take long for you to come back?" He questioned him as Ashura stops at the mere question
he starts to fidget with his fingers " Um how about I explain when we go inside?" Ashura suggested to his digimon partner while agumon stops to think "hmmmmmmmmmmm...alright" he says as he follows
"Anyway There's something else that bugged me before" Ashura mentions "Huh?"
"Gatomon once told us to train in the digital world but when we insist to train she doesn't let us or help"
"that does seem peculiar maybe she's just tired?"
"sluggish maybe but not tired as she does nothing but sleeping since I got here" Ashura says as the made it to their apartment door "But as Ruler wellll you got me there I'm still trying to get to know how she functions?"
"Functions"
"yeah like what does she think about us while she's transformed or she is a whole different person in total?" Ashura theorized
"I didn't really think about that actually" agumon scratches under his chin as he stopped at the door too "well if you think about it with who wise gatomon may be after having connections like sanzomon must mean she might have been here for a long while so she either develop a second personality" as one theory "Or she just matures more after digi-volving as it's a way of growing up "
"really that means gatomon must really take a long time to grow up" Ashura wonders about it as he opens the door as they enter inside "Is anyone here?" Ashura asked as certain people now tend to visit or live at his place now
"Oh so you've returned" said Mavis as she walks out of his room reading one of her work books
"Studying?"
"battle planning actually" she closes the book as she puts it at table
"So how was school" Ashura says as he went to the kitchen to prepare today's meal
"Not much, I just got here and Ruler is borrowing your shower" she mentioned "but after school was a different story"
"How so?"
"I met your cousin today"
Ashura drops his pans "Ehh?!"
He walked back in the room "What what did she say?"
"She asked if I could join her alliance"
"wait you too?" Ashura was confused 'either they changed there mind about me and moved on or this must lead to a doublecross, Ashura thought but looks back "oAnd what did you say?"
"I declined"
"Really is it because they had a weird vibe out of them"
"That's one way of putting it besides I'm in an alliance already and I don't need to form alliance with someone like riders master" she crossed her arms
"It's nice to hear that your really committed to this alliance" Ashura supported her loyalty
"So how's dinner going for you?"
"it will be ready shortly" he lifts his sleeves back "Just need to prepare the essentials" Ashura answers as he heads back to prepare today's dinner.
He spends the next half hour attempting to fix hhis dinner a simple fish meal with a side of cooked rice. Withmost of it getting warmed up in the stove he decides to take a short break and go to the bathroom
"Phew I could use a shower after the day I had" he was about to reach the knob of the bathroom until the door opened suddenly. It reveals...
"I feel very rejuvenated huh?"
D'arcmon came out of the shower with no tower...
Ashura was very shocked at the suprised then quickly turned his head "Ruler!" He whined a bit
"something wrong?"
"Your kidding right where are your clothes!"
"At your room"
"MY ROO..." 'Even with her own room she still mooches off my stuff' Ashura thought he makes a sad face "why are you even using my shower your apartment room has one too!" He questions her weird action
"I grew accustomed to it and I like to bathe here" she said "and it didn't feel like my shower" she said 'but this isn't your bathroom before either' Ashura thought with a worried face
"Um you should know it's very rude for women to walk out naked" Ashura said
"But it is rumored that digimon are gender less" she walks closer as Ashura gets nervous and quickly says "Maybe but who decided that" Ashura countered "Plus your in disguise as a lady here don't you think it would be strange as that's not what girls do!" He starts to blush at the pressure of explaining something so embarrassing as he starts to feel stiff"
"But there's no other women other than Mavis and she knows I'm not human"
"You should still practice though it it's a good chance to learn from it" he chuckles nervously as he felt his heart pace a bit
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"Very well I shall reach my clothes post hast"she brings her towel with her and starts to walk to his room to dress up and Ashura turns around to see her leave "phew" Ashura was relieved until "Aaah!"
*slip*
*thud*
"Something wrong?" Mavis said from the other side of the room as she heard the fall
Ruler forgot to dry herself so there was awet floor
"...ooowwwww..." He said and he hears agumon walk over "what happened?"
"...Roommates...Roommates happened" Ashura felt like he didn't want to move for awhile
After waiting for his back to feel a little better after his nasty fall, Ashura leaves the building to enter the yard of the apartment complex because he feels like he should had done something that popped in his mind long ago since the day he entered the digital world and fought in the competition for the holy grail
'It's time to test out the ability with the pixels' he thought as he enters the yards shed he starts t bring it out as he sees the pixels slowly come out. 'Last time I made a force field and before that I enhanced to save me from my fight with Vermillion' he finds a drawer of used light bulbs
"Before I try something stupid I should start small" he said as he slowly touches it and focuses on forwarding the pixels on the object. Ashura starts to focus into it make 'if I could enhance the bulb like with the desk at school, I could be able to use better defense advantage or not worry about my weapons breaking'
*smash*
he broke out of his thoughts as he saw the bulb break as it went into some pieces... "Welp that's why there are more" he picks out a second bulb to try out again. So Ashura would need to consent rate for...*smash*
"This is going to be harder than I thought" as he led at the mess before reaching a third bulb so as he picks up the shards "ouch!" He cut himself "I hope it wasn't dirty glass"
"It's been in a dusty old shed so of course it might get dirty" said a familiar voice as Ashura turns to see Mavis with bag. "Why are you tailing me?"
"I want to help you test your powers and I can see you..." She looks at the mess "just started, great minds think alike" she said
"Um okay" he said as she took out a bulb for him to try "Show me your progress"
Ashura held it and nods "I wouldn't call it progress but, well you'll see what I mean" Ashura starts to repeat his attempt and *crash*
"Mmm is that the best you could do?"
Ashura got embarrassed and turned "sorry I just started this method"
She starts to take out a new item "You should be lucky I came prepared"
"What do you..." He got interrupted as she displayed a red gem close to his face "yah dah!" She joked with pizzazz "This should help you with you weird energy clutter"
"clutter?"
"Just swallow it" she sticks it into his mouth. Ashura blushed at a forward method "in is it candy"
"Please don't chew with your mouth full and do not chew just swallow it" she reminds him like some nurse
so Ashura did as he was told *gulp* ..."BLEHHH!" Ashura gaged at the item he swallowed "was that an actual rock?!" Ashura rubs his tongue out with his coat "What would you make...me...tryyyy..." Ashura was starting to get woozy
"good looks like the gem is starting to take in effect"
"Wha?"
"let me put it into worlds you may understand" She said to him loud enough for him to hear "This process will be like turning on, a switch!"
"Switch?"
"Yup a switch to your energy reserves" she starts to sit on the sheds nearby desk "Right now your developing a side effect of the gems purpose which is to open magical reserves or new limits of energy" she starts to kick her legs around as she's sitting "Though it's obvious a normal non Mage human wouldn't be able to handle it and would just pass out but it looks your still awake"
"Oh good for me" Ashura said softly
" your previous method wouldn't have gotten you nowhere"
"Why not?" He was confused by her reason
she turns to him "wow you right right about him not training you that much" she puts her hands on her hips "well it's like your forcing your muscles to attempt something wrong and that messes up you body, in a way you can't force your power to come out and it definitely shouldn't be this difficult" she comments
"ouch hurtful" Ashura was insulted by her rude comment
"But that's why I brung the gem, for the switch to turn on its untapped reserves" she explained to Ashura "So why do you call it a switch"
"Because if you see your powers turned on and off like a switch it should be easier for you to unlock you hidden potential and help you figure out that that mystery skill you pulled away back did" she stated so Ashura tries to maintain his comprise until the dizzyines goes away and after a few minutes the process stopped 'finally Everything around me stopped spinning' Ashura thought but he grabs his stomach and felt a hint of nausea "So I suppose I should say thanks" Ashura says to her
She waves her left arm with no emotion "Nope you dont have to thank me, its because we're partners and I'll need you to be in tip top shape" she reaches out a new bulb "I can tell your attempting enhancements magic"
"Is that what that's called?" Ashura was curious at the name as she nods
"It's commonly used to strengthen the use of weapins and armor" she puts on her smart face "It's almost as useful as unlocking projection magic"
'Magic huh what if my alliment could be cha...' "wait projection?" Ashura was confused at the fact so he wanted to know "Projection is a special ability to duplicate another object"
"You mean you could actually make something, anything?" Ashura was was really looking forward to something so amazing 'Just imagine the possibilities' Ashura starts to daydream until Mavis snapped her fingers to get his attention "I know what you thinking but it's not that simple" she points at him "Projection magic maybe be very resourceful but effects of the ability are very short"
"What?" Ashura was a bit disappointed by it "Afraid so" she replied "The use of project last a short time or if the object the user created is out of range it disappears anyway"
"Wow I guess even great power must also come...dumb flaws" Ashura said
"You shouldn't worry about that now, you wouldnt be able to maintain proper projection with the talent you have"
"What about when I made that force field?"
"You clearly did it out of instinct and pure luck so the wise choice would be to practice your enhancement ability" she puts the bulb on his hand "Now let's try again" she said as Ashura starts to focus on the bulb "The more you practce enhancement, the sooner you can worry and work on other special abilities" she said
Ashura walks to his room and closes it incase Gatomon walks in and kicks him off the bed...again he finds his bed and starts to take off his white jacket that has some dirt and dramatically fell on his bed and layed down on it with still his clothes on
"Uuhhhh I'm too tired to even use my blanket" he mumbed as his face fell flat on his pillow
"Tired already?" Said a new person
Ashura had wide eyes and instantly turned and saw Archer leaning on an open window
"I seriously hope you didn't break the Windows screen, the flies get in through there"
Archer chuckles "look at you. Worrying about the little things when a dangerous spirit walks the same room as you" as he sares to stare at his tired associate "I hear you finally awakened your magic reserve. That took awhile longer than I tohought"
"What do you want?" Ashura was upset that he wanted to sleep
Baalmon now stood in the room "I figured you could at least pick up the pass god you so slow Ashura"
Ashura made a grumpy face "Well sorry if my progress effects you in anyway" he said sarcastically
"I could care less it's Mavis that worries me slowly down so you could keep up may make her fall into a serious situation one day" he took a step to the window "She's the most brightest girl I know but it's because she's so smart that she can not understand the everyday ordeals of a normal person with an average intelligence"
"What are you trying to say to me Archer?" He said not liking where this is going as he instinctively made his hands glow with pixels
"You should cram it because I'll only going to say this once" his eyes glowed red "You Ashura Ootsutsuki without your families "special gifts" will never overcome a digimon spirit let alone berserker and caster"
"Saying my old family name like you know me and telling me the impossible..." Ashura makes a serious tone "Do you want me to fight you?"
"I'm not finished I saw what you and Mavis were doing at the shed"
"You were spying on me?"
"I spy on my master 24/7 to make sure she's not harmed" He said in a serious voice " With that ability, you can only create in the situation that sees fit for you and if you ever encounter a dangerous opponent you cannot beat then just create something that will give you a way to defeat you opponent" Archer then prepares the step out of the window "It's your only skill left so I think you should make it count you know because you neglect your chakra and jutsu for so long" Archer smirks under his headwear.
Ashura looks at the digimon in suprised shock as he grits his teeth 'Of course he knows about Chakra too' he thought "Does Vermillion know about this?"
Archer kept the look on his face "Not yet but I'll tell her when you least expect it" he prepares to jump until he says something very confusing "Heh what us wrong with me... I'm actually giving advice to someone I want to destroy" he said as Ashura raises an eyebrow at the comment
"You better make your skill count" Archer says as he jumps and vanishes out of Ashuras room
*sigh*
"Great so not only does he know my family heritage but he knows my current weaknesses as well?" He grabs the blanket tight "And Why does he keep talking about me like he knows me, His master talks to me more than he does" Ashura comments on Archers rudeness. Ashura looks at his hand and starts to come control the data like essence surrounding his whole arm "I can't slow down for anyone anymore it's too dangerous". He takes out his hand and starts to think of something that pops into his creative mind "It's time to show them what I got. As he starts to create a blinding light
At Kushina's house She is preparing her famous substitute noodles and almost done "Sochi kun dinners almost ready!"
"Coming!" Said the boy from the other room
while in said room Naruto was giving the egg he said a lamp light "Geez I'd by you an incubator but you too big for it" he starts to sit on the egg for a few minutes "It was a freakishly big miracle that I had to hide you from Kassan for so long"
"Sochi DO I HAVE TO REPEAR MYSELF!"
"Galah no no I'll be right down!" He said as he runs as quickly as possible
after a long hour he walks back into his room and looks at the egg "I can't keep this up I need help" he thinks long and hard until he pops an idea. He runs to his barely charges cellphone that he forgot to charge today and makes a call
...*beep*...
...*beep*...
...*beep*..."hello?"
"Hey Sasuke it's me" he scratches the back of his head
"Why are you calling late Naruto?"
"Because I need your help" Naruto looks at the egg
(End theme Teleportation Guy by MELL)