Session 47

Distractions & Diversions

The outside areas of Witchelny were an interesting experience for Aaron and Gentleman.

For one, there seemed to be an immense surplus of mages and magical digimon around every corner, clumping up into large crowds no matter the time of day. It made finding this one girl a whole lot harder for Aaron and Gentleman. Nor was this helped by the lack of a description given by Aegiochusmon. On the other hand, Aaron finally got another chance to finally be brown cloaked guy with healing aur- I mean Shamon.

"Real helpful, author." Aaron whispered and took a deep breath. The author did have a point. Of the five members that made up Delta, he had only gotten to use his infusion form only twice. Nine times out of ten, he could hold his own without it, but still. That just didn't seem fair in his book. In a perfect world, this would be an easy to solve problem. But considering this is the digitalverse were talking about, such a change would be quite a tall order. It probably require the manipulation of both time and space in order to change the series of events. While possible, I'm not going to do it.

"Why not?" Aaron accused and attempted to comprehend what the author could possibly get by not changing this totally meaningful point. To answer his question, not much. Because I prefer things mostly how they currently are at. "Fine, I'll let that slide. But you got to have a better reason than that."

The author didn't answer, deciding it was probably better to let silence do it for him. Reluctantly, Aaron turned his attention to a nearby stall propped up on the edge of the walkway. It was one of those box and banner sets, the place one would usually buy some ice cold lemonade and a chocolate chip cookie. While usually subpar, one could overlook that and appreciate the effort put in the stall.

"Is there anything I can get for you?" a voice announced and Aaron looked around. Eventually, his gaze focused down on a small child. It was clothed quite simply, just a bunch of sewn rags slight resembling a shirt and a makeshift pair of pants. Yet, his clean face and nicely done brown hair seemed to betray him.

"Yes." Aaron whispered and got down on his knees. "I'm looking for a person."

"Let me guess, your girlfriend?" the kid answered with a cocky smile. "Vanessa Arcana? That crazy bitch 'sister' of Victoria?"
Aaron sighed and pulled a potion vial out, making a mental note in his mind. While he did that, Gentleman then walked up and pointed all eight of his swords in the kid's direction.

"How dare you call a woman that?!" Gentleman announced and smashed the stand into a million pieces. "Especially for a woman you have even met yet!"

The kid just stood there and laughed. To him, this was all one big joke being acted out by Aaron and Gentleman. It was the sort of thing that always seems to make a straightforward situation that much more difficult to handle.

"Maybe I have met her once." the kid answered snidely with a smile. "But she is not who I'm after."

"And who would be that be?" Aaron whispered, unsure of whether to press the matter further or not.

"Elena Yuliana, of course." the boy's smile then grew wider, seeming even more ready to pull something that the author would not like at all. "She may have pissed me off and took something of mine."

"Care to explain what act she did to piss you off?"

The boy did not answer, deciding to instead pull a sword out.

"It's a secret to everyone."

Alchemist's Wrath!

Aaron flung the vial out, watching as a bunch of green goop gathered around their opponent and rain even more vials down upon him.

Gentleman's Honor!

Gentleman threw a rose towards their opponent, making sure that it did make contact with the kid. What followed, was the rose exploding and creating a tornado of petals to tear the kid up. When the dust settled though, the stupid kid was just standing there.

"Well you tried." the kid announced as a fist connected with his mouth. "Hey, no fair!"

"Well life isn't fair." Aaron whispered as a smile flashed across his face. "Eventually, you're just going to meet someone that just doesn't like you."

With that out of the way, he headed on and motioned for Gentleman to follow.

"Aren't you going to finish me off?!" the child shouted and got no response from either guy. It was probably better that way, even if it left the very extremely dangerous possibility of the kid deciding to go through with exacting his revenge on Elena. But we will just have to cross that bridge when we come around to it. "Fine then, I'll just go through with it!"
The kid and his 'stall' then teleported away, leaving both Gentleman and Aaron even more confused.

"Who the heck even was that?" the detective whispered and got a shrug from his 'partner'.

"I'm just as confused as you are." Gentleman answered as they weaved their way through the crowds. "But I doubt that will be the last time we'll see him."

Almost on cue, the kid just reappeared. Only this time, he seemed to be holding a pocketwatch.

"So, I went through with it!" the kid announced as he flashed another smile. "You should have really seen how she reacted!"

As tempting as it would be for the author to just throw down one of his alternate 'assistants' and watch it just wreck this asshole, that wouldn't be that fun. As such, I'll just have to wait and see if such a revenge will possibly occur.

"What the fuck is even going on?" Aaron whispered as both he and Gentleman shrugged. After a certain amount of time within this multiverse, you just get used to all the weird going around you. Eventually, it just becomes a normal part of the messy thing one calls life. But on the flip side, anything that would be considered normal seems foreign here. Actually going to grocery store to get groceries? We're just going to trek through the wilderness and maybe mug some forest animals. "Okay. Let's try this again, shall we?"
Their opponent only laughed, possibly seeing all of this as just a harmless joke. And while yes, it's good to have a little fun to lighten the mood and all, it should never have to come at the price of the feelings and/or lives of others. For that, you're just going to have to move on, Timekeeper.

"So we know his name." Aaron thought and took a deep breath. He then walked over to the child, making sure this wasn't some kind of trap. "I'm going to have too take this away from you."

Cautiously, Aaron snatched the pocketwatch away and put it in his pocket. While a hollow victory, it had to be done to possibly prevent this bad future.

"Good for fucking you." the kid shouted as gusts of wind began to circle around him. "You were always useless fifth wheel that always seemed to lag behind everyone else. You have always wanted to find the truth of what happened, never once thinking of the things that you've given up. You have taken up so many burdens, all just so you can be a guardian angel for those that have lost hope."

"So what?" Aaron remarked as the boy laughed for the unteenpth time. He and probably everyone else within the area were probably getting tired of that. They had a person they needed to find and this guy was just wasting their time. "Yes, I can't save everyone or learn the answer to every question I have. I'm fine with that. Each event in life is a chance to fix what you did wrong in the past. You got to keep going on, giving 110%. Even if at times it does seem hopeless."

With that speech, the pocketwatch was engulfed in a small sphere of light. When the ball of light disappeared, a nice silver pocketwatch with a red cross had taken the place of it. Elsewhere, the light from it was helping a certain rabbit and troll out. But will catch up with much later.

"Okay then." Aaron whispered and returned his gaze to his opponent.

"Oh well, you guys were boring anyway." the kid shouted as his face shifted into a grin. "Even then, you won't find Usagi here."

Both Aaron and Gentleman took a deep breath. As futile as their search had been, they at least had some new information to work off of.

"I'm lea-" before the kid could utter one more word, a longsword pierced through his chest. "Oh look! Here she is!"

Vanessa took a deep breath and stabbed her other longsword into the idiot's upper chest.

"Are you just going to leave now?" Vanessa shouted as the child finally complied and decided to not fuck any more things than he already had in this one chapter alone. "Now, take me to Fate."

Reluctantly, Aaron and Gentleman led the possible crazy psycho to where they were holding Aegiochusmon. Instead, they found Jestery standing in the cell and wearing the magical suppressing artifact thing around her neck. Cora was sitting in one chairs, totally not happy with the situation Jestery had gotten them into this time.

"Surprise! Jestery is here!" Jestery announced as the trio walked in. "Oh hi grandma!"

"I am not your grandma." Vanessa snarled as Cora rolled her eyes. "I refuse to acknowledge that slutty whore as my sister!"

Aaron looked towards Jestery, unsure of what the two girls were even talking about.

"You're still pissed about that?" Jestery added and leaned up against the glass. "It's been over three thousand years, I believe you can bury the hat-"

Clock Breaker!

Time then froze for a few brief seconds, allowing Cora to slam her left leg into the glass and rattle Jestery up a little bit. Afterwards, time resumed its normal pace.

"I guess I have to explain what happened." Cora whispered and took a deep breath. "For both you people and the viewers."

As she said that, Aaron, Gentleman and Vanessa sat themselves down and got themselves comfortable.

Notes:

Did not plan for this to be as long as it turned out to be. Oh well. Even then, a whole lot of this and probably the next chapter is pretty much setting up the next couple of arcs.

And yes, we will be see that annoying kid some more in the next arc.

Along with that, DAO has hit 2000 views! As such, I would like to thank everyone for their support.

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Next Time: Explanations and the possibility of burying the hatchet...