I don't own digimon.

Character: Mattmon

Universe: Adventure

Series: Heroes of the Twelve Realms

Notes:

This one was a long time coming. While not how I originally envisioned it, this will do quite nicely.

Chapter 38

Mattmon of Honessa

It was a slow day in Honessa.

For Mattmon, he was totally fine with that. Even with the lack of regulars at the bar, it still meant they had some customers to serve.

"But still could be better, don't you think?" a voice announced and the wolf anthro looked down towards the ground. There, a midget dressed in a green t-shirt and brown shorts stood beside him. Other than that, his most defining feature was his spiky blonde hair and green eyes. "While the regulars are here, we're just breaking even."

As he said that, a couple of humans walked in and sat themselves down at a booth. It appeared to be a couple of guys getting ready for an evening of blowing off steam. That or a bunch of tourists deciding this would be the place they would eat.

"Time to get to work." Mattmon whispered and grabbed a couple of menus. He then walked over to the group and handed them their menus. "Welcome to Wolfies! I'm Mattmon and I'll be your server."

None of them even attempted to acknowledge his presence. They probably saw him as just a guy in a costume and nothing more. Heck, they probably were disappointed in this place not being some Fnaf rip-off.

"Can you please not bring that phrase back up?" Mattmon whispered as he pulled his pen and pad of paper out.. "It really just pisses me off."

Fine then. I won't mention that stupid franchise.

"We would like three burgers and a side of fries, wolfie." one of the people remarked and Mattmon wrote it down. "Along with that, three beers."

The wolf jotted that down as well and headed towards the bar, grumbling a handful of unintelligible phrases as he reached his destination. He grabbed a couple beers from under the bar and placed them on a platter, casually making his back way over to the table.

"Here you go." Mattmon snarled and placed the beers on the table. "Are you happy now?"

The customers did not answer and just opened their beers.

"Sure, mutt." a customer answered and cracked a cocky smile in Mattmon's direction. "Whatever you say."

After saying that, they all took a long swig of their favorite brown liquid as Mattmon watched on for a few seconds. He then made his way over to the kitchen, where he was greeted by

"Rough time?" Gabu answered as he flipped the burgers. Mattmon didn't answer and jusr focused on the wall. "It will be alright."

"Sure…" Mattmon grumbled and placed his head against the wall. "Just like that time that slime and her boyfriend attempted to start a barfight at that tournament in Heck."

Gabu only rolled his eyes and flipped the burgers. While he understood his master's frustrations, it wouldn't help either of them at all if they just let it get to them. Those sort of things were out of their control.

"Here are the burgers." Gabu then handed Mattmon a platter with the burgers on it."At least you can try to be kind for once?"

He watched as the wolf silently walked back into the dining room, probably not even taking his partner's advice into consideration. Instead, he gave the customers their burgers without another word. It was better that way, for now.

"These burgers suck!" one of the humans announced. "Maybe you should try one yourself!"

He then flung the burger towards Mattmon, who decided to just slap it away with his left paw. How such undignified people managed to slip through the cracks.

Frost Smash!

Mattmon slammed his fist towards the customer and connected, watching as a large block of ice formed around him.

"Crap." he thought and took a deep breath. While it was probably better to keep his cool at this point, it wouldn't really change anything. "Gabu!"

His partner dashed out of the kitchen, only for a second burger to slam into him.

"I'll get you for that!" the midget shouted and charged towards the burger-thrower as Mattmon pulled his left arm back. As Gabu reached him, he connected with the little guy and launched him up into the air. Somehow, the human managed to land on the customer's head and began pounding on it. His opponent then began to flail around, a futile attempt at trying to remove Gabu from the useless cavity that he was misusing.

Binta!

After a few minutes of flailing, Gabu slammed his fist across the man's face as the target crumpled to the ground. He then jumped off and focused in on the other three men, giving them a stern glance.

"Uh… we'll just eat your burgers." all two of them announced and proceeded to dig in. "The meal was alright, I guess."

"Thanks?" Gabu and Mattmon just stood there as they watched their customers leave. At the very least, they paid for the bill with a gray piece of paper. "Okay then."

Mattmon picked the slip up and turned it over, revealing a crude portal drawn on the other side. Of all the currency accepted in Honessa, regular pieces of paper were not one of them.

"Indeed." Mattmon whispered and placed his left paw on the picture, only to have it get sucked in with the rest of his body ready to do the same. "Crap."

Gabu then grabbed hold as the two were sucked in...