OOC: Okay, here's the second batch of posts from my Digimon RPG, by a colaboration of authors. In this post respectively Kenichi, Bryan and Me (seperated by the lines)
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Conductor City turned out to be further away than they'd expected, so the group had decided to set up camp for the night. They had decided to set up in one of the more dense of the jungle. May and Jade were off searching for food and water, while Bryan, Kon, and Kaoru were setting up the tent. The leaves and branches made for a suitable tent. "How do you know we'll be safe here," Kon asked to no one in particular.
"Most likely, we won't be," Toramon told him. "There could be more evil Digimon around."
"We'll have to take turns guarding the camp site," Bryan said. "I'll go first, I always stay up late anyway."
"But, you don't have a Digimon to protect you," Kon said.
"Let Demidramon stay up with you," Kaoru said. "All right, Demidramon?" There was no reply, Kaoru eventually spotted Demidramon. He had fallen asleep from the exhaustion.
"Don't worry," Bryan said. "I'm armed and ready to defend myself."
"I guess so," Kon said. "And, judging by the way you handle your rapiers in chopping branches, you shouldn't have a problem."
While he was speaking, May and Jade appeared. Each had brought branches full of berries. The Digimon were also carrying berries. "Did you get anything to drink?" Kaoru asked.
"We found a river, not far north from here," May said.
"Plus, these berries are juicy," Jade said. "And delicious."
After they had all sat down for a quick dinner, everyone except Bryan went to sleep. He kept watch for a couple of hours, before he saw a flame in the distance. He decided to wait and see if it was a threat.
A short while later, Bryan heard some rustling in nearby bushes. He went over to investigate it. After only a couple of steps, a Red Condumon jumped out. Out of reflex, Bryan drew a rapier. The Red Condumon jumped at him, and Bryan strafed to his left. He thrusted his rapier at it, but it jumped back, barely evading it. Bryan followed up by swinging his rapier upwards, effectively launching the Red Condumon into the air. It landed a good 40 feet away, then ran off.
"What was that?" Jade asked, waking up.
"A Red Condumon, another evil Digimon," Bryan said. "You can go back to sleep, I handled it."
After she had gone to sleep, a voice in Bryan's head asked, Why didn't you handle the Keenomon like that?
I guess I was just shocked from the Digivolving, Bryan admitted. I won' t cower from battle like that again.
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Kaoru lay restlessly, his mind in a haze. He couldn't sleep, how could he? Too many things were weighing heavily in his mind. The Digital World, Digidestined, and Digimon were only the freshest concerns. So, after several hours of vain attempts at sleeping, he got up to take over the watch.
"Get some rest." Kaoru said as he relieved the other boy from duty.
"Alright." Bryan replied as he got up from his seat. "What about Demidramon?"
"Just let him be. I'll take care of it."
"Whatever you say."
When he was sure Bryan had gone, Kaoru walked northeast a short distance into a thicker grove of trees.
Jade slowly started to wake again from her light slumber. She had awaken once before already, when Bryan had sent away a Digimon. Now, she noticed another sound, like something pounding into something else. What was that noise? Slowly, she opened her jade-colored (NRP: Hehe, no pun intended) eyes and looked around their campsite. In their tents were Kon, May, Bryan,.......but where was Kaoru? Demidramon was curled up, fast asleep by the weakening campfire. He wouldn't leave his partner, would he?
Jade got up and stretched, yawning not because she was sleepy, but to get moisture into her eyes. Kaoru could probably take very good care of himself, but this world was strange. Already, they met four unusual little creatures, one Really Nasty Monster With Fangs and Claws(NRP: Called RNM's for short, or more specifically, RNMWFC's in this case), a curious lady who gave them necklaces called Crests, and one medium-sized Nasty Monster. Hearing the noises again, she headed for the source.
Her search brought her to a close stand of trees a short distance away from their campsite. Kaoru was in that copse, darting around and striking the trees with his feet and fists in a seemingly rhythmic motion. Jade walked slowly as she approached, watching Mr. Excellent do one of his Excellent things. As she came to stand outside of the thicket, Kaoru drove his fist straight at the largest tree in front of him. He stood there for a moment, breathing hard and letting blood ooze from his knuckle. After about a minute, he straightened up.
"Did I wake you, Jade-chan?" Kaoru asked without turning. Jade frowned at him, irritated. Why did he always have to be so polite and formal? She was on a first name basis with him, she had earned his trust enough. And it wasn't as if they were at school or something, it was just the two of them. At least he used her first name. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.
"No, not at all." Jade replied as he turned around and walked toward her. "Can't sleep. Y'know, just too many things going on."
"Come on, let's get back to the others."
As they walked back to camp, Kaoru kept his bleeding hand balled into a fist.
"Look, you're bleeding." She took notice of the crimson runnels from his knuckles. "You should get that cleaned up." Changing direction, she took him by the arm and led him to the river.
The river was not very large, only about sixteen meters wide at this part. It was also in a rather nice clearing, where the full moon could be seen in the cloudless night sky. At the bank, Kaoru knelt down and stuck both his hands in, letting the chilly water run over them. When he got up, Jade tied his handkerchief tightly around his left hand to stop the bleeding.
"Look at you, your hands are all raw." She stated, taking his other hand after bandaging that one. "How long were you doing that for?"
"About an hour and a half." Kaoru replied after looking at his watch.
"And why, may I ask, were you pounding your hands into pulp?"
"I just like to stay active when there is something troubling me. That was the best thing for me to do at this time." He went to sit down on the lush, green grass a few feet away, Jade sitting down beside him.
"What's bothering you?" He remained silent. "Come on, you can tell me."
"Its this entire 'Save the World' business. I need to get home, Yuzuriha probably got worried sick when I didn't come home today."
"Yuzuriha? Your sister?"
"My little sister. Its my job to take care of her, when my parents aren't home."
"I'm sure she'll be fine."
"No she won't!" He exclaimed, putting his hands behind his head as he fell back onto the grass, his voice taking on a tone which she never heard him use before. "She's very ill. She's never been too strong. She has to take countless medications to have some semblance of a normal life. And its my job to make sure she is taken care of when my parents are away."
"Well, where are your parents?"
"They're on an assignment out of town, in Kobe."
"Oh." A few moments of silence passed before she spoke again. "Don't think so much about it, Kaoru."
"No! Its my responsibility, my duty, and I must fulfill it."
"She'll be fine, trust me."
"I can't. I'm sorry, I just can't."
Neither of them spoke again for several minutes. They just sat there, not speaking a word. It was Kaoru who broke the silence.
"The moon is very beautiful, isn't it?" He said, his voice a lot calmer than it had been before.
"Huh?" Jade replied, puzzled.
"The moon, isn't it beautiful?" She looked up into the starry sky where the pale disc sat while it made its way across the night.
"Yes, it is."
"I always feel so relaxed, just staring up at it, its pale light illuminating the night. It's a real wonder of nature."
She turned to him as he spoke, noticing how the fierce intensity in his peculiar grey eyes had softened. This was a side of him Jade had never seen before. Had Kaoru dropped the facade of being a lonely soldier, or was this just an aspect to him he rarely revealed? But before she could ponder this question further, he noticed her eyes on him and he sat up again.
"Come on, we should get back to camp." He said.
"Yeah, I suppose." She replied and the two left for their campsite again.
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Jade lay slumped on the log across from Kaoru, Aquamon asleep at her feet,
staring vacantly into the flames.
"Well, I'll say this for your little outburst, it made good fire-wood." She
said, giggling as she tossed another log onto the fire.
"You slay me Jade-Chan."
She sighed and leant back, staring up at the sky, looking at the starscape
that was alien to her, none of the familiar constellations she knew from
sleeping on top of her apartment building during the summer. "We're a long
way from home K." She said, lamentedly whilst alo trying out a new nick-name
for Kaoru.
"Yeah, I guess. The plants, the land, the creatures, hell not even the sky's
the same."
"So how come we're not freaking out more? I mean, we're in an environment
that couldn't be any less familiar if it tried to with a group average age
of 12."
"Well, 11.8 to be exact," Kaoru chimed in.
"I know, but I suck at maths so I left out Kon and Bryan." Jade said,
choosing not to engage Kaoru about his perfectionism, "But my point is, we
got slingshot across the world, heck, maybe even the universe, placed in a
strange land where animals we've never heard of before can talk and told
that the world is ours to save, and yet as far as things go, we've remained
stable." Jade explained, lying back further to stare at the stars as she
talked.
"Yeah, well, I guess strength in numbers is what's doing it. I mean I keep
forgetting that Kon's only ten, what must this be like for him?"
"Oh, and the extra two years of life we have over him makes us the experts
on all this I take it?" Jade snorted.
"You know what I mean." Kaoru replied.
"Yeah, I think he's just trying to stay strong, you know, not show that he's
the youngest," she said, sitting up for a few seconds to gaze over at Kon's
dozing form and checking her watch, "He made me promise to wake him up for
his watch right about now, but to be honest I really don't have the heart to
do it, he looks so sweet when he's asleep, all balled up and curled into
Toramon." Jade said cooingly.
"He probably looks that way because he's not speaking right now. Or joking.
Or being sarcastic and a general wise-ass." Kaoru said bluntly.
"Heh. Point taken. But I really don't think I'll wake him for his watch, I
feel like talking for awhile. You up for it?" She asked, settling up next to
the fire.
"Always." Kaoru said, getting comfortable, "Oh and Jade?"
"Yeah?"
"Don't call me K."
They talked all through the night, letting the fire die into smoking embers
as the dawn approached, bathing them in brilliant, golden sunlight.
"How come the sunrise is better here?" Jade asked, rubbing her eyes.
"I guess its because it doesn't have to crawl past dozens of apartment
blocks and skyscrapers here." Kaoru suggested getting to his feet.
Jade got up and walked around a little, stretching out her aching legs
before looking over to the others, all curled up inside their jury-rigged
tent. "Aw, they look so sweet." She cooed, "Do you want to do or should I?"
She asked, looking over to Kaoru excitedly.
"Allow me," he replied, bringing two fingers to his mouth and letting out an
ear-splitting whistle.
The rest of the group sprung awake, at attention and ready to listen, well,
kind of. "Okay, whoever woke me up is going to die." came a grumble from the
tent.
"Listen up! We're moving on okay? We've gotta make it to Conductor city
soon, Bryan's partner is in trouble." Jade explained to the group, which
resulted in more grumblings from the tent.
"Who died and made her the boss."
"She probably feels like she earned it after having to do your shift for
you."
"Hey, you didn't do your shift either."
"So!"
"Why, oh why did we all have to share one tent?"
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Conductor City turned out to be further away than they'd expected, so the group had decided to set up camp for the night. They had decided to set up in one of the more dense of the jungle. May and Jade were off searching for food and water, while Bryan, Kon, and Kaoru were setting up the tent. The leaves and branches made for a suitable tent. "How do you know we'll be safe here," Kon asked to no one in particular.
"Most likely, we won't be," Toramon told him. "There could be more evil Digimon around."
"We'll have to take turns guarding the camp site," Bryan said. "I'll go first, I always stay up late anyway."
"But, you don't have a Digimon to protect you," Kon said.
"Let Demidramon stay up with you," Kaoru said. "All right, Demidramon?" There was no reply, Kaoru eventually spotted Demidramon. He had fallen asleep from the exhaustion.
"Don't worry," Bryan said. "I'm armed and ready to defend myself."
"I guess so," Kon said. "And, judging by the way you handle your rapiers in chopping branches, you shouldn't have a problem."
While he was speaking, May and Jade appeared. Each had brought branches full of berries. The Digimon were also carrying berries. "Did you get anything to drink?" Kaoru asked.
"We found a river, not far north from here," May said.
"Plus, these berries are juicy," Jade said. "And delicious."
After they had all sat down for a quick dinner, everyone except Bryan went to sleep. He kept watch for a couple of hours, before he saw a flame in the distance. He decided to wait and see if it was a threat.
A short while later, Bryan heard some rustling in nearby bushes. He went over to investigate it. After only a couple of steps, a Red Condumon jumped out. Out of reflex, Bryan drew a rapier. The Red Condumon jumped at him, and Bryan strafed to his left. He thrusted his rapier at it, but it jumped back, barely evading it. Bryan followed up by swinging his rapier upwards, effectively launching the Red Condumon into the air. It landed a good 40 feet away, then ran off.
"What was that?" Jade asked, waking up.
"A Red Condumon, another evil Digimon," Bryan said. "You can go back to sleep, I handled it."
After she had gone to sleep, a voice in Bryan's head asked, Why didn't you handle the Keenomon like that?
I guess I was just shocked from the Digivolving, Bryan admitted. I won' t cower from battle like that again.
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Kaoru lay restlessly, his mind in a haze. He couldn't sleep, how could he? Too many things were weighing heavily in his mind. The Digital World, Digidestined, and Digimon were only the freshest concerns. So, after several hours of vain attempts at sleeping, he got up to take over the watch.
"Get some rest." Kaoru said as he relieved the other boy from duty.
"Alright." Bryan replied as he got up from his seat. "What about Demidramon?"
"Just let him be. I'll take care of it."
"Whatever you say."
When he was sure Bryan had gone, Kaoru walked northeast a short distance into a thicker grove of trees.
Jade slowly started to wake again from her light slumber. She had awaken once before already, when Bryan had sent away a Digimon. Now, she noticed another sound, like something pounding into something else. What was that noise? Slowly, she opened her jade-colored (NRP: Hehe, no pun intended) eyes and looked around their campsite. In their tents were Kon, May, Bryan,.......but where was Kaoru? Demidramon was curled up, fast asleep by the weakening campfire. He wouldn't leave his partner, would he?
Jade got up and stretched, yawning not because she was sleepy, but to get moisture into her eyes. Kaoru could probably take very good care of himself, but this world was strange. Already, they met four unusual little creatures, one Really Nasty Monster With Fangs and Claws(NRP: Called RNM's for short, or more specifically, RNMWFC's in this case), a curious lady who gave them necklaces called Crests, and one medium-sized Nasty Monster. Hearing the noises again, she headed for the source.
Her search brought her to a close stand of trees a short distance away from their campsite. Kaoru was in that copse, darting around and striking the trees with his feet and fists in a seemingly rhythmic motion. Jade walked slowly as she approached, watching Mr. Excellent do one of his Excellent things. As she came to stand outside of the thicket, Kaoru drove his fist straight at the largest tree in front of him. He stood there for a moment, breathing hard and letting blood ooze from his knuckle. After about a minute, he straightened up.
"Did I wake you, Jade-chan?" Kaoru asked without turning. Jade frowned at him, irritated. Why did he always have to be so polite and formal? She was on a first name basis with him, she had earned his trust enough. And it wasn't as if they were at school or something, it was just the two of them. At least he used her first name. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.
"No, not at all." Jade replied as he turned around and walked toward her. "Can't sleep. Y'know, just too many things going on."
"Come on, let's get back to the others."
As they walked back to camp, Kaoru kept his bleeding hand balled into a fist.
"Look, you're bleeding." She took notice of the crimson runnels from his knuckles. "You should get that cleaned up." Changing direction, she took him by the arm and led him to the river.
The river was not very large, only about sixteen meters wide at this part. It was also in a rather nice clearing, where the full moon could be seen in the cloudless night sky. At the bank, Kaoru knelt down and stuck both his hands in, letting the chilly water run over them. When he got up, Jade tied his handkerchief tightly around his left hand to stop the bleeding.
"Look at you, your hands are all raw." She stated, taking his other hand after bandaging that one. "How long were you doing that for?"
"About an hour and a half." Kaoru replied after looking at his watch.
"And why, may I ask, were you pounding your hands into pulp?"
"I just like to stay active when there is something troubling me. That was the best thing for me to do at this time." He went to sit down on the lush, green grass a few feet away, Jade sitting down beside him.
"What's bothering you?" He remained silent. "Come on, you can tell me."
"Its this entire 'Save the World' business. I need to get home, Yuzuriha probably got worried sick when I didn't come home today."
"Yuzuriha? Your sister?"
"My little sister. Its my job to take care of her, when my parents aren't home."
"I'm sure she'll be fine."
"No she won't!" He exclaimed, putting his hands behind his head as he fell back onto the grass, his voice taking on a tone which she never heard him use before. "She's very ill. She's never been too strong. She has to take countless medications to have some semblance of a normal life. And its my job to make sure she is taken care of when my parents are away."
"Well, where are your parents?"
"They're on an assignment out of town, in Kobe."
"Oh." A few moments of silence passed before she spoke again. "Don't think so much about it, Kaoru."
"No! Its my responsibility, my duty, and I must fulfill it."
"She'll be fine, trust me."
"I can't. I'm sorry, I just can't."
Neither of them spoke again for several minutes. They just sat there, not speaking a word. It was Kaoru who broke the silence.
"The moon is very beautiful, isn't it?" He said, his voice a lot calmer than it had been before.
"Huh?" Jade replied, puzzled.
"The moon, isn't it beautiful?" She looked up into the starry sky where the pale disc sat while it made its way across the night.
"Yes, it is."
"I always feel so relaxed, just staring up at it, its pale light illuminating the night. It's a real wonder of nature."
She turned to him as he spoke, noticing how the fierce intensity in his peculiar grey eyes had softened. This was a side of him Jade had never seen before. Had Kaoru dropped the facade of being a lonely soldier, or was this just an aspect to him he rarely revealed? But before she could ponder this question further, he noticed her eyes on him and he sat up again.
"Come on, we should get back to camp." He said.
"Yeah, I suppose." She replied and the two left for their campsite again.
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Jade lay slumped on the log across from Kaoru, Aquamon asleep at her feet,
staring vacantly into the flames.
"Well, I'll say this for your little outburst, it made good fire-wood." She
said, giggling as she tossed another log onto the fire.
"You slay me Jade-Chan."
She sighed and leant back, staring up at the sky, looking at the starscape
that was alien to her, none of the familiar constellations she knew from
sleeping on top of her apartment building during the summer. "We're a long
way from home K." She said, lamentedly whilst alo trying out a new nick-name
for Kaoru.
"Yeah, I guess. The plants, the land, the creatures, hell not even the sky's
the same."
"So how come we're not freaking out more? I mean, we're in an environment
that couldn't be any less familiar if it tried to with a group average age
of 12."
"Well, 11.8 to be exact," Kaoru chimed in.
"I know, but I suck at maths so I left out Kon and Bryan." Jade said,
choosing not to engage Kaoru about his perfectionism, "But my point is, we
got slingshot across the world, heck, maybe even the universe, placed in a
strange land where animals we've never heard of before can talk and told
that the world is ours to save, and yet as far as things go, we've remained
stable." Jade explained, lying back further to stare at the stars as she
talked.
"Yeah, well, I guess strength in numbers is what's doing it. I mean I keep
forgetting that Kon's only ten, what must this be like for him?"
"Oh, and the extra two years of life we have over him makes us the experts
on all this I take it?" Jade snorted.
"You know what I mean." Kaoru replied.
"Yeah, I think he's just trying to stay strong, you know, not show that he's
the youngest," she said, sitting up for a few seconds to gaze over at Kon's
dozing form and checking her watch, "He made me promise to wake him up for
his watch right about now, but to be honest I really don't have the heart to
do it, he looks so sweet when he's asleep, all balled up and curled into
Toramon." Jade said cooingly.
"He probably looks that way because he's not speaking right now. Or joking.
Or being sarcastic and a general wise-ass." Kaoru said bluntly.
"Heh. Point taken. But I really don't think I'll wake him for his watch, I
feel like talking for awhile. You up for it?" She asked, settling up next to
the fire.
"Always." Kaoru said, getting comfortable, "Oh and Jade?"
"Yeah?"
"Don't call me K."
They talked all through the night, letting the fire die into smoking embers
as the dawn approached, bathing them in brilliant, golden sunlight.
"How come the sunrise is better here?" Jade asked, rubbing her eyes.
"I guess its because it doesn't have to crawl past dozens of apartment
blocks and skyscrapers here." Kaoru suggested getting to his feet.
Jade got up and walked around a little, stretching out her aching legs
before looking over to the others, all curled up inside their jury-rigged
tent. "Aw, they look so sweet." She cooed, "Do you want to do or should I?"
She asked, looking over to Kaoru excitedly.
"Allow me," he replied, bringing two fingers to his mouth and letting out an
ear-splitting whistle.
The rest of the group sprung awake, at attention and ready to listen, well,
kind of. "Okay, whoever woke me up is going to die." came a grumble from the
tent.
"Listen up! We're moving on okay? We've gotta make it to Conductor city
soon, Bryan's partner is in trouble." Jade explained to the group, which
resulted in more grumblings from the tent.
"Who died and made her the boss."
"She probably feels like she earned it after having to do your shift for
you."
"Hey, you didn't do your shift either."
"So!"
"Why, oh why did we all have to share one tent?"