Initia- WHAT
Lilithmon: That's a good boy. Now... call me mistress.
Me:...In... your... DREAMS!
Lilithmon: KYAAAA!
It had been sometime now since Wisemon appeared and started explaining the basic knowledge of Remnant. Such as the Creatures of Grimm in more detail, the four Kingdoms, Dust, the two races living there(The faunus sounded cool to the kids), and of course, the racism against the faunus.
This of course brought sorrow to the Chosen Children and their digimon for the faunus being discriminated for simply being born.
"Now, are there any other questions," Wisemon asked the Children, just to be on the safe side.
"...Are the three worlds conneceted," Koshiro asked, surprising everyone, "I mean, seeing as Agumon appeared in that Earth, and now the brothers are in Remnant."
That was actually a question, none of them thought to ask immediately. "I'm afraid I cannot answer that," Wisemon replied, "Most likely the later chapters will explain it."
"Okay, so who's reading next," Patamon asked, getting excited about this.
"I believe the list Novice left for me says... Iori," Wisemon said as he checked on a holographic screen on the reading order.
"M-me," Iori said nervously. He may be smart for a kid his age, but he's still a third grader.
"Do not worry, the text should be easy for you to read," Wisemon said as the book started to float to the smallest of the Children.
"Iori, you'll be fine," Armadimon said supportively.
"Yeah, I'll help if you need any," Miyako added, placing her hand on Iori's shoulder supportively.
It seemed like that was enough, since Iori opened the book with a look of determination.
Once the next morning rolled around…
"Good morning sleepyhead!"
The brothers hadn't realised they had been sleeping close to one Lie Ren and his best friend because of tragedy, Nora Valkyrie.
"What?" The Children weren't informed about most of the casts personal lives, so this came as a surprise.
"It goes into spoiler territory," Wisemon explained.
"Is she always like this?" Gyro asked Ren once the two pairs of tired eyes met while Nora was switching out of her pajamas inside her sleeping bag.
"...I guess that works," Sora said with a sigh of relief. She was wondering how they would change clothes in there.
"All the time." the magenta eyed boy said with a sigh, and the twins blinked a moment, before realising his voice was from Monty.
'Rest in peace' the twins thought at the same time, while also realising that Ren would have his original voice through it all, since this wasn't a webshow anymore.
"Who was Monty," Agumon asked, the explanation also leaving that part out.
"Monty Oum was the creator of the RWBY webshow," Wisemon explained, earning wide-eyed looks from everyone, "I have theorized that he had a subconcious link to Remnant, so what he thought was a figment of his imagination, was actually the future of this world."
"...What happened to him," Taichi asked next, realizing the implications all too well.
"After Volume 2 of RWBY was published, Monty Oum suffered a severe allergic reaction during a medical procedure. His voice acting as Ren was taken over by his brother Neath," Wisemon explained.
That seemed to brighten up everyone on the fact that the series did continue after the man's death.
"So uh...think she's gonna lose steam anytime soon?" Pierce asked semi-rhetorically as Nora was still talking like a chipmunk on a sugar rush.
"No," Ren sighed.
"...She's worse than Jun," Daisuke commented. His sister is quite a chatter-box when she feels like it. But Nora was putting her to shame.
"Uhh-huh," Veemon agreed, seeing as he had heard the girl a few times.
"Oh…" Pierce said with a sigh.
"Betcha you're gonna be on team with these two." Gyro told his brother.
"Knowing my semblance, it won't bother to turn itself on for that." Pierce muttered.
"Huh? What's his semblance then," Takeru asked in curiosity.
"It will be explained," Wisemon replied in monotone.
"If you do become one of my teammates, I apologise in advance for Nora aggravating you." Ren said with a bow.
"Eh, its cool. At least she seems nice," Pierce waved off, before extending his hand. "Pierce Vermillion, and this is my brother, Gyro."
"Lie Ren," Ren nodded, taking the hand...before Nora was suddenly leaning on his shoulder.
"And I'm Nora Valkyrie!" she grinned.
"Don't Valkyrie's usually have pegasi?" Gyro muttered with a grin.
"That's what I always say!" Nora exclaimed with probably the brightest grin possible.
No one could help it, they were laughing at that little tidbit. And the fact that a girl older than them was more hyperactive than any of them were, even when they were smaller.
Ren shook his head in amusement at his friend's personality "So, what brings you to Beacon?"
"We mostly came here since our brother is a teacher here, but also killing monsters sounds like it could be a doable job, you know?" Pierce said with a shrug, using the believable reason the brothers had come up with.
"...How far have they thought this through," Jo wondered, finding it both impressive and slightly disturbing.
Oh they planned on telling the teams someday, but only when they had their trusts, so they didn't get thrown into the loony bin.
"Yeah... I don't think anyone would've believed them," Ken said with an awkward smile. He still remebers how his parents almost threw him into a loony bin, if he hadn't showed Wormmon.
Ren nodded, accepting the reason for what it was "It's pretty much the same for the two of us."
"Yeahp! We're gonna kill monsters together!" Nora exclaimed, pumping her fist in the air.
"...Okay, I have to ask," Iori said as he paused on reading, "If something terrible happened to her, then how can she be this cheerful?"
"It's because of the tragedy she's like this," Wisemon replied easily.
"I don't get it," Iori said, not understanding how that could be.
"...Think of it this way," Wisemon said, "She doesn't want to feel sad so badly, that her personality turned into this."
"That doesn't make sense," Iori said in annoyance.
"...I think I understand," Ken said, even though he wished he didn't.
"Ken..." Wormmon sounded out.
"Ken, it's okay now," Miyako said trying to be cheerful for him.
"Yeah, you heard her," Daisuke added in. It seemed to have worked too, seeing as Ken wasn't clutching his partner as hard as he did a moment ago.
Gyro blinked, before he figured he might try to start this early "So, are you two together-together?" he asked the orange haired girl.
At that Nora's face turned red "W-what? No! Noooo, nonononono! W-We're just really good friends, you know?"
"Uh-huh," Mimi commented dryly
"Uh-huh." Gyro said dryly as he looked at her. "Well...anyway, we'd better get ready for whatever they got in store for us today. Wouldn't want to go this far and fail just cause we didn't get ready," he chuckled at the end.
"Wow, an echo," Daisuke said with a snicker. Which was shared by Veemon.
"Oh my gosh, you're right!" Nora said in a rather exaggerated gasp. "Ren, we gotta get ready, we gotta make a plan!" she exclaimed before running off.
Ren managed to give the brothers a polite nod, before Nora came back and pulled him along.
No one could resist chuckling at that comedic moment.
The two brothers watched them leave, silent for a few moments, before "Shove em in a closet and threaten Nora with no pancakes till she confesses?" Gyro asked suddenly without looking at Pierce.
"Uhhh... what," Sora said, again hearing something completely over the top.
Wisemon gave the Child of Love his attention, "If you mean shoving them into a closet, then these two have shown to like each other as more than friends. But if you mean about the pancakes, then that's Nora's favorite food."
"...Wow," Mimi commented, not sure if she approved of that kind of torture either.
"You read my mind." Pierce shot back.
"So...we'd better get to our lockers and actually get ready, or the plan is screwed," Gyro suddenly pointed out, to which they both made their way to the lockers.
When the brothers did get to the lockers, they blinked as they saw a surprising but not unwelcome sight.
That is, Jaune interacting with Pyrrha, albeit he was being a bit of a clumsy dork, but the fact that Pyrrha was smiling and helping him was good.
"Are those two really meant to each other," Yamato had to ask.
Wisemon had a contemplative look as he searched for the right words, "Yes." And settled with simplicity.
"Huh, and all we had to do was stop Weiss and Ruby from having a rough meeting, go figure." Pierce muttered lowly.
"I don't think that was really it," Koshiro said, earning everyone's attention, "There are too many factors to pin a cause to one singular action."
Everyone nodded at that, seeing as it made sense.
"Well, here's hoping the rest of the plan goes this smoothly," Gyro chuckled slightly. "Who knows, maybe if we stop the next disaster, some random guy will be able to stab Salem and end the whole thing," he whispered the last bit as a joke.
"Who's Salem," Palmon asked, seeing as that was also left out of the explanation.
"It will be revealed in time," Wisemon replied.
"Well, that would be anticlimactic, but convenient as hell… hey wasn't there a story where a Gamer went and basically Kamikazed himself against her because he realised he had become a total dick?" Pierce asked.
"What?" Came out of everyone who glanced at the wise digimon questioningly.
"A story where an author puts their own... 'twist' into an existing story. I believe it's called, fanfiction," Wisemon replied easily.
"Oh... right," Miyako said, having red one or two of them in her free time.
"Yeah, and somehow that story inspired another one that was a bit better because the main character hasn't lost sight of himself, well, not yet at least, and I hope he never does, I mean, he has a crazy sister, but the guy is pretty cool… you know, I actually submitted some event ideas to that author a few years back." Gyro said conversationally.
"Okay, I'm curious," Gatomon said having thought of something, "Are there these fanfiction things about us?"
"Yes, but if you want details I believe you should ask Novice. Whenever he's done with Lilithmon," Wisemon replied. Reminding everyone what their host is probably doing with the curvaceous Demon Lord... Well, those who had imagination for it anyway.
Moving on!
"Huh, neat. So, we good to go?" Pierce asked as he slipped on his jacket.
"Think so yeah, plus Jaune seems to be doing well, so everything should be good, come on, let's go." Gyro said with a nod as the two headed for the cliffs.
Shortly after, the two brothers found themselves standing on platforms alongside all the other students, to which they couldn't help but notice that Jaune still seemed VERY nervous...not that they could blame the poor guy. They may have helped with his fighting skills, but he still had a bit of a confidence issue.
"I guess some things are easier to shake off than others," Takeru said sympathetically.
"I guess," Yamato added in, remembering his own issues back when they were fighting the Dark Masters.
It didn't take long before Ozpin and Glynda arrived, and this time, the brothers decided to pay attention, having a feeling something would be different.
"Now that you're all gathered here, it's time for the test that will decide your team members for the next 4 years you'll be spending at Beacon. Know that everything you find in the forest will be trying to kill you. As for how team members are formed, the first person whose eyes you meet once you are within the forest will be your partner, as for the rest of your team… well, that's a surprise as to how we decide that, but know that your goal is to retrieve a relic hidden within ruin inside the forest. Finally, because we had a bit of an odd number of applicants this year, two students have been made special partners in a way, as if you find them, they will act as a fifth member of your team, as for who they are… I'll let you figure that out yourselves." Ozpin explained everything neatly, the brothers being sure Azure had a hand in that, just as they were sure the special students were the two of them… that or they were Jaune and Ruby. Either way, they didn't have any time to ponder that as the next phase was starting...seeing as Ozpin was talking about them 'flying' into the forest...and some students already being launched. True enough…
"Wait, what!?" Everyone shouted again, seeing as the footage showed students being launched into the forest.
"Is Ozpin insane!?" Miyako, Mimi and Sora cried out in unison alongside their partners. Hikari had covered her mouth in shock.
"That's seriously irresponsible," Jo agreed with an accusing look at the screen, "What if they die?"
"If they died, then they shouldn't have gone to Beacon in the first place," Wisemon said with cold logic.
"But what about their families," Ken asked, feeling that no parent would want to hear their child dying in an initiation.
Wisemon sighed a little, "Do you Children truly believe that the school would do something like this, without knowing that their students are more than capable of handling it?"
"...He's not wrong," Gatomon said, being the most hardened out of the bunch, "These guys must be strong and skilled enough to survive that fall somehow."
The Children along with their digimon still felt a little apprehensive. But considering Beacon is a combat school and these teens were training to be monster slayers, they decided to have faith.
"Wait...are you uh...giving us parachutes or something?" Jaune asked cautiously.
"No, you will all be making use of your own landing strategies," Ozpin said, a small quirk on the side of his lip betrayed his amusement.
"Oh, so that's how they're supposed to survive," Veemon commented, despite not understanding what landing strategy meant.
"Wait, did you say...landing strategy?" Jaune gulped, and at the nod he got, all he could do was slump a little. "Oh…" was all he could say, before he was promptly launched into the forest.
"Huh, was wondering when we'd hear the wilhelm scream." Gyro said as he followed Jaune's flailing form with his eyes.
Despite Jaune being possibly launched to his death, the Children along with their digimon couldn't help but laugh at the comedy of the situation.
It was at that point that Pierce happened to notice that...they were next. "...brace yourself," was all he could say, before he too was launched.
"OKay, that's starting to look awesome," Taichi had to say, with Yamato agreeing silently.
In response, Gyro quickly pulled down his goggles over his eyes and pulled out his swords, getting flung through the air a second later.
Ozpin watched as the last few students were sent sailing through the air, sipping from his coffee "Glynda… you know how I said this year would be interesting this morning?"
"Yes?" the deputy headmistress repeated in confusion.
"I take it back, it's going to be extremely confusing, I just can't put my finger on why though." Ozpin said, before sipping more of his coffee.
The Children had some idea of why that would be, but they would still wait with baited breath.
Glynda looked at him for a moment, then to the students, before sighing "Where's Qrow so I can steal his flask?"
"Who's Qrow," Wormmon asked out of curiosity.
"A skilled huntsman, as well as Ruby's and Yang's uncle, who likes to drink to the point where people say he's always drunk," Wisemon replied. Earning apprehensive looks at the "always drunk" part.
Gyro took a deep breath as he was still riding on the momentum of him being flung, before letting it out with a smile "I love this." he said, before pointing the tips of his blades at his sides, and hitting a switch on the hilt, which, somehow, made blade extensions come out of it and basically cover the holes between his arms and body, almost looking like a pair of wings or a flying squirrel's membrane now.
And with a small application of his semblance to keep the wind riding under him, as well as making sure it was warm, Gyro was basically flying through the air, steering around by twisting his body this way and that.
"That looks awesome!" Came out of most of the guys at the sight of Gyro's new wings and the use of his semblance.
"That... That... How does that even work," Koshiro asked, now wanting to know how Gyro's weapon was made for the sake of knowing.
Elsewhere in the skies, a rotor was heard spinning, before Pierce was seen slowly descending while holding onto Pandora, about half if it's length having shifted into something akin to the blades of a helicopter, spinning fast enough to slow his descent from the skies.
"Uhhh... whuh," Koshiro's brain was further short-circuiting at the impossible speed Pandera was rotating without any visible engine.
But the other guys didn't care, they just marveled at how awesome this thing looks. Along with the girls.
As he kept going down, eventually it ended with him going down through the forest canopy, the blades spinning fast enough to cut through the branches around him.
When he came out the bottom of the surprisingly thick canopy, he looked down, and was surprised to see a giant black snake slithering towards Lie Ren.
"That's a King Taijitu. A snake Grimm," Wisemon commented, knowing that the Children might be wondering.
He knew the martial artist was aware of its presence, but he figured he might as well make this faster, quickly shifting his weapon back into Naginata mode, aiming the blade downwards, and letting gravity do the rest of the work, as the blade went right through it's head, piercing the middle of the brain.
"Whoa," everyone stared in awe. Wisemon had made it very clear that the creatures of Grimm are just masses of darkness without a soul. Which is why they didn't think much of the snake Grimm being killed.
As for the second head of the King Tajitu… well, it was taken care of easily as Nora suddenly appeared hanging upside down within the canopy, using Magnhild to fire a grenade down it's gullet.
Silence for a moment, before Pierce scrambled away with Pandora in hand, as the white head blew up, leaving nothing but smoke behind.
"Okay, that was definitely badass," Taichi said, no longer containing his excitement.
"Damn straight," Yamato agreed with his best friend.
Slowly, Pierce and Nora looked at each other, before giving out a silent thumbs up.
Ren looked dryly at the two of them 'I guess… there's no escaping this huh?' he thought with a sigh, before a wry smile graced his lips. 'I suppose there are definitely worse people I could have been partnered with.'
"I find that hard to believe," Tentomon commented.
Back above the skies, Gyro was still flying around, looking for a good person to partner up with "This… is harder than I thought."
He continued to fly around, before spotting a clearing in the forest, seeing two familiar splotches of color, one sitting in the middle, and the other moving around the clearing.
"Huh… guess I found them after all." he said, before going into a dive.
Meanwhile, down on the ground, Weiss was walking around the clearing, trying to figure out in which direction the ruins were, Ruby watching her walk around.
"It's this way!... No, that way!... wait, no, it's definitely over there!" Weiss said, moving around, having been doing this for several minutes now.
"They're lost," Patamon said, earning small laughs at stating the obvious.
"So… when are you gonna admit we're lost?" Ruby asked in honest curiosity.
"We aren't lost! Just… misguided." Weiss answered after a moment to find another word.
"Isn't that the same thing," Gomamon asked with a head tilt, earning more laughs.
"Ok, even I know that's just a synonym for lost." Ruby shot back dryly.
"That's what I said," Gomamon said.
"Yes, yes, we noticed," Jo said in amusement.
"We aren't!" Weiss restated, before marching directly in a specific direction "The ruins are that way!"
Before she could take too many steps, Gyro landed right in front of her, feet first and crouched down, before rising up to his full height, actually scaring her a bit as the sun was right behind him and shadowed him well.
"Actually, the ruins are in the other direction," he said simply.
"Of course they are," Daisuke said with a snicker, along with Veemon.
"You have no room to talk, Daisuke," Miyako commented dryly.
"Oh please, name one time," the frizzy haired boy said confidently.
"...How about the time you got the classes wrong," Miyako said, remembering how he appeared in her class once, much to Daisuke's embarrassment.
"I literally woke up five minutes ago that day, and I was panicking," Daisuke defended himself in embarrassment.
Deciding to save Daisuke from further embarrassment, Iori kept reading.
The white haired girl, currently pale as a sheet, nodded mechanically and slowly turned before walking in the opposite direction she had been heading.
Ruby looked at Weiss, before looking at Gyro with a raised eyebrow "Um… how did you get here from the sky?"
"By flying," Biyomon stated the obvious.
In response, Gyro grinned as he held up his swords, still in their fan like mode "By combining these with my semblance, I can basically fly." he spoke proudly.
What he didn't say was that the fan like mode had originally been intended as a sort of defensive mode, and only became a wing appendage once he discovered his semblance.
Ruby's eyes slowly widenned, and Gyro saw as her pupils slowly took on a star shape as she grinned widely "That's so cool!"
"She said it," Takeru admitted. Though the girls were more focused on how cute Ruby looked despite being older than any of them.
He chuckled in response to that "Thanks, though, we should probably catch up with Weiss before she gets too far."
Ruby blinked at his words, before nodding in agreement as she got up and started following after her white haired partner.
Gyro spared a moment to look behind him, seeing a large black feather falling down, making him grin before he followed after Ruby. Once they caught up to Weiss, the white haired girl had a thought.
"...That bird's going to be a problem isn't it," Gabumon commented.
"What makes you say that," Patamon asked.
"...Just a feeling," the pelt wearing digimon replied.
"So...how far away are the ruins from here?" she asked.
"At our current pace...we'll be there in an hour or two, assuming we don't get jumped by Grimm," Gyro said simply.
"...I'm starting to think Gabumon is onto something," Hawkmon commented on the slight jinx.
"Of course…" Weiss sighed. She didn't have any issues with the long trek, but she HAD hoped they were closer than that. However, Ruby had heard her...and happened to see the shape of a large Nevermore flying overhead...and that got the gears turning in the young reaper's head.
"Hm...guys, I think I have an idea," she said with a clever smirk.
For some reason, that did not sound good to the Children.
"You do? Well, lay it on us," Gyro shrugged, hiding a knowing grin. This was going to be interesting.
"THIS WAS A HORRIBLE IDEA!" Weiss shouted as they hung on for dear life.
"Did they just climb on the back of a giant flying monster bird," Jo asked, feeling more than weirded out.
"Yes they did," Iori said, as the footage showed that the thing Weiss clung to was black feathers.
"NO WAY! THIS IS AWESOME! THIS IS WAY FASTER THAN WHEN I FLY ON MY OWN!" Gyro shot back just as loudly as he too held on tightly, though he had a large grin on his face.
"They're crazy," Hikari said, thinking this can't end well.
"I KNEW ONE OF YOU WOULD LIKE IT!" Ruby shouted over the howling winds as the trio was holding onto a Nevermore that had been passing overhead, making liberal use of their semblances to reach its height and latch onto it.
"YOU TWO ARE INSANE!" Weiss accused.
"That's what Hikari just said," Daisuke commented, though he did agree that this looked awesome.
"BUT IT'S WORKING, RIGHT? I CAN SEE THE RUINS ALREADY!" Gyro retorted. "WHAT NEXT RUBY?"
At that though, there was a sudden pause.
"...Did she...," Hawkmon asked, not daring to finish that sentence.
Gyro didn't even bother to look ahead, just sighing as he hung his head "She already jumped, just great." he said, before putting an arm around Weiss's waist and jumping off the Nevermore as well, though he added insult to injury by pointing his finger at it with a finger bang motion, and concentrated wind pressure slammed into it's back.
Weiss was practically screaming into his ear as she had her arms around his neck, making him roll his eyes as he shifted her to his back.
"Just relax, I have this covered." Gyro said as he went into a dive, using his semblance to push himself down faster, catching up next to Ruby, putting an arm around her shoulder as he once more used his semblance, this time to slow them down as much as he could without making it jarring and breaking their neck.
What surprised him though was a blur zooming past the air just below them after a certain point, seeing it crash into a tree right after.
'Huh, guess Jaune still got flung like a maniac.' he thought to himself, before slowing down their descent even further, thankfully Weiss had finally stopped screaming, so it wasn't murder on his ears.
"What flung him," Agumon asked, having the capacity to ask, while the others were still taking in the craziness.
"You will see it soon enough," Wisemon replied, as he had taken to checking the contents of Novice's library.
With practiced ease, he touched down on the ground, Ruby doing so with a stumbled before getting scooped up into a hug by Yang, while Weiss fell down to the ground, hyperventilating.
"Well, that was a fun experience." Gyro said with a grin.
"You rode in on a Nevermore." Blake said dryly.
"You know it!" Gyro and Ruby said together, before high fiving each other.
"...I'm starting to think that if any digimon show up in this world, they wouldn't stand a chance," Takeru dead-panned.
"Etemon," Taichi said suddenly.
"Myotismon," Gatomon followed up.
"The Dark Masters," Mimi said the last one in annoyance.
"...I take it back," Takeru said, remembering the damage those digimon caused. Especially Devimon, who could control Adult level digimon.
Weiss however was glaring at them with murder in her eyes as she shakily got on her feet. She looked ready to begin verbally tearing into them, but before she could start…
A loud crash was heard as a tree was knocked over, someone being heard screaming while it happened, before everyone noticed that three figures were riding in on an Ursa, two of them holding on for their lives, and the third treating it like a joy ride.
Gyro stared dryly at the fact the two hanging on where Pierce and Ren, while the one who was laughing like a maniac was Nora.
"And they're supposed to be older than us," Sora said again. Thinking that these teenagers would be a little more responsible.
"Teenagers are emotionally unstable," Wisemon said sagely.
Before the Ursa could get any further in its movements, a bullet tore through its skull, everyone turning to Blake in surprise as the now headless beast slumped down.
"What? It was an easy target?" the hidden faunus said with a shrug.
"...fair enough," the other shrugged.
"Aww, it's broken." Nora pouted as the grimm slowly disappeared under her.
Everyone felt a little apprehensive on both Blake shooting the Grimm like that, and at Nora treating it like a broken toy.
"What the hell is her malfunction?" Pierce asked Ren haggardly.
"I haven't figured it out yet." Ren shot back as the two of them pulled themselves off the ground.
"That's so not good," Tentomon said, fearing this human that sounds like a psychopath.
"Help." the two of them heard a voice beneath them rasp out, making them look down to see Jaune… though they both had their elbows in his face, squishing it up.
Everyone winced at that.
Immediately they got off of him and helped him up. "Whoops! Sorry Jaune," Pierce quickly said.
"It's...fine…" Jaune managed to say, albeit still looking a little dizzy.
"Well… that just happened." Yang said as she took in the scene.
Even after everything they've seen when dealing with the digimon, the Children felt like they were losing braincells every second. Seriously, they were trying to treat this like an action anime, but it was hard when they knew that this world is real.
Back to Ren, he sighed, turning to Nora, about to scold her, only to see nothing but a blinking outline of her, making him look around wildly as leaving her alone was never a good idea.
Fortunately, it seemed she was only looking at the Chess Pieces left around the ruins, particularly the Rook. As such, Gyro and Pierce, despite knowing it was coming, couldn't hold back the wry smiles as they heard her break into song as she balanced the Rook on her head.
"Really," Yamato commented at Nora's song.
Meanwhile, Weiss was looking around, making sure nothing would interrupt her this time, as she stood up, opening her mouth, about to verbally tear into the two adrenaline junkies she was partnered with-
And then a large and old Deathstalker ran into the clearing, chasing after Pyrrha.
"Let me guess, was it that thing that flung Jaune," Armadimon asked.
"Yes it was," Wisemon said simply.
Weiss's eyebrow twitched at the sight, while Gyro grabbed the remaining knight piece and tossed the remaining rook piece to Jaune, who fumbled for only a second this time before catching it and putting it in his pocket.
A beat passed, before several people had to back away from Weiss while the ground around her started freezing up.
'Huh, so apparently Yang isn't the only one who can do that.' Gyro thought with a sweatdrop as he looked at the white haired girl.
"Whoa," the Children and their digimon commented on the icy fury.
"Sooo," Wormmon asked Wisemon,"Is Yang's fury the opposite?"
"If by opposite you mean fiery, then yes," the wise digimon said.
"Is everything QUITE finished adding more Grimm to our plate?" the white haired girl asked, her voice conveying the very image of tranquil fury.
Pierce WANTED to say yes, he really did. But one look upward told him otherwise. "Uh…." was all he could say, before pointing upward at the giant Nevermore now circling back for them.
Weiss's face was the definition of demonic as she pulled out Myrtenaster from her hip "We're eating chicken tonight!"
For some reason, Biyomon and Hawkmon felt singled out with that kind of threat, which made them jump into their partner's lap for comfort.
No one could blame them.
'Holy hell that's actually scary.' all the others thought in unison as they stepped away from her more. However, that was a sentiment the two large Grimm clearly didn't share as they continued to charge.
"Attack!" Ruby shouted, holding up Crescent Rose.
"Are they seriously planning to fight them," Miyako asked, sure they did use the huge bird for transport, but fighting them?
"Miyako... they were trained to fight these things," Ken said, even though he was just as worried.
"Let's get to a bigger area so we have more space!" Gyro recommended as the ones that had means of attacking long range shot at the Grimm, not only to slow them down, but to keep the attention on them.
With the two Grimm coming after them, they quickly split up, Gyro running after Ruby, while Pierce went to assist Pyrrha who was still being chased by the Deathstalker. Shifting Pandora into its grappling hook function, he used it to first get himself up in a tree, and then fired it again, this time at the grimm, wrapping around one of its legs, he didn't waste any time at all, hitting a switch on Pandora, sending an electrical shock down the cable, and into the grimm, getting a screech of pain from it.
"Catch up with the others! I'll be right behind you!" Pierce shouted at the spartan, earning a nod from her as she ran towards the group that had been practically zig zagging around to keep the Nevermore occupied, quickly joining in on having its attention split between everyone.
At the same time, Gyro had used his wind Semblance to launch himself high in the air, and quickly used Ascalon to glide down so that he was grabbing onto the back of the Nevermore. "Thank you, Shadow of The Colossus," he couldn't help but chuckle as he began stabbing away at the Grimm's unprotected back, looking for any openings in the hard feathers. "We'll keep them busy!" He shouted to the others. "Get out of here and we'll catch up!" he said as he stabbed one of his swords into the right spot it seemed, as the Nevermore screeched and veered all over the place trying to get him off.
"Nice," Yamato commented with a smile at damage being dealt.
Ruby was about to argue, but Jaune was the first to stop her. "We have to go. They know what they're doing. Trust me, they'll be fine!" he said urgently. He didn't like leaving the brothers alone, but he also knew that they were tough, and this wouldn't be enough to stop them.
"Hopefully," Taichi said, seeing that they have yet to see their real fighting prowess.
After a moment's hesitation, Ruby nodded, as the group of 8 ran on towards a ravine and a larger set of ruins.
It was minutes later, after they arrived, that so too did Pierce, the Deathstalker right on his tail "Keep going! Get to the bridge!" he shouted, the others doing so as they all ran towards the stone bridge over the ravine.
At the same time, Gyro was doing his best to try and steer the Nevermore somewhere else, but it seemed dead set on crashing through the ruins in the ravine "LOOK OUT!" he shouted at the top of his lungs towards those crossing it, which at the moment just so happened to be Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang, the eventual members of JNPR stopping short when they heard him.
As soon as it crashed through the bridge, Gyro jumped off, gliding to land next to Ruby "I don't think he's going to leave us alone."
"Like a lot of digimon we had to face," Taichi commented having surprisingly fond memories of those times.
And then to each of the Children's confusion, a music started playing. But it stopped the moment Iori paused in reading.
"You may want to completely read this to appreciate the music," Wisemon adviced. Wondering if Novice had the time to set up This Will Be The Day to play at this fight.
(Play This Will Be The Day. By Jeff Williams)
"Then let's take him!" she shot back with a determined nod.
"Doesn't seem like we have a choice," Blake nodded, standing by her side.
"Well then, let's make it regret messing with us," Yang grinned as she stood by their side.
"I think I may end up enjoying this more than I should." Weiss added with a slight smirk.
"Well then, looks like we're in agreement. Time to roast this bird," Gyro chuckled. "Just a warning though, those feathers are HARD."
"Yeah, get that thing," Agumon cheered, along with the other digimon.
"Then let's hit it with everything we got," Yang grinned, as the four girls started taking advantage of the ruins and soon got on to varying vantage points, all of which gave them clear shots of the Grimm. Thankfully Gyro could improvise something as well, making various points in the air around the grimm pop like small implosions. The Grimm screeched angrily, the various attacks, while not doing much damage, were VERY annoying, forcing it to veer off course, avoiding any of its attackers as it soon tried to circle around again.
It managed to get to the other side of the ruins, the group not getting around fast enough to stop it as it crashed through them and toppled them, making them seemingly fall down into the ravine, before they all used various ways to get back up, such as Ruby literally wall jumping off the various stones, Weiss using her glyphs, Gyro flying back up, Blake using her ribbon, and Yang shooting herself up with shotgun fire.
"Awesome," Gomamon cheered, and now the Children were also appreciating the action for what it was. Stupidly awesome.
"We need a plan if we're going to take this thing down." Weiss said with an aggravated sigh as she landed next to Ruby and Gyro.
Ruby looked around, trying to think of something, before seeing Blake swinging herself up, an idea sparking in her mind "I think I got one, Gyro, come with me, Weiss, cover us." she said, earning nods from her partners who did as requested.
Down below, while the future team RWBY and Gyro were dealing with the Nevermore, the future team JNPR along with Pierce were busy dealing with the Deathstalker. Strictly speaking it wasn't the HARDEST enemy, in that it was really kinda slow relatively speaking. The problem was that its shell was proving to be annoyingly hard to deal with. Not to mention they were running somewhat short on terrain as it charged at them with all the intent of a tank.
"Any one of us could take that thing down," Veemon said, puffing his chest in pride.
"Yeah, at Adul level anyway," Gatomon admitted, picturing how that Deathstalker would be roasted by Greymon or Garurumon. Heck, ExVeemon could probably destroy it too.
"Okay, hitting it isn't working! We need a new plan!" Pierce said as once again the Deathstalker shrugged off another volley of bullets.
"I know, gimme a bit to try and think of something." Jaune told him as he tried to find any weak points in the armor.
"It would certainly help if it had trouble finding us." Ren said idly as he kept shooting at it just to annoy it.
Jaune snapped his fingers at that "That's it! Pierce! Pyrrha! Stab it's eyes! We gotta impair it's sight!"
"Good idea," Palmon said, though she was thinking about how she could just as easily do it as Togemon. One good Needle Spray and bye bye eyesight.
"Will do!" Pyrrha said in agreement as she and Pierce ran in, Nora grabbing it's attention with a grenade to the face which also served to blind it for a moment.
Taking the chance, Pyrrha and Pierce stabbed it's larger eyes first, earning a screech from the creature before hurrying to stab the smaller ones managing to get most of them before it tried to snip them with it's pincers.
Pyrrha had her shield to protect herself, wedging it between the pincers, but Pierce seemed to be a prime target… at least that's what the Deathstalker thought before Jaune came in and uppercutted it's pincer with his shield, keeping it's momentum and actually clamping down on it's other arm.
Let's just say the result earned an even louder shriek, as the grimm actually cut off one of it's pincers.
Everyone winced at the humiliating way to lose an arm.
They all stared at it for a moment, confused at the turnout, Jaune looking down at his fist "Huh… that was lucky."
"That was freaking awesome!" Nora hollered out with a grin.
"It's not dead yet though." Pyrrha cautioned as she retrieved her shield.
"We need to find a way to break through its shell." Ren said as they saw the grimm try to rear itself up to attack them again.
"Our weapons aren't working though," Jaune said.
"Then what about we use another weapon?" Pierce pointed out, before pointing at the flailing stinger tail. "I hear scorpions can die from their own venom. Think that applies to Grimm too?"
"It's definitely worth a shot." Jaune said, before turning to Ren "Think you can get its stinger lose?"
Ren nodded wordlessly before running at the grimm, jumping over it's now lone pincer and quickly scaling up the stinger and unloading a whole clip from Stormflower into the point that connected the tail and the stinger.
The grimm seemed to be getting extremely aggravated, as it trashed around before managing to buck Ren off, though Pierce had gotten behind just in case and caught him, cushioning the impact. Fortunately, even if he hadn't cut off the stinger, it was already getting loose. Something Jaune noticed, and quickly looked around till he spotted Pyrrha's shield.
"That's some nice teamwork," Gabumon commented.
"Pyrrha! Shield!" Jaune shouted as he pointed at the loose stinger.
Pyrrha followed his finger, before nodding in understanding "On it!" she said and flung her shield like a discus, striking the loosed point of the stinger and cutting through it, making it fall on top of the grimm and finally break through it's armor.
"Nora! Coup de grace!" Pierce shouted to the girl who gave a salute, before rocketing off the ground, and with a small summersault, came down with the full force of her hammer, slamming the stinger into the Grimm. If being impaled in the brain didn't kill it, then the poison should, evident by how the Grimm stumbled a bit forward...before falling off the cliff.
"Now that's an overkill," Veemon said with a smile.
"All of us in our Adult forms would've been more of an overkill," Armadimon couldn't help saying.
"I alone would've been an overkill too," Wisemon said in amusement.
"Well...if being stabbed and poisoned doesn't kill it, that drop sure will," Pierce couldn't help but chuckle, as this was starting to feel like overkill. However, any celebrations were put on hold, as the nearby sound of gunfire signaled that the others weren't done dealing with the Nevermore.
"I wonder what plan Ruby had in mind," Tentomon wondered aloud, crossing his appendages.
"Come on, we'd better see if they need help!" Jaune said, as Nora used her hammer on the remains of the bridge...and catapulted them all to the other side.
What they saw… well, it seemed they had a plan at least.
Yang was making sure to get it's attention on her, by firing her concussive blasts from Ember Celica, the grimm zeroing in on her standing atop a pillar, opening its beak to try and gobble her up, but instead, Yang grinned as she jumped a bit, getting caught in the beak, but kept it open with one hand and her feet, gaining a wicked smirk as she reared her free hand back.
"That's gonna hurt," Gomamon commented.
"I! Hope! You're! Hun! Gry!" she said, punctuating each syllable with a blast from her weapon down the Nevermore's throat.
"Hey Wormmon," Veemon called out.
"Yeah," the worm digimon responded.
"What would happen if you did the same with Spiking Finish," the blue dinosaur asked with a smile.
Wormmon gave his friend an unamused look, "I would've pierced through it's head with the first strike."
"That's gotta sting," Gyro commented wryly as the giant bird veered off course, Yang jumping out of the beak before it crashed into a nearby cliff. On cue, he and Weiss dashed forward, Weiss going low, while he went high, using his wind semblance to fire a blast of compressed air, knocking the Grimm back down again, to which Weiss took the opportunity to freeze its tail and legs to the ground, stopping it from going anywhere. "Slingshot now!" Gyro shouted, to which Blake tossed Gambol Shroud while holding on to part of the ribbon, Yang catching the tossed part and stabbing it into the pillar she was next to, making the ribbon go taut. At the same time, Ruby and Weiss jumped towards the ribbon, while Gyro went up the cliff over the struggling Grimm.
Ruby landed with Crescent Rose under her feet right on the ribbon, while Weiss got behind her, creating a glyph, which together, turned the ribbon into a giant slingshot, with Ruby as the ammo. "Of course YOU would come up with this idea," Weiss commented once Ruby was in a ready to fire position, though there was a notable hint of amusement in her voice, as while this plan was crazy...it was likely to work.
"Think you can make the shot?" Ruby asked, ready to go.
"Can I?" Weiss smirked confidently, though Ruby was less than confident with that answer.
"CAN yo-?"
"Of course I can!" Weiss snapped a little, before Ruby readied Crescent Rose, and Weiss turned the glyph red, launching Ruby straight at the Nevermore. Her flight path was true, and she landed on the cliffside, while catching the Nevermore by the neck on Crescent Rose's blade, before running upwards on a path of glyphs Weiss created, shooting her weapon the whole way to keep up momentum and drag the new helpless Grimm up the cliff. At the same time Gyro jumped off the cliff, using his semblance to speed up his fall while Ruby ran up. When the two were about to pass, Gyro struck, and in a flash of blades, the Grimm was promptly decapitated, its head flying into the air, before falling into the abyss below, Gyro landing on the ground, while Ruby landed on the top of the cliff, the now headless body falling to the ground.
"Well… that was a thing." Yang said as she wiped the sweat off her forehead, as Ruby started to speed back down the cliff, Gyro having to use his semblance to keep her on the wall of the cliff by having a strong enough wind push against her.
(End Song)
"That was AWESOME!" Taichi cheered, with most of the other boys getting into it. And the ones who didn't were still smiling at the awesomeness.
Even the girls thought this fight was awesome, despite the decapitation. But again, the Grimm are creatures of darkness without a soul.
"That, was, AMAZING!" Nora shouted as she ran towards them, the rest of the group not far behind.
"Honestly, not sure who made it more badass anymore, you guys or us." Pierce said with a wry grin.
"Well, we did a double decapitation and Yang shot down its throat, what do you have?" Gyro shot back as Ruby arrived back down and sped up next to everyone.
"We made it cut off one it's pincers and then impale itself with its own stinger." Jaune said, deciding to get in on the playful banter.
Gyro blinked a bit, before nodding "Yeah, that does make it hard to decide."
Before anything else could be said, all of them shivered as a suddenly powerful, and COLD, gust of wind blew past them… followed by the cold staying as it started to snow, getting progressively faster.
"A snowstorm? NOW of all times?!" Pyrrha said incredulously, considering it had been sunny mere moments ago.
"What is WITH the weather lately?!" Gyro couldn't help but ask.
"Uh-oh." seven of the Children said, remembering all too well what happened when it suddenly snowed.
"What is it," Miyako asked her seniors.
"This was like back in summer camp two years ago, when we first entered the digital world," Taichi said, earning wide eyed looks from the juniors.
"It suddenly started snowing and we had to take shelter until it passed," Yamato continued.
"Then how did you end in the digital world," Ken asked, now worried.
"...Just keep reading," Koshiro responded, having a good idea of what's coming.
"You tell us! Even Atlas' scientists can't seem to figure out how we're getting heat waves when we're practically on Remnant's north pole!" Weiss said, as while she was used to snow, the fact remained this was Vale.
"We need to get out of this storm! If we stay out dressed in summer clothes like this, we might get pneumonia!" Blake had to say a little louder as the wind got stronger.
"Like we almost did," Jo had to comment
"The ruins over there!" Jaune shouted as he pointed towards the entrance to the ruins embedded into the cliff wall.
The group of 10 quickly ran into the ruins, brushing off any snow that had gotten caught in their clothes once inside. While it wasn't particularly warm or anything, it was still a large improvement compared to standing outside.
"So...now what?" Ruby asked.
"Well, I think it would be best if we waited out the storm, if not for it to stop at least until it lessens a bit." Gyro said as he looked outside, pulling the stone door open a little.
"Where did you guys take shelter," Iori asked out of curiosity.
"A nearby shrine," Sora replied easily, shivering at the memory of how cold it was.
"I guess we're in gonna be in here for a while then." Yang said with a sigh as she moved her hands through her hair to try and get it back in place.
"Well, good thing I have cards then." Pierce said as he pulled out a deck of cards, though Gyro chuckled as he recognized them.
"Seriously, the promo cards from Agarest War 2? You still have those?" He asked with a small laugh.
"What's Agarest War 2," Daisuke asked.
"A video game," Wisemon replied, "I know nothing else beyond it."
"Hey, Azure's the perv who bought that game from that thrift store, I just wanted the playing cards because they have character art on them." Pierce said as he showed some of the cards which had artwork of some of the playable characters on them.
"Wait, a sec," Mimi called out, "Why does that game make Azure a pervert?"
Now the older Children felt a little worried.
"Wait, I've never heard of that game before, why does it make your brother a perv?" Yang asked in confusion as a few of them brought out their scrolls and turned on the flashlights in them while Pierce started dealing out cards.
"Lots of fanservice." Pierce and Gyro said together dryly. "Part of the plot is literally choosing a bride since you later play as your future son...and of course what game like this DOESN'T have the harem aspect to it?" Gyro explained.
"Oh... right," Mimi said dryly.
All the while everyone else was trying to wrap their head around the weirdness. Surprisingly, it didn't even hurt their heads this time.
Everyone gave them dry stares, and suddenly, they all thought a bit less about the elder Vermillion sibling. Whatever the case, they decided to start playing to pass the time.
It actually took a few hours to pass before they heard the storm started to slow down. Peeking out the doors to see it had reduced to a calm snowfall, with the Emerald Forest now looking more like the White Forest now. They all sighed in relief as they stepped outside, the crunch of snow sounded under their feet.
"Any second now," Takeru said, while remembering how that freak blizzard was a harbinger to everything. Not that he realized it at the time... being in a second grade and all.
"You really have to wonder what's the cause of all this freak weather these last months, I mean, Vacuo has had so much rains it's gotten to flood levels." Gyro said as he stepped out from under the roof on the entrance altar.
"Mistral has even had to borron tips from Vacuo because of how severe some of the sandstorms would get when they came out of nowhere." Pyrrha added as she rubbed her bare shoulders to try and warm herself up.
"Well, we'd better get back to Beacon. The last thing we want is to be caught in a blizzard or something," Gyro sighed, to which they all nodded in agreement. However…
"Whoa…!" Ruby suddenly said, before pointing at the sky when they looked at her questioningly.
"That...shouldn't be possible…" Weiss blinked. There in the sky...was an aurora, but not any aurora any of them had ever seen. Rather than a curtain like shape, it was swirling, almost like some kind of rainbow colored hole.
"And there's the aurora," Koshiro said with slight apprehension.
All the while the second generation and the digimon were marveling at the sight. This being their first time seeing it.
"Tell that to the aurora we're seeing right now," Ren couldn't help but say, as all of them were VERY bewildered by what they were seeing, especially the brothers, as they KNEW this...NONE of this...happened in RWBY canon. This was a divergence, and that could either be a very good thing or a very bad thing.
"Is this a good or bad thing," Jo had to ask, "I mean, Remnant already has it's own problems right?"
"...You're better off asking Novice when he returns," Wisemon replied, because he couldn't answer a question like that.
"Wait… I think I see something in there." Jaune said as he squinted his eyes, trying to peer into the many lights of the aurora.
At that moment, 10 small lights became visible within the aurora… before flying out and heading straight towards the group of teens.
"Wait, there's ten this time," Sora pointed out, "Only seven came to us."
"Get to cover!" Gyro shouted urgently as everyone dived out of the way, the 10 meteors striking down into snow covering the small entrance area of the ruins.
"What're those," Daisuke asked the senior members who were in the middle of remembering a very similar experience.
"Our digivices came to us like that," Koshiro said, earning surprised looks from the junior members. Seeing as for at least three of the junior members, their digivices simply flew to their hands.
When the snow/smokescreen cleared, they poked their heads out of the cover. "Is it over?" Jaune asked shakily.
"Well...seems like the heavens have stopped trying to smite us so...probably?" Pierce said, looking around for anymore rains of death.
"Though...aren't meteors supposed to be...bigger?" Blake suddenly pointed out, as true enough, the craters in the snow were...very small. Heck, whatever was in them could probably fit into the palm of their hands judging by the size.
Koshiro couldn't help chuckling seein as he first thought that they were meteors.
"Whatever it was, I want it as a souvenir!" Nora said, grinning widely as she ran up to one of the holes.
"You know, that's actually a good idea." Yang agreed as she copied the hyperactive carrot head.
"Yang, no! What if it's some kind of alien parasite that wants to take over the world!" Ruby shouted as she ran after her sister.
That one earned full on laughters. "You know," Taichi said with a mock thoughtful look, "I'm surprised none of us thought of that at the time."
"Guess it didn't cross our minds," Sora said with a small laugh.
"Sometimes you have to wonder who's the older of the two." Blake said with a sigh as she followed.
"Well...nothing ventured, nothing gained I guess…" Gyro sighed as he and Pierce walked over to the craters. Whatever this was, he had a feeling they'd want to know what it is one way or another.
They were joined by the others who had still been hiding, figuring they might as well figure out what was going on as well. However, when they got there, things only became stranger. As if sensing them coming close, beams of light shot out of the craters, going straight up, and within those beams, something small slowly rose up, till they were at eye level of each of the gathered huntsmen in training. All of them looked stunned for a moment...except Nora who grinned and clapped whatever it was with both her hands. "Got it! Got it!" she said in a sing song tone, before opening her hands. "Ooooh, what's this?"
Everyone looked between each other, before following her example and grabbing whatever the objects were, looking into their hands to reveal…
"Are these… pagers?" Gyro said in confusion.
"What's a pager?" Ruby asked in confusion.
"Something older than all of us Rubes." Yang told her as she looked at the strange object with a raised eyebrow. "Still...since when do pagers fall from the sky? Heck, how'd they survive the trip?"
"Something I think we can find out after we're all back in Beacon," Weiss sighed. "We've wasted enough time as is."
"She's right, let's head back." Pyrrha said in agreement with the heiress, earning a grateful nod from her.
"Yeah, let's...go?" Gyro was about to nod...but the 'pagers' suddenly started glowing with a bright white light.
"And now the gate should open any second now," Jo commented, remembering how he felt about it at the time. And he wasn't proud of it.
"Uh...guys? Something's happening to the aurora," Pierce suddenly said, as a light was shining from the aurora too...and then something that made them all wonder if this was all just a crazy dream happened. The sound of rushing water was heard...and a giant tidal wave appeared...from the abyss where the Deathstalker had fallen...which should have been dry land.
"And there it is." All seven said in unison
"What… the… FUCK?!" Jaune, surprisingly, was the one to swear rather loudly.
"Language!" Miyako said, not liking Iori reading that part.
"Language!" Ruby found the time to shout, before things got even weirder, as the tidal wave seemed to open in the middle, yet instead of them seeing the forest behind it, it was like it went on into infinity… and then it rushed at them.
They didn't have time to react as the wave swallowed them all up, but instead of drowning, all they felt was like they were falling endlessly between the opening of the wave, shouting helplessly.
"Yeah, like we did," Mimi said feeling a little embarrassed now at how she screamed at the time.
A moment passed, and the water receded, and not a single trace remained of the young hunters in training.
And with that, the book shut itself again.
"Sooo..., that's how you guys ended up in the digital world the first time," Daisuke commented.
"Yeah," Taichi commented, while giving a smile at Daisuke," Compared to us, you, Miyako and Iori had it easy."
"Oh," Miyako said, finding new respect for her seniors.
At that moment, the doorway to the room opened and Novice entered... in a hover chair. "Hello again, Children. What did I miss," the man said as his comfy looking hover chair floated inside. Earning some looks from everyone.
"The Children just finished reading the chapter where the Remnant crew were sucked into digital world," Wisemon replied.
"Oh, then I guess I'll take over once again," Novice said as the hover chair moved to the middle of the room.
"Why are you in a hover chair," Veemon asked innocently, also noting that their host's hair was a little damp.
"...I... can't move my legs right now," Novice admitted in embarrassment, emphasizing his words by trying to lift a leg. The said appendage merely trembled a little as most of the muscles were crying in protest. Evidenced when he winced at the effort.
"...Where's Lilithmon," Gatomon asked in apprehension, seeing that the Demon Lord didn't come.
"Still in the process of recovering her brains," Novice said with what sounded like pride. Though that earned a little creeped out look from the Sora, Mimi and Miyako. "After I sealed her Code Crown, she reverted back to Black. And is currently sleeping soundly, which means I don't have to worry about losing my mind for a while." At the last part, Novice looked relieved. "Seriously, she knows what turns me on, which makes it harder for me... to...," the Overseer trailed off as he realized what he was saying, evidenced by how the girls looked more apprehensive, with Miyako once again covering Iori's ears.
While the guys had mixed reactions. Takeru and Ken weren't sure how to take that, while Taichi and Yamato couldn't help wanting to know what he was about to say... But that would mean earning venomous looks from the girls so they kept it to themselves. Koshiro's and Jo's thought patterns were somewhere between Takeru and Ken, and Taichi and Yamato.
All the digimon simply tilted their heads, with the exception of Gatomon, who was glaring at Novice.
"Uhhh... Ehhehheh... Please forget what I said. Please, ignore it," Novice pleaded, inwardly cursing at Black making him look like an idiot when she wasn't even here.
"...Is that why there's a section in your library that is filled with guidebooks on improving your sexual prowess," Wisemon asked, causing every human's jaws to fall to the floor.
"DAMMIT, WISEMON! YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO MENTION THAT!" the Novice Overseer was beyond humiliated at this point.
"You didn't forbid me from talking about it," Wisemon replied, easily pointing out a flaw in the poor guy's words.
Novice opened his mouth to protest, but then he closed his mouth as he realized that he didn't even mention about that little collection. Then he turned his attention to the disturbed Children and their mostly confused partners. And of course, Iori who once again wasn't happy about his ears being blocked. "...Lilithmon uses lust to dominate the minds of others, unless you manage to satisfy her first. Which is why I had to learn every... carnal technique I could get my hands on to ensure that I get to do that... Before my will falters," Novice explained while covering his eyes with his hand.
"...I hate to say it, but that makes sense," Gatomon commented, having no doubts about Lilithmon doing that. This revelation didn't help Children with their apprehension, but it did stop their imagination from going into overdrive of what this guy could do... Especially Mimi and Sora... Even though they were too young to worry about something like that.
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