Um, hello there! This is my first fic on FF, so I wanted it to be about a ship I really love and has been my main fixation lately. This something that really only I ever ship so there's that but I hope you all will come to enjoy it also. There will probably be some punctuation and grammatical errors within this, since writing isn't really my forte. Yet I did my best working on this and tried to make it something readable. There will be cases where I may over describe something but I will try to not over do it. Also this is supposed to be a one-shot but it ended up being longer than expected, so it's split up into different parts.
The sun was starting to rise and as it moved higher in the horizon, its rays of light poured through the windows of a towering Stronghold, signaling to its inhabitants that it was a new day. The Stronghold's night guards were turning it in for the morning and the morning guards came in to take their place. While it may have been the weekend, many of the digimons in the Stronghold were getting up and ready for this new day, already working on their assignments for today. But there were a couple of digimons that wanted to stay in and catch some extra sleep since it was a slow day and most of the Stronghold didn't have any major work going on. Yet today didn't wasn't going to be a sleep in day for one digimon.
A metallic dragon digimon, got up with a bit of a jump. His pristine white silver scales glittered against the sunlight coming through his bedroom window. He carefully made his way to his personal bathroom, making sure his sword legs were not cutting up the flooring again. A noticeable feature on him was the beautiful, and large, glowing crystal jutting out from his chest. Not only that but his chest had a skeletal look to it, which made the crystal look even more striking. His honey golden eyes were tired but excited for today, he took his time getting ready but in a still in a hurried fashion. His tail which carried a red blade at the end, was wagging happily as he was finishing up. Though he did stop for a bit to look around, making sure he was absolutely alone before he carefully grabbed a bottle of cologne and sprayed some on his person, rubbing it in. Satisfied with everything that was done, he went to put on his red cloak, it was shredded at its ends and its hood had goggles embedded in it. Along the edges of the hood were black studs that gave an illusion of a large creature with sharp fangs. Finally the Thirteenth Royal Knight, Jesmon, was ready for the new day.
Jesmon was softly humming to himself and was making his way down to the main entrance of the Stronghold. He opted out on eating breakfast since there was something more important than that right now. While walking down the hall he came across another digimon, one who was similar to him with having weapons for limbs, but instead with having all of it be swords. Durandamon gave his best polite wave to the Young Royal Knight. Durandamon was a golden digimon with all of his limbs being swords due to being one of the Legend Arms. On his back upright was a golden greatsword that towered over both digimon. His faceplate was crimson to help make it pop against his golden body, his chest had an iconic sword and shield symbol that was known to many. Durandamon's scarlet eyes held a warm and friendly expression in them.
"Good Morning, Sir Jesmon. It's a wonderful day today isn't?" He greeted the young knight.
Jesmon could only let out an embarrassed soft chuckle from the title. "Duranda we have known each other since before I was a Royal Knight. You don't need to be so formal with me. And yes today is wonderful." He rubbed the side of his neck in embarrassment.
Durandamon let out a hearty laugh. "I know but I still have to show some respect, it comes with being a Royal Knight. Plus you need to get used to it dude, all the other digimons will be calling you that."
"I know, I know. I'm just more comfortable with informal conversations and titles. It still feels weird to get called that. Plus with being one of the youngest knights doesn't help out at all." He let out a soft laugh and put his hand to the side. "Anyways it's good to see your morning is going well and I have to be heading to the main entrance now Duranda. We can talk more later in the cafeteria."
"Alright Jes, talk to you- Wait a minute…" Durandamon was in the process of heading off but stopped to smell the air, "...are you wearing cologne Jes? In the morning?"
Jesmon immediately sputtered from that and started to laugh nervously, his face heating up, "Ahahah, whaaat? Why would I do that Duranda? That would be totally weird for me to do that this early. All I did was take a shower in the morning. Anyways I really should be going now Dura-"
"Wait I know why. Is it because a certain purple knight is coming back today, after leaving for a four week long mission? And now you're wearing cologne to impress said returning knight? Or are you going to stick to your lame excuse of just showering in the morning?" His eyes curled up and had one accusing sword hand pointing at him, calling out on Jesmon's obvious bs.
"...yes..." Jesmon was practically sweating bullets and he did not want to be dealing with his sword friend teasing today "...OKAY I'M GOING NOW, BYE DURANDA!"
Jesmon booked it away from Durandamon, who was now laughing his ass off from getting Jesmon all embarrassed early in the morning. Managing to get far away from the Legend Arms, he could finally let out a sigh of relief. His face was still burning up from the teasing, but truthful, comment from Durandamon. So what if he's excited to see Craniamon again, and wanted to impress the purple knight by cleaning himself up when welcoming him back. He groaned and rubbed the bridge of his snout, something he started to pick up from the older knights. He did a quick check of his body and cloak.
"...I hope to Yggdrasil I am not sweating, I spent too long making sure I looked good and smelled nice." He smelled himself and the cologne scent was still there, no body odor or any sweat, nodding to himself.
He relaxed and continued on his path towards the main entrance. He gave small greetings to any digimons walking by. Finally he saw the familiar scene of two guards standing tall, he gave them a simple wave to them and the two guard digimons nodded at him before going back to focusing on their duty. One thing that has happened ever since Jesmon became a Royal Knight, is that they started to tell the guards to not worry about opening up the doors for some of the Knights, since he is another knight who would rather open the doors himself. He pushed open the great doors and headed outside, where a gentle breeze welcomed him. He took a deep breath and enjoyed the breeze, his honey eyes looked over at the horizon. Lush grassy fields that went on practically forever, with the occasional scattered of wild flowers that grew in it, it was something that Jesmon could relax in forever but still he was more focused on who will be walking through them sometime soon. He took a small trek to a place where a large smooth stone overlooked everything, it was a bit away from the Royal Knights' Stronghold but it gave a better view on catching the purple knight's return. He rests against the stone, his eyes scanning the horizon, hoping to catch a glimpse of Craniamon's iconic pigtails soon.
It was probably an hour had passed when Jesmon finally saw a silhouette of a humanoid digimon in the distance. He perked up and stood up straight, his excitement struggling to contain itself. Craniamon probably hit the halfway mark on passing by the stone when he was suddenly picked up from the ground in a tight hug from Jesmon.
"Hmpfh! What the-Swords?!" Craniamon gasped, startled by the sudden embrace and appearance of the Thirteenth Knight.
"Sugar Skull you're finally back! How was the mission?" Jesmon's honey golden eyes sparkled as he looked at the purple knight with adoration.
"It was good, I never knew how much trouble a group of in-training digimons could cause…..but Swords you mind putting me down, please?" Craniamon grunted, as he wiggled around in his grip.
"Oh yeah! Sorry Sugar Skull, I just really missed having you around at the Stronghold. It really isn't the same not when you're gone, I think even Dynasmon missed having you as his sparring partner. I never thought he would be disappointed with having a different sparring partner but he really was. Oh! That really reminds me Sugar Skull, you should have been here last week! There was a really funny thing that Dukemon and Omegamon got into, the first time I heard them both scream high pitched. They were doing the test of courage at a fair we went to, and by the end of it, they came running out! I thought Ulforcemon was fast but they really booked it out of there! Also there was this really great dish at the fair that I think you would like, and I found a place that sells it. So I was thinking that-""SWORDS SLOW DOWN!" Jesmon was immediately cut off by Craniamon, who covered his mouth and looked overwhelmed from the amount of info that was spouting out from him.
"I'm not even in the Stronghold yet, nor settled down in my room. I still need to turn in my report of the mission and cleanup. I missed you too but relax a little and wait till we're back." He let out a sigh and removed his hand from Jesmon's mouth, his crimson eyes softened as he looked up at him, "Okay Swords?"
Jesmon let out an embarrassed chuckle and rubbed the side of his neck. His cheeks tinted red from going into a tangent.
"Ah sorry Sugar Skull. I was just really happy to see you again."
"I know that Swords. Anyways lets head back and...oh?" Craniamon stopped for a moment and took the time to sniff the air. He moved closer to Jesmon and caught the scent of the cologne on his person. "Mm...you smell really good today...what did you do earlier?"
Jesmon had a very smug look on his facial features, his plan on getting this particular cologne just to get Craniamon to say those few words worked. He remembered how Craniamon actually enjoyed the scent, since it wasn't offending his sense of smell, the one time they were in the perfume and cologne department at the mall. Craniamon never bought it since he never really saw it as something he would use, but it did allow Jesmon to keep it in mind when he was by himself shopping. It cost a large sum of bits, but it was worth it in the end, especially if it's something Craniamon likes.
"Ah….well I just cleaned myself up today, just so I can get a couple compliments from you and maybe even impress you." He gently nuzzled against Craniamon's face, still happy the cologne really worked.
"Well I'm impressed by it..." He softly hums happily, enjoying the scent and the affection he was receiving. "...Let's hurry back, I want to hear the rest of what I missed."
Jesmon just nodded and smiled, gently taking Craniamon's hand into his. Craniamon smiled behind his helmet while unseen, his eyes were able to convey his emotions, he held Jesmon's hand back. The two headed back to the Royal Knights' Stronghold together, in comfortable silence and both just glad to be next to the other again.