Chapter 1: Introductions I
By the time he was finally at the front of the line it had almost been an hour and still no sight of Witchmon. He wasn't worried though as she would appear when needed. The digimon who was handling registration was a Leomon. The digimon didn't even look up as he began to ask registration questions.
"Name?" The Leomon's voice held a dull, bored tone.
"Allen Manden." The Leomon scribbled down the information onto a piece of paper.
"Partner Digimon?"
"Witchmon"
"Team?"
"Night Crow." The Leomon nodded and put down the writing tool he was using. The Leomon held out his hand as he requested to see Allen's digivice. Allen nodded and unclipped his dark purple and crimson digivice from his cargo pants and put the the tiny device into the large beast digimon's hand. Leomon in turn quickly inserted a data chip, pulled it out and handed the digivice back to Allen.
The Leomon nodded, satisfied, and told Allen that he could proceed to the Night Crow waiting room, but to wait to be called to the arena by the announcer. Allen moved away heading towards the waiting room. It was then that Witchmon decided to make her entrance.
Witchmon came hurtling down the hallway on her broom, chased by a very unhappy Nohemon. On Witchmon's crimson red hat sat another hat, a dull brown one, and guessing from the bare headed digimon that was still running after Witchmon, it belonged to the Nohemon.
Witchmon came to a skidding halt, stopping mere inches shy of running Allen over. She put on her biggest grin.
"Took ya long enough." The grin didn't drop from her face.
Allen looked past her and the Nohemon who was still running this way before responding. "You need to give the hat back."
Witchmon pouted. "I don't know what your talking about. I only have my hat." She removed the brown hat off her head, brushed some of Allen's brown and purple hairs away from his face and put the hat on his head. "See."
Allen pulled the hat off his head and gave it back to the Nohemon who had finally caught up. The swiped his hat out of Allen's hand and stomped away grumbling. Witchmon's grin fell in disappointment. Allen resumed his walk to the competitors waiting room.
"Wait till after the competition to pull any more stunts." Allen told her as the Nohemon went out of sight.
Witchmon crossed her arms contemplating something before responding. "Fine."
"And don't go disappearing until after the competition, then I don't care what you do." Allen added. Witchmon gave him a skeptical look but didn't reply. As they entered the waiting room Allen let out a groan of frustration. The room was packed full of tamers and digimon, each awaiting their chance to fight in the competition. He knew another long wait was ahead.
Sienna hummed as she reviewed her shopping list, mentally checking over it to make sure she had written everything she required.
5 Digi-Cure 150S, 10 Digi-Mint 80S, 3 Anti-Brain S and Anti-Paralyze S.
Sienna checked it once more before she nodded her head in satisfaction and made her way to the brightly colored stand in the market. The shopkeeper, an equally colorful ToyAgumon, quickly gave her its attention.
"What can I do for ya?"
Sienna slid the list over the counter, "I need everything listed on here." The Toy Agumon picked the hand written list up off the counter, taking a second to read it before quickly fetching the items. It put the tiny blue and green requested data chips into a small bag before ringing up the purchase.
"That'll be 292 bit." the digimon happily chirped. Sienna smiled in return, fetching the requested bit out of her bag and handing it to the digimon.
"Have a good day!" The Toy Agumon said as he passed Sienna the bag with her purchases inside. She responded with a curt "thank you" and a "you too" before she exited the loud market. She made her way to the side of the building that housed the market, approaching a tall, furred dragon digimon.
"Sorry it took so long." Sienna said as she looked up to meet her partner's face. Despite him only being at the champion level, Dorugamon was tall. At least a several feet taller than Sienna's measly 5 feet and 7 inches.
Dorugamon bowed his head slightly in response, "It was not a problem, besides it would have been far too crowded for me to fit in comfortably."
Sienna smiled at that, "I suppose that's true."
"Is there anything else that is needed?" Dorugamon questioned.
Sienna shook her head, "No there isn't. Why, in a rush to get somewhere?"
"I was hoping to catch the rest of the competition." Dorugamon replied politely.
"Well," Sienna paused as she pulled out her white and mauve digivice and checked the time, "if we hurry we could probably catch the last couple matches." Dorugamon nodded happily at that. With their destination set, they both set off and headed out towards the nearest gate.
Hirito had to admit, the tamers and digimon competing today was impressive, even if they were only normal rank. The last match, which had just ended, had Leeland Harris Jr of Light Fang with his partner Sealsdramon against Allen Manden of Night Crow and his partner Witchmon. While the two digimon had seemed evenly matched at first, as both were at the champion level, Allen and Witchmon had won thanks to Witchmon's ability to fly and long ranged attacks which were disadvantages against Sealsdramon's grounded close combat.
Even with Witchmon's advantages the fight hadn't ended as quickly as one would think and had almost ended in a tie. Sealsdramon, with all his disadvantages, had tenaciously refused to give up, making it incredibly difficult for Witchmon to cause enough damage for a win in the allotted ten minutes. Yet, as much as Sealsdramon and his partner tried, it wasn't enough. With a minute left Witchmon had thrown one last attack and when it met its mark, won the battle. But even with Allen's win Light Fang still had the lead, 7 wins versus Night Crow's 6.
"That was quite a fight, wasn't it Momo?" Hirito cringed at the nickname his partner had given him.
"Wanyamon." Hirito groaned. Wanyamon just gave him a toothy grin in return.
Hirito hadn't been a member of Night Crow for long, having joined fairly recently. He hadn't even been a tamer for long. As such, he lacked combat experience, not to mention that Wanyamon could only digivolve to his rookie level. Which was exactly why he and Wanyamon were simply observing today's competition rather than competing in it.
"Hey look," Hirito's partner called out as he shifted on Hirito's lap trying to get a better look at the arena below them, "the next fights starting." Hirito glanced at the gigantic screen hovering over the arena. It displayed a closer look on the events happening in the arena and It had just displayed the competitors up next. For Light Fang it was Nahliel Martinez with Impmon and for Night Crow it was Kimberly Sparks with Gazimon.
As the next competitors entered the arena, a few tamers with their partners came streaming in to catch one of the last fights of today. However, the place they observed happened to be right in front of him, and an especially tall purple digimon he didn't recognize was almost completely blocking his view of the arena below. Hirito sighed as he picked up Wanyamon off his lap and moved towards the front of the group, mumbling "apologies" as he made his way to the front, trying not to step on anyone's feet.
By the time he got to a point where he could see the arena and its competitors again, the competitors had already made their way out and exchanged pleasantries.
The announcer, who was also the referee, signaled for the match to start with a loud exclamation of "FIGHT!" A clock, which was now displayed on the viewing screen as well as the heath bars for the digimon, started its countdown from 10 minutes.
The redheaded Night Crow girl immediately pulled out her dark orange and white digivice as a white light enveloped her partner digimon.
"Gazimon digivolve to.." Kimberly heard her partner announce as a flash of light enveloped him and disappeared just a fast, leaving a wolf like digimon in its place. "Sangloupmon!"
Her opponents seemed to have the same idea as a BlackGatomon now stood in place of were Impmon had been standing before. The two champion digimon immediately got into battle stances and began circling each other, each one looking for an opening. The BlackGatomon struck first.
"Feline's Eye" The BlackGatomon called out. Kimberly recognized the attack from regular Gatomon. For the attack to work the target needed to look into the opponent's eyes, which was thankfully made impossible by the bat wings that covered Sangloupmon's. As such, the attack did nothing. Sangloupmon took advantage of the BlackGatomon's squandered chance.
"Sticker Blade!" Sangloupmon's attack fortunately didn't require any use of the senses to work. Several blades materialized out of thin air around Sangloupmon and went hurtling towards the BlackGatomon. The nimble cat digimon effectively avoided most of blades. The ones that it couldn't where deflected by the cat digimons claws.
The BlackGatomon, never stopping its momentum, lunged forward at Sangloupmon. A fury of paw strikes and kicks accompanied by the words "Lightning Kick" and Lightning Punch" came swinging at Sangloupmon, most of them hitting their mark. The attacks, however, were light, made for speed rather than damage and Sangloupmon easily brushed them off.
The two continued to exchange blows, slowly chipping away at each other's health as the clock ticked away the minutes and seconds. Neither one gaining a lead over the other.
As the final seconds begun their countdown Sangloupmon prepared his next attack.
"Sticker Bl-" Sangloupmon was cut off as a loud blaring sounded signified that the clock had reached zero, ending the match.
"I can't believe it folks," the announcer voice echoed out from the loudspeakers around the arena, "the clock's run out meaning his battle has ended in a tie!"
Kimberly looked at her partner, who was breathing heavily from the battle. The BlackGatomon across from him was breathing just as hard. Another white light enveloped Sangloupmon as he reverted to his rookie form, Gazimon. The tamer and digimon walked back to the waiting room, or in Kimberly's case a barely contained skip.
As the two entered the waiting room Kimberly couldn't contain her excitement anymore and squeezed Gazimon into a hug.
"We finally did it! Even with the tie we got enough tamer points to advance to the next rank." Kimberly excitedly exclaimed as she let go of Gazimon.
"That means…" Gazimon ears perked up as they had been dropping since the fight had ended.
"Yup! Better pay, better missions, access to higher level stores. Everything! All we have to do is pass the bronze rank advancement test and where as good as gold! Or in this case bronze." Kimberly grabbed Gazimon's paw as they made their way to the registration area to pick up the tamer points and to possibly sign up for the next advancement test.
Christina frowned as she viewed the screen in front of her. Her blue eyes scanned the monitor again to make sure what she had read was correct. From the look of the code, there was a small fluctuation in the fire wall that protected DarkMoon City.
Christina sighed, running her hand through her brown hair and pushed herself away from the monitor after printing off a report, She redirected her gaze to Waspmon, he was patiently waiting but she could see the tension in his body. He was itching to fight, which would they would be able to do tomorrow in the bronze competition against Light Fang. Only after the lower tier competition today wrapped up.
Christina got out of her chair and stretched her legs and arms before getting up. Grabbing the freshly printed report on the firewall, she made her way to the front of the room. Passing many other tamers in front of similar monitors on her way to report the fluctuation to the tamer in charge. Today that happened to be Gold Tamer Raigo, second in command of Night Crow.
The redheaded tamer was in deep discussion with his partner Zanbamon, who stood closely beside him. Christina cleared her throat to gain his attention.
"I'm sure its nothing major, but there was a small fluctuation in the firewall." Christina said as she passed the report to him.
Raigo quickly scanned the report frowning, "I'll have to look over this in more detail with Chief Julia after she gets back from the competition." Raigo looked up at Christina. "If that's all you can go for the day."
Christina perked up at that response as her brain registered what it meant. She replied with a polite "thank you" and practically ran out the door, finally free from the stuffy union room. Only stopping long enough to pull her black jacket with orange accents of her chair and signaling Waspmon it was time to leave. The report on the firewall was already far from her mind, buried under her excitement and strategies for tomorrow's competition.
A/N
I'm so terribly sorry for how long this chapter took. A combination of school, lack of motivation and figuring how to translate some of the concepts in the games to a workable concept delayed this chapter much longer than it needed to be. Future chapters shouldn't take as long as this one, hopefully. Anyways I hope you enjoyed this chapter, next time you'll be meeting the members of Light Fang.
On another note I'm looking for a Beta reader if anyone's interested. Just send me a PM if you're curious.
Also, since all digimon that are going to be used are canon I'm not going to go into a ton of detail about their appearance if at all. Because of that if you're not familiar with a digimon I recommend looking it up to see what they look like. Finally I feel like I should mention that the digivice version used throughout this story is digivice burst. Other than that thank you for reading!