Tobi here.
Well I'm in a writing mood and since my Beta-Reader is also incredebly fast, here's another chapter.
Two chapter in one day, I really wrote alot this weekend.
Now have fun with Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Digimon Rpg for complete noobs
"What is digivolving?" Sho started, while Arashi, Haruka and Menma sat down at his table, listening.
"Digivolving means that your Digimon partner evolves to an higher and stronger level, for a short amount of time. First of all you need a Digivice for it." he pulled a small technical device, which caused both Haruka and Arashi to lose all color in their faces.
They both had one of these, they had suddenly appeared in the trousers, but they had both simply left them in Babamons hotel, dismissing them as something useless.
"It takes a long time and much training, often many years for Digimon to digivolve normally, but they then stay on this new level. The digivice allows your partner to jump on an higher level for a short time, mostly to protect you and to fight against opponents. Your partner digivolves if your in danger, to the Champion level to be precise, which is the third highest level. However it will only work if your in real mortal danger and should only be seen as an emergency help, getting yourself in danger on purpose is highly stupid and irresponsible, since your partner won't evolve if you're crushed underneath a Tyrannomons feet or if a Revolvermon used you as a target for shooting practice. Follow me?" Sho explained to them.
They all nodded, even though Arashi wondered how grave the danger needed to be for a his partner to evolve, getting chased by Boogeymon had obviously not been enough.
"But, if you train enough with your partner and form a strong bond, you might be able to control the evolution, let me demonstrate, Dracomon, are you ready?" Sho asked the young dragon.
Dracomon, Shos' partner, had already moved to a place with much free space and nodded to his partner, who now pointed his Digivice at him.
It suddenly started to emit a blinding, white light, which surrounded Dracomon, who now changed his form and appearance.
"Dracomon, digivolve to... Coredramon!"
Dracomon had grown a lot, he was now at least ten feet tall, much more muscular and had large, blue wings, his entire body was covered in sapphire scales and his beige underbelly.
"Wow!" Menma exclaimed and ran directly towards Coredramon, followed by Guilmon and both couldn't stop stating how cool this was.
Arashi now started to talk with Sho, about the guild and other things about digivolving, so Haruka had nobody to talk with, a situation which Coronamon used.
"Ahem, Haruka." Coronamon nervously approached her, afraid that she might yell him, with his head low and his voice hardly audible.
" I wanted to say that I'm sorry and that I will .." he couldn't finish his sentence, because his partner had already lifted and hugged him tightly.
"It's ok Coronamon." Haruka said friendly again, " just be nicer and don't do something stupid like this again."
Tears came out of the little lion-creatures eyes and he sobbed, while cuddling into Harukas arms
"I promise..."
"You said that champion level was only third highest level a digimon can reach, so what comes beyond?" Arashis question caught everybodies attention and they were all again focused on Sho, who took a deep breath, reading himself for a long explanation.
"There are also the Ultimate-level and beyond this, the Mega-Level. They are much more difficult to reach than the Champion level, since you can't reach them by getting in danger, no matter how strong your enemy is. You need a Digicore and much training to reach the Ultra-level, like Artur already did with BurningGreymon. A Digicore is a small part of the Digital World Core's energy, on which this whole world is based.
Cracks sometimes open for a short time and make it possible to get Digicore, but its dangerous, strong Digimon always gather around these cracks and more than one poor soul fall into the cracks and never came out again.
And most importantly, if your partner is not trained enough, the energy of the Digicore can be to much for it and either kill it or make him rampage in his new form.
Reaching the Mega-Level is even harder, some even believe it to be impossible since only a handful of people were able to unlock it.
And to be honest, I got no idea how to reach it, Artur keeps on traveling and searching for clues how to get to the Mega-Level.
All we know about it is that you need a Digital Connection, but we got no clue what this is."
Digivolving sounded complicated, but to everybody's surprise, Koemon had listened to him the whole time, it was one of his serious moments and the monkey had even understood everything.
"But." it seemed like Sho wouldn't stop talking " lets come back to Menma. You can join the guild if you want to, but you won't be allowed to go on missions until your partner can reach the champion level." Menma nearly exploded out of happiness, he jumped up and down together with Guilmon an happily thanked Sho.
"Thank you, thank you. I won't disappoint you and the others." Menma told Sho, who smiled and stood up again.
"Alright, I'll show you you're room and afterwards we'll fly back to Cloud City, gathering your stuff. One of you can always come with me, Coredramon can carry three persons with no problem."
It was of course clear who would fly together with them and Koemon already started massage his feet, in prepare of another eight hours long walk.
"Alright, I'll start walking back then, maybe I'll be back before it gets dark." Arashi said and stood up, followed by Koemon.
"See you tomorrow Haruka and good luck Menma." he said before leaving the guild and starting his travel back to the city.
"Aren't you jealous Arashi?" after half an hour Koemon asked and at first Arashi had no idea what he meant.
"Haruka's gonna fly back together with another boy and she will be very close to him. She's gonna hold on to Sho very closely, if she doesn't want to fall down." Koemon smirked a little towards Arashi, who blushed slightly and mumbled, "Why should I care, it's not like we are a couple or anything, she can hug or hold on to whoever she likes."
But Koemon knew that Arashi was at least a little bit jealous, although he wouldn't admit it.
The travel took them nine hours this time, Koemon stopped several times and demanded to be carried, but Arashi always ignored this childish demand.
It was nearly midnight when they reached Cloud-City and he directly fell into his bed once he had found the hotel again, not even changing his clothes.
He slept like a stone and it was already past twelve when he woke up, directly greeted by Koemon's face.
"I've been waiting for you to wake up and now I'm hungry, let's get something to eat." then the monkey noticed that Arashi had been shocked by his face and he commented, smiling evily.
"You would have liked Haruka to greet you with a nice kiss, right ?" Arashi's answer for the stupid question was a pillow in Koemons face, before he got up and cleaned himself, his clothes were smelling and he wouldn't want Haruka to see him like that.
He stopped for a second, while standing in the shower.
What was wrong with him, he based everything he did on Haruka, trying to appease her with everything he does.
Maybe Koemon was right?
"Of course I'm right !" Arashi nearly got a heart attack, his partner had suddenly appeared behind him, smirking widely.
'Since when can Koemon read minds?' went through Arashis head, while he closed the showers door behind him.
"You know that I'm right Arashi." The monkey said before leaving and loudly classing the bathroom door.
In this moment, Arashi was thankful that he wasn't sharing the room with Menma anymore, who would for sure also given some annoying comment.
But what if Koemon was right, what if Arashi really couldn't think of Haruka, he had no idea, this was confusing, he was only fourteen and all of this was new.
"Damm you puberty." Arashi mumbled while he left the shower and putted on some fresh clothes, couldn't this have waited until he was at least out of the Digital World?
But Koemon had already went to the dinning room and Arashi stomach was empty, so he followed his little monkey friend.
He had just sat down and started to eat one of Babamon incredibly delicious soups, when he already interrupted by the one person his mind was still racing around, thanks to Koemons remarks.
"Hi Arashi, are you feeling better now?" It was Haruka, accompanied by Coronamon who set down on the other side of the table and smiled at him friendly as always.
"So how was your flight yesterday ?" Arashi asked like he didn't really care and it seemed like the girl had only waited for him to ask this question.
"It was awesome, I'm so sad that you couldn't come with us. Sho and Coredramon flew so smoothly and we could see so much from up there, it was just wonderful and Sho told me so many things about the Digital World, he was so nice and friendly and Menma was so happy once they flew back to the guild." Her eyes were sparkling while talking and a little battle started inside of Arashis mind.
"Did you hear that, Sho's nice and friendly and awesome, she likes him more than us." Said the jealous Arashi inside of the boy's head, while the rational Arashi replied:
"So what? It's not like we have any problems with Sho." but his jealous side wouldn't stop and said
"But what if she falls in love with Sho, who is much nicer than us, what if they become a couple and she joins the guild, leaving us alone in Cloud-City, only accompanied by Koemon and with only our hand." rational Arashis face blushed and he stuttered "Just shut up you pervert."
For the moment rational Arashi stayed in controll, so he just smiled and said
"Yeah, sounds awesome, maybe next time." But jealous Arashi was not done and gave one last comment "Yeah next time we can kill Sho while Haruka isn't watching."
Haruka now kept on talking about yesterday, how Menma had been sad about leaving her and how Babamon cried for half an hour after the younger boy had left and how Sho had promised that they would see each other again.
Jealous Arashi wanted to say something, but this time rational Arashi simply knocked him out, while Haruka asked.
"So, what are we doing today. We could simply relax from yesterday or we could look for a job to do." Arashi directly decided that option two would not happen today, his legs were still burning from a day of nearly nothing but walking, but then he had an idea.
"What about some sparring? Koemon and Coronamon need to get stronger if they shall digivolve one day. Afterall we can't hope that Ellie saves us everytime we're in danger." For a moment, Haruka was sad about Arashis idea, she didn't want Coronamon to fight, she didn't want to fighting at all, but she knew that it would be necessary.
"Ok, Koemon and Coronamon can battle a little in the hotel's backyard, they won't hurt anybody there and nobody can get hurt by stray shots." Arashi had noticed that Haruka was not comfortable with this idea, but rational Arashi was still in charge and had also knocked out the third Arashi that had appeared inside of his head, which had been very creepy.
So Arashi finished his soup and they went to the backyards, it was a small field of grass behind the hotel, surrounded by several other buildings.
"Alright, no serious attacks, only a little brawling, we don't want anybody to get hurt." Haruka told them and both Koemon and Coronamon nodded in agreement, before they got in position to fight.
"3, 2, 1, lets go." Arashi counted down and the battle started.
Coronamon directly charged at the monkey, trying to punch him, but Koemon had no problem evading, making some backflips and elegant movements, showing that this was no problem for him.
This of course pissed of the little lion-digimon, which decided that it was time to get serious, so he threw several small fireballs at his opponent.
The last one finally hit, but only Koemons tail, which directly caught fire.
"My butt is on fire! My butt is burning!" Koemon completely freaked out and ran around like crazy, before he finally decided to take out the fire on his tail, by stepping on it violently.
He then looked at his badly burned tail, which was now also coverd in dirt and for the first time, Koemon got really angry.
"You'll pay for this!" Koemon roared and both Haruka and Arashi already wanted to end the training, but the monkey took his slingshot and aimed it at the lion.
"Banana Shot, Banana Shot, Banana Shot!" The monkey kept shooting bananas at Coronamon, which was quickyl coverd in fruit puree.
"Are you kidding me?!" Coronamon was already getting angry again, because he thought that Koemon was kidding him, but he was wrong.
The bananas had only been an diversion, Koemon had charged at him and now used his slingshot for close combat.
"Sling Hammer!" he exclaimed and rammed the wooden weapon on Coronamons head, knocking him out with a single blow.
The battle was over afterwards, Coronamon was only drolling and Haruka directly went to an medical station to make sure that he wasn't hurt seriously.
"Not bad, I always thought that you were a weak coward." Arashi had been surprised by his partners fighting abilities, after all Koemon had done nothing but running away from every fight until now.
" I'm just smart and I don't want to die in battles I can't win." the monkey returned with his typical, neutral face, which was a sign for Arashi that his partner was serious.
"I found a job we could do tomorrow. A repair shop is asking for somebody to deliver some of their stuff." Arashi changed the subject and Koemon took the mission paper, reading through it.
"Easy job, 40 dollar payment, sounds good. A easy mission is good, since Coronamon won't be able to walk much for the next few days." now Koemon had devilish grin on his face and Arashi had to smile a little, too, it had been satisfying to knock out the annoying lion.
Haruka came back an hour later, without Coronamon who had stayed in the medical station for the night and of course Koemon apologized for hitting the girls partner that hard.
But Haruka didn't seem to be angry, she accepted the apology and was happy about the job Arashi had found for them.
Nothing special happened for the rest of the day, they mostly rested in the dinning room, small talking and they went to sleep early.
And it seemed like twelve hourse of sleep had not been enough for Arashi, because even though he had been only awake for ten hours, he again slept like a stone until the next day.
"Alright, you and Koemon go to our job and I'll get Coronamon, we'll meet there then?" Haruka had told them and now Arashi and Koemon were on their way to their job, it was located on the outskirts of the city, a simple, small building you would normally not notice.
They nearly reached it, but before they reached, its door flung open and a red-haired boy, together with an Picodevimon was throughn out of it.
"And stay freaking out of here!" a mechanical digimon was standing in the door, it was slightly larger than a normal human and looked like some sort of robot-soldier-dragon-thing.
"I don't think he likes our plans for a flamethrower Tatsuo, let's go back to the others." the Picodevimon said and his partner seemed to agree, since they walked away silently.
"What are you looking at?" Arashi had not noticed that Haruka had approached him from behind, so he was a little shocked, but just for a moment.
He turned around and saw that the girl was holding a still dizzy Coronamon, but she smiled widely and Arashi replied.
"Nothing, just some dude acting strange. Let's do that job." they now approached the again closed door and kocked at it.
It took a few seconds until it opend and they were directly greeted unfriendly.
"I told you that we won't build your flamethrower, you're gonna do some shit with... oh you're not that punk." it was a small dinosaur-like digimon, wearing an military uniform and armed with an rifle and Arashi realiced that the robot-soldier must have been his digivolved form.
"We are here to do the job you offerd." Haruka said, suprised by this greeting and the dinosaur seemed to be ashamed now and said, scretching his uncomfortably.
"Oh, sorry for yelling at you. That punk has annoyed us for the past few days and I had forgot that mission we gave out. I'm Commandramon, please come inside." The drain seemed to be nice and they followed him in the building, it was just one large room, filled with several things, like a small kitchen, a table with a few chairs, three mattresses and a large workbench with many lockers around it.
Many sketches were pinned on the wall and a young man, maybe 18, just like Ellie, sat on a comfortable office chair in front of the workbench, working on something too complicated for him to understand.
"John, somebody came to do the delivery job." Commandramon said and the young man turned around to face them.
John had slightly long, messy black hair, with an single, large streak of hair covering a small portion of his faces right half.
He wore a dirty lab-coat above an yellow and black trousers, it was visible that he seemed to be a little more focused on working than changing his clothes. Overall he resembled an older version of Gold from Pokemon, which amazed Arashi a little, was this guy some kind of cosplaying Pokemonfan ?
"Ok, Guardromon will show you what you have to do." John said, before returning to his work, but Koemon seemed to have seen something interesting, he stood in front of one of the sketches and read it, before screaming.
"Geothermal-something, you are the guy who builded all the stuff for DragonHeart, right?!" Everybody's attention was on John now, who didn't seem to really care about it, he only replied in an casual tone.
"Yep, I did. Took me half a year to build all of it, but it was a nice change of scenary. Will you do the job now or are you going to ask question about every project I once did?" It was clear that John didn't want to chat at the moment, so Arashi and Haruka turned towards Guardromon, a rather chubby robot-digimon which smiled at the friendly group and showed what they were supposed to transport, some sort of speaker, which John had repaired for a local bar.
They directly headed for the bar, which was at the other end of the city, they used a little trolley to transport it and Coronamon sat on top of it.
It only took them only two hours to deliever the speaker and to bring the trolley back to Johns little house.
They were all happy about this easy job and decided to relax for the rest of the day, since Coronamon was still a little weak on his feet.
It was already late at night, but John was still busy, working on his private project like he always did during that time, but he directly noticed that something was standing in front of the door and he also knew who it was.
"Come in Ellie, its not locked." John muttered and the door opend, with Ellie entering the house.
She couldn't even greet John, who directly went on talking, without even turning towards her.
"Those two you saved from Boogeymon are quite interesting, very weak and unexperienced, but interesting." Ellie smiled about his comment and replied, while standing right behind John.
"Yes, Haruka and Arashi seem nice, but they need to learn a lot. But they already met your little protege, seems like he impressed them." a little smile came across Johns face, before he returned to his work.
"Artur has a lot potential, but he also still needs to learn a few things. But I'm sure that he'll soon be able to do a Connection." Ellies face got a little worried now and she hugged the young man from behind.
"You're my brother Jay and I trust and love you. But please, stop blaming yourself for what has happened, I know you try to redeem yourself by supporting Artur, so that he can on day become a new leader, because you think that you once failed at being one." Her voice was sad and John knew what she meant, but he couldn't change it.
"I failed El and I can never undone the mistakes I made. They're gone and even though I would do everything I can to make it happen, they will never return."
Chapter 4
End
Mainly some worldbuilding in this chapter and of course John, no Digimon fanfiction of mine can be done without my favourite OC John.
You can still submit OCs if you like to, in my forum theme on the Digital Connections forum or as an Pm if you like, b ut please if submit one, not in a review.
Tobi out