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weep little lion man, you're not as brave as you were at the start.

Who: Cam, Maya, and YOU, aka open in a little
What: A Dark Digivolution in the making.
When: Friday, October 18th, afternoon
Where: Crest of Courage training area, likely other places later.

It's been a really long and trying week so far.

For the last few days, because everything seems to be going weird, Cam's been trying to train. His ribs are healed, and in fact they healed faster than they probably should've; something good to this world, and it made him think -- maybe he should be getting back to it, to routines and workouts. After all, Lucette's strong, strong enough to reach Ultimate. And sure, first he tried the public training area, but he might have almost picked a fight with a Gabumon in the area, so Lucette had recommended they keep to the one in the Crest of Courage district.

So then fine, that's what they've been doing. As Seasarmon, she's run drills and laps, and Cam's worked himself to exhaustion. Every time she tries to suggest taking a break, he snaps, he shakes his head, he grumbles, there're dangerous people out there, and he keeps going and tells her to get back to work too.

Only when she gets so tired that she de-digivolves does he give her a break, and in one of those she'd had enough, sneaked away with his D-Terminal to the only help she can think of and sent a message to Maya.

Campbell is acting weird. crest of courage training. maybe you can help him. message when you're here.

...so she'd written, since poor Maya couldn't even get into the district without a Crest of Courage holder. Lucette herself could get in fine, so maybe if she can sneak off at the right time...

She keeps the D-Terminal and keeps to the side, watching as Cam does runs, wearing those roller-skates that had done him so much good months and months back. He's sweating and breathing hard, but he keeps quietly cursing himself every time he starts to stop or slow. After the first day of this... Well, Lucette's very much aware that whatever she says, he won't listen.

Maybe Maya will have more luck.

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"Yeah, if by win you mean get splatted into a puddle." Ed yelled, as Kyubimon ducked back, the claws missing anywhere vital, but hitting with enough force to send the fox flying.

She shook off the dizziness quickly, standing up. "Contract holder, you seem off.."

Ed glared at Kyubimon. "Ranged attacks, suppressing fire. Tailmon's agile, so cover her while Miss Smarty-butt here tries to remember how to want things."

With a nod, Kyubimon fans her tails out, flames bursting off of them to fire at ShadowWereGarurumon. "The all-consuming blaze! Fox-Tail Inferno!"

ShadowWereGarurumon's already a slow Digimon, so of course the attack works to Tailmon's advantage, but she's also a tank. The fire from Kyubimon hits her and she walks right through it, brushing some of them off, snarling. Tailmon is quite an annoyance, she decides, and so she goes steadily for her, now ignoring Kyubimon as she breathes heavy snarls.

Tailmon's a nimble Digimon, of course, and with no concern for the others around her, decides to evade by putting Kyubimon between herself and the snarling monster. There was no need to do more than that, she thought.

When Tailmon jumps behind her, Kyubimon uses her own speed to maneuver straight out of the way of the bigger digimon. Her orders were to pepper the area with fire, and pepper she did with hot Foxy Taily infernos salting the earth like it was some sort of steak. If it was concerned with Tailmon, after all, there wasn't any reason to dissuade it.

The continued attacks hit her, but as for whether it does anything or not? Well, the fact that ShadowWereGarurumon keeps approaching probably doesn't bode well for that. The fire almost bounces off her, and with a growl she now takes to leaping at her opponents, to bite, to claw, to rip them to shreds.

Nothing's stopping her.

Well, if Kyubimon was useless, Tailmon only had one course of action.

"Try- Try the face!" Alex called out. "The nose should be sensitive!"

With a nod and a call of "Cat Punch!", Tailmon ran forward, jumped off of Kyubimon's back, and aimed a fist right for the wolf's nose.

"Boost her!" Ed snapped quickly, and just before Tailmon actually jumped, Kyubimon also would be running forward. The speed of two digimon was way better than one, and Ed figured the momentum would help give Tailmon a little more force.

Then, as the cat jumped, the fox curls in over herself and rolls in a burning wheel at the ShadowWereGarurumon. "Dragon's Wheel!"

This would be a problem...if ShadowWereGarurumon weren't boosted by the Dark Digivolution. She opens her jaws wide as Tailmon approaches, and the cat Digimon's on a collision course for her mouth. At the same time, she reaches out, either not feeling or not caring, to push back Kyubimon's Dragon Wheel.

As it stands, she'll be pushed and pushed and pushed...but the attack will not send her flying. Burn her hands, burn her arms, but she's got a one-track mind.

"Gazimon, no- look out! Don't get caught!"

In a better time, Alex would have had a plan- De-evolve Tailmon to change her mass and trajectory, or let Kyuubimon's fire help. But right now, infected as she was, Alex's thought processes were paralyzed by doubt. Could she make the right choice?

Tailmon spun around, doing the only thing she could think of- If she was going to get swallowed, she was going to go tail-first. She flew straight into the werewolf's mouth, leading with her Holy Ring, trusting in its strength to choke the Virus-type so she could get out again.

Kyubimon, finding her attack stunted, growls as she is forced back, her spinning ceasing as she lands on the ground and dashes again. In close quarters like this... It was dumb, but she went immediately to using her teeth, aiming to clamp down on an arm.

Ed observed the fight with a finger to his temple. For the moment he remained silent, trying to think of a way out of this without getting flattened.

The Holy Ring indeed hurts. ShadowWereGarurumon chokes and growls, but she tries to bite down at Tailmon's tail, at the tiny Digimon, on reflex. As Kyubimon's muzzle grips on to her arm, it allows for a bit of leeway for Tailmon, as ShadowWereGarurumon cries out, more from frustration than pain; either way, it might prevent the small Champion from getting snapped at or bitten by those entirely too-big jaws.

...Though with Kyubimon on her arm, ShadowWereGarurumon's angry now, angrier than before. She throws it out with her incredible strength, intending to drag Kyubimon across the ground, away, toss her off or just slam her into the ground.

"Gazimon, come out quickly! Now's your only chance!"

As it was, though, even with her Holy Ring's help, Tailmon didn't have much of a chance- Those jaws were strong. Still, with the cries, Tailmon took her chance- She had to wriggle out, so she was trying to squeeze past those sharp fangs as quickly as she could.

Kyubimon would have held on with the best of her ability (which would have lasted for maybe a second) if not for Ed's interruption. "Let go, jump back!"

The fling came at the same time, tossing her off a fair bit farther than intended. She skidded to a stop, not even done landing before Ed's shouted again. "CHARGE!"

A brief nod as she dashed towards the dark digimon. The goal was to get out Tailmon.

Ed's solution? "Ram it headfirst, aim for the solarplexus!" The Heimlich maneuver.

Kyubimon lowered her head and gave it her all, hoping to give aid to her comrade.

The response is instantaneous. ShadowWereGarurumon chokes out Tailmon, propelling her like a jet through the sky. She takes a moment to compose herself, coughing and, in a blind rage, swinging her claws to swipe the flying cat, over and over. It may not hit anything, but there's a lot of power behind the blows. She stumbles forward, in her assault...toward Alex.

Edited 2013-11-01 00:32 (UTC)

The response here is less instantaneous. As the swings get closer to her, Alex freezes. She can escape- But where to? She doesn't want to get hurt- that's normal, right? She can't fight back against this. And without Bastemon, they can't win, can they? But her Crest won't react...

She grips her Crest tightly and closes her eyes. Gazimon, someone, help!

With that, the crest glows. Not the normal maroon of the Crest of Desire, but a bright, burning white. The glow engulfs the flying Tailmon, who begins to grow, but the light renders her too bright to look at.

"Tailmon, evolve! Angewomon!"

Before the light fades, Angewomon has already arrested her momentum mid-air, pointed her wrist at ShadowWereGarurumon and begun to launch a barrage of arrows between it and Alex.

Kyubimon, for her part, took the initiative to back out of there and skid to a stop. As she did, Ed hops on her and pats her flank. "Back off... we've got two ultimates."

Kyubimon started backing away slowly. "If that is your wish--but are you not wanting to support her?"

"That's not her usual Bastemon. Something bad's going to happen--leave it to Alex to somehow mess up and get an angel."

For now, the two simply observe.

That attack finally does some noticeable damage. ShadowWereGarurumon snarls and winces, sparked by the pain and angered, taking one, two, three steps back. Kyubimon is gone from her sights as Angewomon appears, and all her focus lays on the angel Digimon.

Of course, a stronger assault would probably come from long-distance attacks. ShadowWereGarurumon has none, and she's motivated by pure instinct and rage, so she charges through some of the arrows, and the rip scratches down her arms and into her clothes as she tries to barrel into Angewomon, despite the pain.

"Heaven's Charm!" Was the only reply from the angel, as a cross of pink light emanated from her wrists between the two.

Alex, meanwhile, was staring up at her Digimon in a mix of wonderment and confusion. This... wasn't right, was it? Her partner wasn't supposed to be an angel. Her partner was the weird cat thing. What had happened to Gazimon?

Kyubimon (With Ed in tow) skids to a stop next to Alex, and Ed holds out a hand for her to help her up.

"Get on. Angewoman's an angel-type. She should be strong against anything having to do with shadow, so she's going to wipe the floor with ShadowWereGarurumon. In the meanwhile, we should probably run."

If there was one thing Ed knew about (other than magic and Dark Fields), it was Dark Digivolution... And while the light from Alex's digivice was certainly not the same as the darkness that came out of his, he was willing to bet it was connected.

Edited 2013-11-05 21:08 (UTC)

ShadowWereGarurumon runs right into the attack. It slams into her and she stumbles back, howling in definite pain. This is the first attack that's done anything, and now she struggles to fight back again, approaching, heading toward--

No. Wait. Something's happening.

The wolf Digimon is engulfed in light and starts to shrink, down, down, down to a very small size...to a Cupimon. She all but collapses, exhausted and injured, but she's still very much conscious.

"No... No, Maya-- and Campbell-- oh, no, what have I done...?"

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