Merry Christmas, Chosen...

[terminalmegas]

Who: Venusmon, everyone
What: The giving of the D-Streams
Where: Terminal City, Roaming Park
When: December 25th, 2013, morning

At the stroke of midnight on December 25th, every Chosen and their partners fall asleep wherever they are, with nothing able to wake them. They won't stay there all night, however. Bright and early, as if turned on by a switch, the Chosen will awaken in their beds to find their Digivices missing. The individual Digimon -- those without rooms, brought in like the Chosen -- similarly fall into slumber or stasis, waking where the stand in the morning in the morning.

They will all wake up with a note in their rooms, written in beautiful script. "Come to Roaming Park," it says. There's some kind of noise outside. Something drawing everyone out. Noticeable first is the fall of snow, so far absent from Terminal Tokyo. It covers, among everything else, Roaming Park, where on a bench there sits a Venusmon, with a very large sack. Around her are tables full of all sorts of food, and Digimon there both partaking in it and setting up more. It's a whole feast, not spoiled by the weather, but enhanced by it.

[ooc: Below there will be a thread to interact with Venusmon, where she will answer some questions and give out the D-Streams. Every non-canon Digimon character will receive a D-Stream, whether they see her or not. At the end of the day, they will appear in the Chosen's hands. This can also be used to generally mingle with each other and enjoy the snow.]

Comments

[ruffntumblenut]

"Dragons aren't real where you come from?" Ruffnut had a pretty good idea what it meant to have a myth, but when dragons were as common as fish it was hard to imagine a world without them.

[justpretending]

She shakes her head. "They're in stories, guarding princesses."

[ruffntumblenut]

And now Ruffnut's shaking her head.

"No way, back home they fly around, steal our livestock and burn down our homes. At least they did until we tamed them and learned to ride them." She explained and flapped her arms like a flying dragon...or a chicken.

[justpretending]

She frowns. "It's not nice of them to do all that! But now they're good dragons?"

[ruffntumblenut]

"Eh." Ruffnut made a gesture with her hands to indicate "Kind of"

"Some of them? There are still some that are wild untamed beasts that want to devour us whole!" She pulled a scary face and then laughed like it was all great fun.

"But we take good care of our dragons and they like us because of that."

[justpretending]

Sohpia nods in understanding. "Like big wild dogs that breathe fire."

How is it that this is the most understandable thing to her?

[ruffntumblenut]

"Mine breathes out gas." Ruffnut explained with a happy sigh. "Then the other head...it has two heads, the other head sparks out of it's mouth and blows up the gas in this huge fireball of awesome!"

She spread her arms out miming a massive explosion just in case Sophia didn't get it.

[justpretending]

"That sounds dangerous," Sophia observes.

[ruffntumblenut]

"That's what makes it fun." Ruffnut counters.

Chuumon takes that as a cue and pipes up "It totally is! Observe!" Hopping off Ruffnut's shoulder to the ground he drew out what looked to be a wedge of cheese with a lit fuse. It hissed and fizzed as chuumon scurried over and sprang at a nearby trash can, dunking the cheese into the can like a basketball.

There was a five second pause as he scurried for cover. Then a "BANG!" And paper and plastic cups exploded out of the can like confetti as well as some chunks of cheese.

Ruffnut and Chuumon were laughing hysterically.

[justpretending]

In contrast, Sophia shrieks and hides behind Commandramon.

Yeah, not exactly fun for her.

[ruffntumblenut]

Chuumon continued to laugh but Ruffnut took notice and stopped.

"Aw come on, it's no big deal. It was just some garbage...and cheese."

[justpretending]

The little girl shakes and shrinks into Commandramon.

"It was scary!"

[ruffntumblenut]

She wilts a little.

"Seriously? Was it just because it was loud? Because loud stuff can be fun."

Chuumon flailed his little claws. "Relax kid, I am a professional!"

[justpretending]

"It could light you on fire," Sophia says, "and kill you. It was too close."

[ruffntumblenut]

Ruffnut just laughed, "Aw I've been lit on fire before. It's not the worst thing that could happen to you."

As far as Ruffnut was concerned, dying of sickness was MUCH worse.

"Sides your monster's got powers too. Haven't you tried them out yet?"

[justpretending]

"Lit on fire." Well Sophia looks horrified.

"Com'mon's got a gun, but I don't wanna...unless it's training, people could get hurt or die."

[ruffntumblenut]

Ruffnut just looked confused, because she didn't know what a gun was and she didn't understand the girls fear.

"Pain is part of life." She reasoned "It's what makes the good stuff even better." She shrugged.

"And I heart you can't die in this place. You just come back to life later."

[justpretending]

Uh oh.

"You come back?!" Sophia gasps and starts to back away in fear. "I knew it! I knew it was here too...!"

[ruffntumblenut]

Ruffnut looked puzzled.

"What? What'd I say? What's wrong?" She looked around wondering if perhaps something was sneaking up on them.

[justpretending]

Commandramon grabs one of Sophia's shoulders trying to keep her from running away, and he pulls her close, while she shakes her head furiously.

"Sophia, Sophia please, calm down--" But she just keeps shaking it.

"No, no, no, I don't want 'em, it'll make everyone fight!"

[ruffntumblenut]

"Kid, kid take it easy! Um...look here!" Ruffnut dug around in her pockets and produced a curved and primitive looking dagger. She set it down and backed away.

"You can have that and it'll keep you safe from...whatever you're freaking out about OK?" Anything to help the kid out. It's not like she wanted to upset someone younger then her. She saved her torment for older kids.

"Aw no way! I want that knife." Chuumon complained but Ruffnut snagged him off the ground before he could try and snatch it up.

[justpretending]

Though it doesn't at all calm her down, Sophia stares at the dagger, eyes wide and tear-filled. She peeks from Commandramon's arms, sniffling and shaking.

"N-no one back home ever lets me... I'm not trained..."

[ruffntumblenut]

"Really?"

Well she was a little young still.

"Listen kid, being afraid is no way to live. The world is big and scary yeah? So you gotta tell yourself you're even bigger and scarier. How ya supposed to have fun if you're shivering and whimpering all the time?"

She offered a warm smile.

"If you need to learn how to be brave you stick with me. I'm a viking and vikings do stuff that scares us all the time, but we have fun doing it."

[justpretending]

"But does that mean I have to fight?" Sophia frowns and sniffs. "I don't wanna..."

Commandramon pats her head. "I think if you could help her, but not necessarily make her do anything...scary."

He gets the feeling things that are scary for vikings and Sophia are entirely different, even if he's not sure what viking is.

[ruffntumblenut]

"Hmm...not gonna fight huh?" She folded her arms and her brows knitted like she was thinking hard about what Sophia could do. Her eyes scanned the area and lit up excited.

"I've got it!" She declared and dashed away stealing the lid off a trash can and bringing it back.

"Back home on Berk everyone knows how to fight. But when the Dragons used to attack some people had other jobs. Like how I used to put out fires with buckets of water."

She offered the trash can lid to Sophia.

"It just depends on your skills. And first skill you learn is how to defend yourself. If you won't fight then how about blocking attacks? That way your Dragon there can do the fighting and you can stay safe behind your shield."