Catching a Bite

[Ivian]

Sitting in the pizza place, Ivian glanced at Jiro. So he apparently was okay, though he needed some support. Hopefully it would wear off over time, which Jiro assured that it definitely will. As Ivian bit into the pizza he had ordered, Streak yawned. This was getting a little boring, since he had no idea on what to do and where to go. All they could do was loiter around here and there, hoping to meet some other people and at least get to know them. Vanguard was toying with a small piece of red ribbon that was on the table, a scent on the ribbon told him that someone that had the previous owner of the ribbon had a Digimon with them, and possibly was no ordinary person. The Ryuudamon then claimed the cloth as his own, tying it around his ponytail for safekeeping. Jiro grinned as his red eyes locked unto Ivian's, but the other Tamer could only respond with a weak look.

The door swung open, and a girl with copper brown hair peeked in. "I swear I lost it here!" she said, a ponytail clumsily tied together falling over her shoulder as she bent down to survey. Chuckling sounds came from her shirt pocket. "Oh, shut up and help me," moaned the Tamer as she walked in, not noticing the sheerly odd sight of two Tamers and their respective Digimon sitting at the table and looking at the spectacle. She hurried along as she moved nearer to them, glancing anxiously at every nook and cranny so as to find the thing that she considered most precious. "Where is it?" she asked once again, to no one in apparent.

"I suppose you're looking for this?" Vanguard said, swiftly removing the piece of ribbon from his ponytail and looking at the girl intently. The girl's eyes widened at the sight. A smile erupted upon her young face, she couldn't be more than seven at the most. And that meant that she was the same age as both Ivian and Jiro. Suddenly realizing that the one who she had obtained the ribbon from was none other than a Digimon, she squealed. Vanguard's face crumpled up almost immediately. "You're welcome," he said in a serious tone, "so please, continue what you have to do." In case you didn't know, Vanguard was irritated. And an irritated Vanguard isn't a nice Vanguard. It seemed that his fuse burned far more easily than usual since the incident with Kabuterimon.

The girl's face filled with such gratitude that one could swear that she was going to hug Vanguard. "Thanks!" she gushed happily, "I'm Hanabi, nice to meet you!" The child then promptly said beside Ivian, as she looked at Ivian, Streak, Jiro and finally Vanguard. "Oh yeah, this is Kyru!" she announced, happy that she had found other children who were like her, a Tamer. A Dracmon emerged, confident smirk upon his face. "Who are you all?" Hanabi asked, curious to the utmost degree. Kyru simply looked on, not knowing what to make of this odd situation. The Dracmon simply laid back, allowing his left palm eye to focus on Streak, his right palm eye to lay on Vanguard, while his main two eyes stayed on his Tamer. "Well?" she urged again.

Vanguard sighed. This was going to be one heck of a day.

[Cookie-san]

"And I say that Pizza is bad for my figure!" came a final hiss even as Patrick rolled his eyes and shoved open the restaurant's door. Honestly, what did she expect?

"I'm running on a tight budget here" he hissed back, taking care to keep his voice low. With all the conspiracy theories and rumors running amok about the town, a kid talking to a weird device was sure to bring some sort of unwanted attention. The last thing he needed right now was someone taking Kopi away. His dad's extended sentence was bad enough as it was, no need to make the situation any worse.

"Pizza is what I can afford...unless you want catfood? Because I guess we could pick some of that up instead" There was a grumble from the IC, but otherwise the digital cat fell silent. She had chosen the lesser of two evils it seemed.

Confident that he was getting no weird looks at the moment, Patrick finally snuck away from the door, intent on buying his pizzas and getting the heck out of...

"Crud!" more out of instinct than anything else, his hands clamped over his mouth in a poor attempt to pull the words back in. Of course it did no good, and the teen felt like melting into his clothing as he quickly made a dash for the table where he had seen the exposed digimon.

"What do they think they're doing?" he groaned. Not a good way to start the day. Not at all. "Someone could see them..." and if the digimon were figured out, it wouldn't be long until the government tracked down the rest...and giving up Kopi was not something he felt like doing.

"Worrywart" came the amused grumble from his IC as he continued to make his way over. Kopi was rather sure she was going to enjoy this.

[Ivian]

And as the team of Kopi and Patrick entered the shop, the pack of six glanced up from their pizzas. Well, well, what a situation had they got themselves into. Three children with their respective partners, meeting with another boy who could well be just another civilian who would freak out at the sight of them digital creatures. But however, the ever sharp Jiro noted dully that the opposing child was talking to no one in apparent, possibly a cat, since they were talking about cat food. "Hi there~" Hanabi said as Patrick made a dash towards the table she was seated at, "Come for pizza?" The girl smiled happily as Kyru rolled his eyes-not the one set in his head, but the ones set in his palms. Vanguard sighed inwardly. Of course someone would come for pizza, this was a pizza parlour, for God's merry sake! The Ryuudamon then shook his head as he nudged his fellow X-Antibody Digimon, Streak. The DORUmon turned to his companion, shrugging for he had no idea whatsoever for what was being planned. Ivian returned to his pizza, finding no other use other than wasting his energy by talking to the groaning (at the moment) Tamer. Jiro turned to Ivian, before grinning and chomping on his slice of food. Even though his face did not show it, he was trying hard to notice Patrick's movement, since he wasn't sure that he could exactly trust the guy yet.

[Cookie-san]

(Humblest apologies~ school work's been catching up with me...)

And now came the hard part, addressing the issue without sounding like the nobody that he was. Well hey, it wasn't completely his fault that he'd been absent for the one and only team meeting. But still, he'd heard through the grapevine, aka every single child that entered his domain of the computer lab, that 'monsters' had been seen. And he had so seen enough Sci-fi films to know when the non-humans were under threat of a dissection table.

So Patty slid into the seat next to Hanabi like he had been planning it the whole time. He didn't know the girl, but she seemed the most friendly out of the lot - Figures, he found the group that appreciated glaring at newcomers. Risking it, the blond placed Kopi's IC on the table, as if it was a badge to prove his involvement in this whole conspiracy. Maybe he'd be lucky and this would go as easily as it did in the spy movies...!

"Hey kiddos~ How's life?" Or, well, would have been if his partner hadn't felt the need to blast her voice across the room for what could only be classified as nerve torture for Patrick. And that twitch developing beneath his eye? Yeah...

"The name is Kopi. As you can see, I don't get out much. Neither does the worrywart over there. You can call him Patrick if 'worrywart' doesn't seem to stick" she shrugged within the device, suddenly finding the inspiration to help out her partner's cause just a tiny bit.

"But hey, if he doesn't want me getting dissected and stuff because some nosy human catches a video of me and puts it up on Youtube for the world to see, fine. I'll stay in here. What about you guys?"

[Ivian]

OOC: You have the right to skin me anyways~

IC:

"Can I call him Warty?" Hanabi asked innocently. Kyru face-palmed himself, before glancing at the bespectacled boy. "Please?" she asked Kopi, a grin forming on her face. "I'm Hanabi, and this is Kyru!" she said happily, hugging Kyru as he said so. The Dracmon raised both his arms in a surrendering pose. He wasn't quite sure what to do now that he was being held (tightly!) by his young Tamer.

Jiro grinned at the statement. "I'm Jiro, this is Ivian, and our partners are Vanguard and Streak," introduced the boy with a small smile. Vanguard waved at them, still slightly wary of the two. Thinking about something for a moment, the Digimon then smiled at the duo nodding slightly in acknowledgement. "Pleased to meet ya," Jiro said with a laugh. He laid back and took a slice of pizza.

Ivian was silent as usual, allowing Streak to talk on his behalf. "Nice to meet you," the DORUmon said, shrugging as he placed his paw on Ivian's shoulder. His white muzzle was a strange shade of yellow, perhaps it was the cheese? But that matter was trivial, so the dragon ignored it. He sighed, before saying, "Ivian here is silent. Dead silent." Ivian looked at his partner, face devoid of any emotion. "His appearance speaks for itself."

Hanabi giggled. "Warty, why don't you let Kopi out?" she asked, making a wild grab for the device with the Digimon in it. "I want to see how she looks like!" Kyru began to worry. Did he somehow mess up, allowing Hanabi to obtain the sacred cookie jar on the shelf? The Dracmon shuddered, and tried not to let those scary thoughts manifest within his mind.

[Cookie-san]

((We'll just be the slow ones then ))

"Sure you can call him Warty. He deserves it" chuckled Kopi from the device as Patty snatched the IC out of the way just before Hanabi's fingers could close over it. Something along the lines of a sigh of relief fled from his mouth, only to quickly turn to a rather surprised - and so very manly - squeak.

"I suppose its a good thing I learned to reverse the binary on this thing, isn't it? Makes getting out of these things a snap" With a cat-like grin true to her nature, Kopi's teeth gleamed from ear to ear.

"Uh...and nice to meet you...?" what else was he supposed to say? Save Jiro and Hanabi, they seemed a rather...detached...group, to put it nicely.

Awkwardness...level...rising...

...what he wouldn't do for a random wild digimon to attack. At least he'd have an excuse...

[Ivian]

"Thanks~" Hanabi said with a grin as she flinched when Patrick took the iC before she could get a hand on the other Tamer's iC. "Oh, alright then," she smiled as she looked at 'Warty'. A squeak, then Hanabi was laughing. How nice. "Um, is there anything to do?" she asked the rest of the group sitting there in the restaurant.

Ivian glanced at the girl. Why was she so...active and raring to go? Doesn't she like to relax sometimes? He was silent, blue eyes tearing away from Patty, Kopi and Hanabi and back to Streak. The DORUmon laughed as he heard Patty squeak. "Hey, don't get too excited, its only morning..." said the dragon as he laughed some more.

Kyru yawned. This was starting to get boring. "Any wild Digimon for us to fight?" he asked, slightly loud as he looked around. Another yawn and he began playing 'I-Spy' with his palm eyes. "Now you try and find something red and round," whispered the Dracmon to his eyes. Of course, they moved accordingly since Kyru himself was controlling them.

Vanguard took a sip from his soda. Jiro smiled at Patty. "Say, where are you from before you came here?" he asked, curious to know. "Also, where did you get Kopi?" he asked once again, deciding to break the very, very awkward silence that was descending upon his party when Kyru was playing 'I-Spy' with his eyes.

[Cookie-san]

"Kopi was...an anomaly?" hmm, where had she come from? Now that he thought about it...? For a moment, his eyebrows crumpled together in thought as he sought to remember. It couldn't be that hard...he'd known Kopi since...since...

"He's my partner. We're partners. I popped out of a computer like anybody else" smoothly, the black cat continued where Patty had left off. Nothing out of the ordinary at all, right?

Her tails twitched.

"Down!" even as she screeched, a window of the pizza parlor shattered into millions of pieces, shredding through the air like miniature razors. Acting on instinct, the feline dived under the table and pulled Patty down with her. Thank Yggdrasil this place was so empty...but still...!

HippoGryphomon was here.

[Ivian]

(Kopi is coffee where I live xD)

"Warty~" Hanabi cried, ducking down as Kyru stood before her, glancing at the Digimon before them. How on earth was he supposed to defeat something like that, even with the help of Streak, Vanguard and Kopi? "Kyru, do something!" said the girl, looking at Kyru, pleading him, asking him, willing him to do something to remedy the situation. She closed her eyes, face contorting into an odd fixture for she was rather afraid and still in shock by the glass shattering into numerous fragments.

Ivian blinked. What was Hippo Gryphomon doing here? The DORUmon by the child glanced up, eyes narrowing and throat rumbling with a deep growl. He had to being it down. Yes, that was the right thing to do after this. "Vanguard!" barked the dragon Digimon, glancing at the Ryuudamon by him. "It's time," grinned Streak with a thumbs up at the other dragon.

Vanguard was ready. Jiro was ready. "Yep, it's time," agreed Vanguard with a smirk. He inhaled, moving towards Streak and taking a fighting stance. If Hippo Gryphomon was not here for a battle, that was alright; if it was, well, they'd just have to bring it down. However, the latter situation seemed more likely in this situation: there was no way in hell that something that large would crash in for no reason at all.

Jiro turned to Ivian. So he was afraid...but what exactly what he was fearing, the child did not know. "Ivian, don't worry, things'll turn out better than it was before," the Tamer said with a serious expression, "I'm here, remember?" Jiro glanced at Ivian, trying to comfort the child's frenzied nerves.

Kyru glanced at Hippo Gryphomon. His palm eyes blinked rapidly, taking in the information offered to him. He began to think; think about the most rational battle strategy to use. "Evolution," muttered the Dracmon to himself. Well, if Hanabi was in a state of shock, chances are he'll get a corrupt DigiSoul and god knows what'll happen to them, or worse, the shop and the surrounding area.

Ivian shrank backwards. His eyes were frantic. He was shivering. Afraid. An unexplainable feeling coursed through his body. "Jiro," the boy said, looking towards Jiro's direction. "I don't know," he replied, voice low, and in a whisper. He wasn't sure. Ivian wasn't sure. They all weren't sure. How was Uncle Alex react to the break-in of sorts? They didn't know. Ivian finally knew what he was feeling deep within him.

Fear.

[Cookie-san]

"Godverdomme!" the cat growled "Patty! Get those kids outta here!" implied was the message, get yourself out of here. They were partners, there was no denying that. But at present, there was absolutely nothing he could do that would outweigh the dangers of him being present. Save for some intensive fight training, the cat doubted that she would ever feel completely comfortable about the process.

Humans were such frail things, after all.

So she charged forward, fire already at her maw and the cry of "Klein Burner!" rushing forward. For a moment the flames plumed around the white down of HippoGryphmon, until they dispersed with a single beat of his massive wings. Kopi, still rushing forward to try and tear a piece out of him with her teeth, made it within a half meter before a single toned foreleg came out to grab her securely around the head.

"Now now, don't be hasty. I haven't even said anything yet" HippoGryphmon then grinned, and promptly tossed her away like yesterday's trash.

"You lot" he raised a claw to the collective huddle of chosen who still remained a fair distance back. "Get down on your knees and bow, and perhaps I'll find a use for you yet. Otherwise," he flexed his claws threatingingly, "I'll clear out the useless filth like you"

[Kotone]

CLAW STRIKE!

A white winged lioness leapt at the HippoGryphmon and slashed at him with her claws glowing red. She then soared upward circling him. And, looking closely, Kotone could be seen on her back, clutching her collar. Kotone smirked and waved at them.

"Seems to me that you guys need a little help." Kotone called down.

[Cookie-san]

"Why do we always end up being saved?" Kopi croaked as she pulled herself to her paws. "It'd be nice to evolve like that..."

"Infidel! Heathen!" came the enraged squawk. "By defying me, you are defying Lord Shivamon! Sonic Voice!" the unarmed humans forgotten, HippoGryphomon aimed his attack at lioness above, or to be more specific, the human on her back. Humans were filth that could easily be done without. Besides, he'd been meaning to get some target practice in for a while now...

[Kotone]

Kisakimon let out a roar of pain and looked at Kotone, who had her hands clamped over her ears and her face was twisted in pain. Kisakimon growled. "Defying Shivamon is what we do here!"

QUEEN'S ROAR!

She flapped her wings and soared upward. She circled HippoGryphmon, then looked at her partner. "Kotone, are you alright."

"Fine." Kotone muttered. "Kick his ass."

Kisakimon nodded and dove back down. CLAW STRIKE!

[Cookie-san]

Having been stationary, the ultimate was too slow to completely remove himself from Kisakimon's line of attack. With a roar to rival his squawk, HippoGryphomon reared up in pain as a nice large swipe was taken out of his flank.

"Fast" he growled more to himself than anyone else. "Too fast" Perhaps he should have cut down on the snacking before volunteering? Maybe. Possibly. As if to prove himself wrong, the ultimate brought up a gale of wind as he took to the air with a few beats of his massive wings.

"Heat Wave!" came the cry; and again he aimed at Kotone. If at first you don't succeed, try try again.

"Kopi!" leaping over a turned-up bench, Patrick finally made it to his incapacitated partner. "Come on, talk to me here..."

And even with his attack pending a direct hit, HippoGryphomon had a very, very interesting idea.

[Kotone]

By now Kisakimon had figured out exactly what HippoGryphmon was trying to do, but she realized it a bit to late. The fiery wind hit her partner and Kotone, by some miracle, managed to stay on her partner's back.

"Kotone!" Kisakimon roared. She narrowed her yellow slitted eyes at HippoGryphomon. "You are going to pay for that!" She soared over him and landed on the pizza place. She carefully took Kotone off her back and examined her. "Kotone, are you alright?"

"I'll live." Kotone said.

Kisakimon nodded a bit and took off again. She hated leaving her partner alone and vulnerable, but she wasn't going to risk her getting hit again. Kisakimon flew at HippoGryphomon and roared. She actually landed this time and her tail lashed at the air.

Instead of using some form of attack, Kisakimon recklessly ran at him with her teeth bared.