Kiya  Kiya Drakon and RainbowDragon  Rainbowdragon belong to their respective players. Max and the rest of the group belong to me. Digimon by itself is owned by Bandai however and I take no credit for them xD Anyways this one took a little while to dish out but enjoy ^^

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Starlight cup



RD was annoyed as they walked to starlight city, he was expecting any city with a name like that though to be lit up like Las Vegas! After digesting that huge ogremon which took a day and a half he was ready for some action in the tourneys the Ogremon was talking about.

Jesse wasn't AS annoyed, the Koromon he'd met in the primary village decided to tag along in the same fashion Max's Bulbasaur always did, on his head! It definitely gave them something to talk about as they approached the cities entrance and boy did it kinda live up to it's expectations. While there weren't many lights, most of the buildings were a sparkling white, with many of them towering several stories tall. "Now THIS is a city...kind of reminds me of Goldenrod but...very white. You'd stick out in a place like this. heck I stick out in a place like this..." He muttered, gesturing to his armor

RD blinked as he looked around the city "I know some digimon cities can be big, and digiworld is kind of like the real world in that respect but even compared to that this place is huge! I highly doubt even file city would ever get this big"

Jesse chuckled nervously, he took out his digivice and started looking for any clear landmarks on the map before smiling "Ah I found where the tournaments should be held...according to this map there's a huge domed building in the center of town. It's apparently one of the bigger attractions of the city."

"Considering what that ogremon was saying about the tournies I'm not surprised, it should be easy to spot then since it's right in the middle of town" RD said nodding at this "Just keep an eye out for that myotismon character*

Jesse nodded "You don't have to worry about that. Loweemon is actively scanning the area as we walk. If someone like Myotismon is nearby I'll start hearing alarm bells." He started following the map, which thankfully centered around their position so it would be very hard to get lost. Eventually they made their way towards the dome that Jesse mentioned, several digimon lining up infront of it, wether to register or spectate was anybodies guess. But in the crowd was a guilmon, which wouldn't have been any cause for celebration, except next to him was Flare in his Agunimon form* "I think we just found the rest of our defense force."

RD breathed a sigh of relief"What a relief, it's good to get back together because splitting up may cover more ground but it's not easy that's for sure"

Jesse nodded, taking a deep breath "We're definitely a stronger force as a group. Let's go say hello." Jesse was already on his way, Max turning when he spotted the familiar face and laughed "Jesse! We wondered where you guys were...so uhm does that mean?" He looked in RD's direction, when he saw the rainbow pattern on his belly as well on the tail he understood "What brings you two to this city?"

"One of the corrupted digimon was corrupted in this town, so we came to see if we could find the digimon corrupting everyone" RD stated simply

Fang popped up next to Max, A gaomon with white fur and red markings over his body "That's what we came here for too! We have a name but we've yet to find him. Figured a couple of us entering this tournament would flush him out"

I'm entering the tourney for the bits, the grand prizes depending on the grade of tourney range from 2000 to 6000 bits, really useful" RD said nodding

"We heard abuot the prize money, but there's another prize being held at this specific place." Flare said excited, then groaned as Charmeleon, or rather Coronamon leapt onto his face, the former frantically trying to remove his companion from his face

RD blinked "Why is that coronamon all over your face?" RD not knowing that the Coronamon was charmeleon tugged him off and pushed him aside "What were you going to say and what other prize?"

Coronamon grunted as he was pulled off and whined "Awww I wanted to say it..." He crossed his arms and pouted, getting a snicker out of Max.

Flare responded with a grin, looking down at Coronamon. "That's Charmeleon. As for what the other prize is, some digimon have been whispering about a statue of BurningGreymon being given to the winner. The spirit inside me believes this to be the second half of himself. We're going to try and win it and reunite the pieces."

Jesse's eyes went wide, looking down at the Coronamon with a start. "Wait...THAT'S Charmeleon? He's supposed to be the one in control. Keeping you from making a fool of yourself..."

Coronamon rolled his eyes and held up a claw. "Hey! This world does some weird things to you!"

"That would be super excellent, I believe BurningGreymon was one of the first digimon to achieve burst mode, can you imagine a digimon of that caliber on our side?" RD squeed at the thought "Hrmm but for there to be a mega digimon statue as a prize.....wouldn't the digivolution levels be pretty high end?"

Flare held up a finger "One...my spirit thinks you're confusing BurningGreymon with Shinegreymon. And second, it's only an Ultimate level statue. Apparently we can only achieve mega if I DNA digivolve with myself...as odd as it sounds."

RD headtilted "True but how the heck do you DNAdigivolve with yourself? Isn't that a little bit nuts?"

Fang face palmed, looking up at Flare "I keep telling you it's not YOU who have to DNA digivolve! It's the spirits that need to fuse. Agunimon and BurningGreymon may be the same spirit but they're fractured. To get them back to their full power they have to fuse together. You could say you're the cauldron that will meld them together once you learn how. BUT that's assuming one of us can win the tournament for you to even try."

"So he's kind of like the mixing pot that both spirits will go in?" RD stated trying to make sense of it

Fang nodded, smiling and lifting up a gloved fist "Right! It's same with Jesse here, his evolution and spirit are the same way. Of course I have a strong feeling his will be a little more...complicated to procure."

Jesse nodded in understanding "It's a spirit of darkness, Myotismon probably has it or one of his agents."

RD folded his arms "This worries me, something tells me there's more going on, it isn't just the spirits or Max......everything fits in too perfectly. I was a nomad wandering around until I ran into max" RD said lost in thought "The fight with Jesse and Nidoking just seemed to happen, and the little non-sequiter I was talking about the dragon that was a million times worse then the knight Templars? I have a feeling that light and dark are having a balancing act. Right now darkness is trying to tip the scales in it's favor. What we need to do now is keep that from happening. The focus isn't just on keeping this darkness from corrupting everything. We need to be careful not to overdo it. As silly as that sounds it's possible to do too good of a job"

Max and the others looked over at RD, though they understood. Max and Jesse bumped fists "There's a balance in any and every world. Darkness can be scary but it's not something to be feared if it's properly maintained. Same with the light, You could say Jesse and I are a living symbol to that balance. I am a being of pure light while he possesses a spirit of pure darkness."

"It's not that simple. You and Jesse are special cases, neither one of you willfully giving up the darkness or the light. And at the same time, you keep each other balanced out. So yeah, guess you are the living echo of the balance of light and darkness." Spoke a young child Lucemon, just hovering behind them, waving innocently.

RD jumped a mile, well not literally but he nearly did "Lucemon? Er, starlight city attracts digimon of all sorts huh?" RD asked, tilting his head.

Lucemon blinked, though he didn't seem to affected by RD's reaction "I'm...not the Lucemon you might be thinking of."

Max was pulled into his inner conciousness by Leo, who looked riled up, his fur practically standing on end. "Ugh...first Rose and now Dan...Look, That Lucemon isn't the enemy. He's one of the original test subjects that came after me. The youngest of the ten actually. Just a bit older than you."

Pulling himself out, Max looked at the group then at Dan. "Don't worry...he's one of the good guys. One of the original ten hybrids made after him. Like Rose!"

Lucemon tilted his head to the side before smiling. "Oh, Leo is in there? Now that one catches me by surprise..."

RD blinked, he had no idea the hybrid subjects were so insanely diverse "Yeah I'm mainly here for the tournies, a good way to earn bits, we can do odd jobs too if we need to"

Lucemon nodded, before flying around the group a moment "Well you might be in for a fight then. Oh don't worry! I'm not entering, It wouldn't be fair if I entered. Even as a rookie I've knocked down Mega's." He scratched the back of his head "Blame it on me being one of those demon lord guys...But I really am a good guy! Anyways Myotismon isn't entering, but he planted a few seeds into some of the competition. And many of them are hungry."

RD groaned "FIgures, whichever ones didn't keep their heads enough to make it into the tourney went and caused mayhem around the digiworld, well in any case time to enter" RD joined the line for registration, at least he thought it was the line

Lucemon nodded, taking a deep breath "Alright, Just remember it's like you said. Light and darkness aren't as they seem. But the light has been fading. I'll go watch from the spectators seats. The name's Dan by the way. Good luck guys!" He waved excitedly before he dissapeared into the stadium, or rather he ended up flying towards the back of the stadium.

Max's ears splaying to the sides "Great he's gonna sneak in the back...anyways let's get registered." A gabumon was standing at the registration counter and smiled at the group "We only have three more slots left in the tournament sadly... So you guys figure out which of you will be entering." It didn't need saying though, Fang, Jesse and Coronamon all stepped out of the line, leaving just Max, Flare and RD standing in place

RD blinked but registered as he winced "It already filled up that quickly, this tournament is popular"

Max and Flare signed up next, the digimon behind them all groaning and just leaving to take their seats for the battles to come. "Well...Gorillamon did mention it being such a big event. " Fang mumbled, before catching himself "Well I wish you three the best of luck. If anybody has a chance of getting through these events it's you guys."

RD nodded wincing "Those digimon seemed pretty upset that we got here first, in any case with so many entering I wonder how many matches there are"

The Gabumon started lining up the paperwork "Usually there aren't so many entrants...but this is a SPECIAL event that the city holds once every decade. I'll take you three to your rooms. This event usually lasts two or three days."

RD nodded slowly "Alright then, two to three days that's awhile"

The gabumon nodded, hopping off his seat and leading them down the hallway "Well like I said, it's a very special event. It's only held here once every ten years. You could say it's as big as...what do the humans call it...?" The gabumon was quiet for a couple of seconds before snapping his claws "The olympics. This tournament is going on worldwide...from the Western region all the way to the east. With the winner from each region getting an opportunity to meet the royal knights."

That got Max's attention, he walked over to RD and muttered quietly to him* "That explains it, Myotismon...or whoever he's working for is trying to flush out the knights."

Gabumon stopped infront of what looked like a large fifteen foot door, then smiled "Here you are, we keep the rooms roomy incase our entrants are digimon like Greymon, so don't mind the spacious capacity."

RD winced as he whispered back "This might not be good for me, my mega form is one of the knights as is one of my DNA digivolved forms, I might have more digivolutionary levels on the royal knights then other digimon" RD nodded as he went into the room

Max and Flare stepped through also, cringing as the door slammed shut behind them "Maybe but you're not a knight yet. Besides, my Mega form is a royal knight too. Whatever the case this could be our lucky break. If one of us wins the tournament we can see the knights, and maybe convince them to take this of the Darkness seriously."

RD nodded in agreement. "It would make sense for a digimon lower on the digivolution ladder to contact them for if things got out of hand and with all the small incidents going on due to myotismon's brainwashing there should be something done at least some surveillance"

Max agreed "We'll have to just try our best. Looks like we have three things to look forward too then. Question is...if we do win...who should speak to them?" Flare pointed a hand at Max, falling backwards onto an overly large bed "Your grandfather was once a knight. He may have been removed from service but you're the one who's the most qualified to speak to them. Besides in the end if we end up victorious we'll all get what we came here for. RD wanted the bits, I'm after the spirit and you can finally get some answers.Does that sound agreeable to everyone?" Flare asked, looking at both Max and RD as he relaxed, taking a deep breath and shutting his eyes

RD nodded but somewhere in the back of his mind he wanted to look into everyone else, surprisingly for being a loudmouth he could sneak around when he needed too, which he does if only to look into the other contestants

Max chuckled, taking a deep breath and digitized a chocolate bar from his digivice "No telling when we'll be called in so I'm going to snack. We better do whatever it is we need to to prepare, because there's no garuntees of what will happen once we enter that battlefield."

RD blinked "Erm I know we can will our digivices into existence but where did you get that chocolate bar?"

Max blinked before blushing "My grandpa stored a bunch of provisions into my digivice before we left. Apparently these things can store a lot of data, and because everything in this world is data...well ya get the point."

"Wait so all we had to do was just put the digivice to something big and we could take it out whenever we wanted? I....wasn't informed of this....at all.....SD took off before explaining them and the majority of other digimon don't have a digivice" RD flailed his arms a bit, then took a deep breath.

Max laughed, nodding a bit "Pretty much. You could store other digimon...food, though something big like a house may be more than the digivice can handle. Believe me we're still learning as we go too. Grandpa said they can help us digivolve whereas other digimon need tamers. I think...though the light in our digivices is supplied by our own life force. If there's no light in our soul then we can't purify a digimon."

RD smirked at the last sentence "Shouldn't be a problem with me then heehee"

Max nodded "True. But while we're in the tournament I don't think we should try using our digivices to purify any of Myotismon's henchmen...If we digivolve that can't be helped. We can chalk it up to a fluke or an accident and nobody will be the wiser. If we need to contain someone corrupt, I think we can let our stomachs handle that." He snapped the chocolate bar in half and handed half of it to RD "Let's rest though. I've been walking around all day."

RD nodded but secretly told himself to eavesdrop on the other doors to the hotel and then come back later, he was sure he could use his digivice in order to come back to the proper room with no problem, hopefully he didn't accidently wake Max up, that would cause all sorts of awkward questions. He took a quick bite out of the bar Max snapped for him as he did his investigating.

Max plopped onto the bed next to Flare, none the wiser and left RD to do his own buisness Most of the other doors remained quiet, though there WERE a few noisy neighbors, mostly from the larger enemies such as Tyrannomon, One even came stomping out of his bedroom and stomped past RD, not giving the small Dracomon a single glance.

RD was annoyed but it was understandable, ok since there was nothing here it was best to get back to the room, so he pulled his digivice out to go back to his location

Dan snuck up behind RD before he activated the digivice, he put a finger over his own mouth and smiled and handed RD a computer chip "Don't worry it's nothing that'll boost your performance or anything...it's an upgrade for your digivice."

RD nearly jumped a mile again, HOW DID DAN KEEP DOING THAT? But in any case he just nodded and went back to the room, thankfully his digivice had a short teleportation feature. Long as he was in the same area as where he needed to be it'd take him to it.

Dan giggled, he was starting to like RD but just floated away again. When RD made it back to the room he'd see Max and Flare were still asleep on the bed, though comedically, Flare was hanging halfway off the bed, Due to his hair being lengthened by his Agunimon form it was brushing against the floor like a broom

RD tried not to chuckle, then just to be nice he straightened Flare back up on his bed before getting into bed himself, but he wasn't sleepy, so he looked at the chip he was going to put into his digivice "Hmmm...a chip that will boost the performance of my digivice but not myself..."

Meanwhile, Scav and Kiya were made their way to the coast. Given the distance they had to walk, they alternated shifts of walking distance. It helped that Lyle could be transported into their digivice and didn't mind the treatment. Whenever it was his turn to do the walking they'd just release him from the digivice and rest upon his back. "We're here you two." Lyle panted out, looking out at the sea and taking them to the sandy beach. "The boat I made for you, it SHOULD get you through the western sea and into the north. I'd come with you but I'm not sure Lord Baihumon would appreciate me leaving the village unattented."

Scavenger pulled out his digivice once he set his feet down on the warm sand. He pressed a couple of buttons and a large wooden ship materialized into the water. "Actually your journey still isn't over. Baihumon said you'd accompany us until the western border right? Well...he didn't make any mention of returning or what to do next. I think he wanted you to make the journey here before you made your final decision."

Lyle tilted his head, but he shrugged his shoulders. "You...could be right. And you need someone who knows how to handle the ship's controls. Alright! You've talked me into it. Along the way I can teach you about the story between light and darkness passed on to our clan!"

With a smirk, Kiya stepped foot onto the vessal first, followed by Scav and Lyle. The latter manning his station at the wheel. "Alright fellas, hold onto your horses." the Liamon pulled a lever at the side and the ship took off into the sea. "Here we go. Let's make Lord Baihumon proud and find out the source of our worlds problems!"

(To be continued)