Yeeah two chapters posted in two days. I had a backlog. Still hopefully I'll be able to pace them out a bit after this. RainbowDragon belongs to  Rainbowdragon As does Zeratrix. Enjoy!

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Creator of the Digivice.


Max took a deep breath, he was already back in his rookie form by the time he and RD finished training in their champions, and Etemon's irritating ranting had been silent for the last fifteen minutes, indicating that the day's rounds have been played out "Well, do you have a good feel of how to use that body of yours yet?"

"Yeah, I think I can slow a zippy digimon down if the time comes for it" RD said nodding "My tail would be good, and if I stomped on the ground then the digimon might be knocked off it's feet"

Max nodded, smiling "I recommend de-digivolving until your match tomorrow. It won't help if you revert to a rookie in the middle of a battle. Though erm...I do have a request."

RD tilted his head then reverted into his Dracomon stage, a request from Max was something unusual "A request? Ok what do you want me to do?"

Max nodded "Well. You've already taught Pyre and my pokemon heck even myself...how to swallow prey or own size. And I was gonna hold off until I met the royal knights but with an opponant like Blade running around I don't think I can. Do you think you can teach me how to control light? Being a being of light yourself and all."

"Max...." RD cringed, the ability to control light was from the dragon spirit who controlled him, he actually didn't know how to control it himself and for the dragon that was a natural ability that he simply expanded upon, however in this case and because Max was a friend he might have to "Alright but it's not going to be 'friendly' me that does this. Remember when I fought Nidoking? That was my dragon spirit that did that. He's typically docile but blind obedience apparently really riles him up."

Max nodded, listening to RD's explaination "Yeah, I remember that. Not the best experience if you ask me. But it's something that needs to be done. Pyre and Leo have been trying to teach me for the past two months and I'm just not getting it. I know I have it, even my grandpa seems sure that I can use it but until I'm taught by someone who can actually USE it, that knowledge by itself doesn't help anybody." He took a deep breath. "I'm up for whatever he throws at me, but I DO need to learn."

RD sighed, honestly even his dragon spirit said he could do it himself and yes he could do a little...wait maybe he could teach max the basics and THEN turn it over to Zeratrix, the first part was sort of easy "It's essentially like digivolving, except instead of giving in you take a thoughtful, thinking approach to it. Why are they doing this, is it worth getting worked up over, who do you need to protect in case things go wrong. You start there and try not to get angry or worked up, essentially and this is nuts, you repress all your emotions except for curiousity, some patience, and understanding, of course happiness, love, and caring will also help but those ENHANCE light power, they aren't specifically the origin of it."
"The last part is to ask yourself this one question 'is what i'm doing JUST' an then convince yourself the answer is 'yes!"

Max blinked, listening intently with a nod "So I have to step into the situation without any anger or rage, keep my emotions in check, save for patience and kindness. I could always feel the power inside me, but I never understood how to bring it to be. But I know that what I'm doing IS JUST. I wouldn't do anything I thought was wrong."

RD nodded "Once you get it though it sort of just comes out on it's own, that's why some people with light-based powers can use it for bad things or when they are angry, the thing is to first unlock those powers, my spirit thinks that I can do more but I keep telling him it's not like that but meh" RD gave a loose shrug.

Max cringed, but he nodded "If he thinks you can, I'm sure that you can too" He smiled then closed his eyes, following RD's advice with a small sigh "It's not quite that easy...But the idea is the same between digivolution as you've described it. I just can't picture it."

RD blinked but smirked "You're there though, remember what made you digivolve and then work on your emotions from there"

Max blinked, nodding as he took a deep breath and tried again. This time he imagined Blade, he could just imagine the Dinohyumon attacking his friend but he couldn't find the motivation to be upset at him. Instead he thought about what might happen should they not be able to convince Blade they were on the same side, what would happen to the digital world, and suddenly a gust of wind burst forth, pushing away from Max as he developed a bright outline over his body

"That's how it starts, that's the light field, that shows that you unlocked your light powers. The next part would be learning how to control it, but that can be either done on your own or with help from my dragon spirit, which way do you want to go about it" RD asked

Max took a deep breath, he opened his eyes and looked over himself "I'd like his assistance. I've always done better with a mentor. I couldn't have become so adept at being a Digimon without Pyre, and I wouldn't be as good a trainer as I am without my Master."

RD groaned but nodded, he had a feeling Max was going to pick that but the last bit of training to simply enhance his own light shot attacks was lengthy not to mention zeratrix kept insulting him every time he messed up. Still, RD turned over control to Zeratrix.

Max looked over RD, he was unsure if control had been handed over given his appearance "Are you the old spirit RD mentioned?" He asked, trying to be polite.

"Yes I am, I've been through a lot and would prefer it if I simply rested inside my vessel, so let's get this over with. Considering this is your first time i'm not expecting you to do much, alright, run into me" RD said while waving a hand towards himself "The light SHOULD enhance your power to a certain extent when you use physical attacks, my vessel took only minutes to figure it out so it shouldn't be THAT hard"

Max sweatdropped, nodding to RD "Sorry about that, I should have been more considerate about how you might have felt. But it does need to be done." He lifted his paws up, looking at the glow around the edges "So my rock breaker should have a much more powerful kick then." He charged toward RD, his paw in the air to deliver a rock breaker to him

Zeratrix nodded, but he obviously wasn't expecting to be sent flying and nearly punched through the wall of the arena "Oof, when my vessel did that.....well I was still in spirit form, he nearly KILLED the person he was using it on, his....control needed work, but you used a digimon's attack, it should've had even more kick to it"

"pfft I guess some light users are weaklings unless they practice up. Ok once more" Zeratrix said dusting himself off

Max blinked when he heard that "Hey...I'm no weakling, but I'm certainly glad I didn't do what RD did. I wouldn't want to hurt my friend much less kill him..." He sighed before coming at him again, putting his weight into the rock breaker.

Zeratrix again took it, this one almost did send him through the wall "Again and do it like you mean it this time!" he said rolling his eyes

Max grumbled when he heard that, this time he put it all in his paw "Alright, don't say I didn't warn you!"

This finally sent the dragon through the wall "Good, finally got to where he was, even though he wasn't using a digimon attack. Keep on like that and you'll be able to fire the light like a laser. Now if you'll excuse me I want to go back to sleep."

Zeratrix blinked his eyes and the now RD winced "You can see why I don't like handing control over to him....he used to be nice but then we got permanently merged and he got all sour"

Max sweatdropped, nodding as he rubbed his paw "Yeah...I can see that. Still, he did help me get a hand on how to use it as a weapon. Though...the question is if I can use it like a laser like he wants...I think I'll go practice for a bit, Can you do me one more favor, and try to find Fang and Coronamon. Let them know what happened to Jesse and bring them to the room. It might be a little cramped but I'm sure five digimon should be able to fit in there."

"Alright, they're probably back at the arena's hotel room. That's where we stay in between bouts" RD said nodding

Max nodded "Alright. Well I'll see you later." He waved a paw and started walking through town, digitizing a piece of digi sirloin from his digivice and nibbling on it.

RD turned and went inside the Arena Hotel to find his room, and Fang and Coronamon just to see if they were there

Inside of the arena he would find Fang and Coronamon, both of them looking absolutely lost "That gabumon said their room was this way...didn't he?" Coronamon muttered, pointing in the right direction but at the wrong room

RD tried his absolute best not to burst out laughing, especially when they walked in on a tyrannomon who immediately roared at them "Over here guys!"

Coronamon yiped and shut the door almost immediately, Fang waved at RD and smiled "Oh there you are. We were looking all over for you guys."

"Yeah our room is a few floors down, erm can't you see the numbers on the doors?" RD pointed at the very visible numbers on each door

Coronamon blinked, looking at the numbers and started blushing "Oh...I guess I neglected to see that portion of the door..."

"You and fang are supposed to be the smart ones and you missed THAT detail" RD faceclawed "Anyways some guy named blade attacked Jesse nearly to the point of deletion, I'm not sure if the guy has a vendetta on us or what but be careful around him ok?"

Fang's eyes went wide at that "Wait...Jesse's been attacked?! We were watching Blade's attacks. Guess JEsse was right about him holding back." He started sprinting down to the lower levels, Making sure the doors number matched before opening the door, seeing Jesse laying on the bed, Max's uncle Smithy was standing by the bed, examining the human digimon

"Woah! Who are you?" Coronamon demanded.

The Leomon turned to look at The group that walked in and snorted. "I'm the uncle. Besides I'm the only one that can repair his armor."

"That's good, but uncle of who?" RD asked as they came into the room "Oh thanks by the way"

Smithy grunted, he was removing bits and pieces of Jesse's armor, revealing his human form underneath "Max's. Everyone calls me Smithy, but you add a Mr to it." He said, stating it as fact rather than suggesting or asking

RD tilted his head and then nodded "Oh ok um so you're this Mr. Smithy that I heard about then?"

Smithy nodded, removing the chestplate and setting it on a wheeled table "Yep. The one and only. Lord Baihumon asked me not to interfere in the battles that take place during the tournament. Though I hadn't expected Blade would show up here."

"Yeah erm I didn't get to meet any of these lords but I've heard of baihumon, there are three others each matching the four cardinal directions....wish I could meet them myself I'm still not sure what to do aside from stop myotismon and get the Royal Knights to wake up and realize the darkness is a serious threat to the entire digiworld....honestly I'm beginning to wonder if something way high up on the Royal Knights hiarchy is infected with the darkness but that's nuts."

Smithy sighed, taking a deep breath and feeling over Jesse's arms "After what happened previously with the darkness it wouldn't surprise me. The four do have the digital worlds best interest in mind believe that. Baihumon set two of your own on a quest to visit the remaining three. Even if the Royal knights won't intervene, the four harmonious ones are doing everything they can to keep the Darkness from spreading. Each one is surrounded by a temple that prevents them from stepping out into the world however. So they each trained one singular digimon in their appointed districts to handle tasks in their place. Digimon like myself, And Blade SHOULD be doing his job in the East. But Azulongmon must have some reason for sending him way out here."

That put RD into thought. "After the tourney, first we need to keep myotismon from infecting the Royal Knights, he is extremely powerful so that would be a disaster if that happened. Second......I want to meet these guardians myself, I know it's nuts and that meeting ONE guardian should be sufficient, but it might help to know some things from each side of the digiworld"

Smithy took a deep breath "You might just get your wish. You all do deserve to know the truth. Just know that right now my hands are tied. The best I can do is try to repair Jesse's armor. But I won't sugercoat it...The spirit itself is injured. The damage done to the armor is a reflection of the spirit's condition.."

RD blinked "And the reason Blade did this? Does he hate us?" RD was obviously worried

Smithy took a deep breath "I don't think he hates you guys. He wouldn't have come down here if Azulongmon hadn't willed it so. But I can't say he doesn't trust you, I can say this though, neither I nor Blade are comparable to the darkness. Still, I wouldn't worry, no matter what he says, he'll stop short from deleting you. Though I do have a request from you personally, It has to do with Jesse."

"This would be my second request to fill today, the last was from Max himself. What is it?" RD asked, watching Smithy do his 'magic' on Jesse.

Smithy looked at Jesse, despite Smithy's hard appearance he actually looked, worried? Distressed? either way he had some concern with Jesse "To repair the armor I had to remove it from his body. Humans bodies can't sustain themselves in this world for too long and it'll take me at least a day or two to repair. It may sound very strange but given the digital world it's not to big of a request. Jesse's in a hibernatic state and if he stays here he'll cease to be. and considering these two have no prior experience..." He eyed both Fang and Coronamon who stood straight stiffly "I have to ask you to eat Jesse."

RD smirked "Actually eating is what I do best, ask these guys." He said pointing at Fang and Coronamon "Let me just do this fast all right?"

Smithy nodded "Alright, Just remember, as a human he won't respawn in the primary village. Buuut if Lucemon gave you the chip I think he gave you then he won't have to."

"Yeah he gave me the chip but how did you know that....and can you tell me exactly what this chip does?" RD said, he still hadn't wrapped his mind over all the extra features of his digivice ever since he got the chip.

Smithy laughed "Lemme just state first of all that it was me who designed your digivices. Guilmon asked me to about a year before everything transpired. The chip is a program I designed just a week ago when Baihumon warned me a couple of spirit digimon would be part of the group. When you eat Jesse you'll digest and absorb him. The program will let you respawn Jesse once I've repaired his armor. Otherwise he'd be stuck as digifat."

RD headtilted and at first looked disgusted but then nodded "Alright it's to help him so ok and wow so you can program too? You're amazing"

Smithy nodded, chuckling "I do my best. I'm not as smart as Fang there." He pointed to the Gaomon. "I'm sure if he'd designed the digivices he probably would have included that feature right from the get go. Still I'd get to eating him now while you can. Think of it this way, you won't have to go to the hotels dining hall to have your dinner."

RD was already at the bedside preparing to swallow Jesse down headfirst "True, can't wait to see echo again though, he was fun" RD went and swallowed Jesse, given the size difference it was a little more difficult then it could've been but RD pulled it off

Blinking, Smithy couldn't help but laugh. "Wait, you didn't know?" He asked, chuckling as he watched RD quickly polishing off Jesse as a meal and smirked "Pull out your digivice."

RD pulled it out "I knew that any digimon I ate will go to primary village, we even asked the Ogremon about it"

Smithy smirked, he ran a finger through RD's digivice, showing RD that there was even a touch screen feature if he knew how to access it, he swiped it to the left several times, until two digi-eggs appeared on the display, one was green and white while the other was red and white

RD blinked "So if we have digivices, all digieggs are saved here?" RD sighed "See I was never told about any of this....at all....I knew we could save objects but I had no clue about this little feature"

Smithy chuckled "Well...Ogremon was right, digimon you eat WILL go to primary village. What he probably didn't know is that each of your digivices contains sample data of such places. Though they're more commonly known as digi farms in the digivice. Any digimon you eat will go to this farm as an egg."

RD sighed "Well that explains it, so now both digimon are in my digivice? Shouldn't I send them into primary village or will they hatch on their own?"

Smithy smiled "They'll hatch on their own don't worry. Your digivice will act as an incubator for them. The stronger you are the faster they'll hatch. Just give it time. I asked Lucemon to give YOU the chip because you seem the most predatory. Meaning if Jesse winds up like that again, or it happens to Flare, you'll be the one to save their life, even if for a couple days their life is inside of you." He pulled himself up, gathered the shattered armor in a sack and sighed. "I should be going though. Believe me, I'm placing my hopes on you all. You and Max especially, since you two have the best chances of showing Blade his place."

RD blinked and nodded slowly at Smithy "I'm glad you have so much faith in us, from what we've seen Blade is super powerful"

Smithy chuckled as he started walking to the door "Blade is likely the strongest contender in the champion bracket. It's not faith I have, it's hope, don't mix it up. Unlike Blade I understand the gravity of your presence in this world. And if you beat him, I hope that you make sure you devour him slooowly, maybe even digest him slowly." He let loose a toothy grin before quickly concealing it. "Regardless, beat Blade, and I'll teach you another feature on the digivice you might find interesting, especially against Myotismon."

RD winced and then nodded, apparently Smithy wanted to teach this Blade a very important lesson, not to mention something was on the line for it....he'd have to get back in training with his spirit and learn that light sword technique, it'd come in handy

A moment later and Smithy was gone, the door shutting behind him. Fang let loose a breath he'd been holding and put a gloved paw to his chest "Jeez...the air around that guy. I usually can't feel someones power but I felt like his was choking me."

"I didn't feel a thing" RD said bluntly, probably because his spirit had enough power to effortlessly fight smithy to a standstill if need be, honestly though RD only worried about people with established REPUTATIONS and he knew that smithy was an excellent blacksmith and weapons maker, he'd never go up against him and the light in him plus his actions made Smithy an ally, too bad Fang was always nervous around people with high power

Fang sweatdropped, he finally relaxed and slumped into a chair "Well, at least now that's taken care of. So how long do you think it'll take you to digest Jesse?" He asked, trying to clear the air, Coronamon yawned and flopped down ontop of Flare who squirmed underneath his partner

RD chuckled at Coronamon's actions and shrugged "It took until all of the day's matches for Echo to digest so i'm guessing it'll take the same amount of time"

Fang nodded, smiling "True, by the time you came back I couldn't see the shoutmon's bulge in your belly. Now it's replaced with a human bulge. So...what will you do now? The next set of rounds is tomorrow afternoon."

"I could relax but I'm now worried, the darkness has enough influence on the Royal Knights to get them to do nothing while it takes over the real world and then get the one Royal Knight who saw the implications to get banished. I'd like to talk to max's granddad about how the banishing went out and who, if anyone, may have been acting weird. I just wish this digivice had a warp feature. Then again I don't know where this guy is...." RD said sighing "It would definitely explain why the darkness nearly took over the real world and the digiworld by proxy"

Flare snapped his finger "I know where it is. You and Max succeeded in getting you to digivolve right? If your new form has WINGS, maybe we could get there in thirty minutes tops. Besides You now have food in your belly that can fuel the possible flight."

RD smirked, Flare had a point. "That's true and Max knows the way, we might be able to get an interesting story and THEN we can figure out if the darkness is in the royal knights themselves, though that would defeat the purpose of winning the tourney, then again myotismon might want to meet the royal knights who WEREN'T infected so he could infect them"

Flare nodded "True. But we have until tomorrow afternoon. We can go to Guilmon's home tonight and get the answers we need. Might just give us the edge we need in a situation where we're way out of our league. So how about it? You and I go on a little trip to the Royal knight that saved us all?"

RD had a wide smile on his face "I'm all for it, i'm actually annoyed that I didn't get to meet all these great people, I want to meet some others. Hopefully my wings can get us to him before nightfall"

Flare nodded, stretching his arms out as he walked to the door "We should have plenty of time." Fang sweatdropped and nodded to RD "You DID meet him before. But you yelled his ears off remember? It was when we were in the real world. Anyways you two go on. Coronamon and I will hold down the fort and wait for Max."

"Oh...that was him....didn't seem like the kind of guy to do that" RD said....thinking then facepalmed "That wasn't me, that was my spirit zeratrix! We share the same body and he can be....well he's really mean"

Flare laughed, he realized he'd left Coronamon plopped on the floor and set him on the bed "Yeah we keep forgetting about the spirit. Still better explain that to the old man when we get there." almost immediately Flare took to running out of the building. Making Fang sweatdrop "He's still as energetic as always, better catch him heh."

RD winced "And me still needing to digivolve" RD chased after him
(To be continued)