RD finally gets the answers he's been looking for. And now the viewers aka YOU who read this series. Will fully understand the meaning behind their hardships in this season. I hope you enjoy! RD is of course owned by  Rainbowdragon And digimon is owned by Namco Bandai.

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Tiger summons


A couple hours after Max had promptly passed out on the bed, Flare opened the door to their hotel room, He awkwardly stepped into the room after the larger Leopardmon, it was obvious he was intimidated by knight's stature "Uhm...hey guys sorry we took so long to get back. We just spent the past couple hours trying to repair the damage back in the Arena..."

"No problem! Erm, who else were you fighting besides myotismon?" RD asked, his stomach growling amid the silence.

Leopardmon tried to get comfortable, not wanting to sit on Max as he got on the bed, getting comfortable "Barbamon...Daemon...There was even Etemon out there but Coronamon over there took care of that one..." Coronamon blushed, rubbing over his stomach "In any case..." Leopardmon sighed, scratching his head "Smithy should be arriving any moment now to repair Fang's digivice."

"Alright but man Daemon was there too?! Well on the plus side Barbamon has been defeated" RD said nodding, everyone seemed fairly bruised and exhausted as he turned to look at everyone in the bedroom. The only one without a scratch had been Fang, but that's due to reforming from Doru's stomach than anything.

Leopardmon nodded "If Flare and I weren't busy dealing with him we could have taken care of Myotismon before things got out of hand."

Flare sweatdropped, the room was getting pretty crowded what with all of the digimon inside of it so he tried to get everyone aquainted. "Erm...Oh...RD this is Leopardmon. He's apparently...one of Max's uncles...believe it or not."

RD tilted his head before finally greeting the knight. "All of Max's family seems to have some tie or another to the digiworld it seems"

Leopardmon chuckled, when he spotted Max finally stirring in his sleep "Well...Only one third of his family is actually human believe it or not. The smithy's originated here in the digital world. So everyone in our village is either an uncle or a cousin to Max."

"Oh wow ok...." RD said shrugging, he wanted to just pass out then and there. "Anyways with that done now what?"

Max was pulling himself out of bed, smacking his lips then jumped with a start "Where's Cyberdramon?! He..."

Max slumped back, but Leopardmon was quick to help him up, supporting Max's back. It was Coronamon who spoke up first "He went to go grab a soda from the vending machine. He figured you might be thirsty when you wake up."

RD winced, with Max finally awake he was finally able to get a good idea of Max's condition. "You look exhausted" RD observed pacing around the bed and looking at it from various angles.

Max nodded "Yeah...Erm...I digivolved to ultimate but it wasn't pretty. I don't like that my personality changes so drastically after champion. It scares me." Cyberdramon kicked the door open, at first it seemed pretty rude to do, but he was holding several soda's in his claws, hardly able to just calmly grab the door handle

"Woah watch it!" RD rushed over to help carry some of the sodas "They said you were only getting one soda not several"

Cyberdramon sweatdropped, nodding as RD helped him out, setting what was left on the dresser by the bed. "I thought after the night everybodies been through it might help clear some heads."

Coronamon rolled his eyes, pointing an accusatory claw at Cyberdramon. "Enough with the quiet act...tell us who you are we all deserve to know. You know us but we don't know you."

"I don't know you either stranger, who are you?" RD asked, insisting on an answer.

Cyberdramon scratched his head a bit, nodding "Fair enough...erm...Do you...remember the last battle down underneath Mahogany town? Well...after that...erm I kinda decided to go back to Cianwood city to meet up with Sarah. I lost my digimon half when Delta took my powers from me, my digimon self."

Max cringed, pulling himself up "Chaos? Chaos is that you? I thought...you lost it though, Your digimon half I mean..."

Cyberdramon shook his head, smiling "I did lose it. And Daemon was dead set on taking the rest of me. He caught me before I could get to the first boat to Cianwood."

RD cringed visably, Daemon in the picture was never good. And he had to ask it. "So...what are you doin here? I assume you managed to slip by him somehow?"

"Well...needless to say..he DID take it. I was stripped bare, nothing but my core left behind. I thought I was dead for sure. Until Zhuqiaomon appeared before me."

That caught Leopardmon's attention "The HIGH Lord Zhuqiaomon? How'd he get to the human world?!" He looked absolutely shocked, the lords had no way of leaving their assigned temples, that much was common knowledge among the native digimon in this world.

"Wait wait wait, Zhuqiaomon came to the real world in order to rescue you? Why?" RD wasn't exactly as privy to the knowledge of the lords as everyone else

Cyberdramon nodded "Apparently so. He took my core back to the digital world and asked me if I'd like a chance to regain my original body. Any sane persons reaction would obviously be YES. So...he took my core and created a digiegg around it. Couple days later I awoke as a Monodramon. And from then on I was trained personally by the high lord himself."

"Woah you were trained by one of the digimon high lords? Everyone who's been trained by them are really strong as far as I know" RD was impressed, not to mention stunned by this information. Blade and Smithy had both recieved strict, personal training by the other lords. He never expected a digimon from their world would garner attention so unique as to be invited to train under one of them.

Cyberdramon nodded, holding up a claw. "Past few months yeah. It's not easy, not by a long shot let me tell you that." He de-digivolved into Strikedramon, smiling. "Apparently...he chose me to become the guardian of the South. My first official task...was to come help you all. How long I'm allowed to stay...That I really don't know. He could call me back at any moment."

"Wow ok but still erm, now that you're here I'm confused on what to do next, the tourney's still going on, there's evil digimon demon lords running around causing a mess....and then well I'm pretty stumped on the last one" RD shrugged sighing, scratching the horn at the back of his head.

Choas nodded, crossing his arms "SD and Kiya will be meeting with the high lord in just a few hours honestly. They'll arrive in this town after tomorrows rounds. I think you guys might like to know...the final eight contestants will be a mix between all classes. Furthermore, each one will be a 'vore' match apparently. No match ends until one opponant is in the other."

"Sheesh they're really milking the vore stuff for all it's worth huh?" RD asked, rubbing over his growling tummy.

Chaos nodded a few times "Well of course...how do you think I digivolved. As...high as the high lord sounds...His training regiment is rigorous...If you lose a battle in the south the opponant is promptly eaten and degenerated back into the in training generation."

"Wow that far back that's crazy" RD said wincing. Sounds like the south's training regiment to be chosen is very strict.

CHaos nodded, then cringed when Smithy slammed the door open, the leomon sizing Chaos up a few times before snorting "So...you're the new south guardian...Sorry kid but...the others have been around for years. You only just started."

RD blinked "So blunt" He muttered as Smithy barged in, trying not to get in his way.

Smithy shrugged his shoulders "I only speak the truth. The South doesn't keep a guardian for long. The last one was a Devidramon for about two years. Aaaand when are you going to tell me how you beat Myotismon..." He turned his attention to Max, who promptly blushed

"I...was waiting for the right moment...everyone looks so busy and curious about everyone elses story. And wait how'd you know I won?!"

Smithy rolled his eyes, walking over to Fang, who had already reformed and started tinkering with his digivice "Leopardmon is my older brother...but I can still get answers out of him even if he is a knight. Besides...your stomach bulge may have lost definition but I do sense a faint darkness inside of it." At that Leopardmon looked to the other side of the room, whistling.

RD tried his best not to chuckle at this. Looked like Smithy held enough authority that he could even make a Royal knight talk.

Max blushed bright, he started recounting the events on his battle with Myotismon, not sparing any details before taking a deep breath "Thanks to Chaos...I learned how to Shine digivolve into a brand new Growlmon species. But it tired me out...It seems no matter what Ultimate I become, I end up acting much like Blade..."

That got a smirk out of Smithy, who was tinkering with Fang's digivice, pulling free the screens casing. "Believe me...that's not much a bad thing...."

"Some people would say otherwise" RD commented, already thinking about how shine digivolution would work for anyone else.

Smithy laughed, looking RD right in the eyes "You really don't have a clue." He took the screw driver in his hand and opened the shell casing to the digivice. "The reason he was selected by Azulongmon wasn't his methods in battle. He is very thorough in battle...able to incapacitate opponants without deleting them. Azulongmon chose him because out of the millions of digimon that live in this world, there's nobody that has a bigger heart either."

"There isn't? Just a couple days ago he nearly deleted Jesse and I never really understood that reason and he thinks that we really shouldn't be involved in this and to let them handle everything? He has heart sure but is that only for fellow digimon or for everyone?" RD asked quite pointedly after all the conversation with Smithy from earlier as compared to now was completely different

Smithy chuckled "He didn't want to see any of you get hurt. What he did to Jesse, he did as an attempt to scare you away. May not have been the right thing to do but he didn't want more bodies piling up on his mind than there already are. For the past few hundred years, we were the only protection for the digital world. And that weights in on a lot of our minds after such a long time. So if he has to play the bad guy to make sure you guys don't get corrupted or deleted...he'd do it."

"No man is an island and despite the amount of digimon trying to work together it's still not enough, why do you think we're here in the first place" RD sighed, watching Smithy work on the digivice, curious of it's internal design. "I understand trying to play the villain for one's own good but it's unnecessary and honestly it's just plain dumb. The demon lords might be counting on that just so they can take advantage of the lack of numbers"

Smithy nodded a few times "Like I said, he went about it the wrong way. and it was stupid. He see's that now. You can be angry for him hurting Jesse, hell you can eat him. But you can't fault him for caring enough to do such. It's a good thing his plan failed or tonight could have been very bad indeed"

RD tapped his stomach, nodding. "We also got suspicious about someone fixing that matches so we checked in on that too...er they did....right?" RD looked at the rest of the group

Max grumbled, nodding "Yaah it was Etemon the whole time. Who knew that such a cheerful...elvis wannabe could be so dastardly."

Coronamon belched, his belly gurgling as if in response. "He was working for Myotismon...who in turn was working for Daemon himself."

"Wow that's...." RD was gettign confused now , scratching his horn more so now."So even myotismon was being used sheesh"

Smithy nodded "So it sounds. I think Myotismon and Belphemon are the ring leaders among the Darknesses forces. I do have bad news though. Fang,.." *He turned toward the Gaomon, handing him his digivice after finally finishing it's repairs. "I restored your digivice...But next time you pull off something like THAT again...it might corrupt your data."

"Erm...doesn't corrupted get deleted after it's used?!" RD asked, worried for Fang and looking at both.

Smithy shook his head "Not always...Corrupted data can be deleted, or altered...Like Were. His data was corrupted so there was no reconverting for him. From what I got from Fang's digivice...two percent of his data is already corrupted buuuut...it'll recover over time since it's not severe but next time it might not be so."

"oof sounds like something to avoid in the future" RD said as he thought of the implications this had for everyone.

Smithy nodded "Right. So forced evolution...don't try it. I don't care WHAT's happening."

Fang cringed, he took it on himself to defend his actions. "But...if I didn't then Barbamon would have ganged up on Leopardmon."

Smithy grabbed Fang by the shoulder, looking him in the eyes "You're my nephew too...you know that? I don't want you or Max doing domething like that. Besides...We're supposed to be the new royal knights...If we're going to all be working together we need to start working on trust." He looked at RD "STARTING. With you and Blade."


RD blinked but sighed, sounding as if he were about to complain. "We fought together against barbamon, wasn't that enough?"

Smithy gave him a look that said. 'not at all' "You can fight together, that's a good start. It means you won't completely destroy one another. But I have a feeling if you two got to know each other, you two could become a pretty formidable team."

RD blinked "Well we are going to be facing each other in the upcoming tourney. Maybe we can do some of that getting to know each other there.

Smithy nodded "Maybe you two can better understand each other on the battlefield. Also..." Smithy pulled out Jesse's digivice, it looked much different than it had when they'd come to the digital world, it had a silver lining around the corners, as well as a gold plated screen "Reform Jesse. I've upgraded his digivice to contain multiple spirits. I like to call it...the digivice S."

RD blinked as he realized that this also meant he wasn't going to be able to use darkness powers anymore "Right" He said reforming Jesse on the spot

Jesse blinked as he was reformed right away. Smithy tapped the red button on the digivice's corner and nearly immidiately, Jesse was contained in the blinding white armor of the legendary warrior of light, Lobomon "He'll be able to alternate between the spirits of light and darkness now. I've even included their beast evolutions which I ironically...found laying within Baihumon's shrine."

"Woah that's awesome" RD said with a nod, it was very convenient. They'd suspected Myotismon would contain the beast spirit of darkness but it was in Baihumon's possession all along.

Smithy nodded, Jesse was still a bit disoriented, haaving been out of it and inside RD for the past few days "You know...you have a lot of space in that head of yours!" Jesse joked.

RD winced "I'm not dumb.." He said getting depressed and going into a corner

Jesse winced when he heard that "No not saying you were!" He sweatdropped, walking over to RD "I'm simply saying, the whole time I was in there...I could see through your eyes. Erm...Sorry if I took the power of darkness from you..." He rubbed the back of his neck. "But hey...maybe we can help each other."

RD nodded as he sat up and brightened up. Strange, since aquiring the spirit of light, Jesse had a new aura about him. "Yeah that would help"

Jesse nodded, smiling as he held out his digivice, the spirit of Loweemon appearing infront of him. Before it split into two pieces. It promptly flung itself into RD's body, merging with him

RD grimaced, feeling a tightness in his chest before it faded away. "oof well that certainly helps"

Jesse laughed, twirling his digivice in hand before it dissapeared into chunks of data to merge with him. "I thought maybe it might help. The spirit of darkness wanted to leave a portion of himself with you. He said despite you being a creature of light, you already had a spirit within you. If I'm to have two spirits in my digivice, why shouldn't you have two within you. both of us containing one of light and the other of darkness."

"Yeah that's true and there is a spirit of light in me" RD confirmed, nodding as he could already feel the presence of Loweemon inside him.

Jesse nodded, smiling "Exactly. And now you have half of the spirit of darkness."

"Alright that seriously helps, now I just need to work on my fighting style" RD pointed out, he seriously had a few flaws, some he needed to perfect before they took the battle to the demon lords.

Jesse smiled, giving a short nod as he pulled himself up. "Well...you will learn as you battle. Like Smithy said, Maybe your match with Blade will bring you two closer together, and help you build your fighting style."

RD nodded "True hopefully it'll get me somewhere"

"I...didn't get to really say anything because I was out cold...Put to sleep. But Blade did warn me. He told me we should leave this world. He had no intention of putting me down, but I think I started the offenseive." Jesse pointed out, stretching his limbs out.

RD shrugged, this much he already had a good idea of. Especially now after everything Smithy told them. "Well in any case we should be more ready now"

Jesse nodded a few times "I've seen. Everyone grew stronger this whole time. Maybe having the beasts of light and darkness will help me keep up." He smirked, finishing his small workout and smacking his fists together. "I think we should all get some rest...tomorrow I think you'll be in a serious need of a monster meal."

Smithy shook his head, snorting. "He can get some rest AFTER he comes with me." The lion pointed out, as if it were a straight up order, not a suggestion.

RD blinked as he heard this but he already knew not to cross with Smithy, it was better to just go along. "Alright i'll come with"

Smithy nodded "Now...follow me outside and turn into a wingdramon. Because Lord Baihumon would like a word with you."

"A...alright" RD sweatdropped, he didn't expect to be called. YEt now he was, he began walking down the halls of the arena's hotel, transforming into Wingdramon after he had enough room and promptly took off.

"Alright...head west to the Village of Smithy. You should recongnise it easliy enough. It'll be the one with no modern lights." He snickered, shielding the wind from his eyes with a paw. "There should also be a dense forest at it's end, and a massive wodden gate encompassing it.

It took them no longer than ten minutes. Smithy took his time looking at their surroundings before catching sight of the wodden fences, looming some 50 feet in the air, barracading the village from intruders. while inside, most of the village buildings looked to be log cabins or made out of straw. The one exception being Smithy's himself, which was actually made out of stone to accomodate his forge. "You'll need to land in the village. You won't be able to spot the shrine from above because it'll be in the village forest."

"That's actually pretty smart" RD said as he landed in the village, Hovering just an inch down from the ground and creating a small blast of wind sending a few wind chimes going off and a few late night villagers being blown back slightly, the mane of a few leomon's bristling from the sudden gust. "But i'm guessing the village will check to make sure i'm not a digimon that fell to the way of darkness right?"

Smithy climbed off of RD, crossing his arms "Wouldn't you? I mean the four high lords isn't somebody just ANYONE can meet. Usually they reserve their company strictly for their guardians. So you yourself should feel honored he requested your presence personally. Just go to the circular building at the center of the village to meet our Chieftian. He'll determine if you're pure enuogh to pass."

"Of course of course, I was just guessing, honestly it would be foolish not to take precautions" RD said following behind Smithy, he felt much like a stranger here.

Smithy nodded, walking beside RD, leading up to what looked to be a building, which at it's roof was a perfectly round half sphere. It certainly looked strong and sturdy enough to withstand most attacks or natural disasters "It took all of Lyle's prowess as a carpender to build this village you know. His greatest master piece I'd have to say is the chieftians home. It took a lot of lumber, but even more so for him to carve it in such a way that he could shape it so smoothly."

Not a second later, a Saberleomon poked it's way out of the front door, stepping over to the pair. Gauging the two of them "You're late Smithy. You do realize...Baihumon isn't the most patient of the four."

This made Smithy sweatdrop, but he never once altered his composure "Yes I do. But it couldn't be helped. If he's been keeping an eye on the events that transpired tonight he'll understand." The Saberleomon then turned his attention to RD, looking him over.

RD felt as if he was being studied by a scientist or a scholar, every detail seemed to be taken into account

After a second more, Saberleomon looked up at RD, nodding "You...don't seem to be controlled or infected. Please understand. A few of our own had been taken by the Darkness before. In any case I shouldn't keep you waiting. If I keep you around too long without just cause, Baihumon will have me for lunch..." He said with a sweatdrop.

RD cringed, not liking the sound of that."He sounds like the most impatient of the lords" He turned his attention to Smithy. "Let's hurry."

Smithy nodded, chuckling a bit nervously, he started leading RD through the village, as well through the thick forest of Smithy which housed plenty of wild digimon, some of which were so small they would just scuttle away into the tree tops. It wouldn't take long for them to arrive at what looked to be a pretty ancient temple, half of which looked buried underground "Mind your step. It's about to get real dark real soon. In fact, it might be a good chance for you to practice using your light for more practical uses." He stepped right into the darkness of the temple, each torch that was hanging on the walls remained unlit, unlike the last time, he recalled when every villager had been made to take shelter here.

RD blinked as he tried to light his body up to light the way. To his surprise it worked "Ok...." RD followed smithy as quickly as he could down the stairs

Smithy nodded, it was good to have some light traveling downward, especially given that they spiraled halfway down, taking time into the equation it only took them about 5 minutes to descend to the bottom of the temple, and standing before a rather large stone door. From their side of the door RD could hear the distant, feral growl could be heard on the other side, enough to make any sane digimon cringe "Alright...he's just behind this door. My suggestion...Unlike you did with Guilmon or Doru try not to blow your top...He's just as likely to eat you in one bite or stomp you down to a pancake..." He sweatdropped, there was obviously some tension of his own inside the Leomon

"Let me guess, you once got annoyed and talked sass to the guy and you ended up in his belly faster than you could say 'digiworld'" RD hazarded a guess as he opened the doors a nervous wreck just making a bad joke to hide it

Smithy gulped audibly, RD had actually gotten it right on the money, helping open the rather sturdy stone doors. Inside, the room was decently well lit, torches burning bright in a circular chamber with Baihumon sitting at it's center, head in a bowl of what looked to be various assortments of meats. Mealtime obviously. It wasn't until the bowl was completely clean and empty that he lifted his head up, gazing at RD's Wingdramon form and letting out a soft growl "So you're the one who wanted to meet me and the other three..."

"yes, one of my friends have been meeting each of you separately including one of you who was taken down by one of the demon lords, I defeated one by the way" RD said gulping nervously, He bowed out of instinct. The aura around Baihumon, it wasn't like the others. He'd heard stories in between matches at the tournament of Baihumon being the most powerful of the four lords, and right here...RD could understand and was trying his best to behave and be polite.

Baihumon slid the bowl to the side, there was a Leomon off in that direction, taking the bowl and already getting set to clean it as Baihumon kept his gaze firmly on RD "Scavenger and...Kiya. Yes I was the one who sent them out to go meet the other high lords of the digital world. I never expected Daemon to boldly attack Azulongmon, it's a loss that the other two as well as my own, deem an unforgivable action. One that your friend Scav seems to be taking just as seriously. As for you. I saw what you did to Barbamon. Not often an ultimate gets the upper hand on a Mega. But you and Max did so swimmingly."

RD blushed at the high praise, rubbing the back of his neck. "I think it was only because I was using my own light element and then combined it with a darkness element that it helped but I thank you for the praise"

Baihumon nodded, stepping closer, looming his big head toward RD, up close, he really was just as menicing, given his head by itself was the size of RD's current body "No matter how you did it. You still managed to put to rest one of the demon lords. But that battle also ended with many casualties. Starlight won't ever be the same after tonight. If you have any questions, now might be the best time for them. I'm honestly quite surprised that someone who comes from another world had the strange sense to talk off two former knights. It's amusing..." He growled out, hot breath gushing over RD and sending him back a couple inches.

RD cringed, he didn't expect such a confrontation. The fact that this massive white tiger...Could blow him away with a mere breath, left him both worrisome and awestruck."I only did that because I'm completely and thoroughly in the dark as to what's going on, at first I thought we were just combating the darkness because that's what we were chasing after when it retreated into the digiworld now it seems like there's a huge conspiracy going on here too. The royal knights are looking for successors, the tourney seems to have no consequence aside from that and then there's this dark network which I have no clue how to get to that one of the major demon lords has retreated off to. Now i'm confused, I guess what i'm wondering is, what are we doing here besides combating the darkness? Is there something more we need to know about and if so what is it?" RD asked going off what little he knew thus far and what might need to be done, taking a breath when he realized he had probably talked Baihumon's ear off a bit too much, he tried not to let it show.

Baihumon looked RD over, letting him speak his mind before stepping back, breathing deeply. "The tournament...wasn't all for nothing, and it's not simply to pass the time. Without it's competition you would not have trained, and you wouldn't all be at the ultimate stage that you are now. If you combated the darkness right away? There's no doubt either deletion or corruption would have been your fate. Some think Yggdrasil removed Guilmon from power because he disobeyed orders. The truth of the matter was he was deliberately released from service, so that the one user of light at the time could escape the Darkness and set this plan in motion with us. Yggdrasil split his power into four digimon. That would be myself, and the other three lords. He set in motion for us to look over the digital world, while at the same time. Selecting candidates that would be better suited to tame the darkness. It knew all of the current royal knights. Of that there's no doubt and they would all be targetted."

"Woah, that's....wow, and Yggdrasil made all of you from his own power? Well now that i'm here....who's the one user of light that's here in digiworld....I mean besides me of course" RD said as he realized that Yggdrasil didn't release max's grandpa due to jealousy at all, but rather to safeguard the future.

Baihumon nodded a few times "You could say I'm one part of Yggdrasil. And right now as he sleeps, we are the force that governs this world. Max's grandpa was the first digimon to use the power of light. To use it more than just moral guidance at least. And Yggdrasil didn't want him to become a pawn of Darkness. Because of that, eventually Max was born into the world. The successor to the light that we'd hoped would one day come. Even if it was centuries in the making. After that, We trained each of the guardians we selected in the ways of the light. We tried teaching them the secrets to shining digivolution. A lost art that was only known to Yggdrasil at the time. Each of the Guardians, even Smithy is capable of this evolution should they choose to use it. But because they lack the natural ability to manipulate the light, they can seldom use it in combat."

"So Max is the chosen one, well I'm sure he understands part of that now, he also understands shining digivolution, I guess all that's left now is to finish the tourney and to fight off the demon lords aligned with the darkness.....we've already defeated barbamon so that leaves two others" RD said nodding "I also thank you for clearing up some things I was getting mixed up for some time"

Baihumon nodded, taking a low bow out of respect, it even made Smithy a little nervous though "He understands it to a point. He understood shining digivolution shouldn't be a simple style change to your appearance. But a completely new evolution. It's the way of Yggdrasil's creation, to create a new digimon. Max is the chosen inheritor of the light. His father would have, had he not been corrupted at a young age. But I believe you TOO can get ahold of shining digivolution. Max had to learn on the spot, given the situation he was in. He simply used past experience and shaped himself after his Weregarurumon DNA digivolution with Pyre, oh...I suppose I should call him Arcaninemon now." The last bit seemed a bit like a joke, not a very good one but it at least seemed that Baihumon was trying to ease some of the tension

It went completely over RD's head but he was paying attention to the shining digivolution part "So it's a way to make a new digimon? Wow, that actually makes sense, a lot of new digimon have been seen around digiworld"

Baihumon nodded, lifting a paw "Right. Only digimon with a natural affinity with light, like you or Max can openly access it's true potiential. It essentially let's you change the future so to speak."

RD was thunderstruck, according to Baihumon both him and Max were the only digimon in this world capable of this shining digivolution but now the question became what would his shining digivolution be? "That's incredible though....if what you're saying is right the two people best suited to take on the demon lords and the darkness are Max and me."

Baihimon nodded, a grin spreading across his muzzle "I was wonderiing when you'd catch on. But it won't just be you and Max. The sole reason behind sending Scav and Kiya off to meet the other lords, is to grant them the natural ability to control the light. Scav already has partial control thanks to him and Azulongmon merging together. Once they make it to Zhuqiaomon of course. it was the entire reason behind their quest. And just the same, it shaped up their fighting spirit just as it did the six of you."

RD nodded and smiled back "That's good, and it also seems like things are coming more together, with one of the demon lords defeated the rest of the fights should get easier with one less demon lord to worry about" RD couldn't help but think about it. With Scavenger and Kiya having access to shining digivolution they might actually have a fighting chance now!

Baihumon nodded "Don't get too excited. Remember...most of the royal knights are on their side. They're just as formidable as the Daemon. You wanted answers, and now you've got them I'd say. You should be thorougly satisfied. Let me see your digivice."

RD blinked and handed it over, all in all he was being very polite. He was thankful to have caught Baihumon in a good mood. Likely due to having just eaten.

Baihumon nodded, he placed his paw firmly over RD's digivice, a faint glow coming from it as the entire casing of the digivice changed. It's original blue and white coloration became blue on the front faceplate of the digivice, and a shining silver on the back, with gold plating surrounding the screen of the digivice "I've upgraded your digivice. Because you already have natural control over light, it's now been evolved into the Digivice Light, or L for short."

RD blinked and nodded, looking over the added decorum to his digivice, and wondered what had been changed internally. Nevertheless he bowed gratefully. "Thank you baihumon I'm sure this will seriously help, I think what I want to do....in order to turn the tide of this fight.....is to heal the royal knights who have lost the way of the light. I'll free them from the darkness with this digivice when I meet them....I hope" RD was already formulating a plan, he probably would have to stand up to both slayerdramon and exemon because those were two who defected


Baihumon nodded, grinning down at him "With that I'm sure you'll have everything you need. With the digivice L, the power of light within it has been amplified. It'll purify even the darkest core, So long as they weren't already natural despicable to begin with. I'll leave the care of the digital world in your hands and the hands of your friends. Smithy here will tutor you in shining evolution as best he can."

RD nodded "I think i'll get started on that, I thank you Lord Baihumon, thanks to you I have a better understanding of what I should do" RD said bowing one again before taking off.

Smithy gave a short bow to Baihumon as well, before walking out behind him. He smirked "You handled that pretty well. I dare say I'm proud, and you're not even one of my nephews!"

RD chuckled, praise from Baihumon and Smithy in one day, he was on a roll! "He gave me exactly the information that I needed, here's what we're going to do" RD cringes "Before we take on the demon lords we're going to have to purify the darkness in the royal knights, we need as much help as we can get and obtaining allies should be our first priority, so we NEED to win that tourney!" RD said with a nod

Smithy crossed his arms, listening to RD's plan, it was a good one, and one that he approved of "I couldn't agree more. I'm glad he could clear up some things for the both of us. The Royal knights need to be brought back to justice. And I see no better group to bring them back then the new knights. Let's get back to the group and inform them of what's happened, after that you can rest."

RD nodded he was so happy right now he almost was bouncing all the way up the stairs, he then went to take off almost before smithy got on, hoo boy he'd here about THAT one when they got back to the hotel.