Subject: a little competition never hurt [p] 819 views

[ronin47]

Strabimon had nailed in two attacks at Renamon. Though the spar wasn't very interactive, watching the two kept Ronin at the edge of his seat, stealing his breath away. He couldn't watch a kendo match like this. He had to think while watching, study the movements of both participants and learn from it. When he was the one with the wooden sword, he only saw the his opponent, his sword and the ring. He had always wanted to steal a glance at his parents' look in the audience but knew more than let him be distracted.

Strabimon was exactly like that but he mustn't comprehend the idea of fun very well. Whether he was watching from afar or fighting himself, Strabimon always had his data processing information. He didn't have that much emotion. What could he have expected from an AI? But it turned out that some Digimon could be very humane and Ronin forgone the idea of what Strabimon could have been programmed as and simply accepted him for whatever he was.

Strabimon wasn't being as complicated with his movements. Perhaps he didn't want to challenge Renamon in terms of speed and agility. He did what he excelled best and studied her unblinkingly, following her every dash to anticipate her next attack. It helped conserve his energy as long as he could keep damage small to profit from his struggle.

Didn't work. He knew the kick was coming but his reaction was delayed. The kick hit him on the shoulder, making him skitter to the left. Strabimon lost no focus and wheeled around from the impact for a roundhouse kick against her punch. The rest, he dodged like a professional boxer and lunged forward to give her a punch too rather than a claw.

[lupo]

pristine white fur was darkened, disheleved from the fighting. golden fur had similar patterns, less seen than the crisp whiteness that covered her belly, fingers and feet. her attacks, and strabimon's attacks, weren't exactly explosive, make the world shake type of stuff. no, they were fast, and sometimes more brutal than the bigger stuff. battling a digimon that was quick meant renamon could learn to be more quicker, and no doubt it was the same for strabimon. real enemies would need to watch out for the pair, who would kick some butt if they worked together.

eyes remained trained upon strabimon, watching for any moves from him and keeping him in sight meant no surprise attacks. well so the theory went. her kick hit shoulder and now it was his turn to be askew. still, she knew not to be too cocky as strabimon recovered, just like she knew he would, and pulled back to avoid the majority of the kicks power: still, she felt claws lightly graze against her chest, and soon strabimon was dodging the rest of her hits so none ended up hitting him. that was okay. renamon had a plan and ruki saw the sparkle in her partners eye that told her renamon was both enjoying this, and had something up her purple painted glove.

having expected claws, renamon was greeted with a punch instead. taking half a step back to give them room, renamon aimed a high kick, finishing off with a lower kick.

ruki meanwhile had taken her eyes off the match to look around. grimm hadn't shown up yet, and she didn't want him appearing when renamon was weak: he'd have more of a chance than she would. part of that was fair since she probably had more experience, but she wanted both digimon to be on equal footing.

notes: grimm can post and appear at any time (:

[ronin47]

Maybe Strabimon was right about holding back. Sooner or later, they were about to land serious blows at each other. Ronin crossed his arm. It didn't really matter. Injuries in the virtual game could be healed with a single click on an HP disk. It must serve the Digimon well as it was they were naturally belligerent.

Strabimon blocked the kick to his head with a stiff forearm and attempted to jab Renamon with his knuckles. A sharp pain struck his leg at the same time. If he had been human, he would have had to deal with a bad bruise tomorrow morning but with the rush of the fight, he could go on for a couple more swings. It was his instinct to fight, and it was a fight he was going to give until he was down to his last health bar.

But he hadn't forgotten that this was a spar either.

He suddenly retreated, jumping a few feet backward to get space. When he stood straight to his full height, he wasn't in a stance anymore. Whatever Renamon had been planning, Strabimon had put a stop to it.

"I think that would suffice," he said silkily, not even out of breath. A few minutes more though and he might have started panting. "Sparring with Renamon is always dangerous," Strabimon remarked, checking the shoulder Renamon had nailed with a high kick. "But I would enjoy doing it again."

notes: red said he'll post now. Just sneaking in a post for the sake of post order.

[grimm]

"you guys are really bad at waiting, na."
"da yo!"

in the distance stood two figures; one taller than the other. it was clearly a human-digimon pair; while it wasn't visible to the other two pairs, the human had a disgruntled, but somewhat amused expression on his face. the shoutmon by his side, however, was hardly irritated and in fact, raring to go.

"mind waiting for a moment more?" grimm yelled, directing his voice towards the quartet. "stef's not here yet!"

their evident tardiness bothered grimm less than he'd thought upon realizing that lupo and the other person (rouji? ninja? he forgot the name lupo had told him) had already started before they arrived.

"na? na."

[lupo]

both digimon were still fighting, and for a moment, ruki forgot it was only a spar, that there was a bigger battle ahead of her. it wasn't until strabimon retreated, causing renamon to nurse where he'd jabbed her with those knuckles of his, and ruki remembered. well damn, she could get too caught up in these things.

"dangerous but fun," renamon spoke, giving strabimon a wink, echoing his sentiments. she always enjoyed sparring with strabimon, and dangerous was a right word for both of them. with the spar over though, she could rest up before the battle with grimm, and ruki wondered if he had any tricks up his sleeve since the last time they saw each other.

speaking of, he finally showed, shoutmon was there too and ruki gave them a nod. "it was to pass the time." ruki didn't bother saying anything else, well, apart from one thing. "we can wait until stef gets here." not knowing who stef was, she was soon to find out.

"ronin and strabimon, meet grimm and shoutmon, grimm and shoutmon, meet ronin and strabimon." there, at least that took care of any potential awkward first meeting things that could happen.

[ronin47]

Ronin figured the newcomer must be the opponent Lupo was waiting for. He didn't know how the two could have met to come to this agreement. The only explanation Ronin could think of was that Grimm was a strong player Lupo respected. It was really the only explanation he could see.

Ronin quite liked Lupo's brisk introduction. He nodded to Grimm before studying his Digimon briefly. It was his first time seeing a Shoutmon and Ronin's first impression was it was hyperactive. They said Digimon of the same species could still be different from each other but Ronin was almost sure this Shoutmon was like the rest of the Shoutmon. The assumption was biased based from its etymology, shout.

Ronin took Grimm's arrival as his cue to leave but he wasn't quite sure yet whether he wanted to stay and watch the fight. It depended on how long this "Stef" guy was going to take. If he was going to wait for another half an hour, he better leave.

"Who are you waiting for?" Ronin asked Lupo, pertaining to the guy called Stef. "I thought you were fighting him?" He jerked his head at Grimm.

notes: guys, guys, remember when we used to play the tamer quartet. I just felt like bringing that up since we're all in this thread.