"Bloodlust"

Day 1

Time: 8-9PM

As Kunemon explained, the Goblimon normally to the South were absent as they went to shake down another part of the forest for what it could offer. This allowed you to slip through the area and the few dimwitted Goblimon left behind to guard their things. To fight any one of those still remaining could prove fatal, not only due to their raw strength but also due to their tendency to group up: to fight one might mean to fight two, or three, or more.

With the Goblimon left in the dust, you begin to enter uncharted territory: you have never traveled this far before, and for good reason. To come here would mean certain death under most circumstances given the Goblimon presence most of the time.

As you venture into this new region of the woods, you come to the realization that it feels like dusk is creeping upon this region far faster than it was a little ways back. The woods seem darker, and as suggested by Kunemon there are indeed no other Digimon around. Not even the Goblimon seem to have a presence here, and they tend to expand their territory whenever and wherever possible like a petty gang would.

Due to the darkness and your unfamiliarity, you lost track of where you are or where you are headed pretty quickly into this new area. Despite this, you carry on determinedly, intent on making something of this endeavor.

Eventually through the darkness you stumble upon a clearing, possibly the one Kunemon spoke of, and you see that it is indeed empty as he spoke...though it appears to be empty of food as well as Digimon. Nothing at all.

You peak your head out from where you exited the forest to see if Kunemon hadn't accidentally taken the entire bounty of this region when you see your initial observation was false: around and out of your initial view were actually two Digimon, neither of which you have seen before.

"Please, stop!"

A Digimon in the form of a small white cat smaller than even you is assaulting a what appears an In-Training or Baby Digimon with purple fur around its round body and spiky ears. The feline Digimon is unrelenting in its attacks upon the In-Training Digimon, and you can feel your body tighten and grow tenser than it had ever been. You can feel the power radiating from this feline being, even if its size is minuscule, and that is no easy feat. Normally power would be contained within a Digimon, so for it to be spilling outward was enough for you to feel a chill down your reptile spine.

While they possess the size of a Rookie, this feline is most definitely something far more powerful, be it a Champion or even something stronger. It is a wonder that this In-Training Digimon hasn't been slain outright, as its body is showing the damage this cat has inflicted upon it with scratch after scratch.

There may be some food around, but it was very likely that whatever food had existed here had actually belonged to this fierce feline and that it might be attacking this smaller Digimon in retaliation for all of the food Kunemon stole. That, or it just wanted an easy meal in the form of this other Digimon, for which you could not blame it even though this battle was little but a farce.

It appears that this place is more than a simple grove of normally rare food, and a battle is currently taking place, if it could be called that. You doubt you will find any food, but a part of you, the prideful aspect of your being, is looking at this feline beat an unworthy foe and it makes you want to see if you would fare any better. If it was not also radiating power unlike anything you've ever felt before, dwarfing Kunemon's surely, you would have already leapt out and challenged it. Instead, you are hesitant to do so, and are wondering what would be the best move. To choose wrongly could maybe even prove lethal, so you do wrack your brain to try and think as you step back into the forest to try and remain unseen.

You decide that it is best to sit and wait for an opportunity, perhaps to get a jump on this feline Digimon or maybe to just grab the Digimon it was beating down. It only takes a moment longer for the small purple Digimon to manage to twist around and throw an at it and sink its teeth into the paw extended towards it. The white cat Digimon has on it a pair of yellow gloves which are shaped like exaggerated cat's paws, claws and all, and it is one of these gloves that is bitten and then removed by complete accident as the feline lashed out and slapped the other Digimon away.

Glove in mouth, the young Digimon has passed out now and is undoubtedly unconscious as it lays face down on the grass of the clearing. Instead of move to finish it off, the cat Digimon has stopped to observe its now exposed paw. This leads you to observe it to from your perch about fifty feet away, and with careful observation you can see that on it is a deep, X shaped scar. Such marks are rare on Digimon that are not natural to their species, so you wonder if this is such a mark, or if something had somehow managed to leave such a permanent wound on such a powerful Digimon.

After contemplating this mark on its hand a moment, the cat takes a step towards the unconscious Digimon before it before suddenly snapping its head and glaring in your direction. You cannot tell if it has actually seen you or not, given the darkness of the night and your position a fair ways away behind cover, but it does not appear to be pleased at all. A murderous intent fills its eyes as they narrow most certainly at you, staring through the darkness of night and the trees and bushes with a fury so penetrating that it momentarily stuns you in place.

The same overpowering feeling as before strikes your senses, and as much as you would wish to you know that you cannot fight this foe. You take one step back and are suddenly met with the sight of the feline already having crossed nearly the entire distance between you two, setting off alarms in your mind as you are astonished that it can move with such speed.

You turn around to run knowing full well you cannot fight and that it'd be a fool's errand, but you are pounced upon from behind and can feel it about to bear its claws down upon you...

But it doesn't strike you. Instead, its light weight is lifted from your back and you flip over to try and defend yourself, only to see that a Goblimon pack has entered the clearing and is curious about this area.

Their mistake.

By the time you stand up, the Goblimon have been reduced to nothing more than data by the fierce swipes of this obviously champion or higher level Digimon. Seeing an opportunity, you run away and don't turn back. The In-Training or Baby Digimon would have to accept its fate, for there was no way you could reach it before that monstrous feline could get to you.

As you flee, you trip over what you believe to be a weed or root and fall flat down on your face. You've already run maybe a half mile from the location you encountered the fearsome Digimon, yet your legs had kept carrying you further and further. You are no coward, but there was no doubt that this creature would have slain you if it could rip apart an entire pack of Goblimon in the blink of an eye.

What you have tripped over right now is not a root as you had originally thought, however, but rather an Aruraumon that had been soaking in nutrients from the ground. It is completely awake now that you have trampled its face, and it seems willing to pick a fight over the issue. You could keep running back to Kunemon's Nest, but the cat Digimon does not appear to be chasing you and you could very well be able to spare the time to do this battle.

If the plant wanted a fight, then so be it.

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