SPIKE IN A VALE {ADAM}

[FERGHUS]

Another job well done. Another payroll half spent on alcohol and cigarettes. Such a great role model he was not! Still, he was on his last cigarette, having burned most of it out after he asked a fire based 'mon to light it up for him. Darn things didn't last too long. But right now he had something else to keep track of, despite his nearly finished cigarette dangling from his mouth. Odd sight to seen an Elecmon who looks like he's been through the ringer and hell a lifetime over, his ear twitching as the strap from his eye patch caught onto some fur. "Darn thang buggin' me all day,", the red furred mammal grumbled.

Sighing, Ferghus unlatched his survival knife, flicking it out and back in, a repetitive motion which became another instinct to him. Just like feeling as though he needs to give the next kid he sees a good talking to. One in particular came to mind, one who otherwise shouldn't have been in this world. A human. Last he checked those humans weren't a common sight, and when a human child is here for some years? It concerns an old 'mon. This was also the general area he had to look forward to in order to discover where the trio of his current interests would be seen. At least they wouldn't be too hard to find, although the chances weren't necessarily high either.

The Elecmon paused as he took in the current sights. Right here would be the rough border closer to the jungle. Interesting spot for a meeting place, but this was also the most logical. Either Ferghus waited patiently, or he tried his luck and walked around some more. The former was probably not in his desired interests though. Too impatient sometimes. Clearing his throat, the red beast called out, "HEY! Renae If'n yew can hear me, git yer behind over here now! This here's yer Uncle Ferghus! Best not keep me waitin'!" There, that should garner some attention from wandering youth!

Either that or get toyed around with by the immature antics.

Adam Jackson

[Adam Jackson]

The trio had finally gotten their day off by the lake! The trio had begun to work with a Dynamon from the west at his daycare in exchange for not only fufillment but bits as well. Now however they were gonna relax by the lake. They had arrived late the night before and decided to camp out and just relax by the lake front. When they got up early that morning they decided that a lazy day fishing was the best plan, or just a lazy day in Remy's case. Renae and Adam had been at it since noon rolled around, fishing two different ways on both sides of the lake. Renae using a make shift pole,line and bobber while Adam just jumped in the lake only wearing his boxers to grab the fish with his bare hands and tossing them in a basket. During all of this, Remy was just happily lounging under a shady tree watching the clouds float by. 

When Fergus walked up and began calling for Renae, since she recognized the voice the young rookie digimon stuck her fishing pole between to rocks so that it wouldn't be pulled away into the water. She then stood up and quickly ran over to the older digimon she knew to be Fergus the Elecmon who she knew often watched over the trio when he thought she wasn't looking. She gave him a smile and a wave.

"Hello Fergus! It's been quite a long time hasn't it! What brings you to our region of the world? Would you care to stay for lunch?"

Seeing that his digimon was talking to what seemed to be a scarred stranger, Adam quickly climbed out of the lake and grabbed his whicker basket half full of different sized fish and quickly made his way over to them. When he reached them he just put the basket down forgetting that he was only in his boxers. He just smiled at his female partner digimon before shaking the water out of his hair so that it returned to it's spikey messy state.

"Who's this guy Renae do ya know him or somethin?"

Renae just nodded and smiled at her young tamer, patting his wet head.

"You could say that Adam. You could say he and I are old friends."

Hearing this made Adam smile and quickly step forward to wave at the Elecmon and then instinctively reach for his digivice which normally hung around his neck only to remember that it was hanging on the lowest branch of the tree that Remy was laying under along with the rest of his clothes.

"Any friend of Renae's is a friend of mine! Isn't that right Remy!?"

The lazy rookie just shrugged from his spot and then turned over to his side with a yawn.

"What ever ya say man."


FERGHUS

[FERGHUS]

Patience was a virtue, but one that the old man gladly didn't have to abide by. As expected, Renae had shown up in a short amount of time. Good to know at least one of them was the responsible member of the group. Flipping around the survival knife one more time, the Elecmon sheathed it properly, "Yeah, been a while. Too long fer me NOT to hunt ya'll down and check up on each of yew. Mood seems the same as ever, but Ah reckon yer best fer talkin' 'bout yer own life." With another shift of the cigarette in his mouth, the red mammal reached up his paw, took the cancer stick into his fingers, and turned his head to blow out smoke away from Renae. She'd probably rant on him about that later. For now, all Ferghus did was place the cigarette back into his mouth.

He wanted to savor every moment of it, and his hunch to do so was top notch.

"Oh no... dangit," he grumbled once he noticed the human boy heading in their direction. It was too late to hide himself, otherwise it would probably be suspicious. Granted, sneaking around watching a few young kids already was, so he had no right to complain. Although... Ferghus sighed as he noticed the human, Adam, in nothing but boxer shorts. And wet. But context clues luckily gave a different connotation instead of the assumption this boy was running around naked. Even still, he had a rather mean thought, Old friend? Kid, Ah'm pretty sure yer a hella lot younger than me! Actin' like she can talk like that...

But the prospect of free lunch... no. No way he could just take the food these kids gathered for themselves! Even if smoking did make the Elecmon hungry. Seriously, the old man needed to lay off the tobacco products. Even though he hadn't been to a bar for nearly, what, almost twenty-four hours, the stench of booze was still on him. Especially the smells of smoke. What a great role model to be around children! Grumbling, Ferghus spoke up again, "Now ya'll hang on here! Ah ain't plannin' on bein' around fer that long, just gotta check up on yew kids. Renae here knows already, too smart fer her own dang gewd, but Ah've watched ya'll fer some years now."

The man sighed, continuing once again, "Mostly makin' sure none of yew do anythang stupid or somethin' crazy like."

[Adam Jackson]

The young tamer couldn't help but pout when the funny sounding Elecmon said he wasn't staying. He then quickly looked up at Renae with begging eyes as if to silently beg her to get her friend to stay so that he could get to know him. The young tamer quickly hugged Renae tightly around the waist before he ran over to the tree where his clothes hung and quickly got dressed, coat and digivice included. He then looked at the Elecmon with sad eyes.

"Please stay Mr.friend of Renae! I wanna know about you! We have plenty of fish! I just need to have Renae or Remy digivolve and cook it up for us!"

When the topic of digivolving came up as Fergus said that he was making sure they hadn't done anything crazy, Renae couldn't help but blush and scratch the back of her head as she thought about the fight with the Rustmon flunkies had caused them to digivolve for the first time. She just looked down at her old friend with a nervous smile.

"Yea about us not doing anything crazy, we kinda fought against some of the new tyrant digimon Rustmon's flunkies and it kinda caused both my brother and I to digivolve to our champion forms."

Adam then pushed past Renae with a big excited grin as he held up his digivice, a picture of both Remy and Renae popping up as a hologram. It then showed Renae as Kyubimon and Remy as Garurumon. Adam then let his digivice drop as he jumped up and down excitedly.

"You should have seen it sir! It was so cool! They digivolved and charged ahead and kicked butt! Now how about we get cooking!?"

Adam then held up his digivice to Renae and she was engulfed in a egg of green energy as she began to digivolve.

"Renamon digivolve to!!...Kyubimon!"

When the energy egg hatched and Renae landed as Kyubimon. She then shook out her fur and smiled happily. Adam then grabbed his basket of fish and flung the fish out at top strength sending them high into the air.  Renae's tails then caught fire.

"Fox tail inferno!"

The flames from the tails then shot toward the fish and cooked them. Adam then quickly grabbed the basket and quickly ran and jumped around catching all of the cooked fish with a big smile. Renae then transformed back into her rookie form.

"Foods up!"


FERGHUS

[FERGHUS]

Those sad, sad eyes. Damnit, the boy's plea was getting to him! Curse his old heart for putting with with youth on a semi-regular basis! "Dangit, if'n it gits yew off mah back...,", the red beast started, but paused at the mention of 'digivolve'. No, the kid must've been delusional! Pretty much few of the young folk even manage to BEGIN the process, let alone actually succeed. Ferghus had heard of the humans carrying strange devices with them, but as far as this man was concerned, these claims were mere rumors. Fleshing out the intelligent from the stupidity of the world was always a chore required for any job or complaint. Especially complaints. Damn those clients who had an issue with a hand being sliced off!

But even Renae, the trustworthy one of the group, began a small story concerning the digivolution process. Was she going bonkers due to his not being around for so long!? Shaking his head, the Elecmon began, "N-N-Now ya'll quit yer fibbin'! Ain't no way any of ya'll managed ta..." Once more he was cut off. Adam rushed up to show his own, strange device, and Ferghus stared at the hologram with his cigarette dangling out of his mouth. His one eye blinked at this, though insisted to himself this was just a theory as to what Renae and Remy would evolve into! Nothing more than a little glimpse into the far, far future!

He was given little time to speak up again. Out of nowhere, the human child held up the little device, with Renae being engulf in light and... digivolving. Right there. No light trick, no mystic illusion trying to mess with his brain. Forget the fact that they were cooking fish. That was simple survival! As Ferghus stared wide eyed, his mouth dropped to the point where his cigarette fell out of his mouth, landing on the ground with a weak sizzle. His foot moved over the cigarette, crushing the bad habit stick underneath, but his gaze never left the youngsters, "...sweet mother of mercy."

A minute or two went by, the Rookie's denial writhing at his mental processes. But clarity came back. Not only did it come back, but his mouth closed the gap as he bore his teeth, his red fur becoming, well, redder than what most would think possible. His surprised denial became grumpy, and then evolved into full on drill sergeant pep talk, "NOW WUT THE HELL HAVE YA'LL BEEN DOIN' GETTIN' THEM EVOLUTIONS!? Ain't no way a bunch of young fokes can git that kinda power without some sorta cheat or somethin' stupid like! Do ya'll know wut kinda trouble showin' off them forms can git all of yew!? Ain't right fer some younguns ter git it that easy! Why, back when Ah was young, we had ter WORK fer our higher forms! Hell, if'n Ah wasn't in a damn slump over data bleed Ah'd show ya'll wut a proper evolution looks like an' tech yew how ter handle it all properly! Dang kids think' they can fuckin' play around with this shit-"

There he went, going off in a raging storm of swears and foul language, all the while stomping repeatedly on his last cigarette, staring at it all the while. Wow, this guy really would fit in the southern states of the USA...

[Adam Jackson]

As Fergus began to go on his rant and began to use fowl language, Renae covered Adam's ears so that he wouldn't hear it. She then shot the Elecmon a mother angry look before glaring at Remy which caused him to stand up and walk over to the two of them. Renae then removed her paws which were then quickly replaced by Remy's leaving Adam with a rather innocent confused face. Renae then walked over to Fergus with a rather upset look, her fur standing on end a little due to her mood. She then stuck a claw in the old mon's face with a full on fire glare in her eyes which made her resemble her brother a little more.

"First off stop the foul language while the boy is around! Second, the digivolutions didn't come free, my brother and I were trying to protect the digital world from some of the Tyrant Rustmon's flunkies. They were attacking the valley and were going to kill everyone so my loving tamer decided to put his young life at risk alongside us to keep this world safe! We earned this and I will not have you belittling his accomplishment do you hear me Fergus!? Adam has worked very hard and all though he's still young he deserves your due respect. Now I'm gonna have Remy take his hands away and you're gonna try that again."

Renae then nodded at her brother after a deep breath to collect herself which got him to take his paws away from their young tamers ears. Adam then stepped away from Remy with a curious look on his face as he looked at the older digimon. He then just began circling him slowly with digivice in hand which was beeping as he circled. It took about three circles to get Adam to stop and drop his digivice back around his neck but he didn't look upset, angry or frustrated but instead he had a loving and hopeful look. He then looked back at Remy and Renae which caused Remy to sigh from seeing the look on his tamers face.

"You have that, "I have an idea of how to help someone so we're gonna do it so there." face on again."

Renae then elbowed her brother which caused him to huff. She then stepped up to her tamer and knelt down to eye level with him with a motherly smile. Adam may not have been the smartest when it came to book learning but one of the things he was best at was thinking outside of the box when it came to helping people.

"Whatcha thinking sweetie?"

Adam then smiled a big smile and then ran over to Fergus.

"Well Mr.Fergus said that he had something called data bleed or something that was keepin him from digivolving. I was thinking maybe I could use my digivice to try and heal him like I do you guys. I know he's not bonded to the device like you both are and I don't know exactly how it works but there is no harm in trying yea?"

Adam then turned to face Fergus, lifting his digivice by the string and letting it spin.

"First things first though! I know digimon can't digivolve if they are hungry or tired so why don't we stuff our faces and then I will try to heal you of your bleed thing."

With that the trio sat down around the basket and each pulled out a large fish and bit into it with happy food moans all around.


FERGHUS

[FERGHUS]

Once the ongoing rant of foul language slowed down, the Elecmon resorted to mere grumbling as he removed his foot from the what used to be cigarette. His ear twitched as he noticed footsteps coming closer to him. Looking up with a scowl, Renae's claw was aimed right at his face. To put it simply, he wasn't pleased with her scolding him. Yeah yeah tyrannical digimon, valley in trouble, saving the inhabitants of said valley... another heroic story passed down through time. But the responsible kid did have logic behind why the twins digivolved. Stress and emotional uproars tended to be a common catalyst for evolution in younger digimon. But Ferghus wasn't quite friendly about this whole ordeal yet.

Crossing his arms, his scowled turned into a glare, "Ah ain't agonna try nothin' again. No young foke agonna tell me wut ter do and say and other thangs Ah should be tellin' 'em about..." The old man looked away, grumbling a few things under his breath. Not the violent rampage of foul language from before, but still less than kind.

Although something moved by as attention was drawn elsewhere. The first time? Just a blink more than likely. The second? Ferghus's attention was caught as he noticed Adam circling him. What, was the kid trying to act like he was catching prey in the jungle? A huff escaped the Elecmon's lips, "Boy, just wut are yew up to now?" Really, in the end he had no idea what these kids were thinking, despite each time he wandered up to them and got information from Renae each occasion. Then came the most insane theory he ever caught through his ears. "There ain't no way that's gon work! Ah ain't bond to yew, boy," Ferghus noted. But of course, distractions were abound with this group.

Meal time had begun. Grumbling once more, he wandered up to the basket to grab some food, "Fine, FINE! Ah ain't that hungry, but Ah'm agonna grab somethin' anyways." Ferghus certainly was talking out of his butt. From the basket he picked one of the largest fish of the catch, beginning to eat it with a wide chomp. A few bites here, a few bites there, all combined with overhanging silence aside from the chewing and swallowing of a meal.

Once the old man gulped a rather large bite down, he sighed, "It ain't ya'll business 'bout me losin' the ability ter digivolve and the like. Don't yew got somethin' better ter to with yer time other than bother an ol' man 'bout somethin' trivial? Not like Ah'm bleedin' out now or anythang."

Adam Jackson

[Adam Jackson]

As Remy and Renae dug into the basket of fish and began to eat, Adam just listened to Fergus talk about how he wasn't bound to him. This caused Adam to stare down at his digivice as he crossed his legs. The small device had done many wonderful things just like digivolution.  It healed his digimon as well which lead the young wild Boy to believe that it could heal Fergus as well if Adam truly put his heart into it. As Adam's face twisted in concentration he decided to grab a fish and begin to nibble it while having the digivice sitting in his lap. As she finished her first fish Renae looked over at her tamer to see hard he was concentration. She swiftly moved over to Fergus and offered him a couple fish. She then looked at the older digimon with a bit of concern and leaned in to whisper.

"I know it's a crazy idea that he has but try and rumor him yea? I have seen this kid take on and beat every challenge set in front of him without fail. If anyone can heal you and give you the ability to reach champion again it's this kid I'm sure of it. Just have a little faith in his please."

Renae smiled and then just watched as her brother scarfed down fish after fish while her tamer just nibbled on his to finish it. He then grabbed another fish and just nibbled it quietly which made Renae a bit concerned. Normally Adam would be scarfing down fish just like Remy but today it seemed like he was to focused on his mission and the thoughts of helping their friend. Renae smiled as she ate two more fish and then moved over to her tamer and patted his head softly.

"You can do it I believe in you and so does Remy. You just have to believe in yourself!"

Adam nodded and picked up his digivice and then looked at Fergus.

"Here goes everything!!"

Adam then aimed his digivice at Fergus and took a deep breath. The digivice then just began to glow with a bright green light which Adam hoped it was a healing light. Adam just watched and focused which caused the light to go stronger.

"This has to work!"


FERGHUS

[FERGHUS]

It was his fish. His distraction even. Solitude with his clearly not selfish take of the largest of the catch. Regardless of whether these kids worked for this meal, Ferghus wasn't quite in the mood for perfect manners. He couldn't generally call himself the most considerate person in the world either for that matter. So far the trio didn't bother him during this time. But as was his usual fate, one of them would bother the old man. A slight growl came from his throat until he realized who it was. Renae. Of course. The responsible one he couldn't just ignore completely. The one who was trying to convince the old monster to go with Adam's idea.

Grabbing one of the offered fish, he took a quick bite out of it, "Humor him? Kid, Ah know that humorin' the wrong feller ain't exactly the best idea. Not many can do thangs without fail, and that overconfident bullshit is wut gits fokes killed. Don't yew tell me..." Faith, huh? Last time he had any of that, well, it turned around and bit him in the ass. In the Digital World it was kill or be killed, watching one's own back in case he pissed off the wrong guy. A lesson Ferghus knew he should have learned many a year ago. Some pestering feeling insisted on giving this human kid a shot at 'healing' him. Snarling as he devoured one of his fish, he grumbled, "Fine, fine! Ah'll let the youngun have a shot."

His paw reached out to flick the fish bones in his hand off to some random spot. Nobody could get him for littering out there. Good. Too much was going on for the Elecmon to care. As soon as the meal was finished though, the red mammal's ears shot up at Adam's sudden movements, At least someone's gun have fun with this.Ferghus awaited the verdict. Green lights from a strange device? Could very well have just been a UFO in the sky! "Here goes mah lunch if'n this screws up," noted the old man right before the green light pierced through his body. He expected his stomach to lurch, his body to ache, or even worse! But none of that decided to rear its ugly head. In fact, this feeling was quite exotic.

Nice, in fact. Stubborn side told the old man to ignore this feeling, years of aches and pains side said continue this process. And continue it did, until he finally finished the process. Shaking his head, something was... off. Shouldn't he be able to reach out his hand and touch near halfway up a tree?

If he was a Leomon he could. But here stood an Elecmon still. Gazing around his body, he shuts his eyes as he kicked the ground, "Damnit. Knew it wouldn't work." Yet another bug decided to rest itself within the old bastard. Gaze wound up on Adam, the young boy he insisted on watching over the years. Should he say something? Ferghus couldn't just remain silent, he had to give this some actual response, "Look son, Ah didn't resist wutever yew gone and done with yer device. Knew it wouldn't work in the first place. Ain't tryin' ter spoil yer mood, but thangs didn't work out the way yew planned."

Adam Jackson