A Camping Trip among "Friends"

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"You sing, dearheart?"

Barty grinned and spun her again before holding her against his front. "Not a whole lot of people know a days that can keep up with me in that area,"he said cheerfully before thrusting her out from his body. He kept his hand in hers to keep her from flying. A light tug had her spinning back to him, taking care not to hurt or injure. No point in damaging your dance partner, correct?"

"Hey oh... listen what I say oh
Come back and hey oh, look at what I say oh

The more I see the less I know
The more I like to let it go - hey oh, woah...

Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder
Where it's so white as snow,
Finally divided by a word so undecided and there's nowhere to go;
Inbetween the cover of another perfect wonder and it's so white as snow,
Running through the field where all my tracks will be concealed and there's nowhere to go!"

Nymph grinned as she tugged Frio into a clumsy dance. She wasn't quite as graceful in rookie form as she was in champion and even then she wasn't exactly what one would call absolutely amazing. But it was fun, none the less to watch her dance and behind her Barty laughed low and throaty.

He was currently just keeping up a good pace, grinning from ear to ear and it eerily almost looked like it would pop right off his face. "You dance rather well,"he said.

[Kiara Lycro]

Lydia merely smiled at Barty's questions and listened as he continued to sing. At her side Frio continued to swing wtih Nymph, at times even picking her up, his smile showing clearly through his eyes. Lydia looked up when Barty stopped singing to comment on her dancing, but just before she could say anything the theme from Phantom of the Opera sounded through the clearing.

Frio sighed, stopping his fun. Why did things like this happen whenever things started to get more enjoyable.

"Sorry." Lydia said as she pulled away from Barty, and ran towards her pack. She dug to bring out an ice blue Razor. Pulling it open, she turned her back on the company.

Frio looked up before getting Lydia told him mentally, "The Fields" He nodded before turning to the others, "The village we stopped at must want to know what is going on. We'll have to go back to give a full report." He said with a sigh. In the background, Lydia continued to talk, nodding slightly as the other party spoke. At last she said a few more words and snapped to the phone off.

"Well, looks like we're done here. We need to pack up, they are sending a party out here to get us." Lydia said simply. "They know the basics of what happened so we should be able to head right back to London."

Frio shrugged, apperantly used to this sort of thing before floating over to pick up his trash and throw it in the fire. Lydia grinned and headed for her tent.

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Barty looked at her curiously before turning on his heel ans starting to take apart his tent. "It'll be nice to be back in the smog of London,"he said with a grin,"Hacking, coughing, breathing in all that great pollution."

"Ewuck..."

Nymph wrinkled her nose and looked at her tamer like he was crazy. "You humans have funny tastes in homes,"she said in disgust,"And disturbingly, nasty habits as well." She snorted and crossed her arms before moving over and pulling the thief's back pack onto her back. Before doing so, however, she pulled her sunglasses from the main pocket and slipped the on with a smirk, satified once they were securely in place.

Her eyes wandered to the Kamemon and she gave a sigh, noticing he'd dizzied himself up while dance. He lay on the ground beside the fire and one could almost see the stars and birds spinning around his head. "Wheeee...."He said drunkenly before twitching his foot.

[Kiara Lycro]

Lydia let out a barking laugh, surprising coming from her slight body. It was directed towards Nymph's comment on human habits, but was increased when she spotted poor Galen on the ground.

"Yeah, the human world can be so nasty, though I like Rome, it is so beautiful at night." Frio said, looking a bit dreamy before he dumped a bucket of water over the fire, reducing it to a smoldering mess. Then he took his pick of scattered wood at the edge of the campsite and quickly replenished the stock of wood they had used up.

Meanwhile, the tent, sleeping bags, and various other camping accesories were being returned to their proper place in Lydia's pack. It was slightly lighter, but still as bulky as ever. Lydia stood up to see how Barty was getting along. In the distance she could see the approaching digimon. It was an airdramon and his partner.

Sighing she plopped on the ground, sat indian style and looked over at Barty. "I am sure you know I've had my doubts about you. The way you act, the way you live, the fact that you appear so dang volitile. I was worried about what kind of digidestined you would become. There are different kinds you know." She said softely. Lydia had a thing about loose ends and she wanted to clear up the unease between them once and for all.

"There are those who fight for the betterment of the world, sometimes to save it. Then there are those who use digimon to put themselves higher up in the world, or even to fight against those who try to do the right thing. Finally, there are those who simply try to protect their own digimon and get along on their own. I don't know exactly which one you will be right now, but I know you won't go for power. I know you won't destroy everything around you. If I though you were, Frio and I would have had to destroy your digivice and you digimon if necessary. There will be no more digital wars."

Lydia continued, looking up at the cloud doppled sky. Her voice strengthened, though it wavered slightly. It was not a threat towards Barty, merely an open warning to anyone who might try to harm the worlds they both shared.

After her little speech, Lydia stared at the horizon and watched the Airdramon approach, not knowing if she would recieve an answer or not.

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((This post is going to suck royally. >< I started over my computer without thinking and lost the whole thing...))

Barty was silent hands in his pockets and eyes cast towards the horizon, staring through and past the pair approaching them. His mind was reeling from what she'd said and little anger, though never shown, bubbled up. Destroy them? No. She would never touch them.

"My uses for them are my own..."

His voice was smooth and slick, gliding through the air like liquid mercury before hardening into a dagger. "I assure you though if my plans were to start a digital war, you or anyone else would never get close enough to them for murder."

He looked at her through a sparkling, blue eye. It was gentle except for a hard line that had formed somewhere close to the middle. It was hard, sharp line that flickered like steel in firelight and shone like the stars in the sky.

"You would destroy me before you got them."

He smiled a kindly smile before drifting his eyes back to the serene puff fields. The harsh streak in his eye disappeared and the hard edge that had been in his voice gone. As he spoke his next words, his British accent poked its head in.

"It's really a jolly good place.... You know?"

He grinned before looking her in the eye. "We must organize a dance ball or something here one night,"he said,"Perhaps oprera or classical... A concert hall! For Tamers and digimon alike to enjoy the wonders of music..."

He trailed off contemplatively, allowing the grin to slide from large and broad to small and miniscule. "Yeah... Digimon can appreciate music..."

"Of course we can!"

Nymph's voice cut in sharply. "We just don't ever stop to compose any,"she said. A small smile came to her lips and she crossed her arms over her chest, looking up proudly at her tamer. In that second she was happy to have sunglasses securely on her face.

Tears had pricked her eyes at Bolivar's words and pride had swell her chest. He would do that for them... And they'd do it for them. Right until the day they got disconfigured back into digi eggs.

Turning away from the two tamers, she began to carefully help up the Kamemon.

((Welcome back, btw.))

[Kiara Lycro]

Lydia stood up, apparently ignoring the other digimon and quietly picked up her pack. The Airdramon was almost here and she was suddenly not in the mood for speaking. Frio noted her mood and floated privately over to Barty.

"It is speeches like that that have proven that such actions are unneeded. Imagine for a minute, a tamer only interested in conquering all, who somehow got the power to do it. Anyone who got in his way would be destoryed, even if you are not involved in the battle. History has taught us to head off threats like that. Don't worry, that was just Lydia's ackward way of telling you another duty of rouges. It is up to you wether you want to make it your own." Frio shrugged and floated over to Lydia as the Airdramon landed near the campsite.

The Tamer on top waved, "All aboard!" Lydia did not recognize him, grinned and climbed the airdramon with the ease granted by much practice. Frio joined her easily and looked where Barty was. The tamer looked down and said with an American southern accent, "What, haven't ya'll ever rode a dragon before?" He grinned, and beckoned the trio on.

OOC: Thank you , I just have states now, but I can get back into everything again.

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((Unfortunantly I might not be able to. >< I got a job and the manager things its funny to make me stay till 10:30 on a school night. ; 10 o' clock is usually my bed time.))

Barty watched the boy quietly, standing still for his two digimon to climb into his coat pockets comfortably. He watched, unimpressedly as the Airdramon lay, curled slightly, on the good, green earth, waiting for its last companions to board.

He would only have to wait a few more seconds before the tall, lanky man sett off, smirk curling into his eyes it seemed and body slipping with surprising ease onto the large beast. It was vaguely nostalgic, feeling the rippling muscles of a creature underneath him. Even if the rippling muscles were covered by thick hide and scale.

"I used to ride horses when I was a kid... My parents had a couple."

He looked at the head where the southern accented boy stood on his Airdramon's head and patiently he awaited take off. In his coat, Nymph shifted impatiently before poking her head out to watch. "Are we going or what?"she asked irritably.

[Kiara Lycro]

OOC: Sorry to hear it, I have a job too, but mine never keeps me that late. Good luck with school, sounds like you'll need it.

"Interesting patch you've got there Lydia." The Airdramon's tamer noted as the dragon beneath them rumbled and rose into the air. The safe, solid ground shrunk as they lifted into the sky and began to speed back to the village. Lydia did not ask how the boy knew her, her own name seemed to pop up in places all the time. A fellow rouge had once joked that she was the digital world's personal tour guide.

"They have their moments." She said once they had settled into a constant speed. Wind still whipped around them, causing her hair to fly behind her, hitting Frio in the face. He tapped her expectanly, before she reached behind her and stuffed her ponytail haphazardly into the back of her shirt.

They soon touched down on the outskirts of the town, where a small tv was hidden in the deep grass. "I was told to sent you where ever you needed to go next, the village is a little busy now and the puffs are overfulling in the streets, high harvest time and all." The tamer shrugged apoligetically. "I've heard you don't exactly approve of our little market so I thought it better to take you here."

Lydia smirked and nodded her head slightly. "Gracias, I'll have to check in at england again so how about there?" She suggested, turning her towards Barty to see his opinion.

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((I'm so. So. SO! Sorry. D; I'm so incredably sorry that I've taken so long, Kiara. I just... I don't know. All my inspiration has exploded into thousands of little pieces. I'm serious. >_< Work is hard and tiring and has made it hard for me to pull anything together. Hopefully I can come up with a semi good reply.))

Barty's eyes looked to her lazily as he slid down from that large airdramon. "London, indeed, would be a lovely place to start, my dear,"he said, eyes dancing over the tall grass and the distant hills. The smell of dew was thick in the air and the early morning was relaxing. Lightly the thief toed at a blade, watching the water slither down its stalk quietly.

"What time would it be in London now?"

He looked up to her curiously, eyes sharp and smirk curling his features ever gracefully. In his pockets Nymph stirred and poked her head to to stare at the grass all around them before silently looking up to the tamer that had enriched her and Gale's lifes.

"When we get back to Londown,"she began, pronouncing the name oddly,"what will we do? Go on another mission to save people? Or just hang out there, huh?"

A shrug was the answer she received from Barty and instead Bolivar looked to Lydia.

[Kiara Lycro]

OOC: I completely understand Lost, how long did I leave you hanging. Miashin needs some characters to help with the aftermath of the war so Barty is not going to be able to go home just yet.

The group had been dropped off quickly at the portal so that the tamer and his partner could return to the busy harvest. Lydia and Frio looked around to survey exactly where they were. "Well guys, it has been great but now it seems..." Lydia was just about to jump through the portal when her cell phone went off again.

Pulling it out, she saw an odd text message. Without looking at the group around her she read the message aloud. "Assistance needed in Degere village in the Data Forest. Mass injured, tamers involved, Merukimon present." Her voice made her worry clearer and clearer as she spoke.

"Well Barty, it looks like we aren't finished in the digital world yet." She said, "We'll have to run into town, they normally have medical supplies for the taking. We'll be able to grab them and rush to the forest." She finished, almost muttering to herself.

Frio looked up with a steely look. "Well, that settles that." Lydia's digivice lit up as Frio digivolved into XGarurumon. As the large wolf stood before them, Lydia wasted no time in climbing on. On a sudden whim, she whipped out her phone again and called up a tamer in the village and instructed them to bring emergency medical supplies in masse as quickly as possible.

In a matter of moments the airdramon was seen on the horizon laden with a few bundles. Lydia turned slightly to see if Barty had made in on yet.

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((I don't know how much help Barty will be but we'll see. ;3 Eh?))

Barty had made it on and seemed a bit eager to get on the move, his sharp eyes watching Lydia with grins to match the one on his face. "Shall we go then, Lyd, FiFi?"

His voice was joking as he pulled his coat up on to Frio, a bit fearful that when they started that the pair would be injured in the process of their quick run. Afterall, trees are painful, he's heard.

Now seated comfortably between the two tamers, Nymphadora and Galen stared around Lydia and towards the path ahead, eager to spend more time in their beloved world.

[Kiara Lycro]

Frio growled beneath his load, "What did I say about that name." His teeth showed as he twisted his head to see the others. The medical supplies had long since been added and they were prepared to leave.

"Hold on tight guys, now time is against us and Frio won't be holding back this time." Lydia warned, she had completely missed what Barty said as she tried to imagine what was happening.

With those words, Frio began to speed. The most important supplies were arranged between his spines so they could not get loose. It did not take much effort to barral towards Degere village.

Lydia rode in silence, not quite wanting to imagine what they would find, but could not stop her mind. She stared at the text message the rest of the way, trying to find more hints then the sparce words allowed.

OOC: No worries, I'm moving to Miashins thread so we can really get into some action again.