The Power of a Tourny [open]

Akio Higashi Haru Toriya

Obito arrived in the areana area-- completely new to the area of the Shinjuku Busters Tower. He was only officiated in a few days ago, thanks to the support and welcoming aid of Akio-- the senior tamer of the Busters. He helped him fight a powerful wild Digimon and in turn helped bring him in as a member. For Obito, he needed all the help he could get when it came to being a tamer. Though Panthermon was a fount of good advice, it didn't calm the nerves of not knowing what to do as a Digimon tamer, let alone the risks considering he was attacked by a bad tamer himself. That event rattled him badly and made him more cautious.

But now he was among other Tamers like him, and ones willing to help out one another. After hearing about the tournament, Panthermon convinced Obito to come here today. It was a good opportunity. Obito always fancied going into the card tournaments to play and perhaps earn more cards-- but this was a digimon vs Digimon fight between two tamers. Hopefully, nothing with death on the line. And while Obito was rather skilled and creative with card combos, it would be a golden opportunity to learn from some of the bests.

How could he pass this up?

Obito and Panthermon stepped out of the elevator that opened to the top floor of the arena, where the combatants would participate. As he entered the section, it wasn't as crowded as others-- considering there were only a handful of tamers to begin with-- but the sight of them always made Obito feel baffled. To think there were so many others with Digimon parthers outside only a small handful. It really made Obito ambitious to learn more and apply himself-- even with school just around the corner. Many were children but there were even a few adults and kids his own age.

Soon he walked down the steps-- and Panthermon gestured to find Akio sitting in one of the stands. Obito smiled and waved a hand. "Aiko-senpai!" Obito shouted and waved as he walked over to him. "How are you doing? I got your message."

Well the matches hadn't started yet, so he guessed he could spend some time chit chatting. Although since it wasn't Dracomon he wasn't sure he would enjoy it as much. Small talk seemed a bit of a bother to him. He finished chewing the bit of popcorn he had just taken a bite of to begin speaking.

"Well as far as betting the first round its hard to say. You only get that little blurb about each combatant. I usually just bet on who is favored to win the first round. Once you see a round though the betting becomes a little easier. You can get an idea how capable each tamer is. With that you can make a more informed decisions for the second round."

Akio paused for a second. He grabed his drink and took a sip. Using it to wash down the taste of salt the was hanging on his lips from that first bite of popcorn. He cleared his throat after tanking a drink,

"As far as how these will take place. Think of them as like boxing matches. The tamers and their digimon enter the ring. They will do battle until one of the two tamer's digimon is unable to continue battling. Think of it like battling until a KO. Their shouldn't be any deleted digimon in these types of battles."

Haru Toriya Obito Kamigawa

Haru Toriya Akio Higashi

Obito listened while he watched the crowd and arena below. He saw the fight go off, but he was attentive to his company. He felt relieved, aware now that the fights were not to the death. He let out a sigh and relaxed, his elbows on his knees as he leaned forward. "That's good to know. I have seen too many brutal tamers to want to see death-matches," he explained, "Its good that these fights are more respectable."

For the moment, Obito kept his focus on the tamers in the arena. He saw the cards and combos they used-- and found some good inspirational ideas he saw how they interacted with their digimon. Of course, he didn't have as many cards as they had. Still, he was learning from it all.

Beside him, Panthermon studied the digimon in the arena-- but didn't really care as the interest of others who had placed bets. he too sought to learn from the fights as well. Even though he was attentive, his lax posture made him seem a good deal at ease.

It was then that the words of the other tamer, Haru and her partner in her lap, became of more interest to Obito. She, too, agreed how it was barbaric to fight to the death. Obito smiled at that aspect. She seemed a little out of focus to Obito, but she seemed genuinely nice. Her digimon, however, disagreed and felt death was very natural.

Panthermon's ears twitched at the Plotmon's comment. "Well, what do you know? A dog with a brain. Impressive," the cat said in a semi-teasing tone. His jest was clear, as how many cats would judge dogs. "ON that, I agree with you."

OBito frowned and looked to his partner. "Well , you might be willing to risk your own demise, but as your tamer, my whole goal is to KEEP YOU from that," Obito said firmly.

Panthermon merely shrugged and returned his attention to the fights.

Warming up to the new company, Obito leaned over to see Haru better. "HI there, I'm Obito. And my sour-puss friend here, is Panthermon. " he introduced himself to her.

The girls digimon was quite the downer, like she said. At the very least it could be said that the digimon had a pessimistic view on the world. A hard life or not it had an interesting outlook on life. The digimon was right he could only imagine what life was like in the digital world as he had never made it there himself either. He wondered what it would be like entering the digital world and leaving the real world.

"I mean our personalities are a subject of where we are raised. So if the digital world is a tough a place as Tawna says then if we were raised there we probably would have a similar outlook on life."

Obito's remark about the eggs make Akio think. He was pretty sure that all digimon when defeated went back to their digiegg even those who were absorbed. Thats because they weren't completely taken up by the winning digimon. So parts of it would return to the digital world and become an egg. At least thats what he thought, he had no way of knowing for sure.

"Well my understanding is that they return to the digital world and become eggs. At least the parts that weren't absorbed by the victors."

As he finished discussing the possibilities of digimon defeated by tamers and what would become of them the first round of matches began. It led to a series of 8 matches in the first round. He was excited to see how they turned out he had a bit riding on thee matches he bet more this time than he ever had in the pass. His bets were relatively safe, he bet on all the favorites to win. The first round came and went he was a little disappointed it was not off to the best start. He was already losing on his bets. The next 7 rounds came and went he did pretty well. He won 6 of the 8 bets he placed. Time to start calibrating his next set of bets. He hoped he could keep up that kind of winning level.

Obito Kamigawa Haru Toriya