Digimon in a magic world

Clark and Daniela were panicking.

The digimon's skin started to peel off, revealing a blue form, the skin itself started to create what he identified to be an egg around it.

"Don't worry! I'm fine!"

Clark took a moment from his panic to hear the digimon.

It was calm, not at all nervou, and so was the manager, who was yanning at the sight.

It was like just another Tuesday for them.

So he held his sister and waited for it to end.

The egg was complete in a few moments and it started expanding, growing in size in such a way that Clark and Daniela stepped away, his hand instinctively going to his magical bag to take his sword.

When it stopped growing, Clark was two thirds of its size.

But them the egg exploded in particles, revealing a new creature.

It looked like a lion man from the lion tribe, its body was muscular and big, its eyes, once innocent and childish, now had a fierce gaze, a sheath could be seen behind it, together with a handle of a weapon, and it had no shoes on its feet.

"This" It said with a new found deep voice "Is evolution, it make us stronger to protect or tamers"

It paused for a moment, as it saw the manager yanning once again.

Is smirked before raising a hand and messing their hair a bit more, making them grunt.

"Evolution takes energy from the digimon" It said "And, depending on the form and how long they stay on it, they might regress to a younger form, the stronger the form the higher is the payback, the digimon might die if the they force it too much"

Taking its hand back as the human retaliated with a few weak blows, the digimon and human didn't seem to notice the siblings' stiff expression.

"Die?" Daniela repeated.

It seemed to notice how her voice failed, as it was quick to raise and waive a hand.

"Don't worry" It said "Death for us is temporary, once we die, we will return to the Digi-egg and will be reborn after some time"

Clark let out the breath he didn't know he was holding.

Having a creature capable blind loyalty was good, but to let it die just for using a stronger form was wasteful and sad, honestly speaking.

But they are apparently immortal.

He watched as the digimon shone and shrink, slowly returning to what they were.

"That form was called Leomon" It said with its young voice once again "Diferente digimon can become Leomon, and Leomon can become diferente digimons too, but it all depend on the nature of the heart of the Tamer"

The manager, after they calmed a bit, started to sign.

(People true nature can be seen in the form and attitude of the digimon/ They are the physical form of a person's soul)

Clark saw the explanation, but took some time to process.

If what they said was true, then how can he interpret this person in front of him?

The human was lazy, unmotivating and looked unreliable, but the digimon was prestative, conversative and well mannered, as for the second form…

Definitely reliable!

So are you saying that you might not look like it, but are a reliable person?

Are you praising yourself?

He left that aside and decided to make the question that matters.

"How much for one?"

He was invested.

The manager and the digimon smiled.

"Twenty middle-grade beast cores"

"Sold!" He said

"We want two!" His sister added.

You're telling me that you sell immortal creatures completely loyal and capable of evolution for just some middle-grade cores?

It 's so cheap!

They watched as the manager put his things away and took their digivices from their hands, returning to the counter and putting each digivice in a small paper bag, along with a little book and two packets for each one.

"As one of our ten first costumes, you both will receive two card packets" Said the digimon "The cards are very useful, they let digimon use abilities of other digimons, I could use Fist of the Beast King, Leomon's signature move, even as Elecmon, but they can also give status boost and cards related to evolution can also be found, not quite like the blue card, but similar"

The siblings stopped on their tracks.

Now you're saying I can boost them or evolve them using a card?

Clack bought three more for him and his sister, each packet costing ten credits.

"All you have to do now is to hold it close to your heart" Said the digimon "You'll link it to your soul this way and will receive a Digi-egg, but I advise you to wait until you both get home, the baby might me energetic and jump around"

The siblings took the advice to heart, not wanting to cause an accident on the way home, and left the store.

***

"We did it!" Eli said.

Manny noded, checking the System painel.

[First mission -

Sell ten digivices (2/10)

Sell a hundred packets (6/100)

Reward - A legendary warrior]

A small smile formed in their face, one step closer to their goal.

"But Manager…"

They froze at the tone, eyes going to the cold looking Digimon.

"We still need to have a good chat"

Oh, they were so doomed.

***

Clark and Daniela arrived at home and darted to his room, both curious about the process.

They opened the bag, quickly taking the digivices and placing them in their heart as Eli had said.

And it didn't take long before something happened.

The digivice shone and gained color, Clark's was a naive blue, and Daniela's was a light green, but they both noticed something that made the digivice completely different.

It was warm.

Not warm as for heat, it was hard to explain.

If it was cold and empty before, now it feels warm and full.

It makes it comforting even though they don't know what was filling this void.

Taking the digivices from their chests, they notice that there was something on the screen.

[Digi-egg formation 20%]

They watched as the number growed slowly, anticipation growing along with it.

When it reached 100%, the screen shone brightly and something started to form in mid air.

It was an egg, a bit bigger than an ostrich egg, both brightly colored.

They floated on air until they finished forming, then they slowly floated down to their laps, it was warm, really warm, and more inexplicably comforting than the digivice.

They were still stunned when they heard cracking noises and giving them little to no room to cover their eyes before a bright light covered the room.

When the light susided, they looked at the eggs.

Or what was supposed to be the eggs.

Two small creatures replaced the eggs, a white, jelly-like one with two black eyes and a cute smile was on Daniela's lap, and a red spiky-like one with big wide open eyes.

"Poyo?"

"Puni!"

The white one looked around with curious eyes and the red one bounced in Clark's lap.

The siblings were mesmerized and, somehow, a little emotional.

They didn't know why, but their hearts were a bit warm as their grasp in the digivice tightened unconsciously.

***

He knew his friend.

He knew that his friend did not like anything that could get in the way of efficiency.

So it was a surprise when he arrived at his dressing room and found a little red thing in his friend's arms.

He knew his friend was a man of little words and that he reserved his sincere smile just for family.

But there was, smiling like a child as the little thing looked around the place.

"Good morning Bahn" His friend said with a tone he never saw him use outside his house "What do we have on schedule today? If it's not too packed, wanna go out with me?"

James was sure that today might be a good day at work.

***

Clark didn't know how to explain, but he felt happier today.

Just looking at Dakota, the name he gave to Punimon, made him smile and feel at ease.

He thought it was just him, but Daniela too felt the same thing.

Like something that was missing had been found.

He read the book that Many had send along with digivice and they discovered an interesting thing about the digivice and the digimon.

Like everyone knows, souls can get tainted with demonic energy and will slowly die because of this, starting by losing their emotions and then losing control of their body. That's one of the reasons tamer classes are very respected, as the contract with another creature can keep this demonic energy at bay.

But, along with the discovery that they could learn about other digimon by just letting theirs look at others and the information would be projected in their digivices, they also learned that the 'contract' with a digimon completely replaces all and every part contaminated with demonic energy with half of their soul, filling the 'void' they were feeling.

Said void is actually the parts consumed by the Demonic energy and couldn't be felt anymore, and the part that was taken will be fused with the digimon's soul, who will slowly heal that part.

This feeling of happiness he felt whenever he saw Dakota is caused by his half of the soul that was being healed, that automatically becomes calmer when he's close, and Dakota's half, that gets excited when he is close.

It was more than just a contrat to get a companion, it was a medical service!

It felt more like Clark was the parasite of the relationship, as all he could do was offer food and shelter while Dakota literally saved his life by simply existing.

He didn't even know that he was that affected by Demonic energy until he stopped to think about it and noticed how easy it was to breath, think and feel now.

Clark was thankful towards Dakota, and even more towards Makas, his sister's Poyomon, who had helped her at such a young age and be her path of hope.

But thinking about this, he had an idea.

He brought Dakota with him to work that day, not at all considering the idea of letting the newborn alone at home, and walked directly to his dressing room and waited for Bahn, his best friend and manager.

As a professional Hunter, actor and model, he was highly requested in many projects and of the Silver Empire, but, apparently because of his tainted soul, he couldn't properly deal with them in a way that wouldn't affect himself, so James jumped in and took care of things.

But Clark had noticed how his friend had been in a bad shape recently and speculated that it might also be the same problem he had.

So he offered to go out with the goal of taking Bahn to Digiworld.

He would help his friend!

***

"Poyo!"

Sally was a bit confused when this sound came from her friend when they met at the Academy.

And she got even more confused when she saw the white thing on her arms.

"This is Makas!" Daniela said to her with the brightest smile she had ever seen "He's my new friend!"

Said friend gave her an innocent and curious look.

What did Dani find this time…