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Post by cybepunkerakai on Dec 13, 2008 23:22:47 GMT -5
Acedia walked through the stripmall with his hands in his pockets and the stylus for his Nintendo DS in his mouth. His teeth lightly chewed on it as he thought about all the work he’d have to do for his college classes… eventually. He definitely wasn’t in a rush to finish it all and without his parents living with him, he didn’t have anybody to really tell him what to do and when to do it. Life was great.
He sighed. The mall was as boring as staying at home. Well, sort of, anyway. There were tons of people strolling through it, but none of them really caught his eye. He also knew that he wouldn’t really catch anyone’s eye either. That’s just the way it was. He moved a hand out of his pocket and took out a lollipop, unwrapped it and replaced the stylus in his mouth with it. Grape flavored. His favorite, but it got old fast. Right after that in his list was sour apple. He didn’t really like sour things, but the flavor lasted longer to him it seemed like.
That’s when the abandoned Sprint store caught his eye. He remembered when it shut down and there was all of this media attention behind the reason. It didn’t have to do with him at all, (heck, he had T-Mobile anyway), but the way it looked now was interesting to Acedia. ‘Hmph. Might as well,’ he thought to himself as he kicked a stray piece of bundled up paper and walked into the abandoned store to take a look. |
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Post by .//Zoei//. on Dec 14, 2008 2:16:39 GMT -5
Walking through the mall, Zoei's cheek began to flush with a light shade as people continuously stared at her. She knew it was from her ears and tail, but it was something she dealt with most of the time. While she carried Paomon in her arms, no one seemed to notice Xiao because she stayed still in Zoei's arms fooling people into thinking she was a stuffed animal. That and the fact that Zoei got the bigger end of attention.
As she walked pass an old looking store, she stood there with her head tilted slightly in curiosity. She wasn't familiar with the mall, so she had no idea what the store had been, or why it was so.. abandoned. Paomon began to get antsy as they stood there. Like Xiao wanted to rush into there. Zoei didn't see anyone and she knew Xiao's curiousity would just get the best of her. So Zoei took a few glances and then entered into the store.
Not knowing what she would find, she figured there was something that caught Paomon's attention. Thinking it was maybe a person or another digimon, she shouted into the darkness. "Hello?!" She waited for a reply and then took a few steps around to see if she could see anything.
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Post by cybepunkerakai on Dec 14, 2008 2:27:53 GMT -5
“Hm?”
Acedia turned his head over to the source of the sound and could see the silhouette of another person near the entrance of the store. He had been kneeling down because he was about to pick up an empty container for a phone. Instead, he stood again and started walking towards her. It wasn’t like he wasn’t supposed to be there. The store wasn’t dangerous in the least. When he got closer, he could start to see the ears and tail on the… female. He sighed.
‘Great… another otaku in Japan…’ he thought to himself as he scratched at the top of his head. ‘Well, it’s not like I can escape from this. Might as well say ‘hi’ or something before I take my leave.’
It was then that Conomon made a soft, almost whining sound as they got closer. He had been in Acedia’s shopping bag before and since no one really took notice of Acedia, they didn’t really care to take a look inside of it. The digimon blinked a couple of time before saying “Pwew” again and shuffling restlessly in the bag. Acedia raised a brow as he started to walk out of the store and peered at Zoei and her digimon.
“Hn… nice toy,” he said to her before started to mix within the crowd that was outside of the store. For all he knew, it was just another otaku with another plush doll. Nothing like Conomon. Then again, Acedia didn’t really have any experience in the subject of Digimon. He hadn’t even been to the digital world. That didn’t stop his digivice from beeping, though.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
Acedia pulled out his pink divice. He hated the thing. Hated the color, hated the sound it was making right now. “What the heck is wrong with it now?” he asked softly, but aloud. Conomon turned around in the back and looked just past the upper rim of it so that only its horns and eyes were visible, obviously locked onto Zoei’s digmon.
“Pwew~” |
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Post by .//Zoei//. on Dec 14, 2008 2:42:38 GMT -5
As she watched the boy come near her, she then noticed the digivice he held in his hand. Her ears began to perk up a bit as a smile widened her mouth. "Ah! You have one, too!" Zoei was quick to speak before thinking of how someone else would react to her comments. Xiao suddenly began to take a change as a light emitted from the digimon's form.
Xiao now had legs and she made a soft, cute bark as she leaped from Zoei's arms. Paomon was now Xiaomon. Proving that Xiao was no better than Zoei's outburst in comment, she made her way to the shopping bag the carried the other digimon.
Zoei giggled a bit to this as she thought Xiao was just going to see the male. "Aww. Xiao, you're even more cute!" She couldn't help but be overwhelmed by Xiao's new look. She almost forgot that the other stood before her, and that she was near the lighting of the mall... And other people who would find her secret. She soon snapped out of it by the beeping of her own digivice. but it wasn't as loud as his, since hers was buried in her backpack.
She began to frantically dig through her backpack, pulling out the pink and black device that now stopped beeping. "See, I told you I had one." Xiao continues to ponder at the shopping bag as Zoei smiled softly at the male, her head tilted a bit as she always did, thinking it was cute how she did it.
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Post by cybepunkerakai on Dec 14, 2008 2:55:06 GMT -5
He stopped in his tracks and facepalmed. Okay, so the weird girl had a digimon too? That’s what that thing in her arms was. Before he cokuld curse himself for not noticing before hand, he saw the bright light coming from Zoei’s digimon and then from his own. As he looked down into the bag, he frowned. “Sorry about this, Conomon. No one can see you digivolve though,” he told him before he shut the bag tight and waited for the streams of light to die down. As soon as it did, he opened it and saw that his digimon had changed into a Kokomon.
That was just the beginning of his problems, though. Xiaomon started barking and that made Kokomon even more adventurous. Before he could get it to stop, Kokomon started to mimic Xiamon and barked back playfully. Acedia growled a bit and then made a few long strided, quick steps over to Zoei until he was right in front of her with their digimon between them. He was a bit annoyed and Zoei’s cuteness made him even more annoyed. Why did the cute ones have to be the most annoying and air-headed?
“You’re a digitamer too, huh? You’re digivice looks like mine… sort of,” Acedia said, holding his digivice up for her to see, but speaking softly so that only they could hear their conversation. “I don’t think that anyone’s supposed to know that we have these, though. So, for the record, don’t go parading around showing your digmon off and letting him cause a ruckus…” His eyes moved to the top of her head and then to her tail. “And for God’s sake, take off the catgirl costume. We’re not at a con or something.”
Okay, granted, he was being a little mean to her, but for the first time that he met another tamer and have it happened like this… in a crowd… when both of their digimon digivolved, he thought that he was handling it pretty well. He ran his hand through his brown hair again and sighed, closing his eyes and sweat-dropping a little bit. “The name is Acedia… Acedia Akai. Nice too meet you, I guess…” he said, holding the bag that Kokomon was in with one hand and extending his right hand towards her.
Kokomon blinked for a bit and then barked again before making some sound that resembled a laugh before he hid in the bag again. Yep. This digimon was going to be trouble already. |
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Post by .//Zoei//. on Dec 14, 2008 18:08:29 GMT -5
Her cheeks began to have a flushed tint to them as she heard his remark on her ears. With a bit of a frown, she'd control herself to not get overwhelmed by this fact. "They're not part of a costume. They're real." She spoke in a rather pouty tone.
Extending her right arm out to, she shook the other's hand. "I'm Zoei... But I'm fine with pretty much any nickname you'd like." She smiled a bit before glancing to Xiaomon.
Finally noticing that Xiaomon had been near Acedia's digimon, she wouldn't panick, but instead she picked Xiao up and made the 'Shh' gesture with her finger to her lips. Xiao whimpered a bit and just buried its head into Zoei's arm, afraid of doing wrong.
"I'm sorry..." Xiao mumbled from buried in the fabric on Zoei's arm. She smiled some and stroked the back of Xiaomon, letting her fingers softly run over the soft fur.
Having her attention diverted elsewhere, Zoei quickly looked towards the shopping bag that was now barking and laughing. "I wouldn't say my digimon is the only one acting up." She tried to be sarcastic, but somehow it didn't suit her.
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Post by cybepunkerakai on Dec 14, 2008 18:24:04 GMT -5
Real ears? Riiiiiiight... Like she really expects me to believe that. An airhead and a weirdo... I bet she thinks she's always in some weird ecchi anime.
Acedia scowled before he finally hushed his digimon. “Well, he’s always been the trouble maker. It’s just the way that he is. He needs something to excite him, though,” he pointed out, looking over at Zoie’s digimon. “I’m not one for nicknames. Too much of a bother to try thinking of one. If one slips out, though, then whatever.” He shuffled the bag a bit and then lifted Kokomon out of the bag to look at his own digimon who had a playful, wide smile on its face… as if it knew of the trouble that it was causing and thoroughly enjoyed it. It caused Acedia to sweatdrop.
“First, I think we should try acting like normal people… con fanatics or not,” he started, still not believing that they were real. Whatever. If she wanted to keep wearing them, then he’d let her. Who was he to care about what she decided to wear? If they actually were near each other more often, then he’d bring it up again. “That being said, let’s just try walking around the mall. Try to make sure that your digimon doesn’t make any sounds. We can only make them seem like toys for so long.”
As if on cue, Kokomon started to bark again, laughing soon afterwards. Acedia smiled back at it. He had an easy way of fixing this. Setting his digimon in one arm, he reached into the bag and pulled out a roll of duct tape. Kokomon knew what was coming and it started to hop away back into the abandoned Sprint store. Luckily no one saw him. “Come back here, you!” Acedia growled, running after it. He leapt and tackled it, holding it tight as it squirmed and pulled out a length of the duct tape, tearing it with his teeth and slapping it over the digimon’s mouth. “Shush Jester… you know you deserved it. Someone has to keep you in check… at least until we get home.”
Acedia sighed and then stood up again, holding the digimon in his arms. “Sorry about that. It’s really the only way to get him to shut up once he gets started… that or give him marshmallows, although I don’t have any on me and he makes a mess out of them… Somehow… So, tell me, how did you get your digimon?” he asked Zoei, as he started to walk outside of the store and into the crowd of people.
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Post by .//Zoei//. on Dec 14, 2008 18:48:57 GMT -5
His remark on being 'normal' just erked her on a bit, but she tried to not let it get to her. Her catlike ears twitched a bit, her glance now going to Acedia's digimon. It amused her enough that she giggled softly, but only because it seemed that the two enjoyed the way they put each other on edge.
While Acedia and Kokomon had they struggle, she rummaged through her back pack, taking out a chocolate chip cookie and offering it to Xiaomon. Naturally, Xiaomon took it and munched upon it until there was nothing left. Grinning widely, the digimon's tail began to wage happily. The fact that Xiao was happy made Zoei happy, and this caused Zoei's tail to sway back and forth.
After stroking Xaiomon a few times, she answered Acedia's question. "Well... It was about two week ago that I was woken up by a loud beeping," taking out her digivice, she gestured to it. "I wasn't sure what it was at first, and all it did was glow. I found it rather boring. But then the next day, I woke up to find an egg laying next to me in my bed." She sighed a bit as the ponder back on that day, a flash back to when she actually did wake up and found the egg, then totally freaked out. "Mm... So for a few days it was just an egg, but then just like recently, it emitted a bright light and formed into this cute, plushing looking creature. The device that woke me told me that it was a Paomon. I wasn't really sure on what a 'Paomon' was, but I wasn't going to argue. My digivice helped me out a lot, explaining some of the things such as what Paomon is and what a digivice is. So that kind of just puts us to here." She nodded as she looked down to Xiaomon practically sleeping in her arms.
"And what about you? How did you come across your digimon?"
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Post by cybepunkerakai on Dec 14, 2008 19:11:45 GMT -5
Acedia thought about it for a moment as he thought of Zoie’s story. “Mine was much of the same. I was walking around one day and all of a sudden this digivice started beeping. I checked my cell phone and my laptop to make sure it was off. I didn’t kow where the beeping was coming from at first… it beeped all through my classes.” He frowned when he thought about the stares he was getting. It didn’t make him feel uncomfortable, but the fact that he got in trouble did.
“When I finally got to my dorm room, I searched my stuff and found this digivice attached to my back belt loop.. Nothing happened for a little while and then bam… I get the egg. The rest is just history, I suppose. I still have a bunch of questions, but I think they’ll be answered in time.” Kokomon started to mumble something and Acedia raised an eyebrow, slowly taking off the duct tape. Immediately afterwards, Kokomon bit him on the finger. Acedia yelped a bit, earning him a few more looks. He couldn’t very well tell the people around them that the toy like monster bit him.
Instead, he pointed at Zoie. “She stepped on my foot. Sorry about that,” he lied to the people before he continued walking again. Once they were in a more sparse area of the mall, Kokomon started to snicker and looked up at Acedia, whacking his arm hard with his tail. Acedia scowled at him and rolled his eyes. Dear God…
“You deserved that! Hahahahaha!” Kokomon laughed.
“Wait a second… you can talk now?”
“Psh. Of course. That’s not what’s important now. We have to get to the digital world!” Kokomon explained. Acedia kept walking as he stared down at his digimon in wonder. He was completely entranced by the fact the monster could talk now.
“You… can talk now… SIGH... you're going to be so much more trouble...”
Now it was Kokomon’s turn to roll his eyes. The digimon moved it’s tail around one of Acedia’s legs and the next thing that Acedia knew, he was falling to the ground. He hit the mall floor with a grunt and Kokomon landed on his back, staying still and playing the part of a stuff doll and making Acedia look like a complete fool. Acedia didn’t move for a moment and he could tell the slightest sound of laughter that Kokomon was trying to hold back before the digimon started to whisper.
“Xiaomon, I think you can explain about the digital world while I handle this!” Kokomon said. When he said the last word, he thwapped Acedia when all of the non-tamer people weren’t looking.
“Gah! d**n you….” |
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Post by .//Zoei//. on Dec 18, 2008 22:33:48 GMT -5
Zoei looked at him confusedly and her cheeks became lightly flushed when he said it was her that stepped on his foot. She got a bit flustered at not knowing for the short moment. Normally she would of apologized, but she caught on to what he was going for. Watching the sight of the two have their little fight made her snicker a bit, and Xiaomon nodded to Kokomon's remark.
On que, Xiaomon sat up in Zoei's arms before she spoke. "Getting to the digital world is harder if you've never been there before. Kokomon and I were technically born in the real world, but it doesn't mean we aren't smart! First things first. You can't open the portal in front of a crowd of people, or where anybody could just come by and step in. We need to be in a disclosed area."
Xiaomon glanced to Kokomon, a slight sweatdrop falling.
"That and we don't need anymore distractions from people thinking our tamers aren't the brightest," directed Xiamon to Kokomon. Hinting that maybe he should save the thwapping of Acedia to first getting to the digital world.
Zoei looked around the mall before, giving glances to each way to make sure no one was coming or would see her talking to Xiaomon, but even if someone had, maybe they would just think she was weirder and talks to dolls."Xiao, where should we go then?" She wasn't familiar with the area around her, but she knew that Acedia was. So she had no doubt they he could find a place.
"Just somewhere that no one would possibly be at." Xiaomon nodded.What is wrong with these two... ? Xiaomon thought to herself as she continued to watch Kokomon and Acedia. She wasn't sure what to make of the two, except they loved to get on the other's edge.
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