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Post by Leith, Veemon, and Shoutmon on Jun 24, 2018 0:05:45 GMT
God, this sucks. The whole thing. The move, the band breaking up, the language barrier, the smaller house, everything. I don't have a job anymore, nor the language skills required to work in one. At least Mom and Dad understand enough not to charge me rent, but I don't have any spending money for myself. Turns out that's a big deal in Tokyo, because not much is in walking distance from my place - not that there's much for me to do that I know about anyway. Weirdly enough, though, sitting at home and doing nothing over the course of a whole month is really starting to get old.
But what's there to do? Not hang out with friends, that's for sure. What's the point in even keeping contact with the ones I had? It's not like I'm going home any time soon, and if I do we'll just have grown apart so much. Maybe I'll hang out in the park or something just for the fucking hell of it some time. Not like there's anything else to do while I wait for classes to start.
Know what? Fuck it. I'll go right now. I hate leaving my comfort zone, but I'm gonna lose it if nothing at least mildly interesting happens soon.
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Post by Leith, Veemon, and Shoutmon on Jun 27, 2018 21:24:41 GMT
Holy shit. I mean, what else is there to say?
A few days ago I was playing guitar in Miyashita (or however the hell you spell it) Park when I found the digivice. What is the digivice? I have no freakin' idea. But it came with an unexpected little present, too: a digimon. Apparently, they're creatures from another dimension that are destined to partner with humans on occasion, and apparently they're made of data instead of atoms. Sounds crazy, but I've seen it for myself. See, one function my digivice has is storing the digimon, Demiveemon (oh, yeah, they change names as they change, and they use human energy to change. That's not scary at all) inside of it like a guitar in a case... only he's not a guitar. He's not even an animal. He's, like, a person... only he's blue, inches tall, and even more energetic and happy than any puppy I've ever had the misfortune to meet.
Needless to say, I wasn't thrilled. But you know what? He's... weird. But in good ways. Like, yesterday, we were talking, and I... well, I kinda poured my heart out. I talked about the move first, yeah, but then I talked about drama, that incident in 7th grade, my diagnosis, my loneliness, my lack of love life, my- you know what? I'm just making myself feel bad again. And that's the opposite of the point. Demiveemon listened the whole time and actually seemed like he cared. Then, earlier today, he asked me how I was feeling about it still. He's just... I dunno. I like him, like, as a person. He's my friend - somehow.
Naturally, Mom, Dad, and Skye have no clue, and I'm definitely not telling my older sister - she'd rat straight to Mom and Dad.
I guess I'm kind of getting into being Demiveemon's 'partner,' but I still don't get what that entails. What's a Tamer, and why are we called that? It wasn't like I had to train him or anything. Maybe I'll think of some other name for it. But, like, what do 'Tamers' do? Why do digimon partner with people? How and why do they get here from the digital world? It's not like Demiveemon understands that; he's only three days old, even if he talks like he's years old - not many years, though, like 9 or something. In any case, I guess I'll figure it out, like it or not. It's not like I can just put the little guy on the street.
Like I said though, I'm kinda into it, even surprising myself. At least it's something to do, not to mention someone to talk to.
Why do I feel like I'm about to get in deep shit?
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Post by Leith, Veemon, and Shoutmon on Jul 7, 2018 18:17:08 GMT
Oh, so THAT'S why I felt like I was about to get into deep shit.
Note to self: trust my instincts more.
I wanted to head to A. East because I'd heard from Skye that was where the music scene in Shibuya was. Now that I actually know WHICH GODDAMN BUS to take to get there, I think I'll give it another shot once my phone recharges. Yeah, it's late, but it's not like I have school tomorrow. What would REALLY be awesome is getting another band together. Holy, shit, I'm getting excited just thinking about it! Anyway, not the point.
So I wanted to stroll around A. East. Clearly, that didn't work out. That's not the point either, though. The point is I met one, another one, a freak like me. A Tamer. And let me tell you, this chick was... let's use the word "interesting." I think that's more neutral and polite than "the scariest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life, even considering that an inter-dimensional alien popped out of a walkie-talkie and started following me around last week" (the word "interesting" is also a bit shorter, too). Any other time I would have given this chick a wide berth, but... well, she was on the bench I'd decided to sit down on when I got tired of wandering around lost. Man, what are the odds of another Tamer just bumping into another like that?
She had some really weird opinions about digimon, and I'm not sure I agree with all of them ("Digimon are never evil?" Yeah, right!), but we did approach a subject Veemon and I have been a curious about lately (oh, yeah did I mention? Veemon digivolved after all that. He got bigger and now has actual arms and legs instead of stubs. I wonder just how big he can actually get. That girl claimed they could be "ten times your size."): the digital world. Also, wow, a whole lot of that sentence was just a parenthetical, but there's no erasing pen. Whoops. Anyway, it sounds like it's not everything I thought it was. There are wild parts, apparently, like I thought, but there's also civilization, even cities.
My reasons to avoid going to the digital world seem to be falling apart, leaving not much left except my own personal apprehension. Veemon's the opposite; he wants to explore the whole place (yeah, sure, no big deal, it's only an entire other dimension). She seems to think I'll see what she means when I get there, and I guess there's something to that. I also figure maybe the real reason Tamers and digimon get paired might be found there. I dunno... I'll figure it out later.
In any case, I'd better figure out some excuse to explain why 'I'm' suddenly eating foods I didn't used to like, not to mention the quantities 'I' am eating them in. I only have until dinner before I'll be forced to look them in the eye and answer, so I better think fast. I hope other digimon don't go through food like Veemon does, like a goddamn drag queen goes through eye shadow. I don't even have a job yet!
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Post by Leith, Veemon, and Shoutmon on Sept 17, 2018 19:27:08 GMT
Turns out that weird chick from the bench was not an anomaly. Just these past couple days, other Tamers have started really coming out of the woodwork. I'm wondering if there isn't some force like Professor Greenbloom from Dragon Rider hypothesized, "One fabulous creature attracts another," except instead of magical creatures it's digimon. First off there's Adrian and his little friend Shoutmon, who's basically a red robot dragon with headphones (another sentence I can't believe I'm writing). I met him at that mall searching for band shirts (I was searching for band shirts, not him). Apparently, he was there for another reason: a little electric rabbit digimon called Elecmon. Turns out, he came all the way from the digital world to steal electricity from the building (yes, that's a thing). Since Adrian sucked at subtlety, I marked him as a Tamer pretty quick and ended up volunteering to help him hunt Elecmon down.
It didn't go well, which is weird to say because we won the fight and saved the day. Yay us. But the truth is Adrian did pretty much all the work. The time when I actually tried to be productive, we messed up the timing of the approach and just startled the mark. Adrian managed to send the thing back to the digital world anyway, but it sure wasn't because I helped. Still, you know what? I actually like those guys. We're actually gonna try and hang out some time when nobody is trying to zap us.
Things did not go so well with the other Tamer I met soon after at the mall. One Blake Ukirama. In a way, I can't blame that kid; for one, he's an American like me, but for two he was just meeting his digimon right before my eyes. I know the feeling. Still, we both damn near got arrested for trespassing because Viximon decided to show up in a closed store, which is why we had to erase cam footage to protect the secret of digimon and save our own hides. Frankly, I'm still terrified we might get caught on it, and writing it feels risky. That's basically a confession, after all.
Maybe thing'll calm down when I start figuring this shit out?
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Post by Leith, Veemon, and Shoutmon on Sept 17, 2018 19:40:38 GMT
Nope.
Met Blake again... unfortunately. Turns out that kid is just a damn magnet for trouble, especially trouble involving new digimon. Specifically, there was some Japanese guy (which makes sense, because Japan) loitering by the river. Being the good citizen I am, I stopped to make sure he wasn't about to throw himself in it, since I've learned there are even more reasons than most know of that such is an awful idea. But, no, then Blake had to show up. That's the story of how Veemon and I ended up chasing a cardboard box like under which another digimon hid (you know, skipping some unimportant parts in the middle). But it turns out she just led us in one big circle right back to the Japanese guy we first met. At least this one wasn't a rogue like Elecmon; she was this guy's partner. Like, how does this keep happening?
Well, he didn't take it well. Shocker. He actually backed up and landed in the river, in fact. Veemon and I were gonna try to run after him, but do you know what those dumbasses Blake and that Renamon did? They stopped me so that they could play hero and rescue the guy himself. Even worse, they failed. So now, those two are probably scared and confused in the middle of the digital world, and there's no way we can help them. I guess that's life, but I'm not gonna get fooled a third time. If this guy Blake tries to get near me again, I'm gonna keep him away by any means necessary.
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Post by Leith, Veemon, and Shoutmon on Sept 17, 2018 19:55:12 GMT
Oh, God... I can't even be funny or charming right now. There's basically nothing good to say about what just happened to me.
I was hanging around Miyashita Park because, well, I like playing guitar in public. Deal with it. But I got this mysterious e-mail from a 'Niko Sasanishi' while I did. She claimed to be a 'friend,' but she wasn't a very good one. Instead of telling me to meet her where she was, she instead told me to go to the train station, then to Terminus, and then to some nowhere spot out in the Network Plains. I mean, yes, I'm new to the digital world, but it's like she didn't even know I knew about it. Anyway, turns out this 'Niko Sasanishi' was at least who she said she was, a 16 (or something)-year-old girl with an Armadillomon partner.
She tried to kill Veemon.
It turns out this Niko has - had - a twin brother. Her brother was also a Tamer, because I guess that can run in a family? The odds spin my head, but she claimed Veemon, my partner, was formerly that of her dead brother. This resulted in a lesson on how digimon death works, and, well... I hate to admit it, but she was right. Not, like, the murder part, but the fact that her brother knew Veemon. The evidence points to the fact that when I picked up that digivice - her brother's - off the ground, it was no act of fate but pure coincidence. It could have been any sucker, or maybe she could have gotten there first. I'll talk about some of that evidence later.
Frankly, the only reason I survived is because I wasn't alone. Back at the park, some kid and his pair - yeah, two! -
of digimon were among a small audience I had attracted when a stray soccerball hit one. Turns out he was actually an Impmon in disguise called Bellamy while his twin brother was an Elecmon (boy, was that a startle) called Luke with a Tamer named Colin. Another coincidence became oppostunity, as I kinda tricked them into acting as my bodyguards for this little meeting. As bad as I feel about that, it paid off; this chick's digimon made it to ultimate, so I would have been utterly fucked if Colin didn't have my back. Funny enough, he got over it pretty quick.
But here's how I know she was telling the truth: after the battle, I met the digimon who was actually supposed to be my partner. Yeah, crazy, right? Colin taught me it's possible for two partners to hatch from one egg, but what I have is apparently more like one 'destined' partner and one 'coincidental' partner. Oh, the 'funny' part? It's actually a Shoutmon, though he doesn't look exactly like Adrian's.
TL;DR: Chick tried to murder me, got two digimon now.
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