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Post by Katsumi Hirata on Jun 12, 2023 14:52:32 GMT
Bee-di-beep! Bee-di-beep-beep! Bee-di-bi-bi-beep-beep!The noise played out a second time, and then a third. Katsumi muttered a string of nonsense before she mustered the gumption to open her eyelids, wondering where that godawful sound was coming from; it didn't take her more than a couple of seconds to realize that it was an alarm clock, and that she had set it the night before. That's right... That weird smartphone... Flapping her hand around until it touched the nightstand, Katsumi reached over and grabbed the device with extra prejudice, pulling it closer so that she could deactivate the annoying sound before it burned a hole into her eardrums. Was it six in the morning already? One look at the time was enough to provoke a mild groan from her, as Katsumi didn't feel like she received a restful night's sleep. Oh, well. It was time to begin her morning routine. Katsumi always began her day by applying a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, she uses a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and then an exfoliating gel scrub on her face. Afterwards, she applies a moisturizer, and then a final layer of protective lotion to keep her skin feeling soft and supple throughout the day. From that point, it was a simple matter of brushing and drying her hair out. Getting dressed for school was even easier, as Katsumi simply needed to wear a white buttoned shirt and a pleated black skirt with her school's navy blue blazer. A striped bowtie and knee-length socks would complete her look, as all students were required to change their shoes at the beginning and end of every school day. Once she had finished bringing her ensemble together, Katsumi would apply a final layer of powdered makeup to her face before tying in her late grandmother's hair ornament. It was then a matter of gathering her supplies from around the bedroom. Most of them were already tucked away inside her school bag, which made the collection process all the more simple, but Katsumi thought to hide the new smartphone within it so that she wouldn't arouse any suspicions from either Mom or Dad. Nobody ever bothered to check her things, anyway, so leaving out the front door ought to be child's play. She just needed to make sure to grab her lunch box on the way out. -------- After about an hour of morning pleasantries with her parents, Katsumi was off to school. Living in close proximity to the campus afforded her the luxury of walking there, whereas other students had to be ferried by trains or some other means of transportation. She had until 8:30 to arrive and get settled in. This gave Katsumi plenty of excuse to pull out the strange smartphone from her bag and begin playing around with its features some more, as the thought of doing so had danced around in her mind all morning. Bypassing the lock screen, she pushed a thumb against one of the listed apps, only for the screen to flash red. " Alert: User is not authorized to access this feature," spoke the phone in its usual manner of robotic sophistication. Katsumi hummed, " You won't let me access a lot of these features..." she complained, trying to open several other apps on the phone, only to have it tell her the exact same thing as before many more times. " Um... Give me a list of available functions again." A large percentage of the apps that were visible on screen had greyed out, leaving only the features associated with phone usage available. The girl hummed listlessly until a button labeled 'GPS' caught her attention. Oh, good! At the very least, she wouldn't be getting lost any time soon. Pushing the app, Katsumi watched in awe as a highly detailed, three-dimensional render of Shibuya suddenly sprung to life on her screen, showing every last element of the city in crystal clear fidelity. Floating at the center of the display was a single gold arrow pointing downwards, which Katsumi took to mean was her current position on the map. She could even perceive recognizable landmarks within the image, and saw that the school campus was not too far away from here. " How incredible..." Katsumi whispered to herself, causing the map to vanish with a swipe of her fingertips. For a mere taste of its potential, she had already begun to imagine what else the phone was capable of, and was eager to discover these things at her leisure. There was still about an hour and thirty minutes before school started. Maybe she'd eventually figure out why there were so many locked apps?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2023 16:49:20 GMT
It was a strange turn of events that Levi had found herself in the third world in the space of a week. First, she had been stuck in her undersea world; chained as a guard dog, and left to wallow in solitude. Then, after a chain of events that led to her chain being broken, she found herself on the surface world for the very first time.
In a city near the ocean, she met a hero after a robbery had occurred around her. Now, she was in a third place, full of strange fleshy creatures, and none of them wore bug-themed armor like the last one she had met.
Levi was hidden atop, one of the shop-front buildings that overlooked Shibuya. She stood on the wall with her little snout pressed over the side, and she looked down upon, this most strange world. A strange little shark creature lost in an unfamiliar world. The inhabitants looked very strange but seemed friendly enough. All of them would go about their daily activities much like a Digimon would. Buying from the shops that lined the streets, walking to their places of work, and talking amongst themselves. A lot of them seemed to be heading towards one particular building in the distance. Levi noted that most of these humans were in the younger age group.
She wanted nothing more than to go down there and wade around with them. But, she had learned from ‘Gramps’. The old elder Digimon, who had once ruled over the Sunken Elysium that the beings that inhabited this world were suspicious and would find sharks scary. Fortunately, she had been given an item called a ‘D-Terminal’ that would "supposedly" help her.
The small little device sat between her fins, like a shiny, white little computer device. Levi had no idea how it worked and merely shook it, twice. Nothing happened except a dull whirring noise. So she did it again. Once more, nothing happened. Slightly annoyed, she shook it for a third time. Before Levi had time to react, it slipped from her flippers. With a dull crash, it landed at her feet and let out a loud and horrible wailing noise.
Levi jumped down to pick it up, and it let out a violent flash, quite like a camera. The light blinded Levi, who fell backwards off the building and landed with a thunk in a pile of trash and cardboard boxes in a alleyway. Thankfully, it wasn't too far and was a soft landing. So no harm was done.
The little shark picked herself up and then moved over to the D-Terminal. Which continued to wail until she bent down to pick it up. Her hands closed over it, and it fell silent at once. Wait… hands?
Levi looked down and saw she had long, thin hands ending in fingers. She had arms, too. She was much taller, with long legs. She bent down to stare into a puddle at her feet and caught sight of her own face. It was pale and human, with short, messy gray and blue hair. She blinked, and her reflection did too. Then, to test it further, she opened her mouth to reveal rows of sharp shark teeth.
"A..." she muttered, as confusion settled over her. "Dat...is...shark?" Her long tail continued to sweep around her back. So that device had made her human, or was this just another odd dream?
Levi stepped out onto the street towards the rest of the humans into the bright sunlight as if to get a better view, away from the dank, shaded alley.
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Post by Katsumi Hirata on Jun 14, 2023 20:58:18 GMT
" Alert: User is not authorized to access this feature," said the talking phone-thing for what may have been the tenth time now, adding to the running tally that Katsumi had been keeping mental tabs over, but was quickly growing tired of. " This just seems like an awful lot of extra steps for you to tell me you can only do what a smartphone does," Katsumi complained in mild exasperation, shaking her head. It did seem mighty suspicious for a device that had all of these extra features and functions to restrict them from being used whatsoever. But why was she unauthorized? Were there requirements, criteria she needed to meet first? Feeling understandably discouraged from the repetition of her quest to uncover the device's buried secrets, Katsumi chose to give herself a break by opening the folder labeled 'Games', which produced a small handful of different selections that seemed identical to the ones found on most standard desktop computer systems. She had practically singled out the 'Chess' feature from within the list of games, and decided to give it a look while she still had some spare time. Opening the game treated her to a visual smorgasbord of high-fidelity graphics and sound designs that were unlike anything she had ever seen in a chess game before; it appeared to be set amidst a medieval fantasy backdrop and made references to what seemed like a greater plot of some kind, which was unusual for a chess game, as it had no story to tell apart from the battle of wits and resources that took place between White and Black. What made it so appealing to her, however, were the inclusion of two splash characters that visually appeared to represent the pawns of each color, complete with little visors and helmets to signify their ranking as small infantry. They must either be the mascots, or some kind of tutorial figures programmed to aid new players into acclimating to the rules of chess. Fully engrossed by the immersive quality of the app, Katsumi had to split her focus between the sidewalk and the screen, taking occasions to dart and weave through the oncoming crowds of passersby as she tried her best to play a short match between herself and the computer. In doing this, however, Katsumi had barely managed to catch glimpse of a presence emerging from a nearby alleyway, which had all but caused her to flinch the moment it came close enough to nearly collide with her form. She yelped abruptly, swiveling on her heels out of reflex so that the new figure could not bump into her, and eventually turned to bow her head in apology. " Oh, my goodness! I'm so sorry!" Katsumi blurted, before quickly turning back around to focus more intensely on making sure she could arrive to school on time. She was being vastly inconsiderate by trying to play games in a public space, anyway. so it had served to teach her a valuable lesson in delayed gratification. In her haste to return back to form and continue on her way to classes, Katsumi did not receive a good look at the figure she had nearly accosted, failing to realize that they were a small child wearing clothes that seemed to evoke the imagery of sharks, complete with a rather realistic-looking tail. In fact, one could even say that Katsumi had been too scatter-brained to pay any close attention.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2023 21:15:03 GMT
The now humanoid shark walked out from the alleyway, straight into suburban Shibuya. Pausing for a second to look at her own reflection in a shop front which was selling all manner of cosmetics and soaps. A round pale face looked back at her. Bright blue eyes blinked in time with her own. She looked nothing like how she used to look. Except for the fact that her teeth were sharp like her old-shark self and she still had a swishing shark tail behind her. This appeared to be drawing her several looks from passers-by for reasons she didn’t quite understand. Unperturbed, Levi merely smiled and waved at everyone who gave her odd looks.
Slowly as the crowd began to disperse, Levi continued down the street, failing to pay attention to her surroundings and to those who might run into, quite literally. Before she could stop herself, Levi fell backwards onto her butt, slightly dazed and confused. “A…” she said, rubbing her head which had collided with a box selling newspapers. Looking up, she caught sight of a black-haired girl. This girl was looking down at Levi with interest and confusion. Although, she didn’t quite understand why, this “holo-doodad” was supposed to make her be able to blend in to these human creatures. Had it not worked after all?
“Uh, hallow,” Levi muttered as she picked herself up. “I iz a Levi, who is the you?” She asked, pointing a finger at herself. Then she paused, remembering what Gramps had taught her. A look of deep concentration coursed over her face as she tried to remember his words. “Uhhhh...oh! Levi got it! I remember now!” She threw out her now tiny hands, barely visible under a long sleeve. Her body was now clothed by a shark-themed hoodie which appeared to be much too large for her but matched her new form.
“Uhhhh…. A…Nice to meets you! Les be frens, okay?” She said slowly, shaking the girls hands vigorously up and down. |
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Post by Katsumi Hirata on Jun 26, 2023 10:36:08 GMT
Before she could swivel on her heels to walk away, a small hand shot forth and grabbed one of Katsumi's, causing the girl to stumble in her endeavors to avoid losing balance as the smaller child began shaking it up and down with vim and vigor, introducing herself as 'Levi' using some manner of broken dialect. Perhaps she was still in early education? Whatever the case might have been, Katsumi simply couldn't allow herself the extra time to engage in conversation with someone else's youngster, but the thought of simply leaving this child unattended also rang as morally unsound to her, even if she had literally appeared out of nowhere. The responsible thing to do would have been to call the police and have them contact her parents. " Uhm..." There wasn't much that Katsumi could say to the other girl as she found herself being unceremoniously taken aback by her overly forward demeanor and utter lack of social graces. Part of her wanted to simply run away from the girl, especially after Katsumi was certain she had caught a glimpse of pointed teeth. Just perfect. Now she was going to run the risk of being late to school because somebody didn't think to watch over their child.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2023 20:50:01 GMT
For sometime, Levi continued to move the girl’s hand vigorously up and down. Her face alight with a brilliantly, bright smile which revealed all of her sharp shark’s teeth. Then, she let go, allowing the girls arm to drop to her side. Levi’s head tilted to one side as she looked at Katsumi with a confused look. She looked a little… taken aback?
Shrugging to herself, she stepped back taking the girl’s appearance in full. After all, this was the first human she had ever met and a moment like this shouldn’t be rushed. This girl was pretty with long black hair and sharp eyes. “I’ma Levi, like Levi said. Am Shaaaark!” Taking a pose like a shark with her hands bent like claws. Her tail wagged behind her as she spoke.
Levi had absolutely no idea that she was acting oddly, nor that her appearance or the extra parts of it were unusual for humans. “Can Levi be frens? Levi doesn’t have any friends, not the here anyways… maybe where Levi is from…”
“Levi could take you to the Levi home…Sunken Elysium but Levi struggle with that… you’ze so squishy…” She was babbling talking to herself more than to the girl who was standing before her, assumedly looking more and more confused by the second as the shark girl failed to note this.
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