Return to Sender [Maia/Kai]

    That seemed like a lot for the girl to remember. She didn't even know what made the Digimon go from one level to another. "They sound like those virtual-game pets," she pointed out, still petting the purring Digi. Maia kind of hoped that whatever she got would make purring sounds too. It was pretty cute. "I didn't mean anything by it," the girl tried to mend her offer of grooming products to Kuro, "sometimes it's just nice not to have to worry about keeping your fur pretty by yourself!" She had debated going further into some sort of appeal with the less friendly seeming 'mon, but decided that maybe she just needed to warm up to her a bit. Somehow.

    "So, there are a lot of these creatures running around?" Maia let out a small sigh, thinking about it. Japan was so weird. She had never seen or heard anything about these things there. It seemed like, if they were outside of Japan, she would have at least encountered one of them knowingly. Then again, leaving the house wasn't something she had often been given much option to do. What if they were all over the world, and she had just been blind to them?

    It became quite unsettling that nobody stepped up to admit to touching the weird egg. She didn't really think any of them would have wanted to touch it, anyway. Heck, it was on the couch because Maia, herself, was kind of scared to hold onto it! But, now, it shifted again, falling to its side, before rolling. Before the girl could even open her mouth to say something, it fell off the couch and hit the ground with a solid crack! Amber eyes went wide, looking to Kai for some sort of answer to what had happened. One was received soon enough, though, as a "mrphhh," groaned out from the very-damaged bottom of the egg.

    In their neighborhood? How was she so blind to these things that she didn't even know that two people had these weird pets? This was concerning her, greatly. She debated on asking who it was, but it wouldn't matter anyway. There was no chance she knew anyone else in the area if she didn't even know the guy across the street. "I think I need to go outside more," she mumbled. Though, then it posed the question on if she was the last one to get invited to this crazy-mutant-pet party.

    It was still more pressing, though, that the egg was now on the floor, damaged, and groaning. Shiro seemed the most excited about this, and Maia was still having a hard time comprehending what was going on. "It's hatching? Well, at least the girl didn't have to find out how to take care of it until it hatched, anymore. But, it didn't really continue hatching, instead wiggling, and making frustrated huffs every few seconds, before a ridiculous "help!" cried from the cracks, and toppled the egg to a less damaged side. This was seriously going to be the start of her 'Tamer' career? A creature that couldn't even figure out how to escape a thoroughly cracked egg?

    Maia shuffled over to the egg, giving her neighbor an embarrassed glance, before reaching down to lift the egg, which simply bottomed out to the small amount of weight that wiggled inside. A little, white puff-ball floated to the ground, before happily bouncing between the Digimon that was greeting him, and his new human. How exciting! For it. For Maia, this was still terrifying. "You are... not a cat," the girl pointed out, rather quickly. This would make it harder to convince her parents that it was a pet-friendly animal.

    "Nope! I'm a Pafumon!" the dust-bunny-thing shouted, back, still bouncing with excitement.

    Pafumon was ecstatic, bouncing at the introductions. Though, he really didn't stop bouncing anyway. This was too exciting to stop moving for! Finally, he turned to Maia, and lunged at her, causing her to let out a small squeak, and stumble to catch the dustball. "This is my human! Have you all met my human?" Pafumon tried to travel onto his tamer's shoulder, but she made a point to stop him from scrambling everywhere. "Of course you all have - I haven't! This is a problem!" The digimon was more-or-less rambling at this point, simply out of excitement, but instead of turning to Maia, now eyes went to Kai. "Who are you?!" he shouted, fluffing up a little, before squirming from Maia's arms and leap-floating at Kai, in an attempt to be caught again.

    Maia, on the other hand, was still relatively motionless, mouth dropped. This thing was a little canon! There was no way that she was going to be able to babysit this thing! "Does a digivice help control this thing at all?" the girl panicked, making rapid motions at the impossible to handle digimon. Next thing she knew, he'd probably be trying to eat her stuff. "Cause I'm not sure I want it if it means I have to take responsibility for whatever he breaks," she pointed out. At least with the digimon out of her hands, she had time to check her pockets. Her phone was still in tact, though she tried not to touch the thing too long for it to not be. "So, if I don't have a digivice, what does that mean? Do I pack him back in the box, and hope someone picks him up?"

    "I'm a non-refundable package, I'll have you know!" the digimon squealed, still attempting to catch the attention of the male tamer. "Did your digimon come in a box, too?

    "What's the point in the digivice, then?" Maia sighed, trying to watch Pafumon, while still paying attention to everything else going on around them. "It's so you'll love me," was Pafumon's very casual response, floating over to Maia's tea, and downing the entire thing in one drink, "this is hot!" he shrieked, flailing, then making his way to Shiro. He was also very excited that other digimon were around, so maybe his tamer was already used to the creatures. Not that it looked like that were the case, but one should stay positive!

    All that the girl could feel was her mind overloading again, and began to rub her forehead. "You don't sound very confident about it maturing," she pointed out, with a small gesture toward Shiro, who was now the sole focus of her own tiny Digi. "If anything else was in the box, it should have been a manual," the blonde added, before quickly making her way to the box, which sat by the door. "I don't... Oh!" Sure enough, she pulled out a small item, with purple grips. She was going to try to ignore the fact that Kai had potentially mentioned yet another Tamer. Or it was the one from the neighborhood. She really wasn't sure how many people Kai knew. Maybe it was something that happened when people got a Digimon, they'd just join some sort of dumb club. "I don't know what to do with it, though," she pointed out, looking over the entire device, before gesturing with it to Kai.

    "Wow!" Pafumon gaped, until Kuro pointed out that Shiro had lied. Still, it had to be pretty cool if they didn't get shipped to Japan! He debated on prying, but instead, found himself hurrying to the box in which he had come in, leaping inside after the Digivice was extracted, and exclaiming, "this is my box!"

    "So, I'm going to be tired all the time?" the girl asked, as she began pushing the buttons on the device. It didn't really seem to do anything. There wasn't even a beeping sound when she hit the buttons. Maybe she needed to charge it or something before using it. She decided to figure that out by herself, later on. "And you keep saying that it makes them grow," she pointed out, "why, exactly, do they need to grow? What triggers growing?" They didn't just eat a lot and get fat? He had explained rankings to her, but she still wasn't exactly sure what ranks did for the digimon.

    Pafumon decided to take this as an opportunity to add in his own comments, bouncing around, onto the back of the couch, and then leaping onto Maia's shoulder to add, "it's all so you'll love me!" before whirling off, and floating down to the ground. Sweeping across the floor, he went to interact with the other digimon again, "have you gone on lots of adventures?" The little puff began squirming around, looking between the twins. He hoped they had stories. He wanted to hear about how awesome being with a tamer was!

    Taking a deep breath, Maia began to realize how uncomfortable everything probably was for Kai. He had just wanted to go to the park for the day, and ended up in a stranger's house, trying to explain digital beings that wanted to be house pets. It had to be frustrating, and all she was doing was asking him question after question. "I'm sorry," she finally threw in, "I probably shouldn't have forced you to explain all of this stuff." Turning a little, she got a better look at Pafumon, who now had his tongue on the floor, as if tasting it, still awaiting stories from the other Digimon in the house. That couldn't be healthy.

    Her neighbor's answers were not necessarily uplifting. If only it had just been a plain old cat in the box. That would have been perfect. But, no, it was a mysterious alien-thing. Though, in all fairness, a cat being mailed to her would not be animal-friendly. Not that mailing an egg was. She still couldn't figure out how it managed to make it to her doorstep unscathed. And, to imagine what the shipping would have cost to get such an item to her door!

    Pafumon was enthralled with the tales that Shiro was telling, wiggling with joy. "You're exciting!" he announced, gleefully. He wanted to go on adventures, too! Maybe, he could convince his tamer to take him to do awesome things! He needed to get bigger, first, though. "I can't wait 'til I digivolve, so I can be awesome too. Can we all go on adventures together then?"

    "Ah," Maia's attention turned to the digimon for a second, "I did not agree to adventures. I didn't agree to any of this stuff!" With a wag of her finger at Pafumon, he deflated a little, before perking up with a "I'll change her mind!

    But, Maia had already turned back to her conversation with Kai. "So, you don't know how to get him to... whatever stage it was that you told me to wait for, before talking to my parents about him?" There was a pause, debating, then turning to Pafumon for a second, "hey, are you a 'him'? What do I call you?" This just triggered the little digimon to puff up his chest, along with most of his body, and attempt to bellow, "I am Pafumon! I will adventure!" without really providing an answer to her question. Male pronouns it was, then.

    Still, the blonde felt bad for dragging the other tamer into her dilemma. "Well, thank you," she started, "you know a lot more about this than I do." She'd have to make him cookies or something, sometime, to thank him. If he even liked things like that, considering he had rejected her offer of just about anything when he had entered the house.