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Going Nowhere Bright (Sho & Wakako)
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Post by Sho Tsuginaga on Jun 7, 2018 20:06:08 GMT
From an unraveling spiral of ethereal code fell a boy upon the chilled ground. The roughness of the place didn't exactly faze him as much as the breath he was trying to recollect as he climbed to his feet. This boy, with his hair swept aside and glasses slightly askew, was Sho. He sat against a wall to take in air and strength in the undying dark. Even as his eyes struggled to adjust, he was sure he'd be found by something that was searching...trying to get out just as hard as he was. Sho could barely rely on his mind anymore with this foggy hunger within him.
He'd gotten pushed in here while on another lousy expedition. His ability to survive was improved, but not enough to survive a good clawing by any kind of Digimon predator. Sho was beginning to turn ill and yet iller every time he had to run away. It was poison for his prideful heart. Just like all his desperate switching between Tsukaimon and himself was for his mind. He could hardly tell the difference within his own exhaustion and fear. What he did know is that they felt the same. They could be exactly the same despite the form.
Sho hadn't realized this until he was too tired to think consciously.
Sho started his brain up again with a single goal. Escape. He had to. He had to get out as quickly as possible, using someone or not, before anyone thought he was missing. He stood up with a long, suppressed, ghostly draw of breath that he was sure nothing could hear. Not even the echoey walls of the caverns that even the sound of his shifting feet could reach. Through the blurry sight of one lens, he examined his digivice before stowing it away.
He didn't have to think.
And it was going to be his best plan yet. He was sure that things that could hunt in here could survive here. And so could he. Sho just had to learn their ways. In the presence of the beast, he would release the animal. He took his shoes and socks off, putting them in his bag and continuing to walk through the dark. If he was quiet enough, these walls could pick up anything. Sho just had to find where that stopped. With heart and mind, he would succeed. All he had to hope was that he didn't run into anything that would kill him.
Silent steps and a leading hand outstretched moved him forward not even knowing who or what he'd find. A grin spread across his face as he continued to move through the cavern...oh how wonderful it would be to play the hero and lead someone out through will and sense alone. Plus he'd be learning how to lead himself and others out reliably. A digital survival skill he couldn't pass up. What an ingenious and rash place he's dumped himself in!
In fear, Sho learned to love how his heart and mind searched together...
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Post by Wakako Mozume on Jun 8, 2018 7:18:19 GMT
Wakako had many regrets in life... not telling her parents she loved them more or being more forceful in asking for them to make time for her, or just not being more outgoing when talking to people. She was only ten, yet she already felt way the burden of several weights pulling her down. The girl laid back against one of the cavern walls, frustration building up within as her only source of illumination was an oil lanturn a kind snowman-like Digimon offered to her.
She was lost... absolutely lost. The past week or so had been an incredibly fruitless effort in regards to her attempts at trying to leave this world once and for all, it seeming like nothing she tried was able to help. Digi-Ports fizzling out when she tries to enter them, Trailmon rides failing to ever get her back to Shibuya (often times ending up in random stops or even looping around by unknown means that left even the train Digimon baffled). Whether she liked it or not, it felt as if something was actively trying to keep her stuck in this cursed world... A highly-upsetting fact to the girl knowing that her parents were probably going delusional right now with her missing. She hated the feeling of people worrying over her... It made her feel weak and helpless.
The girl however was not the type to give up easily... While her attempts at getting home the most common ways seemed to be right now a bust, she had at least one interesting lead in the form of the strange black/pink device she found while rummaging through her bag during one of the failed trips on the Trailmon. She had no clue as to what it was beyond that it was called a D-Tector, but the quaint little device was right now her biggest lead for something... anything at this point more preferable than giving up.
With little more but a radar guiding her these caverns, this was one of the first times Wakako had actively ventured out into the wilderness of the Digital World. A bit scary with no Digimon to accompany her like most of the other humans here in the Digital World, but she didn't need one... she didn't need someone breathing down her neck or who needed to babysit her.
She'd find a way back home, one step at a time.
Still, things were rather discouraging right now. It felt as if she had been walking for hours in these caverns, she regretting not having at least some kind of map to keep her guided. How far did these tunnels go down...? More importantly, why was her D-Tector trying to bring her here?
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Post by Sho Tsuginaga on Jun 8, 2018 17:58:42 GMT
Steps were Sho's only radar, and he was having a hard time differentiating his own from any kind of other important noise. The beat of his unsettled blood was stopping him from moving at an inchworm's pace too...In less than a thought, Sho decided on some kind of short and vibrant scuttle across the ground, hoping his feet wouldn't get cut up while he did it. That scuttle was far easier to hear but less taxing on his mind. Thankfully, his focus was restored.
Now he could listen to that feeling.
The one that told him to go further along, to "feel" his way through rather than know it. He didn't need Tsukaimon for this, not at all! Sho was learning to appreciate this cool excitement. Nothing like what he felt back home or in a classroom. No, this danger is what he was led to, and what he would brave if he wished to leave this place. But who else was braving it? He'd met a few, and now he was listening, hoping to find one more. And yet he wasn't even sure if he was being drawn to them or if he just had a knack for finding just the right person.
So he decided to stop.
Now it was time to really listen, and for anything and everything around himself to do just the same. The change in pace would surely cause some to question. He sat nearby, with his head near the wall while he retrieved his digivice. Listening and slightly hoping for anything and anyone. Maybe something that would chase him out to hunt him easier, or someone looking for an exit themselves. He would wait and depending on their answer, scare them out of their wits or otherwise trick them.
He wasn't sure which part of him was thinking this. Maybe it was both.
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Post by Wakako Mozume on Jun 10, 2018 0:22:08 GMT
While the lamp Wakako had offered valuable light to pierce through the cold darkness of the caverns, she was trying to becareful with how much she was using. If it ran out while she was still down here, she would have been put into an extremely bad spot, which was why she was being very careful to measure out how much oil she had left.
In a weird way, it was interesting to be so disconnected from the outside world... It was as if she was isolated into her own little slice of the land, not another soul lurking down here with her.
At least that was somewhat what she hoped. The girl for a moment seemed to flinch as she stood back up, taking care to make sure she was not forgetting any of her belongings... For a moment swearing that she heard unfamiliar noise echoing across the cavern halls.
... No wait, it probably was just nothing. Who else would actively be wandering around abandoned cave systems like these as well? Unless these caverns weren't as abandoned as she previously thought. The girl shivered slightly at that thought, though carried on down the path... carefully holding the lamp outward to help illuminate where she was going... the girl pulling out her D-Tector and glancing down at the radar function for it, trying to discern how to find her way to the strange blip the device was pointing her towards.
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Post by Sho Tsuginaga on Jun 10, 2018 15:06:23 GMT
Hearing the echo of someone nearing ever closer was easy. It was so quiet in this place that one could barely imagine a ghost haunting this place. Sho continued to sit in idle, anxious wait, peeking his eyes around the corner whenever he could. He began to fiddle with his digivice, taking the time to make some kind of other recognizable noise. If there was anything human in here they'd surely be able to recognize something different about the taps and slight beeps of such a toy. Unless it was something more to them...like the sound of a Digivice.
They had to know that each other were there, right?
That something else was in this cave, and they each heard the echo of their path. If he knocked upon the cavern walls, they would follow. They would get right here, then they could both get out. After all, who would ever stalk around here normally if they weren't looking to kill something? This place was for getting lost and for getting others lost alone. That meant that Sho could think of this differently. He could take in that fresh optimistic thought of having to work together with someone else.
"Hello? Anybody there? Is this my imagination or not?"
Sho sounded off, hoping whatever was there would hear him. The anticipation of a response, or some other plan to escape was welling up from within. He was sure that no matter what happened he'd be ready for another evolution if he just held onto that anticipation, readying and surely trying to steady his hand in the freezing cold of the caverns. As long as he heard their steps, he'd be okay. He took a bigger breath to fuel a single whisper to himself. That he could do this.
That Sho, the human, could do this.
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Post by Wakako Mozume on Jun 12, 2018 1:26:51 GMT
Wandering amid the darkness, Wakako felt small and vulnerable... more so than her own liking. She never had a fear of the dark, but that was because she was always in the comfort of her family's home... Here though? She was alone and only had her belongings and her own wits to get her out of a bind. She was confident that'd be enough, but it still led to an itch in the back of her head.
Oddly though, she kinda liked that she was alone. She wasn't the type who was really that outgoing, so it was somewhat on the nice side that she had time to think to herself. She just kinda wished it wasn't so quiet...
Lo and behold though, a voice called out from the darkness... Wakako flinching as her eyes widened, her heart skipping a beat briefly. "...? Y-yes? I'm here...!" the girl called out to the voice, trying to head the direction they came... their lanturn hopefully giving both parties a chance to see the other. Frankly, she was happy just to hear someone down here... ANYONE really would have been nice.
Well... Not anyone, but the voice didn't sound mean to Wakako. They just sounded like another person, probably just as lost as she was. Another adult like miss Yukiko? Well, if they were in the same boat... maybe they'd both be able to help eachother out? Two heads after all worked way better than one...
It did somewhat make Yukiko wish she had a Digimon partner like Yukiko had with Mizu at a time like this though... someone who could talk to her and make her feel better. It felt so lonely being on her own like this.
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Post by Sho Tsuginaga on Jun 12, 2018 14:32:25 GMT
Nervous, desperate, and most certainly lost. All things Sho believed he could gather from the girl's voice from a simple "Yes", and a little bit of intuition. It'd be the same kind of thing you could gather from his slight yelp when she rounded the corner with her lantern and lit up his face. She'd be finding a bedraggled boy with his hair slipping astray towards his face and springing up in strays around his slightly crooked glasses. Cold like this would make any lone human pale, but in his short sleeved monochrome shirt, he looked absolutely lanky. Out of place in every way.
'Cept for the digivice he slowly put up into his pocket. The bulky one whose weight let him slip in without expending himself. "H-Hello there. I didn't actually think you'd be t-that close." The sudden radiance of the lantern seemed to even unsettle his words. Continuing to sit against the cavern wall, he gave a meek little wave of his hand. "I'm S-Sho. Glad to find someone else to m-make it out with. It's quite reassuring actually..." He fell to a whisper, his words turning into a sly chuckle he couldn't hold back.
"S-Sorry, I was just thinking of the luck I had to find someone else..." He began to warm up his hands, figuring he'd been long enough outside of his Digimon form to need that extra heat. "To be perfectly honest, I wondered if I'd h-have to fly away a-again...Hm?"
Something caught his eyes while he was staring ahead at her. The lantern could've barely obscured it with it's glare, but that shape was so unmistakable to him now after using it for this whole time. It rested in her other hand...A digivice like his! "Y-You have the same ability I do...right?" came his mousey inquiry, using his hand again to rumage out his device like clockwork, showing it off.
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Post by Wakako Mozume on Jun 12, 2018 22:05:44 GMT
The voice as it had turned out was far closer than she expected, both parties meeting up with one another fairly quickly... Wakako actually mildly caught off-guard. Well... He didn't look like an adult, just an older boy. Admittingly, she has not had much experience with people who weren't her age or who were adults, but they were definitely older than her. Frankly, it seemed kids her age were actually pretty rare as far as she could tell here in the Digital World... Though in a way, maybe that was for the best? This world wasn't a place for kids like her.
"S-Same. It's really dark down here..." the girl mused a bit awkwardly, she at least not alone it seems in awkwardness. Still, it did leave Wakako wondering as to why were they were down here as well. She normally was hesitant to talk to strangers, but here in this world... everyone was one. Still, they at least seemed nice... plus thankful to meet someone else. "Wakako Mozume... Are you lost here too mister Sho?" she ended up asking, at least wanting to try to get straight to the point.
As Sho spoke, Wakako briefly set down the lanturn to rub her hands... Even down in these caverns, the cold air of outside was trapped... Frankly, she wished that her current clothes were more warm, but she was too broke to afford anything new yet.
More curiously though was some of the next few things Sho spoke of... Something about flying, and what did he mean exactly by her having the same ability as him? As far as she knew, she didn't exactly have any abilities... Actually more importantly, why was he assuming she had any? Frankly, none of that added up in the girl's book, a slightly skeptical look on her face. "...? Ability? What...? Is getting lost an ability?" she spoke, a genuine tone of confusion in her voice.
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Post by Sho Tsuginaga on Jun 13, 2018 3:16:50 GMT
He blinked. Sho seemed to be seeing all of the Wakako's qualities now, at least past just the device she held in her hand. Looking ahead, he decided to push through options on his device while trying to muster up that one singular goal in his mind again. "Yes. Y-Yes I'm lost." saying that to her just reminded him of that again no matter how squirrelly it sounded in the cold. He'd warmed up his hands well enough to at least attempt to show her. They seemed to both be a pair of aliens in this landscape, hopefully sharing the same ability to help each other...
"Well, while I'm not usually so great at getting lost..." He mused with a warm chuckle, outstretching his Digivice and his other hand while that ringlet of blue code began to encircle his hand once again. "Th-This is what I've b-been using to better s-survive." And with that, he struck the code like a match in the darkness.
And from the encircling cocoon of code, came a purple and piggish bat creature. One Sho, of course, knew as Tsukaimon. It held itself, spinning as it flapped its wings twice. "Brrr! It's s-s-so much colder when I'm tiny like this..." that mousey voice from before shrunk into a much more impish texture, plopping down on the cavern floor and wrapping itself in its bat-like wings.
"Th-this is the ability I was t-talking about...I kind of n-n-needed it to see in here, so I thought it'd b-be more exciting to show you." The small creature shivered and shook, slowly inching closer to the lantern with a sigh. "Ah...Anyway, it's not so d-dark for me anymore. But I'm still Sho in here." The creature nodded, looking up at Wakako with it's beady stuffed animal eyes.
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Post by Wakako Mozume on Jun 16, 2018 15:28:01 GMT
Honestly, it was perhaps odd for her to think this... but it was kinda comforting to know she wasn't the only one lost down here. Even people older than her weren't perfect, and that helped make them a bit more human at least to Wakako. "It's okay... I get a lil' lost too sometimes too even back home without my mom helping me." she softly spoke, at least somewhat apologetic. Sure they were in a completely different world, but the overall idea was the same.
For a moment, Wakako was unsure as to what Sho was talking about... though she was aware enough to recognize the machine in Sho's hand as looking like the same kind of model as her own... though the following action they took shocked the girl as their form was replaced by what Wakako would have been willing to describe as "a purple bat-hamster jellybean". The girl's eyes widened, shocked by the sudden metamorphosis.
"W-Wow... Y-your adorable!" the girl gawked as she bent down slightly to be more eye-level with Sho, they confirming their identity. It shouldn't be possible... but it was! They weren't human anymore... so did that mean they became a Digimon? "Wait... Did you become a Digimon mister Sho? Is... Is that really possible?" she ended up asking, finding the concept hard to believe.
Did... Did that mean she could do the same? It didn't feel like she could... the D-Tector she had seemed to have limited functionality, but here she was... having just witnessed a human turn into a digital guinea pig. This was just utterly bizarre, even, compared to everything she has seen so far.
Was this really the power they were talking about?
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Post by Sho Tsuginaga on Jun 18, 2018 13:27:00 GMT
Quite adorable, yes, quite adorable! The thought filled his digital body as he began to bow with both his wings and stubby legs, holding a tiny arm outstretched. "Thank you, thank yo-" Sho stammered as he tripped and fell onto his face, growling a small bit as he sat up again, somewhat annoyed that his growl still sounded like a mouse's growl. After batting cavern dust away from its face it looked up towards Wakako again, cocking its head at her expression.
It was still Sho there, after all, still that sly little boy in digital form.
"Yes, I a-a-am a digimon n-now. I'm g-glad it isn't s-such a terrible s-shock. If anything, I r-really hope that you'd know how t-to use that d-d-digivice." Sho muttered towards her, making sure she could hear while he tried to rub his wings across his sides to warm himself up. His eyes blinked and widened again when he thought of how she mentioned her mother. That alone made him begin to speak with some vague determination. "It w-would probably r-really help y-you here. I can see in the dark, and fly a bit as a Tsukaimon, s-so it's kept me alive here." Sho continued...
He hoped that she was able to turn into something that could help him too, but Sho barely even knew how to help her evolve. That connection was hers and hers alone, after all. "How did y-you get that device anyhow? Did y-y-you feel anything when you got it?" Sho questioned, rising above her to look around in the not-so-dark he could see in this form, watching for anything that could make this place less abandoned than it needed to be.
"I'm still new to th-this, but I k-know that I'm able t-to do this by f-focusing on a certain f-feeling. Or a w-w-will..." Sho explained drifting down onto the cavern floor again. "So what's yours?"
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Post by Wakako Mozume on Jun 24, 2018 21:06:35 GMT
Even now, Wakako couldn't help but try to avoid letting out a slight giggle at Sho's little display. They were certainly far less intimidating in such a form... they honestly looked more like a toy frankly if anything.
Still though... this was somewhat of a revelation, wasn't it? If what Sho was saying was true, it should have been possible... right? At the same time, she wasn't even sure how to do it... He sorta just waved his hand by their Digivice and magic(?) happened? "I-I'd hope so... That does sound... Useful I guess?" she murmured, for a moment trying to motion her hand by her Digivice as well, though to seemingly no effect.
... Man, why did people have to make this kind of stuff look so easy?
"It sort of just came with the whole package... One minute I was home, the next here at a desert. It was just in the lump of stuff that came with me." she ended up responding, though shook her head at Sho's words about feelings. Was there a feeling when she found it...? If there was, it must have been washed away by her prior confusion and fears of this new world. "... No, I didn't feel anything. Was... Was I supposed to?" they somewhat hesitantly asked... wondering if maybe her Digivice was broken. Or maybe it was her fault...? She wasn't even sure now...
"H-However...! I been following this lil' radar on my Digivice, and that led me all the way down here... I mean, I thought maybe it'd lead me to like my Digimon partner, but could it be for...?" they quickly spoke up, trying to toss out a potential idea. She wasn't sure if that were the case... but it couldn't have been a coincidence it led her down here, could it been?
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Post by Sho Tsuginaga on Jun 24, 2018 21:41:43 GMT
Fluttering up to eye level with Wakako, Sho began to observe and listen, waving his hind legs about to create more heat for himself. This girl was just dumped in a desert and got lost here all the same? It seemed like getting delt a good hand of cards in this world was harder than it looked. Yet, it was all the more motivation to keep him moving along, and to get his gears turning on how to get them both out of here. It wasn't like he could stay still for long in this form anyway.
"I-I'm not so sure about what was supposed to happen myself. Sorry, I guess I was j-just assuming. I mean I nearly got struck by lightning when I was this little thing for the first time!" Sho continued, trying to lighten things up before continuing. If they were somehow unlucky, this place would surely bring it out anyway. "If anything, I feel like these devices respond to purpose if anything...A real need f-f-for their power." He began to flutter out from the corner, further inspecting before returning again.
He fluttered and hovered in the air, blinking for a moment while a detail came back to him. She'd been following a radar into this place, and if it wasn't attracted by his own digivice, then where was this thing leading her? Was it trying to get her into a position where she could unlock her power? Sho shuddered, a bit from the cold, and a bit from how unsettling the prospect of that outcome was.
"If I d-do know anything though...I don't think w-we have partners. I mean becoming a digimon might be fantastic enough, but you're still the only other person I've seen with that device..." That impish voice was beginning to be colored estatic with that realization. "So whether you wanna get out of here, or keep following that signal, I think it'd be smarter if we were partners for the time being!" Sho proposed, still feeling like his human body would be too weak for this kind of stuff to switch back anyway. Why was that part the weakest...?
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Post by Wakako Mozume on Jun 25, 2018 20:40:18 GMT
While Wakako, it did seem Sho didn't have quite all the answers about everything here himself. It seemed whatever power their Digivices had worked in mysterious ways, ones that were not completely clear to either party. A bit scary, but at the same time their Digivices was maybe all they had to guide them right now...
If this power would help her to find a way home, than she had no choice but to TRY and claim it.
However, it did slightly sadden Wakako that she likely was not to get a partner of her own. She remembered how that woman with the Betamon when she first arrived at the Digital World seemed extremely close to their partner... Honestly, she was somewhat envious of that. Being lost in an unknown world would have been so much easier if she had someone to talk to... "S-Same. The only other Digivices I've seen looked smaller and different... So maybe what you are saying is true?" she quietly spoke, glancing at her own somewhat hesitantly.
However, she was caught off-guard by the hamster-ish Digimon... well, human in Digimon skin's sudden display of ethusiasm. While she normally was hesitant about actively starting up friendships purely out of shyness, the Tsukaimon looked so excited at the prospect of them temporarily working together. Honestly... she'd have been lying if she said she didn't like that idea. The girl's eyes glistened slightly, a slightly hopeful smile popping up on their face. "R-Really? You'll... You'll help me find ?" she asked, for a moment unsure if that possibility was actually real or not... Though they seemed actually genuinely excited to have someone to talk to. "I... I do want to see what's in these caverns... If it'll help me unlock that power of yours or help be find a way home, I have to do it... right?"
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Post by Sho Tsuginaga on Jun 26, 2018 15:13:30 GMT
Some small terror burrowed its way into Sho's heart, or core, or whatever Digimon had beating inside them that told Sho that he'd taken one step closer to fear. The way he blinked and cocked his head in the air only gave way to a good nod from him, and whatever tiny giggle he could do as a Tsukaimon. "To survive, it seems like we'll have to follow that signal. Sounds like we have a plan, Wakako!" Sho claimed, doing an aerial flip to get the energy out of him.
The Digimon he was may be showing happiness and glee, but the human within could only wither without a reason behind their shock. There was something he recognized in that necessity to find power, something that slowly filled him with that ever-sickening feeling of freedom. "You have a radar on your device, don't you?" Sho continued, fluttering in front of Wakako once again beginning to round the corner. "Since I can s-see with these fabulous eyes of mine, you'll have to be guiding me...Does that sound right?" He posed slightly to call attention to them while he prepared himself for the long fly, slowing the flutter of his wings.
He began to gaze around the corner that he'd soon fly past before checking back on his newfound partner. He was slowly getting his brain back, after all. "Just so you know...I don't exactly know what we're looking for." Sho admitted, gliding with his arms crossed. He never had to search for anything, but maybe he would in due time.
But if that was true, what Wakako was looking for may be an even greater source of power.
That was the fear. He knew it clearly now, so clearly that he hoped that Wakako was more resolute than him any day..."Let's be smart about this, okay?" Sho asked, or rather pleaded, not wanting to be crushed.
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