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An Unfortunate Beginning (Vetina/open)
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Post by tridoriyaku on Jul 23, 2014 16:49:13 GMT
Despite the title of the thread which Yaku was blissfully unaware of, his day was going swimmingly. He'd gotten the day off, so he did what every man did in the morning: Sleep until ten. Following that, he had time to enjoy his brunch with his wife, being able to finally tell her about how lovely her cooking is to her face. After spending that time together, Yaku said goodbye and went to the River to meet Vetina. As you'd probably guess, this ended with the two entering Terminus City. The keyword of the opening sentence being "was".
As he looked at the large, chilling, warped city he grew uncomfortable. Perhaps it was the fact his soul, body, mind, and presence had been changed into data on what boiled down to a large internet site filled with creatures that could, in the bat of an eye, devour all of them and add what was once he to their body without the comfort of knowing what happened in the afterlife. Perhaps it was how the city looked like a Dali-esque version of a human city, the skyscrapers appearing to literally scrape at the sky, revealing code and an unnatural green hue, the streets warping and winding without even turning at any point, signs misspelled, misplaced, misshapen, or just plain missing, the world around him looking... different, as if he was a fictional character and an entirely different writer had been given the job to write what he saw now.
Not to mention the creatures he saw, varying from looking like normal creatures like bears or seals, to some that looked like the epitome of beauty or strength such as a group of (what appeared to be) angels, to corruptions of the human form, looking like demons or imps scampering about causing trouble to any and all they felt like bothering, to... things. Creatures that looked like computer monitors, creatures that looked like piles of dung, creatures that looked out of a demented children's cartoon, creatures looking like they'd taken a massive blade to the skull, creatures looking like scarecrows, creatures that looked like walking suits of armor, so on and so forth.
Yaku's reaction, like many before him, unprepared for this confusing and mystical world, was to cower behind the closest digimon he felt safe with, that one being Vetina. "I-I think I've seen enough..."
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Post by Palmon, The Vetina on Jul 23, 2014 18:04:11 GMT
For his sake, Vetina had remained in her Ranamon form as she took Yaku to the digital world. It might have taken some... convincing to get him to step through the portal, but here they were. And Yaku was so scared he couldn't do much but cower behind her. She simply chuckled, figuring he would have made it a tad farther than here before begging to go back.
"Okay, okay, I'll concede that you saw as many sights to the best of your stability. However, the portal we traveled was unidirectional. But do not worry, the portal back to your realm, also unidirectional, is located in this city as well. But this requires some walking, and some exposure. And hope of a meeting 'tween you and my other friend is rain checked. Anyway, align close to me and you'll be fine... is this within your handling ability?"
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Post by tridoriyaku on Jul 23, 2014 18:37:22 GMT
He nodded. "Y-yeah, I'll try that... just, please don't do anything weird... I don't need anything affecting me... a-and maybe finding another human would be nice... can we do that?" The businessman asked, carefully adjusting himself again so he could try and stay completely behind her.
This was humiliating, hiding behind what amounted to a little girl, but it was better this than his head on a pike. He wondered what "other friend" she was referring too, if she (or he?) was as appreciative of humans as she was, if she/he was as kind as she was... and if they'd be willing to join them for lunch some time.
He briefly pondered how these beings were able to evolve to the point of resembling basic identifiable creatures, how many of them were in their true form or just faking like Vetina was, and how long they've been about in general.
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Post by soveliss on Jul 24, 2014 17:11:24 GMT
It has probably been about a week since Kirsten had last bothered to go back to the human world. Or rather a week or digital world time, which was a little bit more wibbly-wobbly in timescale than human time was. All this meant was that she wasn’t 100% sure of how long she’d been away properly, but it had probably been quite a long time by now.
She was a little bit more of a mess now, than when she’d first arrived. As it turned out, it was fairly difficult to find a decent hairbrush in the digital world, at least one which didn’t talk, or wasn’t covered in the fur of an unknown species. As a result her hair was fairly done in by this point, matted a little bit, and generally a little bit more tattered than anyone would want.
She’d spent a lot of her time just wandering around the city, looking for things to do. Things had been fairly chaotic since she’d panicked and ran here, and it was probably a good thing that the Veemon she’d been renting a room to sleep in from accepted pieces of string.
She was simply walking down of the streets, Zarph in her hands, when she noticed another human. This was a little bit more uncommon, she hadn’t seen that many humans since she’d arrived. Immediately she proceeded to beeline towards him, bursting into the conversation with a little bit more authority than she’d expected.
”Hi, what are you doing here?”
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Post by tridoriyaku on Jul 24, 2014 17:39:25 GMT
Panicking and jumping away, Yaku hid behind Vetina, but sighed when he realized it was only a teenage girl. "Don't scare me like that..." He replied in japanese, adjusting his suit and tie. He bowed at her, giving her a traditional greeting as he held onto his briefcase with one hand. "Hello, I am Tridori Yaku. I am sorry that I did that. I have only just gotten here... it is good to see another human being." He smiled gently, before noticing Zarph. "...A rabbit? Or is it one of these Digimons?" He asked, before looking at her. She didn't appear to be japanese, judging by the color of her skin and what she'd said to him. He briefly pondered if there were shortcuts to places other than japan in this world, or at least, from them. If there were, he could take his wife on such extravagant vacations without worry of money or being molested by airport officials... then of course they'd have to explain why they only had yen and not what the local currency was... but now his mind was wandering.
"This is Vetina. She's showing me around, I am new here, as I told you." He smiled again, hoping she understood at least a little of what he'd said because he had no clue what she had. He blinked, looking closer and noticing how she looked a bit disheveled. "...How long have you been here?" He asked, hoping she'd answer something longer than he'd ever hope to stay, even with his wife accompanying him.
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Post by Palmon, The Vetina on Jul 24, 2014 22:01:03 GMT
Vetina had to admit... watching this human, who was larger than her, cower behind her was quite amusing. But she got him here, and currently intended to get him back home before he embarrasses himself more beyond a few eyes who assumed the duo was some tamer pair.
"Hee hee. Aye, Yaku, come along. None shall lay harm onto you. Any threats I'll neutralize."
After some walking, Yaku got his desire to see another human. After he was scared behind Vetina again. Once Yaku introduced himself, Vetina was about to speak... until she saw run towards her. A familiar blue lizard; a maskless Flamedramon with long silver hair ran to them, calling out to...
"Vetina! So you were in the human world. Look, we gotta go!" She stopped in front of the Ranamon, who looked surprised to see her. The lizard continued. "Cripes I've been waiting for you since yesterday! Come on, I got info that one guy!"
"You... did?" Was all Vetina said, looking more disappointed than anything, much to the lizard's surprise.
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Post by soveliss on Jul 24, 2014 23:25:14 GMT
Kirsten was a little bit taken aback by the formality of this other human. He was certainly older than she was, and really looked a lot more like a businessman, than the average teenager who was normally running rampant through the digital world. He was wandering around with a digimon, so he probably belonged here. Zarph was still sleeping in her arms, like he normally did. He typically didn’t wake up until it was really convienient.
”Yeah, Zarph’s a digimon. He just spends most of his time asleep though. My names Kirsten.” After she heard about how Vetina was just showing Yaku around, which was kind of weird.
”Sooooo, you don’t have your own digimon?” She’d been able to cut through that all quite easily, and around this point another digimon had appeared, talking to Vetina about they needed to go. She was asked how long she’d been in the digital world.
”Oh, a while, you wouldn’t happen to know of anywhere that has a hot shower?” She probably stank, the cold water tap was fairly awkward to clean herself with. Of course she couldn’t smell herself, but other people probably could, and she’d rather not stink.
Also she wanted to wash her hair.
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Post by tridoriyaku on Jul 24, 2014 23:42:14 GMT
He shook his head. "No, I don't." He gasped as Vetina was pulled away, frowning and gulping as he watched her vanish into the city. "...This is not good. She knew the way out of here... I don't." He tries to think, looking at her. "OK... OK, I'm stuck here, I have nothing to protect myself, I have exactly..." He opened his briefcase, showing the paperwork, drink, photo of his wife, and his money. "...1000 Yen... Do they take yen here?" He asked, shutting the briefcase as quickly as he opened it.
He took a deep breath, trying to calm down. "OK, OK, my wife thinks I'm at a movie... I have exactly..." He looked around for a clock, frowning as he didn't find any. He checked for his cell-phone, but had forgotten it at home. "Oh no..." He took a deep breath again, trying to keep calm. "...Do you have a watch?" He asked, the first step in his plan to find out how much time he had.
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Post by soveliss on Jul 27, 2014 16:50:45 GMT
”Not exactly, I mean some of them well take anything, but you’re probably better off bartering than trying to use real money. Half of them just think it’s food and eat it. Zarph’s tried to eat my piggy bank a couple of times before.” Kirsten didn’t completely understand this stranger, he seemed to have somehow made his way into the digital world without a digimon. That didn’t seem to be how things worked, as far as she knew, the world mostly adapted itself around whoever managed to break into it. She wanted to know how this had happened.
”So, how’d you end up here? Like, the whole story. Also, you got any decent food?” She was pretty hungry, and food in the digital world tended to be a bit on the weird side. Apples which tasted like steak, steak which tasted like cat litter, cat little which tasted like, well you get the idea. Things where just a tad more unpredicatable.
With the other digimon having simply left, Kirsten was now alone with Yaku, in the middle of the street. Zarph was still asleep in her arms, like normal. She wasn’t too bothered by this, though it would be quite nice if he’d bother to walk around on his own once in a while.
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Post by tridoriyaku on Jul 27, 2014 17:23:47 GMT
"Well... It's a long story..." He began. "I was on my lunch break in Miyashita Park when something fell and I had to retrieve it, leaving my food alone. When I finally grabbed it, I saw this woman sitting there, eating my lunch! I asked her to stop but she didn't seem to care much until I mentioned my wife.... from there we had a conversation and uh... she revealed she was a Digimon. I was naturally... terrified." He chuckled.
"Well... the next day we met up again and... confirmed she was, indeed, a monster... but she was nice and... she invited me to visit here, saying it was like the city... of course, I now know that that is..." He motioned to the locations and events around them, from a loving couple carrying a digitama to a Piyomon reading what appeared to be a newspaper while sitting on a lamp-post, to anything else completely ordinary in the digital world. "...kind of correct..." He sighed. "She brought me to the river and lead me through a portal... I think I took it pretty well since I didn't pass out..."
He shook his head. "I... um, have a health drink. Would you like some of that?"
"But what about you?" He asked, quickly ducking behind her to avoid being spotted by a passing Beelzemon who reminded him a bit too much of his classmates in high school. "...How did you get here?"
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Post by soveliss on Jul 27, 2014 20:21:59 GMT
Kirsten listened, finding pretty much most of the story to be quite bizarre. Bizarre, but given what she’d experienced quite possible.
”Yeah…..they have a habit of doing that.” She remarked over the lunch story. Digimon tended to want to eat whatever they could get their hands on half the time, Zarph certainly did.
”What flavour?” She responded to the offer of drink. She was unlikely to say no to it, but just in case it was something weird, she probably thought it better to ask.
Then she was asked about how she had ended up here, which was quite a tale. However, the actual tale, involving running away from some kind of organisation in Shibuya because they where after Zarph wasn’t one she was going to just tell to a stranger. Therefore the most obvious solution to this was to lie about it a little.
”Well, I met Zarph years ago, he was just an egg then too. We ended up in this world for a while, and then went home. But we had to come back a while ago, cause it’s better for Zarph here.” Actually that wasn’t too much of a lie, weirdly enough.
”Why are you hiding?” She asked, somewhat confused ask to Yaku’s reactions. He’d made it here, why was he so scared or twitchy all of a sudden.
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Post by tridoriyaku on Jul 27, 2014 20:57:19 GMT
Yaku opened his suitcase once more, giving her better glance at the photo so he could inspect the drink. "Melon flavor." He said, taking it out and offering it to her. "...Do your parents know where you are? ...And did you say years?" He said, his mind crawling back to a film about a man stranded on a deserted island, forced to hold discussions with a volleyball to drive off insanity and loneliness, only to return and find that his girlfriend left him, he was presumed dead, and had no place to stay anymore. He shuddered, nobody would do that to him... right?
"Why aren't you?" He responded, carefully climbing out from behind her. "There are... Digimon everywhere. They fly, they walk, they swim, most of them could crush my head with their bare hands. And that's without those weird powers they have... 70 percent of the human body is water, if Vetina wanted she could have pulled it all out of me and left me a dried husk of a man... and that's just one Digimon... I don't know what else these monsters could do to me if they wanted. You have your... Zamph, was it? He'll probably wake up and take them down... but me? I have nothing. I have this suitcase and enough yen for a cup ramen and a candybar... Not to mention I have NO IDEA how to get out of this place and see my wife again..." He was a pessimist, that was for sure. Everything about this world seemed to get under his skin a bit too much for his own good, she'd notice as he continued to list off ways he would die, and how if he died here he'd never go to the afterlife, terrible as that location was, so on and so forth, that Yaku had a bit of a problem concerning leaving his comfort zone. Makes one wonder how he was able to leave the house at all, the poor thing.
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Post by soveliss on Jul 27, 2014 23:11:02 GMT
”Ooh, please.” Kirsten noticed the photo in the briefcase, not giving it much more attention.
”No, they don’t. I just kinda left a note, they don’t know anything about all this, they wouldn’t understand, probably think it’s all too dangerous or stuff. And yeah, I’ve known about this place for a year or two now, plenty of people do, it’s our secret.” There was inherent protection in the fact that people tended not to want to believe that the digital world existed, meaning that anyone who tried to tell people would often be seen as a little bit crazy. Otherwise it was still probably a miracle that the digital world was still a secret.
”I mean sure they’re scary when you think about it. But only when they really want to, most of them are harmless, and just want to live their lives. Kinda like humans, except a bit more dinosaury. Zarph doesn’t even really like having to fight, he’s a bit of a coward. Anyway, provided you keep to the city, of the safer areas, no harms likely to come to you, you’ll probably be safe enough.” As far as Kirsten was concerned, the city was pretty safe, if a little bit rustic in places, and having a bit of petty crime going on.
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Post by tridoriyaku on Jul 27, 2014 23:36:38 GMT
He passed her the bottle, shutting the suitcase once more. "Wait... you've been gone for... and they aren't panicking?" He looked a bit confused by this entire scenario. If he had a son he'd keep this entire place as far away from them as possible. He was a grown man and this place weirded him out. Imagine the effect of this entire location on the psyche of a small child, let alone one who only knew the real... physical... human world their own life...
"...Oh right, people... Vetina told me there were some like those... I never got much specifics on those other than that they're usually children. I... I'm not the ONLY human adult here, am I?" He asked, a DemiVeemon looking him over with curiousity. He tried to shoo it away while keeping the conversation going.
"And Zarph... Zarph sounds a bit too close to home to me... And you're absolutely sure this town is perfectly safe? As long as I stay in this part of the city I'll be perfectly fine?" He asked, the DemiVeemon motioning for some others to come see the unusual creature.
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Post by soveliss on Jul 28, 2014 18:51:55 GMT
Kirsten ripped the cap of the bottle, drinking quickly. It had been a while since she’d drank something outside of water which tasted the way it should. ”Probably, but it’s a little more difficult to tell time here, it isn’t that consistent. It’s a bit more wibbly wobbly and stuff.” She was pretty sure this was correct, time didn’t seem to be consistent as far as she’d seen, but it was entirely possible that wasn’t correct for everyone. When your world is just a little bit alive, and had absolutely no regard for the laws of physics when it felt like breaking them, it was a little difficult to be accurate.
”There’s probably others, but most of us are kids or teenagers. Or at least, pretty much everyone except you I’ve seen here is. Just seemed to me to be how the world works. This place is pretty much as safe as you’ll be, it’s a lot more difficult for the bigger ones to travel down streets, so you won’t run into any dragons or anything like that. No promises someone won’t try and take your wallet though”
Maybe introducing the idea of dragons wasn’t the smartest, but it was better Yaku be familiar with all the risks of this world, rather than find them out on his own. Actually, she’d better ask some questions of her own.
”So, you don’t have your own digivice then, a small device thing which just appeared for you?”
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