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Post by Jin Fujikawa on Jan 18, 2023 15:43:00 GMT
Sender: Unwkn To: Jin Subject: We need your help *Urgent* 2 attachments -Digital World -DigiDestined ''Jin Fujikawa I am a creature from the Digital World, a world existing parallel to your own. Our world is in danger and due to our threat and the last battle I am confined within the outskirts of a continent in a place called ROM Village. Due to the unfavorable circumstances my communications through the digital world have been limited so my only course of action was to try and contact one of the digi destined - you are the only one I was able to reach with my limited communication so our group's survival may rest upon you. Will you lend us a hand Jin.. Asmodeus After a long shift Jin sat down on his computer only to be greeted by this cryptic message. At first signing it off as a new form of 'prince of nigeria' scam the young man's boredom budged his curiosity enough for him to give it a glance. The first two attached files spoke of a world and it's inhabitants, the digital creatures as well as the prophetic concept of a DigiDestined. He scanned the words with half shut eyes and an expression of boredom with his head resting on his hand ''Okay, sure I'll budge.'' he said to himself in a cynical manner. But in doing so he noticed a third attachment appeared, one named Data Scan. Clickin on this one it seemed to fire off some program for a second before dissappearing. Fearing it might be some sort of a virus Jin booted up his protection program but it repeatedly stated that no malware was found. Even weirder when looking through the programs and document he could find no trace of the downloaded attachments. Finally getting fed up with the weird hoax message and his eyes already half shut from his long shift Jin got off the computer and threw himself onto the bed next to it. As the young man's eyes shut and he started to drift asleep he couldn't help but feel a sense of dissappointment that the escapist fantasy the message offered was just a hollow prank or something. ''Tsch.'' he murmured, as if scolding himself for such embarassing childish beliefs and turned to his side as he drifted away into dream land. It only took a couple of seconds for the tired teen to fall asleep and miss the peculiar event that would happen just a minute later. His switched off PC turned back on with the screen displaying an image of a black egg with yellow thunderbolt patterns over it. The screen for a moment started to shine brighter but then just fizzled out to blackness almost as if it lost it's power.
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Post by Jin Fujikawa on Jan 18, 2023 15:47:59 GMT
Less than a month later...
Jin picks up his coat from the hanger as he makes his way out of the storage room of the store he's working it. The boy just sort of tosses it on his shoulder without actually putting it on, like some sort of a cape. As he stroll out the back door he takes a seat on the steps behind the store and begins to tie his shoe laces. ''Your coat is dragging on dirt ya' know? Icky'' a voice of a girl says as she gets out of the same backdoor Jin just walked out. ''I think it gives it character'' Jin says with a chuckle. ''If looking like a homeless person means character...'' she says playfully teasing her coworker as she locks the door and presses the button on the key's key chain arming the store's security locks. The two exchange a few words as they leave the alleyway and separate in two different directions ''Same time tomorrow eh.'' Mia says as she walks away. ''Yea.'' he replies waving goodbye to the girl.
Mia has had a small crush on Jin since the two started working there, coincidentally they had their job interviews at the same time. Though the two became friends Jin's exterior demeanor made Mia think early on that he didn't have that sort of interest in her so she kept all of the signs and hints to herself, even as the small silly crush developed into something a little deeper. She played it off so masterfully that even the usually perceptive Jin never had this thought occur to him. It's not that he didn't care or like her, it's just that the teen's life was all over the place and frankly was either too busy or tired all the time to even think about the feelings he might have developed for her too. As per custom these thoughts stayed somewhere below the surface as Jin made his way back to his apartment in a sort of a practiced stupor and honestly half awake, with the comfort of his bed being the only thing on his mind.
''Hiro I'm home.'' he announces unenthusiastically as he shuts the door behind him. This being a ritual of the two, in case the other one has female company and doesn't wanna be disturbed he'll answer in a certain prearranged way. This entire 'bro code-esque' ploy suggested and frankly only used by Hiro since he's know to mingle with quite a few girls. Jin never had a problem with that and he's the type to keep to himself, if Hiro hadn't suggested this entire farce he'd probably still just go straight to his room anyways. ''Huh, guess he's out.'' the boy thinks to himself as he makes way to his room.
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Post by Jin Fujikawa on Jan 18, 2023 16:04:15 GMT
Upon entering his room Jin tosses his coat over a chair, clicks the on button on his computer and turns his back towards it as he heads to his closet. Suddenly a bright flash of light illuminates the entire room. Jin turns around but is barely able to keep his eyes open. Squinting he notices a shadow appear in the center of the light, a shadow that's getting bigger, almost as if it's coming this way ? Bam! He is knocked on his butt as something struck his chest. It takes another moment or two for the abrrasive light show to end and upon opening his eyes Jin is met with an unbelievable sight - a small black creature with it's bottom side looking like some sort of pinecone is resting on his chest. Astounded and probably even in shock he just glares wide eyed at this phenomena.
The creature slowly lifts it's head with a few squeaky grunts. It opens it's eyes and they seem to glimmer with a familiar shine ''JIN!'' it yells ecstatically as it starts bouncing up and down on his chest. ''Y--you know my name..'' he studers still not quite sure is this all just a result of him overworking himself and finally losing his mind. ''Of course I know your name! I'm your digimon partner, your buddy! Miiiinomon!'' the creature says with joy as it keeps on bouncing up and down. Something Jin wasn't able to notice before was a strange device hanging around the creature's neck. ''Digimon?'' Jin utters as the cryptic message he recevied less than a month ago flashes through his mind. ''No, that can't be'' he thinks to himself. ''I'll give you a second to proccess all of this.'' the joyful creature says as it bounces of Jin's chest and down to the floor. Jin gets on his hands and knees and them staggers up on his feet, his body even slightly shaking. He raises his arm and strikes the side of his table ''Ow! The pain is surely real, but this is impossible...'' he utters to himself clearly wondering if he was dreaming or something. He glances at the creature again as if to confirm it's exsitance. Minimon patiently sits on the floor just where he was a second ago, noticing Jin's glance one of it's tiny arms waves to him. The boy is still unsure what the hell is happening but there's something familiar to this creature, something calming that keeps Jin from completely freaking out and in some weird way sort of accept the warped reality that is unfolding before him.
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Post by Jin Fujikawa on Jan 18, 2023 17:37:20 GMT
Jin started to feel a bit light headed and dizzy and sort of just stumbled back into his chair. This was definitely a lot to take in as the creature suggested. Suddenly his train of jumbled thoughts was interrupted by a small growling noise, surprisingly coming from the little creature's stomach. ''Oh hehe, sorry about that, I guess it's pretty rude.'' Minomon says. ''Are you hungry..''
An hour passes as the two sit on the dinning room's table and the small Minomon enjoys a variety of food Jin pulled out of his refigerator, all the while further explaining the situation to the blonde boy. ''And i was running from this BAD digimon when I lost the fight so I reverted back to this form. Yummy yummy'' the creature takes bites as he rambles with a mouthful ''..which turned out to be somewhat lucky for us since now my data was small enough for Asmodeus to finally send me to your world to get you.'' Jin listens still with a rather confused look on his face as he tries to get everything the creature is saying ''Whoa whoa, you... reverted into this form ? What are you usually ?'' Minomon takes a big gulp, swallowing before answering his new friend ''Well I'm Larvamon usually.'' he waves his little arm towards a bowl on the table ''Can you pass me that carrot.'' Jin chuckles at the adorable creature, for a moment dissolving the perpetual look of confused awe on his face as he hands him the plant ''Digimon can digivolve and become stronger. I was Larvamon when I fought those bad digimon but it wasn't enough. If I had you there I could have surely won!'' The creature proudly yells as he raises his carrot in the air. ''What would I be able to do ?'' Jin asks ''Well we're partners silly, I become stronger when you're around and I should also be able to digivolve with your help. OH I almost completely forgot, here take this.'' Minomon says as his little arms point towards a device hanging from his neck by a silk thread. Jin grasps the device and takes it off of the little digimon. ''That's your digivice, I don't know how it works but it's some sort of way of connecting the two of us. And you can check where I am if we're ever separated''. Jin looks down at the device in his hands as it emits a warm glow for a moment, as if it was clicked on, activated in a sense.
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Post by Jin Fujikawa on Jan 19, 2023 2:28:52 GMT
The pair continued their conversations into the early morning hours seated on Jin's bed sharing information about their worlds. Jin trying to explain to Minomon how his world works and vice versa. ''So now that you know what a job is, tomorrow I'll take you with me and you can sleep during my shift since we didn't get any shut eye tonight, and later we can go and try to find this gate to the digital world. Um... any ideas ?'' Minomon stroked it's chin in thought ''Well in your world i'm able to sense nearby digimon so maybe we'll get lucky and find someone else with a partner aaand maaybe they have a way to get to the digital world.'' Jin sighs ''Well it's better than nothing I guess.''
Checking the clock Jin realizes that he actually can get an hour or two of sleep. ''Hey look at that we CAN actually get some sleep, if you don't wanna stay up more ?'' ''Yaaay'' Minomon replies clapping his tiny hands. As Jin lays down on his bed the small creature jumps on his chest and snuggles up to him much to the boy's surprise. Minomon yawn and closes as it's eyes as it drifts asleep ''I'm really glad I met you Jin.'' The boy's expression changes to a warm smile as he puts his hand on the little critter ''Same here little buddy.''
Though it was only a couple hours of sleep Jin woke up pretty energized, even excited. He changed out of his pajamas while and readied a backpack while Minomon was still sleeping. He filled the bottom of the backpack with a comfy blanket and put in a bag of carrots and snacks. ''Uuugh.'' the small critter uttered as it woke up from his prone face down position. ''Good you're up.'' ''Five more minutes...'' he uttered groggy eyed to which Jin chuckled ''You can sleep on our way there and while work. Look.'' he said as he showed the open backpack. ''Ooh that looks comfy.'' Minomon remarked. ''Yea, why don't you try it.'' the boy said as he outstreched his arm towards the creature. Minomon got onto his arm and Jin gently put him down in the backpack. ''This is perfect! There's even carrots here!'' Minomon exclaimed from the bottom of the backpack. ''Yup, figured you might get hungry, just remember try not to make much noise while we're on the way there.'' That seemingly wouldn't be a problem as the creature fell back asleep even before Jin had left his apartment...
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Post by Jin Fujikawa on Jan 20, 2023 6:24:38 GMT
As the work shift came to and end Mia and Jin exchanged their usual 'locking up ritual'. JIn had a habit of of waiting up on Mia to finish up and leave together since the back exit which was usually last one locked up was in an alleyway and he didn't want to Mia to have to be by herself during the later hours of the second shift. The two said their goodbyes and Jin shifted his backpack to his front side. Minomon's small head popped out of the opening in the zipper. ''Did you sleep well ?'' the boy asked with a smile ''Like a baby digimon. Which I am now that I think about it. Hey who was that other human that you were speaking to Jin ?'' ''Oh that's Mia. We work together.'' ''She feels warm.'' the little creature said with an air of vague mystery. ''Warm?'' ''Yea, you know, like a feeling.'' Minomon answered in a child like way much more akin to him, dispelling any and all of the mystery he exuded a moment earlier. ''Anyway what are we gonna do about finding the gate to the digital world ?'' Jin popped a sly smile ''I think you're gonna like this.''
''Wheeeeeeee!! Hahahaha This is amaziiing Jiiiiin!''
The small digimon yelled in excitement with his little hands up as he was peaking out of the backpack strapped to Jin's chest as the pair sped through the streets of Shibuya on a motorbike. ''You said you can sense other digimon when we're nearby right ? Let me know if you pick anything up.'' ''Sure thing!¨Wheeeeeee!!'' the excited creature confirmed as it continued to enjoy the speedy ride.
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