thefolder | HOLIDAY ARRIVALS.

HOLIDAY ARRIVALS.

Characters: Everyone! (Only new arrivals are allowed in the Terminal Room)
When: Starting December 3rd, 2013
Where: Terminal Room or all over town!
What: An open mingle log for everyone to play in!

It has been a long November, and the weather is starting to get colder, a side-effect of the worlds merging. Maybe it's welcome, maybe it's a hindrance, but a rumble rises at the start of the day, signalling new Chosen are starting to arrive. Culumon bounces about the Terminal Room, lonely after waiting so long. Stepping outside, the Chosen will find a bit of a mess before them. The city's been through a lot lately.

Outside the Main Terminal, there is a bin with pamphlets to help supplement the information received on the new Chosen's D-Terminals. The information is...a little bit outdated, with last month's troubling reveals.

OOC: Feel free to mark your characters in different locations! They can be just arriving in the Terminal Room you read about in the arrival post or anywhere on the map! Also feel free to mark the day for each thread. You can also request to play with Culumon, too! Have fun, guys!

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Surprisingly, he remained silent as the girl in front of him spoke. She was right, as much as he hated to admit it. This world was new to him, nothing like the colony, and the cold he definitely wanted to get out of. With a huff, he rested his chin on his knees, still watching this new girl.

"If I knew where to go, I'd probably be there instead of here. But I don't know if those floating orange gears would have followed me there so even if I did know where to go, I don't know if I should go there either." He shrugged. It was obvious, right? You don't go where the creepy things could follow.

Floating orange gears? Oh. That must've been his partner. And... he ran away from him/her. Great. That's not good. At all. "Umm, those floating orange gears are your partner. You're supposed to stay by him or her. Didn't you see that message for new people who show up here that explains everything?"

And well, she needed to figure out how to get him out of here and into some place not freezing. Because freezing was bad. Of course, he seemed like he was going to be pretty stubborn. Maybe she should have Biyomon come over to drag him inside?

"I don't need a partner. I can do just fine without it. I did on the colony. Why should I need one here?" Duo huffed and lifted a shaking hand to tug on the bill of his cap. "And no, I didn't see it."

He gave another shiver and tried to draw himself up into a tighter ball on the bench. "I just want to get outta the cold," he admitted quietly before pressing his forehead to his knees.

Chika just stared at him for a few moments, before shaking her head. "Well, come on. Let's go get you inside somewhere," she said. Ignoring the part about him not needing a partner for now.

She could explain that stuff after he was, you know, someplace warm. And not about to get frozen and die.

Duo hesitated, keeping his eyes on her before he finally pushed himself off the bench. His arms wrapped around his middle, and he nodded his head in agreement.

"Okay. Let's go, I guess." He stepped closer to the girl, his braid swaying some behind him.

Chika's not really sure what else she's supposed to say here, but well, what can she really do? He's not really all that friendly.

Well, okay, obviously the answer is 'badger him until he starts being friendly', but first getting out of the freezing cold. She starts walking, making sure to keep looking back at him whenever she can. "I'm going to start heading back to the apartment building. It's one of the bigger buildings here. And well, it's where you're supposed to be staying while you're here."

Duo simply nodded his head as he followed behind this girl he didn't know. She obviously knew where she was going and what was going on, so he would follow for now. She was being useful, after all.

"Is it warm?" Priorities. Duo has them.

Chika nodded. "Yep. It's totally warm," she said. "It'd be really, well, silly if no one was turning the heat on in the buildings when it's this cold out."

Of course, she realized that maybe he wasn't from a place that had heating in the houses. It's not like everyone came from a world that had electricity here, after all. "Though I guess if it's not something you're used to thinking about it might not seem so silly after all."

It wasn't about a lack of electricity for Duo. It was a matter of not having access to it. Yes, there was the Church, but that wasn't around anymore. And certainly didn't really make up for the years of living on the streets.

Duo ducked his head some, hiding his eyes from view as he continued to follow Chika. "The Church had heat. We didn't have it before that." What's this? He's talking about home? Perhaps that chip on his shoulder was melting!

Chika didn't stop or anything like that, but she did frown a bit when she heard that. So it... well... not exactly the same, but she could tell that that meant that this boy's life wasn't really all that good before coming here.

And she knew enough to know that probably pressing for a lot of details wasn't going to be smart. Not now, anyway.

"Oh. I... well, the place we're going has heating, so we'll definitely get a lot warmer."

"Okay. So long as it's warm..." Maybe this girl wasn't so bad after all? At least she wasn't teasing him or anything like that. After a long moment of silence, he mumbles a quiet "Thank you" under his breath.

Chika blinked when she heard that last part, but she smiled. "You're welcome," she said, after she was sure enough that she actually heard it in the first place.

It didn't take them that much longer to get to the apartment building, and Chika opened the door so that he could go inside and they could start doing what they needed too to get warm. "Do you remember what apartment they said you were supposed to be living in?"

They made it inside, and Duo instantly felt ten times better. At least he was out of the cold. That made a huge difference. Still hugging himself rather tightly, he took a moment to glance around. You always looked for possible exits when in a new building. That's one of the things he was taught, after all.

But the question quickly pulled him from his task. He jumped a little, caught off guard, and Duo blushed light pink in embarrassment. He shook his head, causing his braid to whip around him.

"I...don't have anything. I just kind of dropped it all and ran..." And waiting for the chastisement in 3...2...1..

Chika doesn't say anything for a few moments, thinking about what he said for a moment. She... well, she didn't want to to be mean to him or anything by accident. But even so, she can't really blame him for freaking out like he did. It's... well, this whole thing was strange.

"Okay. I... let's get you dried off, and we can see if we can figure out which apartment is supposed to be yours after."

Wait...she wasn't going to yell at him? He looked up at her, wide-eyed.

"I--Sure. That works, I guess." Really, what else could he do? He had nothing here, but this girl apparently had a lot. He could use that, right?

Chika wouldn't go as far as to say that she had a lot, but well... she could help. And that's all that mattered. "Okay. Come on, my apartment's not far from here," she said, before she started walking towards her apartment.

And that was when she realized something important. "Oh! I didn't even tell you my name yet! My name's Chika. Chika Daimon. What's yours?"

Duo easily fell in step behind Chika. A lot or not, she still had more than him. He kept his gaze moving, checking out the rest of building as they walked. He was silent, his slippers making only the faintest of scuffing sounds against the floor. Well, until Chika asked him his name.

"I'm Duo...Maxwell." It's quiet and only slightly hesitant.

Chika smiled at him as they made it to the door. "It's nice to meet you Duo!" she said, before moving to unlock her door.

Of course, before she could really say much of anything else, Biyomon came to to door. "Chika. You're back! I thought you'd be out a little bit longer."

"Well, umm... Duo here needs to get warmed up and all of the snow off of him," she said. "Can you go get him a towel Biyomon?"

Biyomon nodded, before turning around to go find one of those. Chika turned her head back to Duo and moved to grab his hand. "Well, come on. Let's get in so we can get you warmed up."

Duo actually managed a small smile, and nodded his agreement. He was just about to really reply when the door opened and there stood a giant pink bird. He stared at it wide-eyed, not quiiiiiiite sure what he was suppose to do or say in regards to it. It seemed to know Chika, so...that was something?

It went off to go find a towel, and Duo followed it out of the corner of his eyes before Chika took his hand. His attention returned to the girl who had brought him out this far.

"Okay, um...sure, but can I just ask what's up with the giant pink parrot?" He followed Chika into the room and pulled his cap off his head by the bill of it.

Chika blinked at Duo for a moment while she pulled him inside, before realizing just why he was freaked out. "Oh. Biyomon's my digimon partner. He's... well... kinda one of my best friends, and we work together and stuff."

That wasn't really a good explanation though, so she continued. "I mean, the whole reason that we were brought to this world was to help protect it, and helping our Digimon is how we're supposed to do that."

He remained close to Chika, knowing full well the bird was coming back. This whole mess was confusing, and he didn't trust any of them. Especially the creatures that could talk.

"I didn't wanna be here. It's just...better than the cell I was in."

Chika nodded. "Yeah. I... none of us really asked to be here. Even Biyomon and I were taken from another world and brought here. We had it easy though, since my world also had a Digital World and we already knew each other."

Though considering that Duo was saying that it was better than a cell again, he probably wouldn't want to go back home. Even if he was here, right?

"I didn't have anything like this. Didn't have much of anything." He shrugged and looked back at the door, like he's trying to keep an eye out for something. Or someone. Biyomon?

Chika was about to say something, but soon enough Biyomon came back, holding out the towel towards Duo. "Here you go!" he said, sounding pretty cheerful for a digimon who's partner went out without him and brought a strange kid that he didn't know home.

Duo accepted the towel with a quiet "thank you", and stepped back and away from the giant bird. If anything, he moved closer to Chika as he draped the towel on top of his head. He pulled his braid over his shoulder and untied it, his fingers working slowly and carefully to let the chestnut strands free.

"...Doyouhaveabrush?" Duo's cheeks turned pink, and he dropped his gaze to the floor. He hated being so reliant on her, but he knew his hair would just get tangled up if he didn't have one. He just hoped she didn't make fun of him for it.

HOLIDAY ARRIVALS.

He's just a butt /)_-

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sorry for the late, finals kinda killed me

It's okay, sweetie! I hope you did well!

Thanks, so far it looks like I did alright, at least!

\o/ WOO

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