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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 The information is...a little bit outdated, with last month's troubling reveals.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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Mikey waited for the other to find him before he did anything else, figuring it would be nice not to confuse him. Once he was seen and had a response the teen left the tree, climbing down not quite being the right word, and jumping generally making a lot more sound then he did. He wasn't perfectly silent but there was a lack of noise that came from a lifetime of training in moving silently.

"You just looked a bit lonely sitting here on the bench alone. I don't know what not being a baby has to do with it." He said, though he stayed near the trees. Mikey may not always be the brightest, but even he could tell the other wasn't completely sure of him. "I'm Michelango, but people mostly call me Mikey. Are you new here?"

The lack of noise in the other's movements simply put Duo on edge. Maybe this guy was a soldier? But soldiers were really loud (Duo would know, after all). So what was this guy's deal? He was being nice. Maybe too nice. Still, he didn't move closer, and so Duo stayed on the bench.

"I guess so." Being new, he meant. "And I'm not lonely. This place is just weird and cold. That's all."

"Oh, well then why are you outside if you're cold? Or do you not know about the apartments yet? Your partner should have told you... where is your partner by the way?" He looks around curiously, only spotting his own Digimon at the moment.

He didn't stop being friendly to the other, but he kept his distance, catching on that he still wasn't trusted.

It could have been the cold to make Duo's cheeks turn pink. Or it could just be that he was slightly embarrassed at having been found out. He didn't know about the apartments. He hadn't been paying attention to much of anything other than waiting for the opportunity to run. That room reminded him too much of the cell, and the two Digimon that greeted him (Culumon and his "partner")...it was really just more than he could or ever wanted to deal with.

Of course, Duo didn't admit that. A quiet "I don't know," was the only answer Duo gave.

Mikey offered a smile and, while keeping his distance, moved from the tree out to the path, looking around again.

"Oh, well he, or she, is gonna get worried about you. They spend a lot of time waiting just for us to show up. Or at least that's what both of these two have told me."

"It's true, all of our lives... even if our lives haven't been that long at that point." the Salamon on the teen's shoulder puts in.

"I can go look for it. Can you tell me what it looked like?" The Leormon asks the other directly.

Duo followed Mikey's movements with his eyes, making sure the teen didn't get any closer to him. But something the three of them were telling him...

...The gears thing had waited?

For him?

After a moment, Duo pressed his forehead to his knees. The shift caused his hat to fall to the ground. He felt bad. But only a little!

"It's orange. And looks like gears."

"Sounds like maybe a Solarmon, I'll go look for it then."

"Thanks Leormon, come back here in a half hour if you haven't found it by then." Mikey said before the small lion digimon nodded and headed off down the path to look for the other digimon.

"By the way, my name's Michelangelo, but most people just call me Mikey, nice to meet you." He smiles to the other. He couldn't imagine how lost he would have been if his brother hadn't been here when he arrived, so he hoped that he could make friends with this guy, so that he wouldn't feel too alone in a new place.

"Duo." The voice was quiet, muffled some by his legs as he remained curled up in a tiny human ball. He didn't lift his head or bother to move. The fact that he hadn't moved any when the Leormon left could be considered an invitation for Mikey to move closer.

Or it could be that he really hasn't a lot he wants to say right now. Who knows with this kid...

Mikey wasn't quite sure what to do about this kid, he was used to a brother that would explode with anger, or another that was too serious about training most the time, or his too smart brother who would talk the ear off anyone willing to listen. But that wasn't going to stop him from trying.

"Well Duo... you lost your hat." He said, stepping closer with deliberately more noticeable movements than before, and bent to pick the hat up and hold it out to the other with a smile still on his face.

Duo was actually grateful that Michelangelo made his steps more noticeable. It was a lot less unsettling when he could hear where this new person was. Would he say that? No. He couldn't help relaxing a little, though, as the footfalls reached his ears.

The sound of the teen's voice caused Duo to lift his head just enough to show his eyes. He looked at Michelangelo, the distrust evident, then looked down at his hat. Slowly, he uncurled one arm and wrapped his fingers round it.

"Thanks."

Trained well enough to notice even that little relaxing Mikey didn't need to be told to know it helped.

He waited for the other to have a good hold of the hat before he let it go, returning it completely.

"Mind if I sit down?" He asked, pointing to the other end of the bench. "I don't know how long Leormon is going to take to find your partner. I know he'll try hard though."

At the request, Duo simply nodded in silence. Before Mikey could sit down, however, he moved to the other end of the bench. He'll let the teen sit with him, but Duo was putting a little distance between them.

"I dunno where it is. I just ran."

Mikey caught the movement and made sure to sit as far away from the boy as he could without falling off the bench, for Duo's comfort.

"It's kind of weird, showing up here and suddenly being told a whole lot of things. I didn't get any of it at first." He said, just talking at the moment as he waited for either Leormon or Duo's digimon to show up. "There's all this new stuff to learn, and it feels almost like you have to learn it all the first time. But Leader helped me, and I'm sure your digimon would help you too, if you need it."

"I don't need it." His partner, he meant. "I can take care of myself. I've done it before."

Curiosity was what had Duo glancing at Mikey. He wondered what was up with this guy. He was older, definitely, but...nicer than most. Or he was trying to be nice to Duo. It caused him to frown, but luckily it was hidden by his knees.

"I don't know where you're from... but have you had to fight monsters before? I did back home and even here I can't do that on my own. I need my partners to help me." He said, not directly telling the kid he was wrong, but tryign to point out other factors.

"In fact partners are... very special. They care a lot about us, sometimes even dying to keep us safe. They don't stay dead, in fact they turn back into eggs, but it's not easy when it happens. They do it because they care about us that much."

"Do Alliance soldiers count as monsters? Then, yeah, I've fought monsters." There was so much malice behind the words. He hadn't even meant for it to come out so hateful. He grumbled under his breath, a self-chastisement for it before pressing his forehead to his knees.

"I don't want them to care. I don't need a partner. I don't."

"Soldiers? If they are doing bad things then I guess... Yeah. Kind of like how bad ninjas count as monsters." Mikey thought briefly about it before smiling a little bit at Duo.

"But.... if you are used to fighting monsters, you must know that you got to have the right thing to fight with, right? Around here, that's your partner. They digivolve and get stronger so that you can fight more monsters." He couldn't say he wasn't worried about how Duo didn't want his partner, but he was going to try h is best to explain it to the boy.

"...I still don't like fighting. Fighting leads to wars and wars just kill people." And makes more orphans like him. "Fighting doesn't help. And if these things fight, then they're just as bad as the soldiers back home."

Duo shivered against a cold wind, and tightened the little human ball he'd made of himself. When the wind died away, Duo...may or may not shift to sit a little closer to Mikey.

That was pretty heavy, so it took Mikey a moment to figure out what to say, but when he did he looked straight at Duo.

"Then you don't have to fight. No one is going to make you fight if you don't want to. But sometimes you have to fight, or you won't survive. Right now, at least some of us have to fight so that we can all go home." He answered, not trying to smile or make it into something it wasn't.

"I fight, because I don't want the people I care about to die, I want to protect them. But fighting isn't the only way to do that. We could use people who can help anyone who's hurt, or people who can do other things that have nothing to do with fighting. So that those of us who do fight, don't have to worry so much about that."

No. Duo had heard enough. Fighting didn't save anyone. Fighting only killed people. Turned children into orphans. Fighting kept people from help they needed. He knew better than to believe that fighting was good for anything!

"Yeah, well, I didn't want anyone to die, either, but they did!"

Silence followed the outburst. He hadn't even realized what he had said until it was too late. He gasped quietly and looked up at Mikey, wide-eyed. He hadn't meant to say that. He didn't want anyone to know that!

He scrambled some from Mikey, managing to get to his feet before he backed away.

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HOLIDAY ARRIVALS.

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1/?? I'm so sorry...

Done >.>