Old Ones Return (III)

*Cameron's just sitting at home, bored*

Taiyo calls up Euryale.

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Azuma is sitting at Hitomi's place in an awkward silence looking out the dining area window while she's across the room in the kitchen area, preparing tea.

*Ring. Ring. Ring. Ri--*

"Hey, Taiyo. What's up?"

*Cameron grabs Yokomon then exits, heading for the hospital*

Taiyo: "Hi, Euryale. Are you fee today?"

"Yeah. You wanna meet somewhere?"
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*You know who else is there? The cops.*

Taiyo: "Certainly. How does the park sound?"

*Cameron is very confused, but heads for the entrance*

*Kylie's room, as it so happens, is roped off with police tape.*
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"Sounds great, we'll see you there."

*Cameron nearly drops Yokomon then looks around for a hospital worker or cop*

Taiyo: "All right. Bye."

After their goodbye's Taiyo heads out.

*Taiyo arrives to find Euryale sitting on a bench, petting Botamon in her lap.*
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*In his haste, he runs by a receptionist speaking with a cop.*

*Cameron runs back*

<What's wrong with my sister?!>

Taiyo: "Hi!"

Cop<She's gone.>
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"Hey, Taiy-taiy."

*Euryale waves with her free hand, but quickly puts it back when Botamon starts to jump.*

<Gone! WHAT DO YOU MEAN GONE? She's sleeping. She can't get up and leave.>

Taiyo: "He hasn't went back to normal yet, huh?"

"He's not quite strong enough yet. I think he gave me some of his power. Helped me recover faster."
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Receptionist<She actually could have wandered off in a stupor.>

Cop<Or maybe she was kidnapped. But by who?>
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*10 chairs are arranged in a circle in a dark tent. Kylie sits on one, staring straight ahead like a zombie. Senthose walks in, holding Moonmon by her antenna with 1 hand bound & gagged. With his other, he claps Kylie on the shoulder.*

"Hey, everyone, this is Kylie Sorensan."

Crowd<Hi, Kylie.>

<There aren't any security cameras or anything?!>

*Cameron's freaking out*
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*Moonmon is staring at Senthose with a murderous gaze*

Taiyo: "I hope he gets better soon."

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After tea, the two move to the bedroom. Salamon wakes up long enough to glare at Azuma and turn away from him before going back to sleep, cuddled up to Yuki which Salamon hasn't had to fight Taiyo for for awhile.

Against a wall is a row of bookshelves filled while the opposite wall features a dresser, desk and computer, and keyboard. The walls are blue with landscape portraits depicting the moon overtop different environments from the ocean to a snow covered forest. A framed poster for a band stands out quite a bit amongst the other images.

Azuma: "Didn't know you played piano."

Hitomi: "Occasionally. Not so much recently."

Azuma: "That's unfortunate."

"I'm sure he will. I did."
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Cop<We're looking through the footage, but we don't think they caught anything.>
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*Barbatos stands up & walks forward.*

Barbatos<She's not going to be very much good to us until we get that thing under our control.>

*She pokes Moonmon, missing her eye mostly because Moonmon jerks away.*

Senthose<That won't be a problem, the Digi-Egg will hatch soon enough. So I'm thinking we send her back, use her to spy on the others, discover their weaknesses, sabotage them, that sort of thing.>

*A man sitting in the chair beside Barbatos's empty one leans forward. He has white hair & a white beard, but far from being jolly, he is a broad-shouldered brute with harsh wrinkles & sunken, shadowed eyes.*

???<Then the real issue is how to fake the parasite's removal.>

Senthose<Yeah.>

Barbatos<Why doesn't K-->

*Senthose smacks a hand over Barbatos's mouth, probably a little hard, as it macks a loud smack & Barbatos glares at him.*

Senthose<We can't tip our hand just yet. It doesn't matter how weak you think she is now, or how close you may feel to women.>

Taiyo: "Yeah. I bet he'll be back to being a dinosaur in no time."

Cameron:<Did...did you tell my parents?>
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*Moonmon mutter something that sounds a lot like "fuck you" though her gag*

Cop<Not yet, this was only recently discovered.>
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"Yeah, but we might not be able to contribute as much until he regains enough strength to Digivolve."
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Senthose<Gevurah, take this thing to the cooler.>

*He waves Moonmon around.*

Old Guy<I'm the same rank as you, I'm under no obligation to follow your orders.>

Senthose<I'm the chief strategical consultant, & I'm my strategy is that you'll get off of your ass & put this Digimon in the cooler.>

*He tosses Moonmon at Gevurah, who catches her rather like a basketball.*

*Moonmon tries to struggle and starts mumbling "fuck you all"*
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<Damn it, damn it, damn it! Was her stuffed rabbit found in the room?>