A young man was in a cemetery in rural Tokyo, old tape recorder in hand. "... Sun is just setting. If rumors and reports are correct, things should get very interesting, any minute now..." He half smiled to himself, although beginning to sweat from nerves. "S-spirits often linger and haunt within the area of their final resting place. Usually they repeat old patterns, as though retracing steps they took in life-"
He jumped and snapped his attention when he heard a growl, like an animal! "Oh!- Th-th-that, uh, was definitely not a bear! Ghosts usually don't vocalize, though, of course, though they can definitely strike objects. Afterall, the German 'Poltergeist' means 'Noisy Ghost'..." He paled as he could just make out trees moving in the newly dark sky. "That seems, uh, unexpected, though. I'll have to research local legends; perhaps the region is experiencing, uh, some overlapping manifestations?"
After watching it pass and continue for a minute or two, he gulped hard. The recorder was shaking visibly in his hand, "I may have... Mischaracterized the events taking place? My Japanese isn't so good, after all, but... I should attempt a visual confirmation, if for no other reason than to better inform and focus follow up research-"
He almost dropped his tape recorder when he felt a sudden chill, and his recorder started scrambling noise! "eiufbfbrh-ey, keep it down, will ya? You don't want him coming back, trust me." Brian turned blue in the face, yet his eyes lit up!
"huwah? C-contact!" He almost lost hold of the device, but recovered as he tried to begin questioning the apparition. "H-hey, um, do you, uh, have some kind of purpose-"
"Kid, you have no idea." The voice came out surprisingly clear; not distorted like it always did on tv. A gravelly voice, rough. "Look, we've only got a short window of opportunity, and I promise, you want my help!"
Another hard gulp, "Uh, and, you are?"
"I used to go by 'Ogremon', but together? We could be so much more... I've had my eye on you, Brian! You want to prove there's more to your world, right? Well, I can help you! But first, you've got to agree to help me, do you get it? If you agree to a contract with me, you'll see a lot more than what you can catch in old film! You might even find out what's really going on!"
This was too weird, he thought to himself. But what this... 'Ogremon' seemed to imply, it was everything he was after! Maybe he'd even find- "Hey, are you still listening to me? Hurry up and follow that Gr- uh, that 'dragon'; we'll form the contract, but first we need to wait for the opportune moment, when the energy is high! Now get moving!"
Brian jumped again, adjusted his glasses, and got to joggin in the direction that... Whatever it was had gone, snatching up his recorder so he could get further instructions. If he'd studied more things like faeries and demons, or at least put more thought into the exchange, he might have told this entity to kick rocks, but no, now he was leaving the cemetery and following the rather large trail the beast left in its wake...
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