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003 [Accidental Video]

[Eraqus's communicator switches on without his doing...in this case, it looks like Kura accidentally turned it on while lifting it up with his tail. Kura peers under the communicator, then temporarily scampers out of sight of it.]

Yaza?

[Kura's not the only one that appears to be searching. Eraqus is looking around the small room he's taken up at Sunset Hill, with Gengo and Chuza also glancing around in confusion.]

Yaza!

[Still nothing. Eraqus stops, looking frustrated.]

Honestly...what good is it to have a Spirit that immediately goes missing?

[He sighs, and walks out of view of the communicator, which is still broadcasting. As soon as he is out of view, a Toximander's head can be seen slowly emerging out of the floor. The Dream Eater blinks in the direction that Eraqus went, looks around a bit, then dives back into the floor.]

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Might as well.

[He waits as Eraqus leaves, and sure enough, the wayward lizard pokes its head out of the floor and looks at the communicator. Okay, so maybe it's a horror-comedy. Wash just shrugs and figures he might as well go with it.]

So you're Yaza, huh.

[Yaza scoots underground a little more at the sound of a voice speaking from the communicator, until it figures out who and what it's coming from. From there, it peers up in curiosity, its big tongue flicking out.]

[He blinks; maybe this one's just skittish. Huh. He nudges at Fang, who's been napping on the bed next to him, waking him up.]

Hey. Fang. Come make friends.

[Well that certainly wakes the bat up. Fang flaps up and lands in front of the communicator, catching sight of the toximander and squeaking happily. Ooh, he hasn't seen you before! Hi! They should totally be friends!]

[Oh look, another Spirit! Yaza crawls up closer to the communicator, making happy noises at the image of the Komory Bat.]

[From offscreen, footsteps and Eraqus's voice can be heard:]

Has he appeared?

[Yaza perks up at the voice, then hurriedly snatches up the communicator in his mouth and drags it back down under the floor. For a long while, there's absolutely nothing to see but blackness, with a bit of purple shadow-y waves occasionally on the edges of the screen. From somewhere above there's Eraqus's muffled voice, but it's hard to hear what he's saying.]

[Wash audibly facepalms. That's not helping. Fang squeaks in alarm - this is new and different and he can't really see too much and Yaza is still there, right? After a period of darkness, Wash finally speaks up.]

Can you at least put the communicator back up top?

[Another moment of darkness, and then light appears again as Yaza bobs back up and leaves the communicator on the floor before vanishing again.]

--op!

[Eraqus grabs up the communicator and presses his hand to the floor, but Yaza's gone now.]

It took this thing!

I noticed. [And he's seen some incredibly weird stuff, but that was definitely pretty far up there.]

Pretty sure it's avoiding you. It grabbed the communicator and bolted when it heard you coming. Any idea why?

[The screen moves a bit as Eraqus inspects the communicator...at least it doesn't appear seriously damaged.]

I'm sure I don't know. I only just made it, after all. [It seems that he's thinking about something, though.]

[Yeah, he can read that expression.] Okay, so what's your theory?

[He doesn't want to say as much that it's using too much DARKNESSSSS.] I don't know anything for sure. I'd have to observe it more.

Uh-huh. [And that's one eyebrow raised. ] Have you tried getting one of your other Spirits to talk to it? It liked talking with Fang. [Fang squeaks an affirmative. He wants to talk to Yaza again!]

[And he's just going to ignore that right now.]

[He has to admit, that idea has some merit. He turns back to his Meow Wow.]

Perhaps...

Chuza? I'd like you to try and talk with Yaza, here.

[Chuza waddles over, sniffing around for some sign of the Toximander. When she doesn't spot it right away, she just turns around in the middle of the floor and rolls over. Eraqus, realizing that Yaza probably won't show with him prominent, moves over to the far corner of the room and keeps quiet.]

[Eventually, Yaza does emerge...directly under Chuza. The Meow Wow doesn't even seem to notice that it's now being propped up by a confused Toximander's head. Yaza glances around, but upon not seeing anyone, then vanishes again.]

[In the corner, Eraqus groans quietly.]

[Usually Wash has a pretty solid poker face. Usually. Then again, usually horror movies didn't become comedies right in front of him, and the schadenfreude was too much to resist. He snorted, putting a hand over his mouth to try to disguise it, and doubled over, laughing helplessly into his hand. He would apologize for it, but he's not sorry - that was beautiful.]

[After a few seconds, he calms down and straightens up again, letting his hand drop, though he's still grinning.]

You should probably try your hebby repp instead.

[Eraqus can't even debate laughing at it. It's all pretty ridiculous by now. It'd probably be even funnier if it wasn't happening to him.]

That may or may not be better...

[He glances back towards the Hebby Repp, but the Spirit's already taken notice that he's being talked about. It scrambles down to the floor and begins running in circles, chittering at where it's guessing the Toximander is hiding. When there's no reply for a bit, Kura stamps his foot on the ground, chattering a bit louder and sounding impatient.]

[It's a regular comedy of errors over there, and Wash is laughing into his hand again. It's just too good. It takes him another few moments to calm down again.]

Look, just put the communicator on the floor. It already likes talking to Fang.

[Kura's not terribly pleased about being ignored. He chatters more at the floor before jumping back onto the desk in a huff.]

[Eraqus gives an 'I can't believe I'm doing this' look but eventually complies, taking the communicator and setting it on the ground.]

If it tries to steal this device again, however, I'm not trying this once more.

[Once left, he again presses himself out of sight of the middle of the room, although he looks a little more exasperated.]

[There is a long pause of nothing before Yaza again sticks his head halfway out of the floor, checking to see who is nearby.]

Fair enough. [Wash is probably enjoying this far more than he should, but hey, you can't blame him; it is pretty dang funny.]

[Fang squeaks happily as Yaza comes back into view, needing no prompting to start talking with him again. Hi! Where was that really weird dark place you went? He'd never been there before! Do you live there?]

[Wash nudges the bat anyway, and Fang gets back on topic. Oh, right! The people want to know why you're being shy. He thinks your person's actually pretty nice! You know, when your person isn't upset at his person. That happened once, but it's okay now! Why don't you go say hi to your person?]

[And once Yaza feels more secure that he's not being watched (although he is being listened in on), he crawls out more and even rolls over onto his back while 'responding' to Fang.]

[Yaza makes some squeaky noises while flicking his tongue out over and over. Hello. Yes I love there, and also sometimes outside. The person is nice, but he is a lot of light and I am a lot of darkness so I thought I should hide. Maybe he won't be happy although he does give me chocolate.]

[Ohhhhhh, that makes sense! And if he gives you chocolate it totally means he likes you! You should go say thank you! Fang's pretty sure your person wants to talk to you too, so you should stick around above the floor for a little while. You can also make friends with the other Spirits there! It'll be fun!]

[Maybe I can for a little bit but I don't know, maybe it will be fun but maybe the person won't be happy. I will try it and I will be careful.]

[Yaza begins to wander away from the communicator a bit, looking around cautiously. Eraqus finally steps back more into view, only to find the Toximander remaining above ground. He ventures forward.]

Yaza? Are you going to stay now?

[Maybe...Yaza wriggles backwards a bit and makes a shadow under him on the ground, but doesn't disappear into it just yet.]

[Yes you should try it! Good luck! Fang straightens up a bit and flaps encouragingly. Wash just stays quiet, raising an eyebrow as the lizard stays aboveground. Whatever Fang's been saying, it looks like it's working.]

[Eraqus continues to edge forward...he doesn't want to let the Spirit get away again, but isn't sure what might spook it back into the ground. Yaza is obviously just trying to play it cool.]

You shouldn't stay underground, Yaza.

[Yaza remains stationary while Eraqus reaches out a hand to pet him. Eventually, he gets close enough so that he can touch his head. Yaza makes a purring sound, gives him a big sloppy lizard lick with his tongue, then decides that's enough for now and dives back into the floor.]

[Eraqus sighs.] Well...it's some progress.

[The other eyebrow goes up to join the first. Wash can't imagine that getting licked by a lizard is the nicest of sensations.]

Well, it's better than nothing.

[Fang, meanwhile, squeaks at the communicator. Wait! Come back! You were doing so well!]

[Iiiit’s not the greatest feeling. In fact, it’s a little bit slimy, and his fingers feel a bit numb. Do Toximanders have poison abilities, too? He shakes his hand out.]

Not much, but it’s something. It looks like this will take some time.

[He glances down towards the floor, where Yaza is hiding for now.] Although since interaction with other Spirits seemed to help, perhaps some more in-person interaction is in order.

[As hilarious as the asocial Spirit is, Wash knows just how many problems an unreliable teammate can cause in battle. He shrugs.]

It looks like he likes Fang. If you ever want him to help, let me know and I'll send him over.

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