Chapter 1: The New Girl

Isabella's POV

As I unpacked my things, Maylu helped by opening up my boxes. She even helped me decorate my side of the room! I think we're going to be good friends. And I could really use a friend right now...

Anyways, when I was putting up the last thing, a hand carved picture frame I got from a friend on my 11th birthday, Maylu and I started to get to know each other. I told her all about my first home, Waffle Island. I told her about Kathy; my loyal chatter-box friend, Luna; the girl with an attitude, and Gill; the know-it-all. Yet most of all, I told her about Luke; the carpenter's son, and the best friend I could ever have. I showed Maylu the picture frame with pictures of me and Luke since we were 1. I said to Maylu, "He was always there for me, in good times and bad."

I must have looked really sad because Maylu then asked, "Did he die?"

I shook my head. "No, but he came with me when I moved here to be with my uncle, but he, his dad, and his dad's other apprentice couldn't find a home near where my uncle lived. They moved 3 maybe 4 towns away, and I haven't ever see him since because my uncle is away a lot. I don't know what happened to him..."

Maylu asked, "What about your parents?"

"My dad died before I was born, and my mom died soon after I was born. My uncle sent me to live with my grandparents on Waffle Island." I informed her.

"Man, that's a really rough life. You basically raised yourself!" Maylu sympathized.

"Yah... But enough about my depressing life. What about you?" I said in an attempt to lighten the mood.

"Well, where do I start..." Maylu joked and told me about all of her crazy adventures with Lan. Some of them I thought she was about to say that Lan didn't make it (He made it, of course), and they were all amazing from the N1 Grand Prix to defeating World 3.

"Wow! You guys are awesome net-battlers!" I exclaimed when Maylu was done.

"Well, Lan is mostly. Dex, Yai, Tory, and I were mainly on the side lines waiting to help at a moments notice. Though it seems that Chaud was there too so we almost never got to help Lan. Lan's saved my life many times over and now-" Maylu said before I finished for her.

"And now your going out with Lan." I said and laughed at Maylu's shocked face.

"How did you know?" Maylu asked.

"I could tell by the way you talked about him. I kind of learned how to do that when I was on Waffle Island from Luke and Kathy." I replied.

"Did they like each othe-" Maylu asked before I screamed "HECK NO!" Maylu jumped a little and said, "Touchy, much?"

"Sorry, but no they just would talk about someone and quiz me on if they were talking about that person in a good way or a bad...I don't why the heck they did that. Now I can read most people like a book." I explained

"... Wow that's cool and not creepy in the least." Maylu joked. "Hey, based on what you just said and how you talked about Luke..."

'Uh oh, I don't like where this is going' I thought when she paused.

"You like Luke!" Maylu exclaimed with a sly grin on her face.

"I DON'T LIKE LUKE! GOD, IT WORSE HERE THEN ON WAFFLE ISLAND!" I screamed.

"Calm down! I was just teasing!" Maylu sweat dropped. "Oh I almost forgot! I need to introduce you to the others! By the way, who's your net-navi?"

"Oh yeah! Maylu, Roll, this my net-navi: Elementette aka Ella. Ella, this is Maylu and her net-navi, Roll." I introduced her before I jacked her into the computer. Maylu did the same with Roll and they chatted while looking for the others. We found Gutsman and Iceman having a staring contest, Glide with, weirdly, Protoman, but we couldn't find Megaman.

"It's okay guys, we can look for Megaman later." I said. So far, I had made friends with Tory, Dex, Yai, Maylu, and surprisingly Chaud. The others told me he's a bring down most of the time, but he's actually pretty cool...

We hung out for a bit and tried to find Megaman again.

"Where could Mega be?" Roll asked and pouted because she couldn't find "Mega". Maylu and I Just chuckled and sweat dropped.

Then I realized something a felt stupid that I didn't know about it before. "Hey Maylu, isn't Lan right next door? You could tell him where Megaman can meet us." I pointed out.

She jumped out of her seat and exclaimed, "Why didn't I think of that? I'll be right back, Isabella!"

"So, while she goes and talks with her boyfriend, let-" I began

"WHAT? Lan is going out with MAYLU?" Dex cut me off and screamed.

"Uh, yeah." I told him, then I asked Yai, "What's with him?"

"Nothing, he's just been in love with Maylu forever." Yai said bluntly

"So, Isabella, where are you from?" Chaud asked sweetly. Before I was able to answer Yai glared at him and yelled, "What is with you today? More importantly, why are you going all goo-goo gaa-gaa over her?"

Chaud blushed a shade of red that would put a tomato to shame and said, "Why do you care? For your information, I think she's kind of cute!"

I blushed and looked away, clearly embarrassed. Lucky for me, Maylu and Roll came back and Megaman and Lan appeared.

As soon as, Ella said, "MEGAMAN?" I recognized Lan immediately. I meet him 7 years ago before Luke left!