Since it's told in the chapter immediately(Paragraph 2), Xana is a girl. Like I said, I wrote this story twice, once with a male, and then a female. The female one in others and mine opinion. Mainly to me because, I had already turned xana into a male(As you Wish), wanted to do something different. Not to mention, I noticed I tend to focus on the male charactors and their problems with female charactors. Never female characters and their problems with male characters. So, xana as a girl, sounds like a japanese horror movie. If you get an email that says seven days, copy this and send it to someone else(JK).
That's also one of the reasons I've been working on this for so long. I wrote it twice. Depending on how well it does or how much people like it, I might post the male xana after this. Problem is, somethings that happen are almost exactly the same, same scenario, different players. One reason I might not. It'll be a lot of editing and changing to make the male different than the female cause when we get down to it, they really are the same person after all.
So, let's get started...
The gang stood around the scanner that was humming to life in front of them. They were ready for what ever would come out of it. After what seemed to be an eternity the doors opened and mist poured out that began to slowly disperse. Nothing seemed to be in the scanner at first glance, but once the mist finally left the scanner entirely, everyone looked down to the last thing they thought they'd see. A kid, a child who appeared only a few years their junior.
"He..she.. made herself into a kid?" Odd asked aloud immediately.
"Is she awake?" Aelita asked and walked over and crouched down next to him and nudged her arm.
"Doesn't look like she's even alive," Yumi said and looked down as the girl began to twitch.
"She's just asleep, apparently being materialized at her age is exhausting," Aelita said and stood up.
"At least she had the decency to materialize clothes," Odd said and looked over at Ulrich, "Help me pick her up."
"I am not touching her," Ulrich said and Odd groaned and did it himself. Odd carried her out of the scanner and toward the elevator to lay her down somewhere a little more comfortable.
When the elevator docked Odd placed er on the ground in the lab, and then took off his sweat shirt so he could rest her head on something softer than the floor.
"Now what, we have an unconscious orphan in the lab," Ulrich said and sat against the wall.
"Why a kid? Why didn't she skip the boring stuff and go straight to adulthood? And why a girl now that were on the subject" Odd asked and everyone looked at each other for an answer.
"What's wrong with being a girl?" Yumi asked in defense of her gender.
"Nothing," Odd said quickly.
"Yeah Odd, after all girls are biologically superior," Aelita said.
"We'll ask 'her' when 'she' wakes up," Jeremie said and looked down at her.
Six hours later Yumi was leaning her head on Ulrich's shoulder so they could both sleep while waiting for Xana for wake up. Jeremie was laying against the scanner and Odd was curled up in the corner. The alarm on Ulrich's watch went to off to warn them that school would be starting in an hour and he slowly opened his eyes.
"Already, is she up..." Ulrich asked and noticed Aelita and Xana were missing "..yet." He panned his eyes around the entire room and saw that Aelita was gone, and so was the kid.
"Yumi wake up," Ulrich said and nudged her off of his shoulder and stood up, "Jeremie, Odd get up, they're gone!"
"Huh?" Jeremie asked and Odd shot up.
"What's going on?" Odd asked.
"I knew it, she took Aelita and she's gone now. I knew it was a trick and you idiots voted in it's favor, we need to get to the scanners, Jeremie boot up," Ulrich said and called the elevator.
"That's weird," Yumi said as she listened to the elevator approaching.
"What's weird?" Odd asked.
"The elator is coming down," Ulrich answered when he noticed, "Jeremie, pull up the video feed for the factor main floor."
"Don't need to, Aelita left me a note. "I'm not dead, Danielle(Xana) wanted to play for the first time, so I'm teaching her tag upstairs. Her name is Danielle by the way, she figured if she wanted to change gender during the process, having a bigender name would be easier. Bigender, like Jamie, Danny, Alex, Sam. See you upstairs, love Aelita."
"Let's make sure, pull up the feed," Yumi said and Jeremie pulled up the feed and they saw Aelita running away from Danielle in the lap, just like they said she would be. Aelita ran around a beam, then back around, and around again.
"Looks like tag to me," Yumi said and Odd's ears perked up.
"Tag, oh hurry up elevator, I wanna play," Odd said and looked at the doors open, "Come on."
"Hurry up Jeremie, looks like fun," Yumi said and ran into the elevator with Odd. Jeremie walked in too and Ulrich stood there speechless. "Come on Ulrich."
"Sure, why not," Ulrich said sarcastically, "Top floor, lobby, sewer entrance, and the ring girl."
"Drop it," Yumi said and pressed the button.
The elevator docked and everyone heard the sound of two girls laughing. Danielle had caught Aelita and now Aelita was chasing Danielle who couldn't run very well yet. She was running with a sort of limp, as if on of her legs had fallen sleep and blood hadn't circulated yet.
"Morning guys, she's pretty energetic, just like a..well a kid," Aelita said and watched Danielle run over and fall down. Danielle pulled herself to her knees as the girls and Odd came running over to check on her. A few tears were visible in her eyes as she looked at her palms at knees.
"That hurt, that actually hurt," Danielle said in a voice that fit her appearance while rubbing her knees, "I'm bleeding," Danielle said Aelita who leaned down and checked her injuries.
"A little, just a scrape," Aelita said and smiled.
"Oh Odd, just remembered, five bucks," Ulrich said to Odd.
"Why?" Odd asked.
"Her hair is brown, you said it'd be blond," Ulrich said and Odd groaned, "Pay up."
"Can I ask you question?" Yumi asked Danielle who nodded, "Why a girl, or a kid for that matter?"
"Child was an easy choice, I don't want to miss childhood. And a girl well, because they're biologically superior," Xana said and Aelita laughed.
"Told you," Aelita said to Odd.
"What about school and that stuff?" Jeremie asked.
"I worked that out before I left. I enrolled at Kadic with a school history, permanent record, new identy, and fake parents that don't exist, like they do anyway. And I pulled relatively small funds out of a lot banks world wide. Adding it all up it's almost a million. The small funds was so they wouldn't notice it. Then I transferred the funds into an account here. I have school, parents, and funding."
"You have it all planned don't you?" Jeremie asked.
"Just that part. Everything else is left to chance, and that's beauty of it all. I start Kadic in three days. I can still barely walk in a straight line I want to learn the mechanics of moving first," Danielle said with a smile and stood up.
"Good idea, still wanna play?" Aelita asked and Danielle smiled and nodded, "Well, you're it," Aelita said and patted Danielle's head and ran off, as did Jeremie, Odd, and Yumi. Ulrich stood with his hands in his pockets. Danielle ran over and reached out to touched him, thinking he was playing.
"You're it," Danielle said with a smile and Ulrich slapped her hand away before it touched him.
"Ulrich!" Aelita shouted as Odd shook his head.
"I'm not it, you're an 'it'," Ulrich said and began to walk to the stairs to leave, "We have school, remember."
"In an hour Ulrich," Yumi said and Ulrich kept walking.
"Did I do something wrong, why did he hit me?" Danielle asked and Aelita crouched down next to her.
"You did nothing wrong, he just isn't ready to accept you, but I'm glad to say I voted in your favor," Aelita said with a smile.
"Me to," Odd said and Yumi sighed.
"I didn't, but I'm glad I was outvoted," Yumi said and Odd nodded.
"I'd take it, he didn't vote for me," Danielle said and they all shook their heads.
"We'll deal with him, don't worry," Yumi said to reassure Danielle who thanked them all and touched Odd's arm.
"You're it," Danielle said and ran away.
Hiroki was sitting in his biology class looking out of the window while some of the other students were in their lunch hour. He was hungry so the thought of people eating when he wasn't just made his stomach gurgle. Then he heard a knock on the door and turned his head to see the teacher walk over and answer it. She smiled at the principle as someone walked in and stood in front of the class.
"Everyone, I'd like to introduce you to the newest student at Kadic," the teacher said and everyone's eyes were on a girl standing in front of the class.
The girl was a few inches less than five feet. Her hair was straight, brown, reached her shoulder blades and was tied into a pony tail. She was pale like she wasn't in the sun much, but her cheeks were pink. She had a few freckles on both sides of her small nose that was nestled between her eyes. Her eyes where strange, the left was blue, the right was green, but it was hard to notice that behind her thin glasses. She was wearing a long sleeved blue shirt with no logo on it, jeans with a skirt and a pair of black and white converse. Over her shoulder was a messenger bag filled with books and basic supplies for school.
"This is Danielle Grey, she just transferred from Paris. I hope everyone will make her feel welcome. Do you want to tell everyone a little about yourself?" The teacher asked.
"I.." Danielle started before she felt like she couldn't talk. Her hand was shaking and she didn't know why. Everyone was looking at her. She looked at her feet and when she tried to gesture with the arm that the bag was hanging off of, the bag fell and a few kids snickered in the back ground. She could have sworn someone said "spaz alert".
"It's okay, just have a seat.." the teacher said while looking for an opening, "The seat next to Hiroki is open."
"Where?" Danielle asked and looked around.
"Hiroki, tell her who you are," the teacher said and Hiroki waved and Danielle picked up her bag and slowly walked through the class and sat at the table with Hiroki. She placed her bag next to her chair and looked up again and saw that everyone was still looking at her. She looked away and noticed she was still shaking.
"Welcome to Kadic," Hiroki said and Danielle looked over at him.
"Thanks," she timidly said and the teacher continued.
The space in Aelita's room had been changed around so another bed could be put in and another wardrobe and desk. Danielle had moved all of her stuff in already. She used some of the money to buy clothes and supplies, and took Yumi up on her offer to have some of her old clothes. Aelita liked having the space to herself but a roommate didn't bother her that much.
They had both changed into pajamas, Aelita in her long shirt and Danielle in shorts and a shirt. Aelita was still washing up for the night and Danielle sat on her bed with her knees to her chest thinking about her day. Aelita came back in and sat down next to her, pulling the hair tie out and letting her hair tangle down.
"So, how was your first day?" Aelita asked and Danielle sighed on her knees.
"I don't know, but I know not good," she said.
"Why what happened?" Aelita asked.
"My first class the teacher asked me to introduce myself and I... I don't know, I couldn't talk. It was like I was choking but I could still breathe. My hands wouldn't stop shaking, and then I dropped my bag and people laughed at me, and I didn't want to look at anyone because they were just staring at me. All of them. Is that...normal?" Danielle asked, in desperate need of guidance at the moment.
"Yes," Aelita said and Danielle looked over at her, "It's called, you were nervous. It's like a mild version of fear. And when you dropped your bag and didn't want to look at anyone because they were laughing, that's called embarrassment. You don't know what to think because you haven't felt those yet. Not all emotions are as enjoyable as laughter and fun. It can get tough to process them all. And there are a lot more."
"How many?" Danielle asked.
"A lot," Aelita said and walked over to her side of the room, "Too many to list, and too complex to explain."
"Don't even get me started on gym class then," Danielle said and Aelita smiled.
"What happened in gym?" Aelita asked.
"I said don't get me started," Danielle said back.
"You brought it up, what happened?" Aelita asked.
"I walked into the boys locker room, stepped on my shoe laces, three times. Struck out in kick ball, apparently that's pretty bad I was told. Missed a pop fly catch because it hit my head, luckily the center fielder caught the rebound so I was forgiven. And a couple of girls in the locker room were laughing at me, I don't know why, but it had something to do with mosquito bites."
"No wonder you said don't ask. Even Jeremie gets on first in kick ball," Aelita said and laughed, "But, let's talk about that mosquito bite comment."
Xana as a male is Jeremie's roommate. First person to guess who says hi to Zack(Male xana, homage to As You Wish) in his biology class first, I'll PM you with a sneak preview of next chapter. Nice to be back.