((A/N: Heyo dayo! I'm baaack! I just wanna say that I feel very glad to have people actually reading my story, especially the people who are my favorite authors! I am still stunned by the fact that they are reading this! Anywho, enough rambling. On with it, eh? Onwards!))
Chapter 2: Homecoming, of A Sort
"I need to make a call." I told them as I got up and grabbed the phone from my mom's large desk. I dialed the number of my birth mother, Ann. It rang and she answered.
"Hey Peanut! What's up?" She said, her voice curious.
"There is someone here I think you need to talk to." I say as I walk upstairs and hand the phone to Fox.
"Hello?" Fox said into the phone.
"James, Is that you?!" She said, her voice shocked.
"No, I'm his son… Fox." Fox told her.
"Fox?! What are you doing.. He put you up to this. I agreed to allow you and Kyle to meet when you turned 16, but I didn't know the gap was so large, you two are twins after all." She said calmly, as if it was every day she talked to the son she hadn't seen for 14 years to her, 16 for him.
"Twins?!" Fox exclaimed. "You're lying. You. Are. Lying." Fox said, his voice filled with shock.
"I completely refuse to tell you two, it was your father's idea to separate you two in the first place." Ann said. "I have to go, give the phone back to Kyle, please dear?"
Fox did as he was asked. I took the phone, and held it to my ear. "Ann, what is going on?"
"Go to Corneria with Fox. James will explain everything there." She said simply. "Love you, Peanut. Bye." She hang up with this statement.
"What did she say?" Falco said impatiently.
"That I had to go with you two back to Corneria, and that James will explain everything." I looked to Fox for conformation, and he nodded in agreement. "I guess I had better start packing. I will wait to leave until Dad gets back." Fox gave and I explained. "I was adopted. I don't live with our birth mom, as you could tell. I honestly see my parents as my parents, and Ann as Ann." I shrug. "That is about as well as I can explain it." I say.
Fox looks at his watch. "Huh, my watch updated to Earth's time." He said, a look of unimpressed surprise on his face. "When does he normally get home?" Fox asked.
"Four-thirty-ish." I reply, glancing at my own watch. It was 4:33.
I heard the door open, and saw him walk through and look at me and my company. He stared for a second, then went about unloading his lunchbox. When he finished he came upstairs, got Sue a bone, and sat down giving Fox and Falco a gesture as he looked at me. I explain the situation hurriedly. "Dad, this is Fox McCloud and he came through a spatial rift following a DNA trail that lead to me and apparently I am his full-blood brother meaning Samual and Tyrone are only my half-brothers, and to get the full story I need to go to Corneria and confront mine and Fox's birth father, James McCloud." I finish with a flourish, gasping for breath.
"Okay." He said in his deep voice. "Anything else?" He asks, clearly stunned by my explanation.
"Not really. So, can I go?" I ask him, a bit of worry creeping into me.
"Duh! Of course you can go. Be back before school starts, though." He says.
I hurriedly thank him and run off to pack. I pack enough clothes for me to stay for a month, as well as a few other things like my DS, laptop, and my iPod and the various chargers associated with them. "Ready to go!" I said five minutes later.
Falco gave me a shocked look. "In five minutes? You packed everything you are going to need, in FIVE MINUTES?!"
"Yes." I say simply. "Even my toiletries." I add, a grin sprouting on my face.
"Then let's go!" Fox says excitedly. We walked out and found a kid from my school, Quinn Stevens poking around the Arwings. I walk back into the house; grab a stick I had found and use as a staff. I walk up behind him silently and give him a hard thwack on his back. I jump away and motion for Fox and Falco to grab my stuff and get in. They do so, and Fox helps me into his Arwing and we take off, Quinn being left in the dust.
"What was that about?" Fox asks me, a look of shock and pride on his face.
"He is an arrogant prick, and so needs to be taught to leave the shit of others alone. I think he will learn his lesson, for now." I reply simply.
"We will be at the Rift in a minute." Falco's voice came over the com.
"Thanks Falco." Fox told him. We were at the Rift in a minute.
"What now?" I ask.
"We go back. That simple." Fox replied.
With this he flew into the Rift. We were on the other side in seconds.
"Pfft, blugh! Get these things out of my… Holy Hell!" Fox shouts. "You have tails!"
I turn around and see that he was right; I had nine large poofy tails the same color as his one tail, orange with a cream-colored tip. Needless to say, I yelped in surprise, then yelped again as I realized that I had actually yelped.
"What the hell is going on in there?" Falco said over the com.
"I JUST TURNED INTO A FUCKIN' KITSUNE THAT'S WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.
"Owww…" Fox said, his expression comical as he tilted his head and his eye twitched, his fur blown back from the force of my scream.
"Sorry, I'm just very confused right now and I just snapped." I said, smoothing Fox's fur back down and into place.
"Let's just get back, eh?" Falco said, breaking the rising tension.
"Yeah, let's!" Fox agreed.
((A/N: Hey peoples, Sorry for another cliffhanger. I just feel this is a good spot to stop. Hope you all likey! I am still a kid, and need my sleep! The chapter reached a good length. Stay cool, stay real, and please review! You are all AWESOME, and I am still bad with endings ;) See you all next chapter!))
