I live half my life as a normal boarding student; lazy, uninspired. Working on homework 5 minutes before class's supposed to start. The usual stuff. But that's only half my life. I'm not your everyday run-of-the mill undergrad. I'm a member of a group of kids that save the world when it doesn't even know it's in danger. We're not like Super-Man, or Spider-Man. No one knows we exist outside our fellow college scholars, and they don't even know who we really are. If someone outside of my posse wrote a story about my life, it would be about two pages long. In 36 font. Bold. Quadruple spaced, even. But if someone DID know our secret...our terrible, yet wonderful little surprise...they would destroy our only true purpose. Aelita.

Aelita is a computer program. A friendly, loving computer program, but a computer program nonetheless. The computer geek of the group, Jeremie, has a bit of a crush on our computer princess. Of course, that means we want to save her from our archenemy, XANA, who is more of a computer virus. So when we found out we could shut him down, we thought 'Yay, no more XANA!' But when we shut him off, BAM, there goes Aelita. For about a year now, XANA has been attacking us and we keep saving the world. Chemical spills, nuclear reactions, sending us into a nuclear reactor, pulling out all the shots. But we keep beating him back while Jeremie tries to materialize (to make physical) Aelita.

Here's my role in the gang as of yet; kick XANA's scrawny butt back to the 20th century where he'll be a little 8-bit guy who walks across the screen yelling "I WLL DSTRY U!1 EVNTULY" Not while I'm around, little dude. Between my sheer power, Odd's tactics and long range, Yumi's mid-range techniques, and Ulrich's awesome samurai skillz we don't have many weaknesses. We go against blocks, tanks, wasps, craps, even XANA's new 'All-of-the-above machines' that kind of fuses all his machines together. I mean for crying out loud, those things are like Arnold Schwarzenegger's on wheels with metal armor and laser cannons. It wasn't a pretty sight when we first discovered that they can also run you over. And spit acid. And have closable shields. And have super powerful tri-lasers. And really don't resemble ANYTHING about blocks at all. Over-all, they depleted Ulrich of all his life-points in about 2 hits. Then Yumi. Then ALMOST me, but I dodged at the last second and Odd fired an arrow straight through his eye. Or whatever that weird thing is. Looks like an eye to me.

Well, there ya go. That would be my life in a nutshell. Even though I'm willing to bet that most of you have absolutely NO clue what the heck I'm talking about. Or know that much about ME in general. I'm a nice person. I was pretty shy, at first ya know. Then when I made friends with Odd, we began to hang out a bit. And after I met the whole gang, they decided it couldn't hurt to add someone else to the mix. And there I go, always focusing back on our gang when I describe who I am. Fighting XANA is my life. It's who I am. Save the world. Save Aelita. Sometimes, even saving myself. This is my life. I am Alexandria Pharaoh.

So now you know who I am, what I do. What it is that happens in my life. But, hey, why not start from the beginning? It was a dark and stormy night...

Late August, 2005

...Even if it was a bright morning without any clouds in sight. One of my old friends, Shikamaru (A/N Naruto fans, hah, I'm afraid this won't be a crossover), would be disappointed without the clouds. Well, it was my first day to a new school over in Paris. I had learned to speak French in the years passed, but I was told they could all speak English so I kind of gave it up. Sometimes I would jump to speaking in either of these languages and confuse my Japanese-only mother. Sometimes there were a few certain words she could understand, but we'll leave those select few out.

"Oh my god...it's only NOON! Just let me sleep in a LITTLE bit...please..." I whined to the blank air in front of me as I fell off my bed and landed on a large, growing pile of clothes that had gathered in my room. When I say big I mean big. At least it broke my fall, and I could easily find something to wear without the hassle of opening my eyes to find the pile. Again, I moaned to nothingness, "This is going to be a looooong day..." I paused to look at my dog shaggy as he pranced merrily into my room wagging his little fluffy tail in my face, seeming to laugh at me without truly bragging, "Man, if you could come with me to this new school, I would do ANYTHING to get you in. Stupid school rules...I know someone who was saved by a dog, for cryin' out loud!"

"Alexandria, get down here, quick! We're going to be late for the plane ride! (Translated directly from Japanese! (As if))" That would be my mother. If you like soap operas, she's for you. She's like an army of drama actors in one person. Or like half a person. We're all pretty skinny in my family. Especially me.

"Yeah, mom, I know! Well, I forgot, but I still know! I'll be down in a second; can you make some eggs real quick? Thanks!" Sometimes I'm a little bit of an obnoxious, well, obnoxious person. But hey, I can relate. Skip over breakfast, only some eating, boring newspaper clippings, the works. On to the flight!

Later that day

"Oh my gosh this is such a boring flight! Why aren't there movies or something? I'm just happy I brought my laptop so I can talk with my old friends!" I shouted at some old fat guy across the lane. Sort of. He was sleeping, so he didn't hear me, but his wife did and she shot daggers in a 'if-looks-could-kill' glare. I didn't talk any more.

Shika-kun: man, this is so troublesome; Mr. Zwankeivche gave us a HUGE paper today. Man, I'll probably do it in a few days, but skip it for now. What's up on that plane of yours?

Egypt's-Alex: Eh, no movie! Nothin's happenin, and I was really hoping to see Scare Fare again! Stupid flight. If only there was a word for such awful boringness.

Shika-kun: Try troublesome, always works for me.

Egypt's-Alex: Yeah yeah, sure sure. It's to troublesome to say. Too many syllables.

DING DONG, DING DONG "We are landing in Paris Airport, please be ready for landing. I repeat, (aforementioned stuffs) Thank you for riding Ghengis Airline (Hah, I know that would be more Chinese and w/e but still)

Egypt's-Alex: Time to go, I'll talk to you after my first class. Love ya Shika!

Shika-kun: Of course you do. Who can resist me?

Egypt's-Alex: Ah shut yer yapper Shikamaru! Cya l8er!

We arrived, got off and ate, nothing special. The fact that it was about 3 o'clock in the morning seemed not to dawn on anyone here, as everyone bustled around us at the speed of the little white rabbit whose queen will 'have my head for sure'. We'd finally arrived at my dorm. It was simple enough and the other person was nice enough to be awake when I came by. Someone by the name of 'Sissy'. Seemed nice enough for me. But, nice as nice can be, the only thing I needed to happen for me was sleep. Good thing Sissy wasn't a snorer cuz she fell asleep in about three seconds. She said she'd save the tour for the morning and 'hoped I understood'. I turned faced her with utmost contempt in my eyes and said, "God bless you, Sissy. Let us sleep."

That's it! I'd write more but I seriously cannot see the keyboard as I type right now cuz it's so late and I'm so tired. So I'll sleep. Next chappie will be longer. Let me know what you think and all. Oi am I TIRED!

Disclaimer: I own everything so far except the whole beginning stuffs about C to the L. OH! And Shikamaru belongs to Naruto peeps. He's the second best Naruto character EVER(Go Kiba)!