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Well, I own not, this story's origin…and on with the fic!

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Odd's POV

I stared warily at the strangers around him, the humans seemed confused at my behavior, but I wasn't concerned with this at the moment; Anna was no where in sight, and I could not sense her calming presence anywhere nearby. The one human, Ulrich, was using a cellular phone to; hopefully, contact my charge, while the other two sat across from me, staring.

Thinking the situation possibly dangerous, but not lethal at the current time, I decided to investigate the small dog sniffing cautiously at my shoe. Picking it up, I was surprised when it settled into my lap and promptly dosed off. The room became silent as Ulrich completed his call, and the three stared unnervingly at me.

I could feel her presence a full minute before she entered the room, Anna had been with me for a long time, and I always did have a sixth sense for seeing a person's soul. That was why I had not simply slaughtered them and left to search on my own; these children had relatively pure souls, and felt easy to trust, so I simply waited till even the humans could hear her pounding down the hall and busting in.

Normal POV

Anna thrust open the door, panting slightly from her run, only to regain her breath moments later and rush over to Odd. The boy's demeanor instantly changed as he smiled and glomped onto the poor girl. "Annaaaa! I'm so glad you're okay! There are these weird kids, and you weren't there, and I thought something might have happened to you!" The confused boy had latched onto Anna's neck, but the girl seemed used to it. "Calm down, Odd, there must have been an overdrive caused by the stress put on you by your transformation." Anna mumble more to herself than to anyone else, but Odd heard all the same. "Well that makes a bit of sense, I guess…" Odd sat back down on the now slightly mutilated bed and the two children sat in quiet contemplation.

Meanwhile, the OTHER children were sitting on the other side of the room, wondering what the heck was going on, but just as Jeremy (being the most rational of the three) was about to ask what in the name of the seven dwarfs was going on, Anna laughed. "Oh, okay Odd. No need to worry about this. We can get this fixed up fairly quickly if you don't mind seeing my mom for a bit!" Odd smiled innocently, the exact opposite of a few minutes ago. "Really? We'll get to see Mistress Kantii? Sweet!" And for the first time in what seemed like ages, Odd was acting like his normal self.

Yumi finally lost her patience, and screeched in the others' faces, "What the hell is going on here? We lost you on, 'overdrive'! You act as if Odd's some kind of robot!" The feline and girl looked at the huffing girl for a minute before bursting into laughter. "Oh my god, you don't know how close you are to the truth, Yumi!" Anna laughed, doubling over in hysterical laughter as Odd patted her lightly on the back. Ulrich and Jeremy decided that Yumi had it more of less under control and sat back, used to the randomness by now. Odd, too, decided that he would leave the talking to the girls and promptly began to scratch an itch behind his ear.

"Well, let's start with what you already know." Anna started, wiping the last remnants of mirth from her face. "You know when I told you my dad died in an accident pertaining to a project?" The others nodded. "That's me!" Odd chirped, pointing happily at himself. The others stopped nodding. A pig flew by. "Oh-kaaaayyy, Odd, I don't thing that was the best way to do this." Anna sweat dropped, "Well, it got the job done, didn't it?" The two sat there for a few minutes, watching as the children sat like stones.

"Uhm…want to get some ice cream while we wait?" Odd nodded, and they went out for ice cream, it was delicious and they had a wonderful time. The end.

Coming back an hour later, Odd got tired of waiting for the guys to get it, so he simply whacked them over the head. "Hu-wah? Oh…wow." Was the most response they got. "Gah! Come on Odd, let's just drag them to my mom's, it's not like there's any point hiding now…" Odd cocked his head, "We were hiding? From what?" Another sigh and then they were off, dragging their practically comatose friends along.

flashback

Anna walked through the streets, looking around for the address her mother had given her. She had been told that if she went to this house, she could see Odd, and Odd was the only thing that mattered in her life. The little girl knocked on the door of a moderately sized house, looking about as she waited.

The whole house looked really strange to the girl who had spent the majority of her waking moments in a government facility, and the sight of so much open air and green grass was still a wondrous thing to the young girl. The yard was littered with toys for a child, and a tree house was perched extravagantly in a massive oak that shadowed the house itself.

Her wonder was interrupted by the sound of the door opening. "Hello- Oh! Anna is it?" A friendly woman smiled down at her. "You must be here to visit Odd, right? My name's Felicity, I'm your aunt!" Anna smiled politely, she had never met any of her relatives, most were dead, and they would be too busy to visit them anyway. The woman suddenly jolted a bit, looking down at her niece. "Oh, dear, please keep in mind the Odd might not be himself, okay?"

Anna nodded, running past her aunt to the stairs. "Odd! Big brother, come down! It's me, Anna, I came to visit!" Anna smiled excitedly as she heard the approaching feet traveling down the stairs. A head peeked around the corner, staring curiously at her. "Who? Have I met you before?" And Anna leapt back as if she had been burned, an expression of betrayal prominent on her face.

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Author's note:

Well, I hope you liked this, I've tried to return to the style of writing that I started this fic with, seeing as how people liked that more. Well, I would recomend a site but well, eh, I'll give one to ya anyways! Su!

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