4. Hello Chao!
Sunday
Jag's house
When Jag got home from the park he was tired from running all day and went straight to his room. He put the chao egg in the heated blanket and flopped onto the bed. He was asleep in minutes.
Later that night he awoke to a strange purring noise. He slowly got out of his warm bed and looked at the source of the sound … the chao egg. The egg was rocking back and forth in the blanket, small cracks forming around it. Jag's egg was hatching.
Jag jumped out of his bed and got as close to the egg as he could, urging it on. At the sound of his voice the egg stopped rocking for a second, then shook harder then it did before. Soon the top half of the egg fell off, revealing a small sky blue chao.
The chao looked up at Jag and seemed to smile, making small gurgling noises. Jag smiled back and picked up the chao up. The chao cuddled into Jags fur then surprisingly small black spots appeared on his arms and legs but Jag was to at awe with his chao to notice.
"You can sleep with me tonight little guy." He whispered to his chao. His chao answered by making a bunch of baby like noise. Jag smiled and slipped into his bed, putting his chao on the pillow and laying down. The little sky blue chao the proceeded to snuggle with the back of his head. "You know what I'm going to call you?"
More small baby noises.
"Canta, short for Cantabile, that means 'in a singing style.' Because whenever you talk it sort of sounds like your singing."
More baby noises that sounded happy.
Jag had a big smile as he fell asleep that night, with the chao curled up next to his head.
Monday
School
Boomer was opening his locker to get his books for first period when Jag ran up, looking excited. Boomer soon saw why. Canta was sitting on top of Jag's head.
"Your egg hatched! Aw man, I was hoping mine would hatch first …"
"Don't worry Boomer, if mine hatched yours will probably hatch soon too."
"Hey, your right!" Boomer then took his egg out of his backpack and began inspecting it. After a few seconds Boomer put it back in his backpack quickly and said looking over Jags shoulder, "Linus coming at twelve o'clock."
Jag looked over his shoulder and saw Boomer was right, Linus (The school's top bully. A gray fluffy Persian cat.) was walking in there direction. The devil chao Zhan was sitting on Linus' shoulder and was grinning its toothy smile as always. Most of the bullies had devil chao so it was easy for the local shy and weak kids to hide before they got spotted.
Unfortunately a lot of new kids were coming in lately, most of them armadillos, echidnas, dingoes, and chameleons. They all said they were from the Floating Island. Most of the adults were worried about the predicament. The local parents began asking the parents of the new kids why so many were coming from the Floating Island.
Most echidnas said with anger, "Not enough room. Up there or in Albion." And left it at that.
Other species mostly said, "It's too dangerous for my family there, we had to go." And said no more.
Jag and Boomer were worried about Slider, if he had got there and got hurt there was nothing they could do. But then they remembered his parting words, "I know the guard of the glowing green source. He's cool with it."
If he had friends there he was probably ok.
"Hey look! It's the losers with no chao!" Linus said as he spotted them.
'Oh no.' They both thought. Then their spirits lifted as they remembered that they had chao/chao egg, and they both turned to face the bully.
Linus hesitated a second at the sight of Canta on Jag's head, then an evil grin appeared on his face.
"What have you got there, a blue wad of bubble gum?" Linus' devil chao laughed evilly, scaring Jag's little blue chao.
Jag grew slightly angry at this remark; they could insult him but not his chao!
Linus continued, "Oh I'm sorry, that's just the ugliest deflated beach ball I've ever seen!"
Jag almost jumped on the gray cat that was several time larger than himself when Boomer put a hand on his friends shoulder and stepped forward saying as he went, "You know what Liar,"
(Boomer called Linus that to insult him like how Sonic called Robotnik Eggman, or Robuttnik.)
"I bet you would look horrible soaking wet." Boomer then did the best fake evil look he could do, which was very convincing.
Linus was a bit uncertain for a second then looked Boomer squarely in the eye, saying, "So what blue boy?"
"Well …" Boomer then took a full water gun from his backpack and pointed it at Linus. Linus then abandoned all pride and ran from the water gun as if it was a snake.
"Hahaha! See Jag, all you have to do is outsmart the bullies, there all brawn. If someone comes along and threatens them with what there afraid of most they'll run like a chicken."
Jag thanked Boomer just as the bell rang for first period. They both grabbed there books and ran for there first period, Science.
There science teacher was a frog named Mr.Stewman.
(Ironic right?)
He wasn't all about the 'book' or 'dissection' for obvious reasons so most of the time they talked about everyday subjects. Sometimes they even got to have a day were they just got to goof around, luckily for Jag and Boomer this was one of those days. Stewman had to see how far along the kids from the Floating Island were, so he was with them in his office giving them a test.
Almost everyone had chao, so the teachers gave up on stopping kids from bringing them. So the school did a fun drive for pens in the back of the room were the chao could play while there masters studied. The drive was a complete success and the school put a chao pen in every classroom. They even had money left over for some chao toys.
Since they could goof of today most people held there chao and did some chao wrestling, or racing. When they entered they were ignored, as usual. But they liked it that way. They sat at there usual seats in the back, Boomer started staring at his egg intensely, as if willing it to hatch. Jag began playing with Canta.
While Boomer was staring at his egg he didn't notice another chao climbing up his desk until it was right next to his egg. The chao was a hero, power, dragon type with blue eyes. It looked at his egg then said, "Your egg is going to hatch."
Boomer was startled at first then remembered something he read in his instruction book; 'Your chao will be able to talk and read after it's first evolution …'
"I know that."
"Five, four, three, two…" The chao counted down. At two a huge crack appeared on the bronze shell.
"Holy-!"
The egg then totally cracked in the middle and a bronze chao head poked out. The small chao stared at Boomer, and Boomer stared at his chao. Boomer's shout had attracted the attention of the hole class so they all stared at Boomer and his knew chao.
It remained that way for a few seconds, then Boomer's chao held up it's 'hands' at Boomer and whimpered, wanting to be held.
"Awwww!" A majority of the class said, mostly the girls. "Cool!" Said most of the boys.
Boomer picked up his chao, warmth in his eyes, and said one word. "Brio."
Jade's Cave/By river
Jade had decided to take the chao egg out of the water at night, so there was no fear of it drowning if it hatched while he was sleeping. He slept with it near his arm so he would wake up if it hatched. But one morning when he woke up…
Jade awoke to the sound of the river and a small gurgling sound. He opened his eyes and saw a chao on his chest. It wasn't a normal blue and yellow chao sitting on his lap, but a brown and red chao. It almost shocked him out of his skin. The small chao looked like … him.
Its body was brown while it's 'paws' were white along with the guardian mark on its chest. Small bumps for dreadlocks appearing on its head and two bumps on each of its paws. It smiled at him and opened its mouth, it was hungry.
Jade smiled at the small creature, immediately attached. He got up and carried it to the 'main' cave. When he reached it he opened the fridge and pulled out a few apples. The chao pounced on them as Jade placed it and the apples on his table.
"Wow you were hungry." Jade said.
"Grrawwrrrr." The chao said, as if trying to talk. But the sound coming out like a roar.
"Wow, you're a tuff little guy aren't you?"
The chao had finished the apples and looked a little sleepy. It looked up at him with blinking eyes.
"Come here." Jade picked up the chao and tickled it a bit on its little tummy. The chao laughed, even though it sounded like a gurgle instead of a laugh, and then smiled again at Jade. Jade took a closer look at the mark on the little chao's chest. There was no doubt about it, it was the same mark on his chest, it was the mark of the guardian.
Jade smiled. "I'll call you Marcato, but just Marc for short. Do you know what it means?" Then Jade laughed at himself, 'Of course he doesn't know! He was born a few minuets ago!' "It's from the ancient echidna language; most guardians were named this because it means 'marked.' And we are most certainly marked now. Aren't we Marc?"
The little chao just blinked sleepily at him and yawned.
"Well, now that you've hatched I'd better check the Master. Let's go together."
Jade walked through a tunnel on the south side of his cave and walked through the dark, but it didn't bother him. His eye's glowed like a cats as he walked, his night vision kicking in. He could see as if it was day.
"Don't worry Marc, were going to walk through the tunnel for a few hours so the gangs won't get us …"
But Marc the chao was asleep in Jades arms, knowing he was safe with his master.
School
Science class
All the kids were practically smothering Brio, Boomers bronze chao, with love. All the girls thought he was just 'darling' and all the guys thought his bronze color 'rocked.' But what Brio wanted most was something to eat and his master. So he did the first thing that came to mind. He called.
"Grrrraaaawwwwrrrr!"
"Awww!"
"Coool Dude!"
Boomer squeezed through the outer students and was; after jabbing half the class with his spines to get them to move; able to get to Brio. Brio gurgled happily when Boomer was able to grab him and get back to his desk. The hero, power, dragon chao was still there.
"Told you so." The chao said.
"Ok, ok, you got me there."
"Aqua!"
The chao turned to the sound of her master's voice. A white komodo dragon walked up from the front of the classroom and scooped up her chao.
"Sorry, I didn't even know she wasn't there until the commotion started. I'm Como."
"Oh yeah, I've seen you around. I'm Boomer."
"Sorry about that, Aqua always seems to get into trouble."
"No problem."
"Bye." The Komodo dragon then went back to her usual seat.
"Man she's shy." Jag said, he hadn't even left his seat. Canta was staring at Brio. And Brio was staring back.
"Hey Jag."
"Yeah Boomer?"
"I think are chao like each other."
The truth was that Canta was staring at Brio because his bronze color reminded him of Jag's fur when the suns was shining on it. And Canta's color reminded Brio of Boomer. And they were curious. Brio made the first move by trying to crawl to were Canta was, the problem was that they were on separate desks. Boomer decided to help by placing Brio on Jag's desk where Canta was. They circled each other, expecting something to happen. Then Brio stopped and yawned.
Canta crawled over to him and yawned also, and they fell asleep on each other.
Boomer burst out laughing, and Jag started laughing as well. The other students ignored them as usual, now bored with Boomers chao. And mad at Boomer for jabbing them with his spines.
"I think are chao will be friends, don't you?" Boomer asked while still laughing.
"Yep!" Jag answered.
'Ring!'
The bell rang for second period so Boomer gathered his books and so did Jag.
"See-ya Jag!" Boomer said while scooping up his sleeping chao.
"Bye Boomer, see-ya at lunch." Jag said, doing likewise.
They left the science room and headed out in different directions, Boomer going to the Band room because his dad wanted him to play in the school band, and Jag heading to P.E. because to him it was the most interesting subject.
Band
Boomer's band teacher was a goose called Mr. Bush, the evilest teacher at this school to his opinion. Boomer played the trumpet, or at least tried to.
"Boomer! Play it right for once!" He would say. But since the new kids that came from the Floating Island he had been busy because most of them now took Band class. All those who knew how to play an instrument already were supposed to wait until the new kids got situated. Or in other words do what they wanted to do as long as they didn't interrupt the band teacher as he taught the new kids how to play.
Ray played in the band too, but instead of playing a trumpet he played the drums. In truth he was good, really good. Even though he wasn't the best percussionist he was the most dedicated. The other kids that played the drums were dogs, and they just played around instead of even trying to play there instruments right.
"Hey Ray!" Boomer said when he saw his friend in his usual seat in the percussion section. The trumpets were right in front of the percussionists and there drums so Boomer could talk to Ray whenever he wanted to. But since Mr. Bush taught the new kids in the sound-proof room at the side of the classroom everyone just sat where they wanted to. Boomer sat next to Ray and showed him Brio.
"Wow!" Ray said, "Boomer your egg hatched!"
"Jag's did too."
"Oh! Mine will hatch soon then!" Ray then reached under his seat were he put it. Then stopped.
"What's up Ray?" Boomer asked as he saw the fox freeze in that position.
"Boomer …" Ray then pulled out an egg shell. Ray got off his seat as fast as possible and looked under it. There, sleeping, was a small yellow chao. "It hatched …"
"Really!"
The small chao woke up at Boomer's shout and saw Ray. The small chao smiled and crawled over to where Ray was leaning. It crawled into his arms and resumed sleeping.
"Cool … man Ray your chao rocks."
"I'm going to name her Tacet."
"How do you now it's a her?" Boomer asked.
"Didn't you read chapter 30 in the instruction manual yet?"
"Uh … no, I'm still on chapter 25."
"You see the bump thing on her head."
"Yeah."
"It's longer than a males, so if the top is long it's a girl. But if it's short it's a male."
"Oh." Boomer looked up at his chao, Brio, but luckily his top was short. Brio seemed to be content on top of Boomers head, regardless of his spines.
"Hey losers!" A panther called from a group of cats near the band lockers. "What are you doing, exchanging horrible hairdos?" The other cats in the group laughed at the joke and hi-fived the panther.
"That had to be the worst insult I've ever heard." Boomer said. Though not loud enough for the cats to hear.
"Why are they always like that?" Ray asked. "I mean, sure were different. But why us?"
"Look around Ray." Boomer said quietly. "It's because we hang out with each other."
Ray then noticed how the groups of kids seemed to talk only with there own spices. The dogs in the percussion section were goofing around at the front of the class room, and the cats were still by the lockers.
What they didn't know was that it wasn't just happening at there school, the dividing of the spices was beginning to happen on a global scale. The animals were dividing themselves … what the world didn't know was this was going to lead to something far worse that a simple war…
"Why? We have a right to be friends. Why should we care what they think? I say we hang together as long as we want to!" Ray said with an unusual display of anger.
"Don't worry buddy, its not like they can make us stop being friends." Boomer said. "They can never do that."
Ray smiled and looked at his sleeping chao.
"Grrraaaa!" Brio said from Boomers head.
"What is it Brio?" Boomer said taking Brio off of his head and holding him.
"MmmmMMmmm." Brio said, then opened his mouth.
"Oh! You're hungry!" Boomer exclaimed.
Brio smiled, then started chewing on Boomers white glove.
"No little guy that's not food!"
Brio continued chewing.
"Brio, let go." Boomer said, trying to sound serious.
Brio stopped and opened his mouth again. "Huuurrr."
"Don't worry," Boomer pulled a candy bar out of his pocket. "I've got candy."
Brio was a bit suspicious of the candy at first but after one bite he began eating it like crazy. One he got to half of the bar he abruptly stopped and curled up, asleep.
"Wow, eat and sleep that's all a baby chao does right?"
"Yep." Ray confirmed.
"Heh, just like me."
P.E.
When Jag got to P.E. He put Canta in the chao pen on the left side of the Gym. He went to do the beginning warm-up and started playing a soccer game with the rest of the class…
Canta's POV
'Were is master going?' Canta's baby mind thought. Luckily Jag stayed in sight throughout his warm-ups. When the soccer game started inside the gym Canta was confused. They seemed to be chasing a ball, and kicking it into the net-things on ether side of the gym. Slowly Canta learned the game by watching his master play it. The goal was to get the ball into one of the net-things without crossing the lines on the ground. Canta was so engrossed in watching his master play that he didn't notice a small devil chao sneaking up on him.
"Boo!" The devil chao said.
Canta yelped in surprise and fell over.
"Hahaha! Man I love doing that!" The devil chao was Zhan, Linus' chao.
"Zhan leave that chao alone!" It was Aqua. "He's just a baby."
"Why should I listen to you? You're just a snooty hero chao."
Aqua then got a bit mad, and as all smart chaos know, you should never make a dragon chao angry.
"I'm warning you Zhan, If you don't stop tormenting that chao-"
"So what?" Zhan then jumped on top of Canta and attempted to crush the poor little blue chao. Big mistake. Aqua then did what only dragon chao can, she breathed fire. Zhan's tail got barbequed by a stream of blue fire and he screamed while jumping up and down comically until he got to the water basin at the other end of the chao pen.
"Ahh…" Zhan said, greatly relieved to get water on his burning devil chao tail.
Most of the chao in the pen laughed so hard that they were falling over. Even the other devil chao.
"It wasn't that funny!" Zhan yelled at them all.
"Yes it was!" Most of them yelled back.
Aqua walked over to Canta and tried to comfort the startled little chao. Canta was small but learning fast, Aqua could tell. Canta would never let his guard down in unfamiliar territory again.
Later at Lunch
Boomer, Jag, and Ray all sat at the same table. Most of the time it was just them, but sometimes when there's no room at the other tables a group would sit at the other end of the table. As far away from the trio as possible.
They were all feeding their chao and having a good time with one another. As happy as good friends could be, there chao getting to know one another.
Little did they know that an evil was growing, gaining power and was soon to unleash it's horror upon the world…
I hope u all liked this ch. I've decided to do this story as I fell like it with Shadows. I hope this chapter didn't suck. Don't worry, It will probably get more serious in the latter chapters but I'll use the next few chapters to get used to my universe…
P.S. The teacher's names were from two of my seventh grade teachers, so Mr.Bush and Mr.Stewman do exist. Linus and Aqua belong to ChaosShadowXana. Linus is a real cat (Merowww!) and Aqua is a chao.
