The boy stood there for a while awkwardly as he looked to see all of the students welcoming him to Kadic. Jim smiled and stepped forward taking a stand next to the new arrival.

"On behalf of the Kadic welcoming committee I welcome you to Kadic Academy,"

"Thank you," The boy said rubbing the back of his head.

"And what is your name young man?" Jim said looking to him with a smile still on his face.

"My name is Tora," He smiled awkwardly still looking over at all of the students. "Tora Stones,"

"Ah Stones?" Jim repeated. "Then are you related to our Aelita Stones?"

"Aelita Stones?" He asked looking around. "It doesn't sound familiar,"

"Aelita is my cousin Jim I don't think we're related to Tora," Odd chimed in tugging Aelita with him.

"Ah yes," Jim nodded. "This is Odd Della Robia and his cousin Miss Aelita Stones,"

"Pleasure to meet you two," He smiled putting his hand out. Odd smiled and shook his hand as Aelita smiled and waved shyly.

"Alright then, now that we've had a bit of introduction let's find out who you'll be rooming with," Jim said pulling a folded paper, taking a few moments to clear his throat he looked over the paper before turning back to the group. "You'll be rooming with Jeremy Belbois ,"

"Wa-wa?" Jeremy replied hearing the announcement.

"Where is Belbois?" Jim asked looking around.

Jeremy slowly walked out of the ground and looked at Jim. "I didn't hear anything about this Jim,"

"Sorry Belbois," Jim said looking over the boys glasses. "Principle Delmas has been very busy the last few days and chose you for his roommate this morning so like it or not please try to get along with him,"

"Sorry about this Jeremy," Tora said slugging his bags.

"It's alright," Jeremy smiled. "Just didn't expect someone to be moving in,"

"You could say that," Ulrich chimed in walking up next to Odd. "I didn't expect Odd to room with me either and now look at us,"

"Yeah Trouble and double trouble," Jeremy laughed.

The small group of kids laughed at the small joke, even Odd and Ulrich laughed not denying that the two friends could cause trouble when they liked too. After a while Tora picked up his bags and followed Jeremy to his room. Once they arrived Jeremy opened the door to his room to find another bed on the opposite side of his.

"Huh," Jeremy said walking in. "Guess Principle Delmas has been busy getting you settled in here,"

"Good to know I'm not being a bother," Tora smiled taking a seat on his bed.

"Nonsense it's nice to meet a new face here," Ulrich said sitting in the door way.

"Not too often we get students from America either," Yumi said standing next to him.

"America is pretty boring I was thrilled to find out that I was chosen to come here," He smiled widely. "Although the others should be on their way as well,"

"Others?" Aelita repeated. "You mean more students are coming?"

"Yeah I was just sent over first to let them know that I arrived okay," Tora said starting to look through his bag.

"When will they be here?" Aelita asked again.

"Don't know," Tora said busy rummaging through his back pack. "They should be here with in the next month or so,"

"Hm," Jeremy said thinking.

As the gang thought and as Aelita was about to ask another question Jeremy's laptop began beeping loudly and urgently, as he grabbed and flipped it open typing quickly before looking to his friends and nodding quickly.

"Excuse us Tora," Aelita said as the group filed out of the room. "We need to go,"

"Is there something wrong?" He said standing and looking serious.

"No," She smiled. "We just have to go somewhere we'll be back soon,"

She bowed quickly before pulling the door shut behind her as she ran off to join the group. As the door went to shut it became caught by Tora's foot leaving it open by a crack. He opened the door quietly looking out and watching the group disappear behind the corridor before following slowly.

He followed the group for a short while as they ran from the schools court yard into the forested area near the school. He followed closely before taking cover near some bushes watching the gang disappear into a manhole, as they closed the lid he wait a minute before opening it up to descend into the sewer where he found a left behind scooter to help follow them.

He came upon their destination, an abandoned factory near the river bed. He watched them run into the building and disappear into the dark. He followed to the door way and found five sets of rope, he grabbed one and swung to the ground below landing hard and rolling to see the elevator the had boarded sink below the ground.

"What are these people up too?" He asked himself watching the elevator slowly shrink into the abyss of the shaft.