Hey everyone, I'm back! And I've got a lot of writing for this chapter, mostly because I was stuck an hour from Sudberry Ontario with no internet, so I got bored -sweatdrop-. But I'm back now and able to post this! Well...that's all I really have to say...so, on with the story!
"Alexiss? Are you planning on coming up or am I eating supper alone again tonight?" Ana called from in front of the basement door, not stupid enough to open it no matter how mad at the fox-girl she was, as she knew that Alexiss had probably made it so that only she could enter the basement without something bad happening. "I'll be up in a few minutes Ana! Set an extra place at dining table, we're having a guest from now on!" Alexiss's voice came from behind the door, sounding far more distant then it actually was, as if Alexiss was caught in her mind again. "Sure, whatever you say!" Ana responded, walking towards the newly set up dining room. "First she takes her laptop and goes into the basement and doesn't come out for three days, then she tells me we'll be having a guest from now on? What's going on here?" Ana muttered to herself angrily, making another plate of cheesy potato wedges and hotdogs similar to Alexiss' and set it beside the plate that matched it, the other plate having familiar looking chilly dogs instead of hotdogs. Ana looked at the hallway leading from the basement door to the dining room, seeing nothing after a moment she sat down in front of the plate with chilly dogs with a sad sigh, picking at her potato wedges with a fork absently.
"Something wrong Ana?" Came a familiar voice suddenly, drawing Ana's attention to it, only to see Alexiss with a slight smirk on her face, though it seemed to be showing pride in herself more then anything else. "About time we had dinner together again...you've been in the basement for three days strait...haven't even seen you since you went in." Ana stated, smiling slightly at her friend as she sat down in front of one of the plates of hotdogs. "How is Eclipse?" Alexiss asked immediately, Ana shaking her head slightly as she should have known Alexiss would ask about Eclipse. "She's still in a coma. Sonic said that he and Tails would be coming over to check on her later...Vector called to say that Espio is in a similar condition, but he's getting better. Should be waking up tonight or early tomorrow morning according to the doctor. He said that he and the rest of the Chaotix would be coming to see Eclipse once Espio was feeling better." Ana said, retelling everything that she'd been told to tell Alexiss. "That's good..." Alexiss said absently.
"So...where's our guest?" Ana asked suddenly after a few moments of eating, causing Alexiss to look up from the food she'd been eating to look at her friend. "He should be up any moment now." Alexiss stated, her ears flicking before she turned around to look down the hallway she'd come from, a young Mobian boy with a fluffy tail with the white tip of a fox revealing himself shyly from behind the open basement door. He was about 9, perhaps 10, having a nice shade of pale purple fur and familiar dark blue eyes. His muzzle and the inside of his cat-like ears were white, three bangs coming from the top of his head with dark brown streaks and chin-length flat hedgehog quills the same pale purple as his fur but with pale yellow streaks, a dark blue bat wing coming from just below his right shoulder blade while a red bat wing was coming from just under the left shoulder blade. He wore a similar purple collar to the one that Ana wore, a white t-shirt trimmed in dark blue and with dark blue sleeves, and old pair of white jeans with dark blue patches sown on that were rolled up to be shorts and revealed that the inside of the jeans were also dark blue, white boots with a dark blue stripe going strait down the center and black straps that acted as laces, and white boxing gloves also trimmed in dark blue that revealed familiar spikes coming from the young boy's knuckles. The way the boy looked, he could easily pass as Ana and Alexiss' little brother. "Come on in. Ana won't hurt you." Alexiss said kindly when she noticed that the boy hadn't moved from coming out from behind the door, the boy nodding slightly before walking towards them slowly. Alexiss stood as the boy neared, coming to stand behind him, putting a comforting hand on his shoulder. "Ana, this is David Phai. David, this is your aunt, Ana Whitch." Alexiss said, the boy studying Ana while Ana simply looked at Alexiss with a dumbfounded look. "Just who is this kid?" She asked, looking at how David seemed to flinch from the sound of her voice, even though she hadn't used a harsh or cruel tone. "Well...he is the reason that I was in the basement for so long. I created him from our DNA using data collected from Project Shadow." Alexiss explained calmly, slowly leading the hybrid boy to the seat beside where she'd been sitting before sitting him down, sitting down herself soon afterward. "It only took you THREE DAYS to create a creature like Eclipse with our DNA?" Ana asked in shock, David flinching again, though this one was much more noticeable. "This mansion is far too big for just the two of us and I was bored. Now, please speak calmer, David was only finished a little while ago and he's easily startled by everything right now." Alexiss said, her tone making her sound like she was scolding the cat-girl, Ana noticing that David didn't flinch at Alexiss' tone even though he'd done so even when Ana was talking normally. "How come he flinches every time I talk, yet he doesn't when you do?" Ana asked curiously, seeing that David again flinched, but it was getting less noticeable. "Well...in all honesty...I was talking to myself while I was creating him, so he's used to my voice." Alexiss admitted, blushing slightly and rubbing the back of her neck a bit, smiling sheepishly. "He'll stop flinching once he gets used to your voice Ana, it won't take long. Until then try to speak calmly around him, that way you don't startle him." Alexiss said, smiling at David when he poked at his food in confusion, obviously trying to figure out what to do. "David is like a baby right now, he just learns at a much faster pace. He already understands most of what we say, but he doesn't know much more then that. It'll be a while until he figures out how to properly show his emotions, even longer until he figures out how to speak, so we'll have to wait till then to fully understand him." Alexiss stated, cutting David's potato wedges before showing him how to eat them, something that he quickly picked up on as well as eating the hotdogs. When Ana had given him a try of one of her chilly dogs Alexiss was amused to see him try it, before swallowing and sticking out his tongue like a small child does when they don't like something. "Seems like he didn't inherit your taste for chilly Ana." Alexiss said with a small chuckle, Ana chuckling to herself as well. "Well, if nothing else, we always have Sonic to eat the leftover chilly dogs." Ana agreed, David looking at the two with slight confusion slowing on his face. "You'll understand when you're a bit older...and after you meet Sonic." Alexiss told him kindly, the young hybrid nodding, obviously satisfied with that. Jeez, I feel like I'm trying to decipher Shadow's emotions...maybe we can get Rouge to help us later, she always seems to be able to pick up the slightest changes in someone's mood. Ana thought, looking at David, wishing to know what the boy was thinking about. After all, since Alexiss was the one who created him, he had to be smart, and millions of things were probably already going through the small Mobian's head even though he'd been finished less then an hour ago. "Once you're done eating Aunty Ana and I will be taking you to go get some furniture for you room ok. You know, a bed to sleep on, a chair to sit in, stuff like that." Alexiss told David, explaining about the bed and chair when she realised that David didn't know what the word furniture meant.
"You'll be picking out the stuff for your room yourself, that way it'll be your room and yours alone. Understand?" She asked suddenly, David nodding as a sign that he did, before finishing his last hotdog. "Next time don't make him quite so much food, ok? He may be a growing boy, but he still has a child's stomach size. He is not like Sonic, who seems to never be full." Alexiss said to Ana, who nodded like David in understanding, a little surprised that Alexiss had already gotten accustom to calling her Aunty Ana when talking to David. Guess that means I'll have to start calling her his mother...since that's pretty much what she is. Ana thought, putting the dishes in the sink and rinsing them before grabbing her purse while Alexiss grabbed the pouch of rings, David standing by the door as he was told and waiting for them after being shown what to do with his dishes when he was finished eating by Ana. "Alright, we have to get going before Sonic and Tails come." Alexiss said, Ana nodding, Alexiss showing David how to fly since he had her wings before the three of them left after Alexiss had locked the door and turned on the security system.
"I don't see why we had to stop here." Ana said, the three hybrids standing in front of a huge shelf of stuffed animals, David clearly scanning each critically. They'd been everywhere else, and had gotten David a dark blue recliner chair with white trimming and a five point white star on the headrest, a white painted wooden bed frame with the top a bed and a ladder leading to it with wood rafters to keep him from falling off and the bottom a combination of a computer desk which had dark blue drawers and a dresser that had dark blue doors with small shelves beside the ladder, a rolling blue and black computer chair with arms, a dark blue beanbag chair, and a dark blue and black Acer-AS5542-5462 laptop already, having come here to get David a stuffed animal before going home. "Better yet, why is this place even in Ring City?" Ana asked Alexiss quietly, indication to the giant toy store that they were in, the older girl looking at Ana as if she were an idiot. "To answer your first question...as I said earlier, David is like a baby, and will probably feel better if he has something to carry around that has my scent on it if I'm not around. Besides, don't play dumb with me...I know for a fact that you sleep with the Shadow Plushie that Eclipse gave you, so don't criticise someone younger then you doing the same. As for the second question...it was for that little kid character of your, I never bothered to take it out." Alexiss whispered back, reminding Ana of the young child Mobian she had made when the two were younger that had been dropped when she got older...she hadn't thought Alexiss still remembered the little girl.
Alexiss' attention was brought to David when she felt a sudden but small pull on her pant leg, making her look at the young boy. He was pointing at a cuddly looking arctic fox stuffy, just the right size for him to carry around and sleep with. "You want this one?" She asked, picking it up, David nodding. She inspected the toy just as critically as David had, seeing that it was fine and cute, before smiling down at David. "Do you want to pay for it?" She asked him, as he had already learned about having to pay for things, David nodding again. "Alright, let's go find the cash register so that we can buy this and go home." Alexiss said with a slight smile, David returning the smile, before bounding off like the child he was to find the cash register. Looks like we won't be needing Rouge after all...he's progressing rather quickly. Ana thought as she watched him looking around cutely for what they needed.
"Sorry we made you wait Mr Sonic and Mr Tails, we had to get some things for David's room." Alexiss said when she opened the door to the mansion, having found an impatient Sonic at her door along with an exasperated Tails who had seemed to be trying to convince Sonic that knocking their door down wasn't the best was to get into their house when they weren't there. "David?" Tails and Sonic had asked immediately. "This is David." Ana said, indicating David, who was clinging to Alexiss' pant leg and was mostly hiding behind her except his little muzzle and eyes, which were watching the fox and hedgehog with nervous curiosity. "Is he your little brother?" Tails asked, looking at Alexiss as she was the one that David was clinging to. "Not quite...she's closer to his mother. See, Alexiss created David using data from Project Shadow and our DNA...that's what she's been doing for the past three days." Ana explained, Tails and Sonic looking at Alexiss in shock and amazement. "You created him in just three days?" Tails asked in amazement. "This mansion is far too big for just the Ana and I, and I was bored. Now, please be sure to speak calmly, David was only finished a few hours ago and he's easily startled by most things right now." Alexiss warned, Sonic and Tails nodding dumbfounded, not wanting the startle the young boy, who looked older then Tails yet acted so much younger. "He can already show his emotions quite well, but he still hasn't learned how to talk yet...that could take a few weeks. Until then we'll have to try and understand him by his gestures and body language alone." She explained, the two nodding once more, before Sonic went to check on Eclipse and Tails sat on the recliner couch meant for two, Alexiss and Ana sitting on the three seat recliner couch with David in the middle and clinging closely to Alexiss.
"He's amazing Alexiss...I'm sure Eclipse would like to see him once she wakes up." Tails said suddenly, after being sure that Sonic wouldn't hear him, scanning David lightly with his eyes as he could tell that David was afraid of him and didn't want to scare the boy by scanning him anymore then he was. "I plan on showing him to Eclipse once she wakes up. I'm hoping he'll be a little less afraid of Mobians by then. By the way, could you call Mr Knuckles for me? I need help putting David's things in his room and Mr Knuckles is the strongest Mobian I know, but he doesn't seem to want to talk to me." Alexiss stated, her voice sad at the end, the frown on David's face showing that he obviously didn't like the fact that Knuckles had made his 'mother' sad. "Sure, I'll go call Knuckles now." Tails said, standing up and going to the phone, punching in the familiar number before putting the phone to his ear and waiting for Knuckles to answer it. Alexiss leaned back a bit, sighing in relief and closing her eyes, as she'd been afraid she might have to try putting everything in David's room herself, before feeling the now familiar tug on her pant leg. She opened her eyes, seeing David. "What is it David?" She asked kindly, pulling herself back into a proper sitting position. David pointed to his tail before pointing to Tails with a questioning look on his face. "That's right, Tails is a fox. You're part fox as well David, as am I." Alexiss said, smiling at him. He was only a few hours old, yet he was already trying to understand so much, like just what he was. David then pointed to his quills and to Eclipse's room, where both she and Sonic were. "Right again David. Sonic is a hedgehog, and you are part hedgehog too, just like Ana. Eclipse, the girl asleep in that room, is also a hedgehog." Alexiss explained, David nodding in understanding. "It took a bit of convincing, but Knuckles will be here in a few hours to help. By the way...you don't happen to have some grapes, do you?" Tails asked as he turned to look at Alexiss, who was petting David's head in a sort of motherly way. "Yeah, I bought some yesterday. Alexiss likes grapes too, so I bought lots." Ana stated, Alexiss smiling happily, while David looked happy that his 'mother' was happy. "Good...I told him he'd get some grapes if he helped us." Tails said, smiling slightly, Alexiss nodding in agreement. "I don't mind sharing some if it means some help from Mr Knuckles." Alexiss stated simply, laying back to relax while they waited for Knuckles.
Bet that of all things you may have expected, David was not it. Still I like him...like him better when he starts talking, I'll admit. Anyway, I just wanted you to all know that from now on I will not be posting the next chapter until I get at least one review on the last one I put up, just to let you all know. Well, that's enough from me. See you all soon, I hope.