"Alright, you better have a pretty darn good explanation about ALL of this," Dan yelled, as he slammed the door shut behind him.

"Umm…. Well…. You see…." Emily muttered, looking away.

"Well? I'm waiting," Dan said crossing his arms and leaning against the door, "We're not going downstairs until you tell me what the heck is going on."

"Alright…." She started, "Before well, I came to uhh… Bayview, I was told that I was supposed to be looking for someone. I wasn't really aware, but I was told that I did have an older brother. That's all I know, though."

"So, you didn't know that I was your brother?" Dan asked.

"Um… don't you think I would've acted somewhat different if I was actually aware of that?" Emily replied back with a slightly sarcastic tone.

Dan was about to open his mouth to counter, but then quickly looked away, muttering something to himself. Emily couldn't help but stifle a laugh at this.

The two continued to talk about various things, trying to break the slightly awkward atmosphere between the two of them, until Dan's mother called him downstairs, asking him something.

"Shopping?! I really have to go?" Dan exclaimed.

"Yes, because I don't think Emily here would know her way around the city enough, and I need to finish cooking something for your father," Dan's mom said back.

The teen sighed, muttering something as he went to go put on his shoes by the door. Emily came down the stairs after hearing the yelling with a confused expression on her face.

"Shopping for what?" She asked.

"Well, since you'll be staying here now, you need other clothes besides those, well, what you have on right now," Dan's mom replied back.

Then the mother handed Dan some cash, as he looked away muttering something once again, as he stood up and opened the door.

"C'mon, let's.. just go get this over with," he said, as he walked out the door with Emily following.

Dan lead Emily to the department store, and the young girl looked up at the building with both shock and awe.

"Is.. something wrong?" Dan asked.

"You need a building this large…. to shop?" She asked.

"It's a department store? Have you been living in a dumpster or something, this isn't that large," He said, looking at her with a confused expression on his face.

"Okay…. Should we go in then..?" She said.

Dan shrugged as he quickly walked into the store, and Emily followed, but stopped at the automatic doors.

"Are you, serious? Oh, for crying out loud," He muttered as he took her arm and pulled her into the store.

When Emily looked around at the entrance to the store, she looked amazed, all of the racks of clothes and aisles. She saw plenty of people walking around the store with various brands of clothing, as well as mannequins showing off popular brands. She tried walking up to one and looking at it, only to be pulled away by Dan.

The two walked through the store, with Dan leading Emily in the direction of the women's department upstairs.

"Alright, here we are. Now, don't go-" Dan started to say, but quickly got interrupted by Emily walking off.

"Hey, what are these?" Emily asked, pointing to a rack with bras hanging from it.

"Uhhh, nothing you need to know about right now, let's get going," He said, pulling on her arm once again further into the women's department.

As they eventually found the pre-teen department, Dan waited leaning on one of the ranks while Emily explored looking down the aisles at the racks of clothes. Running from aisle to aisle she eventually walked back to Dan with a few things.

"What about this?" She asked.

She held one of the hangers around her neck to show a plain white tee-shirt with short sleeves, and on top of it was a semi-long blue jacket. The last thing she was holding was a pair of black leggings.

"Huh, well, why don't you try them on, then we'll see, okay?" He said.

She tilted her head in slight confusion, as Dan sighed, and pointed to the left of him while he shook his head. She quickly followed and walked in that direction towards the changing rooms.

"Good grief, she may be my sister, but where has she been all this time?" He muttered to himself.

Then a small red ball jumped up out of his shirt pocket onto his shoulder and opened, raveling a small dragon-like figure.

"There must be some reason Daniel, just be patient. Maybe when you get to know each other more, she'll talk," The Dragon-like ball said.

"Yeah… I guess Drago. Also, can you quit call me that? It's kindof annoying," Dan said.

"Okay! How does this look?" Emily said as she came walking back to Dan.

Dan quickly took a hold of Drago and put him back into his shirt pocket as Emily came back. The white tee-shirt fit under the blue jacket nicely, and the jacket didn't seem too long. The pants also fit quite well.

"That looks pretty good, actually. Have you ever done shopping from where you were from?" Dan said.

"Anything like this? No… not really..why?" She asked.

Dan didn't answer, instead she told her to find other clothes through the department. She picked out various things, and then she started walking back to the escalator with Dan.

"Which one was it again…?" She asked, looking between the two.

Dan sighed and facepalmed as he took the down escalator down to checkout. Emily shrugged and started running down the up one, making it to the bottom after a minute.

"Did you really have to do that?" Dan asked.

"Well, it looked fun, so yeah," She replied back.

He sighed once again, as he pulled her to the checkout counter. They quickly purchased their things, due to Dan doing most of the talking, and they left the store.

"That really was your first time doing major shopping… wasn't it?" Dan asked.

"Does it seem like I would be the type of person who would?" Emily replied back.

"But you-"He started, then quickly cut himself off, then muttered, "I can't believe I got stuck doing this instead of my mom."

"Daw, someone doesn't like shopping, do they," Emily remarked back.

"Just, shut up. We should probably get back home soon anyway, and then hopefully you'll see Dad," Dan said.

"Dad..?" Emily asked, confused.

"Well-uhh…. You know…" Dan started.

"Oh! Sorry, never mind," Emily replied, finally catching on.

Dan let out a slightly frustrated sigh, as he held onto some of the shopping bags walking down the street, with Emily following closely behind. Since he knew where he was going, he kept looking at Emily out of the corner of his eye, and then finally noticed something.

"You know, is there a reason you wear that brown belt thing around your waist?" He asked.

"Um…. Well…. Um…" She started, looking away.

She was trying to find a way to answer the question, when suddenly there was a loud scream down the street, which caused her to jump out from the sound hitting her ears, and quickly looked to Dan.

"Uhh, what was that?" She asked.

"I… don't know, but I say we go check it out!" He replied smirking.

"What happened to trying to get home quickly," She then said.

"Eh, a little detour never hurt anyone," He said back.

Dan quickly took off in the direction of the sound, and Emily hesitantly followed him.

Dan quickly made it to where there was a loud crowd of people in a circle. Emily followed after him, but skidded to a stop at the sight of the crowd.

"What's wrong?" Dan asked, sighing.

"That's….. a lot of people.." Emily replied back.

The pre-teen wanted to facepalm yet again, but instead he took a hold of Emily's arm once again, and the two of them made it through to the center of the crowd. When they broke through to the inside of the circle, all they saw was a teenager who looked like they were in utter shock, as there was a small noise as he fell to his knees.

They heard gossip going through the crowd like "Who was that man?" or "What did he do to that boy?" which made Emily and Dan look at each other wondering what happened. The crowd was quickly broken up by the police, which made Emily quickly run off with Dan due to the occurrence earlier that day.

"What the heck was that?" Emily asked.

"I'll explain when we get back to the house…. Something tells me it's not a good idea to be outside right now after that..."Dan said, as he walked home with Emily.

The young girl sighed, as she walked behind Dan back to her house. Her mind was wandering about what just happened. She felt confused as ever, still trying to get used to her surroundings. Looking up at the sky, with the sun shining brightly with a few clouds passing by here and there. It all seemed like the perfect day, but she knew something was missing, and it was something she couldn't exactly get back.

"Hey, you still there?" Dan said, snapping his fingers in front of her face.

"Huh? Oh, sorry… I was just thinking about something," She said back.

The rest of the walk back to the house was silent; both weren't exactly sure what to say to the other. The two eventually returned home and both got settled. A few hours passed as Emily tried on some of her clothes, eventually deciding to wear the blue jacket with the white tee-shirt. They gave her a room to stay in, as she quickly got settled and got to rearranging things.

"Common, you stupid bed, move over to the other corner!" She muttered to herself as she tried pulling the bed to the other side of the room.

She had her tail wrapped around one of the bars at the foot of the bed, to help her move it. Just when she had it about halfway across the room, there was a loud knock on the door, which startled her, causing her to lose her footing and trip over the bed, falling to the floor.

"I'm okay!" She shouted from inside of the room.

Mumbling, she got back up to her feet, using her tail to brush the dust off of her pants, while Dan walked into the room. She quickly looked up, and moved it around her waist like she had it earlier. Dan noticed something brown moving, and looked right at her waist.

"Uhhh, what was that moving?" He asked.

"Huh? What was moving, I don't know what you're talking about, heh," She said, looking away from him.

"Uhuh, very funny, just show me," He said.

"I don't know what you're talking about! Forget you just saw anything okay?!" She said, quickly changing to a defensive pose, which by reflex caused her tail to unravel and go by her leg.

Dan just stood there wide eyed as he looked at what was coming from behind her new sister's coat. Blinking a few times, try to figure out if he was imagining it or not.

"That's just one of those clip-on tails… right?" He said, looking at her.

"Um… if I said no… what would you say?" She asked.

Dan tried to keep calm as he shut the door behind him, looking at her.

"You know you have a lot to explain to me, right?" He said.

"Uhhh…. Well…. I mean….." She said looking away.

"I have the time, so I really don't mind. I have some questions for you anyway," he said.

"Oh… well… I guess you can just sit down? It might take a bit, though," she said.

Emily looked away as she slowly sat down on the bed, with wrapping her arms and her tail around her legs. She quickly looked down towards the bedspread, while Dan walked over and leaned over the railing on the end of the bed.

"Alright….. So what do you want to know?" She asked.

"Let's see…." He started, pondering for a moment," Oh, easy one, where exactly where you up before you came here?"

"Well…" She said, looking down," I used to live on this planet that was called Mobius, until I came here. I lived with mom… well, until I was five anyway."

"Wait, five? What happened?" He asked.

She closed her eyes and put her head into her knees for about a minute, until she finally was able to respond to that question.

"Mom died when I was 5, and I saw the entire thing. She really wanted me to eventually me who was supposed to be my brother… which I guess was you then," Emily said.

"Wait, she died? To what? From what I remember…" Dan started.

"It was this thing called a Tails Doll. It was basically like a killing machine in the form of a doll with two tails. Mom and her companion tried to fight it off.. but yeah," She said, looking back down at her knees.

"Well, how exactly did she fight it off? I mean a demon doll against a regular person..?" He asked.

Emily sighed, as she moved one of her hands off of her leg and held it out in-front of her. She blinked twice, and then her hand started to glow a bright aqua color.

"With this, it's called aura. I got it from mom, and this is what she used to try and fight it off. Though, she used hers for more of a healing purpose then an offensive purpose. The doll was able to manipulate something called dis-aura. Kind of like the opposite of aura," Emily said.

Dan's eyes went wide after he heard what his sister had to say, but she closed his eyes and shook his head as he tried to think.

"What's wrong?" Emily asked.

"Dis-aura….. why does that term seem so familiar.." Dan thought out loud.

This time Emily's eyes went wide, as her aqua eyes quickly grew with concern.

"You know that term? From where? I only know fou-no.. three people who have had this ability, the doll, my mom, and then myself," Emily said.

Dan sighed and shook his head. His expression quickly changed as he tried to think about the term and why he would possibly know it. He stopped when he couldn't think of anything though.

"Anyway, you still haven't told me about why you have a tail yet," Dan said.

"Oh.. right," Emily said, trying to collect her thoughts, "You see… apparently I'm not completely human? I don't exactly understand it much myself, but I'm part…. Saiyan? I think that was the word for it. Apparently they have tails, so that's why I have one."

"Wait…. how exactly are you part…. whatever that is?" He asked.

"Beats me, I know mom wasn't anything like that. I have no idea on dad though, I never met him," Emily said.

Dan tried to process all of this information as Emily just sulked and put her head back into her knees.

"You don't think I'm…. weird, do you? With a tail or whatever?" She asked.

"Huh? I mean… it's different, yes. That's something me and my friends have gotten used to though, after we figured out that Bakugan can actually talk. Honestly, I find it pretty cool," Dan said.

"Really?" Emily asked, sitting back up, more relax.

"Of course I do. I mean, really, when do I run into a person with a TAIL?" he said with a smile on face.

Emily sighed as she calmed down, feeling a bit more relax now. She leaned up against the edge of the bed, with her hanging over the edge of the rail.

"You know, you're not half bad, well for a regular human anyway," she said.

"Thank-wait, is that supposed to be a compliment or what?" He said.

"It's a compliment, don't worry," she said holding in a laugh.

"Well, good. Now, how about we get this room in order then?" he said.

Emily let out a small laugh, as she hopped off the bed, nodding to Dan. The two quickly got to work to start rearranging to room.

"So, now that you know some stuff about me, why not tell me about yourself?" Emily said.

"Alright, fair is fair. What do you want to know?" He asked.

"Anything I guess? You mentioned you had some friends," Emily said.

"Oh, yeah I have quite a few actually. Most of them I met through this whole Bakugan thing. Though one of them, we go way back," he said.

"Oh really now?" she said.

"Oh, yeah totally, maybe you'll get to meet him sometime soon," Dan said.

"Really, I'd get to see him sometime soon?" She asked.

"Sure, maybe I'll talk to them later on and see when they're available or whatever," He said,

The two continued to idly chat while they fixed up the room, until they finished. Emily sighed as she sat down on her bed, and to two continued to talk. Eventually they were both called out for dinner, and the two of them continued into the night trying to get to know each other better.