The sun was shining through the young girl's window as her eyes were looking outside of her window, and she was squinting towards the sun. Her tail was hanged above her head, as the tip swayed back and forth, as it held onto her locket, and it glistened when the sun's reflection hit the golden colored metal. She looked over towards her locket, and clicked it open. She sighed doing so when she looked on the inside. One side contained a picture of her, and other figure that resembled a wolf, while the other side had nothing. She shook her head in confusion as she lay back down on her bed.
"I still just don't get it," she muttered to herself, "everything over here just seems too confusing, especially with all these fancy gadgets. Life was so much simplier back when I lived with mom and Kuse…. I really wish it could be like that again."
She shook her head in frustration as she stood up on her bed, and placed her locket around her neck. She stared out the window once again, and this time had her eyes set on a bird flying in front of the party covered sun. She sighed as she flicked her tail back and forth, muttering something under her breath in jealously.
"Wish I can just go outside and go wherever the heck I wanted like that, life would be more fun that way," She muttered, looking at the bird until it left her area of view.
She noticed a closed red sphere on her dresser when she got up from her bed, so she walked over to her dresser picking it up. She made sure her door was closed as she start inspecting it closely, sitting down on her bed.
"Huh, I guess Dan must have left one of his Bakugan-toy-things in here last night before he went to bed," She mumbled, as she thought out loud.
"Human, for the last time I am not a toy, so for the last time please stop calling me that!" yelled a voice as the ball in Emily's hand suddenly opened up. From what it looked like it had two wings pop out to both sides and a head pop out with a horn, and a silver trimming on the base as well as below the head.
Emily's eyes shot wide open as she dropped the Bakugan onto the floor, and pushed herself farther back on the bed out of pure shock, until she hit her head on the window.
"Ow!" She yelled loudly, and then muttered, "That's gonna hurt later."
Emily rubbed the back of her head as she leaned forward, letting out a small groan. Her eyes opened when she heard the door click open, and her brother pop his head through the door.
"Hey Emily have you seen-"He started, then looked at her and the ground and noticed the open Bakugan on the ground, "Uhh.."
"Can you NOT leave him in my room? The fact that these things can talk creeps me out,"
"I am not a 'thing", so quit calling me that!" The Bakugan said from the floor.
Dan shrugged as he kneeled down on the floor and picked up his bakugan, placing him in his jacket pocket. He stood up and looked over to his sister.
"Well I'm sorry I forgot last night, Ms. Princess," Dan said in a sarcastic voice.
Emily sighed as she stood up, blinking a couple times finally recovering from the bang to her head. She crossed her arms and swayed her tail back and forth as she looked over to her older brother.
"So what else did you want to tell me besides where your…. Bakugan was? I know you had something else to tell me, I could hear you down the hall in your room from here," Emily said.
"Oh! Right. I was talking to a couple of my friends earlier about you, and said they were wanting you meet you, and we're meeting up at my friend's Marucho's place" Dan said.
"Wait, don't I get a say in this?" She asked.
"Well, it's obviously better than just sitting in your room all day doing nothing," Dan said.
"What if I don't want to go? Maybe I like being alone," Emily muttered.
"Are you for-look. We're going; mom even said it's a good idea too. She wants me to go buy something at the store on the way home anyways," Dan said.
Emily muttered something under her breath as she turned around and replied 'No' to her brother, and then returned her gaze to her window. She fell silent as she looked like she stared into space, and finally closed her eyes. Dan raised an eyebrow when he noticed the way his sister acted, when suddenly the light bulb went off in his head.
"Fine, if you don't want to come with me willingly…." He started, as he unclipped Emily's locket while she was lost in thought, and slipped her locket off of her neck, and walked out of the room closing the door, before he took off down the hallway and eventually out of the house.
Emily's eyes snapped open when she heard a door slam from the other side of the house, and turned around behind her, as she noticed her brother was gone. She looked around, at first thought he just left her alone or something, until she looked down and noticed her golden locket was missing. Her eyes went directly towards the door, and she muttered something to herself as she grabbed her coat and darted out of the house after her brother.
Meanwhile Dan was riding his bike on the bike paths in Bayview, going in the direction of Marucho's mansion. He had his sunglasses on while Emily's locket was firmly gripped in his hand as he swiftly went down the path.
"Dan do you really think this is a good idea? She's probably going to get mad at you," The bakugan said in his pocket.
"She wasn't going to come if I asked her nicely, so I had to get her out of the house SOMEHOW Drago. I still don't understand why she's like that. Getting all lost in thought like that," Dan replied.
"Have you ever thought that something's bothering her? Why don't you talk to her about it?" Drago said.
"I've TRIED already. She won't open up for some reason. Just trust me Drago, this'll get her out of the house," Dan said.
"But didn't your mother give her that l-" Drago started, but was abruptly stopped when Dan slammed the breaks on his bike, looking down at what was happening down at the edge of the riverbank, "Why did you stop for Daniel?"
Dan's sunglasses fell down onto his face when he looked below towards the river. He saw a group of kids, one of the being on the ground, looking at the muddy dirt on his hands and knees. The group shouted various things towards the older man, who let out a sigh and shook his head, while crossing his arms back and forth. A bakugan ball popped onto his shoulder, as it opened up. It spun around as a spiked head popped forward as two wings popped out from the side, both having 3 sections going in 3 separate directions. Two feet popped out below the ball, as finally what looked like a tail feather piece popped out of the back.
"When will you kids just give up already? Your attempts are futile against us, you will never will!" Shouted the bakugan, as his deep purple eyes glowed with fury.
Dan looked over at Drago at the sight of the man and his partner bakugan in confusion, as he lifted up his sunglasses.
"Man, what's up with that crazy thing? What the heck was going on before then?" Dan thought out loud.
"I'm not sure, but we should be cautious. Something about this doesn't seem r-" Drago started.
He was interrupted when Dan looked over, and noticed the man glaring at him out of the corner of his eye. When he saw the cold blue eyes stare at his own, it sent a shiver down his spine, and he knew something bad was about to happen.
"Hey Drago…. Do you think we should maybe…" Dan said, as he slowly started to get back onto his bike.
He looked away, as he looked towards Drago as he took off on his bike, trying to make sense of what he just saw.
"Do you have any idea who that was?" Drago asked his partner.
"No…. and I don't want to find out, the way he looked at me was-"Dan started.
He was quickly cut off when he noticed his handlebars glow a faint black color, and then, suddenly on their own slamming the breaks down, which caused the bike to come to an abrupt stop, causing the bike to flip over along with Daniel, as he fell flat on his face. Dan muttered something to himself; Drago rolled over and looked up to his partner.
"Daniel! Are you alright?" yelled the sphere, trying to get attention of his partner.
Dan muttered something to himself as he slowly brought himself to his hands and knees, let out a groan of pain. He shook his head back and forth, while moving the bike that fell on top of him to the side.
"Man that's going to hurt later…." He muttered to himself, placing his hand on his head on his head, as he felt blood, "Oh, that's just wonderful. How the heck am I going to explain this to mom.."
He closed his eyes, then shook his head back and forth trying to focus himself on what just happened, when he heard something like wind in front of him, he slowly looked up. He saw his sister, who shot him a glare of annoyance as her tail flicked back and forth.
"Uh…. This isn't what it looks like I-"Dan started
"I'll be taking this back now thank you very much, jerk," Emily said, as she moved her tail over to Dan's pocket, and took her locket, placing it around her neck. She let out a frustrated sigh as she started walking in the opposite direction.
"Are you seriously going to leave him there like that?! What the heck is wrong with you, do you have any morals?" Drago yelled at Emily, which made her stop and cock her head towards him and Dan.
"He's the one who wanted to be all sneaky, why the heck should I help him?" She muttered.
"Because we have no idea what happened! There was this Dark aura and then-" Dan started, but that was enough to grab his sister's attention.
"Did you just say….. dark aura?" She said, blinking, "What happened-I mean who had this 'dark aura'?"
"I don't know! There was just this guy down by the riverbank and-"Dan said as he turned around pointing to the bank, but to his surprise nobody was there.
"Are you SURE that you weren't just imaging it?" Emily asked, yelling.
"He's not lying. The handle bars were glowing black and everything. Then the breaks suddenly were used, which is why the bike flipped over," Drago stated.
Emily simply stood there, and blinked a couple of times, trying to process the information she just heard. Shaking her head back and forth, kneeling down, offering a hand to her brother, helping him get up.
"Why don't we….. go take a walk to your friends house?" She asked, crossing her arms looking at her brother.
Dan merely looked at Drago, as the bakugan nodded at him, and Dan looked towards his sister. He held his hand on his head, to try and stop the bleeding.
"Alright, sure. Just…. Can we get a Band-Aid or something first?" Dan said, trying to look up at his forehead.
Emily let out a sigh, shaking her head as she turned around and started walking. Dan noticed her walking away and ran after her, looking shocked when he saw her hand glowing. He felt something on his head, and when he looked up, his eyes widened when he noticed a faint glow.
"Uhhhhh…. What are you doing?" He asked.
"Healing that cut so you'll shut up about it," Emily muttered.
Dan stopped walking while Drago floated up and looked at the glowing spot on his forehead, as the cut stopped bleeding and then vanished from his forehead. Dan looked towards his sister, who merely muttered something under her breath as the glow on her hand faded, and she simply started walking down the path. Dan grabbed Drago with his hand, placing him on his shoulder, and ran after his sister.
"Where the heck did you learn to do that healing trick?" Dan asked.
"Mom," she simply replied.
"Do you know how mom learned how to do it?" He asked.
"She was a healer" Emily said.
"So she used that Aura-thing t-" he started.
"Can you just shut up with the questions and tell me about the guy you saw?" Emily replied, with an annoyed tone.
Dan simply sighed, as Drago flew off of his shoulder and flew in front of Emily. He caused her to stop dead in her tracks, as she glared at the red sphere in front of her, flicking her tail back and forth and her hands on her hips.
"Is there a problem?" She asked.
"How can you be so rude? Didn't your mother ever teach you some manners?" Drago asked
"Well I'm sorry that I'm curious about the subject, dealing with dark energy, or dark aura is a bad thing, especially from what I've seen and heard," Emily said sighing.
"Seen and heard? What do you mean 'seen and heard'"? Dan asked.
Emily didn't respond to that question Dan asked, the only thing she could manage was a shake of her head, with her eyes fixed towards the sidewalk. She let out a sigh once again, before started to walk down the path once again, before looking back at her brother out of the corner of her eye.
"I don't want to talk about it," she started, "now let's just go to your friend's house. I'm not really in the mood to be outside right now."
There wasn't much talking after that between Emily and Dan, just an occasional exchange of looks between the two as Dan leads her to Marucho's house.
"Well, here we are, what do you think?" Dan said, holding his arm out towards the place, while looking at his sister.
"People… actually live here?" She said, starting up at the tall building, blinking in shock of its massive height.
Dan stifled a laugh as he looked towards Drago, and started walking towards to entrance to the building. Emily snapped out of her shocked state, running after him while wrapping her tail around her waist. Once they entered the building, they were both greeted by an older looking man, that had a large gray mustache, round glasses, and as well as a black suit.
"Ah there you are Master Dan, the others have been expecting you," said the old man.
"Hey there Kato, do you mind telling the others that I'll be up shortly?" Dan said.
"Of course," He started, looking over Dan's shoulder seeing Emily behind him, "but may I ask who that is behind you?"
"Huh? Oh! That's my… this is Emily. I brought her with me today, is it okay if I show her around a bit before I meet up with the others?" Dan asked.
"Oh, well then, welcome Miss Emily, I hope you enjoy your visit here. Don't be afraid to ask Dan if you need any assistance, or to come and find me," he said.
Emily didn't say a word, she simply shook her head, walking passed Kato and down the hallway. Dan let out a sigh, facepalming, before looking back at Kato.
"I'm sorry, she's a bit… anti-social. If I need anything, I'll call you," Dan said, grabbing onto Drago before running down the hallway after her, stopping her dead in her tracks.
"What the heck are you thinking? You just think it's okay to walk away like that? Seriously?" Dan exclaimed.
"Uhhhh…. Yeah. Why?" Emily replied back, flicking her tail back and forth.
Dan shook his head, as he was struggling to find words to explain how he currently felt, and just took his sister's hand, walking down the hallway towards the elevator.
"Hey wait-what the heck?" Emily asked, "Where are we going?"
"I told you, my friends are here, and they're upstairs," Dan said.
Emily didn't say anything else, she just stood there staring at the ground blankly. Thoughts just ran through her brain as the elevator music was softly going on in the background. She looked at her brother out of the corner of her eye, but when she did, she shut them tight and cringes. Dan heard her, raising an eyebrow as he looked over at her.
"Are….. you okay?" he asked.
Emily didn't acknowledge the question and just started at the floor, until the elevator door opened, which caused her to jump, as she looked at the hallway in front of her. Dan shook his head back and forth again, as he took her hand, and walked down the hallway.
Once they made it to the end of the hallway, Dan told Emily to stay outside until he called her in, and then he walked into the room.
"Well it's about time you showed up Danny Boy! What the heck took you so long?" A blue and purple bakugan shouted, as he floated over to Dan.
"We ran into a couple of difficulties on the way here, Preyas, Some that we still aren't sure of to be completely honest," Drago stated.
"Difficulties? What type of difficulties?" Marucho asked.
"It was some guy, he looked like he just completely destroyed some battlers, and then for some reason he gave me a death stare. Then for some reason my bike flipped over due to some aura-thing," Dan told him.
"Guy? Who was he? Maybe we can look him up on the database?" Marucho asked.
"Well….." Dan started, and then described what the man he encountered looked like. Meanwhile, Emily was sitting outside the door, attempting to listen in on the conversation. When she heard Dan describe who he encountered, she tried to list anyone she's met before she encountered her brother. She was getting up, accidently smacking tail against the door without realizing, and started walking back and forth back and forth down the hall as she mumbled to herself.
"Man with a white cape thing….. white cape…. Green shirt… um…" She thought outloud.
She continued to walk back and forth, not paying attention to her surroundings, just focusing on the description, until she realized she was falling backwards, after banging her head into somebody.
"So, I'm assuming you're the person Dan was bringing along with him?" The person asked.
Emily didn't say anything, instead jumping up, with her aura activated without her realizing, as she was hovering off the ground slightly. Shun just started at her with a puzzled expression.
"Are you…. Floating?" He said softly.
Emily heard what he said, and once it registered into her head, and her eyes widened with shock. There was a loud thud noise as she crashed to the floor, and yelled in pain while her tail spread out on the floor.
"Ow! W-what the heck?! Why would you ask a question like that?" She exclaimed, groaning in pain.
The thud was loud enough for everyone to hear in the conference room, which caused everyone to run outside to see what all the commotion was. They came to an abrupt stop when they saw Shun and Emily at the end of the hallway.
"Holy-Who the heck is the kid with the tail?" Preyas exclaimed.
"I am NOT a kid, don't call me that!" Emily exclaimed, as she sat upright, with her hands glowing behind her.
"Whao, though crowd!" The Aquos bakugan said to himself, as he went back behind marucho.
"Emily! What the heck did you do?" Dan said.
"Do?! I didn't do anything; your friend here scared me! That's what!" She exclaimed.
"I heard something outside while you and Marucho were talking about that guy you encountered. So I came out here, and I saw her pacing back and forth, I only asked a question." Shun stated.
Dan shook his head back and forth, while he let out a sigh of confusion, while he looked at the group, and then to his sister.
"Anyway, here was my sister. I WAS going to introduce you guys, but then this happened, and I still need to pick up what mom wanted me to at the store," Dan said, with a slight tone of frustration in his voice, "So, I need to get going to the store. I'll talk to you guys later."
Emily brushed herself off as she got up, while Dan gestured her towards the elevator, and she slowly walked towards the elevator, while she let out groan. The two went back down to the first floor, as time started seemed tick on forever while they did so.