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Even though it was a hot summer morning, Dani felt stiff and numb inside as she stared down at her bed, or rather, what she had found in it that morning. "This can't be real." Dani mumbled as she reached out a hand and touched one of the two strange eggs that had appeared in her bed as she slept.

To her surprise, they were warm, the warmth of life was inside of them. She felt energy flowing around inside of them, not exactly like a ghost's ectoplasmic energy, but not all together different either.

She picked one of them up, holding it up for inspection. They were only the size of your average chicken egg, though each of them had a different sort of design on them. The one she had picked up was midnight black with small signs of a dark blue hue. A silver kite shield with dark green trim decorated one side of the egg which seemed to shimmer as Dani turned it in the light. The second egg was bleach white with small golden flakes on the outer shell and a crown of bright pink flowers for its design. But what were they?

Dani paled as a thought accrued to her. She had no idea were baby ghosts came from. Had she... she couldn't have. "No! I'm too young to be a mother!" Dani shouted in panic, shaking her head back and forth. Was that it? She had no idea. She was the first female halfa, so it was completely unexplored territory.

The second alarm on her clock went off, telling her that she really needed to be going to school. Dani bit her lip as she looked down at the eggs. She had no idea what to do with them, but she didn't have time to just stand around with it. So wrapping them in a blouse, she quickly packed them into her book bag.

She was just about to leave before she remembered something and went back to her dresser. Reaching out she grabbed the one thing she had taken with her when she had left Vlad's for the last time; the key to the Ghost Zone, the Skeleton Key.

She didn't know why out of all of the things at Vlad's mansion, it should be this ugly green key with a skull on the end that should catch her attention. She supposed that it was simply because it was small, not all that conspicuous, and finally, extremely powerful and dangerous in the wrong hands.

The Skeleton Key was just as it was named, a key that could open or close any lock. It was an artifact of the Ghost Zone that was used to seal away the evil king, Pariah Dark, and could unseal him just as easily. Dani had taken it as a way of sticking up her nose at Vlad, but it was handy enough by itself. She didn't really know why, but she felt naked without it.

Hanging the key around her neck underneath her shirt, she rushed out the door and down the street, hoping that the morning was not going to be getting any stranger.

Ikuto lay on the roof of an old bread shop, letting the early morning air wash over him as he tried to have a nice calming cat nap. All he wanted to do was ignore his troubles as long as he could, to be free as an alley cat for as long as possible, before his owners called him back in.

"Ikuto." Ikuto's Chara, Yoru meowed as the blue haired cat like Chara flew up to him. "Aren't you going to go to school, Ikuto?"

"Why bother." Ikuto said disinterestedly as he turned away from the little cat. He didn't care for school. He didn't have a future anyways. Not with his step father's influence looming over him like the unpassable mountain that it was. So why put in the effort? He would much rather just sleep while he could, let the old man deal the with truancy police, what did Ikuto care?

"But Ikuto! I'm bored!" Yoru whined as he flopped down on his bearer's dark blue hair.

"Then entertain yourse..." Ikuto started but he stopped half way through his sentence as he smelt something familiar in the air.

"Ikuto! Can you smell that!?" Yoru said in excitement.

"New born eggs. Two of them at the same time." Ikuto said as he sat up, finally interested.

"Lets go see them! Lets go see them!" Yoru shouted as he pulled at Ikuto's hair.

Ikuto nodded in agreement, cat like ears popped up out of his hair as he drew on Yoru's power, letting him jump from roof top to roof top with the ease of a cat as he drew closer to his prey. Finally he found her.

As he lighted down on the top of a dance studio, he looked down at the street below to see a small child walking down the street with a book bag swung over one shoulder. At first he thought it was a boy since the kid was wearing a boy's uniform, but as he looked he could see that it was actually a girl who was just dressing as a boy. Her long black hair and soft cheeks were the kind that only a girl could have.

He took a few sniffs of the air and could tell that it was this girl the sent was coming from. He was about to do his normal greeting but as he approached a shiver went up his spine and he jumped away. He blinked in confusion.

Every time he tried to approach, his cat like instincts took over and he suddenly felt threatened and immediately pulled back as if a large dog was standing in front of him rather than a small girl. Everything in his blood told him that this one was dangerous.

"Ikuto... how... how about we leave this one alone?" Yoru said as he shook in fear on Ikuto's shoulder.

The cat boy stared after the girl's retreating from before nodding. If his instincts were telling him to stay back, then it was probably for a good reason. But then a cunning smile passed over his lips. Just because he knew better, didn't mean that everyone in Easter did. He would let it slip around the idiot scientists about a new egg holder and they will rush in like stray cats to a tossed fish. He would enjoy watching them fail, and then perhaps he would find out what it was about this girl that gave him the willies. "Come on Yuro, I think we have found our entertainment."

Even as Dani entered the school, she still had her thoughts solely on the eggs. That is until she could no long ignore the whispers. They were all around her, she could hear them talking about her, how mean she was, how cold she was, how they should all just stay away from her.

Wasn't that what she wanted? For them to just leave her alone? So why was it that their words hurt when they were only saying what she wanted them to say?

'You don't really want that though, do you?' A small voice echoed in the back of her mind.

"Kore-san." Dani looked up to see Amu standing right in front of her. She must have stopped walking without even noticing it as the voices overwhelmed her. "Come on, best not to be late for class, even if new students can usually get away with it."

"Right Am... Hinamori-san." Dani said, quickly remembering her manners. Why couldn't the Japanese just use their given names?

Amu raised an eyebrow at the stutter. "You can just call me Amu if that's more natural to you. It really makes no difference to me." Amu said, shrugging her shoulders.

"Well it would make things easier for me." Dani admitted. "But then you have to call me by my given name too. Only fair, right Amu-chan?"

"Sure, Dani-chan." Amu said a hint of a smile passing through her lips before she put on her hardly interested expression again. "Now lets get moving."

Dani nodded but then her eyes caught movement above them and she looked up to see three small people flying around above them, a blue one, a green one and a pink one. Inwardly she groaned before turning her head to try to ignore them.

She just followed along behind Amu, hoping that the little people were not going to cause her any problems. 'Not likely.'

Kind of tired right now. A bit of a bug going around and one of the guys at my office is having a mental break down because the College Dean told him that he wasn't allowed to bring his dog into work and the guy cannot function without his dog with him at all times. Seriously just let the guy have his dog, I don't care if people have allergies, he needs it to stay sane.