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Dani sat in her seat near the back of the classroom as the first class started. Though her mind was far away from the basic algebra that the students were being expected to learn.
Though in America it would usually be considered rather early to be teaching children algebra at such a young age, Dani had Vlad's programming, and for whatever reason, Vlad had his programming contain basic histories, advanced sciences, and common mathematics. Dani could have taken a college entrance exam and done only slightly below average.
So as she zoned out in class, her eyes were fixed on the little people that were flying around Amu's head. The three of them never seemed to shut up, an endless stream of commentary erupting from their mouths. It was starting to get on the ghost girl's nerves to the point were blasting them seemed like a fairly decent option. If only it wasn't for all the witnesses if she tried such a move.
It was mind boggling to the girl how the three creatures could just be flying there out in the open without anyone registering their existence. There were ghosts who only could be seen by those who were qualified to see them, such as Youngblood, but this didn't feel like the same thing. They didn't 'feel' like ghosts, or at least, not exactly like them.
Actually, Dani wasn't sure whether or not Amu herself could see them. At times it seemed like she was looking straight at the little people herself, or they would nudge at her shoulder, but she never seemed to pay them any mind. Though she supposed that if she had then people would have thought she was going crazy.
The question of her own sanity was on Dani's mind when a fourth little person dressed in a white dress with angel wings clipped to the back and an actual halo flouting above its head flouted in through the cracked open window and went up to the other three.
The combined chatter of the four little creatures was giving Dani a massive migraine. Finally she had enough and sent out a pulse of her ghost energy out, hoping the scare the things off by letting them know that a much bigging predator was in the room. Her classmates shivered at the cold energy that pushed through the room and the small people momentarily closed their mouths as they all turned towards Dani.
Unfortunately, they didn't stay quiet for long, and they decided to change location from flying around Amu's head to flouting a few feet in front of Dani. The ghost girl pretended to look straight past them, best to just pretend they aren't there. Didn't want her classmates thinking she was going crazy.
"Did you all feel that?" The one dressed like an angel asked the other three as it stared at Dani with more than half closed eyes. "There was dark energy coming from this boy." Dani's eyebrow twitched at being referred to as a boy. She just didn't like girl clothes, that didn't make her a guy.
"Actually, that's a she." The tiny girl with a blue beanie hat said as she flouted around. "And yeah, she gives off a lot of negative energy from time to time, but she seems harmless enough, or at least Amu-chan thinks so."
"I wonder why she gives off so much negative energy though. I can't sense any 'X' egg..." The pink one that looked like a cheerleader said in a little to excited voice.
"IT MUST BE BECAUSE SHE IS DENYING HER OWN SEXUAL IDENTITY!" The angel shouted loudly. Dani's eyes widened and she gritted her teeth. "She must be saddened by the lose of her womanhood! How is she ever going to find love if she runs around dressed as a boy!? She is clearly suffering from a lack of love! We need to help her see the light! Clean her up and get her into a beautiful dress so that she can finally stop scaring away all the boys..!"
Dani's hand swung up and she grabbed the little blond angel want to be. It gave a squeak of panic as Dani's fingers started to crush it. The ghost energy coming from her was getting stronger, falling just shy of the level were a normal human eye would be able to detect it. It felt like someone opened a window to a cold winter day as the room temperature dropped like a rock.
"El-chan!" The three other tiny beings shouted in panic, but they could do nothing to help.
"Make one more sound, and I will rip those wings from your back and flush you down a toilet." Dani growled, her dark green eyes staring fixedly at the angel who paled dramatically.
"Kore-san, is there something you would like to share with the class!?" The teacher's stern voice drew Dani's attention away from the little person. He was standing there are the front of the class, his arms crossed with an angry expression on his face.
Dani glared back at the small creature in her grip before letting go. "Sorry Sensei, there was an obnoxious bug flying around me. Hopefully it has learned to kept to itself." Dani said, venom in her voice. The angel quickly flew alway and out the open window.
"Well, I hope you will try harder to pay attention and not disrupt my class, or can you already solve this set of equations for us?" The teacher said, gesturing to the board. Dani glanced at the problem. It was clear enough that the teacher was just trying to make an example out of her. "Well, I'm waiting? What's the answer?"
Dani quickly did the math in her head. "Don't you mean answers? There are an infinite number of them given by the form y equals negative two x plus three." Dani said a little cockily as she grinned at the teacher.
The teacher blinked in surprise before grumbling and turning back to his board, continuing his lesson. Dani scoffed at the man's attempt to humiliate her, until she heard the students around her whispering. "She's so mean, acting like that to sensei. What's her problem? I've never met a meaner girl."
Dani tried not to react, she just propped her head up with one arm, trying her best to ignore the small noises that filled the room. She didn't care what they thought. They had no right to judge her.
She was to wrapped up in her own little world to notice the surprised look on Amu's face as her three guardian charas huddled around her shoulders. "Guys, I want you to go tell the others I'm going to be bringing Dani-chan to the Royal Garden after school." Amu said quietly.
"Are you sure, Amu-chan?" Su whispered, even though none of the normal humans would be able to hear her.
Amu nodded. "She can see you guys, which means she must have a Chara of her own, or at least an egg." Amu whispered as she turned her eyes back to the front of the room. "Besides... she needs people she can open up to."
The three Charas looked be between each other before Ran nodded. "Alright, we'll tell them. Let go!" She shouted before all three flew out.
Amu looked back at Dani from the corner of her eye. The girl seemed so sad. Amu decided, she was going to be her friend, no mater what people thought about it.
Dani had been pretty much brooding all day ever since the morning incident with the teacher and those small creatures, and Amu hadn't had a chance yet to talk to her and ask her to go the the garden after school with her. She had decided to do it at lunch, which was only one period away, but the anticipation was to get to the 'cool' and 'spice' girl, to the point were she was worried she wouldn't be able to break out of the act when it came time to talk to Dani.
Amu stood in left center of the soccer field for their gym class, not paying too much attention to the actual game. Her team was already up two points anyways, so it didn't really mater. Dani was on the opposite team, standing on the other side of center field with an annoyed look on her face.
Dani had done a lot of world traveling, so of course she had seen soccer games, but the ones that she saw were professional soccer games, and when compared, the kids stuff didn't hold up. She played along well enough, but her team was going to lose. Their opponent's forwards had some actual chemistry together, and the grade only had one person who was even half decent playing goalie.
As the ball got passed down through the dead center of the field for the fourth time, Dani gave a sigh. "Well, this team's lost." She mumbled. "Might as well surrender now."
'It's not over yet! They can still win!' A voice shouted in the back of Dani's mind. She looked up and blinked with confusion, looking around but didn't see anything. 'They just need a hero to lead them! Now get out there! Character Change!'
It was the oddest feeling ever. The sense that her priorities were being rewritten, and that nothing was more important than victory to her at that moment. A small strand of Dani's hair turned from black to green and she felt a rush of strength that she didn't call on.
Amu was surprised when Dani suddenly sped off like a rocket, over taking the other students who were going after the ball before stealing it and taking it all the way across the field, dodging anyone who came anywhere near her before kicking the ball hard into the upper right corner of the net.
Everyone stood shocked as Dani stood there, chin held high and chest puffed out before turning and moving back towards the starting positions. "Defensive wings pull in a little more, goalie move three paces further forward! If we can't stop them than at least put pressure. I'm taking the striker position!" She said as she stopped on the edge of the inner circle and turned back to stand ready for play to resume. She was so out of her usual character, sounding more like a general barking orders to her troops than the loner girl from before. "We will win this game!" Her teammates looked among each other and surged before going to do what she said.
"What's gotten into her?" Amu said as her team kicked it off only to have the ball instantly stole and taken to the goal for another point.
"Amu-chan! I can sense a Guandian Chara!" Miki said as she flew up next to Amu. The pink haired girl looked surprised as she watched her team starting to look worried, their two point lead had been lost in under two minutes.
"So Dani-chan does have a Chara." Amu said as the ball was brought back to center field.
"The game is tied up now!" Ran shouted. "Don't lose, Amu-chan! Fight! Fight!"
Amu's eyes widened as she realized what her would-be-self was about to do. "Don't you dare, Ran!" Amu hissed, but it was too late.
"Character Change!" A heart shaped hair tie appeared on Amu's head and a wide smile crossed her face. It was time for the real game to begin.
I found out that the dean gave me a huge project because he found out I was the one that kept letting the furries into his office in their fur suits. It was all in response to that incident with him banning the emotionally unstable man's dog from the building. (Though actually, everyone on our floor is mentally unstable. We are academics, we are all insane and can't function in the real world. That's why we don't get real jobs.) Which reminded me of this stories existence.
So in celebration of managing to write a program to do his annoyingly long project for me, I finished up the chapter I started but never finished.
Still deciding on the charas appearances, though it seems like the names Piri and Uma were the most popular choices.
Piri is the one that is controlling Dani right now, and has a hero complex personality, triggering whenever someone mentions the word surrender.