Authors note: this is set after William is taken by XANA.

Prologue.

The bus came to a stop out side of Kadic Academy and a strange girl steeped off trailing a suitcase. She stopped out side the gates and looked at the countless children that littered the front yard. One group of people in particular seeing a familiar boy in purple caught her attention.

"Well this is going to be a interesting year" she said with a smile.

Chapter 1.

"Now class today we have a new pupil." said Ms Hertz

A girl stepped into the classroom and in front of the class. She was wearing trainers, blue jeans, and a long purple top that ended just bellow the waist and it had feathers in different colours coming from the neck as the design. Her hair stopped just bellow her shoulders with part of her hair draping over her left eye, and was white with red highlights.

"This is Zoe Vail. Zoe would you like to say something?"

"I come from England and speak English, French, Japanese, German and Spanish. And before you ask my red highlights are natural. And I play the flute and my friends call me Zee. That's all." Zoe said.

"Alright Zoe go sit next to Odd. ODD!"

Odd was fast asleep on his desk, a result of yet another XANA attack. Zoe walked up to her desk and sat down and looked at Odd. Just like him she thought. She leaned down and right in his ear shouted.

"Odd get up!"

"Ahh, what?" Odd said waking up surprised by the loud noise.

The whole class laughed at the blond boy.

"Glad to see you decided to join us Odd, thank you Zoe but it was a bit uncalled for." said Ms Hertz. She similarly shrugged. Odd turned to look at the girl who had woken him so rudely. A flash of recognition crossed his face but Zoe but her finger to her lips and past him a note. Odd unfolded the piece of paper and it read, Meet me in the forest. All through out class Odd looked at the girl next to him wanting to say something but not. A girl with raven hair and pink attire noticed this, what's going on thought Sissy.

Later after class Zoe quickly disappeared and Odd ran to the forest to follow her. Odd looked round to see her Jump down from a tree.

"About time." she said.

"Sorry, Ms Hertz kept me back to discuss my sleeping in class." he replied.

"Oh, Odd I've missed you." she said and hugged her friend.

"Ha ha, I've missed you too Zee" he said hugging her back.

Zoe and Odd were childhood friends and did nearly everything together and they were both sent to boarding schools, but by bad luck Zoe was sent to a girls school while Odd was sent to Kadic.

"What are you doing here? Not that I'm complaining." said Odd.

"Someone burned down part of my school so I managed to persuade my parents to send me here." Zoe said. "So how's things here?"

Not bad, classes are still boring as ever and Kiwi is still in danger of getting caught by Jim and Sissy is still as annoying as ever."

"Is you know who still causing trouble?"

"Shh, be careful we don't want my friends finding out you know. Speaking of why don't we go to lunch and I introduce you?"

"Sounds like a plan."

And they walked off to lunch. Unknown to them a girl watched from the shadows.

"So Odd and this girl are friends. And who is this person that Odd doesn't want his friends to know she knows?" whispered Sissy to herself.

Exactly who is Zoe?

Who were she and Odd talking about.

And will Sissy find out?