..Female?

By the time Garlen had reached the hanger he received a prompt from his communicator from Maynard that he had arrived and if there was any update.

Garlen glanced over at Juniper who was sitting with his face pressed against the glass, his eyes sparkling looking out into space probably unaware we have arrived. He turned back to his communication with Maynard and reported in.

As he did so he spotted a familiar figure rushing up outside of the door to the main entrance. The man's head was covered by a layer of sweat from what looks like he had done a sprint. It was the Marshal Maynard. Seems he is… impatient.

''Hoo… Hoo..haa.. You.. huh.. You said you found a person!?'' Maynard catches his breath.

Garlen stands to the side waits for him to catch his breath, the Marshalls not as young as he used to be and hes even grown a slight beer belly overtime.

''Report, Javier is with him at the moment in the ship he didnt speak our common interstellar language or have any identification on him'' Garlen says.

''How can it be? This station has been here for hundreds of years! I thought people were extinct in this region! There have been no passing spacecrafts here!'' Maynard replies still gasping for air.

Garlen sighs.

''...It will probably be best to hear it from the boy yourself. I could only think of a probable kidnapping or wormhole but as you say.. No ships have passed by and the energy measured was different from any wormhole we have studied'' Garlen tells him.

''Alright,.. Go notify medical personnel, give him a check up and write me a report! Let me have a talk with the boy after that'' Maynard says.

Garlen nods and turns away to walk back inside the main terminal.

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Javiers terminal lit up he turned his eyes to it and turned away to look at Juniper ''Lets head down for now, we will give you a medical check''

Javier approaches the entrance and steps through into the airlock with Juniper. Inside he sees the ship now being secured to the floor of the port. The ship itself is roughly twenty meters long, with a square shape and rounded corners. The propulsion section is located near the front of the vessel where the engines are. The rear end is covered with large windows.

''I didn't see the ship fully before! its huge! Its a real spaceship! Ive never seen such a thing before'' Juniper turns to him and his eyes grow wide.

''Its a rare sight indeed! Come on we need to get to medical first then we can take a closer look later!'' Javier replies to Junipers childlike curiosity with a slight chuckle.

Juniper nods and follows behind him.

They step into the corridor which leads all the way down to the other end of the station, they turn left and step into the small room where the medical staff stand waiting for them.

Juniper become slightly nervous at the site of several people in white coats, now that he sees more people he notices everyone is really tall compared to him.

"Welcome aboard the station," one of the doctors greets them. "Dont worry you're going to be just fine."

Two other men stop what they were doing to examine the boy in front of them.

"His vitals appear stable at the moment," one of the doctors informs the other doctor.

"I'm Doctor Anthony, and I'll be taking care of you today." He smiles and runs a scanner over his arm

''There is no identification chip or any kind of proof of identity.'' Anthony frowns slightly but quickly returns his face to normal.

''We can move onto having a full medical checkup with multiple tests and scans'' Anthony turns back to approach the other two doctors

''Doctor Emile, Doctor Gaje, would you mind giving him a scan from the neck down while I run some bloodwork on him?''

Both doctors nod and prepare their equipment.

The scan revealed that the boy was in good health, nothing appeared to be wrong with him.

Dr.Anthony looks through the holographic data appearing in front of him just.. One point seemed a bit odd.

He pushed up his glasses before turning around to look at the young boy.

''You're name is Juniper, correct?'' Dr.Anthony Asks

''Y-yes!'' Juniper replies nervously.

"Do you know how old you are?" Anthony asks.

''I am 20 years old, sir'' Juniper answered him.

''Well you appear to be in good health and your vitals remain steady. But I've noticed something odd about you. Can you tell me why you have no visible animal characteristics?''

''Huh!?'' Juniper opens his eyes wide with surprise and a bit of fear all he could think about was that they have somehow discovered his fox heritage in the medical examination and what he should do next.

''As a female i would expect to see some form of animal characteristics such as ears or tail visible on you but it seems absent like it would on a male'' Dr.Anthony scrutinizing gaze wonders across Junipers body

While Juniper was internally panicking about how to cover up the fact he was a nine-tailed fox spirit the next words Dr.Anthony said made him stuck.

...hu…huh? Female? What?..