Hunter Moebius and I don't own Code Lyoko, Maximum Ride, or Kaitlyn Belpois.

XANA had finally been weakened.

I know; at first, I couldn't believe it myself, especially when Jeremie told us that he could do it. Of course, I was originally afraid that my former first roommate, Aelita, was going to lose her father, in an attempt to give it energy, and I had even told Einstein this. Thankfully, that didn't happen. And I am so glad it didn't.

It was such a relief that I fainted in the lab, freaking Elisabeth 'Sissi' "Sister" Delmas (depending on who addressed her) out when she found me lying there, after staggering over from the freight elevator.

I awoke to an immense victory in Lyoko HQ. Rosa even made us a cake—my favorite. Aelita's mother and father stood proud, chuckling as I ended up with frosting on my nose, again.

That cake tasted incredible, though; even the bit on my nose, once I discovered it. Luckily, Ulrich didn't wipe it off this time. He instead chortled, clutching his sides. I don't think I've ever seen him laugh that hard, but since my coma, I have seen my friends act out of character.

But something nagged at me. I couldn't put my fingers on it. It was as if there was soon to be another threat, but I couldn't tell my friends where, when, or why. All I hoped was that XANA hadn't come back that quickly.

My boyfriend Odd was the first one to notice something was up, during a calm point in our celebration. "You okay, Cat Girl?"

I jolted from my thoughts. "Yeah, Odd, I just have a feeling something will happen. I can't tell you because I don't know what it is."

"What if it's nothing?" he attempted to reassure me, softly rubbing my back in the process. "If you don't know, then maybe you're worrying too much?"

I shrugged. "Maybe you're right, Odd."

Meanwhile, across from the two of us, Aelita was retelling a joke she remembered Odd having told her once before. While the punchline didn't get me, Jeremie seemed to catch a severe case of the giggles after he heard it.

"I see Einstein's enjoying himself."

"That's an understatement, Cat Girl," Odd interjected.

Yumi, Ulrich, Patrick, Kaitlyn, William… even Aelita herself was laughing at it, but nowhere near as hard as Jeremie was.

Soon, all the celebration had ended, and everyone in our group started getting tipsy with exhaustion. I could see them all falling over, possibly jumping into the first bed they could find, even if it wasn't their own, and passing out at some point; Kiwi already had, but luckily he had made it to his new bed, first.

I curled up in the corner bed, yawning. "Good night, everyone…"

Yumi, while touching the bottom of somebody's foot, muttered something unintelligible, but it vaguely resembled an "Oyasumi."

The closest to me, Sister, mumbled, "Good nachos…" I couldn't blame her. She was so tired, it was making it so hard for her to think straight. And she hadn't even had nachos today, at all.

Strangely, even the most likely person to have any kind of reaction to that, mi novio Odd, didn't do anything. It was like he had earplugs in, or something.

In fact, I didn't even feel like saying anything. The whole party had tired me out, too. All I wanted to do was just fall asleep for six years.

Before my vision blurred to nothingness, I saw Ulrich's hands clap, and the lights went out. I didn't even know anyone had installed the Clapper in our room. I just hoped it wasn't Jim, considering that he ended up almost electrocuted at points.

But little did Odd and I know that we were going to be proven so dead wrong. Not only were my feelings spot-on, but what was going to befall us was something I had actually heard about before, but strangely forgot soon after, as though someone had buried it like a treasured jewel. And that thing would be one of the scariest things I had ever experienced, and one of the craziest threats any of us had ever seen.