(Spelling corrected: 7/27/08)

Disclaimer: The genie's lamp did not fall into my lap and give me the right to make a wish. All characters, alterative worlds (Lyoko), and the major virus (XANA) in this story do not belong to me but instead to the wonderful show Code Lyoko.

Summary: A certain member of the Lyoko warriors has been experiencing headaches, and after a recent XANA attack Odd takes claim to this fact. Having been deemed stress related by the Kadic nurse Jeremie bands Odd from going to Lyoko believing it is the cause. Now new problems will arise in the near future and the one person which understands this better then any of them, can do nothing about it.

Chapter 1: Headaches

It was the choice they made-- simple.

Maybe they hadn't known just then what they were getting themselves into. How deep of a hole they have to hover over, on nothing more then the thinnest twig. They were involved now though, and there was no clean escape.

Lyoko warriors through it all.

Still no XANA for a good week or so now so what was the problem?

Why did the genius have to bash their luck?

That computer virus must of caught on, realized that they were too strong for it. Jeremy wouldn't listen to the strange boy's reasoning though, he was wrong too often. And mentioning such a thing didn't please the purple garbed figure whose smile now vanished from his face.

"Della Robbia!" Hearing his name the boy perked up, "since you seemed to know this lesson so well why don't you explain a food web to the class?" It was more of a demand then a question and he could hear his stomach whining at the word 'food'

"The Cafeteria." Damn. It was the first thing that came to mind followed by his goofy grin. Their science teacher turned instead to ask Jeremie who knew everything, silencing the laughter which filled the classroom. Food was still the only thing on Della Robbia's mind.

He had almost tried to correct his mistake by explaining how the students ate the food and then the food tried to eat them. He never did quiet forget that XANA attack (with attacking food), he had been so hungry then, just as he was now.

There was someone behind him though who suddenly caught his interest. She must of been there the whole time but now the facts lie: that he felt as if the principal's daughter was boring a hole through the back of his head and he stiffened up. Shouldn't she be staring at Ulrich dear right about now?

Ulrich didn't notice scribbling down a few notes in order to pass this class but then… he wasn't the one getting a death glare.

Odd had turned to see just what Miss Elisabeth Delmas wanted but never made it that far, suddenly feeling like his head might split in half. He never looked at her, just sunk back in his seat rubbing his fingers to his temples.

"What's wrong Della Robbia did your brain just blow a fuse?"

He had no smart remark for that because it felt, that if he tried to think, he would simply die.

His hand shot up "I need to go to the infirmary, I don't feel so..." It was almost as if he could feel the color draining from his face, "...good."

Mrs. Hertz had let out a hum of thought. "You do look rather pale Della Robbia." She gestured toward the door. "Go ahead."

Whatever this was it was coming in waves he barely heard his roommate's offer. "Want me to come with you?"

"No" and he had already headed toward the door ignoring those gestures passed between his friends.

He must of seemed rather off balanced but he wished for anything other then the teacher's words. "Elisabeth could you be so kind to escort Della Robbia to the infirmary?" There was a lot of angry muttering then the loud slam of the door as the two exited.

"Jeremie what's going on?"

Jeremie Belpois, the future Einstein could only scrunch his brow "I don't know Ulrich, I just don't know..."

Sissi,

Sissi,

Sissi.

She was complaining the whole time about this distasteful situation she was in when she could otherwise be enjoying her time with Ulrich (staring at the back of his head). Lucky her, she was blissfully unaware of much the boy walking a few steps ahead was hurting, how she was only making this growing headache worse.

"You must really be sick. It's quite an improvement if you ask me."

The boy gritted his teeth "keep it up Sissi dear and I'll be sure to give you a nice gift." He could very well throw up his breakfast any second now, which would certainly be a lot of food, this feeling was nauseating.

"Oh really! what is it?" What was she excited about? the stupid girl probably hadn't caught on.

Without another word he broke away from this annoyance and headed toward the dorms.

"Where do you think you're going, the infirmary is this way?"

"I'm not going to the infirmary." Odd would put this simple for her so her small brain could understand. "Go back to class Sissi."

In all truth this wasn't the girl's problem and she shouldn't care about this boy at all but Ulrich... wouldn't it be her fault if something happened to his best friend? "Stop right there Odd Della Robbia! I will tell my father!" Her threat had went unheard with the closing of a door.

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Odd didn't know why but he suddenly felt so drained, lunch hadn't even started yet and his exhaustion was overwhelming his want for food. Without a word he sunk down on his bed stirring his small dog which couldn't of expected him to be here at this time.

"It's corndogs today..." He closed eyes mentally convincing himself that he would just lay here for a few minutes till the bell rang and then depart for lunch and fill up on those little 'doggies'.

It didn't work out like that though.

Odd Della Robbia had fallen asleep in a matter of seconds.

"Where's Odd? It's not like him to miss his favorite meal"

"Every meal is his favorite meal."

The pink haired girl had laughed lightly at her friend's words. "You have a point there Jeremie"

But Ulrich didn't seemed convinced, "still it's not like him to miss out on food."

"No activated towers." Jeremie had done a double take knowing it was common to pin blame on the virus but it wouldn't work this time. "Still no news from our good friend XANA."

Unluckily someone had heard that last word. "Who is this Xana you guys are always talking about? Your boyfriend Od-" Her lip curled as she just discovered the purple figure was not among them. "Where's your weirdo friend? I thought he would be with you." All the while she remained to seem uninterested.

"He's probably still in the Infirmary."

"Oh... but that's why I thought he be with you. He never went to the Infirmary, he was headed for the dorms the last time I saw him." Satisfied she strolled out of the Cafeteria leaving the group to wonder what all that had been about. "Don't worry about him Ulrich he's probably just sleeping."

If the boy had been worrying, all that had gone away when a certain Japanese girl joined them at the table. "Hello Ulrich." It was in that instant he forgot all his worries, roommate included.

Seeing she was no longer needed Aelita rose from the table brushing off her skirt with a small smile "I will go check on him." With a slight wave from Jeremie who's attention was transfixed upon the computer screen, she had gone to do just as she said.

It was only a few minutes after Aelita had departed the screen had flashed with an all to familiar symbol. "What is it?"

They didn't need to ask they already knew who it was.

Xana.

The dog that was sniffing through the one tall spike of his owner's blonde hair in the silence of the deserted dorm room, in which Odd now snored the day away. Suddenly though Kiwi was alerted as the boy startled awake. One word stifling his breath...

"XANA!"

This was the first chapter of my first fanfic on this sight. I hope it wasn't too bad.

Next chapter: Xana's Attack

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