i'm starting a Code Lyoko multi-chapter fic! go me! i don't own Code Lyoko.

thankies to all the people who reviewed my one-shots!

for the record, this is slightly alternate universe. you'll see.

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The black-haired girl stared up at the massive school before her, fiddling subconciously at her pants

pocket as she did so. It wasn't like her to be so nervous, but this was a whole different country, and she

wasn't certain if the French population of the school would be completely understanding of her diferent

nationality.

'So far, so good,' she thought absently as she rounded a corner. "Owch!" The girl felt herself collide

with something and then felt her rear end connect with the ground.

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry!" A boy, apparently the one she had bumped into. His hair was spiked upward

with a purple patch in the middle.

"Geez, Odd, watch where you're going." The girl looked up to see another boy. this one had brown hair

in a fairly normal style. He extended a hand to her. "I'm Ulrich, and mister observant here is Odd."

She took the hand gratefully. "Yumi. I just moved here." Once she was up, Ulrich turned to help Odd.

"Where from," Odd asked conversationally as he brushed himself off.

"Japan...." Yumi said, letting her voice trail off.

"Awesome," Ulrich said. " I'm new here too. You'll have to tell us all about it."

"Sure." Yumi smiled.

"Meet you by that bench after class," Odd offered, and Yumi nodded. "Great! See ya later, Yumi!" The

pair headed off in the opposite direction.

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Yumi lounged lazily on the bench while she waited for the boys. Her first day had gone well dispite

the fact that she had arrived in the middle of a semester. The teachers were nice and her fellow students

accepted her presence as just another fact of life. A few others milled about, glad to be out of class but

not quite ready to return to their rooms, dispite the fact that the sun was begining to set below the

distant horizon.

Suddenly the relative silence of the courtyard was broken by an ear-shattering scream. Yumi looked up

immidiately, locating it's source. A girl about Yumi's age, possibly younger, came hurtling out of the

dorms at a pel-mell run. Her eyes were wide with untold terrors, sticking out like dinnerplates from her

pallid skin framed by short-cropped pink hair. None of the other students seemed to notice as the girl ran

across the courtyard towards the school gates.

Yumi jumped up to stop her, but the girl sped by without casting a glance her way. She continued out

of the school gates and out of sight, almost seeming to fade into the distance.

The Japanese student glanced around. None of the others seemed to have noticed the incident, or else

they simply didn't care. Yumi decided that had to be it, because surely no one could have not heard that

scream.

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well, what do you think? should i trash it, or continue?