To All: Yayness! My first story. To friends reading this: I want to say just how sorry I am for not giving right information time and again. Please forgive me (if you were really talking to me live I'd be making puppy eyes). I already know someone has forgiven me (smiles to you, English teacher ((I won't say your name in case you don't want it on here))). Anyway, enough jabberjawing! Enjoy my story! -JapanCrazy (:

Chapter 1 - Aelita

Aelita Stones sat up in her bed. The dream she had just had both amazed her and horrified her. Could it be possible it was another vision, like the dreams about Mister Puck eight months ago? She hoped it wasn't, because she wasn't sure if it was good or bad.

Suddenly Aelita realized something. She was out of breath. Her thinking had distracted herself so much she didn't realize she was so out of it she had stopped her own breathing. She gasped with a high-pitched wheeze.

Beads of sweat rolled down her forehead, her nose, her cheeks, and her chin. The back of her neck and top back felt damp. She hadn't realized the dream was so... disturbing... that she'd sweat that much. She looked at her bedside alarm clock, which was provided by the boarding school like most of her dormitory's items. Since she was actually a computer programmed, virtual girl materialized into the real world, she didn't have many personal items.

The clock read 3:46 AM. It was too early to shower. Jim would catch her even if she snuck out. Nosy Sissy, the principal's daughter, was always spying on everyone from her dorm too. She was always desperate to catch someone doing something wrong so she could torture him or her about it. And Sissy already bothered Aelita enough, she having dubbed Aelita 'Einstein' because of her naturally high intelligence infused in her from her computer self. So, it was out of the question to go to take a shower to get the sweat off.

She could at least change though. So she crawled out of her pink-sheeted bed and over to her green metal armoire that was, again, provided by the school. She opened the left door. Her few clothing items in various shades of pink were shoved that way. As she grabbed two wire hangers weighed down by a pair of dark pink pajama pants and a gray T-shirt with Kadic Jr. High's logo on it, she continued to contemplate her dream.

She remembered: "Jeremie!" Aelita screamed. She was in the desert region of Lyoko, the virtual world she was originally from. The Schipozoa, the creature with tentacles under XANA's control who had been trying to steal her memory for sometime, was in front of her. "Aelita-!" Jeremie yelled. Don't worry... I'm bringing Yumi and Ulrich to you! You're in good hands!"

'I was thinking the Schipozoa would just try to steal my memory again,' Aelita thought as she pulled her pale pink nightshirt, with a large, dark pink 'A' on it, off and threw the sweaty garment in her laundry basket by the door. 'I was wrong.'

Aelita looked at the tall creature with worry and fear. It reached out a tentacle to her and Aelita thought she would go into her coma-like trance where she would see nothing but hear a low hum of Jeremie's voice yelling, "Hurry guys! She's only got so much memory left!"

'This is the strange part, Aelita; remember that,' she thought again as she put her newly picked pajama outfit on.

Instead, the Schipozoa did something incredibly unexpected. It stopped a tentacle a foot from Aelita's face. Then a familiar blue screen flashed from its tentacle. White numbers appeared on it. '437910103...' but then, for some reason, Aelita woke up.

Aelita sat for some time, just thinking about it, sitting in her chair by her desk. The wooden desk was riddled with pink notebooks, textbooks, pencils, eraser-mark infected papers, and folders. She had clicked on the black desk lamp. The mirror on the wall behind Aelita reflected the back of her head of boy cut pink hair. The soft, calm swish of cars' wheels on pavement near the school went well with the dark summer night sky out the window. Finally Aelita walked across the thin green carpet to her dark pink bag by the door. She reached in and pulled out her laptop. She opened it and messaged to Jeremie.

Of course he was there; he always stayed up very late into the night experimenting with things on his own flat screen computer in his room.

"Jeremie, I need to talk to you. It's important," she spoke to Jeremie's face on the screen.

"Alright, but I suggest if it's so important you tell me, Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd tomorrow morning," he answered.

"It is tomorrow morning!" Aelita giggled.

Jeremie laughed. "Well you know what I mean!" he said.

"OK, I will," Aelita replied.

"Good. Anything else, Aelita?"

Aelita closed her eyes halfway and smiled lightly. It was the dreamy look she always got when he asked her that and she wanted to tell him. But then something happened and she just blurted out "no."

"OK. G'night Aelita!" he cheerfully smiled. Then he flashed off the screen.