I don't own Children of Cinema (Garage Kids; Code Lyoko), but I do own my OC. Those of you that are confused, here's a link (Remove the spaces and the 8s to make the link work). It was before Garage Kids and Code Lyoko:
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I'm making the children runaways because they were all in the same room in the video. Also, I'm sorry if this first chapter seems to be all over the place.

Inside the Theater Room, several children sat, waiting for someone. One, a girl with brown hair and eyes, glasses, and a tiger-striped shirt-and-pants combo, vibrated in her seat. "Tzing is coming with the film! I can't wait."

Another, a boy with a purple diamond in his hair and purple-and-dark-pink clothing, waved her down. "Calm down, Cassidy. Remember the last time you got overexcited. You nearly blew a hole in the railroad tracks."

"No wonder I ran away. I'm unstable as it is, Odd," Cassidy looked at her pink-striped shoes in embarrassment.

Another boy with earth-tone clothing whacked Odd's neck. "She doesn't need reminding, Odd!" he shouted.

-SPLASH-

A boy with a slightly shaved head was running with a garbage lid shaped object in his hand. He jumped over the stairs and took a left turn—running passed a small five-year-old boy and his parent in the process.

That caught the little boy's attention as he tugged on his parent's pant leg.

Meanwhile, the boy's feet pounded into the tunnel. He ran a few feet and took a smooth right turn into a curtain. Fanning it out, he raced inside.

It was the Theater Room. Everybody in the room cheered. Cassidy, people supposed was the middle child of the runaways, gave him a hug. "Tzing, you made it!"

"It was nothing, Cassidy," Tzing smiled.

He lifted the film over his head, as soon as she let go, in a sort of victory wave. Everyone cheered and a boy threw his hat in cheer.

He made his way to a blonde-haired boy with a baby sky blue mixed turtleneck sweater, brown pants, and glasses. He handed it to him. "There you go, Jeremie."

"Thanks, Tzing!" Jeremie said as he pulled the cover off the film and fed it into the projector.

The room darkened and the film began. Everyone seated themselves on the floor. A dog sat on an elder girl's shoulder. She usually wore all black, but she had a kind heart.

They watched a crayon-like pirate movie. The elder girl waved a hooked hand at a red-haired girl with pigtails, and the other one smiled. Odd and the earth-toned boy raised their swords behind a gun-wielding younger boy.

At one point, they saw a crayon drawing of Cassidy digging for something and finding a treasure. She turned her head and gestured to the group for help. They pulled up a chest, opened it up, and found jewels and coins inside. They hid the treasure to make their close-up.

Off-screen, the children in the room cheered. The earth-tone boy and Odd pretended to hoist the main sail.

Onscreen, the view zoomed into the Jolly Roger. On the flag were a little skull and two crossbones. A dog that looked similar to the one on the girl's shoulder popped up in front of the flag and barked twice.

It faded to black.

"That was amazing, guys!" Cassidy was full of emotional excitement.

"We did a superb job," the earth-tone boy agreed.

"What a great way to celebrate my birthday," she hugged the black-clad girl.

Tzing put the film back in its case. "Okay, Cassidy, since you're the birthday girl, who do you want to come with us to Applebee's?"

She thought on the subject. "Jeremie. He deserves a break after fixing the projector."

Jeremie held up his hands. "No thanks. I'm good."

"Come on, Jeremie. For me?" Her brown eyes went soft. "You deserve a break after what you did with the projector."

Odd came in. "Come on, Einstein. You deserve this. She chose you specifically."

A smile crept across the genius's face. "Alright. I'll go." He just couldn't say no to a birthday girl. He hated to disappoint her, having been on the wrong end before joining the Theater Room.

"YES!" Cassidy rejoiced.

"But, I pay the bill for your meal." Tzing shook his head at Jeremie's statement.

"No, my folks are paying for it." Tzing's parents were wealthy from having high-paying jobs, but he didn't act all stuck up about it. They were also charitable to the runaway's needs. For his hard work, they gave their son a hefty allowance.

One day, Odd used the last roll of toilet paper. Tzing's parents gave them a three month's supply of it. If a girl needed some supplies for her "needs…" they'd give her what she needed.

Nevertheless, the runaways found luck in their friend's parents' charitable hearts.

Cassidy, Jeremie, and Tzing went out of the Theater Room. The air was a little nippy but it showed the pleasant promise of spring.

"So, what do you want to eat?" Tzing asked the two. "You two can have anything you want, including dessert."

"I'll just take an appetizer sampler and that's it," Jeremie partially shivered in the semi-cold wind.

"What about you, Cassidy? Are you hungry for anything?"

"I was thinking something like steak and shrimp with a baked potato," Cassidy nodded.

"There is the Steak-and-Shrimp Parmesan that you can add the baked potato option," Tzing reassured.

She smiled warmly at him.

He only found her three weeks ago. Cassidy was too emotionally unstable in her old housing. Walking around town one day, she came across a pamphlet. It was a runaway paper saying that there would be a shelter in the Theater Room. All she had to do was to call Tzing or email him or send a letter by snail mail. She emailed him and he gave her a list of supplies to bring. Just the usual: Clothes, books, anything she would need.

She packed up and ran out in the middle of the night. The girl walked about two or three blocks away from her home when she bump into Tzing.

He took Cassidy into the Theater Room where she met Jeremie and the black-clad girl. "Hi, my name is Cassidy," she was a bit shy.

"I'm Yumi," she greeted warmly. "Welcome."

Yumi was another story. Her parents fought heavily and she bore the brunt of the force. At her wit's end, she packed one drawstring bag and fled out into the night. Tzing found her about three hours later. The thing about him was, he could almost psychically sense who ran away. She joined Jeremie, who had been bullied.

The earth-toned boy followed after Cassidy. He had had it with his father trying to force him into aristocracy. So he contacted Tzing in his privacy and fled out his bathroom window.

Odd followed suit with the boy. His five sisters gave him the worst hell in his entire life. In addition to the usual embarrassments, locking him in the bathroom was the worst experience he ever faced.

The earth-toned boy was running to the Theater Room when he stopped. He looked behind him. He heard a new noise. Then he saw a blond-and-purple haired boy. "Are you following me or what?" he asked.

"Um… n-no?" he looked around. "I'm…actually running away."

He scoffed. "Same here."

There was a pause. Then Odd piped up. "So…why are you running away?"

"My father. You?"

It seemed to Odd that he didn't like to talk about it. "My sisters—all five of them."

"Ouch."

"My name is Odd, by the way. Odd 'the Runaway' Della Robbia," Odd snickered as he held the gray dog in his arms. "And this is Kiwi, my dog."

"My name is Ulrich. Now, let me level with you, we don't exactly go way back. So for now, let's take this nice and slow with the friendship thing, okay?"

Someone cleared his throat. "I see I'll be taking in two runaways and a dog tonight."

The two boys whirled to see Tzing. How he managed to find them, the boy never revealed.