Hey everyone! Here's Chapter 3 done! :D Sorry this one's late too, but I just recently broke my finger and my typing has been extremely slow due to that *fail!* -.- But hey, I'm still hanging in there and trying to get this updated as soon as I can since I know this is going to be a great story!

This chapter contains a whole lot of stuff in it and I hope everyone will be able to follow it well :)

ENJOY!


It has already been a couple of weeks since we started our classes at Kadic Academy once again. Things had been going pretty smoothly lately too. Nothing out of the ordinary has really happened yet either, so I've been able to focus on school and hanging out with my new group of friends. And yes, I, Serena Lauraine Shay, can officially say that I have friends now. And it has shocked everyone. I can't even count the pairs of surprised eyes that have been laid on me as I sit in between Ulrich and Odd in the lunchroom everyday.

I can't believe I had kept myself away from having close friends before. It's such a great feeling to know that you have people who care very much for you and you can tell them just about anything you want to. I've really enjoyed getting to know Odd, Ulrich, Jeremy, Aelita, and Yumi over the past few weeks.

The only thing that has really sucked is that XANA hasn't launched an attack since I've learned all about Lyoko. Well, I guess that's a good thing, but I was so psyched about going there for the first time.

It was just another typical Saturday for me. I woke up, took a shower, and put on some black skinny jeans and a Star Wars shirt. Then I went back in my room to fix my hair and makeup before I went down to the lunchroom for breakfast. Once I got in there, I walked over to my vanity mirror and started to think on how I was going to fix my hair while I put on my makeup. I was just about to plug up my straightener, a certain bottle laying beside it caught my eye and I immediately knew what I was going to do.

Just yesterday, I was hanging out with Odd and Ulrich in their dorm room. We were just playing around and while Odd left the room for a few minutes, Ulrich dared me to take his hair gel and keep it in my room just to see how long it would take him to realize it was gone. Since I really loved to mess with Odd so much, I went ahead and took the hair gel back to my room without him knowing. I'm gonna laugh so hard when he goes to fix his hair and can't because he has no styling gel.

Just to be different, I decided that I was going to use Odd's hair gel in my hair to make it wavy instead of straightening it. It actually turned out pretty nice looking. I'll have to ask Odd where he buys this stuff at. Then I went down to the lunchroom to get some breakfast and meet up with everyone.

Once I got my tray of pancakes and sausage, I went over to our normal table and sat beside Ulrich. As soon as he saw me, he busted out laughing and I had to join in with him because he knew what I had done.

"Your hair looks really nice today Serena," Ulrich told me as he tried to catch his breath in between laughs.

"Thanks! I tried some different product in it this time," I giggled and then we started laughing harder. Jeremy and Aelita were left clueless about why we were laughing that hard so Ulrich and I filled them in on our little prank we were playing on Odd. They thought it was pretty funny too.

A few minutes later, Odd came to the table with his tray and a somewhat angered look on his face. He also had his hair down and he looked so different. Odd plopped his tray down beside me and we all stifled our laughs for a moment.

"Well good morning sunshine!" I grinned at him.

He then scoffed at me, "Can it Serena."

"Jeez, what's your problem? She was just being nice to you Odd," Ulrich said, "Just because you're mad that you can't find your hair gel doesn't mean you can take it out on her."

"Well at least her hair looks amazing while mine just looks like crap!"

"It doesn't look like crap Odd," I told him, "And you really think that my hair looks good?"

"Yeah, what did you use in it?" he asked as he ran his fingers through my hair and then sniffed it. Then he figured out that I has used his gel and he couldn't help but to start laughing, "You little stinker! You're the one who stole my gel!"

"Yep, took you long enough to figure it out Oddy-kins," I stuck my tounge out at him.

"Hey, I kinda figured it was you when I asked Ulrich for it this morning and he supposely didn't know a thing about where it was."

"You're still slow. You should have figured it out yesterday that I had it. Anyways, what's the plan for the day after morning classes?"

"How about we all go out to get some ice cream and hit the arcade afterwards?" Odd suggested.

"I'll pass," Jeremy said, "I need to work on some stuff for Lyoko. Speaking of, could you help me with that Aelita?"

"Of course Jeremy," Aelita smiled at him,"Well, I guess count me out too Odd."

"What about you Ulrich?"

"Yumi was going to tudor me in math some so I can't do it either," he replied, "Sorry."

"Serena?" Odd turned to face me. He looked like a begging puppy dog with his big, emerald green eyes.

"Well, I've got nothing else going on so I'll go with you Odd," I replied laughing, "It's the least I can do to make it up to you for stealing your hair gel."

"Yeah, yeah... I'm still going to get you back for that some day! By the way, can I have it back to go do my hair please?" he asked.

"Knock yourself out kid," I tossed Odd the keys to my dorm room, "It's laying on my vanity mirror."

"A'ight, I'll go get it after I eat."'

"While you're in there, feel free to use some of my makeup. It'll really enhance your beauty Odd."

"Bite me Serena!" he hissed as everyone else laughed. I grinned and mouthed "I love you" back at him and then he busted out laughing too.

All of us continued to eat our breakfast and have random conversations about the most random subjects. Once we were all finished, Jeremy and Aelita went ahead and started to get ready to head to the science building where we all had to go to Chemistry. Odd went back to the dormitory building to get his hair gel out of my room. Ulrich and I decided to just walk to the vending machines to wait for Odd to get back.

As I was walking with Ulrich and we were having a very interesting talk about soccer, I ended up seeing Sissi with her posse of losers, Nicolas and Herve, hanging around the soda machine. The second I laid my eyes on her, anger started to burn inside of me and I wanted to go ahead and seek my revenge on here right then and there. Suddenly, a brilliant idea popped in my mind and I just had to set it in action. All I needed was a little help from my pal Ulrich.

"Ulrich? I know this is a little personal, but are you and Yumi like really together?" I asked him as I pulled him to the side for a moment, "Because I don't want her to hate me for thinking about this idea I just got to get revenge on Sissi for being hateful to me."

He looked at me for moment with a confused expression but then replied, "We aren't officially together, but if it's revenge on Sissi you want, I'll do whatever just to help."

"Well, what about if you pretend to be my boyfriend for a few minutes? I know that would make her so mad at me, but I understand if you don't want to do that."

Ulrich thought about my plan for a moment and then got a devious grin on his face, "That's a perfect idea! Of course I'll do that for you, but we just can't tell Yumi or Odd about it cuz I know they would kill us."

"Ok. Thank you so much Ulrich!" I said as I gave him a hug, "But why would Odd care so much about it?"

"Haven't you realized that he's got a thing for you? Ever since you two sat together on that plane, you've been the only girl that he's interested in and that happened at least a month ago. That's pretty impressive compared to how long that lady's man normally likes a girl."

I was completely shocked of what Ulrich told me. It was true that Odd and I flirt a lot with each other, but I never thought he actually did like me for real. I guess it was because of the fact that his longest relationship was probably almost two weeks long and I never thought that he'd like someone like me anyways.

"That's why he kinda planned for only you to go with him for ice cream and the arcade today. Odd knew that Jeremy and Aelita would want to work on stuff for Lyoko and wouldn't come, and even though I really was free this afternoon, I knew he wanted me to come up with something so I would be busy," he told me.

"Wow... I just have a hard time believing he likes me though," I said.

"Well, you better believe it."

Then Ulrich and I looked over to where Sissi was standing to find her staring back at us with an agitated look on her face. I then decided that it was finally time for us to put our plan in action.

"You ready for revenge?" I asked Ulrich.

"Of course I'm ready," he replied as he wrapped his arm around my waist and we started to walk together a little ways. Herve ended up pointing us out to Sissi and I watched her face turn from being agitated to shock.

"We finally got their attention," I whispered to him.

"Yeah," Ulrich whispered back, "Now I got a good idea. Just go along with me for a minute."

"What are you planning?"

"You'll see."

Suddenly, Ulrich backed me up into a nearby tree and then started to lean in towards my face. After I got over the shock that he was just about to kiss me, I leaned closer to him and we locked lips. Even though I didn't even bother to look over at Sissi, I could feel her rage and frustration with me from across the crossroads. This was by far the perfect way to get revenge on Sissi for the moment. Ulrich and I continued to make out for about another minute and then we broke apart once we felt like our job was accomplished. He actually wasn't a bad kisser, which was a good thing because I knew that's what made it more convincing. The only thing is, what we had just done would have to stay only between us or all hell would break loose. Then I looked around to see if anyone saw what went on, but it seemed like Sissi, Nicolas, and Herve were the only ones. That was good.

I decided that it was finally time for Ulrich and I to enjoy Sissi's reaction. We both ended up looking over at her to find her face all twisted up with anger and bloody red. It looked quite hilarious. I flashed a smile in her direction and waved too, which made her storm off with her two ugly followers.

"You're brilliant Ulrich!" I said while hugging him again, "Thank you so much for helping with my revenge."

"Anything for a friend," he replied, "I'm glad I could help."

"Yeah, just please don't tell anyone. Not that it wasn't nice, but I really don't want anyone to find out that we made out."

"Don't worry. I've had to deal with enough drama like that before and it wasn't pretty. Well, at least the vending machines are clear now."

"True."

And with that, Ulrich and I walked over to the vending machines to wait for Odd to get back from the dorms. It didn't take much waiting before we saw our purple goofball friend walking towards us. Odd had his hair all fixed up as usual now.

"I see you didn't have any problem getting back your hair gel," I smiled at him as he tossed me back my room key.

"Nope. Everything's pretty easy to find in your room," Odd replied as he slung his arm around my shoulders, "By the way, I didn't take anything this time so don't freak out about me getting revenge on you for stealing my hair gel right now."

"Ok. I wasn't worried about that anyways."

"Well you should be soon, cuz I'm going to get you good."

I couldn't help but to laugh, "I'd love to see you try Oddy-kins."

"Oh you will!"

"When you guys are done flirting with each other, we should all head down to the science building now," Ulrich said as he looked at his watch.

"Yeah, you're right," I replied and then the three of us started to make our way to our Chemistry class. While we were walking, a few kids started running out of the science building screaming. I wonder what all that was about...

Suddenly, Ulrich's phone started to ring and he answered it. Turns out that it was Jeremy and he said that XANA was attacking the school with spiders swarming everyone and everything in their path. What he wanted us to do was clear the way out of the science building for him and Aelita to get out so we can all head to the factory. Then he could send all of us to Lyoko to deactivate the tower once we got that accomplished.

"Serena, you and Odd go ahead to the factory. Yumi should be on her way over there now. I'll go get Jeremy and Aelita out of the spider trap and we'll meet you guys at the factory in a few. Got it?" Ulrich asked.

"Yeah. Be careful," I said.

"Don't worry."

Then Odd and I started to run towards the woods where the passage to the sewers was. It didn't take us extremely long to reach there, but on the way, spiders kept falling from the trees on top of us and that kind of slowed us down a bit. In a matter of ten minutes, we had made it to the factory and found Yumi waiting for us there.

"These damn spiders are just plain horrible!" Yumi yelled while stomping on five of them near her feet.

"Tell me about it," I said as I pulled a few out of my hair and squashed them.

"I wonder how long Ulrich, Jeremy, and Aelita are gonna take," said Odd while he also squished spiders that had hitched a ride on him.

"I don't know, but they better hurry up."

Suddenly, Yumi's cell phone started to ring and she answered it. It was Jeremy calling again telling us that the spiders were still holding them up. He also told Yumi that she needed to type in the coordinates into the supercomputer and virtualize us in Lyoko since he couldn't do that at the moment.

"Odd, Serena, go ahead and get down in the scanners. I'll be down there once I set up this delayed virtualization," Yumi told us as she started to type some commands into the supercomputer.

"Where's the tower at?" Odd asked.

"In the mountain sector."

"Ok. Well, let's get going."

Odd and I went down into the scanner room and we both got into the coffin-shaped scanners. Not that I didn't trust Yumi working the controls, but I was nervous about her being the first one to virtualize me to Lyoko. I was a tad bit shaky as I entered the scanner.

"Serena, don't worry. Yumi's done this a few times before and it's not that bad being virtualized," Odd assured me.

"I know. It's just a little scary though," I replied.

"Hey, you've handled sharing a room with Sissi for years. Being virtualized to Lyoko is nothing compared to that. I promise you'll be fine," he gave me one of his signature Odd smiles and I actually did feel a little better about the whole thing.

"You're right. Thanks Odd," I smiled back at him.

"And once we get that tower deactivated, you can look forward to just me and you having a good time hitting the town later."

I couldn't help but to laugh, "True."

Shortly after our conversation, Yumi came down to the scanner room and got in the third scanner. Suddenly, the doors all closed and the next thing I knew was air was blowing all around me. Weirdly, I could feel my body's molecules separating and then put back together pixelated. Then I opened my eyes to find myself mid-air in some mountainous region. Once my body was fully virtualized, I fell to the purple ground.

"Ouch!" I hollered out while I tried to recover from my fall.

"Yeah, you gotta watch out for that everytime," said this purple cat boy who resembled Odd and then he took a good at me once I stood up. His mouth fell open in shock and he replied, "I can't believe that..."

"Believe what? What's wrong?" I was starting to get worried that something wasn't right.

"Nothing's wrong Serena," Yumi assured me, "Odd's just surprised about what form you took on here in Lyoko."

"My form?" I looked down at myself to find myseld dressed in black thigh-high boots that had green stripes and a black and green mini skirt. Connected to my back was a cat tail and I was wearing an all black halter top. On my arms were long black and green striped gloves and they led up to my hands, which were now cat paws. My hair was put up into a pony tail and on the top of my head was a set of green cat ears. Just like Odd, I was in the form of a cat here on Lyoko.

"I thought I was going to be the only one stuck here like a cat. Good to know that I'm not," Odd smiled as he came by and grabbed on to my tail.

"Hey! No touchy the tail!"

Then Odd started cackling his high-pitched laugh and Yumi and I rolled our eyes at him.

"Odd, when you're done flirting with Serena, we need to go ahead and get a start on clearing up the tower so Aelita can deactivate it when everyone else arrives," Yumi said.

"Ok, then let's go!"

The three of us started to run towards the direction of the activated tower. All around it were these wierd block-shaped creachers that had XANA's mark on all their sides. Those must be the Bloks that Odd told me about before. Before we decided to ambush them, Yumi, Odd, and I hid behind a giant purple rock to plan a strategy to get rid of all the Bloks. We came up with a pretty good plan, but I still had no idea what my abilities were in this place.

"Does anyone know what kind of powers I have?" I asked, "Cuz I have no clue."

"If you're anything like me, you've got arrows in your gloves," Odd told me, "Just aim your arm at something and pretend your shooting at it."

"Like this?" I aimed my arm at another nearby rock and suddenly a smokey arrow shot out of my arm, "Woah! That's cool!"

"Awesome! You should call them Shadow Arrows!"

"Ok."

"Plus, you also have become really agile than you would be in the real world and when you cross your arms in front of your chest, you form a shield," he also said.

"Sounds good," I replied. I think I could really get used to having these cat powers on Lyoko. The next thing we did was run towards the Bloks. Yumi took the ones on the left, Odd went after the Bloks in the middle, and I was left with the right side.

"Aim for the center of their eyes!" Yumi called out to us as she struck one of the Bloks with her metal fan.

"Gotcha... Laser Arrows!" Odd shouted as silver arrows came out of his purple gloves and hit some of his Bloks.

"Shadow Arrow!" I shot out an arrow and it ended up missing the Blok that I was aiming for, "Damnit!"

Suddenly, the Bloks all started firing their lasers at me and I was having a hard time dodging them. I got hit a few times by them, but I knew I still had plenty of life points left. Then my temper started to rise and I went on a laser shooting frenzy which made me hit two Bloks at once. They ended up exploding into a billion pieces and devirtualized. Shortly after I had gotten the hang of knocking out Bloks, Jeremy, Aelita, and Ulrich had finally arrived at the factory and Jeremy was working on virtualizing Ulrich and Aelita to Lyoko.

"You're doing a great job Serena! Just a few more Bloks to get rid of and we've got it cleared!" Odd said as he blew up one.

"Alright!"

I fired a few more Shadow Arrows at this Blok who was really getting on my nerves because it kept trying to freeze me with its ice beam. The third arrow finally hit it and it blew up pretty quickly. Then Ulrich and Aelita were virtualized near all of us and Ulrich helped me out with finishing up the Bloks. Aelita made it to the tower and was able to get in without any harm done to her.

While we were waiting for the tower to be deactivated, Odd came over and gave me a big hug.

"That was pretty awesome for your first time being in Lyoko Kitten! You did great!"

I could feel a blush coming on my face as I hugged him back, "Thanks Odd, and since when did I become Kitten?"

"Just now because you are a kitten."

"Fine, then I can start calling you Tiger!"

"I didn't say that you could!"

"Well, I didn't tell you that you could call me Kitten so ha!"

Odd and I continued to playfully argue like that for a while and Ulrich and Yumi just laughed at us. Suddenly, a bright, white light came all around us and I realized that this was the return trip to the past that I had experienced many times before.

The next thing I knew was that Ulrich and I were once again lip-locked and making out back at the crossroads in front of Sissi. When we separated, I couldn't help but to smile as we got to enjoy her reaction to our revenge once again. Today has been such a really great day in a wierd way for me. Getting revenge on Sissi, not only once but twice, and getting to go to Lyoko for the first time was a blast. Not only that, Odd and I still have our little ice cream and arcade date after classes too. I can't even express how happy I am right now and it's all thanks to the Lyoko gang.


And it is done! I hope all of you enjoyed this! Sorry it's kinda rushed at the end, but I believe this is coming along well. I'll try to get Chapter 4 up as soon as I can, and I hope that all of you would continue to review and favorite this story :D I've really got a lot planned for this that I want to share with everyone once I get it typed up. Well, thanks again for reading :)