So I lied. I thought that graduating from High school would give me more chances too write. WRONG! Now I have to worry about getting a job to save up the money for college, and other things! Though I did have a wonderful vacation in California a few weeks ago….
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On to the story!
Library…
"Making eye contact and smiling is a great way to grab a guy's attention. Also, little touches to his arm make him take notice of you and your feelings towards him" Silney read from a magazine she held in her arms. She had remembered Aunt Sara's advise to try and flirt with Odd, now she needed to figure out how.
Thus, landing her in the school library with the latest copy of Teen Pop on the table in front of her. The girl sighed lightly. She always made eye contact with him and smiled, though she had never tried the touching of the arm… Was that allowed? With the shake of her head she flipped a few pages and began to read another article.
"If your style is old, getting a brand new make-over will make your guy turn his head in your direction" Silney blinked at this information and began to leaf through the pages to see the pictures. Teen models were plastered all over, all of them with new clothes, their hair shaped to perfection, and the make-up flawless.
Silney bit into her lower lip lightly before looking down at her green and black plaid skirt while picking a piece of her white hair. Her style was kind of old… Maybe it was time to update her look. How though? I've never focused on fashion of anything else… I barely know what fashion is! I need someone to help me, but who?
"What are you reading?" Came the well known voice of Sissi.
"Nothing!" Silney squeaked and threw the magazine over her shoulder. The small paper book hit a pile of books behind her, knocking them over and causing a crash but she completely ignored it and looked at Sissi's confused face. What was Sissi even doing here? It was after school!
"Why are you here?" Sissi asked her, as if she had read the girl's thoughts. Silney blinked lightly "I was about to ask you the same thing…"
"My dad's the principle, I can't leave until he does and he has a meeting" Sissi explained in annoyance. "Your turn. Where's the rest of your group?"
"Oh… I told them I had a project to work on and that I needed to go to the library…" Silney explained while scratching the back of her head. Why was Sissi talking to her?
Sissi watched her carefully before a smirk rose to her face "And reading out of the latest issue of Teen Pop counts as research? (Silney's eyes grew wide at this statement) Oh don't look so surprised, I've actually been here for five minutes watching you. What were you reading about?" she asked, a sneaky smirk coming to her face.
Silney gaped at her for a moment. Five minutes?! Wow she was blind… Wait, maybe this wouldn't be too bad. Maybe… Maybe this girl could help her! "Sissi... Umm… You know about fashion right?" she asked, a bit hesitant.
"But of course! You're talking to the most fashionable girl in school!" Sissi let out a laugh at Silney's stupid question. "Why do you ask?" she inquired after a moment.
"Umm… Well… D-Do you think you can help me? I was thinking about getting a make-over, but I don't know what to do…" she admitted in a small whisper. Silence fell over the two before Sissi stood so fast her chair fell over. "What are we sitting around here for?! Let's go!" Sissi ordered before grabbing the poor girl and dragging her out of the library.
Why do I get the sudden feeling I'm going to regret this…? Silney whined in her mind.
At the factory…
"It's so boring!" Odd yelled out to the rest of the group from his corner of the room. The group moaned at Odd's fourth outburst of the afternoon. "We know, Odd, but we have to do this! XANA's been quiet lately, but even so we have to do checks" Jeremy told him as he typed on the master computer.
"But why do we all have to be here?" Odd asked and began to hit the back of his head against the metal wall. "Just in case we find something" Jeremy reminded him.
"Ignore him Jeremy, he's just upset that his girlfriend isn't here" Ulrich told him from behind the chair. "Hey! She's not my girlfriend!" Odd yelled, though a small blush came to his face.
"Might as well be" Yumi pointed out. Aelita nodded and opened her mouth to respond, but something else came out instead "Look at this!" The group looked up from their spots and looked at Aelita who was looking at a TV they had set in the factory. "What is it?" Jeremy asked and walked over to see she had it set to the news.
"No one knows what's going on, but something is up with the prices of objects across the nation. Items that should only be ten dollars are sky rocketing to fifty! Gas stations have been backed up completely due to the complications that a forty dollar fill up is now costing in the hundreds!" The screen switched from the news reporter to a gas station where cars were back into the street waiting to fill up, while those at the pump stood in confusion about what to do with the situation that had been presented.
"Many stores have now been shut down do to the computer problems. This isn't the only problem that's been spotted, though. Many scanners have begun to fry and light on fire do to machinery problems"
The TV screen turned black once Ulrich turned it off. Odd stood in confusion "So… What's going on?" he asked as the computer began to beep at a new found activated tower.
"I'll tell you what's going on. XANA is controlling the numbers in purchases" Jeremy told him. "Which means?" Ulrich asked. "This means, he's jacking up the price to everything and it's causing an overload in the machines causing them to break. If this keeps up, nobody will be able to afford anything… In other words, we'll have another Great Depression on our hands" Jeremy finished explaining.
"Jeremy, call Silney. We'll go on ahead into the room" Aelita told him as she ran into the room with the others. "Right" he answered.
At the mall…
"Try these to on too!" Sissi ordered, throwing more clothes over the door to the changing room. "Y-Yes ma'am!" Silney mumbled from under the mountain of fabric Sissi had been piling in there for her. Was all of this really necessary? She just thought maybe buying a couple of new outfits and possibly a hair cut… Suddenly, a ring filled the air.
"Ah! That's my cell phone! Where's my purse?!" Silney yelled from the room and began to dig through the mountains of clothes. "Don't panic, I have it!" Sissi told her before reaching into the purse and answering it "Hello? Oh, hi Jeremy… No, she cannot come to the phone right now... She's busy!" Sissi snapped the phone closed and quickly put it on silent.
"Was that Jeremy?" Silney asked, coming out of the dressing room with another outfit on. "Yes, he wanted to know if you wanted to hang out, I told him you were busy. Now let's look at this outfit" before Silney could protest, Sissi began to tug on the new outfit, but Silney wasn't listening to what the girl said. Why would Jeremy call her? Could it have something to do with Lyoko? No, it couldn't… Something would be happening in the real world if it was.
Factory…
"Guys! I can't get a hold of Silney!" Jeremy yelled into the microphone. "What do you mean?!" Ulrich yelled back as he dodged another attack.
"I mean, I called her. Sissi answered then hung up on me, and now no one is answering! Looks like we have to do this one without her, like the old days" he told them "Head north to get to the tower"
"What? Why is she with Sissi? She said she had to work on a project!" Odd told the group right as the monster exploded next to him. "Odd, we have more important things to worry about" Yumi scolded.
Mall…
"AHH!" Both Silney and Sissi jumped at the sound of the clerk screaming right before the sprinklers went off over their heads. "What's going on?!" Sissi yelled. Silney didn't respond as she ran out of the dressing to see the cash register in the flames and the clerk pressed against the wall. "What happened…?" she whispered.
"Why isn't the water putting out the fire?!" The female clerk screamed over the falling water. Silney snapped out of her thoughts "Because it's an electrical fire! The water is only going to make it worse!" with that she sprang forward, smashing the glass over the fire extinguisher and began to use it on the flame.
"Silney, what's going on?" Sissi asked once Silney had put out the fire. "Sissi, we have to get out of here…" Silney's eyes were wide with worry. Outside the store in the mall, there were fires spreading across all of the stores. "Wh-What's going on?!" Sissi screamed. "No time to explain! We have to leave!" Silney quickly grabbed a hold of Sissi's wrist and began to run for the door.
Factory…
"Any news on the outside world?" Aelita asked Jeremy. They had just gotten the tower in site, but the problem still remained that there were monsters surrounding the area and the others were doing what they could to fight them off.
"Yes, and it's bad. The mall has caught fire. There are innocent people in there! We have to hurry before someone gets hurt, or worse!" Jeremy looked back at the television that was playing the news report of the burning mall due to machines malfunctioning.
"Any news on where Silney is?" She asked in worry. There had been burning buildings popping up everywhere, and there was no sign of where her cousin had gone. "No, I'm afraid not" Jeremy responded.
Mall…
"Sissi, we have to keep going!" Silney paused just long enough to pull Sissi back up to her feet. "I… Can't!" she yelled, tears streaming down her face "There's too much smoke!" she yelled while coughing again and falling back to the ground.
"Don't say that! You can too!" Silney dropped down to the ground next to her. Quickly, she stripped off her jacket and put it to Sissi's face to filter out the smoke that was consuming the entire mall, along with the fire. "Come on, we have to get out" Silney picked the girl back up and began to rush towards the door, when a crack above them caught her attention.
"What was that?" Sissi asked right before the ground below her foot broke and she fell in. Silney glanced up with her eyes full of fear. "Sissi… Get up… GET UP!" She screamed as a fiery pillar above them broke free. "My foot's stuck! I can't move!" Sissi yelled. "No…" Silney's eyes grew wide with fear and she immediately went to work on trying to get her foot out of the ground.
"Silney, run!" Sissi screamed once she saw the falling pillar. "No! I'm not going to leave you here!" She screamed, tears coming to her face. They were going to die here, under that falling pillar. As the burning pillar came closer, Silney closed her eyes tightly. This was it; she could feel the heat and braced herself for the pain that was too follow…
Library…
"What happened to your hair?"
Silney's eyes snapped open in pure surprise. What? She quickly glanced around. "I-I'm in the library… I'm alive…" she cried out in pure joy, tears beginning to fall down her face before she looked up at Sissi. "Sissi! You're ok too!" She yelled and tackled the girl in a hug.
"Whoa! Hey! Get off!" Sissi yelled and pushed her off "What's wrong with you?! Of course I'm ok! What are you talking about?! And what happened to your hair?! It looks like something has been burned off!"
Silney blinked in confusion and reached up to her hair to feel that a lot of it had been burned clean off with the ends scorched black. The pillar had gotten that close…? And I'm still alive…?
"Hello?! Are you going to answer me?" Sissi asked in annoyance while putting her hands on her hips. "Huh…? Oh umm… Science accident?" she responded. In truth, she didn't care what excuse she made it, at the moment she was just so happy. Silney would defiantly have to find the others later and thank them big time.
"Science accident? Whatever, I'm not letting you walk around with your hair looking like that! Come on, we're getting you a hair cut!" Sissi told her and began to push her out of the library.
Silney smiled lightly. Well, it looks like I'm going to be getting a small make-over anyways…
So… If you all haven't figured out I'm not very good with thinking of XANA attacks, but I felt like the story needed on at the moment. If any one has any ideas for XANA attacks, please tell me and you'll get full credit for it!
In fact, if you have any ideas in general, don't be shy! Just go ahead and tell me!
I hope you enjoyed, sorry for the long wait! Review if you wish! I'll try to update soon, bye!