Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko or Evanescence. Only in my dreams, but in reality I do own Musa and Cascada. So you can't steal them!!!!

Xana, Unveiled

Musa knew going to Lyoko was out of the question this time. She figured that's how this all started, where her lies were finally known. Lyoko was no longer her sanctuary whether or not the gang had found out about her identity. So she went to the only place she knew she would be at some sort of peace of mind. Where she could do what she really loved. Her newly found safe haven, the school's music room and that's where she was now. Sitting in front of the grand piano, she randomly tapped at a few keys creating an unintentional melody.

She began to add on to that melody eventually adding words and singing them.

"Playground school bell rings again

Rain clouds come to play again

Has no one told you she's not breathing?

Hello

I am your mind giving you someone to talk to

Hello"

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Chris, the drummer of the Subdigitals, sighed in fatigue from his uncles lounge chair, running his hand through his messy silver hair. He had auditioned all of Kadic and had only been able to find one group to send off to the next round. Though the singer, the principal's daughter, had a good voice she didn't put much emotion into it, she wasn't putting her heart into the words. She wasn't making them her own by conveying a message in them.

There had been another group, Della Robbia and Stone, he believed were their names. They were good but they were missing key components like a drummer, for one, and their music needed a voice to it. It was funny, one group had a good voice but put no heart in their music, and the other put everything they had in their music but had no voice and furthermore, no drummer. Hello! Chris was a drummer. You needed to have that!

He sighed, closing his eyes, as his uncle looked at him worried. The drummer had suggested to the two groups that they combine but he sensed some sort of rivalry between the groups and knew nothing good would come out of a band that hated each other.

"Don't worry, kid!" Jim said trying to lighten up the dim mood that his nephew was bringing into his office. "You found a group. You should be happy!"

"Yeah, but they're not the group, the group that I imagined" Chris sighed.

"Well, that's one thing about life, you don't always expect what is going to happen and when it does happen, at first it might not be what you want, but it'll get better" Jim said.

"Yeah, I guess," the Subdigitals drummer sighed again as he listened to the music that was coming from his uncle's old radio.

"If I smile and don't believe

Soon I know I'll wake from this dream

Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken

Hello

I am the lie living for you so you can hide

Don't cry"

"Hey, could you turn the radio up, Uncle Jim? I think I like that song," Chris said listening to the music.

"Um, Chris? The radio is not on," Jim said. The silver hair young man opened his eyes to see that his uncle was right. The radio wasn't on, it wasn't even plugged in.

"So, that means…" Chris began.

"Didn't I tell you?" Jim grinned getting up. "Come on, I think it's coming from the music room" Jim said as he lead his nephew out of the room and towards the source of the music.

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Cascada walked into Jeremy's room without even knocking, taking her stand next to William, as the group finished the last video clip. "So," she said, "we're back to where we started."

"Yeah, and we want a few questions answered," Jeremy said pushing his glasses back up his nose. "Where is Musa or Lana or who ever she is?"

"We prefer to go by our human names now that you found us out," Cascada replied coolly. "As for where Musa is, your guess is as good as mine. She's not on Lyoko this time, that's for sure."

"So where is she?" Yumi asked. Before anyone could answer a haunting melody flowed into the room.

"Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping

Hello

I'm still here, all that's left of yesterday…."

"Hey! That sounds like Odd's musical Cinderella," Ulrich said, "Did you ever find her, Odd?"

The purple loving boy didn't respond. He was too lost in his own thoughts to do anything really. "Actually," Aelita said filling in for Odd, "we didn't. Whoever it was didn't audition for Chris, so we still don't know who it is."

"I know," Cascada said walking to the door, William following her because he already knew who was singing and where the blonde hair girl was going.

"Where are you going?" Jeremy demanded.

"To kill two birds with one stone," Cascada said simply.

"Yeah," William nodded, "You, Jeremy wanted to know where Musa was and Odd wants to find his Cinderella…"

"Wait, you mean Musa is…" Odd said finally getting out of his trance like state.

"If you want to find out," Cascada said walking out, "come and follow us." The rest of the gang looked at each other before getting up and following her.

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A lone tear trailed down Musa's cheek as she stopped playing, unable to sing anymore. Singing was supposed to help her sort her feeling out, but instead it only made her more confused and anxious about the near future. What will the other think of her knowing her secret now? Would they still like her for her or would they just use her as a tool like the scientist long ago did? Would she ever be forgiven? Would Odd ever forgive her? Tears began to build up in her eyes, but they wouldn't spill, not yet anyway.

"You can cry if you want to," a voice whispered in her ear as slender arms wrapped around her from behind. She wasn't surprised. She knew they would come looking for her. She had only been prolonging this moment.

"Tears won't help us get out if this situation, sister," the plum hair girl replied leaning into her sister's embrace.

"It won't, but it's better to let things out in the open then bundling them all up inside. Mother told us that, remember?" Cascada asked softly.

"Yes," Musa sighed as she heard more footsteps come into the room. The girl kept her eyes on the piano's black and white keys in front of her, afraid that if she looked at them, if she looked at Odd, the tears would spill. She was tired of crying. No matter what her sister or mother had said, tears wouldn't change the fact that she lied to someone who was very dear to her.

"So you're the one who was singing earlier?" Yumi asked. Musa turned to them, keeping her eyes on their feet.

"Hai," she nodded.

"You're really good," she heard Aelita say as she saw the pink hair girl's feet walk slowly towards her. The plum hair girl felt Cascada's arms slip away from her and be replaced by Aelita's.

"Y-you forgive me, Aelita?" Musa asked confused not yet returning the embrace.

"The way I see it," the pink hair girl said smiling softly, "we're sisters, family. I will always forgive you."

Musa wanted to cry right there, but it was funny how her tears didn't want to be released just yet. "Arigatou, Imootto-san," the wolf A.I. said barely above a whisper.

"You know, I hate to ruin a moment," Jeremy began.

"Then don't!" Cascada snarled at the computer whiz. The boy really had a way of annoying her with his "I think I'm so smart" attitude. She could run quadratic equations and more around him any day.

"But we really need to talk," the boy said ignoring the older blonde.

"He's right," Musa nodded pulling away from her sisters and finding the courage to look up at the others. She could see their emotions so clearly on their faces.

Jeremy was a little annoyed but also seemed to be a little bit happy for Aelita probably. Ulrich and Yumi also seemed to be happy for the three girls but a look of worry and suspicion, still played across their faces, though she felt like the worry was for something totally different then what was going on now. William looked calm, a slight smirk playing across his lips as he winked encouragingly at her, telling her that he was definitely on her side along with Aelita and Cascada whom were looking at her lovingly in a sisterly way. But the last person, Odd, she couldn't read. He was just staring at her, as if trying to see into her. Musa averted her eyes from him as she got up. Looking at him directly in the eyes were too much for her right now.

"I'm ready to answer your questions," she sighed at Jeremy.

"Good," Jeremy said before he turned around, leaving the room with Yumi and Ulrich following him. William left next with Cascada by his side, after both she and Aelita gave the girl another hug before they both left. So now, it was only Musa and Odd.

The plum hair girl rubbed her arm, feeling awkward while still avoiding his gaze. "Musa," he said softly.

"Let's not keep the others waiting," she said quickly cutting him off and running after the others.

Odd sighed before slowly following.

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Chris and Jim watched as the students left the music room. "So," Jim grunted, "it was Utada all along."

"Wonder why she didn't audition," Chris wondered aloud.

"Utada isn't the kind of kid who likes a lot of attention, despite her appearance" Jim said causing his nephew to look at him. "She's a good kid though and a good influence, especially towards Della Robbia."

"Hey, Uncle Jim, do you think you can do me a favor?" Chris asked smirking.

"Well if your thinking what I'm thinking then maybe I can," Jim smirked back.

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The Lyoko group all filed into Jeremy's room. The seating plan was as so: Jeremy sat in his computer chair; Cascada, Aelita, and Musa sat on his bed; Yumi sat next to the bed with Ulrich leaning against the wall next to her; William also stood leaning on the wall opposite of the bed; Odd sat on the floor in front of Musa trying to catch her eye but for she would always look away from him.

"Why did you lie to us?" Jeremy said getting straight to the point.

"Straight to the point, aren't we?" Cascada sighed, running her fingers through her strawberry blonde hair. "We didn't lie to you. Everything we told you was true; we simply just omitted the details about us being virtual beings. Next question."

"Why?" Jeremy demanded.

"Why do you need to breathe?" the blonde hair girl asked, already getting annoyed, and it was the only the second question. She took a deep breath before calmly replying. "We did it because we just wanted to live here without you hounding us like you are now, Four Eyes. I mean really, has anyone ever told you how much of a control freak you can be? You're worst then Hopper. He kept repeating the damn day over and over again. It was so annoying, because-" the girl cut herself off. She was revealing way too much and she wasn't sure whether the gang could handle it.

"Because of what?" Aelita asked, wanting to know what her "older sister" was about to say.

"Because," Musa said finally speaking, "after the…incident," she said referring to the pink hair girl's mother's disappearance, "he didn't trust us anymore." The wolf A.I. pulled her knees up to her chest, slightly rocking herself as she stared down at Odd's red clad feet. "For a while he blamed us for it and he also got paranoid. That was also around the time Leon began acting strange too." The girl sighed, pulling up her hood in a way to make her feel less visible. She hated the being looked at right now.

"So you had two brothers? Not one like you said at the cafe?" Odd asked the girl who was trying hard not to look at him.

"What are you talking about?" Cascada asked confused. Musa was thankful that Odd had to turn to Cascada now instead of looking at her.

"Well, um in one of Elena's transmission she said that Musa thought of Leon as an older brother and Musa had told me that she only had one brother but, when I thought Xana was Musa he said something about being her brother…" the purple loving boy said trailing off when he saw that Utada had curled herself into a ball, shaking.

Cascada instantly wrapped her arms around her sister calming her down and Odd wished that he hadn't had said anything or at least that he could be the one comforting the girl. "Leon…" the blonde hair girl said, unsure where to start, "Leon, like we said, started acting strange a little while before Elena was planned to materialize on Lyoko. He had been isolating himself for days doing things, and all he would say is that he was doing something important for Hopper concerning shutting down the military's Carthage. They would talk for hours together about things but neither of them would ever tell Musa or I what was going on. It was so strange, it was like Leon had forgotten everything about being human, he seemed so cold, so distant," she said softly. William listened silently as he heard to what Cascada was saying and somewhere in his mind he knew where she was going with this. "On January 13, 1990, the day after our mother's disappearance, Leon decided to take on a new name, a name that he hoped would one day stop humans and machines in their tracks with fear. He renamed himself…Xana."

Dun,dun, dun!!!! I'm so evil! Cliff hanger!!! Whoa I got this out before the weekend! Go me!

Thanks for everyone's thoughts about the music choice and I'm still excepting them if you want to give me more but so far Evanescence and Within Temptaion are in tied!!!

The song above is Hello by Evanescence. I thought it went well with how Musa was feeling. I don't know. Sometimes I read too much into things so it could just be me...

Nothing more to say except...PLEASE REVEIW!!!