Disclaimer: -sigh- I'm running out of weird/funny/or dumb things to say for the disclaimer. This is my longest story ever. Anyway, you guys already know this but it doesn't hurt to reinforce things: I do not own Code Lyoko. I do own Musa, Cascada, and this story's plot.
Parent's Day: An Odd Reunion
Musa turned around from the microphone, electric guitar in hand while staring grimly at the rest of the Lyoko gang. They had just finished practicing and it was only four hours till the parents would arrive. This had been there twentieth practice in four days. Don't ask how that was possible especially since the practices took forever. With a dedicated, music obsessed wolf A.I. anything was possible.
The group held their breath as the white and black hair girl speculated them. Here's the layout of the band: Musa and Odd were the music writers, switching between themselves the role of lead guitar while Musa was the lead singer and any other position that needed to be filled since she could practically download how to play any instrument into her mind; Ulrich played bass guitar; Aelita worked with the mixing board and the keyboard; Yumi and Cascada were back up singers with Cascada playing electric violin sometimes (yes, there is such a thing); William played the drums; and Jeremy worked with the sound and lighting systems since he preferred to work behind the scenes.
"So? How were we this time?" Cascada asked so tired from the practice that she was practically leaning on Yumi to stand up.
"Hmmm," Musa said frowning, "To be honest, I think…WE WERE ACTUALLY GREAT!" she broke out grinning. Everyone sighed in relief before slumping over tiredly. Musa had a confused look on her face as she looked at her exhausted friends. "Nani? What's the matter with you guys?" she asked. Before any of them could answer they were rudely interrupted.
"Well I heard that Chris had found another band to compete against me but you guys are a joke and can not possibly hope to be compared to someone with as much talent as me." You can probably guess who said that. Musa turned to see Sissi and her two brainless henchmen, Nicolas and Herve, standing at the entrance of the freshly decorated gymnasium.
"Well, Sissi," Cascada said calmly, managing to gather enough energy to stand up tall, "You're right for once," she said. Sissi raised a brow in confusion at this and Musa fought down a laugh. She knew exactly what her sister was going to say.
"I am?" the principal's daughter asked suspiciously.
"Of course," the strawberry blonde shrugged, "I mean how can we even think to be compared to someone like you?"
"Well I am the most popular girl as this school," Sissi said flipping her hair behind her shoulder. "People always look up to me because of my great talent and all." At this point, Musa had to bury her head into Odd's chest in order not to break out laughing, not that the blonde minded that he was being used as a silencer.
"That's really a shame," the plant A.I. said.
"Why?" the pompous girl asked confused.
"Because everyone knows you have as much talent as your lackeys' pea size brains," the green eye girl smirked. Sissi growled but then took an unusual calming breath.
"Say what you want, Hikaru, but we'll see who's band is the best after tonight and when we find out that's it's actually me then you'll be groveling at my feet, jealous when I get all the attention," Sissi commented before turning around and walking conceitedly out of the gym, Herve and Nicolas following.
"That's it?" Musa pouted pulling away from Odd.
Cascada shrugged. "The music will speak for itself, will it not?"
"Of course," Aelita agreed turning to Odd and Musa, "You two have been working hard on the songs they're great. You should be proud."
The blue-green eye girl shrugged. "I'll admit that the songs are good but we wouldn't have even thought of them if it wasn't for this," she said taking out the leather bound book. "I found it in the Hermitage. I remembered mother mentioning that she was writing a collection of poems, so Odd and I used some of them as inspiration. Here," she said handing the book over to Aelita. "Maybe it'll jog something."
"Thank you," the pink hair girl said taking the book delicately as if it was a fragile item.
"Well I'm going to go to my room and enjoy whatever time I have left till my father comes," Ulrich said leaving.
"And I want to check Lyoko for any signs of Xana," Jeremy said.
"I'll come with you," Aelita offered and the boy accepted.
"I guess I'll head home," Yumi said before being stopped by Cascada.
"I'm coming too. I want to talk to your mom," she said. Yumi looked at her nervous before nodding leading the way towards her home.
"I need to go hide Kiwi before Jim makes his room checks," Odd said. "I hope he'll be okay in the factory. Do you want me to hide Ichigo too?"
"Sure. Ichigo will give Kiwi some company " Musa said, "I'm going to stay here for awhile, you know, just to make sure the sound is perfect."
"Okay," Odd nodded before kissing her on the cheek and then running off. The girl watched him leave before turning toward the only other person left, William.
"So, Onii-san, what are you going to do before your parents come?" she asked the boy but he didn't respond. He was staring unseeingly in front of him, his eyes glazed. "William?" Musa asked quietly waving a hand in front of the boy's face and still he didn't move. "What's going on?" she asked herself quietly unsure of what to do.
William's Day Dream
He was in Sector 5 though he didn't know exactly where. It was strange how this felt so normal to him, almost like a distant memory…
Leon and Rose stood before him, the boy holding a small light blue glowing ball. "I don't understand," the girl said, "Why are you giving me this?"
"I just want you to have a chance of finally seeing mother and this is it," Leon said.
"I still don't know why you are giving this to me. Why aren't you keeping this? Don't you want to go to Earth? And why not give it to Lana?"
"Rose, I know that you wanted to go to Earth more then anything. I can't go because there is still much I have to look after here and I already offered it to Lana but she denied, so I'm giving this to you," Leon said placing the small ball in Rose's hand.
"I can create my own program, Leon. I don't need you to be helping me with this. Besides, this task is suppose to see how well we each individually understand human nature. It just wouldn't feel right if I gave mother something that you worked hard on," the girl said frowning.
The boy took in deep breath before speaking. "Please Rose, just take it. Break the rules. Just this once," he whispered temptingly, enclosing her hand around the sphere with his own. The plant A.I. looked up at the boy with uncertainty before slowly nodding.
"Thank you," Leon smiled, "you have no idea what this means to me," he said before kissing her on the cheek. Rose gave a quick smirk before disappearing in a whirlwind of petals. The boy A.I. waited for the last of the digitals petals to disappear before his smiled faded. Even though he couldn't clearly see the A.I.'s face, William could tell that his expression and eyes were clearly devoid of any emotion. He stared at the spot where the girl had been before he gasped, grasping his head in his hands as he fell to his knees. He groaned in pain as a strange red aura surrounded him.
William watched in shock as he was unable to do anything but continue to watch the A.I. Suddenly Leon stopped groaning and slowly removed his hands from his head, staring at them, the red aura gone.
"W-what happened?" he asked himself before standing up. He looked around, confused, as if he hadn't remembered how he had gotten there. "Did I black out?"
"Leon," Hopper's voice filled the room, "What happened? I wasn't able to gain any contact with you for the past several minutes."
Leon shook his head, trying to think clearly. "I think it was just a side effect of the update you installed in me for my task. I'm fine and everything here seems well to," he reported.
"Good. Notify me if something occurs," the man said.
"Say hello to mother and Aelita for me," Leon said.
"I will," Hopper said before disconnecting the communications.
Leon propped himself against a wall and stared hard at his hands. "Why…do I have the feeling like something terrible is going to happen?" he asked himself softly. William was wondering the same thing before he felt a tugging sensation and then found himself in the Forest sector.
He flinched when a lighting bolt hit a spot that was close to him but ignored it as he saw two figures that appeared to be fighting up ahead. It was Rose and Lana, and on closer expecting Rose was just dodging while Lana was furiously attacking.
"Lana, stop this stupidity right now," Rose demanded as she expertly flipped out of the way of Lana's lighting strike. The wolf girl growled as she raised her staff up to bring it down on her sister's head.
"Why should I stop?" the wolf A.I. yelled, "Are you going to steal something else of mine?"
"Why would I steal anything of yours?" the plant A.I. spat before disappearing in a whirlwind of petals and reappearing behind the other girl. Lana turned around, dropping to the ground to kick the legs out from under her. Rose jumped back away from her before slamming her hands down on the ground. "Ivy Whip," she muttered before green vines began to make their way towards the wolf A.I. Lana tried to counterattack with another Lighting Strike but the vines were stronger. She tried to move away but the vines began to wrap their way around her legs and around the rest of her body in a tight but not totally threatening hold. "Now, sister," Rose said coolly, "explain yourself."
"Explain myself?" the white and black hair girl scoffed in disbelief. "If anyone should be explaining themselves it should be you. You're the one who stole my song that I made for mother!"
"I did no such thing," the green hair girl said narrowing her eyes.
"You lying-" Lana growled in frustration unable to finish her sentence. "I hope you get pushed into the digital sea!" she snarled.
"That isn't very nice to say," Rose said sarcastically letting her sister free of her vines.
"It wasn't meant to be," Lana said turning her staff into a guitar and making a riff before her. She was about to step in before she paused. She turned back to her sister before taking something out of her pocket and throwing it at her. Rose caught the glowing purple sphere easily before staring at it.
"What is this?" she asked.
"It was supposed to be a gift for you and mother for when you were on Earth, but when I found out what you had given in order to win the contest I decided I might as well give it to you since you're just going to steal it and call it your own anyway," Lana growled before stepping into the riff.
William watched as Rose stared at the sphere in her hand before she placed it in her pouch. "Rose," a soft feminine voice called out and he recognized it as Aelita's mother. "It's almost time to see if the program works. Are you ready to come to Earth?"
The plant A.I. looked at the spot where her sister had just been minutes ago before answering. "Yes. I'm on my way to the Way Tower now," she said before disappearing.
William stayed there waiting for his dream to take him wherever and while he waited, he thought. He really couldn't believe that the Musa and Cascada he knew would get into a fight over something without listening to both sides of the story. That Rose would not even tell Lana that it was actually Leon who stole whatever it was they were fighting over, a song he had concluded from their conversation. Why would she do that? Why would she allow her sister to hate her? He asked himself these questions but somewhere deep down, he already knew why.
Rose had been protecting Leon. Cascada had said that he had been acting strangely prior to the Elena going to Lyoko. Both she and Lana had noticed his change in behavior and they both had worried. They both had feared that he would forever be lost to him. Rose, as the older sister, had tried to keep whatever image of family they still had together. She knew Lana looked up to Leon even more then she looked up to Elena. She had been trying to protect her sister from the harsh reality that was slowly creeping on them. She had made herself seem like the bad guy in order to keep Leon in the spotlight for her sister. Everything she had done, everything that at first would seem selfish, she did it out of love. She hadn't done it for herself or Leon. She did it for her sister. Rose did it for her Lana. Cascada did it for her Musa.
The boy was interrupted from his thoughts when he felt a tugging sensation pull on him and he found himself back in the gymnasium, Musa hovering, concern, over him. "You had another dream didn't you?" she asked knowingly. Of course she knew. He had practically told the rest of the group about the fact that he was having these dreams and that they were strangely accurate but Musa was the only one he had told all the details about his dream to. She was the only one who seemed to take him seriously about them. She and Cascada. He nodded as Musa gave him room to stand up. "What was it about this time?" she asked.
The shaggy hair teen stared at her. For some reason, he couldn't bring himself to tell her about the first part of his dream. It wouldn't help anyone. She still thought of Leon as a sort of idle figure and if he told her what he had seen he knew that she would break and he couldn't bare to see that. So he omitted that part, deciding to save it for Cascada if he ever got the nerve to talk to her again. He had been, after all, avoiding her and she seemed to be too. And besides, he thought it was better for Cascada to tell Musa herself.
"I just saw Lana and Rose arguing about Rose stealing something," he said simply knowing that he didn't have to go into any more detail.
"Oh," Musa said quietly looking down at the ground. She sighed as she sat in the seat he had just been sitting in. "Looking back at it now, I wish that it had gone differently. I wish that I hadn't had said some of those things," she said before becoming silent.
William let the silence stretch for awhile before he spoke. "What was it that she 'supposedly' stole and what did you give her?"
Musa raised a questioning brow at the "supposedly" part but shrugged it away. "You should know better then anyone what they both were," she said grinning softly.
"Music?" he asked though like she said, he already knew.
"Hai," she nodded before staring up at the ceiling, a far off look on her face. "Do you…do you think that she'll…accept my apology if I ask her?"
William looked confused. "I thought you guys had already worked things out."
Musa shook her head, "No. We've been able to push aside our differences, but we haven't really talked about what happened. You know, William," she said turning her gaze back on the boy. "I…don't think that she stole my song. I mean, at least now I don't and even if she did she must have had a reason. Right?" she asked him, her eyes pleading for advice.
"I'm sure you're right," the older boy said ruffling her hair lovingly. The girl smiled before shooing him away.
"You know, like I said before, I should apologize at least for my behavior back then and tell her that there is no hard feelings, but how?" she asked thoughtfully before her face lit up. "I know!"
"What?" William asked curious as to what she was thinking. She could be so random and complex at times.
"I'm not telling you," she sang as she skipped out of the room, laughing.
"What a weird girl," William muttered with a smirk as he stuffed his hands into his pockets and went to his dorm to wait for his parents and to wait for a chance to talk to Cascada.
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Musa skipped out of the gymnasium, pleased with her plan to apologize to her sister. Now she had to just find Odd so he could help. She was so excited that she didn't notice that she was about to skip her way right into someone until it was too late.
"Ow," she groaned as she landed on her behind. A hand was extended out to her and she saw that it belonged to a man she didn't recognize though he did seem some how familiar.
He had short, spiky, dirty blonde hair and cheerful dark eyes. He was taller then her and by the muscles that she could see on his tattooed arms he worked out a lot though he didn't look like some freakish steroid using body builder. He looked like he was around his late thirties early forties though his cheerful expression made him look younger. The man wore a black t-shirt that helped show off his toned upper body and a pair of blue jeans that looked a little worn but still comfortable.
She gratefully took his hand and he helped her to her feet. "Gomen, I didn't mean to run into you like that," she apologized, "I guess I wasn't paying attention."
"That's okay," he grinned, "It happens to me all the time." Musa returned his grin before running off in search of Odd while waving good bye to the man over her shoulder. The man happily watched her go, smiling.
"Ken!" someone called out. The man turned around and saw a white hair man waving at him as he walked towards him.
"Good to see you again, Chris," the man, Ken, said while shaking the drummer's hand. "Where are your other band mates?"
"They'll be here later. So until then what would you like to do? We can meet the kids," Chris offered.
"Sure. Sounds like a plan," Ken said slapping the drummer's shoulder good naturedly.
"Yeah," Chris said rubbing his shoulder, "Follow me," he said leading the way to the dorms. The same way, Ken noticed, that the girl he had bumped into had also gone.
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Musa walked into Odd's and Ulrich's room without even knocking. Odd had given her his key since he rarely used it and she had seen Ulrich in the forest so it wouldn't be like she was interrupting something. As soon as she walked in she saw Odd laying on his bed, eyes closed, one arm tucked behind his head and headphones blasting loudly on his ears. There were no signs of Kiwi anywhere so she guesses he had already moved their pets somewhere, maybe the factory.
Odd wasn't snoring so she knew he wasn't asleep, but she also knew that he wasn't aware of her being there. She smirked mischievously as an idea popped into her head. She quietly made her way towards him, kneeling down at the head of his bed so that she was leaning over him. She tilted her head slightly so it was better angled with his before lowering it down towards him, her lips meeting his.
She felt Odd tense under her but soon he relaxed as she placed her hands on either side of his head to better steady herself. Without warning, Odd wrapped his arms around her waist dragging her fully onto the bed with him, earning a gasp of surprise from the girl as she found herself on top of him, her legs on either side of his.
"Musa," Odd moaned trying to keep her to him as she pulled away from him sitting up, legs still straddling him. She grinned as he pouted, obviously not liking how short his little "surprise" was. "So," he said breathing deeply as he felt her run her hands through his hair as she took oh his headphones, making a shiver run down his back, "what do I owe for this surprising and enjoying but still short surprise?"
The girl giggled before she kissed his nose playfully. "Why do you assume there is a reason behind me being here?" she pouted.
"Male intuition," Odd said winking as he played with a strand of her hair. "So?" he asked again.
"Well," Musa began, getting off him and lying on her back next to him, "I was wondering if we could change something with the program."
"Like what?" Odd questioned raising a brow and turning on his side to get a better look at her.
"Nothing to difficult," the girl said innocently before she immediately sat up.
"Hey what's the matter?" Odd asked as she dashed off of his bed and onto Ulrich's. She held up a hand silencing him before she grabbed one of Ulrich's unused text books and opened to a random page. The blonde looked at her questioningly before he heard a knock on the door. "Did you-" he asked shocked that she could have heard someone coming. Musa simply nodded before Odd opened the door. Chris stood at the door hands stuffed in his pockets and a grin on his face.
"Hey Odd," the drummer said before peering into the room and seeing Musa. "Hey Musa. Was I interrupting something?"
"We were just studying," Musa said.
"I can see," Chris said though Odd didn't hear any hint of disbelief in his voice. The boy turned back to look at his room to see that both beds were covered with open books and notebooks, papers sprawled everywhere. Odd looked at his girlfriend in disbelief, once again surprised by how unhumanly fast she could move. "Anyway," Chris continued, "I brought along a guy who I reallt wanted to hear your band. Do you want to meet him?"
"Sure," Musa said standing up next to Odd.
"Great," the drummer grinned. "Musa, Odd, I would like you to meet one of my producers and a good friend of mine," he said stepping aside to let them see the person they hadn't noticed and who was standing behind him. "Ken D."
Both Odd and Musa gasped. The girl realized it as the man she had ran into earlier, but Odd gasped for a totally different reason. The man smiled as he stepped forward, hand stretched out to shake theirs when he finally noticed the purple loving boy.
"Egen?" Ken asked in disbelief. Odd's eyes narrowed just before he slammed the door in the man's face.
"ODD!" Musa said surprised and appalled by his actions. "Why did you do that? That was rude! You just met him and-"
"I've met him before," Odd mumbled angrily moving away from the door and over to the window where he turned his back on her.
"You have?" Musa asked curious. "How?" Odd didn't answer. Instead, he just continued to stare out of the window, trying to hold back the anger he felt. He felt a pair of arms wrap around his waist and Musa press her head into his back. "Odd, you know you can tell me anything," she said softly.
Odd sighed. He knew what she said was true. It wasn't that he wouldn't tell her what was wrong; it was just that he couldn't. 'She…just wouldn't understand,' he thought solemnly. Musa gave him a comforting squeeze and though he wouldn't say anything he just placed his hands over hers, making a decision in his head. 'She'll hate me for this,' Odd thought, 'but I have to do this.' And with that, he enjoyed this time with her arms wrapped around him, her hands under his because he knew that soon, one of her hands would be against his cheek…in a slap.
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"What just happened?" Chris asked shocked and confused.
"My son just happened," Ken said before walking down the hall to exit the dorms.
The drummer looked at the man confused before he was finally able to process what the man was saying. His shocked expression grew as he looked from Odd's door to the retreating back of Ken. How could he have not realized this? Odd Della Robbia? Ken Della Robbia? He slapped his forehead with his hand. Something told him that he had just done something really stupid.
Okay, so, I bet you weren't expecting that. I was originally going to have Odd's mom but I'm saving her for the sequal. Just incase you didn't know, Odd's dad really does look like how I described him. They finally showed him in one of the episodes but of course it hasn't been shown in the U.S. yet. I saw it on YubeTube in french. Man. I wish I actually paid attention in French class so I would know what the heck they were saying. I only know enough to tell that they were his parents. I also saw William's mom too (since we already saw his dad in like the first or second episode of this season). His mom didn't look the way I imagined she would look now. She looks kind of younger, but oh well, I still like her design. I love Odd's mom's design too!
Oh, and if you didn't notice, in William's dream I called Musa and Cascada, Lana and Rose. I guess I'm trying to show that there is a difference between the two. That it was a different life...I don't. I guess I'm trying to be too symbolic because there is also another symbol type thing in my story. Special surprise to anyone who can guess it.
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