Emi's POV:
"How about this?" Kya held a dark blue dress up to me. She eyed the dress and how it might look on me. "No, to dark." She placed the dress back on the rack and went to another one. For the pass hour, we've gone from store to store searching for a dress. Since I don't know much abot fashion, I've left finding my dress completely up to Kya. Meanwhile, I've been helping Ally search for a new pair of shoes.
"Why don't you just give her a bunch of different outfits to try on?" Ally held up a pair of golden ballet flats.
"We'll each pick out two outfits that Emi will try on." Kya went to another section, leaving me with Ally.
"Just pick up whatever catches your eye." Ally placed the shoes back, than moved onto a clothing rack.
Taking Ally's adivce, I wondered around the store. Nothing in the store shouted 'Emi'. Being new to Earth, I don't have a perferred style. When I'd bother Kya's body, I searched her closet for something I'd like to wear. That was easier, because there were less options. Overwhelmed by the massive selection, I picked out a skirt and shirt, along with a dress.
Items in hand, Ally came over with her selection. She lead me to the dressing room where Kya waited. The clothes Ally chose were nice, but to big. Sadly, these were the smallest sizes in the store for these speific dresses. The strapless pink dress Kya brought was to frilly for me. While the skirt and shirt I found aren't right for a dance, according to Kya and Ally. The last two dress were a white sundress and dark purple dress. The sundress fit nicely, while the dark purple dress brought out the color of my eyes.
After twenty minutes of debating, we decided on a dress.
While the girls went shopping, the guys hung out at the school. They chose to borrow Kya's drom, since Avery was probably in Lynn's dorm.
"Either one of you going to ask one of the girls to the dance?" Lynn bounced a ball off the wall, while Alexei worked on extra credit for math, and Cam played a computer game.
Alexei glanced up from his work. "Nope. Kya would hurt me for asking."
"What about Emi?" Lynn caught the ball. "The two of you are pretty close."
Alexei slightly blushed, remembering that day in the bookstore. "Of course we're close, we're friends. Like Kya and Cam."
"Alexei's more likely to ask one of them out than either me or you." Cam paused the game to speak to his friends.
If only Cam knew how happy Kya would be if he asked her to the dance. Than again, that might not be the best idea. To Cam, it would probably be no more than friends hanging out. Just as if Lynn asked Kya to the dance, only as friends and nothing more.
"If you go without a date Alexei, you'll be mobbed by girls again." Lynn referred to the end of year dance last school year. Mara couldn't attend because she was sick, which left Alexei dateless. Girls took the oupportiy to crowd Alexei, waiting to dance.
Alexei groaned at the thought of repeating that incident. "You've got a point. But I don't want to use Emi as a personal sheild." Alexei was ever dense about his popularity at school. It wasn't because of his good looks (although they didn't hurt) it was his charamatic and friendly personally. Alexei's the kind of guy who's approachable and can make friends with anyone. If it weren't for Mara crowding him most days, there'd be a mob of girls chasing after him.
"He didn't mention Emi." Cam caught Alexei's mistake. Unlike Lynn who thought Alexei might care more than he let on about Emi, Cam was simply stating an obsveration.
"Can we change the subject?" Alexei asked. He didn't like the direction the conversation had taken. "Any idea what the girls' will be wearing? I'm betting both Kya and Emi will end up wearing dark colors."
"Kya, mostly. Emi not so much." Lynn showed them a picture from Kya. "She's been sending pics of different dresses to get my option." Kya hated shopping. When she did go, she oftened required a second option before buying anything. To this day, Kya still perfers 'borrowing' her brothers' clothes to buying her own.
"Speaking of the girls, we'd better leave. Kya texted their own their way back." Lynn's cell went beeped, reiceving another message. "She also warns for Alexei not to 'borrow' anything, espically her new _ comic." While Kya didn't love comics like her brothers, there were two series she did like. In addition to sending their favorite comics each month, Kya's brothers made sure to include the newest release for her favorite series in each shipment. Alexei also happned to like one of the series. As such, he often bugged Kya to borrow the comic.
Alexei rolled his eyes, as he placed his extra credit in his bag. "One time I read the comic before her and she won't forget it."
"One time?" Cam snorted. "You opened the pack and took the comic home."
"I brought it back." Alexei stated.
Lynn stared at him in amazement. Alexei had a way of understating and half-explain things. "Yeah, when we return to school after the long weekend." Lynn and Kya had returned home for the four day break. Four long days of talking Kya out of harming Alexei. He'd picked the wrong time to take the comic. It was the final comic in a two year long storyline, that was rumored to completely change the story's characters and world. Kya had fatefully followed the storyline for two years and had been exiected to read the final issue.
"Why does she always make a big deal about this? I've got no problem with any of you guys borrowing my movies whenever." Alexei spent most of his money on movies and music, that he never had enough to buy comics. To his delight and Kya's dismay, he could simply borrow comics from her.
Leaving Kya's dorm, they acompanied Lynn to his. "No one wants to watch movies with you, let alone borrow a movie." The plan was for the guys to get ready at Alexei's house and meet up with the girls at the dance. While it would've been easier for them to use Lynn's dorm, the problem was once again Avery. None of them were in the mood to deal with Avery. After all, they were celebrating Emi's arrival on earth.
The boys' dorms were located a floor above the girls'. Lynn's dorm was in the second hallway, away from the stairs. The dorms' location made it changelling for Lynn to sneak in and out at times. Lucky, Avery was a heavy sleeper and could sleep through anything.
"Make sure you grab something for Cam to borrow." Alexei stood in the dooway with Cam. They'd only been to Lynn's dorm a handful of times, usually to look for him. Other than using the place to sleep, the ony time Lynn was in the room was when Avery went to town.
"What is with you and borrowing?" Cam lightly shoved Alexei. "I've got plenty of clothes back home."
Lynn paused rumaging through his closet to glance at Cam. Taking in Cam's style, build, and height, he tossed several shirts onto his bed. "No offence Cam, but you need something...a little more."
Cam turned to leave. "You guys can play dress up, I'm heading home."
"Off to check the supercomputer?" Lynn peaked out from his warobe.
Cam glanced back to smirk. "Nope, off to play _."
Kya's POV:
"Don't you think this is a bit much?" Emi asked as we finished the final touches on her outfit. The purple dress was simple and paired well with her long purple hair.
(Below is the purple dress.)
"Your fine Emi." Ally reasured her. Since we got back to the dorm, Emi has stated how much she doesn't want to stand out. Understandable considering she's still getting use to life on earth. It's different Emi being here in her own body veresus using mine. "Believe me, you'd have to wear a flashing neon sign to standout more than Mara." Still avoiding her best friend, Ally invited herself to my dorm to get ready with us.
(Below is Ally's outfit.)
"Maybe this wasn't a good idea." Emi did a little twirl to check her reflection in the mirror. "What if I mess up and draw attention to myself? I don't want to risk exposing the manison or Lyoko."
Putting my hair brush down, I walked over to Emi. We stared at each other's reflection in the mirror. My mostly black outfit made Emi's dress standout.
(Below is Kya's outfit, minus the boots.)
"Your human now, we all make mistakes and mess up. Do you know how many times Lynn has embrassed himself?" I thought back to Lynn's performance in the talnet show back home. "Lynn's forgotten the lyrics to his own songs before, while performing in front of people."
That successed in getting a small smile from her. "Mara likes to think she's a good singer, but she's not. That girl's voice has cracked glass before." Ally shared, earning a giggle from Emi.
"Great, now that your smiling time to leave!" I used Emi's moment of shock to shove her into the hall. Ally was right behind us, as we made our way to the gym.
The gym was packed with students dancing and hanging out. The guys waited just outside the gym for the girls. Lynn was the first to notice the girls' arrival. He greeted Kya in a friendly hug, teasing that for once she dressed like a normal girl. Emi drifted over to Cam and Alexei, but Alexei was to awestruck to speak. Standing slightly off to the side, Ally watched how Alexei couldn't take his eyes off of Emi. She didn't know enough about his relationship with Emi figure out why he simply stared at her.
"Anyone seen my bratty best friend?" Her blunt statement about Mara drew everyone's attention to her. "Don't give me that look. Ya'll know she can be bratty at times."
"More like all the time." Kya said none to softly.
Lynn lightly elbowed her in the stomach. "She went in about five mintues ago with Avery."
Ally nodded, "Guess I'm off to do damage control." She hoped Mara had enough time to cool down. If not, maybe the dance would take the rest of the edge away.
They waited several moment, before they followed Ally into the dance.
A low rhymthic beat poured from the speakers. Students danced to the beat, taking up most of the gym floor. Lynn grabbed Emi's hand, leading her to the dance floor. The two quickly disappeared into the crowd. Several girls from the schoo's newspaper took Alexei away for an interview. Unuse to dances, Kya watched the crowd. For her, there wasn't much else to do. Cam on the other hand yawned out of shear boredom.
"Bored?" Kya teased. She leaned against the wall arms crossed.
Cam smirked, "Yep." He pulled out a small square object from his pocket. "You didn't think I'd come without a backup plan, did you?"
Kya quickly looked away, finding herself blushing from Cam's unusally laidback attuide. This wasn't a side seen since the Defenders were formed. Back than, Cam wasn't very chatty and perferred to spend most of his time on his computer. He rarely spoke to Lynn or Kya if it wasn't related to Lyoko. Although Kya's negative attiude about the situation hadn't helped.
"Nope." Cam grabbed her hand. "We're going to play video games for half the night." He led them through the crowd to find a smi-quiet place to sit.
Emi's POV:
The music changed to a faster pace. Luckily, Lynn guided us off the dance floor.
"Your full of surpises." Lynn dropped into the seat beside me. His face was slightly red from dancing, yet the giant grin on his face showed no sign of exshuation. "Where'd you learn to dance?"
I giggled, remembering one of my days on Lyoko. "Don't tell Alexei, but I've been watching some movies other than the one's he's suggested. A few of them had dance scenes."
Lynn laughed, "Your in charge of our next movie night." Not sure that's something I want. Movie nights consisted of two things, twenty mintues of trying to talk Alexei out of watching whatever he might have picked and another fifteen of Alexei trying to convice everyone to watch it. Then forty-five minutes later, everyone's agreed to watch one of Alexei's picks and the second one would be put to a vote.
"Do you think I'll be here that long?" In the back of my mind, I worry Cam won't be able to fix the materialzie program. Which means, me retutning to Lyoko so they can shut off the supercomputer and Xana.
"Hey," Lynn lightly shoved me, returning my thoughts to happier things. "the general will find away to fix the program."
"You might want to save your friend." A guy said as he walked by, gesturing to the crowd of girls surrounding Alexei.
Alexei was trapped in a corner by several girls. Some pushed and shoved, others waited near the back. They all appeared to want a chance to dance with Alexei.
"Looks like your knight could use some saving." Lynn dashed into the crowd. The crowd disbrust moments later with glares in my direction.
"What did you say to them?" By the look on Alexei's face, it must not be anything good.
"Nothing that isn't true." Lynn gave a chesire cat smile. "Your his girl-friend."
"Shut it, Lynn." Alexei's cheeks became lightly red.
Lynn faked innocence. "What? She's a girl, who's your friend."
It a took a moment for it to dawn on me what they meant. "Lynn!" Heat filled my cheeks as I slapped his shoulder.
'Stop with the shouting." He held his ears like he was in pain. "It's loud enough already."
Alexei grabed my hand, "Thanks."
Ally was outside, walking the edge of the school grounds. The dance wasn't as much fun without Mara and surpisingly Avery. The two were still mad over recent events and by expanion they were also angery at her. Mara refused to speak to her went she found her at the dance. So Avery, asked her to leave.
A low rustling immedately draw Ally's gaze to the shadows. She took in her surroundings, looking for the source of the sound. Everyone was either at the dance or in their dorms. Than who or what had made that noise?
Silence embraced her, slowly calming her nevrous. Alot had happened in less than twenty-four hours. Her best friend and so called friend were made at her, she'd discovered vitural world, and to top if off, she'd spent half the day with least likely of people. Defintinly to much had happened, she needed time to adjust and take in everything.
A flicker of movement in the corner of her eye had Ally once again on alert. This time she wasn't going to dismiss it as nevros. That time there'd been something for sure. A second flicker of movement confirmed her suspecions. Ally sprinted after the third flicker around the back of the school. Rounding the corner, she came to a complete stop.
Five bug like things with a werid symbol on their heads' stared at her. They befiely looked at each other, as if commucating. In unison, they all turned back to her. A shiver when down Ally's back, she needed to leave, now. She turned on her heels to dash towards the quad. She hadn't gotten far when a red beam whirl pass her. Three more flashed by, missing her and hitting a tree. Smoke drifted off the scorch mark on a tree.
Now knowing those things could fire lasers, Ally changed directions. She quicked her pace, not caring if her clothes got ruined, to disapper into the forest. She ducked behind a tree, allowing the five things to wonder by. She counted thirty seconds once the last one was gone, before heading back to the dance.
Cam's POV:
"NNNNNOOOOOO!" Kya dramatically fell to the ground in despair, as a message on the screen read 'Game Over'. "One attack, one spell." She shook her head in defeat, saddened over her fifth straight lose.
"Aren't you being a little over dramatic?" Kya loosing boss battles is nothing new. She's got rotten luck when it comes to video games. She'll remain rooted to one spot for hours battling one boss. It's gotten to the point where someone's had to phyiscally turn the game off to get her attention away from it. "It's just a game."
Kya's intense glare, immedaitly made me stop talking. "Do you know how long it took me to get this far?"
I took a step back out of striking distance. "Five months, two weeks, and three days." Some how her glare grew more intense. This time I put my arms up to show I meant no harm. "I'm just saying, you'll have more opputinies."
Her glare softened, "I don't want more oppurties! I wanted to beat it now!" This is uncharactic of Kya. Normally, she's calm, cool and tempermental at times. When her temper's in check, Kya is the maturest person I know. She tries to see beyond what's in front of her to the bigger picture. It's prevented many me and Alexei from getting into many arugments. Now, only she could apply this to herself and Alexei. "All I needed was for that one spell to hit." Still it's nice to see her childish side sometimes.
"How about taking a break?" Taking the game from her, I held a hand out. "Wanna raid the snack table? I think they have _."
She insteadly perked up, eyes shining with exicetment. "Let's go!" She took a moment to brush gravel off of her skirt, than darted off towards the gym. She didn't get far, before collisiding into someone. "Ally, what the heck?"
Ally offered no explaination, as she shoved us into an encove. "Shush." Ally covered Kya's mouth when she tried to speak. She peaked around the corner, than quickly ducked back. "Look."
Kya looked first, than pulled back. "Cam, this isn't good."
By the girls' reactions, I thought a rat or something ran by. What I actually saw was fair worst. Five creatures with an all to familar symbol marched through the quad. "We've got to warn the others. Xana's managed to materiazle kranlets."