Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko or Yu-Gi-Oh I'm just a crazy fan who is wondering what would happen if they were ever to meet each other (lol)

Aelita sat on her bed, the blanket wrapped securely around her petite body, her cloths torn haphazardly as if done just to terrorize her. She sobbed hard in fear, slight pain and wished that her friends would show up and help her. Then the door came open, she looked not really knowing what to expect. Then Yumi walked in and Aelita breathed a sigh of relief and then the warning rang once again strong as ever in her mind.

"If you tell a single person about my presence or what I've done and I will kill you and your friends".

"Aelita!" Yumi exclaimed in shock "What happened to you!?!"

Aelita didn't reply, Yumi walked over to her and sat beside her younger sister (yes Aelita was adopted by Yumi's parents).

"Listen, Aelita, I understand if you don't want to talk about it, so I won't try to make you, but I will insist on you getting out of these tattered cloths" Yumi said "our friends are waiting downstairs"

"I-is Jeremy here?" Aelita asked.

"Yes, he's here... so just get changed and come downstairs" Yumi got up and left to let Aelita change.

"Where is Aelita?" Jeremy asked.

"I think something has happened to her... when I got in the room I saw her sitting in the middle of her bed crying" Yumi paused "Her cloths were torn, but the way seemed so strange, they seemed to have no true purpose"

"Do you think she might have been..." Jeremy couldn't complete his phrase.

"I honestly don't know, she won't tell me anything" Yumi replied.

Aelita came down the stairs hesitantly at first, then she caught sight of Jeremy and she picked up her pace a little, but not too awful much. Jeremy met her at the base of the stairs and was surprised when he got a good look at her tearstained face, and at that moment his heart broke, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. Aelita was worse off than he thought from what Yumi had told him. He guided her away from the staircase and then hugged her gently, it was all he could do, and he felt helpless. Ulrich turned to Odd and grabbed him by the sleeve and they went into the next room.

"Hey, Ulrich, what's up?" Odd asked

"I think we're gonna have to be on our best behavior 'cause anything could be misinterpreted by her as us planning on repeating whatever just happened to her"

"Good point... she is really shook up" Odd paused "I don't think I can cheer her up now"

"No Odd, not yet... she needs to get this out, I know it's hard, but she needs her time to cry... and above all, she needs Jeremy, she trusts him and if I'm right they have feelings for each other."

Ulrich and Odd returned to see that Aelita had calmed down a little... very little. Odd walked up to where she and Jeremy sat on the couch, he sat down at her other side.

"You don't mind I sit here do you?" he asked

"No Odd, go ahead" she replied.

He stroked her head softly "Hey, princess, everything is okay now... your with friends".

Jeremy and Yumi were rather shocked, it wasn't like Odd to not make jokes about problems to try and make someone laugh, but Ulrich knew why he didn't joke he had been told that this wasn't the time or the place to be making wise cracks.

For Aelita, being referred to by the nickname Odd had coined up for her in Lyoko one day made her feel good because of not only it's regality but the kind of craziness that surrounds it made her actually feel a lot better.

Then she saw something strange under the stairs and she broke from Jeremy's light grasp and ran out the front door into the chill fall air. She knew that was her attacker, she'd never forget that face and that weird item around his neck (Millenium Ring-hint hint ).

After about five minutes she ran into someone coming from the opposite direction and hit the sidewalk.

"Are you okay?" he asked her and helped her to her feet.

"I'm fine, sorry about that... I should've been watching were I was going" she replied looking at him well enough to see a different item worn in the same manner as her attacker had his only this one looked different, her attacker's was a ring-shaped item with a triangular piece in the center, this one was and upside down pyramid, but both had the same center hieroglyph.

"Don't worry about it" he replied, he seemed so much different from her attacker, he was kind and seemed to have a good heart, a trustworthy person,or that's how he seemed anyway.

Yami wondered who this girl was and why she seemed a bit more uneasy about his millenium item, had she been attacked by someone who had another item... namely the Millenium Ring? He didn't know but he had to find out and they talked a bit of course getting to know each other by name, Yami wondered if he should use the name Yugi like he always did or use his own name, then Yugi told him it might be best if he did use "Yami" instead of Yugi since she obviously didn't know about the duelist Yugi or all that maybe it would be easier if she knew him as "Yami" more than likely an average guy not "Yugi Moto" famous duel monsters champion. So Yami used his own name and she was alright with it but he felt strangely good about being acknowledged by his own name for a change.

For Aelita, this Yami was someone who was a neutral, who wouldn't judge her, he didn't know her and seemed open to listen and comment and she told him about the attack after much deliberation, she knew that her attacker probably didn't stand much of a chance, Yami seemed like a strong person, both physically and very smart, sly and cunning in a way but at the same time there was a warm, kind undertone that seemed likely only to belong to someone with a pure heart and good intentions. they sat on a bench in the park talking about what she'd seen.

"I know what that item is... it's called the Millennium Ring" he looked at his own item.

"What is that?" she asked

"This, this is the Millennium Puzzle" he replied.

To Be Continued!

AN sorry about the pathetic attempt at a cliff hanger, first attempt so pls. no flames and review pls.