Author's Note 1: I do not own any part of Code: Lyoko, the show characters, or anything else. The only things within that I claim as my own are the created characters Aurora & Spire Xion, and Treg Zorl.
Author's Note 2: Three months have passed since the destruction of the Shadow Region without an attack from XANA, causing Jeremy and the others to get suspicious. Meanwhile, Treg has been having fun with his new friends, Milly and Tamiya.
Before The Prom
"Hello Cadic Junior High. Reporters Treg, Milly, and Tamiya here with a scoop on this year's annual school prom." Treg says, looking over to the doors leading to the auditorium.
"We were not given authorization to film on-the-spot, but the decorating's coming along quite nicely." Milly states in her best professional voice. Tamiya moves the camera over to look into the auditorium, zooming in on Spire, who's working to put up the disco ball. "That's Spire Xion, who transferred here about five months ago for those that don't recognize him." As soon as Milly finishes, Herb exits the auditorium, blocking off the camera like he did the previous year.
"Hey!" Tamiya exclaims.
"What do you think you are doing?" Milly asks.
"Nobody cares about your stupid news reports." Herb says.
"That's not true." Treg clenches his right hand into a fist.
"It is and all of you know it." Aurora leaves from the auditorium.
"Are you terrorizing these kids again Herb?" she asks.
"He is." Treg says. Aurora shakes her head.
"You know that they're doing their best." Aurora criticizes Herb.
"It doesn't matter. Nobody cares about the reports." Herb snorts.
"Then I guess I'm a nobody. I care about what my friends do." Aurora crosses her arms in front of her chest. "And you should stop picking on those smaller than yourself." she pushes Herb out of the way and leaves, answering her phone on the way.
"You're lucky you're younger than me. Otherwise things would've been differant." Herb says.
"Don't let that stop you." Treg pops his knuckles while glaring at Herb. Aurora peeks around the corner.
"Hey Herb, Sissy's in there alone with Spire." she says and ducks back around the corner. Herb grumbles and re-enters the auditorium.
"Aurora, have you found anything?" Jeremy's voice is heard over the light swirling of wind within the Desert Region.
"No, and the wind has never been this constant. But then, not much has been the same since the Shadow Region was destroyed." Aurora says, beating her wings to gain height. "How about the others? Have they found anything?"
"No. Yumi's found a few dead trees in the Forest Region, Ulrich some new ice flows in the Arctic, and more plateaus in the Mountain Region with Odd. Nothing at all that could be anything important." Jeremy replies.
"I suppose you're right." Aurora dives straight into the ground, devirtualizing herself.
Spire sighs. He'd been hoping to have some more alone time with Sissy, but because of the prom, he'd been forced to help with that. He flops down onto his bed, hitting his arm on a box that hadn't been there this morning. Knowing that only the faculty had keys to the dorms, he assumed it had been delivered by one of the custodians. He shrugs and opens it, suprised to find a black button-down shirt with red and blue flames rising from the bottom, pocket, and sleeves. He'd never fallen in love with his clothes, but this one was differant. He'd always loved the red and blue fire designs, even had his room back in America painted with them. He'd never dreamed of having a shirt such as this in his life. He dumped the rest of the box onto the bed and found a pair of matching pants, and one hundred American dollars. He'd saved the last three hundred for transporting his car from the States, and he just needs one hundred more.
Aurora stumbles from the Omega Scanner. Now THAT had been very painful. "Note to self. Do NOT skull-bash the ground in Lyoko." Aurora looks about, noticing that only one of the normal Scanners was closed. "Jeremy, who's still in Lyoko?"
"Odd. He's been looking for a fun way to devirtualize." Jeremy's voice comes oveer the intercom.
"Fun way?" she asks. No sooner than the words were out of her mouth, than the Scanner opened and Odd stuck his head out, gasping for breath. "You nutcase." Aurora helps Odd from the Scanner.
"Huh? Oh, the fun thing. Apparently, skydiving within the Mountain Region isn't a very good idea." Odd laughs, Aurora just rolls her eyes and hugs him. Even though her deal had been for one month, she'd found herself missing him often, even though she was just a few doors away from him at night. "Let's hurry, otherwise we might be late for the prom." they had spent the better part of the afternoon on Lyoko, and they had only two hours to get ready for the prom.
"Race ya." Odd says and Aurora jumps on his back before he can even take one step. "Hey! Cheater!" he stumbles for a few steps, then runs for the elevator.
Aurora opens the door to her room, can't believing that her roommate was there. It was quite literally the second time she'd been seen in the room by Aurora, the first when Aurora arrived. "You're here? What the hell's happened to you?" Aurora asks sarcastically.
"Not that' it's really any of you're business, but after tonight I'm out of this school." the girl says.
"I don't have to get you a present, do I?" Aurora looks innocent.
"No, you don't you bitch." Aurora was stunned by the word. True, the two had never been friends, but to be outright called a bitch?
"Hey, watch you're language. French may be the main language here, but that's not an excuse." Aurora retorts. Her roommate storms out of the room. Aurora laughs and spots the box on her bed. "What's this?" she opens it and gasps at the beauty of the clothes within. A black blouse with embroidered silver tribal-style designs circled around the arms and waist, with a single embroidered silver barbed-wire strand around the neck. She knew the thing had to be made by her mother, knowing that nothing like this could be gotten in the stores. Aurora shifts the packing paper around and finds the knee-length skirt. Same black cloth with the same embroidered tribal designs. Aurora quickly changed out of her school clothes and into the ones sent by her parents. She could not wait to show Odd, and burst into his room, catching him, literally, with his pants down. "Oops, bad timing." Aurora blushes and slams the door closed, a few giggles escaping her mouth.