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, Treg Zorl, Axel Blade, and Armoru.
Author's Note 2: Italics are dream sequences.

The Deepest Secrets Hidden

Aurora tosses and turns in her bed, long after she had been walked back by Odd.
"They know more than you think." a voice says.
"Who's there? XANA, if it's you I'm going to unplug you PERSONALLY!" Aurora screams.
"No. XANA is not here. He will never return to haunt you. I will see to that." the voice assures.
"Why should I believe you?" Aurora asks softly.
"Because that is how I came to be in the first place. Do you remember?" the voice takes a more solid tone. "When you and Spire were sitting on your Grandfather's lap. Listening to him tell you stories about his childhood. When you first found out about XANA. You dreamed me as your Guardian."
"Armoru? Have you really returned after all this time?" Aurora asks with joy in her voice.
"I never left. Your un-belief in me drained me of power. But now, when XANA has been rediscovered, your belief has restored me. I will find a way to protect you, like when you were younger." Armoru sits next to his friend, his wispy form slowly solidifying. "You loved me greatly when you were younger. I kept your nightmares away." Aurora leans her head against Armoru's shoulder.
"Aurora." she feels a slight shaking of her shoulder. "Aurora. Wake up." the new voice repeats.
Aurora quickly sits up in her bed, knocking her head against Odd's. "Oww. Odd? How'd you get in here?" Aurora rubs her forehead.
"You left the door unlocked. And you sounded like you were talking to someone. Arm-something-or-other." Odd says. Aurora pulls her knees up to her chin.
"I don't want to talk about it."
"Is something wrong?" he asks.
"I said I don't want to talk about it!" Aurora his Odd with her pillow. Odd quickly stands from the bed and heads for the door.
"Ok, ok. Sheeze. Are you going to stay in here all day?" he turns from the door. Aurora throws her pillow at him, but he ducks out of the room, closing the door behind him. With the door closed, Aurora begins to cry.

Axel leans against the door leading into the shared dorms. He'd sensed that three of his jewels had started their work, and one had dissapeared shortly after the end of the Prom last night. He was worried about the missing one. "Where could it have gone? If it was destroyed I would've known. But to dissapear into thin air?" Axel shakes his head, thuroghly confused. "And why haven't the other ten done anything?" he knows something has gone wrong with his master's plans.

Spire lazily tries to sit up, and notices a weight on his chest. He looks down and sees Sissy's head resting there. "What the?" he says and she stirrs.
"Good morning, Spire." she says, turning to look at him.
"What happened?" he looks around. He sees his clothes in a pile near the closet, and he notices another pile not two feet away from him. Sissy's clothes.
"By God we didn't..." Spire starts, then looks back into Sissy's eyes.
"Would it matter if we did? There's noone else here. Not at school, not in the city. We are the only ones left." Sissy says seductively.
"I don't know." he reaches for his cell phone and dials his sister's number. The out of service operator answers. "That's weird." Sissy crawls up his chest and kisses Spire's lips.
"Is it so bad, being stuck here with me?" she asks him. Spire smiles, drops his cell, and pulls the covers over their heads.

Treg stares blankly at the infermary celing. He'd been like this since the night before. Milly and Tamiya had been at his side all night. "Treg. What happened to you?" Milly asks softly, tears welling in her eyes.

Aurora leaves her room, clad in the same clothes she'd worn to the prom. Making her way to her brother's room, she lightly knocked on the door. When he didn't answer, she tried the handle. Seems she wasn't the only one to leave their door open last night. Opening the door, Aurora sees her brother lying on the floor, as if he'd closed the door and just fell asleep. In a panik, Aurora drug him outside and over to Jeremy's room. "Jeremy! Open up! Jeremy!" She bangs on the door. No answer. "Damnit! Jeremy!" She yells.
"Hey, what's going on here?" Jim rounds the corner to see Aurora banging Jeremy's door.
"Jim! Something's wrong with my brother!"
"Let me see." Jim kneels beside the boy and places two fingers on his neck and looks at his watch. "His pulse is very slow. We should get him to the infermary." he picks Spire up and leads Aurora to the nurse's.

Aurora sits outside the infermary, waiting for Jim to come out. A few minutes later, Jim leads Milly and Tamiya out of the room. "Look girls, the nurse can't find anything wrong with him. He's going to go to the hospital in case they can figure it out." Jim looks at Aurora. "Same thing with your brother." he leaves the three alone, muttering to himself.
"Who else is in there?" Aurora asks.
"Treg." Milly sobs.
"No." she notices that Tamiya wasn't as affected by the incident as Milly. "Tamiya, I want you to go and find Ulrich or Yumi. Tell them... tell them that HE is causing problems again."
"Who's 'he'?" Tamiya looks puzzled.
"They should know who you mean. If they don't then make sure they knows that I sent you to find them. Now go!" Aurora pushes Tamiya towards the hallway.

Tamiya runs to Ulrich and Odd's room. She knocks on the door and calls for Ulrich. "Is anyone in there? Hello?" Ulrich opens the door.
"Tamiya? What's wrong?" Ulrich asks.
"Treg and Aurora's brother, they're both in comas. Aurora said that HE is causing problems again, and you'd know who she ment." Tamiya says slowly.
"Damn it. Tamiya, go back to Aurora and tell her we'll handle things." After Tamiya leaves, Ulrich dials Jeremy's number. "Hey Jeremy. XANA's done something to Treg and Spire. Yes, I know he hasn't been able to attack us directly before, but he can now! We need to get the tower deactivated." he hangs up. "You coming?" Ulrich looks at Odd, who'd been sitting on his bed, petting Kiwi since Aurora kicked him out.
"Huh? Oh, yea." Odd stands and follows Ulrich to the manhole in the forest.

After being scanned into Lyoko's Forest Region, Odd and the others search around for Aelita. "Where is she?" Odd says.
"Beats me. Jeremy, where's the activated Tower?" Ulrich asks the sky.
"To the north. I think there's someone ther already, though." replies Jeremy's voice. Yumi leads the group into a run for the Tower.
"We have to reach there before XANA's monsters emerge." When they get close to the Tower, Aelita pops out from behind a tree and points to the man in their way.
"He's been there since I felt XANA's pulsations. I've never seen him before." Aelita says.
"No, I think we have." Ulrich looks closely at the man's face when he turns in his pacing. "He looks like Jim's new assistant."
"Uhh, Ulrich." Odd taps his friend's shoulder. "He's gone!" he points to where the man had been just moments before. The three escort Aelita over to the tower without any incident.
"Return to the past now." Jeremy's voice is heard through the air.

Aurora rolls off her bed, slightly confused as to where she was. After rubbing the sleep from her eyes, she remembers the bright light. "We must've gone back." She says and Odd opens the door.
"Heya, you're not still mad at me, are you?" Odd asks softly. In response, Aurora pulls him in, shuts the door, and pushes him onto the bed. She climbs into his arms.
"Just sleep." are her last words and she falls back into a deep sleep, resting her head on Odd's shoulder and leaving him awake confused.