"Does any one know the answer to the question on the board?"
Z 256
Y p x 5Z
X Y2
Riiiiiiiiiing!
Everybody jumped at the sound and started moving to the door.
"Remember, do pages 1 through 5 and be sure to…"
Mrs. Hertz's trailed off as Jeremy and Ulrich with Odd to their rooms to think. On the way there, Odd was talking about some new song by some band (Jeremy didn't care,) when suddenly they heard a terrible scream.
"Ahhhh! Ouh!"
Ulrich instinctively ran to the, unfortunately, locked door.
He turned and twisted the handle when finally he tried to kick it open. With the door not opening they kept listening to the sound of a girl shrilly screaming, when they heard a shatter, a thud and it suddenly stopped. They ran down stairs to get Jim. He got the keys and opened the door to find a seemingly ransacked room and a shattered window.
"Uhhh, guys?"
Odd motioned for them to come to the window. They looked down to find Naomi lying on the ground below, out cold.
"So what happened in class guys?"
Yumi, Jeremy, Ulrich and Odd were sitting on a bench in recess talking as usual. Odd was exasperated. "Who cares about class? Naomi was thrown out her dorm window!"
Yumi was flabbergasted. "You sure she didn't jump?" Ulrich agreed. "Maybe something, like freaked her out, huh?" Odd was incredulous. "Obviously you don't know Naomi. She's happy! And she's my age! Besides what could freak her out like that? Huh?"
"I'll check with Aelita. It might be a XANA attack." Jeremy waved goodbye as he walked to his room.
Tower. Tower. Tower. Tower.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
"Ha! Just as I suspected! XANA has activated a tower!"
Jeremy was uneasy.
"Is something wrong, Jeremy?"
Aelita's gentle voice made him less worried, but he was still puzzled.
"Have you noticed anything in Lyoko?
"No. Everything's quiet here."
"Well I just detected an activated tower."
Bump! Bump!
Aelita now seemed worried as well.
"Now that you mention it, I think I just heard XANA!"
"I'll go tell Yumi."
Creeeeeak!
Jeremy whipped around from the sound of his door opening to find the door, oddly, closed.
"Aelita confirmed that XANA had woken up. It gave me the heebie-jeebies, when, to top it off, I heard the door open."
Yumi seemed a little skeptical. "And you didn't see anything?"
"Nope."
"But it was past lunch time and before lights out, so Jim shouldn't have been bothering anybody."
Jeremy relaxed. "Sorry, it's just-"
He sighed. "I'm just a little uneasy."
"Don't worry about it," Yumi smiled and put on her backpack. "XANA's thrown a lot of weird stuff at us. It's enough to make anybody edgy."
Jeremy got up. "I guess so."