My Longest chapter yet... It's a Sissi one, and you might think it is sissy, but, hey, I'm not one to complain... Anyway, since I got yet another review I decided to update, and the review was from someone new. As long as I continue getting them I'll continue sending chapters in. I already have like three in cashe.

Sissi:

I had been hiding in the shadows ever since Yumi and Ulrich had entered the room from the elevator. I hadn't expected anyone to be here yet, and I didn't want them to find me because I knew that if they did I would never be able to amend my reputation.

As soon as they entered the room Yumi began looking for something. I couldn't believe it, how could they already know that I was there. And what the heck was Yumi muttering about, sensing something? She began walking close to me and I held my breath, careful not to move. Yumi passed by me with out a second glance. She either hadn't noticed me or was choosing to ignore me. Ulrich was following her, and he passed by me too, but again I was left unnoticed.

I began to wonder what they were looking for, if it wasn't me. I hadn't seen anyone else here. And I doubted that someone else was able to hide from me as well as I was hiding right now. That meant that they might not be looking for a person, but Yumi kept saying something about sensing a presence.

She began moving behind one of the three huge metal tubes and suddenly, in the center of the room, a man appeared. He was holding Odd, who looked as if he had been swimming in the river too long. The man was looking directly at me, but he didn't seem to notice me.

Ulrich stepped out from behind the machine and as he did his mouth dropped. "Yumi, you need to see this." He said, and a few seconds later Yumi came out from behind the machine as well. When she saw the man a look of utter confusion came across her face.

"Odd," Ulrich yelled as the man turned around and he noticed that Odd was in his arms.

"Ulrich, wait." Yumi yelled after him. "That is the thing…"

"That isn't very nice…" said the man innocently. "I did after all save your friends life."

"Who are you?" Ulrich yelled. "And what do you want with us?"

"Me? I am known as the…" but I didn't wait to hear any more. Light was filtering my way and I wanted to stay out of view.

I began slowly and quietly moving backward against the wall. As I moved back and hit the wall I felt something stick into my back. It felt as though it were a handle to something. I turned around and found a small door to a very small closet. The door had slits in it, which would allow me to look through while not being noticed.

Quickly but quietly I opened the door and slipped in. I then closed the door behind me, but I closed it to hard and it made a 'bang'. I was worried that someone would have noticed it, but then I realized that Ulrich was yelling.

"LIER!" Ulrich yelled as he took a swing at the man.

The man caught his arm and lifted him up off of the ground bringing Ulrich's face to his own. The man said in a very low tone, "I am not lying to you."

"Ulrich!" I yelled silently as Yumi yelled it loudly.

Yumi got an angry look on her face, and she appeared to focus on something. Suddenly I got a very strange shock. It was almost as though it were electrical, or static, but somehow different. I felt it move at the man and then suddenly stop and disappear.

"Yumi, I would advise you not to do that again…" the man said.

"Put my friend down." Yumi said angrily.

I didn't hear what the man said because I suddenly felt a spider crawling up my arm. I began to freak out but had to calm myself because I didn't want to be heard. Quickly I smacked it off of me and squished it with my foot. When I turned back to watch the others I saw that Ulrich was standing on the ground again.

"Huh, where am I?" Odd asked.

"I see your friend has awoken." The man said.

"Hey it's you…" Odd said.

Again I didn't hear anything because I had moved into the web of the spider that I had just killed. I nearly screamed, but I got a hold of myself again and began scraping it off of me. I sat down and felt myself in yet another web. Now I really felt like screaming as the terror of more spiders crept through my body. I began flailing taking down all of the webs in the small closet. I then took them off of my arms and hands. Finally when all of the webs were gone, and all of the spiders dead, I was able to focus on the group again.

When I looked back the man was gone, but in his place, or rather the center of the room again, sat a boy of about sixteen or seventeen. The boy was wearing nearly the same clothes, and looked almost the same. It was if the man had grown young suddenly.

The elevator door opened and Jeremie walked out. As soon as he was within sight of the boy he yelled "You!"

"Yes, me. I told you I would be coming didn't I?" the boy said sounding younger and less mature than he had.

I decided that I should move. I felt another spider again, and I was getting tired of being locked up in such a small place. I could get very claustrophobic at times. Quickly yet quietly, again, I opened the door and began making my way slowly out of the closet and into the room again. Making sure to keep to the shadows I began to make my way around the room to get even more out of sight.

As I crawled behind one of the metal tubes, the door closed and I heard the boy say, "For god's sake… I have told your friends here three times- But I suppose one final time won't hurt… but there is one more person who needs to be here and one who needs to come out of the shadows…"

At that I froze. He knew that I was here. How? I had been as quiet as I could be. None of them had heard me…

"No way…" Odd said.

"Will you please step out of the shadows now, Sissi." The boy said.

"What, how did you know that I was here?" I asked getting up and walking towards the light. "And how do you know my name?"

"Simple, I am psychic. I can read minds. But that's beside the point; it was obvious that you were here from the beginning. Why else would the elevator have been down here rather than waiting up at the ground floor?"

"Uh…" I said stepping into the light. I looked at Ulrich and asked, "Ulrich dear, what's going on?"

"For the last time…" Ulrich began yelling at me but the boy cut him off.

"Ulrich, quiet, she has a right to know. All she has desired from the start is to be part of this group, and all I have done is given her an opportunity."

"Who is the last person that we are waiting for?" Jeremie asked blushing slightly.

Suddenly the tube that I had been behind opened again and some smoke came out of it. As the smoke cleared I saw a girl wearing a dark pink jacket; yellow t-shirt; and a purple miniskirt. She looked like one of the new kids in our school, but something was different…

"Aelita," Jeremie said running to her. "But how?"

Now I remembered; she was in one of the dreams that I had had. She had been a new student to our school. They had said that she was Odd's cousin, but I had known different. I had been able to tell something was not entirely right…

"Well, now that everyone who knows about Lyoko, other than Jim who doesn't remember any more, is here I can finally tell you all who I am and what I am doing here. I just ask that you don't interrupt me until I finish…" said the boy. "But first. Someone here needs to know what is going on." The boy said looking at me, and then he looked at Ulrich and said. "I can get you off the hook, but I think it would be better if someone she knows tells her."

The others looked at each other, they all looked uncomfortable. I could tell that they hadn't wanted me to know about this place. That my finding out was a mistake, and they wished it hadn't happened. I began to feel uncomfortable myself because I knew they didn't want me here.

"I'll do it." Ulrich said. "I owe it to you anyway."

"Good boy, I knew you would make the right decision when it came." Said the young man.

Ulrich glared at him and then looked at me. He looked me in the eyes. I began to feel warm inside, he was looking at me, and without hate. I had been waiting for this moment for the longest time.

"Sissi, can you keep a secret?" Ulrich asked me in a serious voice.

"Yes," I told him.

"Are you sure that you won't accidentally tell someone while gossiping?"

"Yes, Ulrich, dear, I can keep a secret." I said somewhat annoyed.

"For the last time… never mind." He said looking at the boy. "Here it goes. There is a world parallel to our own. This 'virtual' world, which we call Lyoko, is controlled by a supercomputer called X.A.N.A. We are not sure when or why it was built but we know one thing, there is something wrong with it. We suspect that a super-virus infected it, but what ever the reason it now wants to destroy our world. We, Yumi, Odd, Jeremie, and myself, have to save the world by entering Lyoko and helping Aelita get to what ever tower is activated. Aelita then enters the code: Lyoko and, somehow, the machine is able to reset time. Only people who have entered Lyoko before are supposed to remember what happened before time reset, to everyone else it is as if the events had never happened."

"So the dreams that I have been having are what happened before time reset?" I asked bewildered.

"That's right." Said the boy. "And because you desired to become part of this group I decided to allow you a way to do so."

"So you are the one who gave her those dreams!" Ulrich yelled raising his fists.

"Ulrich, do you really think that you can hit me now when you weren't able to earlier?" Asked the boy in a smug tone. "Besides, I am not the one who gave her the dreams. She has a gift, just like the rest of you. I just helped activate it a little more."

"Ulrich, all I have really wanted, ever since the beginning of the school year, was to be part of your group." I said.

"Could have fooled me." Ulrich said smugly.

"How can you be so mean?" I asked tears coming to my eyes.

"Now that's something you don't see every day, Sissi crying…" Odd said.

As the tears leaked out of my eyes the look on Ulrich's face went from ticked off to caring. He looked at me with a little less hatred and a little more kindness. I began to feel better.

"Sissi, if you wanted to join why didn't you ask. Why did you always act so… so… I don't know, stuck up?"

"I didn't know how to act." I said tears coming out of my eyes faster. "I didn't know how I was acting. I had though that acting that way would make me popular, but once I found that I was wrong it was too late to turn back…"

Ulrich moved a little closer and placed his hand on my shoulder. He then looked for something in his pocket. When he pulled it out I saw that it was a handkerchief. He whipped my eyes with it and I began feeling much better. I heard Yumi make a noise in the background and Ulrich gave me the handkerchief.

"Sissi, if you want to join I won't stop you… I won't say that you can't, but my friends will have to agree with it as well." He said looking at everyone.

"Well, I'm all for it." the boy piped in as though he were part of the group.

"I said my friends!" Ulrich yelled at him.

"Oh, that hurt." The boy said placing his hand over his heart. "Fine, I'll stay out of this, this time…"

"Well, guys, what do you say?" Ulrich asked his friends.

They looked at each other. Then they looked at me for a second. They turned to look at the boy, and then back to me. Finally they looked at me.

"It's not like we have any choice…" Jeremie said. "She already knows about Lyoko…"

"Depending on what you all say, I could change that…" said the boy. "But what you have seen will be on your conscience."

"I thought you said you were going to stay out of this." Ulrich said.

"Look Ulrich, I don't know what your problem with me is but get over it. It isn't like I have done anything to you…" said the boy. "And what happened to Yumi wasn't entirely my fault, other universes that I have visited, that are similar to yours, didn't have psychic Yumis. At least not one's so powerful…"

"What?" everyone said at the same time.

"Forget it… Just decide… and Ulrich, I am sorry for what ever you seem to hate me for."

"Well, I don't mind it… I'll miss teasing you though…" Odd said.

"I still really can't say no…" Jeremie said.

"I don't like it…" Yumi said. "We just have far too much against us…"

Everyone looked at Yumi. As she noticed that she was being stared at she began to look uncomfortable. "I didn't say no…" she said at last.

"Well, we just have one more vote then…" said the boy.

"I already gave my opinion." Ulrich said.

"I wasn't talking about you…"

We all turned to where he was looking. We saw the girl, Aelita, standing there looking confused. "Me?" she asked weakly. "You want my opinion?"

"Well, you are part of this group…" said the boy.

"Um, ok, then I am ok with it…" Aelita said.

"It's unanimous them. You are now part of this group." Ulrich said to me.

"Well, now that that is over… and since we have used up a lot of time… I can finally tell my story." Said the boy.

Well, you kept complaining that you wanted to know who he is. The next one is who he is. I need to redevlope that one a little. I want to be sure it is good and makes sense. I have asked one person to do so for me, and I might ask others. If you want a preview e-mail me I use my penname for an e-mail and it's either yahoo or hotmail.