Chapter 5:Stop, Listen, and Decide
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko, Ulrich, Odd,Yumi, Aelita, Jeremie, or any of the other characters seen in Code Lyoko. I do however own Shinrai Flare, and Krista Flare and the children (Yes... I own children, J/K).
(I am sorry for the delay on my story, I have been with my girlfriend, which I love, so my posting will be kind of scarce)
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I have been getting questions on who is who and how old everybody is, so here it is. The nicknames are the same for alot of stories, that is how they are even identified in some episodes.
Yumi (Geisha) Ishiyama/Stern- 31
Ulrich (Samurai) Stern-30
Sharline Stern- 14
Mace Stern-14
Odd Della Robbia(Cat-boy)-30
Krista Flare/Della Robbia-30
Cyrus (Cy) Della Robbia-13
Lei (L) Della Robbia-14
Jeremie (Einstein) Belpois-30
Aelita (Princess) Stones/Belpois-30
Jack (Jay) Belpois-14
Abigail (Abby) Belpois-14
Elizabeth (Sissi or Yang) Delmas/Flare-30
Shinrai (Rai or Yin) Flare-31
Tai Flare-14
Chelsea Flare- 13
((People have been wondering why alot of the storied with authors have twins in them. My explaination is simple, I love symmetry. In Code : Kouken, I had eight teenagers, I wanted eight teenagers for the second story.))
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"JIM!" Krista called out, hugging him tightly. The red jacketed figure stood there, a bit embarressed as the silver haired woman hugged him.
"Um...Hello Krista..." Jim replied, wrapping his arms around her. For fourteen years, Jim had almost served like a father to her and Shinrai, and treated Krista as a daughter.
Shinrai smirked and bent over to pick up two bags before looking at Jim, "Thanks for coming with the bus, I didn't know that we'd have more people arriving today,"
Jim looked to him in puzzlement,"Wait, there are more people coming than Krista and Della Robbia?" He looked to the ground, hoping it wasn't the four figures that he was thinking about, "Stern, Ishiyama, Stones and Belpois?"
"Yep," Sissi told him as she pulled the bags close to the bus that was behind Jim.
"Oh no... Oh no..." Jim fell back against the bus, putting his hand on his forehead, "Is it for a vacation?"
Ulrich stepped forward, an evil grin on his face, "No.. We are to live here for a while. Next to the school even,"
"Oh no..."
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Aelita slowly walked down the bus aisle before reaching Abigail, who was sitting quietly in her own seat, her face tinted red, "Abigail, are you ok? Ever since you saw Cyrus... You've been acting very different,"
Abigail leaned forward to whisper in her mother's ear, soft enough so that none of the other teenagers could hear, "Did dad tell you about why I didn't want to leave?"
Aelita nodded in response," Yes.. About the boy that you had talked to over the phone and had really seemed to like? A boy with silvery hair?"
"Yes... I think Cyrus is the one I was talking to... How many boys at the age of fourteen have silvery hair, without a medical condition?"
"Very few... Why don't you just ask him if he was the one you talked to?"
"What if he is the one I talked to?"
"Then go speak with him..."
"What would I say?"
"I don't know.. That is up to you, Abigail," Aelita smiled warmly and hugged her daughter close.
"Thank you mom,"
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"So, Jim; How have you been doing?" Ulrich asked as the bus went down the long street heading to Kadic Academy.
Jim's wide smile relfected off the mirror, " I've gotten married,"
"I heard, but neither Shinrai or Sissi would tell us who it was," Yumi piped up, adjusting her long hair again.
"Do you really want to know? Shinrai and Sissi were there as my best man and her maid of honor," Ulrich, Jeremie, Yumi, Odd, and Krista began to beg excitedly, "If you must know... It is Dorothy,"
"Dorothy!"
"It is Nurse Dorothy to you," Jim playfully snapped back. Ulrich and Odd fell back, twitching and squirming with silent laughter. Krista giggled some and looked to Shinrai, her eyes studying her brother closely, looking for any signs of surprise. He stared innocently back at her and smirked a bit, his eyes showing no fault. He then turned back to face the ground, the features on his face turning troubled.
'What is wrong with you, Shin?' Krista thought before turning back to where Odd was arguing playfully with Jim. She wrapped her arms around him tightly and placed her head in his lap, looking very tired. Jeremie turned to speak to his former roommate and opened his mouth to speak until he saw the troubled look.
Jeremie moved to sit next to Shinrai and raised an eyebrow in puzzlement, "What's up?"
Shinrai looked up and shook his head once, "I'll tell you later, I don't want to worry anybody if I am wrong..."
"I'll hold you to it,"
"Heh, I know you will, ya held me to everything at Kadic," Shinrai replied before leaning back and closing his eyes. Jeremie rolled his eyes and turned to the aisle where Aelita was slowly heaving back to the front of the bus.
"Is everything ok?" He asked as she sat across from him.
Aelita nodded and giggled slightly, " Yes, Abigail was having some problems with Cyrus,"
Krista turned around to Aelita after hearing her,"What do you mean?"
"She thinks Cyrus is the boy she talked to with her friends and she is too shy to say something," Aelita's eyes darted to Jeremie quickly and back before he could notice,"Almost like someone else I know..."
Krista picked up on the comment and smirked a bit evilly, "Do you think that they will?"
"Most likely...Is that ok?"
"It would be obvious if she wasn't as shy as her father was,"
"Didn't you have to tell him?"
Aelita threw up her hands in mock experation as she then wrapped her arm around her own former roommate, "Yes I did... It was when you were being attacked by XANA.,"
"Ugh.. Don't ever speak that name again,"
"Alright," Aelita looked to Sissi and whispered in her ear lightly, "Is Shinrai ok?"
Sissi turned and stared at Aelita before shaking her head,"I don't know, something is troubling him and he hasn't told me yet, he says he needs some verification. He started like this after recieving the letter sent by Odd, the one that had the contract that he signed."
"What could trouble him like that?"
"I don't know... He's going to tell Jeremie later though, they are almost like Odd and Ulrich. I just think he needs some more confermation before he tells us all,"
"How do you know that?"
Sissi began to grin from Aelita's question and smirked some before leaning back in the seat," When you were at school, you told Krista things that you would net tell even Yumi... Just because she was your roommate," Aelita nodded in return before gripping the seat infront of her, the bus coming to a stop.
"Um, sorry about that.. Jim's driving isn't the same," Sissi said before stepping off the stopped bus. Shinrai followed her and they both stepped to the side to allow the rest of them to come. Aelita's eyes widened as she saw the scenery of her surroundings, with audable gasps coming from Krista, Odd, Jeremie, Ulrich, and Yumi.
Infront of them stood Kadic Academy in all it's glory, the newly painted buildings seeming clean and crisp, even the once dirty-looking cafeteria looked as if it had a new lease on life. There were small amounts of students in minute groups scattered around the campus, obviously the students that were left over the summer for some reason or another.
Two such students were bounding down the path to where the bus had stopped, a girl and a boy. They both had raven black hair, except for the fact that the girl had white streaks in her hair (A/N: Not Grey Hairs, just streaks)
"Mom, Dad, Uncle Odd, Aunt Krista!" The boy called out, speeding down with his sister down the path, obviously excited.
Odd smiled warmly as he saw his niece and nephew and grinned, "Tai, Chelsea!" He called back and wrapped his arms around them both. Shinrai smiled as he looked to his son and daughter and then looked to his wife quickly, both exchanging a miniture nod to each other.
"Tai, Mr. Jack Belpois is your new roommate for the school year, you said you needed a new one," He told his son before looking to his daughter now," Miss. Abigail Belpois is your new roommate as well,"
None of the four children seemed to protest it, but they looked to each other, almost evaluating the other before accepting the conditions. Almost as if by not even noticing, Mace and Cyrus looked to each other, along with Sharline and Lei gazing at each other, the tone of voice coming from Cyrus's uncle meant that they would be rooming together as well.
"We're right there if you need us," Shinrai indicated to the house right next to the school.
Ulrich grinned some before pulling the final bag from the bus and pointed to the fourth house near the school, "This is where we bought our house,"
Odd's eyes widened in surprise as he pointed to the third house right next to Ulrich's, "We're right next to you!" He exclaimed.
"Wait...This is..." Jeremie pointed to the large house next to the one Shinrai indicated. Sissi began to giggle and shake her head from the exciting coincidence before turning to Tai and Chelsea.
"Show them their rooms, you two have the room list, considering you two are on the early welcoming committee," She told them before hugging them and grabbing a few bags, pointing towards the houses with her head, "Let's get these bags inside with the others and then we can all talk together,"
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"Where did you learn how to cook, Shinrai?" Aelita asked as she bit into the juicy hamburger that was placed infront of her by an aproned Shinrai. Odd had already tore into his second hamburger without a moments notice, not having to been told twice to eat. Ulrich and Yumi sat on the double lawn chair while they were eating in the large backyard.
"Yin learned right after we got married, and he has been cooking ever since, unless he collapses, then I have Rosa cook me something," Sissi replied to the question before sitting on the bench to the table.
Krista was smirking some as she looked to her brother in the apron, "Aww my big brother in an apron, it is the cutest sight I have ever seen!" She exclaimed with a giggle. Shinrai began to laugh before heading inside, where Jeremie stood waiting.
"I think I know why you've been troubled.." Jeremie told him before grabbing the hamburger meant for him.
Shinrai nodded, ready to listen to the explaination, "Go on," He told his old roomate.
"These coincidences are a bit too much... Right?"
"Exactly... I'll show you why tomarrow morning," Shinrai declared, his eyes red from lack of sleep.
"Lack of sleep?" Jeremie asked before sitting in the kitchen chair.
"Yeah... Mostly from the things that have been troubling for the last few days,"
"Explain it to me in the morning... Something tells me that this year isn't going to be very fun. So lets have some fun tonight..."
"No doubt," Shinrai replied before stepping back outside under the awening and setting the plate full of hamburgers in the middle of the table and beginning to converse with Ulrich, Yumi, Odd, Aelita, and his little sister.
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(OK OK OK, I know I havn't been posting alot, but there are a few reasons, one is my girlfriend that I have, who I love dearly... The second reason is that this was a filler chapter, which I am bad at... And it took me a month to do... My posting is going to be pretty good now, we have a computer upstairs in my room now, it sucks but it has wordpad and XP so I am safe. READ AND REVIEW! PLEASE I BEG OF YOU!)