So I broke my word, and didn't wait for 12 reviews. Well... I wanted to put this one up anyway. Longest chapter ever! Over 1700 words! Damn, I feel good.

Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko. If I did, it would be much worse, no thanks to my imagination... xD

Claimer: I do own Mia, and I do own the Scyther. Don't you dare steal. If any of you are lucky enough to have a beta of Spore, feel free to make one and see how it performs -shot-

Chapter 7

(Sunday, Jeremie's POV)

I woke up nice and early in my dorm, as usual.

Wait, I don't remember going to bed last night… and why am I in my day clothes?

Anyway, whatever. I got out of bed, went straight to my computer and took a look through XANA's files. I was trying to find that black monster that we saw yesterday. After boringly glancing at a few of them, I noticed an entry in the entity database that I hadn't seen before. It was called "scyther". Hmm, I wonder… could this be the new monster? I clicked on it. Sure enough, there was all the data for the monster…

I heard a knocking from the door, and told whoever it was to come in.

"Hey Jeremie, are you coming down for breakfast today?" I heard Aelita say to me.

An annoyingly loud groan from my stomach answered that question. I hadn't eaten in god knows how long. "Well, okay. I guess I can do this later." I locked my dorm, and walked to breakfast with Aelita.

"Hey Aelita, I really want to apologize about the whole antivirus thing, I guess I just got too caught up in it or something…"

"Listen, don't worry about it. I should have just let you work on it anyway; I was being inconsiderate of the rest of us, especially with all these recent XANA attacks."

"Well… okay…"

(In the cafeteria, Ulrich's POV)

No sooner had I walked into the room with Odd had he dashed across the room at the sight of some decent food.

"Oh my god, they have American breakfasts? Wow, for once I can't be all hating of school food!"

"Calm down Odd… Oh well, at least it woke him up," I said, while walking rather more calmly to get my food. By the time I sat down, next to Odd who was by the window, Jeremie and Aelita arrived. They sat opposite us.

"Hey guys, I found that monster this morning. Apparently it's called a Scyther." Jeremie told us.

"Trust XANA to give it an obvious name." I joked.

"Yea, well you can also trust XANA to give it a stupidly large amount of strength." Odd added.

"Anyway, there's something really important I need to tell you a-"

"Oh hello Ulrich dear," came the overly recognisable voice of an overly annoying girl.

"What do you want Sissi" I replied in a monotone.

"Oh, just for you to go to the movies with me today."

"Really? You know what I'd love to!" I said, faking a much happier voice.

I paused. "Hang on, did I hear you correctly? I thought you said you wanted me to go to the movies with Yumi today."

"Ha ha very funny Ulrich," Sissi said, scowling, and promptly leaving the area.

After having a good laugh, Odd was the first to speak. "That has got to be one of your best Sissi jokes ever."

"So anyway, as I was saying, there's something important I need to tell you about this monster. The bad news is that XANA coded this Scyther thing so that it would never go lower than one life point unless it was hit in the Eye. The good news is that whenever one of them is killed, any others are destroyed at the same time."

"That explains what happened to the one that was holding me up that tree," Aelita responded. "But why would he make them do that?"

Jeremie shrugged. "Only thing I can think of is that such an intricate entity takes up too much memory, so he compensated for it."

(Odd's POV)

By this time we had all finished eating.

"Well, I'm going to go and study that Scyther some more," Jeremie said, walking off.

"Eh, I need to do a report for tomorrow, so I'll be in my dorm all day…" Ulrich said, and also walked off.

So now it was just me and Aelita left sitting at the table. I looked at her, and blinked.

"Race you to my dorm!" she said suddenly.

"You're on." I replied.

I easily managed to win this one. Anyway, when we got there, we went in and sat down.

"Looks like you win the bet, Odd," she said.

"Huh?"

"You know; the whole Jeremie thing?"

"Ah yes…" I said, remembering it.

Flashback

Jeremie was planning to spend all night trying to find that new monster, with no success whatsoever. After yet another argument, Aelita came to me to ask how we could possibly get Jeremie to stop making himself tired and annoying the hell out of everyone. I came up with the unoriginal solution of sleeping pills.

"Sure that'll make him sleep, but I doubt it's going to improve his mood at all!" Aelita told me.

I challenged her. "You looking for a bet?"

"Depends what it is," she said playfully.

"Tell you what, if I win, you make out with me in front of Jeremie."

"And if I win, you make out with Mia in front of Yumi," she responded.

"You got it." I said.

End Flashback

"Well, is this going to be fun, or is this going to be even more fun?" I said, making no sense whatsoever as usual.

"I think this is going to be embarrassing. AND fun."

We had a good laugh at that, and then planned what we were going to do. Minutes later, we were outside Jeremie's room.

(Aelita's POV)

"Go for it," Odd said. I let myself in without knocking, leaving the door open. Jeremie was so busy he didn't even notice me.

"Hello Jeremie," I said in my trademark cheery voice. He turned round quickly.

"Oh, hey Aelita. Want to hear about what I found on the Scyther?"

Before I could answer, and with perfect timing, Odd ran into the room, and announced: "Sorry but I think that can wait."

I turned round. "How come?" I asked, smiling.

"How about this for a reason?" he said, and jumped at me. We ended up on the bed, kissing. Jeremie was staring at us. If he wasn't sitting down I'm sure he would have fallen over from the shock.

"That was nice Odd," I said, when we broke apart.

"Aelita…" was Jeremie's only word, before we ran off, laughing. I still felt a bit guilty about all that though. But hey, it's all good.

(Later, at Yumi's house)

-RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING-

"I'll get it." Yumi promptly got up to answer the door, leaving Mia to sit on the couch channel-hopping. "Oh hey guys, you're here!" she said as she saw her friends Ulrich, Odd and Aelita arrive. They wasted no time coming in, and Ulrich was the first to drop down on the couch.

"That damn report was way too much work…" he said, acting exhausted.

"Hey Ulrich, don't start the party with schoolwork," Odd said. "It is party time, right?" He eyed his wrist jokingly as if he were checking the time.

"Yea, it sure is. It's great how dad's letting us do this more often," Mia said.

"Well in that case, what're we gonna get out first – the food, movies or dance pads?" Odd said.

"Dance pads?" Ulrich asked. "Since when did we have dance pads?"

"Since Aelita made them. We got totally addicted earlier."

"So that's what's in that huge bag of yours?" Yumi said.

"Yep," Aelita replied, taking off the bag. "Ulrich was way too busy ranting about how annoying his report was that he never even noticed!"

"Eh, I can see he's had a tiresome day today. But we can fix that," Yumi said, lifted Ulrich's chin up and smiled, "can't we?"

Ulrich finally gave in and smiled. "Sure. So who's going first?"

"How about you two?" Aelita said, indicating the twins. "We can see who's the better sister!" She winked.

"Yea, go for it," Odd said. They were about to set the game up when-

"RING RING RING RING RING RING RING, BANANA PHONE!"

"Okay, was that really necessary?" Ulrich said.

"Sure, what idiot doesn't have the banana phone as their ringtone?" Odd said, and answered it.

"Ulrich, is that you?" Jeremie's voice came from the phone.

"No Einstein, it isn't, are you suffering memory loss now or what?"

"Shut up Odd," Jeremie said, annoyed, and hung up. A few seconds later a more reasonable ringtone was heard.

"You might wanna go elsewhere Ulrich, Jeremie's reaaaaaaaally annoyed today," Odd told him. Ulrich took his advice, and went into the back room to take the call.

"So how're you doing?" Odd asked the girls, who were now enjoying themselves playing DDR (Aelita was watching).

"Great," Yumi replied. "We're pretty much even right now."

"You should try it with sugar," Odd said, "it makes it way more fun."

"Yea, sugar's your solution to everything isn't it Odd?" Aelita said.

"You want to play against me?" Mia asked him.

"What, on sugar?"

She looked round at the others. "Sure."

(Ulrich's POV)

"SHE WHAT?" I practically screamed into the phone.

"You heard me correctly, she just came into my room and made out with Odd right there and then."

I took a moment to calm down. "Well on second thought, I can see why she did that."

"Really?"

"Yea, you never really cared about her properly… You only went to the effort you did because you were obsessed with her… and once you materialized her, she realized the difference between friendship and true love."

I heard silence for a short while, and then he hung up. Oh well, let's go enjoy the show.

(Normal POV)

"ah… Ok you win Mia…" Odd said, exhausted. "I just can't do 21 songs in a row on heavy mode…"

"Hehehe, now, I'm truly awesome, go on, say it!"

"Okay, you're truly awesome."

In what seemed like two seconds, Aelita had returned Odd to his feet, and then jumped onto his shoulders. "Aww, Odd, how could you lose to a rival like that?"

She didn't wait for an answer. Just as quickly as before, she jumped back down again and now had Odd on her shoulders. Still on sugar high, she ran round the room.

Yumi looked at this scene, and then at her sister, and finally at Ulrich coming in the doorway. She quickly ran round to him, and ended up knocking him into Aelita and Odd, and they all landed in a heap. Now Mia, of course, wasn't just standing there, but decided to get all this on camera.

Wow, no XANA. But things sure are heating up with Jeremie here. What's he gonna do? Review to find out faster:D