Lyokonian Cat Warriors

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Disclaim: Okay, this is getting depressing. I don't own Code: Lyoko so why the $# do you people keep asking me that????? I also don't own the songs I use.

Claim: Too depressed. Audrey, do it for me.

Audrey: Starlight-Burst owns the story plot, Cleo Gunther, Ivy Silas, and wait- [eyes glow red you can't own me!

Me: Can too.

Audrey[lifts up a large rock No you can't.

Me: Ehm, ehehe, yeah... about that... [quickly on with the story, I do own Audrey! OW! That was my arm!!!!

+Torn+

It was Tuesday afternoon the next day, and everyone was at the bench, other than Audrey and Ivy, who were, we shall put it, elsewhere.

"It's getting harder to talk about Lyoko with them around," Yumi said. "I think we should hang around them a smidge less."

"Why? So you can get your precious William out quicker, huh?" Ulrich asked darkly. "Some of us actually want them around."

"I didn't mean it like that," Yumi said stubbornly, looking at him scornfully. "I just meant-"

"No, I think you made it clear exactly what you meant," Ulrich replied.

"Knock it off, you two, what's gotten into you?" Aelita stepped in between the feuding friends.

"Tell Ulrich we've got plenty of Lyoko warriors and that we're better off without them," Yumi said disdainfully, and Ulrich caught a small flicker of hurt in her eyes.

"Tell Yumi that I don't intend on them becoming Lyoko warriors, and that she can't tell me who my friends are," Ulrich told Aelita. It was that moment that Audrey and Ivy turned the corner to see Ulrich and Yumi facing opposite ways, arms crossed and Aelita desperately trying to keep peace while Jeremie ignored it and worked on the Skidbladnir and Odd was talking to a red headed girl.

"Um, mind filling us in?" Audrey asked.

"I'll fill you in. You're ruining everything! If you don't stop hanging around us, it'll take even longer for us to get him back!" Yumi almost yelled, but managed to keep her voice at a talkative level.

"Who?" Audrey took an instinctive step back. Yumi stepped closer, unshed tears welling up in her eyes. Yumi looked wild and ready to hit Audrey in the face.

"That's enough," Ivy chose the moment to put her arm in front of Audrey, like a force field to keep Yumi away. "I expect you'll be explaining yourself."

"Why can't you just stay away? We'll never get him back if you don't stay away," Yumi whispered, the tears burning at the edges of her eyes. Ulrich put a hand on Yumi's arm, and Yumi shook it off before she began running in the direction of her house.

"What the hell was that about?" Audrey demanded.

"Um," Ulrich thought quick. "See, Yumi's old boyfriend was kidnapped, and she thinks she has a trace on him, but she doesn't trust anyone outside or group, so we can't talk about it when you're around, also meaning she wants you to stay away because she wants to find him."

"Oh," Audrey murmured. "Well, this isn't my place to argue. See ya around." And they turned, Ivy reluctantly following as they headed for the forest. Ulrich caught a tint of light blue in Audrey's eyes, and a long flicker of red in Ivy's.

"Jeremie, I'm so confused," Ulrich sighed, sitting next to Jeremie. "Why's Yumi acting like that?"

"I'd say she still likes you," Odd replied, his red headed friend having gone. "And you like Audrey, right?" Ulrich didn't change physically, but something inside him emotionally tore.

He thought for a second. Yumi, Audrey, William, and nobody. It hurt him, having such a terrible decision to make, but in the end, he decided.

+Curious+

"Audrey?" Ivy asked as they reached the manhole cover. Audrey pulled it up and off of the hole, her eyes turning back to light brown.

"I'm alright, Ivy, it's not my place," Audrey sighed, beginning to climb down. "It's not my place..."

'It's your business who you hang out with. If everyone agreed with her, they would've backed her up."

"I don't care," Audrey replied.

"You do too." They exited the sewers and swung down into the elevator.

"I do not! Stop it!" Her eyes were turning a glimmer of light blue, but she controlled it. She walked to the supercomputer and typed in a few buttons before they hurried down to the scanner room. Audrey stepped into the far left one, and Ivy stepped into the far right one. A strange wind blew upward, and Audrey held her skirt down, though she didn't know why. Wasn't like anyone could see her.

She landed neatly on Lyoko next to Ivy, both their Lyoko outfits returned.

"I hate having to leave here," Ivy sighed. "Hopefully Father hasn't seen us." She touched the cat necklace that had stayed where it was, and a small swirl of light blue light surrounded her body, and when it dissipated, she had been replaced by a light blue colored cat with the familiar dark blue eyes.

"You always made a pretty cat," Audrey sighed. She walked to the edge of the platform and sat down, her legs swinging just above the stream of data. She hummed a soft, tuneless hum, and Ivy perched on her shoulder, her cat paws prodding at her hair, but they were silent for what felt like hours even though it was only minutes.

"Audrey, I wonder what you see in Ulrich," Ivy didn't talk by opening her mouth. Instead the cat charm, still around her neck, glowed a bit with each word spoken.

"It's hard to explain," Audrey replied evenly. "He's cute, he's nice, he's funny..." She trailed off.

"It feels like he likes Yumi," Ivy said gently. "I just don't want you to fall... I mean, I still haven't gotten over it." They were silent, and Audrey started humming, this time with a tune. The song quickly broke into words.

"The path that I'm walking I must go alone,

I must take the baby steps until I'm full grown,

Fairytales don't always have a happy ending do they?

But I forsake the dark of hell,

If I stay."

"You sound just like her," Ivy said, smiling and licking her cat chops.

"I do not!"

"Do too!" Ivy leaped gracefully off of Audrey's shoulder. "Let's go to the tower." Audrey touched her cat charm, and a faint red glow illuminated her body, and she was surrounded by a red swirl. When the red swirl dissipated, she had been replaced with a red cat with light brown eyes.

The cats turned silently and erupted into a cat-like sprint, their paws thudding silently across the ground of the mountain sector. The tower was in sight, and it was less than fifteen, yards away. Ten... five... one... and they jumped into the tower.

The blue and red cats began floating upward, a strange light illuminating them. For the blue cat, the light was red, for the red cat, it was blue. They padded their way across the second floor of the tower, and then the blue cat jumped up a little, now standing on her hind legs and messing with the windows on the keyboard.

"It feels so strange being back here again," Audrey muttered.

Flashback

The seven year old child fingered the board.


"I've got it, Audrey," she said. "Just one more second..." She pressed one last button, and the child next to her, also seven, began to materialize.

"You did it, Ivy, you did it!" She was materialized, and the first child pressed a couple more buttons before she began materializing too...

End Flashback

"I know," Ivy's familiar voice brought Audrey out of her flashback. "i just hope we're not discovered. It could complicate everything. I just don't understand why Lyoko keeps drawing us back. It's like someone inside Lyoko, other than father, is trying to tell us something."

"You're creeping me out," Audrey rolled her eyes. "What are you doing?"

"Trying to find out exactly who the new Lyoko warriors are, and when they took over, crap like that."

+Questionable+

"What's the matter , Yumi?" Aelita asked gently, entering Yumi's bedroom. The door was unlocked and Johny was at a friend's house while her parents were out. Yumi was laying on her bed, her face buried in the pillow.

"I-I-I j-just wa-ant W-William to come back, and Ulrich's little friends a-are aro-ound too m-much for u-us to get an-nything d-done."

"Yumi, maybe we could use two more Lyoko warriors."

"That's not true!" Yumi sat up and stared hard at Aelita, fiery rage in her eyes. "We've got six already! We can't just go telling everyone we find that Ulrich trusts!"

"What do you mean six? And we did tell someone you trust, and look what happened to him!"

"There's me, you, Jeremie, Ulrich, Odd, and William."

"Yumi, William's been taken to XANA's side. I'm not sure exactly when we can get him back, but I do know that having Ivy and Audrey around isn't hurting anything."

"What do you mean, 'not hurting anything'? They're hurting everything!"

"Like what?" Yumi burst into tears.

"Our chances of getting William back! She's hurting my relationship with Ulrich! They're both trouble, I can tell!"

"What do you mean 'she'? Is this all about Ulrich and Audrey? What did you expect, Yumi, for Ulrich to worship you even after you went off with William? You didn't expect him to move on?" The room was suddenly silent, and Yumi buried her face in her knees. "Yumi, you've got William, because you chose William. You can't try and patch things up with Ulrich and expect him to still want to be with you after you chose William."

"I don't."

"Then why are you so upset?"

"Because- because Ulrich and Audrey get to be together, yet William's gone and I'm all by-by myself."

"We'll get him back, but you don't need to ruin Ulrich and Audrey's relationship in order to make yourself feel better."

"I'm not trying to! I'm just trying to get Ulrich back in the quickest way possible."

"Ulrich?"

"I mean William."

"Sure..." Aelita said sarcastically. "Of course."

+Affectionate+

"What's gotten into Yumi?" Odd asked Jeremie.

"I'm not sure Odd. I think she's just really missing William," Jeremie replied.

"Well, she does go good with Ulrich, and Ulrich does like her..."

"Nearest I can tell-" Jeremie paused to push his glasses up off the bridge of his nose. "-he likes Audrey." Jeremie turned back to the computer . "I can't deal with this right now. Where did Aelita go?"

"I think she went to find Yumi," a third voice entered the conversation. Odd and Jeremie looked at the door to see that the pink haired 'princess' was standing in the doorway.

"How'd it go?" Odd asked hesitantly.

"Could've been better. She's jealous of Ulrich and Audrey. She misses William," Aelita smiled a sad smile. "We have to get him back."

"It's not that easy," Jeremie sighed. "I have a grand total of zero leads. I don't know how to get William back."

"I think I'm going to find Ulrich," Odd decided to get out of the conversation before they started talking about molecular structure or whatever else that should be illegal.

The other two took no notice of him leaving, so Odd exited quickly. He walked down the hall and entered his and Ulrich's room, unsurprised to see someone there. That someone, however, was not Ulrich. She was a red haired girl by the name of-

"Hi, Cleo," Odd smiled, sitting on his bed next to her. She was dressed in a purple belly tee and a pair of purple shorts. Her eyes were a mischievous shade of purple, but they didn't seem to have any emotion. Her hair was pulled back into a red ponytail.

"What's up, Odd?" She asked, her eyes glinting.

"Lots of drama. Yumi keeps saying that Ulrich isn't allowed to hang around Audrey and Ivy."

"Why?"

"I don't know. She's got her rea-" He was interrupted when Cleo wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. It wasn't strange for her to burst out with kisses when she was bored. "Cleo, will you go to the dance with me?"

"Took you long enough," Cleo rolled her eyes and lay on his chest. After a while, her breathing slowed, and Odd gently lay her head on his pillow and walked to the window. He looked out at the forest, and saw that Ulrich was sitting in a tree, across from none other than Audrey.

"SO, what are you doing up here?" Ulrich asked Audrey.

"I felt like climbing," Audrey shrugged. They were silent for a minute, watching the sun set.

"So, I was, ehm, just wondering, wanna come to the dance with me?" Audrey went wide eyed and turned a little, falling out of the tree.

"Ow, and yes."

Ivy was sitting in her room, tears streaming down her pale face. She was hurting, not that anyone ever noticed. Her new 'friends' were oblivious to the fact that he had done this to her. The pain was almost unbearable. A saying came to her mind, one that her 'mother' had once said.

"Some want to love, some love to hate, and somes' hearts are never whole in the first place, so there is no way they can do either."

She sighed, wiping the tears from her face. How had he done that to her? How could he be so heartless? What had she done to him? How long would that have lasted if she'd never seen...

She shook the questions away, sighing out at the sunset. She thought of the color orange. Orange was his favorite color. She shook the thoughts from her head once again.

Standing, up she took a brisk walk down the corridor and down the stairs to the cafeteria. She grabbed a tray and a fork, then received food. She sat down at the usual table, and realized that Odd and a red head were the only one's there.

She did her best to shake away worries of what Audrey and Ulrich were doing. The question wouldn't quit haunting her; it stuck in her head like a catchy pop song. Sighing, she started to eat. Odd was gazing at her food like he hadn't eaten for three days, while the red head smiled.

"Hi! My name's Cleo," she smiled until she noticed the cat charm. "That's a pretty necklace. I don't really like cats that much."

"Why thank you, I don't like you either," Ivy began tearing her croissant into tiny pieces one at a time.

"Touchy," Odd said in Cleo's defense.

"Very," Cleo agreed. Now Ivy was tearing the tiny pieces apart, but Cleo didn't look ready to quit interrogating her. "All I said was I didn't like cats. What's wrong with that?"

"All I said was I didn't like you. What's wrong with that?" Ivy mimicked.

"Knock it off, Ivy," Odd looked up from his food.

"Tell your little girlfriend to knock it off," Ivy was now crushing the croissant pieces into a ball.

"What's wrong with being a dog person?"

"What's wrong with being a cat person?" There was silence.

"I didn't do anything to you. You seriously need to chill."

"I'm very chilled. I've been in the freezer a bit too long." Ivy took the pieces and dropped them in Cleo's lap, then walked away, leaving Cleo brushing off the crumbs and Odd glaring daggers disdainfully.

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