Lyokonian Cat Warriors
Yay! I got four reviews! Hence the update. Also, I was told the title's a bit young. I couldn't think of anything else that would fit it. . Will someone help with that? Suggestions appreciated!!!! HELP ME!!!! Anyway, I want to thank all my reviewers for reviewing and not giving me flames. Fire is pretty, but flames are not allowed here. No, no, no... anyhow, disclaimer and then on with the story because I'm da master and da master commands it.
Disclaim: I did not, do not, but I hopefully WILL own Code: Lyoko.
Claim: I do own Audrey Hero, Ivy Silas, my little emotion thingy in the beginning, Cleo Günter, the glass of chocolate milk I just drank, Ms. Kitchen, and Amber Louison.
+Pain+
It was Thursday morning, about three o'clock to be exact, and Audrey was sleeping soundly in her bed, but Ivy on the other hand was tossing and turning. She was dreaming of what had happened over and over again... the images flashing through her mind at an unbearably fast speed.
It wasn't until six o'clock that she rolled over and fell out of bed. It was a sharp thud, but Audrey didn't wake up. Ivy sat up, her eyes a mixture of green toward Audrey and light blue for...
She shook him away from her mind. Hadn't she been tortured enough? The though of his face, the thought of him at all was painful. That window. That stupid window. And her. Her.
She wiped sweat from her forehead and stood up, shaking the thick blue blanket from her body. She lifted it up and began making her bed, laying it down carefully and concentrating hard on the stitching.
She went to the computer and turned it off, realizing that Audrey had left it on the night before. At about six-thirty, after Ivy's shower, Audrey's alarm rang and she sat up in bed, groaning, then turned to Ivy, who was brushing her hair.
"What are you doing up?" Her eyes were yellow.
"Couldn't sleep, too many nightmares," Ivy shuddered, putting the brush down.
"You seriously need a boyfriend," Audrey muttered. Ivy's eyes turned to dark blue.
"I do not," Ivy said stiffly. "I actually learn from my mistakes. Every time you go near Ulrich your eyes turn as pink as Aelita's hair."
"Whatever," Audrey murmured, grabbing a robe and heading out the door. "I'm going to take a shower." Ivy nodded and continued brushing her hair.
Of course, on the way out of the showers, who would Audrey run into but Ulrich Stern?
"Hey Audrey," he said. She brushed a slightly wet lock of hair out of her face and looked up at him.
"Hi, Ulrich," she sounded breathless, and her eyes were now a full shade of pink. He looked into them for a second before he blushed, realizing he was standing two inches from her and backed up.
"Why are your eyes changing colors?"
"What?" She furrowed her brow and her eyes turned yellow.
"They did it again," he said.
"Ehm, c-can I tell you later?"
"Uh, sure?" He was now thoroughly confused, and her cheeks were flushed with red while her eyes were a strange shade of yellow, pink, purple, and red, all the colors swirling in a vortex-like bubble around her pupil. She turned and practically ran into the room, where Ivy was ready.
"What happened?" She looked at Audrey's eyes, where the vortex was swirling even worse.
"I couldn't control my eyes," Audrey put a hand to her temples and sank to her knees, tears burning at her eyes as she held them tightly closed. "It- it hurts..." Ivy went down to her knee next to her.
"That's what happens when your emotions get out of control," Ivy put a hand on Audrey's trembling shoulder.
"It stings," she complained. "I just want to tell them about Lyoko. It would all make sense and we can stop arguing..."
"What about the actual Lyoko warriors right now? I haven't been able to find out who they are yet." Audrey stood up. Her eyes were now a light brown, their natural color.
Flashback
"W-we're finally free," Ivy looked over at Audrey, and saw that in the third scanner lay him. "Is he okay?"
"Yeah," Audrey stood up off the ground. "The materialization wore him out... that's all." She walked to the boy's side. "Alan! Wake up!" The boy didn't change physically. "Ivy?" Audrey watched as Ivy bent down on her knees and looked at Alan's closed eyes. She closed her own eyes, then began leaning in...
End Flashback
Audrey smiled sadly. She'd liked Alan. Too bad he'd gone and done that...
+Fear
Ulrich walked away, confused as Odd was whenever he tried to follow along with Mrs. Hertz's physics lesson. It wasn't ever day you saw someone's eye colors change like that. He went into the boys' shower rooms and took a quick shower, then headed back to make sure Odd was awake.
Of course he wasn't- and Kiwi wasn't either. though when Odd turned over and lay on top of Kiwi, Kiwi squealed in protest and jumped into his drawer.
"Odd, wake up," Ulrich said. He took a bottle of water off the desk next to Odd and dumped a little on his head. Odd didn't move. Ulrich sighed and got down next to his ear. "Guess what? Cleo and Jeremie just decided they wanted to date, and I'm dating Aelita now." Odd flipped over and landed hard on the floor before he got up.
"WHAT?!" Then, seeing the mischievous glint in Ulrich's eyes, his features darkened. "You little..."
He reared back and tackled Ulrich into the ground, and they wrestled until Ulrich, growing tired of the game, said, "Odd! They're running out of breakfast!" Odd of course jumped up and grabbed some clothes out of his drawer before he changed into them.
"You have a sick sense of humor when you wake me up," he muttered, slipping on a shirt.
"I do what I have to," Ulrich sighed.
"Don't do it again."
"Wake up next time!" They reached the lunch line. Glancing over at the table, he saw that everyone, Cleo, Yumi, Jeremie, Aelita, Yumi, (who had cooled off a bit) Audrey, and Ivy, were already there.
"I think we should show Audrey and Ivy Lyoko," Ulrich whispered.
"What? Why?" Odd replied, throwing four croissants on his tray next to two bowls of cereal and three boxes of orange juice.
"I just do."
"I'm not so sure," Odd said as they began walking to the table. "If we do though, I don't want Cleo to go there. She's really great, but she's not so good at keeping secrets." Ulrich didn't reply, but he sat next to Jeremie and started whispering to him.
"Have you heard?" Aelita asked Cleo. "They're moving the date of the dance to tomorrow instead of next Friday!"
"What?" Yumi looked ready to kill. "Why?"
"Because tomorrow is Sissi's birthday, and Sissi got him to move the date."
"Not all bad," Audrey said, glancing at Ulrich.
"I know, but now I've got an entire week less to choose my outfit," Aelita pouted, crossing her arms. Jeremie nodded at something Ulrich had said, then checked his watch.
"Holy cow! We're going to be late!" Everybody jumped up and suddenly realized they were the last ones in the room. Darting all the way to home room, the gang managed to get into their seats just before the bell rang.
They were surprised that Mrs. Hertz didn't enter the room. Instead, another woman did. She was wearing a black denim skirt with black cowboy boots. She also had on a white lace shirt, and her blond hair was pulled back into a Japanese style bun with two chop sticks sticking through it in the shape of an "X". She was wearing silver eye shadow and a lipstick you could barely see. In short, the boys' jaws, minus Ulrich, pretty much dropped.
"Hello, class," her voice was warm. "My name is Ms. Kitchen." She pointed to where she'd written it up on the board. "Mrs. Hertz is ill, so she's taken today and tomorrow off. I'm going to be your substitute." Nicholas sighed, and Sissi rolled her eyes.
"She's not that pretty."
"Is too," Herb muttered. Sissi looked thoroughly jealous, but then gave Ulrich a glance. She batted her eyelashes and giggled.
"Ms. Delmas, would you mind facing me?" Sissi's eye twitched but she did as she was asked. "As I was saying..." Ms. Kitchen began the physics lesson, and every boys' eyes were glued to her. There were groans when she announced the end of the lesson, and she smiled at the students as they left, flashing white.
It was around lunch time when Audrey fell.
Audrey walked up the stairs to her dorm. The halls were deserted and dim because most people were heading off to lunch, but she had to get back to the room to take her plants out of the window sill. They'd been there for the past two days and she didn't want them to die.
As she stepped onto the step just before the last stair, someone came bounding around the corner. She was wearing dark purple and black, and her hair was fiery red.
"I hate cats," she muttered, and she slammed into Audrey full force. Before Audrey could do anything, she was flying down the stairs. Fear flooded through her, and her head hit something hard.
Everything went black.
+Shocked+
"Are we any closer at all?" Yumi practically begged.
"No," Jeremie sighed.
"Ah you gonna eak dath?" Odd eyed Aelita's garlic bread through a mouthful of Jeremie's.
"Always thinking with your stomach..." Aelita rolled her eyes and gave it to him.
"Tank you," he replied, shoveling it in his mouth. "My tomach mus pe reary shmart."
"Where are Ivy and Audrey?" Ulrich said out of nowhere.
Odd gulped the food. "Speaking of them-" he said it derisively, "-where's-" Cleo suddenly emerged from the lunch line, carrying a full tray. "-ah, my darling, Cleo." She smiled as she sat next to him.
"Aw, my sweet little Oddykins..." She pinched his cheeks the way your evil great aunt Petunia would. Then they began an endless game of...
"It's not like them to be late..." Ulrich furrowed his brow, glancing around the lunch room.
"Last I saw was Audrey, heading up the stairs to her dorm," Cleo looked over at Ulrich. "I don't know what she was going up there to do."
"I better go see if she's okay..." Ulrich dumped his tray in the trash and walked out of the room. Right afterward, a girl with midnight colored hair ran through the doors, slamming into him and they hit the ground.
"Whoa, sorry..." She stood up on her knees and grabbed her head.
"More over, my fault," Ulrich replied, taking a good look at her. She had long, almost to her waist, midnight-colored hair. She was slightly tanned. She wore a white belly-shirt halter top over a pair of silky brown pants that had light brown stripes down the sides. Her outfit was complete by a pair of brown flip flops that had an "X" over the upper part to hold them to her feet.
"The name's Amber," she smiled and took his hand to help him up.
"Ulrich."
"Nice to meet you. See ya around." And she was gone. He reflected her for a moment, and realized how pretty she was. Smiling to himself, he exited, and headed for the dorms.
At the bottom of the stairs was a crumpled heap in a pool of blood. Her clothes were blood stained and her eyes were closed... her head had a large gash and her lip was gashed... but it was-
"Audrey!" Ulrich knelt next to her and lifted her into his arms. She was obviously light, and he stared down at her for a few moments. He whispered, "Aw... Audrey..." She didn't move, and he carried her toward the infirmary.
+Decisive+
Ivy was sitting on the roof, staring out at the gathering clouds. She didn't want to go back to class. She wasn't going to.
The teen's eyes were light blue- a symbol of sadness. She had a notebook in her hand, and on it was a color key.
Light Blue- Sad
Yellow- Confused
Red- Angry
Purple- Shame
Green- Envy
Magenta- Relaxed
Black- Hurt
Pink- Love
White- Afraid
Silver- Regretful
She knew there was more, and she'd keep adding to the list. Right then, all she wanted to do was rest and think of him.
It wasn't until sunset that Ivy woke up. She stretched and grabbed her notebook before heading toward her dorm. She glanced around and saw that Audrey hadn't been in the room the entire day. It was strange, but she shook it off and glanced at the clock. Realizing it was about time for dinner, she ran a brush through her long hair and headed down to dinner.
As she emerged from the lunch line, she realized that everyone looked kind of grim. She sat down and looked around at them before saying, "What's the matter?"
"You didn't know?" Aelita looked up from her pasta.
"D-didn't know what?" She struggled to control her eyes.
"Audrey's in the infirmary. She fell and hit her head on the stairs," Ulrich said grimly.
"W-what?!" She ran out of the room, and nobody bothered to follow... except Cleo, who had a strange look on her face.
"See you later!" She threw over her shoulder, and in the blink of an eye, she was gone.
"Finally!" Ulrich said out of nowhere.
"What?" Odd looked up from his final plate of pasta, which would be number seven.
"We're all here, and alone," He said. They huddled together in the position girls use when they're about to spill gossip. He took a deep breath. "I think Audrey and Ivy should go Lyoko." He prepared to be blown up at. But nobody, not even Yumi, spoke. After a long period of silence, Aelita glanced around the table.
"Well?" She raised an eyebrow at Jeremie. Everyone turned to look at him. He usually made decisions around there, being the smart guy.
He sighed, "I know we've had trouble with new people before." He looked at Yumi. She stared at the three noodles she had left. "But I notice that Ivy and Audrey are trustworthy. They aren't cocky, like William is, so it shouldn't be a problem for them to listen to me. We're the only friends they have here, so they can't tell anybody. Audrey needs some time with Ulrich. We could use a couple more warriors. It all fits. I'm gonna go with yes." Everyone silently cheered, but then Jeremie spoke in a voice that was dead serious. "What about Cleo?"
"I don't want her on Lyoko," Odd said a little too quickly.
"Why?" Yumi raised an eyebrow.
"Because she's annoying! She talks to no end! I'm dumping her after the dance." Everyone sighed.
"Now all we have to do is wait for Audrey to heal," Ulrich sighed.
"Let's not forget about Ivy," Aelita added.
"Ivy's not hurt," Odd pointed out.
"Are you kidding me? Those two are like sisters! Hurting one hurts the other just the same," Aelita retorted. Ivy entered the room a few seconds later.
"I'm just wondering how Audrey managed to fall down the stairs," Ulrich said. "I mean... how could she just fall? Those stairs aren't steep at all." At that moment, Ivy spoke.
"She didn't fall..." Ivy whispered. "Cleo pushed her."
Does this count as a cliffy? I don't know, and I'm lazy right now. I would like to thank my reviewers once again! I have had no flames... but yes, some constructive criticism. Thank you, you guys. I would especially like to thank Barakku's Shadow, because he was my first reviewer. This chapter is just over six pages! Now, I am finished blabbing on miscellaneously and would like to say: review, no flames, constructive criticism, and come back later when I update.
SB