Starlight
Thanks for the reviews, and how is the plotline choppy? This is my SECOND fanfic! I don't really know what a choppy plotline is...
Disclaim: I don't own CL.
Claim: I do own Audrey, Ivy, Alan, Ms. Kitchen, Amber, Cleo, the kitty idea, and the plot.
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Alan hit the ground on Lyoko, though he knew this was all a dream where he could be free of his worries of Ivy. His cat-like senses returned, and he took it on easily and naturally. After all, the orange necklace that was hidden beneath his shirt allowed him to do this in the real world, too.
Alan found his mind was still on Ivy. Figures she didn't understand the visual I sent her. Hello!? My cat form with blue eyes? How could she have not... He was cut off when he was hit in the side with a laser, thanks to the approaching blocks.
"Why you little-!" He was about to thrust forward and rake his claws across the block's eye when it started to beep. "What?" Then he realized his alarm clock was ringing, and that he had to get up and head to class.
Slipping into his robe, Alan went down the hall into the shower, bumping into a brown haired boy on the way out.
"Sorry," Alan said.
"No problem. My name's Ulrich, by the way."
"Alan." Ulrich watched the orange-clad boy disappear into the showers and headed back to his own room, where once again Odd was asleep- and wouldn't awake.
"Odd." Odd didn't get up, and an evil smile crept across Ulrich's face just as he practically screamed in Odd's ear: "Oh my God! Jim's kissing Aelita!"
"No Jim! Think of Jeremie! Child molestation-!" He stopped when he realized he was yelling at the air. "That's it!" Odd tackled Ulrich.
"Ow Odd!"
"Wah! Go cry about it!" Odd replied. They wrestled around on the floor until Ulrich tired of it and knocked him off.
"You'll never beat me."
"Wanna bet?" Ulrich shrugged as he headed out to breakfast. Just as he came out of the room, he ran into Audrey, who happened to be talking to the boy Alan he had met earlier. Ulrich now recognized him as the boy that had been leaving the hallway containing Audrey's room. He couldn't help but growl.
"Sorry," he said.
"It's okay. See you later," they left hurriedly. Ulrich clenched his teeth. What was she doing with him? But as he started walking he caught sight of yet another person, who happened to go by the name of-
"Hey, Amber," Ulrich said coolly, walking beside her with his hands in his pockets.
"Oh, uh, hi Ulrich!" She said cheerfully, glinting red.
"How's it going?"
"I'll steal a line from a book, SSDD," she replied.
"What?"
"I happen to be a bookworm," she replied, her face no scarlet as she looked down at the ground, her hands also in her silky brown pockets as her flip-flops made clickety clack sound on the ground. "One of my favorite books is Dreamcatcher, by Stephen King."
"What does it mean?" He was beginning to think the girl was coming on to him, but he felt that he was slightly coming on to her...
"Pardon my French, but it means Same Shit, Different Day."
"Don't worry, I know plenty of people that are quite fluent in French," Ulrich laughed and she giggled, her face still red. Ulrich liked the way she blushed- the only part that turned red were her cheeks, not her whole face.
"Anyway, I gotta go," she said when they reached the cafeteria. "I'm kind of a tutor, and I have a session this morning."
"Odd could use a tutor," Ulrich commented absent mindedly.
"I could tutor him..."
"No, no! That won't be necessary- um- you'll take away Jeremie's fun!" Ulrich was afraid that Odd would pull one of his 'I'm cute. Date me' 's on Amber. It wasn't until he was in the line that he realized he already had a girlfriend.
Whoops...
"Are one hundred percent sure?" Alan asked Audrey again.
"Ivy told me herself, this morning," she rep[lied stubbornly. "The group of kids we always hang out with are the new Lyokonian warriors. She hear it over the phone while you tried to tackle her."
"I did not try to tackle her!"
"It doesn't matter." She paused when she saw Ulrich talking to a girl with raven hair. She felt a little protective all of a sudden, especially when Ulrich started laughing. They entered the cafeteria and took their seats . Odd was already full, having eaten six plates already.
"Ivy, your eyes are changing colors again," he said, but Ivy didn't appear to care. Her eyes were red, but had hints of blue to them.
"Ivy, can we talk to you?" Audrey said. Ivy lifted her face from her arms, saw Alan and buried them again.
"Should I?" Alan whispered to Audrey.
"You should," Audrey nodded knowingly. Alan reached down, wrapped his arm around her stomach and carried the short girl away from the table, her kicking and screaming along the way, attracting attention from pretty much everyone in the lunch room.
"Stop kicking me!" Alan said.
"Put me down!" She replied. It wasn't until they were out of the lunchroom that he did, and he earned a slap on the cheek.
"Hey!"
"Don't you ever do that again!"
"Shut up!" They turned to Audrey. "As I was saying, before being so rudely interrupted-" She glared at Ivy. "-They know about Lyoko and I think it's best we tell them. All in favor?" They all raised their hands and walked back in, everyone staring at Ivy until she spoke up.
"You better get your eyes off me and on your food before Odd eats it!" Everyone of course turned accusingly at Odd, who shrugged his shoulders and licked his lips, although he was already full. They laughed and started to eat while Audrey, Ivy, and Alan sat down.
"Everyone, this Alan," Audrey gestured to him. "He's an old friend." Odd looked at Alan's orange eyes. Was there a connection?
"My dad had orange eyes, too," he said softly.
"Oh," Odd replied. Ulrich was silent as he left the table.
"Ulrich, where're you going?" Audrey asked. When he didn't reply, she got up and followed him out. "Ulrich!" It wasn't outside until Ulrich stopped.
"Huh? What?" He looked a little distracted.
"Uh- where art thou going to?"
"I-I forgot." Then his cell phone beeped, and he looked at the text message on it. "Shoot. Amber- I mean Audrey- I gotta go."
"Amber, huh?" Audrey's eyes were light blue.
"I meant to say Audrey but I accidentally said Amber- that's my sister's name," Ulrich lied. Audrey's eyes were still light blue. "What's wrong with your eyes?" She shrugged.
"Can't tell yet. I'll mention it once we're at the factory."
"What?!" But she'd lifted her cell phone to her ear, and was now contacting someone. Moments later Ivy and Alan raced out of the cafeteria.
"To the factory!" Ivy declared, and they went running toward the woods. Ulrich was now thoroughly confused and he followed them, telling Jeremie what he'd just seen. They reached the hole and grabbed skateboards.
"I was wondering when we'd get around to telling you," Audrey said happily.
"Uh- telling me what exactly?" Ulrich replied, jumping over a small stream.
"About Lyoko,' Alan replied.
"We've been Lyokonian warriors since birth," Ivy explained. "Once we deactivate the tower, we'll explain everything. They entered the elevator and headed up to the supercomputer.
"What are you doing?" Jeremie cried as Ivy leaned over his shoulder and started pressing keys.
"Please! You shouldn't be in the chair if you couldn't find three hidden cards!" Ivy replied, hurriedly adding three cards to the card folder. They left the room and Audrey, Alan, and Ulrich entered the scanners.
"Aren't you coming?" Alan offered her his scanner.
"No, I can take care of myself," she said coldly. But as the scanner doors closed, just when it was too late to stop the virtualization process, a polymorphic spectar of Ivy attacked the real Ivy, and she fell to the floor, kicking and attacking it.
"Transfer Ulrich. Transfer Audrey. Transfer Alan. Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Audrey. Scanner Alan. Virtualization." They were virtualized, and Ulrich turned to check out Alan's and Audrey's Lyoko outfits.
Audrey had red cat ears and her regular red streaks. She had on a pair of baggy red pants and a red halter top with the imprint of a cat's head on it in black. A long red tail with black stripes on it poked out of her back, along with red wings outlined in black. Her necklace remained the same, but she had three fake claw marks on either cheek in red.
Alan was different. He had the same claw marks, except in orange, and an orange pair of long shorts. He had on no shirt, but his fingers were accented with orange claws. An orange tail with black stripes stuck out his bottom, but he had no wings.
"Hold on a second, Ivy's on her way." Moments later, Ivy dropped on all fours to the ground of the mountain sector.
She was wearing the same outfit as Audrey only in blue, except the cat on the front of her shirt was white and she had blue wings with white edges and that her tail had white stripes. Two blue cat ears stuck off the top of her head.
"Stupid spectar," she mumbled.
"C'mon!" Ulrich helped her stand, earning a look of distrust from Alan.
"Gimme a minute!"
"Gimme, Gimme, never gets," Audrey said sternly. Ivy stuck out her tongue and grabbed her necklace. The others did this as well. They were each surrounded by a light, for Audrey it was red, for Alan it was orange, and for Ivy it was blue. When the light dissipated, they had each turned into cats.
"Whoa!" Ulrich commented. Audrey hissed at a nearby William that Yumi was fighting so hard to get away from Aelita. Aelita's path to the tower was blocked by three blocks and four megatanks.
"Energy beam!" She then noticed the cats. "What the-!" But Audrey raced passed her and jumped at the charging megatank. Leaving three claw marks on it's eye, she jumped away. It exploded seconds later, but neither could get back in time. It took away the rest of Aelita's life points, and she devertualized.
"No!" Jeremie yelled.
"Hold your horses! You think Aelita is the only one who can deactivate the tower?!" Audrey meowed.
"I don't get any of this!" Jeremie replied.
"You will," Alan rolled his orange cat eyes. Ivy dove at William and landed easily on his neck. Using her cat instincts, she bit into William's neck, and he cried out and tried to pry her off of him. However, she held tight and Ulrich went to help the rest. She dug her claws and twisted her teeth around.
"William's almost out of life points!" Jeremie said. Ivy used her claws and cut open his virtual chest, then bit into his neck and clawed at his face. He devertualized around her and she landed easily on her feet.
"That was easy!" She mewed as she ran to help everyone out. As soon as the last megatank was gone, Ivy and Audrey charged into the tower together, and- much to everyone's surprise- it let them both in.
"It's been a while since I've done this," Ivy said as they floated to the top of the tower.
"Not really, and at least Alan didn't follow us," Audrey replied.
"Yeah."
"I think he knows you need space, but why don't you listen to his side of the story?"
"He kissed her and that's that."
"What if she kissed him?" Audrey replied as they landed softly on the upper platform. They padded to the transparent touch-sensitive screen.
"I might think about it."
"Give it a thought." Ivy balanced on her haunches and placed her paw on the screen.
Name:
IVY
Code:
LYOKO
"Tower: deactivated."
"Materialization." They walked over to the elevator and went into the computer room. Everyone was waiting for them already, their arms crossed.
"Well?" Aelita said after a while.
"I think we've got some explaining to do," Audrey replied.
"I wanna tell it!" Audrey jumped up and down like a three year old.
"Okaaaaay," Alan said.
Audrey cleared her throat, "Ahem. We begin this story on a regular day thirteen years ago." She paced with her hands behind her back as though she was troubled. "Our mother and father- Xera and Xavier- morphed into one. What we now know only as XANA. This was the day they created the two of us, me and Alan. So Alan's technically my brother."
"But what about Ivy?" Jeremie interrupted. You did NOT think I was going to make Ivy and Alan brother and sister, did you? Cuz that would be soooo wrong!
"Shut up and let her finish her story!" Alan said.
"As I was saying! There was a file on the computer, seeing as Franz Hopper created Lyoko. He happened to create XERA and XAVIER also, and they were both too weak without each other to do anything. However, once Franz left the computer unattended during the time his daughter, Aelita, had pneumonia, they morphed together somehow and called themselves XANA. They found one Franz's old files for a program that had the power to destroy them and their evil intentions. But before she was half finished, XANA stole the files and now she's just like us. Ivy.
"On a stormy day a little less than a year before you guys came in, Ivy managed to materialize us. We fought XANA in hiding until I'd say about a week before you guys came in, which happens to be when we were discovered and adopted in the US.
"It was about a month ago that- um- Ivy found her boyfriend, Alan, kissing another girl on his birthday, so she became heartbroken and just after that our adoptive parents- who happen to be sisters- sent us here to Kadic Academy, and that's pretty much the story."
Everyone was quiet for a few seconds before Jeremie spoke.
"How did you manage to materialize everyone on your own?"
"I wasn't on my own. See, when Franz Hopper, technically my father-" Ivy's words gave Aelita a stunned look. "-was creating me, he planned to help Audrey and Alan escape. So when he was halfway done, he had already given me a materialization code and two others for Audrey and Alan." She paused and smiled at Aelita. "Anyway, it doesn't mean we're blood sisters, just technically we have the same father, and I call XANA father anyhow, so as not to confuse you guys." Jeremie looked down at his watch.
"Uh- we are so late."
Wasn't expecting that now, were you? Didn't think so. Nyeh nyeh nyeh. Mwahahahahahahahaha. Now that I'm done laughing evilly, this chapter is exactly six pages- not including the author's note! Wahoo! Go me! Now go you! And REVIEW!
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