Starlight
Hello! I would like to thank Burraku's Shadow for being such a loyal reviewer!
Claim: My OCs and the story plot.
Disclaim: I don't own CL.
+Jealousy+
"I wonder what I'm going to sing in the talent show," Audrey commented, flipping over off the bed.
Ivy took one look at the window before covering her head from the dawn light, "There's frost on the window. Time for bed."
"Get up!" Audrey threw a down pillow that hit her square in the face.
"Ow!" Ivy shot the pillow back at her without looking. It bounced off her stomach.
"Do I have to get Alan in here?" Ivy jumped straight up and ran to her closet, searching for her regular outfit.
"Oh, no need for that!" She tossed her outfit on the bed. "No need at all!"
Audrey paused, "When are we going to tell them that... other little... tidbit?"
"Oh, that," Ivy bit her lip and pulled her shirt over her head. "I don't know. Do you think we should?"
"Well, yeah, it's kind of important."
"I'll tell Jeremie," Ivy exited the room after pulling up her skirt and running a brush through her hair. She grabbed her toothbrush and toothpaste on the way out.
Audrey got dressed also, then brushed her hair and teeth. After that she headed down to breakfast to find Odd on his sixth plate of pancakes. Audrey took a tray for herself and took her usual helping of two pancakes and an orange.
"You gonna eat that?" Odd asked.
"Yes." Audrey gave her daily answer. Ulrich and Yumi sat down at the table.
"Hey," Ulrich smiled. She didn't look at him.
"Hi, Alan," she said to the orange-clad boy as he sat down. He frowned, but couldn't say anything because Aelita, Jeremie, and Ivy sat down.
"Hey Princess, Einstein, and Ivory," Odd was obviously in an obnoxious mood as he smiled smugly. She kicked him under the table.
"Ivy," she stated.
"You guys, we have good news and bad news," Jeremie finally said, closing his laptop.
"About William?" Yumi asked hopefully.
"Yes... and XANA, too," Aelita said slowly.
"William can be released with a simple password, and our friend Ivy here knows it," he gestured to Ivy.
"Finally!" Yumi rejoiced, giving Audrey a hug that left her face bright red.
"Air... air...!" Audrey replied.
"There's also a password that is required to get Franz Hopper back, so we can shut down XANA." Everyone gasped with hope. "Problem is, they don't know it." A disappointed sigh rose in the throats of the Lyokonian Warriors.
"So, when can we free William?" Yumi asked, trying to get the mood back.
A beeping from Jeremie's laptop rose throughout the lunch room. "Right now," Jeremie said. "After we deactivate the tower."
They exited the lunch room as the bell rang to go to class.
"Beautiful, just freaking beautiful," Ivy mumbled. She jumped down the man hole and landed awkwardly on her feet.
"Forgot the ladder, Ivy?" Alan asked. She shrugged and grabbed her skateboard.
They stopped at the supercomputer room for the sole purpose of dropping off Jeremie. Aelita, Odd, and Ulrich stepped in first.
"Transfer Aelita. Transfer Odd. Transfer Ulrich. Scanner Aelita. Scanner Odd. Scanner Ulrich. Virtualization!"
Yumi, Audrey, and Ivy stepped in next.
"Transfer Yumi. Transfer Audrey. Transfer Ivy. Scanner Yumi. Scanner Audrey. Scanner Ivy. Virtualization!"
"Where am I going, Jeremie?" Alan asked, stepping into the scanner.
"The Forest Sector." The doors closed. "Transfer Alan. Scanner Alan. Virtualization." Alan walked over to the rest of the group. Ivy and Audrey had already turned into cats, so he did the same.
"The tower is due northeast of you," Jeremie's voice rang out.
"And so are our little guests," Alan meowed. A Skipezoa, William, and four Kankrelats appeared.
William and Ulrich launched into a violent sword fight. Yumi was trying to pry William away from the edge, but in the heat of it, she was knocked back over the edge of the platform. Odd fired his laser arrows and managed to devertualize her before she tumbled to her death. Ivy, Alan, and Audrey destroyed the Kankrelats easily.
"Watch it! That Skipezoa's a little too close to- Aelita!" His tone changed from warning to worry as it lifted her into it's long tentacles.
"Mrow!" Audrey and Ivy attacked as one, scratching off it's tentacles only for Odd to catch Aelita. Alan joined in on the brutal one-sided cat fight. They bit into it's eye, they scratched away all of it's tentacles and leaving deadly claw marks across it's eye. They hopped away just as it exploded.
"Nice, Audrey," Ulrich smirked, continuing his sword fight with William.
"Whatever," Audrey murmured. She dove onto William's back, biting and scratching away at his life points. She was knocked off of him and devertualized.
"Uh oh," she mumbled, looking down at her paws. She'd forgotten to go human again.
"Audrey..." Ivy meowed, jumping William's neck. She bit down onto his neck, and Ulrich stroked him across the chest with his katana. He devertualized around Ivy, and she landed gracefully on her paws.
"Where to now?" Ulrich stopped when he saw himself devirtualizing.
"Block!" Alan meowed, jumping in front of Aelita. He hissed furiously, his neck fur on end.
"Laser arrow!" Odd cried, and arrow destroying the block. "Hey, Jeremie, you could've-" He was sent sprawling back by a Crab. "-warned us." He devertualized.
"Jeremie?" Ivy called. He didn't answer. Alan destroyed the remaining Crab and climbed up a tree, licking himself.
Two problems. Ivy thought. I'm not only left to protect Aelita with Alan, but Jeremie's gone and we don't know where the tower is.
Alan jumped from the tree and stood up.
"The tower's not far," he gestured with a flick of his tail. "Around that corner. We can get there quickly if we go big."
"Go big?" Aelita asked, confused. "What-" But she was interrupted when Ivy and Alan both sat down, and were surrounded by a light. For Alan, orange, for Ivy, blue. When it dissipated, they were still cats, except they were taller than Aelita. Their massive paws were the size of her head, their bodies twice as long as she was tall.
"Hop on." Ivy purred with amusement at the look of utter shock on Aelita's face.
"You didn't really think that turning into cats was our only special attack," Alan seemed to grin. "You should see Audrey! She's only half our size, but her claws our as long as my head!" Aelita climbed onto Ivy with difficulty. After that, they launched into a cat-like sprint and ran quickly around the corner. Ivy skidded to a stop and Aelita hopped off of her back.
Running inside the tower, she nearly tripped, but she floated to the top as usual. Walking to the center of the upper platform, she placed her hand on a transparent screen.
Name:
Aelita
Code:
LYOKO
"Tower deactivated."
They were materialized, and the threesome headed up to the top floor, only to find that Audrey was sitting on the ground, panting uncontrollably, and Ulrich was knocked out. Yumi was helping up Jeremie, who was trying to fix his glasses.
"What happened?" Aelita asked awkwardly at the strange sight.
"A couple Polymorphic Spectars, nothing too... big?" She said it like a question when she glanced at Ulrich's unconscious body.
"I find I am a very tough opponent." Audrey commented. They propped Ulrich against the wall and Ivy took Jeremie's chair. She opened a program and started entering keys rapidly. Only Jeremie and Aelita seemed to understand the text.
"Hey, Yumi," Ivy said, entering the password. "I think it's about time you go and greet your Prince William."
Yumi smiled with delight and left the room.
"Is he... back?" Odd asked. Ivy nodded.
"I better get that William clone out of there," Jeremie said, taking his chair back as the elevator opened.
"What's I miss?" William asked, his arms crossed behind his head.
"Hey," Audrey smiled jokingly. "The real you is even cuter than the clone!"
"Thanks," he winked. At this moment, Ulrich opened one eye. He growled and stood up.
"Welcome back William!"
"How'd you get me out of there?" So they told him the story so far.
"...and that's it."
"So it's thanks to you that I'm finally free?" He asked Ivy.
She shrugged, "Yup. Call me Ivy." She shook his hand. "This is Audrey and Alan." He nodded.
"I think I should get back to my first class in... two months?"
"That's about right," Ivy replied.
"Now, tell me about yourself, my rescuer!" William put a friendly arm around Ivy's shoulder, causing her to blush. However, unaware to either of them, Yumi and Alan were restraining themselves from wringing the two teens' necks.
+Shocked+
After school, Ivy and Audrey went on another spying spree. Ulrich ran into Amber at the Soccer field.
"Brownie Bear! Come and sit with me!"
"I'm not Brownie Bear!"
"Brownie Bear-!"
"I'm not-!"
"Ulrich, come sit with me!"
Ulrich kicked the ball over to the goal so the newfound wind wouldn't blow it away. He sat down next to her on the bleachers, unaware that a blue cat and a red cat were hiding behind them under the bleachers.
"Brownie Bear-"
"Ulrich!"
"Brownie Bear-!"
"Ulrich!"
"Ulrich, why do you have such a problem with my nick name?"
"Why are you so content on giving me a nickname?"
"Because I give all my ex-boyfriends a nickname."
"We were never dating!"
"Then why did you kiss me?"
"I did not kiss you! You kissed me!"
"But you never pull away quickly enough."
"That's- that's because-" Ulrich was at a loss for words, thanks to her perfection.
"Because you can't choose?"
"I don't like you!" Ulrich lied.
"Are you really so sure?"
"Yes!"
"Why are you dating Audrey, anyway!?"
Ulrich hesitated. "Promise not to tell?"
"Promise."
Ulrich took a deep breath, "See, there was this girl I like, her name's Yumi. Problem was, she liked a guy named William, and my friend, Odd, said that if I could get another girl to go out with me, I'd be able to get her to date me, so I took his advice." He paused, and in this pause, Audrey ran towards the dorm.
"What I didn't expect, was that now I actually do like Audrey... really, to be honest, I think I love her."
A hiss sounded behind them, and Amber turned around. She picked Ivy up, not recognizing who it was. Ulrich, on the other hand...
"Ivy!" He looked shocked.
"This you're cat?"
"Um- no- yes- kind of- maybe- define 'mine'-"
"It's yours." She scratched Ivy behind the ears, and the blue she-cat let out a disgusted hiss and a warning growl. "My cat ran away."
"Or maybe I stole him!" The she-cat replied.
"Whoa- a talking cat!?"
"Whoa- a talking bitch!?" Ivy mimicked. She swiped at Amber's and left three claw marks across the surprised girl's face.
"Ivy!" Ulrich grabbed her off of Amber. He meant to put her down gently, but before he could, her blue fur slipped from his grasp and hit the ground head-first. "What was that?" But the blue-pelted she cat did not answer. She lay with her eyes closed... she did not move at all.
+Rage+
Audrey was human again, staring at the dead flowers that she had meant to take out of the window the day she'd been knocked down the stairs. Looking up, she could see the soccer field... and watched as Ulrich slammed Ivy head first into the ground.
"You fucking asshole fagget whore-" Audrey screamed as she ran down the stairs and across the courtyard. She reached Ivy's side panting, and knelt to her knees. Ulrich stood over her, a look of pure horror pasted on his face.
Audrey's hand brushed the cat necklace, and Ivy accidentally turned back into a human again, bleeding head and all. She wasn't moving, but she breathed deep, shallow breaths.
"Audrey- I- I- I-!" But he had no words for the sorrow he felt.
"Did that cat just turn into a human?" Amber asked.
"Get your fucking ass out of here before I beat the shit out of you!" Audrey yelled. Ulrich took her arm to restrain her as Amber turned and ran, but he was rewarded with a knee... where it hurts, we'll say. She pushed him to the ground and he fell back.
"I didn't mean to, Audrey! I didn't mean to!"
"Yeah, just like you didn't mean to fall for me!"
"Audrey!" But she had turned away and was on her cell phone, trying to get someone to come and help her take Ivy to the infirmary. Moments later, Alan came. He looked at Ulrich angrily. He didn't smile.
End chapter. It was a little longer than most and Ulrich was slightly OOC, but you'll live. And believe it or not, Audrey does cuss a lot in real life. Review!