Code: STAR
Yes, updating! PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And if u read Warriors, please read my Warriors stories! BTW, this chapter may be a little longer than usual. Note: this was before Distant Memory.
Disclaim: I don't own CL.
Claim: I do own Star, Hailie, Pressure Points and all their songs, the Firebirds and all their names, the Sky Sector, and all my original works.
"Whoa..." Odd mumbled.
"What do you think?" Hailie grinned. Her fluffy white tail flicked happily from side to side.
"Awesome!" Odd replied. The figure stood up. It began walking toward them; it smiled shyly and stopped in front of them.
It was a she. She had long, golden blond hair that reached her mid-back; it was pin-straight and had streaks of white in it. Her outfit consisted of gray and blue. She was barefoot, but wore gray leg warmers and a pair of gray cargo shorts. Her shirt was a gray short-sleeved midriff-top that had a bright blue star on the front, which matched her blue eyes.
"Star!" Hailie jumped on the girl, nearly knocking her over though she was three inches taller and weighed a bit more.
"Hey, Hailie, haven't seen you for a while," the girl, called Star, commented.
"True. I couldn't come yet; my adopted parents wouldn't let me go to Kadic first off. They sent me to some other academy and I got myself expelled."
"I see," Star paused. "Well, your the same age as me now."
"Yahoo," Hailie replied bluntly. "You're still taller than me."
"Get over it," she replied, rolling her eyes.
"Hello! We're still here!" Ulrich waved his arms above his head for emphasis.
"Sorry, guys," Hailie looked up at the digital sky, which wasn't blocked by the clouds of the Sky Sector from where they stood. "Jeremie, can you do us a favor?"
"What- what kind of favor?" Jeremie replied wearily. It must have been a lot for him to take in; a four letter password had changed Lyoko so much...
"Would you mind materializing the Firebirds along with us?"
"Huh? Firebirds?"
"Those weird-looking balls of flame that fell out of the Sky Sector before I did," Star replied.
"Uh, sure...?" A moment later, the Firebirds began disappearing three at a time. When the last Firebird was gone, Aelita, Ulrich, and Yumi went. Star, Odd, and Hailie were last.
"What's going on?" Yumi asked softly, looking around the chamber at the fifteen birds of flame.
"We'll explain in a moment," Star answered promptly. "First we must get to the computer room.
Star wore her hair freely; her shoes were gray with blue stripes. Her jeans were faded, and her t-shirt was gray and had a picture of an indian girl on it. She was sitting criss-cross with her hands in her lap. The girl was sitting in a desert, and the clear reflection of Dawn shown behind her. Beneath it, it said: "May the dawn of each new day, light your path and guide your way." She was about the same height as Ulrich.
"Explanation?" Jeremie said as soon as the Firebirds were settled and everyone had a seat on the floor. (Actually, Star and Hailie were standing and he sat in the supercomputer chair.)
"Revelation," Star corrected. "First, names. I'm Star. You are Jeremie, Ulrich, Odd, Yumi, and... Aelita." Her eyes shined when she glanced Aelita.
"Okay, now we must explain," Hailie said. "First off, this is my cousin."
"My father, Franz Hopper-" Star began.
"What? That can't be! He's my father!" Aelita replied.
Star's eyes flashed. "Step-father. You're mother... she was your mother, not mine. But Franz was my father, as idiotic and power-hungry as he was." She paused. Everyone was taken aback by the way Star was referring toward Hopper, and Aelita looked ready to faint. "Your mother is not my mother. My mother died in a car accident, and Franz Hopper married your mother, because your father died.
"I built Lyoko-"
"But- but Franz Hopper did!" Jeremie cried.
"No he didn't! Enough with the interruptions! As I was saying, I built Lyoko with five sectors: the Ice Sector, the Desert Sector, the Mountain Sector, the Forest Sector, and the Mirror Sector."
Everyone was more confused then ever.
"But Hopper... he was nothing more than a power-hungry fool. The government wanted him because he created XANADU. Idiot! But I knew I'd get in trouble too. So I had to disappear.
"Hailie was 10, Aelita was 9, and I was- as I am now- 13. I knew Hailie would understand better, so I let her help me. I toldher the code, and I built the Sky Sector. I then kept it hidden from everyone, especially Hopper. I entered the Sky Sector, and sealed it behind me with a code, to be opened by Hailie in 24 years.
"But I didn't realize Hailie had followed me in there, miserable as she would be without her favorite cousin. So when I sealed it in, Hailie- the only one that knew the code other than Aelita, was in there with me. We were trapped; Aelita only knew that STAR was the code to something important, she didn't know to exactly what.
"But then later Hopper got a plan. He put Aelita on Lyoko and attempted to virtualize himself with her to escape the governement. There, at the time, were four scanners, so he put himself in the one that was broken. I should know- I built them. Aelita was materialized, but Hopper couldn't read any of my work; it was all encrypted. So eh thought he'd lost not only XANADU, but Aelita too. He went into hiding, but the government officials found him.
"I looked it up on the internet shortly before I built the Firebirds. Hopper is alive and remains imprisoned in America. But, let's go back to how Hailie was released.
"Aelita remained alone on Lyoko for the next 21 years. She spent nearly all that time in towers, trying to hide from the monsters that roamed freely, even though XANADU wasn't awake yet. One day, she stumbled across the window that required a code; she tried everything, until she remember me saying something about my name. So she opened it, but I couldn't get out of the Sky Sector for another three years, so Hailie exited alone.
"After that, Hailie erased Aelita's memories of this happening so that Aelita wouldn't try to help me get out and get trapped in there herself. She left Lyoko, and I also behind, and followed my careful instructions.
"She spent a while roaming the streets of Paris until she was finally sent to America to be in Foster Care. But her first family, two boys, a girl, and parents, all died in a house fire that only she made it out of. She spent a while bouncing around in the Foster Care system until she was sent to an academy about an hour away from Kadic because nobody wanted her anymore."
"That... was a long and confusing story," Ulrich commented.
"Franz Hopper... isn't my father?" Aelita's voice was soft.
"He's your step-father, and my father. But it didn't matter. You were always my sister and Hailie here was always my cousin," Star replied.
"But what are they for?" Jeremie pointed to the Firebirds.
"Those are Gaurdians," Hailie replied. "There's fifteen of them because there's fifteen Lyoko warriors."
"Fifteen?" Ulrich jumped slightly. "Funny... I always thought we were alone with this whole Lyoko thing."
"You never were," Hailie answered. "I remained in contast with Star over the three years after that. Each time I shared Lyoko with another girl around the US, they said they'd help and I told Star. Star would make them a Firebird. See, every person who's in the Lyoko group is a Gaurdian of Lyoko, but even Gaurdians need Gaurdians." She paused. "So when I give the command, these guys are going to fly off to their stations and tell the other girls its time. They're going to get their parents to enroll them in Kadic, the you get to meet them ansd we can finally have enough people to rescue Hopper from that jail cell and defeat XANA."
"Now, time to meet your Gaurdians," Star announced. She clicked her tongue; a gray Firebird with black eyes flapped its wings and stood next to Yumi. Now that it was out of Lyoko, it just had feathers that were gray. (When it was on Lyoko, it's feathers were gray fire, but that's not possible in the real world.)
"Pretty," Yumi commented, patting the bird, which was as tall as her, on its soft side.
"This is Storm," Hailie introduced.
"Ulrich, this is Lightning," Ulrich's bird was brown with black eyes, and it was also his height.
"Odd, meet Misty," Odd's bird was Ulrich's height; it was purple with black eyes.
"Aelita," Star smiled. A pink bird with black eyes (which was Ulrich's height too) rested it's head on Aelita's shoulder. "This is Isis."
Two other birds stepped forward. One was light blue with black eyes, the other was dark blue with black eyes. "This is Rain," Star said happily as Rain- the light blue bird- rester her head in Star's hand.
"And meet Sky," Hailie added, patting her dark blue Gaurdian.
"What about those others?" Jeremie asked.
"Those- except for the black one- belong to the other Lyokonian warriors." Star replied. "The black one's name is Crow. Crow belongs to Hopper."
Silence filled the room.
"Well, now that you guys know everything, I think we need to send off all the other Gaurdians," Hailie smiled. "Crow stays here. If we tell her to leave, she'll go to Hopper and then there'll be trouble."
Star clicked her tongue, and the Gaurdians, minus Crow, flew toward the elvator. When they'd all filed in, a yellow one with beady black eyes pressed the button. They were off.
"It's only a matter of time," Hailie smiled. "When the birds return, so will the other Gaurdians."
Liked it? Hated it? Oh, and should it be UlrichXStar?
Poll:
A:
All Gaurdians return in next chapter.
B:
Two Gaurdians return in next chapter.
C:
No Gaurdians return.
D:
Odd and Hailie fluffyness and bno Gaurdians return.
E:
OddXHailie fluffyness and two Gaurdians return.