I still don't own Code Lyoko, if I did season 4 would've been released by now!

Epilogue

Morwen's POV

Ankoku had missed all his classes for the day including his meals. When Jim and Principal Delmas realized that no one had seen him since the night before they went to check on him and found him dead in his bed. The coroner stated that the cause of death had been a heart attack. There had been a memorial ceremony that the whole school attended. None of us wanted to go, but felt obligated to go, since in reality it was our fault he was dead.

It also took us awhile for us to remember why Ulrich hadn't come to Lyoko right away. Jeremie started running scans and found that XANA had sent a polymorph to distract us. Unfortunately for us with my senses not working correctly we were unable to notice the difference between Yumi and the polymorph. Thankfully the RTTP trip erased the rest of the school's memories of "Yumi" kissing William. And since there was no other Yumis running around we could only suppose that when Aelita had deactivated the tower it destroyed the polymorphic clone. The best guess that Jeremie and Aelita could make was that the polymorph was the original attack on us, and Ankoku saw an opportunity to take us out and acted before he was given his orders to attack. XANA attempted to use a polymorph again a couple of months later, but the lack of emotion that it contained tipped me off right away that it wasn't Ulrich. Since then XANA hasn't used clones any more and concentrated his attacks on just trying to take us out or gain more power.

It took months for all of us to recover from that day. Even now Yumi still suffers from the occasional nightmare. For weeks after Ankoku's death she'd wake up screaming; the first two times she was at home, and her fear woke me up at Kadic. The third night she started sneaking over to the school and sleeping in Ulrich's room during the week it was a secret that she stayed there, during the weekend and some lesser holidays her family (and the school) thought she was in Aelita and my room. Though really most of the time our room was completely empty of people. Aelita had started spending the night in Jeremie's room or for a while in the factory while Jeremie worked, and I was in Odd's bed. We continued to use the room for our girl talks which happened at least once a week.

On the nights that we girls spent locked away in our room laughing and eating ice-cream and chocolate the boys had their own night. They did pretty much the same thing that did.

It was several months after Ankoku's death that we lost William next. He was lost to the Scyphozoa when we were unable to give him all the information to stay away from it. Jeremie blamed himself for that one for a long time, until Ulrich pointed out that he did instruct William to stay away from it, and none of us had ever not done what Jeremie told us to do when we didn't have all the information. After that the school had a large inquiry as to why one student had died and one had gone missing. When no one could find that the school had done anything wrong it was allowed to continue with things being much the same as they had in the past.

It was a little over a year after that Jeremie and Aelita were able to locate and free Franz Hopper from his digital prison. It hadn't been easy and XANA had put up one heck of a fight to keep him there. After that we helped Franz fix up the Hermitage so that he'd have a place to stay and be close to Aelita who was eager to reconnect with her lost past. For the first week or so she spent almost every waking moment (when she wasn't in class) with her father. Even though we were all happy for "our little princess" we were also afraid that we were going to lose her to the rest of the world. We should've known better; after that week of not seeing her she came bursting into Ulrich's room with several large pizzas, a plastic bag filled with snacks, two 2-liters of soft drinks, and a movie. We stayed up all night catching up and watching the movie that she brought and several that Odd had made. We guessed that we feel asleep sometime around 7am that day. That wasn't the first or the last time the whole group had slept in the room, but it was probably the most memorable. Shortly after 8am Jim walked in and found all of us sound asleep on the mattresses we'd pushed onto the floor, snuggled together. Thankfully Kiwee knew when to hide and was safely under the blanket when Jim yelled and scared the heck out of us. Our shrikes blocking out the sound of his barking. The two weeks of detention we received for that one had been well worth it.

It was another year before the combined intelligence of Franz, Jeremie, and Aelita we were able to totally delete XANA and free Lyoko. It was no longer a dangerous place, but a place that was full of possibilities. They kept some of the monsters there to keep things interesting, but we no longer had to worry about deactivating towers before the world was destroyed. And although we didn't use it as much as we had in the past (we had no need to) the RTTP was a lifesaver periodically. We weren't allowed to use it for little things like quizzes or exams, but it did help out with some of the larger work that Jeremie and Aelita moved onto, and on one rare occasion helped Odd and Ulrich get to keep Kiwee.

Things had changed through high school, we had our share of fights, but nothing ever seemed to stand up to how close we'd grown. Others had tried to become part of our group, and we had plenty of friends outside of the six of us, but none of them were ever able to be fully accepted into the group. We had too much of a bond together to much history that others wouldn't understand. We also never told anyone, our parents had no clue that their children were heroes. But since we no longer had to worry about XANA attacking we were free to have lives outside of Lyoko. Aelita had become extremely active in her music and was really good at it too. She was the DJ for almost all of the school's events. Jeremie had started to get more sleep and was doing even better in his classes than even he could hope. His parents had tried to get him to go to another special school but this time he blatantly refused, stating that unless all of us could go with him, he wasn't going. Ulrich and Yumi had started a martial arts club and were a formidable team when it came to doubles. When watching them you'd almost swear that they were reading each other's minds. Ulrich also had more time to spend on both his school work and on soccer. Since he'd started practicing more, no one had been able to stop the Kadic soccer team. Yumi had taken a year off of school so that she would be starting college at the same time we did. She worked at the school as a tutor and helped Jim out during his PE classes. Odd had become a little more serious over the years but still maintained that life should be fun and did his best to keep it that way. It was my job to anchor him to the ground, and keep him out of trouble as much as possible, though there were a few plans of his that were too much fun not to get involved with. Odd had also seriously started working on both his art and his videos and had won some film festivals.

Summers were probably one of the best times. We got away from school, but not from each other. The group hardly ever went a day apart from each other, and amazingly we had few fights from all the time spent together. Our fights were more over whose turn it was to pick the video. We traveled from one house to the other during the summer, including Odd's, which was an amazement to his parents when we all walked into the house, me totally attached to his arm (I was using him to continue to stand up right from a combined joke from Ulrich and Odd), Aelita bouncing from foot to foot, wanting to see the rest of his house, Yumi playfully swatting both Ulrich and Odd, and Jeremie just shaking his head while declaring that we were all insane. They honestly didn't except Odd to be as well loved as he was.

"What do you think?" Aelita asked breaking me from my reminiscing. She had just finished working on my now waist length hair. She'd pulled back into a half pony tail and had curled the hair in the pony tail and the two free strands that were around my face.

"It looks good, Ae. Thank you." I exclaimed standing up and giving her a hug.

"You're welcome. How much longer until the others get here?" She asked as she put on her graduation robe.

"Open the door, they'll be there in a second," I instructed as I pulled on my matching gown.

"Hey, Princess, looking good!" Odd exclaimed walking in the now open door. "And you-" Odd said walking up to me and pulling me close. "You look, wow."

I laughed and gave him a quick hug. "Thanks, you look good too," I responded as I straightened his tie. I felt Ulrich's nervousness. "What's got you so nervous?" I asked him right before I noticed Odd's nervousness. "And you too! We've just got to walk across the stage; it's these two" I pointed at Jeremie and Aelita "that are giving speeches. And they're-well ok, Aelita's the only one that doesn't feel like she's going to freak out! What's going on?" I asked rounding on Odd.

"Nothing," he said, his nervousness growing. I raised an eye at him and leaned forward and kissing him soundly.

"What's going on?" I asked again before kissing him again softly.

"Nothing," he replied breathlessly.

I smirked softly before backing him into the wall and kissing him soundly again.

"What are you planning?" I asked softly.

"I'll tell you later," he whispered back.

I leaned in to kiss him again but was interrupted by Yumi. "If you're done with Odd you guys are going to miss your own graduation."

I sighed and backed away from Odd. "Ok, let's get going."

"Hey, Wren, do you maybe want to find out what I'm getting you for your birthday?" Odd asked trailing after me.

Even though Aelita and Jeremie tried to keep their speeches short, the ceremony was incredibly long. The Noemi and Paul who were on either side of Odd had to keep poking him to keep him awake. Aelita and Jeremie also didn't have the option of a quick nap, seeing as co-valedictorians they were stuck on stage until their names were called. At least Ulrich and I had each other to keep each other awake. Yumi was sitting in the audience with our parents, probably wishing she could take a nap instead of listening to Principal Delmas talk about how we were all going on to bigger and better things. It wasn't like our group at least had anything to worry about. We'd banded together during high school we'd sure as heck get through college without too many issues. After we all walked across the stage (there was a lot of sobbing from the under-classmen when Ulrich's name was announced) we were finally released to our families.

Mom had Ulrich and I both in a death hug proclaiming how proud of us she was when Odd walked up looking even more nervous than he did before.

"Odd, honey!" Mom exclaimed releasing us and pulling him into a hug, which caused him to wince slightly. "I'm so proud of you too!"

"Thank you," Odd gasped as Mom released him. "Would it be alright if I pulled Morwen away for a minute?" He asked giving Ulrich a quick look.

"Of course!" Mom proclaimed bouncing slightly.

"Thanks," Odd stated again pulling me away from them as Ulrich sidled away, probably to go see Yumi, who was standing several feet away.

Once Odd had gotten us a fair distance away from my parents and out of the way of every one else he stopped and faced me.

"Wren, we've been through a lot together. Our group has done some incredible things and yeah." Odd paused and blinked a couple of times trying to get himself back on track. "Wren, I honestly don't know how to ask you this so, I'm just going to do it."

Odd pulled out a small velvet box and got down on one knee. "Morwen Jacqueline Stern, will you marry me?"

I nodded my head mutely. "Yes," I whispered softly, tears starting to stream down my face. "Yes."

Odd's face lit up and he pulled me into his arms and kissed me before slipping the ring on my finger. "I love you."

"Love you too," I responded.

"YES!" Yumi's voice carried over the crowed, causing almost every one to look over.

Yumi was leaping on Ulrich and Ulrich's face was a light with happiness, while Sissi stood on the sidelines looking crushed.

Odd and I laughed as I rested my head on his shoulder. "It looks like the only two left now are Jeremie and Aelita," Odd said nuzzling my hair.

I laughed again, and pointed past the crowed to our two favorite geniuses; one of which was down on one knee much like Odd had been a minute ago. "I wouldn't be so sure about that!"

El fin!

I have some short side stories in the works, that I couldn't really find a good place for within the story. Some of those will probably be up soon!