Title: Code: Shuffled

Summary: AU, Several students at Kadic Academy have been having identical nightmares, are they linked in some way...and who is that mysterious young girl with the pink hair?

Disclaimer: Me? Own Code: Lyoko, I wish.

Note: Odd and Yumi are roommates with Ulrich living just off campus, Odd's female but apparently only answers to her nickname. POV only uses knowledge of the one it's attached to. Forget all you know of Code: Lyoko, it doesn't apply to this fic, hence the AU, it is an alternate universe, one of trillions, in this particular one the adjustments are many, Odd being female is only one. Yumi boarding at the school being another, Ulrich not boarding is yet another. I've seen most of the Code: Lyoko shows, no need to point out facts like gender, living situation, and character number. I'd appreciate you pointing out only personality flaws in my characters, thank you.

Chapter 1: The Nightmare

(Jeremie)

Jeremie woke with a start. The dream he just had was so vivid, there was no way it couldn't have been real.

Jeremie's Nightmare

He saw his friends, Ulrich, Yumi, and Odd, wearing strange clothes standing around a girl with pink hair, protecting her from a massive force of weird, mechanical monsters. The creatures had opened fire on them and they, for the most part blocked the shots however each one took a shot and then they pixilated and faded out, one by one, starting with Odd. With his friends gone he watched as the lovely young lady that his friends had protected was beared down upon by the monsters, as the girl ran past him he felt himself appear as the monsters all opened fire and shot a barrage of lasers into his body, he almost felt the pain that would have gone along with the hundreds of shots that hit his body. He collapsed as his vision blacked out.

End Nightmare

Jeremie shook his head harshly, the young lady that he saw in his vision was beautiful. He wished he could meet her in real life. He was in a small part of his mind confused as to why he had that dream, he knew them because the girls often came to him for help with their homework...and one of them was a grade above him. Jeremie closes his eyes again and grumbles to himself

"What the hell was that...I don't even know those guys very well...so why did I feel so worried in the dream?"

(Odd)

Odd, an ornery, blonde American girl with a splotch of purple hair she dyed that way above her forehead who was probably the only girl that could get along with her roommate, woke up and looked over at her roommate, watching as Kiwi, Odd's little pet dog, climb onto Yumi's bed and curl up on her stomach. Odd smirks, lays her head back, and quietly talks to herself.

"My roomie's in for a rude awakening this morning...I'm glad I took Kiwi out before I went to bed."

Her life would be so boring if it weren't for Yumi always getting into fights with the creeps that attended Kadic Academy. Odd lives for those skirmishes, she's always loved watching people fight and fighting herself. For all intents and purposes Odd was known as a jokester on campus although most people wouldn't dare attack her, Yumi, or Ulrich, considering they are often seen sparring with one another in the commons area after school, with Ulrich, Yumi, and herself keeping track of their own wins, of course.

Odd had found herself attracted to the shy guys in school, specifically a young computer genius she lovingly refers to as Einstein, a young boy who lived in the room right below the room she and Yumi share. In fact, often during the night she would sneak down to Jeremie's room only to get cold feet and walk away without talking to him.

Odd looked over at her alarm clock, which said 0530, an hour and thirty minutes before breakfast, but only half an hour before the morning wake up call. She decides to get up anyway and get ready for the day. She gets up and puts on her robe and slips her feet into a pair of shower shoes (sandals), gathering up her usual outfit, purple jeans and a jacket, also purple, and her pink undershirt that was cut so that you could see her midriff when she left her jacket open, as well as all of her other personal bathing supplies. She opened the door to her room carefully, watching for Jim, the dorm's live in hall monitor. Seeing that all is clear she sneaks her way down to the girl's shower room and begins taking her shower, well before the morning rush even starts. She'd gotten into the habit of doing this just so she didn't have to deal with the principal's daughter, Sissi.

Odd washes her hair first, reapplying the purple dye to the area on the center of her head, she quickly finishes washing the rest of her body and is drying off when the morning wake up call sounds, shattering the quiet peace that had settled over the dorm. Odd quickly dresses herself and heads back up to her room to wake her roommate, who had taken to wearing earplugs for some reason.

(Yumi)

Yumi wakes up feeling a weight on her stomach. She looks down at what it could possibly be and sees Kiwi, her roommate's pet dog. She quietly picks the little dog up and sits up, getting out of bed to put Kiwi back into his drawer/bed. Yumi stretches a little and takes note that Odd's not in their room, she sighs and begins to gather items for her bath, hoping to beat Sissi down to the showers. Odd opens the door and looks walks in, closing it behind her.

"You know, I was just about to wake you up. I trust you put Kiwi to bed. Sissi's already out in the halls, I 'persuaded' a couple of the girls to stall her for you." Odd says as she walks over and sits down on her bed, watching her roommate pick up one last thing before heading down to the shower room.

"Thanks, Odd. Makes my day to know I get to have at least some hot water this morning, by the way what were you doing when you snuck out last night, visiting Jeremie again?" Yumi asks, her lips pulling into a slight smirk. Odd sighs and lowers her head.

"I didn't even knock on his door." Yumi laughs and heads down to the shower room, almost running there.

(Ulrich)

Ulrich had been having nightmares for quite some time, but it had been recurring these past few nights, it worried him. He'd see himself in a weird outfit guarding a young lady with pink hair alongside his two female friends, Odd and Yumi, almost every night. He quickly shook off the feeling that he was missing something and got ready for school, his parents hadn't seen it necessary for him to be a boarder at the school when they only lived a couple blocks from the front gate.

Quickly getting ready for the day he grabbed a Pop-tart and ran out the door, hoping to get to school in time to talk to his friends before school began for the day.

Arriving at the front gates of Kadic Academy, Ulrich sees his two friends standing near their usual bench with another boy, one he recognized as the class brain, Jeremie. He ran up to the group and slid to a stop next to Yumi.

"What's going on?" Ulrich asks.

"We were talking about a strange dream that the three of us have been having lately." Odd replies.

"The one about that girl with the pink hair?" Ulrich asks, lowering his voice so as not to be overheard.

"Yes, that one...what if it's not a dream but a vision of what's to come, certainly not the way I want to die." Yumi shivers.

"No kidding. Classes start in five minutes. See you later Ulrich, we gotta go."

Ulrich watches as the girls and Jeremie all take off to their first period class, which the three of them have together. Ulrich sighs and takes off toward the soccer field for his Phys. Ed. class. Silently hoping that the girls don't get into detention today, it's been almost a week since they last sparred, and he was starting to miss it.

End Chapter 1