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Chapter 1: Strange Occurrences

Aelita woke and sat strait up in bed. She put her hand on her forehead not believing what had just happened. It was the first time since she had been materialized two years ago that she had slept in peace. No bad dreams, no visions, and no disturbances in her sleep what-so-ever.

Twenty minutes later, after going through her normal morning routine, Aelita entered the cafeteria for breakfast. She saw Sam sitting with her friends chatting casually. Odd was still drooling over her. Sam's father had received a big promotion and now her family could easily afford having her study at Kadic.

Sam had arrived at Kadic one week ago, along with Taelia, who transferred to Kadic after her old school shut down. While Samantha was very enthusiastic about joining the group, Taelia stayed away from them, clearly aloof.

Aelita spotted Taelia at the other side of the cafeteria, eating with a sulky and moody expression on her face, she obviously liked her old school better.

After loading her tray with nourishment, Aelita went and sat down with her friends. Ulrich and Yumi were talking about the latest Sub-digital's album while Jeremy and Odd spoke with Sam about Kadic.

"Good morning everyone," Aelita sung cheerfully.

"You sound like you're in a good mood," Jeremie replied, "How did you sleep."

"Absolutely fine," said Aelita, "No nightmares at all."

Yumi, who overheard this, raised an eyebrow, and commented "Really, that's a first."

The entire group, apart from Sam who knew nothing of Aelita's dreams, was surprised.

"Do you think it had to do with..." Odd stopped himself, remembering that Sam knew nothing of their war with Xana, or the supercomputer.

"Had to do with what," Sam asked curiously, "I know eating certain types of food before bed can cause bad dreams."

"It's nothing," replied Aelita, eager to cover Odd's blunder, "So what do think of Kadic Sam."

"It paradise compared to my old school," smiled Sam, "It's in a much better condition than my old school, no rats in the cafeteria, the food is all fresh, and the dorms are nice and cozy."

"My father does his best to keep the place nice," said a familiar high-pitched voice. The group turned around to see Sissi walking up to their table, William behind her. Sissi had become a good friend of the group ever since they shut off the supercomputer, she not only abandoned her rude attitude toward them but also did not try to get Ulrich go out with her anymore, she seemed satisfied just being his friend. In short Sissi had matured a lot in the last two weeks.

"I'd have to agree with Sam on the dorms as well" said William in light and happy tone, "Like Sam said 'nice and cozy.'" William had been extremely happy after he was freed from Xana, but he was still paranoid that he would be possessed again, even though the group knew Xana too be long gone.

And so the group, now eight in number, kept casually talking about Kadic and other topics that the students of Kadic usually had on their mind, while Taelia sulked in the corner of the lunch room.

Taelia thought of Kadic as a garbage dump compared to her old School, primarily because her old school was much fancier than Kadic, with each dorm approximately three times as large. Her old School was also entirely indoors so you didn't have to walk outside to go to lunch or any of your classes. The only good thing at Kadic, in Taelia's eyes was that she was still able to have her own room, although again, it was much smaller than the rooms at her old school.

Taelia was a brat, she was rude to other people, was never satisfied with what she had, and the only thing that ever did bring her a hint of satisfaction was pointing out what she hated about everybody else. She was not a stuck up like Sissi had once been but, thought herself more important than any other person at Kadic. She had dyed her hair pink in an attempt to make herself look cooler so others would give her more respect, but it didn't work, people at Kadic ignored her, and for obvious reasons too.

The Lyoko warriors and their friends finished breakfast and then went to their respective classes.

Jeremy, Odd, Ulrich, Aelita, Sissi, and Sam arrived at the Science building and took their seats among Mrs. Hertz's classroom.

"Before we start class," Mrs. Hertz said casually, "I would like you all to give a warm welcome to our newest student. Mr. Maverick James Hazard is your name is it not."

Jeremie turned around in his seat to see someone he had not noticed before, a boy of around his age and Ulrich's height. He had dark brown, almost black hair with blonde highlights, electric blue eyes, and an emotionless and unreadable expression on his face.

"You are correct Mrs. Hertz," said Maverick in a plain and polite tone, and continued with a simple greeting to all of the other classmates, none of whom seemed to take much interest in the new student.

"Welcome to Kadic," Jeremie said, greeting Maverick with a handshake, who responded with an emotionless "thank you."

Jeremie turned around, about to take out his science notebook when he noticed an expression of worry on Aelita's face.

"What's wrong" whispered Jeremie, very concerned at Aelita's expression.

"Nothing, I'm fine," Aelita snapped in a tone that told Jeremie that she was obviously worried about something.

"Alright," he muttered, taking out his science notebook and thinking that the new student had merely reminded Aelita of a painful memory.

Halfway through the class Aelita was still worrying about the new student. He looked so similar to a person she used to know.

Putting the thought aside, Aelita was about to turn the page of her notebook when she felt light but sharp pain in the front of her head, exactly where the human body stores its memory cells. Aelita instinctively turned around to see Maverick staring at her, his eyes blood red. A split second later, the pain in Aelita's head stopped. Maverick blinked and winced, as though he had been slapped. When he opened his eyes again they were their original electric blue and Maverick looked down at his notebook and continued taking notes as though nothing had happened. Aelita also turned around and did the same. Jeremie, saw all of this and did not mention it to Aelita, but made a mental note to find out who exactly this new student was.

Class ended and Aelita was putting her notebook away when she noticed Maverick doing another strange thing. He had one index finger on either side of his head and sat with his eyes tightly shut, as if he was trying to remember something important. A moment later he winced and then casually put his books back in his bag and strolled out of the classroom.

Ulrich, Sissi, Sam, and Odd had not noticed what had transpired.

As the group was walking out of the class room to math class Jeremie stopped Aelita.

"Aelita, there is definitely something weird about this Maverick, I wouldn't go near him, or speak to him until I can find some information about him," Jeremie said cautiously.

"Agreed," replied Aelita, "But don't tell the others about what happened unless they notice something strange about him as well."

Jeremie nodded and the two headed off toward their next class, Aelita walking a little behind him.

Just as they were about to exit the science building Aelita's cell phone buzzed in her pocket, and since it was on vibrate, Jeremie did not notice that it had rung. Aelita, still walking behind Jeremie, opened the phone to reveal one unread text message. Aelita opened it and looked for the number it had been sent from. She was surprised to find that there was no return number. It was as if the person who sent her the message had not used a phone. Aelita then looked at the message which said the following: If you ever want to see your mother or father again then do no panic, do not tell your friends about this message, do not send a return text, and be at the abandoned factory alone no later than an hour after classes end.

Aelita almost stopped dead in her tracks after reading this but knew that doing so would alert Jeremie that something was wrong so she kept walking with him and put her cell phone back in her pocket.

Aelita was now almost certain of who the new student at Kadic was. She obeyed the instructions given in the text and did not tell her friends about it, not even Jeremie. If there was even a slim hope of seeing her family again than she would not mess it up.

The ending of her bad dreams, the appearance of a new student who seemed very familiar to someone she once knew, and the text message now seemed to fit together and after making an excuse that she had something that she needed to do, Aelita was heading for the factory right after classes had ended.