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“You wanted to see me sir?” Aelita said as she stepped into the principals office. “ Ah yes miss stones. Have a seat.”
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“ So what did the principal want?” Jeremy asked standing up as Aelita walked out. “ He says i'm getting a roommate today. Her names Aura.” Aelita said worriedly. “I hope she doesn’t notice my vanishing acts or find out about Lyoko.”
“Yhea it may be a problem hiding it from her. Especially when Xana attacks at night.” Jeremy said looking down.
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Chapter: 1 Arrival
Aura looked up at Seir walking into the room. He picked his nest out of the pile of unpacked but not put away stuff. Dragging it into a corner he began to rearrange the tissue and lint among the string until it suited him just right. He curled up and went to sleep as Aura put her stuff away on the shelves. A few books a white tiger plush toy and some beef jerky. She spread her rabbit skins on her bed as an extra blanket then stepped back to look at her work. Satisfied she walked over to the computer to check her mail online. “Seir, Hide the bed somewhere else okay. I can see it to easy. Pets aren’t allowed. That means hide.” Seir Glared at her a moment before putting his nest be hind a bookshelf. As she was turning on her computer game the door opened. Her roommate walked in. “Hello you must be Aura my new roommate.” Aelita said as she saw her on the computer. “Yhea you were Aelita right?” She asked not even glancing up from the screen. " By the way, No, I didn't look through your cloths OR put apple sace in them." Aelita looked alarmed and looked throuh her stuff. Just s Aura said. They weren't moved and applesauce free. Aelita scowled and looked over at the game Aura was playing. "What are you playing?” Aelita asked looking at the screen as The Giant kabuto was crunching down an evil smartie. “ It’s called Giants: citizen Kabuto” Aura replied as she proceeded to stomp on some rippers. “ It’s my favorite game to.” Seir peeked out from around the bookcase. ‘Dang Aura your new roommate wears a whole lot of pink.’ Seir thought glancing Aelita.

Seir Stepped out from behind the bookshelf and inched his way to the door. ‘okay, if I can make it outside to the tree line I can run into the park and find a second camp to stat in when there are visitors in the dorm.’ He thought as he turned the corner and bolted down the stairs. ‘Now if I do get caught aura cant get blamed for keeping me.’ He landed on the ground floor and scampered to the doorway.

Aura woke up at 5:30 like she did at her old school. She looked over at Aelita to see her still asleep. ‘Oh Yhea. They let you sleep till 6 here. Oh well.’ She thought putting her robe on and grabbing her cloths. She glanced at the clock. 5:45. She opened the door and stepped out to take an early shower before anyone else got there. She glanced down to see seir trotting next to her. ‘Morning.’ She thought to him.
‘Everyone’s still asleep.’ He thought confused.
‘You sleep in till 6 usually. So i'm going to take a shower before anyone wakes up.’
Aura walked into a shower and slipped off her robe, revealing a tail. It was a white tigers. She sniffed the air and let her second pair of ears up as her hair slid off the tiger ears. She turned on the hot water and mist rose around her to hide her extra limbs. As she shampooed her fur and hair, Seir stood guard peering under the crack in the door so nobody would learn Auras secret. She stepped out of the water clean and shiny. She clothed herself and stepped back into the hall as Seir rode her shoulder to the dorm.
‘Aura, your roommate was acting Kind of worried yesterday. She was talking to her friends about you in the park, and something about a super computer to. Do you think that’s what was causing cards laptop to go crazy lately?’ He thought to her as they walked to the doorway. Aura Pondered this possibility as her hand floated over the door knob. ‘I could see if I can find their scent in the park. If s I could try to find the computer if they’ve been there recently.’ She thought heading now for the exit. She Walked into the park as Seir told her where ha saw them. Reaching the path they took she pressed he nose down and crawled along on her tiger-ified paws. ‘Hey that’s weird their scent goes into the woods now. Dang I can’t track them through the animal scents. We’d have to follow on foot.’ She thought standing up. ‘Well while were out lets hunt then, catch some breakfast and get to school.’ She thought as she began to make her way to the rabbit warren and caught her breakfast. Aura was walking back from breakfast and to her first class when she saw he roommates group around. They were talking. She perked he ears as she listened, And seir lay still and silent to listen to. “ Aura was gone when I got up and I haven’t seen her all morning. I think it may be a Xana attack. If she doesn’t show up soon we should go to the factory to check it out.” Aelita said to her friends.
Aura made a mental file on that conversation, and slunk off to her room. She Got to the area the others would meet. Aelita saw her and walked over. “Where were you this morning, I woke up and you weren’t there.” Aura looked over at her bored. “ I was out.” She said bluntly. “I needed to catch my breakfast. And shower and run around.” She said turning to watch a bird in a nearby tree.
“Catch your breakfast?” Aelita asked raising an eyebrow.
“yep”
“as in stalking it and killing it and cooking it?”
“Yep. ‘Cept the cooking. No time.”
“ You ate it raw?”
“Yhea.”
“RAW!”
Yes
As in bleeding and red RAW!”
“Yes for the Fourth time.”
‘Eeeeewww...” She said with a disgusted face.
Aura got up as the bell rang. She reached to the nearby tree and a ferret climbed down her arm into her jacket sleeve and seemed to disappear. Aura walked to the track field for her first class.
“Wait hold on Aura! You aren’t going to bring that ferret to track are you?” Odd said running over to her. “It may get crushed or slip or something!”
Seir poked his head out from he collar of her jacket.
“ Chi-chak chak chichi cick!” He scolded odd.
“Now Seir he’s just another worried human used to stupid pets. He wouldn’t know.” She said stroking his head as he curled into her collar again. “ Weird little scrawny human.” Odd thought he heard. He looked around for the noise. Dismissing it as the wind he turned back to Aura. “So your still bringing him?” Odd asked. “Yes.” She replied rolling her eyes.
“Well okay but be careful.” Odd said with a slight shrug.
“No I think I’ll go out of my way to trip on everything and run into the ground. Of COURSE i'm going to be careful.” She said with a growl in her voice.
Track went smoothly and next class was science.
“Well if it isn’t the new kid!” Sissy said sitting down next to Aura. “just so you now I’m the principals daughter so you better be nice to ME or else!” She said with her usual high pitched whiny voice. Aura raised her head from her desk.
“Why would I be nice to you? If I got kicked out then I’d just get sent somewhere else again. And detention is a great thinking time to me. Besides if first impressions are anything to go your a snob with no brains and to much ego.” She said casually. “Besides, Its not like I going to be here long if all goes according to plan.” She finished laying her head
back on her paws. She closed her eyes as Sissy stood there fuming.
“Another thing your perfume smells awful. Sit somewhere else ‘Kay?” Sissy growled a it as she tried to think of a retort.” Oh Yhea, Well, Uh... um, You stink worse!” She said spraying Aura with the perfume. Aura choked and sneezed. “CUT THAT OUT!” She said glaring at sissy. Sissy Squirted another blast that hi aura in her left eye.
“GRRAAAUUUGGGGHHHH!!” Aura roared as the perfume’s stinging hit her eyes full blast. “GRAUGH!” She growled as she swiped at sissy knocked fumes made aura sneeze. As Mz. Hertz Rushed over to help Aura, Not thinking right through the pain, Swiped at Sissy again Scratching her face with her cat-like claws. Sissy screeched as the claws raked her flesh. Mz. Hertz calmed Aura down and rushed the two girls to the infirmary.

Chapter 2: suspicions

Aura sat up and pawed at the bandage on her eye. Seir hopped onto her pillow and barked at her softly. Aura stopped pawing her bandage and sniffed Seir. “Hey how DID you get away? I thought they would of found you when she crabbed my jacket scruff. When did you leave?” She asked turning her head to the ceiling. “Well when I saw the perfume get in your eyes I jumped down and hid under the table. Then when Mz. Hertz was distracted I bolted for the infirmary. Knew they’d send you here. And they also sent that other pup here to. She left though.” He said with a nod. “Your going to have to were that eye band for a few days though.”
“Great now i'm blind and have that scent suck in on my snout. How will I get around now?” She said growling in frustration.
“I could peek out and tell you where to go. It’s not to hard, and I like to glimpse around anyway. If I was caught I’m a seeing eye ferret!” He said with a chuckle. “ When you can see and smell again I would still know a way to the doors.”
“Well okay then but try not to steer me into a wall okay?”
“Il try. By the way where was your roommate talking about when she said the factory, and who’s Xana. He apparently must attack them for a lot to think he was the cause of your absence.” Seir said with curiosity. “Maybe we should trail them around. It may tell us something.” Just then the doorknob jiggled and Seir dashed down to hide under the bed. Nurse Dorothy walked in. “Aura are you feeling okay? Wait stop tugging on the bandages. Your eyes have to stay covered so they don’t get any worse. Now stop messing with them. I’ll give you a cane to get around with for now. You can take the bandages off in 2 weeks.” She said readjusting the strips over her eyes.
Aura Sighed. These would get annoying very fast. She was in for a rough time, she could tell. Nurse Dorothy scuffled through some stuff in the back room. She emerged and looked over at Aura. “Aura, it appears we don’t have a cane in the back here. Would you like to stay here till I gin get one?” Dorothy asked. Aura looked over to her. “No, I can get around fine probably.” She said getting off the cot. She walked out the door and Seir snuck out the window. Aura stopped in the next hallway and Seir soon caught up to her. He led her back to her room. She plopped on to her bed expecting some quiet time to think, but she was mistaken. A knock came at the door and she turned. “Come in!” She said as the door opened. Milly and Taimia stood in the doorway.
“Aura, would you mind if we interviewed you for the next news paper?” Milly asked as Taimia stood getting her camera ready. “Sure why not.” Aura said as she looked back at the ceiling. “Okay first question, how would you describe what happened to you this morning?” Milly asked in her newscaster voice. Aura looked at her through her bandaged eyes. “Well I sat down sissy started annoying me and I told her to go away because her perfume stank. She sprayed perfume at me and I told her to cut it out. She sprayed it in my eye and it stung so I scratched her face up. The teacher broke up the fight and sent us to the infirmary.” She said calmly as if she was just discussing a grade on a homework assignment. “Then I got up and came to my room.”
“Okay... What do you think will happen while you cant see? Do you think you’ll be ale to cope without sight?” Milly asked.
“Well I don’t think it will be a huge problem. I just need a way to write on the paper and not the desk.” Aura said with a small laugh. “Next question. What-“ Just then Aelita walked in. “Milly, Taimia, What’s going on?” Aelita asked looking down at them.
“We were just interviewing Aura or h school paper.” Taimia said.
“Well Aura needs her rest before dinner probably, So go out and let her rest.” Looking disappointed they left the room. They’d get the interview later. “Thanks Aelita, I’m tired. Can you wake me up at dinner time?” Aura asked pawing at her eye bands again.
“Sure. Aura stop that you’ll jar them loose.” Aelita responded putting her hand on Aura’s paw o stop her. Aura settled down and fell into a deep sleep.

“Card. CARD! You there? Card?” Aura called into a dark black void. A cloaked figure appeared. “What brings you here? Found anything?” He called to her. Aura turned to the source of the voice. “Not really but I have possible way. Send Skell with the dimensional hacking program. “I’m in dorm number 1410. My dorm mate mentioned words Xana and factor. It’s the biggest lead I have right now. I couldn’t find anything useful with these programs.” She said. She felt a tug behind her, and faded off. “Gotta go. Chat later.” She said as she woke up.
“Aura, are you okay? You were mumbling in your sleep. The cafeteria’s going to be open in a few minuets. Better get up.” Aelita said looking down at her. Aura struggled out of bed and brushed her fur. Not easy.. She had to find her small brush, and then guess where to brush. She stumbled to the cafeteria and got her food. It was barbequed hamburger. Aura ate it an thought how much better it would taste if it was fresh prey and not an old dead cow. She finished her meal and went out to enjoy the cool night air before bedtime. She felt her way to the roof of the science room and sat down on the rails. As she sat she let the breeze ruffled her 4 ears. Her tail streamed out behind her as she lifted her head to the full moon above her. ‘This stinks. Here I am a wild creature, trapped in a school blind until I can get cards computer to stop bugging up. Then he can get that chip out of my arm. They cant track us all forever. I will escape one day, Or I’ll die trying. If they prevent that I’ll thro a huge noisy destructive fit.’ She thought to herself as the wind whipped her hair back. ‘Well there’s always tomorrow.’ She thought as she looked up. She opened her mouth and began to sing a sad yet hopeful tune she had learned.
“Walking quietly through this place, Days gone by without a trace. Standing alone in the silent darkness, searching for a place to call my home. The world may e turning the sky may be burning but I wouldn’t know. ‘Cause I’m all aloooonnneee.”
She sped up for the course.
“And I am the ghost of a lgend running through the dark of the night, The The pouring rain, The blazing sand the angry wind against my face. The moon so bright the stars have risin. Protecing me in they’re blinding light. Cause I’m all alone.”
She slowed down for the second verse.
“I found myelf at a cities edge, A giant city but moastly dead. The fiery burning of the blazing sad, The riough dry sand in the howling wind. Steppinig foreward in the sand, Once again on the road ahead.
And I am the ghost of a lgend running through the dark of the night, The The pouring rain, The blazing sand the angry wind against my face. The moon so bright the stars have risin. Protecing me in they’re blinding light. Cause I’m all alone.
The darkened thoughts f the evil man, will kill and kill till they all are dead. Pace by pace, Hand in hand, the make their way through the desolate land. Do they not reilize? Do they not know? That their evil ways will HAVE TO GO.
And I am the ghost of a lgend running through the dark of the night, The The pouring rain, The blazing sand the angry wind against my face. The moon so bright the stars have risin. Protecing me in they’re blinding light. Cause I’m all alone.” She sand to the moon finishing the sad song. C alater was being carried on the wind. Probly arriving early tomorrow. She smiled. She would have another friend near by soon.

“Aura! We need to get you out of there! One it may be dangerous and two, breakfast is almost over. “Seir said as he scurried into the holomap
“Seir, even for a ferret you think the weirdest things at the dumbest times. You know that?” Aura said as she flew around. Off in the distance she saw something big floating toward her. It looked like a jellyfish with a big red cone under it. She heard Seir's offended voice from the sky again. “You know maybe it just keeps me from panicking!”
“Hey Jeremy, do you hear that?” Odd said as the elevator halted. Every one could hear the sound of someone arguing. Apparently with himself. The gang walked in to see a ferret sitting on the control panel talking into the speaker. “Well maybe you should fly off and out of range then!” Seir squeaked. Jeremy walked anxiously over to the arguing ferret. On the screen were a red circle and a green triangle darting around. The monster dot was, OH NO! What was the schipazoa doing out! Why was there a talking ferret sitting on his computer! Was that Auras voice coming from the computer? Either way he couldn’t let the schipazoa get its target.
“Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, Aelita, get to the scanners! The schipazoa is after me one!” Jeremy shouted to his friends. Ignoring the questions they had they went down to the scanner room.

“AHHH!” Aura said dodging yet another tentacle streaming toward her. She flew to the left and dived. She pulled up as it tried to get in front of her. ‘This thing can catch me no matter how far away I go!’ Aura thought as it grazed her wing that time. ‘But maybe going in to close...’ She thought turning around and zipping word the schipazoa. She swooped under the tentacles and grabbed the cone. Skippy couldn’t reach her and wrap around he if she held on. It tried to shake her off, to no avail. She threw her wings out for balance and clung to the cone. The warriors arrived to see Skippy flying upside down trying to dislodge its passenger. Odd couldn’t help but start laughing as the schipazoa rolled clockwise in mid air with out any luck.
Yumi grinned as she flung her fan. Skippy fell back and his insane Spork wielding hitchhiker finally let go and fell to the ground. They rushed over as she sat up shaking her head. Aura looked over at her, then the four warriors surrounding her, looking very, well there were several words to describe how they looked but I’d like to keep the rating p.g. They looked furious. ‘Aura, is that you?” Aelita asked trying to mask the anger in her voice.
“Uhhh, Ummmmm... errrr...No?” She asked hopefully. Aelita glared at her before asking what was on every ones mind. “How did you get here?”
Aura got up slowly before replying. “Well Seir showed me here, I found a bunch of notes in the holographic projector thing, and found this virtualization thing. Seir virtualized me by accident and I’m here.” She said loosening and tensing her wings. “Then this thing came and I couldn’t escape so I clung to it then you came. I let go and-” She jumped into the air quickly and flew upward as fast as she could. Aelita moved her hand over her bracelet and flew after her. Aura looked behind her to see the pink elf rushing after her, and gaining ground fast. Aura dove and swerved right and back. Aelita turned around to see Aura fly under her and zip over the platforms edge. She turned and flew after her. Aura Turned and flew up and over her. The white land below her rushed by. She saw a river below her. Something pink whizzed past her head. “Energy Field!” Aelita screamed hurling another sphere at her. She dove over the water as it skimmed the tips of her leathery wings. ‘WATER! That’s it!’ She thought as she dove into the river. It was incredibly cold but she flew through the water using her wings as fins. Aelita hovered over the surface. Aura would have to come up to breath before long.
Aura swam along using her tail as a rudder. She saw an under water tunnel up ahead. She would need air to continue, but she could probably dive in time. She surfaced and gulped another lungful of air as Aelita sent another sphere headed her way. She dove, Her tail splashing the water as she dove, like beavers. Sailing through the tunnel she reached its end and surfaced. In the distance Aelita was fling circles looking for her.
“Jeremy is Aura still on your map? Jeremy? JEREMY?’ Aelita asked starting to panic. In reality,
“OW! GET OFF MY KEY BOARD! * CRASH * OUCH!” Jeremy screamed as his hand was bit again. Seir wouldn’t let him near it. Jeremy quickly reached in and plucked Seir up by the tail. Tossing the ferret aside he sat down. “Aelita, Aura is on the neighboring platue, about 20 degrees west.” He said as Aelita turned and flew of to the place. Aura was swimming down below unaware. Aelita gathered an energy field and blasted her.
Aura felt something hit her. She found herself suddenly back in her reality. She bolted for the ladder as Jeremy brung the others back in. Jeremy was at the top and she froze. The others came up behind her, she was trapped, and this time she had no wings.
“Aura what are you doing there anyway?” Odd asked first. Aura looked up at him using the ancient mind-ending tactic of puppy dog eyes. “I was just exploring.” She said innocently in her most sincere sorry voice. Odds face lightened a little. “Well now what can we do. She’s entered into the supercomputers memory now. We have to let her join I guess.” Odd said looking at them in the eyes. They all nodded. Aelita started. “This super computer is used to fight Xana. Xana is an evil computer program trying to destroy the world. I was trapped in it until Jeremy got me out. But Xana planted a virus in me so if we turned him off I would be killed to. Xana used that thing that attacked you, the schipazoa, drained me of my memories, allowing Xana to escape the computer. He can possess humans now. Humans, animals, plants, machines, you name it. Then we needed to fight him by deactivating his towers on lyoko. We recruited William but he was captured and is now one of Xana’s minions. We made a virtual submarine to hunt down the real William but no luck so far. Xana HAS however been making replicas of Lyoko we need to destroy.” She said to Aura who sat there listening. “So why then do I suddenly need to know?” She asked.
“Because we wipe memories of Xana's worst attacks with a time travel program. It wipes everyone’s memories clear, except ours. Once you go to Lyoko you are immune. You’re also immune to Xana’s ghosts, which could posse you. You got this so far?” Aelita asked her. Aura nodded.
‘So that’s why Card’s computer is malfunctioning. Interesting.’ Aura thought as she got up. Anyway, I’m hungry, so I’ll be out catching breakfast. Aura said as Seir trotted over t her. He looked Jeremy in the eye. “Don’t grab me by my tail again got it?” Seir said growling. Jeremy yelped at the death glare sent his way. The two walked out into the sewers and back to the woods.
“...................... Where did she get a TALKING ferret?.................” Jeremy asked the others. I read about a talking ferret like thing once. It was called a Jarvey I think. They were big talking ferrets tat eat gnomes. And Seir is kind of big. Who knows?” Odd said with a grin. He would just love some of the creatures he read about. J.K. Rowling wrote so many cool creatures in her stories

Chapter 7: Broken Web

((A/N: I made this up. I wish it were real though...))
“Okay it’s my grid-box theory. Time, space and parallel worlds are connected in a grid like pattern. Time runs as a horizontal pattern. Then unrelated spaces are vertical bars, like your universe to some TV. Shows, like invader Zim. Worlds like that than are mostly unrelated to ours. Then minor differences, like hair color or a small rule, will make it a parallel to others. Those are depth. So because of this structure, we have all of that linked. But the returns to the pasts have been tugging the time thread. That shakes other dimensions, the vertical ones, Loose at that spot in their timeline to. This makes them wiggle apart and bump together a lot. Sometimes it deposits a part of itself in the thread it bumped. Depending on how hard it hit, the piece could remain there for a second or a century. That rattatta was shaken from its origin to or world into ours and yanked back home. It shouldn’t happen again for a while, so nothing to worry about.” Aura said looking at them. “Well Yumi, we need to get you home, but I need to do something real quick. Be right back!” She said cheerfully walking into the woods. The others continued walking to Yumi’s house. Aura ran to Seir’s den in the woods. She sopped and poked her head in. Seir was munching a bone. “Hey Seir, I need you to send a message to Card. Tell him that he was right, the tugs are coming from here, and thy ARE knocking together. A Rattatta was sent here for a few seconds, and then sent back. I need him to Check on the damage.” She said running back to Kadic.
“What am I? A carrier pigeon?” Seir grumbled s he fell asleep.
‘Hey Card, You there?’ Seir thought to the void. The cloaked figure was coming toward him. Seir looked up and opened his mouth to give Card the message.
Aura walked into her dorm and started up the computer. She no messages to her specifically, as usual. She clicked onto Neopia, and clicked onto her neopets. Hello G.T., Aurihu, Jefida, Tiriger, I’m back!” She said to the screen as she clicked on food items in her inventory to feed them. They were Kougra of the starter colors, Red, blue, Yellow, and green. She had just pulled up the comics in the Neopian times when Skell clattered over to her. He held a pencil in his jaws and pointed over to the textbook on her bed. Aura sighed. ‘I just had to ask teach him how to be an agenda didn’t I.’ She thought logging off. Trotting over to her bed she flopped onto it and pulled out a history book. Skell handed her the pencil. As she opened the book he glanced at Skell. “ Skell, do you think you could get me some notebook paper to?” She asked him flipping to page 87. Skell fluttered over to her stack of paper and grabbed a sheet, flying back with it. Aelita walked in, glancing at the open textbook in Aura’s lap.
“History homework?” Aelita asked looking at the pictures on the page.
“Yep.” Aura responded.
“How much?”
“A page.”
“That’s not to bad.”
“Meh.”
“I like history, it’s fascinating to me, what bout you?”
Aura looked up, her left cheek twitching. She lowered her head and brought it up hard into the wall. *THUNK* *THUNK**THUNK* She slumped down with a growl.
Aelita stared at her with a smile-scowl. “So I take it you don’t like history?” She stated turning to the computer. Aura snorted as she continued to scribble on her paper.
About an hour later Aura was on the computer reading a story, and Skell was sitting on the windowsill as the breeze blew in, occasionally caching loose papers before hey could go out the window. She snuffed s she read. She closed the story.
“What are you reading? You’ve been making noise over there ever since you got on.” Aelita said as she lowered the book she was reading. Aura clicked open another story before replying.
“They’re some fanfics. I’m reading some invader Zim ones; they keep making it to ‘romantic.’ Zim actually doesn’t strike me to gat a girl friend. Though well written they may be I don’t think it would happen. Rebelling if he found out about him no being an invader, maybe.” She said as she started growling at the screen. Aelita looked down to her book. Skell fluttered over to her, with a piece of paper. Aura looked at the paper. It was a note from Card. She read the text
“T H M R M ‘Z : Z f t T H I t X : H F IL IL I t I t X /: IxI M M T : IxI M : I t : THM :
P f f IXI Z : THM : | F U M: ‘| F R IXI/’”
“Come on, Seir, Skell, let’s get dinner!” Aura said smiling as the two scampered about her. Soon they were in the woods, but hunting not their goal. Aura walked to the top of a steep, towering, cliff, over looking a river. She climbed down the rocks to a cave near the bottom and went in. Card was here, his scent was all over. She called to him. “Card, I know you’re in here, it’s me Aura! “ A shape emerged from the back of the cave. The cloaked figure stood, his hood down.
His face was green, not humanoid, more like an aliens. He had a small snout and big red eyes. He had his small leathery wings drawn to his side, and his tail clutched nervously in his hands. His tail was long and thin, with a spade tip. He looked like a small, 6-limbed dragon with little black antenna where his 2 horns should be. He relaxed as he recognized Aura.
“Aura, Skell, how re you doing?” Card asked looking up with a grin, visibly relaxing now that he was sure it was them. Aura grinned, back with a thumbs up. Card sat down as Seir walked to the entrance to keep guard. Aura saw Skell hover over the river, looking for fish to snack on. Card looked over at the entrance and the river so close. “Aura, next time can you pick a base that’s not so close to water, even ‘defective’ Irkins like me burn on contact. Remember?” Card said looking back at her. Aura grinned sheepishly in reply. Skell streaked to the river and flew up with a fish in his claws. Aura looked at Seir who was exploring the area, and then back to Card. “I assume you didn’t call me here just to talk about where I decided to meet, right?” Aura said. Card nodded. “Right. The dimensional breakdown, it’s worse than I thought it would be. The frayed ends are all over, so expect to find weird sightings and events.” Card said as he picked up his spear. “ The closest dimensions are the ones you will probably be merged most with. There are eight neighbors you should look out for. The hidden villages, my world, you’re links home world, anima, pocket monsters, Kabuto, Neopia, and the other dimension with all the alchemy.” He said as he got up and stretched. “Of course there may be a few more that pop in, but they should disappear quickly, to their own world. I need to go now, night is coming and Drak probably got out by now.” He unfurled his wings and flew off to his world. Aura got up and stretched. Skell held out a fish to her. Aura took it as she rubbed his head, and gulped the fish down in a couple bites.
The trio walked back to their dorms and on the way saw Sissy pestering Ulrich, again. An idea forming in her mind. She motioned for Seir and Skell to hide as she walked over.

"Oh Ulrich dear, Surly everything about me amazes you." Sissy said to him. Ulrich glared at her and bluntly stated. "No, nothing about YOU amazes me."
Sissy looked offended. Now was the perfect time for Aura to join in.
"Well I can certainly say that there is one thing about you that amazes ME!" She declared as Ulrich glared at her. Sissy looked smug. "Oh... only one thing? Oh well it's a start. Now what specifically amazes you about ME?" She asked looking at Aura then Ulrich. Aura looked over at the two before honestly replying.
"Well I just find it so amazing, never before have I met anyone who's I.Q. is measured in negative numbers!" She Said.
Both Ulrich and aura laughed as Sissy stood there fuming. Even Seir and Skell fond it amusing. ‘Note to self, tell that one to Card.’ Seir thought as he slinked to his room.