Title: Lost Soul
Chapter 1: The Accident
A/N: Well, this story was inspired by Tinkerbellbt with her Code Lyoko story: Lost Forever in a Tragedy? I hope you guys like it, remember to review when you've read it!
Heh, I've told myself not to start any other stories, but you know what, I don't care. This is my first Code Lyoko story, so be nice. I really want to make this a good, long story... I've put just about all of my other stories on hold just so that I could start this one... :P Enjoy
Must reads:
Expect the Unexpected
Koukyuu no Toriko
A Forgotten Memory
Pirates of the Caribbean Inuyasha Style
A Path Worth Retracing
Hate is Only Skin Deep
My Memory's Heartache
Full Metal Hakusho
Lost Forever in a Tragedy?
Returning Home (sequal to Lost Forever in a Tragedy?)
Yumi Ishiyama was bored. There was no other word for it. Xana hadn't attacked in nearly a week, and now she and her family were on their way to the airport, they were taking a trip back to Japan for a few days. Hiroki's game beeped every now and again, and sometimes he even gave an exasperated sigh as he died and had to start over. She sat with her arms crossed as they drove along the deserted evening streets. She closed her eyes briefly, thinking that maybe she would try and sleep for the next few hours. Buzzzz. Buzz. Her cell phone vibrated against her thigh and Yumi immediately pulled it out of her pocket. "Hello?" She said softly, not really wanting to break the standing silence between the four of them, "Ulrich what's up?"
"Well, uh." Ulrich began, he seemed unsure of what he planned on saying, "you left before any of us could tell you goodbye, Yumi."
Yumi rolled her eyes playfully, of course he couldn't see it though, "I figured if anything you guys would give me a call once you got out of classes and had supper. So how are... erm, things?" She was trying to ask discreetly if Xana had attacked yet.
"Things are quiet, Jeremie is scanning Lyoko as we speak." Ulrich said, "If you ask me its a bit too quiet. I think that Xana is planning something big, we just don't know what it is yet."
There was a scuffling in the background and the phone was dropped for a brief moment, Yumi felt her heart leap into her throat before it settled back down to a normal pace where it belonged, "Heya Yumi, how come you left so early? I thought that you would have at least been able to see us after class ended." Odd's voice sounded out of breath and hurt.
"Odd, give me back the phone!" Ulrich called from nearby, Yumi pictured him swiping at the phone futily as Odd dodged his 'attack'.
"Ulrich just wants to tell you how much he loves you and wants to kiss and hug you!" Odd laughed.
"Odd!" Ulrich made another dive, and Yumi heard a thump as he missed and hit the floor.
"Come on Ulrich, you're faster than that!" Odd teased.
"I'll call you guys later, I'll see you again in a few days anyway, promise." Yumi snapped her phone shut and slid it into her pocket with a sigh.
"Who was that dear?" Her mother asked from the front, turning to gaze at her daughter.
"Oh, it was just Odd and Ulrich saying their goodbyes. They had really been looking forward to a last few hours with me."
"I'm sorry, Yumi, you're father had our flight bumped up so that we could spend a little more time with his family." Mrs. Ishiyama said apologetically.
"That's alright, I don't mind." Yumi shrugged in the darkness before settling back into the seat, signaling the end of the conversation.
Some odd time later...
She woke up disoriented and upside down, blood dripping into her already blurred eyes. What's going on, what happened? She thought dimly, trying to move. She found that with even the slightest shift in her body mass she was rocked precariously back and forth, she realozed that it was probably for the best that she did not to do that again. The sun was a bloody red and rested on the horizon, she imagined that it was probably an ironic sight. There was a moan beside her and Yumi's head swiveled around immediately and regretfully, "Hir-oki?" She rasped, finding it hard to speak, and her breathing felt painfully shallow.
He didn't answer, and Yumi grew worried. She reached over to him, and with that one movement their vehicle slipped from what little road it had managed to stay on and down a steep incline, rolling and jolting Yumi as well as her family around until she was forced back into the swirling depths of unconsciousness.
When she once more resurfaced Yumi found that she was nearly crushed into her seat, and held firmly by broken and twisted metal. Her hand struggled into her back pocket and glass bit into the palm of her hand as she pulled her small phone from her pocket. Yumi flipped it open, pressing a button and hoped that she had dialed one of the numbers that would activate her quick dialer. She shook as she raised her hand, grimacing in agony as she held it to her ear. "Hello?" A groggy voice on the other end said, "Yumi, is everything okay? It's been about three days since we've heard from you." The voice she heard was not entirely the one that she wanted to hear right then, but any voice was better than none at all.
"Three days?" She said through cracked lips, incredulously, "has it really been a so long, Jeremie?"
She closed her eyes and swallowed deeply, regretting it instantly as her throat began to burn with a vengeance. Her fingers shook and it was a struggle to keep them up at her ear. Yumi could feel the dried blood that lined her face chipping off as she grimaced again as a wave of sickening agony swept through her.
"Yumi?" His voice was genuinly worried this time and he had lost the groggy tone to his voice, "what's the matter, are you alright?"
"I don't know." She was disoriented, "but I-I think that we were in a car accident."
"Really? Are you okay?" Jeremie nearly screamed into the phone, his heart thumped painfully in his chest, she was hurt, Yumi was hurt!
"No, I don't think so. I'm trapped in my seat right now, I can hardly move and everything hurts." She mumbled fuzzily, "the last thing I remember is being upside down," Her eyebrows furrowed in painfully deep concentration, "and then everything was spinning."
"Where are you, do you know?" He asked sharply.
Yumi felt herself beginning to black out again, "somewhere between my house and the airport... my... dad got directions before we left. The other set... he left on the table in his bedroom." She sagged and lost her grip on the phone, allowing it to slip through her fingers and to the floor, completely out of her reach had she even been in the right mind to try and get it.
With Jeremie
"Yumi, Yumi!" Jeremie cried into the phone, he recieved no answer and immediately assumed the worst.
In seconds he was out the door and racing down the hallway at breakneck speed to Odd and Ulrich's room. Quite suddenly he ran into something firm and fell to the floor in surprise. "Mr. Belpois, what are you doing out of your room at three 'o' clock in the morning?" The robust form of Jim stood over him, arms crossed.
"Not now Jim, it's an emergency!" Jeremie said breathlessly, his chest heaving as he looked up at the larger man.
"And what could possibly be such an emergency that you'd be racing through the halls in the middle of the night, hm?"
"It's Yumi sir, something bad happened. I can't explain right now, but I need to get Odd and Ulrich and tell them what happened."
Jim was dumbfounded and watched as Jeremie stood, shook himself off, and continued to race down the silent corridor. He pounded his fists on the boys' door, waking probably the entire floor as he did so before they both came sleepily to the door. "What is it, einstein?" Odd asked, yawning, "is XANA finally launching his attack?"
"No, it's worse. Let me in and I will explain." Jeremie didn't wait for a reply, and instead he ducked past his two confused friends and stood trying to catch his breath.
"So, what's going on?" Ulrich was fully awake now.
"Yumi, something happened. She thinks that she was in a car accident."
"Thinks?" Ulrich quirked and eyebrow at him, his heart thudding painfully in his chest.
"Yes, she sounded rather out of it, but she pretty much told me that she was still in the car." Jeremie felt like he would start crying, but he sucked in a shaky breath and held his cool, "her dad was supposed to have another copy of the directions to the airport in his room. She is somewhere along that route."
"I'll go to Yumi's house and get the map then." Ulrich said, taking control of the situation, "Odd, Jeremie, go get the principal and have him call the police. I don't necessarily think that they would take a call from a couple of kids very seriously without solid proof of some sort. We'll meet in the courtyard."
"Aye, aye captain." Odd gave a mock salute, he wasn't feeling very humorous just then, but he was just naturally a funny guy.
Jeremie wasn't sure that he could run any more, but he somehow found the energy and was actually keeping pace with Odd. His cell phone rang and he immediately answered, thinking that perhaps Yumi was calling him back, "Ulrich?" He was startled to say in the least as he saw the name that showed up over the number, "what are you calling for?"
"Uh, well you see... I'm at Yumi's house." He sounded confused and rather shaky, even on the other end of the line Jeremie could tell that something had definately shaken him up.
"Already?" Jeremie asked in surprise, already gasping for breath again.
"Yeah. It was weird. I was able to run the way that I do on Lyoko."
"Are you serious!" Jeremie exclaimed, grinding to a halt immediately and staring at the phone in disbelief.
"Yes. I'm actually walking through the front door as we speak. Listen, we don't have time for this now, hurry up and get the principal!" Ulrich turned the power on his phone off and Jeremie followed suit, trying to catch up with Odd, whom hadn't even noticed that Jeremie had stopped.
A/N Yes! Chapter one is complete! I can't believe that this is my first Code Lyoko fic. :3 If I get a few reviews I promise to post the next chapter as soon as I possibly can. I'm looking to see if I can possibly get more reviews for this story than I have for any of my other stories (My maximum is nearly fifty on a Full Metal Alchemist story) Let me know what you guys think, and if anything needs to be improved, etc.
Anyway, following each of my chapters will be 3 random facts that I bet you didn't know. Don't forget to review on your way out now!
Random Facts of the day:
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
For more random facts tune in next chapter!
P.S.: I'm looking for a good title name, I'm not exactly partial to the one that I've got right now, but if any of you have any suggestions let me know and I'll post it as a vote in the next chapter.