Chapter one: prologue
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko or any of its characters. I bet you don't either. So hah.
Claimer: I do own the plot of this story and most of the oc's that will join in here.
Author's note: Well, here we go, a sequel to "Lost in the Shadows". Some old people, some new people, some new mysteries. Totally different style from the previous story. Hope you'll like it.
Note 2: Our forum now has a name and logo!! Xana's Lair, it is.
Dedicated to: Dr. Kitty, thanks for the talking.
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William's pov
I panted heavily, leaning on my more than average sword which stuck in the ground. I was exhausted and wounded, but I couldn't stop. 13 years had passed since the crucial day in which Odd had died, Aelita got stuck on Lyoko and I getting handicapped. Luckily I could use my legs without problems while on the virtual world.
Jeremie retreated himself after he graduated, still mourning about the loss of his love. He became a teacher in math at Kadic while he continued programming at home. Not long after that he adopted a child which surprised us all. The girl was 6 years old at that time and looked incredibly like Aelita. She was an orphan from southern-Belgium. She would celebrate her 13th birthday soon. I adored the girl, and she got on well with the son of Yumi and Ulrich.
It maybe hurt my heart a little, but Ulrich got indeed together with Yumi. They married and had a happy life, for sure when Yumi got pregnant. A cute boy, resembling his father a lot. Keydan was his name. I liked the boy, and was more than happy when I could be his godfather.
Life was okay, except for the fact that we had lost two friends. One year later though, a new threat rose. I still don't understand who, why, or what, but we had to conquer it. Once again the Lyoko team banded together, keeping it a secret from the children. We fought off this new enemy for years, but weren't able to destroy it. To make things worse, eventually we lost track of each other.
Now I just turned 27 years. William Dunbar, head of a nearly famous car factory. I didn't have a wife, but there was this girl I liked and would ask out soon. To think I wanted to have a normal life. Seemed like that wish would never be fulfilled. Rudely I got back to reality.
"Is that all you got? You're done already?" a voice shouted to me. I was standing on the ice sector of Lyoko, gasping for breath while I had engaged in my final battle. I had no idea where Yumi and Ulrich were. No idea what the little Keydan was doing. No idea what Jeremie and his daughter were up to. No idea what Sissi thought about my absence. The only thing I knew is that I HAD to win this battle. Our final chance to kill this enemy, and it was up to me.
Nobody to help me. Everyone was gone. I was faced with the worst enemy you could ever think of. There she stood, 8 feet in front of me on a rock of ice, laughing. Remarkable how young she looked, despite the fact she had been here for a long time already. Dressed completely in a tight fitting purple battle armour. She had two spiked cuffs on her wrists, a short tank shirt of a strange but strong material, a skirt reaching to right above her knees and light-purple shoulder armour. In her right hand she held a sparkling yellow rod, like a staff, slightly bigger than herself. Her hair had a weird purple colour and was rather short. Her yellow eyes stared evilly at me, while she was pleased to see my misery. She may have looked attractive, but she was the nightmare of the human race.
That's why I had to clear this job now. If I failed, there wouldn't be anyone left, and she would have all fields to rule human kind. "You're not rid of me just yet!" I yelled, gathering all my remaining strength and charging up to her.
I ran closer and jumped up at the last moment, swinging my zanbato high up to strike her down from above. She dodged the attack by spinning away and immediately shot out her staff which would've hit me if I didn't pull my sword up right before it hit the ground and rolled away over my shoulder. This gave me a nice opportunity to get close to her, which was nearly impossible, so I lifted my sword to stab through her stomach.
She reacted unbelievably fast and blocked my attack with her staff, but fell back thanks to it. I jumped up again for another try, but right before she would hit the ground together with my sword in her body, she disappeared, which I had expected. She wasn't a simple enemy who could be killed in a minute. I immediately activated my super smoke to avoid her flash of lightning she shot at me after her teleportation. The blast missed me by inches as I flew up to her like a small boll of blue-purple smoke.
Once behind her, I turned to my human form again and spun around, trying to cut her head off. She ducked and attempted to ram into my stomach with her elbow, but I grabbed it with me free hand. After a quick move she freed herself, turning around and swaying her staff at my chest which I could parry in the nick of time. Then we both crashed to the ground, this resulting in a little earthquake.
She didn't give me time to rest and fired another beam of lightning which I dodged by jumping to the right. The blast ended in a huge explosion, destroying another part of Lyoko with ease and blinding me for a couple of seconds. I knew she would take advantage of it to hit me, so I heightened my sword to block a possible attack, which saved my life. The impact of her strike was so strong though I got dashed away against another rock.
I hopped back to my feet and held my sword vertically in front of me to block her next flash of lightening. Desperately I tried to push it back to her, which would result in her death. "Didn't you understand yet, William? You have NO chance of ever winning! You've been nice to play with. Same for your friends. But it ends here, you will be joining them in the afterlife."
"I won't let you," I replied, groaning as it was really hard to fight off the strong spell pushing at my sword. "If I die, I'll take you with me!" With that said, I jumped aside, making the lightening crash behind me. I immediately threw my sword at my enemy while I turned to smoke again. I re-appeared behind her and grabbed her tight so she wouldn't be able to escape. "It ends here."
She was surprised, but only for a second. "You're right. The end has come – for YOU." To my abhorrence she used her teleportation, and I got hit right through my chest by my own attack, so I fell on the ground. Seems like I had a few lifepoints left, since I didn't die or devirtualise. (you could never be sure which one it'd be since this new enemy arrived) Unfortunately I had activated some energy in my zanbato, so when it hit the ground it also caused a huge explosion. This threw the both of us away, however I ended up at the edge of a cliff while she saved herself with her magical purple wings. After the smoke had faded away, she landed in front of me, making her wings disappear.
I hung with just one hand at the cliff now, she looking down at me with her devilish grin. "You did well, William. It was an honour to fight you. But you and your friends failed. Goodbye." She brought her foot up to my hand and kicked. With a scream I released the ground, falling down to the calm digital sea.
I had failed. The world would be lost now.
Lost in the Darkness.
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