Let's pretend that there was some time that passed between Down to Earth & Fight to the Finish…
Ulrick's POV:
"Wow, check these out." Willem said, pulling out a couple of fake swords from the box he was carrying. The good news was that we were finally able to bring Willem home yesterday.
The bad news was we had to skip drama class…& got caught. Now we were all in detention, moving boxes off the stge.
"You know, opening the boxes won't help this get done any faster." I pointed out.
"We're stuck here for a few hours any way. We might as well have some fun." Od said, carrying his own box…& wearing a costume from last year's Hairspray.
"He's right. Besides, Alita told me I was quite a match for you on Lyoko." Willem said, after making sure we were the only people backstage. "Why not see how I do now?" He tossed me a sword.
I caught it out of instinct, & suddenly Willem was coming at me. I blocked the blows easily, again more from instinct then anything else.
"You know, being a good fighter under XANA's control isn't something you should be proud of…" I said.
"Well, maybe some of it was my own skill." Willem said. "Now that I'm back, maybe I can prove that on Lyoko."
"Who said that you'd go back?" I asked. "You didn't exactly help us out last time."
"So now I'm out, for good?"
"That hasn't been decided yet."
"Yeh, right." Willem said. "I think we both know what or who this is really about."
"…I have no idea what you're talking about." A part of me realized that Willem & I had moved out onto the stage in front of everybody else in detention & the kids in the drama club. Mostly, I was focused on defending myself.
"Yumi & I are hanging out again. You're jealous."
"Yumi & I agreed to be just friends."
"Then why are you so jealous?"
"I'm not jealous. But, as her friend, I think she could do a lot better."
"Somebody like you, you mean?"
"Stern! Dunbar! What is the meaning of this?" Jim yelled from in front of the stge. I had totally forgotten that he was in charge of the detention.
"Uh…well…"
"Never mind, I don't want to hear it! The principal will, though…"
Well, the good news is that Willem is home.
...Yay.
I came up with this idea a few years ago, when I had to study Cyrano de Bergerac. The idea struck me again (sort of literally) when I discovered my notes from that class…that I kept for some unknown reason…
Anyway, the point is…Never pull out anything from the bottom of a pile, especially if it happens to be a pile of binders…
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