Hey all, I decided to do a Lyoko fic because I love that show. I seem to be better at tragedy (or so people say) so this is going to be more on the tragic side. I hope you enjoy! Excuse the pbad formatting, I haven't loaded microsoft word back into my computer yet and I'm just using wordpad.
Looking back I remember it all so well, I was the sole inhabitant of Lyoko and I had never had true friends so I never understood what people call 'lonliness' nor did I ever feel its crushing grip. Everything seemed so perfect to me then, but I was neive to otherwise. X.A.N.A had yet to be infected with that aweful virus. My whole world shattered with that day that he was infected. It was after I sent the distress call that I met them, the humans of a paralell world that the infected X.A.N.A wished to destroy as well. Yumi, Ulrich, my beloved Jeremie and of course Odd. They became much more than friends to me, saving both our worlds but my own life many times. But that is another story.
It seems so long ago now, the day I was materialized. I looked up to their smiling faces, their real faces, for the first time. Jeremie's smiled glowed brighter than any of the other's as he extended his hand,
"Welcome to earth Aelita." He laughed, and I looked down and noticed my clothes were different as were theirs. As I took Jeremie's hand and he helped me up our relationship soared within ourselves. I had no idea that 'love' could later cause me so much heartbreak. I was enrolled into the school and lived with Yumi, as her foreign penpal, as she had told her parents I was. Earth was so much different from Lyoko, and I felt a twinge of sadness to think I would never see what had been my home for countless years, for the only way to defeat X.A.N.A would be to shut everything down. I knew the others felt similar sadness to think they would never return there, and would miss the adventures and live off only the memories, but I felt a deep homesickness.
As dangerous as it was, I loved Lyoko. Every rhelm so diverse and beautiful. I often enjoyed meditating in the more mountainous regious, possibly because it was there that Jeremie often made contact with me. I had always thought living with my friends, the only other living beings I had interacted with, would be an endless joy. It wasn't until I had met them however, that I began to understand what 'lonliness' was, whenever they left Lyoko and I was left alone once more I would not always succomb into the serenity I had known all my life. I had known what it was like to be with others. To me it was like, how they say 'once you taste the forbidden fruit.' is how i can best describe the change. But lonliness was not the only emotion new to me, far from it. I also learned sympathy, longing, what it felt like to worry over someone other than yourself. But strongest of any of these emotions was Love. Although I had never felt it before I knew unmistakably that I was in love with Jeremy.
People would seem it foolish to think that I knew what love was, to others I appeared as another neive thirteen year old but I was far from it. I was ageless, I could not remember my 'age' nor could I remember being a child, having parents, or any of what humans called childhood memories. I lacked everything that a normal teenager held except for the years of knowledge to get by in school. It was my lack of experience, and my still adjusting to all these emotions I had never known about that made my adjustment into earth harder than I could have ever imagined.
More to come!