A Code Lyoko fanfic
J/A with general and angst
And my OC villian...
Sequal to Dual Image, part of the "XANA's Daughter" series.
Please to enjoy ^^
There were voices in her head. Aelita sighed and rolled over, trying to keep her eyes closed. They'd go away. They always faded off eventually. Even when she was Lyoko. They always came and went, like the wind.
Something thudded on the door to her room. Gasping, she sat up.
"C-come in...?"
The thud came again, and, frowning, Aelita got out of bed. Just as she reached for the knob to her door, the door burst open.
Two figures, wrapped tightly around each other, stumbled into the room, whispering and sighing.
Aelita stared, unable to move. Numbly she recognized the blond hair, the glasses. The voice murmuring softly, words of love and desire that sent a strange thrill down her spine, despite the fear that surged with it.
"Jeremie..."
For a moment, the two pulled back, gasping.
"Mine..." whispered the shadowy figure still wrapped around Jeremie. "Just mine." The possessiveness of the statement sent a shot of sorrow and horror straight to her heart, yet Aelita still could do little but stare.
"He could have been yours," came the voice, but now it was behind her, in her ear. "But now, little sister, he's mine."
"No-" her denial came through clenched teeth, and the voice in her ear chuckled.
"Jealous, much? Stupid little fool, if you took him for yours like he wants you to, that's the only way." The voice disappeared from behind her, and was coming from the figure with Jeremie. The two of them stumbled into the light come from her window.
The figure turned, and Aelita found herself looking into her own eyes.
"He's mine now."
"No!"
Her eyes flew open, and Aelita sat bolt upright in bed, her heart pounding.
"Oy!" Someone was pounding her door. "Shut it in there, Stones, you're waking me up!"
Aelita felt her face flush, and lay back down. Still trembling, she knew it be no use to close her eyes. Sleep wasn't come back. Only the images of her nightmare would be there, playing on loop in her head.
"Jeremie..."
Hating herself and her weakness, Aelita covered her face with the blanket, her eyes wide open against the darkness.
"Aelita...?"
"Yeah?"
"You don't look so good."
"Gee, thanks, Odd. Really?"
Odd, diagonally across from her in history class, winced at the look she shot him. If looks could kill..."You know what I mean, Princess." He hesitated, seeing that he was getting no where pleasant in this conversion, he wadded up a piece of notebook paper and flung it across the room. THe missile hit Jeremie in the back of the head. The blond boy jumped in surprise, and turned to see who had hit him. Instead of looking back at Odd, however, his gaze met Aelita's.
His heart flipped automatically, as it always did when he looked at her. But then, seeing the expression on her face, and the circles under her eyes, his heart sank. She'd been like that for more than a week.
Ever since that...that thing had appeared.
Her eyes, dull and tired, slid away from his, and Jeremie's heart sank farther. If only there was away to-
A shrill beeping suddenly broke through his thoughts. Spinning about, panic in his throat, he pulled out his laptop from the back under his seat.
Across the room, Aelita was nervously watching him, dread already filling her heart. The nightmare from last night, so like others she had had in the past week, surged in the back of her mind. XANA. Lyoko. A shudder went down her spine, but she ignored it. She was stronger than that, she told herself firmly. She couldn't show a frightened face to her enemy. Or her friends.
Behind her, Odd was already getting to his feet, his eyes bright with the excitement. Aelita felt no excitement, yet she too, forced herself to her feet. Class was almost over, no one would notice them if they snuck out. Aelita looked back at Jeremie, who had already pulled out his cell phone, probably to call Ulrich and Yumi to warn them.
A moment later, the bell rang, and the three of them hurried out of the room.
"As far as I can tell, nothing has happened on our side," Jeremie muttered as he typed into the supercomputer a few minutes later. Aelita, Odd and Ulrich and Yumi stood a room below him, waiting to be sent to Lyoko. His voice echoed through the loud speakers. If the others noticed slight tremor in his voice, no one said anything. "The activated tower is in the Ice Sector."
Yumi, Odd and Ulrich looked nervously at Aelita. "Princess, if you-" Ulrich started, but Aelita shook her head.
"I'll be fine, Ulrich." Even to her own ears, her voice sounded strange, faint and far away.
"Aelita?"
"I have to go in, Jeremie," she replied to the soft inquiry that echoed through the factory. "It'll be alright."
"But your powers-"
"They worked when-" when I was captured, Aelita thought, but didn't say it out loud. "I mean, last time I was in Lyoko, Jeremie. They should work now." In theory, anyway, muttered a voice in her head, but Aelita ignored it.
"Send us in Einstein!" Odd called, obviously getting antsy. "Lets go!"
Jeremie didn't reply, except to begin the count down to virtualization. Yumi, Ulrich and Odd stepped into the scanners first. Aelita, trying to ignore the dread forcing her heart into her throat, waiting, counting the seconds.
"Where I"m sending you, it doesn't look like there's company," Jeremie said as Aelita stepped into the scanner. "And...Aelita?" When she didn't answer, Jeremie sighed slightly. "Please...just be careful, okay?"
"Don't worry,' she replied, and closed her eyes as she sped into a different world.