The
scanner door opened. Yumi fell onto her knees and onto the floor, her
eyes had a glazed look to them. her eyelids shut. Ulrich ran in the
room "YUMI!" he screamed.
He
picked her up off the ground. Jeremie! We need to get her to the
infirmary, quick! Jeremie rushed in and helped her carry yumi
outside. Wait! I need to get someone from lyoko. He told odd to get
out of lyoko, quick. Jeremie pulled open the disk drive and put
Aelita's materialization software into it. Sweat dripped down his
face. A puff of smoke drifted from the scanner and Aelita was inside
one of the compartments. Jeremie ran to the compartment and pulled
her out.
"Jeremie?"
she said dizzily.
"No
time to explain. Yumi's hurt... Now COME ON!" he said dragging
her up to the surface.
Ulrich
sat by Yumi's side afraid and impatient.
"Aelita?
What are you doing here?!" he asked.
"Wait
for me! What's all the hurry?" odd shouted coming up from the
manhole.
"I'll
explain later Ulrich. We need to get Yumi to the infirmary now"
They
all hurriedly grabbed one of Yumi's limbs and carried her off.
AT
THE INFIRMARY,
everyone
worked hard to get yumi onto the bed and called the nurse to tend to
her.
"I
think you kids will have to leave the room...," the nurse said
worried.
They
all walked outside and leaned against the railing that surrounded the
balcony.
"So
tell me again why you materialized Aelita?" Ulrich asked
Jeremie
started to talk..."Ok. Listen. I created another kind of
materialization software. This one gets Aelita here faster, but she
disappears into lyoko after 42 hours. I figured it wouldn't work
letting her live on earth so I saved it for when we might need Aelita
the most. I just figured that she should be with us if yumi...uhh to
help her...umm heal."
"Good
idea!" Odd said, "Now that she's here, why don't you ask
her out?"
Jeremie
smacked Odd across the head. Aelita giggled innocently, know knowing
what Yumi had meant by 'Going Out'
"Now that you mention it..." Jeremie whispered into Odd's ear. "Maybe I will...."
Odd
looked at him in disbelief. Jeremie cleared his throat, with a deep
blush on his cheeks.
"Aelita...
ummm... will you go out with me?" Jeremie stammered.
"Yes!"
Aelita shouted, encasing him in a huge bear hug. Jeremie was shy,
then became adapted to Aelita's affection and hugged her back.
Ulrich
smiled, but it reminded him of yumi He was worried about her.
Odd
looked at him. "Dude it's ok. Yumi will be fine." he
whispered.
"It's
nothing..." Ulrich said.
"You
don't fool me for one minute, Ulrich." Odd said, crossing his
arms. Ulrich was getting frustrated, and began to search for a way to
get rid of Odd.
"Just...
just go talk to Aelita"
"I
can't... she's suffocating Jeremie right now."
Both
he and Ulrich let out a hollow, sad laugh.
Uncovering
from the enormous hug Aelita had just given him... Jeremie cleared
his throat and said, "So what do you think happened to Yumi?"
Odd
said, "I really don't know. She wasn't shot by anything,
XANA wasn't attacking. She just screamed, and faded away."
Ulrich
looked up at odd, astonished. "It couldn't have been XANA,
Could it?" He said.
"No
it wasn't XANA... that I know... there wasn't a trace of him
anywhere." Jeremie said.
"Defiantly
not XANA." Aelita said.
"Why
did you have us pick up rocks from lyoko, Jeremie?" Ulrich said.
"I
wanted to see if lyokan objects could be brought back to the real
world...it would help to solve the mystery of Aelita's
materialization."
Aelita
grinned.
"Just
so you know, Jeremie, we did get a few rocks from lyoko." Odd
said. He reached into his pocket and pulled some pebbles out his
pocket. Jeremie looked in at them in wonder.
"It worked?" Jeremie asked. Odd continued.
"They're
very fragile in the real world, so be careful. I had a whole pocket
full, but they got turned to sand when I got de virtualized."
Suddenly,
they heard a sound from the other room.
"CLEAR"
(electric shock)
Ulrich
started paying attention immediately.
"Oh
no. oh my god!" Ulrich said.
They
all rushed to the window in a flash.
Yumi
lay on the bed, with two electrical shockers placed on her chest.
"CLEAR"
the doctor yelled.
Yumi's
body jumped on the bed.
"Oh
no I can't watch!" Aelita said covering her eyes. Jeremie hugged
her for support
Odd
stared in disbelief.
Tears
of grief fell down Ulrich's cheek. This
was the first time he cried in a long time.
Finally,
relief came to them. Yumi became conscious, though barley breathing.
The
nurse said it was okay for them to see Yumi, but that she was in a
very frail state.
Ulrich
ran through the door and took her hand.
"Oh
yumi are you ok?" he said
"You
guys...um Aelita... can I talk to Ulrich for a few minutes please?"
Yumi said in a very weak voice
"That's
fine" Aelita said
"Come
on everyone...." Jeremie said.
Once
the door was closed, there was a long Silence.
"Yumi?"
Ulrich said.
"Yes,
Ulrich?"
"Uhhh....
Yumi, I love you."
"Ulrich,
I love you too." she said
He
lent down to kiss her. She closed her eyes and kissed him too. It was
the best 15 seconds of their lives
Suddenly,
Ulrich felt yumi grow weaker. She fell onto the hospital pillow.
"Yumi...Yumi...PLEASE
SPEAK TO ME YUMI!" Ulrich yelled
Yumi
groaned and took one last breath. Her hand fell from Ulrich's. Her
eyes closed.
Ulrich screamed in fury. He pounded his fist into the wall and fell
against it.
"No...
Yumi...no." He sat against the wall and wept for what seemed like
months. The nurse came in and rushed him into a hallway that led
outside.
"NOOO
he screamed. YUMI ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! NOOOOO LET ME SEE HERR" the
nurse struggled against him but finally, she got him outside. He
pounded on the door then fell onto the tile and wept.
-------------------------------This was really the end of Yumi.
