[…Life Goes On…]

By PollutionPandemic

Morning. AM 1:80.

Monday September 27th 2006

Yumi Ishyama woke up in practically the middle of the night. Something was bothering her. Her grades in school were fine, and everything was okay. But something was keeping her up. Something that only seemed to annoy her. Something that only, unfortunately, mattered to her.

That was it. She had forgotten. It was now exactly one year since the "Ulrich Incident." Exactly one year ago, one of her friends, a boy named Ulrich Stern had killed several innocent boarders of Kadic. For reasons unknown. He was shot on the spot by the SWAT Team. The day in which he killed several innocent students was to be remembered forever in Kadic history.

It seemed the incident that had happened a year ago only seemed to matter to Yumi. For some reason. Possibly because she was the only one who had to live with it in her past. That must have been it. It was impossible for her to banish the ghosts of her past and continue on. Things kept getting in the way of such things.

It seemed, that Ulrich had massacred 14 students in revenge. Revenge because he believed that Yumi was dead. He thought she had been killed by an overloaded wire in the scanner room during a mission on Lyoko. In truth, she had been severely injured, almost losing her leg to a near deadly infection of Necrotizing Fasciitis after the electrical burns. But she was alive. Unfortunately, Ulrich didn't know that. And it cost Kadic the lives of 14 students. Nobody spoke of the incident anymore. But the imprint of a deadly mass killing remained stamped on their minds like a heavy footprint from a curb-stomp to the face. Nobody forgot. Ever.

Yumi was lying there in bed. Staring at the ceiling. Thinking what ever happened. What would happen now? She tried just to go back to sleep, and not worry until the next morning. The band Mudvayne was coming to perform live. Yumi didn't like the kind of music they played, but half the school did. She didn't care. She went to sleep and thought thoroughly about what would happen the following day.