Well I just wanted to take a minute to thank all of my wonderful reviewers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This story is dedicated to Aelita142. Thankyou for being such a wonderful friend and writer! I am so glad that you liked my story Virtualizing Another. This will be the sequal. I hope you like it!!!!!!!!!!
The Five Forms of Destruction
Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko
Chapter One: The Poison Starts
Slyzer sat on the edge of his bed, thinking to himself. It had been one whole year since he and his friends had defeated X.A.N.A., but it seems like it was just yesterday that he and the gang were leaping over pools of acid, destroying X.A.N.A.'s minions. He was happy that the evil was put to rest, but in a way he was sad. Lyoko gave them a purpose, something to fight for. If he had a purpose like that, he felt something unique. He wasn't sure exactly what it was, but he liked that feeling. Of course he had many other good feelings. Like happiness, to be with his friends, leading a normal, (and boring) school life. He had happiness also because of Chandra.
Chandra and Slyzer had been together for a year. They had been in love since the day they met, and were still happily so. In fact, it was that very moment that Chandra opened his door and rushed in.
"Hey Chandra," Slyzer said.
"Come with me!" She shouted, grabbing his arm. She pulled him down the hall quickly and not too quietly, causing others to look out of their rooms to see what the commotion was all about. (It was Saturday, so everyone was just hanging around in their rooms.) Slyzer knew it was pointless to resist her, so he just ran along.
She brought him to Jeremy's room. His computer was, as always, glowing brightly. Although he no longer needed to communicate with Aelita, (since she was in the real world, and had been for a year,) he kept his computer online for monitering purposes. And he had detected something he hoped he would never have to detect.
"It's X.A.N.A." Jeremy said to the gang that had now assembled in his room. The six other kids were shocked and unbelieving.
"It can't be Jeremy!" Aelita cried out, "We saw you yourself shut him down!" She was very worked up. After living happily in the real world after living with that virtual menice in Lyoko as she had, one would not be too happy upon hearing news of him alive.
"It's true. I'm not sure how at all, but before he was destroyed, he split himself into five parts. It took a year, but now he has gathered enough power, and he is hiding now somewhere around the world, gathering his armies..."
"FIVE?" Chandra screamed. "There's FIVE of him??"
"Yes, it was the only way that he could launch his emergency program. Apparently he figured out that we would eventually expand our forces, for example Chandra and Slyzer, and also get Aelita here, the materialization program. He knew we would win, all from the beginning. So he planned, he made his program. He was ready for the day that he would be 'shut down' and so now he's back. When he launched the program, he went onto the internet. Anyone foolish enough to visit his site gave him power to materialize himself into the real world."
The gang was silent for a time, letting it all sink in. Finally, Yumi said, "Do you have any idea where he is?"
"No, unfourtunately. I'm looking for a way to tell, but all I got is the signal that he's here, but I can't figure out a way to track it." Everyone was silent for a time, no one new what to say. Finally Jeremy said, "I suppose it's time I start up that old basement again.." Everyone looked around at each other in silent agreement.
So Jeremy went to the factory's basement, where the weapons of war in Lyoko were made and materialized for actual use in the real world, as he had done the last time X.A.N.A. had attacked. For the moment everyone else tried to put X.A.N.A. out of their minds. But the truth was no one could. How could this have happened? Why? How come Jeremy didn't know about it? Was it Jeremy's fault? All of these questions burned within the seven kids, but they would have to leave them aside. It'll be ok.. Chandra thought.. Slyzer says he'll protect me.. she smiled inwardly. From the way she was seated on his laps, his arms around her, things seemed to be that way.
They sat in Slyzer's room, on his bed. Jim would be around checking to see if everyone was in their own dorms and asleep soon, so Chandra soon had to head back to her room. "I'd better get going," she said.
"Do you have to leave?" Slyzer muttered, his eyes closed.
"Not if you want to explain to Jim why I'm sitting on your lap at 10:00 PM." Slyzer grinned.
"Alright.. I guess it'd be better to avoid that huh?"
"You guessed right," Chandra answered, she got up, and headed for the door. Seeing the look of sadness on Slyzer's face, she said, "Oh it'll be alright, I'll see you in the morning. I love you," and she bent down to the bed and kissed him. Not just a little kiss, but she was practically on top of him, her feet dangling off the bed, barely touching the floor. They wrapped their arms around each other, locked together, for what seemed like forever, kissing on and on. Then they heard a knock on the door.
Slyzer's body got all icy-hot on the inside, like you do when you're scared. He was scared, because he thought that the visitor was Jim. But instead of Jim, Aelita came running in, and to quite a sight. Chandra laying on top of Slyzer with her arms wrapped around him. But no time for that, "Come quickly!" She said, "To Jeremy's room at once!" Instantly Chandra and Slyzer feared the worst, that X.A.N.A. had already made an attack. They ran with Aelita to Jeremy's room.
Slyzer got there first, and flung open the door, without even bothering to knock. On the floor lay Yumi, curled up next to what looked like a dead hornet. "She's been poisoned!" Jeremy yelled, "By X.A.N.A.'s hornets! He's here already! We have to get her to the infirmary at once!"
"Yumi!" Ulrich shouted, running into the room.
"What's all the commotion about?" Jim asked, walking by the doorway. As he did, Ulrich and Odd came rushing out, practically dragging the limp form of Yumi. "What the-" Slyzer, Chandra, Jeremy, and Aelita came rushing after.
"Yumi!" Ulrich was yelling when they got to the infirmary.
"She's not in the best condition, she seems to be poisoned," the nurse said, "so you'll all have to leave."
"No mam I must stay with her!" Ulrich shouted.
"No Ulrich you must go to bed, it's 11:00 already, now we need to care to Yumi!" And the gang was forced out of the infirmary.
Ten minutes later, they were sitting on a bench outside. It was very dark, but the sirens of the ambulance were hard to miss. A few people loaded Yumi on, and then the vehicle proceeded to drive away.
"No I can't leave her!" Ulrich shouted. "Slyzer, do you think you can hitch a ride?" Ulrich asked, realizing he at least needed someone telling him what was going on. Slyzer grinned, his famous grin. He was after all, the fastest, who better to do it then him? As the ambulance pulled out, he ran after it, and jumped onto the back, and then onto the ceiling. He then clung for dear life as the ambulance sped out of town.
Ulrich couldn't stand what was happening. Yumi had just been in the hall, and then attacked and poisoned apparently, upon entering Jeremy's room. Why was she going into Jeremy's room at 10:00 though? Ulrich started worrying, thinking terrible thoughts. He wasn't the only one hit hard by Yumi's sudden illness. Jeremy seemed to be in tears, and of course all the rest of the gang was sad. It really only affected Ulrich and Jeremy the most, however.
Slyzer was having the ride of his life, but it quickly came to a close as the ambulance reached the hospital. He quickly jumped down before anyone knew he was there, and discreetly followed the men carrying Yumi into the hospital. When he got to her room however, he was quickly rushed away and told he couldn't visit until the patient was in a less unstable condition. He called Ulrich, relaying exactly what they had told him.
"A LESS UNSTABLE CONDITION?" Ulrich shouted.
"That's what they said.." Slyzer was a bit choked up. He no longer had feelings for Yumi, not like he did for Chandra, but he still loved her very much as a friend. "I don't know what's happening. I'm staying here for the night, make up an excuse for me or something.." Ulrich hung up, and ran to his room, trying not to cry, but he started sobbing as soon as his head hit the pillow. Aelita and Jeremy left as well, leaving Odd and Chandra outside on the cold night, sitting on that bench.
"Odd I'm scared," Chandra said, breaking the dark and heavy silence.
"Oh? For Yumi?" Odd asked.
"Well yes Odd, naturally, but for us all... I mean how many more hornets and monsters are there?"
"Well I dunno Chandra, but Slyzer's theory is that the one that.. poisoned Yumi.. was just a scout, and he can usually tell about those things. When it doesn't return, well, the army will invade I suppose.." And at those words Chandra started to cry, wishing more than ever that she was with Slyzer now. It would be a rough night for the gang, and who knew what kind of monsters were to come?
Well there you have it I really hope you like the first chapter! Plz plz plz review!
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