Code: Lyoko
The virtual dreamer.
The sun rose normally as it did each day over the city Odd, Ulrich and Jeremy all turned over and groaned in their dorms, Yumi doing the same in her bedroom, each wanting to continue sleeping. But elsewhere, inside the virtual world of Lyoko, something completely new was happening.
XANA's monsters were patrolling and attacking a virtualised person within Lyoko, but this time it was not Aelita, there was a new presence inside Lyoko. Two hornet robots were chasing a hooded figure, dressed in all black, as he ran and tried to escape from them. Holding a long grey staff the figure jumped from one rock to another within the Mountain sector, looking for a way to escape his pursuers. With a powerful kick he back flipped off of a rock, destroying one of the robotic monsters with a swing of his staff. Racing away from the second hornet the figure took a laser beam to the back of his right leg. Limping away the figure threw his staff with all his might at the hornet, slamming into the bulls-eye like mark of XANA's servant. Exhausted, the figure collapsed onto the rocky ground of the mountain sector, and de-virtualised, returning to where he came.
Elsewhere Aelita, recuperating in a tower, sensed a large surge of energy and jumped up with a start. Rushing frantically she sent a message to Jeremie, her face appearing on his computer screen, crying his name in despair and alarm.
"Jeremie! Jeremie! Wake up! Please! Are you there! I sensed a large surge of energy; I think XANA has woken up again! The surge was much more powerful then normal!"
Jeremie groaned and rolled over in bed, waving a hand toward his computer screen.
"Uuuuhhhn…..five more minutes…" Jeremie muttered, drifting off to sleep once more.
"Jeremie! Jeremie!" Aelita cried, but Jeremie had fallen asleep once more. Resolving to find out what the surge of energy was, Aelita set off to the mountain sector.
The school bell rang to signal the beginning of the day, the students filed into the classrooms of Kadic College and sat in their usual places. As the lesson began Principal Delmas entered and had a few words with the science teacher. Ulrich and the others were all whispering to each other.
"Any sign of XANA yet Jeremie?" Ulrich asked.
"Negative," Jeremie replied, "XANA hasn't made any moves yet. I didn't get a chance to talk to Aelita this morning though, I woke up too late."
"Probably shouldn't stay up all night talking to her Jeremie, she doesn't need sleep" Odd pointed out.
Jeremie ignored Odd and went on talking to Ulrich, Ulrich wasn't listening to him; he was trying to listen in on the conversation between the principal and the science teacher. Hearing only the words 'student' and 'scholarship' he gave up and slumped back into his seat. As the headmaster finished his conversation with the teacher he turned to the class.
"Good morning class." Principal Delmas greeted,
"Good morning principal Delmas," the children responded in unison.
" Today we have a new student joining us," the principal continued, " I would like you all to give him a warm welcome and help to make his time at Kadic to be a happy one."
The principal walked towards the door during his speech. As he finished, he laid his hand on the doorknob and opened the door, showing a young boy, brown skinned and wearing glasses that he wore halfway down his nose. He was dressed in blue jeans and was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt. He also had a grey camouflage patterned bandana tied around his right arm.
"Allow me to introduce your newest classmate, Damon Okoyl." The principal announced, stepping to the side as Damon walked in, "say hello everyone!" the principal said.
"Good morning Damon." The entire class called. The new student raised his hand to his glasses pulled them down a little, looking at the rest of the class over his spectacles, he raised his two fingers together on one hand, in a wave.
"Yo," He answered, "nice to see you."
The principal stood there and had a few more words with the teacher before leaving, Damon walked into the class, as he passed Sissi's desk she tried to catch his eye, but was ignored as Damon walked past. Sissi frowned and nodded to Herve. He nodded back with a grin and as Damon walked by him, he stuck his foot out and tripped Damon up.
"Wooooaaaah!" Damon cried out as he fell, hitting the floor and wincing slightly as his glasses cracked, cutting him on the cheek.
The teacher watched as Damon got back up and gasped slightly when she saw his face was bleeding. Angrily, the teacher asked if someone had tripped him up.
"No…no I fell on my own…" Damon replied, "Tripped over a table leg is all…"
The teacher nodded and resumed the lesson, Damon walked to the back of the class amidst the laughs and giggles of the other students and took the seat behind Odd, he glanced back at him. Damon pulled of his glasses and wiped the small trickle of blood from under his eye. Staring out of the window Damon paid barely any attention to the lesson.
The bell rang to signal the end of the lesson, and it was time for recess. The students all filed out and went their separate ways in the usual fashion. Damon was still new, and had nowhere to go yet, so he sat alone on a bench, leaning his head over the back of it and staring at the sky. Damon sighed and closed his eyes. When he opened them there was a dog staring him right between the eyes.
"Aah!" Damon cried out as he jumped off the bench and landed on his backside, when he looked up, he saw the dog was being held by someone. A young boy with a purple patch in his hair.
"Hey," the boy said, " your new aint'cha?"
"Yeah," Damon replied, sitting back on the bench, "names Damon."
"I know," the boy replied, "I was there when you had your little trip,"
"Oh," Damon sighed, " so you saw that eh?"
"The entire class did dude, not such a great start if you know what I mean."
"Yeah yeah I see your point," Damon replied, "its hard enough making friends as it is, so far I don't have any."
"Huh? No friends? So what do you do all day?" Odd asked,
"I train. Damon replied almost instantly.
"Train? Train for what?"
"To be the strongest." Damon told him.
"How ya gonna do that?" Odd asked him, intrigued.
"Well, I study a lot of martial arts, and work out everyday, so I can do loads of stuff."
"Like what, lets see what you can do then" Odd said.
Damon nodded and stood up, pulling the bandana from his arm he tied it around his head, then backed up a little and ran towards to bench he was sitting on, he jumped off of it with one foot and landed on the edge of it, standing on one hand, he then pushed off of the edge of the bench, falling to the other side of it, rolling forward on the ground and kicking himself back onto his feet. Damon stood and turned back to Odd, pulling his bandana off.
"Stuff like that." Damon said, re-tying the bandana to his arm.
"Woah!" Odd exclaimed, "That was cool! Wait a second, if you can do that, then how come you let yourself fall over back in class?"
" I didn't wanna show off as soon I came into class, you know? Sometimes its better to keep those things a secret or people will think there's something weird and they'll try to avoid me, it's happened before." Damon replied, sighing.
"Yeah, that's cool," Odd, replied, "well, one of your problems have already gone." Odd said with a smile.
"What do you mean?" Damon asked, slightly confused,
"You've just made a new friend." Odd said with a grin, extending his hand, "I'm Odd." Damon stood up, looking at Odds hand, then at him.
"No you seem fine to me, you aren't odd at all." Damon said, Odd laughed.
"Haha no, Odd's my name" he replied,
"Odd huh? That's an…. odd name." Damon said.
"No kidding, well, lets get going," Odd replied. "Everyone's waiting for us."
"Going where?" Damon asked. Odd grabbed his arm and began dragging him away. Damon stumbled a little and followed Odd, "everyone who?"
"Just come on!" Odd told him, dragging him towards a small group of three people talking to each other. Damon could tell what was going to happen and he gulped, wondering what to say to them. Odd dragged Damon over to the people and greeted them.
"Hey everyone, this is Damon, he's the new guy, say hi," Odd said to Damon. Damon, a little shy, looked at each of the people.
"Uh…. Yo." he muttered, looking at each of the people, "nice to meet you." A brightly skinned girl with black hair stepped forward and held her hand out to Damon, which he shook.
"Hi Damon, I'm Yumi. This is Jeremie," she said, pointing towards a shorter boy with glasses and blond hair, "and this is Ulrich." She went on, nodding her head towards a slightly taller boy with brown hair." Damon nodded again and waved at them both. A short silence followed, Damon feeling awkward and not knowing what to say, Yumi started talking again, asking him a question.
"So Damon, do you live off campus or are you boarding here?" Yumi asked,
"I've got a little place where I stay," Damon, replied, "it's off campus."
"Don't you live with your parents Damon?" Jeremie asked, Damon shook his head slightly and shrugged.
"Nope, don't have any." He replied to Jeremie,
"How can you not have any parents?" Ulrich asked,
"Simple, I just don't, I live by myself." Damon replied, staring at the ground.
"So you have no one at all who's even close like family? Then how did you get into this school?" Odd cut in,
" Oh I have someone," Damon said, raising his head to look at them, " the professor, I've known her for as long as I can remember, so I guess she's like a mother to me, she gave me my place to stay and got me into this school."
The others remained silent and looked at each other for a moment, Damon, realising he had said too much, stared at the floor once more and remained silent. After a few moments the bell rang to signal the end of recess, when the day had ended everyone met up as usual, Jeremie left for the factory to continue his research with Aelita, Yumi and Ulrich went off with each other to the park. Odd however, decided to follow Damon without his knowing, finding Damon too suspicious and mysterious for his liking. Odd followed Damon to his home, an apartment building, Damon made his way up the stairs of it, Odd following stealthily behind him, Damon kept on climbing the stairs of the building till he reached the very top, never stopping or looking around. Odd, starting to slow down out of fatigue did his best to keep up with Damon. Damon reached the very top of the stairs and reached into his pocket, pulling out a key and pushing it into a lock he unlocked the door and pushed it open. He stood still for a moment and sighed; pausing at the door he called out.
"Coming in Odd?" he said.
Odd jaw dropped, realising he was caught he walked out into the open, staring at the floor,
"If you wanted to see where I lived why didn't you just say so," Damon asked, "its not that weird a thing to ask, so you coming in or not?"
Odd smiled and nodded, following Damon into the apartment he was greeted by a one room apartment, with a bed in the corner, a sink against the wall, a stand with a TV, stereo and several cds in the corner, and a chair in front of it, with a window facing outwards towards the forests. There was also a stand in the corner, with several cases for what appeared to be weapons.
"Welcome to my place Odd," Damon said, collapsing backwards onto his bed, " take a seat," Odd sat down at the chair in front of the TV and swivelled in the chair to face Damon,
"You really live here all by yourself?" Odd asked Damon,
"Yup." Damon replied, staring up at the ceiling,
"Really? How do you get money, and food?" Odd asked,
"The professor, she brings me money, and I buy my own food and stuff."
"You keep talking about this professor, what's she like?" Odd asked, "She must be really important."
"The professor is like my mother," Damon replied, "she told me that she found me when I was very young, she gave me my name and brought me up for as long as I can remember, I'm too old to stay with her now, so she gave me this place to stay, and got me into Kadic, I still see her a lot, maybe you'll meet her one day."
Odd nodded, "maybe I will, she seems pretty cool," Odd looked over at Damon to see that he had dozed off slightly. Odd laughed a little and took another look around the room, his gaze settling on the weapons stand, standing up and walking slowly over to it, so as not to wake Damon, Odd's gaze rested on a sword scabbard at the very top of the stand.
"Ulrich would love to see this," Odd thought, slowly reaching toward the scabbard, as his fingertips were a few centimetres towards him, his cell phone rang snapping him back to reality.
"What's up Jeremie?" Odd asked, answering the call.
"Emergency Odd," Jeremie answered, "Aelitas sensed some kind of disturbance in Lyoko, some strange new pulsations, it looks like XANA's up to something, and we need you here quick."
"Roger." Odd answered, hanging up, "sorry Damon, but I gotta go," Odd thought to himself, "ill see you later," Odd left the small apartment, but forgetting that Damon was asleep, slammed the door slightly, Damon awoke with a start, looking around drowsily. As Odd made his way down the stairs his cell phone rang again.
"Okay Jeremie, I'm on my way, no need to panic, I'm leaving from Damons place right now."
" That's just it Odd, there's no more emergency, according to my scans the disturbance just…vanished." Jeremie replied.
"Vanished?" Odd said, "what do you mean vanished? We better go to Lyoko and take a look at all this."
"Affirmative." Jeremie replied, "get over here soon Odd." Jeremie told him, hanging up, Odd wondered what this new disturbance could be for a few moments, but then shrugged it off, breaking into a dash down the stairs, back in the small apartment, Damon had drifted off to sleep once more…
First off, I know I'm making a big mistake here by leaving my teen titans fan-fic unfinished, but for some reason I've lost all willpower to continue with it at the moment, I don't know why, but consider it on Hiatus for awhile, I have another chapter already, if I can be bothered to submit it I will, but don't bother trying to rush me. I really like this fan-fic so far, but you have probably guessed what the disturbance is, and can probably see the entire story from this one chapter, but whatever, I'm going to write it anyway. Tell me if you like it, peace. Jason