( I do not own Code Lyoko, and if I did….. I would not change a damn thing.)
Hey its chapter two time, sorry for the wait. Making this story was such an impulsive decision and I though that no one would read it or review it. As of now I am officially mistaken on that. I just hope that this chapter measures up to the first.
Now I have one thing to clear up right now. It has come to my attention that the ages I gave the characters are off, but when reading through the story again I found my own little devil's avocet, which is the mistake I made of calling the school Kadic High school and with there ages the way I put them they are Sophomores and Yumi is a Junior...
I hope this clears things up a bit.
( This chapter is dedicated to deadinside72's pink-and-blue-hello-kitty sox)
Chapter Two: "...and it was such a lovely day too."
Yumi's face was as red as a peach as she sat in silence. It was times like this where she wished she could turn invisible and just run away. " Yumi? Earth to Yumi." Ulrich said while waving his hand in front on Yumi's face trying to bring her back to reality. " Yumi, what's with the face. It wasn't like I was sucking my thumb, was I?" Ulrich gaze moved from Yumi's still blushing face to his thumb.
' Looks like Ulrich really doesn't remember his dream and what just happened. Maybe it was just a fluke, not a real kiss but just one of those things guys do.' Yumi heart was beginning to tare but remained quite while diminishing the redness of her face. She was once again caught by surprise when Ulrich stopped in his tracks and grabbed Yumi's hand.
" Ok, what's going on? Your not saying anything, and your here on a Sunday." Ulrich questioned.
And without thinking Yumi let Ulrich have it. " What wrong with being here on a Sunday huh? I do have friends here ya know, I thought they would be happy to see me but I guess one of them feels differently. You know, why am I here? I'm going home." Yumi ran out of the forest as fast as she could an headed for home. Ulrich on the other hand was speechless, he could not even get his body to respond to him. Finally after about five minutes of being stunned he finally was able to make his way back to the school.
' What was that all about? Did I say something that could have made her mad at me?' Ulrich thought as he walked into his dorm and laid down on his bed. He just could not figure out what Yumi's problem was. ' Maybe she doesn't like me that way, and got all offended when I took her hand, but I have taken Yumi's hand many times and she didn't have a problem then. I just don't know.' was Ulrich's last thought before falling asleep once again.
-Yumi's House-
Yumi quickly burst through the door and ran up to her room Leaving her parents, which were on the couch, surprised. Yumi tossed herself on to her bed and buried her head into a pillow. ' God damn it Yumi! Why do you always have to make things difficult for yourself? Its not like he did anything wrong. Maybe I should call him and apologize.' Yumi picked up her phone and was about to dial Ulrich's number when she remembered the kiss in the woods and Ulrich's obliviousness. These two things were almost enough to rip Yumi's heart in two. To have felt Nirvana just to have it ripped from you suddenly was what brought Yumi to tears as she threw her phone into the opposite wall and once again barring her crying soul into her pillow only to have her tears comfort her as she drifted into a emotionally unbalanced dream.
-Yumi's dream-
The dream was in a slide show effect showing Yumi her life, from when she arrived at Kadic to her friendship with Odd and the others ,and there battles in Lyoko. But there was something wrong with these dreams something's that she could not place her finger on until it got to the battle of the kiss and Yumi was hanging on the cliff side and her fingers were about to lip and BAM... everything went black. In the midst of the emptiness were four words that were fading into to view. It took a few seconds to realize what the word were and they confused her as it spelled " A world without love" and at that moment Yumi was back at the point on the cliff slipping into the "Zero World" and she liked to call it.
' Its ok this is where Ulrich saves me.' she thought. Then it hit her like a bolt of lightning. All the slides that were shown to her did not have Ulrich in them, he was gone. Right before being permanently devitalized everything went black again and the old words were replaced by new ones which asked " Still feel unloved?... Maybe this will change your mind." And just like last time Yumi was shown another slide type show, but this one was an actual moving pictures, like a movie. The weird thing was, Ulrich was back in the show. The movie was every moment when Ulrich sacrificed himself to save her in Lyoko and in the real world. Then she saw a moment in the real world that she has never seen before. It was this shadowy figure stalking someone in the woods. This person had a knife and looked like if he did not get what he wanted he was going to use it. The stalker was a good distance away from his pray, which was completely dressed in black, so that he did not startle "her" if he had made a sound. The Stalker licked his lips as he was going to dash at his pray, but before he could he heard someone behind him and turn to see Ulrich in a fighting stance.
" What are you doing here Stern?" The teenager asked. " I should ask you the same question, but then, I already know the answer and you are not going to rape Yumi like you so dearly planned too." and with that Ulrich lunged at the armed man and quickly disarmed him. Now they were in a one-on-one fist fight, Ulrich took the initiative and struck the stalker's left side of his face with a spinning round house kick, which laid out the man. Quickly getting to his feet the teenager attacked Ulrich but to no avail, Ulrich just dodged some punches and block the other, and when Ulrich found an opening he landed a hard punch right below the rib cage cause all the air in his opponent's lunges to empty. While the breathless man desperately tried to fill his lungs with air, Ulrich did a double ax kick and dropped his heel on the back on the mans head assumedly knocking him out and with the fight won Ulrich turned to leave.
But soon Ulrich turn unexpectedly to see the teenager right in front of him, and without wasting a moment the rearmed man jammed his knife into Ulrich's abdomen as blood began to leak from his body. Ulrich bite his lip trying not to scream in anguish and keep his focus on his opponent. Ulrich grabbed the man's arm and overpowered him and removed the knife from his body. As if it were a stroke of luck for Ulrich, when the assailant attempted to stab Ulrich again, Ulrich was able to counter his opponent and obtained his weapon. Unfortunately for Ulrich it was a life a death moment, and Ulrich stabbed the teen through the back of the neck and watch him drop to the ground lifelessly, and then the dream ended.
-Yumi's bedroom-
Yumi sat up quickly after her dream had ended. She placed her hands on her head and wiped her sweat. After catching her breath she entered her bathroom and started to fill the bathtub with warm water. She even poured some aroma oils into the water and in an instant the bathroom was filled with the smell of lavender. Yumi then walked back into her room grabbed her phone and headed back to the bathroom. "Just encase something happens.' she thought as she placed the phone on the small wooden table next to the bath tub. Yumi then turned off the water and removed her cloths. She slowly entered the tub letting every part of her feminine body feel the soothing warmth of the water. Yumi just laid there for minute after minute trying to think of what happened in her dream. ' Its just a dream Yumi, Ulrich wasn't stabbed. A wound like that would have killed a human, then again Ulrich is far from that. I wonder if he's ok.' No matter how hard she tried she could not let that thought go until finally she grabbed the phone and dialed Ulrich's number.
- Ulrich's and Odd's Dorm Room-
Ulrich was awakened by the sound of his phone ringing. He quickly rubbed his eyes and answered the call. " Hello?" he said tiredly.
" Umm...hey Ulrich." Yumi meekly.
"Yumi! Oh...umm why are you calling me? I thought you were mad." Ulrich asked in complete surprise.
"No, I'm not mad. Just emotionally unstable as usual." Yumi and Ulrich shared a laugh.
" So, Yumi what are you doing?" Ulrich asked.
" Taking a bath." Yumi replied like it was no big deal.
" I meant later on toda...WHAT?" Ulrich asked again letting what Yumi said sink in and trying to get his face from blushing.
-Quick Look in Yumi's Bathroom-
" You know a bath. The thing with the tub and the hot water and being naked and... OH MY GOD!" Yumi yelled as she finally realized that she was on the phone with Ulrich while she was naked. She quickly hung up the phone and dried herself of and walked into her room with the phone in hand.
-Back at Ulrich's-
" Uh... Yumi? Damn it, forgot to ask her to the dance." he stated while still being a little red in the face. It was then when Ulrich could here some of his fellow students scream as a bunch of very familiar lasers were shot. " Looks like Xana is up to no good again." Ulrich thought as he looked out his window to see what he would have to be facing. " Hmmmm... I can see two blocks and a crab, and that's only what I can see. Who knows how many there are in this building." Ulrich spoke to himself. The young Brunette ran to his bed and pulled out a nail gun. " After seeing Jim use this I would never use anything else, well unless it was a katana." Ulrich chuckled and slowly cracked open his door. To his surprise there were roaches everywhere. He then pulled his door closed and locked it. " Wonder if Jeremy is already at the factory with Aelita." Ulrich thought as the roaches appeared to be gathering outside his door. And as if on queue Ulrich's phone rings. " Hello?" Ulrish said answering his phone.
" Ulrich, thank god I found you. Where are you at?" said a very exhausted Jeremy
" In my room, Jeremy and pretty soon I'm going to be submerged in a heated battle so could you hurry it up?" Ulrich said with his eyes glue to his door.
" What?... Ulrich there to many of them. You'll be killed!" Jeremy yelled which got the attention of everyone in the control room, which consisted of Odd, Aelita, and a still damp but very exhausted Yumi and Jeremy put the phone on speaker so everyone could hear instead of asking him what's going on.
" I have to take my chances, Jeremy. If I make a run for the factory I would have a less chance of surviving, and even if I did survive I would be leading them all back to the factory to kill us all at once and I...well you guys are my friends and if I can die protecting you all then it would be well worth it." Ulrich said as a tear was starting to build in the corner of his eye.
" Don't say things like the Ulrich, you'll be fine. This is a pieces of cake." Odd said trying to lighten the mood while Yumi remained silent.
" Look guys lets face facts, you guys don't think that it as always going to be as easy as deactivating a virtual tower now did you? I will do my best to survive and we'll see each other when this is all done." Ulrich paused so a few seconds. " But if there is anything you guess would wish to tell me now would be a really good time."
Yumi walked closer to the phone while biting her lower lip. " Um, Ulrich... I... I..." Yumi was then cut off by the sound of lasers and explosions which came from the other end of the line and the it soon went dead.
Chapter 2 is over, please read and review…
… Don't you just hate cliffhangers?
