I want to start by saying thank you to my reviewers; lyokodreamer, MoonlitxAngel, lyokofan4life, and AwesomeFanFictionAuthor (Affa). So without further ado…
Chapter #2: Odd the Great
Sabrina frowned as she stepped out of the room and closed the door behind her. She turned and walked down the hallways. There was something strange about how all of the buildings looked the same despite the fact that things had apparently changed a lot. Then her eyes blinked in surprise as she saw the familiar face of Ulrich Stern walk by her, accompanied by Theo Gauthier and William Dunbar. The three were involved in earnest conversation, laughing and chuckling. All she caught as they walked by was the word Jeremie.
Sabrina stared after them in utter bewilderment, totally taken aback. If there was one thing that was known as an absolute fact, it was that Ulrich Stern and William Dunbar did not get along. Yet, here the two were, apparently incredibly close friends. She turned to speak with them when she heard the footsteps of somebody approaching her.
Standing in front of her was a somewhat short, svelte character dressed in purple and with smooth blond hair that had a purple stripe running through it. "Odd!" Sabrina cried, quickly throwing her arms around him and causing the self-composed Odd Della Robbia to take a moment to recollect his composure.
"Do I… know you from somewhere," Odd eyed Sabrina up and down curiously. "No, of course we haven't. I would have remembered dating a girl of your beauty. You must be the new girl." He reached out his hand shook Sabrina's. "I am Odd the Great, the genius and mastermind at this school… but you apparently know who I am…" Pausing for a second to reflect, he asked, "Might you be Yumi Ishiyama's roommate?"
"Yes," Sabrina replied quickly, almost a little too quickly. She didn't want to give away the truth. The haunting statement was still resounding through her ears. Do not speak of Lyoko, XANA or anything else about the Lyoko Warriors or the portal will collapse, and you will all be destroyed. "She told me all about you."
"Did she now?" Odd asked with a raised eyebrow. "Tell me, Miss… Oh, pardon me mademoiselle, it seems I forgot to ask your name." This he said with a somewhat flirtatious voice.
"My name is Sabrina Danielle," Sabrina said with a smile.
"Ah, very we…" Odd trailed off as his eyes locked onto the two girls walking towards them. They way they walked, almost in a swinging gangster fashion, caused Sabrina to frown in confusion. Whoever these two girls were, they looked like trouble.
One of the girls reminded Brina of a biker girl. Her hair was long and black with red streaks running down it, and she wore a short sleeved black leather jacket. The jacket was open and a striped pink and white short-sleeved shirt was underneath, leaving most of her arms bare. On the end of one hand she had a leather glove designed to have the fingers come out the end. She also wore black leather boots with two rectangles splotches of a lighter gray color.
The second girl was the one that Odd's attention had locked on, however. She wore a long silver shirt and dark black sweat pants. She had bright pink earings and her hair was a strange blackish color with some silver-ish gray thrown in. Her eyes were half-open, but not with a sleepy look. The look seemed to say that the entire world could perish, and she wouldn't care enough to do anything about it. As Brina looked at her, she also had to acknowledge that something about this girl made her a striking beauty.
However, they also made her uneasy. As beautiful as the two of them may have looked in most locations and at most times, at this moment they looked nothing but scary. Odd, however, seemed unaffected and rushed up to the two girls. Dropping on one knee in front of the second one, he said, "Fair Maiden, you are a flower like no other. Your bloom has swept me off my feet. You are an angel who has dared to not hide her beauty."
The first girl eyed Odd with a chuckle as though this were quite humorous. The second one looked at Odd with total disgust. "Get lost loser," she said, kicking Odd hard before turning and walking on.
"Desert flower, don't leave!" Odd said, standing to his feet and turning to run after them. However, the first girl glanced back at Odd with a look that clearly said, Follow us and I will very much enjoy bashing your brains in. So Odd stopped in his tracks and watched them walk off before turning to Sabrina and saying, "This could make for a really interesting year." Then he turned and rushed off.
Sabrina stood silent for a moment, glancing around, before shrugging and saying, "Hey, Odd! Wait up!" Then she turned and rushed after Odd. Odd turned and put his finger to his lips in a silencing motion, but allowed her to follow him.
To her surprise, Odd led her directly to the gym, where he peered through the semi-open door and motioned to an epic fight being waged inside between Yumi Ishiyama and Ulrich Stern. Both of them were battle gear, but they still hit each other with such force that Sabrina couldn't help but wonder whether they might be giving each other bruises.
"Doesn't look like a very fun sport," Sabrina observed quietly. "They don't appear to be enjoying themselves."
"That's because they aren't," Odd replied simply. "Yumi has always been the best at karate here. From the first day, she was able to defeat that other guy, his name is Ulrich Stern. Anyways, Yumi has always been able to best him. Ulrich is the kind of guy who always has to be the best at everything, so he's been trying for years now to beat her, but she is trying just as hard to beat him."
"So, are they friends or what?" Sabrina asked, eyeing the two of them landing hard blows on each other.
"Friends!" Odd exclaimed. His voice sounded as if the very idea were disgusting. "Ulrich and Yumi are bitter rivals and enemies. They hate each other." Sabrina turned to Odd in surprise and confusion. As he'd said the last sentence, it was as if his voice had almost gotten a romantic twinge to it.
"I take it that you don't like Ulrich Stern very much then?" Sabrina asked curiously. This truly was a rather strange world.
"I don't just dislike that jerk, I hate him," Odd replied as a fire came into his voice. A look of stunned silence came over Sabrina's face. This part of Odd hadn't existed in Code Lyoko. "He is a pompous, nasty, stuck-up idiot! There are few people that I despise as much as Ulrich Stern."
"Now look," Odd said, pointing at Ulrich's bag. A light was coming from it, presumably a phone. Upon seeing it, Ulrich froze for a second, and Yumi's foot came crashing into his face. Ulrich dropped to the ground, stunned. "He did that on purpose. Watch."
Sabrina watched as the gym coach, a fellow by the name of Jim, spoke with Ulrich before releasing him from the practice early. Ulrich picked up his bag, and headed out of the gym. "Now get this," Odd continued. "Jim let Ulrich out because he is supposed to be going to the infirmary. However, instead he heads off towards the forest." Sure enough, Ulrich turned and did as Odd had predicted, pulling out his phone as he did so.
"I don't exactly know how it coincides yet, but I guarantee you that the blasted Einstein Jeremie Belpois, and two of Ulrich's good buddies will be absent from their classes at this time as well. "You think they'd have been caught by now. This is like the fifth time they've done it."
"Did you ever think to follow them?" Sabrina asked as she watched Ulrich run off.
"Follow them?" Odd asked, his eyes widening at the very thought. "Three of the most powerful jocks here at Kadic Academy have some secret, and you want me to simply follow them? If they found me, they'd tear me to shreds and enjoy it, especially Ulrich!"
Sabrina's eyes widened as she replayed the episodes in her head. "You mean that Ulrich and his friends are bullies?" she asked.
"Not technically," Odd replied, "but everybody here at Kadic know that you don't want to get them onto your bad side. They don't go around picking on people who are weaker, but they certainly aren't against using their muscles to punish people who are making themselves nuisances."
"I see," Sabrina said, quietly.
"Surely you can find better company, Sabrina?" Yumi asked with a smile as she stepped out of the dojo, a towel wrapped around her long hair. "That guy doesn't want anything from you but to woo you, don't waste your time with him. Come on. I'll take you to a swimming pool. You like swimming?"
Odd smiled and muttered under his breath to Sabrina, "Yumi is a fish. So I recommend that you go to the pool with her. Try your best to become close friends with her, because the last thing that you want to do is have an unfriendly roommate. Trust me on that one." He looked up and stared off into the forest. "It's not worth the trouble." Then he turned and walked off down one of the Kadic paths, pulling out a laptop as he did so.
Sabrina stared after Odd for a second before turning her attention back to Yumi. "Sure," she said with a smile. "Let's go."
And disclaimer: The biker girl belongs to my good friend Affa