**KtF DOES NOT OWN ANYTHING CODE LYOKO**

I can see the light

Yumi shifted her leg, sending another mind blowing side kick to the face of the dummy. She landed on the ground, breathing hard and fast as sweat dripped down her forehead as she heard clapping behind her.
"Excellent Yumi. That was perfect." Odd, her best friend said behind her as she gave him a playful bow. "Thank you good sir, your opinion means a lot to me" her voice joked as she laughed, her friend raising a bow in his hands and firing it at a target, it hitting a bulls-eye. Odd came from a long line of Kings in a few villages away. His parents sent him here with Yumi and her parents to keep him away from a rebellion back home.

Yumi's parents were were King and Queen of Kadic, a big city surrounded by forest and a ocean. In the mean time, they were at peace with another city called Lyoko, while Lyoko still sent warnings to the King and Queen. Lyoko was called the tortured town, being ruled by a evil king, Xana the horrible, along with his chief Warrior William. William was originally from Kadic but King Xana promised him power in exchange for a life time of service, which was sad to the young princess, considering they were good friends, though he always wanted more. That's why he left, Yumi and her parents denied his wishes to marry her. Her parents wouldn't force her into that, no matter what it would do.

The two teens smiled as they trained for a few more minutes till one of her servants announced the return of two of their friends, gesturing them in.

The first was a sweet girl, a year younger then herself, with short light pink hair and her normal traveling clothes on. Her name was Aelita, who she had met a year ago. She use to live in Lyoko after her parents abandoned her due to being taken and killed by King Xana. He knew that she was dangerous since she was too rebellious, She hated his ways and she was to persuasive to the people around them. He had his guards hunt her down till she was killed or left in the woods to die. Little did he know that Yumi had found the girl and took her home to stay with her family, they have been best friends since.

The other was a blonde haired boy with small glasses on his face. He had started as her fathers adviser but soon the two grew close and they became friends also. He was intelligent and very nice. He had a big crush on Aelita though, and she sometimes showed feelings back but they always fought over the simplest things. Who was smarter, who was braver(though it was clearly Aelita). They all had each others company and were quickly the best friends ever.

Yumi smiled as she waved to the two "Hey there. How was the trip?" She asked. Jeremy and Aelita had gone to give a message to one of the main guards.

"Good. We got it to him fine." Aelita had said, walking over and sitting on a bench in the courtyard where they were at.
"Ya, After someone got us lost." Jeremy muttered and the two exchanged glares. Odd just busted out laughing and Yumi had to hide a smile.

"Whatever you say love birds" Odd teased as the two flushed quickly
"NO" "Ick! Not ever!" they both said at once, causing Yumi and Odd to burst out laughing harder.

Before they could stop exchanging giggles and glares Hiroki, Yumi's little brother came into the court yard with Lin, their caretaker. She was a sweet older woman in her late 70's which clearly showed, but the older woman was tougher then a mountain.

"Yumi!" Hiroki called and Yumi just groaned.

"What Hiroki?" She mumbled, looking down at her little brother, who stuck his tongue out at her in return. They always acted like that with each other though they both knew they loved each other.

They continued their stare down till Lin broke it

"Stop it you two. Now all Three of you need to go get dressed in your best. King Xana is stopping by." She said, her old voice sounding annoyed. Lin always had a hatered for King Xana, and his visits never meant well. She turned her head to Aelita only "Come on darling we are gonna go to town while he is here." She said, her sweet as honey voice returning as she gestered Aelita off, leaving the four kids to themselves.
"What could he want?" Jeremy asked, mostly himself.
"Who knows but it can't be good. It never is, last time he was here we almost broke off into a war right then." Yumi said, looking at the ground before grabbing her fans and looked at her friends "I guess we will find out. See you later tonight." she said with a small bow as she went to her room, seeing the guys split apart to their rooms also.

King Xana himself coming to their castle? This couldn't be good she thought as she made her way to her room on the west side of the castle. Her room was fairly large, it had a large light gray and oak bed, a dresser, a vanity and her own bathroom. She also had a few things of her own in there, a target with many holes and dents from her fans in it, a life size wooden dummy like she had in the courtyard, and a mat she practiced her gymnastics on. Her favorite part was the balcony though.

It faced the ocean and had only a few feet between the end of the wall of her balcony and a thirty foot cliff. She loved it, it was also so beautiful to watch the sunset. She sat on her balcony, leaning on the railing around the edge of the large platform, the sun was starting to slowly descend to the horizon and she knew the meeting would be soon. She sighed as she made her way back to her room, forcing herself to get ready, but making sure she had her fans with her tonight. She had a bad feeling just all around.