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(Third person P.O.V)
"So how's Krystal adapting to life on earth, Aelita?" Yumi asked, as they were all in the lunch room, eating their lunch.
"She's.. She's doing okay, except for the fact that some how, she's become more popular than ever.." Aelita said, pointing to Krystal surrounded by a group of people. Krystal came into the school from 'China' posing as Odd's other transferred student/cousin and she now shares a room with Aelita, and they've become pretty close.
"Well, she's not really missing out on the good looks if you asked me." Odd commented, realizing what he just said and blushed, making the Lyoko warriors smirk.
"Someone's got a crush.." Ulrich teased, poking Odd.
"Okay so I admit, I do have a liking in her, but there are many other boys cuter than me probably trying to catch her heart." Odd noted and sighed, Yumi giggled and said, "Poor Odd, he's hopeless when it comes to love."
"Not to mention you have William to beat first before anything." Aelita pointed out and everyone looked at her confused.
"Well let's think about it guys, XANA didn't even want us to touch the ball, and now that she's out of Lyoko, it could be after her." Aelita stated and Jeremy nodded adding, "Yea, and don't you think it was kind of weird when she was the only one who didn't get attacked by William?"
Odd shrugged and sighed, the group saw Krystal coming over to them, shyly smiling and asking, "H-hey guys.. can I sit here?"
Everyone nodded and she sat down when Aelita asked, "Hey Krystal, did William try to attack you back in Lyoko?"
"Who?" Krystal asked, tilting her head slightly.
"The boy who stabbed me." Aelita whispered the 'stabbed me' part, only because she didn't want the other passing students to hear.
"Oh! I don't know.. He pointed his gigantic sword at me, and then it disappeared in his hand, I really don't know what he was trying to do." Krystal silently said, slightly frustrated when she remembered her venerability back in Lyoko.
"That's okay! It's all good now!" Odd said, grinning and putting his thumbs up.
"Hey guys, what's up!" Clone William came up, but Krystal, not knowing he was a clone, got her knife out and slightly positioned to throw it at him.
"Woah! It's okay, he's a clone." Aelita explained, whispering in Krystal's ear who nodded and put her knife down.
"Hey, you're the new girl right?" Clone William asked and Krystal nodded and he continued, "So where're you from? You look a little Asian, but also a bit French.."
"Sh-she's from China! She's Odd's cousin from China!" Yumi jumped, slightly shouted and everyone turned to her. She blushed in embarrassment and sat back down in her seat.
"Woah chill down Yumi! It was only a question." Clone William said, scratching the back of his hair.
The school bell rang, and Yumi said, "Well better get to that math test."
Clone William did a face palm and said, "Aw! I forgot to study!"
Yumi snickered and said, "So? Since when have you ever studied?"
He grinned as she ran and he followed. The group giggled at the scene (Except Ulrich of course.)
"Well Krystal, we'd better get to class." Aelita said, picking up her bag and Krystal doing the same as they ran to their next class.
(Aelita and Krystal's room.)
Krystal was inside of the room reading her biology book, Aelita had went to Jeremy's room in hopes that they would find something about Krystal and then there was a knock on the door and Krystal looked up saying, "Come in."
Suddenly, Sisi, Tamiya and Milly entered.
"Hey Krystal, I hope we're not interrupting or anything, but we'd really like to interview you for our next article!" Sisi said, putting her arms around her back, and Krystal tilted her head slightly, fully putting the book that she was reading away.
"Since we don't really know a lot about you, I'd like to ask you a few questions like, Are you really related to Aelita and Odd? Is it super hot, or cold from China? And why did you come here so suddenly in the middle of the year? Our readers are very interested to know some facts!" Sisi started to pester, but Krystal, having a lot of patience due to her being stuck in a room for 9-10 years, smiled and opened her mouth to say something, but was interrupted by Clone William.
"Can't you let her read in peace, huh?" Clone William asked, leaning against the doorway with his arms crossed.
"Alright get going, all three of you." He said, pointing out the door, indicating for them to leave.
"Oh William! I didn't know that you were so interested in helping Krystal! I thought you were interested in Yumi!" Sisi teased, asking in a slightly rude tune.
"Get going I said." William commanded and she sighed and nodded, her leading out and Milly and Tamiya.
As soon as the three left, William closed the door and Krystal gave a sigh in relief.
"Thanks William, I was almost a victim of Sisi and that's worse than-" Krystal started, but was interrupted when Clone William finished, "-than going back to being in prisoned in a dark room for another 10 years, is that what you're trying to say?"
Krystal looked up in fear and asked him, "H-how did you know that I was in prisoned..?"
Clone William turned around and Krystal saw his eyes turn into XANA's symbol and smirked, making her gasp in fear.
...
"We know the only reason William came back to Krystal and Aelita's room is because of Krystal, I can't wait to tell Ulrich the news that William finally backed off of his 'precious' Yumi and moved on to Krystal." Sisi said, as they marched down the hall towards Ulrich's room.
...
"William went to our room? You're kidding!" Aelita said, as the camera was being pointed to her. The room was filled with the Odd, Ulrich, Aelita and Jeremy (and of course Sisi, Milly, and Tamiya.)
"That doesn't make sense.. William shouldn't have feelings, he's a polymorphic clone!" Jeremy said, saying the last part to himself.
"Yea Ulrich, so what do you think about him moving on to Krystal?" Sisi said as Tamiya pointed the camera at him.
"I-Well! I know why.. -" Ulrich started but Odd finished, "Because.. He was helping her with her biology homework... He's pretty good at biology!"
They all started to get up and have the same idea to see what William was doing with Krystal "Um sorry, but we have to go!" Aelita said, running past the 3 girls, going straight to her room.
"Hey Sisi, you want a real scoop?" Milly asked, and Sisi turned to the shorter girl and nodded.
"We quit!" Tamiya and Milly said, putting their arms around eachother's shoulders.
"W-what?! You can't quit!" Sisi furiously said, and the two friends giggled saying at the same time "Want a bet?"
The four teenagers ran towards where they thought Krystal would be. Opening the door, they saw that it was vacant, and the room was slightly trashed up, as if a fight went down in the room.
"We have to call Yumi!" Aelita commanded and they started to pull our their phones, as Jeremy got out his laptop and said, "They're at the factory, I'm tracking them by their cellular devices."
(At the factory)
William typed in some code on the factory's computer and pressed enter, leaving an unconscious Krystal on the floor as he grabbed her and put her in one of the Golden tubes. And also put himself in a different one.
Once they got into Lyoko, XANA William landed flat on his feet and Krystal fell right on the floor, still unconscious, as he picked her up, by his shadows, and they started to head towards sector 5.
"They're not here." Ulrich said, looking around to see if they could find the two.
"I can see that, " Jeremy said, looking at his computer, "They're in sector 5, which is not very good."
"Hurry Aelita and Ulrich, Odd you try to reach Yumi again." The three nodded as Aelita and Ulrich headed for the golden tubes and Odd grabbed his phone out and started to dial Yumi's number again.
"Transfer Ulrich, transfer Aelita."
"Virtualization."
(Now in Lyoko)
Aelita and Ulrich landed on their feet and looked up as Jeremy informed, "Okay, you two have to head to the corridor in front of you."
"Okay, here we go!" Aelita said, as they prepared.
"You two better step on it while they're not too far away. I'll guide you once you reach the corridor."
Meanwhile, as William and Krystal was walking, she started to wake up, and slightly whisper 'W-where am I?' She looked up to see that William was right infront of her and she was trapped in shadows, struggling she asked, "W-where are you taking me..?"
She struggled some more, desperately trying to get out of the trap of shadows, she acted like she couldn't struggle anymore, trying for William to underestimate her power. She then struck up and fully got out of the shadows and quickly froze William's feet with ice.
"H-how..?" She looked at her hands, but she wasted no time to leave out of the room as he struggled to get out, he grabbed his sword and broke the ice, freeing him, he ran after Krystal.
"So having fun without inviting us?" Ulrich asked, as William turned around to see the two right behind them.
"My, you sure have changed then." Aelita added right behind him.
"Watch out guys, XANA has sent some creepers your way, and they're coming from right behind you."
William smirked grabbing his sword out, as Ulrich got his sword out and Aelita got her energy fields ready, William then said, "Super Smoke." And descended into smoke, going the same path Krystal did.
"Ulrich, I'll try following William, you get the creepers." Aelita commanded and he nodded. She ran out of the room, following William's path.
...
As Krystal ran to a different room Jeremy asked, "Krystal, can you hear me?"
"Yes I can, what's going on?" She panted, "And where is that boy-W-William- taking me?"
"I'm not positively sure, but where ever is was, it isn't good, Aelita will try to stall him off, but he's after you so you'd better get moving!"
She nodded, running a bit faster than before, she turned around to see smoke coming from right behind her, so she picked up the pace and started to run as fast as she could.
Making a turn she headed into a room, but it ended up being a dead end, she turned around to see the smoke right behind her and William appeared, making her gasp and throw yet another freeze ball at him.
"Aelita!" She screamed, trying to find some way out. She kept repeating Aelita's name over and over again, hoping that the pink haired girl would show up and help her. Krystal didn't know any of her other powers, except for the freeze ball, and that soon wasn't going to be much use to stop William.
After a few steps of William walking towards Krystal, Aelita flew in, landing on the ground and Krystal smiled and happily said, "Aelita!"
William turned around and snarled seeing Aelita, he got hit sword out, and Aelita got her energy field balls, and she started to throw them at him, but unfortunately, he blocked them off and hit her with his sword, making Aelita de-virtualize.
As she de-virtualized she shouted to Krystal, "Get out of there! Hurry!"
Krystal tried to take that chance to get out but William turned to her before she could even move a muscle. She's not actually dead, she's not actually dead! Krystal repeated to herself.
Krystal got out her freeze ball and threw it at him, sadly she missed when William ducked his head, walking towards her and Krystal backed up into the wall, looking either sides for a hopeful way out.
"Krystal! I'm so sorry! Please be careful!" It was Aelita's voice
Krystal slightly sighed in frustration as that was what she was trying to do, though, she did feel bad for Aelita, due to Aelita was just trying to help her, and unfortunately, failed.
"No please stop!" Krystal slightly begged, as William lifted his hand and threw smoke at her, knocking her hard onto the wall, leaving her unconscious. He picked her up, by the smoke, and they started to head out of the gigantic dome.
After a few minutes, they reached out of the dome and William called out, "Mantis!"
A mantis appeared and William gently put an unconscious Krystal on top of it, he got on and made a rope out of smoke and started to ride of too their destination.
...
"Guys! William is leading Krystal outside of sector 5!"
"Wait that doesn't make sense, " Ulrich thought, Yumi-who had just entered into Lyoko- asked, "Yea, I thought there wasn't any other sector outside of sector 5."
"I know, I'm trying to think..."
"Wait! The only thing outside of sector 5 is... the digital sea! You guys have to stop William from dropping Krystal into the sea! If she goes into the digital sea, she may never be able to be de-virtualized again!... And she'll be a permanent a permanent prisoner.. " Aelita's voice commanded, in a begging tone,
"Don't worry Aelita, we're on it!" Yumi assured as their vehicles arrived.
"Looks like we'd better hurry then, we don't want the Ice Princess to be a permanent prisoner." Ulrich said, and Yumi raised one of her eye-brows and asked, "Ice princess?"
"Well yea, we found her on the Ice Sector, she wears ice skates, and she sort of looks like a princess, PLUS, her name is Krystal." Ulrich replied shrugging and Yumi rolled her eyes, still a bit un-easy to actually help Krystal, but since Aelita really wants to help Krystal, she'll try her best to do her fair share
The two teenagers hopped onto their vehicles and started to follow William and Krystal. When William turned around and saw the two, he snarled and the mantas started to drop tiny bombs, which the two had to avoid. Ulrich got hit by one of the bombs making him de-virtualize.
Once they entered the tunnel, Odd came out with his vehicle and Jeremy informed, "Hurry Odd! They just went into the tunnel!"
"No problem Einstein." Odd said, jumping onto the hover board and started to get going.
...
When the mantis got out of the tunnel, with William and Krystal on top of it, Krystal started to once again wake up and look to her left, seeing William once again infront of her and Yumi chasing right behind.
"Yumi! You have to stop William from jumping into the Digital Sea!"
"I know Jeremy, I'm on it!" She exclaimed, try to throw one of her fans at William but sadly, he got out his sword and threw an energy source at her, making her fall off her OverWing.
"Yumi!" Krystal said, looking at Yumi fall.
But thankfully, Odd hit Yumi with his arrows, making her de-virtualize before falling into the sea. Making Krystal sigh in relief.
"Bombs-eye!" Odd shouted, throwing two arrows at the mantis, making it start to go off-course and it dropped Krystal, making her slightly yelp, but Odd caught her, and William seeing this turned the mantis around and started to chase Odd and Krystal.
Odd then short one more arrow at the mantis, hitting the XANA symbol and it disappeared, making William drop to the digital sea.
"Do you think he's gone forever?" Krystal asked, holding onto Odd.
"I doubt it, you know XANA somehow always makes a comeback." Odd replied jokingly, but Krystal only smiled, due to she was trying to be serious.
(Back at the school)
"Why would William want to put me into the digital sea? I don't understand.." Krystal asked as the group of friends sat next eachother on a bench.
"It's probably because he wants you to be his prisoner again." Aelita suggested and Krystal sighed.
"So you literally have no memory of how you got into Lyoko?" Jeremy asked and Krystal shook her head and brought out her diary, looking through the pages she said, "It doesn't say anything in here about how I got into Lyoko."
"Hey cool, what's that book for?" Odd asked.
"I don't know, " Krystal asked as she shrugged, "It's sorta like my diary, I remember first waking up in the room, the diary was the only source of information I could find."
"It must be pretty lonely staying in a dark room for so long, you probably haven't even seen your parents for a long time." Ulrich said, and Krystal shrugged, "I don't remember ever having parents.."
"My question is, how did I not even notice you in Lyoko before?" Aelita thought to herself.
"Well from you guys' point of view, I was trapped in some glowing ball the whole time." Krystal explained, "Where as, I thought I was trapped in a dim-lighted room."
"Hey, you don't have to answer but, what did the room look like?" Odd asked, looking at Krystal.
"It looks kinda like one of the dorms, except, there was only on bed and one shelf, with a tiny light ontop of it." Krystal explained.
"Maybe XANA could've been making you hallucinate, so that you thought you were trapped in a room, I mean, you did look asleep in the ball." Yumi pointed out and Krystal nodded thinking that the theory may be correct.
"Either way, we still have to watch out, XANA could still be after Krystal and Aelita, and it's going to be harder with trying to watch over two people." Jeremy started but Ulrich added in, "But, it will be easier because you two could stick together and help eachother out."
Aelita and Krystal smiled and nodded, high-fiving eachother.
Author's note: Okay, another chapter finished! Hope you guys like it, and another will hopefully be up soon, but make sure to leave a review! I really want to hear you guys' opinions on my story! So...
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