Hey guys. I know it's been awhile, but I still wanna write this story. That past two weeks I have no actually excuse for my absence but I do for the time before that. First I finished my summer college course, then my dog died three days later and they day after that my family got head lice. Then we had a family get together and life just piled up. I don't know how consistent I will upload and I make no promise but I do want to continue this story.
Now that that's out of the way I am happy to announce that we will be seeing a couple new enemies over the next few chapter, so look forward to that.
Inferno: And if I do this I get to fight them again. Ok. Transfer. Scanner. Virtualization.
A week later. Xanadu. ? ? ?
Nine creatures stand in a circle in a dark room with five screens. They are all eight feet tall. They seem to have tight stretch skin on there bodys and there arms go down below her knees. All of them start to shuffle around a bit, like they are nervous.
Suddenly a much the ceiling above them seems to shift. After a few seconds a body is disconcernable from the ceiling as it lowers itself into the center of the group. It stops seven feet from the floor. It has twelve arms along its long body and the ceiling seems to pulse around where it is connected. A closer look shows that it's actually it's body stuck to the ceiling. It's open five eye's and looks over the creatures around it. They all shift under its scrutiny.
"It's time" It tells them. It's voice echos with the sound of many voices. The creatures stiffen as it speaks. He seems to look through them. "You will fight them and show me just what they do when turned against each other."
It curls back up into the ceiling and the creatures turn to leave. One of them stops before exiting the tower. It feels a presence near it and shudders for a moment. It then leave to catch up with the others.
Kadic Academy
Ulrich glances at his phone to check the time. 6:25. He goes back to game. He hears Odd fussing on the other end of the room. He looks over.
Odd is dressed in a normal (Purple) T-shirt and his normal jeans. He also had his hair slicked. He is checking himself in the mirror. Ulrich rolls his eyes at him. Odd turns to him.
"How do I look Ulrich?" He asks his best friend. Ulrich rolls his eyes at him again.
"Honestly you look like an idiot. Just be yourself." He tells him. Odd sighs.
"But I want to look at least a little nice for her." He tells him. Ulrich gets up and walks over to Odd. He brings up his hand and messes up Odds hair.
"You already got the girl man. You can relax." He tells him. Odd looks at the mirror again as he tries to fix his hair.
"I know. But it's our first date in the real world. I want it to be special." he almost whispers. Ulrich sighs.
"Alright. But at least put your hair back up. You look to weird without it being spiked." He tells Odd. Odd stops fixing his hair and looks at himself more closely. He sighs and starts to spike his hair like normal. Once he is done he smiles at the mirror. 'Guess Ulrich was right. She likes me the way I am'. He thinks to himself. He thanks Ulrich and heads out the door.
He walks out to the Cabin and sits at the entrance to wait. After a few minutes he stands up and walks around the Cabin. His mind drifts as he walks. The past couple weeks have been really lay back in Xanadu. Only one or two attacks a weak and most of them are pretty easy. However the new monster, the Poltergeist, makes him uneasy. He makes it around the Cabin and finds Aelita waiting for him. He walks up behind her quietly and grabs her around her waist and rests his chin on her shoulder.
She jumps and freezes. She relaxes once she see's it's Odd and she leans back into him a little.
"Hey princess." He says. She sighs at his nickname for her. If anyone else called her that she would not like it. It's not exactly her. But when he says it she gets butterflies in her stomach.
"Hey Odd." She says back. After a few more second he pulls away and takes her hand. He looks around and see's it's just starting to get dark.
"You ready to go?" He asks and she nods to him with a smile. He starts to walks and she stays with him holding hold hand. "Hey Aelita, why do you think Xanadu has been so quiet lately?"
She sighs and looks down. He looks at her and feels bad. She seems upset now. She looks back up at him with sad eyes.
"Can we not talk about Xanadu tonight Odd?" She asks him. He stops and she does to. She looks at him and he stares her in the eyes. His hand comes up and she fights to keep from flinching. He wipes away a tear. He gives her a big grin.
"Sure thing. We can talk about whatever you want." He tells her. She feels her heart swell at his kindness. He so passion it and kind. Sure he can be lazy and like to goof off and joke around. But he is also kind and caring and so sweet. They keep walking.
Eventually they get into town.
"Odd, where are you taking me?" She asks him. He grins at her.
"Nowhere to fancy. It's s place called newells. It's owned by an American family. It's what the american call a mom and pop dinner. A family owned restaurant." He tells her. She nods as what he says registers. She smiles as he speeds up a bit.
Factory
Jeremy sits in front of the supercomputer. He head is propped up by his arm as the computer scans through line of code. His eyes droop down as he starts to doze off again. His head finally slumps against his arm. A couple minutes later he is jolted awake by the computer going off. He quickly raises his head and looks at the screen.
Flashing red across the screen is. He types in a set of commands before opening the code. A video Image pops up.
2005. April 28
A tired and ragged looking Kenji Hayashi appears on screen. He takes a moment before looking at the camera.
"Who ever you are, if you watching this then you already know the danger you're in. You know what kind of creature he is and just what he is trying to do. I don't have much time to tell you this. You need to get access to th-
2003. December 23
A large room is shown. All of the members of the science team can be seen hanging out. Four of them are drinking while one is not. They all seem to be in good spirits. Kenji see's the camera is on and walks over. He picks it up and walks back over to the others.
"It's been close to eight months since we started the project. We have a lot of the world done and are working on the more intricate things now. I can't say all we have done since it's not all ready to be revealed yet. But I promise you all what we have done here is nothing short of amazing.
"We are taking the day off to relax. Everyone's been working so hard. Mom, Dad. I promise I will let you see it soon. It's amazing." Kenji turns the camera off.
2003. November 16
A series of images pass by. Most are gone too fast to see. One is of the science team on Xanadu. On is Aelita and Kenji. Another is Kenji and Jonathan working on a computer. There were many more just like those.
Factory. 2010
Jeremy watches the images flash by. All of a sudden they stop. The code seems to disappear from the screen. Jeremy starts to furiously work on the computer. After a minute or so he sighs and hits his head on his head rest. He hits a few more keys and everything he salvaged from the code is saved into a new file.
"Damn. I wasn't able to save much. But I guess it's better than nothing. He sits there for a bit before the computer goes off again. This time it's a haunting. He pulls out his Phone.
In town
Odd and Aelita have been at their seats for ten minutes now. There food is just now being placed down when Odds Phone goes off. He picks it up. Aelita asks the waiter to wait. Odd hangs up and looks at the waiter with an annoyed look.
"We need these togo. An emergency came up with one of our friends." He tells the waiter. He nods to them before going to get a couple togo containers. He looks at Aelita. "Sorry but it's Xanadu."
She gives him a smile before walking around the table and next to him. SHe leans over and gives him a kiss on the cheek.
"It's ok. It's not your fault Odd." She tells him. He stands up and hugs her. A few minutes later they leave with their dinner. When they get to the factory they drop their food off with Jeremy before heading to the scanners. They hope in and in a few seconds are virtualized.
Xanadu. Desert region
Odd and Aelita virtualize and fall to the ground. Odd lands crouched on all fours with his tail flicking. Aelita lands on her feet with her staff in hand. They both stand up correctly and see Ulrich and William here already.
"You guys ready for this?" Odd asks. They nod and head toward the tower. "Jeremy, tell Ulrich about the upgrade you gave him."
"Oh yeah. I almost forgot." Jeremy tells them. "You have a new ability Ulrich. It's called impact. It double the force of your sword swing. You can now cut through Phantoms with it."
Ulrich takes out his hit and looks it over. A few seconds later a green binary blade comes out of his hilt.
They get to the tower and stop. While there are the usual specters trying to take it over there are no Phantoms. Instead there are nine grothues creatures in front of them.
They are all eight feet tall and have arms that go below their knees. They have stretched thin skin and no eye's. When the guardians stop the creatures freezes. After a minute Jeremy tells them about this new creature.
"They are called ghouls. They have one hundred and twenty life points. There speed and strength stats are high than the Phantoms, though I don't see any special abilities."
"What about the one with dark blue smoke coming out of it's eyes?" Ulrich asks. Jeremy looks at them all and sure enough one of them has an extra effect.
"It's a status ailment like poison. This says it's corruption." He tells them. Ulrich nods. Ulrich, Odd and William all walk toward them. William pulls out his six food red binary sword. He takes a step ahead of the others.
Suddenly the Ghouls explode to life. Two of them literally fling themselves at William. He brings up his sword just in time to block a punch from one of them. The other one hits him in the gut and he stumbles back (20 damage William). The first one swings again. Odd jumps in and claws it's face (10 damage Ghoul one) and it barely stumbles before back handing Odd. Just before it makes contact Odd teleports. Ulrich runs up and cuts it's arm off (20 damage Ghoul one). The ghoul steps back to it's pack.
Three new ghouls try to attack Ulrich. He is forced away from the others. Another three do the same to Odd. The first to approach William along with the Corrupt ghoul. They all face down their opponents it's a hard determination.
One of them charges Ulrich and he dodges it easily. Just as he stops a second one tries to hit him. He barely dodges this time and when he stops now he is hit in the chest by the third (20 damage Ulrich). He stumbles back and goes to one knee. The three converge on him. He makes his clones and they all lash out. They all hit the ghouls in there ribs (20 damage ghoul three four and five). He jumps away as the ghouls swing there long arms at him. His clones are destroyed.
Odd jumps over on and fires a charged shot into it's back (10 damage ghoul six). It barely stumbles before turning to swing at him. He backflips out of the way.
"I don't think there even feeling out hits." He says to the others.
"They aren't." Jeremy confirms. "They can't feel anything and worst of all. Every hit you guys have done has done ten damage less than normal."
"Then how to we beat them?" Ulrich asks dodging an attack.
"You stab them in the chest. If you get through they have a heart in there. It will kill them instantly."
Ulrich swings at one of the ghouls. His sword glows a brighter green and he takes the ghouls head off (30 damage ghoul four). He jumps back as it goes to one knee. A couple second later it stands up. He charges the same Ghoul and stabs it. Like before his sword glows green and goes through it's chest and out it's back (120 damage Ghoul four). The ghoul explodes into code. Ulrich dodges an attack from another ghoul.
Odd fires two charged arrows into a ghouls right leg (20 damage ghoul six). He then charges another shot. He holds it for longer before teleporting behind the ghoul with his hand extended. He fires the shot into it's back and into it's heart (120 damage ghoul six). He jumps away and charges his last six arrows into another shot. He fires it at another one of his ghouls chests (120 damage ghoul eight). It explodes and Odd hides behind a large rock.
William pushes both ghouls off of him. He jumps back and now that he finally has a little room raises his sword and swings down with all his for and cleaves the second ghoul in half (150 damage ghoul two). He brings up his sword and the point jabs into the chest of the one armed ghoul when it tries to jump at him, but it's not deep enough. His bladed extends and the ghoul hits a tree and the sword goes through. It's explodes. He retracts his sword and never see's the corrupt ghoul. It slashes up at him with it's claws and he is airborne for a few seconds. He lands on his back and rolls backwards to his feet.
Ulrich stares down his last ghoul. He raises his sword and slashes down.
"Impact." He shouts and cuts the ghoul down half way through it's chest (120 damage ghoul three). It explodes and his blade goes with it.
Odd's last ghoul jumps over the rock and turns to face him. It takes a step forward and Odd just glares at it. It raises it's arm to strike him and he gets a smirk on his face, He raises both arms and fires twenty arrows into it (200 damage ghoul seven). It explodes and Odd teleports to ulrich. They both look over at William.
The ghul tries a wild slash and William dodges. He gets behind it and stabs it through it's back and out it's chest (120 damage corrupt ghoul). He lifts it off the ground and it explodes. A dark blue smoke escapes it and swirls around him before disappearing. William stumble and fall. Aelita runs over to the tower while the other two run to William.
"Are you ok?" Ulrich asks. William looks up at him with a smile.
"I won didn't I?" He says to him. Ulrich and Odd smile and they help him up. The specters start to fly off and Aelita comes out of the tower. She runs up to the boys.
"I hope we don't see those things again. They were creepy." She tells them. They all laugh and sticks her tongue out at them before laughing as well. They all devirtualize.
Cabin. thirty minutes later.
Odd and Aelita walk up to the Cabin. Aelita unlocks the door and heads in. Odd walks in and goes to the kitchen. He puts there unfinished dinners in the fridge and then joins her on the couch. He leans back in the couch and she lays against his side with his arm around her.
"Penny for your thought." He tells her. She looks at him and sighs.
"I'm worried and confused." She tells him. He stays silent so she goes on. "I'm confused about my feelings for Xanadu and this Kenji Hayashi, but I'm also worried about us and what could happen if we keep this up."
He looks down at her and gets a small smile. She can feel herself feeling a little better at his smile.
"It's ok. Nothings going to happen to us. I promise." He tells her. She sits up and gives him a small kiss. As she pulls away he followers her and pulls her back in. He deepens the kiss and after a second she does the same. A few second later she shifts so that she is straddling him. They break off once the need for oxygen gets to be too much.
She lays her head on his chest and he rest his chin on her head. Both are more than a little red. They have both felt that kind of attraction before but have never done anything with it before. Eventually he picks her up and takes her to her bed. He lays her down and then slides in next to her.
His arm snakes it's way around her waist and he pulls her close. Within moments they are both asleep.
Boys dorms. Kadic
William lays in his bed thrashing. His nightmare seeming to engulf his whole been. He is a little kid. He stands in the middle of a large open grass field. He looks round and sees a large dark tower. It seems to grow before his eye's. He hears something and turns to find a ghoul behind him. He reaches for his sword and his fingers close around a small child's wooden sword.
Panic hits him and he tries to run. He can't move and the ghoul grabs him. Everything comes out of focus. When it comes back in focus it's not a ghoul anymore. It's a taller creature with twelve arms. It brings him up to hits face. His body is held by four of the arms. Two of them grip his head and force him to stare into it's five green eye's.
"You will be our savior. You will be our hero. You will be our champion." The creature says in a voice that is not one but a dozen voices.
He screams and sits up in his bed. Sweat drips from his body and he can't stop shaking. Tears of fear flow from his eye's. He leans his back against the wall and sits there awake and afraid the rest of the night.
Alright how was that. Yes this is the William thing I won't deny it. I won't, absolutely won't just let him get captured and turned. I need to build it up. William is not evil. His is a victim and we will see that. Truth be told I always liked William. I thought he was one of the best character. Well later on anyway.
So what did you guys think. Pretty good for my return right. I want to progress Aelita and Odd but I have a few plans to throw a quirk in their relationship. Most of the YumiXUlrich will be in between chapters or in the one shots. Anyway I got to go. It's late and I'm tired. See you guys next time we virtualize.