lostmoonchild: Thanks for the reviews. I am soooo sorry it's taken so long just to update, I honestly forgot about this story until somebody asked me when I was planning on updating next. So here's chapter one. I don't own Code: Lyoko or anything else unless I say otherwise.

CHAPTER ONE

"Yumi…"

Yumi looked around and saw that she was safe in Lyoko. Or at least, the place looked like Lyoko. She remembered Lyoko had been shut down, she remembered that perfectly well. Aelita had been so scared, XANA was close to escaping Lyoko for good. Shutting down Lyoko was the only way they could think of to prevent him from escaping.

They were wrong.

XANA had escaped and destroyed Aelita. She, Jeremy, Ulrich, and Odd… they had escaped into the sewers after everybody they knew was dead. Jeremy had cried, Yumi had held him until he had fallen asleep. Then what happened? XANA had shown up, she remembered that, but she had woken up hoping that it was nothing more than a dream. Then… then something happened. Her friends' eyes had changed and she knew XANA was controlling them.

"Yumi…"

Yumi spun around quickly and began running in the direction that the voice had come from. "Guys?!" Yumi shouted hoping desperately that XANA taking over was nothing more than a nightmare.

She nearly started crying with happiness when she saw her friends waiting for her. "Yumi… You're okay." Ulrich said with a smile.

Tears rolled down Yumi's face as she embraced her friends. She didn't care if this was a dream, she just wanted to see her friends. "Is this a dream?" Yumi couldn't help but ask.

"XANA taking over isn't a dream. But we're here in your mind, Yumi." Jeremy told her with a knowing look. "Listen, Yumi, you need to fight against XANA and help us get our bodies back."

"How?" Yumi asked as a tear rolled down her face. "How can I fight against him when he knows that all he has to do is…"

"Yumi, listen carefully. This is what you need to do."

Yumi woke up with a start and screamed when she saw XANA watching her sleep. "GO AWAY!" Yumi screamed throwing a pillow at XANA.

XANA sidestepped the pillow and looked at her with an intensity that nearly made the Japanese girl cower in fear. She wouldn't give XANA the satisfaction of knowing that he frightened her. She'd be damned before that happened!

Fear gripped Yumi's heart as she tried to get away from XANA's intense look but found herself feeling like an exotic animal trapped in the zoo. "You were dreaming." XANA stated calmly.

"Humans do that, you stupid ass."

"What were you dreaming?"

Telling XANA she dreamed of her friends was the last thing she wanted so she thought quickly of some of the animals she had seen at the zoo. "Africa." Yumi stated calmly. "Now leave me alone!"

"You're lying. You've never been to Africa."

"I dream of Africa." Yumi stated calmly before watching as XANA left the room.

Before XANA left, he turned and looked at the Japanese girl. "Know this, my pet, I will break you and I will enjoy it." XANA said calmly.

Finally left in silence, Yumi grabbed a pillow and screamed into it before holding it tightly against her breast. She looked out the window and saw a bird flying across the blue skies. She was a caged bird now, she knew that. From now on and until XANA was truly defeated, freedom would be a distant memory.

A few hours later, Yumi's breath caught in her throat when the XANA controlled Ulrich came into the room. She moved away from him and watched him with a cautious eye. Could she really attack her friends even if they were being controlled by XANA? When she and Ulrich sparred, they never meant to hurt each other. They just did that to help them stay in shape when they were fighting against XANA.

But did it truly matter now?

"You will join our master for dinner."

"Over my dead body."

Apparently it did.

lostmoonchild: Okay, that chapter's over with. I'll try to update more often and not leave you all hanging like that. So read and review, flames are accepted.