Chapter 3: Camping Trip and A Reunion
Christopher's POV
Aelita, Yumi, Chelsea, Laura, Jeremie, Ulrich, Odd, William, and I were packing up for a camping trip Franz offered to take us on for spring break. Over the past few weeks, after hearing my song, the guys have learned the various instruments to it in order to perform it with me by a campfire. Aelita's dad talked to us about a place near a lake that's perfect for us. He also told he'll keep an eye on X.A.N.A. for us so Jeremie didn't need to take his laptop.
"Remember guys, we only take what we need for the trip." Yumi said.
"Yes, mom." Odd joked, making everyone but Yumi laugh.
"Aw, come on. It was a joke."
"I doubt she found it as funny as we did, my feline friend." I said to him.
"Sorry, Yumi." Odd apologized.
"It's okay." Yumi told him, accepting his apology. Then, Aelita's father came to our room after all our stuff was packed up for the trip.
"Hi, Daddy." Aelita said, causing all of us to look at the door.
"Hello, everyone. Are you all ready?" He asked, earning nods from all of us.
He had agreed to drive us to the campsite, but after that, he would have to get back, because of two reasons. One: To keep an eye on XANA And two: He had some grading to catch up on. Thankfully, Mrs. Hertz had offered to help him, to which he accepted. After we got to the campsite, we set up our tents, then we had lunch, cooking hot dogs on a fire that I lit. After that we were debating what we should do next.
"How about you and I go for a swim?" I asked Aelita telepathically, making sure to isolate my mind and hers from the others while they were hunting.
"Sure, I'd like that." She said as she then got up to get her bathing suit and I did the same. Luckily, the others had gone hunting which left the two of us at the camp. I came out and saw her not in her blue one piece with the star on the chest, but in a bright pink bikini.
"You look great, Princess." I told her.
"Thank you." She said. We then headed for the water.
Ulrich's POV
We all came back to the campsite to find Aelita and Christopher weren't there.
"Where could they be?" Yumi asked, starting to panic until I heard water splashing and realized where the two lovebirds were.
"Sounds to me like they went for a swim." I said, prompting her to get changed and come to the lake.
Yumi's POV
Ulrich and I changed into our swimwear and snuck behind the two in the water and saw Jeremie and Chelsea had the same idea. The four of us got into position with me and Chelsea getting under Aelita and Ulrich and Jeremie getting under Christopher, and then… We attacked and dragged them underwater. The four of us came up first when Christopher shot out of the water with Aelita then he shouted something.
Aelita's POV
Christopher and I flew out of the water, he teleported me back to shore, and then… he transformed and attacked.
"Lightning Tsunami!" I heard him shout. Everyone in the water got drenched as I got back into the water and swam to my scaly boyfriend.
"HA HA! Payback's a bitch, guys!" He said, starting a war. Odd, William, and Laura were on the shore the whole time, enjoying the battle. After about fifteen minutes, we declared a truce and headed towards shore to dry off.
"You guys are done already?" Odd asked.
"It's been fifteen minutes." I told him.
"Really?" William asked. Everyone who was in the water nodded our heads. After we all got dried off, we ate our dinner the others hunted.
"I've never had deer meat before. I quite like it now." I told everyone.
"Take it from someone who knows when I say you don't want to hunt with a ravenous hunger. Believe me, I know." Christopher said after we had all finished eating, earning a nod from me and a laugh from everyone except Chelsea. She and I were the only ones who understood how he felt about killing a living thing. Once Jeremie didn't see Chelsea laughing and looked at Christopher to see him crying, he sharply told the others to stop, which they did.
"We're sorry, man." Odd said. It was getting late so I walked my upset boyfriend to our tent after sharply telling everyone good night.
General POV
"Wow, we definitely crossed the line this time." Ulrich said, feeling extremely guilty. Everyone else agreed.
"We need to make it up to him." Yumi said.
"Agreed. I brought along some pancake mix." Laura said.
"That's right. He does love pancakes. Even more than Odd." William said, earning a glare from the purple feline.
"And they're only for him, Odd." Ulrich clarified, making his best friend pout.
"You guys never let me have anything." Odd whined.
"Well, there's another reason too. With how much you eat, he'd be even more furious at you than any of us." Jeremie added.
Later that night
Aelita's POV
"Aelita, can you hear me?" Laura asked me telepathically.
"Yeah. What's up, Laura?" I asked her.
"Can you come out here? I want to tell you something, and it involves Scaly." I came out of the tent after two minutes.
"What happened?" I saw Yumi and Chelsea were with her.
"Let's just say I keep forgetting my boyfriend has a pretty tight grip. And if you're just going to insult him again, I'm going back to him." I whispered so as not to wake the boys.
"We're not. We all feel guilty about it, so we have a surprise for him." Chelsea said, nodding to Laura, who revealed something behind her back, and I was astounded by what she revealed.
"You girls." I whispered, running to hug them.
"Aelita…"
"Can't…"
"Breathe…" Each of them said. I released them.
"Sorry. Okay, you three start baking in the morning. What about Odd?" I asked.
"Don't worry. The guys, except hornhead, will hold him back." Laura said.
"Okay. Speaking of my boyfriend, I'd better get back in there. And don't worry. I won't tell him anything." I promised them.
The next morning
Christopher's POV
I woke up and found Aelita was still asleep while her arms and legs were wrapped around me. A few seconds later, she woke up.
"Morning, beautiful." I said lovingly.
"Morning, handsome." She said with the same amount of love. I got up to head outside when Aelita stopped me.
"Why don't we wait a few minutes?" She asked.
"Sure." I replied, not daring to ask why. After five minutes, she looked at her phone, and got text from one of the others. I didn't ask who it was.
"I have a surprise for you." She told me.
"Okay." We then came out of the tent and I smelled a too familiar scent. I looked to her and saw her smiling. I saw the pancakes and Ulrich and William holding Odd to the ground which told me the pancakes were for me. I kindly took them when Laura offered them to me.
"They might taste nasty, but we wanted to say…" She started when I put my hand up to stop her.
"Apology accepted."
"Were you spying on us last night?" Yumi asked. I laughed.
"Nah, he was dead asleep." Aelita told her. After we all ate our breakfast, the others got their instruments and I knew what they were getting them for. We then sang the song and then started talking when all of a sudden…
"Neither of us had heard that song in a long time." A woman said. We turned and saw a man standing with her.
"I remember singing that song to you before you went to sleep." The man said. I then went wide eyed.
"Mom? Dad?" They smiled at me and I knew it was them. I ran up to them and hugged them as tight as I could.
"I thought you two were gone." I said with tears streaming down my face.
"We had to leave you, son. But we want you to know that we are so sorry." My mother said. My dad then looked to the guys.
"And we see you've made some new friends." He said, looking back at me.
"And I'm dating one of them." I told them as the three of us smiled.
"I thought his folks were dead." William whispered.
"Nobody really knew what happened to them. He never talked about it." Chelsea explained. Everyone looked to Aelita, only to find her as surprised as them.
"I think it's time I introduced you guys to them." I told my parents.
"This is Yumi Ishiyama, her boyfriend, Ulrich Stern, Jeremie Belpois, his girlfriend, Chelsea, William Dunbar, Laura Gauthier, who are not a couple, Odd Della-Robia, and my girlfriend, Aelita." My folks looked at everyone and were impressed with the seven friends and one girlfriend I had met. Ulrich told them that six of us, including him, knew martial arts, making me, Yumi, Odd, William, and Aelita blush.
After a short demonstration, my parents were impressed. After the week had passed, my parents had taken up jobs at the school, my mom as the health teacher and my dad as an assistant teacher to Jim. I just had them promise to not embarrass me, to which they agreed.
That's chapter 3. I took the idea of my character's parents from the CLE episode where Aelita and her friends find out her mother, Anthea, is alive. If you guys want me to involve her in the story, let me know. I might bring Sam into the story as well, both on Earth and Lyoko. I'll try to get the next chapter uploaded soon.