Chapter 3: Teddyzilla
Author's Note Part 1: Well, here's the third edited chapter guys. Hope you're liking it so far, and I hope that with future updates I can keep you entertained. Also, this is the first chapter where I plan to change more than just the writing style. Why? Because when I look back at this stuff, I realize just how much I messed up. So, from here on out, the changed in chapters will probably be more obvious for those of you who read it before. But, enough of this, how about I let you guys actually read the chapter?
3rd Person POV
The Lyoko crew was currently setting up the different decorations for the prom coming up that night. Only two people in the group would be able to actually go unfortunately, because the prom required a date to attend, and these two were the only ones to have dates. And these two people just happened to be John and Yumi. Three guesses as to just who they were going with and the first two don't count. At the moment, Yumi was setting up decorations, as John held the ladder to make sure it didn't fall. Ulrich and Odd were by the stage, setting up all the sound equipment, and Jeremie… He was back in his room talking with Aelita. As the four of them work, they hear a commotion start out in the hall when Sissi leaves the gymnasium. John takes one look, sighs, and turns back to the rest of the group. "Sissi's mocking Milly again guys." He warns, to which the rest of the group just sighs.
"Do you think she's ever gonna learn that mocking and teasing people won't get her anywhere?" Odd asks the rest of them. Ulrich scoffs.
"Sissi? Learn that? Please. We'd have better luck getting you to eat one tray of food for dinner Odd." Ulrich replies, setting down a speaker to the side of the stage. Odd thinks about it for a minute.
"Yeah, I guess you're right." He replies with a shrug. John was listening in on all this, and nods his head in agreement. Then, they hear Milly at the door.
"Uh, John? Would you be my date tonight?" She asks, a small tear leaking trailing down her slightly red face. At this, John hates the situation he's put in. So he tries his best to do this the nicest way, while not hurting Milly's feelings, or giving Sissi any "ammunition" as it were, to use against her after he replies.
"Sorry Milly. But, I kinda already promised to go with Yumi tonight." He tells her, blushing along with Yumi and sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck after the teen in question made her way down the ladder, before he turns to look back at Milly. "But, I'm sure that if you asked anyone else, they would be glad to go with you." He tells her with a reassuring smile. At this, Milly turns to look at Ulrich as him and Odd walk over to the other two.
"U-Ulrich?" She asks. Ulrich rubs the back of his neck at this.
"Uh, sorry Milly. But, I don't think it wouldn't be a very good idea. I'm too old for you. And besides, I, kind of already have plans for tonight." He tells her. They hear Sissi laugh off to the side.
"What did I tell you? But don't worry Milly. I'm sure you'll find a boy for the sandbox dance. Meanwhile, why don't you go play with your dolls?" The group hears her ask mockingly as Tamiya places a reassuring hand on Milly's shoulder, before said girl goes running of sobbing. Tamiya waits a moment, before rushing out after her.
"Milly! Milly wait!" They hear her exclaim. Sissi just looks on with a self-satisfied smirk. Until she hears another voice that is.
"I hope you're proud of yourself." She turns to find the group of four looking at her with disdain clear on their faces, Jeremie still at the stage, and Yumi being the one to talk to Sissi. The principal's daughter just frowns at them, before turning around with a huff, and walking off with Nicholas and Herve at her heels. John glares daggers into the back of her head, until she turns and leaves his line of sight. Then he turns to Ulrich and…
~Smack!~
"Ouch! What was that for John?!" Ulrich exclaims, rubbing the back of his head from the smack that John just gave him. As John lowers the hand he used to smack Ulrich, he sends a scowl at the German teen.
"For how you rejected Milly. Yes, I can understand that she's too young. But, you don't have to tell her that. And especially with Sissi standing next to her dummkopf." He tells him, calling the brunette a moron in German. Ulrich flinches slightly and looks at the ground in guilt when he realizes that John's right.
"Yeah, I guess you're right." He admits, before sighing. "I guess we should get back to setting this stuff up, huh?" He asks, heading back into the gymnasium where the prom was going to take place. The others nod, before entering behind him.
As the group continues to set up for the prom, John can't help the slight frown that stays present on his face. Yumi notices this from her place on the stage. "Don't be so gloomy John. I mean, you could have said yes to her. You know me and, prom." She stated, seeing as depending on the prom, Yumi didn't exactly fit in. Although, John had heard that this prom was supposed to be casual wear. So, Yumi would most likely fit in well. That, and instead of only being a beauty queen like last year, they were making it so that there was a prom queen, and prom king. Apparently the school felt that the guys were missing out, so they changed it this year.
Huh, wonder what she'll decide to wear. Better yet, what am I gonna wear? My usual clothing won't exactly fit in with what other people will. I'd most likely stick out like a sore thumb. Just like Ulrich would. And what about the whole "Prom King and Queen" thing? Is it for couples? Or can you just vote for anyone in general? John is broken out of his thoughts as Odd speaks up from the stage.
"Even if I was your date?" He asks, using the mic that he was setting up. At that question, John can't help the feeling that appears in his gut. Oh yeah, there was no denying it. John had feelings for Yumi, he just couldn't work up the courage to tell her. So far, he'd only gotten as far as asking her to the prom. And when Odd had said that… Well, obviously John didn't like that idea. But, Ulrich speaks up from his place next to John, helping him to secure (Read: Tape) the wiring for the speakers to the floor, and successfully distracting the teen from his moment of dislike for his blond peer.
"Sissi did come on a little strong. If meanness is one of the qualities of a beauty queen, she'll get re-elected alright." He tells the rest of the group as Jeremie comes walking in with a box filled with more decorations.
"That's true." He agrees. "But try getting Ms. World to see that." He tells them with a smirk as Odd fixes the mic onto its stand, before leaning it towards himself.
"Ms. World huh? Ms. In-her-own-world more like it." He quips, gaining laughter from the other four as John forgets about his previous statement of going with Yumi to prom. From their place on the ground and stage, the group can see Sissi's face go red in the reflection of the disco ball she was hanging, and hear the small growl she lets out. After their small laughing fit, the group continues to set up decorations, wire the sounding, which John knew how to do very well thanks to his second foster dad, and clean up the gymnasium in general. After a while, the people working in the gym took a break for lunch, while Sissi decided that she'd had enough of work, and decided that she would just quit for the day and worry about getting ready for the prom. The group wasn't very surprised by this seeing as it was Sissi. What would else would they expect from "Ms. In-her-own-world", as Odd put it?
Later into lunch, after Odd had scarfed down four bananas, two croissants, three chicken legs, two bowls of mashed potatoes, and so on, the group noticed a small crowd gathering in front of the school building. They shared a look, before cleaning up after themselves and walking over to the side to watch. A minute later, Sissi comes out with her father, a blue bathrobe covering her, while white ointment is spread over her face. "Move along, back to your dorms. Everything is just fine." Her father, the principal, tells the gathered crowd, leading Sissi away. The group looks on, before turning to each other.
"What do you say we take a look, to make sure our old pal Xana isn't behind this?" Odd asks. The rest of the group nods in agreement. Yumi going, "Mm-hm." before they head off. When they reach Sissi's room, Jeremie looks in along with Yumi and Odd as Ulrich and John lean against the wall.
"So what do you think?" Ulrich asks. Jeremie looks at the room for a few more seconds before responding.
"A simple short-circuit. Too many appliances plugged in at the same time." Jeremie tells them.
"Yeah. The high-fi lights, lady shaver, curling iron, all together, what do you expect to happen?" Yumi asks as she turns around and starts to walk away.
"Not to mention the brain stimulator. Although she probably never figured out how to use it." Odd quips as we walks away with Yumi and Ulrich. John and Jeremie stay behind to look at the room some more.
"Hm…" Jeremie hums thoughtfully, before turning to walk off with John, who turns to look at him with a raised eyebrow.
"Are you sure it was just a short-circuit Jeremie? I mean, if it was, then what caused all the cracks in the dressers and walls?" He asks. Jeremie thinks about it, before turning back to John.
"Most likely Sissi jumping back in shock. Or her bottles of ointment being blown across the room by the short-circuit in question." He replies. John nods his head, but isn't exactly sold on the idea that this was a normal event. He decides to put it off to the side for now, and wait to see if anything else happens that's electrical based. Seeing as Xana was basically an electro-kinetic virus, and it could have been him. As they walk into the gymnasium and continue to set up for the prom, Jeremie can't stop thinking about what John said. Finally, he speaks up. "What happened to Sissi… It was kinda weird. Don't you think?" he asks them as he messes with the DJ station.
"It was a short-circuit. A simple short-circuit. You said so yourself. What else could it be?" Ulrich responds, getting another piece of tape ready. John doing the same, but still wondering about the incident all the same.
"I'm not so sure Ulrich. And I think you know what I mean when I say that." John tells the brunette, before Yumi looks up from the CD she had in her hands as she sits on one of the foldable tables they'd set up for that night.
"Either way, let's play it real cool. Walls have ears, you know?" She asks them, subtly hinting that Herve and Nicholas were possibly listening in on their conversation. The group waits until the leave, and then Yumi gets off the table that they had set up, and stretches. "Well, I gotta go and get ready for the prom tonight." She tells them, before turning around to face them. "Sometimes being a day student can be a total drag." She says.
"I wouldn't complain if I were you. You don't have to wake up at six in the morning, you have hot running water whenever you want instead of having to wait five minutes after the last person finishes, and you don't have to worry about the constant glow of the computer at night as Jeremie works on his different programs." John tells her with slight annoyance, while the genius in question blushes in embarrassment. Yumi just chuckles, before waving good-bye to the three still in the gym, since Odd had left earlier, and turns to walk towards the door.
"See you later." She tells them over her shoulder, although mostly John since the others wouldn't be going to the prom. John nods, before going back to work, trying his best to ignore the other two's smirks and chuckles in his direction, most likely due to the blush that had grown on his cheeks.
"Xana? In a teddy bear?" Ulrich asks as he holds onto a piece of paper with a crude drawing of a bear. Odd had grabbed it from the trash after the principal had thrown it away as he exited the infirmary after talking to Jim, who had apparently been attacked outside the secondary gymnasium.
"He's always there when you least expect him." Jeremie says with a hand to his chin. John nodding in agreement.
"Alright guys, who goes? And who stays here?" Odd asks. Jeremie looks up at him.
"We can't have a solo mission. It's too dangerous without Yumi. If you go, you never know what you're going to find over there." Jeremie tells him, shaking his head.
"I volunteer as tribute!" Odd exclaims, raising his hand in the air as he references Hunger Games, before Jeremie shoots him down.
"What did I just say?" He asks in annoyance, making Odd drop his hand and look at him with his own annoyance.
"Well have you got any other ideas? There have been two accidents. We can't leave the school unguarded, and even going back in time if there's an accident, it's all over." Odd tells him, to which Jeremie rubs the back of his head. John nods his head though.
"Odd has a point. You two go to the factory. Ulrich, you and me will stay here to make sure that nothing happens. Go ahead and say high to you-know-who for us." John says, placing a hand on a blushing Jeremie's shoulder. The four of them knowing exactly who he was talking about. "Jeremie, start up a Skype call when you get to the factory. That way we'll know for a fact that there's no prying ears as you make your way there." He tells the blond, getting a nod in response, before said blond, along with the other one, go running off to go to the factory. As they do so, the brunette and raven haired teens share a nod, before going off to check for any disturbances. They head to their separate rooms to grab flashlights, seeing as it was steadily getting darker out, and then head back outside to check for the possessed stuffed animal. They each put in earbuds with built in mics so that they can use both hands instead of needing to answer a phone and use one of said hands to hold it.
They don't have to wait long before they each get a ring, and answer to find Jeremie on the other end. "How are things on your guy's end?" They hear him ask.
"It looks like we have a problem." Ulrich responds.
"A big one." John elaborates, shining his flashlight on the giant round indents in the ground leading away from the secondary gym.
"Alright, I'm sending Odd to Lyoko as we speak, just see what you can do about it until then." Jeremie tells them, starting the scanning process for Odd as the two follow the round tracks. What they find doesn't lessen their fears any. Instead, it escalates them.
"Uh, Jeremie. Bad news. It looks like the bear managed to get out of the school." John tells the genius through the call, looking along with Ulrich at the damage to the wall that separated the school from the rest of town. The gate was crushed and bent, and the bricks had broken off in places. Leaving a gaping hole that lead to the street. Then, Aelita speaks up, having been connected to the Skype call.
"If it's controlled by Xana, it will only become much madder. It'll go after anyone and anything that's around. Especially his mortal enemies. Like you guys." She tells them, eliciting a gasp of fear and surprise from Jeremie and Ulrich. But John doesn't think about that. What he thinks about is,
"Shit! Yumi!" He exclaims, before turning to Ulrich. "Ulrich, stay here in case Teddyzilla comes back to the school. I'm gonna go see if I can get to Yumi before the overgrown teddy bear does." He tells his friend, before rushing out of the hole in the wall, and heading off in the direction of Yumi's house. "Guys, I'm exiting the call to see if I can reach Yumi. Call me again if you find out anything of importance." He tells them, gaining "okay's" in response, before he exits the call like he said. Then, as he runs down the ruined street, he tries to call Yumi on her cellphone. "Come on Yumi… Answer… You need to answer." He mutters to himself as he passes bent lampposts, crushed cars, and torn up pavement. He notices that the tracks continue down the same street, instead of deviating onto the one that Yumi lives on. The Lyoko group had shared their addresses in case something like this happened, and John thanked Jeremie for thinking of the idea.
As he turns onto the street, he takes the time to notice that there isn't a car parked in the driveway next to the house. Guess her parents are out at the moment. He thinks to himself as he pushes open the Iron Gate, taking the stairs up to her door two at a time, before pressing the doorbell. Double checking to make sure the name above said doorbell read "Ishiyama". After a minute, he presses it again, twice. Another minute passes, before the door opens to show Yumi. The only difference is what she's wearing. It takes John a second to remember why he's there, because standing in front of him is Yumi, but dressed completely different. In place of the black sleeveless sweater, long sleeve T-shirt, black jeans and black boots, she was now wearing the same sweatshirt, with separate sleeves that reached from her wrist to just below her shoulders. In place of her jeans she had on a maroon skirt. She still had the black boots, but she also had black and red striped stockings on.
"John." She greets him with a breathtaking smile, breaking him out of his stupor. He then grabs onto her wrist and tries to pull her out of her house.
"Sorry about this Yumi, but we need to get out of here." He tells her, only for her to pull her wrist back.
"Hey, would you mind explaining what's going on?" She asks, only for the ground to start shaking, and make her look off towards where it's originating from ins surprise. John shakes his head with a frown, before grabbing her wrist and pulling her along again.
"I'll explain along the way. Come on!" He exclaims, pulling Yumi after him as they notice the giant, two-story tall teddy bear with a red Xana symbol in each of its eyes.
"What is that?" Yumi asks. John quickly explains.
"Milly's teddy bear. Xana took control over it and somehow increased its size. It escaped the school, and most likely went after you. Now, Jeremie's at the factory, while Odd is with Aelita stopping this thing. Ulrich is making sure that if that thing gets back to the school, nothing bad will happen." He tells her, just before they reach a crowded street, full of people who begin screaming when they notice the giant teddy bear heading in their direction. To John, one of them looks like the nurse, but he ignores it in favor of running from Teddyzilla, who's still set on killing him and Yumi. As the duo continues to run, they turn onto another street, before Yumi notices a building to their right.
"This way!" She exclaims, turning towards the building with John close behind as they push the first set of glass doors open, shut off the light, and sit down against the wall. They stay there, hidden in the dark as the giant Xana-teddy walks by, the force of its stomps succeeding in shattering the glass in the first set of doors. The two of them let out surprised and fearful yells as this happens, leaning away from them, and accidentally leaning into each other. Making each of them blush a bright red. John quickly stands after a moment, while Yumi sheepishly tucks a stray lock of hair behind her ear, her cheeks still flushed from what happened moments ago. John then re-joins Jeremie's call as he helps Yumi to her feet, and they take off running towards the school.
"Jeremie! It's John!" He yells into the mic on his earbuds after he re-joins the call. "Yumi's with me, and we're heading towards the school to see if we can evacuate everyone! Ulrich, I'd suggest you start with the gymnasium." He tells the brunette through the call, gaining a "Right!" from the teen in question. "And Jeremie, tell Odd to move it! It's getting rough around here, and I'm assuming that it's only gonna get worse from here on out." He tells his roommate as him and Yumi continue running towards the school, quickly arriving as John listens to Jeremie relay information. "Odd hasn't found the activated tower yet." He tells Yumi. "But it seems they've met an old spherical friend. You take care of the female dorms. I'll take care of the male ones. Ulrich should be taking care of the gymnasium right now." He tells her. She nods, before smirking.
"Seems like Sissi's not gonna get crowned beauty queen again huh?" She asks, prompting John to smirk as well.
"Yeah. Too bad for her." He tells her. They share a chuckle despite the situation, and then nod to each other before running off to their respective dorms. Seriousness taking over the situation once again. While Yumi manages to find Milly and Tamiya in the female dorms and clear them out, John doesn't find anyone in the male dorms, figuring that each of them managed to find someone to take. Utterly confusing him since hardly any of them seem like the kind that girls would want to take to prom. Though he chalked it up as none of the girls wanted to be the only one who didn't go. After he'd made sure that no one was in the dorms, he rushes back outside to find that Yumi isn't there yet. Most likely trying to see if any girls were still in the dorms. With that in mind, he rushes towards the gymnasium, hoping to help Ulrich clear it out. Only to find a scene that makes him pause in both confusion, horror, and a slight trace of amusement.
"Quiet, quiet! Shut up all of you! You bunch of idiots! Can't you see what he's doing? It's a trick I tell you! A trick to keep me from winning again this year!" He sees Sissi yell from up on stage, also noticing that there were two other couples up on stage, along with Nicholas and Herve, who Sissi most likely brought along simply because she needed a prom date and everyone else was already taken. "A gigantic teddy bear, come on. Why not King Kong while you're at it?" She asks in a disbelieving tone. Until stomps are heard outside, causing her to go wide eyed as the wall behind her is broken down, showing the gigantic teddy bear in question. Everyone begins screaming as Jim proceeds to faint as he sees the thing that put him in the infirmary earlier that day. The entire crowd inside the gymnasium quickly scatters, as Ulrich runs to John's side. The teddy bear notices the movement, and turns its glowing, red, Xana-symbol eyes on the duo.
"Go!" John shouts, shoving Ulrich towards the doors. "I'll distract the thing and give Odd time to get Aelita to the tower to deactivate it! You make sure everyone gets out okay before anything happens! I'd rather not test if going back in time brings back the dead!" He yells out, rushing around the teddy bear as Ulrich nods with a serious face, and goes off to do just that. John continues to run around Teddyzilla, being forced to dodge roll to the side each time the teddy bear in question attempts to crush him beneath one of its gigantic paws, one of the shockwaves actually managing to shatter some windows, and send John rolling further away from the Xana-possessed monster. Outside the gymnasium, Yumi sees the teddy bear and the shattered windows.
"John!" She yells out in fear for her friend, before rushing off and leaving a stunned Milly and Tamiya to look on at the destruction being caused by the pink haired reporter's teddy bear. Inside the gymnasium, despite his dodging, the teddy bear manages to catch up to John, and swipes at him. The hit sends him sprawling across the floor, before he eventually stops and lets out a groan of pain. As the teddy bear gets closer to the teen, he looks up with bruises and cuts evident on his face and arms as its shadow falls over him. Some of the cuts that he'd gotten slightly bleeding, since luckily, they weren't that deep. He looks up and gasps as the teddy bear readies a "paw" to crush him. He holds up his hands, as if they would protect him against the paw that would undoubtedly crush him should it continue its fall. Suddenly, the teddy bear's paw stops a couple feet above him, the red symbol of Xana in its eyes slowly fading away. "John!" A voice yells, making the teen in question looks to his right as Yumi kneels by his side, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Are you okay?" She asks. He nods in response, completely exhausted from the running, and almost being killed.
"Yeah, I think so." He responds, only to blush a bright red as Yumi wraps him in a hug and gives off a relieved laugh. Is she… Am I… Are we… John doesn't finish any of these thoughts, as he just gives off a small smile of relief and happiness, and hugs Yumi back. Relieved to be alive, and beyond happy that Yumi is hugging him. After a few seconds, they pull away from the hug, the two of them blushing slightly when they realize what just happened between them. "Ready for a return to the past?" He asks her as the white light washes over them, before they see black.
John opens his eyes as an alarm starts blaring next to his ear. He slams his fist down on top of it to shut it off, and then looks around to find himself back in his and Jeremie's room at the academy, with Jeremie asleep at his computer, "typing" out a line of J's. John groggily pushes himself off his bed with a groan, the pain from the Xana attack changing so that he's only sore, and walks over to his friend, before…
~Smack!~
"Ouch!" Jeremie yelps, his head shooting up as he rubs the back of his head, staring up at the teen that caused his sudden pain.
"Wake up Einstein. Thanks to Xana, we've gotta set up the gymnasium for the prom again." John tells Jeremie, walking off with his toothbrush and toothpaste in hand, along with a towel, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, and soap. After John is done freshening up for the day, he walks down to the cafeteria to eat breakfast. Finding the others in the group already there, he grabs some food, and sits down at their table. They have a quick breakfast, John taking some time to talk to Ulrich about a certain subject, and then they head off to get the gymnasium ready for the prom. Again.
Later, as Yumi is standing atop a ladder setting up decorations as John holds it to keep it from falling. Ulrich and Odd are by the stage setting up the sound equipment again. And just on cue, Milly walks up to the doorway. "Uh, John? Would you be my date tonight?" She asks, a small tear trailing down her blushing face. John replies in the same way as last time, but with less sheepishness.
"Sorry Milly, but I'm already going with Yumi tonight. But I'm sure that if you asked someone else who didn't have a date, they'd be glad to go with you." He tells her as Yumi gets off the ladder, and Ulrich and Odd walk up to them. Now Milly looks at Ulrich.
"U-Ulrich?" She asks. This time, Ulrich smiles slightly, before walking over, getting down on one knee so that he's at her height, and places a hand on her shoulder.
"Sure thing Milly. I'd be glad to." He tells her. "I'll meet you here at eight." Milly gets a hopeful look on her face.
"R-really?" She asks with a smile. Ulrich nods as he stands up again.
"Sure. I don't have anything going on tonight that can't be moved to a different one." He tells her. At this, Sissi stares disbelievingly.
"What?!" She screeches out. "B-But Ulrich! You're-you're gonna go with that-that silly baby?!" She yells out. At this, everyone looks on with smiles (Read: Smug smiles) on their faces.
"That's right, I sure am. Bur don't worry, when your brain gets another neuron or two, maybe I'll go out with you too." He tells her mockingly. She responds by getting a large blush, and growling in anger and embarrassment. Everyone chuckles lightly at her reaction.
"You are recording this, right Tamiya?" Milly asks the girl with the camera standing next to her.
"You bet I am. This is a scoop." Tamiya replies.
"A super-scoop." Milly says with a grin, right before Sissi goes storming out of the hall followed by Nicholas and Herve, leaving everyone else to laugh at her misfortune. When they finally calm down enough, the group goes back to setting up the gym, with the occasional chuckle when they remember what happened, while Milly and Tamiya head off to do whatever. Most likely find more stories for the news, or post the news that they now had on Sissi. As the day continues, Jeremie joins the group, and everyone works hard to get the gym ready. Especially since their stunt earlier had made it so that Sissi and her followers weren't helping them. But besides that, the group worked well. Only taking breaks to eat, and a couple when they were either sifting through the CD's to find good songs to play that night, or resting after lifting a few heavy objects. Finally, they finish setting up the gymnasium just in time for dinner. Yumi had left earlier in the day because she was a day student, while the rest of the group was now heading towards the cafeteria.
After they've grabbed their food, the group sits at "their" table, eat, and then head off to either waste time or, in Ulrich and John's case, get ready for the prom. John quickly freshens up in the male's bathroom, making sure to put on extra deodorant, and then changes into clothes more suited for the prom. These consist of a black "Avenged Sevenfold" shirt with the words written in white on the front, and their symbol on the back of the shirt. The wings spreading between his shoulder blades, with the skull in the middle. He was also wearing dark blue jeans, and black sneakers. After he was dressed, he made his way off school grounds, and headed towards Yumi's. Since it was Friday, he would be heading back to his house after the prom. When he arrives at Yumi's, he rings the doorbell and waits patiently for her outside. After a few minutes, Yumi opens the door to show that she was dressed in the same clothes as the last time. John smirks, though it takes a few seconds since he was rendered speechless, just like the last time he'd seen her dressed in those clothes.
"Hey Yumi." He greets her, blushing slightly as he remembers the hug they'd shared right before time reset.
"Hey." She replies, a blush also present. There's a bit of an awkward silence as the two try to find the right words to say.
"So… Shall we?" John asks her, waving his hands for her to go first. Yumi nods as the awkwardness starts to go away slightly, and then she leaves her house. Making sure to close and lock the door behind her since her parents aren't home. As the two of them walk down the street towards the school, the awkwardness returns since they don't know what to say to each other. It stays with them until they reach the gym, and then they walk in to find everyone having a good time. The duo shares a glance, before smiling, and joining in with the party. They dance, drink (Soda, you idiots), eat the snacks that were provided, and make small talk. As they do this, the awkwardness disappears. While there, they run into Ulrich and Milly, and talk to them as well. Soon enough, it's time for the king and queen to be announced. John stands with the other males, gaining glares from Herve and Nicholas, while Sissi gains glares from the other three girls. But in the end, the winner is…
"Yumi Ishiyama and John Hopper!" Principal Delmas announces. Sissi's screech is drowned out by the cheering of the crowd. Last year Sissi may have been elected as the beauty queen because of her… well, beauty, but it seemed that after the news was released by Milly and Tamiya about what happened to the pinkette earlier, them being able to post it because Milly wasn't preoccupied with hating older kids, the other students didn't exactly like how she acted. So instead, they voted on a different couple. When this is announced, John and Yumi stare with wide eyes, before walking forwards to accept the crowns on their heads. They smile at each other, hold hands with large blushes, and then smile out at Ulrich, Milly, Tamiya, and the rest of the crowd when they see everyone clapping and cheering. Milly was there with Ulrich, while Tamiya was allowed there for the newspaper that her and Milly gave out around school. This was the greatest night for the two of them, and Sissi's disbelieving face and yell of surprise and anger just made it even better. They would remember this night forever.
Author's Note Part 2: Alright! Two chapters in one day! I had fun writing this chapter, especially the parts that I made up on my own. I imagine Yumi being shy around any guy she likes, and my own OC is also a little shy. (Just like me in these kinds of situations).
Like I said in the last chapter, because these two are together, it will change many things in the story line. And when it reaches the part where William is introduced, well… Things will most likely deviate from the original plotline greatly. Also know that because of John being paired with Yumi, it's possible that I'll just end up switching his and Ulrich's parts a few times. Like I did so in this episode. But because it's John and not Ulrich in the situations, things will most likely be different. Whether it's slightly, or greatly.
Anyways, see you next time, and thanks for taking the time out of your day to read this!
P.s. I'm not gonna beg, but I've been getting a good amount of views, but no reviews, favorites, or follows. If you guys wouldn't mind, please tell me what you like, dislike, give me suggestions for later, even PM me about this if you want. I want to know what you guys think about this. Flames will be used to burn Xana's minions on earth.
(Update: Jan. 11th, 2015:
Well guys, this is the latest updated chapter, which has quite a few additions, and changes made from the original version. Now, know that the next one will most likely have even more changes, since I have quite a few changes in mind for when he goes into Lyoko. And no, I will not tell you what they are until you read it. But, that's about it for this, beside the one extra review that I'm going to respond to here:
*Michael*:
Thanks for the compliment, and you don't really have to worry. Yes, I'm changing some things, but that's simply because I'm changing things so that the story will fit in with my current writing style.
Thanks for all of you who are sticking with me, and I hope to see you all next time!)