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Chapter 3: Return To The Past
I opened my eyes to find myself once again stood in front of the door to Mr Delmas' office. I closed my eyes again. It took me a minute before it all came back to me. The crabs, the squid, the blue area, the bright light, and Odd.
My eyes snapped open.
Odd. He would be able to tell me what happened. I glanced at my watch. 4:56pm. The exact time that I had walked into the headmaster's office. I shook my head, trying to clear it. If I didn't find Odd soon, I was going to explode.
But before I could turn away to find him though, the door opened to reveal Mr Delmas, wearing the same smile as before.
" I thought I heard someone at the door. You must be the new girl, Katrina, yes?" I almost gasped. Everything was repeating itself! I glanced at my watch as realisation dawned on me.
Somehow, someway, I had gone back in time. Well I might as well play along then.
" The one and only Mr …"
"Delmas. I am confident that your life here at Kadic will be splendid!" Mr Delmas beamed.
" Believe me you're not the only one." I muttered under my breath.
" Well here is your schedule," Mr Delmas continued, while handing me a piece of paper " and your dorm number is 213. Here's a map of the school as well, just in case. Dinner is at 7:00, lunch is at 12:00 and breakfast is at 8:00. School starts at 9:00 in the morning, but you wont need to worry about that as you start school tomorrow, so you have time to settle and get to know your way around. And no one is allowed out of their dorms after 9:30. Any questions?"
My first thought was Tell me what the FRIGGIN' HECK IS GOING ON IN THIS SCHOOL! But, just like last time, I stayed silent. Besides, he would probably think me crazy if I started going on about giant crabs and near death situations.
" No, I'm… good."
"Well then, it's 5pm now. Hurry along to your dorm to unpack and then go down to the dining hall."
Nodding, though my head aching with questions, I walked out of the office.
As soon as the door closed behind me, I bolted down the corridor to the place where I had met the first crab. But all was silent. No screaming girl. No lasers. No collapsing corridor. Just… silence.
I ran to my new room, dumping my bags in a corner as I heard a bell ring somewhere in the building. I sat on my new bed thinking for a few minutes. I though back to the conversation Odd had over his phone.
Obviously, Odd and his friend that he had been talking to were the reason for this turn back in time, and they had known all about the monsters and how to stop them.
The thing that had sent those creatures was called XANA and this sort of tower being deactivated must have stopped this XANA thing.
And that squid, the Scyphozoa, Odd had called it, and the place it had sent me to when it had pressed those three tentacles to my head. To that I had no answer. But Odd must have saved me by cutting off those tentacles.
My thoughts were interrupted my the sound of the door opening to reveal a girl with pink hair and a pink and dark purple dress with a hood and pom-poms. She looked confused for a second, then smiled warmly.
"Jim told me I might be getting a new roommate this morning, but I didn't realise it would be this soon." She beamed. I couldn't help but share her enthusiasm, it was too contagious. Besides, I needed a friend around here. " I'm Aelita."
"Katrina. But call me Kat." I replied. " Would you help me unpack by any chance?" She nodded and we used the next hour unpacking my clothes, books and other possessions.
Everything was going absolutely fine. That is, until Aelita found Midna.
"Oh My God!" she shrieked, as she lifted the slim black cat out of her box. Midna, being the loyal yet suspicious cat she is, started sniffing Aelita all over. After deciding she wasn't a threat Midna started licking her hand.
My heart was going at top speed. What if Aelita told Mr Delmas? What if she told everyone that I had broken the rules?
But seeing her stroke Midna softly, my worries faded slightly. Aelita didn't seem like the type of girl who let secrets out. As if she could read my mind, she suddenly said,
"Don't worry Kat, I'll keep your secret. I have a friend who keeps his dog Kiwi here unnoticed too."
I smiled gratefully. "Thanks Aelita, she'll be here, but I bet she wont miss a chance to explore the forest, I'll let her out so that she can look around outside the school grounds."
"But aren't you afraid that she'll run away, or get caught?"
I laughed. "Midna is the most reliable cat in the world. She'd never run away, or leave me. And anyway, you'd have to be Sonic the Hedgehog to even be able to think about catching Midna."
Aelita looked confused. "Sonic the Hedgehog?" (A.N Yes, I put him in, ITS MY STORY AND I"LL DO WHAT I WANT! MWAHAHAHAHA!)
I looked at her, shocked that she hadn't heard of him. "He's like, one of the biggest game characters ever invented! I'm obsessed with the Sonic X series." She nodded and I returned to the subject of Midna.
"I also know for a fact that no human alive would be able to keep up with her. Added to that, she would never disobey me. She seems to understand every word I say."
As I said this, I picked Midna up and walked over to the window. Putting her down next to the ledge, I said to her,
"Midna, don't go too far, and do not let anyone see you."
She blinked slowly and, ever so slightly that I might have imagined it, she inclined her head towards me. With that she leapt off the window ledge and headed on the direction of the forest. Smiling, I turned back to Aelita.
I swear, after five years, that cat understands every single word I say.
"So Kat, tell me about yourself." Aelita asked me as I sat down next to her on her bed. We had just finished unpacking, and dinner still wasn't for another half an hour.
"Well, what do you want to know?"
So there it started, she asked my favourite colours (Purple and silver), about my old school, this Sonic and Shadow the Hedgehog that I was seemingly obssessed with (MWAHAHAHA!), and everything else you could think of and more.
"What about your family Kat? What are they like."
"Sorry Aelita, but I'd appreciate it if you didn't ask me again."
"Oh sorry! I didn't mean to offend you." she immediately said.
"No, its okay, please don't apologise." I reassured her.
"Where were you born?" she asked, obviously eager to change the subject.
"Spain."
"Really? I thought you had a Spanish accent, but I've never heard one in person, so I wasn't sure. When did you move here?" she inquired.
"This afternoon, believe it or not." I said smiling.
"You came straight to the school?"
"Yeah." I didn't want to tell her that since my parents were dead, the school had adopted me until I got some foster parents to look after me during the holidays. I didn't feel ready to tell anyone.
"Did anything interesting happen on your way up?"
I instantly stiffened. Should I tell her? I asked myself. The need to tell somebody about those monsters and the return in time seemed too great to ignore much longer.
Just tell her. Fred said inside my head. I know that if you don't tell someone soon, you'll go crazy. And I'm not sure that I'll like being in charge all the time. There's a balance you know.
No way! She'll tell you you're insane, send you to the infirmary, and from there you'll be shipped straight to the nearest asylum! Common Sense screeched.
No. Something tells me that she wont call you crazy. I think she'll understand. Fred retorted softly.
I sighed inwardly, Fred seemed to be winning a lot these days.
"Well Aelita, something did happen on the way up." So I explained about the crabs, the lasers, Odd, the Scyphozoa, the blue area, the miniature me, the Scyphozoa's change into black smoke, Odd's phone call with this Jeremy person, and the return in time.
All the while her eyes widened, not as if she thought I had lost my marbles, but in understanding something. A few seconds after I finished we just sat in silence, staring at each other. Just then my watched beeped. Looking down on it, I saw it was 7:00pm, time for dinner.
"Katrina, come on. We have to see Jeremy. Now." She spoke the last word forcefully, and stood up. She walked towards the door, with me right behind her, opened it, took my hand and ran along the corridor, pulling me behind her. We raced through the deserted halls, everyone was already at dinner. We stepped into the dining hall and got in line, picking up dinner trays along the way.
The school dinners seemed to be fine, spaghetti bolognaise with a drink of juice and orange cake for dessert. Once we had filled up our trays, I followed Aelita to a table with three boys.
One was wearing a blue turtle neck and had blond hair, and who also seemed to smile a bit too brightly than normal when Aelita came into view, another with brown hair was wearing an olive green shirt and a green short-sleeved cardigan with green cargo pants. And the third boy…
We noticed each other at the exact same time.
"YOU!" We both shouted simultaneously. It was Odd.
"I think you two are already acquainted." Aelita spoke jokingly, but that serious gleam was still in her eyes. "The blond boy is Jeremy, the brunette is Ulrich and our other friend Yumi isn't a border here at Kadic so she isn't here. Guys this is Katrina, my new roommate."
Aelita looked anxious, Ulrich clearly hadn't been more bewildered in his life, Jeremy was looking thoughtfully between Odd and I and Odd himself was looking shocked. He suddenly smacked himself in the forehead.
"Katrina! That was it. I had them calling you Katherine." he said.
"Odd, I take it this was the girl you were talking about?" Jeremy asked. Odd nodded feebly.
"Jeremy listen to me." Aelita demanded as we sat down opposite them. "Katrina wasn't affected by the return to the past." A shocked silence followed these words.
"B-but that's impossible!" Jeremy stuttered "She isn't linked to Lyoko!"
"Well Jeremy, she is now."
Me: I know, the ending sucks, but I was out of ideas on how to end this chapter!
Odd: Too right it sucked!
Me: Odd, if you continue to be a jerk than I am going to relpace you as my Author's Note partner for Ulrich.
Odd: NOOOOOOO! ANYTHING BUT THAT!
Me: Good then SHUT UP!
Odd: You know you love me really.
Me: Yes I do, but if you keep acting like this then not only will Ulrich become my new Author's Note partner, he will also become my new crush. HA!
Odd: NOOOOOOOO!
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