Warning

The XANA Games is rated T, for now. Will be switched to M if things get out of hand. There will be death and the Characters will take on different personalities than those known in Code Lyoko. If you can't handle this, then don't read and don't flame.

THE XANA GAMES:

Sector 1 (The Lab): People in this sector are brain heads and provide the other sectors with technology. Selected for the XANA Games: Aelita & Jeremy

Sector 2 (The Forest): People in this sector are Wild. The people in this sector also produce food for the other sectors, except the ice sector, due to the amount of fertile soil and the high population of animals in the forest. Selected for the XANA Games: Odd & Sam

Sector 3 (The Desert): People in this sector are wealthy because a diamond mine sits under their land. Selected for the XANA Games: Sissy & Percy

Sector 4 (The Mountains): People in this sector are fighters. The members of this sector live high in the mountains and need to fend for themselves due to it. Selected for the XANA Games: Yumi & Ulrich

Sector 5 (The Ice Sector): People in this sector are accustomed to being fisherman/woman due to the amount of water on their land. People in this sector are also tough because of the rough living conditions they experience since it is always cold and snowy. Selected for the XANA Games: Rita & Michael

Sector X (Kadic):The Royal XANA family lives within this sector. Unlike the other sectors, people are marked to partake in the XANA Games without randomly being chosen. Because of this, they are better trained and almost always win. (This is a fixed system by the King so his sector almost always wins). Selected for the XANA Games: Rose & William

The Land of Lyoko has been ruled by the XANA family for hundreds of years. Twenty years ago Lyoko rebelled against the XANA family, but the people were no match for the royal army. As punishment, the land was separated into six sectors and the XANA Games were established. Each Sector within Lyoko must give up a female and male participant between the ages of 16-19 to partake in the XANA Games once a year. The participants fight to the death until one soul remains.

Chapter 3

The Death Parade

Thud

This is the sound that awoke Yumi and Ulrich early the next morning. The train had pulled into the Sector X central train station. Martha's could be heard walking around outside the door as her heavy heels clunked away on linoleum floor.

"Wake up you two!" Martha said buzzing with excitement. "We need to get you two all cleaned up and ready for tonight's opening ceremony!"

Yumi looked at Ulrich and sighed before pulling on her boots. This was the day that would mark the opening their lives being handed over to Sector X., and they both knew it. From here on out, every move that made would not be observed by Sector X. Privacy was no longer a thing.

"Ouch!" Yumi exclaimed as her prep crew ripped away at her leg hair with some sort of weird paper covered in sticky stuff.

Yumi was laying completely naked from head to toe on a long folded out chair, like a bed. Her eyes were closed because the lights above her burned into her pupils whenever she opened them. She wondered how much longer this torture would continue. She felt completely vulnerable laying on that bed naked. People were touching her in places that weren't comfortable to her. The team was removing every speck of body hair from her bare body, including any pubic hair. This made no sense to her, since no one would even see her naked. Just then a thought filled her mind that scared her.

"What if my entrance costume requires something see-through?" Thinking this was not foreign in itself, since costumes at the entrance ceremony are sometimes just this. She shuttered at the thought. She didn't want her bare breasts exposed all over Lyoko. They were taking away everything that belonged to her, she hoped that they would at least allow her to keep her dignity.

"I wonder that they are dong to Ulrich" She then thought. She pictured him laying there as his prep team stripped him of his hair…. laying there naked. Yumi then blushed at the thought and her mind soon went blank as a new voice interrupted into the room.

"You must be Yumi." An younger looking man said as the prep team cleared out of the room.

Yumi sat straight up, acknowledging the new stranger and took the paper robe that he handed her, and slipped it on. "Good evening, sir." Yumi replied, trying her best to be polite.

Just then a door opened revealing Ulrich, who was only wearing a thin pare of red paper shorts. He was instructed to sit next to Yumi on the bed by the mysterious gentleman.

The mysterious man walked over to a table and picked up a cup of coffee. He took a sip and walked back over to the teens. "You must be wondering who I am by now? Well then, let me introduce myself. My name is Frederick, and I will be your costume designer for this years XANA games. As you know, before any training begins for the games, there is an opening ceremony. It is my job to make you two look desirable to the people of Lyoko."

Frederick then walked over to Yumi and asked her to stand up so he could take some measurements of her body.

Yumi stood up like she was told then felt panic because he then asked her to open her robe so that way he could get measurements of her breast. She quickly glanced at Ulrich and gave him such a pleading look then turned back to face Frederick.

"You aren't going to put me in a see-though costume, are you!?" Yumi finally said, breaking her own silence.

The man chuckled then sighed. "What kind of man do you think I am? Of course not, my dear.

Once Frederick finished taking Yumi and Ulrich's measurements, the two were then sent to their cabin within Sector X, that was meant for the contestants of the Mountain Sector. The two were still wearing their paper outfits, and were relieved to find a closet in each of their bedrooms filled with clothes. Yumi slipped on a pair of cargo pants and a black tank top, while Ulrich slipped on some baggy shorts and a white t-shirt.

When the two met back up in the living room, neither of them said anything for a good while, until Ulrich broke the silence.

"I guess we should eat before they come back to make us pretty before tonight." Ulrich said while smirking as he said the word pretty. This made Yumi giggle, which made him happy.

The table in the dining area was filled with all types of food; more than anything they would ever have available to them back in the Mountain Sector.

"Eat up!" A strange older man said, suddenly appearing in the entrance of the cabin. The man was wearing a white dress suit, and had bottle cap circular glasses on his face. He had a light scruffy beard, and age wise seemed to be in his 60s.

"Who, who are you?" Yumi demanded, daring to be impolite

"I figured you would ask that." The man then grabbed an apple from the table and took a bite into it before sitting down in a chair at the polar opposite end from where Yumi and Ulrich had taken a seat. "My name is Franz, Franz Hopper. You see dearies, as you are aware, the Mountain Sector has never had a victor. Because of this, tributes from your sector are assigned to me to be your mentors. Such a pity it is really, every year the Mountain Sector doesn't even make it past the first day within the area! What's the point anymore? I get paid to send two young adults into a slaughter house every year, for what? I'll tell you what; so that the King has something to laugh at while he thinks it sends a message across Lyoko about the rebellion." Franz then took a huge gulp of red wine, and dabbed his beard with the now unfolded cloth napkin.

"So, when do you start training us?" Ulrich asked, trying to forget everything he said about them being sent into a slaughter house.

"Tomorrow, and I won't be training you, I will simply be giving you advice on how to stay alive. Let me tell you something you two, your sector sends me the biggest idiots every year! I mean come on! You remember how your sector's tributes died last year, don't yah? The female got too cold and lit a fire at night! That signals ""Oh no, come kill me now because I am too pathetic to go a night without warmth"" Never light a fire at night! Do you hear me? And that guy from last year, oh boy, he was dumber than her! He got hungry within the first three hours and ate some berries he found without knowing if they were safe or not! Never EVER eat anything you aren't 120% sure about! " Franz replied finishing his ramblings. It was clear that he was getting happy from his wine. Who knows how much of the stuff he already had to drink?

"Mr. Hopper." Yumi said, now a bit wary about her tone of voice with him. "I can assure you, that Ulrich and I are smarter than any of those other tributes from our sector. We know which berries are safe, and which aren't…."

Yumi was then abruptly cut off by Franz. "You say that now missy, but I bet you will be dead before the first day ends."

Yumi stared straight at Franz and blinked back some tears, and in her calmest voice said "I am going to go lay down before tonight." She then stood up and walked down the hallway to her room, with Ulrich following her.

"Are you ok?" Ulrich said trying to calm Yumi down.

"Sure Ulrich, I am fine. I am only going into a death battle with only one winner. And by some miracle, if it one of us, that person doesn't' go home without the other. I can't picture life knowing that you were killed in the arena, and I know that same goes for you vice versa. What is the point in even trying to win when all it will bring with it is misery?" Yumi then punched the wall then grasped her hand, holding back pain by shaking her fist. "Please, I want to be alone now." Yumi said to Ulrich, with her back towards him.

That night Frederick had his assistants dress Yumi and Ulrich in their costumes. Yumi was wearing a gray and silver long sleeved tight dress that cut off right below her thigh area. She has tight white leggings on, that had a snowy effect to them. The same effect was also present on her dress and boots, which were closed toe three inch heels that cut off at her knees. On her shoulders laid what was Frederick's pride and joy with the costume. The shoulder piece rested on her shoulders and another part tied lightly around her neck with a silky silver ribbon. The piece went up behind her head and ended in a sharp point. The entire thing lit up and gave off an illusion of snow fall. It was one of a kind, nothing that Yumi had ever seen in any of the other XANA Games.

Ulrich on the other hand, was wearing a nicely fitting tuxedo with colors and effects matching Yumi's costume. He also had a shoulder piece, and since Yumi was slightly taller than him, his shoulder piece height was slightly smaller in size. When the two stood next to each other, the two mountains from their sector could be distinguished.

"You look nice." Ulrich said to Yumi, as they waited on their chariots.

Yumi sighed and couldn't help but smile. Although this was basically a "death parade" as she and Ulrich had called it, she was a bit nervous knowing that she was about to be broadcasted allover Lyoko.

The chariot horses, two big white stallions, began to pull them through the cart. Ulrich took Yumi's hand in his and whispered. "Are you ready?"

"Doesn't matter if I am or not." Yumi whispered back just before they were pulled through the curtain.

Everything seemed to be a blur to Yumi. People were applauding and screaming, throwing roses, and who knows what else. As Yumi's vision began to clear up, and she got used to the situation, she could see people pointing at them and cheering. She looked around and saw her and Ulrich on all the television screens around the stadium. She noticed that since they came out, none of the other tributes were picked up on the screens. The stadium's audience seemed to just have their attention on them, and she could see why. Everyone else's costume seemed plain compared to their snowing mountain effect. Yumi felt Ulrich squeeze her hand, and she looked over at him smiling. He returned the smile then lifted their entwined hands in the air. The audience at it up and made whatever noise they could.

The attention on them lasted until they reached the end of the parade route within the stadium. The tributes then were instructed to unboard their chariots and make a semi-circle around the main podium. Just then, King XANA walked out to the microphone and spoke.

"Welcome tributes, to the twentieth XANA Games!" The crowd went wild and some of the fellow tributes also joined in with the yelling. Yumi, who was still holding Ulrich's hand, suddenly came back to reality and she glanced around getting quick glimpses of the other tributes. She saw one girl with pink hair. She and her partner, blondie, were standing to her left. She could only guess that they were from the Lab Sector, since their costumes were made to mimic a circuit board.

Further down to her left she could see another pair, which she could pinpoint as being from the Desert Sector. The female had her hair in a tight braid that ran down her naked back. Her front was only covered with glued on diamonds, and she had tight white pants on with white high heal boots, which were also covered in diamonds. The male had short black hair and was also topless with diamonds glued to his upper body. He too was also wearing white pants with some sort of boot.

She didn't have time to investigate anyone else, since before she knew it, she was back on her chariot being lead out of the stadium. All that she kept thinking of what that by the end of the month, they would all be dead, except for one.

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