I am so sorry guys about the long chapter update delay… junior year has been killing me. But I will have this chapter up by one AM. Enjoy! (:
Disclaimer: I do not own any of this crap. Only Mannie, her mom, and some other things I am forgetting. Have fuuun (;
Chapter 4: Forgotten
Odd looked at Celestine, "Excuse me?" Celestine smiled.
"You heard me Odd… Uhh who is this? Mannie, you said? Why are you bringing her to me?" Celestine asked him with her hands on her hips.
"Her name's Mannie Diazdeleon. Your daughter." Odd told her.
"Oh that must be a mistake. I don't have a daughter named Mannie, only Mickey." The lady shook her head.
"Well can we come in? Mannie's getting really heavy and my arms are tired." Odd was breathing hard, and Celestine moved over and Odd took her to a couch. "What if we do a blood test or something to prove that she's your daughter. If she's not your kid, then she has absolutely no parents..no family.. no nothing" Odd sighed and looked at the beauty that lay next to him.
"Well Odd, it really sounds like you care about her, and I definitely trust you.. If you really think she's my daughter, I will do the blood test." Celestine smiled. "She is beautiful. I think I would remember her.." She looked at Mannie, walked to the kitchen, and got a cloth, walked back to Mannie and pressed it against Mannie's forehead to try to wake her up. Which she did. Mannie sat up looking around, then saw Celestine and opened her mouth to say something, but forgot that she was mute.
"Mannie, are you really my daughter?" Celestine asked her. Mannie nodded, looked at the ground, then stood up and ran upstairs. Odd and Celestine looked at each other, confused, then followed her. Mannie had run into her old room which was now empty, and she sighed, she sat down and looked at the ground. The other two followed her inside and watched her as she sat and moped in her room. Odd walked over and kneeled next to her.
"Mannie, you and your mom are gonna do a blood test so we can prove your relations to her, okay?" Odd told her. She looked at him and smiled. She got out her phone. 'Since when did you become so smart?' She laughed and he smiled as he read the text. "I guess you've been rubbing off on me. Now come on, we'll make you an appointment with the doctor, and then we'll have to find out how to get your voice back and how to get everyone to remember you." He stood up and held out his hand, and she grabbed it and stood up. She got out her phone and gave it to her mom. 'If you don't believe us it's okay, I understand. I understand if you think that I'm just using you for your money, but I can prove that I'm your daughter if only I had my voice.' Celestine looked at her once before daughter and something clicked in her head when she looked into her eyes.
"I believe you Mannie." Celestine grabbed Mannie and hugged her.
'Thank God.. This is all getting better..'Mannie sighed, and smiled. Mickey walked in the house.
"Moooom I'm hoooooome, you wouldn't believe the day I've- what are you doing here?" She looked at Mannie angrily. Mannie opened her mouth and just looked at Mickey, then walked past her and out the door. "Odd, Mr. Delmas is really mad at you for just leaving school like that for her." Mickey scowled at Mannie.
"Look Mickey, I'm not your boyfriend! I'm Mannies'!" Odd rolled his eyes and walked passed her to Mannie. Mannie smiled at him and left outside.
"Odd I don't know what's gotten into you lately, but I don't like it very much. You are my boyfriend, you have been for over a year now!" She said as he walked out the door following Mannie. He stopped and looked at her.
"Than why don't I remember it?" He turned around and walked out. "Mannie! Where are you?" There was a small forest outside of her former house, and he decided he'd look in there for her. "This would be so much easier if you could speak." He saw her sitting by a small lake and sat next to her. She got out her phone.
'Do u remember this? We used to sit out here all the time..' She typed. He nodded and smiled.
"Yeah I do, I remember you even pushed me in there one time!" He stood up and laughed, then he picked her up, and threw her in. "So let me return the favor." She stood up in the lake, with an open mouth full of surprise and ran after him. He ran away, not wanting to get wet. They spent the whole night together at that lake, 'til it was dusk, and they decided they needed to get back to the school, so Odd and Mannie walked to Odd's car and got back in. On the way back, Odd looked at Mannie who was lying down, and falling asleep.
"Hey Mannie, I have an idea of how we can get people to remember you." He smiled. She looked up at him with tired eyes. "If we can write a song, you and me, and we publish it.. don't you think that'd get people to remember you?" She pointed to her throat and shrugged her shoulders. "Yeah I know you can't talk or sing but I can!" He smiled. She smiled as well and rolled her eyes as if she were laughing. "Hey! Why are you laughing! I can too sing!" She rolled her eyes and got out her phone.
'Fine, we'll do the song thing. But if ur just using me for my musical talents… I'll have you till u.' She laughed as he read it.
"Oh you'll kill me, eh? Well how are you gonna do that? I know how I'd kill you." He started poking her side, which tickled her, which would have made her laugh if she could have made any noise. She punched him in the arm which made him laugh and so he stopped, and concentrated on driving. She made her car chair go back and she fell asleep almost instantly. He looked at her again and smiled. 'She may not be able to talk, but she still has that spark that I love.'
They got back to the school and Odd woke Mannie up. "We're here." So she got up, stretched and got out of the limo, and Odd did as well. They both went to his and Ulrich's room and went on Odd's iMac. They went into Garage Band and started playing around with the music and after long hours of working on sounds and recordings, they finally made the perfect song. (A/N just FYI the song is FireFlies by Owl City, like any time I hear that song on the radio or something, I can just imagine Odd singing it. So yeah(: thought y'all would like to know. If you haven't heard that song, you have to go listen to it. It's like the cutest song ever!) They started playing it, and at the moment the whole group walked in.
"Wow, what is this? I've never heard this before." Aelita said in amazement.
"Me and Mannie made it." Odd tested his idea.
"Yeah.. this does sound like something she'd make." Ulrich laughed. Odd turned around and looked at Mannie and smiled.
"See I told you that it'd work!" He hugged her and she smiled.
"Wait, Odd aren't you going to introduce us to your friend?" Yumi smiled and walked over to Mannie.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Yumi." She stuck out her hand and smiled. Mannie took Yumi's hand and sighed. Mannie stormed out of the room, devastated that no one remembered her still. She walked out of the dorm houses and tears started to fall from her face. 'I obviously don't belong in this world anymore… nobody remembers me.. and I'm just a burden to Odd. I don't have an identity… a family… I don't have anything… I might have well just died and disappeared with Lyoko like I was supposed to..'
"Guys… that's Mannie!" Odd pointed at Mannie as she walked out of the room. Jeremy patted Odd on the back.
"Oh Odd, what drug are you on? This is Mannie!" He picked up a picture of Odd and Mickey and showed it to him.
"No! Her name is MICKEY. M-I-C-K-E-Y! Not Mannie!" He frowned and followed after Mannie.
She found herself at the factory and took the elevator down to the Supercomputer Room. She sat down at the computer screen, and tried turning the computer on, but it wouldn't turn on.
'Is this why I lost my voice..? Because this is off?' She wondered. She walked over to the power cables and sat down next to the plug-ins. 'Part of me is saying turn it on… but the other half knows it's a bad idea… I have no idea what to do.' She knew the part inside of her telling her to plug it back in was her dad, and she didn't want to listen to that, after all she had gone through. 'But if I do plug it back in, and I can set it back up so that it won't be turned off before I get to finish.' She plugged the plug-in back in, but did it cautiously. She got up and went to the Supercomputer and typed in her information, and set up the automatic virtualization. She jumped down into the lower level room with all of the transferors and got in and was sent to Lyoko. She landed smoothly and was already in Sector 5.
Odd already knew where she was going and ran into the factory. He took the elevator down into the Supercomputer room and saw the computer on.
"Mannie get out of there! You don't know what you're doing." Odd yelled at her.
"Yes, I do Odd. Get out of the factory…" Mannie was jumping from platform to platform.
"You can talk!" Odd said happily. "Wait.. why can you talk?" He asked her.
"As long as Lyoko is on, I can talk… if we turn it off, I can't talk and no one can remember me… woah!" Mannie was still jumping across and running from platform to platform, and almost missed one. Two Mantas surrounded her and shot bullets at her. She did a flip in the air to dodge the bullets and sent out sound waves with her hands and eliminated the two monsters.
Jeremy and the others ran into the Supercomputer Room and saw Odd at the Supercomputer.
"Odd! Why'd you turn Lyoko back on? Why are you at the computer?" Jeremy ran over and checked the keyboard making sure he didn't do anything to mess up the computer.
"I didn't Mannie did!" Odd pointed at the Mannie dot on the screen.
"I did Jeremy. I'm shutting down Lyoko. You guys don't even have to do anything." Mannie got to the room with the memory for Lyoko and walked up to the big tower. She heard footsteps behind her and turned around.
"Mannie, why are you commiting suicide? You belong here with us. Don't do this." Odd was in desperation.
"Odd go into Lyoko, you can still stop her." Jeremy told her typing non-stop on the keyboard.
"Don't even waste your time. I locked the virtualization process, so that no one can get in or out. I don't belong there Odd. If I did people would remember me when Lyoko was gone, and I would be able to talk. I'm basically invisible when I'm there. I'm linked to this place. My soul is here, and XANA will do anything to make sure of that." Mannie looked at William and smiled.
"That was a stupid thing of you to do Mannie, if I kill you. You disappear forever." William walked towards her with his sword.
"It's better than being in a world which you do not exist!" She looked at him. "Go ahead, kill me if that's what XANA wants, but I highly doubt that." William ran over to her and lifted his sword.
"Mannie no!" Odd yelled.
Okaaaaay, so there's the end of that chapter! (: I know it's been FOREVERRRR. But I hope that satisfies you for now! (: I don't know if it's much of a cliffhanger for you but I like where I'm ending it :P I promise I'll try to update moreee, maybe every Friday? But only if I get reviews! SO R/R plzz(: