Hello everyone! Time for a new chapter with XANA included. mostly Ulrich-based chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko in any way. I only own Sero.
Ulrich woke up with a shock. He had a dream about their new friend Sero and his first meeting with XANA, and the details made him enjoy it very little. While he thought about what it meant, Odd snored loudly into his pillow. Even though he did love Odd deeply, he always hated his extremely loud sleeping. He saw that the time was 6:45 AM April 19th, so he decided to attempt to wake Odd up.
"Wake up Odd, time to go to the showers if you want to get some food and hot water." Ulrich said, he wanted Odd to wake up, but wasn't sure whether he should talk about his dream. Unfortunately, he was still snoring with Kiwi by the edge of his bed.
"Wake up Odd or I'm giving all of my food to Sissi." Ulrich added with a smirk on his face, and just like that, Odd woke up as if someone just dumped cold water on his face.
"DON'T YOU DARE GIVE HER YOUR FOOD!" Odd said with what sounded like pure anger and fury.
"I'm just kidding man, now lets hit the showers." Ulrich said while trying to not laugh. he managed to kiss his lover to calm him down.
"Good thing it's Saturday today." Odd said with his usual grin on his face.
"Yeah. And you know it." Ulrich replied back.
"Let's hurry up or all the hot water will be gone!" Odd said back. Odd always was a fan of steamy showers...
After hitting the showers and doing their morning routines, the couples fussed with their hands as they walked to the food court to get breakfast early on Saturdays, so everyone else was still in the showers or sleeping. Once they got their plates of food, they caught a glimpse of Sero and Jeremie kissing. They waved to the couple as they broke their kiss with embarrassment. Ulrich and Odd took a seat at their lunch table to see if anything else was happening between the lovebirds.
"So I see that the two of you already made up for each other." Odd said with his trademarked grin.
"Uh..Umm.. Err..." Sero said dumbstruck while trying to hide his completely blushed face. he obviously doesn't know how to hide his affection very well.
"We were just getting to know each other better, honestly." Jeremie blurted out, rescuing his new lover from his wild emotions.
"Yes, we were doing that! Not what you were thinking." Sero said. his blushing was not well hidden.
"Oh come on Jeremie, we know that more happened." Ulrich said with some cockiness in his voice. Jeremie quickly denied that statement with a 'no'. "Oh, umm Jeremie, I need to talk to you about something. In private." He added.
"Oh, okay then. Wait here Sero." Jeremie said. He kissed his new boyfriend on the cheek, then followed Ulrich.
"Well Ulrich, now that we are in private what now?" Jeremie said. He got used to using his own room as a bit of a confession stand, he just didn't like private matters on short notice.
"I had this dream Jeremie. It was about Sero and... XANA. It was fuzzy and I couldn't tell if XANA attacked him or... Possessed him. I'm not sure whether we should protect him or if we should tell him about... you know." Ulrich said. he wasn't much of a person to tell the dead truth, he was used to using some white lies here and there. But since Sero and Jeremie's relationship was blooming, he didn't hide a thing.
"Wait what? When did you have this dream?" Jeremie said quickly. Ulrich could easily tell that the two were perfect for each other, and his tone told Ulrich that he would sacrifice anything for Sero.
"I had it last night, but the worst part is that it was happening in the morning. Like right now." Ulrich replied with some fear in himself.
"Got it. Scanning for activated towers." Jeremie said with haste in his voice. "There seems to be no-Wait, Activated tower in the Forest Region!" He nearly shouted.
"Call Yumi and Aelita, I'll tell Odd to go to the factory. I think staying here to help protect the school and Sero will be the best choice." Ulrich said to Jeremie. If Sero really is... No, he can't think of that now.
"Got it. sending automatic voice messages... Now." Jeremie said. "Go tell Odd, and make sure Sero doesn't.. Doesn't..." he couldn't finish his sentence.
"Don't worry Jeremie, you're my friend. I'm going now." Ulrich said, putting his hand on Jeremie's shoulder.
"So Sero, how is your relationship with Jeremie?" Odd said to Sero, who was finishing his food up.
"Besides that... Kiss you saw, we haven't done much." Sero said, he was still somehow blushing from that kiss Jeremie gave him before he went with Ulrich to talk about something.
"Oh don't worry about that. Me and Ulrich had much WORSE incidents happen to us." Odd replied, slightly shaking when he thought of the time that Jeremie fainted when he walked in while him and Ulrich were having sex for the first time... "Just be careful to close your door and-LOOK OUT!" Odd screamed, pointing at the Spectre which was sneaking behind Sero. Thankfully it was early for a Saturday, so only Rosa was in the cafeteria.
'Wait what?' were Sero's only words as he looked behind him to see the Spectre possessing him. Sero kicked and nearly screamed before he got up with the eye of XANA replacing his pupil. He took one look at Odd before he flipped the table they were sitting on, nearly landing on Odd.
"ODD! XANA activated a tower! Get to the factory immediately!" Ulrich said right after noticing the eye of XANA in place of Sero's dark-green iris. "Don't worry about Sero, I got him!" Ulrich added after he made a lunge at Sero, motioning Odd to move.
"Aye-Aye! time to take out a tower in Lyoko!" Odd said, running out of the room before Sero pushed Ulrich off and threw another table at Odd.
"Come on Sero, its me, Ulrich! Stop fighting, XANA has controlled you!" Ulrich nearly screamed at Sero, hoping it would work. Unfortunately it didn't help the slightest bit, because Sero took only one look at him before shocking him and throwing Ulrich at the wall.
"Odd! You're here, anything happened at the school? Is Sero okay?" Jeremie said with worry. Odd was out of breath when he got to the scanner room. As he exited the elevator, Yumi got devirtualized.
"It's just your average XANA attack. Trust me Einstein, Ulrich has it under control, hopefully." Odd said, wheezing as he went to the scanner. He didn't want to tell Jeremie that Sero was XANA-Fied, or else Einstein may try to help Ulrich back at the cafeteria.
"I hope you're right Odd, I truly do." Jeremie said with slight sadness in his voice.
Ulrich was having no luck with Sero who was showing XANA's strength by Sero hurling him against the wall. Fortunately, Ulrich knew better than to take him head-on with an injured back. Unfortunately, Sero saw through his tricks and simply grabbed him.
"Sero please stop, stop before you..." Ulrich attempted to reason with him as he lost his breath, but it was useless as Sero started to electrocute him to death. Ulrich nearly thought that he was about to get fried then...
Then it all stopped. Sero let go of Ulrich and both fell to the ground, gasping for air. Ulrich mentally sighed in relief as a familiar white light covered both of them...
As the light of the return to the past went away, Ulrich found himself sitting at the lunch table with Jeremie, Odd and Sero.
"Umm guys, did time just go... Backwards? And I heard something about a XANA and Lyoko and why did a shadow possess me?" Sero asked with curiosity. Jeremie, Odd, and Ulrich glanced at each other. They had no idea what to say, it was as if the return to the past didn't affect Sero.
"Well guys? I mean you three don't look surprised at all. Is there something else going on?" Sero said, obviously he knew that his friends was hiding something.
After a short and silent talk between the three, Jeremie finally talked up, saying "Come to my room everyone, its best to talk about it in private." Sero looking slightly confused but then decided to follow the trio who saved him from the power of XANA.
"...And once a tower gets deactivated, XANA's influence on the world is weakened, well at least for a couple of days." Jeremie said, finishing his speech about Lyoko and XANA.
"I have only one question Jeremie; When can I help?" Sero said with a grin on his face.
AN: Fourth chapter done! Review and follow if you want to.