Chapter 7.
"No! Please no!" screamed Odd. Zoe had XANA's symbol in her eye.
"Odd what's going on." looking around confused. He was also confused.
"Zee is that really you?" he asked.
"Of course it's me, what are you talking about?"
"You have XANA's symbol in your eye."
"WHAT?"
"Odd, Zoe what's happening?" came Jeremy's voice from above.
"Jeremy, Zoe has XANA's symbol in her eye but she's acting just fine." said Odd, he didn't want to mention her questions which was probably XANA's fault. Zoe knew Odd was serious because he always used her nick-name when talked about her.
"Really? Hold on I'll scan her." aid Jeremy.
XANA was frustrated that the most he could do in terms of controlling the Vixen was getting her to subconsciously ask those questions. Still he could still cause her pain and destroy her if he wanted.
Zoe suddenly let out a scream of pain as her body gave off sparks of energy.
"Zoe!" Odd screamed. But there was more bad news.
"Odd, William has just shown up." said Jeremy. The warning came too late and Odd was shot in the back. Odd got back up to face William, 2 Tarantulas, 5 Hornets and the Scyphozoa.
"This can't be good." said Odd at the sight of the Scyphozoa. "Laser arrow!" he fired at William but he blocked the arrows. The Hornets came round and fired at him.
"Shield!" Odd's shield appeared in front of him but the blasts were too much and some managed to get under his shield hitting his legs causing him to lose his protection. He managed to dodge the Tarantula blasts aimed at him. Then he noticed something he could no longer see Zoe, William or the Scyphozoa.
"Odd behind you!" screamed Jeremy.
Odd turned just in time to see the Scyphozoa and dodge it's grip. But why was it after him? Odd was about to fire on it when he heard William call his name. Odd screamed in shock William was holding the unconscious form of Zoe who had past out from he pain over the ledge and above the Digital sea.
"Give your self up or she is lost to Digital sea." called William.
Odd bowed his head XANA knew he would do anything to protect her even if that meant giving himself up. The Scyphozoa wrapped it's tentacles around Odd and began to implant XANA into him.
William smiled XANA had formed a new plan using what he could do he would turn the Vixen and Cat boy against their friends. Suddenly 3 of the Hornets were destroyed along with a Tarantula. William turned round to see Yumi and Ulrich who had volunteered to come back and help Odd and Zoe while Aelita stayed to destroy the super computer. Ulrich went after William while Yumi went to take care of the monsters and free Odd. William threw Zoe to the ground and called forth his sword battling Ulrich head on, Yumi jumped into the air and took out the last Tarantula and a Hornet. Just as Yumi was about to throw her fans at the Scyphozoa it set down Odd and disappeared, seconds later the ground began to shake signalling that the super computer had been destroyed. William broke off his fight with Ulrich and dived into the Digital sea. Jeremy teleported everyone back into the Skid and Aelita who had just got back drove it back to Lyoko.
In the Scanner room Jeremy, Yumi, Ulrich and Aelita were waiting for the scanner doors to open after Jeremy had finished running a scan on Odd and Zoe. 2 of the scanner doors opened and Odd and Zoe fell out still unconscious out of them, Yumi and Jeremy caught Zoe while Ulrich and Aelita caught Odd. They put them gently on the ground.
"Odd come on wake up, show us your alright." said Aelita to Odd.
"Say something." said Ulrich. Odd shifted a bit and groaned before opening his eyes slightly.
"Something." he mumbled before passing out again.
"Zee come on speak to me." said Yumi. Zoe moaned and slightly opened her eyes, though her left eye was still covered.
"Anyone get the licence plate number of that car?" she mumbled before too passing out.
Zoe and Odd were passed out in the infirmary after being brought there by their friends telling nurse Yolanda they just found them like that. Everyone had been shooed off to class when the bell went and about 10 minuets later they woke up.
"Why do I feel like I got ran over by a truck?" said Zoe sitting up.
"All I have is a headache." said Odd holding his head in his hands.
"Lucky you."
"Oh good your awake you friends said they found you so brought you here. Can you tell me what happened before your friends found you." said nurse Yolanda.
Catching on pretty quick what there friends were doing they said they didn't remember.
Once they were they were released they made their way too Odd and Ulrich's room to wait for the bell. Soon after it rang the door opened and the others walked in.
"Odd, Zoe I'm so glad your alright." said Aelita.
"What's the last thing you remember?" asks Jeremy.
"Well the last thing I remember is protecting the Skid with Odd while waiting for trouble to rear it's ugly head, then everything sort of slowly dissolves into blackness. But I do remember a sort of huge pain." says Zoe.
"I don't remember much after the point of Zeeā¦" Odd trailing off not wanting to talk about the pain XANA caused Zoe. "What XANA do to us?"
"I got the results from the scanner and apparently you two have built up such a strong immune system against XANA that even with the Scyphozoa he couldn't take control of you. But he has implanted something inside of you that dose affect you, it not only links you to him but it also allows him to do stuff to you. An example is when XANA electrocuted Zee so XANA could get hold of Odd, most likely because on Lyoko together Odd and Zee make a formidable team and he wanted that power but since he couldn't control you he's going to use alternative means." says Jeremy.
"Great, just great." said Odd.
"How long till you can find a way to shut off the link?" asked Zoe.
"I don't know but to be safe your not allowed to go to Lyoko until I say otherwise."
"What? No fair." complained Zoe.
"I'm sorry but for all we know you being on Lyoko could make the connection stronger."
Zoe started to mutter something in the strange language she had used on Sissy and everyone looked to Odd for a translation.
"You don't want to know." he said simply.
Later that evening during dinner anyone who was still in their dorms would hear beautiful music originating from the girls floor. Inside Zoe's room she and Odd were in a duet her playing the flute and him his guitar. It was a song they had composed together called "The Soul Of Tatiana" they didn't know why they chose that name but it seemed to fit. After the news about what happened the two didn't feel like eating, and for some reason playing this song always seemed to lift the spirit of all who heard it. They let the music fill them and before they knew it Jim had come to Zoe's door telling them the music was good and all but it was time for everyone to return to their own dorm rooms. They were surprised, not at the time but at the fact Jim didn't shout at Odd to get to him room and to stop the racked. They guessed it was the power of their music.
Odd jumped onto his bed with Kiwi coming to rest on his stomach.
"Where were you, and how come you missed dinner?" asked Ulrich.
"With Zee, and after the news we didn't feel like eating." Odd answered.
"You didn't feel like eating? Oh no Hell is freezing over and Pigs are learning how to fly."
Odd laughed at Ulrich's joke.
"Don't forget Sissy giving up on you." he added.
"Yeah whatever let's get some sleep, remember nurse Yolanda didn't give you the day off tomorrow."
Odd switched off the light and climbed into bed and fell asleep the moment his head hit the pillow.
It was dark so very dark and there was no sound to be heard.
"Hello, anyone?" called Odd. Silence followed but then a reply.
"Odd?" called a distant voice.
"Zee!" Odd called to her.
There she was running towards him, as soon as they reached each other Odd pulled Zoe into a hug.
"Odd where are we?"
As if in answer the darkness lifted and the two teens were wishing it hadn't as they were met with the sight of what was once the school but now a smouldering pile of rubble. Bodies could be seen all around it was a truly horrible sight.
"Odd what's happening?"
"I don't know."
Shadows escaped the rubble and began to take shape with the XANA's symbol in it's centre.
"Run!" shouted Odd grabbing hold of Zoe's hand and running with the shadow giving chase. They ran hand in hand as fast as their feet would let them all the way to the factory but it was also a pile of rubble.
"Where now?" asked Zoe still running.
"Into town, hopefully there will be somewhere to hide."
The majority of the buildings in town were destroyed and those still standing looked if they could only last one more day. Suddenly a laser shot out and hit Odd's left arm and he screamed in pain, looking behind them they saw a Crab charging up another laser. Dodging it they ran but only right into the shadow. It grabbed hold of Odd by the neck and Zoe by the waist squeezing the life out of them. Suddenly they heard distant voices.
"Odd, Odd wake up!" said a male voice.
"Zoe please wake up." said a female voice. Then it clicked.
"Odd this is just a dream." shouted Zoe which was hard considering she was being squeezed. Zoe's and Odd's bodies faded as they exited the layers of sleep.
Zoe woke up to see Aelita shaking her with a extremely worried face.
"Oh thank god you awake." she said clearly relieved.
"W-what happened?" asked Zoe.
"I woke up to the sound of screaming and a found out it was you, you were trashing about and screaming but when I tried I couldn't wake you.
Odd woke up to see Ulrich and Jeremy looking down at him with Ulrich shaking his shoulders. Odd groaned in pain, Zoe said it was a dream and he had just woken up then why did his left arm feel like it was on fire.
"Odd are you alright?" said Ulrich.
"My left arm, it hurts." he said. They looked at his arm and gasped, there where the laser hit him in the dream was a burn mark.
"What's going on?" asked Jeremy to himself.
It was breakfast and everyone sat at the table, Ulrich had taken Odd to see the nurse again and get the burn bandaged up. Odd and Zoe told the other what happened in the dream and Aelita asked how it was possible for Odd to get burned in the dream world ad then come with it to the real one and Jeremy was stumped.
"Well have any of you seen the Nightmare on Elm street movie? Because it seems a lot like the logic they used in them." said Zoe.
"And what's that?" said Aelita.
"That while your asleep anything that happens to your body in the dream world while your asleep also happens to your body."
"Well that's just great now we can't even sleep in safety." moaned Odd both he and Zoe were still very tired and so were grumpy. And it only got worse when Sissy came over.
"Well, well, well what do we have here?" she said.
"Go away Sissy not in the mood." said Odd.
"What have you finally realised that you're a loser." she said.
Zoe lost it she hated Sissy's kind and unleashed a volley of swears in another language at her then stormed off.
"What she said." said Odd and ran off after her.
"Will they be ok?" asked Aelita.
"I don't know. Knowing XANA this can only get worse." said Jeremy.
Sorry this chapter took a bit I had a lot of writers block. But it's finally done.
I'm also going to work on a Code Lyoko and Digimon Frontier crossover where Odd too is called to the Digital World in a different story so give me Ideas.
