Ch.7: Black Light, Scarlet Night

A black light suddenly engulfed the whole world, and everything in it's path was left in darkness. Ulrich, Yumi, and Jeremie could hardly believe what was going on around them. The factory suddenly disappeared, and Odd and Xana were standing in front of them. Then in an instant they disappeared.

In a flash Ulrich found himself in his room, with no Odd in sight. The room was so dark too, and by dark he meant pitch black!

"It had to be a bad dream" Ulrich said to himself "Odd would never do that, would he?"

A voice behind him answered "You never know, do ya Ulrich?"

Ulrich turned around to see Odd in his Lyoko form, but with some major differences. His form was mostly black, his eyes were glaring yellow, his claws gleamed white, and the red Xana symbol on his shirt glowed with an eerie light.

"Your choice Ulrich" said Odd, his voice didn't even sound like his own "die fast or die hard?"

Ulrich ran out of his room trying to flee from Odd, and headed striaght for Jeremie. He pounded on the door with all his might, which only made Odd smile as he stalked out of Ulrich's room searching for his target. Then suddenly Kiwi ran by Odd's feet and headed striaght for Ulrich, carrying something in his mouth. Odd noticed Kiwi but gave no mind.

Jeremie had just opened the door and was fixin to say something to Ulrich when Kiwi ran right into him.

"Easy Kiwi" said Ulrich trying to calm the dog down, but then he saw the something in Kiwi's mouth "Hey what you got there boy?"

Taking the thing out Ulrich handed the thing over to Jeremie to see what he thought.

"It looks like it must be a way to get rid of that virus that Xana put on Odd" said Jeremie "we need to get Yumi and head to the factory quick,"

"Won't work Einstien" said a familar voice, both boys turned to face Odd "Yumi is gone. Dead more I like it,"

Ulrich stepped up sounding angry "What did you do to her!"

A small orb of light appeared in Odd's hand and projected Yumi waking up from bed just if she had had a nightmare. Then Odd's sneaky voice dropped in with dry humor.

"Ah what's a matter Yumi" said Odd "scared?"

Yumi turned her head around to see Odd, but not much of anything else as she was struck with a laser arrow and left dead in her bed. Odd laughed and went out the way he came in.

Ulrich could hardly say anything when Odd had finished showing them the image. Odd had killed Yumi! Jeremie squezzed Ulrich's shoulder indicating that they should get out of here fast. Ulrich obliged and together they ran past Odd and started heading towards the factory.

"This has got to be a dream" Ulrich thought "wake up Ulrich, wake up!"

That thing Kiwi had somehow found was thier only chance now to free Odd from Xana's control and possibly save the ones they have lost. Thier only hope was to get to the factory and find a way to stop all this once and for all. They only hoped they could do it.