A/N: I hope you liked the last chapter =D! Right now, I'm on my way back home from Alabama, yay! Anyway, we're on chapter 8! Here we go!
Odd Falls for X.A.N.A.
Chapter 8: More to the Story
The bell rang for class. All were present minus the usual, the Lyoko gang. For the past few days the gang had stayed at the factory, keeping things under control since Rose had gone missing. Odd was a nonstop pest since he had been devirtualized and brought back to the real world. His body was still weak from the strange sickness that Lyoko had caused, but he continued to pace around the virtualization room. Jeremy had been working some kinks out of programming, but he was trying to figure out why none of them could be virtualized on Lyoko. Aelita was helping him out, pointing out which program was holding them back, but also this program was linked to everything and even she had a feeling that there was only one person that could get rid of it, Rose.
Odd had explained to all of them what had happened on Lyoko with Rose leaving out minor details, the ones involving X.A.N.A. and her father. As much as Odd did cover up the fact that she was X.A.N.A., he couldn't help but wonder what was going on.
It was during those few days that Jeremy was scanning Lyoko for trouble, but that's all he saw. Tanks and all of X.A.N.A.'s other monsters were causing havoc. There were so many that he had eventually lost count in the first sector with 150 monsters. "Could it be that X.A.N.A. is holding us back because of Rose? Or because his best subordinate helped the enemy?" Ulrich eventually questioned. "Are you really telling us everything, Odd?"
None of them heard any objections from Odd, since he had decided to keep his mouth shut until he could get back into Lyoko and find Rose; but it was getting too much for him. "I need to get on Lyoko!" He walked back into the elevator before going back down to the virtualization chamber and stepped into a tube. "Try it Jeremy!"
Nothing happened, but at the same time something had happened because he heard a gasp from Aelita. "An activated tower, in the ice sector."
Odd stood his ground, before the machine just started working. "Virtualization!" Odd whispered.
Lyoko
Odd landed on his feet with ease as he looked around the ice region, he could already see the active tower with an army of monsters. "How do I get there?" But as he asked the question, he saw her. "Rose…" He gasped. Odd started running toward her, taking as many monsters out as he could. "Rose!" He yelled, to get her attention.
It all happened in slow motion. Odd was running toward Rose, but when she turned to look at him, he froze. Red eyes stared right through him, the glint was deadly, dangerous, murderous. Strands of white hair had fallen into her face. His dream came back to him, the girl with short hair, holding her bloody arm, but the face wasn't the same. Rose's eyes weren't pleading for help, her eyes were deadly. Five monsters went down in an instant, and then she was coming for him. She was in front of him faster than she had taken down those five monsters around her. She held her sword next to her before lifting it and slicing…
Odd flinched, but when he looked down he saw that the blade wasn't touching him, instead it took out a monster. "Odd…" she whispered. Hesitantly, she pointed her sword toward the tower. "I'm too weak to come out physically. Go!"
He hugged the red eyed girl before taking off in a run toward the tower. He ran pass the monsters, hitting them with his arrows if he could. It felt like he was going on complete adrenaline, and maybe he was; but his goal was to reach the one he needed to talk to, the one he needed to be with at that moment.
A/N: Sorry this has taken so long, and yea it's another cliffy .….don't kill me? But at least you got your chapter XP! Lol! Hope you liked it! R&R!
