Yumi: Part 4

"So all that happened and I don't remember any of it?" William asked, looking between Odd and Jeremie.

Jeremie nodded and explained again, "Xana probably wanted you to think something different when you woke up, but since Odd found you we were lucky. Speaking of which, Odd why didn't you go to class?"

"I was worried about Ulrich. Who knows what's up with him. He could have ran off and gotten lost or something," Odd stated innocently.

"I doubt that, Odd, but good try," Jeremie said with a sigh, turning back to the computer. "I wanted you all at school so that it didn't look suspicious. Jim's probably already suspicious because Ulrich and I aren't in school. Now add on you and he's going to be screaming about conspiracy theories and such."

"Hey, you should be happy I was here or else we could potentially have a possessed William on our hands," Odd pouted.

"Jeremie, what are we supposed to do now? I mean, we all know that I'm going to have to go back to school. What lie did you make up to cover for me?" William asked, trying to change the subject.

"I made a polymorphic clone of you to replace you while you were gone. Though, he's an idiot, so people will probably look at you differently," he replied, not looking away from his computer screen.

"So I'll replace him soon, right?"

"Yeah, you'll just have to give me time to figure out how to switch you. Odd, you might as well go back to school. There's no way to track Ulrich that's going to be simple and I know you'll get bored."

"Yeah, yeah. I know you just mean that you think I'll get in the way. Which is pretty rude there, Jer. So I'll just go. Call or text if you need me," Odd said, taking the elevator before Jeremie could say anything else.

He felt pretty bad at that moment. He'd found William, but what about Ulrich? Where had the brunet gone? Clearly there was something going on, but unless Ulrich said something there was no way of knowing what it was.

Yumi tapped her pencil impatiently against her desk as she wondered about what was happening with her group of friends. Was this something that was going to become normal for them? She hoped not. She didn't need this. Her parents were splitting and now her friends were having issues. If it wasn't one thing it was the other, which didn't really work for her.

She stopped tapping her pencil when she felt her phone vibrate in her pocket and she looked to see a text from Ulrich.

To: Yumi

From: Ulrich

I'm sorry for how I acted the other day. I really don't remember about the stuff with when Xana had me under its control. Meet me in the Factory. There's something that I have to tell you.

Yumi thought over his request and decided to go. She needed to see him and get some things straightened out as well.

"Ulrich, what was up with this text? You know I was in class," she said as she approached him. "And the disappearing act yesterday. Everyone was worried about you."

"Sorry, I just had to get away, Yumes," he whispered, turning toward her with his head down. "I didn't think you'd come."

"I came because I want to get some things straightened out. Just because I don't agree that Xana's completely gone from you doesn't mean that you can prove to me that it is gone. It's just going to take awhile. You understand, right?" she asked, getting closer and putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Yeah, but Yumi…. You were right. It's not completely gone," he said, looking up at her and grabbing her arm, twisting it around and covering her mouth so no one would hear her shocked scream.

Ulrich held her tightly so even the slightest movement was met with something blocking her from being able to move any further. "Quit resisting and you'll see where this goes."

She wasn't going to listen to a word he said. She continued trying to break free, even if it was to not avail.

Eventually they ended up in a room of the Factory that Yumi had never seen before. She was tied to a chair that was bolted to the floor and then gagged.

"Now, I'm going to talk and you're going to listen. If you don't, then you'll get electricity sent through your body. Not enough to kill you, definitely not, but enough to hurt excruciatingly. So be a good girl and be quiet."

Yumi quickly thought through her options. There really weren't many and maybe there was a chance that he'd let her go, so she decided to sit quietly.

"Your samurai has submitted to me. He realizes that your computer genius, Jeremie, is a bad person. None of you see it, because he doesn't want you to see. He's the one you should be fighting, not me. He plans to kill you all. He wants you all to be his army to take over the world with. If you don't agree with him, you get cut out of the group and if you don't come crawling back you're killed. That's how it works. Isn't it sad? You're all young. You shouldn't have to be killed, although if it's necessary to kill you then I must. What do you say?" Ulrich asked, his voice crackling with that hint of xanafication.

Yumi began to scream at him through the gag. Xana was the monster, not Jeremie. There was no way that Jeremie would do something like that. Ever.

"What was that? I'm assuming you're screaming about how I'm wrong and I'm sad to say that since you continue to stick up for that idiot that you have to be exterminated. Sorry for the cold, hard truth. I'm also sorry to say that there will be no evidence that my warrior killed you," he said, coming over and grabbing Yumi's phone from her pocket and sent an electric current through it before smashing it in his hand. "Now there's no proof he called you here today."

Yumi began trying to break her restraints. There was one across her lap that he'd placed so there was no way to stand up without that one being loosened and another one holding her arms together. The second ran all the way from her elbows and to her hands.

Ulrich picked her up with ease and left the room a different way than where they came in from.

Yumi continued to cry out and struggle against him, but she knew that there was no use to doing so. He was going to do whatever he wanted with her, no matter how much she kicked and screamed. It changed nothing.

It wasn't until they got to the Factory opening that she was finally unbound most of the way and allowed to speak.

"Any last words before I detail to you how you're going to die?" he asked, a grin spreading across his features.

"Just that I know that Ulrich is stronger than you and, even if I have to die, that I know he'll eventually break free from you. And Ulrich, if you can hear me right now, I love you…" she whispered the last part. It was true, but she'd always been afraid to say it out loud.

"Touching, now get on that rope," he ordered, moving so that the rope or falling to her death were her only options.

"And if I don't?" she asked, placing her hands on her hips and glaring at him.

"I can still do this whether you cooperate or not. It would just be much easier on the both of us if you did it willingly," he replied.

"Then let's fight it out, because I would much rather make this as difficult as possible for you then to have you win and me just give up," she replied, taking a defensive stance.

"You'll lose, I hope you know," he replied, coming after her, forearm meeting forearm when he swung at her.

"I hope you know that I'm not going to go down without one hell of a fight."

Ulrich chuckled and then continued to come after her. She was able to block the majority of his hits, but the ones she didn't were the ones that hurt the worst and were in the most painful places. She could the breath being knocked out of her with each hit that he landed in its intended area and her breath became shorter and shorter.

No matter what she did he came after her. His energy seemed boundless. Of course, that energy was probably coming from Xana some way. There was no way he'd be able to do all of this without an activated tower, but clearly he was. She just needed to find out how it was happening before he sent her over the edge to her death.

He laughed. "I see you're beginning to get weak. Tell you what, we'll stop this stupid game and you can just climb up on the rope and I'll tell you the rest of my plan. How about it?"

She shook her head. "Never." She wasn't going to give in to his whims and she certainly wasn't going to go along with his plans. If he wanted her on that rope then he'd better be ready to hog tie her to it. She wouldn't give up. "Ulrich, come on. I know you don't want to be doing this to me. You don't want to be doing this any of us. Don't you realize what you'll be doing if you kill me? What you're doing right now to everyone? All you're going to do is hurt everyone in the end, even yourself. Please Ulrich, come back."

"After all your struggling when I bound you you're still able to get up and fight me. That's impressive and commendable, but you should understand that this is the end of the line for you. Eventually you're going to tire and then I'll continue on with my plan of killing you. Even if I do have to hog tie you to that rope. I am having fun with things going this way, though," he smiled at her.

It was all that he needed, but it happened. She faltered. She hesitated when she shouldn't have and now she knew that it would cost her her life.

All she could do was hang on to the rope after she was grabbed and brought onto it and then watch in horror as Ulrich climbed higher and was able to break the rope, sending her falling to her death.

She screamed.

A/N: Yeah, it's morbid, but don't worry. There will be some comic relief parts and nice parts. =3 Not much else to say. =3

[EDIT]: Alright, I edited this chapter and I'll tell you why. I asked a friend of mine to read through the chapters and tell me what he thought was wrong and the ending of this chapter was one of them. So I changed it, because I agreed that it was bad. It was something that was bothering me. I knew that I'd messed something up and was re-reading them when I asked him to read through them. So yeah. =3 Let me know whatcha think of the new version. =3

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