Hi, I'm back again! Is that a good thing? (shrugs) oh well. No blabbering for me this time. I'm going right to the story.
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(Macas P.O.V.)
Mr. Delmas was kind enough to give Karyssa classes with people she knew. She has all the same classes as Aelita, two of which I have as well.
All of her teachers have been notified of her condition, and her classmates have been told she has a mental disability to remember things.
As we walk into science, the first person Karyssa has to walk up to is Sissi.
"Hello, my name is Krys. What's your name?" She asks her innocently. Sissi scowls at her, but then her whole countenance changes. She seems to take on a nicer look.
"My name is Sissi. Do you want to hang out with me for a while?"
"Umm… no thanks. I think class is about to start." Karyssa walks back to me, and I lead her to her seat. This is the one class that everyone except for Yumi shares.
Aelita and Karyssa sit next to each other, and they talk quietly the whole time.
"Karyssa?" Mrs. Hertz asks her. "Do you know what makes lead special?" Karyssa doesn't reply for a second, but soon her head shoots up.
"Isn't lead the most dense substance on the planet?" Mrs. Hertz looks pleasantly surprised.
"Why, yes it is. Good job. But do you know what the boiling point of water is?"
"Uh… 212 degrees Celsius." Mrs. Hertz shakes her head.
"Nope, but you're close. Sissi, can you help her out?" Sissi looks up suddenly.
"Uh… 32 degrees Fahrenheit." She says.
"Sissi, just because your brain is frozen doesn't mean the boiling point of water is." Odd says, and the whole class bursts out laughing.
"Settle down class. It's 212 degrees Fahrenheit, 100 degrees Celsius."
"Oh okay." Karyssa says.
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(Karyssa P.O.V.)
"What did I mess up on?" I ask Aelita quietly.
"You got the measurement wrong. Celsius and Fahrenheit are different." She whispers back.
"Oh, okay." I whisper, and look down at my desk. I don't even know how I knew that. It just popped into my head.
We sit quietly and listen for the rest of the period, but I can't remember anything the teacher said after that.
After class, I notice that Jeremie pulled his laptop computer out of his bag. It was beeping.
"Hey Jeremie, whatcha doin?" I ask, trying to see.
"Uh… nothing." He says.
"Is that a computer game? I'm really good at those, can I try?"
"No, sorry. It isn't a computer game, it's an alarm."
"Oh, okay." Macas grabs my hand and pulls me away a little bit.
"Hey Karyssa, Aelita is feeling sick. She's going to skip her next class, but Jamie will still be there with you, okay?"
"Oh, okay." I say smiling. Macas smiles back, and Jamie walks over. She nods her head to me and I follow her to class.
"Jamie, why don't you talk much?" I ask her after a minute.
"Because I don't like talking." She says quietly.
"Hmm, you should talk more. I like the sound of your voice."
"Thank you." We get to class, and we sit and listen for a while.
Right in the middle of the teachers lesson, Mr. Delmas bursts in.
"Oh, yes Mr. Delmas?"
"I need Miss Keloly and Miss Belpois to come with me now." He says roughly. He doesn't sound like he did yesterday at all. He sounds really mean now. Jamie looks at me, and I shrug. We both grab our books and stuff and stand up to leave. We follow Mr. Delmas out the door, and he leads us to edge of the school grounds.
"Mr. Delmas, where are we going?" I ask after we leave the school and go into a park. He doesn't answer me. After a little while, he turns to us and raises his hand.
"What are you doing?" Jamie asks. Suddenly, Mr. Delmas' hand glows a bright blue color.
"Hey, what the-" Jamie begins, but it cut off by a large beam of energy hitting her in the stomach. The beam hits us both, sending us flying backwards to a tree. The beam wraps itself around us and the tree, pinning us to it.
"Ow! That hurt!" I say, struggling against the brightly glowing energy.
"Don't move. If you do, the beam will cut you." Mr. Delmas says. Not heeding his warning, I struggle and squirm to try and free myself from it. Suddenly, pain lances up my arm. I look down to see my forearm has a large gash on it, and is bleeding down my arm.
"Ow! Ow…" I moan. The pain is intense, it's making my arm go numb.
"Krys, stop moving. It will only make it worse." Jamie whispers to me. Figuring I had no other choice, I stop trying to free myself.
"What do you want with us?" Jamie asks. Mr. Delmas still just stands there, not moving even in the slightest.
"What are you going to do to us?" I ask loudly, but he doesn't seem to hear me.
"Can you please just let us go? We're of no use to you…" Jamie pleads. In response, Mr. Delmas raises his hand again. This time it glows purple.
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(Macas P.O.V.)
We got to Lyoko just fine, no hitches or anything. There isn't any sign of what Xana is doing in the real world, and as we land in the forest region, I begin to suspect a trap.
"Jeremie, what's going on? What's the attack?" I ask.
"I can't find anything. There's nothing abnormal going on in the real world."
"I feel a trap coming on." I say, and Odd nods in agreement.
"I agree. We have to be careful." Ulrich says. Nevertheless, we dash off towards the tower. No monsters in sight, everything is peaceful on Lyoko. Suddenly, Aelita's overwing disintegrates from underneath her. She tumbles to the ground and everyone else pulls to a stop. On the right is a lone tarantula, poised and ready to take us all on.
"Macas…" Something says to me. I look at the others, but no one talked. It was more in my head than anything else. Ulrich pulls out his sword.
"One tarantula? Is Xana getting weaker?" Ulrich prepares to dash off, but I hold him.
"Do you want to lose your sister?" The voice asked me malevolently.
"Hold on Ulrich. Did you hear that?"
"No…" Ulrich says, and no one else heard it either.
"Something asked me if I wanted to lose Karyssa…" I say, mostly to myself.
"I have her captive. You will do as I say." I repeat the message to the others, who are baffled.
"What do you mean? How do you have her captive?" I ask to no one. A sudden portal opens up in front of us, a view screen. I get an image of Karyssa and Jamie in the real world. They are held captive to a tree by a blue stream of energy.
"Let them go!" I yell, drawing and igniting my sword. Mr. Delmas walks into view of the portal and holds up his hand. It glows purple.
"Do as I say or your sister will die." The voice whispers to me.
"I will never!" I yell. The electricity building in the principal's hand jumps to Karyssa's and Jamie's bodies, making them glow purple as well. They scream out in pain.
"No!" I yell, as does everyone else. Everyone draws their weapons, but they are useless here. The energy gets reabsorbed by Mr. Delmas hand, Karyssa and Jamie fall limp against the tree. Jamie stirs slightly, trying to free herself from the energy rope. Suddenly, she yelps in pain, and I see blood run down her arm. I notice a similar situation with Karyssa.
"Macas, what does Xana want you to do?" Ulrich asks me.
"He wants me to do as he says." I look over and see the tower, it's on the next path over. We're almost there, another twenty seconds and Aelita could be there to deactivate it.
"Don't do it. Don't worry, we'll figure a way out of this." Yumi says.
"No Macas, do as Xana says… for now. We have to save Krys and Jamie." Odd replies. I think for a second.
"Do as I say…" The voice says again, "Or your sister will die…"
"Aelita, run for the tower, now!" I yell. Aelita hops on the nearest vehicle, an overboard, and takes off. Suddenly, she stops. She begins to float in midair, and the overboard falls from underneath her, into the digital sea.
"Do as I say… or your sister will die and Aelita will be deleted." The voice says again. Aelita drops slightly, showing that she's above the digital void. If Xana were to let go of her, she would be deleted.
I don't move for several moments, considering my options.
After a minute, Mr. Delmas shocks Jamie and Karyssa again. At the same time, Aelita drops another ten feet, sending her below the level of the ground.
"Decide quickly…" The voice again speaks to me. Suddenly Aelita glows pink, but she doesn't move.
"What's…" I see in my peripheral vision Yumi falling to the ground. She herself was glowing pink as well, but she vanishes into wireframe.
"What happened? Yumi just lost all her life points!" Jeremie says from above. Aelita stops glowing pink, and I string together the pieces.
"Yumi tried telekinesis on Aelita. Xana stopped her, and drained her life points." I say melancholy.
"How?" Odd asks.
"I don't know."
"Very good Macas… but now you are running low on time. You have to decide quickly." The voice says. Suddenly, Aelita is lifted in the air about twenty feet, and Mr. Delmas' hand glows purple again.
"Decide now." He shocks Karyssa and Jamie again, and Aelita falls. I stand there stupidly, unsure of what to do.
Do I join Xana and free my friends? Or do I deny him and kill off three of my best friends?
I decide to join him, there's no other way.
"Macas! Help me!" Aelita screams as she falls. Suddenly, the burst of power that I felt when I fought Jeremie comes back. Totally stupefied, I act out of instinct. I thrust my hand out towards Aelita, and a shockwave of power is unleashed toward her. She stops falling instantly, but there is a tremendous force still pushing her down, which is Xana. I reach out with my mind and shatter the hold Xana has on her.
I spin around and thrust my fist out again. Another shockwave sends Aelita hurtling at an incredible pace towards the tower. She does a graceful flip and lands inside it.
A scream alerts me to the other threat. I flip back to the vision screen, seeing Karyssa and Jamie yelling in pain. Still not consciously thinking, I make a swiping motion with my hand. The electrocution is immediately cut off, Karyssa and Jamie fall unconscious to the tree.
I push my fist out towards Mr. Delmas and clench it. Mr. Delmas immediately falls to the ground and a black Xana ghost flies out of his ears, dissipating in the air.
The red aura surrounding the tower changes back to blue, showing that Aelita has deactivated it. The view screen also vanishes, meaning Xana has gone back to sleep for a while.
"Guys, do we need a time trip?" Jeremie asks.
"Jamie and Krys are hurt, do it." Ulrich says. A burst of white light shoots out of the tower. Just before it hits me though, my power dissipated again, turning me back to normal. Aelita must have been devirtualized first.
The white light hits me, sending me into blissful oblivion.
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(if you were wondering, the line button wasn't working, so I got creative : P)
Anyways, I had lotsa fun writing this chapter too. Review please and I'll update sooner!