Not that you need to know, but I wrote this at my grandparents. Mum told me I needed more of a social life (I read all day, and it's the holidays too) so she told me to vist grandma. Well, mum talked to them too much, so I took out my laptop and typed out this chapter and the next! Woo! I wasn't going to update it straight away though, since it's less than 24 hours since my last update, but i checked my inbox and holy ! heh. So anyway, this chapter is dedicated to my window because it sheds light into my otherwise dark room, and never gets a thank you. :P. Enjoi!
Odd P.O.V
I lay down on my back and stared up towards the trees. I squinted my eyes and tried to find the tops of the trees, but couldn't. They were way too high. That or it was suddenly cloudy in Lyoko.
Why am I in Lyoko anyway?
I sat up and looked around again. I was sitting on a small-ish path. It was surrounded by trees, like most of the forest sector. But unlike the rest of the sector, there was a small amount of water up at the end of the path. It wasn't like the digital sea, which was always moving with small waves, but it was still-water. I smiled as I remembered one time in the mountain sector while we were looking for the tower, and I was the one who realized that the lake we saw wasn't really a lake. It was a trick, a hologram. The tower was hidden below it.
Unless…
I stood up and walked towards the edge, where the 'water' was. I tried to touch it, but it didn't feel like water. My hand just went through it. I poked my head through to look, but I couldn't see anything. I stood up and looked around. Well, what could I do?
Ulrich P.O.V
"Ulrich, are you awake yet?"
I yawned and opened my eyes. I must've fallen asleep after Sam helped me climb up the cliff. "Yeah, I'm up."
"Well we better go find Odd, shouldn't we?"
"Yeah, but where do we look? I mean, Xana could've taken him anywhere!" I sighed and looked at Sam. It looked like she just woke up, too.
"I guess. Wouldn't he, I mean it, take him somewhere around Kadic and the factory?"
"Or Lyoko."
"Yeah! But, where is Lyoko, exactly?"
"Yeah, well that's the thing. It's in the factory. Do you have any money left? At all?"
Sam gave me a look that said 'How can it be in the factory?' "A bit, why?"
"Can you afford another bus or two to get us back to Kadic?"
"Not really."
I stretched and went to grab my mobile, hoping I could get reception. "Damn, I must've dropped my mobile when I was climbing up the cliff." I looked at Sam. "Do you have your mobile?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Can I borrow it?"
Sam handed her mobile over to me, and I recited Aelita's mobile number. ""Hopefully I can get Aelita. Even if I'm not part of the group, she'll definitely talk to me."
"You mean Yumi, Aelita, Odd and Jeremie? What do you mean your not part of the group? Aren't they all part of the Lyoko gang?"
"I'm not sure what's going on, but Yumi… Hang on." I listened to the ringing of the phone.
"Hey, um, this is Aelita-"
"Aelita, it's Ulrich…"
"and I can't get to the phone right now. So, uh, leave a message after the beep."
I switched the phone off and sighed. "Aelita won't answer. I have absolutely no idea where she is. Or the others."
"Where did you last see them?"
Well, at camp I guess. Odd was with you, Jeremie disappeared, and I saw Yumi and Aelita walk of into the woods…"
"Where were you at the time?"
"Hanging in a net between two trees." Sam cocked an eyebrow at me.
"Um, right. So you basically have no idea, right?"
"Basically, yeah."
Sam sighed and looked at me. "Should we try to find the camp then?"
"Not a good idea…" I smiled at her. "We're on the run from the cops, too."
I swear her mouth hit the ground.
"Well, uh, that makes things complicated…"
"Sure does." I sighed. "Should we walk, then?"
She nodded and we walked off. I didn't exactly know where we were going, but there wasn't much point in sitting on our own on the edge of a cliff.
Yumi P.O.V
"Where am I?" I sat up and rubbed my eyes. My body shook violently as I coughed. I felt sick, like I hadn't eaten for a few days. I squinted as I looked around. I wasn't sure where I was. Looked like the woods or something. I tried to get up but I just fell back down again. My legs felt like jelly. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I started feeling better. I looked beside me and noticed someone else lying next to me.
"Jeremie? Is that you?"
Gasp! Ok, so for those who didn't figure it out, the very second Yumi started acting strangly, Jeremie seemed to disappear. And the "Yumi-Lookalike" (I need to reveal who she is. It's hard typing that whole Yumi-lookablah thing over and over again) took her place. So they both disappeared at the same time. Get it? Yeah, it didn't seem very obvious, so I wanted to point that out quickly. Also, thank you to Fallenseeker! Anyway, R&R! And also, just so you know, there won't be any JxY or UxS pairings, 'cause that's just weird. heh. Ciao, my good friends!
