Hey guys. SO INCREDIBLY sorry that I haven't updated in a while...Punishment, punishment... Well, here it is! Your guy's Halloween special! I also kinda wanted it to be published today, so that's another reason I waited so long. :P Anyway, its here. I'll try to get another one out tomorrow...Kinda ties in with 'All Souls Day' :D Enjoy! And don't forget to review!
Chapter 11 Halloween
Jeremy was reading, a nice change for him. He really did enjoy it, but he always had too much to do on his computer; what, with Lyoko and all. Right now, though, he was reading 'A Concise History of Physics', this was his fun reading book that he always kept by his bed. He used to keep advanced Biology books by his crib when he was little, but his parents confiscated them until he was old enough to have, 'The Talk'. That little incident had set back the aspiring infant 8 years.
Just then, Aelita walked in, accompanied by Odd. "Hey," she said, "Aren't you coming?"
"What?" Jeremy looked up, surprised.
Odd sighed and rolled his eyes. "Um, we're putting all of our ideas in a hat? It's Halloween tomorrow you know, and the best costume gets no homework for a month!"
"I already do all of your homework for you, Odd."
"Well, Aelita's helping me now too. Never mind that, though, just come on!" Odd said, grabbing Jeremy and rushing down the hall to his room, Aelita close behind.
"We. Are. Here!" Odd announced, making a dramatic entrance that made Kiwi faint and the other two in their gang jump backwards in surprise.
"Took your sweet time…" Ulrich said, blushing like mad.
"But now you're here…" Yumi said, blushing equally as madly.
"What's wrong, you two? You're faces are redder than tomatoes!" Odd grinned, knowing exactly what was wrong.
"You guys always show up at the wrong time…ALWAYS…" Ulrich muttered under his breath.
"Well, never mind that! It's that time of year to pick out our costumes! Everyone got their slips?" Odd exclaimed, striking a heroic pose that made Aelita giggle.
They all nodded. Over the past few weeks, they had been thinking of ideas for themselves and the others, and written these down on different pieces of paper. They would put theirs for a specific person in a hat, shuffle them, and then the person would pick one at random. Aelita went first.
After all of her cards had been shuffled, she closed her eyes and picked one at random. She smiled after she read it, and put it in her pocket. That was another thing…You couldn't let the others know what you got, they would just have to find out for themselves.
Odd went next, then Yumi, Ulrich, and lastly Jeremy. They all seemed satisfied with their cards, but didn't say anything.
"All right…Classes now!" Jeremy exclaimed happily, running off down the hallway.
Everyone else sighed, tomorrow was just too far away…
"Hey, Odd…" Ulrich said, falling back to ask Odd something.
"Hmm?"
"Have you asked Aelita out yet?" he said, grinning.
Odd blushed. "We're just….good friends…" he muttered.
Ulrich grinned, he wasn't letting this go. "Sure you are. Everyone knows that you're crazy about her, just be a man and ask her out for God's sake!"
"Stop preaching to me and do the same for Yumi, Dr. Mr. The Love Doctor," Odd retorted, giving Ulrich a taste of his own medicine.
Now it was Ulrich's turn to blush. "We're just good friends…" he said slowly, looking at the giggling girls in front of them.
"I'm sure," Odd smirked, speeding up so as to walk with the girls. "I'll do it if you do it, Ulrich!" he called over his shoulder.
And Ulrich was left seriously considering this, walking slowly behind his friends, their laughter drifting back to him. 'What the heck,' he thought, catching up to them, 'I'll worry about it later.'
All that day, and that night, the others were daydreaming about no homework, how they would make their costume better than the others, and, most importantly, the big Halloween party. There was only one problem with that…The party would be held in the factory; and everyone would be coming. Guarding their secret would become even more difficult than ever…
The next day, it was Halloween, and the gang met before school in Odd and Ulrich's room. Everyone was surprised with everyone else's costume (mostly).
Aelita was an angel (everyone's idea). She dressed simply, in a pure white outfit rimmed with pink with some little wings, but she still looked stunning; sent straight from God.
Yumi was a vampire (Jeremy's idea). She wore a long black dress with her hair messed up; her face powdered and fake blood dripping down her lips.
Ulrich was a samurai (his own idea). He had obviously shared what he had with Yumi, and she had lent him her family's suit of armor.
Jeremy was Einstein (Odd's idea). He just electrocuted his hair and had a fake moustache, other than that he dressed pretty much normally.
And Odd was a spy (his own idea). He wore a black leather trench coat and a black fedora; black shirt and pants, and had black sunglasses and black leather gloves that were cut off at the fingers. He looked deadly serious for once, literally.
After everyone was done admiring everyone else's outfits, they headed downstairs for class. Their first class was PE with Jim.
"All right, listen up!" Jim said, strolling in front of them with a serious expression on his face. This would have usually worked to quiet down his rowdy class, but he was dressed in a pink bunny suit, so…It didn't work.
All of the other students were dressed in their best outfits as well. Herb was a herb, Sissi was dressed like a cheerleader (a lost dream that she can never fulfill) and so on. The stupidest though, was definitely Nicolas's. He was dressed as a modern teenager. Go figure.
They played ffa dodge ball for PE. Chaos reigned as a horde of vampires, zombies, and princesses (not only in the girls' case) proceeded to eliminate each other from the game. Eventually, it was over though, and Mr. Dalmas was more than a little surprised to see the dodge ball sized holes in some of their costumes.
"Jim…We need to talk."
"What can I say, sir? It's Halloween!"
Mr. Dalmas raised an eyebrow. "And what are you supposed to be?"
Jim looked down at his costume. "A bunny…?"
"Well, you should take better care picking out yours next year…Something like mine!"
"And what are you exactly sir?"
"Abraham Lincoln!"
It was later that night, and the Halloween party had just started at the factory, and the gang was keeping an eye on things. It really was an amazing party though, and Aelita and Yumi got lots of boy admirers, but they stayed close to their dates; Odd and Ulrich.
Everything was going awesomely, and then Odd noticed that someone was missing.
"Sissi!" he hissed under his breath to Aelita.
"What about her?"
"She's gone!"
"Bathroom?"
"Knowing her? Not likely."
"Let's tell the others than."
Just then, Sissi ran up screaming. "There are monsters lose in the factory! Run for your lives!"
Everyone just laughed and continued the dance. Everyone except the Lyoko warriors. As they were about to sneak away, there was a shot, and everyone froze. Right above them stood a Bloc, and it was coming towards them. The experienced eyes of the 5 friends could make out many more behind it, at least a hundred.
"Get out!" Jeremy yelled, pointing towards the exit. "Run for your lives!"
As everyone stampeded towards the exit, our 5 heroes ran towards the elevator. They knew they needed to stop this invasion before someone died.
Soon, they were on Lyoko. Jeremy reported the activated towers and they headed towards them.
"Jeremy, wait," Aelita said, stopping. "What about everyone on Earth? What happens if someone gets hurt? We need to do something!"
"You're right, Aelita, but all we can do is deactivate the towers. It's their only hope."
"No. It's not," she said, turning towards the others. "If Xana can materialize his monsters, we can materialize ourselves on Earth too. Ulrich, Yumi, you're up first. Save us a place we can come back to."
"You got it, Aelita. Jeremy, do it now!"
"All right, all right…It's going to be slightly harder since you're not near a tower or in the Skid, but-"
"Just do it, Einstein," Odd said irritably.
"Materialization Ulrich! Materialization Yumi! …Nice to see you guys here. Go get 'em guys!"
"Were you talking to yourself, Einstein?" Odd asked, hands on hips.
"No. They made it here, just appeared inside the Lab. Now you guys need to deactivate those towers, that's what your jobs are. Ulrich and Yumi will be fine, hurry up!"
"Sir, yes Sir," Odd said, saluting towards the sky.
"Here come your vehicles…"
'Topside', Ulrich and Yumi were fighting for their lives; literally. The swarm of monsters seemed endless, and they had pushed the pair towards Kadic. Ulrich and Yumi were a perfect pair or warriors, as they often trained and fought παράλληλα; in tandem. Their moves were synchronized, their attacks beautiful to behold, and they were both fearsome warriors, made even more so by their Spartan training they had recently learned from Franz Hopper's books.
Jeremy had begun to insist that the warriors start focusing their lives more on the Spartans, and they had. Odd had also taken this chance to play more Halo. Their all-time favorite story was that of the Battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartan units under the command of King Leonidas has stalled the invading Persian army long enough for their brothers to rally to arms behind them. All of the Spartans died, including their king, but they took over 100,000 Persians with them; very likely more.
And that was kind of how the situation was looking with Ulrich and Yumi and the monsters; only with less people, and only 2 'Spartans'.
And the worst part was that the monsters weren't just attacking them; they were going after the citizens as well. All around them, people were taking up makeshift weapons to help fend off the monsters. It looked hopeless for them though…
Meanwhile, Odd and Aelita were heading towards the first activated tower, and it was soon deactivated. Then the next was deactivated, then the next. It seemed almost too easy.
"Alright Princess, last tower," Odd said encouragingly to his pink partner.
Aelita was really tired, but she nodded, "One last tower…"
Suddenly, Odd was devirtualized by a Crab, and Aelita soon followed; it was obvious that Xana had had enough.
As Aelita stepped out of the elevator she was confronted by a Kankrelat, which was blown to pieces by Odd and his trusty nail gun. "Let's go find the others," he said worriedly.
They ran to the elevator and to the Lab. "Ulrich and Yumi could really use you guys right now," Jeremy said, pointing at the screen, they're in a jam right now. I can't even count the number of monsters surrounding them!"
"We're on it."
"Good luck you two…" Jeremy muttered as the doors to the elevator closed. "You'll need it."
It was looking hopeless for the two παράλληλα, but they kept pushing back the monsters; away from their school.
"One more wave, Yumi…" Ulrich said, shouldering his swords.
"Right…" Yumi said, her strength ebbing away. She stepped forwards and was instantly devirtualized in an amazing blast.
"Yumi!" Ulrich yelled, just as he was devirtualized as well. "You ok?" he asked, appearing back in the Scanner Room.
"Ya…" Yumi said, rubbing her head. "Stupid Mines…"
"Well, we'd better get back and help the others. Just because we've been beaten in our Lyoko forms doesn't mean that we can't still fight," Ulrich said, a determined look on his face.
Yumi nodded, and they headed out. Shaking their heads at Jeremy, who was still working away in the Lab for some reason, and pulling him along behind them to get him out of danger (and into some more).
"NO!"
Odd and Aelita had seen their valiant friends defeated, and they now rushed upon the monsters, fighting for revenge. Ulrich and Yumi were the school's best line of defense; now they were gone. At least gone back to the Lab, at any rate.
Odd has gotten hold of one of Ulrich's (Yumi's) blades on the way out, and he now wrecked terror upon the enemy line. It seemed that no monster could stand in his way. Aelita did her part, hacking away at the monsters with her choice of weapon; a diamond-tipped chainsaw. She looked like an angel from Hell.
Yumi and Ulrich had just reached the fight; behind the monsters and fully equipped with whatever tools and weapons they had found in the factory, and they began helping Odd and Aelita in destroying the monsters. They fought grimly, and the monsters feared them even more in this form than in their other. And, eventually, the monsters started retreating. All seemed to be going well.
"Attack!" it was the voice of Jim, leading the students of Kadic Academy in a desperate counter-attack on the monsters who had dared to attack their homes. And things seemed to be going even better.
Then, William showed up. Aelita engaged him, but she was losing against his better weaponry. As a blow from William's sword began its downward fall towards Aelita's neck, Odd pushed her out of the way and took the blow across his back.
The world stood still in shocked silence.
Aelita screamed.
Ulrich looked at William with so much hate that he was intimidated away from Odd's body.
And Jim stuck a fistful of Olympic javelins in William's head.
Then it started raining.
And it rained so hard, it cleaned Odd's poor broken body, carrying away all signs from the battle, the blood, and the monster gore. And yet he still made one last wise crack before he died, grinning up at his friends from Aelita's lap, already wet from tears.
"Well, they learned one thing today from these students…To NEVER, fuck, with the French…"
As his sorrowful friends tried to laugh at this, he passed away.
The world darkened for Aelita. 'How many times must I lose him?' she thought bitterly, looking around at all of the other wounded. 'Now I'll never get him back…'
"Where are you going?" Ulrich asked as Aelita got up and started through the rain.
Aelita turned her tear streaked face towards him, "To teach those monsters a lesson that they will never forget…To stop killing my boyfriend!"
Ulrich looked up in surprise at that. "Odd's not…" he trailed off lamely.
"Well, he would have been if he hadn't been killed! Jeremy, come on!"
"Where are we going?"
"To launch a return to the past! It's Odd's only hope now…"
"Do I need to remind you that we can only get him back if he's still in limbo?"
"Don't you think I've thought of that? There's no time to lose!"
"Well, let's hope that he hasn't always been the perfect angel he has been around you…" Jeremy said, allowing a small grin to escape his serious expression.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Those monsters aren't gonna kill themselves!" Ulrich said, hopping off the wall where he had been sitting wrapping a bandage around his knee, Yumi nodding in agreement.
"Let's go then."
"Our prey awaits."
I know, i know. It seems like i really like to kill off Odd, right? Well, he's actually my favorite character, but his multiple deaths kinda fits in with this story line, sorry. But don't worry, its still a predominately OxA story, you guys can take it from there. :D
This chapter is dedicated to two readers who don't have an account (but should get one since its free :D); Shadowgirl4898 and Olivia. Thanks for the ideas girls! ;)
Song of the day! This chapter is dedicated to 'Still Alive' by Lisa Miskovsky! You all should check it out!
