Drabble: XL Olympics #2
Prompt: Start
A/N: This one felt so optimistic at first, I'm not sure when it turned so...not.


She turns, and it's all in slow motion as green eyes find terrified brown. His lips scream her name, no sound comes out. Blood seeps through his fingers because the wounds suddenly all too real. Yumi lies nearby, unmoving. Odd was lost to the digital sea before they ever made it Earth-side.

And now tentacles curl around her, and she wants to think they'll save her like they always do but this is Earth, not Lyoko—the rules have changed.

Everything changed.

It's the beginning of the end, and now there's nothing any of them can do to stop it.