And now for the finally, nail bitingly exciting conclusion to:

Yumi's Bad Day(s) pt3

Lunch time at Kadic, and Ulrich, Odd and Jeremie where lounging around in Jeremie's room, waiting for Aelita.
"Hey Aelita, so how's Yumi doing?" Ulrich asked as she walked in.
"Well, she was a bit upset last night when I talked to her, about not being able to come to school" Aelita said as she sat down.
"And she definitely wasn't too happy about Sissi chasing after you"
"You told her?" Ulrich said worriedly.
"Of course" Aelita said, arching an eyebrow, "Why wouldn't I?"
"Because now she's going to give me hell over it when she gets back" Ulrich moaned, already picturing the scolding he was going to get.
"Actually, Sissi's the one whose going to get it" Aelita grinned.
Suddenly Kiwi started barking like mad at the window. Odd stood up and grabbed him, looking out of the window to see what had set the dog off.
The moment he looked outside his eyes went wide.

"Boy Aelita, when you're right, you're right" he said.
"What're you talking about O-" Aelita gasped as she stared out of the window and saw Yumi floating towards the school, body glowing and hair whipping all around her face.
She stopped, scanned the school before flipping back her head and shouting:
"SISSI!"
With a rumble the ground beneath her crack and expanded away, forming a crater around her, the pieces of rock floating around her like small planets around a sun.
"Oh, this is just going to get nasty!" Odd whistled, slowly moving back from the window.
"What're we going to do?"
"What do you think?" Aelita said, holding up her watch, "We've got to stop her"
"But people will see who guys!" Jeremie said
"Unfortunately there's no other way"
"Maybe there is"
He reached out and grabbed her arm, and with a "May I?" removed her watch from her wrist. "I've been going through your brother's studies, and found something that might be useful". He opened the watch and pressed a few buttons until the watched beeped and flashed green.
"There!" he said, handing Aelita her watch back.
"You'll be able to use your powers now, but only at half strength. Full powers need the transformed form. And you might be able to use the minarettes, but I'm not too sure.
Don't try to unless you really have to"
"Better then nothing" Odd said as he took back his modified watch.
"Good luck guys" Jeremie said as he gave Ulrich back his.
Suddenly everyone grabbed their heads as a voice roared "SISSI!" inside their minds.
"Cause you're going to need it. Big time"

"Where are you hiding, you little-?" Yumi growled, eyeing the school.
"Well, if you don't want to show yourself..." she grinned. Raising her arms up high she closed her eyes, slowly opened her hands and then swooped them down, pointing right at the building. Around her, the little stones and rocks that had been rotating around her froze before flying straight at the building, whistling as they flew through the air before impacting against the concrete walls.
Walls cracked, glass shattered, doors splintered under the assault.
"What a chicken!" she snarled, scanning the damage and not seeing Sissi anywhere.
"Right then, if you play it like that..."
She rose up a bit more, and started closing in towards the school.

Ulrich, Aelita and Odd had been running down the hallway in the classes when Yumi's barrage struck. They ducked behind the shield Aelita quickly threw up, watching the sharp stones and gravel bouncing away inches from them.
"Aelita, do you have any idea how Yumi's doing this?" Ulrich asked.
"It's her period. The hormones are mixing with her powers, and made them unstable.
Their evolving, and when you combine that with the mixed emotions she's been having, well, you get that" she nodded at the shrapnel attack.
"Any idea on how to stop her?"
"Calming her down is one way" Aelita said.
"Good luck with that idea" Odd said.
"The only other thing is to get her watch of her.
"Another other near impossible option?" Odd asked.
"Yeah. Knock her out, or kill her" Aelita said as the barrage finally stopped.
"Don't even consider that option" Ulrich said as they stood up and continued on their way. "Leave her to me. You two try and get Sissi away while I distract her, ok?"
"Us helping Sissi, know I've seen everything..." Odd grinned as he headed towards the stairs. "Odd, wait!" Aelita said. Odd halted half way up as Aelita turned to Ulrich and said, "Ulrich, there's something you should know..."

"Sissi! Oh Sissi!" Yumi shouted innocently, floating over some debris left from her attack.
"Where are you?"
She stopped at a classroom, listening to the frightened whispers and mutters.
With a crack she rip the door off telekineticly before throwing far out in the courtyard.
Inside wide eyed fearfully faces stared at her, some crying, others white, others hidden behind hands or backs of others.
"Hello, is Sissi in here?" she asked politely, her glow illuminating the room.
The teacher gasped in shock. "Oh God, Yumi, is that y-?
"IS-SISSI-IN-HERE?" she shouted without moving her lips, making everyone inside cringe in pain, causing the roof to crack. "N-no, s-she isn't. Please, don't hurt us..." begged at the strange glowing girl scowling at him. But she already lost interest, floating off towards the next room.
She stopped at the door. Inside people screamed and shouted, having listen to what had happened next door and fearing for their lives.
She was just about to rip the door open when someone shouted "YUMI!" behind her.

Ulrich ran down the stairs, skipping them two and three at a time, his mind racing with what Aelita had told him, racing with thoughts on how to calm Yumi.
He had a few choices, and right now only one seemed to be the best...
He burst out of the doors just in time to see Yumi fling a class room door away and move inside the room, followed by screams.
He moved out to the courtyard, and as she left he shouted as loud as he could:
"YUMI!"

"Hope he knows what he's doing" Aelita said, peeking out over the edge of the window.
Next to her crouched Sissi, and next to her Odd.
Sissi's face was streaked with two long rows of tears, her whole body trembling in fear.
When they had found the girl she had been huddled under a desk she had dragged to a corner, hugging her knees and rocking back and forth, eyes closed and crying, white faced with fear.
"Yeah, hope he doesn't mess up" Odd said, glancing out as well.
"Come one, let's go while he's got her distracted" Aelita said, grabbing hold of Sissi's hand as they crouch-ran along the bottom of the windows.
When they reached the doors Sissi squeaked, pulling away from Aelita.
"NO! I'm not going outside! If I do, she'll get me!"
"Gee, I wonder why she'd do that to a innocent girl like you" Odd said sarcastically.
"Odd, not know" Aelita glared. Putting a hand on Sissi's shoulder she said soothingly:"Don't worry, we'll be ok. As long as we stay out of sight and move fast we'll make it"
"No!" Sissi said, shaking her head violently. "She'llgetme, she'llgetme, she'llgetm-!"
Whap! Odd slapped the hyperventilating girl through the face.
"Stop that!" he said as Sissi stared at him in surprise, "Pull yourself together! Is this how Sissi, the Diva of the School, would act?"
"No..." Sissi muttered sheepishly, still rubbing her cheek.
"Good" Odd said, taking her hand, "Now just stay close to me, OK?"
Sissi nodded, "Uh, Odd?"
"Yeah?" he asked, glancing back.
"Thanks" she smiled. He smiled back, and her gave her hand a squeeze.
"Here we go"

"Hello Ulrich, do you know where Sissi is?" Yumi asked, floating out towards him.
"Sorry, no idea where she is" Ulrich said, standing causally, hands in his pockets.
"Well, when you see her, you'll tell me right away, won't you?"
"Sure"
Yumi stared at him suspiciously. "You're not trying to protect her, are you?"
"Of course not. Why would I?"
"I don't know, maybe it's because you like her!" Yumi growled. The aura around her pulsed, and the grass beneath her ignited, forming a ring of fire around her.
"Me? Like Sissi? Yeah right" Ulrich said nonchalantly, his heart beating fast in shock at her little trick. "What gave that idea?"
"Aelita did. Interesting that she told me all about your little run ins with Sissi and not you" she said.
'Oh, thanks a lot Aelita' Ulrich thought.
"In fact, not once in the last few days have you even tried to call me, or ask me how I was. Too busy with your girlfriend?" she roared, the fire ring flaring.
'Here goes' Ulrich thought, his stomach filled with butterflies at what he was about to do. He moved up closer to the floating girl, stared her straight in the eyes and said:
"Why would I do that when I'm in love with you?"
The glow dissipated slightly as Yumi looked at him in shock.
"Did you just say...?"
"That I love you? Yes" Ulrich said, stepping closer. "Since the day I first saw you"
"Ulrich..." she said softly, smiling at him with half closed eyes.
"I know I should've told you sooner, or showed it at least" he said, moving closer as Yumi slowly started to descend, the glowing growing dimmer.
"I did want to phone you, but I.. I was too chicken. Forgive me?"
"I-"
Suddenly she stopped and glanced back at a shuffling noise behind them.
"Oh no..." Ulrich thought, seeing Aelita, Odd and Sissi in plain view.
With an audible Whoomp! the glow became brilliant again, her eyes seemed to burn and the flames around her flared like an explosion.
"You lied!" she roared, flinging him back with a shockwave. "How dare you!"
"And you!" she said, pointing at the trio behind her. "I thought you were my friends!"
"We are, Yumi" Aelita said, motioning for Odd and Sissi to get moving. "We're trying to help you c-"
"No, you're helping her!" Yumi growled, staring at Sissi with nothing but hate.
"Well, try to protect her now" she roared. Like snakes the fire around her slithered towards them, streaking across the grass, ground and cement like small rivers.
"Odd, move!" Aelita said, jumping forward.
She went down on her knees, closed her eyes and started singing. In front of the flames the ground suddenly erupted straight up, opening a small gap in the ground.
The flames weren't even slowed down. Instead, they merely jumped the gap as they reached it and continued on. Aelita's forehead creased in concentration as she sang harder, creating a massive wall formed out of her shield.
Her arms shook and trembled as she kept the shield up, watching the flames smack and get rebounded from her barrier.
"Not bad" a voice said behind her.
Gasping, Aelita glanced back just as Yumi swatted at her, slamming her hard with a shockwave. Aelita spun from the impact before falling face down on the ground, out cold.
"But not good enough" Yumi said, floating away.

"We're almost free!" Odd shouted as they ran, the gates in view and getting closer.
"Oh no you don't!" a voice shouted behind them, and with a clang the gates slammed shut before twisting until they mangled together, completely unusable and impassable.
"Great" Odd muttered, shielding Sissi behind him as he turned to face Yumi.
"Only one choice Odd!" he muttered, reaching down to his watch.
Sissi gasped as Odd suddenly disappeared in a bubble of light, only to reappear completely changed, with paws and a tail.
"Laser Slash!" he shouted, spinning around and slashing his claws down.
Two criss crossing lines flew through the air, struck the wall and destroyed a section of it, revealing the road behind it.
"Sissi!"
Sissi's head snapped up, looking at the feline warrior in front of her.
He reached down and pulled her up. "Sissi, I'm going to try and stop her. You've got to run, Ok?"
"No! I, I can't do it!" she sobbed, clutching at him.
Slowly he pulled off her hands. Holding them between his paws he looked her in the eye and said, "You can do it. I know you can"
"Now go!" he shouted, pushing her away as he bounded towards the glowing Yumi slowly closing in.
Sissi took one last look at Odd before running towards the hole as fast as her legs could carry him.

"Laser Arrows!" Odd shouted, firing off a volley at Yumi. Every single one flew away from her, not even coming close to their target.
"I don't believe this Odd" she said as she moved closer, "You hate Sissi as much as me. Why are you protecting her?"
"I admit Sissi's a pain" Odd said, dodging a shockwave from her, "But not even she deserves to get hurt like this"
"Think again!" Yumi shouted, extending an arm with hand clawed.
"Hurk!" Odd gasped as Yumi caught him in mid air, squeezing him telekineticly.
"No one's going to stop me" she snarled, glaring into his face as it turned blue, "No one"
"Yumi..." Odd gasped, choking as she squeezed the life out of him.
"YUMI! STOP IT!"
"Ulrich, back for more?" she smiled, dropping Odd to the ground and turning in the air to face him.
"Yumi, you're dying"
She stopped, eyes boggling. "What?"
"Your powers are mixing with your hormones produced by your period" Ulrich said, pointing at her watch. "Unless you calm down, or take off your watch now, your powers will kill you. Aelita told me"
"You're lying!" Yumi growled.
"No Yumi" Ulrich said, "I do lie every now and again, but never to you, and you know it"
"No, it's a trick!" she said, her face filled with confusion, "You... you just want to help that stuck up Sissi-"
"No" Ulrich said, "I don't. It's you I want to help-"
"Liar!" Yumi screamed, clenching her eyes shut, a strong wind whipping up around her.
"Aaargh!" Ulrich screamed as the wind struck him, pinning his whole body with fast moving pebbles and rocks.
"Ulrich!" Yumi gasped as Ulrich's bloody wrecked body fell to the ground.
"Ulrich! Oh please no..." she cried, moving closer to him.
She landed on the ground next to him, drops of tears falling down to his chest.
"Ulrich, please get up!" she cried, holding him tight to her, tears flowing down her chest. "Ulrich... please..." she cried, cradling his head.
"I'm so sorry..." she whispered.
"Me too"
Before she could react someone hit the back of her head hard, and she passed out.

"Ooh..."
"Hey guys, she waking up!"
"What... what happened?" Yumi groaned, opening her eyes slowly, blinking to get the blurry room in focus.
"Hey there" Aelita said, sitting down on the side of the bed.
"How're you feeling?"
"Lousy" Yumi said, "And the back of my head hurts a lot"
"Sorry" Ulrich said, blushing.
"Why am I in bed any- Oh God" Yumi groaned as the events replayed through her head. "Did I really...? Did I really try to...?"
"Destroy the school, destroy us, destroy Sissi?" Odd filled in her question.
"Yep. And, you almost did"
"Luckily Ulrich stopped you when he did" Aelita said, "I don't think your body would've been able to take much more"
"But know everyone knows about... about us" Yumi said, tears forming at the corner of her eyes, "I've exposed us all!"
"No worries" Odd smiled. "Aelita triggered a back in time and removed everything that happened, so we're safe again for another day"
"But why didn't you do that when I had gone... mad?" Yumi asked.
"Wouldn't have worked" Aelita said "As long as you were wearing the watch you'd have still gone mad, since you'd have still been in your period. It was only after Ulrich had got the watch off that we could do it"
"But, I had...?"
"Killed me? Nah, that was just one of minarrette clones" Ulrich said, moving closer to the bed. "Jeremie said there was a chance it could kill me, but to save you, I was ready to do anything"
Yumi smiled at him and held out a hand. Ulrich took her hand in his and sat down on the bed. Aelita coughed politely at Jeremie and Odd and nodded at the door, sneaking out together and closing it behind them.
"I think they deserve a little together time, don't you?" she smiled.

End...

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