Dedication: To all reading this and putting up with me taking so long to post this chapter. Over three weeks! I apologize!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from the show Code Lyoko, but I do claim rights to Xenon and the plot of this story.
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Xenon's eyes opened only to reveal the blank darkness that had befallen. Xenon looked around, suddenly scared of being alone. She rolled over and felt the space beside her. No one. An invisible force tugged at her heart strings and Xenon felt hot tears roll down her face. Xenon got up and flipped on the light switch.
She gave a weak chuckle as she saw Odd sitting sprawled out on her computer chair. He wasn't snoring as loud as he had in the past, but his mouth of wide open and there was a pool for drool of his purple shirt. Her small laugh was out of place in the quiet. Xenon hiccuped.
Xenon slide the computer chair to her bed and then dragged Odd onto it. She tucked him in under the covers. Xenon stared at Odd. What is he dreaming? Xenon thought as a smile splayed across Odd lips. What does he think of this whole...situation? Xenon stroked the side of his face. What does he think of me? Xenon half though of waking him to talk, but didn't. Odd looked so cute right now. Xenon eyes itched to close from exhaustion. Xenon turned off the lights and then crawled into bed near Odd.
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"Xenon?" Odd's voice echoed. "Where are you? I can't find you! Come back, don't leave me!" Odd watched Xenon's retreating back. Odd ran and grabbed Xenon's shoulder stopping her. "Xenon, what's the matter? I know with Aelita there's issues but why are you taking it out on me?"
Xenon's skin bubbled as if she was boiling water. Odd withdrew his hand as if he had touched a flame. Xenon's head turned all the way around to face Odd with a sickening crack. Xenon's head tilted to the side as if she was confused.
"Xenon, what happened to you?" Odd asked.
"What don't like me as I am?!" Xenon voice shrieked at him like a banshee.
"I do, but--" Odd stopped as he just watched. Xenon's still bubbling skin poofed into white sand and blew away on a nonexistent breeze. "XENON!" Odd screamed desperately.
Odd woke with his whole body sweaty. He instinctively grabbed the body next to him. Xenon cuddled into Odd's chest as Odd kept his embrace on her. Odd's breath was ragged and wiped away the sweat of his brow and made sure the person he had a firm grip on was Xenon. Xenon's slept peacefully with a lock of blond hair across her soft, light skin of her face. Odd swept it away and and released his hold. Odd placed his left hand on his forehead, thinking.
Weird dream. Odd thought. But that would be how Xenon would react. Odd stared at Xenon through his fingers. I could have fucked her. She was practically begging...Wait! Odd looked around. He was in Xenon's bed next to her. Did something happen? Odd lifted the covers, saw his pants still on, and let out a sigh of relief. She must have put me next to her. Odd stared at Xenon's expressionless face. Till his eyelids drooped down and fell to sleep.
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Xenon woke up as sunshine spilled into the room from the window above her desk. She yawned and slipped her legs out of bed. She withdrew them back under the covers as the cold hit her. She groaned and look at the her watch on her right wrist. 8:12 AM.
"Shit." Xenon said aloud. School started at eight thirty. "Odd." Xenon said giving him a shove. Odd remained asleep. "Odd!" Xenon repeated more forcefully. "You'll won't have any breakfast if you don't wake up." Odd opened one eye.
"Wha-what?" Odd replied with a yawn.
"School starts in fifteen minutes. And there'll be no time to get breakfast--"
"Fifteen minutes?" Odd questioned, jumping out of bed. Odd looked around the floor looking around for something desperately.
"What are you looking for?" Xenon asked with a smile. The way Odd was rushing so he could get some food was cute.
"My clothes!" Odd said as if it was obvious.
"You're wearing them."
"Oh..." Odd said looking down at his clothed body. He ran to the door and then back to Xenon. He may have been in a rush but the kiss wasn't rushed. Xenon pulled away after a few seconds.
"Go get breakfast." Xenon laughed pointing at the door. Odd put on his famous goof ball smile, opened the door, ran through it, and then down the hallway. Xenon shook her head and then shut the door. Midway to the way to her dresser she froze. "Aelita..." Xenon whispered.
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Odd ran down the stairs taking a dangerous seven down at a time. He turned sideways to go through the pack of groups who were getting last minute things from their rooms. Odd dashed out of the dorms and across campus. He avoided running into people and ignored the calls and hellos of passer-byes. He ran headfirst into someone, knocking them into the ground. Odd had the wind knocked out of him and fell to the ground too. Odd groaned in pain and then in hunger. He looked up to see who he had knocked down. The person wore a dark pink jumper and hooded long sleeved shirt. Aelita.
"Sorry!" Aelita apologized automatically. She looked at who she had collided with. Her eyes narrowed at she laid her eyes on Odd. She got up, patted down her clothes and then ran off towards the park.
"Aelita!" Odd called after her. His stomach growled as its owner wasn't continuing to the cafeteria. "OK, OK." he told his stomach. Odd continued his much-too-long journey to the cafeteria only to see Rosa lock the doors.
"Sorry Odd." Rosa said to Odd. Odd was shocked. He had missed breakfast. Odd leaned against the wall. The rest of the time till lunch would suck. Odd ambled down to the courtyard and the bell rang. Other students starting heading for their classes, but Odd just stood there with his head hung down. No breakfast? How will I survive till lunch? Odd thought. Wait, Aelita! Odd looked around. She probably went to the hermitage. I should get Xenon and get them to talk to each other. Odd let out a sigh. I hate being in the middle of sisters...
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Xenon rushed down the stairs while looking at her watch. She had twenty-two seconds to get to science. She knew she wouldn't make it on time. She ran through the dorm building door and into the courtyard. She stopped as she saw Odd standing there with his head hung. OK...screw classes. It doesn't matter, I've already done the class before. Xenon thought and then walked up to Odd.
"Odd, what's the matter?" Xenon asked. Odd looked up in surprise.
"Nothing. I was just thinking about you and Aelita."
"And what about it?" Xenon asked.
"Here, come here." Odd said dragging Xenon behind him as the tardy bell rang out across the deserted courtyard. Odd led her to the park and walked for a few minutes to get a safe distance from school. Odd took a deep sigh. "You really should talk to Aelita. I bumped into her on the way to the cafeteria which would not give me breakfast I'll have you know. She just ran away from me. And..." He sighed again.
"And?"
"You should talk to her."
"Look, Odd." Xenon said taking his hands in hers. "If she doesn't want to talk me, then I'll give her time. But she probably won't ever talk to me---"
"Which is why you should talk to her first."
"Odd..."
"What?" Odd asked.
"You should worry about your own problems before you even try to get involved in mine." Xenon smiled.
"What problems do I have?" Odd asked, tilting his head to the left a little. "Besides having to inherit my father's computer company and being stuck in between you and Aelita?"
"How about Sissi and being the father of the child inside of her?" Xenon suggested. Odd's face changed from 'what?' to 'oh' to 'oh-shit-I-forgot-about-that.' "Yeah that." Xenon smiled and then it faded away.
"Xenon, I'm sorry a million times for what happened--"
"Odd, it's alright." Xenon interrupted.
"No, it's not." Shoving her hand down, to place his hands around her sweet face. "I hurt you a lot that you even thought of committing suicide."
"Odd, it's fine. I made bad decisions about that." Xenon said. Odd opened his mouth to interrupt her but Xenon placed a finger on his lips to keep him from uttering a sound. "It's the past. I know that past doesn't just go away. I've learned that at the extremes." Xenon choked out a weak laugh. "But what's really important is that you take care of Sissi. I know that you don't love her and that you love me." Xenon blinked back tears. Xenon still stared straight into Odd's blue eyes. Odd found it hard to look into the tired, astute purple eyes of Xenon, but continued to stare at them as their owner talked to him. "But you should take care of her during the pregnancy. At the very least, you should tell her your the father."
Odd took a deep breath and sat down on the ground which in turn made Xenon fall into his lap. Xenon surprised by this movement wrapped her arms around Odd's neck. Xenon looked up at Odd. Dammit. Why does she have to look so irresistible right now? Odd thought as he looked at her. Odd saw her glistening lips begging for him.
Odd kissed Xenon's lips savagely. Xenon let Odd do want he wanted. She moved at his whim and touch. Odd pushed her off of him and onto her back on the slightly wild grassy park which was surrounded by oak trees and bushes. Odd straddled her. Odd placed his hands and knees on either side of her chest on the grass. Both breathed heavily. Odd licked his lips hungrily.
"Odd." Xenon moaned. "What are you waiting for? Odd..."
"Odd?!" A voice asked him giving him a fierce shake. Odd came back to Earth. "Odd? Hello? Are you there?" Xenon asked.
"Yeah, I just slipped off suddenly." Odd replied. Odd flushed a deep red as he realized something. He was hard. Dammit. Why now? Odd thought desperately. He went back to the conversation in desperate hope that time would pass and it would relax though it didn't help that Xenon was in his lap. Xenon was oblivious to the situation Odd was dealing with. "I know. But she's all the way in Paris..."
"So? After New Years' you came straight for me."
"That because you and Sissi are not equal. You're more important--"
"And your child isn't?" Xenon asked looking at Odd. Odd put his face in his hands in his own stupidity and sighed.
"No, it's not that. It just that...let's clear up things between you and Aelita first. Then, I promise I'll do all that I can for mine and," Odd took a deep breath. "Sissi's child."
"Agreed." Xenon said. She stuck her hand out in the small space between her and Odd. Odd looked at it and then shook it.
"So, let's find Aelita. OK?" Odd asked. Xenon nodded in agreement. "After I bumped into her, she ran into the park and then most likely the hermitage." Xenon nodded. Odd had relaxed. They walked to the hermitage. It was bare and abandoned. They heard nothing coming from the house, but they didn't let that bother them and walked in. They walked up to Aelita's room which was a dusty pink that had been untouched for many months. Xenon sighed and sat on the twin sized bed.
"Beep! Beep! Beep!" Xenon looked down at her watch.
"Tower?" Odd asked.
"No, someone just got transferred to Lyoko." Xenon said.
"Aelita?"
"Yeah. We have to get there. Xana won't leave Aelita unattended for long." Xenon and Odd ran down stairs, out the front door, and then through the door that led to the sewers. They made the journey on skateboards to the factory. As they crossed the bridge Xenon took out her cell phone.
"Jeremie? Yeah, it's me Xenon. Come to the factory quickly. OK? Bye." Xenon flipped her cell phone closed. Odd and Xenon were silent as they took the elevator down and as Xenon started up the Virtualization process.
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Aelita ran across the desert sector. She puffed her way forward. Where am I going? Aelita thought. Why am I hiding in Lyoko where I've been hurt so much? Aelita shook the thought away and slowed down to a walk. She looked around and the bare, empty, sandy land of the Desert sector and sighed.
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Xenon and Odd dropped onto the desert plain. Then wiped away the dust off and glanced around.
"Aelita was here just ten minutes ago." Xenon said.
"She couldn't have gotten far--"
"Unless she got to the edge of the sector and went to sector five. But that would be practically suicide." Xenon said. She didn't have to say that Xana was destroy Aelita on sight. "Or he could use her as bait for me."Odd greeted Xenon with silence. "Well, better get searching." Xenon snapped her fingers and the white disc that was her vehicle appeared out of thin air. Xenon climbed on with Odd behind her.
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Aelita sat down and tried to catch her breath. She put her head in her hands. Xenon, Jeremie, somebody will come looking for me here eventually. Aelita sighed and got up. A pair of arms wrapped around her waist tightly.
"Running away from your away-from-here worldly castle, Milady?" A voice whispered in her ear. Aelita struggled to turn and see who her captor was, but couldn't. "Or came home to see papa?" The hot breath pricked Aelita's ear.
"Leave me alone, Xana." Aelita said fiercely, but there was uneasiness in her voice.
"You're the one who intruded on my playground, so, let's play." Xana released his hold on Aelita causing her to fall only to catch herself and start to make a break for it. Xana grabbed one hand and spun her around so that she was facing him. "Come her, your majesty."
"Don't call me that." Aelita said angrily regretting that, over the years, she had let people call and treat her as a princess. She looked at Xana's red, messy hair hang over his evil blood red eyes in shape of his symbol, and at his clothing which from head to toe was black.
"Why? You have more blood of a Hopper than Xenon does. She's was a test tube baby, you we created with love between Franz and Raisa. Xenon was created because Franz Hopper was bored. You're the true heir to Lyoko."
"'Heir to Lyoko'?" Aelita asked. "Can we just get off me being the 'princess' to inherit the throne of Lyoko act?"
"Why?" Xana asked giving her a confused look, then an evil one as he pulled her closer. "You're better than Xenon. So, she knows more about Lyoko than what's good for her. She's a fun ride, but maybe you're better. I want you as my queen." Xana stole a kiss.
"Brother, don't you have anything better than to do than to hit on your own sister?" Xenon interrupted. She and Odd hung in the air, supported by the white disc, over Aelita and Xana. Xana flipped Aelita around, slithered an arm around her neck, and acted like he had a gun pointed to her head.
"You've never complained." Xana countered with a smile. His tongue circled around his lips. Odd glared at Xana.
"So, what's the price today? Need to cause some pain?" Xenon suggested.
"You naive bitch." Odd's eyes narrowed. "Can't you see my body right here?" Xana asked.
"So, what's the price?" Xenon asked again.
"Hmm. I'll swap Aelita for yourself, Xenon." Xana looked down at Aelita. "Sorry, darling, but Xenon had experience and I'm used to her." He made eye contact with Xenon. "Deal?"
"Xenon, don't. There has to be another--" Odd whispered into Xenon's ear.
"Deal." Xenon said cutting off Odd. She jumped down toward Xana while Xana shoved Aelita with great force to Odd on Xenon's white disc. As Xenon's white sandals touched the ground, Xana took Xenon into his grasp and held her tight.
"Hope you don't mind Odd. I'm going to borrow her for a while." Xana winked at Odd while rubbing the side of his face on Xenon's. "I'll return her more or less the same." Xana smiled and then licked his lips again. He pulled Xenon into a deep kiss while keeping one eye on Odd's reaction.
What the hell? Odd thought and showed a hurt expression on his face. Xenon offered herself for a trade so that Aelita would be safe. Xenon didn't even struggle on Xana's grasp and kiss.
Xana released the kiss. He gave one swift glance at Odd and Aelita, waved, then snapped and both he and Xenon turned into black sand and drifted off.
"Xenon!" Odd shouted. "Xenon...dammit!" He whispered as he sank to his knees.
"Odd?"
"Shut up, Aelita!" Odd growled. Aelita was taken back. She was tempted to jump off and run away but then Odd started talking again. "Don't you see? Xenon's willing to sacrifice herself to Xana for you. You don't give her a damn about her though."
"But Odd--"
"So, she didn't tell you. It's not the end of the world. She should have told you of the past and stuff. I know what she did to you was probably horrible but if you hadn't notice she didn't run her life then--"
"Odd!" Aelita yelled interrupting him. "You don't know what she did. She hurt me and she runs her life now yet she didn't even bother to tell me."
"You would have reacted the same no matter when she told you." Odd stopped and sighed. "Aelita...Xenon's with Xana. Xana is having his way with her."
"Your just jealous because he gets to before you." That remark rolled off Aelita's tongue with no instant regret. Odd felt like physically hurting Aelita, but didn't.
"Yeah, your right. I'm fucking pissed that the bastard does. Happy?" Odd asked. He stared at Aelita sternly. "I could have last night, but I knew Xenon just wanted to forget her troubles with. Now, look where's she's going! Off with Xana because I wouldn't satisfied her. She's getting her mind off you and she saved you by taking your place. How does this make you feel?"
"I—I..." Aelita stuttered. She held back tears but not the look of anguish.
"Xenon? Aelita? Odd?" Jeremie's voice echoed above them.
"A little too late Einstein." Odd said, taking his eyes off of Aelita. "Just materialize me and Aelita." There was a pause.
"What about Xenon?" Jeremie asked.
"You can ask Aelita when we get back to Earth." Odd replied, getting Aelita a look of disgust.
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Xana released his hold as he gave to his regular physical shape. Xenon dropped to her knees. They were in a electric blue colored room which had no doors nor windows. It was decorated with a simple gray bed, couch, kitchen, shelves of books, and a small cell that held a sleeping Franz Hopper. Xana yawned and stretched. He walked to the kitchen, opened the fridge, and took out a beer.
"Why do you have to make it sound like I have sex with you?" Xenon asked.
"Because I loved to screw up your life so much." Xana said taking a swig of beer. "It's fun to watch Odd." Xenon rolled her eyes.
"What do you want of me, Xana?" Xenon asked getting up.
"Well, certainly not your virginity for today. I'm trying to give Odd an equal chance." Xana winked and then when to a shelf of books which were strangely all red leather bound. He drew one out on the three shelve and the fourth book to the right. He then walked and stood by Xenon. He opened it and took out a small, square bottle filled with what looked like red ink. "I just want you to drink this."
"What will it do to me?" Xenon asked suspiciously.
"Oh nothing. Why do you assume that everything I do is for an evil purpose?"
"Just a hunch. So, just drink this and then I can leave?"
"Yep." Xana responded casually. Xenon studied the bottle closely before pulling out the stopped with a pop. She glazed at her own reflection on the glass of the bottle. She looked the same but instead all her white clothes were red.
Xana wouldn't kill me, I'm his favorite toy. Xenon thought. She was assured that Xana wanted her alive and pressed the lip of the bottle to her mouth and downed half of the bottle. Xenon gagged. She wanted to spit out the vile liquid, but her hands responded with forcing the other half of the contents of the bottle into her mouth. Xenon choked with lack of oxygen. The room swirled around in a blur of colors but one thing she saw clearly was Xana's evil smirk and heard a chuckle, then she past out.
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A/N Whew! I'm sorry for this chapter for taking so long. I started school, from winter break, between these two chapters. Then I got lazy and got hooked on DN Angel the anime and manga. I hope you think this chapter was worth the wait even though I didn't write up to a point where I hoped I would, but then again a cliff is always nice.
Well, for this chapter I'm still throwing around many emotions between Aelita, Odd, and Xenon. For the heir to Lyoko, that means nothing. I just kind of went on a rant and I didn't really feel like thinking of something else.
If It's been about two weeks since the last chapter, feel free to PM and poke me and say get a move on. (No death threats though! Yes, I'm sorry notcreativeenoughtomakeone for doing this once :-) ) I do read all the PMs I get but I sometimes forget to reply. I do reply to questions with some sort of answer. If you point out something that I've hidden or not so hidden in this story sometimes I reply but not always. Anyways...have any questions or want to tell me to hurry up just drop me a line!
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