Dedication: To Xenon, who has become a real and unique person of her own. Xenon, who toughs out her past and tries to do what her past selves failed to do. Xenon, who has agreed to go through out all her suffering throughout this fanfic. Xenon, who strives for the happily ever after which she may or may not get. Xenon, I'm sorry.
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko. Xenon is a character I designed therefore I claim rights to her. I claim rights to the plot of this story, "The Past That was Meant to be Forgotten." Some parts were borrowed from the TV show Code Lyoko and notcreativeenoughtomakeone.
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Xenon stared dumbfounded at Odd. Her emotion then turned to anger. She had specifically said not to come to Lyoko yet here he was.
Something hit Xenon on her side and she recoiled to the ground. Odd saw it happen but couldn't give Xenon enough warning before she got hurt. Xana had lifted his hand and shot some black stuff at her. Odd, not thinking anything but wanting to help, ran toward Xenon and Xana.
"No don't!" Xenon shouted despite having the wind knocked out of her. Xana towered over Xenon and Odd had stopped running. Xana started to advance a little closer to Odd and lifted his arm.
No! Xenon screamed in her head. This is exactly what I wanted to prevent. Xenon jerked up and lifted her hands to her head, concentrating. Xenon imagined a bubble dusty blue which surrounded Odd. It looked light a clear crystal tinted blue. The bubble would trap Odd preventing anything from harming him. Also, prevented Odd from coming out. It would be impossible to break the seal of the bubble.
Xenon waved an arm after having fully imagined what she wanted to do. She didn't need to look to know she had been successful. She had felt more of the power that she had gotten from the replika disappear as she used a rather large chunk.
"What the hell?!" Odd shouted, confused. A blue bubble encased him, refusing to budge as Odd tried desperately to escape to help Xenon. Odd looked past a furious Xana and saw Xenon on her knees like he had seen Aelita do sometimes when using her power.
Xana turned away from Odd in disgust and stalked up to Xenon. Before Xenon could think about defending herself, Xana grabbed her by the neck and hung her up in the air, her feet lightly skimming the ground. Xenon grappled Xana's hand in attempt to try to pry the hands from her neck. Xana squeezed on her windpipe cutting off Xenon's oxygen.
Odd pounded the side of the bubble that Xenon had created. No avail. Odd could only watch Xenon and Xana, but that didn't stop him from trying to get out of his imprisonment. Odd stood back and started to fire laser arrows at the side of the bubble. Eventually it had to weaken.
"Now," Xana said, "I'll give you an option. Either hand over what power to have left and leave Lyoko alone or die. You pick." Xana released his hold slightly so he could get an answer out of Xenon. Xenon looked at Xana with the utmost hatred and then some, if that was possible. "Well?!" Xana demanded, giving her a shake.
Xenon puckered up her lips for a moment to gather her saliva, and then she spat at Xana, hitting him straight in his left eye. Xana removed one hand to slowly wipe away the spit from his eye. Then he shoved Xenon to the ground.
"Wrong answer." Xana said. He moved his hands to her wrists and pinned her down. He then took a kiss.
When Xana removed his lips, Xenon asked, "You the fuck did you do that for?!"
"Only taking what's mine." Xana replied. Xenon glared at him. "You're the same as me. Not real, not normal. Not human. You can pretend, but you'll still be only an experiment by a bored biology teacher." Xenon continued to glare at Xana, only her look did not show what she was truly feeling.
It's true. Xenon thought. I'm not normal. I'm just an experiment that just happened to work. If it failed, would have anyone cared? If Franz Hopper's experiment hadn't gone right, no one would have cared right? Because they never would have met me. Jeremie, Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd never would've had to worry about Lyoko in their lives. I just got in the way of their lives--
"You know I'm right, don't you?" Xana asked. He crudely gripped her body and drew her close. "You're a nothing; a mistake that went right." A tear fell from one of Xenon's eyes and the work 'mistake.' Xana wiped her tear. "But you don't have to try any more. You don't need to bother people. You need to have a meaning, with me--"
"NO!" Xenon shouted, tears falling. She would not get suckled into one of Xana's mind games. I am loved. I am appreciated. By at least Aelita and Odd. That's all I need.
She used a bit of power to blast at Xana and to release her of his hold. "I don't need you. I need—I need--" Xenon gave up with talking. She was going to take Xana right her and now. She glared at Xana's plain, expressionless face before throwing all her energy at Xana in the form of a beam. The beam was white tinted purple. It was about the width of regular sized water bottle.
Xana was ready for Xenon's assault. He threw out his own beam which was dark red. If it was liquid it would be like a stream of blood. The beam collided with Xenon's which a shock that both Xenon and Xana felt. Shaken, Xenon fell to a knee, but not letting her beam go.
"What's the matter sis?" Xana asked playfully. "Can't stand a little pain? Too bad you're experiencing this for a pretty dumb reason." Xana laughed. "If you could keep people under control then you wouldn't have had to waste power to fight me with. But no, your loved one had to let you waste power. Because of him now, you'll die. Don't worry, I'll make sure that you do." Xana used more power to make his beam stronger, starting to overpower Xenon's beam. The white beam struggled to fight against the red one. It slowly shrunk in size; it was being overpowered.
No. No! Xenon thought desperately. Her beam shrunk more. I'll die and so will Odd. The world will be controlled by Xana. There's nothing anyone can do you stop him. I am worthless. I can't get it right. I'm tired. I don't want to run in circles with my head cut off anymore. I failed. I'm a failure.
"Xenon concentrate!" Odd shouted. Xenon didn't hear him. She tuned out everything. It was all over for her. Nothing worth living for, she was going to die without doing what she was born to do: kill Xana and save Odd. She was going to fail at both.
Xenon shuddered and gasped at the white beam cracked and blew up into a million pieces. Some shards landed in Xenon's calves and feet. She winced at the pain. Xana wasn't going to let the pain stop there. He fired his beam straight at her body. Pain rippled throughout Xenon's body, steady getting worse.
"Xenon!" Odd shouted, crying. She's going to die. Odd thought. He felt like giving up, but he didn't. He continued to shoot laser arrows at the side of the bubble.
Xenon's body started to spasm as her brain started going numb. I have to do something. I won't let this be the end. Xenon thought. Xenon's eyes darted around crazily. Losing control of arm, it started moving on its own accord. The muscles tightened; the arm and hand in an abnormal shape. Xenon lost all control of her body movements jerking and spasming. Foam was beginning to drip from Xenon's mouth.
Xenon's mind gave up. She didn't know why she was even trying to fight. There was no point. Xenon lost the whole point in trying to live. Trying to get a happily ever after. Trying to save herself. Trying to save Odd. Trying to even try. When Xenon's head turned 120 degrees around to the left, Xenon lost her saneness; she went crazy. Xenon started to growl and hiss like an animal in pain while foam continuing to issue from her mouth.
"No…" Odd broke down. He lowered his arms and stop shooting laser arrows. "Xenon…" With a knot in his stomach and the hatred of Xana at Odd's greatest, Odd resumed to shoot laser arrows. Come on. Odd urged the bubble. Break! Break. So I can save Xenon. In answer, the bubble started to crack. Odd, hopeful, bit his lip in concentration. The bubble cracked more. Come on. The bubble burst in the a million pieces. Odd ran toward the cackling Xana and the growling Xenon.
Xana smiled evilly enjoying the pain he was causing Xenon. He was getting ready to use the last bit of power to deliver the killing blow. He stretched his hands and then waved them, creating a large ball of red and throwing it at Xenon. It didn't hit Xenon though; it hit a purple cat who jumped in front of Xenon to protect her.
When the red ball hit Odd, Odd immediately fell limp, dead-like. With eyes that wouldn't focus, the crazed Xenon looked at Odd. She couldn't remember who he was nor why she cared about him. But she knew he had just taken a blow which would have been her death. The purple eyes rested on Xana.
Using her primal instincts, she jumped at him, clawing, biting or whatever was possible to do. Xana, caught be surprise, fell to the ground. He was stripped of his power too. With shaking hands, the powdery white hands of Xenon, Xenon gouged out Xana's eyes. Next, with an almost inhuman power, Xenon grabbed his neck and, with fingers ripping through flesh, squeezed till she heard it snap. Xana's body was limp along with Odd's.
Thinking something was going to attack her from behind, she jumped around to look. All she saw was a massive cylinder object in front of her. Intrigued, she entered the tower. By passing the tower's entrance, she entered a spotless, circular white room. Nothing was there beside a blue tinted screen. Xenon hobbled over to it. Even though her brain didn't remember, her body memory did. She placed her hand on the screen.
Are you sure? The screen asked. Xenon couldn't read the words, but she but her hand on the screen again. Code: destruction.
The tower shook. Scared, Xenon ran outside. Debating on where to head of the blackened hills or the dried upriver, the whole island of sector seven shook with a tremor of an earthquake that was a six but it steady was getting worse. Xenon decided she would go to the purple cat that had saved her life. She sat down next to him and lifted his blonde head into her lap. Xenon cried for the boy in front of her and the ground started to crumble away as the earthquake approached an eight. She hugged Odd as the ground gave out around them and they fell through the never ending space.
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A/N Next chapter coming soon as in right as someone reviews this one(I've finished writing the whole story and it will all be published by June 30th). Review.