Author's Note:
I've been waiting to post this one for so long, since today it's Halloween. Hopefully this chapter will make you stay at the edge of your seat, for I have been working on it for days now. Literally, I keep yawning every time I see this thing.
Sorry it took so long for this one! Thank you for sticking up with my tight schedule and supporting me through this. As always, I'll see you at the end of the story.
On with the Story!
Flashback:
"I should text this to Jeremie..." Yumi muttered, taking out her phone from her pocket and texting, 'We found this really weird room, want us to explore it or not?'
They both waited for about twenty minutes.
"Let's just explore this room, he's probably daydreaming about Aelita." Odd joked, getting a chuckle from Yumi.
"Yeah. Let's explore this freak show."
Hermitage, 10:50pm
"And I thought your shoes smelled horrible!" Yumi said, holding her nose as she followed the light that shined through the flashlight. Odd started walking to each of the graves, but found that it was too difficult to actually read any of them.
"That really isn't my fault, you never know if it's a medical condition!" Odd joked as they reminisced about the treatment Yolanda gave that day, as Odd was just passing the light through each of the graves. Yumi noticed a glint of red from the flashlight and said,
"Odd wait! Look somewhere around here!" She pointed her finger to the spot she saw it, the farthest right corner from her. She still didn't move from the ladder, as if the spiders are crawling on her.
"Got it!" Both Odd and Yumi saw the glint of red, then quickly realizing that it was blood.
"-But this doesn't look right..." Odd looked closer at the tiny puddle of blood. "It looks as if it came out of a human or animal just a few days ago." He poked his finger in it. "Or maybe it's just ketchup…?"
"Odd! Don't do that!" Yumi said, Odd jerking his finger away. "How do you even know that anyway?"
"Only a true gamer with M rated games will know why." He replied with a victorious smirk.
"Just let XANA attack so I won't have to hear Odd..." Yumi blurted out, walking to him with chills as she saw all of the moss and spiders on the floor. Soon after, she said,
"Do you feel that Odd?" She asked, stomping her feet to the floor. "The floor is moving..!"
"What do you mean? I don't feel anything." Odd did the same, jumping on the floor.
"Are you sure?" Yumi assured. She shrugged. "I guess it's just the spiders giving me chills." Yumi went back to the ladder with Odd following her. Climbing up the ladder, Yumi grunted seeing the latch to the stairs closed. She kept attempting to pry open the latch, but it refused.
"Yumi..." Odd said nervously, going wide eyed. He immediately pushed Yumi up to the latch.
"What are you doing?!" She retaliated, giving him daggers for eyes.
"Just one question; why do you have to jinx everything?!" He shouted, his breath shaky.
"What are you talking about?" Yumi said, looking down and seeing that the ground next to each of the graves rumbled furiously.
"Open the goddamn latch!" Odd raged. The soil and the rocks moved around him.
A hand shot out of the earthen rock, followed by a low groan.
"HOLY-" Odd start to scream something profane, Yumi finally mustering all of her strength in her to flip open the latch.
"Odd! Give me your hand!" Yumi offered one to him, but Odd was too stunned by the true existence of the living dead that he didn't move. Odd just stood there, paralyzed in pure shock.
"ODD!" He shook out of it, climbing up the ladder, each plank of wood he stepped on making some sort of creak. One of them in particular broke in half due to its worn-out shape just as he reached for Yumi's slim hand. Falling onto the floor, a little kid dug into the back of his leg.
"AGH!" He screeched. Odd kicked the young zombie off, and with all of his might, leaped over the broken piece of ladder. Yumi reached out further, grabbing his hand and yanking him out of the death zone.
Odd groaned in pain, looking at his clawed lag. His left leg wasn't too bad from the outside, but bits of a light, bright green could be seen from the top of his wound.
"Hop on one foot and give me your right arm." Yumi ordered, putting his arm on her shoulder, while using the other hand to call Jeremie.
A few rings, but no answer.
"You always jinx everything Yumi." Odd weakly joked, smirking. Yumi just let it slide for once.
"And Jeremie said that he had his phone on him."
Jeremie's Dorm, 11:10pm
"Aelita...how could you be so..." He muttered, his head down. Sleep got the best of him, yet again collapsing on the keyboard.
"Hmm...I want you to say it..." Jeremie muttered again, slightly drooling before hearing a loud ringing in his dream.
"Is that you, Aelita...?" Jeremie groaned, realizing that it wasn't her.
It was the phone.
"That's just my luck." He said, picking up his phone.
"Hello?"
"What the heck, Jer?!" Jeremie gulped, hearing Yumi's anger flash at him.
"What? What?!"
"XANA's on the offensive!"
"Oh God! I'll get Ulrich and Aelita." Walking out of the door, he snuck out of the room and across to Ulrich's.
"Ulrich, get up." Jeremie shook the brunette. He was on the phone with Yumi, half-asleep.
"Hmm..?" Ulrich groaned.
"Get UP!"
"Okay!" Ulrich whispered furiously. Jeremie could hear Yumi giggle at Ulrich's actions.
"So what's the attack Yumi?"
"Do you believe in zombies?" She hung up on him after that.
"Ulrich, get Aelita. XANA's attacking. Meanwhile, I'll head to the factory, and see what we have to deal with this time." Jeremie said, running down the stairs, and out of the main hallway. Toward the forest, Jeremie climbed down the manhole, grabbed and scooter, and did his usual route to the factory.
"Let's see what you're up to this time, XANA." He muttered, closing the elevator and dialing Yumi's number.
"Yumi, anything bad?"
"Well...let's just say that Odd could be infected. There's some green type of stuff coming out of his leg."
"Bring him to the factory. I'll put him in a scanner and run an analysis once you, Ulrich, and Aelita get to Lyoko." He picked up his earpiece and put it on, setting up the same program to locate Odd and Yumi by their phones.
"Now...if there was a secret room that Yumi talked about, then there should be a camera..." Jeremie thought to himself, quickly going to work. He started by using Franz Hopper's files to hack into the main electrical systems, then programing it so that the electricity hits all of the cameras.
"Yes!" Jeremie slightly cheered to himself, another successful hack into Hopper's home once again, until clicking on a camera that read, 'Stairs'.
It looked like the camera was placed right behind the ladder, as Jeremie moved his mouse around to see the room that Yumi was talking about.
And it wasn't very pretty.
By the second, more and more lifeforms came out of the Earth and escaped the room using XANA as their guide. One of them in particular seemed to be leading the way to the secret passage to which Yumi and Odd both just went through.
"Oh...oh gosh, they're not going to make it in time at this rate..." Jeremie's mind wandered for a while, almost jolting up from the sudden idea.
"I'll put a message here…and..." Jeremie then quickly typed a short message on the computer, setting his earpiece down. "And then I'll help Yumi and Odd." Grabbing his phone, Jeremie then went up the elevator, only to see Ulrich and Aelita there.
"What's the rush Jeremie?" Ulrich asked.
"I'm going to help Yumi and Odd-"
"With what?" Aelita added on to the conversation.
"It's a long story. Too long. I need you guys to deactivate that darn tower, or else I'll have to give my food to someone else other than Odd." He said sternly, running out of the building. "And hurry too!"
(FIN)
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