I believe the hall monitor/guy who tries to get kids in trouble/gym teacher I think is named Jim, it's not really that important, but I really can't remember...
Also sadly I do not know the principals name so I may have to resort to using 'sir' shutters it sounds terrible, but that is the way it may have to be...
Future Holds...
Chapter Two: Death is Death
For a moment Jeremy stared into the determined gaze of the boy who stood before him. The door to the elevator closed shut behind him, "I don't know..."
Kiro turned toward the computer as frantic shouting could be heard from the headset. Jeremy ran to his seat putting the headset back on, "what's happened?"
Yumi and Aelita were on opposite ends of the 'fort', the shots seemed to pelt the logs from all sides, "We have big problems here, the remaining blocks guarding the tower moved..." Yumi jumped to the top of the log throwing her fan, the resulting explosion was some comfort, "and are currently flanking us on all sides, we can't last much longer here"
Jeremy turned from the computer, a worried expression plastered on his face, "what should we do?"
Kiro walked toward the elevator, which made sounds signaling the imminent arrival of Od and Ulrich, "It sounds like your friends are coming, but you'll need me as well"
"If you know about Lyoko then you know its not that simple, It would take more time than we have to assign you a character, not to mention..." he was cut off by a floppy falling to his lap. He looked up from his lap to Kiro, his eyes were close and he was smiling brightly, "don't worry everything is taken care of..."
The door to the elevator opened, "Jeremy there is a large water monster attacking the school, how is...." Ulrich was immediately cut off when he noticed Kiro entering the elevator that grin still on his face. His eyes narrowed, "what are you doing here?"
Kiro didn't answer instead turning to Jeremy, "Character set A, Subset R, Character: Kiro, Password: Kibu" Jeremy nodded as the elevator door closes...
Jeremy turns from the elevator to the computer as he inserts the disk, "here goes nothing..."
"You're going with us!?" Od stammered as he and Ulrich stared at the young man before them, he merely remained staring at the wall, "all will be revealed in time..."
The doors to the scanners open wide, Od enters the middle one while Kiro and Ulrich enter the left and right.
"Scanning Kiro, Ulrich, and Od" their respective bodies move up through the scanner, "transferring, Kiro, Ulrich, and Od" Please save them!
"Ah!" Yumi is blown back to the ground, three shots raked across her body at once, "Yumi your down to ten life points, but don't worry help is on the way..."
"Finally..." Yumi staggers to her feet, she limps over to Aelita, "How are things over here?"
Aelita looks back at her friend with doubt in her green eyes, "It doesn't look too good, there are still at least five blocks and three crabs"
Yumi pokes her head above the log squinting out into the murky fog of the distance, she ducked back down just in time to avoid another blast as it crashed against the log behind them. "They seem to be keeping their distance too, I can't reach them with my fan from here..." Where the hell are those little...
At that moment she heard the shimmering sound that filled her with hope, "it's about damn time..."
They turned to the familiar forms of Ulrich the swordsman, Od the cat, and... "Who the heck are you?"
A boy with startling green eyes stood before them wearing a dark green tunic and pants accompanied by a dark blue cloak. He drew a katana that hung around his belt, "I'm a friend... my name is Kiro, and we have some work to do..."
Yumi looked at Ulrich and Od for an explanation, Od held up his hands dismissively, "Hey don't look at us, we just showed up and he was here..."
A few wayward shots pounding against the surrounding trunks quickly reminded them all of the seriousness of their situation, "Our main objective is to reach the tower, Od and myself will clear a path to our left so that Yumi and Aelita can get through"
"right!" Everyone nodded their agreement, even Kiro, "I suppose that would work, so go and do it already... just remember to protect Aelita"
Od and Ulrich took positions at opposite ends of one of the logs that faced the left, Yumi waited in the center next to Aelita.
Aelita couldn't help but stare at the new arrival, "umm have we ever met before?"
Kiro shifted his gaze down to her, "no, I don't believe so at least not in this life... why do you ask?"
Aelita looked toward her front and the procession of blocks that began to march toward them, "No reason, I just..."
"Is everyone ready?" Ulrich called from his side of the log, everyone nodded silently over the blasts that continued to rain down from all sides,
"Now!" In an instant Ulrich and Od were atop the log, Od was first to fire a hail of arrows taking out two blocks and wounding another.
Ulrich and Od dash forward weaving around the shots from right to left as they clear the distance between them and the remaining blocks, Ulrich leaps through the air landing on one block he jams his sword through it.
Yumi and Aelita are atop the log in an instant, Yumi turns to see Kiro still standing in the center of the logs, "are you coming?"
He turned to them a closed eyed smile on his face, "No, I have something here I have to take care of first, you two go along... these guys shouldn't be too much trouble for your skill"
Yumi nods as she and Aelita leap from the log and begin their dash through the forest,
Kiro turns from their retreating forms gazing first to the ground. He sighs, "you know you can come out now..."
In an instant the great black dragon appeared in a flash of darkness before him, he beat his great wings as he stared in confusion at the creature below him... Kiro stared upward as two more dragons alike save for their color scheme appeared in flashes of blue and red high in the sky above him. As he gazed at their massive forms he couldn't help but smirk, "come and get me..."
Yumi and Aelita were nearing the tower when two crabs appeared in a flash before them, "Aelita watch out!" they dive behind a rock just as the blasts pummel it. The crabs walk around the rock to discover them missing, "right here!"
Yumi throws her fan at one crab as it turns toward them, it explodes in an instant as the fan returns to her grasp, "Yumi behind you!" Yumi turns just in time to see the blast of red light approach, she tried to move but it was too late. She closed her eyes expecting the inevitable feeling of being pulled back to earth, however she is knocked back a few yards to the ground. She could feel a warm body on top of her own as she opened her eyes the first thing she saw was the crab preparing another shot. She clutched her fan, lifting it from the ground she throws it with all her strength. The fan flies forth striking the crab directly in the eye, it arches back the shot launching harmlessly into the air before it explodes. Yumi sits up catching the fan, she stares down at Aelita as they both get to their feet, a few blue damage sparks hung about her,
Another shot a few feet away hailed the arrival of a wayward block, the two began to run forward again, "What were you thinking Aelita!?" Aelita was taken aback by her outburst as they continued to run, "I was just trying too..."
"Listen our lives here are virtual, If we die we will always come back..." they both gracefully hopped over another log, "but if you were to die!" she turned hurling her fan at the advancing block behind them shattering it to pieces. The fan returned to her hand in moments, "you won't come back and I'll never forgive you..." for a moment Aelita stared into her friend's slight smile, "thank you, Yumi..."
The cafeteria stood silent in the early afternoon sun. The double doors that led to the hallway remained battered and broken on the ground.
Jim whistled a little tune as he turned the corner toward the cafeteria, the whistling suddenly stopped. "what the hell happened here!?"
He runs into the cafeteria almost tripping on the broken doors, "who could have done this?" he gazes around at the sopping wet floor, his gaze eventually reaches two students who were lying motionless on the floor. "Are you two alright?"
In a moment he was beside the bodies of the two students feeling their pulse. The frantic moment passes as the gentle thready beats reach his fingertips, a slight smile reaches his face, "alright then, let's get you to the infirmary..." with that said he slings a child over each of his broad shoulders, as he heads toward the door his foot comes in contact with a large puddle on the ground, "we better get a mop for this too..."
With that he exits the cafeteria, walking through the many halls of the school to the infirmary. Tiny ripples move across the surface of the water from that one small point until they reach the very edges of the room, a pulse causes all the water to shiver. A spark and it begins to dance...
A crab writhes and falls to the ground, three arrows lodged in its front it explodes in a violent flash of light. "That should be the last of those..." And my arrows...
Od looked around noticing that his particular battle had taken him away from the others, "Hey Jeremy how is everything going?"
Jeremy leans back in his chair to get a good look at the widening battle field, "things are much better than when Yumi was in there alone, most of the enemies have been defeated, leaving only a few scattered blocks... the only thing that puzzles me is this gray area covering that fort location, it appeared shortly after you left and now I can't see what's going on there..."
Od bounded forward, "Kiro was there last time I checked, has he said anything?"
"No, he's been completely silent since everyone separated"
"I'll go check it out, I think Yumi and Ulrich can handle what little remains of the blocks..."
"alright" Jeremy shifts the screen around to where Aelita and Yumi are, "Yumi, what's your status?"
Yumi and Aelita appear atop a rising hill overlooking the thin pathway to the tower, "We've almost reached the tower, not much more to go..." They ran further down the hill as the path became closer and closer.
"Aelita, Yumi I'm detecting enemies, two hoppers close by..."
From behind a single large rock on either side of the pathway a hopper appeared, they were so close now that the two groups almost ran into each other, "Aelita!"
The two hoppers fired faster than anyone had seen them before, Yumi stood between the shots and Aelita. They connected with a red flare around her as she disappeared...
"Aelita out of the way!" Aelita ducked behind a rock as Ulrich dashed in, with two swift slashes the hoppers were dismantled and destroyed. Aelita peeked from behind the rock, "thank you Ulrich"
Ulrich motioned for her go forward, "Don't mention it, just get to that tower!"
"Right!" she dashed forward beginning her run down the long narrow path...
Od bounded forward on all fours swiftly approaching the fort at which they had stayed before, his nimble body weaved through trees and bushes. He was just about to gracefully hop over a large trunk when a giant explosion in front of him knocked him from his feet and straight into the tree. He sat back for a moment rubbing his head, "oww... what was that about?"
He stared over the log to see the trees in disarray, the fort in which they had found protection now seemed to more closely resemble a crater, Od whistled in astonishment, "what the heck caused this?"
In that instant he witnessed Kiro materialize in front of his eyes in a flash of white light, the sight almost made him fall backwards, but regardless he continued to watch...
"Is that all you got? For something that would have given these people so much trouble I'm shocked!"
The tree line had at first prevented Od from seeing what now terrified him more than anything he had seen in his nightmares, "Jeremy... do you see what I'm seeing?"
"No, I still can't seem to penetrate that one area, but don't worry Aelita is almost at the tower, what's wrong?" Jeremy noted his friends agitation,
"I just happen to see two very large dragons flying above me with very scary expressions on their faces..."
"what!?" Jeremy begins typing more frantically against the keyboard in an attempt to see into that one area that alluded him, "I still can't see anything!"
The cafeteria sat devoid of human life as a large blob reformed in its center.
"I've never seen anything like it before..." Jim explained to the principal as they both walked down the corridors nearing the cafeteria, "this kind of malevolent destruction cannot stand..."
The principal walked alongside as they rounded a corner, "Let's first examine the damages before we assign blame, Jim"
"All I'm saying is if we do a roll call right now I can guess four names who will not be..." At this point the cafeteria came into view, the doors were back in place against the wall, "that can't be, those doors were in pieces on the ground when I first saw them..." they walked closer to the cafeteria, "well that shows you that perhaps it was just some kind of innocent accident after all..." the principal moved to open the door when Jim held out a hand, "you'd better let me do this, they could still be fragile..." the principal backed away a few paces as Jim reached for the handle...
The handle came away from the door as he grasped it, drops of water dripped down the small hole, "what the...?"
The door burst outward falling atop of Jim as a large blob of water raced forward, the principal was too shocked to move as the water beast ravaged toward him.
Kiro stared upward at the remaining two dragons, "You think you can stop me than come and try it!" The red dragon raced downward baring its dagger like teeth and slashing claws. Kiro stood his ground facing the creature, his cloak flapping in the wind generated by the beating of its mighty wings. Just before the mighty jaws of the creature snapped shut on him, Kiro pushed off from the ground, he rose through the air just as the dragon plowed underneath. Landing atop the dragon he plunges his katana into its back.
The beast screams in agony as it soars upward into the sky. Od watches in amazement as the creature explodes in a massive fireball, in an instant Kiro was back on the ground. Removing his sword from the soft earth he spoke upwards to the last remaining dragon, "I will protect them no matter what..."
The black dragon stares back at him beating its mighty wings, Od couldn't believe it when he first heard it, but he swore it chuckled. In an instant that chuckle turned into a full blown laugh, "ha ha ha ha ha heh, We'll see what the future holds... little boy" the dragon soared into the air above as Kiro stared after it, his eyes widened in shock when it suddenly disappeared in a flash of darkness... "oh no Aelita!"
Od watched as he too disappeared in a flash of bright light, Od then fell backwards into the soft grass, "this is going to be a long day..."
The principal yelled out in fear as the beast came inches from him, and then it stopped. As the principal stared through it he became aware of the cause, "Run, sir, run!"
Jim had grasped the beast and now electricity coursed through it as it began to draw him closer into itself. "Jim..." the principal stayed for a moment in indecisiveness, "hurry!" Jim was finally sucked straight into the beast as it surged current throughout his body. The watchman of all children who stay out too late fell limply to the ground in moments as the beast rushed forward through the halls...
"Almost there..." Aelita put on a burst of speed, her breath coming in gasps as she was now only a dozen yards from the tower, the exhilaration of the whole world being saved once more pushing her forward, and then...
A great force knocked her to the ground, her eyes opened from their reflexive closure to stare blankly forward, "what?" her eyes focused as she lifted her head up to see all light blocked out by the mammoth creature before her. Its wings nearly encircled her so that the light of day was almost obscured completely. She tried to get up, but for some reason she couldn't move, "shie!" the beast's mouth hung open as a dark ball of energy formed there. Aelita tried desperately to move as she faced the darkness of death, but it was futile. The memories of her life flashed before her, the happy times, the sad times, meeting new friends and all the adventures they had had together. She could feel something drip down her cheek as the memories flooded her mind, "Jeremy!" she called out into the darkness as the great creature brought forth its mighty head and the blast launched forth...
"Aelita!" Jeremy pounded the keyboard as the image of the black dragon appeared before her form on the screen,
"Aelita!" Ulrich called as he dashed forward attempting to reach her,
"AELITA!"
Aelita stared helplessly forward as the blast approached her, time seemed to move more slowly than ever it had before. She closed her eyes from the certain death that approached her.
Ulrich stared blankly as the explosion rocked the very ground he stood on, his gaze never left the plume of dust and debris that flew in every direction from where his friend had been... The dragon smirked as it brought its wings back, "so simple..."
Ulrich stared as the dust cleared, he wished he could just look away but some part of him urged him to keep watching.
Jeremy held his face in his hands, "I should have done something more..." Yumi faced the screen as she heard her friend's quiet sobbing, her vision became blurry as she too felt the sting of tears in her eyes...
Ulrich walked forward toward the dragon, his knuckles white against his sword, "damn you dragon, I'll..." his eyes suddenly widened in shock as did the dragon's. He stood watching in amazement and euphoria, "Jeremy!"
Yumi stared at the screen in shock as the gray blur over the tower peeled away, four blips became clearly visible... "Jeremy!"
Jeremy pulled his hands from his head, daring to look blurrily into the flat screen before him, his face brightened, Thank goodness....
Aelita stared in wonder as Kiro stood before her his hand raised toward the dragon. The blast had been deflected around them destroying much of the rock on either side, which in itself was unusual.
"How dare you..." Kiro stared back at the great beast his hands firmly against his katana,
The dragon stared back feebly, "how... how could you...?"
"Shie!" Kiro leaped into the air before the dragon could react its chest was pierced straight through... Kiro dragged the sword down as he fell to the ground nearly cutting it in half. The beast barely managed a few grunting noises before disappearing into nothing...
Kiro placed his katana back into its sheath before turning to Aelita, "are you alright?"
Aelita was speechless as she accepted the hand he offered barely managing to get out a, "yes, thank you..."
The boy smiled at her sighing in relief, "that's good... now I believe you have a tower to deal with..."
"right..." she ran forward disappearing into the tower without further delay...
Kiro watched as she entered the tower before turning to see an astonished and thoroughly winded Ulrich.
Ulrich stopped a moment staring at Kiro before holding out his hand, "Thank you..."
Kiro shook his hand returning the same closed eyed smile Ulrich now had plastered on his face, "Don't mention it..."
Ulrich opened his eyes as they let go of each other's hand, "I'm sure Jeremy is going to want to make you an honorary Lyoko Defender for this..." Ulrich smirked as he watched Kiro walk a short distance down the path,
He turned to face his newfound friend, "I don't know if all of you will like me as much in a few moments..."
Aelita phased through the tower as she walked to the center of the rings they glowed their same haunting glow. As she floated through the air she could sense a terrible uneasiness flow through her, it grew in intensity until she reached the very top.
"Something isn't right..." she felt shivers run through her as she reached the very center of the top platform, the screen appeared before her...
The water beast rampaged through the hallways, it stopped as it tackled one male student to the ground in an intersection. It was at that moment that the loud speaker came on, "All students and teachers this is your principal speaking, evacuate the building immediately!"
The Xana symbol flared a bright red as the creature tossed the student hard against the ground. A classroom of students appeared from a classroom to the left of the creature, it reared towards them...
Aelita stood before the screen, her hand just pressed against the velvety surface. "AELITA" appeared on the screen and in an instant "LYOKO" followed it, that word which represented so much she understood and yet so much that was a mystery to her flashed repeatedly on the screen before disappearing.
A smile reached her lips as she gazed around at the plummeting screens before her, I guess it was nothing after all...
Ulrich stared as the evil red energy emanating from the tower faded to a gentle blue, "It's time..."
Jeremy gazed at the screen as his finalized reset coordinates filed in, suddenly...
Aelita felt a strange gust of moving air surround her as the screens and flowing bits of information returned. She stumbled forward catching herself before she fell to the ground, "this isn't right!"
"Error?" Jeremy stared into his monitor, a large red exclamation point flashed, "this isn't right, Aelita what happened?"
"I don't know..." Aelita stared around at the data that was pouring in, "it would seem that the system has reset, but..."
"Time did not" Yumi finished the sentence by stating the obvious, "or so it seems..."
"yes..." Aelita's head was bowed, "I'm sorry I must have done something wrong..."
"No don't blame yourself Aelita, we'll solve the problem..." Jeremy spoke as soothingly as he could, "I'm just thankful your still with us, you gave us quite a scare..."
Aelita blushed slightly, "thank you, Jeremy your always so kind" It's Jeremy's turn to blush now, and do so he does...
"umm guys?"
Jeremy fuddled with his glasses as the blush faded away, "yes Od, what is it?"
Od still lay on the soft mossy ground, "I was just thinking that if time hasn't reset than does that mean the water creature is still at school?"
The thought almost made Jeremy fall from his chair, "That is a possibility, Yumi could you..."
Yumi was already in the elevator, "I'm on it..."
The blaring of ambulances filled the schoolyard. Their flashing lights brodcast to anyone who cared to look the strange and terrible events that occured today... the fact that life is full of strangeness and death is the strangest of all...
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Chapter Two: Death is Death end
Phew! This particular one was very interesting for me to write... I hope to add some variety to the creatures I add in here, hence the dragons, which I feel is a lot better in the long run, than continually reusing the blocks and so forth...
This may sound like a strange place to end, and it is, but if I were to go on any further this thing would probably go on for quite some time so this was the most affective breaking point I could think of at 11:29PM I hope you enjoyed it and continue to do so!
Next Up! Chapter Three: Future Boy (subject to change)