Hey! We get soooooo much homework in math class! It's really getting to my head. Any minute now I'll just start typing numbers instead of letters. 1839478598X see! I'm doing it now! Gurg. Ahhh, yes, well. Oh, and I forgot to tell you what chapter four would be called. You'll find out soon enough, because it's right here! Dunnnn Dunn Dunnnnnn!!!
Ch. 4That's What Blood Looks Like?
Sam didn't think it was fair. None of it was her fault. She wished Odd would pick up the phone. To depress herself more, Sam imagined him kissing another girl. The horror. How could he not be there for her when she needed him the most?
"Samantha? Are you still here? I thought I could trust you, but I guess I was wrong. Come back into my office. I'll call for someone to pick you up." The principal of what had been Sam's school was walking towards her. She wished she could kill him. He couldn't understand anything.
Keeping her face carefully clear of any emotions, Sam followed him back into the school. She wished the roof would cave in, or maybe the fire alarm would go off, anything to distract him. But Sam had no such luck.
She was forced to sit in a stiff chair as the man picked up a phone.
"I'm going to call your parents. You could have made this much easier, but now we'll just have to deal with it together."
Sam spoke for the first time. "You mean my brother. I don't live with my parents anymore."
"Right. You're brother then." He had Sam's emergency card in his hand. He dialed the number. Sam was nervous, but she didn't show it. She tried to hear the voice on the other line, but couldn't. The principal was saying, "Ah, yes. You are Samantha's brother? You may have noticed we've been having some problems recently. Yes. Oh, okay. Yes. Well, I'm afraid she is no longer welcome here. Yes, that's what I mean. Expelled, yes. No? You think that's okay? Originally that's what I was going to have her do, but she wasn't cooperating. Alright. I'll tell her. Thank you. Goodbye." He hung up, and turned back to Sam. "You're brother says he has to go to work, and can't pick you up right now." Despite her terrible mood and growing fear, Sam nearly laughed out loud. Her brother had never had a job. The principal wasn't finished, "And you need to walk home, but actually do it this time."
Sam stood up. This was not your every day opportunity, and she had to take advantage of it. She hated this man, and was never going to speak to him again. Best to leave an impression. "You bastard. You think you can just fuck up my life this way? I'll fuck up your face, and really give you something to bitch about. People like you will never understand." She left the room quickly and ran from the building. At least the look on his face had brightened her mood.
It wasn't a long walk home, and her backpack was empty. What would she need her books for? She reached her house within twenty minutes. It was a depressing sight. In just six weeks, the garden had over grown, the porch had become cluttered, and the pane of glass in the front door had shattered, and replaced with a wooden board. It looked vacant, but the loud music played at night would suggest otherwise.
When she tried to open the door, she found herself locked out of her own house. She banged on it as hard as she could. "Let me in! Damnit, Harvey, let me in!" She screamed.
"Sorry, Sweetie, there's nobody home." She heard her brother's voice from somewhere inside. 'Stupid stoner.' She thought angrily, and tried to go around back. The back door was locked too. Figuring she would have to wait it out, Sam made herself comfortable on the front steps.
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Yumi couldn't breath. Did she have to? Yes, she did. Opening her mouth, she gulped at the air. Ahhh, there it was. Yumi felt so dizzy. Her mind couldn't hold these thoughts. She looked down at her clothes, and saw the pale stretch of her exposed stomach, beneath her black shirt. She felt exposed. All over. She was on Lyoko, without a weapon. Without anything but herself. She was utterly useless.
Yumi heard something coming. It was a crab, running towards her. It fired, but she dropped to the ground and avoided being hit. Before she had time to look up, she felt an incredible pain in her right hand. There was something like pain on Lyoko, but it wasn't really. It was more like a vibration, a feeling of ruptured codes. It wasn't like this. Thin was sharp. A dagger. A blade must have gone right through her hand. Yumi dared to look. It wasn't a dagger. It was the sharp tip of the crab's leg. It had caught the skin between her thumb and index finger, nailing her hand to the ground. The monster raised another leg, preparing to strike.
"Impact!" The crab exploded, courtesy Ulrich. He took one look at his girlfriend, and dropped to his knees in complete confusion. "Yumi?" he croaked, not wanting to believe what he saw. She lay on the ground, wearing a black belly shirt, and black jeans. Her skin looked pale and mottled. Unarmed, she was completely helpless. A dark, almost black liquid pumped steadily out of her right hand.
"Blood." Yumi whispered. "Ulrich.........I'm bleeding." She held her hand up, and the blood ran down her sleeve.
"That's what blood looks like?" Aelita's voice was soft. She had walked up behind Ulrich, and wore a look of amazed horror on her face.
"Aelita, hold still." Ulrich said firmly. Aelita obeyed. Carefully, he used his sword to cut one of the sashes from her leg. He gently took hold of Yumi's hand, and tied it tightly around like a bandage, in hopes of stopping the bleeding. Then he stood up, and said, "Okay Jeremie, tell us what's going on."
Jeremie sounded none too calm. "Her card is gone!"
Yumi didn't say anything. "And what does that mean?" Ulrich fought to keep his voice calm.
"It means she wasn't transferred."
"But she's right here!"
"She was scanned, but not transferred."
"Is that possible?"
"Apparently. To create the cards, I had to transfer your DNA into codes, and modify them to meet our advantage. But her card is gone. She hasn't got codes or life points, she has DNA and a life."
"How can that be? How can she have DNA on Lyoko? And do you mean you had to do the same thing to us as Aelita?"
"It's a lot simpler to combine DNA into codes, than split codes into DNA. But yes, it's the same idea. And actually, since we never tried doing a strait scan to Lyoko I never knew if it was possible. The reason we had the transfers was to prevent this from happening. It would have been stupid to walk blindly into an unknown world. But it's too late now."
"What can we do?"
"Protect them both until the tower is deactivated. Be careful."
Ulrich raised his eyebrows at Yumi and Aelita. "So I guess it's double the princess and one third the warrior today."
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I know that was short, and I'm sorry. But I'm soooo sleepy. I'll try to update soon. Please give your opinions, I love to hear them. Thanks to all reviewers! ;D