Author's Note 1: I do not own any part of Code: Lyoko, the original characters, or anything else. The only things within that I claim as my own are the created characters Aurora and Spire Xion, and Treg Zorl.
Author's Note 2: I do not own the song 'Good Die Young' by D-12. The lyrics will be in italics during the fic.
Good Die Young
(Insert professional Narrator voice here)It had been ten years since graduation. Aurora and Odd have gotten married and their first child is three. Jeremy and Aelita married, along with Yumi and Ulrich. Treg hasn't moved from the city, managing to get a degree on-line to be a principal, and being hired by Cadic Junior High. Milly and Tamiya have become reporters for the city news, and Treg proposed to Milly just days before the return of Lyoko's Defenders. Spire, on the other hand, has been unreachable for the past four months, and Sissy seemed to have dissappeared too. Late on the night ten years exactly from the graduation of Aurora, Jeremy, and the others, everyone arrives in town to complete the promise they had made so long ago.(/end pro-Narrator)
Odd helps Aurora off of their bus, and she their three-year-old daughter. The happy family turns to look upon the Junior High building. "Looks differant. Looks smaller." Aurora says.
"Everything looks big when you are small." Odd picks up their daughter and takes his wife's hand, leading them into the building, knowing that Treg would be there and ready with their room.
Treg greets the three, a sad look on his face. "Treg? What's happened?" Aurora asks, very concerned. Treg says nothing, but leads them inside his office. He motions for them to sit, Yumi, Jeremy, Ulrich, and Aelita were already seated.
"I have bad news, my friends. As you all should know, Spire and Sissy have dissappeared about four months ago. I just recently discovered why." He takes a deep breath, and continues. "Spire Xion ran off a cliff and into the English Channel. I was there myself three days ago when they pulled his car from the water." Treg stops, wanting the reality of his words sink in. They say the good Die Young. Aurora's eyes widen and after a moment she bursts into tears. Odd pulls her close and she buries her face into her husband's shoulder.
"Do they know details?" Odd asks slowly. It was like a knife piercing my chest and I couldn't breath I didn't wanna accept it, didn't wanna believe it I swear with this weight dawg, I cried so hard. Treg shakes his head.
"All they found was a cassette, but I haven't been able to make any of it out." Treg holds it up. Thats why I think that you should have fun (when your young). He puts it into a player resting ontop of his desk.
"They say the good die young, die young. Thats why I know that we go' have fun, In this life cos you only get one. When God calls for me, don't cry till I just went home. She has rejected it. Nothing left to live for. My heart aches with the pain, the life in his breath. We gotta have fun now, theres only minutes left. Evermore, nevermore. Life to live, nothing left. Ouy evol I Yssis." the tape says. Ulrich thinks a moment.
"Wait a second. That sounds sort of familiar." Yumi says before Ulrich can speak.
"It's, it's from an American CD." Aelita reveals. Ulrich shakes his head.
"I don't think that's what she meant. That end part. 'Ouy evol I Yssis'. It doesn't make sense." Ulrich disagrees.
"If only we could rewind to when he made this." Treg begins, but he is cut short when Aurora and Odd's daughter walks up to him with a piece of paper. "Not now." she begins tugging his shirt and waving a piece of paper in her hand. "What is it?" Treg grabs the paper and reads it silently. "Oh no." he lays it facedown on the desk.
"What is it Treg?" Jeremy asks and moves to take the paper. The look in Treg's eyes stops him dead in his tracks.
" 'My life is over. She has rejected me. I know not what is left. Evermore my love was with her, nevermore shall it be seen. Ouy evol I Yssis.' Seeing it written makes sense of it. 'Ouy evol I Yssis.' It reverses to 'Sissy I love you'. This is a suicide note." That crash and the driver died, Treg sits in his chair and closes his ears, for Aurora had started sobbing louder when he finished.
"Odd, did Spire visit anytime recently?" Jeremy turns to his friend, who nods.
"Yes, just over four months... ago." Yumi gasps as Odd's words slow. When God calls for me, don't cry till I just went home.
"He'd had it planned for that long. He knew it would take them a long time to find his car, but he wanted us to know the truth of what happened to him." Jeremy says.
"When we were kids, before we transferred over here." Aurora says between sobs. "He said he would have 'Good Die Young' played as his farewell." she pulls her daughter upon her lap and hugs her close. "Nothing in the world ment as much to me as him, until I met Odd. My brother was my only family left when we graduated." Odd lays his arm over Aurora's shoulder again and kisses her forehead.
End Note: It took me a while to descide on the song, was hard to choose between 'How Come' and 'Good Die Young'. I hope many of you enjoyed reading the mini-series.