Here we go again with another installment of Dreams of Insanity. It seems that people really like my story, and I'm really glad about that. Before we get on with the story, which will probably cause you even more confusion, I'd like to reply to my reviewers:

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Flying Star: I'm glad things are starting to clear up for you, but this chapter might throw you off even more. And thank you.

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Thanks again to all of my wonderful reviewers; I really appreciate your words of encouragement.

Disclaimer: Well unfortunately the beings that make the feared, blood sucking terrors of the night look like amateurs prevent me from owning Code: Lyoko.

And my apologies for not getting this up when I said I would, it's was a long weekend. Please enjoy.

Jeremie walked into his room and collapsed on his bed, not even bothering to change his clothes. He closed his eyes and drifted off into sleep, hoping that things would be clearer in the morning.
It had been a long day for our three heroes. After visiting hours were over, they returned to their homes, well Yumi returned home and Ulrich and Odd returned to their dorm. They all wanted sleep to come, but it wouldn't, they were to busy thinking about Jeremie.
Aelita sat in the same tower she had been in for the past twenty four hours thinking. She was so worried about Jeremie and how he just suddenly went into a coma. She had gathered all the information she could about comas, but still didn't understand how a perfectly healthy boy could so easily get it. Then her thoughts returned to XANA. He had done something that night and she was determined to find out what he had done. She quickly left the tower and headed to the tower that XANA had activated the night before.
"The park smells so fresh and alive Jeremie." Aelita told him. They were walking along a path in the park.

"Yeah, after the long winter months everything starts to feel so alive again." Jeremie passed a patch of fresh bloomed flowers on the side of the path. He picked one and handed it to Aelita, "Here, smell this."

She lightly smelled it and said, "Wow, that smells even better then the last flower I got to smell."

"Are you enjoying yourself Aelita?"

"Yes Jeremie, it's so wonderful to be back in your world."

"A new life for you in the season of life."

They sat down on a bench and continued their conversation. "Jeremie, do you think we're finally through with XANA?"

"We should be, I have his switch locked up tight."

"That's great Jeremie. Oh wow! Look at those flowers," she pointed to a patch of roses across the path, "I'm gonna go smell them." She got up and ran over to the flower bed.

There was a loud rumble and the earth began to shake. "Jeremie, what's going on?" Aelita yelled to him.

"It sounds like an earthquake; we better get to a safer spot."

The rumbling got louder and the earth began to shake even more. Then a crack stared in the center of the path. The path separated leaving a deep hole. The earth continued to shake and Aelita got dangerously close to the edge. "Aelita! Get away from the edge!" Jeremie yelled to her, but it was too late, Aelita fell. "AELITA!"

There was a faint cry from inside the hole. "Jeremie, help me!" Aelita was hanging on to a tree root. Jeremie knew that if he could get over to her he would be able to pull her up and save her. The only thing was how. The hole had to be at least ten feet wide. He had no choice. He threw himself across the hole, just barely making it over. He held his hand down to rescue Aelita. His hand inched closer and closer to hers.

"Grab my hand Aelita!" He yelled to her. She took one hand off the root and brought it up. Jeremie was just about to grab her hand when he heard something snap. The root had snapped and now Aelita was plummeting to her death. "No, Aelita." Jeremie said softly. "I've, I've lost her." He stood up, not wanting to face the vile thing that took his love. "I'll never see her again." Everything quitted down, except the sniffles coming from Jeremie.

'There is one thing you could do to be with her.' "Yes, there is one thing I can do." Jeremie stood at the edge. "All I have to do is fall and I'll be with her again." He leaned on the edge, took a big gulp, and began his fall. Just then, the ground slammed together causing Jeremie not to fall to his doom but to fall flat on his face. There was an evil laughter coming from behind him. Jeremie got up and faced a black cloud of smoke.

"Hehehehe, you thought that would work, against me." It let out another laugh.

"XANA!" Jeremie stepped back in horror.

"The one and only you pitiful human, and now that your little princess is out of the way, I'll be unstoppable." XANA let out another laugh.

Jeremie quickly sat up in his bed, sweating. "Just another bad dream," he said, "Am I going insane?"

"You might be, but I'm not to judge."

Jeremie looked to his side to see himself, "Oh it's you again."

"Yep, it's me again."

"What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to help you."

"I don't need your help."

"Fine, I'll leave, but I'll be seeing you again when they lock you up in the nut house."

Jeremie thought for a moment as the other Jeremie was walking to the door. Jeremie got up, "Wait. You say you can help me? Well then, what's going on here?"

"Oh you already know what's going on here; you're just not letting yourself see what it is."

"Am I going insane?"

"Well like I said I'm not one to judge, but let's see," He started counting on his figures, "you thought about throwing yourself off into a hole and you're talking to yourself. Maybe Odd was right, if that was Odd, maybe you did cross the line between genius and insanity."

"Gee, thanks for the help. So what am I supposed to do?"

"Well, the way I see things, you have two choices. You can either continue living your life as you are now, always fighting to protect and save someone you can never have, always putting everyone else in danger to save one life. Or you can quit."

"What do you mean quit."

"I mean as I say. All you have to do is go down to the factory and shut down XANA. Countless lives will be saved and you and your friends can move on with your lives."

"How do I know which is right?"

"You don't, and you'll never know. Do what you think is right."

"But what if I choose"

"There are no what ifs here. You have two choices. You choose what you think is right. Oh, and one more thing."

He walked up to Jeremie. "What?"

"This," he hit Jeremie in the head. "Some things should be clearer to you know."

Jeremie grabbed his head, "Ow. ... Huh? Where'd he go?" He looked around and nobody was there. "What did he mean things would be clearer?"

"I didn't account on the subconscious playing a part in me plan, but I will deal with it later. Although the subconscious is a very tough thing to beat, I may want to move my plans forward as it may have already showed him what's really going on. I shall have to have phase three started sooner than I planed. And I must keep my minions on high alert if my plan is to succeed."
Jeremie again awoke, 'Huh? Did that just really happen or was it just a dream? It must have been a dream, but it felt so real.'

There was a soft whisper, "You have two choices."

Jeremie turned his head thinking that he heard something. "Must have been the wind." He laid back down, and memories started to pour into his head.

Again, sorry for the delay, I've just been very busy lately. But I am happy with this chapter. I finally got to use the earthquake scene that I've been playing around with since July and the two choices thing that I got from that stupid radio commercial about internet dating with the two hats, such an annoying commercial. But I digress. I would again like to thank all of my reviewers, with out your encouragement this story would not have gone to be more then just a one shot. I'm going to get started on the next chapter as soon as I can and I'll hopefully have it up by sometime this weekend. And to anyone who cares, for a while now I've been working on another story and I'm hoping to get a lot of it written up during break so I can start posting without have to make people wait for weeks for the next update, but to anyone who wants to read the first chapter and let me know what you think about it, I would be much obliged, just let me know and I'll send it to you. Till next time.