Author's Note 1: I do not own any part of Code: Lyoko, the show characters, or anything else.
Author's Note 2: The only thing within that I claim as my own is the created characters Maethus(aka Project Element), Legacy(aka Project Shadows), and Daemon(aka Project Demon).
Demise
"You LOST THEM!" the scientist yells at Daemon.
"Don't blame me, they just disappeared." Daemon replies.
"It is your fault. You were supposed to find them and return them here!" the scientist shoves Daemon, knocking him to the ground, causing the symbol Akuma to glow with a bottomless black light. Daemon's eyes glow with the same darkness, and the scientist gasps, feeling the life being sucked from him.
"Don't you ever touch me again!" Daemon orders, standing and leaving the scientist to die of suffocation.
Weeks pass, Daemon swearing that he's lived a few of the days twice. He has left the facility of the scientists and lived in the mountains between France and Germany. Finally, he senses the old feeling of the Elements and Shadows being controlled. He smiles, his teeth stained with blood from the raw meat he'd been forced to eat, lest the scientists find him again. Daemon knew that to find Element and Shadows he should not be in control, his human limitations would slow him down. Instead, he knelt in his cave and pledged himself to any of his three guardian beings that would be listening. Unfortunately, it was the Demon that answered.
Maethus leaps out of the scanner, glad that it was the weekend, and that Jeremy had thought about having the two devirtualized. He seemed overly excited to return, since it had only been six weeks. Legacy, on the other hand, was nowhere to be seen in the scanner room. As soon as she had exited the scanner, she travelled in the shadows to the surface, eager to see the real sky.
As Maethus and the others step off the elevator, Legacy steps up to the ledge where the ropes had been and throws a light-ball at Maethus's feet. "What the?" he steps back and looks up. This time Legacy drops a darkness-ball over Maethus's hands. "Oh, you want to play it that way, huh?" Maethus motions for the other four to go ahead. He concentrates and several plots of earth float into the factory from behind Legacy, creating an air-supported stairway from Maethus to Legacy. "Nothing is as good as how the crow flys." Maethus says, running up the plots and throwing his arms around the girl. He just could not help himself. For some reason, he felt as if everything was alright. Lightning crackles outside, and the sky grows dim.
Daemon descends from the darkened sky, born upon wings of deepest night. His eyes shone ruby-red and flecks of ruby-red light flickered at the corners. Daemon's hands were gloved, a black and white one on his right hand, while a grey and red one was on his left. He called upon a lightning bolt and gripped it with his left hand, waiting for his chance.
Maethus lets the ground plots drop to the factory's floor, not caring about the rain that was outside, just glad that he was back on earth. "I didn't realize how much I missed it." he looks out the front of the factory, watching the rain fall. He saw the lightning fall from the clouds, but it did not fall for long. It just stood there in the sky. "Uhhh, that doesn't happen too much, does it?" Maethus points at the lightning bolt, unable to see the person holding it. Jeremy walks to his side, completely amazed.
"I have never seen lightning do that. What do you think is causing it?" he asks. Legacy squints at the bolt and points her left hand at it, the light flaring brightly and revealing Daemon, black wings and all.
"You don't think..." Yumi looks at the others, one by one.
"Not XANA. Demon." Maethus shakes his head. "Project Demon." Legacy grabs Maethus's arm, terrified of what could happen. "Leave this to me. Take the others back to Kadic." he orders the girl. Silently, the five link hands and disappear, leaving Maethus alone to face Daemon.
The Demon watched as the humans gathered at the entrance. He felt the warmth of the lightning bolt grow as Shadows illuminated his weapon, and could see the heat trail left in the shadows by her passing. He could sense the air being manipulated by Element. "So, we meet at last, Element." he says, knowing the wind would carry the message to the boy. "You and Shadows have given me some problems. I knew you were here. Knew weeks ago. No reason to come, until now. You two threaten my very existance. With you two gone, THEY have nothing to use against me." The Demon descends to the bridge of the factory, watching as Element stood his ground, the fear on his face. "You know who I am. You know part of what I am. I am the Angels. I am the Gods. I am the Demons. You are the Earth. You are the Fire, Wind, and Water. You really think you can stand against my powers?"
"We shall see, Daemon." Maethus says.
"Daemon? He is gone. Only Demon remains. And so it should be." the Demon throws the lightning bolt at Maethus, striking him full in the chest but doing no damage.
"You are trying to use my own power against me. Useless." he states.
"Maybe, but what about something you cannot control? Something like the power of the Gods of the Old Worlds." the Demon removes the glove from his left hand, revealing the Kami symbol. "They bestowed me with the three greatest gifts, and the three greatest curses. You will fall before the Ultamite God. The One True God. The Living God of Demons." the Demon points his hand, palm out, at Maethus. "Now die!" he commands. A dark beam shoots from his hand and strikes the air in front of Maethus, knocking back a grey human-shaped figure, Legacy. She collapses into Maethus's arms, weakly pointing her right hand at the Demon.
"Legacy...." Maethus kneels to lay her on the ground. Her arm falls, and Maethus could feel her body growing cold by the second. He stands slowly, glaring at the Demon.
"You foolish humans. You sacrifice yourselves for nothing." the Demon laughs and points his right hand at Maethus, and a bolt of darkness shoots out, striking Maethus in the chest. He does not flinch. "What? How is this possible?" the Demon watches Maethus walk slowly towards him, summoning a sword of earth, fire, water, and lightning to his hand.
The lights flicker on and off at Kadic Junior High. Noone thought the flicker was the result of the death of elements. None thought twice about it, save for four students. But even they grew to forget, focusing more on freeing their friend from a virus from another world, and the battle between Demon and Element was forgotten entirely.