A/N- Okay y'all don't go strangling me with a belt yet! Cause Part II is up! It's lots longer than the last one! Oh yeah, I forgot this last time:
Disclaimer: I do not own Code: Lyoko, although one day I will!
Aelita opened her eyes. Fog surrounded her. "Where... where am I?" It was the same question every Lyokian asked after they died.
The fog began to clear up, and a tower was only several hundred feet away. Due to her instincts, Aelita ran toward the tower, thinking that she wasn't dead. She entered the tower, and rose to the second level. She held out her hand and touched the screen.
The word 'Aelita' appeared over her handprint. Now the word 'code' appeared on the screen. Aelita felt herself typing out the word Code: Heaven.
What was going on? She was in Lyoko (Or so she thought)! Aelita rose in the air, and felt wind swirling around her. Suddenly, she fell towards the ground.
Her mouth opened, but no scream came out. The fog was still blocking her view, but she could see enough that she was going to hit the ground any second now.
'Okay Aelita,' she told herself, 'Prepare for impact.' Aelita screamed.
"We shouldn't have left her for a minute!" Jeremie was in his room with the others. He was nervously pacing around the room, pulling his hair.
"Relax Jeremie, she's probably just in a guardian. We'll get ready to rescue her." Ulrich was on Jeremie's bed, looking as serious as ever.
"But why? He's already done that? Why would Xana do it again?" Jeremie couldn't be convinced that Aelita was in a guardian.
"Maybe Xana's perfected it somehow." Yumi was sitting in Jeremie's computer chair.
"Maybe. I'll set a scan for any guardians." Yumi left Jeremie's chair to join Ulrich on the bed. "No, there are none." Jeremie's glasses fell off of his face and hit the floor. All of them looked toward the ground. "I never thought I'd live to see the day when..."
Ulrich looked at Jeremie. Yumi stood up. "You still have her hair, don't you?"
"No."
The other's jaws dropped. Jeremie without Aelita's hair?
"Odd, remember when you kept Kiwi in my room a couple weeks ago?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"Well... Kiwi was playing around, and he knocked it into the ventilation shaft."
"He what?!"
Jeremie didn't answer.
Then Yumi spoke up. "We should honor Aelita. Meet me in the park in 5 minutes. I'll bring flowers. Odd, Ulrich, why don't you find a nice tombstone?" They nodded.
Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd left Jeremie's room with sad looks of their faces. Jim just happened to be standing right outside Jeremie's room. He saw the looks on their faces and entered the room.
"Jeremie, are you all right?" Jeremie looked at Jim; his glasses still on the floor.
Tears were in Jeremie's eyes. "Go away."
Jim moved closer to Jeremie. "If there's a problem, you can tell me. That's what I'm here for."
Jim's face was now next to Jeremie's. "Go away."
Jim walked toward the door. "If that's how you feel. Now, if you ever want to talk, I'm here." Jim left the room.
Outside, Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd were standing around a neat little grave. Yumi finished her speech and dropped a bouquet of daffodils on the patch of earth before the gravestone. They then went their separate ways, and not a word was said.
Jeremie looked up at the dazzling sun. He wished more than ever that Aelita was here.
Yumi trudged back to her home slowly. So many things were on her mind. It had been so sudden. They had returned from the pool, her included, and they decided to check up on Aelita. Yumi stopped and remembered...
"That was so awesome!" Jeremie and his friends burst through Jeremie's door. Jeremie was cheering around and was full of excitement. The others just walked in, mumbling their agreement. "I've got to tell Aelita!" Jeremie sat down at his computer. "Aelita? Aelita?" Tears came to his eyes. His greatest nightmare was coming true. "AELITA!"
Yumi suddenly covered her ears. The sound of Jeremie's scream was echoing in her head. After several moments, the sound faded away. Yumi continued her way back.
"Young lady, you're 10 minutes late! What happened?" Yumi walked through her front door. Yumi's mother was waiting for her, wearing a red dress, an apron, and her hair pulled back in a bun. She had been sweeping the wooden floor, but stopped when Yumi had entered.
"I had stuff to do." Yumi walked toward the stairs.
"You're not going anywhere until you tell me what's going on!"
Yumi turned her head to look at her mother, one foot frozen on the bottom step. She tried to hold her tears back, and her attempt worked. But her mother could still see that Yumi was upset. "Even if I did tell you, you wouldn't get it."
Yumi walked up the stairs and into her room. Yumi's mother stared worriedly at where her daughter had just stood. Yumi's father joined her from the kitchen, his mug of tea still in hand.
My life is a wreck. This day started off perfect, with us going to the pool. Aelita said goodbye, but that was the last time we ever saw her. Before she disappeared. We don't know how, but she is.
Ulrich paused in his writing. He slid the cap onto his pen and closed the small blue book and looked at Odd. He was in the corner, playing with Kiwi.
'He acts like nothing's happened,' Ulrich thought. The only thing that was missing was Odd's voice encouraging Kiwi in whatever he was doing.
"I'm off. There's nothing to do here." Ulrich stood up and walked into the courtyard. It was still a sunny, warm, Sunday afternoon, and most people were enjoying the weekend while they could.
"Hello Ulrich, dear. How are you doing?"
'Great, Sissy,' Ulrich thought. He had been leaning against a tree with his eyes closed, letting the sun warm him up. When he opened his eyes, he saw Sissy leaning toward him with a sugary smile on her face.
"Fine until you came," Ulrich lied. He wasn't just about to express his soul to a girl he hated.
"Where are your friends? Don't tell me that they are hurt or dumped you. Although I wish that they had," murmured Sissy softly, so softly that Ulrich couldn't hear.
"No they didn't abandon me, but I wish you'd abandon me sometime around now."
Sissy ignored that last comment. "So, do you want to hang out tonight?" She batted her eyelashes and folded her hands in a way that she looked like she was trying to look innocent (Wow, that was a mouthful). "I'm sure we could skive off and go see a movie."
"With you, no. With Yumi, yes."
"Aw come on! It'll be fun!"
"Hang out with you? I don't think so."
"But-"
"Sissy! You should know! Your father has strict rules against us leaving the campus." Ulrich plucked Sissy's hands off of his shirt. She was down on the ground, begging for him to go out with her.
"But Ulrich, I know how much you love breaking rules."
This last comment fueled some anger hidden in Ulrich. Sissy had just stood up, trying to give him puppy-dog eyes.
"No! I break them if I have to! Now leave me alone!"
Ulrich swung out his arm and sent Sissy sprawling across the concrete. Tears came to Sissy's eyes. Somehow, everyone had heard their conversation, and everyone at the exact same time looked at Ulrich (It's possible. I should know). Sissy stood up, wiped a tear from her eye, and ran as far away from Ulrich as she could get without smashing into a wall.
The next thing Ulrich knew, he was being taken to the principal's office.
"Ulrich! Your foolish behavior hurt someone this time!" The principal glared at Ulrich from behind his desk. Ulrich sat in a chair across from him, and Jim was, as usual, next to Mr. Whatever-Sissy's-Last-Name-Is. Ulrich was staring guiltily at his shoes. "Now tell me! Why did you do such a thing?"
"I... I... Sissy, she..." Ulrich's eyes widened in surprise. Because the truth was, he didn't know why he had hit Sissy. What she said bugged him a little, but he always went through that kind of stuff. "I don't know," whispered Ulrich in a hoarse voice.
"What?"
"I don't know," Ulrich said louder.
"Now Ulrich-"
The principal was cut off by Jim. "He's telling the truth."
"What? Jim, you're usually trying to catch these kids misbehaving, not defending them!"
"Yeah, but I have a feeling in my gut."
'God, that is such a lame excuse. Jim gets 5 points for trying,' Ulrich thought. He rocked back and forth in his seat as Jim and the principal argued.
"Very well. Ulrich, you should thank Jim. You will just receive a severe warning: Don't hurt anyone again, or I will cut off many of your privileges."
"Thanks Jim." Ulrich stood up and walked back toward the dorms. He needed sometime to think.
As Ulrich walked toward the dorms, Odd ran up to him. Ulrich paused as Odd caught his breath. "I heard what happened to Sissy. What happened?" Odd looking up at Ulrich, his hands still resting on his thighs and still breathing harder than usual.
"I don't know, but we, all of us, need to talk."
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A/N- Heeheeï
